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"I'm amazed by the negativity and prejudice in your response."

Yes, I am amazed too at this kind of comments.

Your parent commenter seems to be exhibiting a strange mix of ignorance and arrogance. Likely works for an unhappy place in Bangalore where people are always bickering about their work which has made this commenter believe that the whole of industry in Bangalore must be like that.
It needs to be better than a sober, awake, human of the type who typically buys a Tesla. That would be the fair comparison, not just a random member of the public with a 20 year old car. Better than a drunk human driver, or a 90 year old is not a standard reasonable people care about when they say “better than a human.”
So what? If people don't want to pay surge prices, they don't have to. Just don't take an Uber or Lyft ride. Ride sharing isn't a human right.

If the government wants to step in, maybe they should create a state sponsored and run ride share service of their own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFwHQYDqf6c

I couldn't resist :)
>Some things that aren’t yet computers—dental floss, flashlights—will fall eventually.

My flashlight (bought before 2015) includes a microcontroller. I think most flashlights do now.
I use F# for most of my projects at this point. Lets me pump out 90% correct code in about half the time as C#.
1100 GTons is what humans have added on top of the natural CO2. Nobody is saying we should remove all CO2.
Yes, very clearly, sure. You don't even know the very basics of scientific methodology, statistics, interpreting data, or critical thinking.
Its one of the higher non-gas tax incentive schemes in the world actually. Of course that's not saying much.
To 'inert' it properly, you'd have to extract all the energy, which is going to look pretty much the same as burning it.
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Right. They sometimes spontaneously combust even without crashes.
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Meanwhile the US is announcing billions of dollars to prop up coal plants
It's not just that the field is new, it's that 1) SO MANY people die constantly in cars, and this is the start of trying to change that permanently but it cannot be perfect out of the gate, 2) nor should we wait until it's perfect if waiting that long means more people die.

Ultimately, we cannot rely on mere anecdotes. We need statistics that show it is worse. If it's as bad as the media coverage claims it is, it should be easy to demonstrate such statistics.
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And now a staffer has been indicted.
If the combustion occurs as the result of a crash, can that really be said to be “spontaneous?”
Meh. Anyone with serious expertise in an area will have "ties" to the relevant industry.

If people with such ties are untrustworthy, that means no experts can be trusted, and all you're left with is the uninformed and various angry activists.

I'll take my chances with well informed experts who are possibly not perfectly impartial.
Except it's something more petty, like his ego is too invested in not using LIDAR.
There are a couple of problems here.

1) Nobody really knows how much is that. 350ppm? 300ppm? 250ppm?

2) Don't forget about feedbacks which have already been triggered and will keep adding warming regardless of what humans do.
> So what? If people don't want to pay surge prices, they don't have to. Just don't take an Uber or Lyft ride. Ride sharing isn't a human right.

Some jurisdictions do consider transportation a right, and act accordingly.

> If the government wants to step in, maybe they should create a state sponsored and run ride share service of their own.

Careful what you wish for. It wouldn't exactly be difficult for Honolulu's government to hire someone to roll their own and ban Uber/Lyft.

https://venturebeat.com/2014/09/11/yes-a-build-your-own-uber...
Is there a material downside to the Times switching external e-mails to E2E encrypted and to be deleted after N months?
More accurately: move fast and save some lives and kill people.
Yes, but the weight of the oxygen is in the atmosphere already. And for a bonus, all the hydrogen you burn removes O2 from the atmosphere in the form of water, reducing the weight of the atmosphere (and therefor the greenhouse effect of the atmosphere). How much the reduction of O2 from H burning offsets the transformation of O2 to CO2 is left as a problem for the reader. If anyone knows of a paper that discusses this effect, I'd love to read it.
The driver clearly didn't take any action to intervene, so his hands probably genuinely weren't on the wheel.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17257239
> I think it's "rather unlikely" to the point of implausibility, that even the human drivers who have crashed into that barrier.

So implausible that the barrier was destroyed just weeks earlier by a human driver?
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17257239
Thank you for spreading the word about Drawdown and CCL!

They are probably the two easiest ways regular folks can learn about and get involved in climate policy (and I mean real impacts, not just clicktivism).

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Involuntary manslaughter usually refers to an unintentional killing that results from recklessness or criminal negligence, or from an unlawful act that is a misdemeanor or low-level felony (such as a DUI). (Wikipedia)

It's rather uncontroversial that this kind of accident falls under civil law, because there is some degree of liability involved in marketing a product as being safer than a human driver, but then fails in an instance where a human driver flat out would not fail: apples to apples. If the human driver is paying attention, which the autonomous system is always doing, they'd never make this mistake. It could only be intentional.

But more controversial and therefore more interesting to me, is to what degree the system is acting criminally, even if it's unintended, let alone if it is intended. Now imagine the insurance implications of such a finding of unintended killing. And even worse, imagine the total lack of even trying to make this argument.

I think a prosecutor must criminally prosecute Tesla. If not this incident, in the near future. It's an area of law that needs to be aggressively pursued, and voters need to be extremely mindful of treating AI of any kind, with kid gloves, compared to how we've treated humans in the same circumstances.
Thanks. That's a shame. Left the UK 6 years ago.
Make millions on games where you run around with a machine gun blowing peoples' heads off? No problem! Better not sell any smut though.
More of the same from the last 9 years.
> I believe corporations can and should contribute back to the Military if they have benefited financially from military technology.

Do you also believe corporations should contribute to Experimental Particle Physics at CERN if they have benefited financially from the world wide web?

https://home.cern/topics/birth-web
An economic loss of $10 trillions per year during 20 years would be catastrophic for the economy. It's simply not sustainable economically.

Also, let's not forget that our emissions are still significant (and growing) and that feedbacks will keep on warming the planet regardless of what we do.
most of the weight is oxygen, by definition CO2

Carbon Atomic Mass: 12.0107 amu
Oxygen, about 16

so carbon itself is really just 27% of CO2 12 / (32 + 12)

so you're not pouring "twice the weight of CO2" of petro, that would be wrong. Its taking 73% of the weight from the air, and putting it back, plus a little more.
Just to clarify - 1 million is low balling. The area I live now - Palo Alto/Mountain View/etc I would be surprised if you got below 2 million. The real problem though is that if you’re getting a mortgage you end up having to pay a further premium on the cost in order to compete with people making cash offers.

As far as mortgage write offs on taxes I think it’s just interest component of your payments, and the new tax bill removes most of those for individuals -
Did Elastic Cloud JTAG come out while I wasn't looking?
"I made no argument comparing Amazon to Cognizant, or anything else."

You are missing an important context of the discussion then.

No matter what complex software working at large scale one comes up for an example, one can find problems with it. Every software has at least one problem that makes it a deal-breaker for at least one person. Even Linux, which is so popular in the tech world. These problems more often occur due to priorities than due to dearth of engineering competence.

But these issues are orthogonal to the context of discussion. What you said about Prime's quality may be correct but irrelevant in the context of this discussion.

"I think your claim that the likes of Cognizant cannot build things beyond IE-only AJAX-based chat apps hyperbole"

Perhaps you can provide some examples then?
move fast and break stuff. meh, who cares if the broken stuff hurts other people.

You know the score, pal! If you're not facebook, you're little people.
Just curious, for those in favor of this, how do you feel if you have small kids who use Steam? What measures do you take to prevent them from accessing such (racist/porn/etc) content? Or, if you don't have any measures, why do you let them access such content?
You are incorrect. The $100/ton figure is just for capturing it from the air. The bit about gasoline is just something they could do with it once they have it.

The article is trash, go read the actual science article it links to and it will be clear what they are referring to.
> "Judging by how the game feed has rapidly filled up with creepy Japanese dating simulators and stuff, assuming that they'll segment VR porn appropriately is pretty naive." @jschwartzi

Prior to this announcement, Valve was taking a -hands off- approach to erotic games. Now, Valve has a plan for segmentation.

I think naivete would be overlooking an emerging and highly profitable market. There are vast incentives for Valve to segregate the pornographic material from the general games feed. The incentives quite outweigh the -hands off- approach of the past.
Gotcha. Thanks for breaking that down. It's definitely frustrating when people don't consider the impact/costs of the requests that they are making.
If a football manager game maxes out a processor of this caliber, it's doing calculations for fun, not for function.
In fact, the article even said riders "were quoted as much as $221 to get to Waikiki when a cab ride was $44."

So if the cab ride was $44, why not just take the cab?!
You’ve just described 95% of projects at large companies.

If you consult for any of them you quickly realize there are like 5 people running the entire company and 49995 somehow pushing forward through inertia.
No biggie. My phrasing could have been better: when I start to get sarcastic I rarely state my case clearly.
Thanks for the honest reply, I can appreciate where you're coming from. If Tim Cook is indeed a HN lurker, as I believe him to be, I'm pretty sure he's going to both appreciate and remember your remark.
"The autopilot had likely exhibited proper behavior every time that the vehicle had passed that particular section of road prior"

The driver had actually reported to Tesla problems about that specific section of road.
So, basically they need to improve handling of damaged batteries. There are procedures in place for ICE cars too. No one is going to be storing a car with fuel and a damaged fuel tank anywhere. The main advantage is that it is usually obvious when a fuel tank is damaged and is leaking.

Some Tesla batteries have caught on fire after collisions. None caused injury to car occupants. In one of the first publicized cases, the car even told the driver to pull over safely, and the fire only started afterwards. There are vanes to direct flames.

I've seen my fair share of ICE fires. They are not pretty either. We have grown accustomed to them, firefighters know how to handle them, and the car industry has fixed most of the early issues that caused fires. It can still happen.

The same will be done for car batteries.

I agree with the energy density argument. My Leaf stores about 1 liter worth of gasoline as energy. When we reach energy densities comparable to current fuel tanks, we'd better be much more advanced in this aspect.
Times, let me introduce you to ProtonMail.
And we all know how assiduously people pay attention to messages that flash up on screen.
I think the connection here is Honest Co. is a heavily marketed as a way to be an ethical consumer -- akin to whole foods, soylent or hampton co. In addition, Honest Co.'s best selling products are baby related and the mean silicon valley founder is approximately 30 (https://hbr.org/2014/04/how-old-are-silicon-valleys-top-foun...) which is also about the same average age for having your first child in California (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db232.htm)

So based upon that, the user overlap between HN and Honest Co. maybe larger then you think.
Who in their right mind would communicate confidential info to a reporter via email and what kind of reporter would allow their sources to do that? The minimum acceptable way to do this is end-to-end encrypted messages via Signal or GPG-encrypted emails via a service in a jurisdiction beyond the FBI’s reach (e.g ProtonMail).
> If stocks give dividends, then stock picking isn't a zero-sum game.

I don't understand this. "Stock picking" traditionally refers to buying or selling stocks through the stock market. It doesn't create or destroy any stock, and the dividends are invariant with respect to who owns the stock.

That makes dividends perfectly zero-sum. If I buy a stock from you, my gain from getting the dividend is exactly equal to your loss from losing the dividend.

What am I missing here?
intellectually interesting to _you_.

If it is on the front page, someone finds it interesting.
Give me a dumb car. The software is not ready. Get them off the road.
this is why I have been trying to promote CO2 production to a target level of 1200PPM. With enough solar, biofuels and wind -- which are all net negative entry input vs energy output (which promotes CO2 production) I was hoping we could do this.
That's like saying that not eating for a month will kill you, in response to an article about the obesity epidemic.
That reminds me of an aphorism I once heard: If a town has a one lawyer, the lawyer drives a Honda. If a town has two lawyers, they both drive BMWs.
No, it is not the crash that makes the evil. It is how they handle it. And how they put blatantly misleading marketing out there, along with poorly researched features that may or may not have lead to overconfidence from the drivers along with half baked tech, that resulted in crashes such as these.
Wrong pedal? How about faulty pedal.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/20...
Depending on the application, I'll use a Finite State Machine pattern, but if I need something more complex I'll use QM QP/C (which is uses a hierarchical state machine pattern).

So it's good to see others using Quantum Leaps RTOS. It take a little bit to set up the environment and understand some of the bounds, but I really enjoying using their QM Modeling tool[1], I would recommend it. I would mainly use it for the logic and abstract out the code in separate files, so that you are not maintaining code in the GUI tool.

[1] http://www.state-machine.com/products/#QM
Technically (and truly), C++ has dependent types, as types can depend on values [edit: matt-noonan has corrected me and pointed out this is wrong, but I think most of this comment is still useful]. (I can't say much about D, but I would believe it does as well; I could also see them having "simplified" away a really critical piece, though.)

A prototypical concept you would expect to find in a dependently typed language is "the ability to have a function that concatenates to arrays of sizes X and Y and returns an array of size X+Y that can be safely verified against further functions that also require arrays given as arguments to have specific lengths".

C++ is a bit indirect in its semantics here, but you will note that most other languages with generic types cannot express this thought (using either real integers or simulating them with types, either of which can be done in C++).

One could easily imagine "filling out" C++ to allow compile time type argument manipulation of more value types without even stressing its model, and in fact that is exactly the direction the language has been going in with constexpr. Here is an article on how to build a compile-time printf using C++14.

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/sasha/2015/01/29/compile-time-r...

The only real limitation in C++ is that these values have to be relatively "concrete": at some level there has to be a number that can be calculated, as you can only deal with values as you don't have the amazing ability to do unification of program fragments like you have access to in Idris (like, you'd like to be able to say "the length of this array is the same as the length of this runtime string", and then after a bunch of array manipulation claim that you return a string five characters longer than the input string). Again, though: this could be added to C++ without breaking its underlying model. And it definitely is not required by the concept of "dependent types" [edit: matt-noonan points out it is, in fact, required for a language to have "dependent types" :(.]
Johnny can't encrypt so their sources would probably still send them unencrypted email.
It's more elastic than you'd think. Some people only drive in surges. I've had drivers who told me this.

Capping them will shrink the supply.
Are you serious?! If your area gets more desirable and built up your property value will more than make up for any perceived tax unfairness. If you end up blocking a lot in Manhattan with your single family home you are a made man!
Agreed it's gross negligence resulting from pure arrogance. Makes the cult of Musk so much less savory and one has to wonder how much crap there is beneath the shiny exterior in all of his projects.
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The previous generation of parents already fought against porn and violence in video games, movies, and music. And they lost. Now their kids are re-fighting the same fight. Why? Didn't we already establish that these things don't turn people into serial killers and rapists? Isn't that a solved question?

A school shooting game is no more offensive than a driving sim where you run people over or a war shooting game. The only reason people are offended is because real life school shootings are popular exciting news so they also come to the forefront of people's minds as something they're supposed to get offended by.
I'm going to need statistics from an independent source, not from Tesla, that autopilot is safer.

I'm not inclined to trust Tesla's statistics given how cavalier they have been about putting their shoddy autopilot product on the road and marketing it as being better than it actually is.
If you read it closely, it says we can't do it in one year, which seems overambitious...
CO2 levels have been at around 280ppm since shortly after the end of the last ice age (around 10k years ago) until we started burning coal seriously, ~1800AD. The last time we had 200ppm was during the ice age. Before writing and definitely before your grand-grand parents were young (vampires excepted).
There are many tons of emissions that can be avoided for far less that $200/ton. These are the things like stopping the burning of fossil fuels, increasing energy efficiency, planting trees, capturing from industrial point sources, etc. DAC is the high cost alternative, that means it will be used last as a strategy for dealing with CO2 emissions.
The argument that we should defend ourselves or that we should kill our enemies does not require the existence of evil.
Guardians of the grain
The indictment talked mostly about using Signal so the comments here making fun of using email seem unfair.
:-) Point taken. It was first invented after the 2000-2001 dot com bubble I think. However i think it has some merit. Some of the things that were part of that period's hype (eg migration of retail to ecommerce) did . Eventually (nearly 20 years so far)....
Meh. You’ll only take your chances with someone who absolutely has conflicts of interest is what you’re really saying.
> Some jurisdictions do consider transportation a right, and act accordingly.

I am sympathetic to this position, but IMO the right way to go about that is to build a great public transportation system (which incidentally would reduce ride share surge pricing through reduced demand).
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Did they kill your puppy? I've got multiple servers and VMs with them, uptime and connectivity is great.
> It's the same term as in aviation and does the same thing.

Except in aviation trained pilots with at least a decade of experience flying planes get to use it, understanding well the limitations and purpose of the technology. A teenager can use Tesla's "Autopilot".
Never been brigaded on HN before. What a feeling.
AI takes it to a whole new level. Neural networks are all black box, they can't be reviewed. You feed in your training data, you test it against your test data, and just have faith that it will respond appropriately to a pattern that's slightly different than anything it's seen before. Sometimes the results are surprising.
Good decision by Valve. Considering the sway they have on the industry (if your game can't be on Steam, suddenly you have a lot less exposure), this hands-off stance is the most fair and respectful both to devs and players. We don't need any more "curated app stores" by tech companies that want to be petty tyrants.

It's a smart move for Valve, as only an explicit commitment to principles of neutrality have any hope of shielding them from the ever-growing Culture Wars where various outrage-groups weaponize platform rules to chip away at others' ability to enjoy content on their own terms.
Is this any different from letting them use a web browser? If they want to access that stuff they probably already can.
Isn’t flying mostly safe because of post hoc safety analysis followed by operating requirements? I don’t think the FAA tests every change made to aircraft before they can fly?
Even that seems super short sighed though isn't it? If an area turns into the next Manhattan all land owners win big time. I'd love it if it became economically desirable to build a 100 story skyscraper next to my house and someone went ahead and did it!
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Doubtful. Nobody's reporting issues with 5960Xs, and if it were really a race condition then you would occasionally get crashes even in 4- and 6-core processors.

Civ5 is one of the games that can trigger Ryzen segfaults, guessing he has a faulty chip. He should run kill-ryzen and see if his chip is stable.

Note that contrary to popular belief, the segfault bug does not "only" affect Linux or compiling workloads (it's a litho fault - these workloads just happen to trigger it) and there is no "safe" date range of first-gen Ryzen chips. Newer chips are more likely to work properly, but a smaller number are still faulty - even some RMA chips, since AMD stopped testing them after a few months.

I went through the AMD support thread and pulled out some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17074355

Looking through the latest posts in the AMD community thread, at least one user is reporting this even on a second-hand processor, although that's not really enough to make a definitive statement.