skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None better: https://processwire.com/
Found the vegetarian
I just wanted to say I appreciated this comment. You clearly condensed what the problem is, and now I feel like I better understand the situation. It does sound like hypocrisy but in an unworkable, non-starting situation for the FSF.

(Bravo.)
Ah yes, thanks for linking. I should have done that myself.
This is a simplified answer, but more or less since the Nintendo 64 a common method has been to JIT the source binary to the target one. Dolphin had an interesting progress report on debugging JIT instructions with net play a while ago! [1]

Interfacing with the graphics hardware is often “translated” to more conventional DirectX/OpenGL APIs.

[1] https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/09/07/dolphin-progress-rep...
In the context of veganism though, there are many people who call themselves freegans to distinguish that they may consume animal products, but won't pay for them (the distinction is important because many people see veganism as a diet, even though 'plant-based' is a better descriptor for the dietary aspect, and would argue freegans aren't vegan)

Ethically there's some crossover, freegans are anti-waste, largely for environmental reasons, and vegans are anti-cruelty, but also often opting out of animal consumption for environmental reasons.

Many freegans (who are otherwise vegan) would consider eating food which would be wasted (even if it involves animal products) to be OK from the vegan perspective because you're not supporting the exploitation of animals as long as you don't pay for it, and it's better for the environment to reduce waste. In fact, buying new things when there is so much waste (arguably unnecessarily) supports a whole supply chain in which there are inevitably human and animal casualties along the way.
Covid parenting has passed the point of absurdity
Relevant bash.org: http://bash.org/?949214

> <azonenberg> wordpress is an unauthenticated remote shell that, as a useful side feature, also contains a blog

Circa mid-00s
The Burroughs system for the B5000 was written in Algol and preceded Multics.
Morlocks ate Eloi.

It was a story where the subtext was "And after you rich assholes have become helplessly dependent on your servants, the servants will take over the world and eat the rich because you people are becoming sheeple."

I have difficulty seeing any world where the goal is Morlocks and Eloi as some kind of positive thing to shoot for as a goal. Personally, I would like to see a world where fewer people have reason to bitterly suggest that we should eat the rich.
There are some extra semantics that strings have in D, but you have a point. Why make it special?

It's because strings are such a basic thing in programming, that baking them into language has a way of standardizing them. Instead of everyone having their own string type, there is one string type.

One of the problems with strings not being a builtin type is what does one do with string tokens? (C++ has this problem with its library string type.) Being an array of bytes in a function signature gives no clue if it is intended to be a string, or an array of other data.

It's just a big advantage to building it in, and making it interact smoothly with the other core language features.
Another thought: apparently meme-stock people are finding out that they don’t actually own their stock. Asking their broker to transfer their stock to the DRS, their trading representative has said “No.”

It turns out these retail investors do not effectively own the stock. They own an entry in the broker’s book. The broker controls the stock. They decide what to do do with it. Maybe they want to lend it to a friend for a few days. If you ask for it today, they’ll get it to you in a week. Promise. Definitely by corporate year-end!

Could be interesting times if there’s a high retail demand to have stocks directly registered to the DRS. Who really owns the stocks?
People have no idea, even in the Bay Area. I was recently hanging out with (non-tech) friends and one asked if I’d ever considered working at Facebook, I said morals aside the salary of X (based on info from friends interviewing) would be tempting and the room went silent. I did a lot of walking back and “well I don’t make that much, omg let’s talk about something else quick…” but at the end of the day it’s not far off.
You can take advantage of high-level emulation since the graphical primitives map more directly onto what the GPU is already poised to provide. Plus modern games are also coded more in line with modern practices (e.g. to do their own frame-limiting and wait for hardware input to be fed from the OS), rather than driving the bare metal hardware.

This means that less accurate emulation can still result in a playable game, whereas missing the timing of how the SNES CPU moved data to the PPU could render scanline-specific register twiddling used on actual hardware into gobbledygook.

But even still, higan/bsnes were notoriously CPU heavy because it took a different approach to emulation (perfect low-level emulation of the actual hardware system). Even with SNES, if you were willing to relax perfection you could get very playable games with much less CPU usage, as shown by emulators of the 90s.

In fact that was my own intro to emulation, zSNES playing SNES FF6 on Pentium-class hardware. The Switch has evolved a lot since the SNES, but so too have desktop computers.
The language by itself, perhaps not, I don't know.

But, the fact that it has a test framework built in, and the test allocator fails when it detects memory problems (like a built-in valgrind) definitely puts it far above C in terms of making it easy to write correct code.
> bloody

The red liquid isn't actually blood! The blood gets drained out at the slaughterhouse. It's a protein called myoglobin.
Oversimplified perhaps, but InfoSec is knowing how to trust or distrust anything in your business. That could be a line of code, a DNS packet, a contract, a printer, an employee, or anything in between.
Linux runs on way more hardware than Windows. How many machines did Apple make before they could run Windows?
Who is D. Millerick Dan?
I've always thought that a project like this, enabling piracy while being financed via Patreon, would eventually meet its doom once some bee's nest is struck. I'd like to hear thoughts on the matter.
From a technical sense there are plenty of alternatives, even similarly disliked platforms like medium or wix.

The problem is none of them are interested in turning a basic CMS into a wasteland of kitchen sink functionality that aims to turn blogging software into the ultimate web swiss army knife.

People are happy to build blog software, but that's not what WordPress' customer base wants. They want professional services in the form of a grab bag of sketchy plugins. Nobody's going down that path again.

If the goal were simply "let's build a better blogging platform" or "let's build a better storefront platform" or "let's build a better music venue website platform" there might be a receptive audience. But the goal is "let's build all three in one and also 500 other use cases." Who would see that as a compelling goal in 2022.
Nevertheless, the first thing the driver for wifi in my laptop does is load up a big firmware file from disk, caused to be shoved into IC RAM, and then proceed to connect to the network. That this process could somehow become more free by embedding a frozen firmware image blows my mind.

And it's not like I haven't seen what the other side looks like. The Broadcom "full MAC" chipsets are also supported, with their remotely exploitable firmware. But those are also "fully" free. Hurray.
Jekyll. Hugo. Netlify CMS. Disqus.
I'm going to buy a bitcoin, and a mining rig for nostalgia once this ride is actually over. It might be months, or years, the market can remain irrational for a very long time.
It’d have to be physical, wouldn’t it? Otherwise it’s only a promise to give you the gold and a lot of pressure to accept some sort of exchange currency instead.
what a load of shit. you know what's wasteful? corporate tax breaks in the trillions of dollars that have no direct effect on working people or their families. fuck this org and their misdirection
An interesting result of this is some emulators like PPSSPP or Dolphin can run several heavy games near flawlessly at this point yet they still can't emulate the system's UI or home screen because they use low level OS syscalls that games don't need. RPCS3, a PS3 emulator recently managed to boot into the cross media bar after a lot of work (https://www.pcgamesn.com/emulation/ps3-emulator-rpcs3-xmb)
As far as I understand it, besides the fact of stellar people working on emus like Dolphin, the hardware on the GC/SW/Wii are much simpler and closer to that of the hardware it's being emulated on. That provides for an easier translation experience when emulating each bit of hardware. This is in contrast to not as closely matching hardware on much older systems, even if they're comparatively slower. A really good example is PS2 emulation which runs pretty well today but is crazy complicated with the Emotion Engine which does not map well to our current PC architectures.

Might be wrong about this but I believe SNES emulators are now approaching "perfect" emulation which is to exactly emulate the hardware down to every defect. This is what can slow things down but will give you perfect reproduction of games. A lot of modern emulators use hacks (sometimes game specific) to achieve the performance you see but can result in experiences not like the game on a native console.

All that being said though, the teams working on these emulators really matters in terms of the performance they're gonna eek out of modern day computers.
Bleem successfully defended their commercial PlayStation emulator against a lawsuit from Sony, setting a solid precedent in US law even though the legal costs ended the company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!#Sony_lawsuit
From my perspective with a bit of economic background, the author is attempting to describe opportunity cost in the most roundabout and counterintuitive way possible.

Personally, I think reading the standard definition first would be much more helpful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
Maybe that's because condos have windows that only face away from the building. Perhaps if they were built with interior common areas (like a town square) with windows facing them, that would change everything.
I doubt it's unknown for carcinogenic substances to affect skin or mucus membranes they are in contact with. It's certainly not unthinkable.

I know I've heard the phrases "mouth cancer" and "skin cancer". The former probably in connection with chewing tobacco.

I genuinely don't know the answer to whether mouthwash could be harmful, assuming one doesn't swallow. But I've thought of the question before.
Flexbox was a breath of fresh air after floats, but I would think these days most people would be using CSS Grid[1]?

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Grid_La...
The RAZR could run J2ME apps though. At the time there were J2ME Facebook, Twitter, Opera Mini web browser, Google Maps (with street view), tons of games, etc.

When the original iPhone came out and didn’t support apps I (unsuccessfully) argued that that meant it wasn’t a smartphone, and it was even less smart than most dumb phones on the market.

At the time I used Sony Ericsson dumbphones, and they had very rich J2ME support - you could set Java apps as a live wallpaper (which iPhone still doesn't allow), multitask (which took years to get to the iPhone) and all this on very very modest (single-digit MB RAM) dumbphone hardware.
Emulators absolutely do not enable piracy. One could argue that their existence implicitly encourages it, but they certainly don't "enable" it by any means.

There are many different ways to legally obtain games to run on emulators, Switch included.
Natural immunity was also many orders of magnitude more likely to kill you than vaccines.

The best way to avoid dying from Covid is a vaccine. This study doesn't change that.
Cause HN brings the daily dose of blue light every nerd eye needs. Hahhaha, jokes aside, I don't know. Stylus is a good tool to read on this kind of webs!
Afaik this is called Tsundoku in Japanese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
The rationale seems to be that if the vendor is able to update the firmware at a later date, then the customer should also have that ability in order for it to be certified.
Every WP site in the world could go down for a few hours and nothing bad would happen.

That can't be said about critical infrastructure.

"critical" means something. If the water system or the power grid goes down for a few hours, the world has a major problem.

If everything widely used is "critical infrastructure", then nothing is.
You're handing graphviz a list of relationships. Sometimes you know the ideal way to visualize this is a tree, or something with right angles, but graphviz isn't laying it out that neatly. So you create extra nodes, and edges to those nodes, so that graphviz considers it a "balanced" tree or grid. Then you use styling to turn those nodes invisible (showing just the nodes/edges you want). Once I have this correct I usually contain it within a "cluster", and then link that cluster to the larger diagram.
Doreen, I read a lot of your comments here, appreciate the perspective.

stale2002 perfectly makes the point you've been advocating for throughout the thread.
Maybe Higan/BSNES are like this, but if you've ever used SNES9x/zSNES or similar, you can see that we've been able to run playable games since the 90s.

Those also have some significant tradeoffs between emulation accuracy and speed, though because they were focused on playable games at speed, not necessarily perfect accuracy.

The later emulators have tried to do low level emulation to get accurate cycle counts and whatnot to make it as close as possible to a real SNES.
Out of genuine curiosity. What does brave do that’s so privacy focused and how is it better than Firefox on this front? Is it beating Firefox at the privacy pitch somehow?

Brave’s market share seems to be siphoning off Firefox users primarily more than Chrome’s…
The malicious/abusive parts of nonfree software are almost always tied to it's updatability. Avoiding updatable nonfree software prevents users from entering into an abusive relationship with a nonfree software vendor. https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.en.html, 550 instances of malicious functionalities, I'd bet all instances are for software where the vendor can update it.

Your argument is like "Banning guns will incentivize people to use knives, people who want to only ban guns for violence sake are hypocrites." There is a kernel of truth, but it's really just ignoring the bigger reality.
The reason I asked is because I have a unique opportunity to do the same where I live but I want to know if there is any utility in it other than the build itself and the learning experience, and if so, what it is. This reminds me of the thing that takes photos of the ISS every time it flies overhead, except I get no understanding of why someone wouldn’t just use the many many high resolution photos of it from much more up close or the publicly available data. But let’s say that it turned out that every time it passes by you could use your decoder ring to get another piece of a neat message then I would get into it for my kids’ sake.
WIX is absolutely terrible, it cannot be compared to WP.
source, instead of this blog spam: https://jetpack.com/2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-...
"right-to-work" means you can't be forced to join a union. It has nothing to do with this.
School spends on sanitary napkins for boys
I consider myself under the fregan label, and for me, it is about reducing consumption in general.

A lot of it is about animals for me as well, because no mass-produced food is really clean of animal suffering.

Even if you buy organic soybeans, if they're coming from the supermarket, and you're paying a dollar for the bag, that dollar is sending a clear and unmistakable signal to the supply chain: "please replace this bag of soybeans".

From there, a whole chain of events unfolds... a bag is pulled from the case, a case is pulled from the pallet, a pallet is pulled from the warehouse (on a diesel truck), and so on. There's lots of diesel and machinery involved, and all the way at the other side, there is land being cleared from animal use, probably with some animals dying as a result, in order to grow some more soybeans.

Sure, a good portion of this is unavoidable. Our entire existence has a baseline of suffering which we cannot get rid of completely. But if I can reduce my contribution to it when it's totally unnecessary (because there are 50 bags of organic soybeans in the dumpster, for example, or there are are many soybean servings left over at the cafeteria after it closes) then I'd rather do that.
Skyscrapers tend to start construction during an economic boom, but because they're so slow to build, by the time they're complete the boom has usually ended.

South-East Asia (Bangkok, Jakarta, KL etc) after the 1998 crisis was full of skyscrapers that were never even finished before the money ran out, the Burj Khalifa opened up just when Dubai's economy went into freefall, and Calgary is a recent example of skyscrapers being completed at exactly the wrong time:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28873926
Macs cost more, but have better quality than PCs. MacOS is easier to use than Windows 10/11 even if it is limited to 64 bit MacOS apps.
The Idea Factory, written by John Gertner, covers the almost inconceivable amount of innovation that came out of Bell Labs from the turn of last century to the 1980s. The names of the people who worked there reads like a text of 20th century physics, electrical engineering, and computer science.
Encanto is really good. The music is wonderfully done, my son doesn’t get tired of me looping it for him on our music streaming service.

I’m sure we are going to like red panda also. My son is 5 and hasn’t been to a movie theater yet.
So you snap a picture of the sky based on the adsb data? Is there any delay you have to work with?
Oyun.se
It’s the same reason eating to much makes you gain weight. Roughly speaking a 1300 pound adult cow needs ~9,700 calories per day to maintain it’s weight. Where a 770 lb calf only needs 6,230 calories per day to maintain body weight, but growing 2.2 lb per day, requires an additional 4,130 calories per day. So, 6,230 + 4,130 = 10,360. Thus between around 700 lb and full body weight they need more calories than an adult. With feedlot cattle being both close to adult body weight and adding more pounds per day.

A newborn 80lb calf doesn’t its self need that many calories directly, but it both grows very rapidly gets its calories from it’s mother which turns grass calories to turn into milk calories at about 3:1 efficiency.
You don't need Netlify for this; all you need is a git repo somewhere and CI.

CI can do the build, and the last step of CI can be ftp, rsync, scp, or whatever. It's just static files, normal hosting anywhere is fine.
It will always be relevant. This privacy centric internet service depends on Google’s coding of Chromium. Needing to maintain a significant fork or Chromium if some changes occur that are not privacy friendly will likely cost a lot of money. Vs now where they presumably keep merging in all changes of Chromium.
I would love to see a Switch emulator for the M1, although I certainly understand why it'd be a last-priority for emulator developers.

I know /nothing/ about emulator development, but I wonder what the performance of a Switch emulator written for the M1 using Metal for graphics would look like. I'd expect the Switch and the M1 both being ARM would be an advantage? Would be curious to learn more if anyone in this space wants to weigh in.
Note the implicit (and, to most, justified) a priori convinction that psychic phenomena cannot exist, even if they have evidence to the contrary with similar confidence as other ("coventional") study subjects.

Isn't this an "isolated demand for rigor"? [1]

Doesn't this prove that science as practiced is not just the empirical process and some raw axioms that guide it (which these "psychic research" both follows), which scientists pretend to ascribe to, but also part blind faith/prejudice?

I'm not saying physic phenomena are real. I'm saying if tests are conducted with the same principles as those about physical phenomena, and results are equally carefully collected, and they have the same condidence, science in principle shouldn't treat them any differently than results about "regular" subjects.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demand...
Doing everything in a web browser without editing local files, mostly. "Open a text editor" or "git commit" are enough to put off people who don't think of themselves as computer people even though complexity wise they are no different than WP, simply because you gotta leave the browser.
Emulators do enable piracy. But so do computers, and it's not a valid argument against them by any means. It's perfectly legal and moral/ethical to use an emulator to play games in many circumstances.
Disqus exists for this reason.
He designed the Googleplex, that has to take some work.
I've been thinking about building a laser graphics system to write on clouds on nights when there are stratus clouds.

I'm worried about lasing an airplane (I am not too close to the airport but not that far either) and was thinking about hooking up an ADS-B receiver to tell the system to keep the beam away from airplanes, even if they are on the other side of the cloud deck.

A system like that, funny enough, is supposed to get approval from the FDA (Food & Drug Administration) because the FDA regulates lasers. If aircraft are involved the FDA asks the FAA what they think about it. I'd hope that they think that protective system would be good enough.
Non-chef but fairly advanced home cook here. When it comes to steaks I agree about the sous vide use. I have yet to be wowed by a sous vide steak I've made versus non sous vide. However when it comes to pork - sous vide is AMAZING. Pork chops come out better than non sous vide. You want a simple/easy/magical enternaining dish? Sous vide a pork tenderloin - your serving windows is 1-4 hours. You can't mess it up. Just put it in the water bath an hour before people arrive then whenever you want to eat - just pull it out, pat it dry and quick sear for a minute on all 4 side and voilla!
Not blob-free. Imx8 needs blobs to train RAM. There probably other blobs too.
I never download from anywhere but wordpress.org and a lot of others don't, and that wasn't attacked, so I disagree that it's "pathetic".
If you are the best pro basketball player of all time then you should also be at least among the best pro baseball players too.
Love the McAfee Secure Logo at the bottom of the AccessPress site, that's how you know you can trust them.
These sort of arguments are really tiresome.

I’m absolutely a fan of engineering feats like these being made more accessible for educational purposes. Even in college, I built a NES emulator on an FPGA.

But to argue that it’s primary motive is not to facilitate (and potentially profit from) piracy is not grounded in reality.