skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, all self driving systems need to be fully open, to be inspected by the public. They are way too safety critical to be closed silos controlled by each car company.

But I agree, projects like this are also potentially dangerous. How extensive is the testing? Where is the liability? Is that unit running a read-time OS that will not deadlock or have thrashing which could result in a crash? I've written about these and other concerns a few months back:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-so...

Drivers do need to be held to having their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road (I think it's the Chryslers that actually track your eye movements and alert if your eyes aren't forward).

There is some early evidence to suggest these safety features could make people less attentive or more likely to let themselves be distracted.

Personally I'll stick to my 2006 5-speed car with no auto-cruise or lane assist. It forces me to stay fully aware, and I have to use all four of my appendages constantly. It's a very active, non-passive driving experience. I live in a city and don't drive often (I've fueled up once since December), so I prefer driving to be engaging.
It's been in decline since the last ice age, which was only 10,000 yrs ago.
> Seaborg called it the first nuclear disaster.

He may have called it that, but it certainly wasn't. There were numerous nuclear accidents at Los Alamos predating that test. There were also numerous civilian incidents, particularly the famous 'Radium Girls'.
Education has yourself as return.
You obviously did, since your original comment on the matter contains the only three elements: Vega, Polaris, and the Milky Way
Tesla makes it extremely clear to its users what the shared responsibility model is for Autopilot features (through warning messages at each Autopilot engagement and in the user's manual for all Tesla vehicles), and has general counsel on staff to reinforce this through legal actions indemnifying their staff. Openpilot is a drastically different model. It is a software breadboard for your own vehicle.

For example, this is laughable (from the repo):

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> openpilot is an open source driving agent. Currently, it performs the functions of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS) for selected Honda, Toyota, Acura, Lexus, Chevrolet, Hyundai, Kia. It's about on par with Tesla Autopilot and GM Super Cruise, and better than all other manufacturers.

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> THIS IS ALPHA QUALITY SOFTWARE FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY.
It's pretty mild criticism though, and even oddly mild criticism is a positive for a relatively small startup given that it's getting them attention.
I have heard this argument before. I think there are some works of art that do "make war real" -- Saving Private Ryan viscerally portrayed how chaotic and horrible fighting is, in a way that made any kind of heroism seem oddly small in comparison.

But I think most violent art instead aims for that apparently very popular mixture of disgust and titillation. For example, there are various scenes (for which I've read descriptions, not watched) in Game of Thrones that make me seriously question the state of a culture where this is extremely popular entertainment. And I do not buy the idea that these scenes force people into sober contemplation of the way mortality yokes us all together.

But I strongly dislike violence more realistic than, say, the Avengers, so I'm biased here.
I really hear you, it's hard because in my mind the solutuon would be something along the lines of going back in time a couple thousand years and starting then, it's a delicate thing to care about on both sides and it shouldn't be. We preach equality but the games don't stop- I don't really have the perfect answer here
I'd say you definitely didn't waste your time, even if you had only posted the essay online. That's a great piece of writing on the subject, especially the perspective on the GDPR's effects. Not being an EU resident, I had no idea it was that cumbersome.
Doubtful. Chrome OS without Verified Boot isn't Chrome OS.
I was taught compiler construction by the books like that. In my opinion they do more damage than good.

A proposed adhoc parser without an intermediate representation is a sure way to create an unnecessary mess in reader's head. Somewhat understandable given the technical limitations of those days, but still the authors could do a better job there.

Dragon Book (Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools) and "Compiler Construction" by Niklaus Wirth are much more sensible choices.
It's not that it's random, it's that the signal is too abstract for such simple methods to grasp it. Machine Learning which can predict Stack Overflow question scores is going to have to understand what's being asked, and how useful the responses are going to be for people interested in the question.
A good counterexample: in the Lion Air case, at least one planeload of passengers came within a hair's-breadth of disaster prior to the fatal crash. The pilots figured out what to do in time, in part because a third pilot was available to RTFM while the other two flew the airplane. However, that crew not only didn't take any action to remove the aircraft from service, they apparently didn't even bother to leave a Post-It note on the dashboard.

The regulations we have in place here in the US -- to say nothing of our airlines' own policies -- would have kept that aircraft grounded until the problem was diagnosed and addressed.
iOS and Android apps didn't support resize until recently. Adding resize support requires additional, though usually small, work (listening to resize events). Presumably, this means that Flutter for Android does this automatically.
I don't think it's a standard term but you can extrapolate from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere. Maybe "the sport of influencing opinion at mass scale"
Their rendition of Bella Ciao is my favorite. (Read the lyric’s translation if you haven’t already).
You’re right of course, but until we get the double-blind randomized trial, we have Occam’s Razor: if people didn’t think it worked they wouldn’t pay so much for it.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I also cannot get to at least one dataset -https://storage.googleapis.com/cloudml-demo-lcm/SO_ml_tags_a... which is linked to from the fourth paragraph directly above the "What Is The Bag Of Words Model?" section heading.
It's also a real issue where the privacy of the affected child in question should supercede the curiosity of random questioners on the internet.

There are better ways to try to publicly discuss such things. If someone actually cares about the welfare of the children, they shouldn't have a problem with being told "this is not a good question to ask." If they have a problem with it, that tends to say something about their actual priorities.
One side of me agrees, the other thinks of the Wright brothers. Oh wait, they got someone killed.
I fully believe that this is 90% of what the human brain is doing to solve the same problems, though. Brains just also have a constraint/filter layer, determining which of these bits of "made up bullshit" should be allowed to rise from the layer generating them, to the motor output layer.

Or, to put that another way, flipping the perspective around: our minds could consist of an intelligent, analytical, but utterly unimaginative agent, that sits there listening to a stream of suggestions spewed out by a distinct second agent, one that is "creative" but has no idea about the constraints of things like physics. The brain's analytical agent filters this stream of suggestions, taking notice of the suggestions that seem like they'll make the world change in the ways it "wants"†; and then it does those.

† Or, according to modern perceptual-control research, the agent attempts to predict the world that will occur a few seconds in the future, with a bias toward predicting world-states the reward-system has annotated as being rewarding; and then it looks at what motor commands it "would have" issued in that hypothetical world, and actually issues those. The stream of suggestions, in this model, serve as input to feed the generative model of potential world-states; the executive agent then must notice whether the potential world-state is a "possible" world or an "impossible" world (and whether the motor commands required of it are "possible" or "impossible" inputs), and filter out the "impossible" worlds.

Under this hypothesis, dreaming is the state when your executive responsible for filtering out "impossible" worlds isn't online. So you just get a continuous "impossible" world generated from the streamed suggestions of the creative-but-stupid bullshit-generating agent, with nothing to tear it down—just as seen in these generative AIs. As consciousness returns, the mental predicted world-state is noticed to be impossible by the now-online analytical agent, and is torn down.
Is a fancy-pants neologism from political theorists about how the world supposedly works these days. From 'noos', meaning knowledge. One thing I find funny, given the construction, is that nobody outside of political theory seemingly knows about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noopolitik
Journalists and dissidents are being encouraged to use this software, on platforms we know to be insecure.
Out of curiosity, what's your area, and what channels do you use for hiring? Sounds like exactly the kind of work I might enjoy (and spent several years doing for my old startup) depending on industry, location, and compensation, but all I ever see are Java and web jobs.
> It also happens to be trained on a large chunk of Reddit, since the author decided that this was undeniably the perfect location to obtain high quality, impeccable prose.

Hm, why in the world would they not train it on Sci-hub articles and generate output for which we have plenty of domain experts who can judge the quality?
You could interpret surface as ocean surface, but then the parent talks of mining metals. So I don't think they really do mean the Arctic. But I agree with you about how silly it is that global warming is going to enable hydrocarbon extraction in the Arctic and thus more global warming. Us humans are really bad at long term collective good type of planning.
This would have been great for the DARPA team back in grad school. But yes, even back then our DARPA crew limited car speed to 10mph during a lot of the initial work, and it was either out in the old football field or the campus police would let us tape off the parking lot in the engineering building on weekends.

Even as far as the open source tech has come, videos fulling explaining how to use this in production on real roads is pretty irresponsible; especially since there are no warnings in the videos and no claims of liability.
I'm sure math teachers would love to get a million dollar salary. Not quite sure whether they would be willing to leave their students with irreversible brain damage for the sake of their career, though.

https://careertrend.com/much-average-division-football-coach...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat...
Tell us more... Is this for previews of the artist assigned you? Or something else?
China's debt trap in Sri Lanka is even worse than we thought – Quartz
It became more useful and stable since last discussed
Same, I played a fair amount of Goldeneye as a kid with no problem, but around the same age I saw a news clip of the execution of Nguyen Van Lem and remember being seriously disturbed by it.
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Why would you trust anything a spy agency tells you?
>That shouldn't necessarily be a reason not to try though.

I'd argue that if a test could select good SEs then companies would be giving tests (or outsourcing such tests) as part of their interview process. It's not like a lot of thought, effort and experimentation hasn't gone into figuring out how to hire software engineers.

>Honestly, it might be easier to adjust the hiring process. If the hiring process were able to easily select driven individuals who retain "software engineer" as part of their identity, and people that take pride in their work, seek constructive criticism and want to learn, then that would be good enough.

I'd like to note that a test would not select for any of those things except the ability to study hard.
The New Knowledge whitepaper[0] on the Russian social media interference operation noted several times that Facebook could've provided a lot more data than it chose to release (i.e. relevant FB comments, the number of users who interacted with fake content who also went to the polls, etc.) A lot of important context was intentionally left out of their release that could've helped researchers better understand the tactics and effectiveness of the operation.

We're never going to get a comprehensive answer to the questions underlying these operations as long as companies like Facebook get to pick and choose what data gets released to research these issues.

[0]: https://www.newknowledge.com/articles/the-disinformation-rep...
Intel did try with Itanium, but... Well, decades of backwards compatibility, plus unfortunate design choices.
Anyone could anyway. I'd imagine this is safer than a solo effort.

I think it's cool. Driving is risky anyway, this sort of thing could help improve that. I'm not sure it's any worse than a closed source alternative.
Whilst Bitfinex itself may not be a key player, arguably the Tether Stablecoin, which it controls , is.

From Coinmarketcap, Tether volumes are regularly second only to Bitcoin's , and many exchanges who have difficulty getting fiat banking arrangements, make use of it, to get funds into an out of their exchanges.

Loss of Tether would be a very serious blow to those exchanges.

So what's the risk? Well Tether's original proposition was that it was 1:1 backed with actual US dollars held in specific isolated accounts.

What we know now is that they "lent" $850 million to Bitfinex, to cover for funds that Bitfinex no longer has access to as their banking partner (crypto capital) has taken those funds and not delivered them to the appropriate customers.

There is now the risk that iFinex (who control both Bitfinex and Tether) could be technically insolvent, unless they can somehow cover that loss, or get their frozen/missing funds back...
There seems to be a strong desire for regulation, which gives me some hope. On the other hand, the big tech companies have a massive lobbying operation in D.C., and I'm not naive enough to think my testimony will have much effect.

I was ready for the questioning to be far more adversarial. That was a very pleasant surprise. Another surprise was the party imbalance—many of the Republican senators did not attend.

My sense is that the current direction in drafting privacy law is "GDPR lite", on the basis that 'everybody owns their data'. I don't think that framing works, but it seems to have captured many of the senators' imaginations. I believe the time pressure for regulation is coming from the California law, which will go into effect in 2020 unless pre-empted by Federal regulation.

In principle, the privacy issue cuts across party lines and could have a real bipartisan consensus form around it. In practice, we live in polarized times. I am not optimistic, but we have to try our best.
> You attend college to learn and grow, not to pass an HR screening.

What? No. I attended college because it let me be hired nearly everywhere with much less hassle than having to "work my way up" - nearly everything I learned was useless or rapidly obsolete (if it wasn't obsolete as it was taught).

>You don't attend college for a degree you attend it for the knowledge and experience you gain - a degree is worthless, it can't be resold if a bank were to "take posession" of it.

Except to HR, which is frequently where it matters the most, in actual dollars

It sure would be nice if a college education was about learning and growth and discovering oneself and all the hoopla they feed you during visits and orientation, but it's a structured credentialing system that involves professors for some reason, and it's effectively mandatory for making an above-median wage.
Mortal Kobat's niche is largely people who really like the over the top gore for whatever reason, in the same way some people are horror movie gore fans. MK is also one of the few Western fighting games left which have a different play style to other fighters like Street Fighter, UNIST, or Tekken which probably makes up the most of the playerbase that might fall in the less gore category.
Euclid - a name, along with Newton, Einstein, etc. We don't say Geometry Theta, we say Euclidean Geometry, Newtonian physics, etc. Why speak of them at all? Why not the ideas divorced from the men (and the few women)?

The Bible - Promulgated mainly (for the most substantial part of its history) by those contending its ultimate authorship lay with God. And any appellation of greater significance would likely prove difficult to procure.

>Bitcoin Whitepaper published under a pseudonym.

Is this now Milton's competition?

> "Objective" doesn't imply "simple"

Yet simple enough to be described surely, to be circumscribed with pen and paper, surely, because if not, how is it known to be such? Or do we accept as fact the intuitions of those who had nothing more?

And if it is not the name that stands predominant, why should we fear veritas ex machina?
What is soccer mom puritanism? I've never heard of that.
Also disrupt ghost kitchens: https://www.cloudkitchens.com/
I don't either. I decided to err in a particular direction here and take the hit for it. I routinely err on the side of respecting the male side of the equation in such matters. It's part of why I am accepted to some degree here.
I believe so: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Desktop-shells#linux
It's a little different because you know from the start that hiring a personal trainer is not going to magically make you prosperous.

There is a widespread idea that working in tech is easy and will make you rich, and all you have to do is get your toe in the door, and many "entrepreneurs" use that misunderstanding to set up programs that waste students time and extract money from donors and government programs that are unable to meaningfully evaluate what they're donating to.
...that was the point...
Has been a standard term for policy wonks and polscis for a while now.
Uber pool gives it a very strong network effect. You need enough riders going in the same direction as you at the same time. When I do my morning commute, I can't take Lyft because there isn't a critical mass and there isn't room for two ride sharing networks. Uber is consistently cheaper and has shorter wait times.
We need more people like Preston in the space, more importantly people who can speak simply and plainly about both technical and game-theoretic aspects of blockchain projects.

As a supporter of the technology and more recently less so of the community that shamelessly keeps making outlandish predatory claims it still blows me away that HODL'ers can still be found on HN...
If I understand correctly, Flutter embedders use a low level rendering API that renders the UI similar to how a game is rendered - skipping native widgets altogether. This makes me wonder what's the battery consumption? Is it similar to electron?
This article leaves important questions unanswered:

It says the amount of money collected on delinquent student loans increased, but is that due to a policy change or due to tax cuts and improving economic conditions?

The chart shows an increase in collections every year since 2014, with the largest increases in collections between 2014 and 2016, so it seems likely it's just an improving economy.

But if there was a policy change, what changed?
Google did a lot of pioneering work and created a proprietary stack. This used to be a big competitive advantage, but the industry largely caught up and now the incompatibility is mostly just tech debt that everyone has to ramp up on.
Really? There were joint operations, they received US lend-lease like Britain, there were regular Arctic convoys to Murmansk and Archangel. Not just food and supply aid, Britain sent well over 1,000 Spitfires and 3,000 Hurricanes, the US over 6,000 P39s and P40s. No end of tanks and other vehicles too, including over 75,000 jeeps.

An alliance in every sense - it just wasn't a permanent alliance. Allied even though few liked Stalin's regime. Yalta conference - to plan the peace - was the point of change that slid toward cold war.

Edit: accurate numbers. :)
While snappy, this sentence is misleading. The model is trained on webpages whose links have received at least 3 karma on reddit, not on reddit comments themselves [0]. The motivation for this choice is not to find impeccable prose, but rather to establish a lower bound on quality for the dataset, and avoid training the model on too much of the spam/nonsense text that is frequent in e.g. CommonCrawl. Also, the "author" is not a single person, but rather 6+ people [1].

[0] https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/
[1] https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/better-language-models/l...
This is similar to what I'd heard from people laid off by Cambridge analytica. Apparently credit rating agency data was much more useful for their purposes while Facebook data was pretty much useless.
Elon Musk is going to trial for calling a cave diver a pedophile on Twitter
From the article:

> Because Chrome OS runs Android apps, targeting Android is the way to build Chrome OS apps.

The screenshot of "The Flutter ChromeOS lint rules in action" also appears to show an Android app manifest.

Which, honestly, seems like kind of a strange design to me. The whole point of Flutter is to be a cross-platform app framework; why not just add a ChromeOS backend to it instead of running the Android version inside an Android emulation layer?
> I've outlined how MS could. And I think they will.

This is completely insane and not Microsofty at all, Satya or not.
As 'paulddraper notes, doing things "to see what would happen" is a recognized research strategy that created a lot of science and technologies we enjoy today. This thinking, a childlike curiosity of sorts, is something you seek in good researchers.

As for A119, the issues with the project were entirely political. The idea of bombing the moon is a good one; it's a legitimate way of collecting scientific data in lieu of being able to deploy a drilling team on the surface, and something that's been done with non-nuclear impactors. See [0], [1], [2], and probably a bunch of other cases I don't remember today.

It's easy to say that "nukes bad humans stupid", but there are aspects to this idea - and a bunch of other so-called "peaceful uses for nuclear weapons" - that illustrated human smarts, not stupidity.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCROSS

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELENE

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Impact_Probe
He did? Wow, I have never heard this story:

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-first-fatal-airplane-crash-177...

..he killed an Army Lt during a demonstration, and took some pretty bad injuries to himself.
Yeah things are not as simple as it seems. I read a study on irrigation of the Sahara to grow forests, but the change in albedo (reflectivity) from desert sand to dark forest would counteract the benefit of the carbon sequestration and lead to a net temperature increase. I imagine the same holds true for northern areas because snow and ice are extremely reflective. The methane release is just icing on the metaphorical shit cake.