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Apply Pay in stores is amazing and all, but holy cow the integration when you're using it to pay on your phone while using Safari or something (add in Sign in with Apple) is astounding. It's so smooth, no crazy pages or anything to go through, just click, scan, done. I'd love to see more places adopt it on the Mac store fronts as well.
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Over the last 2 months I’ve managed about 3k new loc and 90 classes, so that’s about 60ish lines per work day. I don’t feel like I was that productive though and spent a lot of time refactoring. Eg, last 1k lines barely added any features

What do you do to keep up a fast pace in a big project without throwing quality out? They say TDD increases your speed overall, according to a few case studies I found (15% longer to code, but 40% less bugs, so faster finish times overall etc)
Boom de yada.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16732664
Check this concept car from 1957: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon

We could have had your safe nuclear power involved in every road accident. Yeah!
Open source software and dataset to verify its effectiveness but restrict it for commercial purpose would help build confidence in auto pilot.
Many US citizens I talk to, seem to have the stance that they do not want to pay any taxes and that taxation is theft.

I am sure California and others could do more and be held accountable (every service provider should and must be), but that attitude has to change too.
So that retailers won't be able to use DPAN to uniquely identify me across transactions.
Maybe this changed, but I'm pretty sure I've always been able to see house rules before booking (I was definitely able to see them as recently as 3 months ago)

I've had good experiences with AirBnB until the one I booked 3 months ago actually.

It was a one month booking, and short version was it wasn't as nice as pictured, and the owner was trying to rent it out long term, so they were bringing visitors inside while I wasn't there (which I hadn't agreed to, and was my main sticking point).

It took a few days for them to escalate (they want you to try and resolve the issue with the host), but once I made it clear I did not think that negotiating be fruitful, their team reimbursed a hotel, refunded me up to the night I left, and didn't require me to check out with the host (to avoid an awkward confrontation).

I don't really know how they could have handled it better.
You sound like an NVIDIA salesperson trying to sell me on a $3000 Titan ;)

There is no doubt in my mind that an AI with billions of parameters will be excellent at memorizing stuff.

I also have no doubt that research activity has exploded, which might be related to the generous hardware grants being handed out...

But all that research has produced surprisingly little progress over algorithms from 2004 in the field of optical flow.

The papers I looked at were the top-ranked optical flow algorithms on Sintel and KITTY. So those were the AIs that work best in practice and better than 99% of the other AI solutions.
hence might be driven more carefully

I don't know where you get that idea from, when I'm out cycling it's generally the people in expensive cars that don't pay much attention.
It’s been a while for me, but I’m pretty sure there are techniques for approximating gradients for step functions, although the paper may not have mentioned them (perhaps for secret sauce)
Russell Crowe's hand double? Does he have bad hands or something?
Pretty vague and empty argument (rant?). Doesn't really say anything I haven't seen complained about (and disputed) elsewhere and doesn't really propose any actual solutions.
Yes. Current self-driving might be safer than the avarage driver, but what most people forget is how unsafe it is when it fails. It fails harder than most avarage drivers and even bad drivers.

In my eyes self-driving should still be called driving-assistance.
The contactless payment subject to the £30 limit do not use the same protocol as Apple Pay. The limit is lifted because it is a more secure protocol similar to Chip&PIN with a random per transaction CVV. By comparison payment with contactless on card is dumber. It’s essentially equivalent to paying online with your card screaming its number to whoever wants to scan it.

If you use ApplePay on an older terminal, which does implement the more secure protocol, it falls back to the same protocol as used by contactless cards and is subject to the £30 limit.
> Granted, we're not quite ready for self driving

And yet it's literally in cars on the road.

I'm not saying you're wrong because of that. I just wonder how far from "ready" we are, and how much of a gamble manufacturers are taking, and how much risk that presents for not just their customers, but everyone else their customers may drive near.
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Thinking more about implementation - although users could use micro-transactions among themselves, providers might be more inclined to opt-in if we offered to pay by block. For example, if a paywall article starts ranking up, we could let the provider know to remove the paywall for certain duration. Kind of like a scheduled spot instance on a Cloud VM.

I bet there's a flag that toggles paywalls on articles and is easier for providers to implement than restrictive access.

Using our fund - we could then pay the provider. Assuming that an average top HN post gets 10K views - and each user pays $.05 per viewing. That makes a total of $500. We would give the provider an upfront payment of say $500 dollars based on estimations. A $20 contribution to the fund means almost 400 articles [enough for more than a year] on front-page paywalled subscriptions for a user.

So the spiel to providers are - we'll pay you $500 for 6 hours of free article read time. That's all they need to know. We handle collecting funds on our side from actual readers.

It's actually genius because content providers can write and support articles catered to a particular community and are incentivized because they don't have to worry about conversion of users to paid subscribers.
Computation is not almost free and people are doing just fine writing slow code without the language helping them.

Taken that we've more or less stalled with regards single core performance, I'd argue that computers are now getting slower (because software is bloating faster than single core performance is increasing).
I follow that viewpoint and am OK with the direction being taken.

On the other hand, even after asking many, I have never received a good answer to why the exactness and understanding cannot be obtained with a WSYIWYG/M markup editor.
From what I've read it's highly unlikely the dead will be tested. Just cremate them and move on.

At least, that's what it seems like with all the tales of death certificates with cause of death as "Unknown viral pneumonia"
Are you sure you need to create a "bank" account? Not just internally "account" for customers, as in, have an internal "account" against which you account for expenses related to each customer, as in standard accounting.

Or is it a kind of banking subaccount?
What a bunch of bs. There are so many places where computation is far from free and size matters (embedded, HPC for example). And the end of Moore law is just gonna emphasize the need for performance even more. This article just tells me that the author didn’t have to write any performance critical code in his life and he just extended his experience to everything
Eloquently put. Agree 100%. The logical conclusion then is to ramp up your patient care infrastructure proactively: identity and clear the bottlenecks.
I think definitely go for it. Once you've experience problems firsthand you'll have created little questions in your mind that the reading will help you answer.
Wordpress is a significant part of the internet (hobbyist and small business definitely) and it still blocks SVG by default due to security concerns because SVG images (like fonts) are essentially scripts/programs, not images.

There are various potential vulnerabilities due to this and you can sanitise images or use correct headers to mitigate the issues, but it's easier for many to just say no and sidestep the issue.
Part of the joke is that it's a terrible idea and you shouldn't use it
Thanks! I haven't read many firsthand accounts.
Can you cite any sources that AI fails harder? I'm not exactly sure what you are referring to.
Each programming language is suitable for solving certain type of problems. So when I see a catch-all statement like "All Programming Languages are Wrong", it seems to me the author is implying that "None of the programming languages solve my (or this specific type of) problem."

> It does not reflect the realities of modern hardware, where computation is almost free, memory size is almost unlimited ...

Well, no, this certainly doesn't apply to all problems!

> ... because they seem to be in love with the idea of "object" or "abstract data type." ...

Again, there are many different paradigms of programming, OOP being one of them with its own pros and cons.
They forgot to add that after the CIA ownership, which was blown by Buehler's and Bamford's books, it was 100% Mossad owned via Marc Rich.
incredibly detailed. not a lot of this out there on the clear web.
What annoys me most about these metrics is that some days zero lines are written. Anything up to a month without results to show.

Where, then, does all this time go? Sometimes it's reading existing code. Sometimes it's learning about a new algorithm by reading blogs and papers. Sometimes it's developing test programs to iron out a bug or test out some new code.

There used to be one chap in the office that got all the hard problems - the seriously hard problems. Some of this was figuring out why USB couldn't transition from low-speed mode to high-speed mode reliably (USB is quite hard to probe due to frequency), or figuring out why the application crashed one in a million boots.

Some of our most valuable developers committed the least amount of code, but saved our arses more times than I can count.
A good measure is how many lines removed per day.
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In the case I evaluated, the authors later admitted to using supervised training for initializing their supposedly unsupervised learning methods.

Also, I was reviewing their public source code release and there was no approximation. That part of their loss function had simply never worked, but they had not noticed prior to the release of their paper.

And due to them training slightly different from what they described in the paper, the AI worked competitively well nonetheless.
Sorry but using cruise control in heavy rain is just simply a bad idea. It's supposed to be used when conditions are ideal, not when they as bad as can be. That is human error, in my opinion.
If movie theaters go out of business the studios fail too. Maybe movie theaters need to go out of business, perhaps temporarily, so the studios are pressed to cough up more money. Well, that’s a naive thought, I know. Things will improve once they can’t get any worse. I feel it’s getting closer. The Oscars audience is in decline, studios are coming out with mostly crappy movies and the popcorn’s quietly going up in price:)
IMO the biggest problems with almost all popular programming languages are

1) null

2) exception based error handling

such that, when you call foo() where foo is

String foo(){ blabla }

you can get a String, null OR an exception (!!!) and most compilers happily let you treat it as if it only ever returns a String.

I hope some day null is no longer a thing, and that Functional Programming types like Option, Either, Try etc in the native libraries is the new default.
Mainly because browsers have come up with the great idea of black list GPUs, so WebGL only performs wonderfully if the user happens to have the right combination of hardware, if it starts at all.

Then they wonder why they don't have any issues playing native 3D games and move on to another Website.
It reminds me of an article I read about Air France flight 447 (I think it was this: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...). The crux of the article is that when you can automate away a problem 99% of the time, you're much more likely to have trouble when the now-rare problem actually crops up.
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Excuse me.

The US liberated the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan and South Korea after WW2 from Japanese slavery. As well as a large part of China.

Those countries should be eternally grateful to the US.

In the case of the Philippines and Indonesia, the US was not under any obligation to do anything.

With the Philippines, the original US military plan was to simply bypass them, but it was a pet of MacArthur.

For Indonesia, the US defeated the Japanese then told the Dutch to GTFO after 350 years of colonization.

Both island nations are close friends of the US until today, with Indonesia doing most military training in the US.

The US paid a terrible price in casualties and war materiel. So get your facts straight.
I was reviewing the authors' own source codes.
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You’re more likely to notice expensive cars, and also more likely to notice cars with unsafe drivers.
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That’s why they usually use a statistical model to estimate how many people are infected with a virus rather than only using the number of confirmed cases.
Does anyone have an idea about when we should expect this chips to be incorporated in devices on the generally available market after an announcement like this?
At one job, I replaced a 10k LOC class with a 20 line function which probably took me to a net negative loc count for that job.
The difference is that electronic voting is a bad idea in principle, regardless of the implementation. Fully self-driving cars might actually be possible, but probably not with current software and hardware.
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In the days where writing 500 lines of C code just to draw an untextured triangle are advertised as the future, something like this does look like an engine to me, even if relatively simple.
Is this just my feeling or this this text completely ignore languages which are of functional / declarative nature?
Iirc Prolog doesnt "care" so much about performance (on a language level at least). Haskell knows Integer, Rational, Num etc. Same goes for Idris
Languages from that area (lambda calculus) are, by definition, not based on the idea of some specific computer architecture.
Totally possible that i missinterpreted something tho.
Accidents happen more frequently in terms of miles driven on city streets where Autopilot isn't being used. Tesla is playing with numbers to make themselves look good. This false sense security is part of the problem. Autopilot needs to be closely monitored and isn't a substitute for a human a driver. I use autopilot everyday and there are cases where if i wasn't monitoring it, it would ran me into a stalled car or merged me into a concrete barrier.
Only by repeating it frequently over span of months.
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Yeah, and this article from 2018 has even more information, because it says Walter complained to the dealer, not just to his family as this new article says.

>Walter Huang's family tells Dan Noyes he took his Tesla to the dealer, complaining that -- on multiple occasions -- the Autopilot veered toward that same barrier -- the one his Model X hit on Friday when he died.

https://abc7news.com/3275600/

I guess maybe there's a small chance that the old article was wrong, and he didn't in fact complain to the dealer. But that in itself would be newsworthy in my view.
I am glad I am not the only one to scratch my head...
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Google projekt zero website is the ONLY website which frequently get featured on HN that I cannot read on my iphone. Safari, Firefox or Edge are all rendering the page with horizontal scrollbars. I can use 2 finger zoom in and then a third finger to move the content around. At that point I cannot see the screen for my fingers and have problems holding my phone in my hands.

Do they have a bounty program for HTML where one can submit a fix? /s

This is not a new issue. Been like that for a long time
No. If they know that it’s safer in some respects but unsafe in others they should make sure it’s only used as an assistance system and make sure the driver is still watching the road when it’s turned on.

What’s immoral is that they allow people to turn this thing on and then play Candy Crush on their phone while the car does the driving, fully aware that this might lead to fatal accidents in some cases. Their marketing is misleading because they suggest that the system is safe and they don’t inform customers about the freak accidents that can happen when the system glitches (bad for sales). That’s not very ethical if you ask me.
There are three relatively common ways to send money electronically between two US bank accounts:

Zelle: effectively instant, requires both banks to be on the network, free. Relatively new and many people who could use it don’t.

ACH: a few days, effectively ubiquitous, very small underlying charge infrequently marked up to ~$3 by the bank.

Wire transfers: not quite instant but close during banking hours, effectively ubiquitous by institution but often a pain for retail users to access due to risk profile, underlying cost is about $5 and often marked up to $15~$20.

The UX of the P2P payment apps is much, much better than any of the above, and would be what I’d reach for for a transfer in the $X0 range contingent on my counterparty being likely to use apps.
NNs are not a black box in the sense that you cannot see what is going on in them, but in the sense that we currently just very badly understand. You have a function approximator that you have to translate into some other representation. As long as you know how basic building blocks map or can be approximated, it might be possible.
Not an expert here but isn’t there an unknown in the ratio of reported cases too? I doubt it’s safe to assume the percentage of flu cases reported is anywhere close to that of publicized viruses.
3, take it or leave it.
Ive thought a bit about this, and how is Option types (which I like and prefer to error checking) really different from the compiler emitting an error when you fail to explicitely check for nulls and stdlib returning nulls when you have one ?
> Most current-day programming languages seem to be based on the idea that computation is slow, so the user and the compiler must work hard to minimize the number of instructions executed.

Instructions executed is not the only metric to consider! It doesn't makes sense to have loads and stores in the program with all of them having a cache miss.

Does the author mean that the memory hasn't caught up with the computation here? I don't think so.

> For example, one cache miss might take as much time as a hundred add instructions.

This is why compiler must work hard!

> Today's languages contain far too many features that do almost the same thing but have slightly different performance characteristics, for example regular and virtual functions in C++. This just encourages programmers to waste time on micro-optimization when they could instead invest time understanding the large-scale behavior of their program and optimizing that.

Not all programs need to worry about insane performance. But most do. It is totally upto the developers to choose the features of the language which they need. Choosing the right features/language for the right kind of programs is an important skill. Efficient code generation for all possible hardwares and all possible workloads with a restricted language features is not going to work or else Python would have been one of the very few languages to survive. Elon Musk wouldn't have tweeted that he needs C/C++ engineers ;-)

It seems the article suggests that neither the hard working compiler nor the hardware friendly language is required to get good performance!
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The dead Uber pedestrian where the AI dismissed the data as faulty and did not slow down at all.

I think every human would slow down if they see things that they cannot explain. An AI will not.

It's basically the same problem as when an image recognition AI is 99% sure that the photo of your cat shows guacamole.

Current AIs do not have a concept of absolute confidence, they only produce an estimate relative to the other possibilities that were available during training. That's why fully novel situations produce completely random results.
Hong Kong is China territory with semi-democracy government under "One country two system" policy. But most of the legislators are appointed by CCP or groups close to CCP. That's the reason why even facing landslide defeat in 2019 Hong Kong local elections, Chief Executive Lam doesn't budge a bit and continue to suppress protesters. Recently she refuse to close border with China which results in medical workers strike.

Taiwan is an independent country with full democracy system but not being recognized by international society because China is pushing its "One China" policy to other countries. Foreign countries or companies violate this idea would be punished economically by China(France got punished for selling Mirage 2000 to Taiwan)
Contrary to your original comment there is lots of room for uncertainty, especially seen globally, in this area. While the copyright / fact extraction framing the author chose might not be the correct one in the years to come, this is certainly an area of volatility - at least here in the EU. Your comment w.r.t. "convenience of access" is pretty restricted here, no ML algorithm just boots up, grows legs, and magically walks into a public library to read books for fact finding. The process of extracting facts from books includes lots of steps that are subject to IP and other legislation over here (from crawling the content in the first place if your source is the internet, duplicating/storing the content if it is subject to copyright, ...).

While I'm not trying to suggest that your ultimate conclusion might not turn out to be correct, especially in the context of US legislation, that's far from settled and I expect to see quite a few lawsuits whenever this hypothetical actually affects a major player with some market power.
I am probably in the minority here but I think Java was on the right track with checked exceptions.
Nope, Apple Pay is EMV only.

Only Samsung Pay does magstripe emulation.
I don't understand something. He had complained in the past about AutoPilot steering the car towards the divider. Then why was he still using the AutoPilot in that situation??!
I think the author was reasoning about his own dense code, though.
For every tragedy, there are tragedies avoided. I can attest to a few. In the last 10,000 miles, Autopilot has: safely swerved to avoid a car that would have sideswiped me, preemptively braked after detecting the 2nd car ahead (not visible to me) had slammed on its brakes, and avoided colliding with a completely stopped vehicle in the center lane of the freeway.

And FWIW I've never felt misled about Autopilot's capabilities. I started off skeptical and it's since earned my partial trust in limited scenarios. Ironically its hiccups actually make me more attentive since, ya know, I don't want it to kill me.