skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your talking about the "trolley problem" and it is a ethical question as opposed to moral. This is literally a fuckup

Right, thanks for the correction. The ethical question I was getting at is "What is the tradeoff of making sure self-driving cars are 100% safe and predictable before we allow them on the road at all, versus the time delay that will cause in which tens of thousands of people will die via human drivers?"

My thoughts behind this post came from reading comments elsewhere stating that the Arizona government was ultimately costing more lives by suspending Uber's program than it was saving. I disagree with that assertion, although it seems like my post came across in not quite the way I intended it.

My knee-jerk reaction to those comments (supporting Uber) is to liken it to advocating for ignoring deaths in Phase 1 of a clinical trial because there is hope that the drug will save more lives - but even then the comparison isn't apt, because people in clinical trials at least consent to some notion of the risk involved.

To me, it is a really difficult, uncomfortable question. And it isn't so much targeted at this particular case - where, as you say, it was more of a fuckup by a company known for not really being careful - but rather at more marginal cases, and there will be plenty of those. Driving is a lot more complicated than people give credit for, especially in areas where you are sharing the road with cyclists and pedestrians, and the ML approaches to self-driving are probabilistic in nature and will be wrong sometimes.

You can look at this crash and say "Simple safety measures available today would have prevented, or at least mitigated, this collision", and you'd be right, but that won't always be the case. When you say "the life of one victim is too many", it feels impossible to disagree with you, but it does also mean that we are likely decades away from having self-driving cars, during which millions will die from cars (worldwide). If you accept the premise that self-driving cars will be substantially safer than human drivers at some point, what is the right thing to do?
Does the economist do this? That paper has biases but certainly doesn't appeal to emotion. It does provide worldview support which all other papers also do.
True, but the concept still applies here. Uber has gained a well deserved reputation for being careless as long as what they are being careless with belongs to other people.
Chris lived in BC, so this would be what his driver's license looked like: http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2013/02/15/new-b-c-id...

It's an 8 digit number.

The keyspace for the streets would be a list of every street in Greater Victoria.
Back when I was still a cool kid, the biggest worry for a lot of companies was Microsoft deciding to enter your space. Bottomless war chest, an army of programmers and a finely tuned sales channel meant that all their new initiatives started at +20 points.

SQL Server, Visual Studio, etc. If they didn't have it, they bought a company that did have it - and then used their 800lbs of brute market muscle to make it into the dominant offering.
Because it started with Trump and Trump makes people click on headlines. They have now realised that Facbeook is bad also makes people click on headlines. That's all.

In any half serious newspaper this isn't big news but more of a reminder of a story they ran when Facebook launched this shit.
I was trying to make an RNN-based business name generator for a few weeks, but all the output was pretty random.

then I tried just using a markov chain to generate random names and picking the best (most thematically related) names using fasttext, and it worked pretty well. Check it out and let me know what you think!

my favourite keywords are "sexy, Canadian" and "fun, weed" : ]
When I worked in Australia we had a client with ~1.5tb database in SQL Server, largest main table was about 2.5b records. Had no problem returning joined records in low ms times. Wouldn't be good if it had really high traffic but we wrote about ~1-2m records per day into the tables without issue reading it out.

SQL Server can perform. But requires a lot of massaging.

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We tried using DynamoDB for logging, not sure why but the team had trouble with document sizes, write limits, in the end it was growing and going to cost more than SQL Server, was replaced with logging to PostgreSQL with much more flexibilty and runs on a t2.micro instance without issue.
I think if you're trying to replace user-facing Excel, Access, or Word usage of a meaningful sort with anything but other specialized tool is a fools errand.

At the same time: GSuite is leagues better, more intuitive, homogenous, more collaborative, friendlier to sysadmins, and friendlier to document-based data manipulation. It's also more than "good enough" for the 99% use cases of PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Paint, etc.

GSuite for all, Thick Old Office for the accountants and data crunchers who need it, all docs on Google Drive... why not?

O365 is kinda ok (things that should work dont, the split between online and offline is ass, the tools are heavy, the collaboration is semi-hidden), but it's the sharepoint and up-selling of Azure services that make it kinda Evil. I think a hybrid approach preserves the moral high ground and best-tool-for-the-job.
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I'm not clear what you're trying to get at. That a bunch of keyboard jockeys trying to figure out how to get a date through Internet forum advice will arm themselves, uprise and violently enslave and oppress the populace? What exactly are you afraid will happen?
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California remains the center of autonomous car research and industry with carefully thought out regulation designed with public input. Laissez-faire regulation and rolling out the red carpet for bad actors in Arizona didn't change that. It just led to the predictable result.
On top of that, the keys for all Adobe CS2 products have been openly released since they took their activation servers online. I would argue that most people don't need most or many of the new features added since CS2.
> Why does it seem like there's no real oversight on macOS development anymore?

It may seem like that, but don't forget 15 years ago Mac OS X 10.3 erased external FireWire drives.

http://kottke.org/03/10/important-glitch-in-apples-panther-e...

https://web.archive.org/web/20031202034911/http://www.apple....
It is really easy for far right media to cherry pick stories like this:
http://time.com/5214563/parents-attacked-16-year-old-daughte...

I can just as easily find news articles about thousands of white women who are killed by their WASP husbands in the USA, but those are, from the xenophobe perspective, a relatively mundane occurrence.
Why would it be exponential? I like Kurzweil's historical exponential growth across IT (pre-dating silicon), and long-term exponential progress, technological, and longer-term biological, but I haven't seen the mechanism convincingly articulated...

Sure, more money means more improvements faster, but at best that can only amplify already-exponential progress. Unless, it leads to even more money? Or, that each improvement scales all factors? Or, that one improvement makes it easier to find subsequent improvements (a kind of positive feedback loop; accelerating returns).

Why should money make fusion have Moores-like growth? Not even silicon has it any more...
That's mostly Gradle. Jetbrains IDEs are not exactly lean, but Android's use of Gradle is an exercise in patience, even on the command line.
Isn't it the other way around? With drivers, you can fit the charging inside the already mandated breaks, while without driver, you have to introduce longer breaks to get enough charge.

Idle time of EV-rig per day (30min charge every 4 hours): ~11%
Idle time of Non-EV-rig per day (5min refueling every 4 hours): ~2%

Sure, for short distance trips where loading/unloading takes as long as charging the EV-rig, it doesn't make a difference, but for longer hauls, the charging pauses of EV-rigs will severely cut into utilization of the fleet.
Easy. I respond on Threema within 30 minutes and on WhatsApp within half a week.
This did not inspire confidence:

Commercial LEDs consist of a semiconductor material that is electrically injected with positive and negative charges, which produce light when they meet. Typically, two contact points are used in a semiconductor-based light emitting device; one for injecting negatively charged particles and one injecting positively charged particles.

Isn't that a bit too simplified?

That said it sounds like very cool technology although hard to see how electrical wires to each pixel would be as invisible at wall-sized scales.
O365 works great on Firefox in any OS. GDoc sucks on any browser that isn't Chrome. The most frustrating thing is that GDoc's is the only app I'm aware of that doesn't support right click / copy-paste from the context menu in any browser other than Chrome.

That annoys me the most.
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Google Cloud AutoML: Predicting restaurants from Ramen bowl images
They haven't won anything. It was given to them by the cofounder of WhatsApp because he dislikes Facebook.

Nonprofit doesn't mean the developers don't have to eat. Money has to come from somewhere.
That a spin on the paperclip thought experiment (https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer), which has been made into a game (http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html).
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well there was that time that they intentionally tried to see if they could make people more depressed (amongst other attempts at emotional influence)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-...
That is a highly interesting comparison...

Lots of shops struggle to avoid O365 because "everyone is used to Word", and once you have an Excel macro that's mission critical... game over.

I think the automation and Enterprise document management story in GSuite is just better than the Sharepoint nightmare and heavyweight knowledge-graph approach of O365. I think going over to O365 would be a lot harder than the opposite, for an advanced user, thanks to how automation works on those platforms...
the very definition of a failed monitoring service.
There's a number of straw men here: I understand the difference between being able to copy and decrypt data. You're the one who brought that up. The FBI case is about unlocking a device (which make the keys available), not decrypting data at rest when you don't have access to the keys. You brought up specifically accessing contact data available to specific apps, and those were the points I addressed.

So, only software you compile yourself, and never storing data on servers you don't own? How about hardware, including chips, from third-parties? Trusting encryption algorithms others have certified? How far does your trust extend? Is it reasonable for others to have different levels of trust than you?
Okay... let’s try this way.

Assume we know a) the total number of miles driven in a year by sober humans and b) the number of traffic fatalities by sober humans over a year. (The year part isn’t actually important for this, it could be for all time as far as this is concerned — what is important is the miles). Your observations are the number of miles. Time doesn’t play into this, but you could do the same calculation by hours driven or number of trips, if you have that data. Hours driven and mileage driven are going to be pretty well related, so let’s just use that.

Let’s say this rate is 1 fatality every 100 million miles.

Your question is now: given that we’ve observed one fatality in 3 million miles driven for Uber — is the rate for Uber worse than the rate for humans? (Null hypothesis is that the rates are the same). Another way of saying this is - given the rate of one fatality per 100m miles, what is the likelihood that we’d see one fatality in 3m miles?

If you want to estimate the number of fatalities that will happen over the next X million miles driven, you’d use the Poisson distribution, because this is a rare event over a long time span (or mile-span in this case). Plug in the rate, the number of miles, and you can get a pvalue for each fatality count: none, 1 fatality, 2 fatalities, etc...).

Given this rate (1/100m), you can also calculate the likelihood that there would be 1 fatality in 3 million miles. Turns out, it’s not that likely — suggesting that the fatality rate for Uber is higher than humans [0]. It doesn’t say what the rate is exactly, just that it is likely to be higher. Now it’s possible that the Uber rate is the same as humans, just not all that likely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16684764
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In Australia you can not change lanes in a roundabout.
Actually, it may be an instance of a "tragedy of the commons" but I think the most strategically optimal move for a state when there are 49 others is to ban it and let "sucker" states do the testing, and then immediately legalize it as soon as it shows promise.

Just like how I never upgrade to a new software version right away, letting the other "suckers" test it in production for me, creating value for me at their expense with no repercussions whatsoever, since the delay is very small.

Another strategically effective move might be to charge corporations an appropriate fee to capture back the value of the data they are collecting by experimenting on public roads. Given how valuable driverless technology could be, the fees could be large.
I don’t I rather run top to see some stats of the system. Mostly I am checking for slow downs and that shows me load mem consumption etc.
Diskspace is rarely the case

Most of the time some database connection is laggy
For those who haven't seen it:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...
I like think of React as a project led by some open-source developers that happens to be sponsored by Facebook. Even if I don't like the company, the folks building out the code for React seem nice enough.
Adderall? Stimulants? it just tiptoeing around the fact that what you're getting into your system is nothing else but RACEMIC AMPHETAMINE.

Now that sounds like something you don't want to put in your system unlessyoi actually need it.

anything else is playing with fire, given that amphetamine (barring methamphetamine and heroin) is the most addictive substance known to man.

For peole who need it, when used a directed, it allows them to concentrate as a normal person would (ADHD).

Take it as "rocket fuel for the mind" and sooner, rather than later, you won't be able to do anything without your artificial "fuel"

Even well educated and informed professionals with a college degree and functional family and work environments will find themselves making up excuses and false pretenses of being able to control amphetamine addiction, just after finishing "this last project", "just this last sprint/cram/night"

My advice: if not prescribed by a qualified psychiatrist; dont even consider it. Get it out of your way, and stay out of its way.

Unless you see a 12 step program and rebuilding a life from scratch in your near future a something appealing and totally worth it.
I run history first, followed by df then finally I run htop.
>I am basically not allowed to enter if I will obstructing someones path of travel,

Yes, you just described how yielding works everywhere. You enter unless you will block someone. There is nowhere in the world that you yield to someone who isn't going to hit you, that's just called a stop sign.
> But for users whom have permission to view the content granted to them through the "friending" process the last thing you want is for them to be able to mine their device or know what's being stored on their device.

I assume them is a reference to state level actor? At least to me it is not immediately obvious and I think I misread it the first time.
Didn't Apple essentially get rid of their MacOS team by taking them off it full time and putting them into the iOS team? (So they essentially had to apply their time between the 2).
If I subscribe to a website with real money, I feel free to block all trackers via Ghostery.
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I one time walked into a bar and took the seat on the other side of the corner from the only guy sitting there.

I told him about my day. He looked angry at me with very large eyes and a big frown. I just continued my story as if nothing happened. He kept the face on for the first 2 minutes of it. I order a beer and one for my friend here. The added rage in his facial expression was hilarious. I continued talking about my day while drinking the beer. He looked at the glass for a few seconds and decided to drink from it.

The new facial expression was tired but slightly impressed by the way I continued to talk to him completely undisturbed.

Eventually, after 3 beers, the story about my day came to visiting a bar with only one other guest who apparently went to a public place expecting not to be talked to.

He laughed really hard. I said, hey, you got to work with what you have.

He then told the story of the very shitty day he was having. I forgot the details but it was truly a shit day.
Use millinotech can Manage all staff can be tricky in any industry?
I sometimes wonder if we actually need Fusion right now. There's a big sun throwing it's energy at us all the time.

Cost of ITER is gonna be around $20 billion.

That's 8 Topaz solar stations, together putting out 10 TWh annually. That would give 1.5 San Franciscos electricity at the cost of maintenance/staffing.
> What we desperately want is a decentralized encrypted locally hosted application that has exactly one killer simple feature. A bulletin board to post events. That's it. A simple way to keep in touch with each other and local ownership of our photos and videos.

Can't you do this with a mailing list? That handles the notification. A big standard website can do the rest like hosting photos.
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Ever wanted to mate with someone who wasn't interested?
Off-topic and pedantic pet peeve, would you mind replacing "begs the question" with "raises the question". The former might not mean what you intended.
To be clear, Cargo fits the latter definition; you can't depend directly on two different versions of a package, but you can transitively.
Or people wake up in a world where corporations are king and people are treated like things to be exploited for revenue, there is no true community and we are kept vulnerable and separated because that makes us easier to advertise to. They see no point in living and decide to end the pain of existence.
No, ios prevented message and call data scraping.
Valohai raises $1.8M for its machine learning platform-as-a-service
Whatever kills Facebook won’t look like a social network - they will see and fight it.

It will look like something else but turn out to be a social network replacement in retrospect.

Microsoft was not dethroned by Linux or free software (cheaper and arguably better) - it was dethroned by mobile phones. And it’s still alive, just not the king anymore.
I've found that giving IntelliJ (or Android Studio) too much memory can actually backfire. The Java process ends up using all the memory you give it, but this also results in long GC pauses past a certain point. If you're curious, turn on the memory inidicator in the app with Settings -> Appearance -> Appearance -> Show memory indicator. I've found 2gb - 4gb to be the sweet spot depending on project size.
So funny to see these posts here and getting votes - wasn’t too long ago (literally months) that practically anything against the ad ecosystem was impugned. Granted, it may not be the same people speaking or talking, but what of you, dear lurker? Have you finally changed your mind on the value of these platforms?
> external

An upgrade to the beloved 10.6 could potentially outright rm -rf your home dir. I was unaffected but it did make me retrospectively shiver when I learned about that bug post-upgrade.

Still, the frequency of those goofups seems to be getting worse, possibly amplified by the growing expectations in what looks like to be an increasingly hostile digital environment.
I love that movie! I watched it as a kid and to this day I remember two important facts:

1) Everyone recognizes a Coca Cola bottle

2) To defeat a hyena you must appear to be taller than the hyena
It is exactly how it works. There ~40-115 different computers in a modern car that often have completely walled-off modules running on them. Most 'models' you will find in a car's software aren't even generated through machine learning, but tried and true engineering/statistics.

No one in their right mind is proposing to replace those with one big AI monolith. That's marketing BS from the likes of NVidia, who would stand to gain from it.

AI is being used in certain subfunctions like visual object detection. In the future, AI will be used to make higher level decisions like trajectory (lane choice, overtaking etc.) and route planning. But it will only hand those higher level plans down to the mostly 'dumb' computer systems of the car to be carried out just as with a manually driven car.
Advancing technology overall is nice, but does not benefit Arizona any more than if they let some other sucker state do the experimenting.

Not everything has to be tied to a direct effect, but if you think this, maybe you could explain at least one mechanism by which you think Arizona could actually indirectly get some benefit?
I doubt fusion power plants in a plane is something worth considering much in the next 30 years at a minimum.

That said - it'd be for power plants that can be flown around the world and utilized on the ground once landed, as a large recharging supply source for the future in which a lot of military hardware use batteries.

Or for powering large aircraft that can stay aloft for very long durations and are armed with high powered solid state lasers used to shoot down objects. Or alternatively used for AWACS. Can you fit a fusion power plant in a large cargo plane along with the tech necessary for a large solid state laser? I can't imagine, maybe as they both miniaturized over decades, but this is all just fantastic as a premise.
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It might not be called lobbying, but I assure you equivalents exist. The thing is that most people think that lobbying = bribery. It simply isn’t true.

The process can be corrupted, but that is true regardless of the vehicle.
Now imagine that this is not facebook's AI trying to get more engagement, but a global AI that has humanity's best interest as a goal: preventing wars and famines, greater good for greater number sort of thing.

What if the ultimate good AI decided that the best way to achieve it was by killing off a handful of possibly innocent people every year. It's not even necessary to kill future Hitlers, just find one random dude in Minnesota that would tip the balance and push him to off himself.

I think this would make for a great novel, kind of a mashup of Asimov's robots and Ada Palmer.
Relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(1976_film)
We use 'Helpie Knowledgebase/Wiki Plugin' which is based on WordPress. I don't think there are better solutions to share Knowledge other than a simple, customizable Knowledgebase.
I don't know if I would go for "ensult.com" .
That's not true

> You can change lanes within a roundabout, but you must indicate and give way to other vehicles.
http://www.roadrules.rsc.wa.gov.au/road-rules/roundabouts

edit: and NSW too, to make it clear this isn't just "oh WA"

> Be careful if changing lanes in a roundabout, particularly when leaving http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/roads/safety-rules/road-rules/roun...