skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah but the problem is creating that canvas-based animation is insane, so there aren't any canvas-based animations, compared to the output of flash cartoons.

I think we might be arguing past each other.

I fully, 100% agree with this point. I just don't think it has anything to do with the web.

When people brought up replacing the Flash runtime with the web, there were two things being claimed:

A) that the platform itself could handle all of the technical requirements of Flash

and

B) that tools would exist that replaced Flash.

I believe that the first claim mostly came true, that the web today is about as powerful as Flash was. The second claim never even came close to happening. A lot of platforms exist that export to the web, but even the really popular ones like Unity just don't feel the same. Unity is, unfortunately, not an adequate substitute for Flash.

And I think that's a real tragedy, but I feel like we're at a point where the web should be left out of the conversation. There are game-related APIs that I want on the web, but for the most part there is nothing that browser makers can do to solve your problem.

Someone has to make a development environment. It's a separate problem. The web today is capable of doing the stuff you want it to do, but there is no development environment that replaces Flash.

And that's kind of revealing because it's not just that there isn't a web-compatible alternative to Flash, or there isn't an Open Source alternative. Proprietary game engines that aren't even targeting the web are not as good as Flash was for rapid content prototyping. Why can't anyone, commercial or Open Source, build a Flash replacement for any platform/runtime? That's the conversation we need to be having, not whether or not the web is mature enough as a runtime.
What do you find hard about setting up a WebRTC server? I hear from users they are able to spin up a Pion DataChannel server in 5 mins (including installing Go)

WebTransport isn’t going to be here soon though, I would be cautious in investing. Stuff like Congestion Control is still a big unknown [0] and we don’t have Datagrams everywhere.

[0] https://github.com/w3c/webtransport/issues/168

[1] https://github.com/quicwg/datagram
Ok, it could be Northwest in Detroit in 1999 (https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2001-01-10-010110...), although that was 10 hours.

But I swear the incident I remember was much longer than that, about 24 hours. I think it was Chicago and I think it was United. The plane landed during a snowstorm, but all the airline's gates were in use, so the pilot parked on the ramp and waited. The passengers could see the terminal, with open gates, but the pilot/airline wouldn't use them and wouldn't let passengers off where the plane was due to the storm. Eventually a passenger managed to contact the airline president, who somehow resolved the situation.

They didn't have food or water, and the restrooms' holding tanks were overflowing.
Pretty disturbing. You can be detained for quite a long time for simply being suspected of being a virus case, carrier, or contact. That's pretty broad. And sad for our country.
I've found that DigiKey works well. Yes it's $5 shipping, but you can actually buy low quantities at good prices instead of being forced to buy 50 packs of small components for a high $/unit to cover for the free shipping. Because shipping cost is per order instead of built into every item. And they ship within 24 hours, plus everything is good quality, no fakes. I still order stuff like microcontrollers and wire from amazon though.

The disadvantage is since you're paying for shipping you need to do planning and get your final BOM established. If you make a mistake it's $0.20 for the right part and $5 shipping... Which isn't bad, but feels bad.
The Cloud Shall Set You Free
Sad but hardly surprising in 2020 how "news" sites inject provably false, political ideology into straightforward news stories.

>Parler is not necessarily extremist but skews heavily partisan, drawing mostly conservative and right-wing users based on false claims that other social media sites "censor" conservative views for political reasons

There's no dispute that social media cites censor conservatives for their political views (as well as independents, liberals and anyone else who sings a tune that doesn't align with their chosen political narrative). Whether its the NY Post or the World Socialist Website, political censorship on social media (and elsewhere) is ubiquitous. Its a shame so few outlets are capable of reporting straight news without injecting their chosen political narrative (false or otherwise).
Cars, perhaps.

For another recent historical example see: smoking.

Personally I'm waiting for when sitting at the desk all day long is found out to be Very Bad. But that's probably just a modern ‘proletariat vs capitalist’ issue—I guess factory assembly lines weren't and aren't too popular either.
It's disgusting. And it is right there for the passengers to see if only they would be willing to admit the people serving them are almost slaves. I went on one cruise in my life, saw what others did not, and will never do something like it again. People shouldn't suffer for other's pleasure.
My employer has the following job titles in IT-

* Associate Engineer

* Engineer

* Senior Engineer

* Principal Engineer

* Solutions Engineer

* Architects, Sr Architects, Enterprise Architects

And my interpretation here for Senior is probably around Solutions Engineer, bordering on, if not completely in an Architect's domain. But the thousands of Principal Engineers and downwards all have a wide range of agency for implementing the four tiers demonstrated in the article.
PCem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCem) is a great improvement in the emulation of Windows 95 era hardware. It can emulate anything from the IBM PC through to Pentium II based systems. It also emulates specific graphics cards (3Dfx, Trident, S3, CGA/EGA/VGA, Tandy graphics, a number of DirectX cards) and specific sound cards (AdLib, Sound Blasters, Gravis Ultrasound).

The project should eventually allow emulation of the entire Windows 95/Windows 98 era. In my mind, it's comparable to what BSNES was to the Super Nintendo - accurate emulation that saves an entire era of software from getting lost.

Flash is homogeneous and hardware-agnostic, unlike those old Windows-based titles. Flash provides ~1 (bar inter-version incompatibility) target platform, and as far as I know, can run entirely in software rendering mode. If your computer is fast enough, there will be no hardware-based problem with running Flash software.

For Windows 95, there were multiple 3D APIs other than DirectX and OpenGL, and some titles depended on hardware-based quirks. Those APIs and hardware needed to be emulated accurately enough or passed through. That's quite a large support surface.

In comparison, Flash needs a Windows XP VM (or a standalone projector) with software-based rendering and that's it. Not nearly as bad.
> It's difficult for me to conceive of my reaction as an overreaction

Sorry, but if you can't even conceive that you're wrong, you're not equipped to argue about it.
Public transportation options in Seattle (and greater metro area) are quite reliable.
> I don't draw, but I know doing it on a touch screen is far more painful than paper.

You have it backwards. Digital blows paper out of the water. And the iPad Pro with an Apple pencil is eating Wacom’s lunch.
How to Write Historical Fiction
This. Management is harder than many, especially junior, engineers think. The key is that you have to intrinsically want to do right by your team, sublimating your ego for the greater good of the whole. Not everyone does, and to me that’s table stakes for management, it means the person has the raw material to be a decent manager. That said it’s not sufficient. The hard part is trading off the team needs and desires versus the larger strategic imperatives. That and resolving conflicting priorities within the team.

Still, “doing right by the team” is distressingly not universal, or even when present, many don’t actually know how.
Because no one knows about Animate, but everyone was forced to use Flash?
I would have used this in ~2005. Seems like you were just slightly late to market. CS2's built in tool to slice PSD -> HTML kind of sucked and required a lot of post-processing work.
If you make it excuses for any and every instance of police brutality—which you’ve demonstrated you’re willing to do—you are effectively supporting police brutality. That is obvious, and for you play naïf when someone points it out is an act of bad faith. Please stop doing that.
I'm not very familiar with the current economy of the UK, but a glance at the gini coefficient shows a similar trend.
“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.”
- John von Neumann
In principal any nation can become an island. Not in practice.
This is a company that is selling a product, and they're receiving a GREAT deal of publicity about their utilization of a methodology core to their offerings.
Maybe "poverty" isn't the right word or metric, but according to that poll, 25% of people who make under $24k/year use ridesharing and 48% of people who make under $60k/year use ridesharing.

Granted, $50-60k annual salary might be middle-class in some parts of the country, but it's pretty clear that a huge fraction of the lower-income population in the United States do use ridesharing.
Somewhat, especially since 2009 (https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34510274) when the regulations changed to force airlines to return to a gate after waiting for takeoff for three hours.
The author Sabine Hossenfelder also has a YouTube channel where you can find more physics content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw
CloudRetro – Multiplayer NES, Playstation and More Powered by WebRTC
> Robot cars don’t make human mistakes, they make alien mistakes like running down kids on the sidewalk in broad daylight, things which don’t make any sense at all that make people feel like they aren’t anywhere safe.

This.

It doesn't matter if autonomous cars are objectively safer, 5x, 10x, 100x, doesn't matter. They have to be subjectively safer, which is part PR problem, UI problem, and part human stubbornness problem.
covid-induced insanity had me laughing maniacally at this comment
Here is a link to the Army War College if you want to see what they teach.

https://ssl.armywarcollege.edu/dmspo/index.cfm
You could make that argument about anything. Are you wondering whether raising prices should be legal?
This doesn't get much attention on HN, but Apache Royale is the legitimate blood-line successor to Flex Framework.

Adobe provided the initial resources (developers and hosting) to get the project into a stable state. The project is now managed by Apache.

The team solved a couple monumental challenges (converting AS3 to JavaScript, and putting a GUI framework on top of it).

https://royale.apache.org/
A hosted version is available at https://cloudretro.io/

You can play Multiplayer games as well recreating the ‘sitting on the couch’ experience!
I wasn’t sure it was sarcasm to be honest! I’ve seen more insane comments on HN posted with 100% seriousness and conviction.
Concurrency, Bugs and Databases
I feel your frustration, but worry that this sort of defeatist attitude (if adopted by many) will end poorly.

We have to be resilient. If we as citizens want to have any say in government, we need to engage despite frustrations, setbacks, and what even appears to be bad faith attempts to circumvent established procedures like this seems to be (and the FCC net neutrality comment process was).
Rollback networking is essentially event sourcing. Game states are immutable, and new game states are derived from adding inputs (events).

You keep the last dozen game states around in memory, and if you receive an input from the past, you rewind to the last game state prior, add it to your input stream, and fast forward to the present.

It has the same base advantages and drawbacks as RTS networking - the core logic is written as though the game is single player, and complexity can be scaled arbitrarily without bloating bandwidth requirements.

But in addition, you get the benefit of zero input latency (play a multiplayer RTS game and send a unit around - they won't move for 200ms or so), and the drawback of an absolute clusterfuck time rewind debugging madness if any inadvertent mutation of your immutable data happens.

The reason you do rollback with something like this is it gives you zero latency, and you can retrofit it on to an emulator without changing any game code just by using memcpy() on the game state.

Source: I've developed about a dozen titles using rollback networking.
Indeed. I hesitate to change it manually though, as I know the (former) name of the road was done as part of a 911 upgrade in the early-mid 00's, and a lot of similarly semi-private roads renamed a few years after that. So OSM got their data from some official source a decade ago, and a number of roads throughout the locality are equally messed up by the lack of updates.
Amazon Glacier is tape-based, so anyone certainly can get access to tape for backup purposes.
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I've come across a lot of similar sentiment from ex-Flash devs, who romanticise its heyday as a period of fertile creativity (true) and say that HTML5/JS/CSS/SVG is an inadequate replacement (false).

In truth, the fundamental capabilities of the modern web platform matches and typically exceeds anything that was offered by Flash. What these people are really lamenting is the ease of authorship that Flash provided to non-technical users.

Macromedia/Adobe provided a suite of powerful tools for authoring Flash animations and applications. There is no free equivalent available targeting HTML/JS. This is not a problem of capability in the platform technologies. It is because there is no economic incentive to make and give away such tools. What equivalents do exist in this sector cost money.

When it comes to Flash, the old adage, "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product" holds true. The Flash authorship tools were free because 3rd party authors creating Flash content were assisting in the promulgation of a proprietary platform that was gradually replacing open web standards. Had they succeeded, Macromedia/Adobe would inevitably have looked to squeeze and monetise their domination of the web.

Programmers are often accused of not understanding what Flash offered to artists. Maybe that's true, but I've not encountered many artists who conversely understand the above.
Having the origin be China is bad enough for the CCP but if it’s caused by some kind of accident sloppiness that can somehow be tied to lack of government regulations or something, they’re looking at serious domestic problems. Even if it did happen the CCP would never admit that and will seek to censor any claims to that effect.

That’s why both conspiracy theories about this being a man-made conspiracy of the USA/China stem from the populist camps (ie Trump and Xi).
No questions. After giving just a quick skim, this paper looks like great work. The findings are remarkable, and they're presented in clear, to-the-point language.

I confess to being a bit shocked that given the same number of parameters, training is 1.65x faster (whoa), generation is 9x faster (wait, what!?), and perplexity is better (which is a flawed measure, but still), and all by using a new form of "curriculum learning" and adding position embeddings to the queries and keys but not the values.

And it's so nice to see new ideas and improvements that don't rely on yet more computation or yet more parameters (I'm looking at you, GPT-3).

Congratulations!
Developing the faculty to emotionally detach from things you read or see, and stay level-headed, is useful across one's entire life. Doctors, first responders, and other people who face extreme situations develop it to be able to do their jobs.

But it's not out of reach for a person who just practices it consciously. This is not about removing your emotions, it's about letting your mind observe the flow of emotions, and still stay and act sober.
Are you not allowed to bring in things like books or laptops to keep you occupied?
I wasn't in a hotspot and hand soap has been hard to get all year.
Well, if I may be blunt, environments like that typically aren’t good to work in. Sounds like too little trust for great work to happen. Any thoughts about going elsewhere?
I just want USB PD, 4K HDMI @ 60Hz and USB C. You can get loads of cheap ones that do this for not much money, apart from the 4K @ 60Hz where suddenly they jump up to $200+, which seems a bit excessive to avoid plugging in two extra cables at my desk, but maybe I should bite the bullet.
> Nobody is arguing a tool like Flash shouldn’t exist; it should. People are arguing a runtime like Flash shouldn’t exist, and that HTML5 has all of the components that are needed to be that runtime and then some. A tool should give us what Flash did but with the HTML runtime.

The author doesn't argue a tool like Flash should exist. He just states the fact that HTML has still not caught up to fill the blank caused by Flash exiting yet, which is true IMO.
the new functions in recent versions of excel make an even strong case for its use

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing...

https://www.excelcampus.com/functions/dynamic-array-formulas...
That is to let them spit their sand out, and it only takes about 20 minutes.

If you want to let them spit overnight, you should put them into salt water, fresh water will kill them.

Most shellfish for consumption are farmed, and it's really important that they're grown in clean water to taste good, especially if the intent is to eat them raw.
That's okay. I use retailers way more often than I buy cables. Find a good retailer and you can buy several products from them over time, not just one.
Those won't fix every game, but fortunately PCem can do a fine job emulating the appropriate hardware.
There's plenty of fat in this budget. The hypothetical worker in your link might consider increasing his labor supply beyond eight hours a day. Maybe he could forego his biannual iPhone upgrade. He might even cut his consumption of high-dollar first world medical care.

Now, I understand you think these are all things that, as a matter of decency, our citizens should have. That's great! Then pay for it, and stop saddling everyone else with the costs of your morality.
Thanks dude
> I wouldn't blame congress for this ... but it lets the FDA decide how they want to do that.

That's blameworthy. Congress routinely cedes what are essentially legislative powers to such agencies. It helps them dodge responsibility. IMHO it improperly transfers Article I powers to the Article II branch.
Pretty amazing that such a small change to your code gets you so much performance!

Great find!
It depends on your role. If you are an individual contributor, you may not be expected to supervise other engineers or organize their work.
EU and China agree new investment treaty
This hasn't been my experience. I have been called by them before, but it's been at least a year. And less than a half a dozen times in my life. And most of those were sometime after a large purchase where they were (claiming) to ask if the thing was working ok.
I thought all of these were interesting except number 3. The rest were common “misunderstandings” in popular culture. #3 seems more like internal physicist pedantry.
> Look at a company like Anker.

Same with "gl.inet" (weird name, yes).

They operate in the most trashed-up market on earth: cheap internet-connected widgets. But I will buy from them every single time because all their products run a modified OpenWRT and all of them let you replace it with vanilla upstream OpenWRT. And all of their recent products have a physical "unbrick this device" button you hold down to boot to a slick reflash-the-firmware-over-the-network ROM.

I will not hesitate to pay twice as much for a gl.inet widget because of this.
Take it up with MIT, not me. I'm sure they'd love to hear your theories about how fridges aren't necessities in the winter :) I take it you're an expert in living wage calculation?

For what it's worth when I reviewed their methodology, as I suggest you do, I didn't see a line-item for "biannual iPhone upgrade." [1] And re: medical care, I'm sure you know someone making $12/hr can't afford to set foot in a hospital in America. For a single-income household of 2 parents and a child, the threshold for Medicaid eligibility is $15/hr.

As a taxpayer, I retort, stop saddling me with the bill for the employees time you're consuming but refusing to pay for. If their services are that important to you, I'm sure you can pay what it costs without forcing me to split it with you. As a fine upstanding participant in this nation's economy, I'm confident you'll find a way. Maybe forego that biannual iPhone upgrade ;)

[1] https://livingwage.mit.edu/resources/Living-Wage-Users-Guide...
There's no almost about it, if you look at the percentage of positive tests.
> It boggles the mind that anyone could have believed that replacing many of the core productive bits of the economy with fluff like management (and ownership), finance, and hospitality would lead to anything but weakness.

It works well in the micro, but not the macro. Apple is a excellent example of this being ridiculously profitable: management, finance, R&D, engineering and all "high value" work is in the US, and the "boring" manufacturing stuff is handled offshore. This works very well for shareholders, management and skilled employees. The American machinists and die-makers (who don't get a say) lose out, and over time, their skills will be lost as the experienced workers retire without passing on their knowledge - then the whole industry suffers.
Sure, but that's no different than any other worker being able to work a second job while idle.
Unfortunately 80 proof vodka doesn’t do the job, they’d have to sell ethanol rectified well above 120 proof to leave some room for aloe.
yeah, I think you need to be a recognizable brand and have tons of traffic to be able to make real money out of it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> We can only do our best.

Maximizing QALY is the standard medical tool to decide what “do our best” means.

If something is QALY negative, it means we were better off doing nothing — “do nothing” is the zero line for QALY analysis.

The classic example is stopping chemo for terminal cancer patients or deciding which of two patients receives an organ.

“Not lockdown; do nothing” is the zero line for evaluating responses to the pandemic — so yes, if our current plan is QALY negative, we should have done nothing. The current plan has an expected net loss of quality years of life.
I don't know if it's rational or not, especially since I'm sure there are plenty of microplastics and pollutants in everything else, but I've completely removed filters & anything whole like shrimp from my diet.

I enjoy shrimp and scallops, but honestly I feel like given my current knowledge it's not worth it. Maybe we'll find out that all the microplastics in the ocean are totally fine, but better safe than sorry in my opinion.