skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except in the previous article, driverless rides were already happening:

> since mid-October, the company has been operating its autonomous minivans on public roads in Arizona without a safety driver

The difference is that those were without any users inside. This new article is saying that the public offering, with real customers inside, will get rides with no one inside.

It is unfortunate that it took 2 years to get to the point where they felt safe putting people customers in the car, but it's very misleading to equate the two and use is as a way to imply they lied last time around.
>You don't eat all the ice cream in one sitting.

Kinda like how you don't drink a twelve pack in one night?
This should result in differences in tax treatment between exchange-held and wallet-held balances.

If you hold it in a wallet, you have one asset that is dividable into two parts, each transactable on different blockchains. If you hold it on an exchange, you have the right to receive an asset on one blockchain, and after the fork the exchange credits you the right to receive an asset on another blockchain.

These are different events. Arguably, all exchange balances in new blockchains are basically "airdrops" of new economic rights. It's not directly held assets, but rather an abstraction over it, and this abstraction is different. If the exchange wants to, it can refuse to give you airdropped or hardforked assets on "your" crypto.
Our high school's local admin password on every machine was the name of the school district. Used it to install P2P software and emulators on lots of the machines throughout my time there. On grad day I was setting up a slideshow with my CS teacher and the domain login wasn't working. I said "just log in with local admin". He said "I don't know the password". I did it in front of him. His words: "I don't want to know what you've done with this"
>Microsoft used a company called BayStar to fund SCO's lawsuits

Your article suggests otherwise. It seems like some over-eager Microsoft exec promised that BayStar's investment would be 'guaranteed' by Microsoft. That exec was subsequently fired and nothing was formalized. BayStar ultimately lost money on SCO. But even that much is suspect as this account is hearsay and comes from a managing member of BayStar who has cause to deflect blame for his or his company's dumb investment in SCO.
Kids simply don't smoke swisher sweets or chew Skoal in anyhing anywhere at all approaching the numbers that have been vaping. Presenting that as some equivalent behavior that will dramatically increase vastly misses the mark.
The bans are temporary to allow investigation into cause —I think that’s prudent. If you go buy anyway despite the ban, that’s on you, it’s not happening with government imprimatur.
Yeah as far as I read the problems were linked to illicit THC cartridges purchased on the streets tainted with hydrogen cyanide. A recent hacker news discussion about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21092770

Street drugs have always had problems with contaminants, whatever kinds of drugs they are. Unfortunately prohibition and black markets tend to lead to this sort of problem.
I solved the issue by getting a certified check from my bank... It just gets me that its 2019, and banks are going backward, and also encouraging insecure and risk-laden solutions into normal operations. They're endorsing 3rd party apps, totally unaffiliated with them to customers, all at the customer's risk. Wells Fargo has proven multiple times they don't mind public shame at all though...
I am unaware of anyone getting picked up in a self-driving car using Lyft (outside of Aptiv in Las Vegas and other testing that has nothing to do with Waymo). Although honestly I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong on this one, and there have been people that got picked up in a Waymo using Lyft, but a quick search on twitter and google shows up nothing (but I spent less than a minute searching just now and welcome being proven wrong).

This just reinforces my point. Waymo can announce anything with vague terminology of things happening "soon" but we still don't have any verification of anything happening.
If you want to attract good programmers use niche languages.
My school district was the Madison Metropolitan School District. I discovered quite by accident that the admin password for the school computers was just ‘mmsd’. It was literally my first guess.
It reminds me a lot of the moral panic around Four Loco when I was in high school, albeit on a seemingly larger scale.
I was curious how the playground looked in use, a question well-answered by this profile discussing the project that I found on YouTube: https://youtu.be/V4C4RQcyrSo
This hasn't been updated since May 2018. Posted a few times here on HN already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17790658

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18899034

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19590138
Sounds like the training sets should include more rotated samples.
You're welcome. I wish HN has a feature to notify users of mentions: I'm surprised you saw my mention.
Thanks. Well, yes, it's not supported, but I think it's still a legitimate question, not a troll or some negative remark, so I wanted to know what was objectionable. I think I can intuit the answer to that from other replies - some people think "just upgrade OS FFS" is automatically correct no matter the circumstances.

Anyway, the author answered really helpfully, for which I'm grateful.
You are reading it wrong.

There does not need to be a transaction on any ledger for the receipt of the forked coins to be income.

What makes them income is that you received the forked coins, whether that fork is a true fork or just a new ledger that is otherwise identical to the old one. The IRS doesn't care about those technical details.

Situation 1 would apply if for example you choose not to receive the forked coins or if for some reason your exchange didn't recognize the fork and thus never credited any new fork coins to you.
Since Beijing [was] a sister city of Prague, this got me interested and discovered that Dallas is a sister city of Taipei, Taiwan. Hmm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas#Sister_cities
>The key will always leak. It's just a matter of when. There will never be any technical solution to that, and it's not a technical problem. It is a hole which fundamentally cannot be plugged, and the hole is people. Technology has nothing to do with this.

Ok, so again then what would be your response if some law enforcement official said "well what about Apple then?" iPhone is now 13+ years old, why hasn't their master key leaked? Microsoft or Google signing keys, same boat. Or what about SSL in general for that matter, the entire HTTPS paradigm depends upon master private keys that are not leaked, or at least not often. It would certainly be potentially worth a lot to certain adversaries if they could simply spoof major banks, not through some CA hack but literally just getting their keys. Yet broadly the effort to keep that information protected seems to be fairly successful, for better and for worse.

I mean, that's kind of my issue, it's not hard to raise plausible counter examples, and once we get into the weeds about "how likely" and "when" vs "how many will be saved in that time huh" I think we may have already lost. It distracts from the real debate, which is about how valuable a zone of private space is and the harm that comes from infringing upon it. That's the real cost. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

>But that's always a question of legality, not technical capability.

I don't think that's quite justified by the history of law and privacy. There are plenty of practices law enforcement/intel can and do engage in now that were simply inconceivable in the relatively near past, when much of the law that still governs us was written. Not everything automatically adapts, it's worth watching out for things that are simply taken for granted because they're considered inviolable, and in turn lack explicit legal protection. There should be legal protection, what I'm saying is that winning it requires a frank discussion about harm tradeoffs and trying to get people to more generally grasp new kinds of costs, like emergent effects.

>The argument that the key will leak is not technical

I think it really is. I mean, even in your argument where you say "the hole is people", you're making a technological implicit assumption that people remain involved. Do your assumptions make the same sense if we imagine human equivalent or better AI? I'd rather just talk about why we shouldn't as a matter of ideals, even if we could, and even if it means some things we don't like go unstopped.
Hmm no mention of level 4 or 5.
Rescinded what? We just experienced how quickly they'll throw anyone under the bus if it harms their chinese market. For the downvotes: how would the TTP have helped companies police this?

edit: https://twitter.com/i/events/1182034806474825728

even at home
My high school's administrator password was “math”. I think the statue of limitations has expired by now.

I got it by writing a simple login spoofer in Turbo Pascal. The funny thing is I never bothered to remove it and after I graduated, I heard from the actual administrator that they were having a strange problem where the first login of the day spit out a disk full error.
It’s looking like geopolitical whackamole.

Probably due to inexperience with dissent since just about everyone capitulated after MFN was made permanent via WTO, whereas with MFN that had to be renewed annually and gave opponents a window to offer counter opinions.
I posted separately a link to a YouTube profile of the architect. He mentions later in the video that the blades are taken out of service when hairline cracks are found in them.
HK retaining its autonomy—like it's had since 1999 when it returned to Chinese control—would not in any way lead to a return to working farm fields for ordinary mainlanders.
I generally agree and think this is a very helpful perspective. It's too much to expect companies to choose ethics over profit, even if the companies are temporarily made up of ethical people -- these are mere components. (Hence the goal of governments/regulations should be to align profit-making with societal goals.)
They do have a purchase price of $0. That's exactly why it's taxable income.

If you had to pay market value for the forked coins they wouldn't be taxed when you received them.
Techcrunch took an email sent to the customers from reddit and wrote an article from it. If they wanted to fundraise, they would've made a whole press call for it, not sent an email to their handful of users in Phoenix.
Only goes to show how far we have to go still when computers don't even tilt their heads automatically when given rotated input.
Because demand curves don't work like that unless you have a highly inelastic good. With normal goods keeping quantity constant as price changes puts you on a suboptimal point on the demand curve. Coffee's price certainly hasn't been inelastic and changing can size at every spike would have netted you decent production cost increases instead of savings: http://www.aboutinflation.com/_/rsrc/1368022029715/coffee-vs...

The varying of quantities in the same sized container is not the problem and is certainly not illogical. The problem is when we allow marketing departments to lie/cheat/fool the product onto a different portion of the demand curve instead of letting the $/amount naturally flow back when price decreases or when it makes sense to switch to cheaper containers.
The problem with bans is as I'm currently experiencing with the mass dispensary shut down in Vancouver over the last few weeks, they don't stop dedicated people, they just push you to sketchier, less reliable and more questionable options.
This is the golden rule of software dev too - promise features or promise a release date, but never both.
> Now for this Rust approach to win the hearts of Windows devs, it needs to be as productive as C++/CX or C++/WinRT VS tooling, in all COM/UWP usage scenarios.

Possibly related, I just spotted this [1] on the personal blog of Kenny Kerr, creator of C++/WinRT:

> On a personal note, I’m spending a lot of my time working with the Rust language and can’t wait to share more about that eventually.

Disclosure: I work on Windows at Microsoft, but not in this area. Posting on my own behalf though.

[1]: https://kennykerr.ca/2019/10/09/xlang-cppwinrt-repos/
Ah, yes, this is good nuance, but I would like to argue that there are intangibles that can be replicated across Gap's future spinouts. There will be aspects of the culture, certain processes, relationships, and perhaps even software, that will be instantly DUPLICATED the moment the company splits!

And remember, the value of a chain is not simply its code. In fact, you can argue that the code is NOT important AT ALL to the value of a chain, for the very reason that it is entirely open. The chain's valuation comes from the network - and arguably the most important of those (at least in the short term) - the users who transact on the chain, and the miners whose hash power push the chain forward, will splinter.

When a chain splits, the miners must make a decision on what percentage of their finite hash power should be allocated to each fork.

I'm actually of the belief that this analogy is VERY good.
People have been vaping tobacco products for years, and people didn't particularly like it, because it's the evil nicotine, and it gives some people a small amount of pleasure, but there were never any of these health problems.

Stopping the sale of the legitimate product, that does go through testing and quality control, because there is counterfeit and black market product out there fucking people up, is not going to reduce the supply of the questionable off-brand product.

We've done this enough times now, we should know what is going to happen.
> China’s embassy reacted angrily, saying on Facebook that Prague’s leadership should change its attitude as soon as possible or “it will be their own interests that will be hurt.”

That’s pretty pathetic. Honestly this sounds like a desperate Chinese government worker who is trying to save face
As a critical lay-person, I think these patents are baloney. It rings like sci-fi physics charlatan keyword salad and puts forth no plausible verification or discussion of implementation. That's boring.
What's interesting is what the Navy is playing at with this. Are they thumbing their nose at Russia's nuclear rocketry program, implying "we might, like, have UFOs or something.. I can't say".
Is that really a geopolitical move that the USA is executing?
>Standing for the national anthem is not a politically neutral action.

Oh brother ... but OK.

The NBA went through something like this. Their policies called for standing for the anthem if you're out on the court while the anthem is playing (i.e. and cameras are rolling, and fans are watching). If you happen to have an objection to this, then you are welcome to stay in the locker room for the duration of the anthem and come out after.

I think that's entirely fair. You don't get to politicize a neutral platform, and you also aren't forced to do anything you morally object to.
Docker spam, please stop submitting this crap. Docker is dead. Kubernetes is dying. This is just spam.

Stop it. Its off topic.
> I am a futurist, and looking into 100-year from now, won't there be a united government just like what we saw in Star Trek?

No, that is extremely unlikely. Not just unlikely, I would view it as pretty much impossible.
Good point, hopefully someday Elm will support remote work.
The killer app would be a portable, secure (say, seL4), extremely fast-booting OS that handles hardware and tasks asynchronously. Right now, I'm dealing with a Xfinity->Cisco->Pegatron router that reboots spontaneously 15x/day, the web interface takes 2 minutes to load a PHP page and it takes 2-3 minutes to reboot. This is unacceptable since software doesn't have to behave like this... we can and must do better.
Your family member might consider moving to a better bank (or preferably, a credit union). Wells Fargo is notoriously a poorly run institution.

Zelle is also not a third party app; Wells Fargo is part owner of the banking consortium that operates it (Early Warning Systems) [1]. It is the large banks’ solution to real-time-ish funds transfer settlement because the Fed has been dragging their feet on a national system as part of ACH modernization.

What fraud prevention or insurance are you seeking with Zelle considering cash deposits and checks (both certified and not) have none?

Disclaimer: I work in financial services, but not Wells. Opinions are my own.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelle_(payment_service)
This is a byproduct of hiring bootcamp grads or tasking a modeling project to engineers who read some tutorials. People think they can scan a few Jupyter notebooks and then professionally solve statistics problems.

People wonder why it’s hard and expensive to hire ML engineers... because they actually solve these problems with craft. Meaning, they systematically grow understanding of the data, start with simple models, and have well articulated reasons explaining cases when complexity is justified.
We rebuilt our netboot installer but we had to disable all but one of the consoles due to a race condition: https://github.com/prgmrcom/prgmr-image-source/commit/aaa8cc... This is a bug conceptually similar to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=932416 Does anyone know offhand which nixos component we should file a bug against? Is it https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs ?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chinese-state-runs-out...
every now and then I do something while driving that, IMO, requires "human cognition". Not just image recognition, obstacle avoidance, rule following, etc.

Like, I'm cruising along at 45mph and a plastic bag is blown in front of my car. Yes, I see an obstacle and need to make a decision about what to do - but I do this as a human who knows what a plastic bag is, and how it is far safer to drive right over it than slam on the brakes. I know a plastic bag is not, say, a Pomeranian.

Another example: I'm driving, and from beyond my plane of vision, a basketball bounces onto the road up ahead. I can't see past a building, but I know I'm near a park where kids frequently play, and I know it's possible a kid comes running into the road to grab the ball. I proactively slow down. I guess you could say a leavel-5 autonomous car would see the ball and slow down anyway, but there's still that lack of cognition that concerns me.

We like to think of driving as a purely rule-based game that is simple enough to model and train against. And I believe in 99% of situations, it is. But in that 1%... the plastic bags and all that...
I'm sorry that happened, that sounds like a terrible situation.

Do you see how I took you at your word and extended sympathy, rather than questioning whether you're misrepresenting the situation? Is there something you know about the facts of jedberg's situation that lead you not to do the same?
It should really be called String Hypothesis. Theories in science are generally for something that's near 100% proven.
Interresting. :-)

When I create hashes for systems, I actually, now create a "version" prefix for hashes... this way I can on-run upgrade to a newer hash at login (if/when needed).

Have upgraded a older systems this way... after 30 days, dumped any that hadn't changed and sent emails notifying that they'd have to use the "forgot password" option the next time they wanted to login.

Currently using pbkdf2/hmacsha512*100000 for password hashing. 16-byte salt, 32byte result... varying too far from NIST guidelines would have been a hard sell.

output base64 values: v#.SALT.HASH
They never mentioned "legally" either, so why are you bringing that up?
They may have fewer PARTS, but those parts are MORE expensive and yet take EVEN MORE STEPS during manufacture to create.

See this video for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHvCcOEMWnw&t=138s
I gotta tell you, I full dropped iterm2 due to performance issues several months ago. I'm not sure what changed but it would regularly run my pro fan through the roof, hardware accel on or off.

Compared to Terminal (which they put a lot of work into, it's leaps and bounds better than it was a couple years ago) which never seemed to have the issue, has all the features I was using, and I can now make look not-shit enough to be easy on the eyes.
Given that it is geo-fenced and they'll have staff nearby if not in the car (just not behind the wheel) I'm gonna say it's probably level 4.
“It” being what I understand about your philosophy of truth and what you mean by “accurate”. It’s hard to describe directly, since I’ve thought about this from a bunch of different sources that I struggle to synthesize, but I recommend this short story by Ted Chiang, The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling[1], which I think does a great job of capturing that ineffable, paradoxical nature of truth.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140222103103/http://subterrane...
Even simple things that we took for granted, like bicycles, have been undergoing transformation basically due to lithium batteries.

Apart from the obvious (e-bikes), there are also electronic gear shifters and even lights. Lights used to be dynamo powered (and go out when not moving). Now, $5 devices will provide more light than what we previously had available, and are more reliable.

There are probably other, less conspicuous applications that we are missing and taking for granted.
I don’t really think that contradicts anything I said
Many CNC machines in operation are retrofits of WWII era manual lathes and mills. There are so many of those still in existence, and the demand for small scale machining is so small in the US these days that the market for high quality machining tools have effectively segmented into huge modern CNC machining centers worth hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, and many decades old refurbished tools for small scale, simple one offs and hobbyist tools.
For the most part, you wouldn't use the web interface, which exists mostly for archival/search-engine purposes. You use a plain email program, and get used to hitting "reply all" instead of "reply" (this will have it be "To:" the person you're replying to, and will "Cc:" the mailing list address), you send a regular email to the mailing list address when you want to start a new thread. A halfway decent email program will thread the replies, like HN does.
It’s gonna be a few years off for another ten years, at least
Why not just run the version of Mac OS that you have now in a virtual machine for the handful tasks that truly require at? And run either a new version of Mac OS or Linux on the bare metal?
Right there is the problem with a lot of newer things. It does things other than what you ask it to, like upload telemetry, consume your bandwidth to deliver advertisements, or reboot for updates.
>The bans are temporary to allow investigation into cause

If by investigate into cause" you mean "wait for the legislature to figure out a way to tax them to bring in the kind of money we're used to getting from cigarette taxes"

If it were primarily about safety they would be talking about manufacturing standards and regulations and testing (like it is with every other product consumers want), not about banning.
Bullshit. People that actually use linux won't ever get fired. K8s hipsters definitely will be fired. EOS.

K8s is a dying over hyped pos.
The decision was before my time but it was based on a user survey. I have to admit that my vote was also for X11 rather than TCP/IP. I don't think people realized how tightly X11 was bound to networking. This blinded them to the the extra effort required to port X Windows to an OS without TCP/IP.