skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was great from a development point of view, looking back it completely pushed the bounds of what we thought was possible and pioneered Alma y things which only later finally made it into the browser.

- Strongly typed language (js is still not there)
- interestingly Microsoft killed Ecmascript 4 which was AS3, but are now championing typescript)
- Canvas api is basically the flash.graphics api
- Tweeting libraries
- It didn't invent Ajax at all, but wow was it great at the times for dynamic data
- 3d in your browser, and it was fast too for computers of its time
- 2d / 3d transformations per object
- custom font loading
- reusable components

There was a lot about flash that was bad also, like compiling it was a chore, flex was a disaster, but it pushed the web forward so for that I am thankful
I'll admit I don't know anything about Gab, but I'm not picking up "nazi/white supremacist site" from their storefront.

https://gab.com/

Regardless, it's embarrassing how careless the political-left, whatever you want to call them, carelessly use the terms nazi, racist, white supremacist, etc.
Wow, I did not know about that. Between this and the original post it seems no matter what every company ends up selling its soul to the devil.
The whole article reads like the punchline for another joke involving Admiral Rickover's famous letter. (We had a thread on this same topic, involving a company mentioned in this article, not three months ago, and a thread on Admiral Rickover's letter two weeks before that!)

"An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic characteristics: (1) It is simple. (2) It is small. (3) It is cheap (4) It is light. (5) It can be built very quickly. (6) It is very flexible in purpose (’omnibus reactor’). (7) Very little development is required. It will use mostly off-the-shelf components. (8) The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now."

Link to the other thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22851622

Link to the recent HN discussion of said letter by Admiral Rickover here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22715730
The Ka-26 is an old design that is long out of production in the official Russian factories. It turns out that while many more capable helicopters have been designed after it, the Ka-26 is ideal for one particular narrow job -- crop dusting.

The features that make ideal for this are unlikely to come up in another helicopter -- it is very small and yet it has twin coaxial rotors. Apparently the coaxial rotors combined with small size make it good for crop dusting because they spread out the downdraft and thus ensure that the helicopter does not destroy the plants it is supposed to be dusting.

As such it is unlikely to be replaced by a new helicopter. There are some new small helicopters being designed but none of them have twin rotors, because twin rotors are complex and it makes little sense to put them on a small cheap helicopter.Crop dusting itself is a relatively small market and it is unlikely to create sufficient demand for the design of a new helicopter.

Then how did the Ka-26 get its twin rotors? Well, for one the Kamov design bureau seems to really like twin rotors. Also, there may have been some Soviet military requirements that make them desirable -- such as being able to operate on city streets, being able to land on a truck, etc.

Furthermore, as these things go, crop dusting is relatively safe helicopter activity. There are no passengers, you have to do it in perfect weather anyways, even a slight wind will result in your pesticides being blown away, you do it at low altitude and over generally flat ground with few obstacles.

So while there is a problem with ignoring all safety regulations for helicopters, this is probably not that dangerous.

So, in general, this is a lot less crazy than it first appears. It seems like there was a small market demand for a niche application, but the demand was not sufficient to go through all the safety inspections or to use an existing Kamov factory. Yet the intended use is inherently much more safe than the usual helicopter mission so the clients were willing to take the risk.
Ask HN: What’s it like being a Quant or Quantitative Programmer
What can you expect in a quantitative role. Do you have to be extra smart or you can learn and work hard to become a quantitative programmer.
Lastly what’s the most popular programming language among quants
and what kind of workloads you can expect.

I’m coming from a software background who did internships as I’m getting into field soon I’m trying explore different roles where I can do meaningful work

Would love to hear from the community
The website may be the same, but at least they've "updated their privacy policy" in the lower left!
So now, the terrorists and child molesters still use the bar, but they always go into the bathroom to talk. The owner suspects that they are talking about bad things in there, and installs surveillance cameras so that if the police ever need to know what's happening in there, they have access. Would you want a real life bar owner to record you on the toilet just so that one day the police can track some bad guys easily? Probably not. Do you think it's reasonable to expect privacy on the toilet even when you're in a bar owned by someone else? Yes, even if it might one day make law enforcement a little harder. And just like we think that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy when using places intended for that in the real world, we think they should also have it online.
You mean https://www.kongregate.com/games/Dragy/portal-the-flash-vers... ? You do have it on there, and that is a great game.
There are 200kw car engines that in reality can be pushed to ~600kw with minimal modification. I'm sure you could run a 2JZ at 80% for thousands of hours.
Nah. Google doesn't even let people log into their own email with alternative browsers, and they are doing fine.
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Adobe didn’t want to continue to support Flash. I know this because their office was across the street from Zynga’s and they came over and told us (I was running a team at the time doing experimental HTML5 games). Their plan was to move to Air and they hyped the crap out of it to us.

Much effort was put into Air research and development. As a result, Zynga IPOd with a ton of huge web games in the pipeline with the theory we could cross compile with Air. This was a massive mistake and Supercell and King quickly dominated us while the next few years were spent catching up on mobile gaming.
I lost interest once I hit the level cap, level 65. Although they did raise it, there's little reason to chase after imaginary internet points.

The Kongpanions were supposed to be used in games but after a few weeks I had enough Kongpanions to saturate any game that used them. Again, more imaginary internet points.
> I’m not sure why so many people think an overuse of USB-C on Apple’s computers […]

The point is GP stated any use would be unlike Apple. I quote: “We'll probably never see USB-C from Apple”.

That’s what people are downvoting, a plainly disapproval assertion.

Your ‘overuse’ crack doesn’t jibe well with the suggestion of NIH syndrome; USB-C is an industry standard and all vendors should be and are adopting it. Lightning was invented before USB-C and solved issues that standards of the day (2010), including the various USB connectors, did not for another 5 to 6 years.

HN users have a tendency to downvote things that are easily unproven.
Which industries might struggle in the coming years?
there are a number of pieces of electronics that appear to already meet this - high quality (and older) vacuum cleaners, analog audio gear, laboratory equipment, certain kinds of vintage computers.

the main issue i run into with repairs tends to be mask roms / asics / gate arrays that are undocumented and long gone from the market. there are ways around that, but they require great effort. it's only in special niches like arcade machines or iconic 80s synths where people will go so far as to decap and image dies in order to get the needed information.

there is a particular value an object must have in order to tip the scales in favor of repair over replacement. it simply isn't practical to spend a major portion of a device's cost to repair it unless it is special in some way. i place value on repairing things and buying used but a lot of that is out of a personal feeling of pride in repairing and reusing. board level rework is a far cry from changing ones own oil.

on the topic of designing laptops and cell phones to last 50-100 years, you can absolutely make use of communications equipment from 1920-1970. radio teletypes didn't stop working, people still buy and sell them.
Perfect for a personal homepage
> "...both companies are broadly subject to Chinese law obligating them to cooperate with the country’s intelligence services."

Oh the irony.

I wouldn't purchase from these companies right now anyways, due to Hong Kong, but living in the US I would be less concerned about the CCP snooping my data then the US gov.

At least the CCP can't do anything to me here.
no you can license by CPU core
Malaysia, a former British colony, stopped teaching English in schools for the past 2 generations out of local pride.

Ironically, the generation older than that can still speak English, and roll their eyes when they have to translate for their adult kids who can't engage in tourism or trade.
> price: $0.00099

This is the advertised price on https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/, but when I click through to regions, every region is 4 to 5 times as much. Do you know if I'm missing something?
I feel like a friend just died.

I had no idea they were folding. They just rolled out a new currency feature (blocks) 12 days ago.

I've been on the site for so many years. 1936 badges level 73. I'm grieving and in denial this is even happening!

I subscribed NewGrounds because I don't want them to disappear too

:sad:
Ending involuntary homelessness with facial recognition.
A lot of existing biotech companies seem to be selling stock too. I wonder how much they can push it, if investors don't really care about dilution as long as they feel like they're saving the world.

People often say the stock market is disconnected from actually funding companies, but it seems like not in this area.
I think you are right and if they could use a simulator to practice it would be very easy to learn all the buttons by heart. Certain controls will just easily translate across any aircraft and the others you can just train on like any other vehicle slowly learning until you master it. I don't think 200 controls would take much mental capacity with practice. In many aspects of life we are taking in countless factors in what we do and make decisions instantaneously based on those factors.
Airborne aircraft carriers were pretty cool when they were operating 90 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akron-class_airship
Of WWDC, Intel, and some ramblings about what this might mean
I just made my first game[0] with the engine!!

It was a pretty painless experience. Granted it encourages globals (and JavaScript is not my favorite) but it was pretty great.

Maybe with an additional array/matrix library it would be perfect.

[0] https://andrewnc.github.io/games/pal_game.html
Do you live in Winthrop?
I can imagine the embarkation/disembarkation time for something that big :) Its a known problem for flying wing passenger aircraft.

More seriously, if you want to learn more about the history of aircraft nuclear propulsion research, the HTRE reactivity excursion report contains quite a bit of design overview in it as background for the rest of the report.

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4643464/
Your point is well taken, though are there actually Class A RVs that, brand new, cost $125k?
I don't think it's an entirely fair trade.
So what are the counter-strategies?
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This is actually wild to me. How is it being powered? Did they just pay a hosting provider decades in advance?
You produce small hills of waste. Not mountains.

The waste feel needlessly big because you touch and see it. But on a real level, your and mine personal trash does not matter.
We don't break out how much the purchase price was reduced by the use of public goods, so it seems like breaking out the tax would be more misleading than informative.
Free and open-source alternatives to Gmail on Android
No, they’ve just invented recyclable containers with a large enough deposit to be worth reusing. Milk bottles are the classic example of this.

Ban plastic containers and you’re halfway there.
Sedo is by far the easiest. Just list your domains and it's painless. I've sold well over $100k worth of domains via Sedo over the years with zero hiccups, despite their somewhat clunky website - can't say the same about other marketplaces.
Yup. That's what popped up when I searched. Thanks for the reference though.
I agree with this statement and I should have been clearer previously. When I complain about build quality and lack of innovation, it is solely with respect to what the RV assembler does with the Mercedes or Ford chassis.
The issue is with browser, not the search service.
That's something I really miss on chrome-based browsers
The best thing about the early web was that nobody knew what it was for. So people just did things, without considering if it was "right."

Nowadays, you'd never get Bob's Labrador Page. Because "Hi! I'm Bob. I live in Lebanon, Kansas. I like Labrador dogs. Here are some pictures of my favorite Labradors!"
WHO is working on human challenge trials for covid-19 vaccines. Links from Wikipedia:

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331976/WHO-...

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/speed-coronavirus-va...
Sort of. Honda doesn't really make any trucks designed for commercial use, which I suspect is the market Ford is talking about when they mention the stats about their customers carrying generators.
> If I had to pick, I think I'd prefer the gross receipts tax, but I haven't studied the underlying economics to come to a conclusion on which is better/worse.

Gross receipts tax is just sales tax that doesn't show up on the customer's receipt. They like to pretend that it's then the seller who pays it instead of the buyer, but that's not how it works. It gets paid by whoever can't pass it on. In a competitive market that's the consumer, because the seller already has thin margins and can't absorb the cost without going out of business. (In a monopolistic market it's the monopolist, but that's just as true of sales tax -- in a monopolistic market the customer can't absorb higher prices because they're already paying monopoly prices.)

> SF already has a fairly high sales tax (~9%), so I doubt they could raise it anymore (I'm considering sales tax and VAT to be the same for this discussion, since they lead to the same revenue for the government, and same cost for the consumer).

Denmark and Sweden have 25% VAT. The EU requires it to be at least 15%.

> it's a regressive tax (the poor spend more of their income/wealth on consumption vs. the rich)

People always use this argument to justify income tax over VAT even though everything about the income tax doesn't actually work like that. "Progressive income tax" but not for FICA, which is like half the income tax ordinary people pay, and hey let's disguise that fact by alleging that it's being paid half by the employer even though that's not how it works. Let's put a cap on that too, so the wealthiest pay proportionally less than regular people. And then we'll have a bunch of means-tested benefits so that even for the "progressive" income tax, in practice lower income people are paying the highest marginal rates due to the benefits phase outs. Meanwhile we'll have income tax on the "profit" of international corporations, but only on paper because they don't actually report their profits in your country.

It also doesn't work when comparing VAT to property tax, because the rich generally don't use a disproportionate amount of their wealth to buy real estate -- unless it's rental properties in which case the property tax ends up being passed on to the tenants.

If you want to make VAT progressive then use it to fund a UBI. All of these other games only give people with accountants more holes to hide in.
The batteries, manufactured by Panasonic, are engineered for 1m miles.

The cars themselves have difficulty lasting 2 or 3 years without requiring serious maintenance, assuming you are lucky enough to receive one in good working order when you pick it up.

The legacy automakers are other close to catching up to Tesla, and this COVID downtown plays into their hands day better than it does Tesla. It's a lot easier to survive a downtown when your serve the entire market instead of just the luxury market.
Also, wait... if the device is dead, how does the CABLE know that fast charging is supported by the device?
I'd be curious what geopolitical framework/elements/theory of power you're basing your analysis on.
I would happily pay(for Insta, Whatsapp, etc but not for fb) around $3-$5 per month for this.
> We deliver $100 worth of aid for every $1 we spend on operations. Literally a 100x return for humanity.

This seems awfully high, what does it include?
The best response is simpler than that, that even encryption laymen can understand:

"If I have nothing to hide, then you have no reason to look."
Tim Berners-lee should have stopped to consider the potential for dark web criminality before he developed the internet.
A common fallacy I see, though I don't know if there's a name for it, is assuming that just because what someone is doing can be described by the name of a fallacy that what the person is doing is fallacious.
>Boston is damn near overly hostile towards young people.

Massachusetts is overtly hostile to anyone who does not step in line the way a good well behaved cog in the machine should. Making it hard for people to stay out late and get drunk is just a specific instance of that.

When you picture the state as being run by a committee of stodgy puritanical authoritarians who live in Lincoln and Lexington it all makes sense.
But YouTube Live is publicly accessible, it's not the same as a law enforcement warrant. I think a better analogy is whether it should be okay for a judge to allow police officers to storm into your private residence with only a few seconds warning, and then proceed to examine and even take away anything in your room.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. The platform is filled with racist Karen’s scared of a black person’s shadow. Embarrassing they don’t take more of stance against it.
“It’s hard to find women engineers.”
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I always wonder where these women engineers are that people keep saying that they can’t find. There are schools, boot camps, companies, even Facebook groups that you can source women engineers from. But for some reason, women engineers are “hard to find.” I want to make us “easy to find.” I want to see more women on the eng floor.

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I tried doing this but it seemed to just make the algorithm look harder and harder for new things to show me, so the quality of content actually reduced.
For artistic expression? I know plenty of Flash games that are not for-profit at all. Small interactive toys hosted on personal homepages.
Will China Be Left Behind in the AI Race?
> Cities are inefficient, expensive and unsustainable.

According to whom?
I agree. I really struggled to get help with certain problems with Nim, but with Rust it has been fairly trivial to find help. The community is very active and helpful.

Nim does have a syntax I prefer more, but overall I find I’m quite a bit more productive with Rust.
Create a bookmarks folder, add bookmarks of the submission/comment pages of members you enjoy reading.
Two members stayed behind. I heard recently they still respond to email.

>two group members were briefed about a side mission. They would remain on Earth – the last surviving members – and their job was to maintain the Heaven’s Gate website exactly as it was on the day the last suicides took place.

>And for two decades, the lone Gaters have diligently continued their mission, answered queries, paid bills and dealt with problems.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/two-decades-after-h...
Logitech fixes rsi but QuadraClicks Solves it
The brain has ~100+ trillion synapses [1] (There seems to be estimates from 100-1000 T).

A 1 trillion parameter model should not be far off, which is about the same number of synapses as house mice.

We will be around 1% of the way to human brain complexity (Well, probably not but it is fun to think of it).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...
Maybe you are violating the CFAA by doing that? It's a very broad law.
> I now half expect Apple's future mobile devices to not have any ports, will just use wireless charging.

Wonder where my pocket lint will accumulate if that happens.
In case you are wondering, like me, what's the point here is some quote from the linked release "The difference for the user is minimal, but for maintainability the upstream alignment with both OpenJDK 11 and GraalVM is critical. It means that Red Hat can offer better support to customers since we have skilled engineers working within the OpenJDK and GraalVM community."

So basically RedHat is building this so they have a stable basleline for their Enterprise releases.