skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's really already able to play a large amount of content well

Can confirm. I've gone through and downloaded the .swf's for some games I had nostalgia for, and ruffle has played a significant chunk of them quite well. For a relatively early version, I'd say that's pretty good.
It's a great article; somehow, though, it clashes with some deeper feeling I have about "social" stuff.

An example: "Music, on the other hand, is an inherently social experience.". Not for me, at least not always.

I'm 43, I try to limit how much my phone/computer/social media can interrupt my life, and music for me is mostly listening to it, by myself, in the quietness of my home office or living room. Sometimes, less often, I listen to it with my wife.

From a VC perspective, this is of course terrible. I'm a "customer" that could potentially spend much more, if only I could "connect" with friends over spotify or whatever music app I use. Heck, I don't even use Spotify much: I enjoy listening to my music on VLC (a great open source media player).

I feel "old", but I'm tired of this incessant need that businesses have to monetize me. Leave me alone.

But again, this is not against the article. They're talking about business opportunities, and unfortunately they're mostly right. Some people will make a lot of money, squeezing every last drop of humanity out of each one of us.

We can't be alone. Alone, we don't spend much.

We can't be happy. When happy, we don't spend much.

Sorry for the rant.
The problem is in this case “reporting about it” literally means “spreading baseless lies”. Since as others have said we’ve now seen in court that the Trump administration and their cronies had shit.

Furthermore, it’s “spreading baseless lies which also fire up people who are threatening to murder civil servants.”

I don’t know if YouTube deciding to censor itself on this is right or not, but, let’s not censor ourselves. If we are going to discuss this let’s discuss the whole truth of the matter.
The keyboard and its privacy claims seemed promising but requiring a credit card to add a language is rude.
In September 2018 Elon Musk estimated that the total cost of Starship will be $5 billion, and no more than $10 billion but no less than $2 billion. In that same presentation Yusaku Maezawa later seems to confirm that he is paying 5% of the Starship development costs [1], but it could be something lost in translation.

5% of $5 billion is $250 million (and of $10 billion is $500 million). Maezawa’s contributions are all going directly toward [developing Starship into an operational system] [2]

Given he's taking himself and 6-8 artists plus 1-2 crew members. It's hard to believe he's paid just $250 million. That would probably make NASA very angry given they're paying $400 million per launch for Crew Dragon to carry 4 people.

I know its not a direct source, but the above analysis suggests he's paying several hundred million dollars for the Dear Moon project. $500 million is a reasonable estimate. Though I suspect that's on the low side.

[1] https://youtu.be/0q2gUWTcLRI?t=4313
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/yusaku-maezawa-zozo-ceo-r...
Luckily Ruffle has come along just in time... It has already made huge amounts of content playable and I a lot more soon, in both desktop and browser. It is the open source hero we need. Many sites like Newgrounds(a major sponsor) already using it in places.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25242115
- https://ruffle.rs/
While it is true that a 9-11/day is a high rate of death I feel compelled to point out that 9-11 only happened once.

This seems to me to be trying to make coronavirus into an emotional threat, which I'm sure is arguably a good idea. But this comparison is, fundamentally, nonsensical. 9-11 is not a good measure of deaths. The damage 9-11 did was never the number of deaths, it was the symbolism and the hysterical response that caused the real losses of life, liberty and prosperity.
https://popehat.substack.com/p/section-230-is-the-subject-of...
As a sysadmin in academia, this is not so straightforward. Since number of servers/VMs are in ballpark of over one hundred, RedHat license costs will be over 30,000$/year. This is not insignificant amount of money and not easy to get the money suddenly.
It's not Flash's fault that it was misused. Flash was a great tool for creating and sharing resolution-agnostic high quality multimedia content using incredibly small amounts of bandwidth. You weren't supposed to build entire websites with it.
Meh. It's all just text, why not show everything?
I’m so glad the pendulum seems to be swinging back to sensible server side based web dev that embraces the web and layers in dynamic front end behavior when needed. Most sites need a small amount of JS. Some benefit from quite a bit more, and for that there are things like Stimulus. And maybe you need a ton and it needs to work offline and manage a ton of local state - for that there are the usual SPA suspects. But those are and should be outliers.

The fact that “let’s use React with a JSON API Backend” is becoming much less the default is a very good thing. Web dev went into a dark time for awhile there and I’m hopeful we are coming out of it.
i would say, get into Computer Science as soon as possible. The basics you learn there are essential, and then doing the fun stuff gave me lot of aha's
It's a shame they went 1st person. I know that some people have a different opinion (e.g. [1]) but unfortunately, I immediately get motion sickness with any 1st-person game, but curiously not with 3rd person games.

I loved The Witcher, and was really psyched when Cyberpunk 2077 was first announced. Kinda bumped that I won't be able to play it now, but I guess such is life.

[1] https://www.thegamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-first-person-shooter...
I believe it's cost effective, firing these people is usually very hard legally.
I remember being on MDMA with my girlfriend, her talking to me about us, our relationship, and me thinking how little I care about any of this. We broke up within 6 months. YMMV indeed. Maybe molly is just molly.
Didn’t realize this was all running on arc. Ironically this will become a pipeline problem.
How is that even possible? You would have to order every single meal you eat...
Geforce Now free tier has limitations that make it near unusable without the subscription service. Mostly the one hour session limits, but the queue is inconvenient too. Stadia's free tier limitations is 1080p.
Wouldn't it make sense to ask him rather than post these questions here?
Connecting Simple Java Client with Apache Geode Docker Container
People also like things they shouldn't like and which will hurt them or kill them.

So "people like things you don't like" is not the only option...
I have a screencast of installing Debian that’s unlisted and has one view uploaded several years ago and last month I got an email saying YouTube had decided, after a review, that it is only suitable for mature audiences. I don’t know who flagged it or who reviewed it but there’s no video, only a screen share of Debian installation and there’s no audio. I think YouTube just counts on people appealing wrongful flags.

I no longer believe YouTube is more malicious than it is incompetent.
Maybe the quick and wide rollout of the covid vaccine is the bioerror - say the mrna translation products causing some kind of amyloid-buildup. One year after vaccination people will be showing signs of dementia. Since the elderly get vaccinated first, it isn't noticed that fast.

For precedent of "new drugs have tragic effects you only notice in a ~year" see thalidomide.
If my understanding is correct, unless you are a journalist, you're basically saying "this comment is not worth paying attention to", which feels paradoxical to me.
One thing to note, they're still in the early stages of supporting AVM2/ActionScript 3.0 [0], so if you've got a pile of newish .swf's you'd like to try, they may not work yet.

[0] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/1368
Re: public schoools, and, by extension, any public entity. This is why I stated:

> What about public authorities? Same thing applies, unless vaccination is legally mandatory. Then we'd have a different discussion.

Everything you mention is the "different discussion" in that statement.

My comment was a rebuke against what is mentioned in the grandparent comment:

> but will be individually implemented by each private org

Private organisations - restaurants, shops, music venues, malls, theatres,... - may try and ask for personal medical information, but you are not obliged to divulge anything to them.

Private organisations barring entrance because you are unwilling to disclose personal medical information: I'm wondering how well that would hold up in a legal case.

For instance, you have an autoimmune disease and you can't get vaccinated. You present at a restaurant. You are asked "are you vaccinated?". If you answer the question truthfully with "no" but you don't want to disclose your medical condition, you likely risk getting barred anyway. So, now you are in a position where you need to make a trade off: divulge your medical condition - which isn't any of the restaurant's business - in hopes of gaining access (no guarantee) or keep silent.

See where this is going? The problem isn't people who are against vaccination, it's the potential of creating legal hurdles for people who can't get vaccinated due to a medical condition which may bar them from participating in society. That's just not okay.

Moreover, if private venues are afraid of being the butt of an infection cluster (e.g. as a result of contact tracing) then they ought to insure themselves. That would be not much different from insuring oneself from other liabilities such as a patron tripping and breaking their arm in theme park. This is also the very reason why many venues have warnings and provide waivers to patrons giving up the right to take legal action against the venue.

Lastly, the article you quote specifically focusses on choosing to not get vaccinated based on philosophical or religious arguments within a public context: getting educated at a public school. Which is a different category of legal challenges. Moreover, the conclusion of the article is that tort law is only a second best approach to publicly mandated vaccination within that category.
I think the 2020 experience has taught us a bit more about people. 9/11 was horrifying and traumatising, but perhaps less because of the death toll (3000) and more because you could see footage of those people dying, played over and over. Sure, 3000+ people died of Covid yesterday, but they all did it out of sight. So it’s possible for some people to dismiss it for any number of reasons - statistics aren’t accurate, those people had other underlying health issues, they would have died of the flu anyway. Most of all, we only see the statistic. We don’t have to actually watch someone die because the virus prevented them from breathing, far away from their family.

Speaking of which, this is also probably why the BLM movement gained widespread support. Statistics showing unequal policing have existed for a long time, but they are easy to ignore. Any person who watched the 8:46 video of a man being suffocated couldn’t ignore it.

We like to think we’re data driven, but we’re actually emotionally and visually driven. Statistics should convince people, but it doesn’t. A video of towers falling or a man being suffocated are much more likely to change people’s minds.
The worst part is the branding.

Their narrative/coolaid is that they were part of the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement and wanted to do something about it!

Couching their very otherwise standard trading scheme into woke credentials, bringing an entire generation of woke youth literally right into the system they ostensibly lamented.

'Overthrow the Imperium by ... joining the Imperium and losing all your money to them!'

Like WeWork, We Charity etc., it just reeks of hypocrisy.

I'm of the belief that most traders are in fact caught up in the more superfluous aspects of trading, the 'belief' that they have some ability/skill/insight when really the are mostly in way over the heads, fish being handed over to sharks for easy money. That's obviously not entirely the case, but to a great extent. Who in heaven's name is trading complex options instruments on their smartphone ... my gosh.

The $0 fee merely encourages active trading, which is a hallmark of most bad trading strategies.

It mixes the worst aspects of gambling, with the worst aspects of hyper capitalism (the assumption that trading/investing is inherently positive) and the worst aspect of woke branding (playing on progressive credentials without any material action to that effect).

And CNN has done how many full PR pieces on these guys?

If their name was "Make Quick Cash Now with BIG LOANS for Hyper Trading, Insert Credit Card Here" - then I think it would all be much more transparent and fair.
I spend a lot of time thinking about the fact that Vietnam took all appropriate precautions and in a country with 95 million people they’ve only had about 35 total deaths of covid. And they experienced positive economic growth this year. Meanwhile in the USA I think wealthy people were worried that these measures would harm the economy so we let states and counties all decide on their own how to handle things. And the issue of mask wearing became weirdly politicized.

And actually I learned recently that in 1988 George HW Bush gave this passionate speech about how the USA needed to fight climate change head on... but by the time republicans got the presidency again the party sided with oil companies on a pro fossil fuel message.

Why do we politicize science like this? Or is it inherently political? Is it just that lobbyists influence political parties differently and so issues that have nothing to do with Democrat or Republican end up getting attached to those identities?

I don’t really know what the answer is. But I do think if the USA had all taken the science seriously and did not politicize the issue we’d have at least 100,000 more Americans alive today.
I’m always impressed by the amount of work and quality this guy put on his posts. Especially the interactive widgets
its like having lot of tools and even know the pieces of it, ... later you use them intuitively, that is way more fun, but might also be hard at the beginning. (math)
I wondered about that too. After watching a couple of times, I think what happened is that they used some sort of tarp or plastic to cover a bunch of things, and part of it caught fire and burned. So, it was probably unplanned, but if everything else in the vicinity of the engine is fireproof, probably not a big deal.
Hospitals are paid extra if the primary cause of death is listed as Covid. I have seen a handful of posts on Reddit from hospital employees who have been told to put Covid as the cause of death if the person tests positive but I won't link them here as they are not as verifiable.

From FactCheck.org's article: [1]

> “If we think it’s presumptive … we can go ahead and put down COVID-19,” Jensen said, “or even in some situations, even if it’s negative.” He pointed to the example of a 38-year-old man in Minnesota whose death was attributed to the coronavirus even though he tested negative.

There are direct financial incentives to list a person who has Covid as deceased by Covid.

[1] - https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-...
Ask HN: Is anyone using ArchLinux for server production environments?
It reminds me of a quote I heard recently about certainty (which I can’t quite remember, but goes something like): “The only thing certain about certainty is that it’s almost certainly wrong”. Or words to that effect. I think he forgot that one. But the rest are excellent. Update: someone told me it was Pliny who first said something like that.
React and TypeScript === “Headache”
> ... maybe as the UK is out of the EU the English language can become the lingua franca with less resistance as it is no ones language

I mean, this is never going to happen. Name one country in history that completely switched language without external pressure (invasion or colonisation).
I suppose that most reactions will be against this, but it should however fix the "tragedy of the commons" problem where water is overused when it is cheep but still used when it's not.

It's a good financial incentive to better your installations.
Ya, and to add to that, it's often difficult to define what exactly the 'field' is. Is the field biology? Is it statistics? Risk? The anthropology of terrorism? Answering a complex question like "will there be a bioterror event that kills 1 million people" doesn't really fit neatly into any of these categories, because it combines information from a number of fields to synthesize the final answer.
This is quite a brilliant way to put it.

Except the target market is not 'working class' it's the equally unaware 'young urbanites with decent jobs who should know better'.
RDBMS doesn't work for some of the complex hierarchical data I have to deal with. Shredding it out into a 3NF relational schema would require joining 20+ tables in every query to do anything useful. No thanks. Use the right database type for the job.
Thanks for sharing this, I'm at the start of my career and reading this definitely makes me less clueless than before. I have a very idealized world view and this reading shattered that quite a bit.
A lot of systems and libraries for HPC (High performance computing) has been built on CentOS though (OpenHPC for example). Not a large chunk of the dev population, but they still exist.
Indeed. Also people do not sufficiently realize how much more can be deducted about the nature of a social relationship other than a mere "Person A knows Person B", if you combine it with the PII you have of both users (and even more if you consider the network in its entirety).
I think many people saying that this feels like smear are mainly saying this because they themselves have negative personal feelings against Matt (one of the few good journalists left imho.)

It's somewhat ironic to praise Robinhood's UI as "good experience" when the article itself is criticizing this same experience for how it's designed to be addictive, essentially turning investing into a game. Matt is not the first to make this point [1] [2]. To be clear, I don't mind praising certain features of Robinhood or even the idea of making it accessible to start investing small. I don't blame Robinhood even for this because they're not forcing anyone to trade. But dismissing this entire article and very valid criticism against Robinhood just because of your feelings on Taibbi is a bit much.

The last couple of paragraphs seem like an appropriate tldr:

> If and when IPO money comes, Robinhood will be on its way to becoming a finance version of Facebook: a free platform that keeps a sea of customers engaged with a hyper-stimulating user experience, while making money selling intelligence about those customers’ behaviors to expert wealth extractors on the other end.

> It’s the perfect mousetrap, among other things because of its name. “That’s the other thing,” says Brewster. “They call it Robin Hood.” Instead of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, the American version takes in the young and sells them to computer-powered hedge funds; this Robin Hood is the house that always wins. If there’s a more brilliant metaphor for capitalism in the Covid age, it’s hard to imagine.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/21/robinhood-is-having-a-moment...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-22/how-robin...
Ah yes, the good old days when anyone with a bad idea and a little bit of time could chew up your CPU cycles and run ridiculously insecure code on your computer without consent.
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MGMT is also a great music band
That depends on the size of your network and who backs you.

Traditional Hierarchies are floundering about because more and more employees are hooked into networks of influence, that in many cases are larger than the networks of their bosses.
Hey thanks!

We actually very rarely start from data or market research, but basically from our own needs.

We liked Gmail but hated it using it in the browser, so we've built Boxy Suite.

We like following many websites, authors and creators, but felt overwhelmed by feeds, so we've built Mailbrew.

We love Twitter but needed a focused writing environment to remove distractions when we want to publish our thoughts, so we've built Typefully.

In every case, we decided to go ahead when we felt there might be thousands of people with the same need, and that we can address it effectively, leveraging our specific knowledge.

When we have an idea that feels great, but we feel there's no real market for it, we don't pursue it.

Hope this answers your question!
Marines with Scout Snipers Course Participate in Stalking Exercise
I obviously haven't finished reading the entire post, but I wanted to simply appreciate the hard work that has gone into this. I absolutely love interactive articles. Great job!
That sounds interesting. Forwardcom designed for forward compatibility.
Procedural Maze Creation in C# and Unity – Part 1
That's false. When one purchases a copy of a (book|software|video), one then owns that good.

A typical proprietary software licence text is irrelevant when it comes to terms of ownership, transfer of ownership, use of the good etc. as the law applies and determines "how [things] actually are". A contract, let alone a unilaterally dictated licence text, is legally unable to take away certain rights the consumer enjoys.
> Honestly, I don't think we should knock Instagram for mental health issues, that's really up to the user.

Instagram is a walk through a shopping mall where one is constantly trained to feel good or bad about certain actions and decisions. They have behavioral psychology and marketing specialists working and designing features against the user.
Conveniently, DVD players sold in PAL regions would often play NTSC too, although not the reverse.

I think decoding NTSC is a subset of what's required to decode PAL, if I remember my electronics classes well enough.

Or, searching around, it might be because region 2 DVD players had to support PAL, NTSC, 50Hz and 60Hz. Region 1 is only 60Hz NTSC.
Compared to most websites I visit during the day, HN is a breath of fresh air.
We are talking about an adult audience, right? They are allowed to vote. So you have to assume they are independent enough to make their own decisions. Period. Your argument for censorship sounds a lot like patronisation.
In this case better solution would be to use this single line (which works for >80% of clients) with try-catch in core and maybe load polyfills from exception handler via "bloat dispatcher".
These are extreme cases where you think there is consent on any single example, but it is still not a good argument for a general case.