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That news about this case is being spread everywhere irks me a bit, because people aren't considering the actual circumstances of the accident. Excerpt from the article:

"According to the family, Mr. Huang was well aware that Autopilot was not perfect and, specifically, he told them it was not reliable in that exact location, yet he nonetheless engaged Autopilot at that location. The crash happened on a clear day with several hundred feet of visibility ahead, which means that the only way for this accident to have occurred is if Mr. Huang was not paying attention to the road, despite the car providing multiple warnings to do so."

This deserves a WTF. He understood autopilot makes errors, complained to his wife several times [0] that the car usually makes errors in that exact spot, and yet wasn't paying enough attention on a clear day with ideal driving conditions to commute safely.

[0] "Family members say he complained about his Tesla veering into the same barrier at the exact location of the crash and that he brought his car into the dealership several times to report a problem with the autopilot function." from https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/05/01/family-driver-d...
Most tractors don't use a pedal for throttle, they use a hand lever. You've seen pilots use a similar throttle control in airplanes in movies. But there are tractors with foot throttles. We had one, the throttle was underneath the two brakes.

The two brake pedals typically look like a single pedal that's been split in half.
Well, this brings to light the concept from the movie I, Robot. Is it a crime when an ai kills someone, unintentional or not, or is it an industrial accident? If it's suppose to replace a human task due to a "level of intelligence", is it still taxed as equipment or as an employee? Is the company (due to equipment failures) or the ai (choosing to do an action on its own) at fault?

To be fair, these questions need to be hard lined pretty soon.
Yes, it sounds very similar.

Today, many cars -- even performance cars -- use brakes in place of a differential. In fact, IIRC, McLaren road cars don't have mechanical differentials at all, and they're hardly slow!

Instead of a mechanical device employing a series of clutches that only allows x% more speed or torque or whatever to another wheel, you can (effectively) infinitely vary the amount of power to each wheel by selectively applying brakes. What used to be a crude/cheap traction control hack quickly became 'better' than the real-deal mechanical device.
"good" is relative. the longterm rate of return on investment is 7% so a stable property portfolio returning 5% or less reliably can counter-balance higher risk exposure above 15%

remember that the rate of return in property investment has two components: the rent, offsets against tax for the maintenance of costs, and the capital gain. the show isn't over until the deal is done and like gambling you have to know when to hold 'em and know when to fold them into somebody else's property portfolio.

also, social housing is "good" for reasons which can go to longer term investment outcome. What if holding cheap housing stock in your portfolio also prevents competition setting up closer to your other valuable investment?
> it's unacceptable for automation to produce a worse result than a human in the same situation, with the same information

I don't think anyone disagrees on that. The question is: is the software worse than a human driver? Do we have enough data for a statistically significant judgement on that? Is it even autonomous enough to say anything either way, like, if the driver is required to be at attention anyway, can the software be blamed for anything in the first place? Those are the questions, I don't think there is a point saying "software must be good!"
So make it REMOTE (US) or be flooded with irrelevant applications.
I played a ton of Rocket League and I think there's some non-obvious benefits to Psyonix being acquired by Epic Games that boil down to "Psyonix can be more focused on the core game".

Being acquired by Epic could reduce headaches in these areas:

- Logistics behind eSports leagues.

- Managing server scale, stability and performance.

- Managing platform cross-play.

- Managing publishing across multiple platforms.

I think that the logistical overhead of keeping the lights on is at the expense of Psyonix's ability to provide meaningful content updates and keep the core gameplay fresh.
>but what legal framework are you are using to treat this particular human-machine interaction differently without introducing a whole new class of liability for humans and traditional manufacturers?

Humans are not robots?
Yes, I think they fixed the Killer problems on Ubuntu first and pushed their changes upstream. That may be why it works on Debian (It's only been a week.) I can dual boot Ubuntu but for reasons not immediately obvious to me DNS queries were frequently timing out, making web browsing pretty slow.

I think that Debian is getting the firmware updates too, though for the last one it didn't apply so I just booted Ubuntu and it worked w/out issue. (It uses EFI which is another benefit of that.)
The original walk out had an estimated count of 20,000. Any estimated counts for the sit-in yet? Or just anecdotal...is it a lot of employees?
If I am supposed to host my website on it, I want to know how much it would cost (for a given service level). Don't really care if the tech is more like butterflies or turtles...
Dell could send you a laptop at least.
A friend actually built it but from my understanding, it is built for when IoT devices needed to share data outside their internal business. For example, an IoT device in a container gets moved from a warehouse to a 3rd party trucking company. The trucking has an IOT device and the two devices transmit data between them and some get sent back to a database. I may not be doing this justice.
America needs more advancements but political nonsense has put the money into I’ll fated programs like the F:35.
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The 49-year-old author is using stickers on her monitor for vocab and shocked to find duplicates due to lapses.

Meanwhile, 48-year-old me has some 8300 Japanese entries in Anki, most of them "mature".

A few months ago, someone Japanese asked me, do you know how to read this thing I received in a text message? Showed me the screen, where "逞しい" appeared. At first I declined; no idea. Seconds later, though, I asked, can I see that again? I stared at it for another moment or two and it kicked in: hey, wait, that spells "takumashii": strong, sturdy, burly, and such. God damn!

Repetition works.

I later checked into Anki: I had reviewed 逞しい 42 times. That would have included a lot of lapses; words I don't lapse on don't get reviewed 42 times.

(For that word, I still didn't have the confidence to immediately recognize it. This is probably because I have never studied that kanji, and have no other word in my vocab which uses it. It's not in the jouyou list.)
So? It works. I'm not upgrading my Win7 box. It's a much more user-centric OS than Win10.
Epic is paying boat loads of money so they don't have to compete, that's the issue. Their store is objectively worse than Steam in almost every way, they know they can't compete, so instead they're throwing money at the publishers and telling customers to suck it up and use their store, or don't play the game.
It looks like Github, after some push back across various forums, reverted the change and the network graph is back.
Our enterprise app (not internal) has 80% of users on IE11 :/
> Most tractors don't use a pedal for throttle, they use a hand lever. You've seen pilots use a similar throttle control

Hah, how to tell a city slicker. That makes a ton of sense though. Obviously a tractor is mostly wanting to maintain a slow but constant speed over a bumpy terrain. Having to do that with a foot pedal would be a pain.

At least I know what a PTO is, but only because of reading how dangerous they can be.
Exactly! With Windows you do have choices. I bought a desktop PC from ThinkMate configured exactly as I wanted it with a plain vanilla Windows 10.
This is really cool! I've always wanted to use a Rio-like WM but my chronic lack of gumption kept me from installing one. Wio looks sufficiently neat that I think I should get around to trying it.

For people who like new window manager things and also Rio, it's worth also checking out this piece of the Arcan Project: https://arcan-fe.com/2017/04/17/one-night-in-rio-vacation-ph...
Knew that sentence would hit a nerve, but it is a reality, and unfortunately I didn't take the time to soften it.

You are correct, though I'd shift the focus slightly to mental illness. Mentally ill homeless in LA are deemed competent to decide their own welfare, but not face criminal charges. Logically both or neither of those must be true. Leaving a giant gaping hole of "nothing can be done" in any long-term solution.
Do you run a hospital, by any chance?
No because wifi is a local network standard that, wait for it, works without wires.

Serverless very literally involves a server
Hello, I am very interested in knowing the open source version of SWF. I am heavy SWF user and I watched all Cadence videos especially the architecture one. I wonder what is the shard recovery mechanism for a single shard on one host ? Let's say one host is down, how the shards on that host are recovered on the next host ? I heard the presenter said consistent hashing or RingPop, so I am thinking all shards should be migrated to the next available host or hosts ?
Caspian Report on youtube is a good start
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When you eat fat and carbs, the fat is stored and the carbs used for energy. When you subtract carbs, your body still needs energy so it starts using fat.
On China discusses lots of background, Destined for War is on this very subject and discusses economics, history, and political balance re:China
Google employees protesting the makeup of the AI Ethics council appeared like the closest thing to fascism in the USA that I have ever witnessed. I hope some people see the need for diversity of viewpoint and start to be more accepting of their fellow countrymen, while agreeing on what to condemn.
On the plus side, he helped the Nazis waste a tremendous amount of resources that could have prolonged the war if used more effectively. I don’t know how much credit you can give him for that since it wasn’t his intent, but it’s something.
This sounds good, but is impractical.

First, a human who is paying attention makes better decision than a human who is surprised by being given control during a crisis. Therefore if automation sees a crisis, it's standard has to be that it is worse than a surprised human, and not how it compares to an alert driver.

Second, the analysis that concludes that we're now in a specific situation where a human would do better is often beyond the powers of automation. For example it can recognize that we are now in a class of cases where, on average, automation does better. But whether it will in any particular case may be beyond its reasoning power.
Everyone does it because it DOES work, and that's the awful part for consumers.
I'm very computer literate. That's why I run Windows 10, and Linux / BSD in a VM. I want to get things done.
Sounds like his smartphone is about as liable as Tesla here. If he hadn't been distracted this shouldn't have happened. He knew his autopilot doesn't handle this section of the road.
>I will stop playing this game if I have to make an Epic account

Haha

Meanwhile I can’t even update my NVIDIA driver without loging into whatever their GeForce platform thing is now called.

Can’t remember your password? Stuck on old driver
Editorial: Intel CPU constraints are sign on the road to ARM chips in the Mac
I love the diversity HN has. My wife also grew up in a tiny minimalistic house. We'd eat on the floor, no space for even a dining table. It was a lot of fun.
Of course.
Remember the manifesto a year or so ago?
They're evil.
That's normal in every empire, right? Enough people start siphoning off of whatever system is in place in order to fatten their wallets and then gtfo before the populace kills them or another country/invade steals everything from them.

The newish breed (maybe not new but more recent) seems to be to destabilize countries which can be strip mined cleaned while everything is just barely out of control of the local government, or you just pay off the government which may just be a military junta and buddies because they understand that if they try to pull a Gadaffi they get bombed out of existence and replaced because they're not big enough.
I am a casual user of Fossil. I tried it out for some of my smaller projects. I can't say I am at the point where I "get" it, but I'd definitely recommend at least trying it out, as it provides a contrasting perspective to source control (from git).

The integrated Wiki and ticketing system can be very helpful. The built-in web interface is definitely convenient. Also, the codebase is written in very clean C code (it's written by the SQLite devs, so I expect no less from them). It is very easy to compile from source. Also, the documentation they have is quite nice.

I definitely struggle with parts of Fossil. Fossil does not make it easy to revise commits (this is an intentional design). I one time made a commit on a badly time-skewed machine and it took me all day to look up how to correct that (but I found it in their documentation). I'm also still getting the hang of how branching works in Fossil. It is very hard to have a massive amount of contributors to code. Again, this is another intentional design choice.

It's certainly not a VCS for all projects. But for certain kinds of projects, it really works well.
This would be amazing if you would map the params to web midi and allow recordings to video
It's worse than that. Sudden breaking is also dangerous.
A few people dying of their own irresponsibility does not warrant ruining it for the rest of us.
Way OT, but, I'm interested in why you and the parent comment are writing Netflix with a capital "F" as NetFlix. I've not seen this in any of their branding or collateral before. Is there a specific reason for it?
Anyone interested in understanding the balance of power in China/Pacific: I enjoyed "Destined for War", "World Order" (big section for China), and "On China". I'd welcome more suggestions.
And most of those other sites charged high commissions, lacked region locking, and also meant you would get less visibility on Steam due to lower sales on that platform.
Well yeah but he’s not the one suing. The family lost him and probably isn’t thinking rationally. Or, maybe they are thinking rationally. Lawyers probably took the suit on contingency right?
Very classy! The interactions are so delightful, and the premise of "serendipitous discoveries through experimentation" is spot on. Well done!
Anarchosyndicalism's history does lead to Prince Kropotkin, who was in some ways the very model of a trustafarian uppercrusty.
I've heard that these exist,but are marked as “lcd pannels”, meant for displaying information in public places.
Why does that matter? The next person who comes by with autopilot on who doesn't know that might also die.
Same problem there though, they've just been at it longer. Which console do you pick, or do you get all of them?
Your argument sounds the same as: people who smoke know that cigarettes cause cancer, in fact it says that on the pack, still they decide to smoke. So, if they get cancer and die it's their fault not the cigarette manufacturer's.
Microsoft themselves would have to practice that before they can preach it. All the start menu apps they try and force on users...
What is so worrying about China's massive military build up is that there's no benign explanation. China has long had enough conventional power to defend itself and more than enough nuclear weapons to hold up its side of MAD.

It really just looks a lot like the king of China is preparing to start a war. It seems like in the best case he is preparing to take Taiwan and in the worst case he's planning to take all of Asia while perhaps his ally, the king of Russia, takes Europe.

The simple fact is that if these two dictators can figure out how take out the U.S. then there's nothing stopping them from taking over the entire world. The giant has been sleeping since it declared victory in the cold war decades ago.

No one can sleep well until the U.S. massively revamps its nuclear triad and either Japan or Europe create their own highly independent nuclear response capability. The future of humanity is currently relying on a single point of failure and it may already be too late.
Yet another exploit?

Just leaving this here: do tasks, get paid.
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I was indeed thinking in terms of "incriminating" veg oil, but more in favor of omega 3 fatty acids (as is also the trend in Atkins etc,) not necessarily saturated fats in butter. (edit: Also silently implying here that n-3 to n-6 ratio matters. Omega-6 fats are essential, but in nature n-3:n-6 is found in more desirable ratios.)

I get what you're saying re: exercise and stress, but I have to believe that for some percent of the population, diet rules over the ability to have enthusiasm for exercise and the ability to deal with stress. Everybody's got stress. Some people feel it more than others.
The history of the electric car is longer than you might think
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>> it's unacceptable for automation to produce a worse result than a human in the same situation, with the same information

> I don't think anyone disagrees on that.

I disagree on that. If there's an autonomous vehicle that is better than a human in most situations, and worse in a few situations, such that the overall accident/death rate is lower, and there is no reasonable away to identify the rare dangerous situations in time to disable the autopilot, I would want to drive that car and would advise others to do so.

In fact, if there was an autonomous vehicle that was almost exactly as safe as a human but slightly more dangerous (say, a 10% higher death/accident rate), I would frequently use it because the large benefits outweigh the minor statistical costs. (Indeed, I use a car at all because of its benefits over walking, busing, or staying at home, despite the higher rate of death.) If other people understood the risks, I would also suggest that they to do likewise.
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Hardly, you still cant group cross platform.
The Metro goes 100x farther than in '84. Most of the stadiums are near it, and LAX getting more accessible. Yes it has a while more to go, and it will, but it is not correct to say there has been no improvement.
What happens in the US if you're homeless and have gallstones, and walk into a hospital asking for treatment?
the article means "good" for society, long-term
In RC planes with many engines differential thrust is relatively common (when you have 2 engines you mix the input signal from the yaw stick with the input signal from the throttle so that the the engine on the outside of the turn gives more thrust and the engine on the inside of the turn slows down - and the plane turns better). It's pretty intuitive when set up with good coefficients. Just feels as if the plane has bigger steering surface.

Maybe they could have done the same with breaking - just use the steering wheel position to choose the breaking power split between the wheels.
The problem with Tesla's "Autopilot" is that it's marketed heavily as just that: autopilot. It's good enough to work that way 99% of the time, too, which is a recipe for disaster: things that work 99% of the time but have the potential to fail catastrophically often get glossed over by humans because it's hard to keep paying attention to something that rarely fails.
Which is right.
This is very cool, but I have to ask, why would I want new windows to take over their root? Most things launch asynchronously, leaving their parent usable.

Did plan 9 use this model because blocking launchers were the norm not the exception?
By renting a home, I can let somebody else tie up a million dollars in capital and all I have to pay them is a few thousand a month. This seems like a great deal for me, why do you want to ban me from engaging in this transaction?
I think it's deeply irresponsible to create a device which can drive in 90 or 95% of scenarios. It's just a way to fool humans into killing themselves.