skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The video makes it look like the woman popped out of the shadows and makes it look like this was unavoidable. But that's not what a person would really see. People's eyes have great dynamic range. Take this picture for example (not mine):

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*OQtewILwLl-EssbWY...

What you'd see in real life is much closer to the edited version on the right, while unedited pictures (the version on the left or the uber video released) would make it seem like you can't see shit. A driver paying attention probably would have seen this person from far away. At the very least, the video doesn't convince me this was unavoidable.
Aesthetic reasons are the worst reason to be anti-urban.
Does Tesla's autopilot count as autonomous? There has been one confirmed death in what is likely over half a billion miles of autopilot usage. That would seem to tip the rate back in favor of the autonomous cars over humans.
Preview mode isnt that special, at least in this version: https://cloud.google.com/armor/docs/security-policy-concepts

Http load balancers already log all requests. Security policies decisions will also be logged, but in preview mode won't actually affect the traffic.

EDIT: looks like advanced rules are in alpha for only certain customers...
More specifically, unanticipated inflation is a "tax" to creditors (usually wealthier) who have invested loans and a benefit to their debtors (usually less wealthy).

From https://www3.nd.edu/~cwilber/econ504/504book/outln13c.html

"One important redistribution of income and wealth that occurs during unanticipated inflation is the redistribution between debtors and creditors.
a. Debtors gain from inflation because they repay creditors with dollars that are worth less in terms of purchasing power."
> What do you mean by advanced SQL?
I mean, understanding how to write your query using the right database features to get the best performance and understand query plans so that you can optimize slow queries.
The NTSB is opening an investigation, and Congress critters are watching.

The Tempe police aren't going to lead the crash analysis. If history is any guide, they'll probably have NASA doing code reviews.
At some point, your phone might tell you that it has subjective experiences. What will you do then?
Watch the footage carefully and you'll see that the car actually tracks to the right immediately before impact.

When centered there's about 20" between the sides of the car and the lane markers. (120" lane - 80" car) / 2.

At the moment of impact, the victim appears to be between 3' and 4' from the right lane marker. To avoid the fatality, the car would have only had to track left 2' from center.

So my question is - what was the last possible moment such an avoidance maneuver (veer left) could have been initiated?

I think that's an interesting factor in assessing whether this tragedy was avoidable or not. Certainly seems like a technical failure here here in that the car was easing slightly to the right and not braking or veering left.
So someone is trying to get journalisim to be branded as “traditional media” now.

The implication is “old and busted”, when in reality they have modern widely distributed websites which are as contemporary as any alternative medias being inferred ... which are what exactly? Twitter?

“Journalism media” seems to be an appropriate counter.
That's the temperature at the peak of day, right? The temperature in the middle of the night, when the crash occurred, should be closer to the low.
> Your concept of brain is happening in your mind right now.

No. It's in my brain.

> Can you feel electrical signals in your brain? Or can you feel senses in your conciousness?

When people experience certain kinds of brain injury, they can lose their sense of smell, touch, etc. Some people with brain defects can't feel pain. But after surgery, if successful, these people can feel, sense, smell, touch, etc again.

I know for a certain that I can't feel without my brain. As for the mind? As I said, it's debatable.

Ultimately, we have to wait for brain science for our answer. We could sit here and debate forever, like I did in philosophy class. But that will get us nowhere. It will be like debating whether the soul exists in the liver or the pineal gland 300 years ago.

But I think all signs point to the mind going the way of the soul. At least that's what nascent advances in neuroscience and philosophical consensus is slowly heading towards.

The mind to the body is just like the soul to the body or the gods to the heavens. It's nonsense we invented to explain what we do not understand.

But only scientific advance can put this debate to rest.
I think it's possible to look at the video file and find markers for modification. Certainly this is the case for JPEG, TIFF, PSD, vs Raw files. It's not impossible but very impractical to render a Raw file, edit it, and then unrender it back into a Raw file. It's also pretty malicious and I think it would show a corrupt intent to modify a Raw image in this manner.

There are Raw equivalents for video, but consumer cameras are all post rendered, and heavily compressed. So modification is going to change all kinds of metadata, but in particular there will be more than the expected quantization from double compression.

Again, if that were demonstrated, I think it would show a corrupt intent. The intent to deceive.
Luckily, self-driving companies agree.

All of the major ones use test tracks with live hazards, including the scenarios you mentioned.

Waymo hazard testing https://www.google.com/amp/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/08...

Uber hazard response https://youtu.be/LM8Zw8fiPXE

Uber test track https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/ubers-f...

Cruise Automation’s test track https://www.autoevolution.com/news/general-motors-starts-an-...

As far as driving on public roads, I tend to agree. As do the companies. They all have a safety driver behind the wheel, ready to take over.

There was clearly something that went wrong here in this tragedy, but it’s not a reckless disregard for safety on anyone’s part that led this to happen.
What's your evidence for Python ever having been 8 times faster than Ruby? Apart from the numeric libraries, written mostly in C or Fortran, Python has at best only ever gained a very marginal speed lead over Ruby and that has been wiped out in recent releases of MRI. Ruby's startup time is a bit slower than Python's but once they're off to the races both of these horses have been neck and neck for a long time.
But this has got to be just the black-box camera, right? Surely the actual camera they use as a driving sensor is much better than this? Not to mention the LIDAR and all the other sensors that should have caught this.
Japan is a developed country (low capital requirements) with a huge stock of capital which it has exported around the world. It can borrow plenty internally before there is a shortage of capital. It has $1.3 trillion in foreign reserves.

Poland is a developing country (high capital requirements) with no accumulated capital and negative savings, its foreign reserves are 10% of Japan's.
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At 38 MPH, the car would cover that distance in 0.7 seconds. That is on the low end of human reaction times for braking, so an average person might not have time.
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> 3) They should be using thermal infrared to spot living things

To my knowledge the fast frame rate (>9 Hz) thermal sensors are still ITAR-restricted, seriously limiting their application in autonomous vehicles among the other things.
Yep. I'm not an economist, but I've been watching this weird "urban inflation" trend too.

People in big cities, even though they don't produce more or better work than others, get paid a lot more to account for the housing bubble, essentially increasing their buying power tremendously compared to people living in smaller cities.

Imho we should give up on the idea of maintaining large cities as aesthetic monuments or something. It's bad enough for cities like London that have a decent population density, but places like LA where people just won't give up on the American suburbia model of housing is just insane.

Cities aren't just a place to hang out and look at pretty buildings, people need to live there, work and transport within reasonable cost and time constrains. It's a very practical issue that needs to be solved. Living in a big city isn't just a luxury, it's a need too for many people.
Not exactly. The dynamic range of the eye in a single scene is around 12-14 stops, about the same as a high-end digital sensor, like the one in the Canon EOS 5D or Sony Alpha. https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/cameras-vs-human...

The eye can gain a lot more stops through adaptation (irising, low-light rod-only vision), but those mechanisms dont come into play when viewing a single scene -- and cameras can also make adjustments, e.g. shutter speed and aperture - to gain as much, if not more, range.
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/03/21/59...
I often think in this specific realm. From looking back at previous points in my life before I learned the inner machinations of complex systems such as computers, I know that there are subjects which are incredibly far out of my reach of current understanding simply because of the mountains of fundamental concepts to learn and understand before getting anywhere near an understanding of the mechanisms by which the application of the complex system is actually achieved.

But now that I am on the other side of that gulf of knowledge, at least with respect to the general operation of computers, I can't help but notice a fundamental difference in people who truly understand a given subject deeply, and those who are generally aware of the subject, but are still somehow immersed in the subject. People that truly understand the subject can often times accidentally offend the other side with what is a completely uncontroversial statement in the company of those that truly understand. That is because oftentimes, the gaps of understanding are often filled in with emotionally charged, self centered rationalizations.

I guess where I usually get off this train of thought is that perhaps one day we will come to realize that every single solitary experience of any kind can be explained away with biochemistry, and pondering that against the thought of what it has previously meant throughout my life to find out that what I had thought of as so profound and meaningful was neither of those at all.
Hopefully the NTSB has direct access to all the other telemetry and will release it as well. It would be greatly beneficial to the public if we could see the LIDAR and thermal logs as well.
Some of the comments in this thread are ridiculous, and your comment throws them into sharp relief. Even if the video is a perfectly faithful reproduction of the scene and the dark parts are that dark, why in the world would the software assume a space it has next to no information about is safe to drive into at the current speed?
You're arguing they deserve the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise. Most people seem to feel they've done enough damage that it's on Uber to prove they're worthy of trust.
This may be how you believe you see the world but most people take reputation into consideration and on sites which expose that information account age and karma are very popular cues for that.
Yes please!

Take a look here for more info on how we do bug reports currently: https://wiki.lineageos.org/bugreport-howto.html
OP link should be replaced with this one.
There is also a pedestrian right of way in Europe, at least in the countries I know of.

I think that European drivers are convicted when they hurt a pedestrian. I don't think that Americans get convicted as often or as long. That could explain why they don't drive as carefully.
The reason Theranos was always a fraud is it is well known (as in for decades) that you can’t get reliable sampling from a finger prick sample even with a perfect detector.

The reason why is that the blood from a finger prick is a random mixture of veinous and arterial blood with a variable amount of cell debris and contamination from what is on the skin. Not even Kissinger (sorry I mean Lucifer) could give you an accurate diagnosis based on finger prick.
Yeah, with the massive amounts of money involved, and with Uber's well known less than perfect ethics, I'd be extremely skeptical of the video
Its also become a bit of a convenient shield for many to avoid confronting/admitting their own side's double-standards or bad-faith power politicking.

Not accusing you of the above, but "Whataboutism" is as old as double-standards it draws attention to. But IMHO the accusation is more often use for ill than for good.
This is Arizona, however. The nights do cool down, but the concrete will still store a lot to heat.
The whole reason many people on here have been advocating for self driving cars is that they can see obstructions more or less perfectly in the dark with LIDAR. I am much more interested in what that sensor said.

I'm reluctant to infer exactly what a human eye would have seen in that situation. I have absolutely driven down streets in suburbia where the gap between street lights was large enough to make them quite dark, and that video was an example of exactly what I was afraid of happening whenever I drove down those streets (though admittedly my fear was hitting a white tailed deer).

I think it might also be fair to argue that the car's high beams were not on (but again, that shouldn't matter because of LIDAR, right?).

I'm not confident even an above average human driver would be able to avoid that accident, even if good eyesight gave you an extra half second to respond. Dark clothing and no reflectors means that person was definitely invisible to both the camera and the driver for some time after they would have been visible in daylight.

I've had a couple of situations where someone appeared close to my line of travel with low visibility clothing (at night) that scared the living shit out of me, and they weren't trying to cross the street.

To be clear, I am not blaming the victim here, but do wear high visibility clothing when you're a pedestrian near high speed roads at night.
The maths teacher who became an unlikely star
One sub closed where people would offer listings on OpenBazaar, /r/bazaarmarkets.

Most listings there were above board iirc. Not sure what their criteria was exactly.
Am I wrong that there is a clear difference between big data marketing methods and military information operations methods?

> [SCL Group's] expertise was in “psychological operations” – or psyops – changing people’s minds not through persuasion but through “informational dominance”, a set of techniques that includes rumour, disinformation and fake news.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistl...
Desert Bus. That's not a terrible idea.
Good time to mention my essay: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/03/google-doubleclick-essa...
I'm hoping the police and NTSB have guards on the impounded car and they have a strict chain of custody on anything Uber accesses.

To be fair though, Uber can probably extract, and potentially even change this data, remotely. Given their track record, that's not outside the realm of possibility at all. They'd be stupid to attempt it with the world staring at them, but this is also the company that had Greyball, the hell map, blatantly disregarded laws in many countries and had to hire Eric Holder's company to run damage control.
check the below article and embedded video, talks about the Uber ADAS https://www.buzzfeed.com/nicolenguyen/not-too-fast-not-too-f...
> "experiential consciousness" — that which cannot be studied

There is no indication that it can't. Any act of consciousness is manifested as some physical effect in the brain, and as such it can be detected, measured, and interpreted.
Driver was obviously on cell phone.

Since this is still in development, Uber should have assumed that the self driving software would fail unexpectedly.

If a human sees something work 1000 times, they will expect it to work every time. Uber should have anticipated overconfidence in the software. They should have coached the driver on this. They should have reviewed footage of safety drivers to ensure that safety drivers are complying with instruction.

This was not an accident. This was carelessness. I blame Uber. Uber's "just get it done" cultural attitude is incompatible with developing safe self-driving software. There's a reason that Google, with 10X the number of miles on the road, have not killed anyone.
> clear the driver was looking at his phone or doing something ...

Seriously, what else can you expect. These companies who do put these things on the road with the justification that "There is a human behind the wheel" should be taken out back and shot in the head...Just pull the plug. No more self driving cars for them. Those are just the kind of tech companies we don't want around...

See, it is not a mistake that they are making. They know well enough that this human behind this wheel is a useless as a dummy. But they do it any way. What does it say about them?
(Apologies I don't have longer to write up what might be interesting to read of his, will do my best for a few minutes!)

What I find his most interesting core claims are basically: "human and animal brains aren't spookily special in some non-physical way, and there are physical explanations for things we've simply failed to imagine and accept yet".

And answering the "well whatabout [spookily special sounding thing]?" questions that naturally arise after that are the real fun challenge. But doing so is really tough, and often requires multiple long-held assumptions be questioned in succession, which is why so much of his work is on the process of questioning beliefs (and where his "thinking tools", thought experiments etc. really shine).

Re: "Dennett also tried to deny that we have dream experiences, calling it coming-to-seem-to-remember upon waking up", he's said himself[0] that is a myth based on mischaracterization of his work[1]:

> More than a few people apparently suppose that I espouse and defend the bizarre 'cassette theory' of dreaming in 'Are Dreams Experiences? '1 Emmett speaks, for instance, of "Dennett's defense of the cassette theory". Since more than a few suppose this, it must be because of obscurity or misdirection in my paper, for I do not end up espousing the theory, and am quite explicit about it. I concoct the cassette theory as a foil, as an alternative to what I call the received view, precisely in order to raise and investigate the question of what in fact would settle the issue between two such drastic rivals.

From what you wrote there are a couple of characterizations of Dennett's positions that suggest you might still enjoy giving some of his work another go with a generous mindset, e.g.:

> Taking Dennett seriously entails denying any sort of internal experience

I suspect Dennett wouldn't deny people perceive internal experience, heck -- evidence of that has been serialized right in your comment. He accounts for each of the phenomenon you describe (mental imagery, dreams as you mentioned, inner dialogue, pain) in his work, just not ascribing any fundamentally non-physical traits to the special-personal-feeling-ness of them.

[0]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00357702

[1]: It's not hard to imagine how Dennett's claims could end up so often being mischaracterized (even by academic philosophers) -- the stuff he's claiming is subtle and (by its mind-blowing nature) hard to accept! So if someone hasn't yet grokked it, and they re-tell it how they stored it, the reader is doomed to never take seriously that kooky philosopher's claims.
For reference, here is a marketing video of Ford self driving at night:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/business/technology/pro...
This is why I still maintain a digital music library -- backed by a physical media collection that sits in my real live analog house -- that I sync to an SD card in my phone.

In 2018, Bandcamp seems to have solved the digital music sales problem that the iTunes music store never could (DRM-free album downloads in lossless formats for less than the retail price of the CD or LP). Everything that isn't there can usually be found on Amazon music in a lossy format for a decent price w/ no DRM (sometimes free if you have Prime). If I have to rent music, I'm doing it from Spotify.

Another half-baked Google service that they'll give up on in six months plus an obnoxious marketing campaign fronted by an old Warner executive? They might want to consider paying people to use it.
In all honesty, I don't see why npr being public changes the story. You neither have to pay for YouTube or npr.

I understand the emotional asentiment that because npr is non-profit, it's somehow more worthy to endure hours of pledges.

Fwiw, I'm near the point where I stop using YouTube as ads get more and more agressive and less relevant. But I have no problems with YouTube trying to maximize their profits.
Or flick your high beams, quick beeps, adjust speed... I do all these things if I see anything on a collision course with my vehicle.

It is surprising to learn that these vehicles are operating at night. To collect training data, since nighttime driving is inevitable, perhaps there are ways to simulate night to the computer vision systems during daytime so the human supervisor can still see clearly.
The braking distance at 80 mph for a modern car is 320 feet (just under 100m) the car should have been able to come to a complete stop if the software had been using the LIDAR correctly.
That depends almost entirely on the rent to value in their local market, and is far more volatile than index funds.

I rented a 1.3m home in CA for $3,500/month, made no sense to buy at that level other than a forced savings program.
The police department released the video, not Uber.
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Hmmm. I'd get off facebook but then my friends would think I unfriended them.
There definitely isn't a full second missing before impact. Maybe a tenth of a second.
> you are not being paid to do a job (research) you are being paid to bring in even more money

And research funding is going towards big hotel, travel expenses, and conference fees.

> Grad students are the laborers

Making the business highly profitable as there is no need to hire a large number of professors where you can offer tuition waivers and cheap stipends to a larger number of people who wants to get another degree
I have to say that since I've been paying for music, I've always had the one complaint: Why does the industry insist that each music portal have a fragmented, incomplete catalogue.

In a world where everyone pays for music, I suppose this makes sense, since to have access to the complete catalog one would need to subscribe to each and every service out there. The one exception was grooveshark, which had everything.

I think google may have succeeded where grooveshark failed, in strong-arming the industry to provide access to their complete catalogue. Originally I subscribed to youtube-red because I couldn't stand adverts popping up during video lectures. I suppose they succeeded in frustrating me.

But $10/month is the correct price point for an unrestricted music catalogue, and now ad-free streaming of other media is just a bonus.