skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super Nintendo: 49.1 million sales

Nintendo 64: 32.93 million sales

Nintendo Gamecube: 22 million (PS2: 155 million, Xbox: 24 million)

Nintendo Wii: 101.63 million

Nintendo had very high targets for Gamecube, hoping to make up for some of the "lost ground" of the n64's weaker sales compared to its predecessor. The Xbox struggled heavily in Japan compared to Nintendo, and was a newcomer to the console scene, but still made more total sales.

The Gamecube also had an extra year before Nintendo released a successor compared with the Xbox. Both came out around the same time, but the Xbox 360 was released a full year before the Nintendo Wii. Luckily for Nintendo, the Wii ended up being very popular compared to the Gamecube and sold ~5x more consoles.

I think both original Xbox and Gamecube had sales targets higher than what they ended up reaching, but you could make an argument that Nintendo failed to capitalize on their previous popularity and market share and had a bigger flop.
That's interesting, and very ironic, since PWA's are supposed to be the lightweight option..

Did you try recently? Ionic has developed quite a bit the last years, it looks like.

Did you try the same with a React Native app too?
Not yet. Eventually, but right now it's just a hobby trying to become a business, and until I get a big enough database to provide a moat, I'm a bit nervous about giving it away for free.

I'm not sure if that's the best course of action, but I'm just a guy who's a bit embarrassed to really like to programming in python and playing golf.
5 fasting days doesn't mean 5 days of total fasting.
If this was 1974, it would be "..much of it packed into a Soviet submarine..."

It's crazy how as a child in that era, I totally bought into the Glomar Explorer being this amazing thing.

And 45-50 years later, here we are.
If you like to work together, The Crew (both editions) is a good choice.

I also played a lot of Flamecraft and is fun and cute. Doesn't scale up to large player counts well though.
> Just tell that to all the cyclists going < 20mph in 40-50MPH roads

That's again a 20-30 speed deferential, not to mention a huge difference in weight. We're talking about a 5-10 one between cars.

Also, if it's a heavy freight truck going 20 in a 40mph single lane. yeah, no issue at all with that speed deferential isn't there? Maybe the problem is here the inattentive, impatient drivers plowing through the cyclist?

> acting in capacity to react in an emergency is more about following distance than speed

The cars in front are not the only hazards.

Overall, I think you're making it too extreme. I'm not saying you should be going 20 on a highway. I'm saying going 5 under a posted speed limit is actually very reasonable, and it's what self driving cars (and human drivers) should do. It will reduce crashes. I think we disagree there.
Personally, I don't understand the economics of lidar for self driving vehicles.
1) How many lidar units will one vehicle need and how much will this cost?
2) How will noise from other lidar systems be addressed? Eg two or more disparate lidar systems on other vehicles using similar frequencies?
3) How small can the lidar systems be made while still being effective in real world use? These units being used for testing are massive and probably stupendously expensive!
I left the framework for this reason. When I asked about it, I was told "this is what Next will be doing soon". I need more reasoning than that, and it was indicative of the decision making process. Turned me off. Aside from that, Svelte is SUPER fast and easy to use. I may give it another go at some point.
Simple question: do you think people's location should tracked and publicized? The answer is always no.

It's also against Twitter terms of service.

It's called a wedge. You are being forced into criticizing him for doing something that you actually want him to be doing.

Your only way out is to argue that doxing is okay for billionaires or something like that - which is basically saying "if I make enough money I think its okay to be personally harassed and doxed" - which is really tough to believe.
They are also trying to convince regulators that they, not you, are legally responsible for any incidents. As long as you are ready to take over with a ten second warning.
and META going up a lot. shows the power of diversification.
> That's just a different way of saying that you never have any cargo (children, groceries, etc) to move.

We have plenty of cargo (children and groceries) and do not own a car.
Funnily enough the ads on this page take as much space as the blog post
I was inspired by Htmx to simply fix HTML, and I believe HTMX is a great way to go if you are using a traditional backend.

However, I believe in a better way if you have a better backend. This is what I'm working on as I build a "vertically integrated online board game studio" where I own the infrastructure, the clients, the frameworks, and now gaming runtimes.
They did the same for modern art.

https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/

With similar results.
Honey buzz was my favorite (new to me) game of 2022. It's rare to find a game with this combination of both top tier strategic depth and aesthetics.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284742/honey-buzz
But anyone who has read that fact on wikipedia will tell it .
Because if they don't someone else will. Google are established but the AI space is still nascent
To suddenly cut Call of Duty (or Activision’s other multi-platform titles) off from Playstation would be massively value destructive; no wonder Microsoft said it was happy to sign a 10-year deal with Sony to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation.

It would be value destructive if all those Sony buyers decided to shrug and not buy a CoD game ever again. It wouldn't be at all if the CoD players could be lured to buy an Xbox. This article asserts that there's effectively no difference between the hardware at this point, so if we accept the article's arguments here, getting the consumers to move from Sony to Xbox with exclusives is theoretically easier than it's ever been. No wonder people are alarmed.
> used such an odd slice of the city I not only can't get picked up, it doesn't GO any where I go.

It's been a month and a half since they've covered almost the entire city except FiDi/Union Square (and Twin Peaks)[1]. That's not a trivial omission, but do you really never take rides that start or end in any other area? In particular, that entire area is a fairly close walk from the only dense transit line in the city.

[1] https://twitter.com/kvogt/status/1587589014525448192
I would've been tempted to send ChatGPT one follow-up request:

"I've decided that I won't return home until I've completed all of these. Please solve the associated Travelling Salesman Problem."
Cool blog, keep it up
Tesla mentioned in this thread almost twice as many times as Waymo.

Elon love/hate is a powerful force.
Spirit Island (and its extensions) remains a favourite of mine. Very cooperative, quite asymmetrical, fair but hard (at least if you play in harder difficulty levels).
I agree, but I can't help but think of that meme about there being N+1 standards. The introduction of a stricter subset of JS will make Javascript more complicated, not less. I hate that, because honestly Javascript and the web would benefit form removing a lot of the cruft.
Great looking maps at every scale
48, got my start on a Timex Sinclair in 1982!
Aren't those sport cars, basically? Luxury sport cars that don't sell comfort at all - they sell power, speed and "I am cool cause I am powerful and fast" look.
Do you miss anything from Guitar Pro in MuseScore?

I'm sick of paying for upgrades to GP in the hope that the next version is less bad than the previous version. It peaked at either 5 or 6 (I think) but they required Mac users to upgrade to get a 64-bit binary. 7.0 feels much slower (Electron?) and seems to insist on keeping your mic open for some silly feature.
It only increases fingerprinting.
Wrong reply
The problem, the SEC dryly notes, is that the alleged criminals (but proven imbeciles) had a tendency to discuss “their scheme over Discord voice chats that they believed were private, but were being recorded.”

Like discussing a bank robbery in front of the bank. "I tell you, Steve, the guard is not looking right now..."
Are you sure about that "unavailable at almost any price" part? Their initial inputs seem to be be the scraps produced by the local manufacturers in a relatively tiny area over the last few years. If this grade of steel wasn't available, where did all these local manufacturers get a constant supply from? (I.e. there has to be an existing and supplied market, it's not like they're recycling the steel only from the scuttled German battleships in Scapa Flow or something.)

The use cases are quoted as "watchmaking and medical subcontracting", fwiw.
Thanks! Looks like a bunch of changes were made to page structure and CSS (in a way that makes scraping a bit more inconvenient). Filed an issue for myself, but looks like the other suggestions in this thread may be better approaches to avoid this kind of fragility.
> Why does a for-profit company have to...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25457440

> ...practice perfect anonymity to sell a product which does have security/privacy in mind?

So are free users "the product?" No. If we're going to fix the Internet, there's no point only fixing it for big companies who can pay a lot. That misses the point of the whole adventure. The Internet is for everyone. We have to fix it for everyone, or why bother? We knew we had to design a business model and a technical architecture that removes any incentive to abuse your privacy. - CEO at Tailscale, https://archive.is/R7jqw
No, the alternative is manufacturers paying a dollar more for a battery made using more careful mining processes. Obviously that's a no go, because then I can't sell $3 "one time use" lithium ion battery packs as a "quick charge on the go" and literally throw away a reusable product.
Ah skeuomorphism my old friend. So good to see you!
> date pickers

<input type="date"> is too rough I'm guessing? I'm not exactly sure where it falls short personally.
It's more of an extinction than a death. If SRAM can't shrink it will eventually be replaced by other technologies that can.
Programmers should have a moral and defensible right to object to something that severely harms those who use their systems. Saying he was just doing what he was told fails to account for the fact that had he said no and flagged this as immoral, some customers may have their cash… maybe. Worst comes to worst he is fired but working at that level you’ll find a job in 5 mins and have sufficient capital to weather the storm. I’m a strong believer that ethics and basic philosophy should be taught as part of a cs curriculum. For precisely events like this.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/340466/unfathomable is fantastic, and since this is a great thread.

I'm building a "roblox for online board games", and if anyone is interested in learning more then you can email me at boardgames@mathgladiator.com

This is all I talk about online, for the most part...
How is domain-based insecure? There are tons of services that use DNS records to validate ownership of a domain. If someone has managed to get control of a domain and modify its DNS records, they can do a lot more damage than a DDOS.
I agree the sales were close, but I think the narrative/momentum was very different for the two. That was Microsoft's first console. They started with nothing, and by the end of the generation had sold more than Nintendo and established critical IPs and an online service for the next generation. Nintendo, at the time, felt very backed into a corner - which of course gave us the Wii that shattered all expectations.
if you don't care about drive wear, and have an OS that will swap unused bloat memory pages to disk, go for it.
No, that wasn't the case. Tiktok already existed as Douyin within China. Musical.ly was an entirely separate company and product. Douyin went truly international as TikTok after acquiring musical.ly.

To add, the acquisition happened in november 2017[0], which is after Vine had already been killed off. Vine had 200mil users as of 2015, while it took musical.ly until May 2017 to get there. Which is also, months after Vine had already been dead, and over half a year after Vine had announced the upcoming shutdown (those numbers and dates are all from the wikipedia pages of the companies mentioned).

0. https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/09/chinas-toutiao-is-buying-m...
Wow, that is very interesting and informative. I had not realized that.
Matthias Wandel said it pretty plainly in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEMb4yc3t3M

> And ads on YouTube seem to be getting a bit too much lately. Just use an ad blocker, don't feel guilty about it. Enough is enough!

(this taken from the description of the video)
The problem with ChatGPT's "knowledge" is that it isn't trustworthy. It will happily output very confident sounding nonsense, or blatantly incorrect statements. We need a way to verify how accurate it's outputs are
Thank you for sharing, right moment for me!
I don’t want to ever give websites access to USB, MIDI, or anything else like that.

I’m unhappy that Apple implemented web notifications, personally. So much easier to never have to think about that garbage.
I mean personally the company assuming liability means A LOT more to me than how much the system can do. It's one thing to say your system can drive down a slick and curvy mountain road, and another thing to say you'll cover all liability if the car drives itself off the mountain. It's easy to write software the runs most of the time. This is our lives that we're talking about.
I've poked around in the TypeScript codebase just a little bit, and it's clear they've squeezed as much performance out of JS as they can (though really, you can tell that just by using the thing; it's impressively fast even though it's still "slow"). It's funny to see stuff like bit-flags in a JavaScript codebase

I am a little surprised nobody at Microsoft has started working on an official native compiler (or maybe they have, and we just don't know about it yet). It does feel like they've hit a ceiling
Of the games that came out this year:

- Mosaic (disclaimer, I know the designer), Bullet Star, Planet Unknown, Fjords, Long Shot: The Dice Game, Wonderland's War

2022 releases I have but haven't gotten to the table yet:

- Eleven (waiting for it to arrive), Vagrantsong, Resurgence, Caesar!, Mind Bug, Puzzle Strike II, Creature Comforts, Verdant

Best "New to me" games for 2022:

- Memoir '44, Imperium Classics, Ark Nova, Res Arcana, Trekking the World, Nemo's War, Scout, Downforce, First Class, My City

I finally played Memoir '44 for the first time, and man is it amazing. My new favorite game, edging out Spirit Island. I now have a regular person I play with online and have racked up 25 games of it just this year, working our way through all the scenarios (of which there's a ton). The online version at BoardGameArena is excellent.

Best board game-like video game I played in 2022:
Inscryption. Basically a "Slay the Spire" style deckbuilder mixed with a creepy vibe mixed with an escape room mixed with...well, you should play it and find out for yourself.
To be fair I have seen a large number of people say that bikes aren't useful because they can't perform a supercommute or can't be used when it's below 0.
Coming from a corn-fed midwesterner who got his license as soon as legally possible, car ownership is totally silly. We are all fleet managers of extremely complicated mechanical objects with huge liabilities from a financial, legal and moral perspective. If self-driving cars do one thing it could at least set people free from personal vehicle ownership, even if they still have car dependent lifestyle.
> China only ever enforced its consistent censorship policies without targeting any foreign company.

That is patently untrue. China's enforcement of its GFW ban list (which is still an unpublished state secret) has been very focused at specific companies, especially in the earlier days when they didn't just ban everything. CNN, for example, was on the s-list for many years due to Tiananmen Square (ironically, being unblocked later while NyTimes would get on the s-list for publish an at article about Xi's family wealth).

China's censorship policies (again an unpublished state secret) are anything but consistent. They are mostly applied for personal retribution (don't publish articles about the leader's family financial assets) or business advantages (don't let in competitors that would challenge domestic champions).
Huh? This is just false. What is the basis for your opinion?

There is no woman in the 24-member Politburo, the highest body of Chinese leadership. None. It had a single woman in the last cycle 2017-2022. The Standing committee, the top echelon with seven members has never had a woman as member. Of 205 members of the Central Committee, only 5% are women.

https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3196848/abs...
Absolutely! I will definitely do that when you can save and share playgrounds :)
> Every time I try to use Safari to create something that goes beyond "display text" it's a new adventure in bugs and unsupported features that work in the other browsers.

Being hyperbolic doesn't help your case; it just looks like you're bashing WebKit because it's from Apple. And while you may have had a bad experience back in the day or don't like that Apple chooses not to implement esoteric or Chrome-only features, that doesn't mean that Safari sucks now.

As I pointed out earlier in the thread [1], Apple has done a great job lately implementing features that they, Google, Mozilla and Microsoft have agreed should be implemented and interoperable and have W3C/WHATWG specifications.

Every browser has bugs; the bug trackers for WebKit, Mozilla and Google are public, so we can actually see what they are.

Like the other browser makers, Apple publishes its bug fixes when a new version of WebKit is released.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991256
> typescript is already way too complicated and getting worse thanks to its velocity

Is it safe to say a non-zero portion of "the community" is headed the direction of:

write it in _____ + compile it to WASM + glue DOM stuff to it with some sort of JS bridge?
Yes, I saw that earlier. I'm surprised it is still up. Let's see if it is still up 3 months from today (assuming Twitter survives that long...).
> And yet you suggest a homeless person can reasonably assert influence on the Blockchain and mine it effectively.

I never suggested anything even close to that.

> Bitcoin is dominated by extremely wealthy miners.

No, it recently had a drop in difficulty as the big box miners have had to shut down due to bankruptcy (making it more accessible to more people). That means it's both cheaper to get the equipment you need and easier to earn Bitcoin. What's great is that's by design.

> But then you'll finally have a tiny billionth of the overall network speed and can make a tiny wave in choosing what transactions to include and push the chain any particular direction. It's practically democracy but you can pay $5 to vote again and can do it however many times you want, meanwhile lots of people pre-purchased votes at $0.50/ea and bought millions already. Sounds like a level playing field to me!

This reads like you don't understand how Bitcoin works. I really don't know what you're referring to here. The network operates according to the current consensus around the protocol. If you want to influence the direction of said protocol, you can submit a proposal and if others want to support it, your changes can be implemented as an upgrade. There is zero prerequisite to spend anything to participate in Bitcoin. If you can offer a product or service to someone and are willing to be paid in Bitcoin, you just participated in Bitcoin. Just like every economy, the more you participate, the more opportunity you have.
I tried to delete google servers in safe browsing config. Firefox will just put them back. Talk about privacy
How much disk space does 175B parameters use? A float or half precision float per parameter or does it need pointers to connections too?

Given how responses are generated in seconds and for free I am fairly sure it could run on a desktop computer.
TuxGuitar is fine for me.
I said the perceived corruption is bigger than the actual corruption. I didn't say "Citizens United is a good ruling." Not sure why you leaped to that.

But, since you brought it up, can you point out any laws passed since CU that were pushed by lobbyists, but were broadly unpopular with the general public? Or laws that failed to pass due to a lobbying effort, despite being broadly popular with the general public? Anything were we can trace this supposed corrupting effect of direct corporate influence and see a result that is actually contrary to what the electorate wants?

I agree it was a bad ruling and should be overturned, but I don't think the doomsday scenarios predicted after the ruling have actually happened. I'm open to being proven wrong though, show me what you got.
There’s a million edge cases for dates that make it hard to use the bare-metal tools.
So far people have been pretty good about accepting self driving cars, even the Teslas on autopilot that crash into parked trucks quite regularly.
Not sure I agree. Yes, it requires more work on the back end: rendering templates for whole pages and parts of pages, then integrating them. I've done it with Python (FastAPI/Jinja2 & htmx). My only SPA experience is with dotnet on the back end and Angular on the front. Based on that experience:

1. Python with htmx has less accidental complexity. It doesn't get rid of intrinsic complexity of the domain, but it does reduce technology-induced overhead.

2. Dotnet/Angular tech split has organisational implications, tending to encourage a division between front end and back end developers. Communication and coordination overhad goes up correspondingly (Conway's law).

3. htmx is stable. There's a lot less churn than with Angular. I haven't measured this, but subjectively, there's less time spent updating packages and re-testing. Keeping FastAPI/Django/Python update is approximately equivalent keeping the dotnet back end up to date.

4. State management is simpler. There's no front end caching to deal with, and so no corresponding cache invalidation questions.

I'm not building tech unicorn sites, so can't comment on whether the technical overhead is justified at that scale. I _have_ been pleasantly surprised at the level of UI sophistication that can be achieved with server side rendering and htmx.

I'm not a big javascript fan generally, so definitely have bias. I also have an increasingly allergic reaction to accidental complexity, so am constantly looking for ways to minimise it.

Based on those biases and experiences, my default starting point is SSR+htmx. In my experience the accidental complexity is lower, productivity higher, and intra-team communication better. YMMV obviously.
The Parentified Child
It exists

Revanced on Android

Stube on AndroidTV
Switching to GA4? ;)
Are there any inductors or transformers? I don't see any on the left parts panel. I want to make an oscillator.
Vegan diet concerns? "Pick up my soap".
Twitter links to @elonmusksjet on Instagram considered harmful
What would you say the lifetime cost of raising your two children conception -> college is roughly?

https://business.time.com/2009/09/18/1-1-million-cost-to-rai...

Article from 2009 says $1.1m

> When you add it all up, it’s not uncommon for a single child to cost a normal, middle-class family something like $1.1 million, from birth through the undergrad years.
The Crew (2019). Approachable but interesting co-op trick taking with communication restrictions and 50 missions for replayability. If you liked Hanabi, you might end up spending more time on this.