skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The writing was on the wall already, but Apple definitely put the final nail in its coffin.

Just think about what might have happened though. Suppose the iPhone would have supported Flash, and supported it without performance or battery issues (a big if!). This would have allowed rich application development with a very mature toolchain for the pre-app store iPhone. How different things might have played out. That whole first wave of iPhone apps and games (air hockey, light saber, flash light, angry birds)? Flash!

Who knows what the impact might have been on the App Store and the demise of Flash.
So in that case you should see a plethora of successful profitable games on Android right?

The iPhone had the ability to add a page to the home screen on day 1. Web apps were Jobs “Sweet solution” for apps on the original iPhone.
Lot of folks get upset when men mention getting upset at something. Ex. "That hurt my feelings." "I don't like that you said that." "That made me happy." "Wow I feel great." Etc.

Men are commonly expected to be stoic and not express such things and just "go about their day". If they don't, it's viewed as dramatic and over-expressive. It's interpreted as immaturity, imo.
https://downdetector.com/ looks pretty wild right now.
That kills the whole purpose of automation. Automation is preferable because it is supposed to be cheaper while providing equal benefits as traditional production of goods and services.

My personal choice here would be a tax for practices that are provably automatable but not yet automated. The result is the same, we are funding a UBI but now businesses are also incentivized for innovation to escape from the tax. I'm probably missing hundreds of reasonable concerns with my simplistic view point though.
I’ve got flashbacks to the time when I started creating my first website at a young age in the 2000s. Flash was this unreachable height for me and I just started testing HTML and how the internet even works. Now I’m a full time software engineer and happy on how far the web has gone until today :)
> Point 1: well there isn't really an equivalent

The other day I was researching how to add simple procedural animations to some web-based interactive content for a museum.

This would have been a breeze with Flash. You just passed the .fla to the animator/illustrator and they would create the item in the library for you. Then you could simply animate that display object in your code and the artist would be able to modify it without breaking anything.

I came up with this solution using DragonBones[1] so that the artists could work on their own. And then I could render those animations with Pixi[3].

I agree an all-in-one solution would be much nicer but not sure there is a market for it.

[1] http://dragonbones.com/en/index.html

[2] https://pixijs.io/examples/#/plugin-dragonbones/eyetracking....
Entity Embedding with LSTM for Time Series
About a year ago Vitess merged in support for what we call VReplication. ( https://vitess.io/docs/reference/features/vreplication/ ) The initial demo was a custom Materialized view that did calculations and rollup's on data in realish time ( it uses the MySQL binlog ). Right now the limiting factor for us calling is true Materalized View's is that configuring them is done out of band using the Vitess Control plane, but soon we will be merging in the features to allow standard DDL to configure and manage them!
> hypothetically tomorrow will only host code for Democrats

I can imagine a more disturbing (possible) hypothetical: the activists are successful, and Github terminates it's ICE contract. Nobody else will host their code. ICE still has source code that needs to be hosted, so they hire more developers to maintain their own internal source-code repository. Those developers are subsequently blackballed from future employment opportunities due to their past association with ICE.
> productive uses.

You misspelled profitable.
In my opinion this type of tasks is the typical AI tasks that get most exposed to the general public. The AI/ML model is set to attempt a human task. The aspiration is to get as good as a human (or faster/better more precision etc). Classic statistical inference/ models usually don't perform very well in these scenarios(or do they?).

The typical AI methods train a model that utilises features that don't make much sense to humans (pixels/texture/word tokens etc). In contrast with traditional statistical modelling where each feature were given 'meaning' and their importance explored via investigating the observations (data) using properties of well studied mathematical models, the AI methods that often made the press don't put a lot of emphasis on these properties. The advancement is a push to utilise all available information/data to outstanding 'performance'. The explanation of the inner features within that math space is usually secondary (though I don't mean that authors of novel methods don't care about mathematical modelling).

I might be too naive here but that's how I feel after trying out many methodologies in my field.
Of course. I have seen this argument before. When we say "relatively straightforward" what is this relative to? SNI did not make possible what was previously impossible. It made something that was always possible much easier and more reliable by creating a new method -- sniffing ClientHello.
There is no such thing as "absolute" privacy on the internet, (IMO). There never was and there will never be. HOwever if our threat model is marketers/advertisers, the dichotomy, if we choose to view the issue that way, is "easier/more difficult" (on a mass scale) not "possible/impossible". Is it easier to passively sniff ClientHello from network traffic on a mass scale then to connect to 443 on a massive number of computers (or rely on someone else to do it)? Or is it more difficult? One method generates zero traffic and requires relatively less computing resources. The other method generates an inordinate amount of traffic, enough to trigger complaints from internet provider, and requires more significant resources. Today, we have both methods available. Before SNI, the additional, easier method did not exist.

However, to be fair, I think there could be an argument regarding websites now using TLS with SNI because of the cost reduction of shared TLS hosting that previously were only only using TCP. Before they started using TLS, arguably hostnames could be sniffed from HTTP headers. Whether pulling hostnames from HTTP Host headers is easier on a mass scale than sniffing ClientHello packets, and whether anyone would do that for marketing/advertising purposes, is for the reader to decide.
To be fair, geostationary orbit is 36000km, whereas Starlink is at 550km. Geo hits, yes, roughly 400ms under perfect conditions whereas 550km would be expected to hit 9ms.
The camera in the testing center can't see in your house.
The only reason Trump's base cares one whit about FISA is because it was used (yes, quite illegitimately in my opinion) to spy on Trump and his campaign & staff in the runup to his inauguration. If they actually care about mass surveillance and such, why doesn't Trump put forward some proposals and measures to reign it in? Instead he is seeking to expand it with his AG trying to ban E2E encrypted messaging.
How would you like to see things change?
And the fanboys are enthusiastically cheering his efforts to monopolize communications globally via Starlink. If we're going to be stuck with an overlord, he probably shouldn't be such a thin-skinned unscrupulous vindictive narcissist.

Edit:

Relevant article for the uninformed:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...
Simple + plausible explanation: approximately nobody uses fancy instructions with fancy addressing, so they butcher-chopped some verilog (does intel use verilog?) in one generation to meet a target and the chopped code outlived its original purpose.

Does OP really think legacy code dynamics don't apply to intel?

Wasn't there a bug not long ago where you could thermally kill a CPU by pulling clever tricks to get vector unit utilization higher than was supposed to be possible (presumably because nobody cared enough to precisely figure out "possible")?
Many people benefit from the way the immigration system has settled:

1. High paying legal immigration is tightly controlled because highly skilled people and high-paying employers don't dare to break the law.

2. Low-paying illegal immigration is poorly controlled because poor people and small employers don't care about immigration law.

Pro-ICE-abolition groups, for the most part, want essentially open borders for poor people and are ambivalent about high skilled legal immigrants. ICE, for its part, has become increasingly brutal in its enforcement of immigration law, and has repeatedly been caught employing white nationalists and doing otherwise gross things. Getting rid of an unpopular enforcement agency is considered easier to accomplish politically than to actually re-write immigration law.
> But you need lots of power to run a browser nowadays.

Quite right; the vast majority of "actual work" that one would do locally on the machine, requires a lot less power than booting up a web browser and surfing to a random "modern" website. Funny how that works.

We're all forgetting about the 'real' work that we routinely do on our computers, because that kind of thing has gotten so rock-solid and doesn't even measurably tax compute resources - even as browsing the web, of all things, has only become increasingly fiddly and heavy on our systems.
The term "Democrat Party" (and, more generally, "Democrat" as an adjective) is both a shibboleth signaling opposing tribal membership, and an epithet signaling contempt for the Democratic Party — the actual name of the organization. It's adult name-calling. The usage is widely understood to be an intentional discourtesy.
I don't think this reply should be downvoted. It might be slightly spicy, but it does reflect that economics in the 20th century made enormous strides in understanding the observable behaviour of actual firms and markets.

Transaction costs, agent problems, information economics, institutional economics, mechanism design and so on are powerful insights into the world around us. I've learned more about how software grows and spreads from economists than from software engineers.
All major carriers in US experiencing issues, especially phone calls
He meant U+44 U+5A. The ASCII letters D and Z.
> If you take a paycheck from someone, you're implicitly agreeing to carry out their instructions and their vision for their business

what makes you so sure?
As mentioned in the article and the issues linked, you can already make and receive calls & SMS and use mobile data with postmarketOS on PinePhone. I have a Community Edition PinePhone with postmarketOS and have gotten mobile data working on a data only SIM, but won't be able to personally test calls and SMS until my new SIM arrives in a few days.

It's a very cool device, and while it's def not a daily driver for most people, it's a ton of fun to use and seems to be improving quickly.
Free tool to get a pulse check on your team’s well-being
Yes we are agreed. And good to see we can have a civil discussion! Appreciated as well =)
How much more polished is CentOS than Fedora, in practice?

I'm about 8 hours into a new Fedora 32 workstation and I dunno if I can take much more of it. Wayland's super crashy (yes I'm on AMD, not Nvidia) as in the whole thing crashing, not just individual apps; some fairly fundamental official packages don't work out of the box (Docker—how do you screw that up so bad that it's simpler to get working on macOS?); and there's lots of general irritation (missing i686 libs for my off-hours gaming—how's there not just a metapackage to install those?)

Would CentOS save me? Or am I doomed to end up on spits Win10 and doing my real work in light, disposable Linux VMs?
Hey now, the preferences panels of yore were glorious outposts of customization and power-user-centric software. Computing was way more fun back then. Don't lump anti-option sentiment in with those other, far more worrisome things.
Yes i have to say i pirated W2k, WinME (preinstalled) was unbearable, i put my money away for one year to buy a nice Desktop, and Windows ME just made me sad, nothing worked, i just had no additional 300$ to buy Win2000pro...i was so mad about Microsoft, i called them to ask for a exchange from WinME to W2K..cost still 300$ thanks Microsoft.
Having had conversations with some hardware designers who work on similar, but not identical problems often it's not a matter of space on the die directly. There's a few things that happen that can lead to these results. Often what's happening is you have existing functionality on the die for other purposes - whether that be some accumulators or arithmetic functions, that you can minimally tweak to get a new function with practically no extra cost - maybe just some control logic. It would make a lot of sense to me in this case that the reason they have the reduced functionality is because they didn't design an AGU at all, they found a way to serve that purpose with almost existing hardware. Obviously there are other reasons too though -such as not having the routing resource or deciding a integer multiplier was too expensive whereas what appears to just be an adder is actually quite cheap.
Adobe announced it in 2017.

That's how it's done, Apple.
I spent a year of my life trying to get Flash Lite working well as a browser plugin on an unreleased Palm phone around 2007-2008. Flash Lite wasn't anywhere ready for handling the Internet Flash content of the day; it performed terribly on the chips that mobile phones had then and wasn't a well behaved plugin. This was when the Intel XScale and early TI OMAP SOCs were the primary choice for mobile phones.
I've downloaded these clips and compiled them into a single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ckSnRrOhZ4
Apparently bank logins, online exams...
I’ve noticed this is sometimes true for die-hard company people. Some companies love workers that will make tremendous sacrifices for them and commit all of their personal energy on the job.

It’s certainly not true of all who do this, but I’ve definitely seen cases where an employee is asked to do something and they see it as a career-changing opportunity to get close to an executive or something. People will do some crazy stuff to demonstrate loyalty. Companies that facilitate those kinds of culture are way less shy about bending rules and eschewing ethics.
Cool. Thanks again for the tips :)
Where Hemp Originated
Do submitters write academic papers in "native" LaTex these days? Or do they write in some intermediary format like markdown?

If it's the latter, it'd be pretty trivial to generate a more mobile-friendly html format. I wonder if arxiv supports something like this.
It's not the same logic though. A black man in America didn't choose to be a black man, and has no way to change it. Ditto for an El Salvadoran - most can't legally emigrate.

Police officers are volunteers, not conscripts. They're free at any time to choose a less dangerous profession if they so wish.

Ultimately it doesn't matter if policing was more dangerous than working in an asbestos-uranium mine on a fault line. There's no excuse for law enforcement to be breaking laws without consequence. People who can't tolerate the risks should go do something else.
I have rented from Hertz about 15 times and from Enterprise about 20 times. Price is about the same, in my experience.

I will never go anywhere near a Hertz again. The prices were about the same and every single aspect of the Enterprise experience is better. If you damage a Hertz vehicle, even with insurance, god help you. With Enterprise it's no hassle at all.

I once had Hertz try to change the price on a pre-paid rental at the counter. When I tried to show the counter guy my existing receipt with a different price he turned his eyes up to the ceiling and said "I'm not looking at that." Like a child.
There is plenty of blame to go around... Congress is very much a problem but their problem normally stems from the creation of a MASSIVE administrative state so they do not actually have to pass laws they just pass a statement that says "X agency will make rules to go Y goal"
This sounds great!
Nebula Graph Database Raises $8M in Series Pre-A Funding
> You asked for a BC in Ada, but this is SPARK, which we use for formal verification of Ada code, so there is no need to also have it in Ada;

Sorry, I didn't. I was just pointing out why you'd want a borrow checker. I think you might be referring to another poster.
If they are able to keep the orbit at 550km and get the latency down to 3.66 ms, they will have changed physics forever.
So to speak, yes. There was once a competitive marketplace with all sorts of terminals featuring totally different emulations.
I don't get your Jesus analogy, I mean Jesus is a proper noun for an individual.

A technology is different. Its capabilities pretty much define it. Unless you are going to try to get all philosophical about it and say it doesn't count if it doesn't experience qualia or something (which is nonsense) Or, unless you are defining it in ways that specifically call out the implementation details. A helium balloon isn't a hot air balloon, not because it doesn't have capabilities, but because you've specifically said in the name that it must use hot air.
Does the cell network have a single point of failure which could explain these concurrent outages across carriers? I have a (somewhat crude) mental model of how the internet works, so if this were a nationwide internet outage I would at least have an inkling of whether it was an accidental misconfiguration, bad actor launching an attack, etc. I have no such model for the cell network!
Hahah me too, problem was that no Antivirus worked because you needed the Antivirus-Server-version.
The OP briefly alludes to the big difference: differential dataflow.

My understanding is that it means that the database doesn't update the view simply because a datum arrived, but rather only if the datum will change it. That avoids an enormous amount of churn and makes materialized views fantastically cheaper on average.

Edit: The original thread here on HN has lots of detailed answers from the Materialize folks, plus some gushing fandom from that jacques_chester dweeb: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22359769
Flash was a dumpster fire of performance and security issues and being a closed platform in direct competition with the web we have today, I won’t shed a tear over this.

What will be sorely missed though, are the brilliant authoring tools that Flash came with. For a very short time in history there was one tool that allowed designers and developers to truly collaborate on rich interactive experiences. It was amazing what that unlocked.
Can you modulate and detect the beam fast enough for this to be useful for transmitting low-latency info for high-frequency trading? That could pay for the experiment if you had a detector near NYC.
Honestly, if you can't see a hundred reasons why that isn't a fair way of treating people then their is no point in me trying to convince you.
This won't work in practice for most Flash games. They're almost all "site-locked", so they refuse to execute anywhere except in a browser on the domain where they came from.
FWIW - Flight delay insurance in China is sort of like buying a scratch-off lottery ticket. The terminal is dotted with little kiosks where you buy the insurance for 20-50 yuan and hope it pays a couple thousand yuan for a delay.

https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/09/25/flight-delaye...
Five Platonic Solids
Furthermore, assuming it becomes feasible to develop multiple neutrino beam machines, you could use a technique similar to "Gamma Knife" to reduce the radiation exposure along the beam paths (and to make it harder to detect/track) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosurgery#Gamma_Knife
They certainly saw how profitable iTunes was and saw an opportunity to replicate that success with applications. They may not have predicted web browsers becoming as capable as they are, but I suspect that senior management saw a threat of mobile websites as app replacements. Even free apps generate revenue for Apple.
One aspect that's underappreciated is that composability can actually lead to speed. If it's super easy to compose your algorithmic package with speed-improvement packages (parallelism, hardware accelerators, custom compilers), you're much more likely to be actually able to use them.
It's not even 'desires', it's identity when we have people declare "I'm a democrat" or "I'm a republican", one should vote for the candidate with the best policy however you want to define that.
(1) references the subject's sex less directly, but it is clearly still referencing it, and thus is discriminating based on sex.
Flash Player itself has a lot of security vulnerabilities but Adobe Flash as IDE still has no competitor even today IMHO. There is no such tool that combines code and graphics with ease like Adobe Flash. You can use it as an animator, you can use it as graphic designer, you can use it as developer. All these features just came together perfectly and it made sense. I am still missing this usability.
Setup a MariaDB Cluster with Galera and HAProxy
I mean, all marketing is a little bit narcissistic.
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Merely asking the question validates it.
There are several SEC filings around the departure of the CEO in Sept 2019[1][2] that line up with with the timeline mentioned in this article. Here's the relevant snippet from the 8-K:

"On September 24, 2019, the Company and Mr. Wenig entered into a letter agreement regarding his departure (the “Wenig Letter”). Pursuant to the terms of the Wenig Letter, in exchange for his execution and non-revocation of a release of claims against the Company, the Company agreed to provide Mr. Wenig with (1) the payments required to be made to him under his letter agreement with the Company dated September 29, 2014 upon a termination without cause, which letter agreement was originally filed with..."

The key bit is that the CEO stepping down triggered a severance agreement for termination without cause. This lines up with the reporting that he engaged in unethical behavior and had to be forced out.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1065088/0001...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065088/000119312519...
Linux wasn't a 2nd class citizen to the people who used Linux. Thus some people see Flash as an anomaly that needs to be replaced by web standards that are so good that Flash becomes unnecessary. That way all platforms get rich client capabilities including ones that weren't even invented yet (Raspberry Pi, Fuchsia, others).

You can only see Flash as a good thing if you're using one of the platforms that are more equal than others. (And I include Java Applets, ActiveX, and Silverlight along with Flash.)
There's a ton of recorded history of decentralized character encodings. Some people long for the days when a character was a byte and a byte was a character, but that model doesn't fit the world's languages.

The unicode consortium has been historically inclusive enough to avoid alienating enough people to cause a revolt.

They have defined ranges where they will not assign code points as private use areas, and you can use those for whatever symbols you need, but of course there's no mechanism to resolve disputes over use, and you would need your own method to determine which font was appropriate, and its likely to be challenging to use outside of applications you control.
AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit
That keeps them from altering the contours of 42 USC 1943 to eliminate QI, but it doesn't prevent them from adding a parallel redress under state law.
You're right. And it was definitely aero basic.