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Just curious, if you're focusing on realistic processes, how come that excludes realistic spacing/placement of structures (based on your websites background video/image)? Wouldn't the two go hand in hand for the feeling of the game you're trying to build?
This looks pretty cool. I'll have to put it on a rpiW I have laying around to test it out. Most of the time I use WLED[0] and a small esp8266/32.

Any plans for more effects? Or mqtt?

[0] https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/releases
Just give people magnesium, it's incredibly effective and deficiency is very common (big part of it is because of soil mineral depletion). In fact, a lot of hypertension is just magnesium deficiency.
It seems sarcastic, just pushing the standard narrative of a lack of holistic care seen encouraged by most media
That’s not the full story.

The book « The Sports Gene » discusses that the West African heritage of Jamacians actually gives them a genetic advantage. I forget the details but basically, to resist malaria they have sickle cell anemia which leads to powerful anaerobic systems ideal for sprinting.

You could put someone of different genetic stock in the same culture bit they wouldn’t be as successful at sprinting.
Free exploration, experimentation, self-expression, fun?! - only in the name of GDP!
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As a Swiss I am appalled by this stance of showing force by the US instead of de-escalation the situation. I see zero de-escalation from the US. The US press seems "Geil für Krieg" (horny for war), it's disgusting.

The only ones trying to prevent this war with at least some diplomacy is Germany and France. What the US is doing is the same as before the Iraq war and it is the wrong thing.
Looks great on paper but the people you really need to reach don't have undergrad done. Is this one of those rare masters one can complete with no undergrad done?
I'm reading it right now. Does that mean I get a pay raise? :D
US nuclear power plants contain dangerous counterfeit parts, report finds
My dad has an incredibly strict diet and does intense exercise (running and biking) nearly everyday. However, he can only control his blood pressure with medication. Some people really do need medication to control their BP adequately.
This shoots up so many red flags.

"Dr. Houston also cautioned that the role of supplements in hypertension has not yet been tested in clinical outcomes trials in the manner that conventional drugs have been assessed. So while there is an apparent role for supplements in treating hypertension, their ability to improve cardiovascular outcomes remains to be proven."

"Many natural compounds in food, as well as certain nutraceutical supplements, vitamins, antioxidants, or minerals, can mimic drugs, functioning in a similar fashion to a specific class of antihypertensive medications. However, they may be less potent and take longer to work than the antihypertensive drug."

And beyond supplements, diet/fitness changes are massively more difficult to implement than taking a medication.

There's no inherent reason to prefer more "natural" solutions to medical issues. It just sounds good. Put up clinical trials to give your hypothesis real standing.
> Instantly assuming everyone is american
> What are students who come from a less privileged background to do, self select out of good programs?

In my experience, more or less, yeah... self-select out and get to work as soon as possible. I worked through most of high school and all of college. Almost decided against college entirely (money fears), but I'm glad I changed my mind.

There's no way I was going to an Ivy League and studying 40 hours or more a week. Years later and I still can't imagine living for a period of time where I have more than 2 weeks of work off. I've been working since I was 14.

I went to a decent school, had decent-ish grades, and tried to get paid to do as much relevant work as possible.

I still dream about having the ability to take a few years off to study. Must be incredible.
Yes, that was the example I brought up as something more complicated. This does not really have anything to do with the fact that data has to eventually be transferred to the US though, which is what the majority of this thread seems to be about. I suspect that a good answer to this is quite complicated, but it's worth looking at the work Signal has been doing to protect this sort of data in a reasonably privacy-conscious way.
> In Taiwan, in the 1890s

Karate is Japanese, but I get your point.
Quite literally every single company with aspirations would immediately subscribe to it because absolutely no one wants their company information being leaked out to Google or Facebook or anyone else if they do not absolutely have to. Right now there is no such option.
You can't come up with a random number without using a machine or an algorithm, and neither could Douglas Adams.
Same concept maybe, I use emails as my todos and snooze them to popup at the right time. Inbox always at zero so its easy to see something I gotta take action on. Things will definitely get missed otherwise and my email is always with me.
The regular chemo treatment was good enough. For childhook Leukemia the remission rates are almost approaching a cure. So in a sense we were lucky.
I was a tutor in business school on behalf of the MBA program. Basically, there was a small group of students who were... not prepared with respect to math. We're talking really simple algebra, maybe the simplest of differentiation (e.g. maxima of a simple quadratic function).

One of them told me one day "I don't understand graphs." I tried but it's impossible at that point to make up for an apparent total lack of at least high school level arithmetic/math.
In case I am missing the sarcasm, I have to say this is nonsense. I have helped my autoimmune condition with a focused change in diet and exercise at least as much as the medication has. Chronic pain is not as well treated as it could be because we still, most of the time, only prescribe medication. Activation skills counseling (SMART goals), cognitive behavioral therapy, and guided meditation have all been shown to be effective at treating chronic pain.
Is AI computer science? Are the people going to OSDI (https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21/technical-sessions) doing computer science? How about SIGGRAPH (https://s2021.siggraph.org/)?
I had more fun with mindustry than factorio. IDK why but I just felt it more approachable
The article was located in the Opinion section -- did you notice this or not?
Characters are similarly unaffected by gravity but I'd be confused reading a book where everyone floats around without any explanation.
This seems like a total scam, how are they asserting ownership of all things Albert Einstein?

Insanely dishonest.

> The names “ALBERT EINSTEIN” and “EINSTEIN” and the official Albert Einstein logos are either trademarks or registered trademarks belonging to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Any rights associated with Albert Einstein, including creations, appellations, copyrights, rights of publicity, photographs, trademarks and characterizations may not be used without permission from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Represented by Greenlight, a part of Branded Entertainment Network. All rights reserved.

Right, I'm sure Einstein would want them to own and purvey his "Official logo" and persona. How do we report this? Who would you even report it to?
That's not unique to ivy league schools. Outside of math majors, most math is taught in an "application" approach, especially at the 100 and 200 level. You're taught enough to be able to use it. You can set up your physics problems in a way that uses calculus, and you know enough calculus to compute an answer (and maybe a bit of diff eq, but likely in Physics 1-3 you haven't formally taken differential equations so your skill there is limited). You know enough linear algebra to set up systems of equations and solve problems with it. But you will rarely find 100 and 200 level courses that, beyond a cursory evaluation, cover the fundamental theorems that really define calculus and linear algebra (as a non-major) unless you end up taking a 300 or higher level course. Same with probability and statistics. The 200 prob/stat class teaches you about applications, and enough to use normal and uniform distributions (guaranteed) and maybe a couple more. You can do some limited modeling, but you won't be able to derive various properties of those distributions or other distributions unless you take a 300/400 level stats course.

Which, it turns out, is sufficient for the vast majority of engineers and scientists.
I'm pretty sure this comment is sarcasm, but regardless, it should be pretty obvious that diet and exercise adjustment will fix hypertension in most (not all!) cases, but that:

* Lots of people aren't prepared to make the level of change required and so medication can be a better option; and

* Medication will probably reduce risk a lot faster than lifestyle adjustment if things are already dire.
Parents can monitor their children's email. Phone call records are in your monthly billing statement. As long as you're up front with your child about the level of monitoring, I don't think this is unethical, let alone illegal.
All public schools do not suck but especially urban schools can have a lot of problems and many of the students don't have a great home environment either,
"Physics and chemistry don't have an equivalent foundation to theoretical comp sci."

Either that's not true, or there are an awful lot of physicists and chemists out there wondering why they took so many math courses.
Under Bush II I was still in high school. Now I own a house. Never had a problem affording rent. I work remote so my commute went down to zero. Energy prices for me are becoming less and less of an issue as I'm getting solar and battery backup put in this year.

I don't know where you live but if it's not in LA, SF, or NYC you can probably afford a mortgage no problem with even a modest tech salary.
Wow. The allegations are horrifying, almost fantastically so. I have a hard time believing them, honestly. My midwestern state is supposed to be far less progressive and more racist than CA, but I've never encountered such blatant racism in any workplace here (and I have worked exclusively in low-wage manufacturing and retail, not anywhere "professional").
I mean, if you really care about performance, object-oriented is a poor choice as it doesn't map well onto the GPU.
Conducting a successful Onboarding Plan and Onboarding process
it's quite easy to put a dent in the "poor good alien" narrative: stand around doing nothing. once enough time passes, biters will kill you irregardless. mind it does take a while for them to come get you, but they will come: https://i.imgur.com/GFxUvu4.png

so the engineer motive is clear: survival, not invasion.

besides, the aliens are an infestation, not part of the ecosystem; as a matter of fact, alien left to their own device will expand and kill the planet biomass. aliens are there to consume, no less than the engineer.
>Some critics have detected in HAL's wheedling voice an undertone of homosexuality. Was that intended?

>No. I think it's become something of a parlor game for some people to read that kind of thing into everything they encounter. HAL was a "straight" computer.

From an interview with Kubrick in 1970[0]. The attempt to transform every male-male relationship in every piece of media to homosexuality has sadly killed the concept of friendship in media, just like it did to Xena and Gabrielle. It's okay for friendship to just be friendship.

[0]http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0069.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_star#Mass
Not fast in this sense, but definitely not slow.
> What are sanctuary cities if not deliberate impediments to enforcing immigration laws?

Sanctuary cities are not impediments to the federal government enforcing federal immigration laws, they are cities that decline to expending limited local resources to make local law enforcement and social services jobs harder by alienating local immigrant communities by actively enforcing federal laws that it is well established that it is not the responsibility of state or local officials to actively enforce.
maybe, but that seems a weird way to say you can do it.
If you live in a moderately sized city it's good enough to track someone to their house. I did it with a backpack thief 5 years ago.
>Turning off production is only necessary if you cannot store more of it.

Storing is not cheap and batteries are also diry. not green.
My idea is that we need to work on all in parallel, solar, wind, research better and cleaner batteries, nuclear, fusion, invest in the grid and try to connect over larger distances. There will not be 1 solution that fits every place in the world.
I think there needs to be a delineation between anti-theft devices and anti-loss devices.

The sticking point now is that you want to let innocent people know if they're being tracked, but you don't want to let thieves know that they're being tracked. It seems an intractable problem, because there's no way that I can think of for a device to tell the difference between the two.

Anti-loss devices should be portable and detachable, but required to be able to be easily found via some kind of standard tooling. Maybe like the Bluetooth equivalent of pinging the broadcast IP. They should also make an audible noise when the owner tracks them.

Anti-theft devices should be silent, but required to be semi-permanently installed into the device to be tracked. Something annoying to remove, but not impossible. The ownership of the tracker should also be required to be registered with someone; logically the police, since that's who you would call anyways if your stuff was stolen. Anyone who finds an anti-theft device on their person or property that they didn't place there should automatically qualify for a restraining order against the device's owner (that they could opt not to pursue if they wanted). The restraining order should also prevent the device's owner from owning or registering any other anti-theft devices for the duration of the restraining order.

There would also need to be some kind of penalties for unregistered anti-theft devices, and for anti-loss devices that have been tampered with to not make noise or respond to the standard signal.

Also likely some kind of contract two people can enter into that says "I acknowledge that person X has tracker Y in thing Z, and I absolve my right to pursue a restraining order for it" for people who share a car or bike or whatever.

I haven't fully fleshed out the ideas, but I think something like the above reinforces that it's okay to track your own stuff but that's it not OK to track other people.
"...with today's technology..."

So we have the ability today to move 50K tons of parts into orbit, and come up with vast quantities of helium-3?
what disqualifies him? Do you need a license to read a paper?
LMFAO

All jokes aside, this looks really well designed and thought out, but the pricing is hard to justify even if you're the type of person who can drop $100 on a block of wood and index cards without wincing, especially if you're the kind of person who is self-aware of their socioeconomic status. I do applaud the creator for giving an overview of how he came up with Analog in the intro video (which includes him mentioning he first found success with index cards).

I do agree with him that it's hard to stay on track when using digital productivity tools. I use a whiteboard I bought at Walgreens, draw a bunch of checkboxes on it, and keep that over my desk, so I can't ignore it.
Do you have any further reading regarding this position?
it sounds non-violent, but also not peaceful :)
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Early in my software development career, I tried building something like this. It's a really interesting problem, highly recommend trying it yourself. Even with a simple system and very modest skills: it was able to create results that surprised me, which was very rewarding. Copying previously written comment (you might also be interested in the "ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program" topic of the thread or other similar projects in the comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27476768

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When I was learning to program, I tried to make a toy artificial life evolution simulation. Particle organisms on a 2D plane had 'dna' which was a list of heritable traits, like size, speed, number of offspring. Bigger organisms could eat smaller organisms, but they burn energy faster. 0 energy = death. When two organisms of opposite gender collided and had sufficient energy, they'd give some of their energy split among the offspring, with each offspring's 'dna' values set to one of the parent's +/- 5%.
As I was developing this, I hadn't figured out how I wanted to do food yet, so as an easy first step, I just had a constant amount of energy that was split amongst all organisms on the screen. Lots of little dots buzzing around, was kind of neat but nothing too special. I left it to run overnight.

When I came back I was very surprised: previously i was running at about 30FPS - now it was running at about 4 seconds per frame. The screen was filled with dense expanding circles of tiny slow organisms emanating from where organisms had mated and nothing else.

My simulation evolved to outsmart my simple food algorithm: when food is divided equally among all organisms, the best strategy is to use minimal energy and maximize offspring count. I had populated the world with a default offspring count of ~5 and they had evolved to the tens of thousands. The more offspring an organism had, the greater the amount of the energy pool would go to their offspring.

It was a very cool "Life, uh, finds a way" moment - that such a simple toy simulation of evolution was able to find an unanticipated optimal solution to the environment I created overnight was very humbling and gave me a lot of respect for the power of evolution.
I agree with the thought about leadership. Peer to peer discussions can be exhausting, where a consensus is hard to achieve and a majority vote is often unsatisfying. A good leader can listen to every idea, make a decision and steer everyone in that direction.
Roughly the same was true at UT Austin when I was there. They introduced CS-for-non-majors classes, but I don't know anyone who would have touched them with a 10-foot pole.
You are right, of course, that cognitive dissonance is a slightly different thing. When a scientist has an inherently probabilistic epistemology, apparent conflict between known "facts" does not lead to cognitive dissonance, but the same facts (to the extent that they are attended to) often cause dissonance for the general population.
The biggest hurdle for me getting back in is just getting past the bootstrapping phase to where you can automate the construction of things from blueprints. Luckily the game is made overwhelmingly with mods in mind, so there is a mod for my issue.
Having near 100db constantly for hours straight sure feels violent to me.
Running a bridge requires exposing a port right? If so, couldn't that impact his IP's reputation, assuming he has static?
honestly I don't think there's much money to be made out of those drugs.

I'm on drugs for hypertension and they cost me less than 10 euros a month and that's if I go buy them at the pharmacy, if my doctor makes me a prescription they are free for me and I'm sure the government pay them a lot less than a private citizen.

They also fall into the category of generic drugs, most of the time they are manufactured in my country by Italian companies.
I've heard of other services that will extract and then culture stem cells from milk teeth or even from bone marrow. Have halfway considered it, but making a special trip and expense to get bone marrow extracted on the off chance it'll be useful in the future is a bit tough to convince oneself to do...
Start a game, do absolutely nothing. Witness aliens killing you nonetheless. Aliens aren't the poor good natives, and it's so easily disproven I don't understand how it ever become to be a thing.
No, it is not time.

> Dr. Houston also cautioned that the role of supplements in hypertension has not yet been tested in clinical outcomes trials in the manner that conventional drugs have been assessed.

It will be time after those studies have materialized and superiority to drugs is proven.
The thing that (the generally excellent) MS UI Automation API has taught me is that making the UI accessible makes it testable and vice versa. Since any serious software projects needs tests, having a good accessibility story is paramount to delivering high-quality applications.
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Isn’t your comment that you wrote here also just a bunch of “symbol manipulation“?

It definitely hasn’t learned math but it definitely has learned general concepts
There is an old game called spore that sort of did this.
Tidal & Qobuz. Maybe others as well. But those are the ones I'm aware of that pay out more per stream.
Just because something is done by a corporation does not in fact make it bad.

Diet and exercise can help, but they take time (serious time for some people) and are expensive. As part of dealing with blood pressure, I switched to cooking my own meals (the salt and cholesterol levels in all restaraunt or ready-to-go meals, not just fast food, are horrifying) but that's a significant time investment and generally just as or more expensive than fast food. I can afford to do that, but someone working two minimum wage jobs just to pay the rent likely can't. Similarly, it's possible for some people with the luxury of working from home and enough income to afford a space with exercise equipment to hop on an exercise bike for one of their many pointless 30 minute meetings each day, but someone who has to live outside the city and commute a few hours in will have much more trouble with that.

Drugs work and work fast. My BP was in the 150/100 range and meds brought it down to 115/80 within a week or two. I've been dropping weight and with any luck in the future could go off the meds if I'm able to hold at a lower level, but that requires constant maintenance. They're a great option for many people.
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Don't look at me; I have a PhD in CS but it took me four semesters to get through the required two semester calculus course as an undergrad. (Fortunately, the linear algebra course was mostly matrix algebra and logic and I are best buds.)