skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the SDK has been tested and confirmed to be fully functional on real hardware, but there is some copy protection you will have to get around in order to run arbitrary software on a PS1. The traditional solution is to perform disc swapping or install a modchip, but nowadays we also have softmods [1] that make the process as easy as inserting a specially formatted memory card (which can be prepared using a PS2, or even a PS1 by swapping discs).

You are not required to use CDs either. With the help of some code and linker script magic, you can build an image that can be booted directly from a cheat cartridge (or simply a parallel EEPROM) connected to the console's expansion bus, bypassing the copy protection checks entirely. There are also debugging tools that, once loaded, let you download an executable into RAM for quick testing and manage memory cards using a modified serial cable [2].

[1] https://github.com/brad-lin/FreePSXBoot

[2] https://schnappy.xyz/?building_a_serial_psx_cable
Obligatory Matt Levine take: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-11/anti-e...
> Maybe there is a cadre of conservative freedom loving experienced techies hiding in the shadows

Your bias is showing. One does not have to be conservative to want Twitter 2.0 to succeed. Also, there are definitely experienced techies who are conservative and who are not "out" in silicon valley. It's hard to know how many there are because they have kept their heads down for many years.
TL;DR: We printed a really big, hard to print model aerospike engine. This was done to demonstrate how our printing could be used in the future to make possible as-yet impossible advances in rocket science. It's purely conceptual.
Sure, but it's not specific. I'm thinking more along the lines of requiring public SEC filings or prospectuses.
For now we're focusing on the US. We're expanding to other jurisdiction soon... potentially in 2023.
These Mass Timber Construction Kits Could Transform The Way We Build
Capitalism is embraced by classical liberalism. Modern day "liberals" / progressivists have especially embraced American version of capitalism by using regulatory capture, basically coming up with 1 million and 1 ways to "make sure the consumer is protected" and then proceeding to capture the hell out of the regulatory framework to make sure anyone who disagrees with the regulation is called out as someone who wants people to get hurt / someone who wants to let industry oppress us. Meanwhile they rake in the profits while locking out competitors.
> Yep! Our product is free for individuals (paid product coming later for businesses), so we didn't add a pricing page quite yet. We've raised money from friends and family and a couple of funds but consider ourselves pre-seed currently.

Congrats on the launch, thanks for the response
After a couple of decades, I went in a radically different direction for a few years. I've spent the past six months trying to reverse course. I won't say that it was a mistake or that I regret it, necessarily, but it is quite clear now that what I really needed was a sabbatical, and I should have taken that before making any decisions.
HaCF was a very good (if a bit uneven) TV series. I totally thought S1 was going to go off in a different direction, maybe creating something like the Mac rather than a PC clone though. The depiction of Comdex of the era was fantastic.
We're not doing sports for now. We're focused on events that have broad economic/social utility (not that sports doesn't, but it doesn't as clearly).
French Senate mandates solar photovoltaic on large outdoor car parks (French)
DVD players themselves seem to have declined markedly in quality since they became commodities.

I have a new-ish blu-ray player that baulks at the layer change on a DVD, or refuses to play some titles. I also have a high quality Sony upscaling player I bought at a thrift shop that will play anything. I will be unhappy when that dies. Unfortunately, the introduction of HDMI seemed to coincide with the drop in quality of DVD players so you may have to buy a chain of chinese dongles to get the good quality players to work in your lounge.

Ripping your DVDs is probably a good idea, not because of the playability issues to do with the disks themselves, but to do with finding a decent, working DVD player at any price.

edit: the main problem I have with commercial streaming media is that they are using all the nasty tricks of DVD to compress the image below what you can notice on a modern TV. Crushed blacks, blockiness when the stream gets compromised by traffic etc. Blu-ray held such promise and it can look fantastic with a higher average bit stream rate than streaming, but they are getting harder to purchase as the retail outlets disappear.
The "digital fentanyl" implies that the addiction is the problem, which may be. As a headline, it's totally misleading relative to the topic discussed. The phrase is attributed to an FCC commissioner, which isn't suprising as the FCC is so frequently consumer-unfriendly.

Assuming that "we" here is not China and therefore "them" is China, we are simply very upset that we didn't get our kids hooked on digital fentanyl first. Especially Facebook and Snap are unhappy. Economically, of course, we'd rather retain the profits from the ad market, but that's globalization for ya.

Our own three-letter agencies such as CBP trawl the data sets our own companies sell, as well as have access to behind the scenes when needed.

What makes anyone think that the CCP doesn't just purchase all the information that our data brokers collect anyway?

That they would shape what content we see, well, they may have our interests less in their hearts than does Facebook, but we haven't seen Facebook have our interest in their hearts either.
Heads up that I had to update through the UI twice - first brought me from 1.30.x 1.32.2, then second to 1.32.3.
The H-1B program is designed to suppress tech worker wages in the U.S. and create a more compliant workforce here. I'm not sure it is possible for a company to ethically use this program, and many outright use it for abuse https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage...
Most operating systems have existing features which offer this capability already. I typically alias these to 'xc' (copy) and 'xp' (paste) within my shell.

For Linux, 'xclip -c' (copy) and 'xclip -p' (paste) respectively.

For MacOS, 'pbcopy' (copy) and 'pbpaste' (paste), respectively.

For Android, using Termux, 'termux-clipboard-set' (copy) and 'termux-clipboard-get' (paste) respectively. There are also keyboard mnemonics: Ctrl-Alt-C will copy, Ctrl-Alt-V will paste.

I believe there's also a feature on Windows via Cygwin, though it's been a couple of decades since I've had to use it.

Each of the above can read from stdin/stdout or file redirection.

E.g.:

cmd | xc # copy *from* command
xp | cmd # paste *to* command
xc <file # copy *from* file
xp >file # past *to* file
Seems like a timeline for a midlife crisis. Either way it might pay to talk to a good therapist about it. They’ll be able to help you work through whatever might be getting in the way of experiencing that passion, and help with concrete steps for what you do next.
It's always going to be an approximation, and if you do some serious work with computer graphics you'll say some point maybe get a chance to see that the limits of floating point numbers aren't actually as large as they seem. Double precision is way bigger than single precision but still, if computers could actually "reach infinity" there wouldn't be any issues with floating point error in sensitive calculations. But the fact of the matter is that there is.

And at any rate, "infinity" is not a single value to be reached.

Take an analysis class and you'll understand this better!
Your mistake is to prioritize climate change over space exploration and not some other industry. Spending on space exploration is tiny compared to, for example, consumer electronics or entertainment. Imagine how much we can save if phone lifecycle is five years instead of two; or if video games playing time is reduced by half, etc. So many candidates, yet you choose to target space exploration, an industry that has historically been responsible for so many science and technology innovations.
The key to a good movie is characters and relationships. It's been a few years since I read the book (and it is a great book), but I think there are characters galore and the opportunity to pump up relationships. It could maybe work.

Yeah, if anyone could do it, Sorkin could.
I can't help but think you may not despise working from home, the only people who dispute wfh is less efficient are people who want to wfh or people selling article clicks to them
Identity politics isn't a dirty word. Most politics is organized around some aspect of shared identity. People with a shared aspect of their identity often have shared problems they want to organize around.

Identity politics brought us women's suffrage and marriage equality.
Daimler (trucks) is no longer Mercedes (cars). Two fully separated companies.
From what I can gather, the endgame for these businesses is not to stand on their own two feet, but to simply acquire enough customers such that an established player snaps them up.

Most businesses don't want to do the hard work of chasing down licenses and permits. It seems to be all about a quick acquisition.
NFT generative art "scene" on fxhash [0]. There's some great art, articles and people there and on twitter [1]. There are problems, as with any community, but, in my opinion, "web3" at it's finest.

[0] https://www.fxhash.xyz/

[1] https://twitter.com/fx_hash_

[2] https://twitter.com/fxhashdrops
It's really hard to say. We tend to be dynamic in how list markets: we monitor whatever is trending every week/month, and create a market out of those things.

I guess the number of markets we post next year will be a function of how crazy 2023 will be. In some ways, we capitalize on volatility.

Antifragile...
Not personally but yes, there seem to be threads like this every week on HN.

> I could focus on my current hobbies and start a business based on those. Not because of money, but because I'm looking for that excitement again.

If you're comfortable enough financially I'd say to go for it.
> They did an analysis on their own platform

That's always how good studies start.
Show HN: Organize Carpools with Co-Workers
Here's something I've been working on to help employees find carpooling options with co-workers. With inflation & gas prices going up this seems like a really good thing to have going forward. Happy to have any feedback and I'll roll it back into the site. Thank you!

https://workcarpools.com/

This is a repost after 10 weeks of working on the feedback from HN with code updates and a website redesign [1]. I submitted this before and there was very good feedback about target audience, need to show benefits, etc. Basically, I had a website that looked like it was designed by a programmer. I'd spent 95% of the work on the backend systems and 5% on the website. I've tried to majorly improve the website with screenshots and demos now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32681635
I still think this is largely wrong.

I've worked some tough jobs in my life. Physically laborious. I'm talking 100+ hour weeks on an ice cold production line working under complete psychopaths. I felt overworked, abused, frustrated - I turned off my brain, chatted with coworkers, and did the job. But never once did I feel "burned out". No matter how much I hated the jobs, I could always stand there and do another day. And the end of every shift felt so good.

In contrast, I have felt very burned out in relatively nice jobs - thoroughly pleasant environments with minor workloads. I don't even know why. Something about staring at screens all day - something about that "unplugging" feeling you get after locking in on some code all day - maybe constantly thinking about how other people think.

Honestly, the closest non-work simile I have found was signing up to do a video game marathon. After hour 8 I had a distinct feeling of burnout for that game - as bad as any terrible job I have ever had. For doing something I should otherwise find enjoyable.

So I think there can be some amount of trauma involved, but I think the core of "burnout" has less to do with actual negative experiences and more about the type of work we engage with. And I specifically think it has to do with our capacity to either do continuous creative problem solving, or engage with large varieties of different people - both activities that humans have not historically had to engage in for extended periods of time in previous eras.
EVs apparently have around 30 moving parts compared to ICE vehicles' 3000 ish.

Which suggests we could be on the verge of a golden era of automotive simplicity, modularity, tinkering, etc.

But no, this is what we will get. Locked subscription-only features, pay-per-mile, spyware, crapware, bloat, software-enforced maintenance and obsolescence, software-certified components (no 3rd party replacements), etc, etc, just like printers, but even worse.

The manufacturers should restrain themselves, or ownership will become so onerous that people don't bother and just use uber etc.
I also think it was somewhat appropriate not to have a concrete idea of the future early in the pandemic. We didn't know what was coming. Lots of speculation turned out to be false. One scenario that was suggested very early on was a low single-digit percentage of young healthy adults being hospitalized, which could realistically have caused interruptions in basic municipal services in some places. Other scenarios were too optimistic. We really didn't know the future and couldn't make firm plans about it. Feeling that way all the time, no matter whether it's appropriate, is a symptom. Feeling that way when it makes perfect sense is not a symptom.
Exactly. People come up with these weird "figures" like it takes "12l of water to make an almond". That doesn't mean 12l of water is squeezed into one incredibly dense almond. It means 99.99% of that water evaporates and rains back or returns to ground water or whatever and needs treating again before it can go back into someones tap...
Ask HN: What did you use for free bulk photo background removal?
I have 10,000 JPEG files on my Windows machine for which I need to remove backgrounds, and zero budget to do it. I've tried free tools like ImageMagick and Gimp using their floodfill technique with fuzzing of parameters, which only works well with more-or-less solid backgrounds, and fails miserably on my photos since they have more varied backgrounds. Please tell me if I'm wrong, but the many online services all appear to require payment and/or don't offer bulk processing. I'm about to go down the rabbit hole of coding a solution from amongst a myriad of possible tools, not knowing how they compare in quality and ease of programming:

BoofCV
GluonCV
halide
MATLAB
OpenCV
PIL/Pillow
PyTorch/torchvision
scikit-image
SimpleCV
U^2-Net

Do you have any recommendations?
Take it with a grain of salt, but Alphabet has long maintained that they do not track from Googl Fonts:

https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy

It seens like an odd thing to lie about, given how nefarious they are with other things.
I love when people point out wrong info just so someone can make a stronger claim that is essentially the same point. 1 hour a day wasted is still a lot of time.
I agree, the Bloomberg article is much more thorough: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/apple-hit-with-clas...
Regulation is supposed to stop this shit to happen. But it won't.
It's not you it's them.

They are just leveling you internally against some internal metric. They might have a lot of well qualified non-senior in title folks. Bringing you into the club may ruffle some feathers. It will depend on how isolated the teams are and the cross communication requirements.

If they say you are not senior ask where on the scale you fall as a non-senior. Then ask for their rubric that describes the levels and the promotion requirements. All of that should be standard and is fair to ask. Say you need it to determine next steps.

That'll give you the information you need to make a decision.
LG Oled C2 42 inch. I’m hoping to use it as my main monitor.
> People who can't unplug from the 24/7 news feed and instead adopt the world's stresses on to themselves, manifesting as a never-ending cycle of stress and doom

The adopting the world's stresses seems to be something I've observed with the newer generations. No actual problem solving but merely adopting the stress which I wonder is a symptom of being overly empathetic but I can't understand why the adoption doesn't progress into actual problem solving? Is it because the average joe regardless of the generation is a bad problem solver and more unrefined free stress is bound to paralyze said joe. Or is it something else?
Yeah, I started building camper vans (from cargo vans) for the past few years, and I've really enjoyed it. I got the same excitement I had when I was really enjoying technology.

Carpentry was a huge part of the builds, so it's something I have strongly considered doing more professionally. I actually thought about building my own lumber mill as well!
From what I've been seeing it seems like a trade off between a more functional government and better views in some places by the ocean vs less functional government, warmer weather, more crime and a bigger, nicer house.
Yes. Don't even need to read it. Anytime you read the sentence "our definition" it's wrong. There is no such thing as "burn out". It's a marketing term. Practice root thinking (https://breckyunits.com/root-thinking.html). Ignore marketing buzz words, especially if they come from social sciences like psychology, psychiatry, et cetera.

Obviously fatigue is a thing and you need rest, but don't believe anyone who tells you you have some easily labeled condition—it's almost always B.S.
And you can watch live as it happened exactly 50 years ago!

https://twitter.com/apollo_50th?lang=en

https://apolloinrealtime.org/17/
Kindle scribe pending initial reviews being positive.

The new onyx boox tab is tempting but the company looks too shady (ignoring gpl, lol privacy policy).
Why? What is their motivation in offering this? It is not altruistic.
Huh. Did I not expand a comment somewhere? Because I didn't see anyone citing the correct material.
Splinternet: Some Countries Are Leaving the Global Internet [video]
Absent a high performing systems language that still offers some safety guarantees, the right call should be to use whatever the second best is. It could be a higher level language with runtime overhead, sandboxing, formal verification etc. In some cases constraints won’t allow this, and obviously replacing even parts of infrastructure code is never easy. Nor should the perfect be the enemy of the good - adding better testing doesn’t sound like a bad idea even for a piece of code being sunset. What I’m objecting against is the (apparent, or my perceived!) idea that “if only the fuzzing was good enough, this code would be acceptable for use forever.
Whatever SBF has "admitted to" in WhatsApp with his benefactors at the NYT or whomever is PR / damage control, etc. It cannot be relied upon as the guy has shown the behavior of a pathological liar and manipulator.

> Bahamas or not, if you operate in the US, US rules apply for your US business

That's just it, isn't it? FTX.us was in US jurisdiction, but FTX.com was an international organization where the vast majority of FTX's trading activity took place. They wouldn't have had to uphold U.S. laws or regulations at FTX.com, even if onerous measures were to pass.
I tried branching away from IT because I thought I was bored of it, and thought I would be happier not sitting at a desk.

I almost immediately started thinking about tech projects I wanted to do. I realized I had all this tech experience and everywhere I looked I found things that tech could improve.

For me, in my case, it turns out I was just tired of technology for technology's sake. And instead I needed a different cause, and different ways to apply it and solve things.

Fast forward to now, and I love my tech job, but now my passion and excitement is not for the tech itself, but instead it is in the way the problems it is being applied to are approached and solved with the tech.

I don't know if I would have re-found this passion without the couple years off outside of tech, so maybe it was a required part of my journey to get to this point.
Fixing the authenticity problem for institutions is as simple as running a mastodon server on your own domain, which would cost less per user than a blue check.
AFAIK, that's not the case for the WSJ. Other outlets like Forbes do have self-publishing arms, though.
If you read the leaked Musk tweets you'll see that he believes it, at least partially, based off their revenue/employe ratio. It was like a third of the other major tech companies.
The usual incompetence. It would break some existing use etc.
I'd agree with you in the general sense that people need to unplug from the news, however, unfortunately that doesn't solve the problem here.

Between 2020 and 2022 in many countries we were prevented by law from engaging in everyday activities. Even for those of us who decided to take calculated risks, life as a whole became incredibly difficult and stressful because simply talking about anything at all became a political battleground. Coronavirus became _everything_, we were following arrows around on the floor for christ's sake.

Some countries are still engaged in such practices, e.g. I'd love to visit China but it's not effectively possible; the China of pre-2020 doesn't exist. At the moment it feels as if I missed out on visiting it, potentially forever.

I lost my job during lockdown, twice, and at the moment those workplaces no longer exist. What I consider to be my career no longer exists. It may come back, but at this point I can't rely on it.

These events have been traumatic for me. I've lost a huge amount of trust in people, to the extent that making any kind of medium to long term plan seems pointless because society could simply decide to completely up-end the existing structures again.

I can plan for "there may be an infectious disease". I can plan for losing a family member. I can't plan for losing my partner, and I can't plan for "anything you want to do might suddenly become illegal with zero notice; the career you train for might disappear overnight; society may arbitrarily turn against you".

I've not been back to work since. Aside from a few events (like meeting my current partner), my life still feels as if I'm in a bad dream and I'm waiting to wake up in 2019.

> expressing a relationship to time and the future that alarmed me. They began talking about the future as if it didn’t exist

I feel a lot of affinity with this, actually. The future I trained for and built my life around disappeared.
Optimization Techniques for GPU Programming
I get the logic regarding hating on a product because it's trendy, however, I've followed MS Windows for a long time and more importantly listened to people around me, skilled teams of Windows software developers; with many different personalities and backgrounds; GUI designers, system driver devs, kernel devs, windows internals experts, and what do we all seem to have in common? We do not like Windows 11. Many of us used to praise Windows back in the day (WIN2K-XP-7 era).

To be frank with you, MS deserves all the criticism and I truly believe the 'biased internet swarm minds' to be correct this one time. Agree to disagree.

> People would also hate Edge despite benchmarks showing its latest iterations, even before the transition to chromium, as being one of the fastest and most performat browsers out there.

No Firefox is but it depends on the hardware. I'd encourage anyone to do their own benchmark - don't let anyone fool you with these paid benchmark guru sites.
They charge you $99/year to qualify, so yes.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33677860

There are legal versions of that approach.