skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That I read Hacker News?

HN can be a lot of good things, but a confessional it is not. Consult your local priest for more details...
That an "epidemiologist" is not typically a scientist who studies epidemics, but is more usually a bureaucrat with a master's degree in public health.
I think it's different for everyone. Myself, two decades ago, I was happier. I'm still happy now, but I was much more exuberant, in general, back then. The zest and passion of youth sort of stuff. I'd rather live through COVID now that I'm older, instead of back then.

If I were still in my 20s I'd be very upset over these conditions and how that will compound over the rest of my life. The compounding really, really matters for young people. They're being diminished. It's an extraordinary trolley problem as another poster stated.

My view: we're choosing to diminish youth to preserve the elderly. Maybe ok. Maybe not. Probably not; they're the future. I don't know what the balance should be—which way to swing the trolley switch. My judgement is that public debate is shallow, binary, and without nuance. The weakest and poorest suffer as a result.

I don't think there's any right or wrong answer here. But lots of people are getting hurt in different ways and in different durations.
> Any gotchas with it to be aware of?

Lots, unfortunately. E.g. you can't stringify objects for debug printing, because stringification is implemented in terms of reflection.
That is the "happy path" of a being a manager. In practice, problems with reports happen that require either an exceptionally talented (but inexperienced) manager, or some acquired experience to deal with them adequately.

Most new grads are still getting used to how a working environment feels for themselves, and probably can't handle tricky issues that involve other people.
Blobs in Games: What I did in 2020
Yeah I remember clicking on .swf files in directory listings over FTP almost 20 years ago and seeing the animation or game load up in the browser like no big deal. It was a great way to share and discover weird as hell flash animations.
They have. It’s called Webpack. There are also various similar tools.

EDIT: I got downvoted for telling the truth? The website is here if you don't believe me: https://webpack.js.org/ It literally does what the post I replied to asked for.
> structured/ well managed code

Funny comment in a Python discussion. No type enforcement, no requirement for class/object declarations, circular imports/dependencies allowed, threading/gevent/async messes, variable/class scope weakly enforced

Python is great for a lot of things, but the language is not a beacon of well-managed code. Good Python programmers write nice, easy-to-follow code, just as good Excel builders create very nice, easy-to-follow spreadsheets.
There is actually, it's called Newgrounds :)

Not everything is converted over, but they're actively supporting the Ruffle.js project and using it on site:
https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
He's an American man now, not a Somalian subsistence farmer.
Australia news sites favorite words: "terrifying", "chilling", "tragic", "sinister", "slammed". It's almost as if there's an editor imposed target / quota for excessively emotional words on the first page.
GPL is what leads to the ZFS-on-Linux problem. The clause, that prohibits ZFS from being combined with GPL, is in GPL.
We absolutely should. But we should also have alternative ways for John Doe to get around without a car, and we don't.

Car culture in the US has started to evoke that old saw: "If you owe the bank a thousand dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, the bank has a problem."

Our society would be a lot better off if we regularly revoked the licenses of unsafe drivers. But the entire nation is designed around car ownership, so doing that today would be an unconscionable human rights violation.
> and that they may not owe nearly as much in taxes if so.

I imagine many independent contractors would be paid less if they were employees.
What you are looking for is a horse.
I'd think that with the radar systems in place today, vehicles would have far greater reliability in "seeing" you.
This is the real tragedy. Games have clearly found a way to persist but animation is out in the cold and there's no good reason for it.
The braking system was disabled in the Uber car. That's hardly representative of anything except Uber's carelessness.

And tesla's system is unable to see stationary objects. It would never qualify as an autonomous driver.

We don't need a perfect system to avoid hitting pedestrians. Current tech can actually do a good job. It just has to be a design goal of the system.
I'm not a biologist either, but I've been told recently by someone who's likely to know what he's talking about (albeit also likely to be a bit "rah-rah Britain") that the UK is doing far more genetic sequencing of the virus than the rest of the world, which would explain why it gets noticed more in the UK.
I had a Samsung Blackjack running Windows Mobile and it supported Flash, and anything Flash ran like absolute ass, even in LQ mode
I think one thing that really deserves emphasis in this conversation is that the notion of a 40 hour/5x8 work week is not something that was developed scientifically or based on any kind of evidence. It was developed by people who were working 80-100 hour/11-14x7 work weeks literally putting themselves in the line of gunfire to establish a 40 hour week. There's nothing sacrosanct about the 40 hour week or the 2 day weekend at all except the value we give it (or the value we let employers extract from it).
Well the SWF file format was (is maybe still) available and Adobe publish(ed) the spec with no strings attached.

No one wanted to do it.
What was so bad about terraform in your experience? What do you use in its place?
In the article there isn't any discussion of cause and effect, it is a probabilistic model. Eg. being near a virus lab makes it more likely it's a lab escape, being 1000km away from the main zoonotic reservoirs (bat populations) in China make it less likely it's of zoonotic origin. This is not to say it's impossible as researchers do travel 1000km from Wuhan to get samples from bats. I'll not comment on the probabilities they assigned to each hypothesis (they may very well be discounting the likelihood of zoonotic origins too heavily) but that is the approach they took.
I enjoy building with Wagtail, especially with some of the more recent updates have greatly improved the UX. You can build new components in React if you want and it’s incredibly extensible.

The main pain point that drives me nuts is the page tree structure. For Wordpress users, the custom post type capability is extremely valuable but it really does not fit well at all into Wagtail.
Article from the Independent talking about transfers of critically ill patients due to pending shortages:
"In London the city is at 116 per cent for critical care beds."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-london...
Quantum algorithms sort of operate on all superposed states at the same time.

This is not entirely correct.

--

Also, from your linked article:

I will now introduce the Deutsch Oracle algorithm, one of the first examples of a quantum algorithm that is exponentially faster than its classical counterpart on the size of the input.

This is not entirely correct either.

--

See [1] for an authoritative source.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/scott-aaronson-qu...
In practice it wasn't too uncommon for a single web page to also be a constellation different interdependent swf files. One for each menu, button, forms, etc.

The author's points hold true at least somewhat if you're talking about a single cohesive Flash application, but much less so if you're talking about a website built with flash.
> Ultimately this is all Adobe's fault.

Lol I guess this guy is hopelessly stuck in the RDF[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
Cephadm: a new way to install Ceph with Alpha 4
AIR apps were the Electron of its day -- slow, poorly-written HTML/CSS/JS (well technically AS but linguistically similar enough) garbage, which reuse exactly zero of the affordances your OS grants you, on top of a runtime that was waaaay too fat for its own good.

Mercifully, I only had to interact with a few AIR apps, and by god it was a terrible experience. The platform itself may have been fine but it was definitely the target platform for people who think of dev teams as cost centers and not value creators.
Most of your point is just the Lake Wobegon fallacy at work. Obviously you think you're not a below average driver. But everyone does, and lots of them are wrong.

The part that isn't is that you're imagining a non-linear distribution where a significant fraction of accidents are the fault of these identifiable "bad drivers" and that the MEDIAN human driver is actually better than the average/median SDV.

To which I ask: is there evidence for this? It's a new argument, and I haven't seen it made before.
It looks smooth to me in FF.
> So yes, you are right, for FreeBSD it is better to stick to Intel, unless you have time to change yourself the sources, to add the missing hardware support, which is somewhat easier than attempting to make changes in the Linux kernel.

This is not just an AMD problem. For example, as I already said, there is no support of unrecoverable ECC errors handling in the FreeBSD memory management subsystem for any CPU, including Intel. On Linux, the kernel has first-class ECC support via the Error Detection And Correction subsystem (EDAC). EDAC can decide to kill a process, to trigger a kernel panic, or even to isolate the faulty memory based on the location of the memory error. On FreeBSD, the only thing that handles unrecoverable ECC errors is the userspace utility sysutils/mcelog [0], the best thing it could do after an unrecoverable error is sending you an email, at which point data corruption may have already occurred [1]. Usually correctable errors occur before unrecoverable ones, so data corruption could be prevented if it's fixed soon enough, but if you get "lucky"...

And unlike writing device drivers, I don't think most people (including myself) is qualified to mess with the memory management code in the kernel. But I have a plan to do something about it, for example, there's nothing stops me from writing a simple script to decode the MCE log and kill the kernel from the userspace. And given how rare unrecoverable ECC errors are, even without graceful handling (like killing userspace process or runtime memory offlining), it should solve my concern of data integrity on FreeBSD.

[0] But corrections are welcomed. I suspect FreeBSD will also halt the kernel on Intel platforms after a fatal MCE due to ECC error, but I didn't find any information and came to a negative conclusion.

[1] I guess it's not really a problem for "real" FreeBSD users, on "real" servers, BIOS can kill the system after an unrecoverable ECC, which probably explains the lack of any unrecoverable error handling in FreeBSD.
The App Store launched on July 10, 2008 one year and a half after the announcement of the iPhone. Previously there had been no 3rd party apps on the iPhone, only Apple-made native apps and 3rd party web apps. In that context, Flash's absence needed to be explained. Nevertheless, it took another 2 years for Jobs to write his screed, "Thoughts on Flash". By that time, Apple was well aware what a cash cow the App Store was
R has data.table. It is the game changer as I agree base R data.frame do not cut it for performance. tibble will come close once they incorporate more of the data.table performance tricks.

https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/
I'm sure you would have taken a free market, non-FDA approved vaccine as well.
> The WHO is already telling all nations the lockdowns need to end.

I can't find a source for that claim, would you mind sharing one?
I outfitted my car with Comma's openpilot and I can concur with that my experience is similar with the additional effect that overall, my driving quality of life is significantly improved.

I can tell that I already have an inordinate amount of trust in the system several weeks in on boring highway driving.
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This post isn't very helpful. We can't understand if you're doing it wrong and give you guidance, nor can we learn from your issues.
> Sometimes AI progress comes in rather shocking jumps.

Shocking in an academic sense sure, but not in a "revolutionize the world in a single day" sort of way, which is what would be required for the paperclip maximizer scenario to pose a serious threat. AlphaZero was impressive, but not _that_ impressive.

> An entity capable of discovering and exploiting computer vulnerabilities 100x faster than a human could create some serious leverage very quickly

100x faster than any human _and_ any and all previously developed AIs. It would also have to be sufficiently sapient to be capable of contemplating the possibility of world domination, with all the prerequisite technological advancements that implies (likely including numerous advancements in the field of cybersecurity driven by previous generations of AI).
> This price increase allows drivers to earn a living wage which in turn decreases the number of people at the lower end of today's income scale. Fewer people will have the problems you're describing in the first place.

>Do this over and over, and ultimately, nobody's left at the bottom.

You made huge unfounded leaps here. There’s no reason to believe a magic money tap will just pay for the increased costs. It’s just as likely to kill jobs.

There’s a reason setting minimum wage to $100k a year doesn’t work.
Lambda provides a particular challenge for Terraform. You don't normally see Terraform used as a deployment tool for containerized services, even though it could theoretically do that. But because it's the only thing close to the lambdas unless you want to introduce another third party tool, deployment ends up falling to it as well, unless you decide to choose another tool for the lambdas, like serverless or CloudFormation, and then you've got a bad build tool or a bad deployment tool for anything but the most trivial lambda builds.

And I will continue to be sad that all of the higher order first party tooling is ultimately going to be based on CloudFormation (looking at you, https://aws.amazon.com/proton/).

Ultimately, after having used Terraform to manage function code bundling/deployment and skipping Terraform completely for the lambdas, I think Terraform does best when it manages the infrastructure lifecycle for lambdas and nothing else. You can then rely on more competent tooling for deployment.
The current sitting president labeled the press the enemy of the people and has continually attacked it. How shall we deal with this enemy of democracy?
Are a significant number of traffic fatalities currently avoided by pulling people out of vehicles through broken windshields? That seems a little overspecific to me. In fact, rear-facing seats are absolutely known to be safer (c.f. infant car seats), given that in all collisions one vehicle is almost by definition decelerating along its forward axis.
If I understand your point correctly, I think what you're describing is "engineering". This deep thinking seems like 'science' to me, while putting together those pieces of theory into new and exciting practice (products) does seem like an award - I think many people on this site are financially well compensated for such engineering, prizes and awards notwithstanding.
> And it's fairer in that the burden is shared collectively rather than just by some industries.

This is where we disagree.

Companies that employ workers below subsistence wages are actually being indirectly subsidized collectively by every single taxpayer.

Those underpaid employees are the ones who then go on to collect public benefits to make up the difference between survival and their take-home pay, and those benefits come out of our tax dollars.

Allowing employers to pay below subsistence wages is corporate welfare.

All this bill does is tip the scales back to where they need to be: if you as a business are not paying a living wage to your employees, you're effectively forcing the taxpayer to pay the part of the salary you're not interested in paying.

This is also the interest the state has in the matter, as not doing so negatively impacts the state.

No more mooching.

> Goldman Sachs doesn't get hurt by a minimum wage, but small business owners, such as those running a convenience store, do.

And I'm sorry but those businesses wouldn't exist without the government passively subsidizing them by providing benefits to the workers they're stiffing.

If these are the kinds of businesses we want more of, it should be via an explicit, active subsidy program. If not, they will have to go out of business or find a way to make the economics work. That's capitalism.
It's usually a bad idea to try to change a process without understanding the reason behind it. It's always a bad idea to try and change it without TRYING to understand the reason behind. it.
It was always hell to get hired to edit a swf file where the client didn't know you need the original fla to edit the thing the swf was not enough.
If a self driving car is only as good as the average driver then by definition 50% of people are a better. How is that a fallacy?

It also could be considerably higher depending on the skew of the distribution. Depending how much bad drivers lower the average.
Um, ever heard of a “for loop”? An obvious alternative to recursion.
Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and Ordoemacs
The original assertion was "Ultimately the only way to guarantee quality would be to vote for politicians who support strong regulations and a strong regulatory apparatus". I disagreed this is the only way to ensure quality. Now people are talking about batteries and restaurants. The original assertion was about quality, not safety
Building a Community as a Service
One corollary is that you should completely block news sources that have the most emotional headlines. Google News has a feature for blocking specific sources, fortunately.

I had done this out of irritation with crappy articles. Bad articles seem to be correlated with emotionally manipulative headlines, so it's interesting to find out that there are other good reasons to do it!
That doesn't mean anything, Adobe has added support for everything to PDF. Adobe wanted (and tried hard for a while) to make PDF the defacto way to use the web. Instead of authoring HTML you'd publish PDFs. Links would take you to other PDFs within Acrobat Reader. Acrobat Reader was the browser they wanted people to use, before anyone knew what a browser was. So, they had to have Acrobat Reader support all of those content types.

For Adobe I give full marks for cajoñes and long term thinking, but I'm gonna have to deduct points for the closed nature of it all.
I think you deeply misunderstood me.

I'm not saying that braking is magic and solves all problems. I'm saying that braking is morally sufficient in the real world. If hitting something is unavoidable, you can hit whatever is directly in front of you while braking as hard as possible. It's good enough.
> However, the lives lost in autonomous accidents will be a different set of people than those that would have died in human driven accidents.

That's an interesting insight into part of the problem, thanks for pointing it out.

Indeed in America if you ride a motorcycle but don't ride drunk, don't ride unlicensed, don't ride an unregistered bike, and do wear a helmet, you are orders of magnitude less likely to die because you are in a statistcally safer demographic of riders. Yet, any one of the riders in that safer demographic could still be one of the ones hit by a red light runner and killed without their blame. We would definitely feel that death more tragic and senseless.
There's no magic money here. Companies that don't pay subsistence wages leave employees to collect public benefits to make up the difference. The businesses are being indirectly subsidized by the taxpayer. All setting a minimum wage at a subsistence pay does is stop the companies from mooching off the taxpayer.

> It’s just as likely to kill jobs.

And that's fine, there's no reason that all jobs have to be done by humans. This is why wholesale reform needs to take place as well, including basic income. Not leaning into robotization of low-skilled jobs amounts to turning America into a renaissance faire as a make-work project.
When you're far from primary productivity like resource extraction and agriculture, it's easy to feel you're not doing "real work." It's why the coal miner is still such a potent symbol of the working class, even though nobody in the first world is employed as one anymore. When you're highly compensated for this abstract labor, the guilt can compound and it all seems like a sick joke.

I know for a fact that I'm not worth it. I'm a back-end developer for a market platform that deals in a commodity that had no business being commodified in the first place. All of my employer's paper value rests on advertising, which has little to no social utility, and is complete black magic in terms of how much it actually drives sales. My salary only makes sense through a kaleidoscope of historical accidents: I just happen to know a weird trendy language that not too many others do, I live in an Anglo society that places unique worth on the product being sold, older people with too much money are easily impressed by what we're doing, etc.

All in all I'm not too miffed about it. I actually think it rules that I'm getting away with doing something so pointless, because "real work" fucking sucks. Luckily enough there actually isn't much real work to go around. Ideally, society will gradually realize the worthlessness of what I (and most people on this site tbh) do, and refocus our collective manpower towards the problems that still need to be solved. Once the advertising model collapses, we'll all have to dig ditches or something, but there will be so many of us that we'll only need to dig for 4 hours a week. I'll be the first to sign up for that, but I'm riding the absurdity out til then.
That's not a fallacy, but it doesn't seem like an interesting point. Your comment above seemed deeper. Apologies if that's all you meant.
Covid-19 Economy Boosts ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Installment Services
The owner of the autonomous car is/should be responsible.
Ask HN: Why Do You Exist?
That has already happened with network security software (SolarWinds) used at the highest levels of government including the Pentagon, White House, Congress, and most of the Fortune 500. There is no reason to believe that a massive AI driving system could not be hacked in a similar way through a malicious exploit or update. In fact, adversial AI could be used to dupe these tests and achieve the effect. If 50 million cars on the road were using one particular software suite, this is a vector of attack that has to be considered. It is not an impossibility and you cannot hand wave it away.
Having 50% more free time and ~45% (20% of each 2 day weekend and none allocated to the additional weekend day) reduced financial means to enjoy it sounds like a pretty bad tradeoff.
Personally I wouldn't deploy the lambda code with the terraform. They inherently have different life cycles. In an ideal scenario you deploy some dummy code with terraform (just a hello world). And as a separate pipeline you deploy the actual code. Ideally, if your ci/cd supports it, you have two separate pipelines, each one only does it's thing if the relevant files have been edited, with the code depending on the terraform.
> failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat

This sounded like a joke, but I wasn't 100% sure.

It's a real thing (code from Stack Overflow):

const context = canvas.getContext("webgl", {
failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat: true,
});

Pretty neat.
Rushed oversight of a multi billion dollar, complex marketplace shows a significant lack of insight. Long live crypto.