skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggested in the post either the editor or the other reviewers makes the decision of which was the most constructive review.

The suggestion of going back and doing more work exists under the current peer review system. With my proposal you might even get suggestions of what work needs to be done and why you should do it.

In all the papers I have published I have only had a few reviewers agree on anything. The normal approach is you agree to all the reasonable demands even if you don’t personally like them and argue over the important one. Most of the time if the reviewers see you have moved some of the way towards their arbitrary demands they will let you hold onto the important ones.
There is a recent study showing decline of insects as well in similar proportion, but i couldn't find it.
Yes, but if you take a photo with a Sony A7s it will vastly outperform your eye.
It's Arizona. I just checked. The high today was 92F. Pavement would almost certainly be warmer than that. How's a thermal camera supposed to detect 98F on a background that is proably +/- 5 degrees of that?
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I have yet to have a property I couldn't keep tenants in for at least a decade. Some even sign 2+ year leases if they plan on being in the area for a while.

As long as the mortgage is covered, I can hold a property indefinitely.
What are the legal implications for the safety driver in this one? We don't have laws to protect self driving accidents right? So if the authorities determine that the "car" is at fault, would that mean the driver at the wheel be implicated?
Because that pre-supposes that one recognizes the WTFPL's validity in the first place......
How come a bank is worse than a socks drawer?
We don't know what Apple does with their data. They might print it out and make paper airplanes with it. They might use it to test their backups. And yes, they even might sell it. Or, they may do nothing with it at all. We just don't know.

I'm not accusing them of misusing our data, but I do know that they have, in the past, chosen to do something that looks like they are disregarding their user's privacy in order to make a buck (https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-moving-icloud-encryption-key...).

And they can set up their systems in a way that ensures they aren't violating our privacy or trust, but they choose not to do that. That to me, is very suspicious.

I do agree that they seem like the best tech giant for user privacy, but that is a super low bar. Just because they are "the best", doesn't mean they are good at it.
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hope it's clear, that this is a quote of TBL (sans the twitter-threading-fluff), not mine.
It's fundamentally different because NPR is actually non-profit. It's also different in that donating to NPR doesn't stop the NPR ads (which are growing, all the sponsorship announcements…) for you, as NPR isn't personalized. There are some economic similarities though.
That's interesting but it's also just television. I'd ask what the rural/urban split is on television versus Internet syndication, and then see what comes out on top.
I believe that a human would be able to see in those conditions. It's a lit street with a car with functioning headlamps. It wasn't foggy or rainy.

I've personally driven down country roads without any lighting except my headlights and saw deer poking their head out of the woods a ways away for which I slowed down in case they darted across the street. Someone slowly walking their bike would be trivial.

Reminds me of this video of a Rally driver racing with malfunctioning lamps https://youtu.be/HwyRS_6Uqn0?t=2m36s

The video makes it seem impossible but afterwards in the interviews the driver said it wasn't too bad after his eyes adjusted. He did have some issues with his own lamp blinding him which lead to errors. (He actually won this stage.)

As far as I'm concerned Uber's software/hardware is completely at fault and not ready for public testing. I'm uncertain how much better everyone else's tech is but Uber's typical carefree approach has ruined it for everyone.

There are consumer level dashcam that can shift up to 12800 ISO which can create a fairly distringuishable picture with ambient moonlight.[1]

Canon builds sensors with ISO's in the millions which should be able to see distinguishable shapes without ANY light. [2]

[1] https://youtu.be/hHU-hWG5DDk?t=5m48s
[2] https://petapixel.com/2015/09/13/this-is-iso-4560000-with-ca...
The video, phone and scheduling solution for customer meetings (SaaS)
Human eyes have the same issue: if you are next to a bright light source, the areas without or less light will look much more dark. I assume cameras work the same way?
Here is a YouTube URL for anyone like me who cannot seem to make Twitter videos work with adblockers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuo8eq9C3Ec
My guess would be that this is an off-the-shelf dashcam, completely independent from the self-driving cameras and sensors. Being an off-the-shelf dashcam means extracting and publishing the video from it is easy, which is why it came out first. It also explains why it has video from inside the car; many off-the-shelf dashcam models have both a forward-facing and a backwards-facing camera.

Personally, I'm more annoyed at the blurring of the telemetry data at the bottom of the video. What was blurred probably included the dashcam model, date/time, GPS coordinates, calculated speed, and so on.

The output from the other sensors might take more work to extract and convert into an understandable form, if they are even available after the fact; they might be immediately used in the control loop and then discarded, instead of being stored.
That’s a pretty significant difference — check out how quickly the fatality rates increase over 30mph or so:

https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/relationship_between_speed_risk_...

Getting hit at 10mph still is going to suck but it’s a lot more likely to be broken bones and road-rash.
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> She came to the story with a predetermined framing of the story.

In that it was a simple report on the patient experience, rather than being a deep investigative piece? That doesn't seem egregious or necessarily biased in a particular direction (it could either be a positive or negative experience), and there is some push back against Theranos guiding the piece ("wouldn’t I just rather get a finger prick myself and report on the experience, as so many other journalists had agreed to do? [/] I said no.")

> She allowed herself to be bribed with the “treat” of talking to Elizabeth Holmes

How? She rejects the initial condition that Theranos try to impose (not talking to other sources), and the condition in the threat was something the journalist had already indicated was necessary (talking to an actual patient getting the finger prick) nor did she change course at that point in order to secure the interview with Holmes.

> She sat on the story

What story? "I tried to do an interview but there was a fire alarm" -- that's basically all there is without significantly more digging, which she may not have the time/resources/connections/organisational support to undertake. Even if you publish the angle that not many people seemed to be getting the finger prick test, Theranos will just rebut it with the "significantly more than 50 percent of the tests are done with a finger prick" line and that the journalist did not see a representative sample.

> She waited until well after the tide of public opinion had turned against Theranos to capitalize on the work of others who actually did the hard journalism to get clicks.

I agree that it seems to be something of a bandwagon, and almost to get some credit after the fact, and that framing it as "I always knew something was wrong" paints the decisions made at the time in a poor light. However, given what was known at the time, I don't think any outrageous decisions were made, particularly as this was written with the benefit of hindsight so not as many red flags may have been raised at the time. I don't think it's reasonable to expect that journalists do a deep dive on every company they cover, especially when writing a relatively simple piece. Would there have been merit in publishing the piece? Certainly, especially given what we now know, but I can also see how you would conclude there is nothing important/interesting you can conclusively say based on those events.
vehicles are supposed to yield the right of way to pedestrians
> The GMO plant itself isn't what kills the insects

https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef130
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Did they have any before?
I'm also a software engineer, and I never turned philosophy into a job - it was just a major for me in college. Nevertheless it's interesting that we are both drawn to Kant, as his seemed to be the only suitable reply to the radical skepticism you're left with near the end of Descartes' Meditations (Even Descartes' disproof of his own skepticism is inadequate compared to Kant.) To this date Kant's response to Cartesian and Humean skepticism is the only one I find remotely compelling. It also lines up with my intuition that the form of subjective experience has properties which make subjective experience itself not entirely discoverable by analyzing first principles - those conditions being space and time, concepts that cannot be derived analytically but must be known prior to experience. And in that sense space and time have objective reality in a sense, as conditions of our perception. Our experience must already conform to the conditions of space and time in order for us to have it at all - which means that some reality exists, even though it has no knowable character independently of our perception.

I don't know why Kant has not experienced a resurgence, as his philosophy seems more and more relevant the more scientific theories like quantum mechanics are developed - theories which intimately tie up experience and objective reality and which, like Kant, both declare the knowledge of things-in-themselves, independent of perception, impossible and at the same time affirm that things-in-themselves exist. This is something no philosophy, with the possible exception of Kant's, has ever been able to conclusively demonstrate.
Actually, the yielding rules for pedestrians and drivers vary widely from state to state. See this page for a summary:

http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/pedestrian-cross...

But the legality is to some extent beside the point. Autonomous vehicles aren't going to be tuned to pedestrian yielding rules state-to-state, simply because hitting a pedestrian is never an acceptable outcome if avoidable no matter who is in the right/wrong.
At one point they had it so if you were listening to a song on Google Music on one device and then opened a YouTube video on another, it would stop the song on Google Music.
Timothy Gowers has the moral courage to do what pretty much everyone else is waiting for other people to initiate
Bigger houses by definition mean cheaper, at least in the city.

This is because a bunch of young people can get together and live together in this hypothetical bigger house.

Twice the size IS half the cost if twice as many people are living there.
> Brazil and especially argentina's financial problems were a result of international borrowing, not domestic borrowing.

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?

> Korea, Taiwan, Japan and china tried it with spectacular results.

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

That's the difference you're not seeing: 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. 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.
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Possible contributing cause is a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids. These are not sprayed, but rather coated on seeds, arguably even more alarming.

Seed coating with a neonicotinoid insecticide negatively affects wild bees
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7550/full/nature14420.html
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>> Ultimately any intelligent process needs to arise from non-intelligent processes.

I rather enjoyed the authors brief mention of atoms having some type of intelligence or consciousness. Perhaps they do and it's such a small amount that we can't detect it. Some have pointed out that mathematics is strangely well suited to describing physics, but clearly it will not work do describe phenomena that don't follow those types of mathematical models.

I'm just playing devils advocate, I doubt what I just wrote but I can't refute it either. 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.
Yes, the ISO is the amplifier gain, essentially.
They very much are - Reagan's loved and Cheney even moreso in the Midwest. Both of which are notable neocons. [0]

And economically, they're on average more poor than a lot of areas. See "County Level Poverty." [1] And if you're comparing wages between the two, Midwesterners make significantly less on average than those on the West Coast.

Although I was moreout giving an example and sticking with it for the sake of the main argument to begin with.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/rural-economy-population/rur...
Are you based in NYC? I'm actually going to a day long session this Saturday - it's about $150 for the day including lunch and dinner. You get an intro session for an hour with someone who trained with Grof; then you either breathe or sit with someone for 3 hours; lunch; switch and sit/breathe; dinner & integration.

I love it and have been going every few months.

email me if you like and we can chat more.

A@175g.com

Ps, while it's simple enough to put on a Breathwork playlist and turn up the volume and to breathe faster and deeper for a few hours, having a trained sitter to hold the space is useful for getting at and working with material you may not allow yourself to confront on your own. Also, can be a little risky if, say, your deep abandonment terror comes up and you are all alone.
Does anybody really think its a good idea for Lyft, Uber, Tesla etc to develop safety systems for the open roads separately in isolation? Who benefits from that?!

I'll bet a Tesla would not have run this person over. This is where the Government should step in and force all of these AV manufacturers to implement a common safety system / protocol.
Yep. What was even more bizarre is how they never really acknowledged it might be a problem, they just keep taking this arrogant attitude that the plebe users are wrong and just don't understand this amazing new data feature. It was the first time I recall them using analytics to justify their bullshit, it pretty much set the tone for where we are at now.
Which law is that? That would make sense to me as a reason, but wouldn't they say so in the post?
> Based on experience conciousness is the only thing that really exists.

I had to pay for my new car, though.
They've a/b tested inserting ads into the video stream before. If most people acted like I did, then YouTube would have seen them come back once every week or two and leaving as soon as one of those ads came up.

Right now it seems like most content providers are actually experiencing competition as it's extremely easy to jump to the provider with the least onerous ads, while torrents create a floor in terms of how annoying your ads/drm can be before people pirate
The bike --rofl
Fizz-buzz for teaching CS concepts?
> It should work in complete darkness

If that's true, this would certainly suggest a big failure from the LIDAR system in this incident. I wonder how that claim is tested. Would city lights interfere with testing (similar to how you can't see stars in the middle of cities)?
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Ask HN: How plausible is it to continue becoming a lifelong programmer?
I find that a lot of the really good developers get promoted to managers by their 30s. Or similar roles that are over 50% communication/meetings, such as product, scrum master, analyst, architecture, etc.

Even though a highly productive programmer can be even more valuable than a manager, few people remain as a programmer.

What keeps people from staying on as a programmer? What should I watch for if I want to go down this path?
That's all true for AC as well though.
Is Tempe like Tucson in explicitly aiming for low light pollution? It does make for some nice star gazing.
You are thinking about this wrong.

For every apartmemt complex that gets built, that is X many LESS people who are competing to buy that suburb house that you love.

The suburbs will still exist. But more appartments in the city means that prices go down for everyone.
I was just wondering: How does the 5th generation project compare to IBM Watson? (both are expert systems/rule based systems) Was it possible to pull off a system like that on 80ies minicomputers? I suspect that the PDP 10 too limited for the amount of data processing required. Maybe one could have done that with rule based systems on a mainframe of the day.
I don't mean they made their own CCD chips, (and I guess I didn't mean raw like what the voltages are at the digitizer), but the configuration and pre-processing prior to being fed into their algorithm probably is considered valuable enough that they wouldn't want to publicly display it.
https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21596582-one-hundred...

https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21704824-battle-over...

https://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2014/06/argenti...

Almost a decade of average zero growth, declining quality of life, crumbling infrastructure. It is sad to see the state of destruction the country was left in after Christina left.
The article below predicted a scenario much like this one. It made a point that putting a computer in control that works really well on average will make humans reaction worse in general and especially if it's a weird, emergency situation happening right as their attention is kicking in.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/crash-how...
The way I see it is that this fatality was a calculated risk for Uber. Uber realizes how much Waymo is ahead of them and decides to drop too many safety restraints in development of the self-driving technology.

The fatality is likely not cause big direct loses to Uber. Any safety regulations coming out of the result are going to hit Waymo just as much as Uber, slow them down and give uber time to catch up. Any financial fine would be tiny comparing to total money invested in self driving technology.
Thanks for the links.

Everyone is moaning and slicing and dicing what the self-driving vehicle did wrong but, since you're familiar with the area: are pedestrians typically expected to be crossing this road?

Seems like the accident has a lot of factors that might not only be the self-driving car's fault, nor even a human driver that was fully in control. Regardless of how well people may want self-driving cars to do, one thing that can actually exist in the present is to make sure that we are creating safe ways for pedestrians to cross a road.
Braking time is about 4 seconds from 40 mph (average braking acceleration is a bit under half a gee for ordinary cars), which means every second of braking is a roughly 10 mph reduction in speed.
Cats. It’s always house cats.
If Tempe is like Tuscon, they are using different kinds of street lighting from the rest of the country to minimize light pollution for star gazing reasons.
In addition to that, even if we were limited to the "last moment", there was about half a second or a second time to react. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that should be enough for the car to at least try something.

Isn't the car supposed to brake to minimise the collision, if the swerving is too dangerous (and it wasn't in this case, as the road wasn't too busy)?
That's how it could work theoretically, but in practice lazy iterators are much less efficient due to their implementation. I benchmarked it here:

https://gist.github.com/mboeh/bb480d93c71046e23816f2c24c23e3...

When applied to the same amount of work, lazy iterators consume more memory and take more CPU time than the equivalent non-lazy chained iteration.

There's a place for lazy iterators, but you should pretty much always profile first. If you have performance problems due to a long chain of iterators, you're always going to get better results by merging some of those iterators into a single block than by making the whole chain lazy. The best use case for lazy iterators is if you're trying to avoid having the original collection in memory (if it's being streamed from a file or the like). And at that point, if you're trying to optimize for performance, you should avoid chained iterations, period.

The good news is that in the vast majority of cases this just doesn't matter. Chaining iterators works fine until you start running into performance problems.
Fun idea. I learned recently that Sheets also works as a JSON service to post and get data if you have a static site and don't want to stand up a DB server.
It's typically illegal[0] and otherwise a bad idea to operate high beams when there is other traffic around as you can blind other drivers.

[0]: Page 46 of https://www.azdot.gov/docs/default-source/mvd-forms-pubs/99-... Other states have similar laws, such as California: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...
FKING VOLUME WARNING !!!

This video will blow your fking eardrums out because at the 4:37 minute mark, the presenter switches on his microphone system and the input source of the video changes to be about 400% what it was previously.

The fact that nobody has mentioned this is a pretty strong indication that none of these people have actually watched this video.
> Either Uber's gear is _way_ less sophisticated (to the point of being too dangerous to use in public)

I think this is a very good possibility considering that autonomous vehicles is the goal of the company and they're racing to get to that point before they run out of investment money. They have a lot of incentive to take short cuts or outright lie about their progress.
The way I look at it, conscious experiences are behavior: the behavior of an information-processing organ that has, in some mysterious but not necessarily magical way, become aware, to some extent, that it is not only an actor in its own model of what its sensory inputs mean, but also that it is a special actor, the one that actually creates the model.

Seeing red may be less mysterious than that - is it anything more than recalling similar sensations, and things (including abstract things like information/language constructs and emotions) that were associated with it?
> But the other person probably changed emails, didnt keep his phone number and moved to a new City. What now?

What if the other person did all these and didn't update facebook? Tough luck. Move on. Right?

Same thing. If they changed email, and didn't keep phone number etc, then they probably don't want you to contact them anyway...