skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still enjoy reading some of his stuff, but over the years I've realized that most of his writing lacks any rigor or evidence for what he says. He'd be a much better writer if it weren't for the way people read his good and usually thoughtful writing and take it for truth. This happens as you say due to him being successful, which I find kind of pernicious. I've found some of his stuff in hindsight simply wrong, but he'll never go back and correct it, nor will people listen to criticism.

My only wish was he was more cognizant of this and wrote accordingly, but his writing has gotten less rigorous and more flowery over the years, not less. It's a real problem across tech. I've read some comments on HN describing tech as devoid of culture, which has some truth to it, but the bigger issue is we don't really care about evidence, and that comes from the top.
Note that human-driven cars have frequent accidents in the Mountain View location, so I wouldn't assume that you understand why humans do or don't have problems here.
And now, so does 1.1.1.1. I suspect it was something sonic.net was doing, and they had to fix it when this announcement was made.
This is not correct. Tesla does not do body work.
Interestingly, SMTP used to be an example where you could do it both ways, in relation to having a secure connection.

Originally, SMTP on port 25 did not support TLS. Later on, SMTPS came along, which uses/used port 465, and which immediately started TLS on connection open, with the standard SMTP traffic happening once TLS setup was complete. So, by choosing a different port (465 vs. 25), you (the client) were able to say "I want to do SMTP over TLS, and you [the server, operating port 465] want to do the same, so let's just do it immediately!". Nowadays, you have ESMTP on port 25, where the server advertises support for STARTTLS, the client requests startup of TLS on the session, and once the TLS connection is up, then you have your proper SMTP conversation.

See also, RFC 8314.
Earth, Sol.
I'd suggest Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh
Humane Cities
Only marginally related, but I spent one of my summers at PROMYS[1] doing research into which complex numbers could be successfully used as bases. As different as the various common integer bases "feel" in terms of hand-computation, there's nothing like cranking out conversions of fractions to base 1+i to make you realize that there's a whole wacky universe of number representations out there. I thought it was a really cool field of study, and I remember wishing there were more readily apparent applications. Anyone?

[1] https://www.promys.org/
Tesla is the epitome of Silicon Valley thinking applied to manufacturing. Tremendous achievements that no one thought possible, but tremendous ugliness under the hood.
Its not possible at all organizations, but an individual contributor can solve these sorts of problems provided they've spent the time building rapport with the offending department. If you have a history of making other people look good they will want to work with you on issues.
Note: This isn't at the same location as last week's accident. Last week's accident was in Mountain View, CA; while this one looks like it's in Lake Station, Indiana.

Edit: it's in Chicago not Indiana, see replies
That's not part of the definition of middle class for most stats you'll see - http://money.cnn.com/infographic/economy/what-is-middle-clas...
Try Brave browser. It's a modified version of Chromium with seemless ad blocking by the co-founder of Mozilla.
I'm not sure there is any way to know how the Chinese economy is doing. They could be in a serious recession for all we know. The only numbers available are basically state propaganda and can't be trusted.
The very first Apple ][s literally shipped with Pong "paddle" controllers and a Pong game on audio cassette.

https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/g~UAAOSw43haDLbl/s-l22...
Empathy-driven unsubscribe experience
It seems silly to avoid filing an insurance claim when the other driver is insured and at fault. Even a minor bumper repair on a cheap vehicle is >$800 now. I've been rear ended 3 times in California and the amount of insurance bullshittery was pretty low.
Clearly the vast majority of Teslas on the road are P100Ds in ludicrous mode 100% of the time.

If memory serves the average model S is more like 5 seconds 0-60, which is quick but there's a _world_ of difference separating 2.5s from 5s 0-60.
The obvious question is: how is it running on Android? Purely as an Android middleware, thus allowing more clever hacks through?
I guess that they should add some unit tests to their vision stack.
"also interesting that no warning alarm sounded at any stage."

At 19 seconds, you can see that the dashboard says to put hands on the wheel. Does that not trigger an audible alarm by default in a Tesla?
Tesla's PR department is obviously full of shit.

Edit:
Which PR department isn't? Didn't Edward Bernays invent PR as a form of commercial propaganda for use in times of peace?
When you see that Roku announcement, you can unplug the Roku from the TV and replace it with something different.
The day that Musk decided to call his driver-assist system "Autopilot" he lost my respect as an engineer and my business as a consumer.

It's a great brand for a L4 - L5 system, not for Tesla's realistic capabilities as a L2 (1) - it sets a dangerous precedent in the consumer's mind.

Their tepid response to this incident outlining that the driver was not fully engaged so Tesla is not at fault, is EXACTLY how the system is used by the average consumer due to the way it's branded and marketed.

(1) https://www.caranddriver.com/features/path-to-autonomy-self-...
Startup aims to eliminate violent car door slamming within 5 years
This video is much more important than anything that was mentioned in the posted article. There are just as many questions about the numerous variables involved in the IIHS study as there are in Tesla's fudged statistics that they always cite. However there is little argument with that video.

At some point there really needs to be a legal discussion about whether Tesla's argument that the driver must always be alert and responsible for the car is a realistic standard in which to hold people when semi-autonomous systems are engaged.
Toyota Flower
>semiconductor

Is there a reason everyone in this thread is saying "semiconductor" instead of 'superconductor'?
Indeed. This one also has chevron markings, which people were pointing to the lack of as a partial cause of the other accident.

This occurring in multiple locations isn't a comfort, it means the issue is more widespread than a single location.
In sum: static sites will keep the scary hackers away. Here's how you build a self-hosted static site with Contentful, starting at just $250/month for the privilege of using our editor. What a great deal!
I thought this was one of the big contentious issues with TLS1.3, that got resolved in a recent spec approval?
Buzzfeed is a legit source for news? Give me a fucking break.
San Francisco. What, were you hoping for an interesting answer?
I'm honestly not sure what you're saying, but it sounds compelling!
OMG this is exactly how it happened in the CA crash...
I would say it’s pretty accurate if you are familiar with how plane autopilots actually work.
I've been to a talk by the Progressive guy with all of their data, and he says the only strong predictor of accidents is sharp braking. Not acceleration. Do you have any data points to offer?
The major advantage IoC provides is decoupling of components. Components do not instantiate their dependencies and therefore are not coupled to specific dependency implementations. Any dependency that satisfies the interface the component expects can be injected.

This is especially useful when implementing tests because it is easy to inject mock implementations of dependencies.
Why does Amazon use USPS so heavily? It's because they charge them much lower rates than their competitors. USPS should (and not discussing regulations could) charge Amazon more.

I think it's pretty tasteless that Amazon takes advantage of regulations and the dismal financials of USPS to get cheap delivery. In the long term who wins and loses here? Amazon wins and makes some more billions and the postal workers lose as all their pensions get gutted.
>I think the reason the 100+ day trials are successful for the companies is that it's a huge pain to box up and ship back a mattress.

I don't think they ask you to ship it back; I think they contract with some local charity to come pick up the mattress, or just toss it and write off the loss.
Can't ISPs just monitor the DNS protocol and still gather a list of all sites you visit?
I think the idea is:

* Website gives person a unique code to broadcast on the blockchain to prove they have control over that identity

* 'Approved' services claim things publically about identities (eg age, allowed to drive) which others can use to verify claims

What I don't get is:

* how you know which 'approved' services to trust in the first place

* why you'd want all of that information public

* how it'd fix the original issue
Maybe I'm wrong, but I always assumed that the quality and convenience were secondary to the big factor for me: a cheap, disposable mattress that is NOT a 10 year investment is nicer for people who rent/move. If I have to donate/throw away my mattress in 2 years because I am moving across the country, into a new room that doesn't have the space, or just because I've decided I don't like it, I now can.

The inflection is taking something that used to be branded as a long term investment, and making it into something that doesn't have to be. Consumers seem to be reacting well to this change since there are many benefits. Everything else seems to be standard piling into a new market when there is obvious demand.
Yeah, right.

Historically, drivers were often not available at all, at least not ones that actually exposed the real power of the hardware - and performance is usually lower.

See this set of recent benchmarks for instance, which show Linux performance lagging behind W10 by 15-25%.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon-w...
For those of us who have been builders for years this is a strikingly odd request.

Before the mass production of flying things, it was considered quite normal that - assuming you could retrieve the parts, everything you built was renewable.

I’ve been building flying things for 30 years and counting - since I was a young kid. Mostly planes, but also a couple of quad copters and other wacky things.

I’ve become used to the following mantra in this hobby: “Build, fly, crash, build, fly, crash..”

This is why it’s been fairly disappointing to see the AOL’ification of drone flying in the last few years. You kids with your fancy plastic junk are missing one of the most important aspects of the flight hobbyist world: build.

So it’s kind of a weird position to be answering this question, because I feel it’s born of a kind of consumer ignorance for how things work.

It’s really not hard to build your own drone - and once you crash it, it’s really not hard to build your own drone.. with a bit of flying in there too of course, or at least one would hope.

If you want to learn this key aspect of the flying hobby, a great place to start is that stalwart of flying things on the internet: http://rcgroups.com/

Build your own drone! Crash the thing! Build it again! That is the true value of the hobby - the development of recovery and rejuvenation skills. With a bit of flying in there as well...
> The pedanty here is insane.

You mean pedantry :). -- Admiral Pedant.
Most people don't follow the manufacturer's recommendation, they follow the "Jiffy Lube" recommendation which is every 3000 miles. 3000 miles is a ridiculous interval.
I’m pretty sure the answer is simple: TVs are hard to make, mattresses are very simple. Foam latex, it’s pretty much the simplest product you can fit in a box, and damage is probably not a concern as the product itself is what we use to protect most other products!
This is a much better article with more info than the OP: http://fortune.com/2017/12/29/trump-amazon-post-office/
Stock car racers would pare weight down by dipping the sheet metal parts in acid to thin them out. The weight came off, and the car was still "stock".
> On average, Teslas travel three more miles per day than other large luxury cars, HLDI found

Would like to know what is 3 miles in percentage terms. Could account for higher collision claim frequencies.
There's a bunch of examples and links to interesting work in Kate Compton's GDC talk "Practical Procedural Generation for Everyone" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU
China says it will impose tariffs on 128 U.S. exports, including pork and fruit
To the modern understanding of tyranny, it certainly is strange, but Plato had a very particular view of politics (he was what you might call elitist).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_five_regimes#Tyranny

Given 2,000 years of history, he'd likely have different views (I'd hope so anyway), but that's what the poster appears to be driving at. That doesn't seem to be the root cause of tyranny in Russia or China, but democracy can devolve into it.
That's a great read
I feel like Fortnite's success is the first major success in Epic's master plan -- with that 5% rake on the Unreal Engine license they've got a back door into the sales data for all their licensees. (And because of the openness of their program, they have a lot more to peek into and, assumably, fewer contractual obligations to them).

Can't help but wonder if they looked at PUBG's figures and saw their market research done for them? I was looking forward to Fortnite as the Garry's-Mod-meets-Left-for-Dead and its sudden emphasis on Battle Royale was a little disappointing.
Providence, RI
Cool ideas. I think we have to place extremely high prior probability mass on the hypothesis that humans enact policies that optimize a utility function determined by evolution, for the simple reason that an organism that does this will do a lot better than one that doesn't.

This thinking is reducing "human behavior to human behavior" in the sense that you'd still be using the language of intents. But if we determine intent through empirical analysis of behavior and inference of the utility function, then the content of that intent may be very very different from what we express verbally.

This doesn't mean humans are irrational, just that there's a mismatch between our true goals and our verbally stated goals.

Now inference of the utility function doesn't have to depend on an assumption of perfect optimization (it could be a softmax policy or something like that). Nor would it have to be trivial: to prevent trivial solutions I think you'd have to make strong assumptions about the space of plausible utility functions, such as simplicity assumptions, or maybe evolutionary assumptions.

Sounds like a cool PhD project.
It's a very bleak way to look at it, but sometimes it's a splash of cold water to help you get your priorities straight.
Teaching Monads Slightly Differently
Nashville, TN
Tampa, FL suburbs.
I forgot that I have the http://maketrumptweetseightagain.com/ extension installed, which apparently works on embedded tweets as well. Just open up the page and there's the tweet in crayon in the middle of the article...

https://i.imgur.com/poq2tYw.png
I think this might be one of the big 'brand advantages' of the mattress in a box companies; because most people feel uneasy about the return process, and because of that, if they like the mattress, they are more likely to buy more of the same than to roll the dice again.
What % of Tesla owners have a pilot's license?
Are skydivers really pedestrians though?
Yeah, just stop your X server and run this opaque binary, answer these questions about kernel modules, restart X, and hope your display config isn't completely messed up... super easy!

//slightly salty
lmao, my girlfriend uses the one that replaces pictures of trump with cats.
Unfortunately, most people attribute the word 'autopilot' with the way Otto performed in the movie Airplane!...
The IIHS considers the Tesla Model S a "Large Luxury Car" in its classification system. Other "Large Luxury Cars" as classified by IIHS include...

* Acura RLX

* Audi A6

* Audi A7 (not rated)

* Audi A8 (not rated) (aluminum body)

* Bentley Continental GT (not rated) (aluminum body)

* BMW 5 Series

* BMW 6 series (not rated)

* BMW 7 series (not rated)

* Cadillac CTS

* Cadillac XTS

* Genesis G80

* Genesis G90

* Infiniti Q70

* Jaguar XJ (not rated) (aluminum body)

* Lexus GS

* Lexus LS (aluminum body)

* Lincoln Continental

* Maserati Ghibli

* Maserati Quattroporte (not rated) (aluminum body)

* Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class (not rated)

* Mercedes-Benz E-Class (partial aluminum body)

* Mercedes-Benz S-Class (not rated) (partial aluminum body)

* Porsche Panamera (not rated) (aluminum body)

* Volvo S80

* Volvo S90

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The main issue is the IIHS doesn't test many vehicles that can exceed a $100,000 MSRP, as they're a small portion of the overall market.
Yes. That's why I am posting in this thread.
> This account automatically submits a 'Who is Hiring?' post at 11 AM Eastern time on the first weekday of every month.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring
I want to know if the car braked automatically, or the driver had to brake to avoid colliding with the barrier.

Also, the warning to put hands on the wheel was a joke. It's incredibly subtle and would only be noticed by someone looking for it, which is probably not the people that most need to respond to the warning.
Yea--the cheap foam toppers saved me so much money/aggravation.

My dad once bought a $5000 mattress. He literally died in it complaining about the purchase.

He spent his adult life priding himself on not being a fool with his money. He did a good job doing the opposite of what companies wanted, but he slipped up on the mattress.

(I probally shouldn't have mentioned my dad's death. We had a twisted relationship. He was a good guy deep down, but the alcohol affected his personality, and not in a good way.)

If I was forced to open a retail brick and mortar store; it would be a toss up between mattresses, couches, or a thrift store.
No, it's the 90/94 split on the Dan Ryan in Chicago: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7763111,-87.6292446,3a,51.6y...
Or a boat autopilot.
When I was doing Java development full time, it felt, like at the time, Spring Boot was a direct response to Dropwizard, which I was using everywhere I could. In either case I am almost certain Dropwizard's rise in popularity placed a fire underneath Spring and eventually Spring Boot caught up and the ecosystem as a whole was better off, IMO.
We told you that Esperanto is a better choice, but since you insisted for English to be world’s language, please let us write how we like. I’m not going to isolate me from the world of non-native writers in favour of English sirs’ better understanding of digits. Sorry for my tone if I got wrong feeling that your comment is arrogant.
This explanation always messes with me... Why are you trying to build up objects and pass them into places? (er, sorry, I don't mean you of course, I just mean in general) When / why is that ever a thing that someone needs to do so often that it becomes a concern? How come I rarely if ever see this in the e.g. python or C++ world? I get the idea of decoupling component implementations from their host objects but I just can't see most use cases needing that level of generality. Especially when it comes at the price of smearing a big and complicated IoC framework all over your code.

Past a threshold of codebase size and complexity, I see the value of course, but IoC frameworks get pitched too often as a thing that everyone should be using IMHO. Even for testing we already have mocking tools that handle replacing component objects with mocked versions just fine, and we don't need IoC tools for that.
To be fair this is mostly a problem with the general public's understanding of the term autopilot and not with the actual systems that have used that name before. Aeronautical autopilots would probably only be classified as level 1 or maybe level 2 when that term was first coined and used to describe them. Even now I am not sure if we would classify the average autopilots you find on a commercial airliner as being fully at level 4.
Yes, that is a much better article for the current title of the post. It still doesn't actually argue anything about Amazon's size but it does at least go deeper into the financials of the situation.
Looks to be a similar device to the Myo Armband: https://www.myo.com/
southeast Alaska
Definitely does not feel less safe. Plugs don't "disconnect" you, they just take all the sound down a few notches. The exhaust noise, wind noise, and other traffic noises are all still there, just not so loud and insistent.

I'm completely convinced that they make me safer on long rides, because you arrive significantly less tired - works great on planes too, I won't fly without earplugs any more.
I prefer battery-tested tech than something so shiny with such high risks. I hypothesize riding a horse is safer than driving a Telsa.
Just weigh the benefits and costs of supporting Linux and it's obvious why they made that decision. How many million people are not playing Fortnite because they don't support Linux? I bet it rounds to zero.
Trying to Boycott FANG
Australia :(

64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=17.580 ms
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I see CDI as all the good experiences learned in Spring, rolled up and distilled. Spring was my first though, and it's extensibility had withstood the test of time.
Yeah see, you're the kind of person I'm talking about. Why do you suppose the Dutch and Danish never wear bike helmets? Do you think it's because Dutch streets are that much safer than the little park across the street from me?

I might need you to actually read my comments and do a modicum of research before I take you seriously. This is about evaluation of risk and reward. There is no black and white here.

Regarding specifics like helmets and comparative rates of head injuries, I'm sure you're capable of googling for the data. It's interesting stuff. Assuming you're actually interested.
I also love amazon sending me bootleg merchandise or allowing price gouging after natural disasters. Truly a panacea for consumers.
> As an American that moved to Europe before I was old enough to ever buy an expensive mattress, what Americans spend on mattresses is always incredibly baffling.

I think it might just be a class thing? If you want a $100 mattress in America, you can get one for super cheap:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Linenspa-6-inch-Innerspring-Mattr...

I'm just saying that I think that most Americans don't blow a grand every time they want a new mattress.
The article wasn't that pitch-heavy, and most of it was applicable to general static sites. They have $0 and $39/month plans as well.
Heh I have the "as seen on TV" bamboo pillow as well that I bought on some insane sale somewhere. i think it was $12 ish for the pillow.

I like it quite a bit. When I was getting shipped around on a plane every week for work, the hotel super soft pillows really didn't stack up. You get used to having something that fully molds to your head.
I think that widespread use of this would bring to an opposite "tweetkeep" or enhancements to Wayback Machine
HAHAH Beats by Bose
This doesn't sound true. I had an accident and paid out of pocket at a licensed body shop. Tesla performs ZERO body work for you.
What's the point of having a chain at all? It's not a unqiue or prigiledged BFT solution. It has some nice but not essential properties.

If you end up scaling off-chain, then one asks why you have the PoW chain and it's phenomenal cost at all.