skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll miss the Flash era. I feel like there was significantly greater creativity enabled by it than we see today in the HTML5 era. Flash is also much easier to develop for. Yes the security issues were not great. But those can be addressed. Building some of Flash's capabilities into browsers is just shifting where the complexity sits. But the experience of building on web standards is still terrible, and I don't think these standards are as open as people think, since they seem to be primarily controlled/steered by Google. As as for Steve Job's anti-Flash missive - obviously that was to justify proprietary Apple native technologies (specific to their hardware) displacing what Flash provided. I'm sad the HN crowd ate it all up.
It may not be itself, but it's used in a number of them (e.g. Security Rules for Cloud Firestore and Cloud Storage for Firebase).
Now it's back up.
However the Internet is like the Earth — there is but one.
Intuitively the formula should have the length of the rope, radius of the fence, and PI. And intuitively a rope length of the radius would cover half the circle, but a quick test of putting two goats in there shows they can't eat all the area. So the formula probably have a minus in it. Next I would try to figure out how large the goat circle outside the fence is because then i would also know the area inside...
Everyone is aware that businesses mostly fail. Without the nerves to try to succeed despite that, you're sure to fail too. That's not inspirational bs, humans only do well when they think they can (also known as why people who "aren't maths people" can't do maths).
The theory being that video porn is substantially more harmful than actual use of prostitution services? It doesn't seem impossible, but I'd want to see some stronger evidence.
How do you keep non poor relationships if you are just transitioning between work/sleep states?

You can't keep relationships if the time spent on a relationship tends to 0.
+1

With swift & obj-c your coding against the same library APIs, so in many ways it's a very similar level of programming. In many ways swift is far more complicated than Obj-C. With Obj-C iOS apps your not really writing that much C vs. the pseudo-smalltalk attachment to it.
There is a lot of treatment resistant depression and psychedelics may be effective.
Given that General Aviation uses NOAA weather data, that alone makes the NOAA data more useful than almost any other source. They also provide data to our fishing and ocean transport ships.

And, it's been available to the public via the internet for at least two decades I know of at nws.noaa.gov (which now redirects to weather.gov).

NOAA's data is a stupidly valuable resource, even discounting the resellers.
Except that Obama reduced funding and Trump increased funding. So this is not exactly the way you're portraying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376087

And that bill you mentioned failed because the GOP did not support it. It was just the one congressman that wanted it. No one else agreed to join him. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Dut...
Hope you have an extroverted personality type and express you energy fully externally, other Paul G doesn't wanna know about you.
> Just as you said, even the well off have to fill up their water tanks daily and hope they don’t use it all up.

I thought this was a deliberate approach: the city would round-robin supply water and if you’re wealthy, you fill your tanks when it’s your turn, and if you’re not, you do all of your water consumption during those periods.
"Visual stories that feel like yours, because they are."

Well, at least until the product doesn't gain much traction and Google kills it.
Errm, AccuWeather is one of the companies complaining about this proposal. From the article: "Jonathan Porter, a vice president and general manager at the private forecasting firm AccuWeather, warns that the agency’s proposed solution would harm the timeliness and accuracy of forecasts and severe weather warnings. He said the collection, processing and distribution of weather information are the agency’s “most important services.”"

Apparently not getting all that NWS weather data for free and then being abl to use it in their commercial weather forecasts would put a bit of a dent in their business model. Actually, I think commercial organisations like AccuWeather probably be the main ones affected; ordinary end users aren't going to be requesting large quantities of data.
That is not what monopoly legally means.
And now Reddit is down
Stock Market Crash: The End Game and Down the Rabbit Hole (Nov 26, 2020)
What exactly are the victimless consentual activities that money laundering laws punish?
At a cost, cheaper to just get fresh water I would imagine
The market in question is iOS app stores (or iOS apps), not smartphone operating systems.
What's newsworthy about this?
Terminating support contracts for using your rights could easily run afoul of other laws in different regions as anti-competition. It only takes 1 region to take this approach and the code is out.
Boris Johnson: no-deal Brexit now a 'strong possibility'
See also Scott Manley’s video:

https://youtu.be/zoE4m8RqOWs
Yeah, someone else corrected me here as I inverted inflation in the wrong direction. It doesn't change the logical premise of the strength of money changing is what will motivate increased value in stocks either way.

I was tired and only half paying attention, but I should have vetted this better before posting it. My bad.
>sometimes "regulatory capture" should be fought as unjust.

The problem is that Airbnb was the one deciding what laws to ignore. Odds are the group of laws they considered regulatory capture were much bigger than the group of laws that were considered regulatory capture by consumer protections groups. There is not a clear delineation between what laws truly protect people and what laws only give that appearance. The proper way to fight regulatory capture is through the political system.

The "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" mindset can be dangerous when it is applied to issues of public safety.
The underlying language the hashicorp configuration language (HCL) is open source.
It certainly is a conundrum for startups, where after the founders, you're asking someone to commit career suicide by working hard for you.
As I mentioned, there is no need for a company to publicly post details of their products for people to figure out what languages they were written in.
> it should be good for France and bad for Germany

the permanent triangulation between France, Germany, and the UK in itself was harmful to the EU. It's always been a problem for us (speaking as a German citizen) that we were torn between pro-integration and sovereignty.

At the end of the day the EU can only work if France and Germany, realistically being by far the two dominant countries in the union, have a clear, common vision rather than obstructing the institutions. With the UK out of the window I actually see this lack of choice as positive, because it finally forces resolution of the question where the EU should go.

What I'm saying is, nothing that is bad for France and good for Germany or vice versa is good for either one of us in the long run.
Let's see if any are set up in Jammu and Kashmir.
Why doesn't Mozilla offer a paid version? I use my browser more than any other application on my computer...
Why do gamers invert their controls?
Medication can be mandatory, absolutely.
> the vast majority of money laundering happens with cash

Can you explain that? How do I take my illegal gained cash and convert it into enough clean money to buy a house? And why can't anti-money-laundering laws and agencies stop that?

> The vast majority of money laundering is for victimless crimes, including the consensual adult sales of drugs, gambling, porn, and prostitution

There's two things here. There is not believing that these crimes should be crimes- and in that, you and I likely agree. But the other thing is whether criminals should be allowed to make money for doing things that are against the law. And I don't agree.

If you think the laws should be changed, vote for that, fight for that, protest for that. But don't tell me that all criminals should be allowed to clean their money because some laws aren't just.
> AMP

it's Google one AMPing (heh) Amazon's alexa actions.

You develop content they can shove in their Voice/Phone "AI" Assistants, and they throw some organic search scraps your way.

The end goal of those companies (goog, amz, appl, fb) is to be the new AOL. And the plan is the same as AOL in the 90s: controlling the new browser (the App du jour used to run searchs and scroll mindless content)
I'll let Tristan or Torin comment more authoritatively, but back in 2017/8 CEL partnered with OPA and I believe CEL was used as the basis for expressions in their new version of Rego.

I left the team about that time, so I don't know what exactly happened after that, but I wouldn't be surprised if the two are fairly close. My assumption is that's why CEL is polished up and OSS (I think we first published it a few years ago, why'd it get posted now?)
But Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man.
Interesting but I have the opposite experience.

Java is weak in small scope and gets stronger with larger applications as it scales quite well in maintainability.

In that sense adoption of microservice has hurt Java since you still need to do a lot of Java ceremony, tomcat + spring boot still starts up slow, you can't leverage superior IDEs to refactor interfaces across services etc.

For thin microservices I would probably tend to use something like node.js, for traditional monoliths (IMHO still have their place) with a lot of complex logic I would use Java (or Kotlin, C#).
I'm very far away from that bubble and I have yet to meet anyone who uses Bing either. And I know several people who still use Hotmail/Yahoo.
Hey I just wanted to say I have been subscribed to BetaList email newsletter for more than a year ago and it has been really inspiring for me to see the products people are building and you guys highlighting those in your platform
I really love their customer service. Since it's not possible to delete your account from whithin the settings (after disagreeing with updated ToS) I had to contact them. It only took me 16 emails and 27 days to delete my account! Very efficient! /s
Rewriting apps (esp. as large as Uber) is essentially your plan meeting the enemy. There's many unknown-unknowns simply because technology is complex, and although it's pretty much unprovable, the brisk pace of technology also means you'll have more unknown-unknowns. Only a big industry shift in priorities will change that now.
The better question is what farmer has a circular fence and is actively tying livestock to said fence. The fence should be good enough!
handshake agreement != money in the bank
But I mean in terms of a degree as a heuristic for employability, a non degree candidate needs to be much better at self directed learning the stand out. I.e. there are plenty of CS grads who are terribly unqualified but will get the job because of their degree
Emperor's Stringettes?
NeurIPS 2020 – Conference Watch on Self-Supervised Learning
It is the exact reason I chose to live in a water rich part of the country/world. I live in an arid area for awhile and to me it just seemed like a death trap, your life is nearly 100% dependent on local infrastructure operating correctly and what little water resources you have not being bought up and sucked up by some large corporation to grow and sell some specialty crop.
> But there are many people who enjoy working as porn stars. Don't judge them.

If tolerance is the highest value, you have arrived at the end of values itself, because everything must be acceptable. I do not subscribe to that point of view. I do not applaud that which I find to be destructive for a world worth living in.
I caught your presentation to GoSF a couple weeks ago -- it was very impressive and I'm looking forward to the opportunity to apply lessons learned from that.

https://github.com/pixie-labs/pixie/tree/main/demos/simple-g...

p.s. The slides would be nice to have too :-)
Think of the children or think of the porn stars? Which sets of pearls are we clutching?
If you think that GDPR is a step in the right direction, I've got a bridge to sell you.

Here is how GDPR is likely to pan out in a few years. Some big companies get sued under GDPR. This sets precedents and makes complying with GDPR more expensive. Because it is now harder to comply with GDPR, that becomes a barrier to entry for new companies. The fact that the barrier to entry exists makes the big companies more profitable. And the fact that the regulatory scheme improves their profit margins will incentivize the internet giants to engage in regulatory capture and improve their profit margins even more.

The result? The big internet companies wind up like Brer Rabbit. They say, "Don’t throw me into the briar patch."
I really liked flash as a creative development tool.

Anyone here have experience using the newer Adobe Animate and getting it working fine on websites?
Apps in iOS are sandboxed anyway so spyware/virus concerns are less of an issue just due to the platform itself.

But I agree with the other posters: literally making it impossible for me to willingly do something with my own device is not a feature.

There are other ways to help prevent payment issues or privacy concerns - one of which is just sticking to the App Store (if it really is that valuable then won't the market decide?) - the other of which is requiring hoops to jump through like Google does with third-party applications on Android. Hell - look at Gatekeeper on macOS.
All the world really is becoming a stage. John Maus was right about "the stage" being the only place where people can transform into different subjectivities.[0]

[0] https://youtu.be/A4b0c7bdzfg?t=40
In the article I a see a success story for the people behind the company. The results (valuation and whatever) speak for themselves and how they got there is irrelevant if the only question is whether the company is successful in dollars and cents.

Here in the comments I see concerns not just about whether the company is successful or not, but whether it has done any good. That is, _good_ for people other than the owners of the company.

That is not about “attitude”, or some other self-help slogan. You can’t evaluate the outside world based on what you read in Think and Grow Rich.
Hey you should check out indiehackers too
It’s community of people running businesses as one man operation
What I like to compare it to, is cars. If you want to only ever take your Volkswagen to a Volkswagen dealer, buy Volkswagen parts and only carry out service done by Volkswagen engineers - you can absolutely do that and no one will or should ever stop you. But the second Volkswagen says you can't use a 3rd party part in your car that you bought - everyone should be up in their arms about it. There's a line here - and it should end at customers choice, always.

The simplest way to do this would be like on android devices when you want to unlock a bootloader - a one way, single step process, where the phone wipes itself and reboots and is then "unlocked". If you did that on iPhones it would be enough of discouragement to stop all the mums and grandmas from accidentally installing dodgy software off the internet, but it still leaves the final choice to you, the user. You want a bodyguard, not a nanny - there's a difference.
Piet-GPU Vision
Re any large Clojure projects needing modernization or migration to new stack – I would be happy to take care of projects like this, tech debt is not a problem for us, email me dustin@hyperfiddle.net
I wonder if anyone has done an estimate of water losses in a home/day to evaporation (e.g. toilet bowl evaporation, humidifiers, drying laundry, drying dishes, etc.).

R/O is expensive. Tons of opportunities in the average home for re-use. Can use that shower/sink/laundry/dish water for toilets. A selective automatic bypass system could save the (mostly soapless) water to replace plant/garden watering (though that’s evaporation!).
They already accept https://thebitcoinnews.com/pornhub-accepts-bitcoin-top-adult...

This simply means that the government will double down on making life for crypto holders more and more difficult, like KYC on non-hosted wallets
If you have US-based clients the time difference makes it hard to be “available” from Asia. It’s much easier to go south: Belize, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Chile, etc. The cost of living is about the same but you’re still in a time zone where it’s easy to keep in touch. If you have clients on the west coast then working from Guayaquil isn’t really any different than working from New York City.
Google Story will become History in a year. Why bother?
If he's not too tied to his job, leaving and finding another one in 6 months shouldn't be a big issue. Whenever I start looking, it takes me around a month to get a new gig.
Pretty cool man!!
Do you create all the templates yourself or it’s community driven
No, this is why they should stop processing payments for those other platforms too.
Open a bar, pour liquor down the drain then say you sold it at a huge markup and they paid with cash.

(This is not advice.)
Cyberpunk 2077 shines on next-gen consoles and Stadia but old hardware struggles
Also, fatality rates aren't the only basis for comparison. COVID-19 seems to be leaving survivors with serious long-term and quite possibly permanent damage at many many times the rate that flu does. More like polio than flu, not least in that it was the survivors who reminded everyone day after day of how serious it was.
That looks really polished. Well done. It wouldn't be HN if I didn't give some feedback!

One thing that I think is confusing is "Advanced security" and "Any file type" in the price comparison. I think it is better to list the specifics e.g.

"Password Protect Your Profile Page"

"Only .mp3 and .wav supported"
"All music files supported"

Etc.
> It could be hidden the same way as developer options

If checking a box buried three screens deep in Settings is all it takes to play Fortnite with your friends again, that box is going to get checked. And once it does, all the privacy and security of iOS devices goes out the window.
> Not sure how whatever conjured view of voter turnout YOU have is relevant. You can go to https://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/statistics/turnout grab `Voter Turnout Partisan-NonPartisan Through August 2020.xlsx` and see that turnout percentage is computed as `number of votes cast` / `voting age population`.

This is funny -- here's a single example from the WI.gov page to show how little care is given to cultivating and maintaining this data...

HINDI: 56184

County: ST. CROIX COUNTY

Municipality: VILLAGE OF SPRING VALLEY

Total Electors 2012: 4

Voting Age Estimate 2012: 6

Voter Turnout 2012: 66.67%

Total Electors 2016: 319

Voting Age Estimate 2016: 10

Voting Turnout 2016: 3190.00%

So I can find slivers that support wild claims too. I think the more productive discussion is just doing a side by side of signatures and rolls - not that hard, no real argument about it - and everyone can stop trying to dig for little things and becoming unbearably pedantic with each other.
This is one of the more humorous threads I've read in awhile. Instagram stories are among the most widely used social media features, and it seems like the majority of commenters here are completely unfamiliar with the format.
Major Reddit Outage
> Not letting culturally incompatible people in...

South Korea does not have a "cultural compatibility test" as a requisite for immigration. But I see your point. It is a disgusting one to make, though.
So much rewritten history in this article. Ycombinator has no credibility anymore IMO.

The moral of the AirBnB story is basically: Do illegal shit, laws be damned and also rack up a ton of bad debt. If you succeed you’ll have so much investor money that not only will you believe to be above the law, but the law will begin to believe you. And if you fail? Well fuck you thats your problem now you’re probably going to prison and having a shitty credit score forever but thank you, next.

And people wonder why I’m so willing to abandon morals and ethics in the pursuit of dollars. Look at this world.
haha you're the first person to notice the Dr Who thing.

Good advice, thank you!
Have you ever worked in a Federal Government agency?

Edit: Why is this question being downvoted?
2020 Best Year Ever
2020 has been the worst year for many people and companies. But this post is about sharing your success stories in business or personal life. Try to think of the most positive and successful stories. Maybe this will inspire others around here. Happy upcoming 2020 holidays.
This can be a tricky area to navigate at the moment, even if you’re an honest merchant.

A lot of people in one industry I’m familiar with that has been badly hit by the coronavirus situation got together and started a movement to basically do discounts across the industry for as long as the virus lasts. It really is a sincere attempt to help customers who will in many cases be taking a hit themselves. This is a small world, and many of the businesses in it are small and might be on first-name terms with at least their regular customers, so I think there is a genuine sense of everyone being in it together at the moment. However, it does also make sense as a purely commercial decision. Some sales making at least a slight profit is clearly better than almost no sales at normal margins in the current environment, and it’s in everyone’s interests, including merchants’, to avoid losing customers for good because they can’t themselves afford to continue in the field after all this disruption.

So, at what point does having a price that is X% below what you would normally charge cease to be that, because it has itself become what you normally charge? Is it deceptive to say prices are reduced by X% right now if you reduced them 3 months ago as the virus started to affect your market? What if it was 6 months, or 9, or 12? Does it make any difference, either morally or legally, if you intend (but presumably can’t prove it) to put your prices back to normal once the virus situation has been sufficiently dealt with? If so, does it make any difference how long that takes? What if you discover in time that your reduced rate is actually a better price point and you do want to keep it even after things get more back to normal?

These seem to be surprisingly difficult questions at the moment, even if you’re just trying to keep your business afloat and help your customers out a bit.
I've tried substituting peroxide contact lens cleaner with the cheap hydrogen peroxide and while I made sure the concentration was the same, the feeling in the eyes was much rougher. I'm not sure if the optical peroxide goes through another process.

For something that's not often done, $11 isn't too bad for not having to play chemist.
Why not go with a regular blog post where you can fit as much text as you want, instead of torturing a micro-blogging platform for this?

It's like using screws as nails. It can be made to work somewhat, but it's not very usable.