skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You ultimately have to at some stage, since any test track is a biased test by its nature.

It is more an issue of how sophisticated these vehicles should be before they're let loose on public roads. At some stage they have to be allowed onto public roads or they'd literally never make it into production.
It was Postgres for the first ten years since the start in 1985, but it’s been “PostgreSQL” for more than twenty years now.
Groups are Facebook's best feature to me and the only one I really care about.

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Not really.

One of the reasons that the Russia thing is such a big deal is that nobody, including Trump, expected Trump to win. Laser targeted ads deployed in a few swing states turned the election much more effectively than anticipated, and the impact of Trump's investments there were amplified by the other social media fodder.

There was also alot of specific targeting of disaffected union guys that moderated the GOTV efforts that are usually fruitful for democratic candidates.

End of the day Hillary was a machine candidate, except the machine broke down.
Grit and generous relatives.
It really seems ironic to me for "embedded in Haskell" to lead to "verbose".
As I said, context matters. In the context of a death, this kind of thing is doom. When someone is killed, there is also a lot of cooperation across jurisdictions.
My opinion is that we will come to a point where self-driving cars are demonstrably, but only marginally, safer road users than humans.

From an ethical standpoint the interesting phase will only start then. It‘s one thing to bring a small fleet of high tech (e.g. having LIDAR) vehicles to the road. It‘s another to bring that technology to a saturated mass market which is primarily cost driven. Yes, I assume self-driving cars will eventually compete with human driven ones.

Will we, as a society, accept some increase in traffic fatalities in return for considerable savings that self-driving cars will bring?

Will you or me as an individual accept a slightly higher risk in exchange for tangible time savings?
Security researchers generally do not in fact spend a lot of time attacking systems that nobody uses. But in the sense that you're referring to, BIND, the de facto standard Internet DNS server, has one of the worst records in all of software security.
As somebody else pointed out, what is the ratio of total miles driven in metro Phoenix over fatalities ?
> Why would Uber agree to such regulations?

This is a strange question to ask. The regulation is not there to benefit Uber, it is to benefit public good. Very few companies would follow regulation if it was a choice. The setup of such regulation would be for it to be criminal to not comply. And if Uber could not operate in California (or the USA) if they did not comply, it would in their interest to provide the requested information.
Isn't it actually using the custom tab API? If so, it can be (and is) implemented by other browsers too.
It also says "Product is continually advancing and may be different at time of shipment", which makes me wonder what is going on.
All good points. I would take issue with "cleverly disguised, hyper targeted, ads" as it relates to a lot of the discussion around FB's influence on the election. I'm guessing the person "swayed" by an ad depicting Jesus arm wrestling Satan to settle the 2016 election was not really on the fence to begin with.
How Facebook Groups Are Exploited to Spread Misinformation, Harass, Radicalize
I'm not going to necessarily disagree. My wife and I don't use twitter. Except when 'something is going on'.

When there is a local event or situation, Twitter is pretty valuable. For example, when there is a Caltrain strike, it's almost always more efficient getting details on Twitter.

Can anyone suggest alternatives for such use cases?
It's barely an attempt to salvage their economy. It's a capital influx for the state. It won't have any impact on the day-to-day for the people except that the state might not crackdown on them as much for hoarding TP and other things.

The majority (vast majority?) of Venezuelans won't be able to participate in this ICO.
The main problem with self-driving cars is that they can't "read" humans' body language. A human driver can see pedestrians and cyclists (and other cars) and have a rough idea of what they're likely to do in the next few seconds, i.e. the pedestrian leaning out on the crosswalk curb is likely to step into the road soon. Even a reaction time of milliseconds can't make up for the (currently exclusive) human ability to read other humans and prepare accordingly.
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Very cynical but - if your self-driving is way behind of your competitors- wouldnt it help to have your lousy car in a accident - so that your competitors get hit with over-regulation and you thus kill a market- on which you cant compete?
This is incorrect. There are at least automatic landing systems that are sometimes used.
The research I've seen is that for areas with good conditions year round they're currently safer than a subset of the population (those in at least one automotive accident in the past 5 years, or something like that).

Still not better than your average driver, but even if we start by replacing alcoholics and routinely poor drivers the net impact on safety goes up.
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That’s an excellent point, one I hadn’t considered. Of course any number of accidents happen today to people whose only mistake is not being prescient, or at least not driving sufficiently paranoid to avoid something that arises unexpectedly.
We're actually adding international support this week. I will respond back here as soon as it's live.
It's quite obvious that self-driving cars will at the very least eventually be safer than human beings. There's plenty of things humans do that a machine simply can't do for starters (drink, lose focus, drive aggressively). Add in that a machine can react instantaneously in a defined manner (versus panicking, or just not reacting fast enough), this becomes such a stupid argument it's really just not worth anyones time to entertain.
True enough. And if it's less addictive, so people are on it less, then maybe there is less incentive for people to try to exploit it to manipulate users...
I don't think that anyone is asking for a return to nature, but America has shown that adopting the automobile as the primary mode of transportation and adapting all of society wholesale for it has serious side effects. Rather than promote it as (essentially) the only option, automobiles should be a tool in a toolkit of transportation methods.
> From each light source within a scene, rays of light are projected, bouncing around until they strike the camera.

Which is definitely not how raytracing is done if you want to get an image before the end of the world occurs. Rays are traced from the camera, and then back to the light sources. Some amount of pre-lighting can be done by tracing photons forwards from lights, but not the main image generation.
Yes. /r/politicaldiscussion isn't quite as good, and certainly has a certain 'lean' to it, but it tolerates differing opinions pretty well.
>But at the same time, I don't personally want to go back to an age before automobiles became commonplace.

Neither would I, but I think the cautionary value in the discussion of the resulting inadvertent restriction of pedestrian freedom is not to visualize an auto-free world as an alternative but instead to visualize a new set of customs of urban development that aggressively protect pedestrian freedom. In the real estate world, the walkability movement is concerned with this and should achieve greater influence.
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I thought it was only if you had used Cambridge Analytica's Facebook app. Is it bigger than even that?
Yes, absolutely.

On the one hand, it removes friction as it doesn't require you to manually provide a bunch of personal information like my email, potentially my first/last name etc.

On the other hand, it doesn't require me to give you a password for my account. That means that I don't have to track yet another password, and also completely removes the possibility of you leaking it.

For me, the pros very much outweigh the cons.
What philosophers? What books?
Personally as a I cyclist, I don't intend just yet to give up cycling on roads (which are for multi-transport users). After getting munged on a separator, I also don't think they are the be and end all.
The bicyclist did not "suddenly" jump out in front. The Uber car did not sense the bicyclist.
> What should be passed (but I can't see how) is a percentage of allowed deaths, at least in the early years, and set it to something like 5-10% of the current rate, reducing downwards to 1% after 20 years.

Whith so few self driving cars that number sold be zero. If you can't assure safety with a few cars whith a human as backup, you should not be in the streets. And it's not the first dangerous accident of an Uber self driving car where Uber was at fault.
Distance is the metric used so far but also isn't appropriate for comparing self-driving cars to human driven cars. The human driven bucket contains all miles driven, highway cruise control, light snow, heavy rain, tricky merges, etc. The self-driving metric is only the easiest possible miles. Overtime those miles will expand and harder scenarios will be incorporated but to really know if self-driving cars are safer we need apples to apples comparisons which is going to require matching humans vs robots on miles driven and a categorization of those miles, maybe a count of tricky unexpected scenarios as well.
The solution is simple. You need a cryptocurrency where the primitives are simple and predictable. Basically the same reason we don't use eval() on user input. This might very well mean the end for bitcoin if legal parties pick up on this.
An AR-15 is a rifle. That's all. If you can shoot rifles safely, you can shoot an AR-15 safely.
This is good, since it keeps up with our delaying of life milestones in many parts of the country. I'm 34, and about half of my friends are single and most don't have kids.
The only issue is that a lot of this is already possible in the current renderers at a reduced cost.

- Soft shadows work in WebGL fairly well using PCSS: https://clara.io/player/v2/8f49e7c3-7c5e-43f0-a09c-33a55bb1b...

- Translucency can be faked effectively using a few different methods. https://clara.io/view/5c7d28c0-91d7-4432-a131-3e6fd657a042

- Screen space ambient occlusion, if using SAO, is amazing. SAO test: https://clara.io/view/2e1637a7-a41d-4832-923a-e6227d1ebaaa

- Screen space reflections also work. Our reflections are this: https://clara.io/player/v2/b55f695a-8f4a-4ab0-b575-88e3df8cd...

- Fast high quality depth of field: https://clara.io/player/v2/ce7d91ed-1163-4cbc-b842-929adc4ef...

- Real-time global illumination: https://www.siliconstudio.co.jp/middleware/enlighten/en/

So while I think that Raytracing is awesome, it generally will not increase existing real-time render quality that much. My experience with the game industry, even if you have a better way of doing things, if it takes more CPU/GPU cycles that a hack that achieves basically the same quality, it will not be adopted. It is that simple.
It would have failed eventually, it just would have taken longer. Venezuela is incredibly corrupt and more money would not have fixed that.

One could argue that sanctions only serve to increase corruption by eliminating non regime sources of income for the local populace.
There isn't much else for you out there, which is why I certainly don't fault would-be immigrants for using the visa.

Would you have chosen to get a PhD if you already had citizenship and freedom to choose your path in life? Certainly some people who already have US citizenship choose to do so, but many opt out. Personally, I don't think studying what high tech companies tell you to study and working for them for the salary they tell you to work for should be a condition of immigrating to the US, and I don't want to see our immigration system run through their HR departments.

As for universities, well, it's great that you enjoyed your PhD program - I personally didn't and left with a MS. I feel that PhD programs are actually pretty abusive of their students, and I would oppose giving them any control over the immigration system either. I do think one of the reason they haven't experienced their "reckoning" (ie., a collapse in new students to exploit) is that they have established themselves as the gate keepers for a kind of new ellis island for skilled immigrants, and they can collect a toll in the form of many years of cheap research and teaching labor.

Again, I do agree that you personally didn't have a lot of options, and you don't have much choice but to worth within the legal boundaries our laws established. This certainly isn't your fault, at all.
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For those cases, I have used software such as phpBB. Getting people to create a login is unpopular however. Some friends and I shared things similar to what one might find on FB. The distinct advantage was that our photos belonged to us and FB did not have access. The advantage and disadvantage is that my friends had to create accounts on my server. Centralized authentication services are low friction and high risk. If we move such things to another centralized service, it will just become the next target for snooping.
Uri Teller is a perfect name, that's brilliant.
It's probably the least shocking statement ever if you know basic history, socialism/communism always fails.

Putting all power into the hands of the government will always be inefficient and prone to corruption. Coincidentally comrade Chavez's daughter is the richest person in Venezuela.
That car has to have a dashcam -- what's the current caselaw with regards to the 5th amendment?
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When it’s your business on the line, disrespecting Rupert Murdoch’s policial clout is a mistake you make once.
>What do you do with an alogrithm to provide justice?

Assuming Arizona hasn't produced law specifically for fatalities in their public road self driving test program... The algorithms are just one detail of the total system design, and the design of the system isn't really the issue. People don't get killed by designs or code.

The verification of it's safety, and the decision to deploy that system on uncontrolled public streets will be the issue. People made these decisions, not an algorithm.
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I can confirm this. Wells Fargo, a very popular bank in the US, limits passwords to 6 to 14 characters. In fact, your passwords are not even case sensitive. This is absolutely unacceptable in 2018.

I no longer have any bank accounts with Wells Fargo. In fact I don't have any bank accounts with any of these banks that have these stupid password restrictions.
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We do all the time, and the answer to your question is, yes if marketed ingeniously. Humans are stupid.
In that example, he's (diabolically) using multiple accounts to upvote his own questions.

Genius, in a way.

But I doubt everyone has the time and energy though to maintain a stable of fake accounts to boost your own stats.

I can understand fear of negative karma but the throw-away account will still receive just as much hostility (maybe more), you just don't keep the record of it attached to you.

Is that better? I guess, a little bit, maybe.
I love the Canadian immigration system. I'd love to shift to a similar system.
I had assumed this to be because their earnings were so small. For example Tesla has an undefined P/E ratio since it's a divide by zero. I had also assumed this to occur when a company sacrificed short term profitability for higher adoption.

EDIT: not sure why the downvotes, but maybe because I'd incorrectly assumed earnings to a non-negative number. Still TSLA's P/E is N/A according to the few sites I've checked:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/tsla

https://stocktwits.com/symbol/TSLA
I’m getting SO SICK of random websites pausing my podcast because they have some ‘video’ on their page that screws it up.

I couldn’t even see a video or animation on the page.
But I was already pissed off before I started reading.
> this wouldn't be criminal behavior if committed by a human

I can assure you that a human who is driving carelessly would be held criminal liable. Why do you assume an accident that was severe enough to have resulted in a persons death—the car didn’t just scrape them because they ran across the street—is not due to a reckless programming?
I have this same “bug” and it’s a big part of why I usually don’t use their app. Really crappy move by them.
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Scaling those numbers paints a poor picture for Uber. Assuming 3 million total miles autonomously driven thus far from Uber's program:

- Uber autonomous: 33.3 deaths per 100 million miles

- Waymo: 0 deaths per 100 million miles

- National average: 1.25 deaths per 100 million miles

Of course, the Uber and Waymo numbers are from a small sample size.

But there's also the bayesian prior that Uber has been grossly negligent and reckless in other aspects of their business, in addition to reports that their self-driving cars have had tons of other blatant issues like running red lights.

It seems reasonably possible that an Uber self-driving car is about as safe as a drunk driver. DUIs send people to jail - what's the punishment for Uber?
And currency debasement: https://www.goldbroker.com/media/image/cms/media/images/silv...

Too familiar
Yea this excuse comes up all the time. Friends won’t invite you to parties unless you’re on Facebook? I’ve got some bad news for you: they might not be really good friends.

I stopped using FB so long ago I forget when it was, and I assure you it’s totally possible to have a robust social life without it... just like only a decade or so ago when FB didn’t even exist.
I see the Waymo cars while I walk to lunch (AZ) quite often. One time while walking through the crosswalk a Waymo turning right cut me off as I started into the crosswalk despite my having the walk indicator. This seems to be a very difficult scenario for a self-driving car as there are often people at the corner that are either crossing the other direction or just waiting on the corner. I sent them a note via their feedback link, but never heard back.
PhenoCam network harnesses ‘big data’ to predict impact of warmer climate
Thanks for the feedback, with all of the "anti-social" talk lately, was curious if anyone actually cares in the real world.
It's actually a direct quote from his manifesto
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Not for the credit card at least.
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Ag robot speeds data collection, analyses of crops as they grow
If you don't offer warranties, your user will have to review your library so they can offer warranties.

Someone has to sign that stuff as "production worthy or I go to prison".
There wouldn’t be many human drivers on the road if they had to pass this test as well.
I think you missed my point.

If seeing that the bit.ly URL redirects to a known-urlcanary domain would put you off visiting the URL, then seeing the raw known-urlcanary domain (not behind bit.ly) would also be enough to put you off visiting it.
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> I suppose techies don't have much need for social interaction

Humans in general need social interaction. That’s why solitary confinement is so psychologically damaging.

> Facebook survives because it's useful for facilitating social interaction.

Facebook “survives” because its social graph has many nodes and edges due to network effects. You admit to using Meetup, meaning that Facebook isn’t enough on its own for your purposes.

> It sounds like the author primarily used Facebook to be seen rather than to connect, and so he views it as a cancer.

You’re using it for that same exact purpose. If your events can’t be seen, why would you use Facebook?
Positing that hard work guarantees anything is the lie. It is a narrative that has been perpetuated by all those who benefit by exploiting hard work.

Smart work ought to be more beneficial than hard work but the narrative focuses on “hard work” with connotations of pushing oneself beyond one’s comfort zone and limits, which implies increased exploit-ability.

It is an immoral statement which left without investigation causes suffering and inequality for many.

Hard work depletes the worker and is therefore ineffective as it creates an imbalance which that person, their family etc. need to pick up. This balance is not reflected by the accounting of the employer so economically it is hard to detect.
If the stats don't exist then what was your whole basis for making an argument? On what grounds do you have to argue that we shouldn't be pessimistic about the state of autonomous driving? That you pulled out the IIHS stats without apparently bothering to look up the number of reported self-driving miles driven seems to suggest that you assumed that the fatality rate was obviously skewed against human driving.

That's fine, we don't have to consider just fatal accidents:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/31/16956902/california-dmv-s...

> One result of the sharp increase in GM’s number of miles driven is a plethora of accidents. The auto giant’s autonomous cars were involved in 22 fender benders over the course of the reporting period (and two more in 2018). That’s one crash for every 5,985 miles of testing.
I tried switching from sqlite3 to better-sqlite3 but found that fts didn't work so it was a deal breaker for me, has anyone else got full text search to work with better-sqlite3 as that would make me switch?
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If I'm not mistaken, P.Eng are merely needed the rubber stamping, not to do the grunt work. I doubt they'll go through all the specs, re-run all the simulations, and verify all the parameters.

Also, where is your P.Eng be any useful to justify the learning coefficients of your AI, or to protect about the cosmic ray bit-flip in the hardware your proven correct software is running on ?
Can't speak for the romans, but his seems legit enough, and predates the romans by quite a bit:

Hammurabi's code:

> If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction firm, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death.

> If it causes the death of the son of the owner of the house, they shall put to death a son of that builder.

https://www.fs.blog/2017/11/hammurabis-code/

Heard about it on Econtalk's recent episode with Nassim Taleb.
The major difference, though, is that most major technologies are not also accompanied by legislation that effectively penalizes the old methods. There's nothing legally penalizing me from using a bow and arrow, or buying hand-woven clothes, etc., whereas walking is effectively criminal in some parts of the US: https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrested-s...
> I suppose techies don't have much need for social interaction

I don't know a developer who doesn't always have an IRC/Discord/etc running in the background 24/7 as they work...
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It is not Google’s role to restrict the use of judge-mandated information share. If we suspect that law-enforcement agencies abuse their request, then their oversight committees need the ability to check this is not happening; whistle-blower within the agency should be protected.
Federal regulation demanding shared accident databases wouldn't be the worst thing...
What you say is completely true and I agree.

So who's going to shut a blockchain down? I don't see it happening.