skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a dumb saying that ignores the fact that humans are fallible beings who make mistakes.

Sure, you might shoot yourself because you're just careless with your gun. Or you might be also thinking of an argument you had with your spouse, or you might be tired when you're handling your everyday carry on your way to work, or you might get startled, or a million and one other things that might prevent you from singly focusing your attention the gun you're handling.

Machines exist to serve us, not the other way around. If a product doesn't take human habits and flaws into account, it's a bad product, because over a large enough sample size someone will make a mistake.
As an additional note, be sure to check out the video link in this article. It is truly amazing to me what they can accomplish with just one path per pixel.
Professional ethics only work to punish outliers, or at least what the industry wants to publicly consider outsiders. You can't reign in the "defense" industry by creating a code of ethics that discourages making offensive weaponry - it will simply be ignored by the relevant parties!

Posit a new organization that "we all" decide to join and care about, say the Association for Personal Computing Machinery (APCM). It comes into existence, and then declares to Google, Faceboot, Amazon, Cisco, etc that they need to clean up or at least detail who is responsible for their organizations' unethical operations, or all of their employees are going to end up on the APCM shitlist. What happens next?
I have a 7 month old and walked with her to get groceries in the snow last weekend. Seemed to go fine. Fortunately it was only a 300 meter walk.
I still wont be convinced the magic leap isn't vaporware until I see a demo that isn't an obviously prerendered mockup.
I’m not quite sure of what you’re asking exactly here? What do you mean by constant brdfs?
Apple.com's heatmap engagement data before and after the battery fiasco
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Thank you for enlightening us on the Australian market from
North America.
Being able to upload a mind is effectively the same as immortality. I doubt wealth matters at all to immortal beings.
I'm going to strongly disagree with that point. You can; you just have to prioritize security.
The military is actively working to remove pilots from the equation, at least for certain missions. Eventually some of that technology will be spun off to civil air transport.
No, that's not how American law works. Despite the protections of the press in the First Amendment, the author of a breaking news article is not considered the sole arbiter of truth. The linked-to article sources the claim to the police:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-selfdriving-uber/se...

> Elaine Herzberg, 49, was walking outside the crosswalk on a four-lane road in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe about 10 p.m. MST Sunday (0400 GMT Monday) when she was struck by the Uber vehicle, police said. The car was in autonomous mode with an operator behind the wheel.

Should go without saying that the police are also not the sole arbiters of truth, nor are they the authority that ultimately decides who is at fault.

edit: re your edit that the headline should read: “Alleged jaywalker dies from Injuries After Being Hit By Self Driving Uber”. Alleged by whom? No official police statement has called her such, even as they've described her as walking outside the crosswalk:

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/03/first-pedestr...

It may be later that she is determined to be a jaywalker. But this is a breaking news article and it appears the reporters have gone with what the broadest description.
> Eine neue wissenschaftliche Wahrheit pflegt sich nicht in der Weise durchzusetzen, daß ihre Gegner überzeugt werden und sich als belehrt erklären, sondern vielmehr dadurch, daß ihre Gegner allmählich aussterben und daß die heranwachsende Generation von vornherein mit der Wahrheit vertraut gemacht ist.

> "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

- Max Planck, Nobel Prize winning physicist who helped invent quantum mechanics

The impact of generations on social change is not an uncommon or violent way to look at the world.
But what makes you think Uber didn't test their software? When Boeing introduces carbon fuselage it is taking risks with people's life. They do reasonable testing but a technology isn't proven until it has been widely used for a long time. No risk = no innovation.
Such roads exist today, they are utilising two steel rails and are generally named railroads.
The comment you're replying to made the same point.
Do you think a government bureaucracy (i.e. socialism) is a better arbiter of merit?

For a more specific answer to your points, the free market is not a guarantee. It's probabilities. There are no risk-free actions, and you're not doing "everything right" if you fail to take that into account.
So far it’s working out and we’re excited about growing here. Our data says we’re competitive on compensation and I’m proud of our retention. I’m very happy about the level of our engineering talent and this team is building a successful product used around the world right here in Madison.

I’m sorry you didn’t have a great experience with your last team.
That explains the actions of (some of) Facebook's "rockstar" developers. That does not explain the actions of Facebook's data scientists, psychologists, product managers, and execs.

Occam's razor - They knew, and perhaps they cared, but they cared far more about their salary and climbing the industry ladder to say no or blow the whistle.
What about punishment for his superiors?
It's not hard to believe that self-driving autonomous cars will make the roads safer overall.

The issue is that while fewer lives will be lost, it will be a different set of lives than would have been lost without self-driving technology.

Those lives will have their day in court.
They just don't want Americans getting any ideas about decentralizing their government and using blockchain for voting. You wouldn't need all the elite puppet masters if you were making the decisions yourself using an open source and auditable voting platform.
in germany you would get punished for doing something like that.
(well somebody would need to catch you first, of course)
Bit of a strawman, no? That's obviously a good use case for a van. But I never said we should completely eliminate all roads, did I? I just think the primacy of the automobile is worth questioning - moving people (and goods) is the goal, not moving cars.

I mean, I'd love to see you medevac a gravely wounded person from the middle of Arctic tundra to a hospital 120 miles away on your feet.. except I wouldn't, because we have helicopters for a reason. We don't assume you should have to use a helicopter to get groceries though.
Yeah, same. Not sure if it’s the mods or what.
No love for Open Network Computing (ONC) Remote Procedure Call (RPC)/xdr? (the rpc in rpcd for nfs).

In all seriousness grpc and protobuf isn't bad. Not sure if I'm sold on the http2 transport - but at least it has somewhat reasonable support for crypto.

I was bummed waiting for for the actual rpc-part to become usable - and now I think I'd rather build on capt'n'proto. But really, if we can just get some standardization that's better than json/soap, I'm willing to have another look.

If I never have to base64-encode an image or other binary to fit it into an api request, it'll be too soon. Or invalid deserislization error.
> For the moment at least, I have nearly the entire world’s supply of DB-19 connectors, stacked in my living room. I think I’m going to fill the bathtub and swim in them.

And 2 years later, all the stock on Ebay is still from North America/Europe. I'm a bit surprised.
> In what application does a LG TV show you ads?

The home screen/main menu shows ads on the left hand side all the time.

In my case, in Australia, it's often "BigPond Movies" which I'm not a subscriber to.

See for example this screenshot from a review...

https://www.idgcdn.com.au/dimg/1200x1200/dimg/img_20170518_1...
Sure, tweets can contain illegal content. That illegal content can be steganographically hidden in innocent images. What makes all this legal for twitter is that as soon as they are aware of illegal content, they delete it. It doesn't matter how well hidden it is, what matters are their actions once they know.

That's the problem with the blockchain: there is no mechanism for deleting data (well, there's pruning, but that's meant to save storage space after processing all the data).
Good luck! I hope it works.
The FDIC means that banks no longer need to care about solvency. It's not the market doing that, it's government interference.
That’s a slightly ancillary point to mine. Regardless, a lot has changed in the last two years even (and we’ve had to raise salaries to compensate). It has a ways to go but I’d like to think we’re proof of the potential that is there today. (We didn’t even exist 5 years ago anyways!)

Also I’d like to think what we’re working on isn’t mundane!
> Australians generally carry little to no cash around

I haven’t had cash in my wallet for a few weeks now. Apple Pay or PayPass/Wave for even small amounts is fine.

They just simply lose my business now if they don’t take card. And lots of the population is moving this way.

The old cash only to avoid taxes is only good if you actually make a decent income to avoid said taxes.
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>While this a serious f*up by Uber

How do you know that? From my initial reading of the police report, the woman was jaywalking and ran out into the middle of the street. I'm not even sure a human or autonomous driver would have been able to stop in time. The only tech that might have been able to is Waymo's since, based on the video they released, they have a radar lock on every pedestrian within a mile of the vehicle and they do predictive tracking to determine their position. Even then, it might have still not stopped in time.
Perhaps the same standard should be applied to human drivers: if a human makes a mistake and kills somebody, the rest should be taken off the road for retraining.

I wonder how the issue developed when the automobile was first introduced. I remember something about needing to have a guy walking in front of the vehicle waving a warning flag, but apparently that didn't last long.

Found it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_traffic_laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Claiming that Obama's campaigns were the true microtargeters, and that if we are angry at the actions of generic people, we must then be angry at Obama, because he did these very things. That is the Whataboutism, or tu quoque fallacy.

In lieu of anything to back that claim up, I'll just stick with Hutchins Razor, and reply "Nuh Uh."
In both East Germany and Revolutionary France people had their enemies destroyed through these kinds of methods. They either found some dirt on them (not hard to do when everything is illegal), and reported it to the authorities, or simply fabricated allegations and reported those.

In East Germany it meant loss of their job, and possibly imprisonment. In Revolutionary France it was off with their heads.
I really don't think it's a big 'if'. As long as there is human level performance data, neural networks can be trained to match that level of performance. So it's a matter of time. It is indeed very, very hard, but also solvable.
I used to live at 16th and Santa Monica and was really excited about the Expo Line. I ended up moving before it showed up because it was many years late (I'm glad it finally got built though!)

I used to ride a recumbent to UCLA now and then because I had a death wish, and it shocked me that it took 25 minutes and yet people spent 60 minutes in traffic in their cars every day just to get across the 405.

You're right, though, those cities are mostly lost causes, more for the attitudes present in them than the infrastructure. Doesn't mean we can't try to make any new ones better though.
> Theoretically the reputation cost would discourage for-profit organizations from releasing unsafe (...)

I wonder whether food companies (like the meat packing industry in Chicago) said the same thing before the FDA was created in 1906; i.e. that reputation will just regulate the industry to not sell mislabeled products, or spoiled or adulaterated food.
I probably just about count as a millenial, my parents could live another 20 - 30 years and that house might have to be sold to pay their hospice care should they get dementia. So the house likely isn't going to be much use to me.
> I’d say they probably won’t evolve unless they start getting prosecuted for tax avoidance...

Or more people no longer want to pay in cash so their sales go down dramatically.

Avoiding tax on no or low income is a lot worse than paying tax on larger profits via electronic payments.
I bought a 55C7V last year which shows ads. When you open the menu there are ads on the left side (usually for streaming services), and again in the app store at the top of the screen.
I though the main issue of reading bytes from /dev/urandom was performance (ignoring the issue of ensuring /dev/urandom has been initialized since boot.)

So instead, we use them to seed CPRNGs, and use them for speed.
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Same thing with spare parts. Need a funky USB to USB cable at a precise length? Someone from China on Ebay will have it.

The "free" shipping time can take 3-12 weeks to Canada. So I always buy extra and re-sell them on Ebay to recover my costs.

I have 4 micro-businesses for beer money of spare parts people are willing to spend an extra $5-10 to get in ~1 week.
It reduces the taxes they pay, but only because they make less profit.

They still have less money and it is in no way better than if Paragon had made a profit.

The "yeay it failed! we get a tax write-off" thing is stupid and wrong.
It's almost impossible to drive a car without threatening small children and other people with lethal force. People regularly wait on the sides of roads when every traditional custom, convention and current law demands that car drivers stop, but they never do it. "I want to get to the shops quicker" is not an excuse for levelling a gun at someone and asking them to please step aside.

Moreover, it is illegal to drive a car safely. If you try it, you will be pulled over. You may be fined or lose your licence. Try it and see. So yes, being a car driver does make you a dangerous one.
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When it is deemed necessary to test the vehicles on public roads after they have shown to be mostly safe, ALL of these vehicles should have flashing lights like any emergency vehicle.

I'm stunned that when I drive in Texas, there don't seem to be regulations over which vehicles can have flashing lights and with which colors. Yet in these other cities you have experimental robots that are designed to blend in with other cars as much as possible. NO! Make them stick out.
I read elsewhere that the UK is now planning to raid Cambridge Analytica office/servers in light of this report and that Facebook was also somehow in house with them?
Considering the primary adverse effect of lead poisoning is neurological, and psychiatric conditions are its fallout, if poor lifestyle choices are the result of bad decisions, perhaps low-level lead exposure fuels a simmering sub-clinical hopelessness that defies treatment, and provokes poor self care.

Everybody is such a big fan of LSD microdosing, and maybe this is the other side of that coin.
Bitcoin is the real occupy wallstreet movement. Anyone not happy with the outcome of the financial crisis should be looking to leave a monetary system which has enabled our corrupt institutions to thrive.
It’s nice to get some competition for Uber.

In Melbourne we now have Taxify, Uber and GoCatch.

A forth in the mix would be great.
More evidence than human drivers, the same human drivers who are legally responsible/liable for this incident.
I don't personally view poor people as disposable, but I'm not kidding about what I believe would happen.
Entirely untrue would mean no great fortune ever came from crime.

Everybody lighten up, it's an aphorism.
Escrow for a contract is optional. You and your client can agree on an amount that will be held on escrow and, upon a completed pull request, a portion of the escrow amount will be paid out. We're making some UI updates soon to make this more clear.
It seems like a faulty analogy, unless you want to tell me that every Uber car is running unique software.
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How often? How often you'd manage to go through the intersection before the lights change, and gain even more?

(edit: just to be clear, I'm not in support of speeding, however I do value good logic.)
The comparison is odd to me. Somehow building bridges seems more of an exact science to me than making cars drive themselves. I sure wouldn't step on a bridge if its engineer doesn't dare going under it. Shit is supposed to stand up.
Not a meaningful counterargument here. Someone can not only drive, but have a history of having been an at-fault driver causing death, yet justifiably not believe that: public roads should be used for private testing such that the profit is private, but the harm is socialized; or that money compensates for lost lives.
I wouldn't consider kids that much of a risk, I know about how much they are going to cost (i.e. most of my money) and I'm insured for any of their unexpected medical issues. I guess I could lose a lot of money in a divorce but the ones I've heard of are much less costly than these games.
> First of all DARPA has invested a lot more than that in all sorts of related AV technologies

I was responding to your link about the Grand Challenge.

> Seed investments generally are much smaller than what companies end up being worth.

Of course. Are you really going to make someone else go point out the hundreds of millions in dollars of seed-level funding by Google, by Uber, etc., to demonstrate the obvious point that the DARPA Grand Challenge is terrible evidence for the claim "autonomous vehicle development was funded by taxpayers".

> so it's fair that Google's later investors kept all the equity.

People who invest in Google get to keep the equity they they purchase, but they don't get a claim to the equity of companies that exist because of Google's search product.
Likewise, when the government invests in public goods, they don't then get to claim everything that is built on top of the public good.

Indeed, the government provides the rule of law, without which almost no modern economic development could take place. But that obviously doesn't mean the government has claim to all economic value. Likewise, none of us could work without eating, but that doesn't mean we owe all our income to farmers.
The various reports on this aren't clear- did the car hit a pedestrian, or a cyclist?
Since there is absolutely no binding federal regulation I don't have a lot of confidence that the level of testing is comparable to what's done for airplanes.
Did Uber have authorization to operated automated in AZ?

According my reading of AZ Executive Order #2018-04 [0], presuming they meet the guidelines established in provisions #2 and #3, they do:

2) Testing or operation of self-driving vehicles equipped with an automated driving system on public roads with, or without, a person present in the vehicle are required to follow all federal laws, Arizona State Statutes, Title 28 of the Arizona Revised Statutes, all regulations and policies set forth by the Arizona Department of Transportation, and this Order.

3) Testing or operation of vehicles on public roads that do not have a person present in the vehicle shall be allowed only if such vehicles are fully autonomous, provided that a person prior to commencing testing or operation of fully autonomous vehicles, has submitted a written statement to the Arizona Department of Transportation, or if already begun, has submitted a statement to the Arizona Department of Transportation within 60 days of the issuance of this Order acknowledging that:

a. Unless an exemption or waiver has been granted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the fully
autonomous vehicle is equipped with an automated driving system that is in compliance with all applicable federal
law and federal motor vehicle safety standards and bears the required certification label(s) including reference to any
exemption granted under applicable federal law;

b. If a failure of the automated driving system occurs that renders that system unable to perform the entire dynamic
driving task relevant to its intended operational design domain, the fully autonomous vehicle will achieve a minimal
risk condition;

c. The fully autonomous vehicle is capable of complying with all applicable traffic and motor vehicle safety laws and
regulations of the State of Arizona, and the person testing or operating the fully autonomous vehicle may be issued a
traffic citation or other applicable penalty in the event the vehicle fails to comply with traffic and/or motor vehicle laws; and

d. The fully autonomous vehicle meets all applicable certificate, title registration, licensing and insurance
requirements.

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[0] "Executive Order: 2018-04 - Advancing Autonomous Vehicle Testing And Operating; Prioritizing Public Safety" - https://azgovernor.gov/file/12514/download
Completely agree, the reward is a counter balance to the real-world risks. It's not some idealistic regulatory system that bets on a finite group of agents to catch malicious actors in a rapidly changing systems with millions of events each day.

Nor does it create massive inefficiencies in the system by forcing every company/employee/transaction to jump through arbitrary hoops in order to verify they are legit, designed to catch yesterdays criminals.

Instead of paranoid dragnets it promotes enforcement on a case-by-case basis, sourced closer to problem and by the people who actually understand the problem.
It's all well and good to not like the choice, but the choices still have to be made - how much are we willing to give up economically in order to reduce immediate risk to lives? Included in this must be the consideration that economic value can be used to save lives, through higher living standards and better health care.

Every regulatory system in the world has to consider these things, explicitly or (more commonly) implicitly. See e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1633324/ for the application of the idea to healthcare, or http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/business/economy/17regulat... for the public policy implications for environmental regulation.

Or more relevant yet, this "guidance on valuing reduction of fatalities and injuries by regulations or investments" by the Department of Transportation: https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/VSL_...
This attitude went great for Ford with the Pinto, as I recall.
In the UK, for motorbike tests one does a computer based test, then practices with a company on a private off-road test area. One must pass a test then before being able to practices under instruction on public roads. Once sufficiently practiced one can take the test.

Basically what you propose?

As for comprehensive testing - I think the UK car and motorbike tests are quite good, not comprehensive, but they demonstrate a general ability across a range of skills. Humans can be expected to act relatively consistently (in such things), the test must be more comprehensive when treating a system that you can't expect to have innate consistency.
Node doesn't by itself, but Electron does, and you may be able to use node modules such as a sqlite one inside it.
Boeing certainly tests in public airspace, but only as part of a standardized certification process overseen by the US government - a process and set of regulations that are written in blood.

Uber abides by no such testing standardization.