skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC neither of those games are examples of uses of the SGB OBJ layer. They're just uses of the SGB CHR layer (custom borders) and of setting sprite palettes distinct from the tile palette (seemingly-custom sprites.) Correct me if I'm wrong, though!

According to https://tcrf.net/Super_Game_Boy#OBJ_TRN_.28Object_Transfer.2..., the SGB OBJ_TRN command wasn't even intended to be used by games! And it was removed in all revisions of the SGB after the first. It's no wonder it went unused. I wonder what Nintendo were thinking, including it in the first place!

But also, to be clear, when I said "fully exploited", the "fully" part is important. :) I didn't mean that nobody has ever used these features in some trivial way in a GB game. (IIRC, the definitive example of a trivial use of the SGB OBJ layer, is in Donkey Kong '94.) I meant that nobody has ever really pushed these features to their limits. There's a lot that can be done with the SGB (https://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/SGB_Functions) that I've literally never seen a game doing, let alone doing something interesting with.

Using all the SGB features together, you could likely cook up a SNES-looking or GBA-looking game, running purely on the GB's Z80 CPU! Surely not something a time-constrained game studio would care to do; but a hobbyist, as a passion project? Sure, why not?
The whole "serving size" thing borders on absurdity sometimes. I picked up a bag of granola the other day which is "only" 110 calories per serving, but a relatively small bag is somehow 15 servings. For me, using what I would consider a normal cereal bowl (not some freakishly large serving dish or anything) gets me 3-4 "servings." Who the hell is eating 1/2 a cup of cereal at a time!?
You can still edit it to improve it in that regard. Maybe add a footnote or something.
We did some training with Microsoft last fall and the coordinator straight up told us that DevOps functionality was being duplicated in Github and that DevOps was being sunset eventually.

He recommended using YAML for all Pipeline Development as they were trying very hard to ensure that it would be compatible but legacy pipelines would not.
You can change a single bit in RTX voice and it works on other cards.

Seems to pretty heavily imply that it was an entirely artificial requirement.

Also it's NVidia, all of the home grade cards are artificially limited by drivers.
Can someone give an educated tl:dr; of all the comments, please? :-)
This sounds like something that could be easily exploited - search for a bunch of nonsense domains on godaddy, let them register every one of them, at some point that becomes unprofitable. Use the xkcd algorithm - horse-battery-staple.com, parrot-bananna-nachos.com, dog-cat-chicken.com, etc. Even if they only pay a couple dollars each it becomes unprofitable at some point.

Front running domains used to be a widespread practice but I thought it was abolished at some point before all the new TLDs were added.
I think we're on the same page here. My catastrophic scenario involved no mitigation steps and removal of lockdown. The goal was to dissuade people from thinking since things are "fine/better" right now, lockdown/mitigation is not needed anymore. We still need to get through this winter, and on to a vaccine.
Jobs that require physical exertion have been disappearing. Even the guys putting in a new water main outside my house didn't seem to be doing much physical work. I didn't see them swinging a pick or using a shovel.
I suspect that the best results may come from simpler modeling, such as modeling the system with a physical model,like modeling aerodynamics in a wind tunnel, or boat hulls in a wave tank.

How much would it take to make a useful scale model in a warehouse somewhere? I'm certainly not knowledgeable enough to understand how the smaller scale would relate to real-life fires, but it certainly seems plausible that, for a relatively small outlay, we'd have an important tool for establishing a much better understanding of wilderness fires. Given how much CA alone spends fighting forest fires, a 10 or 20 million project to build facilities and fund researchers seems like an obvious and much needed project.
And a few Pokemon ones too with Emerald at the top of that list.
They don't, but they are far more susceptible to Measles. In 2018 140,000 children died from measles -- a disease we actually have a well known vaccine that's been proven safe!
I say that we start by adding 60 million bison to our national capacity and then solve problems as they arise. I'm okay with feeding the cattle some grain toward the end in feed lots. I wouldn't describe this as "factory farming", though, which is a term more appropriately used to describe how pigs and chickens are often raised and which I do think is cruel. But we don't have this problem with larger ruminants.
There isn't a loophole with the graph, it was designed for this and was used notably by Zygna and later the Obama campaign. When the campaign hoovered up everything in 2011/2012 and set off alarms, FB saw what they were doing and didn't hinder it. Instead they reached out them, stating that they're on the same side. Hopefully these links aren't mangled.

Here's the media championing it:

"How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama's reelection"

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-...

"How President Obama’s campaign used big data to rally individual voters."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2012/12/19/114510/how-obama...

"Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship: the 2012 data election"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/17/obama-digital-...

"the firm never tried to stop them when they realized what was doing, and even told them they'd made a special exception for them"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5520303/Obama-campa...

"Why are politicians now freaking out about a feature that has been publicly documented since its inception and that was discontinued three years ago?"

https://reason.com/2018/03/23/cambridge-analytics-dust-up-re...
Yep it reads like a xenophobic copypasta that can be used in any context just by changing the first line of the comment
Seems like it: https://downdetector.com/status/instagram/
Oh, that does look like there's a relationship between them.

Good find. :)
Yeah, I joined a startup as the first engineer and inherited a GoDaddy registration, which the non-technical founder had purchased. I may have been technically incompetent but the startup's GoDaddy registration had nothing to do with it. :-)
Its cause the work force double, and people this generation don't marry.
Then they must hand select the ones they frontrun because I’ve looked up silly names to see if they did this )like a bunch of random stupid queries like bvrankdorfgherbd.com and I don’t think they squat those. Of course I’m still leery and never use them to search for my actual target domains.
It's odd I search on GoDaddy every other day and never had this happen. I wonder how they decide you fit the buy profile.
You're putting words in my mouth; I did not say that at all. I asked "what explanation is there". I think a good discussion has resulted with some good points being made and some good data being shared.
Full report: https://www.tfah.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/TFAHObesityR...

p26 answers a question I had:

> WHY ARE REPORTED NATIONAL OBESITY RATES HIGHER THAN STATE-BY-STATE RATES?

How is it that only 12 states have adult obesity rates exceeding
35 percent, yet the national obesity rate is 42.4 percent?
It’s because state obesity rates are from the BRFSS, which
collects self-reported height and weight. Research has
demonstrated that people tend to overestimate their height and
underestimate their weight. In fact, one study found that, due
to this phenomenon, the BRFSS may underestimate obesity
rates by nearly 10 percent.256 NHANES, from which the national
obesity rate is derived, calculates its obesity rate based on
measurements obtained at respondents’ physical examinations.
Accordingly, the higher rates found by NHANES are a more
accurate reflection of obesity in the United States.257
Thank you. That makes it make sense.
I had this issue with a registrar (I assume it was Network Solutions because they kept it in holding) many years ago. My firstnamelastname.com domain was registered and I had to get firstname-lastname.com instead. A year later, the domain wasn’t renewed BUT Network Solutions did this gross thing where they kept the domain in their own escrow/holding area for 90 days before releasing it.

Twitter was very early at the time (this was late 2007 or early 2008) but I happened to have a follower who worked at NetSol who released the domain name so I could get it.

Scammy industry.

I usually trust Namecheap not to do this (porkbun too), but this is why I’ve become accustomed to doing incognito domain searches or searches via the command line and whois to try to curb this sort of stuff.
The cost to legibility for the vectorization seems high. I wish there were a way to get the best of both worlds, i.e. specify the type you want and have it striped so that the struct is then vectorified.
> heck EU members don't really have a name do they?

This is very funny assuming you are from the USA. What do you call yourselves?
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I know it's just an example, but in case anyone tries to grab the code - it's worth noting that this will panic if you try to slice into the middle of a UTF-8 sequence, and will give byte offsets and not char offsets, so it might not give the answer you expect if src contains multibyte chars before tok. Also I'm fairly new to Rust so it's possible there's some other way to do it that I just don't know about.
It's coming from different data sources, and they think the national (higher) numbers are more reliable. They explain on page 26: https://www.tfah.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/TFAHObesityR...
What order did the folders play? Was it usually just the order of the album tracks, or was it more folders of playlists where you custom ordered each? So you might have a playlist of playlists of programming music for instance.

I might be able to replicate this by building a front-end for it which converts it into a flat playlist for Spotify/Apple Music etc.
All good points. I'll add that the company that wanted to charge me tens of thousands to put in all those features were saying it was a groundwater issue because they wanted to make money, but they were lying to me. They were essentially salespeople, and they didn't get paid unless they did work. The home inspector, meanwhile, who I paid and who wasn't beholden to any construction interests, gave me the correct diagnosis. There's an important lesson here that's especially apt for construction; always get independent advice. The few hundred it'll cost you is absolutely worth it because the typical cost of construction is so much more.

As for code compliance -- like pretty much all houses in the area, it was built in the 1950s, so it didn't have any of that stuff per code. It had been substantially renovated recently by people who clearly were not following code and/or the permitting process and who fucked all sorts of things up (including the grading of the foundation; they had actually made it worse while doing unrelated landscaping). I also had some "fun" issues with unpermitted electrical work. If I had to guess I'd say that it could be over half of all work that isn't done correctly. So definitely don't trust it. Have someone who reports only to you looking over everything (if you don't have the knowledge yourself).
Admittedly I only played one game for a while on a borrowed 3DS (Super Mario 3D Land), but I quickly thought the best thing about the 3D effect is that you can turn it off.
No it's not 'like a parliamentary democracy' at all - the only 'resemblance' is that that there is some degree of 'representation'.

But the similarities end there.

You've actually provided a specific example - the most recent UK election, which highlights even further the lack of democracy in the EU, which is a 'confidence' election based on some important or existential issue, in that case, Brexit.

+ Voters were very well informed that Boris Johnson was to be the PM if a specific party were elected
+ They were very aware of the general platform of the parties
+ They were even more aware that the issue at the crux of the election was the type of resolution towards Brexit.
+ UK elected MPs have tremendous power - demonstrated in that very case: previous to the election, Boris Johnson faced a kind of censure by Parliament several times, MPs of all stripes voting for and against him.
+ The UK MPs collectively introduced legislation and forced the hand of government on several occasions.
+ The government was threatened with dissolution on several occasions, over a very important issue.

None of this happens in the EU, by design.

The EU is not a 'representative democracy' rather, it's a political entity which governs largely unto it's own devices - but in which some actions must have it's actions approved by elected officials.
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Where is your evidence for "American indifference to architecture"? Frank Lloyd Wright and some of the greatest architects in the modern era would like a word with you. Not only is America the home for much of the avant garde in art, but our wealthy populace and cities have powered all kinds of movements that wouldn't have gotten off the ground in other countries with much more restrictive rules about architectural style.
ios and safari are incredibly "leaky" even if you do not install third-party apps.

It would be nice if you could block network connections to the sites you disagree with. Or even find out if they were occurring. But you don't have any control over that - apple prevents it. At least macos has tcpdump and a firewall (for now)
Given the important role that dietary fibre plays in regulating healthy poops, I'm going to have to say I don't believe you. You seem to be advocating that meat is magic.
When I was in school in mainland UK IRA bomb threats were a thing, the Manchester bombings still live large in my memory.

Even from a distance the importance of the peace brokered in Ireland is tangible, I feel.

What the royals and ruling classes did to Ireland seems as bad as anything they did elsewhere in the 'Empire'. It mightn't be logical, but all that history can't be ignored. The memories of oppression live long.
Really? Interesting.

What don't you like about Audible's player? And what player do you use instead?
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> They're just trying to get money.

Yeah, that's how businesses work. Just because a company is a billion dollar company, doesn't mean they can give things away for free.

Last I checked, they're still a company that runs on losses. Seems to me, they pretty much need the money. Seems like you're the one who needs a reality check. Imagine, people walk in to wherever you work, and just because your place of employment makes millions if not billions, ask for free stuff? And then you give it to them for years, eventually asking money for a few things, all the while, still giving things out for free, and they complain that you shouldn't charge money because you already make money.

Besides, even in the Software industry, pricing can be different. There is a cost associated with product development. Softwares like games, where you expect millions of people to buy your product, you can price it at $60. That doesn't mean a niche software like Fusion360 can follow the pricing. It's fine if you don't want to pay that money, just know this, eventually it wouldn't make sense for them to continue making this software and they will shut it down.
> A theory is nothing but a way to turn (a finite number of) measurements into predictions.

That's a very nice way of putting it.
Is there a particular book, lecture, or other resource you could recommend for this interpretation of theorizing?
The lack of compile time in the ruby world really makes it difficult to do a lot of work there. :P

There's a nice Ruby trick btw where you put significant precalculations in constants, since the value of a constant gets computed during program startup it still allow you to do work "up front" instead of during a web request.
> 55 were totally asymptomatic

What treatment were they given?
The size doesn't matter if you're using an iterator and throwing the tokens away, only storing/presenting them if there's an error.

Computing the position might have some overhead, but it's probably better than going over the whole file from the top when you want to turn that pointer into line/column numbers.

As for the content, in Rust this would be in your token structure (or rather in Rust your Token::StringLiteral enum variant), storing start/end pointers for each token seems weird to me.

[edit: Rustc uses byte indexes though, so my intuition might have missed something important for the design of larger compilers: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/7bdb5dee7bac15458b10b...]
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// this function foo
fn foo(s: &str) -> &str {
&s[0..1]
}

// is equivalent to this function
fn foo_desugared<'a>(s: &'a str) -> &'a str {
&s[0..1]
}

// this works too because the lifetime of "" is 'static because
// it is a str that lives in the .data segment, which will live for "any 'a"
fn bar(s: &str) -> &str {
&""
}

fn main() {
// as shown here
bar(&String::new());
}

// but this won't work, because `x` gets `drop`ed at the end of `baz`
fn baz(x: &str) -> &str {
let x = String::new();
&x
}

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

Keep in mind that lifetimes have the opposite behavior of generic types. A T: Trait type parameter means "something that implements at least Trait, but might implement other things that you won't have access to", while an &'a returned borrow means "something that lives at least up to 'a, but might live less".
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Isn’t that a feature in Jai?
> They include a term for the permutations of the corner cubes (8!∙3⁸), a term for the edge cubes (12!∙2¹²) and a term for the center cubes (1!∙1¹), then divide that by 12 (2∙3∙2) to eliminate impossible configurations.

But that matches exactly what I said was being done, modulo the particular number and an error in the formula you provide. (It should be 1·1⁶, not 1!·1¹.) You have 4 orientations for each center cube, and then you divide 4⁶ by 4,096 to get 1.

I agree that the way your link presents it, with a glaring error in the term for the centers, suggests that they didn't put any thought towards the centers beyond "they don't and can't change in any way".
The YT algo used to be crazy and recommend insane stuff and you could learn from it and do a deep dive, a lot like Wikipedia. Not anymore.
Hauptsache Haare schön...äh Fönfrisur:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3cytC5i9k4
Likewise, we can thank Apple's commoditization of the software market for the rapid proliferation of microtransactions over the last decade.

Hopefully we'll soon see a new paradigm come along and dethrone the whole, "be annoying but just fun/useful enough to exploit the impatient and impulsive" monetization scheme so many microtransaction-heavy apps have taken up in lieu of just charging $5 up front.
What about monogamous gay men then? There are plenty of them. You should be more supportive of them than a straight single person who has more than one sexual partner. But you aren't, for some reason. You're specifically railing against gay people rather than unsafe promiscuity. Interesting ...
> Only around ~6k did not have other comorbidities

How many Americans have other comorbidities? Especially Americans over the age of 55?
Thanks for the feedback.

This happened back in 2008? SoL has definitely lapsed.

I think it's better to just walk away. It hurt a lot at the time, but that pain has largely healed. Thinking about it doesn't cause me pain or regret anymore, just... I feel sorry for them? It doesn't change what I accomplished then. I'm still proud of what I built, and I know it could have been better with me steering it.

Since then, I've continued to build really cool stuff and not let these folks hold me back. My projects have been bigger and have impacted more people. I'm at peace, and I've got a lot to look forward to.
Is there anything wrong with this? You're only entitled to what you bought or were promised at the time of purchase (and security updates). If the manufacturer comes along later and improves your product there aren't any obligations to extend that generosity as far as technically possible.
Exactly this. It is astounding how extreme the difference can be sometimes. You'll be in a major coastal city and it seems like everyone is relatively trim, works out religiously and wouldn't touch a fast food hamburger. Then you go to the midwest or the south and it seems like everyone you see is overweight/obese, subsists on a diet of fast food and smokes cigarettes. I'm shocked just noticing the number of people walking around smoking cigarettes when I get out of East Coast metro areas. I literally don't know anyone where I live who smoked anymore and rarely see anyone smoking on the street.
You link to a left-wing hatchet job article on a website that tends to promote woke articles and hates anything that challenges the notion that there are other points of view.

Here's a piece from the horse's mouth as a counter, (no doubt just as biased as yours, but from the source and openly labelled here as partisan) and writing in the rather less blinkered Quillete:

https://quillette.com/2019/08/01/why-i-want-to-start-a-free-...
As usual, the university's public relations summary of the paper does not match the claims the paper makes. It makes grandiose claims of debunkings and is written from the point of view of whatever societal issue is popular today (identity and population movement).

Link to preprint:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334525855_Populatio...

I'm not seeing any claims there that are new. It is cool to have more data on spread of culture and genes, but we've already had most of that for decades.
I lost my .com in a similar way.
That's a whoosh
I'm not in the Rust community, but it seems like one could have their cake and eat it too, using OOP with DOD storage.

* Use a special allocator for objects which reserves a vector slot from your structure-of-arrays.
* Objects records are offsets instead of pointers
* Object definition includes getter/setters which index the columnar vectors
* Store fields declared 'columnar' in a value vector. This could even give flexibility to group columns for locality where needed, and allow ancillary data to be stored in a "leftover" struct.
Japanese also eat a fairly high amount of meat. But I also think you may be correct that rice is a less dangerous carb than wheat, which contains gluten. In South Korea obesity rates are in fact increasing and the fact that you should avoid eating a lot of rice if you want to stay slender is well-understood. In North Korea, on the other hand, white rice is more of a staple and yet obesity rates are not as high because the general poverty of the society as a whole is overpowering.
How do you even evaluate who is a good inspector or not?
> Also it's NVidia, all of the home grade cards are artificially limited by drivers.

In some ways yes, but in the way this is usually meant (DP flops) this hasn't been true for many generations. GeForce chips simply only have one DP ALU for every 32 SP ALUs, while the HPC accelerators have one DP ALU for every two SP ALUs.
> As a business they absolutely are not going to stay in the CDN lane as a primary.

Yeah, and all the big five Cloud vendors: AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, Oracle all have their own CDN solutions bundled. Hard to make a case to purchase separate CDN solutions.
How much of it you'd recommend to think of in advance when working on something vs the opposite guideline of avoiding premature optimization?
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Better napping than dead?