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The 3 Autopilot deaths so far involved 3 relatively young men, both in relatively elite professions: former Navy SEAL and an Apple engineer -- the third was a son of a Chinese business owner [0]. They fit the profile of men fairly confident about driving and tech, perhaps too confident. 3 fatalities over 320 million miles for Teslas equipped with Autopilot hardware is not much better than the 1.16/100 million miles fatality rate of all American drivers and vehicles.

[0] https://jalopnik.com/two-years-on-a-father-is-still-fighting...

edit: corrected a typo
> Why would implementation in your own library raise confidence?

I thought this would be obvious.

I didn't look at Sodium to implement XChacha20, but I did compare our two implementations (my test vectors come from Sodium). At the very least, this is evidence that Sodium did things right.

> Sodium is interesting because thousands of people use it.

By that metric, OpenSSL is even more interesting. Have those users also tested Sodium? I personally put more weight in Matthew Green's security audit.

Likewise, Monocypher is interesting because of its small size (easy to audit, won't take months like Sodium), its paranoid test suite, and to a lesser degree the proof that Poly1305 works. https://monocypher.org/poly1305-proof
A highway is a road. The context is quite clear since we're talking about the crash site.
Andy suggests one mode of operation: a truly read-only boot filesystem that the kernel itself can't modify. And there is general agreement from all parties to add a kernel command line flag to support that use case.

Otherwise, on a more general-purpose computer with a writable /boot/, some verified boot like secure boot is required to ensure that your chain of trust is established.
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> Tesla’s Autopilot reduces crashes by 40% according to the NHTSA

This claim was immediately called into suspicion when it was first published, and the NHTSA is currently facing a FOIA lawsuit for refusing to release data to independent researchers.

http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/quality-control-...

https://jalopnik.com/feds-cant-say-why-they-claim-teslas-aut...
Ha ha, I was happy it had 2 ports — considered briefly the MacBook Air until I realized it had only 1 port.
Yes, it's a cheap shot to just dismiss it all as religious and idiotic. Except in self-defense or war, societies generally aren't OK with killing people. But when do fetuses become people? Some cultures were OK with parents (or at least, fathers) killing children younger than eight years. Many have gone with birth as the cutoff.

There is an argument that conception is the cutoff. But on the other hand, the relationship of mother and fetus is rather unique. So arguably she can evict a fetus, whenever she wishes. After all, there is otherwise no obligation for one person to save the life of another.

So anyway, it's not just about religion.
I agree. Birth control is much cheaper than diapers, and a lot cheaper than raising a child to adulthood. The person this article focuses on was chosen carefully. Most readers will feel sympathy for her, but in reality, the consequences of her decision to have unprotected sex out of wedlock while working at a low-paying job and living with her parents as an adult is her responsibility. And clearly, she's irresponsible. And there are people who don't think adult humans should be responsible for themselves, which is who this article's aimed at.
It forever puzzles me, how come modern keyboards don't have dedicate buttons for COPY and PASTE. Average user or pro, we use the silly combination of two keys much more often than maybe 5 other least used dedicated keys, ON TOP of the F keys.
It's better for the environment, too.
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I am a creative professional - there's lots of stuff that can credibly be done on the touch bar. Just because a tool isn't suited for every possible use case doesn't mean it isn't still a useful tool.
One solution would be to make the autopilot worse within the realm of safe driving. Make it so that it continuously makes safe errors that the driver has to correct. Like steering off into an empty lane. Slowing down. Etc.

Defining safe errors might be a challenge though.
According to these videos, auto-pilot should be turning itself off if it detects bright sunlight obscuring it's vision.
The reason US is so influential is its the most powerful world's economy and the issuer of world's reserve currency. Having big military is a consequence of that - if you can afford to have big military, you get it. And, also, if you have a big economy, you may need some ways to defend it from all kinds of threats - before they become so serious that they can hurt your economy.
As noted in your citation, Tesla requested the data they provided to be confidential (which is not an uncommon request), and the NHTSA granted the request. Whether the statement from the regulatory agency can be independently verified is immaterial.
The average Joe will never manage to do that. So unless the state develop, maintain, and make available free of charge, such a service, it will never happen.
> current climate of "all new things must be super extra safe to be used, even if it displaces much worse technology"

The "current climate" is a backlash to the cavalier "move fast and break things" externality-disregarding culture of the last 10 years or so. We should be extremely conservative when it comes to tools that can potentially maim or kill other people. Not valuing human life should be an aberration.
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As I understand it, what's hard is determining whether that stationary object is directly in front, or off to the side. Cars are always passing stationary objects on the sides.
It somehow makes sand vulnerable to microorganisms? Great, but what would that do to cement bridges and dams?
I think we've found the inspiration for Cloud Atlas' Xultation.

'Let Them Eat Xultation' - Marie Antoinette, probably.
"Do these hundreds of millions of people who cannot wait to tell the world what they are doing practically minute by minute not realise that anyone with an ounce of brain can find out everything about them just by reading their posts?

As the FBI admitted a while back, Facebook was the best thing that happened to collecting intelligence and saving money (because everything is in the open).

By having "free" access and use of Facebook, these people have made Mark Zuckerberg a multibillionaire."

Source:

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2018-04-04...
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Fuller, Buckminster. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

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Let's be clear here. This is about enabling Lockdown when UEFI Secure Boot is enabled by default.

So the concern is essentially that binary distributions, which are going to be responsible for kernel flags, may enable this, whether it is default in the default kernel config or not. As best as I can tell that is the crux of Linus' concerns. MJG suggesting that the kernel flag can be turned off, while true, is not a response which considers the defacto usage which may result.
It's relatively easy to prevent the unlicensed practice of medicine. But anyone can buy a computer and start programming. There's no practical way to require that all programmers adhere to a code of professional ethics.
At 200% you still come out ahead after your first packet of diapers.

As somebody who grew up in abject poverty, and who lived in poverty for the first portion of their adult life, better planning will absolutely make situations like this instantaneouly better. When I was poor as hell I put a huge amount of effort into buying in bulk and doing various other things to avoid all of the blindingly obvious poverty traps that exist. It took some hardship to get everything established properly, but my whole life was hardship, so big deal...

Most people in the west could get away with living a sustainable (although shitty) lifestyle in poverty. It’s only proper planning and effort that will pull them out of it.
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The proper way to prove "it's 100 times more safe" isn't to let it cause some number of deaths and then go "welp, we tried our best but we were wrong, turns out it's less safe. Shucks". But that's exactly what Tesla, Uber, etc. all seem to be doing. "We'll compare our statistics once the death tallies are in and we'll see which is safer".

The most we have to go on for a rough approximation of safety is the nebulous and ill-defined "disengagements" in the public CA reports. From what I can tell, there's no strong algorithmic or safety analysis of these self-driving systems at all.

The climate about these things is sour because the self-driving car technology companies seem to want to spin the narrative and blame anybody but themselves for the deaths they were causing, and just praying they'll cause less of them once this tech goes global.
In USSR, before it collapsed, young people dreamt of having jeans (not everybody could get or afford them), listened to Western music and watched Western movies. Not because US army has secretly occupied USSR, but because Western culture was more attractive to them. Not everything is done with the military.
Does anyone really remember being that young at all?
Ah, thanks! Looks like Hushmail and ProtonMail are good alternatives as well. Any idea if one is somehow better than the other?
this AI is dumb
Agree that you would need a way to filter out applicants who are just half way there.

But I think such tests have no relation to the mission.
Mandating a short video on capabilities and need of problem area is likely to filter out most candidates.
Making video requires effort.

This will get you people who are serious.

Further you could add option to either take test or 15 min video.
Just a suggestion.
> It does not seem this would be acceptable by the public even though 30,000 annual human car fatalities could be avoided.

The flawed assumption behind this thinking is that all accidents have "accidental" factors. Alcohol and drugs and the poor decisions of young men are _huge_ components of that statistic. You also have to consider that motorcycles make up a not insignificant portion (12%) of those numbers.

It also completely ignores the pedestrian component (16%) which is due to a huge number of factors, of which, driver attentiveness is only one. So many pedestrians die, at night, on the sides class B highways that it's silly.

EDIT: To add, Texas has more fatalities on the roadway than California. Not per capita, _total_. This is clearly a multi-component problem.
Anybody looking forward to the captchas asking us to identify drone targets?
Number one thing I use it for is on the keyboard. While typing, you see a mistake you did or need to change something. Press hard on the keyboard (on the iphone) and you get a cursor you can drag around, as if the keyboard becomes a trackpad.
Thanks for the first hand account! The most notable thing for me when walking through the museum exhibit of Concorde was that I would not stand up straight in the cabin, which would have really made things super uncomfortable for me. One of the things on my 17 hour 787 flight recently was that I could walk to the galley exit area and perform full stretches in all directions every hour. Not being able to do that would have been really bad for my body and for my sense of claustrophobia.

+1 for the airship idea too - I would book a ticket in a flash.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cloth+diapers

The top result I got was a Walmart ad. The "Gerber It's a Snap All-in-One" is $9.98 for 3, so about $3.33 each.

I've seen them in physical stores as well.
But then the car will have a lot of false positives and it will stop now and then for every mundane thing that flies before the sensors. Every one of your customers ll be pissed, because the car cannot differentiate between debris on the road and a wall..Showing the true limitation the thing they call "Autopilot"...

Tesla seems to have figured that, It is better to kill some of your customers then pissing every single one of them off...
This has nothing to do with the argument, at all.
In 2018, the following statements are true:

1. If you're on an active battlefield, both sides have already agreed that killing people is morally justified.

2. If the enemy is shooting at you, he is not interested in the ethics of killing someone on a battlefield.

3. If ethics helped wars end, there would be a US Army 27th Ethics Brigade to parachute in, but there's not and probably never will be.

If on a battlefield, given a choice between holding scrupulous ideals and living, most people would choose living.
I had the exact opposite reaction after leaving Amazon. Brazil is a slow, bloated pile of crap that regularly blocked fixes, made it impossible to develop in a non-standard language, and regularly resulted in 100+ dev build blockages due to versioning issues.

Our team was abandoning Apollo for MAWS, so our deployments were bridged between the two, resulting in another twisted pile of incomprehensible script-glue.

Pipelines was ok (!)

Everything on public EC2 for managing deployments (CodeDeploy and CloudFormation in particular) were so broken and bug-ridden and non-performant that we couldn't reliably deploy production code with them.

I prefer open source solutions in almost every way. I actually can't think of a single problem that the Amazon internal stack solves that isn't better solved in the open-source world. Which isn't surprising, given the constraints involved.
Apologies - definitely mis-remembering. It was nearly 2 decades ago. I might have been thinking of the total flying time from Sydney to London.
You and I both.

How many of us would have to chip in another $10-$20 in taxes to cover those without, so a parent and his/her children can take a shit and dispose of it in a way that meats their commitments as appropriate?
If this was implemented correctly, it could go viral.
Maybe because they also couldn't afford contraception?

Life just happens, as nice as it would be for all children to be born planned into stable circumstances, afaik the reality is often quite a bit more unpredictable than that.
I think that 1 and 2 still can entail the same problems though. If it helps you check your blind spot you might occasionally stop checking yourself and rely on it to check for you. Then you implicitly start relying on that feature to work. It's different degrees of handing over control though.
"Australia's privacy commissioner has launched an investigation to determine whether Facebook breached the Australian privacy act.

...

Facebook has admitted 311,127 Australian users are likely among the up to 87 million users worldwide whose data was unknowingly and "improperly" shared with the British political consultancy agency."

Source:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/05/facebook-...
Considering that tesla w/ autopilot enabled is less safe than tesla w/ autopilot disabled, I'm going to go with "no, if you control for those factors it doesn't reduce fatalities".
Airline pilot training is designed to handle this, as well as they have a co-pilot who prevents them from being distracted and is able to take over if they are distracted.

Tesla is just handing it out to anyone who can afford to buy a Model S/X (and now Model 3) with the absolute minimum of warnings that they can get away with.
If it's a compiler collection, what languages does it compile? And, more importantly, does it finally contain the SufficientlySmartCompiler®? With a title like that it would be really disappointing if it didn't.
It completely does. Why are cloth diapers third world? Why are disposables seen as so superior that they should be had at a discount? They should be expensive to account for their environmental cost. Just because they didn't care about that in the 50s doesn't mean anything.

So yeah, it's incredibly relevant.
Nothing is guaranteed when we are born into this world. Nature is out to get us, and it's survival of the fittest.

People who are born into wealth have it way easier, but they can still lose it all and go broke. Then they'll adapt and try to overcome it, and the ones that can adapt survive. Just like nature's always been.
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> 12 changes a day is not an outlier for a newborn, it’s normal. My son is 18 months and we change him probably 6 times a day at least.

You can start potty training a kid at around one year's age though, which will decrease the need for diapers. That age depends on a kid of course, in my family it has started around when the kids learn to walk so age of 1-1.5.
He left quite a bit later after the article was posted. I was wondering whether this article helped.
Android let's you touch & drag the spacebar for this - thing is, it works just fine on my cheap old phone, no pressure-touch required.
> it could be considerably safer.

If my card is lost or broken? The system you describe seems clearly at less risk of inappropriate disclosure. Whether it's safer is perhaps another question.
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Web server implementations in ASP.NET Core
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Setup IIS with URL Rewrite as a reverse proxy for real world apps.
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One could say the same of atomic weapons, yet it's likely that nuclear weapons have saved more lives that we can even imagine. The impact of war was accelerating in raw numbers, and increasing in relative numbers, all the way up to WW2. 3-4% of the world's population was killed in WW2. In today's terms that would be ~270 million people. Think about that number for a minute. Let's put it in scales of 9/11s. During 9/11 2,996 people were killed. Our scaled WW2 had 90,120 times more deaths. That number is so absurdly large it's difficult to grasp. So put another way that's a 9/11 scale event every single day for 246 years. The United States, as a nation, was founded 242 years to give that number some scale. Just think about that! If each generation has children at 30 years old then another way of seeing that number would be a 9/11 event each and every day from today until 2 years after your great great great great great great great grandchild is born.

But then came the nuke. Nuclear weapons make traditional war between developed and nuclear capable nations basically impossible. Think about what the Cold War really was, or even what the geopolitical 'disagreements' of today are. Those are World Wars 3 and 4, averted because these wars would be unwinnable by any side. Like Einstein said, 'I'm not sure what World War 3 will be fought with, but the 4th will be fought with sticks and stones!'

Did the people developing nukes understand that they would finally create a weapon that immensely powerful that it would deter open unrestrained war for decades to come? It's possible, but I think that their motivation was something more straight forward - gain military superiority in the present, probably also mixed with a bit of scientific curiosity about the challenge of creating a nuclear bomb.

It's difficult to predict the future. The most awful and aweful weapon created in the history of mankind ended up creating the most unprecedented period of peace for mankind as well. This is also why I vehemently oppose nuclear disarmament. That's how you get WW3 if people actually disarm, though in reality it'd simply likely result in nations obfuscating their nuclear weapon programs and facilities. It's just a molten salt thorium reactor guys, come on - breeders are awesome!
Your dad would be happy to get a car that was 10X less safe, but the rest of us on the road will be less so.

These are public roads, driving a dangerous cars put other people at risk.
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I use things similar to that Squatty Potty and it feels better for me. I discovered this a couple of years ago. Coincidentally we have brand name ones at work, but any stable platform will do--my favorite might be this kids' stool from Ikea: https://m.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/art/60248418/
This is certainly true if you are running a daycare, hospital, or similar. It's also true when diapers change ownership, for example when used ones are sold.

If you'll be putting them right back on the same kid, then no. Remember, you don't boil the kid's ass to be hygienic. You'll be putting that diaper on an unboiled ass. The diaper doesn't need to be boiled.
Maybe she could have waited until she had $30 saved up before having a kid? Crazy, I know.
Your comment is completely contradictory.

You say the OP's comment reeks of privilege/ignorance, but you go ahead and expect government privilege in $CURRENY_YEAR.

The OP was commenting that certain people leech and do not want to find a job and help themselves, but rather want more help from the government.

I grew up with cloth diapers not because my family was poor, but just simply because it was a better choice for us at the time. My Family grew up in the 50-60s with cloth diapers, because other types of diapers weren't available. I don't see that cloth diapers are a poor-people's choice. Why is that so "third world"? Is it bellow some "level" you think should exist - that my friend is the privilege/ignorance you were smelling in other comments.
Please be transparent about the process, maybe add a "progress tracker". I'm grateful for the HN community saving me much time informing me there's a "personality questionnaire" (wtf is that?) awaiting at the other end of the funnel.

[E: this should have been down there sorry]
That is not true. IQ correlates with basically every good life outcome.

Here's an example discussion of how this works, drawing on various studies: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/02/stalin-and-summary-stat...
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Reminds me of Frank Herbert's "Dune", where the greening of the desert was viewed as ecological destruction (and more), as it destroyed the habitat of the worms.
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I'm nerding out here, but roads are complicated and it actually requires a qualifier!

Assuming no exit-only lanes, there is a V-shaped area you can drive into: the beginning of the new exit lane. And then it's followed by another V-shaped area that you can't: the resumption of the shoulder.

One way you can tell the difference is lines, if they are painted properly. But you can also tell from context. If you know (from experience and/or road signs) that only one lane peels off for this exit, and if you have already seen the V-shaped area for the exit, then the next V-shaped area is not OK to drive into.
Guess it's just me, but I find the regular text selection tool a lot quicker and more intuitive. Also, I wonder how many people that haven't read about it somewhere know the feature even exists.

BTW, I have 3d touch on, just don't ever use it. It's on because I'm preparing myself for the inevitable future of variable force touch gestures.
Those are clearly not the only two options. Waymo appears to be far and away the leader in this space, and they've killed zero people.
> Whether the statement from the regulatory agency can be independently verified is immaterial

You believe independent verification of study results are "immaterial"? OK.
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Might depend on the age, I'd have a higher standard of sterilization for a newborn than for a 3yo.