skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not obviously. Let's wait to judge until we have the facts. The pedestrian was outside of the crosswalk. There's not a whole lot of information about the events that lead up to the accident. It is possible that a pedestrian is at fault if they stepped in the way of moving traffic outside of a crosswalk. It's also possible Uber's cars are not up to the task of driving on public roadways.
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Aren't you basically just proposing that the NTSB analyze automobile telemetry, the same way they analyze aircraft telemetry data? Doesn't seem wildly outside the realm of possibility.
Planar was showing off exactly this at SIGGRAPH 2007 (http://www.planar.com/blog/2007/10/1/what-if-your-display-wa...), but without additional optics you would be quite limited in what you could image.
The answer to your first “question” of course is that it depends on the machine, how it’s built, programmed, and the context of operation. Machines can have much faster reflexes, or they can freeze.
Apparently pilots generally prefer to not use them. Not because they don't work but because pilots still need to be on alert and so its easier to just land manually.

They're used in low visibility conditions with relatively calm weather, but don't work well in bad weather.
It's not unreasonable because everyone understands the state things are in. Once upon a time atom was meant to be descriptive, and time has proven that original description insufficient. We could call atoms something else to address this, but it seems like we've decided "atom" stays, its meaning has just evolved over time in specific usages.

This reminds me of how the prefixes we use in computing hardware aren't right either. Your PC might have 8 gigabytes of RAM, but it doesn't literally have 8,000 megabytes or 8 billion bytes, and the same problem with mega- and kilo- too. Somehow we manage and when we're talking gigawatts giga means 10^9, and when we're talking gigabytes in computing we know it has a special meaning, 2^30.

Same prefix, two different usages depending on context. The only thing I can promise you though is we're never going to adopt gibi, mebi and kibi, at least not in my lifetime anyway.

Understanding the history and evolution can be interesting or informative as to why things are the way they are. So yeah, one upon a time "sub-atomic" would make no sense, it makes sense not of course. We're familiar and used to the idea. Wasn't always the case though.
Aaaaaw, come on! :(
Sounds like the opinion of someone who knows minimum braking distances still exist even when going slowly.
The biggest mistake for first time game devs (who are already coders) is thinking that making a game is a programming problem. It's not. It's an art/music/sfx/design problem. Unless you are crafting some crazy new shader, there is no new cutting edge code to write in a game. You use a commercial engine, third party libraries, etc. to the point that your game code is nothing but a collection of scripts essentially. The heavy lift for making a game is entirely in the creative side.
hence you can only do that if you have enough money. and that is exactly what visa is doing.
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I'm pretty sure you don't want to compare right now. Self-driving cars are just too new.

I think the rate of overall vehicle crash deaths in the U.S. is less than 2 per 100 Million vehicle miles. Pedestrian traffic is a fraction of that.
This is purely an emotional initial reaction to hearing this without knowing most facts, but I just have to vent and for once be part of the outrage culture and make emotionally charged statements before more info comes out.

Uber ruining self driving cars that can save 20k lives each year and improve our economy and get millions out of poverty and improve everyone's quality of life by being short sighted, financial driven, and bringing the worst aspects of Silicon Valley to the extreme.

I am so sorry to everyone at Google and Waymo who have tried so hard to not let anything like this happen by being extremely cautious and safe. Ughhhh I feel so frustrated, this is going to cause so much backlash.

Travis, Anthony and whoever else pushed for this to go ahead without caring about safety is evil. This action doesn't have a direct correlation of evil like directly murdering someone. But these highly intelligent individuals ignored their conscience and the easy deduction that actions to compromise safety, laws, decency for quick profit are immoral. Whether they admit it or not they KNEW that this was a high possibility and refused to take precautions creating this awful culture. 20k lives a year, and all the benifits that will be delayed for years are on their head.

They won't face any consequences, just convince themselves of absolution of guilt and do nothing to remedy the situation, but I have no respect for them.
You have good points, thanks for discussing this. I think for me the fundamental problem is that with a human we can characterize reckless driving as driving that a normal, competent human would not do. But there is no “normal, competent” self-driving car-so by what standard do we determine the program’s behavior to be reckless as opposed to just acceptable?

I accept your point that this accident might not have led to criminal charges if a human had been responsible. But I don’t waver on my argument that if a human driver would have been held criminally responsible for this accident, then we should we hold the executives (or in extreme cases programmers) of Uber responsible in exactly the same way, whether that be criminal or not.

Finally, with humans and pedestrian fatalities many cases involve drunk driving or sleepy driving. Self-driving cars can’t get drunk or sleepy; they can just have bad programming or bad hardware, both installed by their manufacturer.
NTSB? https://www.ntsb.gov
I'm pretty sure Google will take Amazon's money if they wanted to go through integrating the google shared cart/checkout and give a cut to Google. Amazon would never let this happen though.
I can't help but feel this is aimed at making future Augmented Reality (ie. Hololens) applications integrate into their host environments better.. or perhaps I'm just giddily over-extrapolating possibilities!
I mean, I've seen the pictures... Just not in the wild. One of those things that seems like a nice idea, but good luck ever getting anyone to pay for such en mass. Have you seen any of these around Tampa Bay? I've never seen anything except the unprotected margins, excepting trails which are not sharing infrastructure with roads.
>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.

That's not always the case. Physically based materials, tonemapping and many more were widely adopted in game engines because they're easier to get proper and predictable results with. It's the same with most rendering techniques based on real physics, they are usually easier to work with, which is a very real advantage which allows devs to make more realistic environments in less time.

It's the same process that led the non-realtime world to physically based renderers, although it is slower in GPUs because of obvious hardware constraints.
Sometimes the best reaction in this situation is not to stop, but to swerve around the obstacle, perhaps even accelerating slightly to do so quickly. Deer can be pretty unpredictable here, but most on foot humans will not put themselves into the new path of your vehicle.
Unlike humans who have limited vision, self-driving cars are generally able to observe all obstacles in all directions and compute, in real-time, the probability of a collision.

If a car can't observe any potential hazards that might impact it using different threat models it should drive more slowly. Blowing down a narrow street with parked cars on both sides at precisely the speed limit is not a good plan.
> And if a bit of criticism is all it takes for you to do an about face and join Trump

I would never join an overt authoritarian like Trump, but many people did for this exact reason. People resent being denigrated with terms like "racist" and "anti-immigrant" when they're trying to have a reasonable debate about immigration reform, and not suggesting totally blocking immigrants from coming here. It's wrong, but experiences being called names will often push people in the arms of a powerful figure who promises to put the people calling them names into their proper place.

I'm all for calling out Nazis and racists by their proper name, but if you believe that opposing H1B makes you "anti-immigrant", then you've lost the thread.
They need to come down on Tesla. Musk's tweets/lies have driven the stock up to an established automaker's market cap.

The only problem is, Tesla is no where near profitable (they've lost money nearly every quarter except for two or three, I believe. And in those quarters, the profit was very small compared to other quarterly losses) as either of these companies, and the cash burn isn't stabilizing as they attempt to scale, it's increasing.

China/Europe deliveries have collapsed to start 2018. Bloomberg is tracking VIN assignments and pegs weekly production to 750 vehicles a week; that's only 25% to what Musk said they'd be doing by 2018.03.30.

S and X production during the M3 ramp up is reduced, based on channel checks.

Deliveries to regions in the US are staggered as M3's require an extensive amount of re-work before and after being received by a customer. Simply put - they want to fulfill all of their California orders to cut down on logistic costs/take payment, but their delivery centers can't handle the amount of service/re-work that would be required for all the new M3 owners.

This quarter should be an absolute bloodbath for TSLA - the end has already begun.
> The developers have no control over the sensors, tires, weight of car, testing budget, human backup operator, or a million other things that went into this happening

If one of those things caused the accident, the developer isn't to blame. Civil engineering has experience tracing liability from mistakes (and incentivizing prevention).
This is the important statistic. Evidence so far points to autonomous drivers being worse than human drivers. In which they definitely have no place on the streets without a lot more R&D.
Certainly this occurs today. "Tomorrow" it simply becomes the norm.
Is there no way for me to read about what this is without signing up for a beta? That's the impression I get from the website, at least.
Welcome to the bleeding edge. If that’s how you think then tech may not be for you.
Well I imagine today’s GPU would be more than capable of doing an amazing looking game at 320x240 or maybe 640x480 at a reasonable frame rate.

The problem is at this point people want it at 1080, 4k or 8k.
Who would the guardian (and therefore responsible) be - the driver or the car manufacturer? Sounds like a circular argument to me!
Median*

Average means something else, technically.
He's a, or the, highly definitive source. L. R.
It's an interesting dynamic. We want this tech to be much better than us terrible humans before we deploy it and anything like us terrible humans is not acceptable.
Ok great. I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620865 and marked it off-topic.
Uber pulls self-driving cars after first fatal crash of autonomous vehicle
Auto Pilot is not a "Push a button and it goes from Airport A to Airport B". It only helps in a few cases.
FWIW, I’m in the camp of people who find this to be extremely interesting, but only given that there’s no GC.
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Perhaps a company like open ai or some other company setup by all the players involved could run the analysis in cases like this.
Investigators say his fingerprints are all over financial crimes at Theranos
Biological age, as opposed to chronological age, is driven by the intrinsic processes of primary aging, the accumulation of molecular damage outlined in the SENS rejuvenation research proposals, but also by the influence of the environment, secondary aging. The important contributions to secondary aging are excess visceral fat tissue as a consequence of diet, burden of infectious disease, lack of exercise, and smoking, acting through a range of mechanisms that overlap with the intrinsic processes of primary aging. There are others, but their effects are smaller and it is harder to see them in the data in comparison to the points above.

In the paper here, researchers make an effort to map recent changes in secondary aging, picking combinations of metrics from past data that might offer insight into the biological age of patients. I would say that there is little reason to expect primary aging to have altered significantly in the past few decades, given the landscape of medical technology, but it is certainly up for debate as to whether medications that control blood pressure and cholesterol levels might have some effect. They have certainly become more prevalent and effective over the time covered by the study data.

Overall this is an interesting exercise, but of little relevance to the future of aging. Gains from here on out will increasingly arise from the development of rejuvenation therapies that can repair the damage of primary aging, rather than from lifestyle improvements such as reduction in smoking or obesity, or forms of therapy that selectively, partially override downstream consequences of aging (e.g. blood pressure) without actually changing the primary aging damage that causes those problems. Greater potential gains in health and life span might be achieved through addressing primary aging; the scope of increased longevity through better lifestyle choices is far more limited. Our remaining healthy life span will thus be determined ever more by progress in rejuvenation biotechnology as time passes.
For me, a completely virtual desktop for work.
> I remember Windows 10 begging me not to un-default Edge

The first time I run Chrome of Firefox after a reboot, Windows begs me to use Edge instead.
Correct, they have negative earnings, and their P/E is also correspondingly a negative number:

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla/pe-ratio
Wonderful. I'm a visual learner, and this helps a lot. As a plus, it looked fun enough to get my kid curious too.
And here's a nice demo from Remedy https://youtu.be/70W2aFr5-Xk
Oh don't get me started about this mess. I use Skype for the browser rather than any of the installable clients. There are days when it's simply not possible to login when you're redirected around that whole MS "live login" thing.

Every other time I've logged into to a MS site (say my dev account for VS Community) some other login for something else run by MS breaks...then I have to go hunting down cookies to delete. I've wasted tens of hours of my life over the past few years on this crap.
It's not unreasonable for there to an expectation of basically zero accidents of this nature during testing in cities. The public puts a huge amount of trust in private companies when they do this. And, pragmatically, Google, Uber, etc, all know that it would be horrible publicity for something like this to happen. One would think they'd be overly cautious and conservative to avoid even the possibility of this.

Lastly, the whole point of the human operator is to be the final safety check.

You're right that we have no idea of the cause until the data is analyzed (and the human operator interviewed). Yet, my first thought was, "Of course it'd be Uber."
A similar story comes from World War II where an alarmingly high number of parachutes were failing to open when deployed. They started picking random chutes and their packer and sent them up for a test drop. The malfunction rate dropped to near zero.
3rd party integrations will be a large part of the offering. There will be APIs and webhooks that Webflow will provide, quite similar to the ones available for the Webflow CMS API right now: https://developers.webflow.com/
You know how sometimes you get a gut feeling or your awareness picks up somehow?

You experience it sometimes where you just happen to glance in the right direction, as a driver, and avoid horrible things from happening. Or hesitate to go through an intersection when a light turns green and some person is running a red. You and your body somehow knew but it can't be explained.

Computers don't have that, whatever it is.
Absolutely not, I don't see it as protectionist either. If NYC had a problem with hiring native born New Yorkers because out-of-staters had comparable or better skillsets for lower prices than I would have no problem seeing a subway campaign saying Hire New Yorkers. I think at some level the barrier needs to be higher for out-of-towners wanting to move to a new place so that the city does not become unlivable for the people that have lived there their whole life or generations. The question is what is the right balance. If tech workers are hurting because they are being undercut by foreign labor I think it is unfair to point a finger and call them anti-immigrant when the system is set up in a way that corporations can abuse the system.

Anecdotally I have previously worked at Wall Street banks that used "Body Shops" with fixed term contracts to fill positions that otherwise Americans could fill. It's awesome working with smart people from over the planet, but the system needs to be configured in such a way that it does not undercut American wages. Companies need to be able to seek out specialized talent that they cannot find in their own local market, but it is abused so much that it cannot continue in its current form.
Front-end engineers who build widgets in React can make a $120,000 salary if they market themselves correctly.

Not all software work is hard work.
This sounds like something the NHTSA should do.
True, but commuting daily for the past 30 years sure seems to validate it.
> (It's hard to see a bike at speed going straight when a car is turning right.)

This is addressed by having a "no turn on red" sign as I suggested: you don't have to see the bicyclist at all because the bicyclist shouldn't be in the intersection at all when you're turning with a green turn arrow.
I was really happy to see eye tracking in this list as I consider that a "gateway technology" that opens up a variety of additional really cool features. The big one is probably foveated rendering [1] which both allows for a more natural look as well as (hopefully) more efficient visuals.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNX0wCdD2LA
Because it's assumed human drivers will at least have a desire to stop. If a machine isn't properly programmed, it will plow right through a crowd and never look back.
Wow, that's really bad! Easy to see how the code didn't factor in the possibility of someone using the bike lane, which is a very bad look for Uber.
Absolutely true, but keep in mind as well that each of these companies is running a completely different tech stack, for different use cases. They can't be lumped together for comparison.
Vulkan is a step towards graphics revolution. DirectX and Microsoft is a step towards a society that values money over education. Do not exploit the lower economic classes by trading their privacy for a closed-source spyware operating system.
What if you already thought from the beginning that cars, including human-driven ones, and their infrastructure, were always a huge boondoggle (the grossest misallocation of resources in human history, as Jim Kunstler calls it), and an instrument that posits itself as the solution to a problem it caused (not unlike an addictive drug), and that meanwhile serves chiefly to centralize wealth and rend the social fabric?

Please petulantly downvote all minority opinions!
Just too much time had passed since I decided to post that comment until I finally posted it :)
When I first opened the comment section, there were a couple of comments that confused me at the top.
If I recall correctly, Ender’s Game basically assumed that the future would be like Usenet Netnews.
Human drivers kill humans at a rate of 1 per 100 million miles. Collisions occur at a rate of like 1 per 200k miles.

AI drivers have killed 1 human having driven a mere ~5 million miles (not even counting Tesla autopilot). Disengagements occur at a rate of 1 per 5k miles.

The evidence strongly, strongly points to self-driving cars being more dangerous than humans today.
I'd also add the goal of self-driving cars is to decrease costs for ride-sharing, home-delivery companies, etc, and also to decrease congestion via coordination amongst autonomous vehicles.
Yes, it is, especially if you're not doing anything to make them not the loudest voices. If you don't like being associated with them, then you need to tell them off, and call them out when they say terrible things like that.
> I'm 26 and never used Facebook.

I'm 31 and I've never used tobacco. If people who used tobacco just made better choices they could be like me. They really need to ask themselves if tobacco really makes them happier. /s

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I suppose it's a bit facile to compare Facebook to an addictive drug, but the idea that just because you've never used Facebook, nobody else should want to doesn't make any sense. Not everybody's circumstances and background are going to look like yours and people will have different needs. My friends probably have a very different dynamic than your friends so what works for you might not work for me or vice-versa.
Because we have a pretty good idea of how humans react in traffic, but we're still a bit unsure about robots.
If you can use any domain you like, that is great.

MyURL.com/101/passwords /private /logins

Is the idea that you'd embed this in a way that it is automatically triggered? Or that you would leave it in plaintext somewhere and assume someone would eventually visit it if they were snooping around your stuff?
Yup, there's a blog post on what Webflow Ecommerce is here: https://webflow.com/blog/the-future-of-ecommerce-is-almost-h...
I do that regularly on my commute on a mixed-use trail. Half the time the pedestrian looks to their left and their feet follow. The other half have headphones on so they don't hear me anyway.

I might be exaggerating a bit.
A significant number of air accidents have resulted from unintended interaction of the autopilot and the pilot. Usually through some level of confusion about whether the autopilot is engaged or not (and 'how engaged', aircraft autopilots can have a complicated array of modes). There's a lot of learning in autonomous system to human interface design embodied in modern aircraft autopilots.
> Either way you pretty much have to deal with these problems today though, an awful lot of e-mail is sent/received over HTTPS

Nitpick: I believe you meant to say TLS rather than HTTPS.

The majority of sending indeed takes place over TLS, at least between top-tier senders and ISPs. Google's Safer Email Transparency Report shows how many inbound and outbound connections to/from Gmail are protected by TLS, and the numbers have been climbing steadily in recent years:

https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview
I'd like to think that the economic cost of regularly killing people on the streets is higher than getting to a place ten minutes faster. American traffic fatalities per year are basically equivalent to killing off a large town.

No one is saying reduce speeds everywhere. But in an urban context with lots of pedestrians, these speeds matter, and urban traffic is generally so stop-and-go and congested that drivers rarely sustain the top speed, and reducing it doesn't actually affect travel time by all that much.
> Magic Leap promised a completely goggles-free AR experience

Nowhere on that page does it say anything about "goggles-free AR". Heck, the page is so vague it's not even 100% clear it's talking about AR at all.

If you went and misinterpreted that vague marketing teaser as a promise of pie-in-the-sky technology, that's on you.