skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be fairly easy to detect a chevron sign with yellow and black stripes [0] and take evasive measures to slow down, brake heavily or change lanes. From my understanding of CNN neural networks it's a fairly simple classification problem (that A. Karpathy researched, and taught at Stanford; and he's now leading the AI/vision team at Tesla).

Looking at the video of the guy that tried that same route again, it looks like the sun was straight ahead (see starting 37th second of video [1]), and I am wondering if the camera had an issue identifying the sign due to the glare from the sun.

Do we know if this problem has been fixed now? Can the chevron be identified at the same location by other Tesla drivers today, months after the guy that tested it and posted the video of his car swerving at the same place [1]?

Following lane markings are never going to be a 100% reliable method for navigating roads. Even humans miss merging lanes, or have issues at complex surface street intersections where there are multiple overlapping lanes. But humans take evasive action.. they slow down, re-access, look at signs and probably get honked at.

Following other cars is never going to be a reliable method for navigating roads. I don't know what the guy in front of me is going to do! I keep my safe distance and take evasive action if the guy in front of me does something stupid.

I feel signs are most reliable in that sense. If there is a missing sign, a human is more likely bound to make a mistake as well. Maybe I am biased, because as someone who sails, signs (buoys, lights, colors, etc.) are what guide me in my navigation as there are no lane line markings on the water (not a perfect analogy because the speeds/traffic patterns are very different, but the point I am trying to make is about humans identifying the signs with muscle memory). A vision based neural network should be able to do the same.

[0] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/249780/what-do-y...
[1] https://youtu.be/VVJSjeHDvfY?t=37
Stag hunt game
The Independent is presenting this in a surprisingly sensational and tabloid style. Has the paper changed in recent years? I remember it being a reasonably well respected news source.
People feel that video games should be held it a different (more conservative) standard to other formats (books, video) with vaporous reasons like "you're controlling the character" (while entirely ignoring the POV in a book).

For example people in this thread are talking about the potential for rape-fetish materials being in a video game while ignoring that most major bookstores or even Walmart sells tens of books about the same subject with no age restrictions at all.

I mean Game of Thrones (several rapes, sexual fetish scenes, under-age) and 50 Shades of Grey are literally sold at the checkout line.

PS - Not arguing for books to be age restricted/banned, just pointing out the hypocrisy.
Let's chat.
This is terrifying for people who shared things thinking that they were private (especially those suffering harassment). However, as we know, nothing you share on Facebook is private. Your posts are public regardless of what you set them to.

So set your default to public. If you feel as you need to change it for something, don't post at all.
>It's quite common in other industries

In what other industries does the government require companies to develop military technology?

>A corporation can easily set up a division or a separate subsidiary or sub entity and staff it with willing individuals to do this sort of thing.

So you're saying that if I found a company that is based on internet-related technologies, it is reasonable to at some point in the future compel me (or compel me to pay for someone else) to work on military drones?
Allowing murder simulators fundamentally changes the nature of your online store. Not being squeamish, it just tends to discourage a certain type of person, and encourage another.
Exactly - I did this a few years ago, and never even blink when I read this stuff. About the only thing I change the privacy setting on is if I'm traveling or similar and want to check in or post pics on the road.
I generally prefer to work in different environments at work and at home (usually .NET at work and iOS at home).

That being said, I use C# at work, and recently started using F# for side projects (which does actually feel fun to write (for now anyway)).
Counter-example: I'd happily pay at least that much for carbon-neutral or carbon-reducing fuel.

Source: Am registered-voter citizen of the United States.
Do you realize what kind of jobs don’t exist due to computers? You would have teams of people doing complex calculations or accounting.

Milkman, elevator operator, and Linotype operator are a few that employed a lot of people.
No more land can be manufactured, supply is inelastic. In urban areas you are going to have to bid against everyone else and the highest bidder, who agrees to work for the most years for the land, wins.

Rezoning isn't going to fix this IMHO. It might help, but you will reach a limit and then have the same root cause to deal with: rentiers.
When Yahoo was breached it went from 50 million accounts compromised to all of them. This number will definitely grow.
Happiness isn't a useful metric by itself. Happiness needs to be stable, stability requires power, and power requires relative wealth. In the long run inequality undermines happiness, even if you've met some happy poor people.

Look at the native American population. They were happy until the weren't: when a culture with greater financial power wanted what they had and they didn't have the power to stop it.

Or look at Somali pirates: happy fisherman. Until foreign powers dump waste in their fishing waters for decades, then they lose their economy and have to arm themselves to defend their waters. No more happy. Because they couldn't fund a proper navy.

The point being -- know the difference between weather and climate.
I generally have the same thought, and on top of that, things that you take for granted become hard, like now you need some custom thread library if you want threading.

I love this project, but I wonder if getting behind something like feL4 might have more interesting payoffs. A really small lightweight kernel, with only the drivers and libraries you need. Running side card debuggers become easier I would think, and make them more debuggable. Redox probably fits in this category as a potential, if less stress tested, option.

Then there is nebulet which by using wasm, would remove the system call expense.

All of these are exciting, it makes me happy to see people continuing to play around in this area.
That is heart breaking.
"leading the charge"? In the US maybe, but the world has not waited for them.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/apr/30/china-bu...
I realize that but there are no other intellectually interesting features that usually define HN submissions. The only notable thing is the company is founded and run by Jessica Alba. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Fair point, but quite speculative at this point. For this to backfire on Valve, you need several assumptions:

a) a significant portion of the people who consume their porn products is not a current Steam user,
b) the new users will not only buy and play games, but also interact with the community (message boards, etc.),
c) these new users will on average exhibit more anti-social behavior,
d) their behavior is linked to lost game revenue larger than the amount brought in by the porn sales.
For me it's that they're software patent abusers, and I won't send them any money because of that. However, all I did was switch from the paid tier to the free tier, and move my private repositories to my own server.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11323942
>As the wife of a sailor, she said she wants to protect service members from being “price gouged.”

When I see a law that aims to prevent "price gouging", my first instinct is to oppose it. This is in general a choice that favors shortages instead of market prices.
Judging by how the game feed has rapidly filled up with creepy Japanese dating simulators and stuff, assuming that they'll segment VR porn appropriately is pretty naive.
Investment bank research. A trader had said "it's the brand recognition between picking it up from my inbox and putting it in the bin".
Show HN: AI-Generated Fashion Brand
>Unikernels can be difficult to debug. All the tools that come with your operating system are missing.

Do you even need to?

If something so simple breaks, why not to use, say, JTAG?
Shortly after the accident, a few other Tesla drivers reported similar behavior approaching that exit.

But on the other hand, gores like that can also trick human drivers. Especially if tired, with poor visibility. In heavy rain or whiteout, I typically end up following taillights. But slowly.
• At first there was no explicit policy.

• A decision was taken (contract entered into).

• As part of the backlash to that decision, one of the demands was that an explicit policy be created.

• That demand was accepted, and what you see here is the outcome.

(Sorry for the passive voice….)

That's all there is to it; I don't see a claim anywhere that the article reflects anyone's principles or morals in the past, only that this is a (only now thought-out) policy on how to decide about similar things in the future (“So today, we’re announcing seven principles to guide our work going forward”).
I think the avoidance of harm
is fundamentally flawed. Creation necessitates destruction. At times safety necessitates assault. Violence can not be eradicated we can only strive to maximize our values.

Anyone who claims to be non-violent has simply rationalized ignorance of their violence. See: vegans. (spoken as someone who eats a plant based diet)
Sex simulators are more subversive than murder simulators
Wow, thank you for such a informative response. I know that in any field high precision and accuracy generally are very expensive (something about the first 90% being cheap, and the last 10% ...), so I expected it would be a complex process - especially given the hyper-constrained resources on Mars. But wow - sounds fun.

HN is not the usual audience, of course; most people don't think to ask the question. And of course, maybe others republish the images without noting the alterations. And it seems my criticism/question is outdated, as you say NASA has made more effort to address this issue.

> Nobody would seriously contemplate putting some kind of interpretive warning on such images, because we all know you can't see water vapor or ocean salinity directly.

It's hard to for experts to underestimate what 'we all know' (I and my peers have the same problem in my field - look at what HN users think typical computer users know, can grasp, and will do); looking at that map[0] I could easily imagine many people thinking it was somehow real. Here's a recent story, no exaggeration: I was watching a sports commentary show widely praised as among the most intelligent, and they had on a guest who revealed that he had studied astrophysics in a prior life. One of the commentators asked (and I'm paraphrasing, but this was really the question):

Maybe you can settle a argument for (another commentator) and me: What is further from New York, Los Angeles or the Moon? Because I can see the Moon from New York, but I can't see Los Angeles.

[0[ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia21209
The majority of the mass (72%) of CO2 is oxygen, not carbon. By convention, the "tons" generally quoted in climate literature are carbon-dioxide, not pure carbon.

Using $418/ton of oil: $418 * (1-0.72) = $117, in striking range of the $100 target. Where renewables match or exceed hydrocarbon fuel, $100 would appear to be a reasonable price.
Who's the software engineer that did this?
It's absolutely a very active investment from when I started it, to now. But very soon I will be stepping away, and letting it run for potentially a year, if not longer, generating income and clients without any (minimal, 3h/week) effort.

I have worked on this business for the last 2.5 years, as a side project. In that time I have switched jobs (9-5) and learned 2 new programming languages, in completely different domains. It's meant a lot of evenings, and weekends, that I would have otherwise been doing something else, I ended up working on this business. So no, it didn't just magically create itself and start generating income. There was a very real time investment that has had to happen.

All in all, it's hard to put a total hourly estimate on it. I think the easiest way to think about it is like this:

If I could work on this full time, I would estimate it would take me 8 months of solid, full time work (50 hour weeks) to get where I am now (to a point where it's generating a healthy income, and I can step away from it because it's feature rich enough to support the client base). Possibly faster since, all the context switching I've been doing with my day job really does slow me down.

I am NOT saying that the income is enough to survive on. I'm saying after roughly 8 months of solid 50 hour weeks is how long it would take to create a product that has enough value that it can generate an income that matches it's recurring costs (hosting costs mostly). That's the "break even" point past which everything else is just profit.

I'm sure there are people on HN who have built something much faster, and made much more. This is just my experience.

By no means does it mean I will be making enough this year to quit my day job. My hope is that by the end of the year, I should be generating about $300-500 a month in pure, after expense, profit. I'll take that, and put it in an index fund.
I would guess that it's less about "you're controlling the character" than it is about the impression (regardless of whether or not it is true, which i don't think it is) that a large portion of the population have of video games being nearly exclusively for children/teenagers.

However I don't know for a fact because I haven't seen a decent opinion piece or anything about this, just tweets
I hear price caps on bread are working well in Venezuela too.
I think the parent's point was that this probably won't attract that many new users - most of the people who would buy porn games (especially VR ones) are probably already on Steam.

I do worry a bit that it might trigger some sort of moral panic when e.g. parents hear that one game program Steam is giving 8 year olds free porno or some other exaggerated claim. Jim Sterling made a pretty good case for this in a recent video about the school shooting simulator game, that by allowing that kind of content Steam is exposing itself to becoming the victim of a hysterical panic like has happened many times in the past.
Pup: Parsing HTML at the command line
Maybe the barrier needs a big waving maneki-neko cat in front of it, if the waving paw would be enough movement to be noticed by the radar.
If your spelling is poor, make an effort to improve. But don't wait for that to happen. Start composing your email in Google Docs or the word processor of your choice with spellcheck turned on. It is worth the extra step of copy pasting your emails in order to get spelling and grammar right.
It sounds like exactly the same thing to me.
"How does this change in a service company?"

You need to work for a good product company to understand that. From your other comments, clearly you work for a non-FANG, perhaps for a services company or another non-services company that do not seem to have the kind of work and expertise Google or Amazon has. You are also too biased to be completely blind to the possibility that must be some factors other than money because of which so many people want to work for the big product companies even though they are not the highest payers anymore. No amount of answering your questions is going to convince you how services companies and product companies are world apart unless you have seen both sides. And by product companies I don't mean companies like Cisco or Juniper (although they are technically) but they are now like dinosaurs moving slowly and are only marginally better than the services company. I mean the types of Amazon or Facebook or Google or LinkedIn in their India offices or the types of Directi or Flipkart (now Walmart Labs -- another great workplace) or Ola.

Any responses to you in this thread seems futile because you come with a very negative outlook about other companies and you are not ready to look back and question your assumptions.

Sorry, not everyone shares this pessimistic view and try to understand many of us have enjoy very productive and happy careers in these big product companies that you seem to believe are no better than the services company.
They're not saying they can provide CO2 for $100/ton, they're saying they can extract it from the atmosphere and convert it to fuel for that price. Are you sure you're comparing apples to apples here?
Greaber actually critiques this in the first chapter, disagreeing that hairdresser is a "bullshit job".
It's a lithium-ion battery, so it needs to be fully discharged.
> Microsoft didn't even ask their customers for permission. They just automatically switched anyone who installed IE7 to Bing as the default.

Don’t worry everyone it’s different now!
Yes, unfortunately. "The Independent" isn't a newspaper anymore- the print version was shut down in 2016, and most of the staff were laid off.

The "i" has replaced it in print (highbrow tabloid)- independent.co.uk has been reduced to a website that drives traffic towards itself largely through clickbait/tabloid-style reporting.

It's still on a different level to dreck like the Daily Mail, but it's long since slipped from its old status as a respected broadsheet.
Well, this sort of "self-assembly" is partly founded within the scaffolding of division of duty as a means of quality assurance, that serves as a process of checks and balances within business practices.

Conversations, about obsolete personnel, become awkward verrry quickly, so to shift attention away from the massive elephant in the room, compromises must be struck.

The middle of the 20th century killed enough people to fill many multiple cities. All of that awkward disintigration of civility was the friction of people getting their fingers caught in the doors on the wrong side of the air locks, as the space ship fired up its jets.

People know that gobs and gobs of money filter through hands and fan out in distribution channels, so the real game isn't to sequester it all, but to properly skim incredible amounts of it, without raising eyebrows. Then, after a lagoon of reserves opens up all the essential opportunities to reinforce the system as it is, levers and control surfaces appear, and anyone without their hands on the affordances for operating guidance are basically shit out of luck in terms of bucking the system while it's healthy and strong.

It didn't just happen. Operators intervened.
Facebook did some research on self censorship in 2013 (I’m sure there are others but I just happened to remember the paper).

> “Our results indicate that 71% of users exhibited some level of last-minute self-censorship in the time period, and provide specific evidence supporting the theory that a user’s “perceived audience” lies at the heart of the issue: posts are censored more frequently than comments, with status updates and posts directed at groups censored most frequently of all sharing use cases investigated.”

- Source - https://research.fb.com/publications/self-censorship-on-face...
On the other hand, I completely agree with Valve's decision on this. Just like I think Amazon should sell books containing rape, advocating for a violent revolution, or otherwise $thingthatviolatesmymorality. Steam is saying they don't want to be a curator (which honestly they haven't been for quite some time) they want to be a distributor.

And it's great to see a platform moving to be more liberal for once.
I understand the self defense argument. Law Enforcement and Armies are trained to respond with violence to people with intent to kill. The passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 are heros.

Killing "bad people" to save "good people" is not a self defense argument. The statement is too general. Is it okay to do medical testing on criminals if it speeds the advancement of medicines that saves law abiding citizens lives? We could have limits to only use people found guilty of the worst crimes and increase the legal burden of proof for criminals going into the medical testing program. It would decrease overall harm. It would kill bad guys to save good guys. Still, this practice is illegal for good reason. We need a better reason to kill someone than they are bad.
>I'd prevent them from using the AutoPilot term

I disagree. It's the same term as in aviation and does the same thing.

> penalise them for marketing imagery that includes people driving with their hands off the wheel

That's more reasonable.
How could something that can easily be added as a plugin replace us?
This particular case might have been testable "in-situ":

[ABS News Reporter] Dan Noyes also spoke and texted with Walter Huang's brother, Will, today. He confirmed Walter was on the way to work at Apple when he died. He also makes a startling claim — that before the crash, Walter complained "seven-to-10 times the car would swivel toward that same exact barrier during auto-pilot. Walter took it into dealership addressing the issue, but they couldn't duplicate it there."

It is very believable that the car would swivel toward the same exact barrier on auto-pilot.

BTW - I'm running a nonprofit/public dataset project aimed at increasing safety of autonomous vehicles. If anyone here wants to contribute (with suggestions / pull requests / following it on twitter / etc) - you'd be most welcome. Its: https://www.safe-av.org/
> Communities cannot police themselves, even with the best of tools. I think Reddit and HN are iconic examples of this.

What exactly do you mean by "communities"? e.g. isolated small towns are usually viewed as having extreme levels of social control, not inadequate ones.
Image-Driven Derivative of Cards Against Humanity
There are many consumer product focused companies that have had articles about them posted here. Whether or not Honest is "tech driven" I don't think it can be argued that they have not been operating as a startup.
Netscape was basically shareware - it cost money, but hardly anyone paid for it.

Since shareware is kind of an alien concept these days, many people remember Netscape as "always free" but it was not really.
Postdoc in quantum error correction theory at Sheffield – Quantiki
Meet Hammad Safi, the 11-year-old motivational coach who has Pakistan enchanted
It is a car company. Their products directly kill over a million people every year. The injure 10x as many. Their pollution causes a similar number of deaths. They are responsible for so many horrible side effects, including dangerous city and suburbs to people taking up more and more space.

You think this one crash makes them evil?
You can't make that kind of conclusion from a single, extremely-highly-publicized occurrence, even a fatal one. Given how often human drivers kill people, you need statistics to show that autopilot is worse.
Most people in America are one medical trip away from financial ruin. That’s a bit different from other developed counties.
Yes, being a monopoly isn’t evil, leveraging monopoly position is.
I had never heard of crash attenuators before, but they seem really impressive! This one was the "SCI smart cushion" model. According to the manual[1] it can reduce the acceleration from a collision at 100 km/h (63 mph) to less than 10G, so even a direct frontal collision at highway speed would be survivable[1]. That's pretty amazing.

[0] http://4fhmzg4ct6wezwll3wmp9kl9.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...
[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.212...
Tesla acknowledges that autopilot can fail.
Tesla Autocrash, how much does this option cost again?
Strategy in an Agile Environment
Well that’s not at all disconcerting.
VPNFilter threat is bigger than we thought
....what thumb drive?