skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WordPress is hard to beat. For a simple blog the updates are minimal and there are even Managed WordPress hosts that will keep it updated for you as part of the hosting plan. They typically also have on boarding.setup wizards to get it all fully setup in a few minutes.

Sure, you could use something more custom, but you'll just spend more time coding rather than writing on your blog.
cancel the entire event and leave everyone with their plans in the air. tickets, hotels, trips, everything lost. that makes sense.
Sed li "devis lerni", do mi pensas ke li jam lernis la lingvon de ŝia familio!
You see, if you pay enough lip service, you get a pass on doing the right thing.
Beats seems like a pretty stupid thing to say even for a headline. Exceeds per capita in some way would be much more impressive. Additionally, what part of this growth is directly from China state subsidies? And besides this, how is the difference in terrain not discussed? Both of the others are surrounded mostly by water so growth is notably harder in those competing cases.
Yet another silly feminist statistic, cleverly cropping context to make things look bad.

This is about advisories given to 16 to 18 year old boys and girls.

Does it seem possible that the advisors took the track record of the person they advise into account. Like for example their choices of subjects at school, their grades in Math, those sorts of things? And perhaps those aspects were more important in advising for or against STEM than the person's gender?

To me, that seems rather likely. But creative feminist statistics make it seem as if gender was the only determining factor, PROVING discrimination.

It's actually a pretty nice example of how typical feminist propaganda works.
This is significant.

A few things I have observed with rising fees at federal agencies:

- There is seldom a corresponding rise in service levels.

- Websites are still 15-20 years out of date

- New fees tend to rise to suspiciously round numbers ("Late maintenance fee payment – $500 up from $160") which makes me wonder what criteria was used to determine the appropriate new fee.
at 30% of the web, and made from years of sprawling PHP it's a Wonderful attack target which is why it requires constant updating, maintaining, and unfucking from the malware that got through.

I have WP sites. I have static sites. i HATE the WP sites despite how much easier they are to use, because i'm constantly dealing with spam and BS hacking attempts (sometimes successful).
> All people of faith believe that everyone else's beliefs are based on insane delusions and that their beliefs is based on evidence and truth

Plenty of people of faith do not believe that, even within the Abrahamic monotheistic religions, which are known for being particularly exclusionary.
Fair enough, I shouldn't have put the "with filler" part. I still stand by the "low quality" (or at least very mediocre flavor) bit though, which still makes the point stand.

When I have a whooper most of the taste is the sauce/bun/toppings with the patty only being responsible for a small portion of the taste, which makes it perfect for a substitute. I've had impossible whoopers a few time, and while eating the whole thing, it's basically the exact same taste. If I eat a piece of the patty with nothing else then there's a noticeable difference though.
Growing Up with Technology
My main conclusion from this is that Twitter is a bad platform for politics. It might be great for other forms of communication (the security industry lives on it), but it's really, really bad for politics.
I Colocate My Hardware
There's nothing good about lying. Whatever plans Elon has, he could accomplish them better if he wasn't lying.

Look: SolarCity was systematically DESTROYED by Elon Musk, and his supporters continuously defend his behavior. Shouldn't we be asking:

* Where are the solar roofs?

* Why did production at Gigafactory 2 slow down?

* Why did Elon destroy the Home Depot contract?

* How are Tesla's shareholders benefiting from SolarCity being actively destroyed?

* How is anyone benefiting from this collapse of SolarCity?

No one wins when Walmart has 7+ roofs catch on fire due to bad SolarCity installs. This isn't "good vs perfect", we're at the point where SolarCity is actively hampering the name of solar power in the USA. Now people are worried about their roofs catching on fire due to their systematic mistakes.
I've never heard of a veggie burger with chemical flavoring. Most of them aren't intended to simulate beef; they're a combination of various savory, protein-rich plants and some seasoning. I'm not a vegetarian, but sometimes I enjoy a bean patty anyway.

As for this new wave that is intended to simulate real meat, the flavor is completely natural, just found in an unusual source outside of actual meat:

> Impossible Foods' scientists discovered that heme is a key factor in how meat behaves.[15] Heme is the molecule that gives blood its red color and helps carry oxygen in living organisms.[16] Heme is abundant in animal muscle tissue and is also found naturally in all living organisms.[17] Plants, particularly nitrogen-fixing plants and legumes, also contain heme.[18] The plant-based heme molecule is identical to the heme molecule found in meat.[19][20]

> To produce heme protein from non-animal sources, Impossible Foods selected the leghemoglobin molecule found naturally in the roots of soy plants.[21] To make it in large quantities, the company's scientists genetically engineered a yeast and used a fermentation process very similar to the brewing process used to make some types of beer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Foods
> There is a lot of English-language media to study, and a lot of people speak English to practice with

This is so important. While I've at some point knew both Dutch and German well enough to hold a basic conversation or read articles, in practice even living in the Netherlands it's hard to find a situation that wouldn't be served just as well (or better, if you're a beginner) by English. There are some benefits, but they're either a rather specific case (inburgering), or only start outweighing convenience of English once you're reasonably fluent (like speaking it in social situations). That's not a helpful dynamic for learning a language.
Roman cement involved volcanic pumice not sand/gravel and did not set quickly (may have needed external heat to set at all).
This is why I think it's likely that Uncle Sam will swoop in, in one way or another, to try to save Intel's position as a leading-edge fabricator if it comes to that. I don't know how successful such a rescue would or will be.
> Science is always trying to self-correct.

You guys sound like the teenager whose parents (priests and theologians) are "always going on about that" wrt his drug usage. "No mom and pop. I don't have a drug problem. I can self-correct myself any time I want in time for Varsity."
The alternative is that perhaps there were female speakers that were simply unaware of the conferences existence? There were multiple attempts from people who were going to attend this conference to aid them in finding more speakers which were rebuked by the organizers.

Ending a conference like this and then pointing fingers because people decided not to go is a bad look regardless. It comes across as incredibly petty.
The point he's making is that even though it's better it's still not great for the people paying the premium.

It all stems from why should I subsidize my neighbors rent?
Kudos for numsum!

After so many years using Linux, I still missed that one. Thanks!
That's cool -- I have a big page of notes on derivatives and have thought about replacing my usage of re2c with them (re2c being automata-based).

One benefit of that is aesthetic -- re2c is a 30K line piece of C code itself. The other benefit is practical -- it would be nice to "hoist" it up to the Oil language level, so shell users can use efficiently compiled regexes.

And I filed this issue to try derivatives awhile ago:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/197

There is a possible performance win, but I'm not sure if it makes sense. If you see anything interesting there I'd love to chat about it! (contact info in profile)

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What I mean by "math" is either automata-based methods or derivatives. In contrast, Perl-style backtracking engines aren't math.

To me, the "magic" of "regular languages" is that they give you non-determinism for free. The equivalence between NFAs and DFAs isn't obvious, and it's useful in practice.

I've taken advantage of this free nondeterminism in my huge shell lexer. (See my other reply for details)
from my experience, most words in esperanto should have the emphasis on the second-to-final syllable. this is a good guideline!

mi esTAS STUdando ... sounds weird.
mi EStas stuDANdo ... sounds right.

this works almost everywhere because of esperanto's constructed nature and following uniformity.
> There have also been a lot of efforts at Facebook to show you content that would lead you to have more positive interactions, like posting similar things yourself rather than be a passive spectator.

The other examples are decent (if you explicitly opt-in, not just mindlessly click a checkbox), but that Facebook one...seriously? It is extremely disappointing to see someone use that as an example of "good manipulation" on a site like this non-sarcastically. How could it be good for a corporation to hire psychologists to manipulate customers into spending more time on their product? Especially a product that is known to negatively affect mental health. It's hardly any different from Joe Camel trying to push kids to smoke.
Of course, everything is ideological. I'm a socialist so I'm plenty familiar with going against the status-quo and my HN karma reflects that.

I'm arguing against hiding your ideological motive (lower taxes) under the guise of 'logical deduction' or 'obviousness'.
You get all sort of interesting things to come out of it too... like an MMO version of Mario 64
The only thing that pipenv does better is that it uses package hashes. This gives some confidence that you are really installing what you think you are.

But I hate pipenv, so much.
> Static sites are good but when it is time for SEO and customisation you will realize that it can get really painful in a static site generator.

care to explain? because that makes _no_ sense to me. SEO is primarily about content these days. The little "add this tag for SEO WIN" type things stopped being useful years ago. Have a good title, have good content, link your stuff well, update regularly: success!
If elon musk was anywhere near the best humanity has to offer, I would agree. Thankfully, the facts suggest otherwise.
Chinese vegetarian food in China is also big on meat replacement, usually via some kind of tofu magic. I’m also not a fan.
I thought that the boring company was SpaceX/a SpaceX subsidiary?
Made up by Michael Crichton, if I'm not mistaken.
Super Mario 3D World's architecture goes back to Super Mario Sunshine. Some parts go back all the way to Super Mario 64, but not the object / actor management. The ring buffer isn't really emulating OAM, either.

You can trace the evolution of "LiveActor" all the way through until it ends up in Super Mario Odyssey.

Sunshine - https://github.com/shibbo/Corona/blob/master/include/actor/T...

Galaxy 1 - https://github.com/shibbo/Petari/blob/master/include/Actor/L...

Odyssey - https://github.com/shibbo/OdysseyReversed/blob/master/includ...

This architecture was so successful it ended up as the basis for all new Nintendo game development, so Breath of the Wild, Pikmin 3 and Splatoon, Mario Maker all use this new "Actor Library", or "al".

I have not looked at NSMBU, but NSMBWii uses a different core structure originally developed (as far as I know) by the Zelda team. I think it's mostly phased out these days, as is the set of "egg" libraries developed by the Mario Kart: Wii and Wii Sports teams.
> This is a similar problem with any non-English language

I had the same issue with Spanish. I studied Spanish one hour everyday for one year, just for the fun of learning a new language. Then I stopped for some reason and I realized I didn't have any opportunity to practice (other than actively learning).

On the other hand, although English is my second language, I consume mostly (American-)English media. I only watch English youtube videos, I read English forums and so on... There is just so much more content available in English that I don't even bother searching in my native language (French).
"Thus, an apple in one nation is counted the same as an apple in another."
Em.... Nope. That's factually incorrect. PPP is a metric for overall currency value, not apples to apples comparison.

If you wish to point out apples - the cheapest retail apples I can buy in NY is $3.21/kg, while retail price for apples in Germany is $1.94/kg. The apple PPP index is, anecdotally, 1.65.
The formal PPP index for Germany is 1.08, as in $1 buys you 8% more in Germany... that is factually untrue at the lower end of the income.
This is a great essay for the Spectator,* but what I’d really enjoy reading is some James Bond style spy novels from the eastern side of the iron curtain translated into something I can ready.

Soviet SF has been translated but can anyone recommend novels of derring-do against the capitalists?

* I was a long time subscriber to the speccie for the quality of its writing, though most of it seemed like an (unwitting!) absurdist sendup of establishment toryism. It was especially enjoyable when Johnson was editor.
The accepted answer fails to note that the subject code is a high-performance variant of strlen(), and has basically taken the ideas from many highly-optimized memcpy() routines.

There is nothing wrong with the simpler version, but it’s not as fast (for longer strings).
AFAIK this is specific to tuna and done by places like fish markets, that publicly display it. A restaurant would most likely be getting it frozen and vac packed.
Coincidentally I just finished State of Fear last night, a Crichton novel about Eco terrorism. To be honest parts of it made me uncomfortable but with an open mind it can be a very interesting read. His idea of the PLM complex is a pretty interesting take on our current state of affairs.
Johnson and Johnson Ordered to Pay $572M in Landmark Opioid Trial
I don't see any oats, and the soy is soy lecithin, which is an emulsifier for the beef and fat.

https://firstwefeast.com/eat/2014/05/tacobell-beef-ingredien...
Soy is an emulsifier, and oats are used for texture. Last thing I'm going to complain about eating in fast food is oats, though.
"Literally every software and hardware market since computers became a commodity" all over again, you mean. They've always tended towards monopolies.

IP law is harmful to society.
vegan/vegetarian

Which is it? Vegetarian would hardly be worth complaining about, but I'm really struggling to come up with a vegan Italian menu that sounds appetizing.
Let me save you effort - nah, they are dipshits. Next.
Why not tackle the origin of the issue instead of subsidizing it? That just gives more money to the people who are now able to charge more.

It's the same argument to raise minimum wage that'll apply to increasing UBI. I don't see it being the correct avenue to have long-standing progress.
Ridiculous article. People make many things. Building a suppressor vs buying a suppressor = tomatoe or tomaahtoe. Form 1 vs Form 4. Get caught with an illegal one and you pay a huge price. For possessing a device which turns a big hearing-damage-sized noise into a smaller firecracker-loud noise, which smart people still wear hearing protection when using. This article wants you to think its like the movies. I've fired guns with suppressors. They are loud. OSHA would require them, but then BAFTE couldn't collect a big fee on them.
If they were struggling to find buyers for the bonds, it was below market rate by definition.
Postgres came with those Sunsite Archives, found one from 1996. Interesting selection of software https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/ftp-archives/suns...
I found it remarkably sensitive toward transgenderism.

It was absolutely withering on stupidity, though. Stupidity will always get the sand kicked in its face, even though The Stupid are a by-god majority everywhere you look!

Some of The Stupid were even out protesting it, but brought along the wrong signs.
Then they are out of tolerance.
So far it's been really good. It's very good at staying on all the time and it was really easy to setup. Right now it's running on a raspberry pi but since I took down my ipsec vpn container, my ram/temp/cpu usage has gone down quite a bit.

I still need to spend a minute configuring things like dynamic dns in case my IP changes but I'm really impressed right now.
PilotWings 64 was made by a separate company (Paradigm), who used a very different structure for their games which feels a lot more "western" to me (the UltraVision 64 "engine" has a large structured data chunk which it reads a lot of stuff from; most Nintendo 64 games don't really have that sort of structure)
This veers far too heavily into cranky-old-man territory.

It tries to take a purely boolean result of knowing the future, when the real power comes from increasing ones prediction odds ever so slightly. And all it takes is very small increases in ones own odds over the average to benefit heavily relative to blindly marching into the future.
This reminded me of 'Out of Context Joffrey Baratheon'[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUePZZDLPrE
This is the "official" release, where someone from the team that was working on the decompilation is making it public rather than just a random person on the Discord.

But not much has changed, I guess it's hard to make progress in a month.
I'll also add that switching to 240V would give us lower line losses everywhere on the grid (saving energy). Just think of all the power wasted in house wiring multiplied by millions of households. For an illustration, get out your vacuum cleaner, and vacuum your house. Now that it's been running for a while, grab the power cord: it's rather warm, isn't it? The power also went through your wiring in your walls, through your panel, and up to the transformer for your house, at that voltage. (Even worse, since the US has 120V split-phase power, it was probably unbalanced, leading to even greater line losses.) Doubling the voltage to your vacuum cleaner would mean you'd only waste 1/4 as much energy in the form of heat due to wiring losses, assuming the vacuum has the same-sized motor.

Of course, suddenly switching everyone to 240V would also mean millions of vacuum cleaners and toasters going into the landfill, so that wouldn't exactly be environmentally-friendly either.
Why does anyone feel a need to go further than “speculation is entertaining” or “speculation sells”?
That's true -- I don't know of a name for it. There should be one!

Someday I would like to define the subset of HTML I actually use... HTML is messy with lots of implementation quirks. And plenty of tools operate on it in ad hoc ways.

It would be nice to have some notion of correctness for those tools, and defining a subset seems like the best way to do that.
s/especially/unless/: there is a good reason why the strlen is written that way; it's because it's fast and the standard library is allowed to make assumptions about the platform it's running on. But the answer instead dilutes itself and keeps saying things like "supposedly" and calling the code "bad", along with a long tangent by using the sanitizers to "prove" that the code is "wrong". For a beginner, I feel that this answer is much better than the one that's accepted: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57655203/5230900. It's not as long, so it would be nice to have more details about why the code does what it does, but it's not pushing an agenda.
>I don't see how this changes the revenue picture.

The government gets all of the deferred taxes on the next sale. That’s immensely better than the current scenario where they don’t get any reasonable amount.
I've presumed that the reason Taco Bell uses the word beefy was because they can't legally call it beef. Much like cheap "cheese" is a processed dairy product and not actually labeled as cheese.
When I saw the buy of solar City, I felt bad for Tesla stock owners and was angry at Musk for giving his cousins tons of money.

After the Tesla thing ends, we are going to learn about the insider trading among the elite.
It's not cheap. I've had this acccount for a while and was planning to anonymize my use of Hacker News. I also planned on trying to follow the TOS on this or yet another new account sometime in the near future but I don't know about that anymore. I feel like taking a very long break from Hacker News and Silicon Valley in general. I hate this place. I am miserable here. You could probably tell by the increasing hate spiral of shit comments.
Well, yeah I'm talking about "nations" but you can't have nationalism without a nation. And you can't have a nation without the idea of citizenship or borders right?
> This veers far too heavily into cranky-old-man territory

This was 100% Chricton's persona for about the last 20 years of his life. Perhaps the most amazing thing was how deeply he was also into some really crazy new age stuff, too.

Dictionary definition of don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.
We don't value fields less because women enter it.

First of all, there is simple supply and demand. More candidates wanting to do a specific job means lower pay.

Secondly, you should ask WHY women suddenly want to enter some field. Very likely, circumstances have changed for that job. Maybe it now allows for flex time, or new machinery makes it safer, or whatever. I don't have a good example at hand. But I would look at that - very likely it is that thing that makes it cheaper (because it is more attractive), not the women entering it.

Another possibility could be a job starts paying less, so the men leave and the women come in (since they are less dependent on high income).

Edit: I just saw example of physicians on the net, which reminds me that women also tend to work fewer ours. Apparently physicians is one of those example where women have taken over and rates seem to have dropped. However, I know that female physicians work far fewer hours than male physicians (averages), which could presumably explain the drop. (example from Germany, don't know about physicians world wide).
> Why do you think plant-based meats are lower calories than regular meat?

It's totally possible they aren't; just a reasonable guess.

> There's no evidence plant-based burgers are healthier.

There's plenty of evidence that eating red meat on a regular basis is bad for you. Chicken is admittedly a different story.

> Why would eating something super processed and filled with carbs be better than eating meat?

Many veggie patties are filled with fiber and most are filled with protein (from beans, soy, etc.). I don't know the nutritional details of the Impossible Burger or the meatless chicken featured in the article, but generally meat substitutes are not just carbs.
Ah, the number sounded so familiar! Nice, keep it going!