skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In January. There are literally 3 cities that matter and 4 kinda do. If you go by state you can see that a place like Sydney is getting ~1200 non house units approved.

I see 5 50+ story building completed in the last three months, with another 4 being build. Prices are not dropping. Buildings are not being occupied.
I've never seen a 4 lanes road in Europe.
> You also ask me to ignore important factors like property tax

Property tax is highly variable from location to location. But if you give me an example of property tax, I can tell you which makes more sense.

> an economics stripped of human beings and divorced from the social and the political is not economics, just some Procrustean nonsense cooked up in an armchair

Sure, and if I don't like the law of gravity, it should be abolished!

> immobility is a problem only when there is a scarcity of jobs

Which in the long term is everywhere.

> Appealing to "better allocation" and "adaptation" as ways to defend mobility is, again, the result of having adopted some kind of dehumanized economics that treats people like units of goods in a distribution chain. Mobility is really not the thing you should be most worried about.

You argument boils down to: "I don't like what you're saying, you're mean". I don't care, that's how life works. Not liking it won't change it.

> Second, it's not an either/or proposition. We can have renters and owners. Renting can cater to those who are mobile. But when a market is dominated by renters, then your market is fucked (see above).

Sure, that's the ideal market. Don't provide any incentives to owning or renting, and let people decide freely.
1. CA obtained the data illicitly and tried to cover up the fact they had used it, and downplay how many users they had reached.

At the end of the day in both cases, the analytics group (CA or Obama for America) obtained the data of millions of users that did not directly and explicitly authorize their data to be analyzed. ~50M in the case of CA and ~180M in the case of OFA.

Neither CA nor OFA broke any statues or laws, they both worked around loopholes and tricks in Facebook's TOS & API.

2. CA used the data to intentionally spread and optimizing the sharing of bogus news.

I haven't yet heard this exact argument made for why this specific case was bad, though I suspect it's implied, but it seems like that is just a piece of the problem. Interestingly however, the contents of the targeted ads seems immaterial to the most important argument which is that this was a "breach" of private user data - a completely separate argument.

Your last point I think sums it up well, Trump and his cronies used the system against itself and people don't like it. Full stop. It wasn't the fact that he used it, because others did, it was the fact that he used it in a way that we didn't expect or like (not that it broke laws).

I mean say what you will but it truly embodies the hacker ethos.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16637803
American politics has a certain "wicker man" aspect to it. We elect a representative of that which is to be destroyed. We do the same with celebrities, raising them up only to symbolically sacrifice them with scandal.

Note the explosion of vocal atheism and decline of the political power of the evangelical movement during Bush II, the rise of the alt-right during Obama, and now an explosion of social justice and #metoo type stuff during Trump.

Maybe the best strategy is to vote for your least favorite candidate?
I think at this point, investors are trying to salvage what ever tech it has, and sell the company.

No clue why employees are sticking around, maybe they’re currently looking for another job and it’s a slow drop to zero.
> Xserver XSDL

How's that work for you? I've tried it but it seemed a little rough.
Police are nearly always primarily motorists and therefore biased to the motorist perspective.
FB is far from being a victim of lions or a carcass.

If the metaphor you are trying to paint is a struggle is between Journalism Media and Social Media, I totally disagree with the side you’re picking.
Again, you're missing the point. The people who SIGNED UP for the Cambridge Analytica app, or the Obama For America app agreed to share their own information with the app. In doing so, they ALSO agreed to share data on their entire friends list with the app -- Facebook had no restrictions in place on this at the time.

Those people who were opted-in by proxy, i.e. the friends you sold out, may not have wanted the Obama campaign or Cambridge Analytica to get that info, but they never had a choice!

Both apps (well, OFA for sure, CA allegedly) took data legitimately provided to them, used it to feed predictive models, and then actioned marketing around exploiting those learnings.

>We released this tool for the Obama Campaign in August 2012. Over the next 3 months, we had over a million supporters authorize our app, giving us potential access to over 200 million unique people in their social network. For each campaign activity (persuasion, volunteering, voter registration, get-out-the-vote), we ran predictive models on this friend network to determine who to target. We then constructed an “influence graph” that matched existing supporters with potential targets. For each supporter, we provided a customized list of key friends with whom to share different types of content. [0]

Literally the ONLY difference, other than the political leanings, is Koger's app was then "acquired" by CA, in breach of Facebook's TOS. Which again, is something that happened probably ALL THE TIME in the pre-2014 wild west of Facebook app mining.

[0] http://www.rayidghani.com/what-can-non-profits-learn-from-so...
No I'm pretty sure the majority of people support true and blue free speech.
I would honestly like to know how clarifying the historical accuracy of claims is somehow denying the Holocaust. Your comment has been flagged so it is obvious the Cowards of Dang's Round Table have decided your invective inspired to much vitriol for their liking, but I think your self imposed mental illness should be given over to the light, not pushed into the shadows to fester in the minds of the inadvertently as well as willfully ignorant.

Polish history is fraught with calumny and misunderstanding. Sometimes they are apathetic, anti-Semitic fools, other times they are reasonable and intelligent hosts of a hard pressed diaspora population. None of this has any bearing on the fact that the Poles are in a three-way tie for most fcked up by WWII. IMO they were hurt the most. On top of the travails of WWII they were then thrust into the Soviet sphere. I know this will seem like a reprehensible statement, but if you want to learn about a group fuked by their neighbors and shunned by the world with their history erased and their culture besmirched internationally, it is the the children of Rejtan, not Judah. Consider that both groups lost roughly the same numbers (gross total) but one group gained a Homeland as well as an upward trajectory that apparently has no ceiling while the other was doomed to the orbit of the worst political and social experiment in recorded history.

So, I say to you: before you vomit up some BS you acquired on r/postcapitalism look into the deep history of a person, place, or people when they seem to act atypically or illogically. Sometimes the history can illuminate.

If you think my remonstration is misplaced or my recounting of history sloppy or inaccurate, I'd love to carry on a deeper conversation.

... assuming I'm not shadow banned for thoughtcrimes ;)
I remember when I was first told that there was such a thing as a search engine, when they were new. And I thought, "how could any one, free site index every site on the WWW?"

Every 1995 site... a tally of which was hardly statistical noise compared to today's numbers.
> I hope that the driver isn't the sole focus of punishment

As sad as this accident was, I don't see how the driver or Uber is legally at fault. Pedestrians crossing outside of a crosswalk are supposed to yield to traffic. The victim in this video is stunningly oblivious to the fact that she's on a roadway.

Obviously we want self-driving tech to be good enough to avoid such an accident, particularly since a human probably could have; I'm not arguing otherwise. But legally, the victim was clearly at least partially at fault here.

I think one thing this incident is going to do is to point up the limitations of having a human at the wheel, supposedly ready to take over. In a true sudden emergency, after tens of thousands of miles of uneventful riding around, that just isn't going to happen reliably.
Disclaimer: I have some meditation, observation of the mind and advaita/Zen practice.

If you look at all your experience since you are born, it all happened in your mind, exclusively. The faces of your parents, your first girlfriend, your job, swimming, eating all sums up to senses which all appear in your mind/conciousness. So it is not only that conciousness exists, it is what everything you have ever known is made of. You can claim you experience something that is outside of you, but there is no proof for that. There will never be a proof. A proof would happen in your mind as well. The thoughts of 'outside of mind' will also happen in your mind. Based on experience conciousness is the only thing that really exists.
Yes. I am not sure if self driving cars are subjected to regulatory aspects such as the SDLC in FDA regulated industries but they probably should be (as should embedded computers in autos in general).
One of the interesting things is that both the US and Russia gave up a significant number of warheads per missile through MIRV number reduction treaties. Submarine and lane based missiles on both sides that might have previously held 3 or 4 MIRVs now have a single re entry vehicle. But things like the status-6 are not covered by these treaties.
It's great that Uber changed the CEO and he's trying to change the culture. But that doesn't happen overnight. This is a 9 year old company with 12000 employees. It has a culture that has been built and reinforced over that time. As CEO, he doesnt make decisions at the front line directly, and it may take him a few years to convince everyone in the company to adopt his rules (and he may even fail, depending on the incentives inside the company). There's no magic wand a CEO can use to change a company overnight.
I think that’s partly the motivation behind panpsychism, although I haven’t studied the subject well enough to be sure.
Somehow I don’t see domesticated plants killing off insects. Monocultures, maybe. Why not pesticides?
This is the real important question. Why didn't the sensor package detect this?

Humans not paying attention can never be solved, but hopefully we can get to the bottom of this failure and then fix it systemically.

Unfortunately given how shady Uber are, we will never be able to trust their technical analysis in the event one is ever released.
I kind of get his point though: what if all this is pushed to the breaking point, and things snap suddenly?

First of all, I just don't think that will happen. Regulations aren't changing quickly, houses aren't that fast to build, and if prices start to go down, building is going to slow down too.

Second of all, if "the dam breaks", it's only because of years and years of doing the wrong thing, so yeah, it still sucks for whoever gets caught out, but the longer you put off fixing things, the worse it's going to be.
Don't forget compression artifacts. A dark object against a dark background in a highly compressed video is going to get compressed into just looking like the background.
Thank you! That is very useful information:)
Indeed, if they can't spot moose at these speeds, it's a non-starter in parts of the country.
Third comment I have seen by you mentioning the new CEO, so I think this is worth stating. Does a new CEO automatically change all the thinking from all the employees that were hired under the old CEO? Uber has a compromised integrity because they, as a collection of managers, made immoral/illegal decisions. So yeah, hiding information to save their ass is something I see as possible.
I didn't know that. And it's not all of Europe but France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Greece, and Bulgaria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering_in_Europe#...
As a side note, I've started seeing the term "Overton window" more often. It's a bit shocking because I knew Joe Overton (his untimely death was a gigantic loss). It's kinda cool to see it used in general discourse now.
A moving object would be more visible than usual. Human vision is better at picking up scene change.
A mortgage is a mortgage, and a pay check is a pay check.
Are they not even keeping the computational photography engineers? I can see jettisoning the rest, but I presumed this might be an acquihire of some great minds in computational photography to beef up the Pixel Camera team?
Not to be pedantic, but even if that's true, the RIAA is advocating for the profit seeking motives of the labels it represents.
Slack tool lets your boss potentially access far more
I’ve lived in Wyoming in the past (one of the pretty parts), it’s different than most places.

The key to understanding this bill is that Wyoming is subsidized entirely by energy exploration. There is no corporate or individual income tax, low property and sales taxes and no will to raise them any time soon. With coal, natural gas, and oil prices permanantly sagging they’re thrashing around looking for ways to replace those royalties. This is one of the prongs in the state’s new approach, they are also drafting legislation attempting to capitalize on blockchain tech using thier biz-friendly culture and cheap energy.

I hope they figure it out, people I care about have jobs tied to state funding.
reddit already had a policy to show ads only on whitelisted subreddits, so it would have taken something stronger than just "I don't want my ad shown next to X".
average people will expect robot cars to avoid these. it must also be a terrible experience for the woman who was in the car.
You wouldn't need two different cameras, just one camera shooting HDR video (alternating between over/underexposing the frame so that no information is clipped) to get a clear image at all exposure levels.

Eyeballs are pretty good at night vision once adjusted, but good high sensitivity cameras can be much better. And let's not get started on LIDAR/RADAR... it seems clear to me that this was not a sensory deficiency, it was poorly designed/tested software.
Okay, I've heard that 40mph plenty of times here when AI cars come up, so is it possible the car could have slowed down 10mph? I only suggested 10km/hr as an ideal maximum (aka 35mph) given better technology, not as a baseline for today...

I've also read that the last speed sign was 45mph before this accident. I used 40mph as it was between the 35mph sign that was coming up before the hit and the 45mph one before it.
This is such a blatant attempt to manipulate public opinion before the actual data appears. Even if Uber's software is ridiculously using visible light for its decision-making, it should definitely be taking into account what it doesn't know. A system like this should not be guessing. There is a giant swath of black in the video; the camera doesn't know what's there. So, the car should be moving so it has a short enough stopping distance to avoid a collision. (Or at least flash the high beams, but that would be pointless, because obviously it isn't actually using this camera. Uber may be run by reckless psychopaths, but their engineers aren't stupid).
Ha my view of Venice is colored by Californication, but yeah I’ve heard it’s not the best place to live in
> Whataboutism isn't new

You are absolutely correct, however I would argue that it has only relatively recently entered the common HN lexicon. The vast majority (~675 out of 704^) of comments using it here in the comments are < 2 yrs old.

Admittedly the first comment on HN that used the term is 7 years old, but that comment [0] predates the creation of the wikipedia article (frequently trotted out when invoking the term here) by about a year.

As an aside, I'd love see a dataviz app that shows the lifecycle of terminology and memes that thrive in various internet discussion boards.

0) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2944345

^well it'll be 705 including this post ;)
We have no idea where the DOJ is going to land on this yet.
"It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? ... That's the way a hard-core commie works." (It's a near direct quote from the film.)
> To survive at their inflated valuations they had to be everything to everyone, which stretched their vision thin

Your comment is spot on.

It also handcuffed them to their established business model(s) and "properties", because they couldn't afford to take a revenue hit or self-cannibalize to transition to the next S-curve eating the world. Given that, demise is inevitable.
The issue is more with the dynamic range of the sensor than the ISO. Increasing the ISO would blow out the highlights long before providing sufficient detail of the shadows (not to mention the increased noise).
Regardless of this camera's performance the LIDAR and other sensors should have picked this up.
30 minutes is definitely doable as long as you don't cross the 405. Most young people I know on developer salary in LA live practically walking distance to work.
As a born and raised American, I associate union pay with tenure (how long you have worked for one company) or flat pay. This sounds okay when productivity does not vary much by employee like factory workers.

However, knowledge workers like software developers can very in productivity by orders of magnitude. Companies can therefore pay far more for more productive employees if they can differentiate employee productivity. As someone who has worked with people whom I consider a net negative on our output, A union based pay that brings my income down to the lowest common denominator is the last place I would want to join.
Probably because, and not to get too political but, the perceived slight from those two was helping Trump. Though, I don't think there is much data that supports the notion that data analytics helped Trump more than Hillary. I think the argument that Hillary's ground game was horrendous holds up more under scrutiny.
The pedestrian was at fault here, not the driver. This is not where you should be crossing the road in the middle of the night with no lights on.
I was under the impression that hosts based blocking just needed you to toggle airplane mode to reset it, not a full reboot.
At least half the country feel like they were actually harmed, and even the rest sees the danger coming closer. I actually don’t care, or may even prefer, if commercial ads are perfectly targeted at me.
Pathetic and sad performance by the vehicle and "safety" driver. The woman does not "appear out of nowhere", she was in the roadway for some time. The woman was not wearing all black, had red hair, and her shoes were reflective. Even if we are to believe that their camera is this crappy, they still have the lidar, and it appears brakes were not applied. Even 500ms of braking * 0.8g = 9mph. That might have saved her life. Ultimately if Ubers car cannot see a pedestrian crossing the street at a walking pace at night and not hit him/her, it should not be operating at night.
Many people don't seem aware that the reduced speeds at curves aren't because your car can't take the curve at that speed (most can) but because you can't tell if there's an obstruction from a sufficient distance.
Not a fair comparison. The gopro is static in a well lighted corner. It's ideal conditions.

The same camera in movement facing moving lights might never be able to adjust its sensitivity.
Poland was a part of the Eastern Bloc, not the USSR.

It is incredibly naive to think that a regime change somehow means all of the social and status networks just magically change. That is as silly as believing that a change in President == a change in bureaucracy.

I dream of living in Poland, or Czechia, someday. I know it isn't perfect, but it seems honest.
aka solipsism
The police sure seems eager to be on someone's side.
This is just the raw camera input. The question here is, what did the software see?

What did the sensors register? Is their system using an ultrasonic sensor? Did this detect anything? Commercial ultrasonic sensors can detect something at least 15' away. So the software could have at least slowed down to minimize the collision impact.

What did the LIDAR see? Did their software detect an object?

This accident happened on a clear night. There was no rain. There was no snow. The pedestrian crossed the street in a perfect 90 degree angle to the sidewalk. The pedestrian did not jaywalk and cross diagonally. The pedestrian even walked the bike across the road. Thus, the pedestrian performed a legal road crossing.

I don't think a human driver would have made this same mistake. When I drive on a dark road, I occasionally flash my high beams to ensure that there is no obstacle in front of me for hundreds of feet. That is how I, as a human, can safely determine that the road is clear for me to proceed.

What's on trial here, is the safety of the software system developed by Uber. And on this instance, their system failed, and a human died.
Cloudflare is 'dominating' because of their free tier. There are other services actual companies use. Fastly, Akamai, AWS Cloudfront, CacheFly and more.
I compare it to the backup camera in my car. While close up at night it is good, if something or someone is a short distance away I can barely make them out. However, looking in my mirrors I can see them or at least make out that someone or something is there.
She probably had untreated mental illness as well.
I get your concern, but I would probably reserve the word inadequate. If this is the only situation you have to worry about a self driving care hitting and killing you in, and it's the only know data point at this time, some may consider that much more than adequate.
It's time to set the precedent by jailing those who deemed the system was ready for real-world use.

This woman's death will not be in vain. I did not expect such a terrible fuck up so early on, but I'm glad it clearly demonstrates how badly made autonomous vehicles are. They're not going to be ready to hit the streets for decades, unless of course we decide that Uber's profit margins are worth more than human life.
I dunno, I see a lot better than my dashcam sees stuff in similar conditions.

Whether a human would've seen her or not is besides the point, really - the car is supposed to be fitted with sensors that don't rely on visible light, and this looks like the most basic test case you'd run on an AV - big empty road with an obstacle moving at constant speed into the path of the vehicle.
There have been studies that indicate that these sorts of technology (lane keeping/departure warning, auto-brake, blind spot detection) help reduce collisions.

Personally, I don't think that it's right to dismiss these systems entirely if they provide some level of safety benefit, are cheaper and easier than level 5 autonomous vehicles to develop and / or deploy.

> http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/stay-within-the-li...
I think your response time calculations are wildly wrong.

The LIDAR sensor[1] being used here can pick up targets up to 120m away. I'm not sure about the RADAR or vision systems also in place, but even LIDAR alone should have been able to easily pick out the pedestrian with plenty of time to come to a full stop.

This is clearly poorly designed autonomous driving software, not a sensory deficiency.
Vaclav Smil, the man who has quietly shaped how the world thinks about energy