skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In Sanskrit Asura means evil people (demon), in Persian Asura becomes Ahura which means Lord."

In the essay I refer to elsewhere in this thread [1], Zaehner writes:

"What do we know of these so-called "demon worshippers"? The Persian for demon is div (Middle Persian dev , Old Persian daiva, Avestan daeva). All these words correspond to the Sanskrit deva and are etymologically connected with the Latin deus. Originally, they must have been gods.

In the Avesta there are two words for supernatural beings, ahura and daeva , and these correspond etymologically exactly to the Sanskrit asura and deva. In the Rig-Veda, the earliest literary monument of the whole Indo-European group of races, both terms mean divine beings, the asuras being more remote from man, the devas closer to him. In the course of time, however, the asuras, who always had an uncanny element in them, became purely maleficent powers, whereas the devas remained gods similar to the gods of Greece and Rome and other Indo-European peoples.

In Iran, however, exactly the opposite happened. Owing to the reform of the Prophet Zoroaster, no ahura was any longer allowed to exist in his own right, and Ahura Mazdah, the "Wise Lord", was raised to the position of the one true God, maker of heaven and earth and all that in them is. The daevas, on the other hand, were regarded by the Iranian Prophet as being maleficent powers, the henchmen of Angra Mainyu or Ahriman, whose real origins remain obscure. The Zoroastrian reform, however -- which put an exalted monotheism in the place of the more ancient polytheism which the Iranians had formerly shared with their Aryan cousins who had moved on into India -- this Zoroastrian reform was far too radical and politically too weak to eliminate the worship of the daevas altogether. In what was later to become Zoroastrian orthodoxy, a place was made for many of the old ahuras like Mithra and Anahita, but not for the old daevas, whose cult was in all probability associated with bloody sacrifice; and it is this cult, in my opinion, which reappears in Mithras' sacrifice of the Bull in the Mithraism of the Roman Empire.

It seems plain, however, that the cult of the daevas co-existed with orthodox Zoroastrianism until the reign of Xerxes, when it seems to have been suppressed, at least officially. It maintained an underground existence, however, in all probability up to Muslim times as the constant attacks on it in the Pahlavi books show..."

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27522709
777 - Jackpot
Some of what?
If they limited themselves to their own vehicles you might have a point, but that’s not what their doing.

People should have a reasonable expectation of privacy when their SSID isn’t deductible past their private land. It’s spying cellphones not street vehicles that’s collecting most of this data. And for what benefit?
Genuine question: Is running EC2 instances easier than spawning a local VM?
Jesus that was way better than I thought it was going to be.
That was my concern too. It appears truly unlimited. They send me threatening emails every once and a while when I do a whole bunch of big downloads, but they don't actually limit things.

I doubt you can find information on the website...
Is the code available already? If not, that makes this valuable to some collector, even without the NFT part.
> (Maybe Google could start by paying Wikipedia for some of the traffic they generate).

How is this different from arguing that sites, such as Google or Facebook, should have to pay to link to news articles? I appreciate and support Wikipedia, but I don’t think Google should be expected to help pay for it (though I’d appreciate if they did as a form of public service).
Having been at university in France, I know what it means to be judge by handwriting and style rather than content. Ironically, a few points off here and there for handwriting can actually be the cutting line in some cases for admissions in the future. Thy destiny is lying in thy hands.
I also feel validated, because I pointed out he was showing all the signs of Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and even linked a very thorough article[1] explaining what happens when narcissists fail, and also got flagged.

Since this move fits in with the steps in that article, next up will be him turning on his current toadies when the "forked" Freenode continues to fail. He'll never accept that he failed personally, he's incapable of it.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/spycatcher/202007/wh...
Actually, Win32 software is supported through CrossOver and Rosetta.

Just not i386 macOS, but x86-64 macOS came out in 2007, so you'd figure people would've been able to recompile since then.
Have you tried typing the notes while keeping direct eye contact with the person speaking?

You can even half-close the lid to make it completely obvious the only thing you could be doing is typing notes.

The notes might come out a bit messy, but you can clean them up later.
> It's analogous to the robots.txt file…

Not at all. Changing a robots.txt file doesn't break anything. Changing my SSID would mean reconfiguring 50 devices, many of which are not terribly simple to reconfigure.
Nobody said anything about "stop having children" (good night!) - back to reality: I think the established pattern for countries joining the developed world is large economic growth/dev, followed by baby boom, followed by declining rates of reproduction until under the replacement value. This happens not only because of changing priorities of a wealthier population and changing behaviors, but also the availability of birth control and lower mortality rates (infant and elderly).

So it's not that birth rates decline "as their economy grows" - the birth rates go up during the growth phase - it's what comes after in an established prosperous society: fertility rates decrease.

It's consistent enough to predict with some certainty. As prosperity has grown worldwide, so global TFR has dropped. This happens one by one with the individual countries following a predictable pattern.

China does have regulatory limits that keep their TFR lower than it otherwise would be, they are still in their (modern) growth cycle. Absent that regulation, with the economic boom they've been seeing in last twenty years you'd expect to see the fertility rate boom accordingly, and while it appears to be growing despite the regulatory constraints, it's still below replacement value. This slow growth in the face of structural prosperity changes is the impact of regulation, not organic. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CHN/china/fertility-ra...
Or you can write tests for every single not there case. Just bringing it up, I usually write lots more comments than tests. I also encourage my teammates to add comments. The problem is when one can't really explain why the simpler approach didn't work. That requires more research just to write the comment, but I think it pays off really quick.
The states run their own elections
I'm not sure how you rationalise that with the fact that Australia consistently votes in a right-wing government. UK (which doesn't have compulsory voting) also reelected a right-wing government.
I heard requiring photo id in voting is also common, but what do I know? I must be a bigot who hates people without a photo id.
I think an essential part was that the cast had the perfect combination of masochism and drug intoxication so they'd laugh riotously immediately after being injured. If they didn't laugh so hard right after being injured, a lot of their videos would be horrifying.

Their laughter invited you to laugh with them.
I wrote down some notes from previous discussions about note-taking apps, and one negative point I got for Joplin is that it uses an opaque & unstructured file naming: <UUID>.md

I guess this didn't change? While it seems arbitrary, I really would prefer to have some more readable names for when I access my notes with a plain text editor. Not being forced to use the same program everywhere in case I'm not on my computer or I'm in a hurry somehow and the software is not installed.
I'm not convinced. Memorial Day and Labor Day are just three-day weekends to most people. There's not a lot of somber and thoughtful observance.

I hope that popular culture uses the opportunity to discuss Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. What a great moment (right in the middle of a lot of terrible moments).
If he’d been white, does anyone doubt that his description would have been published?
> An easy way around this would be to leave your wireless SSID on it's default (or set it to 'Linksys').

Exactly, and thus don't add _nomap.
thats like 85 in jackass yeara tho
Raspberry Pi OS is built on top of Debian, so I'm not sure that argument really holds.
Is newer one note not as good? It always bugs me to upgrade but usually the newer versions of everything are worse for the user.
Hey, thanks for calling that out. I didn't intend it to be snarky - tone doesn't always carry well on the internet - and will make that more clear moving forward. Thanks for keeping this a decent place :)
> And the idea of making election day a national holiday is a baby step, one capable of getting the ball rolling on real change, like extended voting windows and unrestricted mailed ballots.

What will be enough? If you make Election Day a federal holiday as important as Christmas do you still need to have such a large voting window and unrestricted mail in ballots? Even now, as is, most people have a two week window to cast a ballot before Election Day. And plenty of options for mail in if they can’t vote in person.
I wonder why they don’t steal from the tech offices in the SOMA.
You beat me to it. Good old Delphi ... I still consider UX in Delphi unparalleled.
This comment is highly misleading. It implies that SSR vs CSR is an “either or” proposition:

> SSR rendering on the other hand... Requests go back to the server... Totally ludicrous.

For Next.js, this description of routing and rendering is “Totally” incorrect. I don’t know about other SSR frameworks (except maybe PHP, which does actually work as the parent comment describes), but with Next.js, you get SSR on first page load and CSR on subsequent clicks.

Thats the whole point of next/router and the <Link> component. Hovering a <Link> will download (“pre-load”) the tiny JS file required to render the next page. Clicking it will trigger client side rendering, without any new server side page load.

The complexity that causes this kind of misunderstanding is the best argument against SSR.
What a trite and overly simplistic idea. First is the idea that Government spending is bad. Second is the idea that Government spending is controlled directly by taxes. Third is the idea that a majority of people actually pay any income tax at the end of the year. Fourth is the idea that people understand their taxes. Fifth is the idea that it is income taxes are the only taxes.

I could go on, but I digress.
if you use a strong passphrase the unique ssid protection against a table doesn't matter, but it's a worthwhile point to raise.
762 - Stoned.
I've been self-employed for over ten years, and part of me likes being fiercely independent/etc. Part of me feels hopelessly cut off from the modern programming world, having not coded properly on a team feels a bit sad/like I'm missing out on a really fun part of work/existence. Part of me feels like it's useful self-sabotage in that it means I'm putting myself in a situation where I have to continue being fiercely independent. But yeah, I'm reading the replies here with interest, and I wish you the best :) Thanks for asking an interesting question!

I agree with the other posters that you shouldn't really term them side-projects if they were your main focus. Then they're just projects! :) Don't undersell yourself.
>We are abdicating our responsibility to report on the news, because doing so might cause harm to criminals.

:-/
I think the lack of entertainment options in years before YouTube and broadband internet would have improved the odds for the limited content that made it into TV channels to become popular and on a national scale.
Given how much of US history already excludes and edits the experience of black Americans, this would be in bad taste.
right, but probably I can make it unique knowing a town name or just one or two extra things about you.
For the first approximation, you can simply explain it as part of the for-statement syntax. When you get to lists and iterating over them, this simple approach breaks, but by then you can redefine it as a kind of list.

Once you have explained iterators - and I don't mean the nitty gritty of __iter__(), next() etc, but rather the high-level notion of a function that yields multiple values to the caller, the true meaning of range() is easily explained in those terms.
Given how late most projects, especially infrastructure projects, are in the US, I’m not sure we can give folks a lesson on that.
To be fair you do have a point that in many countries it's customary to not mention the full name of the suspect no matter how serious the crime.
Not recommended in a humid environment. Maybe you could use those dry-aging bags.
That's called an automated re-accommodation system. They do have one. People call anyway.
Fair enough but Zoroastrianism isn't really an Indian religion.
38-12. Edit: 41-9. Nice game.
That would require an amendment, no?
> This article is spinning a revisionist narrative that has a mild whiff of using religion to divide a people.

I think the article fairly represents that it was a complicated situation - with the Pahlavis using Zoroastrianism sourced from India as a tool to fuel Iranian nationalism, i.e.:

"At the core of this tension lay the “implicit contradictions between the liberal goals of the Parsis and the more nationalist goals of many Iranians” during the interwar decades of the 1920s and 1930s."

Perhaps as a result of the sponsorship of the Pahlavis, nearly every Iranian I've met outside Iran (including many who lived there before 1979) have good understanding of Zoroastrianism's role in Iran's history and culture - and a reason why many people in post-Islamic Iran have liberal values despite living under a theocracy.

> Iranians were rather fed (and many actually believe this!) an interesting fable about how Shia Islam is the Iranian version of Islam.

Persia had a significant influence on Islam even before the Arab conquest of Persia, evidenced by the Persian loanwords in Arabic [1]. It's hard to imagine how Persian culture wouldn't have had a huge influence on Islam inside Persia itself.

1. https://burjbaabil.com/2014/05/31/persian-loanwords-in-arabi...
Bramble: A simple approach to GraphQL federation in Go
Maximized windows have non-rounded corners. This has been the case for all themes designed by Microsoft since Windows XP when rounded corners were first implemented.

Some apps may override system chrome with pretty rounded nonsense and not bother with implementing non-rounded maximized state, or mess with proper maximization of windows, or you may install bad non-Microsoft skins. These are app-specific problems though, Microsoft can't do anything about it.
By a certain definition we are cyborgs with augmented reality when working remotely in a way we can't be in-person. It's as though everyone has a HUD with as many monitors as they wish on which they can pull up any program while facing the rest of the team and looking them in the eye (camera) when necessary.
Not quite -- 754 is "unexpected ;", while 759 is "unexpected ::".

(semicolon vs colons)
I recall there being two levels, unlisted and unpublished numbers and one you had to pay for but the other IIRC you didn't.
I find "low code" much more palatable than “digital transformation”, but I still wish the concept had a better name and clearer borders (e.g do most people consider Excel low code?).

I don't have a better name to offer, so I have no major gripes with low code.
The AP isn't the NY Post. I take them at their word that they'll stick to this policy, because they're not sensationalists or click-baiters. The stories they're talking about aren't even news, so they shouldn't pick them up at all, but this is a good initial step. Other platforms will still run the garbage in all its naming-and-shaming glory.

I admit I click on all sorts of "Florida man" stories for a good laugh, but I never care about the perpetrator.
Direct link to docs here: https://movio.github.io/bramble/#/ as well as a post with background info here: https://movio.co/blog/building-a-new-api-platform-for-movio/ - feel free to ask any questions here, I work with the team that built it.
Amazon has many retail competitors. Maybe they have pricing power in AWS, but otherwise, I do not see evidence of them having control of the retail goods market.

Even for AWS, they have Microsoft and Google as competitors and a few other companies too.
If you enjoy cringe comedy, I recommend Tom Green's Tokyo Subway Monkey Hour. IMO his finest work.

The juxtaposition of his excessive annoying nonsense with a nation of extremely polite friendly people is hilarious as it is mortifying.
Since when are 32-year-olds "so inexperienced"? Maybe she's got different experience from prior appointees but 10+ years of high quality experience is IMO, more than enough. Most people are at the top of their game at that age.
There has to be legitimate uses for the "724 - Unreachable" code.
VSCode git-lens. Mandatory extension.
Either way, I think both are useful, although for documenting weird code I think code comments are more important. I the commit message you should explain why you change the code. In the code, why it works like that.
Why does your labor union allow that?
You'd be a bit late..
GTK, here are two forum threads that covers this.

GTK3 regressions from a GTK2 perspective

https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/gtk3-regressions-from-a-gtk2...

Horrible GTK3 / GNOME UI design is leaking into Ubuntu Mate applications in 20.04

https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/horrible-gtk3-gnome-ui-desig...

And then you have the terminal Termite

https://github.com/thestinger/termite

This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to their hostility towards other
projects using VTE as a library. GTK and most of the GNOME project are much of
the same. Avoid them and don't make the mistake of thinking their libraries are
meant for others to use.

JavaScript can definitely work as scripting language for a desktop environment, but it doesn't work for Gnome in the current state.

I have written about this topic before, see thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27195694,

quoting myself

Personally I prefer building GUIs in a scripting language
like JavaScript over a compiled language like C and C++

and

I think for Gnome and other desktops that uses this
technique, it is in the right direction

But the negatives in short are poor documentation, memory leaks, you end up only using the approved plugins (if you don't like to restart your desktop more than once a day) which of course negates the whole idea of a plugin system.
> the ECOA still allows discrimination if the person can't afford the home, incentivizing the system to make housing as expensive as possible

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Are you saying that you will sell your house to someone who can't afford it, possibly for a much reduced price?
Seeing as the initial sanity check before going to a vote is “do nays and ayes both shout at the same volume?”, bills are often unanimously approved because “nobody shouted nay” rather than forcing a lengthy vote for every single motion.
Have faith in the free market!

Companies which are owed mortgage/rent and credit card/cell phone/insurance bills etc. will do their utmost to make sure the person isn't actually disappeared or deceased.
I came here to say i was disappointed, but there's a plot twist. I was expecting something similar to Wikipedia except for popular education, not an encyclopedia for people who are already educated in the field.

So first i was somewhat rebutted that the website didn't work without Javascript. Then clicking a few links and ending up on Youtube asking me to login made me sad, if only because i don't have a Google account (setting aside political concerns).

BUT at the same time it seems you're not really used to making websites and i'm glad you're getting started! It's refreshing to read HTML that's obviously handcrafted and is not some ** Single Page Application that takes megabytes of JS to load, hijacks your browser history and randomly doesn't work.

You may be interested to read about the <details> and <summary> elements they'll allow you to have your collapsable listings without relying on client-side scripts (yes it's a native HTML5 feature).

You may also want to make real links (<a href="...">) instead of a button with some JS to go somewhere. If you want to keep the "open in new tab" thing, target="_blank". Using real links will allow crawlers (archive.org, google..) to understand your website, as well as making it usable when javascript doesn't work.

Then there's tricks to make your page lighter, because it's almost 1MB for just a few links. You could use a single CSS framework instead of two, and drop JS entirely. Click-to-open menu can be done without JS (using checkboxes for instance) but there's so little in your menu you can actually keep the menu open (no need for hamburger). Maybe also reduce your favicon? It's 10 times bigger than the full logo.

Overall i'm really happy people are starting to make websites for their personally-curated library! And now we can argue about why you would link to Youtube, a platform known for advertisements and suddenly removing videos. And why we should even login to access educational content, why you need a privacy policy... ;)

EDIT: I just noticed "Forzac Inc" in the legalese. If you're doing this as an individual and you're not saving/tracking personal data, you don't need such legalese a simple contact address is enough (if only from the domain WHOIS). If it's just you personally curating content for educational purposes, good, don't worry too much and keep on improving no matter what rude HN comments say. On the contrary if you're thinking of making a business out of it, just don't.
RIP Organic Growth; just give them your wallet
The High Cost of Keyword Search
My company decided to give Juneteenth off this year as a change to the calendar effective from January. Its treated exactly the same as every other federal holiday, if it falls on a Saturday we get Friday off and if it falls on a Sunday we get Monday.
This looks like a good idea. But the website looks pretty basic. The 'help' option is just an email contact form to ask a question. A little more about how this service works would be useful. Is it just an email forwarding service, or does it allow you to send/receive emails without the other party seeing your true email address?
> They just don't do it to force you to let them track your location.

The final straw for me was when I disabled location services for Google Play Services[1] and the Gmail app, of all things, started nagging me about Google Play Services not having location data. Every time I opened it. Why the fuck does a mail client need location data so badly it has to nag you on every startup?

Oh wait, it doesn't. It's just their most popular app and so the premier spot for a nag screen.

My life's been de-Googled (apart from the odd video on YouTube) since the start of 2018 and my skin feels so much less crawly.

[1] You know, after they pushed all app developers to stop using the GPS APIs and instead get location through Google Play Services, so that you had to 'consent' to Google Play Services getting your location data if you wanted ANYTHING to be able to use location data?
Pretty cool, congratulations. Any plans to support Vue in the future?
>such as people who have to work on Saturdays

A segment which comprises, by simple math, a full 15% of retail, customer service, and hospitality workers, who in turn make up a very large portion of the working poor, one of the least-well-represented interest groups in the US.

Which is why that early and postal voting is so important.