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Well context is important, the people who operate planes know exactly what autopilot in a specific plane means, the people who operate cars are generally aware that there are cars.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/51913.php
Eve's Waterfront. Neighbors have complained that they've gone as far as blocking off the San Francisco Bay Trail during bigger events at night.

Edit: Interesting, I dug up some zoning documents from the restaurant, and the Bay Conservation and Development Commission specifically called out the actions they are doing now (blocking the trail, blocking public access decks) as violations on page 4.

[1] http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/agen...
> I'm sure I'll get downvoted though for calling Linus a baby, because somehow insulting Linus for his flaws is never ok but when Linus does it it's so cool!

And

> Downvote away!

You're being far over the top dramatic. It's unnecessary, your setup text did a perfectly fine job of making the argument. The two comments about downvoting detract from the substance.
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.2/05282.html

I would recommend reading this response.

Here are some great excerpts:

>
That's why my initial idea, as implemented in this RFC patchset, was to
stick with IBRS on Skylake, and use retpoline everywhere else. I'll
give you "garbage patches", but they weren't being "just mindlessly
sent around". If we're going to drop IBRS support and accept the
caveats, then let's do it as a conscious decision having seen what it
would look like, not just drop it quietly because poor Davey is too
scared that Linus might shout at him again. :)

>
If we can be done with the shouty part, I'd actually quite like to have
a sensible discussion about when, if ever, we do IBPB on context switch
(ptraceability and dumpable have both been suggested) and when, if
ever, we set STIPB in userspace.

Those seem relevant to the thread. That said - it's really a good read for a technical overview of the issues and patches.
That's only a reasonable explanation if that were the common understanding of what the term means. It is not.
What I found interesting in Japan, was it seems like employees working in the larger fast food chains had a pretty much guaranteed track to the corporate office if they were willing to put in the time working at the store and had credentials to match. Usually the employees are part time with no desire to climb up, but I met few people who worked at McDs or KFC during college and had a job offer or atleast an interview waiting at the end of it in the corporate office.

One guy I talked to was told that he had to put in a full year to be considered for interviews in the next graduating class, so he worked at McDs after college so he could interview the next year.

Do the chains in the US offer similar tracks? Does experience at the chain translate well to getting hired in the corporate offices? Seems like an easy way incentivize college students and graduates to work at a chain and actually take it seriously. I worked at a McDs as my first job, years ago and I still see a lot of the same faces when I go back home. Even when I was there one of the managers was complaining that after 10 years she was told she couldn't get her normal yearly raise because she was "making too much money already" according to the owner. Corporate could and should pay for/partially pay for college for managers without an education as a perk for high performers.
The thing is that almost nobody knows what an Autopilot actually does. Even here on Hacker News you see comments to the effect of "why do we still need pilots, planes take off fly and land by themselves!"
They do. After the Florida crash, they lean even more heavily on the forward facing radar.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-...
Couldn’t agree more. People who argue for Elon’s meaning of auto-pilot are wrong. Unless 100% of Tesla drivers are 100% aware of the limitations calling it auto-pilot is dangerous.
Would it not be better engineering to have the roads driving the cars, as opposed to having the cars drive the roads?

If the roads had sensors in the "bots dotts" and would track and steer all the volume of traffic - isnt that better than all the infantile-AI-cars doing it?
I'm pretty confident that no system (beyond the visual and audio cues currently on emergency vehicles) is ready for implementation. Car mesh/broadcast networking is a tempting idea, but I'm not sure any of us are ready for it.
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You know how stoplights are in tune with emergency vehicle flashing lights? I think the auto pilot systems need to get more in tune with those systems as well. An alert needs to fire when it detects an emergency.

I've heard of people not turning off their cruise control when going through an accident area. Boneheads. This is no different - just involving the thing after cruise control.
> Pilots are never expected to get their eyes off the controls.

Pilots do so all the time, because airplanes aren't flying in a congested 2D space. Airspace is mostly empty, with very large distances between planes and features, allowing for plenty of early warning.

And an airplane's "autopilot" has nothing to do with Tesla's Autopilot. Their purpose and working mechanisms are completely different.

The airplane analogy is pure bullshit.
> "People have been safely and intelligently using cruise control for... decades?"

More than half a century in mass-market automobiles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_control#History
This is not dissimilar from the argument that cash would become obsolete because of crypto. That hasn't happened because people don't mind trading some money or freedom for a little more security. Free markets are not pleasant to most people.

Also, don't forget that we're seeing ICOs potentially being treated as securities, and they're likely to be just as regulated as traditional investing mechanisms. These regulations will likely be practical to enforce, because most startups will want to do business in the US, China, and/or Europe.

I think ML is a much bigger threat to YC, as machine models have been shown to be better than humans at picking successful companies. (Humans have lots of pesky biases that aren't based in reality.)

What if there were an ETF of startups? You'd need a team of humans to gather and enter data as best they could, but an algorithm could do the rest at a lower cost.
I'm not really talking about health insurance in the abstract, but rather the current implementation (which seems very shady to many people).

I doubt current insurance companies care whether you get the flu or not. They just care whether you go to the doctor for it, eg if enough people think "It must be a cold" and self-medicate that works for them.
Is it over the top dramatic because of the exclamation mark?

Regardless, I feel it's important to point out a consistent hypocrisy I've witnessed and experienced. I think it's totally relevant and substantive.

edit: I have no desire to continue a metadiscussion on downvoting. I don't care about downvotes, the downvotes are a symptom of an entirely relevant issue; a community that has a ridiculous double standard for Linus. It was not an attempt to attract or prevent downvotes, or to discuss downvotes, or downvoting, or the culture of voting on HN.

I brought up downvotes as an example of the underlying issue. Clearly I did a poor job of that as it's led to a number of unrelated comments. I apologize for the clutter that a one-off comment on hypocrisy has caused.
In Berlin it would be Matratzen Concorde. They have dozens of stores. They always do liquidation sales and inventory replacement and the stores always look pretty much empty.
I got some great deals a couple of times there, though. The product is good and during the heavy discount periods you can get good mattresses up to 60% off of the original (probably heavily inflated) price.
Gotta consider that the average purchase price in these stores is quite steep. It’s totally possible that they are legit, because two or three sales a day are enough to keep the lights on, pay an employee or two and turn a small profit.
How about making them highly visible by, say, painting them red and putting flashing lights on top of them?

Difficult to blame the emergency vehicles when the semi-autonomous car fails to detect something that stands out so much.
I whole heartily agree. It's insane the amount of privacy people will give up for a little bit of convenience...
>Correct, it hasn't reconciled because Japanese government never truly feel guilty for their war crimes and most of Japanese prime minister still goes to visit Yasukuni Shrine for war criminals

Ever consider that the reason Japan is defensive is because their opponents spread outright lies like this?

Japan has apologized numerous times. Japan and Korea negotiated a deal to pay reparations in 2015, Japan paid, and it was settled and said to be finished by both countries. Then Korea had a massive scandal involving their president, a new president stepped in, and that new president said that the final deal of the previous government doesn't count anymore and so Japan hasn't actually apologized.

Furthermore, Yasukuni isn't a shrine for war criminals. I go every year and I know that that's pure, absolute, undiluted bullshit propaganda spread by people looking to gain something. It's a fairly normal shinto shrine and its purpose is to enshrine everyone who died for Japan during wartime. Whether they're good or not is irrelevant. Saying Yasukuni is for war criminals is just like saying the Bible is all about endorsing slavery and murder because several people in the book committed those acts. When someone says that, it's pretty clear that they're not looking to open a friendly discussion.
You misunderstand so many things.

1. There are many somatic applications of CRISPR that have no effect on the germline.

2. Even the germline applications don't necessarily "decrease genetic variability". Why would you think that?

3. Even considering off-target effects, the edits made to any particular genome are miniscule compared to its overall size, which I'm sure would astound you. There is no reason to believe these edits will make us less (or more) resistant to environmental exposures.

4. We are not talking making people more likely to contract cholera, which is easily controlled by sanitation. We're talking about preventing or curing debilitating illnesses that confer no benefit to the organism.
[Off-topic]

Most manufactures when they had small consumer base were developer friendly, it is when they gain significant market they stop being one.

I can think of few technical reasons as well,

1. To sustain competition they have build their IP (e.g camera blob, Personal Assistant) .

2. Security as a commodity, especially for enterprise customers.

OnePlus has deep relations with XDA community, Oppo's Find series phone was actively contributed and If I'm right; the mods got free devices then. Oxygen OS team was by itself Paranoid Android team.

OnePlus devices could be the best 'modder' friendly phone right now, the question is how long they would be able to keep it that way.
Which is silly, since pilots can absolutely take their eyes off the controls at cruising altitude and not slam into something. If, for some reason, the system disengages they would have ample time to take control of the plane. That is absolutely not true with an automobile, where in some situations, an action must be taken in milliseconds.
Where do you put your oscilloscope's probes when not in use?
we still aren't watching commercials on netflix yet so thats a win
Because of inventory, ergo a factory ships a mattress, a customer buys a mattress, there's something for investigators to grab onto. This would on the surface make it seem to not be very good for money laundering unless the retailer also controlled manufacturing and could cook the shipment books there which is unlikely. Now here's where this conspiracy theory gets interesting. Stick with me for the briefest of intros to what makes for a good money laundering business.

Typically businesses for which it's hard to account for the number of customers and who don't have inventory that can be traced are better: golf courses, bowling alleys, car washes, etc. The case of car washes is pretty awesome in fact and relates well to the mattress conspiracy theory. At one point they were getting busted because investigators would look at their water usage, but that was quickly resolved by becoming "environmental" and installing water capture and re-use systems. Now it's all about making the power usage look like the place is busy and counting on local investigators to have other priorities than long term 24/7 stake-outs.

Okay, okay, with this in mind, back to the mattress company. How often are we told to replace our mattresses these days? I've quite literally had a mattress from Ethan Allen for 20 years and it's still like new. However, my wife keeps pointing out that mattresses should be replace every eight.
With this in mind, how many people are like me? I suspect a lot - if your back isn't hurting, if you aren't feeling springs, if it's still firm, why replace it, heck, that would introduce the opportunity to get a worse mattress. As such, there's likely not a lot of turnover, so... A mattress company could use this to their advantage by making large orders of mattresses, claiming they sold all of them, while only selling a tenth. They could then ship the remaining new mattresses to 'recyclers', claiming they were customer exchanges. Having physical stores, they could claim a lot of their business was cash and by having a lot of stores they make it all but impossible to stake them out with anything but a satellite which few law enforcement agencies who would be interested in catching this scheme would invest in & by being in locations with shared parking lots could make tracking all but impossible even by counting cars. Honestly, I think it could work and we are all part of it for buying into the whole replace your mattress every eight years line! OMG.
Out of curiosity, why give up your license? It's a great ID. You don't have to use it. I know plenty of people with licenses to carry concealed, but don't.

To you point about car dependence, not using one is humiliating, at least for me. I live about .25 miles from my office. I walk daily to and from (twice). I feel, and have seen, people look at me like I'm poor. It is a foreign concept to many that walking or biking might be better (especially in Florida where on those rare 30 degrees nights, me, a Hoosier, is right at home, but right now it's a balmy 68).
Even if you know your startup isn't the right fit or you and team are not the YC type, the application is hugely valuable because it makes you think long and hard about what you are doing.

We never got into YC, but we did end up with another accelerator. The one question that YC asks, that sets it apart is the question at the end: "what do you know about your industry or business that other people don't".

It's a simple question with a lot of meaning. I found that working out a concise answer to that question turned out to be key to our fundraising and product positioning. If you don't have a ready answer to that question, most investors and accelerators will just make their own assumptions about what you do. Our industry is NOT the most exciting and hot trend so having that answer left and center turned out to be key to presenting what we do in a good light.

Do the application even if you know you won't get in.
I've seen a number of articles that there is suspicion that AI (ie., ML'd coefficients in a set of matrices) just reinforces already held prejudices in certain cases which do not actually jive with the facts. How are we to know the AI won't make decisions based on current prejudices that end up also dooming mankind in the future?
Gridcoin is a cryptocurrency where you earn it by lending your computing power to help scientific studies
The potential disasters can be man-made as well. Therefore, even though we're increasingly better at taming the vagaries of nature, we're increasingly at the mercy of our fellow men.
Did you work at waymo or is this speculation? Some seems a bit like a Markov chain built from random self-driving objections ("never cover enough cases", "schoolchildren"), and some seems wrong (e.g. [1] mentions an expanding use of deep learning at waymo starting in 2013, well before Urmson left).

The usual big corp objections -- unsatisfied with agility, level of control, level of payoff and recognition if it succeeds -- seems a lot more likely.

[1] https://nytimes.com/2018/01/04/technology/self-driving-cars-...
Idea chess.

You make blunders. You learn from them. You move on.
I'm glad. I hope this spreads across the entire industry.

Emotional support animals are the biggest scam. I have friends who openly get emotional support certificates for their animals on the Internet, and brag about how they are avoiding paying extra fees for their animals. It's selfish and it hurts people with real needs. I think they should only allow real service animals with proper medical documentation and not emotional support animals on planes.
> Experience suggests that the right to privacy is the first thing to go in the event of a newsworthy crash in a Tesla

Isn't that usually because the owner lied about using Autopilot?
I was disappointed by the lack of substance here. It's just a PR puff piece.

I'd be much more interested in learning what Gusto changed (if anything) and how it changed their applicant pool.

Were 50% of the applicants female? Was there a significant quality difference between genders or across time?
Another business that had well paid store managers is Trader Joe’s - I believe they also make something towards $160K in total comp. Also a place filled with happy, helpful people.

Almost like there is a connection between a good package and happy employees.
Do you have a lawyer on retainer to read all the TOS you ever signed?

A click-through TOS? No, duh; you knew that when you asked it. But a shareholder's agreement that I put pen to paper for my signature, which is the topic at hand? Umm, the answer to that one would be "yes".
not bother honking
> From Elon's interview, he mentioned that 'autopilot' was a name akin to the flight autopilots.

Then he failed, as they are completely unrelated.

> Pilots are never expected to get their eyes off the controls.

This is also false. They need to be alert, but they most certainly do not need to be as attentive as keeping their hands on the controls unlike with Tesla.

Unlike the sibling comment below alluded too, many commercial airplane autopilot systems are advanced enough to land the plane completely on auto as well as some even automatically respond to TCAS alerts to avoid nearby aircraft.
> Autopilot used incorrectly can kill people.

Sorry, I don't get it. How do you use something incorrectly when by definition you aren't really using it at all? It seems like an oxymoron.
Bets the driver was voluntarily impaired?
The phrase I have heard is controlled descent into terrain. Sounds much calmer.
"While the United States is busy talking about making itself “great again” by demonizing immigrants and trans people while it continues to decline as a world power, Europe and China are expanding their forward-looking systems of high-quality transportation to position their regions to challenge American power, and prosper in the coming century."

More of that objective and quality journalism. Ignoring the grammatical mistakes, why throw in a silly quip like that? Especially considering that europe and china aren't too fond of "immigrants" or trans people.
> depending on just how fast you were going, your attitude, and the mood of the officer that stopped you

I agree with the assessment, but It frustrates me that only 1 of the 3 criteria have anything to do with the statutory law.

The rest has to do with prosecutorial discretion, which is the least objective part of the law and opens up so many people to the "* privilege" criticisms that are so common now.
Their public transit system is great, and you pay for it with rechargeable cards that can also be used for all sorts of other shit in vending machines and retail locations.

And unless you're (statistically) fairly short and thin for a westerner, you won't fit in anything.

But hot-damn does looking out the window at Fujisan while doing 300km/h do a good job at distracting you from having your knees around your ears.
Facinating concept. I like how they embed their philosophy into the article by saying the idea was thought up in 01995.
I don't disagree, but I honestly have not really heard much from owners. Definitely not nearly enough to call it a representative sample.
> Samething with an airliner, autopilot will not avoid another aircraft.

Wrong! There are autopilots which integrate TCAS into the autopilot (A380 among them).

Source: http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2009/08/eas...
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I've identified recursion in my reaction to this comment
Wow, so, when you're wealthy in America, you can literally murder someone in cold blood and only get probation for it?

"He shot and killed his neighbor, Timothy Newman, a man who had repeatedly challenged Campbell over his access-blocking proclivities. Campbell first claimed it was self-defense because Newman threatened him, but last year he finally pleaded guilty to negligent homicide. He’s now on probation, under a 20 years suspended prison sentence."
Even if I agreed with your sell-out criticism, what makes you think that hurling obscenities and insults at the executives would change that, vs a well written argument that the behavior is wrong and will have consequences that could harm the company?

Simply calling something garbage doesn't elicit change, our political system is the perfect example of that. It creates polarization which, due to human nature, makes can make people less motivated to work with you.

There's no even any evidence Intel did anything wrong. For decades, the market demanded performance, and VM based cloud computing was created long after speculative execution became an industry wide (not just Intel) optimization. The way we use CPUs has changed, our OSes have changed, the threat model has changed, and the sophistication of attacks has changed.

Future CPUs need to be designed from the ground up with modern cloud computing in mind and that's going to take 2 years at least given industry cycles. What do we do in the meantime with our current silicon is the question. Intel seems like they're trying to do the right think by handling failures in retpoline to offer full protection.

But maybe the conspiracies are right, but when has an accusation of some conspiratorial behavior ever been solved by people yelling and screaming moron and garbage?

It's just not the right way to perform an investigation IMHO.
Attempting to preempt downvotes is passive aggressive and adds nothing to the conversation; adding emphasis is doubling down on that mistake. It never actually works toward preventing downvotes, and instead attracts them. That makes it difficult to know whether the person is trying to lure downvotes on purpose for self-fulfilling prophecy reasons, or whether they actually believe it helps to try to preempt such.

If your argument has merit, it can stand alone. Responding to an avalanche of downvotes after the fact is the only thing I've seen on HN that makes sense. For example to try to counter a perception (eg if you think your argument is being taken incorrectly, or challenging the downvoters to discuss why they're downvoting; that can draw out more substance to a conversation).
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