skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, ever notice how in none of the Tesla Autopilot accidents, Tesla finds itself guilty?

I don't even read these posts from Tesla anymore because I know each one of them is just justification for how Tesla did nothing wrong, and it's the fault of the stupid human driver for using its Autopilot "wrong" and dying in the process. Meanwhile, Tesla is laughing all the way to the bank selling the usage of Autopilot as one of the primary features of its cars.

It almost reminds me of how Coke markets its sugar-filled soda "Drink as much as you can at every meal and at any event...but you know, in moderation (because that's what the government makes us say with its dietary guidelines)".

Tesla is kind of like that. It tells people to use Autopilot because it's such a great experience and whatnot, but then stuffs its terms and conditions with stuff like "but don't you dare to actually lay back and enjoy the Autopilot driving. You need to watch the car like a hawk, and if you happen to ignore any of our warnings, well it's your stupid-ass fault for ignoring them, even though we wrote everything there in the 11-point font." It's very irresponsible for any company to do stuff like this.

I don't know what the exact process is now, but I wish the authorities would be able to get access to un-tampered logs of the accident after the fact from the self-driving car companies.

I don't care if it's a car company that has "Elon Musk's reputation" (who I like) or Uber's reputation. These accidents, especially the deadly ones, should be investigated thoroughly. No company will ever have the incentive to show proof that leads to itself becoming guilty. It's the job of the authorities to independently (and hopefully impartially) verify those facts.

I'm a big fan of Tesla and its electric vehicles, big fan of Tesla Energy, big fan of SpaceX. But I've always criticized them for the Autopilot because it was obvious to me from day one that they're being very irresponsible with it and putting the blame on humans, when they were marketing it as a self-driving feature (they did for years, even if they don't do it as much now, but they still use the same name), while its system is far from being anywhere close to a complete self-driving system, and thus putting anyone who uses in danger of dying.
Absolute hell is a bit of an understatement ;)
Does it matter, really?
RSS, Atom, JSON, microformats, whatever; there are libraries that can parse any of these. What matters is the idea behind them, the technical implementation is secondary. Please don't revive the format wars.
> After the logs from the computer inside the vehicle were recovered, we have more information about what may have happened.

Why does Tesla have access to the car after the accident at all?

> The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive

No. The logs likely show that signals to trigger the warning signals have been issued; they most likely do not indicate whether they had any effect (minor issue, since they most likely had an effect, but still presenting the likely "happy case" as a fact).
Malloc may very well succeed when there is not enough free memory in the system. You'll only know it when you try to write to memory and the system runs out of real memory to back your virtual memory.

This can happen much later in time.

Memory allocated by malloc is not necessarily there by the time you need it.

Another issue is that a fork will simply copy the task state and set all the pages to 'copy on write' in the clone. That way the fork can execute very rapidly and only when the child process starts writing pages is there some actual memory overhead.
I'd been on The Old Reader ever since Google Reader shut down. Tried Bazqux thanks to a post here on HN and switched because it's much faster. Very noticeable with a lot of subscriptions (I have over 100).

Only relative downside is that there's no integration with Firefox's "Subscribe to this page" button, which TOR has. That means you need to use a javascript bookmark to subscribe to new feeds, which feels kludge-ey in comparison.
Yeah but they’re not going to let you know if the NSA or the CIA targets you.

So the message can be read more like: a non-allied state actor has targeted your email and we are notifying you to show how good we are. Please note we will not reveal when you are targeted by an allied state intelligence. Privacy is relative, mostly an illusion. Thank you for your cooperation.
I can't remember but I did sit in on a presentation about 15 years ago where they explained it. I lent the notes to a senior developer and never got them back.
I did the course would recommend it if you can get your employer to contribute for it. The blog is very good.
Except Facebook let them take a copy of the album collection, albeit for a different use case, but it was allowed nonetheless. That doesn't absolve CA in any way, but should make us wary of people we willingly give our "album collections" - they will use them to make money, and what they allow people do with them can easily be things we don't agree with, but didn't have the imagination to think of when we signed the EULA.
I have not experienced this. In my experience only niche, self-built websites offer no RSS feed. Plus there are other ways to make your RSS feed "useless" by only providing a title and the opening sentence, that way people will have to visit your site for the full content.
Are you sure? I have a gtx 970 working on the maxwell drivers on el cap but no luck on pascal.
Enter climate change caused by too little carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
I'll do! thanks for the feedback!
> It's widely known that RADAR systems are not able to detect stationary objects

What the fuck? That's not at all how radar works. It has no such limitation.
For example: https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article/46/6/721/129644

It's not exactly controversial to claim that lower income correlates to crime though.
FBI Warns of Crypto Scammers Posing as Exchange Support Staff
First scientific study after 10 seconds of googling https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article/46/6/721/129644
Hell, wealth correlates with age. How many 16-20 year olds are driving Tesla’s?
Yeah yeah, they only tried SVD on a multimillion dollar dataset. Psy-ops, netflix, same deal, what is all the fuss about!
Strange that a research scientist is released of his NDA a couple of days after channel 4 documentary.
I've had pretty good results subscribing to a few select Twitter feeds via RSS. Some people do put useful content on Twitter, but the Twitter UI makes it very difficult to identify and extract.
The simple answer to your question of why B2B startups devote resources to salespeople rather than having a clear (published) pricing strategy is that they don’t know how much their prospective good/service is worth and therefore need an interactive ”price discovery” process to occur. Once that process has occurred, however, they’re left with a dilemma: they sold the same thing to one client for $150k, to another one for $300k, and one got it bundled for free. How on earth can they keep a straight face when they go ahead and publish a single price that will at the very least infuriate two out of three of their early adopters? They’ve trapped themselves until they can offer something radically new and therefore decoupled from prior pricing. And by then the salesperson-centric paradigm may be so engrained into the firm’s behaviour that it is no longer possible to change.
Sinusoidal homeostasis around a set point is far superior to exponential growth in one direction.
To take a completely different approach in terms of 'derivative works':

Say we have a bunch of profile images, and then describe them in text. "Blonde, caucasian, large nose, curls, receding hairline, strong jaw, big ears", or perhaps even more specific stuff like "has a mole on the left cheek at the same height as the right earlobe" and "right nostril is larger than the left" and "dimple in chink".

Based on a description like this, we could identify an individual in probably a short paragraph. Nonetheless, on the data side, this is a lot less information than is represented by the raw pixels.

When it comes to the topic of CA's tools, and 'psychosocial' targeting, we can't separate the broader context and the way in which one single term can encode tons of data ("looks like George Clooney with a bigger forehead"). I'd argue the same princple applies to political views, and personality.
$29.55 – $52.89 BuyNowBSN NO-Xplode Pre-Workout Supplement
For me personally it's mainly about synchronisation. I use feedly on my phone, tablet and laptop and never have to see or archive a story twice. Plus i can star/save an interesting story on my laptop and read it on my phone later, say while commuting.
I don't run any business so I don't have much info, only questions. Why could you not simply add a "custom solution, contact us here" next to the publicly priced offers? That way everyone is addressed, best of both world.
To me there is a stunning lack of compassion and decency in the response to these incidents by both Tesla and Uber.

Uber made sure to point out that the victim of their incident was homeless. Tesla is pointing out how the driver received unrelated cues earlier in the journey. None of this information is relevant. They’re trying to bamboozle the reader in an effort to improve their images at the expense of victims who can’t defend themselves.

I don’t understand why it is so impossible for these companies to act humbly and with a sense of dignity around all this. I don’t expect them to accept responsibility if indeed their technology was not to blame, but frankly that isn’t for them to decide. Until the authorities have done their jobs, why not show remorse, regardless of culpability, as any decent human would?
JavaScript was designed in 10 days in 1995 to get something out ASAP. It was simple and hacky and it spread like a virus in the following 23 years, covering almost every niche of programming.

It is only now getting such (basic) language features as variables and constants being lexically scoped by default, a generic flow control primitive (async/await + exceptions which is almost, but not quite, as powerful as call/cc), as well as useful features such as multiline/template strings, proper classes, symbols, a shorter lambda syntax, and dedicated hashmap/set containers.

JavaScript is the quintessential example of why Worse is Better.

PS: even though CSS was first proposed in 1994, the availability of JavaScript and document.write() in browsers, as well as its use on the web predate the adoption of CSS by several years.
Since 2003, they’ve always made their best hardware solutions as mobile devices. Desktops have been more for specific use cases - almost exclusively geared toward niche use cases. Ie Mac Pro and iMac Pro. It seems more than a little odd to me. They don’t really offer a seam less transition from desktop to laptop to handheld. Even the old iPods felt more naturally integrated into their desktop usage than current.

I wish they offered a full size, liquid cooled but fans included high end/Nvidia GPU desktop. A system that’s not afraid to be noisy because their users aren’t seeking that. Then sync up the less hardware intensive tasks between their mobiles. But maybe that desktop market died in their eyes.
“Co-worker had his lunch stolen and they let him watch the security camera tape”
You're focused on "features". Given your limited time, that makes sense. But a successful project requires more. I have been working on many things that are less visible (besides the fact that I'm supporting three times as many platforms). This affects things like the number of plugins contributed by users (fman has 10x those of Marta). Or the activity on the issue tracker (compare fman's [1] with Marta's [2], where - except for the past 24 hours - virtually all issues are by you). You're right that fman can improve in terms of features and speed. It will. But those things are just the tip of the iceberg.

[1]: https://github.com/fman-users/fman/issues

[2]: https://github.com/marta-file-manager/marta-issues/issues
Coin tracking for hackers: cointop
What Now for the Autonomous Car Industry?
IIRC the radar can detect the object but it has too many false positives, like a small soda can that has a lucky alienation and shape that make it appear as a big object. So the system ignores the static signals of the radar, because randomly stopping each time an small object is confused with a big object is also dangerous. And the system uses other signals to identify and avoid static objects.
Relying on painting quality and accuracy is going to hurt autopilot systems. Cities and car companies aren't prepared to work together to solve that and there probably isn't an fast and easy solution to it.
This is not a RADAR problem, it’s a world modeling problem.

So you’re sending out pulses and listening for echos, which tells you how far away something is in a particular direction. You correlate subsequent pulses to say whether the object is moving toward you or away. If you have a car 50 m ahead of you every time you ping, everything is good. Now that car suddenly swerves around a car stopped in front of it, and your ping off that object says 60 m. A crash is less likely, your model thinks! The object in front of you is rapidly speeding away! By the time it realizes it isn’t, boom, crash.
Well, I think there are more factors to earlier dying night shift workers than just their sleep cycle. To name a few:

- less sunlight (vitamin D)

- lower payment

- lower education

Those might all affect the life expectancy and if night shift workers die earlier than those with rotating shifts, it is obviously a sign that not the change is the main factor for the lower life expectancy.

From my own experience I can tell you, that I neither forgot what feeling like shit feels nor was I forced to change my sleep cycles by some exterior factors. I agree to some extend with your examples, but I don't think those are the only options to acclimate to different sleep schedules.
interesting. does anyone know how ProtonMail handles such situations and whether they alert their users?
Why All the Monolithic Serverless API Hate?
That's a pretty odd workaround considering that you can reserve cores to the point where not even kernel tasks run on them and then pin a single userspace thread to that core so it can run without ever being preemptively descheduled
After having to remove "recommended" news sources and articles all the time I decided to "tune" it by deinstalling the Google Search App altogether therefore removing News. I use feedly instead now and am quite happy with the added battery runtime.
How do you propose one memorizes a properly random/secure/long password, let alone multiple ones, without trusting 'something' with it, whether a password manager of good repute, a hand-rolled version with potentially bigger security issues, or a piece of paper somewhere?
Owl Car Cam Tested – Disappoints
> We expect Tesla vehicles to have far fewer accidents than the mean US vehicle per mile,

We do? Is there a cite for that? It seems to me that driver of new luxury vehicles are disproportionately aggressive and unsafe, actually. Has this been studied?

If your going to make an argument for bad statistics, you need to practice good science yourself.
Yeah.

Another rule of thumb is that a lot of the time you can make code that uses tuples clearer by rewriting it to use namedtuple-defined struct values. If the language supported it, it'd probably also make sense most of the time to define a type for each tuple field, and have a type-checker look for errors.

Occasionally you see tuples used where they want immutable and hashable lists, but most of the time they're used as shorthand struct/"pod" tours types.
On a 15” screen with cruddy video card options. And apparently it’s on your lap too.
Not parent but I'm guessing the rationale is that a password manager could undermine the concept of 2fa.

Some believe that the "something you know" should be stored inside your head. I personally use a password manager, but can understand the viewpoint.

Password managers lie somewhere between 2 different factors, "have" (the password DB) and "know" (only your master password). For those who use a laptop as their 2nd factor (yubikey plugged into a USB port, a token on the system itself) and get their laptop stolen, a compromise of the password safe could result in both factors being breached.
Can we stop calling it podcasting? Nothing about the iPod or iTunes was special enough to warrant coining that term.
I guess I was just a little prescient back in 2011, when I wrote of URL-shortening services in a blog post, "let's not forget that these entities have a nasty tendency to vanish". Not that being prescient about the Big G end-of-lifing services is particularly visionary or difficult, tbh.

The post[1] was to publicise a small shortener I'd written for myself (Java/JSP solution) -- in many ways deficient and lacking all sorts of features (stats, UI) but it worked well enough for me for a time until I got lazy, got ill, and got rid of the server it was running on. But I was bang on-target about the likelihood of such things disappearing under the waves.

I guess it's time to dust it off[2], bring the codebase up to date and get it working again. I'm a bit doubtful about hosting it on, say... Google Compute free-tier or something... for who knows when /that/ service will get taken down.

[1] http://onemikro2nd.blogspot.co.za/2011/04/shrtn-url-shortene...

[2] https://bitbucket.org/mikro2nd/shrtn
What irks me is that they think it's OK for them to advertise it as auto-pilot, with an asterisk pointing to the fine print that says "aw shucks, not actually, haha".
Eh, the surveillance was weaker, but I'm not sure about the commercialization. RSS is from 99/00, the era of Punch The Monkey flash banner ads and dozens of popups and popunders.

From what I can tell, RSS was the equivalent of today's OpenGraph. It was a tool for a company (Netscape) to slurp content into its portal. It's just that AOL then blundered when they bought Netscape and removed support for RSS, which then became a de-facto standard format.

In fact, as RSS popularity wanes, a feed reader that can reader OG tags is probably a good idea.
I use my own RSS reader since around 8 years now. It has evolved quite a lot. Before I was using aKregator.

I started with a simple CherryPy project and a SQLite database. It is now using Flask, SQLAlchemy and React: https://www.newspipe.org/

I have something like 200000 articles in the database. And the oldest article is from February 1995!
goodnews.click been around a while :)
If this actually works and global warming gets bad enough, we could build a bunch of nuclear plants for this, if nothing else.
Can confirm, have just driven for 2+ hours on the streets of Bucharest and there’s no way for an AI-like car to drive in here for more than 2 blocks without getting involved into an accident. Unless said car becomes sentient, but even in that case it would still have to “guess” some of the crazy stuff the other drivers on the road may be up to or to expect that a barely marked road-construction thingie will suddenly show up just in front of the vehicle while driving at 60 kph. And Bucharest has got nothing on a city like Istanbul.
“Shift left shift-right performance testing for superior end-user” by Arun Dutta
tl;dw: the concept has been toyed with in a number of episodes:

Imagine the death penalty was replaced by a simple "ban" from everybody else's perception. Instead of being put to death, you just appear as an outline filled with static and your voice appears as garbled noise.

Alternatively, imagine "parental controls" for a child's perception that automatically filters out "unsafe" content like sex, violence, hobos, hookers and hate speech.

Or imagine altering a soldier's perception to make enemy combatants appear less human so empathy doesn't get in the way of a clean kill.
Surprisingly, I find nothing to disagree with in your strawman argument ;p
While I believe Tesla and the driver are the ultimate source of the accident, I believe CalTrans messed up worse with that barrier.

When reading something like this in sci-fi, I always thought that the stories where over the top and tongue in cheek, to make some other point. Now I see they were real.

Companies are allowed to create robots that kill people. Then we sit around here and discuss how much of the killing is on the the robot's manufacturer, the robot's owner, the street lights and the victim.
HN has collapsible threads nowadays (it's the [-] symbol on the post header).
I get downvoted reliably for taking issue with Tesla and Musk, but here I largely agree with them. People need to consider such incidents in the context of the overall danger of driving.

That said, Tesla needs to maintain its PR in order to do their next capital raise shortly or they may be out of luck.
New Features in PHP 7 with Example
This was clearly vetted (or written) by a lawyer who is interested in changing the narrative for his future wrongful death defense rather than exercising empathy.
I think it's probably due to the fact that when the phrasing became popular, China was almost exclusively the focus. So itay not be accurate now, but at this point it's a habit.
Using an external GPU with your Mac
EAFP - Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission - is a popular idiom in Pythonic code. Unlike languages like C++ or Java, where you usually check for condition first and then proceed (which can introduce race conditions in multithreaded code if done improperly).
I was in awe while also being completely terrified. It didn't take Black Mirror or a viral ad to convince me that autonomous weapon systems are bad. I grew up watching Terminator and RoboCop. My first thought when seeing BigDog was "this is awesome but also we're all going to die".

When people didn't get it, I just showed them Petman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFrjrgBV8K0
My understanding is that RADAR systems can detect stationary objects just fine: What's going on is that in-car radar systems can't differentiate between, say, a metal sign on a gantry or at the side of the road and a parked car on the road, because their spatial resolution is poor to non-existent. Hence in-car RADAR systems (often) ignore radar returns that are non-moving relative to the road surface. Otherwise the car would panic brake every time you went past a road sign.

The effect of this is that current in car RADAR systems are great at avoiding collisions with vehicles that suddenly brake to a halt in front of you whilst at the same time will happily let you drive a full speed straight into the back of a parked car.

This is why I believe current self driving vehicles (apart from Tesla) are all using LIDAR for object detection.

(The above is my interpretation of my reading on the current state of the art. If anyone knows more detail, please correct me.)
Comparing the accident rate of autopilot Teslas to all cars is absurd and disingenuous, since obviously Tesla drivers are wealthier than average (they bought an expensive car), and thus much less likely to have accidents in the first place (car better maintained, more intelligent, more risk averse, less stressed, less dangerous behavior, etc.)

They are also admitting that their system can be used as a self-driving system (you can not have your hands on the wheel, and the warnings can apparently be ignored), and that it failed to act as such for 5 seconds and 150m hitting a static object.

Again, there should be criminal liability for them, and they should not be allowed to offer any system that is autonomous enough to be used without hands on the wheel but that can't correctly self-drive the car.
Another one - https://github.com/truerss/truerss
What about on the weekends?
Two Poems, Tax and Publishing