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>So the way I see it (coming from a dev, though not a ROM dev): Android has multiple layers. It has hardware-dependent code (such as the kernel) and hardware-independent code (such as bionic or Java), sort of like in Desktop Linux you have the kernel and X, and there's bash, gnome and Firefox.

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

>So why can't (I know how that sounds coming from the outside ... ) you take their hardware code (the kernel and whatever the Android equivalent of X is) and build on top of that? Is the whole system that integrated?

We could - and it would definitely be a good start - but there would be changes necessary because e.g. our extra bits are implemented differently, maybe our "device-independent" bits are missing some commits that Omni has that fix support for some OEM driver - before treble, Android's hardware-dependent code and hardware-independent code were often both modified by OEMs/SoC manufacturers in order to fix issues on their platforms/add extra features. So Omni might have some fixes that we don't have, and vice versa.

>But does every Debian maintainer (of a userspace program like, say, MySQL) have every combination of hardware? You just assume that the kernel and libc are a reliable abstraction and go from there. Is that impossible on Android?

It's much harder on Android, because there's so many blobs built against previous platform releases (often with extra ABI changes from the OEM added on top). That means we can't assume that the ABI is consistent: for instance, we've had nasty bugs in proprietary binaries caused by AOSP adding fields to structs. Whereas on Debian, everything's kept in-step, so they don't end up with ABI mismatches all over the place.

Hopefully with Treble, a lot of this will change - so the idea of a "universal Lineage image" might be possible.
What no one seems to be talking about is that a person was walking their bike across a divided 4 lane road that in many places would be called a highway. This is not a pedestrian friendly crosswalk, and it’s not high noon.

You can tell by the tail lights of the car in front (first second of video) that a pedestrian would be able to see a car coming.

Which begs the question - why did the human step out in front of the car? Is there culpability there, too? If a person intentionally puts themselves into a deadly situation, how should AI handle this?

We’re all looking at the cars, but let’s keep in mind that crossing a dark divided highway in front of a car you can see coming is a really really bad idea.
From 2014.

Actual title: "Facebook Tool the Obama Camp Called Groundbreaking is Going Away"
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I'm going to bet Facebook is bigger and everyone uses it and CA is based in the UK and not in the US. Who the hell even knew Cambridge Analytica before any of this?

It's fun to hate big companies with recognizable names and blame that big company for electing someone that Americans are increasingly displeased with.
I think you're right that too much money that one didn't earn can be a problem.

But certainly money a person earned themselves is theirs to enjoy. I'm spending mine driving around Africa, it's great not to go to work for 2+ years !
This is a common theme to all the luddits and uber haters, and I don't get it.

The video doesn't show the rider until less than a second before the collision. Yet it's an article of faith among you guys that this video which does not show an easy path to avoidance actually does, due to various magic incantations:

+ The road lighting wasn't bad. A real eye would have shown something different that the camera can't[1], therefore the video proves what it doesn't show.

+ LIDAR and IR should have shown that, therefore Uber is hiding something because the video doesn't show data that must have been present.

I just don't get it. I'm watching this video and seeing what is clearly a huge tragedy and a near-unavoidable collision.

[1] This is not at all true in the real world, by the way. But I see little value in arguing what is clearly a point of faith and not reason.
I mean, it’s great that there’s not a whole lot of this stuff being used, but if even small amounts are causing problems then it’s not that much of a saving grace.
Prices in Sydney are dropping, have been for the last 5 months. WTF are you talking about?
Apple devices can be used without iCloud.
Is there any modern digital video that is "raw"? Without any lossy compression?
There is certainly no problem doing a study and having a hypothesis that X is bad. There is a huge problem with going through the literature and selecting studies that agree with your point. Part of the problem lies in the fact that X is usually not completely good nor completely bad.

For example, let's say that 10% of all studies are poorly executed. If there are 100 studies that conclude that X is good, I can find 10 of them that are poorly executed. Let's say there are 20 studies that conclude that X is bad. If 10% of them are poorly executed, then I can find 18 which are well executed. In reality there are 90 good studies concluding that X is good and 18 good studies concluding that X is bad. However, I can show the 10 poor studies showing something is good and the 18 well done studies showing it is bad, leading you to conclude that there is some kind of conspiracy, even though most of the evidence concludes that X is good.

Meta studies are particularly prone to selection bias in this way.
I have 'tuned' my Facebook feed with the 'unfollow' option, by employing the following narcissistic rule: if it makes me angry, upset, or any other negative emotion, for any reason at all, that person or thing gets an unfollow from me.

My feed is now composed of synthesizer groups, funny dogs and funny birds. I get a lot of positive things from my feed, and a lot of relevant advertising for things I'm interested in.

It doesn't matter if it's your sister, your best friend, or your mum, just unfollow. They don't know about it (unless they ask if you 'saw their post'), and you can improve your experience.
Have you tried Elixir/Phoenix?
So when they say “we want common sense things like background checks” then ban avenues that require background checks - you can get an idea of what they really want.

The truest words I’ve ever heard on the gun debate is that “they don’t hate guns, they love guns, they surround themselves guns, it’s you they hate”.
My own personal experience of seeing the majority of the posts in my feed coming from a minority of my contacts. And a lot of people use facebook just to keep track of what distant relatives and acquaintances have become, not because they feel like sharing everything in their life with the world.
You're definitely right, but 200 excess calories a day is 74,000 a year which can translate to 21 lbs a year in weight gain. It doesn't take much to get fat over a few years with a calorie surplus like that.
The end result for the friends, which comprise 99.5% of the victims in both the Obama and Kogan cases, is precisely the same. Nothing was represented to them, their data was just used because someone they were friends with installed the app.
It is particularly rich to see a "human-computer interaction" tag on a post where the body uses nearly-invisible thin grey font on a white background.
Lol, the "human supervisor", looking at his knees, probably on reddit or tweeting.

Would you trust this system that didn't even manage to slow down at all with a pedestrian slowly pushing a bike directly in front of it, artificially adjusted to be even worse, driving during the day??

I wouldn't.
Bitcoin Cash is bitcoin.

LN cannot work due to routing and Sybil attacks.

Do your research and you will see that BTC is dead coin walking and does not resemble vision or even the technical plans of the original whitepaper.

Long live bitcoin
> Explain Deflategate and the OJ trial reactions.

The loudest and most attention-grabbing voices are generally the least thoughtful. The reasonable voices tend to go unnoticed.
We can start by de-Nazifying his dog.
Is there any reason it wouldn't be possible to employ multiple cameras each with varying gain/ISO/aperture/exposure/shutter-speed to combat the narrow dynamic range of the individual sensors? Basically create an HDR stream in parallel instead of in series by varying the settings from frame to frame.

Disclaimer: I have a frustratingly poor understanding of this subject, something I desperately need to remedy.
I would imagine these companies put great effort in to assuring users that their data is safe. The privacy protections Facebook implements look secure to a lot of people.

I’m right there with you that I assume everything I say on these platforms could be made public, but you and I are more informed on data security issues. For many people, they just want to share photos and chat with friends. The deep privacy implications are beyond most people.
And SISCOG (http://www.siscog.eu) who built a Europe-wide transport infrastructure project in Common Lisp which was used by London Transport amongst other clients?
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The cynic in me thinks he spent a few days using the world's biggest surveillance/analytics apparatus to gauge public sentiment, then came up with talking points and proposals that would cause minimal damage to his business. For example, it sounds good that there will be some notification for the 50 million people whose data was scraped without their knowledge. Will that be a simple email, or a page buried deep in the FB settings menu? How about all of the other companies doing exactly the same scraping? Are their victims notified as well?

And then there was the "after the first billion, people can't afford it, so surveillance is the answer" line. Really? From a man who extracted $50 billion from that business? Here's a thought: pay them.
What they are doing is exactly the opposite of what grandparent claimed Yahoo did.

They just create things that are useful.

Search, GMail, Maps, Chrome, Android, Youtube, Analytics and many other products and services.

If they can milk them from advertising, they will. But they don't necessarily care if it doesn't make money directly.

They own so many crucial parts of the internet that they cannot become irrelevant like Yahoo did.

Compare that to similar companies.

Facebook has only Facebook.com, Whatsapp and Instagram (which is basically just Facebook)

Amazon their store and AWS. Their other attempts (phone, tablets, Alexa, etc) have never took off.

Microsoft is in a powerful position as they have Windows, Office, Azure, XBox and Bing although they have not managed to gain share in new markets for quite some time.

I think Google is by far the most relevant company on the internet.

They gain market and the cash will flow later. This is in their DNA. This is how exactly it got started for them.

Their search was popular but was not making money for years. All they did was to focus on making it better, thinking that they'll find a way to make money later. And they did.
I currently work full-time in the self-driving vehicle industry. I am part of a team that builds perception algorithms for autonomous navigation. I have been working exclusively with LiDAR systems for over 1.5 years.

Like a lot of folks here, my first question was: "How did the LiDAR not spot this?". I have been extremely interested in this and kept observing images and videos from Uber to understand what could be the issue.

To reliably sense a moving object is a challenging task. To understand/perceive that object (i.e., shape, size, classification, position estimate, etc.) is even more challenging. Take a look at this video (set the playback speed to 0.25): https://youtu.be/WCkkhlxYNwE?t=191

Observe the pedestrian on the sidewalk to the left. And keep a close eye on the laptop screen (held by the passenger on right) at the bottom right. Observe these two locations by moving back and forth +/- 3 seconds. You'll notice that the height of the pedestrian varies quite a bit.

This variation in pedestrian height and bounding box happens at different locations within the same video. For example, at 3:45 mark, the height of human on right wearing brown hoodie, keeps varying. At 2:04 mark, the bounding box estimate for pedestrian on right side appears to be unreliable. At 1:39 mark, the estimate for the blue (Chrysler?) car turning right jumps quite a bit.

This makes me believe that their perception software isn't as robust to handle the exact scenario in which the accident occurred in Tempe, AZ.

I think we'll know more technical details in the upcoming days/weeks. These are merely my observations.
Volvo's pedestrian detection works exactly for these cases, and it's exactly these cases that have been hailed as cases where AI will be better.
> I'm not in favour of nationalization as a rule.
> we must control our own critically important infrastructure! (cheers)

You're conflating two things. If the US somehow lost all steel foundries without being able to spin things up in a reasonable amount of time, we're screwed in a war. You must indeed make sure that you're self-sufficient in things that are essential for living in case you're cut off due to circumstances.

I'm not quite sure what your point is.
Are you playing mental gymnastics here? CA bought the data. CA had nothing to do with the app. They did, they bought the data. I get that they aren’t responsible for the person violating facebook’s rules. I think we already established Facebook is the boogeyman here. But we were comparing the Obama campaign app to an app unrelated to a campaign. In this thread there was the implication “obama did the same thing” and I think we can hopefully agree that Obama’s campaign didn’t sell their data in violation of the fb tos as far as we know and the owner of the app who sold to CA did. Sorry I got the name mixed up. Yes CA didn’t sell. But neither did the Obama campaign. So there is not an equivalence.
I'm curious, how engaged are you with your local paper, in terms of how often/regularly you read it, and how useful it is in your day-to-day life? It's been awhile since I've used my local paper (didn't really have one in NY, and I'm not really engaged with Palo Alto). I know my hometown newspapers, now owned by Gannett, are more or less gutted. Both in terms of physical paper and shallow (and ad heavy) websites.
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Security on most mobile devices other than those by Apple is a joke. I understand wanting features that aren’t there, but for me these things are very small and easy to work around relative to the benefits iOS provides: namely that the software is generally advanced and high quality.
Not so fast with Elixir. According to Indeed.co.uk's API there are 18 Ruby jobs for every Elixir job. Yes, there are 3 times as many Python jobs but Ruby isn't exactly dead.
feel free to ignore me: does this mean a plan was available to you, or you couldn’t enroll without your own plan? Going to assume the former, in which case, awesome!
Yes, just like you can use a car without gas.
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> Also, watching the video of the interior it is clear the driver was looking at his phone or doing something else just prior to the impact. This alone leaves me skeptical to just how much could have been done to prevent this accident.

Wait, aren't you mean to have your hands on the wheels at all times? I don't see what to be skeptical about when if he just followed the law this could have been avoided.

It seems to me the driver might be in for some legal trouble.
I’ve gotten 2 products UL certified, and I don’t think it’d be very useful for self-driving cars.
The process seemed to be mainly reactive: only things that had caused frequent problems in the past were part of the standard.

For instance, plug-in devices must have fuses. The standard gives no guidance about the right size of fuses, but a reasonable engineer would of course pick a good size. The standard’s main effect is to avoid cutting safety features to save cost.

We shipped a mobile office robot. We sweated the details of it not running into people or crashing, but the UL cert only verified that we had fuses and flame-retardant plastics and the like.
With autopilot now, you never know when it will start flashing to wiggle the steering wheel, so it is not a hands off, get distracted with your phone type of thing anymore.
This is only available to public service workers.
Just curious: How many times has an Uber car hit a pedestrian or cyclist and NOT killed him/her? Can we see footage from those accidents?
Well, the subs themselves contained lots of content that was wiped without warning, so in that sense it is like book burning.

Anyway, hopefully this'll all help stimulate the creation of actually-censorship-resistant platforms.
A median time between updates of less than 2 months over a 5 year period.
Is there anything you wish that Google/AOSP contributors did differently that would make the LOS development process easier?
Wouldn't a visual field test show this?

I did one at my last eye exam and it was pressing a button when you see dim flashes in all different locations. If you had low sensitivity, you wouldn't see those flashes and presumably you'd get a low score.
You can’t extrapolate off of one death. The 10th time you flip a coin, it could land on its side.
> It might even distract from or interfere with development of a more general solution. But that's exactly the path a lot of people seem to be going

Or it could set a precedent... It has to start somewhere. Maybe Amazon or Google is next.

Were you thinking in general about some legislation? Say something like GDPR?

> Progress doesn't come from everyone saying "me too" on a bug report. It comes from people talking about and then implementing ideas to make the bug stop happening anywhere. I've seen precious little of that.

That happens if there is a common platform everything runs on. Maybe a shared library. You just fix the security bug in it and every application relying on it will benefit (generally speaking). In a way legislation, taxation, treaties, open standards are somewhat like it. When those change it affects everyone. But that is kind of rare, so doing it one instance at a time is still making some progress.
What is Jackson Hole if not a rich playground. I can’t see it developing much of a tech industry, however.
I'll grant you that's true in the media --but when I was in those circles, i.e. poor, it wasn't just the loudest. Normal people would have similar reactions. I think there is a bit of, "hey, we're owed one, it's not dignified, but if that's what it took, so be it."
"Hillary lost because she was the worst Democrat candidate in history"

Because she was a woman? I mean, in 1984 Walt Mondale got 13 electoral votes and just 37 million votes. I think this qualifies as much worse.

But I get you.
Not true. Even with the latest iOS 11, iCloud is opt-in, and not required. https://www.macworld.com/article/3252170/data-center-cloud/d...

Clearly, there are some features that rely on iCloud, but you can choose not to use those features and still have a functioning device.
Then just don't subscribe to people who post things you don't want to read.
While this may be unfair - but LISTEN UP REGULATORS: IT's time to have standardized tests for SDVs before they are allowed to be considered road ready. And I hate to say this, but WAYMO is the company to design the test suite.
A car should not ever be driven faster than conditions allow. If the driver cannot see (from rain, snow, darkness, etc.), then they need to slow down. To do otherwise is putting people on the roads at sever risk of injury or death.
All the bans on cryptocurrency ads won't hurt legit crypto businesses
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For $149 a month, users get unlimited access to genetic screenings, blood testing, weight-loss planning, routine doctors’ visits and more all of which help Forward“look toward your future and look out for things that are longer term,”says Adrian Aoun, the founder and CEO, and a former Google executive. (Forward does offer reactive medicine too, including unlimited generic medications without co-pays.)

Critics argue most Americans can’t afford the clinics, especially since they do not accept health insurance. But as a niche experiment, Forward appears to be working: the company, which is based in San Francisco, has reportedly raised $100 million in funding and recently opened a location in L.A.; it plans to expand to other cities in the future.
> Says the person with a vested interest in the Cash app that allows buying BTC.
I don't know about your parents, but my parents never had any snacks in the house (I grew up in the 70s). We ate at meals. While my father drank milk at meals (and ate butter out of the dish!), I hated the stuff and drank only water. We didn't have anything else in the house. Things like potato chips, etc, were things we ate at birthday parties.

We ate big meals, but we didn't eat anything else. When I see families now, they stock up with super mega sized snack food at Costco and cram it in their minivan (the 2 reasons for having a minivan being to drive soccer teams around and to take your super mega sized snack food home </snark>) When I was a kid, people didn't buy stuff at that scale. Homes were smaller too, as were refrigerators. You just couldn't do that kind of thing easily.

Of course, my excuse for getting fat these days is because I live in Japan and there is nowhere in Japan that isn't walking distance from a convenience store... That and my wife believes that beer has no calories -- a misunderstanding that I'm loathe to correct.
That statement is a thesis paper waiting to happen.
This isn’t a free speech issue. The government isn’t stopping anyone from speaking or thinking anything they want.

Freedom of speech != freedom to publish whatever wherever you want
Yes, and blacks were taking up arms because they were literally being bombed. The whites wanted to control their rights to have guns so they could continue controlling the black populations with violent force.

So you highlight how gun control has been used as an oppressive tool in the past. What are we do to when only our corrupt government is allowed to have guns?
Quantum mechanics doesn't necessarily make any statement about experience. It only seems to after "leaving" an assumption in your explanations about what measurement means for you to find later. (Only one out of the many interpretations involves "the part where the scientist observes the system," and it takes the specialness of measurement as axiomatic for philosphical reasons.
That's strange from him.
Townhouses (side-by-side) rather than flats tend to solve this. You are your own upstairs neighbour.
Alright, so given your observations, which I don't doubt, here's a question I have: why have a pilot on public roads?

If uber's software wasn't robust, why "test in production" when production could kill people?
> You cannot argue against the laws of physics.

Sure. Anti-lock brakes work in accordance with the laws of physics.

> It is inadvisable for any non professional driver to attempt to maximum break and also steer away. It is just not safe.

This is true for a vehicle that does not have anti-lock brakes. It is not true for a vehicle that does have anti-lock brakes. As I said before, that is precisely what anti-lock brakes are for: to allow you to just push the brake pedal as hard as you can while also being able to steer (because the anti-lock brakes translate "push the brake pedal as hard as you can" into "don't apply the brakes hard enough for the wheels to lock"). And the reason why anti-lock brakes were invented and put into cars was precisely that you need to both brake and steer to avoid most collisions.