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but then if you strictly follow this rule, what is the benefit of autopilot?

Indeed. When reading Tesla's statement,

"The Palo Alto-based automaker, led by Elon Musk, has said it repeatedly warns drivers to stay alert, keep their hands on the wheel and maintain control of their vehicle at all times while using the Autopilot system."

...one can't help but think, "then WTF is it good for, if I still have to drive the car myself while using it?"

Supervising autopilot to the degree required to correct sudden mistakes seems, to me, to be probably very close to the mental load of the details of steering yourself.

I'd say the mental load is higher than manually driving --- not unlike being a driving instructor to a student driver who is OK most of the time but occasionally makes a possibly fatal mistake that you need to watch out for and quickly correct. Normally, a car will go in a straight line with no steering input, but the autopilot almost "has a mind of its own" and can steer itself in the wrong direction.

This is subtly different from cruise control, which lets you concentrate on steering and rest your foot on the brake so you can use it quickly if needed. Cruise control doesn't encourage lowering attention, but enhances it.
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My experience says they're not with a few thousand miles of driving but sure, whatever.
I do like useful ads. One of my biggest resentments with Google is that once they started targeting their ads onto me, their ads just lost all the value they had, and they were very valuable before it.

And I'm sure I am not alone. Before the internet, people used to buy ad catalogues. They would go out, pay a bit, just to get a collection of ads home.
Why would we visit forbes.com to learn about astronomy?
Don’t think so. It was a guy in the USA, about 10 years ago. Though looks like many are doing it now with CVD. Diamond semiconductors are the holy grail, though there is current work growing diamond heat spreaders directly under GaN active regions.
Yeah, the problem is deep learning sucked a bunch of money - essentially took a loan against the future in the form of VC investments. And if that loan does not get payed, for the next few years you may not afford to explore all that other stuff.
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Self driving strikes me as a technology with a hard boolean quality threshold. Either it is as good as a human or it just doesn't work.

This is a lot like rocketry. A rocket that meets 95% of its design requirements explodes, crashes, or fails to reach the proper orbit. Its damn near 100% or failure. Too bad Elon can't see this.

I think Tesla's obsession with autopilot is misplaced. Give me a solid reliable affordable EV with good range. Autopilot would be nice but only if it works. I can wait for that. But a solid EV is something I'm actually more excited about believe it or not.

I'm sort of afraid Tesla will throw the whole game in pursuit of self driving tech.
Entities like Elon Musk is a symptom of the worsening of the disease of stupidity that has gotten hold of the global human population....

It is not really surprising when our whole system of existence has the stupidity and weakness of its inhabitants at its foundation. Point is, this will only get worse. Because any "progress" along the current lines asks the common man to be more stupid...
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> It seems like a misunderstanding of what the technology does, by consumers and the media. I'm no expert on Tesla's marketing history, but I'm of the opinion that these crashes are due to drivers misunderstanding that the system does and what its capabilities are.

Perhaps the name "autopilot" has something to do with that misunderstanding.
Good? If the acceptable price paid for diamonds in both the wholesale and retail markets is lowered, then the pressure to mine diamonds (and the attendant violence & natural damage) should be lowered as well. That seems like a good outcome? Additionally, DeBeers is unlikely to be able to dominate the lab-grown market so this step should legitimize lab-grown stones with little risk of creating another monopoly.
> because if the driver hadn't been watching Harry Potter

This was proven to not be true:
https://jalopnik.com/the-ntsb-to-partially-blame-teslas-auto...
Actually, they use just as much glyphosate when growing wheat (not GMO) as when growing corn (maybe 80% is GMO) in the US.

USA
corn
production 333 000 000 tons
glyphosate use 69 000 000 lb
wheat
production 58 000 000 tons
glyphosate use 17 000 000 lb

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5044953/
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Every color has its beautiful name
How often are you attempting to drive into parked cars?
This article is inspirational.
These days I got names of colors in different languages from this website: http://htmlcss.jp/color/china.html. I surprisingly found that the name of colors are full of beauty. So I wrote a tool to extract dominated colors from an image, and name them.
And when software on a car assumes pedestrians always have a mobile device on their person, charged and ready for a split second alert? IMO This would be an absurd design.
>caption over a billion videos in 10 languages on YouTube;

Utterly useless. And I don't think it is improving.
>> Their goal is probably to try to quickly drive the price of man made diamonds down to the price of Moissanite, and create a artificial distinction between natural and man made dimaonds.

> Indeed, diamond jewelers claim that silicon carbide (SiC) has "excess fire" as it has greater dispersion than diamond. SiC has a greater index of refraction, which improves the properties of total-internal-reflection as well!

As an investor you probably know this, but for the benefit of everyone else, Moissanite is a marketing term for (crystalline) silicon carbide.

Similarly to how sapphire is a special term for crystalline aluminum oxide, but the word "sapphire" has a bit more tradition behind it.
Diamonds are overpriced through social engineering. There is no real need for these carbon crystals to cost that much. But diamond producers inflated demand for them, turning them into status symbols.
Farmer here: We apply glyphosate to both GMO (roundup ready) and non-GMO crops. The big difference is when: The roundup ready crops can have it applied early in the growing season. The non-GMO crops have to wait until just before harvest, when you don't care, or even prefer, that the crop dies.
Organic food IS food which is treated with various chemicals to kill living things. But the list of various chemicals are arbitrarily defined as "natural", putting them in the same list as other safe, natural chemicals like ricin, botulinum, strychnine, arsenic...

"Organic" is a marketing term, not a descriptor of the production process.
Yes, I understand the strategic value of his words. My speechless stems from my inability to find a profound way to express my dismay that we live in a world where such farcically untrue statements are standard operating procedure. The statement is nonsensical; he knows it, we know it, he knows that we know it, and we know that he knows that we know it. And yet despite the utter transparency of the lie, no CEO would ever dream of not telling it. I suppose I'm just sad that we live in a world that has so completely disincentivized corporate honesty.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16727869
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The Expanse has officially been saved
Confusion over the function of cruise control was the subject of a long series of urban legends. I remember hearing at least one of these when I was growing up in the 90s. Ironically, the lesson of many of these stories is that the name for a fully self-driving system is "autopilot" not "cruise control".

> [1995] This guy saves up his money and finally gets the van he always wanted. Fridge and tv in the back, all the works. He starts driving out on a country road that leads to his home. He sets the van on cruise control and gets out of the drivers seat and goes into the back to get a beer. The van of course goes off the road, and when the paramedics ask him what happened, he said he thought he had auto-pilot.

> [1993] An old china man was driving along in his motor home. He turned on his ‘cruise control’. Apparently misunderstanding the function of ‘cruise control’, he then went into the back of the motor home. The motor home drove off the road and crashed. Apparently he did not realize that ‘cruise control’ is not ‘autopilot.’

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cruise-uncontrol/
Who's clock is correct though.
If someone misunderstands you, they may have a problem.

If everyone misunderstands you, you may have a problem.
And a big part of what causes the general public to think that is Tesla's egregiously misleading marketing.

See Tesla's page on "autopilot" here: https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

The first (and only) thing you see at first is "Full Self Driving hardware on all cars", and a blurb about how all Tesla's have the ability to be self-driven. It does not mention here, nor anywhere else on the page that the current implementation of autopilot in Tesla cars is
not fully self-driving. The video just underneath the headline is a video that shows a car using self-driving capabilities, not autopilot.

The entire rest of the page is like this as well. It talks at length about how Tesla's have the capability to drive themselves, and hardly ever mentions that self-driving and "autopilot" are not the same thing. There is only one single sentence, buried in the middle of the page, that mentions that drivers must remain alert and ready to take control.

And again, this is on Tesla's home page for their autopilot function. This is the first page that comes up when you Google "Tesla Autopilot". It's really shameful for Tesla to have marketing materials like this.
In the Electrical Potential lesson, you have a super cool Scalar Field simulation. I noticed you were doing some tricks to get it to render quickly, like rendering at a lower resolution while animating. I do a lot of HTML canvas work, so I figured I'd take a crack at implementing something like it, to see if I could improve the render performance.

Here's what I came up with: http://electrons.surge.sh

• (Small Improvement) When updating the particle positions (your physicsAll function), you can skip a bunch of loop iterations and redundant distance math by using j > i rather than i != j, and updating both particles together: https://github.com/ivanreese/electrons/blob/8b21d1cf8c80e16c...

• (Big Improvement) Rather than using fillRect to draw each square of the scalarField, manipulate the canvas pixel data directly. Use context.getImageData() to get a ByteArray, then loop through it and update the color in each pixel. Much faster than using fills when you want to color every pixel in the canvas independently: https://github.com/ivanreese/electrons/blob/8b21d1cf8c80e16c...

• (Aesthetic Improvement) I also render at a lower resolution, and I use the CSS blur filter to smooth out the result: canvas { filter: blur(4px) }

I hope some of these suggestions are helpful. None of them require switching to a new rendering technology (like WebGL), and it should be pretty easy to slot them in to your existing code. Feel free to drop me a line if you'd like help implementing anything.

Last but not least, thanks for creating this fantastic educational resource! I work for a learning media company that produces some electrical content, and I shared your work with my teammates as an example of what we could aspire to. It was a real hit.
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Disclaimer: I am a lay technical person and don't know much about AI.

I find this article somewhat condescending. I look at all the current development as stepping stones to progress, not an overnight success that does everything flawlessly. I imagine the future might be some combination of different solutions, and what the author proposes may or may not play a part in it.
An interactive insight into China's Bay Area plan
All via private contractors, of course.
Cadillac Super Cruise doesn't claim you still have to be driving it. It's hands free. It watches your eyeballs to make sure you're paying attention, otherwise it drives the car. But it only does this on specifically supported roads. It also doesn't claim to be fully autonomous.
Boomer GOFAI, no thanks.
> Leave a single note, "We're sorry this patient wasn't satisfied with our service, and have refunded all fees. Since most of our patients are happy, we rarely need to do this." [0] Actually even that note is too confrontational

She accused him of committing felonious fraud; seeing the doctor respond by giving her her money back and saying "most people don't have a problem" would not cast that doctor in a good light at all, to me. I'm not really sure if there's any kind of response they could have left that would feel reassuring to me: recommending the client contact law enforcement like someone else suggested might help a little, but not that much. The presence of a review with accusations like that that the doctor shrugged off or dealt with casually would be infinitely more offputting to me than hearing the doctor had previously won a libel case against a former client.
The (small) organic farmers I know dont use pesticides at all. And as far as I know, here in europe they would not be allowed to use anything realy toxic, when they want to have the organic label.

So things are different in the US then? Or also for europe? sources please.
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It's the difference between Tesla's capital A "Autopilot" product and the english word lower case a "autopilot." The language doesn't define Autopilot, but it does define autopilot, like it doesn't define Monero. If I had a product that I called Meat and it wasn't meat, I don't get to say "well the word 'meat' originally just meant solid food," when my customers complain I misled them.
It depends on the application and what the customer need is.

My son’s friend in school was born on February 29. We could go through the time pedantry and claim that she is 1 year old (she is 6), or pick an arbritrary moment in time (say March 1, except for leap year) and get on with the party.

If you’re plotting a satellite course, the details matter, but many, if not most use cases require consistency over precision.
Likely did contribute to some accidents. Even simple cruise control can catch you out if you're not really paying attention -- e.g. when coming up on slower traffic.

But nobody in 1958 would have the slightest expectation that the car would actually drive itself. Tesla has been using the terms "self driving" and "autopilot" together since they started markting the car.
I second this. I have a Dell Poweredge R610 I got off ebay in a quiet cabinet in my computer room. You can get pretty beefy ones for $500, add your own drives. Mine has been running fine for the last 2.33 years.
Sweet, it's all built with React and Redux! And there's some _very_ hefty reducer logic in there.

I'd love to chat with some of the Uber engineers who worked on this. I'm a Redux maintainer, and I'm always eager to hear feedback from people who are building serious applications with Redux.
Japanese train drivers are famous for pointing at things to always keep attention. May be similar system can be used for cars: for example car could narrate objects it sees and ask driver to point at them with hand, then check with depth sensor and gesture recognition that user pointed correctly, and then slow down and stop if user pointed wrong.
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That's not how disbelieving works.

People disbelieve facts that would cost them to believe. If I believe in climate change, I have to make expensive life changes (sell the SUV, buy a Tesla, etc). Therefore I will not believe in it.

This belief is 100% honest, BTW. This is key to understand!

For diamonds, the incentives are reversed. If I believe that artificial diamonds are as good as the natural kind, I can get a wedding ring much cheaper. So I will probably believe that!

If I have already bought natural diamonds, I might believe something else. But it doesn't matter much, since I'm not buying more diamonds.
Additionally, a hash table could be implemented in such a way that it could be updated during resizing. As long as you set up locks in the right places, you could spend the extra memory to do an out-of-place rehash and allow both concurrent writers and your rehashing thread to write to the new table. It's doable, if difficult and error-prone.
There are too many cool languages and too few weekends. It's becoming more problematic, but at the same time it would seem impractical to optimize my life around learning every single thing that I want to learn.

How do I decide which things are important enough? I am running out of time in my life also.

I watched a video a while ago about how the universe is expanding faster than light can travel, which means the portion of the universe that we can observe is an increasingly small subset of what's out there.

Sometimes my hobbies and wish-i-had-time-for-that projects feel the same way, they're expanding faster than I'll ever catch up to.

I wonder if zig will ever pursue some sort of memory safety. I find rust very difficult and unwieldy, but I can totally grok the appeal of RAII.
"Yeah we sell that cheap-ass lab shit too. But you should really buy the really expensive natural stuff that we've manipulated the price of for decades."
That's two words.
I find the auto captions pretty useful.
I thought the car crashing into the parked police car, a parked fire engine, decapitated, and driving straight into a road divider at full speed were better proof that people are mislead by the term "autopilot."

Tesla likes to play both sides, it is "autopilot" when it works, but when it doesn't then the driver has literally under six seconds (according to Tesla) to avert a fatal accident.
This is less useless than you think. Captioning video could allow for video to become searchable as easily as text is now searchable. This could lead to far better search results for video and a leap forward in the way people produce and consume video content.
Perhaps it'd be more correct to call it a "Strong AI Winter". We're no closer to "aware" machines. We've simply gotten very good at automating tasks that were once difficult to automate.
What's the benefit to apply glyphosate just before harvest.

Hasn't all the growing already been done? Is it to avoid bringing in bugs with the harvest?
It's great that you're willing to take a prescriptivist rather than descriptivist linguistic stance, but it's not that useful when it comes to consumer behavior.
"Move fast and break things" was never meant for actual real world physical things (or laws). It was a mantra that encouraged breaking sacred cows and assumptions but has been bastardized and vilified by the anti-big tech crowd. Obviously you can be a little more lax on your production quality if you're building inane web apps rather than rocket ships or medical devices.
This is getting deep into some wizardry, but if you used a custom pool-like allocator you could group contents close together in cache, and, if necessary/appropriate, even rearrange the elements in the container to be more cache-friendly for your purposes.
When I saw the Google demo of a CNN using video to split a single audio stream of two guys talking over each other, I became a believer.
closing the two modals is too hard?
No offense but this is exactly the attitude that inhibits progress and led the auto industry to languish in mediocrity for years. If you wait until the technology would prevent all accidents, you'd be waiting forever.
If you have an insurance policy that pays for a rental car while your car is being repaired, the cost of a long repair delay could add up pretty quickly.
It is worse because BlueKai is a data broker and sells that data to anyone. You can literally buy data from BK for various user segments (and that is their business model). FB, otoh, while collecting the data keeps it only to themselves and shares it with no-one (not even the advertiser).
> I thought it was well established that there is value and that, in some cases, it could even be "legitimately" (even according to the rules of the game provider) traded for real-world money.

I have never heard of any game provider doing that. I don't really believe you because they would have no legal protection if they did that.

All of their arguments are that the digital goods in the lootbox have no real cash value and are only meant for entertainment purposes.

Steam is the one who really rides the rails with these arguments when they let you turn digital goods into steam dollars. But you can't trade the steam dollars and you can't cash them out. They also actively pursue websites that do let you cash out the value of steam digital goods and try to shut them down and make it difficult for them to operate.
it's not a stepping stone, if you look closely it's a dead end
I dunno, how many people with medicaid or VA benefits go bankrupt due to medical bills like people with regular medical insurance do?
This is a pretty amazing development. I expect that in 20 years "natural" diamonds will less commonly sold than lab made ones. Certainly for jewelry there are good reasons to go with a lab diamond (better clarity and color for a lot less money) and no downside.
I dont recall the season or episode name, but there was an episode in Voyager that involved a rogue planet that was involved in some sort of ancestral hunting ritual.
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It needs to be as good as an average human. Do we have enough stats to compare yet?
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism."

I can't read the article. Weird. is this because of GDPR?
> I don't get it, why is it so hard to detect stationary objects in front of you?

This could only be said by someone who has never worked on the problem. I don't get it, why is programming so hard, you are just telling the computer exactly what to do?
There are a lot of suboptimal design decisions that's shared across the state of the art in package management (cargo, pipenv, npm, yarn, etc) that the Go team is not taking for granted.

One is reproducible builds. The standard answer is lock files which is extra bloat and leads to merge conflicts. vgo is trying to avoid it with the "minimal versions" strategy (https://research.swtch.com/vgo-repro).

Another is shared (or recursive) dependencies. The semver answer to this is that if the versions match then they should be shared if not then they should be duplicated. But what do you do if it's a singleton, listens on a port, or exposes a port. Right now, with npm for example, good luck with that, you're in for a world of pain. On the other hand with vgo's "semantic import versioning" they're trying to make version interop more explicit.

Just because 90% of the time mainstream package mangers work doesn't mean it's a solved problem. Kudos for the Go team for trying to advance the state of the art.
typical fear-based, anti-freedom, anti-progress response in these comments. The NHTSA found a 40% crash rate reduction from Tesla's autopilot. So yea "blame Elon Musk"
The author played us all like a fiddle.
The trouble is you think you have time. Buddha.
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