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> All they really have to do is change the marketing around the Apple TV, put a controller in the box, and start courting developers to port their switch games...

They have done this, albeit half-assed. The AppleTV (and iOS) readily support a bunch of Bluetooth controllers. They tried to get studios to make games for the AppleTV but they mostly just got iPhone/iPad ports.

There's a couple big problems with the AppleTV. The first is poor tooling for graphics and audio development. The underlying frameworks are powerful as is the hardware but it's difficult to debug them or access them at a low level. It's hard to just get an accurate accounting of the timing of draw calls and GPU load on iOS and macOS. The tooling for DirectX is way more powerful.

The AppleTV hardware is also shit. They've always shipped with old Apple Silicon SoCs. So if you've got a game that screams on the latest iPad or iPhone it runs like shit on the AppleTV or you've got to scale back the visuals. Even when a developer manages to make an awesome game for iOS it ends up sucking on AppleTV.

Then there's the tiny amounts of storage. Even the average Nintendo Switch game would find the AppleTV's storage anemic to say nothing of the PS5 or Xbox.

Apple has never courted AAA game development. I don't think any of Apple's C-suite appreciates games. They trot out game developers to do slick demos at one of their events (doting on them in the run up) and then go back to largely ignoring them. The various game adjacent technologies/frameworks are almost always bottom-up initiatives from development teams trying to come up with a new shiny thing for the next OS release.
Why do you need a public IPv4 address to pull from GitHub?
Seems impractical. As an alternative, I'd suggest that land can not ever be "owned". Instead one gets a lease of 99 years - enough for multiple generations of a family, but with a distinct endpoint.
>> They could do that but would have to raise the base price.

Why? The component is already in every vehicle. This is not like binning for chips: every vehicle must (and does) have the capability because it’s unknown whether a consumer will pay for the upgrade. If anything, the price should go down because software costs have decreased by removing the software locks.
Ask HN: how can the food supply NOT collapse in the next ten years?
It's winter in Melbourne, but its not cold, it's warm.

Beautiful days outside - lovely perfect weather.

Which would be fine except its meant to be cold.

The trees are flowering - spring has come too soon.

On the other side of the world it is hotter than ever before.

How can our food supply survive this?

How can this NOT lead to the collapse of the global food supply within the next ten years?

I find this terrifying.
Any country with even half decent consumer protection would stop your imagined slippery slope scenario. You bought the speakers, as speakers? Then they need to operate like speakers, unless it was clear ahead of time that more is needed.

Software locking like this is bad for environmental / waste reasons. All of this complaining about there being a disconnect between what you willingly paid for and what the physical hardware components in the product you receive can technically do, is just a nerd’s argument. I agree with it. Subscriptions suck when there’s no ongoing cost to the seller. But I’m not going to pretend that this is some moral crusade, or be as emotionally invested as you quite obviously are.
I liken it to artificially staving off wildfires in a forest that thrives on them. Over time your overhead builds up, there's diminishing returns, and then the fires happen and they're catastrophic.

Nothing is allowed to die in the US economy anymore. Everything is too big to fail. All that does is move risk into the systemic realm and make the entire system more brittle. That, and it stagnates development. You can fudge numbers to say the US economy is doing better than ever while people can't afford to live in a dwelling for only so long. The reality on the ground is very different than the GDP numbers. Something will give.
well, that's why I said "no real interest"

They delivered a product, but it's clear they simply don't have the commitment required to actually see it through. Quest Pro is actually great for what it is, but they seem completely clueless about how to actually market something to business or professional users. The software on it is 100% identical to the Quest 2, designed entirely for gaming. Just the fact they couldn't be bothered even slightly differentiating the software shows they just don't even understand the distinctions b/w the spaces.
Renting the same compute resources might cost you less but you are on the hook for maintenance and administration which can cost you more in the long run.
I think they need to give current iPad owners a reason to upgrade.

I use a pro from 2018 daily, but I don't think there's been a single improvement since then that would be meaningful to me.

The most obvious thing I can think of is let them run macOS, which would expand the use cases dramatically.
Very impressive work, but this reads more as data compression and retrieval algorithm than a generative model. For all of the examples they're inputting a novel 2D view of a known object and reconstructing the 3D mesh from the 2D/3D training set of the same object.

I'd like to see how it performs on a novel object that is similar to one in the training set, but not included in the training data.
I'm starting to accept that we are done for. The only thing that gives me hope is that maybe some alien civilization out there in the universe successfully avoided this great filter.
I should have used "no one", not "nobody".

"Many Indigenous societies practiced communal ownership of land and natural resources. Land was often viewed as a shared and sacred entity that belonged to the entire community or tribe. It was not seen as something that could be privately owned or bought and sold as in Western concepts of land ownership.

While the concept of private ownership was rare, Indigenous groups often had rights to use certain areas for specific purposes, such as hunting, fishing, farming, or gathering. These rights were often based on traditional customs and were respected within the community.

Indigenous peoples generally held deep reverence for the land and nature. They saw themselves as stewards of the environment, with a responsibility to care for the earth and its resources for future generations."
Induction Charging Comes to Public Transit (2012)
You forgot microplastics.
Hetzner cloud has been charging for public IPv4 addresses for a while. It makes sense. If you have lots of servers, many of them probably don't need a public IPv4 address.
They still all are. Just not as brazenly as the past. More nuanced, more systematic, but overall less of it is happening.
Could I ask what kind of tech you work now?
I'm interested in Rich Hickey's pov.
This is probably more accurately called IP fragmentation (since that is the layer where the fragmentation happens), and a lot of companies make it optional to support in networking gear. I'm surprised that you are using it or seeing it, because it is essentially obsolete today.

It has a legitimate purpose in old-timey systems which have bespoke MTUs on each link, but now the usual thing is to use 1500 bytes for WAN traffic, which is the generic Ethernet MTU, and reserve larger sizes for intra-datacenter communications.
A ton of comments are missing the point of this complaining about list/map syntax etc. I'm not sure if the kotlin lazy addresses this.

The point is that static final variables interact especially well with the JIT's constant folding machinery. But lazy loading a constant necessitates that it can't be final: it's initially null until it's effectively final after the first lazy load. This finality is clear to the developer but not to the JVM.

This is introduces a way to implement lazy constants via a blessed class that solves this.

The article is pretty clear about what the point is — but does require some careful reading and context.
Amazingly, this corporate desire goes back more than a hundred years. Edison cylinders had a "shrink-wrap" license trying to control what people did with the recordings they bought: https://www.flickr.com/photos/59414209@N00/5072909557/

That was later outlawed with the "first-sale doctrine": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

I would say that it seems like it's time for some new legislation that supports consumer freedom. But given the state of American politics, I can only hope that Europe will do some pioneering work on this.
Recently found success in a similar way to what is offered here using Rewind.ai, specifically its Ask Rewind and instant meeting transcription features. For those in the comments here wishing for a on device solution, Rewind is fully on device and your data never leaves it except for Ask Rewind.
A vast majority of kidnappings are done by family members. It's a movie thing that a ski mask vigilante enters your home to kidnap you. I'm almost 100% positive there's virtually no risk of being kidnapped at home by ski-mask wearing criminals that staked your house previously.

Or, if you are in that specific, very small target group for e.g. ransom etc, you probably should've been investing in home security beyond a front door camera anyways.
In the US, the robocalls typically target seniors that aren't able to identify the scam.

In the US, we have 3 "pillars" of retirement income that we are told to keep roughly the same size: Gov plans (Social Security), personal savings, employer sponsor plans (401k).

I had always assumed in Europe, most people expected the gov to fund most of their retirement (70%?). Whereas the expectation in the US is social security only covers ~33% (although for many people its 100%).
Does simple non-cooperation with law-enforcement count as "obstruction"?
something something immigration reform
Good news! You can still only use Apple's app store, and not worry about this supposed garbage that will be everywhere. Because Apple will still be curating and vetting all the apps in their store, you have nothing to worry about.
It’s a point repeated practically infinite times daily on this website and any other tech community. It’s not a revelation deserving of accolades. It’s the nerd equivalent of “lower taxes!” at a political rally. This entire back and forth where all participants are clearly on the same side and are clearly regurgitating all the talking points of their shared ideology isn’t a conversation, it’s people patting eachother on the back.
The Earth seems to want to evolve towards a giant tropical rainforest and keeps getting smacked by one disaster after another. This time it's just an infestation of apes that will knock out some unknown chunk of life and probably gobble up and pave over half the surface before collapsing under its own weight.
No, it's all good man. ;)
>The studios have said multiple times that this is not true.

What is said publicly, or even to internal employees, ir even in the course of negotiations is not what is actually said in the boardroom. If you think any executive is straightforward on intent, the only person you're fooling is yourself.
Those organisms don't draw lines on maps and issue passports.
> We have to switch to plant based diets.

> It seems to me that nothing else will stop the environmental destruction, in this case overfishing, which alone threatens us with empty oceans in 2040's.

There are two things I can say about this:

1) We won't (unless/until forced to).

2) There are other sources of destruction that will continue even if most people switched to a plant-based diet.
I don't know the precise answer, but my guess is that it would be ported to the MiSTer or something like it.

https://mister-devel.github.io/MkDocs_MiSTer/#what-is-mister...

The core of the MiSTer looks pretty beefy.

https://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=...
The issue I have is that the examples appear to be color images that were converted to black and white. In other words, they are modern images with plenty of images acquired in color for training. Converting an archival shot from early 20th century is totally different. Totally lowers credibility in my eyes
Common Lisp is a curious creature. Ancient in some ways, prescient in others.

It is not perfect by any means, and politics did play a large part in the 10-year ANSI standardization process.

At the end of the day, for me, what makes it my favorite language is the principle that the language should provide the maximum possible power to the programmer, boosting productivity of (most evidently) the individual developer.

It has served me well in my 3D graphics project [0], which is different enough from what is out there that it does feel like a worthwhile endeavor.

[0] https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9
Yes, if you can abuse the free tiers, you can essentially run a small SaaS company for free. Once you scale past that point, you are on the hook for a (probably much too large) bill, when you could still be using the same $5 VPS.
Unless you are a developer in Newfoundland during daylight savings time (UTC-2.5)
Be realistic? According to you every single policeman is a dirty criminal, and each and every police department is a mob and lawless institution.

I’m agreeing from a start, that USA police has tons of issues. But it’s not a lawless institution. Really, go live in a country without effective policing and then we can talk if USA police is only bringing lawlessness to the table.
> Tolerable, perhaps, but pretty far from fine. It's pretty shocking to me that people in our society build things and then deliberately break them so they can make more money. Is this really the best system we can come up with?

It's not as bad as it looks. If you think about it, it's basically a form of wealth redistribution.

Rich people will pay the premium, which subsidizes the cost of the car for others. In other words, poorer customers will get a cheaper car.

It's a pretty good deal for those who are less wealthy and don't really need the extra functionality.

Also, these poorer customers can always upgrade later if want to (because circumstances change and they want the functionality or because they get richer and can afford more luxury). This is not always possible with hardware-based customization, or even if it is, it would be more expensive.

The alternative would be to only install the extra hardware in the cars of the wealthier customers, but presumably this would make the car more expensive for everyone (both the poor and the rich owners), due to the added costs of hardware-based customization. So everyone would lose.

And even if the latter is not true, a similar car manufacturer could just offer you a better deal by selling you a similar, cheaper car without installing the hardware, which means that the manufacturer/brand that does the shenanigans would lose customers. Competition is pretty awesome like that.
We have been complaining about them!
Maybe selling a $1500 phone isn't a good idea.
Just unlock gen 4 nuclear.
There’s still a court case. This is just so they can file it themselves.
A rather tongue-in-cheek comment; Not while 'Soylent Green' is available!

But, Yes.. if we continue it may well be bye-bye to life on this tiny rock spinning in space.
smallpox was around before it was first used as a bioweapon.
> Debugging the C++ standard library on macOS

Some mistake. The article contains nothing on this subject.
Very interesting.

I'm curious if there are any specific shortcomings with modern Genesis/Megadrive emulation that spurred this, or if this is just a pure "for the love of the pursuit" effort.

I'm not sure of the exact state of the art, but I know that getting sound emulation perfectly right for the Genesis/MegaDrive has been a tricky issue over the years, even for Sega themselves. Though, my (loose) understanding is that the issue is moreso with getting the analog bits sounding right rather than the digital bits.
I've rarely ever gotten EPA rated range, but a portion of that would be because I don't drive like they do in those tests. It's a fun, fast car. I can absolutely get my efficiency to what the EPA rating is, but I doubt anyone would be able to do it consistently over the entire battery and on a road trip where you're driving and not focusing on the miles remaining meter.

I don't think anyone will ever get the rated range, because:

1. You don't usually charge to 100% (unless you're doing a road trip)

2. You don't drive like the EPA test requires, and varying terrain, weather, and other factors will influence your efficiency

3. You don't drive your car to 0 (obviously you have to stop at a charger before you hit that, or you'd be stranded on the highway...)

Now, I think this lawsuit is a bit silly because I'm fairly confident no one is looking at their gas car's estimated MPG and comparing it to the EPA rating across the entire journey. Those meters also fluctuate wildly, and (2) and (3) above still apply to gas cars.

The fact EVs just have a lower range per "tank" and it's not as easy to fill up means people will obsess over the "miles remaining" estimate for fear of being "stranded".

I have driven my Y with the battery meter set to show % and not miles, used the trip planner to determine when I need to charge on a long trip, and literally never worried about it.
Shout out to Brave - my browser for a year now. The search results aren't great, but they're interesting.
This isn't intended as a dig at you, but in what world should an "Install Kivy" page take ~10 screens of text to display? If my goal is to build a simple Python app I can give to my friends and say, "here, I made this, give it a try," then that install page is screaming at me not to use Kivy to do that.

https://kivy.org/doc/stable/gettingstarted/installation.html
It isn't phrased as a fallacy, it's phrased as an argument against using a float.

There's obviously some difference of opinion about what "below two decimal points" means. Given that they point out the 0 decimal point Yen, it seems they mean "more precise than", ie more decimal points.

Even if they meant the opposite their own example of the yen disproves that.
A supercapacitor made from cement
Apparently I am now @thetv, without asking for anything. It seems there was an idle account there before.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...

http://yellatthetv.com/

So yes, the shit flowed downhill.
Firstly, it's normal to worry. So, although I council optimism it's important to be realistic.

Secondly, although there is a global problem it's a worldwide set of somewhat discrete problems not a single problem. This risk is in synchronisation: as long as on average some of the food sources are viable in any given season, then longterm food supply is available. Yes, at massively increased risk and yes closer to starvation levels for everyone but food has never been distributed equally.

Thirdly, Australia is huge, and we don't use all climate zones equally. Even domestically the problems in Victoria don't align with the NT or WA climate. So there is some reason to believe farming practices of hedging risk by moving stock north/south and between arid and wet zones, and matching cropping patters to hedge risk will continue to work. Farmers and agribusiness have been dealing with the problems you see for decades.

Maintain the rage, and worry, but don't doomscroll. Watch "landline" and get connected to rural and agricultural communities. Vote for environmental upsides.
I think the power requirements for the train might be the limiting factor tho. It's not quite the rocket equation but you can't just drain the whole battery pack on a 3% incline and get 15-30% back on the decline.

a 4000 HP train is ~ 2,000 kWatts. The average diesel-electric locomotive uses 3.5-4 kwh / mile of electricity (according to chatgpt). So to go 500 miles we're looking at 53,000lbs / 26.7 tons of _just_ battery (doubled up weight to account for non lithium). The locomotive itself can weigh 120-220 tons. A freight railcar can weigh about 100tons.

For a yard locomotive where they are just moving things around this could be super useful. For hauling freight around it's a potential? You're basically losing a freight car of cargo per 500 miles.

And I would really want this thing to be NOT made of lithium ion cuz if the train derailed it would be fairly destructive.[
I think we're a little better than that. No one actually wants a world where everything is turned into financial statements. The tragedy of the commons is a bug, whereas wholesale conversion to paper clips for Clippy is a feature.
And who were then sued into oblivion by Blizzard.
They've been doing it for a while: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abbc.com+%22This+artic...
> but chaos typically ensued if you attempted to rewrite the file you were presently running, as it appears that cmd didn't do anything fancy like read the whole file into memory before processing it

Neither does bash! That’s why you should always wrap things in a function and have the entry point of the script be the end of the file.
Having it run on (basically) any linux machine without downloading extra languages.

I can see it being useful in certain situations, but I would think most use cases would benefit most from a better language.
You can definitely get startup mich faster than half a second if you tweak the start script and maybe start only one scheduler, etc.

I don't think it will be great without heroics, but a little work and I think you can get it down to < 100ms.
If you ever wanna go wireless, I find my WF-1000XM4s to be slightly more effective, and it's easier to turn off the isolation.
We use https://github.com/1debit/alternat in our EKS cluster to save the AWS tax (surcharge for NAT on top of the egress fee)
> Is it just that the write once nature of the media makes pre-composing the file system a pain?

I think it's sort of the opposite. Read-only/write-once file systems can be simpler because they don't have to be structured in a way that allows things to change. For instance, full file systems generally need to deal with files that are laid out in a non-contiguous manner on the disk since files may change in size after creation.

I think the other aspect is that in the early days of CD-ROM a lot of folks envisioned there would be a lot of use cases that transcended a single operating system so having a universal file system for them was useful. And while some of the grander visions may not have won out, distributing plain data (photos, clip-art, etc.) on CD-ROM was a common use case and benefited from a cross-platform filesystem.
It's more than that I say.
As I alluded to in a sibling comment: gaming is not in Apple's DNA. Their executives are just not interested in gaming.

That being said, even if they were, Apple likes fat margins on all their hardware. Game consoles are the Gillet model, zero to negative margins on the console with money made on licenses and services.

A theoretical AppleTV with an M2 and beefy GPU with a useful amount of storage could never hit their margin goals. Such a box would basically be the high end Mac mini which retails for $1299. There's no way Apple would sell that kit for $399 and try to make up the difference in licenses and services. Even with a huge attach rate there's no way they'd make up the difference.
Certainly a step above what a normal person could do in a 3D modeling program. The interesting thing about this type of stuff is that it would be harder for a professional to use those meshes as a base model; the topology doesn't lend itself to their process. For example -- the banana peels are puffy and two-dimensional. It would have to be completely restructured to be a convincingly peeled banana. So either the generated model has to be a finished product, or they are cost-effectively useless. CAD files are notoriously bad, and those are nice and mathematically easy to break down.