skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you say that Daniel Ellsberg shouldn't have "snitched" to the public on the assessment that the Vietnam War was unwinnable? You seem to conflate "good" with "authority" here.
Lots of stuff is completely off with this. If you're stuck in cruise control at 120km/h for an hour you will drive 120km, not 100km.

Also, what about just turning the engine off? Or... break.
Observe their progress, take their innovations, and learn from their mistakes? Failing that, buy the startup.

I dig @gt_'s idea though, and wish YC did to.

EDIT: @gt_ removed their comment, but it stated YC should work against neoliberal politics towards more progressive socially equitable goals. You can't on the one hand support winner take all startups, and then in the other hand express concern for the well being of those affected by technological progress (but do nothing about it).
And he's dead. What more do you want? We're all human beings. Can't you put it aside for two seconds?
So I'd be really interested in knowing how a failure like this happens in a human-safety-critical application.

I assume every software engineer under the age of ~50 would have learned about events like the Therac-25 incidents during their education. Is there genuinely no robust software quality regime in place for critical systems like this in vehicles?

There are so many worrying things here: such a bad failure occurring in the first place; the lack of any physical fallback or failsafe; the ability of the dealer to remotely control the car's operation (!!) – any of these by themselves fills me with dread.
That creates a one way correction relationship. You will always let them know if you owe them less but never if you owe them more.
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If you want a mirror of a repository, self hosted Gogs/Gitea is a great way to do this in a way that makes you unbeholden to the upstream.
Eh, I wouldn't say it's just for less terminal savvy users. Running -h, finding the command you want, putting it in, is slower than this method. No matter how skilled you are, if you aren't using GCP CLI all day every day you're gonna forget stuff and this is a quick and easy way to remember it.
Are you implying that you cannot use others' code unless you download it from
random places from the internets? That the others' code is fundamentally
different from your code and thus cannot be hosted from your own repository?
>activated when the key is nearby.

throw the key out the window?
Does that also apply to Manning?
I'd really like to know what else the remote access allows them to control.
I appreciate that you're being candid, but it's clear you also know that posting what you posted in this context is somehow wrong - otherwise why else justify it (childishly) on having a bad day?

Now my complaint: you could have posted this tomorrow and I wouldn't have so much trouble with it, but hijacking the announcement of someone's death to air privileged /and/ gossipy bits of their private life, their sexuality, their homelife, /and/ include allegations of sexual harassment all in one swoop strikes me as utterly distasteful, and the kind of personality I would not wish present at any party I ever attend.
> Lamo screwed Manning big time, but when he did, none of us who knew him were surprised. He was never a happy person, and never friendly to anyone I knew. I think his folks threw him out of the house in his teens.

> Kind of a tragic figure, but also not really someone you could ever trust or even invite to parties. When anyone dies, it's sad. But with Adrian, he had already basically removed himself from the groups who knew him long ago.

This is awfully similar to the impression of Aaron Swartz I've heard from those who knew him. All of them seem uncomfortable with the praise that was heaped on him after he died, though that's not to say that what happened to him wasn't awful. People are just very flawed, and it's hard to look at or acknowledge those flaws sometimes.
As an aside: didn't Lamo report Bradley Manning, it's surely rewriting history to report otherwise?

I didn't recognise the name at first because of this change.
I mean even Formula 1 cars have the breaking system being outside of the computer control. Like we have totally solved this problem before. Why would you remove hardware override is beyond me...

https://www.formula1.com/en/championship/inside-f1/rules-reg...
>>Sorry but this is so wrong, Google does not host any of its biggest project on github: Chromium and Android. There were articles written about this.

I guess they are open source but they exist to line Google's pockets with even more money
Thanks for the feedback! It's a good idea to add questions section at the end of each section.
Serious question: what's the public benefit afforded by your comment?
CVEs are something that people who don't do vulnerability research seem to care about a lot more than people who do. What difference do you suggest it makes whether CTS-Labs gets them allocated or AMD does?
I tested this when my dad got one of the push-button start cars. Doesn't work, at least not in his Acura.
Reminds me of reading the Fortean times when I was younger. Sounds like a made up or exaggerated story.

Telltale statement > “According to a local media report”.
So this is a report of a report.
Hmmmm.
Under US law, most people in most situations are not obligated to report crimes they become aware of.

Accomplice liability only comes into play when a person intentionally, actively aids a person to commit, conceal or profit from a crime, or to escape prosecution. Inaction doesn't count.
missing good old googlecl which Google killed themselves by making OAuth2 mandatory and not beeing able to switch from OAuth1 to OAuth2 in their own command line tool: https://code.google.com/archive/p/googlecl/issues/573
The models are almost certainly inaccurate, we just don't know how inaccurate. It's quite possible that we need new models (or ditch supersymmetry), but physicists become invested in their models and try everything to tweak them to match observations, until it just doesn't work anymore and we have a major breakthrough.

>On a related note, the assumption in quantum physics that particles have a probability distribution rather than an exact location has always bugged me. Why can't there be low-level mechanisms going on that are too quick/small to be measured (today)?

It bugged a lot of other people too (Einstein's famous "God does not play dice" comes from the same corner). Experiments so far are only consistent with a probability distribution, unless you permit signals to go back in time. Of course how you interpret the model is an entirely different problem (do things only happen once observed, are we in a multiverse and all possibilities happen in some universe, are we simulated and those effects are caused by optimisations (both not calculating things until needed, and inaccuracies akin to floating point errors), etc. the possibilites are endless)
Electronic control - it’s not a direct physical connection anymore.

Follow on for mechanics/mechanical engineers: if the accelerator is down and you’re already moving, can the brakes stop a car? It seems like you’d either not stop or “break” abs and force the wheels to lock which is also bad at speed...
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If he's not a Nigerian, I'd be careful. It's possible he's not insured by a recent family inheritance.
>and there linux has a higher latency, but the performance throughput is not that different from dragonflybsd.

Same throughput, better latency, a dragonfly win.

Probably the same reasoning as usual (Linux likes to spend tens of milliseconds non-preemptable every now and again).
I understand that but I don't think you can isolate the two.
Covert intelligence operation (hit-job) gone awry? Maybe the driver was a target of the CIA ..
The problem is, USD is the only legal tender. When I sell Intel stock, that where I made profit in USD. I pay tax on that. But if I trade BTC for DOGE, I haven't made any money. All I have done is swap tokens. And just because someone would pay X dollars for tokens, doesn't mean I made any money.

I mean where does it end? If I tell you I'll pay you 10000 dollars for the pocket lint in your pocket, did you just make a gain of 10k? Do you now owe the IRS 10k? If you haven't actually made any legal tender, how can you be taxed on a trade at all? The value of something is completely relative, speculative, and ever-changing.
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> Xue, an amateur car racer himself, tried opening the car door slightly to help slow the car down, which slowed to 60km/h, but nothing else could be done

And likely push-button ignite --- otherwise you can just pull the key out.
> Kids, don't be a snitch.

Statements like this are why women regularly get sexually assaulted at frat parties in front of dozens of witnesses, none of whom will even consider going to the authorities about it.

Snitching should be normalized.
Feels difficult to believe. He reduced speed by 60kmh by opening a door “slightly”? Why did the cruise control not compensate for it? Both brake systems failed at the same time? In addition, the automatic gearbox was somehow stuck in D? Sorry, but I’m sure it’s either human error or a publicity stunt

Edit: I didn’t know the C class has any remote control capabilities. Does anyone know more?
China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains
Collaboration also goes beyond collaborating to produce the document. My company makes decisions in the comments of Google Doc proposals.
What I mostly took away from this is that automakers can remotely force stop your vehicle if they so desire. Kind of creepy.
> Also, what about just turning the engine off? Or... break.

It says the brakes didn't work, and push-button start cars don't have an easy way to "just turn the engine off".
I assume the entire ECU, that said maybe they treated it as stolen and triggered a remote stop through an anti theft mechanism?
"Chain-splits. These occur when a cryptocurrency branches into two or more versions, as bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash did last year. Investors are often entitled to new coins as a result.

Does this right generate taxable income?"

Huh.
I wish they would spend more time finishing the halfway done projects they've started (and fully documenting them), rather than continue to launch new ones.

For instance...Google CloudSQL - Great! Postgres - Beta...Postgres from AppEngine python...err, we'll get around to it, maybe.

Just giving one example, but my point is - finish what you've started before making new. I think recent articles I've read about launching being the track to promotion explain some of the state of things within GCP.
At least in Audi’s, holding the start stop button will turn off the car at any speed.

Source: Don’t rest your hand in the center console on the freeway.
Curious if anyone has tried Zoho? how does it compare
There have been a lot of revolutions in the practice of software development but by and large, self reflection has evaded us.

One of the leads and myself are the only people who call out the fact that we are humans and we will make mistakes. And on a 24/7 operation that means production issues will happen.

The other lead insists we all act like robots and he gets frustrated when people don’t like his proposals.
Personally that's exactly what I got from the title; it says it was stuck in cruise control. To me that indicates cruise control had been enabled, and then became stuck on.
That's an interesting quote from Crichton. I think the safest assessment of any given publication is to regard its credibility as only being as good as its worst story. Like Crichton said, should we really take CNN seriously in any subjects if they're saying space turned Scott Kelly into a mutant?
"Unlike stocks which seem to be entirely traded on exchanges" - no.

You could have bought stock directly from the company, in an IPO or secondary offering (where it does not go through an exchange), from an individual or broker not intermediated by an exchange, etc.

You can keep stock certificates in a safe deposit box, and then later transfer them into your brokerage account, they have no idea what you paid for them.

This is a solved problem, cryptocurrency is not special. If they have the cost basis they can tell you, if not, they can leave it blank.
Every car needs a mechanical engine kill switch just like a motorcycle. Needs to be done now.
this isn’t sustainable though, as people with smaller Erdös numbers will die out and larger ones will be too common.

so we should probably allow the smaller Erdös numbers to be inherited through primogeniture, to make sure we still have an identifiable class of good mathematicians to give money to.
Traveling the Software Underground
Office 365 is though.

- Microsoft Teams is a [bad] Slack clone.

- Microsoft Planner is a [bad] Trello clone.

- Outlook.com instead of the [bad] Outlook Desktop Application

- Sharepoint online for a CRM

- OneNote online for a shared scratchpad.

The offline versions of Excel, Word, and Power Point have no online rivals but for collaboration Office 365 is one to watch. I'd even argue it has pulled ahead of Gsuite in the last year.
> Have the IRS suggest what they think I owe - they can have all the metadata, and I'll happily just pay the taxes.

What's funny is that they will. After the fact. I got a notice last year from the IRS about some back taxes I owed because I forgot to include some stock I sold in my taxes for that year.

They were right. I had overlooked it. But their figure for what I owed was a little higher than what I calculated it to be. I sent back a revised tax return with a check and an explanation for how I arrived at my number and the matter was closed.

So just to reaffirm: the obstacle is more political than technical.
I used this article about a week ago to help me with a web scrape. Good stuff!
http://www.newsweek.com/taliban-says-it-will-target-names-ex...
I really wish this technology could find its way into the hands of Ruth Shady in Peru. She was the discoverer of the Norte Chico civilization, the earliest known civilization in south america, and one of a select few civilizations worldwide that could be called a cradle of civilization (a civilization that emerged without outside influence).

And despite the significance of the discovery, there is almost no funding for continued research, and making basic discoveries of where artifacts might be located is still a major bottleneck.
Top comment suggests it's too early to say that the results from the LHC are entirely negative.

> At the end of 2018, the LHC will have recorded a mere 3% of the intended research program. That means that there is 30x more data to come. I think you'd need to see the results of all of the data before you say that the LHC was a bust. It may be. But your claim is hasty.
You mean that whale (and vegetal) oil wasn't replaced?
There is no such thing as "manual break override". You will always be able to use breaks in any car, regardless of what systems they're running. You might be without a booster, but still.

You can also just shut the engine down with the ignition switch.
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Nothing about this story makes sense, and it's so sketchily sourced I'm surprised to see it here on HN.

For starters if the problem was with cruise control, how would opening the drivers side door 'slightly' slow the car to half it's speed? Setting aside the physics here, cruise control would simply increase the throttle until it got back to it's set speed.

Also questionable is the idea that MB would be able to remotely control the vehicle when every system other than the throttle had failed. Brakes failed, ignition failed, transmission failed, but the throttle and cruise control were still hunky-dory? That sounds a lot more like either a complete fabrication or someone who screwed up while trying to hack their car's CAN-BUS...
Good luck!

If you are capable of doing so, try to avoid verbal fillers, especially "you know" and "umm". Ideally, you pause and let the audience catch up. It is a lot harder to do this in practice, especially if you are not practiced with public speaking (Toastmasters is excellent for this).

Nervousness can make people speak faster. Don't worry about getting through all of your slides, if you have slides. It's not a race to the Q&A slide. Confidence can be projected by speaking assuredly.

If you don't have a podium, avoid jamming your hands in your pockets. That feels and looks awkward. Try simply just hanging your arms at your side, relaxed, bringing your hands up when you want to gesture.

If there is a room in which you are speaking, stand near the entrance and shake people's hands as they enter. This is a simple trick to make yourself less nervous if you are not as comfortable speaking to strangers as you are to people who you know. The idea here is that by shaking hands, you've already "met" some of the audience.

Finally, don't be afraid to share your mistakes and failures and even make a joke about them. Failure makes you relatable to the audience.
I agree, I'd like to see the incident report on this. According to the subtitles both the brakes and the shifter failed. The shifter could be one of those flappy paddle deals where it's entirely plausible that a computer crash would disable it.

Brake-by-wire seems like a bad idea. I really want to have those physical lines in there as a final redundancy, like the physical control lines on a 737.

These kinds of stories are only going to get more common as we put more and more automation (and complexity!) into our vehicles. This would require way too many improbable events to happen at once on an old manual transmission car.

Clutch lines fail, shifter somehow gets stuck in gear, brake lines snap, ignition has an electrical fault that prevents the car from being turned off, cruise control somehow short circuits...all at once. Impossible without an elaborate sabotage.
When you cherry pick quotes from the source it sounds contradictory. What I meant, and what I feel was clear when taken in context, is that alternatives exist in this particular case. However if you do not think those alternatives are viable then that's just too bad. You aren't entitled to viable alternatives, or alternatives that fit your definition of viable.
Chelsea is Bradley, she's trans.
Here's a recurring segment about counting, with vocals by Grace Slick no less:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WSHvbGM6oE
Using a person's name from before they come out as transgender is called deadnaming and is a tactic favored among abusive people.

The polite thing to do, regardless of personal politics, is to simply reassociate the person with the name Chelsea Manning and move on with your life.
I'm not here to argue that CTS-Labs or Viceroy didn't overstate the vulnerabilities. Surely, Viceroy did! They said the stock was heading for zero!

I'm saying that the inverse argument, that the vulnerabilities are "pedestrian" and not worth making noise about, is at least equally false.

Unfortunately, the day of the announcement, several people trafficked in opinions based on CTS-Labs white paper --- which any skilled reader knew immediately, just from the format, wasn't a technical explanation --- that these vulnerabilities were non-issues. If I see people repeating that notion, I'm going to point out: the equivalent vulnerability in the iPhone platform would be front-page news.
This is exactly why Adrian did what he did.
Reliability is expensive and slow. Companies hate expensive and slow, especially when you have a demo that basically does what you want sans edge cases.
More and more vehicles are shipping with electrical controls which replace physical levers, switches, etc. It could be possible that the brake lever was really an electrical control which happened to fail and become unresponsive.
Give it a few minutes and it will start to complain, and then you will lose engine, but not electrical power.
That is not Trail's job.
"Chelsea Manning" is the preferred name that refers to the person Lamo reported. "Bradley Manning" is a former, non-preferred name. Nothing about history changes if a different name is used; the same person is referred to either way.

That you didn't recognize the person based on the preferred name only indicates that you've paid less attention to the news than you thought you had.
It is true that Sheets isn't as powerful as Excel. But it's a good substitute for 99% of users. And for people dealing with complex models/large amount of data, they should probably use a proper programming language (Python, R) and version control.
Oh actually, let say you compute a+b with a computer. Believe it or not, you aren't 100% sure the computer is gonna gives you the right answer. There is 3 types of failures that could happen, 1) a hardware failure, 2) a software failure, 3) a bit could be flipped by a cosmic particle.
There's merit to discussing whether his actions were beneficial or not. But for the love of god, if you've got a problem with him as a person, pocket it unless you know discussion of the specific problem you had with him will with certainty serve the public good. You've got every right to say what you want, but think it through.

I didn't know him, but I've known plenty of others with questionable reputations who've died as a result of mental duress. Before you comment, I'll ask as a bystander for you to think about whether everyone benefits from knowing what you wish to share. Otherwise, you'll just out yourself as an asshole.

Rest in peace, Adrian. Regardless of what you did, beneficial or otherwise, no one deserves the mind-shackles you had to live with.
How to Fail When You’re Used to Winning
Kinda. It's a manual system with electronic controls in parallel. If a piece of code decides it doesn't want you pushing the brake you're not gonna push the brake. On a new car basically all vehicle systems are this way where the car can ignore or override your input if a piece of code tells it to do that.
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Is there regular expression to match regular expression?
Oh what the fuck ever. People can ask to be called whatever they want. That doesn't mean anyone has to abide by that request.
For those of us who are a little lazier or less meticulous but want to experience something like this, I recommend the Lego Architecture series. I enjoyed this one and it makes a nice little display piece for my home:

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Doesn't help on any keyless car I've ever used - the car will beep at you when the key leaves the vehicle, but the engine won't shut off until you hit the stop/start button. And in this case, that button apparently did not work.
Non AMP submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16597036
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