skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An important detail that isn't touched on here: the Flash authoring tools were proprietary and much too expensive for hobbyists to afford. While many users simply pirated the tools, there was still a vast gulf between authors and the much larger audience of players.

The web today is a much more capable ecosystem than "HTML5" was for the original iPhone, and while many web developers crinkle their projects into minified source or opaque WASM blobs, every user has browser developer tools at their fingertips for peeking behind the curtain and making changes live.

It is perhaps most surprising that in the post-Flash world no comparable development environments have sprung up to replace its end-to-end animation and interactivity workflow. Game "engines" like Unity and Godot have captured much of the game development audience for Flash, but their ability to produce web exports is clearly an afterthought, producing huge files, glacial load times, and often simply crashing in any browser that isn't a bleeding-edge instance of Chrome.
The average worker doesn’t appreciate all of the different things the government does, and we’ve had decades of polls showing that people wildly misunderstand where money is spent. For example, people think we spend a lot more on foreign aid than we actually do – and also think that we should spend more than we do:

https://www.usglc.org/blog/americans-vastly-overestimate-u-s...

I mention this because there’s another side of this: taxes have been cut massively over the last half century, but a lot of people have not internalized what that means and simply assume that most of the money is going to something they don’t like. Cutting expenditures in any meaningful way means cutting the military, and the big social programs like Medicaid, SNAP, etc. People talk like we’re spending trillions on foreign and buying Reagan’s welfare queens new Cybertrucks but it’s really coming down to whether we want to spend less on the military, deal with our world-leading medical costs, or have rich people pay taxes at the same rates they paid around the turn of the century. The DOGE cuts work out to a few dollars per person total, and that’s before you factor in the significant new costs those cuts have incurred. It’s like looking at your personal budget and saying that the place to cut is your monthly movie date while ignoring rent, food, and car payments.
AWS can easily comply with the (A)GPL and still not give people any compensation for using their stuff. You have to go to a non-FOSS license if you want anything out of Amazon, but then they probably won't use your stuff anyway, unless it is popular enough that they can make lots more off it than they would have to give to you.
> developers aren't building even where they've been approved to build.

Suppose it costs $100,000 to add each additional housing unit if you could build them in areas that are currently zoned exclusively for single family homes, but they can't because the zoning doesn't allow it. By contrast, in the areas "where they've been approved to build", it would cost $800,000 for each additional unit, and the current market price is $750,000.

They're going to sit there and do nothing until the market price gets above $800,000 because otherwise they'd be losing money. If you want to change it you need to make it cost less to add housing units.

> Anyway, you can either pay off your investment or you can turn a profit.

These are not alternatives to each other. If there is any net profit, it would eventually cause the mortgage to be paid off. If there isn't any, why would anyone pay to build an apartment building?
Fun fact nobody remembers: back in the day Adobe built a feature where you could build flash source to an iphone app - you hit "publish" and an .ipa came out. It worked fine, people made apps, they got accepted to the app store, users used them, etc.

Then a day or so before that feature left beta, apple added a vague new clause to their app store agreement, which made no sense on paper but whose obvious purpose was to disallow flash apps. They then unpublished all the existing flash apps for violating that clause. Adobe quietly cancelled the app publish feature, and a few months later apple quietly removed the clause.
1. I can't speak to that, no analysis here and the time frame (the low carb thing was back around 2008) is too long for meaningful comparison.
2. Maybe? For normal things, not really, but when I try to row for an hour I feel it. I definitely get cold more easily.
3. I'm not built that way. The low carb thing was completely annoyance-free. As I said, the goal there wasn't weight loss, but raising my HDL; the weight literally came off by accident. Intermittent fasting doesn't bother me at all. Calorie restriction, which I generally do by A. going longer without food -- up to 2+ days; and B. eating less/less carb-rich/processed foods; can be somewhat unpleasant if I push it too hard, but I generally don't. Some days I'm feeling it (in a good way) so I go longer without food, some days I'm not, and I don't sweat which is which much.
4. Generally not a factor for me.
4.1. Definitely not a factor. Two times like I said, weight loss wasn't really the goal, so not relevant; and two times I hit the goal I set (last time), or went further (this time).
4.2 Doesn't really apply, since I've never been visibly overweight? Like, my waist has never been close to half my height. I'm tall, so the large numbers aren't as much of a factor. Regaining weight has never happened to me faster than about 10 pounds/year (just a guesstimate).

The interesting thing will be once I stop losing weight and start rowing again seriously, can I get back to a reasonable performance level. Fingers crossed...
Note that at cruising altitude it would be more like -80F. The engine would be more efficient at sea level at -30F as the mass flow rate would be higher. Ingesting water vapour actually improves things for the same reason. The downside is it can cause corrosion over time.
Of course, we’re probably seeing the normal amount of movement when administrations shift. I work for a global company and have only witnessed the EU to US movement. I’m sure both are happening.
Not initially. Once they have a codebase capable of reliably rendering the web, I'm sure they will explore porting it to Windows.
I do use Copilot with VSCodium, I just installed the extension with a file
Did they pay premium for asbestos?
This is exactly what I mean when I say tell me your bad without saying so. Most people here disagree with that.

A while back a friend of mine told me he's very found of llms because he's confused with kubernetes cli and instead of looking up the answer on the internet he can simply state his desire in a chat to get the right answer.

Well... Sure, but if you'd look the answer on stackoverflow you'd see the whole thread including comments and you'd had the opportunity to understand what the command actually does.

It's quite easy to create a catastrophic event in kubernetes if you don't know what you're doing.

If you blindly trust llms in such scenarios sooner or later you'll find yourself in a lot of trouble.
I’m still reading this article https://www.nfid.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Call-to-Acti...

Note: I am pro-vaccination and I’m vaccinated against measles as well.
It's actually worse than that. By holding his stocks he remains invested in the company in every meaning of the word. The dividends he's living on are the literal fruit of the proverbial sin that caused him to quit. In order to be morally honest about divesting himself of this line of business he needs to sell his stock.

He should invest it in something else, that he believes in, so that any dividends are thus just.
Surely Cookie Monster wouldn’t want any more cookies. He’s already had so many.
It’s a custom CMS built using Quixote.
Yea, 10 years of his life.
Well, except in the case of variable shadowing.
There's too much evidence contradicting the notion that his goal is efficiency. Not sure what it actually is, but if it is efficiency, he's worse than useless and needs to be shitcanned yesterday.
A lot of immigrant communities actually voted for Donald Trump this time though. I don’t understand it. But it happened.
Oh my, how long you got? There were a ton of things, but I can really boil down to a few instances.

First:

The thing that really made me disenchanted with the company came down to an incident where I replied back to a previous email chain with <REDACTED> (one of the higher-ups at Apple) with a topic that wasn't directly relevant to the subject of the previous emails, and then that asshole thought it was best to complain to every single manager between me and him, which was six people.

The next day every one of those managers decided to schedule a half-hour meeting explaining to me how inappropriate it was that I emailed <REDACTED> directly, instead of going through the bureaucratic channels. It was three hours of nearly-continuous meetings, all with the same subject of how bad it was to email a higher-up without first emailing every single person in-between first.

Three. Fucking. Hours. They wasted basically half a day just to make sure that I didn't send an email to the wrong people in the wrong order. It was worse than that scene in Office Space.

Second:

There was also another incident, where my manager's manager's manager emailed me, I hadn't replied in two hours, so he called my cell phone and yelled at me for not checking my emails more frequently. I tried explaining that email was asynchronous and that if he needed my attention immediately he should message me with HipChat or call my phone, which he clearly knew how to do, only for him to tell me that I have an attitude problem.

Not as bad as having my day ruined for emailing the wrong person, but still really rubbed me the wrong way.

There were a lot more annoying things that happened, and my understanding is that a lot of it was an issue with my team; Apple has thousands of software engineers and I think some teams are better than others.
I think there's always going to be somebody that doesn't want to bother with the complexities of setting up a model to run locally.

Spending way too much time trying to track down a very particular version of a GPU driver or similar just isn't going to be worth it if you can make an API call to some remote endpoint that's already done the heavy lifting.

Plenty of value in handling the hard part so your customer doesn't have to.

I don't know how much of the current focus on local models comes from privacy concerns, but at least some does. Once there's something like the gdpr but for data provided for inference, I think even more people will put down the docker containers and pick up the rest endpoints.
I have a manger , in a big billion dollar company who is now using AI and checking in 2000 lines of python

It’s bonkers stupid
Ok, I was misunderstanding.

Ocean thermal energy conversion - I hadn't heard of this, this is awesome.
Traditionally you chew the leaves and experience a moderate antidepressant effect. Apparently traditional practioners are somewhat appalled at the idea that people would smoke it to trip. I'm not sure if there really is any utility at high doses
> they are natural friends

December, flying out of Thailand I spent one night in Bangkok. Looking for a bar late for one or two drinks after I settled into my hotel I saw two guys, one Chinese and other Russian, stumbling out of a building a few doors down from my hotel. I asked, "Is that a bar or a brothel? I'm looking for a bar." They laughed saying they were looking for a bar too and it was a brothel which is why they were leaving. The Chinese guy said he knows where to find some bars and they invited me to join them. The Russian stopped in a ganja shop on the way.

The Russian in his late twenties left a few years ago to avoid conscription. Least I could do to show my appreciation for his dedication to world peace was buy him drinks for the rest of the night. So .... A Chinese, Russian, and American walk into a bar ... and the jokes write themselves. The shenanigans and tuk tuk rides that ensued continued till the sun came up.

One of the more interesting aspects of going to Stuyvesant High School in the 90s was a very large portion of my classmates and subsequently friends were born in communist China or Soviet Union who travelled on the F Train from either direction. I was reminded of some aspects of my teenage years like hanging out with a group friends who were born in either China or Russia.
It still blows my mind when I come across images brimming with galaxies. How insignificant are we in the vast universe? Even our entire solar system, it’s likely not even a blip in the cosmic scheme. Just wow…
I just figure the owner of the largest garden gnome collection in the world is somehow driven to collect garden gnomes.
No worries though, Germany is raiding peoples houses for offending people online. Please spare me the "only for Holocaust deniers" thing.
If you want efficiency, then sure, remove them automatically and save everyone the time. But Americans, by and large, aren't into efficiency.

If you want people to visually see where their money goes and when taxes are increased, you do a better job breaking down where it goes when described on a paycheque. Think "$0.82 for military spending; $0.05 for road maintenance" instead of "Federal tax: $317.02"

If you want the people to misunderstand and hate the government, then you make the people do math every month with numbers that change throughout the year and have financial penalties for getting wrong.
> Metals don't need to melt to fail.

Another example: “jet fuel can’t melt steel.”
I'm on Brave which i think has built in ad blockers, maybe something to do with that, not sure though.
All of this adds up to jack-squat, diddly-nothing, when measured against the hundreds of billions of dollars of actual trade. And all represent existing pieces carved out at the time FTA and NAFTA were signed when I was like... 14 years old. And I'm old.

And all of them have corresponding restrictions within the US. You think Lockheed Martin isn't protected? That any Canadian company would be allowed to dominate aerospace or defense or telecoms (not that they could)

And what is this nonsense about "ban on foreign ownership of residential property"? Sounds like a good idea, but it does not exist

Where are you from? Because if you're from Canada, you sound woefully uneducated about your own nation.

(Interprovincial trade limitations are mostly on alcohol and are a remnant from prohibition era laws. And yes, they suck. The other area where the provinces have barriers is around professional certifications.)
Like they do with USPS. Yes, I agree.
Even perfect equals in an ideal spherical cow world can still engage in a 1 v 1 drag down fight.
but also yes, the metal would melt if it somehow managed to not fail. Often the turbine blades are operating in an environment above their melting point and only don't melt because of the internal cooling.
I would contribute to a repo that works towards this goal.
Spherical beef is better than Wagyu!
The increasing isolationism amongst all countries is concerning and depressing.

A WW3 may indeed come to fruition if we continue on this path. It won’t be the older folks paying for this but rather our children or grandchildren.

Future is bleak.
> "bureaucrat" is a pejorative

> "bureaucrat" doesn't mean anything

These two sentences appear to be contradictory.
18F was a business unit of the General Services Administration, which was created via 41 U.S.C. 251, the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. The act transferred the function of the Federal Works Agency and the Treasury Bureau of Federal Supply to the GSA. The agency is directed and authorized to perform a variety of tasks, from real estate, to acquisition, to information technology and telecommunications.

31 USC 1535, The Economy Act, authorizes Federal agencies to purchase from each other in the interests of economy. Obvious application is that rather than have the Social Security Administration lease an office or build a building, they sublease or lease a facility owned by the GSA so Federal demand can be aggregated. 1 big lease is cheaper than 12 little ones.

In the case of 18F, having a consultive entity within the GSA maximizes the value of procurements made by GSA and other agencies. When congress appropriates money to say, the Department of Labor to perform a function, DOL may choose to engage 18F to deliver or assist, avoiding additional procurement and taking advantage of investments and capability already built.

Congress in 1949 recognized that basic concepts like shared services, aggregation and mission focus deliver value and promote efficient operations. The current regime's corrupt interest is obvious to anyone with a brain.
What is the best way to profit from this? Short the stock market? Buy companies that make GLP1's?
He takes responsibility when he is shown what will happen if his work continues. He also sacrifices his own life.
Even in countries where price tags must include VAT/GST, the exact tax content is usually broken down as a line item on invoices and receipts. Best of both worlds.
Getting data, even for live systems, wasn't too hard as long as you weren't doing anything secret during a trading blackout window, which didn't seem too unreasonable to me.

I didn't work with data science though, my stuff was generally limited to database queries and log messages.
My wife was on daily doses and it made no difference. She's now having long-term problems, over a year after getting off of it.
Same weight, but I'm 6ft6. At that point even my doctor would repeatedly tell me to eat more.
Rectangle had those options before 2020.
Android studio became great after I upgraded from 16 to 48 gigabytes of ram. Thanks for that, Gradle!
Here, read it on Wikipedia:

'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Initiative
Marc Andreessen said that anyone putting brakes on AI is guilty of murder.

Completely coincidentally, Andreessen stands to make billion from AI.

He is a deeply unserious person not worth listening to.
Not often, but always.
Always wanted to try our Blazor, but there are weird barriers (as a layman) to understanding the client-side lifecycle. Maybe just opaque abstractions that don't seem necessary at first glance.
>>They also worry that executives could be detained and used as a bargaining chip in U.S.-China negotiations

Since when has this ever happened? In China, yes. In the US, never!

How foolish of them. China can only look in the mirror with this.
> Almost all company,... have surveillance...

If i understand correctly, OP was working on surveillance-enabling AI technology. Unlike traditional surveillance, it can actually scales.

and no, how high the false rate the AI is doesn't really matter. What really matters is is the fear of being constantly watched
Would the current US president actually order the US military to defend the country against a Russian invasion? That's not exactly clear anymore.
The main downside of C# when compared to Java is its weaker exception handling, see here: https://mckoder.medium.com/the-achilles-heel-of-c-why-its-ex...
I'm sorry but it's normal. You don't have the right to offend people online or not.
One thing I often think about in the early days of Linux is it's competitors. The article mentions "commercial Unix was so expensive it was easier to write your own". Which is largely true.

However there is also Coherent Unix. I remember adverts for it as the full back page of so many magazines of the day, for $99. I always was on the fence about buying it. One of the big drawbacks of Coherent was that it didn't have any networking.

Then, Linux came out, and it was shockingly shortly after that that Linux surpassed Coherent, and Coherent vanished seemingly overnight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_(operating_system)
Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing – Live from 2:30 Am EST (0730 UTC) [video]
Concerns are not public but I am basing this on popular Filipino forums and Facebook groups which is very pro-US. I mean majority of us our very pro-US.

Filipino media is not that great here, it sucks but I can't remember an opinion piece recommending we nuke up until this article below.

https://usa.inquirer.net/167208/with-trumps-new-world-order-...
How about I see an interesting street hustler in Munich and put a photo of him on my blog? If something like that is illegal I'd quickly find our two cultures are absolutely incompatible with my continued residence.
It's way worse than that. The playbook is simple - "it's not us, it's Elon. Trump wants to make america great, Elon went too far. Us innocent legislators didn't see it coming!"

If the democrats grow a pair and shutdown the government by filibustering the budget, Trump will fire (or worse) Elon, scorched earth whatever is left and blame the democrats. They are all about the big lie -- they'll float the idea that Elon was secretly working with the democrats the whole time. If Trump is lucky, there will be an early hurricane or an earthquake in California and the devastation will be Chuck Schumer's fault. Long live the king.
Attacking another user like this, no matter how badly they broke the site guidelines themselves, is absolutely not ok on Hacker News. Please don't do it again, and please stop posting flamewar comments to HN generally.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree with this.

He must rid himself of any remnants of Microsoft he helped build, therefore he still has a stake in MS through stock, which means he is still supporting surveillance capitalism.
no Just-In-Time crispr gene editing as the cherry on top??
> your quality of life other than work hours is already good enough

This reminds me of something I read recently...

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/02/sergey-brin-says-agi-...
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? Swipes like "Lol, keep dreaming man" are against the site guidelines, and getting into nationalistic spats is not what HN is for. When you post like this, you're just inviting even worse from others (unintentionally of course). That's how we end up with degraded responses like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43226552.

Worse, you've been repeatedly posting nationalistic flamewar comments in recent weeks. This is bad. I understand the frustrations, but this is no way to make your case.

There's an extra burden on commenters who are representing a minority view, especially when the topic is divisive. That's arguably unfair, but it doesn't make it ok to break the rules, and it's not in your interest to do that.

I've written a lot about this over the years (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), including this just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213858.
AGI is already basically here. In a couple of years superintelligence will be here and hopefully benevolent.
F#! I’m in love with the language. It is my defacto pick for most things these days. Very expressive AND strongly typed. Being a part of the .Net ecosystem is also a plus.
"When elephants fight, it's the grass that gets trampled"

Not sure of the attribution of this quote.
Economics are not the only considerations at play. Even if economic considerations do dominate, the social safety nets of many European countries offer attractive alternatives to their US counterparts, even as they existed before Trump. For instance, in the deeply flawed US health-care system you risk medical bankruptcy in the case of serious illness or accidents even if you do have insurance due to policy limits. Insurers will fight tooth and nail to prevent paying out claims. Some folks with chronic illnesses don't want to be tied to their high-paying jobs just so they can have good insurance and some healthy folks want a health insurance policy that won't disappear when they need it most.

Didn't mean for this to be a wall of text. Basically, money's not everything, and even if it was, it could still make sense for a lot of folks from the US to want to move to Europe.