skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, having worked closely with these technologies in my day job during this era, the average person talking about it has an oversimplified view of the technologies and comes to the wrong conclusions.

Adobe did not want Flash to die, and their product manager was very involved in the community to figure out what needed to happen to prevent that. I don't think Adobe invested enough into those demands, but still there was steady investment made. If they had more time, and Apple wasn't such a bully, the tech could have evolved and survived.

Adobe built Stage3D so that one API could target GPUs across desktop and mobile. Think WebGL, which was released around the same time. But production-ready due to the distribution advantage the flash player had over browsers at the time.

Adobe funded open source projects such as Starling to create scenegraph-like APIs on top of Stage3D, providing an on-ramp for all existing AS3 devs to the new paradigm with their existing API knowledge and tool chain.

At this point in the timeline, any AS3 dev could write cross platform games and apps if they picked up a handful of mobile GPU concepts like draw calls, texture maps, and bitmap fonts. (You could take all these things for granted in the traditional Flash scenegraph.) Unity existed at this point but did not yet have dedicated 2D libraries. You'd be rendering your 2D game onto a face in a 3D world, with a fixed camera. Total overkill. They wouldn't be as performant as Stage3D for a couple years.

I disagree with the assessment that Adobe was a bad steward because I saw them trying with my own eyes.

I also disagree that Flash couldn't do native apps with native performance because I built them with my own fingers.

Lastly I disagree that web standards obsoleted Flash because where are the web games? Why aren't they playable on mobile safari? Why don't the web standards come with a dev environment and where are the dominant Flash monetization models?

Apple played hardball so that the only way to be on their platform was to use their tech in their way signed off on by their reviewers and monetized by their app store. They also wrote FUD pieces like the famous Jobs letter.

Who was the villain here? Is Apple justified robbing us of a Maker's renaissance era because it wasn't mobile ready at the literal dawn of mobile computing?
Trying to conquer it, but failing badly.

This is a war of attrition where Ukraine gets enormous supplies from rich Western countries for free, but Russia cannot replenish any equipment loss. No one will sell them new Soviet-style helicopters and fighter jets that their pilots are qualified to fly.

Every piece of heavy equipment that is destroyed with Javelins, NLAWs and Stingers is an irreplaceable loss for the attacking army. Unlike defense, you cannot sustain your attack if your offensive equipment gets blown into pieces or runs out of fuel.

This will end in a collapse of massive proportions.
Agree, should just be "list of terms". Let the reader decide.
If I were king of the US for a day, I think the lowest hanging fruit would be cutting virtually all IP durations in half and eliminating submarine patents. I might even go further for copyrights, and eliminating many types of software patents. It would help businesses, it would help consumers, it would help most content producers -- the only group that wouldn't benefit are lawyers.
Ah interesting, certainly stands to reason
The arsenal is a cost center, not an asset. The military industry can't hold an economy up, much the opposite, actually.

Unless they start selling weapons to China in larger numbers than any sane country would to their neighbors, I don't see the value.
I completely agree with this, and I'm an abolitionist. We either abolish IP for everyone, or recognizing each other's IPs is the bare minimum for a trade agreement.
> than just a petrostate to become vassalized

No, it is pretty much just that

> They have the largest nuclear arsenal

Given the state of their military, I wouldn't doubt that the majority of those are a bigger risk to Russia than to anyone else

> and an advanced Military-Industrial Complex

Kinda. Still dependent on some western technologies. But yes they could help China in some aspects. (just don't get surprised when China doesn't respect IP exchange contracts)
Covid Can Shrink the Brain as Much as a Decade of Aging
> If it seems like they have less bugs, it's because they do as little as possible with their software as they can get away with.

This does not square with my experience of their bundled software being very capable, very respectful of system resources, plenty featureful, quite stable, and usually sitting somewhere between "quite good" and "best there is".
High Performance Computing for R&D – insideHPC
Agree that Baby Rudin is VERY difficult to study on its own. I recommend only studying it alongside the other two books I listed: Abbott's Understanding Analysis and Spivak's Calculus (which has a solutions manual). Abbott in particular is very straightforward (at least in comparison with baby Rudin haha)
I assume I am below average, probably the best mental health advice I've seen on HN.

https://sive.rs/below-average
>I'm still confused by the existence of APIs like this.

They are locking down IO with trusted computing, there's been a 23+ year initiative to move to encrypted computing to take input/output control away from the user, this required the co-operation of hardware manufacturers. Windows 10 and windows 11 are the beginning of you not being able to run or play files or exe's over the next 20 years as youtube, netflix, the game industry update their software to use TPM.

This was from 2001:

https://www.theregister.com/2001/12/13/the_microsoft_secure_...

Here is a paper explaining what the future of files/broadcasts will be like:

https://web2.qatar.cmu.edu/cs/15349/dl/DRM-TC.pdf

Basically they are building a parallel mainframe inside our PC's that only youtube, netflix, the game industry and other software companies will control. They are removing ownership of our devices and they needed microsofts help to do that.

We've seen mirosoft trial bricking cracked exe's via update. Many UWP games only work on certain versions of windows.

See here (ctrf-f then select the UWP link)

https://old.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/p9ak4n/crack_wa...

They are bringing console lockdown to the PC that is why windows 10 had forced updates. That is why windows 11 was also pushing forced internet connection hard for home users.
Bernie Sanders: We must do everything to avoid a war in Ukraine (Feb '22)
I’m an industrial design student who would love to learn more!
Higher risk of temperature-related death if global warming exceeds 2 C
Why should you feel guilty when the CEO or founders don't feel guilty?

Work is just that: work. Live your life to the fullest. Be proud of what you do at work but don't let work consumes you.
Ask HN: How did you learn something in depth?
Today, I was asked to explain some topics. While I was able to explain, I was stuttering, my voice was louder. I wasn't satisfied with my explanation.

How did you learn something (programming topics) in depth? How did you practice to explain something confidently?
Quickfix : I have added a button to hide the TOC. Not sure if it fits mobile screens anyway.
it does matter, that's why it's so hard to get in. One step across a NATO border and the Russians will have started WW3. Don't have any doubt about that.
BTRFS works fine. I use it on my everyday laptop without problems. Compression can help on devices with not a lot of disk, and also copy on write. However, BTRFS has its drawbacks, for example it's tricky to have a swapfile on it (now it's possible with some special attributes).

Also I wouldn't trust BTRFS for the purpose of data archiving, for the fact that ext4 is a proven (and simpler) filesystem, thus it's less likely to became corrupt, and it's more likely to being able to recover data from it if it will become corrupt (or the disk has some bad sectors and that sort of stuff).
“A palpable sense of disbelief has descended over the Finnish capital”
Degraded relations because of testing war responses from Russia, hacking everything except Russian keyboard, actually invading Europe now and 8 years ago could have something to do with it though.

Those warnings were indeed mentioned more than 20 years ago, that is correct. The rest is bs.
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You see, my boss uses this exact quote almost everyday (brazilian as well), and now several teams have plenty of debt, missing patterns, stuff like this. These days people see this quote more like "something is better than nothing at all", and here we are, never satisfied with the engineering practices, always delivering something instead of delivering something good. It takes a cultural revamp to value good code from the beginning
I’m getting confused. GP is saying 90% of 470MW (nuclear) versus 30% of 400MW (wind) for the same price, and you are saying that’s too expensive?

Or did you leave a number out of your comment and 400MW of wind is only 50M, one-tenth the price.
We don't have storage because batteries are super expensive and are not clean.
The good part is that we can work on more then one problem at a time, like we can install solar panels on homes, install wind turbines on windy areas and we could also build safe and cheap nuclear power station to fill the rest.
The entity that is referred to in the article as shutting down is 'Solidly'
"The walls are closing in."
> Somethings are asserted (rather than argued) as axioms, because they give rise to useful interpretations of reality.

By who, and to what end?

Most people don't even know what an axiom is. Axioms are for playing logic games in math land - there is no reason why we should adopt a similar approach to everyday life.

Let me explain something about useful interpretations - we call those science. Science is when you go on to see what is, repeatedly, verifiably so.

I challenge you to find a more useful interpretation of reality, than one that we can replicate trillions of times, reliably, to achieve wonders no human thought possible a hundred years ago.
That's in common with the conversion from ext[234] and reiserfs, too. Makes it easy to both undo the conversion and inspect the original image in case the btrfs metadata became wrong somehow.
That's the best argument I've ever found for my own theory that says "leadership" is an outdated concept we humans inherit from our ancient past where there were many levels of people (slaves/servants, workers, warriors, leaders, kings) which should no longer exist in an equalitarian society where all have access to the same education (most of the Western world, with the notable exception of the USA, and many other less developed countries as well). We should make decisions based on consensus and the scientific method, not on the whims of a dictator.
The data shows that states with red voters also have high welfare rates. That's very different than showing that red voters get more welfare.

Given that welfare recipients are among the minority in every single state, it's very possible that the welfare recipients are voting majority blue and still losing their state elections
Solidity was not mentioned in the article or this comment thread (aside from your comment).
Certainly a trajectory that looks and feels very likely now.

But if China tries to wrap the cord too tight around Russia... tries to salami slice Siberia or something like that... it may find itself the prime target of Russia's ire.

And the ballistic missile flight times between Russia and China are a little bit of a different story than US-Russia.
Don't focus on making it bug-free. That will never happen. Structure things so that bugs don't have big impacts. Auto-save, local backups are a good band-aid, better if you can rearrange things so all the data isn't in one "basket". Think about failures outside of your control -- power outages, network outages, etc. Will people lose work? Don't make it hard to do destructive features, but instead make it easy to undo them. Often it's useful to store data in a redundant way -- sort of caching things to make things faster or easier, and these can be used to restore data when it's needed. Think very carefully about which data can be recreated and which is primary, and treat them differently.

People are going to complain about everything. If they don't complain, that means they are not actually using it. That's ok. Listen to them, listen for patterns, take them seriously but don't take it personally.

It sounds like you're doing the right thing -- when you find a bug, fix it and don't just put in a quick workaround, and learn from it and try to avoid that from happening again.
I really enjoyed having the blue G3, but it's such a large machine compared to what I would keep on my desk today.
Last I checked, gay marriage is legal in the US and homosexuality is punishable by death in the vast majority of Muslim countries.

Don't blame the US and Europe for a religious doctrine that is accepted by the majority of people in those nations.
Putin, like anyone, may be high on his own supply.
This is, I think, partly due to how the slicer routes the filament paths. I've had this problem moving between nozzle diameters and the only reason I could think of was that it wasn't possible for the slicer to maintain both accurate hole diameters and the correct placement of filament relative to previous extrusions. The STL was identical, but the parts printed with a 0.8 mm nozzle were undersized and only the holes. My experience of this was with Cura and an Ultimaker S5. Generally you should always start printing loose holes and tightening them up as you go to see where the limit is.

The simplest dimension to control is the perimeter. That can, for most parts, be perfectly accurate because there are no constraints on where the nozzle needs to avoid. However if you print a hole close to the edge of a part then the printer somehow has to lay down both an accurate edge to the hole while maintaining suitable separation from previously printed stuff. Essentially your design is quantised by the nozzle diameter within the perimeter of the part (I may be wrong here, but this seems like a simple explanation). You may have better results if you tune your part to the printer/nozzle you're using so that the slicer doesn't have to worry about leaving/filling gaps that are non-integer multiples of the nozzle size. In theory this shouldn't matter, because the hole perimeter can also be printed first, as it's an "outside" edge, but it doesn't always seem to work that way.
> fear of no safety net

Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, MediCal, Unemployment, EBT (food stamps / free food), Welfare, pandemic stimulus checks, etc.

US social spends more, by % of GDP, higher than Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Israel, Switzerland, Iceland, Ireland, South Korea, and more. And we have certain differing classically liberal economic policies that have bolstered our GDP considerably, so 18% of $60k is even better than 18% of $40k.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_we...
All the videos linked in the class show me a message "video is not rated", saying I am unable to watch?
Russian Priest Arrested for Delivering Sermon Against Ukraine War
Personally I think the use of the word "truth" itself is a bad smell and that goes back to the 1993 "X Files" TV series having the phrase "The truth is out there" appear in in the intro.

Generally having statements that refer to their own veracity is a source of logical problems such as Godel's theorem and these kind of puzzles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_and_Knaves
American here.

I deeply regret that you have been caught up in this stupid war, but I simply don't know what else to do. The person who represents your country has decided to launch a brazen and unprovoked attack on an independent, sovereign democracy. The rest of the world cannot roll over and let him do it, lest he try to conquer even more land in the future. We have to make him feel as much pain as we safely can.

The Russian people are the source of Putin's power. They comprise his army, control his oil wells, and choose to follow his laws. I realize that on an individual level, you may not have the practical ability to defy Putin, but you are still collectively enabling his actions. And while that's absolutely not your fault, I don't see a way to punish Putin without also punishing the population that enables him.

I do wish that my country was more open to refugees; I am sorry and embarrassed that so many Americans hold racist views towards immigrants. But I'm not sorry for anything else.
Indochina wasn't a democratic country. Being a vassal of a democracy with an appointed government != being a democracy.
I'm a big fan of this project. Once they actually get going it will be possible to get costs down, as has happened with actual EV and battery production, rather than R&D theory and experiments.

Until it all becomes reality the costings will initially be high and then practical knowledge and economies of scale will bring them down fast.
Yes they will. Don't have a single doubt about that. If they don't then their treaties aren't worth more than toilet paper for Putin to use. Make no mistake, NATO will protect its member countries.
It’s a fancy way for Russia to say that it is defaulting on its foreign debt and attempting to pay it with monopoly money.
If you remove the dogma - what do you have left of religion, exactly?

The two are inseparable.
This is often described as "God of the gaps" if you're curious about the argument you're making: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

"Science" isn't a god. You don't believe in science, you don't have faith in science. You might have faith, or believe in people or textbooks that describe the current state of "science" but they're not divine.

Science doesn't "leave no room for any gods", if there was evidence of a god (or gods), then that would be science too. There just isn't any evidence to support such a thing.
I appreciate honesty very much, including yours. I'm sorry that it has been so hard for you and wish you everything you need.

There are a bunch of moderation issues raised by posts like this, but none of them have to do with not caring about the people who are writing them, and that certainly includes you.
If your response to someone publicly calling out your bad behaviour is
to try ushering them into an alley where nobody can see, that speaks
volumes about your intent.

This article presents a distasteful world-view that "Good manners are
a display of weakness" and the best strategy if you're a no-good
company is "Sweep it under the rug where the neighbours can't
see". How tediously reminiscent of quiet domestic abuse.

Here's another take; Most public responses to complainant's are
insincere displays. Tepid litanies of excuses, virtue signalling, soft
deflections, sugar coated restatements of unconscionable policy -
these just show intransigent contempt for the complainant.

People aren't stupid. They see right through public "perception
management". That's why the share price drops. These companies do it
to themselves. When in a hole it's best to stop digging. Don't try
turning complaints about a broken company into an "opportunity" to
self stroke and posture. People are more sophisticated than company PR
goons imagine.
This is an induction based argument though. Because information is lost (is it?), it's probably impossible to reverse.

Look at this example image,do you think it would be possible to restore?

https://kbpdfstudio.qoppa.com/wp-content/uploads/sample-text...

Also this depixelated text:

https://www.hackread.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/new-unde...
The space race was a friendly way to tell "I have better ICBM than you.". Now everyone has ICBM, so it's not important to make a show about it.
"Censorship!" cries person whose articles appear in the New York Times, Reason, and FIRE.
> That's why Germany to the very last moment was opposing arms sale for Ukraine and until the 3rd day of the Russian invasion on Ukraine was opposing sanctions.

That's not a fact but pure speculation which I find very far fetched considering how pro Putin half of Germanys ministry was.

I find it much more likely that they're simply paid off as most of them have already been proven to be corrupt with various scandals. Heck, the green party was on television shilling for Putin and how overblown the fear of war is on the weekend before the invasion.
> If it seems like they have less bugs, it's because they do as little as possible with their software as they can get away with

This is tautological; the obvious way to ship fewer bugs is for your software to simply do less so there's a smaller surface area for bugs to happen in the first place. I see this as a good thing and I wish more software companies would take Apple's approach in this regard.
Perfection is a matter of perception rather than absolute and likely this is where you struggle. Consider that perfection is relative. Your perfection might be another's imperfection.

Perfect the art of embracing the not perfect as being the perfection since perfection is ultimately a quantum state thus if you were to reach it, it will cease to be perfect.

Run this through your perfectionist mind and it should compile nicely.
The UK is an unbelievably xenophobic nation, as the front page of any tabloid newspaper on almost any given day will attest.
> an advanced Military-Industrial Complex

Citation needed.
Cool project. Would love to see this done for NeXTcube or NeXTstation with their original keyboard and mouse.
Oh, oh no. That's just gross.
I don't live close to an Indigo store now, and usually don't bother to enter the nearest when I am around. I'll have to go and look for this cringe now though.
We don't have anything near that scale in power-to-gas. And even if we did have, power-to-hydrogen still is at only 60-70% efficency.
Almost all renewable calculations elide the storage cost.
Yeah, I should have said I thought the Getting Accurate Results section was excellent and only missing that one thing!
As someone often advocating for not building features, after playing with this a little bit I do think some of the constants* behind it's formula are a little off toward the pessimistic/negative outcome.

If a very complex feature is of true high value to 90% of my users, it seems uncontroversially worthwhile: the tool gives me "No, but a close call (48%)"

I'd suggest putting a little more weight on value & user importance and a little less weight on complexity/effort.

Otherwise, GREAT tool. Even just as an aid to get across the idea that some features should not be built, which is often not understood.

*for reference, weights are currently as follows:

# users: 10

effort: -15

user importance: 20

biz complexity: -15

value: 20

risk: -20
Easy: simpler is better. What is considered simple wildly varies based on ones experiences though.
It's an asset in that other countries either invading or dealing internally with civil wars get no fly zones instituted on them when they don't have nukes.
It has certainly been the most discussed topic since the war started. The moderation issues are obviously complex but it's not off topic per se.

Of course these perceptions are all relative, which is why "most discussed topic" can still feel "absent from HN".
Developer test. I always put a task to developer test my changes. This is beyond any Unit Tests I might write. This allows me to go through each COA and make sure I have requirements complete. Work with the understanding that QA are not there to find bugs. They're their to Assure Quality. Once you change your mindset, and your development practices, you won't have as many bugs and the ones you have, you won't feel bad about because you know you tried.

Libraries. Keep libraries of code that you have used in the past that you know work and have been code reviewed.
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I can’t blame him at all.

Code is law and all that.
People are willing to pay steam $X for a game. If it's not available for that price they just won't play it.