skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks really fun! Will try to play it as soon as I get time. Have you thought about using some kind of simple DB to pass asynchronous messages between users?

Examples:

Hidden in the jungle, have caves and other safe places where users can scrawl messages, and leave a gift for the next user, like "Secret Santa".

Have a way to encounter an NPC version of another player character within the jungle, and duel with them non-lethally, and the winner, even if they are the NPC / Away From Keyboard duelist, gets XP.

Implement a method for astral projection into the Astral Pub, a brewery located in the astral plane where you can chat live with all online players.
Why woodpeckers can hammer without getting headaches (2022)
For context:

> For days a blistering heatwave has hit the country with temperatures 10-15C [18-27F] warmer than expected for April.
I remember a story I was told at school that made an impression on me.

A stone carver was making gargoyles for a cathedral. His apprentice noticed him carefully carving the back of them. The apprentice asked why he was doing that, since no-one would ever see the back or know. "I will know", replied the carver.

Now, that is not an argument for doing unnecessary work. I saw it as an argument for taking pride in the work you did, even if you would be the only person who knows.
I am amazed by scientific progress as ever - and actually feel this is weirdly one of those papers where I stand a tiny chance of even being able to replicate it.

It's just that might be the problem (if it scales).

Isn't ammmonia the basic input to high explosives (I know it goes something like Fritz Haber -> Ammonia -> feed world / blow up shells), there is I expect a bit in the middle, generally fuel oil and fertilisers.
Nice little tool!

From their Github page [0]:

>this plugin was created by GPT-4 in just two hours

It uses the Intersection Observer API [1] to grep visible usernames on twitter.com and then checks the Wikipedia API if the property P2002 (Twitter username) [2] exists.

0: https://github.com/irony/verified-by-wikipedia

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Intersectio...

2: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2002
5 to 10 percent in the general population. If you already have many of the symptoms, but those symptoms are not specific enough to distinguish between similar autoimmune diseases, then the prior is widely different so a test like this becomes much more relevant.
Governments are created to control, so they strive to grab more control, by their nature. There may be no nefarious intent behind that tendency, or any intent at all. If something is made round, it will have a tendency to roll.

This is why systems of checks and balances were invented, separation of powers, press freedoms, the democracy itself: these are systems that actively prevent the government from grabbing more and more power, just because it can.

When the government is able to suppress or diminish the influence of these counterbalances, usually on the grounds of enforcing security and safety of the citizens, the process can escalate and end up in an authoritarian rule.

Such (attempts at) power grabs will always happen, and will.always need a push back. It's a dynamic balance, when a balance can be achieved at all.
AFAIK a large chunk of mainland Spain is undergoing desertification, and it's especially bad in the southern areas.
trusting science / expertise has always been a turn-off for a certain portion of people with some sort of inferiority or persecution complex or oppositional defiant disorder

unfortunately some politicians seek to gain power by appealing to this
Grocery app Getir in talks to take over German rival Flink – FT
For me the problem is the prevalence of one time use cups, plates and so on, it may be almost ok if you want something to go (but should be incentivized to use a reusable cup), but to have it when you are eating at a restaurant is like an ode to our idioticy
Compared to it's effectiveness against things carbon is usually used for. E.g. go look at the setup required for whole house filtration for people with actionable levels of PFAS contamination-- it ends up being like four or five 50lb carbon canisters.

If you're talking about 'safe' drinking water and want to reduce it from 2ppb to 1ppb or something-- just a 50% reduction-- then perhaps a small carbon filter is adequate.

For just drinking water RO is pretty reasonable, it's just not particularly reasonable to use RO for dishes, shower, etc. Thus the huge carbon canisters for people with acute contamination.
I do not mind the minecraft aesthetic, but it feels a bit weird if all voxels evolved into was that. Most promising showcase (for its time) that I know of was Delta Force from 1998 in which the landscape geometry was vastly more detailed. But then again I haven't been paying attention and might be missing many obvious examples. I'm guessing graphics hardware decided against it but are there more modern showcases? Or any other future of voxels?

Delta Force images: https://tagn.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/delta-force-a-memory-o...

Delta Force video: https://youtu.be/Fnj-q3ux-Us?t=287
Google Play doesn't really guarantee safety. It can promise though :)
Which subreddit are you looking at? I am also interested in an ergo keyboard with an integrated trackball.
I agree they should stay clear of stuff they haven't done due diligence in, learn from mistakes and hope that money doesn't become the overriding motivator. It is fair to be sceptical though if and when they screw up and don't sincerely acknowledge and apologise.
It would be interesting to see if there is a correlation between the number of honks per driver and the number of accidents they are in involved in. But I doubt the onboard computer collects "num_honks: integer"
I think matching by level is quite psychologically destructive, and should be avoided.

People grind for hours and they see no sense of progress as they keep always being around 50% winrate because the stronger they get, the better the opponent get. And inversely they can play drunk chess and still win 50% and burn time pushing random pieces for a little short-term fun.

It probably depends on people but I think the average ratio for people to progress optimally their should be around four wins for one loss. And the loss should be correlated to the way you played. Anything below 80% winrate, means it becomes hard to distinguish the learning signal from the variance of the matching. The brain also need some balance between the carrot and the stick otherwise the ego take a hit.

Rating system also generate some strata artefacts meaning there are levels you can't get past without spending as much time as your opponent on tactics, or openings, and you never get to experience chess on a more strategic level, or deeper understanding level. This mean that most of the fun get extracted out of chess once you get addicted/interested enough.

I think it's much better to play unrated games anonymously against a random pool of anonymous players (eventually with a min level to exclude complete novices), and offer rematch when the games were interesting. You should play to win but your reward signal shouldn't be the win but rather the interestingness of the game for both opponent.

When playing you should try to understand your opponent, his current chess understanding and how it's revealed through his current moves, and construct with the board some situations that will be interesting enough for the both of you to have a good time. Don't play the board. Play the player through the board. A good game should look more like a dance than a fight. You have to infer from a few moves who your opponent is, and how to interact with him in a constructive way.

That's what popular streamer do when they play their viewers (usually friendly and constructive). And that's probably what teens expect when they join chess after viewing a few videos. But instead they get thrown into an adverse destructive pit of soulless addicted grinders.
>"default" haha.

Yes, default. AmigaOS AllocMem() will use fast32, then fast, then slow, then chip.

Thus software needs to request Chip explicitly when required.

This is fortunately well respected by software, thanks to "slow ram" being commonly mounted inside Amiga 500's trapdoor.

>Afaik the only Amiga that ever shipping with fast ram was A4000

A3000 already shipped with a 1M+1M CHIP/FAST split in 1991.

For the other Amiga, fast ram is a priority expansion.

Typically over 2x performance for the A1200's CPU just from having any, via trapdoor expansion slot.

On A500, the most sold model, you'd get this through the left expansion slot, either as a standalone board or mounted inside an HDD adapter, back in the day.

Today, A500 CPU socket adapters giving 8MB Fast RAM are common.
I understand your points. I'm sure those are valid for you. I'm thinking more about the whole picture. You say you work from home, that's already big influence.

My point in this discussion thread is, i saw 200 Amps at 240 V per household being mentioned, i want to show this should not be the norm or trend. Imo this way of thinking is not leading to an efficient system.

If you have an electric car, you probably don't need to charge it most of the times at the highest current. And when you do, you won't turn on all electric devices with high amperage.

The other examples are just examples, not everyone needs to apply them all. I advocate for the culture shift, the more-is-not-better mentality. This needs to go hand in hand with cleaner technologies and government policies.
A couple of years ago, my children’s primary school added a chess club. An hour after school once a week. $20 per ten week term.

Parents quickly worked out this equated to $2/hour childcare and signed up kids that had never before touched a chess board. It was a delightful chaos.
Something like this indeed; imagine us in 1000 years (if we don’t blow ourselves up or something before that); we would have brain up/download, the tinniest and energy efficient chip-equivalent that can run your brain and photorealistic VR.

Even with those simple extrapolations, it’s easy to see that we can stick a few billion ‘humans’ (brains-on-chip) in a solar powered spaceship and just let it hang there for eternity or it could do a journey to somewhere. But what’s the point of a journey as inside this relatively tiny ship, these brains will live in a world (probably a clone of older earth) with a universe around it they can explore.

This seems all rather feasible given time and we would not seem very advanced from the outside; you would hardly be able to detect us at all and yet 100s of billions people live in perpetual paradise (or hell, but again; why would you make it bad if you don’t have to).
>you can have it without the marker and be healthy with it

That is literally true of every marker in existence. It's not the most specific marker, no, but if you already have a strong prior for presence of autoimmune disease, then the presence or absence of that HLA subtype can point towards most likely root cause (autoimmune diseases are all incredibly similar in the early stages).
There is more nitrogen in the atmosphere than water in the oceans.

Running out of atmospheric nitrogen is not a concern.
Yes, a credential that expires quickly is more secure than one that expires slowly or not at all.

Anyone who compromises the short term credential only has a short window to abuse it, and then they have to get another one.

Yes, maybe its easy for them to get it again, but maybe it's not. Security is about defence in depth and risk management, not perfection.
Take a look on Bobiverse series. Not quite the same, but similar.
5C above the previous record in some places.

But I still have friends who don't believe it, or don't believe it's got anything to do with humans.

It's an interesting study in epistemology. How do you as a layman know what sources to believe? All sources are full of words you won't have heard of, like when you go to a French restaurant. You can't appeal to authority, because that's not evidence. If you start arguing with people who say the evidence is doctored you're both playing detective, not scientist, and the conversation descends into incentive studies (big oil vs big academia).

Talking to deniers who believe in the null hypothesis of natural variation takes you down a statistical rabbit hole. I can't actually summarise a statistics class in a few sentences, regardless of what they think about AGW. Either side will just hand wave and tell me the stats say what they want.
Your comment prompted me to look around. There is also an A5 version of the book

https://fleuret.org/public/lbdl-a5-booklet.pdf

Which again, is a small paper size!
80+% of computer users use only android on their own devices
A couple of issues with that interpretation:

1. Dated hardware, so the hashing algo speed comparison is no longer relevant without redoing it, but even on hardware that old a 2.2x-2.8x speed advantage for mul+shift is substantial.

2. No tests with contention for the cache; no tests with different table sizes; no code given. As a result it's impossible to tell if the performance numbers are relevant and realistic.

3. If they could demonstrate substantially better distribution, it might still be very worthwhile despite how much slower it is, but they test the hashing algorithms with runs of 100 random constants. We don't know if any of those constants are any good because they've not given them, but odds are highly against 100 random constants even approaching good. As such the comparisons of tabulation hashing with the other hashing method is meaningless in terms of performance (but see below) - it's trivial to find constants for multiplication + shift that produces pathologically bad outcomes.

What the paper does appear to show is that tabulation hashing might have more predictable runtime given the result on the specific set of structured input they test with, and that might well be a good reason to use it for some applications.

But that is tainted by the lack of transparency in what they've actually compared against.

(This is also mostly relevant if you considering using a multiplication-shift based hash function, which is also not what the original article is advocating you use Fibonacci hash for)
well, if your way can be as environmental-friendly as possible, all good (so no additional products, services, artificial food, etc)

and the "results" are a bit artificial as well, what matters is a strong core, legs, arms, but not the useless volume you get when lifting, because that's not a movement we do in our daily lives, we rather do small movements, static pauses, small weights. Better training for the right purposes
The difference to me is that the utility of cryptocurrency was always mostly hypothetical. LLMs are useful now, and can only get more so. I do agree that we're currently in a hype cycle though; I just think it's akin to the 90s dotcom bubble. That was over-hyped too, but it didn't mean the internet wasn't going to change the world.
> What are the stages in a 3 stage filter?

The first stage is some kind of sediment filter, either sand, ceramic, or polypropylene. The second and third stages are usually both activated carbon.

> Do they really even remove anything?

Yes. There are measurement standards for this. All of the major brands provide independent lab analysis data sheets. For instance: https://www.brondell.com/content/Coral_UC300_PDS_092821.pdf

> It’s like a glorified Brita filter

Brita also provides performance datasheets for their filters. https://www.brita.com/assets/23601607167498ba405a22f7692b3b8...

> Think about it...

It sounds like you have not yet learned about the NSF/ANSI testing standards for water filtration. Today is your lucky day my friend: https://www.nsf.org/consumer-resources/articles/standards-wa...
I don’t see a lot of X haters, it’s just a legacy system which is no longer actively maintained, so it makes sense that there isn’t as much interest in it.
> Is it OK for China to spy on American citizen's private communications, then?

if you are the Chinese government, your honest answer to this question would almost certainly be "yes, and that is why we are doing exactly that"
Renting is fine, but renting through private owners is something that makes the entire housing system more expensive so that a small few can profit.

There's lots of systems in which renting can be done through cooperative systems that doesn't involve leeches.
A Takahē Refactor, as a Treat
If you know anyone that's worked in the industry, you know there have been issues well before 2014.

Since the company merged with its competitor they had a complete management shift which incentivizes many of the failures we've seen recently.

Al Jazeera did an investigation into them in 2014; you should be able to find it available online somewhere. It was damning and surprisingly well researched.

Mind you this was well before they changed the system regarding the nose pointing down; without disclosing it to the pilots.

They are just going business as usual. I and many I know well would never willingly fly in one of their planes.
Similar, I also went to Seville and nearby cities. It was March and close to 30c. Despite precautions I got heat exhaustion, and the hotel desk thought I was crazy for asking for air-conditioning to be turned on in my room.

I feel the same burning in summer weather usually but it was extra intense in Spain.

Any idea what causes the burning and how to reduce it? I did apply sunscreen but that did nothing to alleviate burning
Great, so when is the C11 rationale getting published?

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.std.c/c/E0yxHfpcOfY
I’ve read this paper actually! It’s pretty good, but needs to be taken in context. It’s clear that going through the PLT has a cost, which becomes more pronounced as the actual work done in the function goes down because it’s a fixed overhead. If you’re doing a store or two because the size is really small it makes perfect sense that anything that needs to be done beyond that is going to be measurable. This is true even for a direct function call, too, though the alternatives to that are generally not desirable for almost all workloads.

For some clients it makes sense to statically link an implementation of these functions into your program. If you’re Google and your machines run one binary all day where you know the exact hardware they’re using, go wild with the assumptions that get baked into it. For everyone else, though, it is generally not the case that you want to reimplement libc, nor will you distribute separate binaries for each microarchitecure. In this case, you’ll pay the cost of linking against the system libraries anyways, and ifuncs give you a way to fold the cost of selecting hardware-specific optimizations into this process. This is why both glibc and libplatform do it. As far as I’m aware Microsoft chooses to actually put the check at the point where the optimized instructions would get used, but maybe that works better with how they do linking on that platform; I don’t know enough about it to have any insight to share.
Yes, the initial loading does take time before the game can init. Like I said this is not a showstopper.

You could be focusing on the main app logic rather than the spritesheet functions.

Have you finished it yet? ;)
I'd say Canada has a better system; there's at least a parliamentary act passed saying what's in the constitution, and the people who wrote it are still around to explain themselves. (Australia loses points because they forgot to have a bill of rights.)

The US changes its constitution by just having the Supreme Court make things up. As you can see from the Lochner era, this has rarely worked well.
A bit sad to lose even a basic timeline as this is by far the easiest to maintain (and most lightweight) ActivityPub server I’ve tried, but there’s always the ability to bolt your own.
Outcast was also great
This was mostly true in the USA; Amiga was big in Europe.

Overall attributed to a marketing failure by Commodore. They failed to communicate Amiga's value to potential users and developers.
Exactly as you said. Besides, much of things cannot be sideloaded because otherwise recruitment for a cause becomes impossible.
Blue Skies over Mastodon
Meta comment.

This comment is a great example of doing what you accuse others of:

-- makes grand claims without evidence being presented

-- accuses others of making grand claims without evidence being presented

Whilst also pre-empting any dissent by stating that any counter-arguments are "wild", and that people who aren't on your side are deficient.

It's bad logic and bad rhetoric.
Won't stop competitors from eating their lunch.
I’m curious why you’re focusing on games? I understand they have their own build systems. Everyone else has other needs.
A life savior program for literally broken devices. I wish I knew earlier!
>it is a pipe dream they will ever care with RISC-V.

They already care about RISC-V as I explained in other posts in this discussion, and there's not even hardware yet.

Hardware is finally about to show up, also explained, to you specifically, in another post in this discussion.

RISC-V is inevitable.
> The US is one of few countries where the head of state and the chief executive is combined into one office.

The Continental Congress thought about ending the anarchy of the early years of revolution by getting themselves a Prussian as their new King. To make it worse, Hamilton argued to have a President for life and Adams argued to address the President as "His Majesty".

Those early years are fertile soil for any fiction writer interested in alternative realities.

https://time.com/5459916/american-monarchy/
I read a nice book over summer - The Cartographers - which was based around that concept
Sure. Went like this (I have seen so many doctors that I already wrote down my complete history in french to save time at new visits. Didn't bother translating the history, didn't seem to phase ChatGPT):

"""
Here is the patient history (in french):

• 2000-2010:
◦ ...

• 2013: ...
...

Additional Notes:

- <Some additional observations and comments - patterns I noticed, family history, etc.>

Patient is particularly worried about xxx and yyy. What are some possible causes explaining these symptoms and the overall history? Give detailed reasoning to support your hypotheses, include differential diagnosis, think about rare diseases (common causes have already been considered), consider possible combinations of diseases, and don't hesitate to ask follow-up questions to improve diagnosis. Please answer in English.

Additional test results that are outside of normal ranges:

- <list of abnormal results>

Try to consider and explain as many of the blood tests in your work up, and ask for any missing information if necessary.
"""

The key was to address it as if I was a doctor asking for an opinion. If I asked it "as a patient", I got much lower quality and dumbed down answers.