skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, it never felt like an arcade game to me. When I'd go to the arcade I avoided Super Mario Bros. It didn't feel like an arcade game like Rampage.

I played it on the NES first (and it was released there before arcades, though I don't think I played until 1989 personally). But I didn't own an NES at the time, so it wasn't that I could play it for free at home.

SMB is a much better game than Rampage. I would also play Excitebike at the arcade, also not nearly as good as SMB.

I guess in an arcade I was looking for simple high score games, I wanted to dream of putting my initials on, but I also wanted to be able to walk away when I died (where in SMB if I got to 8-2 then died I'd wanna go again/continue).
A fully socialised healthcare system a la Canada won’t fly in the USA (this is obvious?). There are models eg in Australia where there is pretty good socialised care, and also a private system where you either pay up or have private health insurance (with a lot of extra costs). It kinda works, and gives some choice to the user. There biggest problem with this system is that private healthcare isn’t a great business, and the hospitals and insurance companies often struggle. They also don’t provide anything near parity with public healthcare. The most complex and sophisticated care still happens in the public system, which in turn means that the best doctors still want to work in the public system as well.
Try juggling. In juggling you make progress very quickly, because you can have many attempts in a short time span. Also, you'll always know the limits of your abilities and it's never boring.

There are many good explanations of all the different tricks on the internet: https://libraryofjuggling.com/
How the sanctions on Russia were planned
I moved from Silicon Valley to nyc met a couple other nerdy friends talked to girls every weekend with them at the bars. I cold approached them. The first were very hard but I got used to it.
https://archive.ph/0AzqD
One thing you can do with Fossil that you can't with Git is use the tickets database as a distributed, version controlled sqlite database, complete with user authentication, and trivially add extensions using CGI.
At one place I remember that we had the usual scheduled backups for our MySQL databases. We also wanted a quicker way to bring systems back with less data loss, so we also had a lagged replica that purposely applied changes delayed by I think it was about 4 hours. The other handy thing was that swapping a replica for the write leader was a common operation that we did whenever we upgraded hardware or software versions so it was a well exercised procedure.
Yes that is what they are, But what SFP actually has the ability to be programmable to the degree that is needed to support Wireguard??
> How about an alternative that just has a sensible policy about what can and can't be posted?

I'm reminded of https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...

"""The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts,
and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen,
your new society will end up consisting of approximately
three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches.
It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong."""

If alternatives also decide to ban the stuff that Twitter bans, then (at best) that's only appealing to the narrow range of content bad enough to get banned by Twitter, but wouldn't be 'sensibly banned'.
"Everything I don't like is socialism".

You may have a valid objection, that this is a slippery slope or some such, but calling it "socialism" doesn't help your case, and makes you look like a crank.
In countries where people die from famine there are not a lot of rich people. High concentration of rich people is found in societies where people are not starving.

So you are right in saying that in a world of starvation rich people should be an aberration. That is to be expected.
What do you want specifically in a DB? Consistency? Sql or nosql? HA or sharded? homogeneous nodes?

Jbtw, the risk of nodes dying is quite exaggerated. DO/Vultr/Linode all provide 99.99% up time
You're assuming an objective reality. Events may not truly occur without an observer.
Why don't you open them in browser tabs, let notifications come through your phone when they're closed?
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/smart-sfp-linux-inside

This SFP has an embedded ARM processor running Linux. It’s pretty meta, but one could imagine a wireguard control network for these. The article even describes using wireguard-go on the embedded side.
I'm not sure how I got sucked into Tiktok but I was quickly hooked. There's something so refreshingly playful, authentic, and raw about so much Tiktok content compared to Instagram. Instagram (explore/discovery) is generally pretty people with pretty things in pretty places. That was fun for a while but it's just not that interesting after a while. I don't need to see more pretty pictures of women doing yoga. I don't need to see more pretty mountain bikes I can't afford. I don't need to see anymore drone shots of Milford Sound in New Zealand.
Tiktok, on the other hand, is playful, diverse, and interesting (at least my feed is). Once you start liking content, the feed completely changes from teenage lip sync videos or other teenager-oriented content into such a nice variety of content. I legitimately laugh my ass off or smile happily at so much of it. Other content teaches me about food, gardening, dancing, DIY, media theory, hiking alone, gender bending, etc. etc. The list goes on. Some of the videos delight me and others inform me.

Instagram, by contrast, just feels so bland now.
I don't believe all those kids using TikTok have the faintest clue it's "a weird Chinese app".
Wow, this is saying something since it's coming from(the),"Director of AI at Tesla, leading the Autopilot Vision team. Previously OpenAI, CS231n, PhD @ Stanford. I like to train large deep neural nets "

(his Twitter description)
rip pete
Black, Asian, Latino, or Mixed. Basically he's just a regular white man which gets no love in a lot of liberal areas unless you do something unique like those "phases" he mentioned. He should move. The best thing you can do as a white man is move somewhere that everyone isn't white. Then you will get a lot of attention even if you're very boring.
"Land of the Lost" had their "sleestacks" before that; i bet there's other identifiable references before that. Then of course some number of supernatural entities are described in broadly similar terms too.

The only logical conclusion is that they've been among us since before written history.
Maybe they could go at night?
Absolutely. I don't think I've ever played a playable public piano.

In fact, I remember last year I happened to be visiting Harvard Law School (I think Langdell Hall) and I saw a piano and I thought to myself that since it's in such a pretty building and in an elite law school, surely it'd be in good shape. Imagine my surprise when I discovered it was pretty much unplayable: totally not in tune, and at least 3 or 4 non-working keys.

At this point I think it would be a greater public service to offer digital pianos (if one does want to offer the public free-to-play pianos): they don't need to be tuned and a good one in this day and age is close enough to an acoustic piano. But if it must be acoustic for whatever reason, then for goodness' sake never place it outside.
What are some good resources to learn APIs?
I'm not a developer. I actually work in identity and access management, tokens, authentication, etc. The closest I come to this would be powershell.

Some aspects of my job overlap with developers though. It seems that more often than not, tech that I'm responsible for implementing and administrating like secrets management, privlidged access and even directories all leverage APIs.

What resources would the HN crowd recommend for this non-dev to learn all about APIs?
>I assume there's no way to specify different QCIs for data packets or even the whole connection ? That's all specified by the closed source radio firmware?

From the application layer? I don't believe so outside of the phone's native dialer/closed source firmware.

>If I'm reading things right, it implies that IMS (eg modern SMS/MMS running over IP) actually uses a different data channel that gets a higher priority?

I believe all IMS traffic is going to be higher priority regardless of if that's voice or SMS. They're both carrier-provided SIP messaging so if SMS over IMS is configured, it would use the same APN, go through the same CSCFs, and get priority. It's all the same PHY connection though. There's not a fully separate set of wireless channels for voice and data like it was in the CDMA standard where there were CDMA carriers for voice and EVDO carriers for 3G data.

You wouldn't be able to just host your own SMS though. You'd need a private APN from the network operator to do anything like that. Other systems hosted by the operator (HSS and MME) are what allow you onto the network.
Maybe, but TikTok is an order of magnitude above other social media apps when it comes to learning what you like. It’s both scary and extremely impressive.

Twitter on the other hand seems to promote monoculture, and tends to push you towards what everyone else likes. It essentially pushes whatever is popular. Some of the most interesting content and users on Twitter are shadow banned, either intentionally or through poor auto moderation.

TikTok on the other hand doesn’t care what other people like, and given it’s Chinese ownership, has no political skin in the game. So you tend to see much more diverse views.
The NES colors are nice but not sure how "designed" it was - to get colors from an NTSC or PAL signal is phase shifting, so if the colors are in rainbow order (which they are) then each color is simply a phase shift of some amount and the "design" is which amount of phase shift. I was always curious why they left 8 colors black and why black and white was duplicated in the palette, though.

Something like the C64 which used a "resistor bank" to pick the colors actually had thought into the individual choices of each color.

What NES got very right IMHO was:

- More than 16 colors

- Adequate horizontal resolution but not caring about the maximum since the point wasn't to display text (256 pixels, not 160 or 320)

- 2 bits per pixel with just enough palettes to be useful - no 1bpp graphics.

- 64 sprites - so many sprites even if they were 8x8

- Hardware scrolling and multiple nametable support

A lot of the magic in the NES was all the sprites - 64 is a lot for the hardware at the time, the fact they had the same resolution as the nametable, and easy support for scrolling. Also the CPU was kinda fast - 1.79MHz is speedy for a 6502 CPU.
Sure, essentially it's a TCP and UDP server that:

- receives connections and assigns a random internal port for it

- wraps the data packets in a transport(TCP/UDP) packet that's routed from the internal port to the remote

- wraps the transport in an IP packet that's routed from the address assigned the the proxy, and to the remote WireGuard address

- wraps that with WireGuard's protocol (encryption)

- sends off the encrypted packet to the public WireGuard UDP endpoint

The packet-wrapping and TCP state machine is implemented using smoltcp in Rust, which is similar to netstack in Go

The WireGuard encapsulation and state machine is implemented with boringtun, Cloudflare's implementation of the WireGuard client in Rust.

I do have a more thorough architecture explanation in the Readme: https://github.com/aramperes/onetun#architecture
I think there's a lot of application of this concept to be had in regulated environments. Very often procedures are described as passive documents and then humans have to read them, periodically demonstrate their knowledge (training), execute the process, and then finally track that they did what it said in some kind of audit trail.

A format that lets us do all of those things with just one document (not duplicating things everywhere) would be great.
This has a strong 80s TV series vibe.
Silver, you mean?

That's an option, but now we're getting pretty exotic...
Not even to mention, in what world is TikTok "a weird Chinese app". It's just an improved and iterated upon version of Vine.
Read “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. It’s an old, old book (1930s with an update in the 80s). So the examples are sometimes dated, but get over that and understand the core principles being taught.

It’s the teacher you need.

Don’t judge the book by its title. It’s not a good one.
I learned to play the guitar. Not well, but well enough...And, I learned the sort of songs you can play at parties, that people can sing along to. Once I started engaging with people that way, I discovered that most people are friendly and nice, and also that most people are just as shy as I am (was). I woke up one day to discover that I was no long shy, and I was no longer afraid of women!
I wasn't talking about the kids using TikTok. Most of the discourse I've seen online about TikTok's addictiveness (and origin) has been by young-to-middle-aged adults.
> "$PROGRAM cannot open document $FILENAME because it's already open in $PROGRAM. Try closing any open applications and open $FILENAME again." Who thinks this is actually sane behavior? Unix does it right.

Wouldn't a better approach be: "$FILENAME is already open in $PROGRAM. Would you like to: (1) Switch to $PROGRAM and continue editing it there; (2) Ask $PROGRAM to close it; (3) Edit it anyway (DANGEROUS!); (4) Abort". (For non-interactive processes, you wouldn't want to ask, you'd probably just want to always abort–which causes problems for some situations like "I want to install an upgrade to this shared library but $PROGRAM is executing using it", but there are ways to solve those problems.)

Kind of like swap files in vim – although vim doesn't have the "switch to $PROGRAM" option, because the underlying operating systems don't have good support for it – but that's an application-level feature which only works in one app. It would be better if it was an OS-level feature which worked across all apps.
Medicare, the little socialized medicine we do have, is unusable if you go abroad too. No vouchers, no treaties with foreign healthcare systems, no tax exemptions. You will pay in to Medicare your whole life and be required to burn air fuel flying back to the US to redeem any care whatsoever. The worst part is that often it stills ends up cheaper with medical tourism or getting local care.
I had a 128k ISDN link through the 90s from BellSouth. It was a bit of a bureaucratic slog to get it installed in a residential location. It was also pretty expensive; fortunately I had a stable of clients that justified the cost. For a relatively brief period of time, it was pretty great tech.
It came from conspiracy theorist David Icke, although based on various fictional and mythological sources[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_conspiracy_theory
it's all here https://github.com/rickt/gsuitemdm
Thanks for elaborating. But I still don't understand in what sense a skewed distribution "fits the underlying data". I presume that for any given task, we would have to write down a model or likelihood that relates intelligence to the outcome of the task. No matter what transformation of intelligence we use when discussing population statistics, as long as it's monotonic then we can always undo that transformation when we write down a model.

Again, regarding earthquakes: Does a logarithmic scale "fit the underlying data better"? I don't think the question even makes sense. It's like asking which font fits the underlying data better. It's an arbitrary choice that doesn't need to affect our predictions or models at all. But you also said that "the only reason to do that is to prove the people doing the former wrong." so maybe we agree on this, too.

I think you might be misunderstanding psychometrics if your objection to IQ is the supposed implication that "intelligence is this one thing that you can measure". As far as I understand, psychometricians would agree that intelligence has many facets, and that most of them are hard to measure. I think the claim that they're making is simply that one can summarize estimates of these facets into a single scalar that will be correlated with all of them. Just like GDP correlates with many hard-to-measure and complicated facets of a country's wealth. Would you say the fact that GDP can't measure some important things about a country's wealth, or that it's a complicated thing, implies that there's no such thing as "general wealth"? The same analogy works for e.g. health, strength, or pretty much any property that we have a word for.
Interestingly, swastika has a similar history. The word means 'symbolizing well being' in Sanskrit. It still has the same meaning in Indic religions. Apparently, it had a similar meaning in Europe too, until the Nazis hijacked it for their cause.
I agree with this. Their ranker is really good and has improved dramatically the more I watch and like. And it's not even fully garbage content, a good amount of it is interesting, useful, inspirational and educational. A rabbit hole of really excellent videos from a professional dog trainer caused me a detour of 20 minutes and pushed me over the edge to create the original tweet. So one side of me is not even mad, but the other side of me is like wait where did 2 hours go? And do I really want this?
Great comment, thank you. Also, bravely asking these obvious, "stupid", elephant-in-the-room, naive questions on HN is a great place for a discussion to start, and will attract people who can explain things in simple terms. The comments will be more useful reading to more people than ones on a high, technical level. 'Being wrong on the internet' attracts truth. It's not the experts who will object to such questions!
To me, it sounded like 発射 (hassha) in Japanese. I guess that's how you'd write 발사 in Hanja.
There are so many alternatives, like Mastodon -- I never quite understood this complaint. Why don't these people just start using the alternatives instead of using Twitter? It's because Twitter has the audience. Why does the audience use Twitter? Because they want a moderated platform. Dealing with spam, showing recommended tweets (picking who gets amplified/distribution is another form of moderation btw), and ensuring harmful content isn't allowed to reach critical mass.

The revealed vs stated preferences here are so obvious that tweets of this genre seem to be likefarms...
I am a short male in my mid twenties and I am also getting to the same conclusion. If you're short, you need to work harder. There is no chance you can be unfit, fat or awekward. You will be screwed. But honestly, sometimes I feel like it's a good blessing. It pushes you to improve many aspects of your life. You want to be successful in your career, you want to work harder, you want to excercise like there is no tomorrow, you want to read more, you want to be more social, etc. It pushes you to become a better person. But the height deficiency is always there and it's an unfortunate tragic event and a very hard truth to swallow. Life is unfair.
609 Pages of Horse Shit
How could this go wrong - Bill Gates
Ah, that makes more sense. I was thinking OP went from the larger man in the middle to the fit guy on the right - and was thinking, "Well sure! Lose 150 lbs and you'll gain some confidence!"
I'm totally for raising the bar when it comes to terminology like "ethically raised," but I'd eat dog meat if it were good. Why not?
The article seems to be technically correct, but the confusion demonstrated here by inimino is evidence it probably won't educate people. Sometimes proving a person wrong proves them right!
> you are coming across as someone who is trivializing a potentially important piece of work.

I didn't get that impression at all. Rather, you came across as needlessly insulting. Why add that sentence, even if you thought so?! "Be kind."
Pretty fun. Suggestion to increase the timer with each successful submission as a reward. Also, when the player highlights all tiles on the board the game becomes a dead end and must be restarted.
Certainly. I had a friend (and TikTok user) describe it as the "Monsters Inc. effect": TikTok is showing that you really can win engagement with honey instead of vinegar, at least in the context of all other social media providing constant negativity.
> I think it's important to see the Bible as a collection of books from different times and places, each with their own rhetorical goals.

And yet that's not how the bible is taught at a vast majority of churches. "The bible is the word of God. Jesus changed his relationship with us, which is why his behavior is different between the old and new Testament. End of discussion."

I still recall the lecture I got when I once questioned whether Genesis was an allegory for the creation of the universe over billions of years. "No, it was 7 days, exactly as the bible says."
It depends on your goals. If your goals are to be popular and attractive, then, yeah, there's a very standard track for you; practice social interaction, learn various tricks, learn how to make yourself attractive (nice body, nice hair, nice clothes). But if your goal is to just feel comfortable around random people, then embrace the awkward. Don't be self-deprecating about it, but be "out" about being socially awkward. Tell people how you feel in the moment, and don't judge them for their reaction (lots of people just don't know what to do in non-standard social situations). If you want, exaggerate the voice, posture, etc. Make it fun. Be authentic/true to yourself.
Is this a running theme with IEEE articles? Do they tend to run along the lines of the University press release to science journalism content mill, feeding a presumptively educated audience gee whiz material outside the compass of their actual specialization, or do they tend to address actual engineering considerations a little more directly?
Maybe people are using different language to describe it for a reason? Try it and develop your own informed opinion.
I gave it a shot last night and selected three topics: Comedy, Pets, Science and Technology. It gave me a lot of garbage.

Maybe it requires much more frequent use than the 10 minutes I gave it, or it somehow infers a good jumping off point. I feel like there's something I'm not seeing, or maybe I'm just too old?
I enjoyed this book

https://www.amazon.com/Awkward-Science-Socially-Thats-Awesom...

even though I felt intensely envious for the author because he got the support from his parents and the people around him that I didn't get.

There are many things I do well. I can pick up the phone and make cold calls like it isn't anything. I can speak extemporaneously about intellectual topics in front of an audience and have no fear.

The form of awkwardness that I still struggle with is that I often do and say offputting things that hurt people's feelings or otherwise alienate them that I struggle to control -- this turns up more with women than men.

For instance I have a hobby of printing "three-sided cards" like

HTTPS://GEN5.INFO/$/YT$Y2U73U5N2PO6JQ/

and before long I had a box of them stuffed in my backpack, gym bag, glove box of my car to show to people and give them away. What I found out is that 100% of women want to see a picture of my wife but I didn't have one in my portable collection.

It seems strange at first because any normal person carries pictures of family in their pockets but when I started printing those cards it was anime characters, art reproductions, information graphics, etc. The first numbered card that had a photograph I took was 0021 and I didn't have a reproducible system for photographs until 0116.

That system is full of design rules and one of them is that I print many copies of the card above, have them coming out of my ears, all of my "wallets" have multiple copies of it. It's not only "protective coloration" that makes me less creepy but it's also a marketing tool for the riding lessons she teaches.