skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. An algorithm should be in much better position to recognize its confidence about what it sees and can happen, and alter the driving speed to reduce the amount of uncertain spots that fall within its stopping range.

That is, unless they use neural network magic black boxes to implement the self-driving part.
> Poring over the available data, Case discovered that plenty of Midwestern and Southwestern cities were leveraging tax incentives to stanch local brain drain, and a few, such as Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, were cultivating their own robust startup scenes.

Tax incentives means competing on price, which is a loser in the long run. Lower taxes sounds good until you consider the implications: less money invested in the society itself.

> “We have a lot of quality-of-life advantages: not a lot of congestion, good restaurants, low home prices,” he said. “It’s a place where a young family won’t bankrupt themselves buying a house with a yard.”

* Not a lot of congestion just means they have car-dominant sprawl that hasn't hit a huge economic boom yet. That's a downside to me.

* Somehow I really doubt their restaurants are significantly better than the bay area, NYC, or Boston.

* Home prices aren't so much a quality of life advantage as a cost of living advantage.
I was so terrified about how India was almost serious about letting Facebook Zero / free basics or whatever happen.

I feel extremely concerned also that new generations are growing up without knowing how the web was intended to be de-centralised and "free" and self-correcting.

Maybe that doesn't work at scale and things need regulation, but I feel like there was a chance to set culture and tone so that even when a large number of people would come on to the Internet, it would be more with a Wikipedia like attitude perhaps.

Now imagine if the first introduction to the Internet for a billion-ish people in India (current penetration is 460mil) would have been through Facebook's internet.org. Imagine if that happened in a country as large as India set that precedent for other countries with low internet penetration.

I used to scoff in university at a batchmate who told me over lunch that he doesn't use gmail because Google is too large and could become evil. I'm not scoffing anymore I guess.
And you made your money back! You really took responsibility for your mistakes. Great Scott I need to get my act together. :)
"Your account will be ‘deactivated’ for two weeks. After this period it will be permanently deleted."

"In theory, deleting your account immediately removes all Facebook data related to you. In reality it's more complicated, taking about 90 days."

Does this comply with the GDPR ?
Can someone explain how to read the graph?
Which model do you have? I don't get this performance issue on mine. Web OS has always been a little laggy in responsiveness though, but not so slow I end up pushing a button twice.
Thank you.

Your 1Blocker packages look very useful for users and I can see the merit in being able to let users share and enable specific pre-packaged rules for particular sites.

May be something for us to consider to support in future releases of Magic Lasso (as long as we can make the process as streamlined and user friendly as possible).
That sounds plausible but they do collaborate with the .NET open-sourcing efforts, that could be an opportunity for them to test new waters.
I'm missing a lot of the ones I used. Though most of them weren't that different from normal texteditors in a terminal. Well, they were actually editors in a terminal...

Cobol on an IBM AS/400

RPG also on an IBM AS/400 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG

Devpac Assembler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiSoft_Systems

STOS Basic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOS_BASIC

PLC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_logic_controller
America seems to be poisoned by some poor mental models. People seem to see no real connection between homelessness and the lack of affordable housing. People also tell me there is no money in solving homelessness, which tells me how messed up our mental models are.
Unfortunately, very plausible. It's ridiculous how much neat stuff is buried by corporate lawyers "mitigating" a danger as probable as a meteorite strike.
>>But how much human labour that is as complicated as driving has been automated?

Quite a lot actually.

These days you can produce food for several thousands of people using a few hundred people and plenty of machines.

Part of the reason why we haven't yet reached a Malthusian catastrophe is this.
You're handwaving away the crux of the matter: while for a human, the condition seems straightforward (as we understand that "in front" means "in a set of locations in the near future, determined by a many-dimensional vector set", expressing this in code is nontrivial.
"Yeah, I just bought a new laptop (Acer Swift with Ryzen 7/Vega chipset, great Linux laptop btw!), and the hour or so I spent with Windows 10 was beyond infuriating."

I recently installed Windows 10 Enterprise on a clean laptop, and the thing that astonished me was the appearence of icons for applications that I had definitely not installed. Touch one of those icons, and the application would start installing. This is the Enterprise edition.
That sounds like the use-case for nearly everyone shady on Facebook advertising. Surely there are many other, privately-gathered troves of data that are much larger out there?
One also needs to consider the relative dynamic range of the camera/video in terms of both sensors and playback.

If the hardware is not capable of capturing sufficient dynamic range to be able to see into the shadows while driving in daytime/nighttime in this location, one must ask why not? That seems obviously negligent.

If the car can see into the shadows (say either with lidar or sufficiently sensitive hardware) then a self driving car either just failed to identify and predict the object and subsequently killed a pedestrian, or it detected them and killed them anyway.

If it killed them anyway, it may be that it was physically impossible for them to avoid the detected object, or forensics (if properly performed) would show that the collision was avoidable.

All of these scenarios seem pretty inconsistent with the hypothesis of the police chief knowing what the duck he's taking about, and I question what the hell he's doing releasing such a statement before the evidence is in...
I really hope you're wrong. If the legal system doesn't distinguish between cruise control and SAE level 3 autonomy, the legal system needs to get its shit together.
It's the corner cases... like Halloween, or body posture, or crossing behind a semi-transparent asymmetric object.
The apps, yes.

But the OS itself uses Qt and Chromium to display any HTML5 content, as the project page from the linked article states.

This contrasts with, say, Firefox OS - it rendered directly to an OGL-ES framebuffer.
Large scene graphs full of dynamically allocated objects with arbitrary motion and animation are a very different problem than a flyover of a static landscape or a Mandelbulb that you’re tweaking parameters on.
The cost of games is not the render engine, remember that most use ue4 or unity. The cost of games 90% is asset and gameplay and UI/UX development.
From the paper

> Figure 2 shows a visualisation of 800 dimensional 1 bit word vectors trained on English Wikipedia (2017). The top 100 closest and furthest word vectors to the target word vector are plotted. Distance is measured by dot product; every 5 word vectors are labelled. A turquoise line separates the 100 closest vectors to the target word from the 100 furthest vectors (labelled “...”). We see that there are qualitative similarities between word vectors whose words are related to each other.
When driving on surface streets, I do my best to track what's happening wherever in front, not just on the roadway. Given all the sensors on a self-driving car, why can't it detect all moving objects, including those off the roadway, but approaching?
Strictly speaking, we can. We just choose not to.
LYING UNDER OATH IS a DISEASE EVERY POLITICIAN HAS
And if you ask a question, your name will be taken down.
http://www.autonocast.com/blog/2018/1/18/46-part-two-of-a-co...
Funny you say this, I'm in the middle of configuring a new desktop for my own use. I've written puppet manifests to configure the desktop, install the tools, etc.

I solemnly swear I'll keep it up to date, but then again I said the same thing with the system I'm replacing - which I'd configured with ansible. At the very least all my dotfiles and projects are stored in git, so mostly getting a workable system is trivial - it's things like setting up arduino-studio, firefox (installed from binary releases to /opt, because I want to be current), and similar niggles that are hard.

I can configure hundreds of servers with puppet, but desktops tend to be used for so much adhoc work that is hard to script, that keeping them current and automated is a lot of work.

(e.g. My wife suddenly says "I want XXXX", so I login and set it up, then forget about it for a few years.)
The cookie pop-ups are not actually the fault of regulators. The intention of the "cookie law" was to prevent tracking of users without their consent (on a much more granular level), but they neglected to include GDPR-style rules disallowing degradation of service. So companies just made all cookies technically opt-in with a single button (but where opting out means you cannot use the website), which defeats the spirit and purpose of the law.

It is my understanding that GDPR will not allow for such simple workarounds by companies to just continue doing what they were doing previously.
I thought this might be about a company testing whether it was any good at getting rid of bad employees.
Phoenixing :(
A lot of people get confused about JavaScript and DOM performance. Now, of course it's possible to write terribly slow apps in JavaScript, but the same is true for C.

When used properly, JavaScript can actually be quite speedy (but don't use it for huge calculations).
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Velodyne about the past, present and future of lidar
> whole « narrative « of the experiment is in serious jeopardy.

Not really. Self driving cars are supposed to be better than average human driver. That does not imply that they NEVER make mistakes.

I do not know specifics of this case, but a general comment: If somebody is hiding behind a bush, and (deliberately or by mistake) run in front of the car, there is no way the car can anticipate that. There is no way to avoid accidents in 100% of the cases.
We really need some better solutions to this. Aside from abstraction it also comes with the performance penalty of virtual functions everywhere.

I think we had some good tools to solve this but either threw them away in newer languages or just forgot they were possible. Working with c recently I wanted to mock something and the language obviously couldn't help me so I came up with something along the lines of:

#ifdef TEST
#define foo mock_foo
#endif

This worked for mocking single functions but would need to evolve for more complex code. There are a number of ways to do this from optional includes to compiling test fixtures to their own binaries with the mock implementation being the actual implementation. Both options should work with just about any language to varying degrees of effort.

The biggest barrier to approaches like this is the reliance on IDE's and what they can do. I've never seen an IDE that can handle rules like this, they want to compile the project and control it's structure. In c# for instance, it would be pretty easy to have a mock library with concrete alternative implementations and compile the tests individually, something like:

csc.exe MyTest.cs MyClassUnderTest.cs /reference MyMockAssembly.dll

This is perhaps even easier in c/c++ where the includes are more explicit. Once you take back control of the compilation process a lot more options open up though.
'Entirely untrue' means there's at least one great fortune that didn't come from crime.
In Europe there are global definitions for speed limits. With a few notable exceptions, there's no such thing as "no speed limit".
How to Monitor Marathon Applications as Services
Felix Salmon's Nota Bene: Toys don't fung
Seems it is paywalled. I know that it will open up in a less than a week, but do you have subscriber link (because I'm curious to read) ?
A surprisingly short and worthwhile critique on an aspect of modern capitalism
What happens if it uses lidar (or any other sensor)? I don’t think it’s easy.
Yes I find these sorts of comments as GP to be hopelessly naieve. It speaks to somebody who has never worked on a large project (think 4 teams of 10-20 developers spread across NYC, London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong) or a long-lived project (think 10 years).

That sort of minimial, incremental approach does not scale at all. Software engineering in the large requires, as you say, interfaces at every boundary and a near-religious understanding of how all the different components and boundaries fit together.
Payments is not a consumer product
Yeah, I should definitely put more detail in the writeup -- thanks for the feedback!

What's happening with figure 1a (epochs vs google accuracy) is that as you train for more epochs the full precision loss continues to decrease (dotted red line) but accuracy also starts decreasing (solid red line). This indicates overfitting (since you'd expect accuracy to increase if loss decreases). The blue lines (quantized training with 1 bit) do not show this which suggests that quantized training seems to act as a form of regularization.

Figure 1b is pretty similar, except on the x axis we have vector dimension. As you increase vector dimension, full precision loss decreases, yet after a certain point full precision accuracy decreases as well. I took this to mean that word2vec training was overfitting with respect to vector dimension.
This is also something that I find very impressive. Everywhere you look, the same thought comes up. All these buildings in the city have been built by someone sometime with so much effort. Then again, I think: maybe not so surprising after all if you consider that 100bn humans have ever lived. That’s a lot of man-hours available there
Take my money!

Seriously though, I was disappointed. I was expecting more concrete news at GDC. I hope they will ship this year.
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One nice thing about 1Blocker 'packages' is that (from what I understand, I've read some of the content blocker docs when the WebKit team announced it, but not in-depth) they're essentially just using the native content blocker format.

If you were to go down that route, it might be useful (for end users) if your apps could read e.g 1blocker packages.

One thing thats still missing (AFAIK, happy to be shown otherwise) is a website/app to facilitate finding community built 1blocker packages, and adding them.

I guess if I get time one weekend I might build it...
Use CSS Modules imo.
Isn't that an overly broad use of the term? I mean, if someone steps in front of a moving vehicle, from between parked vehicles, the driver may have only a few msec to react. Whose fault is it then?

Maybe it's society's fault, for building open-access roadways where vehicles exceed a few km/h.
> neither of us has the data, but id bet that whatever miles / fatalities metric is, the self driving cars are still in the lead right now

There's different estimates from different sources using slightly different methodology, but they are all in the neighborhood of road fatalities of 1 per 100 million miles traveled. [0]

Waymo claims to have reached 5 million miles in February [1], Uber (from other posts in this thread) is around 1 million miles; the whole self-driving industry is nowhere near 100 million, and has one fatality. So it's way worse, as of today, than human driving for fatalities.

Of course, it's also way too little data (on the self-driving side) to treat as meaningful in terms of prediciting the current hazard rather than simply measuring the outcomes to date.

[0] see, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the...

[1] https://waymo.com/ontheroad/
Sounds from seeing silent motion: Who hears them, and what looks loudest?
Oops, thought you meant the graphs (with the dotted/solid lines) in the writeup.

If you're referring to the image under "Visualizing Quantized Word Vectors" then each row is a word vector (and there are only two colors since each parameter is either -1/3 or +1/3).
Apparently he recused himself from FB trials during the time that FB was interested in hiring him in 2016: https://www.engadget.com/2016/05/13/facebook-hires-u-s-magis...
I believe this is what Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is all about. By having one object handling writes, and another for reads, things are easier to reason about among other benefits. An event bus is kind of required in this kind of architecture if the view that's reading wants to stay updated, as it may no longer access a return value.

Source: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html
> This type of belief-inception is precisely what Cambridge Analytica specialized in.

The DNC and their friends in the media are no slouches at it either. Or was it someone else hinting that a Nazi revival was underway, not to mention some sort of equivalent movement of misogynists who were determined to put women back in the kitchen where they belonged?

> I'll use my race example again, because Robert Mercer is essentially an unapologetic racist

Is there more to the "unapologetic racist" charge than the 2 sentences in your link? If not, most any Libertarian is probably guilty of "unapologetic racist" level crimes as well. Idiot may be a more appropriate label, but each to his own.

> By misrepresenting the relative frequency of these types of occurrences, people gradually come to the conclusion that you want them to: in this case, that black people are becoming more racist towards white people.

The far more common narrative in this election was: that white people are becoming more racist towards black people. And not just mildly racist, but full on Nazi racist. The disparity between what you see on TV and read in the newspaper vs what you see when you actually get off the couch and go look around makes it pretty clear how much the media is not lying, but selectively choosing stories, and frequencies of stories. Selective and deceptive reporting is shamelessly obvious in right wing media (let's not kid ourselves, the viewers are not too bright), but there is plenty in liberal media as well, it's just extremely well done.

> You can use this to bring over working-class white people to the Republicans. Another good example of this type of indoctrination was Gamergate (which essentially birthed Breitbart / the alt-right) being used to galvanize frustration with the social justice sphere into creating a community of young male "race-realists"

Here there is some substance, except hardly anyone knows about Gamergate, I've heard of it, but have no idea what it is. But I do know that there is a non-imaginary new social justice movement who hold many utterly delusional beliefs that they love to shout at the top of their lungs given any opportunity, I think that had a MAJOR effect on pushing a lot of people to the right.

I think you're mostly bang on with your ideas, but I think you have a filter on and don't realize it. I'm sure I do as well, but I'm perfectly comfortable to acknowledge and discuss it, unlike most of my ideological opponents on the other side of the fence.

Interesting times.

Oops.....look like the censors finally caught up to me so it will be a while before I can submit this comment. No hard feelings, all's fair in the political propaganda war, gotta control that narrative after all!
I can't describe how shocking it is watching many HN commented blame a person killed by a machine and defend the thing instead. There are even those who are saying that such deaths are necessary and useful for the advancement of technology.
You'd have to be lucky enough to have a ray of light bouncing in the right position and direction, and you'd have to be clever enough to notice it at the right moment (without slowing down regular light tracing algorithm by adding a billion comparison everywhere to figure out if it matches a motion vector). I don't want to be a naysayer after only considering it for two minutes but it doesn't sound very practical to me.
I think slavic version is "the one who knows where the honey is" or "the one who controls the honey"
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Oh yeah, I realise! (I bought an Amiga when I was studying Comp Sci at University, rather than the recommended PC - as the games were much better on the Amiga. Fortunately there was one unit with 68k assembly programming, ideally suited to having an Amiga (and I got really good at Speedball II).
I don't see why autonomous vehicles are so big. Virtually all travel is one person, ideally it would be a tiny 4 wheel electric with the sole passenger highly reclined.

The hangover from internal combustion is real.
What about steering away, a la ABS?
A cheat sheet to tech-related developments at China's legislature meeting
Some people complain just so they can watch the boss chew out some employee. That's satisfaction for being badly treated/buying something that was faulty.
The data engineer in me thanks you. Great work.

The paper would be a great weekend read.
This is well-studied. It turns out that the 85th percentile speed (the speed where 85% of drivers are below that speed, 15% above) is nearly insensitive to speed limit. Road design is the biggest single determinant of travel speed. http://www.lsp.org/pdf/troopc85thSpeed.pdf
No Delphi? No Visix Vibe?
interesting that 'artists' is a furthest neighbor of 'man' in the example
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Because A) Crash-safety and B) Luxury still being in the bigger packages.
The measured speed was 38mph. That is within 10% of the posted speed.
Thanks for the Youtube video, that is making sense to me now, it explains what I see as a cyclist. I have thought about 'investing' in an electric vehicle and participating in the brave new future that will eventually be autonomous driving machines, but it is quite badly thought out. But I think I will stick with the bicycle, it really is the fastest transport when combined with rail, there is no quicker way across town and these autonomous cars are not going to change that. Public transport and bikes are the only way.
> One thing thats still missing (AFAIK, happy to be shown otherwise) is a website/app to facilitate finding community built 1blocker packages, and adding them.

This should perhaps be built into the Adblocker extension and enable users to see suitable packages in context when they are browsing compatible URLs ;)
But then it is derived from "brown" (dirt, garbage) in the same way as in English.
Shadow dom and proper scoping (whichever popular method you chose for that) is a god send. I really dislike BEM though, we have files that have more classnames than content and tags combined :D