skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just throwing something at the wall here: Just start with a purely assistive package like most big manufacturers have. Let buyers opt-in to a test program (giving them, say, a 3% reduction on the list price), where all their inputs and outputs are recorded and sent to the manufacturer. Manufacturer can now assimilate that data into a model of car and road and test their fully autonomous software on that model and search for situations where the software gave much different input compared to the human driver. Check these situations in an automated way and/or manually to see whether it's a software error or improvement. IMO this approach would have had a high chance to find the bugs that caused the two recent fatalities, as I'm convinced that most human drivers would have done better there.

After years of doing this (which seems to be close to what Waymo is doing if I understand correctly), the autonmous software should be way better than what is being pushed out now by Tesla and Uber (and probably a bunch of others).
No idea. I opted in through the beta options and disabled it from there as well (at the bottom of the preference screen). I still have the beta option enabled though.
"A Brief History of Time" and "Universe in a nutshell" are always there. I never get tired of reading a random page from those books.

I have nothing programming related on my desk; we have Google to thanks for that.
You got me on lack of precision - you don't need to be touch typing for physical FN keys to be useful.

I realise that whilst just about everything else I do on the keyboard is proper touch (based from F-J), I have to move my whole hands to use the FN keys. I will nevertheless hit F5, F9 etc for compiling / break points / step debugging without looking down at the keyboard.
But as Linus said, kernel lockdown has nothing to do with secure boot. Both are separate things. Why tie them together by default? It's like "automatically burn CD" if a CD-R is inserted into the drive. I can burn a CD sometime later. Or I can insert a CD-R and play it, not burn it.
Just because somebody pays you 300 you are not necessarily worth it.
And just because someone else doesn’t have the luck to be able to access such a job she’s not automatically worth only a 1/30 of you.

The question is not what someone pays you but what worth do you really bring to the society that also feeds and supports you.

So while doing your wellpaid job, you probably pay only 5 or 10 an hour to the persons cleaning your toilet so you can do your „human business“ in a conveniently clean place. Don’t you think this person is responsible for a big and relevant part of your life quality?
That’s a good point. Not just airbags. It starts to be common to have cars that apply the brakes automatically when they anticipate a collision. I think some research has been done on cars being designed to do less damage to a pedestrian in a collision, I don’t know if it has lead to design changes. Self driving cars may end up being only marginally safer than other new cars.

But safety is not in my opinion the main rationale for self driving cars. Convenience and maximisation of traffic are.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the original idea of impostors was to use dynamic billboards for distant objects, and regenerate them on the fly as the angle or distance changed enough to make the error visible? Although this certainly still qualifies in the basic sense of "render a simple thing that looks like the complex thing." I guess it also lets you discard the geometry of the object (assuming you don't let the camera get close enough that you have to switch to a fully rendered view) which I can see saving a ton of memory for very detailed objects.

I remember reading a bunch of stuff a decade or so ago about image-based rendering using techniques like this for super-high-detail large scale scenes, is that all run-of-the-mill graphics engine stuff now or did we get enough horsepower to just keep throwing polygons at it?
I don't know if this is a general problem, but I have never had this issue. My system always boots whatever I installed.
We can at least discuss how the 3tn are allocated, and yes, lament that what we consider the bare minimum is not met in some cases.
I would not be surprised if Musk coldly responded that this is a known problem with no solution, but autopilot still lowers the death rate on average. In other words, for the proponents it's a trade-off.

And also the idea that an automatic driver is easier to improve over time (skewing the trade-off better and better) than human drivers. Which of course will snowball when reliance on automation keeps making drivers worse than better, and at some point you're past the point of no return.

Whether that's right data must show.
>even if nobody wrote a single new line of C today, it'd be decades before it would go away.

But then we can get sweet sweet COBOL level salaries in 40 years.
Man I remember the enthusiasm behind Diaspora like it was yesterday. I can still see in my minds eye that NYTimes article photo of the creators sitting around like they just invented cold fusion or something.
I don’t disagree with most of that. The loan shark maths is just one (rather contrived) example of how a person can break out of a particular poverty trap.

It’s harder to break out of a poverty trap than it is to live with one, but it’s much easier to stay out of one than it is to live with it. My point is that with the correct effort, people can generally break free of most of the poverty traps they find themselves in.

To speak to your last point, there generally are non-profits around who help with these sort of things, and I used some of them myself in the past. The thing that non-profits can provide so simply is the motivation and discipline required to maintain a well planned budget. Each small thing that you improve, like buying diapers in bulk, is a step towards escaping poverty, and everybody has the capacity to do those things.
I think you misunderstand the GP - he is stating that - even if pilots with their rigorous training can make such disastrous mistakes, with car autopilots it will be way worse.
Oh, wow, this is super impressive!
Sudden Loss of Wealth Might Kill You
Well no, the whole point is that there's shit on you in the first place already, not touching it is not an option.

You clean your arse with water so that it's clean and not just wiped with paper, just as you afterwards will wash your hands instead of just wiping them on a paper towel.
How about you pay her the $290 per hour excess? Go ahead, send it to her today. You won’t will you?

I make a pretty fair amount of money, but unlike you, I am not a lazy person; I worked my ass off to get where I am and I made sacrifices along the way. I strongly object to paying more taxes just so you can assuage your personal guilt. Contact the reporter for the story, explain you are a guilt-ridden rich person who wants to help that woman out. Then send the woman $290 per hour of your money. Do it for a month. Until you do that, then I’ll invite you not to suggest that we should pay more taxes to support someone because you feel guilty. Taxes aren’t for solving your guilt — charity is. Forcing people to help someone because YOU feel that you don’t work hard enough? That’s ridiculous. Charities were invented for exactly that purpose — people can voluntarily give to their heart’s content.
Well I suppose there're lots of people who never ran into any problems. I've been using Ubuntu and Mint mainly, and usually that works fine for me too (with most laptops & desktops I've had). In one case though (maybe 3 years ago), on fairly new hardware IIRC, I've had to test various kernel versions, until I found one that was compatible with the graphics stuff on the laptop. And then take care to not accidentally auto-upgrade to another kernel version. In another case, networking in Ubuntu didn't work after installation. I installed another distro instead and then everything (incl networking) worked fine directly. Finding printer drivers that doesn't just print random garbage characters, is usually super frustrating (I think), largely because the printer company webites' UX is terrible.

I think one is safer, if one use a bit older hardware (laptops and printers), because then the Linux people have had time to look into bug reports and incompatibility problems and fix them?

Nowadays when buying a new laptop, I always websearch for the laptop name + "Linux problems" or something like that, to see what bugs & incompatibilities other people have reported already. And then maybe I decide to avoid that laptop. But ... I wouldn't expect my parents or most other people to do this. Instead they'll buy a "random" laptop with new "unknown" hardware, and then there'll be a 20% ? risk that networking or graphics won't work for them? And I think they'll need help to get the printer working. ... And with all that in mind I feel I need to slightly warn them about Linux.
Sometimes it's not even about paying more taxes, it's mainly about how the money is distributed back into society. People like this lady are in an awkward spot where opportunities and benefits are rather low.

Not saying everything is fixed with tossing more money at it, simply setting priorities and building value for more people without always looking at the short term profits. And in some countries perhaps closing questionable cash flows towards those who clearly are benefiting unnecessarily.
You realize that the US military is the reason the world isn't ruled by Hitler and/or Stalin, right?
> Sensory interconnect is just the beginning. The real revolution is giving your brain a low level IO bus that allows a computer to transparently extend it beyond the physical limits of whatever number of neurons are in your head.

The point is that you need some way of interfacing. A fast bus doesn't do me any good if I don't have drivers and then interfaces to interact with the thing on the other end of that bus.

I mean, yes, ideally we'd have some kind of thought-based interface... but you've gotta design that, too.
Secure Boot is cool when you control the keys. That's quite a lot of work though. Given how easy it is to bypass for consumer systems, yes the defaults suck. However, it makes a lot more sense in enterprise, where someone might actually be employed to manage the chain of trust.
You don't need a washer / dryer. You wash them in a bucket with soap. Only takes a few minutes.
Perhaps a little poor taste with the tone, but this is a great point. We're all talking about how poorly we handle units. Nm has two meanings, but I didn't even think about it until this comment.
Read the whole thread on lkml and didn't see a good argument as to why lockdown being enabled or not should depend on the way the machine was booted. Linus seemed to suggest having lockdown on by default would be reasonable, independent of boot method.
Here is where the Mountain View 85/101 crash occurred. Pictures taken this week:

https://m.imgur.com/a/acAL8

More faded than the last StreetView pics.

I also wonder if the line -- where the asphalt meets concrete -- contributed. Maybe it looked like the shoulder. Granted, there is also a yellow line.
And even this pathetic and tootheless regulation was enough to drive Uber from California for a while.

With all the games they play with the numbers, Waymo still reports 63 safety-related disengagements for a mere 352,000 miles. This doesn't sound like an acceptable level of safety.

The surprising part is that it appears that Waymo is planning to start deploying their system in 2018. How can they even consider it with this amount of disengagements?
No, you entirely missed the point.

Cloth being better is something else entirely, nor was I suggesting that disposable diapers be discounted with taxpayer money. The point was "Why does the poor in the richest country in the world have to worry about something as inane as affording diapers in 2018?"

I agree that people should use cloth - but the response to "Hey, this poor person can't even really afford to buy diapers!" shouldn't be "wow that damn government making her dependent on welfare bux, shes so dumb she doesn't even know about cloth too!". It just reeks of being completely out of touch with the poor experience in America. Maternity leave isn't really a thing for someone like her - should she maybe be working an extra job or two to afford better diapers? Even if she doesn't, how do you know she has the time to deal with changing and washing cloth diapers? Being a stay at home mom doesn't exactly work as well as it did in the 50s or 60s, and she doesn't have a husband working for a tech company or whatever who can support a family on a single salary.
CHARITY. You can already give money to help the less fortunate. I don’t want to go on your taxation guilt trip.
Condoms break, and it’s pretty damn hard to have an abortion if the only place you can get it done is halfway across the state.
I just had a kid 2 months ago, and 12 changes a day doesn't seem all that unreasonable for a newborn. At our one-month checkup he was averaging 9 pees & 5 poops per day - several of the poops were doubled-up where he also peed, so a dozen per day is about right. It's dropped a bit since, but instances where a single changing results in multiple diapers used (eg. he shits the table right as I'm getting the new diaper on, or he pees all over the table including the diaper that's waiting to be put on) have somewhat made up for that.

Unit cost of a diaper is about $0.25-0.30 when bought in bulk (even with your example), so $1000/year = ~3200-4000 diapers = ~10 changes/day. Change your assumptions on diaper use and everything else lines up.
You try a rebuttal, which I commend, but the approach of your rebuttal isn't strong enough! Height also correlates with "basically every good life outcome" but the application form didn't ask for our height: nor should it.

IQ is inherently different. I really support the IQ test they decided to give and I definitely think they should glance at the results - especially to basically approve any applications from people with great results even if the evaluators don't understand the proposed application exactly.
It's 28% in 2016 according to NHTSA [0], 10,497 deaths.

Certainly auto-pilot is worth it if the driver is drunk. I wish that all cars were fitted with alcohol measuring devices so that the cars won't start if you're over the limit.

Drink driving is still a massive problem in Belgium where I live. Although you get severely fined (thousands of euros) it's up to a judge to decide if you should have your licence taken away [1]. Typically you have to sit by the side of the road for a few hours then you're allowed to continue. In the UK it is a minimum 1 year ban.

[0]: https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving

[1]: http://archive.etsc.eu/documents/C.pdf
So after housing, childcare and food, you're spending £4,200/month? Is this a troll? I'm not sure you've tried hard enough to reduce expenses. That is very high for someone who wants early retirement. It'd be much quicker if you enlightened us with what you spend it on.

And which spectrum are you referring to? People who earn your salaries?

A couple in London, both working full time, in good average jobs in London may net around £5,500 month total (£50k/year each, 10% pension contributions). Their mortgage might be £800-1700. Childcare, as you know. Council tax and utilities might be another £250-400, groceries £200-600. £200-400 on public transport. Many families are lucky if they have £1,500 left after all normal expenses.
Well if you call criminals lunatics, which is a fair assessment, then yes. But not every person has contacts in the criminal underworld.

You're just going to have to trust me that I have a first hand perspective of both worlds in one european country and I can promise you that it's not easy to get a gun for any average person. Unless they are willing to jump through the legal hoops to get a licensed firearm.

One of my co-workers did this and from start to finish I think it took him a year to get a handgun. This does not count the hunting license because he was not interested in hunting, he wanted a handgun.

And once acquired he has to report to the police every route he wants to take with the handgun. For example between his home and the gun club.

And storage of the gun unloaded in a locked safe goes without sayhing.

Another friend had an AK47 brought up from Serbia, because macho reasons, and he was only allowed to have it because he was a member of the home guard here. But he had it mounted on the wall, once the police found out they forced him to take it down, disassemble it and store it in three different pieces as it was meant to.
I agree, webdev is the modern equivalent of a fresh new playground.

I started with computers in 3rd grade, logo. It was enthralling. I was enamoured with computers right away. I learned you could stop some Apple games and view the code. I learned you could even print it, (I had reams of printed code I didn't know what 99% of it did, what is a gosub? lol) most of this learning was by accident, as I didn't have a single book to teach me anything, and only 1 other real nerd friend who showed me how to program lowres graphics. (One friend got bootleg copies of games from his older brother though, lol. Anyone remember punching holes on the side of a floppy disk to make it store more data?)

I tried over and over to create games, and made dozens of odd text adventures and stupid space invaders games that crashed after a couple minutes of play. In highschool I found (by watching the older kids) about hacking system resources on Macs, and we'd mess with the menus, lol. Pascal was interesting, but I never learned to make anything cool with it. Finally when I got into college, I got some real coding experience, and found out you can mix art (I was a flip-book animating nut as a kid, made hundreds of them) with programming.

Eventually the web took over, and I found out you didn't have to "install" anything on someone else's machine ever again, I was hooked.

As bad as the web is in so many ways, I never want to go back to supporting other peoples computers ever, ever, ever again.

I will take JS hell over that garbage. (Imagine helping a client debug an install issue on a computer over the phone, and he's 2,000 miles away on a Carribean island living it up and blaming your for him clicking the wrong button because he simply refuses to follow your instructions "explicitly" and can't ever be wrong... ugh)
Exactly! To you its crystal clear, but if the other party were additionally considering all the non-highway accidents, then the distinction may not be so clear to them until you provided the additional metadata.

Now consider how you may feel about a car which has decided based on all available data that this strip of road is a lane. Its crystal clear to that car until its suddenly not.

You reacted with what appeared to me to be very restrained aggression (typical and acceptable, no offense intended) as you struggled to figure out if they were just being dense on purpose or were actually ignorant. I dont feel either were accurate but your message conveyed that was what you felt to me.

A car simply says “hey i dont know what im doing anymore. Help!”
I went out of my way to buy a 2016 macbook without the touchbar as my new machine. I have a macbook pro with touchbar as my work machine and I hate it. The build quality is garbage, the keyboard is a huge step down, and the touchbar is incredibly fucking annoying. Why would they take away quick access to critical functionality like display brightness and volume?
I'd rather my taxes go to fund paid maternity leave, free higher education, and free health care. Those are my priorities not buying someone diapers because they can't be bothered washing cloth diapers.
Agisoft is quite a beast, producing good results at a price
First of, you're not the crazy one here. We are just simply discussing things - I apologize if you felt like I thought you were crazy, because that's a tough word. Whether we disagree - sure :)

OT: To my eyes - there is a big difference in a sign "WILL WORK FOR FOOD/MONEY/ETC" and "PLEASE GIVE ME 100$ I NEED IT". Should the USA be like Mother Theresa, lend their helping hand to everyone in need?

I can tell you for a fact that there are tons of people who live on social aid, that are eligible to work, maybe even have degrees and just simply don't want to work. The whole point is, the more you help the more will the people get used to it and will start leeching - it's in the human nature.

I think enjoying bodily pleasures is great - but having a baby is something you need to ensure you can handle. If you can't raise a child right, don't raise it. I have seen people have 5 children - only so that the mother can live off of welfare.

You can give your wealth away - that's what I'm doing, but I'm not expecting my government to provide diapers, I buy them for the people in need. I expect my government to provide health care and jobs, the people will take care of the rest.

I don't mind USA helping people in a real need, but people who are just reckless should not be helped, because they knew what a child brings.

This is privilege and propaganda at work right here. Being so far removed from what its like to be poor that you unironically believe some bullshit like "poor people just want government bux for free".

Privilege is that I'm saying that people get used to government help and dont want to work? That's not privilege, that's called common sense. No point in discussing this further.

You don't even understand what privilege means, my dude. I expect my government to serve myself and the people, and not a handful of old dudes at the top of the food chain. If you think a government serving its people is a privilege, I think you have a very poor idea of what democracy is (or should be).

Oh - but government creating jobs and providing health care is serving old dudes? If what you're saying continues, you will end up with a world full of people that have no ability to resonate, work or be challenged.
> The fundamentals of this idea are so shockingly hand-wavey, that I find this to be something of a hazard to Elon Musk’s reputation.

The rest of the comment implies that you aren't joking.
Yes, many religions undeniably provide standard answers for such ethical questions. But that doesn't make them religious questions.
Politicians are in the same trap as the rest of us.
Now imagine all people have Tesla, and someone makes a prank on the middle of a bridge, they paint a line that makes all traffic plunge down, imagine now that they are so confident they removed the driver seat, you have all those passengers looking on the windows on how their cars are driving them to their deaths and there is nothing they can do.

So should this cars follow some line blindly?

I think that this tech should stil be called a drive assist, and assist the driver, Tesla rushed it in enabling the autopilot thing, I am sure if you compare the stats with similar cars(expensive,safe and with drive assist) the stats will be against autopilot, I do not understand why they had to rush the autopilot and not keep it as a driver assist, to warn you and prevent some crashes)though it seems it can't protect from frontal collisions with static objects)
I remember reading that when DeepMind was acquired by Google in 2014, they made it a precondition that an ethics committee be set up to review use of AI, and Google did back out of some projects because of it.

In this case what they seem to be doing is allowing the military to use some of the AI tools on Google cloud which are also available for general use. This is a much grayer area - it is one thing to not develop something specifically for the military, it is another to say that we will not provide the military something we provide to the general public.
Aggressive use of the DNSSEC-Validated cache in Unbound
The bandwidth of your memory is substantially higher than reading, though, is the point.