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Super Mario 64 and The Ocarina of Time elevated open-world 3D game play. So much of gaming to this point, even 3D gaming, was dungeon crawling, or traversing linear paths and story lines, or killing opponents in a closed arena. SM64 and Ocarina really transported the player into a whole new world.

The camera work was almost perfect, and the subtleties of the system were revolutionary. The Wikipedia article[1], and this picture in particular[2] provide a good description.

25 years later I think of SM64 as the Citizen Kane of video games. Citizen Kane provided a glimpse of what the medium was capable of; it changed peoples perception of what a movie could be. Virtually every movie since has either been directly inspired by CK or has internalized its zeitgeist. Super Mario 64 played the same role for video games.

Or - it could that since I grew up playing SM64 I've anchored to it and feel it's influence more deeply than history warrants :D

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_64#Influence

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_64#/media/File:Sup...
In a timeline where Russia didn't invade Georgia and Ukraine I'd agree that incursion seems unlikely.
Dont raise money just because it would accelerate your growth because it will be a completely different life for you. Here is how I would think about it. If you're happy with what you have right now, I wouldnt change anything. Dont raise money, dont hire people, just keep things as they are, you are happy and thats big. Now if you feel you're not entirely happy, not entirely fulfilled, if you want a bigger business, more people around you, bigger challenges, then raise money, hire people, etc.

Clearly raising money, hiring people and stuff is a fucking big deal and will have significant consequences on your life. It's a whole truckload of shit and additional terribly-hard challenges on your shoulders.

It's a question about your happiness and happiness work like that: if youre happy, dont change no nothing. If youre not, try something different.
But I don't want to run Windows and haven't done so for roughly 20 years.

My Dell made Arch lappie runs up attested via a TPM 2.0. I boot UEFI, Secure boot to kernel and initrd.
I was surprised by the quality of the Coway Airmega 200M. Good reviews, but looked sketchy:

- Super-quiet

- Sensor does actually speed it up with even trivial amounts of pollution. You sneeze in the same room, or spray some hairspray, and woosh.

- Washable prefilter, carbon filter, HEPA filter

I have a super-high-end air filter from 2-3 decades ago, and I'm surprised by the progress. The cheap 2020 unit is better.
haha. someone introduce Agile to North Korea. They're not going anywhere now.
Well, there goes my night, but I can't say I'm disappointed, this is awesome! Thank you for sharing, because I was busy searching "why does punching my sega...." and thinking about what other games might respond to the rubber hose treatment.
I tried installing wsl twice during the beta and both cases it failed to boot afterwards work a boot error about some threading stuff. Needing a full reinstall in both cases

Now that it's live I'm very reluctant to do this again and have to set everything up again if it fails. Though I suppose I can just pull an image off it...
Is there a list of these red flags to watch out for or ask about for startups?
For anyone interested, ScummVM has been ported to WebAssembly. Here’s one of my all time favorite LucasArts games, The Curse of Monkey Island in the browser:

https://personal-1094.web.app/scummvm.html
The way the Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor worked is that only they (the NSA) could exploit it, they had the equivalent of a master private key.

The NSA has a track record of never putting out Cryptography that could be broken by any other actor than the NSA itself.
I think I just have no idea what a “squad” is. Trying to read this made me feel old and out of touch.
That's because almost no researchers were included in those discussions.
I too, would like an echo chamber, please.
Wow, cant remember when I started coming back to HN regularly but it’s cool to know its been around for so long.

It’s awesome seeing the posts from back then, stuff like ”PhotoShow: Broadcast Photos to Cable TV” give some good perspective on how the world has changed very quick.

.

”No need to get your grandmother online. Just point her to channel 917 and she can see your most recent vacation pictures right there on her television.”

”If Photoshow is successful in closing deals with local cable channels, this differentiating factor with competitors could make it a winner.

The company has raised $6.3 million from Venrock in August 2005.”
I don't and never have worked at Pulumi, but I've read the open source code and can see that the Pulumi engine is distinct from what HashiCorp seems to call "Terraform CLI" or "Terraform Core".

But there are indeed repositories in their GitHub org which started as forks of Terraform providers, as I said. Pretty good strategy to start from all of the generic glue code somebody else already wrote and then adapt it to a new engine, because that's the undifferentiated heavy lifting that needs to be done regardless of the engine design.
So you want subhackernewses? Like /h/business ?
Or any device with an unlocked bootloader that supports popular custom firmware like LineageOS, GrapheneOs, or CalyxOS.
Exactly. The answer to Noah's question is barely two sentences long, and it runs something like "Because people saw how Austerity hurt Greek citizens, and people saw how low confidence hurt Greek businesses and governments". Lazy debt and currency management ultimately serves neither the desires of the pro-business nor the desires of the pro-social program political wings.
Windows 95's System Monitor can actually be configured to show the current number of virtual machines running. (Add item -> Kernel -> Virtual Machines)

You can see in real time that the number of VMs will equal 1 plus the number of DOS windows currently open, as the article explains.
As a silly amusement, people mashed up DPRK propaganda broadcast in Russian with hiphop beats :D

https://www.wykop.pl/wpis/16379237/1-wlaczasz-radio-glos-kor...

Edit: a reference in English: https://www.rferl.org/a/27485988.html
Also Illinois. Why else would northwestern university be in Chicago and not Seattle?
I kind of want one but i dont think any are still for sale.
It is a stark contrast to 5 years ago.
I’ve never been prompted despite being on a family plan from the US for years now and the article is from 2019. Strange. Maybe due to EU regulations?

Someone invited me and I sometimes use it for more obscure stuff that isn’t on Apple Music but if they ever forced this on me I’d just switch over full time to Apple Music and not think too much about it.
I don't think those things can be attributed to the media system.

The same things are present in both the chinese and American societies, under different names. Eg. The US prosecuted the "war on drugs" to house a ton of political prisoners and ensure they cant vote, and that their families cannot become wealthier without adopting the party line. The Facebook moderation team remove your direct message to a friend is not materially different from the government moderation team removing your wichat direct message to a friend. American society disappears people too; for an obvious example, you can look at the people painting red hands on their faces
Actually it's the opposite. Most unikernels out there are meant for vms not bare metal. Bare metal in this definition would be actual real hardware - not a base linux vm. There are a handful though do go to bare metal though.

What is confusing to a lot of people that haven't deployed these things yet is there is no traditional user-land they are familiar (eg: ssh in and run lots of things) with so then the question of 'orchestration' comes up. If you're deploying to the public cloud or your digital ocean instance they are typically deployed as vms and push the orchestration onto the cloud provider of choice that way you don't have to manage networking/storage/etc. It's actually very straight-forward - we can deploy them to AWS in tens of seconds for instance.

Your friend is not incorrect though. If you want to own the "orchestration" layer you'll want/need to put it on bare metal. This is for performance reasons as even nested virtualization is slow and if you are going for the unikernel performance benefit it would get removed.

As for throwing it in a container - technically you can but it's an extra layer that most people wouldn't do in actual practice.
And to that end, when you are in power, you get to choose the nature of your enemies. When you act as you have with Assange, you are effectively choosing suicidal psychos for enemies.
The right thing to do then was to disclose the attack, explain their choices, and further cryptography.

Instead they seemingly wanted to exploit anyone who didn’t use their constants, I guess?
The Sound/Audio stuff literally just came out and likely was an effort by the team working on 11.
Not the same situation. The first aeroplanes were not substitutes for an existing technology.

For substitutes to be viable, they have to have some combination of these attributes: lower up-front cost, cheaper to use, more convenient, more performant, more reliable, and/or more durable than their competitors, from the point of view of the end user.*

So which of these apply to hydrogen vs battery-electric?

* Or have better network effects, where users directly benefit from other people using the product (not a consideration here), or be advantaged by government decree.
Or it will absolutely tank the the market price as satellite projects are multi year projects and the demand will only grow slowly outside Elon selling launch slots to himself (Starlink).
why wouldn't you take a vm image that boots-to-service and put in on your droplet? or give it to someone else to run? or build tooling around that (ala nanos) to make it easy to package applications this way.

i dont understand, except from a purely market position perspective why 'hypervisor images' and 'containers' are such radically different things.
This is really interesting for several reasons - the browser has become an operating system that facilitates work and play, thanks to modern web technologies and standards.

WebGL and WebAssembly in particular represents a new way for game developers to get their projects onto Xbox without needing Microsoft’s approving and needing to give up a 30% cut. That’s powerful.
you don't happen to have a spare invite? it still works on invite right?
For quite some time, I just connected to the Windows X client I had running on the Windows side of the box, and it worked fine. Now with Windows 11, this is better.

Got the new Surface Studio Laptop two days ago and am very happy with it.
Blue light from monitors no danger to eyes or sleep
A bit of A, a bit of B. Successfully delivering a project that generates a lot of revenue is a great way to advance one's career.
Full text in English (I posted a link to the translated version by Google, which was automatically edited to the original):

Munich - LED displays and so-called blue light are not a danger to eyes or sleep. This is explained by the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG).

Blue light belongs to the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum and is characterized by energy richness. "Nevertheless, the light intensity when using electronic devices is far too low to cause retinal damage to the eyes," explained DOG expert Michael Bach of the University Medical Center Freiburg.

The natural illuminance in the free one with cloudy winter sky amounts to in our latitudes approximately 5,000 lux, on a sunny day up to 100,000 lux. A computer screen, very brightly adjusted, remains at a distance of 50 centimeters, however, below 500 lux. "Even if children sit for hours in front of screens due to corona-induced distance learning, at least blue light eye damage is not to be feared as a result," the vision researcher noted.

Contact lenses that block blue light also did not protect against eye fatigue during screen work better than standard contact lenses, according to a recent study (American Journal of Ophthalmology 2021; DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2021.02.010), the DOG said.

Studies: No evidence of health risk from cell phone radiation
Smartphones taboo for young children
Death and illness cases: Samsung apologizes
DOG expert gives the all-clear also in relation to possible sleep disturbances, which could cause the blue light by evening reading at electronic devices. This assumption, too, has since been refuted by a study, he says (Sleep Health 2021; DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2021.03.005). Bach therefore recommends simply avoiding maximum display brightness when reading on an electronic device before falling asleep.

DOG President Hagen Thieme thinks it is important to bring these research findings to the general public. "They serve to educate and protect consumers from misleading advertising and unsettling false reports that pursue purely commercial interests," said the director of the University Eye Hospital in Magdeburg.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

Article is from a reputable, highly prestigious magazine for doctors in Germany. Full study here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33587901/
Here's a list of all the bumblebee species that are or have been present in Vermont: https://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/bumble-bee-atlas/speci...
In theory you could use nested virtualization, e.g. https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/01/23/firecracker--start-a-vm-in-l...

In general public clouds don't play well with unikernels because they can't/won't support microVMs and/or their control plane overhead swamps the boot time benefit. You can always build your own orchestration system on bare metal but then you have an inner platform.
Everybody needs water to survive, but you can still drown in too much of it.
I've only seen the first episode so I could see how the numbering and quantity of people could let one jump to certain conclusions without the knowledge that those details are not significant.
If you're sure that's actually Google's application doing it, and can show it happening with clear evidence, then I recommend reporting it to the media and everyone else you can think of. That sort of behaviour is essentially espionage and I'm sure it would be enough to get Chrome banned from many places which were previously happy to use it.
Is this actually the case if the person you add is an adult? I can’t see anything about the people on my family plan like that - note this is with purchase sharing off though
The servers are not FOSS and would need reimplementing.
iOS has never auto-capitalized type=“password”. It’s absolutely bonkers to me to imagine any mobile browser ever doing that, I was assuming some websites were reimplementing password fields badly with type=“text”.
How many cheats have you seen on consoles? I guess none. Besides maybe an occasional lagswitch, or a packet manipulation/sniffing thing, but that's due to developers' lack of expertise, because all of that is avoidable. That's because consoles are locked down completely. So yes, it is useful if implemented properly, and if your PC is totally locked down. It would be silly to deny that.

(and BTW my bank already does that, requiring non-rooted stock firmware for its app on mobile. With Samsung for example, rooting amounts to warranty loss; maybe in EU it's different, but I'm not in EU)

Whether you or me say yes or no to TPM is not hugely important. Most people are absolutely happy to trade freedom for convenience, and it aligns with Microsoft's incentive to lock everyone into using their products. This isn't new at all, I've seen loss of PC modularity and openness discussed since late 90s.

However, there are several counterbalances for that incentive.

1. Platform fragmentation, the major one. This alone can delay the inevitable for any amount of time.

2. Backwards compatibility.

3. PCs being used for many purposes, not just as an appliance. This is a minor but noticeable one.

4. Some groups advocating for the platform openness. This one is of little relevance in practice.

Expecting the x86/MS platform to stay open forever is not realistic, because the incentives are biased towards locking down. How much time it'll take to get to that state is a different question, though. It haven't happened yet is all that can be said.
October 9, 2006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
Hi Joe . The Laptop that the UPS truck ran over that I bought for $100 in Bitcoin in 2013 still works.

I always get downvoted here because I don’t cite sources :-)

The over the counter chat and trade seemed to end around the first big ATH blow up of 2017. The prices got too high and the conversation ended, my friend.

I’m still around on libera
Or they suddenly had a lot of reason to start caring more, and the best way to get competent people onto improving security was an acquihire?
FWIW, I recently started building my own ungoogled chromium from here: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-win...

Someone might post a binary build there soon with 94 (until yesterday they only had the ancient 89), but you can build it yourself as well (on my 32-core 5950x with 64Gb RAM it took 2.5+ hours to build, just to be prepared for that).

Note that it won't have the Google Chrome Store, so the process for installing extensions (ahem, uBlock Origin) is a bit more involved: https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-wiki...
Impossible. Windows is a modern microkernel architecture. Linux is an Apollo-era monolith.
A real boy!!!!
I don't think "you can't examine how a thing works" has ever been a condition of ownership. And even current trade secret laws carve out exceptions for information that can be obtained via other means. The Uniform Trade Secrets Act (with 1985 amendments) explicitly mentions reverse engineering being OK and includes references to relevant case law.
Because understanding how viruses spread is a solved art. None of this is "unknown."
>I heard they hired some prominent psychologist to make it more addictive.

This is basically what the argument to ban it amounts to whenever this discussion comes up.

Facebook is a simple site, there's nothing to it really. It's just an endless mediocre content website that happens to have your friends on it.

Good user experience = "designed to be addictive by army of ill-wishing psychologists."

The only reason id like to see it banned just so something better can finally take it's place
Hi! Love it, really neat work. Thanks for sharing!!
Chinese planes have crossed the bottom corner of the Taiwanese ADIZ. NOT Taiwanese airspace. Though that sensationalist report sells more newspapers, doesn't it?

An ADIZ has no legal standing, it is only a unilaterally declared area (the Taiwanese ADIZ even covers parts of mainland China). For instance the US does not recognise the Chinese ADIZ and has regularly flown bombers through it. But even the US would not dare to fly a bomber or two through Chinese airspace - the air above the actual Chinese territory and 12 miles out to sea from the coast - without being at risk of those bombers being missiled out of the sky. We saw what happened to Gary Powers when he was sent into Soviet airspace.
How do they attach the camera? I see that it has metal band clamps, but what do they grab onto? A seal's back is all smooth.
Your second paragraph is a word salad and non-sequitur. Treating a human who claims they're a deer as a human isn't denying their existence.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – 07 Oct 2021
> Security Council veto.

...the UNGA adopted a bypass mechanism in 1950, and it was first used in 1951 and had been used several times since.
Neumorphism (2020)
Can I use these pics in an article?
There are unfortunately not too many physical newspapers in circulation, greatly limiting your choice. Conversely you can make your feed into a physical printed form; there was a thing called the Little Printer back in 2012, a thermal printer that prints an aggregated feed of news and social activities into a sort of mini newspaper. The company had shut down by now, but see [1] for the open-sourced version.

[1] https://tinyprinter.club/
They are very precise. Take note of this video, recreating one of the real missions that took place four decades (!) ago. It recreates the orbit in Kerbal Space Program with a mod called Principia that enables N-body simulation using original mission specs and calculations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3PCCJZzVvg
Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history
If you have a workload comprised of 10x 100MB unikernels (which unikernel people love to do), do you want to run that in 10x 1GB droplets (wasting 90% of your money) or 1 droplet?
It’s from this t-shirt:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lastimages/comments/2obp6s/last_kno...

Later the phrase was seen on a t-shirt in a candid photo of a very attractive Japanese woman posted to engrish.com, and went viral.

Then 4chan picked it up.

And now it’s here.
I was referring to a way of living, as opposed to civilizations in the west. According to the definition that seems wrong, but I can’t think of a better term.

Daily life in Japan is practically similar to life in Europe. The rituals for buying food, going to restaurants, greeting one another. I’m not sure why I expected it to be different, but it wasn’t.
I think one question acme tries to answer is “how do you have a Unix-like interface to a computer that is more than a text terminal.” Look at emacs where you have this great text-based environment but it is full of all sorts of weird things and everything is all controlled through an (admittedly great) internal programming language. Sure it can run external programs (simple with M-! or more complicatedly with process filters). Compare to vim which makes some claims to be more unixy but really that just means it does less and has basically no more gui than in a terminal. It still operates through its own internal editing language.

In acme, one of the primary operations is to execute, and one easily executed normal Unix commands. More complicated programs can interact with acme through the virtual file system it presents.
If the country's GDP growth is greater than the annual deficit, total debt can decrease. I don't think your analogy is right.
Probably not. The humans are 250% more intelligent and don’t notice our implants.
This isn't true.

Both https://nanos.org and https://ops.city are Go unikernels running on Google Cloud. (I'm with NanoVMs that is the maintainer of these projects.)
The screwed-up supply chain may have caused California oil spill disaster
> literally just came out

well it's been in Windows insider builds for some time.
This interpretation works. It’s certainly the spirit of what I was trying to convey ;)
Looks like they don't ship Apple Silicon builds, unfortunately.
i actually like this idea, but would be hard to execute as comments might intermix them
Part of the fun is discovering the communities that follow this stuff.
I'm building two things, in two separate WSL environments, for two different clients, right now on my Windows 11 Microsoft Surface Studio Laptop, as I'm looking at Hacker News. It works great.
If only they would just use normal checkboxes, available on Windows since the 80s, instead of these stupid ambiguous slider-switches, they would be perfectly clear with the additional advantage that you can use them while colourblind. Check to disable, uncheck to enable. It's the result of another idiotic attempt at UI "modernity".

(Then again, the double negatives in Windows' own Group Policy Editor, where some if not all of this stuff is also configurable, are just as confusing sometimes; but there, at least the UI controls themselves don't add any more ambiguity.)
Probably because of this:

> Due to the fact that the script includes more than 150 functions with different arguments, you must read the entire Sophia.ps1 carefully and comment out/uncomment those functions that you do/do not want to be executed.