skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my initial reaction as well, but am not 100% certain after thinking about it some more. Take this for example:

https://i.imgur.com/AlO4h7p.gifv

I figured that light in front of the car was mostly just messing with the camera but that driver sure didn’t see that pedestrian either. I’m willing to give a human driver the benefit of the doubt here and say that even with eyes on the road and hands on the wheel the outcome would likely have been the same. The pedestrian was not highly visible - no reflectors, dark clothes, it’s really hard to see people like this.
I really don't bundle Tesla in with Waymo, Lyft, Toyota, Uber that are trying to build ground-up self driving cars. Are Tesla actively testing self-driving cars on public roads yet? Are their included sensors even up to the task? I didn't think they even have LiDAR?
I would say most people on Facebook aren't on Twitter, so this isn't a great sample and thus it is hard to know yet. The thing that could go against FB is exactly what made it grow fast - the network effect.
that song about waking up and neutering the surveillance state keeps playing in my head.
Seriously though, what's wrong with living in Wyoming?
> Access to real-time ray-tracing will be made available to AMD partners by contacting your AMD representative.

How does that combine with:

> Like many of the other open source tools available from GPUOpen, real-time ray tracing will give users more control over the development process unlocking even more performance from your GPU.

Or they mean access before official release?
In Uber’s own tech blog, it describes its use of LIDAR to generate a wire frame of each object and track it. The lighting should be irrelevant for the vehicle, while it is essential for the driver.

From the below article: “Last fall, Uber officials showing off their vehicles on Mill Avenue said their radar and lidar were able to detect objects, including jaywalkers, as far as 100 yards away and avoid collisions.”

Something went really wrong here, and I look forward to the release of the rest of the data. I’m wondering why the woman, who had a large enough silhouette, wasn’t detected by the software.

This is a better source:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentral.com/story/4476480...
Whatsapp is also owned by facebook.
Exactly. He was 19, didn't have a army of PR/lawyers acting as filters between his mouth and brain. Now his words (especially crisis-time statements) are shaped by a team of professionals. I think I would pay more attention to the former to get an insight into his "real" thoughts.
I guess it depends on where and lots of details and such as to what exactly you're talking, but provided you're all employed by the same person... it's their team too.
How would this have helped at 40MPH? The user would have milliseconds to react and hit the brakes. The point is that the car is self-driving. If a user has to watch a video display and intervene for every edge case it's more dangerous than just driving yourself.
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Not really. The aim of these improvements, according to the article, is to more efficiently take out hardened military installations. The soldiers serving at those bases will die either way, but using fewer bombs means less collateral damage, and thus fewer civilian loses.
You went to a single unincorporated town in with a couple hundred people, and think that is somehow reflective on the greater part of Wyoming.
I don't think Uber with their "Hustlin'" culture should be allowed to run field tests that may endanger human lives. We simply cannot "move fast and break things" when it comes to self-driving vehicles.
In terms of decreasing costs: West LA/Mar Vista, Inglewood, maybe by the airport. Or find something off the 90.
I doubt that is legal, as you describe it.
If the statement is that "a human would not have been able to stop in time either", then yes, by the letter of the law, a human would have been at fault.

If you can't see where you're going, you need to slow down. Does that seem so unreasonable?
You've never seen a median-divided road that has two lanes going to each direction? Have you actually ever been to Europe?
I believe this isn't even "input", it's just a dash cam. The data available to the car hasn't been released yet.
This interview was much better than I expected. Some confidence restored (long way to go)... will be interesting to see how the questions and answers evolve over the next few weeks.

To me, there is a difference between buying targeted advertisements on Facebook without having direct access to private data and exporting private data for use in military-style information operations. This interview seems to indicate Facebook plans to stick closer to on-platform targeted advertising in the future.
So, if the asphalt is 140F when it's 92F, what's it when it's 65? About 100?
interior view has better night vision than exterior...
This is compensated for by Russia's implementation of fractional orbital bombardment systems that bypass radar detection.
FB loses appeal, people deleting their account is their smallest problem, it's the number of people who just stop using their FB account because it's not cool and cool people are not there.

If this catches on, FB can turn into Myspace in few years. It will still have billion or so active users, but FB's stock valuation will crash until it's P/E ratio will be something like 4-5.
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A point that is brought up occasionally, but probably not enough: Deleting Facebook really isn't possible for a nontrivial percentage of the world population, since Facebook is the internet in some places. Their monopoly over internet infrastructure in some developing countries is such that people can't afford non-Facebook internet packages, and seems to disincentivize actual low-cost internet infrastructure from being built out.
Wonder how many of those 40000+ mentions were bots? If Facebook is manipulated to shift elections, why wouldn't we expect Twitter be manipulated to shift social media platforms?

Also, I suspect many millions have already abandoned facebook and were using other platforms, they just left their account around just in case. Now, they have a wee bit of signaling, for practically no cost, so they go delete their account, and can happily pronounce on whatever currently-popular- social media platform, how they "dont even have" a facebook account triumphantly (no doubt missing the irony).
> What is "lack of integrity"? (etc.)

Yeah, it's impossible to define it. But thankfully, you don't have to unambiguously define ethics and integrity for all of humanity and posterity to get somewhere useful. We're not writing probably correct algorithms here, we're dealing with humans. Some linear combination of "something illegal", "something you don't want landing on the New York times next to your name", "I know it when I see it", and "if this still isn't clear for you, you test me at your own risk" would be sufficient to take care of it: either they'll figure it out by themselves or they'll find out the hard way.
I've worked at several companies that had very different ways of doing things. One place I worked had many complaints on glassdoor.com about "micromanagement" yet I had the opposite experience because I got to work on a project or two for a week and make weekly progress reports, as opposed to another company where we had a meeting every morning and had to account for all our time working on many different things in 6 minute increments.

Everybody says they want to hire someone who can "multi-task" but it totally changes your outlook when you have experience enough to know deep down that it's not necessary and may well lead to lower productivity.
The actual spot it happened has a bike lane, and crosswalk sidewalk by it [1].

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/gpugzAZKxcS2
I've found a few chuckle worthy, or kind of witty, but the vast majority seem like the inside joke of people who come off as wanting you to think of them as more in the know than you. And they could be. But give me a good Far Side comic strip in its place any day :)
People have the same experience with languages. Before you learn it, a language often seems mysterious and beautiful; after you have learned it, you no longer even notice its existence.
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Nope but I will next time. This is quite clever. It's likely equivalent to using arbitrary precision numbers but probably performs a lot better.
> Cloudflare is way too expensive.

Eh? DDoS protection on Cloudflare is free: https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/

Which features of Google Cloud Armor are "too expensive" with Cloudflare?

(Disclosure: I'm an engineer at Cloudflare, but I'm genuinely curious what you mean here.)
There's no specific 'no pedestrian' signage, and there are no nearby marked crossings. If that road were in [for example] the UK, Australia, NZ, or much of Europe, the car wouldn't have had right of way.
OK, but is Facebook really that much worse than other mainstream social media? Or at least, now, not four years ago.
Teach the math teachers how to code, and they become your CS teachers. This is more or less how my HS got enough teachers to teach the CS courses, as they made it mandatory for all students to learn.
The thoughts to buy the car, the touch on your wallet, the images of your car, the sounds, all happened in consciousness.
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But how do they define "computer science?" At my kids' school it's learning about Microsoft Office.
I don't think federated social networks (GNU social, diaspora ... etc) will solve this problem. In their case they are not in your best interest due to the time that will be wasted. I think "social" interaction should be left in real life where it can influence people in a positive fashion. IMO the Internet is really only good for disseminating information and for certain utilities it provides.
> And Facebook has 2 billion users.

I simply do not believe 1/3 of the planet is on Facebook.

I am not. Half of the planet does not have access to clean drinking water, I do not believe they are on Facebook either.
Another similar epidemic to lead poisoning we've been sleeping on is lithium deficiency. Look at the quantum of improvement on suicide and all kinds of violent crime, including rape and murder per this study[1]. Image of results table:

https://imgur.com/p6p886e

It's hard not to conclude that it's immoral to not chuck lithium in the water supply, if the natural variance is associated with a doubling of murder. The study has been replicated on suicide in Japan[2] and on Dementia in Denmark[3].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1699579

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19407280

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28832877
The clarity of that rule only exists in your head. Each person will draw the line differently, assess the risk differently, etc. Saying "I'll know it when I see it" does not result in a culture change. That just results in the CEO randomly enforcing his rule when he finds out about something he doesnt like.
Mm, fair enough, that's my inner conspiracy theorist happening :b (Every part of the US government is obviously in cahoots with Uber as part of a complex scheme to take over the world, right?). Okay, probably not intentional on their part, but I think it's really disappointing that this is the video they had to share. The video itself is manipulative, and surely they would realize that. It provides some context, but the prevailing focus is "look how dark much darker those pixels are than those other pixels!", which just isn't useful.
The author's domain ends in .de so I presume he's German. Attending a data protection lecture in Germany, the lecturer said the same thing, he can technically sue his friends because they gave his name and number to a 3rd party, without his consent. So at least in his jurisdiction it's illegal, however you may disagree.

Tragically even "secure" apps like Telegram does this.

The more interesting aspect is that if a group of people, some of whom are friends, uploaded their contacts, the network (Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram) can build a graph of friends. And they can build a profile of you based on the profiles they have from your FB-using friends. Not sure how exact it'll be, but it's what they do and sell to their customers.
I've also driven around here a lot. No, pedestrians are not common. Maybe once a week in my experience? They do love to cross outside of crosswalks at night, though, and I've found that I have to adjust my own eyes' object recognition to look for moving shadows and not just moving lights, because they're very hard to see even in well-lit areas.

I've driven many thousands of hours at night and have dealt with a fair number of crazy pedestrians including a rather ... uncoordinated ... guy in Casa Grande who decided to go in circles on his bike in the middle of the road at around 3 AM for no discernible reason. Fortunately that place was much better lit and I was able to see him and stop until he got out of my side of the road.

So it's not that common, but yes, every so often you will see some person in black jaywalking across a wide road at night and they're quite hard to see. I don't think a lot of people appreciate that the streets here are wide & fast and that there just isn't that much pedestrian traffic even in daytime.
I'd trust someone like UL.com - we trust them with a hell of a lot, why not this?
I mean, it's hard to judge, but things like [1] generally suggest that to some degree, yes

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/technology/users-abandon-...
I have no particular insight, other than to say that it's certainly possible; I've met people who were programming when they retired.

It might be good to think instead about leaving your options open? After all, how do you know this is what you'll want? After programming for 10 or 20 years, maybe you'll want to try something new? Presumably you'll know more then than you do now.
Seconded. I don't wish to denigrate the participants - I've benefited from their binaries, code and support many times - but common practices in the community feel _really_ dated.
At an early age, people are divided into "nerds" and "jocks", but many of the top athletes in school are also the top students. Similarly, management and technical skills are often developed by different people, but some people are good at both. The trouble is just that there is a very limited supply of those who are excellent at both and even so it's difficult to keep up both kinds of skills.

Promoting people who are good technically but don't turn out to be good managers is one pitfall, but another is not promoting people who are good technically, but would be more valuable as managers.
Even if you do establish a procedure, how do you guarantee that the reported number of weapons prior to dearmament is accurate (and thus matches the number of dismantled weapons), and that the other side didn't keep a stockpile in an off-the-books location? That brings us back to trust -- that the other side is legitimately engaging with the process and that the totality of weapons is known, rather than merely reducing their numbers (which would be no bad thing, but significantly different to total disarmament, particularly if only one side goes through with it)?
I am getting a bit annoyed by how shocked people on here are about this. The friends end point in the graph API was hardly a secret. It is an open API. There was no way for Facebook to enforce that data collected from authorized apps wasn't being saved. It's part of the reason the friends API was put under tighter restrictions a few years ago.
> If developers were given the chance they would turn every plot of land into a Kowloon walled city.

No, they obviously wouldn't. Look at Houston, where zoning is near nonexistent, and density is similar to or lower than most of the US.

This argument is actually an example of the extreme hyperbole that homeowners will resort to.
Theranos tried to get their tech bought by the military and used now SecDef, then Gen. Jim Mattis, then a Theranos board member, to shepherd the product through the military procurement process.

They were stopped because DoD regulations state that medical products used by the military have to be cleared/approved by FDA (or in the process of a clinical trial). And Theranos was not on FDA’s “good” list at the time, having only sent one product through the clearance process out of the dozens they were selling.
scaled back to zero already.

edit to add... this is like some sort of Russian roulette. ignoring the Russian connection pun, that's still a funny joke.
There is nothing keeping you from remaining a programmer as long as you are good at it. I am in my early 50's and have been programming since I was 13 years old, professionally since I was 18. I have studiously avoided management for my entire career and have survived several severe layoffs. Middle managers can be replaced far easier than a good programmer with extensive experience. You do need to be either an expert in an obscure field or be able to keep up with the latest technologies. I do both. I intend to retire as a programmer.
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This one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-book-post-m...
Sadly, no.

Tucson does it due to the nearby observatory. The greater Phoenix area has a huge glow that washes out all the stars. You can see the glow as far away as Casa Grande when you come out of the little rocky pass on I-10 north of there.

Edit: removed a duplicated word.
I would disagree that federated social networks would face the same pressure to increase time spent on their sites. By the nature of federation, a sort of marketplace of social sites would allow people to move to whatever serves them best (for whatever their definition of best is). So if a member of the fediverse starts feeding someone unenjoyable content, they could leave.
Cutting demand is what California has been trying since the '70s. It's a failed approach.
Makes me wonder if the lady was riding her bike in the lane if she still would've got plastered by the robocar?
No, what I elaborate is a policy level decision to reduce extreme negative impact to one group of people while providing benefit to another. You know, the regular push and pull of government where when it's running well officials try to balance aspects of what they are doing so that the overall impact is both a net positive while also reduce extreme spikes of negativity (and positivity, unless those people were really having it bad!) for any particular group.

I'm honestly surprised how a comment that essentially says "hey, it's actually a bit more complicated than the caricature often put forth for a solution and paying attention to that and reducing negative outcomes is worthwhile" is seen as so contentious.
The UK won't do much:

http://www.bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/03/20/scl-a-very-briti...
Revenue, sure, but what about profit?
Hey Mikel, are the Sk8 sources/binaries anywhere? Is it possible to run Sk8 nowadays if one has access to hardware running classic MacOS?
Not usually, and I say this as someone who has spent a lot of time driving nearby roads at night.
Japan is so idiosyncratic that you cannot assume that any policy from there will behave similarly anywhere else (except in some cases Singapore)
I'm from Colorado and have been going to different parts of Wyoming several times a year for nearly a decade.

Outside of Cheyenne and Jackson Hole, what I listed is extremely representative of Wyoming. Cheyenne isn't much better, and the whole point of Jackson Hole is to get away from computers for a while.

Edit: also this was Buffalo, so it was a full on incorporated city of thousands.
This is protectionism for capitalists. At the end, capital competes for labor and less foreign capital means domestic capitalists have to pay less.
Well, low end but expansive in its utility. Useful like a swiss army knife
Right, but I had to.
A good number of those two billion user accounts are not real people. They are either additional alternate identities a person had created, or out-and-out fiction.
> that video proves to me that this tech is nowhere near ready.

It proves that Ubers tech is nowhere near ready. Based on all the stupid shit I see Uber engineers saying on Blind app, I have very little faith in their maturity, professionalism, and culture.

I would bet that Google is doing a better job than Uber is.
Well, they weren't, not in California. E.g.: https://www.kqed.org/news/11231526/uber-to-state-weve-pulled...

In 2016 they tried just turning their autonomous vehicles loose in SF without regulatory approval. They got shut down. Rather than apply for permits, they headed off to Arizona, where the then-new governor welcomed them with open arms, an "anything-goes approach", and a lot of anti-regulation blather: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/technology/arizona-tech-i...
Is there a open source alternative to this? Something I could deploy on my own server?
Consciousness: the ability to convince people (including yourself) you're as special as they are.
London is a money laundering market, not a housing market.
Wow... This is REALLY bad for self driving cars. HOW did it not catch this? I'm a huge proponent of self driving cars, but I'm shocked that the car literally did NOTHING to avoid her. I know for a fact, I would have seen and potentially swerved (at least slammed on the breaks).
It seems like a long time ago it was publicized they were a complete fraud and I was bewildered as to why they weren't being shut down and/or having people arrested. So I have no idea what's going on except that things may go slower than one expects.
2+ seconds from the time you first see the person on this really crappy video is enough time for a human to react and a car to stop from 35mph. I don't blame the driver. Trying to stay alert for hours just for an incident like this is impossible and futile. I do blame Uber's shitty tech. Even this low-res camera sees the person in time and yet it never even applies the brakes from what I can see.

This should have been avoided.
I've been programming for 47 years. I've been offered (and refused) management positions 8 times. I know nothing about management, although I've had it done to me all my life.

Being a programmer all your life is like being a musician. It rarely pays well, it has a lot of issues. Lots of people think of themselves as programmers, just like most people who learn to play an instrument think of themselves as musicians. But there is a vast difference between being able to wrie a program (or play an instrument) and making it into a career.

There are very few musicians who perform throughout their lifetimes. There are very few programmers who write code throughout their lifetimes. You have to love the work.
Solid write up. Btw if you wonder what 'at the edge' means, it's basically what I knew as CDN so far.
Indeed. Uber was clearly able to spin the early reports about this incident; there is little correspondence between those descriptions and this video. Corruption in Tempe.

The victim had absolutely no business crossing that road like that, but the notion that the fatality was somehow unavoidable is pure bunk.
> don't value their privacy over their convenience

For lots of people, it's "don't value their privacy over being able to keep in touch with friends and family", not merely convenience.
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Cannot log into linkedIn with correct credentials. Is it hacked or down ?
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Really great achievement and welcome to Google. If you're based in Cambridge, we should try to grab lunch sometime. My ldap is kbolton.