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I think the real problem is the driver monitoring system. Openpilot nailed it with their eye camera monitoring. There is no need to touch the wheel which makes it more relaxing but you can not take your eyes of the road, which is far more important then keeping your hand on the wheel. Both would even be better.
Still trying to figure out why this is not mandatory for all lane keeping assistents.
According to the article, they already have.

The articles kinda vague on why exactly the driver is being charged, though. Reading between the lines, I suspect its not just because he had the autopilot engaged, but was engaged in some form of gross negligence at the same time (sleeping, playing videogames on his phone, etc).
The example the parent gives is potentially a criminal liability as well. If you know the railing on your balcony is wobbly and a guest leaning on it falls to their death, you're definitely open to criminal negligence charges coming your way.
That's complete bullshit though. It does not dissolve liability for things like improperly covered loads.
Oh, I'm not doing that for money, or even thinking it will help me survive :)

The question is more whether I'll be compelled to stop work because I'm NOT surviving, but so long as I am, my incentive to release plugins on Linux is because it's the right thing to do. Also, I think it matters to have stuff out there where the barrier to entry is ability and education, not capital. I think basing everything off only how much capital you start with and are able to exploit, distorts things in very unpleasant ways.

Fortunately, so long as I'm alive and have internet I'm able to do something about it. Maybe, so can you! :D
Tesla is marketing it as a level 5 system. They don't directly say that of course, but they are implying strongly it is level 5 and that is enough.
Structured concurrency gives you exceptions that bubble up the stack like a normal program does, and it cancels other tasks along the way so you don't have zombies. Debugging is thusly easier as well since you keep tasks into a scope (nursery, cancel scope).
This might not be a hot take, but I think some of the blame should be shifted onto the Tesla. This guy killed people, and it should not have happened on his watch, however the car should not have blown through a red light. For instance my car has lane keep assist and you can drive while pretty much not touching the wheel but still paying attention. It has almost pulled me into the car next to me due to a random construction line fading on the highway.

I'm not saying this guy isn't guilty, all I'm saying is maybe Tesla should shoulder some of the blame here. I'm probably a very small minority in this thinking however.
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The opposite has absolutely not been proven true.
In the U.S., the FAA provides quite a few regulations that specifically forbid the use of autopilot in certain circumstances (e.g. "Autopilot - Minimum Altitudes for Use [0]). More over, the FAA recognizes that extensive use of autopilot functions can degrade a pilot's skills and has issued a SAFO [1] with guidance for aircraft operations and pilot training.

[0]https://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part135-93-FAR.shtml
[1] https://www.faa.gov/other_visit/aviation_industry/airline_op...
I think an industry wide analysis of driver assist systems is likely warranted by NHTSA to form a framework for liability and communications/marketing capabilities to consumers. Think EPA emissions stickers for autos, but for driver assist.

> I also think the generalized caveat that it's always the drivers fault is a dangerous one that can incentivize manufacturer's to take unnecessary risks (e.g., less testing/quality in favor of delivering on schedule because they can always push the risk - sometimes unknown - to the end user).

If the driver is not paying attention, that is the driver's fault. If you can't provide your attention, you shouldn't be in the driver's seat. And if you kill people, do not pass go, go directly to jail. Such are the consequences of being responsible for thousands of pounds of mobility moving at speed.
I think there's a case to be made for banning level 2 and 3 autonomy entirely as too likely to result in distracted people not paying attention in general. But given that we have decided to allow them having lawsuits against car companies where the driver assistance systems work as intended isn't the right solution. If we want to crack down it should be a law or regulatory change to it applies evenly to everybody's systems.

I'm not saying necessarily that we should or should restrict that sort of limited autonomy, just that I think the tradeoffs and empirical questions aren't obvious and you could make an argument for it.
> Is this a joke, or do they actually think there's a market for this?

Given that the testimonial is from “Chad”, I have to think that there is a bit of joke in here.

That said, maybe this was a weekend project they made, and they can monetize it relatively easily (not sure how, but I guess it is possible).
Hasn't Tesla already lost a few lawsuits around deceptive marketing of Autopilot and FSD?
We should use stop using the word self-driving cars for cars that just have some drive-assist instead of being self-driving..
Couple that with numerous random stickers found on mailboxes, sign and traffic poles, and near alleyways, QR code is getting trusted less and less by the day.
The very short story is, one member of the crew maintains control of the aircraft (hands on yoke and throttles, maintains general situational awareness) while the other enters the data into the autopilot (set altitude to X, bearing Y, at speed Z). The aircraft then executes the maneuver(s) entered, while under supervision of a human.
It was never about fact checking. It was always about narrative control.
The alternative is to go to GCP and use the big GCP selling point, which is Big Table/Big Query.

Those databases build most of that in, and it's all one fairly excellent distributed monolith.
If a homeowner’s negligence fits the legal definition of criminal negligence and causes death they can be charged with manslaughter.
We should start with cattle and livestock in deveolping nations like India. Farmers abuse antibiotics the most.
Personally I don't get the argument against enums. From what I can tell it's purely to do with the symantics of what Typescript is, rather than any inherently bad property of enums.
<Not an artist in any way, shape or form>

IMHO, modern art tends to be less popular with the public because it primarily references other art. In other words, it's art made by artists, for artists. You have to have a deep understanding of the theories of art, the history of art, and the specific works the particular piece you are contemplating references in order to understand it.

Art did not used to be made primarily for other artists. It was made for everyone. And that art, today, still tends to be widely popular.

This does not mean that it is in any meaningful sense lesser art. Rembrandt cannot be said to be a lesser artist than Johns. But his paintings are definitely more accessible.

Architecture is much the same. Brutalist and modern architecture tends to be very popular with other architects. But a brutalist home usually sucks to actually live in. Whereas more traditional forms -- southern farmhouses, traditional German cottages, etc. -- non-architects find to be charming and comfortable.

The parent post here is getting at something real, which is whether nearly all high art should be self-referential. The art world, today, is pretty insular. That doesn't seem healthy to me.
"So I don't die early" is a large part of "general health and wellbeing" for the purposes of my comment.
You're so meta, even this acronym.
You're just drumming up the same scary nonsense, there's some weird fetish people seem to have where they show up to comment threads like this and say "OoOoOh but you don't really know".

It's possible. I deal with European customers, their lawyers have signed off on my implementation.
LOL, no, more like using this: https://tetenal.com/pdf/pi/101126e.pdf
It’s cool but I was hoping it would talk about how to make your own MSG.
I don't think the author actually believe to physically be leaving their body. You are not going to gain any additionally information that you do not already have. But, having experienced it, the sensation does feel exactly like getting ripped out of your body and leaving it behind.
Intuition is a “superpower”
National debt.
DOS does: https://home.csulb.edu/~murdock/buffers.html
Thanks for your interest.

Given we are so transparent, it seems that most folks who conduct interviews at GitLab expect candidates to have done a fair bit of research in advance of the interviews. So if you're looking to join the Developer Evangelism team, brushing up on our handbook and familiarizing yourself with what we do would be a good idea. That will allow you to come to the interview prepared to frame your experience and abilities through the lens of how we work and the results we aim to deliver to GitLab and our community.

We share details on the process in our handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/interviewing
Also the means of the many internal tools that I've been using are mostly short sighted and built with minimal expenses.
> which Tesla’s 2022 “full self-driving” isn’t and 2019 wasn’t either

And yet, since 2017, there's a video on the Tesla website that says "The driver is only in the seat for legal reasons. The car is driving itself."
The article you linked not only says it is a net positive but provides a link to a meta analysis to prove it.

The counterpoint being that (particularly unguided) meditation may have adverse affects depending on the person, mood, and environment. But the number of people reporting this was a significant minority (10-25%).

The studies showing these negative affects are also reports of specific events, not chronic behaviors or association with the inability of meditation to achieve it's goal. That is, they asked if any people meditating over two months had experienced feelings of dread during or after meditation at any point. This was not compared to any indicators of mental health, so no relationship of the link of adverse affects to those struggling.

Another example: the study showing low quality sleep in those who meditate often paradoxically shows higher levels of arousal and a statistically significant benefit toward those with depression. It also counteracted their own prior research that showed only slightly less meditation increased sleep quality in adolescent substance abusers. They then talk about needing further study to find the nature of the conflict because they have a small sample size and use self-reported data.

The overall conclusion and general scientific consensus I've personally seen (though I am NOT a researcher or authority on this) is that meditation can be quite helpful for those suffering. But that without help it's possible for it to be an opportunity to ruminate on the source of anxiety or get frustrated/aware with any lack of progress.

Mind you, this coming from someone who has personally experienced "sat down to meditate but had to stop when my thoughts focused on huge TODO lists and got anxious".
David Cox has passed away
Jewish scholarship has been refining its view of the Torah for literally thousands of years.
> even if the brakes stop working

Some quick googling brings up some US results that this only makes you liable if you were speeding or doing something else considered slightly dangerous, or you didn’t properly maintain your brakes.
Matt hasn't worked for Google for a long, long time.
Companies can’t hide stuff in small print while, at the same time, saying something else in marketing material, with a footnote saying something along the lines of “real-life performance may be different”.

Now, whether that happened with Tesla will be for a judge or a jury to decide. In the past, Tesla certainly has made bold claims in their marketing material.

It would probably come down to the question what would have been ‘normal’ for the driver to assume about Tesla’s software.
I think this is a frame of reference issue. The I buy beer at whole foods, someone checks my ID and won't sell it to me if I don't have one. If I vote via mail in ballot, I sign my name on a sheet of paper that arrives to an unsecured mailbox. Whatever the law that applies, as an end user, beer seems to be a more restricted product.
Perhaps I should have said "anti-russian". They're partisan, and very much not socialist.

I'm not sure what "progressive" means. I think it's yet another in the trail of euphemisms used in the USA to refer to policies that have been associated with official enemies, such as "socialist".
Schools adjust their curriculums for the measured state of their student bodies. This is a major reason why they test and measure at the school level.

So if the school’s student body as whole outperforms the national average, then that school’s curriculum is enriched to meet the students where they are. State standards are a floor, not a ceiling.

This is good for the kids but not easily visible to the parents the way that placement in a gifted program is. Unfortunately, for families interested in markers of achievement, sometimes they will be unsatisfied with anything short of that letter that their child has been placed in the gifted program.
How do committees invent? (1968) [pdf]
Yes.At the end of the day the car is the tool and just like with guns or knives, whoever uses the tool as an instrument for harm is at fault.I used to think one could argue: "but X made guarantees, software might be guilty, etc" yet at the same time that argument is not logical and ironically the legal framework explains it the best. We almost never give a pass to criminals even when they're not lucid and under the influence of factors that impair their judgement, how come we debate whether or not the human who used the car is at fault?

I also don't think Tesla is necessarily liable here, an unpopular opinion which i also changed over time considering that one needs to prove the car misbehaved.But even then, assuming the car truly misbehaved, making the case that the person is not liable is a big stretch.The title is still clickbait
I found it very relaxing, which I attribute mainly to absorption of magnesium. I usually had a “good” meditation session, but never any experience of non-ordinary consciousness. I stopped going for sessions after contracting a serious case of bacterial dermatitis.
That's not what DynamoDB is for. If you need to run queries like that, you should be using RDBMS. DynamoDB should only really be used for use cases where the queries are known up-front. There are ways to design your data model in Dynamo so that you could actually run queries like that, but you would have had to that work from day 1. You won't be able to retroactively support queries like that.
So, it's bogus, and I (as a Texan) didn't like it, but there is a rationale. The market incentive for having excess capacity (that isn't always needed), is that you will get paid windfall profits when you are needed. Some power sources, if not needed most of the time, would not be profitable to build. The market system is supposed to reward building excess capacity (needed for occasions like this one) by providing occasional windfall profits.

The alternative, non-market way would be to guarantee revenue even in times when the excess capacity isn't needed (most of the time), by paying more than the spot market price would normally provide. Personally, I prefer that way. But, if you're using a market system for electricity, you need an incentive to build excess capacity. Then, when a non-market mechanism (the order to impose blackouts) interferes with that, you need to make up for that somehow.

Again, I'm not saying I totally buy this, but there is the rationale.
In the use cases where I most typically use enums, I don't want to think about the question of runtime representation; I just want a set of arbitrary symbols that are different from one another. Implicitly initialized numeric enums do this idiomatically and concisely.
Failing to actively supervising the driving of the vehicle while autopilot is engaged is probably enough to sustain the mens rea for criminally negligent homicide.
Are they for naught? All they need to do is have a handful of laserdisc players around; your average clever nerdy arduino-loving teenager could probably get one working in the space of a day or two, likely by cleaning optics and maybe doing some re-capping and lubricating this or that.

They are usually are controllable via RS-232 or IEEE-488 and output any of several video formats. All extremely common, well documented protocols. Due to them using analog(!) to store the video, they're remarkably tolerant of defects. As someone who grew up watching a lot of rental laserdiscs with family, it was impressive how much damage a beat up rental disc could have and still play fine.

Man, the memories from that. A laserdisc machine spinning up was the most sci-fi thing EVER to a young kid.
Also Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt , Nirvana's Man who Sold the World, and the Animals' House of the Rising Sun.

I've also seen it claimed that Leonard Cohen thought Pentatonix' cover of Hallelujah was the best he'd ever heard but I can't find any confirmation for that.
Killing people and causing property damage are already thoroughly regulated.
Wear & Tear is a good point, along with the inconvenience of selling physical goods, and the burden of having too many physical goods.

As well as the applicability, the author raises another point which is when you're finished with your digital media, why hold onto it? Especially on the assumption you can just buy it back for what you sold it for or less.

I do wonder though whether all of this sits within a paradigm that needn't be the one that plays out.

I suppose my questions around the subject are... are we saying that a 2nd marketplace for digital media such as books, films and music shouldn't/won't exist because if it did, it would devastatingly disrupt digital capitalism? Could there be a paradigm where we can have a 2nd hand marketplace?

I'm particularly interested to observe how the digital fashion space evolves. Major fashion brands are engaging with NFTs and digital wardrobes. Which like digital art (and unlike books/films?) lend themselves well to being sold in limited runs, can be seasonal and could be useful... So I could see being a workable market for a digital 2nd hand market, outside the hyped up beanie-baby-esque investor marketplace that's dominating the nft landscape right now.
> They’ve been tested, told to isolate...

If there's one thing we've learned in this pandemic, it's definitely that people will follow that sort of instruction perfectly.

I know people who didn't disclose COVID symptoms to avoid missing work and gatherings, and people already stop taking antibiotics early in the course because they're already feeling a lot better.
Yes, but autopilot in plane is much much different. It is not about detecting and avoiding other planes, it is about following a route and recovering from various flight situations. You don't have an autopilot for when they are on the ground.
Uncle Roger's favourite science experiment.
Eyes on the Earth
Thanks!

TIL
I didn't say what is fair, so please don't bother making such insinuations. Let qualified researchers decide that. I simply pointed out the flaws in the comparison made by Lead Stories and how they used it to justify a misleading claim.

The article made an extremely specific comparison - all-time Spanish Flu toll versus COVID toll in a very specific time and place where it was especially bad - did not justify it, and used it to imply a broader claim about the relative deadliness of the pandemics. And the broader claim was explicit before they changed the headline.

I reject the idea that the appropriate comparison is subjective in this context of fact-checking. Lead Stories cannot freely make whatever comparison it feels justified and present the result as a fact about the relative deadliness of the 1918 and COVID pandemics. The most relevant facts prima facie are those presented in my initial post. If someone wishes to argue that COVID is more deadly after controlling for XYZ, the proper forum for that is a peer-reviewed scholarly research article.
I’d personally like to see FB sued for this, as it is clear that your proposed solution has been tried and is not working. FB is not stopping this, but getting worse, as we see here.

I don’t know which way the lawsuit would go, but I’d like to see it happen.
> Best viewed in uwutscape navigator at 640x480 or something

This is not true. It shows horizontal scroll at this resolution. Absolutely unusable in my 15" CRT.
Apple countersues Ericsson; Cupertino company makes ‘astounding’ U-turn
There’s a lesson here in what “value” means.

But - try to handle some fine gold one day. It is lustrous, but also incredibly easy to dent - drop it and it’ll scratch like a 2010s-era phone. It is easy to work, but won’t hold its shape. If we had oceans of the stuff, we still wouldn’t use it to make a car or a laptop or a pistol or a building, it would take the place of lead in things like counterweights and radiation shielding, maybe home insulation or cooking foil, places where its softness and density aren't too much of a drawback but the low reactivity is beneficial.
Using Libresilicon
The Future of CSS: Detect at-rule support with @supports at-rule(@keyword)
Fluency also requires learning the basic grammatical rules of the language by heart well enough that one can apply them without consciously thinking about them most of the time. Being able to communicate in a few everyday situations probably doesn't require so much of that especially if you focus on communication rather than getting things pedantically correct, but that's not the same as fluency or a professionally useful level of skill. Being able to read fiction or understand other cultural works is again a whole another thing.

I'm not from the anglosphere and I consider learning languages hard and laborious.

GP may be right about language education in the anglosphere -- I wouldn't know that -- and education could probably be improved just about everywhere, but there certainly is an intrinsic difficulty to learning languages as well.
> Comparing that to the amount of typing I have to do to define a scheme

From my use case of config files the code that is reading them knows the type anyways. So for a setup like Rust+serde there is no overhead to set this up.

> This problem would be caught immediately anyway if the config is read into static types.

That is true, but it still breaks you out of your flow. You get a confusing error, it probably doesn't tell you the exact line number and you need to look over your changes. If you changed a lot of places in the file it may be easy to miss that adding `no` to a list was the mistake. Because problems like that are easy to understand in retrospect, but if you keep reading "no" as "Norway" it is easy to look straight at this mistake and think it is fine before hunting elsewhere in the file.

I think you are right. It is still unclear if the cognitive overhead when writing the file is worth it, but from my point of view the upsides are much more valuable then you make them appear to be.
Less obvious but still interesting: At which point does diminishing returns set in? At some point does one extra hour of exercise yield less than one hour of increased average lifespan, and so not worth the additional effort, for someone that doesn't find exercise to be intrinsically rewarding?