skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It struck me to realize the similarities of hardships to common US citizens (and developed world citizens to a lesser extent) today.

Medical episodes cause a cascade of ill-circumstance tumbling once-stable positions into the streets: "...who is now in difficulties through ill-health..."

Retirement a binary condition ill-suiting putting purpose to people's lives: "I’m lost, I’ve been put off my perch"

Substance abuse inures the senses of those who have given up, and thereby tragically reinforcing cycles of abuse into future generations: "...early acclimatizes her infant to the fumes of tobacco and alcohol"

Poor squeezed by land prices into living in the flood plains, with predictable disastrous consequences if their unlucky number comes up: "The sufferings of the poor in Lambeth, and in other quarters of the Metropolis, caused by the annual tidal overflow of the Thames"

"Improvements" displacing common people to the benefit of rentiers, and destroying the micro-culture of a neighborhood: "As a matter of fact, the inhabitants of Church Lane were nearly all what I may term “street folks” – living, buying, selling, transacting all their business in the open street...condemned as an unwholesome over-crowded, throughfare, and the houses on either side are now almost entirely destroyed, and the inhabitants have been compelled to migrate to other more distant and less convenient parts of the metropolis"

Industrial disruption comes at a steep cost to those whose lives are disrupted and swept under the inconvenient rug of the disruptive effects to individuals, even military veterans, to the benefit of the overall economy: "...two boardmen who seemed worthy of a better position..."

There are some, but too few, bright points, considering the progress we trumpet ourselves possessing. Some parts of the human condition remain quite thoroughly embedded within our civilization's mien for the time being.

View some Photochroms to give yourself sense of the color of that era [1].

[1] http://fiveminutehistory.com/photochrom-victorian-era-color-...
Really? Excellent. That's most if the way there.
> , it's pretty clear the driver was at fault

It's pretty clear both the driver is primarily at fault and Tesla's poorly designed system (as it existed at the time) compounded the driver error.

> is slowing down on a high speed road any less dangerous

Yes, slowing down gradually and pulling over is safer than careening down the road with zero input the human driver which as you admit "needs to be in the loop".
I don't want to nitpick but; parking on the shoulder is not safe. Don't do it unless it's a real emergency.
Shouldn't they control for that? Otherwise it's simply correlation rather than causation.
The "addressing of concerns" seems to happen only when people die in accidents with Tesla. They never seem to be too pro-active about this sort of safety features, despite the fact that they like to tout Teslas as the safest cars.
That's an impressive amount of money to raise in Seed funding. Here in the UK this is more like Series A money: a Seed round would probably be around $700K (no authoritative source - purely from knowledge of a few companies raising this kind of money).

I do wonder though: have Julia been able to raise this much money thanks to awesome traction or the reputation of the team?
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Unlike Italian, the company name is pronounced with a hard G. And as far as I know, "rigetti" in Italian is "you discard".

Take it as discarding the transistor era of computing for wonderful qubit era. :D
We actually used the Knowledge-repo at our previous startup, and we thought we could improve the user experience, and hence https://kyso.io - but we haven't strayed to far from the original idea of the knowlege-repo
How many issues are there going from the simulator to the practical circuit? I've had issues with the IBM computers.

Thanks for all the cool stuff to play with!
...next time might be too late. I'm pretty sure BMWs will pull over if you ignore the steering wheel for too long.
1. I think any autopilot system which makes users to keep their hands on steering wheel and pay equal attention is totally useless. In fact it's detrimental since it gives false sense of control and naturally leads users to lapse.

2. Anyone who read Don Norman knows this is usually fault of the design of the system not the user. The system needs to do more to assist users in these edge cases.
Bernard: The Department of Employment lobbies for the TUC, whereas the Department of Industry lobbies for the employers. It's rather a nice balance. Energy lobbies for the oil companies, Defence lobbies for the armed forces, the Home Office lobbies for the police and so on.

Hacker: So the whole system is designed to stop the Cabinet from carrying out its policies?

Bernard: Well, somebody's got to.

-- Yes, Minister
Without mentioning the size of the effect, this is meaningless. Are they 1% geekier? 10% geekier? 0.1% geekier?

They provide a link to the data the study was based on, but not the actual study, so it's not obvious how to check this.
If I had to guess, requiring that each email address be tied to an individual person would allow NBox to stay off "temporary email address" blacklists. It's a privacy service essentially, not an anonymity service. Same reason why credit card masking services are legal, but Visa/MC/etc wouldn't allow a mass-shared CC number.
There's a "report problems" link (you may have to load up a working page to see it), which allows you to submit bugs.

I've found sites which don't render, render incompletely, or have artifacts (one had, for whatever reason, a framed outline around the text). Letting 'em know what doesn't work may help.
But this wasn't a disengagement of the autopilot, he just didn't have his hands on the steering wheel.

Not to mention that you don't actually need to have autopilot running to get the emergency braking feature. Autopilot or not the car should brake before going full throttle into the back of a semi.

For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD89Fc_ofXc
So, the cars aren't going to do Face ID checks before they start? Especially if it's a service.

Warrant no transportation.

Late on Child support can use the car until you pay.

Your had sex with a minor when you were 18. sorry you the car won't drive within 100 ft of a school.
A comment I find myself returning to whenever this conversation comes around is from Eskill Steenberg: "In the beginning you always want Results. In the end all you want is control" [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM&t=21s
Maybe the biggest problem is Tesla calling it autopilot. Just call it lane assist or adaptive cruise control. I know many of the cars will stop working if you take your hands off the wheel too long.
it is the founder's last name.
Hi alkonaut, the domain is unique at the moment.
Some services might block our addresses some day, but that would be a mistake because nBox is not a disposable email service.
Where did you get those numbers? For deep learning P100 is ~ 2x faster than 1080 Ti (optimistically). 60x is just ludicrously wrong.

The gap between V100 and 1180 is yet to be determined and depends mostly on what Nvidia does with the tensor units. We shall see. But I am extremely confident in saying that the performance gap will be nowhere near 60x, let alone higher than that. And despite the early announcement of V100, 1180 is likely to be available to most people long before V100, just like P100 and 1080 before.
The Nihilism of Julian Assange
Yep. I do this and route my email through mailgun that allows me to setup rules for forwarding emails. Their free tier is pretty generous and works great for my needs. Also solves the problem of shoddy websites selling my email because I gave them an unique email address and can block all emails coming to that address easily, if needed.
oh_sigh:

"the amount that actually makes it into our brain is far less, probably on the order of a hundreds of bits/sec max"

ABCLAW:

"Even the spinal nerve bundle processes orders of magnitude more information just in keeping you balanced on your feet or chair."

Does that information actually make it to the brain? I thought sending a signal to the brain to process it there and then send back balancing signals would take too much time to keep you on your feet (at around 100m/s, a nerve signal would take about 1/50 of a second to move from legs to brain and back)

There also is evidence that your spine can do quite a bit of the muscle control needed for balancing on its own. See knee reflex and spinal cat (completely cut the spinal cord of a cat in the neck; notice that cat is paralyzed. Hang cat in harness, with feet on a treadmill. Turn on treadmill; cat walks (possibly only after some training; I don't know the details). Known since the 1950's. See https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spinal-cats-walk/ (paywalled)).
huge difference. people will order clothes without paying, get them super fast, and feel free to return before they've even been charged. Amazon really is doing everything they can to remove purchasing barriers.
I hate to say this but... none. At George Mason University we were required to take a lot of electives, and many classes for no credit that only added to the cost of our education. They did keep employed numerous GTA's, however.
Some people just want to see the information without whipping out their credit card, not get into a huge red herring about which economic model we should support.
Sometimes reading the article (and even following links, as if we were on a web or something) is actually kind of helpful in answering obvious questions.

>"Following the May 2016 accident, Tesla announced a new update in September to help keep drivers from using autopilot if they don't respond to in-vehicle safety warnings."

From that article in turn:

>"From version 8, if three audio warnings are dismissed within an hour, Autopilot will be disabled until the car is parked. "Autopilot accidents far more likely for expert users; they get very comfortable with it and repeatedly ignore the car's warnings," Musk said, describing the way these drivers dismiss alerts as "a reflex action" and adding that Tesla's data shows that some users dismiss three warnings a minute.

At least as of that version last September Tesla was apparently still allowing longer hands-off periods at speed then others in the industry, with the above-45-mph limits being 1 minute of free travel and 3 minutes when following another vehicle, and I don't have the knowledge to make an opinion on whether that's a reasonable length or not at their current level of development. Regardless, this accident from last May did result in changes and apparently wouldn't be possible with the current firmware, or at least not in the same exact manner.
That's a bit different from talking to "the cloud" as the parent poster was talking about. Cars will be using a short range radio technology like DSRC (5.9ghz band) to communicate locally. The FCC and DOT are already pushing mandates to have cars equipped with it.
You don't have to rate the driver anymore I believe. Even if you put the step of tipping after getting out of the cab, it's a step.

Having a preset option is a good way to take out the friction, but instead you could just not include tipping and pay higher wages. Tipping is a way for businesses to bury the actual cost of a service.

I understand as a driver, it's nice to get tips, but if you get paid a fair wage it shouldn't matter.
Is it not kind of a bit much to swallow you saying this??, knowing that, due to her leaks, for better or worse, we know that innocent civilians got butchered.

I mean, if that didn't happen, I would whole heartedly agree with your point. But thats not the reality. What reality are you in buddy?
I guess the painful hemorrhaging of countless Uber drivers and customers has yielded some results!
I like how this concept applies to decision-making outside of games in daily life. I've certainly been in various situations where a clear yes/no decision felt arbitrary or forced, yet waiting it out (a.k.a. not making a move) would simply bring clarity or eliminate the need for the decision altogether.
Yes, we provide the QVM [1] as a cloud-hosted service and it's capped at 30 qubits for now.

[1]: http://pyquil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/qvm_overview.html
One thing that strikes me is how many people wore hats back then. I could only find a few people not wearing a hat in the photos.
We haven't integrated arbitrary circuit execution features in yet, but when we do we'll make the transition as smooth as possible.

It's important to remember though that noise is a fact of life for this generation of small prototype quantum processors. You'll definitely see a difference between a perfect simulation and true hardware.
> Why not cut the salaries of the execs

I'm afraid that's an executive decision.
The non-GPL version uses Intel's proprietary Math Kernel Library (MKL) for FFTs, linear algebra, etc.
Show HN: A spectral ocean wave modeling framework
Names are important. Calling it "autopilot" implies that it does the driving for you, and people will take that at face value. It should be named in a way that accurately describes its abilities.

If it is actually just assistive, and isn't autopilot, then calling it such is incredibly dangerous. It'd be like calling homeopathic junk a "cancer medicine", which is illegal mind you.
I think they did it because the writing was on the wall.

Imgur's current business model was not sustainable. Direct image linking is expensive and can't be monetized. Imgur has been making an effort to lessen direct image linking and may end up blocking it entirely eventually, which would screw over reddit.

And so reddit had to be proactive and create their own alternative.
it might be time for space satellite hosting companies... or maybe once SpaceX reduces the cost of used rockets.
It's a shame it took 6 months of terrible PR for them to make these changes which actually do sound like they will be good for drivers. Can't help feeling like it would have taken relatively minimal effort to do these things in the past. Drivers have been complaining about lack of tipping for a while now. Seems to come from a place of wanting good PR rather than caring at all about drivers. Will see what the rest of the 180 days bring, maybe they are turning over a new leaf. I wouldn't bet on it though.
You're saying this is a matter of "driver shaming"? Could be, especially given the stakes for Tesla. It would be helpful to know exactly what these warnings look/sound like, because as a previous poster noted, many drivers learn to ignore warnings if they're persistent, such as a check engine light (or "low washer fluid", which I receive in my BMW, and whose sound is identical to that for more serious issues.)
But I am not going to pay for one article that I happen to come across on HN.
Math in diverse cultures *

Theater

Biology 1 + 2

Spanish 1 + 2

Sociology *

Psychology *

As a comp-sci student, these electives really got me interested in a lot of cool stuff.
Guess they realised they will need meat based drivers a bit longer now that their autonomous division is in strife.
What you're describing seems like undue faith in the technology to do things that it's not yet mature enough to achieve. That has roughly zero to do with hubris.
Mine does too, but instead of calling it 'Autopilot' it's 'adaptive cruise control' and 'lane keep assist'. The names make it clear the car is not driving its self (although it's clear to me its close to capable for the simple case).

The car makes it VERY clear you MUST steer. The car mostly keeps itself in the lane but is a little bit unsmooth about it (I assume to encourage drivers to do it themselves) and will yell at you loudly if you go more than 10-15s without doing steering yourself and disable its self.

It's a great feature and helps a ton with high crosswinds... but it's very clear it's not meant to be relied upon to drive the car.
Can't wait to see "wanna cry" at 60 MPH.
wavy is a spectral ocean wave modeling framework. It is a Fortran library you can use to simulate ocean surface waves.

Why wavy? Existing ocean wave models (e.g. Wavewatch III, SWAN, WAM) are built as opaque black-boxes, and they are difficult to extend or incorporate as part of another project. wavy redesigns the approach to wave modeling as a transparent and reusable library.

This project will be most interesting to ocean wave modelers. It will also be interesting to some Fortran programmers. Finally, it may be interesting to anybody that is curious what a modern Fortran project looks like. In early development, and open to contributors.
You know, back in the day people actually responded when asked something. Granted, a bullshit response was always a possibility, but not a blank and yet shameless stare.
The findings seem a little off to me. My father was 26 when I was born and he was a leather cutter, so our family wasn't advantaged in any way. He was also a hopeless parent and played very little part in my personal development, despite being physically present throughout my childhood.

The really key environmental factors that led me to being a geek can firmly be put down to: My Mother taking me to the library every week; having plenty of books at home and school; and good quality teaching at school. I can't imagine that having an older/wealthier father would have that much additional impact on top of these factors.
Where is it supposed to go? What if there is no shoulder? Does the car have the programming to safely change lanes, and then move onto the shoulder? What if the shoulder is gravel? Can it detect a 6 inch drop off from the pavement to gravel? Will it be able to handle a soft, dirt shoulder should it pull off?

Also possible: The car warns the driver, he puts his hands on the wheel long enough to shut it up, car warns the driver again. It's akin to blindly clicking OK when annoying, useless error messages pop up. Do Teslas have lots of false warnings, training people to ignore them?
The five best design links, every day
I don't want tipping to be a thing. I'm also hoping that it doesn't impact how the driver will rate me after-the-fact (I'm assuming it won't. I don't know how that system works. It's unclear to me, and the landing page + click-through page doesn't seem to identify that well enough for me.)

I use Uber to commute in Seattle (often both ways) and have encountered repeat drivers. Will they give me a lower score now that they realize I'm not tipping them?

Not tipping is what made Uber more simple and required less effort on my part. Tipping a taxi driver was annoying and this will be annoying too.

I was also wary of using food delivery app services for the longest time because of the tipping. I am glad that I can just do a $5 tip (or whatever) + built delivery fee IN THE CHECKOUT process and not worry about it AFTER they have showed up at my doorstep with the delivery.

TLDR: I don't want to tip because it requires more effort and consideration from me as a rider after the fact. I will not tip like this.

As an aside, I've tipped an Uber driver ONCE before because it was a distant airport ride and he helped with the very heavy luggage my girlfriend and I had. I gave him cash.

Edit: For whatever it's worth, I tip waiters and stylists very well. I don't have anything against tipping itself, just this kind of implementation into an app service where it didn't have tipping before.
It's assuming so much about people's motives. I work to get money, yeah, but I mostly work just so that I can be comfortable and get cool stuff, not so that I can one-up other people.

And if you take tabeth's argument to it's conclusion--- anyone who makes money is just trying to be a greedy sociopath and wants to push down their fellow man. Which is think is trivially false.
I did mention two other security layers, so I take issue with you counting only one.

Especially since the SSH access would obviously be on a dedicated jumpgate, so that IS two just right there. Maybe running a different OS and architecture just lower risk of one zero-day piercing both.

Also huproxy, or squid, or anything else that provides network-level access.

But I also think that if you consider network-level access as fundamentally different from other access then that's kinda missing the point of BeyondCorp.
There's a good video on the topic from this year's RSA conference here: https://www.rsaconference.com/events/us17/agenda/sessions/66...
Watching the Youtube videos of Teslas getting confused while on Autopilot made me immediately realize that the tech has a ways to go--there are roads that have odd paint or other odd features that confuse the car and make it choose a path that would get you killed if you didn't manually intervene in time.
Hi jswny, jacobwg is right, the addresses are private (and anonymous because we don't ask any information).

I'd say the use case is to filter "semi-wanted" emails.
I disagree. Through Scott Aaronson's writings, I gather we still don't have conclusive evidence [1] that anyone's built an actual quantum computer capable of more sophisticated computations than a human 10-year-old can do with pen and paper, and furthermore that it's not clear we'll be able to build such a machine in our lifetimes. I'm not saying it's impossible, but we know it's going to be really hard.

What you're ignoring with your exponential growth argument is that it is also exponentially harder to add one qubit while maintaining usefulness (i.e. long decoherence times).

I'd say, anyone who doesn't want to work either in academia or on "vanity projects" like D-Wave's much-hyped collabs with Lockheed, Google etc. should wait half a decade and see.

[1] Arguably the D-Wave machines are faster than a human, but we don't have evidence (yet) that it's not just a fancy annealing ASIC.
One concern is also whether this is fair criticism or talking shit about a dead person. Any changes that came after the crash are completely irrelevant to that concern.
When I drove one on autopilot - it would routinely prompt me to put hands on steering wheel. I didn't get them all and autopilot mode was disabled for the rest of my trip. I don't recall the steering wheel prompts to be as obvious as I would have expected since it's so important.

I'm pretty sure it's also designed to pull over and stop if it doesn't get feedback ensuring someone is paying adequate attention.

But maybe the parameters or functionality was different at the time of this crash.

I think autopilot is a great marketing concept but a terrible and inaccurate description of the technology.
There's really never a good place for a car to stop. The car is dependent on a human to choose that place. So there's really no way to present the user with an ultimatum besides disabling autopilot on their next drive.

edit: I hear the cars engage hazard lights and slow down and stop if one's hands are not on the wheel. I guess that's fine.
As someone who doesn't own a car but is often a cyclist or pedestrian, I don't want to be reliant on drivers' (potentially lacking) common sense for my safety.
I think Tesla rolled it out too soon and marketed it as something it is not yet capable of and people died because of it.
> Also interesting is how Kay dismisses Job's objections as being motivated by needing to put someone down.

You realize that's a thing, right? People do that on both a conscious and subconscious level. Some people actively play those manipulation games, especially creative sales people. Some people merely benefit from that tactic without fully appreciating that they're doing it.

I wasn't there, so I can't weigh in. It could be that Kay was projecting, and it could be that Kay is a perceptive person and was merely recognizing a young cocky kid using an old power tactic.
Sloppy reporting. BuzzFeed's conclusion is drawn from the 50% of the document that's un-redacted. The other half may or may not paint a different picture.
But their plan is to slowly evolve it into a full autopilot feature. I think Elon says they're demoing a CA->NYC no-hands trip sometime in the next year.

Maybe they could have branded it differently early on?