skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing! I empathize with a lot of what you said. I wrote about my own challenges with ethics in software (and added your comment as a citation): https://www.nemil.com/musings/software-engineers-and-ethics....

While it may not affect current employees, I do think vivid stories like this make the allure of joining Facebook less compelling for the next generation of programmers. It also may influence just a few people in hot fields who have many opportunities to choose from (such as the top researchers in AI).
context.Context is an interface because it is known there are multiple implementers (several in the context package itself). The sql driver.Value is actually the other way around: the sql package is the consuming package (for the driver).
And yet, almost everyone continues to insist that the system is more or less clean, even though it is blatantly obvious news and politics is lies and propaganda from top to bottom.

Bring on the smug downvotes boys, but until all media, social networks, and the overall internet can be brought completely under government control, it will continue because there is simply too much criminal activity going on everywhere.
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If it costs the janitor upwards of $100k a year to live reasonably near the place of work, then paying the janitor $200k a year is reasonable. If a company does not like to pay this amount towards cleaning staff, then the company can eliminate the janitorial positions and have people working in their own filth, or have non-janitorial staff take on custodial duties in addition to their own.
The density isn't just about how much talent and capital you can get, it's about how easy it is to get talent and capital.
I think you might be confusing "defensively" with perfectly. There are situations even defensive driving cannot prevent. For example, any car going 35 mph will need a few feet to brake if something jumps directly in front of it. Defensive driving just accounts for one's surroundings and likely outcomes. Seeing as the cars have been on the road in Arizona for a while, and this is the first we are hearing about a pedestrian collision, it seems the algorithm is pretty safe.
"Sorry, I don't have FB messenger. The best way to contact me is X, Y or Z."

Then accept that you will never hear from some people again. And shrug.
Thanks. I feel like I have read sections of this guide but going back and seeing some of the now relevant section titles, there appears to be some good info in here I could use. I hope I didn't skip over some of these when I was looking for relevant material.
GPS can be remarkably bad in urban environments. You can't really trust it for second-to-second speed or positioning. It's only really good for long term/high level planning. For speed, the wheel sensors are going to be way more reliable and consistent.
There's just a ton more money on the right - the Koch network and GOP billionaire donors dwarf the spending by progressives.

So it's a lot easier for right-wing purchased media and social media and purchased think tanks (Cato/Koch) and foundations (Bradley, DeVos) and right-wing news outlets to spread propaganda. Because they have more money to spend.

So I think rightfully, people feel that the bigger threat is from the right. It's not a coincidence that CA was heavily funded by a GOP billionaire who wants to damage gov't services to cut his own taxes (Mercer is in an $8B dispute with the IRS).

I think the real problem is what Zeynep Tufeksi has been writing about: informed consent. Even if some tiny print says it's ok in a click-contract where they have a majority of the negotiating power, Facebook is releasing data on its uses without their informed consent. That's what we as a society need to re-evaluate.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/85ozqr/exc...
"(fully attentive) human drivers" probably cause deadly accidents every day, and they certainly behave in surprising/irritating ways. Anyways, a human driver going the speed limit is no hazard, so I fail to see how having self-driving cars follow the limits could be a problem.
WhatsApp absolutely dominates SEA too.
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To me, it seems that breaking up Standard Oil is very different to breaking up a company like Google; while Standard Oil could be broken up into businesses based on geographical regions and physical resources, Google has data and IP which isn't easily divided (and is quickly coalesced too). Moreover, any divided Internet monopoly could scale rapidly back to a monopoly with the help of an IaaS provider. What differences would have to be considered? What would the breaking up of Google look like? Have there been any real world break ups of Internet monopolies?
Chris, the docs are fantastic!
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Good luck going car free anywhere in the Midwest outside of Chicago- and I mean at all, period. Even if you do, you still don't have the opportunity to experience the other- say, if you have friends with cars...which sounds pretty plausible to me(SF or otherwise)...if you think public transportation in the Bay Area is bad...every single city in the Midwest(outside of Chicago) is shockingly bad. You can commute 5-20 miles round trip by bicycle if you want if you feel like having your life threatened by motorists on an almost weekly basis(I speak from experience).
PS: And the democrats weaponize starry eyed, well-intentioned young progressive millennial and gen-xers. Why do you think the Russia-did-everything story sells so well when they were a bit player at most?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but everyone is in on it.
As another driver on the road, I'd far rather that autonomous vehicles maintain speed with the flow of traffic around them, in lieu of strictly sticking to the posted limit.
Yes, you've put your finger on the core of it - the way Facebook compromises privacy. It's about informed consent on sharing data - we need companies to get informed consent.
You would think LIDAR might help in such a situation...
Beeps are annoying. Better to artificially increase the engine sound.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that there is competition but the vast majority of people just care about a car that turns up on time and doesn't cost them a fortune.

If Taxify/Ola aren't doing anything majorly different from Uber then there's no reason for people to switch away from a service that proven to work.
You're reducing the entire benefit of self-driving cars down to whether they follow the speed limit.
Why are you assuming that the information spread is false? Propaganda is not necessarily false, in fact, it is better if it is true.

Platforms like Facebook would be well within their rights to try and prevent politically targeted advertising, even if it would be a fool's errand. Outlawing it would be unconstitutional.

If they try to prevent "spreading of false information" by political advertisers I've no doubt they will simply be harsher on the propagandists who have a political aim at odds with Facebook's interests, one of which is stopping these hit pieces by those angry that Trump won.

Nobody would be talking about this if Cambridge Analytica worked with Hillary. They simply want to stop their opponents from using the useful tool that is targeted advertising.
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Which needs fixing. We need to restore truth to public debate, and to politics. Cynicism is destroying Western liberal democracy.
swedx.se maybe
Wait until people find out American democracy is smoke and mirrors, then you'll see people talking. They better this situation under control soon or that might just happen.
The truth matters. Disinformation hurts us all.
Yuck. I would follow the advise in this blog post [1].

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/08/semantic-css-with-i...
You can’t return a decade sitting in a miserable cell.
This is my understanding: That only applies to 'App Information' fields, which contains Title and Subtitle, etc. The descriptions, keywords, etc, are not in 'App Information' so they can still be changed.
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> That wouldn't affect LIDAR, would it? The safety driver may not have been able to avoid the collision, but what about the self-driving car itself? I would like to know more before ruling out Uber's fault.

That's actually an interesting question, I think: should we assign (formal, legal) fault to self-driving cars based on their actual capabilities, or on the capabilities of an average human driver in similar circumstances? What do we currently do when humans of very unequal skill (e.g., a race car driver vs daily commuter) have an accident -- does the race car driver potentially shoulder more of the blame? If not, should self-driving cars be treated differently?

Honest questions, I'm not sure how I'd answer them myself.
I actually think this is a fairly trainable attribute. Given that Tesla does this kind of detection for objects and classification and records many miles of human drivers - it wouldn't be surprising that this may be a learned trait.
NEO has proof of stake. Though I'm not sure where to find an explanation of it as I'm not seeing it in their whitepaper.
It is nice to see Stellar getting some love. Things like this vastly improve adoption.
> "It’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode [autonomous or human-driven] based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway,"

How the hell would the chief of police know how to estimate what is possible for an autonomous vehicle to avoid?

Has he even seen that video of the Tesla predicting an accident two cars ahead?
On most roads around where I live, if you are driving exactly the speed limit, you are a slow moving obstacle that is probably more of a danger due to the extreme speed differential with the other drivers who are 10-20 MPH over the limit. I’d hope self driving cars were programmed to deal safely within the bounds of reality. If there is nobody else on the road, sure drive the speed limit. If cars are whizzing past you on all sides you’re a hazard even if you’re obeying the law.
However the 'What's new text' is not in App Information, so it is still kinda confusing. Let's see what happens in April
>Seeing as the cars have been on the road in Arizona for a while, and this is the first we are hearing about a pedestrian collision, it seems the algorithm is pretty safe.

One fatality in 4 million miles is safe? Humans are 20 times better than that.
This is a modern thing which I don't think applies to technology that is (ostensibly) category setting. In the early days of consumer computing, the hardware was released with a handful of supported software that the hardware maker teamed up on, then MAYBE a devkit would come out.

The most hardcore would create their own DevKits.

http://devkits.handheldmuseum.com/
> think it is, for a pretty reasonable slicing of the data. Here[1]

You missed the reference.

> group has only a single row that beats motor vehicle accidents, and it is "accidents", which motor vehicle accidents is considered a subset of.

Right, but then you have to ask why? You might find a dataset which further breaks the cohort down into "Male" and "Female" categories; because when you do that, you'll see the data does not line up between the two at all. There will, last time I checked, be about an 8x difference between the two.

This highlights the fact that the driver of the vehicle carries the risk, _not_ some inherent property of the vehicle itself. Ask yourself this question: if we took cars away from young men, would they be any less prodigious when it comes to fatally injuring themselves? History and psychology suggest that they wouldn't fare any better.

> in the 15-24 cohort, motor vehicle deaths are a substantial subset of all of the top 3 causes - unintentional injury, suicide, and homicide.

Suicidal behavior is not a risk factor that you can then translate to vehicles, neither homicide for the reasons I stated above. Finally, when you compare total vehicle fatalities for the cohort to the accidental death category for the same cohort, you realize it's around 30% of the overall deaths. When the 15-24 group injures themselves, it most often _does not_ involve a vehicle.

> a lot of the risk is concentrated in the takeoff and landing

Aircraft bodies are only rated for a certain number of "pressure cycles." There's genuine risk baked right into the airframe.
But there has to be some way we can solve this with the blockchain. /sarcasm
Also, if your company treats what many (probably not most on here) people would consider to be private details of your employment contract financials like an asset to be sold/ another piece of data to monitize... send a GDPR type request to HR. Then look for exit. Or just treat them similarly, and discretely monitize every piece of information you've gained from the relationship that they would expect, but not mandate, you to keep quite about.

If you are not aware, here's where most of your Equifax data that's been leaked online comes from, send in a request:
https://www.theworknumber.com/Employees/DataReport/

You can confirm employer participation--> Login--> Find Employer Code if someone wants to scrape the DB list.
JS can be a serious language in the data science and scientific computation fields, but one of the biggest ecosystem weaknesses is the lack of numeric libraries. This library is very promising!
Responsibility isn't being absolved, it's being shifted to the one that actually operates the vehicle - probably either the car vendor (who either manufactured or licensed the self-driving car software), or the fleet operator depending on what kind of sales and operations model self-driving cars adopt. When human escalator operators were replaced with automatic escalators, was there are problem with shifting responsibility over to Otis and other escalator manufacturers?

As with automatic escalators, there are two primary benefits to society: greater aggregate safety[1], and freeing up people's time. You point to the lack of a human operator to hold responsible as a detriment, but the statistics point the other way around: human drivers are horribly irresponsible and even if we can punish them when they do wrong that doesn't substantially change their behavior. Freeing up people's time is self-explanatory.
Tempe police have said that the car didn't brake ("significantly") prior to the collision[1]. So it does not seem that the car reacted optimally but simply had too much speed to halt in time.

[1]http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/cops-uber-self-driving-c...
NYT finally published because Ashley Judd went on the record. NYT knew just like so many others, but that was really mostly just based on rumors...how do you possibly publish something like that and risk the lawsuits? You need solid evidence to make taking the risk a responsible choice, and in a case like Weinstein's, that really means at a minimum someone needs to go on the record.
IT kind of is... I'm using several Adobe products at work (automating InDesign Server, I know, ewww), so it's windows or mac... running mac for laptop, work laptop is also a mac... my desktop is now a hackintosh.
I am the grand parent poster - have stopped using Ola as Uber drivers are more predictable. Also they have weird KYC requirements and wanted to send physical documents for Ola Money, blocking my money without that.
Not surprising that The Grand Tour and The Man in the High Castle are the top two. The Grand Tour is basically just Top Gear, which was one of the most popular shows in the world when it was on, and The Man in the High Castle is pretty unique in terms of the story for a top production budget show. The rest of Amazon's lineup can be described in terms of other shows, like Bosch is a standard cop/detective show with a gritty main character. This shows that Amazon needs to focus on truly original content and not rehash the same old ideas that have been done a dozen times before. All their big winners are unique.
In the same vein as "self taught" might have a negative connotation. Very class based. Severely dependant on context.
From the other post on this:[0]

> Chief of Police Sylvia Moir told the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday that video footage taken from cameras equipped to the autonomous Volvo SUV potentially shift the blame to the victim herself, 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, rather than the vehicle.

> “It’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode [autonomous or human-driven] based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway,” Moir told the paper, adding that the incident occurred roughly 100 yards from a crosswalk. “It is dangerous to cross roadways in the evening hour when well-illuminated managed crosswalks are available,” she said.

0) http://fortune.com/2018/03/19/uber-self-driving-car-crash/
Autonomous police cars are coming
Correct, that's the slideshow version. Let me know if that isn't working and I'll post a PDF snapshot
> As for why we've reached critical mass - it seems likely the ability to influence democratic elections, and the efforts by enemies of the Western world to use it to undermine democracy, are getting people to notice.

American politicians of both stripes have realized the private sector now wields comparable propaganda power to that of the government, hence the post election "Russia" propaganda activity burst and full court press on the story by friendly newspapers to rein everyone in, before they are neutered.
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Sorry, there doesn't appear to be any actual content on this page.

If you want me to use your tool in a space I am already familiar with, you at least need to show me how your tool is better than any of the competitors that are already out there -- like uBlock Origin.
I can say The Grand Tour is when I started using Prime Video for anything... their interface is pretty bad in general, imho. Multi-season watching when I first looked into it was atrocious.
It may have been difficult to avoid the collision but if they were driving at a lower speed the collision may not have been fatal. I do not mean 3mph lower to be within the speed limit. I mean significantly lower if passing in close proximity to a pedestrian who may step out onto the road.
I haven't any insight to whether or not the car did or didn't attempt to brake, but it's necessary to respond to the "superhuman reaction speed" remark as, even if the reaction speed is superhuman, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's enough.

Accidents can still occur even if the car is perfect.
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That would be an example of caring more about advancing one's career than the deleterious effects your work has on individuals.
PBR proved that we reached the point where the industry had enough of hacks in some domains.

Everybody in CG knows that raytracing is the graal in that it allows a unique, universal rendering model and that triangle-based techniques are always hacks aimed at approximating a raytracing result (or even better, a radiosity-based algorithm)

We have always surfed on the edge between cramming more millions of triangles in our graphic cards and being able to make a complex calculation per pixel. It is arguable that if hardware manufacturers had taken a different path, GPUs would be more comfortable with raytracing now as it requires a very different architecture (make lookups in a big scene cheap vs matrix operations)

From time to time, big player test the water with raytracing and often are not followed by the crowd of developers afraid to change their ways.

I wish that one day we cross that bridge.
Five seconds.

I type ‘ngp CLIENT PROJECT’

I then have the latest versions of my project template checked out (front end and backend), site served by a local web server, a new database setup, a config file written to connect to the database, and a git repo setup.
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I think we may be arguing different things.

Almost all employees have the possibility of criminal negligence based on their work. For programmers, this could mean that if you fuck up the code for a pacemaker and someone dies, you could go to jail. That’s a big risk and I can’t find any programmer who has been found culpable for someone’s death. This is the current law in the US.

If Uber was negligent in its code, then the programmers could go to jail. They have programmers and they work and assume this extremely low risk.

Now maybe you’re arguing that some special law should or should not exist for Uber drivers.
So, at first glance, nothing appears on the page at all, unless you allow it to run Javascript.

Maybe you want to at least tell us something about yourself and what your site does, for those of us who run with Javascript turned off by default? Perhaps something that could maybe convince us to turn on Javascript and give it a try?
Your assertion (true or not) is irrelevant to this case. This was a car impacting a pedestrian, not another car on the road. In any impact between a car and a pedestrian the speed of the car is critical in determining whether the pedestrian will be killed.
When startups were "cool" and people weren't so keen to their puffery and PR hacks or vaporware smoke tests, it was positive.

However, these days you almost certainly want to be known as a "business" by anyone who matters, and one with good reviews.
LIDAR indeed doesn't care about ambient light, but it can get confused by certain surfaces. I've seen LIDAR not be able to see a clean black car. The light just got absorbed and there wasn't enough return for it to register.
In its original incarnation it was not so bad. If one criticizes the Russian government for their low-level corruption and it responds with "but you are lynching negroes", that is basically irrelevant and does not invalidate the criticism and one can categorize the response as whataboutism to disregard it.

But it is disingenuous to use it to disregard others who point out hypocrisy. If you want others not to use a useful strategy, you can't use it yourself and then whine when they respond in kind, telling them they should stop without making any assurances that you yourself will. It's like telling someone they should only fight with fists while you're wearing brass knuckles.

Say targeted advertising is like a nuke. If you complain when your enemy drops a nuke on you, but not when you drop a nuke on them, your problem is obviously not with nukes, just with your enemies dropping them on you.

This whole media campaign against Facebook is aimed to prevent something like Trump 2016 from ever happening again by denying the people who [i]shouldn't win[/i] modern tools. It has nothing to do with privacy.
I'd be interested in hearing more about why you are a bike advocate?
It's not. But as the car has the right of way, it's the pedestrian's responsibility to make sure they're not hit.
> Police believe she may have been homeless.

Move along folks, Arizona cops said Uber and the victims story matches, victim isn't gonna sue, case closed.
>Here we go. We'll now have the first traffic fatality trial where it's not drivers-trying-drivers but people-trying-a-megacorp.

On even the slimest cause, plaintiff's council always tries include the manufacturer in the case. Anyone with deep pockets that they can pull in.
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