skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always gotten a guilty thrill out of watching reddit's policy shitstorms, and often agreed with the criticism of their decisions, but this is the one that truly makes me want leave.

Discussing gun purchases is not only perfectly legal, it is also not even hateful as many previously banned subs were. I interpret this as a clear, intentional move toward pushing gun ownership outside the realm of social acceptability and associating it with illicit and toxic communities. For seven years I've treasured the freedom to find and freely participate in niche communities on reddit that wouldn't flourish in the same way elsewhere, and although I wasn't happy about the sanitization before, it now seems to have reached an inflection point where political wrongthink is also being targeted.
Doubtful. There's no way they are making the CCDs/MOSFETS/etc. themselves, you'd need a heck of a chip fab and for almost no increase in usability. Most chips these days are very good at what they do. The main issue is what kind of sensor are they using. However, based on the compression that twitter is using to send you the video, we really don't have any way of knowing what the sensor is (bit-depth, frame-rate, dwell time, wavelength sensitivity, etc).

exp: http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_detector/ccdgroup/optheory/ccd...
That would be rewarding bad behavior. If Google wants money they can ask. If Google wants to play games to pressure me into giving them money, they can go perform anatomically improbable acts on themselves.
This is the exact reason why we need Nationwide disclosures of automous miles driven. California requires this stat, so it's data is the most telling.

California .92 deaths per 100 million (human)vehicle miles traveled. There were only 500k autonomous miles driven in California last year.

I'd bet your guess about death rate per mile is right considering waymo which has largest and most advanced fleet only drove 2 million miles nationwide last year.
I'm happy to see this article posted here. Many people in technology seem so sure that AI is on some kind of path to singularity, and don't give respect to the deep controversy of that belief. Merely examining how the brain 'works' is missing the point. The nature of consciousness (qualia) that this author is talking about is not the same as the neurobiological machinery that sustains it.

Think about the limit at which the problem of consciousness is falsifyable or measurable. Qualia is whatever is beyond that. Its subjective experience.

From the author:

> Perhaps it’s not surprising that most Deniers deny that they’re Deniers. “Of course, we agree that consciousness or experience exists,” they say—but when they say this they mean something that specifically excludes qualia.
Not when you transition from high to low light conditions. The problem is night vision has more noise which makes movement detection far more difficult. This is made worse because the pupil can't fully dilate making the gaps seem much darker.
But as many people have pointed out, what the camera captured is not what the human eye would have seen. The eye has much better dynamic range; an alert driver would have had more time than what we can see on the video.
The latter is attracting a lot of dumb money and grants to pay for the former.
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Once I was asked and I stated my conditions, but we ended up not having mutual trust in each other. The communication was weird and seemed very suspicious on their side.
I slept over it and my gut feeling said not to do it.

No one has ever sued me before but with my personal business as company structure, I am legally liable with up to all my private assets.
I am not an anonymous entity, I get jobs mostly by recommendation, getting letters from lawyers messes me up mentally easily and I can't mess with my client's sensitive data in the first place.

My extra charge is giving me extra time and compensation for adding extra security measures and most importantly (encrypted) documentation for myself if in any unlikely case they'd enforce their part.

In essence: I value mutual trust a lot, if I feel lack of trust on their side, I need to be extra careful. The more mutual trust I form with a client, the easier it is to get a mutual understanding and less likely that they'll escalate it to lawyers and courts.
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The comparison should be against humans. It is humans that autonomous vehicles are being compared against.

Because the alternative to an AV is a human. So the only thing at all that matters is "is this better or worse than a human".
Yeah, but at that speed, it's more than possible to swerve around an obstacle rather than screeching to a halt before touching it. Even turning slightly to the left/right would have made a dramatic difference in the outcome to this person's life. Not to mention the person in the car that might have also been severely injured if this was a heavier obstacle.

This was purely bad software, and no failure scenario being programmed in. I really don't think it's that difficult to program split-second reaction to obstacles that appear into the driving path. We need to get to a point where these vehicles can do stuff like this, even in a 2-dimensional way:

https://youtu.be/uLasBsoZBi0?t=1m40s
Ouch, facebook faces a fine of 250,000 euros ($269,000) a day if it doesn’t comply with the ruling, the court said in an e-mailed statement Monday.

Does anyone know if f*book appealed this?
Didn't CA report to fb that the data was deleted when in fact it was not?
I'm pretty sure it would also be more expensive in terms of CPU and potentially disk.
To hell with the LIDAR, human beings are practically IR flashlights. Aren’t these things supposed to have multiple sensors?
wow, Uber's system sucks big time
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I watched it again and you might be right, there was likely time for something to happen, given the available reaction speed going 40mph on a highway. I'm curious what that something translates to and what affect it could have had on this situation (ie, swerving, slowing by x mph, etc).
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That doesn't prove what you are saying. "sucked out the whole of the social graph" is a non-technical statement that doesn't have an explicit meaning, nor is it specified what user data they were scraping.
The human driver didn't have their eyes on the road the majority of the the time. And yes, the video footage is _nearly_ useless.

Maybe the outcome will be that thermal infrared will be mandated on all sensor packs?
This looks to me like it came from a $30 dash cam, not the car's main visual spectrum camera sensor.
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The UK has a similar homelessness problem as far as I can tell from perusing the BBC. Do you think the causes are the same? I only keep up with the news there so not certain of historical trends except impending Brexit has seemed to have cause a slight dip in housing prices in London.
Unlike a human the car has complete situational awareness so it should be able to safely swerve.
It seems like neither man nor machine took any steering or braking action -- advisable or not.

I also wonder what is the exact job responsibilities are for the human in the car. (The "test driver?") Would love to see the training materials for this role. Are they there to prevent accidents? Or to take over if the car gets "stuck?" (Or both)

This is all I was able to find. http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/21/technology/uber-test-driver-...
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Very strange comment. Currency is a creation of governments. It’s not something to ‘take back’ power to be people and so forth. If you want to free people, currency does nothing. Examine our slavery to debt and interest.

If it’s not valid to redeem public debts, it can’t become the country much less world currency.

I get the excitement over blockchain technology, its terrific, but I don’t understand this fantasy where btc rules the world.

Not to mention, a currency that cannot be manipulated in times of crisis is highly dangerous, if you agree with the general global consensus that in emergencies it must be done. That’s what central banks ARE.
Interestingly, four Turing Award winners are now affiliated with Google: Vint Cerf, Ken Thompson, John Hennessy and Dave Patterson.
Pesticides, rather.
It's totally reasonable to push people towards their music service and there's nothing inherently wrong about doing it this way. However, it feels a little strange to see a company weaponizing advertisements in their marketing strategy.
I usedd to build power walls before they we called power walls. It was called a hobby. There are huge players like Tesla and sonnen who produce well made energy options for the home. https://latechnews.org/smart-energy-storage-solutions/
Articles claim she’s from Mesa, AZ. There’s nothing that suggests she’s homeless.
Maybe it was her exam week. /s
Is it me or the car seems to steer slightly to the right, just before the impact ?
Seems like someone with a bone to pick. Maybe he is jealous he wasn't offered a job?
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Yea, but it still doesn't make sense. I mean, imagine Stephen Hawking really became incommunicable. He would still be very much conscious, without exhibiting any behavior. Even disposition of behavior doesn't make sense, because behavior is simply impossible. We're back to talking about the internal state of the brain/mind, and not simply behavior disposition.

So the idea of behavior disposition being central to consciousness is clearly silly. It is clearly a complicated function of the workings of the entire brain as a system -- even though the sensory and actuator (i.e. behavioral) systems are important to the individual, they are by no means exclusive or central.
I disagree, if you look at any of the Waymo videos you can see they have great recognition of every car, pedestrian, and obstacle within 100 meters of the car, and most of that data (point cloud lidar/radar at the very least) would work in pitch black without even headlights. Thus it's extremely reasonable to expect that autonomous vehicles will easily prevent scenarios like this.

Inclement conditions, defensive driving, etc. are much harder to work with but this should have been cake.
> If you look at all your experience since you are born, it all happened in your mind, exclusively.

It happened in your brain. Whether it happened in your mind or even whether the mind exists is up for debate. As we learn more about the brain, the mind recedes and it may disappear altogether. Just like how our increased understanding of physiology ended any serious notion of the soul.

The issue of the mind suffers from the same problems that soul did. Can a soul get old? Of course not. Our bodies get old. Can the mind get drunk? Of course not, our brains get drunk. If you take psychotropic drugs, do these drugs target the mind or the brain? Obviously the brain.
You can't prove it deductively. But you can build inductive evidence for the existence of things outside of yourself.
> Yet this crash proves that all the equipment in the world didn't catch a very obvious obstruction.

Because the software is still critically flawed, of course...this only represents a present-day failing, not some sort of permanent obstacle for the future.
Wanting to do targeting for the specific user makes that really hard. They would have to do real-time transcoding of the ad into the video. Makes more sense to transcode the video once at upload then dynamically insert just the ad.
> There is only so much traction afforded by the contact patch on your tires

If you have anti-lock brakes, they are designed and calibrated to know how much to brake to be just short of losing traction. That's what they're for--to allow you to brake and steer at the same time without having to have special training to know exactly how to balance the two.

If you don't have anti-lock brakes (but it's very rare now not to have them in a car of recent manufacture), then it's still possible to brake and steer at the same time, but it's not easy or intuitive to balance the two to maintain control. It can be done, but you basically have to be a professional driver.
Awesome, the form pattern is a useful one. My coworker and I were just talking about how frustrating it was to have validations coupled so tightly to the models and this would have helped a lot. Thanks!
I don't see any reflectors in the video. The wheels and something in the vicinity of the handlebars are the brightest objects I see.
I use YouTube for background music while I program, but fortunately my wide variety of instrumental music choices are not inundated with ads.

To me this indicates they are putting their muscle behind a certain flavor of content representative of specific demographics inclined to spend money. If YouTube tried to muscle me in this way I would just use Amazon Music instead. I detest ads enough that I would alter my preferences, behavior, and content choices to remain ad free.

To those of you who are subscribing to YouTube or watching copious amounts of ads thank you for indirectly funding my entertainment.
A copy from another site later got HN traction; 50+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16642683
My gut is telling me it is time to consume about 500 calories just like my medicine literature says I should have done before I took it. If I don't eat I will have to listen to my gut churning and growling all night long.
Tim Berners-Lee: This is a serious moment for the web’s future. But I want us to remain hopeful. The problems we see today are bugs in the system. Bugs can cause damage, but bugs are created by people, and can be fixed by people.

I can imagine Mark Zuckerberg is devastated that his creation has been abused and misused. (Some days I have the same feeling #justsaying)

I would say to him: You can fix it. It won’t be easy but if companies work with governments, activists, academics and web users we can make sure platforms serve humanity.

General rules for us all: Any data about me, wherever it is, is mine and mine alone to control. If you are given the right to use data for one purpose, use it for that purpose alone.

If you have access to data for research purposes, it is REALLY IMPORTANT that you ONLY uses it for research purposes. So much important science and medicine depends on that data.

My message to all web users today is this: I may have invented the web, but you make it what it is. And it’s up to all of us to build a web that reflects our hopes & fulfils our dreams more than it magnifies our fears & deepens our divisions.

What can web users do? Get involved. Care about your data. It belongs to you. If we each take a little of the time we spend using the web to fight for the web, I think we’ll be ok. Tell companies and your government representatives that your data and the web matter.

And to every digital rights organisation large and small, to every journalist investigating the impact of data and the web on our world - thank you. Keep fighting for the web we want. The web will not realise its potential without you. #oneweb #foreveryone

For more of my thoughts on how we get everyone connected, and make sure they have a web worth connecting to, check out the @webfoundation blog:

https://webfoundation.org/2018/03/web-birthday-29/
FYI: this article & website are plugs for the owner's "private" search engine:

https://www.searchencrypt.com/

which seems to be heavily ad-laden (e.g. searching for "free" gets you ads, which it doesn't on Google).
But this isn't the only self-driving car issue.

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/30/tesla-aut...
We see a nIR video of the driver. Those weird eyes everyone seems to have are the tell-tale sign of nIR as it interacts with the retina. So, we know that nIR sensors are being used in the interior, at least.

That said, Arizona in the summer is going to play havoc with lIR and thermography in erms of false positives and negatives. The sensor suite probably should be using lIR at night for this reason and the switching it off in the day. But given Uber's history, the lack of lIR reeks of cost-cutting.
I would hope a story in this vein would fall much more under b.

As you say, at that point, it would have just been mudslinging with no factual basis. In retrospect, an editor should possibly have put the resources into an investigative story--but who knows if the fact would actually have come out much earlier than they actually did. And there are lots of potential stories about things that smell wrong, some of which amount to something significant and many that don't--or at least stay under every radar.
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Still not entirely certain of the link between this and G-Suite. Do I understand correctly that G-Suite includes Cloud Identity (Free edition), but Premium addition is an optional add on to G-Suite? But both Free and Premium versions of Cloud Identity can be used without a G-Suite subscription? So the Free version is basically G-Suite without the productivity Apps? The site doesn't really make it clear what the Free Tier does, and seems to be pushing hard to sign up for the Free trial of premium.
Apparently she identifies as a woman: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/934713/uber-self-drivin...
> Is it allowed in the US to have high beams on when there are other cars on the road?

You're supposed to shut them off if it would impair the vision of oncoming traffic. But there are plenty of situations where that won't be the case.
Not just their thinking.. after 9 years, they have policies, practices, rituals, incentives, etc (both written and unwritten) that supported those immoral/illegal decisions.

And the employees aren't helpless either. If they don't like this new CEO, they can choose to withhold information, don't write things down that are no longer approved of, etc while their direct manager looks the other way. They can collectively undermine the CEO until he's completely ineffective and forced to leave.

The culture is one of the hardest things to change inside of a company once it's established. It's self-reinforcing.

So we have to wait a couple of years to see if he's successful. There's no guarantee he'll win just because he's at the top.
I don't know about you, but if I was in his shoes coming in trying to fix a company with a compromised integrity like this, I would be making it very clear to the employees on day 1 that anyone who continued the same old crap or showed similarly questionable judgment (whether to the company's benefit or otherwise) would be fired instantly, end of story. I'd bet that would change things mighty quick. And I don't think this is the only solution either. So yeah, I think it's very doable if the CEO is serious about it, and he very much seems to be. I'm more than open to see evidence to the contrary, but until then, I think it's quite wrong and unfair to assume they would be continuing their previous practices.
That's been happening in Bay Area for last 20 years, folks buying lower-end and demolishing and doing a rebuild. Palo Alto/Menlo Park are just more local and visible to me, but I assume it's the same elsewhere gradually. Coming from a softer market back around 2000 it was crazy to get outbid on a starter home and see someone demolish it right away.
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from the interior view it doesnt look like the car braked abrubtly
Go to [0] and [1] and count how many times they use the word "safe." We're not hoping autonomous vehicles are safer, we're being sold on them as the safer alternative. So yes, this type of close call situation is exactly where these vehicles are supposed to be superior.

[0] https://waymo.com/

[1] https://www.uber.com/info/atg/
That's a big leap.

Given the rather asymmetric nature of the power in these interactions, even something as simple as just being responded to with a legal letterhead rather than an email from the security department has a stifling effect I'd argue.
1) It does NOT show what the LIDAR sees.

2) They should be using a dark adapted / night vision camera and probably are, the video feed presented is just that, the best one that "presents".

3) They should be using thermal infrared to spot living things

4) They were severely over driving their headlights if what we are seeing is "reality" as seen by the onboard computer.

I want to know how much access to the hardware Uber had after the accident, including physical and remote. I also want to see the streaming logs and full provenance.
The panic, if there is any, is due to reporting in the media.
I doubt that NTSB would fail to ensure that footage got released.
this, the human visual system adapts to darkness. Consider that the victim who obviously is crossing the street as part of their lifestyle has likely done this many times before, and of all the vehicles that could have hit the victim, the one that did happened to be one of uber's self-driving vehicles with a clearly inattentive driver behind the wheel. A driver paying attention to the road would have at least hit the brakes well before impact.
> human eyeballs have really good dynamic range

Not if they're not given time to dark adapt. As I've posted elsewhere in this thread, human vision would still be better than that of a video camera using visible light, but that still wouldn't be very good under variable lighting conditions.
A problem in this argument is that "enabling my social communication" is extremely vague and possibly negative reward compared to cost. In some sense people have been tricked into believing that "enabling my social communication" in the Facebook way is beneficial, while it might not be.
The NTSB is also involved and I’m sure they’ll have more than than video to go by.
Your concept of brain is happening in your mind right now. You think there is such a thing like a physical world and a brain but all that is really in your 'conciousness'. Can you feel electrical signals in your brain? Or can you feel senses in your conciousness?
> it is almost certainly a much larger lightpool in real life.

Not according to the post by niftich upthread.
Look later in the thread. The estimate is that Obama took data from about 190 million profiles, about 189 million of which gave his campaign no explicit access to their data, and about half of whom would have explicitly objected to Obama’s use of their data had they known about it.

You might think “well that’s egregious, but the rules at the time allowed it”. Unfortunately, even that isn’t true. Obama’s app did not play by the rules. The Facebook developer platform rules at the time stated, essentially, that you could not use the data you gained access to through your apps for any purpose outside of the operation of your apps. In other words, you weren’t allowed to create an app that claims it just sends a message to your friends about how wonderful Obama is, and then take the friend data you gain access to through that app and use it for the targeting of political advertising and/or campaign strategy, which is by all accounts precisely what they did. So they broke the same rules that Kogan did, just on a much larger scale, and with Facebook’s tacit approval.
The triggering point is just the belief that just because entity X received Y dollars in funding, that X has any legitimacy. There are more than enough counterexamples in the valley (juicero, theranos, bodega, etc) that demonstrate investors really lack the capabilities or wherewithal to conduct proper due diligence. The downvotes you are getting is a direct reaction to this.
Culture takes time to change and we don’t know how hard they’re trying. A new CEO matters long-term but lower level management matters more in the short-term.