skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but the radar has poor angular resolution (but a good idea of relative velocity), so it cannot tell the difference between a stationary object at the side of the road and one in the middle of it, so it must ignore all stationary object (by ignoring all objects with an apparent velocity approximately equal to the speed of the vehicle) in order to avoid constant false positives.
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It IS risky unless he has a cushion to fall on (lots of saving or trust fund). Life tends to pull out expensive rabbits out of hats, more of them as one gets older.

At $1000/month, a broken or stolen laptop or bicycle is ~two months. In the US (which he is) Any medical issue, or a baby, is somewhere between three months and bankruptcy.
Hey! One of the main devs behind pulltorefresh.js here. Initially we created a small script to simulate the pull to refresh gesture because in one of our user experience sessions, the users were having trouble with how to reload the information shown.

A few months later we decided to open source it and on december 2016 it hit HN front page, glad to see it again!

I'm here to answers some questions, if you have any.
We tried to fix the laws, but the tyrants won. Next step is to try to stymie the tyrants.

Imagine trying to argue your point to the USA Founders, who seceded from the government they found oppressive.
> tech bro... CEOs

Even in this headline, there's some pretty interesting equivocation happening between techies and CEOs overall. The article makes a decent case for why there's collective anxiety about tech companies, but neglects the question of "why only tech?"

The ~1990s had a whole string of movies with bankers and investors as villains: American Psycho, Rogue Trader, Glengarry Glen Ross, Wall Street, Boiler Room, and so on. Lately, we had had Wolf of Wallstreet and The Big Short, but in a post-2008 world where banking already has trashed the economy we're surprisingly short on bankers-as-villains films.

We got a couple of global warming films in the 2000s, and a couple more in the 2010s, but I can't think of one which makes a serious attempt to cast oil CEOs as villains - certainly not in the sense that e.g. tobacco companies have been. Avatar is probably the closest thing to "CEOs trashing the environment" that's been a hit.

Pharma companies lend themselves to human-interest tragedies, and we did get Dallas Buyer's Club. But there's no whole genre here like there used to be with "the bank takes the farm".

So there's the missing question: why tech companies specifically? The most obvious answer is just "more impressive visuals". I'm not sure we're talking about a particular anxiety of the moment, or if it's just that banks and oil companies work better on the page than on the screen.
To follow on, there has already been reported autopilot drifting and mismanaging that spot on the freeway (although without this catastrophic result). That fact adds to this description/explanation.

Aside: the following another car heuristic is dumb. It's ultimately offloading the AI/decision making work onto another agent, an unknown agent. You could probably have a train of teslas following eachother following a dummy car that crashes into a wall and they'd all do it. A car 'leading' in front that drifts into a metal pole will become a stationary object and so undetectable.
Also not ideal if you are operating on limited data connection (takes forever to load) or are trying to continuously load an expensive webpage.
Scala API for Deep Learning Inference Now Available with MXNet v1.2
yeaaah just spell it out, like an animal
Out of interest, why do you believe that?

I have no strong opinion either way. But I was wondering if your belief isn't motivated more by your familiarity (with those scenarios) than anything else.

Personally I would note that in those examples you mentioned you have freedom of movement, which to me seems isn't a politically unacceptable solution in the UK.
i mean this is an obvious statement, if you've only worked with a group, then of course the most competent and least competent is within that group...
Yeah that's one of my biggest gripes with Quora, you can totally lose content that you wanted to read or respond to through any act of carelessness that leads to a page load or even the page bugging out.
From Kansas. From first hand experience people don't want to work in those jobs. Work at a printing company and we have had several open press operator positions for a year or so that start at $25 and get up to ~$35 over time and pay 100% of you HC premium, all you have to be is mechanically inclined and competent. Zero applicants. People don't think these jobs are resilient (we focus on small orders than ship in 2-3 days so we have to be stateside) or are not willing to work. I've suggested either recruit straight out of HS and offer some level of tuition reimbursement at the local CC or go immigrant or non-violent offenders out of the county jail. We've also seen some food processing plants derailed [1] over how it would impact the community [2][3] and xenophobia.

[1] http://www.cjonline.com/news/business/local/2017-11-20/tyson...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kansas-town-rejects-tyson-chick...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/595018875/somali-immigrants-h...
You linked a pirated video. Original is by the Real life guys.
Pedantic: Mobileye cut ties with Tesla, not the other way around.
> The paint on the right edge of the gore marking, as seen in Google Maps, is worn

Indeed; here's a close-up of the critical area. Note that the darker stripe on the bottom of the photo is NOT the crucial one; the one that the car was supposed to follow is the much more faded one above that that you can barely see:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.410912,-122.0757037,3a,75y,2...

(Note that I'm not blaming the faded paint; it's a totally normal situation on freeways that it's entirely the job of the self-driving car to handle correctly. But I think it was what triggered this fatal flaw.)
Yes, but they end up being difficult to chase if you can't make rent or buy groceries.
Yes? Welcome to the automotive industry. Lives are at stake.
SQLServer might be in next round https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/pull/3807
This gore zone did not have a striped area, just solid lines on each side.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5582461/Tesla...

Edit: Google street view of the location: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.410912,-122.0757037,3a,75y,2...
If you open that page with a touch-enabled device, you can check the demo on the main page, since it relies on touch events.

Or as stated before, try opening the demos.
This happens because
`distributed < distributed + centralized`
nearly always.

For example, git is great, but git plus an (optional) issue tracker has more value, so that's what people use.

Coincidentally (or perhaps causally?), FOSS < FOSS + closed source.

The only way I can see this changing is if the distributed (or free or open-source) benefits of the system fail early and painfully when centralized (or paywalled or close-sourced). I can't think of any such systems off the top of my head.
Zig might be a good fit for you. Nim also seems to answer all your requirements.
> During the 18-minute 55-second segment, the vehicle provided two visual alerts and one auditory alert for the driver to place his hands on the steering wheel. These alerts were made more than 15 minutes prior to the crash.

Whoah. So there were NO alerts for 15 minutes prior to the crash. Compare this with Tesla's earlier statement:

> The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive and the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision.[1]

This gives a very different impression. They omitted the fact that there were no warnings for 15 minutes. Frankly that appears to be an intentionally misleading omission.

So basically the driver was distracted for 6 seconds while believing that the car was auto-following the car in front of it.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week’s-accident
If you happen to work for FAANG in Silicon Valley.

Otherwise, dream on.

A lot of professions make more: all doctors/dentists, 50% of lawyers, higher-level university administrators, most MBAs (mid-management and up).

Heck, even some cops in large metropolitan areas can pull 200K+ (with overtime)
This article is silly: they answer their own question at the end but pretend like this is still some big mystery or Apple never actually intended to nor wants to open source FaceTime.

But without the VirnetX patents and the peer-to-peer architecture, this service requires significantly greater backend resources. I’m not sure how Apple could feasibly open this standard to third party clients now.
Haven't heared of a "cryptography community", so I'll assumed cryptocurrencies.
Off topic, but: I thought it was certain? That is, I thought that, once Britain invoked Article 50 (?), they were out in two years, guaranteed, no stopping the process, with the only question being what the new situation would be. Is there a path from here that doesn't result in exit?

I agree that the government doesn't know how to achieve anything positive out of the situation...
> Don’t want to see autopilot disabled as a result of this, would rather Tesla use this to double down and apply new learnings.

I agree that Tesla obviously needs to be learning from this. But at this point in time, Autopilot needs to be turned off until Tesla can fix the fundamental flaws in the set of sensors on their cars. There is now strong evidence that Autopilot is dangerous, and there is still weak evidence that it is less dangerous than the alternative (i.e., a human driving).

I expect that the NTSB will eventually issue a safety recommendation that Autopilot not be used in its current form. I'm a bit surprised they didn't issue an urgent recommendation in the preliminary report, or even before.
The NTSB report said that the system didn't apply the automatic emergency braking. That either means it didn't detect the stationary object or did it on purpose.

You can argue something between those two options, but ultimately it is just a semantic argument (e.g. "it just chose to ignore it" which is effectively the same as a non-detection, since the response is identical).
We initially published it ~1.5 years ago, so close enough, I guess?
Aren't about half of US personal bankruptcies (or were, before Obamacare) because of medical debt? It might be just me, but I was under the impression that having negative net worth in the US has a lot to do with which cards you're dealt in life.
The most recent assortment of high-flying tech unicorns were mostly started during the 2008-2011 period. Great startups tend to get their start in the depths of a recession, where perhaps economic conditions force founders to take risks and practice uncommon business creativity. We haven't had a recession in a while; I wonder if the talent that would oridinarily start a startup has chosen the relative comforts of existing large businesses.
It must also never be worse than humans.

In this case, it very clearly was.
Well said. I think the reason it's easy to feel that people at the C-Suite don't produce value is the "leadership" qualities that matter are very hard to define, and success or failure often doesn't make itself clear until months or years down the road.

As a lower-level employee, sometimes you think that the company would be successful without a leader, or even is successful in spite of poor leadership - while that may sometimes be true, much of what happens at that level is hard to understand unless you've been there
Unfortunately the link from the article to the original report seems to be broken.

The standard simple calculation for net worth is assets minus debts, so credit card debt, mortgages, etc. would be negative.

But even though the mortgage is negative, the value of the home would be positive, and the net difference between the value of the home and the debt owed on the mortgage could very well be a positive component of net worth.
I happened to notice the inclusion of "blockchain" in the destination domain name...so got the clue before clicking through. But I don't even think this piece focuses much on cryptocurrency anyway...its more about the hazards of centralization/decentralization with respect to protocols and platforms that host services using said protocols. Don't get me wrong, i actually really liked the article...but a discussion on cryptography or crypto-currency its not.
I can't really argue with any of that, and it may very well be the reason for much of the stagnation. However, I also think that people underestimate how much hasn't been done yet, or hasn't been done in different, interesting ways. There are a lot of good ideas from the past that have languished and could be used for innovative approaches to all sorts of software.
It's dead anyway, unless all your contacts (the ones you want to communicate with) own Apple devices.
I used Linux a long time ago and issues I had were not the large cases described here, but little things that wear down my soul like:
- where did the program get installed?
- how to I uninstall the program?
- where is x file(s)
- what is the command for this?
- why do I need a command?
- i updated the OS and it won't reboot. Now what?
- I updated it and now it won't connect to the printer. Now what?

The issues were boundless. While Mac isn't what it used to be, it's still awesome for so many little things that I no longer even care to think about and for that reason I'm not inclined to switch. I don't even like using Windows at all anymore and it's not an issue of preference, the do of my caring regarding preference are behind me. Now it's just a simple issue of general irritation and performance at work.

Just my two cents as an older dev.
I said "valid warrant." If I found the warrant to be an over-reach, was on a flimsy pretext, or the request is not properly scoped I wouldn't consider that valid, and would appeal.
This was actually a great article. So much crypto centered content nowadays is garbage. Very pleasantly surprised by this. I think there are even a lot of interesting related questions that were not explored in this relatively concise post.

Though I don't have any problem with them today, services like Infura are definitely analogous to GitHub and may eventually become weak points in the same way.
Makes me wonder about the future of self-driving cars. I would think that the first thing that should be programmed in is to not run into objects that are not moving.

IMO, maybe the roads need to be certified for self-driving. Dangerous areas would be properly painted to prevent recognition errors. Every self-driving system would need to query some database to see if a road is certified. If not, the self-driving system safely disengages.
I wonder if they'll release the logs from his crash.
Devops has added a web of complexity that distance users from the underlying technology.

Suddenly mounting filesystems is a 'storage driver', using networking technology built into the kernel is a 'network driver' or using an Nginx reverse proxy or Haproxy load balancer is an 'ingress controller'. This new vocabulary confuses rather than informs and ends up adding more layers of complexity.

What happens when things break? Simply knowing the json/yaml layers above is not going to help without an understanding of networking and the underlying technologies.

Facebook, Google, Netflix are not 2 engineers running devops, they all have unique architectures and an army of experts to run their infrastructure. The idea that you can be 'webscale' without ops experts is complete fantasy.
Totally agree.

What's really going on is that Californian tech companies have a very hard time getting American talent from outside California to destroy their quality of living by relocating to California.

What's left is the purposeful manipulative lie that foreigner talent is needed in the United States beyond whatever level of immigration is current. The lie part is that they really mean California, not the United States.

Disclaimer: that conjecture above is something I learned from a straight-talking American executive in Qualcomm ~14 years ago after relocating from Motorola Labs, outside California.
"Encryption" is unambiguous and is almost always what is meant. (But then I don't say crypto because I'm not slinging buzzwords to impress people.)
I think the issue is, if you read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17256900 is that Autopilot is not better than humans.
I find it very frustrating that Scala, a language that is entirely capable of running just as fast as Java, is full of frameworks that are relatively slow compared to the java frameworks. It has to be some sort of fixation on reinventing everything from scratch in order to fit into some idealized idiomatic scala way (ignoring the fact that there are a million different versions of "idiomatic" in the scala community). Even the Play Framework, which used to be based on Netty and was pretty damn fast, ended up spending entire release cycles focused on migrating to an akka-based backend and they ended up with shittier performance and now they have to maintain two backends because nobody wants anything to do with their new akka backend.

Sometimes mutability and imperative code are okay, even in scala.
I know only somewhat more than hearsay about clinical trials, so I'm not really qualified to have this discussion.

I know that trials are not always between placebo/"no-influence" and "any-influence." They are sometimes between current best practice and possible new best practice.

I believe the recent case of the woman treated for breast cancer, which I mentioned previously, is an example of your "suppose" case.

Another might be the first trial of injectable penicillin was on Reserve Constable Albert Alexander. It was clear within 24 hours that it was effective.

So certainly it doesn't require randomized double-blind trials. Then again, Lowe said "controlled clinical trials", which I suspect may include more than the 'gold standard' of clinical trials.

There's an old joke about how there hasn't been a controlled trial about the effectiveness of parachutes. https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459 . I don't think the medical field as a whole agrees with "the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine" (quoting from the abstract) to conclude that we therefore can't be certain about its effectiveness.

I read the comment from 2012 that you pointed to. I think it is an opinion with only a tenuous basis in evidence.

Other countries have different requirements for care. I pointed out elsewhere in this thread how people from the US go to Mexico for treatments which are illegal in the US. (Note: Mexico is not full of Nazis as moldbug exaggeratedly suggested must be the case for that to happen.)

If it were so simple as closing the OODA loop, then we would expect amazing treatments to come out of these countries. Or as Lowe pointed out in the quote I gave earlier:

> Many states have passed their own right-to-try laws (in various forms), and if there has been any decrease in human suffering or advance in medical knowledge through them, I have missed it. To get specific, when Colorado passed its own law in 2014, one of the first companies that announced plans to offer treatments under its provisions was a stem-cell company, Neuralstem. And guess what? None of their treatments ever worked. Most things don’t.

Since the lower standard doesn't seem to help, why lower the standard?

What evidence is there that 1000 or more patients die of neglect for every one which dies of quackery?
The thing is that the problem isn't just the Autopilot driving over white lines. Even cheap VW Up's and other micro cars would have applied the brakes automatically when an object was in the way. It is a huge failure that a Tesla can do both without stopping. Two huge fails.
I've lived through a few eras, where open and/or decentralized systems were expected to win (Internet, crypto today). For most users, the critical things are usability and utility, not decentralization.

If we care about decentralization, we have to care about these points even more, to make products competitive with what users are used to. Even though many engs I know value decentralization, most people won't choose systems for this reason alone.

Just like with Github, there was a bunch of anger before when Slack was displacing IRC. I wrote some thoughts about what we/I could learn from that example:

What Open Source Can Learn From Slack

https://www.nemil.com/musings/oss-and-slack.html

If you really want to get more cynical, Tim Wu's book "The Master Switch" is a masterful look at 20th century technologies (radio, telephone, telegraph) going through the idealism of the early days, to the inevitable frustration when it creates new anti-consumer behemoths.
Somewhere Under My Left Ribs: A Nurse’s Story
Is there no link or reference into the article itself in the article?
I'm way too old to be a tech bro. But back in my day, (early 90's prior to, and during, the first dot com frenzy), a large number of what we called "douchebags" started moving to San Fran. Male and Female.

I think these were likely the precursors of today's male and female "Tech Bros". They really were terrible. Anyway, I left San Fran and that was it for me as far as Silicon Valley living. I've had the good fortune to have had a couple of exits since, despite not living in the Bay area. But I'm positive a lot of that was just luck. Nowadays, I'm not sure it's still possible to get that lucky without having to move to the Bay area at some point. So I feel for you young guys and gals who have to just deal with the Tech Bros, (and the Tech Sis's), until your "boat comes in" so to speak.
Would this have all the other downsides of regular gasoline - nitrous oxides and particulates? If so, I'm going to keep pushing for getting gas-powered cars off the roads at least in populated areas.
If companies were forced to pay, they'd just stop hiring. Read an economics textbook for me one time.
Ah. I wonder if they do recognize the stripes then.

BTW does anyone know why it’s called a ‘gore’ zone? I can see it being a (brutal) nickname but I’m hoping there is some better reason.
How ICE’s Bogus Science Is Violating Human Rights
It isn't:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5582461/Tesla...

I do think that an "Autopilot" / "ProPilot" / "SuperCruise" type system that does adaptive cruise + lane following + emergency braking should do a better job at detecting and reacting to that kind of barrier, but there is also evidence that this is a problematic location that has seen crashes by plenty of non-computer-assisted vehicles.

Edit: Google street view of the location: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.410912,-122.0757037,3a,75y,2...
It's hubris.
Great idea - more taxes...
They sent me back refurbs that didn't work, I just gave up.
> “This opens up the possibility that we could stabilize the climate for affordable amounts of money without changing the entire energy system or changing everyone’s behavior.”

If you really want to accomplish something on a large scale, you need something like this. People have been talking about overpopulation dangers for centuries, and human population growth remained high. Cheap, effective birth control gets releases, and population growth is stabilizing.

In general, tech solutions are easier than large scale social solutions.
There was a prior HN discussion about a previously convicted felon and four-time deportee who still managed to re-enter via the regular border crossing and steal a million dollars in gold. This technology will solve that edge case.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16327728
NBC from 2003:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3071789/ns/us_news-only/t/go-pills...