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>the obliteration of producers in favor of consumers

More consumers begets more producers. I would assert you have better odds of producing in a wide variety of areas.
In Sweden and Finland people typically prefer to omit the diaeresis without adding a trailing e. Due to Germany getting their way, though, the American-readable part on passports uses the German-style conversion to ASCII.
They probably had their reasons for that... at least you got a closure.

That's why it probably good to talk about bigger fixes first, so you can align your visions.
This is not so clear, especially on the darkness point (though I'm sure uber is pleased their message has taken the day in some circles). The car knew it needed to brake over 1 second before impact but failed to apply the brake. [0] A second of hard braking would have made a large difference in the survivability of the crash. What's more, the video uber released was misleading with respect to how dark it was. [1]

You can make what you will of the first point - uber had their reasons for disabling automatic emergency braking (who knows how many times erroneous stops would have caused accidents). The second point is fairly clear, though - the pedestrian in fact had every reason to feel very visible.

[0] https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20180524.as...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/police-chief-said-uber-...
I think he is afraid of the directionthe internet is taking. All the most important benefits we have gained from the internet will be undone if every nation and every isp censors and filters too much content. China is becoming a model for the rest of the world, and we are in danger of losing it all, or even worse; being manipulated into thinking we did not.
I guess "don't break the web" doesn't apply here.
I think they're more worried about the untrusted/unauditable part of it. I suspect most people that dislike the ME would be perfectly fine with it if Intel released the code for it and allowed users to build and upload their own copy of the ME code.
There are frameworks that let you compile flash games/apps/videos into native executables with pretty good compatibility (so minimal porting effort). That's probably the best we've got besides using an out-of-date insecure browser.
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Remember when it was possible to have interactive animated vector graphics on the internet?
You can just use a fake account.
I predict that they will need to create extensions or exceptions that will bring back flash for people that need it. Thanks largely to the difficulty and bad functionality of HTML5 equivalents, there is still important stuff in libraries / public orgs / museums / archives / university sites etc. that is not ready to die, and unless google/MS are willing to pay the redigitization process, they 'll have to bring back flash.

> Goodbye, Flash

- Fuck you, Google
If filing for bankruptcy had no negative consequences I would agree, but that isn't the case. I agree that we shouldn't be bailing out banks, but we should have a safety net to bail out individuals. People go broke for various reasons, but the hallmark of an accomplished society is being able to ensure a decent quality of life for most people. Telling people to accept personal responsibility for everything that happens to them is a huge cop-out. You're basically saying you refuse to consider what scenarios might warrant this because it doesn't fit into your world view.
And yet, there's still no good replacement for building those types of Flash games. HTML5 game development isn't close.
The biggest projects span such a wide number of teams and/or departments and/or product areas (product areas at Google are headed by Senior VP's) that you're never going to have someone with the formal authority having either the time or the technical knowledge to run those projects. Even at the department level, the VP will have hundreds or thousands of people reporting to her, and so she's not going to have the time or attention either.

So the authority gets delegated down to the technical leaders, and while it can happen that there will be conflicts that have to be escalated to the VP or SVP level, it's usually because a team simply doesn't have bandwidth to satisfy a request, or are being given conflicting signals as to the prioritization of different projects, and so we need to escalate to senior management to either get more head count, or agreement that a given prioritization will mean that the project will slip, etc.

The technical leaders make the technical decisions, and are responsible for the technical decisions. Management makes the resourcing decisions, and product managers make the product decisions. Usually, it's pretty obvious whose domain a particular decision is in, and as a senior technical leader, I actually know enough about the constraints that I can tee up the question, with the tradeoffs, and then say, "but that's a product-level decision: do we ship with now, or do we slip and so we can add this particular critical feature? Note to management: if you don't like the velocity of the development, we badly need at least 3 more head count by next quarter or we will be presenting you with more Hobson's choices like this."

And that's fine with me; I don't find working with recruiters and negotiating with the CFO for headcount, or sitting in an all day meeting trying to divide up the headcount granted to the department to the various teams. Not having to do that is not "lacking muscle", it's being freed from work that I don't like to do.
Yeah, and Steve Jobs' decision would have made sense in 2019, but in 2007 it was just a dick move.
Now if only ADP would update their timesheet software so it did not rely on Flash, that would be great. I'm going to have to install Flash manually once Google drops it from Chrome.
An extremely well-done 1st season, that's it. Hence why the show stopped in 2017 with 4th season
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I'm not the only one to remember the Competition Pro joystick.

This was a long time ago (around 1986).

Back then there were no professional e-sport players.
Is there a difference between "I don't like this" and "This is not useful"?
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Mithril uses a vdom so yes it's doing diffing. It's certainly slower than Svelte but it's still plenty fast for most use cases.

https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...

Most importantly Mithril is very lightweight. Check the startup metrics on those benchmarks. This is not a totally fair comparison since Mithril includes a router and an http client and the others do not. Still, it manages to be among the best.

Imba uses memoization and, much like Svelte, direct DOM manipulation.

https://www.imba.io/guides/advanced/performance

Imba was used to build Scrimba (an online code tutorial/editor) which is very impressive.

https://scrimba.com/

I couldn't get past the Ruby-esque syntax, but it is a very impressive effort.
I myself am 40+ and seriously obese, so I'm definitely counting myself into that "too old for e-scooter" group, but I actually had in mind average around-70-and-plus people around me, like my parents and their friends, the "real old people". They can walk but can't walk across the city every day, they can go on a leisure bike ride, but not ride it uphill (and we don't all live in flatland like Dutch), and you definitely can't seriously expect them to move around that way every day all around the year. You can't expect me either, btw, really sorry if I don't match nowadays modern lifestyle standards. Which are btw ridiculous as combination of walking and eco-friendly public transportation are much more sustainable (and for many enjoyable) solution than everyone zipping around in their e-scooters and e-bikes and whatnot which are all being charged everyday from the grid.
Of interest is the Mythbusters episode linked in the article:

>Myth Statement: Archimedes was able to build a powerful steam cannon, using technology available at the time.

>Status: Busted

>Notes: A flash-boil-powered cannon, built even with modern materials and techniques, was barely able to push a projectile out of the barrel. A more modern pre-boiled, valve-triggered system, like those used in aircraft catapults, was able to project a cannonball a considerable distance, and required far less pressure than the MythBusters had originally projected. Also see Holman Projector which worked on a similar principle.
> I think that would be a terrible idea. The gov't would want to make the debt non-dischargeable like they do with student loans. It would be devastating.

I fail to see how this is worse than current predatory loan scenarios.
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Both server and mobile have plenty 14nm parts going forward. No, the truth is much simpler: the 10nm process is botched and produces very little but they can't just straight up admit it's not working. They need to limp with it until the 7nm which is developed independently and actually has promise to be working.
That's avoiding the question. Is it important that entities taking money to distribute political messages try to prevent false advertising, or isn't it?

If it's not important, then Facebook is fine — and newspapers, TV and radio can relax their fact checkers as well. If it is important, then the fact that it's allegedly infeasible for Facebook is not a defense.
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Disagree, You make the choices for life. Accept personal responsibility.
There's nothing to run Flash media outside a browser? Obviously that wouldn't help anything dependent on proprietary server functionality, but that's true of any software.
Just for perspective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

> Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it an improvement over the World Wide Web, with the mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivialises our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or contents."

(Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article proceeds to reference a Wired magazine "hit piece" in the next paragraph. Ignore that, read this:)

Here's an interview with Nelson: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/csr/nelson_pg.html
Pascal was my favorite language for a number of years. But it was completely inappropriate for systems programming because it was too protective, it kept you from doing the things that are regularly required at an OS level.
Easy: when I can safely and easily install tensorflow on python 3.8 [1.].

1. https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/33374#event-...
My 8 month old daughter suffers from cortical visual impairment after contracting bacterial meningitis caused by e coli during the birthing process. She had to have a bilateral cranitomy to have isolated areas of the infection carved out of her brain tissue.

Looking at this article, i wonder if we'll ever be able to figure any of this out. I feel pretty hopeless about the entire situation.
For a man to throw "like a girl" is generally seen as an insult.
We desperately need an HTML5 based game dev IDE with feature parity of Flash. Is such a thing even possible?
Where is the high accuracy OCR? All the OCR software I've seen so far is less accurate than me, especially with handwriting, damaged material, odd viewing angles, etc.
> The gov't would want to make the debt non-dischargeable like they do with student loans

That's a strange assertion, considering there are dischargeable government loans, and private student loans cannot be discharged.
From what I read, it sounds like Francis kinda got screwed by being vetoed for promotion. There was at least a possible conflict of interest and the fact that Lee knew about the particulars enough to gloat about it doesn't look good for the company.

Employee loyalty is important to some degree. But knowing when your loyalty is being taken advantage of is also important.
Interesting interview. Keep up the good work, Pete!
Personally I've always thought RTL switches in an editor were a mistake. An editor displays and lets you edit a character stream, and those characters do not need to be in their final spatially rendered position for editing.
This unscientific and non data backed opinion simply isn't contributing towards meaningful dialogue.
All credit for the demise of Flash belongs to Jobs: https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
Why is Elon Musk aiming for Mars if building a solar panel array and all of the subsequent manufacturing industry on the moon could potentially be way more productive?

Is there something I am missing?
Except that student loans can't be abandoned even if you declare bankruptcy. That one little factor makes them some of the worst loans imaginable in terms of long-term prospects.
Easy solution. Don't use Instagram or any other Facebook product for that matter, assuming you care about privacy, truth in advertising, election interference, etc...
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actually the social safety net puts a downward pressure on wages. americans need to earn more money to make up for the lack of social services. europeans and most of the free world, the middle class work like they are earning spending money vs americans who work like they are earning money for their health insurance, transportation, etc. this is why americans can't compete with h1b workers as they undercut their american counterpart for wages as they can go home in the end.

minimum wage in the US is on the low end of the first world countries when it comes to minimum wages. they should be at the top end. a proper minimum wage would be well above $20 an hour to make up for the lack of social safety nets. it really should be $25 per hour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_count...
They are relevant due to the "people" aspects of projects, as in, the collaborative aspects of the project. I am guessing you are pulling that line from the code of conduct portion of this post. They specifically mention having a committee of several people from different backgrounds so that the can better assess potential breaches in the code of conduct.

As for if this is a regular topic of discussion besides the code, that obviously varies wildly, but I believe it's being discussed more these days.
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The only websites that I know off the top of my head that still use Flash are Newgrounds and the BBC, for its iPlayer content.

It seems that Google is already using WebAssembly in its products, Google Keep [0], so it is likely that they will continue to use this.

[0] - https://webassembly-security.com/google-keep-webassembly-mod...
Good faith implies intent of the entity is measured, not necessarily of the way the law is written. Textualists like Gorsuch would actually not read into the intent of the law writers and interpret "good faith" how he pleases cause that's as specific as the written law is. Don't you agree?
Somewhat off-topic.

I recently rewatched Neon Genesis Evangelion and noticed that in many of the classroom scenes all of the kids had laptops. The anime aired in 1995/1996, but was set in 2015.
What's HN's opinion on 0% balance transfers? Yes, there's usually a 3% fee but... I've been able to borrow about $5k-$12k for a one time 3% fee over 18 months multiple times in a row now. I make sure to always pay the balance back before it is due. Why don't more people who need a cash infusion do this?
I’m going to assume that you’re young with limited life experience, which allows you to think that life is that clear-cut. I’d argue, but experience tells me I’ll have to wait until life decides its your turn to stand in front of the steam roller.

A much less charitable interpretation has you making convenient answers so that you can conveniently wash your hands of social responsibility. But, man, I hate think that about anyone, even anonymous internet commenters.
Very cool! Our tool only recognized A/AAAA, CNAME, and TEXT records (that's all we needed at the time). Your solution is much more complete and looks really good. Clever use of git! Your pricing is super affordable as well, nicely done.
Have you seen some of the html5 games on itch.io? Very impressive https://itch.io/games/html5
Designers loved Flash because it was WYSIWYG. It's also why PDF lives. You usually only had to test it on one computer, not different versions of different browser brands. The client-side "auto-flow" of HTML browser drives designers batty. I can relate: I make CRUD GUI's and different browser variations butcher their placement to hell and back, requiring me playing Whack-A-Mole to fix it. The online forums say, "Shut up and learn layout rocket science!" A few snotty Sheldons mastering auto-flow math doesn't scale well.

The browser should have a WYSIWYG mode for when your application needs it. The server could re-scale as needed for different devices based on a layout engine of the designer's choosing. That way one is dealing with one layout engine instead of say 50 (browser brand/version combos). Seems more logical to me. We don't need auto-flow rocket science if we just partition layout engines logically.

I believe Flash and Java Applets both made the same fatal mistake: tried to be an entire virtual OS. That made them too complicated, which invites hackers. If they had focused on just UI "serving", they could have been small enough to be manageable.
Most of which are funded by showing you ads for things you don't need or selling your personal information.
it was the right move. at that time flash was the biggest vector of attacks and the largest battery drain, why would you ever consider putting it in in the first place?

apple was just bold, big and loved enough to survive the backlash from flash fanboys who, outraged, went buying android phones and proceeded to never use flash there either.
OTOH, Apple could have bought flash and built their mobile platform on top of it. It was arguably better than Obj-C
Although it was great for it's time, I think now (2019) it's rather silly that you de facto must learn three languages to use C:. C, C preprocessor, and make.

If I had to do that every day (I don't use c, except passingly, and usually in read-only mode) I'd tear my hair out, and that's even before the inevitable footguns I'd write.
Financial abuse exists.
Yeah I spend most of my time in front of a screen too, but let's break down just a few of the ways that's a little better.

First, my time on a screen is far more productive (the time mentioned in the headline excludes any school work). It's not occupied by social media or games, it's occupied by more meaningful communication with people, critical thinking, etc. It's also the most efficient way for me personally to make a living and provide the needs of life for multiple other people. I'd like to think I've chosen a job where I'm contributing meaningfully to the world and not just affecting the bottom line of my employer or my own checking account.

When I'm not working, I do make it a point to not have my face in a screen. I spend time in stimulating and wholesome recreational activities with my kids, I get outside, I exercise. If you do have your face in a screen the whole time, I have bad news for you: you're probably missing out on some cool real life stuff, your wellness may be suffering, and there are articles about you using a screen too much [1]. People do care when it comes to adults, especially adults who need to be taking care of their kids more than being on their phone or paying attention to the road.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=adults+time+on+their+phones&ia=web. There are even articles about how this is actually a disproportionate problem with adults.
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Conway's Law on the global scale?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

> "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."

The Internet as image?

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I like it, but then there's the problem of too much, too little, and differential transparency, eh?
Yet I’m not sure we would have reached that point now without the “dick move” then. Apple has always taken an aggressive stance to cut out things that reduce battery life. Blocking Flash and background processes were natural consequences
I'm shocked that an economy based on the median person being in debt is finding new ways to get debt into everybody's hands.

This topic is ultimately just a symptom. Focus on the larger economic design (eg rent treadmill) that precludes most everyone from saving a positive amount of wealth, rather than their needing to take on debt for emergencies.
That's not how subsistence farming is counted in GDP and poverty statistics. The value of home production is still counted. If you are eating only $2 worth of rice per day, you are counted as poor whether you buy it or grow it.
Reading this comment has made me think about the effect of technology on increased competition, whether that be globalization, online dating, or physical retail. With the rental market, that increased competition for a fixed housing supply translates into an increase in prices. Without any shifts in the supply curve, changes in demand effectively become a zero-sum game. Kind of strange to ask, but does that mean “demand” is more sensitive than “supply” to improvements in technology?
Why is Ansible better? I've considered it for maintaining a bunch of workstations and servers. However after reading some tutorials it seems not to be worth it.

It involves a whole new level of indirection, I now have to check up on what's new in new versions of Ansible, perhaps adjust a bit on the syntax, Google problems, find relevant Github issues or SO answers that work around the inevitable weird quirks and bugs etc.

I think Ansible would have to provide a lot of value (i.e. time savings) compared to, say pssh or cssh to be considered for a busy sysadmin who just wants to get stuff done with as little effort as possible (CV padding is not a consideration, playing with new toys is not a consideration). Doing things directly with shell scripts is a much more robust approach in terms of being understandable to other people, who don't know Ansible, and it will stay understandable even after Ansible is gone.

There's also a proliferation of such tools. Do I need Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Salt or another one? Will Ansible die in 2 years and be superseded by X?

Unless you do this job as a full-time sysadmin, the overhead and potential headaches seem to be more than to be worth it. I may be wrong though.
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Two of my favourite flash games (late era flash)

- Abobo's Big Adventure (abobosbigadventure.com)

- Super mario bros crossover (http://supermariobroscrossover.com/)
"pro et contra" precedes.
Clickbait headline is referring to "online installment loan, a form of debt with much longer maturities but often the same sort of crippling, triple-digit interest rates"
They simply don't qualify.

Would you even consider a $3,000 loan at 25%? That's what's going on with these companies.
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Just imagine how much personal freedom cars have brought, especially to disenfranchised groups.

There's two sides to every coin and some sides have a lot deeper grooves than what can be seen at first glance.