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by azernik 7y ago
It would indeed, but if it's an irrational panic or an algorithmic mess-up it also allows people to stop and think for a bit. It's a tradeoff, and the main goal is to reduce the extreme failures.
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by azernik 7y ago
IIRC there were limits in 2008.
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by azernik 7y ago
Honestly, primary care doctors seem to put way too much emphasis on weight and way too little on sleep. Imagine if your doctor bugged you to go to sleep as much as they bugged you to cut down on carbs.
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by azernik 7y ago
Thing is, Tesla is not one of the mega-corporations in the running; it's Waymo (Google), Cruise (GM), and possibly Apple.
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by azernik 7y ago
Yup - on the order of halving in price every two years for equivalent models ( https://www.thedrive.com/tech/17297/velodyne-just-cut-the-pr... )
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by azernik 7y ago
On the optics, I'd say the human eye is specialized, but not on the whole outstanding. Fantastic dynamic range, lousy spatial and time resolution, a very good tracking mount. It's just compromised on the things (resolution) that c
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by azernik 7y ago
By a car running a red light, no less.
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by azernik 7y ago
> but mixed with radar can it be effective enough. The usual solution is actually lidar + optical; lidar gives much better spatial resolution than radar, which is why it's been the standard going back to the DARPA challenge. You r
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by azernik 7y ago
Exponential. It gives range and shape data, which a pure-optical system needs to infer from a 2D image. This kind of image processing is still an open problem in ML. The usual metric for self-driving car success is "disengagements per
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by azernik 7y ago
Zero damage. It weighs about 5T and has a diameter of a couple of meters - smaller than a lot of artificial satellites that have reentered.
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by azernik 7y ago
They already had LIDAR, which can easily pick out static objects. The better radar means they have a lower-resolution fallback for poorer weather and longer ranges.
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by azernik 7y ago
They haven't been relying solely on "fancy imaging/neural algo" - every self-driving car since the DARPA challenge has used LIDAR, and a good chunk of the self-driving R&D funding has gone into making those cheaper.
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by azernik 7y ago
Disengagement is whenever the human test driver has to intervene. The car stalling in the middle of the road would only be counted as a disengagement if it doesn't recover on its own.
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by azernik 7y ago
What big glossy hype? This is a blog post, and not a particularly-high-production-value one. Most self-driving car developers are publicized, if at all, by interested science journalists.
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by azernik 7y ago
This is adding extra LIDARs, on top of the one they already had. Tesla had its issues because they are trying to do it on the cheap with only cameras, radar, and ultrasonics. That specific failure mode would have been prevented with the h
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by azernik 7y ago
Probably very similar things - there are only so many useful types of sensors and good places on a car to put them.
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by azernik 7y ago
Tesla is not a good piece of evidence. They registered a grand total of 12.2 autonomous miles in 2019. Their "Autopilot" is a particularly fancy driver assist system; if you take their marketing at face value and treat it like an
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by azernik 7y ago
The modern Hebrew (actually Aramaic [1]) alphabet and the Arabic alphabet are both derived from the Phoenician alphabet, which itself was derived (via proto-Sinaitic) from Egyptian hieroglyphs. Egyptian hieroglyphs themselves may or may not
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by azernik 7y ago
We can get heuristics with lower false positives these days.
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by azernik 7y ago
This is not a dystopian fantasy; it's exactly how intelligence agencies map out terrorist groups' and foreign militaries' structures online. Israel is supposedly particularly good at this kind of analysis, but I'm sure o
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by azernik 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're
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by azernik 7y ago
Not "more data than any of the others" - just a specific kind of access that usually comes with much closer intelligence relationships (e.g. Five Eyes), rather than the more wary relationship the Israeli and US intelligence commun
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by azernik 7y ago
Not surprised I'm mostly familiar with it from Israeli discourse.
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by azernik 7y ago
> (aka Work-to-Rule) Yup! Same thing, different name. "Italian Strike" is what they call it in European and Middle Eastern labor organizing traditions. EDIT: With a bit of research: the term seems to have originated with the Bi
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by azernik 7y ago
Boring but effective.
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by azernik 7y ago
I would think it's the other way around: "sufficiently sophisticated malice is indistinguishable from stupidity".
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by azernik 7y ago
An Italian Strike (aka Work-to-Rule) is a version of this aimed at minimizing civil or criminal liability to strikers - pick the most inconvenient and debilitating safety regs that no one follows, and follow every single one of them. This i
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by azernik 7y ago
Nope, this is actually the kind of thing that e.g. the French Resistance would coordinate, under the guidance of the British SOE. The pennies add up, and in the case of precision parts like drill bits producing endless replacements ate up v
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by azernik 7y ago
The subsidies created the scale and experience required to lower the costs; they're not included in the cost numbers. With current technology, they are cheaper without subsidies.
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by azernik 7y ago
Agreed on flying cars, but I wanted to point out a glaring inaccuracy in the opening that undercuts the author's broader argument: "By 2000 or so that curve had flattened out in the usual way as PV cells became a mature technology

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