skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The technology was improving even on the copper stuff. The last time my broadband went down, I clicked a button in the app and they acknowledged a fault. An engineer came out the next day, plugged his iPad in and could see that there was a break in the cable approximately 16 metres away. And it turned out to be correct.

To say it’s all based on copper cables, it was pretty impressive.
Using Gnuplot for ASCII charts inside notebooks
We migrated our devs to Linux. Do Docker? Do Linux.
You are proving their point. Nintendo switched to the "don't care about tech" strategy because they had been pushing tech for 2 generations and only doing worse as a business. People preferred the Playstation 2 over the Gamecube because it had more and better games, and Nintendo spent the n64 and Gamecube console generations losing their third party support. That's also why the doubled down on their first party games.
They look horrid, but they work surprisingly well.
I think you'll find that to some extent in the manufacture-on-demand scene. There's a lot of interesting stuff happening. Same goes for custom electronics, there's a lot of really interesting hobbyist projects. Biotech is on the edge of getting there. The ML scene is currently absolutely bonkers.

There are plenty of hacker culture areas, they just aren't the same as the 90's and 00's. Neither were the 90's the same as the 80's. In fact, I'd argue the 00's were nothing like the 90's either.

The spaces are there. You'll need to abandon the thing you know. (And for many of us, that's hard, because the thing we know is also feeding us - but that, too, was always true)
> runs on Linux

Krita is literally a KDE app
The sapphire glass used on some devices was reportedly made in an apple owned factory, according to Apple terms, using equipment Apple paid for. The actual production was handled by a third party using that space that went bankrupt, but I'd say it counts.

This would be the most significant component they've manufactured in-house though.
Coming from Photoshop (and no longer doing any serious graphic work), I've found https://www.photopea.com/ (an in-browser photoshop clone) to be really great for 99.9% of my needs.

It's free, has the same UI as photoshop so no re-learning hotkeys, and is browser-based.
I know you don't want it, but here my advice.

Get off social media, news, etc..

I largely stop using social media in its open form. I follow some creators and local shops, but I don't consume clips/tips/guidance anymore. I feel so much better than before.
Well the Famicom came out several years before the NES, so it was a bit more competitive at that time.
The funny thing is most of my college mates who took mathematics or electrical engineering degrees, or some other random similar degree all ended up doing programming. The pay in coding is so much higher that they all end up in it, and half of those degrees ended up being coding anyway :)
Thinking back to a link posted here a few months back [1], the call to action goes on the outside edge because it's visually the heaviest element.

So if the buttons are on the right of the dialog, "OK" / "Save" would go on the right; and opposite if they're on the left side of the dialog.

I'm far from a designer but I read through this a few times and think it's pretty good.

[1]: <https://anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/saferules/> "Visual design rules you can safely follow every time"
I once demoed the VR goggles at Facebook HQ on a tour, my boss and I put on the glasses and were immersed in a world where there was a large dragon. We really roared with excitement and kept saying “wow, amazing” and shaking our head in astonishment as we took the headset off. Then, later we said our goodbyes and left. In the parking lot my boss and I turned to each other both agreed, that VR headset wasn’t that impressive at all, we just acted impressed to be polite.

I think these VR headsets are built for the demo. How much daily demand they have is probably much more limited than the builders think it is.

Also, prolonged use causes nausea in a large percentage of people.
Commoditize your complement -- and if it's your competitor's essential thing, all the better.

PS I wish I could get the NYT to write marketing pieces for my stuff!
Astroturfing implies paid actors that mimic a grass roots movement.

Please stop the conspiracy theories and accept that others, a lot of others, like this game.
I recall the article mentioning that it is 'make your own route'. So, they just specify the start and finish, and you're on your own....
I hope pre-CC versions of PS aren’t covered by the linked article. I was hoping to one day set up a “comfy” creative corner machine running OS X 10.4-10.6 and PS CS1/CS2, because that combo is the one I’ve found least obtrusive and most productive. Affinity, Pixelmator, and Krita are nice and all but I can’t use them in my preferred environment.
Not OP, but my opinion:

Affinity Designer is a very good vector editing app. Switched to it from Inkscape due to performance and UI issues. To me, it's more convenient to use than vector things in Pixelmator Pro.

For photo editing, I don't like Affinity Photo. It seems powerful, but too much for me to learn, so I use Pixelmator Pro for simple photo editing (although I can never remember where the tool I need is). Maybe it's better for pros, though.

For quick pixel editing/cropping I use Acorn — it's fast and the UI is not overloaded.
yes but they enjoy that. there is a reason why notion and things have gotten so popular. people love to pretend they are doing hard shit, when all they are doing is faffing around. react is the textbook definition of faffing around. useHooks. Jesus Christ. What a waste of time.
I'd disagree on this.

I think Google has realized Open AI's ChatGPT is its own product and not a direct competitor to Search, although there is some overlap, which is why there is Bard as a direct competitive product to ChatGPT.

Search is its own beast, and I suspect they have the data to prove users want something different from a Google search.

> OpenAI has a tremendous lead in terms of quality of the product and adoption
> On top of that, thousands of new models and projects are coming out almost every day that are starting to rival the quality of GPT as well as coming up with amazing, completely new things

I've read ChatGPT growth has already flattened [0]. Sure thousands of new models/projects are coming out, but until the general public starts to use them I don't see this as much of a threat to Google.

[0] https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/ai-news/chatgpt-gro...
The switch is super easy to emulate compared to past Nintendo consoles.
The bill states only downloads are banned, so probably just remove it from the App Stores.
Numpy is Fortran btw.
Don't get me wrong I like DaVinci a ton. But for motion graphics After Effects still has an edge. Additionally with things like dynamic linking and integration with Illustrator and etc it's still very much a critical part of a lot of workflows.

That said, DaVinci is improving at a very impressive pace. Adobe really just has the benefit of nearly 30 years of an ecosystem around it.

I'm actually quite surprised at how stagnant After Effects has become, but perhaps Adobe has some stuff coming down the pipeline.
LayerZero launches record-breaking $15M crypto bug bounty program
There's a Game Maker's Toolkit video [1] that does a good job explaining how Nintendo focuses on play first.

"That's how we make games at Nintendo, though: we get the fundamentals solid first, then do as much with that core concept as our time and ambition will allow" - Shigeru Miyamoto

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u6HTG8LuXQ
'Cannot' being the operative word.

'Did not' does not necessarily mean 'cannot'.
Not in this universe:

History of TSMC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fVrWDdll0g

ARM was born out of the BBC micro project, so if anything a BBC baby.
The question I have with something like this is essentially “does it support SSO”? If I’m building software for end users, at least some subset of those users will want SSO.
This seems pretty revisionist. I loved Majora to bits as a child, and I don't recall this being a contrarian opinion whatsoever on the Zelda Universe forums at the time.

Maybe there's a difference between critical and popular reception at play here?
No, they are more than 100% reliant on Wind energy, but nice misdirection.
The fact that Taiwan exists disrupts the official narrative that there is only one China and its ideology is Maoist communism. Reunifying China is thus kind of a priority.
Blaming one party vs the other in this case seems shortsighted. Either party could have completely removed the debt ceiling. Let's face it, there isn't one already.

The "debt ceiling" as we see it is always going to be increased as needed.
That sounds like a criticism that would apply if this were just some generic game that had the Zelda IP slapped onto it. But that doesn’t seem at all the case here, right?
My issue isn't what he said, it's how he said it. He could have been more respectful about the other person's opinion about go, but "I suspect he didn't know or think much about [feautures of go]" suggests a very prevalent judgmental attitude towards CS I feel brings the culture of the industry down.

> He instead emphatically talked about how much he loved that "the Go developers knew that all you need is a for loop. Someone brought Scala into my company and I hate the mental shift."

All you need is a for loop? Interesting! Why did they say that? What design decisions informs this approach?

If someone with neither experience in scala or go were to choose one language for this project, why would they use Go or Scala?

If the guy truly has no idea what he's talking about, then it should be evident just by him speaking and you asking questions. If he does, then at best you learn something new or at worse hear a different perspective. Be an active listener and engage with what the other person is saying. You can be critical without being judgmental. It's sort of impossible to have bad faith in this way, because you're taking what the other person is saying seriously instead of writing them off.
I remember seeing something here, can't recall if it was satire but it was about some EV manufacturer's future plans where your vehicle would drive itself back to dealer or something if you miss a payment. Auto repo.

Edit: Found it https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/3/23624328/ford-self-reposse...
I like this take. Good luck being a “hacker” when the webpack config takes 2 days for a pro and a week for a novice. The programming landscape is far more complex.
You can find these in the project's README on GitHub: https://github.com/tweag/nickel#comparison

Of the two languages you mention, I've only ever worked with CUE. The things you can do with Nickel's contracts, both in terms of capabilities and ergonomics, feel pretty similar to CUE's constraints to me. Unlike CUE (but like Nix!), Nickel has functions and is a Turing complete functional programming language.
I sense we agree. If nothing else that what is being sold as solutions aren't.
Two answers:

(i) late stage capitalism: who cares about going through a 400 pages spec sheet to try and reverse engineer the ludicrous Chinglish [1] in which all non-mainstream manuals are written today (wanted to declare war on China by myself when parsing through a Xinje PLC manual recently) when you could be fired at any time, a health emergency can bankrupt you, you generally feel more and more powerless, from your daily life to the once-in-a-lifetime-but-happening-every-week events such as economic crises, pandemics, wars, automated labor, x-flation, climate change, and so on and so forth.

(ii) product refinement: we no longer are interested in a few lines of assembly which barely show two lines and a dot moving on the screen [2], we want that feeling, silky smooth user experience which some companies spend billions to provide, but very few individuals can offer by themselves, examples would be something in the tier of Bartosz Ciechanowski [3], scottbez1 [4], or Chris from Clickspring [5], for a more hardware bent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong

[3] https://ciechanow.ski/

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip641WmY4pA

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PwAQZNLy0I
3:10. Honestly, I would expect meatspin at the final page.
Couldn't reccomend OpenWRT as opposed to any stock vendor firmware enough. Simple-adblock is a godsend
Whether or not we're way off-base or not, it's certainly possible to envision a HUD in a fairly ordinary looking pair of glasses. It's certainly SF today but it's possible to imagine. There are of course various creepy aspects as well but, honestly, if the technology can be made to work well, most people will just get over that.
Apple’s push is enough to convince me that this will be a default soon. Adoption has been slow because it takes some effort and the payoff isn’t immediately obvious. This new service from 1Password might start to change that. I expect others will follow with similar ideas.
I really wish I was so brimming with self-confidence as to say that I'm just as competent as the guy who founded the eighth or so most valuable company on Earth, and he was just in the right place at the right time.

Zuckerberg is clearly a not-great guy in some ways, but the reason we're all posting on Hacker News during the workday and he's running a centibillion dollar company is because he's an immensely intelligent and talented and focused man and we are... well, the kind of people who post on internet forums during the workday.
A number of commercial entities and relevant advocates have made the claim for years. It is certainly the case that infected copies of commonly pirated software exist, though they are not as common as some would lead us to believe (at least not of you chose your sources carefully… ahem…).

For a little anecdata: I know at least one person who has encountered this, having his gaming machine encrypted for ransom after installing a copy of a pirated game (luckily for him the machine had nothing on it aside from the games and some media he had copies of elsewhere, and the attack didn't seem to get hold of any credentials (or if it did, no one tried to use them before he got them updated)). There was also apparently a spate of pirated copies installing crypto miners, though I don't know anyone affected by that, and malware disguised as audio/video files was definitely a thing back in the Napster era.

Another place the impression can come from is that some AV tools pick up on parts of the pirated copies as malware even if they aren't. In some cases this will be because they look enough like it (for instance the installer working as usual then patching executables) for heuristics to kick out a false positive), and some claim that commercial products have been paid to include signatures that match common piracy groups' so they get quarantined & warned as malware even though they aren't.
It's an interesting notion that you can't disagree or find faults in your friends, especially if we adapt the Anglophone definition of a friend as a loose sorta sustained contact. Would people rush to criticizing in this manner if someone truthfully wrote that their friend has problems hauling 20 kg weights up four floors of stairs?

The description is undiplomatic, could be written in a more roundabout way, but this could be read as even more haughty and rude. I'd say that as human collectives we need to maintain a grip on reality, and it is wasteful and dangerous to live in a web of polite lies.
Not sure about parent but here in Brazil all ISPs are still using PPPoE even under gigabit fiber, it's a miracle they can find a router that is able to push 800 Mbit under single-threaded pppoe. I've yet to find a router capable of doing proper gigabit that isn't some enteprise machine that costs me a car.
Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1976) [pdf]
No idea why you being downvoted. I as owner of Russian passport even been to Kiev in December 2021 and talked with a lot of friends and just normal people there on gamedev conference. There been a lot of tension for 8 years since 2014 and even more during 2021. Yet no matter political views no one in either Russia or Ukraine seriously considered full scale war possible.

Conclusion: there no way to know what is inside a head of aging autocrat.
That's pretty big, especially if you're selling an external hard drive with two FireWire ports (for daisy chaining). I don't recall what FireWire drive prices were ~15 years ago, but that could easily be several percent of the final retail price.
Video editing isn't even remotely their strongest presence. Photoshop, illustrator, indesign, substance painter, lightroom, acrobat... I mean come on now. Just because something is irrelevant to you doesn't mean it's generally irrelevant. Even within video editing, Resolve's capability and amazing free-tier functionality doesn't render Adobe irrelevant by any reasonable estimation. You either need to grab a dictionary and look up 'relevance,' get a better understanding of how superlatives work, or briefly peek outside of your own software usage before making sweeping declarations about pan-industry practices.
This looks super interesting, always excited for a new CRDT implementation.

I'm slightly confused by the benchmarks, they look incredible, somewhat surprised by its performance over Yjs/Yrs and Automerge. Going to have to dig in more to understand.
MIT-licensed:
https://github.com/loro-dev/crdt-richtext
I’ve talked to folks whose native language is represented on the right side of the distribution and GPT4 performs poorly both in terms of speed as well as language facility for these languages. Interestingly the right side tends to be largely south east and south Asian languages. Malay is an outlier in that it tokenizes fairly small. But Burmese, Khmer, and Thai perform poorly.
It was also objectively "stolen" from another block based game that was super niche. Minecraft did well because "go out into the wilds and modify it to your will while you build a home at your own pace" is crack to the human brain. Plenty of other games tried the art style and it doesn't really add anything on it's own.
This is crazy. Get over yourself! Whether you like it or not, Fortran is still THE industry standard for scientific codes, and the fastest compiled language on many architectures.
Years after its Audm (YC S17) acquisition, The NYT launches its own audio app
As an Audm subscriber, I got an email about this today. On one hand, I'm disappointed since I used Audm for listening to long-form journalism from a variety of papers, as opposed to exclusively the NYT from their iOS exclusive app. On the other, I appreciate the work the Audm team did while it lasted, and kudos on the exit!
Apple's VR/AR Headset Had to Sacrifice a Lot of Cook's Original Vision
Doesnt work on modern OSes from my experiences. I'd love to still use CS5 if I could.
They feel like a "you", but many of those who go through amputation surgery do, indeed, experience "phantom limbs" and experience a deep sense of loss for long periods of time after the surgery.

In contrast, animals don't seem to go through the same "mourning" process (in a way that we would recognize).

So the sense of "you" persists, yes, but it's a foundational change to the sense of "self" and it's definitely affected by amputation.
AFAIK, they have have never manufactured components before.

Every company that does manufacture components had to start at some point. This seems like a good time for Apple to start.
I had the same experience when I started working, but it only lasted about a year. In a year, the novelty wore off and what was left was an endlesss, monotonous grind, that was incomparably harder than in school.
> Hopefully that clears up the first question of "why does it need malware signature files?"

The malware signature files really don't help prevent your router joining a botnet.

Firmware updates, maybe, maybe not. It is quite possible for other routers with less generally sloppy and advertised-feature-rich firmware to actually be more secure even without updates for 3 years. It's quite possible that they have no api endpoints available for super-easy mobile app integration remote management etc, just ssh from local subnet or physical serial console.

There have been multiple cases of market-leading antivirus engines (symanted, mcaffee, etc) having sloppy code running with the highest possible privilege, parsing any files appearing on the system anywhere, and e.g. crashing a mail server that would otherwise be unaffected by the PoC samples being emailed through it by researchers.

So, I also take some issue with people who have no understanding of how all this software around us is designed and built (in routers, in windows, on web servers) and thinking that just updating everything all the time and running antivirus is the best you can do. You really can do a lot better if you know what you're doing.
> Who the fuck wants to talk about the Golang GC just because you have a Golang shirt on?

ummmm me

(I mean I hate Go but in a hypothetical world where I liked Go, me)
This is blatant misinformation.

"Penalties in this section do not apply to users of tiktok"

https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2023/billpdf/SB0419.pdf
This is a fascinating read. However, the disparity in cost is not that surprising when you consider the factors contributing to it.

Very well explained. Kudos!
Well, Tunic is based around old school Zelda, and given your self-reported bias, that makes sense!
From numpy.org:

> The core of NumPy is well-optimized C code.
Once Apple and Google have pushed it out with their mobile devices, things will move along fast.

I'd argue within 5-ish years you'll start encountering people who have never used a username + password combo at all.

Passkeys are the future - but how they will work across ecosystems remains to be seen (without a subscription)
For your enjoyment, may I present: "Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_CD-i_games

But for more official games, I find Phantom Hourglass to be the weakest entry in the series. It's... fine? Painfully easy and loaded with padding.
> So why the rollback? Most of this rollback is being driven by Private Equity firms who are heavily invested in commercial rel-estate and without staff in offices that rel-estate is tanking. These firms have been purchasing private companies and then steering them to lease properties they own for decades. This is also why Private Equity started investing in residential rel-estate, they're double dipping. If employees have to go into the office then they need to live near that office.

Not only that, but also to maximise control over employees. Companies want powerless employees, even if that means a bit (not a lot) less profits now.
They also have this in recent versions of Office (Alt+Q). Helps a lot when I can't remember exactly what the button on the ribbon looks like.
Sure, I was being a bit flippant. The world is different in many ways, including more interdependence between Chinese and Taiwanese economies. Without getting too deep into it, the issue mostly comes down to whether the US decides to intervene.

Everybody suffers massively if there's hot war in the strait. The main point is that unless supply chains are unwound from both countries, it doesn't matter that much where you put a new screen factory.
Surprising coming from the fraud that published/retracted previous paper.
Somewhat related question - does anyone know where I can get the raw audio of every Tucker Carlson episode? I want to try to visualize his hypnotic pattern of speech during his monologues...
Why not just put the drive on the network? I'm getting downvoted but I'm just trying to understand how a router is able to delete things on an external disc.
Consistently making good games != making a good game every single time
I met John a few times many years ago, when I was a full-time web developer. Such a great guy! I use his Ukiyo-e search often. Would love to hear from him so I'll send him a message.