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The average of something cannot be more than the average of... itself. Thus, "Humans are much safer than people on average" is nonsensical.

> Why do you believe that Autopilot outperforms humans in comparable conditions?

Because they have the data that proves it?

> I'm extremely prejudiced against them

And I've chosen to take them at face value with a grain of salt, and to believe that for the data they've collected from the hundreds of thousands of Tesla's with millions of hours of data using Autopilot, it's fair to say they have a large enough sample to draw conclusions about the safety of their cars vs. any incident rates from pretty much any other distribution.
The problem with immutability in a rapidly mutating environment is that the theory clashes with reality.

Anytime a leaf node changes, all its ancestors have to be replaced, instead of just updating the leaf in place. (I'm aware of the red-black node separation, but I believe that in practice most of the tree is constantly regenerated all the time).

I realized it when trying to write a complex analyzer. I had to replace the tree all the way up to the project level.
If you combine different chunks of the tree, each with a slight change, you're forced to recreate each of those chunks.

This is extremely wasteful, and no wonder the IDE behaves so poorly.
Sounds like the main problems, besides whatever was wrong with the self-driving software, were that area of the freeway being unacceptably unsafe...

> which the NTSB determined had been damaged and repaired more frequently than any other left-exit in Caltrans' District 4, which includes all of the Bay Area.

...and CHP not doing their job:

> The California Highway Patrol responded to the March 12 crash but did not notify Caltrans of the damage as required, the NTSB said.
Superzoom camera on a gimbal would make things quite interesting.
The people in the position to scrutinize likely wouldn't be the same ones to close the door, in this instance. Network carriers aren't going to turn down support for a support contract they paid good money for unless they have a good reason.

If you put the backdoor in too soon, you get caught and you never get your devices implemented in the first place. But once you're in, the money for alternatives have already been allocated.
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Ask folks in Chile, Greece, the Philipines, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, or Nicaragua - to start with a short list - how American "Enlightenment principles" played out with US support for various dictatorships in those countries.
buster-backports when? :)
You claim it's "Deliberately confusing"...

Which bit is confusing (or remotely deceptive)?

> When you make a purchase, Apple Pay uses a device-specific number and unique transaction code. So your card number is never stored on your device or on Apple servers, and when you pay, your card numbers are never shared by Apple with merchants.

Are you claiming this is untrue? Or deceptive?
The news is that the NTSB released new information. Unfortunately their site is now down.
I'm increasingly of the opinion that technology like this will never see broad regulatory approval. I just can't see an argument where any agency will be comfortable with acceptable losses, and I don't see any endgame in which this technology does not result in an infinitesimal, but non-zero amount of fatal errors.
Autopilot never meant full automatic control. In a plane context, which was the most common until now, it's only used to keep a trajectory steady, and anything unusual has to be taken care of by a human pilot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot

> Autopilots do not replace human operators, but instead they assist them in controlling the vehicle.

Names don't really mean anything, it could have been named anything. If people think it's 99% reliable and it's convenient, they will use it.
I guess they get paid by the keystroke. ;)

On the article: I don't go to the movies much at all anymore, but if I do, I throughly enjoy sneaking in my own snacks, or even lunch if it's a long movie in the middle of the day on a weekend. Only suckers pay for the giant popcorn and the barrel-sized HFCS-delivery system the size of an Ajit Pai's coffee mug. Although, I must admit I am a sucker for movie pretzel cheese bites once every few months.
How many Teslas on lane keep assist safely drove past that spot vs how many humans?

If every million human drivers have one accident and every 1000 Teslas have a similar accident then yes, it is a vehicle safety problem.

An auto driving system needs to have a higher margin of safety than a human driver not the same or worse.
Auto: short for automatic

Pilot: a person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft.

Auto. Pilot.
I have a car with the "autopilot" feature like the Tesla, but they call it adaptive cruise control and lane assist. The adaptive cruise control works pretty well; I guess it only needs to check the radar to see what's in front to slow down. The lane assist is problematic in recognizing different kind of lanes and would steer off course from time to time. I guess the current state of "autopilot" technology is simply not there.
Also https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell
At the risk of sounding callous: how many Tesla drivers have previously complained about autopilot and not been killed whilst using it?

How many non-Tesla drivers were killed in the same timespan by driving manually?

This seems like a very naked appeal to emotion, and not relevant to the situation.
> ... Soyuz ... the 1 Russian member

Well to be fair, it's completely understandable that US astronauts would never be allowed unsupervised access to a Russian spacecraft.
Hell, US are lucky they even are granted any Soyuz flights at all, given the crazy Russophobe behaviour.
There’s still an unsolved problem related to desktop publishing and that’s writing a document with a citations from an EndNote or Zotero database.

I included EndNote only because there’s deep integration in Pages.
> It also takes very little interaction for it to pop out of self driving

That itself could be dangerous if it isn't very obvious to the driver that autopilot is no longer engaged.
Melbourne-resident here; Myki is there because it's a horribly implemented system to the point where, while most cities will just use a Visa/Amex/MC backed system, we needed to keep our specific transit ticketing because... reasons. It's really bad.
Words, in general, mean things. "Autopilot" is a word that means things. It does not, most notably mean "at its most generously-described best, full and complete attention the entire time lest it send you into the side of a semi at highway speeds or direct you into a concrete barrier".

Tesla does not need any heroes with capes attempting to minimize their literally-not-figuratively-dangerous marketing. They'll do fine without it. I promise.
I think I see what it means though. The branch uses that commit as a new tip to then branch off of, not necessarily meaning a new branch starts at the existing 'tip'.
The report is pretty interesting. The ship was not designed that way. The nuts were installed as part of routine maintenance:

> By mid October, the Iwo Jima had been operating in the Persian Gulf for approximately two months and had developed some leaks and other repair needs in the ship's 600 psi steam propulsion plant.

> The ship was granted permission to dock in Manama, Bahrain (a country on a group of islands in the Persian Gulf, between Qatar and Saudi Arabia) and conduct repairs. A variety of maintenance items were planned, including overhauling the main steam valve that supplies steam to one of the ship's turbine-driven electrical generators. This valve, incidentally, could also be considered a boiler-boundary stop valve. The overhaul of this large, rising-stem, bolted-bonnet gate valve was contracted to a local ship repair company, under the supervision of U.S. Government inspectors.

The mechanic conducting the repairs didn't know the requirements:

> Ultimately, what was found was that a series of mistakes and misunderstandings led to this accident.

> First, the mechanic wanted to replace the fasteners, but he did not have any. He also did not speak English very well. Allegedly, the mechanic asked one of the boiler room personnel for new nuts and bolts, and was given permission to look through the boiler room's spare parts bins. He selected parts that he thought would work.

And an inspection that might have caused the problem got lost in the shuffle:

> Secondly, with the case of the authorized inspection agency, it must be taken into consideration that there was a massive build-up of troops and ships in the Persian Gulf. It was assumed that the office was not staffed for the increased workload. Consequently, many inspections were not being conducted.

> And finally, the boiler room supervisor thought that one of his subordinates had conducted an inspection. Sadly, it was never concluded that an inspection had been made. If someone had conducted an inspection, possibly he was not familiar with fastener markings, nor the job specifications.

> The end result was that incorrect fasteners were chosen, and controlled inspections and testing were not fully accomplished.

Really, what surprises me the most about this is that the Navy apparently doesn't repair its own ships!
It’s also a road design and marking issue. But poor roads and markings are normal, outside the biggest cities.

For a good portion of the year, you can’t rely on being able to see any road markings in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest.
I can't help but think "ready to intervene" would require an even higher level of alertness than just driving the car yourself, as you have to always be prepared for it to do something completely unexpected on a dime- and to notice without the feedback you normally get through the wheel, pedals, etc...

Even worse, if you are taking an action the autopilot should have taken but didn't, you are axiomatically already late no mater how fast you react.
You almost crash at least 4 times a day?? I have no stats but I don't think that's normal. You should be driving much more defensively if that's the case.
"And within a few minutes we got freaked out with what seem to us as unpredictable action and we turned it off."

On the one hand, I'm affected by the FUD and will not buy a Tesla, and perhaps also will have schadenfreude to the extent their CEO has misfortunes.

On the other hand, to be fair, other driver assistance features are creating problems too. I think it was Subaru I was just reading about having serious problems (and a recall) where automatic braking triggers inappropriately and may cause an accident.

People have incredible faith in software and technology, and that's fine and all, but I wonder what people like that hang around HN for.
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Git internals are fine. Now, if the utils gave access to human-oriented operations with those internals without the user googling every time they need something not-yet-memorized, that would be splendid. As it is, the utils are already pretty shitty without a reimplementation.
Yes, because responsibility is not a zero-sum game. If the system cannot cope well with sub-optimal roads, it should not be in use wherever one might encounter sub-optimal roads.
For people cannot view the article, here's an archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200210123446/https://pradeeplo...
Also, forgot to mention, that in some analyzers, even if you have no actual code change, the symbols change meaning, and then you're forced to recreate the tree regardless, because you can't change the node-symbol association.
The answer is, it's complicated, but:

> If I removed comments and/or translated the code in a literal manner, I'm sure it would still qualify as plagiarism in school.

What's plagiarism and copyright violation have nothing to do with each other. Academics routinely copy large segments of text and rely on fair use exemptions to avoid breaching copyright. Meanwhile, copying a couple innocuous sentences can rise to be plagiarism when it would not be a substantive copyright violation.
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According to this article: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a30877577/driver-tesla-mod...

"Data from his phone indicates that a mobile game was active during his drive and that his hands were not on the wheel during the six seconds ahead of the crash."
> Autopilot never meant full automatic control. In a plane context, which was the most common until now, it's only used to keep a trajectory steady, and anything unusual has to be taken care of by a human pilot.

From what I've seen, the general public has an inaccurate perspective on airplane autopilot systems. Loads of people think pilots simply push a button then sit back and relax as the plane automatically taxis, takes off, flies then lands itself.

In choosing to name their technology after another technology which the general public has misconceptions about, Tesla chose to inherit those misconceptions.

Edit: I'm surprised there is any incredulity here, I've been hearing people say "planes basically fly themselves" and "all it takes to be a pilot is pushing a button" for years. Most often this misconception is surfaced in casual conversation, but here is one example of the misconception getting published: 'A computerized brain known as the autopilot can fly a 787 jet unaided, but irrationally we place human pilots in the cockpit to babysit the autopilot "just in case."' - https://www.wired.com/2012/12/ff-robots-will-take-our-jobs/

Edit 2: Re: Autoland

Modern airliners have autoland, but always take off under human control. Autonomous takeoff is not used by any airliner.

Anyway, to your point, a modern airline's autopilot system allows pilots to take their hands off the controls. Tesla's manual says that is forbidden: "Warning: Autosteer is a hands-on feature. You must keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times." (page 106: https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/model_x_owners_man...)

So no matter which way you slice it, Tesla has chosen misleading terminology.
It's still safer than not having it.
I have autoplilot on the VAST majority of the time. It does not make any sudden movements. If anything, it brakes a little heavier than I would prefer at times, but there are rarely any steering problems.

It has improved a lot in the 9 months I have had it.
A much higher percentage of autopilot cars had fatal collisions at that location than non-autopilot cars. That’s cause for concern. And for all we know the previous driver was distracted. Being not-worse than a distracted human isn’t very confidence-inspiring.
That's actually not true either. It depends on the card and the issuer. In particular, contactless Amex cards will occasionally fall back to signature.
It's funny, often I'll get a confused look and they just pass over the terminal and are surprised and usually happy when it works. I do feel a little weird when it doesn't work, but the number of times it fails drops all the time.
Some involve evacuated individuals from Wuhan so its actually a slower growth rate
I am intrigued by Teslas, and am considering purchasing one. However, I would feel better about the purchase if there was absolutely no autopilot software or hardware on board. Ideally that would mean zero, including non-autopilot builds of all system and control software so there is no chance the car will ever engage autopilot.

Is it possible to buy a Tesla completely devoid of autopilot, or is this type of accident potentially a risk in all of them?
> From what I've seen

Where? How? That's not a scientific statement.

> Loads of people think pilots simply push a button then sit back and relax as the plane automatically taxis, takes off, flies then lands itself.

Who thinks that? That seems like a hyperbole and you can't possibly know.

> Tesla chose to inherit those misconceptions.

Assuming all those above assumptions are true and assuming Tesla reached those same conclusions as the people that didn't know how airplanes work.

Just loads of speculating and attempted mind-reading...

> Autopilot -> Automatic Pilot

Autopilot is one word and has a specific definition in avionics. It keeps the altitude and heading.

If you rip the word apart and magically transform Auto to Automatic you have Automatic and Pilot, but there is no such thing as an automatic pilots, just pilots, that's why autopilot is one word.

Under that same logic automobiles should be automatic mobility devices that self-drive already.

You can't change the definition of a word to meet your argument. You also can't speculate that people probably might think the word may mean this.

Autopilot !== automatic pilot. That's not a thing.
Awareness of who is in control is a skill that you develop. There are audio, visual, and tactile queues.
You know, you don't need to buy the theatre's popcorn, just stuff your drinks and snacks into a smallish rucksack. At least you know what you're stuffing into your face.

Also, I'm guessing the reason theatres charge so much is because of the mess left after a screening which needs to be cleaned up. Theatre goers are a pretty messy lot in my experience...tipped over half eaten popcorn tubs, same with half drunk beverages, mashed into carpet unfinished hotdogs. I can sorta see why they charge a premium.
Thanks for the background! Why did you two choose to make it the sum of the two scores (so L1 distance) rather than L-inf/max?

It seems to me that you'd want to have the minimum value be a 1, representing someone who co-authored a paper with Erdos and appeared in a film with Bacon. The sum will always be at least two though (whatever I guess), but that also (2,2) isn't that far away from the "origin" such that it feels wrong to call it 4 (and similarly 2,4 being 6 seems funny).
The "Growth Equation" is growth = rest + stress. (Peak Performance, 2017)

Going at 110% capacity is what helps you to improve. Rest is what lets you go at 110% capacity, rather than being tired and slogging on at 80% capacity. More often than not, we have inadequate rest.
Autopilot is one word and the definition is very strict: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot

> An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without constant manual control by a human operator being required. Autopilots do not replace human operators, but instead they assist them in controlling the vehicle.

That's the definition the feature name was based off of. It doesn't matter what you feel. It's a word, get over it.

The source for people who can't use wikipedia: https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/a...

Edit: to those of you using "hours" as a value. Autopilot on a Tesla can drive for hours on an interstate with no intervention needed, same as a plane on a flight path. Neither system can replace humans though. It makes sense autopilot in planes is further along, it's been around longer and being in the sky is easier than driving on roads, and it's more regulated for good reasons.
absolutely not. only benefit is a lawsuit
There's an observed fall in flu transmission where humidity is greater -- which usually accompanies warmer weather.

One theory is that water encapsulates the virus before it is breathed in, cutting aerosol transmission. [0]

[0]https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/flu-weather-its-not-cold-i...
Autopilot or the Full Self Driving features? Autopilot itself is just lane assist and adaptive cruise control: the lane-changing features aren’t part of it.
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"It does not mean "full and complete attention the entire time lest it send you into the side of a semi at highway speeds" or "direct you into a concrete barrier"."

Presumably "Autopilot" is a reference to aircraft, and they do not fly milliseconds away from concrete. (at least not the vast majority of the time)

So if you want to be literal, then the word autopilot shouldn't give you confidence you aren't going to hit things and is not false advertising. The issue is the implicit claim that you can let an autopilot drive your car safely. But it's a fine autopilot!
How much space do you keep in between other drivers and yourself?
It's not very important if it's paywalled. ie you wouldn't paywall what is necessary to bring about the savlation of humanity.
That's no longer true. I seem to have been opted in to ads on the new tab screen recently.
On a regulatory basis true self driving only needs to outperform humans. Humans are good at driving but imperfect we have a nasty tendency to get ourselves into accidents, both fatal and non.

My thought was that the public would fear and refuse to use the technology but some brave souls are jumping right in.

My opinion: full self driving is only a matter of time. At some point in the future insurance companies will figure out that self driving is less dangerous than human drivers and start offering cheaper premiums and deductibles to self driving only cars.
everytime I see something like this I remember flash and realize that modern people still do not get why flash was so good. flash found a unique programmer/designer niche but was destroyed by shortsighted greed and over engineering. Its alittle more complicated (http://owensoft.net/v4/item/2572/) but thats basically what happened
Or another way we signal it is by downvoting things. So maybe check out the color of your posts in this thread and consider that you have confused "thing I don't like" with "degrades the discussion".
Setting the record straight: Cynthia Dwork, not Latanya Sweeney, (co-)invented Differential Privacy. And Proof Of Work (later used by Bitcoin and HashCash). And Lattice-based Crypto (resistant to quantum computer attack). And Nonmalleable Cryptography. But I'm admittedly biased.
They wanted to seem like they cared about diversity with out actually doing anything to support diversity. Such as, finding at least one female staff member.
That is extremely overliteral.
Foundation for programming the morphogenesis. Yes.

morphogenesis - concept is fundamentally flawed. It's not thoroughly put in theories. Computing has touring test. Does concepts like morphogenesis has any tests? Nope. So building something on top of half baked concepts will not scale/sustain/be a foundation.

If we really had understood morphogenesis in the past and the it is 100% put in theories, we would be having a virtual world mimicking biological world by now.
The saving feature is that there are hundreds of other countries.

Others will lead the way, even if the US succumbs to regulatory paralysis.
Still more sane than JavaScript to me. Would use this over a 500MB Node.js implementation.
It's in need of a comma, though.
Thanks for your work on Firefox!
I feel more comfortable with Firefox Devtools overall, but I keep using Chrome for debugging for one single reason : Firefox can't handle extensive log.

I'm working on code where sometimes infinite loops occurs. When I want to investigate on these loops, I cannot use any breakpoints because it's using the same route than it used 10 000 times before, so I usually log a lot of data, then manually kill the Chrome tab and I can still run through 1 million console lines smoothly.

Really hope Firefox will be able to handle that one day.
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GM's Super Cruise does precisely this. It is only available on roads where GM allows it.
I'd love to be the guy who outsources everything, but I don't have much cash to spend on these. Especially for someone based out of developing economies; $10 here and $25 there for a handful of SaaS services quickly builds up to 15-30% of your take home salary.
The tech industry is gonna get a very rude awakening in the next couple years

Their surveillance and manipulation practices are gonna land a lot of people in huge trouble
Subaru? I gave up on lane assist because of a turn heading home from my old office. It really wanted to drive off that bridge and I didn't trust it to recover properly. It seemed safer to just turn it off after that.