skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the NHTSA report says nothing about how Tesla's autopilot compares to human driving. Here are two comments I made last week about this:

In that study there are two buckets, one which is total Tesla miles in TACC-enabled cars and then after the update total Tesla miles in cars with TACC + Autosteer and they calculated on airbag deployments. Human driven miles are going to dominate both of those buckets and there's a reason the NHTSA report makes zero claims about Tesla's safety relative to human drivers. It's totally outside the scope of the study. Then add in that some researchers who are skeptical of the methodology and have been asking for the raw data from NHTSA/Tesla have yet to receive it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16932350

Autosteer, however, is relatively unique to Tesla. That’s what makes singling out Autosteer as the source of a 40 percent drop so curious. Forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking were introduced just months before the introduction of Autosteer in October 2015. A previous IIHS study shows that both the collision warning and auto emergency braking can deliver a similar reduction in crashes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16932406
I find Markdown most natural for writing because I do not have to worry about formatting or syntax.

Currently I deliver ~2 PDF reports per week using Ulysses or MacDown for content creation (distraction-free writing), and then typesetting everything into InDesign.

Thank you for creating this tool, I will try it next week.

The ability to render Markdown to Pug as an "Import Markdown" feature would be key for many people to adopt this.
This is again deceptive. They are comparing against total miles driven by Tesla vehicles with Autopilot hardware, not necessarily in Autopilot mode.

Since a Tesla is often owned by people with better economic means, their statistics is not representative of all vehicles. The average vehicular fatality rate of this demographics and vehicle type could be well below that of Tesla with Autopilot.
The Writing Assignment That Changes Lives (2015)
> At the minimum, the verbosity problem

I don't believe a single second that Java is more verbose than Go. It's just that Go hasn't been buried under layers and layers of EE ...yet. In fact the whole "if err!=nil" boilerplate is the very definition of verbosity.

> Go is inherently not a OO language

Everytime you use interfaces you are doing OOP. And there is no choice but using interfaces when dealing with streams, which is 99% of what people use Go for.

> has some excellent functional constructs

No more than the latest Java. In fact Java has something Go definitely doesn't have which is pretty useful for functional programming: generics.

> Finally, Go compiles to machine code and I guess it should be way faster than Java.

AOT compilation is coming to Java.
What's bad about it is that it leads to a "market for lemons" for anyone working in the A.I. field in either engineering or sales. People see so much bullshit that they come to the conclusion that it is all bullshit.
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Well, the hope was that Watson, having explored and built a connected knowledge graph from various sources, could ask probing, adaptive questions to find out where a person landed.

So, say I'm an undergrad at a good university and I tell the system "I'm interested in Computer Science. I am particularly interested in Scientific Computing and would like to get to a graduate level of knowledge."

The system might ask "Sort the following operations by their worst-case run-time...". Then, if they do well there, maybe "Which of these two examples of auto-parallelization using Matlab's parfor would fail to parallize the code.." or something like that. Over the course of so many questions, the system would start to paint a more and more reliable picture of where contours of a person's knowledge.

This is time-consuming, of course, but over time it would get easier and faster to find contours by using the 'average' of people with similar backgrounds as a starting point.

Once a fairly good mapping is done of the person to Watson's cognitive model, Watson would need to trace back to the source(s) of nearby concepts and offer them to the user, which, ideally, are then rated by the user for relevance and perceived difficulty to further refine the person's model and rank the material offered for that particular profile.

Now imagine a Grad Student asking a similar question. Or a middle school student. What would those interactions look like? The mappings? The suggestions?

Don't get me wrong...mapping a person's knowledge space is a Very Hard Problem. Watson takes a kitchen sink approach that just isn't possible for a human being. And maybe it wouldn't be possible to tease apart the resulting cognitive model into tidy nodes enough to map anything to. These were questions I'd hoped that IBM could help answer. Instead, it was on to the easy, well-understood problem and solution.
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Not necessarily from, but are choosing it instead of. But yes young people who grew up in Ann Arbor are moving out to Detroit for sheer cost of rent/house reasons.
Not to mention that

every 320 million miles in vehicles equipped with Autopilot hardware.

does not mean 320 million miles with autopilot controlling the vehicle. Who knows how many of those miles are human driven?
"“I think that there isn’t a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability. Any of ‘em. They do not tell stories – they show you what something looks like. To a camera. The minute you relate this thing to what was photographed — it’s a lie. It’s two-dimensional. It’s the illusion of literal description. The thing has to be complete in the frame, whether you have the narrative information or not. It has to be complete in the frame. It’s a picture problem. It’s part of what makes things interesting.”"
https://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/06/interview-garry-wino...
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TV reporter invents common-sense solution to keep car seats clean
It absolutely does not. That is still entirely legal. All the GDPR does is make sure that the entity you're trading with is up front about what data they are collecting, and what it will be used for, giving you the ability to make an informed decision.
Philip K. Dick "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale?"
Next step will be to implant memories to go along with the pics ...
Weigh gain? Worrying about Weigh gain creates stress
Climate change? Worrying about climate creates stress
Air pollution? Worrying about air pollution creates stress
But it’s technically correct: the hardware is present. The software isn’t there yet, that’s true. So is this a “lie by omission”? Reading the whole page, there’s this quote: “It is not possible to know exactly when each element of the functionality described above will be available.” What else needs to be said?

At some point, critical thinking is required to navigate the world. The customer should ask “and when will the software catch up?” And I’ll concede that the overwhelming majority of the population doesn’t think like that. Should Tesla update the site with statements to confirm the negative cases? e.g. “Our software can’t yet do X, Y, Z, etc”
> all the 'wrong' bits set ends up not smoking.

How would we know that all of the 'pro-smoking' bits are set? Are we aware of all the possible bits?

I've always been ardently anti-smoking, even as a kid, even though I was surrounded by smokers. (I'm not claiming that YOU are claiming those are even close to all of the relevant bits, just stating background.)

So now I'll make something up: perhaps I was going to become a smoker, except as a toddler, something really bad (from my toddler perspective) happened to me while I was pondering the people smoking around me. And that alone setup sufficient neural pathways that over-rode all of the 'pro smoking' bits, present and future.

I believe that the relevant 'bits' are so numerous as to be effectively random.

I understand your assertion that free will can't be a thing in a fully deterministic universe, that randomness is a requirement.

At the same time, I'm still not convinced that randomness necessarily leads to free will.

I honestly don't think that humans have the linguistic or cognitive tools necessary to rigorously discuss or even consider this question.

Is there an effective difference between having and not having 'free will' when the playing field is so many orders of magnitude more complex than our ability to quantify or understand it?

A sufficiently advanced bot in a sufficiently advanced game, even when using a completely deterministic pseudo random number generator, should be fully able to convince us that it has free will.
Well if all he's saying is that Slay the Spire would be difficult to understand on mobile, well then I agree. However that didn't sound like what he was saying.

He describes it as "criticism," but doesn't convince me there's a way to make the interface better. In fact, I'd go the opposite direction and suggest that hearthstone is too simple a game in the name of simplicity.
When the Autopilot software is disabled, what about the Autopilot hardware makes the car any safer?

What is the accident statistic for Teslas not equipped with Autopilot hardware?

If Autopilot enabled cars are so much safer than human drivers, can they pass a written and road side driver's license test?
IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware
I’m giving you the experience of someone who grew up in Ann Arbor and has lived and worked in this area for 40 years. Outsiders like to conflate the two but they are not really that tied together. There’s influence but Ann Arbor is largely economically and culturally independent of Detroit.
Yeah, that's a good point.

I guess the ideal way to put it is that I didn't mean "decision" necessarily in a "free-will, non-deterministic" way but rather in a more computational sense (like branches of an "if").

If ultimately free will turns out to not exist, that will affect us very little in how we live: perhaps morally we should be more forgiving towards other people's shortcomings
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i was planning on securing a loan to get a house. i read blogs and post of how hackers helped people who were in need of removing negative listings on their credit report which accumulated, i was heading on foreclosure, it would be difficult get a good credit rating/score, let alone secure a lone for a house. then i was introduced to a FICO specialist in an online hacking firm- QUADHACKED(at)GMAIL(dot)COM they got negative listings removed from my report and systematically increased my credit score. i was sceptical at first but on the long run i was glad i made the decision to reach out to them.the effect on my credit score was so massive and life changing and my report was cleared of negative comments, for your hacking exploits i'll say you reach the team via email QUADHACKED(at)GMAIL(dot)COM you'll be glad afterwards i guarantee you.
Oh, yeah. I knew someone would get around to linking to Derek Lowe and his inimitable "Things I Won't Work With" series. His best-known entry in that series, about chlorine triflouride, also has mention of HF and semiconductors:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/san...

> The compound also a stronger oxidizing agent than oxygen itself, which also puts it into rare territory. That means that it can potentially go on to “burn” things that you would normally consider already burnt to hell and gone, and a practical consequence of that is that it’ll start roaring reactions with things like bricks and asbestos tile. It’s been used in the semiconductor industry to clean oxides off of surfaces, at which activity it no doubt excels.

> There’s a report from the early 1950s (in this PDF) of a one-ton spill of the stuff. It burned its way through a foot of concrete floor and chewed up another meter of sand and gravel beneath, completing a day that I’m sure no one involved ever forgot. That process, I should add, would necessarily have been accompanied by copious amounts of horribly toxic and corrosive by-products: it’s bad enough when your reagent ignites wet sand, but the clouds of hot hydrofluoric acid are your special door prize if you’re foolhardy enough to hang around and watch the fireworks

Here's a video of some French people introducing the substance to things like a rubber glove and leather:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/04/05/chl...

TL;DW: FIRE!
Point valid; video-chat has been around for a while too but in-person conversations still is a higher-quality experience.

When I was in high school we watched about coral reefs thanks to "Laserdisc". VR is the new "Laserdisc".
Hard Paywall that I don't seem to be able to get around
"Google does not have infrastructure support to run interprocedural or whole-program analysis at Google scale..."

I am a bit unclear about this statement. Does it really mean that Google uses a single, monolithic program to do everything from advertisement payment tracking to the GMail user interface? Or does it mean they don't have the infrastructure to do analysis of many individual programs? (Surely, that can't be true!?)
> Serious question: is there any reason dead code detection would be any faster at the syntax level than the generated code? I mean, I'm no compiler expert but in a straightforward SSA representation "dead code" is just a register that gets assigned but never used, all of which can be detected and dropped globally with just one pass over the data.

That is only one type of dead code elimination. It is not necessary to solve the halting problem to eliminate larger portions of code than just unused register assignments. There are plenty of ways to eliminate beyond that, such as proving that entire classes, functions, declarations, branches, loop iterations, and data are unreachable. Especially so in a type-resolved format like MIR, some of these higher level optimizations become really cheap and would allow for LLVM to do a lot less work.
A few Wi-Fi transmitters and your house becomes a coprocessor
well while many question TIOBE, i believe a lot fewer will question the empirical observation that C# and Java are bigger in the job market than C++

C# and Java both are a lot simpler than C++

i would even argue that by adding more features into Java and C#, a door was opened to PHP, Python, Ruby and now GO

i still stand by conclusion, that most developer prefer to move complexity to the solution and away from the language

and to be clear, i saying that this is a preference and taste issue, i am not saying that one is better than the other, i am not even saying that developers who prefer complex languages have bad taste ... it is just the way it is ... others have expressed it in more length

https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
There is no such thing as “fractional reserve banking”, the textbook models on banking taught in schools across the globe are dead wrong.

See:

Richard A. Werner, A lost century in economics: Three theories of banking and the conclusive evidence
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191...

Richard A. Werner, Can banks individually create money out of nothing? — The theories and the empirical evidence
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191...

Zoltan Jakab and Michael Kumhof, Banks are not intermediaries of loanable funds - and why this matters
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2015/banks-are...

German Bundesbank, Die Rolle von Banken, Nichtbanken und Zentralbank im Geldschöpfungsprozess
https://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Veroeffentl...

Piti Disyatat, The bank lending channel revisited
https://www.bis.org/publ/work297.pdf

Beardsley Ruml, Taxes For Revenue Are Obsolete
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/542134
The Watson stuff is so oversold it is almost comical.

And yes, sure IBM hasn't been about hardware for a long time, they've been a services company for decades now. But as far as AI/ML is concerned Google and Facebook are attracting the top talent these days, Apple and Microsoft much further down the line.

What would be nice is if they would take the opposite tack, rather than marketing the hell out of it quietly solve lots of problems that are hard to solve in a traditional way. Every time I hear about Watson it is in the context of something where I ask myself "What's the point of being able to do that?". If all there is to hype is the hype itself then it is hollow.
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"...have the hardware needed for...". Nothing about the full capability. So no actual claim about the capability, just that the hardware is in place.

Still a bit deceptive, to me. Reminds me of "...electroplated in 16 carat gold...".
Inline markdown and external markdown files are both supported. Have a look at the "Book" example. Every chapter is in its own Markdown file. Most of the other examples have parts where I simply switch to markdown.

I am also a big markdown user and I have found that for writing reports all day long markdown clearly wins over Pug, in particular with tools like

https://atom.io/packages/markdown-preview-enhanced

But the day where you need to produce a super-nice report with a bit of custom layout, Pug/SCSS is awesome.
It's not just them. A lot of people think that because NNs can do object identification that self driving cars are almost here. It's similar to thinking that word recognition and pattern matching are going to give us conversational AI. Things like that are prerequisites for AI, but they are hardly the whole thing. Companies are spending billions on this stuff and I hope they're just hedging in case it pans out rather than planning their future around it.
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>The reason we pay news outlets for content is for their editorial function: curating writers, picking and choosing worthwhile topics, polishing the output, etc. This editorial function has no implicit value, but neither does the content; the value is in the combination of strong content with good editorial technique.

I don't think that's explicitly and consciously the case. Today that everybody can publish on the web, such curation might be especially needed, and payed for (to remove the noise).

But back in the day, we paid news outlets because that was how we got articles -- whether they were curated or not was a secondary concern.

People couldn't just buy paper and bare printing costs, handle distribution deals etc and distribute their own articles. So if we wanted articles we had to buy them in newspaper/magazine form. Curation came with that -- not as an inherent demand.

>My sense is that Medium isn't doing this, that they are instead just charging for content, which completely misses the point.

Not really. The whole point of internet distrubution, what was hailed as revolutionary, was the ability to 'skip the gatekeeper', publish directly to everybody, and grow your own audience.

Medium is still kind of a middleman, but they're not a gatekeeper, in the sense that the editor in chief of an old news outlet was.

Their whole point is giving people direct access to any content writer they like. If someone doesn't care for one, they can read others. No curation necessary, not only because you can discover yourself which authors you like, but also because Medium has infinite space for articles -- not the 100-200 pages of a newspaper/magazine.

It's the same deal with independent musicians selling their wares directly.
U of M still has a Dearborn campus that's closer to Detroit, doesn't it? Looking at Maps, it's only a few miles from downtown Detroit. I grew up in Flint and the U of M campus there was a big part of the city.
Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts
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This article is absolute bullshit. Read Sowell on economic mobility. When focusing on individuals, there's still migration from the poorest classes to mid/high.

Luck determines everything, but the author still writes a paid article, just in case the check doesn't magically fall from the sky.
Different sections of Detroit have different costs, Royal Oak isn't very cheap. But some sections are way, way cheaper than Ann Arbor.

The part of Ferndale my good friends live in is still much cheaper than Ann Arbor even though it's about 3x more than it cost ~5 years ago.
I'm going to have to be honest here and say that moving to an upscale neighborhood lowers the chances of thumping noise / party noise type environments. In NYC at least, the higher end areas have snootier people and police who are more active. As a super light sleeper and tech geek who needs to concentrate, I have to ally myself with the snooty.
Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right
(insinuation of causation without citation!)
Never heard of this project, but based on the name my first thought was, "how is it different than Jython?"

It's actually more of a gateway between Python and Java programs running together, so they can share data structures and call into each other.
Hiya folks! I worked with the team on this; happy to answer any questions you have.
Why Delaware over Wyoming? Wyoming has no corporate income tax and lower fees.
> Yes they are. What do you mean, not in production? Maybe there aren't millions of fully autonomous cars on the road today, but there will be soon. They sure are in production.

Huh? They are in production but not yet in production, but they sure are in production? Can I go to the store and buy one? No. So they are still building the things!

> Speech recognition is 100% amazing. The phones never ever hear me wrong any more, not ever, not once. The main problem I have with it is interpretation, which can be shocking, shocking bad.

I simply do not believe your first point, based on my own experience. 100%? Really? Moreover, your second point, that the interpretation is off, is most of the problem. That's where 99% of the work for the foreseeable future will be spent on this problem.