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In my opinion, HTML5 and Flash have always served different audiences.

Flash got axed because the way it was implemented into clients was wasteful, insecure and a bad user experience in general. Same with Java; you can't make the same tools that Java applets once provided through the browser because of the browser's security model, so I'd say the two never competed.

Making a quick interactive animation that works across all kinds of resolutions and sizes was trivial in Flash, but in HTML5 this is a challenge. HTML5 and friends fixed the problems that made web developers grasp at Flash for, like file uploads, animations and predictable interaction with the mouse and keyboard. These features were often already possible in browsers, but Flash was the only tool that made them appear the same in every browser available. They didn't replace the flash scene for games, interactive simulations and other online experiences. The Flash game scene pretty much died when Flash started getting blocked by Chrome, with only a small subset of the community fragmenting and finding their way to frameworks like Unity Web and its then plentiful competitors with high learning curves because they were designed for the "real deal" game developers rather than self-taught animators that turned game dev.

I think JS is a necessity for the web to exist today, but we need an alternative for what once was Flash, Java, Shockwave and more. Too many features have been shoved into HTML and Javascript that have no business there, left to be abused by trackers and hackers alike.
some bits about threaded bytecode and code size are very interesting though

also I don't know if it's still the case but mac used openfirmware fcode/forth
Google is great if people know what they want, but for discovery? Not so much.

Can’t wait to see the articles about the crippling downstream effect of this change on small companies.
Monstrum recently did a two-part, almost 1h in total, video that covers about the first half of the article[1]. The other half is new info (i.e., not in the Monstrum coverage) but Monstrum has its own points presented too.

As for me, in the recent years, I've really taken a Campbellian framework in trying to explain genre tropes and obsessions. A society's stories reveals their psyche, to quote loosely. Viking literature is replete with werewolves because they see traits in wolves worth emulating and cautioning against.

I didn't find Hero With a Thousand Faces as "rigorous" as I hoped but the main thesis seems to hold up for me. I'm still only a pseudo literary analyst but investigating works through this Campbellian lens adds an extra layer to the media I consume. E.g., why is postwar Japan so obsessed with blowing up Tokyo then (maybe) rise again as an economic superpower? Consider Akira, Godzilla, plus almost every Japanese sci-fi/mech anime.

That example is rather a giveaway: Hiroshima and Nagasaki immediately comes to mind. But in the lockdown I've had time to ponder on other (rather on-theme at the moment) things like vampire tropes and representations of Death.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xPFdX5qEyk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aff9ZQLClcU
Opium is important in the history of Singapore. The city was mainly developed for and by the opium trade, but also faced issues due to legal local consumption up to the 1940s. It's not what directly brought the draconian legislation in the 1970s, but it certainly contributed.

Some history on opium and Singapore:

https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-11/issue-3/oct-dec-2015/dr...
Yeah, but those are even sillier because a "private blockchain" is just a database with signed transactions.
I understand what a dividend stock is I even mentioned these two concepts in my other post. But condescension aside now we are getting somewhere. So people are speculating on future earning and think profits will grow exponentially. But none of these companies are projecting profits in short or long term and I don't ever see talk of profits from people who are buying these stocks. Functionally it all seems to run on emotions.
Once you make the addresses longer you need to replace all the same hardware and come up with 80% of the same problems of the IPv6 migration
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This is a canny observation, but not entirely complete. Japan has incredibly low unemployment, even lower rates of juvenile delinquency, homelessness and drug abuse. "Being more hierarchical" isn't really meaningful if you look at the core differences. The West is far more severe in its application of competitive consumerism, where inequality is supposed to act as a motivator.
Amazon is getting in on this too.

https://www.amazon.com/live
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Sounds like a mix of Amazon prime day (first day of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s annual shopping festival) with a QVC/Pop Idol/Superbowl Commercial/24 hour stream
I'm surprised this article has no mention of things like visual novels which are generally considered video games, but pretty much work just like novels.

Also, Trails in the Sky (and the trails series in general) have a pretty solid story.
>If said homeowner is trying to 'score points' by pointing out things they don't themselves understand, then they don't deserve any sort of benefit of the doubt.

The hell kind of attitude is this? Someone goes through the effort of doing research to wrap their head around something with which many people don't even bother to acknowledge, and challenge you with a question that you as the professional are reasonably expected to be able to answer, and that's your response?

I hope you never work with me. We would not get along at all.
That may be but if you aren't making a profit then what is the point?
Has there ever been any case where people were actually able to cash out in that way? Companies to my knowledge tend to fail catastrophically and in that scenario nobody really gets anything. And there isn't a way to "cash out" apart from selling it to someone else.
Reminds me of the timeless piece by William Gibson on Singapore, “Disneyland with the Death Penalty”.

ref : https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/
"Your main motivation should be fun and enjoyment of making the music."

On principle I agree with this. Tracks made following a tick list of successful tropes with an eye on getting released are liable to be highly forgettable.

Having said that, as someone who tinkered a bit with production some twenty many years ago before lapsing, and tinkering and lapsing once again a couple of years ago, I would argue that some form of shared community outlet is essential in persisting and making something of greater merit.

I tend to think that the best music is emergent from real-life communities: people, time, place, culture, politics. That is, communities that have an aesthetic and reason for being that goes far beyond, say, craving new synths after watching youtube reviews.

Music that is not performed and shared, ever, is somehow stillborn. Fun and enjoyment come from the attribution of meaning, and to me, meaning ultimately comes from real human context. I feel that the lack of this killed my desire to keep making it and improving. It was just an expensive way of shouting into the void.
> Seems unethical to me.

Wait, wait, hold on, let me get this straight; are you suggesting YouTubers act unethically?
Stardew Valley's Creator Won't Release New Game Until “Personally Satisfied ”
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I don't miss mIRC. I get it was the most popular IRC client on Windows but I never liked it much personally. In fact I disliked it enough to write my own Windows-based IRC client. Unfortunately by the time version 1.0 was ready to ship, IRC was in decline (on Windows at least) so I just kept it around as a personal client for about a year before I eventually switching to using Linux as my primary desktop and by then Irssi had been released and with Perl scripting support I saw no point in porting my client to Linux.
DES (Digital Electronic Slurry) is a competing technology to E-Ink. It supports fairly high color depth and is relatively cheap.

I had heard previously on HN that there were competing technologies but I never knew of a concrete example.
Ask HN: How to start learning about investments?
I know basically zero about investing and stocks, mutual funds, XFDs, ETFs and FOREX seems most accessible investment vehicles.

I want to start investing some money and before doing it I want to learn how to do it.

I don't plan to get super rich by doing this but to improve my financial situation.

What I want is to learn how not to lose money and being able to correctly asses the risks and rewards.

There are sites like investopedia but they seem generic and articles aren't well connected with each other.

I don't expect to have a learning path or certificates or nanodegrees or even complete tutorials like on Udemy, Coursera or Udacity.

But I want a way to have some structured information.

So where do you suggest I can start? How to find good materials that I can learn from? How to structure the information and do a learning plan?
Many other manufacturers had made power-efficient ARM chips, however, the mainstream computer makers (just a few years ago including Apple) did choose x86 compatibility over power efficiency.
> DHCP is a stupid protocol for assigning addresses that shouldn't have been necessary,

Why?
The router on the OP's network was probably just being a router. No fancy NAT junk, and probably no ACLs / fireballing. It was pretty common to have something like a T1 circuit, a CSU/DSU that connected to the T1 and presented a serial connection, and a PPP or SDLC connection to your upstream ISP over that serial connection. The router's Ethernet interface is connected to your switch (or hub) and all the hosts have IP addresses in the subnet your ISP assigned. Fancier shops might have a proxy server or dedicated firewall box between the LAN and the router.
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> According to Facebook's Internal research, I am not alone in that.

I think the core point is probably true, but I wouldn't be 100% confident about this statement. The research seems murky.

https://archive.md/SPpNW
you pay a (usually) flat fee and get to borrow (no change of ownership) stuff.
Monopoly of google shows hard with this inability do do filtering/blacklisting. As European I hope EU forces them to be user friendly or just ban em.
We could have delta.airlines and delta.faucets; and apple.computer and apple.groceries for example.

You can append the country domain name, e.g. .us or .de, if you want.
The reasons that they highlight seem like they are correctly aimed at the people who could want to use it. This is the highlighted features:

- Lightweight Desktop Environment

- Intuitive Layout

- Completely Customizable

- Freely Available

- Portable

If you don't care about any of those things then yeah, Lumina is not for you.

The "features" page also features even more features that potential users could care about: https://lumina-desktop.org/features/

But again, if nothing there pique your interest, then Lumina is not for you and you're looking for Gnome, KDE or something else similar to those.
It's supposed to be "the NPV of the dividend annuity." In the event that there is no Greater Fool, the shareholders as a body have some recourse to generate income from the company. So it's not just a Pokemon card.

But I agree no one seems to be calculating this.

I think no one wants dividends because of how they're taxed relative to capital gains
No, we are in disagreement. I agree with the view that the real rate is determined by the supply of savings and the demand for funds. According to this view, in the context of monetary policy, the real rate of interest is an exogenous variable, and the central bank can choose to set the rate of inflation or the nominal rate of interest, but not both.
The whole Meta thing is a distraction, nothing more. For better and worse there is nothing to be gained by the name change.

The ad business is what matters to Facebook, so i think you're right.
Exactly. This is why I use the Moksha Desktop.
There was VRML with some amazing worlds to explore. I imagine they’d probably start with that and extend it (creating an elevator in VRML was excruciating).
I just started playing maybe 4 weeks ago and have found it quite funny how high you can climb by mostly just moving your pawns and memorizing ways you lost (blitz and bullet).

It's sort of a mini game for me now where I try to climb as high as possible by only using memory and pawn structure. I've climbed to 1200 ELO using just this strategy, but it's probably going to stop working soon.
That's a bit of an ironic comment

Broadcom chips are not available on the open market and they won't sell to you unless you are an enormous company(or have a "special relationship" as RPi did). Effectively you can only buy one attached to a Pi.
I started with Ableton about 12 years ago with zero musical training and consistently am having fun with it mostly learning by doing. I think just playing around, seeing what sounds good can get you incredibly far. Sometimes tutorials how to do something specific help; but I have found that there is always a million ways to achieve what sounds good to you. Very similar to code.

Tl;dr: Experiment with Ableton, you can have a lot of fun just f**ing around.
I have so much hate for Google when it ask me for my credit card or Id, officially to "confirm" my age to view a fuckin video that should not be restricted to any age in my country at least.

But we all know the real reasons why they try to get your real identity...
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Yeah it's strange that the market cares so little about profits, and it runs much on emotions, but that still doesn't make it "wrong" in any way, in my point of view, as a ponzi scheme would. Progress is still being made, and revenue as well.

By the way, I hope you didn't find my tone condescending because I made such simplistic examples, just trying to be helpful, but probably mostly helping myself understand by typing it out :)
Homebrew also messes with /usr/local (it stores symlinks there), so this could interfere with the native package manager, I suppose. For example, if you install and then purge a package, it could overwrite symlinks and then remove them (also if the package is a dependency of the package you're interested in).

Also, how would you install Python wheels in a system-wide manner?
I note you said "DEC format". Were you perhaps on PDPs instead of VAXen?

I'm pretty sure that VAX had support for G_floating contemporaneously with the 8087 (I actually think it predates it but I can't prove it). I can see that MicroVAX had support for it back in 1985 which would seem to imply that mainline VAX had it probably for several years prior.
So we get their disinformation then...
You don't get to be the character, you get to control it within very narrow constraints...
Cooking a banana in a microwave oven operating at 3x it’s design power can destroy it.

Also worth remembering that consumer microwave ovens are commodities that have been value engineered to within an inch of their life. They operate well under “normal” usage, but there isn’t much slack in the design to accommodate more creative uses.
I mean, that video was so light on actual information, you would have a hard time attempting to replicate any of this without already knowing how to do it. That's what usually bugs me about youtube videos like this, it's a lot of showboating and gags, but the interesting part of how the build actually goes together is barely worth a mention. (Of course, you'd be greatly limiting your potential target audience if you really went into the weeds of things, so here we are)

He does mention laser safety in the video though
The amounts of life ecommerce sales are staggering
On the domain name issues. Perhaps identity shouldn’t hinge on a mnemonic globally unique identifier at all. Instead something like local mnemonics linking to authenticated reputation based identities. I guess a web of trust kind of approach.
These days, I am really impressed by the MATE desktop environment:

https://mate-desktop.org/

It does the stuff that you need without excess weight, the look and feel is flexible enough that you can make it look like other systems if you prefer, and the small development team consistently put out new releases to fix and refine it without any drama.

AWS use it for their Linux cloud-based desktop service, probably for these reasons.

Ubuntu MATE is a great showcase for what can be done with MATE. It's arguably more user-friendly than the main Ubuntu, with the MATE desktop and quick-start features like a well-curated software selector.

https://ubuntu-mate.org/
Did this just start? I see 3 people watching
> You first have to host these index.html and sw.js on a regular server

I guess no server worker from a file://-url?
And the solution to this is executing mentally impaired poor buggers fir caring 50 grams of dope? Not even Russia does that today, they just throw you in jail for 10 years.
> From the outside, programmers seem to resemble the machines they program – cold, emotionless, unmoved.

Nothing grabs you in an article like the person saying everybody in your field has no external personality.
Agreed!
Sometimes being restrained in what is possible opens up a myriad of ways to get creative.

Start with very very basic equipment/samples etc. and very rarely add to your setup.

It's crazy how much you can achieve with just a drum tracker, EQ, compressor and a dozen samples.
Exactly my thought.
This in combination with a Twitch/YouTube influencer!?
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Chicken and the egg.

It's the exact opposite here in the Netherlands, where Amazon has only recently started to gain some ground.
This video has 1.7 million views. Old estimates, before YouTube cranked up the ads to an unbearable level, were $1-$3 per 1000 views, and that's just for ads, not the sponsorship.

Besides, it's also his hobby. I have no doubt his channel is at the very least financing his hobby.

If you look at even more popular Youtubers, yes, YouTube can be extremely profitable and justify immense production values.
Curious if this is actually intended to combat disinformation or if this is intended to help spread their opinions on information. It's been my observation that the super rich are often some of the biggest culprits in spreading disinformation (Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, etc)
then who'd own the cables and satellites?
I would switch DNS to a pure tree and add discoverability as also locality-aspects. By which I mean, put the TLD at the front, not xyz.com, but /com/xyz. And in the first levels you would automatically get a listing of all valid entries back. Similar I would add local entries, like postal codes and states. So people could do something like /usa/texas/ and get a list of all cities, or /usa/postalcode/90210/ and you would get a list of all companies and websites in the area.

I would also change HTTP to be modular, allowing to add new sub-protocols which would be automatically compatible with old clients. So we could do something like http/imap or http/ftp on top of http, and unprepared clients would still be somewhat compatible to this, but adapted clients could fully utilize those protocols. Thing is, http is not the most perfect protocol, but it's a very pragmatic and straight forward one, which IMHO is the main reason why it succeeded, where other protocols failed. SO instead of adding another batch of protocols that barely anyone will use and support, it would be better to high jack the existing solution, and slowly extend it.

Also, I would make it Illegal to have proprietary protocols, data formats and obfuscated apps. Give the people the power they deserve. You can't open the cloud and business, but at least networks should be balanced for all involved sides.
In almost every way?
Using the old $1-$3 per 1000 views rule of thumb, Mr. Beast could surely afford doing that, especially once you consider sponsorships, merch, and other sources of revenue.
> There are also a lot of people who have it out for IPv6 because their ISPs aren't handing out static addresses, somehow equating IPv6's problems with the shittiness of their ISP.

My ISP isn't handing out static IPv4 nor IPv6. However IPv4 works just fine while for IPv6 it's a giant pain.

The world isn't static though, so maybe IPv6 is the problem here? Or do you seriously suggest I should manually change all my device IPs just because I switched ISP? Why should I care about which prefix I get?

> In my opinion, DHCP is a stupid protocol for assigning addresses that shouldn't have been necessary, but we've managed to staple some kind of management ideals on top of it (as if someone couldn't just set a static IP on their device)

Even for my puny LAN I've managed to create address conflicts when doing static IP assignments. If I need to keep track of my devices in an Excel sheet, why not just use the DHCP server? I need something ala the DHCP server to hand out DNS and NTP servers etc anyway.

> when people encounter IPv6 in the real world they're scared and confused by concepts

When I went to school and learned about IPv4, IPv6 was just getting started. I'm not scared. Slightly confused yes, it's a non-trivial change from IPv4 after all. But the main issue is missing support, from hardware to software to ISP's.
Without the authoritarian rule, how does it get started? And what happens when people lose interest in playing by these voluntary guidelines?
TLDs should be reversed. So instead it would be com.google.www/maps
If you are playing for an audience (can be tiny too!) you will always be much more motivated to produce quality and improve your skills.

That being said it can also put pressure on you to the point where you also lose your joy due to stress.

I guess some middle ground can be found but as with everything that is easier said than done.
Sounds like a "microkernel" approach to building browsers. I like it :)
So everyonene OK with saying sunsetting instead of shutting down now?.
Even though its clearly a corporate-speak?. Are we gonna be so easily manipulated?
Seems like that's a theme for these "awesome-*" lists. Outdated and Questionable links mixed with good ones
> This is the highlighted features:

Doesn't this sort of prove the point of the one you're replying to? Yeah sure I care about these things, but it tells me almost nothing because I could categorize a lot of other DE with those words as well. I want to know what it is like for everyday usage. How does it manage windows would be the first thing which I'd like to see some footage or explanation of.
Econ mobile profit margin is 10%, and they are selling a very fungible product that lots of competitors are also selling (they have little pricing power).

Tech company profit margins are 20%+, and they are selling products which have much higher moats, and benefit from network effects. And less liability.
Do any cab companies here let you book online via browser/PWA rather than requiring a proprietary app to be downloaded? Uber used to have m.uber.com but it seems lately that doesn't actually allow you to book rides in this region anymore and I've not come across any others yet.
That reminds me of the first company I worked for. Rumor had it that a handful of their engineers got their hand on the Design Patterns book, read it, and decided on a single design pattern that they'd use for everything.

So many visitors...
Some things I have written in Forth:

- a vt100 terminal emulator

- a pacman clone

- a text editor

- a plotting utility for an HP plotter

- an interface for a Coulter counter

Probably other stuff I have forgotten now.
Unified Patent Court is more expensive and an SME killer
Maybe Ponzi scheme is too loaded a term but both have the same failure mode. At some point people will wise up and demand some real returns. It might not collapse but it will stop growing and there will be a knock on effect as so much of it is taken on leverage.