skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Millions of people enjoy visiting pubs every week and the vast majority don’t have an alcohol problem.

Nah we all have an alcohol problem. It’s still worth it though because a beer objectively tastes better when it’s drank away from home.
"Forced to close" [...] "the downward trend started with [among others] younger people drinking less".

I get why pub owners aren't please with this situation, but I do think it's a win for society as a whole. It's also a bit strange (even if it's technically correct) to use the word "forced" for businesses that are simply getting less clients.
It's just a naked photo, you're just describing a broken (social/social hierarchy) system.

Don't hate the players (bully, bullied), hate the game.
>What I dont agree with is Wolfire case when they want to distribute through Steam, but still give Steam customers worse deal than for Steam keys they directly sell.

as far as I hear, the threat (they claim) comes from Steam delisting their game even if they don't use steam keys or DRM at all. Which I feel is fair enough.

Ultimately it's their game to distribute and I a dev should have an option to pass the cut on to the customer if it's really that drastic. That way, if customers feel slighted you can point back to steam and they can put pressure on to lower the cut.

In the far future I was thinking of doing a similar thing where I have a build on Itch.io that is cheaper than Steam. Nothing drastic: probably something like $5 for itch (itch's default cut is 10%, but I'd probably bump it to 15% personally. So I take home $4.25) and $6 on steam (where my take home would be $4.20), so I hope I don't run into such difficulty. There's been so many stories with opaque Steam support for devs that I simply want some extra control of the situation (especially since the nature of the work I want to do means I was to make the codebase open source). I don't want to put all my eggs in Valve's basket but also want to balance out any potential cuts where possible.
If you are looking for how alcohol, despite the author acknowledging that alcohol is physically not great for humans, has some positive benefits, I highly recommend checking out the below:

Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization Hardcover
by Edward Slingerland

https://www.amazon.com/Drunk-Sipped-Danced-Stumbled-Civiliza...
and now we have AI violating everything.
I’m sure we’ll all be glad one day that Apple shared this research breakthrough:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/6/16614038/apple-samsung-sl...
How many closed in the last 20 / 30 / 40 years?

How many were freehouses?

How many belonged to brewers?

This headline number, along with those in the article, are meaningless without deeper context.
> The concept/idea is not what is patented. The patent is (or should be) for the specific execution of the idea. Competitors are free to implement their feature using methods other that what is covered by the patent, even if the end result gives the exact same functionality.

IP lawyer here (EDIT: not yours, of course): That's a considerable (and potentially-dangerous) oversimplification. What matters is whether what you do comes within the claims of the patent.

(For a more-detailed explanation, written in pseudocode-like terms, see a 2010 post I did: https://www.oncontracts.com/how-patent-claims-work-a-variety....)
Damn, those squids are getting smart
the only difference between before is that we are much much better at handling nature and the climate. We are so good at it that we reduced death from climate related catastrophees by 95% the last 100 years.

Unfortunately the youth is being lied and manipulated thinking the opposite. Its become a religion worshipping nature and politicians and the media is our days priesthood, promising salvation if we repent.

The most dangerous thing humanity can do is to not believe in the future. If you dont believe in tomorrow you wont invest into it. Its the principles of a death-cult.

It is so sad to see the youth wasting their years on pessimism when life is mostly positive even if you are not rich.

And now we see the new contender based on the same defaist attitude in the AI doomers using same speculative frameworks to claim the end of the world without a single thread of evidence
I am very proficient in Bash. My day job is as a Senior DevOps engineer. If I were doing an interview and was asked that question, I would never give the answer `${1:?}` (if I even remember at the time that it existed) because it is terrible code. It is obscure and unreadable.

The goal of a DevOps engineer should be to write maintainable code so that a junior can come in and tell what it does immediately.

As another commenter said, my answer would be: `[[ $# -ne 1 ]] && exit 1`. That's readable and understandable to anyone who has a basic understanding of bash scripting.
Shortly after you posted this, it looks like their TLS certs expired. Checking my TLS-RPT bundles reveals 5 failures in the last couple days from Google.
Yup. This is because costs are too high and people literally can't afford to go patronize their local establishments.

Some people are indeed living better lives, freer of problems for not being around alcohol. Yes. But a lot of people are probably at home watching the tele instead, and many of them were fine &didn't have problems with alcohol in the old culture. And a good number of the people who would have had problems are pants drunk instead, and some who would have been fine happy people having a pub scene are probably doing much worse instead.
Liquid death doesn’t contain alcohol.

Source: https://liquiddeath.com/
Add an offset, multiply by a large prime number, and modulo. I don't think you can recover the original number without figuring out the prime.
https://boyter.org/static/books/CpWvVOoW8AAjYmB.jpg
Interesting question. I dont know the answer, but ive seen daniel negreanu (professional poker player) making decisions that require randomness with a personal method using his mind. I dont know how he does it, or if its really random, but thats something.
Audiobooks Are Books and They're Also Practice
The buzz is also really small, it’s more breadbox van then minivan.
> Berglas's corollary, namely that no amount of automation will have any significant effect on the size or efficiency of a bureaucracy

The article you're seeking demonstrates this one way. You can approach it another way: Amdahl's Law.

Any process that takes time T has two parts: a part which can improve and a part which cannot improve. Let p be the percentage of the program which may improve. Symbolically,

T = part that can improve + part that cannot improve

or

T = pT + (1-p)T

Suppose we can introduce an improvement of factor k. Then the improved process time T' is

T' = pT/k + (1-p)T

or

T' = T[p/k + (1-p)]

The overall speedup S, then, is the ratio of the original time to the improved time.

S = T/T'

or

S = 1/[p/k + (1-p)]

It's so simple to derive, I love it. Say you have a bureaucratic process and you're asked to "automate it". You can plug in the numbers and play with them to get a feel for how much overall improvement you can expect. For example, how would the overall process improve in the (unlikely) case that you provided infinite improvement :)

Bureaucracy is not necessarily, although often synonymous with, "composed of many, many parts." This implies that the "part which can improve" is small relative to the part which cannot improve. Amdahl's Law kicks in and improving those tiny parts have minuscule effects overall.
No amount of automation will have any significant effect on the size or efficiency of a bureaucracy.

However, this raises an important philosophical question: if you improve a part, do you replace it? How many parts can you replace in a process before it is no longer the same process?
The fact that people have failed and haven't gotten fired, means that there's evidence against the claim, so that it's not absolute.

OP is the one claiming monopoly on the truth.

"everything sucks and burn those who disagree"
It's an interesting problem. Less people means scaling issues - the CFA, government flood funds etc work significantly better with density creates by higher population. We also have a hugely aging population we need younger people to be able to care for.
Net Cafe Refugee
Depends. It can be something I need, but it makes sense to wait a few months to save a few hundred bucks. 20% on a nice TV can be 200-300€.

I see your point, but with your definition you never « need » anything except for food, water and healthcare, which is true to some extent but not a very useful definition for everyday use.
Did you read the document you linked to?

"...the Court concludes that Ripple’s Programmatic Sales of XRP did not constitute the offer and sale of investment contracts"

It is not only third party sales that were deemed not to be investment contracts—it was all programmatic sales. As I said, the federal court found that exchange-traded Ripple XRP tokens are not securities.

Also, you should know that the SEC has dropped the remaining charges that were to be tried in April. The next step in the litigation is an appeal of the summary judgement.
Money becoming more expensive only matters for those who don't have any. I don't believe Google is one of them.

And before someone says opportunity cost, if the treasury offering a 5% ROI on your dollar is enough to dissuade you from executing on your business plan, that was never a very good business plan.
> Everyone found better, healthier things to do and better places to hang out and did it.

This feels like a leap.
The difference between Git and Bazaar/Breezy is how it handles displaying branches. In the latter case, you're getting a hierarchical log by applying the approach recursively, not a graph, which (IMO) is the better visualization. As an added bonus, you also get a canonical revision numbering scheme and don't have to use hashes to identify a commit.
What about sugars and fast food? Heart disease is a leading cause of death and diabetes in rising in most populations. We have sugary drinks and fast food to thank for it. Strange I don't see culture warriors going after these things. Feels more like a come back of good old Puritanism perhaps. No thanks.
I just saw a cyber truck at the local Tesla display store today. Say what you want, but it attracts a lot of eyeballs.

Most EVs seem to be small SUVs anyways, or at least crossovers.
I just started using it out of curiosity and I have to say it does seem to improve recovery and building. I don't know if I'm hallucinating yet (just about a week in) but something has changed for sure and that's not confirmation bias (measurable on the bioimpedance meter)
Putting muscle mass is not my priority as I am mostly a runner, but I do swim too and upper body strength makes a good difference there. So, I would rather not lose whatever I build and make it easier to maintain...
My diet isn't very high in animal products most of the time which may be the reason. But between vegan doomerism and the price of quality meat it's not easy to find a balance...
You didn't have your Navigo with you, but you blame them for fining you?
In my opinion, the biggest thing git could do to be easier to learn is make the "git lola" alias what happens by default when you write "git log".

Once you see the graph change as you move about, it all makes a lot more sense.

http://blog.kfish.org/2010/04/git-lola.html?m=1
Ya, they run on the sludge that is left over after we refine the fuel that the rest of us use in our cars.
Do you have an example URL that returns all of the posts for a large blog?

I only managed to get a subset, but I might not have found the right example.

(I wasn't sure where to get nameofblog from)
There are also dose-size and age-related dependent components to protein intake.

You want to ingest a decent sized amount of protein to stimulate mTOR instead of ingesting small amounts of protein multiple times throughout the day.

As one gets older, you may need more protein to stimulate/kick off mTOR.

from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882708/ (ref numbers removed from text for better legibility):

"Skeletal muscle mass and functional capacity are controlled by the dynamic interaction of numerous factors, also encompassing diet and nutrition. An adverse yet typical consequence of the aging process is the progressive loss of muscle mass and physical function, named sarcopenia. Although the onset and progression of sarcopenia can be influenced by many factors, a compromised capacity to maintain the anabolic response after dietary protein intake has become a key target for researchers.

Independent of the type of protein and its source, it is important to underline that meals should include an appropriate amount of high-quality protein. In recent years, consensus statements and opinion articles have asserted that protein intake above 0.8 g/kg/day may confer muscle health benefits greater than those conferred by the current RDA.

As such, a protein intake of 1.0–1.2 g/kg/day has been recommended for the preservation of healthy aging muscles, while 1.2–1.5 g/kg/day of protein may be necessary in older patients with acute or chronic diseases. Elderly people with severe illness or malnutrition may need as much as 2.0 g/kg/day of protein.

In young individuals, slowly digested proteins (e.g., casein) may produce greater protein retention than those that are more quickly digested (e.g., whey). An opposite pattern has been documented in older individuals. Accordingly, some authors have demonstrated that the intake of whey protein stimulates postprandial muscle protein deposition in older men more efficiently than casein or casein hydrolysate."
I remember playing this on my roommate's 386 DX 33 in 1992. It was way too fast so we had to hit the turbo button to slow the CPU down to 16 MHz in order to not immediately crash because it was too fast to control
Country pubs struggle to survive now that driving after a couple of pints is socially frowned up on. You've then got it relatively easy to get permission to convert a pub to a house, so there's an incentive to kick out the landlord and make a fortune. That part is a consequence of the ridiculous real estate situation in the UK for the last 20 years.
It’s strange when businesspeople seem to expect that their business has a right to exist beyond profitability in the market place.

But more to the point - while alcohol and binge drinking certainly aren’t great for society some of these places must have been the “third place” (not work or home) that is getting harder to find (both for free e.g. public spaces or without getting nickeled and dimed for simply being a customer).

I’m surprised that many coffee places close as early as they do (typically mid afternoon or earlier) and don’t move into the late night third place spot that these bars fulfill.
I'm not sure if your post is making fun of the original author, but what parts of "the economy", other than customer demand, do you think destroyed these pubs?
How do you adjust or evolve the blocklist with this, without making previously generated IDs incorrect?

The ID is simply incremented if it is blacklisted [1]. So the ID is fixed to the blacklist content, and adjusting it in any way invalidates certain segments of previously generated IDs?

1. https://github.com/sqids/sqids-rust/blob/9f987886bc06875d782...
expose this without user permission ? seems an issue !
For historical context, check this paper: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1873/IWPE17_paper_18.pdf (page 3 has timeline of events).

The API was implemented in Firefox, Safari, Chrome but it returned too precise data, so by reading battery status on two different pages and seeing the same very precise value, it was like having a tracking cookie.

Firefox and Safari decided to pull the API altogether.

An obvious fix while keeping the API would be to make the data less precise, i.e. round to nearest 10% or so. Still there's potential to abuse, and around the time there were news from Uber study that people with low battery could pay more for taxi, which was the nail to the coffin.

Since then, there was quite a change in how new web APIs are shipped, they all come through privacy design review.

Which went a bit ridiculous into the other extreme, like detecting if user uses dark mode reveals a whole one bit of information (darkmode = true | false) so it's not sent automatically, you need to ask for this info via a specific header, which means you can't know that on the first visit of the user on the website (and not on the first visit in incognito mode), only on subsequent visits. Duh.

Chromium still supports the Battery API, with some rounding implemented.

Note: Google's goal is to basically have all kinds of native APIs available on the web, to make the web rival with native apps, so they are very unlikely to remove things from the web in Chromium.
In theory, one can memorize a great deal.. I do agree with you, though.
So they say indeed! Interesting! I have lived there long enough and didn't notice. They are all pretty quiet. To be fair, it's possible to run on rubber and still mess it up, noise-wise, like BART does with gusto.
AnyTracker: Track any number on any website
Perfect for price tracking and other graphing purposes. Text tracking is also supported.
And hey - Lifetime Premium is 50% off until Sunday evening.
Its quite possible (and probably healthier) to have 'third places' that don't involve alcohol.
>Everyone found better, healthier things to do and better places to hang out

For a lot of younger people, the alternative seems to be staying home and socializing less.
Death liquids come in many carbohydrate-based offerings and forums. They all suck, we're talking about alcohol right now. We can't shut down everything at once or snap fingers and change people'seating habits willy-nilly, can we? Should we even try if we can't do it perfectly, immediately, and seamlessly?
Yanis Varoufakis: Welcome to the age of technofeudalism from UnHerd on YouTube [36:22]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MXHukxnEZM
This is a different Animotion -- a Revealjs wrapper written in Svelte by "Joy of Code" from Youtube.

I guess from the URLs that the Svelte project predates this one:

https://cssanimotion.pages.dev/
https://animotion.pages.dev/
Excellent pointer with warcprox, I hadn’t seen it. I’m noticing mitmproxy, warcprox, webcrystal, and also obviously offpunk are all python.

It seems there should be some mashup of them all that can
produce a solution. One that also involves using offpunk to access the archive in the terminal.

Mitmproxy caught my eye with transparent mode [1] and the idea that the client/user VM may not even need configuration in my setup, the vfio-pci GPU passthough desktop OS approach. The archiver VM produced archive/cache could just be NFS mounted over a private bridge interface between the desktop VM and archive VM.

[1] http://docs.mitmproxy.org.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com...
After many weeks of work, I've now released a comprehensive deep dive into video the ColecoVision Adam Computer. It is not meant to be watched all the way through, but rather used as a reference for those interested in seeing the Coleco Adam in context.
Exactly, that was my thought. How would it be possible to get anything other than the D-K effect, even if it wasn't just averaging to the mean?

The lowest quartile can't say they're below the lowest quartile, so any error at all will be counted as "overconfidence." The top quartile can't say they're above the top quartile, so any error at all will be counted as "underconfidance."
> IMO, these Conv-AI tools should indicate to the user when they are hallucinating.

If they could do that, then it would be fairly easy to "not hallucinate".

To put it another way the "don't hallucinate" problem and the "warn me if you're hallucinating" problem are in the same difficulty class.
They seem to be promoting a water heater that uses a heat pump [1], which purportedly saves up to 75% of the energy bill [2]. I think this seems more viable in the short term.

[1] https://rinnai.co.nz/blog/water-heating/what-is-a-hot-water-...

[2] https://rinnai.co.nz/water-heating/hot-water-heat-pump/hot-w...
> does it really matter which way the doors go?

Have you never seen young kids open conventional doors right into the side of an adjacent parked car? That's one of the big advantages of a minivan vs. SUV. But it does look like the upwards opening doors would solve the same problem. I'm slightly concerned that my kids would try to hang on them as they go up (I've seen it done with our garage door).
Companies seem to have lots of great policies from the inside but getting back in is the challenge for me, having been a stay at home dad for roughly 3 years now (also 2 kids in). Family responsibilities expand to use all available time so the time I have for grinding leetcode, working on my portfolio, or other similar activities comes late at night after the brain fog sets in.

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say it's active discrimination, but the hoops aren't doing anyone any favors.

Meta in particular is one company I backed away from after the recruiter helpfully suggested I study for 4-8 weeks before scheduling interviews.
Realistically, how much does this matter?

During the cold war I worked in the aerospace industry. There were enough artifacts of history and design in the hardware that I always thought that stealing blueprints would be more confusing than looking at photos and doing some back of the envelope analysis.

For example at one point the manufacturing people put in a change order that enlarged fastener holes on the blueprint. Turned out that the physical assembly had always had bigger fasteners than the blueprint said. If you stole the blueprints, your copy just might not have worked. There have to be electronic equivalents.
Most cookies in those popups are third-party cookies, at least for websites with giant lists of third party cookies that require Consent-O-Matic to properly disable. Website relying on first-party cookies are usually rather unobtrusive,
> According to Atlus, 400 pubs in England and Wales closed last year, with 200 more shutting up shop this year due to inflation.

Sounds like the "problem" (if it's indeed that) is decreasing.
This makes me very happy :)
I appreciate that but truth be told, I'm not interested in learning or experiencing any more from that product + soectrum of relevant lifestyles. Thanks tho, but I have learned many diffict lessons that Im equal parts grateful for and being away from going forward :)
I don't think that's the case. I have three of them in my house. They all seem to drink a lot of coffee, read a lot of books and do a lot of sports together (all of them at the school).
But isn't starlink still restricted to within a few dozen miles from shore where a ground station exists?
Altitude is a very nice multiplayer game inspired by biplanes https://store.steampowered.com/app/41300/Altitude/
Surely some people are more trustworthy than others?

Some people are quite introspective and have pretty good meta-awareness, and hedge when they're not sure about something. While other people are known to just bullshit whenever they don't know something (or when they just feel like it), and don't change this behaviour even when lots of people have pointed it out.

How much more would you be worried if you were having a conversation with a known bullshitter?
Fast food is constantly derided.

I personally believe that lack of physical activity actually plays a larger role in what drives the resulting health issues.
But is what you describe a good thing? People seek status. By removing status from being Prime Minister you make being Prime Minister merely another step on the path to status. I'm not sure it's a good thing for someone to see being Prime Minister as a means of leverage to something else they want.
Humans has extensive state separate from the previous words. If I ask you "what did you do during the weekend", you will not generate a response only based on those words like ChatGPT would.

If you mean that humans writes one word at a time, yes that is true. Humans generate words sequentially. But that isn't a very interesting comparison.