skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline says 10% of global card transactions.

Just for the sake of askance, is Apple Pay a card transaction?
Perhaps reasonable regulations involving extensive pre-street testing and solid public documentation of ML design decisions and training data sources before allowing use in uncontrolled environments? Also, criminal liability during initial deployment?

Of course, real responsibility is probably unfashionable...

(edit: I'm personally in high-stakes time-sensitive diagnostic ML development, so...)
Are you being intentionally caustic? The phrase "running on autopilot" is an established colloquialism for doing something without being mindful of it, and almost every major dictionary definition of "autopilot" states that it is a system used to navigate something without a human.

Demanding a rigorous scientific study on human understanding of a word is simply not necessary when there are multiple recorded videos of people asleep at the wheel with a fucking banana on a string dangling from the steering wheel to fool the system.
Tech Ethics Crisis: The Big Picture, and How We Got Here
Based on [0] and [1] I'd say Professor Dave Bryer.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20121112081753/http://www.telegr...

[1] https://simonsingh.net/media/articles/maths-and-science/erdo...

[2] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1101413/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t41
i find that cpu based ray tracing is a good low-to-moderate effort project, specifically if you are getting into a new programming language f.e. lisp/modern-c++/rust/erlang(^^)/...

there are plenty of books around which can walk you through the whole thing, however, of late, i have found that this: https://pragprog.com/book/jbtracer/the-ray-tracer-challenge is a pretty comprehensive.

check it out !

approximately, on the same lines, nand-to-tetris is _very_ good as well.
I've experienced this feature. Many fewer incidents of false activation ("phantom braking") in more recent revisions of the software, which gets better and better. It is a feature, because it significantly adds to safety in cases where it's needed, and has prevented at least one serious incident for me. It acts within certain parameters that are not as extreme as described. To call it "slamming" on the brakes is overdramatizing it somewhat.
Yes. By comparison:

--- Mortality rate ---

1918 Spanish Flu: 10-20%

2020 Coronavirus: 2-3% est.

1968 Hong Kong Flu: 0.5%

--------

The realization that China censors heavily makes both accurate, timely and complete reporting of facts much more difficult. Intermediaries are used to exfil data to Western journalists, but this is haphazard, slow and incomplete. A journalist who has contacts on the ground described the situation, including that a few bodies on the streets and in crashed vehicles (people who were too sick who failed to make it to a hospital) in central Wuhan were not being collected: https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/7/laurie_garrett_china_c... We may never know the exact numbers because it's likely face-saving deception will be used for geopolitical and local political concerns.
Hey there, Ms Career Builder CEO! Want to hear a funny story?

I found an interesting job on your site, so I followed the links and applied directly with the target company.

They finally got back to me: 62 days later.

Cry me a fucking river about ghosting. Clean your own house first.
Something like Pixi?

https://www.pixijs.com/
Yeah but it is auto pilot! It can drive itself!!

You have no idea how many Tesla drivers will openly admit to taking their hands off the wheel and eyes of the road in order to take off a coat, tend to a child, etc. I work with somebody who claimed to do just that routinely.

Here is somebody from a few days ago bragging about taking their hands off the wheel and eyes off the road: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22231927
At what page red light therapy ?
No, not really. If you're comparing to planes, they have automated systems that will almost always keep them at a completely different altitude to avoid potential collisions.

Plane pilots have to pay very little attention with autopilot on compared to Tesla drivers with Autopilot on.
One-off jobs or jobs that you foresee won't be expanded.

For these jobs even an "import re" in Python is too much typing, compared to ubiquitous regular expressions in sed or awk. Awk is great at handling lines of delimited fields. Again in Python you would be writing your own boilerplate to read lines from files, splitting these lines, converting strings to numbers etc.
"Safety remains Caltrans top priority," he said.

Where these Corp dummies are trained to claim that <the thing we totally screwed> is our top priority?
This keeps repeating after every incident exposing ignorance and lack of care and attention to essential things.
> Incorrect. The exception handling code does not execute in the normal path.

This is true only if only exceptional things throw exceptions. In some APIs normal, but not successful things throw exceptions. Things like file not found are often pretty normal, but may throw an exception.
> It does however request hash prefixes, then google sends to the client all bad URLs that match

IF the prefix is a match, which is relatively unusual then the browser requests the full list for that prefix. But also, no, Google just sends back a list of full hashes and not URLs.

> that is what can be brute forced with relative ease

OK. 1f6866 is a hash prefix, quick "brute force" it with this supposed relative ease, what am I looking at?

How about 0aebaf? Ah, trick question, that's just noise stirred in automatically by Firefox (yes their implementation silently does this, typically the noise drowns out signal by a ratio of 4:1 but it's configurable).

Or wait, maybe the first one was noise and this isn't. Google neither knows nor cares.

Still, you'll just use "relative ease" to brute force every 24-bit number and then er, more brute force to figure out which ones are bogus. You can do the same with my phone number. One of the digits is a "five" - quick, brute force the whole number and tell me what it is to show how great "brute force" is at hand-waving impossible problems!

> if you already have a stream of previous they are visiting

I know this trick. Hey, pick a number, then add two to that number, then take away the number you first thought of. The number you're now thinking of is two - tada!

Yes, if I know where you are then I can "magically" tell where you are using seemingly unrelated information, by simply discarding it and already knowing where you are.

But this "technique" works perfectly well without Safe Browsing and so it has no bearing on whether Safe Browsing is in fact safe.

> Anonymization is a very tricky subject

Brain surgery is also a tricky subject. But Google's Safe Browsing project doesn't do Brain surgery either.
Calling it autopilot, full self driving is borderline criminal.
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Nobody at Tesla claims that this is a failsafe system. In fact, they specifically tell you to be ready to take over at any time. That is not a system I would rely upon, personally.

Are companies bound to only selling failsafe products? Of course not, we'd never get anything done.

I do find it somewhat immoral that Tesla are using their customers as beta testers for this, but nobody has been forced into this. Nobody is forced to use Autopilot.
What gives you the impression medical profession doesn't do anything with it?

Sapolsky (h-index 109) was McEwen's student, probably one of his most prominent students, and has continued to work on stress, as did his other students.

Sapolsky alone made enormous contributions to our understanding and treatment of stress and stress-related disorders.
This is mean spirited. The customers family is not perfectly aware.
SiliconValleySoWhite: Black Facebook and Google employees speak out on big tec
This is the real problem. Tesla had been aware of the "crashing into barriers" issue for a long time.
Couldn't resist looking at it after your repeated warnings. It seems that shellcheck site has some suggestions to improve the code.
Why does someone need something like this? I ran a home symbology NAS at one point but it wasn’t worth the trouble. Let others run and maintain those hot, loud, power hungry disks.
Every time that I fly now into Vegas for business or competitions, it's a matter of routine for me to drive up to Charleston peak, and the Red Rock area - it's only an hour away. It's all too easy to snub one's nose at the strip for everything that it is... I can simply say it has almost no draw for me. I invariably rent a car and head out the desert.
If you want a hardware cut-off, it's not available. Don't buy the car.

Most people either feel comfortable with a software cut-off or feel comfortable with it present.
Or, since the Tesla dev teams move much faster than Nissans, there could just be a bug that causes it to engage when it's not wanted.
But no country bans women from driving during the 3rd and 4th trimester of pregnancy, as no medical expert has quantified the effects of choline deficiency on the brain and driving performance, despite insurance statistics showing pregnant woman have more road accidents in this time period than stoners, plus medical experts have quantified the 1st 1000 days of choline intake affects intelligence of the foetus/new born. Road Safety is beyond logic, but that is what you get when humans organise themselves.
Sure, it's atoms all the way down; however, it is still important to make a distinction. Biological stress can be beneficial for our well being, while emotional stress (fight or flight response) has mostly deleterious effects.
Regarding your extra note #1: even here, I think animation should be avoided like the plague. Animation to indicate the connection between UI elements is a design crutch which adds latency and makes for a sluggish experience for experienced users.
Subset of the dependency graph of NPM's react-scripts package
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the pointers!
I agree with you and I’d guess your parent commenter would too.

Yet, many people who consider themselves to be rational and scientifically-minded, and who reject dualism, scoff at the notion that physiological illness can be caused/exacerbated by emotional stress.

Try this out some time: suggest that an illness like chronic fatigue syndrome or general autoimmune illness is at least somewhat linked to emotional stress and/or trauma, and see what kinds of reactions you get (or go and look at the discussions about this topic in CFS communities).
i worked for dr. mcewen at 15yo. this article barely does justice to how much he believed in teaching and supporting young scientists. i owe much of who i am to the culture of his lab.
I built something similear few days back to learn about Cloudflare workers.

It can be used as API if `Content-Type` of request is `application.json`

https://github.com/tuananh/reader
(from the article) 80% of people who died were over 60 years old and 75% had underlying health conditions including cardiovascular problems, so the fact that the virus caused fatal cardiovascular events in some of those cases is not unexpected.
I use autopilot daily. It drives me, on a twisty road, from my house to work with intervention when I get into town.

> how quickly might it react to a perceived obstacle?

I've had it head towards a curbed median in the middle of the road and within 10 feet swerve to the right to miss it (in a spot that I've driven by hundreds of times, but this time it kinda decided to head towards the curbed median). Auto pilot can react surprisingly quickly in a good way.

So far, for me, it has never swerved quickly towards anything. There are situations, like on blind curves in the mountains, where it doesn't know what to do. At this time, it will start beeping, showing red on the screen and try its best to keep driving: even if that means quickly heading off the road. But, it doesn't act aggressive in any way. This is what I've experienced so far.

I've had auto pilot take me, hands free, between freeway interchanges, merging, changing lanes, etc. and I'm totally amazed. At other times, it does seem to do dumb things and I wonder what it had seen to consider taking the action it took.

Even with all that, there is still a huge advantage to auto pilot. Driving with it on seems to remove >a lot< of micro adjustments that I would normally be taking. I do drive with my hand on the wheel (enough pressure so I don't get the warning messages). On long drives, I really am a lot less tired: even keeping my hand on the wheel all the time.

I also have more time to scan the road for anything going on. Looking down to see my speed, for example, (basically any action that takes my focus off the road for a second or two) is less stressful.

It is utterly amazing technology and I still can't believe it is happening while I'm alive.
What is that double-accented o called and how is it pronounced?
Skimming over a post from a quick search [0], it looks like Go strictly uses byte strings and manipulates them with various keywords and functions. No encoding/decoding between byte strings (and picking an encoding) and unicode strings like in python.

[0] https://blog.golang.org/strings
I was looking up the current flu season in the US here: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

It says the mortality rate is 7.1%. Does that make the current flu in the US much worse than the Coronavirus?
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This happened 2 years ago.

It was a left-hand exit (why are those even a thing?).

The seperator did not have contracting protectors because a car had previously crashed into them, I wonder why.

No one ever dies in car accidents.

Hence, Tesla is super bad for marketing its autopilot according to HN.
FAA Says It Failed to Properly Oversee Safety at Southwest Airlines
US Government Announces to Increase the Budget of Renowned Space Administration
TFA:
> See also: 10 dangerous app vulnerabilities to watch out for (free PDF)

Ha! Oh wait, that's not intended to be a joke...
I think self driving cars are a ridiculous solution to a problem we created and doesn't need to exist. The US building out the country for cars wasn't a good way to do transportation. If we just had trains going from city to city and subways in the cities, we wouldn't even need self driving cars.
The problem here will not be the virus, but the healthcare system capacity (I.e. the hospitals capacity).

I.e. If you managed to get care, the mortality rate is X, but without care, it is 10X or even more.

So to judge the current mortality rate, you have to know how many of the infected received care.

I also assume that hospitals are like the phone system. I.e. they do not expect mass load at the same time.
> Wonder why a level 3 is allowed to market as an 'autopilot'.

The argument I have heard (Which I disagree with) is that "Autopilots" in aviation (where the term comes from) does not mean "You can go to sleep" but still needs constant monitoring.

Therefore calling this "Autopilot" is technically correct and therefore accurate.

My argument that the technical definition and the definition known by the general public (Which seems to be closer to the sleepy-time definition) is different enough that calling it "Autopilot" is dangerously misleading.
Every single time this is posted, I have to remind people that the video posted on Tesla's own Autopilot website [0] says this RIGHT at the beginning:

"The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself"

They are not saying "use with caution, autopilot is an assistance feature", they are saying "The car is driving itself".

[0] https://www.tesla.com/autopilot
Is it possible to run own SMTP server these days and send emails successfully? I thought GMail will classify it as spam. How do you tell the big email providers to not classify email originating from personal domain as spam?
Awk and sed are generally superior for simple data transformations than python. Like cutting off specific lines, columns or replacing characters in files. They have pretty great performance in large files.

Once things get complicated though you should probably push whatever transformations you need to do to a database.
> decided that the guy was capable of pretty much anything

We are all lucky that you have the power of divination.
Thank you for keeping us all safe.
Thank you for pointing this out. Every time they show road accident statistics as an argument for the safety of self-driving cars or airlines, I wonder how is the risk conditional on me in the vehicle. Surely the risk substantially decreases than the population statistics in case of road accidents, since I am much more prudent than the average. However, the risk remains the same in the case of airlines or self-driving cars since I am not in control.
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> I personally "almost crash" at least 4 times a day

You probably should not be driving.
Listening to Randall Carlson on this subject has really given an interesting take on all climate change-related matters. Cheers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJD-391JzHs
it was free until around 4 years ago, and they shut down accounts that were making too many withdrawals (to large public backlash) https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/29004/number26-closed-a...

it was around this point that DKB also realised they could do this and stopped allowing atm withdrawals less than 50 eur
Maybe I'm wrong, but the second point in the conclusion seems a bit overstated:

When we want to prove the presence, or absence
of single elements to another party in a secure and
bandwidth efficient way, instead of sending whole
bloom filters

As stated in the paper several times, bloom filters do not prove presence of an element in a set, only absence. Which is fine when used in a caching setting or where false positives are acceptable, but it seems like if you are relying on this exchange for "proving presence or absence...in a secure way..." false positives are a deal breaker especially seeing as how they are doing "the block chains"

But there are supposedly more papers in the pipeline that might explain this. Either way, it was good advertisement, I went to their site, and looked for the project on github (did not find them though) maybe they could link it from their site?
Someone forked Signal and launched “Session” a new end-to-end encrypted IM app
What is DevOps anyways? What's the hype all about?
I’m sure Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc collect their own stats on drive failure. It would be almost negligent if they were just guessing in the dark every time they buy drives.

Main difference is probably Backblaze is small enough to publish these stats without hurting their supplier relationships. (pure speculation)
The IT press is unnerving. It implies a whole ecosystem: managers making technical decisions they don't begin to understand, and predators grooming the managers' egos in order to pounce on their budgets.

I get that the right person to lead a large organization might not be technical, but you'd hope they'd delegate those calls to someone who is. Not try to figure it out personally based on what they read in a trade publication for "visionary thought leaders."
Autosteer is also disabled by default and must first be enabled in the settings menu while the car is in park.
Yes, Dave Bayer. I was the math consultant, but it's like joining the circus, once inside you do what you can. For one example, when I was a kid my Mom left out a Time Life book on drugs, and my brother and I were fascinated by the various photographs of spiderwebs made under the influence of different recreational drugs. That idea helped shape the "mad shack" in the film. I was also Russell Crowe's hand double, and I had a speaking part in the pen ceremony.
Ask HN: Why there is no drug to convert fat into muscles?
Obesity is becoming a very common problem. Why aren't there startups which target this problem? For some people, exercising and limiting their consumption is more or less outside of their willpower or atleast they feel so and find themselves helpless.
I've driven Toyota's all my life and never once been in a vehicle that does anything automatic beyond turning on the lights when it gets dark.

Maybe you just need to avoid the Toyota model you bought.
Do I trust American intelligence more than the Chinese government or Huawei?

Why would you trust American intelligence/law enforcement more than a foreign government (unless you have something to hide from that government, like if you are fostering unrest from abroad)?

There's not much reason for China to be interested in me, but there's lots of reasons I wouldn't want US law enforcement spying on me, since they are in a better position to make trouble for me.
For pronunciation, one resource is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_phonology#Vowels

That particular diacritic mark is a double accent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_acute_accent#Hungarian

> "In Hungarian, the double acute is thought of as the letter having both an umlaut and an acute accent"
Complains to his wife that Autopilot steers him towards concrete barrier; continues to use Autopilot.
here’s a twitter list of solid epidemiologists: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1223539522706661376
I remember an engineering class at uni in the early 90's discussing how cruise control worked, and was borderline horrified at the childish simplicity of the design. In all this time, I've probably used it 1/2 dozen times, because my trust level is very low.

Just the other day I was a passenger in a Peugot and it was raining very heavily. Cruise control automatically disabled when one of the tyres suddenly bogged down due to heavy water on the road causing the car to lurch.

Until these systems look at and analyse the road and traffic like we do, I see little hope in an automated system that wasn't deadly by design. For me the number 1 litmus test is to read the slope of the road: if about to go uphill- more gas required, about to hit a crest- back off and maybe allow engine braking.
Insightful commentary on some of the value-adds of Apple Pay.

I do wonder if the security gain is significant enough to make Apple Pay integration a gross-positive for all parties. Apple appears to charge a ~0.1-0.2% fee per transaction made via Apple Pay [0], so it might be reasonable that the security adds enough value in its own right to make sense from a fraud/insurance perspective.

Might also be the fact that possibly being "Top of wallet" on Apple Pay (Which users might use anyway, irrespective of if their normal card is supported) provides enough value to take a small hit in fees.

[0] https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/02/22/apple-halved-tran...
It's not quite as well-supported in NA but there's still a lot of us hosting on https://warmshowers.org
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Sigh. It's like the NTSB's complaints about the FAA: tombstone, reactive regulation rather than proactively implementing recommendations.

I don't mean to dogpile on Tesla in particular, I think autonomous driving will eventually be far, far safer in the long-term than human-error piloting, but it won't be outlawed because of egos.

>>> Q: Is it still the case that there are several classes of insufficiently-solved autonomous driving problems? IIRC one of the big ones is/was recognizing stationary objects in the motorway when traveling at high speed (80 mph / 129 kph). Shouldn't one of the "prime directives" of autonomous driving be that it cannot operate at speeds higher than it can stop or avoid objects and people? These conditions include blind curves in the hills, children darting out from in front of parked cars, fog, rain or headlights/darkness.

IIRC, is another difficult problem recognizing pedestrians or people on strange modes of transport, such as winter clothing, different heights, skin tones or doing things like being on stilts or riding a unicycle?

PS: when a type of system becomes relied on pervasively, so-called "edge-cases" become everyday occurrences.