skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many comments in this thread are variations on a theme of "self-driving cars don't need to be perfect, they just need to be better than human drivers, who aren't actually all that great." I think it would be nice if this were true, and I suppose it is from an actuarial perspective, but it's also an extremely flawed point.

From a public confidence perspective, it doesn't matter if a self-driving car crashes one tenth, even one one-hundredth as often as human drivers.

If you see a self-driving car cause an accident, particularly a lethal one, in a situation that almost any human driver would have avoided, you've totally destroyed any and all confidence in this car's driving ability, because "I would never, ever have crashed there."

As we've seen, there are lots of scenarios like this. The Tesla crash from last year, where the car simply didn't see a white truck against a light background. Or imagine an adversarial image attack, where some tiny insignificant detail is placed onto a stop sign or a "do-not-enter" that turns it into nothing from the perspective of the AI driver.

These kinds of scenarios obliterate public confidence in self-driving cars, because intuitively, you immediately realize that you're "a much better driver" than this car! Even if that's untrue 99/100 times, it only takes one visceral example to drive this kind of wedge.

Self-driving cars don't just have to be better than human drivers. They have to be as close to perfect as is possible, because that's what people will expect.
Nothing about any sort of encryption.
Sound like a good rule of thumb on how much to trust a website
I was never able to whistle well until I learned to do it while inhaling which came out much louder and helped me learn a better mouth shape for whistling while exhaling.
Thanks for explaining the joke /s, but the explanation will probably be valuable to people.

All that really happened — it’s not just a joke. The incident which caused me to be suspended involved getting chased around backstage by a friend with a fire extinguisher. Which, ironically, is one thing that would have helped Atlanta.
I agree that medical education and licensing costs are way too high.

I would get rid of government medical licensing and setup third party accreditation.
But he probably first heard about Bitcoin from something he read on HN.
Any sufficiently problematic source is indistinguishable from the right-wing.
https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/
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Honest question: could it be argued that HN does not store any PII and therefore does not need to let you delete your account ?
Yq: A portable command-line YAML processor
I think they should record passengers boarding and unboarding, with motorized camera shutters that close while in transit for privacy.
OK, but you're still back to "pray the gay away" if you go to a priest, at least through most of human history.
Using KLEE on Rust-for-Linux
My point is that, Short of an actual physical key, by giving the user the key, they give everyone the key to do this to any iPhone in their possession, regardless of ownership. Any regulatory change shouldn't nullify Find My iPhone protections to the point that theft of iPhones becomes lucrative again.
One could argue crypto is a corruption of proper money, since transactions can't be reversed. Imagine the scenario where you wanted to metaphorically 'burn' 1M dollars. Say you hand Coinbase $1M in exchange for Bitcoin, then purposefully delete your wallet.dat and made it irrecoverable. The $1M is still there in Coinbase's account. It didn't get absorbed into the BTC blockchain. If you could think of money as a form of speech - then crypto just tramples all over that notion.
reminds me of the 'im tired of being a hipster' post on frontpage recently.... "go learn 'unhip' tech/languages and live your life"
SpaceX may dig a tunnel to enable frequent South Texas launches
That was a fun tangent, for sure, but it remains that you are indeed paying interest, if not directly, in a roundabout way. Credit card companies would not provide you with those benefits if you did not provide them with revenue to justify the cost of the benefits plus some margin of profitability. Nothing in the world is free. At the end of the day, your credit score is bought, as the original topic of this thread asserted.
They also pivoted their marketing message away from being "for gamers" and towards anyone who wanted "a place to hang out," like developer groups or high schoolers.
You may not realize this, but policing the speech of communities and advocating that they be re-educated by the proper authorities has historically been the stuff of nightmares.
Calendar, Not to-do lists: Viewing time as space
Let's not forget about the Space Jam site from 1996, it screams Geocities.

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
Well, slack is extremely expensive IMO, so I'm not surprised
The dead driver, his slumped body having fallen toward an "Accept" button on the car's touch screen just as an offer to drive for Uber appeared, now makes $200,000 / year going non-stop without bathroom or sleep breaks.
My boring answer is: No.
Less boring answer: There are probably tasks I'd refuse to do, but they'd be something like directly causing harm or pain, or exploiting the least fortunate in society.
See also "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury.

All you need is a solar powered self driving car, and perhaps a programmed routine. (If occupied, to work in the morning and home at night).
> Good luck making it a crime to install program.

It is already a crime to passively posses certain combinations of bits (i.e. that directly or indirectly [zip, truecrypt] represent a child porn image).

It has been made illegal to possess the implementation of a mathematical function (i.e. Kerberos being a "Auxiliary Military Equipment"). It will be pretty trivial for the government to make it ilegal to download, posses or install a program (e.g that interacts in some way with the Bitcoin network).
Socialism is when all the people of a country put theyr money together to pay for a system. Such as your taxes or a goverment healthcare. The banks have been rescured by such money.
You don't need the 'divided government' on board. Immigration is entirely within the control of the executive. That's why they are now able to let people in directly without a visa once it got urgent enough to give a shit - because it is at the discretion of the department.

As for this specific situation: The Taliban didn't control the country until very recently. Thousands of people have been at the airport, waiting for planes - you may have seen pictures of them crowding the airstrip. The Taliban has not been preventing them from flying out, the lack of planes and lack of letting them on the planes has been preventing them. People have been applying for visas for months, in public, and not getting them. Some of these people have been waiting for years. There is no universe in which any of what you just said is a valid reason for letting everything turn into a dumpster fire in the first place, and there is no way to excuse the existence of this dumpster fire by praising how well they're handling the massive dumpster fire they created.
Some highlights from my notes on the OP [1]:

> All anti-NTD neutralizing antibodies failed to recognize the Delta spike, indicating that the Delta variant is completely resistant to anti-NTD neutralizing antibodies elicited by wild-type spike protein, which is the antigenic component of widely used mRNA vaccines.

> A third round of booster immunization with the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is currently under consideration. Our data suggest that repeated immunization with the wild-type spike may not be effective in controlling the newly emerging Delta variants.

[1] The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.22.457114v1
I'm happy for their efforts and hope my kids never have to drive unless they want to, but I still think we're 20+ years out from level 4+ autonomy. Maybe when Waymo tests in a city that has weather -- like anywhere in the Northeast -- I'll be more enthusiastic.
> It had its right turn indicator on, but it drifted slowly to the left, into my lane, before slowly going back into its own lane. Then it started to slow down considerably.

Autopilot won't let you signal in one direction while changing lanes in the opposite direction. The only way to do that is by driving manually.

My guess is the Tesla was under manual control and the driver was intoxicated, extremely sleep deprived, or having a medical issue.
I think incredibly easy is a bit far. Look at how many commands and options there are in total: https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manpage.html. Beyond that, the website isn't the easiest to navigate, and the guides they have linked are quite wordy. You simply cannot argue that it's user friendly overall.

However, I'll admit that my original wording was too harsh in the case of simple encryption. I also agree that GPG with that command is slightly easier than age, although the documentation for age could be better in my opinion. GUI applications will always be best for the average user.

The other point of new tools is to make changes to the file formats, cryptographic algorithms, etc and reduce the number of lines of code to make things more auditable.
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So you think self driving cars will be able to profitably offer a 10 mile ride for $20 in suburbia of second tier cities like Springfield MA? If your opinion is that cab drivers make much more than $10 an hour today then I suggest you look at things outside the bay area.

Self driving does not scale at all now. Because as you said these special maps need to a lot of human labor to make and the cars need a lot of sensors on top of the auto patform. Labor is not even the main cost driver in person transportation.
Version 0 of a fun idea: nearest neighbour face swap
Previous discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28287036
Never heard of peppercorn rent until reading your comment- as a nice coincidence I was reading a Reddit thread on weird NYC trivia that included a link out to this article of the Queen visiting NYC in 1970s to collect 279 years worth of back rent for Trinity Church (which was literally 279 peppercorns)

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/10/archives/queen-warmly-rec...
Hmm, but perhaps we could manage to understand the brain and behavior of a fruitfly or even a mouse. The “self-conscious” tier is trivial recursion. Hofstadter has this right in “I Am A Strange Loop”.
In ~2014 - 2016 when Cloud and AWS were hyped as X most banks or finance companies were starting to think of moving from mainframe into "modern" infrastructure with x86 and linux. Those studies took a little more than a year and by 2018 I dont think anyone actually moved. ( And I am glad they didn't )

As of 2021, the total unit of Mainframe in use is still increasing at steady pace.
Cutting edge? The only special thing about Bitcoin is the blockchain which only matters when there is a shortage of trust. Bitcoin may force government to be more responsible because it can be used to circumvent capital controls or price controls. Any advantage other than trust that a public blockchain has can be replicated through a private blockchain. It's just software after all.

Considering the monetary philosophy behind Bitcoin it is basically motivated by gold which is something we abandoned as a currency because we know it doesn't work and doesn't make sense. It's akin to having shares in the global economy. If you own 1% of the economy in 1930 then you will also own 1% of the economy in 2021. You're just a deadweight leeching off the economy. Since your share is fixed but the economy growing you are getting richer at the expense of other people. More and more people start investing "into money" and then quit working. You get a bust or recession or depression when people consider money a superior investment over actual work. Thus the economies' size is limited by the quantity of shares. If you issue new shares people will immediately start working for them even if it is at the cost of diluting them. You can clearly see it happening with the block reward. Bitcoin miners work like crazy, consuming an absurd amount of energy. The same applies to gold.
They likely do a risk assessment before engaging in borderline illegal things and try to offset liability to underlings.
Best to ask the prosecutors, they know best i suppose. Maybe we have some lawyers here who can chime in?
That doesn’t make the rock-and-hard-place point apply to that situation though, which is what the comment you replied to was a reply to.
Exactly. I objectively hate it, but I would eat that square pizza with square pepperoni bits again without a second thought if offered.
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What does it mean "the integration is tight"? Are we talking about good Azure libraries, or is there some runtime integration (e.g., a .Net orchestrator i.e., Kubernetes but for .Net applications rather than containers)? Or does it just mean that Azure is better than other clouds at running .Net because it's a first-class citizen where it's usually second-tier on AWS/GCP?
"After an initial honeymoon phase, I'll get hit by a strong combo of frustration/boredom/cynicism and want to quit."

I feel the same way as a software dev.

I'm a beekeeper. You can't really make enough to support yourself with beekeeping alone. Bulk honey prices are garbage, mostly due to imports. You can make decent money selling locally as an artisanal product, but depending on the region and distribution channels the ceiling for your sales might be pretty low. In my region, I would probably need 4 yards with 20 hives each, several miles from each other, and in areas with good natural features (nectar sources, water, accessible) to make revenue of about $40-50k. I've heard people say it takes 3 years to break even. I think that's true as hobbyist beekeepers, but probably more like 5 years as a large scale operation. Local pollination services can be another option to make money.
https://lightyear.one/ has you covered.
wasn't it to discredit political rivals and minorities? like, there really wasn't ever a strong argument against weed (that relied on that stated aim), especially in a post-prohibition America.
Typically, by preventing regulated institutions to accept deposits from and withdrawals to addresses that do not match a wallet that has been associated with an identified entity. That would be unfortunate.
> convince the Taliban

This is the depths to which American credibility has sunk. We have to convince them because we have left ourselves no options[1]. Except that they have no interest in being "convinced", but every interest in demonstrating to friend and foe alike that the U.S. has capitulated[2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28224405

[2]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9922849/Biden-tells...
Fredrick Lee, CSO of Gusto: Why diversity is essential for epic security teams?
People is giving content for free to Twitter. Should they start charging for it? Twitter is not on the same league as the NYT.
No, that's called paying taxes and funding a government. I'd suggest you crack a political science textbook if you want to actually know what socialism is.
What about the EU banning ivory wallets?
Just checked it out on google. What a beautiful place.

My scepticism around SD cars in places like that and Bath is not even the roads themselves, but the traffic.

The are quite a lot of roads around me that are quite narrow and frequently drop to single lanes. I feel like any self-drive system will need to develop quite an advanced theory of mind to perform the weird silent negotiation that happens when I'm driving a long, with three cars behind me, and come face-to-face with a bus coming the other way, and somehow we have to either backup en-masse, or perform the squeeze dance as we edge past each other with inches to spair.
Given the number of people here saying self-driving cars require AGI (a.k.a. sand that thinks a.k.a. fairy magic), I would say we have definitely hit the bottom of the trough of disillusionment. But since Waymo is launching in a second city, this is perhaps the very start of the slope of enlightenment.
I'm not really concerned with such small differences in speed, to be honest. The thing that I look for is: how productive am I when using language X?
I'm no expert so maybe I'm missing something.

To me it seems that ZFS snapshots represents a similar challenge[1] given that the snapshots can be accessed through the .zfs directory, and that ZFS also plays tricks[2] with the inodes.

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gbiqe/index.ht...

[2]: http://mikeboers.com/blog/2019/02/21/zfs-inode-generations
You shouldn't have to screech to a halt if the car in front of you slowly decelerates.
Exactly... and turning on a signal completely turns off autosteer if in base autopilot.

Not sure if it could be coerced into automatically coming back on if the car had FSD and the signal was turned back off, though?
Slack uses a language that is like markdown, but is not markdown, which is annoying for engineers.

Slack does not support syntax highlighting of code blocks.

Discord uses proper markdown and supports syntax highlighting.

These are two things that make me think Discord is better specifically for engineers, aside from it just being generally way better.
Chicago IG finds that Shotspotter alerts rarely lead to evidence of gun crime
Worth noting that if you were going to go after loan fraud you likely would be charging low level folks in the mortgage pipeline (appraisers, mortgage brokers, etc) or even the borrowers, not Wall Street CEOs.
You are always allowed to stop in an emergency. Or if your engine stops working for example ;)
When it's a handful of people, you go after the individuals. When it's wide spread, you go after the institution [1]. The challenge is that the DOJ appears to continue to insist on going after white collar crimes like these with civil penalties against the company rather than piercing the corporate veil & starting to criminally prosecute the officers responsible. Talk about moral hazards they're constantly hand wringing over.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-bank-agrees-pay-1...
Recovery could also prove to be further papering over serious problems. Time will tell how robust a recovery it truly is.
This discussion is not about carrier unlock! This is about `fastboot oem unlock`.
This one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28274485
The article assumes knowledge of facts surrounding the financial crisis. There's plenty written elsewhere about that.

Here's a sampling of books and blogs to comprehend what led to the Great Financial Crisis.

* Griftopia by Matt Taibbi

* https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-9-bi...

* https://jpmadoff.com/

* https://wallstreetonparade.com
Hi, how does this compare to Vaex?
https://vaex.io/docs/tutorial.html

Vaex can join larger than memory datasets, but it doesn't support SQL per-se, it uses it's own lazy dataframe DSL.
>"Residents of South Texas use the highway primarily to travel from Brownsville and nearby towns to Boca Chica Beach, the southernmost beach in Texas. When the road is closed, no one can access or remain on the beach."

For goodness sake, it is a beach. There are plenty of beaches along the Gulf of Mexico. You would think the city could simply say, "this is an industrial area now, you must swim elsewhere."
Sometimes it can still be the safest thing to do. It sounds like that was one of those times.
Here's a particularly spicy viewpoint: It doesn't matter if you obliterate public confidence in self-driving cars, or if there are lethal accidents that would've been avoided.

As t approaches infinity, what are the chances that self-driving cars won't take over the world?
Interesting timing given this article which was just posted a day or so ago on HN

https://www.autoblog.com/2021/08/22/waymo-is-99-of-the-way-t...
Not at the scale noted in the article I linked:

> Mortgage originators that emphasized profit-fueled quantity over loan quality, which resulted in the misreporting of key financial information in 48% of loans securitized by nongovernment agencies;

If 48% of your company's financial transactions were fraudulent, would you expect the CEO to bear responsibility for that? At that point, I'd expect to see a RICO case, or something come out of it.
RES is godsent.
I would agree that the self-deceiving fiduciary should be held financially responsible for the impact of their blindness, but I’m not sure all these cases are actually crimes.
Sure. Lets start with an easy example. Why didnt any Directors at Goldman Sachs serve prison time for knowingly bundling Synthetic CDOs with bad CDS that they internally know were garbage? They sold these to pension funds, and other public entities. There were documented losses. There are documented emails with full internal discussion on how bad these investments were.

(documented with emails.) Note there was a civil case (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/01/fabulous-fa...) and a low-level fall-guy in his 20s, and conveniently French, did face civil charges.

Note, non-connected, poor people go to jail for $500 thefts. Lets be honest about what happened here.
"we can all agree on cases where the number of participants is small,"

It was definitely not small, the fraud was top to bottom including the home owners lying on their loan applications, the loan officers, the managers of the loan operations, the VPs, the ratings agencies, those not doing their due diligence and just assuming that the ratings agencies were perfect etc..

It was a mania more than anything, where regulations were bent and the system lost all of it's checks and balances.

It's illegal to drive blindfolded, it's not illegal for Bear Stearns to make most kinds of stupid bets in real estate.

This was not 'executives do fraud, or at least something like it and banks fall'.

It was more like a bad housing bubble where all the limiting parameters were bent out of shape.
What do you do if a tree or something falls on the road?
Who makes voice calls anymore?

Also, did TMUS just drop 3G voice / CSFB already?! o_0
It has a business reason: we let customers email each other on an anonymized email address ($hash@kamer.nl) to keep their info private. I know the structure of the hash (length etc) but no clue how to filter on the mail-server side using this characteristic, that’s why a catch-all. We’re thinking of sunsetting the feature and that would mean that a catch-all won’t be necessary anymore :-)
You use RES for that. It shows everything and plays every video.
That’s why you should stop slowly in such a case. Create a traffic jam behind you.

A traffic jam is a far less dangerous situation than an intoxicated driver.
I started working remotely end 1994. An analog line ran to my office had two analog 19k2 modems on it and I worked remotely on the server which was connected to the internet using a 10mbit fiber.

Worked from home before that '90/'91 but not online. Had an IBM cash register in my bedroom for which I wrote a POS application.
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The closest general-purpose crime I can think of would be some variation of fraud. Except that to be criminally fraudulent, you have to meet the requirement of knowingly making false statements of fact. That's quite difficult for the prosecution to prove in a criminal trial, especially given that the bar is to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt (although I doubt that juries actually adhere to that standard in practice). And honestly, I'm not sure I even believe it to be true--a lot of the failures (especially by the time we're talking CEO-level here) feel a lot more like plain hubris rather than specific fraud.