skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes you can. Doing the right thing at the expense of a comfortable lifestyle is a problem every generation has faced. Washing one's hands of responsibility in such a way is a rather lazy argument.
Talking about a future in which AVs are allowed to go as fast as physically possible seems irrelevant when we're talking about current policy and infrastructure, in which AVs have to live in a world with majority manually-operated vehicles, driven by people who do speed, but are also punished for going over the speed limit.
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Homeless people tend to be in poor mental health and possibly under the influence of drugs/alcohol. All 3 of these things can contribute to bad judgement when she got hit.

It's unfortunate that this happened. But we do need take into context the situation and all factors involved.
Bit of a difference between "he said <this>" vs "news" stories about Clinton conspiring to keep drug prices high. The source for the latter was an email where someone rejected the idea of negotiating american prices so as to avoid derailing ongoing negotiations into drug pricing in Africa.

It's also not news when it's some story about a town in <state> adopting Sharia law. At least the drug pricing thing is halfway true in some convoluted form.
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Uber's autonomous cars speed? Why?
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This. So many packages are a pain to test, because only a concrete implementation is provided. If an interface was used, consumers can swap it out for a mock implementation. It is an almost endemic problem, but the article is criticizing the only available solution (apart from forking).

I am utterly sick of writing fragile scaffolding to deal with these dependencies, to the point I wish that Go provided an implicit interface for every declared type. Testing would be so much easier if I could pass in a MockFoo instead of a Foo, provided MockFoo satisfied the implicit interface.
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Now now, surely you aren't implying that this is due to VCs wanting to make people "kiss the ring" without having to travel themselves?
> You might be brilliant at what you do, but let's be real about it.

Educational resources aren't a social reference group. They don't provide feedback. That's as real as I can make it.
IBM just unveiled the ‘world’s smallest computer’
Accuracy nitpick:

For the record, in 1997 it was still DrScheme - it wasn't renamed to Racket until 13 years later. And it didn't run on OS X, because OS X was still 4 years away. Also, IIRC, most the really interesting UI that features in that screenshot didn't exist yet - it was just the file editor on top and the REPL on bottom.
Can someone please explain to me what the breach is here?

As far as I can tell this was just an app using the API as intended. Except they did some additional modeling on their backend to organize/profile users.

They abused the TOS for sure, but was there an actual security breach?
Since Apple does the same and hundreds of millions of people don't seem to have a problem with it, I'd say Microsoft is stupid if they don't do it. Edge is a very capable browser and if it drives people away from the monopolistic mess that is Chrome, I'm all for it.
Also... I don't see how her being homeless has anything to do with it.

I can think of a number of ways it may be relevant. In addition to what I said in this discussion, I left a comment about that here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16625242
Has there (yet) been a public leak of millions of private facebook-like or gmail-like profiles? Sure emails, sure PII, but ever 50M people's gender and sexuality linked to their real name leaked to The Pirate Bay?

I'm curious if Facebook might be concerned right now that the raw data might itself get leaked. This would make yet even more personal what once was only theoretical or abstract.
People move to big cities for employment, not because they want to be innovative scientists. You can innovate from anywhere.
> More like "autonomous cars are better than people at stopping in a flash" rather than "just like people this car didn't stop in a flash".

It's a single example. You can't extrapolate to better or worse from it. A self driving system better than people by 2 orders of magnitude will still kill people. But that's neither a comfortable thought, nor something media will get used to over the next decade or so.

This specific car shouldn't matter outside of engineering analysis, which is happening now. What should matter for others is a good statistic over millions of miles.
We've taken this a step further: `docker-compose.yml` uses a database image that has seed data baked right in. It's great.
For the same reason humanity has largely left eugenics behind and why so many countries overthrew colonial yokes and despots to form representative government.

For that matter, how confident are you that you truly understand the secondary and tertiary consequences of your choice enough to make a utilitarian choice?
I mean, maybe the self-driving car shouldn't exist if it's just going to run people over.
I do not have a degree, I'm a self-taught programmer/ web developer. I started in a position similar to yours, doing QA for peanuts. I came home every night and built side projects until I was comfortable enough to start landing side work for my own clients. Now I'm building web apps for a few more peanuts, but life is better. I've worked a few web dev jobs and I'm getting a lot of good responses when I send out resumes as well.

It's a difficult road, so I won't sugar coat it. But I believe you can make it if you keep grinding long enough. I'm not exceptionally smart but I do think I have grit. It took me five years of coding every night to get somewhere with it.

Good luck to you.
Yes, I think it is premature. What I am trying to say is that I don't think the police used the proper data from the car to give the results. If they were looking for break marks from the tires on the road, for instance (I have no idea what method they use), that doesn't necessarily mean the car wasn't breaking.
It may not be programmed to speed per se, but if you’ve ever had cruise control turned on you’ll know it doesn’t keep you exactly at 55mpg. It might be 54 with the throttle applied to speed up, or it might be 57 which doesn’t trigger the brakes yet but is coasting to a slower speed.

Imagine the car in front of you cycling rapidly between the gas and brake pedal to keep the speed exactly at 55mph. One, that’s completely impossible with how cars are designed, and two that’s really illogical. Cars have to follow the laws of physics too.
I would hate to have been the (backup driver) in this sad situation.
Regardless, the regulations couldn't come soon enough.

From SF Chronicle [1]:

<QUOTE>
The self-driving Volvo SUV was outfitted with at least two video cameras, one facing forward toward the street, the other focused inside the car on the driver, Moir said in an interview.

From viewing the videos, “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 said. The police have not released the videos.

The incident happened within perhaps 100 yards of a crosswalk, Moir said. “It is dangerous to cross roadways in the evening hour when well-illuminated, managed crosswalks are available,” she said.

...

“I suspect preliminarily it appears that the Uber would likely not be at fault in this accident, either,” Moir said.

However, if Uber is found responsible, that could open a legal quagmire.

“I won’t rule out the potential to file charges against the (backup driver) in the Uber vehicle,” Moir said.

But if the robot car itself were found at fault? “This is really new ground we’re venturing into,” she said.
</QUOTE>

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Exclusive-Tempe...
The problem with Reddit is that it's full of white supremacists who migrated over from /pol/ in 2016 and took up residence.

The admins have been aware of the problem for two years but haven't cared enough to do anything about it.
I don't disagree with these sentiments, but the hope that engineers/IT staff will leave is wishful thinking. I speak from my own experience which my differ from others in other industries/regions/countries but, I find people who work in tech to be generally dispassionate with regards to the downstream effects of their contributions. I think that's because:

a) We're often small cogs ...

b) ... working on often interesting technical problems that require much detail ("think down here" I was once told by a manager, who put his hand to the ground, "not up here" he said putting his hand up and waving it[1]) ...

c) ... and we don't always get to choose. Not everyone is a superstar who can leisurely choose which exciting opportunity to pick and choose. And yes, most of us have rent/mortgages/children/ other obligations to concern ourselves with.

...even if we aren't necessarily all amoral.

1 Luckily I outlasted him in that company. :-)
Where the skid marks start (if there are skid marks at all), probably. Witness reports might help, too.
Driving the speed limit is never unsafe. And especially not in a residential area 35 MPH zone.
Good point! If keys/addresses were assigned in secret, I don't see how blockchain forensics could identify someone given that voting is simply transactions going one way. The only way might be time, but that could be a big give away.

There's also people providing their public address as proof of a vote in exchange for something, but the risk for the buyer is that someone just hands over someone else's transaction and votes as they please.

A real potential solution would be to make the votes private and "untraceable" (A la Monero ring signatures or something of the sort), but that kind of comes with it's own pros and cons and could always be broken later. I still think it's worth investigating if this is more secure than plain old paper ballots.
Ah, thanks! I didn't spot that on my first read through.
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Sometimes it feels like I also have this job. Except for some reason, my employers only sack me once, and for real.
I don’t think that’s true at all (though I only have my own experience to go off of). I tend to use the speed limit as a point of reference, and then drive a little above it. Prior experience has told me that going the speed limit plus some percentage ‘feels’ safe. If there were no speed limit I’d actually have to pay more attention to the road and surrounding environment to determine what a safe speed is. Right now most people’s ‘survival instinct’ is basically speed limit + some delta in clear conditions. That delta may change from driver to driver, but in general everyone drives within 10-20% of the speed limit.

As a fun thought experiment, imagine what would happen if your residential speed limit were raised from 25mph to 70mph. People may not hit the 70mph limit, but I can almost guarantee that the average speed would increase significantly, perhaps even dangerously in some cases. I don’t have much faith in people’s ability to judge space and speed accurately, particularly when they aren’t used to doing so. And this includes myself.
Maybe we should revisit our immigration policy that punishes China for having "too many" immigrants to the US and also our University policies which racially discriminate against the Chinese for being over-represented. If this trade/economic war is going to keep heating up, we might as well try to steal as many of their best and brightest as possible.
Mark can go Zuck himself. He and Sheryl hiding their heads. Stamos is a decent dude left holding the filth bucket. Thanks for helping weaken democracy and making Vladimir's dreams exceed his wildest expectations.

#DeleteFacebook
The difference, of course, is that an airbag can't take control of a car and run someone over.

More to the point, the report notes that new methods to determine the safety of self-driving cars are required.

Which the industry is not exactly falling head over heels trying to develop.
Which means she wasn't moving quickly.
I'd recommend just installing it and turning on a couple of the built-in filters by editing /etc/fail2ban/jail.local to see how it goes together. See the comment at the top of /etc/jail.conf as well and check out 'man jail.conf'.

Essentially to do the same thing as URL Canary you'd set up an action that only emails and trigger that with a custom filter that scans your web server's access log for accesses to a particular URL.
Ask HN: How does AfterPay (Australia) perform know-your-customer(KYC) checking?
1. How does AfterPay deal with people who default their payment ?
2. How does AfterPay deal with identity theft ?

One scenario would be:
John walks into a store and decided to buy stuff which cost $500 and chooses AfterPay as it's payment option. John signs up with the service using his own Debit Card and Alice's identity (name, address and etc). John got charged with the initial payment and that is okay. Now, John withdraws all the funds from his debit card account and AfterPay could not find him and charge his account. All AfterPay could do is just closing his account. How does AfterPay deal with people like John ?

Would appreciate your answers. Thank you.
Link to the Microsoft announcement -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620423
Tech backlash: ‘Maybe Silicon Valley needs to be taken down to size’
What are the differences to Intel Larrabee?
Ok, I see where you're coming from, but none of this is how anything works for me. I just say, "hey let's do something!" and my friends either say, "ok, whatcha want to do?" or "ok, I'm doing X, you want to do that with me?" or "shoot I can't, I'm already doing Y". Then I say either, "well I'd love to Z" or "sure I'll join you for X" or "darn! lunch this week?". Sometimes yeah, people don't want to go to the same restaurant or whatever, but it just gets figured out through communication. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm sure this would all work just as well on Facebook, but it works just as well off Facebook too.
There is always a reason to speed: getting from point A to point B faster.
How would nationalising have impacted the infrastructure working?
Given that you own these sites, this post is bordering spam.
Who are the real enablers? The Valley or The Hill?
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I think driving 10-20% slower than the posted speed limit at night is completely sane. In Colorado we have some rural highways that are double posted with lower speed limits at night. If AI cannot make identical collision avoidance guarantees at night and during the day, then it should be law that they self limit their speed below the posted speed limit until there is separation parity.
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Oh I agree, but I think memorization is necessary but not sufficient for educational success.
Cars are a leading cause of death in the US, especially among young people. That's a fact worth taking notice of, regardless of how many miles are driven or whatever else.

Yes, it's great that fatalaties are trending downwards.
I think the distillation is there already; if you want conditional BRDF importance sampling in DXR, it goes in the shaders, they're not providing that kind of fixed functionality in the same way that rasterization APIs used to.

By "simple framework" I mean the ability to trace rays, rather than the API specifics. What I had in mind is that by being able to trace rays at all, you can very easily get all the effects on the GGP's feature list, with less effort, wider generality, and higher quality than having to code up the buffering tricks required for things like screen space reflections or percentage closer shadows.

Sadly, I doubt the copy-pasta problem is going away any time soon... I think the trend is that it's getting worse.
I wonder if anybody would have cared had Hillary won the elections.
So apparently right now a company that is not contractually bound to Facebook has 50M full profiles from Facebook's API.

From Facebook's perspective, what happens when if csv file gets released publicly. Or a government official or law-enforcement officer sees it. It apparently has >50M real-names connected with political affiliation, gender, sexuality, home town, etc. It is an email attachment away from getting released by a whistle-blower...

So even if the data was taken with scraped without unauthorized privileges, what happens when that data becomes public. Has there (yet) been a public leak of millions of private facebook-like or gmail-like profiles? Sure emails, sure PII, but ever 50M people's admitted sexuality linked to their real name leaked to The Pirate Bay?
It's standard operating procedure in SF, and not only will the police not bother to look at surveillance, but they will lie and claim they it doesn't exist [1].

[1] https://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/08/23/sfbc-finds-what-sfpd-d...
I've been making my way through David Anthony's The Horse, the Wheel and Language (really well-written book if anyone is interested, btw) and the thing about Proto-Indo-Europeans having some kind of religious taboo against naming bears is one of my favorite theories in it. I've been trying to learn Farsi and have some Latin, and it has been a lot of fun finding the points of origin in the really ancient words (Farsi word for bear is khers, which I assume is etymologically linked to ursus.)

I just dug into the topic a bit more and came across the theory that King Arthur's name means "bear king" - fun correlate with the "Bee Warrior" mentioned above :)

From Wikipedia: "Another possibility is that it is derived from a Brittonic patronym Arto-rīg-ios (the root of which, arto-rīg- 'bear-king' is to be found in the Old Irish personal name Art-ri)."
Actually, they do become standards:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/standards#IS
Given the overall vector of web apps towards progressive web apps... one can hope there may be a re-discovery.
We gave him a second chance and he ruined the customer's merchandise again!?! Fire him for good, this time!
Self-driving Uber crash could open the company to criminal charges
By design vulnerabilities are always the best!
pb. That’s “new”. Congrats.
>> A cynic would interpret the current state of the world to suggest that Zuckerberg, and by extension Facebook, considers a large segment of the world population "Dumb fucks"

I wish I could contradict you but I can't...a large majority of the world population is exactly like that.
Why not? The range between 1-10 MPH over the speed limit is statistically the safest. (Yes, I know, good luck finding a citation for a study I read 20 years ago...) It's hard to argue against the notion that you're safest when you keep up with prevailing traffic. That means that self-driving cars shouldn't be programmed to go slower.

Speed limits are usually too low. Often they have nothing to do with engineering or safety considerations, but are primarily revenue-oriented. If the advent of autonomous vehicles forces regulators to listen to the engineers for a change, that will be an unalloyed Good Thing.
Would be interested if the focus is on Python 3.
Actually, I suspect what makes Cambridge Analytica "so good" is that (big data aside) it was revealed just today: they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians, amongst other illegal techniques...

https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-t...
Cars are not anything close to exceptionally safe. Indeed, they are the exact opposite: They are the most dangeorus thing that most people encounter on a daily basis.

There are many age and other cohorts of the population for which the leading cause of death is vehicles.

And compare against commercial aviation, which has a per-mile death rate three orders of magnitude less than driving.
> the story was thoroughly researched and reported in depth by a team of professional journalists working for the New York Times

No. It was Ronan Farrow that originally broke the story. The NY Times took their sweet time before going after someone that was an ultra-major Democrat party donor. The Weinstein story was rejected by multiple "professional" news outlets.

The "professional" journalists working for the NY Times KNEW about the Weinstein story as far back as 2004, but spiked it under pressure from various Hollywood interests. Professional journalists aren't supposed to spike stories for political reasons and that's exactly that the Times did in 2004.

Weinstein's office in Tribeca was right downstairs from the Tribeca Film offices. It was on the 3rd floor. Spend a few hours in that building and you could probably have heard a dozen stories in whispered tones about Harvey. Some professional journalist from the NY Times should have had this story years ago. A high school journalist could have written this! And Kevin Spacey? Anyone who in Hollywood would have known about Spacey as far back as 2004, or perhaps earlier. It was an "open" secret. So open that it was a joke. It started becoming more "known" when Spacey was working with Sam Mendes on American Beauty in 1999.

Give me a fucking break. Professional journalists sat on this story, ignored it or conspired to crush it. It took a rookie, Ronan Farrow, trying to make a name for himself while on a personal mission against that horrible abuser Woody Allen for this to all break.

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/russell-crowe-ma...
As long as you follow the basic rules of car safety, you won't crash. Stay within the speed limit, be aware of your surroundings, keep a safe distance from the car in front of you, signal 100 feet before a turn. Unless someone else doesn't follow the basic rules of car safety!

You know what system we've come up with to improve car safety that has only one rule to remember? Always wear your seatbelt.

You know what we've come up with that requires zero effort from the driver? Laminated glass. Crumple zones. Airbags. Automatic braking.

This isn't about whether people use a product negligently — put it in enough hands and it will happen. The point is to design products such that the consequence of negligence is not injury or death.
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This is my biggest concern with Magic Leap. I'm starting to believe they are going to ship on time, and they will deliver a fairly polished and high quality product.

However, I haven't seen a single compelling use case. I don't want to browse my email with a giant pair of googles. It's less convenient and less efficient than using a phone or computer. I also don't want to spend a couple of thousand dollars for dedicated hardware to play mobile quality, gimmicky AR games.

What problem are they solving? I want to be excited to buy this product, but their demos are just showing random 3D objects floating in space. Billions of dollars and years of development, and they're trying to sell me on some 3D jellyfish? I have money, I like technology, I've been following Magic Leap for years, and yet I feel no buying interest or excitement towards the product.

For that reason, I think it's destined to fail with consumers. The product will have niche use cases with certain businesses, but I think it'll end there.
> Until you consider the _billions_ of miles that cars in the US drive every month. Cars are exceptionally safe, and they're getting better every year.. because we keep driving _more_ miles year after year, yet fatalities continue to drop.

How many people do pedestrians kill per mile? Or bicycle? Or subway?

And either way, cars are still the number one killer if you look at miles per death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...

It is disgusting we allow this to encroach on society and kill so many people.