skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a software engineer whose original line of work was continental European philosophy, its striking to read things like this because it shows how little we've progressed in philosophical thinking since Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. The radical idea in Kant is that subjective experience has an objective structure: that means we can grant the validity of scientific observation, the key insight being that what you feel and see empirically (what gets called qualia), doesn't exhaust the definition of subjective experience, but is derivative of its essential structure. Once you make these distinctions, talking about why scientific observation is valid is easy.

The fault is that this doesn't completely eliminate a certain nuanced form of solipsism, and this is where Hegel comes in, but does make strong guarantees that gravity won't stop working the same way tomorrow.
if you use the full unicode space as alphabets, you can probably get a lot of mileage out of just having a 255 char column (or bigger, if expecting a large number of items constantly changing). Most databases will have a inbuilt way to lexographically sort text, and so you won't have to do anything extra. The smarts is in the computation of the ordering string.
Reminds me of tooling around OpenStreetMaps circa 2012. Not sure if things have gotten better, but back then if you wanted to run something like a tile server, you had to figure out how to build a behemoth C++ project that had no clear build process and absolutely no integration with any OS (as in no init files, etc.). The little documentation that did exist was in German. It was a rough time.
Yep, that's fine - highlights the complexity of implementing the ordering in a linked list. The fundamental thing is that both columns aren't needed, only one column is needed to determine the order.
Literally no one needs a hundred million dollars
Again, collecting data about friends while being upfront about the purpose is very different from collecting friends data with completely false pretenses, selling the data(Alex), and then later lying to Facebook that it was deleted when it was not(CA).
Usually it is the law that you are only allowed to drive as fast as the conditions allow (e.g. CA's "Basic Speed Law".) That includes being able to see obstacles in your path early enough to be able to do something about them.

If you can't see far enough to be able to avoid something in the road, you're simply going too fast. That should apply to machines, but it already applies to humans.
> Maybe you have heard of the Overton Window?*

Sure, you're just describing another symptom of the same disease.
Yes, this is what I meant. So I would just post as a comment to that thread? They don't need to be submitted in someway beforehand?
Also, it should have been using its brights to increase the visible range, to provide backup for the LIDAR that should've caught this.
> Wow, that self driving car is total crap if it can't pick up that obstacle.

Not to nit-pick too much but 'that obstacle' is a person. A person that died because engineering hubris. I think we should be careful in our language in this situation, as it may get away from us. She was not 'an obstacle' or a 'thing to avoid' or 'hobo', she was a living person.
This seems likely to be the explanation, but I'm very surprised reddit didn't mention it in their announcement. "The government is bullying us into this" would tend to garner sympathy from users instead of the hostility they're getting.
> In retrospect, an editor should possibly have put the resources into an investigative story

Yes.
it's almost as if she has done this many times before and never been hit by cars being driven by real people
All that evidence appears in the mind and assumes conciousness is located in the brain, when our actual experience is that conciousness is just the container of everything and does not have a location. You can locate your brain but can you locate your conciousness? Everything you see or feel is in your conciousness right now, even the concepts of time and space. How could you conciousness have a position in space?
The report said she was homeless, it's possible she was ill.
ycombinator funded reddit. And ycombinator is part of the group at the forefront of the internet censorship movement.

> This is a legitimate discussion.

Since when did that matter. It's discussion they don't want, legitimate or not.
That one is pretty vague. Here's another that I found that's a lot more explicit. This one is definitely from 2013.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/od8XBXMP1YoacpMo2
Different business segments.
AFAIK, LIDAR doesn't use just some digicam. So the video we see there should be very different from what the sensors actually see in such a situation.
I agree that dashcam/external cam footage is going to be limited and possibly misleading, and I would think/hope such footage isn't the primary factor in evaluating accident cases. But I do think there's value to it. I shouldn't have said that it is the "main" way for us to process a scene, but the most accessible/relatable way.

What you posted looks pretty cool, I don't know enough about it to understand what I should be prioritizing focus on, but we can chalk that up to ignorance. The benefit that driver-view footage has is that it is a viewpoint all of us are familiar with. If you ask me to watch dashcam footage to assess some kind of traffic thing, there's a general expectation of where I keep my eyes and what I notice.

This normal-human-view mode is probably going to be necessary in AV cases in which we determine whether the car's AI did the right thing. Presumably, as AV becomes mainstream and extremely safe, these accidents will involve edge cases and outliers which are poorly interpreted by sensors/non-human-vision. Seeing the scene as a human driver does might be a necessary starting place?

But the Uber case in AZ, IMO, proves your point. The Tempe police quickly made a judgement call based on what seems to be inadequate video. Everyone who can now view the video will also be inclined to think how impossible it would be to avoid hitting the victim, even if the actual scene in-person has much more light. And of course, we don't want to judge AV solely on whether it performs as well as normal humans.
Our points are complementary. The errors of the speedometer and the error of speed gun may add up.

The police will take off 5 km/h on the recorded speed, when editing the fine. That's supposed to cover the margin for error.

You're out of luck if your car meter is 5 km/h off and you were trying to drive at the speed limit.
I’ve driven that location on that road many many times at night and no it is not that dark, it is lit up well like most city streets. The video make the contrast appear greater.
That's sad, but until we get insecticides with high specificity I'd rather have fewer birds and fewer insects over more birds and more insects.

Monocultures are definitely in need of becoming at least somewhat diversified because besides the birds, right now we're still at a point where a stupid plant virus or fungus can kill millions because it can wipe out half of the world's wheat or rice production.
Because you didn't do the math yourself, 40 miles per hour is just shy of 18 meters per second. So 120 meters is almost 6.7 seconds at that constant speed (more if you're slowing down). Start of video to collision is less than 5 seconds.
There's a difference between being negligent (leaving the stove on) and performing unlicensed DIY electrical modifications that were not approved by code inspectors and involve storing huge amounts of energy.
> In most states, braking for animals in a way that might endanger others on the road is illegal.

If that is true, then that is a very bad law. If something appers in front of a car I'm driving, the first thing I do, before anything else, is braking. And so should you, and everbody else. First, you save precious reaction time by first braking, then thinking. Second, it might be a human and thus worth much more than a damn car. Third, if it's not a living thing, it's not uncommon for humans to step on the street to go after it.

Any dangers by sudden braking are avoided by mandating sufficient space between cars. If a car breaks suddenly and the car behind it crashes into it, the driver of that second car is responsible for the damages, because they evidently didn't have enough distance to the car in front of it to react in time to danger situations.
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I had a similar experience.

I felt so strongly about not wanting to go "backwards" anymore and use Go/Scala/Java etc I started my own company so I could dictate the technology decisions, so naturally I used Clojure!

I still use Javascript in most of the UX because ClojureScript I felt wasn't ready for primetime production but we'll be phasing that out over the next few years into ClojureScript.
> I can think of one widely-reported story off the top of my head that appears to be grossly misrepresentative of fact if not false. An investigative journalist probably has dozens. Choices need to be made.

I'm not sure I understand. "Choices need to be made" about what? About which grossly misrepresentative stories to actually publish? Or about which ones to check out first, as opposed to just publishing?

In short, what you're describing just looks like more symptoms of the same underlying disease.
> If you believed in principles of free market you wouldn't start by explaining how bad it is for person X that their investment dropped in value.

Houses are bought and sold on a free market. Houses are so much more than just an investment to the majority of people that purchase them. If you disagree with that, fine. Feel free to work towards changing many decades, if not centuries, of culture.

> They made a bet, they lost it.

There many are reasons why the government, whether it be local, state or federal might not want to punish people that tried to set down roots to establish stability just because other people decided that was a good market to play in, even if the latter group's thinking has infected the former to some degree.

> That's how free market works. People are free to make bets and they loose or win based on how right they were.

Yes. The problem here is that while a free market is agreed upon by many people to be an effective way to make sure the housing market is somewhat fair, it's also a very dangerous way to allow a very important resource to be handled if there are no controls. Would you argue that bread and meat should be allowed to reach 1000% or more the current price in a short period, or should the government step in to stabilize the market because these are essentials for many people? What about electricity? Housing isn't quite on the same level, but it's important and is not some abstract fungible product to the majority of people.

> Trying to enact policies that mess with market forces because you want to protect that person who lost the bet is the opposite of free market and also a bad economic policy.

No, providing stabilizing controls to markets is not bad economic policy. If you think so, perhaps we should abolish the Federal Reserve, and just let the market do what it wants? How bad can it get? Geez, why did we even start the Fed anyway...

> If we were building enough to meet the demand, everyone would be paying roughly the same price and price increases would roughly match inflation, not exceed it by miles.

Then let's do that, and let's look to make sure we're actually doing that by tracking demand, and prices, and trying to make sure we make informed decisions.

Has a single thing I've said lead to you believe I'm not for that? Because I'm pretty sure I've advocated for exactly that type of thing in every comment.
I'm not against longer articles but the first paragraph should do a better job of letting you know where the story is going to help you know if you're going to be interested in it. Some subheadings (there's none) would help you know where you are in the story and let you skip to the part you're interested in.
Why should I take their marketing at face value?

Of course they are selling them as safe. I still think the funding to work on them is chasing big piles of money.
Sure, but the 90s was basically a nightmare decade for real estate. It’s one thing to weather one year, but an entire decade?
> Whatever you might think about Russia, it's a rolled gold certainty that they don't want to be involved in an accidental nuclear exchange.

I'm sure the average Russian citizen doesn't. I'm not so sure about Putin.
The first link is very interesting - for example the UK was able to reduce pedestrian fatalities from ~1500 per year (absolute numbers) in 1991 to ~500 in 2014.
> That’s only because there’s no light on her until the end.

It seems like the car is out driving its headlights. Assuming a road line is about 10 feet (as is typical), only about 20~30 feet of distance is illuminated... but at 30mph you need ~45ft for an average car to break, and at 40mph you need ~80ft. (According to [1] -- ignoring reaction time.) Is there something wrong with the headlights? Is the video just that bad? (And if so, is it even used for decision making by the car?)

[1] http://www.government-fleet.com/content/driver-care-know-you...
Relevant from a few weeks back:https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/culture/technolo...
The purpose of many GMO plants is to be more resilient against pesticides.

The GMO plant itself isn't what kills the insects which than poison the birds.. it's the poison that's sprayed on the plants.
Humans have amazing low-light adoption, but not if the human is blinded by/staring at a bright cell phone screen as seen on this video.
> I do wonder if perhaps Uber made the video darker before releasing

This video was released by the police department.

Are you suggesting someone from Uber drove down to the scene at 10pm, somehow managed to grab the SD card from the dashcam with all the police there, ran back to their car, uploaded it to their laptop, fired up Premiere, edited the brightness, downloaded the modified video back into the SD, ran back to the scene with the tampered evidence, and only then the police got to it?

Sorry, but if this isn't a conspiratory theory, I don't know what is.
I have Play Music, and Red comes with it. I like the current YouTube Red experience. It actually encourages me to watch more videos.
I think we need more censorship quite frankly.
How much time have you spent amongst the lower 15%? Ever lived in a trailer park? Every lived in the projects? I doubt it. It's not a knock on you. But, it's very easy to live one's life without encountering those with sub-85 IQ. They ain't online, you know. Most wouldn't be able to figure out how to use the Hacker News interface.
You know, the U.S. military won't take someone with an IQ less than 85... they're too dumb to even learn how to clean a rifle.
In any case, no amount of experience or education will enable someone who lacks mental ability to function at a tech job. There are those who will never -- even with months of hands on training -- be able to grasp opening a Word DOC. What do we do with them? It's about 15% of the population.
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That's a terrible story. I am so sorry for what your uncle has had to suffer.

I think there is a safe limit. When I did a number of shooting sports I got myself tested. I was absolutely fine, despite almost certainly inhaling small amounts of leads, and definitely handling lead.

I have only met one person in the shooting sports/shooting industry who was diagnosed with lead poisoning, a young woman who worked at a gun store/range.

Many people who I shot with would have had far greater exposure than me and also got themselves tested.

The counter argument is that lead poisoning has such a wide range of symptoms it can be misdiagnoses.
He startles just before the collision, so anything he was watching on the dashboard arguably showed no more than the video that was released. But maybe the video camera had poor sensitivity at low light, and the driver could have seen her sooner, looking out of the windshield.
A lot of comentors are talking about the differences between the eye and a sensor. Here is a brief overview of those differences with references at the bottom: https://medium.com/photography-secrets/whats-the-difference-...
It can. They sometimes have drives with a goal and actually stop pushing the fundraising as hard as soon as the goal is met.
I don't know what to make of it: there seems to be a media campaign going with the aim to make Olmert look good: he is back on the front pages - he got out of jail recently and his memoirs are being published by Yediot Ahronot; Now go figure what is for real and what is part of the media campaign.

Or that they want to block Barak and his recent attempts to get back into politics. Interesting that the article paints Barak as a conspiracy minded crackpot. (Maybe one has to be a conspiracy theorist in order to survive office politics in Israel).
How do you identify one capable to teach CS, capable to teach ages K-12, and willing to work for very little pay? Is the goal to train existing teachers (would they make more money because of it?), or hire a CS veteran to teach?
You know what frustrates me? I can't get YouTube Red because I am in Canada. And then the coalation called Fairplay Canada have the audacity to ask the government to censor the internet in order to stop piracy. No way in hell. We will stop this.
There's no understanding about how "it happens in the brain". Of course that supposition is the most reasonable one when we accept a materialistic paradigm. I don't discard any explanation, but I find it difficult to imagine how a material thing, the brain with its neurons and electric impulses and neurotransmiters, can be able to generate what philosophers of mind call qualia, which is something apparently non material.

I have an experience. How my brain/hardware causes the experience? Is the experience material? Perhaps. I wonder: how? e.g.: when I see a cup, where in my brain is the subjective experience of the cup? Is it coded as electric impulses? What decodes it and translates the impulses to qualia?
Was there anybody behind the car? Surely the car could know if it was safe to brake.
I have to wonder if HID headlights contributed to this problem as well. The headlights have such a sharp, defined "edge". The woman was not visible until she was within the bright portion of the lights (which isn't very big).
What do you mean by domesticated? It's very vague.

The original comment looks shallow at first, but GMOs often contain pesticides inside the seed/grain because the companies designing them don't know how to control it. That could potentially harm birds in the long run, and definitely harms insects.
... which is also a completely valid philosophical point of view! (And that is a problem with philosophy in general - unlike theories in the positive science, no philosophy is refutable.)
>Because you experience your own and therefore assume that other people (and probably many animals) have experiences do to the similarity in behavior and biology.

This is called 'studying it'.

Different experiences do not preclude understanding. You can't imagine "what it's like", but "what it's like" is always a biological process of analogy. And you can convey understanding of subjective experience through analogies. That's the whole point of art.

Just because you can only get arbitrarily close to understanding something doesn't mean you can't understand it. By that measure, you don't even understand your own senses - they are transient, fleeting, and reflexive. But we're not supposed to deny the entire concept of knowing and understanding, are we?

Ok, so you don't see more than three primary colors. Doesn't mean you can't understand it. You know the difference between being in a room with only red light versus being in a room with white light? Then you know what it is to see more colors.

Personal anecdote: I've felt things in dreams that I've never felt awake. I can imagine sensations I've never experienced while awake. So I can't believe that it's impossible to feel things outside of our current experiences or to experience things arbitrarily close to as how others do. Especially since we can hook electrodes up to our brains, do computations outside, and arbitrarily increase the state space of our brains. So like I said: out of reach doesn't mean impossible.
I recall reading somewhere that "she was well-liked" by people interviewed at a nearby homeless camp.
Interesting timeframe on increased usage on HN. That may be correlated with the current president of the United States using it frequently: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#Use_by_Donald_T...

Again, that still doesn't make it new or intellectually dishonest to point out.
> They don't even get phone numbers, just arbitrary phone IDs

"It's just metadata!"
The idea that single family homes are the ideal environment to raise kids is seriously overrated. Yeah, kids can frolic, but in isolation - as opposed to community playgrounds that are often much better equipped and where they can develop early social skills, and just have more fun. We live in an "apartment village" with lots of community playgrounds and children thrive there.
Yeah, uh Brexit is held up as the second-most-terrible thing driven by the same provincialism as Trump-election. BBC is indeed great, and the NPR comparison to YouTube is nonsense. But UK didn't quite avoid disasters (caused largely by Facebook, just as here).
CF having that free tier is a HUGE reason me and people I know stick with it. None of us want to have to throw money at a CF-like service for a low-traffic site, or for an MVP, or... At some point, it definitely becomes worth it, but Cloudflare's free tier is a HUGE boon early on imho.
> his famous “Bottomless Bowls” study concluded that people will eat soup indefinitely if their supply is constantly replenished.

Huh? That's not what the study concluded.

Participants who were unknowingly eating from self‐refilling bowls ate more soup […] than those eating from normal soup bowls. However, despite consuming 73% more, they did not believe they had consumed more, nor did they perceive themselves as more sated than those eating from normal bowls.

Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1038/oby.2005.12
I would love to be able to pay and just block ads on YouTube forever. Unfortunately a lot of the music i like listening to, just isn't available anywhere aside from YouTube.

Even more frustrating is lately i am getting pop ups every 2-3 songs asking if i am still watching. The solution to prevent this is to get YouTube red. Unfortunately it isn't available where i live.
This seems to be very bad, and there doesn't seem to be any discussion of this news yet. I guess Cambridge Analytica is eclipsing this.
Yes - Ruby makes it easy.

I'm run into the downside, though, that Ruby isn't optimized for immutable operations - tons of object instances created. I've needed to 'pythonize' my Ruby code in the worst cases - using mutable functions to dramatically reduce memory usage.
> Oh, and also Mayer was an idiot.

that's not appropriate..
I've seen criminal behavior at a much more reputable organization. Top-10 university, senior leadership. Much more criminal.

This shit happens and it's more common than you'd think.
Soft robotic fish swims alongside real ones in coral reefs
I wonder if there'd be a meaningful difference in accident rates when perception of a the cars capabilities change.

"My car will jump in if I fuck up"(current driver aides) seems a lot different than "I have to jump in if my car fucks up".
Much of it by Francia, whose first King converted to Christianity in 496

... which is 20 years after the Western empire fell.