skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was exceeding the speed limit by 3mph, I don't believe this far exceeds safe margins.
I would expect nowadays you could fairly trivially produce near life-like footage and allow self driving cars to 'play a video game' that tests tens of thousands of situations as a pre-requisite for certification.

The great thing about computer generated test cases is you don't need real footage of every hypothetical awful thing that could happen i.e. a truck losing control and rolling over sideways. These could be a stage 1 test -- a pre-requisite to real testing. Like the hazards test before you are allowed to sit the drive test with a real drive test employee [1] to make sure you're not a retard.

[1]: https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/~/media/images/licences/hpt_...
From what I could tell, it never was a money making business. Uber now and forever, operates at a loss.
Let's see: the reason Walmart gets such high returns on low-margims, is because it knows how to rapidly sell hoods and thus reuse cash. And that is half of current retail sales.

But when Amazon let's someone else sell on it's platform, it gets a nice margin(today it's maybe 15%!) on money that it didn't even spent!

And sure building warehouses is expensive. But those are fixed costs.

Or that Amazon may kill brands and than own brands at scale, i.e private labels - which some think may be the next AWS.

There are maybe some other types of that stuff going around, so idk if you can judge Amazon as regular retail.
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Maybe they start paying compensation to the family, making sure that they're set even if you fail - firmly stepping into mafia territory.

Still, corporations, while being essentially a different kind of life, are not entirely separate entities - they are composed of people. Fear of jail might just be enough to get some high-level executives to exert proper influence on the direction of the corporation.
It is mind-blowing when you have some sort of idea of how complex an endeavor it is to create programming IDEs and UIs, and to see in one document how many man-hours must have gone into them and their iterations over the years.
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I don't think we're in disagreement here. I have no qualms with abstractions/interfaces. It's simply a matter of putting the horse before the cart. The implementations should not have to tip-toe around pre-conceived abstractions.
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Yes? If self driving is being hailed as being safer, it, you know, should be. If that means doing all the boring stuff I would not bother to, so be it. How else will they be safer unless by ignoring our driving biases?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16623835
>>Who gets the speeding ticket in this case?

Whoever owns the algorithm. Or at-least in whoever's name the license/permission was issued. If its an organization, the top management signing off on this has to take the blame.
I think this is a very interesting direction.

Classic programming generally doesn't impose restrictions about which direction the data flow is.
By default, methods take value from their callers as input, and return values to their callers as output.

An "notification"/"fire-and-forget" interface allowing no data to go back to the caller (no return value, no "output parameter", no visible change to the program state, from the caller's POV) has very interesting characteristics (Like being trivially mockable).
Self-driving cars could compensate for that with reaction time. Think of it this way: you trying to predict what the other driver will do is partly compensating for your lack of reaction time. A self-driving car could, in worst-case scenario, treat the other car as randomly-moving car-shaped object, compute the envelope of its possible moves, and make sure to stay out of it.
> But how could a civil engineer productively apply their ethics to a company who's business it is to build concentration camps?

You don't even need to make the example that extreme. How about architects, structural engineers, civil engineers, etc. all working to design and build for-profit prisons that are intended to incarcerate a large fraction of the population?

Or how about food engineers working to create snacks - of questionable-at-best nutritional value - that are ever more addictive?
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> The real news isn't "Self-Driving Car Kills Pedestrian", the real news is "Self-Driving Car Fatalities are Rare Enough to be World News".

They are rare only because self-driving cars are; I don't think the total driven miles of all self-driving cars are enough that even 1 fatality would be expected if they were human driven; certainly Uber is orders of magnitude below that point taken alone.

There are lots of fatalities from human-driven cars, sure, but that's over a truly stupendous number of miles driven.
> simply jamming the brakes would engage the ABS leading to a longer stopping distance

I was taught that the entire point of ABS is so that you can just jam the brake and have the shortest stopping time instead of modulating it yourself to avoid skidding. Do you have any source to the contrary?
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> Each of the crashes that self-driving cars can be fixed and prevented from happening again. The list I gave are human flaws that will almost certainly never be fixed.

Not if you put neural networks / deep learning in the equation. This stuff is black boxes connected to black boxes, that work fine until they don't, and then nobody knows why they failed - because all you have is bunch of numbers with zero semantic information attached to them.
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Or the billions in freely given media coverage.
You can sure as hell swerve.
Actually you can't go from 40 miles/ph to 0 miles/ph in an instant. At least not with a passenger car. The reaction time is typically a few seconds. If one throws themselves in front of a car, the car would need a few seconds to react. Based on the speed, distance and other parameters, I don't think any car would be able to stop in an instant.

Thinking about it seriously, it may be shouldn't. Also these things could lead to a crash pile up with other vehicles coming in from behind.
We take a slightly different philosophy in that we don't think most users will want to tweak different sets of rules etc. 1Blocker is a great product, but we think most everyday users will not want to configure rulesets in most circumstances.

Our goal is to produce the best default, current set of optimised rules which blocks ads and user trackers without requiring individual user configuration.

Obviously power users will possibly want to do more elaborate configuration. In future updates we are planning to enable more sophisticated whitelisting but probably won't have the extensive lists of different rulesets that 1Blocker features.

Rulesets are just one of the parts of a great Adblocking product. We believe we can also create a great product with our approach to rulesets and also differentiate on other features.
> Example: the Las Vegas shooting prompted a lot of talk of bump stock bans. Bump stocks are so rarely used at all, nevermind in violence, and they will generally ruin guns that weren't originally made to be fully-automatic very quickly if they're actually used for sustained automatic fire.

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This is non-sense. Typical semi-auto are wayyy over build. Unless mechanical wear or explicit tempering of the disconnector, there is no risk whatsoever to fire thousands of rounds with a bump stock. Actually, plastic/wood furniture are more likely to burn/melt before the mechanical parts will actually fail. As worst, you might bend a gas piston, but the rifle will otherwise be fine.

The underlying reasoning behind the push against the bump stock ban is that it was basically a semi-auto ban, as you can trivially with a bit of training bump fire any semi-auto without a bump stock from either the shoulder or the hip with a mere finger.
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I've used EventBus in the past on Android. It always felt a bit hacky and like "cheating", and navigating flows through the app could be tricky, but it kinda worked?

https://github.com/greenrobot/EventBus

RxJava is the new hotness at the moment though, which kind of replaces EventBus, so I don't think you could convince a team to develop an app using entirely messages. Still, I'd like to try it for a personal project.
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Traffic was relatively high when I started talking to sponsors (~100k uniques/mo). Also, it helps to choose your sponsors widely. A company with low conversion rates that sells a service for low prices needs tons of clicks to justify what they spend on an ad. But a different company — let's say a recruiting company — may make thousands of dollars off of a single high-quality click, so they make for a better sponsor/advertiser.
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Not only was it not new or interesting, it was previously reported on last year and no one cared then. That, is what I find interesting.
You're misinterpreting me. I meant "nobody" can make that such statements. As in, if you (somebody) have a a product and you (somebody) haven't tested it enough, you (somebody) can't state that it will save N lives per year.
"As we move from an app-based environment to a web-based one, we believe the true potential of webOS has yet to be seen." - http://www.lgnewsroom.com/2018/03/webos-enters-next-phase-as...

But I said this in 2015..
"The web will eat up everything, watch." -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9458505

Enyo was/is truly a pioneer in the field of web technology. It still is and I believe it's magic is just being under utilized at the moment.

Though, haven't used my LG devices in years :(

I worked at Office Depot and got my hands on a few of the early Palm devices, Pilot, Tungsten3T and then then the European only Pre3. The integration with the Touchpad was underwhelming though and a real disappointment.
> US lawmakers tend to be very reactionary, except in rare cases like gun laws.

And for a good reason, they are constitutionally prohibited to .
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I'm trying to setup standard platform for technical documentation. I found that Gitbook and Confluence are the example of good ones, but I wonder if there is any good open source alternative to this.

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this is a really interesting application. Basically exploiting human greed. Thank you for sharing it.
You can disable this API in about:config fully and natively.
Not sure it's that clear. Using data from Wikipedia, I got 11 deaths per billion km. The 4 million miles are just from Weymo, not all autonomous cars in total. (6 million+ https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/miles-driven-677bda21b0...) And the confidence level on the 1 event over 6+ million miles is not great either.
> Every phone can still receive SMS and you can gasp meet your friends personally to catch up.

Sure, if you friends live next door. If they live on different continent, a bit harder to do. SMS is also pretty inefficient. I mean if one of your friends' daughter won a prize in school contest and you want to congratulate the happy father, that really can't happen over SMS. Unless the father is going to spam everybody in the contact list with the news, and get a wave of spam back. That'd be horrible.

> It's become well known that I don't get updates through FB so my friends will text me invites if I haven't asked for an update.

You friends accommodate you and make extra effort to adjust for you. Good for them. But that doesn't mean it is the best way to do things. Maybe Facebook isn't either, but this way doesn't seem to be any better than Facebook. In fact, it's worse.

> Now for friends who live in distant locations you need to ask yourself: Does Facebook status updates really make me feel more connected to this person? My answer would be no

My answer would be absolutely yes.

> There was life before Facebook and there can be life without Facebook, stop making excuses.

Why I need any excuses? Facebook is an instrument. Just as any other. No excuses are needed to use an instrument, and nobody owes anybody any explanations or excuses when they use tools they like. You prefer to use different tools? Good for you. Doesn't make any difference to people that have different preferences.
This is a major ethical decision to make. What if the airbags don't open up. What if there are other unseen things to crashing one's car to save somebody else's life. I honestly believe given a split second reaction time, any decision made by a human should be considered right.

An algorithm however is a different deal, what should happen is already decided in an algorithm, so in some way its already settled who gets killed.
Does anyone really believe that FB wants to figure out what went wrong? For some reason, I imagine it playing out like the "Top Men" scene from Indiana Jones.
I was taught the point of ABS was to keep control over steering while stepping on the brakes instead of skidding out of control into god knows what/who

Wikipedia backs me up but adds that it also decreases stopping distance on dry and slippery surfaces, while significantly increasing stopping distances in snow and gravel. I’m from a country with a lot of snow so that makes sense.
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Yeah, I was pretty much assuming that all the cheap machines would use standard small diameter copper plumbing rather than pay for all stainless fittings all the way through (which would be somewhat specialized from a plumbing perspective), so it wouldn't really matter much whether the boiler itself was or not.
macOS setup here.

I use https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles to get my setup done. Comes pretty much with a lot OTB!
neither of us has the data, but id bet that whatever miles / fatalities metric is, the self driving cars are still in the lead right now
They could have made at least a cursory attempt to bolt the stable door none the less.

I see no evidence that they have made any efforts to prevent a recurrence.
Zuck will put on the Hoodie of Credibility and promise a Full Investigation. Sheryl will invite others to Lean In. Staff will nervously finger their stock options and ponder their vesting schedules.

Having said that I don't really want them to fix it so I'm being a touch cynical.
> The meeting, which is scheduled for 10AM PT, will be led by Paul Grewal, the company’s deputy general counsel. Grewal is expected to explain the background of the case, which involves the user profiles of as many as 50 million people being used by Cambridge Analytica as part of its ad targeting efforts during the 2016 election. Grewal is also expected to take questions via a polling feature found on the meeting’s internal event page.

Why is being run by the head of their general counsel? Because this isn't about addressing employees' concerns or addressing the issue. It's about making sure that everyone at the company has a shared understanding of Facebook's legal stance on CA.

In a more pessimistic light, that might include an understanding of what FB will do to you as an employee if you publicly disagree with their narrative.
> The meeting, which is scheduled for 10AM PT, will be led by Paul Grewal, the company’s deputy general counsel.

What? Paul Grewal was a judge who presided over Facebook court cases. How is that legal?
Abstract data types are pretty good if the concrete types are machine generated.
The ledger that is Bitcoin changed. From the merchant's perspective: Bitcoin was one ledger, then it became another. Transactions that were 24 blocks deep changed. That is the ledger changing. The developers are the ones that told everyone that this change would happen.

The rest of your post is pretty offensive but I'm willing to look past it if you want to actually talk about your blockchain ideology with civility.

I honestly think the disconnect here is you're thinking in terms of bits and atoms and I'm thinking from the user's perspective. If we're going to build something useful with the blockchain, we have to think from the user's perspective. It doesn't matter if it's 2 separate "block chains", they're both attempts at finding consensus on 1 ledger: the Bitcoin ledger. That's the whole point of a distributed ledger: at any given time you may have disagreeing versions of it existing simultaneously, but it's still 1 ledger trying to find consensus so that users can know what happened actually. And if there are times where developers are ESSENTIAL to resolve ledger consensus failures, that is precisely the kind of central control that could be abused in ways Satoshi was trying to avoid. We don't even know if the 2013 bug was intentional or not. What if the developers were compromised and the fork was made so that someone could execute a large double-spend? What if this happens again in the future?
could there be some way of emitting a signal on your person so cars never get confused? seems like a pain in the ass, but maybe it would be worth it? cars can know for sure there are people wherever the signal is emitted from? dunno if its feasible, curious
Odd the damage should be on the passenger side if she darted from the center median.

Odd they see the need to add the conjecture that she may have been homeless.

Curious too is that the center divider where she likely was has has a nice walkway on it with a street lamp[2]

I'm suddenly quite curious about what is going on.

Accident site:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4369934,-111.9429875,3a,75y,...
from
https://imgur.com/a/QH98H

[2]
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4366949,-111.9427747,3a,75y,...
Legally, the person behind the wheel was still the driver. They are responsible for both the speeding and for killing a pedestrian. At this stage it's no different than using cruise control - you are still responsible for what happens.
It simply started out with blogging about web development, JavaScript, and React and writing a self-published book about it eventually. I didn't plan to do it in the first place, but now I teach many people online React.js on my own course platform [0].

It's an exciting adventure, because suddenly you have to handle customer support, marketing and sales. Yet your main priority is keeping the course content up to date, adding new content and ensuring content with a high quality. It's not a 100% full-time gig yet, but I would say 60%. I hope by getting more students this year that I can accelerate it to 100%, because the teaching part itself is more fulfilling for me than any other 9 to 5 job. Last year I quit my job to support this adventure, but I have to have a couple of clients on the side [1]. Most of these clients are companies which are transitioning to React.

- [0] https://roadtoreact.com

- [1] https://www.robinwieruch.de/work-with-me
Manditory warning notices on all pages of FB, detailing about how your privacy can be compromised, your democratic rights infringed by using FB, in the same vein as warning notices on cigarette packs, or medication packaging.
Except that most of the places in the world that were responsible for that population boom have vastly decreased in children per family as of late.
Thank you, this led me to an excelent piece of research by one of the economists invited, Eric Budish, on market design and how current continuous trade architectures of most financial markets strongly favor the negative aspects of HFT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvNJID_7iHI
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It's worth rewatching this video: specifically, Project Alamo (Trump's digital campaign) had Cambridge Analytica inhouse, and they had their Facebook/Google staff in the same building. It's easy to imagine that people at Facebook knew what data CA had, and have knowingly lied since.
Like, Google having too much power over manufacturers? Like LG?
It's good to hear that you have reasoning behind your approach. Good luck!
Yeah, the “may have been homeless“ line really pisses me off. Such a blatant bullcrap attempt to devalue a human life.
Baseband is one, if the other commenter doesn't get back to you.
I was at the GDC talks today. The gist is that this is for filling in the gaps that screen space tricks simply cannot do because the reflected surface is off screen.
I'd really like to see a generalisation of this idea to any personal/private data stored in any database. Any time a piece of 'your' data (e.g. a medical record) is accessed, you get an alert. There could be an industry of alert brokers that decide if the alert is important or not - you might employ one, or write your own, or choose to look at every alert. While it would require a big change to how we store data, I suspect that the changes required to be GDPR compliant start going in this sort of direction.
Oh man... impressive.
You're opening yet another can of worms when you try to evade. Sometimes it's the right/optimal thing to do, sometimes it's worse (e.g. switch to the lane going in the opposite direction because it seems free - until another car your computer eyes could not see comes quickly around a corner and there are four dead instead of one; that's one of the reasons driving instructors tell us, at least in my country, to do a full brake and avoid evasion).
Yes, I also assumed that. Back when I rode a lot, I don't recall sprinting across roadways with my bike. Also, from the photo, she had a heavy bike, with a front basket. And yes, they ought to release the car's video.
Love that last link. As a kid who grew up in the Midwest with a soybean field outside the kitchen window, the song put a wide smile on my face.
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Wow.. Google Drive got swamped!
No fair world could have prevented the incompetent management that sealed the fate of WebOS.
It's like a story out of a dystopian sci-fi novel. A society that can make self-driving cars but cannot solve homelessness.
PPP [0] - I wrote my own little node package around it [1], but it was tough to find a proper API(s) to retrieve and aggregate all the data.

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity

- [1] https://github.com/rwieruch/purchasing-power-parity
What's also in vogue is to gather huge datasets, in a fashion only really available to Google and their ilk. I'd imagine a "click-on-all-vehicles"-affair, only with sound instead of images.
Wonder if it's poisonous dust.
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epub works great. No issues. I got alot of PDF's i donno why only this one displays weird. :( if no one else has this issue must just be my work pc being bung.
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Yup, I do admit I may be missing some of the finer nuances here...
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I didn't even know Google Drive had a throttling mode.

Right. That seems like something from the era of 1990s hosting services with very limited capacity.