skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good to finally know what name to call this style -- Corporate Memphis!

But besides the flat aesthetic having started on phones over the past decade-plus, I think there are two key factors the article hints at but doesn't really address directly.

1) If you're illustrating on your computer, there's something more inherently (although subjectively) "honest" about flat design -- it looks like computer vector shapes. Using brushes in Photoshop/Procreate is a throwback, "fake", simulated. If digital is the medium, then basically either pixel art or vector art are the two "most authentic" expressions of that medium.

2) Economically, shapes in Illustrator/etc. are infinitely easier to tweak. If the editor wants you to adjust your image, you might be able to spend just 10 minutes making the changes, rather than 6 hours drawing/painting up a totally new version. (Yes I know painting programs can support layers and other fancy things to help, but it's still going to be harder.)

Also, because flat art requires a good eye but very little learned "technical" technique (as opposed to, say, watercolor or oil painting), a lot more people can do it (just keep tweaking the shapes until it looks right), and it's very easy to achieve consistency across images, even if made by totally different people.
> Fully on board with this newer trend (Svelte also comes to mind) of using only native JavaScript language features to accomplish what other frameworks do using abstractions.

Really weird to ascribe that to Svelte, given that it has its own compiler that introduces non-Javascript syntax...
Folklore [1] has many stories and first hand accounts, especially Apple and Mac related.

[1]: https://www.folklore.org
Six years for summary judgment?!? Even if Twitter had won, it and the American public still would have lost through this endless delay. Something needs to be done about the glacial pace of federal litigation. Justice delayed is justice denied.
New Aluminium-Based Material Could Make Hydrogen-Powered Cars More Practical
Considering that client will always find a way to cheat, isn't it more logical to do all anti-cheat detection on server side? Gather data from trusted players during closed beta test and after launch just look for abnormalities on data coming from clients.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX_9000
"The VAX 9000, code named Aridus or Aquarius, was a family of supercomputer and mainframe computers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) using processors implementing the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA)."
Sure, but that's at best anecdotal. At worst, the patient would have recovered anyway and the drug only made it harder.

The official reports will be available in 2 weeks.
Could you please explain the illegality?
I believe newer Valve multiplayer games (e.g. Dota, CSGO) use Steam Networking instead of the game sending UDP itself. Packets sent with Steam Networking are encrypted[0].

Before CSGO moved to Steam Networking, the game itself encrypted the packets. I can't remember exactly when this was introduced, but it's still in place - see https://github.com/alliedmodders/hl2sdk/blob/acf932ae06b64b7...

[0] https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/multiplayer/netw...
isbgpsafeyet.com only appeared at 4 p.m BST yesterday, a Friday [1]. It's the timing of that which I took the OP to be commenting on. The GGP mentioned that we're in a month of Friday afternoons, this page dropped literally towards the end of the working day on a Friday afternoon!

As you say, Cloudflare have been promoting RPKI for a couple of years now and it's disappointing that more of the big players haven't implemented it yet but is now the time?

1: https://blog.cloudflare.com/is-bgp-safe-yet-rpki-routing-sec...

> 17/04/2020, 4:00:00 pm BST

> Today, we are releasing isBGPSafeYet.com, a website to track deployments and filtering of invalid routes by the major networks.
Completely agree

Several developers like to overengineer and "go for celery" (also applies to other technologies with other uses) even for small things.

You don't need Celery to run a batch job every day for example. Or to even do some parallel processing.

"Oh but python multithreading sucks" do you know when it does not suck? When your thread is waiting on something else. Also there's the multiprocessing module with a lot of "batteries included" for basic use cases.

Not to mention (my biggest pet-peeve of Celery) is that it "forces" you to work with a task queue model. Not a data queue model. Sure, it helps a lot when you need that, but sometimes you just need a queue.
You can create a Unity-like look and feel in KDE Plasma 5 relatively easily[1]. Although the look and feel is only part of the experience, KDE Plasma 5 is very customizable that I'm sure it could be adapt fit to most workflow.

Despite its bad reputation in early days, KDE Plasma 5 nowadays is very lightweight. As in, the resource usage is pretty much on par with Xfce.

[1]: https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/How_to_create_a_Unity-like_l...
To be clear, that's not because there are no cheaters. They've just finally implemented a behavior score and shadowbanned suspected cheaters and toxic players that way, with some help from the player- trained ML mentioned upthread.
Cygwin consists of ordinary Windows programs, WSL2 is a specialized virtual machine: they are partly redundant (for the purpose of offering well-behaved POSIX tools) but perfectly compatible.
If you use the <picture> element [0], then you can specify a MIME type on the srcset. Browsers will then use this to load an image they support - so if you have a set of pictures with a MIME type of image/webp and others with image/jpeg, WebP will be used by those browsers that support it and JPEG by those that don't. There's a good example at [1].

Alas although most browsers support the picture element, IE11 is the notable exception [2] and a polyfill is required.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/pi...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimed...

[2] https://caniuse.com/#feat=picture
They're also financially benefiting by pushing competing HEIC and HEVC formats since they're patent owners and collect royalties for big scale implementations. In light of that, it's not surprising they refuse to support royalty free formats.
> the lower and middle class started to duel in emulation of the upper class

isn't that a common effect, e.g. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/26/394339284/ho...

> customary analogous marker of status for women would be.

Perhaps speaking numerous languages, playing the Piano, dancing/ballet etc.?
Iran military announces widget that 'can detect coronavirus from 100m away'
Soldier’s bedroom has not been touched since he died in World War I
Cash-strapped hospitals lay off thousands despite Covid-19 staff shortages
I am just waiting for someone to build a deep_nude_realtime_zoom plugin so I can finally tell people that we should take digital security, privacy and identity seriously.
The problem I see with Taleb is that people see him as the kid who cries 'wolf' too much, unfortunately. Other people see him as someone, like a stopped clock, is right twice a day.

It's unfortunate, because he probably has valid contributions to make now that we are in the exact scenario he was built for. But he has lost a lot of credibility in the years leading up to it, rightly or wrongly.
The law doesn't say existential though, it says grave and imminent. I would focus on 'imminent' in this case - the case has been going on for six years.
people have been saying this for thousands of years.
Thanks for sharing, that was a very interesting read!
Would this be susceptible to tracking issues? E.g. place a hidden picture that loads WebP or PNG otherwise, to track which users support it and which don't
How Easy Is It to Fool Americans?
Same logic apply to climate change issues.

There is little immediate reward so let this dumpster fire explode on our kids...

It doesn't necessarily mean that it's a good logic. We desperately need more long term thinking.
What meaningful changes have people affected in democratic republics in the recent past? Companies that don't keep up with customers' desires go out of business all the time.
I prefer to avoid them. Debugging can be way harder. Remember good old days when you could understand minified JS relatively easily? Look at webpack bundle + babel with generators. Horror to work with.

Yeah, I know sourcemaps and all that, but even sourcemaps workflow is impacted; setting breakpoints can be weird, debuggers are still not perfect.
Lessons Learned Building a Covid-19 PWA
Modeling confirmation bias and polarization (2017)
That list seems to be incomplete unless The game changers was uploaded to YouTube by someone else.
That is to save 146KB on one image an 99KB on another, to save 2 seconds you'd have to using a 1mbps connection.

The first random internet article I pulled for real world cellular speeds suggests even unwired, people are getting 30mbps so that changes the article to:

Apple could load 66ms faster by adopting WebP

… but these are cached resources, so maybe…

Apple could perform the initial load 66ms faster by adopting WebP

… would be better.

Looking at the assets needed for an initial load, the fonts alone weigh in at about twice those images, so it probably wouldn't be noticeable.
I was more hopping for something like "we use DFT instead of FFT because reasons"

No need to publish a scientific report.
demo video: https://youtu.be/7dnVUchs6VU
Are there countries in which a significant fraction of the population takes it on a regular basis? Presumably these are the same places in which an actually large fraction of the population has had malaria and in which there is some naturally evolved resistance to it, so you'd have to control for that...
National security threats don’t have to be existential to be legitimate threats. Threats to American lives can be national security threats, even if they don’t threaten to kill 300 million people. ISIS could never threaten the existence of the USA, but they have killed several innocent people, and it should be the government’s responsibility to prevent attacks. The government should practice restraint with how they do this, but there are tons of scenarios where the government should take action before something rises to the level of an existential threat.

Someone walking into your home when you aren’t home and stealing your things isn’t an existential threat to you, but I’ll bet you at least lock your doors when you go out. The flu isn’t an existential threat to most people, but many people get a flu shot every year. Just like individuals take reasonable actions to protect themselves from non-existential threats, the US government has a responsibility to protect its citizens from non-existential threats as well.
Yes sorry, I meant the actual numbers. This would be very useful for example when doing field recordings to get an idea of what’s happening.

Cool project, good luck!
Why would you do remote work even more remotely?
Absolute Income, Relative Income, and Happiness (2005)
Looks like they had a neat attack vector but their ultimate end goal didn’t have a wide enough net.

After stealing windows users clipboard contents: “the threat actor is trying to redirect all potential cryptocurrency transactions to their wallet address. At the time of writing this blog, seemingly no transactions were made for this wallet.”
True, and it counts as trying really, really hard.
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Funny, I have scars in my legs and arms from dull training sabre and epiee. Completely accidental of course
As a foreign national living in Sweden since 1978 I wholeheartedly agree with you. The Swedish authorities has been slow to react, fearful of disrupting business, generally been too lax, and has succeeded into turning this incompetence into a virtue, which large swathes of otherwise intelligent people are swallowing whole.

This incompetence, together with an health care organization for the elderly in complete disarray and shambles due to under funding and rampant privatizations is granting the elderly in Sweden a death rate far beyond any comparable country. It is a mess, and it is with a sense of disbelief one observes that the state epidemiologist is allowed to continue to be in charge.

There are explanations for the support however: since a lot of the criticism originally came from far-right quarters, it became a matter of political decency among all other parties to defend the state policy. In addition there is an effect that seems to take hold in crisis in almost all countries: support for perceived leaders will surge, and people will vehemently turn on any criticism. Pity the leaders in Sweden turned out to be so incompetent and that the valid criticisms have been drowned out completely.
A couple years ago I attend this talk by Paul Wesling at Stanford. It's the most interesting, exhaustive account I have heard. It goes all the way back to the early days of Ham Radio enthusiasm in the Bay Area around the early 1910s, following the stories of three pioneers: Jack McCullough, William Eitel, and Charles Litton to modern days.

It was a special day that day... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRDB_W6POys you can see me sitting on the floor at 1:40 :^)
Here's another entry that's a bit unorganized. It's also a bit more of a recent (and sometimes older) history related things that I learned about mostly through HN. Replies / additions to this are welcome.

__Lisp (programming language)__

The Structure and Implementation of Computer Programs (you need to use a search engine for this, there are many different versions of it).

Anything Paul Graham wrote about Lisp (e.g. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html)

__Hacking__

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

__Smalltalk (programming language)__

Alan Kay Smalltalk is not about objects, it's about messaging: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21852444

Smalltalk is awesome and one of the historical predecessors of Objective-C.

__Xerox Parc__

Unfortunately, I don't know of any seminal paper or media piece. I just know they were hugely influential. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)

Alan Kay worked there.
IMO the hard part isn't learning COBOL -- that's just another programming language. It's learning the whole operating environment that comes with it -- mainframes. Stuff like JCL, EBCDIC, PDS. I did this for a year or so back in 1999. It felt very ancient back then. If you invest your time in gaining expertise with these technologies, you are not doing your career any favors.
The author does not mention solidjs (https://github.com/ryansolid/solid) in his apology for yet another js component library blog post. From a cursory glance, solidjs & crank.js seem similar in motivation & api...
> There aren't many/any instances of single corporations causing >10M deaths, or oppressing millions of people.

Sure. But that doesn't mean they dont have a say / influence in it. Take any social network for example, with a small change in their respective feed / discovery algorithm , it could clearly influence it.

> the maximum possible damage by corporate evil is much, much, much, much less than the maximum possible damage by government evil

In my opinion, it definitely is NOT that less. Sure governments can cause wars and all that but the corporations right now have a lot more control over the mind / general public view of things than the government.
Great feedback thank you.

You may have tried an early beta version. The product now does a free private info scan up-front and displays all records found.

The premium version systematically opts-out of every record found, and continues monitoring the data broker sites for your information.

The system actually verifies the removals too, and will display the status of each record in the UI.
The absense of evidence is not evidence of absense. The article didn't provide any actual evidence of anything, just speculation. Surely studies have been done by to test for antibodies vs immunity by now.
I would like to recommend "Go To - Software Superheroes" By Steve Lohr. It has great span from Fortran to (from memory) Word. Really enjoyed it and learnt a few things

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1861972431
Relatedly I’m interested in the history of computing and information sciences in preindustrial times, ie how they scaled out record keeping in the Byzantine empire or Islamic golden age.
NASA to launch first crewed mission from US in decade
I personally think Apple is one company that's able to keep Google in check in ways that no other company or government can do. Safari is a whip that Apple seems to use to good effect. Content blockers in Safari as a native implementation (though one could argue on the demerits of how it's implemented), advanced tracking protection, dragging its feet on PWA support, support for Google created/promoted formats, etc. These could be argued as immoral behavior, but there are some benefits to everyone in not having Google control everything.
Yes, but now you have to write gobs of internationalization code. ;)

Actually, that sounds completely sane.
“Smoking was the second leading risk factor for early death and disability worldwide in 2015. It has claimed more than 5 million lives every year since 1990.” [1]

“6 Mega Corporations Control Almost the Entire Global Cigarette Industry” [2]

25 years × 5M people / 6 corporations = 20.83M deaths per corporation (leaving out pre-1990 / post-2015 deaths).

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5439023/

[2] https://www.mic.com/articles/81365/6-mega-corporations-contr...
Modern people suffer “pain and disfigurement” in other ways to display their status, high or low. Piercings, tattoos, branding, smoking, drinking, tight shoes, tanning, etc. We still do terrible things to our bodies for style. That never stopped.
The future of product roadmaps: Valuemaps
That would give everyone an alibi and make them care even less about privacy.
I believe that’s what the vocoder was created for.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocoder
It's not even leaks, it's included in the Official Coronavirus Treatment Plan:

"(4) Salvage therapy: for patients with severe ARDS, a recruitment maneuver is recommended.

When human resources allow, prone ventilation should be carried out for 12 hours or more every day. "

https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/coronavirus-treatment-plan...

There's simply a shocking degree of arrogance from the West to refuse to learn even the most basic things from Asia about this.

For example, people are finally grudgingly admitting that CT scans could play a useful role in diagnostics after months of CDC & ACR denialism: https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/16/ct-scans-alternative-to-...

edit: More details in Jack Ma Foundation produced Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment

(3) Prone Position Ventilation
Most critically ill patients with COVID-19 respond well to prone ventilation, with a rapid improvement of oxygenation and lung mechanics. Prone ventilation is recommended as a routine strategy for patients with PaO/FiO2 < 150 mmHg or with obvious imaging manifestations without contraindications. Time course recommended for prone ventilation is more than 16 hours each time. The prone ventilation can be ceased once PaO/FiO2 is greater than 150 mm Hg for more than 4 hours in the supine position.

Prone ventilation while awake may be attempted for patients who have not been intubated or have no obvious respiratory distress but with impaired oxygenation or have consolidation in gravity-dependent lung zones on lung images. Procedures for at least 4 hours each time is recommended. Prone position can be considered several times per day depending on the effects and tolerance.

https://www.alibabacloud.com/universal-service/pdf_reader?cd...
If non cheaters do not play with cheaters, mission accomplished.
Yeah, I see it as very similar to what we see with programming languages. Technically these tools offer infinite flexibility and let you do anything, but what you'll see more often is what the tools makes easy, what they encourage.
> This is amazing in that one would endure pain and disfigurement to advertise social standing, but I guess I speak from a time where there are other ways to display class standing.

Yes, in our times people use tattoos, piercings, etc. Doesn't seem that different.
A lot of what you said speaks to me. I tried moving to a small city surrounded by nature, but the intense isolation I felt even surrounded by anyone there just scuttled me into a deeper depression and I swam back to NYC after 2 years. I dearly miss my nightly bike rides to quietly watch the moon play with the flickering water of the lake.

But being here doesn't help me too much because awhile ago I worked my way into independent/isolated situation where I can support my self working part time from home. I get to see glimpses of other big inner worlds here and it gives me hope I'll have a chance to meet them.

My parents did not want or love me. My grades fluctuated in high school as I was unfocused/depressed. Creativity was my escape. Ended up graduating with a B-, decided not to go to college. Have done a fair amount of traveling (mostly local) and car camping around the US. I would move into the mountains in a heartbeat if I wouldn't be completely alone there.

>"I remain convinced that the majority of people are idiots, with the equivalent of a flickering strip lamp for a mind"
This gave me a good laugh, so true. But it really depends where you live. It seems like all the bright lights move to a city to manufacture mirrors :D
"best practices for a hobby project" seems an oxymoron. Particularly in terms of security where everything is a tradeoff between air-gapping and honeypots. Or to put it another way, what are the goals and what do you want to avoid?
Note that it's not only Apple who's been slow to adopt WebP. Mozilla was pretty skeptical for many years and only implemented this ~a year ago (instead they did a lot of improvements to JPEG encoders in the meantime).

At this point I'd be more interesting in Safari supporting AVIF, though for compat reasons WebP would be nice to have as well.

I'm not defending Apple, but I think the issue is that if Apple implements a new file format, it has to work reliably across whole Apple ecosystem (OS, image editing programs), not only in the browser. This is probably a huge undertaking. You don't want to download a picture and then your image viewer not being able to open it.
But the heiroglyphs are corporate logos crossed with app icons (that change every so often to stay "fresh")
Which is basically a fixed cost, like putting up a cork board. So as I said, not particularly relevant.

But as you're helping shoehorn property rights into support for authoritarianism, I will point you to some legal advice directly:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/shop-talk-rules-unio...

As long as Amazon prohibits using their calendars for all non-work content (and enforces this), they're in the right. Otherwise, this is censorship targeted at employee organizing and they're in the wrong.
Every aspect of the social safety net in the developed world?

Political power shifts happen all the time in democratic republics as the populace gets fed up with the party/parties in power.
Furthermore, ironically, terrorism may actually be existential threat to democracies precisely because it leads them to adopt human right violating measures under cover of national security.
If we're talking about surveillance then that's true for just about every country in the world.
You just did it again.