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I think they're talking about environmental factors that affect the propagation speed of the GPS radio signals from the satellites to the surface. This would give them higher resolution timings on the arrival of the GPS signals and thus better accuracy.

I don't think this has anything to do with the actual speed of light as that is constant (in empty space).

On a related note, one of the recent SpaceX launches caused some perturbations in the ionosphere and that had a measurable effect on GPS accuracy:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2017...
> "Autopilot requires the driver to be alert and have hands on the wheel."

By that definition every car I've ever driven has been fully self-driving.
These are encapsulation and signaling protocols, but don't really cover the questions of when to send each compressed video frame, how big it should be on the wire, and how to write an encoder that can compress it to hit that target size accurately. Some of the schemes we compared against (WebRTC reference implementation in Chrome, Hangouts, FaceTime, Skype) certainly use various parts of the standard protocol suite (with different engines to decide when and how much to send). But the call setup and encapsulation are not the focus here -- I'm sure we could do Salsify within SIP or WebRTC if necessary.
Certainly. And some programs may accept things are not CSVs.
Both Google Analytics and Facebook's interest based ads/"shadow" profiles work similarly.

You can opt out of Google's interest based ads via https://adssettings.google.com and Facebook's interest based ads via https://www.facebook.com/ads/settings without having to have an account with either.

I don't believe either "shadow" profiles are every associated with an account or personal details even when you make an account on the associated service.
> Maybe they internally call it "deferred profiles" or "pre-activated profiles" but not exactly "shadow profiles".

I can't find the article now, but a few weeks ago I saw an article stating that they call them "Future users" or something similar.
It's all about whether you've played the game. I can watch the movie knowing/accepting what the plot is (there's a tournament, people have to fight - just sit back and watch shit go down) and the characters (there's going to be a humanoid reptile etc).
I think the only way to get around this loophole is for companies that offer "unlimited vacation" to have a mandatory minimum amount of vacation, and if you leave without taking the full mandatory minimum you're compensated based on those unused vacation days.

For instance, if I were running/when I run a company I'd offer unlimited vacation with a two week mandatory minimum, which rolls over up to a four week mandatory minimum. So if you only use one week of vacation in year 1 and then leave, you'd be paid for a week's worth of vacation. If you stay on to year two, your new mandatory minimum is three weeks and you'd be compensated accordingly if you left without using it all.
You know you're living in the future when a car driving you headlong into concrete is being correctly identified as a bug.
Calling it autopilot implies you have to pay attention. It implies it's NOT self-driving or autonomous any more than airplanes (which virtually all have some sort of autopilot) are.
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I find it incredible how many congressmen seem interested in Facebook implementing a rich person mode where you pay them money to not share your data. They aren't worried so much about Facebook gathering data, but that there isn't an exception for the 1%.
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I'm no expert, but it seems like a risky proposition when agreements on future relations with the continent and any reciprocal rights of abode haven't been defined yet.
It's called autopilot, not self-driving.
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See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16814565

Doesn't your statement admit that Tesla is at least partially at fault? Something their lawyers would probably never allow.
I own a Model X. I love the car in many ways. However, I also think the automation is stupider than a 2 year old. Would you trust a 2 year old to drive your car or to decide when to close your Garage door?

I use the Auto-Steer, only when road is empty, is in a reasonably straight line and I am in the middle lane of at least 3 lane road. Otherwise I don't use it. It might also be fine to use it in stop and go on a divided highway because there is on way you will die at those speeds even if you are in an accident.

But sadly, some people trust the car automation with much more than what it is capable of. This leads to accidents like these. And I would blame Tesla here. Tesla has clearly been misleading in marketing this feature. Not everyone is very savvy and they sometimes take what a company says at face value. I have really smart friends who have seen the AutoPilot link [https://www.tesla.com/autopilot] and think that Tesla already have these advanced features.

In the end Tesla is just slightly more advanced than autonomous features of other manufacturers. However, Tesla claims to be much more advanced than others. Because it claims a lot more credit than it deserves, it's only fair that they also face criticism proportionately when the system fails.

Normally, I am against unnecessary regulation. However in this case, I think it is important to bring regulations around consistent messaging and 3rd party rating for autonomous features from all manufactures. We can't have "Move fast and break things" kill people. It's not the same thing as a social app losing a few posts.

Tesla should rename it's feature to "Drive Assist+" whatever, because that is all it is.

On an ending note - I feel sad that the deceased continued to use Autopilot at this spot, when it was known to them that is has failed at the same spot multiple times. If someone well educated, tech savvy and already aware of the problem can fall for this, I worry that a lot more people might do worse.
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Also, Uber Train, Uber Spaceship, Uber Rollerblades ondemand rental, Uber-Nike running shoe sharing, and of course the coveted Uber Slippers for those lazy Sunday afternoon trips to the kitchen...

I am still unsure how I fell about the Uber Sofa for the essential null-travel events.
Holy shit. I knew about the custom audience feature (a company I used to work for used it to target existing customers with promotions), but I had no idea how many different companies have submitted presumably my email address to target me.

The most surprising to me was numerous entries in that list from almost all of the local state chapters of "Americans for Prosperity" (a David Koch and Karl Rove production). I'm curious which list they used to get my email address.
We are still using Meteor and haven't stopped. How else can you deploy a scalable reactive production (might I add 'huge') application on Web, Chromebook, Android and iPad with 99% reuse and 1% sweat. Instead of focusing on the nitty-gritty of node.

Everytime we look out there for replacement we have a hard time finding a better platform. When it comes along, we'll switch. But we are not there yet.

All the negativity around the platform has to do with bad communication by the platform developer (after all, they are developers not marketers).
Oh, I wouldn't expect it to solve the spam problem. But as I said, there are a lot of US-based companies that are at best sloppy with address management. Those are also the ones most likely to make it past my existing filters, because they are semi-legitimate. Being able to turn up the heat on them would be a pleasure.
To get to the actual form, you need to select "This does not answer my question" at the bottom, then more options will show up.
It must be good because they banned it at my kids’ school.
The Last Of Us was brilliant in that the game mechanics were just something great around a wonderful storyline. Come to think about it some of the Final Fantasy games were really great stories too but the translation to screen was such a washed down version that it failed at what mattered: making us feel something.

On screen today we have shows like Game of Thrones that really deliver at making us feel things and keeping us surprised. Before there was Game of Thrones though I reckon that the death of Aerith Gainsborough in Final Fantasy 7 was one of those twists that TV shows and movies shied away from until recently.
I think you're overestimating how many people who don't read places like Hacker News actually care about this. But I'll admit I could be wrong on that.

In any case, the reason they might be able to at the current time is the blood in the water from the "reasonable regulations" people.
Did you mean for most developers? As a user I don't want to have my battery chewed up by Electron based bloatware.
I worked for one company where, as soon as the old earned time-off balances were wiped away, management of the biggest engineering group started telling people they couldn't take more than 4 weeks off. Sure, it was 3 weeks before the change, but you could roll it over, or be paid for it if you left.
Thanks for 'you want changes in proper commit objects as early as possible'. I can't tell you how much time I have wasted with a botched index.
This isn't self-driving, though. It isn't called self-driving.
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Its probably technically true, if you trust facebook. They might respect the DoNotTrack header. If not, most legit advertisers, including facebook, will [claim to] respect AdChoices optout flows: optout.aboutads.info. https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217 directs you to these sites.

Now, they obviously could lie and still record things. Also, this probably doesnt include things like person A has phone number Z and person B as phone number Z so theres some sort of link there, but presumably thats not used for ads.

I worked for an ad company that respected the optout/DNT as best we could.
What exactly is Tesla intending the Autopilot to be used if the driver has to keep hands on the wheel?
I also don't hold the wheel hard enough, I always get the jiggle the wheel warning ~ 1 min as that's the only way for them to detect. Sometimes if you're so focused on watching cars in other lanes it's easy to miss the slight flashing warning that it starts with. So there is no evidence Walter wasn't paying attention in the past just based on that as most AP users get that.
So you would start by quoting Stalin...
The existence of our nuclear arsenal does it without having to invade a country every decade or so. Are you saying we need more than 5K+ nukes to be secure?
Does this mean a bijection between the natural numbers and the rare-earth elements? :)

But really, is this one of the reasons the Senkaku/Diaoyu fight is so heated? Forget national pride or fishing rights, China doesn't want to see its rare-earth monopoly undermined by deposits in Japanese waters (hypothetically).

EDIT: Never mind, Minamitori is near Wake Island in the mid-Pacific.
>If you leave the story as-is and just cut the "sidequests", then the movie will be full of characters who are barely introduced and whose motivations make no sense to those who haven't played the game and don't know the backstory

FFVII: Advent Children is a great example of this. Half the characters from the original game just come stumbling into the plot with no introduction or explanation.
Premature and/or misplaced optimization. It’s kind of funny that they worried so much about std::string’s performance that they rolled their own, yet have this big honking lua layer thunked on top of everything for game logic. Wow!
Could you allow users to submit a game? If a user is interesting enough in using your system and having your game in the system, perhaps they would be willing to do the work to gather all the required information.

Obviously it would need review by your team, for various reasons, but it might be a viable way to get new games in the system faster, without being too much of a burden to the team.
The problem with releasing statements like this is they can be used against Tesla in court. Anything that seems like an admission of guilt or responsibility will be used against them, which is why we see so little of it.
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You could remove individuals that didn’t pass your trial.
I definitely can second the feeling that Google Maps has gotten "dumber" over time. My city has a major highway that runs over municipal streets and Maps always thinks I've somehow warped from the highway to the street when I drive over it, recalculating and telling me to take a left from the freeway. I'm going 60 and have been on the interstate for the last 20 minutes, how could I suddenly be on the a surface street? I don't understand how I should be comfortable with Google collecting vast amounts of data about my travel habits if it can't even make the experience marginally better with them.

And the Maps webapp still doesn't have a compass. The most popular online map in 2018 can't show you magnetic north, which I guess is because you can't rotate the map at all. That feature was cut in some distant redesign.[0]

[0]http://guides.library.cornell.edu/c.php?g=31194&p=199273
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I found contagion to be a great clarifying concept too; it's something that I've been looking at in my codebase as the team expands.

My gut feel is that it's not necessarily about what you write in the first place, but what you refactor -- sometimes you can get away with a gradual replacement strategy (like std::string => AString from the article), but if the original pattern is contagious and bad, then you might have to take a more aggressive one-shot refactoring approach.

I've definitely seen this where a localized refactor is made to try to find a better way of doing something, we decide that we like the new way, and then don't find the time to replace the rest of the usages, resulting in a confusing state of affairs where you need to know which is the "blessed"/"correct" way of doing things.

I think that "contagion" is a good lens to use when assessing what the refactoring strategy should be for a given change to the codebase.
This method has improvements (better quality than audio-only separation, speaker assignment, and better noise handling), but you can do pretty well with just mixed audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW51cG1Ox98
I'm under the impression it was established that Mobileye's "superior" approach of hand-coding every possible situation would not cut it for full self-driving; they eschew deep learning in favor of having hundreds of people manually annotating images to uncover corner cases, plus a high reliance on maps, and were not happy with the level of automation Tesla wanted to push the system into.
Isn’t this also groundbreaking because we never previously know why apoe4 contributed to Alzheimer’s. What the mechanism was?
> 2:50 PM EDT: Congressman Duncan from North Carolina is going to give Zuckerburg a small copy of the US Constitution.

Showboating... Not to defend Facebook and I admittedly have not watched any testimony or questioning, but I'm sure these politicians made no mention of FOSTA, SOPA, the PATRIOT Act, net neutrality, NSA domestic surveillance... Zuckerberg could have turned this all around on them.
Isn't Johnny Cage just relabeled Bruce Lee?
I respectfully disagree on some key points.

- 'key' people left because they were service providers (including Arunoda). When the platform became mature and easier to use, they could not get business.

- DDP works great, Apollo is a GraphQL layer, two separate projects and target users. If you have a lot of users you need to design pub/sub carefully regardless of tool. Reactivity makes it a bit tougher, but comes with great benefits (unless your project is 'simple' or more static)

- Scalability? It's great, and we are the proof -- you just need to know what you are doing (i.e. redis)
Autopilot means it will pilot itself.. automatically.

Tesla is using "guidance assistant". Huge difference.

Their terminology is either very confusing at the best, or bluntly deceiving at the worst.
I firmly believe that a technology deployed in a potentially life-threatening context like a car or plane or pacemaker deserves a much more conservative development approach. "Move fast and break things" isn't appropriate when human lives are at stake. Waymo is applying the appropriate conservatism; Tesla and Uber are playing fast and loose by comparison.
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I wonder if we will have visual assisted tts. Humans do it: https://youtu.be/G-lN8vWm3m0?t=74

The McGurk illusion is so strong that I'm sure visual cues have a major role in error correction or voice recognition assistance for humans.
Agreed. Its absolutely not her role to be a specialist. Her role is policy and lawmaking. A good Congressperson would be one who can wield the full force of their team's knowledge and research power.
This is not correct. Maybe this does not apply to every single city that Zipcar operates in, but they allow 4 or 5 day rentals (can't recall which) in both Austin, Texas and Portland, Oregon. I have done this many times going back as far as 5 or so years.

I think you are also really down playing the convenience vs. traditional car rentals. Many car rental companies have moved to the model where they offer you a certain class of vehicle, and when you get there (which may mean traveling for 30-60 minutes to a place like the airport) to pick it up you are choosing from a random smattering of vehicles, which may be close to what you are expecting or not. I certainly don't appreciate when I get an "upgrade" to a giant SUV because they were out of the compact sedan that I really wanted. With Zipcar, if you live in a city, you can find a car in your neighborhood and know exactly what car you are getting, down to the color. You can also choose vehicles with other upgrades like roof rack or state parks pass. Zipcar also makes it easy to have multiple drivers use the car. Let's say I want to let my wife or brother drive during part of our trip. No problem, they are both Zipcar members as well, so they can just drive the car. They don't have to be there when I pick up the car to show their license and get added as drivers on that specific rental.

For me personally there is also a huge benefit to Zipcar offering cargo vans as a rental option. I'm a hobbyist woodworking and having quick access to a van to pickup lumber is great! None of the other Zipcar like services that are available to me offer this. I could of course get this from a traditional rental car company, but with the problems from the previous paragraph.

I think my point is really that Zipcar hits a sweet spot that no competitors seem to be addressing directly.
It may or may not be worth the time and effort never to tell anyone your mother’s maiden name, but assigning blame is kind of beside the point. It’s not my responsibility not to get my bike stolen, but if I don’t want my bike stolen, I still lock it up, right?
I used to be a distance runner but had to stop because of an injury, and I'm now a powerlifter. So yes I do know something about it. What is your point? Are you trying to argue that distance running leads to the same level of muscle hypertrophy as weightlifting?
The general sentiment is correct but the wording implies some degree of acceptance of liability: Autopilot was engaged... took no evasive action... engineers are investigating... failed to detect.

They should have issued a single, very simple statement that they are investigating the crash and that any resulting improvements would be distributed to all Tesla vehicles, so that such accidents can no longer happen even when
drivers are not paying sufficient attention to the road and ignore Autopilot warnings. Then double down on the ideea that Autopilot is already safer than manual driving when properly supervised and that it constantly improves.

The specifics of the accident, victim blaming, whether the driver had or not his hands on the wheel or was aware of Autopilot's problems is something that should be discussed by lawyers behind closed doors. And of course, deny it media attention and kill it in preliminary investigation, which I imagine they will have no problem in doing, he drove straight into a steel barrier for God's sake.
Autopilot is a marketing term here. It's correct if we think of Autopilot = autonomous but it isn't. The thing alarms at you (visually and via sound) when you take your hands off the wheel. The fact that drivers ignore that isn't Tesla's fault, and saying it's "not enough" is kind of absurd. What the hell are they going to do if you take your hands off the wheel? Stop the car in the middle of a freeway?

I could use your exact same argument to say Ford isn't doing enough to force people to put on their seat belt. It's a silly argument. It provides seatbelts, alarms when you fail to put it on. At that point, any harm is user-error. That's the exact same case here.
When, oh when will we ever finally unlearn "worse is better?" It's hard enough writing good code without having to fight your tooling (non-orthogonal, non-homoiconic, non-malleable, non-backwards-compatible languages, some with header files propagating changes upwards and breaking user code, and some with fascist type systems causing combinatorial explosions of containers and factories, ugh)
The Witcher 3. Part of the problem is that often your story-heavy games are really telling dozens of different stories. In TW3 for example, the main story is good but not amazing, yet several of its "secondary" stories are fantastic.
I don't care who calls what a myth. I'm different, and I'm not arrogant enough to think I'm special.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/226886/origin-of...

This doesn't apply to me, now even 40 years later. I hear and I remember, I see and I forget. The doing part is correct enough.
What you say is true, but I could well believe that Uber was already looking at the progress of their self-driving tech and wanting to hedge their bets. Plenty of reasonable people [1] believe we won't have true autonomous taxis anytime soon.

[1] E.g., MIT robotics professor and iRobot founder Rodney Brooks https://rodneybrooks.com/my-dated-predictions/
Development seems to be moving quite fast. I'm also seeing lots of third-party tools and services launching on top of it, which is very encouraging.
> Autopilot in planes won't land the plane for you.

For unmanned aircraft, autoland is an safety feature. After loss of link, an autopilot might be configured to land at a designated location, rather than just circling until it runs out of fuel and drops out of the sky. Though admittedly, crashing in a safe place is less serious when the vehicle has no people in it.

The Tesla autopilot needs much closer supervision than any of the autopilots I've worked with. That's more a result of its domain than of its sophistication, but it still makes me very uncomfortable with the name.
"find a better mechanism by which people can network and signal their abilities. Leave universities to be attended by people who actually care about the material and who actually use it as an interactive experience for which it's best suited."

Then you're going to have fewer truly educated people than you could have if you didn't give up on them. Other societies with much better education systems than the US show that it is possible to bring more people aboard.

It will take a reform of the education system, but not a reform that caters to the lucky few who love to learn, but rather one that encourages the love of learning in more people.
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It's pretty much just mandating a parallel review process instead of serial.
Wow thats a ton!!! I suppose you must live in a higher cost of living area than me.