skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is political. Many do not believe fusion to work, and this could turn into a flame war about fossil fuels and climate change.

Sorry, but gotta flag.
Just as a note, "working as intended" does not include actually generating electricity.

They just verified that the machine generates the magnetic field that the designers intended.

That's great, worth reading about for sure, but it is not "really works" in the sense of it's about to power Berlin.
That already happens sometimes: it's called IVF with PGD (pre-implantation genetic diagnosis). Before an embryo is implanted a cell is taken from it and tested for genetic defects.

It's an expensive and convoluted process, so it's only done when one or both of the parents are carriers of a serious genetic mutation.
The benefit is that hopefully from rapid cycling we can settle on tooling that is really good
Trivago files to raise up to $428M in IPO
VP
Tech
I don't know how much bandwidth and complexity is involved in processing the single cam setup, maybe with a recent core i7, the variability of python is swallowed by the cpu performance.

That said, Hotz claimed to have read state of the art papers, but it doesn't seem he meant hard real time physics/mechanics computations; probably neural net, computer vision and deep learning. Hacker way ?
For the purposes of this week, surely yes.
I just read them in order, last one so far was The Little Gods. And .. I don't know, it didn't click for me.

But I'm really confused about the last line. If it's a quote, I don't know it. I don't speak that language. Google Translate makes this even _more_ confusing.

Given the prominent position (final line of the story) I assume this is important and I feel like everyone is laughing but I don't get the punchline.
This isn't some "clever trick". It is genuinely not illegal to release a bunch of code open source on github.

The Government asked him to not sell his product, so he complied with the government's request.
The growth rate is likely to be geometric.
A lesson from history and geopolitics: Never trust more powerful entities.
excellent article, need more of these data on newest trends in marketing intelligence
It's not a pity at all. Everyone who is around that wouldn't be without modern medicine imparts something to those around them. To give an extreme example, Stephen Hawking.
You mean finding an empty spot and parking ? interesting small scope project.
Almost as if they have agreed behind closed doors. Funny coincidence (no sarcasm)
Why are you so sure it was written by dmr? The coding style looks like ken's to me: a) no space after if/while/for/etc b) use of "botch".

Yes, calloc is used in lex, but that is not part of v6...at least not the official distribution, I don't know when he started development. But since he also uses fopen and friends why shouldn't he be using malloc as well? changing 'calloc(n, m)' to 'malloc(n*m)' doesn't sound like such a huge change.
I don't see why I'd want to use a service that bans my country from even accessing their website.
I'd rather bet on scala or f#.
I hope he goes into space, I even have a name for his next company: astron'hotz.
Status: Ethereum light messenger client for Android and iOS
First TamperData now FireBug. Seems like Mozilla is not interested in having professionals on their platform anymore.
Heinz Egypt director reportedly arrested following seizure of rotten tomatoes
It is an incredibly vague rule that probably just means "If this offends someone we want to do business with, we'll nuke it"

But it is no secret that US conservatives are a lot more pro-fossil fuels and US liberals are less anti-renewables. In that context, who is in power determines who is approving budgets and who is giving subsidiaries and incentives.

To remove the ability to acknowledge the political aspect of things would lead to

"I wish we spent more on wind power." being responded to with "Well, we would if <COMMENT REMOVED DUE TO RULE VIOLATION>"
This user was created within a minute of this article being posted. I'm sure it's just coincidence.
OP actually pointed to an interesting reference[1] which briefly touches on the impact of pseudo-random number generation, amongst other things.

Diving a little bit deeper down the same rabbit hole, David A. Wheeler[2] (as he emphatically insists on being cited) also made note of threads with non-deterministic scheduling. Lots of notes on hardware-centric implications as well.

Definitely turns my perspective around on what it means to trust software. I suppose the effort is a proper graduation from masturbating[3] to safe sex, so to speak.

[1] https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/

[2] http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8&feature=youtu.be...
Wow thanks so much! Best compliment I've received on HN :)

Cheers!
I had a second podcast occur to me, thought it stays on a narrower track. There's a five year old podcast called Strong Towns done by a guy who runs a non profit by the same name. The recent stuff isn't so good, but if you go back to the beginning and listen to stuff from 4-6 years ago, you get to listen to this pretty smart civil engineer/planner have his epiphany of why infrastructure is so screwed up in most towns in the US. He deconstructs the problems with our car dependency and living patterns primarily from the angle of how it's bankrupting towns and cities. I listened to it over the summer when I was doing a cross country road trip, which turned out to be a great backdrop for it.
I agree with you in some aspects but in the project description it is not mentioned the "self-driving" part, and I quote:
'Currently it performs the functions of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS)'.
This I can believe is performed, at some degree.

Do you think the media can be overinflating the whole project?
From services back to goods: manufacturing as the comeback kid
Alphasense Particle Monitor – OPC-N2
At this level, every new technology could be made political.
My understanding is that this doesn't use the newish Safari content block API, am I right?

What's the best ad blocker that uses the Safari content block API? I use Adguard, and it's ok, but I'd want something else.

Paying money is no problem.
A big tablet imply (imo) to be standing and looking down (even if you sit you have to look down). This posture will get tiring very fast. Most people can stand all day but their necks won't forgive them this unnatural position.

Also the author seems to forget that "The Forgotten Man" usually write a lot of stuff (reports, emails, code etc) and a stylus doesn't solve anything here.

Even with perfect OCR you'll type faster on a keyboard than writing with a stylus.

So yes, big tablets are probably coming but "The Forgotten Man on The Forgotten Desktop" will still be a thing.
Eh the "nice things" logic is so irrelevant here, I hope nobody expected this to be true with vehicles. Apple locked ecosystem has nothing to do with ... well gravity.

People either don't know or forgot that not long ago DARPA still held an open challenge to drive alone in the "desert".
It is an ethically shitty move, though. The software is not properly tested. People will run it thinking it's legit and probably some will get hurt or die. The law doesn't matter.
Does not seem to work with standard adblock/ublock lists.
Bayesian Perception Is Ecological Perception
Is C now so bloated that it needs optimizing compilers just to get executed at all? Is a C interpreter is unfeasable? Apparently even an unoptimizing compiler is not enough.
The OP has it wrong. It wouldn't decrease fossil fuel use. But what it WOULD do is massively decrease the amount of cars that the world needs.

The average car spend 98% of the time unused, sitting in a garage or a parking lot. That is a lot of money that the car companies will lose when this technology hits mainstream.
The notion of traffic will probably shift if energy becomes cheap and navigation doesn't require human attention. You don't need shortest path, and can redirect flow freely in smaller places. Unless you're in a hurry.
Causes of Asthma
Flagged for political content (eugenics, reproductive ethics).
The Inside Story: Ada Chikan Revives the Lost Art of Indian Chikankari Designs
Then we should not be discussing them or whether they work, just technical detail.

An article on engineering the beam tube or on how the control software or embedded systems were developed would be appropriate for here - and as dang said the point is to avoid all topics which might offend people and turn political.

Relativity was banned in China for decades because Einstein was considered a counterrevolutionary. All science is political, if you choose to view it as such.
It requires a lot less resources than a painful death uses. It also uses less resources than a vaginal delivery that should have been a ceasar. How are we optimising for a world that doesn't exist?
Vue-auth 2.2-beta
Com.Google
Still, without a high and good test coverage that makes sure that the drivers don't break when the core is changed, it's not worth to do refactoring just to make the code cleaner. Still, it's amazing how much extra functionality was possible to be added
Hey, I enjoyed reading this - thank you for writing it. Thank you for writing open source software too.

Web software is going to be discussed on the web, according to web discussion norms. What norms? Click-bait, of course. Everything is either the best or the worst (optimally presented in listicle form). We must try to not take it personally.

> Surely the author wants a set of problems addressed. But why should the maintainers want to even click on that link, let alone try to address the problems?

Because they read the headline, and now they're pissed! They're off to click the link, and then weigh in on reddit or HN or whatever. Bait taken!

This helps me and reminds me of why I'm doing it: http://zenpencils.com/comic/119-john-green-make-gifts-for-pe... . I hope it helps you too!
Consider that the machinery to make group decisions and allocate resources already exists (laws, institutions, government, etc). It is imperfect and can be improved. But what is relevant here is that groups of people wish to alter the machinery in certain fixed (uncreative) ways. The unconscious motive is that of preserving their own identities.

An extreme case would be a Dr Evil figure who will not examine his own heart and needs the world to burn just so he can pretend to himself that he's a good person. So he makes the world burn. At every stage convinced of his own righteousness.

This explains why 'war is the continuation of politics by other means'. What passes for peace is trench warfare where the only progress is sideways. Improving the machinery may be desirable but in practice politics is dominated by preventing inevitable perturbations from escalating into open hatred and violence.

(More parochially one can tell when politics is influencing the discussion because there is always blaming going on.)
There are countless auto manufacturers around the world. I was surprised to see the length of the list:

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

I'm sure some percentage of these are willing to move faster than the major brands we know in the US. This strategy by Cruise could help then reach these smaller companies, some of whom surely have more flexible regulatory environments. Especially for local companies.
There's a lot more than appears on the front page, and many of those threads turn into flamewars that go on a long time. You can see them at /active (from /lists linked at the bottom of each page) if you want to.
Announcing the Winners of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards
That's not my understanding, though I can see how you might come to that conclusion, given recent events and the lack of detail in the submission. 'dang clarifies in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108614

We can clarify, though. The main concern here is pure politics: the conflicts around party, ideology, nation, race, gender, class, and religion that get people hot and turn into flamewars on the internet.
Of course, from a broader perspective everything is political, but not necessarily party-political. That's a partisan minefield, and the degeneration of public discourse means that it's a very shallow muddy pool these days. But we have to start talking about things beyond election cycles, like how everyone can live dignified lives when automation really starts biting.
Wow, there's a lot to unpack there. We went from not being able to schedule a meeting between four people in a calendar app, to lamenting the lack of computer repair skills, to denigrating people as somehow less than human ("homo simplex") because they have better things to do with their lives than to devote them to your hobby, to the rise mass surveillance.

There's no shared thread among any of these things, except they all contain a silicon wafer somewhere. They also all contain plastic, but I don't any one lamenting the lack of knowledge about polymer chemistry among the populace.

The calendar problem isn't necessarily a "computer skills" problem, as much as it could be simply a lack familiarity (solved by time), UX problem (making it literally not the user's problem). You want to know a secret? I don't know how to use GMail. Seriously. I don't.[0] I had to get someone to come over and show me how to simply reply to an email, because every time I clicked what looked like reply arrow, the damn thing went back to the list. I have no idea how to sort the inbox, even if you can. Perhaps, the most popular email client in the world. I don't know how to use it. Am I illiterate? Sure looks it. Yet, I can send an email using telnet.

Personally, given that people find word problems complicated, can't calculate restaurant tips in their head, and are prone to fall into personal bias supporting arguments, I think the failure to schedule a meeting is more of a general problem, than a computer one.

You're elevating "computer literacy" as some sort of giant lift in the economic chain. Really? Sure software engineering pays well, but it's also completely unrelated to sending out a calendar invite. If that was the metric, then why aren't secretaries paid $100k? Similarly, you can swap out software engineering, with any other high earning field, say hedge fund managing. Arguably, that's a better field, and you don't have to know how a floating point numbers are represented, nor do you have to send your own calendar invites.

Finally, yes, mass surveillance is a real issue, and yes more education about what is being done, and what is possible, and at what scale these things are being might help. It might not as well. These are much more political, legal, and philosophical questions than computing questions. After all, I don't need to understand how carbon and iron bond to understand that ethics of stabbing someone in the throat with a knife.

[0] Before anyone chimes in. I don't really care how use GMail. It sucks.
> Flagging this story as the top comment is political. Please discuss the technicalities of this, not the ethics and politics.

This is exactly why I find the idea of enforcing non political discussion unwise. How exactly would you discuss this without touching ethics or politics? You can go into the history of the caesarian (if you have domain knowledge), you can go into the intricacies(if you have domain knowledge) and you can talk about experiences.

But notice how nothing of this is really a discussion, there is no generation of or work towards new truths.

Op hinted at a very real technicality: with modern medicine, we might need to take the role of natural selection of we want to avoid an increase in congenital illnesses. The question of whether we should and to what extent is a philosophical/ethical/political one.

If you ban ethics or politics, the discussion ends here. But the issue remains.
The advances you seem to think are bad lead to those who benefit from treatments being productive. They build stuff and contribute and this helps society. It helps everyone when you help those who are infirm/unwell/unlucky. But say we took the view that intervention was bad - who chooses who dies?
The reality is that Adapative Cruise Control and Lane assist is good enough for 90% of driving.

Let computers handle the boring parts of driving, and send the hard stuff over to the human when it needs to.

That is a lot of gains that we could be running right NOW on the streets.
It's not something that will happen tomorrow, but it's an incredibly exciting time for nuclear fusion, with W 7-X officially competing with France's ITER tokamak reactor - both of which have been able to trap plasma for long enough for fusion to occur.

ITER hasn't been built yet and although it is located in France it is an international project. Errors like this make me wonder about the quality of the whole article.
You just agreed with me. If he's disingenuous there is no reason to believe he will build a list of Muslims from Facebook.
Thanks! Somebody got back to me and apparently prepaid CC are not supported
Amazon launches Go,mind-blowing brick-and-mortar grocery store with no checkouts
Senior Front-End Developer Needed
The structure of my post could probably use some work. The first paragraph is background on Hotz to give context. The second was what he did at comma and why it was pseudo-open sourced. The third was why it will be effective, and the fourth is how he and his backers will profit
Workplace Compliance Services and Training
In addition, the uBlock Safari port has been dead for some time.
> If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
? citation(s) needed ?

"This is political" => Physics ?

"Many do not believe fusion to work" => also in the Sun?

"this could turn into a flame war about fossil fuels" => not unless someone wants to start one, I get paid Koch shills have to keep busy.
> my wife and I do not rest easy until we either pick him up or he gets dropped home.

That fears are completely normal. Been able to track your kids not so much. Please, think twice before using a technology that you don't know which long term psychological effects can have on your children.

> Have you ever tried to get a teenager to call to let you know "Hey everything is OK"??)

When I was a child I could lie to my parents on where I was. I didn't dit it, but I have a choice. That's part of growing up. You will steal away that responsibility from them. Maybe it is not a problem, but you don't know.

It is extremely tempting to use this technologies, maybe kids right activists should lobby for laws that forbid them.
And who of the God knows how many users of Android will 'tinker' with it?
Ignorance of the user base, technical or otherwise, IS a valid argument against this sorta thing. We made it so.
His forte is not really writing software but surrounding himself with good people like Paul Allen who was a way better programmer. Gates is a great businessman who had an eye for the future and could broker a great deal. This is covered in most of the biographic material over the years.
It's like an early Christmas!
Vodafone Group appoints Brian Humphries as enterprise director
Apropos, https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/issues/5

bneiluj
> There is no test suite. Unit tests or E2E tests.

Geohotz
> Pull request please!

mgraczyk
> We have unit tests which have not yet been open sourced, because we haven't yet set up automatic testing on Github. [...]

Wat.

In what world is it acceptable to elide the test suite for your product because you don't have automatic testing setup on your repository host? Are your tests in a completely separate repo... (checks the repo history) no, you've just dumped a snapshot of your development in a git repo and pushed it to github.

I really don't want to sound snide... this project has the capability to be so cool. It's just... well, if someone hands you what they say is a magic box that you can trust your life to and that box is manky and leaks strange fluids all over the shop (and it really isn't supposed to do that)... what would you think? Is that box magic? Will that box save your life?

It certainly doesn't give the engineer in me great confidence in the quality of their system if this is quality of the piece they're proud enough to show everyone.
Automated Taylorism is going to be the bane of our lives. The non-AI version of "gamification" and endless metrics is bad enough.
Infertility breakthrough as cancer drug sparks growth of new eggs
Torn. Concerned about safety, but wanting this to be open source and not vendor locked in...
I've been around since the day pg announced Startup News on his blog (though not as a moderator of course), so I doubt that's true.

HN is a complex system of community, software, and moderation. We like to place the emphasis on community too, but those other things also have their places.
I'm halfway through it now as a result of your recommendation of it a week ago. Thanks, I'm finding it great!
You don't do that anymore. Your correspondence has increasingly turned into approbation and you show an unwillingness to explain why someone is even rate limited.
This reminds me of Brian Eno's "oblique strategies".
Click on the Try Amber button and freely look at all of the code.
I saw this show up a few days ago as well. What's nice is that the original Nature Communications submissions is open access: http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13493

There's a bunch more interesting visualization of what's going on, so worth a click if you want to see more.

One meta detail that's particularly interesting to me is that this paper was originally submitted back in March:

Received: 22 March 2016
Accepted: 07 October 2016
Published online: 30 November 2016

So that's about an 6 months before it was accepted and about 8 months before it was widely disseminated, make me think about the implications.

Also, as a point of reference, the paper was submitted about a month and a half after the original live stream for "first hydrogen" (OP-1) February 3, 2016 - I believe they ran about a month of test runs, and no doubt started crunch numbers immediately after the first run.
I don't think he was targeting full autonomy with initial release
This is a really interesting and (I think) first of it's kind attempt at something like this.

One of the most important things for any relationship to work is trust, same for the human-robot relationship.
Yes. Or even let me walk out of the car at front door and let it drive to garage spot.

Pros:

+ parking is one of the least favorite part of driving. It also eats a lot of time.

+ low-speed makes it much easier, you can stop at any time. Also stopping and asking human for help would be acceptable.

+ 360 sensors are superior to human vision in parking situation.

+ parking accidents are usually minor. Self-driving car getting minor bump, scratch is much easier to swallow them someone getting killed, injured.

+ you can implement valet parking for free. E.g. Self-driving valet that gets 30% discount would be so much welcomed in San Francisco.
The demo sever has an error, it use Symfony or Laravel on the backend?
"{"status":"error","exception":"Symfony\\Component\\HttpKernel\\Exception\\MethodNotAllowedHttpException","code":"NotFound","msg":"Not Found."}"
This isn't the entire codebase, it's what they've stripped out and open sourced (and a critical chunk isn't even OSS, it's a binary blob in the github repo).

Furthermore, ACC and LKAS are standard features provided by Honda/Acura with the required feature package needed to run this code! Neo will provide more functionality, but as of now, NeoOS hasn't been open sourced at all and is just a binary Android image.

It's not just the media though, he has a history of drama and overplaying things and is repeating the pattern here. I don't want to downplay his achievements, he's done a lot, but the hype is far greater than even that high bar of accomplishments.