skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the flash/macromedia creative suite is so good, and even tho it wasn't free, it was popular (with plenty of pirated copies obviously).

If your thesis is true that the web/html api could've been just as good as flash had there just been a suite of tools to create the content, then why doesn't one already exist? I think the true underlying issue is that the expectations of the users have grown - "simple" animations that can be created in the flash suite and replicated using a html suite cannot satisfy users any more.
Yes, but depending on the manufacturer, you might not have nearly as many options as you might like. And then it sometimes comes wrong anyway.

Source: ordered a 2017 Chrysler Pacifica. Couldn't order 15" wheels with premium trim. Ordered a spare tire, and got the built-in vacuum instead (this worked out OK, the donut spare, ordered separately, fits under in the middle seat stowage, if you finagle it). Still would have prefered 15" wheels over 17" or whatever we had to order, but not enough to buy new wheels. Would not recommend buying that early in the model cycle, but that's somewhat separate from ordering; except that they had no Pacificas on the lot to sell anyway, so it wasn't too hard to convince them to order one.
Progressive web apps.
I mean, China has working maglev trains. I’ve had the fortune to ride one. That’s certainly far beyond just another train set.
http://letmegooglethat.com/?q=pwa
If you’ve flown a plane on autopilot, the experience is similar: you can direct your attention elsewhere and you end up less fatigued. You still need to be awake and alert but don’t have to worry about tedious things like holding a heading/drifting out of your lane or maintaining speed.
I think these are all fair points and a good reflection of the downside of Python. But there are also some pretty huge upsides. My view is that for any model of significant complexity, the pros of Python outweigh the cons from a technical point of view.

- Abstraction. It's very difficult to effectively abstract parts of a model in Excel. It's a bit like a doctor having to 'model' a human being as a collection of atoms, rather than having abstractions like organs, cells etc. This makes it very hard to build re-usable components, so analysts end up reinventing the wheel. You also quickly hit a 'complexity ceiling' in Excel, above which mistakes and errors becoming much more likely, and complexity is very difficult to manage.

- Existing libraries provide a huge range of sophisticated calculations and operations for which we don't need to write any code.

- Separation of concerns - particularly separating data from model. Easy in Python, hard in Excel. Another aspect of this is that using data science software promotes the use of tidy data[0] (i.e. clear thinking about how data should be structured).

- Unit/integration tests. For complex models, these are essential. Users of Excel (even extremely clever/competent people) don't have have a great reputation for producing error-free spreadsheets, and I think this is an important reason why, alongside copy-paste errors. The tools for testing in Excel/VBA are rudimentary.

- Version control. This is particularly important for historical reproducibility because it allows us to run past models, and also understand what has changed in the codebase since.

I appreciate some of the above is also possible in VBA, but if you're writing an entire model in code and not really using Excel at all, my view is it's better to use a more sophisticated programming language.

There is also an important cultural point of having to re-skill everyone, and I can see that in some context that means in the short run at least, Excel/VBA may still be better overall.

I've written a bit more about all of this here:
https://www.robinlinacre.com/transforming_analytical_functio...

[0] https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf
1) I don't
2) why not exactly? Of course a diagnosis over internet shouldn't ever be taken as a ground truth, but it can many times give meaningful thoughts and provide good perspective and information.
> This guide is focused purely on security and privacy

Maybe for privacy to make you stand out less?
even live programming does not require images.

In most CL systems, image-based technically means it can dump memory to images on disk and start those. More exotic is nowadays, when quitting a Lisp system always writes all the changes to a new image, which then will be started next time.

ECL does not support images, but has live programming,

MOCL does not support images, nor full live programming. There are/were a bunch of CL compilers which work similar. They support then only a subset of CL - a subset without some runtime support for things like EVAL or COMPILE.

Typically non-image based and non-live Lisp compilers were written for the compilation of Lisp to C, with the purpose of generating small static executables, MOCL does that. MOCL is based on the earlier CLICC compiler.
The one when Guy Kawasaki was totally blitz in The Wine Room on Romana St asked me this. I regurgitated some stupid joke a woman told me the day before.

Crowdsourcing at its finest.
It seems there is a misconception between infrastructure creation and management. Serverless doesn't abscond you from defining what infrastructure you want to create, it just reduces the management overhead once you have created it.

For example, you can both create a lambda and EC2 infrastructure using Terraform. However, once you have created a lambda function, little maintenance is required going forward, unlike EC2. EC2 instances require continuous patching of the operating system, managing disk space (/tmp filling up over time), and you have to plan for an EC2 instance to be taken out of service if it starts failing health checks.
> While the claim of full Level 5 autonomy without lidar is controversial, it’s possible that most Teslas on the road today will be capable of being upgraded to L5 capability via a software update.

How can you claim the current hardware on Teslas is capable of L5 when they haven’t even demonstrated L4 capability? Just saying it’s capable for full autonomy doesn’t actually make it so, they need to actually prove it.

Also, you (and Elon Musk) talk about Level 5 so casually when all the self driving companies out there strictly claim to aim for only Level 4.
More on the topic:
https://twitter.com/ReverseBrain/status/1344274815713239040

https://twitter.com/R0b1nR00t/status/1343970887171792899
none - flash is still the only tool i know of that had the scene model which allowed you to have animations within objects in the scene. It was a very easy model to use, but is powerful.

Flash can export to html/canvas iirc. I dont think the lack of tools is the reason why html5 didn't replace flash in terms of output of new games/animations.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht

Who says it needs to be a secret? The past shows that people happily let things happen out in the open. The present should show you that plenty of people still have the loyalty above all mentality and would easily be manipulated into doing whatever was desired.

Just leak demographic data to the proud boys and when they do things, low key condemn them but not really.

How have whistleblowers been working out lately? There have been many and the effects have been... underwhelming.
According to the author:

> Despite popular belief, OpenBSD's security is actually lacking in a lot of ways.

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/openbsd.html

It's probably not better on FreeBSD.
Wild conjectures with no shred of evidence is not 'discussing'... It has no place in a scientific journal and is pub talk at best or, worse, FUD.

It is perfectly possible and sensible to state that finding the origin of this virus is important, like it is important for all new viral diseases, without engaging in conjectures, especially wild ones.

Judging by the comments on HN many people (even more educated than average) are not able the see through this, are not able to distinguish facts from fiction and baseless conjectures. FUD works and is dangerous.
Not at the moment, he's moved on from it and is now working on making a GBA version of a DDR-like game, but you can try approaching him, check his website out https://r-labs.io/
PWAs are actually kind of user hostile. They only benefit developers who don’t want to implement an extra app in a native/App Store language/env.

In theory they could be great but apple/google make too much money off app stores.
You're not considering 2nd order effects. The increased buying power is eventually corrected. Those on a salaried position have less buying power too because of inflation. The whole economy is hurt by minimum wage increases, and the benefit they bring is temporary.
Technical details why Arm hackintosh will be difficult in Death of x86 and the future of Hackintoshing https://dortania.github.io/hackintosh/updates/2020/11/12/big...
Flash was good.

The internet is a much less interesting place without it, and the amount of ceremony required to replicate in HTML5 what any Tom, Dick or Harry could slap together with Flash is insane.

We have regressed here.
No, his post require thought, which is not immediately obvious. Thus it gets ignored or dv.

It's just a reaction to the free market magical chimp thinking out there.
last time i had a bug due to type error was probably years ago. all bugs i get are due to logical errors or misunderstanding stuff.
One way to fund is through: https://opencollective.com/ I'm currently supporting an open source UI library through it.
Im poor. Can i skip on regulations that require me to have car that does not polute insane amounts, or for example insurance? By your idea, yes. Because im poor and just let me use anything i can to get by. Now we have multimilion company that says, "we are servicing the poor, so we shoul be allowed to skip on these expenses too" do you see where this is going?
GPLv2 does not permit code be incorporated into a GPLv3 licensed project.

GPLv3 does not permit code be incorporated into a GPLvv licensed project.

The M.I.T. licence, for instance, permits both.

This is something the F.S.F. always fails to address in these talks; they speak proudly how the GPL guarantees that code never end up in properietary software, which is true, but only because that is a special case of code not ending up in essentially any project with only a slightly difference licence, including proprietary software.

the GPL guarantees that the code be off limits to proprietary software, permissive free software, other copyleft than the GPL, and even other versions of the GPL, and this is something they bury, and continually fail to address.
I’ll be more specific: it is used in medical context not in the design of public policy. Which was my original point.
Getting major UI added to a browser is not Igalia/Tidelift/etc. forte. They provide development for engine level features like supporting a new CSS element or ECMAscript function. SSB needs OS integration on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It needs UI elements such as toolbar buttons and menu items. Getting that sorted is a non-trivial task. Then there is the ongoing maintenance. This is not something where a few unit tests are going to keep the feature functional as new code is developed.
There are docker images for Windows software, and those are the ones I care about, which yes are based on Windows containers that are even capable of running directly on top of hyper-v, bypassing most of the kernel fat.
AI Assisted Drawing Tool
Quantum mechanics is certainly mind-changing, but it can't explain yet what our world really is. The most popular many-worlds interpretation is very far from complete.
So is there a backup of the key on the hardware somewhere (in case it gets lost or destroyed)
We are using notebooks in visual studio code to process csv downloaded from a corporate BI and replace Excel analysis. As a programmer I dreaded questions like "do you know how to program macros in Excel?"
I find this hard to conceptualize/unite with the players view of the game - so if an input arrives out of order the engine can essentially just reapply the new adjusted stream of events to correct itself? From a data modelling perspective that seems fine.

However, in those situations what does the player see in game? IIRC rollback was popularised in fighting games like Street Fighter - so does the player see one "universe" only for that branch to suddenly rewind and replay to an alternate universe where a tiny action happened/does not happen?
My first computer was a Timer 2068, yet there is a reason why we aren't any longer running those systems.
Something we have experimented with is explaining the new thing (app, feature, product, whatever) to potential users and ask them what they would call it.
You can also do a classic brainstorm with keywords and synonyms, get a list (of course check for competitor's names and other brand names) and test those out as well, by asking people what do they think app X is.
I also like to go into the competition and see what they call similar products, it helps knowing what not to use and also gets some creative juices flowing.
I hope this helps!
Same, I did not expect that at all. Funnily enough, I haven't heard it used much outside North India so I didn't think it was as popular.

Other replies say it's a common phrase in Maharashtra too, TIL.
Interesting, in the US there are several facilities that use Bluegills to detect water quality problems.

https://www.army.mil/article/50369/bluegills_monitor_treated...

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Anti-terror-fish-guard-S...
Working with Dates in IHP and Haskell
Standalone private key for a separate account that has write-only access to the backup area and little else?

In this case the key would act more like an access token for a specific operation that you're trying to perform, rather than as a key to a generally usable account.
Interesting Tech Podcasts
Will you sell me your database?
A way to bring back my memories...
An increase in consumer prices, as a result of contract-freedom-violating regulations, is effectively a wage decrease for every one.
Nice! Really interesting facts, it was addictive to read :)

I wonder how you stored this information, did you already prepare a draft? Do you use a "Google Docs"? Or do you have a more fancy way to store these ideas? I find it interesting
> whose responsibility is it then if some site continues to use it?

It's still a hard pill that a finished and working interactive resource has to be rewritten from the ground up in a different technology after years of working unattended.

There is a big free interactive course to learn Catalan from beginner to advanced entirely in Flash at parla.cat. Hundreds of lessons/exercises, it's been working by itself for years.
Every year I ask people at my department about their yearly highlights
For average joe using ubuntu vps, what is the safest guide in this list that can be applied?
I hope you kept a few of those coins for yourself and are rich now!
> The author argues that a tool like Flash the authoring software should exist, but makes no argument about Flash the runtime.

Yes, this is what I meant. Sorry, I didn't clarify this in the replied comment.

> it isn't the nature of HTML which is the problem

It is in some degrees. The same html/js code might run some differently in different browsers, from either behaviors or performance aspects.

On the other hand, Flash runtime only presents some small behavior differences on different OSes or with different CPU architectures. And for different OSes/browser combos with the same-power CPUs+GPUs, there is almost no performance differences.
> And on top of that I am wondering when AI will be parsing these YouTube comments in another 10 years it will just interpret the massive hate that the YouTube comments show for robots and AI and don’t be surprised if it sends some rouge instructions to these robots to annihilate human beings in self defense.

Rather than self-defense, I'd expect the first examples of autonomous robot-on-human violence to be at the behest of an overenthusiastic spam filter.
Yea, it’s that smart, but it’s a risk mitigation cause people make mistakes. You don’t really want the thing that casually you run many times a day to have the ability to accidentally delete your database. Security as well, our code deploy pipeline has less privileges than our terraform pipeline
I used to use apache-gallery (apache perl module that would turn directories of photos in galleries with thumbnails and different sized photos to view) and had it setup that each user on my machine could drop photos into their ~/gallery dir it would automatically turn them into galleries with little fuss or muss.

while this seems more featurefull, I wonder if I'd use them.
Could you point me in the direction where I can read about the unique battery technology? Charging "Li-.*" is a solved problem[1], within the same chemistry they're essentially all the same, except binning.

The fact that the car doesn't fully discharge or fully charge unless asked to is nothing revolutionary.

I'm a nonbeliever obviously, my opinion is that their only truly unique features is the inflated stock price.

1: https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium...
My personal photo archive is 100k+

I'll test this out and report back.
Also, if the demand doesn't decrease and stays the same, even then the drivers will earn less. How? Because, there will be a rise in number of drivers, due to it being more profitable now. This will lead to more drivers sitting idle at any given time. Overall incomes will initially decrease and then slowly come back to current incomes as an equilibrium is reached. In the end we'll have more drivers, each earning the same as now. I don't think the goal of minimum wage can be achieved by raising prices.
"All" has a strong male bias? Explain please
I'm a little disappointed that it wasn't actual butterflies, but this makes considerably more sense. Thanks for explaining.
We know (in general) that Amazon makes no profit. However, there should still be a way to make Amazon pay for the value it gains from being based in a modern society.
I thought that mussels and bivalves are like plants, there's no central nervous system and nothing else allowing them to be capable of consciousness.
People have been believing wildly untrue things since before the dawn of civilization.
I was around when flash was a thing and it was actually great for small hobby development. Waaay better then what is now.
Find and Track Pennystocks
What skills does an entrepreneur need to have?
> basically no one goes to public libraries anymore.

I do. This surprises me.

I always think a weekly trip to the library is good for the soul, just to be reminded of all the knowledge that's out there waiting to be discovered. Good reminder to watch less Netflix :-)
I think this was a great idea btw, sorry that it didn't work out. Before covid I always used to try and find audio walking tours for cities, and alternative ones to the normally rather dry official ones for museums, but there really isn't much out there.
I can answer this. Sorry in advance for the novel.

I hate the name too, but the flag was a necessary compromise to get past an impasse.

The problem at the time was that fullscreen WebGL in Firefox was an absolutely terrible experience on some machines, because they did a readback of the full framebuffer from the GPU to the CPU every frame. This didn't just make that tab slow, or even just the whole browser. It actually bogged down the entire computer. It made the mouse pointer skip. It was beyond unacceptable.

My preferred solution was that Firefox should disable WebGL on these machines. But the Firefox team did not want to do that, because it sort of worked OK as long as the canvas was only a small fraction of the screen. They also didn't want to expose any way of specifically detecting or disallowing readbacks. But no fullscreen WebGL application could be launched to a wide audience when a significant fraction of users would have their entire computer bog down and mouse pointer start skipping just loading the page.

So why couldn't you "just" detect that the framerate was low and turn off WebGL yourself? The problem with that is the first few frames at page load time are often slow for various reasons, some GPU related and some not. You have to render frames for a couple of seconds before you can reliably measure the steady state performance, and during that time the user's mouse pointer is skipping and they're already having a really bad time. If you then decide to disable WebGL, all that loading time and bandwidth was wasted and you have to start again loading your fallback content. So yeah you can measure performance but it doesn't solve the problem. Users still have a bad time.

As for the name, it was suggested (perhaps jokingly) by a Mozilla engineer and I decided to go with it for the proposal because they were the ones that needed convincing, and I figured they were more likely to accept a name that they suggested themselves. Bikeshedding the name could easily have derailed the whole thing.

I still wish that Firefox had just disabled WebGL on those machines, or at least agreed to provide an explicit way to detect and/or disallow readbacks. Then we wouldn't have needed the vaguely specified compromise solution.
It seems bullying, lying, bribes, hookers and conspiracy theories is the bling today!
>>Companies set prices to maximize their profits. When Uber's costs decrease, do they cut prices or take more profit?

Profit margins can only absorb cost increases until they go to zero, after which point prices have to be raised.

Additionally, it is NOT good if companies are forced to reduce profit margins below what free market forces would place them at.

Profit is compensation for investors. Too low profits leads to under-investment and stagnation of productivity/wage growth.
I agree that is the debate to be had.

So what are they suppose to do though, if they have a state of their country trying to seperate and harming civilians to do it?

Xi thinks forced re-education and subjugation is the answer. Historically, other countries have taken that approach as well.
What has ACLU done recently that you disagree with?
Four Stages of Life
I wonder how his compensation works. If it's based on performance reviews, is he now only expected to do 80% as much work? If so, him doing 100% as much work should lead to better performance reviews and maybe allow him to reach back up to his previous salary.
Sure, it's annoying, silly pedantry if you treat knowledge as coins that let you feel smart. If you care at all about having an accurate (even if not precise) picture of the world, then correcting these misconceptions matter - they're not misconceptions of detail, but of mental models.

To take #1, Earth orbiting the Sun. It's a fine shorthand, assuming you remember that all matter attracts all other matter gravitationally. If you do, you'll not be surprised by learning about how black holes work, or figuring out why planets are spherical, etc. If you don't, you'll probably end up considering gravity a magic glue between objects - which may also point out towards critical epistemological problems, like thinking objects (like "Earth" or "dog") are first-class in reality (vs. being just convenient boundaries around matter that humans draw, boundary itself not being a real thing). Knowledge is deeply interconnected; getting one bit wrong can make you wrong about a lot of other things. Conversely, fixing one wrong may fix a bunch of others too.

Also, in my experience, response to such "pedantry" varies. I've known people who were grateful for such corrections, and used them as springboards to read up some more. These people ended up being the ones having any kind of clue about how the world (both physical and social) functions, unlike general population. A difference in attitude, perhaps?
Maintaining 2 different apps (a native one and a web one) is costly in terms of time/resources. The point its not that developers "don't want" to make both, is that many don't have the resources to make both.