skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So we will have overall a much smaller number of deaths caused by self driving cars

Why? This is what the self-driving cars industry insists on, but has nowhere near been proven (only BS stats, under ideal conditions, no rain, no snow, selected roads, etc -- and those as reported by the companies itself).

I can very well imagine a greater than average human driving AI. But I can also imagine being able to write it anytime soon not being a law of nature.

It might take decades or centuries to get out of some local maxima.

General AI research had also promised the moon once again in the 60s and 70s, and it all died with little to show of in the 80s. It was always "a few years down the line".

I'm not so certain that we're gonna get this good car AI anytime soon.
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Can I report a few trillions that are missing in the Pentagon Budget? Send money to <redacted>.
yeah, so those developers resigned, got old and died, and now we're doing it anyway.
There is a nice Quake 2 demo showing various settings: https://youtu.be/x19sIltR0qU

But I think we are still some time away from real time noiseless path tracing. Although more clever denoising filters for the first samples are getting much better.

And ofcourse you can decide to use a very low number of bounces. This will give a darker inacurate result but still can give a feel of global illumonation.
But she was hesitant to move. She’d grown up in Northern Indiana and studied communications at DePauw University. She and her husband, a commercial real estate developer, had built a life for themselves and their two kids near the capital city.

This is an important aspect that I can't assume is only important to the Midwest, but something that I come across myself here, also in the Midwest.

Occasionally an over-enthusiastic recruiter will reach out about a relocation opportunity. I sometimes can't help but reply "No. I love it here." Much to what I assume is confusion.

We can still move fast and break things out here in Fly Over Country. And our salaries can afford us better opportunities in comparison. I think a lot of 'Coasters have a hard time even rationalizing that. No technology I've encountered is locked down to a location.
If there was any certainty in the future of Medicare and Social Security, I could be a lot more generous in my giving, but as it is now, I need to save enough retirement money to cover uncertain medical insurance costs as well as be prepared for lower (or no) Social Security payments than projected.
> I simply try to make it a habit of catching up when I'm in town

Yes, but how do you do that? My long-distance friends are constantly moving address and changing phone numbers. Facebook (or an IM app, if they happen to still use the same one they used to) is the only way I know to figure out how to find my friends when I get back in town after a year or two away.
Indeed. Right on red is unsafe for pedestrians. I guess at least the requirement to stop before turning helps ensure the speed of impact has minimal consequences.

As a driver, there are certain heuristics, e.g. did my traffic light just go red, or is the pedestrian signal/traffic light in the same direction about to go green.
I disagree, I feel LG has done a horrendous job on the software side -- always-on recording (illegally), ads that you cannot remove on their $5k flagship tvs, delays/loading times for plain menus.
MS should first concentrate on securing Edge.
Self-Employed People Are Happier and More Engaged Despite Hours, Job Insecurity [pdf]
Why Is React More Popular Than Angular?
The Story of India's Emergence as a Leading FinTech Hub
Was it Steve Blank's "The Secret History of Silicon Valley"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
> Does it really need to be said that an autonomous vehicle still needs to manage to not kill people regardless of their position relative to any nearby crosswalks?

If you require 100% impossibility of killing anybody regardless of what the vehicle and the person is doing - it is achievable only by making those vehicles nearly useless - such as lowering their max speed to something 10 mph (maybe even lower since it's still possible to push a person who will slip, hit their head on the pavement and die). If the vehicle is moving fast and somebody jumps onto a street, there are physical limitation of what can be done. So, if this technology is to exist there will always be a space where accidents can - and eventually will - happen.
At first sight the scoop seems to me that the British (or at least the Independent journalist) cannot count up to three:

>The researchers tested participants’ feelings about inequality by giving them two Amazon gift cards in two different amounts: $25, $50, or $75.

The actual paper (maybe) clears the matter:

http://cess.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Bechtel.pdf

>The two gift cards could take on three values, each corresponding to a different type of inequality. In the "own poorer" condition the values were $25 (own) and $75 (other). In the "own richer" condition the value of the gift cards was reversed ($75, $25). In the "equality" condition the gift cards were worth $50 each.
And if you want to know what kind of company Cambridge Analytica is, check out this under-cover reporting, jus tout this morning:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/us/cambridge-analytica-al...

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Whataboutism doesn't make it right.
> maybe what people need is a better grasp on probability and statistics

Definitely, though my interpretation of your statement is "self driving cars have only killed a couple people ever but human cars have killed hundreds of thousands". If that's correct, that's not going to win anyone over nor is it necessarily correct.

While the state of AZ definitely has some responsibility for allowing testing of the cars on their roads, Uber needs (imo) to be able to prove the bug that caused the accident was so much of an edge case that they couldn't easily have been able to foresee it.

Are they even testing this shit on private tracks as much as possible before releasing anything on public roads? How much are they ensuring a human driver is paying attention?
Clickbait headline. Was expecting a weird Postgres buffer overflow or something, instead it's a honeypot and the picture is almost completely irrelevant (just a matter of where the attacker hosted their binary).
Sure, but in the oculus rift comparison someone could have easily died because the VR surgery equipment failed for a reason so stupid as a certificate expiring during surgery.

You can make the same argument that people die in non-VR surgery all the time so it is no such a big deal.
NTSB is there to handle civilian transportation accident investigations. Most automotive accidents are not very "surprising", which leaves them mostly dealing with non-personal transportation accidents. We are about to have a rapid increase in surprising, non-personal transportation accidents, so I seriously hope they are afforded the resources to deal with the influx as AVs come online.
Let’s say that all the extensive evidence of these people doing this thing doesn’t exist... no thanks.

>How do people expect a spy.... to die?

Pretty sure the guy’s daughter and the British police officer incapacitated in hospital, by a military nerve agent with no cure, weren’t expecting to end up this way. I think you’ve been watching too many Bond movies.
These are associations, not causal implications. "Lead kills" is a causal statement, and even "lead associated with X deaths" is a bit leading, and I think that the authors were careful to not say that directly.

Given the experimental evidence mentioned in the introduction of the paper, it's likely that some or many of these deaths could be due to lead, but they could also be due to shared causes. There could be other things that lead to both greater lead exposure and greater cardiac death, for example.

One has to be very very careful with drawing conclusions from surveys such as this one. The standard in epidemiology is usually, association + one potential mechanism, but even with that it doesn't mean that the one potential mechanism is an explanation for all the observed association.
>Stop using CSS...

Maybe I am stupid here, but doesn't SCSS just render out to CSS?
Sure they do, when Uber (metaphorically) throws the driver under the bus for failing in their duties as "safety driver". >:-)
It actually means a lot more than that in offline VFX. It was the games industry that decided it meant “use the Disney shader”.
Use a cloud-hosted virtual Mac? A search for "cloud virtual macos" turns up a bunch of links.
> Why can a private for profit company "test" their systems on the public roads?

Because at some point, it's literally not possible to test something that's ultimately intended for use on public roads anywhere but public roads. Or, to put it in terms that would be more familiar to developers, "you can test all you want in QA, but prod is the ultimate test of whether your code really works".

As mentioned downthread, the problem here is that Arizona basically gave companies full leeway, without having to demonstrate that they had done sufficient tests internally before putting the cards on public roads. Apparently they're not even required to report data on accidents to the state, which is absurd.

I wouldn't be surprised if Uber were ultimately found to be cutting corners, but Arizona is also responsible for rushing to allow self-driving cars on their roads without doing their own due diligence first.
Michael Milken, Bernard Madoff, Bernard Ebbers I am sure there are many more
This isn't a good argument because it implies if these AVs have successfully not killed their CEOs during a closed (i.e. controlled) test, that they are safe on public roads. But it seems like the majority of AV accidents so far involve unpredictable and uncontrolled conditions.

IOW, setting this up as some kind of quality standard gives unjustified cover ("Hey, our own CEO risked his life to prove the car was safe!") if AVs fail on the open road, because the requirements of open and closed tests are so different.
I'm not married to either reason, but I'm just feeling very skeptical about your assumption.

A) I don't think we would see a massive number of older people coming out of the closet, because this culture change is generational. Most of your peers aren't going to change their minds just because a younger generation is more tolerant. It's the same reason my 100 year old (really!) grandmother may still use the occasional racial slur. I definitely think there's more peer friction for an older LBGT individual than a younger one.

B) I don't think these numbers are actually out of line with the impact of cultural change.

C) Base on your linked datas, religion may also be a factor. Given that religion is on the decline in the US, especially among millennials, I wouldn't rule that out as a factor either.

It's probably a combination of factors as usual, and maybe endocrine disruptors is one of them.
Ask HN: Analytics UI for event data in your data warehouse
Hey everyone,

I have a question for companies that store the raw event data in a data warehouse. It's basically a market research for the new product that we have been working on in order to understand the pain points of such companies.

I think that most of the people which want to have the event data in their data warehouse have used analytics services such as Mixpanel previously. I have 2 questions for them:

1. Do you still continue using analytics solutions such as Mixpanel even though you have all this data in your data warehouse?

2. Do you think that the current BI solutions such as Mode Analytics, Looker, and Periscope are suitable for event data? Would it be useful to have a BI solution that integrates your event database and allow you to run funnel, retention and segmentation queries similar to Mixpanel but on top of your Redshift cluster?
Yes.

>signed up for the app
Why not the same for human-driven cars? Human-driven cars kill thousands, if 2 victims of auto-driven cars make black boxes necessary, sure thousands of victims of human-driven ones do?
Both the computer and the driver failed to avoid the pedestrian. It's possible that the backup driver wasn't paying attention and the technology for autonomous vehicles is not ready. It's also possible that the situation was challenging for both the computer and human and that both failed.
Indeed, and I think that was the true mistake #1: going all in on a hobby without even knowing if it'll pay the bills.
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Nice, a new program. However the total tax burden is still high, e.g. there is a "freelancer" tax in Los Angeles with onerous reporting rules.
He doesn’t just outright say that stuff anymore.

No evidence he doesn’t still think it, but he doesn’t say it.
We changed the baity title to the less baity subtitle.
I was disappointed as well. Initially I believed that the downturn would work in the same way as a forest fire - clearing out dead wood so that new growth can occur. I hoped at the time that a new class of financial firm would emerge as a result - smaller, nimbler and more adept at its use of technology. I was incorrect and those things I hoped for did not come to pass. In fact one sad observation is that in the years following the downturn mismanaged banks outperformed the better managed ones as investments since their bounce back was much sharper.
I'm under the impression they're using the 'dictionary definition' rather than a specialized jargon

noun
a person who has risen suddenly from a humble position to wealth, power, or a position of consequence.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/upstart
Not the lion's share, but it could happen to anyone, and I have to imagine the psychological impact never truly goes away.
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> I would still use .footer instead of #footer

Why?
Your fears are noted and valid. However, this propaganda hydrogen bomb already happened once to humanity with the advent of mass media. The wealthy were (and are) using mass media to sway the same 5-10% (and likely more) that you're referring to.

Maybe the future brings us more personalized and targeted propaganda, but the number of sources will likely be more varied. The propaganda distribution cost is lower. Moreover, I think much of humanity will adapt and counter propaganda as part of an ongoing cat-and-mouse game in the persuasion and disinformation business.

I only referred to the political class because I think this topic is only getting attention currently because of political games being played. However, I believe the current beneficiaries of the last propaganda hydrogen bomb (the current mainstream media) dislike the new market entrants and don't want to compete -- that is why they are vilifying the owners/controllers/developers of the AIs that you are also concerned about.
>I had never heard of BEM before...

Welcome to css-tricks.com [0], where you will learn all the current trends. I am a regular reader for things just like this. Where you just want to know what's new and where things are going. Plus they have an amazing stockpile of CSS examples.

Second only to Mozilla Developer Network. [1]

[0] https://css-tricks.com/

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/
I don't really see where the problem with that is. If it bothers company B so much they can just look for a different market right?
That's a pretty hasty conclusion. He got PAID millions, but that doesn't mean he didn't steal billions on behalf of the bank.
2018: Dumb fucks at scale
This would be overengineering, but the following six types would solve the problem:

* ImmutableSquare

* ImmutableRectangle

* MutableSquare

* MutableRectangle

* Square

* Rectangle

The "Mutable..." classes are mutable, the "Immutable..." classes are immutable, and the "Square" and "Rectangle" classes mean that you can read the values, but there is no guarantee about either mutability or immutability.

In this system, "ImmutableSquare" and "MutableSquare" are subtypes of "Square"; "ImmutableRectangle" and "MutableRectangle" are subtypes of "Rectangle"; and also "ImmutableSquare" is a subtype of "ImmutableRectangle" (and therefore "Rectangle").

But if you go this way, don't be surprised when you end up with millions of classes.
The term "unemployment", said by itself, is ambiguous. I was annoyed that the Bloomberg article didn't specify. (If it did, I missed it.)
>using Facebook because it makes event organizing and the like easier...I'm always kept in the loop because I text my friends and ask what they are doing this weekend and/or meet with my friends regularly enough that they let me know what's going on. It's become well known that I don't get updates through FB so my friends will text me invites if I haven't asked for an update.

In other words, you're demonstrating an exception that proves the rule. Organizing events (without Facebook) is not a linear problem, it's a problem where each subcomponent scales directly with the number of people involved. Maybe not O(n^2), but at least O(n*log(n)). Every change to the planning of the event has to be spread to and approved by every attendee, requiring independent contact of each. Facebook centralises this by providing a central organization system that it is as close to guaranteed as possible that everyone has access to. This brings it back close to being a linear endeavor.

Just because you claim you aren't benefiting from Facebook's competency in this area doesn't mean you aren't. You said it yourself: your friends know you are the outlier in this planning, so they can can remember to contact you separately without adding additional time complexity. They can handle all the other nuances of planning directly on Facebook and you gain the benefits without having to interact with it.
I'm not really on board with using babel for a server-only project either, but I do like jest for testing and have in fact only used it for node app servers so far.
Based on what? Where does your conjecture hold evidence that “society will see a massive benefit”?
Hell yeah, as a New Yorker I wholeheartedly agree.
The vehicle involved in the accident has an HDL64 on the roof.
My understanding is that the EURIBOR rate is an index that attempts to track the overnight interest rate that banks lend to each other at. These numbers are not public (the trades are made "over the counter"), so the body that sets the rate relies on information given to them by the banks. To calculate it, they do something like taking the median of all submissions.

At the same time, there is a lot of money riding on what the EURIBOR is at any time. The allegation is that this guy (and others) conspired to change their submissions to change the listed EURIBOR and make a lot of money.

I'm no expert though, and I could be wrong in my understanding.
> I think at some level the barrier needs to be higher for out-of-towners wanting to move to a new place so that the city does not become unlivable for the people that have lived there their whole life or generations

There is such system for cities in China (Hu Kou) and it's a nightmare.
Maybe it's a lot of young people fresh from college and they hear about the big five or whatever, and choose Facebook because they think of it as a social networking company and big, famous, and cool. Just an old guy's opinion - would not want to work there.
That's a great example of misinterpreting evidence—to see the evidence that light is a particle as strong evidence that it's not a wave, or vice versa, would be a misinterpretation of the evidence based on the incorrect assumption that it can't be both.

There is a single, coherent thing that light is, which produces the evidence we see. Some of that evidence is consistent with being just a wave, some is consistent with being just a particle, and yes, it's also strong evidence that it's not just a particle and not just a wave. We don't know all the details yet; "both a wave and a particle" is a pretty good approximation given our current level of knowledge, as is "sometimes a wave and sometimes a particle."

But picking the description "It's either just a wave or just a particle depending on how you feel about it, and there's no evidence that will help us because the evidence is contradictory" is wildly wrong and unscientific.
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> DNSSEC doesn't actually protect DNS queries at their most vulnerable points
That would make it useless if true.

Correct. Clients do not validate DNSSEC and clients cannot be made to do so until DNSSEC deployment is universal (at which point you still have several other problems).
> If you don't have much resuable stuff on your site, that's a code smell in itself

It can be reusable and yet unique on each page. And those should get id's, and are not rare at all.

> The percentage of things on a page that are "singletons" is very small compared to reusable widgets.

That isn't necessarily true. Obviously there are different types of pages, but a typical page will have a number of elements on it that are each unique. (They might appear on more than one page, but on any particular page, they are unique.)

Give them id's, that's what they are for.
not to mention that wosign came out in early 2015. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982013
It doesn't have to be permanent. I think that once white men have more of a taste of this nervousness, maybe we can fix some stuff that's deeply broken in our society. But I think it's necessary as a first step.
Then your comment is off-topic, because the realm of discussion was explicitly "self-driving cars equipped with LIDAR". Uber's self-driving vehicles are all equipped with LIDAR, as are basically all other prototype fully-autonomous vehicles.
I would argue the difference there was that was an explicitly political app where from what I understand the app that leaked this data wasn't political in any way.

Either way it's great to see some light shined on FB, this is exactly the reason I don't use their services.
Do the math.

1. How much Amazon must make profit per year to justify current market cap If you want 10% ROI?

2. If Amazon has 4% profit margin(2X Walmart), how much it hast to make revenue to get the profits you calculated in phase #1.

3. Consider that world global GDP is around $100 trillion and US GDP is $19 trillion. Do you think that any one company is allowed to grow until it makes 10 percent of US GDP or 1-2 percent of the world GDP? Do you think any company can grow that much?
> receive ads to show you

I'm just envisioning a scenario where the car automatically pulls to the side of the highway, locks the doors and dishes you with a 15 second ad, and then the doors unlock and the journey resumes as normal.
If you’re talking to one friend, then that friend is essentially having to route your updates on time-constraints, preferences for places to go, etc. out to all your other friends, and route all their responses back to you. They really do become your secretary.

Now, it is possible to fan out these update messages yourself through (lots and lots of) SMSing, but in almost every friend group I’ve been in, the problem is that I don’t actually have contact information for everyone who I want to meet up with.

Basically: how do you negotiate restaurants with your best mate’s new vegan girlfriend? On Facebook, the two of you just have that conversation on the event page. Without Facebook, you have that conversation through your best mate—or maybe not at all, and then one or the other of you gets mad about where you end up eating.
> The crucial point here is that the users authorized the app to collect the data

A quarter of a million people authorized the app to collect their data. It then gained access to fifty million peoples' data. Those extra data were accessed without proper authorization. All of the data were then used in an unauthorized manner.

> What technical measures did he need to circumvent in order to get access to the data that you say constitutes a “breach?”

"Breach" isn't constrained to technical vulnerabilities. If an FSB agent walks out of Langley with a bunch of sensitive CIA documents, that constitutes a breach.