skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a fantastic blog. Its follow up to this post, focusing on the logistics of raising and feeding an elephant army, is even better: https://acoup.blog/2019/08/02/collections-war-elephants-part...
I don't think that it's particularly difficult to make extremely predictable layouts in HTML+JS if you have the same constraints as flash (particularly a fixed canvas size).
They did. They renamed Flash to Animate.
Granted I only have 5 decades of perspective but I have noticed people who get lucky tend to be the ones who dont quit.

The ones who quit tend to call those who dont quit lucky.
“Alternate Priorities”, Codegolfing with C++
Nvidia with their binary driver as well, that's why the kernel marks it as 'tainted'.
C# (.Net Core) MVC w/web languages (JS/TypeScript/etc).

The other replies, at the time of posting, don't match my experience with the local job market/postings.

Web development outpaces other jobs by a significant margin, then mobile app development, and finally everything else. But most replies are niche academic or desktop development languages. It feels like self-selection bias, wherein people with "boring" jobs skip posting and people doing interesting/unusual things want to post.

The fact that Java has zero replies so far, speaks to something unusual going on.
It’s a particular point of view that obviously won’t find resonance in this HN audience. Were the author’s view to prevail, you would be out of a job. Vast majority of people here owe their livelihood either directly or indirectly to the democratization of the internet. But that doesn’t mean the author the author is naive. There are certainly (unvoiced) masses largely sympathetic to his point of view.

Take the example you mentioned- cars. The Magnificent Ambersons garnered 4 Oscar nominations debating that very topic - should the automobile have replaced horses, and is it a net positive? Even at that time when the benefits of cars were clear, the audience found the film very compelling.

Similarly, Robert Redford starred as a barnstormer in Great Waldo Pepper, which made a strong case against the Air Commerce Act, the sole reason we even have airplanes carrying passengers & goods in the air. Redford’s character is like Linus, feels airplanes are a hobby for having fun doing stunts. But the government spots the potential for a quick buck, shuts him down for good & soon airplane “industry” becomes a real thing, with mail carriers & passenger planes. Redford has a line in that film where the commerce regulator asks him to stop the stunts & just take a job as a airplane mailman - I’m not a fucking courier, I’m a pilot! William Goldman, who studied that period & wrote the film, felt it was his best work & should have gotten the Oscar.

I am sure a decade down the line you will see a film about scientists harking back to the days when the internet was a curious lab experiment, not the giant teats of FAANGs from which the majority of this audience sucks it’s daily fill of milk while blissfully hawking knickknacks for the masses they would rather do without. Nigerian teaching himself Hindi, indeed.
This seemed to be a very vague article. I'm assuming that people that take advantage of these loans must have quite bad credit, or otherwise they'd be going the LendingTree/LendingClub option, where you can usually get medium term personal loans up to about $20k at under 10% interest?
Good riddance, I remember when web browsing on Linux was obnoxious because every other site used Flash but the only plugin available was an older version for Firefox that had serious glitches like desyncing audio. It wasn't until like 2009 that Adobe started providing better binaries.

I wonder what NewGrounds is going to do about all their older content?
People often say you have to start doing things to become better at it.

When I wanted to blog, I signed up at a blogging platform and wrote stuff. People started to read it and I got a book deal and some dev-rel jobs.

It just took me a few hours a week and I could start right away.

How do you start discovering problems of people that are worth solving?
I am one of those people. I was a poor boy in a remote village in a third world country. The Internet brought me opportunities to know and connect to people far far away. The Internet has shaped my thought process, education, job opportunities. Just about everything I have today was due to the advance of computers and the Internet.
C was not born in a day. ANSI C introduced a number of significant features like prototypes, and commercial compilers also evolved it.
I started playing around with self-hosting some things I use a few months ago and I was thinking about using Ansible but it just seemed way too complex.
This changelog announcement is a big one for us and includes:

Upgraded infrastructure

New Metafields and

Optimizations to our open source clients.

1. Infrastructure Upgrade

We're happy to tell you that all Cosmic JS components are now powered 100% by serverless technologies. By running completely even-driven using AWS Lambda functions, the REST API, GraphQL API, Dashboard application, and the website are now infinitely scalable through high traffic loads.

This is huge, because it means you can depend on us to deliver your content through the highest traffic loads with dynamic server capacity on demand. This is also big for the Cosmic JS team, because we are now able to make product improvements at a higher velocity with a more streamlined deployment process.

We have also added a caching service to our website to serve our website resources at the edge. Your team can now get to any resource on cosmicjs.com faster and easier with at least 10x faster page loading from any spot on the globe.

Read more at the changelog link: https://www.cosmicjs.com/changelog/infrastructure-upgrade-ne...
‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations
Not sure if a single commit of two includes in the last two years really counts.
> This is exactly right. Although your suggestion that a congressional law would overturn Citizens United is not necessarily true. It's a difficult question given the basis of the original decision.

This is true, although an amendment could :)
The only country in Europe with a minimum wage above $15 an hour is Switzerland.[0][1] Also consider that the tax burden for poor people in Europe is higher, but this does get offset by the better social support structures.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...
[1] https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=RMW
It’s possible that they are the odd ones out without “screen skills”. I’m actually betting that kids who spend most of their time away from screens will have some weird, competitive advantage in a future economy.
What’s so hard about:

env EXTRA_BAZEL_ARGS="--host_javabase=@local_jdk//:jdk" bash ./compile.sh.

To build the bazel binary in a reproducible way, also set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
I don't want to tut-tut the poor, but I do want to tut-tut consumer culture in general.

There are a whole lot of people who _should_ be able to afford an unexpected car repair bill, and could quite easily do so, if they weren't spending $100 a month on cable TV, $800 every other year on a high-end smartphone, $500/month on owning an SUV when a $200/mo economy car would serve just fine, etc., and put the money into a basic rainy day fund instead.

And a middle and working class that was just a little bit more frugal might create some downward pressure on prices that would, in turn, alleviate what less wealthy people need to pay on just the basics.
You really don't need a tutorial to use Flash Projector. :)

• Windows: https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/3...

• Mac:
https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/3...

• Linux:
https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/3...

Download the version for your platform and open the swf file you want to run. That's it.

Linux users can also use the community-packaged Flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.adobe.Flash-Player-Proj... All other links come from https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.ht...
Might have trouble finding an apartment. The lowered credit score will probably cause increased costs for things like car insurance. Life insurance may be a no-go. Employers in some industries do credit checks, too.

It's a good option in crushing debt, but it's not without significant mid-term downsides.
I don’t know how you made the leap from restaurant pay to men’s buttholes being forcefully penetrated but based on this data, you must be a real ray of sunshine to be around. Please keep your buttrape statistics to yourself were here to talk about minimum wage and restaurant pay.
> cheaper transportation options, cheaper access to healthcare or preventitive care, predictive diagnostics, etc.

I'd also add teaching financial literacy/strategy in school. A lot of mistakes could be avoided. I learned the hard way and it took a long time to dig myself out. There's a lot that would've been very useful to have known earlier.
Thank you. That's less of a generic "can't even boot" issue and more of an incompatibility with installed software (wireguard) and the kernel workaround in recent linux versions for the microcode bug.
What surprises me about American first names is how many sound like surnames to me: Harrison and Taylor are the two most famous examples, but I'm sure there are more.
I’m sorry but this is a ridiculous, unactionable answer that is functionally equivalent to “well we should make things better”. Yes of course we should, HOW? We need more innovative solutions to these problems.

I like seeing electric bicycle shares, I like seeing community-based, high density housing with shared kitchens and bathrooms, I like predictive diagnostics and telemedicine (although the FDA is fighting it).
You've misunderstood. I'm not saying "my site is so awesome that you should be surprised no one goes to it!". The thing I'm saying is surprising is the disparity between the reaction on day 1 and on day N.

I know it sounds like I'm whining, I'm really not. All I can say is, if you weren't there, it's hard to describe how much "I found a neat site" was part of the currency of social interaction online twenty years ago. To get a dozen positive comments and emails but no shares or links was just not a thing that happened. People shared the urls to weird/funny/awesome things the way they share memes today. And I guess that change is not surprising - memes don't have ads, don't have google analytics, don't beg to put you on a mailing list, etc.
"...so entirely at odds with..."

That sounds a bit like "why would you even want to run Photoshop on Unix? It's not open source! It's an entirely different philosophy!"

Many people balance different needs and values. Someone might like the idea of open federation but still need to follow people on Twitter for their day job, or simply follow a thousand interesting people that they don't want to simply drop just like that, to enter into a comparative wasteland.

Providing people with half-way solutions actually encourages more people to come and transition smoothly.
I created quite a popular tower defense in flash back in 2007 and I’ve been thinking about redoing it in HTML5 but realized some major issues around tab backgrounding that will cause complexity in the remake vs Flash.
Because, theoretically, these companies would not be profitable if their interest rates were regulated, and therefore nobody would offer loans.

But I don't have statistics on default rate or anything of that sort.
mpssh and kash are also good. kash is part of the kanif perl project, but the one thing about it I really like that I don't see other projects doing is that it will aggregate similar output before it spits it back.

Thus if you run it to check for a package version on 300 servers, you can get maybe 2-3 sets of output grouped by host based on the output vs 300 lines of output.

https://github.com/ndenev/mpssh

http://taktuk.gforge.inria.fr/kanif/
This is nearly the opposite of what I would want from HTML or the web.

A fixed layout is not going to work for all devices.

Such a choice is tantamount to deciding that some classes of devices are not going to be supported, which may be a reasonable choice but better to make good choices in the HTML and CSS and let the devices try to make something usable of it rather than giving them a fixed window into a layout intended for another.
Sure you could, but you need to build a swf runtime first ... There were a few projects (one from Mozilla - Shumway), but nothing really great. SWF is a complicated format.
Understanding the Media of Internal Communication
I'm sorry to hear that, sounds like an impossible situation. Sending good vibes your way.
> Unicode was designed to provide code-point-by-code-point round-trip format conversion to and from any preexisting character encodings, so that text files in older character sets can be converted to Unicode and then back and get back the same file, without employing context-dependent interpretation [1]

The problem is that emoji are part of a major text-encoding format, so unicode needs to adopt those. Once those were added, everyone and their mother suddenly wanted their emoji in unicode as well.

> It feels like extra complexity for no benefit other than, "we need a standard".

That sums up the whole standard for better and for worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Mapping_to_legacy_char...
OK little story here

Abusive drunk family, plenty of legal issues as a child, ran over by a drunk driver, ( flatlined 3 times in ICU for a month and disabled ), divorced 2 times, 2 kids, married again, adopted 2 kids, worked my way into silicon valley, now I do ok

cliff notes of my life. Judge me all you want but what I have learned is life is a fight to the death. You can lay down and let it run over you complaining about how the deck is stacked against you or you can do the best you can.

Your choice. I have and will continue to help those who I see fighting the good fight but I have no empathy for quitters.
Netflix angers film-makers with 'insulting' speed-up function
For anyone who can't read the original:

https://outline.com/WHPVDu
> C doesn't impose any of these restrictions, largely by virtue of being low-level, and moreover, it should be possible to implement whatever data transforms are implemented in any of those other languages in C as well.

You're conflating lack of guardrails & helpers with "low-level". C is not lower level than Rust or C++, not at all. It's just more dangerous, and that danger brings no "low-level-ness" advantages.

> it should be possible to implement whatever data transforms are implemented in any of those other languages in C as well.

Define what you consider "possible" here. There's a bunch of things I'd consider "not possible" in C that you can do trivially in C++/Rust, such as the codegen templates & coroutines perform, for example. If you throw enough macro pre-processor hacks at it to the point it doesn't reassemble C in the slightest sure you can sort of pull it off. But is that sort of thing considered "possible in C"? Or have you just made a second language in front of C that happens to compile to C via the hello world of compilers?

Even with macros I'm not entirely sure you can actually do something like static_assert in C since you can't put an #error in a macro substitution. Or more practically defining the backing type of an enum
In north Chicago suburbs, my 1st grader gets an iPad, and my 3rd and 5th graders have chromebooks. All communication is through school apps, and much of the work is done on those. They use them for homework, and spend much of the day on them. I hate it.
but I actually had in mind average around-70-and-plus people around me, like my parents and their friends, the "real old people".

Guess what, me, too! My anecdata are from a more active group, though. So we have differing views of the world, and that’s fine. I’ve never been overweight a day in my life, so I try to avoid general, “all ya need to do is...” It demonstrates a lack of empathy and a small world view.

But I would ask the same of others. Yes, there are people with limited mobility. I get that. But they’re still a minority, and does it need to be brought up every g-ddamned time the subject comes up that not everyone can ride a scooter? Most people can, can we talk about them for a minute before dive off into the edge cases?

We can talk about limited mobility options, no we will talk about them, just maybe later. But the reason we have cities over run with cars now is because way too many people who are otherwise capable think they can’t hobble more than a city block, and only under perfect conditions.
AirBnB caused an increase in the supply of short-term rentals, which caused an increase in the demand of housing. I don't you can say either was more affected.
The hard part is deciding who's the bully, since both sides invariably claim (as they did in this case) that they're the one being bullied. Neutrality isn't a claim that bullying is acceptable, just that you don't have the time to figure out who's the real bully or whether the person being bullied deserves it.
I think whether it's a "different matter" is up to, well, those guys who are gonna do that stuff. To me at least, there's a pretty firm separation between lifestyle choices, almost no matter how radical and just plain fucking weird, and universal existential theorizing about the cosmos.
And those who don’t quit and still die in the gutter? “Lack of hustle”?

Your five decades is a drop in the bucket of human experience. I recommend more empathy and introspection on suffering of your fellow human.
> I think the government could break even with much more reasonable interest rates

This is a big claim to make. Do you have some data to back it up?
> On balance, cars -- at least our ability to use them -- has been a huge negative.

Honestly there's no way this is true. How many people would die if they couldn't use an ambulance? How many people are surviving on goods shipped to them via trucks?

Of course things can be improved, but there's no way the automobile was a net negative on humanity.
I try to keep myself in as much 0% APR debt as possible, almost at 100K. It’s all on business cards that don’t report to credit bureaus so it doesn’t impact my credit utilization. Instead of balance transfers (which have a 3% fee and a low limit) I put my quarterly taxes on my CC, which you can pay for 1.8%.
No, "disabled by default" happened months ago. This announcement is about it being removed from Googlebot. Next year it's being removed from all major browsers (even IE): https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/07/25/flash-on-wind...
If you continue to use HN for nationalistic flamewar we will ban you. That is because of the degrading impact it has on discussion here, and it goes regardless of what country you have a problem with.

HN users can, and do, make thoughtful points on such topics from many different viewpoints. "China has their fingers in everything" is not that.
There's plenty of ignorance to go around on HN, but this is shockingly so. Global poverty statistics don't count subsistence farming as zero income, which would render the entire exercise meaningless. Two dollars a day isn't an objectively high number, but the point is that passing that bar is a threshold that means you're not _below_ $2/day. The kind of poor we're talking about deal with starvation, easily-preventable diseases, dying from indoor wood burning for lack of better heating systems,etc. Projecting your privileged, first-world notion that none of that matters because they aren't self-actualized and the resource level that helps you avoid that "isn't that much" is just sheer idiocy.
How about paying people more? That's pretty actionable. Jeff Bezos doesn't need 100 billion dollars. "Just get rid of unexpected expenses" is the one that sounds ridiculous to me.
Listen to them complain. Offer to solve in exchange for money. Repeat.
Defend Monica from Defamation by Stack Overflow
BlizzCon 2019: What to Expect
An example would have gone a long way toward helping people internalize.
Use the Win32 API directly. It's still there, never went anywhere. You can even use winelib on Linux.
If they are in the ballpark of bankruptcy, their credit score will already be destroyed. Bankruptcy will actually improve a credit score
Recap of Django US 2019
In Flash it could be done in minutes, with no prior experience, and only using a mouse.
OK my bad, it is actually cost per genome. Don't -1 :)
Blake Richards, the first author, is active on twitter and posted a quick overview of his argument here: https://twitter.com/tyrell_turing/status/1188868918250745863
I would certainly prefer to have my browser handle my GDPR preferences and not have to worry about all these popups.
I answered a specific question which was about pulling people out of poverty.

Everything has consequences. I am pretty sure you would prefer the life you live now than what even kings live 300 years ago.
Sure, but wouldn't be better for most people in this situation to simply default on their current debt, that take on these 150% loans that will bankrupt them just as well 2 years later.
wow, they are by far the worst on the list
They don't, though. Once someone turns 18 they are legally no one's responsibility but their own self's.
yes, twitter should be legally scrapable.

however, no-one but google actually has the horsepower to do it. You'll be playing an arms race with their devOps team if you try at scale, because they'll say you're degrading service and that IS illegal.

so, while it's a nice legal victory, it's a moot one for things like twitter.
Air Pods pro website loads 1500 jpgs, 70 megs
http://archive.is/qpLlf
Peer-to-peer unsecured micro-loans at low interest rates, instead of GoFundMe.
Flash desktop player is thing:

https://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer.html

Just like I can'd to anything with a PSD file with a browser natively, I can't with an SWF either now. Not that horrible situation.
2021: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4511036/silverlight...
I've been able to do split screen a few times. But mostly I end up losing my original application. It seems some applications cannot exist in split screen (?) and don't bother to indicate that you will lose your existing layout?

I learned about long pressing the space bar less than a month ago. Apparently that has existed for years. Ugh. This thing is awful. Just plain awful.
I think we have officially scraped the bottom of the barrel now on ways to increase user engagement with netflix chipmunk mode. That's it. There is no innovation left to find in the realm of increasing content consumed per day. All done here.

Let's try formulating some new goals now. What else can we create outside of trying to make this one metric increase a tiny bit next year?
We're Incentivizing Bad Science
Isn't "tainted" in the Linux kernel used to flag the presence of binary blobs? (and nothing to do with licensing)

All binary blobs in the Linux kernel aren't automatically illegal according to the GPL, right?

Binary blob kernel modules, in fact, have restricted access to the kernel frameworks (cannot access/use GPL symbols).