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Uber's self-driving program seems to be one of the most unethical, most poorly-run in the entire industry. There were plenty of reports before warning us of the questionable quality of their research: cars changing lanes suddenly, blowing red lights, and now one finally killed someone. Every prior incident should have been treated as a serious matter.

Waymo et al has had none of these issues. Time to revoke their licence to test?
I know, I was pointing out waterbell's silly argument.
Forgive me, I don't understand what you mean. Please elaborate.
Yeah, Azure Storage Accounts have events now.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-blob...
Indeed. Tired of people associating benevolence with no monetary reward whatsoever.
I have been in physical product development and manufacturing for three decades. Doing business with US manufacturers has become more and more difficult over time. What you describe here is very true and only the tip of the iceberg. I have, for example, sent out 50 requests for quotes for machined components only to be utterly ignored by most of the shops I contacted. The same exercise with China results in an almost overwhelming number of quotes received almost instantly. They are open for business. Have been for a while. I, frankly, have no clue what game we are playing.
I come in peace. You're not a benefactor given that you are the one who benefited
How strange. Well, thanks for the info.
Striking a pedestrian in a crosswalk is horrible and terrible news. The reality though is how many pedestrians are hit by manual driver's vs automous drivers? On a percentage basis I gotta believe autonomous cars are orders of magnitude safer. Self driving cars aren't going to be perfect. How many people lost their lives in early factories to machines during the industral revolution? Imagine if they had pulled the plugs back then.
> Google, now a defense contractor

They sold their stake in Boston Dynamics

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-17/google-is...
The difference is where you start. If you start lower middle class or working class, odds are working hard will get you at best stable employment and the ability for your children to do something. Start upper middle class or upper class and you're going to the best high schools, best colleges, and have a shot at politics or being worth 70 billion dollars.

I've met too many poor and undereducated people who are as capable as my coworkers who went to Harvard, but the poor and uneducated have to work extremely hard, be extremely lucky, and do things others can't imagine to succeed.

The system is rigged against them, and it's hard for the well-off to admit that they got a 30-yard head start or for them to begin to understand it. Maybe that's why the system remains as it is, with the same millionaires and billionaires telling people who make 30k a year how they should live.
game assets tend to be highly engine-specific things by their very nature.

it can be possible to start from some raw assets when moving to another engine, but even then you may have, say, a character rig setup that's great in one engine but a huge pain in the ass in another.
Which is a small percentage of $12M.
FTA:

"The Uber vehicle was reportedly driving early Monday when a woman walking outside of the crosswalk was struck.

...

Tempe Police says the vehicle was in autonomous mode at the time of the crash and a vehicle operator was also behind the wheel."

That's a very bad look; the whole point of self-driving cars is that they can react to unexpected circumstances much more quickly than a human operator, such as when someone walks out into the road. Sounds like Uber's platform may not be up to that standard yet, which makes me wonder why they're on public roads.

On the other hand, it sounds like it happened very recently; I guess we'll have to wait and see what happened.
> Uber's self-driving program seems to be one of the most unethical, most poorly-run in the entire industry.

I mean, it's Uber. I'm not sure exactly what people were expecting. Their entire schtick is being unethical and poorly-run.
We should be careful with these types of articles and claims. Apple is trading at 18x earnings while Amazon is trading at 250x, as of this comment. Lower P/E ratios point to sturdier valuations in the market. In other words, AAPL is ACTUALLY worth its valuation in the eyes of the market, whereas AMZN would be dumped quickly should something spook investors.

Just be careful on these rapid upticks, and be prepared to bail out if you went in too aggressively.
On the bright side, with an autonomous vehicle, an accident is a learning experience that will benefit other autonomous vehicles.
Agree! In my experience successful remote work is associated with 2 things:

1. extremely well defined problem domains

2. incrementalism

For lots of engineers, those 2 points describe their job. Lots of (incremental) value is created that way.

But I'd argue that the larger gains accrue to those companies -- or those cities -- where work is being done in non-well-defined problem domains. And not incrementally, but by big leaps, experiments, and messy failures.

In fact, you could go farther and argue that in a competitive landscape, companies will quickly match each other in their performance in well-defined problem spaces, and the only way to actually compete at the margins is in problem areas that are, by definition, newer and not well defined.
Human beings simply cannot switch between "not focussed" and "in charge of a car, taken out of autonomous mode, and actively avoiding collision" fast enough to avoid most accidents, unfortunately. Neither can humans maintain the focus required to be ready to do that when 99.9% of the time they're not required to do anything.

Semi-autonomous cars have drawbacks.
"Social justice" is the opposite of justice.
When the leader of the movement (Trump) was describing the people coming over as "rapists, murders, and drug dealers", then yeah, I'm going to see that as anti-Mexican. And those that agree with his stance are, at the very least, not bothered with that extreme racism.

You want to change that? Then start shouting Trump and his ilk down when you hear stuff like that.
That has not been my experience at all.

My 91 pickup and 99 minivan's engines are still going strong with well over 200k miles, rarely having anything major wrong with them in the entire time I own them, whereas my 2004 and 2009 cars both with ~100k miles have been nothing but total maintenance nightmares. Timing issues, computer failures. Sheer nightmares.
Hm, there have been other crashes where the 'driver' in the car died (I recall one where a car in autonomous mode rear-ended a truck, something about how the sensor was blinded by the setting sun? And it had alerted the driver to take control several times before the crash) but this is the first incident I can recall where a pedestrian was struck and killed by an autonomous vehicle.
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.
I think that the weak claim: "Hard work contributes to success" is supportable but the strong claim "Hard work guarantees success" is not supportable.

Maybe I'm overly logical and can't shake the whole "Necessary and sufficient" aspects of causality [1]. The charitable argument is that working hard can contribute to success but it is neither necessary nor sufficient.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality#Necessary_and_suffic...
If you read the article, it mentions that it would be the first US-based company to hit the four comma club.

They even point out that the East India Trading company, when adjusted for inflation, was a 7.9T company.
The second ever [1] fatal car crash involving a self-driving car. This is the first one where a third party is killed.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/01/tesla-dri...
Important and and missing:

"[Uber] said it had suspended testing of its self-driving cars in Tempe, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto"[1]

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-driverles...
Speaking for myself I am against the H1B, not against immigration. My ideal scenario would be where H1B is repealed and replaced by a program that has a similar or greater level of immigration without tying to to employers.
The video says bicyclist and shows a bent bicycle. So pedestrian or bicyclist?
Uber is stopping self-driving car tests in all cities after fatal accident
>>If they do this for other products, I can see it catching on.

Until they bankrupt the competition. Then, Google becomes them.
I'm pretty much the same, been coding since 16 and I'm 28 now. I've gone through phases but I mostly code like the 2nd style. I mostly use JavaScript but occasionally pipe in another program (say python or C) when needed. I use new language features if it helps make things easier- ES6 has some really cool things, but I try not to let my code become cryptic. :)
yes, but with a human driver you have someone to take responsibility / punish for, what do you do with an alogrithm to provide justice?
It appears the woman was not using the crosswalk, but really that doesn't make much difference in the reaction to the report. Uber's self driving tech seems a bit under-baked at the moment.
The only way this is a reasonable failure of both the computer and the human driver is if they both physically had no time to react. Maybe that was the case, maybe it wasn't.
Yes, rent is included, along with a computed rent for owned homes (they try to separate the housing value from the property value).
My understanding from the Cambridge Analytica stuff is that even if you completely wiped every bit of data from Facebook's servers, it doesn't matter any more. Your personal data, attached to your name, is out in the wild. For a price, someone can buy a detailed psychological profile of you.

All of our genies are out of all our bottles. They aren't going back in.
As worldwide population increases, resources become increasingly stretched and per capita income goes down (relative to the cost of living). This, in first world countries will probably result in a decline in the birthrate.

You only need to look towards CA to see where this is already happening. CA with it's excessive regulations has decreased the prosperity of it's people to the point of where it now has x3 times the number of poor people per capita than the national average (that's living cost adjusted ~ mostly due to housing cost and excessive energy costs and countless other regulations that increase living costs). I suspect this has played a roll in the decline of the birth rate in CA, now at the lowest its ever been since the great depression (it's been going down for the last 3 decades). As life becomes increasingly harsh, people have less babies - it's kinda hard to have a kid when your sharing a room in your parent's house, or live 6 to an apartment.
They're basically asking if the car avoided doing something that would have been more destructive (e.g not hitting 2 people but only hitting one person instead). Or if there was no conflict decision making that happened and the car accidentally ran into the person and it resulted in a fatality.

- AI decides between one life lost as a better potential outcome

- AI made no decision and just happened to hurt someone
Please don't, he's going to launch into some philosophical dilemma that's not relevant because these cars aren't making decisions.
Which is why the machine should be backup for the always-driving human, only leaping in to correct failings.
While "Are you sure?" is often a great prompt, there are two things that can be done to improve it.

1) Just putting AYS? after every prompt is bad, people stop taking the time to think and just mash Y.

2) Discussing the consequences in the AYS? is better.

For instance if you @channel in slack you get an AYS that lists the number of people you are going to piss off with the notification. Great UX... and yet people at my office still seem to think things like girl scout cookies are worth @channel'ing #general with a few thousand people in it is a good idea.
Yeah, I just bought a new laptop (Acer Swift with Ryzen 7/Vega chipset, great Linux laptop btw!), and the hour or so I spent with Windows 10 was beyond infuriating. From the voice assistant constantly harassing you to pop-ups in every single app trying to make you use Edge, to the poor user experience that Edge is itself. Also the default Windows installation didn't have the right graphics drivers for the Ryzen/Vega APU, the pixel scaling was way off, etc... It's amazing to me that people still use Microsoft products.

Even though I installed the alpha version of Ubuntu 18.04 (beta now), it's already far more usable (and less buggy) than the Windows 10 that came on the laptop. Ubuntu improved battery life (when does it ever do that?), had up to date graphics drivers, and no shitty pop-ups.

Oh well, MS' increased hostility is a sign that they're scared for their market share, and a sign that they're waning. I for one have had enough of their crap.
<< what other options I may have in the US immigration system?

This discussion isn't about how to immigrate to the US.

<< However, for skilled workers, the system is very hostile.

Well I'm sorry you feel that way. You could always return to your home country and fight to make things better there. That's what I'm doing by opposing H1-B - I'm fighting to make things better here.

<< Giving tech jobs to Americans will help decrease inequality, but the effect will be so small.

Right, if the effect is so small, then why is it so important to YOU?
Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Pedestrian
N26 raises €110m and eyes US expansion
I see a lot of confusion around this topic - sharing porn images without the person's consent should always remain illegal. But just the fact that you have some images on your hard drive? That shouldn't be a crime in itself.

If you have naked images of your ex-partner, they don't magically become revenge porn until the moment you share them without permission(at which point it's a crime and it's already punishable by existing laws).
It is hostile. Sadly, stock Android does this with Chrome in Google now and the home screen.
No, grandpa was selling shoes.
Yeah. Their motto seems to be 'easier to ask forgiveness/pay fines instead of asking for permission'.
I'm betting Wellfleet/Bay Networks/Nortel "Site Manager" infrastructure management tool. Awful, awful piece of work, with exactly bugs like "well of course if you leave this field blank you want a *". You still find old Nortel gear hanging out all over the place in telco networks.
Who will be their largest competitors in the US?
Doesn't mitigate the tragedy or implications for autonomy, but per the article, the pedestrian was outside the crosswalk.
Given that so many of autonomous car accidents logged by the California DMV seem to be the fault of the human driver trying to take control, I’m surprised that the accident here reportedly happened in autonomous mode, which for all its flaws seems to have been good at not hitting things in front of it. In fact, seems like most of the CA accidents were the autonomous car being rear ended or side hit from other cars, usually for going too slow or stopping unexpectedly.
Given how incompetent Uber is at regulation of anything else in their company, is this really a surprise?
There's an interesting case going on in Norway right now. The head of the Justice Ministry is being impeached because she made a post on Facebook saying that the police should be able to withdraw the passports of suspected terrorists without a court case.

When the labour party objected publicly, she accused them of being "in favour of terrorism" (again on Facebook I believe), which was very unfortunate seeing that their youth division were the target of the 2011 terror attack on Utøya.

So right now other parties in government are questioning her ability to serve as Minister of Justice and Public Security and she will likely have to leave her post this week.

I could not find any sources in English, but it's the headline of any .no news sites at the moment: https://www.nrk.no/norge/krf-har-holdt-skjebnemote-om-mistil...
FYI - I signed up and the email confirmation page showed me someone else's canary URL
The number above is after rent and taxes.
I think it's a reference to the imaginary trolley problem, which is often raised as an objection to self-driving capability.

The idea is that making a decision between killing one person vs killing something more valuable than one person (eg. multiple people) is something that drivers do on a regular basis. Computers may not be capable of correctly evaluating the ethics of that decision.
It's a sad reality, but regardless of how many times per day a pedestrian is hit by a human-driven car, such incidents involving self-driving cars will be headline news for years to come.
I like the simplicity of this.
Because of the architecture of DNSSEC, it's not in fact available until every DNSSEC resolver on the Internet supports it; until then, you have to keep bad crypto available, and expose users to downgrade attacks.
> I'm very curious to see how they'll investigate this and who will be determined to be at fault (person behind the wheel or Uber). It will likely set a precedent.

It's also plausible that the pedestrian was at fault. Under some circumstances it would be impossible for a human driver to avoid collision with a pedestrian, this may be no different.
Has anyone used gen stage / flow for their jobs / small - medium projects ? What are some examples where this could be used ? Game server ? I found an example on YouTube about using it in an automation warehouse but that seems too niche to implement
Windows 10 uninstalled apps without telling me, I ended up wiping it and reinstalling Windows 7
Perhaps they were walking their bicycle across the street.
FB is in decline irrespective of the bad press. I hosted a party this weekend and used a FB event to invite everybody and many people never even saw the invite because they don't have FB on their phone anymore. I might start sending text message invites or emails going forward. Even though they own instagram, they monetize FB much better so a decline in FB is damaging to the business. Other properties like WhatsApp, Oculus and Messenger are still are in the early stages of monetization.
The video mentions she was on a bike and shows a mangled bicycle. Also the line markings on the street indicate there is a bike lane to the left of a right turn lane. Definitely very bad.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4369934,-111.9429875,3a,75y,...
> Google's smart enough to know not to explicitly block a competitor, they just make it impossible for the competitor to participate. (For instance, requiring Play Books be installed to get the Play Store guarantees Amazon can't ever sign up to get Google Apps on the Kindle.)

They could, as Barnes and Noble proved when they went full Google Android from their forked version with the Nook; they won't want to for the same reason B&N didn't want to until it had proven it couldn't get anywhere with it's forked version, since it would be opening up Amazon's walled garden and letting Google's competing market in.

Similarly with cart/payment integration: those don't make it impossible for Amazon to integrate. They just make it undesirable for Amazon since that's Amazon's central value proposition to third-party vendors, and Amazon has no desire to strengthen the appeal of any other platform that offers that for customers and, thereby, other vendors.

Amazon isn't going to stay off because they are blocked (whether directly or indirectly), they are going to stay off because they need it to fail, because it is a replacement for Amazon's already-dominant marketplace, and any gains it makes with consumers and third-party vendors are at Amazon's expense.
I would argue Amazon doesn't even "do search" of their own inventory.

Anecdotally, unless you're looking for something very specific (e.g. Samsung Galaxy S9 128gb) the results become worthless beyond the first handful, probably due to the scale of the inventory and volume of scammy vendors. I believe they have optimised this way; they know people Google for options and then return to Amazon when they know exactly what they want because of the price/saved cards/prime delivery. They didn't previously need to provide a discovery service and so they don't.

This move from Google could bite hard through taking away a small part of Amazon's vendor lock-in value. Perhaps the question could be: will Google provide or incentivise vendors to provide a common rapid delivery service?
You see: you should have read the law before assuming that requesting this information from the user is legal. It had to be stored in one, single place. Therefore answering this question shouldn't take more than 5 minutes, if you have anticipated GDPR.
It seems like a bunch of what-ifs that normally come up with self-driving cars are about to get answered and precedents are about to be set.

I assume this case will also be one of the most well-recorded cases of a fatal car accident in history as well, given the amount of sensors and equiment on-board a self-driving car, along with eye witness testimony from the operator on board.

Can't tell if Uber has just been incredibly unlucky as of late or if just enough of their employee-base is incompetent as to prevent them from just having a quiet year with no large failures.
I feel that this sentiment could be applied to almost anything and isn't really meaningful. Almost every accident ever could be attributed to negligence somewhere.
IMO: If they have the data--and they do--eventually they will be forced to release it.

if not for a run of the mill murder it will be done for a terrorist attack, a child kidnapping or something similar. Judges will twist and bend the 4th Amendment and once it's done for that case, it's fair game for all.
I always take the "outside the crosswalk" reports with a grain of salt. Hereabouts, if the pedestrian lands outside the crosswalk, they're assumed to have been crossing outside of it, even if later eyewitness reports and video footage show they were in the crosswalk and the car knocked them out of it.
One of the most oft-discussed questions around self-driving cars is what should happen if your car can choose between two options: 1) An action that will have a better chance of protecting the people inside the car, 2) An action that will protect people outside of the car, with a whole bunch of variations.

For example - What if someone steps out into the road and you can either hit them, or run into a wall? The former makes it far more likely the occupants of the car will be safe, the latter saves the life of a pedestrian at the expense of possible injury to people in the car.

It is kind of an interesting question, because people can't generally react quickly and rationally enough in a situation like that for it to matter, but in theory, a computer can. But it also dominates the discussion in a way that likely far overstates how frequently this will actually be a decision a computer has to make.

I think that is what the person you're replying to is asking. Given that this occurred at night and on (very likely) uncrowded streets, I feel like its far more likely the car (and backup driver) just somehow missed the pedestrian.