skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO it's almost certainly not the "open letter"; Flash was Adobe's effort of having a runtime that they controlled, to enable authoring rich content - you need to understand that Adobe didn't directly make money from the player, and the publicity it got from it was increasingly negative due to the usage in ads (which were often not very carefully programmed, if I may add so).

So you have this combination where Flash Player was costing Adobe lots of money to maintain, while not contributing too much to the topline; and on top of it, we made a prototype of CSS regions (basically reflowing text inside/outside arbitrary shapes) that was met with a lot of initial enthusiasm by all browser vendors/ they all seemed eager to adopt it. So the executive that was in charge of the digital media division just saw the opportunity to cut huge costs, and put Flash on life support basically overnight - by basically outsourcing the runtime work to the browser community, and contributing as Adobe in the points where we felt it was essential. There's stuff that I'm not sure I can tell even now even though it's old news... but let's just say that there were very big industry players that were taken by surprise and would've otherwise supported Flash; the death of Flash on mobile and on the web at that point was far from being a foregone conclusion (in fact, Flash support was being touted at the time by Samsung as one of the reasons why Android is better than iOS).

Now - don't get me wrong, I was not in any way among the decision makers. But I was in the development team - both for Flash player and for the prototype that I believe sealed Flash's fate. I may be wrong; but OTOH there's a good chance my recollection of the events is far closer to the truth than the random internet narrative.
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Sure, I agree that's not an easy thing to do, perhaps even too idealistic.
But what you mention (counter-SEO gaming) isn't the type of "bias" I was referring to. Correcting their algorithm to make it better at filtering spamming, etc is part of making their product useful in the first place. Otherwise their search engine would be as useful as a car without wheels.

But, to keep the analogy, it would be like a car maker tweaking the speedometer to make the drivers go slower "to save lives" without telling its clients.
If Google clearly showed its list of "socially acceptable" search terms , I would have no problem with it. But it's the fact they pretend (or that it's generally admitted) that they don't tweak their search results that I dislike.

For example:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-google-interferes-with-its-...
The PE ratio might not be the best metric to judge Zoom by. Their gross profit was ~500M while net profit was only 12M almost entirely due to the SG&A line item.

At first read, they're pouring every dollar of profit into their sales/marketing organization so they can continue to grow at over 100% YoY. As a first order SWAG, the market is pricing in something like 5x growth over the next 5 years while ratcheting down SG&A as a percent of total cost. If Zoom executes successfully, they maybe ends up with a PE closer to 15.

Or maybe every enterprise realizes Teams is bundled with O365 which they're already paying for and stops licensing Zoom as individuals return to the office. The implied volatility for at the money calls on Zoom expiring Jan 2022 is over 60% while the broader S&P 500 is around 20% for options with similar expiration. Seems like the risk is priced in.
Tinfoil hat theory: government trying to disrupt protests by breaking down communications and disrupting live streams
Does the binary not use Flash internally?
> In a dissent from the court’s decision not to hear one of the qualified immunity cases it was considering, Thomas reiterated his opposition to the doctrine.
>
> “There likely is no basis for the objective inquiry into clearly established law that our modern cases prescribe,” Thomas wrote. “Leading treatises from the second half of the 19th century and case law until the 1980s contain no support for this ‘clearly established law’ test.”

When will the voices of reason prevail?
Beware of using EL when the inverse video attribute is on.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/586458/5132
>This is so crazy. It's cult-like behavior.

It's like they read up on how Scientology treats people critical of it and thought "that sounds like a perfectly sane thing to do".
Is tiledb useful for storing ML models?
> I think you have a very idiosyncratic (and wrong) view of how law in the US works.

And yet today, the Supreme Court literally did the thing you think it should not do. Doesn't that give you at least a moment's pause that maybe the law no longer operates the way you think it does in the US?
This "argument" of "things were worse then, now things are better" keeps coming back as if we're already living in a utopia. It's like saying "back then there was shit sandwich, but without bread and now we at least have bread". Wow, what an improvement.
I'm too lazy to look up the name of the fallacy.

But to answer your question about what's special about living now? In absolute terms: Nothing.
Top 10 Satellites APIs
And the right to work and provide a living for yourself isn’t?
"Gish gallop" is the correct term, but "buffer overflow" would also work in this case.
I genuinely can't wait for the kids in my family to be old enough to expose them to this ( I will admit that it will be a great excuse for me to play with it as well ).
Indeed. This smells like a company I worked for about 20 years ago. The engineering team had an idea and were checking feasibility. The sales team overheard a meeting about it and proceeded to prepare a marketing pack for it which leaked out into the IT press. Analyst said it was rubbish (they were correct). About a month later the engineers had given up. Another month after that they were told their product had the first customer and nearly fell of their chairs.

Incidentally they did deliver after slowly lowering expectations over the period of 6 months.
so you're essentially going to become a Technical Project Manager. that's interesting - i'm searching for TPM jobs, maybe i should include implementation consultant postings as well.
Doesn't seem like it's working though, does it? When anyone else commits murder or aggravated assault, we don't just hope their employer will voluntarily dock their pay and fire their boss.
Couldn't it be argued that people just have a large preference for free content regardless of how they find it?

With such a focus on money, having it, and keeping it (especially in the West), it seems only natural that people would naturally gravitate towards free content of all kinds. If not through HN/Google/wherever, it seems they'd spend the time figuring out a way to find it elsewhere.
That definitely piqued my interest as well - I distinctly remember getting comfortable with the drag and drop programming interface, and wanting to write real "code" for it, but struggling to figure out how.
> How did they think this would play out?

I think it's worth going further down this line of thinking.

One possibility is that they thought that this was expected of them as part of their jobs, that this would help them in their careers, and that (based on observation of others and prior personal experience) they would not have any legal repercussions. They probably didn't jump into doing just this and then getting caught. Instead they probably got to where they were by doing things like this, and it had worked very well for them until this point. They may have even have learned their techniques from their mentors in the company. They very well may have gotten away with (and been rewarded for) worse. And there may well be many more like them who continue doing the same (and worse).

Alternatively, all 6 might be really stupid despite their apparent business success.

Which seems more likely? Personally, I think it's unlikely that they got to where they were by being stupid.
Does anybody know of a good educational resource on software/best practices that is kept up to date. Ideally something that does not include the latest bleeding edge but things that are battle hardened or getting there. Something that includes open source and commercial software would be ideal.
> Just because someone from a political ideology says something you agree with doesn't mean for an instant you agree with their ideology!

I’m aware of this, I’m just disclosing my own general stance for rhetorical effect.

> It is on purpose

I don’t think we got here on purpose; I think we got here on accident. History is just too full of random turns and twists caused by external events and opposing parties for there to often be a grand plan to anything; dumb luck explains a lot of things.

Now that we’re here, I do believe that the lack of any effective solutions is probably deliberate. The current people in power gain far too much from the status quo to actually offer up meaningful reforms.
I use my own domains but if those expire someone else can gain access to my email? Don't forget that domain names can be valuable and may need to get sold if someone bids high enough.
Biggest difference is that many more people are on systems with an SSD or NVME drive than in 2014.
By selecting the energy of the proton beam correctly, you can prevent much besides the muons from being produced. Whatever other particles do show up - if not guided by carefully set up electromagnetic fields - will quickly smash into the walls of the device, generating heat as they scatter and decay. Some of this heat can be used to boil a coolant and regenerate energy, but for the most part it is just an inefficiency. The lead wall and some of the material around it will become radioactive waste as some long lived isotopes are produced, but they could potentially have many years of service life.
Chernobyl with Zero Tourists
That Wikipedia article actually references a Supreme Court decision that says the 1st Amendment does protect freedom of association because it is an essential part of freedom of speech. I haven't read the opinion in that case, though, so I don't know what "freedom of association" actually meant in the context of that case.

I personally would say the 9th and 10th Amendments are more to the point, since they talk about rights not specifically mentioned.
And that's exactly why most business don't(use not to) take public activist stances at first place, rightfully so.

Although right now since everybody is afraid to get cancelled on a whim, corporations are opening themselves to, and you are right in your logic, criticism for their lack of political activism.
New theory: maybe black holes are scrapped alien neutrino detectors?
Actually I think you’re missing the point entirely. I have a 4 bay NAS that I use to back up all of my and my fiancé’s media so losing a phone isn't a catastrophe. I’m trusting that the NAS will actually rebuild in the event of a drive failure or it provides very little actual protection. WD shipped drives which were very unlikely to rebuild successfully. The upshot of that is that they lied to me and as a consequence have placed priceless data at risk from a drive failure. And had I known that I wouldn’t have bought their drives, so I’m materially harmed by it. I don’t shuck drives, I buy through retail channels like Newegg. I think you’re getting downvoted because you don’t understand the gravity of the problem and your victim blaming. Otherwise there’s nothing to disagree with because what you’re saying isn’t really supported in fact.
Parts may have been gifted to him. If self earned yes impressive.
One startup is doing what Magic Leap should've done from the start
Sorry, I thought was was implicit in "separate foundation" :)
Does it really matter now? Pretty sure only nostalgic web users use flash to view old games, clips and such
I thought PostmarketOS did not (yet) support making calls.

So what's the point of running it on hardware designed to address the issue of running FOSS alongside a blackbox baseband?

If you don't need the baseband, what's the usecase that a Chromebook form factor doesn't solve?
Moonwlker: JSON Without Annotation
Completely agree about Windows 2000. I keep hoping Microsoft will do a faithful recreation of the classic UI for Windows 10. I've tried to find community-built options but nothing gets it right.

I don't mind XP's look so much, but I always switched back to classic style. I loved the ability to customize every color, font, etc. The rainy day theme is still my favorite.
I'm not clear where slippery slope ends and generalizing a question such as "how does GH/MSFT determine who to do business with?" or putting a decision into context begins. I don't see this as being at "the top of a slope" as much as already being on the slope. This was not an isolated request, from TFA: "At Microsoft-owned GitHub, the parent company’s concession only served to reinvigorate internal opposition to a controversial contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement." So this is not a one-off question, the question of ICE is already part of a sequence of demands/concessions.

To use a metaphor, Alice: give me a dollar; Bob: OK here's a dollar; Alice: Thanks but now I need five dollars; Bob: are you just going to ask me for $10 next? Where does this end? Alice: Aha! That's a slippery slope fallacy.

Slippery slope says “if you do A then it will lead to B and eventually Z.” At the moment, we’re not at “A” we’re already at “B,” so I think asking about the rest of the sequence is reasonable.

If management is making concessions to satisfy the workforce's sense of ethics, I think it's reasonable for management to say "OK, after this concession will your sense of ethics be satisfied for the time being? Or is this part of a larger package of demands, and if so what are they?"

To ask a party making concessions to not consider the context at all, the lead up or the implied consequences ("if you did X you'd be a hypocrite to not also do Y") is unreasonable.
> For MuseScore to go in this direction implies that they must be thinking they're already nailing the notation side.

They're not. There's still a lot of work to do. It's passable, but it's not 100% yet.

When you're scoring with Lilypond, what front end do you use ? And does that frontend have midi in / out ? I don't really care what the internal sounds are, but when I'm scoring/writing I like to be at my piano, and being able to play back chord voicings/rhythms is helpful.
What's really sad is the classic widgets are still there -- you can see them occasionally in Win10 when the compositor glitches out.

Weirder, MDI windows use Win7's classic\b\b\b\b\b\b aero basic styling, so apparently some of the Win7 styling is also still available.

Another major annoyance: the resize area for a window is seemingly 1 pixel wide. You used to be able to specify a width and all windows would be bordered with it. I get that Win10 looks sleeker but did they really have to take that control away

What really bothered me was that back in XP days it seemed that .theme files seemed really interchangeable save for MS signing. I remember downloading numerous theme files, placing them in the right spot, and installing a cracked themes dll, and they'd just work.
3. I have a link to a file already (in a browser URL bar), let me use it with token or something easy (for example the way most RSS with auth are constructed so that you don't need to set up credentials when 'subscribing') instead of looking for project IDs and constructing path that GitLab can swallow as a query parameter, fighting all kind of nonsence in the process.

FYI, nobody I know did that in a minute (and minute is much for such task) and everybody was like _fuck this shit, I'll just clone entire repo to use a single file_, 15 minutes later.
I worked at Apple. I don’t remember but I’m pretty sure perf just sucked, and I’m guessing there weren’t enough people to deal with it. Like, you are giving way too much credit to strategic thinking. It wasn’t like that. Nobody had a crystal ball.
> These secondary sanctions are not based on international treaties and trade negotiations

You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about - these things don’t just happen overnight cause the US says so.

Sanctions in this case have been discussed and formalized by multiple groups and organizations including OECD, FATF and the UN Security Council.
Err, I'm still having issues grasping the problem—why not just enforce portable installation and locally writable files? There's no reason user-facing apps need to be installed to anything other than a subdirectory of home, there's no reason to locate the app resources anywhere but as a subdirectory of the app installation, and the XDG filesystem standards for writing seem pretty solid at this point. You could then restrict all access by default and just prompt when it attempts to use a resource.
Me too. But I doubt it will ever happen without regulation.

The only development in this space that I'm aware of is from a South African company called root. You can run custom code before/after transactions through their credit card. https://root.co.za/card
Looking at FreeNAS's page, it's all "Get Quote" nonsense for anything rack mounted. Needs a system configuration page with prices to play around with.
The website didn't load for me. So here it is: https://web.archive.org/web/20200615193041/https://lucperkin...

Also, I'd like to add one database to the list (I work there for 3 weeks now): TriplyDB [0]. It is making linked data easier.

Linked data is useful for when people of different organizations want a shared schema.

In many commercial applications one wouldn't want this, as data is the valuable part of a company. However, scientific communities, certain government agencies and other organizations -- that I don't yet know about -- do want this.

I think the coolest application of linked data is how the bio-informatics/biology community utilizes it [1, 2]. The reason I found out at all is because one person at Triply works to see if a similar thing can be achieved with psychology. It might make conducting meta-studies a bit easier.

I read the HN discussions on linked data and agree with both the nay sayers (it's awkward and too idealistic [4]) and the yay sayers (it's awesome). The thing is:

1. Linked data open, open as in open source, the URI [3] is baked into its design.

2. While the 'API'/triple/RDF format can be awkward, anyone can quite easily understand it. The cool thing is: this includes non-programmers.

3. It's geared towards collaboration. In fact, when reading between the lines, I'd argue it's really good for collaboration between a big heterogeneous group of people.

Disclaimer: this is my own opinion, Triply does not know I'm posting this and I don't care ;-) I simply think it's an interesting way of thinking about data.

[0] triply.cc

[1] A friend of mine once modeled some biochemistry part of C. Elegans from linked data into petrinets: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263520722_Building_...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=linked+... -- I quickly vetted this search

[3] I still don't know the difference between a URI and URL.

[4] I think back in the day, linked data idealists would say that all data should be linked to interconnect all the knowledge. I'm more pragmatic and simply wonder: in which socio-technological context is linked data simply more useful than other formats? My current very tentative answer is those 3 points.
Yeah. Totally makes sense to compare a human driver driving an average 7 year old 30k$ car with not so good safety ratings driven by average person in snowy, rainy pothole ridden roads to a newish 70k$ luxury car with good airbags/crumple zones driven in mostly sunny California roads by mostly young drivers with a driver assistance system.

And then for you to argue that the driver assistance system is actually better than a human driver if given the car alone!

Wow
> How do you even make that phone call to police?

One of the incidents was when they caught people breaking into their garage to plant a GPS tracker on their car. This seems like a good inroads to the other charges.
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Launched it after a friend was looking for a role as a video producer - openings were hidden in tweets and on content platforms. Launched it as an attempt to surface these. Let me know what you think!
Hey OP,

I'm a technical account manager / CSM and your role honestly sounds a lot like mine. Did a writeup of my role here: https://www.careerfair.io/reviews/customersuccessmanager

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Chopt appears to sell primarily commercial powerboats.
Should Martech Focus on Share of Stack or Share of Market
I would suggest "gnash" as a much more appealingly playful alternative
It can definitely be improved. The model has some significant flaws. I started again from the fundamentals and came up with a rather different model for differentiating terminal capabilities.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/TerminalCapab...

Note, in fairness, that not having the terminfo file is not a huge problem, as terminfo is designed so that one can transport information from one system to another, and place local database entries in one's home directory if necessary.
> every unique sender gets put into a screening folder

I just set up a gmail filter to have everything skip the inbox. Adding exceptions is not so convenient but it works.
Latin used dominus for the master of a slave, and magister for someone who mastered or taught something.
And for relative thrust, the SSRBs (solid boosters) developed a maximum of 14.7 MN (meganewtons) thrust each, or a total of 29.4 MN. The SSMEs (liquid fueled RS-25 engines)
produced ~1.9 MN thrust each, or 5.7 MN for the three.

Of the 35.1 MN of maximum total shuttle launch thrust, about 84% came from the solid boosters, only 16% from the somewhat misleadingly named "main" engines.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-25
What if you already have a main branch?
Operators in JavaScript
That's not cyberstalking - that's actual, physical, real-life stalking.
Your example excludes intent.

If I thought my coworker had deliberately introduced a bug that killed 300 people, I would absolutely turn them in. There is absolutely no question in my mind that I would do that.

But cops do not turn in their own when they deliberately abuse their power. They in fact resign in protest when their own are investigated (Buffalo, NY), and turn out in support when their own are arraigned for abuses of power (Philadelphia, PA).
That's probably true, maybe some customers prefer more accurate colours. Personally I prefer higher contrast or a smooth display (I don't think a laptop oled display with 120hz or more exists yet).
I understand what you are both saying. Think it kinda depends on your part of the world too. My home couldn't be deeper into the US Bible Belt. If my family were harassed by a company like this, we would become outcasts very very quickly. Yeah, I'd rather take this over an actual SWAT, but both would have severe and long term consequences.
Lynchings.
The pandemic economy’s cybersecurity tailwinds: Who’s sailing, who’s stalling?
You make the comparison to the Hilux... and there are some HUGE fans of the Hilux specifically because it is extraordinarily reliable. Makes me wonder why there isn't a well known "boring, reliable" distro of Debian[1]... would Toyota mind if "Debian Hilux" were to come into being?

[1] I'm fairly certain there are distros derived from Debian which could be a "Hilux distro" but they aren't well-known to me.