skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be a protractor, which would be allowed if there were 340 degrees in a circle.
Your misreading the ruling. It considers the forked coins to be new coins. However they're not income until actually received in your exchange account.

The cost basis of the new coins is $0 because you paid nothing to acquire them. If they have value when received for some reason, they take on the value you claim as income in your tax return. This may be possible if for example other exchanges have already enabled transactions in that fork and established a value.
I'm bothered by the fact that most if not all news websites don't differentiate between nicotine and THC vapes. They're completely different. Illicit THC vapes are what's killing people.
ImpulseAdventure is THE place when I look for reference related to anything about JPEG.

He also has a very useful utility (I normally use it to check DCT table) called JPEGSnoop [1].

[1] https://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/jpeg-snoop.html
> If so why go through all this trouble to creat autonomous vehicles?

So we can sleep in the car. Or watch netflix. Or drink. Saving 1+ million per year while you know, very nice, is not the main reason for doing this.
Based on the description in that article, it doesn’t seem that the Tesla autonomously reacted to the stop sign, so much as it slowed to a stop before making a right turn based on its navigation system. The driver says he had to manually start AutoPilot after the stop for it to initiate the right turn:

> “The car always stops at the end of a highway exit since Navigate on Autopilot. At the stop, you just need to touch the accelerator to start Autopilot again without Navigate on Autopilot. I didn’t accelerate, you just need to touch the accelerator for less than a second and the car will do the rest at the intersection.”
> A survey commissioned by La Poste found that French citizens rank mail carriers among their “favorite figures encountered in daily life,” second only to bakers.

This made me laugh a little.
Cost basis is very clear. It's zero, because there is no cost to acquiring the forked coins.
Also wasn't there a rule if someone comes up with the same idea independently the patent was invalid?

We really need to rethink the patent system.
SEC not convinced a “real” Bitcoin market exists, denies Bitwise Bitcoin ETF
>You don't think the special character could be a mistake?

Not that it makes any real difference here with such a small search space, but in this scenario (known typo, information revealed) it's less likely. Remember, we're considering a human typing something out on a keyboard, so the probabilities aren't fully random. If we're trying to use probabilities to cut down the search space further, a caret character requires shifting well away from the home row (shift-6 US standard qwerty) so it's more likely to represent active intent. Perhaps it could be % or & (shift-5/shift-7), but if you know someone is trying to type a password out and has made a typo then a left/right neighbor with shifting preserved is an easy place to start guessing.

Obviously, this whole thing is such an awful idea and breaks everything so badly that it's all kind of theoretical anyway, hopefully no software has had behavior like this for a long time. And any actual brute force program today has far more sophisticated pattern attacks based on the enormous corpus of password leaks and knowledge there now is, which is why it's foolish to try to try to be clever with passwords rather then just generating something fully randomized.
Detecting AI Trojans Using Meta Neural Analysis
You can even set periodic backups in Google Takeout now.
Of course if your whole system is written with this in mind, it's doable. But many code bases are huge and fixing them isn't trivial.
Re-reading the post, it seems that he and I might be talking about different things. I'm referring to farmers using remote controlled drones with cameras to check the state of their crops/fields without having to drive over hundreds of acres. That's an actual thing and is quite common.

OP seems to be talking about some kind of automated drone weeding (or just phrased what he meant poorly).
Maps isn't about maps anymore, it's a location database that happens to show a map sometimes.

If you want an actual map with useful map features like showing street names then OSM is a far better product.

I don't get me started on how gmail has been filtering the content of emails. I wonder how many services have been spam blocked because google decided to hide the unsubscribe links.
That's biased.

I will only accept the correct answer from people I choose. Experts in the field should provide the most insight overtime but don't ignore non-experts. That's foolish and limiting.
Not sure if you got it, but it’s myths all the way down. It’s only by the values of one myth that another should be “stamped out.”

The book Sapiens covers this well, that you cannot escape the prison of a myth without being contained by one larger.
No. Not to the poster. And not any different to the recipient than code that can be retyped, downloaded, or reproduced by any other mechanism besides copy and paste.
they went nuclear not caring about anything but keeping china's totalitarian government happy.

I hope this really hurts blizzard. To many people value playing the game than protecting rights, let alone rights of other people.
Parallel issue: people who fit complex models when simple descriptive statistics would be more useful/a better fit.
Hoping on the analogy train (knowing full well that all our analogies will be somewhat imperfect because this tech is unprecedented). I don't think it's like a stock split or a dividend.

I think a hard fork is most like a company breaking itself apart (like eBay/PayPal into, well, eBay and PayPal). In the case of eBay/PayPal, each holder of the eBay stock also got PayPal stock 1:1, just like in a hard fork.

I did some quick research into this and found that the issuance of PayPal stock was NOT a taxable event: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1633917/000119312515...

The relevant quote: "The separation will provide current eBay stockholders with equity ownership in both eBay and PayPal. We expect that the distribution of PayPal common stock will be tax-free, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, to eBay stockholders."

The reason this is similar to a hard fork is that, in theory, the two chains will splinter their hash power, their usage, and at the time, no REAL value is being transferred/created because of the fork (in theory).

There is, of course, the abstract concept that I'm calling "anti-synergy": when two groups are suffering being together and there is more global value in the world when they're apart.
I don't know if it's still true, but that was the state of things as of a year ago.
Unfortunately bank transfers are not available from Bank of America in their online & mobile interfaces...

I know... begin your "well leave BOA and join a credit union" posts below, but credit unions are not an option for me... :P
Immorality is subjective. McKinsey is hired to (maximize|minimize) some objective. The fact someone didn’t want to work on the Purdue Pharma opioid marketing project when McKinsey employs a fungible pool of thousands of consultants means nothing.
Since you are curious I really suggest you look into it - read some environmental studies and articles on salt pollution, get some details on the actual situation to offer rather than you know, just sayings and analogies.
>Changing the focus from code to people

Seems like this guy wants a clubhouse or playground instead of a place to do work. We already have people in open source who are more invested in discussing gender pronouns than actually coding. So can we not?

Honestly if not the quality of code and collaboration, why even use open source software if it comes with all this bureaucracy they want to instate? Might as well use proprietary software that comes with support and people who can be held accountable.
That is again a myth. Before Thaad Samsung's share is already shrinking.

The milestone being Note 7 explosion, they refused to offer the same refund package that they offered to the world outside China, and actually accusing some users microven the phone for fraud...

And it blows up. No one wants to be treat as idiots.
It sounds like your answer is "no, but I actually approve of the new cruelty"
G Suite isn't free.
McAfee Re-Confirms Dickline Predication
This brings back a lot of memories.

I was an intern an Inetco sytems in Vancouver (circa 1989?). They developed switching software for ATMs that used Coherent running on Intel PCs.

My task was to extend the Coherent shell (a clone of the standard Unix sh) with BSD csh features (history, etc.). I had nothing to go on except the csh man page.

I have since lost the source code (it was called the "wsh"), but I suspect I would cringe looking at it now.

Coherent was definitely my gateway drug into Unix.
I'll add that personally I've lost a lot of respect for them over the bnetd fiasco/lawsuit, Starcraft II shipping with no local multiplayer, and their long-running legal crusade against private World of Warcraft servers.
DIYDoom: An attempt to understand how DOOM engine works
You'll never run out of edge cases if you have to explicitly program the logic. At some point you have to let the machine learning decide it. Maybe there is room for a hybrid approach, but I think anything relying on programmers having thought of every situation ahead of time is doomed to fail.
possibly... I don't actually use my laptop, and when I did my hardware refresh a couple months ago, I went linux from my older hackintosh (nvidia gtx 1080)
That is exactly how it should turn out.

The hard fork was ethereum's failure as a result of the technical inability to roll back the transactions the proper way (i.e., by just undoing the redactions themselves) and the tax law shouldn't be changed just for that.
Thanks for the advice.

The principle of their risk vs their cost doesn't work in this case. Terminals vulnerabilities are a bit more serious: It means don't anything involving PII on any remote computer either, from "that computer".

(If you take that seriously, that means don't access email too.)

Haha, "employee machines", chuckles :-) I haven't had (or been offered) one of those in many years - except for cloud machines. Plenty of cloud machines, but I'm nearly always expected to use my own devices to access them, at my own cost.

I do work with PII, for a variety of companies. About a quarter of the work I do involves direct use of PII, and another third interacts with it indirectly (such as grepping operational logs), so it has to be treated as pervasive.

The non-profits I currently handle PII for do not have spare cash to buy new kit at this level, or pay for my time fiddling around. It's not so much that they don't value it. I value it after all, and I'm responsible for deciding how to handle it. So another solution will need to be found.

For-profits I handle PII for (as a freelance/consultant) can of course afford machines, but it's still a problem to go cap in hand, when the expectation is that bringing an adequate terminal is my problem not theirs.

Which is fine, it's just how things are done.

Meanwhile, I still have physical devices that need an older MacOS for other work.

And there's a problem with serious MacOS SMBFS bugs that change on each version - and have themselves caused PII issues, for real (google "delete random files once in a blue moon"). I'm not looking forward to wierdness like that all over again, and I know that later MacOS has new SMBFS bugs.

So, upgrading MacOS, sadly, has known data access risks too. It's not something I should do casually, nor treat it as an unambiguous improvement from a security-of-data perspective.

To a responsible person, this combination of requirements sucks. I will deal with it responsibly of course, somehow.

But there's no quick and straightforward answer that meets all the requirements, and contrary to what I think some are saying, "just update" does not meet them, nor is it an unambiguous improvement.
Wait, what?
Waymo does also some rides hailed via lyft, or are you saying that you have to apply also in lyft?
If this is not a public service with paying customers then I don’t know one...
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2019/06/27/way...
A bunch of companies have a design doc or RFC process for major changes that they send to the rest of the relevant engineering organization. It's partly a feedback mechanism, partly a notification mechanism.
Standing desk sometime-user [adjustable height desk] here -- I always use a footrest in the manner described in the quote and generally move around a lot -- I agree that standing in a static position for long periods is tiring / fatiguing for me

[side note : when not standing, I sit on a yoga ball and likewise move / shift often]
No. You have one asset that is sellable in part in two different manners. It's exactly as if you bought a two-piece action figure as one lot and then sold the pieces separately.
Agreed. It should be illegal for banks to not accept verified US dollars for deposit in any case. The money is only moved when official ID is used anyway...
I'm blown away at how quickly this e-cig prohibition movement is taking root. As far as I can tell, all the horror stories have been from bootleg THC cartridges, rather than legitimate Juul pods. So banning sales of the legitimate product seems... counter-productive.

I suppose high school kids will just go back to smoking Swisher Sweets and chewing flavored Skoal pouches...

I don't really see how any of this is a positive direction.
Why would volume matter at all when it comes to storing food? Space in space is the next best thing to free, after all.

The real thing to be concerned about is mass.
That answer was the path of answer I hoped to hear, actually.
"I do worry that the power consumption might be far too high for the amount of value you're getting out of it."

Those processors barely used any power to begin with. Most don't even have a heat sink. None of my systems had a heat sink until my 80386.
TIL about Tianxia. Thanks
I’m not convinced the speed of light is a barrier when you can build a non-Euclidean quantum computer.

Maybe the VC had a point, and the engineers were overly confident in one perspective — one that had assumptions subtly different from reality.
You are making the mistake I made. You don't know dogs, you know a breed (or two). The exercise requirements for dogs radically vary and some wouldn't walk 45 minutes or more without being dragged.

Dogs are just like people... some will go crazy if not running long distances every day.... other are perfectly happy to be lazy on a couch all day.

Some need the stimulation of exploring larger areas... others will mostly ignore whatever yard they have.

I had 3 goldens retreivers over the last 30 years or so, all quite unique dogs. They varied quite a bit, goldens are really two different breeds, the show line (heavier, broader, longer hair, giant flags, etc) and the hunting line (thinner, shorter hair, narrower shoulders, and longer legs). But I was unprepared for a english pointer. I thought I knew dogs, turns out I knew Goldens.

I thought Goldens were active and liked to run, but nothing compared to our English pointer... not even close.
Zero deaths are ideal, but the point is that self driving cars don't have to clear a very high bar. The human driver alternative doesn't do very well, as outlined in your link.
Super. I'm going to steal this.
As Karpaty said:

1. Become one with the data.

The first step to training a neural net is to not touch any neural net code at all and instead begin by thoroughly inspecting your data. This step is critical. I like to spend copious amount of time (measured in units of hours) scanning through thousands of examples, understanding their distribution and looking for patterns. Luckily, your brain is pretty good at this. One time I discovered that the data contained duplicate examples. Another time I found corrupted images / labels. I look for data imbalances and biases. I will typically also pay attention to my own process for classifying the data, which hints at the kinds of architectures we’ll eventually explore. As an example - are very local features enough or do we need global context? How much variation is there and what form does it take? What variation is spurious and could be preprocessed out? Does spatial position matter or do we want to average pool it out? How much does detail matter and how far could we afford to downsample the images? How noisy are the labels?

source: http://karpathy.github.io/2019/04/25/recipe/
My Swedish and Norwegian friends see the characters as stand-ins for nationalities, but sure, happy to ditch that hypo if you don't find it compelling. It was just one possible illustration of the broader point: the salience of racism seems at least somewhat related to the extent of the harm, and the harms from racism aren't evenly distributed.

I could see someone endorsing the view that racism is always wrong and yet still worse in some situations. Like, stealing a loaf of bread from a baker is wrong, but stealing a loaf of bread from a starving family is especially cruel.

I'm not an expert here or anything. I don't want to come off like I have it all figured out, I don't.
Obviously Tibet can be a separate country (and was very recently).

And if Singapore is viable as a separate country, why not Hong Kong too?

Chinese empires have broken up many times in the past. I don't expect the fate of this current empire will be any different.
Not sure I understand your confusion. If you don't receive the forked coins (situation 1) you don't have income. It doesn't matter why you didn't get any of the forked coins.
e2e encryption takes google mostly out of the loop (except for the "meta" data)
Can't speak for ahelwer, but once at work we had to show (for certification purposes), that our program wouldn't get lost in an infinite loop.

Now from a realistic standpoint, all they wanted was some evidence we had considered this possibility and some data/argument to show our confidence that it wouldn't.

This was a simple program - you could confirm the algorithm wouldn't run forever by examining the code - look at the loops and their termination conditions, and look at function calls to show there were no loops in the call graph, etc. Yet one engineer in the team refused to engage. He kept invoking the halting problem. At one point I asked him that if the program was simply 'print "A"' would he still refuse to make the claim? Yup. No idea what the compiler/interpreter/HW is doing behind the scenes.

In the real world, when someone asks you to give an idea as to whether the program could hang in an infinite loop, don't invoke the Halting Problem. You're not answering the question they think they are asking, and as an engineer, your job is not to be pedantic with customers - unless you want to lose them fast.
Yeah, I don't think it was a lie either. It was an expectation about the future. We worry about diseases jumping demographics all the time, sometimes even from one species to another.
Link returns a 403 for me (fyi)
Wouldn't that metaphor suggest that there were lots of people with extremely low IQ as average lifespan figures were previously dominated by infant mortality?
I think the implied point is that each of the things you list has a long tail economically to the world, sure it's an improvement but the environment cost of each of those developments is a canned kicked down the road, and we are down the road from a few of those developments now, and we don't have a solution.

- whales - there are less whales now.

- coal mining - green house gasses

- oil drilling - oil spills and green house gasses

- natural gas - release of methane gas from LNG fracking

- lithium - who knows yet. but probably green house gasses and pollution from manufacture.
Because

a) when you split it over four people it's only ~two evenings worth of desert.

b) don't tell me what to do with my body.
This is fiendishly clever; you more than made up for a lack of technical skills by exploiting the wetware angle. Lovely little story :)
Kowtowing to Chinese censors will bring down freedom here. It will never end until we're all enslaved, controlled and monitored like mainland China.
Comma ai's OpenPilot makes freeway driving really nice. I've gone miles without touching pedals or the wheel, it's definitely better than stock. Though I haven't tried AP on Tesla, and OpenPilot is basically just a really good LKA and ACC.
This is an application, not a patent.

To your point, the examiner may object to the claims because the application fails the enablement requirement. Enablement means that the disclosure enables a person of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention without undue experimentation. Even if a patent does issue and you're sued for infringement, one of your arguments might be that the patent shouldn't have issued because it isn't enabling.
I’m not sure that changes anything.
This article is all wrong.

At the core, there is something that is converting this jpeg or misc encoded data into raw encoded data, and this process MUST account for the orientation.

Either the app is reading the image, converting it before passing it to the CV/ML/AI library, and this conversion step needs to respect this tag, and either transfer the tag or apply it to the transformed object; OR, the CV/ML/AI library is getting in encoded image data, and it needs to check for this tag.

Those are the two options, either the CV/ML/AI library sees the tag, and should consider it, or it doesn't, and the library that is stripping it away shouldn't be doing that
Cheap Chinese products have been causing issues in the vape industry for years. It used to be knockoff batteries exploding, now we're seeing the harmful health effects of whatever cheap materials they're using to manufacture the coils.

The industry needs to be regulated, not outright banned.
While many people who become preoccupied with "problems" like these are operating in bad-faith and can't be swayed otherwise, I would be very surprised if a large number of them (if not most of them) weren't just lay people who were simply curious, who had poor experiences learning math or technical subjects growing up, and for once read about some mathematical "problem" that was accessible to them, were excited by it, and set about exploring it not realizing it was actually a red herring.

And unfortunately, if you lack a good foundation, you won't be able to realize the "problem" you're working on is actually a red-herring, and the rabbit holes you wander through when researching these "problems" will just teach you further bad habits and crankery.

For the sake of those people, I don't think it's fair or right to immediately assume bad faith and take the attitude of "run for the hills" when met with anyone who's gone down such a path. And I don't think it's right to make a mockery of them either (except of course for the ones that start trying to write books, teach seminars, or submit papers about their "discoveries" without ever getting it right).

Instead maybe we can point them towards resources so they can fix their faulty foundation and find more productive ones? No need to engage them further. Just give them something -- even something canned -- to sate the obvious curiosity that they have and give them a little direction. At the very least we can not mock them and assume bad faith -- there's nothing wrong with being curious.
Thing is I haven’t read where someone can say whether it’s contamination or whether it’s the high heat vaporization or the combo or something else which is causing this. So given they don’t have strong evidence, it would be negligent not to pull a product.