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If autonomous systems reach the point where they are measurably safer than human drivers, there's an obvious benefit to using them.

Again it's an if, but lots of people drive long distances and don't enjoy it. An autonomous vehicle would relieve them of the driving task. It would also add a transport option for people that are unable to drive long distances.

It's likely to reduce the cost of taxi like services, as drivers are currently a significant portion of those costs (autonomous driving turns pricing into almost a pure calculation about return on investment).

I guess you might dismiss those as not being "legit" enough since they are all contingent on the systems working well.
Not so much the themes but the game interface. SS1's interface predates a lot of modern FPS idioms, so it feels very clunky and difficult to use compared to more modern games.

Thematically, it fights right in with the Bioshock/Prey/Thief/Deus Ex lineage - all of them exploring the theme of megalomania in one way or another.
Patents and the ability to earn money by licensing out technology. That, or hoping they are the best and get more customers through it - I think that's currently the case for Tesla, selling the only commercially available semi-autonomously driving car ATM.
I could write that series in a weekend.
I would guess people would just stop using it
High-frequency trading reduces transaction costs and therefore reduces the cost of capital, encouraging investment.
> Have to weigh the energy of the impact against the pitch introduced by braking. You need the bumper to take the hit, so that it and the crumple zones can do their job.

Eh? The vast majority of real frontal impacts will be under heavy braking. If a few degrees of dive under brakes is enough to compromise the crumple zones' effectiveness then your car is bad (and I don't believe any Teslas are bad in this way.)
I have it too, it makes some jolts from time to time. It will also start blaring about ten seconds after me not providing any steering input, though. It's lane ASSIST, not automatic driving.
I thought this might have something genuinely valuable to say until I saw the 'TM' after 'Agile Fluency'.
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HN is full of dismissals because many on HN work at Facebook and other companies that rely on being able to continue abusing our privacy.

They want the stories to stop because they fear the general public may finally be gaining awareness of the abuse they're being subjected to.
I wonder what "AI updates" are going to mean from an insurance point of view. Don't know about the US, but some countries in Europe insure the driver and not the car (eg. Ireland). How far fetched is for insurers to argue that an autonomous car software update constitutes a change of driver and demand that the updates must first be validated from them before installing?
I hate to break it to you but it could still happen to you because both you and those Teslas are part of the same traffic stream. So you could easily get killed because of a software bug in someone else's vehicle.
every data analyst job is now called a data scientist.

People think being a data scientist is just being a sql monkey
IMO it should not - it should sound an alarm, have the driver take over, and shut down.
yes and as far as I know there is work being done to make private channels a thing. So in the near future, private conversation might be able to include more than 7 people.

I just have this feeling that people sometimes talk about SSB as if it is like "private by default" and thats not really the case, public feed is quite public (and I don't think that is bad).

I for example considered using private messages to myself as a diary. I know they will remain private.
This isn't new, but what if it snows? I live in Calgary and snow covers our roads for about 30-40% of the year.
I was thinking the same thing about Extreme Programming in its day. Developers with the maturity, discipline and experience to employ the methodology don't really need it at all and those who need it don't have the capability to actually make it work. All that remains is cargo cult.
What would it take to get Tesla to admit the product is unsafe and should be disabled until they get it right? Or will they simply plow on until a regulator steps in?
If they do it as some kind of data storage angle it seems like a pretty start forward product.
And was it successful?
They're hardly alone, just the most visible. Let's remember that many of our fellow hackers are likely Facebook engineers doing regular work, and are probably feeling pretty bad right now, even though the decisions behind what's going on is way above their pay grade.

Yes there's some responsibility due them as well, but perhaps we can remain civil to our silent peers?
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Nobody's forcing autopilot on anyone. I think instead, tesla will / should opt to disable autopilot earlier in non-ideal conditions like this - that way they won't be held liable either. ATM it really feels like they're being put on trial here.
Yeah, it's quite difficult to sell and quite easy to start wondering if what you're doing is valuable to anyone. If the need and the willingness to pay are already there, that's a perfect opportunity. Good on them!
You should look up the original meaning of “soviet”.
It depends on the class but they have videos and assignments there .
Protip: the player has different speeds.

1.75 was my sweet spot, but I could do 2x in a pinch with high focus.

The guy talks so slow!
touche. seems like they're more interested in concrete barriers than other cars at the moment.
well the danger here is that if US regulation becomes to burdensome then some other country will step up and other countries may just flat out ignore it. Which means an exciting and upcoming area of technology may eventually move off shore and hopefully one day off planet.

so effort will need to be made by pioneers in this area to shape US policy so it achieves the needed goals without being oppressive enough to shift to other sites
Agreed, I wasn't clear. I meant the touch bar.
You did better than the OP relationship-wise xD
I guess it's time to add Python support to QueryStorm.
That's the question. Will you be able to continue developing for non-Apple CPU on a Mac??? That's not what Apple wants.
This kind of video makes me wonder: what is the "autopilot" feature actually for? Do people generally like it? (I don't own a Tesla and I've never driven one.)

If you're supposed to keep your hands on the wheel, and given videos like this that show you really need to keep your hands on the wheel and pay attention, is automatic steering really that big of a deal?

Cruise control, now, that really is useful because it automates a trivial chore (maintaining a steady speed) and will do it well enough to improve your gas mileage. The main failure condition is "car keeps driving at full speed towards an obstacle" but an automatic emergency brake feature (again, reasonably straightforward, and standard in many new cars) can mitigate that pretty well.

It seems to me that autopilot falls into an uncanny valley, where it's not simple enough to be a reliable automation or a useful safety improvement, but it also isn't smart enough to reduce the need for an alert human driver. So what's the point?

If you're excited about self-driving cars because they'll reduce accidents, as many people here claim, what you should really be excited about is the more mundane incremental improvements like pedestrian airbags. Those will actually save lives right now.
Interestingly we've also seen an increase of the number of shill-like accounts claiming "nothing to see here." I don't mean you.
Whatever it "seems" like to you, it is a law passed by congress and signed by the president.
The latter. As long as it was bunch of nerds doing nerdy things, nobody cared. As soon as computers started processing things relevant to regular people, the regular people happened, and with them all the incentives for hostile behaviour.
Everyone here is complaining about price, so let me offer a counterpoint.

My understanding is that 2.9% + 30 cents is barely above what you would expect the credit card networks themselves to be charging Stripe. The margins are razor thin. If you have beef with this percentage of your revenue being taken, it's with the credit cards.

Adding a .4% fee on top is likely cheaper than using a separate service on top, like Chargify/Recurly/Chargebee. (Sure, if you had already built your own stuff on top of Stripe, you don't see this tradeoff as real. But all of those are legitimate businesses, suggesting there's a huge market out there of people who don't prioritize eng time like you.)

.4% isn't nothing, but put it in context of a functioning SaaS business with product priorities, especially when you think about expensive it is to hire software engineering talent. It's going to be a fraction of a fully loaded engineer's time that is probably best dedicated to other parts of the business. (Fully loaded = take a salary, add 30% for taxes and benefits, plus ammortized recruiting fees.) A one-time or occasional integration project frees up engineering to focus on other stuff and enables other teams to work on their own.
I don't know why people use this thing. The cars are nice, and justify their purchase on their own, without this autopilot feature. But I don't think you can do good autopilot without lidar.

People shouldn't use it.
All because of crypto-boom. Flip can come anytime just take care.
How do you know the player isn't up to something intentional, for instance triggering some kind of 'outside investors suddenly acquire all of a stock or bond that we think is going to tank in the next five minutes'?

Are stock market players not allowed to divest extremely suddenly, to dump their property at fire sale prices in order to get rid of it at what would be a paper loss, all the while knowing the consequences of holding would be worse?

What if they're dumping equity in a company that will be known to have committed terrorist acts? I'm not sure if I buy 'clearly erroneous'. I also don't buy that the scale of the error was really threatening to Goldman Sachs.
How could anyone trust Facebook? Even if I paid money, I'm sure they would continue to share my data. And if they were ever discovered, they'd blame it on another 'bug'.
And your buddy has to pay income tax on that transaction. And IRS will know later, when his chosen exchange will decide to share their records with them (and they do this).
> I'd only have search - so it better be trustworthy

Absolutely agreed. It should be as reliable and as immediate as what we have now.

> I at least have the file tree

I don't know how this would work in practice, but I'm imagining something where, UX-wise, a tag-based FS could act very much like what we're already used to. Google was very much on this track in their early versions of "labels" in gmail and google drive (shame they've slowly moved away from it)

Just last night I used some desktop app I found to tag a few thousand scanned documents so I could do my taxes this morning (researching my options is how I ended up finding this article). Once they were all tagged, I was able to traverse in a very familiar way.

At "root", there's too much noise, but as soon as I pick a tag, say "2017" - now I have whittled down my available tags. And then I pick "receipts". Smaller list of files and a smaller list of tags. And then "restaurants". And then "business".

That seems quite a bit like a hierarchy to me. The subset of tags that are related to the first one I chose act just like sub-directories. The UI could work exactly like what we already know and love. As we know it now, I would have ended up at ./2017/receipts/restaurants/business.

Of course with directories, that's the only way I could organize my files. But if we're working with tags, I would get the exact same results going to:

/business/receipts/2017/restaurants/

/receipts/2017/business/restaurants/

You get the idea. But, I could also potentially do something like:

/receipts/2017/client_1+client_2+client_5

or

/2017/receipts/business+!client_3

Now, still within the realm of a directory structure - even using terminal commands we're all familiar with and a bit of extra sugar - I have access to more features. I can't merge directories in a tree. Not that easily, anyway. But in this case I can `cd` into a directory of exactly what I want in a familiar way without trying to remember if what I'm looking for is in ~/Dropbox/receipts/2017 or ~/Documents/business/client_1/receipts.

It's in both. "Dropbox" and "Documents" are no longer necessary. Nor is ~/.
That's a Greek Tragedy-styled scifi story waiting to be written.
It seems like a perfect pairing given the rise of the "fitness trackers" that are so popular. They could build vastly better risk models for [to sell to] the insurance companies with access to "anonymous" health history combined with all the data that the fitness trackers collect.
you would be surprised at how many people use Excel so things. The big challenge is finding those people as many of them may not have an online presence.
SOAP ensures that the service definition, the client implementation and the server implementation are fully synchronized. And types are fully transmitted. (except for collections and null, sic!)

How can you do that otherwise?

PS: i agree that WADL or Swagger can do something similar, more elegantly than SOAP. But can we agree that there is a real need to enforce the coherence between the client and the server ?
I was trying to understand the reason for the word "anarchist" in there. What you described can be equally applied to most liberals. Indeed, Bernie Sanders would verbally agree with impoverishing countries (because that's what preventing capital from growing means), and I don't believe he has ever claimed to be an anarchist.

Anyway, I understand your position and I'm just quibbling about terminology, so I believe I'll stop here.
And this is why if I ever get a self driving car I want:

1) root

2) control over updates

3) everything to be completely open
Sorry, also anecdata, but I've experienced a similar result. Was on daily allergy pills, eye twitches during allergy season, that sort of stuff, and started a low carb diet, my skin cleared up and I stop being so damned itchy.

I suspect it's because the diet eliminates some foods that I'm allergic/sensitive to (how could it not with how many foods it necessitates cutting out?), so the causation might not actually be the low carb diet, as some vegans claim a similar result. In that context it stands to reason that both sets of dieters are finding existing sensitivities and chalking up the gains to the diet. I found out that for me glutamate, both from natural and artificial sources, causes substantial headaches, which is a bummer because I love bone broth. Beans also give me restless legs at night.

So while it's hard to be absolutely scientific in your everyday life, it doesn't mean it's impossible to glean any sort of improvement in your health and well-being through personal experimentation.
The dictionary I checked doesn't agree, but I accept others use this definition.
Or you can also use Netlify which has a ton of features. They're kind of taking static sites to the next level.
It's a bit of a farce to classify these cameras stuck on the side of a rocket with horrible resolution and which are clearly not designed to effectively image the surface of the earth as "remote sensing systems."

The definition in the law even specifically excludes "Small, hand-held cameras shall not be considered remote sensing space system," i guess so that astronauts don't have to get a license 12 months before every mission. SpaceX cameras providing the video for the webcasts are certainly small and could be "handheld," so it seems to come down to the fact that no human is up there with them.

Remote sensing systems are a thing, and there are good reasons to regulate them. Tiny cameras stuck to the side of SpaceX rockets should not be classified as "remote sensing systems." When I think of remote sensing satellites, Landsat series and friends come to mind, not an off the shelf camera stuck on the side of a rocket.
Seems like the solution if too many unwanted foreign parties are holding your assets is to depreciate your assets.

For whatever reasons houses are considered appreciating assets, even super old ones.
Go to Washington DC, head West on Congressional, cross the Roosevelt bridge and take the exit for the GW.

If there isn't a car smashed into the middle of the north/south Y junction, you'll get the chance to count the skid marks at that Y junction from humans making this exact same error.

Tl dr; humans make the same mistake, at a higher frequency, which is why the accordian barrier exists.
No, the copyright trial is about the "structure, sequence, and organization" of the APIs, not any literal copying anymore. Switching languages, but keeping the same class library still leaves them open.
I really don't think the cars are that nice... this is a side from the main issue here but the build quality is poor and the design is bland - both internally and externally (That massive big iPad like screen - yuck!).
Your question would be answered if they would call it driving assist and not auto pilot. Then you'd understand that you would not turn it on in snow. Just like Cruise control.
AI will bleed us slowly without alerting us to its presence.
also, roads are far harder to debug and fix then software
I'm not accusing anyone of being lazy, rather inappropriately arrogant and consequently ignorant. Also, I don't agree there's too much process. I think there's too much bad process that isn't recognized as either bad or process.

I strongly disagree with this: "As the characteristics of software are added to other engineering fields, they start engineering more like us, because that's the right answer." It's the wrong answer, and we get things like these recent Tesla and Uber incidents because of this attitude.
So human drivers are terrible at driving for any long period of time, especially on relatively consistent "boring" highways.

Guess what computers excel at? Driving consistently on consistent highways.

The Tesla Autopilot is supposed to be the always aware and paying attention portion on these cases where a human driver would be very likely to start texting or dozing off. Now, it's not fully autonomous and may well decide it can't handle a situation (or apparently try to drive you into a barrier to see if you're still awake...). In this case the human driver who is somewhat zoned out needs to take control instantly and correct the situation, until they can safely re-engage autopilot (or pull over and make sure they're still alive, etc).
Maybe because https://blog.regehr.org/archives/303 (N-version programming often exhibits the same defects...)
That's funny, in all of the places I have worked the sprint ends on a Friday and the next one starts on Monday. I want one of these sprint breaks.
ha ha i dont see how this is supposed to improve safety. Maybe it's safer than having no driver at all but if we're talking about being better than typical human then the safest thing to do is to switch this thing off.
But isn't that "break" usually just a weekend?
It's the land underneath that appreciates, not the structure of the house on top of the land.
> Yes, but for the past three decades this wasn't a problem during space launches

More than likely, that's because the commercial companies who needed the license got the license.

> now that SpaceX comes along on their 50th+ launch it suddenly is a problem.

Probably because the technology on this payload fall under the requirements of the law to need it, and the company who owns the payload didn't get the license. Or, NOAA was unaware of the satellites until now and realize they need to follow up. Since they are a small shop and are not omniscient, that can happen.

EDIT: I misread the article, I meant the launches, not the payloads.
To second this, Braille "folding" is also sensible to pronunciation..
>It is also a possibility that Data Science is an easier topic to learn than Computer Science, and thus more popular.

This might seem so due to mainstream marketing. But that's not true. To be truly good at Data Science, you must know a chunk of Computer Science fundamentals and Statistics
I agree. Part of what makes the web the web is that anyone has to be able to crawl its data, and build new technology on top.

As long as Cloudflare blocks that, it's hostile.

Maybe a way to register as spider with Cloudflare, and get a token that one passes in the header, with strict rate limits would be much better than the current solution of just showing captchas.
Not just your own risk... There are other people on the road who share that risk. It makes me angry at Elon Musk himself. First he didn't sterilize that stupid thing he sent into interplanetary space. Now he's putting peoples lives at risk.
In my experience, technical people latently believe the thing that people buy from you is a product. So if the product isn't done / ready / etc, then you are being misleading trying to "sell" them or engage with them. It feels wrong, like you're forced to misrepresent yourself.

You imagine the potential buyer as a hyper-critical power-user that will expect everything to be perfect.

But what if the above isn't true at all? What if the potential buyer is buying something more abstract? Like a solution to a problem; or even the chance at future resolution of a painful problem?

And what if they aren't power users? But just need basic help today that could grow into something better tomorrow?

Like, what if they just need a partner to help them solve a painful part of their work, and would be willing to put up with a lot of incomplete stuff to get that?

In that case, reaching out to them to "sell" them in the early days is basically saying "Hey, I'm starting to build XYZ that solves problem ABC. My goal is that it would help by doing DEF. Do you have that problem? I'm early on in the process, and looking for lots of feedback from potential users. Would you be interested in checking out my prototype / designs / thinking on this?"

That doesn't seem "soul-wrenching" or disingenuous or anything like that. It feels very authentic. You're making yourself somewhat vulnerable and portraying yourself as eager to learn and help.

IMO early stage entrepreneurship consists of finding a problem bad enough that non-trivial amount of people say "sure, let's talk" to that pitch and then working with those early users to build something useful.
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As I said before, propaganda always has and will exist. Certainly measures can be taken to combat it, but some nonzero amount will be there and people first and foremost should expect to face it.

You're injecting an opposite extreme, implying that I don't think propaganda should be combated at all. But the first line of combat is broader communication, so usurpation for propaganda isn't the only content that flows, and multiple points of view are freely shared. With respect to free speech, legal action against propagandists should generally be reserved for origination of falsehoods and incitement to violence, which tends to already exist in our legal frameworks.
You're not contradicting the objection, you're just outlining another mechanic by which it happens.

"The New England Patriots reached ten Super Bowls, therefore the foot out of bounds just before scoring a touchdown was clearly a mistake and out of the ordinary. Therefore, award the Patriots the point, on the grounds that they usually don't make mistakes like that. And don't check the pressure in the football please, there have been ten Super Bowls where that wasn't apparently a problem…"

(I wonder who I'm insulting more, the Pats or Goldman Sachs :D )
Why is Telegram even making it possible for Russia to ask for keys. If it is truly end-to-end encryption there shouldn't be a key.