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Venezuela's economic crises and food shortages started well before the oil prices declined. Chavez's failed economy theories created this problem.

The high price of oil was merely masking the disaster he created. It allowed massive cash injections and lavish spending on social programs to compensate for serious issues that price controls, import/export controls, corrupt nationalized businesses, mass emigration of top business talent, etc caused.
“IBM instead sold the Canadian government someone else's software (Oracle's Peoplesoft) on a sweetheart contract which did not require delivery of a working solution. Then IBM failed to successfully implement while taking payment all the way along.”

So they outsourced the work to Oracle which is known to churn out garbage. Also just a lot of blame shifting between garbage-quality companies.
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I'm really shocked at the trend in comments here.

Yes, we get it. Fatalities will happen sometimes, they are unavoidable sometimes, and what matters in the long run is if we can achieve a significant overall reduction in fatalities.

But my god, a person was just killed by a computer. Can't we have some compassion and humility?

Let's, as a community, set the standard for how we will react to these events. Let's make sure Uber releases detailed data on what happened, whether they were at fault or not. Let's hold the media accountable for their reporting. Let's mourn the loss of life and think about how we can solve these problems.

But for christ's sake, please stop posting the same thing everybody already knows, which gets posted on HN whenever a self-driving article comes out.

Can't we do better?

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EDIT: I clarified what I meant here [1]

Wasn't trying to say this thread should be all about mourning. This is HN so we should talk about technology, even when a person died. I'm pointing out one specific argument that gets repeated over and over in place of a substantive discussion, and I think we can do better.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16621589
I'm interested in understanding how the RIA/MPAA canary works. Can you please elaborate or provide an explanatory link?
unfortunately, twitter seems determined to ruin this for users, with features like "* liked this" and "You might like" showing up in users' timelines with no ways to turn them off.
Correct, there is a lower chance of an explosion.
Yes, that's "housing". It factors in the housing value of owned homes.

(If you pay $1500 a month to buy a house where you could rent the equivalent for $1200, is the extra $300 really a cost of living in that area?)
I have not, but supposedly Tampa is the pilot for FDOTs first protected bike lanes in the state (4 foot island of concrete protecting the bike lane).

Please support the cause as a local citizen!

http://amp.abcactionnews.com/2064993596/tampa-will-be-home-t...

http://www.bikewalktampabay.org/featured/new-protected-cycle...
Don't we already have a huge infrastructure of police, the courts, and insurance companies in place to decide these very things everyday?

I mean, how is this different then all of the other accidents that occur every day? Yes a self-driving car is involved, but do people really think autonomous cars aren't going to be involved in fatal accidents?

Of course they are...but I've always thought that autonomous vehicles only have to be like 10% safer for them to make tons of sense to replace human drivers.
Whoa, even I couldn't follow this :)

Basically, what it means is the following:

Year 1 - I spent $10M on Paragon (let's pretend I've made a single dollar from it). I therefore have negative -$10M in profit, so I pay zero taxes.

Year 2 - I shut Paragon down. I still have $10M in losses from Paragon. Fortnite does $30M in Revenue and it cost me $20M to build Fortnite in Year 2. Theoretically I profited $10M in year 2 and I'd have to pay ~30% (thats not the real number, so don't correct me) of that in taxes, so I really only get to keep $7M of that to reinvest.

But I get to carry my loss forward from Year 1 onwards. So in theory I get to keep more of my profit due to a smaller tax burden. Generally speaking this is usually done over 5 years. So I'd take $10M and amortize it $2M ever year. Meaning Year 2, instead of paying 30% of $10M, I would pay 30% of 8M, so $2.4M versus $3M. It's obviously way more complicated than this, but this is the gist.
Negative earnings are not genrally used when calculating P/E ratio.

TSLA had price per losses ratio something like -30 last year.
When someone actually takes the little money to build one, there is an army of people essentially saying they'd rather have 5 more parking spots than safe infrastructure. Then when somebody is hit, like here, the same people argue you can't blame the driver because look how bad the infrastructure is. You can see it in this very thread with people arguing bikes should fuck off to the sidewalk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXo0WdlELJk

I'm pleased to see that the tech video includes spherical mirrors. As I understand it, all raytracing demos are obliged by universal law to include at least three reflective balls in any promotion of the technology.

One day, someone will figure out a game where these super-shiny ball bearings are a critical part of the gameplay, and at that point, raytracing will finally take off...
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So they built an entire SDK complete with developer documentation, Unreal Engine plugins, guidance on UX design, etc, but the hardware is vaporware?

Seems rather unlikely to me at this point.
>If a pedestrian suddenly rushes out into the street or a cyclist swerves into your path, the deciding factor is often simply the coefficient of friction between your tyres and the road.

This only true for the uninitiated, never let it get to that. I drove for Uber/Lyft/Via in New York city so I can experience and study these situation. These sort of accidents are preventable. The following is the basic:

1.) Drive much slower in areas where a pedestrian and cyclist can suddenly cross your past.

2.) Know the danger zone. Before people "jump into traffic" or a cyclist swerve in front of you, they have to get into position, this position is the danger zone.

3.) Extra diligence in surveying the area/danger zone to predict a potential accident.

4.) Make up for the reduce speed by using highways and parkways as much as possible.

It helps that Manhattan street traffic tends to be very slow to begin with. Ideally I will like use my knowledge to offer a service to help train autonomous vehicles to deal with these situation. It has to be simulated numerous times in a closed circuit for the machine to learn what I've learn intuitively driving professionally in NYC.
I can't help but imagine the massively power-hungry machines hosting the GPUs necessary for real-time rendering of Pixar-level movie graphics.

Won't this resemble power demands of crytpocurrency mining rigs except actually used for gaming? As if it weren't already bad enough the amount of energy we use per capita...
I don’t understand how Amazon or Newegg haven’t made APIs available to build shopping carts for this.

I remember when I built my server and was satisfied with the parts list, I still had to manually add each part to the cart.
That sounds like the market correcting itself, while you want to protect the likes of Uber from market forces, with new laws. Putting that aside though, good luck trying to get re-elected after passing a law like that. Few people are technocratic and emotionally detached enough to agree with you, from the looks of it, not even on this site.
I took the less drastic step of limiting to one day a week. I visit on Tuesdays only, usually just once or twice.
They are both pretty damn anti-competitive. I expect they will be penalized or broken up once an administration that's focused on these things is in power.
"I'd like to think that the economic cost of regularly killing people on the streets is higher than getting to a place ten minutes faster."

However comforting that logic may be, it is unusable in the real world. If you value lives infinitely, then you will never ever do anything that risks your or somebody else's life in order to gain on any other need. You routinely engage in things that are not the safest possible option in order to fulfill other needs, ranging from food or water acquisition through mere entertainment. Therefore you place a finite value on your life. Don't feel bad, so does everybody else. It is possible to determine the value placed on life, I believe there are studies that show the value is more stable than you might think, and balance things appropriately.

It may be uncomfortable thinking, but, again, unless you literally never take even the smallest risk in the pursuit of other goals, you are already thinking this way. You just haven't lifted it up to the conscious level yet.
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Arizona requires drivers to "exercise due care to avoid colliding with a pedestrian". If a fatality results, but due care was taken by the driver to avoid it, then the tragic accident is just that, an accident.

Like my comment says, let's wait until we have facts before passing judgement.
It's finally time to start paying attention to webflow. The thing with webflow is that as a developer you want to be able to commit to one platform that solves most of your client issue without having to reinvent the wheel. Webflow, until now, was missing e-commerce... which for me at least was a deal breaker. Hopefully they will keep pushing to grow it because most small/medium clients I work with, that want a site, want e-store.
1.25 per 100 million miles is almost certainly a bad benchmark since the majority of those miles are interstate miles. Fatality rate per mile of urban driving would be much better, although I'm not really sure whether I would expect that number to be higher or lower.

Edit: Actually, maybe I'm wrong in assuming (a) the majority of miles driven are interstate miles, or (b) that the majority of existing miles logged by self-driving cars have not been on the interstate. Would love to see some data if anyone has it, although I suspect Google, Uber, et al. are reluctant to share data at this point.
Isn’t this complaint true for any online service that you give bank access to?

ACH is reversible so fraud can be reversed generally.
"CAD"-like programs from the animation and VFX worlds (Houdini, Modo, etc) already do this, so if Autodesk really wanted to they could almost certainly add real-time path tracing to AutoCAD.
Isn't it reaching to see a picture of a bicycle near a sign and then conclude that the accident must have happened exactly next to or near the sign? Maybe the police/witnesses dragged the bicycle to that location?
And not even necessarily that.

Often speeding just gets you to the next intersection, or red lighter, quicker, where you then have to wait longer for traffic, or a green light.
If you're 31, you've had facebook for what 11 years of your life at most? How'd you survive the other 20.

Needs, that's comical. Facebook is not a need.
I actually think "more PRs" usually does mean "better project" in the sense that smaller PRs are easier to review and reason about than larger ones. To me, though, I think the incentive here goes the other way - I'd want to put everything in one big PR so it looks like my client is getting a lot of work for their money. Either way, it's hard to imaging tying payments to PRs not having some impact on the coding process, which seems like a negative thing to me.
Making sharing of all sensor data of an accident and the preceding couple of minutes mandatory could be a simple regulation that would be very helpful for all companies trying to improve their algorithms.
Spot on. I would add that there seems to be a focus on original ideas. This makes it harder to sell. Sticking with proven ideas and then slapping a creative twist is a safer sell.
The NTSB could certainly do it. But they'd need to expand a lot in a world where self driving cars are an everyday reality, which again comes back to the question of funding.
Great project! I just found out that one creepy Safari extension is crawling every URL I visit.

Also Yahoo Slurp is crawling my email URLs. Sigh.
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Military testing is typically done by putting a few pieces of tested equipment in the field. Russia is doing exactly that in Syria with their new Su-57. Pretty sure it's where a few other of the planes got a first taste of live combat, that's part of testing. I'm sure it'll either cause some unintended fatalities.

And, medicine takes tens of thousands of lives unintentionally, if I recall correctly.
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> and the “move fast and break things” attitude that here resulted in a person’s death

Slow your roll. Nobody know why this person died yet.
There's a difference between holding someone criminally responsible for a bug in code that they wrote, and some sort of regulation. They are not the same.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
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If human driven cars kill 1000 people a year, and autonomous cars kill 100, will it be politically unacceptable to switch to autonomous? I suspect it will be.
That was such a well written article and an empassioned plea.
"I would never join an overt authoritarian like Trump, but many people did for this exact reason."

And those people were never 'allies' as you put it; they never really cared about the problem.

"People resent being denigrated with terms like "racist" and "anti-immigrant" when they're trying to have a reasonable debate about immigration reform"

The only ones who are being labeled like that are the ones who are espousing racist and xenophobic views, or aligning themselves with those who are. If you don't like being called racist, then stop aligning yourself with racist positions. And saying, 'Just end the H1B program' is not having a reasonable debate.

"It's wrong, but experiences being called names will often push people in the arms of a powerful figure who promises to put the people calling them names into their proper place."

And those cowards should be shamed even more. They are truly the most deplorable of the deplorables.

"I'm all for calling out Nazis and racists by their proper name, but if you believe that opposing H1B makes you "anti-immigrant", then you've lost the thread."

Opposing H1B by saying that they deserve better working conditions and shouldn't be abused by shitty employers is not anti-immigrant. Opposing H1B by saying the program should just be ended absolutely is anti-immigrant.
In my experience with blender, though you can create very detailed photo realistic images without raytracing, but using raytracing makes it much easier to make the same photos. It takes longer, but it's probably the direction we're going generally with 3d rendering given Moore's law.

Anyway this seems a little overhyped
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Yes, absolutely. The world has standardized on Unreal for big games and Unity for small to medium sized games. These come with enormous ecosystems and ready-made asset pipelines, which will dramatically decrease your time to market. Unless you're sitting on a fat pile of cash and free time that you can afford to never see again after you commit it to developing some experimental new engine and tools for the same, the smart thing to do is license Unreal or Unity.

That is, of course, assuming that you think sales are THE thing that matters in indie game development. In which case you are probably better off attaching yourself to a large studio such as EA, than going indie.
Right, so VR's been around for 30 years. Keep staying on "bleeding edge" lul.
Having read the Mueller report, I'm not ready to jump quite that far yet. But I do know it's certainly changed my view of what's possible, from Russia messing with the US election being "total conspiracy level stuff" to "they probably interfered, but it's not clear how effective it was".

I think the bigger point is exactly what you said though, the machine is broken. The candidates are going "direct to voter" and bypassing the "intermediaries" of the party.
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Maybe not in the U.S., but in Norway, as part of getting the driver's license, you'll have to take an ice driving course, where, amongst other things, a dummy is swung at your car while driving on an oiled lane in 30 mph. (It is practically impossible to steer away from the dummy, which is the meaning of the exercise; to realize the folly of driving too fast on icy roads)
TL;DR.

Basically a landing page with a signup button, clicking which you are encouraged to share it widely on social media so that you qualify for early beta access.
If pedestrians or especially children are present, one should be driving very slowly. 15mph sounds about right. At that speed one is unlikely to kill, since even if a pedestrian "jumps out" (an event that is vanishingly less common than drivers not paying attention), one has enough time to stop.

Most drivers drive too fast. (Me too!) Most drivers have not killed anyone. All drivers who have killed someone, were driving too fast at the time. Many drivers will disagree with me, but they are simply wrong about appropriate speeds, and we will all be safer when robocars are driving for them.
Yeah, pilot here. NTSB is the right organization to handle this. The investigators over there do an amazing job of determining root cause from forensic evidence. I assume that will be the process here.
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...despite them taking this incident very, very seriously.
Do you mean you only are logged in on your phone or tablet? This seems like the antithesis of what you want. I have removed it from my phone so now I can only log in on a computer. It has made me so much more happy to not have that temptation there with me all the time.
I don't find any DB-19 connectors on Aliexpress or Alibaba. eBay has them for either ~$20 or ~$5.
So where are we realistically with ray tracing? What kind of performance can be expected with modern GPUs?
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Humans correctly gauge stopping distance and "activate appropriately" like tens or hundreds of billions of times per day. Try again.

Something that is endemic in HN discussions of driverless cars is commenters who dramatically overestimate the dangers of humans driving. Like an order of magnitude or more. You see it all over this thread, in which people imagine that killing one pedestrian in like let's say 10 to 20 million miles driven (with those miles overwhelmingly done in unchallenging conditions) constitutes "vastly safer than human drivers" rather than "vastly less safe than human drivers."
Why am I not surprised that this happend with an Uber self driving car?

In fact, their culture of ignoring rules and common sense might be okay for business development, but with respect to human safety it is just irresponsible and inhuman when it comes to self driving cars.
This hypothetical example doesn't help.

If you are open and smart (openness+high IQ) you are creative and can do things people without these traits can not.

Such people can have low conscientiousness.

But even if they don't show up at 9 o clock, they could still be helpful to society.
I’ve wasted so much time on HN, but have enjoyed it very much. Thanks for pointing that out :)
Of course people are always going to use social media for ammo, I just think the era where politicians can reasonably expect to curate a public image that's wildly different from their personal lifestyle is essentially over. And honestly that might be a good thing -- much like mutually assured destruction with nuclear missiles, if every politician knows their opponents can dig up bad stuff about them easily it might elevate the discourse since low blows will lead to a vicious cycle for everyone
This is a non trivial situation for human drivers, too, when I am on a bicycle or driving a car I have to wait and look at the pedestrian until I am sure of their intention. That seems like a very difficult problem in that a lot of times people are on their phone or watching a child or dog, I often have to slow to a standstill and speak to people to ask them what they are planning on doing.
Watch how they say it was an error, if this blows up. Just watch.
This is my thought as well. Compared with Waymo, Cruise/GM, Tesla, Lyft, and the many other start-ups in this space, I think Uber is the least ethically scrupulous. I also doubt their self driving tech is as advanced as many of the other players, and I wonder if those other companies would have been able to handle this situation.
From the comments above, this question is answered. Uber is around 25x worse than humans.
"Never making it into production" sounds like the perfect outcome for this technology.
Guys, you suspended the wrong account.
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Democracy does not mean moral, though you posted this on the day of the Russian election. And though they're obviously rigged, the US one isn't some glorious opportunity for the will of the people to be heard either.

As for your other two issues, the US has had no issue undermining elections for years, and runs a public assassination program in addition to anything that remains secret. There is a comparison, and both sides are awful.
> We know there's no TBTF problem with the Web PKI.

Hardly.

Comodo is still around, and Symantec took years to be gradually distrusted. Hell, even the WoSign/StartSSL debacle started in Jan 2015, and they weren't removed before Jan 2017.
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Devil's Advocate argument here, but have you read books on our space race in the 60s? Should NASA have been bankrupted by penalties and lawsuits when Apollo 1 had its accident?
I think that if it's loading, you shouldn't be able to scroll. Ended up half way down the site when it loaded.
Yeah, that guy's an outlier -- I hope! -- but the "throwaway account for sub-par questions" thing seems to be pretty common. Either that or there are an awful lot of brand-new users with an oddly intimate understanding of site jargon...
I always felt bad for the devs of the actual Fortnite game. Its clear lots of time and resources were poured into what was actually a pretty good horde style survival/crafting game, then the little BR offshoot came along and now whenever someone says "Fortnite" I just assume they mean BR because no one actually plays the survival game.

I guess they can't complain about the success but it would have to feel at least a little bit demoralizing.
Ah yes. I remember hearing about this now. Thanks!
Highly limited field of view means that even if everything else lines up for this (which is unlikely), it won't work for you.

EDIT: Also, this seems like a better use case for VR than AR.

EDIT2: Also, it can't draw black.
I learned long ago in programming that setting arbitrary limits seems simpler to code, but in the end it is more work. You need to deal with error messages, error recovery, user instructions, and complaints from users. It's so much simpler to just allocate memory for whatever size the data happens to be.

Then, you just have to deal with one generic "out of memory" situation.
I think the problem with your position is that, H1B holders do get paid decent salaries, but they get abused in other areas. They're the ones that don't get bonuses or raises, and they're the ones pushed to work insane hours, because otherwise they'll get fired and then deported. So one has to address not just pay, but working conditions as well.
So, by this logic, AZ is now a war zone?

Medicinal testing kills tens of thousands?