skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
University of Washington [1]

Washington State University [2]

In both cases, professors aren't the highest paid, but they do show up in the top 5. Not that this is exhaustive or necessarily representative, but it shows that for at least these two schools, it's not terrible. The gap between the highest paid and the highest paid professor is substantial though.

What's more disconcerting, is looking at the highest paid in public schools vs the highest paid teachers. Again, this data is only for Washington state [3]. Sorting by highest total compensation, the highest paid teacher shows up at 234th highest paid. Next highest paid teachers are at 1,804, then 2,235, 2,294 and sporadically thereafter.

Given the average salary data [4], it's pretty clear that Washington state public schools are overrun by administrators. I suspect that exchanging most administration for teachers that have the same existing teacher pay would go a long way to bringing the student/teacher ratio to more appropriate levels, reducing teacher stress and increasing student outcomes. Or maybe we could get more teachers and raise their pay.

I believe reducing the student/teacher ratio will allow teachers to handle a lot of the stuff administration already does, which, if true, would demonstrate how administrator's aren't just not needed, but are actively detrimental to a good school.

[1] http://data.spokesman.com/salaries/state/2015/306-university...

[2] http://data.spokesman.com/salaries/state/2015/307-washington...

[3] http://data.spokesman.com/salaries/schools/2016/all-employee...

[4] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/pay-vari...
> I think Mark Zuckerberg is either incredibly naive, or a sleaze bag

Hmm typically when someone says that people are "dumb fucks" it usually means they are simply incredibly naive /s
That was my suspicion. I've lived in very suburban areas before as well as rural ones where you might even be going 55 on a two-lane road with no street lighting whatsoever.

Here in LA, it's dense and traffic can't get up to very high speeds and we have relatively frequent places to cross safely if people choose to do so. I've definitely seen those who choose not to walk an extra 100 feet to wait at a crosswalk nearly hit in dusk or night traffic.

No amount of automation is going to bring the accident rate down to 0 so through a combination of factors, such as traffic and community design, we can work in tandem with automated driving to get closer. There's still the X factor of our human ability to do really dumb stuff.
I have a friend who was working in web advertising back when it leaked out that Verizon was injecting unique IDs into their users' web browsers. This friend said, "What's the big deal? Everybody already knows about this, and at my company we haven't been able to get it to work for anything anyway!"

... I think it's possible to be too close to be objective. We get used to the "power" and not realize that the people who use these services in a non-expert way would consider those same tools "abuse".
Netherlands, Japan, USSR/Russia, among others have stopped water fluoridation[1]. US Doctors, in my experience, want to ensure you drink fluoridated water, on the other hand (drink tap water!)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_controversy
That's not a problem with density, rather letting non-residents purchase the units. It's not hard to think up solutions to discourage that, such as taxes as Vancouver did or outright bans.
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This is a sign that the city is simply becoming more efficient and provides more for the population than rural sprawl.
Or swerved perhaps? I think the Uber employee developed a false sense of security with respect to the car's capabilities.
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While I do agree there is a level of responsibility on the driver's part here I will also say that I think it's equally unreasonable to expect someone to stay alert in that situation. Human brains need stimulus and interaction to stay alert focused. To me this is as much a failure of understanding how the human mind functions... not just on Uber's part but of all the companies that think the human will stay alert while the car does the work. Our brains just don't work that way. Once the brain starts to trust the car it disengage and wander off onto other distractions.
What would regulating Facebook look like?
Cameras work the same way, but much much more poorly. A human eye can see multiple orders of magnitude higher range of light to dark areas at the same time. The accepted estimate is that the human eye can detect a 1 million: 1 range from light to dark in terms of photon intensity.
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The reason why it's so hot is because of radiated heat from the sun. It'd be much closer to air temp at 10 pm, well after sunset.
>"Their monopoly over internet infrastructure in some developing countries"

In which developing countries does Facebook have a "monopoly" over internet infrastructure?
I didn’t know you can have Facebook account without having email address.
Reefs attract some fairly large predators. Barracuda, various sharks, grouper, moray eels, among others. All can get to well over a meter, or a couple meters in some cases.
Bloomberg is notorious for publishing (In my opinion) low-quality blockchain articles. This one, for example, failed to clearly explain why blockchains would take the company to the next level. It also wasn't clear if this was one team's aspirations or a serious strategic direction for the company.

Bloomberg never fails to deliver garbage on this subject.
Noble peace prize winner ;)

(I agree with your sentiment, just pointed out this to remind people that these prizes are not given by God)
Good Lord. Here's an excellent talk about why mathematics teachers should know mathematics: https://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/Lisbon2010_2.pdf

That's mathematics, not didactics of mathematics.
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I agree thats a textbook case for the non-visual-specrum sensors. Its possible that lidar DID catch it, but the avoidance logic decided to continue forward. For example if it decided a collision was immpossible to avoid, swerving might make things worse. Also its possible the logic thought the timing was such that the bike would pass after the car crossed where the bike was going, so slowing down would actually cause a collision.
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That's a rather suspiciously self-serving and self-reassuring characterization of each scenario, that I don't think holds up with a bit of intellectual honesty.

In either case, similar amounts of personal data was harvested from facebook, for whatever purposes the clients cared to use it for, to predictable results.

EDIT: And that's all besides the point - the problem isn't that someone with bad intentions got ahold of data and used in a way they shouldn't have, the problem is people are just getting ahold of data they should not have - period.
Rationale is given in the article
This is sort of a stupid idea. But I always liked the idea of 'stuff in URL' especially something personal.

This way, there's no need for a server. It's just Github pages.

To make your own card just go to

https://cardtanium.com

Also I was thinking of a way to put an image on the right, but couldn't come up with any ideas I liked. Linking to FB profile? Hard to get an easy way to help people input that URL. And I didn't want to host. Maybe no image is OK. If anyone wants images and has a good idea on how to add them (without needing to host), submit a pull request.
A camera can have pretty good dynamic range at night, but it needs a big sensor, a huge lens to operate with a fast shutter speed. In the video, you can already see the motion blur, indicating shutter speed is slower than what it needs to be to identify nearby objects in low light.

Autonomous cars are never going to be viable. Just looking at the cost of high-end SLR sensors and lenses that you'd need to match human eye dynamic range, and you're already looking at an expensive setup, before we even get to things like 360-degree vision and IR/LIDAR/Hyperspectral imaging. And that's in addition to all the compute problems.

Sorry Silicon Valley tech-bros, but it's a fantasy you're chasing that's never going to happen. The quicker we can end this scam industry, the better.

People really need to be told "no".

Probably better to chase after flying cars..
>" I've met people in Asia (Myanmar and Nepal) who have just accessed the internet for the first time in the past 12-24 months (through their Android smartphones). But they don't know the true internet"

Yes and at one time AOL occupied a similar role. And everyone moved out of the walled garden and onto the real internet just fine.
I agree completely. As far as I can tell, the driver did not even have hands on the steering wheel. How hard would it have been to put sensors on the steering wheel to require both hands? They didn't even do that. Although even if they did, I agree with your statement that "[t]here is no way to make a human pay that kind of attention with out actually driving the car."
> For the life of me I can't remember where I originally read this quote, but it forever changed my perspective of FB. Paraphrased: "Facebook is 3 things: the wall, the messaging, and an automatically updating rolodex." Many apps fill 1 and/or 2, but nothing satisfies #3. There is no alternative.

Have you considered that maybe there cannot be a facebook replacement that won't suffer the same problems? Deleting facebook isn't a painless thing to do, it requires some sacrifice on your part.
I'm not there comment you referene, but for around three or four years I have been using theranos' board as a teaching tool in undergraduate entrepreneurship courses.
Before that, instruction sets were driven more by aesthetics and marketing than performance. That sold chips in a world where people wrote assembly code -- instructions were added like language features. Thus instructions like REPNZ SCAS (ie, strlen) which was sweet if you were writing string handling code in assembler.

REP MOVS is still the fastest and most efficient way to do mempcy() on most Intel hardware, and likewise REP STOS for memset(), because they work on entire cachelines at once.

It's worth noting that, if it weren't for a brief period of time during the late 70s/early 80s when memory was faster than the processor, RISC as we know it may have never been developed; the CISCs at the time were spending the majority of the time decoding and executing instructions, leaving memory idle, and that's what the RISC concept could make use of --- by trading off fetch bandwidth for faster instruction decoding and execution, they could gain more performance. However, the situation was very different after that, with continually increasing memory latencies and now multiple cores all needing to be fed with an instruction stream putting RISC's increased fetch bandwidth at a disadvantage. Now, with a cache miss taking tens to hundreds of cycles or more, it seems a few extra clock cycles decoding more complex instructions to avoid that is the better option, and dedicated hardware for things like AES and SHA256 obviously can't be beat by a "pure RISC". It was almost "game over" for "RISC=performance" in the early 90s when Intel figured out how to decode CISC instructions quickly and in parallel with the P5/P6, and rapidly overtook the MIPS, SPARCS, and ALPHAs that needed more cache, higher clock speeds, and power consumption to achieve comparable performance.

Certainly, it makes one wonder whether, had that brief moment in time not existed and memory was always significantly slower than the processor, would CPU designs have taken a completely different direction?
Is it me or does it seem the safety driver is on their mobile phone?
The average speed limit here is 40, or 35 in the slow places and most roads are 4 lanes + a center median or turn lane, so yeah.

I've crossed these myself, but I always look both ways.
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A self driving car should be far better than a human at turning them on and off.

In Australia it is relatively common in semi rural areas with similarly sparse street lights that you would turn high beams on and off depending on oncoming traffic.
I think the best way to do this is to hire on CS veterans who want an early retirement but still need the health benefits and wouldn't mind a bit of spending money. Especially targeting people who are moving from a higher CoL area to a lower CoL area. Have them teach a half load on a 2/3 salary and with full benefits.

This gets complicated because of teacher's unions, but I think it's the best bet at getting high quality folks in CS classrooms.

Others will mention HS math teachers. Having spent enough time in US k12 classrooms to have an opinion on this topic, I think this can work out really well, but I'm not at all convinced it's a panacea. Mostly because many, many HS math teachers have learned how to teach specific math courses, but don't actually have a firm understanding of mathematical thinking in general. Training them to become CS teachers will fare about as well as teaching history teachers to become CS teachers (again, it can be great but lots of variance).
Another way to recap the paper is this: run small clusters at your PoPs, aggregate the results of those clusters and replicate back to an upstream cluster with eventual consistency. The PoP clusters throttle down their replication under high load. They also scale small clusters of PoPs at specific times, which saves them money at the same time as dealing with traffic spikes.

When you have a flood of writes, sometimes those writes are identical or nearly identical, or the data in each write barely changes. It makes no sense to flood those writes upstream, because since it's barely changing, you may not need it that urgently. Throttling lets you simply move the changes back with eventual consistency.
The point of this is to compel Facebook to send notifications to millions of users stating that their personal information was wrongfully used by Trump, et al. It's a campaign tactic by the Democrats: use the gov't (FTC) to force Facebook to send authoritative messages to users shortly before the election this fall badmouthing the opposition. Free advertising. Very clever. Why pay for ads when you can compel Facebook to do it for free?
Stupider things - I'll give you. But where is the evidence that humans have poorer sensors?

All I saw is a car plowing into a person without even applying the brakes. That strongly implies to me that the car wasn't even aware the person was there, as reflexes should not be an issue.

Most humans would see that person directly in front of them.

So I contend that the car's sensors are poorer than a humans.
I can confidently assert that Asian or atleast Indian drivers will almost assuredly not hit the pedestrian in this scenario; We have trained our eyes and senses to watch out for these as it happens all the time.

EDIT: what i meant, in light of the downvotes is that humans can train themselves to see, and just that folks driving in Asia have heightened sense of alertness, due to their environment. Hope it came out alright.
Unfortunately if I want to stay in contact with my family I have to use facebook. Pretty effective lockin.
Driver not looking at the road (as obvious in any automated vehicle).

Might be wrong, but it looks like either the headlights are not the maximum setting, or they are broken or the camera is underexposing the picture.

And complete software or hardware failure at detecting the obstacle.

Definitely not a combination that should be driving on public roads at night.

That said, the pedestrian is crossing outside of a crosswalk at night without looking at the road, so they are at fault as well.

Note however that obviously even a terrible driving system like this one is extremely more likely to hit an unattentive than an attentive pedestrian (and in fact even more than a good driver, who tend to have accidents due to more exceptional circumstances than "neither party was looking at the road"), so that doesn't excuse Uber's fault, and actually makes their position worse.
I feel bad for Waymo and all the guys taking the necessary safety precautions. This is going to set the industry back quite a bit. Thanks Uber, and RIP Elaine.
> the computer only had 2 seconds to avoid the collision. That would be unavoidable for the computer.

At the time of the accident, the car was traveling about 40mph. A Volvo XC90 is capable of braking from 60mph to zero in about 2 seconds.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/2016-range-rover-sport-fa...
Perhaps the 'un-fishy' smell of the robot fish might put off predators.
US manufacturers are allowed to sell 30Hz+ products domestically. Not sure what EU (FR/DE) and Israeli manufacturers can sell.
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I am shocked at how many situations I've been in where the engineering team has delivered a drastically over-complicated, usually micro-service-based, system. Ten engineers working for a year where I could easily see 1-2 Rails/Django devs delivering more in 2 months.
I very much hope this bill goes through. The city I live in is a terrible mix of NIMBYism and corruption making it impossible to move an electrical outlet or put up a private awning, let along build anything on your property (have experience with all these attempted permits and more). The only thing that can stop this is the state completely overriding local zoning laws like this bill does. The state tried the carrot and many cities like mine ignored it. It's time for the stick.
Same here. It's really hard for me now at my day job when I have to write OO. Clojure and functional languages opened up my eyes to OO shortcomings I've been trying to work out for over twenty years. Since I started, I've always felt that there were many things not right about OO and developing using these giant frameworks with so many useless abstractions has gotten old and tiring. Most of my time is spent working around the shortcomings of OO nowadays rather than writing actual code for business purposes. Since I started with Clojure, I have little patience for the complex for complexity's sake song and dance of OO. I'm trying to go full time with Clojure. I'm shocked that the author couldn't find Clojure programmers. Must not have offered remote work.
I'm not sure why elasticsearch documentation recommends such memory usage, however for small apps I have elasticsearch running for years (version 1.x) and it's been running on a shared 2GB virtual machine for the past 4 years, I've had to restart it a few times, but seriously you don't need 32GB or 64GB. It depends on your use case.
Why can’t they hold on the data inside Facebook and ask developers to come in a VPN to a VM or Remote Desktop (which gets recorded always ) and then use analytical tools installed on it , to work on it with no internet access in a DMZ . By this way they can record everything the developer is doing with data and the worst case he can do is take screenshot. By this way no data goes out of their hands
Compressed video lacks information in the blacks and that is why we see blocks. The blocks are not there before compression, so it’s not simply a matter of detecting them. While we are good at seeing objects in blacks, your explanation alone doesn’t account for why compression algorithms reason to remove so much of that data. Maybe we are saying the same thing. It’s hard to tell.

Your assertion about the origins, however, are at odds with what I have been taught, my understanding, and all the supporting info I am finding in a quick search. My understanding is that luminance values from a sensor have something of an empirical scale but I’m sure this no complete explanation. I am speaking from my working knowledge. I can’t find anything supporting that it is simply a fix for discrepancies between display types. Can you link to something or explain what I am missing?
I guess the idea is that you don't need to only use what Rails provides you, and you're free to bake in your own Ruby as you see fit. Rails is just Ruby, after all, and its modular enough at its core to be extensible for all sorts of applications. You just might have to do some digging to get your Ruby code Rails-friendly, such as using POROs alongside a form builder requires you to include ActiveModel::Naming
"Several people in Google’s infrastructure group, which reports to cloud chief Diane Greene, have been tinkering with blockchain protocols in recent months, according to another person familiar with the company. Other Google insiders said recently that the cloud business is a natural place for blockchain-related services. The people asked not to be identified talking about the subject because the company isn’t ready to make an announcement yet."

So, in other words, a few engineers are allegedly messing around on the side with blockchain code. There is no announcement or official plan to use it. And two or more Google employees have stated (at some point) that blockchain nodes work well on cloud servers.

Bloomberg does a lousy job at news, but a great job at making crypto look bad to its readers. This article is a great exhibit for people to point to and say that blockchain is a hype bubble. Don't be fooled by the fake news.
Well, GP did, but this shouldn't be that hard to comprehend. If for an entire year 50K users leave Facebook forever every day, the result would be FB's daily actives shrinking by eight and a half tenths of a percent … if one assumes that each of deactivating used Facebook daily.
By only providing fixes and security patches for a few months -- after that you need to move to the next version (with all that entails testing and adapting wise for large codebases), or you pay for enterprise support and get support for years.

Before you could go to any version and expect it to be supported for years.

Now, if you dare go to some version above 8, you're supposed to either pay (for long term support), jump directly to the next version after a few months, or stay without security fixes.

(Or go OpenJDK and screw them).
Two of the four founders of Intellectual Ventures were attorneys[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures
The worst part of all of this is the XC90 (the car involved) has emergency pedestrian braking built in (like many new cars today), yet based on the video it appears to be disabled so as not to interfere with Uber's autonomous driving.
> Also, in the video you can not see the bicycle till it's almost too late. But I have better night vision than this camera, I feel as a human I would have seen the bike. (For example the sides are pitch black in the video, but in similar lighting I can see stuff to the side.)

While I'm happy for you, there are a lot of human drivers who don't have good night vision, have poor reaction time due to sleep deprivation, etc., etc., and get into accidents like this all the damn time. Is it a bad idea to have self-driving cars that are about as safe as the 10th percentile human driver? If the 10th percentile human driver would have hit this person, too, then we either need to keep these self-driving Ubers on the road, or revoke 10% of drivers licenses.
Yeah there's kind of a "goes with the territory" thing with large cities with high demand -- they are investment vehicles because demand for housing is so high and growing relative to available supply.