skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their staff really are great, I love how active they all are on DSLReports.
There have been a total of 9 Autopilot deaths since the system was introduced in 2015. That's with 1 million+ cars on the road with Autopilot and billions of miles. 9 is a very small number. And in pretty much every case the driver was found to be at fault.
You cna use Windows and probably MacOS and iOS without display.
I will do so right now.

edit And done, 5 stars.
> Beware of any other projects claiming to sell rock NFT's, which may either be scams

How the fuck is it a scam when the first 100 rocks are fake already? They're just more fake rocks just like the first 100.
To be fair, much of the IRS's work has been automated. Especially the submissions - the IRS no longer has to have people doing data entry. The computers automatically scan for red flags.
https://hedera.com/network-nodes

> Consensus nodes receive transactions, work together to determine consensus using hashgraph, and store the public ledger's latest state. The Hedera Governing Council currently runs all mainnet consensus nodes. As Hedera advances on its path to decentralization, anyone will be able run a consensus node.

https://hedera.com/hh-decentralization-of-consensus.pdf

> Hedera Hashgraph is a proof-of-stake network that aims to use permissionless nodes and a widespread coin distribution to ensure the network’s security while working to achieve complete decentralization.

> Hbar cryptocurrency represents the “stake” of voting power in Hedera’s proof-of-stake consensus model – more coins equal more voting power over consensus. Thus, to ensure the network’s security, hbars need to be widely distributed so no attacker or group of attackers can amass control over one-third of the coins.

> Until hbars are sufficiently distributed, Hedera will remain a permissioned network. To maintain the security of the network, the network will remain permissioned until the total value of all the circulating coins is high enough to be too expensive for a malicious user (or group of users) to buy one-third of the total supply to conduct an attack.

Whatever other good points their technology has on its efficiency and not using proof-of-work, their web site shows that (1) right now the network is centralized and consensus is operated by the original developers and people they've personally approved, (2) their path to eventual decentralization is reliant on their own judgments about the size and value of the network. The consensus part doesn't reflect an improvement on the status quo from the point of view of decentralization, in that all they've claimed is that, some day, when their network is big and valuable enough, they can allow it to decentralize because attacks will then become unreasonably expensive.

We might all be better off if a mechanism like this had already caught on to a huge extent instead of Bitcoin. But I don't see a particular innovation here for securing decentralized consensus relative to other proof-of-stake systems.
> From my point of view it's less commercial vs non-commercial (though I think most of the problems either stem from, or are aggravated by commercial factors) as much as it is diversity versus consolidation.

There is a case where I'm pretty sure commercialization is the problem. Phone app stores are modeled on Linux repositories. Linux repositories are good. App stores are awful. The problem is the level of interest from bad actors, and the reason they're interested is the commercialization.
Where do you think some "people on HN" work...? I'm not surprised.
Prohibition is clearly a failed policy but that doesn’t mean that policies which restrict alcohol consumption are all equally stupid. There are still good arguments for treating alcohol consumption as a public health issue, and this would be a stronger piece if it weren’t also riddled with contempt for pandemic mitigation procedure.
It's not just television media that contributes to this, but also just the people around you. For example, many people I know who are firearm hobbyists seem to spend a lot of time thinking about the possibility of armed intruders. When enough of them are together, they get themselves really worked up about an extremely rare event that none of them have actually experienced.
Yeah, restrictions in Canada varied by region and shifted on and off, so it would take a lot more analysis to say one way or the other.
What about links that call for violence / genocide? Should those be delivered to avoid setting a precedent?
Woah, definitely saving this tool. Kind of ridiculous how Google still can't manage such shady tactics. I guess using marquee is not without reason ;) Probably due to an omission in some blacklist - I know that Google should detect some "invisible" links or keywords.
"Whatever already has the libraries" isn't political. It's technical. It's thousands of lines of code that you don't have to write, and don't have to debug, and don't have to maintain.

And having relevant libraries is (at least part of) "the merits".
I would love to see the camera feed, my guess is the police lights look like overexposed blobs against a black background and the Tesla can't figure out what to classify it as, so it's just ignored.

ultrasonics arent long range enough, radar has to throw out stationary objects as "probably a part of the road" and somehow no one has technology that can tell whether the path is clear ahead of them, which surprisingly was not the first step to shipping self driving cars
Things You Should Never Do, Part 1

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Why is anyone still using FB? They've been arbitrarily censoring content for some time now. Back when the CoViD-19 lab leak theory was a "conspiracy theory" they actively removed that content. Now that it's no longer a "conspiracy theory" I guess it's okay to share links about it now. What has changed?
The same goes for the Hunter Biden laptop story. Back when it was "Russian propaganda" it was censored. Now that it's been verified, I guess it's okay.

Honestly, do you want FB deciding what is "truth" for you?
Here come the tesla fans quoting stats about how safe tesla is.

I don't care how safe it is, its nowhere near as safe or reliable as the sales and marketing are pushing. I wish it was criminal how misleading tesla has been regarding reliability, and regarding how close they are to full self driving.
Isn't that what happened with the 1918 pandemic?
> This website staying online is a miss on Amazon’s part.

How convenient that unequal application of censorship can be excused as just a “miss”.

> By the way, no one colluded to ban Parler. I don’t speak in behalf of Amazon, but the content on Parler, where people were calling for assassination of American government officials, had full visibility. It wasn’t obscure or unknown to Amazon. It was a high traffic, well known app. That issue was very visible and corrective action was quickly taken.

I remember checking out Parler and not finding any violent content - if it was there it must have been exceedingly rare. I also have seen numerous articles mention there was a lot more problematic content pertaining to the Capitol riot on other social media platforms - and yet those apps are in the app stores and Amazon surely has no problems doing business with them, since they maintain a presence on platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

Let’s be honest: Deplatforming Trump and Parler were purely politically biased moves. Amazon probably only took action against Parler because AOC demanded it publicly, which shows that the government will abuse their position to cause censorship of their adversaries, and that technology companies are spineless sycophants who will sacrifice fairness and ethics to pursue friendly political relationships when power changes hands.

Glenn Greenwald wrote about all this at https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-sho...

> But to turn that into Amazon or it’s employees being okay with hosting terrorist content is so absurd, it’s not really even worth responding too.

Terrorism is the use of violence and other illegal acts to pursue political goals. Many BLM affiliated groups met this definition in 2020. That didn’t stop Amazon from donating to those groups or from hosting their content. Ignoring this much bigger amount of violent rioting and terrorism from 2020 and focusing on a one day riot in 2021 is the real absurdity. And yes unequally applying censorship to one group and not the other is tantamount to supporting the other - you can’t hold the keys and also deny culpability.
In Britain the quality of tap water varies a lot from place to place. I live in Cambridge where the water comes from a chalk aquifer; it is very hard and has a distinctly unpleasant flavour. We got a water softener installed, including a separate filter for drinking water, and that made it a lot more palatable.

Last weekend we were visiting family in Sheffield, which is on the edge of the Peak District, and their water comes from hard sandstone hills, beautifully soft.
This is a well-known issue with the current publicly available version of the Tesla auto-pilot: it largely ignores stationary objects that partially obstruct the lane.

The next version, currently in closed beta, is supposedly better at tracking parked cars and obstructions.

However, from what I've seen from dashcam videos by beta testers, it's still quite bad. Vehicles "pop" in and out of the AI's perception regularly. Not as bad as before, but still quite scary.
Fontdue: A fast font renderer written in Rust
Autopilot is just adaptive cruise control and lane centering. Almost every car manufacturer has these as options.
> how hard is it to get a pet rock fully connected?

If you grind six faces flat, in a roughly perpendicular manner, and then epoxy a series of metal links on, in a linear fashion, I believe you'll have your own block chain.
...I'm disappointed in the human race
While the concept intuitively makes some sense, I doubt it could ever be proven. How do you make a controlled experiment to prove something like that?

Also the article focuses on murders on TV, but I personally find the sanitized "A-team like" violence where people get beat up all the time, but nobody ever dies, worse. What conclusions should a kid take from viewing a steady diet of that.
It is curious and I would love to be listening in on the engineers at Tesla that investigate this crash.

Is the Tesla system getting confused by the emergency lights? The article mentions they were on.
The CDC infection estimate is in no way inflated. If anything it's an undercount due to false negative test results.
Memes can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
You’d want an archimedes screw with some water channels inside to keep this moving forever.

p.s. CDC recommend wearing gloves and mask when working with compost.
It is a bit reckless to push beta version treatments to children, especially when the expected benefits are minor. Kids already handle Covid exceedingly well naturally. Remember that mRNA vaccines have never been deployed at scale before and we have no clue what the long term effects might be. 20 years from now this will be a different conversation.
A society grows great when people care about others.
Useless comparisons to pandemic social policies. Alcoholism is not a contagious disease.
I disagree. The paper goes into some details explaining how many deaths are due to alcohol abuse vs. poisoning etc. They also have a list of conditions that they associate with the various causes of death. For example, if somebody dies of alcoholic gastritis, they classify the death as alcohol-related.

Now, like all estimates, I am sure there are errors, but it's not like they haven't done their homework.

There isn't enough data in the paper to blame the lockdown per se, however. E.g., it could be that the media fear-mongering is driving people crazy more than usual. There is no way to tell.
OK but when do we get to tulips on the blockchain? Pictures of tulips as NFTs.
In some ways this is a very sad startup saga. Holmes got herself into a huge scandal over her inability to deliver on her idea. But, it did not have to end this way. She was not the first and she won't be the last to have a startup that fails. There have been tons of companies that have taken investor's money but failed to deliver anything or have pivoted to something else without criminal consequences or even been blackball by venture funds.

While looking back the idea seems like a loser, I can see how you can make a case for a working product at the time.

I wonder if the fact that she had to lie to the point of it being fraud had something to do with the fact that the company was founded by a woman and it was so much harder to get funding.

People point at Holmes as completely lacking morals. There might be something there but most startup founders start their business on the delusion that some how their product is so needed that it will succeed and they are willing to do a lot to make it a reality. The problem was that Holmes crossed the line. I think this case is a warning to founders on what can happen if you don't know when to call it quits and your actions shift over to fraud.
I’m so upset at this. Not anything about Freshworks. But just how disappointed I am in Zendesk.

1) when I started my own niche electron app I paid for Zendesk and the SOBs put a limit of like 2MB on attachments. So users would email large screenshots and I’d have to ask the user to email to me directly. I contact Zendesk about this and got a “sorry” shrug and something like “we can support this but you must upgrade to the 10x cost plan.”

Sometime in the last year they relaxed that, so that’s nice.

2) I’m a solo Dev. I’m hiring my first part time support folks. I want to automatically assign a ticket to me so I can assign to them. Sorry, it’s going to cost me another $600+ year to do that.

I mean, c’mon. I get it. But to go from $5/month to $40x3/month is just not a fun experiment.
If think the sender can force an arbitrary latency in decoding with a signal with noise added but i might be wrong. If the MITM sends a signal before the measurement is complete (ccertainty that the noise is leaning one way is above threshold) he either produces unlikely signals (detectable, since all the information is sent after the decode, htus the signals entropy will vay with time n a stair step way) or he occasionally transmits a wrong signal.
Yeah, but this article is about SCO v IBM settling. The last quiet dying gasps of things that entertained and educated us 15-20 years ago and we barely realised still existed are kind of on-topic. Now I wonder what happened to kuro5hin.
No, most of these people are just itching to shoot somebody. I no longer share my firearms hobby with others after finding this to be true time and time again.
Not if your goal is to censor a viewpoint. They are one in the same whether it's a viewpoint made in public or private - the main point of censorship is to not allow you to communicate certain thoughts. It amazes me that some posts here (not yours, but like the one you're responding to) have already seeded the censorship ground. For them it seems the question isn't whether it's ok to censor opposing viewpoints, but whether they should be told they've been censored. The censorship part is a-ok, but not if you're not informed?
... while completely ignoring the more likely event that the "intruder" ends up being a cop who shots you when you have something that even looks like a weapon.

I usually say it's far safer in the current US to not have a gun.
We've had birds at our feeders killed by American Kestrels.

One could view this as another layer of indirection in bird feeding.
If you can't quantify it, then you can't make a quantitative claim about it.
Abductive Reasoning
We apparently have excess deaths data classified by cause. If these data show no excess deaths due to cardiovascular disease, then it rules out the anti-vaxxer theory. If there are excess deaths in that category, it would be consistent with the theory, although I agree it wouldn't be a correlation. However, I never asked that.
For only 0.02 ETH (~$65 USD), you can own an EtherTulip:

https://opensea.io/collection/ethertulips
There could actually be way less covid deaths due to improper testing.

I'm glad people are finally admitting that there could be problems with covid testing.
Deductive Reasoning
This is the right question to ask, but it’s less sensational.
It can often be challenging to determine intent in written form, and more so in a forum context, but that reads as incredibly passive aggressive.

I'd be happy to debate this further if you were willing to do so in good faith rather than intentionally twisting my words. Otherwise, you can label me as "anti-free speech" and call it a day having won the war for freedom on the internet.
After big tech stepped in to ban news articles on Biden selling political influence to foreign nationals most people stopped even considering these kind of things conspiracy.

But to OP's point on joebiden.info:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hr30p3/reddit_f...
Every problem, except those caused by too many indirections.

Each solution uses only a few language features. Different problems call for different subsets. Not using a feature on your favorite sort of problem says nothing about its value. "Ways to enable composition" poorly supported are reached for less. Poorly supporting one of them that has proven frequently useful does not improve a language.
Which isn't a one-way street.
https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1399058952336277505
Inductive Reasoning
Trying to proactively police all websites hosted on your VM based infrastructure is probably pretty hard. Scraping your IP space for keywords in many languages is a blunt tool and probably has too many false positives.

I don't know if people had reported it to their abuse system and that process failed. If that's the case, then they have work to do.
Turns out one of these rocks sold for 888 Eth today, which is around $2.8 million USD.
Just because there's heap grooming involved doesn't mean it's unreliable. Exploits that use heap grooming can often be ~100% reliable.

Our POC for Sigred required lots of heap grooming but it was extremely reliable. https://www.graplsecurity.com/post/anatomy-of-an-exploit-rce...

The overflow was hardly a footnote either, it's the primary bug being exploited here.
I think that both the U.S. and China do some pretty horrible things in the name of perpetuating their power. Big countries are bullies.

My original reply in this thread was that I didn't think that the fear of China attacking the West was worthy justification for the U.S. to go to war with China over Taiwan.

I never said that I support China invading Taiwan. That would mean I advocate sending troops to help China, which I don't. That would be like saying that I support the regime in Saudia Arabia because I don't want to go to war with them. Or that the U.S. supported communist China because we built them up through trade, knowing the whole time they wanted Taiwan back. Maybe these are bad examples, I don't mean to sidetrack things.

I mentioned perspective because Taiwan used to be part of China and I'm sure they look at it differently than other countries which were never part of China. I say this beause I don't believe their desire to retake Taiwan is also a desire to attack the West. I assume they have something comparable to "American Exceptionalism" and psychologically don't want to permanently loose Taiwan, so they bide their time. Just like the Reconquista - lots of Mexicans want Texas back. That doesn't mean they want to attack Europe! Also I do believe that understanding a country's perspective, China, Taiwan, and the U.S. in this case, allows for better outcomes and less possibility of costly mistakes.

On the other hand, in regards to your opinion of this matter, I wonder what would you have thought of Spain attacking the U.S. during the civil war in support of the Confederacy because a re-united U.S. was more of a threat to Spanish control over South and Central America? We eventually went on to treat a lot of those countries like shit, making banana republics of many, etc. Would this Spanish attack have been justified according to the original posters logic, because the U.S. would be an eventual threat to other countries?

There's a variety of nuances to this stuff, if one can get past the "we are good, they are evil" version of things. Maybe that's not always possible.
>the idea of lockdowns, with forceful human separation, mandatory masking, and the practical abolition of all large gatherings, fun, art, and travel, seems even more sadistically preposterous than alcohol prohibition.

Brilliant description and analogies.
It's not Zuck, it's Zuck and his entire national military.

It's still peacetime so the list is 100% Zuck contents right now.
It ought to bother you. You're allowed to be disgusted. It's not a virtue to be apathetic in the face of rampant degeneracy.

This says far more about the people offended that they can't sell explicit homosexual anal pornography on eBay than it does eBay for banning it.
From my father, I inherited several large format cameras, a stunningly beautiful cherry wood and brass (maybe rosewood?) Wista 4x5 field camera, a camera on a rail (Linhof?) that looks very technical and a couple others, maybe even an 8x10 in the collection. Also a couple dozen lenses, mostly Rodenstock but there's some Nikkor and a couple Fujinon.

I haven't thought much about them but maybe I should.
On current technology, you are absolutely correct. But if you go and say something "let's do instead those high voltage transistors, so we can deliver to them more power" you can't, exactly because at this scale you'll get shortcuts. It's a physics limitation.
I like TekSavvy, but they have no gigabit offering. Upload is way too low.
It seems to me FB has been doing this a long time with news feed posts. Often I'll post something and my friends who I check with don't see it in their feed.

Posts with links tend to be censored out more often. For example if I post a link to a charity donation website often my friends don't see it in their feed, but if I don't post the link and only state the name, they see it.
You can have a decentralized datastore without blockchain, if you want a decentralized rating system without central authority, you might just want a web of trust. In this usecase, using blockchain would just put the voting power in the hands of those with computational power...
There's a huge ecosystem of old Java code that is fully usable from Scala or Clojure, including stuff like bindings for native SQLite. Good FFI lets us move beyond old languages.
System76 is looking so much better these days, it's exciting
I do wonder if the FTC will open a probe into Tesla's self-driving claims. I'd be willing to believe that part of the sky high TSLA stock price is a mistaken belief that Tesla is actually close to self-driving.
No-interaction autoupdates, yes.

This is how the solarwinds hack happened.
The need for such a daring mission reeks of failure.
Kinds of reasoning - in order of accuracy (AID):

1. Abductive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning
ex: Hypothesis

2. Inductive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning
ex: Generalizations

3. Deductive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive_reasoning
ex: Studies
They probably haven’t thought about it to any depth, just have a look at how many HNers - a crowd I’d have previously assumed to be against everything this story implies: censorship, lack of privacy, corporatism etc - will openly support these things on these very boards.
Wash trading scam
Oregon is a blue state, but it has some very large red areas and those areas are getting hit very hard by delta now.
> I don't care how safe it is

I guess it's polite to point out when you're unwilling to change your mind based on evidence, but that's a hell of a take.