skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux calls into object specific ioctls and system calls to do anything interesting.
As someone who read the novel after seeing the movie, I can see why people who loved the book were disappointed by the movie. The movie, to me, was a hilarious parody of a propaganda-heavy war machine (which might also be why I find Warhammer 40k's Ciaphas Cain novels so funny).

That might be one of the first times that I learned to enjoy both a movie and a book separately, even if the movie is (objectively) a poor portrayal of what was in the book. Now, I actively enjoy things like that, which are faithful in only a few of the dimensions of the original.
I think the core of the issue lies in what “using autopilot” means.

If the driver had used it according to the instructions (with hands on the wheel, while driving the car, watching the road as a driver always should), the crash would not have occurred.

Tesla is between a rock and a hard place, they need to make it crystal clear that the car performed as expected. The message is not intended for the deceased driver’s family but for everyone listening, including everyone who owns a Tesla.

It’s not an “autopilot”, it’s a lane assist. I see this as a naming failure more than anything else.
I've never laid brick, but I've been an electrician. Tradesmen are almost never working independently, and certainly not when they are working in a junior position. There's a lot of mentorship that goes on, and a lot of tribal knowledge that's shared - things that are simply not written about.

When I started as an electrician, I knew a lot about electricity already. I've always been a bit of a nerd and knew more about how electricity actually works than many journeymen I met. I knew almost nothing about how to actually put that into practice, though.

For example - when wiring an electrical outlet, you have to wrap the end of the wire around a small screw. It's obvious enough that if you do it clockwise tightening the screw holds the wire in place; if you do it counterclockwise, tightening the screw moves the wire and makes life difficult. What wasn't obvious was that instead of taking a pair of needle-nosed pliers and bending the wire to the right shape, there was a small hole in each side of a pair of wire strippers that was exactly the right size to do it: http://www.kleintools.com/sites/all/product_assets/catalog_i...

Had the person I was working for not shown me that, I would have probably never figured it out.

I think the role of a junior developer is very similar to that of an apprentice electrician, in that the dev knows at least enough to implement something on their own so long as they are given concrete tasks. A mid-level dev is similar to the journeyman; they take a partially-defined task, break it into well-defined chunks, and either implement or delegate. A senior dev is the master electrician - they decide what tools to use, make the larger-scope decisions on a project, etc.

This analogy breaks down once we start talking about software "engineers" or "architects". I can't really think of anything I saw in the trades that maps to it; it's more about identifying and anticipating important changes over time and mitigating their costs.
Thank you @jerrysievert. I had already been faced to those issues. API changes doesn't really matter unless you want to keep running behind Google V8 team and there dreams about JS implementation and tuning.

In the other hand, I totally agree with. the build requirement is a mess and not everyone may have the nerves and passion to build V8. That's way I provide a small piece of shell script to build v8 locally as well as pre-built static library stored in an Amazon S3.
Nobody was forcing him to use the feature if he knew it wasn’t working as intended on that particular stretch of road. My issue with your statements are you’re shifting 110% of the blame to Tesla when that isn’t remotely the case.
The problem is that Tesla creates the misinterpretation by explicitly stating that Autopilot is a self-driving system rather than a driver-assist system.

It's a fatal choice of words.
I didn't say this was why GraphQL was invented.

I'm just saying AWS bought Scaphold to deliver a BaaS alternative to Firebase...
Which vertical are you working in?

In 99% of cases you're going to need to seed the initial content/products/services.

- The two Reddit founders created thousands of accounts and posted all the content, this gives the idea of 'busyness'

- The Paypal founders made a ton of eBay listings themselves and set Paypal as the payment method, to increase awareness.

- Airbnb seeded their initial content by posting listings of the properties on Craigslist and included a link back to Airbnb.

But just throwing money and/or resources at a problem doesn't prove that you're actually creating a sustainable business solving a real-world problem that people have.
Sure, I was just going on NT's system call boundary.
This isn't really to do with raytracer perf. It's about how Miguel de Icaza (The creator of Mono) improved Mono's float handling. The difference in raytracer perf on different .net runtimes is just what brought the poor float handling to his attention. Better mono float handling is a good outcome for lots of non raytracer scenarios.

If you read the linked blog about the ray tracer, the C# ports are just blog 3 in a series of 8 that does actually conclude with two posts on SIMD - https://aras-p.info/blog/2018/03/28/Daily-Pathtracer-Part-0-...
Is this a two-character book, or one or more longer (but illegible) books?
Unless by "restatement of a Law of Thermodynamics" it is meant "restate of the Law of Conservation of Mass-Energy", at which point the criticism becomes that you now have a tougher isolated system assumption in the general case to prove.

The real criticism, however is that you cannot just assume that CICO is a restatement of the Law of Conservation of Mass-Energy, because it relies on the spurious assumption that "nutritional calories" are sufficient approximations for the entirety of energy in the system.

There's been a ton of work in chemistry and physics to untangle the mistakes of phlogiston theory, and caloric theory [1]. The SI unit of energy is now the Joule to absolutely distance from the problematic "calorie", and the confusion between what nutrition studies call a calorie and what Physics calls a calorie and what Joules are is an amazing mess.

Nutrition "science" seems to me like the last bastion of some middle ground between phlogiston and caloric theory, and CICO the battle cry of its devout believers.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/science/caloric-theory
NIST’s New Quantum Method Generates Really Random Numbers
I think you overlook the importance of execution in filmmaking. Especially for genre films (which most video game movies would probably be), the premise (the “why?”) isn’t really that important, and even the thinnest premise is possible to execute well.
Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War Official Trailer 1 Reaction
I make ~$200-250/month with Find-me[1]. Essentially a database with statistics and contact information for content creators actively looking for advertisers/sponsorship opportunities.

Had a lot on the road map (creating more of a platform) but have pivoted to other projects since this doesn't seem to be getting the traction I was hoping for.

[1] www.find-me.co

Also make ~$1.5k/year from old Udemy courses on pretty basic topics (beginner-level SQL, Google Sheets, etc).
A dead sperm whale was found with 64 pounds of trash in its digestive system
What structural changes? Considering that self-driving cars are already running daily in many cities, those changes must be fairly minor since they've already been implemented in those cities.
> You shouldn't need dispatching or template metaprogramming in a microkernel, as code reuse is minimal since all primitives are supposed to be orthogonal to each other.

Orthogonality doesn’t obviate the need for metaprogramming though. For example, there are lots of places you might need a linked list structure, where the nodes store different types. You might use templates over intrusive structures to gain some type safety without duplicating code for each contained type.
Autonomous weapons, meaningful human control and the CCW (2014)
Tips on surviving a rewrite in a mid-large sized company.

1) Get yourself placed on the "Legacy team" that is supposed to "minimally support the application while we transition to the new system".

2) Do whatever the hell you want with the code base (i.e., refactor as much as you want) because nobody cares about the boring legacy system.

3) Respond directly to user/customer needs without having to worry about what upper management wants (because they are distracted by the beautiful green-field rewrite).

4) Retain your job (and probably get a promotion) when they cancel the rewrite.
Cruise control works fine for this.
It's two separate books, each ~150 pages long with just that emoji repeated. Completely useless, made em as a joke a few years ago, they still bring in money during the holidays.
I don't really understand what the big deal is here. All this data was given to facebook. Ads are inherently propaganda, how is the use of this data any different? If I decide in my terms of service that i can use your data however i want, including mining your messages and selling it to an evil dictator, i should be able to do that. If you agree, you are free to use my plateform, if not, thats fine too, you can't. me, and a group of people whom i've paid have developed this app, how can you restrict my right to do as i please with everything that comes out of it? If i want to shut down facebook tomorrow, i can. If it's against what is in my terms of service, sue the living shit out of me, and force me to update my terms to reflect reality or delete the app.
> alarms when you take your hands off the wheel.

No, only every ~ 1 minute.

>What the hell are they going to do if you take your hands off the wheel

Detect barrier and apply auto emergency brakes and Disengage autopilot like GM's Super Cruise does if it detects your face is not looking at the road.
So you exit the self driving private road to enter a public road where there are still local residents who insist on driving their own vehicle. Some of these residents have never been to location X and have no interest in it. They care about their neighborhood and getting around however they want.

The point is driving is a freedom and getting rid of it in this country will be hard. I'd imagine self driving vehicles having more prevalence in China where the government can control what destinations you have access to and monitor your trips.
We aren't asking that normal cars are banned.

We are asking that self driving cars be ALLOWED if the user chooses, even IF the safety is in doubt. This is because of just how extremely important this issue is.
The trolley problem doesn't have a human in the loop.

Edit: Instead of downvoting me, can the downvoter please point out where the trolley problem involves a human in the loop? This is a level 2 system, where a human driver has to remain alert and ready to take over. That's not the trolley problem.
Then if someone wants to call you, they won't be sure which number to use.
Again, from what I've seen and read, it doesn't matter what the driver does with his hands and arms, only that he keep his eyes on the road.
Huh, I wonder where I went wrong. Exile just... didn't function. But then, I was trying to run it on my shiny new VR rig, so it might've just been hardware compatibility. :/ Thanks!
Ask HN: Who regulary wears a suit and tie to the the office?
Can you share your experience and advice with us?

Follow-up: have you considered it but not sure how to start?
> they need to make it crystal clear that the car performed as expected.

That hasn't even been definitively established yet (regardless of what Tesla says), as the multiple videos of post-update Teslas steering directly toward crash barriers demonstrate.
> I have a strong assumption that when many people hear "learning styles", they assume it to this instead of auditory vs visual.

Or the assume each individual only benefits from one in all situations (being half awake, interested in the subject, etc, etc). Which is a ridiculous assumption once you really think about it.
Of course people differ in the way they learn and process information - but the division between visual/auditory/kinestetic is silly as claiming that someone learns better on a Tuesday because it was born on that day.
Zuckerberg has been apologizing for privacy violations since he was a freshman
The literally hundreds of posts on HN about it being a problem are data that it is. And that's a tech-savvy crowd that theoretically would know the limitations of the system.
Great question, would love to see some answers.
I've never worked in a company bigger than 100 people, but I've asked about this, and the general response is that these interviews are more about filtering than representing what your job will be about.
"Well, too bad another of our customers made a mistake and killed himself because he didn't get what 'autopilot' means (for us). Deal with it. Yours, Tesla"

You all know the game Elon is playing here, what's the point of arguing? Either you're OK with that or you aren't. It's that simple.

Imagine Ford doing this everytime. Oh, the outrage...
This article (and the study) sort of is working from a faulty premise, which is that losing weight is a good thing. There's a lot of evidence that losing fat is a good thing, but if you increase your muscle mass by 10% and your fat mass by 3%, is that bad? What if you decrease your muscle mass by 5% and also decrease your fat mass by 5%?

Without accurately measuring that sort of thing, I worry most diet studies only muddle the conversation with meaningless anecdotes when it's unclear what the weight loss actually consisted of.
GTK is re-writing bits in Rust, so it’s a pretty robust option overall. Lots of work left to do!
I make ~300/mo off of a peer-to-peer loan management software I created for lenders off of 0 marketing (just word of mouth sales). I have some residual revenue along those same lines for a book I wrote in 2015 on helping junior developers get hired at their first job (link in bio if interested).
> You're not necessarily breaking existing code. Both macOS and Windows are built on non-POSIX primitives that have POSIX compatibility layers.

I was under the impression that MacOS was built from a POSIX kernel, all the way down.
This.

I'd suggest it was the exception to the rule. Sure, it's not Oscar material, but it was a thoroughly well made movie - and the ratings support this.
Although I would be offended (and weirded out) too, is it possible it's a quirk of geographical variation in language? Resources are by definition valuable, after all.
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (1974)
Secret History of Silicon Valley [video]
AFAIK 5013C's are exempt in that case?
I like the term "architecture astronautics". There is probably a joke hiding somewhere in a plain sight about "Plan 9" wrt Unix...
Proximate cause is irrelevant. This is a product liability issue because the product failed, which means strict liability applies.
Oh we let machines kill people all the time. Trains, power transformers, oil rigs...

Sure autodriving is entering the uncanny valley and that's different. Lots of things are different about it. Instead of prosecuting one person for causing an accident, now a whole line of vehicles is 'at fault' and maybe get sidelined. Good news there is, they can all be fixed at once.

It'll end up more about the law and insurance implications, than what we feel about it.
They're being recalled. Telsa's autopilot isn't.
The situation with the airbags is an exceptional circumstance and they're recalled for a slightly higher chance of malfunction. They have been on 37 million vehicles for 16 years and caused 15 deaths. As low as that is, it's still not tolarated, because this is how strict the auto industry is and should be.
An ISPs #1 goal is to generate money.

When there's a competition this often equates with making customers happy so they will stick with the ISP and perhaps more will switch from competitors.

When there's no competition and customers have no choice who to use it's purely all about squeezing as much money as they can. This means raising prices for the service and reducing cost by paying less to others services even if it would reduce quality of service.
The goal is to have service that's good enough to keep people still use them (I mean there is price point and/or quality that people would just not to have service at all).

If a specific action that ISP with monopoly does and it improves quality for customer that's just a coincidence.
The individual is the functional unit of society.

When you choose to address society, what you’re really doing, if it’s going to work, is addressing the individuals of that society.

Address a bunch of individuals. Or address one individual and have him address 2 people he knows. Etc. More than one way to skin a cat...

TLDR; to skin a society of cats, one way or another, each individual cat needs to get skinned.
If a person uses a device while using autopilot, (which seems highly likely—not sure in thi instance) wouldn’t it be advisable to have the alerts come to them directly on whichever device they are using? The alert breaks them out of whatever task they are focusing on. If the alert is coming from the car I can see how a lot of us could ignore it.
My viewpoint is that other than making logfiles less chatty that doesn't really achieve anything (providing I've well configured/hardened my server of course). Tor exit nodes are also a source of lots of non-malicious traffic. I understand your position though.
Using an ergonomic keyboard doesn't make you worse at using a normal keyboard.
Truly passive: Stock gains

Mostly passive: Managing rental properties. There is some work involved occasionally when things break or new tenants need to be found, but for the most part I just collect my fee each month.
Zuckerberg, no one calls him Zuck.
Uhhhhh, I think you are misinformed.

They aren't going to literally fall asleep, but much of the time pilots are reading a book and not directly paying attention in the same way that a driver is.
This article was about improving floating point performance in general, they just used the benchmark as a benchmark. What correctness are you talking about here? The fact that floats are no longer being promoted to doubles for some operations? It's pretty unnecessary for most things, especially for a game engine.
Just to put it in perspective, you can make ~$500 per month from having $150,000 in mutual funds if you assume that you make an average of 4% per year after inflation. VTSAX made almost 15% last year, but last year was unusual.
>Literally anyone with software to generate NOAA SAME tones, together with a software-defined radio and amplifier, can walk near one of a handful of "primary entry points" and belt out an alert that gets mindlessly repeated across the country.

So a fake alert can be sent out nationwide from broadcasting to just one access point??
this makes me sad... On paper i make 90k, but haven't been paid in > a month because of cashflow (dev firm with one major client (MLM Company) who's not paying recently and not happy).

Before that most I've made is 65k.. as a jr/intermediate web dev.

The rest of my company quit, because of the pay issues, so I'm now the sole dev trying to pull us back up from the void, as a bonus now I'm a partner and President of Software Development... with 10% equity should we succeed.

I'm always 'planning' on groking ai/ml but I never did algebra 2 or calculus, so I've got some math I need to brush up on before I get there.

Before I get there i'll probably have my own tech agency/consulting firm and just go the entrepreneur route, rather than become a level 10 developer working on ai, but I can always dream right?
And my issue with your statements is that you're trying to have it both ways: you're claiming both that "there is no problem" and "Tesla told him about the problem so it's his fault". You have to pick one.
Another common false implication is that weight loss is the "only" good thing. Cardiovascular health is important as well.
Pretty sure that falls under #2.
There are other incentives beyond most obvious ones. E.g. hijacked miner could attack to pump another currency (crypto/fiat) the miner holds.

Incentives are out of equation when you speak of fault tolerance. Incentives are not calculatable. Only "tolerance" (# of tolerable byzantine nodes) matters. And that's 2 for eth and btc. TWO.
> Are you going to having a train running every few minutes to really make the delays comparable?

Commuter rail systems run at 2 minute headways or less. Long-distance trains mostly don't but that's largely due to excessive safety standards - for some reason we regulate trains to a much higher safety standard than cars. Even then, the higher top speeds of trains can make up for a certain amount of waiting and indirect routing. (Where I live, in London, trains are already faster than cars in the rush hour).

> What's the relative cost of all that vs. pavement?

When you include the land use and pollution? Cars can be cheaper for intercity distances when there's a lot of similarly-sized settlements, but within a city they waste too much space. And once you build cities for people rather than cars, cars lose a lot of their attraction for city-to-city travel as well, since you're in the same situation of having to change modes to get to your final destination.
A game that had 2mm++ downloads free / paid since 2012. It's an online game with players still playing although well beyond it's peak.
Since 2013 we pivoted from making games to it services and had not much time to make significant changes other than updating to newer iOS.
It still generates about 2-3k yearly revenue which is a good bonus in central Europe.

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Did you purchase a long time in the past? Are you getting free cash flow (ie after all expenses) from your properties?

When i've looked I havent found deals where one is actually making money (unless you count the equity on the property) and usually are eating cash flow monthly.
The Case Against Universal Basic Income [video]
one suggestion I have, since I noticed that your build script to build from source seems to check out master, is to pin to a specific version of v8 - that makes it a bit easier than trying to keep up with a moving target :)
In the US, we have laws that require products to work as advertised. If they don't, generally strict product liability applies to the manufacturer, seller, and all middleman (in this case, they're all Tesla), regardless of whether the customer-victim was misusing the product.

In this case, there is no evidence that the driver was misusing the car. But there is a carload of evidence that Autopilot failed.

At this point, the only thing Tesla is accomplishing with these public statements is adding more zeros to the eventual settlement/damage award.
Did you even read the article?

> In Mono, decades ago, we made the mistake of performing all 32-bit float computations as 64-bit floats while still storing the data in 32-bit locations. (...) Applications did pay a heavier price for the extra computation time, but [in the 2003 era] Mono was mostly used for Linux desktop application, serving HTTP pages and some server processes, so floating point performance was never an issue we faced day to day. (...) Nowadays, Games, 3D applications image processing, VR, AR and machine learning have made floating point operations a more common data type in modern applications. When it rains, it pours, and this is no exception. Floats are no longer your friendly data type that you sprinkle in a few places in your code, here and there. They come in an avalanche and there is no place to hide. There are so many of them, and they won’t stop coming at you.

The raytracer is just a good performance test.
"Semi-infinite" doesn't sound any less silly than "nearly impossible". Something which surely everyone in this thread has used before.