skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uncommon for the computer (or human) driving the car.

You have to understand the magnitude of the perfection needed to have any hope of implementing it.

Tell me: Before you read my message, would you have assumed at a computer that is 99% perfect, or 99.9% perfect, would be better than a human?

I can tell you, that until I did the math, I thought so myself.

But 99.99999% is 10,000 better! If the computer was 99.9% perfect you would have almost 1 million fatalities per year (assuming things scale linearly, which I'm sure they wouldn't, probably most of the time driving is easy and 99.9% would still not get into an accident).

> It's a regular, daily occurrence for 92 real human lives every day.

I know. (Although you said that badly: it's not a daily occurrence for those people. But I get your emotion.)

But a computer will not solve this problem, not for a long time. We simply are not able to make a computer that is that good.

Let's see if we can make a web browser that is that good before we try to make a driving computer that good.

It also puts human drivers in a new light. I was of the camp that people are terrible, horrible drivers that kill all the time.

But actually humans are nearly perfect at driving, it's just there are so very very many people driving, so even a tiny cumulative error shows up.
Yes, this aligns with the jurisprudence that homes are not considered private because they may receive mail.
I would jump into community education and helping find opportunities.
I'm also curious what OP meant by that point
thanks for clarifying, but how is this different than applying at bottom of the ladder since the jobs are posted externally already?
> as part of their WRT line is intended to support open source firmwares

Not sure about the 1200, but I have the WRT610N and it has never worked completely with Open/DD-WRT. The best I got (before leaving it and returning to the original firmware) was a functional router but no USB and no 5GHz band.
my understanding is that this only applies to subscriptions paid through the app though right? What percentage of the total subscriptions does that represent.
Macy's banned from detaining and fining alleged shoplifters, judge rules
The Archer C7 (and the equivalent D7) is a spectacular device and is frequently rated as the best buy for your dollar. It has 512mb for the NAT table so it can accommodate an office full of people skyping/downloading/torrenting
I was too young to ever see or use VRML, but I believe that VR is much more accessible now than it's ever been. At this point, you only need a 3D capable smartphone in order to view VR. Forget the cardboard, you can still use the phone as a small viewport to view the virtual world. Right now, I still feel like VR is a novelty though, kind of like the smartwatch. Sure it's cool, but it's not necessarily a need quite yet.
Isn't Twilio's gross margin like 50%?

I think it's a market where winning is about customer acquisition and retention, not necessary cost-control, though I'll grant that could become more important over time.
Yeah, CRTs are pretty "rocketpunk", though there's a similarly "rocketpunk" device still found in many homes today... the microwave oven.
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If there are ANY tax payer dollars involved, shouldn't the tax payers have some say in this?
This already happens to some extent with textbooks, movies, and especially video games. So it's not a huge stretch to imagine the same iterative trends more broadly in written works. I think it's fine as long as all released revisions remain available.
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AberdeenCloud 36-hour shutdown notice
>IIUC

First time seeing this, but it's If I Understand Correctly for those who didn't know either.
Communicate about it. Whether it's writing internal documentation, user documentation, discussing things with another developer, or just talking to a rubber duck, just forcing the concepts into sentences can really help you think about them. Several times I've been like "this code seems ok" but then when I had to think through it and explain what it does I thought "no, that's too embarrassing, I need to improve that."
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Ask HN: Resources for learning how to hand-write modern x86-64 assembly?
It's kind of weird, my day job is writing high-level code in a Clojure web app, but I'm drawn to low level languages, e.g. I like writing C code in my free time.

Lately I've been really interested in learning assembly. (And from the posts on HN lately, it seems I'm not the only one.) I get the gist of the concepts, but that's far different from being proficient at it.

Can you recommend any good books or ideally free websites or blogs that, if followed along with diligently, will teach a person to become fairly good at writing modern x86-64 assembly code, from scratch, by hand?
Interesting that you assert "Our" in the sense of the US.
The locked door and air marshal stop the plane from becoming a jet-fuel missile directed at any point in range and turn it into a bomb plummeting inaccurately somewhere under its flight path.
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Don't let facts ruin a good outrage. This is HN and we like to be hypocrites.
If only their interface weren't so painful. I love what my Roku does for my media on my TV with connecting everything, but man is it clunky to navigate.
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> As taxpayers are only 15 percent

Only because they are very successfully at monetizing their content which was originally bootstrapped by tax and donations. After this exclusive deal that percentage may drop further.
First responders practiced for handling scenarios like the Boston bombings for years before 2013. It paid off.
My understanding is it is partly an enabling step to later introduce some sort of pattern matching along the lines of the work Bjarne had been doing so new syntax will likely come.
> Not sure if a portable jit-constructed interpreter can reach the performance of the hand-written assembly interpreter of LuaJIT. My assumption is that what makes LuaJIT fast is careful consideration of architecture specific details.

> Maybe you've seen this already: http://nominolo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/implementing-fast-int... (notice the part about portability)

My assumption would be that architecture specific details contribute relatively little towards the performance of LuaJIT outside of register constrained architectures (x86-32, most obviously). Mike's comment on Reddit years ago about the performance of LuaJIT's interpreter seems to be consistent with that: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/badl2/luajit_2.... We're now reaching a point where x86-32 performance isn't such a consideration any more (simply because it's an increasingly rare architecture), so you can just bound your number of virtual registers to the lower-bound of the architectures you care more about (so therefore you maintain 1:1 mapping on all those you care much about).

As that post says in its bit about portability (LLInt is JavaScriptCore's interpreter, mentioned in my post above, for those unaware), most of these portable assembly implementations have means to drop down and hand-write architecture specific code for the cases where it makes much difference, and in general you can do smart enough instruction selection it won't make much difference.

Some of the big gains come from having control over stack layout (as you don't need to separately maintain an interpreter stack separate to the thread's), which accounted for a lot of the overhead in JavaScriptCore's old interpreter, and which LLInt deliberately uses the same stack layout as the JITs do, hence allowing on-stack replacement (OSR) between the interpreter and JIT. This is something that Ignition is aiming to do, and it's something that LuaJIT does.
That's about the only positive statement on that page. Here's context.

The title:

What Actually Changed in Google’s Privacy Policy

It Shouldn't Take a Letter from Congress for Google to Give Straight Answers
About Privacy Policy Changes

and the sentence after the one you quoted

Unfortunately, while the policy might be easier to understand, Google did a
less impressive job of publicly explaining what in the policy had actually
been changed. In fact, it took a letter from eight Representatives to
persuade them to provide straightforward answers to the public about their
new policy.

and again

Unfortunately, Google’s original explanation left much to be desired. The
policy’s overview page said nothing about the substantive changes that were
occurring in the policy, and the FAQ was equally vague:

So yes, maybe Google notified people. But unless you view reading a large document written by lawyers as somehow pointing out that Google is now collecting the same data the NSA worked so hard to get their hands on -- the call logs of every android user -- that's nothing like notification.

Here's notification as written by someone who actually wants to notify rather than do the minimum possible to cover their ass while simultaneously obscuring what they actually collect:

We will now record and store every phone number you call.

This goes a long way towards explaining why people trust Apple and distrust Google.

ps -- under substantial changes, nothing about telephony. So apparently the eff didn't see or didn't understand the change either.
Depends when the service was signed up for as I see it - it used to be less creepy.
A messaging app doesn't have to require port forwarding, it can use a central server to broker the connection between endpoints. In that scenario, the "server" is on the internet, not the residential connection, but data comes from the endpoints.
I know it might be judgmental and possibly hypocritical, but I can't help but think that kind of intellect and education is wasted on trying to beat a casino.

If money is the end goal, wouldn't there be a bigger opportunity in pursuing investment strategy ideas (i.e. market inefficiencies), or working on making some process more efficient that could disrupt some industry (i.e. spam/phishing detection, or deep learning) and have better chance of long term gains. I'd think casino strategies once discovered can be mitigated over time so all that hard work will payoff temporarily?
finding that the probability is extremely small doesn't really get you any closer to proving it. for such a hard to prove theorem, it makes sense the probability is small. that's why it was interesting in the first place.

I find it hard to believe Feynman concluded from this that the theorem is probably correct. it only takes 1 case among an infinity to make the theorem false.
I think he meant cell carrier, not ISP.

But I disagree with him on this one. I'm glad Apple was able to get "special treatment" for many things from the carriers. They were more draconian than Apple with their rules.

Now Android can also install firmware and applications without the carriers saying no so that was a good thing.
> if self driving cars are just a little better than humans

You say that so glibly. Have you ever done the math? I did, I posted it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12012166

Summary: The computer would have to be better than 99.99999% perfect to save any lives.
FWIW I thought it came through fine
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We really need to revisit the purely geographic definition of a "market" when it comes to antitrust law in a digital age.
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The app store itself is a monopoly.

Apple then leverages its monopoly in app stores on Apple's platform into other business (Apple Music, eBooks, digital video, etc). This is anti-competitive behaviour and illegal.

Only legal gap is declaring Apple's app store on its platform a monopoly, the second that is done then everything else naturally falls into place and Apple receives antitrust violations.
Extensive discussion of Tesla crash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12011419

Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12014143

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12012328

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12012676

and many other posts.
The High Performance Browser Networking book that was recently featured here has a good section about this.

https://hpbn.co/primer-on-latency-and-bandwidth/#speed-of-li...
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what would be neat is to have drones that can pass a package from one to the other while in flight using a battery charging base station like that. sorta of like an internet router for things.
I guess it is time to consider.NET. With Linux support and upcoming JetBrains IDE that will be the smoothest transition possible.
Conversion Ratio (short story)