skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I call a bit of BS about this. In the end, the code that creates js or HTML5 equivalent (poorer versions in fact) end up being far more resource intensive and buggy than flash was. Importantly, this is after millions of man hours were put into optimising the hell out of the js engines. Further, apple itself ended up optimising it's processor architecture to allow faster JS execution.

What would have happened if Steve Jobs hadn't made an ultimatum on Flash? The iPhone might have taken a few more iterations, but eventually they would have figured out how to support flash well in their phones. We might even be in a place where processors are designed to efficiently execute flash (the new M1 has so many specialization this is not even reaching out).

Instead what we have today is a mess of things that still don't add up to technology we had a decade back, and we have really bad, inefficient code running everywhere trying their best to emulate what flash did.

In the end, the reality is that Jobs made a tech forecasting mistake assuming HTML5 (not js) will eventually catch up with flash. It never did. As poor forecasting decisions go this is fairly reasonable, but we cannot move forward if we continue insisting that this was the best decision even in retrospect.
Thanks - really interesting, especially on the RStudio point.
Hey fellow reinsurance actuary! I totally agree that Excel has its place in modeling, especially one-offs, and your criticisms make sense. That said, we have been moving a lot of our calculations to Python. We have had way too many rickety tools to move files or send emails (“first you open this spreadsheet and click this button, then you open this spreadsheet and click this button, then...”), and way too many version control issues over the years. Python solves those nicely.

I’m curious about docker + pip, why do you like that better than poetry or pipenv?
> This should be a great opportunity to test whether at this point we're all so conditioned to rely on these services, will we be willing to pay more?

Uber tested this out years ago when they first launched. In my city they offered ride passes that had a flat fare (of less than $5 per trip, within some threshold...I think it was within 20 miles). Then when they expanded they slowly raised the price of the flat fare before getting rid of it altogether.

In short, yes, we are generally conditioned to rely on these services.
My life definitely degrades in value as I age. The years seem to go by faster and faster and the frequency of novel and profound experiences steadily drops.
Thank you! Tested on an iPhone 5 and perf is fine! Mad props.
I've seen it mostly in advanced VM management like weird drive configurations.
Starting 1998, every couple of years I have taken up one or other side projects, which have all ended up not making a penny or even had much visits. My misadventures have been documented really well by the Waybackmachine in archive.org

Here is an example -- https://web.archive.org/web/20001017145942/http://www.nepaln...

This was a travel and hotel booking website we made using Perl starting 1998.

Then there was a Indic text editor tool, based on character map image exchange, that didn't go anywhere. As I was building the editor, so was Unicode becoming more common.

After that was rating system for anything using Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient. I specifically used it for hotels and universities.

Again Wayback machine reminds me that they existed -- https://web.archive.org/web/20130513055430/http://www.prjosh...

In between there were tools for early learners, used goods exchange and even a product demo system where people could give incremental feedback on specific aspects of the product.

After 22 years, I have realized that most projects failed because I was more into the programming aspect of them. Once the products were done programmatically upto a level in which I was satisfied I failed to follow through with marketing or even creating basic awareness.

With that discovered self-realization I started doing things low tech, meaning requiring very less programming work from the start of 2020. This included making videos on youtube and making what I call a Visual encyclopedia website, http://www.viewpedia.org

Now I realize that marketing or awareness creation part is equally hard. I have been trying to get my site ranked on Google and Bing for last few months and haven't gotten anywhere. Youtube videos, the highest count is 500 views.

I hope to document my projects in last 22 years and my current learnings for marketing in articles that I hope to post to HN later.
There's a marshalling analog to Greenspun's Tenth Rule.

Every sufficiently complicated serialization implementation contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of ASN.1.

I'd add that this is true of most ASN.1 implementations as well.

The length encoding is a solved problem in ASN.1 (just use CER).
Makes sense why I was dismissed from jury duty in Baltimore. One of the questions I was asked was if I would believe a police officer's testimony to be true just because he was a cop.
Gitlab also has merge trains. Atlassian open sourced Landkid which does the same thing, initially just for Bitbucket Cloud, but it’s pluggable.
The title says HTML5 but you seem to actually want better tools.
Store Locator as a SaaS. There are some successful products in this space, I just didn't execute on sales.

User created API consuming dashboards, I drove lots of traffic to it but it was a really niche product and I just don't think there was a path to revenue with such small numbers.

Static pagebuilder before Square and the like had that kind of thing dialed. Still proud of the technical achievement, had some users, but it never took off. I couldn't afford to market it.

A more traditional digital agency I started with some colleagues. It went well, and then it fell apart when one member grossly mismanaged the money and then took some big clients on his way out. I regret not sticking with it, but it was really demoralising that such bad behavior was rewarded and we were left with nothing. Many lessons learned though, I would never allow it to happen again.

Many other small projects that just waned or never got built to completion. I do all of this on my own and with my own money outside of any tech bubble, so it is pretty easy to get derailed. I have been at it for more than 10 years.
Uber isn't the problem in these cases. He needs a far better job. Uber is for college students and high school students. We rarely think about this kids who have very few skills and no professional experience.
Looks really interesting thanks. I've seen some interesting insurance projects using Julia e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__gMirBBNXY
People use 'as' in the same way. "I'm taking away your property, as I need it more".
Make a price tracker without code with Sheets, Slack and Monitoro
Yes, yes, yes, please use ISO 8601! Big-endian is the only rational way to sort dates and it combines nicely with time-of-day as well.
Loved VB and VBA but it is too limiting when needing advanced numerical capabilities. Back in the day had to create add-ins making use of compiled Matlab code to get access to decent numerical routines. Eventually moved to Python and never looked back, although I still use Excel for certain tasks.

However I do miss the VBA GUI editor built into Excel. It allowed for relatively polished interfaces in record time.
Have you looked around thats exactly the calculation most people are making.
As far as female celebrities go, she (seemingly effortlessly) maintained her physical beauty longer than any other I know. I suspected she had a portrait in the attic that aged for her.

Didn’t know she landed in Idaho.
agree with that, I also click on "no interested"
2021 in Spaceflight
I buy numerous electronic devices, from laptops down to simple PWM dimmers. Very few of them are not made in China, even fewer proudly made in the US.

I would gladly pay 25% more for devices made on US soil by US robots, but so far the supply of such is pretty limited at best.
I’ve only taken a glance, but as a CS-teacher of 16 and 17 year olds, this looks great! I have no clue how to target high school teachers with ads, but if you can, this’d probably be a very interesting niche!

(Although SQL isn’t fashionable enough these days I’m afraid, perhaps the same idea for blockchain will get all the hype :rollingeyes:)
Keep going! Were any services offered to the crew to stay healthy? Were any of them legitimately helpful or was it all for show?
Still with the deflection.

Apple is lobbying to protect their access to slave labor. (Reference in my previous post.) How is that in any way ignorable? Why bring up anything else? Why defend them when they're saying one thing and doing another?

Apple fans never condemn their company. They always hurdle accusations at everyone and anything else they can to protect their fruit god. Just like you're doing now.

Say it: "Apple uses and has benefitted from slave labor. I believe this is wrong and should change."

If you can't say that, I have more than proven my point.

It doesn't matter what other companies are doing. They're all bad. But Apple has the least excuse of them all, because they're the richest and most powerful.

Not that you care, but I cut consumption out of my life. My phone is old and I save and invest most of my income.

If my media company gets off the ground, I'd love to make a movie about Tiananmen.

I love the Chinese people (I studied Mandarin in college), but I refuse to support their regime. Businesses that kowtow should not be supported. Businesses that benefit from slave labor and Chinese market access have a lot to answer for.
I suppose you could write a small JavaScript library that handles seeking through series of binary blobs.
TLDR: Small wins over the course of months and months of trial and error.

I never considered myself a hardware integrator until I accidentally became one. Oops, e.g. fake it until you make it. Looking back at college, I received barely passing grades in my C and assembly coursework. Sure, I "understand" bitwise operations and bit shifting and LSB/MSB... but it still feels foreign to me, like every time I got something to work I celebrated that I made any progress at all. Me the imposter.

There were times in developing all these apps that I seriously thought, "well, I'm stuck, this is the end" and I just kept working a few hours at a time... If anything, troubleshooting and not getting fatally-frustrated is my super-power. These hard-won-solved-problems led me to build something "simple" for the user, which is its own very special reward (aka dev dopamine and serotonin).

I loved building these apps. I never thought I'd make any money. And my relative success with Label LIVE is just a rewarding icing on the cake of enjoying this kind of puzzle-solving. I mean, native Node modules, WASM... are their own special kinds of hell. The kind of hell you forget quickly and you have better written your future self decent documentation. Makes me nervous just thinking about finally adding Apple Silicon support. hands sweat
Have you tried pyinstaller? Works pretty well for simple cli tools or tkinter apps.
There's already predefined docker images with all of the necessary wine hacks that just consume your code + requirements.txt and spit out a exe.
If "we" were willing, that's what we would have paid.

Some people are no doubt willing, but not all of them. Which means this market will shrink and many will lose their jobs.

Nothing new, we saw the same disaster in F&B.

Excellent job, Seattle socialists!
> From an enterprise perspective, Excel is so entrenched it would be a 5-10 year effort to port existing spreadsheets to sheets. Practically speaking, most companies wouldn't see the benefit.

And at the end of the day, it would have worse performance than Excel both in calculation speed and _much_ worse UI. One of the reasons Excel is so much better than Sheets is speed. Insurance companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on actuaries. Even if Excel cost them $500/year/user, it would be easily worth it for actuarial departments.
"Regulatory and warning signs should be used conservatively because these signs, if used to excess, tend to lose their effectiveness."

-- Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, 2009 edition, section 2A.04, paragraph 01

Replace 'signs' with anything--no one's patience/attention will hold up in the face of a constant barrage of information.
So... who else has now burned hours on the incompatible food triad?

Seriously, it's killing me. Some kind of fruit and chocolate and something??
A future where AVs exist that can replace human drivers is a future where so many requirements and drivers for personal mobility have changed as well: due to the possibility of replacing a human performing a highly complex task in situ.

That future may not even want or need cars.

The other, more realistic future is one where human-level AVs are always just out of reach. Where causes of accidents are just as intransparent as with human drivers, we're all a little bit safer but a patch can cause catastrophic divergent behavior due to the innate non-linearity of the problem.

That future may not want or need cars either but it may not even be considered.
Chroma Club (the coloring book one) was just $3k, I had about 2 weeks to unload it because I didn’t want to have to handle closing and refunding subscriptions (some people prepaid for 6 months etc.) and it was faster/easier to sell than unwind, so a bit of a fire sale. The other one was about 10x that amount.
Because a man rarely realizes how often they mislead, when the headline tell him what he wants to hear.

All the very rational criticism often put forth about such principles is seemingly saved for disagreement and scrutiny for what one does not wish to hear.

I daresay that many on H.N. would relish a sensationalist haedline such as “How Microsoft and Intel planned for RISC-V to never take the market.”, which upon closer inspection in the article would be less sensationalist than what the headline suggests.
Is investing in Baidu stock profitable in 2021?
> My point is this is not standard or even typical behavior and so you rarely see it.

It could easily become a standard if someone writes a convenient JavaScript library or composer tool to do exactly that. My point is that the underlying platform is not the limitation.
Cap'n'proto has a number of drawbacks both from the 'one man band' pov. (Witness the two year lull when Kenton went sandstorming), an awkward API and limited language support.

Personally I don't think there is a perfect protocol because different people want different things whether self describing, easy/optimised memory management, zero copy, partial decode. The list goes on....

At a pinch, flatbuffers with flexbuffer evolution would be close to my goals but I'd much prefer having a meta description of messages and perhaps access ,authentication, transport security and use that (e.g. an OpenAPI v3.1 spec) to generate an implementation whether in protobuf, msgpack, JSON, ASN1 etc. whichever is suitable for a use case and using an appropriate transport whether quic, TCP, UDP.

Some of the high performance work I've seen uses ASN.1 on a very large virtual server at 100Gb line rates because the messages lend themselves to parallel decode.

I think Mike Acton had it right by suggesting things are tailored to the data needs and not overgeneralised.
I think part of the issue is that is difficult and possibly expensive to fight that fight on your own.

We need DAs and enforcement actions that favor workers.

We need the IRS to automatically flag people with a ton of contractor income from a single source and let them know that they may have been misclassified, and that they may not owe nearly as much in taxes if so. And then we need the IRS to publicly scare employers into erring on the side of calling workers employees.

I fought a misclassification with a former employer. I was able to get a ruling from the IRS, but the employer never really faced any real punishment, even though it was in writing that he was playing tax games.

I think what it comes down to is that almost no one knows how to dispute it or that they even can dispute. And many employers will immediately get rid of you if you try.
I live near some blue light cameras in Baltimore. Murders happen right beneath them. They don't deter anything.
numpy is great for vectorizable calculations, but many calcs (particularly for long-term life contingent risks, i.e. reserves), are not vectorizable except in the most simplistic cases.
Are these the same as the https://quantum.country people? The styling on the site looks similar?
I'm sure they will, but I doubt it'll matter because the idea that their workers shouldn't be contractors has broad support everywhere. If this succeeds and demonstrates that they can in fact run in a city which implements a measure like this, I suspect it will quickly sweep across most regions in which they operate.
Easy because they wont be the only wealthy countries for long. Looking at their growth in wages since 2008 european countries barely grew compared to the US wages and developing country wages.

What happens when developing countries have younger people who buy more things, better laws, and comparable wages.

For example a former french president left france for russia cause of their taxes. Many people left california for much the same. Does california have more wealthy citizen than nevada or texas sure. But at a certain point the math tilts.
The proof is in the pudding. Nobody makes webgl+javascript 2d animations hostable anywhere. There's little to no websites that will host arbitrary content like they could with swfs.

Luckily browsers don't matter, and newgrounds has their own flash player you can launch content with.
interesting and compelling analysis. Their response was also swift. The complete isolation of Wuhan so early also makes me think they knew it was an accidental release.

To me, the most likely explanation is that one or more researchers became ill or died and WIV triggered the release protocol. This isn't the fault of PRC but this plus the treatment of Uigher, illegal fishing, IP theft etc. Can we just say F China as this point and bring our manufacturing back to the US and its allies? China has good people but their government shouldnt be allowed superpower status given their transgressions.
One easy way to start would be to give basic reflex and reaction tests. On one of my last trips to the supermarket early this year before the COVID lockdowns started, I was on line behind a very elderly old woman (who for some reason had chosen the self-checkout line). She had trouble merely attempting to lift her groceries out of her basket and scan them. She was entirely unable to feed her bills into the feeder without assistance. As I was leaving the supermarket I watched her struggle to open her car door before slowly getting into her car. I sat in my car for a few minutes watching as she struggled mightily to simply back her car out of her parking spot.

Here in New York, the roads are filled with elderly people like this. Mental acuity aside, they do not possess anywhere near the reflexes or dexterity to drive a car safely. Nonetheless, they are out there on the roads every day. It would be a trivial issue to implement basic physical and mental acuity tests that should be required in order to have a driver's license. Unfortunately this remains implausible because of the lack of an alternative means of transportation available to these elderly people (which could potentially be provided by self-driving vehicles).
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The official position is that the start of this pandemic was in 'Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market' in Wuhan. [0]

So are you proposing that a pangolin from Lancang was transported more than 2000km to a seafood wetmarket in Wuhan?

At face value, this sounds like a very unlikely scenario for a zoonotic event/origin.

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/04/coronavir...
> On the case of healthcare (the topic at hand), the statement is correct.

No, it's not.

One side thinks that the total cost to individuals for a broad interpretation of medically necessary care relative to individual income is too high, but isn't primarily concerned about total cost of care except insofar as that limits the solution space for the first problem.

Another side actually does largely agree on that (though has a slightly greater, but still ssecondary, concern about aggregate costs) but disagrees with the first about solutions (in part because of the secondary concern), but those two sides are most commonly viewed as part of the same side (roughly the progressive and centrist wings of the Democratic Party.)

A third side believes that aggregate costs of services are too high, but isn't particularly concerned with how those costs are distributed between the recipient of services and others [1] or relation of cost of consistent baseline level of care to individual income.

There are a few more sides as well, most of which would agree with the “costs are too high” formulation, with even more different interpretations of which specific costs are too high, and what “too high” means.

[1] That understates the case a bit; much of this group actually has a fairly firm ideological preference that actual costs be concentrated on the direct recipient of care.
I'm a CPA. When I started learning code, I looked for whatever was most like a spreadsheet. R for the bill, with built-in frames.
> What I'm complaining about is that this is arguably the "main" usage of this word

Telemetry is getting remote metrics. You can have telemetry in robotics, you can have telemetry for app performance, you can have telemetry for environment sensors, etc. They're all valid - I'm not sure why you say your field's usage is the "main" one.
The article talks about the fact that the company did all they could for guests, but for staff, not so much..

Is that a COVID thing or is that par for the course with cruise ship companies?

I had an uncle who worked for years painting cruise ships (back in the 80s/90s mind you), and he had all kinds of stories about how the blue-collar staff on cruise ships were treated like shit, both by the company and by "management" on the ship itself.

To be honest I'm not sure I believed half his stories even as a kid, but I had no one else to ask. =)
Eventually, sure. Not on human timescales, though. The new habitat is for species that don’t exist in that lake (since it’s full of fish adapted to how it was).
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I sometimes wonder if it would make sense for Apple to include a few FPGA cores in their upcoming M(X) chips (if that is even possible). With those they could do even more specialized accelerated tasks.

On a wild imaginary train of thought; I'm not sure how well a FPGA can be integrated into an existing CPU but it could maybe be possible to define new instructions using them. That way Apple can make the chips forward-compatible with new instruction set extensions. Or if Apple finds a serious security problem with one of the existing instructions (in the unmodifiable silicon) they can make Rosetta transpile all untrusted programs to use a fixed FPGA'd replacement for those instructions.
When Twitch Prime was originally released one of the major issues was reminding people that their token was available. I built primeminder as a tool to remind people to renew their Twitch Prime subscription via email notifications: https://github.com/gravyboat/primeminder, the plan was to eventually advertise in the body of the emails once the user base was large enough.

The second was a remote job board like weworkremotely called remote-first (https://github.com/gravyboat/remote-first). This was when weworkremotely was younger and I was pretty dissatisfied with the fact they didn't even support searching for jobs, it was just a messy list that was a pain to search so I thought I could do better to solve this.

Both projects failed.