skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the Flash runtime can be rebuilt in asm.js, WebAssembly, or similar, and then made to seamlessly play the video on an emulated version of Flash Player but with barely noticeable changes to the user. One would think that this cannot be easily blocked by Adobe. If Chrome wants to block it, simply use a De-Googled version of Chromium.
Somebody further down in this posts comments did, it might have been paginated for you to the second page of comments
Even if you do care to boss around non-nuclear states, coercion is most effective when it is low-cost/high-impact - cyberattacks and economic warfare fit that bill better than sending in the tanks.

Like, the reasons Brazil hasn't invaded Venezuela have little to do with its lack of a car industry.
There are a lot of use cases for WebRTC. Video calls are the biggest one right now. But anything you can imagine that needs low-latency (<200ms) video or audio is something you can potentially do with WebRTC in a browser, these days. There's a huge amount of interesting stuff going on.

WebRTC is fundamentally peer-to-peer. But scaling up to larger calls, and doing things like recording, generally requires routing the audio/video through media servers that selectively forward, process, or transcode the media streams.

<shameless-plug> I cofounded a company that makes it easy to get started with and scale WebRTC-based applications and features. [0] </shameless-plug> In addition to basic video calls, we're seeing rapid growth of online classes, games, fitness applications, live collaboration in productivity apps, e-commerce and customer support, and IoT and robotics streaming video.

[0] https://www.daily.co/
wouldn't it be much easier to use scp for that? there are plenty of android clients, and plenty of windows servers.

I just actually use synced storage (Synology Drive from a Synology NAS), so I would probably use a Dropbox like service for that functionality.

There's an app called droid transfer that basically does what you did with python (setup a server and have a simple download client), and there's also wireless ADB (which will require you to use the USB cable for the initial setup)
> make apologies from authority (after all, Google can't do anything wrong, right?)

That's not my position at all. In my other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25586447) I explain how I've spent 10 years trying to improve on protobuf C++ precisely because I agree that some of these limitations are unnecessary.

> No zero-copy for networking? Forced internal heap allocations with only this arena feature after a decade? Sorry no. Protobufs isn't useful for serious network applications.

I suppose it depends what you are comparing it to. Almost every JSON library has the same limitations you mentioned, and yet many people find JSON useful for network applications. But I agree that giving users full control over allocations makes a library useful in many more situations.

I think arena allocation is a pretty reasonable solution to the problem. You can use whatever memory you want for the arena (stack, heap, static buffer) and you can constrain it so that no heap allocations are allowed.

Unfortunately protobuf C++ can't live fully within this arena model while it uses std::string for accessors. Hopefully this can be fixed at some point.
Yeah but your clone() function is very wasteful, and we can't stick 1 million of you in a dark room that just looks at people's google searches and figures out what they're really going for.

And it's not the whole picture to say the brain only uses 15 watts - when there's all sorts of necessary support systems that it couldn't run without. So it's closer to 100 watts (2000kcal/day)
Popcap and map sizes are unchanged since AOE2: The Forgotten, though, and the other items are not in the deterministic simulation.

AOE2 HD wasn't multithreaded, so we should still have an order of magnitude more CPU performance at our disposal these days.

The pathfinding has been reworked, yeah. It shouldn't have made the game 10x slower.

In any case, if it already supports 8 player with 500 pop, 16 with 250 is not really any different.
I don't know. I see the nice HSBC building in my city and all I can think of is that half of the business of theirs is crooked, money laundry, trafficking, drug cartels. No shiny building can change what you actually do.
This would be pretty simple to solve if Amazon appended a couple new fields to each review logging the string of text in the main headline at the time the review was posted, and the sales category.

Using this field could then at least provide a control for us poor customers to filter only reviews for the current version/category of the product

And if they really wanted to do it right, they'd scan headlines/categories and reviews for substantial changes. Just a bit of good logic or AI pattern recognition should be able to sift this down to a manageable set of changes for human review and appropriate action, such as demanding a re-listing as a new product, weeding out repeat offenders, etc.

The article's point about Amazon failing to show a focus on "customer obsession" in this area is key - Amazon used to be a great place to search for products, and it is now a miserable, long slog to find anything good in the sea of crap with bogus listings & reviews.
GS-13 is a significant amount of experience and 107k isn’t a competitive wage for an engineer of that experience level, especially in tech.

How can the government provide adequate technical oversight of its contractors if it doesn’t hire engineers? Answer: it can’t, and you can routinely see the results.
... and, Android Firefox now crashes frequently.

On the up side, it remembers where you were and returns there when it wakes up again. Still less bad than Chrome.
Based literally on what she asked her supporters to do.
mmm disagree as "strong" is a relative word. any claim should have equal amount of evidence
Demystifying Science: What is the Pacific shadow-zone?
Maybe it's because I was never a newgrounds kid or whatever but every time I had to use flash for video playback it was always awful and I don't miss it. Good riddance you CPU hungry abomination.
That is something I would call a strong nostalgia
A lot of the company garbage only works in IE as it is. Great.
> This has never been the case, except for string fields where std::string forces us to allocate.

I'm was quite surprised you didnt offer your own stringview implementation (or something similar) the last time I looked at protobuf. I'd naively assume that inside Google this could be quite a low-efford high-reward optimization.
Neat web version, but yikes did that thing light up my laptop's fans and make FF use nearly 100% of two 2.8ghz i7 cores here. Seems a bit ridiculous considering what's going on.
How'd you go about finding and choosing one?
My bias is definitely to agree with this sentiment, but I'm going to play devil's advocate:

Windows 10 automatically updates itself, which is a reasonable thing for a consumer operating system to do. It happens to be a very "wide and deep" OS which includes a lot of userland stuff as part of the same release bundle, like OS X/macOS. There are FOSS projects that also operate this way. The GNOME environment comes to mind as a similarly "wide and deep" example. I myself have had the experience of having a GNOME feature I was using removed after an update. The recourse in that case isn't much different from the recourse in the Windows 10 Flash case. You can either live without the removed thing or find a third party solution. What you can't do is just stop updating the thing; you'd lose (community) support and important bug fixes.

Of course, as long as it's FOSS you can just fork it, right? But really that's not the appropriate solution for cases like this. We're talking about the removal of a basically stand-alone feature. If the official bundle stops supporting that thing, forking the bundle is not the way forward. Bringing in a third party is.

So the way I see it, both the problem and the solution here are the same for both Windows and large FOSS software bundles like GNOME. They're the opposite of narrow projects, so stuff is bound to get removed eventually. You can't stay on an old version, you shouldn't fork, and in some cases you probably shouldn't even protest, as the reasoning for removal may be sound.
This has been the case since Google Chrome. If you tolerated Chrome and it's "evergreen browser" behavior, you supported the process that eventually became software developers' assumption that they should update themselves without permission on their schedules, and retire and remove features with regularity.

In 2020, we no longer have a right to act surprised about this, because we should've done something to fight it a long time ago.
Right. I always feel like, if it was a valid proof against AI, it also served as a proof against human intelligence. It just seems to take for granted that there is a fundamental (near-mystical) difference between the atoms in a brain and the atoms in a computer, even though that's a very extraordinary claim.
Most people in my company had to turn it off in Chrome (or switch to Fx) because webpages became a mess on their MacBook. Think this is the issue (screenshot there representative of how it looks, at least) https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/35828402?hl=en
That's actually a very important part of eruv construction. In order to build an eruv, you need permission from the city government. Every 20 years or so, the Rabbi in charge of a city's eruv will meet with the mayor and have a ceremonial "rental" of the property encompassed by the eruv, and will pay the city a dollar.

Eruvs often make use of existing walls, utility poles and cables which are on public property, but if any extra poles or wires are needed they are paid for entirely from donations.
>That's all that matters.

No, it isn't. But thank you for illustrating one consequence of "dogmatic belief".
The makers of the browsers (Apple, Google, Microsoft) didn't want to optimize for someone else's (especially not Adobe, not even Unity3D, if anyone remembers that) plugin. So WHATG and W3C made their own 'html5 canvas' that didn't truly get official until 2014 (but was adopted earlier in browsers).

https://web.archive.org/web/20141106212543/http://www.cnet.c...
Imagine if OS vendors and Intel decided to attempt to install microcode updates that fix severe vulnerabilities on your machine and essentially reach into everyone’s machines and delete what they don’t want!

The frog continues to boil slowly...
> Adding more advertising to an end-user application

That concerns me on a technical level; Mozilla-the-organisation now has control over the tiles on the default New Tab page which people are accustomed to using as bookmarks.

It's feasible that a bad actor could use that vector to replace valid URLs with nefarious ones as part of targeted phishing.
Comparing your pre-trained brain (that has a lot of structure (=training) through evolution) with the training costs of a new algorithm isn't really fair.

All in you require about 100W (2000kcal/day), maybe 3 times that when doing a lot of physical activity. Boston Dynamic's Spot uses about 400W. I can probably outperform it in some disciplines while it would beat me in some others. That would be a fair comparison.
I would not do anything. For all you know they are using it as a tax write off.
Where do you get "harass them" from "We need to get them away from fanaticism...We need [allies] who can engage with them."

What part of that suggests harassment? I saw more than one case of positive interactions between Anandkumar and others who initially disagreed or were on the fence who then discussed things offline. That certainly didn't appear to be harassment.

In response to your below comment:

> The part you didn't quote. The part about "re-educating" them

The full tweet I'm quoting is

> I am looking for volunteers to try and change the minds of fanboys of Pedro (real people and not bots, everyone I saw is male). Especially junior people. We need to get them away from fanaticism. I can share my blocked list. We need #ALLY who can engage with them. Please DM me.

Heck, in another tweet she noted "My blocked list is not meant to be punitive."

There's nothing about "re-educating", and even searching up discussions here and on reddit that contained quotes of her tweets, I couldn't find anything mentioning "re-education", except your comment and one other in this thread. Neither references an originating tweet, and, not for lack of trying, I can't find anything on waybackmachine that includes the term, and I'd have assumed that someone would have taken the time to either comment on it or capture it at the time.

Could you please point out her use of the term, because I'm unaware of it. So the rest of your comment doesn't make much sense as it appears to be based significantly on words that weren't actually said, and further based on subtext and implications of words that, again, were never actually written.

> And if all that is fine, why did she apologize?

Perhaps because she's willing to apologize when she's made others feel uncomfortable. That's essentially what her apology says.
GS-13 is possible within two years of experience and depending on the agency, sometimes quicker. Yes, I can personally attest to this and it will depend on the agency. To reiterate though, outside of a few agencies, most engineers in government are contractors, not civilian employees. Their compensation is much higher.
Perhaps you need to change your news sources, because you have a very warped idea of how violent inner cities are. It's not the 1970's.
I am commenting on their statement about "anomalies in the genetic code", which, as presented, is not a result of their probalistic analysis, but a premise.

Is it a fact that this virus has "anomalies" in its DNA?

If the answer is 'no' then there is no point discussing their 'analysis' further.
Devil's advocate- as long as that feature is there Microsoft has an obligation to support it. The feature has fallen out of use. Why should Microsoft be forced to support this forever?

You're free to stop updating Windows right?
Ken Thomases dies of kidney cancer (Wine, Codewavers)
One of the main claims that the Chinese turncoat is making is that the bat virus which is used as a reference and hypothetical source for where Covid-19 evolved from (RaTG13) is _also synthetic_.

I haven't seen any media try to verify or disprove this claim. Does anybody know any more about this?
Florida's unemployment system was build to fail.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/15/florida-unem...
Let me educate you on causative factors. Many homicides are the byproduct of the war on drugs. Drug use itself is a victimless crime.

During prohibition the national murder rate was incredibly high. When alcohol was legalized suddenly the murder rate plummeted.

You see, when you take a popular substance and make sale/distribution illegal, you create an opportunity for those willing to take the risk to get rich making and selling said substance.

But the problem with getting rich that way is now you have a bullseye on your back. your place of business is loaded with cash and valuable substances. It’s hard to put cash in banks without risking arrest, and you can’t call the police if someone threatens or steals from you. But you can easily afford your own guns, and your own security.

And when someone tries to kill you or steal from you or rat you out, you just kill them. After all, the prison sentences for trafficking are just as bad as the ones for murder, so you won’t be making things worse for yourself.

And the good news is you have plenty of money to pay others to do lots of crimes to protect your business and markets. Enough to buy your own corrupt cops even. Not only will they top you off, but they’ll be happy to no knock raid your competitors.

All of this is equally true for pimps (why hire willing sex workers when unwilling are cheaper? After all you going to jail either way, make no money while the sin shines), and bookies, and gambling operations, etc, etc, etc.
Does anyone have a link to a article about the use of the 'Persistent Surveillance Systems' to investigate crime in Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), the plane would fly back and forth over El Paso (Texas).

The story was a female Mexican police officer had been ambushed, and with the use of the spy plane, the US was able to back-track the routes of the ambushers, and the routes all led back to (cartel headquarters) house on the outskirts of town.

Was this all a dream?

Edit: Found the article: Persistent Surveillance Systems https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/eye-s...
> There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion, some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic. Most people agree these arguments are irrefutable, but no one ever really accepts the conclusion.

When I had a big LSD trip, not only did I understand the fact that we don't have free will, I experienced it. It felt as real as my body.

I don't think about free will anymore, I feel like I've already watched the movie.
How do you know it does? The pro-surveillence side needs to put forth positive evidence. The precautionary principle is the only just, non-authoritarian option for situations like this. I know the targets are mostly in neighborhoods that you probably don't frequent, but those people have the same rights you do, and that includes the right to reasonable privacy.
From the article: 24 at a time, for a duty cycle of 3 months.

> We have three measuring devices in the company and eight clams in each. In total, we “employ” 200 individuals during the year.

This other article[1] says they get them from a lake, and are returned to the same lake after three months. They are marked so the scientists won’t pick up the same clam twice.

1: https://www.boredpanda.com/clams-measure-water-quality-polan...
Oh, definitely due to a small market WITHIN a small market. When users acquire speciality business hardware they don't reach for macOS. I'm trying to change that... one device at a time. MASS and LabelScope were mostly proof of concept. They failed in the sense that they were the cost of the education to do better. With Label LIVE (my newest app), I built an actual design app, targeting a much broader market (cross-platform to boot).
And yet certain countries will need a ‘gigantic, centralized, bureaucracy’ regardless of any other factor because of the existence of WMDs, so to get rid of such is an impossible option for the globe.

What other options are there once the existence of such ‘gigantic, centralized, bureaucracy’ is preordained on this planet for the foreseeable future?
No. Firefox will drop support for the Flash plugin with Firefox 85 (January 26, 2021), but there's a cutoff date of January 12, 2021 in the plugin itself, after which it will not work even in earlier versions of Firefox.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-adobe-flash
Mildly better. Flash was more like Java applets than JavaScript. It was its own thing running in the browser.
Also, I have downloaded and used Bert in several other applications; and I think that 10,000's of other folks have done the same.
The plug is, I believe already pulled in a way. I set the clock forward to January 13th, and it won't render Flash.
Pretty much. Basically the "show internet actions via the globe" has a pretty rich history. There was even an animated and projected globe in the lobby of the IBM research facility in San Jose.

Still, given that the "form" is well established, it is always interesting to me at least to see how they chose to represent the data. When Blekko was running Bryn Dole had done a visualization based on this theme were query requests were highlighted as streams from their point of origin (more queries, taller stream as I recall).
They did everything right. But after one at-home haircut couple died of Covid-19
I broke that functionality in Chrome so I could control when it updated. I didn't accept it. I won't accept it. I would encourage others not to accept it.

I will abandon platforms that take away my control. That's not tenable for a lot of people. There's just a lot of "cool stuff" that I don't get to use if there isn't a Free solution. I deal with it. I hate it, but I deal with it.
It won’t get adopted in the West. Because of protectionism.

What countries like America will do, is to turn up their media FUD to the max. They’ll accuse the Comac airplanes of spying on you while you fly, or having hidden cameras and microphones all over the plane, to record your private conversations, and to watch you take a piss in the lavatory.

Examples:

1. American politicians accuse Chinese train makers of spying.

2. American politicians accuse Chinese bus makers of spying.

3. American politicians accuse Huawei of spying. Then continues to neuter their semiconductor business, their cell phone business, and their 5G business.

4. American politicians accuse TiKTok of spying, and forcing Bytedance to sell their very profitable business to American companies for pennies on the dollar. (Still pending)

5. American politicians accuse ZTE of spying, or violating American sanctions by conducting business with Iran, and fines them $1.4 billion dollars USD. This was so easy, and these Chinese companies are so full of cash, that it was like taking candy from a baby. Expect more shenanigans like this in the future, as all these Chinese companies are ready for the reaping by American politicians.

Interestingly enough, in the 1980s, American politicians accused Japanese semiconductor makers, like Toshiba, of playing unfair, and prevented their semiconductor CPUs and memory chips from being used in America. Thus, eviscerating their business, and allowed Intel and other American companies to dominate the industry.

This sounds exactly like what America is doing now with Huawei’s 5G.

So, expect them to do the same thing with Comac’s C919.

This is American Exceptionalism. But they prefer to call it “Free market capitalism”.
I'm in the Netherlands, we are in a Covid lockdown with schools closed at the moment. Next week Christmas holiday is over, and remote school will start once more.

And many of the sites they use to keep the younger kids busy have games for learning simple addition, spelling, et cetera. Almost all in Flash.

Not looking forward to Monday.
I do a lot of both. Excel really is great for data where there are less than say 100k rows. Its just so easy to see exactly what you're doing and what the data looks like. If you have millions of records Python really does better but I still find it frustrating to find a way to keep peeking behind the curtain.

Ideally I'd have a type safe language which can embed data the way excel does. If Excel had dotnet languages instead of VBA and could store data arrays in XLBs it'd slay.
They discuss it here: https://www.rootclaim.com/inside_the_calculation#how_does_th...
HN is not immune to the shill accounts, similar to what you see over on Reddit. You see these accounts come out of the woodwork on political posts, but they engage elsewhere to establish a history.
The difference with elevators is that the safety systems are actually in large parts independent of the control. Since the Otis safety elevator, you could go so far as to cut the elevator cord and it would still be ok.

With self-driving cars, you don't have those type of backup safety systems.
HTTPS also protects against spying on the specific sub-page you're on for example. That's valuable.

Besides installing a Let's Encrypt cert is straightforward these days.