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We have an open source driving agent: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot

Unlike most other companies in the self driving car space, we are profitable and have 1000s of daily active users. Search "openpilot" on YouTube to see some of them.

We're looking for a software engineer to develop openpilot, an ML Engineer / Data Scientist, a Safety Engineer, an Infrastructure Engineer, an office manager, and a Navigation Designer. Go to https://comma.ai/jobs for more information on the positions and requirements.

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I argued against this pattern and left shortly after the owner of a company I worked at made me implement this pattern. As the head of the department I actually refused, but he went to one of the engineers on my team and had the push the change.

I can never figure out why people don't realize that even if it's legal, it comes across as creepy.
Fair enough - It has admittedly been 25 years since Terra Terrae Terrae Terram Terra Terra rt has been instilled into my head -and I'm rescuing those neurons just as fast as I can! :-D
I'm sorry, but that rings hollow in a country with the Second Amendment and a gun culture that likes to wax poetic about watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants, or preach that school shootings are simply the price we pay for a free state.

You cannot tell a group of people that violence must be beneath them when they're facing a system that employs violence against them with impunity and often bends over backwards to justify it, in a culture which holds violence as one of the foundations of liberty itself. That would be suicidal.

Violence should be a last resort, but it can't ever be off the table, not in the US.
The web is optimized for Google Chrome, not the inverse. It's not surprising. Google is an advertising company with >90% search market share. There is little competition in the economy, only product differentiation.
There are analytics tools that are in pretty common use that record entire user sessions on your site. Mouse movements, stuff typed in but not submitted, everything.

Javascript with more than about 1% its current capabilities, in a hyper-text document navigator and e-commerce platform, is a security hole. It can't be fixed because its features are security holes.
That's a good point and I'm glad you mentioned it. However, one set of circumstances is enough :-) If you do not wish to distribute the source code to other third parties, you do not need to, as long as you distribute it to your customers. I definitely could have described that better.
tbh there was much more creepiness when somebody on your campus could run searches of your campus based on this information, which round about that time they still could. Still, knowing this I left the sexual orientation and relationship status in the profile...

As for ads, it was funnier when they ignored much of that available information. Seems hard to believe now but there was a long time when Facebook ads was a sidebar consisting of poorly targeted dating website ads.
You could also see a price drop for many reasons - increased supply [which is happening], failed IPOs, reduced incomes etc. Last year, a ton of apartment supply came on the market, with 10K units in Oakland alone
yes, the driver remains unharmed.
If they spread their investment to compete against AMD in the current x86 niches and with ARM in the low-power spectrum, there won't be enough money to succeed in either.
Zynga acquires Turkey based game studio for $1.8B
So the police never arrest someone for non-violent crimes, and the only disincentive is to get fined.

This basically just gives people a license to steal whatever they want and stalk and harass anyone they want, so long as they don't lay a finger on a person. The only consequences are fines, and non-payment of a fine is not a violent crime and thus not cause for arrest.
> Libraries exist because they can lend a book to only one person at a time.

this phrasing confused me for a minute, so to clarify: do you mean that if libraries could magically create infinite copies of a book, they wouldn't be allowed to exist, and are only tolerated because their presumed impact on copies-sold is limited?
My biggest issue with this is the assumption that racism is involved. Two of the officers involved are not white and the only "evidence" I have seen that Chauvin is racist is a picture of another person.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/make-whites-great-again-ha...
With enough effort, this can be fixed. We're working on a general solution to this problem at Transcend¹.

1. https://transcend.io/consent-manager/
So you read ESR's definition of hacker in step 1 but instead focus on what he called "cracker"[1] in step 2/3/4 (not 4b)/5? Either you misunderstood "hacker" or unintentionally gave a misleading example of learning...

[1]: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is
What if my audience is people in the US on desktop devices? Does it make sense for me to build for data capped networks which aren't a thing for 99% of US desktop devices?
Does it make sense that I now have to spend time and money optimizing my company site for an audience that I don't care about so we don't get down-ranked?
Yes. It's a poor argument and Tesla knows it.

My intuition was always that autopilot + human would be safer, and the only thing that made me question that was the soggy toast Tesla provides as "proof".

There would be privacy concerns doing an apples to apples comparison, but people could opt in.
The person I replied to said they didn't affect his sales.
Claim a car is “full self driving“ and it’s news when it can’t drive itself.
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Let's help the world make time for what matters!
>"I find the statement that there's a public desire for a winged spaceship silly."

I have to disagree. For all the technological achievements of SpaceX, we still don't have the capabilities lost with the Shuttle. No other spacecraft before or since has had the ability to launch 8 astronauts and return multi-ton cargos from LEO. There was also just something so cool about having a freaking spaceship that capsule designs will never have, and that shouldn't be discounted. I couldn't help but feel somewhat depressed watching the Dragon launch like we have regressed as a society, no longer daring to push the limits and strive for absurdley ambitious things like the Shuttle did.
Copyright protection was my first thought too, similar to how cartographers used to put “bunnies” in their maps to identify copycats.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mapmakers-sleight-of-han...
There are a few reasons why home prices will take a while to shake out (if they do at all). The CARES act mortgage forbearance is likely preventing any panic selling at the moment. And home owners have a few other tools at their disposal to delay selling like taking in sub-tenants, refinancing, etc.. So I imagine most people selling right now are doing it because they want to, not because they have to. And the real estate agents all have an incentive to keep prices high, so buyers are probably getting the usual 'this is a great time to buy' spiel.

It took about 2 years for house prices to bottom in the 2008 recession. I think the big reason was that it took a while for the record number of foreclosures to work their way through the system. If we do see the housing market impacted due to COVID, I wouldn't be surprised if it took a similar amount of time. But I also think that a quick recovery could prevent or mitigate a downturn.
From Story to Setting
Another factor to consider is the age of the cities involved. Most European cities predate cars, while many American cities were built up after or during the the rise of the automobile.
Caesonia: OpenBSD Email Service
Demo + discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13329525
Probably the background services and the fact that Arch doesn't come with AppArmor or SELinux running OOTB.
Just a small correction, related to your specific example.

Controlling the motor is a real-time digital control system task, and it needs to be executed at exact time intervals, otherwise you introduce noise and instability into the control loop. "Accelerometer has new data" is a terrible trigger for the control loop. You always want to execute the controller at fixed intervals, triggered by a timer interrupt.

Once you enter that timer ISR though, you are correct. You need to run the whole thing, starting with adjusting the PWM according to the result of the previous control loop, then sampling the sensors and finally running the control algorithm, all before exiting the ISR. This is the epitome of a "hard real-time" requirement.
IANAC but would the lattice stuff or the other post-quantum stuff require it? "Not having a solid math education" might be a condition with an expiration date if so.
Americans would be safer, happier, and more prosperous if tomorrow we had half the number of police we have today. The various misguided "entrepreneurial" policies like forfeiture and federal drug war grants have swelled the numbers beyond what the populace can tolerate. We are a fairly violent nation, when compared to Europe (though not when compared to other colonized nations, like nearly everywhere in the western hemisphere), but for the most part violence levels are due to environmental and demographic factors, not police activity. The only exception, the Drug War, is a case in which increased police activity increases violence. So, far fewer police, please.
Most countries don’t invest much in space. As a percentage of GDP, US is second only to Russia in government civilian space funding. (Given US GDP is over 12 times that of Russia, US spending is higher than Russia in absolute terms.) For your dream to come true, other countries have to increase their expenditure. (My own country Australia is among the guiltiest here - the Australian Space Agency’s budget is less than 10 million a year - it should be a hundred times that.)
Whenever the 'protesters' are counted in one of these activist employee actions, the numbers tend to be exaggerated. They say dozens, and I will take it to mean a couple dozen at best. Even so, this is a company with tens of thousands of employees. Why should leadership care about their voice, and why should outlets like NY Times amplify this message without any honest attempt to find differing views?

These activist employees enjoy psychological safety from taking on views that align with the political culture surrounding them - namely progressive far left political views that are common in the Bay Area, Seattle, etc. But the reality is, there are still many employees, both who are progressive and otherwise, that would prefer that the company take a nuanced, preferably neutral stance on these matters. They aren't speaking up because they are either busy or afraid of social/professional fallout (due to the prevailing views at these companies about Trump).

The only way to understand the true sentiment of the employee base is to take an anonymous poll of them, so that psychological safety is not an issue. Otherwise, what we'll see, and have been seeing at these big tech companies, is a tyranny of the vocal minority.
I think the libertarian suggestions are certainly part of the solution but I don't think they're sufficient on their own. History shows us that racism is remarkably resistant to market forces.
> I, just like many other fellow users here, publish our code (both end product and tools) to public, and to organizational, Git repositories.

Sure, but that code is generally tied to a license. Very rarely are people releasing things into the public domain. All that code people are releasing are being released with the support of copyright. In fact, people here on HN and other communities very much oppose people taking things without permission. I challenge you to demonstrate otherwise with your own repositories.
OK, I see what you're saying. Assuming enforcement is good and consistent, I have to agree it's hard to pull it off on a large scale.

I'm a little dubious that enforcement actually is good. But if you don't do enforcement properly, then voter ID laws don't prevent fraud either.
Isn't there a standard way to show a thumbnail before loading an image? I remember doing that at the 90's.
> The OS is disposable.

Hmm. You can install a basic userland with a custom kernel, with no particular dependency on a distribution (Let's use openSUSE today!) in just a few KB of YAML?

Have to admit--I'm skeptical.
I haven't done much testing, but the battery life is still very good.
> StackOverflow is in English

cough cough

- https://pt.stackoverflow.com/

- https://ru.stackoverflow.com/

- https://es.stackoverflow.com/

- https://jp.stackoverflow.com/

More seriously though, it is a bit of a chicken-and-egg issue: more content being available in English which leads to more people having to learn English and might end up producing English content.

But this in no point is an exclusive thing. There is nothing that says that if you participate in HN in English that you must always write in English. Back when I used to collaborate on a blog, we made a point of writing in Portuguese and I tried to avoid anglicisms and loan words whenever possible. My rationale was simple: I was much younger and most of the things I wrote would never be of interest to any thought-leader or something to advance the state of the art. It could however be of interest for those in Brazil that had some interest in programming, and I didn't want the language to be yet-another-barrier for them.
I'm sure some would reject this but it's the human condition, we've all let our guard down at some point and let falsehoods...not just the uncertain or unsubstantiated, but outright intentional lies...gain purchase in our worldview.
This actually happened across several months, but much of it did become public within a very short period of time. Breonna Taylor was shot near the end of February, Ahmaud Arbery a few weeks later, and George Floyd was murdered around 2.5 months following that. Unfortunately these sorts of events happen far too often and don't always gain the widespread attention they should in a timely manner.
If you want to make pacman feel really fast, try DNF.
Founding: Genteract (https://www.genteract.com).

Goal: Real personalized medicine, including predicting which patients will respond to a drug, which won't respond well, and which will experience serious side-effects, based on their genetics.

We actually have a working system that can do this today: it's a new genetic analysis methodology that finds all the SNPs associated with a Gene-Environment interaction (GxE) through analysis of clinical data, and generates predictions for how other individuals will respond to the same environmental stimulus (food, drug, behavior, etc).

There's a long timeline and potentially large expenses involved in getting the right data to do drug predictions on (drug clinical trial data or EMR data), performing prospective clinical trials with the generated predictions, and finally getting FDA approval.

So we decided to start by analyzing existing NIH clinical study data (which we have access to by permission of the NIH and the respective study managers), focusing mainly on interactions between foods and nutrients (as Environment variables) and health parameters like BMI, sleep quality, cognitive measures, heart rate, etc. (as phenotype variables).

We're gearing up to launch a service that gives people access to these (and future) discoveries through analysis of their genetic data (either 23andMe or Ancestry genotype files, or whole genome sequencing that we'll offer).
can't speak german but just wondering if literally this translates to

>committing you in the master or have you a new branch created?

if so i'm interested to know why you translated as you did, instead of something like

>are you committing to the master branch or did you create a new branch?

in particular i'm wondering why in your translation the word branch completely shifts from where it is to in the german.
In the specific example given in the article twitter was "fact" checking an opinion with a different opinion.

Personally I would say that whether a tweet deserves a warning is mostly independent on whether it is factually true. It is far too easy to lie with only factually correct statements.
"How would you feel if someone took your output without permission[...].

that has happened to me all the damn time and quite frankly I've stopped caring
so boo effin hoo.

we live in a postindustrial society.

People have value extracted from them without due compensation every single day.

Just be glad you're getting your slice of the pie as it is
It's exactly the right connotation for people who know the connotation. I suspect a large fraction of the population thinks that "autopilot" means "no human pilot needed."
I used this to my advantage awhile ago when I needed rent a moving truck. Penske called me about 30 minutes after I abandoned their online rental process. After a bit of back-and-forth about why I aborted the rental, Penske offered me a discount that beat their competitor's price.

I've since used this technique a few times to my advantage when renting trucks. So, it can be a downside for the business if customers catch on, unless it's considered part of doing business.
That's kind of the biggest issue I have with Autopilot - it makes drivers feel far more comfortable relying on it than they should. It's gotten to the extent that in Tesla-dense cities there's a good chance you'll pass a Tesla and see the driver not even close to paying attention to the road. Autopilot is in the dangerous Level 3 domain of autonomous driving where it's good enough for drivers to think it's Level 4 while it happily plows into parked objects once in a while.

Personally, on the occasions when I drive a Tesla, I don't even think about turning it on.
Terrific, you're welcome to not pay for the news and not read it then. Getting NO information must be the better option if what you are saying is true. People have spent their lives doing this job, but surely you know better.
> You keep spouting bullshit absolutes but don't seem to realize (or you're just unwilling to accept) that there are effectively two systems; a more of less functioning system for people like you, and one in name only for the disenfranchised.

Look, you’re not here in good faith. That’s cool, go off all you want, but I’m not here for it. Find someone else.
> How would you feel if someone took your output without permission, whether it's designs or code or something else unique and hard to make?

I believe that being able to profit strictly from control of intellectual property is on the decline and will ultimately disappear. "Payment for access" to IP will be outcompeted by easy and ubiquitous technology for IP distribution (and thus infringement). I believe we'll move back to a world of primarily "payment for genesis".

You want to make money as an author? Then find a way to say "hey world, I'll write a great book about XYZ if I get PQR money." In the same way software developers say "hey, you want this piece of software? I'll write XYZ software if I'm paid PQR money."

It's a brutally huge change to the historical way publishing's done and the way artists earn a living. But it's already happening and I believe it'll only accelerate.

The future is "payment for genesis" not "payment for control".
In order for there to be a major accident, there not only has to be a mistake, it has to be a mistake with a major consequence, and it has to be that nobody else there avoided it either.

In general a car that doesn't see a pedestrian isn't a major accident unless the pedestrian also doesn't see the car. If not for that there would be a whole lot more fatalities with human drivers as well. A self-driving car obviously shouldn't do that, but neither should a human, and they do. Which makes it less hard for the computer to do it at least as well.

You can also expect the computers to improve over time by learning from each others' mistakes, which human drivers generally don't.
I get deals from Publisher websites this way. Highly recommend.
Do you have any resources on that? I find this genuinely interesting.
Seems like he's making the point that it's costing them nothing to do this, that they are not really putting anything on the line. That their money is not where their mouths are. Did you miss that?
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Thanks for the kind comment :) It's a very inspiring place with a lot of history and good people. Beautiful views of the bay certainly don't hurt either!
Given IO errors and degradation of storage media, how long can one realistically preserve digital data?

Is it possible with multiple disks and an extant error correction algorithm to prevent data corruption indefinitely, assuming some maximum error rate?
I mean, what else is there to say? We've seen multiple instances now of journalists being attacked unprovoked by the police. Either just for asking questions, trying to comply or doing their job completely away from any sort of riot or looting. The officers involved should be rotting in jail, but no one seems to be watching the watchmen right now.

So people get angrier, the police abuse their authority further, and the cycle repeats. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
This seems to boil down to:

> If you can, just get a Ph.D. at a place with a good crypto group (remember that Ph.D.'s in computer science are effectively free)

Which I'm not sure is great advice except for someone who wants a full time career in cryptography. And if you want a career in cryptography it's fairly obvious that the most well trodden root is via a PhD (which is definitely not free when you compare it to how much you could be earning in industry with a compsci or math degree)