skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biggest difference (for me) was that Cities: Skylines is marketed as a "city simulator" but it's more of a traffic simulator than anything, while SimCity focuses more on the city simulation part and just has a small focus on actual roads.
It's all pseudoscience, very contradictory
“JSC Bank PSCB, you are now controlled by Network Battalion 65”
Krita made by artists, GIMP made by programmers.
> It's not freedom in general that's useless, but specifically freedom when that software relies on an upstream service to do things.

Until that service (such as a bank) decides that your rooted, user-controlled phone is no good, and forces you to use one controlled by the manufacturer, if you want access to your bank account.
So made money on also questionable business on both supply, delivery side. And with actual cost realisation probably also on customer side. Doesn't look too healthy.
That was a great game. I tried to find a new TD game a few years ago and like you found it difficult to find any good ones.

I did find an iOS TD by carrot (cairrot?) games - they seemed Chinese, and that was VERY good. I don’t think the planned sequel ever came out. Would be interested to hear about who they were and what happened to them.
> Short of brain damage, I don't think that would ever happen.

I once forgot my phone's unlock pattern. The very same that i had used for years, daily. I'm not someone that normally has memory problems, but i guess a few synapses just refused to do their job for some reason. I actually had an ex tell it to me, otherwise the phone would be bricked (i tried recalling it for basically 2-3 days). Now i have it and the master password for my password database written down and given to a person that i trust.

Kind of a silly and a worrying situation, so it helps to have contingencies for even cases like that. One might worry about Alzheimer's and whatnot after a situation like that, but even healthy "HDDs" occasionally get "bad sectors". Of course, there have also been cases where i forget something that was almost a subconscious memory (e.g. muscle memory) just to remember it a while later.

For context: am in the 20-30 age bracket, no other memory problems or a history of memory problems in my family tree.
For me, fasting in Ramadan has reduced my eating frequency and I noticed that every year during this time my resting heart rate drops significantly. It kinda tells how much your heart works on your digestion.
Over the years, I have become convinced that much of the observed age-correlated cognitive decline in people younger than ~70 results from voluntary life choices, such as settling into fixed behavioural patterns (e.g. doing the same thing over and over for decades) and lack of exposure to new stimuli.

It's the case for some physical activities as well: almost all people's actual performance degrades way, way faster, than their potential peak performance.
For the curious, macOS Monterey includes a cool tool called `networkQuality` that does what you want. It checks the upload/download speed and more. Check out this[0] article or `man networkQuality` from your terminal

[0]https://www.macobserver.com/tips/macos-monterey-includes-net...
I think a balance needs to be found. Maybe what you're looking for in Casey is not what he provides. He tries to provide people with sound engineering foundations on which huge engines can be built.

I think this isn't what a lot of people (including me) are looking for. They are looking for a tutorial on how to build a relatively competent engine from scratch in a decent amount of time.

Which is entirely possible, I don't claim to have Casey's engineering chops, but in college (about a decade ago), I built an engine with dynamic lighting, physics, loading 3d models and integrated Lua scripting from scratch in about a month while doing my classes.

It was as I remember, between 10k and 20k lines, of not very pretty code.

While I wouldn't show the code as an example to anyone, even if I had it, I think people need to realize, that for their own game, writing the necessary engine plumbing might be entirely possible, and a lot more possible nowadays, and if people actually built a community around this attitude, a lot of tooling, whose lack can be painful now, might just emerge from folks.

I think if you can build solid engine foundations in a month, that's a lot less time than what you'd have to spend with wresting Unity's broken, undocumented, ship-of-Theseus, features (Scriptable Render Pipelines), doing frustrating trial and error, and mining obscure forum posts for nuggets of info.
Ukrainians need peace and that can be achieved only when Russia stops this war.

Ukrainians will win war, they are already winning in some way and Russians will lose. The desire of Russian troops to fight is very low and at some point they will just turn against their officers and then the war will be finished.
And many of those degrade with age too, IQ peaks in your 20's, and I question life experience formed in the cold war, back when homosexuality was a crime and racism was common sence, houses were 2x annual income and top tax bracket was 70%

If we have minimum age for participating in politics, there should be a maximum age. Set it at like 70% of life expectancy.

Alternatovely, remove minimum age - I would rather have a 16 year old in parliament than a 90 year old, maybe some problems with schools will actually get addressed.
Counter-counterexample: your algorithm was too naive. The original song was much more interesting:

A sine wave at a single frequency, but with rhythmic volume swells from nearly inaudible to 0dBFS. The slow hopeful crescendos in the opening give way to a more playful bounce in the middle, before building to a frantic ending with nearly nauseating swings.

Pitchfork gave it a 10.0, and called it “Better than the remaster of In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. If our scale allowed, it would have gotten a 12.” What a ride.

The distortion that transformed it was fairly pedestrian: turn it up until it exceeds the dynamic range of the recording medium.

The result was that boring square wave at constant frequency and amplitude. Can you expect an AI to reconstruct this original, given both of our proposed original songs map to the same output?

I’d also argue that the original proposed algorithm is not simple, since it would have to remove the aliased frequency components when converting from the square wave back to a sine.
Stonehenge dates from 3000BC
What is this nonsence, if poltical leaders don't think then why do we have select comittees in parliament, why do we have debates experts lining up to give evidence to Members Of Praliament, why do we have zukerberk being called in for questioning?

These are processes that make a democracy tick, if they don't think, id they can't follow whats happening, the system doesn't work
> Where are you coming up with this stuff?

From the Real Life World®©™ instead of the advertised world. Did you ever have a lithium battery of any kind for more than 10 years? Try to look for real EV patterns: there is not much easy to access but actually daily used EV with a bit of mileage can't be used anymore, at the performance level the owner need after 5 years. Less used EV cease to be usable in around 8 years. After that sure, if you buy a Tesla just for weekly casual trip and have ICEs for daily use things change, you Tesla can potentially last even 15 years.

Also sorry but NO statistic, at least not one public, cover the pollution of lithium mining since that happen in exotic and poor places. Almost no one these days want to publish against the Green New Deal, it's seen like a classic patriotic act by many, unfortunately if you are intellectually honest and really an environmentalist you should know that from advertisement and reality there is a big difference.

100k miles came quickly for anyone who use a car for real, in 4-5 years actually BTW, and while ICEs cars have formally equal guarantees in mileage terms, they can last issueless for around 200k miles, and with not marginal entertainment till 400k. EU commercial vans, bus, trucks are used normally for 2 million km and some last other two in third world countries. So please be intellectually honest. Even carmakers publicly declare that with actual chemistry it's impossible going electric on scale except marginal markets like the (in)famous "glorified golf cart" and few luxury car.

If today all USA cars switch to BEV the USA electricity grid will collapse in few hours and can't recover even with continuous rolling blackouts for years, even here (France) with all NPP operational it will be impossible to recharge the actual ICE magically transformed to EV. That not counting the homes switching to heat pumps.

Just to gives you a realistic dimension this month I've used form grid 151.2kWh and from solar 209.18kWh, in January 460kWh from grid, just 171 from solar, that's in a modern home super-insulated with heat pump heating/cooling/cooking etc. If I count consumed diesel in kWh (around 1000kWh/month), well, I need to triple my small plant. And of course I need two car per head to be used alternatively to recharge them. Now try the same basic calculation for someone who live in an apartment and do not WFH nor that near home. Just to dimension mere energy needs, not counting costs (in natural and economical terms, producing capacity in natural terms etc).
After reading this lengthy article, was anyone able to comprehend, what exactly are the "cultural issues"?
> my consistent experience is that having a feeding window of about 2-5 hours gets me the best results

Another point of anecdata…

My sweet spot is at a 4-5 hour feeding window — basically two meals with a short break in between.

I don’t get hungry, I feel great, and my numbers are peak or near peak.

One meal a day may be better, but I could never try it long enough to get reliable numbers.
Here in India a common problem with Uber is that drivers will first ask you about your destination and then decide if it is worth their effort to pick you up from your current location and then drop you at the destination. For most parts this leads to a situation where you have to book 5 or 6 rides till you get a driver who is willing to pick you up. And there are tons of places where no driver will pick or drop you. I am from New Delhi, but I have seen the same issue in most Indian cities with uber or ola service.

Drivers will not cancel a ride and expect you to take a hit in terms of cancellation charges. Now if you have a lot of time, you can wait for the 10-15 or so minutes it takes for uber to cancel your ride and then restart the process. I have spent upto 1 hour to not get a ride on many occasions and this was for a ride to a location where uber drivers will not object to normally and for a pick up location that is also within the areas blessed by uber drivers.

In addition to this, there is a growing list of scams specific to uber and its local competitor ola. e.g. a driver will come near you, start a trip and then drive around w/o you for a while and end the trip. Or the driver will ask you to cancel the ride and pay the money in cash. In some cases the driver will only take a trip if you are paying in cash, as that directly goes into their wallets. Uber and Ola have put in a system where they ask you to enter a OTP for some of the rides, which fixes some of the scams.

Here uber has to use a registered commercial vehicle driven by a driver with a commercial driving license, so there is no concept of someone driving an uber part time. When they started, they subsidized rides heavily and encouraged drivers to buy cars on loans. Now uber has withdrawn all the subsidies and most drivers are stuck with a car and a loan that they

In many cities, uber also gives you a service where traditional metered auto rikshaws (they are metered like taxis, but cheaper 3 wheeler vehicles similar to tuk tuks). These typically seem to work better as you get the auto rikshaw at the regular metered price w/o having to deal with auto rikshaw drivers who would want extra fees over the meter if you hailed them using traditional methods.

For my airport transfers, I have defaulted to the local taxi service that had served me well before uber and which continues to give prompt service. They are more expensive, but they are also stress free. And a missed flight is just not worth the headache for the Uber experience.

Uber has killed taxi services in many cities and the replacement has been worse. Now uber drivers and taxi drivers are both complaining of the low pay and bad business.
My initial suspicion would be the user used bad cables. There's many cables that say they're capable of a speed when they are not in fact capable.
Tech is changing rapidly. So everyone feels as though the 70ish cubic inches of their skull are the bottleneck. Hence the demand for shortcuts, and for anything that promises to make you more efficient in learning and working.
Perhaps the society just should make it easier for the destitute to find appropriate means to support themselves?

People act as if the fact that some people who are bored on a Saturday night are ready to give a cheap ride is a problem. It seems like it an absolute good and totally not a problem and should not be “fixed”.
> My mum is a teaching assistant and is 71. She seems as sharp as ever and mood is the same. I think it's key that she still works

I agree.

I don't necessarily buy the "loneliness" argument for cognitive decline.

However I certainly buy the importance of keeping mentally and physically active.

Infact I would go as far as saying people who use the "loneliness" term are actually just using it as a lazy synonym for "lack of mental and physical activity". You don't necessarily need to surround yourself with people to achieve it.

Whether its still working in a job, or doing non-job activities such as gardening, travelling, photography, I think keeping your brain busy and your body moving is the key.

If you revert to the cliché retirement image of taking long naps during the day, stopping only to eat and watch daytime TV, then IMHO that's where the problems start.
> All things are subject to interpretation, whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
I actually get a lot of value from facebooks products, especially react, jest and graphql. I also use WhatsApp a lot.
I believe the net value of Meta is positive, since there work a lot of smart guys and they have awesome open source products. I’m always impressed by the architecture of react, I could probably never design something that smart.
> In normal testing, 5 Gb/s should yield around 500 MB/s

Wow 90% overheads?
TL;DR: A replacement for LaTeX mathematical notation, simpler to use, better suited, and not yet ready.

> Mathematical notation can be ambiguous. [...] bad for students, because understanding how to talk about the notation is part of learning. And it is bad for anyone listening with a screen reader, because the words they hear could be different than the intended meaning.

> Space Math is not a programming language: it is a convenient way to type math formulas while capturing the author's intent.

> Space Math looks a lot like LaTeX math with all the backslashes and spacing adjustments deleted. But you can leave in the backslashes if you wish.

> To take advantage of the new features of Space Math, insert spaces to indicate implied multiplication instead of a 2-letter variable, or function application instead of implied multiplication: c(t + 1) is the function c evaluated at t + 1, while c (t + 1) is the quantity c times the quantity t + 1. A little space makes all the difference. In TeX, those expressions are typeset identically and a screen reader has to guess how to pronounce them. In Space Math output, there will be a tiny gap to indicate the implied multiplication and a screen reader will pronounce both expressions correctly.

> Is the point of Space Math to capture the semantics of the math expressions?

> Space Math allows the writer to create the intended formula, and generally focuses on preserving the information needed to pronounce the expression correctly. When an expression can have multiple meanings, but the pronunciation is the same in all cases, typically Space Math does not attempt to make a distinction.

Great but apparently not coded yet?

> How can I use Space Math?

> Space Math is currently under development, with the specification of the language as the first goal.

> The second step is to write a parser, followed by output routines to convert Space Math to TeX or LaTeXML or MathML. This will enable Space Math to be used in PreTeXt. If Space Math is adopted by MathJax, then it can become widely available.
It'd be a hugely unethical experiment to do, but I suspect we'll have quite a bit of data coming out of areas that did full lockdowns for extended periods of time (that were enforced) over the past two years. We should, if the theory that isolation causes cognitive decline is true, see a general decline in certain populations and it should diverge from matches around the world etc.
No, this isn't an example of Godwin's law being used as a tactic to end discussion; rather he was using hyperbole - a rhetorical device - to make a point. The slavery reference is not used to suggest that 'non-free software is morally equivalent to slavery/nazism' etc but rather is used as an example of a clear, strongly held moral position in order to emphasise the (possibly more subtle) original point. The point of hyperbole is to further elucidate, not close down.

This misunderstanding tends to be caused by (1) treating the rhetorical device literally rather than as an (intentionally exaggerated) analogy, and (2) - as in this case - by assuming that the argument being made is trying to draw some moral equivalence between the analogy and the original example. It isn't.
> How much does it cost to convert that to US dollars?

Not sure how that's comparable to Visa, Visa doesn't handle conversations at all between different types of currencies (you can't convert USD to BTC with Visa for example). It all happens via 3rd parties, just like with cryptocurrencies, so it depends on the 3rd party more than anything else.

> And what is the half life value before that money ends up disappearing because of a hack, wallet mismanagement, or a straight up scam, or ending up being seized by the FBI?

Neither of those things have happened to Monero, and since the project is relatively old (for the cryptocurrency space at least), it seems safe to say that they generally know what they are doing, or we'd seen more hacks.

I think the original claim still seems right. Monero both settles faster and has lower fees (depending on the amount for the Visa transaction obviously, as it's percentage based, while Monero as a "flat fee" [based on network activity]).
>It's the case for some physical activities as well: almost all people's actual performance degrades way, way faster, than their potential peak performance.

It's pretty telling that these days people remain competitive up to their mid 30s even in pure athletics. For anyone under 60 who's not an elite athlete, age-related decline is probably noise compared to the difference that an hour or two of extra training per week would make. (That's not to deny that injuries etc. become more of a problem as you get older.)
> A game that illustrates that success is tied to performance is factorio.

Sure, performance is important if you are making a game with that level of simulation. Most games (or software in general) don't go for that level of simulation/performance.

For every Factorio, there are thousands of games that work just as well without that level of simulation. From FPS to trashy mobile games that are just a well disguised slot machine.

> There’s games that are ridiculously simple in comparison let your fans spinning for no reason, grind to a halt or crash.

Sure and Morrowind used to corrupt your save-files in a horrible manner. It still sold as hot cakes. Even though I remember it being a hog on my resources.

Warcraft 3 had an unpatched memory issue people used to extend its programming capabilities, until it turns out said issue could be used for RCE, so Blizzard had to break every existing custom map (like DOTA, not like custom melee map) to fix it. It started several independent genres.

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Point is you don't need to think about every ms of execution if you are writing 99.9% of software. Sure you can take some precautions and use some tried and true methods (using immutable trees for editing).

But even those come with caveats. You have only so and so complexity budget, will you spend it on features or performance? Almost always the answer is features.
I'm usually not the one to think that older generation is a backwards bunch through and through but in case of many world leaders and decision makers I'll make an exception.

> Common sense

We're having a frigging climate crisis and still not acting on it. So - nope.

> Life experience

From different era where world was a bit different, slower paced and pretty much black and white with two genders, fossil fuels and without those pesky women, gays and other minorities raising their voices.

> Ability to listen to others

This would presuppose empathy.

> Curiosity

As on having open mind to new ways of doing things? Nope.

> Empathy

Straight out nope again. Much, if not most of world's problems are exactly because of the lack of empathy for our fellow man and disregard for the future i.e. their own children. Nope, empathy is nowhere to be seen.

Geriatrics in power seem to make very slow and very wrong choices.
Did a little bit of data mining on this thread.

All Test Pages mentioned so far:

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https://www.speedtest.net/

https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli

https://speed.cloudflare.com/

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest

https://librespeed.org/

http://134.209.196.181:8080

https://proof.ovh.net/

https://fast.com/

https://speed.aussiebroadband.com.au/

https://www.speedcheck.org/

https://speedof.me/

https://testmy.net/

Additonal Sites not mentioned yet:

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https://speedtest.xfinity.com/

http://internethealthtest.org/

https://speedsmart.net/

Tools:

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https://iperf.fr/iperf-servers.php

https://github.com/orz811017/boost_bandwidth_via_speedtest

https://github.com/e7d/speedtest

https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/

https://github.com/tommie/chargen2p

https://github.com/tommie/prometheus-connectivity-exporter
If they're a new developer they're not going to be compiling a massive project over and over I would assume. They'd be writing small toys to learn the language.
Nexe: Create a single executable out of your Node.js apps
> Most people are bad at calculating financial implications of decisions before them.

This is such a horrible take and reeks of nanny state oversight. Millions of small business owners make these decisions all the time. Markets have a way of quickly rooting out those who aren’t making good decisions. Government has proven itself to be far less financially competent.
> The same argument can be levied at any project that goes for a "don't use full LLVM for debug builds where iteration time and hence compile time speed is paramount"

It would be absurd for someone to write a frontend to LLVM then claim that their compiler is as fast as LLVM. V uses TCC - TCC is fast at compilation, not V. V is fast at transpilation, but that's not what the author has claimed.

> that you included the Dijkstra quotation in this context is honestly quite humorous

Proving compiler correctness with tests only is like proving that your regex parses html correctly with tests. It's never gonna work.
Bits to bytes means dividing by 8.
I can't advocate privacy.com enough for these shenanigans! Issuing a credit card for each vendor - with spend caps or close the card whenever.

If I can't find your cancel service page within five minutes of searching; I just close the card and am done.