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Wasn't that the HTML5 which predicated the Flash video demise? Not sure if it affected Silverlight to the same extent.

Yet, the other day I saw another Flash update pop up on Win 10 laptop in Edge. I don't even know why it's still needed.... What a strange ritual (now it's pushidng McAfee along).

Edit: FYI, quoting from the Wired, 2017:

Adobe itself acknowledged the transition [from Flash over to HTML5], though a bit less bluntly:

“As open standards like HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly have matured over the past several years, most now provide many of the capabilities and functionalities that plugins pioneered and have become a viable alternative for content on the web.”

https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-finally-kills-flash-dead/
thanks to the ingenuity of a few social-justice-obsessed-negative columnists, we might be poised to destroy internet sooner rather than later
You're overthinking it. Dawkins was just saying that it is theoretically possible to breed humans for any given trait, just like we do with other animals.
> Well, take a look at the following examples of convictions made for ‘fraudulent use of absentee ballots’ (and other forms of voter fraud)

163 cases of "fraudulent use of absentee ballots" over 1988-2017. Probably a lot more useful to worry about the scantron machine accuracy.
God I miss the WPF/Silverlight/Windows Phone era. It was peak developer UX and brought fresh ideas to the table.

Now mobile is all drab flatness. Zero personality. If you have the creative choices for your apps, please make them have some balls again! Go for it!
While Silverlight did a lot as a media platform the primary selling point from Microsoft was video. It played video very well in the browser. Silverlight is what powered Netflix a few years back, for example.
Expressing sentiment on behalf of collectives isn't a new idea from a PR writer, it's an ancient figure of communication.
Yes, the engine of selection is just survival and reproduction. This, combined with random mutations is pretty much all you need for evolution to happen. In an artificial environment, survival and reproduction can be affected by humans, but selection happens in natural environments too. In the applet, the user plays the role of the environment, since that makes things interesting for you as the user.

But one can imagine a (perhaps more boring) applet where the computer makes the choice for you. Maybe the computer always selects the biggest critter to reproduce. Then, even though there is no intelligent overseer, the critters will tend to get larger and larger. Or one can imagine a more complicated selection process involving a physics simulation where a bunch of copies of the critter are dropped on top of one another in a pile. The tallest pile is selected to reproduce. Over time, one would tend to see critters that were good at stacking on top of one another, maybe they would be rectangular like bricks, or maybe they would have lots of spines so they could stick together like burrs. Or maybe evolution would hit upon something else. But there is no need for the selection process to be intelligent.

Of course, in those examples, you might say that whoever wrote the objective, like "grow big", or "stack in tall piles" is still directing the process from behind the computer program. That's why in the natural world, we don't have objectives like that. Instead, the only "objective" in the natural world is "survive and reproduce", since that is tautologically what determines reproductive success. There is a freely available software application called "biogenesis" that shows evolution using that objective function in a world with greatly simplified physics, if you are curious.

There are certainly plenty of examples of evolution being driven by the natural environment, even if the books tend to focus on things like evolutionary arms races, symbiosis, and sexual selection. Here is one: An organism that can convert a molecule of glucose to more molecules of ATP than its neighbours can will be able to use its food more efficiently than them. This will give it an edge in survival and reproduction, since it needs less food to do the same amount of stuff. So the genes that enable this more efficient metabolism will tend to spread throughout the population, because the organisms that bear them will be less likely to die of starvation.
> False equivalence. The engineer will be doing more than just cloud work.

> This comparison is the #1 flawed sales tactic the cloud companies use to convince you youre saving money

Time is of a limited quantity and time spent managing postgres backups (for example) is time not spent doing other (possibly more meaningful/impactful _to the business_) work.
FYI: Google has App Passwords. It generates a password for an app so you never have to give out your real password: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU

He also has refused to release any of his projects under GPLv3 (or even “v2 or later”).
It's more like someone on base on your team stealing the catcher's signals to the pitcher and telling your batter what pitch is coming so they can hit a home run by cheating.

Here is a quote from one of the articles I linked:
>Nortel was once one of the dominant telecom providers globally, but in early 2004, Huawei was caught stealing trade secrets from Nortel. This was proven by Nortel security expert Brian Shields. However, Nortel management had a hand in their own eventual downfall when it outsourced manufacturing to Huawei in the ’90s.

>In the hack, Huawei gained credentials of Nortel executives, including CEO Frank Dunn and Brian McFadden. It then simply stole documents that contained the future product and marketing plans of Nortel.

>The hack went even further than usernames and passwords. It has never been proven, but U.S. sources discovered that it was most likely Huawei that used sophisticated malware to record nearly every phone call that Frank Dunn made. After all of this, Huawei grew and Nortel faded, eventually going bankrupt.

All of the history of some mismanagement or funny accounting means nothing to me. Nortel had a large portfolio of IP that was stolen by China and ended up in the hands of Huawei and then the details of all of the deals they were trying to make to sell equipment were also stolen and used to out manoeuvre them, driving losses and unprofitability.
The Non-Bailout: How the Fed Saved Boeing Without Paying a Dime
Trump could set up an alternative to twitter tomorrow using his billion dollar fortune as seed capital. The technology is already out there - GNUSocial, Gab, and Mastodon.

Look at theDonald.win as an example. Reddit banned their forum, so they created a new website where they can post.

Trump has the audience of millions to create a right-wing only website where his followers can chat together if they wish, or he could encourage his followers to join Gab.
It’s quite possible that “fixing the voter registration rolls” actually is worse at “making voting harder for people on the rolls” then simply letting people who want an absentee ballot to request one as they have always had to do.

Voting is a responsibility and a civic duty. It need not be effortless, and in fact it should not be effortless. It should be economical, practical, predictable, safe, and secure.

Registering to vote is one step in the process. It’s something anyone who wants to vote can and should know about. Typically cities/towns will send out a census every year which if you do not complete will result in you being removed from the voter rolls, but I’m sure it varies by state.

Once you’ve registered I think most people would expect they can lookup their designated polling time and place and arrive then to place their vote. You would not want someone who has registered and expects to be registered to be unexpectedly removed from the rolls, for example, and only discover this at the last minute.

This also doesn’t address the auditability concern. I would be extremely wary of any system which can associate a serial number on a ballot with who it was mailed to. Such a system is totally unacceptable in my opinion.

By comparison, I have absolutely no issue keeping a list of who requests a mail in ballot, just like I have no issue with keeping a list of who votes in person. Obviously people who receive a mail-in ballot cannot also vote in person, right?

So I don’t particularly like the idea of banning in person voting either. I’m sure many people will find voting by mail convenient, but I’m sure there are also people who find that physically voting in person is both an important ritual and more reassuring that their vote actually is being counted, but also could be more convenient for them.
Boeing's decay previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353342
This article matched with my regex
I think one challenge is that pre-print servers are meant for scientists, not the public. Take physics. If I read a paper on the arxiv in my niche, I can evaluate it's quality. I often referee papers. For me, it's useful to get the early result and if there are gaps, then it's on me to catch them. For those working on Covid19, they are experts, writing for experts. Someone may put out a paper about aerosols in enclosed spaces and how they linger. Someone else might write about how this doesn't verify if the virus RNA detected indicates a live virus. This is how science works and you are seeing it at an accelerated pace. It's actually rather beautiful. But, if you are say a journalist and don't understand this, you can see an article and write a story about it, without understanding that it is preliminary. In short (too late for that), the problem is not that articles on pre-print servers disagree ad we learn more (that's also science)--it is failure of reporting to inform people that these are preliminary results and could be wrong.
So why do rich people work, then?
Lol i thought it was a 4chan joke:
Company [1] is not bad because every company do so.not just micro$oft
1 source: I work in the company
It's like a heat pump, but for moneys. It's a MONEY pump!
Yes, I still love and use IRC, and I just recently installed mIRC and then ircN, and aside from nostalgic value, it's still great for conversation. irssi is my go-to client in general.
You seem to be correct. Still the note about training a deep learning model using the framework, then publishing it without applies.
2020 is stranger.
I love this and I agree completely with the added caveat that “freedom” be replaced with “comfort”.
I can say I’m a bit upset on your behalf. Actually acquiring the code would have cost Microsoft very little money, would have ended up with a better product and also would have brought along the current user space in a very graceful manner.
People should be allowed to control their own websites.
Those are the ones that just got caught. (And first page says it is a sampling not a comprehensive list...) It shouldn’t happen at all. And it will get worse with less stringent forms of mail-in voting, wouldn’t you agree?
It gave the front end developer access to the native win32 API througb COM. That means you could effectively write a native app and deliver it over the web. Powerful but also malware-prone.
Any news wrt WSL?
I'm actually having a hard time imagining something like Sonarr making much of a negative pr splash.

It doesn't download pirated shows, nor does it play them. It just organizes and renames and creates lists of missing episodes for files that may or may not be pirated content.
The CDC latest best estimate is 0.4% death rate from Covid. This compares to a death rate from the flu of around 0.2%, also based on CDC estimates [1].

Every death is a tragedy, but we didn't do half-lockdowns for the flu before. Why are we doing a full lockdown for something that is 2x the flu.

Antibody testing largely supports a 0.4% death rates conclusion, I've tracked this data in a spreadsheet I made [2]. 0.4% is close to the mean and median of the studies I recorded.

Edit: I know it's gauche to complain about downvotes, but this post is just citing data to make a point. Even if you are worried about Covid, it seems dishonest to downvote data.

[1] https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/data-cd...

[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16onEUBWIV5IqN1RCvTla...
Bad time to be holding twitter stock I suppose. Do they even care about the principles a normal company works by?
Ask HN: Why do sites do tracking on the client side?
It is a common pattern to send user behavior data from the client (web/app) to the 3rd party trackers. This attempt can be blocked by the client, e.g. by browser extension or DNS filtering (like pihole or nextdns).

Why don't the websites track users from the server instead? Because it's "eaasier" for the site owner to just drop-in the google analytic/whatever 3rd tracker script in the head, then setting up the server to proxy the submission?

I may understand why the sites don't do analytics on their own (because it's easier to just hand to the 3rd party provider, and the site owner may not be programmer at all). However I don't see why they prefer to do the tracking from the client side.
Twitter and other media platforms will be terribly upset if it becomes illegal regulate content published on their site.

I await with popcorn. It is going to be hilarious if tweets from 4chan become constitutionally protected.
It turns out it is possible to ignore old guard news out of existence.
I happen to have taken an ethics course but it wasn't at all part of my CS/AI education. It was just a humanities course in my undergrad that fulfilled some philosophy requirement. Did your CS program actually require ethics directly? If so that is rather interesting.
a wikipedia cite that shows them to be on a liberal ticket in canada? how does that corroborate that welfare programs are efficient enough that we don't need savings?

>I think I'll pass on using your blacklist, thanks.

lol okay?
A distinction should be drawn that Sonarr does not actually download from Usenet or BitTorrent. It merely interfaces with other programs and apis that can do so.
Microsoft likely wanted it's own runtime in the browser that wasn't Flash or a Java Applet.

The DirectX controls you could use in Internet Explorer were a thing for a while.

The most interesting thing for me about all of this remains that WebAssembly ultimately became one of, if not the first write once, deploy anywhere standard that the major browsers agreed on (after implementing their own versions of it in a reasonably similar way).
Awesome project! It would be fun to hook one of these up to a raspberry pi running Hercules. Nostalgia factor would be epic.
Originally Silverlight was purely a web play.

With Windows Phone 7 they used it as a UI layer for just about 1 year, but Windows Phone 8 stopped using silverlight in favor of WinRT(~2011/12).

Xbox never supported silverlight as a development platform in any of its iterations.

You may be confusing the WinRT/UAP/UWP fiasco with silverlight.
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A little anecdote. I actually had this exact situation happen to me when I was a kid.

I was walking in a crowded street just outside a shopping center and there where a bunch of $50 bills being blowed by the wind. No one was paying any attention to them so I picked one of them up. You can imagine my surprise when I realised that they were real.

All in all it ended up to be roughly $3000 and my mum took the money to the police station. No one claimed it and a few months later we got to keep it.
Twitter distributes a lot of dangerous information unchecked. For example, today, thousands of people were tweeting fake or improperly captioned photos related to the horrible events in Minnesota this week.

Just two examples: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/make-whites-great-again-ha...

and https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/police-minnesota-trump-ral...

There were others; blaming people and nations that had nothing to do with this brutal horrible act for aiding and abetting.

Twitter will do nothing about this very harmful behavior. I reported some of the most egregious fake information being tweeted or retweeted and nothing happens.
No, they're not. That's the point. The problem is that nobody cares outside of here. If it shows up on a prominent Windows news site/blog, then I would consider it a PR disaster. But that hasn't yet happened.
This seems like an argument for buying SDEs needed software. It doesn't seem like an argument against the idea that you can work somewhere where they refuse to buy things like this, and still have it be a good job.

If your job pays well, work is interesting, good commute, good benefits, good manager, good coworkers, important mission, or a net positive combination of these things, that seems way more important than whether or not they'll buy you arbitrary software.
The ABC notation reminds me of the SMX notation I used on the IBM PC BASICA back in the 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Macro_Language#SMX . I used to have a lot of fun encoding simple songs that way - and debugging my songs.

I haven't used it since then. I quick comparison now shows the two formats have different heritage. Still, the flashback was nice.
Melodramatic. Big tech has appointed itself as the gatekeepers of truth, and has regularly added new creative types of censorship. Look at his Twitter, where positive comments are reparented so professional noise makers can whine. Look at all of the content creators who have been deplatformed, demonitized, and algorithmically deprioritized in favor of allowed speech. Creative, right?

Now is an opportune time for Trump to make a big claim to get attention and frame reality to his advantage. Politics 101. Trump is actively being attacked by a well established and well funded machine. Reminding people of this as election time approaches mobilizes them.
They were dying before that. Open web standards were a big thing for anyone doing front-end dev then. iphone not supporting flash was just another nail in the coffin... turned out to be a big nail.
* https://special.fish/ This completely low-tech social network has taken off.

My god i haven’t been so drawn into a website in a long time. I actually forgot what that feeling was like.
I have created something similar. I have a content folder with articles and auto generate content on my site at each commit. I built it as a Docker container and I run it on Nomad. It’s interesting how much content (crm?) we can put together by scraping other apps we use (github, hacker news, reddit, etc)
You're correct that there is some basis for it in past precedent, which was corrected in Section 230. But given the law as it stands today, the idea is completely false (even if it's not completely made up).
I vouched for this comment because it’s a valid point and I’m not sure why it was killed.

I happen to disagree strongly, though: lots of engineers in my experience undervalue the work of systems administrators and underestimate the effort needed to operationalize any technology.

Running your own is absolutely fine if you are willing to keep your stack small and invest time learning the tools you pick. But there are still horror stories of people thinking snapshots are backups, turning the wrong knobs and turning off fsync on their databases, ...
It seems that you're relating moral judgments ("right" or "wrong") with the level of success a company achieves. A company's success is not a moral question. A company that correctly identifies a trend and scales is no more "right" than a company that correctly identifies a trend and does not scale. So someone being "too early" does not have much of anything to do with how right or wrong they are. Rather, you're talking about how being "too early" relates to the probability that you build a successful business. But what's challenging with that line of thinking is that how you evaluate the "success" of your business is relative to your goals and reference points. If I'm "early" and build a $2M company that I'm happy with, it doesn't mean I'm a failure even if I could have built a $100M business down the road. I'm happy with the $2M, or maybe I'm happy with trying to start a business that failed. It depends on the person. Finally, the success of a business is a combination of many variables, not just the timing of when you started it. There are plenty of examples of people who started businesses at the perfect time, but that simply didn't have the combination of factors required to build a successful business.
Most stores are permitted to be open, no healthy American is currently locked in their home, delivery services will bring anything you want to your doorstep, and only a few services are currently shut down.

Yet for some reason, nobody's buying from the stores that are open.
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Sort of? Most "examples" are just scattershot random functionality that the author deemed important, with little consideration for actual use. GNU Parallel is a notable exception, albeit a somewhat disorganized one.
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> they are again in the Unix distribution business with WSL.

For anyone who doesn't get this reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
The problem they couldn't solve is file system performance -- there's just too much of difference conceptually between files in Windows and files in Linux to make it perform reasonably well for the sorts of jobs people were using.

In the end, it just makes more sense to pull in the actual Linux kernel than to try and achieve the same performance semantics.
Unfortunately, the results Google feeds to Startpage are degraded and suffer from the same relevance issues DDG has.
You're not ready. Do it anyway
It’s not interference in the scenario you’ve described, because there’s no way to tell such a person would have voted against him. And you can’t ignore the main point, which is voter integrity, which I as a normal American agree with.
Agreed. The pain those plugins caused will never be forgotten, even if the current solution is not a plugin but WebASM. DIE JUST DIE.
I have found getting certified in a skill like diving or ropework is not the point. It's what skills do you bring to the thing you dove or climbed to fix? Do you know hydraulics, basic electrical work, troubleshooting, etc. Learn those first. An old dive buddy of mine used to say you can teach a monkey to dive, but what can he do when he gets there? I need skilled people.
Also there are many types of technical diving: commercial diving and deep sea diving, wreck and cave diving, underwater welding, salvage, show divers (fairly new - since the show 'O' in Las Vegas - divers that escort performers underwater for water shows), and many more.
This is... at best not favorable for a lot of static blogs.

For people who didn't understand what this is doing - it's using client-side JS to load the markdown files from GitHub, compiling it to HTML and displaying it on the browser.

Looks like the advantage of this is that it's a one-time setup - you don't need to build the files every time you commit, you can add your markdown files on GitHub and it automatically gets 'added' to your blog.

The downside of this is that this makes RSS feeds impossible, and non-JS users will suffer.
The article mentions designs where the muons can circulate 2000 times, so I think this publication is assuming some conceptual knowledge on the part of the reader.

Muons are generally produced by hitting a target with a beam of something else, so they will not be born at rest. The problem is that making a beam this way is somewhat "splattery" and the resulting components of velocity will not be 100% down the beam path. These perpendicular components need to be removed as much as possible, a task which is referred to as "cooling". Muon cooling is still in its infancy. My friend did his PhD on the project mentioned in this article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00212-3