skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One can also assume that any competent replacement for the "checkyoursudo who was hit by a bus" is able to log into machine after a reboot.

I rather rely on beginner level sysop skills than on management understanding the implications of "this is my access to your mail server, don't handle with care, don't handle at all unless I am run over by a bus".
I don't buy it. As long as their products aren't certified, I won't buy them. Besides when you look at the reviews on Amazon, some of their chargers allegedly catch fire or start to smell like burning plastic...
Why can't I start scrolling on that website? I have to pull it with the scrollbar past some initial barrier... WHY?
Waymo mentions this in their safety report, which I think is interesting, and relevant:

> Advanced driver-assist technologies were one of the first technologies our teams explored. In 2012 we developed and tested a Level 3 system that would drive autonomously on the freeway in a single lane but would still require a driver to take over at a moment’s notice. During our internal testing, however, we found that human drivers over-trusted the technology and were not monitoring the roadway carefully enough to be able to safely take control when needed.

> As driver-assist features become more advanced, drivers are often asked to transition from passenger to driver in a matter of seconds, often in challenging or complex situations with little context of the scene ahead. The more tasks the vehicle is responsible for, the more complicated and vulnerable this moment of transition becomes.
That’s a great idea if you don’t care about performance.
I didn't know that. Sounds like they are moving in the right direction.
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My educated guess: The somewhat unusual shape of the combination of the woman and the bicycle, combined with the uneven lighting caused the vehicle to misclassify her as lightweight road debris.

To a real degree, this is a downfall of machine learning. Every distribution has tails. If we learn purely from data, rather than from principle, we will necessarily make mistakes on the tails. For problems that can be effectively solved with 99% accuracy, this is fine, and we just deal with a few mistakes. With more data, our accuracy will improve anyhow.

If a datapoint costs a human life though, we can't afford to collect enough data. We must have a more sophisticated model of the world in order to operate on the tails without killing people.

I think that this might actually be a watershed moment for ML. Supervised learning is not adequate to this type of task. Either the computer does low level perception, and a human writes a high level algorithm to manage the risk, or datapoints have to contain a lot more information than just safe/unsafe. When you made a mistake as a child, your parents didn't just punish you, they explained what you did wrong and why, and a rule to follow to do better next time.
It would be enough for me if it declined into the confused and nonelastic state Microsoft was in around the times of Vista. That was enough for Android to appear and take over, forcing a paradigm shift.
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If you walk into a store and don't see that it is being robbed at gunpoint, it would be very nice to hear the assailant ordering the cashier to empty the til. You have two chances to steer clear.

Either your eyes or ears may fail you now and again, but you're better off with both.

No?
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iOS and Samsung’s U.S. market share is now tied [...] iOS is up 3.7 percentage points year-over-year, to achieve 35 percent market share, while Samsung only grew 0.8 points, reaching a 35.2 percent share [...] Android is still far ahead in the U.S., with a 63.2 percent share to iOS’s 35 percent.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/13/ios-and-samsung-market-sha...
Yep some of the brightest minds of our generation are fighting the good fight.
Handle GO recover, panic and errors in a graceful way.Support to multiple errors
Google glass without mirrors?
> Understand statistics before employing them please

Do you understand statistics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16685929
Yes. It's convenient but it's bad for privacy and locks you in.
I'm not using any SSO for that reason.
> From the video of the crash, it looks like the woman at the wheel was looking at their phone.

How do you know that? They could have been monitoring the car in another way.

Also, it’s pretty obvious that if a car is fully automated, the driver isn’t going to pay attention. If that was you, or any other human the situation would have been the same.

The car screwed up, it should have seen the pedestrian. The safety mechanism of having a driver behind the wheel didn’t work either, and we all know it doesn’t work.
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I would imagine it's easier to hook into human operated controls than to car's internal systems. Just put some sensors on steering wheel, pedals, handbrake and couple of others and you will know when someone uses them. If they are used, give up control of the car (or the specific system that was controlled).

Getting information that some automated system initiated some operation is almost certainly harder. System only knows that the car is not behaving as expected, but it doesn't know what caused it. You could probably figure out how to determine if something like collision avoidance was triggered (large shifts in expected vs actual outcomes), but in case of something like ABS you could end up with two systems fighting for the control over brakes in emergency situation.
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Ah if it isn’t my friend the anecdata. Blowing a fuse over trivialities probably means you’re stressed out. I sure am. It’s just modern tech society.
Have a look at nagios. It's a popular open source server/application monitoring tool. You can define custom alerts and monitor basicly everything.
Things like that may vary from country to country, though. In Austria, roundabouts do not have a special rule and therefore a car approaching the roundabout theoretically has the right of way. But pretty much any roundabout has a yield sign, I've never encountered one without a yield sign at the entrance. Doesn't mean that there can't be a roundabout that does not have one.
I'm thinking of the dominant paradigm in Java OO from about 2005 to 2015 or so.

Choose almost any moderately popular jar you like from Maven and I could point out the pathologies. Strong smells when you have lots of interfaces with a single implementation, lots of construction indirected through factories (or factory factories), etc.
I know this is probably going to sound like magic to some, but you know, one can control, if they so choose to, what one's browser (if one uses a FOSS browser) sends over the network by modifying the code and recompiling it for oneself…
Be aware that the CEO is probably factoring in PR-value in the calculation of “sufficient progress”.
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The question is not about failing but detecting an obstacle and braking.

If one system detects an obstacle, stop the car. Even if this system was failing and the other wasn't detecting anything.

And if one system fail, yes the car should stop if it's not safe to drive with only one of them.
Not OP, but we use Nagios XI for such alerting, it provides SMS and email monitoring for infrastructure (disk space as an example) and service monitoring. [1]

Their open source NCPA (Nagios Cross Platform agent) plugin for Windows and Linux hosts is pretty great, though we were stung when we found out it didn't natively support SPARC as of yet unless you compiled your own client from the source (I did). [2]

Plenty of other monitoring services equivalent to Nagios offer equivalent services. Nagios was just the flavour I suggested to my current employer because of my familiarity with the product over my last few employments.

If you don't want to fork out the licensing for the supported version (XI), their open source version is free and relatively easy to deploy using Ansible if you don't mind writing in PHP. [3]

Edit: words, grammar.

[1] https://www.nagios.com/products/nagios-xi/

[2] https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/ncpa

[3] https://hobo.house/2016/06/24/automate-nagios-deployment-wit...
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The moment when I dropped facebook, was the time they start manipulating my timeline. One day I realized that they don't show me things in their posting order, but they were moving them around. I remember using a bookmark ending with .com/?sk=h_chr to beat them, but I gave up when I realized that this is cat and mouse game, and they will continue these shady practices.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-...

[2]: http://time.com/3951337/facebook-chronological-order/
Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't most large infrastructure projects become more expensive over time?

I mean more expensive in inflation adjusted dollars.
That's the stated goal, I believe. I also believe that the actual task is "scapegoat." I sure hope the people taking this job offer are at least aware of this.
I see, I guess I have been lucky then.
Anecdocte: our sysadmin set similar thing up (at 90%) at one of my boxes. but conflicting configuration of debian os also reserved 15% of capacity for OS, so system became completely unresponsive at 85% full disk, without emailing message about free space - 85% was for our purpose effectively 100% full disk.

Still dont know what lesson I should learn from this story.
If the volvo system were to kick in and brake, the uber system shouldn't relinquish all control. It should only give up the brakes, if you are in the middle of a corner, you'd want the self-driving system to keep steering.
Moore's law is an observation, it is not an input into some process.
Seems like a way to fail safe, which is what you should want.
It's removal to a higher level. Compromise of sovereignty is necessary for all cooperation. More and more cooperation requires extracting sovereignty to higher and higher levels.
Why is no one acknowledging that this woman was
responsible for taking over the wheel if necessary
for any reason.

Nobody in the industry really believes safety drivers work, beyond the early point in testing where they're intervening regularly.

It is widely known [1, 2, 3] that it's extremely difficult for humans to remain vigilant when monitoring systems for rare events. Airport baggage screening systems perform "threat image projection" where they show the operator knives and guns from time to time, just to break up the monotony and reward attentiveness.

Beyond early testing, safety drivers are there to make the public/politicians feel safer, for situations where a slow response is better than none at all, and for more cynical companies, so you can use them as scapegoats in situations like this one.

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ece2/465ed2258585ebb8055fd7...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5633607/
[3] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/001872081350155...
Probably https://github.com/majewsky/system-configuration
You're thinking too small. Think smaller and larger cap stocks deciding to go public through a token instead of through an IPO (where they generally lose 5 to 10% of their capital raised to an underwriter, and as was seen with the Dropbox IPO, was priced way too low)
Also true for banking — The prominence of Apple and Android Pay is a direct response to the U.S. banking industries anti-competitive prices and poor adoption of global standards. Broadly speaking, Europe and SEA had contactless EMV chip payments well before the vendor-specific smartphone solutions.
but fusion throws out lots of energy. the argument is that the energy will be very very cheap compared to the installation cost (because you just get so much).
If you rely on dependencies that are not maintained you are already in trouble. Being the author/maintainer of a package comes with a responsibility. NPM already showed us what happens if you just let people do their thing.
For an interesting science-fictional take on some consequences and issues with providing people with attached outboard brains (in the context of Asimov's Foundation universe), read Donald Kingsbury's novel Psychohistorical Crisis.
The human knows to take over complete control. Not just brakes, but also steering, indicators etc.

The auto braking system doesn't do steering, nor indicators. So, you can't treat those the same.
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>Do we want a society designed for people who like to interact or do we want to design it after the desire for limiting interaction as much as possible?

Second of course. People should interact only if both of them want/need this.
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What's your suggestion then? Making the front window reflective so pedestrians have no way of knowing whether or not there is a driver?
Its not uncommon to hear rhetoric that calls the military a form of institutional murder, the police for institutional violence, and employment for institutional slavery. They all hold some truth, but is also miles alway from the crime that they propose to hold similarities for.

The is a tangible difference in the type of coercion that exist in forced labour compared to wage slavery, just like there is a difference between the coercion in rape compared to prostitution.
If you can layer enough of such invisible screens, you could make a nice 3d display, although I'm not sure if it would actually look nice (you could probably see through objects).
Why do you think the LIDAR did not work? The LIDAR might have worked just fine but what the system taking the output of the sensor did with the data is the question.

If you want to know what we would expect the LIDAR to have seen in such a situation we did a simple simulation of such a scene here [1]

If the LIDAR was defective the system processing the sensor output should detect that there is no data coming in and the problem should change the cars behavior accordingly not just drive on as if nothing is wrong.

[1] http://www.blensor.org/lidar_accident.html
Amen. One day they they'll write "Strangely, they killed <this many> per year with cars and did not even bat an eye."
Uber did disable the car's own safety features

Well, of course they did. Can you imagine testing a self-driving system when another system is also controlling the car? What happens when they send contradictory commands? Race conditions are bad enough outside of actual cars!
Their products are obviously CE certified and some of them are PSE certified. Good enough for me.

Edit: Needless to say, certifications are bullshit anyway, it's just a waiver for lawyers - Samsung Galaxy Note 7 had all possible certification, yet it was as more dangerous than any Anker product.
If you define AI like that, then basically every decision making program, i.e. with branches, is AI.
I remember it by imagining netstat wearing pants. There is plain ole netstat and there's netstat wearing pants.
Fission is crazy expensive to even start up, and with expensive safety mechanisms still a risk.
Then you get to the expensive and very risky / guaranteed to leak long term storage of the very dangerous waste.
> Nextcloud is becoming a better and better replacement for Gapps.

What ? I just installed Nextcloud to check if that statement is valid and I don't see any slides/excel replacement installed by default or in the store.

The interface is a huge improvements over the owncloud one from a thousand years ago though.

edit: Ah ! It's the collabora add-on. Description wasn't clear enough. Well, it's crashing at the moment, will try get it fixed.

edit2: Ah ! https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/ The add-on connects to an instance of collabora. No way to download it, no way to get a pricing. I suppose nextcloud doesn't have google docs/slides/sheets capabilities then.
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You are likely right. I don't refute that those accusations exist. Hancock is a curious writer who bases his theories on the discoveries of all disciplines such as geology, physics, engineering, & oral history, from both the academic and non-academic alike which a small handful of very powerful archeologists seem to have a large issue with.

In particular Hancock refused to dismiss and instead validated Robert Schoch's Sphinx water erosion timeline and Robert Bouval's Orion Correlation Theory which both essentially discredits Zahi Hawass's work.

I think the using the term `pseudoscience` is going too far when describing Hancock, though I know there was a BBC documentary where he was described that way. His work is supported and respected by many and I even dare say the most competent academics in their field. Hancock visits all the sites and talks to every expert he can. I believe he even spent 2 years performing over 200 dives to explore underwater sites off the coast in Japan. He takes this subject as seriously as anyone in the field and his commitment is undeniable.

> Plus, you basically said it yourself: "Hancock gave an unbelievable presentation on the topic..."

FWIW - I specifically chose those words for this reason :)
One way we did it at BT was all the root paswords where placed in an separate envelope per machine, and kept in the fire safe.
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If there's a human driving the car, it's safer to have both the human driver and the automatic emergency stop system.

Exactly the same deal if there's an AI driver.
I will give a simplified example of the only product I've used for this: Zabbix. Disclaimer: I'm not a sysadmin but a developer, who happened to work somewhere they used Zabbix for monitoring all kinds of network devices, databases, services, etc. Perhaps there are better solutions available, I welcome any discussion on that.

Deploying Zabbix roughly consists of setting up one (or more) Zabbix Master servers, and installing a 'zabbix-agent' process on each device you want to monitor. The agent process extracts a variety of statistics about the system and makes them available to the Monitoring server, either in push ("active") or pull ("passive") fashion.

The Master logs all of these statistics over time. You can then define 'Triggers' that apply logical tests to statistics, such as "in the last 5 minutes, was the free diskspace < 10GB". When this happens, it triggers an event.

Then elsewhere you have defined your Notification rules that act upon generated events, to send out an email or text message. https://www.zabbix.com/features#notification

This was obviously really simplified, and there is so much more you can do, but I hope this at least gave you a basic picture.
The number doesn't seem right. Because I know Foxconn has over 1M employees, and at one point it was close to two million.

May be those numbers are Full time employees?

*And in case you are wondering if it is those foxconn robots taking jobs. No it is not. Not in any significant number.
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The tablet in that article is in the back seat, not up front, and the photos they show of the driver area doesn't suggest any screens that would require the driver to be looking down like the person was doing in the video.

I know that when I was taught to drive we were told to continually scan ahead of us, our side mirrors, and the rear view mirror and basically only take our eyes off the road to check our speed. --This is definitely NOT what the individual in the driver's seat was doing.
I think you are right on the revenue part.

Yes, it would still be profitable, the only thing I'm not sure about is if the fine would be cumulative for every misuse instance (i.e. in the Cambridge Analytica situation, 50M * 4%WGR) or if, every time a misuse is found, it's a una-tantum fine.

Might also be FUD to force countries in the EU to regulate tax at the same level, but I doubt Ireland/Holland will go down without a fight
Except for emergency systems. If you have two or more independent systems that are able to stop, should any of them should detect an anomaly, you are far more likely to survive a partial system failure. The end result of all systems identifying the problem is the same.

In a modern car there are plenty of systems that independently will start. An example is some cars that are fixed to prepare your breaks if you take your foot off the accelerator quickly, more or less giving you instant breaking. At the same time, completely independent of this, emergency breaking might already have been started by the collision detection system.
Yes, they are important distinctions. But the problem is how to not mistake one for the others?
> misclassify her as lightweight road debris.

Surely the classification has a confidence level, and a low confidence score should cause the vehicle to slow down if it's not confident in knowing what it's looking at? Also, the size of the "lightweight road debris" should have made the vehicle slow down slightly at least, because hitting a 6ft pile of paper wouldn't be great at even a low speed
I presume you're mostly talking about passive investment from financing, as opposed to "write an ebook" or "make a course".

I know you said "real estate" but REITs are interesting and quite complex because they specialise in the sort of real estate being allocated to. For example, there are REITs for warehouses, storage, residential property, retail property, logistics, etc. The majority are not listed as ETFs and trade as regular limited liability companies so you have to actually look. They pay quite high dividend (5-6%) but are illiquid and require long holding periods.

Landbay, Funding Circle, Zopa, Market Invoice, etc are all p2p shops for different sorts of lending or factoring, but I hardly see the point since the returns can be replicated by holding corporate bonds, with less risk and more liquidity. Maybe with the exception of invoice factoring.

Crypto is interesting since it's non correlated to the main market but it's also not an "investment". I.e. there's little systematic reason to believe in positive returns over a long run.

Paying down your debts is also obvious if you have a house loan or student debt since it's at least not a loss you need to keep incurring for interest payments.

Investments uncorrelated to the market quickly become market investments so alternatives are pretty hard to find. For example, you're kind of wasting your time with building your own miner since there are multiple miners listed as public stocks readily used as proxies for profitable mining ... The same holds true for a multitude of other activities. So generally whatever you come up with, I'd suggest first thinking "is there already a public stock that represents this activity and does it behave as I'd expect a good proxy for this activity to behave".
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15m 34s, Zeynep says: "as a public and as citizens" [1]

And HERE is the problem.

Facebook sees us ONLY as Product (our data) that can manipulate/buy/sell - and treat us accordingly.

Advertisers see us ONLY as Consumers they can sell to - and treat us accordingly.

Politicians see us ONLY as Votes (not voteRs) they can snatch - and treat us accordingly.

And we let them.

[1]: https://youtu.be/iFTWM7HV2UI?t=934