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The Dawn Project's mission is interesting; addressing the threat of critical software written in unsafe ways. Their first target is less so: "Our first campaig
by wffurr 4y ago
The Dawn Project's mission is interesting; addressing the threat of critical software written in unsafe ways. Their first target is less so: "Our first campaign is targeting Tesla full self-driving cars." Why? Just for the press coverage? Because it's an easy target?
Seems like plenty of other much higher impact places to try to get leverage on the problems of unsafe software, like encouraging and improving safe systems programming languages or retrofitting / improving safety systems for legacy code. Compared to the safety discussions at the C++23 meeting (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33762154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33762154), this seems like pure theater.
- kolbe 4y agoTesla/Musk are very convenient targets for political reasons. The most glaring one is Tesla's refusal to be a part of the UAW. Musk also is problematic because he personally has done more to help climate change than democrats, and he did it with 1/10,000th amount of capital.
- thunky 4y ago> Seems like plenty of other much higher impact places to try to get leverage on the problems of unsafe software, like encouraging and improving safe systems programming languages or retrofitting / improving safety systems for legacy code Tesla seems like a perfect example of "critical software written in unsafe ways" if you ask me. I don't think you're saying that it's c++'s fault that Teslas are programmed to run over babies. So can you provide a better real world example of where unsafe software is directly putting people's lives at risk?
- wffurr 4y agoWindows PCs at your doctor's office running Epic.