skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is my armchair diagnosis: right before the car veers towards the barrier it drives through a stretch of road where the only visible lane marker is on the left. Then the right lane marker comes into view at about the point where the lane starts to widen out for the lane split. The lines that will become the right and left lane markers of the split left and right lanes respectively are right next to the van in front of the Tesla, and at this point resemble the diamond lane markers in the middle of the split lanes. My guess is that the autopilot mistook these lines for the diamond lane marker and steered towards them thinking it was centering itself in the lane.

If this theory turns out to be correct then Tesla is in deep trouble because this would be a very elementary mistake. The system should have known that the lanes split at this point, noticed that the distance between what it thought was the diamond lane marker and the right lane line (which was clearly visible) was wrong, and at least sounded an alarm, if not actively braked until it had a better solution.

This is actually the most serious aspect of all of these crashes: the system does not seem to be aware when it is getting things wrong. I dubbed this property "cognizant failure" in my 1991 Ph.D. thesis on autonomous driving, but no one seems to have adopted it. It's not possible to engineer an autonomous system that never fails, but it is possible to engineer one in such a way that it never fails to detect that it has failed. Tesla seems to have done neither.
You can still tell them the truth. You can say "we don't know if the supplement is doing anything useful chemically, but the act of taking it seems to help you." I wouldn't have any trouble morally justifying that.
I would note that the DCCC and DSCC primarily support (or don't) Democratic candidates after the primary. Unlike the DNC, they do not usually play a role in candidate selection. They also don't really try to influence policy; they usually support candidates where they believe that their extra help will make a difference, and provide less support in extremely safe or totally dead races, and not based on how "good" of a Democrat the candidate is.
For someone in the medtech space, it's been interesting to see how loosely (not at all?) marketing is regulated in automotive and tech in general. Were the FDA regulating automotive, there is absolutely no way that Tesla's driving assist package could be marketed with the name "Autopilot", for one. More broadly than just marketing, it's also amazing to me that Tesla could have released a feature (I know they've revised it since) that was designed for human supervision but did not require hands on the wheel for long stretches of time. What did the risk management look like there?
I knew my comment would be unpopular however I'm genuinely curious how you feel about law enforcements ability to wiretap, or perform surveillance suspects given a court order. This capability has existed in the period you referenced, and to me it would seem ... similar(?) to law enforcement being granted permission (by a court) now to surveil a suspect's digital devices. Why does the switch to digital change things? Similarly, If I lock my home/car/object, commit a crime - are you okay with law enforcement breaking into my property to gather evidence?

I'm honestly asking, not trying to snark - please help me work through how encryption differs from other "analog" tools meant to ensure privacy.
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is raft a fancy name for distinguished leader multipaxos?
Given that it's publicly documented[1] that license approval involves coordination with (as a minimum) U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of the Interior and at least 120 days should be allowed, and SpaceX chose to apply three days before a launch I'd have a hard time interpreting the fact the license was not granted in time as the fault of anyone other than SpaceX.

[1]https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/CRSRA/generalFAQ.html
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It's because SpaceX is becoming "too successful" at what it does.
Now all Magic Leap needs to do is put two of these babies on your face and...
It's probably not very effective at all at stopping people doing shady stuff.

The people doing shady stuff are either the US government (who will give themselves permission) or other country's governments (who won't even ask permission). So what exactly does it prevent?
Oddly enough last week I showed this video to my 9 year old daughter who has a passing interest in animation and she understood the technology clearly.

That fact alone means that we have to step up our game in modern technical documentation.
I'm pretty sure what we all need is a better chat protocol, and multiple apps that implement it.
The 2nd and 3rd hanzi/kanji they used were quite literally the words for "moon" and "sun" (at least in Japanese, where they also mean "month" and "day").
Side note rant on languages: the fact that on Duolingo there are more people willing to learn made up languages like Klingon or High Valyrian, rather than Arabic, says a lot about how invested many anglophones are about opening up towards other cultures.

Hopefully peak English has been reached.
I would be 100% behind my partner in a similar situation, if she were building something and putting so much time and energy into it. I would love to find someone like that, actually.
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I also grew up in the USSR; comparing CNN to Pravda is still stupid.
Builder's sell houses before they build them. I think developers often are intimidated because they might not be certain they can deliver. Nobody with a minimum of experience would hesitate to take 1000 for a quick gig, because it's obviously going to work out. So we need to prove ourselves to ourselves first, and then we will have the confidence to take on larger, more lucrative contracts.
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Why is healthy speculation now considered "tin foil hat brigade"?

Conspiracy theory isn't a dirty word.

Speculation keeps people informed and alive.
>This article offers no arguments other than "global languages never lasted forever before".

Not many other arguments are needed. But it does offer another argument -- or at least implies it: the world where English speaking powers loomed large is now changing. Previous peripheral countries and market emerge -- China, India, and so on. Even inside the US, Spanish is growing faster than ever.

So while English might not be "supplanted by Chinese", it will be supplanted, either by a more balanced mix of languages playing more major roles (English, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, etc), so by a mixed-up patois style dialect -- as predicted by some sci-fi films long ago, and as lived in many multicultural places like Singapore.
No no-one should be following ridiculous rules if they can safely ignore them.
Like phone taps, electronic bugs and good old fashion in-person surveillance? How is that "dark" exactly? I expect privacy when I'm in my home, and on the telephone - did/do the FBI consider these off limits? They don't obviously, but how is this different?
A tenth of a percent of the U.S population is 300,000 people. (I don't really understand what the rest of your comment means.)
It's an enormous amount of work.
Preprocessor-disabled logging (and generally compile-time disabled logging) is free at run-time.

The compile-time cost of stripping out preprocessor macros disabled via #ifdef is close enough to free you'd have a really hard time measuring it - O(n) on number of lines of logging code, with n smaller than the number of lines of actual code for any real scenario, and a very small multiplier.

The "cost" there is in the visual appearance of the source code.
Excel can import/export CSVs already, so the only thing you'd need to do (assuming you already have Excel open) is hit save and then open it in/as SQLite. A script could possibly make it more difficult :)
I lead a payments team.

US requirements around what we put on invoices: 0
EU requirements around what we put on invoices: Still figuring it out

The technical implementation is not difficult. It's dealing with all the lawyers and accountants who have to understand regulations of 27 different countries.

There is a significant difference between "not regulated" and "regulated at all". The burden of understanding the regulation itself is a cost, even if the actual compliance turns out to be simple.
There seems to be quite a few: https://www.google.com/search?q=migrate%20from%20heroku%20to...
How is it possible to design a wipe that 1) does not disintegrate when wet inside its box and 2) disintegrates when wet in a sewage system?

Even Andrex's maximally biodegradable 'flushable washlets' offering contains 2% plastic fibers.
They’re about to IPO. Doesn’t mean they’re profitable, but it does mean their finances are healthy enough that they can be publicly traded.
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>I could really see Mandarin take off if they would adopt a writing system similar to Vietnamese.

They could also easily introduce a second, easier, writing system, and maintain a low-high kind of language (like many countries do). Eventually the second easier one will tend to dominate, but even until then, it will be easier for foreigners to learn it, and for chinese to learn both.
> There are keys, but Telegram has no access to them because the communication doesn't go via their servers.

Is this true?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(messaging_service)#C...
Mind if I dream too?

I want to see a react-native based full stack.

I feel like every app needs: css, html, javascript/react native, data management/redux, json, (LAMP is easy enough), PHP, larvel, mysql/mongo

Getting everything set up(IDE, servers, debuggers, and the code) for the first time has taken weeks, despite the actual programming being pretty simple.

Surprises me these dont exist since so many people have apps that require login and payments.
"There is broad consensus"

In law enforcement, or amongst tech providers?
That doesn't necessarily mean the president or anyone in congress actually read it.
Given that a few weeks prior there appeared to be no problem it would have been trivial to issue a 'provisional' license until the slow wheels of government could do their job.

Keep in mind that these launches are doing more for American goodwill and image right now than anything else the administration is doing and from that perspective alone they are worth a bit of leniency.

120 days to approve something that has been going on for the better part of a decade might seem reasonable to you but it does not seem reasonable to me, there is a segment of the population that feels that yellow pieces of paper are more important than reality but I'm not a part of that segment. Paper should serve the people, not the other way around.
I think you're making Cthulhu_'s point. People need external guidance to know how to eat well. It's not an innate skill.
Wait, is that an integer, or an array? Serious question, with initialiser lists I'm not sure any more.
Tesla makes amazing cars, but their attitude to self-driving is terrible. Waymo's approach is way mo [sic] safer.
I would argue the you go the lesson slightly wrong. As a technical person you start with your great idea and get it working (not working is not the same as polished!). Then you HIRE someone who is great at marketing to help you figure out where it needs to be polished to sell it. The great marketing person will then do the work go get sales.

Note, if you were a marketing person your lesson would be correct: you find the idea that someone will pay for and build it, then you HIRE the technical people who can build it. Marketing people are great at figuring this out.

The above are two very different, but successful approaches to creating a business, with different results. The technical first approach asks "what can technology do" and creates the next revolution. The marketing first approach ask what will people pay for, and creates the next evolution. Both are very valid approaches that can lead to riches. It is very common - even in business schools that should know better - it not recognize that a technical approach can work.
For some reason I think CDMA could suffer from crosstalk in certain circumstances, but it was something relatively obscure, like one device had to be above another (like an apartment building), but otherwise in the same/similar coordinates, and then certain code assignments would allow crosstalk to happen. It was weird, because it could be one direction only.

Unfortunately I don't really remember the details, since I worked on the core data network at the time.
How do you know that's not the case with Chinese?
Choose boring technology (2015)
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I’ve never worked at a place that took breaks between sprints.
"I see this as another symptom of USA consumerism. Your feel a little stressed? Take this tranquilizer! You feel tired? Take these vitamins!"

On the selling and purchasing end, that may be the case. No sarcasm, I mean that.

But they still need something to get a hold of to work. I think if we dig down one layer farther, what they represent is Western science's tendency towards excessive reductionism. Reductionism has its place; it has been very powerful and we've done a lot with it. (A software engineer who thinks reductionism is all bad has not thought very carefully about their their job...) However, the 20th century in my opinion had a really bad run with reductionistic views of the human body. Hence, for instance, the continual flipflopping between eggs being bad or good for you, in an attempt to reduce "egg" to an atomic element and class "good" or "bad" on a single-dimensional scale, when in fact "eggs" are insanely complicated and goodness and badness are horrifyingly n-dimensional things hard to even characterize. Vitamins are clearly important, but science has tried too hard to reduce characteristics of the body to the impact of this one single chemical on this one single problem, or things like that.

I wouldn't even say the science was bad per se; if you only have access to enough computational power to build an 8-dimensional model of a thousand-dimensional process, the best you can do is get a very reduced-power model. It may still be better than nothing. But I do think there was a lack of deep understanding and proper humility in the 20th century, and ongoing into this one. Far too many scientists and science journalists drawing lines through single points, or n-dimensional hyperplanes through underconstrained data sets, filling in the direction of the lines with their own unscientific biases.

And that's before we discuss the reductionism of attempting to model everything as linear processes, because that the "bright spot of light under the lamppost" that we can be metaphorically looking for our keys because the math works nicely for those cases, despite the obvious and abundant evidence that our bodies can not be modeled via linear processes....

(And let me both start and end on the fact that I'm still not necessarily disagreeing with you about the consumerist aspect, just trying to dig one layer further down.)
Gee, I feel bad enough putting a link to my website(everything is free) in my youtube description...
I think you fundamentally mischaracterize the intent of the standards committee's additions to C++: a large part of the changes introduced from C++11 on are intended to simplify use of the language. Yes, it does take the form of additions, because legacy codebase support makes it hard to remove old features. But the intent is to take user code patterns which accomplished something either indirectly or via hacks and make the code declarative. Yes this does put more responsibility on the compiler, but will bring long-term benefits. "Must implement this intentionally designed feature correctly" versus "must replicate this historical accident of behavior exactly".

I think that's what bothers me about your comment; your phrasing "continually stuff more features into the language" implies a short-sightedness, but if you actually follow the work of the committee you can see that the thinking all the way from when it was C++0x to now maintains a long-term view.
> Nobody wants to read the giant wall of text I have to say.

I do. Because I just might learn something!

But I'll be frank: after your posts in this thread, and the thread linked here, I don't think that wall of text exists, I have some significant skepticism with regards to your ability to generate a meaningful one, and I think you are appealing to it as a rhetorical trick.
Barely. I think FB engineers deserve more than “some” of the blame here. Surely they could see the negative consequences of linking health data into their graph.
I have the same. I cry in every Ghibli movie, even if they're fun to watch. I cry even when I think about Totoro flying around the big tree, I cry when I remember how Kiki can handle the world and her own life all by herself and I cry when I think about the killer robots of Laputa helping the little animals and plants to survive on that killing machine.

And I don't usually cry in the movies.

And yes, Grave of the Fireflies is tough.

Edit: Or that train crossing the flooded plains. Uh... We should not forget Joe Hisaishi's part in this.

Edit2: Or how Porco can't face love after being part of the war as a pilot.
Oh god. I was so confused by your comment because this guy is on a Polish accelerator and I was trying to figure out how that was relevant.
I second this recommendation. I've been there and saw that camera, as well as the one at Disney Studios in LA. I think the third of the original three cameras from Snow White is at Disneyland Paris, so if I'm ever in France I'll have to make a stop to see it!
In my first job as a developer after a few months I removed a few kloc of messy code/configuration written by consultants and replaced it with a few hundred lines of easier-to-understand code in a more mainstream technology. No features lost.

I also got the libraries upgraded (they were waiting for months for a release for some support library that turned out to be unneccessary with newer releases of the main libraries.)
>I would disagree. Until you clarified below, the characters behind the numbers had no meaning and it could have been May or April with equal probability to me, considering I do not know whether Asian culture, or to be specific Chinese, prefers month or day first.

That's not the parent's point though -- if you know the characters, the meaning is immediate. Whereas 2018/02/04 remains opaque.
That was part of the reason they used it. They partnered with the company that owned it and wanted to study the junk but couldn't handle the traffic. Cloudflare got 1.1.1.1 for DNS use and helped handle the junk traffic so they could study it.
This has been done before, with Mongolian, and Manchu, and pre-Hangul Korean, and Japanese, and virtually every other language that neighbored on and fell into the cultural orbit of pre-modern China. It never really worked out that well, and almost universally was replaced with alphabets of one variety or another eventually, because it is impossible for people to become fluent without an absurd number of years of study when reading and writing in ideographs; at least comparable to the very short time it takes to train someone in an alphabet.
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Strictly speaking sensing is the act of making a reading from a sensor, the fact that they transmit the video back to the earth already seems to be in violation (since that could be intercepted and since SpaceX apparently does continue to have access to the feed).

So it's nothing to do with recording.
I was the only engineer at a not-tech-oriented NGO, so they had me on-site to check up on the team developing their app. At the end of December they had an initial app - I'm not a mobile dev, but it looked OK for an MVP. We showed it to leadership and everyone approved.

We then went on 2 weeks vacation. When I came back, I was surprised to hear the contract was nearly up - they had supposedly been working over our vacation. This app looked identical to the MVP we'd seen before. I was upset, but there wasn't much we could do. Also it turns out the app didn't look flashy enough for leadership. This was a major wake-up call for me - I messed up here by not critiquing the app or making clear work hours expectations - but also I discovered that demo-ing an app to a whole group leads to a lot of group-think. The criticism only comes later and then you are screwed.
This is a general issue i have seen as well.

We live in 2018 and there is no open source course for everything. Instead there are probably 10-30k universities who have similar courses and professors who give the same lecture every year.

They get paid often enough by countries to create and do those courses. In germany most of our unversities are paid by all of us germans anyway.

And what do you find online? Always the starter verion like 101 computer science or videos with bad audio or video, no proper exercises, no solution helper etc. Nothing. You have to go to different sites to sometimes pay or sometimes not.

there are no local locations to meet up with people.

There should be a global initiative for global free and open access learning. Sponsored and supported by companies and countries. Build upon a core of a knowledge graph based on topics or 'snippets of knowledge'. Like for example:
math -> add -> sub

Something like 'The Map of Mathematics' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJ-4B-mS-Y)

And when you wanna get the global accepted math 101 level, you have to take specific topics / snippets.

And those snippets can than be filled with different people who are making a lecture for that topic and you can choose whom you like more or who is better in explaining it to you.

What do i do instead? I ask around for the lecture scripts because they are always behind a simple password protected area or have multiple links to different pages of different universietses who offer different courses for free as videos for there students in sometimes/often bad quality and / or bad video players etc.

It sucks and this is stupid.
Just to be clear, I don't blame you for glossing over some of the complexities. When I ask my auto mechanic what is wrong with the car I don't want to know about the fundamentals of combustion and differentials. (Until I do.)
I think you're understating people's ability to listen to their own body, and using an ungenerous definition of 'feeling'.

Listening to your body is a skill that can be developed over time. Several years ago, I did not pay attention to, or was not aware of, any relation between what I ate, and how my body felt afterwards, what things looked like on the other end, etcetera. After starting to work out and taking my health seriously, I spent more time tracking things like 'how does food X agree with my stomach? How does it affect my energy levels when I have sugar in the morning?', and learned a lot. There are foods now I'm very hesitant to touch, that I would have eaten without a second thought several years ago, because I now know they affect me personally in undesirable ways.

This is not to say that one should eschew the scientific literature, or their doctor's advice. You should just take both into account.
English is phonetic enough that if you know either the written or spoken form of a word you can take a pretty good guess at the other one, and will almost certainly recognize it if it is presented to you. It's just harder than it needs to be.
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