skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is correct. While it's accurate that the FDA requires industrial alcohol to be denatured, they specifically said "methanol cannot safely be used as an ingredient, or as a denaturant, in hand sanitizer"[1]. A few alternative alcohols are allowed to be used as denaturants under the emergency sanitizer guidance instead, e.g. isopropyl, tert-butyl. I don't think those are safe to drink, but I think they are safe for skin unlike methyl.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/136118/download
The moral demand upon organizations to make political stances needs to stop. I come to HN because it’s empty of that; makes information more free and digestible.
Use Adobe's Flash Projector. It runs swf files directly, outside of a browser.
Without special infra, we are atleast 50 years away.
To be fair, if it wasn't denatured then it wouldn't just be someone, somewhere. It would be hoards of underage kids. Heck if I use the self-checkout lane at the supermarket to buy cough medicine the attendant has to come over and approve the purchase because that's abused by underage kids as well.

That said, I won't claim to know precisely where the line should be drawn, but would say that in a sanitizing product shortage during a pandemic the line should be somewhere in the area of "hey how about we make it easier to make more sanitizing products right now"
I see you're getting downvoted, but you speak truth, here
> Can't you fix wallhacks by just having the server not send the position of things that the client doesn't have line-of-sight to?

No, at least not for real-time games. Latency compensation means that the client needs more data than the player "should" see.

> And as for auto-aim, can't cheaters do that no matter how draconian your anti-cheat measures are, by, e.g., connecting a fake USB mouse connected to a camera pointed at their screen?

If you can make a USB device that does that, I'm sure you have better things to spend your time on that trivial matters like cheating in games.
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2020/09/09/alina-chan-br...
I don't actually remember it ever being bundled up until Google Chrome?
I am squeamish about eating any used filters: bivalves of any sort (and other filter feeders), liver, kidney...

People have been doing so for a long time which is why I use the term "squeamish" which implies some lack of rationality.

I thought oysters were "purified" by putting them in a bucket of clean water overnight. Myth?
This is why it's important that the set of drivers killed in AI accidents will be different. The ones killed in accidents up to this point are the ones being reckless (and sometimes, the people they inevitably hit).

The ones killed in accidents involving self driving cars will include people who drove responsibly or even defensively in the past. They will also be among higher income earners for the first few years, while self-driving capabilities are still too expensive to be included in the average car.

Moreover, people like to think they're in the set that wouldn't get themselves killed by their own driving, regardless of how poorly they drive.
Thermometers? Seriously!? Unbelievable!

I'm waiting for 2025 when a piece of cutlery or your garden hose will need internet activation.
"No good deed goes unpunished."
Record in resume: experienced kamikaze.
Perhaps it was, but it is very difficult to create a strong copyleft licence that is not the GPL that is compatible with the GPL, and that goes for any strong copyleft licence in every direction, so much so that GPLv2 is not compatible with GPLv3.

It's rare to find two strong copyleft licences that are compatible with each other — advocates of strong copyleft typically phrase their arguments as if there only be one strong copyleft licence in existence, as this is the major problem that is hard for them to overcome that is seldom sung.
I'm actually very confused about this. They make it sound like the change will happen automatically, which makes it sound like there's a kill switch of some kind. Is there?
Usually it’s pulled in via plug-in from a third party data source like Bloomberg or a cheaper alternative.
How'd you generate that listing? It seems useful.
If you died of the unregulated vaccine then the market would correct the situation by incentivizing grieving families to choose a more reliable vaccine from a competitor.
Hi, thanks for going through my blog post!

Could you elaborate on why you believe my writings are imprecise? I read the link you provided, but couldn't find any divergence with its text though.

Here's the line of thought behind my statements if it's not clear to you:

1) Until a measure is made leading to the collapse of the quantum state qubits remain (possibly) in a superposed state. When a quantum gate is applied to these qubits it affects all superposed states (from a linear algebra point of view).

2) I took this statement from Wikipedia [1], forgot to link the source in the article: Simon, Daniel (November 1994). "On the Power of Quantum Computation". 94 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science: 116–123.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch%E2%80%93Jozsa_algorith...
What is this supposed to be used for?
Spin (Propaganda)
> Mel Gibson had to drunkenly spout hateful things about people who are important in his industry to get kicked out of it. These days you don't even have to offend people relevant to you to get that kind of treatment.

Michael Richards has entered the chat
It was long dead before the SaaS model really. After iphone dropped support the writing was on the wall
Yes, flash websites were a bit of an anti-pattern even then (brilliant jewels like Homestarrunner.com aside)

Point I didn't mention clearly enough was that single-file-as-default was REALLY good for flash portal distribution. Made it easy for creators to share and easy for portals to ingest files, AND to "steal" them from eachother, which was something us developers actively encouraged, it's how you got your game or cartoon played/watched by millions of people.
How does this work on a team composed exclusively of senior engineers?
Make a free/pro version. Free version only works w/ a lock-screen interstitial ad enabled, and the VPN disconnects every 30 minutes until you re-enable it.

Pro version is like $1.99/month subscription.
Assuming that your narrative is factual, is it Uber's obligation to subsidize the government's infrastructure failings?
The writing style looked weird to me until I realized this is a twitter thread glued together to look like an article. Hence all the abbreviations.
The chief virologist heading bat research at the lab also was very surprised and gave an interview describing her efforts to see if it came from her own lab, being the only known store of bat viruses in Wuhan. Thankfully the genomic sequences were too far apart to make a direct jump credible so at the very least there must have been one intermediary carrier regardless. How the intermediary carrier, i.e. the pangolins, got it, either at bat caves in southern china or otherwise is the part still being explored. This may be the sort of thing where 100% proof is impossible, and a probabilistic answer is the best we will ever achieve.
Unity is a fine game engine but where flash had a handful of abstractions you needed to make games, unity has hundreds. It’s never going to reach the same audience (as in the non technical devs)
Sorry, that phrase has been used in a song. Legal council from the RIAA will be in contact shortly with a proposal for a reasonable settlement for you infringement.
They really aren't acceptable, though; they are often not really suitable for pressure canning, and the failure and breakage rate is higher.
Becoming a SME (subject matter expert) in a certain technology (that would benefit the org) and then evangelizing that technology within the organization is a mark that I look for in a senior.
If you are not paying more then you are making more. It will comeback to the society as taxes.
Where is the source of direction or vision for the project? Rarely is this task evenly divided.
Regular soap was hard to find near me, though I was near a hotspot.
I’ve never heard a credible source state 5000 years of written history, just 5000 years of history, where the inference is that the earlier parts were orally transmitted.
If a self driving car hits a school bus at high speed (despite braking), I'm pretty sure a lawyer will make a case that it could have avoided the school bus by driving up on the side walk which may or may not have had people on it.

I get your point, but I think it is probably more correct for people who are making a split second decision rather than for a car where the decision has already been made in code and someone (or some company) has to take responsibility for why it was made that way.
I am sad to read about how many people here underestimate china. What other country has lifted a BILLION people out of poverty in 30 years? What other country built the worlds biggest high speed rail network in 15 years? What other country is both the biggest producer of steel and iphones? I say this as someone who has a great admiration for western values and lifestyle. A western level university system or free press will probably not be coming there anytime soon. When it comes to building new things china is #1 by far.
> but I don't think the Linux audience in 1999-2008 was exactly who most of us were targeting

Well, but... yeah. I know people weren't targeting Linux in the early 2000's, that was the problem. That's what I'm saying.

One of the biggest advantages of dumping Flash was that it got replaced with a runtime that worked on every OS even if people weren't deliberately targeting it. I'm saying that's a big enough advantage that it's worth the tradeoff. The Linux market share on desktop computers was tiny back then, but it was big enough that the community deserved to have a web in its entirety that worked for them. Not just a couple websites, they deserved to have full access to the platform that claimed to be a democratizing environment, and they were never going to be a part of that platform as long as Flash existed.

I disagree that Linux compatibility back then was a non-issue. It was not. It was a serious problem that held Linux back as a platform and as a daily driver and we all hated it, and it feels very dismissive to say that it was just a tiny side effect or that it's irrelevant to the broader point. Flash was never cross-platform and it held back the entire web from being a universally accessible platform. And it only got fixed because developers were forced to use a runtime that supported Linux. That is the only reason that Linux browsers are usable today.

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I am kind of skeptical that distributing SWFs is actually that much easier than distributing zip files. Even downloading/stealing and re-hosting JS code is not that hard. This is coming from someone who agrees with many of your points about the overall accessibility that Flash brought. But I do not believe it's harder to distribute content on the web today than it was back then.

I uploaded SWF files to those portals, I put them on flash drives. My process today for distribution is pretty much the same. And once this stuff is on the web, the web is vastly better at distribution than the Flash Player plugin was.
The one with the most domain knowledge and technical excellence leads? thus Lead Senior Developer.
OCS is Officer Candidate School. Graduates become O1. Not sure what your point is.
Your comment is summarized by the last sentence of my comment.

Except for:

> When you buy software you are agreeing that you don't own that software. You are instead buying a license to use that software.

This is incorrect in many jurisdictions, including the EU, regardless of what the EULA or whatever would make you believe, for software distributed in the way Microsoft Windows is [1]

[1]: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...

Instead ownership works similar to as it would for, for example, a book. You don't own the IP, but you do own the book.

Also I don't own the gardener either, the distinction doesn't even matter.
What does a dog do that you step into? Pants!
Name the games. There are plenty of DirectDraw wrappers fixing old games

https://www.nongnu.org/wined3d/

https://fdossena.com/?p=wined3d/index.frag

http://dege.freeweb.hu/

https://github.com/CnCNet/cnc-ddraw

https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper

https://sol.gfxile.net/ddhack/index.html

even Win10 ships with own ddraw.dll wrapper.
You're missing his point. If you wanted to share what you made, all you needed to do was export the .swf file. If I want to share my html5 game with you, there's a shit ton of files I have to upload somewhere.
Fauci urges calm as mutated Covid-19 strain from UK found in California
Personally have never had a problem with R csv parsing
but wouldnt it be nice if the world could go on with life like the taiwanese or singaporeans?
And then most others follow suit. Already now Xiaomi, Samsung et al are shipping without charger.
Who said anything about being banned?
There are multiple tools now that have filled the Flash niche. YouTube, more advanced game engines, AppStore’s, modern JS... free to play games really killed the money side of it too. Flash games were the only free/ad driven games in town. Now you’ll be battling against billion dollar companies in that arena.
There is no end of life date for IE11 next year.

Internet Explorer is supported for as long as the OS is, and as such, will see support until at least 2029 on Windows Server 2019. It wouldn't surprise me if the next version of Windows (desktop or server) also includes IE, fully supported for its 10 year lifecycle.

There were a lot of clickbait articles in the past year about various Microsoft services dropping support for IE, but it will still be part of Windows, and still get security updates.
Why not just point a webcam at a bed of them?

You can do image analysis to count the shellfish in the image, and attach an “open” or “closed” status to each. Once you have a reliable field of Boolean values, you can detect anomalies in the close count.

You could then have a grid of tanks with inlets from the clean water supply and outlets to the sewer where you monitored (more or less real time) the reaction to our clean water supply.
>According to the wiki page on this, the murder rate is now 3 times high than 1977 (start of data on the table).

From the link[0] I posted previously"

"Lastly, we turn to another place where crime and violence spiked in 2015: Baltimore. This year, Baltimore’s story continues to be a mixed one. The total number of crimes reported in the city fell by almost 6 percent compared to 2018 (through the last week of November), with violent crime falling by about 2.5 percent. Robbery, burglary, theft, and auto theft decreased modestly, while reported rape fell dramatically — with law enforcement documenting nearly 26 percent fewer offenses."

As I said, crime is down in Baltimore. Continuing to say say "crime is up in Baltimore" doesn't make it true.

[0] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/take...
Someone Wrote a Visual Studio Code Extension for Pijul
https://archive.is/qgklR

Yes. When minks go extinct
Startups are racing to reproduce breast milk in the lab
I have removed most of the apps on my phone but this is an interesting and maybe a revolutionary idea.
Oh.. similar line for me, accounting/tax law. Excel is bread and butter because all year end fianncials are prepared and finalised on excel. Although I have used libreoffice on my personal machine, it also kinda works.

For a couple of years I have tried to excel macro myself a balance sheet template which does most of the copy pasting from precious years, does bank interest calculations and all.

It would be interesting to know how does a us CPA work because its all accounting package>excel>efile.
Free Course – A Guide to 3rd Person Players in Unity
You’re not subsidizing minimum-wage companies. You’ve decided that workers should enjoy an arbitrarily high standard of living but are unwilling to shoulder the full costs of providing it (e.g. through taxes). Instead, you went to the ballot box and kicked those costs to corporations. The minimum-wage companies are subsidizing you.
And given _unclear_ requirements, you should be able to ask the right questions to make them clear. This is probably a harder barrier to overcome.
It's a really fun game. I was a little frustrated by some words which didn't seem to be recognized - I think 'rome' and 'zen' were two, whereas much more obscure words were accepted.
I really wonder if I'm getting downvoted by free-market enthusiasts, the poor attempt at humor, or because it wasn't completely clear it was meant in sarcasm. Or maybe all three? I don't really care about internet points, but I'm always curious about such things.
Here is a new article from the Associated Press "China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins".

https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-coronavirus-pandem...
>Why not support lowering crime rates even more? Comparing the crime rates in Baltimore to other western countries, there's still plenty of room for improvement.

Where, exactly, did I say we shouldn't "support lowering crime rates?"
Tried the alternative. The tax breaks were amazing. But there seemed to be something missing. Like, well, everything.

So I attended a weekend seminar on a reality timeshare. Given their high-pressure sales tactics, eventually it seemed easier just to get the timeshare. Property management is always the issue. I get it for 16 hours/day, roughly.

There’s always something to do. Manifest, translate, rotate, follow a single trajectory in the time-space continuum. Manipulate physical realms as they are understood here. Occasionally “go quantum” as the kids say. A little vibrational gardening here and there. It’s nice. If it gets too loud, you can always puncture your eardrums or turn down the audio volume.

Harder to turn down the visual contrast in physical reality. Tried adjusting some knobs, but the girl made it very clear that those weren’t for me to adjust.
Do you use a phone? Which one?
Sorry, no. HTML5 exists. Web “standards”? Lmao. Is whatever the Chrome team develops the web standard now?
Reminds me of a conversation with a coworker in around 1999: Me: “I wish [our product] was cross platform. It would be more enjoyable to develop.” Him (without a shred of sarcasm): “It IS cross platform! It runs on NT and 95!”
I think it's brilliant advice to young people to not try to seem like an expert when they clearly aren't one. When you're dealing with people who are familiar with your subject, you can't fake it until you make it - you're 22 and they have a pretty good idea of how little a 22 year old is going to know.

The good news is that also means they have reasonable expectations of you - be helpful and thoughtful, and they'll appreciate it. Bullshit like you know everything, and they'll think you're a dumbass.
Not sure about that one but there's similar stuff in the world of archeology (https://www.nature.com/news/how-china-is-rewriting-the-book-...) , a political motivation to say that humans evolved in China and not Africa. It's a shame when there's so much potential for genuinely exciting finds to come out of the country.
Would it? Would it be hoards of teenage kids? Perhaps we should try to figure out why hoards of teenage kids would drink cough syrup or hand sanitizer. Perhaps the problem is that we pay to much attention to underage kids. Maybe if there wasn't an age limit, underage drinking wouldn't be so taboo. And underage drinking would not be a problem and binge drinking might go down.
A living wage for an individual with no children in King County, Washington is $16.09 per hour worked. If you pay less than that, the government via entitlement programs makes up the difference. That's corporate welfare, and this bill goes a long way to addressing that. [1]

If employers do not pay enough that their employees require the use of zero entitlement programs, they are mooching off the state in the amount of the entitlement programs their employees consume.

I'd be open to, instead of raising the minimum wage, having the state bill employers to recover the cost of entitlement programs they had to provide for their employees.

[1] https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/53033
What I really enjoy are not just the people that are utterly incapable and uninterested in listening but those people who tell you what your opinions are. I extra love when they are somehow astonished that not everybody mindlessly falls into absolute agreement, perhaps as though not everybody concedes to their narcissism. This appears most evident as an entitlement thing from having followers without challenges to retain their position/status.
Care to elaborate? I would associate that to a beginner, and I'd expect a senior to simply advocate for whatever technology works best in each case (i.e., while the junior is focused on a single technology, the senior knows several and keeps in mind that they are just tools to solve business problems)
> for my mom, or my sister, and nearly anyone else.

Especially my mom, dad, sister and almost everyone else I know use one application on their computer and that is Chrome. My father still works and so does my sister and yet they do not work with or need anything else. Linux works fine for that. Almost everyone I know would not know the difference between an Ubuntu laptop or a windows one as long as the Chrome button ('the internet') is there.

Ofcourse this differs if people need native applications (maybe) but I would say that most people would not notice Linux at all. Not because Linux is great (I use it exclusively but I do not care about ux/ui), but because most people do not do so much 'natively' with a computer anymore and hence can switch fluently from Mac to win to lin to ios to Android (and frequently do during the day between some combinations of these) as long as they can find 'the internet' button.
But if just reading the headline is already having an emotional impact, as the source claims, then even that method won't change much as you will still be exposed to the title.

Which presents kind of an difficult problem: You won't know if an headline is emotional without actually reading it, but once you read it, and it turns out to be emotional, you will already be affected.
Lessons from 2020
Read TMMM and ask your manager to add the title next performance review. Seems to be all that's required these days.
You could add a /sarcasm to it for clarity, instead of posting a follow up comment