skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So now we have driverless cars effectively classified as emergency ambulances - so assuming the CARNOC is paying attention, they then drive the car to the hospital - and have to have a mechanism to contact said hospital"

They don't necessarily need to drive the person to the hospital. They could just call a real ambulance and wait in place for it.
>He did OK, but they were overlong, inconsistent, poorly paced, full of one-dimensional characters and set-piece battle scenes with deus ex machina outcomes, and so. much. exposition.

Sounds quite faithful to me. The books are plodding, most of the characters are fairly simple, and there's entire chapters that describe rolling hills and lush forests...to say nothing of the songs.
This really does smack of elitism. Not everyone simply has the time to do that.
I started in bronze, managed to grind all the way up to diamond with all 3 races. I enjoyed it because I also followed the esport scene around it. Honestly, it was the esport scene that drew me in initially back in 2011ish. It was fun to watch pro games, become inspired to play better, and then immediately jump on the ladder and try out new things I've learned. I took a big break partway through HotS due to the very stale metagame that made it boring to play and watch, but I recently picked it up again and managed to get diamond again with all 3 races. I think it's in the best shape it has ever been.
bourgeois ideology is contagious, sadly.
Noscript or Umatrix?
I think what attracts people varies widely - I grew up watching Michael Jordan, drifted away from basketball in the late '90s and early '00s (although I loved Allen Iverson), and came back to the game in college. I still like the things I liked when I was a kid - NBA players are at least in the conversation for "most athletic human beings on earth", and the physical acts they can pull off are amazing. As I got older, I also started to appreciate the strategy better. The overall level of strategy on offense and defense has also dramatically improved in the last 10 years or so. And the advent of some new technologies has made it easier to notice interesting facets of the game - breakdowns like this: https://cleaningtheglass.com/lebron-reads-the-defense/ weren't widely available even a few years ago.

Once you start to see the little things like that, the game gets a lot more interesting. The easy way to know some of those quirks and tiny elements is to grow up playing the game, which is where a lot of people's fandoms come from. But I think sports leagues/announcers/media could make more of an effort to highlight those games within the games, rather than shooting for the lowest common denominators, which they frequently do.
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You don't use decentralized consensus in this model. It's a single node that's maintaining the blockchain state. Monitors actively watch the blockchain to make sure the node doesn't deviate from the code contract. If there is a fork in the blockchain, that'd be because the single node created that fork in an attempt to create two versions of the state-- that's a break in the contract and it would be viewed as a fatal corruption event.
Right, they close their doors and avert their gaze
This California tax predictor suggests a single person earning 51K will pay 40.65% marginal income tax rate, 22.5% effective income tax and only 29% effective including sales, fuel and property tax.

https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#8x5pQ...
> Level 0: Automated system issues warnings but has no vehicle control.

> Level 1 (”hands on”): Driver and automated system shares control over the vehicle. An example would be Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) where the driver controls steering and the automated system controls speed. Using Parking Assistance, steering is automated while speed is manual. The driver must be ready to retake full control at any time. Lane Keeping Assistance (LKA) Type II is a further example of level 1 self driving.

> Level 2 (”hands off”): The automated system takes full control of the vehicle (accelerating, braking, and steering). The driver must monitor the driving and be prepared to immediately intervene at any time if the automated system fails to respond properly. The shorthand ”hands off” is not meant to be taken literally. In fact, contact between hand and wheel is often mandatory during SAE 2 driving, to confirm that the driver is ready to intervene.

> Level 3 (”eyes off”): The driver can safely turn their attention away from the driving tasks, e.g. the driver can text or watch a movie. The vehicle will handle situations that call for an immediate response, like emergency braking. The driver must still be prepared to intervene within some limited time, specified by the manufacturer, when called upon by the vehicle to do so. In 2017 the Audi A8 Luxury Sedan was the first commercial car to claim to be able to do level 3 self driving. The car has a so called Traffic Jam Pilot. When activated by the human driver the car takes full control of all aspects of driving in slow-moving traffic at up to 60 kilometers per hour. The function only works on highways with a physical barrier separating oncoming traffic.

> Level 4 (”mind off”): As level 3, but no driver attention is ever required for safety, i.e. the driver may safely go to sleep or leave the driver's seat. Self driving is supported only in limited areas (geofenced) or under special circumstances, like traffic jams. Outside of these areas or circumstances, the vehicle must be able to safely abort the trip, i.e. park the car, if the driver does not retake control.

> Level 5 (”steering wheel optional”): No human intervention is required. An example would be a robotic taxi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#Levels_of_drivi...
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If you don't think there is `S` in SC2 I would think you haven't played it much.
One of the Ethereum founders (Gavin Wood) lost the proceeds from their recent ICO to this bug. So, very good friends?
It might have something to do with this chart: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/926781/thumbs/s-COLLEGE-TEXTBOOKS-... (not just textbooks). Remember of course that median incomes have been almost exactly flat over the same interval.
In this case the library was also written by Parity. They were trying to minimize the gas cost of deploying a new wallet, which imho doesn't seem like the best thing to worry about optimizing, for a contract that may hold millions of dollars.
Less dramatic, but it makes a lot of sense. If nothing else, a human presence is probably still useful for common cases like a human rear-ending the car. I haven't really seen anyone with a plan for handling all the non-driving issues cars regularly face.
I, for one, welcome a car that will automatically take me to a hospital should I become incapacitated in the car.

Yet another way for driverless cars to save lives over the current situation.
As someone who practices IF semi-strictly, is there any benefit to taking this while maintaining a low level of carb intake? Or is it's ideal use case for someone who wants to get carb intake levels higher?
But, why don't they do what's done in China: Rent a room and share it with someone. Even if the cheapest rooms cost 1000$ a month, that would be 500$ per person, if there's 2 people per room. In the army, you share a bunk with nearly a dozen.

It certainly doesn't absolve us of having to build much more, but at least it's a short term solution.
One issue is in the rural areas they delivery mail in their own cars, not USPS mail trucks. But ultimately Google could loan/lease their cars to those drivers.
I've gone Bronze to Diamond recently with no prior RTS. Probably wouldn't have got there without watching lots of GSL/WCS/Proleague/Lowko/PiG videos, but needing to be engaged in learning like that is true of anything difficult.
You're right, thanks for the correction. Very confusing language though, an oversight in editing perhaps?
Security paranoia aside that would be a great way to keep Google Maps up to date even if it was just done quarterly. And frankly I'm sure the US Post Office could use the revenue from whatever Google would pay to do the mapping.
Well, it is important to avoid creating a culture of dependence. We've seen how that can backfire on us in Africa. So it's not totally irrational.
Because if the solution is to punish a person not an entity that protected that person then nothing would change.

Also, he operated as an officer of the company.
Several hundred in gas, I'm guessing, and that may not be such an insignificant amount if you're that much on the margin.

Remember: you almost definitely aren't paying for it on credit in this scenario.
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It would be interesting to get stats on homeless churn - the proportion of the homeless people who were homeless 3 months ago, or who will be homeless in 3 months - and then qualitative data on who those people are and why they're homeless.

The aphorism I've heard is that "People become homeless for all sorts of reasons. People stay homeless for just one: mental illness."

Note that it's not contradictory for a majority of the homeless (by the numbers) to have jobs and be homeless for reasons beyond their control, and yet for you (as someone who works with the homeless community) to see a majority of them as suffering from mental illness or drug use. This would happen if there's a large margin of people living on the edge: they're making it work one month, then they lose their job or their rent goes up and they're homeless, then they get another job or find a cheaper place and they're no longer homeless. From your perspective as a provider of services, these are transient folks who come in once and then you never see them again, and you wouldn't remember them. From the statistics on homelessness, they could very well make up a much larger fraction of the homeless than the chronic mental illness & drug abuse cases, particularly in times of great economic change like now.
Parity actually used a contract module in this case.
AFAIK grsecurity allows to disable USB completely after boot, which should avoid many of these problems. Is there another similar solution?
I wish you had another option as I am not on facebook.
I wonder if there is a business model for a company to recreate the 1995 native desktop UX for popular web services (scraping, API). Relatedly, how much various web SaaS tools can be... de-webbed without significant loss of functionality?
This implies that the moral cost of corruption (knowing you are responsible for banrupting the city you represent for example) means absolutely nothing to the elected official.
They'll fork it to unfreeze millions of funds.

It's just funny how decentralized currency is so easily swayed by a few individuals to serve their purpose.
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Leaving everything and, more importantly, everyone you know is not an easy choice to make. There are many, many reasons—human reasons that pure economics can't capture—to stay in a place. A sense of home. Social support. Simple attachment. Maybe even just stubbornness. Point is, this is about way more than money.
Which cities are you thinking of? I bet you're leaving out a bunch of cheaper places that are also growing in the southern US/Texas region, among others.
No fitbit required. The interiors will have multiple video cameras of the interior. An automated system that flags unusual behavior, then alerts a human would be fine.

For emergencies where the passenger is more responsive, an "onstar"-like emergency button that calls emergency support staff would probably suffice.
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> Tangentially, I would encourage anyone still in college to take some psychology classes while you have the opportunity.

What will you give me?
Mind you, these digital currencies aren't much like a safety-deposit box (i.e. the actual Super Safe Cash Box.) They're more like a bank.

Safety-deposit boxes are dumb stores for objects. They've never been marketed on features; in fact the opposite, they're marketed partially on the idea that nobody can open them but you. Therefore, no services (e.g. automatic transfers) can be built that depend on someone being able to automatically do things to your safety deposit box without you there to watch.

Banks (specifically, checking and savings accounts) are not dumb stores of money. They don't even hold onto your money; they leverage it into investments. Banks have always been built on "loads of advanced features" like compound interest, wire transfers, cheques, etc.—things the bank can do to your money because it is not, in fact, a Super Safe Cash Box. It's a convenient, maybe-safe money-management agent.

Bank accounts are only really trustworthy because of 1. a long track-record, and 2. being insured against losses (in banks' case, by the government.) Those are the same requirements I would put on any digital-currency+contracts system before I considered it trustworthy. Digital-currency+contracts is trying to do banking with banking features, so hold it to the expectations of a bank.
I think it means that a library written in Kotlin is difficult or impossible to use from Java.
if it's "easy" does that imply it must "happen yet"?
Maybe this:

https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/

However, I assume any chip released after they added the backdoors also has the backdoors. So, you'd be looking for pre-2007, Pentium-class chips in SMP configuration. Maybe Pentium 4 Prescot-2M or Cedar Mill. Wikipedia shows the latter was on same node as Core Duo with 3-3.6GHz plus 2MB cache.

Far as non-Intel, both PPC and SPARC used Open Firmware. Plenty of them on eBay. Gaisler also made GPL versions of Leon3 you could build yourself or buy as a development board for who knows what price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware

In high-assurance security, I remember BootSafe tech letting someone write firmware in Java to benefit from all its testing and verification tech that was then translated into Open Firmware's Forth in a way that preserved the properties. That tech went proprietary but still exists. Something similar could be done in FOSS with a Rust or SPARK to Forth converter leveraging hard work already done by compiler/verification teams of source languages.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~kozen/papers/acsac.pdf
Works beautifully with w3m which has become my main site test lately. Another great example is HN itself.

If it doesn't work well with w3m something is wrong with the site philosophy or execution.
It's not "Haskell syntax" - the language itself doesn't have that many syntactic constructs. The "line noise" feeling comes from the ability to define new operators with custom precedence and associativity and the fact that people use the custom operators for everything. I don't know why it is so - OCaml also allows you to define your own operators, but OCaml programmers tend to use that ability much less frequently.
> They are only "essential" properties according to the limitations of your particular perceptual system. To a bee that can see UV light, a stick bug may look entirely different from an actual stick. An animal that hunts by scent would find them clearly distinct.

This is a very confused statement. Fist, since we are talking about image recognition we are - by definition - talking about vision in the spectrum that can be captured by a digital camera and encoded in a typical image format. Second, there definitely is such a thing as essential property. It is a matter of correlation with reality, as well as internal consistency. For example, plants are green and have leaves because of the way they use sunlight. So permuting color of all leaves in the picture is fundamentally different from permuting luminosity of some random pixels.
Was there. Can confirm it was Kane and Lynch.
These articles always find insane numbers. People pack into apartments and houses before leaving. I lived in Santa Clara right near the Caltrain tracks, which is in no way a ghetto area. But 2-3 bedroom apartments frequently had 4 or more cars and ~2-4 adults and 1-2 kids. Our apartment was a 3 bedroom 2 bath and was 2500 and we had 3 of us and 3 cars. This was my first apartment after college with two friends, was cheap for me as a junior dev.
There would be several bystanders in a typical Copenhagen rail car; they would be able to call for help. This wouldn't necessarily be the case in a driverless car; if the only passenger has a medical emergency, it would be up to the vehicle to detect that and take appropriate action.
>This is not a result of prohibitive housing prices or anything like that

The counter example is in the article is one of a couple who receive $1500 a month and can't find a residence? You're argument is this is an anomaly?

I don't understand the mental gymnastics some people have to go through in order to convince themselves the problem in articles is not the problem. It happened in the Susan Fowler thread too.

There is also increasingly more evidence that drug use is more attributed to escapism or a learned behavior of happier times and should be treated as a societal issue and mental illness seems to be a catch all for all the societal ills we don't want to deal with. I'd probably be addicted to drugs and have mental illness too if I had to shit in a bucket everyday in my shit filled RV.
Presumably one would have to first formalize that constraint (taking care, for example, that 'not stranded' is not being satisfied by someone stealing the assets), and then, unless the language makes it impossible, prove that it is not violated anywhere. In Solidity, it is a long deductive chain from the specific bug here to the realization that it could lead to stranding.
Yes, probably. I have a Logitech wireless mouse, and it's terrible when anywhere even remotely near to a USB3 hub.

[Edit: plenty of other comments about Logitech issues too]
For something as important as contract code, there should still have been more failsafes. Even just having a kill() on the main contract that doesn't delegate out to the library would have protected against this.
They'd pay more for what's left. The customers would in turn pay more. It'd be a crisis then apparently, but one the hiring class could subvert through higher wages across the board.
Is it really so tricky to just accept this and pay to look after them?

People don't want to do that. But one day we may be able to effectively make the argument that we are paying to look after them one way or the other, and we are currently looking after them with the most expensive possible resources, e.g. first responders, penitentiary, etc.

If the argument can be made effectively I think we can get there, but that's the key. You can get people to vote against their ethics & beliefs, but only if you really prove to them that even if it's counterintuitive, you're saving them money.
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Maybe some of us prefer not deincentivizing work and creating an even larger subpopulation which is entirely dependent on government and won't be employable for generations?

We live in a reality where resources still require effort and capital to extract from the environment. A society can only support so many through welfare before it collapses.

The subject is a little more nuanced than watching people die out of some kind of jealousy.
Old PS/2 keyboards are faster than USB because they were based on interrupts. That said, I think the cause underlying perceived low speed on modern platforms is more a bloat and inefficiency problem. Things are totally out of control. The PS/2 slight advantage over USB is an anecdote.
Programming – but in which language?
The client is getting a rework soon.

As for the 30%, imo it's about right.
I personally try to avoid games that aren't on steam (and more recently GOG).
Steam provides friendliest, cloud saves, simple install to anywhere, automatic updates, matchmaking, workshop, easy uninstall, and playtime tracking.
All of these are minor features but combined they greatly incentivse buying there.
> that's basically giving all the power to banks and governments to control the transactions which is exactly what we have now.

Sorry for a possibly stupid question, but... what, exactly, is wrong with the current control governments and banks have on your transactions?
Late to the party here, but could you comment on your experience with Meteor-Vue? I just ported an app from Viewmodel back to traditional blaze, but really want to rebuild the frontend in Vue for performance.

What do you use for forms and other items that have packages in the blaze ecosystem?
The cars could be subject to vandalism, or at the very least really aggressive driving. The predictability of the driving and the lack of a driver is going to result in weird interactions with people.
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It's interesting you bring up healthcare. My wife's cousin is currently working as a travelling nurse. He get shipped off to some rural part of the country for 8 weeks to (mostly) work the over night shift at various rural ERs.

Apparently it's near impossible to fill the roles otherwise.
This is not especially good reporting from Dan Goodin. You're better off going to his primary sources, the most important of which is Dan Bernstein's blog:

http://blog.cr.yp.to/20171105-infineon.html

Really, all he's saying is:

* Estonia is expediting the replacement of their ID cards. They probably should have done that earlier.

* More Estonian ID cards are vulnerable than were previously known. But so many were known to be vulnerable in the first place that ROCA already represented a grave problem.

* Dan Bernstein and Tanja Lange were, unsurprisingly, able to outdo the exploit implementation that the original ROCA team came up with. Someone else will get a faster implementation. The vulnerability was only recently published; Bernstein and Lange got their competing attack by re-discovering it from clues from the partial "teaser" discovery. There's been no serious competition for exploits and probably won't be.

All the ROCA exploits we know of place broken Infineon keys in the category of "breakable by with a 5-figure budget". That was the case both before and after Bernstein's post. Obviously, you can't use RSA keys that are 5-figures away from being factorized. Someone may get the budget down to 4 figures, but if you're still using a vulnerable key by that point, you've got bigger problems.

The most irritating thing about this reporting is the angle Goodin chose: "flaw more serious than anticipated". No, even given just the teaser details, ROCA was known (and widely acknowledged) to be a game-over problem. And not just for Estonia: everyone using a Y4 key to protect a VPN or SSH connection also needs to have their keys recalled, so the security nerds were pretty alert to the problem.

The better angle for the story is "partial disclosure doesn't work". Disclose or don't disclose. Don't create an easter egg hunt by releasing a teaser disclosure. Nobody working in crypto or software security was too surprised that Bernstein and Lange were able to reproduce the attack from clues (there were a lot of clues). They're right when they say in their blog post that others have probably figured out this exploit before the ROCA team (especially since it was sort of teased from an earlier paper). Which leaves the question of why the ROCA authors bothered to withhold publication after announcing the flaw.
I'm slightly biased of course, but Javalin is just a lot simpler to use. That might be because it's inherently simpler, or because Ktor's docs (as you pointed out) are very incomplete. I've tried to setup simple apps in Ktor to compare how it feels to write apps in it compared to Javalin, but I have given up on a lot of them because of the lack of documentation.

Other than that, Javalin is aimed at java-devs who have switched (or are interested in switching) to Kotlin, and works equally well in Java and Kotlin. Ktor is probably a better fit if you're a Kotlin purist.