skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way Apple treated Adobe might have been their very first platform abuse on the iPhone. Flash was huge at the time, but more importantly it was software being actively developed which means it was software that would have improved even as the hardware also improved. At one point Apple even prohibited cross-compilation just to fuck with Adobe, who had adapted Flash at great expense to produce native iOS apps. They had to recant that when they realized they'd also banned Unity3d and many more technologies.

If Apple hadn't contrived their little vendetta, killing someone else's multi-billion dollar piece of software, today Flash would be a flagship IDE on the iPad Pro continuing its then-two-decade legacy as a creativity powerhouse that helped fuel innovation online and in games, media and software.

The worst thing about this sad period of Apple history is today they aspire to kill Electron in the same way.

https://www.macstories.net/news/new-iphone-dev-agreement-ban...

https://onezero.medium.com/apple-is-trying-to-kill-web-techn...
… because in your world it is all factions, no one can make an independent rational assessment of anything, so if they are not on your team you can just dismiss them out of hand?
Hopefully any musician isn’t depending solely on Spotify.

But then again, saying the same thing about Youtube doesn’t quite sound the same.
According to the paper :
All samples
came out to be negative for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes with the exception
of March 12, 2019, in which both IP2 and IP4 target assays were positive. This striking
finding indicates circulation of the virus in Barcelona long before the report of any
COVID-19 case worldwide.
TypeGraphQL and Prisma are not really comparable though. Prisma is an open-source database toolkit (much like an ORM), TypeGraphQL is a GraphQL schema construction library (like `graphql-js` or `@nexus/schema`), they solve very different problems!

You can even combine Prisma with TypeGraphQL if you're building a GraphQL server that needs to access a databases. In that case, you'd use Prisma Client inside your TypeGraphQL resolvers to send database queries.

In fact, we are collaborating with the maintainer of TypeGraphQL to build an integration between Prisma and TypeGraphQL that will allow you to leverage information from your Prisma models when building your GraphQL schema! :)
Richard Feynman’s First Lecture
This is cool, thank you for posting. I gave it a try but... I don't think it's really there. I think the thing that Hey figured out is that the best way to sort mail is by sender. Due to DKIM, SPF, et all, it's the only part of an email that can't be spoofed. So they've made a system totally built on that, with single clicks to move senders to different buckets.

Yes, you can do that in Fastly, but it's a cludge. You have to maintain contact groups, which means that every new sort "rule" involves a contact add plus a visit to the contacts page to put them in the right group. There's nothing stopping Fastly from making this dead simple, but it's not dead simple right now.

And on top of that, there are benefits to building a UI around Hey's rigid bucket structure. The "feed" area, for example, shows the first few hundred pixels of every email just like it's a feed reader. You get the cool "focus and reply" screen for emails you've put off.

I think, if you really like Hey, use Hey, don't try to recreate it somewhere else. If you're on Fastly, you probably already have a really good system that works great for you, so stick with that.
Thanks for this. Will read later.

Wasn’t ARX basically Unix reimplemented in Modula2 ?
> Not exactly. Yes, revealing the combination requires the person to implicitly admit that they know the what the combination is. But if the government can prove that they already know this "testimony" -- which they can in most cases -- then the "foregone conclusion" doctrine applies and the 5th Amendment privilege cannot be asserted.

That's fascinating, thank you for sharing! That helps make my point, though, that the legal framework for handling encryption already exists and just needs to be clarified a little bit, instead of making new, far-reaching laws with serious implications on the landscape.

> I don't see how it violates user privacy or trust. In general, you don't have the right to keep records secure from law enforcement if they have a warrant. If this law is passed, these companies should simply disclose to their customers that they will provide law enforcement with the means to decrypt their data, as many already do.

It will get abused. Just like wire tapping got abused, just like NSA surveillance got abused. Furthermore, having a master key floating around means that at some point, inevitably, a foreign government or organization will get ahold of it. If this were implemented correctly—over a special, secure channel that only law enforcement could access (with a warrant!)—that would be mostly harmless, but I simply don't trust our government and businesses to implement anything correctly that has to do with the privacy and security of user data. There have simply been too many previous violations.

> I also don't see how it severely undermines encryption. Yes, end-to-end encryption is more secure, but it's not the industry norm. Security is relative, but I wouldn't call Gmail "insecure" just because Google allows law enforcement to read emails with a warrant.

But the issue with bills like the EARN IT Act is that they make end-to-end encryption completely infeasible for any company to implement. That's the problem: you can't even have E2EE in the first place if it passes, because it conflicts with the requirement to allow law enforcement to be able to read messages.
Are you implying that US ISP's ask the race of their customers? I've never been asked by AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, Spectrum, or other ISPs I've used.
It also looks like Amazon's investment into Deliveroo for a 16% stake will be concluded soon too [1]. I wonder what Amazon are planning.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53169889
Does Google already collect metadata on your calls
prior to this?
Sure you are, buddy :)
Because that's the narrative that gets your sentence reduced and what any lawyer would advise: from now on, publicly you'll condemn the drugs that got you here.
99% accurate would still lead to a huge number of false positives because most people aren't criminals. The base rate of non-criminals is so much larger than the number of criminals that there would be hundreds of thousands or millions of false positives, depending on how widely facial recognition was deployed. There would be many times more false positives than accurate identifications.
The question wasn't about "fair", it was about "justified". And... yeah? The police aren't assassins or solidiers. They aren't supposed to kill anyone at all. When it happens, it's a tragedy that is supposed to be avoided.

So when must it happen? Well, when they need to defend themselves, I guess. So yeah, I think that kill ratio becomes an important point of evidence as to how dire the need for defense was. If you come to me and tell me that the police are dying as fast as the criminals, then OK, fine, I'll buy that those are just shootouts. If it's 2:1 in favor of the police, then I guess I'd be OK with that and rationalize it as the police being better trained and more worth preserving. Four to one? Maybe.

TWENTY to one? Come on. That's not reasonable on its face.
Well, it is definitely in Spotify's interest to keep as many quality artists as possible on Spotify, and that probably involves paying them.
Yes. It would also stand in contrast to everything we know about how quickly it spreads. I am very skeptical of this claim.
Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from getting a new account?
So I just asked an 8 year old as an experiment: “it’s... like if you have to do something and you just fail epically, that’s pathetic”

Thought that was pretty good - so not too difficult.
Looking forward to your write up on “how to fail at Spotify and enjoy yourself”.

Edit: clickbaity: “How to Bomb Spotify”
The usual reminder for these articles:

This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.
It’s still around?!? I thought Steve Jobs killed Flash years ago.
> Where are the soldiers?

They don't even make the list, obviously. The majority of the military is non combat for every branch, and only a small minority is deployed at any particular time. This isn't WW2, soldiers rarely die.

Over the 8 years of the Iraq war 4.5k US soldiers died out of 1.4 million troops (300k deployed). That's 40 per 100k, compared to 97 for pilots, 64 for metalworkers, and 46 for taxi drivers.

The list in op is for the current year. The number of troops killed this year was far lower than any point during the Iraq war, and they don't come anywhere near the top of the list.
That is completely and deliberately out of context. Manning released greater than 750,000 documents and almost all of them had nothing to do with violence of any kind. So much out of context that whistleblowing was never raised as any form of defense by Manning’s civilian attorney.
Just use

curl --user-agant "" wttr.in?A

for that.

The `A` option enforces ANSI output
(curl wttr.in/:help for more)
EY failed to ask for Wirecard bank statements for 3 years
This is a straw man with an easy answer: you've made up lots of things and called them "decolonization", but you've not actually asked what the people in the countries calling for decolonization want.
The video embed wasn't working for me, but if I'm reading the article right, the sketch the author got produced is the first segment here:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6sw420

(It is indeed funny, and still relevant).
Nobody at my employer has time to waste on logging, never mind reviewing my internet usage

Which is why there are dozens and dozens of companies to which this sort of thing is outsourced, either explicitly, or as part of some generic security "suite."
I’d call it a “cyanide mine” not “bomb”. How is it legal to place one 350ft from a house without notifying anyone?!?

Do they maintain a map of these things so they can be properly disposed of?
Yes that’s what they meant. It is really poorly worded. They could have used a copy editor to check that.

That said it looks like males dominated most of the charts in most cities cited.
Only reason I've used flash in the last few years was to file PTO.
50 000$ isn't modest in most parts of the world.
$2 a year might have been enough to live a middle class life back in ......

What's the conversion rate for the Roman sesterces in 44BC to USD?
Lume Pad Lightfield Device
This is disappointing. The pandemic is certainly a change in my own behavior, but I regularly visited two Microsoft stores in the Chicago area and have made large purchases in each. Especially when new hardware is released, it’s great to see it within the construct of a corporate setting.

Of course the Best Buy model of having manufacturer space like a mini mall helps balance this loss, it’s not the same level of interaction.

Very disappointing.
>I’m sure when dinosaurs were dealing with 12% oxygen they had developed adaptations to handle it.

Dinosaurs never had to deal with 12% oxygen. Also, mammals' ancestors roamed the Earth together with dinosaurs, so they would have developed a similar adaptation if your hypothesis was true.
Scaler Academy Review: My Advice to Anyone Thinking to Join
Presenting the story of our Scaler Raghu Ram Karra in his own words:
Scaler Academy program is hardcore Learning focussed, which seperates it from similar products in the market. It is very appropriately structured that they leave no stone unturned to train you according to the top tech industry requirements. Be it through Live lectures, expert personal guidance through mentors, they have got everything covered for you.
It is never worth wasting your time on an unreviewed preprint outside your expertise. There is tremendous pressure to publish exciting results as an academic, and very weak tools for detecting false results, whether dishonest or just statistically unsound.
I wouldn't say popular, but many of my internal network or SAN management items are flash based. Many are EOL'd, and can't be upgraded.

The only option is throw out working hardware just because we can no longer manage it...

Or another example, older VMware setups that may not be fully upgraded yet (again perhaps with older hardware preventing upgrades). All flash managed.
https://www.newgrounds.com/ has been around for a long long time and has a wealth of old content built in flash.

Luckily they are creating https://ruffle.rs which is a flash emulator written in rust. All of this fantastic media should be preserved!
Interviews – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
This is one single frozen sample from March 2019 that was positive. Note that subsequent frozen samples from later in 2019 were negative.

Without more data - I'd chalk this up to a false positive or sample contamination.
> Plus I think asking listeners to listen to a full-length album don’t make sense in our attention-starved world. Asking listeners to listen to a single song might just be a more realistic ask.

This is why I love listening to albums, because it flies in the face of throwaway/hyper-consumable media. Spotify, with its algorithmic playlists and singles focus, bolsters the throwaway consumption of music, but many artists also enjoy the long tail of revenue from album streams. If an artist creates an album with lasting appeal, they can smooth out the initial spike of physical sales with a long slow burn of revenue.
It's very volatile but usually you don't touch a savings account regularly so it doesn't matter what it does day to day, only long term.
Having done some work in this space I can tell you the exact process. Applications on your phone provide a maid. Mobile Application ID. Which reports back it's(the phones) geo location. Using some basic statistics regarding location, duration of stay, time of day, you infer home address, work address. Once you have a small foothold you go to aggregated data repositories and run a query. Once you get a positive hit the rest is dead simple.
I'm in the same boat. The MacBook I bought in 2013 was mind-blowingly awesome, most notably with the Retina display, and the sheer power of machine.

Almost every difference between that laptop and the MacBook I bought a few months ago is negative (touchbar for volume and brightness, the flimsiness of USB-C connectors against the weight of the cable (though that's not Apple's fault), enormous trackpad, less of a "crumple zone" in the keyboard to absorb the energy of my typing, etc)

I actually like Catalina more-or-less, except for the lack of 32-bit support and the way the fan always runs on my 2013 machine now.

But I think this is the last Apple computer I'll buy. It's too much money for a declining experience.
This is unfortunately a common problem and the only way to beat the algorithm is to turn it against itself.

Create few playlists and add songs you like to them and also be diligent about liking and unliking songs. These will heavily influence your recommendations and you should be able to get back on track.
I had the displeasure of meeting the Zoom executive team at their booth at CVPR some years back. They were cocky, sized me up, and completely ignored me and acted like I didnt exist. This all happened after I told them which Department at UCBerkeley I was studying at (which apparently did not meet their standards.)

I've been on booth duty and sales duty before and you should never snub people like this - ever. It is hurtful and people remember it, I remember it still so many years back. There are always more graceful ways of doing things.
Conversely, as a BabylonBee subscriber, they let you pitch headlines.

And see the other submissions.

Heart goes out to whoever is wading through that mess.
Agreed. After an initial listening, it's clear Steve's really talented. Which admittedly probably helps with the earning money part of the article.

It's kind of like that PG quote:

"What Customers Want - It's not just startups that have to worry about this. I think most businesses that fail do it because they don't give customers what they want. Look at restaurants. A large percentage fail, about a quarter in the first year. But can you think of one restaurant that had really good food and went out of business?"

(edit - formatting)
As far as I can tell, Windows 10 doesn't natively allow you to use the older window decoration styles—you'd have to purchase 3rd party software to do so.
700km Brazil megaflash sets lightening record
This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed.

Quote from article:

...”This possibility prompted us to analyze some archival WWTP samples from January 2018 to December 2019 (Figure 2). All samples came out to be negative for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes with the exception of March 12, 2019, in which both IP2 and IP4 target assays were positive. This striking finding indicates circulation of the virus in Barcelona long before the report of any COVID-19 case worldwide.”
Ikea has a closet planner[0] that is actually quite good. It lets you visualize closet frames in 3D by placing them within a virtual bedroom, then add shelves, drawers and other accessories inside of them. Then once you're done, it can put all of your items into your cart or generate a shopping list.

It's probably ~10 years old at this point, so it would seem they've had long enough to see the writing on the wall and port it to a newer technology. OTOH I'm not sure that, even today, the stability or penetration of WebGL is comparable to where Flash was at its height (to say nothing of the available talent pool.)

I've taken a screenshot[1] so anyone who doesn't have Flash can take a look.

[0] https://www.ikea.com/us/en/planner/pax-planner/

[1] https://imgur.com/a/WW1lDCB
I had no idea Flash was still supported.
Why the image flip?
My company contracts with a security training site. All the videos requires Flash.

<sigh>
The whole thing just sounds like some overconfident bureaucrat’s bad idea to me.

What makes you think this isn’t allowing civilians to handle it? The idea that this is helping rests on that. If it doesn’t, it falls apart.

Civilians don’t even know this program exists! That’s part of the problem. If a non-law-abiding rancher gets mad he pulls out his gun and shoots a coyote - and there are lots of those. Maybe he doesn’t very much in 2020, because of education programs. But should this program get the credit?

For what you said to be true, you have to prove that these cyanide bombs are effectively controlling populations that need to be controlled - a huge stretch and exactly the claim that should be demonstrated by any defense.

It may not be controlling coyotes (vs something that doesn’t need to be controlled, like skunks).

It may be controlling some coyotes, but not enough to make a difference.

It may be controlling coyotes but actually worse than angry farmers would have - killing them without rhyme or reason, instead of after an offense.

This doesn’t look like a smart program that weighed the pros and cons and then went ahead with deployment judiciously.
It seems questionable and dumb, which is why it’s also kind of a secret (often a very reliable tell).

Note that there are no university professors or believable experts saying, “this is a good program with a lot of data behind it.” If there is good science to be seen, it seems suspiciously hard to access.

It’s okay to be skeptical, dismissive even, of bad decisions without good data behind them- and it looks like that’s what we are seeing here.
The square with the color in the legend is very small, so it's very difficult to understand what the pies represent.

(I don't understand how they choose the colors.)
> Death is the greatest weakness of humanity, and to think otherwise is fatalist. We don't have to live eighty years at best and die. We can do better.

Science advances one funeral at a time. ~ Max Planck

I'd add to that that it's not only science that advances in this way.
Now I realize it could be possible to play both IF and Nethack over email with some scripting.

You can already play IF over the web and gopher.
Probably not a good call to do this now while kids are still schooling from home.
>I’ve yet to hear a potential benefit of this sort of software that would justify the huge cost to citizen privacy. //

It makes it easy to find suspects and narrow down suspect lists. Meaning far fewer police are needed to catch a greater proportion of known criminals.

Most people consider that a huge benefit.

Let's say you have a db of all faces in country of 60M people. You have a photo/video of a person committing a crime, robbery. False positive rate is 1:100,000. Your search returns 600 people; address match finds 60 with connections to the locality; 5 of those have records, one for robbery. You'd at least sit a person down for an hour to review the matches, consider the records, list people for interview.

According to UK ONS stats, those adults released from prison, in Jan-Mar 2018, had a reoffending rate of 65%.

It seems just tracking known offenders would find the perpetrator in many cases if visual recognition is possible.

I mean, this is _the_ principle benefit.
But a replacement gear can be manufactured out of commodity materials using standard tools and a bunch of esoteric skills. A replacement LCD display is never going to be something a skilled worker can recreate from scratch. Your best case is that you are able to salvage matching parts from another instance of the same device - so if you have one laptop with a broken screen and another with a busted CPU you can cannibalize parts to make a single working machine.
Don’t forget that part of what’s wrapped into that premium is excellent support & warranty along with the development of firmware and Pop!_OS. It’s more than just the hardware. It’s ensuring you can rely on that hardware to work end to end.
That's $800/month for a tiny artist that would otherwise be making about $0/month.

> I don't tour, I don't sell merch and I'm not on a major label. I'm just a small indie artist making music in my evenings— and Spotify is making that possible.

In other words, it's a hobby.
Poe's Law is a right mother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information
Perhaps some hitherto unforeseen competitive advantage in routes and flight paths? But even then, seems tough. If you thought middle seat on the last row of United was bad, can’t wait to see what this looks like when they’re done with it.
Apple: Enable encrypted DNS [video]
Prosecution of sexual assaults in general is abysmal.
I think Spotify would do well to allow users to set a label of some sort on their listening. Like, there are times when you listen to your music for yourself in the car, and there are times when your phone is being used to power the speakers at a gathering. I don't know what the internals of the system looks like, but it seems like allowing users to maintain different profiles would be simple.
Why fundraise against the Prisma open source project instead of creating a new brand for the premium / enterprise product? Like how Confluent is separate from Kafka.

As a developer, I prefer the Confluent/Kafka model because it’s crystal clear where the separation is between premium and open source.
Decarbonize Europe Manifesto
I don't think the table indicates "irrelevant or even a bad choice" at all - it just puts "old" and "new" next to each other.

No reason not to use the older things if they work for you. But if they don't, never choices might help.