skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
have you ever looked at the demographics of reddit? hardly represents the general public in the US, let alone the world.
Lecturing about behavior and then replying like you have makes you quite the hypocrite, friendo.
And due to human vision being better than a dashcam, this car's emergency-assist system, the safety driver, could probably have caught this as well, if they had paid attention to the road.

Which is something that that production-grade technology can ensure with head and eye-tracking. Some non-autonomous cars have this feature to stop people from dozing off, and good semi-autonomous systems, like GM's SuperCruise will refuse to go into or stay in self-driving mode unless the driver is paying attention.
All of this is overreacting. People have the choice to leave Facebook or to accept the terms and deal with them.

This is some serious cognitive dissonance to expect to be free to share personal data but to still retain privacy regarding those. Anything you share with your friend can then be shared to a 3rd party. This is even true in "real life"

And data is not nearly as powerful as we make it to be. Populism did not win because of social networks, populism won because of increasing inequalities in both wealth and skills in a world where globalisation and automation are making more and more people uncomfortable about the future.

All data did is to identify who is who and sell them what they actually wanted. The problem is not about using data to understand audiences. It is about having people lacking enough common sense to actually check if they are told the truth. It is also about the eagerness of politicians to play with tribalism of any kind. Western democracies are responsible of those failures and they are trying to find anyone else than themselves to blame.

I left Facebook a few years ago and I don't regret it. I doubt that Facebook is worth it for most people and WhatsApp with SMS is enough for me. People more social that me could leave FB to go to Instagram though. So in any case Zuckerberg is fine.

The only way to beat Facebook is to give people an alternative they prefer. It is definitely not to try to scare them with data scandals most of them don't care about.
Pull-request reviews work the same as peer review: it ensures that at least one person (the reviewer) reads the code or article.
He does that all the time.
After the hate posts scandals in Germany he promised that a team of hundreds of moderators would be working from Berlin to address the issue. It claimed it in a way as to suggest that they were Facebook employees.
No way: they are employees of a very well known multinational contractor who are paid minimum wage salaries to spend all day reading and watching the worst humanity has to offer—without any formal psychological support or training.

Source: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/exklusive-sz-magazin-rech...
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It’s certainly possible that you’re right. I just don’t think that this situation is the beginning of the end. It’s a big deal in the Valley, but I’m not sure how big of a deal it is elsewhere.
If you think there's a lot of litter on the NYC subway, come and visit the Philippines and take a look at most of the streets here. It's an Asian country, but the culture is much, much different from Japan.
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Do you run G-Suite for your family? That would be the only reason I can think of to not be using a personal account for this purpose.
For a side view, the reflectors on the tires (visible at the end of the video) are way better indicators of “watch out! Bicycle” than those reflectors.
Facebook is slowly killing democracy with the profiling data it collects
Insights after graduation to Lead designer for a 50+ employee company in 2 years
I do this too. Not only do you save money by not subscribing to streaming services each month; chances are that you can downgrade your data plan as well. The money I save I spend on CDs.
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What other revenue sources does Youtube have other than ads and Red subscription?
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Not if you're the actual monopoly because of network effects.

See youtube, facebook, google, microsoft.
Police in United States do not have to protect you:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-pol...

Average national response time is 10 minutes, even in cities the median is 5min, but can be as high as 30min for some remote areas.

In certain situations there may be no police response at all, as was the case in 1992 Los Angeles riots or practically any major natural disaster.

The ‘let the police do it’ argument would only logically work with incredibly pervasive and invasive surveillance technology and/or police robots (https://goo.gl/wpMV8).

Even so, 2nd amendment would be even more relevant to balance the killer robots.
If even 10% of my friends weren't there, I couldn't be planning events there for example. If you have to call or email a subset of people you might as well choose a different way of planning (e.g. invite people via email to a dedicated planning service).

So to me the value is that everyone I know is there. Not just 95% but 99%. So if even a fraction left, I could much easier just leave. My "social circle" on facebook could quickly just disappear, and I suspect this goes for lots of other people. Because the strength of facebook is that every social group is connected - but that will be how the cancer spreads too.
https://youtu.be/iVnihHXzuwI

Here's a video that will definitely fall under new regulations: you be the judge.
Surely not? Cars are routinely driven by people who are not owners, and liability for traffic offences (including that the vehicle must be insured) is with the driver.
I agree...how do you cross a street like this?

How can you expect and trust that a driver to see you/stop for you? Maybe he's not paying attention, maybe he's texting, etc...
Maybe the question isn't why the LIDAR didn't spot it. I feel it's more likely it did spot it, but couldn't make the correct decision.
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There's hard data from a study over 27 years in Germany on the decline of insects, references below:

> sabertoothed

In some nature protected areas in Germany, researchers [1] have reported a 75% decline in flying insects over 27 years. Study is from Oct 2017. This is alarming.

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.....
If I recall correctly the military has done a lot of studies on this.
And apparently the US used 1182 million pounds in 2012[0] which is almost four pounds per US citizen, and 20% of world usage.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2017-01/documents...
The technology should be good enough that every single meter of road is considered a "likely crossing". There shouldn't be an iota of difference between a supposed "likely crossing", versus any other section of road. If the sensors and decision engines aren't good enough to be driving under normal conditions, then perhaps they should not be on the road (yet).

I think it's absurd these vehicles are on the road today. The process is being rushed for the financial gain of corporations. No matter how far up the list safety of these cars is, it's not priority #1. The greed of companies vying to be the first to stake a majority share of this new market is the only real priority.
A rightful honor Among giants.
Yes but you need a "license" given by Chinese Gov. Otherwise your website will still be routed to edges outside of China.
And the bigger problem is the CloudFlare DNS, it is not working well in China.
I meant that in the sense that O(log n) < O(n). But when comparing raytracing to rasterization you have the problem that the complexity depends mostly on different variables for each algorithm.
For a while you could get a free google apps account for up to 10 users. A free google account + your own domain name which costs you less than 8 bucks a year.

If they were smarter maybe they would just offer this as a paid feature on top of gmail. Its not like it costs them more money to deliver email to a different domain.
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if you follow the above link, you'll see that you could join the Harvard health plan, even as a family. If you had your own, your could opt out. You can't be a 3/4 or above time student without health care coverage in MA. It's the law.
What I'm curious about is how they found him through FedEx. The video that has been released is not very good, and he wore a wig. Did they catch a license plate? Unless he was so incompetent he used a credit card.
lidar would've, but Uber had to trash all lidar sensors since they were stolen from waymo!

or so it would seem... ;)
That is insane, and either an oversight, or deal with large breweries.
So is security on Apple devices, e.g. just recent https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/21/17147572/a...

Remembering that macOS bug with empty password root access, I'd say that Apple security QC had degraded a lot.
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RE [3], I'd like to see data for post-2010. I can't comment on times before, since I've not been on Facebook then, but since early 2010s, I remember that the defaults kept getting annoyingly more private over time, with Facebook constantly reminding me that I can restrict visibility of stuff.
This was exactly the case. Any private personal information not shared with the app-connected user, was not exposed to the app.
LIDAR in question on this vehicle is an HDL-64, a commercial unit from Velodyne. Lawsuit is entirely unrelated.
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> If the headlamps were aimed properly, it should light up the road about 5 seconds ahead of the car.

A system with this rule baked in would be driving slower.

People adjust the way they drive based on what their environment is doing, how well their equipment is working and their own alertness. Except in the extremes we should not accept misconfigured equipment as an excuse. And if a system detects that there is no acceptably safe speed for it to go then it should not move at all.
Caching is provided with GCP HTTPS load balancers, it’s just not specified here.
How is it in America? Over here (North Europe), one may not use high beams when there is street lighting (even though in this case the lighting seemed not very good).
Sounds like a factory town
Youtube controls the client, so they could switch to a format (a brand-new format if necessary) that makes it computationally cheap to catenate videos.
I think the car should have reacted way earlier with a hard brake or starting a lane change. If the lidar detection had worked.
What I meant was their job is to author such books

Except in many cases it isn't. Most of the people I know who have written academic books did so off the clock and on their own time. Sure the university let them use their university office and resources, and obviously much of the research the book is based on is research they'd already done as part of their job, but the actual writing time and any additional research they had to finance from sources unrelated to their university job.
Well, it's not worse than Facebook, since you can choose what instance you use.
Choose an instance ran by someone you trust.
It comes across patronizing when you tell others what to do without having the slightes clue about their situation. His gun might not be working, he might even have no bullets at all. Still you go on about how he should by some weapons approved locker even so you have no idea where he is storing it right now. Just don't make so many assumptions about other people.
Top-tier Samsungs have it all, LG as well, in "upper midrange" Oneplus and Huawei have it.
What are you even talking about? His response to this issue was anything but "Crawl away from the problems". Did you even read it?
This doesn't prevent the industry from getting together to make their product more accessible. It didn't stop them from banding together to make it less accessible (RIAA/MPAA).
Sure it is. It's not a 1st Amendment issue, true. But—generically—it is a free speech issue. Reddit is adding more rules about what you can and can't post, which affects how free the speech is on their platform.

They are entirely within their rights to do this. No doubt. Voat does not have as many (any?) restrictions on the content users can post. The speech is freer on their platform.

I may sound pedantic on this, but I think it's important to fight for freedoms even when they're not enshrined in law. So to grandparent's point, the bigots are often the ones who do so, as a matter of necessity. Now the gun, beer, and cigar aficionados are finding themselves in the same category as Nazis and Klansmen.
> I've just started the work of trying to get people to move onto using Signal.

The first question my friends would ask is "I tried signal but I couldn't see a way of posting photos and getting likes...or planning an event. It doesn't look like facebook at all, just a chat app!

Facebook the platform is so extremely large and so useful to so many. Most people (including me!) would struggle to set up a photo album from my vacation that my friends and family can see and comment on, but other people can not.

Any serios attempt at displacing facebook needs to solve ALL of the things facebook solves. And unfortunately while solving them separately (one chat app, one photo app, one calendar app...) is much better for integrity - it's almost useless from a usability standpoint to have to manage multiple social graphs.
Google search is a monopoly only in a regulatory/market leadership sense; they have what's called the incumbent's advantage, they were the first to provide a satisfactory solution and people don't have significant reason to switch to copy cats. Similar for Gmail.

When we are moving to platforms like Android or Windows, yes, that's a strong technical monopoly entrenched by network effects, but it's no longer an internet product.

Facebook is somewhat of a mixed bag, as they are recently finding out they have widely overestimated their "crap on the users" margin.
On this forum you are sorrounded by people with backgrounds in data storage and networking. Any one of them will tell you there can be no reliable “forensic” assurance the data was not copied somewhere by any number of methods, even for a recent timeframe, let alone 5 years ago. It’s a ridiculous idea on its face.
"Most people reading HN probably remember the days when the web was open and free and you actually had to remember URLs to read interesting content on interesting websites, usually run by enthusiastic hobbyists, written as flat HTML sites without JavaScript bloat or supercookies."

That open and free web is still out there, and as a non-FB user, that's the web I see every day. OK, my RSS reader remembers the URLs for me, and some of the sites are a bit bloated (which we have browser add-ons to fix), but there's definitely lots of good independent content still out there (and I've found lots of it by reading HN).
Hereby I'd like to name this as "Jack-in-the-box" test case for self driving cars. No self-driving car should be allowed on road unless it can detect and avoid collision with person literally popping up out of ground at 20ft of distance while driving at 40mph in total darkness.
>Assuming the proper procedures are observed I don't think I see something wrong in principle with these examples. Certainly if they're massaging the data we're talking about something different.

Already "trying to probe X" is a bias. And if you have a religious or monetary interest on top, you shouldn't be doing such research in the first place.

Even if you intend to follow all correct procedures, your prior beliefs might still affect your results subconsciously.
The internal camera (let's be honest and call it the scapegoat camera, because that's the only practical use for human "safety drivers" when they are not permanently engaged) must take almost all its light from IR, because we don't see anything of the smartphone screen glare that the eye movement so clearly hints at.
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Forcing a community out carries a host of side-effects, example: a group moves underground... Though knowing that, both reddit and youtube modelled their business around reinforcement and segregation of biased groups (echo-chambers), all the while promoting themselves as _the_ platforms of the free (speech) internet. Turns out ousting such groups is okay- just like axing a product, no?
> One important thing to note is that Word2Vec does not consider the positional variable of the context words.

There is a very interesting new approach of learning Gaussian mixtures from words, which addresses this problem: https://github.com/benathi/word2gm

It also solves another interesting problem, which is that Word2Vec doesn't always put "categories" close to their actual contents.

Eg. I wrote a simple AI for playing Codenames with word vectors: https://github.com/thomasahle/codenames
But where a human use the clue "Countries 2" for "Germany" and "England", the Glove vectors (at least in my implementation) much prefers the clue "France 2", which is pretty confusing at first.
It's not hard to imagine at all. Did you watch the embedded video? The pedestrian is almost invisible. On my first viewing I didn't see her at all. On repeat viewing, and with foreknowledge, I could just make out her sneaker by reflected light, and her torso in silhouette. She has no reflective gear on her body or her bicycle, and the street lighting is nonexistent where she chose to cross (between street lights, and not on a marked crosswalk or corner). I'm pretty sure I would have hit this woman under these conditions, as horrifying as that is.
Or maybe he and his team wanted to actually take the time to come up with a useful and intelligent response rather than a vapid response only meant for the spectacle?
> A person that died because engineering hubris.

While the system should have reacted better, I'd definitely say she died because she crossed the road in a very unsafe manner. I wouldn't attempt to make that crossing without a reflective vest, front and tail light, and even then I'd still be very anxious.
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I agree, I wish I could get YouTube Red, I have been trying for a few years now, but is still only available in very few countries. I love playing all kinds of music videos on my AV system. I’m happy to pay for ad free high quality video and audio and suround sound. In the UK Sky’s music channels are awful (i dropped Sky last year mainly because of this) terrible poor quality sound, no HD video and long adverts literally every 10 minutes, adverts are particularly annoying on a music channel.
Apple Music has a pathetic choice for selectable Video and no Video channel. I don’t understand why the market is not serving my needs, I’m sure there are plenty of others who want the same as me.
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See this video for a comparison of visibility (not in English, but that's immaterial - set speed to 2x ;)): starting with a "bike ninja" and going all the way to "Christmas tree" https://youtu.be/oAFQ2pAnMFA?t=1m0s
I've seen so many articles about schools teaching coding and acting like it's a new phenomenon. I took an AppleSoft Basic coding class in both middle school in 1988 and high school in 1992. Both in regular public high school. Did schools stop offering programming classes?
Cats, cars, windows. https://www.withouthotair.com/c10/page_64.shtml
You suggest Requestbin has an alternative, will you continue the development ?
How? California doesn't have a housing plan. In Tokyo they decide top down how many houses need to be built. America operates on a free market.
the constitution allows itself to be changed. ultimately it comes down to the whims of society.
Newspipe is my yt client of choice on android. Otherwise mps-youtube.
Regarding how the LIDAR did not catch that, there are 4 possibilities I can think of:

1. A software bug failed to recognize the obstacles, or misclassified them, or it fell below some probability threshold.

2. LIDAR didn’t work at the time, and the car did not shutdown.

3. The victim‘s clothing absorbs the LIDAR‘s wavelength pretty much completely, such that it appeared as a „black hole“ and was ignored by the algorithm since this occurs commonly. Unlikely though since the bike itself would surely have registered?

4. It’s hard to see on the video, but is the car going up a slope? In that case, if the LIDAR didn‘t look up far enough, it could have failed to see the victim for optical reasons.
See Bruce Schneier's blog for examples.
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Unfortunately this is only in the US as many other google programs.
I have google music and if I were living in the US I'd have Red included. But it isn't, Red isn't even available.

So I make my own red, i.e. see videos with ad-block or youtube-dl.

Google really needs to make their stuff global, right now it's extremely US centric.
It's fascinating how brigaded the reddit videos thread is

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/86756p/police_relea...

Basically all top root comments are saying that it's the pedestrian's fault! Some math genius even proved how impossible it is to stop.

Especially compared to quite decent ARS article
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/video-uber-drive...
Um... They already are. That's why the term "underrepresented" got prefixed to minority.
So where's the training?
There's no blame for the car driving above the speed limit even though the driver is unable to see the risks ahead?
Have you actually used them? I only have sample of n=3, but CloudFlare does some things much better than others.
Wheel spoke reflectors ought to have been - from what I've seen in the video, there were none (they're surprisingly bright at night).
Ask HN: As a software engineer, how do you leverage your knowledge in stats?
I spend most of my spare time learning statistics since I found that jumping straight into ML left a big gap in my understanding of how inferences and predictions are made.

I would like to use what I'm learning in statistics (confidence intervals, inference, linear regression, sampling, classification, etc.) at work where I am tasked with designing, building, reviewing and maintaining highly scalable and available systems that aren't solving problems using ML or statistics. I find myself thinking really hard about where I could use these concepts in my day job.

As a software engineer, how do you leverage your knowledge in statistics?

Sorry for the vague nature of the question.
> It comes across patronizing when you tell others what to do without having the slightes clue about their situation.

Sorry for that. Will take steps to fix.

> His gun might not be working,

Based on the description it seems to be very much in working order.

> he might even have no bullets at all.

Still makes it a valuable target for criminals as ammunition might be even easier to get hold of.

> Just don't make so many assumptions about other people.

Thanks again. I'll try to fix now.

I also saw someone downvoted you and will do my part to fix that.
When we say majority of gun owners are ‘law-abididing citizens’ we mean they’re good and moral people, and not that they’re obedient subjects.

Your argument seems to be focused on semantics, which is fine, except you’re missing the point of this statement.

There’s very much a difference in disobeying a natural law like murder and an arbitrary, reactionary, and most of all, unconstitutional, law that’s designed to limit freedom and achieve nothing.

Civil disobedience is amoral. In fact, when the law in question is unjust or unconstitutional to disobey it is a virtue.
"bring back the witch hunts, the crusades, the Spanish inquisition, pogroms, the Holocaust"

Thanks for making my point.