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People think emotionally, not rationally. People have all sorts of greatly distorted views on the risks of various activities.
It's also not done because it is mathematically impossible to certify software as 'bug-free' in the general case.

Software isn't like civil engineering where you can mathematically prove that a design is sound.
That text was so long ago I don't think it's relevant anymore. Oprah Winfrey was also crack cocaine smoker in a cycle of abusive relationships in her late twenties. If people choose to change their perspectives they can, and everything indicates that Mark has matured quite a bit since then.
That report ends by saying essentially, "it may not be possible to prove the safety of self-driving cars". [1] So the value here is questionable and the same logic could apply to anything with a low frequency of occurrence. The value of air bags by this measure was not proven until they were already mandated.

[1] "even with these methods, it may not be possible
to establish the safety of autonomous vehicles prior to making them available for public use"
Agreed, it reminds me of the Game Dev games with all the bubbles popping up as you progress that was addictive and fun.
But this is never going to happen so let's reduce it for bankers. With these sums they incentivize people to participate in shady stuff and then cash out by jumping ship on time.
Lots of strenuous agreeing with me (vs the article) here, if you actually read what I've said, along with hypothetical tangents that may be worth thinking about but don't belong in a reply to me. Much of this I've addressed, see complex for the pilot, simpler plane. Many distinctions can be made, but less-organized societies have no shortage of complexity and variety (the armies the Romans met in Gaul had enormous variety in equipage, and thanks to little training, all too much variety in the responses of soldiers in battle.) The (Western) Romans didn't go down due to complexity, and Gibbon can't be cited for that claim, as was done. The standardization of Roman shields allowed them to pack together and shield soldiers better, their uniformity was not a "liability".
will never happen. least not with any explicit depth sensors. any car with lidar has depth perception orders of magnitude better than yours and would never chase an object merely because it resembles road markings
That was (and still is) CA's supposed selling point. What's doubtful is that the Trump campaign were convinced this worked, or that there's any reason why anyone else should be. It just doesn't match up with the reporting I've seen based on campaign sources talking about how they designed ads and targetted people. It also seems absurd on its face - they're essentially claiming to be able to not only do a accurate psychological classification on someone based on what they post online, but actually use that to work out how to manipulate their minds. It's hard enough designing a repeatable and meaningful personality classification with the full co-operation of the test subjects.

Not only that, the one campaign we can confirm did use CA's tech - Ted Cruz in the primaries - flopped, and it certainly didn't get rave reports on its accuracy, ability to convince, and understanding of how they thought from those it was targetting.

Edit: Brad Parscale's actually on video saying that the campaign didn't use psychographics because they didn't think it actually worked: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/secret-weapon/ (6:35ish).
And keep trying to dismiss out of hand the people saying and doing objectively racist things, and see where it gets us as a society.
> It's a poison.

That's the truth. I quit Facebook and most similar sites, and my social life improved quickly. I also get a lot more done without those distractions.

I block all of their companies in my hosts file and avoid their software libraries (React, etc.) whenever possible too. The company is having a terrible effect on the world and should not be supported. It was fundamentally broken from the start. A platform that connects all the world's people already exists -- it's called the WWW.

I know people who are desperately trying to quit, but they can't, because the site has locked their social connections within the platform, and they are addicted.
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San Francisco used to have rail streetcars all over the city, many more than the 6 lines now.
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As someone preparing to lay down a small (1/5 scale) railroad - you vastly underestimate the expense, difficulty, and maintenance requirement of rail. Switches and diamonds (intersections) are especially troubleprone. 2% is considered a serious grade. And derailments happen, more frequently with higher speeds and deferred maintenance.

If our rail network was as potholed and badly maintained as our roads, people would die in train accidents every day.

Rails are great for intensive, carefully manicured routes. They are not a substitute for roads.
They have been both repurchasing stock and paying dividends for several years...
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Which by the way is idiotic. Last century, people switched from "crash" to "accident" for exactly the same reason -- to shift liability from the machine to the operator. IT's a nonsensical euphemism treadmill.

The idea that an "accident" isn't the drivers false is an absurd premise. Drivers are obligated to be diligent. "Crash" is a neutral term that doesn't assign liability to anyone.
Yeah, but converting all of our cities to 'well-designed' cities is not really an option at this point. Not only that, but millions and millions of people live in places that aren't cities.
The regular mode will be F2P, it's just currently in the "founder's pack" stage of F2P games.
I'm going to say most of it that gets paid decently is. You might easily get $120k in the Bay Area, but that's nowhere near a good salary for there.
Seems like you're jumping to conclusions here. Let's wait to see what exactly happened. I highly doubt that any of these companies just use "straight" ML. For complex applications, there's generally a combination of rules-based algorithm and statistical ML based ones applied to solve problems. So to simply: highly suspect predictions aren't just blinded followed.
>If you're the kind of person who votes based on targeted advertising, or the hyperbolic posts of people who vote based on targeted advertising, don't ask Facebook to change. Get the f### off Facebook.

Yeah - see that's not how it works. CA and companies like them have developed far more clever ways to influence you than targeted advertising. The best of these techniques go undetected by you, and are coordinated by machine learning systems which know more about you than you do. Basically, if you are online, you are under their influence whether you know it or not. Don't fall for the illusion that you aren't susceptible. As emotional as you appear to be from your posting style, you are exactly the kind of person that they target.
I once read somewhere that privacy issues (which are very important to us, IT people) were not treated enough because they didn't have enough blood on their hands.

At least with automated cars, there will be blood.
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Accidents are avoidable. Legislating euphemisms is feelgood nonsense.
For example, Trump is making the ACA fail hard and fast, instead of the slow drawn-out death it would have under Clinton. That's less stagnation, more turning over the rocks and letting the earthworms crawl out.

And of course you've got basic stuff like court appointees, his are way better if you're conservative or libertarian.
Your argument assumes that Trump has both the knowledge to determine what policies would result in positive net change in the heartland and the power to get then in place. Even with the same party in control of Congress, President's don't always get what they want, and moreover politicians are quite often wrong in their assessment of what policies will produce the results they prefer.

And that’s even before considering that politicians often have interests in policy other than reelection, and reelection is often secondary and instrumental to those signs rather than primary over them.
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Like the one that happened some days ago with Occulus helmets.
Very little of what goes into a current-generation self-driving car is based on machine learning [1]. The reason is exactly your point -- algorithmic approaches to self-driving are much safer and more predictable than a machine learning algorithms.

Instead, LIDAR should exactly identify potential obstacles to the self-driving car on the road. The extent to which machine learning is used is to classify whether each obstacle is a pedestrian, bicyclist, another car, or something else. By doing so, the self-driving car can improve its ability to plan, e.g., if it predicts that an obstacle is a pedestrian, it can plan for the event that the pedestrian is considering crossing the road, and can reduce speed accordingly.

However, the only purpose of this reliance on the machine learning classification should be to improve the comfort of the drive (e.g., avoid abrupt braking). I believe we can reasonably expect that within reason, the self-driving car nevertheless maintains an absolute safety guarantee (i.e., it doesn't run into an obstacle). I say "within reason", because of course if a person jumps in front of a fast moving car, there is no way the car can react. I think it is highly unlikely that this is what happened in the accident -- pedestrians typically exercise reasonable precautions when causing the road.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~zkolter/pubs/levinson-iv2011.pdf
Wouldn't LIDAR pick it up still?
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Great story. I can confirm much of your experiences and observations.
I truly think /r/T_D and pepe/4chan will become a rich source for future studies.
They truly took online media and mass manipulation to a next level.
How do you test it not on a public road?
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For the same reason we don't leave the investigation of plane-crashes to the attorney general and the courts.
We care about more than 'who should we punish for this' in this case.

We want to know what happened, how it happened, how we could have prevented it, how likely it is to happen again, what assumptions or overlooked details lie at the heart of this.

The required level of expertise, effort and precision here are higher than in a regular traffic accident.
Moreover, the required skill-set, knowledge base, and willingness to work in a new area here make this an exceptional case.

Finally, the outcome of this will be much more than liability in a single case. This could set the precedent for an entire field of industry. This could be the moment we find out self-driving cars are nearly a pipe-dream, or it could be the moment we kill self-driving cars at the cost of millions of preventable traffic accidents.
This investigation just might determine a lot, again, that makes it exceptional.
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I think releasing the developer hardware too early can ruin the whole product launch. People will form their opinion based on the reviews of the devkit hardware and sample apps.

Launching the consumer product without apps is not good either. By launching the SDK early, developers can play around with it. Maybe they can even pick serious and promising apps to some "insider" program and provide access to real hardware.
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The Oculus Rift supposedly made that possible in one of the latest versions. But I'm curious why you strain your neck looking at a monitor and wouldn't looking at a virtual monitor. Don't you just need to adjust the monitor physical location to whatever the virtual location you would use?
> Why would Uber agree to such regulations?

Uber doesn't get to pick and choose what regulations they wish to follow.

> Uber would just set their self-driving cars free and eat whatever fine/punishment comes with it.

That sounds quite negligent and a cause for heightened repercussions if anything happens.

The strange attitude you display is the _reason_ there are regulations.
Saying "The market sets pricing" is admitting that it's arbitrary.

"If we fully deregulated education I bet you’d see teacher’s salaries rise."

I don't, not by a long shot.

"it’s disingenuous to suggest demand and its impact on price is “arbitrary”."

But that's not what I'm suggesting. Demand for teachers is pretty high. Pay has not risen to meet that demand, however. Demand for software engineers is also high, but only in some places has that demand correlated with a rise in salary.

It is completely arbitrary.
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If you don't understand the difference between proving software and proving civil engineering projects, you aren't qualified to be participating in a discussion on software liability.
The rules of the chain are arbitrary. Variables can be controlled by government officials. The state could could cut out payment processors and collect taxes on every transaction. This tech could also become a tool for mass surveillance and oppression which I'm sure Venezuela is much more interested in. But I think the blockchain experiment has shown we overvalue the role of currency in facilitating trade.

Here's what changed. Trade is a function of information bandwidth. Traditionally you needed a medium of exchange because you can't trade crude oil for a sandwich quickly enough to be useful. But if the merchant could accept oil certificates and convert it to an alternative certificate at checkout, any in-demand certificate could be money.
And there is such a thing as an at-fault collision. Is what you are saying supposed to be a contradiction? Also, I have a license and drive regularly; I don’t see how your strange assertion I must not is productive.
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> it ultimately triggers an investigation and can impact client's reputation within our system

Hmm, this is confusing. Is bad reputation in your system the only penalty for an employer not paying? And that's it?
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Waymo said that they'd hit 4 million miles back in Nov 2017, they seem like they've done the most miles, there are several other contenders, so I took a wild guess, trying to err on the side of overestimating # of miles.

There is an indication that they're less safe! They have (very conservatively) 5x the number fatalities per mile driven! Now, look, the error bars on that estimate are of course massive. It is plausible that they are much safer and they just rolled the dice and got unlucky. But this is data, as long as you include the error bars.
Thank you! We'll get these bugs fixed asap. The board is mainly for subcontracting/delegating tasks to other devs so it asks for a separate funding source. I see where this is confusing and we will iterate accordingly. I really appreciate the feedback here.
Perhaps companies need to test their safety devices first. I.e., first prove that their LiDAR correctly identifies pedestrians, cyclists, etc. From there, build test-vehicles with redundancy, e.g. with multiple LiDAR devices. Then prove that the vehicles actually stop in case of emergency. And only then actually hit the road.

Of course, the US department of transportation should have set up proper certification for all of this. They could have easily done so because they can arbitrarily choose the certification costs.
Do you have any experience developing autonomous driving algorithms? Because you are making a lot of broad claims about their characteristics that only someone with a fairly deep level of expertise could speculate about.
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A lot of ICE train routes run alongside the Autobahn. The beautiful thing about the Autobahn it’s that it’s legal to match the speed of the train. That said, it’s bad for the environment and cruising at 140mph where it’s safe to do so drinks fuel like nothing else.
> ... and a well-designed city can...

As someone who lived in West LA for years and saw the new line come in, I'll stop you right there. Cities like LA, Mexico-City, San Jose, etc. are not well designed and trying to re-invent them is going to take one hell of an earthquake.
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This seems like a good time to question if we really should have cars at all. Autonomous cars might be better in some ways but they are still tons of metal flying at high rates of speed. Accidents will happen and people and other animals will die on a regular basis. Cars also require tons of infrastructure that walking and biking don't. You also have the environmental destruction of GHG emissions and from the mining of rare metals needed for batteries, you have roads and parking lots destroying habitat and using up valuable space, air pollution and smog from tailpipes or energy generation, noise pollution, and more harmful effects. Autonomous cars might mitigate some of those things but most of it will still be there (or we'll just use cars even more and so we'll have just as many deaths total along with the rest of it?). What about doing research and testing a world without any cars? It will probably be a better one.
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Theoretically the reputation cost would discourage for-profit organizations from releasing unsafe self-driving vehicles for testing on public roads.

The ironic part here is that Uber already has a strong reputation for skirting the law and not caring. Their response and the following audits will be worth following.
Does that means the stable version of pony-stable is called pony-stable-stable (suffix)? stable-pony-stable (prefix)?

What happens when it's mixed with the stable release of pony? pony-stable+pony-stable-stable/stable-pony+stable-pony-stable?
I'm feeling very outraged.
This is why a lot of people advocate 'optical narrowing' and other methods. These are supposed to make people actually want to go the speed limit.

The trick is to make people feel like driving fast is unsafe, without actually making driving any unsafer.
Does China export consumer webtech? The unique "Chinese characteristics" as they call it would seem to make it hard to export consumer services.
Except that can change within the 4-5 year lag time between entering school and graduating.
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I've used Octane and I think what they are best at is hype.
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Well, here's the announcement on their forums:

https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=66014

And in their facebook group:

https://mbasic.facebook.com/groups/138694999640920?view=perm...
goes to show, sdv's have to be perfect in the eyes of the public. you wouldn't seriously recommend adding a test like that to a regular driving licence.

also that testing does happen in the case of every av program i know of. closed obstacle courses with crap that pops out forcing the cars to react. look up gomentum station.

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My great-grandfather was killed by a streetcar (on rails) on Market Street in downtown San Francisco.
I don't think "very developed" and "unsustainable infrastructure" are mutually exclusive. I would argue the manner in which a city developed is far more important than the "degree" of development. Phoenix is a young, developed city but the efficacy of public transportation here is very different than London.
The billions being spent on self-driving cars cost less than the hundreds of billions it would take to convert the USA's cities to be even remotely well-designed.
From my experience, relative to the rest of the first world, American highways and streets are dilapidated and neglected. I don’t see how that doesn’t get worse when self-driving cars start using those streets more efficiently than humans.
Hanami is growing in popularity and Roda is a rock-solid and faster alternative to Sinatra.

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They do have say in who they work for and what they work on. It's not as if a developer capable of doing self-driving work isn't in high demand. Maybe they should stop working for unethical companies doing unethical things. It's not as if the executives could do this work themselves.
Ah yes, that old classic, whataboutism.

You'd have us believe Cambridge Analytica was some vendor the Trump Campaign used sparingly, had very loose connections with, and saw limited success with.

Yet Cambridge Analytica is a Robert Mercer and Steve Bannon outfit. Steve Bannon, the campaign manager, and senior adviser to the president. Or at least it was during the time period in question. Steve Bannon was THE integral player who essentially managed the creation of the tool.

Here's a video of Brad Parscale gushing about the software tool they were able to use to glean insights that lead them to spend heavily in the states that mattered, but we're not in the conventional wisdom.

https://youtu.be/_fFbVwuU8bM

While your at it, here's the story from the software developer turned whistle blower himself:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analy...
It would be shocking if we hadn't learned more about the subject, since, but the vast majority of source material we now have was available to Gibbon and well-digested by him. It's perfectly evident reading Gibbon that he couldn't be straightforward about religion at that time.

"a degree of professional esteem which remains as strong today as it was then", from:

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The criticisms upon his book...are nearly unanimous. In accuracy, thoroughness, lucidity, and comprehensive grasp of a vast subject, the History is unsurpassable. It is the one English history which may be regarded as definitive. ...Whatever its shortcomings, the book is artistically imposing as well as historically unimpeachable as a vast panorama of a great period."
I'm a huge fan of 1 & 2, so I end up using CSS with only class names.

This helped me deliver maintainable and reliable stylesheets that other devs like.

Most importantly using only class names you will gain :

1. Your HTML / CSS is easier to maintain.

2. Is faster to develop.

3. Is faster to refactor.

4. Is more portable.

5. Is faster for the browser.

I even wrote a blog post about it [1].

http://www.drinchev.com/blog/css-with-only-class-names/