skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoa settle down there with your judgment calls. You've made a lot of presumptions given that you know as little as everyone here does. The fact is that as far as we can tell, the only witness is the Uber driver. No investigation has been completed yet, certainly none that justifies you being able to say "she decided to walk in front of a moving automobile". Saying it is "ultimately her fault" is nonsensical. The very blog post you use as an authority on jaywalking says, as I noted, that the driver may still be at fault in Arizona. So where do you get off, with what little you know, in saying that it was the victim's fault?
As one with family but also safety cushion I would also recommend a middle option for those in fear: negotiate part-time switch. Start with 4/5 days job to heal burn-out and spend Fridays on some own side experiments.
The world doesn't have to stop, just testing self-driving cars live on public roads with very little evidence that the tech is ready.
As the sibling comment says, it does depend on self-driving cars matching human level performance. But with all AI/Neural Networks it is very possible to match human performance because most of the time you can throw more human-level performance data at it.

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.

I further agree with you it's up to the proponents to prove that. It's a good thing to force a really high bar for self-driving cars. Then assuming the technology is maintained once AI passes the bar it should only ever get better.
No, it's not just software development.

However, the main thing I was trying to comment on is that "especially if the person has a family to consider" doesn't play out the way the person I responded to thinks, with actual middle-aged Silicon Valley engineers, in my experience.
This reminds me of a story I heard in college... an owner of a company that builds table saws demonstrated his saw's safety feature - a killswitch that pulls the blade down into the machine as soon as it detects flesh - by putting his hand on it while it was spinning.
And yet (disclaimer - reflects only my personal view, might not correspond to the current state of affairs at Uber, it is possible that Uber cars are still safer than human drivers, but still - one who forgets the history tend to repeat it):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2016/12/15/the-tr...
>people from Facebook were assisting them on site to make sure everything went smoothly.

Facebook make the same offer to the Clinton campaign and they turned down the offer.
And if she was walking a bicycle, it was extremely unlikely that she "darted out". It takes some skill to do that.

(Still need more info, though.)
I dunno...I make a lot more out here on the coast...I graduated from school at the end of 2014 and I make 2.75x more than my first job offer out of school back in my home state of MI. The weather is a lot more mild and pleasant. There are also things on the coast that you simply can't get in flyover country- mountains, ocean, vast empty national parks, for instance...I swear it feels like I'm on vacation every other weekend. OTOH I don't really want to buy a house out here just because it's a daunting prospect but there are pros and cons to living and working in each area.
>Walking half a mile in 35 C (95 F) isn't an actual problem unless you have a medical condition or you are morbidly obese.

Again with the hand waving as if this was a solved problem. Trust me - if you actually try to walk half a mile on a 90+ degree, high humidity day you will regret it. The issue isn't just infirmity - i.e. those prone to heat stroke or overweight, but one of comfort. If you actually try tooling around in Houston (for example) you'll end up soaked in sweat. It'll be worse if you're dressed for the office in long sleeves and slacks.

That's when you'll discover that more than the public need to adapt to public transportation uber alles. Can I use a shopping trolley for groceries? Sure. Can I cycle to work? No doubt. But what if your employer doesn't have showers available? Mine doesn't. I can't show up drenched in sweat looking like a wet rat and stinking all day of sweat. And that's exactly what'll happen if I ride the few miles I have to work. Even if I take a change of clothes to work I still have no place to shower and neither does anyone else unless they are health club members. There are many externalities you're just hand waving away. As someone who lives in this climate I assure you I'd love to see light rail everywhere but it just won't replace the last mile for people without drastic societal changes.

There's also the fact that bus and rail frequency needs to dramatically increase to entice riders and also accommodate them when they do come. Will people choose a 45 minute bus ride over a 15 minute drive? Particularly when on average you'll spend 7.5-10 minutes baking in the sun or lightly shaded by an un-airconditioned bus stop? Not unless forced to, no.
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Very little, but the question raised by this study is how much lead leads to death. They’re claiming the answer is very very little, and further claiming that it accounts for more deaths than COPD, infections, and accidents combined. They did this based on a survey and blood levels, without taking many (if any) confounding factors into account.

As to why they’d do this, the lead author’s role as an expert witness for plaintiffs in cases of lead poisoning seems suggestive.
Many Chinese tech companies are expanding overseas, just not much in North America, mostly in high growth areas in Asia. They also own and control many well-known mobile game studios. TBH, apps like Facebook and even Snapchat copied features from Chinese apps like Wechat and Alipay.
Amazon can only grow if it encompasses almost all market segments. Picking retail margins by sub-sector is not helping there will be reversion to mean.

Overall retail margins are very low. 0.5 to 3.5 percent for web-only depending on the sector.
You don't seem to understand what Steganography is and how it works. Perhaps you should read that article. You cannot produce illegal information out of non-illegal information without having that illegal information somewhere else to use as a key.
this is not a reality for the majority.
As someone who cannot drive because of a disability, I am putting real hope into self-driving cars becoming a thing during my lifetime. Uber may've just set that back a decade.
62.7% of Americas electricity generation is from fossil fuels. Electric cars might still be a drastic improvement though.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
> With all due respect, I'd say this is definitely a product of your specific location/life circumstances.

Well, we are talking about Australia... I don't think the poster was talking about the whole world.
Are there good 3D/depth cameras that work with Linux?
The ASU campus area around Tempe has diverse traffic conditions. There are spots near the campus where you would expect to stop at every crosswalk, while in some roadways, a pedestrian would be completely unexpected.

Around the bars, people stumble into traffic all the time. Any driver, automated or human, would need to anticipate that.
I deleted facebook when Candian Border Patrol demanded I log into my Facebook account on my phone so they can peruse it at their will.
That specific criticism is a pretty small one, and whilst I do understand that its lack of customisation options is pretty annoying, it's a lot easier to set up GNOME quickly and have it look good than other desktop environments like XFCE in my opinion. KDE is also pretty nice, though.
We wouldn't except it if people got killed by selling them poisoned food, at least not where I'm from. Plane crashes are investigated and licenses are suspended and blacklists are kept, furthermore software is tested and verified before it is used in production. We shouldn't except excessive risks, see regulations with truck and bus drivers, just because a profit can be made.
Microsoft is the dominant platform for games. What financial gain would they derive from pursuing a non lock in strategy?
"Facebook engages in surveillance capitalism."

I agree. It seems like the 360-degree camera work they've done in addition to all their work in VR seems more surveillance-related than people are willing to admit but whatever.
I strongly agree with this sentiment. If this technology is going to be tested on the public then all the datasets from these vehicles should be openly shared and development should be done cooperatively. Let the market decide winners based on metrics like cabin comfort and leasing terms rather than odds of causing grievous injury.
http://archive.is/Q0tia works for me.
I understand a limit of 1K characters for a password, but I will never understand a limit of 16.
I suppose speculators will speculate - but c'mon. just wait and we'll have video and telemetry and this whole conversation will be moot.
Something I'm surprised no one has considered seriously is revoking business licenses. That is a much more existential threat, literally.
I downloaded EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard app but they wanted me to pay, it wasnt free. do you know of an app that is totally free? the 185gig were found then I could get them to recover
ratings agencies were literally rigged
But that's the issue: identifying a pedestrian vs a snowman or a mailbox or a cardboard cutout is important when deciding whether to swerve left or right. It's an asymptotic problem: you'll never get 100% identification, and based on that, even the rigid algorithms will make mistakes.

LIDAR is also not perfect when the road is covered in 5 inches of snow and you can't tell where the lanes are. Or at predicting a driver that's going to swerve into your lane because they spilled coffee on their lap or had a stroke.

With erratic input, you will get erratic output. Even the best ML vision algorithm will sometimes produce shit output, which will become input to the actual driving algorithm.
>I am an individual, not "part of a system". Simply being a driver doesn't make me a reckless or dangerous one. For example, 10K of those deaths involve DUI, and I am certainly not part of that system. I'm sure 95% of drivers never kill anyone.

Massive misunderstanding. As a driver your actions form a part of the traffic around you, even responsible drivers are "attached" to the system and put pressure on it. Maybe one day somebody rear ends you and you are knocked forward into a crosswalk, or you break suddenly to avoid hitting a pedestrian and cause an accident behind you. Or maybe your very safe driving leaves enough room for somebody to take a foolish risk cutting in front of you and lose control of their car. Collectively society accepts that getting places quickly is worth the cost that we pay in human lives. And each road user agrees to the small risk of death/injury beyond their control in order to get somewhere.
Nope. Error bars do exist, and with those attached, the interpretation of the data before/after is consistent. Before it was an upper bound, after it is a range. Every driven mile makes the error on it smaller.
Kinects?
In addition, some cars such as the Nissan Leaf have a feature that locks the brakes at full power when there is a sudden control shift from accelerator to brakes, meaning that if you stomp on the brakes and then reduce pressure, the car will continue to brake at maximum power. This was done for two reasons: one, people hesitating in emergency situations, and two, people being taught to pump brakes, which increases braking distance in cars with ABS.

I learned about this feature when reading car forums for my car and finding threads from people who were rear-ended when they accidentally triggered this feature by slamming on the brakes when they didn't intend to come to a complete stop.
edited parent - I meant EFTPOS wasn't as ubiquitous in AU as it was in NZ.
In some countries you have to pass a medical examination which includes a vision test.

The driving schools also have theoretical tests where one has to identify objects in a picture, interpret the situation, and propose the correct action. Of course, these tests are on a higher level: "this is a car, this is a pedestrian" vs. "you're approaching an intersection, that car is turning left, a pedestrian is about to cross the street, another car is coming from there etc."

Not to mention the road and track tests a driver has to pass which include practicing controlling the car in difficult conditions: driving in the dark, evasive actions on slippery surfaces and so on.

Edit: In my opinion it's insane to allow autonomous vechiles on the roads without proper testing by a neutral third party.
Dodd-frank means that prop trading isn't really a thing the way it used to be. Most trading in banks is now flow trading: the bank will take one side of a trade for a client in exchange for a fee. They'll then make sure their book is hedged so they don't have meaningful market exposure.

Asset managers still make big, directional bets though. Exactly how decisions are made varies from place to place, but decision makers will typically be older and have plenty of experience. Asset managers get lots of due diligence questions so no-ones handing millions out to a junior in their early twenties.

With regard to entering the industry, it's pretty hierarchical, and can be siloed: techies do tech, traders do trading, and there's not much crossover.

The most reliable way of entering the industry is to get on a graduate program and work your way up. Failing that, a quantitative PhD might get a hedge fund or HFT interested.

Do be aware that while it's a ticket to a comfortable upper middle class life, the salaries are not what they once were. Seven-figure bonuses are pretty much a thing of the past for most front office staff.
Well said! Just for a statistical curiosity, which weekdays do you work? :)
Pedestrians and cyclists ( and car occupants for that matter) accept risks near or on roads. You expect that at least 1. drivers are vigilant and cars are maintained so the 2. brakes don't fail or 3. wheels don't fall off. Yet in my life I have eyewitnessed all 3 of those assumptions being wrong at least once.
The article says that she was crossing outside of a crosswalk. Assuming that the author of the article is not lying, the case is closed.

Let’s compromise. The headline should read “Alleged jaywalker dies from
Injuries After Being Hit By Self Driving Uber”. Better?
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So, what's the statistic of actual self driving cars killing people vs the actual people killing others or themselves.
Both of those industries have tremendous regulations in place to prevent accidents and injuries. If someone gets salmonella poisoning and it is traced back to a company, there is a massive recall at the company's expense. Air travel is one of the safest modes of transportation available (statistically) because of the NCTB and the rules/regulations put in place after each and every accident.

That's how it is profoundly different.
Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are often remembered as being hard set rules, but Asimov more often than not used them as the precursors to murder mysteries. So many of the best of his Three Laws stories are locked room murder mysteries where a robot finds some edge case that no one had yet considered. Especially, the entire concept of the Zeroth law is interesting because it was a loophole defined by robots, and the ethics of which are somewhat debated in the series, but most of that debate is left as an exercise to the reader so readers don't often do it. But even a lot of the very edge cases listed here are part of the meta-ethics debates across the Three Laws stories.

Whether or not the Three Laws are a viable system for AGI governance (and I agree it seems rather unlikely, at least in their simplest define forms most encountered in Asimov's stories, but even the stories would claim that the way they are written in English is not exactly how they are coded in positronic technology, however that may be), the ethics conflicts and edge case debates in the stories are very fascinating reads.

It is somewhat surprising to me how many people seem to think the laws are set in stone and don't realize how many of the stories themselves are secretly ethics debates about edge cases. Just because some of the characters believe the laws to be infallible doesn't mean those characters are right and the laws are infallible. There wouldn't be so many tales about the Three Laws if there weren't so many edge cases and exciting locked room mysteries to explore.
Exactly. I didn't hear it as a call for genocide but just a rational reflection on the fact that a certain generational segment will have to die before significant changes are possible.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620423, since it had the original source and was posted earlier.
Its common in the US, i see it every couple weeks. It effected me last night on the Costco Travel site when creating an account. It let me paste the password but not the confirm password field.
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Of course, economically, taxi drivers and others will lose while programmers/shareholders will win. The point is that for the 99% (or whatever) of us that aren't in either category, self driving cars will be a massive improvement to our lives. Especially to the 10s of thousands each year that won't die.
> I think you can also contrast this to the many more people who decide to drink alcohol and then drive.

Sure, but drinking (more than a little) and driving is already illegal, so they're not exactly comparable.
is this directed at me? not seeing applicability of the quote in this context
Ask HN: How long does it take to setup your dev environment?
I thought this would get better with docker, but it seems to always be a multi-day process to get up and running. How does your team solve this problem and how long does it take a new dev to be writing code?
It's not just censorship and protectionism. China is just too used to attempting to centralizing everything. There's a cost. The reason why is because central offices will eventually lack needed localized knowledge to make optimal decisions, resulting in inefficiency, less creativity, and slowdowns when it comes to changing in response to problems or other new conditions. It's a bit ironic that the country that revolutionalized guerilla warfare fails to see this.
We merged that discussion here.
Even electric cars aren't pollution free, and there are still other negative externalities (like health costs associated with car-centric life styles).
Ah, but how many people does it employ, and in what types of jobs? http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/19/technological-unemploym...
On top of some of those frustrations, the one that really boiled my blood a few times was, right at the end of the day as I was shutting down apps and packing up, Win10 decided now was a great time to install it's gigabytes of updates and I'd have to wait 30 minutes while it did it (I could presumably disconnect and pack up but who knows where that'd leave the install). Forcing when the updates install on you is absurd. Not to mention the umpteen issues with 4K display, still fscking problems with data access components and different versions of Access/SQL Server, spyware settings I can't change etc. They really don't seem to learn (I've since gone to Linux Mint full time and it's a breath of fresh air, with LibreOffice and Steam now offering a few decent titles I've got no need to dual-boot luckily).
Air travel is only safe because companies have taken these risks with people's life. A society that takes no risk is a society that will achieve nothing new.
It depends on the details of the case. (IANAL either.)

Criminal law applies to criminal acts. It's possible for do something wrong that "injures" someone (physically or in some other way) without committing a crime.

Criminality generally requires wrongful intent. If you simply screwed up while otherwise obeying the law then you haven't committed a crime (negligence can be a crime, e.g. if you are more careless than a "reasonable man" would be this is in itself a form of bad intent -- so swinging swords around in public places while blind-folded isn't OK).

Also, tort law has a different standard of proof -- it is resolved based on preponderance of evidence rather than proof beyond reasonable doubt, so there's a lower bar than for throwing someone in jail.

Oh, and it's harder to prove criminal charges against nebulous entities. (Who's the criminal in this case? Uber's CEO? The head of the software team? The person who gave uber a permit to test their crap on public streets?)

Uber's overall conduct might approach the point of "criminal enterprise" at which point RICO statutes might be invoked. Not likely though.
This seems pretty on point. Personally, I deleted my LinkedIn account ~a month or two ago after realising it serves no useful purpose for me, and earlier today deleted my Twitter account (also mostly unused). Never had a Facebook account, so no action to take there.

GitHub is the only "social" platform I still have involvement with, and that's because it's actually useful. ;)
Sometimes I will be so hyper focused that I miss things that are said and other times I am so easily distracted (and rabbit holed) by the happenings around me that people have a hard time believing that I am enjoying myself. Instead, they tell me that I appear to be trying to break free of their company.
> “It’s a pretty big blow,”

I disagree. Very few people in the cryptocurrency space took it seriously.

They claim to have raised $735 million by doing a token sale on NEM. I can't find a single source that identifies where on this public blockchain that $735M would be. The 24h volumn is ~100M so they'd have real problems liquidating that supply.

$735 million would be 2.6B XEM. The largest account has 9M http://explorer.ournem.com/#/accountlist

If I had more time on my hand's I'd pull the recent NEM tx and see if there even was that volume of tx during that time.
This whole thing is just a convenient excuse for people to explain how Trump got into office.

People uploaded their whole shitty lifes onto Facebook while everyone out there warns you to not do that. Yet people argued that they need a place to connect to their friends and all the other crap that FB-users come up with to explain this shitty move (much like cigarette-addicts). Also it is pretty clear how that data is sold. And how intelligence uses it. Snowden? Anyone?

Now that the masses need it they come up with this bullshit story. There have been companies like this before, Democratic and Republican (e.g. Targeted Victory helped Romney, Obama had his Team). The lemmings out there just used the past 4 years to fill Facebook with all the data they could eventually sell to Cambridge Analytica and their friends.

Grow the fuck up people.
I knew I'd get called out for not including sources. Those figures are from published sources, and do not include decision time. I'd imagine that these sources are for "average" roads and "average" cars

http://www.government-fleet.com/content/driver-care-know-you...

http://www.brake.org.uk/facts-resources/15-facts/1255-speed

Car and Driver did a test with sports cars and profesional drivers and came up with 142 - 155 ft from 70mph, while my first reference quotes 245 ft (around 40% less, so extrapolating, their stopping distance from 35mph would be around 20 feet).

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/rocket-sleds-the-best-...

The average car on the road is not a sports car with performance tires and is not stopping on a clean, dry track. So I don't think it's a stretch to assume that an average car on average roads with tires optimized for tread life would be 40% worse than a $100K sports car with $400 tires that are optimized for grip rather than lifetime.
How about simply banning targeted advertisement? It's clearly toxic to society.
See also: folding bikes. You just described my commute for a few years.