skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that if everyone is making stupid bets (and the bank is also making stupid bets), you may also have to make a stupid bet if you're determined to own your home.

Or you could rent, but that's not just an economic decision.
I just appreciate that SPACE is a recursive acronym.
Such large swings in basic things like "Mandarin" make me doubt the quality of the data.
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Yup. SoundJam MP was basically a Winamp clone and it became iTunes. The above comment is also ignoring the entire iTunes store was arguably the only hard part about creating iTunes.
Funny to hear that here, that's my local train station :)
I believe Mercedes lane assist does this with via the steering wheel. They test whether you are actively driving. As soon as you take your hands off or don't move enough the system beeps after a few seconds to put your hands back.
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Another one of those dreaded "autopilot" malfunction reports. When are people going to realize that an 'autopilot' system required to be supervised at all time is not something any non super-human driver is able to override timely.
It was ridiculed only by people like Steve Ballmer who were either whistling past the graveyard or just plain dense.

It wasn't ridiculed by myself, or by anyone I knew.

To me, and to most other people I hung out with at the time, it was very obvious that physical keyboards on cell phones were not going to be A Thing for very much longer. Everything else that happened simply followed from that.
I want some YouTube tech channel to test this out and see if this story by Amazon is bullshit or not. Have a private-sounding conversation and intersperse it with a sudden nonchalant, 'hey, alexa visited me today and...' and then keep talking and then 'I really want to send a message to these students, you know and...' and so on and so forth.
Tesla "Autopilot" cannot see stationary objects. It has a radar, but it is 1-D and low resolution. It uses this to localize other moving cars. In theory, it could use this to see a highway divider or firetruck it's about to hit, but since it's 1-D that would also mean that it would have to slam on the brakes when it sees an overpass coming up, because it can't tell the difference between an overpass and a highway divider or a firetruck. It can assume that overpasses aren't driving at 60mph, so it will see other cars. The Tesla algorithm is "look for lane markings and try to stay between them, and don't hit any moving vehicles. If there is any stationary object, including another a vehicle in your lane, the "Autopilot" will plow right into it. If they're not explaining this to customers, it's negligent.
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I hate my life but like my job, oddly enough.
Help me understand. How does it lower the strain of driving if you have to remain 100% as attentive anyway? Or are you actually less than 100%.
Loans are always approved up to 85% of home value, so 15% cash payment required. 1 - 1.5% loans are freely available with 1-5 years fixed rate. And you get 30% back of the interest paid from IRS yearly.

Repayment terms are usually 40-100 years and not uncommon that 3years in on a 100year repayment you refinance the 97% left on a new 100years repayment plan.

To put it into some numbers.
A typical middle class income for a couple would be 85.000usd/year, 60.000usd after taxes. They buy a home for 320.000usd with a loan of 270.000usd.
Interest cost $180/month.

I find it very interesting that the markets in many countries have similar movements but loans are nothing alike.
Are country markets really so different or are some markets just broken and it will catch up one day?
> Now a pin drops and 50 publications write an "Facebook negligently allowed someone to ... they must be held accountable and regulated and broken apart" article.

I think part of it is this; those "50 publications" --the media-- is paying attention now, and they judge the internet like a media publication and not a forum.

There's debate of course; does the sorting of the newsfeed equate editorial curation? Does this make Facebook a media company vs a communications platform? I do think that a lot of the outcry I've been hearing against these open communication mediums have come from old media more so than from the average person.
It’s an oft overlooked inequality in these systems. People get so wrapped up in some whiz bang thing that they don’t stop to think if they should.

At the end of the day, one of the most important aspects of your information architecture is how many times is each write to the system actually observed? That answer can dictate a lot about your best processing strategies.
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The same way traditional cruise control reduces the strain of driving by allowing you to not constantly exert force on the accelerator pedal using your leg/foot, Autopilot reduces the strain of driving by allowing you to not constantly exert force on the steering wheel using your arms/hands.
Can you please elaborate on what made windows mobile better for apps? Why did Microsoft not want to continue this? I think windows mobile was a complete scratch and rewrite?

My understanding for why Google wanted Android and open handset alliance is the fragmentation of mobile at that time: it took too much effort to get Google maps on all these different J2ME (I think I got the name right) devices.
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Autopilot is not a word made up by marketing though. It’s already defined: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/automatic_pilot

“A device for keeping an aircraft on a set course without the intervention of the pilot.”

If you enable an autopilot, intervention by the pilot is not necessary by definition
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There was an article where they showed how to dump the image of the application from memory and compare it to disk image. On linux. And it was just one bit flipped.
The trouble is, I see a lot of drivers that aren't paying attention to the road, who are dazing off, who are looking at their phones/clouds whatever. The majority of them aren't driving Teslas. At least with a Tesla I know there's a backup system (the 'autopilot').

I'm not saying the Autopilot is 100% faultless/reliable. I am sure however that humans have a much higher chance of handling a situation badly than the autopilot, simply because they're human and humans do stupid shit.
Some may be in breach of the GDPR for making consent a condition of use. Without knowing more it's hard to say though, since some services really do need some PII to operate (like Amazon needing an address to deliver to).
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Haha, and play some jazz tune maybe?
> The icing on the cake. I don't know who you know, but seriously, nobody wants a hardware keyboard.

Not true. If it were true the Blackberry KeyONE wouldn't have been the moderate success that it was. Clearly TCL believe that QWERTY phones are viable as they've just announced the Blackberry Key2.

My better-half has not one, but two, KeyONEs - one for work, and one for personal use. They are very nice, well built phones with a pretty good spec. If you type stuff all day, then they are a great option.
> "Eyetracking rejected for being ineffective, not for cost."

Simply saying that it is ineffective is not an answer at all. Anyone with access to YouTube can see eye trackers working remarkably well.

Maybe he simply wasn't willing to disable Autopilot for users that could not be eye tracked accurately (glasses, etc), but that seems like a very bad reason. They should start with the ideal cases and add support for wearing glasses or low light over time.
Check out the Minisec from 1976:

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1267

"Because of the finite size of clumsy human fingers, it had no more controls than that of its ancestor of three hundred years earlier. There were fifty neat little studs; each, however, had an unlimited number of functions, according to the mode of operation - for the character visible on each stud changed according to the mode."
I'm driving a 2018 VW Tiguan Allspace with ACC, Lane Assist, Side Assist and everything. If that's what Autopilot is, i'm scared. In part I ordered those features because of assessments like yours that this is pretty much Autopilot. It isn't.

My car can in theory follow the lane, but only in pretty much ideal conditions and even then it sometimes loses the lane and goes straight ahead, even in turns, possibly plowing into oncoming traffic or off the road. If it follows the lane, it does so very broadly, sometimes with driving actually on or a little over the lane in a turn, screaming at me to take control. This is the best case scenario.

I can't imagine Autopilot being this bad when looking at YouTube.

Don't get me wrong, I love my car and those systems for what they are, but they couldn't be called Autopilot in anyones wildest dreams.
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
Tesla does that as well but it's a poor proxy for determing if the user is paying attention. It would be much better to check if the driver is actually watching the road. The user that crashed into this firetruck was not watching the road which the Tesla could have easily recognized through eye tracking.
I call bullshit, eye tracking works fine. If more information is required to determine if a driver is paying attention there are many other factors that can be added. For example Mercedes-Benz Attention Assist works fine and doesn't use eye tracking.
“By definition“ you are not driving a car.
This is also why HTML has moved to a "living standard". To avoid versions. The philosophy is to only introduce backwards-compatible changes so everything can be handled by a single engine.
What, CTRL-Z? That’s the point.

A couple minutes into a ten minute task someone goes whups I should have backgrounded that and they CTRL-C, up arrow, & and enter, and I say something like, “dude... we need to talk about CTRL-Z bg”
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It seems fairly obvious me that an imperfect autopilot is worse than no autopilot at all, since it trains drivers to “relax” and let the computer drive when some non-trivial percentage of the time the autopilot will get things wrong.

It’s unfortunate that there’s no real way for there to be a perfect computer driver, and all the real world training data these things are collecting is needed to ever get close.

But if these systems keep making mistakes like this that seem “stupid” to humans, I suspect these things will be banned before long.
But you don’t “constantly” exert force on the steering wheel. You only exert force when turning. Otherwise you are just resting your hands on it, same as autopilot. It’s not like the accelerator pedal at all.

Again the only significant reduction would seem to be in the mental load of paying attention.
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Like this?

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So, TOR works in this way, but some other hypothetical ideal system would never work this way.

An ideal system would operate in such a way that reading an ordinary public resource requires no single peer. If I want to simply read a wikipedia page, no single individual should be capable of knowing that I requested that page, and be tasked with the entire responsibility of proxying my request. No single peer should even know that a wikipedia page is what I asked for, who I asked for content from, or where I've been and what I've been doing.

Right now HTTPS offers content privacy, but no meta data privacy. TOR offers a degree of meta data privacy, but no guarantee of content privacy. Even with the two combined, the TOR exit node can still understand that someone logged into Gmail, and someone probably tried to send a message with an overall length of ~2MB.

With a strategic vantage point, enough facts could become evident, that TOR would fail to offer enough protection, and still out someone trying to accomplish a secret task with TOR.

It should be possible to provide both content privacy and meta data privacy, so that my solid gold widget factory plans are mailed safely to my vacation home, and no one knows that I mailed them to myself, that I mailed anything at all, or what I mailed if that's what I was doing.

I don't care about how "it" works, if TOR can only suck one way, and can't not suck some other way. I want something that doesn't suck. I already said I don't want TOR. TOR doesn't need to be something else. It just needs to stop telling people it's something better than it actually is.
> FB plans for the optimistic usage when in reality, that is rarely the normal usage.

Hold up, this sounds wrong. I am sure the optimistic usage is by far the "normal usage"; I don't suppose most people are streaming murders, suicides, etc.

Considering the number of users Facebook has, I'd be surprised if these negative uses even come close to one in many thousands. For the same reason one also can't assume they won't happen; give 2+ billion people the ability to stream live and someone is bound to stream something nasty. I doubt most of those 2+ billion people are using this feature negatively though.
I don’t agree. The machines and humans make different kinds of stupid mistakes.
Nop. The halting problem is a purely mathematical problem. You don't need any bit of physics to define it and prove it's not solvable.
> If you enable an autopilot, intervention by the pilot is not necessary by definition

Only if you're happy for the aircraft to continue travelling in the same set course.

I guess by the same virtue, driver intervention is also not required if you're willing to let the vehicle travel in the same direction and disregard the firetruck ahead...

Tesla's Autopilot is perfectly capable of maintaining direction/speed of travel, and it even follows the curves of the road most of the time which is presumably more than an aircraft autopilot system can do. It is the driver who is not willing to disregard the obstacles ahead, the same way presumably aircraft pilots are not willing to disregard obstacles in their course and will take over control of the aircraft if there is one.

Nothing wrong with our tendency to avoid obstacles in order to not die, of course, but it's not the autopilot's job since the definition of autopilot is to maintain a set course, as you quoted. You may be confusing it with full self-driving, which doesn't exist yet.
I find the benefit of cruise control is that in normal situations in country driving (over 90% of my driving) I can now completely ignore the speedometer, and consequently the entire dashboard, and don’t need to worry about adjusting my foot on the accelerator pedal to match the speed limit. Cruise control thus allowed me to focus more fully on the road, and increased my perceived safety.
American mortgages are a little unusual in that they are typically fixed rate for 30 years and can be paid off at any point without penalty (so if rates drop you can refinance for the lower rate).
I want to wear sunglasses.
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The initial workload that Intel is targeting is putting Open Virtual Switch, the open source virtual switch, on the FPGA, offloading some switching functions in a network from the CPU where such virtual switch software might reside either inside a server virtualization hypervisor or outside of it but alongside virtual machines and containers. This obviates the need for certain Ethernet switches in the kind of Clos networks used by hyperscalers, cloud builders, telcos, and other service providers and also frees up compute capacity on the CPUs that might otherwise be managing virtual switching. Intel says that by implementing Open Virtual Switch on the FPGA, it can cut the latency on the virtual switch in half, boost the throughput by 3.2X, and crank up the number of VMs hosted on a machine by 2X compared to just running Open Virtual Switch on the Xeon portion of this hybrid chip. That makes a pretty good case for having the FPGA right close to the CPU – provided this chip doesn’t cost too much.
Math education research is not math research: it's education research, which is among the worst among social science, which is among the worst of all sciences in evidentiary practices. There are almost no valid RCT's in educational research by the standards of non-social science researchers. My own impression is that folks who publish on this sort of thing and not mathematics, like education and do not like mathematics per se.

I've read Boaler's stuff. I agree mostly in form with RJ Milgram's attack on her claims, which basically accuse her of statistical incompetence.

It is possible to be a great research mathematician and to be an awful mathematics teacher. It is not possible to teach great research mathematics without being a great research mathematician. I also do not believe it possible to inculcate in younger students an enduring love of mathematics without having oneself an enduring love of mathematics.
Huh, have heard a lot of arguments from pro lifers lately and this wasn't one of them. A discussion of the nature of consciousness and its mechanisms would have been refreshingly elevated, to be honest. Incidentally we're having a vote today on that very topic.
Not-So-Related question:
How can I shut off access for European user to my service?

Blocking IPs ?
Ask if they are European?
What if they lie?
What if they become European citizen later but fail to notify me?
Roads naturally go through turns and bends. You need to manually turn the wheel through these bends. You also have lane switching to avoid a slower driver, which tesla does automatically.
yeah makes little sense since the earth is closer to the sun in january. if anything higher eccentricity should reduce seasonal differences. (seasonal differences being driven mostly by earth tilt, not distance from sun)
It is more complex than that. I analyses your corrections and compares it to its own data of the road. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A66zgJ4Oj8o
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Aircraft autopilot will happily fly you into a mountain or other aircraft.
Thanks, might try that. Also have petitioned city councillors for quietways to no avail.
Then tell me. Why do we hear news from Tesla cars all the time and none of VW, BMW, etc. where we had adaptive cruise control for quite some time?
The use and marketing of the word "Autopilot" will go down in history as one of Tesla's biggest mistakes.
The commission is appointed and subject to the elected bodies; but afaik it can only propose legislation - it's the elected bodies that vote them into effect.

The EU isn't particularly democratic or transparent - but it is nominally democratic.

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I agree, being able to build things that scratch your own itch can be amazing.

Some of mine:

- a simple real time location sharing app[1] -- all the alternatives at that time were either clunky, with time limits, designed just for driving or with horrible privacy issues

- an SMS app for when the Nexus 7 2013 tablet was still relevant[2] -- google blocked all SMS clients on that device for some reason until Android 6.0, but I managed to find a workaround

- a way to find out the real network operator of any mobile phone in Romania[3] -- when you switch operators, you have the possibility of taking your phone number with you, so you can't rely just on number prefixes for lookup

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emilburzo....

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emilburzo....

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emilburzo....
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> The driver of the vehicle, Heather Lommatzsch, 29, told police she thought the vehicle’s automatic emergency braking system would detect traffic and stop before the car hit another vehicle.

> Police say car data show Lommatzsch did not touch the steering wheel for 80 seconds before the crash. She told police she was looking at her phone at the time and comparing different routes to her destination.

This is not news. This is someone not following the explicit instructions of the manufacturer to maintain control and awareness while driving. They choose to ignore those instructions and it resulting in a crash.

Replace "Telsa" with "Audi/VW/Toyota/Holden/Ford/GM using adaptive cruise control", and this doesn't make front page news.

aresant's comment below is spot on. "Turn the thing off if hands aren't on the wheel, end of story."
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Indeed, you can concentrate on the overall traffic whilst being aware of exactly what the car is doing through the feedback in the wheel. I think of it as overseeing the work.

Also there are long stretches of driving which are with no or few cars around, where the car doesn’t do much interaction with other traffic, and stop and go queues where the speed is very slow. In both those situations not much happens where you would need to intervene. It is less effort driving.
In this context I highly recommend Lockhart’s Lament: https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
I don't have a Tesla, but I have a car with ACC.

When I activate ACC I do not have to pay 100% attention to the distance between my car and the one in front of me and the speed. The car does all the work for me. I only have to keep steering and make sure that if the car in front of me stops in an emergency way that I start breaking myself because in certain cases it is too late for ACC to notice it.

In traffic jams (< 30 km/h) ACC takes away 90% of the work.

The difference is that my car got marketed with ACC as a driver assitance and not "self driving autopilot."
Is it about that case with prior art and obvious designs? A sick case really.
Legitimate and reasonable data processing is just that: it's obviously compliant.
If there is any doubt, it's excessive and careless data processing, even if not illegal and without malicious intent.

So there is no valuable baby that could be thrown out with the bathwater, and a well-behaved company has little or no bathwater to begin with.