skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. We covered ELM a few weeks ago: https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/elm-javascript-reinvente...
Controlling your devices with voice is nice and I can totally understand people wanting it .. it is just that you don't have real control over it.

And about tapped .. well, I don't consider any conversation as private, when there is a Smartphone around.
As developers, we use 'programmed' in that manner all the time, to mean what we were trying to get it to do rather than what it actually does.
I think we can assume there was a light here. It's almost happened to me before. Alexa disastrously misinterprets an ambient conversation as "start transcribing and send to one of my contacts". During this, the light does blink to indicate it's gobbling up your input. You just wouldn't know to look for it if you didn't even know you'd activated the device.
I looked at my bill. I pay $140 per month for cable and internet. Actual bill is $181. So more like 30%.
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Yes, but this is in an article about people being captured by facial recognition surveillance. It appears to contradict itself. Maybe it's a typo?
Glad to hear from you, thanks for the clarification. I agree this feature was becoming more and more of a niche as the reverse-proxy market evolves along with K8s and the whole ecosystem. I really liked the simplicity of this Runscope product ;-)
Can you explain a bit more. What was the context of the message? was it an email? What was the subject line and the text? Was the audio an attachment or a link? A link to where...?

"Amazon sent me a message" is so frustratingly vague...
I can tell your analysis isn’t serious because it’s so absolute.
What is great is you get to chose. We have several Google homes in our house and they are used daily by my family.

Saved my butt two days ago. Son graduation was at an arena in the city and walking by the GH and asked drive time to find over 2x than normal.

Apparently a MLB baseball game that started 15 minutes after his graduation start time.

Usually traffic is out of the city not in. Thanks to Google made it in time. What is also cool is the arena name is a hard name to pronounce as named after someone who gave money to the University yet Google still got it on first try. Alexa and Siri can't handle such things.

But have zero problem with you not wanting one as it is a personal choice.
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The detection at 6 seconds was just of an object though, not an object moving in to the car's path. You couldn't drive a car if you had to constantly break because objects (such as people standing by the road) were being detected.

It's not clear at what point the car ascertained a collision would occur between detection 6s before and the determination that emergency breaking was necessary 1.3 seconds before.

Was there any other determination in between, and when? What I'd like to see is Uber's modelling of the woman's trajectory and the likeliness of collision across the 6 second window. That's completely left unsaid.

The average braking distance of a car is about 24m at 40mph, which is approximately the distance between the woman and the car at 1.3 seconds out. So perhaps the 1.3s figure wasn't the first moment the car determined a brake was necessary, but rather, the last moment the car could have braked to prevent a substantial collision. I want to know the first moment the car determined a brake was necessary at all. It's likely not 6s, but it's also likely not 1.3 seconds. It seems this was entirely preventable, or at least the collision impact could have been mitigated severely, had there been a braking and/or warning system in place.

Shutting off brakes on literally the only driving agent tasked with full attention is inexcusable. But that's what they did. To me that's murder. They used to have two passengers, one for tagging circumstantial data, the other to override the car when necessary and keep eyes on the road at all times. Either keep that and shut off emergency brakes from the car and put a warning system in place for the 'driver'. Or do not shut off emergency brakes. Instead they put a single person in the car, tasked to do things that kept her eyes off the road half of the time, and shut off brakes for the AI. That's insane.
If an electrical contractor doesn’t have sufficient liability insurance for this sort of event, they probably deserve bankruptcy.

An employer has a moral duty to ensure the wellbeing of their employees and organisation by applying foresight and minimising risks, and covering unavoidable risks with insurance.

In my book, the responsibility sits firmly with the employer - not another business who had a contract with that employer, and a reasonable expectation that that employer would be adequately competent and insured.

If anything, there was a failure on Tesla’s behalf around due diligence.

If the law disagrees with me, so be it - but it seems unreasonable.
> It's possible that this project is Uber's last ditch effort at existing, in which case there would be enormous pressure on everyone to make self-driving work at any cost.

If you're an engineer at Uber and you're facing this kind of pressure that's causing you to take safety shortcuts, walk away. Go work somewhere else.

Real engineers are responsible for their decisions they can't just defer personal responsibility to management.

If you build a bridge you know is unsafe because the company you work for will go under if it doesn't get built, it's still your fault when the bridge fails and kills people.

Walk away.
People who use these "microphones" are idiots. They are right on up there with the people that give away their DNA to web companies.
yeah it's still off-putting.

I haven't used a smartphone in years. Looking back on the days when I did use a smartphone, there was always this tiny fear in the back of my head that maybe I'd pocket-dialed someone and they'd be able to hear my conversation. It actually had a subtle chilling effect.

The Hawthorne effect (which discusses how people react to being observed) seems to be especially relevant nowadays as there's a real possibility that we're being recorded at any time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

It's actually a big theme in 1984 where the mere possibility that you were being listened to via telescreen was enough to keep you in line and influence your behavior.
Candidates seem to appreciate it. It saves everyone time when something like salary expectations are clearly out of alignment.

I've been using this approach for the last 2-3 years and I have found it to be successful (across 2 companies) and worth the extra effort. I haven't received any negative feedback about our process (which I don't take to mean there isn't any or the process is perfect) and I haven't regretted any of the hires we've made (probably around 12 in total). Even when I have to send out a rejection notice, I often get thanked by the candidate for it.

One other important point is that I've worked with management and my team to constantly refine and improve our process. Their buy-in is critical and I feel it needs to be an agile process just like our software development process.
I didn't know this, thank you for mentioning it. I shop at Kroger pretty often and have never considered buying cheese or charcuterie there since it seemed like it might be bad, guess I was quite a ways off the mark.
Depends on the target site. With half a million routers you could cause problems to 99% of sites out there. The percentage of websites that could handle 500k concurrent connections is very small.
You ever butt dial someone? Should all cell phones be outlawed?

I'd say the Echo needs to have a more difficult activation routine available. Maybe have the option of setting the wake word to "Alexa, can you please" or something similarly long and unlikely to appear in normal conversation.

Also, I wonder if they had their wake word set to "Computer". I did that once, and quickly reverted after so many false activations.
Even more egregious that the governor, Doug Ducey, was happy to issue executive orders to waive any safety oversight to allow Uber to put the public at risk in the first place.[0]

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/emails-show-arizona-...
Except that it almost by definition employs fewer people, so the people hypothetically employed by #2 may prefer it to the unemployment of #1
The idea that cable providers can raise prices to compensate for lost TV revenue is predicated on the assumption that there are no alternatives. That assumption ignores just how much bandwidth 5G gives you to play with.

All of the major cell carriers are already offering unlimited internet with SD video streaming. My older son doesn't have home internet service at all. He streams everything either from his phone or his PS4 and tethers from his phone. That's good enough for him.

Right now, people pay $150+ for a package with all the TV channels, while you can get the broadband for $50 or so

I pay $70 a month for AT&T's gigabit internet and on top of that I pay $35 for DirecTVNow and $12 a month for Hulu without commercials. I would be paying $13 a month for Netflix, but it is free with T-mobile.

The actual price of TV service is a wash. I won't go back to TV via the cable company because of the BS fees -- cable box rental (for us it would be $50), Broadcast Access, Sports Access, Regulatory fees (that aren't mandatory government fees) add up to another $80.

On top of that DirecTVNow+Hulu is a lot more flexible. We can watch from anywhere. That's a big deal for my wife. She has a split shift and when she isn't at the gym she can catch up on TV on her phone.
I don't think that is right. My understanding is that they didn't HAVE to turn the built-in safety features of the Volvo off to make it work, but instead they had to in order to test their equivalent safety feature. If they have a feature that exactly mimics Volvo's, it can't be tested while Volvo's is active (or at least that is the idea, I think it probably could be tested in some way.)

But then they turned their own safety feature off, because it failed to be as good as Volvo's. And then did not turn Volvo's feature back on.
That pocket computer also has all the same potential threats to privacy. Somehow nobody cares about them, though.
I feel that while these devices are great in principal, there still needs to be work done on whether the "trigger word" activation is the best way to enable them. Maybe we need longer / more complex trigger words? Maybe there's a different way we can activate them alltogether, avoiding the "always listening" problem?
Wait, why is that an improvement? If there is a 1 to 1 mapping of url to website, splitting it into two tables is just bad database design.
Sure. QE is buying stock with printed money, inflating stock prices. People with lots of stocks get inflated value. When the inflated value leaves the stock market, it has an effect of deflating the value of the USD. It's a slow inflationary method of distributing public funds to the rich in the stock market, while creating market manipulation tools to coerce stock-driven companies into essentially being proxy government entities, since a large percentage of their value can be decided with 'monetary policy'(leading to things like google's pentagon drone ai collaboration).

I also believe SV companies are lining up to IPO because of this blank check.
Anyone who believes the American drone program is not unethical has a seriously skewed moral compass, and I would not trust to be in the same room with.

Our drone program is a massive-scale assassination program with little to no concern for innocent fatalities. It's death toll upon innocent civilians far exceeds the September 11th attacks on our country that precipitated it's creation. And it has killed hundreds of children.

Our country has gotten enough bloodthirsty revenge.
Possibly because the driver gets alert fatigue and starts ignoring them after so many false positives.

But then again these systems also make people lazy when the vehicle drives perfectly 99% of the time...
Your bias is showing. Uber didn’t release anything. They left the entire narrative to the police and the NTSB.
Yeah only druggies J-walk.
In loaves of bread, in liters of milk, in months of rent, gigabytes of internet, square feet of land, kilowatts of electricity; in i7s and shitty steam games and iPhones. I care about the price of 1 dollar in the labor I put in, and the goods I get out.
I live in a particular neighborhood in a particular large US city, and our subreddit is a really useful source of local info.
That’s about all we use ours for

“Alexa... play white noise”

“ALEXA... stop”
Flow batteries are looking pretty good. Costs are coming down, and the very high (some say unlimited) cycle life could give an advantage over Li-ion for stationary applications.

On the other hand, used Li-ion from electric vehicles could be so widely available that they also win for stationary storage.

Interesting times.
> expectation in customers' minds that the device is always listening

If, even with that expectation, enough people still use "voice assistant" technology for a judge to consider the tech to be "in general public use"[1], the bright line test defined by Kyllo v United States is triggered and the police no longer need a warrant to use the technology (in the abstract - they don['t need to use your hardware) to view "details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion"[2].

Normalizing the expectation that previously private areas (like the inside of your home) might be recorded and sent to a remote 3rd party will eventually result in everyone losing some of their 4th amendment protection against search and seizure.

[1] http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/533/27.html

[2] Ibid.
Yes, IIRC that is mentioned in PG's blog post: Beating the Averages.
There are low wage industries that overwhelmingly employ illegal immigrants and legal immigrants. Those industries would need to raise wages and improve working conditions if immigration were curtailed.

I’m not advocating a position on immigration itself. Just stating one possible consequence of curtailing immigration.
I agree completely. Being able to say things out loud and have things happen is cool I guess. However, that doesn't mean I want to give all my data away and it to be stored in some black box on the Internet. I want control of my data.
It makes sense from a business perspective; their current core competency is mainly "blazing through VC money at an astounding rate". Uber's only shot at approaching any kind of profitability is from self-driving technology advancing to a point where they can cut out their biggest costs, namely, people.
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Why do you want to turn on white noise?
I feel the same way sometimes. There's something about planes - if you're in an aisle seat you can see everything a person in front of you is doing, but it's next to impossible to know if they're looking.

My preferred solution is to drink a couple of beers while I play, I forget quickly!
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Thank you for helping me put into words what bothers me about crypto currency. We’ve deployed an AP algorithm for financial transactions. That’s not fixable.
Yet another reason in favour of professional engineers being required to design and implement safety-critical features using software: because "move fast, and break things" becomes unacceptable when those "things" are the lives of living, breathing people.
The global village has already brought back the ancient tradition of witch hunts; looking forward to the blessings which will come along with being spied on by powerful panopticons instead of village gossips!
Aston Martin doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to support the demand for an Apple car. If there's anything that Tesla has proven, it's that moving from the low-volume luxury segment to high-volume is Really Hard. And while Apple products are very much luxury products, they're still luxury products produced at high volume and marketed to the mass market.
> That pocket computer also has all the same potential threats to privacy. Somehow nobody cares about them, though.

This is just whataboutism.

We can complain about Amazon in a thread about Amazon without having to tackle a whole different issue.
Comcast owns NBC and bunch of cable companies. If you watch any of the networks they own or if you wtch anything produced by Universal, they are still making money from you.
Without knowing I would assume IPFS is built on TCP, wouldn't that be an issue?
> If I create a billion 'FOOCoins' and sell one to a friend for $1, FOOCoin now has a 1 billion market cap, but only a single dollar has changed hands. He sells it back to me for $2, now FOOCoin has a cap of $2 billion! With only $3 having changed hands.

Only $1 has changed hands in this.
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> If you can't give your "self-driving software" full access to the brakes because it becomes an "erratic driver"

You misunderstood. The Uber software had sole control of the brakes (plus the human of course). The Volvo factory system was disabled so that it didn’t have negative interaction with the Uber system.

Your mistake is understandable. The article was poorly written, perhaps due to a rush to publish, as is the norm these days. Even if the NTSB report was unclear, that doesn’t excuse clumsy reporting.

If you’ve ever done significant mileage in a car with an emergency braking system you probably have experienced seemingly random braking events. The systems favor false positives over false negatives.
You are missing the point. Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash use the same hash algorithm. Bitcoin Cash has about 15% of the total available SHA256 hashpower, and Bitcoin the other 85%. So it only take's a fraction of Bitcoin's miners to turn against Bitcoin Cash to attack it.
> I don't consider any conversation as private, when there is a Smartphone around.

Is there nothing you've ever said about anybody while in the vicinity of a smartphone that you wouldn't have said to their face?
It's worse than that (and, I think, mendaciously so). YouTube tries to steer you towards the highest-viewed, most popular stuff on whatever very narrow vertical you're in...or a vertical that their algorithms have decided is nearby. Which is why you see people--mostly kids--going from videos about video games to videos about how the feminisms are taking away our video games to the feminisms are destroying Western society to straight-up white-supremacist agitprop.

Reddit is by no means clean; they just don't care about, as opposed to actively facilitate, this stuff. But you're right in that there are deep problems on YouTube, too.
Interesting. I had heard that cosmic rays are how "real" programmers do it. Perhaps there is something to that after all.

https://xkcd.com/378/
I'm not dismissing that talent, I'm pointing it out.
The jump from Typescript/Flow to ReasonML is as significant (or more so) than the jump from plain JavaScript to Typescript/Flow.
Of course: convenience!

Mankind has made countless decisions to trade convenience for some degree of personal freedom. I can live without mobile internet - its just so convenient to have it. Voice control for home appliances is exactly the same.
The last ReactJS project I was working on ended up with libraries such as Ramda, ImmubtableJS, recompose, etc, in order to make the codebase more functional... We also switched to TypeScript for the type-system. While these libs improved the overall experience, it never came close to what you get from a proper functional language. I'm currently working on a frontend that uses ReasonReact and it feels much smoother.

> Honest question: why would someone use this instead of React?

The libraries I mentioned have __a_lot__ of stars on github, I'm sure many people using them, those might be better off with ReasonML.

I hope ReasonML will succeed and the ecosystem catches up. ReasonML is the fucntional general purpose language I always wanted. If they get the concurrency story right it might become a nice functional alternative to Golang as well.
It's pretty clear to me that this was an inadvertent activation of the call skill. The equivalent of butt-dialing someone from your phone. I get random voicemails from people all the time that are clearly recordings of their phone in their pocket.

If that's the case, then you need to provide additional features to reduce the chances of this happening. Longer and more unique wake word options, or more complex and deliberate confirmations before the call is placed. Something that a user can enable if they're worried about this sort of thing.
Water is pressurized. However, it is not compressed. That's an important distinction.
Plenty of poorly managed companies are still able to stay in business despite economic downturns because they have inertia.

Not to mention that, businesses going under means people without jobs. Lots of businesses going under at the same time means lots of people without jobs, and fewer companies able to take them on. That's a bad thing, no matter how you slice it.
If it were going to be forked, then it would already have been forked. The unethical nature of Facebook is not well-hidden.
> I can see plenty of people in the valley being rich enough and crazy enough to stasis themselves so they can see the future and reap its benefits.

Invest money in stocks, bonds and the like and automatically reinvest dividends. Sleep for 10-20 years, wake up in a potentially better financial position.
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It can help babies sleep. Supposedly it simulates the noise in the womb
I'm not sure it matters, because going from disengaged to fully engaged and actually breaking to a stop in 1.3s is not happening for an average human. By the time the system alerts the driver, the ped is already dead.
Is that enough?

I think it's very clear that a human driving a normal vehicle is different from a human sitting at the wheel of a self-driving (semi-self-driving?) vehicle. You simply cannot expect a human to remain as engaged and attentive in such a passive situation.

It's baffling to me that they chose to deactivate emergency braking without substituting a driver alert. If the false-positives are so frequent as to render the alert useless (i.e. it's going off all the time and you ignore it) I don't think these vehicles are suitable for on-road testing.

You can lean fairly heavily on the 'still dangerous, but better' argument in the face of 40,000 US vehicle fatalities each year, but there are limits.
But seriously what do you more or less expect from this. Anyone littlely involved in tech will tell to throw this shit out the window.
False equivalency in action.

>“Then, if you've ever conflated a normal run of the mill republican or a libertarian or classical liberal or centrist with a fascist or nazi -- particularly without sufficient evidence -- or even if you've ever held your tongue while others representing Antifa have done so -- you are a hypocrite.“

Then, if you've ever conflated a normal run of the mill social democrat or a socialist or liberal democrat or centrist with a stalinist -- particularly without sufficient evidence -- or even if you've ever held your tongue while others representing right wingers have done so -- you are a hypocrite.

See how that works? Did we just alle collectively forget the name-calling that happens from the right whenever anyone even remotely left wing wins an election or enacts a policy?

For the record, I save the terms "fascist" and "Nazi" for actual fascists, including the ones trying to be cute about it (the dudes with "I <3 AH" t-shirts and the like).

No, I do not oppose black Bloc quite as vigorously as I oppose (actual) fascists and Nazis.

Why? Because fascists exploit, harass, beat up and outright murder those they seem to be lesser people, simply based on the color of their skin or their culture/religion.

Black Bloc beats up fascists and yes, cause petty vandalism.

You absolutely cannot draw equivalency between them. They are in completely different leagues.
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