skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obesity is strongly correlated with poverty. Don't go mistaking weight as a function of work ethic or long term perspective. Many people both do not have enough to eat and are obese.
Simple to say. Not simple to implement in practice and in a competitive environment. It is very hard for CEO to justify massive spending on something that has oy a 1:2000 chance or something in any given year.
Yes, but unfortunately there is a genetic element which has been disentangled with regard to vitamin d production otherwise. I.e. certain minorities in the developed world have good otherwise health but poor vit-d due to the production being related to absorbed sunlight through the skin
> More baroque, for sure. More future-proof? Only if this is the one true form of reflected code that gets adopted.

ah, actually not :) the library tries to do things in two steps in many places:

1/ map the user's code to a proxy depending on which concepts it conforms to: for instance whether your audio processing function is written per-sample (that's still in progress tho):

float operator()(float input) { return input * 0.5; }

or per-buffer:

void operator()(float** inputs, float** outputs, int frames) { for(each channel, each sample) { ... } }

2/ the back-end accesses the class through these proxies to do whatever it needs to do.

this means than if tomorrow we get reflection and metaclasses (I hint to this in the readme), and that we can write the "ideal" struct which (to me) would look like

struct my_effect {
[[name: "Main inputs"]]
audio_input main_input;
[[name: "Main outputs"]]
audio_output main_input;

[[range: {20, 20000}]]
[[unit: hertz]]
slider frequency;

// will create an appropriate message in max / pd with the name some_function
void some_function(int, std::ranges::view<std::variant<float, int>> list_of_stuff);

auto operator()(std::floating_point auto in) { return in * gain; }
};

the only thing that one will have to do is map the new "shape" in these proxies (which are as far as possible doing their stuff at compile-time) and all the existing backends will keep working with the algos defined in the better way.

of course the existing algorithms will stay uglier, but they'll also keep working with new environments (and, as far as possible, without a runtime perf. hit)

> General reflection (not to mention runtime reflection) is probably the way to go.

yes, we all want that !
Before that (in the 90s): Blaxxun Interactive.
Chrome has the Widevine DRM built into it. Since 2017 users cannot disable it.
Great job!!! And even funny to do I suppose!
This is another long discarded bit of snake oil. If there were genuine home remedies for Covid that you could buy at the grocery store, we'd have told you about it. It turns out there are only two: vaccines and masks. It's healthy to have the recommended amount of Vitamin D, but not at the expense of a vaccine and a mask.

You decide:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/instance/8541492/b...
On Google Patents you can get a shortcut to the USPTO Global Dossier if you search for "External Links". Looks like the USPTO Global Dossier is down for WIPO documents right now but the Espacenet Global Dossier is up: https://register.epo.org/ipfwretrieve?apn=GB.9703212.W&lng=e...

You can see the search report for the WIPO document you linked to there. Often the descriptions are inaccurate, so in this case even though it just says "Published International Application" for all 3 documents, it's not necessarily that. The one dated 05.11.1998 is the search report. This one is not very detailed.

The EPO version has a lot more: https://register.epo.org/application?tab=doclist&number=EP97...

For the second one you mention, the USPTO Global Dossier lists a bunch of documents: https://globaldossier.uspto.gov/#/details/US/16530248/A/7839...

You can get there by changing the "Type" drop-down menu to "Pre-grant Publication" and typing in 20210034401. You can look at a lot of search logs for this one. You can also read the "Notice of Allowance and Fees Due (PTOL-85)" to see why the examiner issued this patent.
> Maybe by finding a well managed small fund and buying into it?

Just because a fund manager is good now, does not mean they'll be good in the future. It's the same situation as with stocks: how do you know when to jump ship?

Further, over longer periods of time, most fund managers don't beat the market average:

* https://www.ifa.com/articles/despite_brief_reprieve_2018_spi...

And just because a few funds do manage to beat the average, it's hard to tell that they are ahead of time. Over the last 40-50 years (in the US) there have been some that have had excellent results—for a while. Until they didn't ("Chasing Top Fund Managers"):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6HrepdLSu4 (18m34s)

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/136 (topic starts at ~15m)

Plenty of peer-reviewed papers at the bottom of that second (podcast) link.
The small drones cheap enough to be used in swarms are very short range. They're useful for tactical intelligence but hardly a replacement for satellites.
Factories, refineries, and raw materials don't need to be on planets. There are disadvantages to siting on planets besides the added transport costs.

> getting into the destination body's orbit

I said round-trip energy costs. The delta-v for arriving cargo to enter orbit equals the delta-v for departing cargo. Over a full cycle of sending equal payloads both ways, the net change of energy and momentum is zero. I linked to an analysis of one way to harness this. When the skyhook in the linked example boosts a payload from Venus-Earth Hohmann to Earth-Mars Hohmann, the skyhook's orbit gets perturbed; but it gets the opposite perturbation on the boost on the opposite traffic.

(This is not the only non-rocket approach to free-space transport with potentially low marginal cost.)
Aye, it's a 35 year old movie. Which is stunning for me. I recall going to the theater to see it with my parents. It was the last movie we all saw together.
Yes.

Compared to other languages, Bash can be incredibly worse for some things, but much better for others.

People who don't realise that won't be able to get the best out of their toolset.
That's a difficult question that I cannot answer, but it doesn't mean open worm is a good answer either?
Good to hear this has helped you :)
Tesco online grocery shopping in the UK was down for about 2 days recently, and Tesco as a whole has a market cap of $29.1B.
Test their response?

Warm them up to the idea of capitulation?
"The Department of Environmental Conservation denied permits for two proposed natural gas power plants, saying they were incompatible with the state’s climate law, which calls for an end to fossil fuel-generated electricity by 2040."

What will New Yorkers say if they face spiraling power prices and blackouts?
Crypto holders quite literally got lucky, no different than if they had bought the “right” pogs, beanie babies, or some other collectible where there was irrational exuberance.

Papering over that luck with “I’m a scholar of economics” doesn’t attribute said success to skill or education, it’s rationalizing an outcome. Accept the good fortune for what it was.
I'm talking specifically for my own experience, with people I know. If reading economic theory is really the thing that persuaded you to buy crypto, then all the power to you, I am just unaware of a single real-life example of anyone I know doing the same. The crypto "investors" I know don't really have any valuable skills or knowledge, they just bought BTC at a lucky time and now spend all day tweeting about it.

And look, drug dealers may have worked hard or whatever to build their businesses, but dealing drugs is a scummy move, and the fact that making a scummy move in 2013 now suddenly pays off in 2021 seems like the definition of "getting lucky" to me.
It does now: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commits/packa...
The patch we went to had a loop with a string attached. Loop went over stem and they wound the string around the pumpkin. String had markings so they could tell how much to charge. Took all of 2 seconds per pumpkin.

I don't really want a teched out pumpkin patch.
It's becoming a pattern in the last few weeks. Fastmail manages my business email which is causing quite the annoyance.

According to the article, this is targeting multiple "privacy and security-centric email services". What are the odds this is a coordinated attempt to drive folks to less secure, or bigger corporate services?
Planescape: Torment, of course, in which combat is rare, often optional, and doesn’t net you much XP compared to story milestones and noncombat quests. Also, probably the only D&D based computer game where it’s a better idea to max Cha/Int/Wis than Str/Con/Dex. (Although unfortunately the third act devolves into a much more linear dungeon crawl, probably due to the devs running out of time.)

Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines, with its infamously janky combat but incredibly memorable characters and some superb storytelling moments. Unfortunately, the third-act degeneration is very much a thing here as well.

The original Deus Ex, again with rather janky combat and emphasis on stealth and nonviolent problem-solving. Exploration and finding out more about the world is much more rewarding than killing enemies. But the third act… Uh, I think I’m starting to repeat myself here :(
> The main thing that needs decoupling for me is the idea of _a_ Metaverse which is what the author focuses on as the evolution of the internet, and Facebook's efforts to be a leading player in the space and define what the Metaverse is.

Well the idea of a metaverse is politically and socially dangerous in ways that have been described in the original attack article (i can expand on that). OTOH facebooks effort to define it is an aggressive move by on of the most powerful groups on the internet. Both are dangerous in their one way. Calling BS is a way to get attention, the things don't completely lack coherence.
>Whereas, if you are healthy, the vaccine has been abundantly proven to statistically make you more healthy

This is emphatically false. Immunity to a specific virus does not make a person healthier and the vaccines do have a documented risk of side effects, in addition to rapidly mounting evidence of poor efficacy.

People seem to be worshipping these vaccines as some sort of mystical religious artifacts at this point.

The vaccines do not come without a cost. This is a dangerous myth, even if you think the risks are low.
Back in the Windows XP days my dad installed an Enterprise copy on the family PC. You could see per application network access in real-time, and would ask for permission whenever an application tries to make an outgoing connection, unlike Windows Firewall which seems to be extremely leaky.
Related discussion from 9 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28952954
Vaccines were not designed to prevent transmission, only hospitalization. They can’t create mucosal antibodies.
It is being referred to as MANGA in other places
I wonder whether inserting underscores or asterisks, frequently used in search as a wildcard character, into words will cause archive indexing/retrieval problems down the line. I'm asking seriously, not flippantly, here.
Because cross-OS (not just cross-linux-distro but even that) standards-making doesn't exist anymore in a real non-broken way, and we're stuck with whatever standards of 20+ years ago. Whether official or de facto (technically bash is just de facto although `bash --posix` or `sh` is an official real standard). There basically isn't any "innovation" happening in this space in a way that could really result in anything as pervasive as bash. Maybe also cause it's just not "interesting" anymore, the 'sexy' things are many levels of abstraction higher than they were when bash came to dominance. It feels like now we're just stuck with it forever, indeed.
The reason you feel RPi4B aren’t performing is because it’s running software written using 2010s and 2020s software standards, languages and runtimes.

Before 2000, many many commercial games and software were written using “classical” C/C++ and had any performance critical areas written in assembly language. People would actually profile their apps and optimize their code and loops. Most any language that had large runtimes or included a garbage collector was not considered an option. Only the most complex, data oriented or GUI oriented parts of the code would be written in high level language. A good example of this mixed language code base is the Allegro 4.x Game Programming Library for DOS, Linux, and Windows.

Going back further into the 80s and 90s, many many commercial games and software were written in all assembly language. Look at the old MS DOS code bases on GitHub for a reference.

All that to say that modern software does a ton things in periphery that old software considered superfluous. We know some of it makes easier to write software, or that the software is more secure, or that it can take advantage of the features of the hardware old machines didn’t have. However, that is still extra code that needs run, often in (event) loops which multiples the amount of time dedicated to that code.

Look at codegolf or other minimal code challenges to see what could be accomplished with a different programming process.
Watermelons
It’s not different, but it’s a feature that this is included vs only supporting static linking.
Neat. Just a random thought about the random notes is that picking notes from chords over some chord progression might result in more interesting random music. You'd probably need some sort of ROM lookup table to accomplish this in the original design. You can still randomize which specific notes are being played out of the chord (or the scale implied by the chord?)
> Writing a new OS is enough work, nobody would have time to also write file systems, compilers, a shell, a text editor, an Internet browser and so on.

> So there must exist some translation layer also for device drivers, maybe by running them in a virtual machine.

> ... but rewriting all the device drivers that could be needed would take years, so it is important to implement a way to reuse the existing device drivers.

I'd think most people making a hobby OS specifically want to do these things.

I also think most don't care about wide hardware compatibility.
Nobody is taking Google down with a DDoS anytime soon (at least not for any extended period).
Perhaps a more fitting title for this article would have been "How many games does it take to establish an accurate ELO rating?"
In what condition? Without the energy of the fossil fuel, lots of the energy came from human labor. Without it, we wouldn't have gotten rid of slavery. Most people were doing a manual labor, which is also more discriminatory to the weaker ones (e.g. woman)

So your just suggesting we go back to the middle ages? No, thank you.
If someone is reading this and is getting demotivated to apply yourself to any field that you like because you think you don't have the skills, please, don't. Parent isn't saying that you shouldn't try. We're usually terrible to estimate our own abilities. How many times you thought you were incapable of doing something and you end up doing it?

My own anecdotal example. I stopped playing music years ago because I thought I wasn't good, despite liking it. I started playing again because I had no games and I noticed that I should have gotten back to it sooner, despite not being music material. Not only I was able to play stuff that I liked, I learned stuff that I thoroughly enjoyed. Some music were really hard at first, but as I progressed (very) slowly through weeks, I could see my skills improving and I was very satisfied to watch it (slow as it was).

If you like it, I think you should do it, despite of others. Because it won't matter, in the end. It may take time and a lot of effort, can be painful, but it's worth it.

I think this advice by Terrence Tao translates well to other areas: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t...
https://twitter.com/Bloxy_News/status/1454861081021587456

"STATUS UPDATE: Roblox is incrementally opening the website to groups of users and will continue to open up to more over the course of the day..."
Not sure if it's the case with whales, bit as far as I know there is no recorded use of questions in the animal kingdom - all communication seems to be enunciative, or orders. Questions are exclusive to humans...
My feeling is that it is about convenience when typing at the terminal. Having a unified language for both scripting and entering commands is quite convenient. Also, bare strings while typing at the terminal is very convenient! It would be really annoying if we always had to add quotes for string args when we're typing at the terminal:

$ cat "file.txt"

...and I don't even know what options would look like... maybe:

$ ls "*.txt", ["l", "a"]

I dunno... this would mean we'd probably need parens now for precedent-type concerns:

$ ls("*.txt", ["l", "a"]) > "file.txt"

Anyway, that is why I understood that it's this way. I can't point to a resource about it, though.
its cool that hegel is being thought about again in professional philosophy, but zizek is not mentioned in the article
Growth companies all haven't shown that they can actually be profitable.
> 65% of realtors are women, but in commercial real estate it's only 35% women.

The cynical answer is that attractive women with large breasts influence the decisions of men making largely consumerist purchases (let's be honest, beyond 2000 sq ft with basic functional materials and appliances, it's a purely status purchase), whereas when buying a commercial property you have to worry about your fiduciary duty to your shareholders and are much more focused on the ROI of the deal.
Align yourself with truth, not dialectics.

Down with Hegal.
Put a mask on and breathe on a pair of glasses.

Then please explain how the water molecules can pass through while other aerosols cannot.
if you set a retain policy on persistentvolumes it will prevent your volumes from being deleted even when you delete the owning objets. cloud providers will keep the virtual drive on those cases even if you delete everything

regardless, it’s the wrong thing to fear. this is at the level of logging in every user as root on your servers and databases because proper user management would require extra staff and efforts you can’t spare.
I'm actually seeing the service coming back online for me now. Not ideal because I am actually doing some fairly urgent stuff over email this afternoon, but I am satisfied with the response from Fastmail. They acknowledge the issue quickly, and provided some specifics shortly after that. The total amount of time the service was unavailable for me was under 2 hours.
Fully agree. We need more Temple OS's!
Citation needed. Oracle JRE was free for personal use.
I actually thought Oracle's move initially was actually a good thing: It brought some much-needed diversity to OpenJDK builds.

Very pleased to see this move as well. It's taken a very very long time, but it's encouraging to see Oracle finally understand the open source ecosystem.
in bash, strongly prefer functions to aliases
For what it's worth: as a Fastmail employee, it's also extremely irritating for us!
For what it’s worth, I had a physical in my mid-20s where my doctor saw my vitamin D levels were low, so he told me to supplement with vitamin D. I take 10,000 IU with vitamin K about 5x/week. I am 35 now and I happened to check my levels around Jan 2020, to make sure I wasn’t overdoing it. I was at 53 ng/mL, which was perfect.

The pandemic came around, and while a lot of people around me got sick, I never did, but I had also been good about mask adherence. So I was a little surprised in August 2020 when my doctor gave me a COVID antibody test (blood draw), just to see, had come back positive, considering I had felt completely fine through that whole period.

Then again a few months later, when my SO came down with covid, needless to say we had extremely close contact during the infectious period, and I was still completely fine.

I’m not trying to be a vitamin D evangelist or anything, of course I could just be one of the lucky ones when it comes to covid, but I feel like it’s a cheap and easy thing to try if you aren’t currently supplementing. And of course, I am vaccinated as well now.
I don't think we should deem whole sets of features anti-patterns just because a lot of people got themselves into messes. many very nice database solutions I've seen would be non-starters w/o triggers, the alternative would've been something heinous outside the db. wondering why the new "cloud native" products lack these features is fair but I don't think it's appropriate to call spanner and cockroach an rdbms as I think "rdbms" implies some degree of general purposeness
Guessing they didn't like everyone flocking to things like Amazon Corretto. I don't see this move gaining anyone back though.
Repeating what others said back to them is called “mirroring” and is an effective technique for not only confirming your understanding but also showing others that you are actively listening.

I recommend reading “ Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It” by Chris Voss if you are interested in conversation tactics.
Whatever flaws it has are completely unrelated to climate.

OP might just be venting.
Is that when you don't know whether you have a headache until you look at your appointment calendar?
It seems they were not in a dominant position in terms of market share. Anyone have a clue how low Oracle's market share was?

"Surveys suggest that Oracle's JDK distributions are not the most popular Java distributions anymore. Developers seem to prefer OpenJDK distributions from AdoptOpenJDK (now Eclipse Temurin), Amazon, Microsoft, Azul, and other vendors. These organizations also provide commercial support for their distributions. In the case of Eclipse Temurin, Azul offers such support."
Meanwhile, actual censorship in Florida: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-p...
Perl used to be used a lot to automate things. I feel Python has taken some of that, but also have seen Bash being picked up more.
You are kind of right, I don't write much bash, but I do write some simple scripts that I can call quickly and easily (e.g. start this program with these args, write the log file here with the filename as the current date, etc). Although regarding "Then you must not be writing any bash at all"; I'm not sure how you could have deduced this!

With regards to `print_usage()` and `die()`, yes, I would reach for Python 3 then. The `argparse` module and `throw` are first-class members of the stdlib/language and are better and more standard between programs than if I threw together these myself (and with `throw` you get a stack trace, which is nice).
Current reactors (light and heavy water reactors) all use solid fuel, which is very inefficient due to use of once-through fuel cycle.

Because xenon is the most common fission product, and it's a gas, the reaction must be stopped before all fuel is used, as otherwise the solid fuel pellets would crack. If you assume 3% enriched uranium (U-235) and 97% depleted uranium (U-238) (a typical fuel load), the fuel pellets are unusable after about 1/3 of enriched uranium is spent. So the fuel is removed and "thrown away" while it still has 2% U-235 in it.

Switching to liquid fuel reactors assuming no other changes would immediately increase supply 3 times (because xenon simply bubbles out). Switching to liquid fuel breeder reactors ~ 100 times. Switching to breeders based on thorium - around 1000 to 10000 times.

Peak uranium is only a problem because we're using a very inefficient nuclear reactor technology - water reactors. Why? Because they were chosen by the military and the technology/know-how was already there. Efficiency was really low on the military's list of priorities.