skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's part of the problem.

Tesla has two basic problems with their "autopilot". One is hype, and one is bad technical design.

Tesla's "autopilot" is just automatic lane keeping and automatic cruise control. Mercedes and BMW have been shipping that for years. The other car companies have hardware to check if the driver's hands are on the wheel. Tesla not only didn't do that, they hyped those basic functions as being an "autopilot", as if they had something comparable to what Google has. Tesla has significantly overhyped their technology, to a dangerous level.

Here's another Tesla crash, from yesterday.[1] This is a Tesla rear-ending the corner of a stalled van on a highway. This may be an "automation in wrong mode" error, and complicated excuses from Tesla will probably be forthcoming. That's not good enough. Airline pilots get into "wrong mode" errors, and they get extensive training, including simulator time. Drivers don't get that. This driver presumably thought the automation would do something sensible in that situation. It didn't.

The other big Tesla problem is a pure technical design error - the bumper-mounted radar is blind at windshield height. This is the immediate cause of the fatal accident involving under-running the semitrailer. It's also the cause of the parking accident with the truck with overhanging load sticking out the back.[2] Tesla's implementation has deadly blind spots. They need a radar at windshield-top height. It's quite likely, now that the NHTSA is looking into this crash, that Tesla will have to do a recall and retrofit one. (Along with hands-on-wheel sensors.)

Tesla was relying on stereo cameras too much. Depth from stereo is always iffy; there needs to be some detail on the target to get range. You can't range a uniform surface with stereo vision. (Human flyers have the same problem flying over ice.) A big white truck under some lighting conditions has that property. Cameras are useful, but backed only by today's algorithms, not enough. Teslas come with a sensor suite inadequate for the job.

From a software perspective, Tesla's software seems to be overoptimistic that there's no problem ahead. 3D vision systems know when they don't have range info for a large area. Tesla's software was willing to drive into that. It didn't note the absence of range info for the road surface; it may not even be profiling the road ahead. (We all had to do that in the DARPA Grand Challenge because we were operating off-road. That's a solved problem. Google does it with their roof-mounted LIDAR.) Tesla owners have asked for "pothole detection" as a feature. Lack of this may eventually take someone off a cliff.

The press is gradually picking up on this. Until recently, Tesla's autopilot was treated as a magic black box in the press. Now some automotive writers are starting to ask the right questions.

This is not a setback for automatic driving. This is just a Tesla problem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkx-4pFjus
[2] http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/news/a29...
You have a point, although technologies don't necessarily win because of merit either. In fact, they often don't...
There's enough personally identifying information given for the lamb that, assuming it's not a smoke screen, he'd be easy to dox.

My instincts tell me this was a PR/recruitment piece (or a hoax) and the journalist fell right into it.
There are two situations where it pings:
1) After a set amount of time (around 5 minutes or so). This is to ensure you are awake.
2) If it hits a turn or situation where it is less confident.
3) Major escalation in situations where a crash may be imminent (this ping is much louder and urgent).

Agree that on straightaways, the pings are pretty infrequent.
That only applies to cooked chicken bones, not raw ones.
Google could build a car tomorrow that does what Tesla does. They are far from revolutionary in what they are doing... Things like auto braking and lane maintaining are pretty much standard at the price point of the Model S, they are by no means unique to Tesla.

Tesla is implementing existing technology. Google is working on solving the next problem.
English has these words that your language does not, because it borrowed heavily from several other languages in the past. Having only one language would kill off that source for diversity.

Dutch also has one word for happiness and luck ("geluk"), although in Flanders you can use "chance" to express "luck" specifically (borrowed from French).

In some ways, English allows for more specificity compared to German, but the reverse is also true.
You can use Autopilot for five minutes without your hands on the wheel, and it won't even beep at you?
We are in agreement. Intimacy is a loss leader.
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I found this article to be very thin on data to support its thesis that:

a. there is a homeless crisis in Seattle in particular

b. this crisis was caused in part by a systematic erosion of infrastructural support for affordable housing and mental health care.

For some background, there was a spike in the homeless count in the Seattle-Tacoma area over the last three years (http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/count-of-s...), but I don't know how noisy the data gathering technique is (it sounds like it's super noisy), and I gather that the linked article isn't talking about something that happened over the last three years.

I found the reports at http://www.endhomelessness.org (direct link to 2016 report: http://www.endhomelessness.org/page/-/files/2016%20State%20O...) to be very helpful to get a better quantitative view of homelessness. The 2015 report has comparative data by city. Seattle ranked 6th worst in terms of per capita homeless rates, but I haven't found a good Seattle specific breakdown of rates by demographic/cause over time yet.

The overall national (USA) trendline for homelessness is negative from 2007-2016. This is not at all to say that there isn't a problem (there is), but I find the narrative of crisis (which implies something coming to a head, reaching a point of no return, etc.) to be counterproductive. We have systematic structural and infrastructural problems in the USA broadly and Seattle, WA in particular that create unjust and inhumane conditions for a significant percentage of the population. We're slowly getting better, but we don't have very good safeguards against regressing, and we're not getting better as quickly as we'd like. That's what a brief foray into the data says (minus the evaluative bits).

Is there something that has caused a huge spike in homelessness in Seattle in particular? I don't honestly know. Does it have deep roots in the erosion of public support for homelessness? I don't know that either, but my tiny and imperfect window into the data says "probably not."

Also interesting, the Seattle Human Services "Homeless Investment Analysis" from 2015 (http://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/HumanServices/R...). TL;DR "we're ramping up spending on the problem but it could be done better and more efficiently."
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I don't understand what it is you like about Australia and NZ if it's not the high standard of living and society created by laws. These would not be comfortable places to live without them. If it's scenery or beaches you want maybe head to Vanuatu or something? You're just not really making sense. What is it about Australia you like over the US if not the society?
She did fine with the bones when she was a puppy. In theory, raw chicken bones shatter less than cooked chicken bones.

As I said elsewhere, she now eats regular dog food. When I'm visiting, I'll cut the cartilage off the end of a cooked chicken bone and give that to her. Sometimes she still helps herself to whatever bones she finds, and she hasn't had any problems.

Size might be a factor - she is about 75 pounds.

My dad's previous dog ate corn cobs. After years of this, a corn cob got stuck in his throat, leading to a big vet bill, so our dogs don't get corn cobs anymore.
This is garbage. There is easily enough information to uniquely identify him (lamb of god, religious convictions, recently left the NSA, social media), which calls into question the entire premise of the article.
> In reality it's the main production implementation and its inefficiency costs the world wasted resources every day.

Sure, but the inefficiencies in every part of the stack from the physical CPU right up to the executing program also cause waste.

> If readability and being the reference implementation is more important than performance, why is Python implemented in C rather than a higher level language?

Because like most projects it grew organically. Guido didn't sit down and write the first version of Python and think "hey, this is going to be the reference implementation for Python so lets write it in pure pseudocode so it's easy to read", he bashed out a version in C and it gained momentum over time. At the point where it became the reference implementation rather than the only implementation it would be suicide to chuck it out and re-write it in some high level language.
things like this typically fall into either attempt crimes or conspiracy crimes.. wiki has a good explanation of both concepts... links below.

in this particular case, there's an identity theft charge for submitting the invalid subpoena to the bank with the judge's information and an attempted identity theft charge for trying (and not succeeding) to access the judge's banking information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(criminal)
Yes and Google hasn't shipped jack.

EDIT: Tesla has.
There was an interesting article by Ousterhout (Tcl creator) about scripting languages versus system programming languages some years ago. I think I read it in one of the print computer magazines that existed at the time - Software Development Magazine, Unix Review, Dr. Dobb's Journal, C User's Journal, or some such. I wonder whether he was inspired to write that article after this post (mentioned elsewhere in this thread):

http://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/0009.html
:o) Tesla is not using radars?!

I am driving an '14 Audi A6 and I can tell you, the radars + software on it are the most advanced I ever saw. They even catch a small cat when was trying to cross the street. The car actioned a emergency break before I even realized. The only time when this wasn't working, was during a snow blizzard, when the radar sensors got iced and they couldn't see anything. Otherwise, they are pretty wide range, at least 100m.

It also keeps the car in between the lanes - this is done with a camera, but if you take your hands of the wheel, you get a max of about 30 seconds of free driving to maybe open a bottle of water, before it get's really loud.
Neither has anyone else... What's your point?

EDIT: No, they haven't... They have shipped industry standard driver assist features. By your logic, I assume you think my Kia Rondo has 'outshipped' Google, since it has cruise control.
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I know vote reversal is supposed to be coming soon, because it was accidentally mentioned in a thread.

>actually think some have custom feeds (or at least, refresh a lot) largely just for delivering downvotes (w/ no other response).

I don't complain about downvotes, but lately I have noticed some of my comments seem to get -2 downvotes almost as a group throughout a thread. It's odd.
People have claimed to run networks of accounts specifically for downvoting, so maybe someone is trying to clean house, I don't know. Maybe off topic threads automatically get downvoted.

>>The reason HN lacks x cool feature is not that I expend no energy on the site, but that I expend all my energy on what users actually care about, which is not features but the content.

It's his site and he can have whatever priorities he likes, but I think it's obvious he's wrong about users not caring about both.
I'd guess the linked one at the anchor #NextBitPermutation.
Pardon me. Could you point me to a source showing we are entering one of them?
If you however do succeed in reducing humans to stimulus/response bots, it will likely be good business.
Which is the scariest aspect, cause that drives lots of decisionmaking today...
> Here's another Tesla crash, from yesterday.[1] This is a Tesla rear-ending the corner of a stalled van on a highway.

> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkx-4pFjus

minor nitpick but this video is from May, this didn't happen yesterday, did you mean to link another video?
I agree with you except for this:

> This is not a setback for automatic driving. This is just a Tesla problem.

If the general public doesn't get the distinction it can become an automatic driving problem.
The parent was specifically stating things have gotten worse recently; I was pointing out that they haven't really.
Or Go or Rust.

But Phoenix/Elixir does seem to be the new thing. Not that I mind, always happy for the Erlang platform to get more attention.
I don't think that's fair. I'm also pretty glad that we have doctors among the active commenters here, as they bring a lot of perspective to both medical and medical policy discussions.
I would encourage you to look at the actual national data around homeless rates and public investment into programs to fight and prevent homelessness. As a matter of fact, care for the homeless is something that people do invest in (although not enough).

Although I don't disagree that we have structural economic challenges to overcome, and sooner rather than later (I happen to favor some kind of UBI), nothing will be improved by glib doom-saying.

Getting public policy right is extremely difficult, but it would be made easier if the quality of discussion surrounding it were improved.
Yeah I do get other people's email, but it seems to be more the sender's mistake than gmail's. My email is samuel.le@gmail.com, and people seemed to have been wanting to reach Samuelle <something> (Samuelle is a first name), Samuel Le <Something>, Samuel <something> Lee, etc. So far I've received an email from a sales person in a bank in Hong Kong offering me to buy some commodities derivatives, a non profit organization that takes care of mentally handicapped persons, a mover in the US, someone else flight ticket confirmation, some stuff written in Hebrew by a Rabbi, and many more...

When the mail seems legit I reply to the sender explaining they sent it to the wrong person, and often they apologize. It happens roughly every month/two months so it's not a major annoyance and so far I haven't received anything super confidential or personal.
Blame someone milking the property for profits...

I prefer series where they stop airing the series for a year to continue production
Tesla could collect the data without allowing the car to drive autonomously. I think this case also raises the question of whether Tesla has the right sensors on the car. They may not have adequate dynamic range in their cameras and seems like their radar system isn't a true 3d mapping radar. Being able to detect a moving target that crosses the car's path seems like a fairly fundamental requirement of any driving system.

Google has a lot more data than their autonomously driven miles (e.g. their street view data and presumably more) and they're still not comfortable enough with what they've got. Their initial results looked very promising but it seems they've become more cautious over time.

I don't think Google is squandering their lead. I think they've just gotten to that part of the curve where they realize this is a harder problem than what they initially projected. The others haven't gotten there yet.
If you like this, you should really read about another new technology which regrows dental tissue using sound: http://www.colgate.com/en/us/oc/oral-health/cosmetic-dentist...
The "killer app" everyone is expecting is: get in, tap destination, and peruse media for the duration.

That will require a stage of using Autopilot for five minutes without your hands on the wheel, and it won't even beep at you.
And apparently given the size, the whole fight took something like 8 billion years...

or 23 minutes
For different versions of this argument see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect.

Bostrom said: "A lot of cutting edge AI has filtered into general applications, often without being called AI because once something becomes useful enough and common enough it's not labelled AI anymore".

Finally, the problem with all these articles is the lack of precise definition for the terminology involved (it reminds me of debates about "consciousness").

Recipe: make a slight twist on the interpretation of the already-vague definition of the term and a new essay emerges.

In this case, the author is equating "AI" to "Abstraction". All the things he mentions he doesn't understand, he could understand by looking them up and talking to the experts, but he doesn't have to, because the appropriate simple interfaces are in place. That's intelligence in its general form, where's the artificial part?
And half of this English words are used completely differently than in English or even don't exist in English (parking, shampooing used as names for example)
Why not just use snapchat instead of setting up all those options? Plus, if they ever change the way they do their privacy settings, everything is exposed
8 billion years according to some sources
It should give a visual and loud acoustic alarm after 5 seconds of taking your hands of the wheel or losing confidence.
> The other big Tesla problem is a pure technical design error - the bumper-mounted radar is blind at windshield height. This is the immediate cause of the fatal accident involving under-running the semitrailer. It's also the cause of the parking accident with the truck with overhanging load sticking out the back.[2] Tesla's implementation has deadly blind spots. They need a radar at windshield-top height. It's quite likely, now that the NHTSA is looking into this crash, that Tesla will have to do a recall and retrofit one. (Along with hands-on-wheel sensors.)

This is just completely false. We've been putting them at bumper height for 10 years because that's where the system ends up working best with the greatest number of targets to see. NHTSA has been regulating these sensors for years and designing the tests for them; they are not new to this. Tesla is not going to have to do a recall on these, and spare me the idea that they are going to "retrofit a sensor at windshield height." This is just mindless speculation you made up.
Don't worry; there is a providence that will lead you right.
Someone patented the telephone, suing Apple over it (video from Austin Meyers)
Are you referring to this:
http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html ?
Humans "overreacting" is the reason why airplanes are so safe. This reaction (IMO "fair" not "over") is important for the development of the driverless cars tech. It will make them much, much safer and won't kill any innovation.

"Underreaction"[1] is much more dangerous for society than overreaction. I would cite digital privacy as an example of this.

[1] i'm not sure underreaction is a word or if i invemted it. Is underreaction so underreacted to that it is not even a word?
> I read once that human brains began shrinking about 10 thousand years ago and are now as much as 15% smaller than they were then.

Timeline's a bit off, but the science is still a shocker:

> Over the past 20,000 years, the average volume of the human male brain has decreased from 1,500 cubic centimeters to 1,350 cc, losing a chunk the size of a tennis ball. The female brain has shrunk by about the same proportion.

http://discovermagazine.com/2010/sep/25-modern-humans-smart-...
>b) do not send any data to the vendor or any third-party services

Then why would they be connected to the internet?

Are you imagining people will set up DynDNS and port forwarding through their wireless routers to connect to their smart devices directly, or what?
[1] States voting in favour of the amendment and against the resolution were:

Bolivia, Burundi, China, Cuba, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Vietnam;

https://www.article19.org/resources.php/resource/38429/en/un...
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> OP isn't removing the names.

'Much later, she permitted me to tell her story.' It's the last sentence in the second paragraph.

And, as a matter of fact, I don't see any names of either psychological or spiritual patients in that article, although perhaps I've missed one.
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> It is not allowed by C11.

I see. Does GCC not support C11, or does it behave differently in this matter depending on whether it is in C11 mode or not?

> 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.

I think that it's even worse to rely upon something that is not guaranteed by the letter of the standard.
How much energy does a squashed brain use?
seems like an issue of semantics - he's taking something most of us would just call "human culture" and naming it "AI" - which is an interesting idea, but true artificial intelligence is something that involves some amount of self awareness of the system to itself.
Debt isn't possible without a counterparty.
This is the source code for the Sasser worm by Sven Jaschan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasser_(computer_worm)
This is still somewhat historical. Latin becoming French, Spanish, Romanian, and all accents are all a product of geography. France, Spain, Romania, etc. It's not group entity, it's location identity. But the generations aren't separated by geography anymore.

Well there may well be intellectual advantages for multilingualism, different unilingualism typically just leads to conflict.
Anchor has since been removed, so the gp comment will look odd from here on out.
When is the story about Google storing the emails of all Gmail users coming out?

I've heard rumors they don't even just collect the metadata - they store the entire email! Indefinitely. Even if the sender wasn't using gmail, but included a single Gmail or Gapps user among the recipients, they're said to record the entire email, as well as the addresses of the sender and all the other recipients, who never consented to Google's privacy policy to begin with.

I mean, the scale of the violations, it boggles the mind.
I think this post misses the point. Having to enter the runtime in the first place is the problem (and making runtime code marginally faster is not the solution). Fast VMs for dynamically typed languages (Chakra, V8) design the object model and the runtime around being able to spend as much time in JITted code as possible - the "fast path".
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Just took a quick look at it. Need to read more, which I will, but pretty sure it is that one. I doubt he would write more than one article on that topic, also it is slightly long (about 24 PgDn keystrokes on my PC :), which I remember from before.

Excellent. I thought of googling for relevant keywords to check if the article was online (after posting my previous comment here), but you saved me the trouble. Thanks!
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