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Okay, but what if the unanticipated situation only gives you 1.2 seconds to react? Even if the car switched control to a remote operator immediately, there's a lot of context required to navigate driving situations (who is around me, what are the road conditions, am I merging, etc.) that would be hard to absorb in a split second.

And what if the car is in a place with a poor network connection?

I'm not saying your idea is untenable; there are just a lot of corner cases that would also make it a very complex challenge.
It does if it's a lot better than human drivers.

If your new standard is safer than the existing "standard", nobody says "well actually that's not enough of an improvement".
Title is misleading. I believe AMP has always been open source. Google just tries breathe new life into AMP by trying to give it a more neutral image by profiting from OpenJS and Linux Foundation labels. And Linux Foundation does not say no to money from Google, although most opinions outside of Google seem to be very negative on AMP.
It's not symmetric, though. The congresspeople are there to stir trouble, and the CEO is there to dodge it. For all of Zuck's misdeeds (or those of anyone dragged in), at a congressional hearing, the participant is a victim of a punishment, not an agent of their agenda.
More crazy. Something they either create by linking up to each other or drive onto but can drive off of at speed and any time. Needs to be immediate to join and leave or people won’t use it.
> "I don't even know if that will happen in my lifetime."

The man is almost 70, so that's not that unlikely.
Precisely, reminds me of Octavia Butlers' books. (Parable series)
PG&E should get some goat herds working their most dangerous fire hazards. It might be a way to cut down on fires.

Apparently a thing already in some parts of the world.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/world/europe/portugal-wil...
His early work on rates of learning in birds is definitely relevant if one is agnostic about its legitimacy. What do you consider unsound about his theory?
I didn't read anything in the article to suggest he's talking about trains here. It looks like a reference to dedicated lanes, etc, for autonomous cars.
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What is "mandatory returning of bottles against deposit"?
Ostensibly, their career as a human operator?
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Totally random. I was thinking of this exact scenario on the way to work today. Not my field, just thought that there seemed to be a growing body of evidence that parental environment was having significant effects on offspring and this further scenario seemed some what logic.
Having watched quite a bit of parliamentary footage, the style of question that can be asked could reasonably include such curly ones as "Research suggests that Facebook harms the mental development of adolescents. Did you stop to think about the potential damage to teenage girls when you were crafting your extractive corporate empire?"

Now in theory someone asked that could answer without accidentally agreeing that their company is extractive/they are harming young girls/they are recklessly not considering the impacts of their work. Bonus points if they can answer without getting shouted down for not directly answering a yes/no question with a yes/no. Lose a point if the answer gets testy and they look like they are defensive or flustered.

They also have to do that while being completely honest, without getting tongue-tied and correctly assessing the question in a very short time frame.

Zuckerberg isn't a barrister, he didn't found an empire on the ability to think quickly under a barrage of questions and he may just not be an expert at it (most clever people aren't). He is far better off just looking a little wilted and evasive. People who try to be clever tend to end up looking worse.
Let's see you try to enforce your laws Terran!
While I don't begrudge people spending their money on whatever they want, these are likely the same people that benefited from the recent tax cut for the wealthy. The government cuts taxes for the rich, reducing funding available for the public good and the rich then use those funds for themselves.
I completely understand the argument that those funds are then trickling down to the firefighters and their families; however, the fire prevention benefits are now limited to the rich neighborhoods instead of the wider area a public application of those same funds to hire firefighters would have benefited. It is a net loss.

Another thing I struggle with is that we arrest the poor and send them into harms way to protect the wealthy for $1 an hour.

We are rapidly approaching a time of the rich living in protected enclaves and the poor in polluted unsafe neighborhoods policed by forces only intent on keeping the rabble pacified. In New York City, the richest city in the world, 1/10 of public school kids are homeless...
Compared to soapUI, TestMace has the following features:
- You can use it as simple rest client (such Postman) as powerful api tool to test API
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- Modern interface
Sure it does. Planes crashing is very rare but it does happen.
And that much to public benefit. Governmental secrecy is the essential precondition of governmental corruption and criminality.
well there's a couple things, vague meme strawmanning isn't very constructive, and the reality is that the relevant people who have been saying stuff is too expensive is California.

This stuff goes back to Enron and even further. The liabilities utilities are exposed to in California don't match the rates people are paying, and the electricity rates are already really high. You can claw back all the profits, all the bonuses you want, the money you're talking for proper maintenance is way higher than that, the money for a complete overhaul is higher than that.

You can make the utility public, but then you have to contend with the fact that CPUC has been there every step of the way.
I don't understand this obsession with achieving level-5. What would deliver tremendous value for many people, is simply the ability to drive autonomously on highways. Highway driving is so radically simpler, and can be achieved in a fraction of the time. In addition, time spent on the highway is the majority of people's time driving. Being able to sleep or read a book for 30-60 minutes everyday, while commuting to work on the highway, would be a tremendous boon. Being able to sleep overnight while your car drives you to your parents' city 500 miles away, would be a godsend. It would be great if we could focus on making highway-autonomous cars mainstream, before worrying about level 5.
> And it's insulting.

It can be in certain cases, but it sometimes depends on the perspective. Abstractions are hard and usually need enough time to think about and several iterations to get right. They are usually much more obvious in hindsight.
Only 2nd extension. It's more about "democratic rule and negotiations is difficult". If it was XVIII century they would have simply leave & do the rest with an Armada.
In the politest way possible to Mr. Wozniak - this reminded me of the first of Clarke's three laws:

> When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
In a quaint rural town in Britain the populace voted in a referendum about what to do about the town's horse mascot. The referendum offered two choices: keep the current (healthy but a bit boring) horse, or get a new and exciting unicorn — majestic, magical, sparkly!

A tiny majority believed the unicorny promises, and voted for the unicorn in 2016.

After three years of mucking about, it turns out that the best the town council can get is either a very old and haggard pony with an inflatable novelty unicorn horn (Johnson's deal), or the rotting cadaver of a dead horse with a carrot glued on its head (no-deal Brexit).

Obviously, one of these two must happen, because the people voted for it. Keeping the perfectly serviceable horse they have now is not an option, because democracy has spoken, and changing your mind is not allowed (because democracy).

Granted, as a European I may be a bit cynical about this mess.
Corporate tax is a red herring. Across the OECD, it makes up just 9% of tax revenue (just 6% in Sweden and Denmark). The US is about the same (8%).

If you want to complain about tax revenue, point to the fact that Americans don’t pay VAT (like everyone in Europe does) on all the cheap crap they buy on Amazon. Or in the case of California, complain about Prop 13 limiting the property taxes people pay on McMansions. (Which, after all, are what pay for your local government functions like fire service.)
You can relax the time requirement if the vehicle stops on unexpected conditions. If it finds roadworks and successfully identifies it as unknown, it stops and requests manual operation for traversing the obstacle.
We have those; they’re called parking lots and they’re usually found at commuter train stations.

Snark aside, I don’t think it makes much sense to try to merge cars together at high speed. It’s a very complicated maneuver, requiring all cars behind the intended merge point to back up and make room, and the consequences of an accident have unlimited catastrophic potential. We could see hundreds of cars destroyed in a massive collision.

Besides that, the costs seem astronomical: actually developing the technology, making sure all car manufacturers comply with the standard, and replacing every single car on the road with a compliant model. Wouldn’t it be much easier to put all of that money into building high speed railways? We’ve already perfected that technology.
Until you book again at that hotel chain or third party agent like Priceline and never receive another email again right? I like the premise but the details seem like they would cause more trouble than the solution solves.
This has to be the most pointless and wasteful thing I read about all week.
Some of us remember running applications from the command line. These were not the “does one thing well”, POSIX compliant, programmer/admin facing tools you still find in *nix these days. These were typically very limited, weird REPL sort of things where you might have eight or ten or fifty very domain specific commands that didn’t approach a Turing complete language. There was no other way to use the program other than the weird REPL that was provided.
There will be no more extensions. This is it.
I recall Popular-Science-ish illustrations of systems like that where you’d drive onto the freeway and your car would hook into a chain of cars to be driven to a “stop,” where you could unhook.

If I understand it correctly, we are just now experimenting with something very like that for trucking, where multiple trucks can convoy, and the systems communicate with each other so that all the vehicles in a convoy adjust their speed simultaneously.
QNX has been around for quite a while and used across many areas: https://blackberry.qnx.com/en

Edit: The Wikipedia entry has a little less fluff than the official homepage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX
Wasn't this part of the Hyperloop project idea in LA? You drive to a specific parking spot, the vehicle gets lowered to a tunnel, then the tunnel takes you to wherever you need to go.
Do we not already have loss of life when someone encounters a sudden unpredictable situation? We may be able to learn on the spot from new data, but an automated vehicle can react orders of magnitude more quickly.
By "throw a cup of water into the bottom of the oven", is he being literal? as in literally pour the water onto the oven floor? Is that safe? Or is it "throw in" in the colloquial sense of "put it in"
He doesn't say it's impossible, just that it's not imminent.
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Hi HN-crowd,

Is anyone using Svelte (https://www.svelte.dev) in production? What are your experiences with it? I can't seem to find any experience reports.

Thanks!
> I didn't read anything in the article to suggest he's talking about trains here. It looks like a reference to dedicated lanes, etc, for autonomous cars.

The parent likely means that the modifications required are the trappings of trains.
They didn't actually vote for anything in particular. It was a move to solve intra-Conservastives issue. It did solve it.
Yes, and not helped by the optimistic appropriation of words like "intelligence" and "learning" to describe the main lines of research.
Didn't we hear that already? Multiple times, already?
That's not something you'll find a citation for. As someone who has worked in the industry it's not as simple as "see child; stop". What's also happening behind you? Beside of you? Do you swerve? How quickly do you stop?

You're very right that OD works great, that doesn't mean you can train a neural network to make the right decision though.
There was, in 1975![0] Yes won with 67.23% of the vote.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_United_Kingdom_European_C...
Sometimes I wonder if firefighting is privatized, insurance companies would require more fire-resistant building materials and design (instead of the typical match-box American single-family home or low rise apartment). At least this the libertarian argument argued here (pg 241): https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/For%20a%20New%20Liberty...
That is because he isn't visionary enough to recognize what he is talking about. Everybody has their blind spot I guess. (Come to think of it I wouldn't have realized this myself without being told)
well its slightly different in that you are cross-correlating only a section of the signal with the full signal.
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Third, actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit#Extensions

Granted 22 March 2019, 10 April 2019, and today.
Or it has its own lane, and if you don’t use it, you sit in a traffic jam watching the people who do use it whizz past.

Not everything has to be instant gratification catering to your every need or else you’re buying a helicopter :-)
In my experience with machine learning, the last few percent of weird cases are exponentially varied and change over time so are always new. You hit a performance wall at a certain level. Researchers have been driven mad by this wall. See for example https://www.wired.com/2008/01/ff-aimystery/

For cars, behaving dangerously just 0.1% of the time is way too much.

A good AI should have really good 'one shot' deduction capability not just work by induction using tons of data. I don't think the current crop of algorithms are there yet.
Any tips on automating watering herbs in a small apartment?
Very insightful, thank you
Well Snap isn’t a microkernel. It’s a Linux user space with microkernel inspiration. So you can’t use it as a basis for comparison.
1985 haha, that's when I was born!

When I grew up, I had the feeling computers weren't much of a thing in private.

Sure, I had a C64 when I got 8 years old and my first PC with 11, but until I got my PC I knew basically nobody in any age group that had a computer.

To me, the dream Jobs had, that anyone had a computer, became reality end of the 90 and beginning of the 00.

Which is kinda funny. The time everyone really had a computer at home probably didn't even last more than 10 years when it was superseeded by smartphones.

Life is very crazy in retrospect...

I remember talking to some friends at school when I was 16. They told me I should become an administrator and not a developer, because everything we need is already developed. They had games, videos, mp3s what more was there?
The supply of currency is fixed, so as its value grows the rate of return required to make an investment attractive increases. Eventually you only have HODLers. If Bitcoin were the only currency people would be forced to spend it on essentials, but that's it.

A less extreme version of this happened with gold, but gold is far less deflationary than Bitcoin. Bitcoin is absurdly deflationary. I don't think it was intended to be a Ponzi but there is no other outcome.

Of course too much inflation is also very bad. The ideal in most cases is a very slight rate of inflation.

There's a reason everyone abandoned hard currency. No country with hard currency has been able to compete. Flexible currency allows real world economic growth to be prioritized over monetary religion. Wealth is measured in goods, services, knowledge, health, etc. not bank balances.

Of course the Fed system does have huge problems. It sucks, but it sucks less than most alternatives. I'll say stick with it until an actually better alternative is found.

My favorite quote on central banks is from a colleague with a military background: the Fed is a weapon and abolishing it would be akin to unilateral disarmament. Countries with more flexible currencies like China would run right over us. He also pointed out that loose money (Reaganomics) is how we won the cold war. In the end it was not nukes or Star Wars but high deficits.
"Hey man, it's a free market! If you don't like, start your own competitor."
This would be the biggest ecological loss in the US nearly ever. We aren’t talking about just frozen wasteland, but a globally unique rainforest. https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/alaska/tongass-national-fore...
Many AGs in the United States agree and have taken major steps to put into law or set strong precedent that non-competes are exclusive to senior leadership and always come with explicit compensation packages. See NY, CA, MA
"What’s the behavior in the VLA version when n is so large that sizeof(*identity) doesn’t fit in a size_t?"

Isn't size_t supposed to be as large as to fit the cardinality of the largest type you can create?
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That would be politically tough for Intel. They used to lead the pack in foundries.
True, but I doubt that creating bubbles will create long time economic growth. And that there are indeed are cheaper workers elsewhere has already become a problem for China.

Still, you cannot say they didn't grab the opportunities and have indeed build up significant industrial infrastructure. Maybe a strong central government is currently required to keep the peace for so many different people, but the tendency to see Chinas governmental system as some form of panacea for all problems is a bit off in my opinion.

Given more time to develop, I believe the authority will decrease and that this process actually gives more room for even more opportunities.
I think this is a really neat idea. Imagine cars arranging themselves and coupling into a train and then seamlessly decoupling as they need to exit. That would save energy (air resistance) and be a more efficient way to move more cars down the same piece of road faster. It also removes the lost time of intermodal transportation.

No idea if it's practical.
> No vote has ever been very clear about what the people wanted concerning Brexit. There has never been a public vote on a hard Brexit, merely on an intention to leave the EU, without any plan or specification about how.

Please stop spreading fud. There are many videos that I can post which have many MPs stating that a leave vote means:

- Leaving the EU

- Leaving the single market

- Leaving the ECJ

- etc

Here are two examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MaYV778kgU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHZas08SUtI

I'm sure there are more.

Saying that the British People didn't know what they were voting on is a myth that the remainders keep on perpetuating and it's simply not true.

Finally, if you don't agree. Please post some links opposing this post. Thanks.
Assuming the law is good and the government will do what is right is a road that too often leads to suffering maybe accompanied with a pretty significant body count.

You can probably think of several countries in the world that are having issues with state violence being too often to control people in petty matters.

Getting laws right and changing them are both very hard. Throwing around state violence as a means to get people to do/not do something should be a last resort.
> without accidentally agreeing that their company is [...]

I'm saying maybe Zuckerberg should acknowledge the nature of his company. Then openly try to fix it.
I've read more than one book that is obviously the author's role-playing campaign written down. Sometimes this can make for an interesting story but more often it leads to action-packed but dull novels.

The problem with makes books (and films) out of games is that novel and games have different aims, and creators skilled at one are not necessarily good at the other medium. The typical game (tabletop or computer) is heavily action based. There are exceptions, but typically the plot (where the characters make impactful choices) is front loaded, happening during the introduction or even just before the game starts.

How many computer games have the player show up just after a big event and learn about it through recordings or notes of NPCs who are no longer there? The player joins the plot at the point where the only thing left to do is kill a bunch of things - basically the third act of a typical film.

The Malazan books were recommended to by an author but, like you, I found the ideas much better than the writing, but the author did improve noticeably in the second book.

https://sheep.horse/2013/9/book_review_-_deadhouse_gates.htm...
OKL4 is a microkernel that’s shipped in a billion mobile devices.
Being able to handle those new situations is equivalent to "Level 5". You seem to be making the point that Level 4 is enough, but that's not disagreeing with the argument that we won't reach Level 5.
POTUS candidate Andrew Yang's foundation for his #1 policy/solution is a 10% VAT tax.

Edit: Curious why facts are downvoted? Does HN not like discussing solutions and people actively working on solutions?
> > Personally, I'd love to simply find a way to make "mass transit" more workable.

> It's very workable already. Give it priority and separate lanes where possible, consider giving them exclusive use of roads in some areas, prioritise frequency over speed, maintain the vehicles regularly and replace them eventually. Finally, provide dedicated on-demand transport for people with special needs. The end. It works.

Many of the things you list are missing in mass transit systems across the US. That deficit being filled would make the system workable for many more people. It's s likely that workable was a poor choice of words and a more apt statement would be something along the lines of, "Mass transit as it is currently deployed across the United States requires a number of fixes to make it a more viable daily alternative."
Alsa-lib exposes such functions/macros, for example:

- #define snd_pcm_info_alloca(ptr)

- size_t snd_pcm_info_sizeof(void)

https://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/group___p_c_m...