skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote an NES game for my senior project in university. Later, when I researched writing a game for the Atari 2600, I was surprised to learn that you basically had to write your own display subroutine, whereas the NES did that work for you.
If TikTok can suck in a hyperachiever like this dude, it’s over for us.
How do you interpret that? How many people actually vote? When there are no better politicians, how many people attempt and fail at getting elected to replace them? Also, the changes taking effect may not have correlation but over time, the changes people want, they seem to happen (see drug legalization)

Rich people will always run democracies because they can affect the lives of the people, therefore politicians must listen to them. #1 issue being jobs. On issues where rich people are in conflict with the majority, how much impact will the majority accept to affect the change? That is what politicians have to decide.
Self Modifying Code
Melbourne hit-and-run blamed on Tesla Autopilot, could set legal precedent
Not only is there a massive difference in the power of a microwave oven compared to wifi, but the mechanism through which it heats food is dielectric heating [0] which does not occur in radio signals because they are not rotating fields.

This basic information is contained in the first very short paragraph of how a microwave oven works on wikipedia.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_heating
Twitter is also not a "public forum". They are a private company (exactly like Tesla) and can choose what people and what content they want to serve.
That lack of constant supervision of children is evidence of bad parenting.
>You think that’s how it works? One person can tell Jesus/God to ignore another’s prayers?

Sure. People can tell Jesus/God whatever they want to.
Somewhere in the 80s some concerned parents in Jordache jeans just got kicked out of their mall's little town square facade where they were trying to hand out political pamphlets. And they went, "Oh, so that is the thing."

So... what's the thing here with TikTok? I mean it cannot just be that it's a personally-tailored time suck. What's missing? Is it pro-unionization rabbit holes?

I'm going to go ahead and guess "pro-unionization rabbit holes." If I'm wrong then the evidence will be me following the link someone gives me of a 2-hour TikTok unionization rabbit hole. I can't lose, internet!

edit: clarification
AI at Tesla is a scam, so it probably doesn't say what you think it says.

It's a shame that Karpathy actually seems to know what he's talking about. Maybe he originally bought in to the Tesla vision and doesn't have the integrity to admit it's failed. Maybe he's like von Braun, doing great evil because he wants funding. Either way we lost a seemingly talented researcher.
The software engineer compensation flywheel
> The NES is in some sense a composite-only system. While there is an RGB mod, it's quite invasive[...]

This is something that a lot of even very plugged into retrogaming people don't really get about the NES and RGB mods. I think it's very counterintuitive for people now that there is no part of the system that operates in actual 'color' information. The NES' video output is composite from start to finish[1], with palette entries corresponding to approximate output frequencies for the color subcarrier.

So there is no canonical palette for the NES - the colors produced by games varied by region, a little bit by unit, and especially because NTSC had trouble with stable color even by TV.

So people imagine that RGB or HDMI mods of the NES are somehow tapping into a missing layer of raw color information, but what it's actually doing is intercepting communications with the PPU and modelling (on an fpga) an extra PPU that does operate in RGB, and then constructing a new video signal from that.

And then you have to pick a palette, because there isn't just one.

I have an RGB modded NES (a US toploader) but I doubt I will ever buy or make another one. At this point I think it's better to just use an upscaler, which will produce no less authentic a picture. The main benefit imo of the rgb mod is that there's less interference so the picture is clearer, even if you just output reconstructed composite from it.

[1] There is actually a model of NES PPU that outputs RGB, it was used in the PlayChoice arcade machines (which generally used RGB monitors, not composite) and it has a palette that most people agree is ugly as sin.
Ted Chiang is a great writer, while not being showy. I like his writing for how easy he makes it seem to write compelling ideas into narratives. I found his short story collection Stories of Your Life and Others quite a good intro to his oeuvre. I quite liked the film Arrival, which is based on the title work of the collection.

I should read more of his work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories_of_Your_Life_and_Other...
Indeed, although userspace spinlocks are almost always a bad idea, it's possible to write a much better one than repurposing ReadWriteLock.

1. As you say, use onSpinWait

2. It emits a load barrier on each failed trylock call, from the underlying strong integer CAS. Ideally it would use a cas with relaxed memory order, and use an acquire fence only if successful.

3. The read path emits store barriers on release, which is unnecessary. Releasing could use a relaxed order fetch-add instruction.

It's theoretically possible that the JIT would be smart enough to optimize these with the existing code, but that's asking a lot from its analysis, including that the thread local storage writes for detecting reentrance aren't "real" writes that need to be made visible to other threads.
#2 is so true. I think it also is grounding; my purpose is clear and clear to others. I don’t have to question my reason for being at all.
Sounds like dealing with private insurance, as well. With the added benefit of getting bankrupted, even if insured.
> Where do you think COVID came from? Can you provide independent sources to support your claim?

Duh, it was invented in a U.S. Army lab /s
Renewables are already getting ready to climb the hockey stick of exponential deployment due to their cost, and EVs are not far behind. Better policy would of course speed the transition, but at this point at least, renewables are unstoppable. The faster the cost of power drops due to renewables, the more cost advantageous to electrify everything, further driving a fossil death spiral.
Agreed. I always wondered how games got so much better through the NES’s lifetime and didn’t realize the extent of the hardware augmentation in those cartridges.

Brilliant move making the pins so powerful.
I’ve switched to Dvorak and Colemak before. I always come crawling back to Qwerty.

The reality is the benefits you get from switching keyboard layouts is marginal at best.

The real benefits (in terms of RSI) come from things like a split keyboard or other modifications. Once I switched to a split (and tented, but I did both at once) keyboard I have had zero issues with any RSI.

The other big benefit comes from modifying the placement of modifier keys if you are a heavy keyboard shortcut person. I am, as an Emacs user, but for me it was “Emacs wrist.” I’ve had no problems at all after moving Alt and Ctrl to my thumbs with the split keyboard.
WHO investigation is an independenct source. Many scientists have condemn racism against Asian Americans and racist right wing propagnada against China [1].

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-strongly-...
> because you don’t believe

Seems like a strong assertion to make based on a short comment by someone who based their statement on having read the gospels and a good chunk of the Old Testament.

And what’s with the mention of hate? I don’t see any in the comment. And sure, there’s plenty of it in the Old Testament but the New Testament doesn’t even want you to hate the Romans.

Was the Apostle Thomas not a believer? Did he preach hate?

The beam might be in your eye, tekknik.
TikTok was nice, but quickly became boring and irrelevant for me. My friend likens it to salt water: it seems to quench your thirst in the moment, but you get thirstier and thirstier as you drink it, eventually dying of dehydration.
Off topic: I wonder why lines on London Transport don't capitalise the L in line? Elizabeth line, rather than Elizabeth Line? I would think "Line" is part of the name of the line?
Each of these drew 85W according to the article.
I’m not as optimistic as you guys. What I think we will get is a fragmented mess, with the app store that allows the most stealing of data winning. WeChat is a good example where on Android they require access to your whole contact list to even start but on iOS this is not the case because Apple don’t allow it. Competition is going to make this things worse not better. Once you have competition that uses dark patterns (ui), those guys earn more money and can drown out the marketing the “good guys” do. Look at New York Times unsubscription over the phone and others. I see some apps moving between app stores to chase the money, not the “best for the user”-award.
Why'd you switch back?
Silver may even be okay from the cost perspective, but it's much harder to chemically etch.
Not a big fan of the article, but don’t dismiss the concept. I’m not sure if my former employer coined “MLP” or not, but we certainly used it extensively; I generally would describe it to clients as a “vertical slice” of the vision that is just wide enough to solve a single meaningful problem and deep enough to be viable as a standalone product. The MLP approach gave design a tight focus on the product and service experience that ensured they couldn’t blue-sky the design, let development get a full product out the door in a reasonable rapid schedule and with decent QA bounds, and ensured the business had something that that could be market-tested and form the basis of further growth.

You have to think about the long-term “thriveability” of the MLP and how it fits into the business model, so it’s not a free lunch, but I’ve found it to be an effective way to avoid the usual pitfalls of boiling the ocean, early abstraction, unmaintainable scope creep, and so on.
Data50: The World's Top Data Startups – Future
Agree it is really good. I’m a 40 year old who generally hates social media but I can burn hours on there watching stupid videos. I keep it off my phone as it’s a total time sink.
We have a really simple way to deal with this. When competitors sign up for our platform, we send them email asking them if they see an opportunity to partner and if so to join us for a call. It's a nice way to start an open-ended conversation. Sometimes competitors actually are doing things that complement your products. We've had a number of these conversations.

As for people who just want to do competitive research and don't want talk? We reject the request. Trials cost us money and it would be silly to fund their research.
SOCKS5 supports UDP, but yeah it does not look like go-socks5 does.
I believe this is wrong.

Positive predictive value is the likelihood that, if you have gotten a positive test result, you actually have the disease. It’s calculated as TP/TP+FP.

TP, ie true positives, is a function of false negatives.

Here's a common sense explanation. Assume the false negative rate is 100% and so you have zero true positives. Then every positive test result will be a false positive, and therefore a positive test result shows that you don't have the disease.

On the other hand, assume the false negative rate is 0. Then a positive test result will mean that you probably do have the disease as long as the false positive rate isn't too high.

Remember your post I was replying to was all about the probability that you actually have the disease conditional on a positive test result. That's the question I am addressing. For this question, you must consider the false negative rate.
This is a reaction to someone in the Japanese gov't mentioning that the south Kurils were disputed and they had not given up on them as sanctions were being ratcheted up.
> But none of those drugs will result in the long-term change that you’re looking for.

Sorry to be blunt, but this is clearly the morally infused cliché of "healthy people do not take drugs because drugs are bad mkay.". Cliché which seem to automatically give people the status of the most responsible person in the room for some reason.

Well I'd like to give a rebuttal. Saying no to drugs is saying no to the risk of taking the drug, that is true. But it is _also_ saying no to the potential benefit.

If, for the sake of argument, someone took that risk at 20, but had some incredible epiphany and radically changed their life for the better during the 30 years following the experiment, you can't say in good faith that it was _bad_. You _have_ to take into account that a better quality of life was exchanged for that risk. And in my opinion, refusing to see that is not automatically the responsible position, even if it is always portrayed as such.
“I like cheese” will be offensive and perhaps upsetting to some vegans. So better not talk about food at work. The same with pretty much any subject you can think of. Making the work environment or any other environment non-upsetting to everybody at all time is impossible. Somebody gets promoted instead of you: now you are upset. So let’s ban promoting people. The CEO makes 1000x more money than you while golfing every day? That upsets a lot of people. So let’s ban that. Some people are better dresses than you at work. How upsetting. Let’s all wear identical clothes. I could go on. But that might upset somebody somewhere.
My project is a programming language interpreted, and from the start it was written in multiplatform Kotlin. Then als to this it was trivial to create a web frontend where the entire implementation runs in the browser. All of this is done without a single line of Javascript, which helps in reducing the pain of web development.

The primary implementation is running on the JVM, but almost all code is also reusable in the web version.

It's all open source so anyone that is curious about how this looks like in an actual project is freelance to have a look here. https://kapdemo.dhsdevelopments.com
Raylib is great and one of my preferred libraries for writing emulators in. But I will say if you’re expecting something like imgui or nuklear with Raygui, it’s not nearly as advanced or usable.
Ignoring impedance and assuming the microwave oven is rated at 1kW. 1kilowatt = 60dBm. A typical WiFi receivers works fine at -60dBm = 1 nanowatt. 60-(-60)=120dB, or 12 orders of magnitude. To put that into persepective, a WiFi receiver work with 1/1,000,000,000,000 the power of a 1kW microwave oven.
The Tragedy of Gethostbyname
You shouldn't have to change. The people you interact should accommodate you as you are. If they don't do that then they're not the right people to be around and you're wasting your time with them. Take your feet and walk away if people or situations make you feel uncomfortable. Find those people and those situations that you do feel comfortable with instead of trying to change yourself.

It's an anxiety you're inflicting on yourself by trying to fit in groups you don't belong and trying to immitate behaviors that are not natural to you. You'll never succeed if you go like that. People appreciate authenticity. If you have to make effort then a) you won't look authentic, b) you will constantly have the stress of keeping up with that false persona.

You just have to let go, appreciate yourself how you are and then others will too. Be awkward, laugh at yourself being awkward, be weird and f*k everyone. If they don't like how you are then that's their problem, not yours. You'll find others that do.
I'm actually not a student. I graduated from college 7 years ago and I'm in my early 30s. I'll look up Microsoft Leap, thanks
> Why would you reach down into the system and edit the code of the system currently in operation? Because it doesn't already do what you want. Isn't it a bit pathalogical to start by building a system which doesn't do what you want, then building in the tools to let you fix it, so you can use those make it do what you want? Why not skip all the middlemen and make what you want in the first place?

Because what you want is not set in stone for all time. Needs and desires change, and often what you think you want is different from what you actually want, but discovering that can take time.

I spend so much time trying to work out things like "when I click this button in the UI, what does that actually end up doing in the backend?" I wish I could right-click on a UI element and it would take me directly to the backend code which actually implements it. And a system like that should be much quicker to change – it should be much quicker for a new developer to get up to speed with it and start implementing things, rather than spending days (even weeks) trying to understand how it all fits together.
> This is exactly the dichotomy many teachers unions forced, as they demanded not more safety measures for in-person schooling, but school closures and remote learning.

Not in my experience, no. We've asked for all measures of all kinds, and have been met with blanket "no's" in many places.

> This is entirely speculation, while you demand extreme rigor from me when I suggest a causative link behind the surge in drug overdose deaths in 2020 and the lockdown policies that massively exacerbated social isolation.

I had specific people in mind when I wrote that sentence. And I'm not demanding extreme rigor, I just want to see the causative link. Still yet to see it.

> The teacher's unions' behavior was completely inexcusable and they were clearly not advocating for children.

First of all, the initial round of school closings was not at the behest of teacher's unions, it was an almost coordinated movement across the entire country and in many industries. Very hard to put school closings at the feet of teachers unions. Secondly, teachers unions advocate for teachers, not children. Children have their own advocates in teachers themselves, who in fact advocated the strongest for children during this time. Very strange this effort to paint teachers as somehow anti-children when they literally devote their lives to kids at great personal cost to themselves.
Why does it need to be direct? A bit of glue code doesn't hurt, especially since most of the other glue is going away with WASI.
tik tok is free of a lot of the expectations that twitter and facebook and instagram have to contend with. no one really gets upset if they think tik tok has it's fingers on the scale with regards to what you get to see. people using twitter, facebook and insta get EXTREMELY upset if they even suspect they are missing out on content or getting content "put in their face". look how much outrage erupts every time twitter defaults everyone to the algorithmic timeline
>What do you think the MA in MDMA stands for

This isn’t a very good argument. Table salt is literally Sodium and Chlorine, both of which are extremely toxic to humans but that’s irrelevant to anyone who understands that molecules have different effects than other molecules that share part of the same name.

Again though, mdma can kill you even if it’s completely pure. This is especially true if you take MAOIs or drink not enough/too much water or take any other meds that mess with serotonin. Please research things carefully.
Do you want to back that up?

Although FSD is still between Level 2-3, the ML system and work that has gotten it this far is pretty stellar.
I tried it a couple of times, and found most content stupid. 90% was girls trying to be cute. Some DIY ones were OK, but I'd rather watch 40 minutes of Tech Ingredients on YT.
Reality should determine your politics, not the other way around.
The primary difference between TikTok and other social media platforms is about a decade. For example, Development of a Facebook Addiction Scale - 2012. In other words, mostly recency. Another major difference is age group; these days platforms like Twitter will skew much older than TikTok, and "the youth are being corrupted" is really a timeless story.
The pianos.pub could be an osm editor that just edits pianos, based on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapComplete
We should call such a format "hypertext". Add a universal cross platform renderer, a scripting language, and maybe a subscription mechanism too.
I fully agree, the above was just a theory obviously with a large probability window.
It really is something else. I saw TikTok on TV a lot and it seemed just an extension of it's previous incarnation, Musical.ly: just being dancing around and singing.

Then I installed it to see. I was blown away. Within minutes we'd got away from the goofy stuff to genuinely awesome content about mental health that was really life-changing for me.

I love TikTok. I reserve 30 mins at bedtime each night for it. Swapping videos we've found by DM is one of the fave things my gf and I do.
> We follow-up 5hrs later and ask general questions about their experience with the life line.

> If they are experiencing self harm, in addition to crisis lines, we offer them a single-session online intervention on managing sh. For that, we see significant improvements pre vs post on measures like “self-hatred”, and “desire to stop selfharm”, with medium effect sizes (.4-.8 cohen’s d). Very hard to show enduring effects for this, however.

Are you measuring in such a way that you can realistically determine which effects are due to the online intervention and which are due to the SH itself?
I ask because after SH, especially a few hours later, I consistently have increased "desire to stop selfharm", and lessened "self-hatred". SH has that effect on me, hence its unfortunate use as a coping mechanism.
Please provide support for your claim that large parts of society were under lockdown in wide areas of the US and the world during the 1918 pandemic. I can find no support for that myself.

This article from the university of Michigan describes the pandemic regulations in SF: https://www.influenzaarchive.org/cities/city-sanfrancisco.ht...

From what I understand:
1. There were no wide lockdowns. Theaters, dancehalls and schools closed temporarily. But there were nothing like the mandatory and enforced lockdowns we've seen across the globe the last couple of years (China, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, etc). The state did not pay people money to stay at home from work, which we've seen in many countries the last couple of years. Closing dancehalls is not a lockdown.
2. Breaking the mask mandate did not lead to prison time like you insinuate. The article says most infringements lead to "a stern warning".
3. Despite the relatively harsh restrictions SF did not fare particularly well counting the number of deaths from the illness.

I maintain my claim that it was *not* the scientific consensus before 2020 that wide swats of the population should be made to stay at home and not work as a response to an influenza pandemic.