skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I attended an Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) summit last year in Australia. The theme very much centred around Autonomous Cars and the legality, insurance/liabilities and enhancements.

There are several states is USA that are more progressive than others (CA namely). But with many working groups in and around the legal side - it hopefully will be a thing of the past.

In Australia, they are mandating by some year soon (don't have it on hand) that to achieve a Safety Rating of 5 star, some level of automation needs to exist. Such as lane departure or ABS will become as standard as aircon.
This might be because "Artist" has an uppercase "A" -- I trained all the word vectors to be case sensitive so "Artist" is not the same as "artist" (which should be closer to "man" than "Artist")
GDPR would not have permitted the disclosure of users' "facebook friends" data to a third-party automatically without explicitly asking those users first. That is an example of a relevant regulation which would've prevented this.

I don't really care if you want to give a lot of your personal data in exchange for filling out a quiz that is unrelated to what your personal data will be used for, but the network effect (combined with how many things your "facebook friends" can see) of Facebook means that other people in your social graph should care.

(FWIW, I agree that "breach" is the wrong word. It's far too soft on Facebook. "Exploitation of the soon-to-be-criminal disrespect for users' privacy" is much more accurate IMO.)
It is a bit embarrassing when they keep shopping and see the guy that was fired working in the store, or see them the next day or the next week. They might just catch on.
IMO as long as there is a human in the driver’s seat who is expected to intervene, they should bear the consequences of failing to do so.
Launch HN: Trip Share AR (Demo)
Ask HN: What are some good examples of providing public datasets?
What are some exceptional examples of publicly available datasets that make on-boarding with the datasets easy. What made you feel that it was really easy to get started?
Hello,

I am Jacques and I am playing around ARCore (Augmented Reality SDK for Android) to create new experiences.

Trip Share AR (Demo) permits you to record short videos of your trip and customize it with AR (3D characters and objects) and interactive experiences (360 visit, Photo album, etc.)

Have a try !
> But with all AI/Neural Networks it is very possible to match human performance because most of the time you can throw more human-level performance data at it.

Are you in very vague words implying that AGI has been invented? AI might have matched humans in image recognition, but it is far away in general decision making.

And finally, I am tired of listening to "safer than a human". That should never be the comparison, but a human at the helm and an AI running in the background which will take over when the human does an obvious mistake -- you know, like a emergency braking system,
Why would you do that? If you look at something like LSA, they goal is to uniform those, rather than distinguish. artist and Artist should be (near)100% match; what are you trying to do here?
Using CSS-in-JS to enforce component-local CSS (and also allow easy dynamic updating of styles, by making a “getStyles” type function) is the best thing to happen to styling for a long time in my opinion. Recently I’ve been using the “styled components” pattern (using the Emotion library) and despite being initially sceptical, have found it really nice to work with.

So much more logical to write and maintain than plain CSS for a site of any reasonable complexity. You can still apply global styles where they make sense (e.g. styling all body text) and making use of JavaScript patterns for reusing common chunks of styling feels much more robust than the CSS equivalent.

As someone who can do CSS but doesn’t do so that often, I can confirm that it’s getting better with things like Flexbox and Grid, but it is still full of maddening quirks! I do have a lot of respect for people who are CSS experts.
The first sign of a sinking ship is information starts leaking. Thats what seems to be happening with facebook.
My Vim crash course pt.2
I don't know much about Go but in Java and C# mocking frameworks use runtime bytecode manipulation to make it really easy to swap out concrete implementations without needing to create separate interfaces.
Do you suppose we're selecting East Asian immigrants in a special way compared to other regions?
Maybe these businesses will leave markets with GDPR. But they're not going out of business and they're influence is not going to significantly wane.
US kids’ doodles of scientists reveal changing gender stereotypes
Main reason I did it this way is because Facebook's DrQA (which I evaluate the vectors on for the SQuAD task) uses case sensitive vectors.

Was a tough decision between choosing whether to train case sensitive vectors / case insensitive vectors and a future task would be to train case-insensitive vectors.
Interesting... I think you just helped me figure something (admittedly rather simple) out. Quite trivial (not nearly as interesting as your experience), but mildly related.

Many years ago I happened to find an ancient-looking machine buried in a spare room at a church. I think the room was occasionally used as an ad-hoc creche area.

After finally locating an IEC cable for it and finally getting it to boot, I found that it was of the opinion it didn't have any HDDs attached.

So, I went into the BIOS, and - yes! Just old enough to require manual CHS configuration, but juuust new enough to have a manual autodetect routine!

Turned out it was a cute 25MHz-or-so (IIRC) 486 with something like a 200MB HDD. Had some demos on it that I've long forgotten the names of. Was fun to find that machine.

Despite being so trivial that no conveniently-placed homemade rescue labels were needed, the people there also wondered how I'd figured out what was wrong with it as well.

(Honestly, I really want to work somewhere everybody's still using ancient equipment. Partly because it's what I've been exposed to for most of my life and I really like it, and partly because I'm still yet to have the chance to acclimatize to newer stuff and almost all of the small bit of knowledge I've accumulated covers older tech.)

Regarding what you helped me figure out, I've been wondering for years why that BIOS decided it didn't have a HDD. Initially I thought the HDD was on the way out and decided not to show up one day, and the BIOS happily deregistered it [after someone saw an indecipherable POST error and hit F1 or whatever]. Now I wonder if maybe the rechargeable battery went flat after the machine was left off for ages, then someone turned it on, hit F1 to accept the "bad CRC" error (I never saw one) and didn't know to do an autodetect for the HDD. It's possible. I know some BIOSes remember "time wasn't re-set after fail"; I never saw a time POST error, and don't remember if I checked the clock to see if it was wrong.
That would have been my first suggestion.
Unfortunately it is impossible to implement efficient numeric libraries in JavaScript due to the lack of SIMD and GPGPU.
Driving isn't just travel along a vector. Maybe trains, but not urban roads. urban roads are full of people and animals.

If a ball bounces in front of me, I slow down expecting a dog or a child running after it. No self driving car now, and in 30 years is going to be able to infer that.

Driving is essentially interacting with the environment, reading hand signals from people, understanding intent of pedestrians, bicycles and other drivers. No way any AI can do that now.
Police chief: Uber self-driving car “likely” not at fault in fatal crash
Laravel’s popularity seems to be at an all-time high, whereas Rails seems to have declined. But I may not have a full picture, and there could be regional differences.

In your experience, what are better web server languages and frameworks?
WebRender newsletter #16
...so I've heard. I really am being half serious, because people should be able to talk about things that are important and interesting to them. Just because there are few assholes from pretty much every persuasion that can't sense the tone of a conversation or relationship and keep their veganism, atheism, religion, love of pineapple pizza, or whatever to themselves at appropriate times doesn't mean that everyone else should feel guilty about expressing themselves.

But really, not too recently someone thought it was so important they put it on the money and made school children say it every day. I don't think it occurs to most people just how pervasive declarations of religiosity are in America.
That may lead to algorithms being optimized for the “video game” instead of real life.
Its all about what things are hiding behind the opacity. Blind spots are one thing, but if you jump right in front of a car out of nowhere from a place totally invisible to a sensor, its a totally different case.

You can't avoid what is hiding.
Very cool that this beats Word2Vec on SQuAD! I wonder if the current state of the art models are using the standard GloVe word vecs and might see improvement from this. Tbh I don't know too much about how those have been implemented though, haha.

I'm curious, how many values did you try for the quantization functions? Without thinking too much about it, that seems like one of the hyperparams that could have a pretty big impact on performance.
Man, sorry for the downvotes. This link -> http://www.lsp.org/pdf/troopc85thSpeed.pdf doesn't include any references, unfortunately, but the statements are that:

-- 55% of drivers regularly exceed the speed limit, meaning that the speed limit represents the 45th percentile speed

-- driving between the 50th and 90th percentile speeds is the safest

Taken together, driving at the speed limit is significantly unsafe.
I quit Facebook a few months back and I've tried to coax my BH into quitting and she would have if not for one reason.

Our son's school shares all updates on their Facebook page which is only accessible by members. Ironically Facebook should not be the place to share such information & content given the recent happenings.

I wish schools could find another solution or platform.
The article seems to indicate that this is a high temperature (room temperature?) superconductor. That would be a massive discovery if true. Can someone more enlightened comment on this?
For z-indexes, we're using a slightly an approach that I find a bit clearer:

$some-element-z-index: 1 + max(
$other-element-z-index,
$should-be-below-z-index
);

This way the relationship between elements that should be below or above is more explicit.

In my head, it works a bit like a spreadsheet. You update the z-index value of an element somewhere below, and all the z-indexes that depend on it update their value too.
Remote Work Digest: March 20, 2018
Nope, that is a folk etymology, see https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic...
thanks for making it simple to real with real life objects
In your first statement did you intend to mean that asynchronous was an advantage or disadvantage? I’d take objects being modeled as independent state machines as a significant benefit.

It doesn’t seem that dependency injection really provides the benefits of the second advantage as the author describes it. Specifically he mentions that the recipient can decide wether and/or how to respond to a message. DI doesn’t provide that. The point isn’t _just_ that you can dynamically swap objects, which seems precarious in a lot of ways as values/results in referenced objects could change under your feet which without pervasive usage of observers means lots of easy to make mistakes for devs.

That means for a DI system to really be dynamic in the same sense that you need an event system / observer pattern in addition to DI to provide similar benefits while being more complicated due to now three layers of abstraction (at least) required. Whereas an “MOP" system encourages devs to think about outside changes from the start and makes it the path of least resistance while reusing the same abstraction to enable dynamic target and 1-to-many fanning. The usage of DI systems results in much more ceremony and generally results in overly complicated system architecture as compared to a good messaging system as the author highlights. Now a really complex message topology can become really confusing which results in similar architectural issues as an DI / event based system if not checked.
> I can look at my vote on the chain

And now you've told everyone exactly how millions of citizens voted.
Navigating the Depths of Nearly Failing to Profitability, Part 1:A Brewing Storm
At one stage on the eve journey they were showing a sort of wiki/database thing that I wanted to use very much. It seemed like it'd be fantastic for iteratively organising the kind of information you encounter in your day to day life. Unfortunately that version of eve never saw the light of day as far as I know. Does anyone know of anything that works similarly?
Makes sense. The plural vs singular probably impacts that one too.
You're definitely right, the quantization function and its values definitely have an impact on performance.

For 1 bit I think I tried something like -1/+1, -.5/+.5, -.25/+.25, -.333/+.333. and something like -10/+10 -- (and I think a few more). It seemed -.333/+.333 worked the best while +10/-10 did the worst on the google analogy task (getting like 0% right). All this was tuned on 100MB of Wikipedia data.
Drug testing could get a boost from MIT’s ‘body on a chip’
These icons are released under CC0, meaning that it is as close to public domain as you can get in many territories.
Indeed VBA is a very curious phenomenon. It is cool from the retro-lover point of view (and nostalgia makes me enjoy having to code it occasionally in the real life) yet a horrible atavism from the modern developer point of view. The built-in code editor is not much smarter than Notepad is and the language itself is a ridiculous cargo-cult-level OOP imitation with no real OOP nor functional (wouldn't these be of great use in Excel?) concepts, just a slightly face-lifted QBasic capable of defining simple algorithms and interfacing native code. I can hardly understand why it still hasn't been phased-out and replaced with Python or something like that.
That sounds a lot like the 'concentric order'. Can sort like that automatically: https://github.com/Siilwyn/css-declaration-sorter/blob/maste...
No-ish:

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

These days they're pretty much 100% path-traced. But most animated films out there in the history of 3d animation were rasterized.
I'm pretty sure I saw Friends episode with almost exactly the same premise.
I thought I knew what a vector was, but I have no idea what any of this project means.

Would someone please explain in simple language what this is, and why it's cool?
I have a similar cause-effect with caffeine. I can drink a coffee in the morning before 10am and feel great because I’m still somewhat asleep - but an afternoon coffee is too much and overstimulates me. I find that alcohol can have a similar effect too!
DocuSign has filed confidentially for IPO
It is, as my link notes, not accurately stated or attributed. But it still reveals an essential trth, thanks.
A single death doesn’t tell you all that much statistically. But I’m with you on how sad it is, and I’m a bit appalled by some of the comments...
Live Tracking of the (Australian) Indian Pacific Wheel Race
HardOCP – Nvidia GeForce Partner Program Impacts Consumer Choice
IBM just unveiled the ‘world’s smallest computer’ – The Verge
The bee obsession has its roots in shamanism. An example is the two bee-headed figures in Tassili rock art: http://samorini.it/site/archeologia/africa/funghi-allucinoge... found in In-Aouanrhat and Ti-n-Tarin.

This has a different photo of the painting in In-Aouanrhat: https://blogs.harvard.edu/houghton/2015/09/10/spirit-of-the-...

The Roundhead style rock art that these belong to dates from about 9000 BP to about 6600 BP.

This has more about the sacredness of the bee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_(mythology) Yet, it is lacking a lot of stuff, including how bees appear in Finnish epic poetry.
How much coffee did you used to drink per day? 2-3 cups in the morning does sound a little excessive.
(Going through the paper .. a few questions/notes)

Table modeling: While column distributions are picked using the KS-test, the covariance matrix calculation first normalizes the column distributions. Assuming that is reasonable, there is a claim of "this model contains all the information about the original table in a compact way..", but it doesn't account for possible multi-dimensional relationships in the data. It only looks at a series of projections to 2D. Can a d-dimensional dataset (in practice) be effectively summarized by the set of projections on to the d(d-1)/2 two-dimensional subspaces? That's once kind of summary, but I'm unsure whether that is adequate for practical modeling work, especially if folks try to apply high dimensional techniques (DL?) to this. (edit: I feel reasonably sure it isn't adequate. If a column ends up being bi-modal, for example, even that gets lost in translation in this approach?)

Crowdsourced validations: The synthetic sets were generated for already available public datasets. It isn't clear from the paper how any bias resulting from prior familiarity with the public datasets would be accounted for in the study concluding equivalence.

Privacy claims: This is a bit unclear. The "apply random noise" technique seems to suggest something similar to differential privacy, but makes no mention of it. If not DP, what definition of "privacy" is being used here? (I'm ok that proving their algorithm to be privacy safe according to a chosen definition of privacy may be out of scope of the paper.)

(Edit2: I can't help the feeling I have that this paper is an elaborate April fool's joke released early ;)
Pretty sure it's just the lawyers telling him that.
Vision: Blind patients regain eyesight in macular degeneration trial
We have some corners where old houses are even intruding a bit on the road. When passing these corners you will have to slow down so you can stop in case a child runs out behind the corner. You can't just blame the victim if you are in control of your own speed.

I can think of many situations where I have avoided hitting pedestrians because of my avareness of the situation. Eg: Pedestrian with earphones looking at phone crossing against red light just because the left-turning wehicle in the left lane stopped for a red arrow while I had green going straight. Pedestrian mostly behind the car, just seen thru the window of the car.

Pedestrian behind high snow-walls going towards normal pedestrian crossing, no lights. Almost completely covered by the high snow-walls and a buss parked at a buss station 50 m away from the crossing. 50 km/h road. Since I had seen the pedestrian far away already I knew someone would show up there at the time I arrived there. On the other hand I would never pass a buss like that in high speed, pedestrians like to just run across in front of the buss. And high snow-walls next to a crossing is a big red flag too.

I live in Sweden though, where pedestrians are supposed to be first class citizens that has no armor.
The 'fired' employee in this case is actually a janitor, IIRC.
That's correct. The ABS basically takes away the brake pressure as soon as the wheels block. On most surfaces this will shorten your stopping distance versus a human blocking the tires. It is never the optimal stopping distance though.

In terms of split second reactions, it's pretty much optimal still to just jam the brakes if you have ABS. It's much better than braking too little, which is what most non-ABS drivers would have done.
How to Promote Simulation Apps – App Samurai
And if you try to tax businesses to pay for infrastructure, they threaten to leave the state.

And businesses barely pay employees enough to afford a mortgage, or even rent, so you can't tax the residents. How do we get our infrastructure?
Ooh, interesting. Thanks!

And I'd somehow gotten in my head the NTSB were only aviation, probably from old TV shows. TIL about their actual name.
Lively!

LivelyKernel (2008): https://www.lively-kernel.org/

lively.next (2017): https://lively-next.org

cloxp (2015): http://cloxp.github.io/cloxp-intro.html
You don't have a screenshot, or any more leads on finding it do you? It sounds like an interesting concept but I'm having trouble finding an image of it.
Play chess and pass boredom at workplace
So cap the power, weight and speed of cars young people are allowed to drive. In the US you can only vote at 21, but you can join the army and kill people if you're 18 and in most states drive powerful cars at 16 (although subject to some conditions such as a curfew and limits on the number of underage passengers present in the vehicle). In most European countries one can only drive heavy quadricycles (<=450 kg curb weight, <=15kW, <=45 km/h by construction) at 16 years of age.

Same for autonomous vehicles: until the NTSB or whatever federal or state agency is responsible decides which tech is mature enough and issues licenses for a given AV system. A person has to have a driver's license, however AV systems do not. Why not certify which of them are able to operate heavier/more powerful/faster vehicles without human intervention (meaning they'd slow down to a stop when the driver would take his/her hands off the wheel).
They're two slightly different tools. In MOP you use a mediator to facilitate message parsing. Anyone can subscribe to, and send messages, usually dynamically. That makes highly complex systems more approachable and distributable. It comes at an indirection cost.

Interfaces and DI are strongly controlled at the composistion root, but it's not easier for highly complex and distributed systems. However the amount of indirection is simpler to reason about and it makes sense for single process systems.
That's not at all what a data breach is, much less a "textbook definition" of one.
No, the NYT story came out before Farrow’s story — Oct 5 vs Oct 10: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/u...

It is commendable that Farrow investigated his story independently, but that does not mean the NYT “took their sweet time” — certainly, I haven’t seen Farrow demean their work. The reporters and editors who worked on the NYT’s coverage were not on staff 13 years ago. Story ideas aren’t passed down from generation to generation.
> Abstract data types are designed specifically for data structures like queues and stacks

Guess what all nontrivial programs manipulate in the end.

> objects that don’t have such well defined invariants

... are either stateless or useless. It is impossible to define useful algorithms that manipulate objects of which you cannot say anything.

> No major language has adopted them for that reason.

The real reason is “programmers cannot reason about invariants anyway”.
i hope one can install open webOS on old LG TVs (2014/2015)
I agree about using JWTs for authentication being a poor idea :)

Ueberauth definitely isn't a turnkey solution, but I'm not convinced that turnkey solutions for authentication are possible for real use cases. It's only going to be so long before you run into a customer that needs to integrate you into their SSO provider, and even Devise isn't going to help you then.

What Ueberauth needs, in my opinion, is a hex, built on ueberauth_identity, that adds support for everything people have grown accustomed to from Devise, like password resets, out of the box. You'll still need to do the manual work of mapping credentials to your user resource, but at least you'll be leaving yourself open to eventually supporting other authentication methods, without too much carrying cost in the meantime.

Elixir will get there eventually though :)
> I don't really want them to fix it

Any particular reason for saying so?