skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won't say it's not about time, but the decision to block the execution of flash content after said date and the removal of the downloads, complicates matters for system administrators.

We have a legacy blade enclosure at the office that needs an old version of flash for configuration, and also our vSphere web interface is flash based.
Apple now selling DIY SSD upgrade kits for the Mac Pro
This is why you never let
- Feminism
- Diveristy
- Quotas
- LGBT
- "trans"

- Maxists
- Zionists
- Femininists
- Commies
- SJW/Socialists

Into any company/tech group/opensource project

They turn all your tech/opensource/linux group
into Global left activism, EVERY SINGLE FARKING TIME
A Conspiracy Made in America May Have Been Spread by Russia
The Fairness Trap
Please point out the basis in legislated law for qualified immunity.
I have similar recollection of ME, on my personal 333MHz Celeron with 128mb of RAM laptop it ran fantastically, never had issues and was stable and while 2000/XP were also stable, ME was fast compared to 2000/XP on the same hardware.

Other people I know couldn't get past a VxD error on the first install, others couldn't get faster K6 or PIII's to be stable with it.

It was a love it or hate it thing--my opinion of Vista and 8.0 are similar.
I must admit I’ve never tried to set it to Canadian French. I’m not surprised that the standards might be higher. Also, there’s a box to tick somewhere to set it to a sane behaviour. It’s just the default, which needs to be changed every time, which nobody bothers to do.

There isn’t any debate really, in the sense that virtually nobody remotely interested in typesetting advocates for unaccented caps. All the french books on typography and spelling emphasise that accents change the meaning of words and that they should be kept, provided that you have a device that supports them. It’s just an urban legend amplified by stupid defaults in commonly-used applications.

Right, I’m going to stop ranting now :)
You might enjoy CGP Grey's "What is federal land?" [0]. Making resources available to American industry is one of the government's purposes in owning it. There are certainly disagreements over how well that's balanced against other goals, or against the long term future. But it's not like it's inherently corrupt that federal land is fed into the economy. That's what it's for.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LruaD7XhQ50
Which part of the paper? I don't know why they would quote power per unit area for a beam that is clearly depositing it proportional to volume. What is the assumed depth?
I had one of these, I found my writeup again today. It had an embedded copy of OpenOffice to read .doc files. https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/599841.html Also, the specification implicitly required the implementation of strong artificial intelligence.
> but trust that people aren't lying when they say it does to them.

Please know that I ask this with all sincerity: does it matter to them? I'm a racial minority, but not black, and I would find it surprising if this was a top of mind issue for black employees in tech. I mean, you'll always find someone who feels some way about some topic, and I'm sure that this terminology would not have been a black person's first choice but is this something that black people in tech, in general, feel needs to be fixed? If so, count me in. I mean it, I'll help. But if not, I'm not sure why taking on a non-trivial amount of work to move the needle a trivial amount is something we should pursue. People only have so much bandwidth, so why not spend it in pursuing causes that will have a large impact?

Racial minorities have good reason to feel like they're often treated as second-class citizens in this country. Having police offers, over and over again, maim or kill people of color with no repercussions, for example, is the type of b.s. that keeps the wounds of slavery alive and raw today. The name of a branch in source code? I'm not denying that it bothers some people, but I'm willing to bet if you fixed the real problems that plague minorities, this type of stuff would not even be an issue.
It's kinda depressing to see the downvote, again, because people don't know history

Slavery does not imply racism, it hasn't been the case for a very long time throughout history, slaves were a social class, a synonym for what we call "working class" or they were people from conquered lands, that were enslaved as a display of suoremacy, not because of their ethnicity.

They usually were of the same ethnicity.

Rome had emperors who were born in Africa (Settimio Severo for example)

Have the slaves suffered abuses?

Yes, of course, just like working class, and farmers and other poor classes before them, have been exploited.

French Revolution is all about that.

They were all French against other French.

Only in modern history slavery has been justified by racism (the theory that some "races" were superior to others) but it's not modern slavery that created racism, it's the opposite.
I think the idea is that despite the time difference, some black americans in industry find it distasteful because identity is a tricky thing which persists. Though this HN thread is really missing that perspective...

Anyways, there are plenty of southerners who care a great deal about confederate icons despite being just as far apart in time, why do they care about statues and flags of people who they have never met, who they have never talked to? There's still some sense of being wronged (I once listened to someone from Georgea talk about Sherman's March with a great degree of pain).
> That said this seems like fraud. Using assumed names isn’t removing an efficiency in the market it’s being duplicitous.

I agree this seems like fraud, but why can't it both remove an inefficiency and be duplicitous? From the standpoint of the insurance company's financials this isn't any different from coordinating with 20+ individuals to execute the same scheme. If the latter removes an inefficiency it should follow that this woman did the same.
Also curious about this, I use mostly Openbox and GTK based apps and don’t have an issue
Nonconsensual Porn Rampant on Pornhub
My first thought is this might decrease the resale value of the prior version! Does anything hold value like these things? Incredible.
You can disable Wayland in Fedora. Edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf.
I would agree with you on rules point... at least relatively recently so once instead of triggers for views were on the scene... but I see some fairly robust use of the object-relational features and don't see much downplaying of them. Mind you, that doesn't mean they're necessarily commonplace (or necessarily should be)...

My guess is the audience here on HN is less likely to run into these features in their day-to-day lives. By my observations, the HN audience tends to be generalist developer types that will readily just hand off database specialization to the most popular ORM layer for their first class development environment. And I would agree they'll not encounter these things... and if they do, they'll largely be annoyances.

I work in "enterprise" type software and I see and do a lot of specifically database development (for PostgreSQL usually these days). If we consider PostgreSQL's type system as part of the object-relational feature set, I find I make use of that fairly frequently, for example compound types... also understanding that object-relational shouldn't be confused with "object-oriented". In my own work it's primarily the more advanced typing that shows up in both procedural code I write as well as queries in certain cases. Less so, though not completely absent is the inheritance feature; there are uses for it for sure, but a rather narrow set of cases (I mean outside of partitioning, which is the most common use case).

Anyway... I'm not so sure it's really a matter of downplayed as much as it is less generally understood as PostgreSQL has become more popular.
Interestingly, 'bloated' was exactly the word used most often to describe XP on forums back then.
You're repeating the same tired pro-nuclear fallacies. Nuclear power plants in the US were losing the fight against rising costs even before TMI.
I don't know, checked more - 1999 Macromedia introduces Flash Player for Linux [1], I see traces of v5, v6, v7 [2], [3]. Never heard about them, in my circle there was consensus "flash does not work on Linux". Strange

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070520080719/http://www.allbus...

[2] http://dsc.soic.indiana.edu/publications/flashjan01.html

[3] http://www.penguintutor.com/blog/viewpost.php?id=wp140
Because the FCC doesn't care, but Elon Musk has billions on the line dependent on getting below 100 latency.

Musk has a reason to misrepresent the facts... And a history of doing so.
The design grammar is different. But I find it easier, because you don’t have to deal with the 4-4-5 assymetrc geometry.

That said, finding the connector that re-orients holes the way you need can ne a challenge. I have a collection of all the technic connectors and spend a fair amount of time trying multiple prototypes.

So I guess overall it is much easier to get a robust structure, but it can take some time to get there.
QuickCheck (A Lightweight Tool for Random Testing of Haskell Programs) (2000) [pdf]
I was referring to newer ATA drives. Nevertheless, in your example no orders (or ownership!) are implied.
What about brain/arm?
There's nothing legally stopping someone from using whichever restroom they want in most states.
Yes, but that was botched from the start. Latin alphabets include various "font variants" in unicode, you can write C, ℂ, ℭ, 𝒞, ⠉, 𝐂, Ⅽ, 𝙲 and maybe a few more…

I guess the accusations of Unicode being somewhat centered on western languages do have a point.
I was a Flash developer at the time and this is exactly what happened. Flash development went from being highly in demand and the highest paying to basically dead with this announcement.
I felt that if the rug could be pulled out that quickly, I'd just focus on design and that's where I've been ever since.
Hardly. It's more uncommon by the day, but there are living first generation descendants of American slaves (https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=965819...).

So yeah, there's still a number of Americans who have talked to a former slave.
This will lead to hyperinflation in assets and depreciation of the dollar. If we were any other country, we would have hyperinflation but we won't because the US dollar is the reserve currency. True hyperinflation will only happen if other countries refuse to accept US dollar or send all printed dollars back to Homeland.

Does that mean we have a free pass? No. This printing may cause

1. French revolution style riots (only 300 years ago)

2. Weimar republic style hyperinflation in assets (only 100 years ago)

3. Massive depreciation of US currency so now in the league of rich countries, US falls further behind

4. Other countries (China, EU, Russia) feel shafted and refuse to trade in depreciated dollars
Sorry this isn't a direct reply to your story, but I'm interested if anyone knows, does overbooking happen regularly in Europe? Becuase I'm in the UK and I've literally never heard of anyone getting bumped from a flight. I'm sure it happens occasionally, but is there just a massive divide between the US and EU here? Is there a systemic issue with regulation, is it just consumer attitude, or is the EU actually the same as the US?
I have a Tmobile MVNO and I can call Verizon users but not vice versa. I can also not call any Tmobile number. My wife has Verizon and can't call me but can call others except for Tmobile #s.
The version number leaves a weird impression.
> Don't just build Something™, build an industry leading product that customers want and love!

One of the biggest challenges is that someone eventually has to say "no" for that to happen. It is easier to just say yes to whatever is wanted than fight with someone about doing it.
> Imagine a 10,000 acre parcel where every other acre is owned by a non-profit (if it works that way)

This starts to get complicated and varies state to state. You don't have to (and often won't) control 100% of the minerals under a well you want to drill. Sometimes you will have partner companies (hostile or friendly), mineral rights owners who refuse to lease, or mineral rights whose ownership is undetermined. So just because a non-profit had a chunk of minerals tied up, a company could petition to the State's board of oil and gas to have the non-participant "forced-pooled" and the well could be drilled. This process involves hearings, oil and gas attorneys, and your typical bureaucratic processes. That said, if the non-profit owned a large enough interest it could very well force the economics of the potential well into unprofitable zones, despite the fact the oil and gas company could force a well.
I absolutely love a lot of the Basecamp philosophy, I just don’t get the remote work thing. But they’re right about almost everything (or, I agree with them which to a human is the same thing), so they must be right about this too. So what am I missing?

Remote work is lonely, isolating. You don’t have the same connection to a team. We don’t “go remote” with our friends and family as a policy (why bother reopening the pubs?) so what is it about colleagues that makes you think you don’t need to interact face to face with them? Humans are monkeys in suits and this biochemical robot needs proper input please.

Ideation of any kind is garbage over Zoom. Ideation needs whiteboards and tea and hand gestures and walks outside and background noise and serendipity. I need that look you make that says “stupid” so we don’t waste any many time on this. I need to hear you sigh with exasperation.

When things go wrong I don’t want to ask a slack channel wall of text for help, I want my team to pull together and buzz through it, supporting each other with their physical presence. I don’t want fucking emoticons I want real emotions.
I mean, the thing is.. they can all get to downdetector.. so :)
"literally their job"

The first thing I thought of was the recent case where Apple's executive in charge of insider trading rule compliance was indicted for insider trading.
Typeset in the future is a treasure. I cannot see eurostile anymore without thinking of it.
The cynic in me: "system upgrades" related to Barr's memo a few weeks back designating Antifa a domestic terror group.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-ba...
The cost is unannounced, but it will surely be astronomical. The penny farthing design feature is going to really appeal to the urban hipsters that will be able to afford it.

I would bet the price approaches the cost of a nice used pull behind camper.
I read that document and it seems to me like everything in there applies to Dat also, which isn't really content-addressed. But if IPNS is fast now it seems like it could be a good replacement.
> There's nothing unreasonable about someone investing their own money on whatever odds they want, provided the upside is proportional to the risk and if the investment goes badly it's not financially ruinous

Why stop there? Why not let Ponzi schemes operate unimpeded? After all, if you pull your money out of the scheme early enough, you could profit handsomely. Why not let people take that risk?

>> when it's perfectly feasible to prohibit only high risk investments (i.e., those risks that would be financially ruinous i.e. put the investor on social support)?

> It's marginally simpler but enormously restrictive.

All right: please submit a notarized accounting of your income and assets, so that the bureaucracy can evaluate it and decide if it's acceptable for you make this investment. We'll get back to you in 6-8 weeks with the decision.
It's not TMobile. Messenger had issues too, even when accessed through the website.
That's good to know! SQL Server has really never been on my radar but I think it's a good time to do some exploration.
> most

Sounds really perilous. If even one is missed isn’t its risk of usage now astronomically higher?
Customers can be a nightmare simply because they don't want to be closely involved and on their end, they usually are not engineers so the requirements can easily not make sense.

I don't blame people for avoiding such tasks, especially in a Fortune 100. The bigger the company, the more diffuse responsibility and the harder it is to steer the ship anyway.
Well, as far as digital transformation— you sre seeing the result of twenty years of experiments and false starts, with the occasional winner. I think The Lego Group recognizes the importance, and is likely frustrated by how little traction they have gotten for the effort expended. That said, they keep trying.
Mandatory mention: RavenDB. Probably the only LINQ native database with lots of performance optimizations squeezed in.
I recently started playing mindstorm ev3 with my 5 year old. Although I have to help her a lot, she seems to be loving it.

I didn't expose my kid to lego technics for the sake and benefit of STEM/robotics, but simply that I was so sick of playing with toddler toys day in and day out that I decided to buy something I would enjoy. I guess preempting fortnight is another benefit of starting early.
I know company that have a sawmill device running on Windows98SE.

Also not connected to internet and working standalone.
Multiple former eBay employees charged with cyberstalking and witness tampering
You talk as if "web apps" and "Apps" in general (in a phone) were a thing back then.

They were not. Apple was selling a browser in a phone which was a new concept for normal customers.

Blackberries were a thing back then and the iPhone killed them because of this.
Yes, but I don't think it's something that would easily be automated, so every game would have to have its protection reverse engineered by hand.
I have a friend that's spent time in both state and private facilities and he's said--hands down--he'd rather be at a private facility than a state-run one.

According to him, the quality of the food, cleanliness, staff is WAY higher at a private facility than the state run one.
Flash was a resource hog in any platform. And worse: It made resource intensive something that should have been very efficient from the start.

How is that I could play videos smoothly in Windows 95 but ten years later the same video at a lower resolution made a newer computer crawl? The answer is Flash.

I don't care if other people wanted Flash games. I hated Flash video and celebrated every little bit of its demise.
> Your common people back then were far more computer-literate than most of career programmers today.

I absolutely don't buy this.

My father, a high school English teacher, could barely run a spreadsheet that I set up for his grades--something that basically everyone can do today without blinking.

And even he could use Hypercard.

It's the tools, not the people.
That would require mucking around with another external tool. Google's calendar works quite well.

It's one of those things where everything just works with the least amount of set up on my end.
Probably you have to climb on top of the roof and spread the compost manually.
Windows 2000 came out before Windows ME.
That is sorta the reverse of what the QLC drives are doing, in that they treat the cells as a lower density cell which is faster/etc until the drive gets to the point where it needs to use QLC to get the stated capacity. That works though because individual page writes are at least a couple orders of magnitude faster on a QLC than the SMR region on a disk.

Shrinking the disk is _MUCH_ harder, there are various enterprise storage arrays which are basically thin provisioned dedupe/etc arrays, and they overwhelmingly just lie about the capacity and throw up big warnings if the physical capacity is being approached. Then depending on which filesystem your running in linux, if they abort writes, there is a good chance the filesystem is damaged (some handle it better than others, and its getting better).
I'm not using de-duplication, so that might affect if you only have 4GB RAM. Right now the box has 2GB free, and I'm always running a few extra things in it. Overall, for my use case it works just fine. The SATA card is plenty fast as well. I had a similar setup with an rpi3 and a USB<>SATA to host 2x1TB disks and doing a scrub in that pool took over 4 hours. The scrub in my current pool (4x4TB) took 22 min.
Could be something with 4g. My 3g flip phone is working fine (AT&T subscription plan - not prepaid). I can even receive calls from people on T-mobile who aren't able to call each other or other people (although they don't receive my incoming calls).

Another bonus for avoiding the spy phone.
I was about to ask if there was a RSS version of your newsletter, and it appears there is: https://cprss.s3.amazonaws.com/dbweekly.com.xml

Looks awesome, added to my feeds!
It sounds like the parent knows how to troubleshoot accurately :).
You've listed an impressive set of adversities associated with being Asian American, some of which I can also relate to as an Asian American, but then the motivation behind your posts becomes clear with:

> Look, the primary issue of racism that Asian Americans have to deal with is not the same as the racism that African Americans have to deal with

and then making the following wholly unsubstantiated statement:

> which is that to get what we want we have to work twice as hard

How do you know how hard an African American has to work to get the the same place as you? How do you know how hard it is to work against the type of racism that is so much greater than that faced by Asian Americans, that it is in your own words "not in the same league".

I'm not saying you've had it easy by any stretch, but your attempt to blur the lines between the experiences of Asian and African Americans in an attempt to cast aspersion on efforts to provide protection under the law for African Americans' human rights - which is what Black Lives Matter is advocating - seems to show that you value "freedom from legislation" more than you value their human rights.
Then how would she ever find her phone? ;)
Which Amazon has thanked almost everyone and their grocery stores for jumping on their bandwagon and spending nearly all their VC money on these services.

Those without any significant revenues will have a hard-time paying up that huge AWS bill if they dared to use K8s or auto-scaling features. I would not want to look at the balance sheet of a companies accounts or quarterly earnings if they cannot generate lots of revenue to pay that AWS bill.
Recent means within 2 lifetimes (in other words, possibly within the lifetime of someone's great grandparents), and only one if you count the systems of indentured servitude that existed throughout the United States in the aftermath of the civil war[1] -- not to mention the modern institution prison labor which is the legacy of these very systems. Black people weren't "free" in the sense of "empowered to thrive" -- they were "free" in the sense that "slavery on paper is illegal (except where states and local laws allow it under a different name), but you are still legally second class citizens, will possibly very quickly find yourself subject to extreme violence, imprisonment, death, or all of the above if any white stranger doesn't like the way you're looking at them, and you'll have access to subpar everything -- from medical care, to education, to service at a restaurant"

And it is recent relative to the scale of the trauma it wrought -- we're talking an entire population of people subject to extreme brutality and repression.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_unfree_labor_in_the...
Further, the author wants us to be outraged of "how entirely simple and legal this is".

However, why should the Federal government get this land at all? We used to have allodial title many years ago...but then it became common-law precedent that we effectively "rent" our land from the government and pay perpetual property taxes for that right.

The lack of allodial title is what ultimately creates an inescapable "head tax" on every citizen.