skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is setting back self-driving tech? Law enforcement who are trying to keep real people safe? Or Uber by being their cavalier selves about safety standards?
Holy moly, is this still the case about like a 10 line chunk of code? And it's still going on? I can't believe Oracle hasn't gotten more bad press for this. What an obvious moneygrab attempt... Hopefully this will be overturned again by someone with a bit more brains as it has terrible implications for other work done in the past couple of decades.
Related, has anyone gone to jail for faulty aircraft surface control software?
Not disagreeing, just curious: besides the obvious "drive it yourself", what are the in-the-works alternatives to self-driving cars? I'll admit I don't follow the space too closely.
Wow, Affinity looks pretty capable, I think worth trying out.
Still, no real alternative for video editing...
Definitely not something I’d consider.

However, someone here on HN recently posted the open source voice assistant project mycroft:

https://mycroft.ai/

Fun to mess around with on Raspi and eventually I may link it up with Home Asssistant.
Don’t use pinup images on conference swag. And other obvious actions for allies
I wouldn't be tarring all companies with the same brush.

Apple for example takes privacy pretty seriously so I am more than happy to allow their products inside my house.
10,000 watts...wow!
Every single point in this post is a broad-brush generalization perpetuated by media stereotypes.
It just means they won’t test in California in the near future.

It doesn’t automatically mean they will scale back their testing across the board.
""Facebook has been playing fast and loose with their data ever since they started. ... It was only a matter of time before that data was misused, and I think that advertisers knew that," said Andy Amendola, senior director of connections strategy at agency The Community. "We know there was this line that verges on creepy because we know the consumers' data, but I think that's what makes the advertising work so well."

For the most part, agencies are skeptical many people are going to leave Facebook - or at least enough to make a difference for advertisers. The public's attention span is fleeting, noted one executive, and even massive data breaches that affected Yahoo, which included 3 billion accounts, and Equifax - 147.9 million accounts - haven't turned people off those services.

...

In addition, the public already held Facebook in low regard leading up to the scandal. According to app analytics firm Sensor Tower, sentiment about the company during the the two weeks leading up to the Cambridge Analytica stories was already 83 percent negative - and people were still on the platform."

Source:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/22/facebook-cambridge-analytica...

"3. The idea that users will abandon Facebook is unlikely. There's really no alternatives. An abandonment of Facebook and related apps would basically be an abandonment of social media altogether, which is an unrealistic expectation.

...

4. While Facebook currently produces the majority of its revenue from advertising, that's only the tip of the iceberg. Facebook can do many things to begin diversifying its revenue stream including entertainment or e-commerce.

...

So far Wall Street's opinion on Facebook has not been altered by the data scandal. According to MarketWatch, 37 out 44 analysts rank the stock as a "buy". The average price target is $221.56, which represents 39% upside based on the current stock price of $159.09."

Source:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4158807-facebook-let-others...
Toyota paid a huge fine and other penalties, but looks like the criminal charge has been dismissed: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-toyota/u-s-judge-dism...
Mining constitutes the pinnacle of performance analysis for you? That's so irrelevant as to be pathetic.
Google didn't do a clean room implementation, so it's difficult to speculate what this decision might indicate for some other case involving a clean room implementation.

(And yes, I know: The overwhelming majority of the work was a clean room implementation, but not all. In retrospect, this was an unfortunate mistake by Google.)
Adobe has tons of competitors, but they're not always obvious because the market doesn't perfectly overlap.

For example, I used to buy Photoshop and Dreamweaver to do web design for static sites. Now I use SquareSpace instead.

There are lots of niche products that chip away at Photoshop, including web-based alternatives that are less powerful but "good enough" and more portable.
It also clips the text about 2/3rds of the way across the screen horizontally, so you have to scroll back and forth in this tiny box to read it.
The location of the accident appears to be at 0:36 of the video.
Engineers who are held responsible for their work and can go to jail when they get it wrong don't accept work conditions like you describe.

Software engineering might be a better profession to work in if it was regulated the same way other engineering fields are.
Yes! I'm modelling after their brush system.
Hands On: OmniPlan 3.9 is project management for complex jobs on Mac and iPad
Not sure about the US but in other countries it often is.

In Australia for example if you are using your phone and kill someone you absolutely will be seeing jail time.
Warning: the iOS port (and also the PC version on Steam) of Chrono Trigger is widely regarded as terrible. Same with FFVI and FFV.

Luckily the old 3DS port of Chrono Trigger is good. The only way I know to play FFVI now is with an SNES Classic: an overpriced raspberry pi.
>one trotted out every time someone pushes back on the status quo of enormous wealth disparity by noting that it has serious negative consequences.

You just can't help yourself. Once again you express more hatred for the rich than you do concern for the wellbeing of the poor.

I'm not denying that there are consequences to wealth or income disparity. I just think you don't appear to care about the wellbeing of the poor beyond the minimal lip-service you have to pay it to justify voicing your hatred for the rich.
I know you're using hyperbole, but murder does imply a pre-determined intent to kill. At worst this is involuntary manslaughter.
Murder? This was not a premeditated killing. It was an accident that everyone involved certainly wishes did not happen.

Although, you might be able to argue for involuntary manslaughter but I'm no expert.
Would a human driver be prosecuted criminally?
I'm confused why more people here aren't calling the driver out on this.

My understanding is that Uber knows these cars aren't ready and that's why they have a human at the controls.

I would have thought the driver would be instructed to maintain awareness of the road as though he were operating the vehicle and that looking away from the road in a manner that suggests he was using his phone would immediately relieve Uber of any responsibility.

Perhaps the collision still would have happened, but at least the driver would have the defence of "I was paying attention and meeting all the job-role requirements as safety-operator of the vehicle."
I'm not in this crowd, but mass-transit advocates argue that the resources/attention poured into self-driving could be better allocated toward investment in mass transit infrastructure.
For "developing" RAW images (Adobe Lightroom), it appears that the FOSS, Darktable [1], is a serious competitor. It has a full array of non-destructive editing features including extremely fancy parametric mask and blending effects. It also has responsive photo management (works great on at least 10s of GB), import, tagging, etc. They recently released their first Windows build.

[1] https://www.darktable.org/
Assuming you already haven't given them that kind of permission through some smartphone app anyway.
“Go with him” I feel your pain. :-)
Ask HN: How to search notes?
When I quickly scribble something in a text file, I find it difficult to search these files. It seems keyword search using grep is not enough and that we need some smart context-aware search.
> people already have a bit of paranoia about them

I was given one as a gift, and found it useful enough after a few days that I was willing to trust that it wasn't recording unless it detected the activation word locally.

And then I walked into the room while it was carrying on a conversation with my 2 year old, asking his name, etc. Unplugged it and plan to destroy it.
Is there a relevance to the story that I've missed? The announcement doesn't mention this organisation and I can't find any relationship going by its About page or Ben's.
They said discovered AND reported, not just discovered. It is entirely possible someone discovered it much earlier and didn't report, but we won't ever know if evidence is never found.
It is both.

The original observation is basically a winner-take-all combined with the fact that transistors scale as the square of the minimum dimension. So, if there is linear improvement in dimension, there is exponential improvement in density.

The reason why Moore's Law continued on for so long was that companies were willing to spend exponentially increasing amounts of money to hit the next technology node because of the winner-take-all nature of the product. Anybody who got to the next node forced everybody else to the next node or wiped them out of business.

This is going to be the same thing with fusion. Linear improvements in the fundamentals translate to exponential improvements (fourth power or better) in the outputs. The first folks to fusion are going to force everyone to fusion or wipe them out of business.
This is exactly why they're doing this.

Not too long ago, Nvidia was bragging with "Level 5" [1] self-driving hardware, even though at the time the company still didn't have a proper answer for why its hardware can be classified as Level 5, and not just Level 4 (just being X times better than the previous generation is obviously not enough).

Since then, I saw they've pulled back their targets a bit [2], and are claiming Level 4 around 2021, and Level 5 in 2025+, which even surprised me that they thought it's going to take that long (longer than most techies would have expected, for sure). And that was before the Uber accident and having to stop this testing. My guess is the Uber accident pushed the Level 5 arrival by another few years at least.

I've also said not too long ago that companies like Nvidia and most car makers are all in too much of a hurry to "one-up" each other and be the "first with Level 5", which only made me more suspicious about their capabilities.

It was starting to feel like 2011/2012 all over again when carriers were claiming "4G" wireless capability, even though some were still on HSDPA+ or weak WiMax speeds. Of course they did. What mattered most was to claim that they have that tech, not that they actually had it. It's no different this time, especially with all the deregulation being given to the self-driving car companies on a silver platter.

My point is I never believed these cars makers were anywhere close to Level 5, just like I never believed Tesla when it was making its Autopilot sound so much more advanced than it really was. These companies have exactly the kind of incentive that would get them to lie/be misleading about how good their tech actually is.

[1] - https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-world-s-...

[2] - https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/01/25/whats-difference-le...
What if the developer had sent an email to their boss saying "hey I think this is a bad idea" and their boss pushed it anyway? What if there is an open bug report that the developer intends to fix, but management won't give them the free hours to do it?
Some do, some don't. Increasing numbers of them have touchscreens though. Also, some of them have access to the Android Play store, so if it can be packaged as an Android app, that might also work. I don't know what sort of API's chromebooks have for pens though.
I agree completely. I spent years as a fitness instructor and worked out regularly. Life happened, I stopped teaching and working out consistently for five years and everything went south, weight, blood pressure, strength, cardio, cholesterol, etc.

I tried to "turn things around" and failed.

First step first 6 months - I cut back on fried foods, salty foods, burgers, and sweets and kept a sane calorie budget. Along with medication that brought my high blood pressure down from a walking heart attack level to elevated but still didn't do much for my cholesterol or weight (5 pound weight loss).

Second Step 3 months and counting - It was a simple matter of increasing my exercise regimen from non existent to a relative intense resistance based regimen that's now up to around 2 hours four times a week. I've lost about 10 pounds but I've probably platued.

The third step is going to be the hardest for me, cut back on meat and start eating more vegetables and fruit and cut out non diet sodas (yeah I know about the studies with diet sodas.) Goal is about another 10 pounds of weight loss.
I have to admit, if I was choosing a new car to buy I would want the one where if I start humming it just starts playing the real song.... (with an option to easily disable of course)
Internal: "Quick, dev team, make it a little harder to figure out that our speakers actually are recording 24/7!"

Public: "Uh we're having some unexpected delays"
Ohh that's exciting. I was excited about Snips when it came out for similar reasons but was really annoyed when they advertised custom trigger words so hard and then withheld it in the premium version.

On first glance, hmmm: why does this open source AI require that I create an account on their webpage before trying it out?
BIG Dem Just Charged with MURDER Right After Supporting Anti-Gun March
Peter Thiel Employee Helped Cambridge Analytica Before It Harvested Data
Nice touch, especially on two subtle items:

1. The centers of rotation aren't fixed, i.e. when you see the side profile, they're much closer together. I think this makes it easier to compare them side-by-side, especially when trying to compare thinness.

2. Rotation is restricted to only two axes (vs. all three). It's surprisingly difficult to control a 3-axis gimbal with only 2 axes on a screen. For those who aren't familiar with 3D CAD/modeling, try orienting this gimbal simulation [0] in an arbitrary angle (or doing a barrel roll). Restricting it to two axes also keeps the models from going into orientations that probably aren't very useful for the user.

I don't know the first thing about "3D UX," but I thought they were good, albeit subtle, interface decisions.

[0] http://www.ctralie.com/Teaching/COMPSCI290/Materials/EulerAn...
Upthread it was pointed out that the LIDAR manufacturer believes their system was operating correctly. Assuming that, it becomes a software bug more or less by definition.

But fine: let's say it was the LIDAR system was at fault. Do they go to jail, then? How about the bureaucrats who approved the test?

All this doesn't matter. I'm simply saying that ALL the facts in evidence point to this being a reasonable mistake, and reasonable mistakes don't qualify for negligence prosecution. If you want to argue to the contrary you need evidence, which doens't seem to exist. Therefore the upthread question "shouldn't someone go to jail?" is answered with a firm "no".
The amount of mental trickery you have put yourself through to believe that a magazine's ideology is the same as an individual's identity is astounding.
I like how you include that. It makes the page different than the usual sanitized PR/marketing speak that is common. However, I don't know much about Morin and Vaynerchuk. What's are some of the annoying things about them?
Regulation was the key difference. The EU mandated a common wireless standard (GSM) to be in use across all countries. The US let the market decide and ended up building 4-5 largely incompatible semi-nationwide networks.

Thankfully time, technology, and consolidation has now reduced that down to 2 (CDMA/LTE - Verizon, Sprint, GSM/LTE, AT&T, T-Mobile). LTE will eventually consolidate that down to 1.
The competition has been assimilated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altsys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Beach_Software

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia
Do you have an example from anywhere ever of a programmer being prosecuted for a bug?
I read through all the comments, I think there's a point which is being overlooked. The addition of the 'A' category will serve as a useful idiot to increase the participation of otherwise under represented groups.

I'm all for it. It's generally the 'A' people that do not at all understand how statistics work and would be most likely to be placated by this type of addition anyway.
We stopped using Photoshop and migrated to Sketch exclusively. New designers we interact with seem to be doing the same thing. One data point. YMMV.
User beware Mycroft Canner tho
I don't believe they will ever be widespread with infrastructure how it currently is. I don't believe it's the correct problem to be solving either.

I feel self driving cars are a stop-gap for better public transport inside smarter layouts of cities where cars are not the primary method of getting people and stuff around.

The only good fit for autonomous cars I see is long distance suburban commutes, or highway commutes, which is more a symptom of suburbia than a smart way to layout a city.

Part of my reasoning involves the dispelling the assumption that we have a right to a car and road based travel option, so I get that I am probably in a minority of thought process.

I also love my cars, love travelling on the open road and love combustion engines. But I would give it up for a safer, cleaner and more personable, community focused city.
Why would you downvote my comment?
Maybe it's hex. 129% of ICOs are fraudulent.
Whoops, guess I missed it. Or, it was revised.
I see this argument all the time, but these things are less dangerous than smartphones. First off, they ride off your own network so it is easy to see when they are sending data back home unlike phones which can transfer data over harder to monitor 3rd party networks. They are cheaper and lower powered machines so they can't do a lot of processing on device and can't store a large amount of data for later transfer. They are stationary in your home and therefore likely spend a majority of the time listening to nothing unlike phones which might be at their owners side 24/7. They also only have one source of data which is audio as opposed to the other various sensors phones have like GPS. Finally, if you believe that these companies are shady enough that they are lying to their customers about what these smart speakers are doing, why do you think they aren't lying about what their mobile OSes or apps are doing?

All that said, I believe Apple, Amazon, and Google all have worlds more trust in this area than Facebook.
I'm a theoretical physicist, and the iPad Pro with pencil definitely beats paper for me: I can my move things around, copy and modify an equation, and correct mistakes much more easily. Also, I don't lose notes and I can organize them much more easily (virtual notebooks don't take up space)
> I may link it up with Home Asssistant

Which one? And why would you not consider Facebook's speaker but are apparently using somebody else's same product.
Seems like the question would be to ask why nobody competes viably with Photoshop. Premiere is an odd example to single out — Avid and Final
Cut, for instance, are full-featured and both have a substantial user base. The competition there is healthier than OP makes it out to be.

As for Photoshop, once it became the standard, it stayed that way by virtue of user inertia and the massive development resources it would take for a competitor to create a program in the same class. Photoshop is an extremely complex app and, on the whole, a very good one. It’s not without its frustrations, but nothing is.
It's all fun and games until some device is collecting personal information from your two year old!
I think you kinda answered your own question:

> P.S. I tried using Pixelmator (non-free), GIMP, OpenShot and a few more open-source editors - they don't stand the competition.

It's really hard to do it right, and even if you do you're targeting just a single segment of the market (people who need more than iMovie but not everything that Premiere provides). I imagine more than a few people have looked into this and decided that isn't a good ROI for the amount of investment involved.

Also, don't forget that Adobe (used to, anyway, not sure if they still do) has really cheap student licenses so that aspiring designers/editors/etc. get hooked on their software and carry that preference over into their professional lives.

My guess is that anyone who really has a passion for this has a regular full-time job and works on something like GIMP in their free time.
In other words, the fundamentals of the company are still strong. This is the exact kind of buying opportunity people talk about when buying on a dip. This isn’t a falling knife.
Don't forget they tried making a phone not-too-long ago, and it flopped for probably the same reason
I have one of these devices and, to answer your question, I don't trust the company that made it.

I don't trust most companies, but that doesn't stop me from buying their goods or using their services.
I'm a designer that works both on an indie freelancer level and an agency/corporate level, so this feels apt for input!

Several reasons - you've got part of the answer right in that there are a ton of other smaller tools for the more specific sections of the market that can be broken apart and sectioned off. I personally deal with quite a bit of comics/illustration and there alone you have Corel Painter, OpenCanvas, PaintTool SAI, Manga Studio, Clip Studio, plus many of the newer ipad sketch programs that've popped up recently.

However - I think those markets get saturated and weakened too quickly by those newcomers that gain a foothold and then slowly start deteriorating due to lack of updates or shiny marketing. Photoshop gets underrated for sheer versatility in this case - it's less of a high priced transient brand (think Uber or BMW) and simply a functioning longstanding tool (a car, or a swiss army knife for that 'tool as a brand' metaphor) for so many kinds of design related issues that the ease of use is baked in. Software tends to have a maddening problem of quick degradation and a large slice of older designers tend to be very picky about their tools. Broke, too.

Additionally, for some of the larger corporations - there's lots of production chains that rely quite strongly on specific file formats to be exported or special color management, and most of these smaller programs simply can't handle that much depth without the team that Adobe has. (Don't ever talk to me about color management for factory packaging production.)

Finally, factor in the immense marketing team that Adobe has - designers are innately marketers, after all, and they've saturated most trendy design sites with pro-Adobe ads and likely have special deals behind the scene to keep their name relevant. Not a fan of that style of closed garden at all, so I skate by by using the most outdated version of PS (ie non subscription) I can find without crippling my workflow, and using others if I can.
I would even be okay with Adobe buying a company, which serves an entry-level market and offering its products separately from their old behemoths. Kind of like Atlassian sells JIRA, but for those, who don't like it - they bought Trello.

P.S. Macromedia Flash was so cool in 2006 :)
If we're looking at a single program, like Photoshop, I can get the best tool in the industry for $20 / month. You have three hurdles to overcome...

1. What would you do better than Photoshop?

2. How would you price it to be competitive?

3. How will you convince users that your product is worthwhile?
check out avid media composer for your videos. It's priced reasonably.