skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of answers here I partially agree with, but there's an overarching concept that I think they're missing: there's no market for it. Adobe never stopped working on such a tool, as others have pointed out below, in that they still ship Flash's successor Animate. They kept Flex going as long as they could, too.

I think the reason people aren't terribly aware of Animate, and why there isn't a competitor product—whether open source or commercial—with a big name is that we don't need/want it. I haven't looked at the numbers in a while, but last I checked most web traffic was coming from mobile devices, and heavy, high-gloss interactions akin to what Flash afforded and what could be accomplished with WASM/WebGL are not what people want in their mobile browsing experience. They want fast. WASM/WebGL may be pretty efficient, and may be the best way to accomplish the sorts of things Flash was used for in much more efficient ways, but they're still not the best way to render text with a few buttons and images (i.e. a typical web page). The use-cases that had us reaching for Flash in the "aughts" just don't come up very often in web development these days.

When users DO want heavy, high-gloss interactive content, they're going to the App Store/Google Play to find it, not the web. This gives the developers the choice of building those experiences with WASM/WebGL if they like, but the vast majority are choosing native SDKs or a game engines. Against those options the WASM/WebGL offering is just not competitive, yet (the APIs, tooling, community is just not as good, yet).
I don't think he said that it made the game worse?

Just that you are forced to make suboptimal moves. If you make optimal moves then your opponent will have analysed the position before and the game will end in a draw, which is a dissapointing result for whoever plays white.
He just wants others to tell him that he is.
surely they're talking about the opening only, where the best moves have been analyzed to death. once you're in the middle game and it's a position that's new, you play the best moves.
I'm simply pointing out the net effect of the resolution/learned helplessness of seeing the situation as "Never" going to be resolved.
It’s because there is a limited number of board states + transpositions a person can reasonably memorize, and memorizing a board state + sequence of moves from a chess engine will beat human intuition. So the idea is to steer the gamestate into places your opponent did not prepare for but you did, with non-obvious moves. All near-optimal moves are obvious.
> Essentially, by letting them run wild, we're allowing them to dominate the platform. Kick their asses.

So the option is learn how to deal with trolls or remove voice chat completely from games to protect the delicate sensibilities of players? I guess that's up to the company. I had no problem with this prior to company's controlling the servers for extra MRR. Don't like a server? Leave. Unless the entire game is filled with nazi LARPers you'll probably find a place more amicable to your delicate sensibilities. For me, I've had no problem blocking particular trolls and in particularly infested servers I can find a new one that's better for me. It's like the world has forgotten "don't feed the trolls". I'm willing to wager 99.9% of these people are just doing it to get a rise out of someone because honestly. People are so sensitive these days it's made it incredibly easy to say something and get a rise out of literally anyone.
Bee not afraid?
I’m contributing to my niece’s 529—worst case scenario being she doesn’t need as much as her family has saved, and any excess can be transferred to another family member or taken out for a relatively modest penalty. And, I assume if there’s a major restructuring of college costs over the next 20 years, more flexibility will be introduced for getting money out as well.
> * Those who sacrificed and paid off their student debt receive no reward.

Everyone is sacrificing. This statement seems to imply that people who haven't paid of their debt only haven't done so because they haven't sacrificed anything and are instead taking vacations.

Moreover, the general concept of taxes is that you put money into a government pot, and it goes to things that maybe won't better you in a direct way. I've paid much more than $20k in taxes, why can't I get something out of that which will benefit me directly for once, even if it doesn't benefit someone else directly? My sacrifice is that I don't have kids, and yet I'm paying for the schooling of other people's kids. That's not something I complain about because I know it will help society as a whole.

> * People are now incentivized to not pay off the last 10K of their debt until there is an answer if relief will be enacted or not

The whole point of the policy is that people aren't paying off that loan one way or another. It's not as if many people have $10k-$20k sitting around they could put toward a student loan but have decided not to because of the announced policy.

> * The policy smacks of "vote us back in or else 10K wont be yours"

It's the other way around: the policy is the fulfilment of a campaign promise from the last election; student loan debt relief was one of the things Biden campaigned on. Last time we elected a billionaire real-estate developer and got tax breaks for the rich and corporations. This time we voted the other way and are getting student loan debt relief. That's just the way it works. Anyway, Biden isn't up for reelection this year and is implementing this action through the executive branch, so control of Congress doesn't matter so much as to whether this policy is implemented or not.
Ask HN: Building an Online Community in 2022
I'm having a tough time figuring out the best model for an online community.

I'd like to build some kind of forum/communications mechanism for the parents of kids at our elementary school. We've got almost 1,000 kids there, and aside from the official newsletters that come from the school itself (or the PTA), parents have no way to talk among themselves, except on the street before dropoff in the morning.

Here's what I have in mind:

* A place where parents can ask questions of other parents and have some kind of threaded conversation.

* A way to interact with the conversations via email. Start a thread, reply to a thread, etc. Get daily or weekly digest emails of the threads.

* Minimal or no installation required (by the parents).

* Searchable, some kind of history and knowledge retention.

* Subgroups, like "Six Grade Parents", where they could ask "What was the homework in Mrs. Smith's class?"

* Some kind of moderation and spam control.

* A way to roll this out to other schools in the future.

Here is what I have considered and don't like very much:

* Discourse. Clunky, mailing list mode works poorly.

* Discord. Parents aren't going to install it, not really for threaded conversations or history.

* Some kind of Stack Overflow clone, but I haven't found a good one.

* Google groups. No good moderation tools, no real website branded website ("Lincoln Elementary Parents") where people can go and sign up.

* Facebook. Ugh. Exactly zero ability to ensure that the parents get the messages.

What works best for a community like this?
You are confusing the watt and the watt-hour. Running a 2000 watt load for 24 hours will use 48,000 watt-hours (48 kilowatt-hours).
It's extremely frustrating how Google is ignoring this issue. So much for developer relations.
>You're being vague here, but I suspect by "biased results" you mean they produced a racial (and perhaps gender) makeup you don't like.

No, you are completely and utterly wrong on that. This is more of the same intellectually lazy assumptions, please stop this.

And I get his point perfectly, it is still insulting and dismissive. When someone starts talking about school vouchers and "merit" in the context of this then it's mostly an admission that they don't know what they're talking about. It has absolutely nothing to do with the problems faced by a school like MIT that already has an extremely low acceptance rate anyway. They know how to test students on academic rigor, that isn't the issue. The fact is, they already cannot accepts all students who pass based on academic merit alone. Your chart even demonstrates that is the case with Harvard, the issue is explicitly not that racial makeup is being considered over academic achievement.
This post is specifically about the US' own psyop operations -

> The Pentagon has ordered a sweeping audit of how it conducts clandestine information warfare, after major social media companies identified and took offline fake accounts suspected of being run by the U.S. military — tactics used by countries such as Russia and Iran in violation of the platforms’ rules
used to be a regular twitter user until a few things shocked me that a person could tweet thru out the day..eg., many coronavirus expert accounts...it seemed like personal accounts but how can they tweet thru out the day like serious / data intensive tweets...7 days a week....felt these accounts were fronts, maybe they had a team of people contributing the tweets.

it really put me off when twitter started inserting suggested topics and tweets from people i really didnt follow to just fill out my feed. even more offputting was the suggested tweets came interspersed in the tweets of those that i follow. does it happen to others or is it just me because i only follow a few people < 50.
You two should buy an extra long trenchcoat and see if you can make it work.
ESR – Holding Up the Sky
Code leak is never good, video leak is ok'ish code leak is very bad.
Hah, and here I thought I was making a joke when I called it a biblically accurate O!
And its new official name shall be the Trypophobigon.
A new energy weapon combines multiple laser beams
FWIW I can run without music and find it pleasurable, but I get much, much more joy out of running with music.

I don’t think there needs to be any judgement for somebody who “needs” music to run. Music is great!
You're very free to offend anyone in the real world. "The world" is bigger than the environment curated by big tech from SV and US-media.

Treat yourself to some GTA V radio shows (you'll find them on youtube), Rockstar plays the cultural meta game better than other company, they do legit art playing with the dominant political stereotypes. Rockstar are not in the market of appealing to cowards, their entire brand identity revolves around the exact opposite.
Being old enough to have gotten through college writing papers on pen and paper, you can still do some editing along the way. Use index cards, as an example - you write an outline in a notebook, you write out sentences and paragraphs for each point on an index card, and then you can shuffle the cards around until you nail down the order in which you want to present the content. Once you have it down, you re-write it all onto paper. And often, then mark up your draft and re-write it again with corrections.

I would never go back to that process, of course. It was painful then, and would feel even worse now. But it was possible.
Naaahhhh it's only because they wanted to.

Took a few years and a few hundred millions difficult to repair devices to get there.
Adobe actually beat Figma out of the gate. XD was introduced prior to Figma even existing. XD was a response to Sketch who at the time was eating their UX market share.

XD actually had some pretty great ideas, even though it was very limited at first. Unfortunately, new features in XD kept being less and less over time. It felt like after the first year, Adobe just didn't really care much about XD any more. That allowed Sketch to continue to be a threat and Figma to eventually take off.

So it's not like Adobe didn't try to enter this space. They did so and they did it prior to Figma. They just never really seemed to take it seriously for whatever reason and we are where we are now.
How could it be economical to be employing someone to remote control the robot? Surely it would be much cheaper to just have a regular guy on a moped in that case? Unless the human operator is monitoring multiple robots which are semi-autonomous, with the human operator only taking direct control if a robot gets stuck.
Odd article considering everything is still software locked to the phone. Sure it's easier to repair, but if you get your parts from anywhere else than apple's program directly, a lot of features will stop working.

Hugh Jeffreys made a video interchanging parts on two brand new iphone's and it disabled a lot of things including auto-brightness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2WhU77ihw8
For many people, the risk to long-term health (and in some cases even sudden cardiac death) due to extreme running might not be worth it.

Ultramarathon running: how safe is the sport?

https://theconversation.com/ultramarathon-running-how-safe-i...

Potential Long-Term Health Problems Associated with Ultra-Endurance Running: A Narrative Review

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-021-01561-3
The game _is_ more optimal now, with chess grandmasters now having deep opening preparation and understanding of positions. However, that results in a lot of draws. To win tournaments, world championships, and break ELO records (which are Magnus', and other GM's, goals), you need to win.

If 'perfect' play--that we're approaching with engine analysis--results in a draw, you need to do something non-optimal and unexpected in order to get your opponent out of their engine prep and into thinking mode.

Whether it's better or worse is a different argument. Some find it a bit 'dry' in that there are often less blunders, dazzling tactics, and sacrifices because both sides now know the optimal approach. It's much more of a war of attrition in high-level, long time-control games. As an aside, that's potentially why bullet and other such chess is so popular...there isn't time to deeply analyse, so it's intuition, challenging positions, blunders, and less 'standard' play.
I'm not disagreeing with any of your points, the 10k forgiveness policy is strictly a way to appeal to young voters. But you clearly didn't read the article.

The article is about changes to the income-based repayment program, which was a big change that was part of the same bill. And frankly it doesn't get enough attention for how much of a long-term impact that it'll have on future borrowers, as opposed to the (tentatively) one-time forgiveness that affects mostly college graduates.
Apple started offering home repair kits for iPhone this year, but they’re super difficult to use: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/technology/personaltech/a...

There’s speculation that offering the kits is an attempt to head off right-to-repair legislation. But seeing this redesign, I wonder to what degree the repair program is incentivizing repairability within apple’s corporate structure. Now that “profit/loss per self service repair” is tracked in a spreadsheet - does repairability matter more?

Anyways - it’s great to see some improvement here, for whatever motivation.
But that wasn't a general fitness measure, that was a way to weed out weaker contestants by setting a very aggressive standard. That's aiming to get only elite runners.
What Modern Humans Can Learn from Ancient Software
Interest rates are below inflation so bankers are clearly not doing their job.
This is one of those articles that treats computers as if they were hyperintelligent entities that programmed themselves rather than just simple computational machines following rules created by teams of people that have studied the game for decades.

Also it sounds like should replace all of my servers with powerful shoe computers to take advantage of the "upgrades in commercial hardware" that they mentioned.
400 million revenue, 20 billion acquisition price. Sounds like free market to me? They paid up to protect their business and everyone walked away happy.
I guess that you could cut them above the join and see whether they work as shoelaces. That could be a fashion statement of sorts--high-top sneakers with recycled-lanyard shoelaces of different colors.
yeah I'm sure he used chemicals to get him to the finish line. I mean everyone does, it's how human bodies work.
I did not mean to blame teachers themselves and also believe there are systemic and cultural challenges. Not just in the US but globally. This is not surprising given the way in which education and media are often politicized, the use of access to tertiary education as an effective class battleground, and the scale and scope of recent technology impact on our culture.
You get more benefit from just walking, I believe.
Rapid and blitz chess online is what gives the Twitch streamers their views, is my understanding.
Wow, my best ever 10k pace was 6min/km. 9 hours ag 4min/k is insane.
Preparation has been a thing for a long long time. What hasn't been a thing is the combination of databases and engines. Top players even use supercomputers. The amount of pure grinding has shot up dramatically. Instead of a team of people rattling off lines verbally and debating back and forth, a player can sit at the computer and just hammer out the variations with the computer and see the best engine lines in mere seconds (using a supercomputer).

This is so much more efficient that the only limitation is on how much energy and capacity the player has for rote memorization, rather than how much time it takes for the team of humans to work out the best lines.
The EU pressure would be in the domains of software distribution (Apple thinks third-party app stores are just malware) and charger compatibility (Apple still holds onto Lightning). They've yet to talk about either of these at all, and I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of these requirements is either geolocked or exclusive to EU models.
One historical use in the 1400s doesn't merit a character and never did

One known and surviving use. It is possible that it exists in other places, since the vast majority of the planet's written work has not been digitized. It may also have been used other places that have not survived.

Just because it's not important to you does not mean it is not important.

The fact that is survived for 600 years makes it interesting and worth saving. It is infinitely unlikely that anything you do, write, or say will last that long.
https://archive.ph/Dw5Vl
idk. when the word Planet was redefined such that Pluto was no longer a planet, it kind of ruined the word Planet. It suddenly wasn’t nearly as useful as a word as it used to (even though now it has a precise meaning). For most people that use the word, it won’t matter (and is actually rather exciting) that they keep discovering new planets in our solar system.

If they’d treat the word characters the same way, it would only serve to confuse and do no favors to the remaining glyphs.
As a proxy extension developer, this is absolutely maddening. We're forced to choose between auth-less open proxies (bad), or baking in a wacky authentication scheme through a side channel (also bad). MV3 drops in 2.5 months, and will leave tens of millions of proxy extension users unable to use products they paid money for.

This is all on top of the many other issues with MV3 that Google is pushing under the guise of "improving performance".
Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome enhanced spellcheck feature exposes passwords
The article is 404 for me.

As with most things; context matters. Where was their funding from, for example?

There are well-docmented, coordinated efforts to undermine media and academic integrity in the US (especially regarding climate change). Ignoring them hasn't worked. Now what?
I think you underestimate the complexity of figma, greatly. Just one small example is their browser based plugin environment: https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-plugin-sys...

Multiply that innovation by a factor of 19,999 and you can see that it’d be hard to clone figma in a way that would pull users from figma to their own product. And while Adobe was copying, Figma would still be innovating.
I am not a chess player, so I don't know how this holds up, but the idea of "making bad moves because the good moves are overanalyzed" reminds me of the Eephus Pitch [0]:

> An eephus pitch in baseball is a very high-arcing off-speed pitch. The delivery from the pitcher has very low velocity and often catches the hitter off-guard.

The pitcher essentially lobs the ball at the hitter [1]. Major league players are so focused on hitting extremely fast and/or curving pitches that they whiff or stand idle at a pitch that your ten-year-old nephew could probably clobber. It's a risky pitch, because if the batter is able to adapt, they can hit a home run. The power of the pitch is entirely that it's unexpected.

I know it's not a perfect analogy, since chess players have so much more time to react to any sub-optimal moves.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eephus_pitch
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikLlRT2j7EQ
We use 10/8 for servers, 172.16/12 for management, 192.168.x (where x is in double/triple digits) for users.
Is there some kind of badge or special section in the site that tells me which pieces are misleading wastes of my time for their profit and which aren't? If not, why wouldn't I use this piece to predict what I can expect from them in the future?
it's about searching on tiktok's search, not googling for tt vids.
I'm not specialist in Symbian obviously, the link you shared says 2012, that would be 5 years after the iPhone?
Despite varying opinions on the article, most seem to be agreeing here that one thing that is making chess more boring is the memorization of moves and tricks. I'd like to offer a counter-point.

This doesn't seem to take into account that many people enjoy learning and memorizing sequences and tricks. It's actually fun to learn patterns and sequences that have clever underpinnings and lead to surprising results.

As another commenter said, there exist many variants exactly for the purpose of getting back to pure logic-level reasoning about positions. If that's what you want, go for it. Chess 960 for example is explicitly designed for that.

But despite the existence of all these variants and other games, people still predominantly continue to play 'Chess', with its classic starting position and rules, and I would suggest that one of the things that keeps drawing people back is that there is sufficient "space" in the game for life-long learning, while providing a common and stable "interface" that allows everyone to exchange knowledge and build up a shared experience of learning and mastery.

That on top of this there still most definitely exists a layer of strategy and "principles", not just memorization, is another aspect that will always draw people back to the game. A lot of these principles that have been developed and taught for hundreds of years go out the window with variants -- which is fine, it's fun to discover new games too, but sometimes you want to benefit from the knowledge and wisdom of experts, and the only way to do that is to play the same game as them.
> In fact, GTA VI seemed to be on the path to becoming the “new Duke Nukem Forever,”

How did you get this perception? There was nothing to indicate that really and rdr2 was especially great single player experience.
>an idea these agencies themselves would like perpetuated to make it seem resistance is futile.

Quite the opposite - the conspiratorial reaction is that these agencies want to be mistaken for bumbling bureaucracies, so they let reports of small-level stuff get out. That way we underestimate the real degree of their control and believe that if they ever tried to manipulate us, they would get caught anyway, and besides, they're just making unsuccessful tweets, right?

Or even deeper, that these organizations are meant to distract us from much more powerful entities who they don't even realize they are controlled by.

I don't believe any of this, but the conspiracy theorists deserve more credit for creativity that you are giving them!
So we should also get rid of `.orElseThrow()` (by default a `NoSuchElementException`)?