skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment my above comment is replying to literally compares Trump's America to Nazi Germany. How useful was Hitler as a means to empower the oppressed by giving them a villain for their public narrative?

I am well aware that sometimes negative events can be a catalyst for positive change, that sometimes they cast light on the problem and make it visible. But comments here indicate that people long knew about, for example, Weinstein's bad behavior. It fostered jokes, not a groundswell of public outcry.
True, but this is where ethics logcally belongs to. It's just an aspect of human behavior and inner world.

Asking what is good or bad is like asking what is the definition of these words. Well, the definition is whatever we agree on. IMost people call "bad" the behavior, that triggers specific emotion of "wrongness".

I think that consciousness and closely related topics is the hard part, other things such as ethics or aesthetics have quite mundane explanations. Philosophy of mathematics nad language is somewhere in between.
This would be the correct way to read it is my impression. They've essentially folded their centralized technical risk management apparatus.
This is in some sense an extension of the Myers-Briggs-type personality typing, which in its early days also grew out of data analysis.

People use the Myers-Briggs typing at work because it helps you work with (read persuade) people.

So you can make an argument this is at least 100 years old.

As for why we've reached critical mass - it seems likely the ability to influence democratic elections, and the efforts by enemies of the Western world to use it to undermine democracy, are getting people to notice.
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I think you should take a step back and think about what you're saying.

A car can kill people.
A car can create a large amount of property damage if it is driven carelessly.
Cars can even, in extreme circumstances, be fire and chemical hazards.

Are you really sure driving doesn't include a massive amount of risk to yourself and others compared to walking period?
Pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags, a woman abruptly walked from a center median into a lane of traffic and was struck by a self-driving Uber operating in autonomous mode.

From viewing the videos, “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway,” Moir said.

The "driver" (more like attendant) had no warning until the sound of impact. The vehicle was doing 38 in a 35 zone which I would've thought was odd - would the vehicles be programmed to push the limit a little as most other drivers often do?

Edit: Ignore last comment. Some have suggested the limit was actually 45 mph per signage.
Sokols alleged insider trading involved stealing from Buffett. The Gen-Re execs weren’t found guilty, they plead guilty to minor counts of “fraud” after 12 years of grinding prosecutions and after they won several trials. Their crime was claiming to not know that AIG was going to use a profitable insurance contract Gen Re sold it to commit fraud. Gen Re never committed any fraud itself.

And Buffett was the richest man in the world well before either of these incidents.
"Dust" has been the previous term, I believe (but stand to be corrected.)
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Exactly my experience in the US. Then I tried China and am now used to getting fast polite responses literally 365 days per year.

And they appreciate the business.

To be fair I have learned better how to get stuff done in the US - pick up the phone. But unless you're ordering for huge military contracts good luck getting past the attitude.
This is the wreck photo from the local news, showing a damaged bike on the sidewalk, and an Uber robo-car with front passenger-side damage, sitting in the right lane

This looks like the corresponding street view: https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mill+Ave+%26+E+Curry+Rd,...

It's hard to square that with someone darting over from a brushy median on the driver's side of the car.

One possibility is that the pedestrian was trying to cross to the weird sidewalk/median thing and came out from behind the tree here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mill+Ave+%26+E+Curry+Rd,...

"Safety driver" of the robo-car may have a record for attempted armed robbery. Uber disputes the driver's identity.

Good grief. I would normally be surprised if a company denied a claim like that without having solid evidence, but Uber would be much less surprising.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16624800 and marked it off-topic.
I didn't say it works like a hard drive. Yeah, the more I train, the more I remember what I trained and remembering function names and argument order is something I specifically don't want to do because I can only train my memory for so long each day and I'd rather remember important things, not trivial shit like that.
Stamos has weighed in on twitter:

>Alex Stamos
>Despite the rumors, I'm still fully engaged with my work at Facebook. It's true that my role did change. I'm currently spending more time exploring emerging security risks and working on election security.
https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/975875310896914433

>To be clear, the security team has never been prevented or discouraged from investigating any Russian activity by any executives.
>Josh Sternberg
>The NYT reporting that Facebook Chief Information Security Officer, Alex Stamos, leaving the company. He lost the debate to Sandberg and other execs on investigating and disclosing Russian activity. …

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/975926737111367680

The question in my mind is - what's the real story? You don't go from a team of 120 to a team of 3 for no reason, and Stamos hasn't denied that reporting.
You're confusing two different transactions. The standard initial deal offerred to YC acceptees is $120k for 7%. Money raised at demo day, at the end of the 3-month program, is from other investors — whomever you can manage to interest — and on distinct terms negotiated with those investors at the time.
It's a developing story. The breaking news portion of this matter had a lot of meaningful discussion - and it was almost 12 hours earlier. It should stay up and discussion should continue. Let the up/down votes decide.
Sure, I wasn't implying that, just pointing out that it may be a possibility. Also, being single doesn't preclude you from deciding that you want to live somewhere indefinitely (the point that I wanted to make in my comment was more related to nomadic vs resident lifestyle, than single vs. married).
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e=mv2, whether or not the driver is a superhuman robot or a human.

This means that there's a fixed distance from which the optimal driver can stop a car doing xmph. Yes, an autonomous vehicle has a faster reaction time* to begin the stop, but no matter the reaction time, a stop cannot be instantaneous from any substantial amount of speed.

If it takes 20 feet to stop a car doing 20MPH, it will take 80 feet to stop a car doing 40mph. If there's a human between the initial brake point and 80 feet from it, that human will be hit, no matter who or what the driver is.
Zuckerberg SAYS that. But I think we've all known CEOs who live in a reality distortion field. I'm not sure he believes that Facebook isn't a bad actor. But he has a ton of financial incentive to deny it's a bad actor.
There's a clear distinction between selling widgets based on however-detailed behavioral profiling, and influencing the results of elections.
I'm not ignoring perverse standardization as a possibility, but c'mon there's no shortage of additional details that can be added, tangents, exceptions to exceptions, etc. But I'd be more interested if your points were specific historical instances and sourced, not hypotheticals (which we all acknowledge as logically possible.)

I've cited a source, and a specific historical instance, have you?

PS - the German "system" fell apart many times, populations swapped, etc. The area was always a problem, no one empire or monarchy there was a constant problem.
Ask HN: What's the best solution for secure long term storage of personal data
Just doing some thinking on how I can go about securing my personal data on top of backing up to single drive.

I would like a solution that is:
- Fireproof
- Waterproof
- Corruption proof

Seems like the best solution is the cloud but my concern is data integrity and security.

I might be able to set up software to bundle and encrypt my data from a RAID array and do monthly uploads to perhaps an S3 bucket since online storage is relatively cheap.

What are your thoughts?
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That could easily be the case, sure. Some other people mentioned that it could be just to more closely emulate a human driver. I don't think we'll have a good answer without knowing the implementation.
We have Little Canada.

We'll just have to found a Little Valley and store them all there.
This is pretty dangerous. The reason a lens prescription is just that, something that must be prescribed to you by a certified professional, is because if it’s wrong it can permanently damage your eyesight over time. I’m not saying the current system is perfect, but a self administered vision test that spits out a glasses prescription is a bad idea for the same reasons a self diagnosis quiz that prescribes medicine is a bad idea. It’s self medication.
Deaths per journey is also useless because a vehicle owner might make many trivial car trips per day, but when you're flying somewhere in a plane it's usually meaningful. For the same death rate, I'd much rather go on an awesome vacation across the world than on three errands.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...

>YouTube, the Great Radicalizer

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/13/james-dam...
>James Damore, Google, and the YouTube radicalization of angry white men

>James Damore, Google, and the YouTube radicalization of angry white men

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/prager-university
>PragerU doesn’t disguise the fact that it is waging a war for young minds. Though the site’s videos are clinical, their cumulative function is to proselytize, and the language PragerU uses to describe its mission is religious.
Apparently my stored links on this topic are dead but two worhtwhile pieces of information on that point

1) drivers who consistently drive below the average speed of other drivers on a road (i.e., who religiously drive the speed limit) are more likely to be involved in crashes

2) More accidents are caused by speed differential than by speed by itself.
I suppose (thinking on a more macro level than a single org's p&l) there are also opportunity costs to consider.

Arable land that would otherwise be used for (leafy greens in this example) can be repurposed for other crops, preventing further deforestation et al.

Or perhaps this land would be suitable for rewilding - Or, given that farms are likely situated at fairly convenient transit points (which may align with power transfer needs), other industries such as energy could essentially rezone these areas into solar fields.
It's like reddit writing prompts is leaking!
My takeaway from the comments in this thread: self-driving Ubers don't drive defensively, almost surely can't "read" pedestrian behavior, and even with lidar may never have seen Elaine Herzberg. Oh, and they speed.

This sounds like straight out of the "hell" scenario for driverless cars: "we cannot accept responsibility for what happens to pedestrians and cyclists foolish enough to stray out of their designated safe zone".

I'm referencing Robin Chase (the Zipcar founder)'s "heaven or hell" framing - https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2014/04/will-world-dr...

For a recent, thoughtful talk about the damage self-driving cars might do to the city if we are not careful, see this Congress for the New Urbanism talk about "Autonomous Vehicles & The Good City" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utnPEbDNbrE

It's also worth mentioning that there's a bill (AV START, or S. 1885) in the current Senate that would actually preempt local and state regulation of autonomous car safety, but it has been put on hold.
Are you looking for the canonical encoding of ADTs in Scala?
I tried to get some waterjet cut parts about 5 years ago near Santa Barbara. The only shop I could find that could do it had no way to get the data into the 486 - yes you read right - other than hand replicating my file in his ancient CAD program.

My experience overseas is more like fire off an email with an attachment and have perfect parts a few weeks later.

I believe this is changing though. There are some awesome short run PCB assembly services in the states now for instance.
It didn't even attempt to brake, so likely it never had any idea the person was there.

Also I know I wouldn't be programming my self-driving car to jump to a different lane every time it saw a pedestrian in the distance.

But then again I wouldn't be programming my self-driving car to speed either...
Video codec support isn't WebOS's job. Different TVs have different hardware profiles, different rendering pipelines and can support different codecs.

That being said according to this https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/f32a955 MKV should be supported.

I've got a similar TV and MKV works on mine.
The original HN discussion about the Uber accident is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16619917

There was also a previous discussion about the report that Uber may not be at fault, though unlike this post the linked article was not the original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16624814

In the /r/SelfDrivingCars discussion RIGradStudent pointed out that the article's statement about the Uber car going 38mph in a 35mph zone may be a typo, since Street View shows a 45mph speed limit sign: https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/85ozqr/exc...

According to the article:

> From viewing the videos, “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway,” Moir said.

That wouldn't affect LIDAR, would it? The safety driver may not have been able to avoid the collision, but what about the self-driving car itself? I would like to know more before ruling out Uber's fault.
Quick braking is the one thing you would have thought they could get right for sure, and they didn't manage even that on this occasion.
I read the person was homeless (and had a shopping cart). Wouldn't be surprised if she tried to get hit, seeing it was an Uber driverless car. I want to see the dash-cam footage.
Premature abstraction is a smell in every language, but it's particularly bad in Go. If you're building out a giant hierarchy of directories & packages at the beginning of your project — you're probably wrong. If you're building out a giant hierarchy at the middle of your project — you're probably wrong. If you're building it out at the end of your project — your project is over now, why are you spending time abstracting stuff when you can deliver already?

It's not that Go is against abstractions, really; it's just that we programmers love, absolutely love to build a system with operators and binary operators and summing binary operators and addition and numbers and real numbers and integers and complex numbers and imaginary numbers — when all we really need to do is add 2 & 2 to get 4. Go says, 'hey there, slow down, hang on a sec.' You're free to abstract if you need to — but there's a good chance you're wrong to do so.

Write the simplest thing that could possibly work. Maybe, maybe once you've written it three or thirty times, you'll have a good sense of the problem and be able to write a sane abstraction for it.

But if you're spending time fleshing out interface or package hierarchies before you even write any code: you're probably wrong.
Nothing for real-time without tha astronomical performance boost we're all thinking of, which doesn't exist. Within real-time performance margins, lighting optimizations will look slightly different but exponentially undermined by the hyperbolic render times.

I am guessing most of this is thanks to NVIDIA's new denoising system. I haven't used it but it's very quick and automatic. Supposedly it sometimes has artifacts but it's quick enough to overlook that.
You do want online storage. However, I feel better with an external drive archive, too. Note that this drive should never be connected to your online computer, ONLY to an air-gapped computer (due to ransomware that can encrypt external drives - and perhaps online drives - too.) In theory you need to use a fresh USB drive for every transfer to the airgapped computer, too, due to Windows vulnerabilities that work even if executing USB files has been turned off in the air-gapped machine.

We very badly need external drives with a hardware switch that turns off overwriting or deletion, with the possible exception of the last file accessed. (So maybe two switches.) Such a drive wouldn't be so vulnerable to ransomware, and you could drop the air-gapped computer and keep it plugged into your main computer for convenient or automated backups.

If someone would like to share a patent on such a device, lemme know.
Considering Windows still has ~90% of the market, this is not a trap. It's a matter of practicality.
The power I'm talking about here isn't ability, it's literally the might and momentum of the car. And because of that power, drivers need to take more responsibility when they drive. A driver doesn't become responsible the milliseconds before they kill someone, they become responsible the moment they set foot in a car.

The ability that drivers do have is to drive defensively and keep a look out for pedestrians. That is what I'm talking about, not by frustrating Newton's 3rd law. And because of that extra ability to do damage, they must be subject to harsher scrutiny than those who can more easily suffer damage.
I'm not sure how true that is; procedural games I think tend to come up with a core formula once, and stick to it pretty hard. The rest is just playing with numbers, and presets. Like for minecraft, there's a bit of complexity involved to it's procedural generation, but in general I imagine it hasn't changed much since its inception, with possibly two, maybe three, rewrites to its map generation logic.

Most of the "real" updates to minecraft are in regards to enemies, item recipes, "biomes" (which presumably don't change the generation logic much, just the spawn rates), etc.

Roguelikes I imagine are also in the same vein; it's all just fiddling with the numbers, for balance and "fun"

Simulation focused games on the hand are probably a better candidate for "purely programming" programs, but even then, the complex stuff is probably in the vein of emergent behavior; something you don't at all strive for in normal programming. And they still presumably make a large chunk of their decisions based on "fun" instead of reality. The harder you strive for reality, the less a game it becomes... Maybe Grand Strategies then; they pretend to simulate a pre-generated complex environment, but avoid emergent behavior for the most part.

Really the only thing I could safely call a "pure programming" problem is a tech demo that happens to be a video game, ie Carmack's stuff. But even then...

I think it might just boil down to that very few video games are both good, and disinterested in player enjoyment. The key distinguishing feature of video games as a media is human interaction; it's difficult to imagine a good game where this is not the predominant motivator. Even Dwarf Fortress keeps it in mind pretty strongly.
There's miles of difference between the brakes not engaging and not showing significant signs of slowing down.

It's enormously unlikely that the Uber car failed this badly. The most plausible scenario is that the car did brake but just didn't leave skid marks. The car not recognizing a human in its path would be a shocking failure.
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Step 2) Profit?
Huh? There's UHC/Optum sure, but also Best Buy, Target, and a bunch others. Most of the people I know don't know or care about the healthcare scene here.
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Yes, but this is individually targeted propaganda, which is a relatively new thing.
> but 500 more trips, so cars are only 166 times more dangerous than planes

In terms of fatalities, yes. My data completely discounts non-fatal car accidents; however, there are far fewer "non fatal aircraft accidents" for obvious reasons. So, there's not a lot to glean from this, particularly given the highly regulated nature of aircraft operations in the USA and most of the world.

You could reduce vehicle fatalities by a huge amount just taking motorcycles off the road. They afford no protection to their passengers and increase fatalities just by existing.

You could reduce vehicle fatalities a huge amount by not allowing young men under the age of 24 to have a vehicle with more than 90 horsepower. They have a tendency to lose control of their vehicles and drive them off the road and into trees or other solid objects. Many also die because they weren't wearing a seatbelt and got ejected from the vehicle. Some survive all of that and die because while laying in the road injured, they got hit by a vehicle completely unrelated to their crash.

You could also get some reduction by creating safety systems that do less damage to elderly bodies in an accident. Protection of the heads and necks of adult passengers in the rear of the vehicle needs a lot of work currently. Way more elderly passengers die in the back of the car than in the front, even in low velocity (< 40mph) accidents.

You could eliminate 1/6 of all vehicle fatalities, 6000 per year, by removing pedestrians from the road. The fatalities are pretty well split across setting (rural/urban), sex, age and time of day. Sidewalks and traffic > 20mph is pure insanity.

You could also definitively figure out _why_ Texas has not only higher fatalities _by number_ but a much greater fatality _rate_ over California. A statistic I opened with because this is a _huge_ point. Seriously, look up the numbers per state; because, when I do, I _cannot_ come to a blanket conclusion like "cars are dangerous."

When really: Cars present _multiple_ and often _unrelated_ risk factors and we still have room for all kinds of incremental improvements in their overall safety.

Unrelated to my argument, but still a worthwhile thought: How much room is left for improvements in Aircraft safety? The most highly regulated and automated vehicle and transport system in service today?
Take a look at https://gitcoin.co/

No affiliation but listened to a podcast by the founder a few days ago.
What feature about facebook messenger are you trying to replicate? I have never used facebook messenger (deleted my facebook prior to messenger) so I can't speak to it specifically. However I have no issues with using group text or group email which seems like what people use messenger for.
I was specifically responding to your comment "Responsible, ethical, and careful developments of dangerous technology, even if the danger promises to be reduced compared to the norm in some future iteration, is a must" and not responding to the topic of Uber or specifically self-driving cars.
Walking in front of a moving car has a high probability of death. You are responsible for your own life.

Do you stand on train tracks and blame the train ?

How is this difficult to understand ?
Yeah so lucky we got locked into chrome instead. Now every week I stumble upon a website that works only in chrome.