skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wrong. The great lakes has been an ecological experiment since the St. Lawrence seaway was opened and continued to be that when the Chicago river was reversed.

There are almost no "native" species left in any of the lakes (excluding superior).

If you want sustainable native great lakes ecology you need to cut them off from the oceans, re-reverse the flow of the Chicago and do a one-off massive trout and other native fish stocking. None of that is ever going to happen so until then we can keep experimenting with ecology and in that case Zebra muscles is much better than massive population booms and busts of alewives or other invasive fish species (Salmon were originally introduced to help keep the alewife population down)
The FDA first slows down the distribution of desperately needed hand sanitizer by forcing distilleries to denature the alcohol. Then it hits those trying to help with large surprise fees.

Sure glad we have those regulators protecting us from the perils of the free market and personal choice.
ReviewMeta identifies it as untrustworthy, unable to give an adjusted star rating because it eliminates the only review: https://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B08P14T1Z2

Though, looks like there's only 1 review now, so I dunno what it would've done earlier.
But your mom was on Windows, right? And probably running a pretty mainstream browser that was updated regularly.

If your only requirement is that you should be able to put your code on a website and your mom should be able to visit a link and run it, then the web is already significantly ahead of where Flash was.

Of course, the accessibility of creation is a problem, but if you send someone a link to a canvas-based animation, they are more likely to be able to play it today than they ever were in the days of Flash. They can even play it on mobile. Unless you're doing something very experimental, they'll likely be able to play it even if their computer/browser is out of date.

I mean, if we're simplifying this down to the common experience, the way people consume HTML games and Flash games is literally the same -- they visit a link. I have self-hosted remote playtests of the current game I'm working on by putting the game on a static page, and that is just as accessible to playtesters as anything that I was ever doing when I was building Flash games. More accessible, because now I don't have to send people to a wiki to get the game playing on Linux.
Clever but a bit lame given the fact that I guarantee your IP address is already analyzed from a bazillion angles (incl. GeoIP) way before it hits the frontend process. Not sure why they can't use that information.
If you are arguing that there exist use cases for which Protobuf is ill-suited, then fine, I obviously agree.

But you seem to be arguing that Protobuf is bad because it is not well suited to certain use cases, dismissing all other use cases as "non-serious". That is offensive.
Some of my kids' distance learning materials are built in Flash. Less than it was in the Spring, so it seems publishers are scrambling to resolve the issue, but it should make distance learning even more "interesting" in the next few months.
Sometimes, good advice. Hard to tell when, and hard to simplify deciding not to.
IoM: Internet of mollusks.

I know we’re being tongue in cheek, but I do wonder if there is anyway to actually use them as online sensors without causing too much undue harm?
That's where you start. But to make it responsive it takes more work. If I remember..

For a 9x9 basic table grid you would set the width 100% of the top and bottom image do the opposite for the sides and fix the corners. All of these tricks involved choosing designs that could work.

It would have been a tool I would have liked.
Ek number post bhai!
Is there a good discovery mechanism for finding individual journalists producing quality content on eg substack or medium? I want to find their content but I don't know where to start.
Why do actuaries refer to workstation/desktop computers with more than 16 cores as “super computers” it’s embarrassing but sometimes I give in an say “the super computer” because I’m in a hurry and they’ll give me a blank stare if I call it a workstation or anything like that.
This piece on digitizing home movies on VHS may be helpful: https://mtlynch.io/digitizing-1/

tl;dr is to find some professionals to digitize your VHS tapes for you.
You can't crowdsource good taste. All you'll end up with is popular content gets upvoted and unpopular content doesn't. Every voting system open to the masses ends up this way. So many problems on the Internet stem from people confusing popularity with quality.
For my team, I decided we would go all in on Terraform for AWS resources. Lambda has turned out to be a particularly tricky one to fit into that mold. It took us some time to sort out where the “build” step lived in our deployment pipeline so that terraform config pointed at the right build artifact.
US Dept Treasury seeks feedback on its proposed (privacy invasive) crypto rules
Obviously because you "hacked" Elsevier by sharing direct links.
> The fact that an n-qubit quantum computing system is significantly powerful than classical system because of 2^n states. But, a classical system with n-bits will also have 2^n states, isn't it?

Let's consider the execution of an algorithm. In the classical case you start with _one_ of 2^n states and keep evolving that single state. In the case of a quantum computer you can start with a superposition of all of the 2^n states and evolve them simultaneously. This is called quantum parallelism.

This sounds very powerful but comes with a caveat: at the end of the algorithm you will end up with some other superposition of the 2^n states but you can only read one of them. Which one it is going to be will be decided by the square of the complex amplitudes associated with those states. The greater the squared amplitude, the more likely it is that you will end up measuring the state associated with it. A key requirement when a quantum algorithm is designed is that it should yield a useful state at the time of measurement with high probability. This is in general difficult to do.
> Maybe I sounded that way in my twenties too

I'm sure I talked a lot in my twenties if it was about something I was passionate about.

In interviews- not so much, though. I was just hoping to get the job.
Your project is seriously cool, I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.
Changing it from one invasive species dominated ecology to a different invasive species dominated ecology.

at least the new invasive ecology has clean water.
How India Fought Covid with Masks
This should have been a blog post. Cramming all that into a bunch of 240-character chunks is just silly.
> The other, more realistic future is one where human-level AVs are always just out of reach.

That sounds pretty unlikely to me. "just out of reach" is a very narrow band, and to be stuck there despite decades of improvements would be pretty strange. I think there are only two likely outcomes for the next 50 to 100 years: either we don't even get particularly close, or we'll slowly but surely surpass the median human driver.
If Electron wasn't such a large minimal build, that's the way I think things could go.

I think something more like Web Components would be the direction I'd look in for a solution to this.
Respect to the author.

As a guy who's done a lot of programming and a lot of technical writing, it's clear that this is the result of a TON of work. It is a model of clarity, well-formatted, and explained with just the right level of detail. It is completely pro quality and OP should be super proud of this body of work.

This isn't just warmed-over Amazon docs. It's just what you need when you can't figure out what the docs are saying and you want to get something done now.
Where is it mentioned in the article that he is Somali? I searched but didn't see it.
There are very trivial situations where even current Teslas are safer than previous cars: while I wouldn’t trust my life to Autopilot, I’d rather drive next to a drunk driver using autopilot than one driving “manually”. Other simple things, like detecting excessive swerving and drifting out of the land, would be relatively straightforward signals to the car to maybe limit speed and encourage pulling over.
I would email them and ask what problem they were trying to solve when they signed up, and what you could do to the product to better solve it for them... because clearly if it is unused, it is not solving anything for them, and they will cancel some day.

Better to get some good feedback from a group of people and build some loyal customers in the process. Yes, some will be reminded to cancel, and you will get some churn. But at your low price point, the value of the feedback from the group you keep will eclipse the few hundred lost dollars from those who cancel.
Personally I'm genuinely surprised/saddened that nobody stepped up to make an authoring tool. Neither a proprietary company like Adobe, nor an open-source initiative.

Because - the flash monopoly is basically "there for the taking". The market's demonstrated a huge amount of interest. There's a runtime that can do it (the modern web). All that's left is we just need someone to build an authoring tool, and they'll instantly win over that huge group of users who've been demonstrated to exist (not just legacy users, but tons of new folks with a similar mindset). Building an authoring tool of course is incredibly difficult, but - given the potential payoff, you'd really think someone like adobe would be all over that, if only out of fear of being disrupted.

I'm just really surprised nobody's done it. I expected it 5 years ago. Hell, I'm even surprised how sluggish flash emulators have been to show up - we're finally getting what I think is the "right one" in the form of Ruffle ( https://ruffle.rs/ ), but I'm surprised the older Shumway project didn't take off. Then again, maybe we simply had to wait, because I don't think anything prior to WebASM would have really been appropriate for the job.

I think the best case scenario would be some sort of "commercial open-source project", like how Krita structures themselves, taking up the mantle of being a flash-like authoring tool.
I mean, it's kind of crazy to think about, but forget distribution and even games entirely for a sec. What is the current standard for making vector animations, just in general?

There isn't one. Why? Flash clearly showed that people like to make animations with vector art. It compresses well, you can do nice things with scaling. And independent of everything else, there just isn't a clear best tool for that today.

I honestly feel like some of this comes down to, somebody needs to look at Flash and say, "hey, having nested timelines inside of symbols that can be edited on the fly is a really good idea, and maybe some program somewhere should do that." I don't understand why that hasn't happened anywhere.
I agree with what you're saying, but even without a bunch of riders there are bills that become laws and parts of those laws eventually get struck down by the court system through litigation/challenges.

I don't know enough about this provision, but if a large enough distillery (of which I know many who have deep pockets) decides to fight the charge on behalf of other smaller distilleries, it could get struck down.
HN is one of the few places you can talk smack about a companies tooling and have the person who wrote it reply!

Lite mode is neat, I hadn’t seen that. That’s super useful for my use case, cheers. Any gotchas with it to be aware of?
It's worth remembering that normal life in Afghanistan includes toddlers freezing to death at refugee camps. It's one of the world's poorest countries, and has many problems that are worse than COVID.

https://nyti.ms/yb01Z6
Was at one place. We went through 7 engineering directors.

Finally out of desperation I took the position. Although I made it clear I didn’t want it.

Yea. Left after six months in that role.

Which was longer then anyone else had lasted.
My mom was on windows, using an old version of IE. Never had any problems. Flash player compat wasn't perfect but it was more than enough to create vibrant scenes like Kongregate, Newgrounds, and ArmorGames. Anecdotal sure, but it was good enough for the scene to exist.

The main thing about the single-file thing is that it afforded the flash portal ecosystem. It was really easy to share your work as a creator without a lot of technical experience.

> but if you send someone a link to a canvas-based animation, they are more likely to be able to play it today than they ever were in the days of Flash. They can even play it on mobile.

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.

Nowadays everybody bakes out their animations to 100x the size with compression artifacts and stick them on Youtube with LESS features than flash had, a direct consequence of the decline of Flash and HTML5's inability as a platform stack to fill the gap.

I love Linux and the open web, I'm glad they exist and I want things to work on them. I just wish HTML5 as a platform had actually delivered on its promises by not missing the forest for the trees.
> There will be situations where a car is going a perfectly fine speed for the situation and then the situation changes in a way the car cannot have seen, known about, or anticipated resulting in a crash.

The parent's situation was not one of those. This was a situation where "Pedestrian (child) abruptly enter into road from behind cover." and there's an old lady on the sidewalk. In other words, there's a situation with limited visibility, limited room to maneuver (since the only other option is to go up on the sidewalk) and pedestrians present (the child may not be known but the old lady was). If you're in that situation and you're going too fast that you can't stop on a dime, you were not going a "perfectly fine speed for the situation".
Listen before you talk. Listen at the right time, talk at the right time, and take care with your words.
No, nothing. The only thing that a real machine is useful for now is testing that the machine works. Other than google's recent contrived test, any quantum algorithm ever executed will run just as well (or better) on a simulator as on a real machine.

It's going to be like that for a while, even after we're well into the quantum supremacy realm. First, there's not anything you can do with a real machine until error correction is working, which requires 10k(?) qubits. And frankly, there isn't a whole lot you could do with even a real million qbit machine now if one were to exist. Prime factorization is the big one, but other NP complete problems have no known quantum algorithm to speed them up (and note prime factorization is not NP complete -- so it's possible no quantum speedup for any NP complete problem exists (or it's possible that P==NP in which case....)). The real work is in the math and algo theory to find solutions for these problems. Coding and running them is actually kind of incidental and "cute".
After rent and taxes I have around 30k, due to my temporarily reduced salary (due to Covid). If it wasn’t for my wife’s help, we wouldn’t make it to the end of the fortnight. We have a teenage daughter. If this was my salary level indefinitely, it would not be sustainable in the long term because we wouldn’t be able to afford any extra spending e.g. buying a new car. We live in an expensive part of Sydney so moving to a different area would result in some savings and we would almost (but not quite) have as much as my pre-covid disposable income which was more than OK for us. Moving would not be painless though, e.g. my daughter would have to go to a new school and lose touch with her friends which isn’t easy for a teenager.

I guess what I’m trying to say is - coming back to the original comment that started this thread - in some expensive cities, 2M doesn’t really change your life much (at least, not to the extent that you can think “I’m rich now I don’t have to worry about money ever again”). Personally I’m thinking about moving to a less expensive area, now that remote work has become even more common.

Important note: all my reasoning is in AUD but probably OP meant USD 2M. That would be about AUD 2.6M. So, more than 2M but not by an order of magnitude.
Yeah, my thought on the problem was that there’s probably an AT&T promo video from 1986 on YouTube somewhere that shows Brian Kernighan logging into 10 machines and downloading phone records and then processing them with AWK. He just wouldn’t be able to download quite as many and do as much with it.
Windows95 and 98 were the last versions I really felt I could hold pretty much all of it in my head. I didn't let WindowsME anywhere near my brain's abstraction layer of OS functionality.
Ignoring the silliness of this fee, wasn't regular soap more effective and always widely available? Was there any real reason to make emergency sanitizer?
‘Thief’: How Michael Mann’s Cinema Debut Stole the World’s Attention
Yeah it is sad to see that ecosystem lost....but Adobe didn't seem to care to fix its warts either.
Crystal clear water also means that there is a scarcity of nutrients, otherwise algae would grow.

But this isn't necessarily a desaster, not all lakes are equal in their conditions for various species. This might just be what the lakes looked like for the longest time.

Btw., there are large fish hunting smaller ones in clear water. Most extreme example are sharks.
Segment Routing based IPv6 (SRv6) is coming
We operate a five-nines service in a 4-day work week. That requires at least one person always being connected.

But culturally, it also encourages a lot of automation, redundancy, and conservative DevOps decisions.
I work with an application that spends something like 70-80% of its time in serialization / deserialization code. This is mostly due to heap allocation / deallocation (in Golang) of objects, and the RPC stacks in use not doing allocation arenas, reuse, or similar.

The "state of the art" in de(serialization) isn't awesome. :(.
FAA Drone Rules
Seriously like 90% of the flash content creators I knew were using pirated versions at some point in their careers, for what it's worth.
kudos to OP for undertaking this but 10/10 recommend Anto Babenko's lambda module if you're not already using it: https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-lambd...
There are many times where I get going on a project and need to get some part (nobody in a 50mi radius supplies electronics unfortunately). I like to keep my momentum going, so I order from amazon because some of those resellers stock locally, and thus I get the product in 1-2 days.

Contrast to China/AliExpress, where it may take them 3-4 weeks for the product to reach me. At that point, my interest may have fizzled out or I get busy with real life.
> These libraries are far too pro-active in deserializing incoming data into native object structures.

Sometimes a native object structure is what you want.
It's not in that article, but that driver is affiliated with the Drivers Union, an advocacy group for drivers with backing from the Teamsters 117 union, and this is not the first article that he's been covered in, so is presumably well-known to others advocating for drivers.
Aren't most globes oriented that way for display though? They copied the normal angle used for physical globes so it's instantly recognizable I suspect.
This is true but it is a common misunderstanding imo. 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.

So why doesn’t that tool exist?

Well... as far as I know it does. I’m pretty sure this is exactly what Adobe Animate is meant to be:

https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html

So why isn’t it causing a Flash-style revolution?

In my opinion... Because of YouTube. Twitter. Etc.

Before everyone had heaps of bandwidth, you needed to consume smaller files. A full 1080p video was unfathomable with the codecs, compute and network bandwidth available in the early 2000s. Swf files however were small and easy to distribute. The perfect storm occurred due to the structure of early internet, and communities like Newgrounds flourished.

I honestly think Flash just got a bit stale. It stopped being new and exciting, and for animations video sites were probably going to win out anyways. For games, a lot of indie devs now target PCs and game consoles. Unity and Construct export to HTML5. People wanted to do more advanced things to the point where Flash itself started doing things like 3D rendering, at which point the appealing aspects of Flash started to make less sense anyways.

Many seem to argue passionately, probably from an emotional place, that Flash was killed. Honestly, I just don’t agree. Flash was dying either way. Everyone just gradually decided to cut off the life support.

The era it ushered in will be missed, though.
20% pay cut (pre-tax, after tax it is less due to progressive taxation) for 50% more weekend is superb IMHO.
So far it's a two time payment, plus however you consider the forgivable loans. Most commenters on the issue expect that there'll need to be more bills next year.

There is a lot to blame the federal government for in this pandemic, but the lack of nurses just isn't one. The federal government has very little leverage to increase the supply available, since the vast majority of nurses are employed by the private sector or state systems. Congress could provide more money to underwrite training and nurse salaries, but they'd just be setting up for mass layoffs once the demand for that form of labor returns to historical norms. And there is very little chance that these new nurses would be trained in time to make a difference.

Maybe the federal government could undo the residency program that constrains the supply of doctors, but at best they could flush out all the doctors waiting for residency to complete right now. That would provide a small boost, but at most they could add 3 extra years worth of new doctors at once. Nothing the federal government could do would drastically increase the supply of doctors other than relaxing immigration requirements for foreign trained doctors, but that still takes time and is uncertain.

If there's any aspect of this pandemic that I'd lay right at the feet of the federal government, it would be the lack of PPE. Both Congress and the executive branch have all of the tools at hand to goose the production of PPE domestically should they have decided to do so, and yet our medical personnel continue to reuse N95 masks nine months into this pandemic. An extra supply of N95 masks would have also reduced the attrition of medical personnel, as actual sickness and perceived risk has been a big drag on the supply of properly trained personnel to fight this pandemic.
I don't see that happening. As someone who manages bare metal, there's not that much to it besides using a pxe installer. Didn't even use that before we got 20 servers, would just configure IPMI physically the mount the ubuntu ISO via IPMI and manually install the OS at the office.

Ubuntu is actually heavily investing into MAAS (metal as a service) and so is Redhat with cobbler and foreman. So I'm guessing there's enough demand to justify their development (as every major cloud provider uses in house tools AFAIK)
A large distillery might be happy that small competitors suffer death by regulation and thus do nothing to oppose this regulatory action.
Even in windows I remember flash was often a resource hog and crashed the browser regularly or would freak out and I'd have to restart it.
Both regular hand washing and hand sanitizer are effective. Each can be used in different places, which makes them both useful. For example, I sanitize my hands in the car after going to the grocery store. Hard to make soap and water work for that case.