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> Nintendo is extremely resistant to change and compromise

Are you sure? The company the brought us…

- Color TV-Game

- Game Boy

- Nintendo 64

- GameCube

- Nintendo DS

- Wii

- many, many others [0]

… is resistant to change? They have always been at the forefront of hardware innovation/experimentation, I'm sure they wouldn't be against it.

I'd suggest listening to the 2-part Acquired podcast episodes about Nintendo [1] if you haven't already.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_video_game_consoles

[1]: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nintendo https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nintendo-the-console-wars
I've been playing the leaked version of TotK at 4K 60 fps for several days, and with only extremely minor visual bugs (example: when switching abilities, the background turns black rather than out-of-focus). It's honestly less janky than many AAA PC games.
I hope they put something about user interface there.

The “EU IA UI” act.
We understand. He's just talking about how justice should work from a hypothetical perspective.

Hypothetically we all want a justice system to be based on justice but everyone is well aware that the system is at its heart capitalistic.

It's ok to discuss hypotheticals.
Definitely, I got the same vibe reading this as I do with Economist articles where you can tell the unnamed author waxing poetic inefficiencies in state allocation of capital just graduated 2 years ago.
What do you mean at night? Dark Mode all the way all the time everyday ;)
My pixel 6 is going to be my last Google device. It's relatively new- but the software is terrible in ways it shouldn't be. Google switching between chat and hangouts, but won't allow me to uninstall the one that's obsolete ended up having me stop using both products completely. And 25 percent of every pin unlock attempt results in the screen just doing nothing. Sometimes I have to press the screen to unlock, sometimes I have to turn the screen off and start all over again. Unlocking the screen is something I do countless times a day, yet it's constantly failing after a recent update. Hasn't been fixed in months. This kind of behavior should be a release blocker.
> and the cost of compatible peripheral chips.

particularly this, i think, and also availability.
This is the web privacy version of, “but that wasn’t REAL communism.” Look, you guys made a law, and what happened happened. When someone criticizes the law because of the consequences it led to, you don’t get to whine, “but it was the fault of the people responding in a way that we didn’t intend!” If your best argument is that the law was vague as to what compliance meant, then that sounds like a problem with the law.
I think he is saying that laws have unintended consequences. And a law with good intentions (preventing bad AI outcomes) can have the unintended effect of discouraging entrepreneurs from choosing europe to build a new company.

I know plenty of people who avoid the healthcare sector because of HIPAA and avoid handling credit card data because of PCI. PCI and HIPAA are well-intentioned but can scare off innovators.
I don't know if you haven't noticed, but California has been having massive wildfires in the same area for years now.
I find generative AI very impressive, but impressive in the sense of "wow, it's impressive that an algorithm can do that." If I ignore the fact that something was algorithmically generated, then I'm not impressed by the generated output on its own.
You posted the same article within the past 24 hours.
To be fair, YT Premium is one of the few subscriptions I think is a no-brainer and good value for money.

Sometimes when I've forgotten to log in and see what it's like without, it's amazing anyone can watch videos on there. Like a lot of people I've generally been OK to watch ads in exchange for free content but it seems over the years instead of ads getting better and/or more relevant to my interests (even broadly), they're getting much worse.

I assume this is the result of companies just accepting ££ for anything rather than having more quality control?
Frankly, I don't know what to say. If it is "the implementation that sucks", the implication probably is that everyone in this forum sucks.
It might be worth listening to the Acquired podcast episode on Nintendo. They are very far from perfect, and have had a good number of serious failures, along with some very strange decisions that clearly hurt them. Nintendo has a die hard stance on modding that is definitely net negative. Just a few weeks ago they went after some giant Twitch streamers for playing modded content. They also consistently ship technology that is generations behind.

One big thing they pointed out is the type of gaming they target. While the Playstation and Xbox general aim for very serious, high "skill" players, Nintendo often launches just above the seriousness and skill level of mobile gamers. It's easy for me to sit down with my extended family and play Mario Party or Mario Kart, but they'd hate me if I had them play Elden Ring. They also are strongly against much of the free to play content.

I left that episode questioning how much of Nintendo's recent success is due to them outcompeting versus the competition making a series of unforced errors.
>my understanding is that the primary reason is the non-trivial amount of red tape and legal risks associated with US entities

That's also the reason why some corporations don't bother with GPDR!
This is pure speculation.

1. Youtube is profitable, so there is no pressure to do it immediately.

2. It may hurt video creators more than it helps. Many youtubers are sponsored, so they would prefer a view with adblock over no viewer. This keeps them on the platform.

3. Similarly, it keeps viewers on the platform, and maybe more importantly, away from other platforms.
Is it? We’re both speculating here. I’m sure they evaluated the market and found that’s the price they need to sell at. My best friend works doing supply planning and has worked for multinational companies in a variety of fields from pharmaceuticals to electronic components, to clothing. Through talking to him I learned that costs vary by region greatly, and it’s never because of what you think. It’s less “just taxes”, and more related to localized political situations, union, small supply chain variables or just simply marketing.
Google’s ad business is looking not so great these days as they increasingly lose out to the walled off app gardens they can’t get into.

It’s generally not a great sign for a business when the focus of your innovations turns into increasingly aggressive ways to force folks to consume something they obviously don’t want.
>Is it this or something else

I ofc can't speak for Google but I know the work I did it was much easier to simply block the EU until compliance was sorted out. It was almost always fine and we didn't have to change anything but it wasn't worth the risk.

I'd be shocked if it never made it to Europe.
Huh, that's very encouraging, thanks! Which emulator have you been using, out of curiosity?
Tildevarsh: India-based tilde focusing on skill development and sharing ideas
One day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892512
What is the best way to detect if a user has enabled uBlock or Adblock? I wanted to do it for a project I'm working on, but many solutions fail.
1:1 then meant a 100% markup compared to the US price. That isn't accounted for by 17.5% VAT. I can't imagine expenses were really twice as high.
Are there any publicly traded vpns?

EDIT:

https://swingtradebot.com/stocks-tagged-as/4952-vpn
So you’re saying is that progressives mayors have no ability to effect positive change and if we want livable cities we shouldn’t bother voting for them?
Launched the first app for carhailing fleet managers
Giant companies like Google and Meta use alternatives to Git for their internal / closed-source code, because Git couldn't scale to their needs. If I recall correctly, Google transitioned from Perforce to an in-house system, and Meta transitioned from using Mercurial to a custom derivative of it.

Again, no one size fits all...
"The education system isn't highly rated overall so you'll have to choose carefully if you have kids."

This is an understatement. Virtually everyone I knew in Florida who had kids sent them to private school. These weren't rich people (they weren't in tech). Anyone who was remotely middle class would find a way to scrap the funds together because the public schools were so horrendous.
Where rationality left only emotions rule, and populists know damn well how to use people's fears and other negative emotions to to milk them for either money or power... don't expect solving this would be so trivial, its more on the evolution of mankind as whole scale, or at least massively improving education with strong focus on less intelligent part of population
Please. Don't spread FUD.
The privacy aspect of his talk is interesting but I do not like the analogy of "telepathy" as it is used. I would rather he called it "highly curated telepathy". Morphic resonance or real telepathy and a fringe science would only limit who's brainwaves your brain can synchronize to and would not limit what one could send or receive.

Internet connected telepathy on the other hand would be highly curated, controlled, manipulated by even more advanced algorithms than the hot mess our social media platforms are in today. I think that is a bigger issue than privacy given that people can not be forced to participate in the highly connected society despite what some may think. Future legal regulations will be of no help as we have seen by all the social media platforms happily ignoring them and accepting fines as the cost of doing business.

Perhaps experience has made me overly pessimistic. I propose an idea for his next related video:

2052: Reparations to the victims of the 2030 behavioral control projects. How society rebuilds and and regains their freedom. Some of the victims in this case may not have even been connected to the telepathy network. They may have been in close proximity to connected victims receiving second-hand manipulation.
First of all the opioid crisis started because of a pharmaceutical company illegal practices, lying, bribing of doctors and scientists, over prescription to people who didn't need those drugs.

Even today you might end up addicted to opiates because of medications after a serious injury/surgery.

Second of all, cutting a dangerous drug, with a drug that can kill you with 3 milligram is borderline mass murder.

Third of all "and sometimes even added to other drugs.", it's systematically added to other drugs, there is no addict dumb enough to buy like pure fentanyl for themselves, that's not drugging yourself that's suicide.

Stop spreading misinformation.
Well, if you have empathy for others, it's still scary.
Yes, chapter 8 is what I meant.
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Have you been to NYC? The roads here are pretty tattered. Re: coastal access, I was providing my overall view of the city, which was pretty obvious.
Not likely given the broad sweep of the First Amendment. Much easier for the FAA to deny a license to crash a plane under various safety rationales than to say "you can't show that because of the message" in the United States. The latter is almost certainly unconstitutional.
Inserting ads directly into the video stream doesn't seem to be counterable, no? It's not cheap, but might be worth it.
Even if it worked hospitals in the us would not adopt due to cost. Hospital executives would cut out gloves and hand washing if the could
To be fair, the last two Pokemon games were atrociously optimized cash grabs.

They look like Gamecube games honestly, and are generally not impressive from a technical standpoint.

I don't necessarily disagree with the overall point, but BotW and Dynasty Warrior clones are probably a better argument over all.
During the initial meetings about the IBM PC, didn't Microsoft pitch the idea of using the 68k?
When OoT came out I'd already played Link To The Past And Link's Awakening so I didn't find OoT very impressive.. it often had clunky camera and controls & the story was pretty lame(especially compared to Link's Awakening).

It also just wasn't that creative.. a very safe Zelda. Majora's Mask was much better though.
There are plenty of other consequences to levy besides incarceration. One aspect of his punishment might be to force him to produce several PSAs about the dangers of wagging the dog on his youtube account.

Or you could waste the opportunity and throw the dude in jail, almost ensuring he's never a productive member of society again. That's the norm in the "land of the free"[1]

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/incarcera...
Google is big, wealthy, and tech-savvy enough to, at the very least, make ad blockers unreliable and annoying most of the time for most of the users.

This is not good news, and it's probably not going to be a lesson in humility for the company.
You can’t recreate ocarina. The link to the past structure has been criticized for being stale since twilight princess.
FAA would notice that no call actually went out ;)
Given that they have the largest analytics platform, they should be able to fairly easily see that sites that employ adblocker blockers suffer very high bounce rates for visits coming from search.

Personally, I would absolutely stop going to youtube if they tried to block me from visiting while my adblocker is active.
A/B testing. They're doing this for everything, a few months ago they blocked videos to 3rd party apps (Newpipe, Revanced, ...) only for certain accounts in certain countries
> Windows writes local time

I seem to recall there's a registry key to control that and have it store UTC to the RTC

edit: found that one https://superuser.com/questions/975717/does-windows-10-suppo...
I'm not sure that https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manches...

is well summarized by "The Christie Receives CQC Rating".

(also overriding my mouse buttons to prevent me selecting text? How very passe.)
Nostalgia is a funny beast. Your comment holds true for me but the wonder was with the original NES Legend of Zelda and I felt nothing for Ocarina/Majora's Mask.

Interestingly, Breath of the Wild is the first modern game I can remember that brought back that sense of wonder I had as a kid.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892512
Zstandard has a dictionary functionality which allows you to pre-train on sample data to achieve higher compression ratios and faster compression on large numbers of small files.
Actually there are multitude of them in Quebec. https://www.osler.com/en/resources/regulations/2018/quebec-c...
I live in a city with defacto legal drugs (including up to cocaine, crack and meth, but admittedly no opoids except hydrocodone) and there's no societal collapse nor any epidemic to be seen.

The problem is not drugs.
When you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Of course a career prosecutor would see a ‘crime problem’ as a result of insufficient prosecution.

Crime is complex, but largely related to poverty and economic opportunity. The interventions that are likely to matter most are so far outside this person’s perspective, that they are unable to see how modest judicial reform is merely the nearest corner of the iceberg.
You mean ethnicities that are still deprived of nationhood, so the empire they are subjects of assigns different timezones to them compared to other ethnicities they rule ?? (Any examples ??)
In order for me to still feel like "me" afterward, there would have to be a linking stage during which I could get used to this digital extension of my mind, like an artificial limb for me to get used to as part of my body. Then, as the biological mind withered and died, like pouring a liquid from one container to another, the digital brain would come to represent a larger and larger part of "me", finally containing all of my consciousness.

You could compare the process to how the cells of your body (in particular your brain) eventually all get replaced, yet the stream of consciousness flows uninterrupted through a number of these replacements.
"Any country that does this" would eventually be all countries.
I'm irritated to learn that proper nouns are allowed. That's unusual for word games, and imho breaks the spirit of the thing. But honestly most of the frustration is not knowing whether the game is going to treat two words as related enough in advance. It doesn't feel like I'm being clever, it feels like I'm blindly exploring a graph.
Have an archive link: https://archive.is/MI1ua
Maybe manifest v2 will be removed for real soon.
The Deck is impressive and wonderful, but it's not exactly a high end gaming device. Emulating ARM code efficiently requires a significant amount of CPU power and my experience is that the Deck doesn't quite have the CPU capacity to keep up with heavier emulated titles.

I expect the new Logitech handheld (or the many other, even more expensive competitors) to perform much better in this regard.

In a perfect world, emulators such as Skyline would be developed further. As the Switch is just a five year old mid tier Android tablet with a controller attached, I can only imagine the experience if you were to use the KVM capabilities of the upcoming Android 14 to run Switch software at near native performance on modern devices. Just buy one of those controller grips for phone and tablets and you're off!

iPhones/iPads would do even better, but I doubt Apple is going to let you use the necessary APIs to virtualize like that.

It's a shame Skyline has been killed off. With terrible games like that Pokémon game needing much more CPU power than the Switch can provide, I imagine even legitimate players would be interested in a way to play their switch games on modern hardware.
> What is the best way to detect if a user has enabled uBlock or Adblock?

1. Don't.

2. If the user blocks your advertisements, then the user doesn't want them. You should respect the user's desires.

3. If the user blocks your scripts, then the user doesn't want them. You should respect the user's desires.

4. If your site breaks because of things, then your site sucks. You should build your site to fail gracefully.
Can you shed light on Miami's poor management?
Well, Google clearly want to be in Europe. Lot of money to make. What is happening here is that they don’t find it worthwhile to wait until complying with all EU’s regulations when rolling out their latest innovation. The opportunity cost may be too high. It may happen more in the future as well.

Why European people here feel so upset about it? You should celebrate the fact that Google or big tech can’t ignore your laws, and because of that decide not to launch —- or delay to launch —- their products despite the financial potential. That’s the trade off that I thought you’d been happy to make.
One thing I noticed is that certain “slippery/slimey” textures are not as appreciated in American culture compared to Asian.

Eg, chicken feet, sea cucumber, tendon.

It is as if Americans like very crispy or very creamy, but not much in between. Eg the jellyfish example in the article.
I think it fits the definition if the invitation to work on a piece of the task is open for a significant chunk of the population. It doesn't have to be unpaid.
The point of reading a story like this is to enjoy the act of reading it, not to claim a reward for reaching the conclusion. It's genuinely saddening how angry people in this thread are getting over the idea of reading for reading's sake.
Sounds like they were confusing a business for a charity. There are exceptions, but most thrift shops are the former.
The article mentions exception for businesses which have a business need for a vehicle that is only available as LHD - I'm sure an argument can be made that exotic car rental company can only get an LHD Chiron because no RHD version is made, ergo, it should be legal to register for business use. I'd love to know how this was actually done.
It's an extremely old-fashioned style of web design, back when bandwidth was low and webmasters split content across multiple pages, so as to increase load times by placing a lot of text and images into a single page.

Completely unnecessary in this day and age, 3G is slowest wireless network still in use, and can easily serve text and images quickly.
I've seen a browser extension that analyzes the video using AI to detect the sponsored segments, so detecting the ads would be probably even easier since they are even more disconnected from the normal content than sponsors.
Not sure why you’re downvoted—the evidence is in your favor. This whole thread is basically about the EU not being brought along in what most consider a tech revolution, and it’s likely a direct response to their laws that are well intentioned, but practically onerous. Arguable, we recently saw the same thing with labor laws. The net result will be a smaller presence of American tech companies/jobs/services in Europe. Many self-identified Europeans here seem to be in support of that outcome—Godspeed!
I've been in heavy turbulence and trust me you won't enjoy it.
I live here and am job hunting now. I've seen very few positions available in Miami, almost all of which have salary ranges lower than remote roles. I'm probably going to move back to NYC or something when the lease runs up, the risk of catching another layoff and getting stranded here if remote fully dries up is just too high.

The meme seems to come from people who dislike NYC/SF cheerleading widely publicized relocations from there to Miami. Tons of VC types moved their executives' offices* down here during the pandemic to take advantage of taxes and basically start their retirement early.

* Generally speaking they didn't move most of their minions out of NYC, so the minions still need to shell out for the rent and taxes.
I use ruff, pylint, mypy, and vulture to check my Python code. What would pyanalyze add?
Thank god for the First Amendment: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
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As the old saying goes, good ideas shouldn't require force. If they have a "no-brainer" offering, no need to strong-arm people into using it, right?

I get it that they are not a charity and can monetize or paywall their platforms as seen fit, but there's something just sad about the model where you build a customer-friendly and open platform, then progressively crapify it once you capture a niche and eliminate most alternatives, and then start penalizing users for trying to work around that.
The 90-9-1 Rule for Participation Inequality in Online Communities
i despise the word. its overused and vague and sounds dumb.
we already have words such as: business, company, venture and even side gig.

yes, im grumpy by nature.
If Google is going so far as to avoid the European market, then I assume that they are not doing informed consent here, and I would consider that a little bit evil.
With all respect to John Carmack (and it is really a lot of respect!) I'm surprised he seems unaware of pbzip2? It's a parallel implementation scales almost linearly with the amount of cores, and has been around since ~2010, so it's not yet old enough to drive, but anyone dealing with bzip2'ing large amounts of data should have discovered it long ago.

And yes, use zstandard (or xz, where the default binary in your distro is already multithreaded) where you can.
OS architecture? Not ISA architecture?
Exactly, they should want those people to bounce and not come back.
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Your launcher doesn't find them by description or substring?