skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the USA, and I will use a check only if it is the only realistic option, and those cases are surprisingly common. I've probably written about 100 paper checks in the last 5 years or so. Looking through my records, here are some examples of places I do business with that do not accept credit cards, or charge a fee to use a credit card:

Mortgage company

DMV

County tax collector

Roofing company

Pest control company

Child daycare

Air conditioning company

School PTA

Landscaping company

Kid's gymnastics lessons

Pet rescue organization

Dues for a hobby organization
Have you tried Amanita muscaria? I'm terrified.
A couple past threads:

Lua: Good, bad, and ugly parts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6616817 - Oct 2013 (19 comments)

Lua: Good, bad, and ugly parts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5348513 - March 2013 (110 comments)
There's nothing optimal or rational about international trade. It's full of the most vocal minorities screwing things up for everyone else (and sometimes themselves, see fishermen voting for Brexit). That's why trade agreements are usually negotiated in secret, to protect the parties from themselves.

In 20 years when the coalition of bigots and reactionaries and profiteers that gave us this mess have expired, we might be able to return to something resembling a rational arrangement. Or not, perhaps we will slip further and further into oblivion such as Russia did after the USSR.
I don't see that the world has learned.

Take Rust for example. Rust is a language that does a lot right. It's currently my favorite language.

Still there is feature creep. And a lot of it.
> even eating an apple becomes a spiritual exercise

Shall I remind you of the first apple eaten? ))

Though I don't pray five times per day, I agree with every word of this post.
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His analogy is perfectly consistent. There are laws prohibiting minors from purchasing alchoholic drinks. In the same way, porn can be restricted from minors. He is just saying that there needs to be strict enforcement of a law against porn to protect minors.

I guess your argument is that there is no need for a law against alchoholic drinks since there is common sense to not give alchohol to minors and for minors to not drink alchohol.

But the existence of laws regulating alchoholic drinks purchase suggests that common sense is not enough and laws need to be created for it.
Memory isn't quite what it used to be, but if I recall, this was also the case with the Sony PSP, Vita, PS3 and XBOX 360. They all required a separate activation step for playback of specific licensed codecs (I believe it was both MPEG2 and h264, varying with system).

Unfortunate that a pretty basic piece of functionality is forever lost once the activation servers are taken down.
Lua is smaller, and one of the fastest in the bytecode-land. It also used in a large number of diverse applications [1], so in terms of popularity, I think it has nothing to be ashamed of compared to others.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_applications_using_Lua
We've added the year above now. Thanks all!
Advaita Vedanta believes in the concept of God and cosmic consciousness.

Yes but it is a path equally of the mind and the heart.

You seem to believe that it is only a path of the mind. This is a misconception about Advaita.

The mind cannot reach the goal by itself. The goal is beyond mind.

You will never reach it without the heart. Advaita is very clear on this.

One’s lack of belief in it will pretty much guarantee they never get that invite.
A parsec is a measure of distance, not time.
I've also had one for a year now, and I'm happy with it. You can connect to the router's admin interface just by opening 192.168.0.1 in your browser.
I highly suspect that China (and almost every other country) are not the issue. Chinese and the whole international scientific community will profit immensely from the data coming from James Webb, so I don't think the Chinese have any interest in sabotaging the project. More dangerous would be some average joe, somewhere who would try to mess with it for the lulz.
Everything blackbird claims to disable will be disabled. Shutup has way less features.

Try this out: download SysInternals ProcMon and run both tools and then compare. You'll see.
It still frustrates me that e.g. text editors can't get the basics like a latency between a key press and character appearing on the screen.
My latest Ryzen can't compete with C64 in that regard.
It’s funny too, since some of those kids may eventually realize that they were brought here without their consent, and that they don’t actually like working and paying bills. You, suffering for them, then suffering for their existence, and a death of your previous self, in which you draw yourself as a type of martyr. No one’s happy on your road to Damascus, and yet you’re faith and community demand your consent to your animalistic urges to reproduce and maintain face within your community. Having children out of guilt and peer pressure from your religious community is no excuse for their suffering.
Indeed. To use a snap to install something that is pretty much integral to the Gnome desktop and has no dependency on anything other than Gnome, this is ridiculous.

Snaps are useful for packaging dependencies that aren't (AND CAN'T in a timely fashion) be provided by the distro.
It doesn’t have to do with Greenland specifically but the Inuit lifestyle in general which is thousands of years old. Inuit settlement in Greenland may be more recent but people have practiced the Inuit lifestyle (and its almost 100% animal content) for much longer.
They're like shooting muffs/cans, except they have a microphone on each side, batteries, and an amplifier. when it's off, they're regular hearing protection. When you turn them on, you can adjust the volume from "slightly lower than without the muffs on", to "actual volume", to "hear a cricket fart across the street". When a loud sound is detected - say, clapping, gunfire, hitting an anvil - it shuts off the amplifier.

As an aside, since your ears are not ringing / recovering from a very loud sound, and the amplifier turns back on very quickly, you can hear the reverberations, echos, and sympathetic resonances. It's quite cool.
That fool is the guy holding cash.
Surprised to see the top comments here so doom-and-gloom: "ah it was posted in 2016, I don't think anyone (but do wish) cares about limiting their JS usage anymore "

The tools we have available today to optimize JS and build for progressive enhancement are light years ahead of 2016 because the smartest minds in the industry have optimized for it. The rise of batteries-included server-side-rendered React apps like Remix and Next massively cut down on time-to-first-paint and React 18 makes it easier than ever to defer rendering of async or interactive portions of the page (e.g. the Like count, the reply form) in favor of getting static content on the screen as fast as possible.
Well, yeah, some DOM elements have async side effect, but they are still added to the DOM synchronously. Creating the element and loading it's content are two completely separate things.
Reminds me of some pretty nice articles on Acorn User about colliding galaxies, animated lissajous curves, fractals (of course), etc.

A friend of mine calls 8 bit computers "glorified calculators" and he's right. You could have tons of fun though.
> Ideally the amount would scale with your size/wealth.

That would quickly lead to poor individuals and non-profit companies trying to transfer the benefits of their low-cost infractions to others.
do you have a reference to that law change?

as far as i know only the moral rights can not be given up, but i am unaware that there was an issue with giving away work for free.
A lot of them started as young adults, but the scene has been going on for over 20 years. Some people quit over time, and some other joined as they got old enough to contribute, but I wouldn't paint with as wide of a brush as you're doing.
Most anthiests seem to be nihilists, so they're already (claiming to be) doing that.

I just always find it strange the way that "100% athiests" seem to ignore the logical conundrum of "I don't need a God or theology to live a good life" when our constructed definition of "good" comes from religion.
Years ago I had pain on my right hand after exessively using mouse. Since then I switch my hand when my right hand gets tired and it is just fine. The only minor annoyance is mouse pointers pointing from right to left.
> Recently I was attending several catholic weddings and I was taken aback by the level of religious fervor and literal interpretation of the bible there. I was expecting the preaching to be more focused on how to live a good life and be a valuable member of society, but instead it was more about how I will burn eternally for not believing.

Literalism isn’t a big thing in Catholicism, but you can run into it and, what sounds to be more the issue here, there are definitely some (IME, a small minority, but they are quite noticeable) Catholic priests who love to use events where they are likely to get non-regular churchgoers in the congregaton as an opportunity to try to deploy a fear hammer to get people back to Church.
Which episode? URL?
Sure but there is a paycheck in it for some of the people who post on HN. Always follow the money.
Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and Nobel Peace Laureate Dies at 90
This is false. https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/punitive-damages-...

Punitive damages in terms of IP are allowed in the EU, but up to individual member states. Ireland and Cyprus currently allow punitive damages as did the UK did when it was a member.
> Please explain how being a god-hating atheist is spiritual

To hate god, firstly you have to admit his existence in one way or another. Hence, spirituality, even with "minus" sign.
man if I were andrew I'd just rename for to "foreach", because this is a huge complaint and source of confusion.
“Well, obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.”
I'm all against DRMs but the friction nowadays is, if you stick to one platform, almost zero, way less than your average pirated experience.
Now, if we talk about platforms balkanization and how you have to shell out 50€-$/month if you want to enjoy just the best content from major platforms, that's another topic.
> torrenting today is as good as the experience of buying music on a physical medium in the 90s

You meant to say "it's much better than buying experience has ever been". You throw an RSS feed into your torrent client once and get desktop or email notifications when a new episode is downloaded and ready to play. If there's enough disk space, you can add whole categories in there and have hundreds of shows available locally at any time.
In hindsight, it was definitely the concept of original sin that got my young mind spinning, not understanding how for example a newborn baby could be innately sinful. All downhill after that.
> Because people like the assurance of a check, or a receipt, or a payment confirmation

What is more assuring then the actual payment itself, transferred to you just as you talk?

> How do you initiate a wire transfer? [...] -- their bank and account number, for starters

Ugh, 21st century says hi.

Just a mobile number, some provider independent number, like SEPA [0] or in some circumstances just the plain plastic card number, be it a debit or a credit one.

> Sure you could do it on a mobile device but seems a lot more time consuming than writing a check

Scribbling something on the paper and taking it to the ATM/bank (or use said mobile to "online check it", oh irony) is sure to take more time than punching in some number in mobile or web app and actually transferring money.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
For some games this is true. But there's plenty of games which have an 'offline mode' that require you to connect to an auth server before the game will launch.
I am not sure what Javascript buys you, but from a point of view of doing a server-side app and having to do the frontend... uh, it adds a lot of complexity.

I am taking a look into htmx. It looks way closer to what html is and it is more than enough for my purpose at least.
Understanding RISC-V Privilege Levels
> country cases spike when schools open and infections spread to older family members.

There have been multiple studies showing that this isn't true. The evidence is simply overwhelming now.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/01/three-st...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10235165/Teachers-N...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/opinion/omicron-schools-d...

Your feelings and perceptions of correlations are irrelevant and hopelessly confounded.
Store the data encrypted, then delete the keys when requested.
I wake up, go downstairs, feed the dog, make some breakfast, listen to a podcast about philosophy or science, login to work, write some code, do some meetings, have lunch, play some video games, walk the dog, have dinner, and go to sleep.
As webcams were hard to come by during the onset of the pandemic, I resorted to a raspberry pi + HQ cam + lens + raspistill preview + HDMI capture device (instead of usb). I won't defend the total cost (probably more than an acceptable webcam). The HQ cam results were quite good and seemingly high enough framerate (not 660 fps though!). Added benefit is interchangeable lens options including ones that will give the bokeh effect.
I do essentially the same thing, but I’ve only been at it for a couple years.
This is highly plausible. Nicotine addiction seems to differ from individual to individual as well. I know people who smoke for years, then just one day decide to quit and do it without any issues[0] and stay off it for a couple of months or years and then start again, or not. Me personally I go insane within 12-24 hours of abstinence (massive anxiety/frustration) and it requires an enormous amount of willpower to get past the 48-72 hours until it starts to ease.

[0] They mostly cite the "habit" being hard to break
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/ would be one of my favorites in this vein.
True, but there are hundreds of news websites out there and even if there was just one you'd still have to read it 5 times a day to make the subscription worthwhile.

I don't read news near enough to make a single subscription worthwhile, and even if I did I would read multiple sources meaning I'd need multiple subscriptions - that's completely unsustainable.
Exactly. Like consuming content from another region, having a personal backup copy of content we legally bought, like re-selling content we legally own, like recording and replaying transmission from "terrestrial"/"over the air" TV, like making our own devices capable of playing that content...

These are all rights that (AFAIK, IANAL) we legally have but can't exercise because media producers took the control over distributors of content and devices manufacturers.

We have nothing equivalent to a VHS recorder where can simply press a button, recording whatever is on TV to a removable media and play it anywhere else! We can't even buy a non-smart (actually calling it smart is dumb) TV for a reasonable price anymore!

Video rental stores are all closed where I live. Media consuming has degraded to before 90's experience.
They're also authoritarian and poisonously woke.
No offense, but this seems like more of how a religious person understands atheism than what atheists actually think.

A religious person may perceive an atheist as “god hating” when they are merely “religion hating” or perhaps making fun of your god/the existence of a god.
I need to simplify parse tree into an AST tree, I'm building a gui tool for drawing state machines, which will be translated to rust code that can do the job,
There are God hating atheists. What I refer to are people who were raised within a powerful belief system. Their atheism is powerfully and emotionally reactive against that belief system and it's ultimate symbol. They profess not to believe in that God but much of their own thought system revolves in a negative sense around it.

Edit: Just a note that the specific term "God Hating Atheist" I take from John Gray's book Seven Types of Atheism.
it’s always doom and gloom on here regarding web dev, unfortunately
Ironically you can never strictly prove that something doesn't exist.

But something's existence in theory can be proven by mere act of finding or defining it.
Agreed.

My mention of the defendant being a "real person" is simply that attaching very negative hypotheticals to a public conversation about a real person is bad habit that has both intentionally and unintentionally hurt many people. Better to avoid that.

An it wasn't necessary for your good point.
To be a good replacement, it has to work in as many of the same environments with their constraints. It needs to have the same kinds of number types (e.g. BCD with fixed decimals) It needs to be able to call into machine language routines/libraries.

I think the best language to replace COBOL is COBOL. The newer versions are nothing like the original ones. I've written Windows and OS/2 GUI programs using the Win16/32 and OS/2 PM APIs from COBOL in the 90s and I'm sure there's been more progress in the language since.
I think the parents are _exactly_ getting the point.

Separating look&feel from functionality isn't that easy. In any kind of UX, they are bound to various degrees, depending on the use-case.
I'm a Catholic - I go to Mass most mornings, pray a daily Rosary, and have been getting more in the habit of Scripture reading and meditation. I also pray little prayers and make the sign of the Cross throughout the day when I need help.
> I encountered history, documents, and truths about the religion that were never presented to me

I encountered something like this but wasn't able to find it since; I think it was called something like the "blue document" or the "blue papers"; basically a very intelligent Mormon came up with a document with all of his very reasonable but quite heretical questions, and it caused quite a stir. Would love to track it down again and bookmark it this time.

> "nothing actually matters"

Well... It does, IMHO, you just don't need religion to have that.

Disclaimer: I've donated to https://footstepsorg.org/ and one or more ex-mormon support orgs because I think the more extreme the beliefs, the more cult-like and harmful they are. My family's Catholic but I'm the "black sheep" and have been exploring maybe joining a unitarian church, just for the "community of free-thinkers" aspect
> I am glad that most of people dont think this way, because we would not have any books in our world.

Piracy has been around for decades, may be making a resurgence thanks to the balkanization of media streaming services and yet we still have movies, music & TV.
If you want the answer to that question, look no further than the magic lantern project. It’s not supported like it used to be, but those guys were incredible at unlocking what Canon DSLR’s could really do. I was a legend in my film community when I booted it onto a 5Diii and got it shooting 1080p raw. All I did was follow their instructions lol
"To perform the same code on another System, you need more than a few transistors, 64 kilobytes of RAM, and a small ROM with an even small BASIC interpreter. You need at least a small operating system, a much bigger Python interpreter, and a lot of libraries to perform the same actions in mostly the same amount of time."

Is anything actually stopping you writing it in baremetal x86 assembly if you wanted?
Stock firmware and the 5Ghz band dies on me every few months requiring a reboot. interesting.
I pick up trash in my neighborhood. It makes the neighborhood cleaner and more enjoyable for all. You might be overthinking this.
As long as the hardware isn't DMA-capable or has to be shared, allowing programs direct access isn't a security violation. Since everything runs in protected mode, the kernel is still "in charge", and can limit what I/O should go directly to the hardware. This is supported by the processor, which has a per-task bitmap of allowed I/O ports.

Virtualization was introduced on IBM mainframes in the 1970s, and in a somewhat more limited version has been present in 32-bit x86 operating systems (even Windows 3.x could run several virtual DOS machines at the same time).

Every 32-bit version of Windows still supports running 16-bit programs. Microsoft could have continued supporting 16-bit protected mode even on 64-bit, or even used the newer virtualization features (in place of V86 mode) to run real mode code, but choose not to.

As for the expectations of modern computer users, those that don't know how any of this stuff works probably believe that everything has to get slower, more restrictive, and less backward compatible in the name of Security :(
Thank you! Means a lot!
Magic Lantern basically is the reason my t3i got me into film festivals lol
> But I have seen a lot of my non-technical friends and family having a degraded experience, who pay for their streaming services every month.

That's a feature, not a bug, from the perspective of those pushing DRM and other access/consumption controls onto consumers.

How many times will someone buy the same content just to find the best combination across all their services and devices to fit their current arrangement? A hell of a lot more than if they just bought a universally playable instance of maximum quality that never gave a poor experience in any viewing context.

It's an ugly, exploitive rent-seeking form of "worse is better".
Game preservation is a solved problem: piracy. Not legal but it works.

No company is going to give a shit about what they sold to whom 10 years ago. Hell chances are they're already out of business.
Self-plug: my blog is 100% technical content. Mostly long-form articles on React and Redux, as well as various other web dev topics and things I've found useful in my career:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/
Yeah, if congress happened in say, August instead of late December, I'm sure it would have happened in person.
The desktop computer revolution lead us on a gigantic 30 year detour we are only now coming to the end of.
I thought blu-ray decoding was not possible. I remember long ago the DVD keys were extracted but it became impossible for blu-ray, except with a modified blu-ray disk drive with an older firmware that enabled this.
I'm a bit shocked at how low bandwith was allocated. 421 Megabytes per day is the theoretical upper limit. 16 Terabytes for the entire mission. I have more bulk storage in my desktop.
What is this QA you speak of?

This is a really common problem in tech. Smaller companies adopt large company strategies that require more resources than the small company has to do correctly.