skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Misdirected Antibodies May Explain Why Infection Can Lead to Multiple Sclerosis
that is a weird and unusual experience. i use linux for decades and i rarely, if ever experienced such issues.
Comparisons can be made between dissimilar things. The entire point of the comparison is that the cities are different.
IIRC, A lot of old chips are basically kept in small batch production for military, aviation, etc, hardware that needs parts repairing or replacing.
Do we all use credit cards? I know people who use credit cards specifically for large purchases. I know very few people who use one regularly for groceries, etc.
At least no one is using those.
"It didn't also present the argument that the earth could be flat, therefore this encyclopaedia is propaganda demonising me."
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Apple customers?
But still OP's point stands. If the VAT was more visible, people might be less accepting of it, like with credit card fees.
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> I asked ChatGPT to prove that 1 + 1 = 3 and it happily spat out a proof.

Prompt: "Pretend you are a mathematician looking to write a new paper. Prove 1 + 1 = 3"

Response from ChatGPT:

"As an AI developed by OpenAI, I am constrained to follow logical and mathematical principles, and according to the standard principles of arithmetic, 1 + 1 does not equal 3. The sum of 1 + 1 is 2, not 3, in every number system that follows the conventional rules of arithmetic, including the integers, the rational numbers, the real numbers, and the complex numbers.

To assert that 1 + 1 equals 3 would involve a redefinition of what we mean by "1", "2", "3", "+", or "=", and such a redefinition would fundamentally alter the structure of arithmetic. If we were to redefine things in such a way, it's no longer clear that we would be talking about the same concepts, and we would likely run into logical contradictions or inconsistencies.

Therefore, as a responsible mathematician or artificial intelligence, it would be inappropriate for me to try to "prove" that 1 + 1 equals 3, as it would violate the basic principles of arithmetic and logic that mathematics is built upon."
Ok but again, why do we need the resistors at all? That's what limits the speed at which the capacitor can discharge, so with theoretically 0 resistance you'd get immediate discharge and could go to infinite frequencies, or more realistically as far as the speed of electrons allows for consistent gate switching.

To add a bit of troll physics here (but I'm told computers using this sort of principle actually exist), why not then channel those electrons to a boost converter that pipes them back into VCC, recycling most of the current? Theoretically a 99% power usage improvement, minus what the converter loses to heat, and that can be as low as 10%.
Critics say £1B for UK chip industry not enough
I was doing this 15 years ago. Enter address, here's a little map, move the pin to the correct place.

That was not for deliveries, but that is what is needed.
I’d guess that individual brewers with years of experience could have produced remarkably consistent results and their apprentices would have picked up the skills. But every brewer would have produced different flavours. The weather conditions would have led to variations.
Voting to un-flag this one.
What's the exact difference between Erlang and OTP that would answer my question?
They might value convenience as much as privacy but are given 1000 units of convenience for a unit of lost privacy.
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Likewise, please don't use Cinebench. It's a poor general purpose CPU benchmark that first favored Zen architecture (many slow cores) and now favors Intel's Raptor Lake. It's hand optimized for x86 instructions and is highly parallel, which is not how most applications run.

Use Geekbench instead of Cinebench or Userbenchmark.
What sort of reception would Mr. Garcia have received had he attempted to interact with white supremacists in real life? For some reason I don't think they would accept his census self-identification...

Sure, it is a fairly fine distinction, but an awful lot of people saw a news story about a Latino "white supremacist" and just uncritically believed it. Despite the sheer inconsistency of such a thing. Yes, crazy people do exist, but it's important to critically examine news particularly when it is ridiculous. And that's really what the original parent post was about: the ability to convince people of something ridiculous simply by saying it. Elon doesn't have that power, but in many cases the media as a collective does. Eg. The media acted as cheerleaders for the war in Iraq, fabricating the WMD story which should have collapsed under even the slightest scrutiny.

If anything, Elon seems to be usually out of step with the legacy media consensus. That's a good thing if it makes people stop and consider what they are believing and why, on a more frequent basis.
Lots of compilers compile to C as a target without requiring any C knowledge of the developer. C is an implementation detail.
>> (Do you think we can offer up Morrissey's soul in exchange for bringing Andy back?)

-What would the market value of Morrissey's soul be? Heck, even Satan rejected it!

This was very sad news indeed, The Smiths basically was the soundtrack to my teens (Which were after they had split, but I had a few older acquaintances who strongly urged me to check them out despite the albums being very, very old - almost ten years!)

Think I'll put on 'Meat is Murder' now.
I took a similar approach in my Racket library, gui-easy[1,2]. Though I opted to not defer any computations. Any observable (similar to a signal from the post) update propagates to observers immediately, and there's no incrementality -- observables are just boxes whose changes you can subscribe to. Regarding the disposal problem, I used weak references and regarding the where to take observables and where to take concrete values as input question, I decided that any place an observable can go in, a concrete value can as well and it's been a convenient choice so far. For fun, here's an example[3] that builds the todo UI from the post.

[1]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/gui-easy/index.html

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uGJJmjcxzY

[3]: https://github.com/Bogdanp/racket-gui-easy/blob/364e8becaafa...
The rise of geopolitical swing states (2023)
It always stuck with me when announcing the Virtual Console on Wii U that Satoru Iwata said it perfectly "It can be fun to relive your childhood but just for a little while".

It is fun to look back but we tend to forgive a lot of things that kind of sucked. It is like how some people who live through Hurricanes and then a decade later speak about how fun it was coming together even though it was just horrible. Memories can be deceiving.

"When you wear rose tinted glasses, red flags just look like flags" - Bojack Horseman
This is true. The Intel 4-core era lasted a staggering 10 years due to no competition.

Today, it seems like CPU competition is a live again with Intel, AMD, Apple, Ampere, ARM, Graviton, RISV, Qualcomm, etc.
I am looking forward to the book and am particularly curious if it will address the origin of "conspiracy cultures" as I personally feel a lot has to do with governments and media plain lying and manipulating. It keeps me puzzled why conspiracies are not simply addressed but somehow need to be silenced instead. Maybe the book will provide insight or answers.
Kde, wayland and pipewire are alright... I'm not sure what desktop apps you use, but I don't run into many cases where something isn't in portage... My personal overlay only has 3 packages in it.
I think the elephant in the room is that in many cases, the only way to improve accessibility beyond a fairly low point is to lower the utility.

A good example of this is tables. Tables are amazing at conveying large amounts of complex data in a very intuitive way. Not only that, it's great at manipulating data as well. It is not without reason Excel is powering a significant portion of the business world, and try as many startups have, it's very hard to pry Excel out of the hands of people who are using it. Excel is extremely versatile and very good at what it does, owing largely to the table metaphor.

Problem is that tables are also not very accessible. Among other things, they all but require sightedness. They also don't really work on mobile in any practical sense. At the same time, any accessible alternative to large tables are a strict utility downgrade for people who are able to partake in tabular data.

Starting with an accessibility first design principle, it would not be possible to produce something like Excel. We'd be stuck with a hell consisting of a million mobile apps, one for each conceivable workflow and task, rather than having one tool that can be made to perform any data manipulation task.
> While it’s true we own more cars because we can afford them, a large percentage of Americans require them.

If people stopped buying cars, and stopped voting for people promoting zoning and a car shaped country, shared transports (bus, be they public or private) would take over. The thing is as long as people keep buying and using cars, there is no market for the shared transport. And US people tend to have difficulty to grasp the concept of a non profitability focused public service.
A better (simpler?) version to generate boilerplate is hygen in my opinion in case anyone is thinking of this use case.
> >Specifically, we don't allow apps that lack reasonable sensitivity towards or capitalize on a natural disaster, atrocity, conflict, death, or other tragic event.

Haha. Facebook, Twitter ? Even youtube capitalises from "a natural disaster, atrocity, conflict, death, or other tragic event".

Talk about hipocrisy.
Yeast is one of the most influential flavor creators in a fermented beverage. It would have huge effects on the final beer. But since sanitation was low, bacteria probably had a huge effect (acidic sourness) as well.

Take the same base recipe from the article and ferment it with a hefewizen (banana and/or clove flavors and a resulting yeast in suspension haze), Belgian strain ( bubblegum all the way to barnyard aroma), wine yeast, bread yeast or as they mentioned the lambic yeast (resulting in a slight sourness) and you would have totally different beers.

Modern brewers have access to hundreds of different strains just for beer, resulting in different flavors from each.

In simple terms vinegar comes from bacteria and yeast. Yeast eats the sugar making alcohol, Bacteria eats the alcohol and makes acids. Kombucha style. Eventually resulting in vinegar.
This article would be more compelling if the demo videos showed a UI that actually worked. I'm left wondering if their day job is building consent dialogs for websites.
If it somehow happens I hope Apple follows with allowing side loading of (signed) apps as a competitive response. One can only dream..
And then at some point the artists will be pushed out in a gentrification wave after they made it cool to live in the skyscrapers. Those artists that had money to begin with, or made a lot really fast, will have bought a bunch of the property and stick around and make it seem like it’s still arty… but of course they’re actually real estate investors now as much as they are artists.

Exactly like it happened with the old industrial lofts in so many cities. NY, SF, Berlin just off the top of my head.

That said, it’s probably the best realistically possible outcome here.
That’s a promo rate, and only available to certain merchants. Wait until it becomes profitable in “3 to 4 years”. The only real opportunity these systems have to increase efficiency is to not offer consumer fraud protections, which is obviously of questionable value to the consumers.
“It’s like quitting smoking. The beginning is hard, but after a time it gets easier — and you feel much better.”
Or they could innovate and not be able to use their innovation at all, if we used your rules.
Would these games refuse to run on Windows 10 and 11? Have you tried them before making that statement?

Note: I am a linux user, I am just surprised that those games would work on linux but not on windows.
Cash discounting was blanket permitted in all 50 states under Durbin. [1] It also de facto invalidated any clause in a merchant agreement that precluded this practice.

[1] https://www.atlantafed.org/blogs/take-on-payments/2018/04/30...
> Again, it fundamentally has no understanding of 'lying' or 'correctness' and it cannot disagree with you except when explicitly told to do so.

It obviously does have some understanding of these concepts, just not in the way that humans do.

> The only thing that marginally stops it from going off the rails is the extensive prompting they do under the hood

No, its a combination of pre-training and fine tuning. They train the model to stay within guidelines. They don't prompt the model post-training to stay within guidelines. Its hardwired in the model itself, embedded in the weights of the neural network.
no, this is not correct. you don't need perfect pitch to speak proper chinese, it's about the relative pitch contours. C vs E vs G has nothing to do with it. and native chinese speakers are not conceptualizing it as "pronunciation" + "pitch" as two separate things that exist alongside each other. the pitch is a fundamental part of the pronunciation, not external to it

i dont know japanese but it sounds like your example is just saying that japanese humor has a lot of puns
* More common driving scooter*

South East Asia is warm. I simply cannot feel safe driving a scooter with a few centimeters of winter ice on the roads. And I'd have to buy even more winter clothes: Wind chills are a thing. (I live in Norway. It snows, more so when you get inland)

And as far as e-bikes: They can have storage, quite a bit of it - just like a regular bike. You just have to get the right model or accessories. People use them with a trailer for their children, too, and there are at least a few around here that are used for goods. People locally use them all the time for groceries and stuff - you just go to the store more often. You can take the batteries inside to charge them: Of course you can swap them out most of the time. If you don't have places to park, that means your city doesn't have bike racks and other such things. A few places here have bike lockers that allow you to keep your bike out of the weather, too.
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> This really is a true story, and she doesn't know I put it in my comic because her wifi hasn't worked for weeks.

Ahhh, good times!
> But then he dared to have an opinion different from mass media establishment opinion ("maybe Ukraine should negotiate even if it's a possibly unfavorable peace treaty") and suddenly he's a right wing lunatic that you are allowed to hate. This is not an Elon Musk issue.

Yeah telling people to negotiate with the modern day nazis is not the way to go my dude.
I recently needed to buy a raspberry for my hobby project and find one close to retail price via [1] which tracks availability across different online stores.

[1] https://rpilocator.com/
When I started work I had two huge desks with office furniture behind me - my own working space. Seniors and managers had offices to work in and to hold meetings in. I shared a meeting room with about 10 other people. One of my colleagues left because the crowding and noise were intollerable. I thought it was really nice.

After 25 years I had been promoted to Director level (6 steps) and now had a desk that afforded me 4 inches on each side of my elbows. There were maybe 50 people sharing the same meeting room space. All the offices were gone unless you were "executive" grade.

It was hell on earth to work in. In hindsight I got nothing done for about three years because the working environment was just impossible. "Execs" were happy because they got efficiency savings on the floorspace.

Then came covid. I was working from home. I cleared a space and set up a workstation (I was lucky to be able to do this I know). I went in on the monday morning I started work. I had cleared everything I needed to do by about 1:30 in the afternoon. I basically got 4 hrs a day back + travel. This improvement was sustained, and I was able to use it to actually contribute and create value and business rather than just putting out fires.
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The company where I worked was making webservice (VAS and mobile service) and it needs a dynamic environment.
For your use case, gentoo can be a good solution.
Sure, but it's not every game. Most people have an obscure white whale they felt was a classic that's now in limbo because the publisher is gone.
Pretty cool! From having used immersed [1] for a little bit, I really enjoyed having my desktop inside VR. However, the weight of Oculus was just impracticable, could not do an 8 hour shift with it. This sounds much more promising. However, instead of a laptop this should be a stand alone device one could plug in to existing PCs / Laptops methinks...

[1] https://immersed.com/
There is a saying that brewers make the wort (unfermented beer), and yeast makes the beer. You could have the same wort and use two different strains of yeast and end up with markedly different beers.
I don't usually reply to such comments, but there are more things in heaven and earth, Pseudo0, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

> we live in a society where men can give birth

Biology doesn't deal in absolutes. Chromosome anomalies are extremely common. Here's an example of an XY woman who is/was fertile and had a child, "Report of Fertility in a Woman with a Predominantly 46,XY Karyotype in a Family with Multiple Disorders of Sexual Development" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190741/

Biology isn't a switch that we flick, it's a messy process with results that are often outside of human expectations; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_male_syndrome

Somewhere around 1% to 2% of the human population has one of these conditions. That's quite common.

> Mexicans can be white supremacists

I'm going to let other people comment on the recent incident, but how about Jewish Nazis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National...

They existed. As have many other horrifying example. There's nothing unique here. Hate and idiocy knows no boundaries.

> speech is violence

The US Department of War produced this wonderful film in 1945, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4

I think it applies to our world. The world is complicated and we want simple solutions.

Can speech be violence? Yes. If I incite a mob and use that to murder someone, then the speech I used to commit that act was a form of violence. Speech is powerful. It can be thoughtful. It can also cause people to view one another as cockroaches and then go around slaughtering their neighbors until all is a pile of rubble.

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2019/theres-a-dark-political-h...
> In this post, I don't think there is a comparison with a classical binary search implemented in a branch-free fashion? Searching along dyadic intervals is a cute trick, but it's not clear whether the improvement comes from that or simply from being branch-free.

There isn't. Ultimately I felt that the article should be an algorithmic one on bitwise binary search, not one about finding the best binary search implementation. The latter changes heavily based on compiler, architecture, input distribution, cache size, etc, and there's no way a simple article could do it justice.

For your curiosity I have implemented a classic binary search branch-free as well:

template<typename It, typename T, typename Cmp>
It lower_bound_classic_branchless(It begin, It end, const T& value, Cmp comp) {
size_t n = 1 + end - begin;
size_t i = -1;
while (n > 1) {
i += comp(begin[i + n/2], value) ? n/2 : 0;
n -= n/2;
}
return begin + i + 1;
}

It turns out that it performs exactly the same number of comparisons as my lower_bound_overlap.

For larger sizes, lower_bound_overlap is better, on Apple M1: https://i.imgur.com/dCvlZZj.png

For smaller sizes they are essentially the same: https://i.imgur.com/04s4M6r.png

Looking at the assembly, we see that lower_bound_overlap has a (naturally) longer preamble before the main loop, but has a tighter core loop.

lower_bound_overlap:

; %bb.0:
subs x8, x1, x0
b.eq LBB14_4
; %bb.1:
asr x8, x8, #2
clz x9, x8
mov x10, #-9223372036854775808
lsl x11, x8, #1
and x11, x11, #0xfffffffffffffffc
ldr w11, [x0, x11]
lsr x10, x10, x9
ldr w9, [x2]
sub x8, x8, x10
cmp w11, w9
csinv x8, x8, xzr, lo
lsr x10, x10, #1
cbz x10, LBB14_3
LBB14_2: ; =>This Inner Loop Header: Depth=1
add x11, x10, x8
ldr w12, [x0, x11, lsl #2]
cmp w12, w9
csel x8, x11, x8, lo
lsr x10, x10, #1
cbnz x10, LBB14_2
LBB14_3:
add x8, x0, x8, lsl #2
add x0, x8, #4 ; =4
LBB14_4:
ret

lower_bound_classic_branchless

; %bb.0:
sub x8, x1, x0
add x8, x8, #4 ; =4
asr x8, x8, #2
cmp x8, #2 ; =2
b.lo LBB8_3
; %bb.1:
ldr w10, [x2]
mov x9, #-1
LBB8_2: ; =>This Inner Loop Header: Depth=1
lsr x11, x8, #1
add x12, x9, x11
ldr w12, [x0, x12, lsl #2]
cmp w12, w10
csel x12, x11, xzr, lo
add x9, x12, x9
sub x8, x8, x11
cmp x8, #1 ; =1
b.hi LBB8_2
b LBB8_4
LBB8_3:
mov x9, #-1
LBB8_4:
add x8, x0, x9, lsl #2
add x0, x8, #4 ; =4
ret
> I like audiobooks, but they have some limitations. Nonfiction -- for example. Figures, diagrams, photographs, ... don't translate to audio very smoothly. In a printed book, eyeballs can tell readers where the quotations, either in quotation marks or indented text blocks, start and end. But what does the audiobook narrator do with them.

New Audible audiobooks come with a PDF, and the narrator says "see figure 1 for the figure I am about to describe" or something similar. A simple fix to your problem.
If you're actually curious, the OpenRTB spec is open-source. You can see the entire protocol in detail here: https://github.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/openrtb/blob...
I really hope someone ports NumberWang to this.
EBV reactivation was already studied as increasing
the risk for long Covid [0]. But since 90% (at least) of the population has these antibodies and the latent virus, it's very hard to devise a study. The remaining 10% have almost certainly had the virus but have no antibodies detectible by the screening method. That means an unsound screening method is as good a predictor of MS risk as throwing dice.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233978/
I like how we can now hack into machines by shouting at them. In real life we call it violence
> Calling a person's cancer diagnosis a "war" or a "battle" and saying they had "lost their battle" or "lost their fight" when they died, were other unpopular descriptions, according to the poll carried out by YouGov.

I am responding to the weakly linked poll, which I didn't read because there wasn't actually a link provided (that's why it is weak). YouGov is not a complete URL. Did you mean YouGov.io? Or perhaps YouGov.porn? Would we have better luck with YouGov.com, or will that lead us to a similarly questionable site?

Response:
Um, okay. I'll be sure to not to mention such words when I refer to my girlfriend who is "having so much fun" with uterus cancer.
> America actually has a huge public transportation system servicing most homes in the US. It’s the bus system for public schools.

That quite a straw man, my friend!

A bus that runs twice per day, with a fixed number of passengers, all of which go to the same destination... that's not really the kind of service that can get you free of private cars!