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This is the kind of stuff people post who get their information about China exclusively from American think tanks. I've worked in China and been in the country multiple times over the last few years.

In Mao's times you had to carry the little red book in your pocket, were put into a factory or lined up against the wall. Today foreigners can go to the country, start a business and you can work where you want. Over the last five years in particular the situation for businesses has gotten better because the courts actually have started to function and address stuff like IP claims. Still slow for foreign business in particular, but if you think modern China, one of the world's most integrated economies, is comparable to the Mao era I truly don't know what to tell you.

China is also, ironically enough, probably one of the most fiscally decentralized economies on the planet. If you look at the degree of economic autonomy regions have, you won't find it really anywhere else.
> Apple wanted to kill flash because it was CPU intensive and Jobs hated it. They wanted the first iPhone(s) to have great battery life and the web was plagued by flash intros, games, and what not at that time.

But now the web is plagued by javascript doing the same, often even more intensively. Is it better or worse?
"Educate" != "harass", though. The suggestion was much more along the lines of "all of you beat up on these people until they cave". That's harassment, not education.
Hmm certainly willing to, but I don't have much. Mostly just that professional graphic designers didn't seem like the right audience since they already have networks of peers who can give better feedback. Oh, and the apparel-industry-specific stuff from below.

But something like an engineer asking a colleague which web design they just hacked up looks better would be a much better fit.
I distinctly remember this and partially believe the growth of the iPhone accelerated the decline.
that's an amazing website! Thanks for sharing.
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I think you could argue it's more about marketing than either of those things.
I don't know about meat, but one of the more interesting facts to come out of the Randy Constant case was that there was no way to chemically test whether or not grain was actually organic - which would only be possible if organic and non-organic were chemically identical.
Problem is having enough traffic to make the customer willing to pay $300.

For $300, monster probably gets you 100k+ pageviews a month. As a scrappy indiehack project, you're probably getting 1k at best.
But you've already read it, even if you don't click, so hasn't it already affected you?
I think that would be better actually: if he had sold all his shares he would have paid a great deal of taxes on it. Instead he'll keep his shares forever, fund his lifestyle with low-interest loans, funnel some of it to offshore accounts, and find all kinds of ways to pass his inheritance to his children while paying as little taxes as possible.
I think it is reasonable to assume that any advances in efficiency will be subsumed by increased use, much in the same way increased energy efficiency doesn't decrease absolute overall use.
What's "GCP @<150M ARR & left @~4B (excld GSuite.)" mean for those of us that don't speak google?
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This is hilarious. Thank you for the laughs.
The official Ultimate Debian Database only allows Debian project members to access it. Mattia Rizzolo and I co-maintain a mirror. Query and enjoy!

psql "postgresql://udd-mirror:udd-mirror@udd-mirror.debian.net/udd"

I wrote up its history recently: https://announce.asheesh.org/2020/11/the-ultimate-debian-dat...

More info about the service: https://udd-mirror.debian.net/
We've just had riots across the whole US started by a terrorist group called "Black Lives Matter", so I think FBI guide is spot on.
I'd love to see a president (of any party) veto a bill simply because it was 5500 pages long. "Send me a budget, not an encyclopedia."
I built an online course to help students self-study for AP exams. The idea was to build extremely high-quality courses for AP exams and then create amazing tools/assessments which would allow students to self-study for the exams. One of my signature tools was an adaptive assessment tool that would tell students when they're ready to take the exam. If the student wasn't ready then they would get a mixture of lectures, videos and small assessments to teach them the concepts needed to pass the exam.

I eventually closed the service down because the reality is the edtech market for these type of products is very small.
It's kind of funny how Jobs declared War on Flash, but it had to be done. It made the web back in the olden days much more interesting and even amazing, but it had to be killed off, for great justice and, look, it took over a decade.
Hi HNers,
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Thanks.
If you have to manage unsubscribes yourself, you might as well use MailChimp or something similar. You'd probably lose a lot of dev time if you use this lib and then add onto it vs. something that works out of the box.
If there's anything I learnt from discussing my ideas with family, friends and others, it's that finding the right people to bounce your ideas off of is crucial.

I think Will Wright (famous game designer) described this phenomenon well. To paraphrase, every time he would try to describe a new game to someone else, that person would create a game design in their head and play their game in their head, and then tell you what their thinking is. However, what you want, is someone to play _your design_ in their head. That's very hard to do without a prototype. For example, basically everyone told him that idea for The Sims is terrible. Only when they played his game did they see the light.
When I lost the charger for my Nintendo DS, I was able to MacGyver one out of a piece of cardboard and two strips of aluminium foil.

I did the same thing for my 2DS XL, but instead modded the device with a non-PD USB-C breakout board. Works great with both USB-PD and regular USB-C chargers and cables. https://nullsum.net/posts/usbc-mod-new-2ds-xl/

Now, in the days of complex calculated power delivery negotiation, a hack like this would be impossible.

The only devices I've seen _require_ USB-PD are PC's. All the modern phones, headphones, and gaming handhelds I've seen with USB-C do not require USB-PD and charge just fine with a USB-A to USB-C cable.

Better yet, these devices all use a standard USB-C port instead of a proprietary one. The only gotcha is that some USB-C devices break spec and don't work with some USB-C to USB-C cables. Both the Pi 4 and RG351P suffer from this.
Microsoft might not have been the one doing the pushing, but claiming the customers wanted it is only telling half the truth at best. I think it's fair to say that most customers then were unaware of the alternatives and the decision was made by the manufacturers of those home computers.

BASIC might very well have been the best choice for those casually interested in computers. Educators would have preferred others though (Pascal, Scheme and COMAL come to mind). FORTH would have scared away most customers, but amazed and inspired others (I sadly discovered it only after its prime).

Turbo Pascal didn't require (much) more memory than elaborate BASIC implementations and ran at reasonable speed even on a Z80. Not quite the same interactivity of an interpreter perhaps, but not much behind. It came late to the scene though.
Look, man. There is an easy way, and there is the COOL way.
newgrounds is known for hosting flash animations.
They created their own flash player desktop app so you can keep watching content that was flash based : https://www.newgrounds.com/flash/player
Honestly, not sure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ One of the reasons I wanted to remain in the EU was because of things like people-friendly labour laws - I trust the EU far more than I trust the government (regardless which party is in power).

AFAIK we are basically keeping everything from the EU at the time of severance, and I think the Brexit trade deal means we can't make any significant degredation of labour laws going forward. If anyone reading this knows different, please do correct me.
Maybe I don't understand, isn't that already true? Companies pay taxes on net (profit), not gross (revenue), outside of some state tax systems like Washington's.
What I learned is there was not. I got the idea for it one day and four days later I released the first version. One reason for doing it, despite an unknown but probably small market, was I could do it so quickly (I used an free open source Java library to handle the database). The success for that app was a very small one, it paid the $25 fee for me joining as a Google Play (then Android Market) programmer. The app which allowed people to read books was a larger market and was the real success.
> If you've ever written typescript, you can see how a strongly typed JS gives you the worst of both worlds.

Actually, no. I genuinely think Typescript is amazing and I would love if there was native support one day.
Have attempted to do this with recommendations for 30-120s clips with 500,000 to 2,000,000 views from old TV shows, cartoons, and movies. It's not working.

I'd rather read a spreadsheet with a list of public YouTube video IDs/metadata than experience the silence in the downtime between worthwhile videos.
Not to mention many non-https sites have zero reason to be. A plain HTML portfolio site, for example, should not be flagged with a scary "insecure" logo because its content is not encrypted.
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Makes sense, I think that setting aside the moral judgment, our disagreement might hinge on what denotes a "pro-employee" individual. I'd be curious what an example of that might look like in your view (genuinely curious, trying to understand).
Government is competing with FAANG for employees. There isn’t a good reason to exclude them from comparison. Even so, working for a startup without equity is often more lucrative than working for the federal government. The situation is even worse at the state and local level where you also have to fear your pension being raided via government bankruptcy.

I’m talking about actual government employees, not contractors. The actual government employees who manage those contracts are not paid well. You can see the results of this too in things like the F35 program where the government had no idea what it wanted and repeatedly redirected and added crazy requirements (to be fair, Lockheed is also incompetent).

You’re right though, painting even a majority of public employees as incompetent isn’t fair.
What is "the arrow" in this context?
"a single, unsubstantiated claim of infringement should be enough to not only terminate a YouTube account but to terminate Internet access"
Thank you, I'll look into it!
at Starship's $100/kg placing your Eth mining $1000 GPU in space will add only 10-20% when amortized over 100 ton rig - it is comparable with building/buying your own small powerplant what large crypto have done. AI and crypto are exploding and only going more so. Granted, the planet is becoming too small a confines for it. It seems that AI and crypto will be the killer apps of space in near future.

One can also observe that humans have largest, among the animals of planet Earth, share of body energy consumed by brain and the future humans would probably have even higher share. In technology we observe the same - the pinnacle of technology - CPU - have practically 0 thermodynamic efficiency and the share of energy consumed by computers grows, and i think it will be only growing. Intelligence eats the world.
I invite you guys to play some old flash games, for the last time on my 11 year old flash gaming website: boredmob.com
You aren’t totally wrong, but your view is a recipe for disaster because sooner or later most cops are thrust into that 1% scenario, and they need the ability to defend themselves and you.

The better solution is to eliminate the drivers of friction between honest citizens and cops, especially those traffic create more violent encounters. No knock warrants, the war on drugs, civil forfeiture, vice squads and the criminalization of victimless crimes, the “trafficking myth” war on sex workers, etc.
> Not sure how many people are still stuck with flash

My mom is a school teachers and a lot of the web materials provided for their curriculum are still flash-based. Although the publishers have started to transition, the older flash apps tend to be richer in content and less buggy.
Yup. This is like when people work 60 hours a week for their whole 20s. By the time they reach 30, anyone who wasnt working like that has almost no shot at catching up. Assuming they were actually productive..
Right. They'll pull the plug with version 89 scheduled for January.
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Are the Comac planes much more efficient than Boeing/Airbus of the same size/capacity? Are they much cheaper?

What's the appeal for a non-China airline to bet on these?
I feel that mass surveillance for law enforcement will not work until public, judiciary and law accept that Police like all people make errors. It shouldn't be a herculean task to reverse a wrongful arrest or file charges for a use of excessive force by law enforcement officer.

Courts should ultimately decide if the officer did this out of malice/incompetence and penalize accordingly.
This reminds me of a video from "Half as interesting", is this also an eruv?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPYp3lOOOrg
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Have you tried removing the free trial?
Oh its extremely user hostile, but Amazon makes money either way. Counterfeit, bait and switch, commingling inventory, all of that doesn't matter because the transaction volume going out is still greater than the refunds and unhappy users. Way past the point of return for that to hurt business. I agree with you though, I only shop amazon for simple stupid things I cant find local, I don't even buy name brand there anymore.
I would have paid a lot of money for that back in the pre-CSS days, assuming it worked well. Was it purely image-based or could it recognize when an area could be rendered without using an image (like a single color zone/etc.)?
That's an outdated understanding of how the Senate works in the McConell era. No one voted for amendments. Nowadays these things are worked out behind closed doors by Republican leadership and then sprung onto the schedule with as little opportunity for debate as possible.
I don't really agree. Firefox itself could run a free Certificate Authority if it ever came to that. Your scenario is much less likely, and much more easily fixable than the status quo where most websites don't bother exposing their site over HTTPS, creating huge security and privacy risks for consumers of said sites.

There is absolutely no reason not to have your site functioning over HTTPs these days, except negligence.
Along with Ruffle, there's also Flashpoint, a project to curate an archive of every flash game and animation on the internet.
(https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/)
As one more thing to consider: there's some irony in that running for office isn't exactly privacy-friendly. I sometimes wonder if elected office, if not any and all kinds of public service, necessarily selects for people who don't care too much about their own personal privacy, and what the consequences of that are. There's no way to get there without essentially throwing away whatever dregs of anonymity you've managed to hold on to.

So, while I don't think I'm any of those things you list, and I've often thought that I would love to run for office some day, just glancing at the paperwork required to show up to the race is typically enough to turn me off of the idea for a while.
And the onus is on those educational sites to transition away from Flash. We knew for several YEARS it's being decommissioned.

If these websites needed a disrupting event to nudge the transition, then this is it.
That would be a mis-spelling, apologies
In addition to what everyone else has mentioned, it's worth knowing that American driving licenses expire every few years and you usually have to go in person to get a new photo taken at the DMV. Many Europeans I know have had their same licenses since they were young, including the thirty year old photo.
On the off-chance you were using amdgpu, they merged a huge driver update in 6.8 that improved reliability for me from "unusable" to "easy daily driver."
In some cases, no. In most cases, it is more accurate to say that I don't anticipate other people in the org being considerate, due to a lot of the interactions we have being one-off rather than an ongoing relationship.
I've got flash based devices in foreign offices that were due for upgrade or replacement this year, which has been..... shall we say challenging?
> But like a lot of Haskell much of this still goes over my head.

It's not that hard, but it's easier to get one concept at a time. I'm less familiar with Haskell, but languages like Scheme/OCaml are routinely used to teach programming to beginners.

Also there's no need to see a dichotomy between "IRL productivity" and "CS/FP". Even if you don't use Haskell directly, ideas from FP make their way to mainstream languages, either as constructs, or libraries, or simply programming style.

Overall, the more programming paradigms you know, the easier it gets to learn new languages.
Penrose is probably correct about the limit of AI. We're living in many simulations now. And sometimes we cannot distinguish between reality and simulations. But one thing that stands out is the suffering. It's an important concept in Buddhism, Duḥkha. Suffering may be a key to consciousness. Machines can have minds. But they don't have bodies. They'd never understand reality on their own. The danger is more with humans. They may increasingly connect their own sufferings into machines. They become tools and slaves for machines.
But you cannot even donate to the Mozilla Corp (those who actually coordinate Firefox development), but to the Mozilla Foundation, which AFAIK does advocacy.

I honestly don't know if how much each 1$ donated to the Mozilla Foundation contributes to Firefox development, if at all.
The point would be to preserve a fairly large amount of internet culture from the 90's and 00's. Ruffle.js which has already been mentioned utilizes the fantastic JS sandbox already present, no need to create a new one. The browsers just have to support it by default.

I don't know enough about the web to determine whether it would be better to emulate Flash within the JS sandbox, or virtualize the Flash runtime itself
>Microsoft and Google are planning to disable Flash Player in their Chromium-based web browsers, but no official word has been given as to when this will happen.

So you have two copies of flash on your Win10 computer. One is an OS library that you can see a bit of in the control panel. This is what Microsoft is removing with this update. The other is a containerized copy that Chrome and Edge ships with. That copy isn't going away until MS and Google say so, and if their metrics say there's a lot of flash use, then its going to stay for a while, maybe forever as a whitelist-only legacy technology. Its kinda this already, but I'm guessing it could be stricter, like forcing people to go deep into a menu to activate flash instead of helpfully popping up about it.
It is hard from the article to see where they pull the $36b headline number from...

“California officials drew headlines recently for announcing they suspect as much as $2 billion was paid out in improper payments. Other states have reported lower losses: $242 million in Massachusetts, $200 million in Michigan, $18 million in Rhode Island, $8 million in Arizona and $6 million in Wisconsin.”

California is about 15% of US GDP, so even if many other states were hit much worse, getting to $36b is hard.
How do I crack it so it won't stop? I don't care it won't get updates but I don't want it to stop working.
I guess "Annual Recurring Revenue". And for me it's a sign that the article is purely from a business person - which likely has a very different view on the state of things than engineers working on the projects.
So you're saying if you're used to drive stick, you shouldn't think about buying an automatic at all?
Instead of “defund the police” how bout “legalize victimless behaviors”?

If cops weren’t tasked to police what you put in your body and what you do with other consenting adults, we’d need far fewer of them and we’d probably appreciate the remaining cops a lot more.
Well, mainly the truth came out because two planes crashed and hundreds of people were killed. That's something even Boeing couldn't sweep under the rug.
There is no educational or qualification or experience requirement to stand for election as a UK MP, all you need is a few hundred quid, the approval of your party and ten voters.

https://5050parliament.co.uk/get-elected/

Maybe we'd be better off if MPs had to study and practise as much as an NHS consultant has to before they can run the country?
I have only seen Spotify github projects that loads your playlist and downloads the songs from Youtube.
>And what about the victims of false imprisonment due to a wholly corrupt police department?

What about them? False imprisonment is a problem, but not at the scale of the crime in that city. Baltimore had 350 homicides and 2000+ robberies/assaults/rapes, and thousands more thefts and property crimes [1].

Let me pose a question to you: At what point do we start focusing on victims of crime again? All I hear is about police reform, and about criminal rights. Who stands up for the good people living in the violent neighborhoods of St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore etc.? When will the focus be set on the victims in those neighborhoods? Do the people there have a right to not be victimized? Who enforces those rights? A 7 year old girl was killed by a stray bullet in Atlanta recently[2]? What is the ACLU doing for her, her family, and other such families?

>working a tough beat does not excuse the malfeasance endemic to the Baltimore PD.

Maybe the fact that Baltimore cops are forced to deal with the worst of humanity in one of the most violent cities in the world plays a role here? Maybe you need to lower the crime rate before you can expect policing to improve?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Baltimore
[2] https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/latest-loss-from-atlantas-ris...
Does earmarking for donations exist in the US, i.e. could you donate under the condition that the money is only to be used for development of Firefox?
I made a tool called Diskache, which would combine an SSD with an HDD into a hybrid drive around 2015. You did not have to use the entire disk(s) for that. It worked on any two drives on Windows. But my marketing skills got me 0 customers beyond myself.

The target audience was supposed to be gamers (back then typical SSD was 150GB and GTA V was 55GB alone). I even got greenlit on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=61003...
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I do, but perhaps not very well ;-}

I mentioned the search for the higgs boson only as it leaves me uneasy, that it was so expensive, that I doubt in my lifetime any team will attempt to reproduce the results.
Seems pretty normal to me - we used to do this kind of thing on the regular. SEV analysis often requires digging through months of past logs to ascertain all the affected customers. If that takes a day every time you hit a customer-facing issue, your team ends up spending all their time on after action reports, and never gets any engineering done.