skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we had that, we 'wood' have certainly succeeded! Hey...that makes me realize the Cheney Dick could be made out of wood so the splinters would stay with you forever.
Are you talking about the study, or people claiming that about real cars? The study would need to have a wide variety of safety numbers, and all the cars are theoretical. If 4-5x lines up with a claim about a real car, it's probably a coincidence. Saying there's not enough data about real cars has no bearing on this research at all, unless the abstract is wildly misleading.

You replied to someone talking about waiting for autonomous cars to be 4-5x as safe. That means they are waiting for a car to meet that threshold with correct statistics. You can't call out nonexistent statistics as being a lie!
Why do people try to take a medium, one which ain’t made for long form, and try to cram long from into it?
I asked you not to argue semantics, but you're doing it anyway. I didn't respond here to argue protobufs actually is bad, since all software is suited to something for somebody somewhere.

In fact, I can just do that now: Protobufs is bad. You seem to agree, because you haven't even advocated for it -- just flatbuffers and Cap'n Proto and the phonebook of alternatives. Listen, I don't care who you've worked for or what you've done. As a scientist and engineer I'm totally ready and able to entertain critiques of my prior works without being offended. I'm offended that this is the quality of your participation here.
The way I heard it, sanitizer seems to work (and is usable anywhere), but soap followed by running water has an advantage in not only breaking up the fatty layer protecting a coronavirus, but also sweeping it off your skin.
The other reply was on the money (i.e. people would take different days), but also don't let the threat of "if everyone did it, something bad would happen" stop the immediate gains during such a transition.

If your scenario was to happen, it would be 10 years at least, even with a quick change in habits. That's a long time before such problems come into play.

Similar arguments are made against the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement - if everyone stopped buying things wouldn't the economy slow down? Sure, it probably would, but such large changes in behaviour take time, and adjustments would be made during that time if the trend continues.
What are you basing the idea that most managers aren’t like this from? All of my managers in my 15 year career have been about managing resources and process. I have yet to have a micro-managing manager.
If it’s an executive agency discretion thing then Biden will waive it. Check back in a couple months, they’ll do it quietly.
> no, you couldn't just email someone an SWF. That never worked.

C'mon I never emailed people SWF's, seriously. We uploaded them to flash portals and sent links to our friends. The single-file aspect was important because it made it easy to share (for both you and the flash portal). Also crucially it made it easy for competing flash portals to "steal" your game and spread it even further.

> as someone who uses Linux today

I get what you're saying and I love Linux and go out of my way to support it, but I don't think the Linux audience in 1999-2008 was exactly who most of us were targeting, nor did it have particularly much market share among desktop computers then or now.
The interesting part of this statement is also mentioned in this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/world/europe/uk-covid-19-...

In a departure from prevailing strategies around the world, the British government also decided to begin giving as many people as possible a first vaccine dose rather than holding back supplies for quick second shots, greatly expanding the number of people who will be inoculated.

That decision put Britain at the vanguard of a far-reaching and uncertain experiment in speeding up vaccinations, one that some scientists say could alleviate the suffering wrought by a pandemic that has been killing hundreds of people each day in Britain and thousands more around the world.
Firefox not planning on supporting PWA
The hundreds of thousands of dollars a year that insurance companies spend on actuaries is the real reason that no one will ever come off excel. The maths is not very complicated but the lack of source control and testing means each bugfix or added feature introduces another bug to fix next week or feature to add the week after.
So what's the recommended way of still playing old Flash games you have a local copy of?

I'm very fond of some of the older Amanita games, such as Machinarium
Women can be supported by men in exchange for cohabitation, without minimum wage concerns.
Good question. Treasury and FCC are VERY different departments. FCC is ~1k people and dominated by political commissioners. Treasury is ~80k people and has politically appointed leadership but also a much deeper bench of career civil servants. Those people will read those comments and will make changes to their proposed rules based on thoughtful comments and feedback from stakeholders. They may not make the change you want, but they will read your feedback and take it into account. If you do choose to comment, DO NOT use form letters or go on rants. Establish your interest, perspective, and authority, and state your position clearly with supporting data. And remember: everything you say goes into the public record

Source: got a large US govt to tweak regs based on data, common sense, 0 lobbying and 0 money.
They don't need a 3rd job under Seattle minimum wage law.
Because politicians are idiots. They think doing some lockdown-light with 50% of the boxes ticked from scientists recommendations will get 50% of the promised effect. And if they pick the right 50% of boxes, it'll also not inconvenience anyone important...
> I'm not sure there's a practical distinction between EV and non-EV certs any more anyway.

I believe EV user interface treatment is still a thing in Internet Explorer, and for all I know the Chromium Edge has it too, I never run those browsers. Some minority browsers also distinguish, mostly using the CA/B reserved OID whereas historically Firefox and Chrome had a list of issuer specific policy OIDs flagged.

From the issuer's point of view, the generic EV OID is reserved by that same document for certificates which obeyed the BR rules for how to identify the name, business number (if appropriate) and location of the business, but that is not so different from OV. Private OIDs might correspond to some other (potentially stricter) policy.

There is another CA/B document about EV, but in practice reform has mostly taken place in the BRs and so rules there, or enacted by the trust stores (e.g Apple's 398 day rule) make most of the provisions of the CA/B EV rules obsolete.

The original goal of EV was to find a mutually satisfactory way to improve on the status quo at that time which was a price free fall for long-lived domain validated certificates using whatever method satisfied the issuer's needs to confirm control over the names issued. The browsers got issuers to do a better job (their main ask) and the issuers got a cool UI (the "green bar") to help sell expensive certificates.

The most important legacy of that was the standing meeting, the CA/Browser Forum, which means there is an ongoing dialog between the CAs and the browser vendors rather than them only talking when there's a grave and urgent problem. It took some work to design a structure that's legal, that gets the job done but isn't a cartel, because cartels are illegal (OPEC is/ was a cartel but its members are sovereign entities, and so they are immune to prosecution for running a cartel)

There's considerable value in being able to get the other participants in an ecosystem to agree (even if begrudgingly) that a policy change is necessary rather than forcing it upon them. Getting to 825 day certificate lifetimes was done by agreement, and not even so very long ago, while 398 day lifetimes was done by Apple's fiat after they struck out in negotiations.

Visa doesn't have to worry about PCI-DSS, unlike a retailer who is going to "stop" Visa from doing stuff that is prohibited by PCI-DSS? Nobody. Like the banks, the networks gave themselves the independent right to decide to just break the rules if they want to. For example if your e-commerce website uses SHA-1 that's a huge No-no right? But if Visa has a system that uses SHA-1 and replacing it to do SHA-256 would cost say $1M, they can decide actually it's fine as it is, they keep the $1M and that's OK under rules they helped write.
There's also Elm.
In addition to that, Stephen Wolfram hypothesized that QC won't be possible because with the growth of QC state, the energy required for error correction will grow just as fast, so the theoretical exponential speedup will require exponentially more energy, and this is why the today's QC devices has to split QC bits into small groups.
Cool, as soon as we have meaningful negative income tax I will be willing to reevaluate my perspective on minimum wage.
My criteria for seniority is very simple:

Given clear requirements, can you be left alone for a reasonable amount of time and not come up with a monumental mess? If you can, you are a senior engineer.

And as a corollary, if you need constant supervision, you are not as senior as you think.
I have a 3-year old Dell/Nutanix cluster with VMWare 5 on it. It's never been updated, and all of the web tools require flash. Fortunately there are some dedicated desktop apps that can still be used (even though they are no longer available for download from VmWare).
> Flash was only ever "cross platform" on Windows

"Cross platform" to many meant Windows 98, XP, 2000 and NT5. You could work across that, you had the 'enterprise' market apps people using 2000 and NT which could then also be used by employees at home using Win XP. What more could you want?

I'm guess I'm being only half-sarcastic here.
I wasn't trying to take a position either way. I'm just asking, literally, what technical means do people imagine the government taking to tax under these circumstances beyond what they already do by taxing at sale time?
What job pays minimum wage and teaches a skill and isn't exempt via an education exemption?
Re: Bret Weinstein - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SRrsr-Iug
Are you keeping your terraform configs in one repo or splitting the configs out and keeping them next to the code they deploy?
The current L2 system developed by Comma.ai simulates the model and changes in CI on every commit from what I can tell.
Don't waste too much time on that. These are cars. They can just brake, it's good enough.
No need to pretend there is some fantasy alternate timeline. There are several states that never had a lockdown[1] and even more that had less strict stay-at-home orders. Compare the COVID-19 numbers (ICU headroom in particular) from this year[2] for states with lockdowns vs. states with no lockdown. Also check out the current unemployment rates for each state.[3] Thee west coast faired no better than the midwest on several metrics.

This is a back-of-the-napkin analysis to be sure, but it certainly suggests the anti-lockdown folks at least have a valid point that should be listened to in good faith.

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/States_that_did_not_issue_stay-at-ho...

[2] https://covidactnow.org

[3] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/unemploymen...
There’s no reason to expect it’ll continue at this rate.
I work in a QC lab, and here's my perspective. There is one pretty good reason for executing programs on real hardware: because we're still pre-error-correction, errors are rampant, but they are hard to model correctly. After all, if you could model them, you could simulate quantum mechanics, and then... why were you building the thing? So, simulators have to make some strong assumptions. Running programs on real devices can teach us more about the physics of those devices and about how compile programs for them.

There's one other really good reason: it's fun!
Uber pool is temporarily suspended due to rona.
One of the primary ways to denature is by adding methanol. The free market had nothing to do with methylating the alcohol used in hand sanitizer.

The FDA does a lot of stuff that is great, but the institutional paranoia about someone, somewhere being able to recreationally consume alcohol isn't one of them.
This article got everything completely wrong. Responding to headlines with comments denying the premise, while having never read the article, has the largest impact regardless of the credibility of the source.

Everyone knows that. There is more of an impact if you say everyone knows that, and things like "largest". Everyone knows that.
> Those are inherently 'rules based' societies though where government also has an incredible amount of power to intervene.

Australia had a lockdown. The state I am in had a complete lockdown where our borders were even closed to other states in Australia. Melbourne had the longest, and toughest lockdown in the country. Since late August, the virus has been wiped clean from my state and there is no community transmission. This means that the lockdown was lifted, and businesses allowed to open as per normal except some slight contact tracing procedures in place. The story is fairly similar in rest of the country (except maybe Melbourne which had a second wave and needed another lockdown). While there is a small cluster in North Sydney, it is fairly small and hopefully contained. I go to work everyday, all businesses are open, and economy had one of the most minimal effects.

Australia isn't a very "rules-based" society either so a counter-example to consider.
I wouldn't wish Terraform on my worst enemy.
More information here:

https://nypost.com/2020/12/30/congressman-elect-luke-letlow-...
> 50% so in practice you work 20% less hours and lose 10% of your post tax salary

That's not how the math would work out.

Suppose you make $100k in 5 days gross and pay 40k tax, keep 60k net.

Suppose you drop to 80k gross, and suppose that the 20k you lost would otherwise have been taxed by 50%. That means you'd drop to 50k net, from 60k. That's a 16% drop, not a 10% drop.

But agreed, your argument still holds on principle, due to the tax rate the drop in net income will be smaller than the drop in time, which is a great argument!

However, there are other perspectives you can take as well. One is favorable for your argument, e.g. the drop in net salary (16%) comes at an increase of 50% of your weekend (from 2 to 3 days).

But also unfavorable, for example, perhaps your 'fixed' living expenses (e.g. rent, insurance, basic food selection etc) comes out at 30k net a year. Dropping from 60k to 50k, means your disposable income for recreational expenses (or deferred recreational expenses, through savings) drops from 30k to 20k, or 33%.

That's the downside of the whole story I haven't seen anyone mention in this thread yet. Particularly at lower salaries, fixed expenses can swallow up almost the entire paycheck leaving very little for savings, trips overseas to explore the world, fun things like hobbies, gaming etc. A lot of people spend 70-90% of their paycheck on rent, healthcare insurance etc and have 10% left over, taking off 1 day a week can really cut into that disposable income much more than 16% or 20%.
"Web platform animation is that bad" and "Web platform video is that consolidated" would be my vote, personally.

Tech affects community affects affordances affects distribution pipelines.
>is that people who were official mouthpieces for Mozilla said for years that the default search engine simply wasn't up for sale to just whomever would pay for it.

This is untrue. They openly stated they sold it to Google in 2008, and in 2011 a bidding war between Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo saw the price triple from 100 million to 300 million.[1]

Maybe at some point following a contract they had a generic "Google was the best choice" PR statement, but they've never hid that it was up for sale to whoever wanted it or that it made up most of their budget.

And even if they did say the royalties were icing on the cake, what would be wrong with then changing their policy to generate as much money for development as possible?

http://allthingsd.com/20111222/google-will-pay-mozilla-almos...
Let me know when we reach the point that autonomous cars can bend the laws of physics too, that would truly be a hoot!
We have safety statistics on real cars with a minority of autonomous vehicles on the road.

What we don't have are adequate safety statistics on autonomous cars on the road with each other and human drivers at various ratios of autonomous cars to human-driven cars.

If a study were to be able to propose safety numbers based on the various ratios and various autonomous cars and systems, then that would be adequate, given the theories behind those numbers are well-founded.

If you were to say, "This is how it is: given that the ratio of autonomous cars to human-driven cars isn't changing and we expect it to stay the same, we can see that the autonomous cars are 4-5x safer," then I'd not call it a lie.

But 4-5x safer without qualifications shows a gross misunderstanding of the importance of the effect of the ratio of autonomous drivers to human drivers; the variation in environment and expected behavior could influence greater or decreased safety, leading false assumption.
That's true, though for me the different isn't as great as with pure touchscreens, and I always was willing to accept that as a downside of using a laptop rather than blaming the game itself. I guess nowadays that would be a harder psychological position to maintain with the ascendency of laptops.

The cruellest thing for macbook users are games that require clicking both mouse-buttons simultaneously :P
Show HN: Kaptan, a Checker for Class Fields in Java
The calculations typically performed by actuaries are individually all fairly simple but in aggregate without automated testing and version control it is reckless to use them in pricing or portfolio calculations.
It’s good to have regulations to control the unorganised crypto market. It will lead to be able to extract information about people collecting ransom in crypto for hacks. At the end of the day Bitcoin needs to be converted to other fiat currencies for any real use, otherwise it’s a worthless series of bytes.

Bitcoin failed as currency and now it’s just a proxy to gamble for investors without transparency and controls like a typical stock or commodities market. Worst part is, it has become a de-facto standard to extract ransom for hacks or any illegal activity.
"Did you try traverse?" :D
> if you can spare a computer

Or even just keep a Windows 7 VM handy. Cannot tell you how many times XP, 7, and 10 VMs running on a macOS host have saved the day for me.
Although at fist glance this formula is written recursively, one doesn't have to (and shouldn't) implement using recursion, does one? Just making f, g, q, d arrays and then loop over t should be good, or is there more to this formula?
Sure, if "computer" to you means "laptop or desktop PC".

My smartphone is a computer, which I use at home and work, and it sure as hell doesn't run Windows. Smartphones are a far more significant type of computer in the modern world than laptop or desktop PCs.
Florida Health Department Unprepared for Vaccine Demand
https://research.google/pubs/pub45424/
You might have missed reading the entire comment you replied to. The authors of the study explicitly stated that while the effects of the lockdown exceed the effects of COVID, the net effects of no lockdown would be worse.
Well, it's obviously a baked in assumption that the employer wants to provide as little remuneration for value as possible without alienating the employee. In theory our compensation is based on some combination of the value we deliver and our negotiating strength. If we deliver the same value in 80% time and take home 80% of the compensation, we've fully left negotiating strength on the table.
Yeah, you sound like a shill if you’re claiming that a significant portion of the Uber customer base uses Uber to get between their second and third jobs. That’s gotta be .01% of Uber rides.
Problem is your the average for human drivers is brought down mostly by bad drivers. However, even the if we talking about averages 50% of people are better than average. I would not feel to confident in a self driving car that is only approximately as good as 1 out of 2 drivers. I would want the car to be better than high upper percentile. Especially knowing an automated system can have reaction times that can put any humans reaction times to shame.

So yes equal safety is far from enough. Especially considering 50% would be better drivers than a self driving car that was only as good as the average driver. Your asking 50% of people and some percentage of people who overestimate their abilities to trust a car that would perform worse than them.
This was 2001-ish. No one at the time had any idea how widely the thing would end up being used, nor how big the company would grow. And spending too much time dwelling on each part of the tech stack then could easily have given a competitor the opportunity to pull ahead, in which case Google wouldn't be what it is today.
"...transactions that involve a crypto wallet they manage on your behalf"

Well...don't do that.
It seems that most of the radar systems today in cars (in the US) are pretty adept at detecting pedestrians reliably and engaging the automatic emergency braking system to at least minimize the potential for harm.

On my 2018 Lexus, AEB won't come to a complete stop, but it will definitely slow from say 40mph to 20mph, so hitting a pedestrian at 20 hopefully has a much better outcome than hitting them at 40+.
Japan gave key Intel on China's Uighur crackdown to U.S. and Britain
Compared to "I'm pretty sure I read once things were bad." Sometimes things are hard, Thunderbird didn't seem very upset as they decided to stay with Mozilla during the period.
One way or another I feel like more regulation is coming; the promises of cryptocurrencies in general are often at odds with what centralized governments want, and governments have more power, so will tend to get their way over time.

The short comment period is pretty terrible here too though, among other things.
> Nobody had a standalone Flash player installed

What? Literally everyone who downloaded the flash plugin and ran the installer got a standalone player installed as well. It was right there in the start menu for anyone to find.
> But if you're on the lower income scale and you need Uber to help you get between your second and third job (because you can't afford a car and public transit is unreliable) or you need it to get to a doctor's appointment, this kind of change is a big deal.

Sure but this is a prisoner's dilemma situation.

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.

On the other hand, if you reject all attempts to bring people out of poverty because there's currently people in poverty, well, you're never going to achieve a single thing.

This increase in wages also yields an increase in tax revenue, which can be spent to improve things like public transit, further ameliorating the situation moving forward.

Keep in mind this is a 25% increase in what many view as a luxury good, but the minimum wage is going up by... 25%. So, for everyone at the bottom, it's a net zero change. On the other hand their buying power in other areas of their lives actually goes up. So who is being hurt? I guess the folks in the donut hole?
Apples and oranges. Officers start as O1 as second lieutenant or equivalent. Enlisted men including NCOs start as E1. An O1 always outrank any enlisted man. They go to completely different schools. Officers hope to go to eg Army War College and learn about commanding great units, tens of thousands. Enlisted schools are more tactical.