Things That Help People Make New Friends

Proximity, unplanned interactions, and privacy (i.e. one-on-one moments).

Systemantics - Wikipedia

system failure is an intrinsic feature of systems

Debian: how to install packages from a newer distribution

Add the repository, create a pin for all packages to the old repo, add a pin for the package of interest

Amiga C/C++ Compile, Debug & Profile - Visual Studio Marketplace

Really awesome VS Code extension which lets you scrub back and forward along a trace of Amiga demo execution to see DMA, all registers, copper list activity, etc. One of the few things that would get me to use VS Code... if it weren't also Windows-only!

Why Marcel Duchamp Played Chess with a Naked Eve Babitz | Artsy

Where I ended up after reading about the Magnus v Hans chess cheating scandal on HN.

ghidraninja/game-and-watch-backup: Relatively easy to use scripts for backing up (and restoring) the original Game & Watch firmware.

zelda game and watch modding

kbeckmann/game-and-watch-retro-go: Emulator collection for Nintendo® Game & Watch™

zelda game and watch modding

Savoury Muffins Recipe | Australia's Best Recipes

Yes please.

Zelda Secret Sound Effect - Flat

secret found

SAITEMISS

cases for katja

Shared state and routing in Vue.js | by Michał Męciński | codeburst

Routing in SPAs where the route transitions are driven by the shared store, as opposed to the less-flexible model taken by vue-router which links routes to components.

ferrucc.io | Building friend catchers

"""
Friendcatchers are part of this. Friendcatchers are small, contained lists, essays or apps that solve resonant (emotional, relevant), tractable, underserved problems.

One way of doing it is writing in depth specialised guides. The beginners guides to everything have already been written. What’s missing is more advanced content. This sort of content tends to stand out and be highly appreciated in places like Reddit and Hacker news.

Another way of doing it is by sharing polarising, unconventional ideas you have. These ideas will repulse those that are close minded towards your ideas and attract more people like you.
"""
Via HN

Stańczyk (painting) - Wikipedia

Famous Polish painting parodied with Waluigi

[2204.10532] End-to-end symbolic regression with transformers

From the London Machine Learning meetup today. They predict the function that will fit a set of values using a transformer architecture. It approaches state of the art (which are GA-based approaches) but is much faster than them.

Some interesting discussion of the typical approach which is to evolve a "skeleton", which is the formula without any constants, and then fit constants to it. They don't use a skeleton and achieve better results, but only within the domain for which the model was trained

GAs tend to over-fit, so this being immune from that results in simpler formulae.

CARAMELLA | Hirashima/ヒラシマ

Japanese furniture manufacturer

Imaginative designs of obsessive quality — Hem

Furniture via Katja

noo.ma | Best quality contemporary furniture handmade in Europe

Furniture via Katja

The Ten Commandments for Detective Fiction (1929): A Brief History and Update – Elizabeth Spann Craig

These are pretty good, apart from the weird Chinese one. Was this supposed to be anti-mysterious-Orient?

[Guide] How to unlock the bootloader on Nokia Android Phones for free

The Horse of the Invisible

Madame Sara

The Problem of Cell 13

A Complete Guide To Caring For Rubber Plants and Answers to Why Yours Might Be Dying • Vintage Revivals

Very comprehensive rubber plant troubleshooting. I have learnt that I was giving mine too much sun AND underwatering it! Poor little guy.

HappyLighting-py

"Do you recognize the logo? Yes? So, I'm sure you are tired like me about this crappy app."

Someone reverse engineered the BLE protocol used by the LED strip lights I just bought.

Or, more accurately: I just bought some LED strip lights because someone reverse engineered the BLE protocol they use.

Single Order Generic Ethernet Access (SoGEA) | BT Wholesale

Should You Feed Orioles All Summer?

> Orioles fans should definitely feed their love birds all summer long! Not
> only will they get some great exercise and some delicious Orioles food, but
> they will also be keeping an eye on baseball.

Examples of superficially plausible nonsense text, via hn

A Small, Good Thing--Raymond Carver

Short story for "The Shorter The Better"

Oulu - How the Best Winter Cycling City Became even Better? - YouTube

This would be the most Finnish thing I've ever seen except that cross-country skiing is not directly involved. My favourite part is that a condition of the bike-path-maintenance contract is that the contractor cycle on the paths they've cleared.

Semplice 6 — Build your portfolio with pride

Katja and Sade's Wordpress plugin

Baked Potatoes Stuffed With Ricotta and Herbs Recipe - Food.com

food

The White Cat and the Monk

Children's story based on a poem written by an anonymous 9th-century Benedictine monk about his cat.

August Grove Richards Kitchen Pantry & Reviews | Wayfair.co.uk

August Grove Kitchen Pantry & Reviews | Wayfair.co.uk

House of Hampton Vida 43 x 77cm Free Standing Cabinet & Reviews | Wayfair.co.uk

Book reviews of imaginary books

Borges absolutely would not stop [writing book reviews of imaginary books]. His reasoning was that writing whole books was a lot of work, whereas writing book reviews was much easier, and let you get much the same ideas across.

OCaml Programming: Correct + Efficient + Beautiful — OCaml Programming: Correct + Efficient + Beautiful

ocaml tutorial recommended on the subreddit.

Unlike Real World OCaml, this doesn't use Jane Street libraries.

BirdNET-Pi – BirdNET in Raspberry Pis

This is cute! Very detailed automated birdwatching

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation – Economics from the Top Down

If you plot x = test score and y = perceived ability - test score, when both test score and perceived ability on test score are generated randomly, you get the type of graph which Dunning and Kruger reported in their paper. This is because y is effectively x plus some noise; if you have a low (randomly-generated) test score then you are more likely to have a high (randomly-generated) self-evaluation simply because there are more numbers to choose from above; and vice versa.

That implies that it's not obvious that there's an effect which is specific to human psychology: since you can get the effect with random numbers, it just comes down to "pick a random number between 0 and 100" being more frequently above low numbers and more frequently below high numbers.

It also happens to be the case that when you remove the correlation, by separating actual test score from perceived ability on test score (e.g. by using two different tests), the Dunning-Kruger effect disappears. In other words, the effect is purely a result of correlation between x and y axes.

So the Dunning-Kruger effect doesn't exist, and Dunning and Kruger used an invalid test method to generate data which led them to a false conclusion because it was correlated with itself.

Castella - Wikipedia

Classic Japanese sweet a little like madeira, brought from Portugal to Japan in the 16th century.

[SH17A] Lake Drops deobfuscated

Nice simple water droplet effect from the famous shader showdown champion, fizzer!

House of the Weeping Widow - Wikipedia

A building for receiving foreign dignitaries in Kyiv. "when it rains water pours over the woman's face on the facade, running down her cheeks like tears."

Cat Printer | Hacker News

:3

NES Cartridge Circuit Board MMC1/MMC3 | Etsy UK

Detecting pitch with the Web Audio API and autocorrelation | Hacker News

Irredentism - Wikipedia

Irredentism refers to political or popular movements whose members claim and seek to occupy (usually on behalf of their nation) territory they consider "lost" (or "unredeemed") to their nation, based on history or legend.

Deceit, Desire, and the Literature Professor: Why Girardians Exist

On Girard: "All desire is mimetic" is a fascinating proposition, but is obviously wrong (plenty of desires arise purely internally). "Some desire is mimetic" is pretty clearly true, but also boring -- we all already knew that.

GitHub - tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect: Persists tmux environment across system restarts.

Onigiri recipe - BBC Food

Umeboshi onigiri (is a fun thing to say)

Virtual devices · Wiki · PipeWire / pipewire · GitLab

Basic framework for creating a loopback monitor device combining system audio and microphone in Pipewire.

Sleepy Girls | Lazy Susan - YouTube