skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flash made a lot of things related to vector graphics more accessible. The vector engine was quite powerful, although lacking proper hardware support, it was quite CPU hungry.

Still, I don't think we have an adequate replacement, even it would be technically possible, I don't know about similar tools for vector animations..
Of course jailing people is not a solution. But workers rights were not gained by 'asking', we expected this sentence. It's not 10 people you can jail, is more than 2-3 million people that now don't care (or even less) about 'their country'.
Not to mention healthcare, given that his wife supposedly has had to leave work for three years to care for him, instead of providing a working healthcare system. Which will have lasting effects on his familys life after he's gone, and in aggregate a loss to the workforce.
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In addition to TerraPower, moltexenergy.com desribes another conversation-changer. Not a PWR. Walk-away safe. Molten salt in tubes. Can burn existing waste. Apparently can use Thorium. Projected costs less than coal. Uses existing materials.
It's a distinction without a difference. Whether you use legal or technical means, blocking an offending app that violates the terms of streaming service is not "anti-competitive", as the parent comment accused. Neither Spotify nor YouTube is obliged to offer bandwidth.

I'd rather YouTube use legal means to remove offending apps from app stores, rather than technical means that would interfere with apps outside of app stores as well. I like having youtube-dl available, thanks.
They can't. That's the reason why they have been leaving in droves, but it's very hush hush so far. A lot of microelectronics assembly has already moved out of the country. Samsung and Sony, for example, are closing all of their smartphone manufacturing operations in China.
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>separate unilaterally

The whole US was founded on the idea of a right to self-determination. Without unilateral separation, it would still be part of England.
I encounter a bunch of cheap monitors, still not had that issue recently. But that doesn’t disprove your point, just my own personal experience.
I knew.
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It was a technical marvel to my eyes at the time. GTA before GTA.
The author in the NYT is a pilot.

"Unfortunately, in the case of the 737 Max, it seems that Boeing has built a plane with a fundamental aeronautical issue that it thought would be resolved by adding a new automated system. "
It looks kinda interesting but the apparent mobile-oriented interface makes it highly unusable (and wastes a ton of screen space). The "legacy" version that used a more compact UI, menu bar and right click menus is much easier and faster to use (it took me a lot of time to figure out how to add a keyframe with the mobile-oriented interface which basically was moving my mouse over everything i thought was an interactive element to see a tooltip about what it does -- ironically this most likely wont be possible on a mobile device).
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I don’t know how it is in the US. But Kuka is at least owned by China, iirc.
lol, Linux of 2019 is Linux of 2000, still broken
It remind me of ancient Chinese saying "普天之下，莫非王土，率土之滨，莫非王臣", that means "all land belong to the king in the kingdom, all men are servants of the king in the kingdom"
Like, random AWS server or something?
The name for the product category you're broadly describing is "smart beta." This exists in quantity. "SPY but without overvalued stocks in it", etc etc.

The reason the exact product you want doesn't exist is because it will have the same returns as SPY but cost 20X as much due to lower economies of scale, broadly because people don't want it.
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He is an author who does speaking and consulting on the basis of his experience. I don’t believe his branding is anything abnormal or differing much from that of prominent software development authors, speakers, and consultants.
Yep. Well, then I'll won't marry anyone, because if the other part doesn't want to divorce, then you're married for life. At least you get to choose who do you marry. (A referendum is what was requested for years). I don't get the fierce defense of the unity thing, sorry. There's people demanding a referendum (as seen in Scotland) you just put them in jail, problem solved.
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Just buy SPY with 95% of your money and then allocate 5% to put options on the losers. if they don’t work out, it was just a hedge. if it did, you had your cake and ate it too.
Are you really comparing a movement to secede from a militaristic communist dictatorship with no freedom of speech with a movement to secede from a EU member state with a full democracy? Which freedoms are these "freedom fighters" missing?
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Spain is not a federal country. Furthermore, this is closer to NYC trying to separate from New York State.
Sometimes you have to give a man a fish before you can teach them to fish, or even buy them a nice fishing boat. It's disingenuous to claim that the former is not "contributing to the solution of systematic issues", simply because it doesn't directly address those.
Peacefully breaking the law is still breaking the law. Disobeying direct orders from court can get you in jail, mishandling public funds can get you in jail, and making official declarations that go against the constitution can get you in jail. You have all the right to think this is not OK, but it is how it is.
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> You can secede in federalist countries

Maybe in theory. But looking at American civil war, Russian war in Chechenia, and others, in practice it certainly isn't so.
> Now that we're seeing some of the downsides of globalisation, perhaps the world community could hold its nerve longer.

The problem is that decades of globalization have all but wrecked domestic manufacture of many goods that China provides - not just cheap plastic toys but basically anything that requires lots of human assembly. A part of electronics manufacture could probably be picked up by Vietnam, Japan and South Korea but that's it, the world has shifted to China too much.

In the long term it might be a sane option for the Western world to see Africa as more than just a dumping ground for excess food/clothing "donations" or a source for stealing fish, but that would require politicians with more long term vision than "how do I get reelected"...
Interesting however there is data going back to the 1920's about changing lighting at work (Taylor I think) that shows that the very fact of changing light levels improved output.

However when the changed the lighting levels back output improved again. It looks to me this is based on poorly designed studies, the including of trigger words like "kids" "iPad" is a bit of a red flag.
You are either misinformed or lying.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/861001/Catalan-referend...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/10/12/spain-police-used-excess...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/catalan-vote-claims-s...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-41463955/cataloni...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4586709/catalonia-won-right-in...
I was visiting BCN during the voting, all I saw was cops attacking people who dared to stand in their way.

You are lying.
> It was amazing back then to me how bad were home computers relative to arcade machines back then. It was also amazing to me that no home computer manufacturer ever had a plan for a serious gaming home computer system that matched (or came close to) the arcades in visual quality.

The Amiga did come close-ish, but despite its custom chips, the lack of a custom sprite scaler and too low memory bandwidth would have likely made it impossible to get all that much closer (it's mainly lacking extra details next to the road). The dual 68k's on Outrun also ran on 12.5Mhz vs. ~8Mhz/7.16Mhz (depending on NTSC vs. PAL) for the Amiga's single M68k.

Outrun on Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOGxxYm4z5I

Outrun on arcade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7tZFW4WedI

> Who wouldn't try to buy a machine that could play, for example, Outrun, close to the arcade? even if it cost 1000 dollars...

In effect the Amiga was the closest the market would bear - Commodore struggled on for years, and sold about 5m Amiga's, and the only reason they survived as long as they did was that Commodore were masters at cost-cutting (arguably that also sank them: they cut their R&D budgets to the bone, among many other mistakes). People who went from working at Apple to Commodore at the time have indicated that attempts at Apple to figure out how Commodore was able to sell the Amiga at the price-points they did for example massively over-estimated Commodores manufacturing costs and could not figure out how Commodore were able to squeeze out a margin at all.

As such we can assume the Amiga price, which including a monitor, joysticks etc. around the time of Outrun would easily ended up in the region of 1000 dollars or more, was the high point of what was commercially possible around the thousand dollar mark at the time.
All your data in China collected at will to be shared with all entities of the Chinese government and potentially any private company it owns feels more like a really fast and aggressive ramp-up than a slow strangulation to me.
the algorithms usually trade based on sentiment. If it makes a bad trade, the humans override them afterwards and reversed the trade.
I think the reason we adopt this mindset is because we are ambivalent. First you feel you wanna go, then you regret it because you are nervous about the rental car, then you wanna go again, then you regret it because there's a lot of stuff at work you want to deal with, then you wanna go, then you get scared of skin cancer from the strong sun etc etc

Booking and cancelling and booking and cancelling and... It would be terrible to change your mind so often. So you decide to just go with the option you picked first even though it temporarily seems suboptimal.
Reminds me of the preinstalled clock app on the pre-Android Blackerry smartphones. Basically to set any alarm or timer you just moved the finger around a clock to the desired time. It was satisfying to use and intuitive.

Now my "Android One" phone has the worst UI I've ever seen for setting timers(you have to enter every individual digit, from hours to seconds, in the right order...).

I really wish Google would copy more good ideas from the now-dead competitors, like the text selection and context menus on Windows Phone. Or the alphabetical lists that also work well for left-handed people. Many great user interface ideas died with these systems. But to be honest I'm not sure if they would even be allowed to do that legally. You never know what kind of crazy software patents are floating around out there.
They did, because the central government have refused to agree to talk with them. If the central government had played ball and allowed a real election over independence, then the whole thing wouldn't have happened.
Requiring all of my computer's resources in order to get good performance is bad performance.
>Which freedoms are these "freedom fighters" missing?

Freedom of association?
don't know ya Cooper just did a quick google on ya and viewed the reddit post, from what i gather you made the world a better place. thank you.
Game Maker was my first approach at "serious" programming after messing around with javascript in the browser (not that I ever finished anything, mind you.)

But I would suggest Godot as an alternative for beginners now. Even though I don't like the proprietary scripting languages either uses by default, between GML and GDScript, the latter seems more powerful, and thus more educational. You can do "drag and drop and make a game for some defnition of a 'game'" in any of the modern game frameworks. But really, that only teaches you how to use the GUI, not how programming works.

Also Godot has a version that uses C#, and there are bindings for other languages out there (I don't know how complete or useful they are, though) whereas unless I'm wrong, with Game Maker you're stuck with GML.
Well, states exist by (sometimes implicit) agreement of the population. Things get tricky when significant (by whatever definition of significant) part of the population is not happy with the arrangement.
Because there was no violence, as some people in favor of the jailing thing still defend.
I've been on MacOS since 5 (mac classic). I went to Win 2000 and XP for a while but came back at 10.3.

On average every 2 years I'd pick up a few distros of Linux, play with it, then drop it and go back to OS X. This continued until recently. This last year I've been on Linux for the first time. Specifically, Linux Mint.

OS X hasn't been going in a direction I strongly care for (10.6 was my favorite, as well as Windows 2000). I'm a power user who just wants things to work. I don't need all the bells and whistles. I want a low maintenance experience without bugs, that just works. Right now Linux Mint is that on my hardware.

The only modification I've done to the system is using the graphics card for v-sync instead of the cpu. Outside of that, I'm on a 4k monitor that works at 60fps. I've not had a single crash or noticeable bug since installing (except a bug in Firefox). I haven't had to go deep in the terminal, but I have built custom versions of software. eg, the version of cmake on the OS is older than the version needed to build cuda projects that use cmake.

It's a minimum no bells and whistles it just works experience. So I'm happy. Is it for everyone? No. Are more every day desktop users going to be picking up Linux in the near future? Probably. Video game support has gotten so good on Linux that people who play video games have been slowly jumping ship. I've been surprised.

Though, if they break anything, I'll go back to OSX.
> How one generation can be almost universally opposed to something like gay marriage, then suddenly in just a generation the majority of the population is in almost religious support of it.

This is a bit ironic way to phrase it since (in some areas) the previous generation was against gay marriage under the influence of religious institutions. (to a significant degree anyway) The new generation has very non-religious support for it.
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Gasp. The managers are using technology to monitor their workers productivity? Where will this abuse of power end?
Ancient Romans didn't have instantaneous access to information and global markets. The whole world economy could collapse basically overnight in the modern era.
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What's unfair about it? GA pilots manage to kill themselves in twin engine planes too, fewer of them because most of them only own single engine planes in the first place, but plenty.

They make mistakes, and in particular some of these are mistakes that are more likely when you're flying for your own reasons (usually leisure) rather than because it's a job. "Get-there-itis" is an example, an airline pilot sees the weather at Nashville looks too dodgy, they confer with their colleague, then divert. "Sorry ladies and gentlemen, looks like Nashville's having some attrociously bad weather this evening, we're going to get you on the ground at... Charlotte and make alternative arrangements". But a private pilot father who promised to attend his daughter's performance this evening is damned if he'll divert and miss it, he's going to land at his intended destination. When he realises he might miss the performance by being dead, it's too late.
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There is a Dutch company called Blendle[0] that has figured this out pretty well locally, and also has a BETA program running in the United States[1]. Articles are often much cheaper than 1-3 dollars, I don't recall paying more than 1 eur. They also combat clickbait titles and intros by providing a refund when the article turns out lousy.

[0]: https://blendle.com/
[1]: https://launch.blendle.com/
Something about Catalina has been causing issues with both installing Xcode and massively increased phantom disk usage (not just related to TimeMachine). I didn’t experience the former (have colleagues who did though), but did experience the later and had it self correct (on a machine without TM enabled).
Twitter censors trtworld which is the national TV channel of Turkey
As a Turkish citizen, I know there are fake news and propaganda about Operation Spring. TRT World is a source to understand what is really going on but Twitter censors the account due to sensitive content (!)
I wonder how good the market is for malware in countries with stable democracies and a good human rights record compared to those without.
Kuka is owned by the Chinese company Midea Group according to wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUKA
I understood you to be comparing photovoltaics + night time gas v photovoltaics + molten salt night time storage?

That seems the most reasonable scenario?
I want to agree with your thesis, but it's impossible to foresee every possible outcome. Leaky abstractions aside, bugs aside, misaligned incentives (the new "I was just following orders", as someone here immortally put it) aside, it is impossible to imagine a priori all the ways a certain outcome that is desirable now will be undesirable in the future.

Every step of the development ladder is fraught with possibilities for error and catastrophe. To quote James Goldman:

"It is too simple. Life, if it's like anything at all, is like an avalanche. To blame the little ball of snow that starts it all, to say it is the cause, is just as true as it is meaningless."
You're not wrong, really. But what Microsoft has always done differently is control the distribution and installation of their own updates. With Android it's always been up to a combination of Google releasing the update, the manufacturer putting their touches on it and then the service provider releasing it. Of course a savvy user could get the update as soon as it is available in some cases (in other cases it'll break your phone).

I'm not advocating for really any particular way of doing it, but rather just noting how Apple definitely has the opportunity for making OS updates a smoother experience than either Microsoft or Google because of their level of control at the hardware level. Apple doesn't always get it right (see Catalina), but they could do better than they do.
The Tribubal Supremo recognized in their sentence evidence of violence. Not enough for a rebellion one, but enough for sedition.
Nope, they really haven't. They're basically wasting their effort on largely pointless labor, whereas they could be achieving a lot more simply by donating an equivalent fraction of the income they earn via what work they've actually specialized for. But that wouldn't be as visible or salient, and thus rewarding from a pure virtue-signalling POV.
dupe, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21246324

this one should be closed
If you are talking about think-cell: about 1.5 years ago, I applied, but was rejected after the programming test (even though they liked my CV and had to admit that the C++ code that I sent in was of decent quality).

Let me put it this way: I am more of a deep thinker than a fast thinker and (to put it in mathematical terms) more of a theory maker than a problem solver (i.e. I prefer Alexander Grothendieck over Paul Erdős, even though, of course, both were great mathematicians).

So, I was not capable to solve the hard algorithmic problem that think-cell had in their programming test in the given 9 hours; not for a lack of C++ skills, but for a lack of experience in developing "crazy" data structures and rather being a deep thinker/theory maker instead of a fast thinker/problem solver.
In the end everyone's opinions on these things are going to be informed by their individual experiences. Linux is generally going to lag behind windows in hardware support since most hardware is designed, tested, and supported with Windows.

I installed Mint on my father's computer and it has been rock solid for him. I tend to find ways to break installations, but that's certainly not linux's fault. That said, it's still very much a mixed bag for me.
England wasn't a federation when America seceded either. The idea of "rights" (or at least the idea the American founders had in mind) is that they're moral concepts independent of whatever the legal system grants.
it looks like a great idea for front end interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNoPJWLQrDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=klSib4rhdLs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svGsNGOpxsQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyE0DtVd4Q8
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Secession should be a liberty afforded to all people. There is no excuse for forcing a group of people to live under a political system they disapprove of.

And in response to some of the commenters in this thread: of course an independence movement is going to be violent, especially when the state is trying to oppress it. The independence movements in the US, NI, and India were violent too, not because they were wrong but mostly because of mixed public opinion and an oppressive state.

Perhaps if we legally recognised the right to secession and offered citizens a democratic route to secession then violence wouldn't be necessary. Secession movements are going to happen regardless of their legal status.
>I'm always wondering how the software developers of FinFisher justify working for such shady players like Turkey and other middle east authoritarian regimes.

Never mind those, they work in Germany, which as a country had its hand in 2 world wars, and directly exterminated 10+ million people, and was the home of Stasi, one of the fiercest surveillance agencies until 1989...

That alone, and how totalitarianism can be close at home at any time, should give them pause regarding making surveillance software, never mind what some developing world authoritarian regimes would do with it ...
If you want to retain your image, perhaps give the secessionists a real sanctioned vote about who to belong to. Like the election about Scottish independence that were held in UK. Stonewalling the secessionists and then complain that they are not taking it through your parliament is not a good way to handle it.

(and it feels weird to put UK up there as a positive example with regards to mature handling of elections..)
Another episode of Streisand[1] is calling and she wants her cease-and-desist letter back or in other words how to geht the most puplic attention to a newspaper article.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
One of the differences with a fascist state is that Spain is subjected to international law. They have the right to appeal to the European Court for Human Rights, and if they are being jailed for organizing peaceful protests they will win. But that is not what they are being jailed for and you know it.
Eh as a college professor something has changed, not just the population. My experiences parallel the GP. I noticed it first with filename conventions; it rapidly changed from there.

This is in the same population of students. I noticed basically that IO tasks were eating up an increasingly big fraction of effort and time early on in courses, reflecting problems that didn't exist previously.

This seems to be for the reasons stated, that file IO stuff is being abstracted away. What used to be typical necessary computer fluency is now "low level" for many.