skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, was just an off the cuff remark, not completely accurate.

The book does take the time to provide alternates at many points. It should explain "what really happens," but it first does that for waterfall, then spiral, and agile, etc. If you are reading the waterfall part, for example, your "really happens" is going to be different if you are currently working under Agile. To avoid info-overload I've tried not to explain everything at once, but of course that means valid points have to wait until later.
Well, at a minimum you're asking him, in quite an accusing way, to defend against a bunch of things he didn't say. That's pretty close to "putting words in his mouth, but with question marks after them". It's not a fair form of debate, and it's not welcome here.
A must-read book? Go on, make me
This is what should happen. If you price a drug based on the value it offers, antibiotics should cost a lot more than they do now. You're talking about a single treatment regimen that often saves the patients lives.

The problem with that approach is the way that hospitals are reimbursed for antibiotics in the US. There is no room for those prices. I know Congress is trying to change that by making antibiotics separately reimbursed.

[Source: I worked at a biotech firm that has a number of antibiotics in development]
People have been trained to recognize the discrepancy between a product's by-the-book usage (which is often impractically stringent, as a CYA for the company) and its real world usage.

Tesla could easily have the "autopilot" turn off if no hands are detected on the wheel for, say, 10 seconds. Putting a blurb in the instruction manual about keeping your hands on the wheel but then allowing users to use it hands-free is broadcasting, "Hey, you don't really have to do this"
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I'm sure it.can detect whether or not there are vehicles behind it.
Not necessarily

>The bomb only created a relatively small hole in the plane's fuselage, however, and the aircraft was able to return to Mogadishu and land safely. Somali authorities now believe that they know who carried the bomb onto the plane and detonated it: A man who was then sucked out of the hole in the fuselage and became the attack's only fatality. (Only two minor injuries were reported among other passengers and crew.)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/02/05/somali_air...
TIL: car crashes happen. but because it's Tesla it gets 100x the attention
That's the problem though: if its lost confidence, you might be gradually slowing down into a concrete median. You must ensure that the autopilot has enough confidence (while said confidence is diminishing quickly) to continue in the path it chooses safely between current speed and 0.

Pretend we're in the car together. We're traveling at 70mph on a two lane road at night. I cover your eyes with my hands on a curvy road. Assure me we will stop in time without hitting something.
As a backup to you. Not the other way around.
My family bought a house in a good school district. We've spent thousands of dollars on swimming, music lessons, etc. And that's just scratching the surface.

The rest of it -- the narrative, making the Stanford application look good, etc., ... Nope. Sure, I know parents who have that mind set, but I also know parents who don't. I grew up in a culture that values education as an end unto itself. Taking music lessons was just part of the normal routine.
The driver's response is moot. The larger issue here is that if autopilot doesn't provide for a safe stop under its own control when it encounters a situation it can't handle, any vehicle on autopilot becomes a lethal missile if the driver has some kind of medical problem.

A traditional car won't get more than a few hundred meters if the driver on the freeway has a stroke, say. A car on autopilot could travel hundreds of kilometers and end up in a schoolyard at freeway speeds.
I wrote this on a previously buried thread:

Naming their system "autopilot" goes beyond the marketing dept overstepping and into the territory of irresponsibility.

The "average" definition of autopilot per Wikipedia is "autopilot is a system used. . . 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)

The disconnect between the name and the actual function is needlessly confusing and probably irresponsible.

They should change the name to "driver assist" or something more accurate given that mis-interpreting the system's function can lead to death of the driver or others.

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

(2) https://www.teslamotors.com/presskit/autopilot
Takata airbags have been in the news the last several years because at least two people have died and more than a hundred have been injured.

I've heard commenters opine that this "could mean the end of Takata as a company." But I haven't heard anyone say this "could mean the end of airbags as a feature in cars."

I guess what the Tesla autopilot needs is a lot of good publicity every time it avoids an accident which a human driver would otherwise have actually caused.

But where would anyone get the counterfactual for those cases? Does anyone even have information about that?
Well the whole autopilot feature is silly if you need to keep your hands on the wheel. Then you might as well steer yourself, or am I missing something? (I don't know details about this feature, I just know it steers automatically on highways.)

Until full driver attention is no longer needed, enabling "autopilot" and saying in the manual "PS. you still need to stay as alert as you normally would and keep your hands on the wheel" (i.e. no benefits from having this feature) is just asking for accidents.

Imagine, as you suggest, it does turn off when there's no hand on the wheel. People are just going to rest a hand on it and still not pay attention. What's the next step, tracking people's eyes? Or shall we just not enable autopilot in the first place, if it can't do its only job?
There is not a simple, one-size-fits-all solution to this. Ideally if AP confidence drops to a critical level what you want is for the AP to safely remove the car from the road however how and when do you do that for every possible situation that can be encountered on the roads? At the end of the day the driver has to take responsibility and take over the controls like it asks.
> I'm well aware of zoning laws. I think when they're taken too far, they impinge on personal liberty.

Well then it's a good thing we have courts to decide what "too far" is. The Supreme Court has decided that zoning laws are not inherently unconstitutional (Euclid v. Amber), but they've struck down more infringing laws on multiple occasions. Maybe you don't agree with the exact balance they've chosen, but that's your problem, not a fatal flaw of our government.

> I think what we need is a constitutional limit on state power in the United States.

We already have one: the Supremacy Clause. Federal laws and the national constitution override state laws in all cases. If a certain right is not granted either by a state or by the Supremacy Clause, it's because both the state and the Federal government have decided that particular right isn't a natural one. Again, you seem to be taking your particular conceptions of liberty and what the law should be, and deciding the government is flawed for not obeying them. A lot of us like the current system.

If there's a particular right you feel should be Constitutionally protected against state laws, we have a system for that with Constitutional amendments enforced by the Supremacy Clause. Propose one to your representative if you like. But your suggestion of more non-specific Constitutional limits on state power is not going to win you many followers: the vague right-libertarianism of your attitude will alienate the Left, and the Right will balk at your suggestion of more Federal limits on state power. You're walking a lonely road here.
you don't have to brake .
And this is why I don't think they should call it "autopilot". The name is misleading, imo
> [...] you might be gradually slowing down into a concrete median.

Which seems to be less of a problem than not gradually slowing down as you run into the concrete median.

Just as a human driver would, a road vehicle self-driving system needs to act sensibly to mitigate risk if its confidence in its ability to safely operate in the conditions it finds itself is reduced, until and unless a human driver has resumed active control.
Love the simplicity of it. Could definitely build a strong analogous marketing campaign around laying fiber is to stitching the service together.

Also could go the route of a strand of glass is the thread in which we sew you into the fabric of the Internet but I suspect this would be lost by the average consumer.
From real life:

* Real life people who aren't engineers don't read the manual and they don't read notification pop-ups.
I follow /r/crackstatus but it is far from being really done. This said I think all things equal piracy is a good thing for the gaming industry and without it I would not have been a gamer who now have more than 300 games in Steam and many more in GoG and Blizzard games too Back in the day I wasn't rich and even if I had money I couldn't buy games because I had no access to them living in a third World Country, but piracy made me a gamer.
Shameless self-promotion: by chance, I happened to write a blog post today that's all about information theory:

"Measuring Information in Millibytes"
https://engineering.vena.io/2016/07/12/measuring-information...
Thing is, standing still on a highway is also not a safe place to be. So the car needs to determine a safe-fail state on its own.
Looks great! Love the benefits icons.
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"1 company town"? Hah not hardly!

Lets see:

1. Google
2. Intuit
3. Pure Storage
4. Symantec
5. Quixey (https://www.quixey.com/)
6. Matterport
+ a bunch of startups that I have forgotten about.

There is a ways to go before Mountain View is a 1 company town.
Because this sort of auto->manual transition of control does not work [1].

1: https://www.amazon.com/Our-Robots-Ourselves-Robotics-Autonom...
Once you realize that he was America's greatest absurdist, it's breathtaking.

Also, the collection Chip Kidd designed is a great doorway into understanding how it could have become so popular. [1]

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26156.Peanuts
Actually it would be a good thing, we don't need a transaction every half a millisecond.
Great, more data points.
Three years prior, Shannon worked out many of the issues for his theory of information in his work on cryptography:

Shannon, Claude. “A Mathematical Theory of Cryptography.” Murray Hill, NJ: Bell Labs, September 1, 1945. http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/pdfs/shannoncryptshrt.pd....
I think we agree, its simply in the execution. Why didn't the vehicle slow down when it lost confidence? Was it software? Could the ultrasound sensors and/or MobileEye camera not see the concrete median at night?
Here's the UK version of Farnell, who are "quite big" in component distribution.

http://uk.farnell.com/enclosures-racks-cabinets

There are several thousand off the shelf boxes here.
Including "put your hands on the wheel" x2
See all these people in the below photos? They're playing it. At night. In a public park. I walked through there at midnight on Saturday night and it was just as busy. During the day it's even more so. Walking through just about any inner-suburban public park currently involves watching groups of 20somethings scurry around trying to locate pokemon.

It has been explosively successful in the traditionally non-gamer markets. News outlets are picking it up because it's so ubiquous.

https://media.apnarm.net.au/img/media/images/2016/07/11/b882...

https://media.apnarm.net.au/img/media/images/2016/07/11/b882...
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Searle's conclusions are certainly shockingly counterintuitive, which challenges us to do a good enough job of formalizing what we mean by computation, or more specifically universal computation, that we can rebut it.

Do you remember the controversy about whether Matthew Cook's proof† of the computational universality of elementary CA rule 110? There wasn't consensus on whether the infinitely-repeating background pattern 00010011011111 was a valid precondition.

The entire field of fully homomorphic encryption involves programming a computation to be executed on a machine whose owner is (conjectured to be) computationally incapable of understanding what the computation does without the decryption key. If the decryption key is erased, does the computation still take place? What if you just erase 16 bits of the decryption key? Different answers are obviously correct to different people.

At the most basic level, you can view an N-bit AND operation as an N-bit OR operation by inverting your interpretation of the voltage levels, or an M-bit operation where M < N by ignoring some of the bits as noise. And both of these reinterpretations are actually useful and used on a daily basis by programmers and hardware designers.

You can solve any NP-complete problem with a SAT solver, by transforming the problem instance to a SAT instance, solving it with the SAT solver, and then transforming it back. With the dramatic recent progress in SAT solvers, this is actually the most efficient way to solve some hard computational problems, although SMT solvers are more popular for most problems. If you are observing just the SAT-solving part of the computation, you can't tell whether the problem being solved is a Hamiltonian cycle problem, a TSP problem, or what. At the end of the process, the interpretation of the SAT solver result is in some sense "in the eye of the beholder", even if the beholder uses another computer program to transform it into a form they prefer beholding.

Certainly it is possible to do computation with vortices interacting in water, and as you see above, there's legitimately some amount of interpretive latitude about exactly which computation is being carried out, at least in some cases. How wide should we consider that latitude to be? Should it be so wide that we should consider a natural waterfall to be playing a game of chess, or indeed any possible game of chess? That seems shocking and counterintuitive — but if not, we should come up with a good explanation of why not.

†Note that Stephen Wolfram obtained a court order providing prior restraint of the publication of Cook's proof, citing a nondisclosure agreement. Never sign a contract with Wolfram!
I can't even use my car's (Mazda) built in GPS without the car being in park. And yet Tesla allows autopilot without hands on the wheel? Insane.
Not entirely - both LinkedIn and Google faced building restrictions because of traffic volumes. This makes it easier for Google to solve the traffic volumes and get something built.
I've been playing with 'light', 'lumens', 'illuminate' and 'photon' as base words but haven't yet come across something that seems to fit. However I'm always open to any and all suggestions :)
Someone should start a follow-up blog that documents what happened to customers' data after the announcement. A small number have offered pretty good export tools, so you don't lose any data, but then where do you put that data? If you're a business customer, flatfiles on some employee's computer someplace?

I wonder if it's a viable business model to offer migration services from shut-down cloud services' export formats to other ones.
Doesn't that betray the notion of remote work and remote offices being as efficient as on-campus work interactions, or is there something about the units involved which make them exceptional in working under one roof?
If you're instructing the driver to do something, and they don't, your last option is to fail as gracefully as possible (which is "what is the best path forward in the distance I need to stop at emergency braking rate + I must notify the vehicle behind me as soon as its clear I will take automated action, even if that's before I apply braking force").
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Tesla has gone out of their way to get more and more attention. For a company that sells only tens of thousands of cars it's pretty amazing. Until these recent crashes the majority of that press has been very positive.

The downside of this is that when you get bad publicity it's going to be much bigger as well.

That's the price of celebrity.
If this is really Tesla's line of thinking, they may want to rebrand that feature. Autopilot definitely suggests something more than helping you steer. I mean, when do you fail to steer in the first place? It's not exactly rocket science; the only use case for this is when the driver falls asleep, in which case the "autopilot" can catch the mistake, slow the car, start some heavy metal music and call the police for a fine to deter the driver from further sleepy driving.

Since that's not what it's doing at all, I think this is not how Tesla intends the feature to currently work.
>What good is a half-full glass to you if you're dead?

What bad is it if you're dead?
What I mean is that now computers algorithms are making the trades, it is so fucked up now that people pay hundreds of millions of dollars to be physically near the stock exchange so that they have less lag.

I should have been more clear, computer based autonomous or semi-autonomous algorithms should not be allowed to trade.
>"It's a winding road going through a canyon, with no shoulder," Shope told CNNMoney. The driver told Shope the car was in Autopilot mode, traveling between 55 and 60 mph ...

in SUV (Model X)... are people trying to win Darwin award?
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Right. I'm not talking about bad outcomes in the grandparent. Far from it. I'm more interested in the fact that project participants will for example fabricate a fake manifestation of a process (fake[1] project plans, fake task lists, fake design documents) for the benefit of external folks asking them to "follow process". Meanwhile they get on with building the product "The Way we Actually Do it[2]", successfully. This phenomenon can be confusing because outsiders might conclude that the process led to success when in fact it was the presence of people who knew how to build software successfully that led to success and the perception of process was a mirage.

[1] By fake I don't mean fraudulent but rather something that has as its only purpose to meet the needs of the process enforcement. For example a requirements document that nobody reads after it has been written, or a design document written before the manner in which the problem will be solved is well understood (and is therefore never read). Project plans that somehow turn out to have underestimated effort by 3X...

[2] TWWADI(tm)
No, there is no royal road to Geometry. Learn the math. Have patience with yourself; it will take a while. You'll be glad you did!
I'd like to see a survey of how many Tesla drivers think Tesla advocates complete cession of control to Autopilot.

My suspicion is zero.
The Night Watch (2013) [pdf]
> this is the first incident where autopilot was involved with an inattentive driver

The other (fatal) crash involved an inattentive driver watching a Harry Potter movie:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/01/tesla-dri...
Hah might as well just go iFiber ;)

There are no inclusion requirements for the name.
"He had forgotten having seen the photograph before but had
remembered what it depicted, and the latter over time became
its own memory."

Not only do I dislike taking photos when traveling, but I especially dislike _looking_ at photos of my travels. I realized long ago that memories of the photo can become conflated with and displace my actual memory of the event. I'd rather a fuzzy memory that's all my own over a detailed memory of a photo.

This has resulted in tension with my wife and others, though I try to keep my preferences to myself as much as possible. I realize most people either just don't understand the distinction, or maybe just don't care as much as I do. But to me, memory is a very significant aspect of "me" (in myriad dimensions--physical, emotional, w'ever), and it's downright horrifying knowing how fragile and malleable it is. And it's malleable to both external and _internal_ influences, which means just thinking about a memory can change it. Nonetheless, in my experience the photo effect is extremely strong and it's far easier to just avert my eyes than risk corrupting a cherished memory so thoroughly.
> "We specifically advise against its use at high speeds on undivided roads," it said. Tesla states clearly in its owner's manual that drivers should stay alert and keep their hands on the wheel to avoid accidents when the Autopilot feature is engaged.

Most people don't read the manual unless what they're doing actively doesn't work. Especially with press surrounding Autopilot saying it's basically the best self driving car and is completely trustworthy (even if they don't explicitly state that, it's still implied), it's not unthinkable that someone would completely trust the car and not worry about sensors. The car should be much more proactive at getting the user's attention, either by actively slowing the car down to some safe speed with cautions on and/or significantly lowering the time limit of taking their hand off the wheel before any indicators appear. I'm not sure about the former, but the latter is done in every other car that has this kind of technology (e.g. cars with Lane Assist) and the time is very low, around 10 seconds.
> Tesla is going to learn this lesson that hard way.

Yes. I hear you. If I, as a non-Tesla driving, regular motorist got grievously injured by a Tesla running autosteer, I bet I'd be able to choose from the nation's finest injury lawyers.

There's an old saying: your freedom to Tesla autosteer your vehicle ends at the tip of my bumper. (Or something like that.)
I remember the days of seeing inline assembly in code (delphi). We griped about that code quite a bit, but this was in the days before "you can't outsmart the compiler". Was it clever: yes. Was it maintainable: no. Was it necessary: YES! This was drawing code, doing it via the normal language routines was just not a performant solution.
What I meant is that computers that do trades all by themselves should not be legal. Even frigging signing for a gmail account forces you to pass a captcha.
> If your code cant be understood by someone else with minimal efforts it is not good enough.

The article doesn't use "clever" as an antonym for "readable", though. The point is that clever code can be excessively brittle.
> from the half-full glass POV we are just speeding up the natural selection of bacteria resistant humans

Bahaha that's one way to look at it. I guess we have plenty of humans to spare.
You got me. I am not an expert. Your information is highly appreciated. This is not a sarcasm.

What would you recommend in terms of a really "libre" hardware?
In addition, there is a protocol for this. The pilot will contact the flight attendant working in the front of the plane. The flight attendant will lock a beverage cart in front of the bathrooms, creating a (heavy, but not immovable) barrier between the cockpit and bathroom, and the rest of the plane. The flight attendant stands behind the cart, watching the passengers. The pilot looks through the peep hole, and when it is clear, comes out, locking the cockpit door behind him/herself. After using the rest room, the pilot knocks on the door to ask the copilot to open it. The peep hold is used to be sure the flight attendant is still standing guard and everything is normal.

There are obviously some risks here, as the door is opened briefly twice, but there are a number of steps taken to minimize this risk.