skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several thoughts on this. First, this is legal tax avoidance, not evasion which is actually illegal. Yes, it sucks, but it's completely legal, which you mention, but the terminology is important.

Second, I've thought of something similar for a different tax issue but didn't pursue it because I would probably run into a million legal and political problems. I had considered trying to legally deprive the state where I live of taxes on the sale of vehicles. I came up with a plan to use an intermediary and a set of contracts that are similar to stock options to allow pass through premium for the contract to flow though the intermediary for what would amount to basically 99.99% of the total cost and then exercise the contract for $1. So $1 would be the purchase price, the intermediary gets a small fee, and then remits the rest of the flow through premium to the entity selling the vehicle. In this manner, the total cost remains the same, and the profit of the dealership remains unchanged (less the small intermediary fee) and therefore their corporate tax would be unchanged. But since the purchase price is $1 no sales tax would need to be paid. I didn't pursue it because 1) I'm not a lawyer and 2) this would put a giant target on my back for the corrupt trash that runs my state to aim for.

Lastly, I think your thought is good but wouldn't pan out because in the end individuals can't not receive income wherever they live. So if you receive that income in your home country, you are paying income tax on it. These companies are able to have special laws that apply because they simultaneously exist in multiple locations. And they have an entirely different set of tax laws than those that apply to individuals. So this doesn't seem possible. The way I think this should be done is to apply a flat rate on top line revenue of, say, 2%. This can't be avoided because the tax is incurred simply by doing business in the country. That's basically the equivalent of making sure they are paying some minimal amount to access the market. Then the rest of the income tax laws can still apply and corporations can offset their income tax with whatever has been paid via this top line revenue tax.
The earliest Intel Atom chips (Nxxx series) are supposedly safe, but they were only ever used in woefully underpowered netbooks and nettops, and they had perhaps half the performance of a similarly clocked (much older) Pentium M. That performance metric is documented, and I've felt it myself when I owned a Pentium M laptop and Atom N450 netbook at the same time a few years ago.

A few ARM SoCs -- including the entire line used in Raspberry Pi boards -- are safe, but the vast majority of recent ARM devices are affected by one or more of the attack vectors. This means virtually any flagship and most if not all midrange smartphones and tablets, even iPhones and iPads, are vulnerable.

This is the most complete list of affected CPUs and SoCs I've found, and they appear to be keeping it updated:

https://www.techarp.com/guides/complete-meltdown-spectre-cpu...
Better ban them just to be sure.
We are not going to sell your data, nor can we (especially if it’s end-to-encrypted or sitting on someone else’s server)! The plan for making $ at New Vector is to provide paid hosted services of various kinds instead. (I work on Matrix).
Incrementing… So pixels at the bottom right of the image are the most likely to be flipped from the source image. Interesting. (Edit: Assuming big-endianness and left-to-right, top-to-bottom printing of the pixels/bits)

Nonetheless, yes, using this to create security keys would probably be a good way to lose your bitcoin. :D
Scientists Discover a Bone-Deep Risk for Heart Disease
At one point in the next few hours coinbase employees will enter this discussion. They will probably elevate your issue and make sure you are responded to within hours.

This is of course just a measure they take to keep the crowd silent. And it will not help other people with the same/other problems.

Please report them to BBB and other authorities within your reach. Companies should receive no love for this kind of behaviour.

If you can't scale your customer service with demand stop the signups, like binance did. Coinbase seems to be constantly unable to satisfy spikes in demand, such a company should not be trusted with money.
So, if FB has the state of the art and they are still employing armies of contractors then maybe they are just using said contractors to create their training data set.
Decentralised services mitigate the somebody taking liability for the coordination.
SaaS Companies: You Have an Unprecedented Opportunity
Perhaps it shouldn't even bother generating a binary number that ends in '0'
Yep. Just ask all the kids who get backed over in driveways. Sad to read another story every month or so, and that's just in Australia. :(

Ought to be mandatory equipment, along with reverse sensors. The latter have the advantage of working passively (your hearing doesn't need active focus).
Boy you'll find my story hilarious...

I uploaded a photo of my driver's license for identity verification, and they either use humans or ML to read my name. Suffice it to say, they got the wrong name on my account and I've been unable to change it for months!

Check out this email I got from them!
https://steemit.com/coinbase/@subcosmos/coinbase-incorrectly...
From everything I've seen so far, it's more accurate to say that Elon Musk is selling Apeture Science-styled weed burners.

Flamethrowers look like _this_ : https://youtu.be/aPQYK5ZMbWY?t=18m39s
Huh, how are they a middleman? You mean between individuals trading (GDAX) or between cryptocurrency and fiat currency (the main Coinbase.com product)? Neither of those services are what I would call a “middleman,” and neither of them are “supposed” to not exist in the cryptocurrency market (with the exception of some proposals to create fully decentralized exchanges).
No you really can't. There can only be one ESP and that's in the spec. You can have multiple partitions each assigned as /boot for a different OS, but there can only be one ESP which is used by the firmware to store its settings, etc.

The EFI spec [0] is officially silent about the presence of multiple EFI system partitions on non-removable hard drives, but explicitly forbids multiple ESPs on removable disks, per §11.2.1.3:

> For removable media devices there must be only one EFI system partition, and that partition must contain an EFI defined directory in the root directory

But in practice, Bad Things (TM) happen if you have more than one ESP on the boot disk.

An ESP isn't just a partition mounted to /boot or one that has bootfiles or a bootloader, it's (in practice) a FAT32 partition that has a different filesystem ID, in particular, the magic GUID {C12A7328-F81F-11d2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B}

I'm the author of EasyBCD and numerous other boot utilities and spent a hell of a lot of a time (too much time) researching and working around the various UEFI deficiencies in various desktops, laptops, firmware implementations, bootloaders, and operating systems.

Here's a Microsoft bulletin on the matter: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2879602/unable-to-b...

(long story short, the Windows kernel may bork if it runs into multiple ESPs and fail to load. Our bootable boot repair CDs wouldn't boot into the WinPE kernel because the disk management subsystem would hit an infinite loop in certain cases (not this case). We ended up switching to FreeBSD for our live CDs and writing our own disk repair subroutines to get around cases where even Windows live CDs wouldn't boot so we could fix the customer's PCs)

Linux may not hang if there are multiple ESPs (except it sometimes does), but it certainly doesn't support treating multiple partitions as the ESP simultaneously, either: https://superuser.com/questions/688617/how-many-efi-system-p...

[0]: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/product-specification/...
> if not enough people are using them, they're useless

I feel like it only takes a handful of active users in your network to make the app worthwhile, though. I use a variety of messengers (including Riot) to talk with different people and don't find it burdensome, even if it is suboptimal.
America has way too many stop sign.

I sometomes think most are there for Revenue Collection.

That said--I'm old and tired, and can't drink like I used to.
I'm saying they should be able to automate flagging of the really bad stuff because it will likely be copies of the same video (by virtue of being so bad) ...
I agree, but it's not exactly like PXE didn't exist before EFI was invented, and AIUI EFI actually decided to reuse PXE instead of NIHing another overengineered non-solution, so honestly that's not even so bad.
In my limited interactions, he was a great person and incredibly patient, too.
I'm not disagreeing with your right to your opinion - just that I think you have rose colored glasses on about Apple and their quest to maintain backwards compatibility.

The Mac came out in 1984 and was incompatible with the Apple //e.

System 7 back in 1992 broke a number of old apps.

The 040 line came out and broke a number of apps.

Sure you could run 68K Mac apps on the first PPC Macs but they were dreadfully slow and people ended up buying SpeedDoubler by Connectix with a much improved emulator.

Have you forgotten about all of the apps that broke that weren't "32 bit clean" and the ones that broke that used self modifying code when the '040 came out?
Future tunnel borers will need these to repel the Deros.
>You are entitled to an opinion, but this means replacing a system that had never had any problem

The submarine model in the article doesn't have consensus in it, its very binary in its decision making process.
*Hal Finney had himself cryopreserved.

I read that as: cryptopreserved.
Thanks! I was hoping there were dates somewhere...

...but as a counterpoint, this says June in the sub-heading: https://www.wsj.com/articles/intel-wrestled-with-chip-flaws-... (though I can't find supporting info in the body)

I'd love to find something conclusive :\ seems like everyone's implying different things / nobody actually has concrete evidence or dates.
Two questions:

1. You've made an off-hand comment on one of your videos that a sequential dense network is just a generalization of any other type of neural network architecture. In theory you could re-create an RNN or CNN through just Dense layers. But obviously it's not practical.

Why isn't it practical? Is it because the network would have to be too deep, or too wide? Would the optimizer just get stuck in a local minima or would overfitting be inevitable? Or perhaps some combination of issues?

What do you think is the best hope for a generalized network architecture, most similar to our brain?

2. On a somewhat related note, do you have a strong enough faith in the current machine learning algorithms and architectures being used (RNNs, CNNs, capsule networks) that given infinite resources (time training and network size), that we would be able to create a meaningful general AI? Or do you think that our current approach is just incremental and a truly different approach would be required to achieve meaningful AI?
Do you really need AI though? I am using a simple branching tree structure for commands and queries I know I want, and since it's for my use I already know those commands, and they tend to match my conversational style to begin with.

For the purposes of outside knowledge queries you might not be able to come up with in advance, there's good cause to outsource those rare requests out to the Internet: Just do it intelligently. Require a prefix instruction for an outside request.

For instance, I went ahead and implement Wolfram's API for knowledge queries. They have a great "spoken answer" endpoint, which replies with a string meant to be piped straight to speech output. So I "ask wolfram how tall abraham lincoln was", my program hands everything AFTER "ask wolfram" to the Wolfram API, and Wolfram's API gives me a string back with exactly what I asked.

Now sure, I'm not entirely offline at that point, but everything regarding my personal data, home automation devices, etc. is under my control, and any time I reach out, it's specifically using a command authorizing it to do so.

Of course, caveats before you think my project sounds impressive: A. It's written in Visual Basic. B. Speech recognition isn't working (yet).
I have never worked as a quant, but I have got a couple of job offers a few years ago when interviewing at the end of grad school.

Things might have changed in the last 5 years or so, no idea. But back then, in my experience, you didn't need any financial background or knowledge. The core of the interview was puzzles (way harder than what tech companies used to ask) and algorithms in whichever language you wanted (a bit easier than tech). Theoretical knowledge of statistics was also required to pass the interview.

To be honest, I hope by now they changed the interview format. I doubt that structure would actually help them identify the best candidates.
LOL, and the weird Insert-Tab-A-into-Slot-B look. Like brushed aluminum faceplates or art-deco bakelite, down the road they're going to scream the era they were created in.
> Driving a car isn't a right but a privilege so I'm on with this.

The right to privacy IS a right and NOT a privilege.

So I'm not down with this.
From the linked description of the plaintiff's accounts, a US citizen:

> .. A few days later, while returning from a day trip to Canada, I was once again detained and told to hand over my phone. When I refused, three agents used force against me. One agent grabbed my neck and began to choke me while another wrapped up my arms and legs. The third agent reached into my pants’ pocket and took my phone, all while I was in severe pain and fearing for my life.

Agents once more took my phone out of my sight, only to later return it without any explanation for what they did with my phone.

I had not heard this account before, and it's pretty shocking. I had assumed that while migrants/permanent-residents could be denied entry, US citizens could have their time-wasted/device-confiscated at worst.

I didn't realize that the government had given itself the power to literally beat physical access to personal computing devices out of people without a warrant.
Aren't the browser vendors the gatekeepers here? As long as there are browsers that are given away for free, the decoders would be have to be made also. And if the browsers refuse to add a decoder unless encoding is also patent-free, then we have free codecs.
Because a lot of companies pay costs on products they don't control. A company like Netflix generally has to store their movie files in multiple different formats to support all the various different devices that are out there. If they want to improve the format, they need everyone else on board.
Show HN: GarliGUI – A JavaFX GUI for Mining Garlicoin Using SGMiner
There can be lost sales due to quality. Clients usually have a demo or a trial before they buy.
I have no idea what the conversations were like because I don't pay much attention to bitcoin (and less to the history) outside of HN but presenting things as dialogue is often more engaging and effective than monologue. Even in monologue exposition people often pose themselves rhetorical questions.

As an example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_...
NYC voted in a Republican for mayor in 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005 and sort-of in 2009 (he ran on the Republican line, but wasn't a party member).

To contrast that with partisan affiliation when it comes to national politics, the last time NYC went for a Republican presidential candidate was 1924 for Calvin Coolidge.
Labor and Automation’s Symbiotic Relationship
Only if you "sign in" to the google maps app. Which otherwise works fine without signing in.
I thought the same thing. It's not just impolite, there are safety implications as well to being revealed as a potentially really rich person. Plus, the person "identified" may or may not have the resources to defend themselves.
Mileage may vary based on device and age. This was going on seven years ago now and not on a device that could run CyanogenMod. Google has significantly reworked their storage handling since this incident. I am still miffed about the accusation of piracy though.
I think it's pretty easy to deal with it actually. Just apply a top line revenue tax of something like 2%. That can't be avoided because it is incurred at the point of sale. So it becomes an effective tax on accessing the market of that state/country. Then you would still have the corporate income tax that gets applied but companies would be able to offset their income tax liability with taxes paid for this new top line revenue tax. So it essentially becomes a sort of AMT tax for companies to ensure that they are paying some sort of minimum tax. 2% might not sound like much but when you consider that it's top line revenue and the majority of companies have profit margins in the 10-25% range, this equates to a minimum tax rate of 8-20%.
Every time I hear someone say "The world is getting better" or "We're living in amazing times", it's always a super rich person. Not saying they're wrong or anything, just an observation.
Agreed, but the article does explain why it costs absurd amount cost per mile. Unnecessary roles that don't reflect modern construction techniques, high union labor costs, regulations, and concession to people to minimize quality of life disruptions, etc. I'm all for fair wages, but $110+/hour or $225,000/year? Give me a break. You'd have lines going out to NJ if they open up the job to everyone at $85,000/year.

I work in healthcare and we all know WHY it costs outrageous amount here in the states, but nobody wants to fix it because EVERYBODY has his or her finger in the pie.

Yes, price gouging is a problem, but it's only side effect of a bad system. Healthcare is expensive because there are too many damn fingers in the pie, and nobody wants to pull his or hers out first.

Doctors, hospitals, private insurance, drug distributors, medical device makers, lawyers, pharma, pharmacists, physical therapy center. Guess what all these entities have? IT, HR, Sales & marketing, etc.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249058
I just filed a complaint with the CFPB on the recommendation of another HN user below; it was super easy and I now realize I should have done so much earlier. I honestly just kept expecting this would be resolved, and was trying my best to be patient and not complain. In retrospect, bad strategy! I should have complained a lot more publicly, earlier.

I do hope that someone who works for Coinbase sees this, and I'll be sure to update when/if they resolve it. I don't think that this company is a new Mt. Gox run by scammers like some people on r/coinbase seem to, but I am kind of shocked that I have spent ~6 hours on their customer service line, sent ~10 emails and tweets, and ~10 messages on their online help desk (and now this thread) and I still am just sitting here with an "escalated case" from last year with no updates.
>then the solution is to invest more fully in the process, giving meaning to your life through activities that have no terminal point

There has to be a potential endpoint or else there's no meaning. Pick a hard problem which you find intensely meaningful and take small steps each day towards solving it.

As Karl Popper put it:

'I think there is only one way to do science – or to do philosophy for that matter; to meet a problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with it; to get married to it, and to live with it happily, till death do ye part - unless you should meet another and even more fascinating problem, or unless indeed you should obtain a solution. But even if you do obtain a solution you may then discover to your delight, the existence of a whole family of enchanting though perhaps difficult problem children for whose welfare you may work, with a purpose to the end of your days'
nice title bro
The LinuxBoot kernel establishes a hardware root of trust with the TPM and measures the ROM before bringing up any IO devices, so when it connects to the network it is able to perform a remote attestation as to its state. This way the hosting provider or customer can decide to not provision a node that has somehow been modified by a prior tenant.

For a network booting scenario the LinuxBoot server can use GPG to validate the signature on the kernel that it receives over the network. Additionally, secrets can be sealed in the TPM and only unlocked if the received kernel matches the expected one (and if the local firmware is unmodified).
MTP is super unreliable. When copying a lot of files off a phone, I usually have to disconnect and retry at least once or twice.
Yes. This is the lie of software patents. That somehow without thousands of lawyers and corrupt business contracts engineers will stop innovating. We don't need them.
Clearly the current implementation is not enough, but I wonder if there is a way to do this properly with actual security, and yet be reproducible for a normal human (we can assume the same camera and lighting).

Maybe some kind of marker in the image that is used for cropping and scaling?

Being able to see a particular image, and at a particular time of day (or indoors I guess), would definitely be an interesting security key.

(Hollywood: feel free to take this idea and do it badly :)
I read it as AL Finney who played a character in Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus who had himself cryopreserved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Lazarus
You're being taken for a ride. This company's entire business model is predicated upon holding your money as long as physically possible. They have zero incentive to help you, and there is pretty much zero legal recourse beyond small claims court. I would be standing in their stupid shiny SOMA lobby harassing every single employee I could find until someone got off their ass and made the two keystrokes it takes to fix your problem. This dystopic world of casting humans off as liabilities to be queued in a chatbot ticketing system once you've received their money is really getting old.
Change Is Part of the Process
That behavior is why I recommend against Google Authenticator. Restoring a backup should restore all data, period.
What not leave that person alone?

They have not come forward and may dislike the publicity.

Maybe they just want a normal happy life?

They haven't cashed a single bitcoin in almost 10 years. They would have every right to do that: They gave humanity a wonderful new tool, a technological solution to a social problem!!

It may also be safer for them to never come forward, even if they destroyed their own keys and bitcoins. Criminals and government would never believe that, and still attempt to attack that person.
Yeah, I'm sure that "instant replies" are exactly what CoinBase customers are longing for. /s
YouTube suspends dance performance channel for music copyright violation
This is the only show I'm currently keeping up with as new episodes come out, via Hulu. Its wit and ability to make me laugh out loud is up there with the first three seasons of Arrested Development, while featuring a fundamentally hopeful outlook on humanity. I also enjoy "terrible people" comedies like Arrested Development and Seinfeld, but The Good Place (like the better Pixar movies) reminds me that you don't have to be cynical to make smart comedy for adults.
Governments worry that those 'Swiss Bank Accounts' aren't exclusive anymore.
I don't understand the objection; if resolving ethnic tensions was actively impeded by Tito's dictatorship, then the argument that violence was suppressed rather than resolved is untouched.

The characterization of Tito himself isn't important (call him a benevolent strongman if you prefer - I don't have a horse in the race), other than to examine the role of a system which suppressed violence rather than resolved conflict.
And how do you see events of NK collapse will unfold?