skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much does that tell me about potential software failure modes that don't kick in until a significant scale (speaking of double-digit percentages of all traffic, these test fleets are not even close to that) has been reached? Or about weird, but potentially fatal side effects of incorporating rules put up by regulators into the software that cannot be tested with today's alpha testing fleets because these rules might not even exist yet? Or about how good all these different AI vehicles of different vendors in very different software and hardware revision states interact with each other (think of situations like HFT trading algorithms that run each other into a doomsday spiral, just with vehicles at an intersection twitching around quickly in weird ways, trying to interpret each others actions)? Or about the hackability of future robotic cars (think for example of those slightly modified fake traffic signs)?

Nothing. That's why regardless of how impressively big these test fleets are, there will be a lot more of these unknowns.
I get the sense this problem is massively overstated around here. My experience on Amazon is great, same for everybody I know who uses it.
They tried dropping water during the winter and let it freeze.

I think dropping a bomb would do more harm then good, and might not even dislodge anything. I think they wanted to drill close to the fault line and insert explosives deep into the mountain.
Section 230 threatened in new bill tying liability shield repeal to $2K checks
It definitely tends to be the already safer driving, like highways, that they do well on. I have a Model 3, and trust it pretty well on highways. However it does not do turns at all, and other 'city driving' type tasks well. It can now do stop signs and traffic lights, which seems to be good so far too.

However, not living in an area with many sidewalks, I do not trust it for one second to navigate around pedestrians or bicycles. I don't think it will actually try to go around a bike but, I have never given it the opportunity to either. I take full control back and give them a very wide berth myself.
I just mean that a disproportionate amount of the danger created by bad drivers is to themselves. I don't have a source, but I think this is obvious.

My point is that, even if we lower the total death count, the safest drivers could still end up at greater risk, because a disproportionate amount of the reduction in deaths will go to bad drivers.
Probably because it’s off topic.
> However, the lives lost in autonomous accidents will be a different set of people than those that would have died in human driven accidents.

So far it seems that this is very much the case. Autonomous cars do relatively well in highway scenarios whereas they appear to do poorly recognizing bicycles, for instance. Reducing safety to one single metric would be a big mistake.
What will you run on it?
I think you meant to say "I do notice is pretty much everything I buy that is entirely cheap is crap that breaks in short order"

There're scams and various levels of quality, but price is a pretty ok indicator of quality. If you buy something cheap, it'll break. Doesn't matter if it's cheap Chinese or European or American crap.
There are quite a lot of packages for Common Lisp, though the selection certainly is smaller than for Python.
> Any talk of BASIC being useful is nonsense. BASIC was pushed on to the home micro scene by Microsoft. This held us back.

BASIC was invented at Dartmouth in the 1960s[1] as a simplified programming language for beginners, and was well-suited to microcomputers because of its interactive user friendliness and minimal resource requirements. Microsoft deserves credit for fitting a usable computer language into a few kilobytes (!) of memory.

Alternatives such as Forth or assembly language were not as beginner friendly, and languages like Pascal or C had higher RAM and storage requirements and were not interactive like BASIC.

BBC BASIC was a powerful and friendly environment that was neither written by nor "pushed" by Microsoft. Rather, it was pushed by the BBC, resulting in a generation of computer enthusiasts and professionals.

[1] https://time.com/69316/basic/
Totally unethical but I've heard if you add a '.' after the '.com' one can view NYT's articles, like https://www.nytimes.com./2020/07/26/arts/television/johnny-c...
I've run IntelliJ on aarch64 using my system jdk11 instead of the bundled one. I ran into issues with two native binaries that come bundled with it:

1. An inotify library for detecting file changes. In this case, IntelliJ detected that it didn't have a binary for my architecture and just let me know it would be slower. Not a big deal.

2. The async profiler[0]. While available for other architectures, only x86_64 binaries are bundled with IntelliJ. And unfortunately, it didn't detect this either; it just quietly failed to work.

Hopefully with this patch they've also fixed these issues on linux-aarch64.

0. https://github.com/jvm-profiling-tools/async-profiler
> Copies of 50/60's engines from France and Russia?

You have to start somewhere.

I mean, it's not like new software developers start off writing state of the art programs. They write a hello world program like everyone else, and build up from there. Same thing with spinning up industrial capacity in a new area.

Also, IIRC, a lot of the tricky high tech in jet engine production isn't so much in the engines themselves, but in the manufacturing process of the components and materials. That means reverse engineering will only get you so far.
If Amazon wasn't directly competing against their sellers, and doing exactly what you said, while lying to Congress about it [1], then maybe journalists wouldn't be writing about Amazon stealing secrets from sellers.

1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its...
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> But now I'm just writing SciFi.

I don't think so. Normally whenever I want to cross the street (as a pedestrian, but even more as a cyclist) and a car approaches I (unconsciously) examine its speed, and if it's higher than acceptable I try to make eye contact with the driver to make sure they see me and it's safe for me to go. How do I make contact with the AI of the car? More importantly, how do I get the cue I've been noticed?
There’s a cycle with these brands. Monster started out not insane and then quickly just became bad stuff with a brand. I also remember when Belkin used to be consistently good and now it varies by product.

I’m afraid for when monoprice stops being an awesome brand and starts coasting.
I am a safe driver. (My measure: two moving violations in nearly 40 years of driving, the last one 16 years ago. No accidents in 19 years, no injury accidents ever. And I've driven daily for the whole time.)

In the past couple of weeks, I've narrowly avoided hitting pedestrians three different times. Each time, the pedestrian was somewhere other than a valid crosswalk (once was on a highway exit). In each case, I think an autonomous vehicle could have handled it better than me.
Google != Oracle
Compared to Midsommar, Audition, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Antichrist, A Clockwork Orange, American History X, or The Human Centipede?

Yeah I would describe GTA as pretty tame compared to those movies some of which have broken through to the mainstream. The average horror movie is more violent and gruesome than even the worst we see from video games.

The Witcher and Mass Effect? Those are adult games with very lame sex scenes all of which are consensual. I don't see that as particularly scandalous.
> It was kind of sad for me (for a couple of reasons) to see Raibert's dynamic robots immobile

This hit a nerve. I was at a CMU event with my daughter a few years back - when she was a member of Girls of Steel. My daughter came and told me excitedly that "my robot was here" and brought me over to where the Terregator was on display. I told the roboticist who was there how exciting it was to see it after thirty years, and that it was wonderful to see that it still worked. He said, "Sorry. Actually it's likely not operating two decade. It was placed here with a fork lift."
IIRC the official reason for simply not porting kqueue to Linux 20 years ago was: "it's over engineered". Linux has a ton a brilliant developers working on it, they had to know epoll wasn't all there, the epoll man page says as much. I've always suspected perhaps, maybe, potential patent infringement worries might have something to do with the broken design. If that's the case, fair enough, no one wants litigation.
Adding third party sellers is not a problem. Removing the ability to filter for items sold by the retailer, and commingling inventory with random resellers is the problem.
We are all sentient, and many have had that realization. But how many have refused to act? No, we just mostly participate in that harm in order to survive.
Quite certain, it was actually a Chinese knock off of a Salters product. Salters never sold a version with a plastic adjustment bar on the bottom for the reason I saw, it breaks almost immediately.

Amazon is really muddying the waters by combining products too. They seem to be merging comments and products that shouldn't be merged and are different SKUs and that is definitely a problem, but its also participating in the fraudulent sale of knock off products and passing them off as the real thing.
Listening is important, but not mandatory. Ignorance is, of course, a personal choice. But more importantly, freedom of speech is essential to an open society. Actively silencing disagreeable opinions is not conducive to positive change.
Even at 40% people wanting to wait, supply is still way under demand, so that doesn’s seem like an issue.
I'm always exasperated how an iPhone or any other smartphone cannot properly check if a WiFi has functional internet connection before switching over from cellular data. Half a century of relying on networking abstractions — and we're basically unable to say, hey, let this particular process work on this network connection while the rest of the system is relying on the other adapter. VIMAGE gracefully and painlessly allows that.
Same transliteration because they are read the same. Romaji (Latin characters used to phonetically transcribe Japanese words -- "Satoshi" in this case) are based on the phonetics of the word. If two words have the same pronunciation but different kanji, they'll be transcribed the same way in romaji.

This is equally true for hiragana and katakana (the other two Japanese writing systems, which are phonetic) and all the names would be written as さとし in hiragana.
Wait, "just go with the flow and at least pretend you believe what the masses are supposed to believe" is not socialism? C'mon. The whole "better fake believe then be sorry" thing is pretty much the antithesis to individualism.
JetBrains ships a custom JVM that their IDEs run on.

https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/JetBrains+R...
He's wrong.

Any procedure involving any invasive (derm-piercing) tool, you're one human/process mistake away from getting exposed to super-resistant bacteria via contaminated tooling. Any procedure involving body manipulation/massages, you're one human/process mistake away from getting paralyzed neck to toe or worse. Any procedure involving anesthesia, you're one human/process mistake away from dying right here and there due to OD or allergy.

If your life comprises undergoing a million medical procedures involving any kind of invasive tools, anesthesia or surgery, you'll die from human-caused complications way before you get randomly hit by lightning.
The guys from corridor crew did a great break down of that amazing scene [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/pTl42COCNaM?t=255
Same here. Would be interested to hear what the issue was when they finally resolve that ticket.
This is already a risk with normal cars.

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
Personally I have no problem with Uber drivers being contractors but I wish it were more like eBay in that you could set your own prices and routes as a driver and then as a “buyer” set your own maximum price.

For example if I’m going to New York in a month I’d love to say hey I need a ride from Penn Station to Brooklyn and I’m willing to pay $10. Ideally then the driver could, with the help of the app consolidate these requests and then pick me and maybe a few others up and complete the route.
I have seen it three times this year and the last time was November so I would say no its not been fixed and its still happening. If they aren't commingling third party product then they are directly sourcing counterfeit products and that is so much worse and clearly illegal.
No, they do not need to operate in those conditions, but we have people seriously making proclamations about the imminent end of the truck driving employment industry as we know it, because "trucks will have no need for drivers."

Those people are fantastically wrong. And that's just one example.
Why don’t we mandate that people submit themselves to a mandatory medical experimentation lottery? We’ll do so much better if we go through as many people as we do lab rats, and it’ll save unimaginable lives in the long run.

Utilitarianism via taking current lives to save future lives is the wrong perspective here.
Surgery is a medical procedure.
> if SDCs are even just as safe as HDCs, I'm good

You might be a safer driver than the average human driver, in which case a SDC increases risk for you personally (and overall, in case the less safe drivers keep using non-SDCs). In that regard, we should wait until SDCs are safer than almost all human drivers.

Most drivers believe to be above average drivers, which is of course impossible. But there might be interesting correlations, for example with social status. Lower social status does disadvantage people in many regards. I am sure that insurance companies have data on the question if they have more (fatal) crashes as well.

And it does stand to reason that people with higher social status drive newer and better cars as well, so we could end up with a situation where the better drivers are replaced by computers before the worse drivers.

Interestingly, I think an ethics committee said a few years ago that once SDCs are safer than human drivers, it becomes a moral imperative to outlaw non-SDCs. I am wondering, if they will explore the human driving safety 'distribution' before inacting such rules. Waiting for the 5x margin could solve that problem, because then you will probably have SDCs that are safer than almost all human drivers, and it could be an incentive for companies working on the technology to get to that level faster, than they would in case they start selling them en masse earlier.
> It's practically impossible to shield the vulnerable population from a highly contagious disease that is rampant in the non-vulnerable population - someone after all needs to tend for the vulnerable.

Case in point for Focused Protection [0]

[0] ; https://gbdeclaration.org/

"By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized."
I like this Pi, but the fact that they didn't put full-sized HDMI ports on it pisses me off to an unreasonable degree.
That’s an example of what reality is. Not evidence that it should be reality.
I think we're in agreement. My comment was in reference to a more advanced version of what exists currently: a car that can be driven manually and always requires a licensed driver, but can activate its automation on command.

I think we'll have versions like that for a long while before we arrive at autonomous vehicles that do not require a licensed driver at all.
I don't know that I would throw that paint on the entire West.

Is there a completely justifiable reluctance to give blanket credence to answers to technical questions given by American authorities? Absolutely, and as an intellectually honest American I'm big enough to admit that we earned that skepticism all by ourselves. The decision making apparatus of the US and its major industrial sectors have been saturated with so many ideological type people that it can no longer be depended upon to reliably answer certain questions in general.

That does not necessarily mean that EU authorities are not reliable. European regulatory authorities still have their acts together for the most part. Technical responses free of political influence can be found given technical questions. Are there issues in the EU? Yes, but in my experience, the issues are nothing like what you see in the US or China.
The C919 is very similar to a North American aircraft. It was developed in tandem with Bombardier's C-Series (Now known as the Airbus A220). They leverage supply chain economies etc.

Not quite sure where the hate is coming from. The US is consistently eroding their manufacturing capability, and if there's one fact of business it's a void will fill itself...
That’s still short term though. The root cause of people wanting to steal cars is not a lack of police. In the long term, we need to address the underlying root causes.
This Christmas I used Walmart more than Amazon over 21 years of previous “Amazon christmases.”

When I filtered for Walmart only my experience was great. No searching for ps5 and seeing Xbox ads, just stuff that matched my search.

Also Walmart shipping was 1-2 days and free. So I guess logistics is getting figured out when Walmart free is beating Amazon prime.
B & H photos has done right by me so far. CDW seems okay. Newegg appears to have vendors reselling stuff from Amazon with markup. And while you can filter third party out, you quickly discover Newegg doesn’t have much inventory.
Compared to most other common vaccines. I'll try to clarify that.
Your words not mine bud.
Nearly anything that costs under $100, is not a consumable/personal care item/detergent/etc, and is above the fold on Amazon search results will have been made in China.
It's not just a compelling shot. It uses the door frames that enter the viewframe to completely trick your brain: suddenly its not a door frame but the frame to the mirror. So, it's entrance doesn't immediately break the illusion.

Also the mirror has to be more than just bluescreen - there's distortion in it too as it moves.

The extended edition of Terminator 2 also has an impossible mirror shot -- and it achieves it with an almost hilarious solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTOK89w8h0

It's literally a window with Linda Hamilton's twin sister on the other side performing rehearsed/synchronized movements.

edit: just found out she passed away a few months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr-RRixkRhI

https://movieweb.com/leslie-hamilton-freas-gearren-dead-term...
Check out Superset. https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset

It’s modern, easy to extend. From the same author of apache airflow.
For the most part, Boeing and Airbus don't produce equivalent airplanes because they aren't involved in regional jet business. The direct competitors include Bombardier CRJ900, Embraer E175-E2 or Mitsubishi MRJ90, according to Wikie[1]. However, with sale of CS 100 by Bombardier to Airbus as Airbus 220, competition is more direct, especially if future extensions of ARJ21 are realized. ARJ21 bears some resemblance to McDonnel Douglas MD-90, which China assembled under license last century, but they are not really in the same class, with MD-90 competing directly with B737.

A few things about Comac ARJ21 that make it unlikely that the aircraft will ever fly in the West. First, it is only certified by CAAC in China and there is no plan to try certification by FAA or EASA. Second, the aircraft is designed for hot climate and high altitude airports in Tibet. As a result, it is overweight and expensive to operate elsewhere. Third, there was a multi-year delay to certification, so the aircraft is now considered obsolete.

Although China owns IP rights to the aircraft design, engines and avionics are supplied by Western companies. Western parts suppliers had to shoulder more design work than normal for subcontractors. This aircraft is considered a learning experience for Comac, which is now designing C919, a competitor of B737 and A320; and C929, a wide-body aircraft in the same class as B787 and C330. Because of Western components, it is unlikely to be converted into military aircraft, which along with limited international sales means Comac will lose money with ARJ21.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_ARJ21
The fun thing is to read the paper and see Bruce Lee in the author list.
Same. I really feel like this is one of those things where 99+% of people have zero issues and don't comment on stuff like this. Myself and just about everyone I know order from amazon all the time and have very very few issues. And when we do, the return/replace/refund/whatever process is smooth as butter.
There is a "distributed knowledge network" we use called the "World Wide Web." It has an "experimental social network" powered by RSS, WebMention, and ActivityPub.
This is especially a problem for things with different flavours. I have run into multiple problems with Protein shakes where the vanilla is amazing and everything else tastes awful. The comments being merged mean you might have to pick through 1000 review comments to work out which flavours are good and which are bad.
The quality is impressive, and I've seen this before with older footage which has been re-scanned in higher quality. Still, there's some characteristic about old footage which sort of tells me it was shot a long time ago.

I want to say it's that the footage seems darker, and you can obviously make a case for classic brand logos being a giveaway.
It isn't snark. It's just blunt truth. Those places won't get it first either. If self driving cars come about, their full feature set may well be geo-limited. Even covering just California, Arizona, and Texas would make the technology amazing.

Not to speak of the Chinese, who will simply build their cities to include road beacons or whatever is necessary to keep AVs effective.
My point was, if the US adopted that policy it would be far worse.
Also, a lot of IoT devices happen to run minimal but functional operating systems. I personally think whether something counts as "general purpose" or not is a gray area and depends greatly on the manufacturer's intent, and it's pretty clear that these manufacturers do not intend for users to run arbitrary software on the devices they make.