skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no reliable definition of processed or ultra-processed food though. Not one you'd recognise: for example under the NOVA system[1] you can get a lot of weird outcomes. For example pasta is a processed food (though also, bad for you - calorie dense).

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-022-01099-1
Hope it's not seen as criticism... but I could love more elaborate examples...

Checking the examples, my friction here is... why should I introduce a new language for those things?

First example program equivalence:

tr -s ' ' '\n' < file.txt

Second program equivalence:

awk 'NR <= 10 {print} {total += $1} END {print "total:", total}' monies.txt

It takes to me more time, to understand what is doing D, even if theres is a previous explanation, that write down the equivalence with known tools.

The last example needs to download/install dependencies, from the outside of the upstream software origins of my servers (that's a no-no in many places). apt-cache search vibe is no good for me.

If I could have need a program like that simple web example, nowadays I could go with golang, compile and deploy.

But the first two other solutions that come to my mind...

perl -Mojo -E 'a("/")->to_text(sub {
"Hello World " . shift->req->url->path
})->start' -l http://localhost:8080

Or something like...

from flask import Flask, request

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def hello_world():
path = request.path
return f'Hello World {path}'

if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(host='localhost', port=8080)

I know that apt-get install libmojolicious-perl or install python3-flask is not an issue in many internal audits we did pass. Perl an Python are already present in the servers... or if puppet is in use, maybe ruby?

ruby -rwebrick -e"WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(Port: 8000){ |req, res| res.content_type = 'text/plain'; res.body = 'Hello World ' + req.path; }.start"

But I know many places were adding new languages, using external package repositories for scripting languages, etc, is a problem...

So, if it's for that article, I'm not 100% convinced to switch to D or invest my time in it... maybe I'm not the target audience.

I've nothing against D itself, but I need better marketing to be attracted.
Nice idea, but needs a better name!
The Curse of the Technical Middle Manager
Yes, it's seriously overpriced and storage costs hasn't decreased on Tarsnap for ages. That is the reason I am currently migrating off Tarsnap after using it for over ten years.
> I took beetroot as a supplement, it worked well.

By what measure?
Enforcement isn't lacking, it's just done counter-productively. About 20% of US prison population is already for drug offences, and of course it doesn't help anything. There is absolutely no reason to believe that other regulations are or will be enforced in a smarter way.
My Windows 11 laptop at home is quite snappy. My Windows 10 laptop at work with more RAM, a better SSD, and a newer, faster CPU, is not. It's because they virus scan and authorization check every single file access, every time. Even starting small programs like Notepad takes at least 2 seconds at work whereas it's instantaneous at home.

Same story at my previous job. Actually, my work laptop had been faster than my personal one for a while because I had gotten a special purchase due to the nature of my work and IT didn't know what to do with it (we contracted IT services out to a 3rd party. We were a small non-tech company). But then someone caught wind and I was made to figure out how to get IT's tracking software installed for them. And that's when I started working from home all the time (a situation I could manage as the non-tech company wanted me to own the code personally. Yes, a little weird, but it was all a tiny sure other for the company).

It's not the tech, it's the bureaucracy.
It works well for us. Most of the time the skeptics are right but we rarely read about those times. It’s a feature of this process, not a bug. Not that any individual comment or opinion is useful, but that’s an effect of a common attitude of, “oh yeah? Prove it!”
> Clearly I am not part of the target audience here. But who is?

Abstract Wikipedia authors/editors/developers is the target audience. As far as I can gather, this Wikifunctions is supposed to be a store for functions used to generate text based on data, so things can be written once and "automatically" translated to many languages, meaning you can cover more by stating "facts" and matching them to outputted language somehow.
It tends to not matter until it suddenly does and bites your behind.

What was that game that took forever to start up because the code for parsing the config files was accidentally quadratic or exponential?

Edit: also, the standard library of any programming language tends to have quite a bit of theoretical computer science inside.
Folks from South East Asian countries (I'm from Singapore) that were occupied by the Japanese army and witnessed extreme brutality, cruelty and inhumane atrocities generally rejoiced when the bombs were detonated on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Most folks that lived through that period actually wished for the US to also bomb Tokyo to annihilate the Japanese Imperial family, as they rightfully or wrongly attributed them to Japan's slide to a brutal colonizer nation.

Some examples of Japanese war crimes:

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/128323588
If you do an online search for "cyberpunk", you will notice that Cyberpunk 2077 has nearly made the word synonymous with a video game. This was probably the last stepping stone that made "cyberpunk" fully mainstream.

It appears to me that the word "cyberpunk" is now stuck to mean some kind of entertainment dressed in something from Bladerunner, with a few glowing lines from Tron, riding the remnants of the last 80s retro futurism wave.

In its heyday, cyberpunk as a literary genre was very far from being mainstream. Mostly, because it wasn't easy to get into. A major ingredient of cyberpunk is an ever changing world that has everybody in it on the edge of being overtaken and alienated by technological advance and cultural change. Often the reader would just be dropped into it, get a few paragraphs of background, and then was left to figure out the rest by themselves.

What changed is: Most of it happended and is here now and is also part of our news. You can see people around you being left behind if they don't adapt to smart phones or the internet. It's not an exciting rollercoaster of a novel anymore if the backdrop isn't a hypothetic low-life street hustle but could be set in a major city near you. Or if a documentary on the opioid crisis or tent cities of homeless looks like it could be part of Gibson's Bridge trilogy, but it isn't. It's reality.

In the 70s and 80s, technology was the path to bright utopias. The 90s had an even brighter outlook on the future after the cold war ended. That was the mainstream. Cyberpunk was the edgy punk who told you the near future might not be so bright. Nowadays you won't have anyone argue with that. All of that is mainstream now. It's not edgy anymore. It's just the sad reality.

Anyone who wants to talk about these societal issues needs to find a different vehicle for it. At least by name. "Cyberpunk" is someone's brand now.
Floss once or twice a day, maintain gum health, and watch your diet. You don't need mouthwash. (Anecdata - at my most recent visit, my dentist told me to come back in 18 months.)
Yes, changing the delay of subtitles is extremely widely supported and has been for many years.

At least, that's in the common Open Source video players such as vlc, mpv, mplayer, etc.
WHATWG has joined the chat
Betaine is another thing to look at. One of the cheapest supplements, no (or very low) toxicity, and seems to regulate NO metabolism, among other things.
Settings for Google's Find My Device Network Leak
Android Phones by Xiaomi still feature an IR transmitter, and an app that holds the IR codes for various appliances.

The app is on the Google Play Store [1]

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duokan.pho...
I do use Sound Input & Output Device Chooser. Great improvement over the default.

If I'll ever buy a Mac (and I can't imagine why) I'd want to totally change its windows management and make it as close as possible to Gnome 2 and Windows XP, with virtual desktops (Gnome 2 had them.) I would probably disable all gestures except scrolling and zooming.

I'd also shed tears about the lack of physical buttons on the touchpad but that starts to be about the hardware, which is off-topic.
Is that link correct? It appears to point to an empty page
You know the old saying: "BSD is for people who like Unix, Linux is for people who hate Windows". I don't think it's hate. I think it's "for people who are tsundere about Windows".
I'm sure that's the only reason.

I have a friend that worked for years at CSH.

Watson is an ... interesting ... chap.

Good at bringing in the money, though.

It's amazing how we can be quite forgiving of people that make money. Maybe there's an [ig] Nobel prize for me, if I can figure out why.
I highly recommend giving it a go! It's hands down my favorite language.
Pretty sure that woukd be unconstitutional, freedom of movement between states is there, so that concept is just bad.
Yeah you can certainly get in a state where your brain gets chemically unbalanced and addicted to the dopamine hit of a drink. I could never have one drink, once I'd had one my brain would want more and more and all logic would go out the window, it would be a death spiral until I blackout. Even though I'm a smart guy and know that will happen.

I recently started on Naltrexone which is a opioid blocker which stops the brain from getting this pleasure reward, and it's a game changer. Now I feel no euphoria when I drink at all, and I can stop whenever I want. Would seriously recommend everyone struggling to look into it.
Artificial intelligence and magical thinking (2019)
Rhubarb pie. Rhubarb cake. Rhubarb bread. Rhubarb cookies. Rhubarb crisp/crumble/grunt. Rhubarb jam. Rhubarb chutney. Stewed rhubarb (used anywhere you'd use applesauce including standalone in a bowl, with plain yogurt, swirled into rice pudding, or baked over pork chops). Raw rhubarb dipped in sugar.

We have a very productive rhubarb patch. Right beside the zucchini patch.
I know someone who looked into this and since the facility was a business 5 days a week & a church on Sunday they gave him a 1/7 tax credit. OTOH it made sense, as all he had to do was find a congregation that wanted to meet there.
It's a popular and surprisingly effective "distraction of the week" when there are other news items that "they" don't being noticed much.
Here is the current set of world/human problems:

http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en

Software can contribute to most if not all of the needed solutions.

Cheers!
That general tax pool is funded by people who live in suburbs, so the argument is wrong.

Strongtowns is intersting, but they look at a few outliers and make the case those problems apply to all towns.
I would be interested to see a source for the claim that milk products are paired with rhubarb for that reason.
This may sound true, until you realize that matrix is just as extensible, and it has the same problem with clients which don’t support the full set of features.

This is not the problem. I’d say that XMPP is just as alive as Matrix, except it’s not so hip anymore. It definitely feels faster with more mature clients.
Yes, reliability is important. And by that measure Tarsnap is 100% reliable. But not 100% available, and that's something that often gets confused. Having to wait while you are trying to restore a backup would be extremely annoying but that implies that you've done something wrong in your planning: if you expect your backup service to be 100% available then you are probably not engineering things right because for many reasons that might not be the case. Tarsnap does not promise 100% availability, and no other backup service that I'm aware of does. For instance, backblaze offers 11 (!) nines reliability but only 3 nines availability (which is pretty much expected).

If you want more than 3 nines availability neither Backblaze nor Tarsnap nor any other outside service would be able to serve your needs.
Why do consultants invent words?
My mom’s side of the family is descendent from Italians. Sunday barbecues were always full of yelling, shouting and cursing at each other.

I miss those times. By the end of the day, everybody would hug and kiss and say goodbye until next Sunday.
Israel's largest oil refinery website offline amid cyber attack claims
In mice! Seriously, is it so difficult to add those two words in the title?
Seriously wonder what you think the reasons the world moved on is? Everything was so clear, neat and discoverable back then. Now everything needs to be hidden behind labels that may of may not be a button. And that is on a good day because many times I need to learn a new language where a rocket means pipeline and to download an artifact from it you obviously need to press the pinkish two squares thingy. But that is actually still a good day because nobody knew that to do [useful feature] you need to click the triangle next to the lightning bolt so nobody used it. Next update it will be removed. This update will also make the now remaining three buttons two times bigger because our CAD software needs to be mobile first.
That is exactly what I meant. Thanks for clarifying.

EDIT: to the dead sibling comment: nope, not denying climate change. Was speaking in reference to giving the inventors enough incentive to give up the patent while the technology still being wildly beneficial to humanity, should it be proven useful.
Hair of the dog is a myth
>More memory means more parameters, means you enter the interpolation scheme means your model behaves well in real world.

The surprising thing about large neural networks is that the difference in quality between the local minima goes down and makes it less and less relevant which one you end up in. The global minimum may also lead to overfitting so you probably don't even want to go there.
it makes sense to challenge the topics brought up for debate

Sure. But not in the debate itself.

That's classic bad faith participation and means the argument you are representing is being ill-served to the point of dishonesty.
I was interested in the authors views until it became clear this was an excuse to publish his 1950s attitude towards gay and non-western people.
>You think it's discrimination to ask people who use more of a service to pay more?

The point is "enterprise" plans are generally much more expensive relative to the use of the service or the extra feature (the most common extra features like SSO and auditing are generally cheap to provide, both in terms of resource usage and cost to implement and support). So while they may use the service more they wind up paying proportionally much more for it (the assumption being that theu are getting much more value from the core features). This is price discrimination, whether monopolistic or not (which is absolutely rife in B2B products). I'm not going to comment on the morality of it, but it can be very frustrating if you don't fit into the buckets the pricing structure assumes (the other thing that is common in B2B that pisses me off is "call us for a quote". Generally a lot of tools seem to have an overinflated sense of how much value they are providing me, but I am a little unusual in that I use a lot of different tools but not heavily, being a generalist in a small startup)
> I think driving is much more convenient and nice for most things I like to do

Sure…is that because driving is inherently more convenient than walking, or because your city was designed so driving was more convenient than walking?
Yes, the article makes a point about it, but that's their own editorializing. The manufacturer makes no such points (yet).

https://amaiproteins.com/
Visit to the LK-99 basement lab (Chinese video with English subtitle)
Why would he be annoyed? The lifetime business value and goodwill from this public analysis probably earned a lot more for Patrick than any consulting gig Colin would have paid for.
Corporate entities come and go. They bait-and-switch at will as they are ultimately only answering to legal obligations and in particular shareholders. It would be odd to overlay such a liability and uncertainty on top of wikipedia.

While abstraction is not the same as translation, if the wikipedia community wants specifically a translation service that is more tightly integrated into the platform imho it should be a fully open source project.
https://archive.is/XX7yN
Those small towns don't add up to much population. Most Americans live in an urban area of more than 100,000 people.
I prefer this to the two alternatives of either not letting anyone know what you may have found or confidently exaggerating the results.
The difference is that "master" doesn't actually imply the existence of slaves in English, while "decolonization" does literally imply that there is some sort of colonialism that is being undone.
OpenBSD's rpki-client 8.5 released
Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?
What caused you leave? What are you up to these days? Any regrets?
Except, it seems to.

There are a finite number of hours in a day. If you take time to push one thing, you lose time for something else.

I would much rather see children being pushed to read well and efficiently, write logically and coherently with at least decent grammar, and speak in front of people without saying "um" and "like" every two seconds.

The problem is, it's very difficult to measure progress in those easily with a single test, so nobody values them.

I mean, the NMSQT weights itself with twice the verbal. If parents really wanted to help their child, they would drive improvement in their English.
So essentially "guns don't kill people, people do"?

My argument wasn't that rethorical training is harmful, my argument was that the specific debate club version of it can be harmful if it isn't accompanied by education that developes the character of those who learn it (my personal opinion is that education that doesn't develope the character does not deserve the name).

There is a reason why such lessons are commonly used at "elite" schools like Eton¹. Getting clever at arguing your way into (and out of) things is undeniably a helpful skill for any position of power in society. But ultimately we should remember it is a two-edged sword: The better you make people at arguing, the easier it will become for them to lie to themselves. This is what will happen as a side effect, if they don't learn why they want to avoid lying to themselves, how to spot it when it happens and how to deal with it when it happens. This is not just a character-thing, but something that has to be tought as a core value.

¹: https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally...
Yeah, I have been reading up a bit. Only it's not clear to me if the protobuf format and text format can be mixed?

Can one service A use text-format and service B use protobuf both scrapped by the same Prometheus sidecar?
All of this is just noise.

The experiment has to be reproduced and measured by others.

Then we will know.
> How are residuals from streaming working out for musicians on Spotify getting $.0006 per stream?

Musicians need to unionize and strike again, like the did to establish the royalty system originally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942%E2%80%9344_musicians%27_s...

That's the difference here. Striking gets the goods. Musicians have been complacent. They face an existential risk to their recording income, and what have they done?
Compiling Brainfuck to x86-64 machine code
The tower catches more wind than the blades and will fail first. And the tower is built dor the force of strong winds with the blades resiting the wind.

Though they are built in rural areas and at sea so even in the worst case disaster (manufacturing flaw, not wind) nobody is hurt.
Anyone know if there's an os/2 warp theme? I recall being quite pleased with it.
Nowadays, it seems that "genius" advancements are increasingely narrow in their fields, "genius" breakthroughs require increasing amount of financial resoures and require much more knowledge of the current state.

And problem is further increased by businessmen investing into marketing to appear as geniuses to inflate their companies valuation - in my mind that's Elon Musk.

So we are no longer seeing "genuine" excess genius.
The gushing Telegraph article is mainly riffing off of earlier work and the recent April 2023 USGS featured story.

Hydrogen found in Earth's crust is 'limitless fuel supply'

( we just need to drill nearly twice as deep as we've ever drilled before )

Telegraph 2002: https://archive.li/RbQwv

The Potential for Geologic Hydrogen for Next-Generation Energy

“Using a conservative range of input values, the model predicts a mean volume of hydrogen that could supply the projected global hydrogen demand for thousands of years,” Ellis said.

However, he quickly cautions,

“We have to be very careful in interpreting this number, though. Based on what we know about the distribution of petroleum and other gases in the subsurface, most of this hydrogen is probably inaccessible."

USGS April 2023: https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/potential-geologic-...

The context for the sudden resurgence in interest can likely be traced back to an Australian energy kite looking to raise capital with no solid technical reports yet:

https://www.goldhydrogen.com.au/updates/natural-hydrogen-fin...

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/exc...

https://www.goldhydrogen.com.au/updates/gold-hydrogen-may-sh...
It is also the case that many of such local minima are locally identical in structure and you can jump between one another via permutations of the parameters.
For the record, that's not it.

People calling each other "autists" is a WallStreetBets practice, from Reddit. It's not a thing on 4chan, not even on the interesting place that is /biz/.

4channers would use the "friend"-word as a neutral term (oldfriends, newfriends, etc), or less often "schizo" as an insult, but not autist.

Don't ask me why I'm taking the time to type all of this out, or who cares. Slow news day.
One would think the first step would be to look it up.

> Most healthy people do not need to supplement with arginine because it is a component of all protein-containing foods[15] and can be synthesized in the body from glutamine via citrulline.

I do not understand how someone can wish to know something, but refuse to expend effort to obtain the information they wish to seek? I hope it would be ok for you to explain this behaviour, please?
This problem is even more pronounced with LLMs. If we train them on lots of average text, how could they ever write something extraordinary, or even give useful advice? They don't reflect which training data are garbage, and they don't have any aspirations to excel.
That's an interesting question because Patrick has gained a ton of experience since then, selling BCC, then doing Appointment Reminder, Starfighter and quite a few years of working for Stripe. Surely that would have resulted in additional insights. He's still active here so maybe he'll chime in.
Sugar is energy to the body, or at least it metabolizes into something that is. It may not affect mood or behavior, but it surely affects energy levels.
Mouthwash is not really a dental hygiene thing.

If you need to use mouthwash to prevent bad breath even when you brush your teeth and clean your mouth properly, you need to look into what might be causing that problem in the first place. Mouthwash is like a duct-tape workaround and probably not very healthy for you either.

Btw - interdental toothbrushes. If you’re not using them already, you may want to start. Very helpful. Much better than flossing which has some problems associated with it.
> There’s no such thing as “reasonable taxation” because it’s a subjective concept.

I disagree. There are models of economics that can project taxation rates that will have better outcomes for society. It's far from being primarily subjective.