skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did LIDAR and IR (?) not catch that? That seems like a pretty serious problem.

Something is badly wrong there. That should have been detected by LIDAR, radar, and vision. Yes, they need a wide dynamic range camera for night driving, but such things exist.[1][2] They're available as low-end dashcams; it's not expensive military night vision technology.

Radar should pick up a bicycle at that range. The old Eaton VORAD from about 2000 couldn't, but there's been progress since then.

LIDAR has its limitations; some materials, including the charcoal black fabric used on some desk chairs, are almost nonreflective to LIDAR. But blue jeans, red bike, bare head? Expect solid returns from all of those.

The video shows no indication of braking in advance of the collision. That's very bad. There simply is no excuse for this situation not being handled. The NTSB is looking into this, and they should. I hope the NTSB is able to pry detailed technical data out of Uber and explain exactly what happened. In the first Tesla fatal crash, they didn't get deeply into the software and hardware, because it was clear that the system was behaving as designed, unable to detect a solid tractor trailer crossing in front of the Tesla. The result of that investigation was that Tesla had to get serious about detecting driver inattention, like all the other carmakers with lane keeping and autobrake do.

This time it's a level 4 vehicle, which is supposed to be able to detect any road hazard.
The NTSB has the job of figuring out what went wrong, in detail, the way they do for air crashes.

Again, there is no excuse for this.

[1] https://youtu.be/gWqzJF9tOhw?t=211
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as12rjzCQnY
I have to say this was a really cool demo, although the subject's eyes following me as I moved was a bit freaky
Alternatively, you're assuming the police on the scene knew how to exract the video from the car without Uber's help?

Edit to add: I don't really think they intentionally darken the image, but this probably isn't even the camera the car runs off of.
My guess would be training. You can have an online-supplemented course where most of the material is pre-canned and the teachers know just enough to guide the students through a semester or a year of class.

I doubt they intend on teaching much beyond the basics at that level, which shouldn't be hard for any teacher to learn.
The way I see it is that this fatality was a calculated risk for Uber. Uber realizes how much Waymo is ahead of them and decides to drop too many safety restraints in development of the self-driving technology.

Any safety regulations based on this fatality are going to hit Waymo just as much as Uber, but also slow Waymo down and give Uber time to catch up. Any financial fine would be tiny comparing to total money invested in self driving technology.
Sorry, in short you're wrong, yes they do. I'm on my phone so I will be brief.

The ISO determines the sensitivity of the sensor in the camera to the photons hitting each bucket in the "sensor array". This sensitivity combined with frequency of the photon hits determines the data that makes up the actual image. If you could theoretically dump the RAW data from an image recorded for a different ISO for the same image, it would be different for each one.

You can't "boost" an image's ISO post-capture, because the sensor data is already captured. What you can do is increase the values of those pixels that are appreciably close to buy not equal to zero, but for which data exists, giving the impression of pulling out data from the shadows, but the limitations/complexities are too much to go into here. When you do so in practice, you do not have as much relative detail in those extremes.

What we interpret as "noise", typically in high ISO low light photography, is a real thing that the computer cannot perfectly compensate for, because it's a fundamental property of both the hardware, but more importantly, of background light/radiation and the probability/quantum nature of light...
clear weather. flat road with no obstacles. looks like good road conditions. no other cars visible. i am no computer vision expert but this really looks like a common use case for the software to be able to handle
Building it isn’t the hard part.
Maybe resurgence of old school face to face in person talk or if not that extreme then a phone call or an email?
You joke but they have an intermodal shipping container missile. You can buy it if you have some extra cash laying around:

http://roe.ru/eng/catalog/naval-systems/shipborne-weapons/kl...
It was a 45 mph zone. The poice statement was wrong.
I think the fact that these search options used to be available to everyone means that nobody would care. I remember how freaking creepy that was being able to search for people of a specific sexual orientation between certain ages and single in my network. And I still used Facebook.
This is great! But I wouldn't call it forward thinking. Forward thinking would be doing this in the early 90s. At this point it's very much reactionary.
44 African countries have signed a deal to create free trade bloc
"The increase accuracy is likely to save a lot of lives in the case of war."

Unlikely. It's likely to kill about as many with better efficiency.
it's pretty amazing nobody died in this tesla crash in January http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/23/technology/tesla-fire-truck-...

slammed into a parked fire truck going 65 miles per hour

the solid construction of the vehicles may be compensating for shortcomings in the driver assist features.
It certainly does look bad for self driving vehicles, and I definitely feel terrible that a life was lost from this.

However, how does one develop a self driving vehicle that’s 100% automated without the ability to test in real driving conditions? Despite this accident, self-driving vehicles have a fairly safe driving record for the number of miles and time they have been active.

Details on California accident rates for self driving vehicles, for example, show mostly minor fender benders despite more frequent accidents:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
It could be schadenfreude to see all of these single-point-of-censorship sites (including this one) give us all good reason to favor having discussions on netnews (which is no panacea but far more free, by design, than any discussion website).

In my view, "moderation points" are censorship. Moderation points are censorship where the rules are even less clear than Reddit's. The rules for what's allowed are always changing, and no site has come up with a way to handle moderation point assignment in a way that is clearly distinguishable from capricious censorship.

What's legal strikes me as besides the point; the Internet is global so what's legal in one regime might be illegal in another. But since Reddit (and Hacker News, for all I know) are hosted in the US, it's worth pointing out that freedom of speech is trampled on in the US ("Defending Pornography" does a very good job of discussing how American law has double standards with sexually-related speech, for example, by offering censorship in ways Americans would not tolerate for nonsexual speech). Private organizations (such as Reddit, Hacker News, etc.) have no obligation to honor freedom of speech, they're allowed to be remarkably censorious. So whether state-based or private but hosted in the US, free speech is always met with some reaction like "I believe in freedom of speech but there ought to be limits..." and then we're off to learn where the limits are with this person, that topic, or this minute.
I'm hoping the phrase "precious bodily fluids" makes it obvious.
What did you do about weak link connections, did you send them emails as well or just drop them out?
Please call your state legislators - Senator and Assemblymember - about SB 827, which will do more to accomplish this outcome than any land use bill in the last twenty years. A lot of homeowners are opposing the bill and we could use your voice.

http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
what is the difference between 0.0.0.0 and 127.0.0.1 with respect to redire ction?

will redirecting to localhost eat more cpu cycles?
You can see the side reflectors on the bicycle in this video.
I had deactivated my account a year or two ago, and turned it back on to "permanently delete" my account. The most prominent UX option about deleting your account on their privacy page is is an opt-in for deleting your account after you die (...)
> behavior is simply impossible

Thinking is also a form of behavior (in that it is to a large extent under one's control).
A couple years ago we had the ability to remotely access and modify the recorded video on this platform. Dunno about now.
Possible, but much of that info is also surfaced in the "why am I seeing this ad" button.

Wait until people find out about the Facebook pixel.
"The hashtag #DeleteFacebook appeared more than 10,000 times on Twitter within a two-hour period on Wednesday, according to the analytics service ExportTweet. On Tuesday, it was mentioned 40,398 times, according to the analytics service Digimind."

Is this really such a big deal for Facebook?

Suppose 50000 persons delete their Facebook everyday, then it will just lose 1,825,0000 users one year, not counting new users joining Facebook every year. And Facebook has 2 billion users.

Edit: The number lost in one year is 1,825,0000, not 1,825,000.
What's interesting is that of the 5 people the article profiled, only 1 seems likely to have voted for Trump. Based on location and occupation, I would guess the others were not Trump voters.

My impression of this whole scandal, is that where you are on the political spectrum affects how you see it. I think a lot of the anger at Facebook is not because of what they did, but what they people see as the consequence from it, mainly the election of Donald Trump.

Facebook cannot afford to alienate both halves of the partisan divide at the same time. There is a substantial portion of the Left that at least partially blames Facebook for Donald Trump's election. Given that, I wonder if in the near future they will try to position themselves as a more conservative friendly company than the other Silicon Valley tech players.
Keeping it sane is.
this would make me question the legitimacy of said friendships
I'm literally writing a blog post about this now (I'm building an objects system from scratch using only FP techniques in JavaScript... slightly eclectic ;-) ). The very interesting thing about this exercise is that immutability solves a huge host of problems in OO systems. As a very small example, even the diamond inheritance issue just goes away because nothing is ever updated. If B and C both have the base class A, you can safely instantiate A twice because it doesn't matter which one you use.

I'm about half way done. When I'm done, I'll post it on HN, but if you are interested here is what I've got so far: https://github.com/ygt-mikekchar/oojs/blob/master/oojs.org
If anyone ends up reading it, I'm very happy to receive criticism, so feel free to leave an issue.
But then where else could I show off my idealized version of my life?
Some data is probably stored for diagnostics, but Uber is the one company you'd most expect to have a "delete in case of incident" procedure.
The more horrifying truth from that book is that time and again, for decades, the military actively blocked the implementation of safety measures. They were concerned about the small increase in chance that a bomb would fail to detonate when intended.
> they should have been able to light up the roadway about 286 feet ahead

But when that person was 286 feet away from the vehicle - she was also way off to its left. Headlights mostly light up what’s ahead of you, not what’s on your side. Unless I am missing something.
Watching someone die, and then watching someone else watch the same person die is really hallowing.
Does anyone know an excellent attorney in NYC who could examine a non-compete an engineer signed so they could actually accept another job offer?
No there are not fewer birds. Ornithologists routinely census areas for species and counts. They notice when species decline in an area. They notice when new species arrive in an area. There have been zero reports of birds in general declining.

EDIT: Here's a reference [1]. Note that it specifically calls out species in general decline: the Northern Bobwhite, American Kestrel, and the Loggerhead Shrike.

[1] http://www.audubon.org/news/the-118th-annual-audubon-christm...
Yeah one anecdote, ageism must be solved! Good job Google, we did it!

You see why people criticize the orange site for worshiping corporate a bit too much?
Their government is still lunatic-right, regardless of how many hairs you feel like splitting about some of their policies.
> It's a lit street with a car with functioning headlamps.

The headlamps may have been functioning, but they appeared to be aimed way too low. You can see that the car is able to traverse the distance lit up by the headlamp in about a second at 38 mph. If the headlamps were aimed properly, it should light up the road about 5 seconds ahead of the car.
I still prefer that though.

It seems quite clear to me. No-one cares about users, they care about customers. Apple care about their customers. Google care about their customers. Facebook care about their customers.

I am an Apple customer. I am a Google user. I am a Facebook user. See the difference? So do they.
They also provide incredible value at the pro and business tiers while other providers cost thousands for less features.

Fastly was good for technical setups but Cloudflare Workers blows away Varnish VCL config.
He didn't just boast about p-hacking. He emailed his grad students telling them to p-hack more!
> The employees are not his subjects that can be bossed around and ordered to behave in a certain manner. That's old school management thinking (from 50+ years ago) that's very ineffective.

Why the false dichotomy? How is telling your employees "you will be fired for lack of integrity" equal to "bossing them around"? This is quite the straw-man and it undermines the rest of your points for me. It's not like the only 2 options out there are to order people around like your servants or let them do whatever illegal hell they want. He could be strict about the red lines on integrity without ordering them around like his servants with regards to general management. Why do you make it seem like the only possibilities are the extremes?
this is already a grey comment for me, but I think your message is relevant.

People need "friends" and they get them where they can. As a society, we deserve and owe our selves better than this. There are FOSS alternatives which are nearly as good. This is as fine a time as any to turn up the pressure on our friends, and to work for solutions that don't/can't sell us out (intentionally, or accidentally).
The report was wrong. It is a 45 mph zone.
I have a bad feeling that like the Snowden revelations and Occupy Wall Street these findings will actually embolden companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica the same way the NSA and Wall Street banks were likely emboldened because it will once again prove that after a short outburst of moral outrage people will go back to being complacent without substantive change being enacted. They will get away with it and double down on the activity because they know that nothing will be done.
Twitter is quite frankly worse. And I don't know if I am personally acquainted with even a single person who actively uses LinkedIn. I wonder if the latter is an SV thing?
So you think having a driver behind the wheel who could potentially intervene is as bad having absolutely no humans in the car at all?
Porn. Lot of porn.
And stuff related to country the US are not too friendly with, like Pakistan.

That would make their investors / bankers absolutely freak out.
Not a big Facebook fan here, but I do use it to keep track of and keep in touch with old friends and distant family.

That said, I've never clicked an add nor engaged with some silly quiz.
(4) is the key point here, if that's the only meaningful telemetry, they're going way too fast. If you can't see then you can't stop. This is still a computer failure.
It's entirely possible that, like quantum effects, the mind's electrical functioning cannot be fully deducible using any practical method.
Jaywalkers ar at fault in Arizona in the case of an accident so it doesn't seem too early.

On the subject: this lady I used to know hit someone who ran out in front of her and started freaking out (thinking they were in some serious trouble) until the police told her "you're fine, they were jaywalking".
I see where you are going and don't disagree. However, let me throw two things out there:

1) No good sales pitch starts with the price. What benefits you offering that will entice them?

2) You don't need to do everything a larger competitor does to disrupt. You just need to do one area better and have a slice of the audience cares a lot about that thing. What's the thing?
> conscious experiences are behavior

Indeed - in the sense of behavior being equated with any kind of physical manifestation (inside or outside the brain).

> is it anything more than recalling

You are correct: having some form of memory is a prerequisite for consciousness.
I agree with all of the above, and I'm not saying that what they did is illegal (for that reason - though IMO it was illegal through election laws). I'm saying it's not useful to claim "Obama's campaign did the same" when these guys were bragging about creating divisive, bigoted, violent content and aiming them at a susceptible audience. [1]

[1]
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cHYYHF...
maybe this is how facebook finally turns into Gab.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607938/google-now-tracks-...
Indeed, building it is easy but getting people to update it is hard.
These are some pretty tall assertions, what evidence is there that Belgium lacks the legal tools to enforce this?
I have an account which I use just to talk or argue with anybody on the facebook, mostly in news comment sections. No photo, no apps, no friends. Just a profile name. I wonder if anything can still get attached to me.
It’s bullshit that people who would prefer to live in studio or 1-bedroom apartments are forced to live 3–5 roommates to a house with all available rooms converted to bedrooms (for which the same land could easily fit several apartments) because the zoning doesn’t match demand, and otherwise it’s too expensive to stay anywhere within commute range. Especially bad when one of them wants to start a family but it’s simply impossible because giving up space in a rent controlled unit makes the whole region entirely unaffordable.
I’d be happy to live in a condo, but live in a house instead, because you can’t really build condos here. I’m sure there’s somebody else who would like to live in my house.
It's funny you mention that because I've been collecting those Frama-C, SPARK, and WhyML papers in case anyone wants to port examples between languages. One of the things I [re-]downloaded a week or two ago for that was ACSL by Example. :) I also got floating point verification (I know you all are doing that), one on string functions, and one on GMP for big integers. I don't have any of it published in an online repo yet. I mostly just submit it to Lobste.rs for their crowd that likes deeper tech and give it to individual people via social media or email.

https://lobste.rs/newest/nickpsecurity

The stories section of that link has examples including recent ones on floating point and interior point. The interior point paper you might find interesting since they have a specific specification and coding style to achieve full automation.

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01681134/document

You might also find Lea Wittie's work on Clay interesting. I was looking at her dissertation in case one could use SPARK in similar way to model I/O or concurrency.

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~trdata/reports/TR2004-526.pdf

re your concrete examples

I like that you're all doing that. That does help a lot. I plan to do my part to some degree in the near-ish future: I bought the High-Integrity Applications book for SPARK and Stavely's Toward Zero-Defect Programming for Cleanroom.

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~al/cseet-paper.html

SPARK book looks well-written but kind of packed with info esp on the language. Might take some time for me to learn. The Cleanroom book is highly approachable with the method mostly being algebraic focused on human understanding with symbolic-style verification of some control flow mechanisms. That was from a skim, though, with full method maybe being harder. My plan is to get back into feel of doing this stuff by trying Cleanroom first followed by using what SPARK book teaches me on all the same stuff. Both during and after learning SPARK, I'll use it on little functions like in the ACSL by Example book. Note that this assumes some other research doesn't take higher priority for me like my Brute-Force Assurance concept that mixes languages with their verification tooling.

I took the first steps of trying to get the SPARK GPL environment downloaded and installed. That wasn't working for some reason. It's harder than necessary to install: should be a well-packed installer like most things are on major Linux distros (esp Ubuntu) if wanting maximum adoption/experimentation. Since newest stuff from download link failed, I pulled older stuff through Synaptic which at least got GNAT working on doublec's Hello World example below. SPARK 2014 refused to run on it, though.

https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2017/04/27/installing-gnat-and-spa...

So, I gotta get SPARK working on my machine before trying to learn it. Sucks that it's been this difficult. I'll try again later this week.
I think you dropped a zero somewhere along the way.
"Some research has suggested that high levels of fluoride exposure may adversely affect neurodevelopment in children, but the evidence is of insufficient quality to allow any firm conclusions to be drawn."[1]

Even though the research on the effects on the brain is inconclusive, you probably should avoid ingesting too much fluoride to avoid skeletal fluorosis. And if you take a large dose of several grams, it drains your blood of calcium, which the nervous system really doesn't like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_toxicity#Brain
Exactly. Humans could have swerved or slowed down at least some in time to lessen the impact.

If you replayed the exact scenario the chance of the same outcome is likely absurdly high with the robocar. If you replayed it with the same human it would likely be much better. If you replayed it but varied the human driver, maybe even better than that.
How many people here would scale back their Facebook use to one day a week, say Facebook Friday?
It's completely predictable that the human driver would stop paying attention, which is what makes these "semi-autonomous" systems worse than systems that aren't at all autonomous.