skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She got her puppy vaccinations, but didn't go to the vet for a very long time after that - it wasn't in my budget, and wasn't necessary. My dad needed a dog, so he takes care of her now, and I'm sure he'd have her teeth cleaned if the new vet had recommended it.
Orthopedic surgery is indeed a lot like wood working. Surgeons use saws and drills routinely in the operating room.

See also (for example): http://www.orsupply.com/medical/category/Surgical-Instrument...
it causes much more than a hash table lookup: it causes an attribute lookup, which is ...

1. an instance __dict__ lookup,
2. a __getattr__ call (itself involving another hash lookup)
3. a class property lookup
4. superclass property lookups (if there are any superclasses)

If it was just a hash table lookup, it would be LuaJIT2 fast. But it's more like 10 hash table lookups and indirections, and that's assuming you don't actually try to hook any of this machinery to do something.
>And as most people have at least some capital

What? Most people in most Western countries are net-debtors. They literally own negative capital.
This entire article is based on the premise that two very different situations are directly comparable.

In the former, people sometimes accidentally stomp the gas instead of the brakes, then report the opposite.

In the latter, Tesla markets a feature as "Autopilot". It pilots a car into another vehicle. The feature had apparently been demonstrated at events with key safety features disabled: attendees are able to use it without their hands on the wheel. "Autopilot" fails to account for a common real-world traffic occurrence and its driver has an inadequate mental model of the feature, which is made up of a complicated mesh of sensors and software.

There may be something to the argument that self-driving car features will reduce traffic fatalities even as they become responsible for a distinctive (but hopefully small) subset of those fatalities. But this article doesn't make that point.

The problem people have with features like Autopilot is that it may not be reasonable --- at least, as those features are currently designed --- to expect human drivers to model their behavior accurately enough to use them safely. This is an HCI problem that people in the computer industry should be very familiar with. I'm surprised to see it dismissed so easily.
> ...and is in fact an ardent denier who compared those who do believe that climate change is a serious threat 'nazis'.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/02/time-to-push-back-agains...

You're putting a spin on what he believes, and how the nazis thing got started.
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https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=10207330892938907

https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=819990121366190

https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=10200714837656784

http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/26525/how-to-disable-comments-for-my-post-in-facebook

https://www.pcsteps.com/2273-disable-comments-on-a-facebook-page/
http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/01/salesforce-lost-the-biddin... has details and filing.
I think Phoenix/Elixir has dethroned Haskell.
I've long wanted a type of hidden tagging / categorization system that friends can add to each other's photos or posts.

If it's tagged "baby" or "religion", for instance, I could have that filtered out. Would make it 1000x more enjoyable to use.
I don't understand the hostility of your post but I do feel like there are some places where I can have the best of both worlds.

The Ukraine (after this war dies down) or the Czech Republic will loosely fit the bill and they both come with the bonus of having similar food that I grew up with due to my Russian background.

Places like Alaska fit better on a legal level and are still in the country I grew up in: the USA.
Not necessarily. Or rather, the growth of wealth could double every few months.

And this wealth effect could be due to massive reductions in labor costs by employing AI, leading to increases in standard of living as the price of good plummets.

I haven't looked at charts for the economy as a whole, but I bet certain kinds of technology provide nonlinear benefits for linear growth in energy consumption. Think about one computer replacing a roomful of workers doing hand calculations. (We don't moan about losing those jobs, by the way.) Yes, the computer was the results of decades of progress and investment, but looking at the marginal energy consumption of the finished good compared with that of a roomful of humans, there is no comparison.

Also, as long as we're talking sci-fi, why stop at harvesting energy from the earth. Until we capture 100% of the energy emanating from the sun, we have a long way to go as a race as far as energy consumption limitations.
Well, just want to say for one example here, why Python is hard to speedup than JS.

In Python, essentially every object is a dictionary. And behavior like, "x.y = 'z'" is legal, meaning pretty much everything could be put into object x without declaration ahead of time, at all. While, not very sure, JS doesn't allow such behavior, you can still do assignment, but assessing will yield undefined.

The above behavior come as default(you can use __slot__ for sure, but compiler can't assume that) is pretty problematic for optimization, compiler simply won't know where to locate a specific variable ahead-of-time, so it cannot substitute the variable access using a pointer offset, it will have to go through a hash lookup, which comparing to the offset alternative, is magnitude slower.
French is currently unique in that it's the previous lingua franca, so much so that the term for "world language" in English is a French term.

That French is now using loan words from English doesn't mean that it's dying. Have you tried to speak English without French / Latin / Norse loan words? Good luck.

It just means that French is like any other language now, aggressively borrowing from the current world language. Nothing wrong with that.
Noted. However I think the tone I used is different than what is given as an example. I was really asking the question, since depending on the answer, our disagreement would be on a different level.
The argument that it was once a bug of the C standard makes absolutely no sense. It is not allowed by C11. C99 does not talk about that because C99 does not officially support multithreading, but that has not prevented largely C99 compliant compilers from supporting multithreading, while this kind of "optimization" intrinsically prevents multithreading.

So the situation is just that, at one point, "optimizations" have been added by people who did not know what the where doing, and tried to hide, as usual for modern compiler authors, behind the literal wording of the C standard to justify their incompetence and the risks they force on the world.
Brian Eno is a skilled musician. He's a lousy economic, systems, and AI theorist.

The Edge is revealing itself far more to be a forum in which people of provenance hold forth on that which they've no particular qualifications or grounds to discuss (something which never happens elsewhere on the Internet, of course 
).

Complex, highly-interdependent systems exibit fragility, nonlinear transitions, and multiple optima, some not reachable, some local and highly persistent but undesirable.

Tossing up ones hands and declaring that all shall be as God / Allah / The Great Spirit / FSM wills it abandons all sense of agency.

The prospects of a global collapse of systems concerns a great many people, and for much the reason AI would: the mechanisms, logic, interactions, limits, and consequences aren't clear. See David Korowicz's "Trade-Off".

http://www.feasta.org/2012/06/17/trade-off-financial-system-...

As for technological unemployment, that's been a consideration for over 200 years. You'll find strong treatments from J.S. Mill, and commentary from Abraham Lincoln.

Some modern sources, referencing those:

Technology in Society

1984, Vol.6(4):263–284, doi:10.1016/0160-791X(84)90022-8
"High technology and job loss", Russell W. Rumberger
http://31.184.194.81/10.1016/0160-791X(84)90022-8

Robert Struble Jr, (1993) "Towards a Structural Solution to Unemployment", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 20 Iss: 11, pp.15 - 26

http://31.184.194.81/http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/0306829931004...
Most people don't have the self control to follow that advice anyway. It won't get you filthy rich but it will get you ahead of roughly 90% of the population.
Like, if we all spoke English?

glesga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xan2xU-ZFic

Irish "What's filim?" https://youtu.be/UJ1Akr-UBis?t=57s

Geordie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY4TT3VtR8o

120 miles from Glasgow to Newcastle. 250 miles from Glasgow to Westport, Ireland.
Thank you.

Poor provenance on my part ;-)
This is similar to a thought I've had for some time now; That artificial intelligence is most likely to emerge - rather than be explicitly designed - from our increasingly complex, interconnected, self-regulating systems and institutions. We will be no more aware of, or able to converse with it, than the bacteria in our guts are aware of us.
Also, artificial intelligence is the wrong term. We have artificial intelligence. What we are talking about is a new, higher form of real intelligence.
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I hardly doubt this is the worst and if I were hauling this around on a truck with speakers you'd definitely be hearing it right now.

It's a shame that actual facts are removed and rebutted with hyperbolic metaphor.

Is there a link to view off-topic threads?

Are you able to downmod this comment?
Quebec is trying to save French through some crazy laws:

- You can't have a company whose name isn't French.

- The company I work for had to replace all keyboards by French keyboards, had to switch to an HR software available in French, had to switch all OSes to French, had to put French stickers on the microwave oven, etc.

- I can't send my kid to an English school if I haven't been to one myself.
> without key safety features disabled

Did you intend this to be a double-negative? It's pretty confusing as written, but would make sense as a single-negaitve.
I would call that a natural intelligence.
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Umm sure you can. G8 -> G7
US taxes back up the US dollars as does debt in USD. Petrodollar does not mean much as dollars gained must be exchanged by them to purchase other goods.
I think Tillich wanted to make a point about solitude and loneliness, not the superiority of English. I find his point interesting in both contexts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio... suggests that quotation marks are valid here (which is clearly the most important aspect of this dispute)
Thanks for the link, interesting blog!
This is essentially an ad for a $39 online course.
Nope, thanks. I shuffled the sentences around in that paragraph but should have just rewritten it.
Kind of backward, but also one of the most successful fields of medicine.
The other source (Maue) definitely isn't a denier. Is his science wrong? If so, you should publish something...
For one thing, all computers can run any PL with little effort.

A counter example to this is that any children can be taught any language. The fact that an adult can't learn new languages as easily speaks more to the architecture of the computer (brain) than to its capacity to run various languages.
Maybe he knows the CIA plans to keep it that way.
Kind of funny how people are just figuring that out as soon as Instagram is less in vogue

What next, a Fox news expose on how snapchat can be used for sexting?
The author is comparing them in the context of the risk of uproar that they create. There's no comparison with the exact circumstances of the two problems.

The article is describing how a past issue with Audi caused a huge sales problem for the company, and is suggesting that 'autopilot' style technologies could cause the same style of event.
Our awareness of language diversity is artificial. It only exists because of the same forces that are reducing it: modern communications and transportation.

Most languages will be fully understood by artificial intelligence soon enough. Anybody that wants to learn them 1000 years from now will be able to.

And once we enhance our own brains with technology, people will be inventing new languages with ease. And integrating the unique features of old ones.

There are probably millions of languages throughout the universe. We may not be the only species that uses language on Earth either.

We are really just at the beginning of discovering language diversity.
>It appears to have been something of a freak accident -- white trailer riding high against the bright sky, so that the autopilot didn’t detect the truck in its path.

It wasn't a freak accident. The AI failed. The human driver was distracted and failed to respond in time. Two failures Tesla has to answer for. IMO the second one is the gravest. They shouldn't have deployed the technology, primitive as it is.
You covered both points, gerrymandering and (sectarian) identity politics. I don't think there is a better or worse here. They both suck in their own unique ways. But I agree that India is more democratic than the US. We have many parties to choose from.

Direct democracy is not a solution either. That will lead us straight to the tyranny of the majority. The religious and intellectual minorities will suffer straight-away. I won't elaborate on that. Next, it will be the wealthy. What would stop the illiterate majority from voting to take away all the wealth of the 1%?

The only way out I see is with the Supreme Court taking drastic measures to clean up the constitution. I don't see that happening in our lifetimes.
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Because the 'O0' confusion is more common than the 'Ø0' confusion, probably.

I personally prefer having the zero glyph with a slash only on the inside (i.e. not protruding), or with a dot on the inside, but whatever.
While I greatly appreciate Tesla pushing this technology out in a reasonable time frame, I do feel that they let their marketing speak trump safety by referring to this technology as Autopilot. I don't doubt that they intend to eventually push this tech to the point that Autopilot is an appropriate name, but calling it such at this stage is disenguous at best and ultimately could be hindered by people treating it as its named and getting hurt or killed. It's not reasonable to expect all drivers that may get behind the wheel of a Tesla to get proper training and definitions for its technology package.
Why is that a problem instead of a perk? Honest question; I am from the EU and I only read the news which shows more restrictive is better. And you seem to imply you could not live there because of this; curious why?
Or more accurately, the reason was not unrestricted democracy but bypassed restrictions on democracy. The Enabling Act was passed unconstitutionally, with the legislators physically threatened by members of SA and SS. It was a coup d'etat.
It's not what's left out it's what's put in. Every time one of my ex-mil friends or family members likes some narrow minded but slightly amusing meme I don't need to be notified of it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12021461
Further context: Spencer partly runs the satellite-based temperature monitoring system at Huntsville. Given his stance favoring intelligent design to evolution, would you therefore have some doubt about the values reported for the troposphere or might that perhaps be using totally fallacious logic?

Newton believed in alchemy and according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_occult_studies "Newton considered himself to be one of a select group of individuals who were specially chosen by God for the task of understanding Biblical scripture". What does this mean for calculus and the Newtonian laws? Precisely nothing.
> Can you articulate what horrific outcome you're thinking of?

People would vote to ban free speech on the Internet.
What are the implications of a GPL'd font? In particular, does merely using it within a program invoke the copyleft requirements? Or does that fall under the document use exception per the webpage?
Clones weren't the ones that almost killed Apple. Apple was the one that almost killed Apple. Ran itself into a ground by a guy whose previous experience was selling flavoured sugar water.
Do you have to work agri culture? I live in a remote-ish place in the mountains where agri culture is the primary business and houses and land can be had for far less than 165k. However I make software from there. Could not be happier. Could someone do that there or is that somehow not allowed? Meaning if there are really no strings I can see me live there easily.
Made a quick youtube search for latest surgery tech, all I saw was a sewing burning scissors. Cute tech but still barbaric to me. Artery is even more gruesome, plumber. I wish to see organ generation take off somehow.
If you're writing a bash package it'd probably be preferable to package for this rather than per-distro. By making it easier for maintainers, you get more packages - so maybe this is a good thing?

As a user, I keep my dotfiles in git. Having something like bpkg could help my dotfiles "just-work" across more platforms, so maybe it's a good thing?

I'm not particularly compelled either, just pointing out how it might be useful.
You really should not feed chicken bones to a day.
The fragments can be very sharp and cause medical problems.

http://www.vetblog.net/2013/07/dog.swallowed.chicken.bone.pr...

http://keepthetailwagging.com/dont-panic-when-a-dog-eats-a-c...
This is nothing unique to French, it is just the generational evolution of language. Listen to a news report in any language from the 1920s. It is vastly different in tone, style, vocabulary and possibly accent than a news report today. Change is the only constant.
The UN was founded after WW2 to bring the main world powers together to try to foster peace. The main powers included China and Russia so you couldn't have really set the thing up if you had excluded authoritarians.
Dogs have a much shorter lifespan so tooth decay is normally only really a problem if they eat processed foods.
How come Tesla has to answer for human failure?
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In fairness though, the "package manager for package managers" functionality is arguably included in your OS package manager.

Furthermore, as (e.g.) a node developer looking to share a package with the community, I'd much maintain one package in npm than one for each of Debian, Arch, Redhat, OSX, etc.
For those interested in what people who actually know whereof they speak have to say on the topic of technological unemployment, and the history of economic discussion of the topic, a solid outline of discussions from Ricardo, Mill, McCollough, and Neisser, is included here:

https://econospeak.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-technology-trap-...
I used to work on the radar systems in these vehicles. It's a problem that the feature is called "autopilot," yes, but the larger issue is that the car does not enforce what the company often says in press releases, which is that you need to remain alert and with your hands on the wheel. There have been similar systems in other vehicles for years - I'm most familiar with those in Mercedes vehicles that are not as advanced but perform similar actions. Those systems will automatically turn off after just a few seconds of removing your hands from the wheel. That is what the Tesla should do. The autopilot feature is a toy; it's not to be used in place of a human driver, nor would a human driver be able to step in quickly and take over for the system were it to suddenly fail had the person not been paying attention. It should not be possible to watch a Youtube video of someone driving completely hands free for minutes at a time.

Yes, Tesla should not call it "autopilot," but if you want to really prevent people from using the system in a way in which it's not intended, you need to enforce it in hardware.
I don't see much sense in a allow-or-it-doesn't run permission/capabilities model. If there is not a option for "make the app/extensions believe it has a capability, but it does not" I don't have more choices then before: Install or not install.

A extension could for example ask for a GPS location. I'd like to able to send to app some nonsense data and use it.
Note that threading is not the only place this can happen: this can happen as the result of signal handlers as well. cpython has can trigger signal handlers between any python opcodes.
FiveThirtyEight did a really great piece (much better written and more reasonable than this article) expanding on what you identify as the problem: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-technology-not-even-t...

In short: as automation is better able to handle easy-to-predict scenarios, that increasingly leaves only rare, complex scenarios for the humans to deal with which, by definition, they are far worse at handling.
- Tesla has collected 130 million miles of autopilot data in 8 months

- Google has collected 2 million miles of data in 5 years

- others have collect 0 million miles of data

One might assume that each 10x of data doubles safety. So, a billion miles of data is perhaps 8x better than a million. It was bold of Tesla to ship autopilot, but it gives them a significant data lead while Google's caution means they may be squandering their once-thought-unassailable technology lead.

My thinking is that first you eliminate the 1% problems, then the 0.1% problems, then 0.01% and so on. So each 10x of scenarios tested is roughly one step of improvement.
The term is certainly no exaggeration if you look at what an autopilot does in a plane. Keep attitude, maybe turn to next waypoint. All in all super primitive to what a Tesla does.
How whatsApp grew to billions users?
Why not retry the work progress administration? Worst case we will end up with a bunch of cabins in national parks and a bunch of people who have learned that they are not total failures but can, in fact, make something both of themselves and their environment.
Yes, "freak accident" generally implies some wildly unlikely confluence of events. White trailers are really common. The sun shining in your face is not uncommon.

As far as I can tell, the only rare circumstance here is that Tesla's autopilot would be enabled on a road where there's cross traffic.
That doesn't happen if you put all the main code into a function. Which they do.
Following them back to their house, picking the lock on their door, walking into their bedroom and hitting them in their face is not legal.
Most of NZ doesn't have sand flies. That area is unlikely to have them (too cold, and on east coast).

Also I have never seen a sand fly with red eyes...
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Is Tesla's autopilot using radar? How is radar fooled by a white truck against a bright background? I was surprised by this point of failure, which suggests to me that they aren't even using radar.