skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Subaru with EyeSight and it does strange things sometimes. For example, if I happen to be in the left (passing) lane going around a leftward curve and a car in the right lane is stopping or slowing to turn right, the Subaru will hit the brakes because due to the curve of the road, the right lane car is straight ahead. It's scared me a few times.

The other thing about the system that sucks is that it's all optical (AFAIK) so when visibility is poor, it shuts off. They need to add more sensors because those are the conditions I would most like an extra set of eyes.
Yeah, except for the fact that I have one in my room and I haven't desired a night light for about 30 years.
That's fair. For instance, company stores in mining towns were clearly designed to trap employees into a lifetime of debt with almost no personal choice in the matter.

It's the choice aspect I focus on. No one is forcing them, and it's borderline elitist of someone with a nice job to say "that's gross work and I think it should go away so things are less gross", along the lines of thinking families straddling the poverty line should simply "eat more quality food"
Sikhs worship Shakti and Gurunanak makes references, even praises, "Hindu" gods, ideas, and symbols. Does that make them Hindus as well?

Furthermore, you do agree that Dharma isn't just a religious term. Right?

But I do agree with you on appropriation. Indians need to own the term, and define what it is, so that Sanskritic/Indic terms used in the west are well defined. In that sense a sort of sanskritization* of English can take place, just as there's a latinization of Indian languages.
I hope at least one human being in touch with him tells Travis that he is directly responsible for the death of a fellow human being. The person that died deserves at least that few seconds of remorse.
Except for the speed argument.
For AngularDart projects: the current compiler (ddc) takes minutes to warm up and since it keeps all assets in memory, is quite memory hungry as well. The new incremental build tools are much nicer to use (store assets on disk), and a lot faster after the first build, but still nowhere near sub-second.
For me I think it's because music is a hobby I care a lot about, and I'd like the "option but not the obligation" to easily improve my experience. I've tried a bunch of other music players over the years (on the go, Plexamp seems the most promising in the "access and play all the weird formats in my music collection anywhere in the world, look nice, and get out of my way" category) but I keep coming back to foobar2000 for the sheer capability and flexibility to tweak how I manage and interact with my music every day.
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This software, and these development processes. The baby may not need to be thrown out with Uber's crappy bathwater.
Are you aware of https://github.com/SaturnFramework/Saturn

?

It's what the S in safe is actually meant to be, not suave. It's very similar, in heart anyways, to phoenix.

The fsharp community is fighting what is essentially an uphill battle. We have ML but we've got to jump through dotnet hoops to get shit done.

One man's cruft is another man's feature.

I doubt ionide will support SAFE, but maybe they will have a sister plugin? Idk how all that works.
The hilarious thing is that they already had the exact tool you describe: stickied posts.

They removed the "stickied posts" feature when r/the_donald .... I wanna say "abused the feature", but the truth is that they used the feature exactly as intended and the result was a front page full of Pro-Trump posts. Reddit didn't like that. So they removed Stickied posts and forced innocent mods like this dude from r/science to come up with innovative ways to highlight posts (such as deleting other posts).

I'm completely on the side of the mod here because Reddit keeps removing useful features whenever people they don't like (Trump supporters) use them too. The mod is just caught in the crossfire between the admins and Trump supporters and he's doing his best to make sure his best posts stay visible.

This is just another shitty move on the part of Reddit. Steve Huffman's wife's boyfriend is gonna be so pissed when he finds out !!!
I think you're missing some context on the difference between CPUs and ASICs in terms of PoW algo design and hardware cost&distribution.

Again with monero because it's pertinent to your point, I would encourage you to read up on its design goals, and the discussions around the recent PoW algo change on github or Reddit.
>If there was an Alexa in my place of residence, I would rip it out of the wall, smash it to bits with a hammer, and fire it out of a cannon into the sun.

You may consider disposing of the bits at Kilauea instead of the sun. It would be almost the same and much more affordable.
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I'd caution at avoidance of over-extrapolation.

UBER software is nowhere near ready to drive cars on real roads. There are multiple competitors in this space (Waymo and Argo immediately come to mind); they don't generally have Uber's reputation of "move fast and break things" or of "cut human costs as soon as feasible."

In my initial assessment, I was reasoning the other direction---from practices I was familiar with from stories of those companies to Uber---and falsely assumed Uber was behaving more responsibly than they were. This Uber tragedy doesn't significanly update my prior assumptions about its competitors.
If there's a point where the cost of sustaining life during cryosleep goes to a fraction of the real returns on some modest investment vehicle like a mutual fund, I'd expect some of that social change would include economic disruption as thousands if not millions of people attempt to improve their lives with a century or so of compounded returns...
-I am quite possibly a bit slow here, but can anyone please explain how keeping the iPhone boxes out of reach of customers somehow gets Apple off the hook?

I am honestly puzzled as I am typing this on my non-bent, company-issue iPhone 6.
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PIR sensors can tell you whether there are people (or pets) in a room. Never tried one, but they should work pretty well.
Without data to back it up, your reasonable confidence doesn't help me much.
a. the self-driving system software classified the pedestrian as an unknown object, as a vehicle, and then as a bicycle with varying expectations of future travel path

All of those things are bad things to hit, why not slow down?

b. 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that
an emergency braking maneuver was needed

Too late for either a human or computer.

c. operator is responsible for monitoring diagnostic messages

There is superseding responsibility to drive the car safely. Uber's policy sets up the test driver for failure, and puts people's lives at risk.

d. emergency braking maneuvers are not enabled while the vehicle is under computer control

The pedestrian had no chance.

The very feature that should make the car safer was disabled, but also the judgement was poor and too late, and Uber policy sabotaged the car driver judgement as the exclusive (not merely primary) safety mechanism by distracting them with data that in most every way would have been more diverting than talking on a cell phone or fiddling with the radio.

I hope the family got a lot of money in the settlement.
I don’t know their internals but from that report it looks like their recognition system is probabilistic and routinely hops back and forth between “car collision RED ALERT!” and “lol there’s no problem”. If it were to randomly slam on its breaks every other second then it would cause all kinds of other accidents.
Never get in the way of web devs inflated egos when they're ranting about things which are vastly outside their scope of expertise. Bitcoin is a trigger word for the HN community and unless you're using every big word to insinuate it's a scam, then you'll get downvoted/ridiculed.

You're absolutely right by the way, libor rates have been rigged for decades and governments simply "fine" companies doing it. A simple google search will bring up sources for this claim.
Most of Nevada is downright uninhabitable or very close to uninhabitable and resource poor. It’s mostly owned by the US government and completely barren of water and plant life. Basically, it’s as though the great disaster were an everyday thing-and actually somewhat stable in its constant dry heat. Pretty sure it was largely that way in pre-US times.
Not here, not the way tether is set up. Its claim is that its peg is concrete and reliable in the way a floating peg is not, because every tether is backed by a real dollar in a bank account, and in theory is redeemable.

Take a look at their homepage.
I loved The Martian, and I had never caught this on HN before.

Thank you to OP for reposting once again. That is a fantastic story. Really wonderful.

I'd never seen his site. I'll be sure to read more, now.
Yeah and Papermaster being made scapegoat despite the issue mostly being Apple UI overestimating signal strength to the end user... but yeah, you be holding it wrong.
Wow that’s a lot to pay for this kind of thing. Maybe I’m the minority on here but I watch Tech shows on YouTube. Linus Sebastian is quite popular on there. He has been recommending https://www.privateinternetaccess.com and their prices are lower.
Obviously I'm being facetious.

But there is a hilarity of, on one hand being privacy centric, and with the other hand, planting a listening device in ones home.
Very interesting as I used to do OpenFOAM parallel runs years ago on x86. Do you have any links to OpenFOAM benchmarks on ARM64?
I agree with you completely, and spent a lot of time in the past decade reading around 80000 Hours, Giving What We Can, Peter Singer, etc. But I do think there are other forms of suffering, for example severe mental suffering that co-occurs with extreme addiction-related problems, combined with poverty conditions that are surprisingly quite bad, even on a world scale, in parts of the US. In general, I think far too little attention is paid to the way overall quality of life degrades in the presence of psychological trauma. You can have plenty of first world resources and still be living one of the worst lives on the planet, in terms of experienced suffering.

My comment was couched in terms of creature comforts that we have in most parts of the first world, but that's not necessarily the specific standard I'm advocating for, and the more general idea is just that people towards the left of the distribution should never be made to feel like they "shouldn't have" the comforts further to the right -- basically that we all should see progress as somewhat tied to both driving the mean to the right, and reducing the variance so that people at least in the far left tail are continuously brought closer to the far right tail.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/09/origin-wireless-motion-d...

Not only can you detect motion and objects through physical mass using WiFi spectrum with a properly equipped device, you can detect if someone is breathing.

“What's more, this "Time Reversal Machine" technology is essentially just some clever algorithmic work with little burden on the processor, so it can potentially be added to any existing WiFi mesh routers via a firmware update. In other words, security system vendors should take note.”
The number of occurrences of "break" in place of "brake" in this discussion is very disconcerting.
Interesting. I check HN daily since its beginning, but I cannot remember reading The Egg.
Humans cannot react fast enough. There was just 1.3 seconds allowed. Drivers ed teaches 2 second following distance for a reason: it takes you most of that time to realize there is a problem and get your foot on the brake. In the best case a human would just hit the "okay to stop" button as the accident happened.

Of course cars cannot change speed instantly anyway - it is likely that even if the button was hit in time the accident was still unavoidable at 1.3 seconds. The car should have been slowing down hard long before it knew what the danger was. (I haven't read the report - it may or may not have been possible for the computer to avoid the accident)
The thing is whether we assume the behavior in question is bad.

I expect people in the EU still want to make murder illegal even if it "moves it to China"; they don't want it in their backyard.

Did the people of the EU really not want cryptocurrency in their backyard? Maybe they didn't, and this is all working as intended. I'm not sure they intended this side-effect. "Right to be forgotten" may not be something one actually wants to apply to questions like "Where did the mafia get all this money?", even if we want to apply it to other spaces (which is why "follow the money" is so often a useful technique for piercing obfuscatory smokescreens in other data sets).

(Personal bias disclosure: I'm also kind of expecting they're going to find the costs of the GDPR outweigh the benefits in general in the next five to ten years, but I might discover I'm mistaken).
How about steel springs? Rubber bands? Weights hoisted on cables?
Yeah, pretty much. It's likely that the device heard something like "Alexa, send a note to Enrique" and then recorded and sent the subsequent note to the matching contact that it found. The microfailure is that it either failed to respond to the user in a way that was clear, or did it in a way that the user didn't notice (I dunno, volume all the way down? Output to a bluetooth speaker or headphone jack that wasn't audible?). And that can be fixed.

The macrofailure, though, is that you have a device just guessing at what you want and doing it. That can't be fixed without going back to manually constructed (or at least manually triggered) notifications. Which for "send a note" might be an obvious fix, sure, but there is a lot of gray area in what constitutes "privacy" and Alexa would be pretty useless if you had to affirmatively OK everything it did.
Then I'd assume it's a playlist, and some tracks are just longer than others.
Sure, as I said it sounds pretty risky (for many reasons), I’m just saying that it does happen and st least has a possibility of anonymity.
Better yet, let the user pick a confirmation word (kinda like a 'safe word'), or choose one at random from a list of moderately complex but well known words that are unlikely to be uttered in casual conversation.

To send this message to John Smith, say 'artichoke'.
> You're effectively required to grok all of JS, Reason, Bucklescript, and OCaml at once, and draw from all of them to piece together your code.

This was my experience as well. Also, while it may theoretically be possible to compile native code with reason, the core focus of reasonml is javascript frontend development at the moment.

> On the native side, since Reason's just a syntax transform: yes, they work with Reason too. But the native workflow is currently work-in-progress and needs polish.

https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/faq.html
> Think every intersection ever, every time driving near a sidewalk ever. The car would be herky/jerky as crap.

I'm not sure that'd be a huge issue. The vectors have to be intersecting first of all, which most vectors emanating from sidewalks wouldn't be, and then a little hysteresis would smooth out most of the rest.
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> I have this idea of a system I would like to have in my house. It contains cameras in every room that are constantly watching where people are and relaying the coordinates to a central server. That server makes decisions on if lights should be on or if A/C should be running in that room. But I would never buy this system. I would have to make it myself. I am hopeful that open source software and hardware can produce individual components that I can trust to piece together.

You don't need cameras for that, just motion sensors.

> That server makes decisions on if lights should be on...in that room.

You don't need a server for that, just a motion-sensing switch. They can be totally offline. My office has them to shut off lights automatically when a conference room becomes unoccupied.

https://www.homedepot.com/b/Electrical-Wiring-Devices-Light-...

It can get annoying if you're not moving much, but the key point is: no camera or server required.

> That server makes decisions on...if A/C should be running in that room.

Ecobee thermostats can already do that using motion/temperature sensors. They run fine without an internet connection.

https://www.ecobee.com/room-sensors/
It's digital data that's covered by GDPR, so a bricks and mortar outfit with solely paper records wouldn't be affected.
Luck is a factor, but usually a small one. I certainly do not agree that it's a major component. But let's say for the sake of discussion, that it is. Just because life isn't fair doesn't mean someone else should be able to vote themselves money from your wallet or command a portion of your labor.
>Edit: unless the code within the emulator is trying to run the BIOS within an emulator of its own. Turtles all the way down...

Common with the VGA BIOS BTW.
$1 changed hands, but the trading volume is $3.

There's a lot of speculation that this sort of "wash trading" happens in Bitcoin - some exchanges permit buying/selling to yourself, which lets someone boost both price and volume trivially.
Buying - email in profile.

No bs.

Traffic/revenue figures from last three months.

Send me the url to the site as well, please.

No mobile apps.
There's always the Amazon Appstore. And with an open-source Android variant, you could restrict apps that demand over-reaching permissions, including the Amazon Appstore itself.
"Thanks! I wrote The Egg in an evening but it took years to write The Martian. Sometimes I'm a little sad that The Martian wasn't anywhere near as popular, but I guess it's a niche readership. Hard sci-fi isn't for everyone."

That's great!
Why not post the original Cisco report. This article barely grazes over the topic
I'd guess that "unknown objects" happen all the time - it seems like that's the default until something is classified, so tire scrap or plastic bag would also fall into that category. If the car slowed down every time it saw one it would never get anywhere, it should only slow if the object gets classified as something you can't hit and is clearly in the path of the vehicle. Seems like that decision happened too late here, requiring emergency braking... which was disabled (!).
> Which is why Britain has the NHS.

Sure! But the NHS is effectively becoming "care for the old and everyone else can shift for themselves" in a lot of ways. And there are plenty of other ways that the social safety net in the UK (to say nothing of other places Deliveroo et al. operate, like the United States) is being sabotaged--council housing is shrinking, when it's not catching on fire, etc.

> And that's a net positive, because regulation is far less effective than entitlements.

Completely agreed. But political forces exist to trash them, so...welp.
Yeah, the skill may not be (and I'm sure it wasn't) intended to that, but it did, in fact, do it. Intentions don't really matter after the fact.

It's a mistake, but it's a pretty bad one.
At my house, we have blinds installed on every window, and every evening I go around the house, pressing 12 switches (2 for every blind, because UX is obviously optional) so it's perfectly dark in the bedroom. In the morning, I go around the house and press those 12 switches again, to let the sunshine in. Now that's a task I would love to automate!

Alas, remote controlling those blinds would be a major hassle since AFAIK I would have to install 6 wifi-enabled devices and tear holes everywhere (not even sure there is a powerline near) - and likely do all the programming myself. Thanks but no thanks.
Or just slow down a lot. The fatality is a way lower at 18mph than it is at 43mph.

https://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/specialist/knowle...
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I am very skeptical of this person's claim.
Do you have a cellphone? That would be much more valuable to target than a home speaker. Likely easier at this point too.
I'm surprised it doesn't support anonymisation of IP adresses. That would be pretty much the first feature I'd implement.
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Submitted vs. making front-page are two different things, so it looks like 2010 would of been the only other time it would of been there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=galactanet.com
Might be cool to add thermal sensors to that, so the lights don't shut off because you're not moving enough.
It's absurd to me that someone would wire up "every room in their house" with internet connected microphones (in a technology that is still in it's infancy!) and then claim you felt like your privacy was "invaded". At best, it's a Trojan Horse, but the naivety here is astounding. Of course your Echo shouldn't send out private conversations, and it looks like a legitimate bug occurred. But man, the buy-now think-later mindset some people have is worrying.
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Most SOHO routers are built using either a Linux kernel where it is part of the netfilter (firewall) module or VxWorks where it is part of the Firewall subsystem.

It's like saying the chart builder in Excel isn't part of Excel because it's not the spreadsheet editor.
In some ways, this type of solution assumes one to be a young person, without obligations like e.g. a newborn to take care of, or types of mental illness that might make it untenable to like in a dorm-like environment further into adulthood.

For people who can sustain this situation, it does offer ways to have a higher quality of life even on a low salary. But a lot of people have families to raise and personal situations to manage that are fundamentally incompatible with it, requiring them to afford other living arrangements, creating a bigger stress factor upon on their budget.
Isn't the person actually driving the car supposed to be driving the car?

I've ridden in these self driving Ubers. When I rode in one, the driver drove almost the entire time, except on a few straight stretches of road. They always had their hands ready to grab the wheel, were always attending to what was happening etc.

It seems like the marketing and the engineering got crossed here. Marketing says these were self driving, but anybody who rode in them knew they weren't. They were supposed to be getting driven by real drivers. From the report, it sounds like the drivers were listening to the marketing instead of the engineering team (who presumably would have told them that the system doesn't brake on its own).

It sounds like the real driver wasn't driving as they were supposed to be. From the video, it looked like they were reading something on their phone[1] instead of driving the car.

Compare this to a pilot flying in an autopilot. They don't shut their radios off and stop paying attention to the flight, they still fly the airplane and remain attentive to what is happening with it. That's what this driver should have been doing, not looking at their phone.

It frustrates me that this level of negligence could set self driving tech, something that will save countless lives, back. This was the Chernobyl moment for self driving tech. It's safer than alternatives, but now this is all people are associating it with.

[1]:the driver states that they were interacting with the Uber self driving system, not their phone.
The state of SOHO router security is pretty sad. Sure, most of those infected were probably unpatched, possibly had remote-admin pages enabled, or were using default credentials but... why is it even possible to open the remote admin interface with default passwords?

Why don't they all auto-update by default for critical vulnerabilities?