skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are the one confusing "player" and "authoring tool" as there absolutely are players with all the functionality of the flash player and more, they are just called browsers.

What's more there absolutely are "html5" experiences that rival the old flash experiences. In most ways these experiences are much better. Perhaps as an old commerical flash developer youbhave a rosy memory of flash in the naughts. Back in the day, the only time I wasn't pissed to see flash loading was when I played flash games, every other use of flash was generally awful and I would usually immediately close a page if it started loading flash. As much as I hate the bloat and SPAification of the web, it is still far better than what most sites did with flash.

The demise of flash is complicated and has a lot to do with the rise of mobile. Android did support flash but even on that platform, native games simply outperformed flash games and the market demand shifted. If Apple had supported flash on iOS, this shift would probably have been slower but flash would still have lost out.
I used to love browsing the site trying to find new stuff to try out on one of my Linux boxes. Good memories.
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The people hurt by your actions are not the ones making the decision you're objecting to. As such, refusing because you think it's morally wrong that American bills are spelled weird is amoral to me.
Yes, I think what you're describing agrees with my family's experience.

When I said 'lethargic'->'increase in energy levels', I didn't mean increase above the baseline. I meant 'lethargic'->'normal'.
You used to run a Flash game website from your macbook? You loved Flash games so much, you built/ran a website where people could play Flash games, but it just sucked so bad that you remember it as sucking all these years later?

Not sure what you're saying, here.
we don't need to understand it or agree:

either we are interested in and sensitive to how users react, or not.
> Depending on what you're writing, sensation might well be the entire purpose of the writing

That would be immoral... Pornography is supposed to be an exception, a consensual experiment - not the standard of communication, on the opposite. When you deliberately try to make the reader lose control (e.g. for manipulation, or paternalistic trickery), that IS immoral.

> So words that trigger the wrong sensation

In whom? What makes "sensation" legitimate? How can you assume a reader will get that "sensation" - which, also, is not supposed to have in the first place? You say it yourself: «...trying to impose their cultural sensitivities on other countries and cultures...». There seems to be an attempt to create a "standard demotic" - but it remains demotic, and with extremely weak foundations without grounds for universality.

> not used to test the reader's maturity

No no no no no no no no - that was never meant (why should one do that? That is perverse, and something akin was the whole point). What was expressed is that you do not hide adulthood to children - otherwise, they will remain children.

Edit:

and by the way,

> However, these sensations are extremely cultural

Also the use of sensational language is "cultural", localized in some areas: you can see that it is found more frequently in some territories. It remains objectively immoral to attempt speaking to the visceral instead of the intellect. It is like tapping one's arm to steal from him. You communicate to provide further awareness, not to reduce it; to provide further abilities, not to lower them. If you did the latter, you'd be a criminal.
I may be misunderstanding the Wikipedia description on segment trees, but it feels like this is basically what bounding volume hierarchies are used for in computer graphics.
Is there really not a audio only version of the podcasts your interested in. i.e. the classic rss feed of audio files.

It's such a shame what has happened to podcasts
I don't think pre-modern humans were prancing around naked in the midday sun. They probably stuck to the shade when sunlight was particularly intense, the same way many animals do. Given that we mostly evolved in pretty sunny areas, we would have gotten plenty of sun exposure even if we avoided direct sunlight for a large part of the day.
These seem to be a hardware version of what we now have in user interfaces on a screen.
Does anyone know of the likelihood of faults with hardware compared to software bugs?
> Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams

ISWYDT.
That's provably incorrect. Any phrase that refers to "supplements" as one thing can be safely dismissed
Direct sun exposure.
The market is smaller and there are fewer experiences (mostly due to native mobile gaming) but those experiences do rival (and exceed) what was done with flash back in the day.
> now they are extracting profit

So? They're a business, what do you expect?

The previous commenter was saying they're doing more than just hosting video, which is true. If you want to create a nonprofit for video hosting, go ahead, but don't blame YouTube for turning a profit.
Israel permits parents to block basic education of their children?
Would be interesting to compare failure rates or problems before and after. Active use for almost a century is pretty good going.
"Fifteen minutes to get up and running with Ubuntu or Mint if you stay focused."

This sounds to me like it is all easy and if it takes longer than 15 minutes, it is my fault for not being focused.

Well, as a matter of fact, I did install linux on various devices, dozen of times. And with my own customized manjaro install usb stick even in less than 15 minutes, with all my needed software up and running.

But I would never, ever tell anyone that he can expect a flawless install in 15 minutes. This is not realistic. It may happen, if you are lucky - but there are too many buggy drivers and compatibility issues and even official mainstream distros getting shipped with major open bugs, that this advise is just receipt for disapointement.
I am one of them. Started with ActionScript 2 and ended up with TypeScript.

Also, Flash IDE is one of the best vector graphics editors.

Speaking of which, do you use Scratch or similar to teach your kids programming?
> China stands to benefit even from the sanctions imposed on Russia.

If Russia loses, then a West-supported democractic underdog took on an authoritarian superpower and won. That's gotta make CCP leadership uncomfortable with regards to Taiwan.
> I could swear I've heard that the thing about body mass affecting the effectiveness of medication was a myth

I thought it was the opposite. The effect of medication, drugs and alcohol all seem to depend at least partly on body mass.
So, this guy is basically advocating that the US, unilaterally, can ognore the Paris declaration of 1856? Well, the US never signed it (what a surprise...) in the first place. I really hoped the Ukraine war showed how respecting international law and treaties goes a long way in forming coalitions and stabilizing politics.
It may come from the same Proto-Indo-European root *méryos that became 'marya' in Sanskrit. But whatever it is, a borrowing from Sanskrit is highly unlikely.
Funny as the idea in modern world is, I think we should focus on more relevant goals. Disable Microsoft products ie via license servers (that renders any state apparatus dysfunctional due to heavy reliance on Office), block porn, google and apple app stores. Block all gaming consoles. Ideally with clear explanation why. Things like that.

Its one thing to be born in North Korea-esque dictatorship and not knowing any better, but having many benefits of modern life removed is percieved much more negatively.
I think it's around 10 billion euros IIRC? Definitely more than 1 billion and less than 50
Well yeah, people can be unreasonable sometimes - but from a business perspective, changing a word is better than having a few upset customers. That's literally what I was saying above.
That's interesting, thank you. Do you have any info on how to enable that one?
Below are "a few ideas" listed from the article (direct quote):

1- mushrooms that have been exposed to ultraviolet light (11Trusted Source)

2- Take fish oil supplements such as cod liver oil

3- Eat fatty fish twice a week (12Trusted Source)

4- Choose milk or orange juice that’s been fortified with vitamin D

5- Eat some eggs and butter (13Trusted Source)

6- Spend at least half an hour in the sun daily, if possible

My thoughts on their recco:

Option 6 is the typical US doctor prescription before vitamin supplements and seems the most reasonable, though depends on your location.

Options 3 and 5 are legit options and worth noting. Not sure if the portion sizes would be a financial detriment to many though.

Option 2 and 4 essentially seem like taking Vitamin D supplements.

Option 1 is huh? Who has a UV gun for mushrooms? Do stores do this automatically?
First of all thank you for a great job. Since its Windows XP Security Essentials incarnation I consider it the best choice for Windows PCs protection.

But bloody please add an option to turn off hunting for "hack tools". As an advanced user, SMB admin and private programmer I use NirSoft tools and also keygens for my own apps but Windows vigorously deletes NirSoft (and perhaps some SysInternals also, but I'm not sure) tools and every keygen it would notice. So I have to disable it. It has even deleted qBitTorrent once although it is a perfectly legitimate app and I use it to download legal things like Linux distros and legitimately purchased Humble Bundle stuff.

Why can't I [with reasonable ease] configure it to only watch for real viruses/spyware/ransomware which really threatens to infect the PC?

In my opinion we even have to consider actual pirates using really illegal keygens because this simple fact: there are many of such in mediocrely developed countries, they get confused, disable the protection, get infected and join the botnets. Even when there is a criminal we dislike to support and want to punish, we don't want them to get infected with anything and spread the infection further.

There should be clear distinction between unquestionable malware everyone wants and needs to be protected from for everyone's good vs questionable apps some people (justifiably or not) actually want to use for sake of their pragmatic interest.
And your point is? That Polio is just a non-serious disease?
My mates were playing DJ in a bar one time. I fiddled with some of the knobs and buttons. Could barely make out the difference.I imagine randomly doing that with a nuclear reactor might be somewhat different.
FYI if creator is reading: Links to articles on Verge are not working. A new tab opens, but the content is the same justfive.news page. Tried in Chrome/Safari in Mac.
> Likewise, everything that conceivably could be done with nuclear was tried or at least designed for a while there - lighting watches with radium, digging canals with nukes, space travel by continuously exploding nukes behind you... good times. (Horrifying times, but w/e;])

"The top secret plan to explode a nuclear bomb in Yorkshire", by Tom Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceWZslOfEjs
The reason there are so many buggy binary search implementations however is also the reliance of TDD and similar. Very few tests attempt a binary search over a container where overflows become an issue. Yet sooner or later someone will actually try to use it for that purpose and discover that it fails.
Hedonism, Asceticism and the Hermetic Answer
> "riddled with security holes"

There it is again! That specific phrasing. Curious. [1]

> "flash on Linux"

Yes, Flash on Linux sucked. We're talking about macOS, and it did not suck on macOS.

> Maybe you have a bias since you worked with flash.

Oh, absolutely. I chose to work with Flash because it was great! But that's not really germane. I would not have wanted to work with Flash if it sucked on Apple, since that was the platform I used at the time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30585649
Giving a bribe should be decriminalised (if you’re going to pick one, I personally remain unconvinced).

The bribe taker is in the position of power, and abusing that position to extract a bribe. The one paying the bribe may have little choice.

Reason for being unconvinced that decriminalisation of both acts is a good idea, is that it assumes that either the person receiving or giving the bribe is always the active participant. When in reality the active participant depends on the context.

In a system where bribing is expected, then the receiver will almost always be the one soliciting the bribe, as it’s normalised for them to request and receive bribes. However in systems with low corruption where bribing is not expected, then it’s more likely the giver of the bribe is the active participant. Attempting to get the receiver to accept a bribe they haven’t solicited, in which case they should be punished (even if the bribe isn’t accepted), along with the receiver if they accept.

In my view the mere attempt to give or receive a bribe needs to be punishable. That creates risk for the active party, regardless of outcome. Making the act of attempting a bribe less palatable.
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not sure why this is being downvoted, I could see plenty of use cases for a web based editor which cannot be fullfilled by a non-web based variant.
Sadly I don't have this problem. I say sadly because the same mechanism that prevents infinite scroll from working on me, also prevents me from enjoying video games.

It's very simple, my brain keeps asking me what's the point of increasing in integer in some database far far away.

But the answer is always that there's no point...
Seems great until someone kicks the bike for shits and giggles and bends the weakened frame.
By shutting down hosting a links-only-page, at one provider, in one country, and that only if they win in court and no higher court overrules the decision?
People offering to "protest till you die" in Russia are so simple-minded, even when comparing "Revolution which russian people needs to do" with the series of revolutions at 2004, 2014 in Ukraine - ukrainian protests were receiving international support, had strong opposing political forces, and even support from russian oligarkhs such as Khodorkovsky, while their country wasn't even near comparable with Russia neither in terms of size, nor in time under pressure spent.

Russians now just receiving hate and restrictions from each possible side in a authoritarian (totalitarian already I beleive) country and they are still expected to do the same thing.
In Vegas, that $3 beer would cost $15 anyway, if you weren't getting it for free at the tables.
Yeah, I think if the goal is to wield soft pressure, then actually providing increased incentives to leave would advance that cause better.

In any case, all the people here seem to be hipster-type, college educated intelligentsia from St. Petersburg and the like. Most I’ve talked to do something tech related.
Which do you prefer? (Which is better design)

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You mean a lock that holds on to an open ended steel stick of random thickness?

It could be a nice engineering/design challenge
I remember that. I also remember agreeing 100%.
Just stand facing the sun and open your mouth.
There are more specialised tools that can export games for HTML5, but Flash was extremely general purpose. In my time as a Flash developer, I worked on web animations, games, websites (not a great use-case), digital signage, touch screen kiosks, eLearning products, tutorial animations, and I didn’t even touch any of the more enterprisey flex stuff.

You can do all that now with various tools but the ecosystem is so fragmented that you often need specialists for each of them. The Flash tools had so much reach that you could bounce between such wildly different projects with very little friction. As a consultant it was amazing, you just did it in Flash. Nowadays there are so many competing and fragmented solutions that you need to evaluate then glue together.
> planning (and ACCURATELY calculating costs)

No human can do this for software projects. There are too many variables.
> plus the analogue hole is disappearing rapidly

As long as you can aim a camera at a monitor or put a Bluetooth speaker next to a microphone the analogue loop hole will never disappear.
For people who want to reduce their natural gas usage in solidarity with Ukraine
That's funny, I don't think it's immoral but it is a sure way to repel anyone from your religion.
Right: I code while coding.
I have absolutely no experience pirating (or even sailing) boats (or with Russian oligarchs), but trying to pirate a Russian oligarch’s yacht seems like a very bad idea.
Thank you; GP added quotes around "reading the news" so it’s clearer now.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/12/18662577/citymapper-londo...

It seems like they gave up on this fairly quickly.
I found the section. It won't let me copy/paste so i took a screenshot

https://imgur.com/a/inQCT4d
You don't need a lot of minutes outside to get a sufficient amount of sunlight to produce Vitamin D. Maybe 15-20 min a day.
You simply let your mushrooms get 30 minutes of sun exposure daily.
Russia acknowledges sanctions could hurt its tech companies
> On Reddit this means that I manage to close the thread by accident all the time because someone thought it would be a good idea to open the threads in a modal that closes when you click outside of it

I'm not one of those people who paints but this has got me so many times. Honestly I'm not even one of the people that hates the redesign (Admittedly because I spend less time there now) but that has dinged me so many times. Why is everything a modal?

The "This page looks better in the app" message on mobile is a well earned diss aimed at their web designers
Can you compare Zorin to Ubuntu?
I did when they stopped displaying public dislike counts. Very smooth experience, did not even ask me why I was leaving. YouTube doesn't seem to care much.
How does this lock to actual bike stands found in a lot of cities (at least in Europe)? Most provide a frame for a tire but no central metal bar this bike could be locked to. Examples:

* http://c.tutti.ch/big/4724274679.jpg

* https://res.cloudinary.com/bohmeyer-schuster-gmbh/image/uplo...
I priced theft insurance for my bike and it would cost about as much as buying a bike once a year.
You are missing the point of the comment entirely. They are trying to bring the statement "everyone being in prison" to a realistic context to better understand what it actually means and what it feels like to live in a place where "everyone is in prison".

They are assuming the commenter is American or at least has an idea of what America is like, which is not a bad assumption to make on an English-language website run by an American company.
There has been a bit of a resurgence of browser games with Friday Night Funken. I feel as the app stores continue to stagnate, the open and creative nature of the web platform will foster a new market for easily distributable games.
Are... you hiring?
I agree, we should leave this to the insiders.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/28/ukrainian-sail...
I genuinely rather avoid any establishment that expects tips than feel obligated to pay tips. It does mean that I will never go to a restaurant or similar establishment, but the feeling of being obligated to pay some unsaid price just disgusts me. Either you say it upfront of there's no deal.
PinePhone Convergence edition, I had an OK experience with Mobian but quite a bad experience with the default distro.

The HW failure was largely my fault because I didn't take good care of it.

The new PinePhone Pro looks very promising, looks like it can be a daily driver and I would like to try it out as soon as Mobian runs on it.

Edit: I'm not clear if Mobian runs on PinePhone Pro already? Looking at this link it seems it does https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2021/12/28/pinephone-pro/ but looking here, it seems we're not quite there yet: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro_Software_Releases...
What is this supposed to mean? Why does Snowden living in Russia mean that he sponsors or supports the endeavours of the crazed man at the top? He has said before he would gladly return to the USA when he can be guaranteed a fair trial. Until then he's between a rock and a hard place.
Hey there! Thank you never noticed that. Should be fixed now!!
With disabilities things get very complicated very fast because disabled people are a very diverse group. You'll have different groups of disabled people having different views on things, given they're often in pretty distinct and unique situations. This has resulted in a number of linguistic disputes over the years.

"Not ready" has a space in it which is frequently annoying in software. I think it also implies that thing may become ready after some time elapses or a condition is met, which disabled does not imply.

"Unavailable" and "Disabled" are already used adjacent to eachother in software, the former implies something becoming unusable for reason outside of the software's control, and "disabled" tends to imply something being made unusable intentionally. Here's F5 using the two words in this way https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K12213214

I agree with you regarding master vs main. Main is a syllable less, two letters shorter, and more clear. I feel people mostly resist the change to STICK IT to the politically correct.
I keep setting things like this up (Current: Pi-hole) but my problem is I break through it virtually instantly because I'm the one that set it up (Current bypass: Log in to pihole, disable)

Anyone know of a way that could thwart someone who's ~20 years in to computing? Doesn't have to be clever, just needs to be enough of a road block to not be worth the effort bypassing. If there's an exploit past the roadblock I'll find it haha

"Just be more disciplined", etc: I know but it turns out we're fighting ADHD here, working on that front separately
>> Anyone know why they block HN referral requests?

> If you click through to JWZ from HN, you will see an NSFW picture with the following text underneath:

Maybe something to do with reading comprehension.
Infinite scrolls are deeply addictive. The best way I have found to combat them is to get busy with a really interesting project that I care about.
Sadly, this is the answer to many of the problems of modern life. Having nice things just isn't worth the hassle anymore.
Riddled is pretty common verbiage for native English speakers when something is heavily afflicted with something which is probably why you’re seeing it everywhere.

“Riddled with holes” is the original phrase, usually when referring to worn out clothing or something which has been damaged with many punctures.

It’s not a conspiracy or a retcon. I think I have tweets from this period where I was extolling my frustration with YouTube specifically for requiring flash.

To be fair I didn’t use Apple computers in that era so you could be right; but I did use Windows and Linux and Linux was by far the least favoured by adobe, but it still wasn’t pleasant on Windows.

I bought my first MacBook in 2011 and flash was already dead by then.
It's 0ºC here. The only exposed skin is the center of my face. I find it hard to believe 15 minutes of exposure are enough.
I don't really listen to anything. Sometimes I try and sometimes it works, but usually it just ends up being distracting. But having said that, a couple of weeks ago I tried working in my building's laundry room and found the sound of the laundry machines very soothing without distracting me.
Blocking porn and video games would cause teenage boys to revolt.