skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't even enable cruise control because taking the accelerator input away from me is enough to cause my mind to wander

You're not alone. I find the act of modulating my speed is what keeps me focused on the task of driving safely. Steering alone isn't enough; I can stay in my lane without tracking the vehicles around me or fully comprehending road conditions.

Until a Level 5 autonomous car is ready to drive me point A to point B while I watch a movie I will remain firmly in command of the vehicle.
Doing some basic image processing and tracking customers flow through the store would be fascinating.

You could categorize what people are shopping for, how long, and what buying one item tends to mean for the rest of their shopping cart.

I'd read that paper!
Yes! I was so happy when they pulled this out of VSCode. I really want to use it on a future project and I love the idea of code in the browser for sharing learning opportunities!
This is an example of a myth that just won't die. The Skeptics Society (to give but one example) has been trying for years to put this nonsense to rest:

https://www.skeptic.com/insight/the-myth-of-learning-styles/

I have even made multiple visits to my children's schools and tried to explain the actual research connected with pedagogy and communication but to little avail:

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/PSPI_9_3....

Like the myth that "we only use 10% of our brains", the myth about learning styles seems immortal.
Posix: The origin of the name
Ted Unangst had a few posts where time getting featured heavily, e.g. https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/firefox-vs-rthreads and the linked mailing list thread https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=144649333120401&w=2

There's a few more related articles on his blog if you search, and I've read of it being implicated elsewhere, that's not to say the software calling that much was doing the right thing, just that it had impact.
Ah, it must be spring. This pops up about once a quarter either here or on /r/chicago.

I still think Doc Ripco knows who did it.
I figure even if the perpetrator comes clean at this point, there will be no way to actually verify it. Maybe it actually is one of many people claiming so online.
do you have a link/source for this? just curious, thanks
It's the other way around. Low level is all async everywhere, blocking is sort of just telling the kernel to wait for async op to complete before running the process.
The Case for Paying to Use Google and Facebook
I think Feral Interactive worked with my colleagues for the port. I was in a different team working on Android for HP Printers
The third party service can provide you with some JavaScript you inject into your website. It stores cookies on your domain instead of a third party one.
Show HN: dumd – tiny async amd/umd javascript initialization
You seem to be confusing marginal tax rate with effective tax rate.

People making 300k in California will pay between 33% and 39% effective tax rate (depending on marital status), including State, Federal, and FICA.

And that’s without simple tax sheltering techniques like pre-tax deduction for health care, contributing to a 401k, and deducting mortgage interest.

https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator
dumd helps ensure that a set of umd/amd javascripts execute in proper order. It doesn’t have the overhead of a true amd loader or the sophistication of webpack loader or systemjs, but if all you want to do is use async script tags with umd bundles, this may help.
MySQL for years was far easier to install, configure and run than PostgreSQL, especially features like replication which was much better than other options. Big companies use these databases as more like simple key/value systems rather than complex relational schemas so strong replication and operational simplicity was favored over the rich featureset of Postgres.

Eventually Postgres caught up in most things, and the delay was in some part because of implementing those features "correctly" and with more thought, but it's still a delay that hurt the uptake in the early days.
How much to people pay you for hosting one such site? The idea to design and host simple sites sometimes crosses my mind when I go to some restaurant that doesn't have a working site.
Rawpixel – Changing the way people see stock photos
Thanks for reminding about NOVA! I had totally forgotten about it. Doesn't seem to have much activity since 2010 though, unfortunately. I wonder why Google does't just build on L4 or something like Nova instead of starting from scratch. These systems are low-level and general enough to do what they want, possibly better than they could achieve themselves. L4-sec has had 2 decades of research put into it, 3 decades if you count is predecessor L3.
See the Breeder's equation:

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27199
This is exactly how It felt to me.

I've only got pop culture knowledge of World Of Warcraft, and the way they explained most parts of the movie was really hard to follow. They needed:

- More world-building, geography was hard to follow, jumping around too much.

- Better character introduction, characters would just appear, banking on fans recognising them.

- Less assumed knowledge...

The whole movie came off a bit amateurish in how the story was told...
A Gentleman's Guide to the NBA: When Players Agree to Take Plays Off
Local vaults is completely client side encrypted, so you didn't have to trust dropbox or iCloud if you used that to sync.

The only major vuln are the updates, and that would have to be a backdoor delivered to everyone, otherwise the mismatched hashes would be noticeable. The surface area is smaller with the client side encrypted version.
Anything can be made to work with enough effort! Imagine how much easier it would be if POSIX actually had a better API.
That's nothing, tear downs in shitty parts of east Vancouver go for $1.9m regularly.
The problem as always with driving is that you can be as attentive, sober, cautious as humanly possible... while the guy who jumps the median into your windscreen may not be. We need to be more concerned and proactive about stopping this running experiment with half-asses automation in which we all unwillingly participate. I want lvl 5 automation just like anyone, but I don’t believe it’s anywhere close, and I’m not interested in being part of a Tesla or Uber’s attempt to be even richer.

Public roads are not laboratories. It’s not just Tesla owners who are participating in this, it’s everyone on the road with them.
If we accept patches, then the person who has submitted the patch owns the copyright on that patch, and that means the software is no longer completely in the public domain. Unless, of course, the patch submitter has filled out a lot of legal paperwork to dedicate their code to the public domain, which rarely happens.
Thanks. I clicked on the youtube link before reading the article and was surprised at first that the paper was about Warren G (as some geek off the street, I had never heard of Michael McDonald).
I'm genuinely curious how this compares to something like, say, Mastodon. It seems to me like Mastodon actually offers a lot of the same advantages.
It's a deceptive to assume autopilot saves lives when it too has taken them. The number of people with access to auto pilot is far fewer to statistically determine how many more center divider deaths we might have if everyone were it's passenger.

Is the life taken by auto pilot worth less than the life taken by the aggressive driver who takes out an innocent driver? No.

I hope we eventually save lives as in net improvement in current death totals by using these technologies but the risks are not well communicated, the marketing is entirely out of sync with the risks and the "martyrs" we create thus to me look like victims.
An encoder / decoder architecture learns a more "efficient" representation. It tries to find features it can use that are useful for describing the variations in the input data (images) that it has seen.

For example, if trained on faces, it will learn features for things like eyes and mouths. So the image can be encoded as put a mouth of this type with this width at this location rather than operating at the level of pixels.

If trained on text, it might learn features related to letters and typography (boldness, italics, size, spacing). So it might encode things as Helevetica, 16pt, italics.

This is a gross oversimplification, and things rarely map exactly to concepts humans would use, but hopefully it communicates the concept.
The line about fundamental legal/moral principle being a broken promise is dead wrong. Who wrote this? Tesla has a horrible pr firm appareantly.

The fundamental principle is standard of care. One could say it was reasonably foreseeable this would happen since the driver reported it! Tesla was negligent and their best hope would be to show comparative fault by the driver. But forget negligence.

Products liability is strict liability. Someone died here. Causation is the only issue and imo it looks bad for Tesla.The fundamental premise of both moral and legal liability is a broken promise, and there was none here Very very stupid statement on their part. They should have quietly settled this. Bad pr and legally peroulous. As a shareholder this makes me question their competence to deal with these matters. They should fix the issue and settle. All the discovery and everything about mobile eye and radar. Horrible strategy by Tesla. It’s like they take it personal since auto pilot failed. People are dumb. It doesn’t matter if they warned him to keep his hands on the wheel. Someone died. There was an alternative design that was safer. Whoever wrote that statement should be fired
Tesla's marketing around this feature is completely at odds with what they say when a problem happens. If you are required to be paying attention with hands on the wheel at all times, then the "Autopilot" name itself is fraudulent, not to mention all the blather about how it's safer than a human driver. Even if self-driving cars were imminent (they aren't), this sort of blatant misrepresentation by the likes of Tesla (a company who surely doesn't need the lure of self-driving to sell its cars) would set back consumer interest and adoption by years.
> AEB is undoubtedly good, Autosteer is debatable.

AEB is clearly unreliable, as it didn't automatically slow the car in any of these cases where the car was pointed directly at a significant-sized stationary solid object.

I did worry about this sort of thing back when they mentioned nuisance trips of the radar-based AEB system, and that to deal with them they were basically just geotagging where these nuisance trips happened and disabling the system near those points. I'd like to know if AEB was actually active at the location where the fatality occurred.
OK. Anything else you want to make up?

Let's see what that imagination can craft.
As far as I know Tesla has never endorsed letting their cars drive themselves for more than a short time and only when traffic and road conditions are optimal. I'd be fine with anyone showing me otherwise but I'm pretty sure I seen statements specifically saying do not use the autopilot in city highway traffic conditions.

The driver is the only one to blame in this case. That's not a cold or heartless thing to do, it's just a fact.

Tesla cannot remain silent about this. They have to tell people to not do what this driver was doing. It could have been worse. He could have killed others driving nearby.
It's very interesting. I've heard it said in online lectures that it does a sort of compression but nobody really uses it for that because existing algorithms perform much better. Guess this is no longer true.
Ask HN: How developer can help freedom of speech
I am a somewhat seasoned developer with web and ML experience. How can I apply my skills in a freedom domain (freedom of speech in particular)? I am sure there are some ideas/projects/communities that can benefit extra developer.
Mysteries die when somebody owns up. This story works better for everyone as a bit of the past which will probably never come back, because swamping a local analog microwave feed with another beam can't happen in a digital signal world [1]

[1] for some value of can't, which includes maybe can
Do you mean people that wear a suit and tie in an environment where most people are in jeans or shorts?

Please, please don't be that guy.
The 3.x branch has developers committed to improving it and the 2.x branch basically doesn't. You shouldn't bet your horse on stagnation in a technology industry.
So we should kill even more people, who had never signed up to be guinea pigs, so that maybe there will be a self-driving car at some point? Which most of those dying in those crashes will not be able to afford anytime soon anyway...
Good question. With Mastodon, there is no central data store. So if your chosen front-end goes down (which hosts your content), you're out of luck. I think they're working on that problem though.
While I agree with your conclusion, the opening line strikes me as silly. Why is it "so important" to have self-driving cars? These cars that can't detect stationary objects directly in front of them are nowhere close to the self-driving pipe dream that's been around for a century. Maybe by 2118 we'll be making more progress.
I believe you did that conversion and that it worked for you. I still don't think it's a slam dunk when you're talking about a stable, production product that can't have errors. It's almost impossible to do the conversion with static analysis alone, unless you know something I don't.
I always figured this was to support Material Design, where the size of a drop shadow depends on the difference in elevation between the surface casting the shadow and the surface underneath.[1] A Material Design compositor would have to know the position of each process' surfaces in 3D space in order to render shadows correctly.

[1]: https://material.io/guidelines/material-design/elevation-sha...
LINPACK would probably run equivalently. Anything that just needs the CPU will work about the same. It's overhead like networking/disk/display where microkernels lose out. Not saying that's overall a reason not to use, as the tradeoffs in terms of isolation/simplicity/security are an area very much worth investigating.
>I think it's safe to assume that this will drastically reduce driving related injuries and deaths.

This assumes that the self driving tech will continue to increase in competence and will at some point surpass humans. I somehow find that extremely optimistic, bordering in on being naive.

Consider something like OCR or object recognition alone, where similar tech is applied. Even with decades of research behind it, it really cannot come any where close to a human in terms of reliability. I am talking about stuff that can be trained endlessly with any sort of risk. Still it does not show an ever increasing capability.

Now, machine learning and AI is only part of the picture. The other part is the sensors. This again is not anywhere near the sensors a human is equipped with.

From what we have seen in the tech industry in recent years is that trust in a tech by the people, even intelligent ones such as people who are investing in it, is not based on logic (Theranos, uBeam etc). I think such a climate is exactly what is enabling tests such as these. But unlike others, these tests are actually putting unsuspecting lives on line. And that should not be allowed..
Actually in the CG shader language you can index arrays with floats to get automatic linear interpolation, but I digress...
What makes you think transit is poor?
car is visible in WebP.
Are you sure about coffee? Dr. Rhonda Patrick seems to think otherwise. https://twitter.com/foundmyfitness/status/749292233166237696...
I'm guessing you must not be a lawyer.
Still can't get a taxi most nights unless you call an hour ahead. In fact, you'll be able to get legal weed in this city before you can hail a ride service.
clock_gettime is extremely heavily used by nearly everything. Any form of work queue that supports delayed work, for example, is sitting on clock_gettime. Any form of media uses it heavily, as does self-monitoring to look for performance regressions in the wild.

You might be shielded from this depending on what level you're working at, but there's a reason that vDSO exists basically solely for clock_gettime, too.

Yes it allows for timing attacks, but you can't really avoid that, either, not without utterly crippling your platform.
You shouldn't use the term enhancing user experience. It’s a
synonym for doing something against the interest of the user.
Certainly you should plan on getting Social Security. There is zero chance Social Security will go away, except in the fever dreams of Paul Ryan, who just retired.

The precise inflation adjusted return you’ll get on this social insurance scheme will be very low, and the retirement age may go up a bit, but unless we get effective immortality in your life time, the US can just pay for Social Security out of general funds.
Cadillac Super Cruise is far superior to Tesla's autopilot and is a true Level 3 system. It does active attention monitoring of the kind you're expecting and uses GPS fences to only activate where GM has detailed maps.

Still very new only only on a single model so far, but it's at least the right direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTuiB6Ob7Jc
> Is the life taken by auto pilot worth less than the life taken by the aggressive driver who takes out an innocent driver? No.

I think beliefs such as these is fueled by the extremely naive implication that each death will cause the learning algorithm to "improve itself" so every self driving thing out there is safer owing to that death..
That's odd. It's the only video and topmost content on a page titled Autopilot.
Intel Is Developing a Desktop Gaming GPU to Fight Nvidia, AMD
I’m pretty sure the last time this came up somebody on HN talked about meeting the people that did it (he knew them at the time it happened) along with some other interesting unpublished details.
Perhaps I'm subject to a giant whoosh here, but this subthread is recapitulating The Mythical Man-Month piece by piece.
To be fair, a car isn't normally used for driving on the freeway without looking where you're going for 5+ seconds at a time.
signed up for the waitlist too, excited to try it out!
Cynic in me asks what NCMEC would do, if there were no great epidemic of trafficking. And a nice easy target to pin it on.

Interestingly, all the examples below talk about grown up Asian women.

Not to say that trafficking never happens, or should not be stopped, but if it were as prevalent as they say, somebody would have presented a few by now.
This is a perennial story, but the best treatment of it, in my opinion, remains Chris Knittel's 2013 re-investigation of the case [1] for Vice Motherboard.

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pgay3n/headroom-h...
quite a few in the filmsphere and in decision making positions in holywood itself still care significantly about the art of film, independantly from the money thats brought in.
"Hey guys, I was wondering if we should migrate the Peepeth code base to pijul."

"You wanna put the Pee-what in the pee-who?"
>If you were starting a new project from scratch today, I'd seriously ask why not Rust, though of course there are other reasons why you might not choose it. But given the history, and how new Rust was at the time when this project was started, it makes a lot of sense.

While I'm not saying that rust is bad, Rust as a kernel language won't help you here. The simple proof is that Redox-os (which is a microkernel built in Rust) was found with the same class of bugs your average OS had.
The last time I counted there were well over a hundred people just committing code alone.

https://fuchsia-review.googlesource.com/q/status:open
Both humans and dodos have emotions though.

The history of animal domination has usually been additive in terms of cognitive systems... pure circulatory system animals were bested by animals with an endocrine system. Those were bested by animals who added a nervous system, who were bested by those who added a brainstem. Then the cerebellum and the cerebrum were added... you notice there aren’t giant cerebrums running around ruling the world, they all kept their endocrine systems intact.

I don’t see any reason to think AIs will be different... it’s the ones with all that PLUS machine learning that will be vying for dominance.

And so there’s no reason to expect our overlords to be emotionless.
ERP rates proposal at IEEE 802.11
Speaking of performance issues and architecture messes, have you ever tried real time audio on Windows Phone? The absence of real time audio apps speaks volumes.
Python is a dynamic language; adding a new method or member to an existing class is a breaking change. You don't have that problem with Go and Java.
You seem to know a lot about him...
> No mention of how you would remember that `f64` is the default floating point type

While the default is `f64`, it's only used if the type can't be inferred otherwise.

If the author had changed the `f64` in the code sample to `f32`, type inference would have made the float literal to be an `f32` to match.

That is a little complicated to explain, but the UX is such that literals generally "just work".
Think its going in this
https://ccsiobench.com/
The Model 3 has a driver-facing camera, presumably for exactly this.
At first, I thought the news was click bait. I watched the video fully to understand if a company like Telsa would really say something to this extent.

Tesla's auto-pilot requires the driver to be alert and have hands on the wheel.

The crash happened on a clear day with several hundred feet of visibility ahead,
which means the only way for this accident to have occured is
if Mr.Huang was not paying attention to the road.

This is the official response. I'm completely baffled and at a loss of words. I feel very sorry for the family and I hope they sue the sh*t out of Tesla just for this arrogant statement.

And as for Tesla, you should fire the guy that wrote this. If this official response was something approved by Musk, I just lost all respect for him.

Personally, this is why I am a hardcore manual guy. I drive a stick/manual. I don't even trust automatics to do the job right, let alone some software. There's no way I'm trusting a self driving car. I personally opine that driving is actually very relevant to planning ahead. If you drove a stick, you would know you need to shift down before a steep curve to maintain traction and to reduce your inertia to turn around safely. Or, if you're planning to overtake someone, or you foresee a situation that requires braking, you downshift.

As much inefficient as gearboxes + clutches + ICEs are, the ability to plan ahead and downshift correctly is an exclusive human edge that I believe strongly that computers can't mimic. If they could, we wouldn't have automatics (in 2018) that can't even downshift even with all that data from its sensors. Even the most expensive automatics w/ some sort of software fail to downshift correctly.

Unfortunately, in the driving world, it's not enough if your car can drive 99% accurately as even one instance of wrong downshit/upshift can kill you easily.

I strongly believe driving is best left to humans and there are simply too many variables that could be reliably fixed with mathematical algorithms. Sometimes, it just doesn't "feel" right and maybe it's ok to just trust our instincts.
I suspect one maybe still can, but that the result will be blank screen rather than a alternate feed.
Also GI Joe, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Scooby Doo, Transformers, Garfield, The Cat in the Hat, Smurfs, Star Wars, Terminator, Star Trek, Karate Kid, Spiderman, X-Men, Battleship, Speed Racer...