skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> boosting the overall killing power of existing US ballistic missile forces by a factor of roughly three

The measure by which the authors conclude a tripling in killing power seems to be intentionally misleading:

> This 86 percent probability is very close to what could be achieved using three warheads with conventional fuzes to attack the same target. To put it differently: In the case of the 100-kt Trident II warhead, the super fuze triples the killing power of the nuclear force it has been applied to.

While obtaining the same probability of destroying any given target requires one third as many warheads, the more relevant statistic seems to me to be expected number of warheads required per target, which is decreased by less than half; Total targets destroyed per missile launched, which seems a more accurate descriptor of "killing power", is increased by a factor of about 1.7 - still notable, but very much not the tripling claimed.
From the released video, if LIDAR was including the entire roadway (all three lanes) there would apparently have been at least four seconds warning.

In production, having a LIDAR display would be pointless. But for testing, it might be useful. But maybe better would be to tell drivers to keep their eyes on the road.
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To wit it was not "driverless" as there was a supposed "safety driver" behind the wheel.
> Discussing gun purchases is not only perfectly legal, it is also not even hateful as many previously banned subs were.

And not nearly as hateful as a plethora of currently-active subs.
Individual actors all working within the same values system and responding to the same inputs will produce similar actions. There's no conspiracy or "quid pro quo" corruption here, most likely, merely a corrupt values system. In a place like tempe pedestrians and bicyclists are treated as second class citizens, especially in the case of crashes involving automobiles. In this particular case there is a walkway on the median strip which is purely decorative and marked with signs indicating not to use it, which should tell you how pedestrian hostile the area is.

Here's where the crash took place: https://goo.gl/maps/j6PwGkvJwF52
I truly believe only a vocal minority are actually deleting their Facebook. I think a majority will simply cut back on their Facebook and social media use.
But ... they only want signals up to 5Khz, which is bugger all. So you could oversample (even a stock audio chip will do 96Khz) then apply a low pass filter with an FIR. Why wouldn't this work?
No conspiracy needed. AZ wants to appear friendly to self driving car companies (e.g. they already don't regulate them as hard as CA.). A single undesirable being taken out isn't gonna change that.

Plus it's not like AZ has a long history of pedestrian friendliness anyway. It's practically engineered to harm them, with 2mi between crosswalks
Furthermore, if there are street lights, and you go through an unlit area, you should be able to detect the presence of an obstacle because it will be obscuring the view of the road ahead.

Uber's technology clearly sucks, to the extent that I doubt they are even using Lidar. However, the woman driving the vehicle should be arrested for not being aware. If she had been looking at the road for more than a small fraction of the time she surely would have seen the person on the road.
A person with common sense and a developed understanding of the situation would drive more slowly in situations like this. The law says that you don't drive faster than you can see.

A similar thing (no fatalities, just a shopping cart pushed by homeless people) happened to me. Ever since then, I have learned to be much more aware of situations like this (tunnel of light surrounded by darkness).

This just shows that Uber's tech is bad and that they let it on the road shows that their culture is still at least partly rotten.

I don't think Dara is the do gooder that some people are making him out to be. His primary motivation seems to be to usher Uber to an IPO. IMHO, if he actually had ethics, he would be front and center on this. Your company just killed someone. Where are you?
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In my case, most of my friends have no FB account or they have deactivated the account long ago. Few other have accounts but they practically never posted anything.

Some of my cousins/colleagues used to be active but now they have got fed up of FB.

Amusingly, none of them ditched FB because 'Oh FB is evil mass surveillance system'. What I sense is people are getting fed up with FB.

Sadly, it is Whatsapp which has taken the place of FB.
Oops, you're right. I discovered that it was my browser that was "helpfully" adding www in front of lots of domains I had blocked in /etc/hosts. For instance, if I blocked example.com, my browser would automatically try www.example.com (which might then redirect to something else entirely).

In my case, I'm using Firefox. I can stop this behavior by setting "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled" to "false" in about:config.
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This would be an incredible relief. This has been haunting me.

I didn’t have video however.
A lot of people seem to mention how LiDAR should have seen her coming: Generally speaking, that's true. But it's difficult. In a single frame the system would hopefully detect something on the left of the lane, but wouldn't know what it is (if they use AI it's probably not trained for "person shoving bike packed with plastic bags").

If you have the object detection in place, you still need a trajectory for that object; if you don't know the exact angle you're looking at that object it's difficult. And moving at any speed there are plenty of things that could go wrong with the calculation, especially for slow objects.
Also remember you're seeing a lot of oncoming traffic (for which you don't want to do an emergency brake) and cross traffic moving onto the road, letting you pass before they enter your lane (for which you might want to slow down a bit).

Maybe the bags reflected LiDAR light causing a wrong classification... Maybe their detection noise was too high and the quick fix was to turn down sensitivity.

Whatever happened exactly (and I hope we get more information), this is a terrible accident, because the object in question was not part of some controlled test, but a human being left dead.

Still, the technology is very promising, but companies should be more careful with testing; have drivers be aware of the road (is that IR light from the camera or a smartphone?), and maybe do more testing in controlled environments.

As a software engineer, I would only release an autonomous car into the wild after I trust it enough to walk into its path on a dark road (with enough space to brake; suicides can not be avoided)... I wonder if the Uber engineers would?
but it's not essential

Some contracts are unenforceable if not in writing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_frauds
The problem is she didn't necessarily have a story there, either, at least without an order of magnitude more research, at a minimum.

She went in for a light piece humanizing a new technology. Do you really expect her to shift gears into a massive fraud, with nothing more than weird PR pressure and a fire alarm?
The difference I think is consent - the Obama campaign had an “app” that said what it would do, and by all accounts did the right things when you disabled or deleted it.

In this case the app was purported to do one(create your own psychological profile or some such nonsense) but instead stored and used the data for unrelated purposes (campaign targeting, pretty clearly unrelated to the stated purpose).

We can go on and on about “people should know that they’re the product”, but that only goes so far - you can explicitly say “this is what we’re doing with your data” and then do something else.
Uber is at fault.
You can easily buy a VGA FLIR camera in the US. They'll probably run your name through the denied-party list to make sure you don't have a history of diverting products to countries we don't like.

FLIR will sell you cryo-cooled cameras domestically as well.

https://www.flir.com/browse/rd-and-science/high-performance-...
I've seen a drastic reduction in insects and just asked friends and family and they say the same thing.

As for birds, I'm not as sure as I am about insects but I think they've been far fewer in my area too.
Man, Bloomberg is all over Zuck. I guess they've got an axe to grind after what he did to them with the newsfeed changes. It's interesting in that Zuck and Bloomgerg (really news media in general) are both much more powerful than each other in different ways. Zuck can change an algorithm and completely disrupt the flow of clicks. But he can't effectively attack someone's image the way Bloomberg is attacking his right now.
I don't know what other countries are like (and barely know the rules in my own country) but in one Australian state (NSW) and potentially another one soon (Vic) they are putting in some "majority rules" laws where if 8/10 of the people in the block want to sell the place then you have too.

In mine 6/10 are owned by property developers so a combination of law changes and greedy developers could lead to me losing what I thought was a lifelong asset. If I'd bought a house and land instead (not that I can afford it) then nothing short of imminent domain laws could force me out.
This is the only real demise of fb or any other large player. Another service catches on that is not directly competitive, and then adds features to gradually replace the incumbent.
None of the everyday fb users even know about this. They're just using fb like normal. Only those who were already anit-fb are creating hype.
After comparing the released video and a nighttime video [1] on the same stretch of road, I think the released video very likely showed a lot less visibility of the victim due to the dynamic range of the camera. In [2] the victim's shoes became visible. Note the lamp post with a traffic sign to the right. In [3] captured from [1] note the same lamp post on the right edge and the storm drains on the curb, not far from the lamp post and not that dark. [4] shows the victim was very close to the storm drains. The camera that captured the released video had to adjust to the bright headlight of the vehicle. IMO the victim would be a lot more visible to a human driver.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEaTdYJExq8&t=8m50s from user niftich's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16644146

[2] https://imgur.com/QfN1XVT

[3] https://imgur.com/Zdkc4PL

[4] https://imgur.com/ZHE9wYz
Good comment, but confused about the "first of all" lead in. I felt like I already acknowledged this was a US unique problem, and specifically called out the UK system as superior.
100% agree. The Police Chief even said the video would "potentially shift the blame to the victim herself, rather than the vehicle."

If that's not very strange language to use for a public servant describing a video that shows a fatal vehicle-vs-pedestrian accident, I don't know what is.

I'm not in the US so I don't know, but people in another thread were making comments that that is often how it is handled in the US, the crash victim is blamed somehow. It was implied by one person that police want to avoid paperwork.
Whatever the outcome of this case, autonomous cars are not going away. That cat is already out of the bag.

As for this accident, I think in time it will be shown in time that while machines can make mistakes, they make fewer mistakes than humans. Six years ago I heard that CSX (a major rail line in the U.S.) was actively pursuing autonomous trains. I thought the idea was horrible, until the programmer working on the project informed me that machines guiding trains have been proven to make fewer mistakes than humans guiding trains. It keeps the human element of error out of the equation.

There is a certain amount of fear these events generate, but did you notice that the same level of media coverage was not given for the dozens of similar accidents that happened in the past 24 hours with non-autonomous vehicles?
What does Wikileaks have to do with Cambridge Analytics? (other than both wanting hillary to lose)
> Well I hear it espoused all the time. I think you do too, otherwise you would not be referencing a 1960s phrase in 2018.

You misread. Tenant of hacker-dom.

> There is no community at large. This site is called hackernews. Paul Graham constantly writes about what a hacker would do in situation X. Literally anybody who feels like it can call themselves a hacker. There is no professional body, w00t!

Exactly my point.

> Well you sound miserable if you are against some people calling themselves hackers.

Ad hominem isn't necessary.
Just remember, it's very likely that many of these people do the same thing when driving.
I think the only circumstance where a pedestrian can cross a road without watching for cars is when protected by a traffic light, and even then that's not wise. A pedestrian crossing a road outside of any crosswalk at night and not watching for cars is playing russian roulette. Doesn't mean the driver (or self-driving system) shouldn't have spotted it as well to prevent the accident. But it is clearly a key driver enabling that accident.
japhyr, I apologize for not replying sooner.

Geany runs very nice on my Mac. I have a older Mac Mini running El Capitan and it's been solid on that.
>The vision of a having a robot assistant just shows the lack of imagination that people in the 1960s who were making these predictions. They couldn't see further than a mechanised version of what they already had.

I'm not so sure. A robot assistant would be very much desired by thousands, as a general replacement for another human (e.g. domestic server, personal trainer, bud to play tennis with, arbitrary help around the house, and don't get my started on sexbots).

>* Automation of processes is largely about removing as much of the 'physical' bit as possible.*

That might be so, but humans are not factories, and a nice general help anthropomorphic robot would still be very much appreciated. The same way general AI is the holy grail considered to 10000 dedicated processors that can play chess or translate for you.
wow drake is posting on hacker news now too damn, this guy is everywhere
If any of you have a dash cam it's very obvious how the light levels of images captured at night look like this video and is VERY different from what you see as a driver - objects are much brighter than this with your own eyes.

Also - the car is driving way too fast.

I did some driving tonight and paid close attention to when I naturally slowed down - and albeit I'm probably on the higher curve of good drivers in that I don't tailgate, drive the speed limit and generally slow much slower than the speed limit when conditions are poor (fog/rain/snow, night, slick/wet roads, near curves/hills where I can't see the road). I noticed that many of the times I naturally slowed down on the roads here I slowed considerably under the speed limit by 10 to 20 MPH in some areas. It seems this Uber SDV is generally going as fast as it is possibly allowed to regardless of what it can see.
I'm no sure that's a bad thing at all. I would imagine it encourages people to walk, bicycle, and use public transit to get around?
Absolutety.
>It's amazing how people are ready to throw capitalism and scientific advancement out of the window because of where advancement might be headed at some distant point in the future.

Notice the world "headed" -- it's as if it's all out of human control, and the best they should do is strap in for the ride, to whatever it is.

What you characterized as "amazing" can also be described with words like precaution or prudence.
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With a plethora of resources on google, Quora and HN, I would love to know :-

1. Detailed roadmaps for a beginner
2. Prerequisites and resources for every topic.
3. How you taught yourself Machine Learning.
What about it?

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy
I agree. I regular drive in the country (unlit, forested, deer country) and believe that I have more visibility than this driver and car. And I'm typically going 45-50mph and have Xenon headlights from 2004.
drake is champagnepapi?
Most software engineers when they leave the company take backup of ... the entire code for the project

I seriously doubt that. But, once in a while, having done so saves the company's butt[0].

[0] https://www.northeastern.edu/securenu/toy-story-2-almost-los...
When I was in grad school, we used the 4th Edition in the Senior/Masters level computer architecture class. I still have it on my book shelf. I've re-read large chunks of it a number of times in the past 10 years (often inspired by making sure my bases are covered during job interviews).

Given that most of my career has been pretty far removed from the compiler/assembly instructions, much of the content wasn't directly relevant to what I've been doing, but I still find myself using many of the tools that are outlined in the first chapter ("Quantitative Principles of Computer Design") when dealing with performance problems or analysis in high-level-language-world, which happens pretty often.
Pay $15 for a decent amount of starter material in this Humble eBooks Bundle.

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Refusing to engage in whataboutism makes you vulnerable to propaganda from your own country - it allows your government to redirect negative attention towards it's own behaviour to other countries by influencing media organisations to publish certain articles. Of course, some people inevitably says "what about our own government", and this behaviour can be countered by labelling it as "whataboutism".
If you're choosing to cross a road in the dark, you, too, have a responsibility to understand the drivers' limited visiblity and act accordingly.

No kidding. This might be a somewhat controversial opinion, but I think the elephant in the room here is this general "pedestrian has right of way" notion. It's much easier for pedestrians to watch out for and evade cars than the other way around, and yet we seem to insist the opposite? That seems rather backwards and contrary to the laws of physics.
>Maybe defense spending is what kept communism and the Soviet Union from setting progress back a hundred years.

When they gave up the ghost they weren't that behind. And when they started operations back in 1917, they were vastly behind the US. Plus they got to space (and tons of other space related things) first.

So there's that...

Not to mention the plethora of government funded stuff we take for granted in the West as well -- the internet (ARPA) and the web (CERN) for starters...

(And most of early computing, also heavily subsidized)
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And I wouldn't be surprised if many of these people are really concerned about the threat of terrorism or of flying while ignoring an imminent lethal risk that is many orders of magnitude higher.
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Ah, you had mentioned Big Horn; I didn't understand you were talking about Buffalo 40 miles south.

Indeed, Casper then Cheyenne have the most modern economic situation Wyoming has to offer.
Just following orders wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials. It shouldn't be an excuse now.
As if FB is the single way to to do that
MSR has a few also (Lamport, Lampson, Thacker, Gray), though ATM a couple are deceased. Supposedly there is a fifth one, but I can't figure it out (must have gotten the award before entering MSR).
Google built a better mousetrap.

This is a nice article, but the truth is that Yahoo is to Google as Myspace is to Facebook.
I .. only learned about these ad blockers from this thread, so take everything I write with a healthy amount of table salt.

That said, as far as I understand this DNS66 thing only intercepts DNS requests (which yes, it needs to break apart and reassemble) and nothing else? That is - if you don't talk to a server that is part of the application's custom DNS server list or a DNS server given to you by your network configuration, then I'd expect this packet to bypass the VPN entirely.

Maybe someone who understands the Android VPN service thing a bit more can chime in and confirm?
I downloaded the video directly and it looks like it's 133 kbps for the video data at about 360p, which is just abysmally low. So it's not surprising that it's difficult to pick out detail in such a contrasty scene given the degree of compression and the resolution.
On the other hand, Bloomberg can't block a single user from reading its articles, like Zuck blocked the whistleblower from the platform for no good reason other than revenge.

This is one area where we definitely need some regulation. And I think people who have complained about Google account bans in the past would agree. These companies are getting too powerful and connected to too many things and services to simply be allowed to remove someone's access on a whim, without a strong justification for it and without also being able to appeal the move to authorities, if needed.

Ideally, this wouldn't be needed if the internet was more decentralized and these companies didn't try to be everywhere and own everything. But since they love that monopoly power so much, then the regulation is required.
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> I think in time it will be shown in time that while machines can make mistakes, they make fewer mistakes than humans.

This is religious thinking.

>There is a certain amount of fear these events generate, but did you notice that the same level of media coverage was not given for the dozens of similar accidents that happened in the past 24 hours with non-autonomous vehicles?

This is a known unethical company testing dangerous technology on public streets and killing someone. By the numbers Uber's self driving cars are far worse than human drivers when it comes to safety, and the video shows their autonomous system has serious issues. Why defend them?

If you're a fan of self-driving cars you should be slamming Uber, if anything is going to hurt the technology it's shitty companies playing fast and loose with their tech resulting in people's deaths.
Well, that's upsetting.
Having upstairs neighbors would drive me batty. I did it — once.

Do they have better soundproofing or am I just too noise sensitive?
LiDAR Goes Back to the Future
Here's an interesting in-depth article that cites a slightly lower number:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-recor...

But it's from 2016 so it probably grew since then. A lot of the money goes to social housing towards 'ex' homeless people.
Agree. Terrible first sample.

Especially on the sample shows, rendered too thin on most, feels cheap, super generic, like a poor man’s Arial.

Could maybe somehow be for legibility on really bad TVs?
My bad. To clarify, something that is 'summoned' is ordered. Nothing has been ordered by the committee in respect of his anticipated evidence.
Here in Germany, a new social network called Vero, seems to be making some ground.

It's following the same model as WhatsApp of it being free to join for anyone up until a certain point and then they'll charge money.

And yes, I do love the thought of Vero being bought by Facebook at some point in the future, too.
A phone number is enough, at least in certain parts of the world.