skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Additionally, there are many opportunities I have discovered through Facebook that I likely would not have otherwise. For example, just last weekend I happened to be flying across continents and when I checked Facebook on my phone, I discovered a cousin I haven't seen in a while also happened to be flying to the same city on the same day. There would have been no reason to share this with each other, but because it was out there publicly I was able to see and organise time for us to meet. I often see content which prompts me to get in contact with people.

I can understand this point but I think you would agree that this is really a case of serendipity and is not reflective of the "average" interaction between two people are connected via social media but do not meet regularly face to face.

I went to high school on the east coast but now live on the west coast. I had instagram for a few years but stopped in late 2017 because the algorithm changes annoyed me. Most of the people in my feed where either friends from high school who I don't connect with regularly (and if I do it would be during the holidays) or local friends who I meet w/ every couple of weeks at the least. The level of 'connectedness' between me and my high school friends on the east coast stayed relatively the same (very low) once I stopped using instagram. I mean it was funny to see memes and interesting to look at what vacations they were taking but there was very minimal interaction then and there is minimal interaction now.
"It's not so bad compared to the alternative"

I mean, we two are still capable of discussing it, at least!
Machines will have slower reaction times.

Theoretically it could be otherwise, perhaps, though the human brain has an extremely parallel pattern-matching engine honed by about half a billion years of evolution.

Realistically, the self-driving system will be made of layered distinct components that all add latency. This is how we build both hardware and software. An image is sensed, it gets compressed, it gets passed along the CAN bus, it gets queued up, it gets decompressed, it gets queued up again, object detection runs, the result of that gets queued up for the next stage... and before long you're lucky if you haven't burned a whole second of time.

Machines can drive aggressively.

There was a university that had self-driving cars do parallel parking... by drifting. Driving along, the car would find a parking spot on the other side of the road. It would steer hard to that side, break traction, swing the rear of the vehicle around sideways through a 180-degree turn, and finally skid sideways into the spot. The car did this perfectly.

That kind of ability is something that I personally don't have. I would consider a self-driving car that could do this. If I'm paying, and that kind of driving is my preference, I expect to get it.
I could download it from here:
https://dai.lids.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/SDV.pdf

Are you facing any trouble while accessing this link?
Is it unrealistic to hope for a linux SDK? They have Unity and Unreal SDKs (both of which engines support Linux in my understanding), and their custom OS is based on Android.
Can Deutsche now claw back the bonuses given to him earned through his manipulation of Euribor? Are they going to? Or will he be fined an equal
amount?
> 20k lives each year

Road deaths are ~40k each year in the US alone.

I agree about Uber; smells like shit, looks like shit, tastes like shit, you better believe it's shit to the core.
The problem is that you 'believe' it to be orders of magnitude safer.

How about we test it properly before allowing it on public roads?
Osmo?
that's called user testing and focus groups, not forcing the developers to look different just to get a job
It’s definitely awkward that the co-founder of the company that sold data to Cambridge Analytica is right now employed by Facebook as in-house psychologist: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/18/facebook-cambri...
From what channels did you gain the most initial traction? After reading your other comments, I assume you didn't do "traditional" sales such as cold calling/emailing, so I'm curious as to how you built up a user base. I'm currently struggling to do that exact thing with my own business right now. I started selling (cold calling/emailing, demoing, PH/HN/IH posts, etc.) Jan. 1 2018 and I feel like there's something I'm missing as far as my sales process.
NTSB should expand to launch an automotive division.

Bonus: Job creation to replace the jobs lost to automation
There's alot of research that goes into this, not just the CPI but other measures of inflation. Check out http://www.thebillionpricesproject.com/ from MIT. Economists don't just sit on their butts all day.
The first time I've heard of Webflow but I'm intrigued.

In working with clients on building websites, I see there's massive demand for easy ways to set up e-commerce and selling stuff online, and the existing solutions don't quite cut it yet.

I know there's Shopify, Wordpress + WooCommerce and other solutions, but nothing seems to provide the power and flexibility along with the ease of setup that users are clamoring for.

Looks like this ticks off multiple requirement boxes that most of my clients have asked for in the past. All the best! If this works well and takes off, I might start recommending it.
What is that supposed to mean? If the only way it directly impacts a forum is because of the company doing the killing, the killing is irrelevant?
I've delivered one small game to Google Play and am working on two more. I wrote a unique engine for each. I'm also doing all the art (I learned to draw so that I could make decent looking games). Building a game with a licensed engine feels, to me, a bit like drawing a character by starting from one of those pixel-art "dollbases". Yes, it's what the industry does now, but I didn't start writing games to join the industry; that'd be like taking up woodworking so I could work for IKEA. I started writing games to write games. It's relaxing, when programming is to me normally a cause of stress and strife.

If you are getting into the indie scene hoping to have a million seller, then unless you are a rare genius (e.g., Notch) your $85,000 is better spent on Powerball tickets. Do it for love of the craft, whether you use your own or a licensed engine. And for God's sake start small.
One of the authors of that NYT piece has been tweeting some highlights, including:

> The sons of black families from the top 1 percent had about the same chance of being incarcerated on a given day as the sons of white families earning $36,000.

https://twitter.com/KevinQ/status/975711184597979136
because it does not require handing over control to the car to get a good test. the cars can simply record their decision making process and immediately flag all exceptions, which includes hitting anything. It would be very interesting to see all exceptions because it is to be expected all these systems must fail.

we don't need active testing on our streets. automakers would have dared to test ABS or "safety" systems in such a manner for the simple reason of liability.
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This paradigm-shift is a chance to address one of the leading causes of preventable death in the world.

It doesn't surprise me for a moment that this was Uber (though it might have been a Tesla). From all I've seen and read, these companies are racing unscrupulously, and some have inferior technology compared with others.

Waymo seem to be approaching the problem from a safety direction rather than a pure race for profit.

We need to hold SDs to a higher standard than we hold human drivers. Not 1.5x the standard; 1000. 10,000. 100,000.

And every death must be treated as a serious failure of engineering. These are preventable deaths.
The state of the art is to make all intersections between car and bicycle lanes at 90 degree angles. For an example, see https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/a-common-urban....
If it were aboveboard, it would be opt-in, not opt-out, yeah?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa--NDjL9SI

In the talk by Chris Bell, (29:15) they use Flow to migrate millions of records.
The WoSign issues became public around early September 2016 (maybe last week of August):
https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=CA:WoSign_Issues&ac...
Yikes - bringing someone's personal details into threads as ammunition in an argument is offside. It crosses into personal attack, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Rents and house prices are heavily correlated.
> A more appropriate one would be if you called your bank and told them to allow a 3rd party to have access to all of your accounts, then blamed your bank when the 3rd party drained all your accounts

Better analogy: you call your bank to allow a third party to have access to all your accounts. My account gets drained. Still a breach.
lol, serendipity.

As far as I know the regular mode is not free to play.

I only tried it because it was a free alternative to PUBG
In any other industry you have to be happy to not get your life ruined as whistle-blower but in banking we again have to give them a huge amount of money to do something. It really bothers me. Why do we have to give millions of dollars? Anywhere else you would get a small reward or nothing.
Some services/apps may be able to transfer stuff to a new account. When I deactivated my Facebook account, I had Spotify linked to it. I created a new Spotify account with an email and contacted their support to transfer everything to the new account and deactivate the old one, it was quick and worked flawlessly.
It's a pretty bad look to have the involved parties directly fund the investigation. Some sort of general automated-vehicle tax may be more appropriate.
I'm sure that pile of data will gain intelligence if we stir it hard enough. Any moment now.
Uh, no. Sorry, at a loss to understand where you see "killing is irrelevant" in my comment.

edit: NM, I can see where you'd see that, even though I argue that both being concerned about the death, and wanting to defend Uber, aren't mutually exclusive. Instead of saying "this story is only relevant to HN", I should have said, "this story is only noticed by HN and the national media". Which is true, as far as I can tell. I can recall few nationwide stories about other pedestrian deaths, even though nearly 6,000 occur every year.
Most of Amazons business is retail oriented. Retail is very low margin business.

Another main area for Amazon is Amazon Web Services. It will be extremely low margin business as the dust settles. Just like phone and telecom services or personal computers turned into low margin business, large scale Web services will be very low margin bulk and extremely competitive.
According to this[0], I reckon there are 16 cars (order of magnitude 10s at least) in the pilot down in Az. In almost a month, one has died.

There are about 260M[1] cars in the us in 2015, so perhaps more today. That means there are ~4e-7 deaths per car per day. On the other hand, we have 1e-3 deaths per autonomous vehicles per day if we naively use the death of the person in this story. That means so far, autonomous vehicles have a rate of killing people a ~2500 times that of normal cars.

Of course, it's one data point, but out the gate, it's not looking so strong.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/21/14687346/uber-self-drivin...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unit...
Might as well formalize it by enacting it into law. Wouldn't want to have conflicting regulatory regimes decreasing business confidence.
Food and energy are highly volatile which tends to make the statistics less valuable.
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This. There are many posts on this thread suggesting we could fix all this by lowering speed limits, etc. That's been known for a hundred years at this point.

If you want to get up on the history you can grab a copy of "Fighting Traffic," by Peter Norton. He goes through all the efforts cities made in the 1920's to limit cars, and how the motor lobby formed in opposition to this and little by little reversed the tables to the situation we find ourselves in today.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fighting-traffic
I should have explained my math.

The called out categories sum to 1.1M. This is 57% of the total 1.9. So I guessed that removing some of the business and some of the social science take it under 50%.

But would definitely need to see all the degree types to know definitively.
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That depends how many dumb drivers it takes off the road compared to normal drivers, and the relative percentages of accidents caused by each.

Let's say we have 9 normal drivers and 1 dumb driver. The 9 normal drivers cause 0 accidents per year each, and the 1 dumb driver causes 15 accidents per year. Let's say autonomous cars cause 1 accident per year. If autonomous cars replace all the drivers, there's 10 accidents per year instead of 15.

Obviously these are hypothetical numbers. All I'm saying is that if you only have one of these numbers, you don't know which kind of driver is safer.
Not exactly the same, but here's a javascript plugin that can add more content to the bottom of the page as you scroll down.

https://infinite-scroll.com/
What they are like as an employer tends to be a binary experience. It is great until it is not, and afterwards you don't know how you ever managed to stand it.

Their leadership principles require people to have no defensive behavior. Their actual organization style makes it very easy to create defensive behavior. As long as you and those in your immediate environment are not defensive, the result works very well. However when defensive behavior gets tripped with people who are pretending not to be defensive, things very quickly go pear shaped.

Source, my personal observations from having worked there, combined with many conversations after I left with people who also left. One of whom had not only been there for years, but for most of that time was one of the people who would be brought in to sell wavering recruits because of how loudly he sang their praises as a place to work.
It's nice that we can start building with the SDK, but I'm more interesting in experiencing what I've made. I'd rather have the device and build a simple hello world demo that inspires me to build more vs spend a bunch of time diving deep into an sdk and while having no idea how the end user will experience the stuff I create. With iOS for example, you could develop a majority of apps by just using the simulator, since the experience is (mostly) 2d. But I remember when starting out, the more fun projects to work on were using the accelerometer. The only way to experience the magic in that case, was with an actual device. With Magic Leap, the entire experience is spatial. So it's probably the other way around where the device is mostly the only way to really understand what it is that you're building.
Very generous, thank you. I might just take you up on that offer.
> You can't really get away from this without putting these cars on rails.

We should just really build rails. Self driving cars are dumping billions of dollars onto a problem better solved by rails. Several cities already have self driving trains including London, Singapore and Kuala Lumpar, and they transport millions of people every day without incident:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-sol...

Self driving car research is asinine. It won't even being to solve the transport problem in America and it's round-peg/square-hole tech. It has the cool factor but there are existing tech that are insanely more useful for a fraction of the cost. American hate public transportation (thanks GM) that we'll never see real/good transport implemented in America.
It's not at all true. People here care very much. It would be weird if a large population sample (4M a month or so) had a different human nature than humans in general.

What is true is that large internet forums suffer from systemic effects that compound into problems that no one has yet figured out how to deal with.
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Hello,

Do you know if it's the same for WhatsApp?

When you think about it, it's kind of alarming that FB, Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram are all owned by the same company. I can't even imagine the amount of data they have about us.
Just below what you reproduced, they write:

When we examined the confidence intervals for the
remaining 8 tests, we found that for half, the mean of accuracies for features written over synthesized data was
higher then for those written on the control dataset.

In other words, for 4 out of remaining 8 cases, the models on synthetic data performed better.
The Alphabet volume is split between two tickers, GOOG and GOOGL.
I highly doubt Deutsche Bank wants that kind of attention. What if he starts arguing Deutsche Bank knew about it more then they previously said after they start going after him?
The Truth about CPU Soldering
Interesting, isn't it?

But if you think about it, that's not a pattern anyone should be unfamiliar with. History is full of it.

I don't know, I really have no strong opinion here. But I think stuff like this is truly fascinating. There seems no end to where rationalization can go.

Welcome to the ambivalence of reality...
> This is marketing for their game engine.

Which faces _stiff_ competition against the Unity engine. Epic is the incumbent in the space and the success of Unity in the last several years must be a huge concern for Epic.

Epic has always been a game engine developer first and foremost, so anything to claw back market share from Unity is going to be a calculated strategic move on their part.
Why not test these things on a private track? You have a multi-billion dollar company attacking this problem and it feels like all they tested before they hit the public roads was lefty and righty.
I still don't understand what specifically you're objecting to (at least I think I don't). As best I can tell, you don't disagree with the points about statistics but think the discussion is somehow "without compassion", which stops it from being "our best discussion".

Do I understand you correctly that you'd be okay with the comments if the were just prefixed with some "thoughts-and-prayers" genuflection? And if so, why not say it directly?
Yes, it is. However, this is not a complaint but a question that I, as a potential customer, have. I don't care that it can be reversed generally. I only care about how they plan to protect me as their client. It is a direct and fair question to ask from such platform.
In this case, the driver is an Uber employee, and the automation is Uber-created and deployed, so the driver is the car manufacturer.
Ah ! thanks it works.
>Indeed. This is why many cities are reducing speed limits.
In fact, self-driving cars may actually improve the situation if cars actually start complying with speed limits en masse.

The vast majority of people just go however fast they feel comfortable (considering conditions, etc) regardless of the speed limit.

Mixed traffic speeds decrease safety.

Raising speed limits so that you don't have the % of people who comply with the letter of the law traveling slower than the people who go however fast they're comfortable usually improves safety.

Unless your goal is to increase ticket revenue or appease the "think of the children crowd" there's no point to lowering speed limits. It doesn't do much to affect traffic speed. To do that you have to modify the road or do something to change the traffic flow.

Self driving cars will improve safety because they'll result in political pressure to raise speed limits to match reality and they'll make dynamic speed limits more practical.
Do you think you could maintain the required state of alertness, focus, and engagement necessary to hit the brakes and turn the wheel after 30 minutes (or whatever) of just sitting passively as the car drove you around?

I don't think the "safety drivers" do much other than provide liability-shifting for the company.
I think you touched on the fundamental reason self driving cars cannot currently do this. It would mean programming self driving cars to, in some circumstances, break the law.

I agree with the thrust of your comment though, and think that a change in the law may be required to allign incentives for machines as well as people to drive humanely.
Clearly, Facebook loses hold on the users' data to some 3rd party players, and even now that they have no control that the data is actually deleted or not.

If Facebook has no means to detain such malicious usage of users' data, they should be more careful to open the access of it in the first place.
So in the extreme case that you're talking about it's not dangerous in any way I can think of at the moment. One of the big reasons I called it dangerous was that the effect only a portion of the users leaving the platform is dangerous and more subtle. To my eye, it's a social critique which leads to people who agree with it voluntarily removing themselves from the 21st century version of the "public square." I worry that this leads to disenfranchisement on their part as I've seen such isolation result in those feelings.

I guess the spirit of my claim is that the shape of group conversation will always come to resemble the cultural context of that conversation, regardless of the medium. While the medium can and should be critiqued, calling for total abstention from the medium is effectively self-censorship and I don't think that'll lead to the desired result.
Nope they sell it to their advertisers. Remember?
Like we have botnets made out of thousands (millions?) of compromised computers, we could have entire fleets of compromised cars, rentable on the black market using cryptocurrency, that could be used to commit crimes (e.g. homicide) while keeping the killer anonymous.

Scary stuff. I hope these self-driving cars will be able and designed to work while completely offline, with no built-in way to ever connect to a network. But given the biggest player in the field seems to be Google, they'll probably be always connected in order to send data to the mothership and receive ads to show you.
If you skip the emotional part of the news, the interesting question is: who is responsible when a self driving car made by a company kills someone?
This is a good point. Robocars will have more evidence for their defense in such a case than human drivers would have. "Oh there was a kid who jumped out? And that's why you plowed into this parked car? Likely story!"
I hereby propose the Dang Double Whammy Effect.
You forgot to include loot boxes. The game better include loot boxes that turn users into mindless casino players.