skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working with Flash was like working with future technologies, back in the day. You could build amazing things with it, things that was not possible using standard browser API’s. In fact, Flash led the way and was the prototype for what browsers can to today.

If you cared about what you built, with clever hacks and bitwise performance tricks then the Flash runtime could run your code efficiently. I remember developing an app which used Box2D, camera based gesture control with sound effects and background music all running simultaneously, reaching 60 FPS. In other projects we used software based 3D (à la Papervision 3D), Adobe dropped the ball and Molehill/GPU accelerated 2D/3D arrived too late. Perhaps it’s not common knowledge but we could develop true cross-platform apps, compiling for different targets (SWF, IPA for iOS and .app/.exe).

AS3 was a good language, and definitely reminds me of TS. Here’s a piece of code from 15 years ago: https://github.com/PureMVC/puremvc-as3-standard-framework/bl...

That letter from Steve Jobs destroyed it all, many talented developers left the Flash world at that time. It was a bit depressing to see all the (unjustified) mainstream hate for the Flash platform that started to appear at that time, which felt bad as there were many of us that put a lot of time, care and effort in creating amazing stuff with it. Thanks Flash!
Illumina often does this with spinoffs and startups. They provide a good chunk of the funding for startups which primarily use Illumina hardware.
Ugh, the C syntax makes it so hard to parse, humans or machine.

I recently submitted a PR for the `c2nim` import tool to handle double function pointers. I didn't actually understand the C code until I got the transpiler working despite cdecl.org:

// posix signal
void(*signal(int, void (*)(int)))(int);

in Nim becomes:

var signal*: proc (a1: cint; a2: proc (a1: cint)): proc (a1: cint)

Well I'm 99.5% certain at least. Even now I'm uncertain of the C syntax. And I've not been bold enough to test 3rd order C function pointers. I figure that's probably C code you don't wanna touch if possible.

https://github.com/nim-lang/c2nim/blob/11f2c5363dfe7e8c7c8ce...

The other annoying one is that "signed" and "unsigned" are basically adjectives, but "long" can be both a type and a modifier. So it's difficult to parse unless you're the target C compiler. Technically you can, but you have to use backtracking.
This is obviously a fake story.
So the message was no message?

How do we know the lander wasn't captured by Martians and locked in a faraday cage, in dire need of rescue?
Moving Fast and Breaking Things
Many of the street names are not numbered though, particularly in the Denny grid area.
In a similar vein a lot of HOAs ban growing food in your yard. I love walking around my neighborhood and seeing the cool things people grow, but I don't live in an HOA neighborhood. I guess growing food at home doesn't fit the class profile some neighborhoods are going for.
Cutting off one of your two perfectly functional legs, to match your mental image of having one leg - that is objectively crazy. You can rationalise and claim this makes that person happy. Maybe it does, but that would be indicative of a very serious mental disorder. Rather treat the mental disorder than cut off the leg, is what I propose?
But at that point the company is dead anyway, so it’s not about screwing OP out of their equity but about completely rebooting the company.
Yes they believed in more than the omnipotent God. However, the omnipotent God was the base assumption in their argument. It didn't require belief in the Bible as a base assumption for their argument to hold together, only a belief in an omnipotent God.

The robustness in their argument was probably so it would hold up for both literal Bible adherents and figurative Bible adherents.

IIRC it was some sort of adaptation of an argument for a literal Bible. IIRC it was something like this:

If you believe in a figurative Bible you believe in an omnipotent God. If you believe in an omnipotent God, then (steps elided because I can't remember them, but they were logical), thus proving a literal Bible thesis and a figurative Bible thesis were equivalent.
I left the tech world to “cure disease” (working on a phage clinical trial, currently treating three patients, and they’re doing super well!)

With that said, I’m consumed with FOMO and opportunity cost every day. I’ve missed the boat on being founder-level or early designer/engineer on so many projects that have gone on to raise Series B it’s mind numbing. Also, we were paid $0 bootstrapping our stuff in the first five years, and now finally we get paid, but $60k a year.

I’m saying this as a warning to all devs and designers out there. Do NOT do this. If you can get into Google or FAANG or whatever, build wealth that way. Maybe you’ll feel like a sell-out or you never scratched your itch or done something good for the world, but then you can also remember you can take a year off in Bali or whatever.
The language support might be nearly done but libc++ definitely does not have full C++20 support. For example, ranges, a HUGE feature in C++20, are disabled by default in libc++ (as of version 15, the latest stable release). As another example for a feature I want, std::source_location isn't implemented in libc++ even though it's existed in GCC/libstdc++ for many years now. In this example Clang has had the language support for implementing std::source_location for a while, but it hasn't been merged into libc++ for various reasons (last I checked there was a diff on phabricator that implemented it but there was some debate about the ABI that was being introduced, or something of that nature).

I don't think it's necessarily FUD, many C++ users don't understand the difference between core language features and standard library features. And even when you do understand the difference, with many features (e.g. std::source_location) you can't actually use the feature if libc++ doesn't have it, so the fact that clang itself supports the language feature is a moot point and irrelevant to end users.

I saw another comment explaining how to use libstdc++ with clang. Sure you can do this, but who actually wants to compile their code this way? Especially since it means you need to upgrade your compiler and standard library separately, on different release cadences. For most people this is way too much headache, they'd rather just not use the new features and wait until they're in libc++. You can also compile llvm with custom options to enable experimental features that aren't fully developed (like ranges), but who really wants to do this? Building a custom compiler/libc++ is a huge headache and the features are disabled by default for a reason anyway.

Just to be clear I love LLVM/Clang/libc++ and am huge advocates of them. But there's nothing wrong with pointing out flaws and where there are gaps compared to other implementations.
That shows (loosely) that there is no map with five countries that cannot be four-colored. It says nothing about maps with six, seven, etc. countries. An actual map may have billions of countries and need not even contain “a blob of one colour, wrapped in three others”.

Loosely because

a) it only shows it for such maps that contain such a blob. Who says other maps with five countries are easier to four-color?

b) it doesn’t rigorously show it. That you (and me, and everybody who looked at it) can’t find a way to draw that fifth area that touches all others doesn’t say much. what are your arguments for showing you looked hard enough?

For a similar case, read about the Jordan curve theorem. In layman’s terms, it says closed curves on a plane have an inside and an outside part (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_curve_theorem). Naive readers think it’s so trivial to not require a proof, and it took mathematicians a while to figure out that it needed one. I don’t know the details, but mathematicians may have observed that that theorem also is true on a sphere but isn’t true on a torus (a closed loop ‘around the hole’ in the torus doesn’t have an interior and an exterior). So, they needed an explanation as to why it’s true on a plane or a sphere but not on a torus (the answer essentially boils down to “because a torus has a hole in it”, but that requires a rigorous definition of what a hole is)
Yes, that's one way to put it.

p.s. don't use password protected archives: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35818/are-passw...
To add to the point above, it's worth understanding that IntelliJ is not an editor. It's a refactoring engine with a very nice structured editor, and the key to using it effectively is to use the higher-level features that it provides.

If you're not using the refactoring tooling then you won't understand why many people love it so much.

[It's worth looking under the hood at the plugin APIs. The editor doesn't work on text files. It works on ASTs.]
They didn't do it here, but you can sign a message that includes a checksum of the application with the private key of that address. The signed message can be proved using just the public key that they have linked to.
Or without a grid: "Take the 3rd left, then the 2nd right, cross the next roundabout at the 2nd exit which is a slight right, keep going for 3.2 miles and it is there on your right"
> Forgiving existing student loans is not fixing the issue, it’s just reducing the impact for now with a 100% certainty it will come back.

What if you did one time forgiveness while also reforming existing discharge and repayment systems so as to prevent the problem solved by one-time forgiveness from recurring?

Asking because that's what the current admin has been doing through executive action, its just all the media attention has been on forgiveness.
Pouring all your live savings into a single asset is your personal choice. It still doesn't change the argument that a home should not be a treated as an investment vehicle. Even if you do choose to use a home as an investment vehicle, putting ALL your life savings into is a poor choice; you should probably downsize and split the savings among other vehicles.
A way this is pointed out in college logic courses is that in a truth-table, if your "if" statement is false, then all "thens" are true.
Actually, we do allow firearms on planes. In the US, you must declare them and store them properly in checked baggage. The rules strike me as suitably tailored to the actual risks, unlike the repair law in question. And that's assuming the repair law was actually intended to address environmental risks. I am highly skeptical.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunit...
"Sorry, we don't accept redlines or riders for accounts that are less than $750k ACV."
“Ducks are mammals” contradicts “mammals have mammary glands”. When this type of contradiction happens, we call the logical system inconsistent.
>Would it be possible for your employer (or friend in IT even) to loan you a little money to get a place closer to work?

Though I am stretched in money, I can afford to pay for the average rent price where I live. That's luckily not the issue for me, my biggest issue is that I'd lose a significant part of my income.

>Would it be possible for your parents or someone else from your family to move with you (so everyone is sharing the cost)?

Sadly, no. My parents are renting too.

Thank you for your reply... I'm glad you made it out of it!
It's pump and dump with a fresh coat of paint. In 2005 I ran WorkZoo (a job search that competed with Indeed) and we were hot stuff just after Google's IPO. Vertical search was going to be the 'next big thing'. We had a group approach us wanting to reverse merger us onto the public markets clearly to pump the stock post the Google IPO hype. We told them what they could do with their idea. Honestly I'm far happier being able to look myself in the mirror and smile than having potentially profited from crap like that.
> Now I live in suburbia elsewhere in the country and street numbers are essentially meaningless, except to differentiate buildings on the same street.

I've even been on some suburban streets where there was no rule to the numbering scheme at all! Houses next door having radically different numbers, even and odd numbers being on both sides of the same street, etc. Drove me nuts.
Good call yeah. Dutch government managed to buy up banks for cheap and made a profit on them.

"Almost crashed" is not the same as "crashed". 2008 Was a stress test and the system survived.
Serendipity is alive and well it seems :)
Disbelief in Evolution as the origin of life is rooted in a belief about the origins of the universe that is fundamentally impossible to falsify either way.

In fact you can believe evolution exists and also believe that it is not the ultimate origin of life without in any way disagreeing with established scientific fact.
I'm a security professional and this looks like a great tool for OP's use case, especially with strong passwords and great password hints. I think your secrets are well stored - unless your mother stores the password to these files insecurely, a problem that is not new to this solution.

This also applies to most if not all challenges mentioned by other posters. Take phishing for example, at the moment all methods to exchange information of interest that are at the same time user friendly are relatively easy to phish, be it email, discord or WhatsApp.

I still wouldn't store "top-level secrets" in here and upload this to a cloud drive and forget about it. Someone smarter than me could spot a bug in your code (or the API's code) in a year and that renders your solution vulnerable. A browser's implementation of the API could be flawed in a particular version. Someone adversarial to me could bribe a number of people to get answers to 10 different password hints. There are some other scenarios that are implementation specific, I'm sure.

All in all, great tool. I hope you find more users if you are looking for more! :)
> avoiding enclaves of undocumented persons if they happen to work for large organizations (major meat packers and other large agribusinesses)

ICE has been useful to these employers in the past. Immigrants at your workplace talking about forming a union? Just give ICE a call and you don't even have to hire your own goons.
My time spent creating "stick death" videos in Flash as a kid is probably one of the main reasons I'm a software engineer today.
OpenJDK Proposes Project Galahad to Merge GraalVM Native Compilation
Agreed. They studied something quite narrow, and I don't think the results are particularly applicable to broader circumstances.
Nailed it in one. I'm old enough to vividly remember the first time Pfizer the corporations-are-people business entity was convicted of a felony. In the decades since not only have they failed to substantially alter their approach to compliance issues, most of the largest industry players have followed suit since the profit/loss ratio for ignoring regulations has been shown by Pfizer's financials.
I’m not claiming it is discredited, but you seem to think that it must be either discredited or proven.

My position is that the extended difficulty over the past hundred years in supporting it scientifically means it is in essence not a science. It is too complex to measure using these means and so science in pursuit of “proving the efficiency of psychiatric treatments” where psychiatric treatments are anything more than medications is largely a waste of time and effort, and will remain so until or unless we develop better methods of addressing complexity in a rigorous way.
Anecdotally, I looked through the last two weeks of my browser history. Only a handful of sites 1) weren't https, and 2) didn't also have an https equivalent:

http://fast-code.csail.mit.edu/
http://www.projectrho.com/
http://www.astronautix.com/
http://mentallandscape.com/
http://www.sheldoncomics.com/
If my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bike.
"... an edge of infinite smallness ..." is not a well-defined concept, and is not allowed in the original formation of the problem. Otherwise take a circle and divide it into N segments "like a pizza". They all meet in the middle in an "edge of infinite smallness", so that would require N colours.

Now make N as large as you like.

So allowing this makes the problem uninteresting, and precluding it makes the problem interesting and hard.
I dunno, most of the stuff in Fleet looks to me like it benefits from being a native thin-client rather than a browser-based app (e.g. SSH to your remotes, run the language server locally, etc).

I can see that a web-UI option could be built atop the "Space-hosted everything" architecture they are putting together, but I don't see any evidence that's actually what their core strategy is, as GP suggested. They spend a bunch of time discussing running things on "Your machine" too, which doesn't sound like a browser-first strategy.

As I see it, their secret sauce is building client-side applications that are faster than other companies can build. I just don't see them giving up that performance edge to make a browser-based client their primary strategy.
It's a shame this will never get through the insane bureaucracy that is the C standards committee. Had they listened to you all the way back in 2009, C11 might have been a game changer the same way C++11 was. Alas.

At least there's BetterC ;)
Skills won't save you from uncertainty or anxiety. Neither will experience, education, politics (bullshitting or networking), etc. Neither will income or savings or assets.

The only thing that actually helps is to not amplify your emotional reactions, and instead encourage them to quiesce. The standard cognitive approaches are to consider yourself lucky (by thinking of those less lucky), or to see the situation as transitory, or just distract yourself. However, cognitive approaches are the cart leading the horse; it's more direct to pay attention to the emotion until it dissolves.

More broadly, there are plenty of less dynamic industries, where loyalty matters most and you get security. But you chose tech typically to make a certain kind of difference, and it's worth the risk and anxiety. You're part of the community only after you've been through the suffering and understand how quickly it can all go up in smoke :)
For a while there was a lot of in-cahoots fraud where a country’s telecom would make seemingly arbitrary numbers a premium rate $$$/min number and some uncareful VoIP providers got hosed.

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0919/058.html?sh=3e7f98cc...
For those seeking official sources of direction which include these points and more I highly encourage starting with the basics of financial management. While these basics lead into many other areas of complex understanding always start with the basics. This one college class guided me more than any other outside of my career path of software development and I still have that college book. Financial management should be taught starting in elementary school but getting it into high school curriculums is good a start.

"In the last two years, five states — Ohio, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska and Rhode Island — passed legislation requiring that students take a full semester standalone personal finance education course in high school, doubling the total number of states with such a mandate."
I just looked at a map - it appears that 0 N/S/E/W is the Mormon Temple downtown. It also looks like "newer" streets have names rather than numbers - further from downtown. Is there a date at which they stopped the practice?

One thing the parent commenter missed was that the numbers also have larger distance meanings. 3200 North in Chicago means the road is 4 miles north of Madison St in the Loop (100 is 1/8th of a mile). If the guy was trying to get to the Vic Theatre and accidentally got off the train at Fullerton (2400 N), he'd know that it's only a mile walk - maybe it's faster to just hike it than wait for the next train.

EDIT - Diversey is 2800; Fullerton is 2400. Whoops, I haven't been over there in a long time!

EDIT 2 - The SLC scheme reminds me of the "rural grid" common in some old NW territory states, such as Indiana, where the county roads and addresses are numbered as the distance from the county courthouse. IE a road named 500N would be an east-west road 5 miles north of the courthouse, which was typically as close to the center of the county as possible.
> I'm guessing you mean the popular view of scientists

Yes, though your use of the word "popular" puts an unfair spin on it. There is overwhelming consensus (like 99%) among working biologists (who are in the best position to evaluate the evidence) that evolution is true.

Yes, there can be complexity and nuance. But evolution is quite literally one of the least controversial issues in all of science.
Orphans of the Sky wins the influence race by being published in 1951.
Where I live, your grass cannot exceed a certain height.

Your house NEEDS TO BE MAINTANED. If paint is chipping and looking awful THE CITY will force you to take care of it.
The origin of the land grid in the US is to facilitate land transactions with standard land plot sizes.

So while Brooklyn started out as wall to wall sameness it’s very easy, and predictable, for one person to sell and that particular plot to become individual again.

This is not generally true in American subdivisions, where locations are much more varied in shape, available infrastructure, etc. and so development has to be much more context dependent. And of course single use zoning was not introduced into NYC until 1961 so that helps the ease of redevelopment as well.
Whoa hey wait, could you expand on this culture of documenting things? what were the requirements? we desperately need some culture around this, it's been terrible in this remote culture to know what anything is actually about in our codebase
Today when we can go into space and fly literally around the world it's trivially falsifiable. So no, it's not the same thing in any sense of the word.
Neat! I knew I could not possibly be the only one that had this idea.

Linked your project.
“Free speech focus”? You mean banning links? Is this a 1984 “war is peace” sort of definition?
Founder here. Sorry about this everyone. We're monitoring a fix now
Well Nicolaus Copernicus was maybe a priest (definitely received minor orders and served as a church canon), but that didn't seem to speed up the acceptance of heliocentrism by the church...
A new end-user IoT product series are now developed in our Kyiv Lab
how large can you scale electric airplanes with hyper-dense battery cells?

I would imagine hitting the weight limit of traditional aircraft very quickly to get the same output of power.

oil's energy per square inch still can't be beat.
In bike messenger circles there is a phrase "steel is real". The idea being that when you inevitably eat shit going around a corner you might dent your frame, but the chances that a steel frame will crack or shatter is basically zero. And more importantly dings and scratches don't cause the structural integrity to degrade like happens with aluminum or carbon fiber. Your steel fork is bent? Hit it with a hammer until it's true again!
I don't see the point of trying to take down Binance by spreading fud. If Coinbase is all that s left, then what is the point of having bitcoin at all, if it is going to be as regulated as the dollar. This would render coinbase redundant too
But as a result there could never be an area of an infinitely large map that had five regions each needing a different colour. I understand people are saying but you take two such sub-maps, put them next to each other, and maybe the 'outside' colours are the same - but in that case you could always just recolour them individually before putting them together?
If you get 100,000 people using your site to exchange secrets, the bounty got a lot bigger. For phishing you and your mum might be immune, but one of the 100,000 might get phished. For taking over the account (which is now more juicy, could be some bitcoins there) then everyone would be vulnerable who doesn't check the source code each time they load the page.