skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Naming their system "autopilot" was risky, I bet Tesla's attorneys pushed back hard on that.

Why? To me "autopilot" means "automatic".

Wikipedia suggests the "average" definition is similar to my own - "An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of a vehicle without constant 'hands-on' control by a human operator being required."

And yet Tesla's disclaimer states "Tesla requires drivers to remain engaged and aware when Autosteer is enabled. Drivers must keep their hands on the steering wheel."(2)

In plain words that dissension between the name and the actual function is needlessly confusing and probably irresponsible.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot

(2) https://www.teslamotors.com/presskit/autopilot
Yes, I love their chips and salsa. Truly a feel good product.
This is actually the information I missed on their website. Could you elaborate on...

... did you move there from outside of Romania?
... if so, how did you incorporate there? Did you gave your BV/GmbH/Ltd/SA just another address or created a new company there, that then bought 100% of your old shop?
I can already hear a lot of people that I know: "See! I told you them automagic cars were the devil!"

I personally can't wait for fully self-driving cars, but it's going to be a big PR battle in the US
> The current cost seems to be about 3/4 as many casualties as one would expect from the # of miles they've driven.

That statistic is misleading, though. Tesla's comparing autopilot miles to all driven miles in other vehicles, but they're not directly comparable. Autopilot can only be engaged in certain (favorable) conditions - no residential streets, no undivided highways, and you're probably not turning it on during a thunderstorm or in snow/ice.
You seem very smart https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart
"I'm interested in JavaScript, for example, but I don't use it more often than a handful of times per year, if that. I wouldn't be surprised if a third of people answering a JS survey were in the same boat. And I'm not worried about the future of JS."

This may or may not counter the point. Your language specifically... per various comments I've read here (esp vs Go language)... targets programmers demanding high-efficiency or low-level usage that are basically using C, C++, Objective-C, Java, or C#. Vast majority are with most in efficiency camp using first two. So, if data self-selected for those, then a third saying No could be a serious failure if the goal was replacing those with significant uptake. At the least, it would be meaningful metric on if Rust was succeeding.

Unfortunately, we need the people responding to represent those groups to be sure. I suggest that whoever has the responses filter out everything but those languages above. Then look at the No's or any problems reported. Then, filter again to get just C, C++, and Objective-C as they're the low-level ones. Then look at the negative responses again. That could get information on uptake in most important targets plus generate ideas for action to take for key demographic.
The DMCA provides a safe harbour provision for hosts who take down content after a notice.

Libel / slander don't require a take down, but also don't provide any protection for the hosting company.

If this goes to court then the Yes Men won't be able to pay for the NRAs legal fees. Which means that the lawyers will be tempted to go after DO to get paid.

DO is a low cost hosting company. You can't expect them to ride or die.
Obviously not suggesting that.

The law in question is "No unauthorized access or entry to computer systems"...
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.

Given that Autopilot is generally activated under safer, more routine driving scenarios -- decent weather, regular suburban traffic and so on; for which we can naturally expect significantly lower fatality rates -- it doesn't sound like it's off to a particularly good "batting average" so far. Especially since we've been promised until now that self-driving cars will ultimately be not just incrementally safer, but categorically safer than human-piloted vehicles.
Here is the Justin Brown's tweet
No, they could not, that's prevented by this law: https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/230

(This is specific enough advice I feel I must say that I am not a lawyer, just a knowledge layperson)
I half expected the final paragraph offering condolences to end with "but remember, this really wasn't Tesla's fault!" The third paragraph reads like Tesla is trying to wash their hands as much as possible. "Remember, he clicked all these buttons. He knew what he was getting into!"
What are some counterindicated use cases for rethinkdb?
> "Dynamically typed" is a contradiction in terms, at least if one is using the standard technical definition of the word "type". These languages offer runtime checks that have some things in common with a type system (in particular they have some of the same use cases), but they are not types and it is confusing to call them types (even if everyone in computer science agreed to talk about "dynamic types" and "static types" that would still cause confusion, because "static types" are types in the mathematical sense and "dynamic types" are not).

That is complete nonsense. Dynamically typed languages have types (many even treat them as first-class objects) and primitive expressions with types assigned to those expressions. What dynamically typed languages let you do is construct and evaluate terms that cannot be typed.

> You have reader macros but that's basically just having a program that operates on text strings, which you can do in any language - you can write a C program that preprocesses C source and it's effectively the same thing

This argument boils down to "you can write a huge compiler in any language you want! it's easy!" There is actually a Lisp meme about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

> I'd rather have my program expressed as a richer structure, and a language that's powerful enough to manipulate rich structures in a structure-aware way.

You are confusing program syntax with parse trees. All parse trees look the same ("here is a graph of your program"). You can keep things simple and have a syntax that is context-free, has an obvious mapping to the parse tree, has an obvious interpretation, and has tons of tooling support in hundreds of different tools and editors. Or you can decide that you really really like your whitespace to be very emo and sensitive - just write your own context sensitive parser, roll your own tooling, force everyone to learn it! It's easy!
Good an explanation as any, and kind of how I initially read it. Thanks.
Yeah, but he didn't find out (assuming you believe he's innocent, like I do) until days later. What's seared into your mind is that point forward, not the past. Forget six weeks ago, I have trouble remembering what happened a few days ago often, without scrolling through emails or other things of that nature to jog my memory. He has since relived it in his mind over and over, but the detail is already gone.
This.

Notice how quick they are to bring up "this is the first fatality in 130 million miles", but AFAICT, traffic fatalities in the US occur at a frequency of around 10 per billion miles [1], which is the same.

So even though this is just one data point, it's spot on the current average for fatality frequency in normal cars.

Furthermore, to gather enough statistics to be able to say with confidence "semi-autonomous Teslas are/aren't safer than normal cars", Tesla either needs to increase their sales volume by several orders of magnitude, or we'll have to wait for ten years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
Had to do some googling, but looks like the Swedish BankID isn't the same thing as the Norwegian BankID. Unfortunately the Norwegian BankID never rolled out digital signature files to customers, so we can only use hardware token and a mobile solution to authenticate/sign.
I'd say that, in the US, exuberance for 5G is irrational since the pricing for cellular internet is ridiculous. In the mean time, we have T-Mobile's CEO calling his customers "data thieves" for rebelling against unfair rates.
The state won't retry. He's going to walk. Good for him. Who knows if he really did it or not, but the evidence against him was sketchy.
> It's not just about Tesla though.

> They have to defend autopilot not only to protect the brand but to protect the public's perception of autonomous vehicles in general.

They could have done that in two separate posts. This was tone deaf at best.
This autopilot is very new and fairly experimental technology. You're basically demanding that this not be true somehow.
I just finished season 2 and was surprised by the similar lack of strong conclusion, though still an incredibly interesting and deep look at the Bergdahl case. Now, time to go back and listen to season 1.
Apple does impose 30% on all services. Just ask Dropbox, or Amazon.

You are arguing that Walmart shouldn't sell their own brand of soda because it charges Pepsi some percentage to sell theirs.

Ridiculous.
Does someone have any benchmarks or comparisons with Zk? We have run it for many yrs without a problem and are very happy with it. Would be interested in hearing from anyone who switched from zk->etcd for distributed locking, presence, leader election type idioms and ran it in prod for a few months/yrs and their takeaways.
Isn't it pretty well accepted that, psychologically, your memories are severely distorted and sometimes entirely lost in times of extreme emotional distress?
It's not really over until we understand where these readings are coming from, whether error or new physics.
One could also use a parabolic dish or beamforming array to more precisely direct the "counter-attack".

(Not that that's a constructive way to deal with the problem. Just a techincally interesting one.)
1. This "fiduciary responsibility" is trotted out and misunderstood. There's not a requirement to do things that might be harmful for the company. People say this responsibility like it's some law that companies must do any and everything that shows any possibility of short-term profit. But it'd be totally fine for a company to decide to do something else. Justification can be as simple as "This increases trust towards our brand".

But the rest of the points are accurate. They are doing nothing illegal and it's stupid to expect people to pay more tax than they owe. If countries want them to pay more tax, then change the law. It's silly this is even a discussion.
Are you saying that just based on the fact that they've been developing it for less time than Google, or is there a more in depth case for that somewhere? I would be very interested to read about that if there is.
Thanks for the answer! I was hoping for more specifics than "some schools of Buddhism" and "ascetic systems from most major religions", but on hindsight I see that asking people to do that level of research for me on a forum like this is too big an ask.
You can make it use long FDE passwords and a pattern by hackery. Some sqlite fiddling necessary. See XDA.
I believe he did it. Firmly.

Not to get in to the details, but her family called him looking for her that night. And like I said, if I get a weird phone call from a friends family looking for them and the next day they don't show up to school, you better believe it is ALL me and my friends are going to be talking about. It's just not something people, let alone high school kids, ignore.
I have been thinking about how to solve this problem and have been wondering what AI can do to help. There must be a way of using AI to help empower workers to act in a co-ordinated way to run the business effectively.
I'd suggest taking a look at Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth. Gordon's coverage of past technology and both the mode and extent of impacts, and of recent developments, including information technology medicine, and other areas, is sobering.

And that's despite disagreeing with Gordon fairly strongly in a number of other areas.

Vaclav Smil and Manfred Weissenbacher both have excellent books describing the impacts of technolgy, and especially energy, on history. I strongly suspect that's the most significant component.

Gordon's book is part of a larger series much of which addresses the question of why concerning the Industrial Revolution and the absolutely unprecedented growth of the past 250 years or so, much of that occurring only in the 20th century. It's hardly the only treatment of that phenomenon, but I do agree with Gordon, and others, that it's perhaps the most pressing question, still unanswered, of economics.
We use RethinkDB for our home grown monitoring system; it's incredible. We have several hundred clients connected, inserting monitoring data and doing some pretty complex queries. In the ~2 years we've been using RethinkDB, we have never experienced a failure.

If I could go back in time, I would use RethinkDB for our actual product.
One improvement is that the title is "Tesla Draws Scrutiny from Regulators After Autopilot Feature Linked to a Death", instead of "A Tragic Loss". I clicked this one but not the other.
Who Is Testing Your Cloud?
>(including for its purported role in single-handedly revitalizing the podcast industry)

Did they really though? I'm a podcast whore, but I also happen to be in the demographic of someone who'd probably listen to podcasts already-and yet I know plenty of people outside of that demographic who consume podcasts just as much. Heck, the last person I'd ever expect to be a podcast consumer-someone who struggles to even click through a hand-held software update started her own fashion podcast years before Serial was even announced.
Soundproof a room, it's probably enough to replace windows and a door.
>However, 6 weeks ago my first love and someone I was very close to didn't disappear one day.

None of the kids really remembered what happened - including (close) friends of Hae, so what does that tell you?
Autopilot in aircraft is no different; you must remain aware and attentive at all times, it is merely to reduce physical workload. If you make a mistake, you are still at fault.

EDIT: I can't reply to children comments because HN is throttling my posting ability.

It's not Tesla's job to turn driver's into model citizens. They can't fix irresponsible people taking irresponsible risks.
One place to look is resources for veterans. California has some great ones.[1] See about filing for any disabilities that may be related to time in service and if there is any way to get treatment and help through the VA. Also, look for other non-profit veteran resources beyond just the state and federal.

[1]https://www.calvet.ca.gov/VetServices/Documents/Veteran_%20R...
I think "advanced cruise control" for example may have been better.

The moment you say autopilot or autonomous, you think entirely hands off.
I can buy that. But his defense wasn't "my memories are distorted" it was "How could I remember?, it was soo long ago"

Plus you'd have to believe some pretty wild conspiracies for any other explanation to be plausible.
HN user jacqesm [Jacques Mattheij] might be worth chatting with:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacquesm
In math ( * ) is a binary operation. ( * 2) returning 2 is confusing to everyone that hasn't gotten used to a non-standard way of thinking about * .
Much like if you make a car that does 0-60mph in 3 seconds or does 200mph you encourage doing that. The fact that the autopilot is so good that it "almost" works as a driver is an issue for Tesla as we can see here. I realize autopilot has a nice ring to it, but it's not a chauffeur...

Tesla sure has balls to pick the name "Autopilot" when it really should be called "CoPilot" and that would have saved a lot of trouble.
I hope we get to use your BankID system here in Germany then because our system using the chip in our ID is a nightmare. I was an early adopter but never got it to work properly.
Tesla has stated in their blog that Autopilot was active at the time of the crash. It didn't stop the vehicle.
This only shifts the question as to whether or not the rest of the world can emulate the growth of the United States, and if so, where specifically and to what extent.
I'll provide a counterpoint: I really love listening to podcasts (quick plug for the "Keepin' It 1600" podcast as my favorite recently) and often in the crime and justice genre. I mostly got to listening to Serial because I've been listening to This American Life for a decade; I consider TAL to have about 70% good content with occasional really good ones (ex: the one explaining the financial crisis) and occasionally truly terrible ones (ex: the one with the guy trying to find the origin of a particular hold music tune). Just stating this so you know where I'm coming from, a background of my tastes.

I found Serial to be grating and and not very good at keeping my attention. I really didn't understand the hype at all and I really had to force myself to sit through the last couple episodes just so I could say I finished (I got a similar feeling when approaching the last episode of the second season of True Detective). I didn't find the story compelling at all.
Sunlight swamps infrared and thermal cameras as well.

The only way to see it would be lidar (it might have issues too) or radar. Ultrasonics don't have the range.

They should have the autopilot refuse to operate when the sun is within X degrees of the road in the direction of travel.
It seems like you're trying to say "if it happened to me, my memory would be better, and it's their fault if their memory is poor".

That's insulting at best to the many, many people in the criminal justice system who have suffered from the general mutability of memory.
> Tesla autopilot drove the vehicle full-speed into a tractor-trailer

The tractor trailer drove across the divided highway without seeing an oncoming car. I've seen this accident happen in front of me with a fatality, no auto-pilot involved.

A vehicle moves in front of you when you're sufficiently close and you've no time to react. Anything (like glare) that makes such a vehicle harder to spot reduces your available reaction time.

Making it sound like there was a static obstacle in front of the car, and it drove into it at high speed is very tendentious, and not warranted by the report, I feel. It is exactly the kind of 'omg AI kills driver' fearbait that we don't need.

If self-driving systems were ten-times safer than people, then there'd still be a lot of people being killed in them. We need to get a sane perspective on their risk.
Oh yea they did. I don't listen to podcasts, never saw the appeal, yet somehow today I find myself producing one and seeing new ones pop up all the time now.
This naming style seems to be a Tesla "thing". For example, I suspect Elon Musk would be hesitant to say the Model X's "Biohazard Defense Mode" will definitively protect you in a biological warfare attack... but it does clean up the air you're breathing fairly nicely.

The "Ludicrous Speed" upgrade is another example.

That isn't to say it can't get them into hot water legally, but it does seem like the company culture is to name features a bit extravagantly.
Ethereum contract for a public deposit account that takes a public key as input, maybe?
That is a massive assumption to be making. That the driver can see and react to every obstacle. Not to mention there are videos where the Tesla reacted before and on behalf of the driver, saving them from an accident.

The "lane assist" (what it should be and is called by other manufacturers) spots any number of obstacles that the driver failed to see - takes over - and saves the driver from an accident. Or reacts faster than the driver could react - thus saving the driver. That is what it is doing. It is not driving your vehicle. It is assisting in driving your vehicle.

It is still possible to drown with a life vest on. That doesn't mean you shouldn't wear one because "if I'm expected to stay above water - what is the life vest doing?"
If you need ACID.
> we just want to be proactive about discovering if people end up self selecting themselves out of our community because they don't feel welcome.

Why not simply ask the question directly? "Do you feel welcome in the Rust community?"

For those that respond "no, I don't feel welcome", it might be interesting to also ask why, and to see if that correlates with demographics.
I wanted to write a comment to this effect but you put it into words better than I could hope to.

There was something special about Serial. With regards to the topic itself, how lucky she was to find a story with so many angles and so many holes and so many things to investigate. With regards to the medium, it was something entirely new to me to have something dictated to me through audio in a format that somewhat resembles a documentary, and to have everything visualized only in my imagination. I can visualize Best Buy, and the school, and Leakin park. And for whatever reason, that visualization is especially vivid in my mind, even in comparison to books that I've read a dozen times. I think a big part of it has to do with a feeling of everything occurring in real-time and the stream-of-consciousness that Koenig speaks with. It's a strange feeling to be visualizing the entire context of these events while not being in control of the speed, like you would when reading.

Coupled with the fact that you're making judgements about his innocence and thinking about what-ifs at the same time, and it really pulls you in.
Agreed, but to be fair it isn't exactly statistically significant yet.
etcd3 has similar performance compared to ZK for small scale. For large dataset, etcd3 does better since it does incremental snapshot/ smaller memory footprint, when ZK does full snapshot that takes a lot of resources. For watches, etcd3 does streaming + TCP multiplexing to save memory.
Racism is passed from parent to child. Taught. It isn't a phenomena, nor can a school cirriculum undo what is taught at home.
We're from the US and were looking for promising European land. No, we incorporated a brand new company(WELOVEHN SRL) not to hassle with bureaucracy. Which is cool from an administrative point of view. Romanian lawyers seem to be fluent in English and we still maintain a productive collaboration.
Cameras are obviously worse in situations where there is very high contrast (e.g. when you are facing the sun), because the digital representation of color/luminosity has a far more narrow range than that of the eye. Uncertain on whether this has any practical consequences, but it seems likely.
Who cares about the taxes returning to the us? They're making money in foreign territories and should pay tax there. For instance here in nz Google reportedly only pays 200k in tax which is obviously outrageously low.
This is a rather precise number - why $1.3M?
The point of the podcast wasn't to convince you that he's innocent, though. The main reason they led with that was to prepare you for a series where 90% of the interviewees don't really remember most of what happened. It's not just about Adnan, it's about everyone involved, and how they can all have such conflicting accounts. It wasn't everyone vs. Adnan, it was everyone vs. everyone else.
1. Tesla makes it clear that Autopilot is a beta.

2. From the rest of this thread, it sounds like their long-range cameras/radar has very limited FOV.
> 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.

Why would that be true? It would be inconsistent for them not to fight for their own self-interest. Also: Governments must be held to higher standards than corporations.

I expect the Spanish government to act (nominally) in the best interests of its citizens. I expect Google to act in its own best interests.