skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was the original story: "After the Uber collision, the car continued traveling at 38 miles per hour, according to the Tempe police chief"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/for-self-...

In other words, the car _never_ detected the pedistrian and never slowed down on its own. This has nothing to do with _when_ it saw her. It clearly didn't, yet both camera and LIDAR should have been able to.
I mean, the primary audience for these pieces are magazine subscribers, not people scanning the page coming in from link aggregators. Your suggestions might improve the experience for skimmers, but not necessarily for people who want to just read an interesting article.
Do you mind sharing what browser extension this is?
You're right, I completely missed that. I quite like the idea of other reviewers picking which is best, although it may take some fiddling to avoid abuse.

I wasn't suggesting reviewers currently can't tell you to go back and do more work, quite the opposite - that I think it's a valuable if often too arbitrary requirement. But if the writer isn't picking which comments to respond to my point is moot anyway.
What was the reason to build that feature?
This is completely flippant to say, since I've never built anything like this and don't understand the complexity behind it, but I'm surprised at how awkwardly it looks swimming. It's clear to my eyes that it's not a real fish.
Bumpstocks were banned in multiple steps, here in MA where they have a list of ALL people registered to own a firearm they sent a letter out "if you own a bump stock after x date, you're committing a felony". They got back 4 devices. In the WHOLE state. Even though everyone received a letter.

It's not going to be easy.

source:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/02/02/bump-stock-massachuset...
Beep boop does not compute
In 2014,"apps like Kogan's could no longer ask for data about a person's friends unless their friends had also authorized the app.", so what's matters with 2016(Brexit)&2017(Trump elected)? Do they know Trump will become nominee back in 2014?
This is fake news. That article is a sob story opinion piece with 5 peoples views. I deleted facebook 3 years ago, don't use whatsApp or insta and despise them but at least give some statistics
Please keep your bs of "Obama did it too!" for your FoxNews watch friends/family.
You just linked to someone who states (a) statistically, there must have been deaths from faulty tests, and (b) quotes a lawsuit over the negative health consequences of the tests.

It doesn't seem like your link jibes with your dismissive comment, not in spirit, nor in a strict technical sense.
YouTube bans videos that sell guns and accessories
>...I think there is a safe limit.

For adults.

For children and their brain development, the safe level is zero.
"...Fractl accessed the dark web through the browser Tor."

SMH The article, author, editor, and publication lost all credibility on subject with one single clause.
Reddit but only academics can participate? Probably better then peer review, but it won't have the aura.
To be honest: I’m not willing to delete my account just now. I fear people will just forget inviting me to events if I’m not in the list of friends.

But I will stop posting, liking, and commenting. Let’s slowly starve the monster.
Perhaps not “indefinitely” but the description doesn’t seem unreasonable.
Build quite large test facility with diverse artificial scenes. Pay people to walk/bike/drive around. Use external motion capture, GPS, stationary radars, etc. with additional offboard computation to act as a watchdog and step in when the onboard systems fail. Would be expensive, but the companies pursuing autonomous driving can afford it.
How about Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe?

https://www.amazon.com/Thing-Explainer-Complicated-Stuff-Sim...
So, Uber self driving cars also have humans operating them?
> The current theory is that it's suffocation due to brain malfunction.

Law requires hazardous chemicals be sprayed on the bed mat to protect(?) the child from fires. Try stuffing your face in an infant mattress and see if you notice the smell.
Zuckerberg Breaks Silence on Facebook Crisis as Criticism Grows
That betrays Ben’s lack of understanding of life science startups. The reason pretty much everyone I know from that world was skeptical was because of the composition of the board and the lack of a credible scientific advisory board. I have not seen too many companies in this space without a good SAB.
Thanks for playing into the story that Facebook created to set the conversation.

This was openly covered last year by BBC when they interviewed Trump's digital campaign manager at the time Theresa Hong [interview linked]. The campaign spent $16M on Facebook. Understandably, Facebook gave them the white glove treatment, even had their own employees embedded in Project Alamo (the headquarters of the campaign's digital arm).

But today Facebook claims they had no idea who one of their multi-million-dollar clients in 2015-2016 were. That it was just some random quiz-making hacker dude selling data to some other random company.

https://twitter.com/bbcstories/status/896752720522100742?lan...

This piece of work posted today by Facebook is what we call damage control. Don't expect the truth from it-- it will contain truths, but it will not be the truth of the matter. And don't let it set your dialogue, man.
Fun thought experiment:

1. Release video to police (with obvious shots of driver/passenger/whatever not paying attention to the road)

2. Investigation reveals accident was caused by driver/passenger/whatever reaction

3. ????

4. Profit (PR win/rescue)
And Google probably knows every last thing about you so they can gauge your willingness to pay (based on say your willingness to pay for other Google services, the number of impulse purchases you make on Amazon, etc).
j-walking, at night, no reflectors, in the dark.

Even if the camera was brighter uber isn't at fault anyway....
that would be good, although it may take some time for the insurance companies to start requiring it
I suspect the friends API feature was actually created for the Obama 2012 campaign. I know they used it very heavily in their phone banking app online in 2012. They were also collecting this data.
You can't increase ISO without washing out the areas in the street lights. One of the difficulties not being discussed here is that this is a terribly lit road, with large dark voids between the street lights. And the biker was crossing in the void.
"I hope this is just Uber’s usual criminal incompetence and dishonesty"

I, for one, certainly won't be betting against you there...
> In pitch darkness, IR cameras can only see more than a visual light camera if you somehow had IR headlights

Did you ever use a thermal IR camera ? What you're saying only apply to cheap chi-com cheapo"IR" CCD (the ones you find in home security), not the FLIR/military-grade stuff.
House passes right-to-try legislation curtailing FDA oversight
Well actually in management it is well known that your method wont work. There's a history of your approach, a lot of research and things we've learned from corrupt corporations, etc and there's a reason it's not used anymore. History, methods, purpose etc of corporate culture is quite interesting, and I fully encourage you to read more about if it interests you. Uber's new CEO has a monumental task ahead of him.
I get around the ads by muting the sound. It neuters the ad and I just look away for 30 seconds or however long the ad is. Consider it a temporary state of zen.
The lady can be seen fairly clearly (even in this poor quality video) at 0.03 and impact occurs at 0.04. That's 1s, which means a distance of approx 17m. If the guy was watching (sort of the point of him being there really) he could have slowed the car significantly and probably even stopped it. These are test vehicles being treated like prod vehicles. They should probably not be on streets with pedestrians quite so soon.
You’re wrong. People in cities do produce more and better work than others. They’re also easier to serve so more businesses are viable there.

Firms do not pay people more when rent is higher out of the kindness of their hearts, they do it because it’s worth the greater expense to them, because the workers are more skilled and more productive. Some of those higher wages accrue to landlords.

Relevant link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_agglomeration
If they're principled about the science and the procedure, sure. The problem with deeply held philosophical or religious beliefs in science is when they start with the conclusion and then contort the process to arrive at that conclusion.
Totally agree. Better to use the carrot than the stick, but it never hurts to have the stick as a backup plan.

Typical problem in finance is you have consistent top performers who are compensated very well and would never leave, you don't really need a non-compete for them, deferred bonus is more than enough, but also bring on junior team members who need to learn a lot of confidential information by necessity.

Hopefully all of the juniors become top performers too, but sometimes they don't. It's the middling guys where you worry about them taking all your secrets to another shop. They aren't very valuable to you, so you won't pay them a big bonus, but also not bad enough to fire, and their knowledge is more valuable elsewhere.
Also even if the camera was perfectly accurate about human field of view, no human driver in his right mind would drive so fast with such a poor visibility. Any judge would qualify this as reckless driving.

So either way the software failed:

-If AI misjudged Lidar information and didn’t compute the slow moving pedestrian it’s a fail

-If it didn’t have enough computer vision space it should have slowed down

Possibly in the second scenario the human test driver is at fault too because he should have noticed bad condition and hit the autopilot kill switch.
Ah sorry! Probably a moderator added it while trying to be helpful. In fact it may have been me :)
Reactivating accounts would only need to happen if the accuser had left immediately, which doesn't seem likely.

I think it is just that big companies have a way of doing things, are paying the bills, and employee privacy is close to last on their priority list—far behind CYA. They don't care that there is another potential solution.
This strikes me as a good example of rebutting a point that nobody made. I didn't say I'd hit her on purpose.

But if the conditions depicted in the video are accurate -- meaning, not artificially manipulated to make the lighting appear darker than it was -- then it would be awfully easy to rationalize away any guilt I might feel. If that amounts to victim-blaming, then so be it. When no malice is present, sometimes the victim really is to blame.

Put another way, this is one of those cases where it's better to focus on fixing the problem rather than the blame.
I hope many many ditch Facebook, a message must be sent. I personally made my last facebook comment "Das vidanya facebook" and disabled my account and deleted facebook & messenger apps.
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The bike in between the pedestrian and vehicle likely confounded the lidar: too complex a 3D surface, little return from radar. Is it a solid object or a swarm of insects?

Also how well does lidar work against surfaces like textured dark clothing?

This will be a learning experience for everyone, and Waymo is really out of place condemning Uber for this.
This is a false dichotomy, Facebook is in no way required or even useful to keep in touch with anyone.
Obama campaign pioneered tactics used by Cambridge Analytica.
His PR/legal team responded.
I'd do it, but what I really want is some kind of mechanism that ties a "real" person to a user. I think what it needs is a "post anonymously" checkbox or similar. The goal is to prevent sock puppets. Which is one of my biggest complaints on Reddit today. Any major subreddit that discusses politics has become an echo chamber that is clearly being sock puppeted by both the alt-right and the mainstream side of the democratic party.
> This is so far removed from how I interact with the world around me that I have a hard time empathising.

Maybe. Or maybe you completely misunderstood what I said:

> I… your suggestion for the future is to “not think about them”? Ehh.. no thank you?

I didn't suggest anything of the sort. I claimed that when I lose touch with people, it is because they're not on my mind, and am I not being reminded of them through external means (like Facebook). Per definition you cannot really miss something that is not on your mind, now can you? This isn't a conscious decision, it's just an acceptance of the fact that I cannot know everything, and that everything must pass. If they are on my mind, however, I choose to take action and stay in touch.

So the real reason you can't empathise with me is that you're not understanding me. I am not telling you to not think about friends. I am saying: would you have remembered and missed someone if Facebook hadn't reminded you of their existence? Are you even aware of how many people you have met that you don't remember? Do you miss them? Hint: you don't, again by definition.

Think of advertising and how much of it revolves around creating the feeling that you are missing something and that this void needs to be filled, or that you are missing out on something that really, you don't.

> more than once, I’ve gone back to a place I visited over a decade ago. I went on Facebook, found the person that used to live there, got in touch, and had varying types of “fun”, as humans call it.

Real classy implication that I am a robot there.

Look, I do this all the time myself. Tell me where I am stating anything that would suggest I don't. The only part where I disagree with you is the implication that Facebook is the only way to find old friends.

In fact, the opposite is true: putting in the effort to track someone down is immensely gratifying and builds connections in ways that "staying in touch" via seeing each others Facebook timeline isn't. I put effort into staying in touch with the people I love. Very robotic, clearly.

Meanwhile, Facebook creates this false sense of safety, of still being part of a community we don't actually put effort in, because our brains think that popping up on each others Facebook wall a good enough approximation of actual IRL contact to be nearly fooled by it.

> The crucial point here is that I can’t tell in advance which places, until I decide to go.*

I fail to see how this affects anything about your supposed need for Facebook? I know where most of my old friends live. Whenever know I'm going to visit their city, I send them an email, a text message, or even a hand-written letter on occasion.
Sadly, that seems to be the case.

Cambridge Analytica did far worse than Obama's team. They lied about the purpose of the app to steal social graph data. But fundamentally, the abuse of social graph information is the same. They may have gone to different ends (getting people to vote for obama, vs getting people to not vote for clinton), but they are fundamentally the same types of activity.

You can't tell it was appropriate for Obama's social media team to steal the social graph and use that to target people (who did not approve their information being obtained).
1. A driver who is not looking at the road cannot "potentially intervene", and is as good as no driver at all..

2. These companies seem to be doing nothing to make sure that the drivers will pay attention always and is always in a position to intervene. They even seemed to allow smart phone usage while they are in the car.

So, according to them, the human behind the wheel is just a decoy to prevent backlash from officials and the public, so that they can always say, "look, there is a human behind the wheel if something goes wrong"...

Also, even if they implement some measures, they can only make sure that the driver has eyes on the road. Not that they are actually paying attention. A driver who is actively driving the car will notice a lot more stuff than a passenger who is just looking at the road. There is no way to make a human pay that kind of attention with out actually driving the car. So at best, your "driver behind the wheel" is as good as a passive passenger.

And as told before, the companies are not even trying to make sure of that.
replying to the comment above. It is not a terribly lit road. You are being fooled by the terrible dynamic range of the camera.
You don’t really need a cache flush - you just blow out the caches manually. Which is conveniently straight line code that modern jits are really good at optimizing :)

No the fix for meltdown is to essentially force a tlb flush (as Linux is doing).

Note that only resolves is reading kernel memory, it doesn’t resolve Spectre. That basically requires browsers to be super sure about their bounds checking logic.

I don’t know what other engines did, but in JSC all indexing operations are now essentially:

If (idx < length) return data[idx & mask]

Where each indexable object stores a length mask that is essentially the next power of two up from the length.

It takes up space on every object (a word for the mask) reuquired removing butterflies and had a significant perf impact :-/

I’m 100% sure @pizlonator will say I have completely bollocksed up this description :)
Well, the trend has been going on for a while. May we not forget the passenger pigeon?

Naturalists in the 1800's would wipe out entire species getting specimens. I don't know if humans are all that great at tending the Earth's biomass.
I'm not in favour of nationalization as a rule. I can see it being a populist thing to do in those countries.

Facebook are the agent of foreign states, we must control our own critically important infrastructure! (cheers) Free internet for all! (more cheers)

Populism is so hot right now.
Reducing Gap Between Project Tasks List and Page Footer Information in .NET Apps
Absolutely correct. I've met people in Asia (Myanmar and Nepal) who have just accessed the internet for the first time in the past 12-24 months (through their Android smartphones). But they don't know the true internet - they only know the internet through the Facebook app. They use it like we use Google and web browsers.

To them, Facebook is the internet. They don't have email accounts. They don't use the browser. They don't search the web. I met someone in a small town who never even used the maps feature. I tried to think of what value the true internet might bring them, but when I suggested that "you can search for news and read other things", the response was that they already did that with the Facebook App.

One guy handed me his phone, so I could add myself as a friend on his Facebook. While I started typing my name, I noticed his search history... and to him, Facebook was even a substitute for what people in the USA might use Incognito mode for!

I would call Facebook their internet portal, but it's not really a portal to anything - Facebook is just the entire internet to them.

Buzzfeed (yes, Buzzfeed) did an excellent writeup of Myanmar, that mirrors what I saw there: https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/fake-news-spreads-tru....

“Nobody asks, they don’t care about the email,” he said, explaining that most don’t know that creating an email address is free, and easy. “No one is using that. They have Facebook.”
I wonder if other fish will interpret it as injured and attempt to eat it :)
and also manuals for how to build things that the librarians dont like
We don't even know that lithium deficiency is definitively a thing, it's not like there's an established RDA. There could be any number of reasons why it's correlated with lower violent crime.
I've always assumed everything I type on a work machine is property of my employer, and thus can be reviewed, copied, etc.

I find astounding how many companies use a third-party messaging system for all their communications.

Do they not realize that anyone with access to Slack's data can read their stuff? That's over 1,000 people[1] if you only count Slack employees!

Do you really think that competitors or blackhats are above blackmailing or paying one of them for a data dump?

[1] As of March 2018, according to this Mashable article: https://mashable.com/2018/03/10/how-slack-uses-slack/
Sometimes people who scrutinize things fail to see it from the working class's perspective (the "poorly educated" be they white or black, or something else.) I think there are quite a few people on HN who never hung out with poor people or never paid attention to how they may think, in some situations.

If their "horse" wins, whatever the means, they're glad it wins. Case in point is O.J. Everyone knew he got away with a crime, but despite that, people were happy to see him stick it to the man. If Obama won on FB data, people who voted for him, on balance, would not care. People who voted for Trump, on balance, would not care, if he won on the back of FB data --we don't know the actual degree of the usage, but for argument's sake, let's pretend it was material.

Even "highly educated" people are susceptible to this bias.
You are still forcing others to use it through network effects. Either let it go completely, or don't pretend you're fighting it. We need more people to draw a line in the sand and ditch this oppressive system completely. Facebook wants you to be afraid of living without it.
There is no way, full stop, that Arizona regulators allowed a driverless car with only a single dashcam quality level camera as telemetry to drive around. Either Uber broke the law and let a car on the road that doesn't have working LIDAR and IR and possibly RADAR or the software just doesn't work.
Researchers discovering problems? No worries, fire all the researchers!
you probably need to down regulate your dopamine response in general for all aspects of your life. try reading a book, concentrating for periods of time, not concentrating for periods of time, a long walk, or meditation. over time you can overcome automatic behavior, its probably healthier for you anyway
The reason I still invest in Facebook as a company is because of their ownership in these other platforms.

I think the classic site’s days are numbered but it will be a while before it does a complete shutdown, if ever. At that point Facebook might decide to just completely redesign it into something different and recapture the lost audience.
If i drank 2-3 cups in a whole day I'd stay up all night.

I stick to 1 cup in the morning and tea for the rest of the day.
Java 8 made some changes to type inference that can, in certain edge cases, cause generic method calls to bind differently. While it’s _mostly_ backwards compatible, it’s not entirely.
See comment above. We routinely walk around (and avoid objects) even though the entire field is uniformly bathed in the light of a single light source.
If you can get to the site, _chances are_ it is not down.
As for it being "hacked", _most likely_ you wouldn't know until your hacked data was made public or the company disclosed it.
BTW I can access it.
I used to run some irc channels back in the early 90’s, and they were true free for all’s. We had a lot of ftp’s, a lot of anonymous users, and it was a full time job keeping it clear of child pornography. Let me tell you, it takes something out of you when you see that stuff, and it’s something you don’t get back. We weren’t even aiming for a free speech utopia, but we were unregulated and that was enough.

That kind of porn. The freaks and creeps are parasites on free speech, but like parasites, hard to manage. If you open a free speech haven, they’ll be first through the door. I don’t recommmend it. I don’t know what the solution is, but it isn’t too much censorship, and it isn’t too little. I’m afraid that the reality is that as people we need to do the hard work of a balancing act, so any ideology that is too unbalanced is doomed to fail. Absolute freedom is as doomed as absolute tyranny.