skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is simply not true. The dashcam footage released by Tempe police does not depict the driving conditions at the site of the accident accurately at all. Check out [1] for the actual driving conditions at night.

I'm not usually the one to talk about conspiracy, but Tempe police had no legal responsibility to release the footage since the investigation is still ongoing. Couple this with the statement released by the Tempe chief of police defending Uber, I'm inclined to believe Uber and some state government officials are working together to sway the public opinion and minimize damage. At the end of the day, the victim is painted as an idiot who practically committed suicide. This is gross injustice.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOVxSCG8u0
tl;dr: He liked this tweet from an official Marriott account, upsetting Chinese officials ...

> Friends of Tibet congratulate global hotel chain #Marriott International for listing #Tibet as a country along with #HongKong and #Taiwan.
Hah! Very welcome.

The people we really should be raking over the coals are the VCs who didn't invest. Spotting good products is their job.
Western China is a combination of agriculture, and completely barren, unused land.

They have plenty, without Tibet and Taiwan.

There's another reason, here.
It's strange to me how much emphasis they're putting on the tweet. Wasn't the spark that incensed China so much their decision to list Tibet as a country in the survey?
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Maintaining a popular open source project is a great way to learn to politely say “fuck you this is crap”.

It’s important to be consistent with your online voice though. If you’re always blunt and terse then, generally, people won’t take it badly. But if you slide between extraneous gestures and out right profanity then eventually someone will take it personally.
Just having a GitHub doesn't make you open-source. All the same it looks like I was wrong, and they are open now. They previously required clsed-source components for voice and video afaik.
Firing the employee seems counterproductive. It hurts morale, and doesn't actually solve the problem.
I don't think majority of those miles are in SF. I expect most would be in CA suburban towns like mountain view where for the past few years I'd see a waymo car basically Everytime I drove for more than 10 minutes
There was for me on mobile, not on desktop.
You have to "answer" a question to get access to the content.
> One would assume that should things get bad enough for an actual civil war, some percentage of military would defect rather than fight their own.

I'd say if US gov had a plan of oppressing US citizens they'd just ban guns first. It's kinda hard to start civil war over this.

So instead of civil war you'd have hundred or few hundreds nutjobs with guns vs. US Army who might not feel particularly supportive of civilians disobeying direct order to give away their guns. Obeying is kinda their favorite thing.

> One might also look to recent conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and even Vietnam to see what a determined populace can do to resist.

Let's look at more recent history of US military achievements:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-is...

You wan't to be on the loosing side of similar conflict?

> Given there has already been one Civil War in US history, things don't look horribly great. It is also a very different country today now than it was then, so who knows how things would actually go.

Last civil war was about right to own black people. They guys who really wanted to keep owning them actually managed to incite civil war, even had army with similar tech level and still lost. Can you imagine same thing happening about right to own guns?

The reason government lets you keep your guns is not that it's afraid of you. The reason is that it is not and doesn't mind all that much if some peasants die.
> Tibet has huge reserves of copper, lithium, gold and silver. Most of it has never been touched, because the Tibetans didn't mine the land: it's against their religious practices to disturb the ground. But China has begun mining on an enormous scale.

from https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-11-24/new-book-documents-ch...
Came here to say this, and cant even really connect the dots on how a hotel chain recognizing a country or not is not the bigger deal than liking a twitter post. Shoot, if I were in the same position I would think I was promoting the chain by liking posts related to it. Complete insanity.
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They do that in a carefully controlled way, well after the event is too cold for the news cycle. And even then, some events that are too dicey-looking are never seen.

Mark, this is not a criticism. Given the way the media handles such things (i.e. sensationally and with minimal or just plain wrong context) it's really for the best.
Pretty much all of them can, assuming they have something left over for savings when they get their paychecks. There's nothing stopping them from opening an account with Charles Schwab, Fidelity, etc. and investing their savings there in whatever they like.
This is the wrong way to go about it. The syntax is great, what is needed is updates to reflect modern hardware:

-Vector types. (With arbitrary sizes not just up to vec4 for like on GPUs)

-New operators like clamp, and other intrinsic. (See GLSL and modern instruction sets)

-Min/max: |< >|

-Dot:

-Cross product: ><

-Swizzle: a.3.2.1.0

-Qualifiers for warping behavior.

-Standard library with cash management hints.

-Define qualifiers for padding of structs to be defined.

I would also argue you could change some things in the spec to make it easier for compilers to optimize, like making the calling a switch without a catching case undefined behavior.

As for the syntax itself, I could find being able to type multiple break commands in a row to get out of more then one loop useful, but its not a big thing.

I would probably drastically restrict the power of the pre-processor too.

(If you have too much time on your hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM)
If Marriott were really serious, they should have fired the survey writer instead. They again, maybe that person was fired too.

But as to appeasing China, well... I'm not sympathetic.
Surprised no one asks the obvious question: why doesn’t Twitter (“can’t make any money”) charge for running a tweet competition and fix their bot problem.
As I started reading this, I had to recheck the date. Because this is such an old topic. I mean, haven't Stephenson and crew beaten it to death? And then he went and wrote D.O.D.O., which lacks even the thin edge of hope in Seveneves. Both of which I love, by the way.
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One less person in the property doesn't make the violation more or less grave; you are talking as if the journalist was the only one to enter or like he destroyed something inside the property.
I think uber has been on a hiring push the last few years for quality engineers so it's not inconceivable they could make this work. I also think them working on this mostly makes business sense. To me it sounds like they rushed the development and tried going too far way too fast.
I only use whatsapp, it's end to end encrypted and data's kept on the device. I'm fairly sure my whatsapp messages are private enough, although I'd be happy if I was informed should that not be the actual case.
Just read about this in Blindsight.

A vampire had hologram faces of tortured humans as graphs
So why are John's friends using the living room so frequently yet without having any contact with him? Maybe you find that question to be pedantic given the bigger picture you're ostensibly addressing. But trying to imagine the answers would make it obvious why your hypothetical situation doesn't really apply to reality.

For starters, your scenario involves a surveillance camera, but in the next sentence, you ask us to imagine that the friends haven't given any permission. Permission for what exactly?
A hidden beauty of uMatrix is that with a little training, it doubles as a reminder against low-value search results -- content scrapers, marketers you've already decided never to buy from again. Just red-out the first-party web site. Search engines that can't keep up with the SEO-optimizers e.g. Duckduckgo become more usable.
All of the links should be in the Internet Archive. (I wrote OP and the links would've been included in my archive queue at the time.)

FWIW, as much as I liked the idea of Chernoff faces after running into them in _Blindsight_, I was never able to find a productive use for them where they were really all that much a better visualization than, say, a bunch of scatterplots or fancier techniques like t-SNE.
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this is why a huge number of former adblock plus users have now moved to ublock origin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
This is great but... This is deleting FB pages not actually deleting FB ads. Facebook doesn't care about FB pages anymore now that they can track people closely for ad targetting.
All ports you listed have had high-quality wired alternatives that improved things considerably.
They missed the point with the Events alternatives.

The problem isn't creating/inviting; you can do that with email. Facebook is great at finding events, and there aren't any competitors that have anything close to their reach.
Well, I certainly won't be staying at any Marriott hotels any more. That's an abysmal way of handling things.
>Signal can't be it, because closed-source,

Wrong, both clients and server are open-source.

>not federated,

This is intentional. See https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

>uses phone number.

I think this is for the best. This means you can seamlessly add contacts you already have on your phonebook to Signal. No need for emails or separate user accounts. If you're worried about this, you can buy a prepaid SIM card for pennies, or use an online service. It's not an issue.
"Market forces are also intensified by intensifying assessment, a development especially visible on the labour market. Even within a contract period, an employee will be subject to continuous assessment. The use of specialised software in call centres has provided some extreme examples: the time employees spend at the toilet is measured in seconds: this information is used to pressure the employee to spend less time away from the terminal. Firms with contracts are also increasingly subject to continuous assessment procedures, made possible by information technology. For instance, courier services use tracking software and GPS technology, to allow customers to locate their packages in transit. This is a typical example of the new hyper-provision of business information, in neoliberal economies."

From "Neoliberalism: origins, theory, definition"

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/neoliberalism.htm...
You bring up a great (but separate) point. It is far too easy to renew your driving privileges even when your abilities are no longer sufficient to be a safe driver.
Because they don’t want to fix their bots; it boosts their. numbers
Diaspora was meant to be it - launched in 2010 it had one million users by 2014 (according to the wikipedia page). I can't find numbers for current active user counts, but it didn't win much mindshare, by any measure.

FreedomBox was being pushed heavily by Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee (I saw them doing a FOSDEM presentation on this back in 2011) but it was more about the hardware platform (to support a free software social network suite) but it's also not really very popular, unfortunately.

Mastodon, as freehunter notes, is well known, but only in niche circles - and seems to be positioning itself as a twitter-alike only.

Searches for 'free software social network' will return a huge list of projects, but even for the most popular <sic>, federated, relatively painless to setup & maintain (or with paid hosted options available) systems ... the network effect combined with most people's inertia / apathy / ignorance means we're not going to be ridding the world of FB any time soon.
The meat of the story is that Omaha man worked for Marriott hotels on customer support. Their support system allows their agents to like tweets.

The man appears to have inadvertently clicked like on a tweet while dealing with a large influx of support messages (due to a promo going on) thanking Marriott for listing Tibet as its own country which was a huge no-no due to Mariott's presence in China. Execs fire him as a part of their "sorry China" grovelling.

My kneejerk is to believe fired man. I've clicked like on things by accident browsing regular Twitter, never mind a support system designed to skim through hundreds of requests. Unfortunately belief isn't going to restore the job, this is another lesson for the pile that companies will axe employees over fixing (heck, explaining) a problem with the system. It's the cheapest option.

If liking a tweet will infuriate the largest (by population) country in the world, maybe $14/hr support agents shouldn't be able to one-click like tweets.

Another question does occur - if it's such a big deal for them, why is/was Tibet listed as its own country in their system that prompted the liked tweet in the first place?
Yes and you have to compensate for this considering lives are at stake. One needs to carefully select personal and supervise said personal closely. The fundamentals are not rocket science more like railroad age science e.g. the dead man switch. There is no way for Uber to plead ignorance as there are plenty of studies on the topic in the airline industry.

1) the person needs to be qualified as a true test driver (experienced auto engineer, professional driver with sufficient experience)

2) physical fitness, especially ability to stay awake and documented measured reaction times

3) strict rules on distractions, random checks

4) engineering measures for staying alert (sounds, tasks etc.)

5) limits on driving times, documented work logs and much more

and plenty more. Someone in Uber should have had the tasks making sure the tests are done as safe as possible. That person would have needed the qualifications and authority to affect the test execution.

The biggest problem is imho. that Uber does not have to produce self driving technology but only needs to be seen as working on the leading edge of it to sustain their financial storyline.
I'm a bumble user. They sent this post as an email to their user base. I don't understand what they're trying to accomplish by airing their dirty laundry publicly. Users don't care if you're in an IP battle.

Also, I could have done without the sexist implication that bullying is a masculine characteristic.
> the whole point of the standards specifying UB is precisely to let implementations define the behavior themselves.

This used to be the case. Signed integer overflow for instance is undefined because some CPUs go bananas when you try that. Other platform performed 2's complement just fine, and we used to be able to rely on this.

No longer.

See, the standard doesn't say "implementation defined". It doesn't say "undefined on platforms that go bananas, implementation defined otherwise". It says "undefined" period.

Signed integer overflow is undefined on all platforms, even your modern x86-64 CPU. Compiler writers interpreted it as a licence to assume it never happens, to help optimisations. For instance:

int x = whatever;
x += small_increment;
if (x < 0) { // check for overflow
abort(); // security shut down
}
proceed(x); // overflow didn't happen, we're safe!

Here's what the compiler thinks:

int x = whatever;
x += small_increment;
if (x < 0) { // only true if signed overflow -> false
abort(); // dead code
}
proceed(x);

Then the compiler simply deletes your security check:

int x = whatever;
x += small_increment;
proceed(x);

Don't listen to Chandler Carruth, nasal demons are real. Some undefined behaviours can encrypt your whole hard drive, assuming they're exploitable by malicious inputs.
I seem to recall seeing a number of examples on filfre.net, and other games like _Prince of Persia_ were largely one-man jobs (he got some help with animation and whatnot, but it was essentially a one-man thing, judging from the famous developer diary). One problem is that people don't always cite exact dollar amounts, and when they do, they don't inflation-adjust - if you made 'only' $300k off a computer game in 1980, well, that's a million dollars now right there.
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Good thing about GDPR you should be able to ask them to delete all data, while still leave your account there, deactivated, so others can't grab it. That's what my plan of action is - anyone tried that? Is it possible?
I don't even know how an article managed to mention dystopias and blade runner, in 2018, without even a mention of "Altered Carbon". That, and it ignores that "The Expanse" was a series of novels (I think there's like... eight books now?) a long time before it was a TV series. The novels go into a great deal more detail on the lives of the Belters and how the political situation depicted came about.
Their pricing was based on application instances and the list price was ludicrous (several hundred dollars) but most companies got good discounts.

The thing that bothered me with the model was it disincentives modern microservice architectures. One big monolith cost less than lots of smaller components.

It may have changed since I last saw the details.
I think they could be good to detect small changes.
They weren't forced out, they just didn't want to comply because they would have to report incidents which would show how far behind competitors they are, which would kill their valuation
Printer Friendly [1] is useful in sites like this.

It removes all formatting, making it easy to read (and print, save to PDF, etc). And if you're printing or saving, you can easily delete blocks of content (like photos, diagrams, etc).

Strongly recommended. You can use either a bookmarklet or install the browser extension.

[1] https://www.printfriendly.com/

edit: seems this site traps mouse scrolls, so you can't scroll the page when using PF. What a shitty implementation! It works well saving to PDF tho.
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> The problem was essentially people pushing the gas when they thought they were on the brakes

Oh dear no. Certainly not.

Read https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_...

My favourite part from is, "Watchdog kicked by a hardware timer service routine".

A watchdog timer is a piece of hardware that decrements a counter every microsecond or similar. The control system's main loop, running on the CPU, "kicks" the watchdog by setting the counter to a value like 1000 each iteration. The result is that if the CPU fails to execute the main loop often enough, the watchdog will "fire". This a) tells you that you have a bug and b) typically reboots the system so it has a chance to recover.

Toyota used a timer service routine to kick the watchdog. This defeats the purpose of the watchdog. The control software can happily get stuck or crash and the watchdog will not notice. The fact that an engineer added this "feature" tells you that the watchdog was firing in development. That should have been addressed by fixing the buggy software, not by disabling the test.

The fact that the disabled watchdog made it into the production release is unforgivable.
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When does the next batch of YC applications open up? I'd like to introduce TestTrack - Autonomous vehicle certification as a service. State (and federal) governments collaborate with us to develop a certification plan that AV makers must pass before being allowed to operate in their state. With a plan in hand, AV makers and state reps meet at one of our regional test tracks to implement the custom tests. Obstacle avoidance, braking distance, driving in snow, heat, rain, all the scenarios. If you can dream up a test, we can make it happen. Once satisfied the tests have passed, we certify the vehicle and its software. We create a signing key and sign the software, which is then allowed to be deployed to the maker's vehicles. The state is given a device that they can use to audit a vehicle's software during routine checks and of course during the investigation of any incidents. We're still working on our pricing tiers and we might reconsider the name.
Such an excellent book, so many out-there ideas. My favourite is the idea that, since it takes resources to process information, an alien species might construe our ceaseless blathering into the void as aggressive action, a sort of lame DOS attack.
This is just a rant about 401ks that doesn't have anything in particular to do with Berkshire.

Personally, I've never seen a 401k that lacked an index fund option. I'm sure they exist, but I highly doubt it's the norm.

One little law requiring company benefit managers to act as fiduciaries w.r.t. retirement plans would end this silliness right quick though.
Well, I do feel like I've been had after that and a few other videos, so thank you for that.

My point though, is that I don't want self driving cars to defeat simulations or tests, I want self driving cars that can react to real driving conditions.
I hope the original paper can help: http://wexler.free.fr/library/files/chernoff%20(1973)%20the%...
Aside from other questions, in what way does this mid-level management position wherein one is constantly surveiled a "dream job"? Ah, because the employers only hire people who claim it's their dream job? Because mostly a simple unfair firing situation wouldn't get the outrage it deserved unless the situation would flogged someone losing their dream job?

None of the rhetoric inflation involved is the fault of this unfairly fired guy but it is an unfortunate sign of today.
Oh, I'm sure a lawyer was involved for both, but different lawyers in different situations are going to have different opinions.
Ask a machine code programmer about this...
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Nobody really knew about that until the yeeet was liked by the Marriott corporate account, so in a sense you’re right but the ‘like’ was the proximate cause of the firestorm.
The Shakers were a sick culture?

Modern society literally worships children, so you don't have to worry.

Or, as George Carlin puts it, "bunch of diaper sniffers."
If one wants to start a new social network, open source or not, or any other product dependent on network effects, they have to market it appropriately. You have to segment the market, and work your way out. The open competitors up until now haven't realized that.
Well actually the parking lots are especially difficult due to lack of eye contact.

But I get your point.

People compensate by being very careful when parking and of course you can always roll down your window if the situation requires it.

A robotic vechile simply couldn't manage here. There are way too many dynamic human exceptions. For example, it's common to drive against traffic on the wrong side of the road for short distances since the intersections are so far apart.
Haven't you noticed? In the 21st century everything's amazing!
no not 10x again
I’m not sure Tiebtan independence is a problem that Marriott can solve.
I love Riot, and I''d be delighted for it to become popular. I'd also be shocked. They don't have the media-savvy or corporate power I suppose.
Even if it wasn't an accident -- even if he saw the Tweet, and on behalf of Marriott and in full intention of broadcasting such, he clicked "Like" on this tweet, it's completely insane he would be fired for it. The tweet exhibits a positive sentiment. I would not expect most people to know that this sentiment matters to China.

This is another example of China exerting influence on the open web, and it's shameful that we have ceded leadership to China like this.