skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some level of integration, testing always has to meet the real world. Maybe in IT we would call a "canary" instead of a test. I once had a colleague who had been a test driver for a major European car firm. His job was to drive cars around in real traffic.

Self-driving cars need this all the more, since most of the hard and scary stuff is the integration of many systems and how they deal with unexpected scenarios. And worse still -- in a traditional car, you had an expert test-driver like my friend who could, say, take evasive action if the brakes didn't work.

But in these cars, the driver is the system-under test.
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I don't think the web is slow or bloated, only individual websites are slow or bloated. CSS is absolutely brilliant, and from what I have read, Javascript is the main culprit for badly performing websites.

I don't think a solid argument can be made that because the CSS rendering engine is complicated that it's not performant. Chrome documentation says it's possible to target 60fps with CSS/JS animations.[0]

[0] https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/r...
I guess you are right. What I meant to say was it's a terrible PR for Uber, and a serious f*up if Uber was at fault.
> So we will have overall a much smaller number of deaths caused by self driving cars, but ones that do happen will be completely unexpected and scary and shitty. You can't really get away from this without putting these cars on rails.

One of the big questions I have about autonomous driving is if it's really a better solution to the problems it's meant to solve than more public transportation.
It doesn't matter what he thinks, what you think or what I think.

What matters is how and when the anger of those being stepped on fully manifests itself. Anyone who wants to protect "Capitalism" really ought to be frantically doing everything they can do to promote UBI or at least Universal Health Care and Education.
True, but ensuring that it is sorted out correctly is the cardholder’s problem, and occasionally quite annoying.
This was a cyclist. So they should be on bikes.

Just like they take the repair mechanics on the first test flight after a major repair of a big airplane.
Same here, except all the newer games I probably would like to add to my library but can't because Win/DX only...

Nouveau is still problematic because of the lack of access to the NVIDIA proprietary code, i.e. the extra bits like fan management, monitors, etc. That and it's performance still just isn't there against the proprietary drivers.
AMD drivers are pretty good and Wine performance has increased significantly over the last year or so.

Hopefully Vulkan encourages more widely supported game dev, it's a terrible thing that gamers are practically locked into the Windows OS by way of proprietary graphics stack and the old catch-22 of 'no market for Linux games/no games on Linux.'
This is a very privileged perspective.

Facebook spent years getting billions of people on the platform and those users haven't left due to lock-in. They are connected to their families, their businesses, their friends.
I've had and have my disagreements and issues with Epic lately, but kudos where kudos are due. Nice job Epic, especially on the listening part. (now can we get more gnu/linux love please?)
Statistically speaking, I am curious to know the data on these areas:
- number of miles driven per fatal accident on self-driving
- number of miles driven per fatal accident on a human driver.

It is important to know whether our machine is now doing worse/better than our counter-part and this means a lot for our self-driving initiatives.
With Uber's reputation, I wouldn't be surprised if they try to write an app to falsify black box telemetry in the event of a crash to put the liability on the victim. Maybe they'll call it "grey box" or "black mirror".

Does the NTSB have regulation on how black boxes are allowed to function?
I would think it's in their best interest to not disclose anything to anyone. You don't want to do anything to disincentivize whistleblowers.
That edge is what drives price discovery.
Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation
I think parent was agreeing with what you said, in that OP is preaching to the wrong audience because their salary depends on ignoring this information
We should stop using the label "socialist" for anything that's slightly different from the current status. It makes a serious discussion almost impossible (which often is the intended outcome). There are plenty of things that can be changed before the US turns into a socialist country.
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Interesting. No, I don't have that.

Maybe a country specific thing or even outright prohibited in Europe.
Reasonable compromise, compared to being aggressively locked into a proprietary platform.
> Mixed traffic speeds decrease safety

Exactly. That is why we should ban all cars anywhere there is people, and they should be limited to highways. Because safety is most important, right? Right???
It will be really interesting (and pleasant) to see all these companies go out of business when GDPR kicks in.
Bitcoin, or rather the bitcoin ecosystem, strikes me as the existing system on steroids. Let's cut out the few checks and balances we have and see the resulting clusterfuck.
> Without the FDIC the first thing banks would have done in 2008 would have been to drop the savings accounts of a lot of regular people.

Banks go out of business if they get a reputation for defaulting on depositors' accounts. After all, would you deposit money in such a bank? I wouldn't, either. Depositors would still have legal recourse against the bank, too.
Since the person profiting is someone who obtained the secret through shady means - either breaking into an insecure system, or taking advantage of their access to a system which doesn't encrypt passwords - I don't consider it pessimistic or dehumanizing to describe the behavior as greed.
What cost do you put on your own life? Lets start from there?
I guess it depends on the data available, but I don't think the hyperparameters are what's needed. You just need to see what the car sensed and how it responded. Then the other car companies can try to replicate the similar circumstances and see what their models would do.
I think you've missed the point. I'm talking about merging into the bike line prior to the turn.

If you still don't see the difference, here's one way you can tell. If you are stopped, waiting at the intersection, if you've merged, then you'll be occupying the bike line while you're waiting.
The "exploit" is the part where the attacker gets root/remote code execution. Using the computer to mine cryptocurrency rather than participate in DDOS attacks or host child porn is just a detail.
Even if, worldwide, self driving cars only caused there to be 1 less death per year, why on Earth would you not want that? What's the advantage to you in having more people die while waiting for self driving cars to be perfect?
Facebook trusted user data to a third party who didn't turn out to be trustworthy. How are they not due some share of the blame? Do you think the TOS provides sufficient (or any) protection for this data in the real world?
This isn't a realistic example of how you should use BEM, you would never have a block, element, and modifier in one class. The "block" class would be used in a div that wraps the elements:

<div class="block">
<div class="block__item">
I am an item
</div>
<div class="block__item block__item--danger">
I am a dangerous item
</div>
</div>

Your simplification relies on an HTML hack and can potentially be more confusing when modifier names start colliding.
NYTimes: Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation
Free K-12 doesn't count as universal education? And half of all expenditures on health care are spent by the government in all their various methods of handing out free health care.
Google at least from what I read has all of that.
Well, good, because I couldn't fathom why anyone would want to run an election using blockchain.

Paper ballots with automated scanners is a solved problem. It works, it's cheap, and it's virtually tamper-proof. (Tampering with the result will require physical access by many people: if you allow that possibility you're basically conceding that you cannot trust the government to run the election properly, and using any technology won't save you.)

In other words, paper ballots is a boring, unsexy technology whose only benefit is that it works. No wonder people aren't excited.
I haven't carried cash or wallet for about a year now. All I use is my phone (CommBank app, which uses PayPass network). Whether it's a coffee, snack for my kid, weekly shopping or a night out, I can barely even remember the times I've been caught out. Maybe twice in a year. Only times I take my wallet out the door is if I'm driving (I live in Melbourne and mostly walk or take trams) or going to the Doctors or something that requires ID/Medicare.

Food trucks, weekend markets, everyone has an EFTPOS/MPOS or CommBank tablet in their business now.
First Snapdragon Windows Laptop Reviewed
That's just because the industry is stuck using triangles in the art pipeline (and don't put in as much effort into the low-polys as they used to). If they were willing to use some variation of patch-based pipeline so that they could utilize the tessellation hardware that has existed for years, it wouldn't be a problem. I've heard artists are scared of it due to how amazingly awful some editors managed to make the NURBS editing experience, but with a decent editor it really wouldn't be a problem.

Sadly tessellation largely just gets used to screw over AMD performance (for those sweet Nvidia kickbacks; if you're wondering why some games like Crysis 2 tessellate flat surfaces into an insane number of polygons, this is why).
It could be safer than human drivers and still cause quite a few deaths. We can't evaluate such statistics from one accident. We don't even know if this particular accident would have been avoided by a typical human driver (there was apparently one behind the wheel of the vehicle).
How is that not equivalent to TLS? The fact that you can talk about invididual domains and their key length should be evidence enough that Qualys, or anyone else, could do the same.

You can get a ed25519 certificate for your web server today too, but hardly anyone would be able to communicate securely with you. Until deployment reaches critical mass you are in need of a fallback. Sunsetting protocols are even harder, so there's complete equivalency there. The use of TLS is just orders of magnitude more deployed than DNSSEC.

There's also no need to suggest I am an advocate of something when stating basic facts about it. Real world systems are dependent on DNSSEC today, and nothing you or I believe will change that. I will not discuss specifics, but I am sure you recognize its use within well known public protocols such as SMTP and SSH.
It doesn't matter which side of the political fence you sit - this is _clearly_ un-democratic.

<snark>What country is going to come to The US's aid and send in troops to "restore democracy"?
Cambridge Analytica: Warrant sought to inspect company
I don't find that at all, I feel like they're happy to take their time and make more money.
That's just Growth Hacking, bro. /s
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This might be an idiot answer, but have you checked your local makerspace? Or contacted someone at a university?

Last year a few of my classmates did an "Aggie Challenge" where they designed something for a private party in exchange for some mentorship and a resume bullet.

We usually do small projects for professors/companies that need help with something simple (like a CAD model/Design).
It worth remembering though, that this messenger was deliberately picked from the crowd of 16 (!) people during primaries. Voters spoke when they abandoned Kasich, Jeb and the rest. It's not like they had no choice. They had.
It is simple: Tech companies are allowed to test their systems on public roads because the communities/states have given them permission to do so(with restrictions like roads allowable, max/min speed allowable, safety driver present behind wheel, etc).
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16601470
According to the stuff I saw at least a few data scientists from CA were at the same location as Trumps digital strategy team in San Antonio, Texas. Which is the same location at which people from Microsof (although not on location 100% of their time), Facebook, Google and Twitter assisted into making him POTUS:

"Those staffers, two each from Twitter and Facebook, and one from Google, and three from Microsoft, joined 12 more digital experts embedded in the campaign from Cambridge Analytica, the Boston-based data firm which is under investigation in both the U.S. and abroad, and is funded by Trump benefactor and billionaire Robert Mercer"

Source: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/8xmvkg/trump-campaign-ha...

With all these people in just a small amount of space (because Trump's team and the office they were located in weren't that big according to the documentary) I can pretty much guarantee you that they all knew what was going on back then. Nothing stays secret, especially not in such small uncompartmentalized workspaces in which people need to work hard and work hard together.
This is a great point. Solve it one step at a time.

But the problem is Uber's business plan is to replace drivers with autonomous vehicles ferrying passengers. i.e. take the driver cost out of the equation. Same goes for Waymo and others trying to enter/play in this game. It's always about monetization which kills/slows innovation.

Just highway-mode is not going to make a lot of money except in the trucking business and I bet they will succeed soon enough and reduce transportation costs. But passenger vehicles, not so much. May help in reducing fatigue related accidents but not a money making business for a multi-billion dollar company.

That being said, really sad for the victim in this incident.
My bank has a fixed 8 digit number as the password, and mandatory SMS 2FA (which is flawed).

They also offer hw token login but you need to buy them and I don't think a relevant percentage of users uses those.
My personal hunch is that fully autonomous self-driving tech is not theoretically possible under currently known computational models, because it implies many well-known NP-Hard problems. Self-driving companies are betting on the ability to find a heuristic/approximation that works "sufficiently well". But I strongly feel that the chasm that needs to be crossed to be "sufficiently good" is not one of magnitude (i.e. we just need more testing!), but of theoretical boundaries, due to the existence of at-least two sub-problems which are not computationally solvable: 1. prediction of what pedestrians/cyclists will do next, and 2. accounting for sensor input distortion under bad weather conditions.

Humans can solve these problems due to life experience, not just driving experience. In other words, I think we're gonna need fully-conscious AI to solve self-driving.

The only way self-driving tech will reach production is if the input space is restricted, which is a significant-but-not-groundbreaking iteration on what we've been doing for decades with airplane autopilots and self-driving monorails. Sure, we can have self-driving cars on specifically designed freeways, but nothing more.
The numbers that I have seen indicate that humans have a fatal accident roughly once per hundred million miles, while we have one fatal accident for a self-driving car, with somewhere around ten million miles driven across all self-driving cars.

I've heard Uber is around 3 million self-driving miles.

So Uber would be 30x worse than humans.
>when the government invests in public goods, they don't then get to claim everything that is built on top of the public good.

If they used the right liscensing for the information that they created then they might.
Marble Madness?
And I’m the Queen if it doesn’t exist:
https://gizmodo.com/heres-shaq-wearing-a-magic-leap-18229802...
I think the world can probably stand to wait a bit of time while precisely this question is investigated.
> Free K-12 doesn't count as universal education?

No. K-12 doesn't qualify you for a job in the "modern economy."

The sad thing is it's not even about the education: companies only look for the degree.
This has to win some sort of award. I found it quite creative :)
While true, it's worth noting that these developments will likely impact the next XBox model too.
> "Every crash and especially fatality can be thoroughly investigated"

Would be better if the code and data was open for public review.
> Mr. Stamos had been a strong advocate inside the company for investigating and disclosing Russian activity on Facebook, often to the consternation of other top executives, including Sheryl Sandberg, the social network’s chief operating officer, according to the current and former employees, who asked not to be identified discussing internal matters.

I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. He was for disclosing this information which ostracized him from the other executives who don't seem to care at all in regard to how their data is used as long as they profit from it.
That could happen because of a malicious 'time-bomb' placed by a hostile state actor in such an update.
You bring up a very interesting thought experiment.

We may very soon see a software developer expounding on all of these "clean code" principles before congress as their defense. How conventional wisdom, and industry wide best practices recommend that software be built in a manner that lends itself to all of these positive effects that allow large software projects and companies to proliferate in the first place. Separation of concerns being the main concept that comes to mind. Is this the 21st century's "just following orders"?
Even though Microsoft is backing VP9 and would probably rather see that win out, I suspect their hand was probably forced by the iPhone now saving images in HEIF by default. I've already had to tech support for several family members who could not understand why they suddently couldn't open pictures they took on their iPhones on their PC.
I absolutely love exploring all the food and coffee around Melbourne and I can't even remember the last one that didn't take PayPass. Even the market stalls and coffee carts have an MPOS or CBA tablet. Maybe a couple of super hipster places take cash only for the image, but I haven't actually found one yet.
Stamos had been actively engaging with security researchers on Twitter over the past few days about CA with heated discussions:

> I have deleted my Tweets on Cambridge Analytica, not because they were factually incorrect but because I should have done a better job weighing in.

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/975069709140877312

Archive of those deleted tweets: https://twitter.com/aprilaser/status/975078309930311680

EDIT: Stamos responds to news:

> 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
> Sure, we can have self-driving cars on specifically designed freeways, but nothing more.

But at this point what makes it better than a train?
Anglo-saxon is, too: "beowulf" literally means "bee-hunter".

This ties into some cultic bear-worship tropes, too, which i believe also still persist, having to do with the fact that bears, like humans, have true names, and it is Not Wise/Not Possible to speak them -- thus the allusiory naming conventions.
What if "good enough" is just reduces deaths/injuries by 99%? 90%?

People would still get hurt and die directly due to software that cannot be perfected, but the gains to society as a whole might be worth it.
Only thing I want to know: did he sign an NDA?
Aren't self-driving cars already doing much better than humans on the safety front? That's the standard to beat, not perfection.
ID is faster than CLASS for the browser, especially when selecting by ID in Javascript.
you didnt address it, you proclaimed that products wont be inclusive (whatever that means) unless you have someone advocating for it, which you then describe as having someone who looks different.

its not like people cant understand other perspectives, its not that hard, and focus/user groups would catch all the of examples you cite, just like any QA testing catches bugs and edgecases
> max POST size [...] hell to debug [...]

As I was saying :-)
> You can tell because up to now, Uber could've been characterized as having an infinitely better fatality rate than the baseline. If a single data point takes you from infinitely better to 50x worse, the correct interpretation is: Not enough data.

No, you couldn't have characterized Uber has having "infinitely better" fatality rate than the baseline, because that would have resulted in a division-by-zero to calculate the standard error. Assuming a frequentist interpretation of probability, of course; the Bayesian form is more complicated but arrives at the same end result.

It's true that the variance is higher when the sample size is lower, but that doesn't change the underlying fact that Uber's fatality rate per mile driven is empirically staggeringly higher than the status quo. Assigning zero weight to our priors, that's the story the data tells.
Isn’t this more like someone throw a stolen item in your bag without you consenting or knowing?
Interesting analysis, but the data seems a little sparse to draw this conclusion.
CSS Flexbox and CSS Grid allows one to reorder elements to avoid Z-index problems as well.
Careful with that advice. I would assume that in general states are checking in closely for potential of misclassification of employees as independent contractors [0]. If you employ a freelancer as a company you actually have it easy: you don't owe the state pension, social tax and potential health insurance payments (these are components here in Germany). If that person happens to work de facto full time for you (can easily be checked via tax audits of annual income) the blame is on you, the company as you effectively employed someone without paying the respective social taxes.

I'm not a tax consultant myself but in case a government audits your company or the freelancer and finds you guilty of this, the money owed is not a small sum I would imagine. It seems the situation in Germany is that your tax and social security scheme is determined by your living residence. So if you work and live in Germany but work for for a US firm remotely you are bound to the German tax code and entitled to social security services as is anyone else in the country. I would be surprised if France or the Nordics would be less restrictive on this. And it makes sense from a legal intuition standpoint.

Best is probably to consult with other startups which employ folks remotely and check in with an expert.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misclassification_of_employees...
Which would be a different standard than the one I was criticizing.
Sure, but that's not the argument I am making, so perhaps you are replying to the wrong person. I agree that all information is "just a number" and you can outlaw numbers - but I can totally see why sharing certain information would be illegal(as in - the act of sharing). These two are not mutually exclusive.
I think the self-driving initiative is not about beating the human counterpart at launch, but at least on par with the performance done by human. That itself has huge value in efficiency and saving time.

Slowly with many AI-driven vehicles on the road, we can "optimized" for a better performance on safety and other issues.
It sounds like the COO and CEO view the spreading of disinformation as a feature of the site.