skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've read and listened to what Dennett has to say on the matter, and the implication is exactly what the author states. It only seems like we are conscious, but we don't actually experience anything.

That is not what Dennett is saying. I have read all of his writings on consciousness, and he is quite clear (and in some places says in so many words) that he is not saying conscious experience does not exist. He is just saying that consciousness, real consciousness, is not like what the "mysterians" think it is like; it doesn't have all of the properties that people like the author of this article claim it has.

> Dennett also tried to deny that we have dream experiences

No, he didn't. He asked the question "are dreams experiences?" (in an article with that exact title that appears in the book Brainstorms, and more recently in other articles), and his conclusion was basically "it depends on what you mean by those words". Which illustrates another common fallacy that Dennett often has to rebut: the belief that saying something in ordinary language is sufficient to pin down a precise concept that can be explored and tested.

> Taking Dennett seriously entails denying any sort of internal experience

It does no such thing. Whatever giving Dennett's views a fair shake entails, you clearly have not met the requirements.
Yep. Or, you can also set a password on the document and share that out-of-band, if you don't trust whatever it is you use to send the URL.
How could you possibly come to that interpretation of the data? There are 2.5x more pedestrian fatalities in the EU. It would appear that US roads are safer for pedestrians, and of course drivers are convicted if they are at fault.
I was through the global financial crisis, 2007-2009; I had some properties lose >$100k in value.

I'm mid 30s, and have invested in real estate since my early 20s.
Sure, what's the swerving distance?

The road was empty, I'd bet most drivers would steer away from a pedestrian on the road if only by sheer reflex.
Maybe if you emailed people every month or so asking them to update their info if it’s out of date?
I must be running just the right combination of adblockers because I swear I've never once seen an advertisement on Youtube.
> It looks like you'd be overdriving these headlights at any speed over 15 MPH or so.

The headlamps, to me, appear to be aimed way too low. They should be lighting up the roadway at least 280 feet ahead of the vehicle.
What kind of network policies? Millions of years ago, Google used Cariden software to simulate what happened when links went down, QoS changes were applied, etc. From what I recall, at some point, the size of the network, new special hardware and the need for more flexibility outgrew the tool's capabilities, so IIRC it was supplanted by in-house solutions that were more real-time and fit into the new SDN architecture.
Agreed. I just wish it wasn't Google. They "extinguished" a lot of good projects...
> The high today was 92F.

Probably not relevant to conditions at 10pm on Monday, when it was between 70F and 57F (the range for 6pm Monday to 12am Tuesday.)

> Pavement would almost certainly be warmer than that.

Sure, when it was 92F the pavement would probably be 140+F.

> How's a thermal camera supposed to detect 98F on a background that is proably +/- 5 degrees of that?

At night, the pavement would be much cooler than a human; at the high temperature you report, it would probably be much hotter; there's a place in between where the problem you have would be occur, sure, but it's neither at the high nor, more to the point, in the conditions when the accident occurred.
I was definitely impressed with the improvements. There is an EU wide plan for fatality reductions for 2020. It doesn't appear they will hit their targets, but much seems to have come of it.
2007-9 isn’t really comparable to what went down in the 90s, especially for californian real estate after the Japanese had to liquidate from their binge, but all throughout the country as well.
Uh, really? You don't think a human driver could have taken any corrective action if they were paying attention to the road? The risk I see with these semi-autonomous systems is precisely that they invite the sort of inattention seen here. The brakes, at least, should have been applied.
> Some phenomena are actually defined as aggregate behavior - sound waves, coherent light, matter in the solid state - and cannot exist at the level of atoms or photons.

While this is true, it does not mean that these phenomena cannot be explained in terms of the behavior of atoms or photons. They can. The position of those who are called "Deniers" by the author of this article is simply that consciousness is another such phenomenon.
Here's the actual bill: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2018/Enroll/SF0029.pdf
Thanks, good tip. However, the last time I looked at VoIP providers, they wanted to know who I was. Or at least, they wanted a credit/debit card. But maybe things have changed. And I am an amateur.
> I have seen deer and possums by the side of the road

Both of those have eyes that act as reflectors and you can see their eyes well before you can actually see the whole animal.

This[0] suggests that the total time required for a human to avoid an incident like this is 3.6s (at 35 mph, casual googling suggests the car was doing 40). Even if we add 1 second of extra time to deal with it I'm not sure that makes the cut.

0) http://www.visualexpert.com/Resources/pedestrian.html
So I want to address the people downvoting you. Last summer I went to Big Horn. The town next to it was somehow more third world than where I'm from, the Deep South. Examples:

* Google maps told me to get off at Exit 29B. It turns out it was exit 298, just somehow Google maps had only OCRed the signs, and as of summer 2017 no one had cared to correct them.

* Screw LTE or 3G, somehow the city center only had 2G. Outside of the city, even with visible line of sight, there was simply no service.

* I ordered biscuits and gravy at a restaurant for breakfast. I was informed that it would be a few minutes, as the owner's daughter needed to go down to the grocery store and pick up another can of biscuits.

* At said restaurant, I was asked if I wanted smoking or non. The two rooms had no separation, and both were filled with smoke.

I love Wyoming, it's a beautiful state and I'll be back this year, but they aren't going to be the next forefront on cybersecurity.
I thought the opportunity to write a nice "I'm quitting facebook" post to let all your friends know was half the reason people were doing it?
50K * 365 = 18.25M

But that's still only .00857 of 2.13 billion daily actives.
It's 19% of the capital gains, not of the invested money. The parent comment makes it seem like the tax is absurd. Here's a list of countries that implement this tax, including Poland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax

You _can_ save and invest in Poland.
If the brakes were applied the collision may not have been avoided but it could have been at a lower speed.
+1. I know people who will probably need this.
I do know a bit about cameras, and you're spot on.

You will frequently see dash cam footage and night photography blow out the relative highlights and blacken the relative shadows.

This is because (cheap) hardware does not have the same dynamic range as human eyes, especially at night. So "properly exposed" it has to make a call to capture light values in the middle somewhere. Those light values too far out the top it interpreted as white, those out the bottom it interpreted as black, created an artificial high contrast version of what a human eye would see.

This is pretty intuitive, generally when we're driving down the road with our lights on, we aren't literally moving between pools of black, often in many urban areas I'll even forget to turn my lights on because I can see well enough.

You MAY be able to get a VERY BAD interpretation post processing of what a human would see by increasing the brightness of those pixels near the black threshold.
I recognize the username :) .

>Despite being based on AOSP, omni/lineage/etc all have pretty different features, so usually it takes a nontrivial amount of effort to go between the two (although it's definitely less effort than starting from scratch)

I understand, the same way that Firefox and Chrome are very different, yet work on the same kernel, or are the differences between Lineage and others that deep?

So for example, Omni has athene up and running on Oreo, while despite officially being maintained (with three maintainers at that), according to Lineage OS' code review, it hasn't been worked on since last July.

So the way I see it (coming from a dev, though not a ROM dev): Android has multiple layers. It has hardware-dependent code (such as the kernel) and hardware-independent code (such as bionic or Java), sort of like in Desktop Linux you have the kernel and X, and there's bash, gnome and Firefox.

So why can't (I know how that sounds coming from the outside ... ) you take their hardware code (the kernel and whatever the Android equivalent of X is) and build on top of that? Is the whole system that integrated?

On the other hand, now that Treble officially separated the two, will it be possible to, for example, flash Omni and then flash a lineage image on top of that?

>We don't blindly support devices (even as "beta") because we have no way of verifying that everything actually works

But does every Debian maintainer (of a userspace program like, say, MySQL) have every combination of hardware? You just assume that the kernel and libc are a reliable abstraction and go from there. Is that impossible on Android?
"Misused" my ass. Facebook was and is, business as usual. He seems more worried about another conpanies business model and their bottom line.
I don't think LinkedIn use is limited to SV, but the qualifier "actively" makes it unclear what you are trying to say. What is "active" in this context?
There’s nothing in the tort or criminal justice system that prevents responsible parties from being held responsible for negligently causing the death of a person in the realm of self-driving cars. If Arizona prosecutors don’t have enough for a case now, they might later after the NTSB investigation. No charges have been brought, so they could be brought up later.

I would suspect that the backup driver would bear the criminal responsibility for any collision the car got into. What the general consensus of the other HN commenters is that the driver could not have reacted better, though the LIDAR should have detected the woman.

In that case, the woman’s family would have a strong wrongful death case against Uber.

(I’m not a lawyer)
Yup, and I look forward to the NTSB report. Let the facts speak for themselves.
Is there anything similar for Solr??
I'm currently 50 / 50. Here's what I've had to do to get work done in office :

* Headphones when I need to focus. Even a random noise app is good enough.

* Be patient with those who interrupt unless you have a deadline. They don't know that you're still adjusting.

* Go for coffee / walks with your co-workers. Get to know them and they'll get to know you (and your preferences of working through slack/hangouts)

* Plan for a slight drop in productivity and slight increase in communication
Some people are labouring under the misapprehension that adblockers are immoral.
#DeleteFacebook – Let's Consider It ()
There have been some really good articles recently regarding the impact social media has on people.

I just wrote an article that I think is worthy of joining the fray - and supports our startup value prop.

Take a look over at Medium:

https://medium.com/@consideritinc/deletefacebook-lets-consider-it-a457fe824216
I've never met a single person in my country who uses either one. Yet everyone I meet has a Facebook account.
That's not nearly fast enough. We can't possibly loose enough people. But, it's a good start. Ideally, we would have a mass evacuation! I'd leave too, but we have family and friends here, not to mention a good job.
The system in my car does this but only under a certain speed, much lower than what the vehicle in this video appears to be doing. It's intended for stop-and-go city driving or to avoid hitting a kid that sprints out of a driveway in a slow residential area, not to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting a deer or person at 40mph.
Sad side note that most people appear unaware of the benefits even the simplest and cheapest of reflectors do provide.

The seemingly random design decision of many runner manufacturers to embed tiny reflector strips in their shoes have no doubt saved countless lives. And their owners would probably be none the wiser.
You have to do a really pretty extreme amount of exercise to burn off a hamburger.
> Patently false. The public debt in Brazil has been almost entirely internal for the past 10 years. Should I show you a chart to settle it?

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.

https://tradingeconomics.com/brazil/external-debt

> Quite the opposite, actually. They received massive inflows of foreign investment, and very high domestic savings rate.

Foreign investment != external debt. So their high domestic saving rates means they had little need to borrow internationally? That was my point.

> the Asian countries you mentioned have a history of very high savings rate, this generates a stock of capital that the government and companies can borrow at low costs to develop.

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.

> Poland (and the LatAm countries I mentioned) have very low or negative savings rate, and almost no capital stock, so any increase in borrowing by the government has to be met with foreign capital or it will cause inflation and higher interest rates.

Well then they need to increase their savings rate or limit their borrowing?
There's a range of light to dark you can see at once. Your eyes can adapt and move the whole range up and down, as can cameras. You're right that it takes time. But the width of the range at a given moment is wider on people than many cameras (sans post-processing). That's why this video is deceptive.

Our eyes can see details in the light and dark at the same time better than cameras can. This (https://i.imgur.com/3u1kN7T.png) is an example. The top picture has less detail in both the lightest and darkest portions than the bottom one. The human eye is reeeeally good at that.
One time I went to San Fransisco and literally waited 30 minutes to go three blocks.

Then I went to a restaurant and was charged $15 for coffee.

There also seemed to be a lot of people who had become homeless.

Terribly slow and difficult city; I don't see how it gets anything done.
I know what you're talking about with the eyes, I spend a lot of time driving rural WA highways at night, but no. I have seen deer that had their heads facing the other way and were standing in the shoulder/ditch area. In conditions where i can definitely make out the shape of the deer and its location but the dash cam sensor misses it entirely.

Your last paragraph is a valid calculation if this were a case of a person stepping directly off a curb into the lane of traffic. However, it appears that they were probably standing on the median looking to cross, then stepped off into the left-most lane of traffic, an empty lane, proceeded across that lane towards the lane in which the car was traveling. In this sort of situation human intuition will recognize that a person standing on the median of a high-speed highway is likely to do something unusual. Particularly when you observe the visual profile of, as media has reported, a homeless person who is using the bicycle with numerous plastic bags hanging off it to collect recycling.
I mean, the whole concept of oil that can't be metabolized maybe should have given people pause.
Police ruled it wouldn't be your fault.
This would be a lot easier to use if Google added auto-https to their http load balancers. They already offer it for AppEngine custom domains.
No mention of the fact that fb knew that Kogan sold users’ fb data to CA, and fb intentionally didn’t inform its users about it until the Guardian’s investigative report blew up in the press
A year or so ago I noticed I would wake up and the first thing I did was load up Facebook in my phone. I deleted the app, and what do I do? i still open it on my phone's browser. So I changed my password to 32 characters generated by Keepass, and make sure I logged out of it on my phone. I'm still logged in on the desktop, but nowadays it's pretty quiet anyway. Thr last few days I've been using a Chrome extension (1) to delete stuff from my wall, reasoning that just like real life interactions, it's okay to forget things (well I did download my archive/went through my activity logs and saved them as HTML files).

There's only 1 person I wish to stay in touch that I talk to exclusively on Messenger. I think I will have to persuade them to install another app. Admittedly it will be WhatsApp, which is also Zuckerberg's tool for "dumb fucks".

(1) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-book-post-m...
It is not uncommon for pedestrian to notice in coming traffic, and still cross the road, in the expectation that the car ll just slow down for them to cross..A human driver, without exception, will slow down in this case. Sadly the same thing might have happened here. The lady took one look before crossing, and expected the car to slow down..
couldn't have said it better myself (I'm the blogger)
LinkedIn serves the same services as a CV and a job fair.
How many centurys do you expect to have civilization before someone that doesn't value life as much as you do does the unthinkable?
Super Mario World made only with CSS gradients
What you elaborate is no different from "I got mine, screw everyone else".
It is an argument from authority. That is asking a lot from the reader, i.e. to suspend believe or go research, the later of which is not too much to ask if direct at an acceptable audience.

"Arrogance" literally is akin to "to ask", e.g. interrogate ... unless the "a-" is akin to "anti" instead of "ad-" or whatever, so that arrogance would be like walzing in and taking without asking or making an assumption without due inquiry.
> mathematics is strangely well suited to describing physics

This is like saying that numbers are strangely well suited to counting things.
The reason I make this distinction is because the limited neutrality is the least of what the legislation does.
Regardless of how suddenly she appears in the camera, it is pretty logical that she was probably visible to the human driver if he had been watching the road. That's not nearly fast enough on a stretch of road like that to be overdriving the visibility provided by the modern headlights of a brand new Volvo. I bet she was visible to the driver in plenty of time to have stopped.

I'm an optimist, but still I think we are much farther away from legitimate self-driving cars than a lot of people think. And every accident like this where the computer vastly underperforms a human driver is a huge PR blow to the technology.
deflationary bitcoin is everybody's pension fund! /s(?)
From what I've seen, tech companies tend to be understaffed on enforcement and compliance, relative to their user reach. Was the "certification" anything more than a checkbox in an emailed Word doc? I expect that's one area where they could improve their diligence. I would argue that if you have a high volume advertiser who has already broken a TOS and continues to use the platform, that type of hands-off certification is deliberately negligent. Anyway, we'll find out more details from their FB account manager in the coming months.
That should give quite a bit of time to slow down then or at least move slightly out of the way, even given the person may not have been detected exactly within the 5s+ of the video + factoring in computation speed + mechanical response times. Although again this is speculation as I'm not intimately familiar with how the objection detection works and what a bike w/ plastic bags may have looked liked crossing the road, plus what available options were at that speed and given the environment. Thanks.
Generally "how good the library is?" is decided at our firm by number of stars/forks etc, frequency at which developers are responding to open bugs etc.
> Headlights mostly light up what’s ahead of you, not what’s on your side.

Good headlamps should have a uniform and widely distributed beam pattern which should be able to light up at least the lane of traffic you're in, as well as the shoulder and several lanes to the left.
What's your full name, phone number, email address, and home address? Or alternatively, how do your presumably extant friends know how to get in contact with you, given your impenetrable policy of never sharing any contact information?
https://jalopnik.com/safety-third-is-the-running-joke-at-ube...

> Levandowski seemed to struggle in other ways as well. In December, Uber dispatched 16 self-driving cars, with safety drivers, in San Francisco without seeking a permit from the California DMV. The test went poorly—on the first day, a self-driving car ran a red light, and the DMV ordered Uber to halt its program in the state.

> The company suffered further embarrassment when a New York Times article, citing leaked documents, suggested that Uber’s explanation for the traffic violation—that it had been caused by human error—wasn’t complete. The car malfunctioned, and the driver failed to stop it.

> The misdirection came as no surprise to the Uber employees who’d spent time at Otto’s San Francisco headquarters. Someone there had distributed stickers—in OSHA orange—with a tongue-in-cheek slogan: “Safety third.”
What can be done to help this guy? It's incredibly unjust and sets a terrible precedent.
I've had a dormant FB account for years. I don't like the site and I never add content. I believe that social media has become a net detractor to quality-of-life for many (most?) humans who use it. I think Mark Zuckerberg is either incredibly naive, or a sleaze bag, but in either case should suffer some consequences from this.

That said, I probably won't delete my account. It remains the only way many of my friends plan events. It exists, for me, solely so I can be invited to things. I imagine there are many others like me. Like it or not, I suspect this is a blip for FB.
>Why is the car driving at full speed if it can't see the road ahead?

This is the best question to ask.

Why? Because going through all the comments, there seem to be 2 trains of thought:

1) LIDAR should have seen it. (car's fault).

2) It's the pedestrian's fault.

Neither of these questions matter. Because the real question is like you said: if the car couldn't have seen it, then why drive at full (or actually above legal) speed?
But, how many of those people are active to any meaningful extent?

Also, Facebook relies on a critical mass of users; if 75% of my friends leave, I'll probably leave, then large swaths of the social networks begins unthreading?
Uber reached 2M miles in November. Going from 1 to 2M in only 100 days.