skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity, is anyone aware whether it might serve some use to do tests like this virtually? Drive a car around to gather a mass of raw sensor readings on a busy street, and then feed those readings to test cars as inputs?

I guess that description doesn't make much sense, but it would be interesting to develop a virtual testing environment for testing the algorithm package even though that doesn't address hardware and numerous other concerns.
The other reason for banning night-city semiautonomous would be how many people thought it didn't really matter if they were drunk because they didn't need to intervene that much anyway...
Sadly, Mozilla's effort is somewhat flawed in its current iteration. There are only very few different sentences (tokens) used as prompts, leading to a lot of repetitions of the same spoken utterance instead of greater coverage of possible utterances, and there is near complete overlap in the sentences spoken in the training set and those in the development and test sets, making it nearly impossible to generalize results from performance evaluations to utterances not contained in the training set. See https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/common-voice-v1-corpus-desig...

Some suggestions for improvements were made in a discussion on the Kaldi Github (https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi/issues/2141), but the bottom line is that it's not clear what the exact use-case of the corpus is. It's not command recognition, there's no particular domain, just more or less random English sentences collected from CC0 sources. Use cases should drive corpus collection.
I don't think anyone suggested otherwise.
Wow, lot to unpack there.

The thing is they generally do quit, if you look at Gamasutra's yearly industry survey you'll see a huge bimodal distribution of less than 3 years and 10+ years. The average industry career ends up being about 3 years.

Here's a situation that I saw a lot when I was in the industry:

1. Get a new gig in a different town(usually because the previous studio cratered). Sell your house, move your family and get settled because this studio seems like it's being run sanely.

2. 4-6mo later crunch time hits. Mandated 80hr/week with 6-7 day work weeks. Anyone who takes even half a day off catches a ton of shit. Heck, I get yelled at for leaving the office at 11pm one day.

3. No funds(remember 30-50% less pay) or time to find a new gig and you've got a mortgage/rent/family to support.

4. Game fails/sucks because of crunch or other reasons. Studio closes/layoffs.

5. Repeat step #1.

I would hazard a good 80% of people in gamedev are paycheck-to-paycheck(I know we were). So while it's easy to just claim they should quit that's not as simple in practice.
It is the fear of missing out, not gaslighting.

"Gaslighting is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, and sanity."

"Fear of missing out is a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent"

-wiki
this post may supply [0] some context

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...
We've recently launched a competitive product to Adblock Plus - the product noted in this article, made by EYEO. It has been extremely illuminating - but also disappointing – to learn how much user deception there is in the adblocking market.

EYEO also has a long running practice of using legal tactics to try and shutdown and intimidate competitive products. We've been hit with these tactics recently.
You'd just have to wait then...

Also, BMW and Tesla operate and vastly different scales, and I am not sure there are enough people who consider electric more desirable (or feasible) than "a bimmer".
In several states adultery is still illegal, though I believe a misdemeanor in most, in some (Idaho, for one), it's a felony.

Regardless of how few people have been sanctioned criminally recently (and fun fact, in some of those states adultery is a crime only a woman can commit...), very very few politicians want to be the one to formally repeal laws against "the sanctity of marriage", however antique they may be.
Your "stable and mature" languages were the crazy research projects of old. No one is forcing you to do anything, but let us not forget the nature of our "mature" technologies and the process by which they form.
Wow, I had no idea there a buried option like that to really delete it.

Several years ago I read an article about how savvy teenagers and college students were calling account deactivation "Super Logout", since it was well known that deactivation was non-binding and immediately reversible at any time. If you were going to be away from your phone or computer for anything more than a few hours you would Super Logout and not have to worry about potentially embarrassing wall posts, tagged photos, tagged comments, unwelcome messages, etc.. It was all about having full control of who interacts with your account and when. I thought it was quite brilliant and I totally get why you would want to do that in the fast-paced social world of a teenager. Ever since I read that I've always laughed at people saying "I'm going to delete my account", thinking they were really deleting it. (I bet no more than a fraction, if any, ever dug up the full deletion option.) People think they are "deleting" their account while kids are literally using "deletion" as an advanced feature of the platform.
Somebody posted a video on youtube where they drove past the scene of the accident with a less crap camera, at the same time a day later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOVxSCG8u0

a screenshot directly comparing the two images, appologies for the dumb meme crap

https://i.imgur.com/eSre3hL.png

There is absolutely no way the uber video is an accurate potrayl.
Maybe Josh is trying to gaslight you on the use of the word gaslight.
> As of March, Uber was struggling to meet its target of 13 miles per “intervention” in Arizona

To be fair, Uber is not necessarily acting badly -- especially since AZ doesn't appear to care either way -- having the safety driver is ostensibly supposed to make the AV at least as safe as if it were a regular human-driven car. I hope during the investigation we find out whether Uber made it clear to its human drivers that they had to be at least as alert as if they were driving a normal car.
I love that Pivotal stands behind the principle of open source. Good for them!
do you really think that happens?

no way TensorFlow is going to be alive in 5 years!
You’re probably atypical. I don’t use any of these services much and am not very price sensitive especially given that it’s almost exclusively for business travel. But I’m guessing a lot of people using these services care a lot about 2x differences in price.
It doesn't improve readability. Compare:

discrim = b² - 4ac; // Standard notation
float discrim = pow(b, 2) - 4*a*c; // C
float discrim = b \ 2 - 4*a*c; // C∀

I would argue that these are presented here in descending order of readability.

Also its typing rules are really complicated; apply it to two integers and magically you are thrown into the floating-point world where you can never be completely certain of anything, but if you use an unsigned exponent then you stay safely in integer-land.
There is no way you can justify the expense of development unless it is the plan. You can't make that much money selling self-driving as a very expensive (and finicky) option. Ride-sharing puts cars on the road, rolls them out regionally, and maximizes the utilization.
Well, I must admit I laughed at the meme.
I thought signal was open source?
"Signal is developed by a software group called Open Whisper Systems.[123] The group is funded by a combination of donations and grants,[124] and all of its products are published as free and open-source software." -wiki
Funnily enough Romania is on top of the pedestrian fatalities statistics within the EU: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

Maybe you should reconsider the law.
Yeah because that's really shitty. If you actually cared about that person you wouldn't throw them out, you'd train and place them elsewhere within your company because they are good employees that contribute positively to your culture.
It's true that raw FP performance isn't the be-all and end-all, but things aren't necessarily memory-bound either. HPC codes at scale are often dominated by communication.

I'm surprised if numerical issues are that much of a worry. x86 has now caught up in doing FMA, in particular. I don't know what the build systems actually are, but most of Fedora (and Debian?) is available for POWER, and will typically have at least minimal tests in the package. It's not as if POWER is new for HPC; the Daresbury HPC-X machine was quite high in the top500 15 years or so ago, as an example I was physically close to.
What to do with problem employees?
This sounds expensive, unnecessary and would result in creating systems that were built to defeat a test, not reality.

Most current human drivers wouldn't be able to pass a test with the conditions that resulted in the fatal crash.
The only other comment right now recounts a negative experience that is surely not common. I offer a balancing positive story of my recent experience.

Between 2012-2016 I was studying for my PhD. I kept all my files in Dropbox (as well as some other places, but Dropbox was the one place I trusted with everything at once). I was paying for a premium account at the time, and had dozens of GB of stuff stored in my account. I stopped paying for it in 2016.

Yesterday I wanted to show someone a protein model image [0] I made during my PhD. I logged into my old Dropbox account, and found all the content preserved there. I haven't paid them for two years, but they archived all my stuff and asked politely for me to reactivate the account in order to sync it again. But I can retrieve individual files if I don't pay. That's an extremely gracious and dependable service, compared to my experience of other companies.

Congratulations Dropbox on your IPO, and on creating a product used seamlessly by hundreds of millions that really makes people's digital lives easier.

Having experienced such high-trust service, I'm going to start paying them again.

0: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1wb68r1otlqqa8u/rubisco_coloured_3...
My takeaway opinion: Sad to see that Khosrowshahi did not end the self driving program at Uber.

Yes, I know hindsight is 20/20, but that's exactly why an incoming CEO is brought in. Everyone was saying autonomous vehicles was Uber's only possible future... he saw the internal reports, he knew his (or should have) talent (was it "techbros" or computer scientists?).

I feel this is the real inflection point for Uber.
Canadian brokers allow trading US stocks and bonds (on NASDAQ and NYSE) as well as Canadian ones (on TSX). I can buy American or Canadian Vanguard ETFs through a Canadian broker like Questrade. What I cannot do is use Vanguard as a broker, but that's a small inconvenience.
>A Linux mobile operating system (i.e. revive Mer & Maemo).

Agreed. I had mentioned the N900 in a recent HN thread about Linux handhelds, and someone mentioned there is a new project called Neo900.

I did not know about Mer, what is it?
LightWave 3D, Cinema 4D, Realsoft 3D, Aladdin4d, Amiga Reflections, Sculpt 3D, Dkbtrace, Imagine, Turbosilver, Real3D.

On a home computer. In the 80's to early 90's. The future is where you have been.
Signal is open source?

https://github.com/signalapp
You don't think most humans would see someone crossing a flat straight road in an area with mediocre lighting? If that's true we should have thousands more deaths a year like this.
Since Wifi uses other frequencies, the answer is maybe. We simply don't know enough. It looks like the effect found in this study was too faint to draw any conclusions.

The inverse square law says that a Wifi station two rooms away would expose you to very little radiation. Unless of course you mean that your base station is two rooms away but your cell phone connected to it is right next to your head. Then you should move the base station closer so the phone can connect on lower power levels. Or just turn off your phone.
When the industry is highly lucrative on the backs of overworked labor, some type of a union apparatus is the most affective way to ensure fair compensation.

Yes, we can educate others who want to enter the industry, but when you're graduating out of university with a fat debt, you'll accept the poor working conditions for long enough and the cycle will continue to perpetuate.

The best protection against predation is for the prey to act together. Predators will always divide and conquer and go after the weak, and so the weak must be protected. The other way is increased competition - but our environment is becoming more and more anti-competitive.
Rent out GPUs to AI researchers and make ~2x more than mining cryptocurrencies
I have been using LaTeX for past 2 years and updating the resume starts taking a toll as I am not well versed with. Recently had my hard drive fail and ended up reinstalling and updating my very first draft which took a lot of time. Even after all this the point that gets me is the recruiter asking you to fill all the details one by one on their online job application portal while the resume has the very same details. I wonder why.
> Riot can't be it because network effects.

You seem to be listing different criteria for each of the reasons you dismiss the various alternatives -- the reason against Riot / Matrix is not at all like the other (reasons), and is a bit self-defeating.
> but journalist get immunity -to a degree, explicit or implicit- for being so

It’s not clear that this is the case in Canada, and your reference of a clearly American example doesn’t really clear that up.
Resale. Suits at my company did not like our innovation idea until we let them know how the fiscal windfall we stand to make just by selling data.
Yeah, witness how the slew of accusations against Trump has crushed his career...
Instead of cars driven by assholes, we have to worry about cars programmed by assholes.
This sounds interesting! I think I’m jealous, sounds like you have some real space to explore and craft and that’s where happiness can be found!
Could you describe your coaching approach? That sounds interesting, and is often a difficult problem to solve
We have plenty of deaths like this. https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/6/16438444/traffic-fataliti...
TechCrunch just posted a slightly broader article on the project:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/rainforest-connection-enli...
https://www.reddit.com/r/PussyPass/ is packed with many examples. Shkreli got more prison time than many get for murder of a cheating spouse, or rape.
If you suggested Nebraska was independent, nobody would flip out, because it's nonsense. Unfortunately large industrial empires need space and resources and so it's necessary to expand beyond what might be the "real" border of your country. But who's to complain? Everyone likes the Dali Lama, but capitalism doesn't allow you to choose karma over cash.
> He announced an “eight-point rectification plan” that included education for hotel employees across the globe and stricter supervision.

That reminds me of the White Rose demanding examples to be made of the Nazis so nobody would ever even dream of following in their footsteps. That never happened, and it shows.
Can I download this database?
That's the first time I've been hit with a survey-wall. Warning that the content is not free. The title is click bait anyway, so I'm not sure what I was expecting.
I can't imagine the landowner would be all that enthusiastic about allowing a broadcaster direct access to the people who are protesting him. It would be pretty easy to say no "for safety reasons".
This is tough, LA is trying to create homeless housing but congregating lots of homeless folks in one spot is a recipe for disaster. There's an area in downtown LA where a lot of agencies reside that specialize in helping the homeless. So, as a result, a lot of homeless people congregate there. Crime is common and it's also one of the scariest areas to visit during the day. At night, it's like zombies invaded the area. As a result, homeowners are constantly fighting any proposed homeless housing.

Yes, giving a home to each will help. But the problem is bigger than that. These people will need a permanent social worker assigned to them so they can help them transition to a point where they are stable enough to keep their home.
For ARM, specifically, look out Simon Macintosh-Smith's preliminary results for the Isambard system.
I don't think Facebook is being ethical by making people wait to delete their account. Thought experiment:

Suppose John owns a room. John's room is occupied at full capacity, 24/7. People mingle in the room, sometimes they trade with each other. Assume John is never present in the room at any time. John decides to install a camera and microphone in the room. John analyzes the data in order help increase the quantity of trades in the room, through which John makes a considerable commission. Later, someone asks him to delete the data he has on them. John says he will only delete the data after 90 days, and if the person takes a step in the room within 14 days, they will not have their data deleted.

Is John's behavior ethical?
Sounds like the script of a Black Mirror episode to me.
>lawmakers seek to punish someone, they aren't doing it because they relish the suffering of the other person, but because they hope that person's pain will dissuade others from committing those same crimes

Unfortunately this belief is completely unfounded in reality. I really wish this were the case, but we have mountains of evidence on how to help people fight addiction, poverty, get out of the criminal cycle, etc. And that's all ignored in favor of punishment.
A train has no steering capabilities, the breaking distance isn't even close to a car. All one can hope is that the train manages to stop within two times the line of sight, if lucky.

A selfdriving car should be able to stop a lot faster than a train, and has instruments that is supposed to be able to see an obstacle even in bad light.
Well, after it was discovered, of course they would all have been undercover... even if they weren’t before, so to speak.
His employees need to generate more value.
I think that's what NVIDIA tried to do with their BB8 test car [0]. I don't know what came of that.

[0] https://youtu.be/LVBBKppAaV4
There's no survey-wall.
I think Uber's essential mistake is to go from "autonomous vehicles are the only way our business model makes sense" to "we should be building autonomous vehicles".

Their expertise is in UI, routing algorithms, and business development. There is nothing in their background that indicates they should have any competitive advantage in building autonomous vehicles over Google/Waymo, the proverbial 800-pound gorilla of everything AI, or GM/Cruise, with experience in safety-critical engineering and oodles of capital to throw at the problem.

Sure, base your business model on the eventual development of driverless cars, but buy the damned things from the professionals, eh?
Welcome to 2018
Then every single P2P host will have to take it down, which might take a long while with how slow DMCA/whatever takes.

Myself, personally, I'd comply with legal takedowns because I don't want to get thrown in prison. But that doesn't mean it won't be exceptionally hard for things to be removed from a cryptographically secure P2P network.
but that latest Arizona crash wasn't their fault
Can someone post examples? Most of the Wikipedia links are dead.
Then there is the SEP IRA, which is an IRA with large limits but only your employer can contribute. I’m very thankful for my Fidelity SEP IRA with access to every product a taxable brokerage account would offer (except margin).

That said, while I appreciate full control and low cost, it is a lot of rope and I do wish the system was simpler and less perilous for those who want to just dump money into something reliable and take it out when they retire. Any control at all is perilous given the track record of average investors vs the performance of the funds they go in and out of.
That linked research is discussing the effects of high energy (between 0 and 1000W, with written analyses of the 150W and 300W conditions) 2.45GHz radiation on the catalyzing properties of specific chemical reactions (CuO-Cu-ZSM-5, BaMnO3, and BaFeO3 catalysts with NO). I certainly was presuming that your vague memories from a standard class you took decades ago were about the common, statistical changes in molecular geometry as a function of heat, and it is possible that your class was discussing the bleeding edge of chemical synthesis at the time ("Since the use of MWs for synthesis reactions first appeared in 1986"). Regardless, the obvious test would be to measure the specific chemical effects on DNA under specific low energy microwave frequencies.
I'm going to guess it's far more complex than that.

I wouldn't feel whole if Quebec wasn't a part of Canada, but I can also appreciate the separatists' position on the matter.
From what I've read, it doesn't look like he was "touched" because he covered the event, but because he, practically, participated in it. I can imagine a situation when someone can do it with the sole intention to provide information which can save somebody from a wrong conviction, for instance, but it anyway would require a due process, and a judge to weigh a motive. You cannot realistically have a blanket legislation immunizing everyone who streams, or records - that would be too easy to abuse. So the case doesn't look like Canadian democracy is in real danger.

And, by the way, let's not overestimate the alleged sanctity of journalism: they are humans too, as any of us, and there are numerous examples of journalists distorting facts for variety of reasons, starting from personal beliefs, and ending with bribes.
Yes, but most of the compute for Summit and Sierra is in the GPUs. I haven't seen and indication that even those actually have POWER9 yet.
Simple, you don't. Most people are perfectly fine leaving the past behind. If I'm no longer in touch with someone there is typically a good reason for it.
Steve Jobs' Choices
I thought the point of SDV’s was that they would be radically better than human drivers? You can’t have it both ways.
Somehow they managed to miss the point that it's the handing over of information to these services that is the thing giving them power.

Instead of Paperless post, how about Framadate? No love for Nextcloud? Diaspora? Mastodon?
I also think most current human drivers would also expect to spend significant time in jail for causing death by driving so careless they didn't even try to brake when confronted by an pedestrian in the roadway (even if she shouldn't have been there and an accident may not have been entirely avoidable)

I'm fine with Uber's executives and programmers accepting the same level of culpability as an alternative to meeting higher standards than humans to get on the road. Ditto for their culpability for potential bugs which would be considered [attempted] vehicular homicide in the absence of a more logical explanation for the vehicle's actions if driven by humans. Abdicate that responsibility and you'd better be prepared for more stringent tests.
I got to work with some Pivots at their office about a decade ago and learned to use Tracker from them. It's the only system I've ever seen that works well and gives predictable results over time.

Almost every company I've been at has used abhorrent alternatives like Asana, Jira, etc. and they've been consistently awful experiences.