skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you think Nintendo would prefer that when a product like a Switch goes EOL that it finds a new life generations later through the homebrew community?

Honestly, if I hadn't been able to play roms in college 8 years after I had packed my 8bit Nintendo away I would not have purchased anything on virtual console for the Wii.
It's not valid confirmation- the doc said this. He is working on a diagnosis and wasn't sure he was distinguishing between Alzheimer's and CTE. On death, he examined the subject and it was CTE. He's just announcing that result to those following the story. There's a lot more testing to do before he can claim diagnosis.
It would be great if people paid me for writing this stuff! I run a nonprofit social enterprise haha
Surprised to see so many positive comments considering her behaviour in the game seems eerily similar to that of the kind of startups HN likes to hate on. Her success was mostly based on exploiting the naïvity of other players, draining their money by selling excessive amounts of overpriced goods. She even brags that "scrubs" complained about her behaviour. The traders she bankrupted are the "moms and pops", the handful she eventually allied with formed a literal cartel (and she even describes it as such).

Sure, it's "just" a game but she was clearly playing a very different game from the one the majority of players were playing and it sounds like she was adversely affecting their experience.

The account sounds more like a cautionary tale than something worthy of praise.
Quit social media
Do Apple operating systems updates slow down older Mac minis? My 2012 Mac mini slows each time I update--and it has no batteries.
Note: LightGBM paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08359 cites XGBoost paper (reference 16).
Your premise, while theoretically true, is not practicable in reality. To compute the realistic trajectory (more correctly: to estimate the probability of all the transitions between all the states to build up the PDF) would require multiple universe-lifetimes to calculate with enough accuracy to replace what an xFEL can tell you.

It's not just about building bigger computers. If it were, we would make that investment. If you look at the QED and QC calculations done on the world's largest supercomputers, they're not that inspiring.
One local news website I sometimes use was covering elections - news reports, partial results, the usual. It's a very high traffic day for any news outlet like this, so it would be a shame not to monetize it.

They had this huge background ad covering my whole screen with a bit of conent in the middle (which also has inlined ads of course). They served the background image from the root of their main domain, new url was generated with each request (there seemed to be no pattern that I could match), scripts requesting and displaying the ad were inlined, and the ad itself couldn't be easily hidden as it was attached directly to the <body> somehow. I played with blocking it for a few minutes and then just gave up and used different website.

They went back to regular ads after the election, but I know they are saving this crap for later. Oh, and they also do pop-up asking you to disable the ad blocker.
“Come on try it”
“No thank you”
“Oh it’s really good just try a bite”
“No im alright thank you”
“Really!? Just a bite”

.. sometimes telling people you’re vegan can help avoid awkward situations like when a friend got some cake they wanted to share.
story, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16019982
Wasn't the whole Money Moustache thing based on the fact that he and his wife had both a good income to start with?

I read many things in that direction.

"I made millions with real estate! I simply bought a flat, refurbished it and then either became a landlord or sold it for much more money! It's so simple even you can do it. I started with getting like 50000€ after an car accident..."

"I retired with 40 and you can do it to, you just need a job that makes you 100k a year..."
This will give you an idea for flights: https://my.flightradar24.com/
Beyond preventing the distribution of pirated games, why do console manufacturers put so much effort into preventing unvetted code from running on their hardware?

Does Nintendo actually stand to lose anything if a homebrew community evolved?

Shouldn't we put time limits on DRM like we do on copyright so that eventually owners of these devices are allowed to use them however they like?

My sony PSP and nintendo DS are collecting dust because I already played all the licensed games I was going to on them. Now these devices are worthless to me and get tiny prices on the 2nd hand market. If their owners released firmware signing keys, these devices could have a new lease on useful life as homebrew machines, but instead their owners tell us no, they'd rather the devices became prematurely useless and that we can't get any use out of them unless they can cash in on it... It's weird now that I think about it.
I'm pretty sure Vance ran unopposed in the latest election. I did not want to vote for him.
Yelling at commenters that they have an "upvote agenda" for being educational and informative, by giving useful advice....it seems rather crude. Please be a little more thoughtful and give others the benefit of the doubt. Even if you work for Apple's marketing department..
> I was disappointed to find that they don't maintain any kind of database of serial numbers of lost and stolen electronics.

NYC actually does, but you have to register your number before it gets stolen.

Usually this is fine, because most people don't know their serial number after the device is stolen, unless they've thought to register it beforehand anyway.
I definitely agree that some sites are better than others. I guess I should clarify- in principle I don't mind the concept of showing me ads to pay for a site. I do mind the concept of tracking me.

In my view site-related ads have a higher probability of being relevant to me than search-engine ads.
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The Only Way to Keep Your Resolutions
They don't make an arrest to help the higher ups prevent another crime on the books, because they're lazy/unwilling, or another reason?
I guess I see what you're saying but...how about people are just reasonable and not greedy? But I suppose that goes against basic human nature, or something.
Hah, once we needed some extra wiring for some lights at our booth, the electrician came to have a look and said “sorry I’m not insured to add wires” and just left. And nobody wanted to do the job on such a short notice. Luckily no one said anyting when we just plugged the cables ourselves
The average tube driver's pay is ~42,000 pounds. That converts to $56,000 a year. That's not a very high income. That's solidly lower middle class depending on where you're living and whether you're single or the primary wage earner for your family. London is one of the highest cost of living areas in the world.

A family living in London with that income -- even if the second parent is also working -- is unlikely to have any savings. Unless the second family member has a high income information, tech, or finance job.
The parent is demonstrating the complexity of the problem, not providing a comprehensive list of tests. It wouldn't be a problem if we knew the list.
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My personal observation is that experimental physicists seem to be better (on average) at this than other disciplines.

Maybe something about having to deal with the physical world?
Hasbro was kind enough to do exactly that for the Atari Jaguar.
Hey ya’ll,

I’m the creator of cookiecutter-django-rest. I’m super happy to share this release with you. This is a big one.

What api frameworks do you use?

What kind of enhancements are you looking for?
I'm not talking about becoming a situational mute. But you already knew that. Why does HN have so many pedantic instigators?
NFL salaries aren’t guaranteed by default. That 450k is paid weekly during the season and the player can be cut at any time. I don’t know what the median amount of money earned by NFL players is but it is likely well below 1.5 million.
Or video ads. WTF. Those sites I just close and never return.

Some sites I use a lot, I have enabled ads just to be friendly to the site. These sites also seem to have mostly acceptable ads, so it's not intrusive.
The People, Places, Things metaphor was evident in the early versions of Microsoft's "Metro" interface on WP7. The form it took was "Hubs". It didn't win. Maybe because it was never practical to build complex workflows on a phone...or maybe because building complex workflows is complex and therefore statistically unlikely to be preferred in any context to brute force most of the time.
IIRC the PSP has been busted so wide open that Sony may as well have released the keys. It started with quite complex hacks like 'Desperto del cemetario' (I think) but became as simple as sticking something on a memory card and running it.

But yes, it is very counterintuitive - spending so much time and effort to make sure your machine is as limited as you can possibly make it.
The BMW Addiction That Destroyed This Man's Life
From my experiences of reversing Windows x86 applications, I don't think WebAssembly has a greater capacity for obfuscation. In fact, I think WebAssembly is less capable of obfuscating code than JavaScript.

It is because WASM does not allow self-modifying code, which is a highly effective obfuscation technique as it can hinder static analysis. On the other hand, JavaScript has eval among other things that can be used to dynamically craft and execute code during execution. I've never seen such JavaScript but it would be quite cumbersome to trace code within a call to eval within a call to eval, and so on. You might need to build a custom V8 to record strings passed to eval when reversing such code.
I think the tech and the team behind Ripple is positioning it very well for the future. Check out Ripple's Payment Channels. They scale up to match Visa's transaction levels.
Checkout postmarketOS. Still in pre-alpha, but looks like the only option with mainline linux today.
Nuclear warhead verification with an Apple II
> Even die hard apple fans don't use their built in apps for calendar, music, mail, or really anything

[Citation needed]
I don't agree, as I've walked into a police station and literally gone through a long waiting and questioning process with strong reminders that it probably wouldn't be acted on. The questions all preceded with 'But are you sure that..'. After adamantly Yes replying and playing politics, I got my report. That's what I mean by reluctance. This happened on two occasions and echoes what friends have experienced in different police stations.
Fast food restaurants waste over 85M lbs. of food each day
The economy is just made of humans and equipment, which also obey the rules of QED. We should get rid of all these useless economists taking data and just simulate everything!
Funny how the first item in an exploit chain is always WebKit for.. those devices.
Seems to be that they are concerned that:

1. If MoviePass doesn't work, AMC's customer service people will get yelled at for something outside of their control. This damages AMC's brand and wastes the time of their CS.
2. People will get used to MoviePass and then it will go bankrupt. This will reduce their likelihood to attend movies because they are now no longer used to paying the high prices set by studios.
How do you afford this?
git clone https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife.git

git clone https://github.com/jasonrohrer/MinorGems.git minorGems

cd OneLife/

./configure # answer the question

cd gameSource/

make -j 4

./OneLife
I think he has an article that covers his finances from when he started working to when he retired. The short answer is double tech incomes and very limited spending. If your household is pulling 250k and living off 25k a year it makes retirement a lot more attainable.
I consider myself to be more than one person, since I have a network of dev friends. So these contacts help and I'd not be able to do those numbers without people acting as my reference.

Agree about interviews and brokers. I however have no interest on using brokers or being employed. Have gotten some really nice offers since I started consulting, Sweden is great for such opportunities.

Starting Q1 2018 I have a 90% chance landing a ~500k SEK job from an informal Facebook posting. I have no experience with dealing with clients outside of Sweden. Maybe my advice isn't applicable to the US?
Admittedly I haven't looked to see what proposals are out there, but I have a really hard time picturing rule changes that could minimize the risks. The game seems designed explicitly to cause harm.
In school I was told that the industrial revolution was late because of the church. "That's why the dark ages are called dark ages"
Could you describe what you are trying to do in more detail?

It's been a few years, but I used Pl/R for this.

http://www.joeconway.com/plr/doc/doc.html
http://www.joeconway.com/plr/

The use case was a fairly straightforward one. We needed to run a snippet of R-code on some data in Postgres and wanted to limit the data transfer distance between the database and the R session. We could also have just installed R on the same server and had it call Postgres locally, but having being able to call the R function via SQL was very convenient.

Debugging and package management was a pain, but once it was running things were fairly smooth after that. At some companies the IT function will rightfully scream in horror at Pl/R.

I'm don't knows how Pl/R moves the data between Postgres and R. I've seen a lot of cases with other software where the data is written to disk and then read into R. This is then done in reverse for the return trip. For larger datasets or for small datasets that arrive at high frequency (e.g. streaming or mini-batch applications) this may be problematic and it may make sense to use R's JRI (https://www.rforge.net/JRI/) instead.
I don't get the Mr. Steve's reference.

But I actually like your answer overall.
It's a perceptual argument I think.

If publishers like EA and Ubisoft lose faith in the system's ability to protect against piracy, they're less likely to go out of their way to develop for it. This is especially true for Nintendo that requires (for varying reasons) special porting/development.

For the sake of argument its easy to assume that PC, Xbox and PS4 roughly being equivilent to develop for. (this is totally cutting the gordian knot but...) They're essentially all X86_64 architecture with similar third party modules present (nVidia, AMD). So development on these systems is a lot easier.

For Nintendo, you have to develop within the limitations of typically not as powerful hardware. (Take a look at WWE2K18 between PS4 and Switch.. they struggle with that). Which means that you have to not necessarily spend more, but spend extra to get it working on Switch properly (I.E, its not quick and cheap).

Therefore if the piracy rates are high or perceived to be high because of a flourishing and popular homebrew community (false equivalency but I'm confident that it happens.) then the desire the expend that extra effort will go down. Espeically if the return is expected to be low.

Also emulators are easy these days and that just totally erodes the Virtual Console Market.
Around the Wii they discovered the HUGE proportional market for virtual console (Near 0 development cost/effort, huge returns, relatively)

One of the first things that will come from this is a port of RetroArch. Which is cool but not what big N wants to see.
- Wake the device: Raise to wake

- Go to the home screen: 3D touch app switcher, tap any whitespace. It used to be even easier when your home screen had its own entry in there.

- Go to the multitasking switcher: 3D touch side

- Even better way to multitask: 3D touch swipe

- Siri: Hey Siri
Half of the rant is about things OpenSSL has no control over, like MacOS not
shipping openssl(1) and associated man pages or LibreSSL disguising in command
line as OpenSSL, and most of the other half is complaining about complexity of
X.509 use in general, which again is not that much of OpenSSL's fault.
The main problem is scaling. In quantum chemistry, you need electron correlation to get accurate results (comparing your ab initio with experiments) and these methods scale quite badly. Somewhat state-of-the-art CCSD(T) (coupled cluster singles and doubles with triple excitations approximated by perturbation theory) scales formally as N^7, with N being the number of electrons in your system (somewhat simplified). Proteins are huge. Even with some of the newest nearly linear-scaling coupled-cluster methods (which utilize GPUs) running calculations on proteins takes extremely long time. And this is just electron correlation methods. We're still using the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, not taking all excitaions into account, using a finite size basis set, ignoring relativistic effects, not thinking about time evolution and (most of the time) not considering (explicit) solvent effects.

We are still a long way from modelling protein folding in solution with 100% quantum mechanics. Luckily, classical molecular dynamics are quite good at modelling biochemical systems (to a degree). There are a ton of errors that a much bigger than quantum (and relativistic) effects anyway.
I was hoping to find out what a "magnitude 8" burnout actually looks like, but I didn't get it from this article.

What made his mentor ask if he was okay? What does low energy mean for this guy? What came between the realization and the recovery?

For me it was burying myself in social media, reading books, and binging pirated TV shows. I had a pattern of beating myself up internally for not going out and making friends, taking on or finishing projects, or even doing basic tasks like laundry and cooking. When the voice of self abuse started - usually the moment after my partner left the room, but sometimes even before that - I'd whip out my phone instantly to quieten it. Many days I'd sit at the kitchen table for five or six hours, scrolling feeds and watching shows, waiting for my partner to come home and give me enough motivation to pretend to be human for a while.

I kept thinking, how can I be stressed? All I'm doing is sitting in the kitchen. There's no stress here.

But I was living in someone else's house in a country where I had few friends and didn't speak the language. I had just started a new, remote job which was mentally demanding, and had no one, not even co-workers, to talk to about it. I stopped stopped doing my two healthiest activities - writing and cycling - except on rare occasions.

I got to the point where I left the relationship, and went home- though I didn't want to- because I couldn't recognize myself at all anymore and didn't know how to get back to myself except by returning to the last place where I felt like a human. I'm two months into recovery now and have only just gotten to the point where I can sleep through the night, sometimes.

That's what it looked like for me. Hope it helps someone else realize what that feeling is. It took me way too long to recognize it, and by then it was too late.
According to German law those T&C are meaningless for just browsing the website (they neither ask you to agree nor offer the possibility of reading the terms in advance). And as long as you aren't acting as a business, those "I agree" checkmarks don't bind you to any "surprising" terms (in other words: not even the law expects you to read them)

(IANAL)
Battery life is somewhat random; it's why batteries as a whole are measured with MTTF. You may be lucky enough to have an outlying battery life, or you may have used the phone in such a way that the battery lived longer, or the battery itself may have had a higher MTTF due to it being a larger capacity.
I think we as users would prefer that Nintendo prefers this.
But no, Nintendo wants you to buy the next console that has the Virtual console of all those games you'll emulate through homebrew.

Abandonware has ceased to exist in the console world. Especially for Nintendo.
Knowing Their Harm, Politicians Still Push for Minimum Wages
I understand and really like the idea of an open design processes, but can't help but feel this encourages working for free and developing spec work. Though maybe I am not understanding it correctly.
I traded my 6 in early but I put the blame of slowness on the iOS upgrades reasoning that each version added more bloat. I do enjoy my 8s and don't regret the upgrade. I only annoyed at most that Apple didn't fully disclose the issue and perhaps the performance hit they chose was a bit over the top
Survey meter (Geiger counter), big book of table of radioactive isotopes, in-vivo dosimetry system, lab notebooks, radon monitor, funny card from co-workers (outside: "Want to hear something really fun about science?" inside: "You would. Nerd."), polycarbonate art piece, computer, phone. And around 10^2 post-it notes.
Typically not, as it does tend to shove all my content to the left.

The problem is that when you attempt to make the video fullscreen, it still fails to scale to the monitor.

So after fullscreen failed, I then attempted to view the video in a maximized browser but it still scaled it beyond the vertical limits of my monitor.
AoE2 is the one game I play regularly. It's great that this project was started, but is it still active? Did anyone manage to compile and run it, and if so, how does it feel?

Not to belittle the nice work, but I feel there was a better reason for making this clone a few years ago. There has been a "HD" version on Steam for a couple of years, which finally has good network support and most of the bugs seem ironed out, after almost 20 years! The only thing I still miss is to be able to run it on Linux...
The comments on Youtube for that video are not kind. I'll watch all of it later, but it seems to have some serious flaws. I enjoyed an older documentary on the AGC that was part of a series called Moon Machines. The episode on the AGC is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YA7X5we8ng
If the TV is $500 retail, why are you out $1,000 if it breaks?
If you need more detail about healthy lifestyle, you're better off doing your own basic research than asking someone on HN to give you a few more words.
What do you want to actually achieve with it? In the past I always had the urge to tinker and set up home servers to self-host pretty much everything, but at some point it just gets old and I realised I was just wasting time instead of spending it on either billable work or just take time off to see friends/family. Since then I've given up on all of that.

So unless you have a specific goal in mind that can't be achieved with an off-the-shelf device or affordable SaaS solution, don't bother, and sell/give away the NUC if you have no use for it.
Devices from that fruit company are the best bet as far as I can tell. My 3 year old tablet is still getting updates. My 2 year old phone is too, and I expect it’ll continue getting them for at least another 2 years; my phone before this one got updates for 4 years.

I’ve considered jumping ship many times, but device support seems so poor across the board in Android land I find it hard to justify the move. Like you, I don’t want to buy a new phone every year. I’m watching to see how the Pixel phone support plays out.
Wait, I shouldn’t have been upvoted there. You said non advertising images. But I think the ads would be shown if self hosted so it’s still possible.
14 Command line utilities I use (fzf, ranger, zf, ...)
Sorry, Xubuntu.
Strategic default
> Not to mention that those outliers could be going to IMAX 3D showings in a major city at a premium theater ($22.75 at the Chinese Theater, for instance), and you've got a $682.50 monthly bill for one user without violating the TOS.

You can't actually use MoviePass for premium showings (3D, IMAX, etc.). It only works for standard 2D showings.