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This thread started off with the GP comment by crabasa saying "Wouldn't Tesla vehicles have a higher rate of crashes [if Autopilot was so dangerous], all things being equal?".

I'm pointing out that all other things aren't equal, and you can't assume from overall crash data that you can tease out statistics about how safe a specific feature of the car is.

The comparison to the Fiat 500 is relevant because while the report didn't only compare Tesla vehicles to it, that's one of the comparisons.

Is a Tesla less safe than a Fiat 500 given that it's driven by the same sorts of drivers, in similar conditions and just as carefully as a Fiat 500? Maybe, but who knows? We don't have that data, since there's an up-front selection bias when you buy a high-performance luxury car.

I wasn't able to find the raw report mentioned in this article, but here's a similar older report they've published:

http://www.iihs.org/media/2648a3bc-0c73-4036-ae00-a53a399a18...

There you can see that the claim frequency of Tesla is indeed a bit higher than all other cars they're compared to, but this doesn't hold when adjusted for claim severity or overall losses. There cars like the BMW M6 and the Audi RS7 pull ahead of Tesla by far.

So at the very least you'd have to be making the claim that even if this data somehow showed how badly performing Autopilot was, that it was mainly causing things like minor scratches, not severe damage such as crashing into a freeway divider.

Just looking at these numbers there seems, to me anyway, to be a much stronger correlation between lack of safety and whether the buyer is a rich guy undergoing a mid-life crisis than any sort of Autopilot feature.
Depends, if the disease can be transmitted to other hosts and doesn't kill patient 0 in a reasonable time the economical advantage is nil, or even negative.
Well I guess there are the sheep and cattle to eat, and they would go wild. But we have no native mammals, and the imported tahr and pigs are notoriously hard to hunt.
Confirming have seen this play out before on a smaller scale.

Some call it the sunk cost fallacy... but actually when someone has invested enough money in you, you actually get leverage over them when the alternative is a smoking crater where their investment used to be.
> Because Visual Studio regularly, even on the latest 15.7 preview shits the bed with OutOfMemoryExceptions on our large solution, I'm inclined to rage "why don't they just make it 64 bit?

There's technical reasons alone and there's decisions being made based on other factors.

Iirc the product manager for Visual Studio was against blindly moving VS to 64-bit just because it uses a lot of memory. He considered that fixing the symptome and not the cause. He wanted the team instead to spend their time trying to identify inefficiencies and memory leaks.

Now... If you can say that decision has paid off or not is not for me to call, but I do appreciate the reasoning behind the decision.

If they can make it work well with a 32-bit constraint, that's clearly better than yet another app which uses 8GB memory for no reason.
Zuckerberg Admits, He May Have Just Bankrupted His Own Company
No offense, but I feel like this is not a good example to follow.

The first examples are better off with just using snapshots. Even if the author is trying to explain the concepts, it is really poor to show bad examples that could be covered by a simpler solution. If I read that and didn't know about snapshots, I'd think to myself, "why am I testing strings?" and then skip testing entirely.

Mocking Axios also seems like the wrong way to approach things. I'd extract the networking code from the presentation code. Possibly by using mobx-state-tree (which is an epic solution to a hard problem). This way, I wouldn't even need to mock Axios at all and I could then just take advantage of snapshots again by providing actual mock data to my components directly.
It has taken decades to make linux stable and relatively bug free (Discounting systemd) As much as it would be great to have a new OS I wonder what is it based on and why?
It's not only simplistic. It's reductionist, the mentality that promoted margarine over butter and sweetened foods over fatty foods since 1960, yielding generations of diabetic, obese people with heart problems and increased rates of cancer, to the point that we're considering it an epidemic.

Nutritionists have promoted so many falsehoods based on faulty studies, forever damaging the image of the healthcare industry, that people now feel justified in ignoring sound medical advice and embracing alt-truth (e.g. anti-vaxers).
The counterpoint is that you could look at it like encrypting your messages.

For years, using PGP for email was possible, but only a few people did, because it was clunky and they didn't care enough. The climate changed, but so did technology. WhatsApp now makes E2E message encryption trivial, due to the work they've put in to make it easy for users.

You could argue that if a cryptocurrency based service made the usage of that cryptocurrency sufficiently easy then it wouldn't matter that there hadn't been much adoption up to that point.

To put it another way - the market size for Peepeth isn't "people who already own some form of crypto", it's "people who don't want their messages censored". The use of crypto may be a barrier to entry for some of those people, but it doesn't necessarily have to be.
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> It's basically cruise control that has some lane keeping abilities.

And this is exactly why calling it Autopilot is immoral and dangerous.
No, because as noted in my sibling comment[1] that would assume that you've got the same demographic buying a Lexus as a BMWs. That's been shown not to be the case, there's a selection bias where people who are going to drive unsafely buy higher performance vehicles.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16819101
A friend of mine agrees with your position and has built a business out of crossing this great divide between print and the web and actually I think his toolset is exactly the kind of 'DevTool for Designers' that this article is calling for .. so I'd be quite intrigued what other designers think of it.

Shameless plug: http://h5mag.com/

(I'm just a friend of the founder of h5mag, and would love to know what isn't DevTools'y about h5mag, from a developers perspective. Disclaimer: I'm a developer...)
How Can Malware Persist Thru OS Reinstallations?
Some possibilities come to mind.

1- Infected BIOS

2- Infected internal or external drive (OS isn't installed on them)(I wonder if they could infect the system drive without even running a program within them)

3- Can you think of other methods?

They must be somewhat sophisticated. Please explain what is possible and how.
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CSSNext: TurboCharge Your CSS Development
This isn’t even wrong. It follows Drexler’s method. Just keep writing and writing and writing.
I think your 160 billions include advertising and lobbying.
Well, if you'd approach the issue _sensibly_, then the answer could be "why not both?"

Disaster preparation is very much about community. A mistake or lack of luck can easily wipe out your "preparation." A disjointed community can eradicate it (and yeah, they'll spot your creepy 'grey man' shtick eventually). But a community could, and arguably should, prepare itself for possible disasters.

But what do I know, I just live in a place where if a levee breaks somewhere half the country will be taking boats to work.
Why should the two be exclusive?
There is an another big difference: groups
> Looking at how English has been used to create a raft of rich and diverse poetry, plays, prose and literature in general, the same should be applied to C++ because the unique use of it in a variety of varying circumstances surely is its beauty.

I don't think this is a valid argument, though. Natural languages have to be rich. Programming languages should be terse and concise because we have to keep most of them in our heads at one time and our brain capacity is limited. You don't need to know all of English/French/Romanian but you kind of need to know all of C++/Python/Javascript to do your job well when developing C++/Python/Javascript.

I think the C++ designers lately kind of agree with me but the backward compatibility requirements are really stringent and they can't just deprecate a lot of the older features.
Another great, and free place to get C++ tutorials is the Virtual Studio software websites. As long as you aren't afraid of reading your lesson, there is a ton of coverage from simple tasks, ranging all the way to super advanced. For me reading is a little less convenient because you... have to read, but it's also more convenient because it's at your own pace without have to hit the pause button while you follow along with a video and try to code at the same time.
https://www.besanttechnologies.com/training-courses/data-war...
I see you're being downvoted into oblivion, but I absolutely agree with you - I'm unclear why anyone would want one of these devices in their home. The best use I have seen for them at my friend's homes is crappy lights control(which would annoy the hell out of me, just get up and flick the switch, instead of trying to shout over the music "hey google switch the living room lights on" - which doesn't work all the time). I'm just not interested in voice interfaces at all, I think they are genuinely the worst way to interact with a computer, period, possibly tied for 1st place with touch controls in cars. The only thing I'm worried about is that this unwillingness to put a microphone in my house will make me look like a Luddite in 10 years as everyone and their pet seem to be buying these en-masse.
I view Mass Effect as KOTOR without a Star Wars license. It has always felt to me like Bioware wanted a parallel universe to a popular universe, one they could have creative control over. Kind of like Warcraft was basically Warhammer without license and Starcraft feels in many ways similar to WH40k.
Yes. What's disconcerting, though, is that the autopilot will often take a different line through a turn than I would. Still within the lane, just not what I would do. For me that felt like I had to correct the autopilot even when I didn't, so I didn't trust it. That was on a test drive. I've never enabled autopilot on my own Tesla.
Yea, but knowing how to plat rice seems critical to this plan...

I know I'd be in trouble.
How else would you describe an Automatically Piloted Vehicle then?

If it's not self-driving, don't call it Autopilot, and don't lull people into a false sense of security. Even with alarms to try and keep the driver engaged, people are inherently going to place more faith in 'Autopilot' than 'Enhanced Cruise Control' or something similarly named.

The marketing around this feature is reckless, and Tesla + Musk should be ashamed. To the point that I would consider working on that team to be immoral.

For what it's worth, this is coming from a big Musk fan.
I suggest you look at the pegged library. It does compile-time parser generation of parsers that work at compile time. I think the examples folder contains a C grammar.

But then I suppose getting it working is better than getting it elegant.
I only dabbled with Gtk-rs for a bit, and Rust does not really fit my UI/UX workflows, but I would still suggest as major improvement a better way to being able to reference struct fields from callbacks without the current Option<Rc<>> workarounds.
IIRC, Monaco was actually first, and VSCode was based on that :)
We hated the name as soon as it was announced, before any incident. People thought it was misleading and we have another proof it is.
It's an empirical matter, but my hunch is that most of the people who focus on correlations between intelligence and ethnic groups or phenotypical perceived "race" are racists. Many people aren't aware that you can be a racist without knowing it. (In a broader sense we're all racists, as practically everybody overgeneralizes based on stereotypes.)

It's important to stress that the differences between members of the perceived groups ("ethnicities", "country of origin", "mother tongue", "a certain look") are much larger within that group than any measurable differences between averages of those groups. That is not to say that some research in these areas cannot make sense for e.g. policy making. For example, people who have suffered severe malnutrition in their childhood can have lower IQ on average, and the same is the case for many other environmental and social factors, of course.

The reason why people like to focus on intelligence is that unlike other human characteristics like strength, intelligence is almost universally used as a kind of honorific. If you tell someone that he or she is intelligent, this will make them proud. If you tell someone he or she is not very intelligent, this will be taken as a grave insult. Additionally, everybody overestimates his own intelligence.

All of this is kind of ironic, because intelligence is highly overrated. Intelligence doesn't count much, it's what you make of it. Moreover, whether you like it or not, society does not have a need for more highly intelligent people. There are not enough jobs for them.

Last but not least, people who think of themselves as being very intelligent usually haven't tried to solve hard enough problems.
I've worked with some talented designers in the past, and this rings true every time. They are often seen as great designers because they don't compromise, and the result of that is a happy designer, a not-so-happy client, and an unhappy development team. It's been almost shocking at times how little some of them have known about basic web standards, and how leading design teams have been built by people that would consider things like mobile-first to be "a fad".
Full text of the journal article referenced in the Deutsche Welle article is paywalled, but there is what looks like a research/conference poster at https://www.ufz.de/export/data/2/149396_EGU_2017_Schmidt.pdf that contains quite a lot of detail.
Well, if you're comparing Linux and Windows' kernel specifically, they seem about the same, if everything we know about Windows' kernel is true.
Blind Kid Uses Echolocation (sonar) to “See”
Seems to me in the video there's no intervention needed at the 21 second mark, and the car's already hit the barrier at the 22 second mark. Youtube doesn't provide sub-second time marks, but I'd estimate it's 21.5 second before I'd expect the car to start turning, giving the driver 0.5 seconds to notice the failure, take control of the vehicle, and execute the swerve required.

The Queensland government estimates it takes drivers 1.5 seconds to react to an emergency [1] (I wouldn't be surprised if that was a 99th percentile figure, of course)

The only thing we can blame the victim for here is foolishly trusting Tesla's apparently crap software.

[1] https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/road-safety/driving-...
Neurons will always be firing at some low level background rate, in biology I think the focus is more on the rate of fire than on individual spikes, and as far as I remember if that's all a neuron ever does it will indeed atrophy.

The best book on the subject for me is "How Brains Make Up Their Minds" by Walter J. Freeman, not only is it a short book which explains the real observed activity of neurons, but it is also backed up by an extremely strong vein of philosophy for meaningful interpreting the observations.
They're working as fast as they can - test site coming up, full demonstrator coming next. A pile of cash isn't needed at this time. There's not a lot of parallel stuff to do or kit to build.
You're very naive if you think that's worth it even in the slightest. See army budgets - and remember that no one will fight for you for your ideas, since you have none. And people (read: other armies) will oppose you.
As always happens in these cases, I believe that whatever public authority (the municipality, the governement, etc.) making an "agreement" with a private company does three (IMHO) terrible things:

1) undervalues its own authority (ultimately the authority of citizens/people) to simply make a Law or regulation and enforce it

2) recognizes to a private company (which big as it might be is only one of the various playes in the field) a "contractual force" that the company should not have, besides giving to it a lot of brand publicity for free

3) consequently all other companies operating in the same field are (without any particular reason) underprivileged, somehow reinforcing and helping the attempts to become a monopoly of the "big one".
Oh ... is it real? Beta? Googleinh seems to confirm so.

Other car manufacturer use trained personel for testing.

I mean this is silly and should be illegal.
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I am also designer who codes, and like the author was classically trained but switched to digital medium. You are hundred percent right, designers who cannot comprehend UX part of the medium will never be able to deliver interactive experiences, they always will see web design like it was in early 2000, visual first. But there are small portion of us that uses design language for functional purpose, we care for UX first. The visual part of designing a layout is moving away from focus, its more important to make original illustration, compelling video or audio. PS> The funny part is that those print layouts are broken in current web with 80 percent mobile web consumption:)
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How do you allow access and editing of any identifying data previously posted, so as to comply with GDPR?
http://densepose.org/ Which can extract the surface of the human body in real time.
Show HN: Keikai – Spreadsheet for Big Data
Sorry, I’ve got no Android device to debug on... Feel free to make a pull request at https://github.com/kiding/zucc-slider
Ask HN: How did you expand your English vocabulary?
English not being my primary language I often have problems naming things when coding. I read books and use the dictionary, but are there any other ways to expand my English vocabulary?

I would love to be able to do a "reverse dictionary search", something like asking a friend "what's the word for ...".
The closer you are to the equator, the less lateral boosting you need to do because Earths spin helps you out. Less boost = less fuel.

That's why the US launches from Florida and the Soviets used to launch from Kazakhstan
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The NOVA food classification and the trouble with ultra-processing
Never has man so eloquently expressed the frustration of millions (OK maybe thousands).

The trick to use C++, is to use less of it. C with classes and namespaces. Oh and smart pointers.
the Royal Navy needs a STOVL fighter-bomber to replace the Harrier since they don't have full-sized carriers

The QE class carriers are 50% larger than the French carrier that has cats’n’traps and can happily operate any navalized aircraft. It’s not that they’re too small. It’s that they were designed by idiots. Then more idiots signed the cheques for them.
'Protectionist tariff:' Warning over tax hit coming for online shoppers
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> giving the driver 0.5 seconds to notice the failure, take control of the vehicle, and execute the swerve required.

If you have to be constantly at this level of alertness, what is even the point of having an autopilot?
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It's easier to get this right:

{
Resource foo(path);
if … {
return -ENOMEM
}
return 0;
}

Than to get this right:

{
Resource* foo = acquire(path);
if … {
release(foo);
return -ENOMEM
}
release(foo);
return 0;
}

Even if you do the goto-style:

{
Resource* foo = acquire(path);
int rc = 0;
if … {
rc = -ENOMEM
goto out;
}
out:
release(foo);
return rc;
}
The (still paper) Skylon proposal is a huge beastie vehicle that will need a very long, strong special runway.

One nice thing about the vehicle is how it can make a huge range of orbits by just steering the plane before its fast ascent phase. That means it could be in the UK, as some of the challenges with orbital launches are avoided.
At my university course, we did C in the first year for all programming courses. THen onto C++ in year 2 onwards, but all the fundamentals were in C.

Now that same course goes straight to Java as the introductory language, alongside html / css and javascript.

Now any sort of low(er) level language is avoid until year 2 when they do a course on C / C++

Which seems ass backwards to me.

I also see some developers come into the industry now who have never done anything lower level than Java or javascript at all
part of making a new operating system could be getting to muck with the language features ...

... i suppose this project is locked into G-standard C++ and with lots of good reasons (e.g. toolchain). although i'm an anti-C++ person, i suppose the sorts of tools available internal to Alphabet make it much more manageable.

anyway, for an example of the original premise: i'm slowly learning some things about plan 9 C via 9front.. there are some departures from ANSI C, including additional features like (completely undocumented, except for the relatively compact source) operator overloading. equally important for the type of person that finds C++ too busy, some features (e.g. certain preprocessor features) are removed.
Confluence at my last job, it was a mess. If folks don't make an effort to keep documentation up to date & organized I doubt the tool used matters much. Finally find the stage db fqdn for that one app, but turns out it was moved twice in the year since the documentation was updated? Good times!
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Freenet has been around for almost twenty years, it's known to contain illegal content (including CP), and as far as I know its users haven't been systematically raided.

On a different note, Sone - microblogging over Freenet - has been around for quite a while, and it's under active development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet

https://github.com/Bombe/Sone
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How long until it becomes cannibalized into a frivolous Snapchat selfie filter?
> They can't fire us all

For every one employee who thinks this, there's ten ready to fill that role.
I'm not sure what you're asking - could you give me an example of what you're envisioning that couldn't be satisfied with a combination of Boolean expressions in the WHERE clause ?
People here seem to be amazed that this project is in C++, rather than a simpler language (C) or a more modern language (Rust). But you must notice that this is a Google project, and Google writes many many projects, internal and external in C++. It almost never writes in plain C, and has no penchant for fancy new programming languages. You may disagree, but Google doesn't care.
>Basic memory management and error handling, for example, are radically easier and less error prone in C++ than in C

You wouldn't be doing much memory management in such a kernel. And where you would, you wouldn't let it to C++.
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