skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is "lack of integrity"? It can't be defined granularly enough by a CEO. He can make an example of some particularly egregious behavior--and that does help--but there are millions of small decisions that happen every day.. and the employees will need to decide if each of those actions represents a "lack of integrity" or not. And the truth is, they already have some practices, that they aren't going to question unless directly prompted to do so. Just as you repeat numerous rituals and habits regularly--you don't reexamine them until something forces you to.

What this means is that the CEO cannot order everyone to behave with integrity. They must be convinced of what integrity is, what type of behavior that represents, etc. So that when they make these small decisions, they are consistent with the culture the CEO is trying to create.

You can't order them to behave with integrity--because that's so vague as to be meaningless. Everyone will make up their own definition of integrity, and it'll always fit so they turn out to be right.

So I don't see the false dichotomy... There's no order a CEO can give that will change the culture in the way you describe (at least not in a large company like Uber).

(I think it's worth pointing out that the people inside of Uber who made the bad decisions likely didn't see them as bad or wrong. Their mission and culture supported those decisions, and they believe them to be right. So when you say 'behave with integrity'... that's meaningless, because they believed they were right when they made the wrong decision initially. They were already acting with what they believed to be integrity.)
I didn’t see anything about light adjustment time in that article. Can the human eye adjust between high and low light conditions faster than a camera?
Looks like the human in the car was at fault? If he was watching the road she would have survived, and that's exactly what he was paid to do.
Yes, because unlike a lot of 'new world' cities, there are huge areas of Paris that are a consistent 2-4 stories high.

See e.g. the Google Maps images in this article [0] discussing Australian vs. European cities.

[0]: https://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2015/11/30/how-dense...
I have found Dennett's opponents to be an unreliable source on what he actually believes, but the question of who holds which beliefs is really beside the point - we are not going to understand consciousness through appeals to authority or other ad hominem arguments.
Not that I know of, but given the similarities in the underlying APIs - we would be open to supporting this and help guide the implementation if someone is interested in sending a PR. Feel free to file an issue - https://github.com/appbaseio/dejavu/issues/.
That could very well be the case. This could have been just me being ignorant.
But "2 billion" is the number they have to brag/do a sales pitch with. Heck, I have 3 accounts, one I rarely use and one I don't even remember the credentials any more.

Come to think of it, I have a 4th account. And how many do the botfarms have?
Police are also nearly always pedestrians, so what?
> Pedestrians crossing outside of a crosswalk are supposed to yield to traffic.

Pedestrians always have the right-of-way. They might get a ticket for jaywalking in some cities, but it's never permissible to hit someone with your car, regardless of whether they're in a crosswalk. Vehicular manslaughter is no minor infraction, and Uber can expect a civil suit from the victim's family even if there are no criminal charges.
This author clearly does not understand the actual beliefs of the people he calls "Deniers". Here is the "smoking gun" paragraph:

One of the strangest things the Deniers say is that although it seems that there is conscious experience, there isn’t really any conscious experience: the seeming is, in fact, an illusion. The trouble with this is that any such illusion is already and necessarily an actual instance of the thing said to be an illusion. Suppose you’re hypnotized to feel intense pain. Someone may say that you’re not really in pain, that the pain is illusory, because you haven’t really suffered any bodily damage. But to seem to feel pain is to be in pain. It’s not possible here to open up a gap between appearance and reality, between what is and what seems.

And here is how a typical "Denier" would respond:

The move you are making here is not actually a statement of fact; it's a definition. You are defining "qualia" to be "those things for which seeming is identical to being". Which is fine as far as it goes; you can't argue with a definition. But then you must also admit that this thing you've defined, "qualia", does not have some other important properties: for example, your qualia do not infallibly tell you about your own internal state. You admit this, because you give the example of someone being hypnotized to feel intense pain even though they have not suffered any actual bodily damage.

In short, the problem is not that some people (the "Deniers") deny that consciousness exists. The problem is that other people (like the author of this article) claim that consciousness, real consciousness, has properties that it does not, and cannot, have.
A fully attentive human driver might have hit this person regardless. Would they have hit them while taking no evasive action whatsoever? No swerving, no brakes?
A camera captures the entire scene in a frame with a fixed dynamic range. Human vision builds the scene with spatially variant mapping, the scene is made from many frames with different exposures stacked together in real time.

I'm concerned about poor scotopic adaptation due to the rather bright light source inside the car - maybe it's the display he's looking at. I see a prominent amount of light on the ceiling all the way to the back of the car and right on his face. It's really straight forward to collect the actual scene luminances from this particular car interior and exterior in this location, but my estimation is the interior luminance is a bigger problem for adaptation than the street lights because the display he's presumably looking at has a much wider field of view, and he's looking directly at it for a prolonged period of time. It's possible he's not even scotopically adapted because of this.

And also why is he even looking at the screen? He's obviously distracted by something. Is this required for testing? Ostensibly he's supposed to drive the car first. Is this display standard equipment? Or is it unique to it being an Uber? Or is it an entertainment device?

Retest with an OEM lit interior whose driver is paying attention. We already know the autonomous setup failed. But barriers are in place than also increase the potential for the human backup driver to fail.
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if you stay logged in, you are serving them your browsing history in indirect ways.
Oh I see. That makes more sense. (Oof, that moment you realize that you are the wildebeest carcass in a metaphor)
So what is used instead of ESBs today?
Arizona and Tempe especially have lots of darker roads. The LIDAR/computer vision tuning at night doesn't seem right. Maybe it was adjusting for the changing street light brightness but yes this is one situation and the vehicle had just come from the Mill bridge that has festive lights that are strung along the bridge [1].

This is a situation though where the LIDAR should have clearly been better than it was. Maybe it was in a strange state after having seen all the lights and then complete darkness, looks like they were headed north on Mill Ave over the bridge [2] just past the 202 where it is indeed very dark at night and probably the spot right here [3] which matches up with the building in the background, the other way is South and is busy/urban by ASU. They had just crossed a lit up bridge, then dark underpass, then into this area [3]. The area that it happened in [3] does have bike lanes, sidewalks and a crossing sidewalk close by [4] but is by a turn out so not a legal crossing however there are lots of trails through there.

This video is worse than expected by far and may be forever harmful to the Uber brand in terms of software.

In AZ I usually see the self-driving cars out in the day, maybe there is lots of night tuning/work to do yet.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/kwxjW36.jpg

[2] https://goo.gl/maps/ey1RA47tKBJ2

[3] https://goo.gl/maps/gpugzAZKxcS2

[4] https://goo.gl/maps/Ni18GfjMP962
Well, there's also a question of whether the hardware is up to the task.
Timeline:

00:03 - The feet of the pedestrian are visible

00:04 - The entire body of the pedestrian is visible

00:05 - Collision occurs

If we assume that the computer only had this video as input, then the computer only had 2 seconds to avoid the collision. That would be unavoidable for the computer. But the fact that there was no sign of slowing down or braking in these 2 seconds is pretty alarming.

But it sounds unlikely that this video was the only input to the computer. Did the car have multiple cameras to "see" bright as well as dark objects at night? I would imagine that a self-driving car driving at night would use multiple cameras (tuned to various level of brightness) so that the car can match human level vision?
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In my high school drivers' education class, they specifically taught us to watch for feet that could be stepping into the roadway behind parked cars.
If those books were nothing but gun sale magazines and escort service advertisements I suppose you're right.
You may find this interesting, if you haven't heard of it before: http://musicforprogramming.net/
It will be a minor blip. Most users are utterly addicted and don't value their privacy over their convenience despite what they say.

I deleted my account in 2010 and there was absolutely no change in my daily behavior, but then I wasn't a chronic addict either. Honestly, if users haven't figure out by now that their privacy is utterly void when they use Facebook they absolutely don't care.
I'd love to get off both Twitter and Facebook, but that network effect...

I went and had a look at Vero, but it doesn't allow posting text, only associated with an image, movie, link or book. I checked how Diaspora was going, but the most popular pods have 2K users, and there are no pods in NZ or even Australia.

I guess I should get off my chuff and set up a New Zealand pod, but life is full enough already without taking that on.

Maybe we should all go back to blogging.
I'm not just saying that Wyoming has negative properties (everywhere has tradeoffs).

I'm saying that Wyoming doesn't have the physical, financial, and educational infrastructure to support a modern computer industry.

EDIT: also, I don't live in San Fran.
What are you saying exactly, that a human driver would be at fault here given the video evidence?

I believe it's entirely possible for a robot to solve this problem with proper Radar and maybe LiDAR going forward. But I would be extremely skeptical about anyone claiming a human would have been at fault...
which chrome extension are you using, plz?
Sure. Broccoli is a cash crop, and 90% is grown in California. There are growers associations, etc.
trusted by _who_ in order to get approval for testing?
Which example from that article would be addressed by Dropbox's VDP?
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No, it's not, because regular people don't buy a lifetime worth of food or electricity and pay it off over 20-30 years.

It's about keeping the market from playing havoc with your populace, whether that's through a large rise or large drop.

The rest of your comment is just an extrapolation of that failed comparison.
I don't think you can ship millions of devices that randomly hit on a URL that you don't control or own.

Example.com is for examples (so that if you copy & paste my code, you don't do weird things). I am not convinced that example.com would appreciate the worlds phones to use it at a whim..

(Plus, I'm not sure that's possible without controlling the domain. Not sure if the current ways to detect a capture portal are satisfied by a random 200 OK or actually _check the content_ of the reply. Which needs you to control said content)
I feel like I'm the only one that is super tired of all this blockchain junk. Just like any other tech, you can't solve everything with it.
I hope I'm wrong but I think this in no way bringing facebook down.

Keeping in touch with friends & family is too important to ditch entirely, and having everyone switch to a different platform is very hard. That said, my whole extended family uses whats app nowadays...
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A number of comments here have touched on the fact that she was apparently homeless. I spent 5.7 years homeless. Well before that, I had a college class on homelessness and did an internship at a homeless shelter. I am author of the website the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide.

I've made a few comments in other discussions about some of the ways her status may have contributed to this tragedy. I'm just going to link to them with a short identifying blurb. Hopefully, taking them out of context won't make this go weird places.

Potential suicidal tendencies:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633727

Potentially jaywalking dangerously and darted out of nowhere:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16625242

Possibly poor health contributed to her death:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16625076

I am leaving this here in part because "She was high or crazy" is a common stereotype about homelessness and it tends to not be a compassionate view. There are myriad ways her status could have contributed to the situation without her being either high or crazy. Yes, she could have also been one (or both) of those two things. But plenty of housed people get high or have mental health issues and we don't hand wave off their deaths as "they must have been high or crazy."

So, my hope is to be respectful of people whose feeling is her status could have contributed while putting out hopefully better information. Yes, her status may have contributed. But there is no reason to complete that line of thinking with "because homeless people are usually crazy and/or junkies."

There is a huge shortage of affordable housing in this country. A link backing that up is provided in one of my previous comments. These days, a lot of homeless people are just poor and can't afford rent, even while employed.
What you wrote made me realize that regulations/laws about equipment/performance/computational standards would probably be managed at the federal level anyway (e.g. NHTSA). Though America is not necessarily the lead in autonomous travel, right? How far along are nations like Singapore and Germany in having legal frameworks for autonomous safety?
Waymo actively test edge cases like this both in their test environments in the desert and via simulation, they have teams dedicated to coming up with weird edge situations like this (pushed bicycle) where the system does not respond appropriately so that it can be improved. All of these situations are kept and built up into a suite of regression tests. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/insid...
It's not just 'anything' that objects are extended with in Ruby, they are extended with suitable methods pertaining to the domain at hand. 'seconds' is a conversion method of one type into another. You might as well ask why do objects have a 'toString' method. Because it is convenient.
Typo on your homepage image;

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"backgroung"
I have a Forester as well, and it detects things in much wider angles. It even sees cars 160 degrees to the side of me and 30' away when backing up.
A great many people that I communicate with stopped using email regularly ages ago. For younger folks the means of communication are messenger apps and social platforms.
I have one, not everything gets blocked.
Why is the backup human driver staring at the dashboard most of the time? Should he not be closely watching the road? It appears he lost a few valuable seconds right before the collision because his attention was diverted to the interior of the car rather than focussing that attention on the streets?
Yup! AMD did a presentation on doing exactly this at GDC this morning.
weev attempted to extort and blackmail AT&T. To paint him as an innocent well-intentioned security research is a slap in the face to everyone who is.

Charging him under the CFAA was a ridiculous abuse of that law
goatse!

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Similar story here: a while back I installed a browser extension to delay the loading of unproductive sites that I was habitually visiting just to distract myself from tasks, imposing a 30 second wait barrier. What it's revealed is that there are some sites that I'm very willing to wait 30 seconds to visit (e.g. if there's a certain song on YouTube that I want to play in the background), but not once have I ever bothered to wait 30 seconds for Facebook to load. My fingers instinctively type the domain, the delay page appears, and then I close the tab. Makes it easy to realize how little value Facebook was providing me.
In a typical American setting (suburban, no useful public transportation) it's a great way to keep kids from going anywhere until they get a driver's license / car.
Just as I developed a habit of listening to YouTube videos, I can unlearn that habit.
I will never pay. I will find new sources of music, including my existing music collection. This will merely Drive me to other ways of getting music to listen to.

I find myself offended by any corporation to attempt to manipulate me. I will not choose them explicitly because of their attempts to manipulate me. If they attempt to frustrate me, they will lose me for life.

In short, you are valuable YouTube – but not that valuable.
> The whole reason many people on here have been advocating for self driving cars is that they can see obstructions more or less perfectly in the dark with LIDAR. I am much more interested in what that sensor said.

That is not the whole reason, it is one of many reasons.

> To be clear, I am not blaming the victim here, but do wear high visibility clothing when you're a pedestrian near high speed roads at night.

Yes, stupid homeless person.
> Why not show it rather than asking for my permission? But since you asked, please do. And show me the one for argentina while you are at it. Here is brazil's external debt. Increased 250% in 10 years.

That number is irrelevant, look at the composition:

http://www.tesouro.fazenda.gov.br/ca/web/stn/a-divida-em-gra...

I guess that settles it then. Maybe you shouldn't talk about the economic situation of a country you seem to know nothing about.

> Foreign investment != external debt.

Indeed, but foreign investment creates local stocks of capital, lowering internal interest rates and allowing for the government to borrow internally without significantly impacting businesses and households.

> But you wrote that it was quite the opposite just a sentence ago? I'm saying that korea, taiwan, japan and china did not depend on foreign borrowing. You conflate foreign investment with borrowing. Then you contradict yourself.

As you said yourself, Foreign investment != external debt. Forgot about that?

> Well then they need to increase their savings rate or limit their borrowing?

Both. Increasing savings rate takes many years to generate a stock of capital. In the meantime, they need to reduce government spending and borrow internationally.
No, as others have discussed, driving above the speed limit when it is “the middle of the light with no lights on” means the driver is at fault as well.
This makes the most sense. It's probably a redundant system: off the shelf dash cam not connected to anything but power. The police could easily extract the sdcard.

The actual car data will need to be collected and released by the NTSB and will probably come in a few weeks.
Holiday cards and your yard decoration like people have for eons.
Good point, could be as simple as an aiming issue.

I'm not sure how important the headlights are to the sensor package used by Uber, but this driver needed all the help she could get.
Beavis?

:)
IIRC, high-resolution thermal infrared cameras are ITAR controlled-- which means they are not available for consumer applications above an abysmal resolution (something like 320x280).

Public safety like this seems like a great impetus to do what was done for GPS, and declassify this crucial (and now really quite mature) technology for the general public.
My statement isn't meant to be a rule for all things in life, the difference between an apartment and Slack are kinda huge.
I will have to relook at this - the comment is from a year ago when they weren't using React.

On a cursory look, it still seems to use a Node.JS based server [1]. One of the key side effects of needing a server is that there is a more involved distribution + installation process. You just can't run it on a static server like github pages or as a browser extension.

[1] https://github.com/elastic/kibana/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ha...
Yeah, absolutely I sent an email to the weak connections I wanted to retain, though it didn't include all of them. To be fair, i'd been pruning for years. The CA thing wasn't such a surprise (though it's impacts certainly were) because I've been a paranoid shit for most of my recent life.

I had been using a false name on my primary FB since I started the account in ~2008... funny anecdote, I once got a popup on my real account with a question about my "fake" profile: "Is this a real person?" Yes, of course... and now I'm going to make a post on my wall asking my friends to please say "yes" if they got the same question.
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Legally correct, but technically wrong. When it comes to judging whether self-driving cars are safe enough to be allowed on the roads with the rest of us, incidents like this are the kiss of death. With a human driver at the wheel this woman would be alive, even though she was jaywalking. This is going to set back public acceptance of self-driving technology a ways.
Yeah, first I’ve heard of this and I read a lot of different sources for news.

>The bill is worded so broadly that it could even be used against platform owners that don’t know that their sites are being used for trafficking.

The legal creep on this will be astounding.

>SESTA/FOSTA upends that balance, opening platforms to new criminal and civil liability at the state and federal levels for their users’ sex trafficking activities.

Hmm, so if traffickers happen to check the weather from noaa.gov would it get shut down? I’m sure not but this seems like a similar site could.

>While we can’t speculate on the agendas of the groups behind SESTA, we can study those same groups’ past advocacy work. Given that history, one could be forgiven for thinking that some of these groups see SESTA as a mere stepping stone to banning pornography from the Internet or blurring the legal distinctions between sex work and trafficking.

Ahh, the moral police are here to save your soul.
I was under the impression this was just footage from an off-the-shelf dashcam. I could figure out how to get video out of mine without an instructions manual. Is that not the case here?
It seems like this perspective may come from the idea that processing camera input is a formality. But the best estimates of the practical computing power of the brain are based on its visual processing capacity, because we know that's a hard problem. CAPTCHAs all depend on humans' ability to process images semantically faster than a computer (spambot). While it probably isn't unsolvable, I don't think it's surprising that this is consistently a challenge.
IIRC IR is ITAR controlled and not available above abysmal resolution. I am curious if this limitation applies to self-driving cars, too.

If so, then it's really time to do what was done for GPS and declassify it for use by the general public. It's a public safety/public good issue.