skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You hit the nail on the head. Building up false hopes of acceptance in order to tear them down is especially characteristic of how girls bully other girls, but boys can certainly do it too.
While Macromedia/Adobe Flash was an important IDE for some time, we later developed complex Flash applications in code-centric IDEs (like Flashdevelop) and compiled using the SWF SDK from Adobe. This also came at no cost, as far as I remember.
A pinned comment defending the CA with shady government ties. Hmm. Anyway, why don't you do us all a favour and quote some of those answers which you think perfectly clarify things, instead of just telling people they are reading it wrong.
Vaga is an embeddable widget for public chats and private chats. You can copy paste a script in your website and the chat widget will appear. Users are able to see the chat without registering

Vaga relies on a decentralized database ensured by GUN and lets you own your data.
This study is useless as it leaves out the most important metric: how much did kids use phones. Being children in low-income latin families does suggest they can't afford to consume much online content as compared to kids from even middle-class families.

Its as stupid as the famously flawed "Danish Cohort" cellphone/cancer study that used subscription duration as a surrogate for actual phone use. And at a time when phones and talk-time was very expensive.
When I’m sitting down and teaching my kid how to edit a photo or sketch a drawing, do you honestly see me sitting them down to a GIMP session?

And when I’m not around, and they want to pull up their favourite drawing program, do you see them typing “gimp” into the search bar? Which - as of Windows 11 - now helpfully loads internet results and related ads?

Or do I just start them on Krita, a much more powerful and user friendly open source program, with significantly less risk of accidentally encountering the GIMP’s namesakes? Or me getting a call from my kid’s school to ask why my kid is talking about gimps?
Just to give you a feedback from a new (neutral) user who had no experience of either image editing concepts and tricks; OR an image editing tool like Photoshop or GIMP. I could at least navigate my way through in Photoshop but never in GIMP in only a handful of times I have used both of these software in my life. GIMP was always the software that I wanted to love, but every time I uninstalled it after a few failed attempts.
The weird high school/college art nerds today are designing their own VTuber rigs, selling art commissions or making indie games. The biggest reason there isn't a new Homestar Runner or Newgrounds has less to do with technological limitations or complexity and more to do with evolving tastes over time.

Also the fact that the new whatever would be either Youtube or Twitter. Or Tiktok. Or something most people here have never even heard of.
> I need to figure out how to feel comfortable working less in ways that don’t mentally feel like it’s impacting my work

But it will impact your work. If you want to be a balanced human, you need to accept that you will not be an uber-achiever at work. It's an either-or proposition.

In terms of more concrete advice, it's often possible to grind hard for a year or two, build up a lot of knowledge and respect within the team, and then coast on it for a long time. It's not a perfect strategy (as you can be reassigned to another team later etc.), but perhaps worth a try if you don't want to forgo your high salary.
I wonder if at some point we'll be forced to reckon with the fact that math notation just has not been planned. People have just made it up as they go along, and so there's all kinds of conflicts, irregularities, and conventions that add up to a big hot mess.
> We've all experienced the death of Google projects after launch because nobody there seems to want to work on something that isn't a new "thing you can show" because they're too busying optimizing for visibility.

Is this the actual reason, or is it because the data shows poor ROI on those projects ? I'm asking because I genuinely don't know.
No. You're given a URL that redirects to your ID Provider, and you're not given any indication who you're granting permission to.
I tried it for a while but other than Siri integration I got nothing much out of it…
The original N game v1.0, released in 2004 [1] had fluid vector animation without stutter on a modest computer at the time. It's a pretty challenging platformer, and any stutter would have killed the gameplay.

Later flash versions regressed in performance and can't run this game without stutter in my experience. A way to play the original game today is to get an old version of "Adobe flash player projector". If you are paranoid, use some OS level sandbox around it.

I did not see an in-browser game since the original N game that matches its low system requirements and smooth gameplay.

[1] https://www.thewayoftheninja.org/n_history.html

BTW, the successor N v2 is also pretty good, and it's not flash-based, AFAIK.
> Why is that you'd demand this of _Apple_?

We demand this of almost all non-phone appliances. Why should phones get an exemption?

No, seriously, why are car manufacturers forced to allow owners the option of non-manufacturer fuel, non-manufacturer tires, non-manufacturer oil and so on, but when it comes to phones, suddenly "the consumers are making an informed choice"?

We regulate this shit for a reason, and that reason is that market forces alone are not enough to protect the consumer.

Your thoughts on it are irrelevant.
A couple months back I gave tts a shot because I had to work through a lot of material that I found incredibly dry.
I find all the free voices and on-device tts to be more of a distraction because they still sound very robotic.
But I also tried some of the paid services and their premium voiced and was pleasantly surprised. They sounded just good enough so that I didn’t really think about it.
The improvement in comprehension and speed, as well as staying on task was very noticeable. Listening alongside reading just kind of kept me focused.

Unfortunately the paid services are prohibitively expensive (which is understandable, afaik good tts takes quite a bit of compute) and so I haven’t integrated it into my normal workflow.

But the experience has me quite excited for when those same voices will be available on device.
Just looked her up briefly. The pieces seem to fall in place:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Joyce
> I am probably in the minority here, but I can’t help but feel like Rachel was a victim of a sloppy but effective smear campaign.

I usually have sympathy for privacy-friendly services being abused by bad actors, and i certainly have sympathy for anyone being impersonated by State-sponsored APT for nefarious purposes. However, after reading through the thread, this does not seem to match reality.

It took just a few email back and forth for TrustCor to change their statement from "we know nothing about these people" to "we used to have common investors", while placing the blame on a single recently-deceased individual... which still does not explain how a malicious data exfiltration (malware) SDK ended up in a beta product of theirs (a question they silently skimmed over), or why they pretend not to know why most of their legal infrastructure in place is deeply tied to this malicious actor.

Without commenting on the CA operations of TrustCor (and its lack of transparency), or the seemingly-broken security promises of the MsgSafe service, it seems relevant for the CA/B forum that TrustCor is obviously arguing in bad faith and trying to dissimulate ties to a now-well-known APT.

You would certainly expect most CAs to operate more transparently, to be registered where they actually operate, and to disclose where their hardware is located, especially when this location exposes them to NSL-style laws. Operating out of a mailbox in a tax heaven, for a company based in Canada, with machines in the USA is already very sketchy. TrustCor's responses in the mailing lists in my humble opinion clearly outlines that they are bad faith (if not entirely malicious) and should be treated accordingly by browser vendors.

I understand that Rachel is now in a bad position and feels smeared. And maybe she is not the person responsible for the malicious setup/activities of the entire company (maybe she's even unaware), but that's what you get for being the public face of a rather-secretive malicious actor.
It is a Typescript package that provides a simple JSON Programming Language, allowing you to execute a safe logic in Frontend or Backend (NodeJS). Furthermore, it can be stored in the database and rendered to the Frontend-Side to execute/run some business logic

JsonLang is designed to be extendable. You can define new rules with sync/async handlers

Source Code: https://github.com/JsonlangJs/jsonlang-js
This was a few years back, and yes, it was already obvious it was getting mass produced and taking off. They just didn’t care up until the 3B+ came out.
He claims to have donated to both sides. His democratic donatations were quite public, his claimed republican donations hidden.
The reason he gave for this behaviour was to appeal to the media who dislike republican donations.

The subtext is of course that he was perfectly willing to pay both sides.
1959 High School Exchange Students Debating God and Religion [video]
Substitute Safari's autocompletion with a Cesium atom
> it's very difficult to find anything that someone, somewhere won't be offended by

Sure, but there's a big difference to the marketability of a product between whether 30% get a funny feeling that it's not a great name and won't promote via word of mouth, vs 0.0001% who are known for taking issue with a lot of stuff shouting about it in their echochamber.

> But "lunatic" hasn't been commonly used in its offensive sense in nearly a century

I think it was reasonable to refer to "lunatic asylums" or even "looney bins" until quite recently. The offensiveness may be less, and less targeted at individuals than it was 100 years ago, but it's still there.
The problem here is that there are competing wrongs.

1) apple taking 30% of everything is just plain greed.

2) Musk is being a prick.

It's possible to have a subscription on the iphone and not pay 30%. It requires extra steps.

The other issue is that musk almost certainly wants to do dodgy stuff with the payment processor because he's been stung hard by chargebacks from the Blue cockup.

The best outcome for me personally is that apple boots them off the store, musk takes them to court and goes bankrupt in the process. By whichtime Apple (and google) will be balls deep in an anti-trust suit for the appstore/advertising power grab. (bonus points for the EU nailing them for hoovering up personal data like 2013 facebook)
> resource efficiency

Glad that you pointed that out.

Around 2002-2003 I was working an office night-shift, in front of a computer that was in no way the fastest even by those times' standards. But, even so, I was able to follow almost every at-bat in the MLB, live, through their Flash app (while I was doing my regular work in another browser tab). And it wasn't only showing stuff like Batter X hit a 1B, it showed you the exact location and the speed of the incoming pitch, where the ball landed (more or less), what was the out-field formation of the pitching side etc. Really cool stuff given the limited processing resources.

I'd say a HTML+JS solution (which, obviously, wasn't even possible back then for that kind of stuff) would require at least an order of magnitude more resources on the client side.
> "Ensuring that senior leaders feel like they are" important successful people.

Why not cut things like this and give better compensation to regular employees..
There is an old trick in the US where after you obtain a credit card in your own name you can obtain a companion card with any name at all on it. It will not protect you if you do any nefarious activity, but if you just want to shop or dine without name recognition then it works just fine. I think I was only asked once to provide personal details for the companion card.
> A single day without functioning freight rail would cost the U.S. economy an estimated $2 billion.

> the seven dominant North American railways had a combined net income of $27 billion, nearly twice their margin a decade ago. In the interim, the railways have collectively doled out $146 billion in dividends and stock buybacks while investing only $116 billion into their businesses.

7 sick days, which is laughable, but this is all they want. How the government can even think about taking the companies side here is totally outside my understanding.
I dunno, I mean look what every GIMP alternative has achieved in a fraction of the timeframe.

Starting to think this “you should be happy and eat this rotten morsel because otherwise you’d have nothing” ideology is toxic and harms actual good technology being built.

Even the Blender team managed to drop the “submit a patch” attitude and actually turn one of the most convoluted pieces of creative software ever made into the defacto for the next generation through actually listening and responding to users.

Think of the good that could have been done in the software world if a different team with an attitude of building for their users had decided to build a free image editor 27 years ago.
He might try buying Amazon Alexa from Bezos, that sounds promising. At the very least it would be cheaper.
It’s actually not that different from chatting to the know-it-all type of Internet rando: they can talk to you about anything and seem knowledgeable on all of them, but go into a topic you actually know about and you realize they’re just making shit up or regurgitating myths they read somewhere. You can find that kind of user on HN.
I just exported my own vault with the latest version, it was ok for me. I have plenty of passwords with all kinds of special characters. Still, be sure to review the CSV file. If anything looks weird, double check that the password is the same in your LastPass vault. As with all backups/exports, you should always do a sanity check of the data.

One issue I ran into: the CSV file that "downloaded" in the browser didn't have all of my passwords, only about ~20 of ~400. I had to copy and paste the CSV text in the browser to a new CSV file with a text editor. But upon reviewing that, the format of the passwords was fine.
It really didn't come off the way people painted it as poor conduct to me at all. Slightly annoying, sure. Partially written with input from a lawyer, likely. But all I saw was a person rightfully defending rather unsubstantiated attacks on the integrity of her business.

The whole thing is guilt by association. Everyone agrees that no evidence of mal-issued certificates exists. But some other company that uses your CA product had a rougue dev and because they are financially related because of history all of a sudden the industry is in panic?

If the integrity of the people funding the operations of CAs is important, like is suggested towards then end (and with which I happen to agree), then we should create policy and scrutinize every CA equally. I don’t like mob rule.
So how many of the other CAs work with spyware / NSA / MI5 etc? Or corporate espionage? I doubt that these are the only bad eggs.
Right, but who gives me the URL? I don't tend to authenticate random URLs I find lying around.
can he break it?
Long shifts are pretty common in important real-world (vs. office) jobs. For instance, hospital ICU nurses:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3786347/

Table 1 (n = 5,831) shows that 80% of the ICU nurses reported that their last shift was 12-13 hours. Another 5% reported a >13 hour sift.
> No one says you have to stop writing tests when you have types.

My point is that if you have tests, you probably don't need types, and since you really oughta have tests, the benefits of mainstream type systems are overstated. A lot of arguments in this thread are essentially "types have benefits you can't get anywhere else", but you can get them with tests. When it comes to verifying program correctness, tests are a super set of types' functionality.

> You can have less tests when you have more types.

Can you? In my dynamic language work the tests aren't doing type checks, usually there's some kind of validation library doing that. Generally the tests are doing work that types can't.

> There are type systems that requires an overhaul of the whole toolchain, but what we’re talking about typescript isn’t that.

I guess we can disagree about "overhaul", but IMO adding a compiler, new dependencies (types) and entirely new syntax to your toolchain qualifies. If that doesn't, what does?

> You can literally run plain js with jsdoc through tcs and make your comment provably accurate documentation

A few things foil this:

- using `any`

- using untyped libraries

- taking advantage of gradual typing

- unhelpful type soup

"Type soup" really bears expanding:

subscribeToMore(
options: {
document: DocumentNode,
variables?: TVariables,
updateQuery?: Function,
onError?: Function
}
) => () => void

I like Apollo and use it a lot, but I would say this signature from their docs [0] tells you almost nothing. There are some nice things, in particular the "pass an object blob as args" persists in JS despite having default and optional parameter support for a long time now, so TS adds nice description there (of course it would be better to just use optional parameters). But like, surprise surprise `document` is a DocumentNode, `variables` is... `TVariables` (whatever "T" might mean here), and it returns a function that does... well who knows (docs say it terminates the subscription, which I never would have guessed). It could be called "deleteDocument", and the types don't contradict that in any way.

Further, these types don't verify any behavior. They can't prove to you that `onError` is called when an error occurs. They can't prove to you that you will continue to receive data when it's updated. They can't prove to you that you subscribed to the specified document. On and on. There's a reason that high-reliability environments use tests, even though they're using strongly typed languages like Ada and Eiffel, and that's because type systems cannot fully specify a program's behavior.

[0]: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/api/react/hooks/#su...
I keep hoping that we’ll be able to package Flash-grade animations as WASM and send them out as a single file (or as two files, one for a Haxe-like runtime and another for the game or animation). But since there is no real standard authoring tool (and nobody mentions those, or the ease of use the Flash “IDE” had) I don’t have much hope.

The closest I’ve seen (and actually use) is Hype (https://tumult.com/hype/), but it is Mac only.
The inner city office park investment devaluing, could lead to a whole investment bubble collapsing. Sudden oversupply of "cheaper" housing at city center and all the overprice assets in some funds portfolio trade at that lower price.
"overstated"
Typically one can fix that by adjusting the transfer drum voltage, normally found in the service section of the menu.

You might also need to adjust the fuser temperature for non-oem toners
It's an uncharted area.

This happens all the time. We won't know until someone tries to push the limit.

Some more similar examples:

- Green card holders can't leave the country more than 6 months. Many have stayed outside of US for 6 months with no issue. One of green cards' goal is for you to settle in US as home country. So, the general consensus is that, in a year, if you stay outside of US more than 6 months, then US is not really a home.

- RSU expiring in 7 years in order to avoid upfront tax. No one know why it is 7 years. Can it be 8 years?

- This layoff thing as well. H1B workers are on the payroll until 31 of March. Well, can it be 31 Dec 2023? Nobody knows. If you went to court, can you claim that this H1B worker respect the intention of the law? probably not.
Yes I thought advocating for bringing manufacturing back onshore meant you were an economic illiterate and a xenophobe.

I guess that was before supply-chain security became important and the only consequence was the people that dont matter losing their jobs.
Nice widget
It's not really about cost. It has implications on cost, but…

Some spare parts have been out of production for decades. If one of those parts needs replacement, then keeping an exchange running may now need replacing much more than just the broken part, or the technicians may try using parts from other exchanges (the number of landlines is much lower than at peak, so there are spare spares in many exchanges, so to speak). That's an expensive way to maintain a network, obviously.

VoIP infrastructure is more fragile than copper assuming equal hardware age and comparable maintenance regimes, but I assume that the lack of spare parts changes that.
Sam Bankman-Fried Blames ‘Huge Management Failures’ for FTX Collapse
You're implying that every criminal is a mentally ill person. Some criminals are mentally ill, sure, but not all of them - and the fact that they've done a criminal act doesn't in itself imply mental illness.

Reducing criminals to psychological and developmental issues relies on the implicit assumption that it's not in human nature to do crime, but there's not much reason to think so - children frequently do things that are "criminal" in spirit, and then are punished for it by parents who want to teach them the rules of the household (and by extension, society).

Yeah, it would be really cool if the human nature was actually good and all we needed to make people good is to reach into their hearts and provide them with love and understanding... But the world simply doesn't work like that. Especially since the definition of good in this context is necessarily a sociological one.
1Password on my Mac lets me set it to never require re-authentication with my master password, though it does seem to keep switching back to 30 days.
You're right, poking fun is serious business
Also, as a mathematician I have little trouble if I get little money (as long as I can live decently). I cannot imagine at all what it costs to fund a biology department, or the LHC.
Would you say that the very specific and widely accepted meaning of "machine learning" includes nineteenth-century linear regression?
To me, it looks like Kathleen Wilson from Mozilla did a great job sorting undisputed facts from all the noise in https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-polic..., and the noise that came from Rachel mostly served to obfuscate that these facts remain facts, and leave removal of the CA as the logical conclusion.

Based on that, it seems like the "rebuttal" is trying to rebut irrelevant things, leaving the undisputable elephant standing in the room. (I admit I haven't read the entire wall of text.)

> I suspect the outcome would have been different if this was handled in a court of law.

If it was a criminal court trying to prove something beyond reasonable doubt, certainly. For a CA, it's the other way around, there needs to be strong evidence that keeping the CA is beneficial to the users.
It is also a cloud-based service that artificially limits what you can do for pricing, not a standalone desktop app. No thanks, I will resist buying into those for as long as I can.
It's been a few years but I've known a number people who worked on the production lines at Intel's fabs in Hillsboro, Oregon. Many, if not all of them worked 3 twelve hour shifts each week. As I understand it the schedule is pretty common in production facilities of this type.

Note: I'm not commenting on the suitability of the practice, just on the fact that it's not unique to certain countries in Asia.