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Not only that, Pilot training assumes Autopilot can disengage at any time.
Hugely popular with people from mainland China. They are almost comically large though!
This quote is one of the most taken out of context. It does not mean what people think it means. It is also naive.

But I agree, Librem does look a bit raw to me. I'm ok with 'apt get'ting stuff on my PC. Not on a phone
The author in question is a fairly renowned historian with multiple serious books and podcasts ( in which btw he makes a point of correcting himself when listeners point out mistakes, usually of the bad pronunciation or mistaken year variety), and has a reputation to maintain.
The ones we can spot aren't really "deep", they're just fakes.
I memorized half of If when I was younger. It seemed especially impressive to certain people.

These days I combine mnemonics with memory palace journeys. In a few hours of practice I went from being able to memorize 6 digits to around 70.

My penultimate challenge is to memorize texts verbatim. I haven't been able to find a straightforward method. My next thought is to research theater performers' methods and Hafiz methods. If anyone has any specific pointers to share I'd be grateful.
And the surface area to volume ratio grows without bound
Neat, but the article seems a little rosy-eyed. eg:

...the software uses microphones and cameras to detect emergency lights and sirens far enough in advance to issue the full 10-second warning before manual takeover.

That doesn't help when the lights and sirens are switched on a few dozen cars away and reach you in 6 seconds.
Assuming that Mercedes Benz (and all other manufacturers at that) know their shit, which they do, it says more about the self-driving competition and self-driving tech in general thann it does about Mercedes' offering.
Nothing is 100% without risk, but each layer of safeguard reduces it. The standard shouldn't be zero risk, but rather weighing the risk of one (in)action vs another.

To draw an analogy to the obvious vaccine-related situation on everyone's minds, no one who knows what they're talking about would say that mRNA covid vaccines are 100% safe. But they are far, far safer than not having a vaccine, so it makes sense to accept that risk. I'm not saying the same is necessarily true of any given 'contagious' animal vaccine, but it could be.
I personally would rather have a system that I can actually use when I want even if that means I need to accept liability while using it.
The article discusses a safeguard by which the virus would only be able to replicate a set number of times.
I think I'm getting the picture from this and other replies. To get close to a sense of structured concurrency I've had to lean on a plugin that handles worker threads (or would have to write one myself), and tie this in with async/await language features, and add some checks to handle thread lifetime and error states.

It would be really nice to have a first class language feature to wrap all this up, it sounds like that's what structured concurrency as a concept is aiming towards.
It doesn't say anything really. This only speaks to Mercedes and the performance of their driverless tech.
It's a pure political text designed to aggrandize the author without actually committing to a solution or another. He rejects affirmative action but then talks about multidimensionality as a tool to justify it in practice, as you point out.

He observes (correctly) that poverty is one of the strongest drivers of exclusion, which is a nice political trope, but then ignores that idea going further with his model of talent distributed randomly to spherical cows.

Well, guess what, talent is not distributed randomly, the way people get exceptional in one of their dimensions is by practicing and developing it. When a series of great filters are applied beginning in kindergarten for some people based on some factor of race, class, gender etc., they will not have ever had the chance to develop relevant aptitudes and will always look flat no matter what projection you apply to their sphere.
>I'm of the opinion that this leads to a good rule of thumb: never memorize anything

Did you ever learn another language? It's impossible without memorizing a massive amount of things, especially when the writing system is different than the one one is familiar with. In fact the most famous researcher in vocabulary learning (Paul Nation) states in one of his book that rote learning is one of the most efficient use of time.

I'm of the reverse opinion that memorizing things is a "secret trick" particularly effective, that is put aside by a lot of people because it takes effort.
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I am inclined to agree.

They want you to remain silent? That would be reason enough for me to drag them through the media.
> in a printed book, it is easier to find a previous page and compare a fragment on it with the current fragment.

This is why I like plain text for everything (or Emacs Org Mode) because then I can have multiple frames showing different parts of the same buffer in Emacs.
This is insurance. It is all probability.
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On top of that, aviation autopilots operate in one of the most controlled and stable environments. Ground based individual traffic is the polar opposite of that.
I've written a fair share of literate code.

It works well for personal stuff where you would like to leave some bits of information for yourself (typically, configuration files).

It works well for small libraries where good documentation is important.

It works well for visualisation-work, where you may combine multiple languages and data-formats without writing API's for each.

In larger scale apps though and with collaboration; you run into problems with tooling on multiple levels. I am working on tackling scale, but collaboration is tricky. Mostly because you need structure to collaborate and then you will likely end up with an outline that's pretty close to a directory-tree and then you've lost one of the good bits of literate code in my opinion.
If one web requires car sized antennas the military value is probably much lower - though that might just be the commercial offering and not a fundamental issue.
If, for example, the screenshots didn't actually look like their internal admin interface (and so were obviously doctored), they would probably say something to that effect in the initial post. The fact that they're merely "looking into it" implies the information they have so far makes them think this at least could be a real hack.
You are not supposed to be asleep at the wheel with any of these "autopilots", nor are you supposed to be reading books or looking at your phone. What are you doing that you can't take back control of your wheel in less than a few seconds ?
> On certain highways, below 40 mph, a Drive Pilot-equipped S-Class or EQS will take control of the car's speed, steering, and brakes to move you along in traffic.

Where can one locate these specific highways that offer guaranteed legal responsibility? I seemed to have missed it in the article.
Yes, that’s me. First time anyone has recognized me.

One of my rules is that prices that have increased by 3 times in a few hours with no real change in demand and most suppliers still producing, then it’s not a real price.
Very interesting project!

I'm guessing the only thing missing would be YouTube's video recommendation algorithm?

Which for many would be a plus.
Which is why (imo) Autopilot was a spot-on name for Tesla's initial driverless feature.
This sounds like trying to get rid of rats by paying for dead rats, someone will start farming rats.

I see only trouble with this approach.

Just hire good people, treat them right, have sensible audit and monitoring procedures.
I mean what I see when I use MitID at my bank is basically 2 screens, I can't remember how many screens we had to make for NemID, I think 16 (at the most) and of course they had to be responsive and support Danish, English, and Inuit (Greenlandic) and work the same across a wider number of platforms than most applications.

So I doubt it has too many CSS issues in comparison? But haven't looked.

on edit: also lots of accessibility requirements of course.
Terrible take. If breaking the law to make money is how you operate, you're not a company. You're a criminal cartel.
You're only getting started. Those sizes become insignificant once you have a few projects. The data explosion is real and reminds me of RAM usage spiking when OOP became a thing, with performance dropping of a cliff at the same time.
I think, if sprints are used to beat dev's into submission, then they suck. But if they are used for the dev's to be able to plan things, they are awesome.

I am not a code monkey. I am not a cog. I like having things I'm going to be working on laid out. I like a road map. If I'm part of the planning, then I love sprints. I get to estimate what I can finish, and work to it (pass or fail)
Sounds like a recipe for a "Cobra Effect"[1] where suddenly, credible bribes grow by 10x!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
Yes but it's (according to the article) the only system that takes on any legal responsibility and guarantees a fairly long takeover window within which Mercedes will still be at fault for an accident.

All other companies don't go that far and make absolutely no promises. Sometimes their marketing wink-wink-nudge-nudges you and implies that they do the same but in reality they don't.

If this is successful you will soon see customers and regulators requiring the same for all competitors.
Google basic search was fine without js last time I used it, but I
choose not to use it. Instead I use a range of smaller search engines.

Youtube is unusable (I mean even on a normie browser) - it's a crazy
mass of popups, frames, ever shifting css, things that jump around
when you hover over... like a 90's Geocities site.

What I do is use duckduckgo (through the hidden service) to look for
videos I want (it indexes all of them fine, but crafting the search
terms is challenging), then just grab them using youtube-dl.

Increasingly though, search hits for lectures or talks I am looking
for come up on sites other than youtube, and given the choice I'll
download from the non-google one. Youtube-dl works with a surprising
range of sites.
Not much at below 60 km/h max.
There is also a Hungarian folk tale titled “little gömböc” where a poor family gets hungry and the father sends their daughter up to the attic to bring down the head cheese, but instead the latter eats the girl. After she disappears the father sends the other 2 girls, then his wife, then himself all of them disappearing into the ever-expending stomach of the not-so-little Gömböc, which at this point get so heavy that it falls onto the ground and rolls out the house, eating everyone in its way, including the whole village.

Fortunately the boy whose job is to keep/check on pigs (don’t know the English word) has a knife in his pocket, cuts the Gömböc out from the inside and the whole village escapes in LIFO order. “And they lived happily ever after or something like that”
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What vendor have you seen a public response within 4 hours from for such a thing? And unless they've been investigating this for a while already (which one would hope) they wouldn't really be able to say much of substance.
The car gives you a 10 seconds heads up.

From the article:

"[...] Unlike all currently available driver-assist systems, Drive Pilot is designed to give drivers a 10-second warning before switching off; engineers had to make sure that, in every situation, the system would safely and faultlessly hand over control. [...]"
Which county holding nuclear weapons has had its borders changed?
This will be treated same as drunk driving. Just because you want to take responsibility doesn't/shouldn't mean anything to legal framework.
Article clearly says that "In Germany, drivers can legally use their cellphones while Drive Pilot is engaged, a first for semi-autonomous systems". However, you can't go to sleep.
I dunno. I know of a project that lingered in this spot for a couple of years before enough people who cared had left to make it a truly lost cause. But there was no leadership to speak of to motivate any of those people, and most of them left. There were points right up until the end where these people were sprinkled across enough of the organization to be a beach head for doing something, but then they lost people on two teams in as many months and from then on it is destined to be status quo. Or at least until they decide to binge on a tech stack update, hire too many people but not for long enough and end up back where they are now. From what I understand they've done that a couple times already.
Some important context there though is that that's only true because the vaccine is suppressing cases of the wild virus. Since these vaccination efforts began, rates of infection have decreased massively. But at this point it is proving difficult to stamp it out completely, due to these vaccine-derived outbreaks.

That said, it is certainly a shame that the entire world doesn't have access to and capability to administer the inactive vaccine.
Of course celiac disease and listeria are actual things, but I think we'd agree that a general "gluten is bad for you" is unsubstantiated. It's also funny how sushi gets singled out, when the CDC (below) doesn't even mention it in its list of listeria high risk foods. When did you last hear about pregnant women avoiding hot dogs or melons?

https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/prevention.html
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About support, finding people who have gone through something similar is a great aid, in the sense of not feeling alone and have someone who truly know what is you are going trough.
> Technically they are not responsible anymore it seems.

No, technically whether they or liable or not reverts to normal principles of product liability, rather than their special acceptance of liability.

But manufacturers liability for harms caused by their products, while varying in detail from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, tend to be pretty broad in most of the West (incl. the US, despite it's otherwise weak consumer laws.)
It seems to me that literate programming was partly invented to escape from the rigid structure of Pascal programs; if Knuth had been using a language that allows use before declaration, literate programming would be just comments. Like literate Haskell.
Self-driving cars will be popularized by people not having to pay (increasingly expensive) accident insurance. Once human driving becomes prohibitively expensive, it'll be reserved for the 'elite' who get a kick out of driving a car themselves.
The top post on HN when I last checked was about Mercedes removing all liability from the driver while it's engaged. When I first read that I imagined all the people who would have stories like this. This is the second link I opened, it was number 6. These lawyers must fear consequences for allowing more stories like this to happen.
Can we have the important part of "Mission Computer" in the title as well?
Cant see anyone who would be a fan of this, this is a massive problem for bootstrapped startups, The onlu alternative is then AWS Activate then.
We don't want to say "no mistakes allowed" though, that would be going too far.

It's good for manufacturers to err on on the side of limited capabilities to keep things safer, but we don't want them to err too far in that direction. And if they're providing ongoing insurance with no revenue, that's an incentive to be overly restrictive.
Ah. Yes. The old 'security through obscurity' protection.

It doesn't work.
Cool! My dad who knows nothing about tech had the same idea for cars decades ago. Nice to see someone finally do it.
The "god of manga" Osamu Tezuka (yes, they call him god, not godfather) certainly never denied lifting ideas from Disney and other early American animators.

But there's the difference: Tezuka was, as the moniker makes obvious, hugely successful, also financially. It's easy to be gracious to people copying from you when you're successful yourself.

It's a very different thing when you're struggling and other people are being successful and making bank with ideas copied from you - and that is clearly what irked Satoshi Kon as well.
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I stopped working so that I can go to the cemetery to stay with my son everyday. It's been almost two years.

Hey, this is quite concerning. The pain must be unimaginable. And the atmosphere around you (understandably) is also not in a position to help themselves, let alone help others. But, if you do read this, please, get help. Somehow, someway. There is always a solution.

This is a good first step. Seek for help like you sought help here, friend. Best of luck.
And that's exactly what I imagine they are factoring into their risk analysis when working out their potential liabilities.
At least in Germany the law was ammended to allow this specific scenario.
> Yes but it's (according to the article) the only system that takes on any legal responsibility and guarantees a fairly long takeover window within which Mercedes will still be at fault for an accident.

I don't think it's that big of a deal but it's clearly well done from a PR/marketing standpoint.

Insurance/warranty is just an expense from a companies POV. You control it via a combination of

a) building a well working product

b) limiting use of that product

c) putting a high enough premium on it

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a) is what all customers want. b) is what Mercedes is heavily leaning into right now, because looking at the restrictions it's pretty clear that they don't think they have accomplished a) to any satisfying degree.

I am sure they will be setting c) to where their insurance math says it has to be to be financially viable.
I have started working on a program that can parse Markdown files with fragments of C code and weave those fragments into a C program that can be compiled. For an example input, see https://github.com/FransFaase/RawParser#documentation
It is what the law says in this case.
I personally would let it go since no matter what the child won't come back, they are in a better place now. Instead of fighting evil corp, it would be much more productive to direct that energy in helping other kids who can be helped more easily. There are literally millions of kids in poor countries who are forced to live pretty harsh lives. You can create impact in their lives as well.
Memorization is a stepping stone on the way to mastery.

Reminds me a bit of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari

The agile people have gotten ahold of this principle, but it's pretty cool.

Paraphrased:

Shu - learn to repeat and mimic exactly what the master is doing

Ha - Once you've (memorized?) learned the movements, then you can innovate and add your own twist to it

Ri - Finally, once you've learned to mimic the master and have learned to push boundaries, you can start redrawing them and improvising
Compared to the conditions under which the competition takes legal responsibility they seem quite extensive?
This helps complete the picture, thanks. In my current use-case I am batching up precomputing some expensive calculations in a genetic algorithm which all needs to be finished before I can run the competition. If one of the phenotypes throws an error Promises.all will catch it and my program will continue and I can handle the error, but as for my workers, yup they will leak - and I can't stop that using promises / async / await without leaking some internals of my workers with some shared semaphore or something, which is so 1990's. So yours this was a perfect example that helped bring it all together.

Funnily enough after this thread I did some digging around and came across effection as well, I'd never come across the term "structured concurrency" before but it feels like a natural next step on what I'm trying to accomplish, so I'll definitely be keen to see more development in this area and maybe some first class language constructs at some point.

Thanks for taking the time to give an example and explain the concept in relatable terms.
But you can try to prevent something similar from occuring. There's value in that.
It has as much evidence going for it as fan death does.
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To be picky, these weren't armed rebel groups (at least not until the May Days). They were armed groups defending the legitimate government of Spain from a full-on mutiny and attempted coup by the armed forces and associated right-wing groups.

It was the middle of an insurgency, but these groups were fighting to suppress it, not support it.
I'm not sure that I understand your point. Which party takes responsibility for an accident says nothing about the frequency of accidents or the kind of threat this car would pose to other drivers.
Yes, you can achieve that specific part with Keycloak, and you may end up owned in a different, but equally awful way: https://www.keycloak.org/2021/12/cve There's nothing wrong with Keycloak, and me pointing at this CVE isn't meant as a gotcha. The point is that just because you're doing it yourself doesn't mean you're going to have better protection. Doing this well is difficult.

Okta is a security company, and due to a well-organized, well-funded attacker, they were able to be breached. If a similar attacker is trying to breach you, you're likely going to get breached.
Maybe the analogy would be more accurate comparing to autoland systems? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland
My commiserations to you, what a tragedy.

Other advice is good here that was posted.

My tragedy is not even 1% the same as yours but I will share it to show how it was resolved

1. Lodge a formal complaint with company if you haven't already.

2. Speak to lawyers

3. Speak to local officials, councillors and senior politicians. These people represent you.

4. Threaten to go to papers or social media with your story.

5. At this point normally a big company will escalate to a specific team if you do step 4. To mitigate PR backlash

6. Reiterate your demands

7. Come to a resolution
The way things are looking right now it's the autopilot owners who will have to pay an added insurance premium if the tech gains traction.
The point is that if the designers are not even confident in saying "this works without a hitch under X and Y circumstances", allowing its use on public roads at all (and you choosing to use it) are bad ideas.
I actually have short span of focus as well. My advice is to listen to music while you are working, any kind of music will do, especially one that boost your boost.
I think at one point they told the UN it might take 5 years to put out all of the fires. At the beginning they were doing one well a week, sometimes less. By the end they were doing 2 a day. They started in April and were done by November. In six months they were going over 10x as fast. Which means they probably put out half the fires in the last 8 weeks.