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I completely agree and to me this is the "Flash Bones" problem.

Despite one's opinion of Flash as a web alternative or its license, it was a great way to run interactive content on a browser, and they kept adding features to their native IDE ("Flash" itself) and capabilities to the player (including the SWF spec).

It eventually reached a point where there was not much more to add to it: it could play video (novel at the time) and audio (including live synthesis), use sockets, etc etc, and do some pretty advanced stuff supported by the player/spec. But none of that sold Flash IDE licenses, so they _had_ to add more features to the IDE. One of these features was the ability to do Bones, a pretty common animation feature.

To me that's what marked the IDE decline. I used to create a lot of Flash content, but stopped using it at that point too. Not because of bones, but it was symbolic of the moment. I still created Flash apps for years, but it was always by creating fresh, "stage-less" projects, compiled from source code (the right way to go anyway).

Bones itself is a great feature, but at the time Flash the IDE was already way behind other animation tools that exported to Flash like ToonBoom. Adding that feature just made it clear that they didn't know what direction to go with the IDE: it wasn't the best animation tool (despite having kickstarted a market!), it wasn't the best dev tool, just a bit of both with very few people who needed both. No surprise it stopped selling even while the platform was thriving online, circa 2010.
Follows terminal font.

Down that Linux font rabbit hole, I guess.
While I’m always surprised that Gnome seems less powerful and configurable with each release, after installing Dash To Panel it’s mostly tolerable. I too have few needs from a window manager beyond ‘runs emacs’.
As the saying goes "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

Its easy to spot a mispricing, not so easy to identify when it will correct. I for example havent bought any bonds for a long while because I perceive them to be over priced, I've felt that way for 10 years. Am I an Oracle that can see more than 10 years into the future? Have I messed up and missed out on 10 years returns? Maybe I'm wrong and we're in a new normal. Only hindsight will tell us. At this point though even though I feel bonds are over priced I can't say definitively that you shouldn't buy bonds, and if I had I would have been wrong for the past 10 years.
A new engineer can learn a lot from being on code reviews earlyon. Anything from the team coding style to the application architecture.
A "new cause of cell aging" might cause trouble for the somewhat-speculative programme of SENS, the pursuit of long-term "negligible" senescence via regenerative medicine. In this case, if it turns out that telomerase is needed to prevent cellular senescence, it seems you can't use whole-body inhibition of telomerase as a cure for cancer, which is the approach SENS is proposing. It doesn't make all regenerative medicine useless, but it might be a challenge.
Blacklists have certainly existed in the US.
Euro bond rates are below 0 nominal for maturities up to 15 years:

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/financial_markets_and_intere...

I don't have data on the quantities of these bonds outstanding, but trillions is almost certain.

There are many other bonds that are still above 0 yield nominal, but which are below 0 real yield due to inflation.
I don't know about Japan, but in the US rats are also often used because they're basically the biggest mammal that has almost no regulation on what you do to them. Experimenting on, for example, a monkey might be closer to something human, but they're not legally classified as pests, so doing things with them requires a lot more paperwork and might not be approved.

Definitely not saying it shouldn't be that way; I'm kind of glad that we have some level of ethical rules for handling animals.
What do you mean by “expectations”? If Amazon trades a $2000, is the expectation that it will stay at $2000 forever? Or is the expectation that will go up because it will surpass expectations?

If by expectations we mean the numbers published by sell-side analysts they may or may not be close to the actual market expectations.
Edit your terminal's font settings. Without knowing more about the setup you use, I can't be more helpful.
When I heard Alex Jones on Joe Rogan saying that there was human-animal experiments being made I thought he was exaggerating.

In my opinion this kind of research crosses some ethical lines that shouldn't be crossed. If one considers an embryo as an independent life, what species the embryo belongs to? Wouldn't be the ones in this experiment half humans with human rights? After all, the scientist doesn't know all, and the cells he put in could evolve to a chain reaction of the hybrid developing human conscious.

Just my opinion tho, as I know nothing about genetics and biology.
Ask HN: How do small startups handle customized changes to terms and policies?
More and more, customers of our relatively small startup (https://CoCalc.com) have been emailing us to say "Based on the review of the terms/privacy policy, we can only contract for services with the signed modification to your terms." These typically come from universities or high schools, both in the US and Europe. Our official Terms of Service (which were drafted in consultation with a reputable law firm) are here: https://cocalc.com/policies/. The changes that are requested by customers are often described as being required by local law. For example, a university in Texas added a bunch of requirement including "you will not boycott Israel", among many other changes. The most recent request from a school has numerous new terms involving precisely how security of the site is periodically audited, data about how students will be shared (e.g., it will never be stored outside the USA), etc.

QUESTION: what do some other small startups do in situations like this?

It seems like our realistic options are (1) pay lawyers and hope it pays off later, (2) do the best we can, but without official legal advice, (3) just say no unless the customer lifetime value exceeds some threshold, (4) just say yes to any reputable client, irregardless of size, and possibly subject ourselves to some surprise liability down the road.

Regarding (4), these customers are very reputable universities and schools who are just trying to comply will all local laws and best support their student's privacy -- they are not malicious or trying to take advantage of us. The requirements mostly seem reasonable and something we can comply with, assuming I understand them correctly.

So far we have done some combination of (1) and (2). When we ask the universities what happens when they deal with companies, they will do things like tell stories about how different it was to deal with Microsoft and Apple, which isn't really helpful, since those companies are massive.
> there's no revolutionary movement

... yet. A few years of Westminster arbitrarily frustrating calls for independence, coupled with Brexit-induced hardships and a resurgence of sectarian violence in NI, could well radicalise the SNP into taking matters in their own hands.
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The US doesn't have a recent history of annexing countries. The US did do this in the 19th and early to mid 20th centuries. The current Russian government does have a recent history of invading/annexing countries though (Crimea and portions of Georgia, the country not the US state).
"I don't think so" is not a valid argument FYI.
When the Matrix came out, it was concocted by the "Wachowski Brothers", not sisters, because we're speaking of a time frame. Kindly, take your irrational sensitivity and flawed argumentative methods to the next room please.
Booking a hotel without a credit card requires a deposit. I've had to pay up to a $500 deposit on a hotel stay before. Yeah you get the money back after, but not everyone has that type of money laying around.
Lots of people pirate media, but I stand by my percentage. Even in the tech world I literally don't know a single person who wants to deal with that complicated stack. My time is worth $90/month to not have to.
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I have no problem with calling SimCity a “whole city” simulator. Why? Because we have a good functional model of a city. We understand its operation on any level. Not the case with the brain.
For Oculus Go and Google Daydream, you have a tiny controller with a couple of buttons like the one at the bottom of this page: https://www.oculus.com/go/accessories/ Instead of moving it physically "onto" a button in 3D space, you just "point" at the button using the controller, and then click.

Here's a demo of what it looks like inside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93bxZlU-kbA&t=272
I understand (and agree with) all these moral related questions and why so many downvotes in this topic. What is interesting, when one nation develops this tech and their people will live, say, 150 years, will these morals survive in other countries?
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Excellent line of inquiry. I'll have to dig but I know I've read that senesence has an important function.
Like most things in the body, it happens for a reason but there are often downsides.

It was probably something Dr. Judith Campesi, a pre eminent senesence scholar, wrote.
Interesting that he doesn't mention ECS. I've found that to be a huge improvement over VMs for exactly the workload he's describing.
Wouldn't we still have slavery if we did things the way you suggest?
Half-face painted blue?
You have to account for some cost of your own time. And none of that is something that my wife and kids would want to deal with, especially if I am not home. I am willing to pay Hulu and Netflix for the convenience and so are most people which is how they stay in business. If everyone did what you did, I suspect there'd be an actual crack down on it.
Nobody knows what font I was using when I typed this though. Better to use what is comfortable, or heck, more fun, than something boring because I'm supposed to be some kind of adult now.
No, of course other things are important.

But if you measure only ancillary things, that's a pretty bad measure.

I don't expect every one of my team members to understand the entire build system, testing setup, logging system. That's a waste of their time. They should know some, and perhaps one of the areas in depth.
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His link says that the UK made copies, and that private contractors hired by the UK government such as IBM were given access. IBM, and most other firms that the UK government likely uses as contractors, have offices and data centers in the UK.

I didn't notice anywhere in his link that said that anyone moved copies of the data to the US.
Not necessarily - if enough countries have moral issues with experimentation on human embryos there could easily be substantial pushback through economic or physical means. Maybe they won't draw the line here, but there's definitely a line people have with human experimentation.

You're also making the assumption that this is moving "forward" and that there won't be ramifications outside of external influence by other countries.
So basically someone trying to call all phone numbers and identify your number, when it rings falls in the same category?
I'm pretty sure there is no tattoo that will be perceived as beautiful by mom. Some people only see the deformation of the skin under it. Some of them can even be found right here in the comments.
"And lumping Facebook/Google/Amazon in with Juicero or whatever is just lazy"

They have been lumped in together.

A company that does X on the internet is valued as a tech company, not as an X company.
Excellent analysis.
Wiley Coyote can run across a gap if he just refuses to look down.

There's probably a game theory explanation for what's going on. Nobody wants to be the first to look down... If the train is running you want to stay aboard. On the other hand, you certainly don't want to be left holding the bag.
It’s just a brainstorming idea. There would be a key as well - the idea would require both the key and substantial computational power for exceptional access

Brainstorming ideas are meant to be thrown out. Attacking the idea respectfully is fine. It’s to help inspire other ideas.

Of course there’s a trade off involved. But whether it’s two party encryption or three party encryption with exceptional access none is perfectly secure anyway. There is major conflation of political ideologies with hardline technical viewpoints going on
> The amount of time and effort people put in to not understanding but still disliking things that don't effect them has always and continues to blow my mind...

this
Barclays Global Agg bond index includes $13T USD of negative yield bonds. And Swiss bonds have negative yields out to 50 years.
The real estate bubble did burst 11 years ago, and a lot (most?) of the country still hasn't reached those values. My condo is still worth barely 60% of what I paid for it in 2008.

California (SV especially) is another matter, though.
Yes this author makes a poor case against tatoos; so I will try to make one:

Tattoos are bad because:
1. Needles
2. Infection
3. It doesn't just "wipe off".
4. Needles
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I don’t think this comment is anymore helpful than the “just get over it” comments. And I don’t imagine it’s anything like a gender crisis. I imagine that’s much worse. Closer to a women with really small breasts imo.

So, “just get over it” and “join my pity party” aren’t helpful. As a 27 year old man who is completely bald (horseshoe bald). I’ll share with you what has helped me.

I keep myself fit. I hate gyms and I can’t afford the commute time so I bought some adjustable dumbbells that I store in my closet. I’ve found about 20-30 minutes a day 3 days a week is enough. I do a combination of “old man burst training” (focusing on getting my heart rate up and running out of breath), weight training and yoga work best for me. I’m barrel chested so I focus on broadening my shoulders and back for symmetry. This was a “just do it” kind of thing after I got tired of making excuses. It’s not something I dread anymore. I’m the type of person who needs a kick in the ass. Acknowledging that and working to kick my own ass has been my greatest gift to myself.

I’ve worked hard on my posture. I’ve always slouched. Mentally, this has required the most effort.

Go to the dentist! (White teeth are the goal don’t get crazy and end up with that creepy blue look).

If you’re white, get some sun!

Learn to appreciate clothes and style. This was the hardest to learn for me. I’m naturally conservative but I’ve found a way to be conservative (comfortable) and stylish. You don’t have to be rich, I’ve found some great stuff on the cheap at Ross and the like. Being in shape also makes everything fit better. If you can afford it find a good tailor.

It takes work but if you tick all the boxes above you’ll find your romantic life will improve and possibly your career too. I was never a great athlete but our office park has a basketball court and I do just fine. I’ve made some good business contacts on the court too. And you don’t need to be bald to take any of this advice.

Female baldness on the other hand… I don’t know what to say other than my heart goes out to you.
In that case Russia should of renegotiated the deal, instead of invading a portion of a sovereign country (the Ukraine)..
In my experience, the best cure for this is exercise especially running or weight lifting. It trains your brain to endure difficult and strenuous tasks. Furthermore, the endorphins that are released subconsciously start to build the association between feeling good after facing a stressful situation. You begin to look at stressful situations, not as something to be feared but something to be conquered. I used to be the biggest introvert because social interactions stressed me out. Now I thrive for that feeling of, "Man this isn't as hard as I thought it would be"
This was the most interesting part to me:

"Scott Fraser and his lab worked with the research team to develop 3D imagery of the results. The images unexpectedly revealed that senescent cells often have two nuclei, and that they do not synthesize DNA."

Huh, the interesting part to me was that the senescent cells have two nuclei. Muscle cells fuse during development and have multiple nuclei, and they can't divide anymore either. I wonder if senescence happens due to mitosis being stopped short by some mechanism, and whether the multiple nuclei are a symptom or one mechanism by which cells enter senescence.
Well, if you're allowing abortion on the basis that an embryo isn't human life, you're by extension allowing this.
Since I don't live in California or Texas anymore, and didn't really identify with their priorities when I did, I don't "think that the electoral college in the US is terrible". Echoing your sentiments, the large states are not in a "privileged position" even if they sometimes think they should be. The electoral college, and federalism in general, makes the system more resilient and robust. (Not that this is an unalloyed benefit: this resilient and robust system does some terrible things.)

I don't share your gleefully grim expectations about UK's economic outlook. Sure, EU customs will be an issue. Making it too big an issue doesn't seem to be in anyone's interest, however. I can't imagine that e.g. Ireland want to hurt their own economy through any sort of "work to rule" policy. I can think of one EU member as important to the overall European economy as UK is (and it ain't France).
Would you not consider hyper-inflation a recession? If suddenly all my savings, and most everybody's savings, are worth a lot less, it seems like a recession.
A while back I did a design for a fully distributed discussion board, kinda like Reddit but with no central host that can be controlled and must be funded by a single entity or group.

It was heavily based on the principles developed for the old USENET news network and designed to work around the problems discovered by users of that system.

I found that cryptography was a necessary component of the distributed system - it's the only clean way to solve a host of problems associated with distributed discussion boards if you want to avoid things like censorship and special interests controlling discussion.

For example allowing the moderators of a group to moderate and remove spam posts and e.g. hate speech without making that mechanism vulnerable to spoofed article cancellations is tricky. The simplest way to handle the issue was to use a public key crypto system to package moderation commands. Moderation commands to edit/delete articles are sent alongside an encrypted hash for the command. The command is only valid if the public key for the moderator decrypts the auth packet and the hash matches the command text.

Crypto is also great for things like non-repudiation and reputation systems, both of which are important for a discussion system application.

By the way, there IS a problem with HN... several, actually, depending on your view of what's desirable in a site like this. It's not terribly scalable, it's rather biased toward a particular locality's view of the world, and like many such sites everyone is effectively anonymous.

The problem with HN that a distributed system is required to address is that HN belongs to a private company that has motivations based on its own interests instead of the good of the public or promotion of free speech.

HN can be controlled, edited, is in a legal jurisdiction that allows a corrupt government to obtain control of it or otherwise interfere with it, and in general suffers from all the problems of a centralized discussion board.
AIUI nicotine is not especially addictive on its own; without a type of chemical known as an MAOI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_inhibitor) it is minimally addictive (https://www.biopsychiatry.com/nicotine-mao.htm)

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Although nicotine is generally considered to be the main compound responsible for the addictive properties of tobacco, experimental data indicate that nicotine does not exhibit all the characteristics of other abused substances, such as psychostimulants and opiates. [...] Because tobacco smoke contains monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) and decreases MAO activity in smokers, we have combined MAOIs with nicotine to determine whether it is possible to obtain a locomotor response to nicotine in C57Bl6 mice. [...] Finally, it was found that, whereas naive rats did not readily self-administer nicotine (10 mug/kg/injection), a robust self-administration of nicotine occurred when animals were pretreated with tranylcypromine (3 mg/kg). Our data suggest that MAOIs contained in tobacco and tobacco smoke act in synergy with nicotine to enhance its rewarding effects.
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Tranylcypromine is an MAOI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranylcypromine)

Does anyone know what a locomotor response is? I did a search but got nothing usefu.

Ciggies contain MAOIs, vapes don't (I believe, and they should never be allowed to, but...). Nicotine is seemingly much less addictive without it. This fits in with my own experience, I used nicotine tablets for smoking reduction as a recreational drug, and as an alternative to coffee to wake me up (it's a light buzz, no more). I don't find it addictive, meaning I don't use it much and it doesn't 'call to me' in the way chewing tobacco did when I tried that.
How about putting this ("let workers vote") to the ballot?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_ballot_proposition
Clicking in VR is usually done with your controller. The controller shines a virtual laser pointer making it easy to aim and click.

Doing it with your eyes may be preferable long-term, but eye tracking isn't in consumer headsets yet.
Nothing is too valuable for bacon.
At Google years ago, the UX designers coined the term "change aversion" and used it in exactly this arrogant way that this article is talking about. They even used this concept to dismiss the empirical results of UX experiments that they themselves conducted with regular users, that indicated this effect. Lol how do I science?

This resulted in lots of internal memes mocking these UX designers.

Totally agree with everything this article says, fuck arrogant UX designers coming into my office and rearranging my workspace, fuck you coming into my house and rearranging my furniture.

(If you attempt to justify this by "it's not your product it's the company's", you are really missing the point, and you shouldn't be a UX designer. Human emotions don't care about legal structures.)
But do rats (or other non-human animals) with human organs deserve the same rights as humans? I don't think that the human pancreas is the source of our innate "human-ness" that gives us distinct moral standing from non-human animals. You can certainly wonder whether there is any such thing that gives humans a special standing, but if you also eat pork, you have a tricky row to hoe in that argument.
(Maybe off topic but on topic of great management and people.)

He sounds like a great person.

This type of coolness I think also might apply to this person
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Doriot
,,cheap Chinese crap''

Why do you need to say crap?

I have a Xiaomi robot vacuum cleaner that was cheap and it's amazing at the same time (much better than other US robot vacuums that I tried before).

I bought my girlfriend a Xiaomi Mi 9T mobile phone, it's working great as well (after hiding the Mi software crap, but I had to do the same on my expensive Samsung 9S Plus as well)
Only on this site would some bubble boy think bedbugs aren't a thing anymore.
geographically, wildfire surveillance? atmospheric chemistry monitoring? just speculation...
I'm quite aware of this.