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It's amazing to see actual effort taking place to build a new browser engine from scratch.

I would say that since the late 90ies, there hasn't been a single new engine being made. Everything we have now is a development based on KHTML, Gecko, Presto or Trident.

By now, HTML and the standards surrounding it have become so big that starting from a blank slate nowadays is next to impossible. The existing engines have it much easier as they are allowed to grow with the spec, but a new engine has to do everything from scratch.

This makes it even more impressive to see how far Servo is already (yes. I know - there's probably some overlap with some existing Mozilla code, but still).

Huge congrats to everyone involved. We need unafraid visionaries like you people to actually move the web forward.
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They don't even have to do a recall; All Teslas can be updated (or in this case, downgraded) over the air. All they need to do is either learn from this and fix the 'white vehicle against a white sky' problem, or remove the 'auto-pilot' feature completely, until they actually develop proper auto-pilot.

Paraphrasing from JFK: We choose to make auto-driving cars, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

There will be casulties along the way. Deaths are not a reason to stifle development. If we'd done that, we'd never have spaceflight or Vaccines (or Nuclear Weapons for that matter...) .
Good point. But I think it is too early to call this a 'freak accident', because we don't know enough.

Tesla have statistics on their side so far, but they still have not done a fraction of kilometres travelled by conventional means.

I hope the technology moves forward, but the technology is not there yet and won't be appearing on a majority of new cars for decades.

I predict - moreso than fear - that as more of these incidents occur (and I am confident there will be more), more people will lose their trust in self-driving cars.

Consider the following: The safest form of transportation is air travel. Yet despite the overwhelming evidence in air transport's favour, a significant portion of people are afraid to get on an aeroplane. Indeed, an aeroplane can practical fly itself (and have been able to for decades), yet few of us would feel safe if there wasn't a pilot on board.

Surely the same fears will soon apply to self-driving cars?
The compositing is very different: Servo does almost everything on the GPU in "retained mode" as opposed to "immediate mode," which is much faster and similar to how modern game engines work. There's a good talk here explaining it here: https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/
I Grew up in Transylvania and just took one of my friends with me when I was going back for a short vacation he loved it.

We actually took the budget flight from London to Cluj and the bus to my home-town it was a but dangerous at the bus terminal since that's where gipsies hang out to rob you but if you are careful you should be ok plus there's a lot of people around so they can't afford you making a scene or the security will kick them out.

All the other places we went to were quite safe an entertaining.

Mind you I'm a local so I know what places to avoid to not get into trouble so there's that too however most places are quite safe anyway.

If you avoid bad neighbourhoods and some transport hubs with bad security you shouldn't have any problems.
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I'm thinking of using a new language in the backend for my next project. It will essentially be a backend that serves a rest-api. I'm thinking of either going with Go or Swift.

Have anyone experience using Swift, maybe with something like https://perfect.org, for this purpose?
> There's no reason why an entire sedan should fit under the trailer of a truck.

There is, it's called capitalism, and a safety skirt costs money.

The fix is, as in many cases, regulations. However, I believe that even the shown safety skirt leaves too much space below, and especially exposed tires, which is still dangerous for pedestrians and bikers.
I'm maybe a little optimistic but why not ask a big and rich university to give him a free education and shelter for 3/4 years ? It could be good for him and for the university image (It would be a better usage of university money than recruiting people bases on their athletics skills IMHO).
There's also Godel's completeness theorem for first order logic. Much easier to prove, and also extremely important.
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Black people being poor is not incidental, but the results of systematic oppression and discrimination, for work, credit, housing, and other resources.

Go look at the wikipedia article on redlining.

And this is not a past problem, banks were charging higher interest rates for loans to blacks than whites before the recent recession.

Housing discrimination may be illegal, but that doesn't mean it's not still an issue. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/racism-alive-and-well-in-housing...

systemic racial injustice doesn't mean a racial targeting system. It doesn't even have to be conscious. It is the result of tiny acts of discrimination that add up to disadvantage people of color.

As for 19th century France, it wasn't until the 1840's that France outlawed slavery, and then it continued to discriminate against french colonial citizens of color, such as Algerians.

That's not to say that class and wealth have no role in affecting black people. But being discriminated against because one is black and being discriminated against because one is poor are not mutually exclusive; they are, if anything, mutually reinforced.
It doesn't turn off, it just ignores things that are probably something else.
> The phrase is just filler and means nothing, yet it is used everywhere

I guess this is due to legal concerns (which also provided us with pages-long email footer legalese bullcrap).
Easy. They don't.
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This is just beyond me. How did the radars not see the front portion of the truck, the front wheels, the underbody of the container isn't that high to let the entire car go through?
>When it became clear from early youtube videos that people were not using the technology 'correctly' Tesla did nothing more than issuing a statement.

Is personal responsibility something that's completely taboo nowadays?
I kind of agree but I think there's a few subtle changes as to how you phrase it.

I sometimes type "Please note <something important>" to make sure the recipient pays extra attention to this bit and actually notices it, because people have a tendency to read through email very quickly and skip vital parts. I know this for a fact based on stupid responses I've gotten.

"Please note" never implies it should actually be noted on a piece of paper, just notice it and ready it thoroughly.

"It should be noted" - however, could be interpreted as you want the recipient to actually write it on a note.

Edit: And yes, Tesla's use of "It is important to note" kind of falls in the gray zone for me... but I've never even considered this an issue
The thing to bear in mind is that not every organisation needs 'NASA-level' quality.
IMHO The Capability Maturity Model is a must-read for everyone interested in professional software development.
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This is what I was wondering too. Which is also why I predict (although basically speculating!) that an alert driver would have noticed the actual lorry itself and made the assumption that it carried a trailer, and at the very least slowed down.
I understand they're trying to protect their reputation, but the tone of the post is really defensive and hand-wavy which really sucks the compassion out of it.
Yes it has a better driving record than humans do already.

Really speaks to the promise of autopilot.
Why do you think that this is a "freak accident"? The situation doesn't seem to be very unusual or unlikely. The sensors should definitely detect a truck that is crossing your lane.
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A lot of those skirts also aren't quite as strong as they should be. Here's a comparison between one that fails testing and one that doesn't: https://youtu.be/gL8DQIAqZms?t=151

As for pedestrians and bikers, I really really like Europe's solution to that problem: Pedestrian and Bikers are illegal on the freeway. Big trucks are made strongly and forcefully impractical in cities, towns, and villages.

It's crazy that I live in downtown SF and there are huge freight trucks driving past my bedroom window every day.
Paraphrasing from the article:

Tesla Autopilot: 1 fatality per 130 million miles
All US vehicles: 1 fatality per 94 million miles
Worldwide vehicles: 1 fatality per 60 million miles

If the statistics above are accurate, logically there should be no reason for distress, worry, accusations, or mistrust. Or at least much less so than for ordinary driving. It's like shark attacks: No matter how remote it is, there's going to be big debates about it, investigations, TV specials, lawsuits, hand wringing, and new laws.
Ok, I'll bite. What's [Dupe]? Kind of like reddit tags for posts I assume?
Tesla actually use the correct term for it, the fundamental problem is a mass misunderstanding of what aircraft autopilot does.

Autopilot in an airliner is capable of flying the plane on a set course in ideal conditions. This means good weather, no other air traffic in the vicinity and full feedback from its various sensors. As soon as the plane enters a scenario outside of which it's designed to operate, control is reverted to the human pilots.

That's exactly how Tesla's system is designed. So long as the computers can account for the current scenario, the car drives itself, but it explicitly falls back on the human (who, like a pilot, must be ready to take command at any time).

A trucker pulling out on a driver and blind-siding them falls outside the definition of 'ideal condition' in my book. I live in Europe where underrun guards are mandatory on all trailers. Sounds like one wasn't fitted here. That's likely more to blame for the fatality than Tesla's software or a distracted driver - let's face it, anyone could suffer a lapse in concentration at a critical moment on the road.
> Why you don't disclose the compression time of brotli ?

I left it out because zstd didn't produce comparable output size.

I showed the compression and decompression speed at brotli at quality 7 that already compressed more densely than zstd at maximum setting. Of course it is a somewhat technically flawed comparison, because brotli gets an advantage for this kind of data from its dictionary, but I invite you to test using another set of files. (The three small compression benchmark files discussed earlier in this thread show similar trend.)
Consul's Raft implementation is leagues better than etcd's, unfortunately.
The beauty of owning tangible property is that banks will give you a loan for it, which makes the investment even better in an average economy. You get the dividends of a much higher investment, while only paying a fraction up front. I did some calculations here:

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Non for profits that buy semi trucks also do not install safety skirts. Neither do any government trucks I've seen.

I don't think capitalism is the issue.
I would have found it much more appropriate to first offer condolences before stating numbers about how good their system is performing
It was the other way around - the truck drove into the side of Tesla, which didn't react because it didn't saw the truck with its cameras because of combination of brightly lit sky and truck white color.
tagging duplicates, I assume
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No, lots of alternatives already. And given the more complex AWS Console and documentation compared to alternatives I don't think it will make much difference to whether someone who wants to start spamming your phone will think "ah yes since I can now send SMS with AWS now is the time to start spamming"
Well, if you read those vehicle statistics as "the richer the people, the less fatalities", then those Tesla Autopilot scores may be worse than you might expect.
With the pedestrians and bikers, I mainly meant when large trucks are driving in the cities to serve e.g. supermarkets - one I worked at, right in the center of Munich, had a huge 40-ton truck serving it each day.

It's dangerous as hell, but impractical to do any other way...
The proverbial "protestant work ethic". It may not be codified, but it seems to exist to some degree.
Swift (tooling) isn't even mature enough yet when I use Xcode...
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation

There are efforts to make various components work in Firefox. The largest effort is "Stylo", which replaces Firefox's selector matching with ours. I'm not sure what the future is on Firefox using Webrender or our layout; though I suspect it depends on how well stylo works.

The plan seems to be to let Servo continue to evolve as a testbed for new ideas (like webrender), and share components with firefox whenever ready. An independent Servo product is not likely in the near future, since there's a lot of work to make it fully web compat. In the far future ... well, we can't tell :)
Not everything that is important enough to write down has the same importance. While the phrase may be over-used, it is merely one in a long range of methods we use to draw more attention to statements we believe have particular importance at a specific point.

If the statement is not genuinely something that needs particular attention, then I agree that such phrases should be avoided.

However Wikipedia's policies in are not particularly relevant here, as in the case of an encyclopaedia which pieces of information are important depends entirely on what the reader is looking for at any given moment - the purpose is to make the information available, not to direct the reader to pay special attention to particular bits of information.

In many other contexts, the purpose of the text is not to merely make information available, but to influence the reader, and in many cases to specifically draw their attention to specific pieces of information. E.g. consider safety instructions or documentation of something where there are serious caveats.

In those situations various forms of emphasis are important, and using specific phrases to convey that a given statement is more important can be one valid way of creating emphasis.
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In pure Rust that never uses "unsafe", maybe. (Though even then, you only get memory safety; it's still possible to e.g. go into an infinite loop and use all CPU and/or memory).
> As a Brazilian I say sorry for all the brainless judges and law makers that we have.

Do you want them to act like Brazil is the USA's lackay (and end up like Mexico)?
I'm not even sure it counts as level 3, it's more like a high-end Level 2 system.

Level 3 requires the car to detect "all" conditions when something is going wrong, and provide the driver "sufficiently comfortable transition time".
If there is any class of event (such as a 1m overhang) which the vehicle can't safely cope with (perhaps coming to a complete stop before requiring the driver to take over), then the driver really has to be paying attention all the time, making it a Level 2 system.

And there is basically no way to deliver on that promise on today's highways without a suite of sensors and computers that are capable enough to do full Level 4.
Musk: "Radar tunes out what looks like an overhead road sign to avoid false braking events". So there's that.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/748625979271045121
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There's already 400+ comments discussion, so mods tagged this one as dupe.
Edge is a new engine, too.
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Poor software engineering, maybe. It'd be interesting to look at the picture that the radar painted for itself.
browser.html is just the browser chrome (er, not to be confused with the browser Chrome), it's an independent Mozilla project to create a frontend entirely in web technologies, which, since these are all standardized, should theoretically work with any browser engine, not just Servo.

As for Firefox, later on this year we should see the integration of Servo's style engine ("Stylo") into Gecko, and going forward we should expect to see the two codebases share even more components. However, wholesale replacement of Gecko with Servo in Firefox isn't on the table at the moment.
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In my opinion, the state's case was flimsy because they didn't really know what happened or how. Jay was involved drastically more than he let on, which explains his consistently changing story and the fact that his story doesn't match the cell phone records. Adnan knows Jay is lying, but obviously can't expose him without confessing his own role.
Best i can tell the complexity comes from a misguided idea that if just the DEs simplify and automate common tasks, Linux on the desktop will happen.

End result is that the DE people keep pushing ever deeper in the stack, violating long standing layering, that made it easier to reason about why something broke, in the process.
Ask HN: How do you lead your scrum daily stand-ups?
I bought myself a few books on scrum and liked the concept very much. So promoted the methodology within the team and we jointly decided to switch.

Some of team members had previous scrum experience however they did not rate it very high, namely they did not like daily stand-ups, they called them boring confessions.

I don't want to end up my team being bored, I see great potential behind methodology and want to continue practising it. Can you advise how do you keep your stand-ups so the team stays positive about using methodology?
Great points. To me, any act of creation or any act that aids in creation = work. Programming, gardening, reading, investing, polishing shoes - anything that makes you feel like you've done something. Rest is all consumption. Chill out = consumption, which I think has some limits.

I meant to say 10 hours of sleep, but hey 8h is the new 10h :)
How is that related to what is happening here? To fine a company for not getting that a company can't provide data it does not have is incompetence, not an act of sovereignty.
Maybe it was just my neck of Europe then. Trucks would only go to supermarkets on the big roads where there's strict physical separation between traffic and everyone else. They're also position on the edge of the city next to the ring freeway so that trucks have a short path from freeway to supermarket.

Deliveries inside the city are done with smaller lorries which are a bit safer maybe. If not safer, definitely more practical on tight inner-city streets.

I don't think it's practical for trucks to be designed as pedestrian safe as modern city buses are, so it's better to keep them away from pedestrians as much as possible.
Until somebody tries to drive a surgical robot using your webdev javascript components...

And don't dismiss the idea: they do use Microsoft Windows in surgical robots (including eye laser robots, which is why I'll never have it).
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Because, Orwell was awesome.

On the other hand, dashing off a quick comment isn't exactly the pinnacle of writing. "It is important to note" is lazy writing. So many of my comments here have the terrible sins of passive voice. I think; in my opinion; just; very; i throw in useless phrases all the time.

Forgive us for writing a long letter, we didn't have the time to write a short one.
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Part of the reason why people are afraid of flying is because you are locked inside an aluminium container flying 10km above ground. Sitting in a self-driving car is psychologically quite different.
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Correct. The EU requires underrun guards on all vehicles except tipper trucks, which cause a disproportionate number of fatalities still.

There was an attempt to introduce legislation in the US in the 90's, I believe, but it was killed.
My father's last company started to fall apart a few years ago, and he kind of let go of it and let it die. He is in the early 60s.

It was a rather gradual transition from him working hard every day and an occasional weekend, to not doing much at all.

He did some traveling, then started fixing and renovating the dacha/summer house, reading books, pestering me to explain how this or that internet or tech thing worked, and so on.

On the personal side, he became much more relaxed and less snappy/irritable.
Does Android support this as well?

I think it's a great decision for Apple to make sure developers use this functionality. Apple is still very much a hardware company. By pushing the hardware to it's limits, Apple makes sure you'll want to upgrade to the latest and greatest. Also, by doing the heavy lifting locally instead of in the cloud, Apple saves money on servers and infrastructure. And to top it off, they can make some privacy claims.
doesn't seem like it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Edge#EdgeHTML

> EdgeHTML is a proprietary layout engine developed for Edge. It is a fork of Trident that has removed all legacy code of older versions of Internet Explorer and rewritten the majority of its source code with web standards and interoperability with other modern browsers in mind.
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>Maybe your rust code is fine but you're trying to open and write to the same file from two places which you don't realise because the users file system is case insensitive but you've only tested on a case sensitive one, etc

That sounds too precise to be just an example :) We've all been there!
I'm a little shocked that no one's pointed out that Harald Hårfarge is the name of the king that's credited with making Norway one nation (some bitter people claim this isn't true just because it was made up in the 1300s, some 300 years after Harald died).

Fitting that it is the name of the ship that's sent to re-capture Vinland.
True, but that's those who are simply afraid of flying. It still doesn't necessarily explain those people who would be uncomfortable flying without a pilot, but perfectly fine with one.

I also hear people telling me that they would not be comfortable with a passenger on a self-driving bus. Anecdotal evidence, I know. And since they haven't actually experienced one, I still think the jury is out on this one; but it still strike me as curious that rational people are not always swayed by statistics.
Maybe they should stop calling it autopilot and start calling it driving assist like every other car makers does.
I don't think this has anything to due with legality. A legal contract, for example, doesn't need this phrase anywhere for the words to be legally binding: after all, they are in the contract itself, therefore don't need any special modifier.
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