skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That link doesn't work. Okay, I admit I don't know much about the modding community these days, but back in the day it used to be ALL about enabling you to play the files you just downloaded. What do mods do these days? I admit that if someone is selling a mod that lets you, I don't know, change the sprites around in your favorite game, that would not affect N's bottom line and it would be a big problem if they confronted people about something like that.
Agree! Tobi Lütke and Shopify make a similar impression to me.
It only appears when a submission is [dead].
If you truly wanted speed, why not Cap'n'Proto?
Regardless of whether you like Flash, this should be yet another ominous warning that you do not really own your computer anymore.

It's one thing to shut down servers used by an online service (and there's already plenty of disgust about that), it's something else entirely to essentially reach into everyone's machines and delete what they don't want! Imagine if Microsoft decided to attempt to wipe all traces of MS-DOS from existence --- this is similar, in that people have spent countless hours of effort and built lots of "applications" upon the platform, and while they would not expect the original company will "support" that eternally, they expect it to still be usable.

No doubt there will be something in the EULA that lets them do this, but I still think it's crossing a line.

The frog continues to boil slowly...
> Have you ever worked on a federal contract? The compensation really is not poor, unless you’re comparing it to say FAANG compensation, which is not really normal. They make as much, if not more, than current market rates.

I think there is a disconnect here. Public employees--people who are actually employed by the government--have fixed, low salaries (relative to the tech sector). Contractors for the public sector--people employed by private companies--actually have pretty decent salaries. These two sets of people are different categories, but a lot of people hear "government" and may be failing to realize the distinction between actual government employees versus contract employees.
Dawn Wells, Mary Ann on 'Gilligan's Island', dies of Covid-19 complications
Covid-19 second-stage vaccinations in UK to be delayed for up to 12 weeks
Ogden's basic English - interesting find. I wonder if the word list for OBE can be used as "most basic words" for practicing other languages?

Would such a "unit vector" for basic speech be similar in other languages?
Efficiency is a relative term. Let's say a company is good at what it does, but then becomes a monopoly that can dictate unfavorable terms and capture the surplus, was it an efficiency gain on the whole? Let's say companies do very well, but deplete natural resources and lobby against infrastructure projects, did society gain as a result? These questions are naturally difficult to answer but there's at least more to the story than just the inductive reasoning of creative destruction fixing everything. Less efficient actors getting booted out is only a small part of the process as usually the consequences are on the second order range.
What the governor actually said:

>I don’t have data in front of me, but anecdotally, it looks like somewhere around 40% of staff at nursing homes are taking the vaccines and 60% are not taking it.”

A source that isn't a random twitter user misquoting another random user:

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2020/12/30/60-of-ohio-nursing...
I never said it was the only way. You made it a false choice in your mind.

Locking people up is a deterrence but it creates many criminals by putting them in depraved conditions for extended periods of time, then depriving them of employability and then as an insult, charging monthly fees for probation or other post-incarceration monitoring.

The last thing I want to point out is how often the police victimize people and create new victims. It's incredibly common.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201230204459/https://www.rootc...
>in-person from a government office

In the middle of a pandemic?
https://www.webwall.io - a privacy focused chrome extension I built over a weekend. Hit 1k users in a week or two but $0
"We'll export the factories, but keep all the manufacturing expertise here", is not something you'll often hear, from a manufacturing engineer. I once asked a Harvard Business School professor, how such nonsense could have been believed - did no one ask? He replied, I taught that... "the ideas were in the air".

I've wondered, whether the concern for foreign propaganda, targeting US communities disconnected from reality by group-think, is perhaps misguided, in its focus on populists. Sure, sometimes you target propaganda at troops. But the usual and higher-leverage target for deception, is leadership.
People tend to jump from telemetry straight to snooping on users even though it's just one possible case.

A possible megabyte of data: A rolling in-memory debug-level log + stack traces with context + timing information, that you snapshot when the app catches and exception. Or a buffered set of timing stats from a minute of runtime.

The author mentioned implementing ddsketch for probabilistic quantile distribution. That's something you run on your own app/infrastructure rather than for snooping on users.
Ma Creation Digitale Analogique
How many years are lost because of the lockdown?
Does that mean I won't have to suffer through my crappy company interactive training videos?
Those sites have had 5-10 years' warning. Some things need to die and the benefit to everyone outweighs the needs of a few. If Flash wasn't killed then people keep writing for it.
The Power of Memes: How Among Us Became Mainstream [video]
Most tech employees in even in the valley aren’t founders or early employees risking it all. There is probably some element of drive for commercial products or something but I think you’re vastly overestimating the degree to which that is a factor vs compensation.
There is no reason standalone Flash Projector should stop working too.
This is a constant misunderstanding of supply and products origin. Just because an iPhone is "made" in China does not mean it's a Chinese phone. Apple have rigorous standards of quality control and factory management, they have oversight.
A Chinese product, would be something that is designed in China and also made by Chinese production. Those are the Chinesium that have little to no quality control and are Chinese products. iPhones are not Chinese products, they are being built in China to Apple standards.
I would agree with you that Anker seem to make nice products of a higher quality.
I went to see him give a guest lecture at a university, a few years ago. It was a great disappointment. It was a terrible lecture. I’m not sure anybody who attended got anything out of it other than being close to the “great man“.
XTrackCAD 5.2.1
That tweet is as misleading as possible and does present it as fact.

At best this is a startup company seeking publicity so 'good faith' is to be taken with more than a grain of salt.
Because there is no strong evidence. Strong claims require strong evidence.
https://Loodio.com

A poop device. Well, Kickstarter coming soon so we will see.

Video demo: https://youtu.be/XSBPfK-ZIsA
Ex-product manager at Google about why Google Cloud Platform lost to AWS
I bought lacktivity.com with the hopes of building something that would make fun of people for being inactive so much. Then I looked into what it takes to build a mobile app and gave up. I'm not a dev. But it was going to feature such gems as

"Congrats, you've been inactive for 4hrs 32m: A new record!"

"Lacktivity has crashed due to sheer boredom."

"Wow, 100 steps in an hour! Next time, try taking the longer route to the fridge."

"Putting the fitness tracker on your dog and then playing fetch in the house is no way to go through life."

It was a fun idea, but I totally lack execution.

Domain for sale if anyone wants to pick up the idea.
Git won because it was created by Linus and Linux moved to it, and that brought it a huge amount of publicity. Then GitHub came along and cemented its place.
Never heard of it, thanks
Stripe did it better. Github's sphere has just a handful things, it looks empty. Silent globe. Not a good message. Massive, astronomical waste of time.
I just spent some time digging, but finding original sources from the ~1950s is really hard without a NYTimes subscription.

These sorts of things look like promising primary sources, but I can't access the full text.
https://www.nytimes.com/1949/01/12/archives/city-gets-elevat...
https://www.nytimes.com/1949/02/03/archives/tenants-want-a-d...
https://www.nytimes.com/1928/11/11/archives/elevator-law-cha...
Officially there is no upstream release of Java that supports macOS on ARM64 due to the lack of W^X support. You have to manually backport the patches or build from master.
In Baltimore?
Fantastic comment. I've spent some time on spreadsheets for task tracking, giving priorities, due dates, estimated completion time, and subjectively evaluating "payoff". A spreadsheet isn't the best UI for something that changes so often though, I'd like to write something better that works for me and maybe share it, or someone can share their preferred personal tracker with me.
> Don't people use pb so they do not have to deal with JSON?

I think that's one reason, but there are others too, like getting generated type-safe accessors and an explicit schema. I've sometimes used protobuf for this reason even when I'm not planning to use binary format.

> I'd expect that for a truly lean pb implementation, adding JSON is a 300% increase in code size?

Here is a breakdown of a binary that uses upb and links in binary format, JSON format, text format, and some generated protos:

VM SIZE
---------------
20.6% 26.5Ki Generated Reflection
45.7% 12.1Ki bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/src/google/protobuf/test_messages_proto3.upbdefs.c
39.3% 10.4Ki bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/src/google/protobuf/test_messages_proto2.upbdefs.c
5.0% 1.33Ki bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/conformance/conformance.upbdefs.c
3.1% 832 bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/google/protobuf/struct.upbdefs.c
2.4% 648 bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/google/protobuf/wrappers.upbdefs.c
1.2% 320 bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/google/protobuf/timestamp.upbdefs.c
1.2% 312 bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/google/protobuf/duration.upbdefs.c
1.1% 304 bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/google/protobuf/field_mask.upbdefs.c
1.1% 296 [1 Others]
19.1% 24.5Ki JSON
60.4% 14.8Ki upb/json_decode.c
39.6% 9.67Ki upb/json_encode.c
14.7% 18.9Ki Reflection Runtime
81.9% 15.4Ki upb/def.c
18.1% 3.41Ki upb/reflection.c
13.9% 17.8Ki Generated Code
46.9% 8.34Ki bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/google/protobuf/wrappers.upb.c
17.6% 3.12Ki bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/src/google/protobuf/test_messages_proto3.upb.c
16.4% 2.92Ki bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/src/google/protobuf/test_messages_proto2.upb.c
14.7% 2.61Ki bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/google/protobuf/descriptor.upb.c
2.0% 356 bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/conformance/conformance.upb.c
1.4% 264 bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/google/protobuf/struct.upb.c
0.5% 88 [2 Others]
0.3% 48 bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/google/protobuf/any.upb.c
0.3% 48 bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/external/com_google_protobuf/google/protobuf/duration.upb.c
10.0% 12.9Ki Binary Format
54.0% 6.95Ki upb/decode.c
46.0% 5.92Ki upb/encode.c
8.8% 11.3Ki Core Runtime
66.3% 7.52Ki upb/table.c
17.8% 2.02Ki upb/upb.c
15.9% 1.80Ki upb/msg.c
5.6% 7.19Ki [34 Others]
3.8% 4.94Ki Text Format
100.0% 4.94Ki upb/text_encode.c
3.5% 4.46Ki [section .rodata]
100.0% 128Ki TOTAL

So JSON is pulling in 25Ki directly, plus it depends on the 19Ki reflection runtime and the generated reflection.

But it is all a la carte: if you don't want JSON, just don't use it and don't link it in.

(btw that 7Ki for upb/table.c is to support protobuf maps, I want to make that a la carte also so that you don't pay for it when you don't use maps).
Is there a way to keep flash going?
What the Postgres Community Has Done So Right
Probably would not happen under Adobe.
Liability is the first point, but it's swiftly followed by what are they going to do next and how do we defend against it.

This is a whole other ball game if it's malice/incompetence.
Alright, we'll try turning the flags off for the time being.
> It took only two days for Moderna to design the vaccine: https://www.businessinsider.com/moderna-designed-coronavirus...

Which, as your linked article explains, is because they have better technology - not because they're skipping important steps. The virus had already been fully sequenced, and they don't need to cultivate it.

> ... and the vaccinated people are paying the price for it: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/diseas...

This is just a blog post by a climate change denier. But to address the specific claims in it:

> This is a RNA vaccine never before used

mRNA vaccines have been trialled on humans for rabies, influenza, cytomegalovirus, and Zika, and as early as 2011. A roll out of this scale is new, but "never before used" is too strong of a claim.

> at best vaccines are only 60% effective according to the CDC, which Bill Gates also controls

This seems to be quoting seasonal flu statistics. Seasonal flu is challenging for multiple reasons (including some reasons that wouldn't be a problem for mRNA vaccines, like mutations while the virus is grown in eggs). This figure shouldn't be used as an upper bound for all vaccines - the Pfizer vaccine is believed to be 95% effective after both doses.

> 80% of People Taking Maderna Vaccine Had Significant Side-Effects

They've snuck the word "significant" in here which isn't in the video they're quoting. Most commonly it's just pain/swelling/redness at the injection site.
Ok, I've squeezed "likely" into the title above.
There are still ways of playing flash for those who truly need to.

https://lightspark.github.io/
https://www.hangurself.com spent a total of about $50
I don't know about that 6000 KWh number.

More importantly, a human brain isn't trained from scratch at birth. It's had a few hundred million years of pretraining.
The adaption of web audio took forever, something that Flash did rather well:
https://caniuse.com/audio-api
The choice is not between fixing everything and doing nothing.

The choice is between doing nothing and doing what you can within your limited, fallible, human means.

Even the giants of history have failed to fix everything, but even small people have managed to make a difference.

The problem is that too many people capable of making a difference don't even try.
But then all that must come with bookkeeping, which brings its own cost.

Take a look at an implementation like Prost, for Rust. It's very similar to what I did (10 years ago by now). Everything is just inline, except when messages can be recursive (which should be rare for most protocols).
Can you share the name of the Digitalsignage company? I am in market for such a solution
Israel's deployment is amazing, they went from 0 to 8% of their population in 10 days. How many doses have they actually physically got?
Using Google Analytics on progressive web apps
I think it is in part because after a time limit comments cannot be deleted. Someone may not want to permanently be associated with certain comments if they shared other details in other comments that would identify them
I didn’t see that talk. This was interesting to me.

How long have they built their own parts?

Software discussion starts at 13:50.
That link just redirects to thelancet.com.
That's a generous interpretation vs Apple wanting a monopoly on deciding what apps can run on iphones

Not supporting flash is the basis for the app store
Step 1: Fire all engineers on government money, to decrease "overhead" and let "industry" do it

Step 2: Parent post

Step 3: Government is inefficient, inept, if not outright corrupt, we must gut it further! Goto Step 1.

The other day I was getting data from the USGS, and it was remarkable how well structured, sorted, searchable the data was, how it came in high quality, with a custom-built downloader applet that worked very nicely actoss multiple machines. I went from zero to complete solution in QGIS in one day. It's not all that bad.
Could you say more about why you think the original mac apps "failed?" Small market? Lack of promotion? Cost too high? What?
AFAIK a practical quantum computer would not enable any practical attack against SHA256.
You weren't kidding. I underestimated the effect the site would have on me.
Flash was proprietary, didn't have a specification and only one real implementation ever existed.
I was referring to this article about the Baltimore cop arrested for 32 counts of false arrest and imprisonment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/12/12/an-office...

Every bystander he harassed or assaulted is going to dislike the police even more, and help them even less. When police detectives go to them for help solving a crime, how often will they refuse to testify because of their distrust of the cops?

It’s a fantasy that the solution to high crime areas is tougher policing.

You can try to bust all the low level drug sellers on street corners to stop consentual drug use, but some will run. So you violently arrest anyone who runs, but done if those don’t have drugs or are just scared kids. Now those kids and their families hate you.

Soon dealers get smarter and only hold cash in their person. So you start frisking everyone out on the street or driving in these neighborhoods and take their cash, using civil forfeiture. But some of those people are honest citizens and you stole their paycheck, or the cash they were going to buy a car with, and they and their families now hate you.

You start getting warrants to enter homes of people you are told are dealing dope. Sometimes it’s true, sometimes you find something else to justify it, sometimes they were just regular folks it’s just a mistake. But they all end up hating you for it.

Sometimes the drug dealers flush the drugs while you politely wait at the door so you start getting no knock warrants and just burst in the door screaming at them, and shooting their dogs (you know, for safety). Sometimes it’s the wrong address or a false top, and the family now hates you even more, as you killed their dog man.

Sometimes the residents are armed and in the shock and confusion think it’s a home invasion and shoot back and you shoot them. If they survive, they hate you.

Then one day one of your brother officers is gunned down on the street, during the middle of the day, in that tough crime neighborhood you are “pacifying”.

When you roll up there are a hundred residents standing there staring at his corpse, but when you ask all you get is hard looks and “no-one saw nothing”.
> Do you have a TV?

No

> Do you have a Roku or other streaming box?

No

> Do you use a smartphone?

Yes, reluctantly.
Yeah but thats not the parent's point. The problem isn't a lack of ability to play .swf files, it's about the user's control over his machine
The cloudflare thing is encrypted DNS, which I'm not sure Mozilla should be running it's own DNS. You can easily opt out our use your own DNS, but what's the better option? Google? You're ISP (Comcast? Lol!)?

The Mullvad (VPN) thing is completely optional and you have to opt in by paying money. You are not required to use a VPN. I'm not sure why anyone is even remotely upset by this at all. What's the issue? Honestly, I don't understand.

Both these companies have good track records. I'm not sure what the issue is here. #2 seems to be my only concern.
> perhaps they just have it all compiled for M1

That won't work because of the missing W^X support in upstream releases. You need to backport patches.
Yep! As that video shows, eruvs are built with lots of poles and wires, which can come down due to construction or bad weather. It's important for observant jews to confirm that the eruv is "up" before they rely on it to carry on Shabbat
Looking at the report, most of the likelihood is from a single "prior".

The whole likelihood basically hinges on the fact that the outbreak occurred in Wuhan and that the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been working for decades on enhancing coronavirus strains. That's quite strongly circumstantial but it's not evidence. Possible chimerization and furin-cleavage insertion seem a lot more interesting imo but are weighted much lower.

Based on their report [1], most of the likelihood of lab-escape (almost 50x weight) just stems from the fact that the outbreak is in Wuhan. They state that it's because of the proximity to Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the lab's gain-of-function research - only one of 5 locations world-wide.

That single "bullet-point" re-weights zoonotic origin from 97% to 56% and lab-escape from 1.4% to 42%. Otherwise their final likelihoods would be: "zoonotic" 85.5%, "lab-escape" 8.5%, "bioweapon" 6%.

[1] https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/what-is-the-source-of-cov...
How does it make China more liable. Allowing wet markets to exist is a equal or greater threat than shoddy research labs.
Government employees who manage contracts can be paid very well, depending on their grade. A GS-14 makes over $120k base, with pension, significant healthcare contribution, etc. A GS-15 is $152k base. I get that that may not seem like much, but it is 2-2.5x the median household income in the US.

Aside from that, a contract manager/Contract Officer is typically not an engineer and if you're lucky, may be someone that can fill more of a product owner role. It's not really comparable in those terms.

F35 really isn't a great example of poor engineering talent, that is an example of a crap acquisition strategy in general and was pretty much destined to be problematic from the start due to politics, conflicting/competing requirements, etc. You could have hired the best engineers in the world and they would have likely ended with the same results, because the majority of the issues with the F35 had little to do with engineering.
Based on what evidence do you make that claim?

Did you see anyone harass anyone on the list? Was that behavior condoned?
Looks like its gone now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25017167
Shouldn't that be a reason to be bullish? Because if the governments step in and enact regulation against Bitcoin mining, that will increase its scarcity and therefore value.

Likewise, if you think fossil fuels will be scarce in the future, you can be bullish on the price of gas, but not bullish on things based on gas.
I recently implemented a WebRTC multiplayer game in Godot, and yeah, it has very little to do with chat, and isn't really "off the shelf", it took a hell of a lot of configuration, plus running and maintaining a STUN/TURN server and backend lobby/matchmaking system. It's no more a chat protocol than HTTP really when you're doing that kind of programming with it, just has some nifty tricks for getting around routers and making a direct connection where it can.

That said, it was better than NAT punch-through and/or UPNP which are not very reliable these days.