skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They important word is could not should.

I disagree emphatically with the inclusion of "could" in the sense that you are using it. When a mother scolds her child for misbehaving, she's saying the child should have acted otherwise, not that the child could have chosen differently if you rewound time and presented the child with the same choice again.

When laypeople agree that someone "could" have done otherwise, they're not agreeing with nondeterminism, they mean that any mentally competent person with common knowledge would have chosen differently given the same circumstances, ie. that there was no mental, health-related or coercive element that was forcing them to choose wrongly.

And this should be obvious if you think about it: we have centuries of legal precedent based on exactly this reasoning, and most people find it perfectly reasonable. That's why free will in law will never be overturned, despite what some hard determinists think. Whether people are deterministic is simply irrelevant to such judgments.

> not that the robot is responsible or could have done otherwise

Frankfurt debunked the principle of alternate possibilities' relevance to responsibility more than 40 years ago. I don't know why people still think it's relevant.

> I don't think you can hold a robot responsible without stretching the definition of holding responsible quite far.

This sort of exchange is not at all uncommon:

Frank: what was responsible for the server downtime?

Alice: an update messed up the routing tables on our routers.

The intended meaning is very clear: use "who" for blameworthy agents, and "what" for blameworthy non-agents. You can of course say this sort of informal dialogue is imprecise and not in line with formal definitions, but nobody would find it a stretch or confusing.
VCs, historically, don't understand this. Arduino did, but they've likely ceded some control by doing this fundraising. Maybe these VCs are different. I'm not counting on it.
> Isn’t it past time we actually get accountable for our work?

This is true in almost every industry, especially medicine. There is no accountability.

It's a myth like the fairy godmother, etc.
Yep. The “Lexus Lanes” around DC are like this.

Usually they’re international companies, so in some ways worse than just “Wall St”.

I know we get the government we deserve, but holt shot it’s infuriating for roads to be outsourced this way.
> What gives?

Apple stock is down, ostensibly on China’s iPhone curbs [1]. This appears to have carried through to TSMC stock, which might explain ASML’s movement. (Whatever replaces those unsold iPhones presumably won’t use chips built with ASML’s machines.)

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-07/apple-poi...
Don't worry, Texas is just helping the crypto miners rather than their citizens again. "The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) paid a bitcoin miner $31.7 million in energy credits in August to not mine bitcoin. During the August heat wave, ERCOT issued eight calls for voluntary energy conservation. People were asked to adjust home thermostats or delay doing laundry during the energy call."
> Well, the Arduino IDE was precisely the game changer that made a lot of people get into embedded systems, and not the board based on an Atmega MCU that anyone else could make.

Interesting. Personally I find the $OFFICIAL_IDE repulsive, and strongly prefer just writing the code in $MY_IDE, with a Makefile on the side. OTOH I find the "branded" hardware attractive: it's a known quality in an ecosystem that I sometimes find complex and confusing, and I greatly appreciate the work they've put into making the whole process more approachable. Of course I have a couple clone boards at hand, but I will buy branded Arduino by default precisely because I instinctively associate the brand with less hassle.
Depends a lot on what the backwards-compatibility story for the Switch 2 winds up being...
To be fair “.com” would probably have convinced more of them.

“.wedding” is obviously some cheeky made up thing…
Look, I don't want to get into a discussion of whether the current laws are proper. HN isn't the place for that. I'm just saying that pretending border surveillance is a way to keep immigrants safe from the desert is pure moral fiction.
Step one would be to have sufficient expertise and authority in your field to be trusted to teach it. You're putting the cart well before the oxen here.
> Some of these tactics have proven controversial with consumers. One program that pays big power users like cryptocurrency operations millions to conserve, has come under particular scrutiny, as Texans have been asked to conserve voluntarily for months.

This is... amazing. Not in a good way.
> Why buy a new device and Breath of the Wild over again when you could just get a Deck and play a large % of ever PC game to have ever existed?

...and still be able to play Breath of the Wild on it. (Although, to be fail, the mainstream user probably won't be doing that.)
I don't think I agree with this.

Sure, you could use Kafka as your data lake, but what about all the config files, spreadsheets, flat files, DB snapshots that you're currently storing in your lake? Getting that stuff into Kafka is almost certainly possible, but would be more of a challenge than just dumping all your streaming sources into a proper data lake.
I've been hearing "You can use this slow language and just plug in to a faster one when you need more speed" for over two decades now, and it still has yet to impress me in practice. It's still too easy to accidentally stray back into the slow language for extended periods, and it's virtually guaranteed when it's the "glue layer". Rust straight-up solves race conditions on its own terms, it is not hard to program Go in a way that doesn't have them, etc. It's easier just to write in the fast language in the first place.

Also, I think the BEAM GC is widely misunderstood. Per process it's kinda neat that it can GC without having to consider the others. But globally it's actually kinda slow. Like I said, I've straight-up ported Erlang programs into Go, network clustering and all, and Go was quite significantly faster, even with the not-so-great GC Go had in the ~1.6 era. (I suspect if I ran the same code now it would just work with no GC problems.) BEAM GC is more "hey, look at this neat trick!" than "better than anything around". I actually wouldn't consider it very good at all in modern terms. The Erlang community has a huge problem with thinking it's still 2003 and comparing Erlang to all the other competition in 2003, but unless you're still living in 2003, you need to be comparing to what's around in 2023.
There's nothing preventing them from serving recompiled versions from the store though, right? As long as the behaviour is the same, they could have two different versions behind the scenes for the first party games (Mario, Zelda).
If you want continue discussing this then please address the points I made rather than insisting on the same point I already addressed. If you won't then I'll simply stop responding and assume you're just acting in bad faith.
It would have had blackouts if it didn't build all those bitcoin mines. The bitcoin mines encouraged power infrastructure development, and they can just be taken offline when high heat causes power demand spikes for air conditioning.
Sad. Arduino was my first real jump into microcontrollers. I hate to see them go this way.
> but if they play their cards right, it is possible.

Not with $54M in debt to service. This is a death warrant. I'm sure the execs will make out nicely, though.
A few years ago I worked on a project involving PHP, Laravel and Google Cloud Run. The main problem was performance and I improved by tweaking Cloud Run, OpCache and Composer settings and by implementing a bunch of other optimizations. I wrote about it on my blog, check it out!
Chinese memes make U.S. envoy unwitting brand ambassador for new Huawei phone
Report says PR firm has been paying Rotten Tomatoes critics for positive reviews
I'm sure there's something in the contract to prevent this, but couldn't they keep the meters and then post a "No Parking" or "Bus Parking Only" or even "Parking from 11:59PM-12:00AM"?
Is your product available yet? I would be glad to try it out!
Ummm. Just use OpenAI API... Pay me Apple.
Doesn't this also allow hot-reloading on code update? You can update the code, and upon receiving, auto-reload it. So that "is just a closure" is adding a LOT of context (ie the entire codebase).
> Nintendo is scummy AF advertising/marketing to children and their constant abuse of fans for playing recreationally with IP.

This is really not my experience. To my eye they don't seem to be engaged in the majority of the awful practices around marketing that are pervasive in tech today.

As for the "constant abuse of fans" thing - is Nintendo really that different from any other company who has to protect their IP in this arena? There have definitely been frustrating situations around fan games and the like, but the argument I've always seen (which makes sense) is that they pretty much have to enforce copyright zealously to prevent loss of control of their brands.
In my experience as a hiring manager, I will do a web search. If the LinkedIn result is what I find first that I'm sure is you, I'll click that, but if you have a personal homepage, I'd actually probably rather see that. YMMV, of course.
they stumbled on the perfect form factor. why rock the boat?
If only they had interconnect with other states for backup power...
> The point was to show that the same analysis for why we should stop a fire (which is not considered a moral agent) is or can be carried out for why we should jail someone. Since we don't need to believe that the fire has free will in order to put it out, it stands to reason we also don't need to believe that a killer has free will in order to justify jailing them.

The key difference is that fire is not considered a moral agent and a person is. That's why the justification is required.
And smartphones aren't getting smaller either
Create a virtual number with google voice, it is free.
Very true and valid points! I'm just not that security conscious with my mobile device I guess. I go to all sorts of unknown URLs on this thing all the time. It's practically the only thing I do with this thing.

To be clear, the eye rolling is about the theatricality of my family members' behavior rather than the request for a paper menu. I would also add to the benefits of the paper menus that it's much more socially cohesive than everyone at the table sitting around staring at their phones, even if there's a common reason to do so.
According to wikipedia identity politics is defined as

"... politics based on a particular identity, such as race, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, social background, social class."

Which is not my association for Hippie politics or classic libertarian politics.

Hippies in my head were known for proposing anti-materialistic lifestyle, less moral looking down on promiscuity, open to drug usage and anti war. None of those target a specific identity group.

Libertarians are a political group who support freedom.
Normally that means opposing state intervention, taxes, social nets, restrictions to what you can buy/sell.
I don't see this as politics for a special identity group either.
(ok maybe for the identity group in the upper social class)

PS: somehow I feel like in the US libertarians seem to be seen as left wing which might be the case, but is not inherent to libertarian politics. You can have right wing libertarian politics like some libertarian parties in other countries show
Agree. This is table-stakes stuff for a solo founder.
You need to talk to your kid about AI. Here are 6 things you should say
MLB testing hands-free entry for fans utilizing facial authentication
Its newsworthy because of its frequency of occurrence.
It was a F2P first person shooter that uses phone numbers for verification. CoD I believe, but it looks like blizzard does it as well for battle.net.

I remember it because before that I assumed they had no way to determine how the phone number is purchased, but I think they can just blacklist prepaid providers.
Ask HN: What are some well-designed websites?
What are some well-designed websites in term of design, look & feel, and usability? The Apple website might be an example.
Would you not be able to store and render normal maps color instead of just albedo? Seems like you should be able to render the scene normals and do a deferred lighting pass.

Is depth not properly preserved or something?
Likely the same thing that's caused Apple's stock to drop significantly yesterday and today - China has banned iPhones for government officials at work.

While that in and of itself isn't a huge problem, the broader concern is that this is part of a government effort to push homegrown phones (and chips). That's compounded by the fact that Huawei just revealed a phone with a 7nm chip, which is technology they weren't expected to have.

If the Chinese population moves to Chinese-made phones with Chinese-made chips, it'll certainly have a negative impact on ASML.
‘Hardcore science’ or ‘just a sticker’ – do anti-anxiety patches work?
Breath of the Wild was released for the Wii U and Switch. It’s not impossible (just really bad) that they don’t offer backwards compatibility
Taliban cleaned this practise up btw, their whole raison d'etre was fighting the Bacha Bazi practise by the warlords in 1990s. And the Republic's warlords between 2001-2021.
Weight Gain and Perf Loss
I'm not sure the "life/dinner principle" is always applicable.

A cheetah runs faster than a gazelle. And if you consistently fail to catch your dinner, you're probably going to lose your life.
Doubtful, unless the Switch 1 line is discontinued. There are Lite ($199) and OLED ($349) models now, if you're looking for something other than the standard ($299).
More recently, there was the New Nintendo 3DS. It was mostly backwards-compatible, but did have exclusive games.
Show HN: Multiplex – An App to Watch Torrents with Your Friends
Hey HN! I just released Multiplex, an app to watch torrents together. It provides an experience similar to Apple's SharePlay and Amazon's Prime Video Watch Party, except for any torrent instead of a specific streaming service, and uses WebRTC to synchronize playback positions between the people watching without requiring a central server. It's written in Go and allows the use of a central HTTP to BitTorrent gateway[1] if a viewer can't use the BitTorrent protocol on their own device.

I'd love to get your feedback :)

[1] https://github.com/pojntfx/htorrent
> With today's Nvidia I am just worried Nintendo isn't getting any decent deals.

The current-gen Switch is kinda crazy underpowered. There's plenty of room for Nvidia to improve on the 20/16nm TSMC process used in the original, as well as adding better acceleration for modern features like DLSS, ML and ray tracing. It would still be an enormous performance leap even if they both phone it in and fab the console on cheap-as-chips TSMC 7nm.
Nintendo also has every incentive to play it safe this round. They no doubt want to avoid a third entry in their hit-miss streak:

N64, good sales, but not great. NES and SNES were better.

GameCube, total meltdown (for the time).

Wii, excellent sales.

Wii U, total meltdown.

Switch, excellent sales.

Switch 2, anything but a meltdown.
The GBC and GBA were both pretty successful
65 million UK users over 16?

I don't think there's 65 million people in the UK over 16.
I would imagine that the smart blade operates similar to set of rotors on a helicopter, increasing and decreasing pitch of the blade. If the wind is too powerful, the blade can rotate to reduce the efficacy of the rotor, saving the motor and downstream systems.
is this what they mean by privatizing profits and socializing losses
Not sure how that would handle physical games? The cart just acts as a key and the game is downloaded?
Quantum computing for the very curious
As another example of an egregious difference that might bite you, compare this JS in recent Node vs web browsers:

new URL('postgres://user:pass@host/db')

Node parses this as if it were a web address, into protocol, username, password, host, pathname, etc.

Browsers just parse out the protocol and call everything else a pathname.
I do lots of exploratory work in various structure data, in my case often debugging media filea via https://github.com/wader/fq, which mean doing lots of use-once-queries on the command line or REPL. In those cases jq line-friendly and composable syntax and generators really shine.
This is great, thanks! I'll ass a privacy policy and look into a CoC, thanks.

Any maintainer can be added to the repo, yes. The idea is that there will be a community-driven process around ensuring that maintainers are following the creators' guidelines (and ensuring they adhere to the CoC), so it wasn't meant to be so enforced by technology.

I should add a LICENSE file to the repo, now that you mention it, people will expect it there.

Thanks for the additional feedback!
I think it's more that there's mo market left for that.

Emulation is a thing now, and small third party hardware makers are filling the niche. And at the other end phones have more power than even the Switch has. That's why the SteamDeck or ROG Ally are on the bigger side. Betting against the smartphone is a losing bet.
ignorant question perhaps, but what makes the CEO of a small company so much juicier a target than a senior manager or director at a large one? both could have access to sensitive info, ability to spend a lot of money before it's noticed, etc.
Yikes. Honest mistake. Try to be civil on this forum please, this doesn’t add anything to the conversation.
The article states that the sharp drop in reserves was being “investigated,” and that it is “suspected” that a large power plant stopped working.

Is observability of Texan infrastructure so poor that the _power company_ doesn’t have a comprehensive view of _which power plants are operational_?
Is a switch lite that much larger than a GBA or DS?
ML Papers Explained
I never suggested that it would keep them safe.

I said that you would know that there are people there and they might be or about to be in serious danger. What you do with that information afterwards is an entirely separate conversation.

If it is in your power to have this information and you neglect to, that is highly immoral. If we're going to have this border policy then it is our responsibility to know the effects of that policy. Surveillance of this crossing where hundreds of people die every year is a moral imperative.

People are posting in this thread suggesting that having autonomous surveillance here is akin to pointing weapons at people. The suggestion is hyperbole and ridiculous.

What's really disheartening here is that the people that don't like our border policy would rather we turn a blind eye here guaranteeing that these deaths continue and in greater numbers.
FWIW, I posted it as old.reddit.com initially because I have the extension that redirects everything. It somehow got reverted to regular reddit.com.
I wish they'd make one that works better as a keychain. Tamagotchis are pretty big. Maybe one a bit bigger than the screen and half as thick would be great.
Can't read the article because of the paywall, but in answer to the title, SoftBank has not exactly shown itself to masterful at valuing companies to the point where it would be irrational to trade with them.
Except, oh wait! To use this service, you need to create an account, and 2FA is required.

What? You threw your number away? Tough shit, I guess.
Brilliant plan. I was getting tired of all the local restaurants anyway, not enough copycat chains IMO. Glad we prioritized old people who no longer contribute much to the economy.
1. As an AI language model...
If you need someone else to force something they don't want to do (get a certification) you negotiate with the entity who has the monopoly on violence to maybe consider your recommendations. Then you need to wait for an opportunity (a mishap in the field, someone got their toe cut off) the monopoly of force might want to act on. Then you can offer a solution (a certification program) supported by your prior negotiation that makes the monopoly on violence mandate a requirement (your proposal).

The result is that you now offer a service and a mandatory certification and your competitors must go through you to be able to offer the service to anyone else or face the monopoly on violence.

There doesn't have to be any exchange of funds or favors. You simply offer the confused representative of monopoly on violence a solution, all you need is to sell it well.
Nintendo is like simulated annealing with high temperature—they'll drop successful designs in favor of something new, to prevent getting stuck at a local maximum. The Gameboy Advance SP was a fantastic design, and then dropped it in favor of the Nintendo DS. That was a good change.
safety's on so nothing to worry about
I think I have to set up shop in Texas with some space heaters and claim my bitcoin energy credits!
Hard to decide the appropriate level of outrage here. The authors seem to be aware of how chatGPT works and how this would produce inconsistent results and falsehoods, especially in languages with a smaller corpus. Still it sounds like they expect openAI to extend full parity of features to a language that has only 7m speakers and appears "much less often online."
But I hope they do, for these people's benefit.

I was impressed with its performance in Irish but my expectations were much lower. Partly because in English it has given me nonsense code, and I think the poetry is terrible - only rhyming couplets (AABB rhyming).
I think the news is that they paid bitcoin miners to sit idle. The only other choice was to charge them more for power usage.
I've been reading _The Servant_ among a number of other books recently as part of a "management focus" in my role and in many ways so many of these books overlap on many of the hot-areas of leadership.

One of the big takeaways is that most of this information isn't just professional, you can (and, IMO, should use it personally).

How you handle feedback and responsibility with your direct-reports is going (most of the time) how you do/ought to do things with your own children. And with those you worship with. Valuing personal relationships isn't just for the home and friends: it's important in a business context. Taking ownership/responsibility is something you must do personally and also across all aspects of your life.

The beautiful thing is that so many of us get so stressed out because we have so much to do. However, being a good servant leader—addressing what people need rather than what they want—will often mean that you pass on things to others. This makes them feel more valuable and also means less stress for you. I did this yesterday with my son and the trash. He's got an Apple Watch and an alarm clock. So I told him: you're responsible for the trash. I'm not going to remind you about it, but if you don't do it, you sure as heck will hear about it. He relishes the idea of me not reminding him, and even though it's just taking out the trash—he likes the idea of "owning" it. (Not to mind the fact that he'll be driving in a few years... God help me!)
> One Switch 2 demo is a souped up version of Switch launch title Zelda: Breath of the Wild, designed to hit the Switch 2's beefier target specs. (To be clear, though - this is just a tech demo. There's no suggestion the game will be re-released.)

This is Nintendo. They'll re-release it.
Co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it
f :: Integer -> Boolean

g f n = if (f n) then (g f (n+1)) else (is_it_reachable)

Will it ever terminate (or insert any other interesting property that you wish) with f = collatz?

I know this is the atomic bomb case, but you can actually quite easily increase the complexity in realistic programs by just a few compositions, it doesn’t take much.