skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. His Tesla was clearly following the clearest left-side white line. Which unfortunately pointed the car right at the gore point.

But what amazes me is that Tesla autopilot apparently won't swerve or stop when it sees an unmoving object straight ahead. Whether it's a semi, a fire truck, or a gore point. But I gather that trying to detect that stuff generates too many false positives. And that overall, it would arguably cause more accidents net.

Edit: I have faced that ambiguity myself. When driving, perhaps foolishly, in fog so dense that I could only see the lines on the road.
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I have been using exclusivly Apple computers for about 25 years. I have been an iOS developer for about 8 of those. The Mac Pro debacle is a whole different rant, but there were three factors related to their new laptops (many other complaints related to developer support, tooling, and so on. again, different rant) that made me decide to stop purchasing my computers from Apple and transition away from iOS development.

First, they introduced the touchbar, which is a feature that is clearly not designed for me (programmer, vim, etc.). In fact it isn't just useless for me; it interferes with the way I work.

Second, using the touchbar as justification, they raised the price to nearly $3000 if you want a 15" screen and a 500G hard drive. Upgrading every 3 or 4 years becomes incredibly expensive.

And third, they deliberately crippled the non-touchbar version of the macbook and will not let you spec it high enough to be competitive with the touchbar versions. You can't even get it with a dedicated graphics card. If the touchbar is so compelling then it should be a feature people choose. Intentionally crippling the machine to force people into an upsell is just maddening. Especially when I'm a developer that contributes to their ecosystem and what they're trying to upsell is completely irrelevant to me.

Not only am I no longer in their target market; they won't even accommodate my needs.
I think people care a lot more today than they used too. The problem is people use facebook because they have to.
The higher end models have heated blowers. But TP is kind of superior to that imo.
please help me understand how a substance that turns sand into soil, developed to green the deserts, can be used as a weapon.

To me this argument that "anything can be used in evil ways" is a poor excuse used to distract from the issue.
With input bandwidth I agree with you. But output bandwidth is another matter. Currently we use keyboard, mouse, stylus, and touch panels.

We're already seeing some changes here with the new VR sculpting movement, but for output a direct brain interface would drastically increase our output bandwidth.
1.3 million people a year die in car crashes. Humans are woefully unqualified to pilot heavy machinery on a daily basis. Tesla’s Autopilot reduces crashes by 40% according to the NHTSA, so I can’t agree with your binary argument.

Whether you trust others is immaterial; statistics will be the final arbitor. If Autopilot still causes fatal accidents, but fewer fatal accidents than humans alone, how could you argue against such a safety system? What of the lives saved that wouldn’t have been if we demand an entirely fault proof system prior to implementation? Who are you (not you specially, but the aggregate) to take those lives away because of irrationality?
We found a back stairway and slipped out quickly, before they locked the doors.
It's not irrational at all. I drive our family 2018 Honda Odyssey, and it's already "saving me from my own mistakes" by beeping angrily when I signal for a lane change and there's someone in my blind spot. Works really well. It also has a notification light on each side of the car to indicate blind spot object presence, so I have to miss that first.

The question seems to be which is better:

1) A car very intelligently helping a human drive better.

2) Or a car mostly driving well itself but needing humans to very rarely override fatal crashes.

I prefer 1)

I'm not sure there are any studies comparing these things, since "human driving but lots of extra tech help" is harder to quantify and doesn't have all the data going back to the mothership like Tesla.
The term of art is "frequency response" for "stabilization." This is the system's ability to respond to shocks. Though, the need for frequency response is driven primarily by very large "traditional" power plants. For example, in WECC, the single largest contingency is the loss of a 4GW large nuclear complex. So, should the cost of maintaining this frequency response be borne by the system, or by that specific contingency? Smaller power plants, and smaller transmission lines have smaller contingencies.

Following demand is a different function called frequency regulation. Regulating frequency down (curtailing output) is easy for solid-state inverters (including solar), though regulating up (increasing output) is, as you note, more difficult for generation (but very easy for load).
contrary to what the `gaspoweredcat` says, and agreeing with others in this post.

I don't have experience with depression personally, but know of other employers who have employees who struggle with depression. Some of these employees are the best in the company, and the employer understands that in order to serve the needs of these employees, this is something that needs to be taken care of.

It's about understanding, and making sure the employer knows what to do to help you be the most productive at work. When you're going through a tough time, what can they do to help?

If your employer doesn't understand, it is possible that they don't value your contributions. And you should want to be contributing.

I'd take that approach.

You are a contributing member to the team, an issue exists, you want to continue to contribute, how can you both work together to make sure it works.

If your employer doesn't appreciate that, maybe you have the wrong employer.
You can only screw the working class so long before the lack of a middle class will no longer prop up the economy and you can't recover. If the vast number of people can no longer consume and you need them to, but they do not have the resources after decades of being forced to save, because they never have enough to consume and add back to the economy, the economy won't recover.
And this: "Germany’s Hartz reforms are the most obvious recent example, and I think Germany in the 1930s is another. In the former case, after the labor reforms, wage growth dropped significantly below GDP growth, driving down the household share of GDP in exchange for an explosion in the share of business profits." It makes it sound like the profits went to the workers not the business, but that isn't logical.
Wasn't the IIHS study relevant to the old Mobileye-based Autopilot? Any reason to assume it applies to Tesla's in-house Autopilot?
my friend did this at a well known tech company, and they screwed her over in a very bad way

sadly your boss usually isn't your friend, and your boss will talk to other co-workers, and then they may want to get rid of you

i'm sure there are exceptions to this, but you sadly can't bank on that
Yeah, I'm not sure what that's called but it ain't an octohedron[1].

The results look damn good though!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octahedron
You said road, he said road. The additional caveat of “highway” wasn’t added until you realized his mental model was different than yours.

Now imagine trying to teach a car these things!
In that respect, I think Servo and Firefox is the big project. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the direction you look at it from), due to Mozilla's putting good engineering principles ahead of marketing and pulling in proven pieces of Rust code from Servo piecemeal, most people will likely never know. The best we can hope for is not that it's just a win, but that it's such a large, obvious win that when people go "How is Firefox so awesome"? the answer is Rust. That's a tall order to fill. :/
This is a tricky problem and there is no easy position to take. On one hand you don’t want anyone to have such lethal power. You could argue the atomic bomb is the warning we should learn from.

On the other hand, this needs to be evaluated in the context of “balance of power”. Can Alibaba really refuse helping Chinese military. If not the Chinese are going to gain the power regardless of whether US has it or not. Any advanced country could gain such power.

These other entities may not follow the same ethical guidelines. Are we then proposing the US military should be less powerful than its rivals?
Well, it also apparently can't detect stationary semi trailers or fire trucks. So expecting it to detect a little gore point is iffy.

But why can't it?
When you are making minimum wage, which I believe is ~$7.50/hr, and are most likely not working full time, that is a good chunk of a day's pay. Granted, if you are in that situation, you are probably getting some government assistance.

Also, some people are just terrible at managing money.
> Her constant argument was "I don't share anything private on FB"

I've heard worse. Plain "I don't care" and "I like that people know what I do all the time".

> It's like a smoking addiction

I'd say that tt's more like a drug. Most people seem to seek for an attention (in a comments/likes form).

I know few people who use even PhotoShop-like software to make themselves "more beautiful" to gather more attention; however they don't look even similiar to their pictures.

(it's like drug addicts do weird shit to get their dose of their favourite drug)
One of a myriad of reasons that this isn't true: https://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/
Man, that's incredibly bad. I drive that route all the time and it's not even remotely difficult to follow the highway there.

Considering Tesla's must have driven through there hundreds of thousands of times, they should have data to make sure the car at least follows the highway. I don't crash in to a barrier when a paint stripe gets scuffed in between my Monday morning commute and my Tuesday morning commute.
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I am a socialist, not a liberal.

As for the controls in your article it completely glosses over the fact that black women have less chance of losing socioeconomic status than white women. That alone kills the argument that race is the primary factor.

Unless you want to explain how the US is racist towards white women and black men? But not white men and black women.
It is considered a partial solution. There are large solar thermal power plants that can store heat in the form of molten salt, and then later using that heat to flash water to steam to spin a turbine.

However, this is, in most scenarios today, more expensive than simply spinning up a combustion turbine to provide power well after sunset.
Yes, or an ocean liner. I dearly hope I live to see the resurrection of an affordable North Atlantic passenger line.
But we are also currently attempting to be multi-planetary, and though Earth's resources may be finite, perhaps the solution to living forever is using less resources (doubtful, but can't we cross that road when we get to it)?

We shouldn't try to create an electric self-driving car because it might kill somebody, but people are being killed by non-self-driving cars, so are we really any worse off?

If the limit of Earth's resources means that we will run out and some of us who would live longer will die earlier than we'd hope...well, we're already doing that.
(x) hey, but let's put this BS on the road anyway
(xi) something, something "Fight Club" math anyway
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Yep, as I stated it is never going to be as small as Rust.

Still, it might be small enough.

Check the new version of Unity for browser deployment.

https://youtu.be/EWVU6cFdmr0

796 KB for a Flash like game, with the productivity of all Unity's tooling, is already more than good.
See Linus' concerns about the patchset: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1804.0/01597.html

And the /r/linux discussion from earlier:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/89mtyt/linus_torvald...
I rember there was resistance from Torvalds to merge a similar FreeBSD-style secure level implementation parchset a while ago (to prevent runtime kernel module loading and such).

Will this parchset get merged?
They already have a meaningful impact today in the eastern US. In the PJM RTO, batteries (and fly wheels) perform frequency regulation (discussed elsewhere in these comments).
Vehicles with autonomous features will save lives. Fewer people will be injured or killed in cars that have these features. However, some people will still be injured or killed, and those people will comprise a different set than would otherwise have been harmed. They or their families will seek restitution and hence, the way forward will be determined by the courts.
This is not about cleanliness; any type of virtue is resisted by others before it becomes the norm, because of course people tend towards less effort than more.
Oh man, I just spent the last few hours writing my application and now it's asking me to complete "a 10-minute personality questionnaire, followed by a 20-minute brain teaser"
"intelligent debate on both sides of the argument of whether "mass, intentional killing" being wrong or not"

I'm sorry, but this sentence contains already the problem.
Chicago doesn't stripe most of the roads. Most of the roads that have stripes in Chicago are administered by IDOT.

Chicago even has this codified in the traffic code; while the rest of the state has "improper lane usage" as a violation, Chicago has "failure to maintain a lane".

Even on roads with painted markings they get scraped off by snowplows almost every winter. I'm reasonably sure that's what happened to that gore.
By far the #1 book I keep referring to and re-reading: Zero to One.
> they have a lot of equipment that forces them to stay alert.

As does Cadillac's Super Cruise system which is not getting the respect it should -- including by GM itself.
And in the current climate of "all new things must be super extra safe to be used, even if it displaces much worse technology", I think machine driving cars will have a hard time being accepted. Imagine the autopilot is 100 times safer than human drivers. Full implementation would mean about a fatality a day in the US. It does not seem this would be acceptable by the public even though 30,000 annual human car fatalities could be avoided. Maybe we should use our education system to help heal us from the safety first (do nothing) culture we seems to gotten our selves into in the US.

This is a similar situation to nuclear power. With nuclear, all your waste can be kept and stored and nuclear has almost zero deaths per year. Contrast to the crazy abomination that is coal burning.
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I remember Strike Commander (1993) was generating its maps at install time, which took forever, but saved a lot of floppy disk space.

http://fabiensanglard.net/reverse_engineering_strike_command...
http://fabiensanglard.net/reverse_engineering_strike_command...
At the time we experienced the problems GetParametersByPath had way lower limits than GetParameters (~an order of magnitude)! That's the problem we ran into. That was already back at the end of last year and the SSM team promised to improve the situation, but so far at least no publicly available news states something about it.
I think the process is great! It's super fast. I hope you do get to glance at the "IQ" test results - if someone is four standard deviations (160 IQ - doesn't describe me) above the mean, then you should fund them even if you don't understand one word of their description. Maybe nobody does in the entire world except for them.

Kudos on the process. Nothing wrong with it.
After traveling through a decent portion of China I tend to agree. The design of the “facilities” (e.g. “squatty potty”) in a lot of locations made a few in my group question toilet paper all together. Though being back in the states there are a lot of weird looks trying to find ways to mimic the stance...

A few years after my time there I saw the “Squatty Potty”[0] on Shark Tank, but haven’t tried it. Anyone with thoughts?

[0]: https://www.squattypotty.com/
Is it really on the roadmap to support GC before a simple API level malloc/free? It seems like the sane progression path would be to have WASM support an API for malloc/free first (which would be useful any system that supports a pluggable memory allocator, as Rust is getting), them an API for requesting garbage collected bytes of memory (which I assume, with fairly little prior knowledge, malloc/free would be useful for).
No, most do not. This is true for both utility projects and retail (behind the meter) projects. However, with the falling cost of batteries, and shifting price signals in the market, this is beginning to change -- in Germany, the US, and Australia primarily.

Utilities in the US have been changing their rates (tariffs) to decease the cost of energy (kWh), but increase the cost of demand (kW) as a way to (dissuade solar adoption / align cost of service -- depending on your perspective). But within increased demand charges, this permits batteries to offer more value than shifting the time of use of energy.
Actually... I notice my right hip and leg hurts in a pretty unique way after long drives, particularly if there's a lot of speed variance.

That might not be worth the full cost of autopilot (particularly compared with lane keepers), but it's a thing.
The term "diversity" is being used in very different ways. The article you posted drfines it based on skill and knowledge:

> By diversity, we mean differences in how agents build problem representations which allow them to access various solutions. We deploy the concept of diversity along two dimensions: knowledge amplitude, which accounts for the level of available knowledge allowing access to poorer or richer problem representations (compared with complete problem representations), and knowledge variety, which pertains to the differences in the constituents of agents’ representations.

So it just further demonstrates the logical gap between A=B and C=D, since the studies didn't even show A=B, they showed E=F
That may be correct as IIHS took few months and concluded in Jan'17. People are still waiting for in-house Autopilot aka AP2 to reach feature parity with mobileey AP1 if you follow https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/enhanced-ap-hw2-qa-fir... so i'd suspect AP2 to be worse-off depending on when it gets tested.
"Diapers are sold at much lower prices in Norway than in the rest of Europe. The large price
difference has led to smuggling of diapers, mainly to Eastern-European countries. The diaper
smuggler gain both from the price difference and by evading taxes on the trade"

https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/57685
The thing is that most driving deaths don't occur on the highway with dry-well lit roads, and current vehicles can't drive for shit in bad weather. So they shouldn't have autopilot on at all, they should just have the collision avoidance features on.
When bulk is $40, you're just making some really, really poor life decisions if you both have a kid, and can't find a way to save that much money in a 30 day window.
I remember a scene from HBO's 'Rome' where Markus and Sextus use a communal toilet and a sponge-on-a-stick later.
I wonder if this will be the case that really tests Tesla's blanket legal defense in court. (That accidents are due to less than "fully attentive" drivers.) The reaction time needed in that video to correct for the autopilot is downright scary.

It's a situation where if you were piloting yourself you're a lot more likely to have mentally mapped that you continue in a straight line at that point, so listing to the left is going to feel WRONG even when suddenly blinded by the sun. But if autopilot takes you there, and you're "lizard brain level" paying attention but didn't have that mental navigation map in your head, and the sun's in your eyes, you're going to take a few seconds to try to figure out how to correct so as not to make things worse. That's enough to hit the gore point in that video.
This article is so frustrating. The helplessness and dependence are just sad. Cloth diapers cost less than $1.50 each in a 10-pack. If you are poor enough, you can wash them in a bucket with bar soap. That's what virtually everyone did before washers were invented. I'm saddened that this girl didn't figure this out. I know first-hand, when you're poor and desperate, you figure shit out. Unless, of course, you have a system that encourages dependence on public assistance and actually ends up hurting a woman's self-sufficiency and puts her little boy at a high risk of being helpless and dependent, too.

I want to help them, but the answer isn't more subsidies. I want to see her get that better job, even if it means losing the assistance. I want to see Dad stay in the home because that's so critical for developing emotional control in young adults. I want their son to grow up scrappy and industrious, with a good sense of how to get by even things are tough because tough times happen for everyone.

I don't blame this woman. I'm
not pissed at her. I'm pissed, however, at the politicians who have created this dependency web to trap people like this woman and ensure that there will always be a need for do-gooder politicians.
I’ve done some of that as well, in different contexts. Those were the days. Virgin territory, uncomplicated, no cross-browser concerns. I haven’t touched frontend since 2005, and looking at it now it’s horrifying. Even the hairiest C++ backend is easier for me now, just because once you write it it doesn’t need to be “updated” for the next decade. Frontend seems to change every 6 months for no apparent benefit.
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I saw 0 difference between pampers and supermarket branded nappies. Only the piss strip from pampers is handy for the first two months. However marketing is powerful and most people are emotionally driven not analytically driven. So we get this situation. Medical has the same problem.
It's too messed up now anyways. The privacy settings sucked right from the beginning of Facebook. And it just kept getting worse. Guess people are just used to it now just like slaves get used to slavery and can't get out of it.
It is not the developers responsibility. I am just speculating in why the game is so popular
C# has been AOT compiled since the early days.

Just that only dynamic linking was supported on the regular .NET Framework.

Unity(with IL2CPP), Mono and Windows 8 store apps also support static linking.

So the approach is the same as Xamarin for iOS or .NETbon the Windows store.

There is an additional phase that generates the native code, using MSIL as just yet another compiler phase.

As for the runtime, yes there needs to be a minimal set of services.

But even C, C++, Go, ... need to have some kind of runtime if you want to use all language features.
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