skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now we work with Node.js which is much better ..... oh, wait I just ran out of disk space after running `npm install`.
Unless you have some sort of background in this area, I don't know why I should trust you. Your argument is - yeah sure, this is a bogus exercise, and then you are expecting people to fall in line with you. That is not how you build trust or win debates.

I am hopeful they will find something useful.
Socialize Facebook
Thanks for clearing this matter up.
Did anybody else think that the human operator in the driver's seat, should always be looking in the front, than being distracted by looking down or below ?
Or... you can keep it and ignore the law. The above comment was highlighting the futility of this kind of ban, so I don’t see what voluntary disposal would do to realize it.
Obviously, India is an all-time fascination for worldwide businesses.
What do you mean by unavoidable? Do you think a human would have made the same mistake in most cases?

Because then my question is, have you ever used a camera at night? It can't see as much as you (at video rates).

What don't you get about people discussing other sensing technologies? Just because it wasn't clear from this video and this camera, there are other sensors which don't require illumination with visible light. Even a front facing radar might do a good job of slowing down.
That's how it starts. The clever folk quit first (they also start first) as they can clearly identify with their intrinsic dislike of the platform. The less clever take a little while longer to realise how much they're hating it too, often getting suckered by cheap tricks used by the platform to keep them hooked. They will figure it out soon enough though! I think I'll probably start shorting some Facebook stock in the next couple of weeks. The platform is nearly worthless now that popular prejudice has started to turn against it.
The AOSP keyboard lacks functionality when compared to Google keyboard by default: there is no way to swipe on the keyboard to write words, and you cannot input emojis by writing their description.
is this what it looks like when you drive at night? Can you only see about ten feet in front of you, and everything else is pitch black? No. Not even close. Our eyesight is much, much better than this.

If our eyes were as bad as this camera, it wouldn’t be legal to drive at night.
What the F*** Was Facebook Thinking? – James Allworth – Medium
There is a tiny amount of precedent for this, in the form of reciprocal visa fees.
Thus is entirely the wrong way around: raytracing scales less than linearly with the scene complexity while rasterization is mosyly linear in the number of visible primitives. It is not a simple complexity function in either case, though.
Oh, come on, I think all these comments about Uber PR are way, way too harsh. Sure, the camera sensor might be making video appear darker than it actually was, and I'm surprised LIDAR didn't help, and sure something might and should be improved. But given the amount of accidents happening in a clear daylight in pretty damn obvious situations without any automatics whatsoever, purely because of humans — it's unfair to make a case of robot-auto unreliability out of it. I don't know what would be the chance of human driver hitting this girl, but I'm guessing high. If anything, the pedestrian sure as hell should've seen the car! Apparently though, she didn't. Why? Well, because.

The though of myself driving this car manually in this situation actually makes me feel scared. I might would have been going slower… I might. Fuck, I'm actually panicking trying to imagine that.
Any resource for this you can point me to?
Yep that exposure control / sensor quality of the dash cam in the video was rubbish. My own Blackvues produce far, far better results than that. Just look at how nothing is illuminated by street lights, this clearly has the effect of making the poor rider appear "out of nowhere". Also agree it appeared driver was on smart phone most of the time, thus not in control of the vehicle, and had thus no business being on the road as these are systems UNDER TEST.

If that's the best Uber can produce then they ought to hang their heads in shame. Unless it was doctored with... as I find it hard to believe they'd put such rubbish quality cameras in their trials.
Theranos Gets $100M in Funding in Dec. 2017
Ugh. I hate these sorts of arguments. "ha! you're outraged? Maybe you're not outraged enough! You do something? Do more, you're not doing enough!". If you tell people "if you stop wasting water you don't solve global warming!" it typically won't entice them to do more; most people will hear "I might as well waste the water, my efforts are meaningless anyway".

> But I digress.

Yes you do. Starting with all that makes the reader feel that "they're not even the worst offenders, Google/Apple/Amazon is probably worse". Which may be true but you present no proof for that and it's not even something that you needed to argue.

> By all means, criticize Facebook if you think they've done something wrong, but don't stop there. Make sure you understand the full scope of the problem

Or stop there if you wish - it's still something. It's certainly better than thinking "I don't have time to understand the full scope, so I'll let others do the criticism".

> I've seen precious little of that.

Well, lead the way. Show us how to do it. Help us understand the full scope of the problem and address it in a general way. Don't just chide people for criticising Facebook.
They also say, in the mobile web version, that there are Stories, that can only be viewed in the app. Nope, desktop mode is enough (of course).
It certainly looks bad for Uber
I have the same questions as well. But my best guess is that they probably have permission to drive at non-highway speeds at late nights/early mornings (which is when this accident occurred, at 10 PM).

My first reaction when I watched that video was that my Subaru with EyeSight+RADAR would have stopped/swerved. Even the news articles state something similar (from this article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2018/03/21/uber-c...)

>The Volvo was travelling at 38 mph, a speed from which it should have been easily able to stop in no more than 60-70 feet. At least it should have been able to steer around Herzberg to the left without hitting her.

As far as why test this, I'm guessing peer pressure(?). Waymo is way ahead in this race and Uber probably doesn't wanna feel left out, maybe?

Once again, all of these are speculations. Let's see what NTSB says in the near future.
Driver didn't see this person because the driver was occupied with smartphone, only occasionally glancing up.

Also, has anyone here talked about the effect on the eyes of watching a (typically) bright white screen vs letting them adjust to the light of the night yet? This point deserves to be brought up.

Perhaps the video was intentionally darkened to simulate this effect. :P
This sounds really fascinating--do you have any links or search terms to use to learn more about the differences in homes there? I'm particularly curious about the optimization for the people who live in the homes. What would drive that difference in attitude and behavior?

I've also heard that Japanese homes aren't built to last and that they get rebuilt rather frequently by Western standards, although I'm not sure how true that is.
For me it had entered muscle memory, whenever I was slightly bored and craving that dopamine hit my fingers would do “splat-t fa return” without even really thinking about it. Took a few weeks to fully unlearn that!
You might have missed the short opportunity. Better go long on whatever you think might pick up the slack. I don’t think the void that Facebook leaves will be left unfilled.
I'm sure at least the collision avoidance part of the system would need to poll at a much higher rate than 15fps. That's up to 67ms latency you're adding. With enough miles that delay could kill people.
>survivors with minimal technical knowledge

You mean, like knowing how to go to youtube and search for a video? Those primitive technology videos on youtube will be a fantastic resource come the end of civilization.

Okay, that was sarcasm, but the percentage of the population that is both knowledgeable and healthy/strong enough to survive a massive global fall of civilization is so small that it might not be enough to make a difference. I'm afraid we'd quickly revert back to survival of the fittest where being intelligent would no longer be valued over pure strength.
> Indeed, Casper then Cheyenne have the most modern economic situation Wyoming has to offer.

Which is still pretty shitty. I live in Casper, and tech jobs are basically non-existent. I know of some places that hire people for PLC stuff. Outside of that there are three places I could work as a developer.

Cheyenne may be different. I've noticed they have tech meetups, a tech bootcamp, etc.

The root post on this is harsh but accurate in my opinion.
Sharing public available data is fine. When you are on Facebook, you want to connect, and you want others to find you. That's the purpose of Facebook. I am sorry Trump's elected. Trashing Facebook is not going to replace your president.
They don't have it because it's a very hard problem. You need IR sensors providing near global coverage and you need the sensors and the data processing pipeline to be good enough to provide low latency on detections (ideally seconds) with high confidence through filtering out false positives. That's an incredibly challenging technical problem. The US solves this problem with a fleet of satellites that each cost $1.9 billion a pop with R&D probably several times that and ground based infrastructure that is probably similarly expensive. Russia's defense budget in total is only about $50 billion a year, they just don't have the money to afford such a program.
You make an interesting point regarding responsibility. Say that person were:

- Mentally deficient.

- A child suddenly running because thats what children do.

- A blind person making a mistake.

There are countries where if a pedestrian is crossing the road anywhere that isn't a designated crossing zone, then they are responsible for their fate.

In Canada and the USA, I believe that pedestrians "always" have right of way and drivers are supposed to be as vigilant as possible.

Of course, some pedestrians take this to heart and suicidally jump onto a road. In the US, this is more prevalent in walkable cities and college towns.
Every culture by definition is idiosyncratic compared to others. Cultures are demarcated by their differences.

There is no objective measure by which individual aspects of one culture can be judged better than another, unless the majority of people from every culture involved in the comparison have agreed to certain principles, e.g. slavery is unacceptable.

The litter example simply illustrates a different cultural norm in a very homogenous society. The US is profoundly diverse and individualistic.

Besides, the NYC has litter, when Tokyo transit has men reading rape comics on the train. Japanese culture is not perfect, nor is any culture.
> Not everyone owns a bump stock. Anyway, you can also destroy it yourself.

This is an absurd comment. The parent stated that four units were returned state-wide. Asserting the ability to manually decommission them attempts to give the appearance of undermining the parent’s statement without actually addressing the issue.

I don’t think anyone here, even you, likely believes that even a majority of these were destroyed by the owners, let alone all but four.
Thanks for your comment. That's what I thought.

I have a dashcam, and I've seen night videos from it.

In fact, the picture from my dashcam seems much better than this low quality mess, but still night videos from it come out much less visible than reality.

I've tried to rewatch some parts of videos later, and I find I was able to see much more detail on the sidewalk and on the periphery than was captured by the dashcam. Everything gets blown out in the night videos by the headlights.
But you're forgetting the tracking pixel and cookies used in many many sites...

Plus then privacy loss is not just for you but the shadows you cast (shadow profiles for those who never logged in based on relationships and inferences from live users)
sorry, bad day.
I don't know if you tried to email me, but I don't have yours. Rather than show up to hand out CVs, I can refer you to a job... and one that is looking for Ph.D grads.
The research has been done. We know how to improve outcomes of collisions with pedestrians.
Here's a comparison of Google Armor vs. AWS WAF vs. CloudFlare: https://www.chooseacloud.com/waf
> I think the only circumstance where a pedestrian can cross a road without watching for cars is when protected by a traffic light, and even then that's not wise.

You are definitely correct about even then you should check. And once you check and see it is clear...keep checking as you cross.

An acquaintance of mine from college was killed crossing Colorado Blvd in Pasadena, California late on a Friday afternoon, in a crosswalk at a fully controlled intersection, with the cross traffic having a red light.

Colorado Blvd is a major street, and late on a Friday afternoon would have a fairly high density of cars.

The car that hit him was going something like 80 mph. At the time he started crossing, that car would have been 3 blocks away. Even if it had been the only car on the road, at that distance there would be no way to judge the speed, and any car that far away traveling anywhere near legal speeds would be far enough away to not be a danger to any normal pedestrian crossing.

With the other cars that were on the road on a late Friday, it probably would not even be possible to see the car that hit him when he entered the crosswalk. There would have been several cars stopped at the intersection obstructing his view, plus cars at the intersections further up the road, or in transit between the intersections.

His only chance would have been to keep checking oncoming cars as he crossed, even after all the cars actually at or near his intersection at stopped.

Almost no one does that. Mostly once we see everyone nearby stop we just concentrate on cars that are turning and so might enter the crosswalk even though the light is red (assuming we are in a right turn on red jurisdiction).

Lesson #1: Treat each step as you cross the street as if it is your first step into the street. Do your full "is it safe to cross" scan constantly.

Lesson #2: Cars very far away at the time you start to cross can make it to you before you finish, even if traffic seems heavy enough that there is no way they could go fast enough to reach you. Your scan needs to look out farther than you think it needs to.
> both sides.

There are more than 2 sides to a story.
Interesting - being appalled by what is being done to our shared ecosystem seems to be something that warrants a downvote.

Perhaps before voting, one should read the NatGeo article to the end.
Is that, perhaps, more to do with JS fatigue than anything related to Ruby or Rails? What I can't fathom is how every shitty little SPA has to be done in React these days.
> ..CA just happened to do it better this time. Even without them, sophisticated targeting can still be developed regardless...

I think the thing to take away from all this is that people don’t like it.

Our societies have democratic principles; governments can (and have a duty to) prevent sophisticated targeting from non-consensual data collection and if it’s not what people want.

You can make an argument that it is what people really want because they’re too desperate, ignorant or subjugated to consider anything else, so the serfs must be farmed.

Let’s find out!
There are _so_ many ways to make a leathel weapon I can't begin...

If I take my car (a Jeep Grand Cherokee) and ram it into a crowd - I'm confident that can take out more people than I can with a gun, knife, probably even bomb.

Point being, I understand not facilitating trade, but for the love of god, videos? You really want to push the right over the edge?

We need guns. Legally, in the U.S. it's our right - one of the first and most protected rights. The ability to defend yourself and country in the face of tyrany. Look at what happened in Ukraine, Syria, etc. A government doesn't fuck with a populace that has guns, so it increases stability. When you don't have the ability to defend your rights, you don't have rights anymore.

Further, violence isn't associated with guns - it's associated with people being suppressed or by mental issues. The weather is more associated with murder than guns...

I even understand trying to reduce ways to kill massive amounts of people easily. But again, I have a car, I know how to make chlorine gas, so on and so forth.

Address the actual problem and stop making this political. We know you're afraid of guns - that's fine. I'm affraid of dogs, but I'm not going to support banning them (look at them, they are built to kill things human size).

Stop talking about mass murders and start talking about tragedies, do a black out on mass murders names. That'd probably fix the issue in time. Then teach everyone about gun safety, how to use them, the dangers, etc. I'm telling you right now, by removing these videos you're arming people, and exhasborating the problem.

In fact, they just pushed me to buy a weapon.

\flip table and walk out
Hearthstone Hack Tool [Unlimited Gold and Dust]
If you redefine the temperature scale so 90F is 0, then that difference between 98 and 92 becomes the difference between 8 and 2, which suddenly looks a lot more significant. So I think your concern is based more on the arbitrary 0 of the F scale.
Do you mean trade secret?

There shouldn't be any copyright/IP claim on the autonimously created sensor data.
i just can’t believe facebook’s telling of the story. they are essentially saying that one of the most powerful companies in the world basically just asked pretty please for an offender to delete data amongst other requests and then just took their word for it.

they’re painting it as if they did their darnedest, but i think they just don’t actualy care or something more serious. this entire interview is basically zuckerberg just spewing damage control and explaining that facebook doesn't understand how people are using and abusing their data, with regards to developers, governments, etc. that latter point is either just pure neglect or willful ignorance in turning their head until it hurts them.
NY articles profile the author's friends and family.
I used to think more in the mode of your "First" perspective. Yet the more of the world I see, the more I come to believe that in a majority of important life situations (in the US at least) acting in an unethical manner is a strictly winning strategy (from a game theory perspective, in that it trumps all possible other strategies).

Not that I'm using that as an argument to be an unethical person.

But I am saying I feel it's a justification to act in a more Rooseveltian realpolitik manner: treat someone ethically until they demonstrate a lack of ethics. And even then, strive to conduct oneself to a higher standard, but firstly protect yourself and your aims at all times.

Most unethical behavior seems advantageously predicated on others' ignoring / accepting it. To the contrary, confront it! And win!

To your second point, granted with a caveat. The "freedom to turn down a job" is a freedom many aren't afforded (and I daresay most don't have the benefit of affording at least once in their lives).

Saying "Yes, but we have better, more ethical alternatives" feels elitist and... inapplicable to the average working person.

So yes, while most people commenting here may have that option, there are a huge number that don't. (Hence why non-competes should be ruled unconstitutional)
Facebook has been actively targeting developing countries that lack Internet infrastructure. They offer a walled garden consisting of Facebook and a few other sites for free. They initially called it Internet.org, but it’s since been renamed Free Basics.

I guess the concern is that people will confuse Facebook for the Internet, and they’ll think they’re getting the Internet for free. It then becomes very difficult for a real ISP offering full Internet access to enter the market.
Can it work without any connections to apple? It's not just iCloud.
Then WTF are they doing driving it down that road with intermittent street lights at night then?
why havent they released the Infra Red footage? that will be less deceiving
And this is why I have retroreflective tape on my bike’s forks. It’s legally required while riding at night too.
Parent makes it sounds that most gun owners are not law abiding when they are. A gun ban will effectively confiscate guns from good people. Like it did in other countries.
I live here and they drive around at all times of the day and don't seem to have any limitations. They've been extremely prevalent and increasing in frequency over the past year. In fact, it's unusual _not_ to see them on my morning commute.
/me has "owned" (mortgage) two single dwelling houses in Southern California and on his third house in the Tokyo area.

Another reason for general dislike of second hand houses is that these houses are poorly designed. Older houses in the Tokyo area (Kawasaki included), from even ten to fifteen years ago have have a raft of design problems from lack of insulation to using too low cost of materials. The first and third house was a bespoke build and I was met with bewildered architects when I specified designs that they considered appropriate only for Hokkaido (northern island that get cold air from Siberia). Other crazy things I had to make them modify was moving the fresh air intake vent away from the fuel cell generator, that doubles as hot water boiler which has a backup burner. They didn't seem to realize that a backup burner exists. There were a number of other mistakes that I pointed out that seemed to have left the builder in a puzzled state. I made my sales guy work for his pay. Walking around the new development area I'm in, I could point out any number of usability flaws that most of the house have. If these were missed, most likely a large number of technical flaws crept in as well.

The second house was second-hand. (ha!) Very bad decision under somewhat forced circumstances. Very cheap specc'd floors that scratched easily. Practically no insulation. Poor air control, with vents pulling in air directly from the outside with no filtration or pre-conditioning. One of the reasons for moving on.

And while I'm here, the first place we bought (place 0 in Japan) was a room in a mansion (aka an apartment). We bought this new, upgraded to durable floors. I was lucky to have been able to sell the place five years later for nearly the same price as I purchased it. Unlike California, the all buildings depreciate to nothing in 30 years. The HOA (home owners association) is only run professionally for the first 10 years. The next 10 years is a hand off to the residents. From what I now understand, while under professional management, the fees while high are spent well and banked for renovations to be done every decade. But the pattern is that after the second decade, under home owner control, the association votes to cut the fees. The association quickly runs out of money and the building falls into disrepair, accelerating the depreciation. The apartment becomes nearly worthless and difficult to sell, leaving people with 35 year mortgages under water. Nuts.

I've also been in rental apartments and they have been cheaply made.

Regarding rentals, I think the attitude is that the owner would rather deal with someone who is known to pay rather then having to deal with an unknown entity. It's a risk averse culture.
MalaysiaCoin(MYC)
Tamil Nadu Budget 2018-19 Documents – Open Budgets India