skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short this is a result of the principle-agent problem. Politicians can be influenced. The government has little time to get in, and when regulations are set they are rarely updated... meanwhile the IIHS helping insurers save money (by setting correct car insurance premiums) also sparked consumer demand for high safety ratings when shopping for cars.

This is very much the free market at work. Money (which people like to call "Greed") drives both consumers and insurers to find the scientifically best car. Insurers have more appropriate loses, and customers have fewer deaths (or a better safety level for their dollars spent).

The IIHS makes the knowledge about car safety much less asymmetric in the market.

The UL does a similar thing, and I think this is the model that is more effective.

It doesn't take an act of congress for the IIHS to come up with a new test and new standards as technology improves and new areas of risk are discovered!

Edit: I see my parent is being downvoted. He pointed out the basic facts of the situation, but since it was not sufficiently authoritarian he is being downvoted. I feel this site is anti-intellectual.
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I use this constantly --- I've been migrating all my projects to github. hg-git Just Works (almost; there are a few places where the git model doesn't match up with the hg model).

If you like hg, but want to exploit git's network effects, I strongly suggest checking it out.
> progress is better than failure and doesn't have the same negative consequences

For sure, we need to keep moving. I like to compare us to sharks, if we stand still we exponentially increase our chances of failing.

I'd love to read that book of yours once it's done. Taking care of the two most important people in your life whilst juggling a career is no easy task.
>> I'd say it's safe to say we're primarily products of our unique environments and anyone brought up under the same conditions as us has a good chance of turning out just like us.

> it's pretty much accepted by this point that the answer is 'yes, both matter'.

No, "anyone brought up under the same conditions as us" seems more likely to refer to shared environment than unique environment. It's pretty much accepted by this point that while a lot of interpersonal variation can be attributed to the catchall "unique environment", almost none of it can be attributed to shared environment (or in other words, the effect of an environment on one person has basically no predictive value for the effect of the same environment on a different person).
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Am I the only one who is extremely uncomfortable with wasting so much human potential to generate frills for people who already have enough frills?

It isn't just getting people fresh out of college to be my butler, I'm uncomfortable with Uber/Lyft too: I've had multiple cabbies with Masters degrees, and even an admitted literature PhD. These people could be building us a new Great Society where learning and creativity are cornerstones, but instead, we look down on such people and in fact despise them for their lack of premeditated profit-seeking behavior during education.

They are stuck driving cabs or butlering for someone who got a few lucky breaks instead of making use of their finer abilities, and it's frustrating to see them flounder in the precariat.
> You going to build a bunch of services on Gopher protocol anytime soon? Require people pay large amounts of money upfront for stuff they usually get free? Expect no browser? Do a mobile solution that requires a specific device rather than smartphone?

Yes. This is exactly what I am talking about. While most people won't bother to try, there will be some people who keep on trying. Most experts will say the same thing: "This and that company already tried this and failed you idiot". But here's why sometimes it works: Startups don't succeed purely based on their absolute value. It's all contextual and relative, which means the same model that didn't work last year may work this year because of how the situation has changed. But nobody knows that until it actually happens. The reason why a lot of disruptive startups are built by inexperienced people just out of college instead of experienced people is because experienced people already know too much and have seen certain models don't work and their thought process is just like you stated. Whereas younger people who have no idea will just try (and most of the times will fail) and sometimes it works because of the right context.

In fact your rhetorical questions I quoted above--which you probably meant cynically--are very interesting questions and I encourage that you seriously think them again. You seem to think they're idiotic but I think they are brilliant questions. YES, it is possible that a new model can arise that will make people want to pay for stuff that they usually get for free. Yes, there can be something that completely rethinks how we consume information (not our contemporary browser). Yes, there can be an entirely new device that can replace a smartphone.
> Their formation is driven by the atmosphere around them, and the relevant properties of the atmosphere (like temperature) are continuous, so the same on both sides of the snowflake.

So what you're saying is that basically the ability to make twin snowflakes (by manipulating the conditions) proceeds from exactly the same circumstances which already makes their six branches identical?

Based on that hypothesis, you're likely to get twins if you simply grow them in adjacent spaces: together, those spaces are still small and the atmospheric properties are even across them. And that's what he seems to be doing.
> It seems like the each reply comes near-instantly after the actor "heard" the previous line, which may be a super-stimulus for making the portrayed characters seem extremely "witty."

Not just witty, but in tune with each other. Shows that pull this off give the impression of characters that actually know each other, work together, spent years together, etc.
Pretty cool trick to make the OS X docker hacks feel transparent. I've been tempted into getting a Linux laptop just because using Docker on OS X feels so hacky.
Dribbble and the Creation of the Useless Designer
Uptime isn't really important often though. Speed of development, though...

Would you like to write a web-app in C?
Fixed; apologies.
>Tesla doesn't really give a crap about owning the entire market. If their competition causes the big 3 to build low cost zero-emissions vehicles, then Tesla has fulfilled their part of Elon's goals towards saving the world.

Elon might not care, but as a publicly traded company Tesla is not going to say 'Mission Accomplished' and close up shop.
IIRC the dust is from red clay that accumulated under the car, not rust.
There's some irony in the fact that you wrote a bunch of fairly intolerant generalizations while mentioning hatefulness and tolerance.

Your friends from high school are responsible for themselves. Consider for a moment that perhaps your friends just grew up to be "douchenozzles" on their own, without the influence of a frat.

Your assertion that frats are racially homogenous is outright wrong and I'll ask you to cite your claims. And you think some members of frats aren't gay or similar?

Something something, generalization, plural of anecdote...

For someone who champions tolerance, you don't play the role very well.
Dupe: just posted a few minutes earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10969149
There's still a semi-active community: https://artpacks.org
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Of note: if the scan is not done for diagnostic purposes, i.e. if no doctor looks at your images to do a diagnosis, then it is not considered medical data at all. Just like taking a photograph of yourself.
It would be much more interesting to hear economists, who have expertise in this domain, discuss this issue and hear people who happen to be in our industry talk about what they know (IT).
LEGO tried to do the same thing with their Mindstorms SDK.
See, the thing is, they don't censor based on "disagreeing with their agenda". They censor based on how you disagree. If you're going to be a jerk, you'll get censored. You won't get censored for not following the party line.

Maybe you were crossing more lines than just "the party line" and didn't realize it...
Been doing all repairs on my cars all my life――if only practical and doable in a parking spot. Learned from repair manuals and mostly by disassembling and reassembling myself. Using outdoors space is a bit limited with fluids, when working underneath the car, and for longer repairs. But because I really like doing mechanical work and because I also want to avoid becoming a bitter old man who never got to do enough fun stuff beyond coding I bought a private garage with enough space for installing a car lift. I can then do multi-day repairs and enable myself to do practically anything I ever want on my cars. And yes, to maintain my motorcycle as well. Yeah, it's a bit of an investment but as a city-dweller I'm not able to enjoy the benefit of a regular garage in a detached house.
It looks to me like Consumer Reports did an awful lot of cherry-picking of the data in that video.

First, it looks to me like they made the collision happen at the max speed the Malibu could tolerate without collapsing the Malibu's passenger compartment. A slower collision might have been less catastrophic to the antique. A higher speed might have been catastrophic to the Malibu.

Second, they picked an old car built before seatbelt introduction and emphasized that aspect.

Third, they picked an accident type -- frontal offset -- which recent modern cars have been specifically engineered to handle.

Fourth, note how carefully the video is edited so that you cannot see the right side of the antique post-crash either overhead or from the side. The editors didn't want to show anything that would detract from their chosen message.

Modern cars really are a lot safer and way more reliable than cars when I was a kid, and I'm grateful for it. When my wife got pregnant, the first thing I did was sell my 69 Chevy Nova because I felt that to be responsible for my child, I needed to take care of my life by driving a safer car. All that said, it irks me that Consumer Reports treated the production and editing of this film as a propaganda exercise instead of a straight-up tell-the-facts documentary.
>What options do they lose?

What will the EU do against companies that have no legal presence in the EU?

The only way for the EU to enforce these kinds of rules is to 1) limit enforcement to companies with EU offices (which just hurts Europe), 2) prohibit individuals from using non-complying web services (Great Wall of Europe? unlikely), or 3) prohibit European businesses from doing business with non-complying services (i.e. make it illegal for Europeans to buy ads on Facebook).

Government policy-making isn't making a wishlist. It must be backed by coercion or it is meaningless.
REI, at least officially, now only allows returns for one year.

I'd add that people deciding after a couple of years that they don't really like what they originally bought is not a reasonable reason to return something.
Sadly we already have this in the form of illegal organ trade. (even against the will of victims)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade#Illegal_organ_trad...
The IIHS is a private organization motivated by "greed" and funded by the insurance industry. Yet it's not surprising to see people coming in here and jumping on the opportunity to credit government for their work. Why is that do you think? Nothing in the video brought up government, but multiple people have claimed that this is the work of government.

The reason this is the case, near as I can tell, is that for the modern leftist government is a god. Statism is a religion.

Even when government is the cause of the problems, people so often turn around and want more government to fix them.
This is a baseless critique.

No one has to address alternative hypotheses that don't make any sense. Are you unaware that Sanger Sequencing exists, and the actual lesions can be read? Or that heterologous genes are being introduced with CRISPR methods? Neither of these common results can be explained by the spontaneous insertion of hundreds of nucleotides that happen to precisely match the sequence of the construct being inserted.

Again, this is utter nonsense and demonstrates a complete absence of basic understanding in molecular biology.
> drum brakes (awful)

What's so bad about drum brakes? I know they are more involved to work on, and have more parts.

But as far as safety, aren't they easier to activate, which is important if you don't have power assist brakes? (Say engine dies, so just didn't come with power brakes.)
>I don't know about uptime, but most of the new programming languages have no undefined behavior (a Java program always behaves as a Java program whatever your bugs are), while most of the old languages do have undefined behavior (even Ada has garbage-initialized variables.)

BTW, Java does have implementation-defined or unspecified behavior (for instance, using the same objects from different threads without proper coordination), but there's much less of it and it's easier to avoid.
IT'S A FULL BODY TRANSPLANT NOT A HEAD TRANSPLANT :)
Not true, neither of the founders died in a car accident.

Volvo had a very strong safety emphasis already in the '50s, introducing many firsts in the automotive safety field. In that decade they introduced shoulder belts as a world first and padded dashboard as an European first (Tucker had this already in '40s but only 51 cars were ever made).
When the parent says view, they're not talking about "a) markup", they're talking about the thing the user is looking at.

> b) ids that indicate that a given tag will be replaced with a component

With that in mind, your disagreement is contradicted by this statement because logic has just been described to update the view. Logic is necessary to generate a view of the data for the user.

With JSX, keeping all of this code closer together that is intrinsically tied together increases cohesion, by definition. Subjectively, this makes it easier to manage UI because one only have too check one place for all the pieces. For further exploration of this idea, check out the intro of this video on separation of concerns vs technology. [1]

On a separate point, it sounds like one must imperatively update the UI with Wicket, which is objectively more complex than what React affords, which is stateless UI. Time is removed from the equation, which also makes things easier to reason about.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=275&v=x7cQ3mrcKa...
The burden of proof is on the commenter that generalized. The plural of anecdote is not data. Generalizing that widely without very explicit proof is a pretty poor idea, from an argumentative standpoint.

Meanwhile, plenty of frats also do projects that improve their communities and campuses, and raise money for good causes. The "apparent trend" doesn't exist, and if it does I'll ask you to prove it.
I wonder what the role of "errands" plays in the development of a person. These types of responsibilities must be beneficial to our every day existence, right? And if you can outsource all these alleged time wasters, what would you replace that time with? The final paragraph of the piece tells the real story, IMO.

> Because, if I’m being honest, the real reason I never attend to all of these matters isn’t because I’m too busy. It’s because on Saturdays, when my dry cleaner is open, I’d rather sleep late and go to brunch.
"I remarked that I would theoretically be able to choose any email I come across and create an Apple ID if one did not already exist for that address, crippling the address’ owner in the same way I have been. The support employee simply said, “Yep, that’s correct.”"

Is that true? Doesn't Apple send a confirmation email to the address to make sure the user is in control of this address?
I don't know the the number of customers who abused the return policy, but I have a feeling a strict return policy it's counter productive?

I don't know if REI, or even Costco realized just how much crap we bought from them that was only bought, because in the back of, at least my mind; I thought I would use the item. Of course, I never used the impulse purchase, but bought it.

Now--I only buy the essentials. (By the way, all those high end watches at Costco are not covered by any manufacture's warranty. Costco has someone, somewhere that services the watches. I bought a watch there, and found this out later. I will return the watch if it ever fails--just on principle. It's still keeping perfect time a decade later. Gotta love Omega Seamasters. Actually, all high end watches are not bought, they are rented. It breaks--you need to send it back to the factory. They all stopped selling parts to 3rd party watch repairers.)

These stores must have done studies on consumer buying habits? I'm just assuming they are making more profits with strict return policies?
I've definitely learned how to maintain priority with conversational no-ops when it's a situation I want/need to have my say. I dislike doing it, but it's a necessity given the bias our culture has towards fast conversation.

Hopefully your spouse can learn that's your conversational style and adapt to it. Once my partner was made aware of it she started waiting longer before answering. She even apologized once for "cutting me off" during a long pause between thoughts!
Just look at the American healthcare system.
I don't understand this complaint. If the company that is launched fails or is attacked, the currency and the code can live on without it. Its development probably wouldn't be as well-financed but that's about it.
The side effect of that is that I'm always carrying my books. I wouldn't read nearly as much if I had to plan to read. (i.e. had to have my book with me.) I do most of my reading during unexpected waiting.
It would certainly make for an interesting sci-fi story. Imagine if the large snowfall on the east coast were a higher being providing us instructions on how to fix our planet, if only we knew how to reassemble the information. And the planet's glaciers contain massive amounts of information on how to create a wormhole to visit other civilizations, but now they're melting and the information is being lost forever...
Also consider line counts, driven by functionality demands. A Unix from the 1970s has a kernel with maybe <10KLOC? Linux is more like 15000KLOC. If due to bugs, Linux crashes twice as often as that old Unix, then on a line for line basis, each Linux line is still 750x more reliable on average than the old Unix lines.
Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10966679 and marked it off-topic.
Experimented with polyphasic sleep back in grad school. Pretty sure it is bunk. Your body needs hours of sleep to raise HGH levels and conduct proper maintence.
It's funny you mention the Missouri U Tim Tai incident. That entire debacle is a good lesson for us progressives in the dangers of ultra- political correctness and knee-jerk sensitivity. And that's what I thought of when I read your comment about detrimental usage of terms like "frat boy" and "dude".

"Frat boy" and "dude" are off-limits now?
Yes he is a bigot, but for the left so it is ok.
>You attempt to discredit my take on Stalin with rhetorical flourish, so generously implying that “you don’t think I’m a neo-nazi”, yet you provide no evidence that he wasn’t a butcher.

I didn't say he wasn't a "butcher", so why should I have to provide evidence to that effect?

As for my "rhetorical flourish", most of the people online I see making the ludicrous claim that Stalin killed 50+ million people turn out to be Hitlerites.

>Wikipedia has the number at 3-60 million, with 3 being the “officially” recorded number. [1] Perhaps you are right that Stalin was better than my interpretation, but you haven’t convinced me.

Apparently neither has Wikipedia and every historian who places the figure at less than 20 million, such as William Rubinstein and Yale University's Timothy Snyder.

As that Wikipedia article states, the 3-60 million wild guesses were before records became available after the demise of the Soviet Union. When researchers were able to study and analyse the records the ridiculously high estimates were revised drastically down.
Correct.

No two snowflakes are identical.

But two snowflakes can now be "alike" ;)
It's just too bad. Maintaining these sort of policies effectively requires that most people follow some sort of social contract. If too many people make it about "me me me," well, you can't have nice things.
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That's simple. You tax sitting on money not earmarked for a recognized task (EG: Saving up for big investment X (named) such as college, a new home/building, etc.) or for rainy day funds; but you also limit the maximum that can be stashed for such tasks.

Then with that tax you re-invest in infrastructure, exploration of new resources, and even missions to space. (I'd rather we have a (robotic) mission to the asteroid belt than mars...).
Please don't take HN threads into flamewars. The gravitational pull of those great balls of fire isn't easy to resist, but it's important to.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10966432 and marked it off-topic.
Until there's no human control available drivers will still have to have insurance. Even after that it'll take some fight to get auto companies to accept liability for failures instead of the 'driver' (or owner I guess since there's not really a driver in a fully self driving car). Rates for fully automatic cars should be drastically lower though once the insurance companies have a way to gauge the risk of crash for each car.

If I had to guess there will probably be tests like the Institute for Highway Safety does but to test autonomous car software, maybe mostly simulated so they can run a huge number of tests again and again (a Matrix-for-Cars).
Except the -scope part means that the foreach-ness is indicated by the template, so people consider that to be not-logicless.

I understood your claim fine. I'm trying to explain why it might be considered false (and I did already say I consider the arguments each way basically hair splitting).
Wireless keyboard from single piece of wood
A dark thought: today we call a jack of all trades unemployed. Illusions of polycompetency are really just multiple specializations when in a business context.
Monero and other ring signature schemes can only feasibly "mix" your transactions with a small number of previous transaction outputs, opening the door to statistical attacks.

Zcash mixes your transaction with every previous transaction. In fact, it goes to great lengths to make transactions indistinguishable from each other.
I'm not so sure about "Make liberal use of vertical whitespace to divide code into logical chunks." — it's my tendency to add a lot of vertical whitespace as I write code, but the more I go back and remove it, the more I'm convinced that it wasn't really helpful and that whatever little help it did provide was far outweighed by how much less context could be seen on the screen at one time.

I think of it kind of like prose: we organize related sentences into paragraphs and then have little or no extra vertical whitespace between paragraphs. If you ever find yourself thinking you need some extra level of hierarchy division within a paragraph, you're likely really just needing a new paragraph.
This guy sells high fives online
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That's presumably one of the issues that the funding from the called-upon world's billionaires is supposed to fix, you would think.
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