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> So basically by your definition, level 5 will never ever happen? Seems a bit useless then TBH.

Well, even trains on tracks have humans ready to pull the break if something is wrong up ahead.

Would you ride a train that had an accident caused by something for which its driverless system was not prepared, but that a human conductor could have avoided?

I think it's possible level 5 will happen. There will still be accidents on roads where only driverless vehicles exist. Some people will choose to ride in such vehicles, and some won't.
> To reach a certain level, you must operate under the definition of that level 100% of the time. You can't be level 4 60% of the time. That's level 3

No. I'm looking at the SAE definitions, where it says

> A particular vehicle may have multiple driving
automation features such that it could operate at different levels depending upon the feature(s) that are engaged.

clearly indicating that the levels describe modes of operation, not immutable car classifications.

Regardless, this has just become a semantical dispute. stale2002's comment makes the most sense under the interpretation "cars that that can drive at Level 4 60% of the time are just around the corner", and that comment is a valuable counterpoint to the reasonable interpretation of Pratt's interview.
It's not weird that someone who must stay in an assigned location for at least 8 hours a day doing the same tasks for decades questions the nature of their servitude.
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I think it may be more important to tell them about bacteria. But in reality, I think passing down a single sentence is almost completely useless. If that's all that's passed down, they will have to make the exact same discoveries we made, although we may be able to lead them towards these discoveries.

Also, expecting all of future human kind -- more developed than we are now -- to value some sentence passed down by their oh-so-knowledgeable ancestors (us) seems a bit self-centered to me. A more intelligent future mankind will make their own discoveries, and not care much about any single sentence, regardless of who wrote it.
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Do you get the bodies that are left over from the genie?

Are their organs usable?

Sounds like a no brainer if they are?

Or does the genie reduce the people killed by the ones no longer saved by organ donations from car accidents?

The genie might have to bring people back to life.

This might make people uncomfortable.
Your artwork is great! I'm not sure #1 would really be a problem as that situation never should occur and is totally preventable (there always should be traffic cones/barricades surrounding the cover, something the car easily could detect). In the rare case it does happen, the utility company would/should be at fault for leaving a manhole open like that.

I can also think of a few ways to prevent number 2 (basically, a combination of GPS + knowing where all intersections occur + road data from thousands of other connected cars = knowledge of where every stop sign is. Certainly not foolproof, but I think ultimately it is a problem that has possible solutions)

The rest of your examples are fantastic though, #3 being quite terrifying actually. They are all very intriguing thought-experiments and I look forward to seeing your future additions!
I've been involved since early 2011. I'm quite aware of how Bitcoin works.
Version A was excruciatingly slow. Version B was very quick.

I wonder if original dns resolution wasn't to blame... or either load or lack of a recent one on your server. I know I'm a little late to the party in this thread.
I've configured Chrome to not send my address bar to Google and to encrypt my sync with a custom passphrase.

What data does Google own?
Google can almost drive a half-year to a year's worth of driving for the average individual without any intervention at all. That is very impressive, and their streak is growing fairly quickly. Of course, that would probably be done in less than a week as a ride-share service, but consider that any intervention may also be predictable beforehand (e.g. weather conditions).
Maybe you shouldn't drive? That is a simple and basic manuver.
Ask HN: What numbers/metrics are most interesting to you for new startups?
When you read startups' blog posts, launch announcements, monthly checkins, funding announcements, postmortems, etc., in which they share their numbers, which metrics do you find most interesting and useful? Growth/retention rate? Website traffic? Revenue/profit charts?

Are there any metrics that don't normally get included in the standard rundowns, but which would be especially interesting or insightful? I'm thinking mainly of tech- and web-based startups, but this could apply to a broader category of companies than that.
Publisher's see AMP traffic since they are in control of ads and analytics used in amp page.
How long have you been using this?

I'm very interested in trying it, just a little worried about it's stability. I guess I'm slightly biased against Electron apps due to some bad experiences.

I'm just worried it will corrupt the database or something.

Have you experienced anything like that?
It is manipulating the clipboard and inserting keystrokes (to switch between text fields in the login box). Unfortunately any running X app can do that. I would like more isolation too. QubesOS is the only thing I know of that does it.
> assuming competent development

...of every other extension that you use. That is a very bad assumption to make.

That said, I do use Lastpass myself and in fact have a premium membership.
It's not just the pay but the org chart. Managers can over ride coders on technical issues.
I recommend running an Ubuntu VM, with PyCharm as your IDE. There are so many little things that are more painful in Windows than in Linux.

For example, getting psycopg2 running under Cygwin was an odyssey, whereas it's trivial to install on Linux. And there are plenty of Python packages that assume you have gcc and unix headers installed, which makes chasing dependencies painful.
Definitely agree that other places are more affordable, especially if you bring a nest egg from working a few years in an expensive Metro area like NYC, SF etc.

But the 80s and 90s -- through the first Dotcom crash -- were also a different era. The Economist considered the US the #1 country to be born in 1988, and only #16 in 2013. This is reflected in the fall in the number of good middle-class jobs, housing affordability, health care costs, traffic and infrastructure, and overall declining quality of factors.
This is a great insight because I've been struggling to overcome the pattern of "setting up a plan, fail to come through a couple instance, then quit". This will help me tremendously. Thanks!
Compiles and installs without trouble on FreeBSD 11.0. Great :D
> In the rare case it does happen, the utility company would/should be at fault for leaving a manhole open like that.

They're who's at fault, but you're the one who's dead.

I'd rather my car avoids holes in the road even if they haven't been marked [yet].
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> this philanthropic move?
All good points... just to add, PyCharm has a type hinting system (which informed the 3.5 Type Hints design), which knows the expected types for stdlib functions, and can be taught the types of user-defined function arguments. It'll then warn you if it thinks you are passing the wrong type of argument to a function.

Obviously not infallible, but it catches time-wasters not infrequently.
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Basically, nothing is analogous to what Bukowski describes. This is the basis of his enduring appeal. In terms of art, he was a small-prize lottery winner whom we remember because he kept playing and cashing in small prizes--and screaming he was a born loser. And he was. I'm not sure why he became a hipster icon, but among fellow failing and failed poets/philosophers/novelists, he was our FU unicorn.
Not exactly, thought, since you have to "opt in" to receive an, uh... Secret Schrodinger present, and it arrives at a local time and destination of your choosing. And if nothing comes, that implies all the time travelers that ever will will try traveling "past" you have already done so, implying that the end of the universe is surprisingly near.
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Being a taxi seems even more rigourous, your point is invalid.
A very little bit at a time - the amount of time between now and then, as now is about to become then.
> Of course, google will let you upload 50,000 songs for free over google music, so even that excuse doesn't hold water, but I'm sure you'll find another reason to complain.

I mean, not OP here, but my music library is ~140 GB, and I don't think it's unreasonable to want to have that available without internet access. I run with a 64gb iPhone, so I'm definitely not the guy arguing for massive SD cards on everything, but I don't think you can say it's totally ridiculous to have a use case for that much storage.
I'm sure this is easily considered and the car can slow down in such situations. I believe deer are skittish too.

Why would you need to see any public acknowledgement of something so basic/obvious from very advanced teams working privately on issues like this?

For city driving, these systems need to account for kids straying onto roads, read temporary/roadwork signage, all sorts of random things.
Those are some pretty wild corn yields - 5 ton/acre - is it irrigated?

In Australia dryland farming about half as productive is around $2,000/acre
If and when all cars are computer-controlled another consequence may be that children will be free to roam about. This assumes that those same cars are built to be incapable of hitting pedestrians. Is this possible?
I expect as far as the social aspect of driverless cars making their way through our neighbourhoods goes, eventually most humans will just come to see them as an odd type of animal. Like a horse. It probably wouldn't hurt to give them some active animal-like cosmetic features that help nearby humans anticipate what they are "thinking".

Delightful symmetry there, no? The first great task of mechanized transport was getting rid of the horse aspects, the second was building them back in.
I think it's more a perception because America is more progressive about mental health care than most countries (maybe thanks to big pharma, I don't know though). It's extremely likely for ADHD to be under-reported in other countries because of the lack of screening for this sort of thing.

In my experience in other countries, the primary difficulty for ADHD support groups is that many country's medical institutions do not even acknowledge ADHD as a thing.

Some of these institutions acknowledge, but seem to believe that the condition disappears when you turn 18.

Many of the regulatory institutions don't allow stimulants to be used for treatment, either.

This is mostly an anti-scientific position. ADHD is extremely well-researched. Its (medication-based, not CBT) treatment is the most effective of any mental illness, more so than "understood" things like depression.

I'm biased, but I think a lot of places are still in denial about ADHD. There's way too much research around the illness and its effects and treatment.
"Most people" being defined as those without physiological nor psychological effects on their quality of sleep, I presume.
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How did I know this was going to be Lexmark, before I even clicked to read The Fine Article?

Oh, right. Because Lexmark.
I'm not sure that's right. Googling around suggests that the average 5 year old knows somewhere between 3000 and 10000 words, and the average adult knows somewhere between 15000-20000 words. So I think saying a five year old has even 50% of an adult's total vocabulary is probably generous. Of course, if you meant that a five year old would understand about 80% of the words spoken by an adult over the course of a day, 80% sounds like a very conservative guess.

Not that it affects your point at all, I'm just thinking about words now. And while I'm on the subject, XKCD's "Thing Explainer," a book on how things work using only the 1000 most common words, is great fun.
Having the description of abbreviations all the way at the bottom of the article so that one has to scroll a mile to read what they mean is a bit annoying. Instead of:

>When the first IMPs^1 for the fledgling ARPANET were being built starting in 1969 at BBN^2 in Cambridge, MA, I think it safe to say that no one foresaw the devastating impact that the networking technology being developed would have on journalism thirty to fifty years later.

>[A million words]

>^1 Interface Message Processors. Today they would be referred to as Internet protocol routers.

>^2 Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, MA, a company that was always known as BBN. As distinct from BBN, the Buckingham Browne and Nichols school in Cambridge, MA — no doubt many employees of BBN sent their kids to school at BBN.

I would have preferred for at least the first of these two to be baked into the text itself.
I'm glad to see the shout out to http://colah.github.io/ (even if the linked post is described as "monster stories")
I'd also recommend joining the efforts to put "split roll" (removing the Prop 13 restrictions for commercial property) on the ballot in 2020. The biggest turnouts are in presidential election years and there should be an electrified voter base then. Zoning is often favored by well-heeled incumbents, many who get a free ride on new homeowners, and with a stable tax base cities can begin to invest again in more infrastructure, schools, parks, etc.

https://www.facebook.com/MakeItFairCA/videos/164108883947055...
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Huge spike in pending Bitcoin transactions
Specific to American Legislation, and for those who may be unfamiliar: look into the passing of the USA P.A.T.R.I.O.T Act passed shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a bill of over 2000 pages which was rushed through congress in span of a few days from finalization to ratification under the prosumtion of necessity to provide the tools to combat terrorism. It stripped away many powers of the judicial branch to provide oversight, and provisions intended to be 'temporary' have been continually extended by presidents (executive branch) on both sides of the aisle since. (edited: misspelled patriot acronym)
What Would an Autonomous Car Do?
The irony of that is most universities make their students sign a clause stating that all IP generated by the student for the duration of their studies is the property of the university.

I would be very surprised if the University of Waterloo doesn't have a similar arrangement.

Well color me impressed, the University of Waterloo indeed does not make claim to student IP [1].

[1] https://uwaterloo.ca/research/waterloo-commercialization-off...
I do the same and find it easy to use. I also store a key file in a different cloud service so that both would need to be compromised along with the password to access the database.
The corrupted legal system seems like an academic concern, in the worst case necessitating a Faraday cage. Benevolently backdoored firmware, on the other hand...

I hedge by archiving my old motherboards/laptops on a shelf.
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Been programming for 10 years and it's distressing how inadequate and incompetent I sometimes feel. I like to rebuff it as Impostor's syndrome, but who knows, may be I am just bad and surviving because mediocrity is what the industry wants.

On the other hand, the pleasure that a good piece of code in a beautiful software gives is something I can perhaps relate to an opiate high (as a metaphor, never tried honestly :) )
If you have a choice between 500 lines of easy to understand, dumb code or 50 lines of abstract elegance, go with the easy to understand, dumb code.
It's a lot like the Internet in the 1990s: we can see that there's a big change coming. Nobody has yet narrated it with the clarity of hindsight. I'm savvy enough about energy to avoid this revolution's version of pets.com, I think, but I can't tell which cleantech companies are ultimately going to print money like Google or fade away like AltaVista.
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I use Syncthing on a central server that automatically pushes changes that I make to KeePass to every other device that is connected to the server. It's been amazingly useful.
Whenever people jump up enthusiastically about autonomous cars being right around the corner, I remember taking a cab in Lima, Peru, in the middle of some horrendously chaotic traffic, where drivers were navigating with little regard for lanes, negotiation for merging is done eye-to-eye, and impatient pedestrians would throw themselves into the street, tired of waiting for minutes to cross and trusting that the driver ahead wasn't suffering from some murderous rage that day.

I also remember run-down suburbs where massive potholes and ditches make navigations of certain streets a puzzle by itself, compounded by garbage trucks ahead just doing their thing, improperly placed signage ahead, and those badly-designed intersections where you can totally count on drivers misjudging distances.

As the designers move away from the relatively trivial confines of well-maintained urban spaces and into different countries and cultures, I seriously question their ability to keep things reasonable for the rest of the human drivers. So far nothing in the near-future horizons of this technology indicates that the software would be able to navigate in many of these adverse situations without incurring huge time penalties or causing unacceptable delays.

I really do think that a lot of the hype happens to be because certain actors (Uber comes to mind as the most significant) have basically placed all their bets in these edge cases being small enough that a small number of human drivers should suffice to get around them. I remain skeptical.
Children will be able to manipulate the cars and therefore create a bottleneck for others, this is a major issue outlined in the article.
For a new technology, yes it is great news. If this and other similar projects work out, you will likely start seeing larger installations.
With my latest password overhaul I switched to the master password system, not requiring any compromisable database of passwords as with password managers:

http://masterpasswordapp.com/

You can even implement the algorithm yourself if you don't trust the app (which does not require any permissions on Android).
Doesn't that apply equally to everybody?
Full thickness skin grafts become sensate so they don't have to have nerves, as long as the underlying tissue isn't cooked too badly nerves and other autonomic functions will grow into it. (Well, its very interesting to think if they have been able to replicate the entire dermis... there are lots of components and I would think that this may probably only be able to replicate the most important components, later we will learn how to integrate the other bits)
David Graeber does a good job of debunking the theory of currency as a replacement for barter in his book _Debt_ (if that's what you're getting at with the ordering).
A little bit of comment digging brought me this:

https://itunes.apple.com/se/developer/inlovewith-ab/id666807...
Well, this sort of behavior has (presumably) already happened [1], but this also gets to the crux of "unintended consequences". Will we see kids deliberately walking in the street, knowing full well they aren't going to get hit and extorting drivers to let them pass?

1 - https://electrek.co/2016/07/21/tesla-autopilot-saved-life-pr...
Point taken. I'll make sure to tell the next homeless teen I see in SF how lucky they are.

And yet it's your hypothetical John Smith homeowner who I should be sympathetic to.
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Uber knows the pickup and destination of every trip before it begins. Which means they know the route before it begins. Which means they can assess route and conditions to see if they are suitable for autonomous cars.

So they roll out slowly, expanding the possible trips covered as their technology advances.

Since they have such fine control over which routes and which conditions the cars will be expected to perform in, they're actually ideally positioned to work with this technology.
I agree that it would help with a better understanding.
I can't help but wonder why aspiring sysadmins and programmers DO NOT have immediate interest in such things?
To me it just 'made sense' and 'clicked' almost immediately.
Maybe I learned from a different angle, but it seems obvious to me to want to learn these things (C and Linux fundamentals, I mean).
A sinkhole (named "Steve"?) just opened up in a highway near Oakland, CA. Initial photos showed a hole a couple feet across. Manhole-sized. Repair crews later found that under the asphalt the sinkhole was large enough to swallow a car. Human drivers recognized that something was amiss and avoided the hole. Would a self-driving car?
DX12 is the base for XBox One API so it's going to be a thing, I suppose, until MS pulls out of console business (but I don't see why they would, the original XBox was a bigger disaster yet they stayed). After all, both Sony and Nintendo use their proprietary APIs too.

The reason you need a proprietary API on a console is that you cannot make a game running on a $200-300 piece of consumer electronics compete with a game running on a $1000+ PC if they both use the same API. There is a lot of work a DX/OpenGL driver does behind the scenes to make the same code run on GPUs of different architectures while sharing the same device with other processes. When you target only one GPU in exclusive mode you can do the same things so much faster.