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Do those non-autopilot vehicles exclusively drive on the highway? Highway driving might be more deadly but accidents are less likely to happen in the first place due to lane separation, large curve radius, no stationary obstacles, no pedestrians, lower relative velocity, etc.

It's like trying to compare Rotweilers to Pitbulls. Both are dangerous but one of them is 20x more dangerous.
The biggest issue I see is building, because builds take a long time and you don't want to stand around using the worst input imaginable (touch screen) to do nice builds.

Other than that, it seems like they're making a Pokemon GO clone with Minecraft mobs (collect passive mobs and fight hostile ones).

W.r.t to your "Pokemon Go::SW Christmas Special" you're absolutely wrong, while the initial popularity didn't stick around, the game is at a very strong and profitable point and the ideas introduced in the GO app have moved into actual Pokemon titles, notable the "no fight, just throw to catch pokemon" mechanic was ported to Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee Switch remakes of Gen 1. Basically the opposite of the SW Xmas Special!

As a (modded) Minecraft player there's a lot to be excited about in this concept, but my suggestions would be

* Allow players to explore the virtual-real-world that they've visited with the phone app from a console or computer. So you can "tag" your local park, a cool bit of a forest, etc, then go home and explore a digital version.

* Allow players to build at home

The point here would be that you go out side, collect building materials, catch some passive mobs you want, then go home to take advantage of these collected goods to start a pretty build.

This would also fix UX issues because the goal of using the phone app would be moving around, collecting, interacting, NOT standing still and building.

I'd play the heck out of that, it'd be another reason to get out of the house and an interaction between phone game and console/pc game could be huge.
Yea...I have an Aldi just a stones-throw away from my house. I was mailed a "grand opening" coupon for first time shoppers. I skeptically took the bait. It was a sad, awkward experience.

Weird knockoff names for popular brands, especially their beer and wine. They look like popular brands, but If I'm going to put alcohol in my body, it better be effing good.

I prefer to go to my regional grocery chain. Much better selection and quality, marginally higher prices...but I don't care. I grab a cart. No hassle and NO QUARTER (who the hell carries change?) I bring my own bags, but if I forget I can use their paper or plastic ones (plus bring back the bags for recycling if I want). I can also order online, pickup if I want or have them deliver. That's what I want, not the shopping experience Aldi offers.

I get it. Millions of people disagree with me. This is my data point of one, Me, but that's the only data point that matters to me.

As Travis Tritt said:
"Here's a quarter, call someone who cares..."
Likewise for modernism, or any philosophy really. Only 6 peope have ever read Marx, sans Engels. One of them was Engels.
It's been my entirely unattempted thought for a decade now, and will probably stay that way hah.
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- (React) Have sold thousands and now offered for free: https://leanpub.com/ui-react

- (Real-Time Rendering with WebGL2) Just reached out to the publisher. Let's see what happens: https://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Graphics-WebGL-interactive-...
One of the 4 fatalities investigated did happen after the tesla was trying to outrun a police car... Not exactly Tesla's fault!
I see a lot of people hoping for someone to go to jail. Who should go?

How about the CEO who made a rational policy of reporting vehicles stolen that aren't returned within a given time frame?

How about the engineers who created and approved a system with a software bug? A piece of software that functioned correctly 99.99969% of the time. That's slightly better than six sigma. How many of you can claim your uptime is that good. 30 cases in 10 million!

How about the product manager who crafted a spec with a hole in its business logic?

How about the front desk clerks who did not fill out the appropriate paperwork after rental upgrades?

How about the stores' managers who actually called the police and filed the reports in accordance with company policy?

How about the HR reps who didn't train employees to use the system correctly?

> Some of these were reported last year, and Hertz found itself paying tens of thousands of dollars in damages to victims in civil cases.

It seems the company is being held civilly liable. Which they should be! If the police shoot innocent people based on accusations then you have a POLICE problem not a Hertz problem (which, of course, never happened in this case).
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My philosophy when hiring now is to be trying to answer the question of “how much responsibility could I give this candidate and feel confident they could flourish”. A junior engineer should be able to be given a clear spec and be able to implement it. A mid should be able to do the same thing with a poorly specified spec, in a domain they don’t necessarily have experience in. They should know how to learn. A good senior should be able to support a team to figure out what needs to be done, and move heaven and earth to get there. They should be able to fix (and anticipate) any and all problems that show up. Train people. And push back when they’re assigned a problem that doesn’t make sense, or given unreasonable deadlines. A good senior can be responsible for making sure a whole team delivers a working product.

From this perspective, a technical whiteboard interview is one of many tools. Interviews I give usually start with “so your boss asks you to solve problem X ... where do you start?”. Then I throw more and more problems at them (technical, organisational, etc) and see how they respond. “It’s in production and people start complaining that it’s slow. Where do you look first?”. “What problems do you foresee with this design down the line?”. “If you had $1m/yr budget to hire a team to scale this system, what would your ideal team look like? How would you spend the money?”. “An inexperienced team implements this and it’s buggy. What mistakes are you worried they might have made?”

Ultimately we get the traits we hire for. Being able to code (and debug!) is important. But I also want employees who I can delegate to, and trust that they’ll figure things out. I’ve been able to pass whiteboard interviews since second year uni. But I have not stopped learning, and the non technical skills I’ve gained since then are at least as important. Test for them.
It seems like more people will fall asleep due to a false sense of security than would have fallen asleep without autopilot turned on.
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I got a Taf Toys "My First MP3 Player" a few years back. Parents could load a USB stick with MP3s on any PC (including Linux), then plug the stick into a secure compartment on the device (requiring a screwdriver for access, like the battery compartment). Children then had buttons for play, stop, next, previous, volume up, volume down. Only minor issues/features were that the maximum volume was pretty low (presumably to make it safe for babies), and it would switch itself off if no buttons were pressed for a short while (again presumably so it would be safe to leave unattended). Was going to post a link, but it seems it is no longer available.
> Why do American police stop people so often?

Multiple reasons, but the big one is money. There are a lot of places smaller than big cities who have massive revenue problems. Turning cops into revenue generators seems to be the preferred solution.

And then come second-order effects: private probation enforcement companies, private prisons, communications monopolies for private prisons... and they all lobby to keep and expand their pound of flesh. And you get this:

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/02/24/debtors-prison...

But hey, freest country on earth, amirite?
Cars being largely banned? Forgive my ignorance but where can I find a place like this?
Signing up for a s3 account is probably less work than going out to buy USB drives. If you factor in redundant copies, it's probably cheaper too.
For Linux 5.0 and as of March this year, the performance impact of enabling Linux kernel mitigations for Spectre/Meltdown against various CPUs with the latest microcode (as of March) are:

Intel: -13% for the Core i9 7980XE, -17% for the 8086K.

AMD: -3% for the 2700X.

Reference: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux50-...

Phoronix is due to release new benchmarks tomorrow showing full impact from Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS. There are some initial benchmarks at https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MDS-Zomb...
Continuing that analogy, the mentally impaired person takes in billions of dollars in rental revenue each year and you let him keep on doing that even after you find out he can’t be trusted to keep track of his stuff.
I think that's a question of culture. You agree to an EULA every time you use anything. Any time you call up customer service "Your calls are recorded for quality assurance purposes". All of the new party drugs you can buy have "Not for human consumption".

Warning labels are not an effective way of communicating to people what the limits on a product are. Especially so when the company's CEO heavily implies that those warning labels are exclusively there for regulatory reasons.

On the one hand you have a boiler plate warning, on the other hand you have the mulit-billionare genius CEO of Tesla doing interviews with 60 minutes making a point of taking his hands off the wheel completely and bragging about it.[1]

>A better angle would be that, some people who were gonna fall asleep anyways, had their lives saved.

I don't buy this, people are more likely to not pay attention when they think they've been told they can not pay attention.

[1] - https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-the-2018-6...
Dropbox has been operating at a loss since its creation and is currently not making a profit, so the jury is still out on whether it is actually successful (or just a VC-subsidized service that got advertised a lot).
A bit underwhelmed by the logo. Would have preferred https://familyguyaddicts.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/elf-pet...
> its a €30 flight

Oh my Europe!
Fair Dealing is extremely conservative. Could you expand on what you mean, give an example of the research situation and scope?

AIUI the CDP would probably allow you to do format conversion for private study if the matter wasn't available to buy in a format you needed for that study; they'd probably want to see some outputs to show it was study and not entertainment (remember in tort the consideration is balance of probabilities, they don't have to show you infringed just that it was most likely - without research outputs [eg study notes] then the likelihood is you copied for entertainment purposes.

In short, if you're thinking "I can pretend it was for study" then I think you'd find the court is not that naive.

YMMV, this is not legal advice.
A lot of corporate employers have an internal travel agent. I.e. you tell them where/when and they book the tickets for you.

Also in European shorthaul a lot of airlines don't even have business and for those that do you're normally looking a lot more than 20% more than the base fare.
Yes, agreed. We now have a prediction. We will collect more data to see if that prediction holds. If it does, we'll work on theories to explain it. (Of course, these two processes will actually happen in tandem, as how things work in practice is much messier.) They are not looking at the data set and saying "This anomaly will certainly hold when we get more data, it is now established fact." They are looking at the data set and saying "This looks funny, we should keep an eye on it." That is good science.
Ok. If we take that definition, is there any reason a test shouldn't consider whether a student had a very good school and learned half of what they were given, or a very poor school and learned everything they were exposed to? (a contrived case, of course)
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My daughter got a record player for Christmas last year and it caused me to think about my relationship to music. After she got the record player, I've taken her to the record store a few times and it was like stepping out of a time machine. I loved everything about it (Waterloo Records in Austin is pretty fantastic).

I ended up buying a CD player and pulling my collection out of the attic. I had forgotten how good music from a CD sounds on a big stereo.

These days, I'm mostly listening to entire albums (even when I use a streaming service). I've also started buying CDs again. When I stopped buying CDs, they were usually between $15 and $25. In the past four months I've bought a bunch and haven't paid more than $8.

I know CDs are dying and now that I'm back into it, it kind of makes me sad. It's shocking to me to think the format was defined 40 years ago. The Philips and Sony engineers did a fantastic job.
Parallax via optical cameras. Like the human eye or Subaru's Eyesight.
But the issue is not that someone tries to manipulate us, but that they – partially – succeed. So saying that they “dictate our behavior” may be hyperbole, but aside from that, it's the better mindset.
Denying a problem exists is rarely useful.

Of course if you understand “dictate” as “dictate to the extent that I cannot resist”, then you might as well deny the issue you believe you can't deal with anyway.
It will be interesting to see how facial recognition is treated as evidence. Things like, will judges grant warrants based on a 80% match but not a 70% match? Will juries consider it more or less reliable than recognition by eye witnesses? Will defense experts be able to cast doubt on certain algorithms or techniques vs others?
There's more to life than statistical significance. We all act on lots of qualitative information all the time, and it doesn't cause us to be catastrophic morons. In fact, we spend inordinate amounts of time trying to teach computers to be good at understanding those qualitative differences.
>If you develop an app, and everybody using your app always ends up deleting their data by clicking on the wrong button, and then people complain that your app loses data...

Throwing trash on the ground is not comparable to clicking the wrong button.

There is no confusion going on here, only laziness.
Agree with both points. My perspective at the time, although I was doing cross browser testing, was frustration from my expectations of the expected rendering behaviour between two browsers that I thought were the same, besides the addition of some new dev features.
At all. All the standard business knowledge and tech knowledge that is comon knowledge today had not yet been figured out. Incubators were not a thing.

Seeing that most startups are failing and the only YC company that has ever gone public - Dropbox - is still not profitable, I am not sure that we have “figured it out”, if you define “successful” as a company that makes a product that can sustain a company profitable.

How many successful exits have been through acquisitions by larger companies where the original product was killed either outright or through neglect.
... until a service reaches a certain level of operation costs, a switch to other, more efficient technologies will be enforced by management.

Nicely put! ;)
I tried but on the thread page itself the reply button was missing under your comment. I guess I'll open the message direct link next time to reply when it's missing.
>What about those non-autopilot vehicles?

They don’t make fraudulent misrepresentations to the public regarding their technological capabilities to self-drive which people rely on leading to fatal accidents.

But when those car manufacturers are at fault for the accidents vis-a-vis some manufacturing defect...they or their suppliers are liable.
Are statistics available on airbag deployments?

It seems the numbers of deaths are low enough to make stats difficult, but 'car crashed badly enough to make the airbag deploy' might have more data, and might also help separate out the effects of autopilot vs crumple zone design.
Well, at least here in Switzerland (where you would expect things to be done perfectly), Park & Ride are often half-assed effort that doesn't work that well.

Yes there is some obscure remote car parking. It takes 6-12 months to get through the queue of getting a spot (or more, depends). While waiting you have no idea how long till you get a place. They are almost as expensive as renting a private parking spot in the center. Then there is public transport - there is some, but far from ideal, and very far from motivating commuters to use this system, since it adds so much overhead that they prefer driving straight to the center of the town, even in densest traffic hours.

The message from city government cannot be more clear - we ticked a checkbox, but in reality we couldn't care less. City I am most familiar with this issue - Geneva.
The one thing I want to see autopilot / assisted driving on is 18 wheelers. I've seen too many people get hit by trucks after crossing the median because the driver fell asleep.
I disagree, I think it is fairly easy to prove that the ethical reasons make sense, or not, based on the other behavior of the person.

> If they're not happy they can move to a low law enforcement country, apparently it would be the paradise for them (except for the fact you'll probably be robbed most often than not, still)

Haha, yeah, because of high law enforcement the USA is a paradise where no violence or robberies take place. I don't know about robberies, but there's a lot less violence in my country than in yours where shootings are regular.
Thanks for clarification. I was not aware at the time, perhaps my oversight or it may have not been clear on the website - was a couple years ago so I can't recall.
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Hello HN,

My father recently passed away. He was an electronics engineer for over 50 years. As such, he has tens of thousands of usable parts. Things like unused IC's, relays, switches, diodes, SCR's, rectifiers, trimpots, resistors, etc. Everything under the sun. Some going back to the 60's. I know there are electronic recycling places to "safely dispose of old electronics," which is great, but this is new/usable stuff that just about any EE/hobyist (arduino?) would be able to use. It's mostly through-hole stuff (no surface mount). I will probably have 3-4 rubbermaid tubs FULL of components when we go through to clean out the house this weekend. Does anybody have any suggestions so this stuff might get used instead of just "disposed of safely?" A tax write off for a donation would be nice, but not absolutely necessary. I'm more about getting it to people who could put it to use. I'm in Portland, OR if that helps. Thank you for any suggestions. I have a lot to deal with (there wasn't a will) so researching each of these things is quite cumbersome.
"There's nothing dishonorable in fulfilling your obligation as a United States citizen,"

So if she wasn't a US citizen, how would this be different?
It really depends. Kindles are great if you're flowing a bunch of text. They can work fine with more graphics (although you're mostly back to using a tablet again) but the e-version really needs to be properly designed for it--e.g. avoiding sidebars and that sort of thing. Just a low-effort conversion can look pretty awful.
Ah. Yes I think Foreman was a bad example of what I was trying to get at.

I think my main point was that if Howey had 100 fungible orange groves, and one was sold as a security and 99 were sold straight up, that wouldn't make all 100 orange groves as a security, would it?
If you made as much money per hour as Hertz does then it would likely only cost you a few hours of wages too. It might even cost you less because not being some "faceless corporation" is an advantage in court and you'd have more bargaining power when negotiating settlements.

Hertz will probably wind up paying more than any normal individual would because Hertz has far more money. You can't extract blood from a stone but Hertz is no stone so the lawyers will sink their teeth in.

These people being arrested was likely not the result of intentional action or negligence by Hertz. If they're anything like every other BigCo this is a known low priority but that nobody expected could result in something like this so it hasn't been fixed.

You keep trying to compare this to some malicious or comically negligent individual filing police reports but that comparison is absurd because no individual has the massive reach that Hertz does so no individual could file 30ish false police reports without noticing whereas a corporation where everyone is just doing their job without seeing the bigger picture could do that.
> easier than $10k that ultimately leads to a country that may be embargoed

In which case the middleman/coconspirator would add one more, completely unrelated crime to their list.
You put labels on lines. For example the diagram here works like that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-j_symbol
You can either make things a public service, try to codify into law what content a business must and must not engage in faster than content changes, or have some content businesses are not going to host.

And it doesn't have to be universal. E.g. you could decide DNS and internet access need to be a public service but since those two are always available you don't need to try to regulate the content on VPS since self hosting is an option.
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windbg has many powerful plugins, and some do automatic verification (or talk to tools that do so), so it can be a tool kit for verifiers like valgrind is.
And do not consent to a search, if I may add.
Or to me. So I guess a weight = some number of square meters per second. I'm trying to think of a intuitive idea why it should be thus.
It should, sure. But full autonomy does not exist right now and is as hypothetical as general AI. Elon promised a coast to coast road trip across the US all the way back in 2016. If it was at all possible wouldn’t Tesla have hit at least that milestone by now? They couldn’t even drive the autonomy day demos more than 10 minutes without needing human intervention. And sure Waymo has good tech that is far beyond Tesla’s but those are very tightly controlled and geo boxed and driving with ladar. Still a long way from full autonomous driving.
> It's about generating a match, no matter how crappy.

That's the worst thing about this kind of dragnet search is that the more comprehensive the surveillance and the more accurate the picture of the offender, the more likely it is that when you're picked up as the prime suspect in something you had nothing to do with, that you look identical to the culprit and you were in the area at that exact time and so on.

And so if you are the unlucky bugger that gets caught up in it, the better the system works, the harder it is for you to argue that you actually WERE innocent. Juries aren't good at the Law of Large Numbers.
That assumes it's just a flow. A lot of the time books have sidebars and other elements that don't just flow into an ePub. Footnotes also don't work as well.
rent + alcohol + labor when it comes to a regular alcoholic cocktail, but one of those things is missing from the equation.

First of all rent + labor is by far the highest cost of those three when running a bar. Secondly the sort of alcohol most places use in most cocktails is pretty cheap, and fresh exotic fruits, berries and other ingredients can be pretty expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if the raw ingredient costs of these cocktails are basically the same as most other cocktails.