skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to rather be a case where it just happens to be crazy-fast on Chrome, whereas it does not happen to be on Firefox.

Might be Chrome pre-loading content that's behind links, which Firefox doesn't do for security, privacy, battery and not-eating-all-your-RAM-ery reasons.

I tried enabling preloading in about:config, which didn't seem to make a difference, but I'm not sure, if I did that right or if that feature is even functional at the moment. It's an experimental about:config flag after all, not a production feature.

Then again, this very much seems to be the exception on Chrome, too, so it's not exactly a reason to stop enjoying the internet without ads.
I haven’t used rails but I did use java’s play framework extensively and found it very easy to use and fast to develop for (coming from a PHP background). It has a migrations system baked into its ORM layer.
Alternate answer : not as fast as Dan Luu website.

https://danluu.com/
Yes, but when you watch documentaries about pilots in cockpits they are routinely enabling the autopilot and begin talking to each other, eating, taking notes, and doing other stuff and are not constanly looking out of the window. If you look at it from this perspective, people are comfortable to look at their phone or eat while Tesla's Autopilot is enabled.

Pilots can do that because there are no other planes in the sky on their route because some outside human is taking care of that.
The whitepaper is legit. It actually delivers on its promise.
>Why does Kindle NEED to know how long I've stayed on each page?

It doesn't, but every page turn event has a time stamp. Using that info it's pretty easy to know how long someone has been on a page.

>Why does a smart TV NEED to store hover events in a persistent DB?

When the company is doing AB testing to decide on the optimal page layout this information is important.
Autopilot marketing is bad and Elon deserves a lot of the blame, but do we still expect to be able to trust these systems enough to not put hands on the wheel and look at the road?

IMO we are still in the very early stages of this work in the industry. Personally I think bugs and flaws in systems like this are normal at this stage. I would expect the same with GM Super Cruise and I wouldn't trust that either to let go of the steering wheel.
You can easily reduce the attack surface by shutting down computer.
Lisp was based on the lambda calculus, not sure if you can get more functional than that. Common Lisp was obviously more multi paradigm, having one of the most powerful object system ever. Scala is obviously also multiparadigm, though many would rather ignore that side of the language.

Most languages are multi paradigm, even clojure is used with an object-like entity component system, while there are papers that push Haskell as the best language for imperative programming. The word is kind of meaningless when applied to languages but more meaningful when applied to code.
"But as well intentioned as that step may be, it addresses only a symptom of the problem of the extensive surveillance of Americans, not the root of the problem."

- Tom Wheeler, chairman of the FCC from 2013 to 2017, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School
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That sucks but could also be true for me. My best performance is when I sleep when I feel to and wake up when I want to. Which works pretty well once you break all the social norms.
The APL family actually has a fairly strong claim to the term given that APL was cited as a major influence in John Backus's lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and its Algebra of Programs".
I’ve driven this road many times and it’s pretty obvious where to go. The lanes split into 2 different roads and you see the elevated way turning right in the distance so turning left would never make sense.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the chevrons which are pretty worn down would be low priority on the maintenance list given how obvious it is and how annoying work there would be.
When all your modules' dependencies are injected as constructor parameters, it's straightforward to mock those dependencies when TDD'ing the module. Constructor parameter injection is really vital to isolate the SUT (system under test) when writing your tests. Any other type of injection is magical, and should be avoided.

At test-runtime, one will pass mock objects to the SUT's constructor using the new keyword. These mock objects are used to rig up specific preconditions that drive the scenario to be tested. Mocks can also be used to assert that the SUT called the dependency as expected with parameters.

At runtime, the IoC container handles instantiation of the module and injects the dependencies as appropriate constructor params.

I assume you asked this because Spring Framework is the poster child of dependency injection and IoC in the Java world. With all the Aspect-Oriented Programming and proxification and scope twizzling that occasionally blooms in the Spring ecosystem that is all wired-up using Spring DI, I think Spring sometimes gets a bad rep. Only abusers of those features get bad reps with me. Spring as a whole is a trove of nicely built systems with lots of classy 3rd party integrations. I personally prefer using Google Guice for DI because it is a standalone system, it eschews doing classpath scanning to identify injectable classes which I think makes it faster especially at startup, and it has decent integrations with 3rd party libraries.
IIRC some of their cloud storage is Google Cloud as well.

They're probably pushing into more vertical control there. Good guess.
could be a well-meaning tech culture screw up; Most tech people know that airplane autopilots weren't end-to-end automated for the majority of their existence
>I read about five books a year, so even though it feels like I’ll read an endless number of books in the future, I actually have to choose only 300 of all the books out there to read and accept that I’ll sign off for eternity without knowing what goes on in all the rest.

makes you want to take some time off and read, doesn't it?
"Today, it is standard procedure for many companies to vacuum up as much data as they can by getting users to agree to long, impenetrable terms of service. Companies might not even know how they will use the information being collected but collect it anyway, in case they later develop a specific use for it."
If anything it's more damning since this repro shows that the behavior is not just some quirk related to the road surface or line painting at the original location.

But I still think it's fair to call it a reproduction since he showed that the car did try to steer him into the barrier. Which is a problem that the owner who died in the crash had reported to Tesla.
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It's not universally the case that a white line may not be crossed. In Arizona, for example, carpool/HOV lanes have a solid white line that may be crossed at any time.
multiplier?

anyway, a company like google or apple could hardly care less about a number like 250,000 but a small European startup is hopelessly screwed.
“The autopilot could be better”

The car would’ve been destroyed and the driver injured. In this case, autopilot should’ve not just been better it should’ve actually worked. It didn’t even stop the car.
APL supports reassignment and has state based control flow.
Yes, I was placing that statement in context.
As a serial offender, I think you're right to say this but there is the other side of the coin. Fusion is littered with giant claims, and huge funding holes. Skunk works are very cool but it's as far from contestable science as it's possible to be: the skunkworks doesn't want to be put underneath a critical microscope because its looking for exploitable trade secrets and patent material.

Groundbreaking is usually overused. How many genuinely groundbreaking things emerge from press releases as opposed to deep investment by state backed actors? Seriously, Edison (for instance) was a wizard at commercial applications but frankly useless as a scientist.

I call Leo Szilard groundbreaking. He really did have a flash of insight.

Crispr didn't just happen. It took a shedload of prior work. FMRI is groundbreaking except they're all walking back from the pop sci stories into more fundamental tests.

So is this stuff really worth substantial conversation? Who is going to invest in chatter here? MIT and Lockheed won't, for obvious reasons. And I doubt jet or iter scientists will, for other obvious reasons. Who is left who would meet your criteria?
I think that the S and X have three forward-looking cameras center-mounted.

And I think that given Tesla's known propensity of logging _everything_, they would ave video footage of those camera's saved somewhere. I wonder if this is submitted as evidence, so we can understand what the car "saw" and "understood", both from optical as well as non-optical sensors...
1.) http://fortune.com/2017/12/29/trump-amazon-post-office/
2.) http://fortune.com/2015/03/27/us-postal-service/
3.) http://www.govexec.com/management/2017/09/usps-defaults-bill...

- "He estimated at the time that Amazon pays the USPS $2 per package, which is about half what it would pay United Parcel Service (UPS, +1.95%) and Fedex" [1]

- "The Postal Service reported a net loss of $2.1 billion in the third quarter of 2017, and has $15 billion in outstanding debt. The service has lost $62 billion over the last decade." [1]

- "USPS’s chief financial officer, Joseph Corbett, wrote in a post for PostalReporter.com in August that the service is required by law to charge retailers at least enough to cover its delivery costs. ... He said Congress should pass provisions of legislation introduced last year by former Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, that would allow the postal service to raise some rates and discontinue direct delivery to business customers’ doors." [1]

- "The Postal Service, writes Shapiro, “can borrow from the U.S. Treasury through the Federal Financing Bank, at highly-subsidized interest rates.” It currently borrows the legal limit of $15.2 billion at a rate of 1.2%. Without this access, it would be paying somewhere between $415 million and $490 million per year more in interest." [2]

- "The worst of it came in 2012, when the USPS lost a whopping $15.9 billion dollars, followed by $4.8 billion and $5.3 billion in 2013 and 2014, respectively." [2]

- "From 2012 through 2016, the agency failed to deliver nearly $34 billion toward its pool for retirees’ health care." [3]

- "“Given that the Postal Service is now unable to pay money it owes to the federal retirement system and to the retiree health care system,” Cummings said, “it is more urgent than ever that Congress take action to ensure that the Postal Service continues to be able to serve the American people.”" [3]
Especially if it’s happening in multiple geos.
Bali, Indonesia . Hit me up whenever you are planning to go or already in Bali, maybe we can get a beer/coffee or two.
APL definitely influenced functional programming, but why would they even want to claim that word when they were already happy with array programming? What would Iverson say if he were still alive?
Where did you hear this?

The Caltrain calls incidents where it hits a pedestrian "tresspasser strikes". Always thought this was awful.
> However, you have to be prepared for a serious learning curve when needing customizing

Can be said about everything in this world, right?
Hopefully not in Kuta?
>I think bugs and flaws in systems like this are normal at this stage

I don't think you should be able to license a vehicle to drive on public roads with such "bugs and flaws".

I don't have a choice, I have to interact with public roads. My local, state, and national government owes it to me to keep experimentation off of public roads that modern life is impossible without.

The problem with robot cars is they fail in very alien ways. They will be made illegal after a small number of horrific incidents where a car will kill people in ways a licensed human never would.

I think the usage of the phrase "intelligence" in "Artificial Intelligence" needs to stop. It was cute in the 90s but today people are starting to actually believe it when it's really a vulnerable shallow approximation that is vulnerable to profoundly unintelligent failures and it will continue to be until there starts to be a debate on if a synthetic system is actually sentient.
> ask people there about the Escomm rolling power cuts

Glad you asked. The power utility is called Eskom. I like in Tshwane and we don't experience 'rolling power cuts'. Not sure why you think making a comparison between a private game farm(er) and national govt service provision connects with giraffe conservation efforts
The bad state of the road plays a huge role. There should be a "report unsafe road conditions" function in these cars to get US roads up to Belgian standards. Doesn't Ttump want to spend money on infrastructure anyway?
Rental car companies have been waging a quiet legislative war against start-ups
I don't mind marketing puffery in the sense of "world's most innovative [X] ever," but I agree with your view that "Full Self-Driving Hardware" is dangerous, and branding the integrated system as AutoPilot™ only amplifies this.

And I mean this without any gratuitous negativity about Tesla or Elon... but branding lane-following/collision warning/adaptive-cruise control as "AutoPilot" is far more dangerous and has far more serious real-world consequences than Apple calling their backup application "Time Machine."
Part of me wonders whether or not we're going to see mutual improvement of infrastructure with self driving cars in the future. This seems like something that you could obviously fix by adding in some kind of passive or active flag that, to a self driving car, says "woah, you're /really/ not supposed to be here."

I know we're supposed to be focusing on building systems that are as capable as humans are as drivers. However, if we approached the problem from changing the roads with some kind of guide beacons, it would probably be really trivial to detect them and improve trustworthiness a lot more.

We already have lane markers and chevrons and all sorts of things for humans to interpret and react to. What if self driving systems got guides that were optimized to them? Instead of having really luminescent paint, they would be radio noisey or have some other electronic fingerprint that's just as "loud" as visual and audible markers are for humans.

At some point, if we want self driving cars to be the real future, we should start working the problem from both ends. When properly implemented, self driving technology is safer than normal humans -- and if we can accelerate that by adding stupid easy electronic markers to some roads, then why not?
Granted, but this wasn't some grand discovery by Waymo.

The human side of automation [0] is an issue that has been known and written about since at least 1983 by Lisanne Bainbridge and Don Norman in 1990.

[0] https://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/the_human_side_of_au.html
I lived in Denpasar actually, so it's pretty close to go anywhere in Bali.
The system that Tesla has is in a different class

Indeed! The Tesla system appears to have a much higher probability of killing you! I don't see headlines about "$carbrand cruise control out of control, kills driver"
"Other areas of cortex can support 'declarative' memory formation. For example you can learn things like the definition of a new word (lang), features of a novel object (vis), where you parked your car outside your new apartment (spatial/episodic), within just a few seconds."

Can you provide other examples of this phenomenon? It seems like the ones you put forth here are all examples of relying on previous experience, which seems more on the "habitual" end of the spectrum, which is the articles claim in the general case.

I can learn new word's definitions because I've spent a significant amount of time learning definitions to all sorts of words throughout my life. Thus, the process is very familiar to me, and is a habit.

I have learned over the course of my life that novelties are by definition outliers. Just like all animals with a survival instinct, I've learned that strange things can be dangerous, so it is an effective heuristic to expect danger from strange things. Another heuristic I favor is that the best way to defang danger is to understand it enough to avoid its mechanisms.

I have learned over the course of my driving experience that keeping track of where I parked my car is crucial to locating the car again in the future. Thus, through experience, I know that it is an important piece of information to remember.

These three examples seem to fit perfectly well within the hypothesis of the article. They aren't new tricks. They are by definition the application of old tricks.
In Britain, the solid white line would have red reflectors, and it's very unlikely to be so worn out.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ysBB-LI6YEc
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While one could argue that Tesla drivers are, indeed, less picky than people who paid $60K+ for a real luxury car (if they were equally picky, one look at Tesla's build quality and they'd be off to a BMW dealership or something)...

But really, if we are talking about people driving 100K cars, we have to compare them with people driving other expensive cars, not a driver of a second-hand Leaf.
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You don’t understand how these systems work. The optical/radar combo can’t see stationary objects well when the car is going more than 30 MPH, it’s a sea of false positives. This is true of every self driving system on production cars today, 3D Lidar might address it but that’s up to $50K a car.
- Bitcoin, Tor for drugs/illicit purposes

- Tumblr as a social media space instead of a Blogger-type platform (the original intended use case)
I highly recommend audio books.

I tallied it up and last year I read 58 books averaging 1.8 hours of reading a day.

It's great!
I was thinking about FP, FL, and J when I said "APL family" but I guess they've adopted the term "function-level".
I can totally see how a human driver can crash in this situation if he or she is solely focused on the lane markings. This puts the lie to Tesla and Mobileye's claims that camera-based computer vision is enough for autonomy just because humans use two low-res cameras to drive.
> low priority on the maintenance list

The impression abroad, from reading about collapsing bridges, is that pretty much all maintainance is low priority.

On my last visit, my friend told me to avoid particular freeways near his home because chunks were falling off the bridge.
I'm an average engineer (sometimes 2-3x at best) and was scammed into thinking Autopilot was safer and that Full Self-Driving was just weeks away based on that page - which back in Dec'16 actually said thoses features would begin rolling out end of Dec'16. Hopefully https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/21195146/Dean_Sheik... will come to fruition soon...
I don't believe that without enough money and effort, test tracks can be indistinguishable from real world conditions.

At the very least a test track should be able to teach the AI how to react to a cyclist crossing the road unexpectedly.
or, you know, instead of looking at the HUD, you can look at the road? that interface changes naturally
I've been doing his React course and it's been very helpful so far. I have no reason to believe his other course aren't just as good:

http://wesbos.com/courses/

NOTE: Some of his courses are paid. The plain JS course is free though. However, I paid for the React course and feel it was very worth it.
> This puts the lie to Tesla and Mobileye's claims that camera-based computer vision is enough for autonomy.

How are these things related? Are you suggesting that cameras are not sufficient for self driving?
Just when you think it might be time to forgive Sony for the rootkit they do something that shows that as a corporation hey have not learned anything.
I disagree. You can't blame Tesla for consumers lack of reading comprehension and /or ignorance. Same bs as with Facebook doing the news now. Everyone who looked could easily see what was going on but suddenly everyone is outraged.
Tesla refuses to allow third party repair or parts

Interesting. I think this is, or will soon be, illegal in the EU - we have legislation around driving more openness from manufacturers to 3rd party repairs. I have to admit to not knowing the details, but I do recall reading about this.

EDIT - here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Exemption_Regulation

http://ec.europa.eu/competition/sectors/motor_vehicles/legis... (PDF, Sorry)

Looks like Tesla's behaviour in this sense is on the wrong side of EU law.
Its all a matter of familiarity. Once you've learned FP and practiced a bit, both listings are equally easy to grok.
I guess there are no cyclists crossing the road unexpectedly in Ubers fake city.

Do they have crash test dummy kids running out on the road? To they have road work with giant potholes?
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vs open sourced.
>Most tech people know

most tech people also know how "better than human" sounds to the public and the average driver. This isn't well meaning tech culture, it's a PR statement that is misleading and formulated the way it is precisely because it is a sales pitch.

It's irresponsible and unethical. It should be called a 'driver assistant' and have a warning label in font size 100 that tells drivers to not treat it as autonomous and infallible.
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Yes and no -- I often found the difference between a well architected and modularized (when possible) system and one that isn't is that the learning curve is more linear.

Frameworks that are large often have lots to learn in them, necessarily, but how that learning has to be done can differ. Good frameworks will be simple enough that you can almost ignore the ocean of complexity until you need to dive in, and when you dive in all of the pieces that you now must need to learn and know are almost obviously necessary.

For example, compare/contrast a system like express (nodejs) with a system spring in java. The func(req, res, next) paradigm gets you VERY far, but doesn't expose you to too much before you need to. Implementing middleware is much more delightful in nodejs (and other frameworks that adopted the func(req, resp, next) abstraction) than it is in Sprint.
So it just fails to detect the fairly large obstacle in the road? This doesn't seem very different than the adaptive cruise control in Hondas but people somehow use it as if it's true auto pilot?
it's a pain to read it on desktop without reader mode. the width is just too wide.
The photo is a good example of how the lines should be painted. The video shows a well painted line on the left of the “v” but the chevrons and right side line are exceptionally faded. If I was to guess the extreme contrast probably contributed.
I didn't see the car cross a solid white line in the video that this thread is about.

The image I linked is showing what it should look like. I agree the image I linked is perfectly clear.
The companies are stating that they won't be using LIDAR or Radar, and that cameras are enough.

Cameras tend to rely on markers of some sort - and in cases like the markers on the road were very misleading. Even a short-sighted beginner human driver who was told to carefully follow the lanes would have made the same mistake. And cars running purely on cameras are comparably to short sighted baby human drivers.
I find it hard to believe that people who can afford a Tesla are that concerned about the price of gas.