skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but we can also say what a responsible self-driving car should be detecting/recording/ decisioning at that point, paraphrasing:

- unknown object detected ahead, collision possible- likely

- dangerous object (car) detected approaching from rear with likely trajectory intercepting this vehicle (people easily forget multitasking/sensing like this is something an autonomous car should be able to do better than a human who can only do relatively intermittent serial scans of its environment)

- initiate partial slow down and possibly change path: make some decision weighting the two detected likely collision obstacles.

You do not have to slam on brakes and be rear ended, but speed is a major factor in fatal crashes, so even if you can drop 30% of your momentum by the time of impact and avoid the rear end, that's still a responsible decision.

And we can accept that sometimes cars are put in potential no-win situations (collision with two incoming objects unavoidable).

What's a negligent/borderline insane decision? Put a one second hard-coded delay in there because otherwise we have to admit we don't have self-driving cars since we can't get the software to move the vehicle reliably if it's trying to avoid its own predicted collisions.

(Another issue is an inability to maintain object identity/history and it's interaction with trajectory prediction... personally, IMO, it is negligent to put an autonomous car on a public road that displays that behaviour, but that's just me)
> Obviously we want a society where everyone is equal ...

Oh, this is not obvious at all!
Sure, so where the data showing that most people do this?

When I was younger, I would read over and over "don't do X" when reading about how to repair a car or write a program. And I would think, if this advice is everywhere, how could anyone miss it?

And then, over time, I learned that there is a whole culture of doing things wrong, in many areas.
Not in my area. Most of them only offer a discount on gas with their grocery card.
Wow. Somebody really dropped the ball on that one.

It must be stuff so complicated that it's difficult to see the overview. How else could someone not figure on people outside of crosswalks?
Moreover, anyone seeking privileged access will percolate into such roles.
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There needs to be multi-person authorization required for account spelunking. Engineer files a DB lookup request, and it must be signed by other personnel.
>Citation needed.

Sure!

Traffic fatalities in the US, human drivers: 1.25 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...

Uber's self-driving car fatality rate: 1 death per 2 million miles[2]

That is, Uber's state-of-the-art is an order of magnitude worse than human drivers.

I know, you'll complain about small sample size. The thing is, assuming Uber's cars match humans, the chances of a collision happening only after 2 million miles are very small, like pulling an ace of spades out of a shuffled deck of cards.

The point is, we do have the data, and the data does not support optimistic beliefs.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...

[2]https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/waymo-has-driven-10-mil...
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I can't help but feel that if companies like Amazon, Google etc had been fairer in their dealings with open source projects (by either contributing more code or by paying the authors) that we wouldn't be in this situation.
People have done some cool stuff with it! My favorite is this one, which builds an NSAttributedString:

https://github.com/ethanhuang13/NSAttributedStringBuilder
Out of curiosity what’s your side business?
Relevant: https://youtu.be/dnioHfg1xbQ

Tesla cars can't even figure out where they are half of the time.
Debating neo-marxists is futile.
> Don't maintain the cluster. Have someone else run it for you. Unless you want K8s cluster to be the only thing you do.

This can be as simple as just using Google's GKE service.
> And when the reactor eventually needs to be decommissioned, it needs to be treated accordingly.

by that time putting it on a Starship, and sending it to the Sun might become a feasible option.
Have you read that NASA study? It involves air being run through an activated carbon filter, and the plants using that carbon filter as its growing medium. From the paper:

> This air filter design combines plants with an activated carbon filter as shown in Figure 1. The rationale for this design, which evolved from wastewater treatment studies, is based on moving large volumes of contaminated air through an activated carbon bed where smoke, organic chemicals, pathogenic microorganisms (if present), and possibly radon are absorbed by the carbon filter. Plant roots and their associated microorganisms then destroy the pathogenic viruses, bacteria, and the organic chemicals, eventually converting all of these air pollutants into new plant tissue.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/199300...

This isn't how most people setup their house plants.
Yeah, federal loans. Private student loans are basically usury.
No, it's perfectly reasonable that everyone knows there is a bubble, but nobody knows when it will pop.

"Irrational exuberance" is a famous quote about the 90s stock market/internet bubble, and it was in 1996, when the party was just getting started.
Bankruptcy is ten years now, for what it’s worth.
Good points but I would say, just like legal teams have become more familiar such open source licenses and their nuances, they’ll eventually come around on this too and be able to better articulate the differences.
You're pulling a strawman so not going to dignify your first statement. On the latter, you're right in that who cares how people spend their money but nobody should be obligated to give it away.
> Do not be first, find others who are stupid enough to develop and research for you- invest just enough, to become a goto adress once they are desperat- skin the carcasses.

This strategy has an actual MBA term--it's called the "fast follower".

Basically, the first guy proves the market and takes all the arrows. The second guy reaps the vast majority of the profit in the space.

It's why semiconductor companies are so stagnant, for example, and simply buy each other rather than generate genuinely new, interesting products.
APL generally feels like a troll, like INTERCAL, but from my interactions with APL advocates I think they are sincere.
Google Julia Evans, she's quite popular around here and generally in the dev space and is making a reasonable salary now from her developer-focused zines.
It boils down to sending some sort of notification so first responders know about the issue ASAP

You can do it at the OS level:
on a windows OS for example:
you use EventViewer and assign a task to specific type of log captured by the OS
this task can then invoke a small app that sends emails if an error-log occurs or something like that

Application specific issue:
you can manually capture exceptions raised within the app and send notifications
there are many clever ways to do this and not hinder performance, and also not pollute your code-base with exception handling
you can spawn "fire and forget threads" that send notifications ...
let me know if need more ideas here

Integration tests:
given that you've built a strong suite of integration-tests covering all the functionality on your app
you can have have your integration tests run every 15min or so and send notifications if tests fail

You can also use monitoring tools. I know Azure offers ways to help with this.
Reach out if want more ideas or more specific solutions
Go managed to use <- still..
No, the view is that Uber (and city officials, and some of the press) are spinning hard to shift the blame to the victim of this manslaughter, by using words such as jaywalker.

FYI, this is an American thing[1]. There's no jaywalker in Russian, for instance. Or French. If you know any other language that has a word for that, let me know.

It didn't even spread to the UK:

"In other countries such as the United Kingdom, the word is not generally used and there are no laws limiting how pedestrians can use public highways."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking#Origin_of_the_term
The article quotes Miles Brundage:

“If it is not being used in an illicit fashion, A.I. can be a boon for generating larger, more ambitious, more creative text documents — similar to how calculators have been used to help develop the skills we want to be teaching.”

and it continues:

Calculators have spared maths and science students the laborious pain of long calculations and allowed for more advanced syllabuses, designed with the knowledge that students will have access to calculators when answering them.

The issue I have with this is that the role of the essay in education is not comparable to that of the sort of tasks that calculators automate. If there is an analog of calculators in essay-writing, it would be things like grammar-correctors and style checkers.

If AI could be used in the manner envisioned in the quote, we could end up with people writing essays that they do not understand, and presenting arguments for positions that they could not defend. I am not sure that this would be progress. It might be a way for the machines to take over.
Their business plan is and always was a stupid plan by alarmingly stupid leadership. Local or national leaders have no obligation to literally sacrifice more citizens to enable it.
This doesn’t address the first point of the parent, which is that if AI can pass the essay Turing test, then perhaps college students shouldn’t be paying thousands of dollars and spending hundreds of hours learning to produce essays? If essays are a proxy for some other process, perhaps we should find a better proxy.
Yes, and they were able to borrow more eventually. But when you see that kind of movement there’s gonna be momentum.
x86 licensing makes this an AMD vs Intel game, with occasional celebrity appearances by VIA, et. al.

So, effectively AMD gets this private 1v1 game with Intel, and has a strong part in the GPU side of the market as well.

GPU is certainly a more open playing field compared to x86 (Intel is trying to get into it), but AMD is very competitive here as well. I think we will start seeing a lot more unification of their concepts between CPU and GPU. Multiple GPU dies interconnected using things like I/F, etc.

Dr. Su said AMD was more about architecture than process technology, so perhaps they can prove what most of us suspected all along - Intellectual property is the most valuable strategic asset we have. Even if Intel reverse-engineered AMD's reticles, by the time they could implement the same architecture, AMD would be pushing products to market that are 2-3 generations ahead.

My question right now is, how long will it take Intel to reach parity on this architecture front (especially if it's the key to success as AMD's CEO claims)? The other question is, even if Intel figures out the architecture and comes up with something even better, will they be able to catch up on process technology? Is it only going to be TSMC and Samsung left standing at 3nm and beyond? What sort of damage would offloading the foundry business cause Intel if they had to go pure-play to become competitive on x86?
> Classification is not needed to avoid objects. The key words here are actually "at each change, the object's tracking history is unavailable" and "without a tracking history, ADS predicts the bicycle's path as static" which is a horrible oversight.

Was it an oversight or were they having trouble with the algorithm(s) by keeping the object history and decided to purge it?
I've been flabbergasted at the number of universities that have recently stifled speakers.

I agree with much of what the author wrote. It's time for change. Classic liberalism may be best.
The top-down view problem is what I was facing when I was trying to use a detection model for a project with quadcopters. For this I had to train my object detector with the data we collected from that view. YOLO was used for this work.

Yes, replacing the fine-tuned model with compiled graph should work. I tried to keep it simple and intuitive to change the model so as to allow the use of any other custom models.
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Nobody is blaming the engineers here, they are not the ones who get to decide when to launch.
> Then in that scenario, that means that essays are worthless at evaluating students, and if AI essays really are as good as human essays, then teaching the writing of essays at the college level is a waste of time.

Case in point-- no one plays chess anymore.
My employer does this to provide 24h support:

- one shift predominantly in UTC-8 -> US West Coast

- one shift predominantly in UTC+8 ~> Singapore/Australia West Coast

- one shift around UTC+0 -> Europe

For 8h days, it works ok. I think that shorter days could work, if the shifts were split. There are also some offices outside of the 3 major time zones, which also fills in gaps.

Of course, dev availability is not usually 24/7 but there are two layers of support before issues reach dev.
Just did. One study is about brand keywords, which massively heighten the risk for what you're talking about. (I specifically excluded them in my earlier comment)

Another study is about display ads, paid for per impression. The study gives an average figure of 0.02. These are also not the typical successful google or facebook ad campaign, and are more akin to old tv ads.

The 66 page FB study isn't clear, but it also seems to be talking about ads paid for per impression? This is not what people talk about when they say you can easily track online ad returns.

Ppc ads are easy to track. You send a user to a special landing page, and you know exactly when someone got there via an ad, as only people who clicked ads go to those pages.

That said, a lot of advertisers don't do this, so they'll definitely have very real measurement problems.
Umm, have you lived in any non-car dominated city/country? Multimodal public transport is a thing.
I hate to say it, but I’ve been recently re-convinced that people like you and I live in a bubble. Most people are adamantly religious in the US if you start to dig down. I knew this when I was a reckless atheist teenager adamant about the beauty of evolution, but after surrounding myself with like-minded people for a decade, my natural tendency to give people the benefit of the doubt relapsed over that bit of my established world-view. It was only recently, when I took an astronomy class for fun and I started to talk to more people about timelines and aspects of the universe that excite me, but don’t jive with religious views so well, that I remembered this sad fact. It honestly makes it harder to hold onto any hope that the human race can reason itself out of the corner it’s worked itself into. :-(
Despite concentrated effort, I have yet to be able to forget that Facebook exists. Brand awareness marketing for companies as ubiquitous as that seems like lighting money on fire for the sake of it.
Wow. So now leaving California is like leaving the country? So why stop there? Why not squeeze everyone in California into one city?
I have clicked on an ad now and then. I can't remember the last time, though. Probably cars, but of course I can't buy a new car every day.

The thing is, though, if something is truly new to me, even if it seems like just the thing, I'm not going to buy it without doing market research. It's ingrained in me that anything that is brought to you is almost certainly garbage.
It depends on how the word trivial is used. In mathematics, it is typically meant that the logical inference is a relatively straightforward application of the axioms. I would suppose for academics in other fields they could be using the word in this sense, however, at large, most people associate a strong negative connotation with the word trivial.
Yes they would pay, you wouldn't even know the person(s) were conducting an audit. All major hotel chains already do exactly this, typically at least once a year and the property has no idea until weeks later when they get the (very detailed) report.
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Basically, everybody is mooching off of prior inventors' work due to patent expiration.

The point about higher rents, education, health costs, etc, is a miscalculation of inflation. There's a difference between two things:

(1) the undesirability of a 1000x/2x split due to increased demand for the fixed supply of land and genius doctors, which means the 1000x/2x didn't properly account for inflation, and

(2) the fact that it'd be way cooler to have a properly-inflation-adjusted 990x/12x income split than 1000x/2x, among 50%/50% of the population.

On the other hand, Haiti and the Dominican Republic have equal populations and a 10x income difference, and I'm not shedding a single tear over it.
Unless I misunderstand what you are proposing, if you are going to deprecate both = and := in favor of ←, why not simply deprecate = in favor of := ?
If you look at arxiv though, the result has been the proliferation of a ton of really low quality, garbage papers. I wonder if a you could crowdsource the review with voting and discussion a la stack exchange style. That might actually be a good solution, particularly if you have to get vetted as being knowledgeable and constructive in order to vote.
Yep. Lift tests are solid gold. A lot of people pan FB ads but the reality is they can be very incremental.

The flip side is that not every campaign, targeting strategy or ad will be incremental. You have to test and retest your way to it. A blanket assumption won’t work.
haha, yeah, I've never seen anyone so unproductive as a Japanese or Chinese engineer putting in 72 hours a week

I think this whole system of paying people an hourly wage or a salary is toxic when it comes to knowledge work. I'm pretty confident that today I could do something in a day that would have taken me a month when I started out 10 years ago. (And I can do stuff that would have been inconceivable when I was at the college student/new hire level) But I'm only making about 2-3x as much as a new hire at my current company.

I wish the whole system were a lot more freeform and mercenary.. I'd love to roll in and spend a few months building some GPU firmware or debugging camera latency issues, collect $100k at the end, and then spend a few months backpacking or whatever.

I guess that only a tiny fraction of the people I've met would be OK with that sort of existence, though..
Yep, same. I'm glad I'm not important enough to have to think about work when I'm not being paid.
I like your idea better
Usually you don’t want to assign things in IF statements. Most of the time “if (a = b)” is intended to be “if (a == b)”, hence the need for the walrus operator.
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Highly recommend testing this new cheating tool out by entering a custom prompt at https://talktotransformer.com/ (which uses GPT-2) and reading what the AI generates for your custom essay snippet.

A single sentence with a euphemism should suffice...

"I" was able to create some hilarious franken-stories. Anyone care to share their greatest hits?
That's a huge wall of text to digest every time the report is run. It would be nice if there was a diff mode that could summarize what changed between two runs.
Inflation has been pretty low for the last two decades, so by your logic inequality would be falling.
Geo tests are useful for sure, but also require a lot of data to get statistically significant results. Any noise in your data (seasonality, PR, etc) has to be taken into account as well. They’re harder to execute in general but can work well.
Regarding sample sizes.

Say, you claim your product works, on the average, for 80 years before breaking.

I believe you, buy it, and it promptly breaks within 2 years of operation.

Maybe I was unlucky. But high more likely, you were bullshitting me.

That's what we have here.

Human death rate: 1 death / 80 million miles

Uber's death rate: 1 death after 2 million miles

So yes, we can make judgement calls.
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Keep in mind the scope of the entire VR market. It has yet to reach critical mass. Anecdotally, I tried a Quest over the weekend and was blown away. The lower FPS was a bit disorienting in some conditions due to strobing, but the resolution and general responsiveness was just incredible.

And once Oculus Link is released, the Rift catalogue will be available for the Quest, and I'm considering upgrading from a Rift now that it seems like a real upgrade. I'd say a product which convinces current adopters to upgrade so soon is a success.
> Disney doesn’t tend to get enough credit as a tech company because to them tech takes a back seat to entertainment in the public eye.

I don't know. Most people who have an inkling about engineering generally regard the theme parks with nothing short of awe.
My first exposure to really opportunity to contemplate economics, in even a qualitative sense, came with Dierdre McClosky's essay in the early days of "post-autistic" economics (1-3). Her observations about the flimsiness of economic modeling, verging on simply serving as a veil naked capitalism, struck me as the sort of informed cynicism I could hold onto. 17 years later, it's her disdain for economic models in comparison to physical models that sticks with me.

(1-3): I honestly forget which of these it was, but the key term I search for is "mind-breakingly"

https://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/paradigm.pdf

http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/pdf/Article_320.pdf

https://www.deirdremccloskey.com/articles/stats/stats.php
i think as part of an audit there would be a lot of questions regarding the gray area of auditing illegal AirBnb listings- ones where you have to pretend to be just 'visiting your friend'.

verifying that a place is abiding by certain standards and has passed AirBnb's audit but still breaking local laws would probably anger lots of neighbors.

lots of illegal listings exist, and auditing would bring that to light even more.

paying a small team of auditors would probably do a ton more damage to the business in terms of losing listings than turning a blind eye or making other attempts for users to indirectly police the issue of misleading or fraudulent listings.
I dunno, it's a pretty cool idea, the author of the article mentioned Carmack didn't think it up alone, and what hero worship there is was more used as a jumping off point to discuss the problem and algorithm/solution.
Ah, they're posting on HackerNews.. He/she can just spend a few months grinding on those stupid coding challenge sites and then snag a cushy job at one of the tech megacorps. Or dig up the last "Who's Hiring" thread on this site and find a nice gig at a smaller company