skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tesla said that the Model X driver’s hands weren’t on the steering wheel for six seconds prior to the fatal crash

Call me a sceptic, but saying that with absolute certainty is troubling. As an engineer, knowing how a lot of software and hardware systems are actually implemented, 6 seconds is such a minuscule time frame. Data about hand position could be in a write cache somewhere waiting to be flushed, inside monitoring service, inside OS, inside RAID controller, inside storage controller, or even de-prioritized by a busy IO scheduler. Then at a moment of a crash that the data might never make it to the storage for recovery.

I'm not saying that it is, but if the hand monitoring service is glitching out, it will take a lot of time to resolve the issues completely, mostly because just looking at the data as a remote observer (without camera installed in a car) it would just look like the hands were not on the wheel.

Also it doesn't help that for Tesla it seems to be a nice way out of this kind of crashes – they can just say that driver's hands were not on the wheel and that's that. Who even has the data and can decode it? How can we make sure the data was not tampered with?

This needs to be investigated properly and not just by Tesla, they are a biased party.
Do you consider Flickr to be "misspelled"? Would you trust Chick-fil-A to serve you food? Maybe the real reason Toys"R"Us went belly-up is because they couldn't afford vowels either.
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Not really.

Automation isn't about saying one day "Whoop, youre through. This robotic maid will do everything you can do and more."

That doesn't happen. Instead, its computerized tools that "allow" you to do 1.2x more work. And 5 nurses means the owners get rid of the 6th nurse.

Then a new comprehensive patient device comes out, and can act like a .5 nurse. The owners buy 2 of them. And then they get rid of another human, or fail to hire when one leaves.

By the end, you have only a small handful of people, with technology as multipliers. And if that single person doesn't show up, then "bad happens".

That bad, with many instances, is the justification to finally depend on full automation.
If the car drove itself into a barrier because of malfunction, it's a manufacturing defect.

If the car drove itself into a barrier without a malfunction, it's a design defect.

If the car didn't drive itself into a barrier, well, that's a different story.
CPU cache will not magically double in size to accommodate, so performance will suffer
I think most people would look just as nefarious if private conversations from their college years were selectively publicized. For all of his failings it's unfortunate that at 33 years old, Mark Zuckerberg still has people vilifying him using quotes he made when he was 22 years old.
> It makes perfect sense to me, I read it as "Very high quality video of the moon"

But my point is I could also film a 4K video of the moon out of my window using an iPhone, and it wouldn't actually be very high quality. Being 4K doesn't actually tell you anything about the quality of the content whatsoever.
Everyone is delaying the inevitable.. Pay more to workers.. raise prices.. some folks will eat out less.

20 years ago.. eating out was not a daily thing.
Changed to that from http://flowingdata.com/2018/04/10/the-moon-in-4k-resolution/. Thanks!
GMail was in beta for a long time.
Search is not a product but a service.
Maps was in beta for long as well.
I believe it's mostly driven by analyzing the craters within craters. The more craters within, the more likely it is to be older. That can be calibrated against data from samples brought back from known sites on the moon.
It's also really hard to get into. If you just download a news reader, read the manual, and go onto a random forum, you'll find a lot of weird early-2000's spam, and maybe some (crazy) discussion, and it's really hard to find active communities.

People who live there don't have these problems because they have big kill lists, know which groups are interesting, and only download new stuff, which is pretty spam-free.
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Ok. But the percentage of adults who are overweight or obese is somewhere around 70%. If we presume 10% is not preventable - that is they have a med condition - then what of the other 60%? Who is feeding those people? Who is forcing them to the sofa?

I understand it's not that simple (e.g., gut bacteria has been tied to weight control). None the less i know people who had what I would consider serious med issues (e.g., cancer) and made no change in lifestyle.

Yes, I'm generalizing. I apologize. But the obesity rate doesn't match well with self responsibility.
I never did understand why this couldn’t be backported to 32-bit. Was it something like a lack of bits for tagging, or something more mundane like nobody wanting to support 32-bit?
The freemium model is exactly what Internations uses. It's free to join but you have to pay to unlock certain features [1]. Unfortunately the market already has free alternatives (e.g. Meetup.com, Eventbrite, Slack.com etc.) that are more mainstream, have a larger inventory of events and people (network effect again), and that work better so it's pretty hard to provide a sufficiently differentiated product worth paying for.

[1] https://www.internations.org/support/faq/membership
> The Google real-time bidding spec outlines pretty clearly what data Google will share with third parties

This is exactly my point is it is clear you are consenting and have control and can opt out here: https://adssettings.google.com/. I am very aware of real-time bidding for ads works.

Also you shouldn't assume gender.
2004 called. They want their missing penultimate "e" back.
This was all over with way before the 1.0 release even happened. There's no point in arguing over something that was addressed several years ago before Go even reached stability. Plus, trying to say that Go was a "failure" because of this is absurd. It was an issue of terminology, not technology. Given Kubernetes, Docker, etc you would have to be totally delusional to claim that Go has been a failure.
It's more like someone making custom jewelry using modern tools vs. somebody making custom jewelry only using methods available in ancient Rome. You might not see any obvious difference looking a the result but once you know how they're made one is definitely more impressive than the other. I'm also sure that one is more "tricky" and "tedious" than the other, which is what I was addressing.

If you code something for artistic or "competitive" reasons then of course it makes complete sense. Like people making 4KB demos, speedrunners or people folding thousands of paper cranes. There are no invalid paths if you're an artist.

On the other hand if you consider it from a practical engineering perspective then there are few use cases where I'd go with ASM nowadays, well optimized C code will be easier to write, probably nearly as fast, way easier to modify and maintain and much more portable. Some paths are wildly superior to others if you're an engineer.
Outrageous fees: are you sure we're talking about BitCoin, here?

Financial services M-F 9-5: while you generally need to go into a bank to set up an account, that's not always the case. Afterwards, most banking can be via direct deposit, mobile cameras for check deposits, ATMs, and web services.

People who don't have access to banks -- Kenya appears to have solved this without blockchains.

"Millenials largely prefer to invest their money into cryptocurrencies over traditional assets" -- do you have statistics on this?
How feasible is a dev setup with Flutter where one uses Emacs (or any other general purpose text editor like vi) for coding and the flutter cli for compiling and testing? I do have a couple app ideas, and I'd definitely prefer to avoid the IDEs when possible (especially Android Studio which just strangles my laptop); Flutter seems to fit that workflow, but has anybody got actual experience doing that?
This is also why the video of the Tesla roadster in space seemed so unnatural: there is no distortion of light due to the lack of air.
> GMail was in beta for a long time.

Which doesn't justify the universal, present-tense claim upthread.
>> does not mean that you will get their profiles in your inbox. They will just see your ads.

I do like that this business model limits data exposure to third parties. That being said, I don't believe that it is possible for the ad company (Google, facebook et. al.) to fully protect their assets. If that email is delivered to me a simple web beacon can inform the third party quite a bit.

I digress, however, because I was simply curious about the consumer desire for targeted advertisements. Everything else aside I believe(d) that a consumer-based desire for targeted advertisements is a fallacy which is repeated by a certain group of people, I really just want to test this hypothesis by soliciting public opinions and comments.
The problem with carbon capture is one of scale. Even though we're adding immense amounts to the atmosphere, it dissipates quickly. It's a minuscule percentage of air, only .04%. To remove significant amounts of carbon requires sucking in stupendous amounts of air.
Tesla's actions in this case, and before, have convinced me they are not a company I would want to buy a car from.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the nature of a turing machine (decentralized or not) to produce an endless series of "unforeseen" exploits?
> We just also let that research be locked up with patents and published in pay-to-read journals, because apparently "we pay for your R&D" is not enough "incentive" to get people to invent/develop new things, we also have to give them additional millions/billions of dollars in later sales.

In the R&D sector, the government is an investor like any other. Imagine a VC that offered you the following terms: we'll pay your salaries (which we'll heavily scrutinize) while you get your product a third of the way towards being commercial ready. After that, you can keep commercializing on your own dime, but we'll own anything you developed up to that point and give it away to your competitors for free.

Would anyone with other options take that offer? But that's exactly the offer the government would be making if research initially funded by government grants wasn't eligible for patent protection.
> How do you think the folks for whom dining represents a significant expense feel about these raised prices?

I'm sure they are suffering horribly. Maybe you can start a Kickstarter or gofundme for them.
How and when to pitch tech journalists
Saving an additional $600 per patient is significant for a country as poor as Egypt. The existence of an even cheaper alternative strengthens the Egyptian government's negotiating position for agreements going forward. Prices may be re-negotiated further downward in light of this new development.

As a rough analogy: consider the effect of sci-hub on recent negotiations between universities subscribing to academic journals and the journals' publishers. Even if the universities do not openly embrace/endorse sci-hub, the existence of an unlicensed near-substitute for the licensed product has strengthened the negotiating position of the universities.
Caller ID spoofing can be done with an Android app. It's supremely trivial.
WA employers cannot count tips as wages [1] so regardless of tip amount service workers will make the minimum wage.

[1] https://www.lni.wa.gov/WorkplaceRights/Wages/Minimum/
Yep, if there's any takeaway from here is that companies will gladly take multiple avenues and channels to lie to you.

1. Not providing tools to see or download your data

2. Simply not providing options to turn off data collection or pretending that the options available are complete.

3. Providing tools to see and download a portion of your data, pretending that it is complete

4. Pretending to delete your data on account deletion but retaining the data, or at least a portion of the data

5. Collecting more data than they say they do

6. Collecting data on people who do not directly interact with the company services
I miss being able to collapse comments by pressing the minus-sign button.
Nor does HD, but that is also a common and useful way to describe high definition content.
Why should Facebook remember the people I’ve cut off from my life?

For one reason, so they aren’t recommended to you as a possible friend in the future. Seems like a minor thing to be upset about in a possibility space of major things.
"The agency found that Teslas without Autosteer crashed an average of 1.3 times per million miles driven, compared with 0.8 per million miles for vehicles equipped with Autosteer. That shows that just having Autosteer available on a car — not necessarily enabled at the time of crash — reduced crash rates by about 40 percent. That’s a truly staggering improvement."

That's (a) comparing Teslas to Teslas, not to all vehicles, and (b) not necessarily comparing safety, but crash rates.
Totally agree.

Richard Noble originally set a new land speed record with Thrust2 in 1983.

Thrust2 held that record till 1997 when ThrustSSC, another car he developed, broke it again.

ThrustSSC still holds the world landspeed record.

If anyone is going to break that record my money is on them doing it in Richard Noble’s new car, BloodhoundSSC.
MDs often prescribe the newest

That is not always a correct assumption. Due to the way some programs like Medicare pay out, doctors are sometimes strongly incentivized to prescribe the most expensive drug.

Ophthalmologists are the usual notorious example, prescribing for macular degeneration. Medicare's reimbursement for drugs administered in-office includes paying the cost of the drug plus an additional percentage.

For macular degeneration, research showed Avastin and Lucentis are basically equally effective. But Avastin is ~$50/dose and Lucentis is ~$2,000/dose. If you're going to get a "bonus" payment equal to a percentage of the cost of the drug, which one would you use?

Lucentis has at times accounted for 10% of the entire Medicare part B drug budget because of this.
That's the kind of joke that's great to chuckle over while you update your resume.
Pedantically this could be a "0.085k" image then.
Steve Woz in his autobiography said a similar thing about growing up in the Apple II era vs the kids he teaches today; there’s a lot more you can do today, but what you miss is the insight and power that comes from understanding the system as a whole, and being able to leverage all of its parts.
> You sign up for those when you get a credit card

That is incorrect. Credit agencies create shadow profiles too, they call them 'thin files'. I have had to code around those situations.

Like Facebook they suck-up every scrap of data they can get from their sources. They absolutely do not throw away any of it just because you don't have a credit card ( else they'd omit half of Europe ).
Hi, thanks for your question.

You're right, this is exactly why a few paragraphs later I doubt about that statement, saying that the prefetcher is certainly not reading the entire array and may act exactly like N=7. I think that this is more about the fact that the prefetcher can't cross page boundaries.

That's still right for N<7, though.
I still have to dig on this part :)

Thanks again!
Why do you want to work on a side-project?

1. If it's to learn more, I would instead suggest focusing on learning on the job. It's more realistic, you can get more resources, etc.. E.g. I've found learning new programming languages much easier at work than in my spare time: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/09/09/learn-a-new-programm...

2. If you want to create a side business, I've done some combination of working half an hour each morning and increasing my personal time by negotiating a part-time job. An interview with someone who has negotiated shorter workweek at many companies: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...
Not necessarily, there are hundreds of embedded devices that can be programmed just like in the old days.

Arduino, ESP286, ESP32, <pick your own flavour>.

And since we are in the context of games and Nintendo, something like Arduboy.

https://arduboy.com
This is how we run our medical clinic in South Carolina. All of our prices are public and we try to get you the lowest possible cost. You will never receive a bill for which you did not know the price ahead of time. We support this by having a $49/month membership fee and by not accepting insurance. (Most additional charges are under $20)
Sheer force of will. After working at a computer all day, sitting at a computer and working late into the night is the last thing I want to do. Thinking of the alternative, which is spending my life working for someone else, is my main motivator. I can't see myself doing that forever, and I know things won't change unless I put in the work. So I do my day job from 9 - 5, hang out with the family from 6 - 9, then work until 2am.
Yeah, but the incident that interrupts you early on (level 3?) in Papers, Please is pretty famous. You're right that "story" is not the only interesting criterion, because some games make scenarios where lots of interesting stories can play out, and others just evoke make a mood/vibe without much of a story going on. Those would also be good options for movie adaptations.
> I'm sure Zuckerberg believes he may have won here but I think he lost in the court of public opinion. I think his testimony did him a lot of damage as it shows just how disingenuous and dishonest he really is.

I highly doubt this. If the court of public opinion is an average of general public sentiment, my hunch is the probability a vast majority of the public paid any attention at all—and understood enough to see through the cleverly scripted and misleading answers—is far closer to 0 than 1.
> Is there any indication that the information that Tesla released wasn't true?

We don't know and that's exactly the reason why NTSB has their disclosure policy in place.

It's to stop biased actors from dominating or setting the narrative early, before impartial actors have had a chance to corroborate what happened.

What if the car malfunctioned and the warnings weren't sounding? What if the warnings were sounding even though Huang had his hands on the wheel (as another poster above indicated has happened to them)?

I simply can't take what Tesla says at face value given the huge vested interest they have in controlling the story here.
Up until now, the people displaced from the jobs automated away have always been intelligent enough to offer utility beyond what automation can provide. But there's a tipping point when automation/machine intelligence exceeds humans at which point they offer no utility to employers of any kind. We haven't hit that point for the vast majority of workers, but the early indications are that we very well might.

But looking at the past as a predictor of the future is a very dangerous proposition. We saw that in 2008 when it came to the housing market. Sometimes now really is different from the past. And if we hit that tipping point, it will be much like the posited AI singularity. Vast swaths of humans will become surplus to the most efficient means of completing work. It's important to realize that the people who are talking about this issue as one we need to confront are envisioning a future that is fundamentally different from today or anything that has come before now and they're predicting that for a very specific reason. You can disagree with that reason, but you can't use previous examples of automation-displacing-jobs as a way to dismiss that thinking. Because what's being predicted is fundamentally different from what has already happened.
The link between alcohol and breast cancer
In case anyone's interested in the data -> https://public.enigma.com/datasets/new-york-city-street-tree...
I think it's a matter of perspective. The BBC here in the UK aims for roughly equal complaints of bias from both the left and right, and reddit seems to get the same (e.g. /r/altright and /r/leftwithsharpedge both getting banned). I've seen complaints of both overzealous and permissive moderation by admins for all types of content which leads me to think they're actually reasonably balanced.
In turn, thank you.

And yeah, one of the other things that I find annoying about these studies that follow this paradigm of, "Control for everything you can think of, and then make a big deal of any residual effect, as if it's somehow implying an independent causative relationship," is that they don't seem to really distinguish between probable mediators and probable confounders.

Which makes sense, I suppose. If you're just on an easter egg hunt for p-values, then I guess you don't really need to care about how an analysis decision might affect the practical utility or theoretical value of your findings.
>>>the company can freely ignore those demands

>>>If Germany sent me a personal letter demanding I cease and desist, I'd ignore it.

You (presumably) don't do any business in Germany, or really care about their government being unhappy with you, which is pretty reasonable. Google wants to keep doing business in Canada, so they have to play ball. Can Canada send people into the US offices of google to enforce any of this? Of course not. But can they shut down google in Canada if it refuses to abide by court orders? You bet. (I doubt it'll come to that though)
I'm not super familiar with Meetup or Eventbrite, but Slack is freemium too.
Come to Europe. Then go back to pretty much any North American city.
In the general case, yes. But googling for Munt will tell you that it's not really a suitable name for a product.
The version of code tested doesn't necessarily reflect the current state. Bugs are introduced and things that worked before, stop working properly after an update.

One such example of this is at https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/8a0jfh/autopil...

> Yep, works for 6 months with zero issues. Then one Friday night you get an update. Everything works that weekend, and on your way to work on Monday. Then, 18 minutes into your commute home, it drives straight at a barrier at 60 MPH.

> It's important to remember that it's not like you got the update 5 minutes before this happened. Even worse, you may not know you got an update if you are in a multi-driver household and the other driver installed the update.
iirc, you can use crater density calibrated from known ground-truth measurements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crater_counting).
As I mentioned in another comment, you can negotiate a shorter workweek. I've done it, others have as well - see link in my other comment.
Using other search engines goes a long way to get them there - the more they are used the more advertising dollars they get (and the less google gets), which leads to dollars to invest.

I find that duckduckgo is good enough for everything these days.
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> transparency is also important.

It's pretty misleading to defend Tesla in the name of transparency: so far, Tesla has been nothing but opaque regarding this incident. There's a whole lot of spin, unsupported claims, blaming the driver, and refusing to acknowledge Autopilot problems like veering into crash barriers post-update. That's the whole reason why the NTSB "fired" them: they were trying to create confusion around a transparent investigation.
My strategy is just to push myself to get _something_ done, even when I don't want to. So, the other night I wrote an SQL query. It was probably 20 mins of work, but it brought me closer to finishing the project. Other days, I'll end up "feeling it" and putting in several hours on a project. So, small increments plus the occasional big push.
Too bad this is only a small portion of what Facebook collects. For example, it doesn't include information they have purchased from third parties.
Sounds like you're proposing makework programs? Wouldn't they use more automation to build roads and airports?