skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I have a similar feeling...but I am willing to try it. Just aware that there are probably corner cases it can't handle and generally curious about what the behavior is.

For instance, I was driving on autopilot on a section of 101 where they repainted the lanes. I let autopilot do its thing...but I closely observed and kept my hand on the wheel and foot on the brakes. Lo and behold...the car positioned itself right in the shoulder and was driving towards no-man's land. If someone wasn't paying attention in this situation, it would have been catastrophic.
You should look up the many comments about this topic by HN moderator Dang:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The decision (and community consensus) is that paywalled sites are OK if there is a known workaround.

Usually someone will post a workaround in the comments.

Usually the workaround involves https://archive.is.

If none exists, the article shouldn't be on HN and you should flag it.

Longtime HN users accept that this is the least-worst resolution to the issue.

The more-worst version would be that nothing with a paywall is ever allowed, meaning that content from some of the world's leading publications (NY Times, Washington Post, The Economist, WSJ) would never be seen here.

HN could never claim to be a place for discussing the most important topics if those publications were excluded.
Well for example all the YouTube videos that show how Tesla drivers take over the wheel in case of a failure.

Those failures include driving straight into barriers.

Other systems like OpenPilot show the same.

When it fails you better take control of the wheel or you will crash hard.
I believe he's alluding to the nature of the accidents. They're high intensity events which are more likely to be fatal (speeds were ~70mph). They're not fender benders when the autopilot fails.
Of course. I understand the business decisions here. I'm just saying it sucks.
Not unrelated, in tandem. Once the systems are provisioned, the software deployment server is used to mass deploy components and bundles (OS packages) and is integrated into the change management process (for example, no deployment to production without an approved change request identifier).
"Autopilot" is not misleading. You just don't know what autopilot means.

Autopilot on planes does not mean the plane is self-flying and the pilot doesn't have to pay attention anymore to take over at a moment's notice. Why would you think it's suddenly different in a car?
What a shame. But I really appreciated (and was shocked by) how long they kept it maintained after acquisition, and I’m finding Microsoft To-Do a comfortable equivalent so far.
If you are doing a good refactoring, you may have a massive negative LoC at the end.

LoC added or removed is not a very good metric for anything.

Except if I see a big negative number on a PR, it is usually a great thing. I still have to check what was removed but it usually mean that things are easier to understand.
Not classifying a fire truck stopped on the highway, as something you need to avoid, is a good example.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/297901-ntsb-autopilot-de...
Because it forces (or at least strongly encourages) you/users of such a stdlib/API to explicitly think about and handle the null case and the non-null case if you want to access the contents directly / unwrap. At least that's the idea.
Yes, morphological models can be tested. You can hypothesize to reactions to alterations of an organism structurally and chemically (morphogenes).
Diffusion-reaction models are available for certain kind of morphogenetic behavior. See also https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2014/march/turingpnas.html
A self-hostable Firefox Accounts server + sync server would be great. AFAIK the FXA server is not self-hostable yet, only the sync which leaves a bad taste in owning your privacy.
But 2D sidescrollers have traditionally just "paned" the already drawn/rendered (buffer?) and only redraws the new bits. In some cases this caused artifacts to stick to the screen. Specifically thos was not unheard of regarding games made with KnP, TGF and MMF.

I guess this was before HWA, though.
Configure a couple of application servers from scratch and manually configuring the services starts to get tiring.

Usually the traditional option would be to snapshot the VM right after the first successful install.

However stuff like Windows Nano now makes it interesting to start playing with containers on Windows.
Is that really true?

I’ve noticed a lot of people with integrated graphics as well as a decent card often have the browser set running on the bad GPU. Also a surprisingly large number of people have turned hardware acceleration off! Usually fixing this sorts out any performance issues they have with WebGL.
You sound like an impostor ...

A CTO doesn't "grow a company."

A founder doesn't wait around and "look for the right people."

If I were you, I would look in the mirror and decide if you're a founder or just a wantrepreneur.

Come back in 90 days with "Tell HN", not "Ask HN."
That squarely puts Autopilot in the "Driver Aid" category. That is fine, just don't go telling people that it can drive unassisted.
lol, there is a serious car accident in America every 3 seconds. People die every day in car accidents. Is that what you consider "working fine"?
I'm on Android so I don't have any trouble, but keep in mind that all "browsers" on iOS are just Safari with a skin and a few features bolted onto it. Apple doesn't allow different browser engines on their platform because of various reasons.

Try the non-mobile version: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/02/several-month...

It seems to be using the default simple blogger theme so there's probably no point of contact for the website, it's Google after all. The best chance you have is to submit a bug report with Apple about Safari not rendering the page right.
Internet Archive suggests it's been up since late 2016, with the video, and only minor changes to copy since then.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161213042716/https://www.tesla...

> Less than 10 seconds in it's demonstrating functionality that Autopilot does not have

It's on a page called "Autopilot", as the hero video. It's not very clear that this is functionality that Autopilot does not have, and it helps add to the confusion about what Autopilot is and what it is not, something seem keen to take advantage of.

They have had 4 years to possibly push that video down the page, perhaps add a title or a disclaimer saying that this is not Autopilot, perhaps clear up the confusion. Whether it's intentionally like this, or just plain old incompetence, either way it's not a great look for Tesla.
BTW, I would very much like to see progress in optical flow because I could really use it for one of my projects.

If you know any good paper that tries a novel approach and doesn't just recycle the old SSIM+pyramid loss, please post the title or DOI :)
I'd add that folks should not be forcing the use of git, even within an organization that uses it.

Mercurial works great, has a sane CLI and can both manipulate and interoperate with git repos.

Many of the tools mentioned, at their core, are manipulating the same DAG data structures.
Thanks for the list. I suspect it's not accurate (e.g. only credit cards issued by Credit Suisse work with Apple Pay, but it doesn't say that on the list) but I'll try to verify some of the others.
Used them back in the day. Great places we could stay at and swore I’d never stay at a hotel again.

I then start reading about sketchy postings and think how lucky how I’ve never had one.

Stayed in New Orleans after that at an Airbnb, had issues with the place that wasn’t in the description. Decided to bail and had to deal with customer support that basically was no help. We wound up staying at a hotel for the rest of the NOLA trip.

Not a fan. There’s too much risk in me and my family banking on a listing that might be a gamble.
Does anyone else consider these type of articles the clickbait of the programming world? They tend to all follow the formula of

1. Make over the top statement in title.

2. Vaguely address the over the top statement in content.

For example the author hasn't shown us why "All" programming languages are "wrong". They haven't shown how they would fix them to make them "right". Their premises (e.g. "computation is almost always free") are flawed.

I wonder, if the title was called "A rant about some popular programming language paradigms" would it be as popular?
I dunno, I guess the card industry didn't stand still in the past 4 years since this news was published. I know my renewed card is newer then that and I never heard of this happening here. Not to mention needing PIN for larger purchases.

I don't care how hyper-secure Apple Pay is. Cash also has some pretty weak security and people seem to use it just fine, the rare pickpocketing notwithstanding.

From an UX point of view, using something at your fingertips to wave is more natural and it's also clear you are paying for something. Contorting your wrist so the Watch is close to the POS seems almost painful in some situations. Maybe waving the phone close to the POS would be better, but you have to reach for your phone the same way you reach for your card so it's a draw.
I just read both parts without even noticing but you’re right it does. I guess you have a different device/screen size as the position and scale is correct for me. It’s a bug in blogspot itself so far as I can tell.
> They should call it "Driver assist" or something like "cruise control plus".

Exactly, similar tech has been named Adaptive Cruise Control since the 90s.
The Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand by Darrell Mullis

With this book you a build a business from nothing, and in the process you learn:
The mechanics of Balance Sheet, P/L Statement and Cash flow Statement. (My initial motivation was to understand these statements, inorder to have a better understanding of the companies I want to invest in)
> Current self-driving might be safer than the avarage driver

Citation needed, as far as I know this is not true at all.
What's wrong with people nowadays? Couldn't they come with a better name ?
While it's not my area of expertise, I am a bit wary of contest results. It seems like an exercise in overfitting via multiple comparisons? Maybe some algorithms with a slightly lower rank are actually more robust?

If it's as bad as you say, it seems like a critical evaluation would be pretty interesting and advance the field.
Right it is only fair, after all football supporters also must go down into the field to be allowed to voice their opinion.
On the flip side, the ability to look up your past purchases can enable returns without receipts.

The other week a store clerk failed to look up my purchase when using my physical credit card, but succeeded when using the same credit card via Apple Pay. I would have been out of luck if I had rotated my Apple Pay number.
It’s coming back quite quickly.

I had an old Amex card that had it but nobody had the readers at the time. Then the readers appeared about 3-5 years ago but the contactless cards had been mostly withdrawn. Now they’re coming back, my most recently issued Amex and Chase cards in the last year or so have been contactless.
People in general think this is what autopilot means since that is how it is portrayed in movies and books.
Agreed. Between Lobste.rs and HN its becoming increasingly difficult to filter out worth-while content.
Anybody know how he made those treemaps?
China is looking at major economic damage from the quarantines. I think their concern is about people staying in, cancelling travel and other economic activity far past the end of the epidemic. I can see a logic to it, but I share your disapproval.
While computation might be sometimes pecuniarily cheap, it is often environmentally costly.
SSH is not disallowed, because there are still cases where it is necessary to ssh in order to service faulty hardware. However, ssh is disallowed for making any ad hoc changes to any system, unless that is done by removing, installing, or upgrading a configuration OS package. It would be better to say that any commands which manipulate system state by hand are disallowed. In worst case scenario, every system is a throwaway one: since the configuration is 100% OS packaged, I can just re-instantiate a server, be it physical or VM. I don't have AWS or hosting trouble because I didn't fall for external hosting hype, and having everything system engineered, I run everything on-premise for peanuts. AWS or Azure just cannot compete with me in cost.
Referring the previous M33 architecture, it took around 2 years to get the actual chips as a public developer if you don't have a priority from the vender. And it took less than 3 years to see consumer products using it.

I am not sure but I think this one might be different. In case of M33 it was fast because you just adopt the chip for the existing solution, but you need to come up with a new business idea, or a technical stack (that uses machine learning on the edge devices) to fully benefit from the new chip.
With so much of innovations in technology I feel the invention could be how organizations can safeguard their communication with a solution that encrypts communication app as well as can manage device inventory for safety.
[0]https://scalefusion.com/instant-messaging-application
He claims all programming languages are wrong and then he bashes C++ virtual functions vs regular functions, C++ templates, single dispatch and fixed precision arithmetic. Looks like "all languages" means C++ to him.

There exist languages with arbitrary precision arithmetic, e.g. Python or languages with much sophisticated polymorphism e.g. Haskell, Scala or Rust.
Other works of the authors on deep dreaming reflect better what you describe here.

The astonishing results with regard to morphogeneses cannot be emphesized enough: A complex structure is robustly encoded in a single function and can be reproduced from a single grid cell.
Believe it or not, this can happen infrequently with "ordinary" viruses: viral myocarditis (inflammation and infection of the heart muscle) is an under-appreciated killer of the young, with a mortality rate of between 25-50% [1] and is a well-known complication of, for example, influenza [2]. In fact, it's believed that myocarditis was involved in as much as 50% of Spanish flu fatalities in the early part of the 20th century. The difference is that if you're young and healthy, you're likely to clear infections well before they get to the point of systemically infecting each organ.

In the population of those who are acutely unwell with this novel virus, you have to remember that there is a massive selection bias for those hospital doctors to see the sickest people. Myocarditis is unfortunately one of those things that is therefore probably to some degree expected. The real question is "what is the probability that you end up in this terrible situation given you are infected with coronavirus" -- and in order to do that, you need a good estimate of how many people have been infected (but not died or seriously ill!) with the novel coronavirus. This is very hard to do in Wuhan, and estimates vary by orders of magnitude.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3370379/
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533457/
I don't understand, why did he kept trusting the autopilot on that stretch of road after the first incident?
Some of my favourite days on the job is when you remove lines of code. Does that metric go against LOC/written?
The headline alone should show, what is odd with this case.

* Tesla clearly states, that the autopilot is a driving aid and should not be used unobserved.

* The engineer complained about the autopilot not working perfectly at the very place of crash. (Quite understandeable when seeing the state of the road and mostly absence of line markings in videos of the crash site).

* Evidence seems to show that prior to the crash he did not pay attention while driving on autopilot at this very part of the road.

So I really don't get why anyone whould trust their life to a driving assist by not paying attention and closely supervising the system.

Where I think the lawsuit should have a merit and a good chance of succeeding is the state of road and the maintenance by Caltrans. They are in my eyes liable for the deadly outcome of the crash and that there was a crash at all:

* Left exits by themselves are a safety issue and should not exist (extremely rare here in Europe).

* The line markings were almost non-existant. Potentially dangerous sections of roads should have very good line-markings.

* As a consequence, it seems to be common that cars crash into this divider. That there was a "reusable" crash protection at it, should show the dangers of this section clearly.

* The crash protection was not active which lead to the deadly nature of the crash, as a car had crashed into it a week before. No other protections were in place (traffic cones, barrels)

So this section is shown as being very dangerous as human drivers regularly crash into the divider, there are no traffic cones (or have been destroyed by people almost crashing into the divider) and it was not secured after the last crash. The exit and the left lane should have been closed for traffic as long as the crash bareer is not in place.
Possible breach of Japan's defence equipment after cyber attacks
I am not using Wayland and I am running XFCE
> Abstract

> Once the periodic properties of elements were unveiled, chemical behaviour could be understood in terms of the valence of atoms. Ideally, this rationale would extend to quantum dots, and quantum computation could be performed by merely controlling the outer-shell electrons of dot-based qubits. Imperfections in semiconductor materials disrupt this analogy, so real devices seldom display a systematic many-electron arrangement. We demonstrate here an electrostatically confined quantum dot that reveals a well defined shell structure. We observe four shells (31 electrons) with multiplicities given by spin and valley degrees of freedom. Various fillings containing a single valence electron—namely 1, 5, 13 and 25 electrons—are found to be potential qubits. An integrated micromagnet allows us to perform electrically-driven spin resonance (EDSR), leading to faster Rabi rotations and higher fidelity single qubit gates at higher shell states. We investigate the impact of orbital excitations on single qubits as a function of the dot deformation and exploit it for faster qubit control.
California has tax level on par with most of EU and would be pretty much the most left leaning state in US.
Guys, can I be honest? I have never actually met anyone who has worked in a LOC-optimized company. This stuff seems like the outrage porn of software engineering.
ndepend :)

https://www.ndepend.com/docs/treemap-visualization-of-code-m...
Before owning a Tesla I did feel like Autopilot was overhyped, but I now realize that's more because of media coverage than anything Tesla is actively conveying. The vehicle software actively encourages driver attentiveness. Moreover when you actually experience Autopilot, it becomes abundantly clear that it can't drive unassisted.
Long and Short Scales
Anecdotally - probably in about 2 years, based on the time between announcement of the core and general silicon availability for past Cortex-M cores (M33, M23, M7, and M4).
To answer your question; Regulation could disrupt the networks. Building a new network piece by piece. A new globally accepted currency, a distributed network, and a new card issuer (virtual and physical). TLDR; I think it is very difficult.
Regardless of what autopilot means to pilots, it means something else to drivers.
yeah, as long as you're staring straight ahead. It has a camera that watches your face.

Otherwise they're the same. Except Tesla's keeps getting better with each update and GM stays the same until you take it in to the shop...
Respectable Rants
Now having scrolled down to the bottom of the papaer, I have seen a section on the genesis of the idea.
Manually balance? That’s not true.

In the UK you can write “direct debit” in the minimum payment amount on your credit card application and it will be linked to another account to be payed off in full every month. This will avoid interest charges.

This arrangement allows me to run my credit card accounts for free with no monthly charges.
> government doesn't grant bank charters anymore

Is this true? Why is this the case? How long has it been like this?
I would love to hear more details on this one
> In mainland Europe it varies a lot depending on a country, i.e. Scandinavian banks in Baltics are pure shit.

Would you please elaborate? I have had quite a good experience with those banks.
Nice work, but "infinitesimally small space of only around 10 nanometres in diameter" really rubs me the wrong way. Well, at least they are not using diameter of human hair as a unit of measure.
See HBCI/FinTS, but there's more money to be made by locking users to your API only...
Quarantined Cruise Passengers Have Many Questions. Japan Has Few Answers
Why? Autopilot is a term borrowed directly from aviation.
Hey a couple of questions if you don't mind.

1. Like the other user asked, is it possible to adjust your prices for countries according to PPP? I was able to purchase Wes Bos's course like that for learning javascript and more.

2. How complex/difficult have your exercises evolve into? Can you give any examples?
Portable payment tablets are all over Miami, most accept Apple Pay. Because it’s a tourism hub maybe? Anyway it’s awesome, love not using my cards while traveling. I’m sure it’ll creep across the rest of the country eventually.
️️🧠
key travel is still too limited, bottoms out immediately.
Not having seen the movie, I'm guessing there are scenes where Crowe needs to write some math, and it just looked more convicing by letting an actual mathematician do it for him.
...yes, remote tracking branches are interesting as well, I don't know a situation where they wouldn't be.

There's plenty of weirdness in Git, but honestly my main complaint is that the interface is awful and the documentation makes Dostoyevski look modern and sleek.
So are you saying autopilot is, overall, a bad thing? Because it seems that the argument you are making is that the world is worse having it available, an argument I find to be perplexing.
Stack Exchange, back when it was about Q&A
What movies are you watching where they turn on autopilot and the plane lands itself??

If anything, movies portray planes as extremely hard to fly, and the heroic pilot always has to take over from the autopilot.
Because we actively put people in the spotlight when discussing solutions or issues. Sometimes it's a whiteboard, sometimes it's a shared coding session, or something else. We use whiteboards extensively, and there is a good reason people do this in teamwork from educations all the way to the very top of engineering teams.

I have had a team that wanted to just chat on Slack and approach the tasks in a divide'n'conquer fashion. It does not work, and introducing a "lead architect" to structure everything is like pulling the reins of a mule - it will move backwards. Everyone needs to participate and feel shared ownership.

So if people cannot code simple shit on a whiteboard, it's my experience that they are a poor fit for this way of working.
You say potato, I say potato. If the interface is clunky, you will learn by heart some switches and pass them on as cargo cult.
Adding lookbehinds to the regexp library is a terrible idea.

> The regexp implementation provided by this package is guaranteed to run in time linear in the size of the input.

Python's is exponential, because it inherits all the non-regular "regular" expression mess (such as lookbehind and backrefs) from perl.

One would assume esr would have marinated in unix culture for long enough to be aware of this.
Many of the major news sites in the USA are also available for free when on Starbucks Wi-Fi.