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cmac2992on Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident

I wonder if there'd be a meaningful difference in accident rates when perception of a the cars capabilities change.

"My car will jump in if I fuck up"(current driver aides) seems a lot different than "I have to jump in if my car fucks up".

cmac2992on Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation

That one is pretty vague. Here's another that I found that's a lot more explicit. This one is definitely from 2013.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/od8XBXMP1YoacpMo2

cmac2992on Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident

This is the exact reason why we need Nationwide disclosures of automous miles driven. California requires this stat, so it's data is the most telling.

California .92 deaths per 100 million (human)vehicle miles traveled. There were only 500k autonomous miles driven in California last year.

I'd bet your guess about death rate per mile is right considering waymo which has largest and most advanced fleet only drove 2 million miles nationwide last year.

cmac2992on Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident

People crossing streets mid block is such a common in pheonix that last week Arizona announced a plan spend $250k on educating the community on this very problem. Pheonix is one of the most dangerous cities for pedestrians and bikers. Pheonix is built for cars not people, a ton of roads are fast 4 Lanes in residential areas.

cmac2992on Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation

Here's a screenshot of the old api docs.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/x6WQmxyX0JIL26d62

If I'm remembering correctly the API would return all of the things you mentioned if that info was shared to your friends

cmac2992on Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation

https://photos.app.goo.gl/0z3F0BH9Q0wNK0nz1

I think this is from 2013.

cmac2992on Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation

I found the old permissions request. Seems fairly clear to me, but I doubt people really understand the consequences

https://photos.app.goo.gl/0z3F0BH9Q0wNK0nz1

cmac2992on Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M

What GPU is in that prebuilt? I think you'd probably want a 1070 especially for windows MR headsets.

Right now with gpu and memory prices inflated due to cryto mining, prebuilts are very competitively priced. If you want to build your own, definitely go with a motherboard gpu bundle otherwise you'll be paying $$$ for a gpu.

cmac2992on Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M

Awesome. After playing with Google's go pro light field images, it's really hard to go back and enjoy regular 360 photos. The quality and 6dof sense of presence. was amazing. Hopefully the addition of lytros tech makes it even better.

cmac2992on WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook

Regular folks have no idea how any idea how any of these systems work. It's hard for most people to understand the privacy tradeoffs.

Something like "nutrition facts" for data privacy seems like a reasonable policy.

cmac2992on WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook

Quite literally his campaign invented the tactic of scraping your friends list as a way to persuade voters. The important difference was CA used data that was gathered under the misleading guise of a personality quiz.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/the-obama-campai...

cmac2992on Engineers create plants that glow

I had some friends work on a similar project a few years ago. They found that the glowing was not bright enough to be useful for anything meaningful and it significantly hindered plant growth.

cmac2992on Facebook’s 2016 Election Team Gave Advertisers a Blueprint to a Divided US

There is a button in the app to give feedback about a post including flagging it as hate speech. There is also a sad and angry reaction?

cmac2992on Fiat vs. Bitcoin

Cheating, also known as deficit spending.

cmac2992on Reddit Bans Nazi Groups and Others in Crackdown on Violent Content

Everybody is running into the same issue. Even voat is is banning "subreddits". Turns out managing UGC is a really hard problem.

https://voat.co/v/announcements/163288

cmac2992on An impossibility theorem for gerrymandering

ranked choice voting is interesting. It also has its fair share of problems (as most voting methods do)

I believe the 14th amendment specifically applies to state elections under the "equal protection clause".

cmac2992on An impossibility theorem for gerrymandering

From my understanding, the Baker v Carr in 1962 decision enabled federal courts to intervene in and to decide redistricting.

Back in the day redistricting was even crazier. You could just draw an arbitrary number of districts with arbitrary population sizes. That seems bad on the surface. With this system, election outcomes could potentially be entirely determined by how districts were gerrymandered.

The efficiency standard seems like trick to get closer to proportional representation. All of this comes down to the 14th amendment being "one person one vote" rather than something like "all votes must have equal weight". A small language that has made things really complicated.

IMO just switching to proportional representation is a much cleaner solution. But the efficiency standard seems like a decent solution to keeping races competitive and from being severely gerrymandered.

cmac2992on Text-only CNN

I'm getting a totally blank page on Android 7.0 chrome 61.

cmac2992on Houston floods show risks of ignoring science and letting developers run rampant

I'm certainly no expert

My back of napkin math says they are $48k short per household.

But ya, Harvey would have been devastating regardless of past insurance policy pricing.

cmac2992on Houston floods show risks of ignoring science and letting developers run rampant

The whole thing gets crazy when you realize the federal government was basically subsidizing development in these high risk flood areas. The federal flood insurance rates were not properly evaluating the risk to insure these areas. They were using older flood maps which don't account for changes in urban sprawl and global warming

https://www.vox.com/2017/8/26/16208230/hurricane-harvey-floo...

cmac2992on Google is coming after critics in academia and journalism

I'm way less concerned about Google and more concerned about the integrity of these think tanks that generate a good amount of public policy

cmac2992on Google is coming after critics in academia and journalism

I think direct interfere of jb is way less likely that self censorship. Outcomes are similar

cmac2992on Alexa and Cortana now work together

I've got an Alexa dot and a Google Home right next to each other. I also find Alexa's commands especially rigid. But "Hey Google" is a guttural sound that's almost a tongue twister and the mic's aren't as good so I stick with the Alexa for hue.

cmac2992on Alexa and Cortana now work together

A basic hue setup was pretty easy. Getting the keywords right with groups/scenes and multiple bulbs with an alexa has been a challenge. I've helped 2 fairly technical people with it. Both had the same problem. Once you lay out all the parts and pieces and explain how they interact it makes sense. It isn't something I could just give to my parents and have them figure it out.

cmac2992on Alexa and Cortana now work together

*once you get it setup.

cmac2992on What Nassim Taleb can teach us

He totally lost me when he started talking about Michael Flynn being one of the great military minds or praising The Mooch's rant and "being direct, natural, and nononsense".

Seems like a smart guy but...

cmac2992on Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor

One of the best Enterprise uses I've heard for hololens is measuring spaces. The voices of VR podcast described a company that installs stair lift. Before theyd have to have multiple people come and take lots of measurements before the install. Now it's just one person who can get all measurements in less than 15 minutes.

cmac2992on Show HN: $200 Solar Self-Sufficiency Without Your Landlord Noticing

Does that work with a regular meter? My internet sluething says some people have been charged for the electricity the produce because they don't have a "compatible" meter.

cmac2992on Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

I built an ad arbitrage site around shitty 50 slide slideshows. Drove traffic with Facebook paid and monitized with AdSense. Cleared $2k the first week and then basically got crushed by Google smart pricing.

cmac2992on “1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”

Rewarding in ways, but mostly just overwhelming and depressing. Seeing it IRL really puts things in perspective.