skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not difficult to conceptualize globalized capitalism in this way, and indeed some have -- Nick Land springs to mind.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12027495
Right across the Walmart Supercenter. How come noone found it yet.
Important clarification: when the author says "C runtime", what he means is "Python runtime written in C". The C runtime is, of course, libc, libm, etc. I'm not sure why the author thinks Python's high-level IR (please don't call it a VM) is a good thing, or unoptimizable (to a better IR or native code). Perhaps he's never read about Smalltalk/Self optimization (which is eye-opening!)
One in seven people on this planet use FB every day.

http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/
Google is operating truly autonomous vehicles.

Tesla has added some driver assist features which are far from unique to Tesla...

It's an apple to oranges comparison.
>white trailer riding high against the bright sky

the point of this tech is that it can be better than human, specifically wider viewfield at wider wavelength band. Humans have only narrow wavelength band ("visible light") only in reflected/passive mode in a 120 by 60 viewfield. The tech can do 360 by 360 viewfield in human visible - cameras(passive) and lidars(active), infrared - cameras and lidars, centimeter - radar, ultrasound radar. Most of this tech (except may be non-stereo low quality camera) would see the trailer. Tesla's main failure here is that they did viewfield smaller than even the human's one.
Key bit: "I was able to improve the performance of log15 by about 30% for some common code paths, and reduce memory allocations as well. I was not expecting this, but I also found a way to speed up JSON encoding in the Go standard library by about 20%!" But the fun is reading exactly how. :)
You may have observed typical culprits as being privileged males, but that doesn't mean it is so in other contexts.

I do agree that moderation here is often out-of-line and I have perhaps seen (here and elsewhere) what could be termed "tone policing", which I agree is completely incompatible with the "principle of charity".

One problem I just discovered here is that you apparently cannot upmod 'flagged'/'dead' comments. So, an especially violent, and quick group can brigade posts completely out of the community discussion, with basically no hope of return except through an out-of-band appeal.
In the paper coining the term 'Singularity'[1], Verner Vinge describes that one way superintelligence could emerge is that large computer networks may "wake up" as a "superhumanly intelligent entity".

I personally find any argument that relies on our lack of understanding of complex systems and emergence to be on shaky grounds at best and a fallacy at worst.

[1]: https://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/singularity.ht...
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/748625979271045121
Except that LuaJIT does something close to just a pointer offset. The trick it uses is to use a hash function that is known by the compiler so when you have a constant key ("y" in this case) the hash table set is compiled down to 3 instructions (imagine hash("y") = 0xa7):

1. Load whatever necessary to check if x[0xa7] is occupied
2. Branch to slow path if occupied
3. Store x[0xa7] = 'z'

And a modern super-scalar CPU will even do some of this in parallel.
I agree. The interviewee sounds more like a script kiddie with a very powerful script than anyone of note at the NSA.
As a curious software engineer, I have a basic familiarity on where heating oil comes from (I remember my first sci-pop book with a section on basics of oil processing), where nuts are grown, basics of food industry supply chains, and every other example covered. My knowledge might be rudimentary and without much detail, but I try to cover all bases, and when I discover some area of human knowledge I genuinely know nothing about, I jump to Wikipedia in excitement. (I read Wikipedia a lot).

I thought that being uncomfortable with own ignorance is a fundamental part of human nature. But apparently it isn't.
You're totally wrong about the second part. India--a democracy--voted the same way as China. People there have very different beliefs than people in the West are used to. E.g. In my home country, the original constitution declared a secular democracy in the 1970s. In the 1990s, Islam was made the state religion, with strong popular support. In that country, if the UN delegation voted in favor of protecting freedom of expression on the Internet, they would do so against the will of the people.
Cavities are formed when sugar reacts with bacteria in the mouth. Normal dog food has very little sugar in it, especially if you avoid feeding your dog human food. (This is why your dog prefers human food. It's generally full of tasty sugar.)

Most dogs do have calculus in their mouth even if there is not active decay. There is also subgingival calculus (below the gum line, not visible to the human eye). Taking your dog to annual vet visits is important because they can help diagnose dental issues.
Or - you could design the building you want, any way you want - and the AI takes over when you're done to make the design is possible. Boring / difficult / specialist things like load bearing calculations, material strength, plumbing routing etc. are done for you. A bit like Ripley's exosuit, but for your mind!
> they seem to have started offering cheaper upgrades recently.

So much cheaper, in fact, that the ebook+audio bundle often costs less than their monthly Audible subscription which lets you buy one audiobook per month for $15.
Agreed. This article seems like Tesla propaganda designed to protect their multi-billion dollar investment.

I know I'm not going to be one of Tesla's beta users. Fuck that.

Any system that controls the fate of human lives should have several fail-safes. i.e They shouldn't only have one way of detecting objects. Maybe video + sonar + laser. I don't know the details of their architecture but even a Microsoft Kinect could have detected a white trailer against the bright sky using it's infrared + video camera. Gravely disappointed in Tesla and even more for articles like this who don't hold them accountable for inferior technology.
Any news on gum disease?
The system does ping and then yell at you if you don't have your hand on the wheel. There's no way to prevent someone from keeping a hand on the wheel and watching a movie while driving.

It's really tragic what happened but as a driver you should be aware of what's happening. I've put ~15k miles of Autopilot on our Tesla and while it helps with the mental fatigue I was still watching the road 100% of the time exactly for reasons like this.

Also I think the killer app for Autopilot is rush hour traffic. Things happen much slower and this is where I found the larger percentage of mental fatigue happens.
Yeah, but what does Nick Land actually know about the likely structure of AI software or interconnected control systems. Or even economics for that matter. He's a renegade philosopher, which conveniently requires no qualifications.

"accelerationism" otoh is a clear and interesting concept.
The problem with habit reinforcement is that you've simply created a feedback loop.

"You like [music type]? Here are more bands/artists of [music type]."

It looks like an innocent service. But it's devastating to real exploration, because it makes it much less likely you'll ever discover Band/Artist Z whom you'd never normally listen to but love anyway.

This is why thoughtless customer profiling is a dumb idea, and certainly not the sure fire insta-profit marketing panacea it's sometimes supposed to be.

It has some uses, but you're reducing customers to stimulus/response robots with a limited behavioural repertoire, and that's an excellent way to miss a lot of opportunities.
You can generally do that in JS as well. (Added properties are sometimes called "expandos".)
Maybe, or maybe Tesla wisely shipped an MVP and Google allowed the perfect to be the enemy of thr shippable.

Project those data numbers forward, do you really think Google can maintain a technology lead with such a disparity? Maybe they can, but it's a reasonable question.
The author of this piece is a market libertarian generally and an admirer of tech companies specifically. McArdle is not a vector for Tesla propaganda. I disagree with the piece --- as I disagree with almost everything McArdle writes --- but it's useful to get an intellectually coherent perspective from a different worldview than my own.

We're very rarely well served by phrases like "this article seems like propaganda".
Tesla calls the technology "Autopilot". What does that mean to you?
What I've heard is that it pings and complains, but not at such a frequency that drivers are compelled to keep their hands on the wheel.
As of July 2016, the autonomous driving system in the Model S (& X, presumably) is not using radar, only cameras. The vehicles do have radar which is used for other things (various crash avoidance programs), but not this, and these things presumably did not fire correctly. I do not know if Tesla's software update capabilities would allow it to push a future autonomous driving update in the future that could interface with the radar sensors; I'd assume so. When I was working on these things the software build that went to the factory was what was on the car for 15 years, obviously this way is superior.

As a side note, radar in cars and semi trucks are a difficult match. The height of tractor trailer trucks makes it difficult to figure out if they are actually obstacles or if you're really seeing a bridge or something. Normally there's enough hanging down in back that it's not an issue, but in this case the truck was perpendicular to the car. It would not surprise me if the radar went right underneath the truck and either didn't see it, or saw it but thought it was something like a bridge that the car could go under. These are difficult and complex systems to engineer.
The tesla incident highlights the exact technical/ethical problems of using such systems. I was just at a conference speaking with the Google automated car team and the handoff problem is yet to be solved conceptually. The tesla accident is just a first example of it. Obviously the utility of an autopilot system becomes questionable if you can't guarantee safety. It's very similar to medical advances in this way. 1% errors is not a good error rate if it leads to death or serious injury even though such error rates for autonomous systems are remarkable.

That said , if we look at the statistical likelihood of death in a car autonomous systems may very well be much better than humans, but whether we as a society are ethically okay with coming to terms with a piece of software that kills 1 / 100M is another question. A drunk driver that kills someone or themselves is obviously to blame. In this case who's fault is it? The drivers , tesla or the safety board for allowing autopilots to be sold?
Complete with a Wal-Mart Supercenter. Looks like heaven already.
The ability to get the best jobs, go to the best schools, live where you want to live, retire while others cannot, and bend the government to your will are all forms of power. The last, in particular, is political power.

From the Princeton study (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/15/government-wealthy-...):

U.S. government policies reflect the desires of the wealthy and interest groups more than the average citizen, according to researchers at Princeton University and Northwestern University.

“[W]e believe that if policymaking is dominated by powerful business organizations and a small number of affluent Americans, then America’s claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened,” write Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page in an April 9 article posted on the Princeton website and scheduled for fall publication in the journal Perspectives on Politics.

“Not only do ordinary citizens not have uniquely substantial power over policy decisions; they have little or no independent influence on policy at all,” the researchers write in the article titled, “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens.”

Affluent Americans, however, “have a quite substantial, highly significant, independent impact on policy,” Gilens and Page write. Organized interest groups also “have a large, positive, highly significant impact upon public policy.”
European VC funding falls by a third ahead of Brexit vote
yet another source of software for esoteric gear design
http://www.gearotic.com/
Businesses prepare legal challenge over Brexit negotiations
Yeah. I came here from a wealthy European country. So obviously my expectations and experiences will be different.
This is regurgitating past propaganda and myths perpetuated over the last few decades that cannot be taken for granted anymore and do not stand up to scrutiny.

The US had caused more wars and killed more people in the last 50 years than other countries combined, for financial gain and continues to do so. And no one has been held to account for these serious crimes against humanity.

There is a serious situation with the way black people are treated by the law enforcement, their continued marginalization, demonization, and social mobility. There are more issues around native americans.

There is an entire totalitarian type surveillance state now in operation, with secret courts, secret lists, secret processes and those in power not only routinely getting away with crimes against humanity but also their own people.

Whistle blowers and journalists like Drake, Snowden, Greenwald, Poitras and others who seek to expose the burgeoning surveillance state far from raising alarm are being harassed and persecuted.

These cannot be held up as examples of individuals or states that care about human rights and freedom and I suspect the reality of losing the historical and carefully nurtured 'moral high ground' that has been used to principally bully 'inconvenient' interests and nations has not sunk in among the population. Continuing to claim the high ground clings to nostalgia and myths that have little to do with reality.

The abuse of human rights to demonize other nations for political and strategic interests with little actual concern for people at large has gone on for too long. And achieved little in reality than fuelling a gratutious sense of superiority in the west and complacency in turn and diasters like in Iraq and other unfortunate targets. A genuine interest in human rights will need a untainted less self interested approach. Freedom is not a competition.
House prices in NZ are insane compared with salaries. but if you have your own home in UK, you will get a better property over here for the same money.

I would recommend Wellington:

* most importantly far easier to find friends (whether you have a family, or don't).

* plenty of jobs (startup jobs or government jobs or corporate jobs)

* great culture

* far less commuting (Auckland stinks)
I'm not advocating one global language and I think everyone should learn at least one language other than English but let's let the dying languages die. Natural selection is doing a good job. The good ones will survive.
Newton didn't know any better.

Spencer doesn't have that excuse.
Google's self-driving cars is collecting a lot more data than Tesla is --- it has many more sensors that Tesla's cars. So it's not just how many miles you have driven, but what is the quality of the data. More importantly, it's not just having more data, it's how you use it, and that's what Google has been doing for the past five years.

The other reason for the caution is that people's lives are at stake. Google's self-driving cars are significantly more advanced in terms of the sorts of situations which they can handle ocmpared to Tesla's. But one of the things which Google has found is that there is an uncanny valley in terms of driver safety as self-driving cars get more capable. People will tend to trust them more, even shouldn't, and that paradoxically, makes them less safe.

The first generation self-driving cars were lent out to Google employees, where they would be told that the driver would be video'ed for research purposes. And people were found reading e-mail, newspapers, etc., even though they were told to be ready to take over at any time. After all, what do you do if you lose a tie rod? Or you suddenly have a catastrophic tire blow out at highway speeds?

That's why the second generation car has no steering wheel, because it's been shown that it's hopeless to depend on the human being. Instead, you need to have dual redundancy for everything (much like in aircraft design), so that even if you have a hardware problem, that the car can always bring itself safely to a stop at the side of the road, even if the driver is asleep or totally not paying attention because they are too busy watching Harry Potter or some other movie.

Caution is good, when human lives are at stake. Even if they are doing something that they were emphatically being told Not to do, if they do it, maybe the designer of the Autopilot has at least some moral responsibility, even if the lawyers have carefully protected Tesla from any legal liability?
The author means the Hotspot JVM has added intrinsics for memset, autovectorization, etc.

I don't agree with the main point of the article though. Pypy, ZipPy, etc. have shown that there are real gains from running the actual Python code faster.
Simplehttp2server: A simple HTTP/2 server for development
That's kind of a circular argument, right? The uproar is a function of the perceived cause of the event. In the Audi case, the perceived cause is incorrect. But we don't know that about the Tesla case.
It is short for algorithm.
Here's a good counterargument against reserve currency status as a positive thing and listing the negative effects. http://blog.mpettis.com/2016/05/the-titillating-and-terrifyi.... It's a long article, start from 'The effects of reserve currency status'

The positive effects like seignorage are outweighed by other effects. Japan discouraged an attempt by China to hold the yen. Similarly Europe and China have opposed purchase by foreign central banks.

> It turns out that foreign investment is only good for an economy if it brings needed technological or managerial innovation, or if the recipient country has productive investment needs that cannot otherwise be funded. If neither of these two conditions hold, foreign investment must always lead either to a higher debt burden or to higher unemployment. Put differently, foreign investment must result in some combination of only three things: higher productive investment, a higher debt burden, or higher unemployment, and if it does not cause a rise in productive investment, it must cause one of the other two.
You have to define what data they're collecting that's so valuable. Their system is so terrible at sensing the world around it that it will run right into construction barricades if you don't take over:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSasPVYzSQ0&t=150

It's a fancy cruise control, not self-driving. It doesn't understand anything but how to follow lanes (sorta, it doesn't work everywhere) and it has some ability to recognize obstructions in front of it and stop (again, sorta).

Google is teaching their car how to navigate city streets, deal with human drivers and pedestrians, navigate intersections, handle construction zones, deal with emergency vehicles and cops directing traffic, etc. All with a much better sensor package than in a Tesla Model S. Their system doesn't even need lane markings on the road, as they compare LIDAR data with a pre-marked reference map. Tesla's system, and every other system that doesn't do this, breaks down when lane markings are faded or non-existent.

Google's system would not have been prone to this type of accident five years ago, much less today.
Well that's sort of the idea with the "trending news" etc but to make that the focus of the content would be abandoning what makes facebook, well, facebook. It would be making it more like reddit/twitter.
A C compiler doesn't have to assume that the definitions of functions called directly can change. LLVM couldn't optimize calls to memcpy if it couldn't assume its semantics, just to name one example.
> The system does ping and then yell at you if you don't have your hand on the wheel. There's no way to prevent someone from keeping a hand on the wheel and watching a movie while driving.

Daimler actually shipped something intended to do this and beep/yell at you if it thought you were "distracted" or tired, but I honestly never knew what it was measuring. If you could point a camera at the driver it would be trivial, but people would definitely have an issue with that!

> It's really tragic what happened but as a driver you should be aware of what's happening. I've put ~15k miles of Autopilot on our Tesla and while it helps with the mental fatigue I was still watching the road 100% of the time exactly for reasons like this.

Yes, even just adaptive cruise control is a big help and wonderful in traffic. But the ACC I'm familiar with will turn off as soon as you let go of the wheel. I'm happy to hear that the features have worked well for you, and it's nice that the Tesla yells at you, but it just needs to turn off.
Also false. Search the site for posts about the "vouch" button.
Reminds me of of the Power Metal Lyric Generator[1]. Although obviously that was done more as a joke instead of actual analysis on metal lyrics.

[1] https://youtu.be/wpe8eNdpAiM?t=307