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To contrast that anecdote, this doesn't happen with my Subaru with EyeSight. It uses parallax for 3D distance, if it detects a solid object ahead (be it vehicle, wall, barrier, or anything else) it will apply the emergency braking system (which may still result in a collision in the given circumstances but at much less fatal speeds).

The industry has many highly effective AEB systems, and has for years now. I cannot comment on Ford's because I don't know specifically about its problems.
No one is saying type theory is useless, particularly when it comes to computation. It works within its own boundaries, but it does indeed have boundaries. There is a reason the ZFC has triumphed in mathematics.
That's a vastly more charitable reply than I would have made. Kudos.
I think you're right.

On your second point, "insufficiently" is not the word I would use because most software titles from major publishers are feature-rich, but have some pretty glaring quality issues.

iTunes and MS Outlook are specific examples that come to mind, although I'm sure the list is much longer than that.
A crash attenuator is a “nice to have” kind of feature. The minimum drivable roadway conditions can be, and often are, worse. We have higher standards for human drivers and it wouldn’t be news except for the autopilot.

Unless you want to ramp up caltrans to the point where it can fix non-essential parts of any and every roadway within hours of degredeation, it’s entirely impractical to expect them to be in perfect shape.
I agree that its a negotiating piece. It might be bad economics, but maybe we need a bit of pain for everyone to play nice.
>If they didn't subsidize those employees through welfare people would stop working there, either through leaving to other jobs or just dieing.

So then you believe if we eliminate welfare that employers would be forced to raise wages, because employees would be unable or unwilling to work there for their current wages. That is the opposite of what you said before.
> So here's my tip:
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> smaller sentences. More paragraphs. Simpler language.

I've also found thinking about sensual clues to be helpful, e.g. what would the user/customer/whatever see (or hear or feel) at this point? What (exact) text would they reasonably anchor on based on everything they might see? I also try to visually distinguish different types of info, e.g. exact text of some kind of UI element, code.

Another really helpful tip is to confirm that the user/customer/whatever sees/hears/feels some (exact) specific thing at a specific { step / point in space-time }. If they don't provide the (near) exact response I expect, I try to notice my confusion and debug right then and there until my confusion is resolved.
They forced them like this: If you're installing Windows on all your boxes, it costs you $X per box. If you install Windows on only some of your boxes, it costs 2X or 3X per box.

Your options are to install Windows on every box, to install it on none (not really an option for big OEMs), or to be at a cost disadvantage to your competitors. In practice, it was "install Windows or lose a big chunk of your business".
Your problem is that you're trying to promote a story that the community just doesn't agree with you about. This is clear from the comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245018 as well as the other threads you guys have posted about this. The comments are nearly unanimous, and now users are starting to react against your over-promotion of the story (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245116).

When people post things that HN users consider off topic or against the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), users flag the posts. You can call this censorship if you like—one person's flagging is another's censorship, depending on how they feel about the topic—but HN has had this flagging system for many years and it's a core part of how the community functions.

The flags are not coming from some sort of Microsoft or Github brigade. How do I know that? First because stories like this, where some users are trying to drum up drama but most who look at the issue don't agree with them, always get flagged. And second because I checked the accounts of the flaggers and they are longstanding community members with no history of activity around this issue.

If the community felt you had a case that this was a MS/GH censorship scandal, the story would be all over the HN front page and there would be nothing that flaggers or moderators could do about it. Your problem is not that there's a gang of flaggers censoring you. You just don't have the community on your side.

(Also, no moderators touched any of these stories, except to unkill them so they could re-open for comments.)
Instead of disappearing, items can be shown e.g. grayed-out.

You could then refresh to remove the grayed-out items, but in practice you wouldn't need to.

Another approach is to use a "hold" button, which suspends all external updates.
Apologies, I wasn't clear. The "If it's possible for you to live within your means" qualifier was for these sorts of things.

Depending on their severity, addictions, felonies, learning difficulties and health problems (and many other things) could all be legitimate limiters on wealth building.
I never thought I needed this. But, for a project, the site wants the user to read a specific text on the page while showing progress of a task (upload, etc). So I created a lib out of it. Even without progress, could also be useful to direct attention to an important text on a page. Github: https://github.com/pshihn/lumin

I'm sure there are still lot of kinks in it.
After this incident and Tesla's response to it, I hope Tesla is sued and or fined into bankruptcy. Tesla is normalizing releasing not fully tested software to do safety-critical things, and literally killing people as a result. A message needs to be sent that this is unacceptable. In addition, their first response is a PR driven response that sought to blame to driver, and violated NTSB procedures. Safety is probably the most important thing to get right with these types of software and Tesla is nonchalantly sacrificing safety for marketing.
I'd be very very happy to only break even asap.
And they play contradictory arguments using statistics "You don't have enough data to say it is dangerous!" while at the same time using the exact same statistics to argue that it is safer.

Either the statistics are half-baked or they're ready to draw conclusions with, you cannot have it both ways.
That's to make the car unidentifiable, not unnoticeable.
How do you know it's time to do the next thing?
Hive mind:

We've all had good career runs (for varying values of "all" and "good") working with one particular technology or another. But at much as we may have loved it, there comes a time when it becomes apparent that that particular string has played out and it's time to figure out what's next.

How do you know when that time has come -- and how do you figure out what your Next Thing is?
> Savings accounts are essentially restricted checking accounts, so what's the point?

Zero risk, but higher returns than a checking account. You may not care about the difference between 0% interest and 1.5%, but it is nice to have a few hundred $$ extra at the end of teh year.
So the money goes into oblivion. In the meantime, I'm still out my month's pay, and I can't get it back.
Fossil fuels aren't even close to going anywhere.

Keep in mind it's not just being used for transportation and heating it's being used for more or less everything. Your computer, your raincoat, your tires, your trashcan, all the products you buy at amazon, in hospital equipment, your furniture etc.

It's hard to find anything that is as flexible as fossil fuel, unfortunately.

https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/lets-honest-gas-oil-not...
> This is the Tesla self-crashing car in action. Remember how it works. It visually recognizes rear ends of cars using a BW camera

I'm sure Tesla's engineers are qualified and it is certainly easy to second-guess them, but it is beyond me why they would even consider a BW camera in a context where warning colors (red signs, red cones, black and yellow stripes, etc.) are an essential element of the domain.
Sorry, I interpreted that as "if you're disciplined enough". Carry on.
Are you sure you mean upper six figures, and not five? With high six figures your one month's salary would dwarf your savings, which sounds quite implausible.
Open source can open many avenues of profit. I wonder what the creator of laravel makes with conferences, forge and paid support.
I really needed this ~2.5 years ago
A more direct example of a good faith violation is China putting a 25% tariff on American imported automobiles or the EU having a 10% tariff on them. Free trade doesn't exist in its purest form.
I'm tempted to spend a good while studying Zig just because it says "Zig competes with C instead of depending on it" and folks here are not thrashing it ('Why compete with C at all?' would be my guess of general reaction)
Totally agree. I happily have my company pay good money if the software shows to be really useful. And I refer to give that money to small devs instead of Atlassian, Oracle or others. Yearly plans are also easier for me to pay. Dealing with monthly is a little bit of a pain.
I was laid off in 2008, couldn't get work, had to move to a different state, cashed out my 401k and sold my house 80 grand under what i paid for it and couldn't buy a new house for several years because of law.

Then my hands started hurting and I found out i had vikings disease... i type for a living. first process cost about a grand, insurance doesn't cover much of it.

Now both my hands are worse off and i'm looking at another surgery which will cost more that insurance won't cover.

My wife got into a car accident and we need two cars since i work and she home schools.

My parents are assholes and don't give a shit about myself or my family and my wifes immediate family is all dead. We inherited nothing. Raised 2 kids by ourselves, no grandma/no grandpa, no aunts, no uncles.

The world is trying hard to really fuck people over, and i've managed to stay on top of it.

Now my kids need jaw surgery and another needs teeth work - dental coverage is a joke. The jaw surgery is going to cost 5 grand and the others dental is 1700.

My property taxes are going up year over year. Maintenance costs are going up year over year, salaries have gone up but not as quickly and the tax relief was a joke.

spend less than you earn sounds esier on paper than reality of living.

we downsized our homes, we don't have cable tv, i use a company phone for cell phone, i'm always having to reduce my 401k contributions and even when i try and rollover my prior 401ks that shit is perpetually frozen and no matter where i turn or what I do it seems something is trying to stop me or block me.

it's not as easy as people make life out to be
I haven't paid a withdrawl fee on a savings account in decades, and I use them for all my sinking funds.
Musk has lost touch with reality if that's true..
What's your source for the claim that Tesla's system "doesn't detect stationary objects"? From the reference frame of a moving Tesla, both globally stationary and globally moving objects will appear to be in motion.
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I think the parent was talking about in the general case, when there are no obstacles.

I imagine the Ford would brake too if it detected an obsticle (and has an AEB system of some sort).
I took GP to mean that "tech bros" (with all of the negative stereotypes that implies) are not dominant, not that men aren't.
What does Russia have left if they fall behind in rocketry?

1. Nuclear power plants.

2. A few more years before all the Soviet PhDs who haven't left already retire.

3. ...
Considering BTC is infinitely divisible, that doesn't matter.
This is not even an autonomous driving system. Let loose to drive from city A to city B without human supervision, it will crash 9/10 trips.
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In that case there is 0 reason to compel scanning everyone. Only people who are on visas would volunteer to be scanned as proof of exit.
The article mentions this method can also be used to sequester the carbon. So if we can extract more than we consume as fuel we could theoretically solve that problem as well.
In Germany a judge can rule by the law's intention, I'm not sure if the US system is as robust. Many laws have been engineered around before.
Click the [-] at the top right of that doc page. You won't find it so overwhelming.
So how do you refer to cryptography? Just fully spell out "cryptography"? This is aggravating to me as well.
Well they also are similar to dirty hedge fund operators.. no morale compass .. win and become filthy rich at whatever cost.
Just get Sutton’s and Barto’s book.
Not only magazines but BBSs too, speaking of shareware. The volume of new software was low enough that you could publish to a BBS and if it wasn't completely awful, it'd get distributed. Today you can't get a dozen organic downloads on the App Store without some kind of promotion or virality hack.
> Why do they think they are kings of the world if they are on the lowest chain in the tech world?

Probably the same reason that it's never the most popular kid who's the bully, but someone a couple rungs down. People who feel insecure about their status need to make a big deal of asserting it.
Isn't CaO largely produced from naturally occuring CaCO3 though? Where do you get a large supply of CaO to react with your sequestered CO2 from?
I expected this to be dumb, but it's a very perceptive article that makes a very good point: There are a lot of benefits to centralization, and people who want to create decentralized systems need to recognize that and take the necessary steps to ensure their systems do not become re-centralized.
Image published a couple of collections of K6BD. Which is a very different proposition from self-publishing - if you do it yourself you can expect to have to spend at least two or three months dealing with supply chain management, running a Kickstarter, and so on, instead of drawing more pages. And that’s assuming you don’t make any mistakes, there’s a lot of things to learn the hard way.

There’s a lot of artists living off of Patreon. I got close near the end of my last graphic novel, but the Kickstarter was a big learning experience that took a while, the new one takes longer to draw and rent always goes up, not down.

(And this is why there was so much screaming when Patreon tried to change their fee structure late last year.)
Metrics like Github stars can be gamed, but it doesn't mean that the number has no value. I would conjecture that the # of stars correlates strongly with other desirable things.

I think of it as similar to the # of citations that an academic paper has - genius can remain ignored and undiscovered, but overall the citation count has embedded in it a whole series of factors that correlate to "should I bother reading this".

Ironically before citing a paper that studied this very thing, I checked many citations it had :)

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7816479/
Try "softening the blow" by selling a limited line of $SOME_PRODUCT_OR_SERVICE and releasing a donation page at the same time... And retain the donation page once the limited supply runs dry.
Not sure about Elon, but I suspect (hope?) most of us Tesla drivers have familiarized themselves with the limitations of the system.

Its got a couple scenarios in my experience where it shines - chiefly long drives on clean clear interstates and stop-and-go traffic - but its got suicidal tendencies in others.

Its not unlike being driven by a tipsy friend or a teenager - there are enough indications that it can't be trusted.

Unlike those situations, its easy enough to take control back once you realize that.

Marketing it above its capabilities surely isn't helping, though.
Or perhaps us fingers-in-ears Musk fans don't expect the AP to be perfect. Especially considering how new the fields are.

Autopilot doesn't need to be perfect, just better than humans.
In agreement with the others, it tells us that he isn't the kind of ass who would say, "isn't that like compilers 101 stuff".
The long arm of the law makes everyone a criminal.
The hydrogen is needed for making fuel, but why would it be needed for sequestering?
Sure, but it's in the same category as "Fred Brooks was so nice to a stranger and showed him the way" (true story, I think).

90% of people are like that.
Before it even entered the gore area, it likely centered between the actual lane of the highway and the exit lane. Bear in mind, when a lane forks, there is a time the lane is wider than average. And with the gore area lines worn, the car may have missed it entirely. Once it was centered to the gore area, presumably it didn't consider the lines under or directly in front of the car to be lane lines.
you mean "simulating" probable cause, like drug search dogs do?
> was a joke. Verifiably.

Can you link to what verified that?
Ask HN: How do I stop procrastinating in the morning?
I have a really hard time getting started with work in the morning. The work I do isn't even boring and once I get going I enjoy it and can continue to be productive for the remainder of the day. But I'll waste time with email, news, HN in the morning before I get started.
Any good strategies people can recommend to get over that morning hump or rather to get motivated to do the work without procrastinating?
Even worse than that, because it glosses over how the other manufacturers sell a hundred times as much stuff, just categorized out into thousands of different models and trim levels.

Maybe another analogy would be some kind of specialized shoe.
That he's good enough to not bash on people when they need help. And instead help solve problems while also inspiring.
I don't get it, the system relies on two kinds of sensors ? radars for rear-ends and optical cameras for broader decision making ? so that location confused the cameras and that was it ? the car has no ability to understand its surrounding outside crude parsing of the visual field (trained ML I suppose)...

that's quite fucked up.
Yes I think there is some deceit required for those implementing this philosphophy but it doesn't change the strategy.

We, also got burned by someone who accepted another offer and quit, a week after beginning work with us. Obviously, that guy--and whoever recommended him--are on our shitlist now. Word does get around hopefully.
> Microsoft had no desire to improve IE

Microsoft was given an ultimatum by the US Department of Justice to stop improving IE, because at the time people thought browsers and the web shouldn't be a part of an OS base install.

Microsoft started what Electron/Cordova/PWAs are continuing today, where the web is a first class application platform in nearly every OS, and nearly every OS needs to bundle a web browser as core functionality.

> Google, however, directly benefit from the web being a better place

…to serve ads. As long as the web remains the most universal platform for ad serving, Google's interests follow.

> now that there's (currently) a good compliance of standards and no such things as ActiveX

Let's not forget how recently Google tried to make NaCL, its own play at an ActiveX-like thing.

It's only recently we've "killed" Flash, and Oracle and others are still holding a lot of Enterprises hostage to Java applets.

Mozilla may be the only group without sin here, and they live in a glass house, to mix metaphors.
> The idea of "to add 1 law, remove 2 others" worked well in other locales

I've heard this hypothesized as a means to remove legislative bloat, but where has it actually been implemented?
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Fair point, but I get 8 hours of solid sleep a night and can drink caffeine up until I go to bed and it won't keep me awake.

I've also done sleep studies and endless 'preventative' medicines for migraines but nothing has worked so far.

Caffeine is definitely not a cure-all, and I don't want to argue that it's good to use, but it's also not fair to blanket statement and say that everyone should avoid it at all costs :)
So people are asking why the barrier wasn’t detected, and that’s fair.

Here’s another question: why wasn’t the ‘gore’ zone detected?

Why did the car thing it was safe to drive over and area with striped white lines covering the pavement?

It saw the white line on the side of that area and decided that was a land market but ignored the striped area you’re not supposed to drive on?

If you’re reading the lines on the pavement you have to try to look at all of them.

I don’t know if other cars, like those with MobileEye systems, do that but given Tesla’s safety claims they’d better be trying.
The cameras in Tesla's non-Mobileye cars are grey grey red. Supposedly this gives you higher detail resolution while still being able to differentiate important sign colors.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/798886670468644865
I think the important part is that widespread adoption of this would reduce the amount of new CO2 emitted into the atmosphere. Even if it was more expensive to produce than extracting oil from the ground (itself a process which is becoming more and more expensive, see tar sands), states could mandate that an increasing share of all gasoline sold be made from this process.
I don't think Google is using its dominant position in one market (search) to dominate other markets in any way other than financial - search pays the bills for developing Android. It's not like Microsoft did back in the day, where dominance in the OS was used to try to force customers to use IE instead of Netscape.

Google wasn't trying to dominate phones or tablets. They were trying to prevent Microsoft dominance in those platforms, because they expected that if Microsoft got dominance there, it would use it to drive all the mobile searches to Bing.
> I don't care if every other VPN user starts money laundry drug money by selling child porn ...

If I require a valid warrant for a carefully scoped query, law enforcement would have to have probable cause, demonstrate that in a court, and get approval from a judge. Note the "carefully scoped" part: they can ask "who was using this IP address at this time to visit this site" but they don't get unlimited access to the logs data. The only way they would be able to get data about you is with probable cause that you are doing something illegal. Even if everyone else using that service is using it for illegal things, that does not constitute probable cause for them to get your data.

> I don't believe that every opportunity for data collection should be implemented just because an authority says it's for "the greater good".

I agree.
The main ones:

- aws (EB for backend, S3 for frontend)

- node.js

- mysql

- graphql

- create-react-app + redux

- flow
>[tech bros are] men

>[tech bros are] the dominant population within tech

I think those two statements weren't meant to be linked.
Small nit to pick.

> The economy is $14 trillion

The US economy is about $19T, it was $14T about 10 years ago.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?location...
Below “Basic” is the “Security” level, which only enterprise can set. It’s a subset of Basic, but excluded from the disclosure. They refuse to say what that sends.
You can do even more advanced stuff in Postgres, but they've changed the rules to dissalow it since it much more faster than the the current best ones. Something about being fair to other frameworks...
Thanks! Glad to have surprised you. That's pretty much it, yup!
Lots of drivers have problems where they have to "shake" the wheel to make the car understand that they do indeed have their hands on the wheel. The system is pretty rubbish.