skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest anyone interested in learning more about this to watch the BBC documentary The Big Bank Fix. It shows how these traders didn't do anything wrong.

The documentary shows how there were some really high level bank executives involved in libor frauds and that was getting media attention. Therefore, SFO met with banks and eventually, based on documents provided by the banks, decided to prosecute simple traders.

The reason traders have been sent to trial has nothing to do with the actual libor fraud carried out by executives. But since it is still about libor, has been sold to the media as the libor trial. Start and end date of the "crime" have been carefully chosen to not include evidence of the executive crimes (such as the phone call shown in the documentary). SFO experts have admitted during trial to lie in order to convict these traders.

Many of these traders were in their early 20s when the alleged crime happened. Germany, France, and EU have already said that it was not a crime at the time and rejected extradition.

I rarely felt as sad as after watching that documentary.
1. I want to visit a friend. He lives an hour away by car. New speed limit changes it to two hours. I lose an hour of life in the car.

2. Auto plant needs radiators. Truck delivering them takes longer to get them there. Costs $x more. Car costs more. Car buyer has to work longer to buy car. Car buyer wastes y hours of life.
Islamist Infiltration of American Universities – Clarion Project
There were an estimated 40,100 motor vehicle deaths last year, or a drop of 1 percent from the prior year.
I had relatives that worked at a grocery store, but they did stuff like deliver 50-pound blocks of ice all around town.

I'm pretty confident that agriculture, mining, and other work similar to what I described represented a much larger portion of the workforce than shoe salesmen did.
Ubye
This seems to me like "weasel wording":

> Although reducing the amount of lead in blood might cut a patient's risk of cardiovascular disease mortality, it is more accurate to view this study as estimating how many deaths might have been prevented if historical exposures to lead had not occurred.
It doesn't appear to control for other confounding factors. There are large correlations between lead exposure and socioeconomic status (inner cities are the most polluted), and between socioeconomic status and life expectancy (healthcare is expensive).
Could you please not use allcaps for emphasis in HN comments?
This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I was responding specifically to "Instead, LIDAR should exactly identify potential obstacles to the self-driving car on the road." - LIDAR isn't economically viable in many self driving car applications (for example: Tesla, TuSimple) right now.
Haha they must be referring to yesterday's version of the scandal. The appetizer.

https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-t...
I have yet to see how blockchain is supposed to solve problems with elections that can't be solved with good process. And if process isn't fixed, I don't see how blockchain alone will get around the process shortcomings.

Elections are no different than any other info security problem. Multiple checks at multiple locations in the process. Blockchain is not magic pixie dust that makes info security issues go away.
> Can you point out the part of the article or the post that I was responding to which mentions how many car-miles were traveled?

> This is exactly what I'm pointing out.

I think, if your intent is to show that this is incomplete information, that...

1) No one is arguing that.

2) You have not done a great job of attempting to relay that, given phrases like, "Simply saying that a car made a mistake in this situation doesn't give us any information at all."

3) Sometimes that doesn't matter. For instance, Florida law is a mandatory 6 months to one year license revocation on DUI, regardless of the circumstances or information.

> Notepad doesn't have to read your text file through a lens with slightly different focus, viewing area, and patterns of dust on it each time.

Difficulty of the task is unrelated to expected outcomes of the task given the same inputs. And we already tread the topic of duplicating the exact situation... Not sure what you're trying to gain through this line of argument.

> Your claim is tantamount to saying that if we put the same person in the same situation but with two different sets of eyes, the eyes would have no effect on the results.

I am making no such claim, and I cannot believe that you are so adamant about not understanding my actual claim. This is a hypothetical situation. There is no mention in this scenario about changing the car, including any of the sensor hardware. I am interested in replacing only the driver (or driver software) into the exact same circumstance.

(EDIT: OK, reading back, I did say "any Uber vehicle". While your point stands, I think it's a very uncharitable reading. If hardware sensor tolerances and specs of dust on the camera are going to determine whether a life is lost or not, either those tolerances need to be driven down or this entire idea needs to be rethought. After all, we don't allow those who are legally blind to drive unless they have corrective lenses...)

Assuming the software is deterministic [1], by definition given the same inputs it will result in the same output. Therefore, "replacing" the autonomous driver with another would have resulted in the same incident. You cannot say that with any measure of confidence for any two pairs of human drivers.

[1] Which seems like it would be a good thing to assume, since I don't think one would get much traction by arguing that we should be putting vehicles with non-deterministic behavior on the road...
That is equally true of the global TLS PKI. Protocols are notoriously hard to upgrade, and endpoint policy upgrades perhaps more so than most.
Have there been any studies that purport to show what level of financial "inequality" is healthy? I mean, the phrase:

"Between 1989 and 2016, the amount of wealth held by the richest one per cent of Americans rose from just under 30 per cent to nearly 49 per cent"

sounds like that's definitely in the wrong direction, but assuming something other than purely flat (the top 1% gets 1% the wealth), is there an actual distribution to shoot for other than "flatter than now"?
It looks great, but it also clearly suffers from the noise issues inherent in most raytracing. In this particluar demo I didn't find it distracting, but when using a lower-performance computer I would expect much worse noice (instead of the usual compromise of removing effects)
I'd be surprised if you could educate this problem away just by publishing statistics. Generally, people don't seem to integrate statistics well on an emotional level, but do make decisions based on emotional considerations.

I mean, people play the lottery. That's a guaranteed loss, statistically speaking. In fact, it's my understanding that, where I live, you're more likely to get hit by a (human-operated) car on your way to get your lottery ticket than you are to win any significant amount of money. But still people brave death for a barely-existent chance at winning money!
Feels like the movie "Limitless".
Sorry to hear that. Sorry not sorry.

Maybe people realized ratings agencies are basically financial horoscope. Or that the system is deeply rigged. Or that real growth opportunities seem to become rare in the last years.
Exactly, it's as if my pay cheque is "exploiting human greed".
Well, maybe providing an API with fallback (which let's say incorporates those hacks.) is the path towards incremental adoption. Maybe that is the big news here.
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No one knows if Chinese consumer sites/apps like Weibo, Tencent etc can compete in an open market. Maybe they can but if so, why hide behind the Great Firewall?
> The original story wasn't very clear how blockchain was involved.

Didn't stop the ridiculously titled "Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election"[1] from being shared and strongly upvoted here on HN.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16622245
You can't buy an iPhone
There's simply no economically viable way to enforce it

Conduent offers a turnkey solution for this. They provide and manage speed cameras:
https://www.conduent.com/solution/transportation-solutions/r...
They aren't. They're just referring the the POST request size limit (which isn't hard set at one megabyte, but that's not their point, either).
My sleep was being wrecked and my sleep apnea was out of control until I cut out coffee after noon and limited my morning intake to 2-3 cups. I feel far better now, and on top of better sleep, I have a bit more control over my depression and anxiety. It wasn't a cure all, but I definitely noticed an improvement.

It's also probably a function of age, I think its effects became more negative and pronounced the older I got.
So, there's a performance envelope expected. Sure, someone can bungee jump off an overpass and not be avoidable. :)

But they should be willing to walk in front of it in an in-spec performance regime. There's some really good Volvo commercials along that line, with engineers standing in front of a truck.
Physically based rendering is _not_ the Disney shader and renaming your diffuse maps to albedo because it sounds more sciencey.

It’s about the wholesale switch to a fully path-traced framework with a consistent mathematical foundation as opposed to the layered system of hacks and chained prepasses that prevailed in the early 2000’s
Look at what the free version offers. They are extremely generous with what they are putting in it, and it's super high quality. I'm very happy with it and I think they are doing everything right. Their platform is a joy to use.
You're describing the situation assuming that Epic has already taken the loss.

I'm describing the tradeoff between intentionally taking the loss (i.e. allowing returns of the game) vs keeping the profits they've made.
There was some thread yesterday that brought up that all small propeller driven planes/GA in the world use leaded fuel still because it was simpler to keep that instead of forcing a changeover. So not only is it constantly spewed out but also in miniscule quantities in every farm product that gets crop dusted in the USA.
in other news: the sky is blue and trees are green
Why would anybody buy this (dropbox), I can recreate this with a simple ftp server and 30 minutes of coding!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16619917

1400+ points
Exactly this, no matter how good the service is, If I am going to receive an email without my permission, I am going to mark it as spam and consider it as one. Just the other day people were complaining in a slack channel about receiving spam emails from TrapFi.
>If you told any back-end developer that they had to use a programming language that gave all variables global scope, made every object’s internal state visible, let any other developer override their code, they’d probably resign on the spot

Isn't that the case with Javascript?
It didn't happen over night. The US had more passenger rail in the 1940s than Europe has now! Northern Indiana has the same population density of Scotland, so "too spread out" isn't the issue.

Cities only spread out over the past century. You start building rail again and it will get drawn back in. But the State has to fund that mode of transportation first.
Girl shot by boy dies in quarrel over video game
If being anti-illegal-immigration automatically makes you aligned with Trump, yes, it's a bad opener.

And still not an argument.
TLDR;

> Everest is expected to achieve 20x performance improvement on deep neural networks compared to today’s latest 16nm Virtex VU9P FPGA
They forgot to dogfood their own product
Get a virtual machine, that would be the next option if you don't want to go the Hackintosh route.

For any serious project, just get a Mac though.
Sorry, my mistake. You learn something new every day.
Many cities in Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal see temperatures just as hot as Houston or Las Vegas. Yet public transport is just as common as in the rest of Europe.

Walking half a mile in 35 C (95 F) isn't an actual problem unless you have a medical condition or you are morbidly obese. For those very rare 40+ C (105+ F) days, throw an official midday siesta, or just shut everything down like for snow days.
I'm not an active user of either, but have been following this story since the HP Touchpad firesale.

The LuneOS project seems to be more of a viable spiritual successor to WebOS than WebOS itself, and has been under slow but active development since the split.

It is based on modern and open projects (where possible), with an android compatibility layer which should hopefully reduce app gap issues.

http://webos-ports.org/wiki/Main_Page
> Of course, giving away an Amazon gift card isn't the same as fighting societal inequality. But the researchers believe these findings provide insight into government policy on a country-wide level. They pointed out that in Germany, where participants were more willing to equalise the gift card, the government has used taxes and transfers to reduce the poverty rate by 20 percentage points. In the US, where participants were less likely to equalise the gift card amounts, the poverty rate has been reduced by only 8 points.

That’s a pretty wild jump. There are probably dozens of other factors that might explain the outcome (e.g., different parenting styles, different degree to which people “obey” the true intent of researchers, ...). And I’m even sympathetic to the cause here
> Baseline data in NHANES-III were gathered between 1988 and 1994

They didn't really talk about where the lead came from, but adults living then grew up during the period when leaded gasoline was in common use (banned by the EPA in a five year phase-out period starting in 1995). As well as when lead-based paint was used in homes (it's use was banned in the US starting in 1978). I'd like to see another study in a few years for people born after 2000.
We're not supposed to ask these questions. After all several agencies have hand waived long enough, and would government agencies deeply tied to national interests ever lie?

Like with WMDs (and tons of other things), when a target du jour has been selected and hammered with BS, anything goes, and those who question it are considered fringe (or "paid", nowadays they don't even the courtesy of people considering they believe what they write).

If the "Russians did it with a rare/obscure/unusual signature method because that's what they do" idea was too crude and for the masses, the "they did it so as a message" is for gullible people of higher IQ.
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What if you already have a sh*t reputation like UBER?
When people recommend that I quite Facebook I feel a little bit like I would if they recommended that I stop eating cookies. Sure - if I were to remove cookies completely from my diet there might be a marginal health benefit, as long as I didn't just replace them with something else. But really I don't eat cookies all that often anyway, it would be a pretty small change to my life. And when I do eat cookies I kind of enjoy it - sure I've had a bad one now and then but overall the experience is positive. Eating cookies isn't a big enough part of my life that I would really miss them in any meaningful way, but it's also not a big enough part of my life to feel like making an effort to cut them out would be at all worthwhile.

But hey if it works for you it should work for literally everyone else, right?
I suppose one sensible way to handle this would be if a group of technical friends ran a distributed group of OpenLDAP servers with OAuth and SAML2 providers in front of them. That way, if whomever was running the master could not maintain it any more, another friend could convert their replica to master and people opt out of the defunct auth provider.

The collective group of friends could then host services that use the common authentication framework. Between OpenLDAP, OAuth and SAML2, that should cover most self hosted applications.
Again, if you don't have any facts or statistics that this is what has been happening in these cases on BART, then your conjecture is useless. Never said it was ok to harass individuals because of their ethnic group. Nationality was the subject, however.

It's obvious you have an axe to grind over racism in theory rather than what actually happened.
The audacity is jaw dropping. Their spokesman immediately walked back all the claims made on tape of course.
Right now we have something of a two tier level of liability which would for the most part work fine with automated vehicles. The primary liability falls on the owner/operator, who usually carries insurance. The owner/operator has some level of self interest in maintenance of the vehicle - otherwise an automated vehicle might have a perfect design, but the maintainer never changes the brake pads or operates with the tires worn, etc. If the insurance company finds that some model vehicle has reason to doubt it's design integrity, then that liability may be passed on in a separate case to the manufacturer. An individual owner is actually in a poor position to know systematically if there is reason to bring suit over a subtle design or manufacturing defect, but an auto insurance company has both data and the resources to see and react to defects.
I see a lot of detailed analysis in this thread, which is impressive given that literally nobody has read anything more than the half dozen factoids that have been released. At best, some of you are looking at maps of the incident site to figure out potential failure cases.

Knowing that you don't know something is as important as having the facts. To harken back to Cheney, these aren't even unknown unknowns, you're basing opinions on known unknowns.
Hm, people are fine with folks getting mauled in an industrial accident, or killed misusing power equipment. So its not purely a machine thing.

Maybe because its unexpected - the victim is not involved until they are dead?
All this hype around software is actually ruining it
Facebook treats people's volunteered information as goods-for trade. And business is booming!!

Politics aside, I wonder how this will affect the "Russian intervention in US and UK politics" search for "truth".

I am also expecting that UK authorities will be paying a visit to "Cambridge Analytica" and I hope we will find out the truth on what exactly they did for the UK Referendum, US Elections, and wherever else they "helped people decide".

Something tells me though that we won't ever be told the truth. E.g. let's say that there was no Russian interventios to US election and it was all Cambridge Analytica's doing. With Theresa May driving the attention away from the actual problems and into a "UK-Russia" debate about the death of a spy, it would NOT serve her political agenda of smoke-and-mirrors to clear Russia's name (just theorising - I don't take sides).

Ps: I remember a saying "live by the sword - die by the sword". How do people expect a spy (who has been uncovered) to die? In his bed on his 90s?
2FA would be great, so long as SMS isn't the only option every time. I've moved to a much more tech savvy bank these days, but there was a long while were my bank's website was, by a hilariously wide margin, the least secure website that I regularly visited. It was in fact one of my reasons for switching banks (the other reasons are not relevant here).
I have to learn these things.
In my opinion, most CSS bad bits are a byproduct of bad use, not a problem of the language(?) itself.

SASS, BAM, OOCSS, etc are all good practices. You can/will abuse those as well without proper understanding and planning.
The first step would be stop the trend towards more inequality. This seems like a no-brainer to me.
Most of these platforms use a third party payment gateway which stores your banking information and are generally compliant with Govt's guidelines for storing sensitive information and have safe measures in place for breaches.
Someone needs to figure out how to do this in 20 seconds and then they would really have something.
Most American's have no savings and are living paycheck to paycheck.
For example
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2016/01/06/63-of-...
What are you talking about? The guy time and time again proves he's a complete asshole without your interests in mind. Oh poor billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, maybe he changed.
> Not a civil case, criminal.

Has there ever been a case where a car manufacturer is charged with a crime for a defect that results in a death?
The start tossing executives in jail.

It’s the only real solution to corporations misbehaving.
You keep saying that nobody uses it, which isn't true. It's been deployed in the real world for some time now, securing some real systems. The threat model is different than for public CA TLS and not any less secure.
Please don't use this if the project is for work/something you care about, because it's a bitch to support in production, especially when compatibility becomes an issue. Better to not mention it at all in a work related context and just say there's no way to distribute nodeJS applications as binaries.
So they're also responsible for killing their own people
currently holding state positions and appointed by them? Even when the killer is e.g. a Turkish policeman?
Ha, I would never have guessed this use case. Very fortunate for Nvidia to provide both GPU and NPU cores for the task :)
Your comment presumes those to be quasi-obligatory "milestones". Perhaps more and more people are choosing not to marry and choosing not to have kids at all. Both are consistent with rising overall prosperity.
> Java only distinguishes between interfaces and purely abstract base classes because one allows multiple inheritance and the other doesn't

No. This is what former C/C++ programmers coming to Java typically believe (some of them even after spending 10 years coding in Java, because old habits die hard).

interface = interface

abstract base class = implementation

Interface and implementation may seem like "a distinction without a difference", because one is just a list of method headers and the other is a list of method headers with method bodies, but semantically they are the opposite of each other.
It is very difficult to get a person to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it, or so the quote goes.
Thanks for the info. Water heater has two metal straps to the studs and is on a raised platform, so that's taken care of.

The foundation is slightly raised on post and pier with no sheering panels or bolts in the posts that I can see, but the exterior walls look like they may be bolted to concrete the foundation perimeter.

Any tips on making sure a retrofit company is legit? My biggest concern is I'd heard that the inspections for getting a retrofit aren't super consistent or thorough, which is a huge concern.
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Cheney? I think you mean Don Rumsfeld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk
The other reason is that AZ has very simple grid-based roads without a lot of complexity in determining right-of-way. As a lifelong Arizonian who recently moved to Oregon - I'm consistently surprised at the amount of computing I have to do to figure out how I'm supposed to handle some intersections/on+off ramps around here.
Software Gyroscope
Same study discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16611099
Some organizations have really high in-house costs...
"Uber is now the target of at least three potential class action lawsuits, at least five state attorney general investigations, and an inquiry by the FTC because of Sullivan’s decision to pay off hackers and the cover ups."

via twitter.com/adamscrabble
Using these cars to commit homicide was actually one of the plot points in the second book of Three Body Problem trilogy by Liu Cixin. Very much recommended if you are into sci-fi.
Trees are brown; it is leaves that are green.