skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I like the focus on the driver here. I do think he was a fool for trusting the device.

It genuinely sounds like the autopilot failed to prevent a collision that, whether right or wrong, we would expect it to before broadly deploying these devices.

A semi is a very large and pretty reasonably defined visual mass that intersected with the path of the vehicle.

What did the autopilot do and when did it do it seems to be missing from this round of reports on this incident and thats pretty lame.

Edit- Notice there is no mention of a COLLISION warning being issued? Only nagging "hands on wheel".
Until we get to real autonomous cars, we'll probably have more issues with people and their hubris. My car has a bunch of these features, and I have them only in case of messing up. They are redundancy. Nothing more.

Some people are way overestimating what these systems can do or are paying less attention because they think the car will correct for their mistakes. We're going to be in for a rocky few years or so where these advanced systems may lead more crashes from inattentive drivers.

Having used these various technologies, I can firmly say that I can't wait for fully autonomous cars.
If OpenStack is "business-friendly" then it's very particular about who its friends are.
> testing and quality control

There have been major improvements in the past three years and code coverage is now consistently above 80%.

> Community is (apparently) a bunch of ...

I'm admittedly biased, but based on a number of years of experience and personal efforts, I think this is not a fair characterization. I don't know what happened in that private forum -- but I do know that the Julia community is thousands of people, with a huge, public archive of helpful, respectful interactions among newbies, non-Julia experts, core devs, and everyone in between.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/julia-users

(Disclosure: Julia committer)
Our family is looking at getting a Tesla and my wife brought up this incident. I told her that Teslas are not fully capable of driving themselves and that the guy was probably not paying attention to what he was doing. I'm sad this guy lost his life, but ignoring safety warnings for whatever reason eared him the Darwin award.
Something I think is very cool about bitcoin is that fact that you can compare it directly to physical currency in a way that makes it easy to understand at a high level.

The block chain is essentially the same as a physical ledger that everyone (collectively) uses to confirm and record all transactions.

If everyone suddenly split (partitioned) in to 2 separate groups with 2 separate ledgers each 'everyone' (now that there are 2) would continue to use the ledger of their group.

I'm not sure if bitcoin makes any arrangements for 'merging' ledgers. My understanding is that among divergent chains the longest chain always 'wins' and any others are considered fraudulent.

So, once the two partitions are re-combined, when individuals reach out to 'everyone' and say "give me the latest version of the ledger" they would find the 2 competing ledgers and should choose to trust the one that is longer.
Why does autopilot continue to drive the car without someone holding the steering wheel in the first place? If the car can't drive itself without driver input, then why isn't letting go of the steering wheel the equivalent of disengaging autopilot?

Tesla's technical hubris could have killed more than just the driver.
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The article mentioned how newer Tesla vehicles have a "strikeout" system where the autopilot software disables itself until the next car startup if the driver repeatedly ignores warnings.

While this is definitely an improvement, how does that actually work? If the driver isn't paying attention, how do the newer vehicles force the driver back into paying attention and back to taking full control of the car? This seems like a really hard problem, and the article doesn't really dig into it.

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch
The point was that it seems the financial impact of a leak is not expressed overtly to Apple employees or to the public, just that "it spoils all the hard work and fun we're having".

Perhaps it needs to be that expressed that way to the American workers. Putting it all in terms of the bottom line is probably a hollow message when the market cap of your company is approaching a trillion dollars.
Nutrition is not only about the quantity of calories but also about their quality. If you look at the food Intake of some impoverished fat person you're likely to find that they consume too many calories of low quality food void of proper nutrients fats and proteins but full of sugars and fast carbs. That's not only because of education but also cause the crap food is the only thing accessible and affordable to someone in the low income end and/or living off food stamps.
This was the crash where the Tesla drove at full-speed into the back of a trailer yes?

I don't see how the "7 safety warnings" are relevant here, that was just the cars reminder that he should put his hands back on the steering wheel. It does not mean the car detected it was losing vision and would stop steering the vehicle shortly. The safety warnings had nothing to do with the Tesla failing to recognize the obstacle ahead and brake.

I don't think the future looks good for autonomous driving if the NTSB is going to accept an explanation that there is no vehicle failure here because it gave some regular reminders to put your hands on the steering wheel.
Amiga Ireland Podcast: Episode 4.1 – Kenny Gaughan – SWOS Ireland Champion 2017
I think the only restriction is working on Google approved hardware so no BYOD there.

(Disclosure: not a Google employee).
> Not that I think most people will care that Tesla owns the car they just bought.

I think you meant "paid for" not bought.
Seems like it was more a problem with the lids than the actual glass, fyi. I bet now, with more advanced lids not made of suction/rubber and metal, it could be done.
Some people have negative views of LinkedIn profiles so it can occasionally hurt. Especially when LinkedIn spams someone using your picture.
How does it work? I mean how does it generate addresses that aren't blocked by the a services (like mailinator and similar throwaway email sites)? Does it use thousands of random domains?
Companies in certain industries often don't publicly list because they don't want it widely known what they are looking for, what they are doing, or even that they exist sometimes. Or they don't want to weed through all the crap resumes and recruiters are their front line against that. That's not solvable with just a better platform.

And no algorithm, stats, and analysis is going to be a good as a recruiter who works regularly with a firm and knows what they are looking for, what the culture is like, and their internals.

Also recruiters help negotiate salary for you too, and that always helps.

They also take you out to lunch too :)
I feel stuff like this needs to be taken into account more consciously. It probably wouldn't have changed the decisions I made but still..

Meg Jay writes more about the practical implications of potentially delaying common life goals in "The Defining Decade"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13523061-the-defining-de...
I read the OP as pointing out that image hosting, like email, is an awful business to be in, but is something on which tons of other services depend.

Think of it as analogous to sanitation. Being in the garbage hauling business isn't something that really revs that many people up, but civilization literally depends on it.
I'd love to compare the results of this final analysis with the FUD that I remember coming out following this crash on Reddit et al with a series of people saying 'I told you so'.

Complex systems of risk mitigation tends to get pushed in the media as an ideal solution to these accidents well before the complete facts come in. Common sense precaution is typically ignored in this culture of total risk adverse superiority that floats to the surface after these events and would ultimately result in very few of these experimental products, which drive innovation, being tested (as is clearly the case in many risk adverse cultures such as Japan and Switzerland).

With any early adopter's of automation whose success is partially dependent on human intervention (ie, flying planes) having stories of failures of incentives to know when or not to actually listen to the warnings provided by the interface over your own intuition is helpful not only in training but also in the design of these systems.

To not expect a certain degree of these types of failure situations where the system largely acted as intended is naive and ultimately defeatist.

I hope the drivers realize the risk they are engaging in here and take appropriate behavioural change as a result but I can't imagine many formal systems that would practically be effective here at deterring these situations other than maybe adapting educational training and the content of the warning systems.
The vehicle starts to slow down (eventually coming to a stop) and turns the hazard lights on.

Here is a video: https://youtu.be/UiNDVdmF9ws?t=47s
My Subaru has loud alarms and beeps when you depart a lane or when the Eyesight tech is having issues due to really bad weather. It catches your attention. I think the key is for it to be sharp, cutting and to not stop until you correct the issue. Think of all of those space movies where something goes wrong and alarms are blaring for sensors and systems.
That's good. Like I said I didn't know the exact change they made (WaPo is paywalled, I read the Ars article).

Thanks.

As long as they are so advanced having the system eventually pull over seems like a good idea. Turning the system off won't work great if the driver falls asleep and the beeps don't wake them. At least if it pulled over they'd be safe. Probably a really hard thing to do though.
look up the difference between inheritable and heritable. Very linguistically bizarre. (note: am not OP from above)
You say that like it's a bad thing. Obviously a manager didn't do everything, and no executive would think they did. What they know though, is the manager hired the team that worked together and delivered the appropriate solution. If you want credit from the executives, you should become a manager and manage expectations and deliverables.
Sounds like he either committed suicide or was unconscious/disabled before the accident.

An autopilot shouldn't just hand over control to the driver and pray when it needs help and the driver is unresponsive; it should try to come to a stop on the side of the road, then shout for help. Shouting via a cell call to 911 (or country-specific equivalent) wouldn't be a bad idea.

"This is a Tesla P85. My driver is unresponsive. The car is stopped on I-95 southbound, 2.1 miles south of exit 4 past I-295. The car is red. Please send help. This message will repeat three times."
While technically any transaction made on one partition can be mined into a block in the other partition assuming that the outputs of the previous transaction (inputs to the new transaction) are available in both, in practice it is more likely that transactions from one partition will only end up in that partition and both forks will be very different in terms of which blocks they have.

Also, as another reply said, you'd have to have minors connected to both partitions.

That is why the fork with the most work wins. Not the fork with the longest chain. Otherwise you could just intentionally partition your machine. Mine a bunch of blocks offline (because difficulty will adjust down as block solve time increases) and then reconnect.
Ask HN: Does anyone know what's happening with Magicleap?
It largely feels dead to me. With Apple coming out with ARKit, the augmented reality's time is now. Magicleap started in 2014 and still hasn't shown anything. It doesn't hog any media attention either. Anyone has details?
> I think they don't trust advertisers

Considering malvertising is a thing, attempting to spread malware through ads, users shouldn't trust advertisers.

I don't just run an ad blocker to prevent annoyances, I do it to increase security.
So how is this different from something like Mailinator.com? In my opinion, I can't see a use case in which I'd care enough to have my temporary email private. If I cared enough I'd just use my real email.
Why is it required to enable notifications from the nbox site in order to generate an address?
well, yes, i felt bad at first but then again, i wasn't able to try any of these out to begin with and i'm not buying something unless i try them out. btw, i have already purchased lull and gave it to my son so it's not like i'm just returning everything i buy. if anything, i do believe this is the future of e-commerce. it is a great way to shop.
How do 2 cars cruise 60 mph through a 4 way stop without talking with each other.
Your analysis is incorrect.

'southpaw' is a boxing term that refers to left-handed boxers. It is in no way derogatory and did not originate with baseball [1]. In fact, it is more of a compliment because southpaws have a strategic and tactical advantage over right-handers due to stance.

'paw' as in hand

'south' as in 'not usual'

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southpaw_stance
Yeah, I read that: seems to support my point.
Basically: they had been doing it for years, but Jobs saw what was missing to make it actually usable.

Could be wrong: I wasn't there :)
How large were these products? I've also experienced rewrites that went somewhat successfully, but I can't say we wouldn't have been better off upgrading the existing code in place.
Yes, and you pay in the form of giving away your data to advertisers.

To be sure, WaPo also sells data to their advertisers. At the same time, WaPo has broader coverage and probably needs a larger newsroom as a result. Ars Technica is a subsidiary of Conde Nast, and Conde Nast as a whole has paywalled publications (like New Yorker).

In general, I think it's perfectly fine to promote paywalled content on HN so long as the content itself is good. We have to fund quality reporting/writing, and HN can serve as a curation mechanism to surface "content worth paying for".
Swiss being a bastion of privacy for anything other than banking should be taken with a pinch of salt. They've been up to their neck in crypto cooperation with the NSA since at least the Crypto AG scandal if not longer.
Same here - not a the same level though :-) Undisclosed location from the European Alps - I've always worked remotely, even when my company HQs were in Sunnyvale and I was living a few blocks from the office.
Wow I haven't seen Project Wonderful in a long time. Good to know they're still around.
The point was that fundamentally the Internet is not safe, so companies will do the right things to secure their resources. So yes, in BeyondCorp this means running a proxy service that centralizes the auth workflow through policies that check the user and connecting device against the resource at the time of the request.
We consider our Solve agents your personal "problem Solvers". The service isn't just about getting through immigrations and customs quickly, it's more about making sure you don't have to worry or stress at all which is why we went with the name Solve :)
Apparently this is due to autistics taking longer to find mates, rather than mutation damage.
Probably want the packages in here -- https://github.com/nteract/nteract/tree/master/packages

Roughly speaking, this is just like the notebook-preview component with different styling and some additional UI enhancements (cell hide toggling).
Has anyone driven one of these using Autopilot?

It strikes me as an eerie feature in that semi-autonomous means you're not controlling the car but at any moment you may have to jump in generally unaware of the forces the car/tires have been experiencing.

It just seems like a major mindset shift from mostly idle passenger to active driver and offhand I feel like until the car can reliably drive itself I'd rather just drive the whole way.
Also, consider the size and employment of a lot of these other companies. And then, look at how many people Google is actually likely to employ on this product, given their obsession with automation and an utter lack of human support. Suffice to say, this, like many other new Google products, will put hundreds or thousands of people out on the street.

People want to know where the jobs went. People are looking for jobs? The only jobs safe from Google takeovers are Google jobs. And I'm not so sure how committed Google would be to keeping their own employees if they could automate them away too.
We use AirBnB's Knowledge Repo project[1][2] for things like this at my company. I love the idea of making it easier to deploy things like this though.

1. https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/scaling-knowledge-at-a...

2. https://github.com/airbnb/knowledge-repo
Ask HN: What college electives did you take that affected your life the most?
last ditch effort from JCrew to make money, as they are really hurting right now. JCrew Factory is also their "clearance" brand.
These all seem like no brainer features. I wonder why its taken them so long to implement them
As an alternative, you could register a domain with a catch-all email address and simply register for new services on the fly using a unique string for each site. Have the catch-all forward to your main email account.

For example, I would sign-up for HN using hackernews@marak.com and for Reddit using reddit@marak.com

Simple and effective.
Signing up automatically gives you access to run on the simulator. For select users, we are providing some limited access to one of our prototype quantum processors. It's the one discussed in this paper [0]. This initial access doesn't allow a user to run full quantum programs like on the simulator, but but one can test out a few interesting experiments. You can read about what experiments are available here [1]. If you'd like to apply to run some experiments on our hardware then email us with some information about you and your interests at support@rigetti.com

The access to quantum hardware is limited at this point, but we'll be adding new features over the coming months.

[0] http://www.rigetti.com/papers/Demonstration_of_Universal_Par...
[1] http://pyquil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/qpu.html
> Since the crash, those reports have said, Tesla has updated its Autopilot feature to include a strikeout system, whereby drivers who repeatedly ignore safety warnings risk having their Autopilot disabled until the next time they start the car.

Looks like this concern has been addressed already.
Wow Spivak, tell us your true feelings darling.

Lobbyists get corporations out of paying tax. Lobbyists get larger companies out of doing anything that might hurt the CEOs bonus. I know you know this. Why pretend otherwise?
I didn't find it worth the time. When doing HPC work, I really care about performance, and couldn't get anywhere near the speeds as C + MPI.

If it's not HPC, I don't see a benefit over Python.
Because most people are right handed, there is a notion of it being 'natural' to use their right hand. This is probably where we get the overlap with words that mean 'correct'. Doing something left-handed, for most people, is doing it backwards.

People are rarely left-handed, so there is an 'us verses them' notion behind the term. Right handed people are the default and left-handed people are different. Note phrases like "right hand man" describing someone you rely on.

Finally, a large percentage of leaders seem to be left handed (for reasons I cannot fathom), so perhaps sinister meaning evil has some root in people's criticism of those with power?
Its really problematic, there is a special kind of dementia which - sort of rots the moral decision making part of the brain. There was a previos HN article on it.

So what do you do with a individual which is intellecutal highly capable, but completely unable to make a moral decision.
GVR is wrong. It's okay to be wrong. But the last 5 years of software development and the remarkable growth of Javascript as a platform accessible to everyone make a compelling case that GVR was wrong.
> You think the interest rates will rebound?

It doesn't matter. If the bank pays you 10% on a savings account it's because inflation is high as well. In my opinion, bungie4 is giving you advice from a rather cynical world view. I understand it (sounds like bungie4 has taken some bumps and bruises in the market), but I don't agree with it.

A savings account will never give you more than about 1% real (inflation adjusted) returns because it's completely safe.

To both of you, I would say don't sell during a correction. You need to stick with the plan when times get tough. Paper losses are scary, but they are only on paper.

(Funnily enough, folks love volatility when it's in the right direction. Home equity is great, right? But for some reason paper losses send us into panic selling mode.)
It doesn't pull over yet, but if you repeatedly ignore warnings it will put on flashers and slowly pull to a stop.
Automation is also a local competitor. Disability (leaving the workforce altogether) is also a local competitor. The labor participation rate today matches the rate in the 1970s, when we largely weren't allowing women to get jobs.
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Thanks. That is a better reference indeed. It's got nice diagrams as well. Can't edit my post any longer, so hopefully others will just see your message.
You're supposed to have your hand on the wheel even with Tesla's autopilot. But you're right; the correct way of enforcing this behavior is that if you disregard it for too long, it parks you safely on the shoulder.
With a VPN you have two security layers -- one into the network, and a second one into each individual server.

They aren't mutually exclusive. Sure, you can leave SSH open publicly on WAN. I wouldn't for anything mission-critical.
Despite the terrible name Tesla's system is supposed to assistive, the driver is still supposed to be in the loop.

If the driver totally abdicated all involvement, the accident is his fault. He's the final safety system and it sounds like he didn't even try to do his job.
Status ICO “crowdsale” dominated by a handful of whales
Having read a little about TLA+ recently, I'm curious about how specifications are written in Julia. (For example, is there model-checking involved?)
It allows data-scientists to easily deploy in-house data-apps.
And by using the Juypter notebook, you get the GUI for free as well and automatic support for many many ML and numerical libraries (assuming Python)

So for example if a sales team gather data, and there is a
data-transform thats done all the time by hand, or feeding new data to an ML model, an internal app would save time, and Jupyter dashboards have the potential to make this really easy.
Not surprising. But it's pretty frustrating for this member of the "crowd", who read the instructions, followed the rules, and was not able to successfully contribute.
that might be comparing two different things. In a single parent household (which I'm sure is heavily swayed towards single mothers) kids may be out playing with other kids.

In families with older fathers, [assuming] there is a higher percentage of dual parenting ... which could mean more attention at home = less time playing sports with the neighborhood kids
If you do this, make sure you lock down your account at your domain registrar. A socially engineered DNS hijack could be all it takes to obtain full read/write access to your email.
Hi cdubzzz, no it's not required.