skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would have read a little better if the last paragraph was earlier. It ends up sounding tawdry after the massive disclaimer.
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No, those shell offices were paid for by stolen american tax money, ran by foreign citizens controlled by proxy, using infrastructure controlled by proxy, producing things for the original company. "Why should that tax revenue instead go to a different country that didn't contribute to it?" Because it is a felony.
No other auto maker would do this. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this makes me respect Tesla even more.

It's also a reminder to engineers to have an extremely high bar of excellence.

EDIT: thanks for telling me I'm wrong. This was a self-serving blog post on their part to damage control.
In addition to what others have covered, connect him with a pro bono counselor to help him smooth out the inevitable ups and downs as his new life unfolds, and also to help coordinate other medical care. Also, help him get signed up for base health insurance under Obamacare. Finally, find him a pro bono accountant, if you can, to help him discover and correct any tax issues that may have come up while he was in prison. It would suck for him to go from freedom right back into the court system due to some easily corrected tax issue.
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Good point. I ommitted farm cats, despite growing up on a farm. In that case, they are useful.
Tesla should not allow autopilots. They have nothing to gain by the negative publicity they will get from cases like these. Regardless of how bad luck the driver had, tesla can always be blamed for relaxing the driver's reflexes by giving a false sense of safety. It doesnt matter if it was by default turned off or hidden in menus.

What other companies use this kind of driving assist system? The ones i know are only hinting to the driver , and disengage if the driver does not respond.

Got to be careful about these things. You don't put beta stuff in cars. It's like your doctor making drug trials on you. They should figure out a way that autopilot engages the driver and keeps his eyes on the road.
I don't think you know what you are talking about.

If no one wants to hire a felon to do some kind of entry level job, how about a felon being followed around by the paparazzi (or otherwise very much in the public eye)? Does that sound better to an employer?

I seriously doubt it.
This was entirely defensive and self-serving on behalf of Tesla. It's a general PR release, companies do these all the time. What made this so special?
It's both.
This statement is also disengenuous:

This is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles where Autopilot was activated. Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94 million miles. Worldwide, there is a fatality approximately every 60 million miles.

The wording implies that these numbers are directly comparable, but they are not. I would guess that Autopilot is much more likely to be activated in safe situations. But the other statistics include all situtations.
the fact that they could.

Imagine how many press releases there'd be per day if another auto company felt compelled to do one for each accident their cars were involved in.
I think it will work and I think it will come. What I most disagree with is the timescale for the shift to occur :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Severin#The_Brendan_Voyage...

That is also a great book and similar adventure.
That doesn't sound like what happened. "The driver didn't notice" well, that's why they're using autopilot.

No matter how many messages people throw at users, any autopilot that doesn't detect that the driver is awake and operating the vehicle is going to be used by sleeping or otherwise unattentive drivers. It's just human nature.

So what likely happened was the driver was screwing around and the autopilot completely failed to notice a giant white truck crossing the road and blocking their way until it was too late.

edit: reply is quite right, shouldn't speak ill of the dead that way. "Screwing around" is unfair. I just mean that "driver falls asleep/paying attention to other things" is the expected outcome of any autopilot system, and so it's unreasonable of autopilots to have any expectation of drivers for attentiveness.
As most of you have already seen, Autopilot has detected similar situations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X-5fKzmy38
* ExxonMobil
* BP
* Shell Oil

OK, these three alone have more money and lawyers than the NRA could ever dream of. If they didn't pursue legal action, there's not a snowball's chance in a hatchery this is going to hold in court.
hmmm...it'd be nice if Stanford IT also mentioned to us, "Hey BTW be wary of a crypto attack"
How would we ever know that the autopilot acted correctly? Should companies be required to release logs after every crash when a car is in autopilot? Seems fair.
Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky,

I'm intrigued that the color is relevant in the car's case - wouldn't it be using some sort of radar to detect and map objects rather than vision? I appreciate I am probably missing something.
The document in question is fantastic. I'm a lifetime NRA member living in canada, and I would _love_ to see if there was an increase in violent crimes by homeless people if they were armed.

I've been witness to a lot of homeless people in my city being killed (often for sport). Arming the homeless, as Tom Morello advertised, might be in our best interest as a society.
The answers are unclear, no, and no.

Also your conclusion about "rational decision" is clearly wrong. Taking risks is not necessarily rational. Doubly not when you are a single mother with 3 kids and a deadbeat ex.

Taking the job guaranteed losing her money. If she kept the job for a couple of years, she would have started to break even, but it would be quite a few years until she was ahead of where she was. Instead she continued to look for a job that either paid just little enough to keep food stamps, or offered a prospect of paying enough to offset losing food stamps.

Your reasoning is based on the theory that your best way up is to take the best job you can and then work your way up. That was how things worked when I was a kid. But today people tend to improve their job by switching jobs, not by being promoted in their current one. Therefore staying underpaid is often a better route up than switching to a job you don't want in the hope of maybe being promoted some day.
The cash used to "build" the offices was already taxed as net income. And what if it's a lease? Fixed cost investments happen all the time.

The employees in the offices are citizens of that country or immigrants approved by the local government of that country. If they are U.S. citizens then they typically pay income tax to the U.S. (depending on the reciprocity).

The infrastructure (roads, water, energy, police & fire protection, healthcare, etc.) being used by those offices and employees were paid for by that country.

Also the citizens in that country are the ones paying for a product or service - so again, why should a different company reap the tax revenue?
What they gain is hours on the road, real-life driving data. That's invaluable for tuning of machine learning systems like this one.

They've also, FWIW, gained quite a bit of positive press. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tesla+autopilot...
So how would autopilot turn the wheel if the driver is holding it?
Some of the newer machines don't look for anything other than the Microsoft folder in EFI. Instructions for ubuntu are similar for others.

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
cd /mnt/EFI

mkdir -p Microsoft/Boot
cp /mnt/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /mnt/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi

You may also need to create /EFI/Boot and copy the .efi file there as well.
DO was unduly spooked by an empty legal threat. This was not a DMCA notice, this was a trademark notice. Parodies are protected under trademark law. Bad form taking down even a single page, and terrible form taking down an entire service.

https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.ht...
You should incorporate other cipher's with emojis as well, give the users more options. That could be fun
On a tangential note, my neighbor plays the same music daily outside for 1.5 hours and it actually infuriates me (musical torture). I end up needing to turn on my AC and some ambient noise videos to block it out.

Have tried the civil route, but it's not working and it's not illegal to be a rude neighbor. Anyone have any insights on how best to handle this, other than moving out?
From the various articles, he was in the process of becoming a US Marshal when these events unfolded.
They are going to have to take my fake NRA logo from my cold dead hands.
Tesla fatal autopilot crash
From the information given, we don't know if the truck pulled out right in front of the car giving the driver no time to react, or if the truck pulled out a minute beforehand and the driver was just oblivious. In the absence of any information either way, it's nasty to just assume the driver was inattentive.
Tesla 8.0 update: new Autopilot features, UI refresh
From the article, it seems that this autopilot checks that the driver is attentive.

> When drivers activate Autopilot, the acknowledgment box explains, among other things, that Autopilot “is an assist feature that requires you to keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times," and that "you need to maintain control and responsibility for your vehicle” while using it. Additionally, every time that Autopilot is engaged, the car reminds the driver to “Always keep your hands on the wheel. Be prepared to take over at any time.” The system also makes frequent checks to ensure that the driver's hands remain on the wheel and provides visual and audible alerts if hands-on is not detected. It then gradually slows down the car until hands-on is detected again.
I mean I understand Tesla has to make a statement here and I understand they want to ensure everyone that it's not really their fault but to title a post "A Tragic Loss" and then spend the majority of the post discussing all of your car's safety features and how it wasn't your fault just seems tone deaf and distasteful to me.

Maybe they had to do it for legal reasons I don't know (I'm certainly not a lawyer) and I'd love to own a Tesla but couldn't they have worded this a little more sympathetic and a little less lawyer?
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Also chrome uses polymer components for parts of its UI.
> Another lambda rather than a double compose is almost always the answer.

Exactly. I also like to choose between do, >>= and <$>, <*> etc. based on readability. I prefer a slightly more clumsy but readable do {...} in many situations.
>detect that the driver is awake and operating the vehicle

RTFA. It mentions explicitly that autopilot checks for hands on the wheel.
Main issue is that once you take away 90% of the requirement for a human to focus on the task at hand (driving) they are going to ignore the remaining 10% where an exception occurs.
Autopilot engaged when a tractor trailer drove across the highway perpendicular to the Model S. Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied.

How is this not an "Autopilot did something very very wrong" story?

Tesla autopilot drove the vehicle full-speed into a tractor-trailer, which wasn't registered by its sensor systems. It's great that Tesla already has an explanation for the failure, but the situation as described is far from an improbable edge case. What they are saying is that the autopilot can't detect white objects when a bright light is present -- that's a pretty serious limitation to overlook.
Care to share a link? Google News doesn't turn up any CNBC results yet as of now.
It wouldn't necessarily mean _internationally_ because countries outside of the EU wouldn't be required to work with the system.

It would only work intra-nationally (scoped to the member states of the EU (as an oversimplification)).
It amazes me that Apple gets away with being a user hostile company and users love them anyway (Stockholm syndrome) or because of it (masochists.) Full control of your camera? Surely you must be joking. Analog headphone jack? You don't need that, go buy a new set of headphones or an adapter.
I count myself as a big Tesla fan but this announcement is too heavy on the disclaimers and ass covering and too little on empathy and sympathy.
The only situation I can imagine a driver not noticing a huge truck perpendicular to them on the highway, regardless of what color it is, is that they're not paying any attention at all.

This peculiar wording is making it sound like the computer made the same mistake as the driver, but it seems much more likely that they made two different mistakes. The computer's mistake was in image recognition, and the person's mistake was trusting the autopilot fully and not paying attention to the road.
It does but it's not terribly frequent and it's easy to bypass. When you give people a feature they're going to use it however they want regardless of what you tell them. Users are funny like that :)
Retailers always play favorites with brands based on how much companies are willing to pay them. This is nothing new, hidden, nor is there anything illegal about it.
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Worked in healthcare IT. Breaches are inevitable. Not "if", but "when".

The attack surface area is huge. My team created 5 regional healthcare exchanges. Hospitals, insurers, scripts, labs, etc. So many weak links in the chain.

So you'd think "encrypt" the data (ala translucent database designs). But you can't. Because we don't have unique identifiers for all persons, demographics must be stored in plaintext, so that medicals records can be matched across heterogenous systems.
This seems like a pretty big oversight, large object that car is too tall to clear safely seems like it could cause a lot of problems. Would the car try to make a lane change while next to a trailer?
... then kill the cell. :-)

More seriously though, that it can positively affect brain conditions has been known for a while[1].

[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00109-005-0025-1#/...
> it's not illegal to be a rude neighbor

That depends on how loud the music is, and other things besides. You might want to check with your city to see if you can file a noise complaint.
FWIW, the first submitter of this post seems to be Jeremy Ashkenas, who was the creator of CoffeeScript:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128166

Even if you're being half-facetious...while CoffeeScript seems to have fallen in favor with the onset of ES6, it's hard to overstate its influence in 2011...Rails, which was most definitely the hott framework du jour, decided to make CoffeeScript -- along with the much more ubiquitous jQuery and SASS -- part of its default stack: http://www.rubyinside.com/rails-3-1-adopts-coffeescript-jque...
I'll give you that it's not a story of Autopilot driving off a cliff, but it may be a case of someone getting killed due to a problem with Autopilot. While it's factually true that the driver did not notice, what we can't know is if the driver would have noticed if they were more aware without autopilot engaged. Anyone that thinks drivers pay as much attention to the road when Autopilot is enabled is being naive.
It's like[1] serializing program state to a sequential form (eg xml, json, protocol buffer, etc).

The sequential form is useful for communication and persistent storage.

While the sequential form can be used for processing, it's clunky, because not its main usage. Consider XSLT.

The set of valid messages is even formally called a language.

[1] Or, rather, serialization is like it.
I didn't read it like that. It felt like it was addressing directly the Tesla owner spooked at the news.

Also, if I were the target of the PR shenanigans pulled on Tesla, I would want to use precise language, too.
This sounds exactly like the previous Autopilot failure! A high-up truck where the Tesla slides under and crashes.
If autopilot fails when it's sunny and the obstacle is white, I have doubts about autopilot.
True. That is what is does by default, and does it well.
Until it is explained how it will be funded this fact should always be brought up.
Regardless of whether it is a valid reason for fewer women in tech, I think men are far more prone to destructive rebellion that can lead to criminal hacking. So, at least in that respect, females may just be less interested in the destructive hacking arts and more interested in constructive hacking.
I don't know if autopilot really "saved the day" there. Maybe for an incompetent driver (which is most, so this is a net positive for safety).

But as a human driver, I would have taken human psychology into account and guessed the turning car was going to take advantage of that gap, thus causing me to approach much more cautiously.

I don't know how fast that tesla was going, but I don't think I'd be doing more than 5-10 mph in that kind of traffic. I would also expect cars in the right lane to unexpectedly switch into the left. It seems to me the Tesla was overconfident and going about 25 mph.

edit: I feel like my tone here is too harsh (mainly because my personal reaction is that this autopilot feature is professionally irresponsible). Let me pull back my emotions a little and try again:

The only reason the autopilot feature here "saved the day" is because it was driving in an irresponsible manner in the first place. As the comment below me points out, it was driving at 45 MPH, compared to the 5-15 MPH you should be driving. For a defensive human driver, there shouldn't have been a close call in the first place.

The Tesla is driving irresponsibly because it cannot take into account human behavior. It stopped in time in this scenario, but there's obviously a point at which the stopped car could turn and the Tesla could not physically stop in time. This can happen at any speed, but the 45 MPH collision is much much worse than a 10 MPH collision.

I'd also like to point out that the autopilot was likely breaking the law. The speed limit on that road is probably 55 - 65 MPH, but the speed limit indicats the maximum speed in perfect conditions. When it's dark and raining and heavy traffic, going the speed limit is in fact speeding. If the Tesla had hit the turning car, the driver of the Tesla would probably have been cited for speeding, even at 45 MPH.
Because you're just not the target, and that's fine.

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Technologies like autopilot are going to save lives. This was one of around 90 fatal traffic accidents in the US on the same day (based on historical averages). It's going to be hard to make a foolproof system, however anything that makes it less likely for an inattentive drive to crash into something is a win.
> Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky,

So this got me wondering: are there areas where retinae still do better than cameras at certain kinds of discrimination problems? Nature still has human technology beat on hardware in a few categories (particularly joints), but I didn't expect eyes to be one of them. When I look at or near a bright light, I can see objects close to the light much better than I can in a photograph, but I always assumed this was only because I had a cheap camera.

The corresponding question is: how expensive is the camera that prevents this accident?
You would see a similar release from any company where a technology they have been pushing could be front and center as the cause.

This isn't just another horrible car accident on US roads, the car was in charge this time and a technology they've been heralding for it's safety is going to be blamed. That's why there is a federal investigation into it. That's why there is a press release to protect the stock price.
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Nearly every photo of space you see, especially from Hubble, is usually a composite, falsely colored, or otherwise altered in ways that bring out the important features of the photo. Note that the idea of "true color" for these sorts of astronomical photos is itself a bit ill-defined.

Here's some information about the kinds of manipulations that might go into these photos:
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I agree. I'm starting to get really weirded out by Tesla's immediate "not our fault!" blog posts every time a Tesla is involved in any kind of accident. I could see the necessity the first few times back when it was new technology to a lot of people (and Top Gear had it in for them), but with it happening over and over it seems whiny and a bit callous. How long to they plan to keep doing this?
Don't know those details but his lawyers obviously worked with Netflix on creation of the series. It would be hard to imagine that there was no compensation involved.
I don't care. They pretend to play morality games, they get held to a certain standard by public, that's just how it works.

If they are amoral entity, I'm sure they won't care for Spanish government doing unethical but not illegal things to them as well.
Autopilot uses a forward facing camera & radar. It sounds like the truck came in at a perpendicular angle. It may have been in the cone of sight for the camera but not the radar depending on how those are setup.

The 360 degree sensors on the Tesla are for parking only (< 20 feet range).

Personally when I worked on a self driving car we were going with 360 degree camera and doing path planning based on that, but Tesla has opted not to do that.
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