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Stepping through code is only useful when you know where the code diverged from your expectations. If you proactively log well enough, you sometimes understand the state of the program well enough to bypass the debugger completely.

If hope is involved, you could have almost certainly saved the same time by thinking more carefully.
The hardware will be standard, but almost certainly you'll pay extra to enable it. (If they do it the same as similar features in the past, there will be a discount to enable it at order, or you can do it later at a slight premium.)
> t means at least you put other things at higher priority than discrimination, torture, and promotion of violence and hatred and you are willing to at least ignore those.

Oh please... You're not being intellectually honest.
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It was probably just a typo that the couple of people who wrote and edited the announcement didn't catch. I am doubtful of the correlation you are implying between their spelling of braking and their braking system.
My guess is that Gopman posted something incredibly insensitive in a moment of frustration and probably really regrets voicing his opinion, even if he still believes it. It's hard to have sympathy for him given that.

Still, this argument that we should use someone's past actions against them indefinitely is oddly reminiscent of our penal system. Are criminals inherently incapable of rehabilitation, even with an idealized correctional system? Should we hold their past actions against them indefinitely? If not, what's an appropriate amount of time? What if they seem truly remorseful of their actions?

I don't know that I have a good answer for those questions, but it's interesting to see some of the same people arguing for a more humane penal system simultaneously holding these long grudges against people for their (admittedly incredibly insensitive) actions.
I think it's great that they're taking the big risks needed to move the industry forward, and not letting the lawyers run the company.

But some of the risks they're taking are just completely stupid and unnecessary, such as calling their assisted cruise control "Autopilot." That's like waving the proverbial cape at the proverbial bull.
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He is not advocating Google Chromebooks as an alternative, he is trying to get you to understand the value and experience you and not tech-savvy users can get out of it. After you experience it for 3-6 months, create your own FOSS equivalent of the experience Google and Chromebook have to offer. Now combine this with open hardware (we have software freedom but we aren't truly free until we have open hardware) such as the RISC-V ISA. Traditional desktop software doesn't appeal to the not tech-savvy, but the web will.

Take a look at Synology's software (although closed source), its a great UX over a Linux environment, all done via web.
https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/6.0
Musk is a notorious grammar Nazi, so he may go after whomever is responsible. They could be in trouble.
I have no idea where to look on that page (meaning the Drudge Report website).

Maybe once you're "used to it" it becomes easy to parse but I've just spent a minute looking at it and I'm not even entirely sure what the site is about? It's compared to mainstream news sites so is it meant to be a news site?

For example the main headline right now is "TONIGHT: HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP!" What does that even mean?
That'll be an interesting court case: the first time a fatality is the result of unactivated safety features on a car that's fully capable of preventing a collision.
I wonder how much it would cost to add hardware for both Autopilot v1.0 and v2.0 for the gap models, so new customers don't have to make the sacrifice. Lack of complete Autopilot for a while is fine, but lack of emergency braking increases your life risk.
Your present comfort to some extent relies on people not having tons of kids. We'd be overcrowded and resource-constrained.

It's great that you have kids but it's not like a it's a public service you're performing. Unless you adopted a bunch or something. We can always get younger immigrants to come fulfil those jobs.
Who's providing all this hardware? EIGHT surround cameras and TWELVE ultrasonic sensors: Are they building this in house too? If not, that's a lot of business to a supplier... all I could find about camera suppliers for Tesla was their former camera (tech?) supplier Mobileye.
From the article

All tech publication commissioning editors interested in paying me to publish this piece should know that some elements are fabricated, not least the clickbait headline in which I claim to have been sent to jail.
I wonder how much it has to do with the autopilot death:

https://www.tesla.com/blog/tragic-loss

EDIT: no idea why the downvotes, I'm all for self driving cars, but pretty obviously they could be scared of PR issues and lawsuits.
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i don't think they ever believed the previous sensors were capable of "full autonomy". the reason they didn't throw in all these sensors sooner is that it would have been a premature optimization considering their lack of experience and also pretty expensive in terms of the hardware (which includes the GPUs necessary to make use of the sensors).
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No, she just helped destabilize the country until he was killed and sodomized. And then laughed about it, on television. Surely this was the administrations intention all along. Of course they didn't expect him to be sodomized but as long as he died one way or another I really doubt they cared. Of course, now Libya is still embroiled in civil war.

The point is that there are legitimate reasons to support Trump over Hillary that don't involve someone being a racist, sexist, bigot. The world definitely isn't perfect and we have two (major) candidates to choose from that make a lot of reasonable people on both 'sides' existentially concerned about the future of the republic.

I agree with your concerns about Trump. I just think Hillary is even scarier, especially because a lot of the type of people who would protest and politically mobilize against the actions I think she might take support her.
> These employers have the same right to associate with whomever they choose. You'd take it away from them.

That may have been true at some point a long time ago, but it's definitely not true any more.

https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopos...

However, political views aren't a protected thing, but religious views are. Seems silly to me, but that's the law.
I wonder how much it has to do with the autopilot death:

https://www.tesla.com/blog/tragic-loss
And in actually announcing this commitment now, that this one would be the final hardware, could also be just forced, as they need to sell it to all the people getting cars now with temporary less functionality.
> It gives them time to confirm a new technology and update their maps of areas with information from the new wavelengths they're just now gathering.

Fair enough. I just tried to do a diff between the versions:

Current implementation [0]

* Camera module in the front

* Front-facing Radar

* 12 ultrasonic sensors

New implementation:

* 8 surround cameras

* Front-facing radar

* 12 ultrasonic sensors (updated)

[0]: https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-sensors-does-the-Tesla-Mo...

So the difference is basically just a few extra cameras and updates to the sensors. It doesn't seem like a huge step or completely new platform - at least when looking at the components.
Thanks, question:

"as providing liquidity is to them akin to passing bread to orphans."

I'm not following your meaning there. Meaning?

Also, is every brokerage also a market maker?
>I can't think of a precedent for this as a marketing approach in modern consumer products.

Apple iOS ;) the iPhone 7 had (don't know if it has now) some camera features (autofocus and raw related) disabled that were present on the 6/6s because of software limitations.

This isn't that uncommon many times you can have a new product which comes with some features disabled/not working because the software did not catch up to the hardware yet for what ever reason.
How is that?

Currently is it. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/patronize

Nowhere in there is patronize used in a gender based way at all.

A patron is simply somebody who supports you and bankrolls you. Christopher Columbus had a female patron.

Or are you grasping at straws here? Even m-w lists a male gendered meaning for the root word patron at the eighth definition. From m-w (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/patron): 8: the chief male officer in some fraternal lodges having both men and women members
Well, that's a huge company with many different types of engineers, and in business a long time (relatively). I would say the ageism is more likely at small startups that happen to have mostly young (in their 20s) engineers.
I'm not sure I understand. The Mars Rover is powered by a nuclear reactor.
True, but the special case of "being responsible for the wellbeing of another person while simultaneously needing to respect their autonomy to some degree" is significantly more fraught than just "people gonna judge how you live".

This also applies to other situations, like the government's role in dealing with indigenous populations. The government can't force them to attend school, study, work, create healthy family environments, moderate substance use etc. because that impinges on their rights. The government is then taken to task for the indigenous population's lack of education and employment, their living conditions, problems with substance abuse, and so on. There's no way to win.
When did they say the first generation cars with autopilot would be "fully autonomous soon"?
The currency booth at the airport is a market maker. I give them dollars, they give me euros. They don't make me stand around and wait for a European to complete the trade, though. (That would be more classified as an exchange.) They are always willing to buy or sell at some price. The currency desk is mostly looking out for their own interest, but when I step off the plane, I want somebdoy to be there to sell me euros.

When George Soros decides to sell a billion British pounds, that's a prop trade. He's not hanging out letting the trades come to him.

(I say currency booth, not exchange, just to avoid confusion. We usually say exchange, because that's what happens, but it's not an exchange in the market sense.)
Everyone is very nice and proper on this thread. There's another option if he's affecting you negatively -- burn him.

If he likes to work, arrange to dump the worst, tedious gigs on him. Nitpick random bullshit. Blame him for stuff. If you don't he'll set the benchmark for everyone.
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Ha ha, Brilliant! Cheers.
Indeed, the Eschaton chapter in Infinite Jest had a large amount of them and I ended up having to read the book with this wiki to make sense of lots of these acronyms. http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/ind...
The old models actually had pretty weak sensors which indirectly caused the death of that one guy who used autopilot and t-boned a trailer.

> Eight surround cameras provide 360 degree visibility around the car at up to 250 meters of range.

Previously that was just one camera mounted in front of the rear view mirror

> Twelve updated ultrasonic sensors complement this vision, allowing for detection of both hard and soft objects at nearly twice the distance of the prior system.

Same number as before except instead of 16' of range it will be 32' of range.

> A forward-facing radar with enhanced processing provides additional data about the world on a redundant wavelength, capable of seeing through heavy rain, fog, dust and even the car ahead.

same number and position of radar sensors as before but possibly a beefed up type for inclement weather. I don't know what the prior one was capable of.
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Tesla has already said that the Model 3's safety features will come standard, though it wouldn't preclude such a lawsuit against the owner if the features weren't activated.
Correct - When the direct link made the front page of HN and the jobs were free to post
Personally, I don't find such topline metrics that helpful. If India improves by some margin (noting that it is a country with relatively more space to grow than a developed nation) then the averages for the whole World would improve, given that India represents 1/6th the global population. This would mask any relative declines in pockets/cities in a country like the US.

NB I only very quickly skimmed the article, and base this opinion on the usage of broad terminology like "the World is...". It may be objectively true but is not really pertinent to the discussion of whether Chicago is or is not getting safer...
So techcrunch missed this but found a years old, long deleted facebook post?
Not sure about the downvotes, unless it's because of the new HN motto where everyone downvotes things they disagree with.

<In general the whole dogma that the government is always useless at everything, is very pre-2008, ie. dangerously incorrect.>

You set up a good strawman. And the implication that since 2008 (what exactly happened there?) we're somehow more capable of having well run, long term, government projects in the US is not supported by much evidence.

Yes, government can have a longer recoup horizon; but it also has an extremely short political horizon. If something doesn't succeed on the first attempt, it becomes fodder for whichever party is in power and supported it.

And while government has had successes in the past, as the investment folks remind us, is no guarantee of future successes, especially in something as complicated as creating a continent-wide wireless infrastructure. Imagine the cost, the rent-seeking, the cronyism, the NIMBYism that will infect such a project.

Government is not an agency like DARPA that is free to investigate and develop technologies without concern for budgets and satisfying constituents. Look at how politicized the FCC is. Imagine handing it perhaps the largest communication system in the world, and expecting it to manage it. Keep it upgraded. Understand which technologies are worth something, and ones which are dead ends. Oh, and make sure Grandma in Broken Bow, Nebraska has as good a connection as someone in Berkeley or San Diego.

And back to your strawman; show me large Federally run government programs implemented since 2008 that are on budget, meeting original goals, and not having huge unintended side effects.
Yeah the amount of influence you have is very minimal, especially when you consider changing jobs, are you supposed to move each time you do? I think that is an often claimed adage (like the whole trickle down effect one) that is much less true in reality.
"...economists often predict the future correctly but the irrational..."

This is the Overcoming Bias/Less Wrong community worldview basically, and I find your RPG setting reading works well for understanding them as well. From now on I'll think of them as writers who are predicting the future of an alternate universe where humans think fundamentally differently than in our reality.

It's a hell of a lot of fun, if you model homo economicus instead of homo sapiens it actually is possible to reason about large societies and at least attempt to predict far future outcomes to some degree. Plenty of ways to hand wave away the reasons that you can't "predict" historical events or the present with these models, that's boring anyway, the future has cooler toys.

If you accept that a chaotic soup of memes can, at any time, combine to form an idea that becomes a popular ideology that prompts a bunch of clever apes to act anywhere from irrational to completely insane for arbitrary amounts of time ... well that's impossible to model in any meaningful way.

The aversion to history makes a lot of sense, my own interest in history and sociology is what showed me the holes in this worldview and now I can't play this fun game with the same immersion they do.
This company's self driving cars are gonna have serious problems because their business roadmap is all over the place. This is not just wordplay, I'm serious.
Then I misunderstood your toplevel comment as "Asians are more comfortable with suicide culturally (insert samurai references here) therefore we can expect higher rates of suicide". My evidence against that was that AAs don't actually have higher than average suicide rates and that being part of the culture reduces suicide rates.

Also since you mentioned catholics, you may be interested in this: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-church-a...
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I do, and he's right. You clearly don't have more than a half dozen children, with both boys and girls.

It might be taboo to say this, but "I have spares" really makes a difference. People who lose their only son or only daughter seem to fall apart, especially if replacement is no longer an option.
Oh, man. You've described exactly how it works in this business on all and every level! It's a constant stream of smoke and mirrors. You can't fight that, and if you can't join-in on that it's just best to nod in situations like that. Parlour tricks, fancy and fake bling, and lots of cash moving around.

Problem arises when, on the operating level, you have to 'keep it real'. BS echoes still and people need time in order to snap back to the real world, stop believing their lies, and get something done. It's a wonderful chaos, but that's how it works. It's not any different in 'normal' business, this is jus amplified because people are well-versed in agitprop.

Distribution is still kind of like that, it got M&A over the years so the octopus is bigger, less fragmented.

If anyone is thinking of disrupting this and is reading this. Here's a thought you need to solve. It's simple to understand. Let's say I'm holding rights to 100 movies. Average, Hallmark type of movies, nothing special. Each distributor (who sells to TV and cable stations) or TV stations themselves out there are willing to pay me $10,000 (ballpark, but not far out) for a right to show that movie for three years (also ballpark) in one or up to several small countries. That's $10k for three years, per movie, per country (or several smaller). That's a $1m potential to fully unload my library to one area over three years. Let's say there are 20 areas in the world where I can unload my full library and more (lots) which will take a partial library (I and them deal with multiple titles only, it's easier that way for both and one title gets out only if it's special). That's, roughly, $20m over three years for my library. Every three years. Forever. Each station for each (unlimited, but it varies) showing sells advertising and recuperates my cost and they earn something back.

For you to disrupt that, if you go global, you would need to offer the same amount (at least) on your shaky non-established platform for my library (and others). TV/cable/distributors won't touch my library anymore because now it's global and they lost exclusivity. Why so? That makes it harder for them to sell advertising for some reason, that's what they say at least.

For you to offer a platform where you offer me a share of revenue will not work. Why? Because those TV/cable/distro give me cash, secure cash, predictable cash, each and every cycle. With your offering I would have to take care of marketing (or you would) in order to push my old library of movies to viewers.

That's what you need to solve. Secure stream of cash for library holders which is at least equal to their realised potential and upwards. How you secure that stream? That's what you need to solve.
Myself personally (not an American) would favour trial (of any kind) over a blanket pardon, however I will support a full pardon or full commute of the sentence in case he is found guilty by a trial in which he could not mount a proper defence due to the espionage act limitations, if it would be a closed trial or if it would be a military tribunal instead of a trial by jury.
I think you are missing the main thrust of the book. He is not trying to convince you that em-based AI is the likely future. He chose the less examined possibility as a starting point, but the main part of the book is to enumerate the predictions that flow from that premise.

This is interesting and worth examining even if the premise is wrong. Sometimes examining a familiar topic in unfamiliar terrain yields new insights.
> California law also prohibits adverse action against employees because of "lawful conduct occurring during nonworking hours away from the employer's premises."

So no one can be fired for saying something on facebook? Go California, I hope everyone catches up.
Sure, thanks!
its also interesting that RSI was much rarer when secretaries wuold type all day on heavy typewriters...
I see where you're coming from, but think that's a calculated risk. From a PR perspective it generates buzz, sounds ambitious, and reflects their ambition.

If you ask anybody today, "what company is interested in self-driving cars?" Their answer is going to be Tesla. They're not gonna say Apple, or Ford or Volvo or Mercedes or Mobileye or Intel. They're gonna point straight to Tesla.

A big part of that is their "inaccurate" word choice. From a PR perspective, the name was a solid gold decision.
i'm guessing that the data is just plain too different (probably no more mobileye sensors, for example) and not worth adapting to the older ML models (which itself would require extensive testing) when the new system is going to end up with different ML models anyways.

[edit] Tesla previously hired Jim Keller (chip designer) into the autopilot team. considering the kinds of things he may be working on, i'd be surprised if the differences in either the sensors or GPUs aren't significant.
> To make sense of all of this data, a new onboard computer with more than 40 times the computing power of the previous generation runs the new Tesla-developed neural net for vision, sonar and radar processing software.

40 times the performance of a Tegra 3 is not particularly impressive.

Also, I sincerely hope that this new faster computer doesn't also run a web browser.
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