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You'd think so, but I'd never doubt Nintendo's ability to make weird decisions. Particularly if they involve their online services somehow...
>Personally I find the $OFFICIAL_IDE repulsive, and strongly prefer just writing the code in $MY_IDE, with a Makefile on the side.

< Insert famous HN comment, on why Dropbox is a useless business idea, berceuse you can easily achieve that for free with a self hosted FTP server[1] >

If you know what a Makefile is, then you're not Arduino's target market, but there are millions of people out there who want to turn a relay ON when some sensor gets too hot for some garage project, without first learning about Makefiles or registers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
And I fondly remember playing Nintendo games as a kid and still do to this day some 25 years later with recent titles. Could the 120 hours-and-counting in TOTK have been spent more productively? Sure, but it's nothing compared to the time people spend watching TV series. Was every moment spent farming stuff for upgrades super fun? Not really, but I was not held captive and nothing in life is uninterrupted enjoyment.

Any addiction is bad, but unless the "item" is pushed in malice (like, say, tobacco), I would not consider that to be the fault of the creator. Unlike others, they are not actively (or at least only minimally) pushing gambling, gacha games, loot-boxes, "season-passes" and other abusive psychological tricks as their core strategy (the concept of a game is in itself not malicious or bad). So in that sense, I consider them a positive and rather responsible game company.

The only really negative comment I have for Nintendo (other than just generally wanting better stuff), is that their use of DMCA and other IP protection is completely absurd.

Blame and opinions aside, I hope you find a way through your illness.
I'm torn on this.

I'm the CTO for a small software firm that does a lot if IoT. We've seen a number of startups build their prototypes using Arduino. Historically, there was no clear path to production. So, I think they're listening to some of their customers, and it is a clear opportunity for them.

On the other hand, positioning yourself as a hobbyist platform, _and_ a "production-grade" platform is tricky. I really like their entry-level boards for hobby-level things. I hope that continues.

Finally, a few thoughts:

1. If you dig into their code, their embedded software has struggled: the architecture is all over the place, the implementation is suspect in some areas, and testing has been weak. Hopefully they back port the new (hopefully improved) code to the hobby hardware.

1. As long as they don't require their cloud, I wish them well in that area. It's a really tough market.
The Grug Brained Manager
I feel so ambivalent about this.

I can understand how AirBnB might raise rent prices.

I can understand how that's a serious problem, and agree it should be dealt with.

But seriously, as a home-owner, why shouldn't I be allowed to rent out any amount of space in my own property arbitrarily to whoever I so please for a short term without seeking a loicense from my central government?

This isn't meant to be argumentative. Why should anyone have the right to tell me who I can and cannot shelter under my own roof if they aren't a criminal?

Or, more-specifically, because concerns like this have to be weighed by effect: is the problem really so bad that it merits usurping someone's right to use their property in order to counteract? I do own a house, but I don't live in a metro area, so I could use some perspective.
I disagree. The “New” 3DS was a souped up version of the 3DS, including some games requiring the upgraded hardware. Same deal with the DSi.
Still a very roundabout way for the state gov to pay for infra upgrades.
the more I read about ERCOT, the texas energy council, the more im convinced its a grift that wasnt designed to survive the test of climate change.

ERCOT reform was announced by Governor Abbott in 2021, but that same reform was also penned in a nearly 400 page report that was completely ignored during ERCOT's 2011 failure.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2021/03/26/in-20-ye...
Except that isn't true either except in the very narrow case of "front end for the sake of front end":

Lets say you have two, otherwise identical, use cases: You have the P and E Intel cores, and you have the equivalent over at AMD, Zen and Zen-c.

The respective E cores are approximately 50-60% of the size of their matching generation P cores, yet use about 40-50% of the power to get roughly the same performance (ie, 2x E cores vs a single P core with both threads running sometimes is comparable to each other, especially with all the anti-meltdown/spectre protections).

So, if you compare an P core, with two threads (which is 100% of the size of an P core, duh), or two E cores, each with a single thread, (which is 100% to 120% the size of that single P core), you have near equivalent performance often in less power usage.

If I consider the otherwise equivalency of a P core vs 2x E cores, the front end has widened (indeed, 2x E core has more frontend than 1x P core), and I have not significantly widened the backend (E cores from both companies are tiny, and only some of it can be contributed to less cache area).

I suspect AMD's end game is to eventually end dual-thread cores, and move to the model being done in Zen-c. One, it removes, forever, an entire class of possible security bugs (after all, Intel's knee-jerk reaction was to reissue series 8 as 9, with threads disabled and all cache assigned to first/only thread); two, it would make extremely high performance desktop and server chips that are better matched towards modern workloads; if AMD continues to make threaded cores, they will be 4/8 thread cores that are sold on specialty Epycs only (ie, the reverse of the current lineup of specialty Epycs being Zen4c, and no desktop Zen4c)

"But, hey, what about single-threaded-only workloads?" you might ask.

Workloads like that are generally memory latency bound first, memory bandwidth bound second, and then IPC bound third: AMD solved that by having an absolutely gigantic L3. Games are the poster-child of poorly optimized software, and AMD's giant L3 cache does magic here.

If my next chip was a 16c/16t E-core desktop chip (to replace your common 8c/16t, the kind I recommend to desktop users, and use myself), I'd be happy.
A step closer to digitizing the sense of smell
There isn't any debt to service. Taking funding isn't the same as taking debt (in some ways its worse, in some better), and there's no direct interest or payment they have to make every month like if it was debt.

The problem is that they give up ownership (and probably ownership) to people who may have different goals and values. This can lead to enshittification, especially for a company that doesn't have a good path to extreme growth and profits. You also can't discharge ownership in bankruptcy like you can with debt.
The GameCube was particularly tragic, because it had a genuinely fantastic game library.
> I use `exa` (and now `eza`) because it provides a better than GNU `ls`, IMHO.

A better what?
I feel like a text-only game that used every single font here might be quite engaging.

Go to a computer terminal? Font changes to the sci-fi one(s).

Getting chased by a killer? Font changes to the raining blood one.

Reading a letter the PC found? Use the handwritten font.

Reading a printout? Use dot-matrix one.
Maybe they can just price electricity at different tiers of use. Or home vs business rates. Charge crypto farms more, especially if the grid is struggling.
Meh, they aren’t that weird considering their audience is children, and the majority of parents can’t set up parental controls to save their lives.

Plus, our news media is totally going to report a single pedophile incident with Nintendo Switch Online to high heaven regardless of whether parental controls would have prevented it.
Running a 180B parameter LLM on a single Apple M2 Ultra
It's local news, I'm absolutely positive it's just raw numbers. $1.16 billion paid and ~$11.6 billion in total estimated revenue over 75 years. No reporter is doing discounted future cash flow calculations even if they know how to (they don't).
https://archive.ph/JiH74
Candle: A New Machine Learning Framework for Rust
I'm not from Texas so genuinely asking, is there hard proof that anyone specifically invested in power infrastructure because of bitcoin mines in a way they wouldn't have otherwise?
Very cool work.

As a bit of tangent (but wondering whether someone can answer) - the article also makes mention of point based rendering and indeed the fact is has been a staple of particle systems for a long time. However, especially with recent games, I have noticed (purely subjectively) a very subtle shift to a new style of particle systems which are on the one hand fully point oriented (compared to (textured) fragments) but on the other behave more like a physics systems.

Examples:

- Hogwarts (heavily): https://www.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/1816/18167535/40...
- Forspoken (heavily): https://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/project-at...
- Starfield (though more rarely): https://dotesports.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/temple-loc...
- AC6
- FF16 (heavily)

It's more obvious when you see it 'in motion'. The common denominator seems to be particles as colored transparent points with physics. Especially on console systems it seems that developers are using this for very cheap (CPU-wise, all on GPU) effects.

Anyone in gamedev who has some insight in this?
It sounds like they're dancing around what may be a social issue; ERCOT sent an email asking people to "conserve", within 30 minutes they saw a negative impact. Is it possible some recipients saw the email and took the complete opposite action?
> better acceleration for modern features like DLSS, ML and ray tracing

I hope none of this makes it into the next Switch. It's already enough that these things are completely ruining PC game performance, I don't want to buy a console in 2023 that can only play games at 480p upscaled.
and because of the timing. a blackout or grid failure now would be incredibly deadly to vulnerable populations.
I actually think it’s the only somewhat good thing about Texas’ grid. What better way to ensure Island configuration works than running that mode all the time?
Cue up the announcement two years from now about the "exciting" news about joining X megacorp, where nothing will change for users, except things will be better for some reason. Then cue the announcement two years after that where everything does indeed change for users for the worse. Then cue the inevitable open source fork...
Many of the new ps4 titles have "free upgrade" to the ps5 version on offer, for instance Armored Core 6. However, the largest difference between versions seems to be frame rate and resolution. I wonder if Nintendo would consider that for actual graphical upgrades.
Which is precisely why I will never link to Greek mythology.
A map of power outages over the last few years with TX, CA, LA, WA and MI in the lead: https://www.fixr.com/articles/power-outage-solutions

Maine is a headscratcher with HydroQuebec across the border.
There’s no helping the incurious, but there are indeed reams of explorations unto weights and their explanations.

One of my personal favourites is Zeiler and Fergus https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2901

Tom Zahavy’s “Greying the black box” on deep RL comes to mind too https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02658

OpenAI has their Microscope tool for investigating individual neurons https://openai.com/research/microscope; more recently OpenAI shared research and tooling leveraging a powerful language model to explain a smaller model’s neurons. https://openai.com/research/language-models-can-explain-neur...

For a true toy box exploration playground.tensorflow.org is worth a play

These may or may not satisfy your curiosities — your perfect tool may not exist…yet. I would argue that the sampling of extant work above are indicative that it and more are possible.
What's stopping power companies from ramping up energy production? They know in advance there will be problems. What stopping them from just producing more? I realize there are some peculiarities of the Texas grid, but this is obviously a problem beyond Texas, as California and east coast has blackouts as well. I'm asking about all these cases.

I imagine maybe this requires some additional infrastructure that simply doesn't exist. If so, what's the barrier to building this infrastructure?
I think even then it depends on what model/revision but yes, for sure.
China bans iPhone use for govt officials
Are you being intentionally difficult in leaving out "falsifiable, but not yet falsified" and repeating "false" twice?
I do it differently. It supports not having to reload aliases after installing.

alias vim='$(command -v nvim || echo vim)'
Will it still have an extremely outdated web browser?
That’s valid. I’m pretty rigorous about typing new code, but don’t make any heroic efforts to go back and retrofit old, well-tested code. `mypy --check-untyped-defs` gives a lot of bang for the buck for checking existing code without going all-in.

I’m also OK with liberal use of Any for things like returning JSON fetched from an API. How should I know what it’s going to return this time? I’ll deal with that mess in the function that parses those results, not the one fetching them.

One way I think typing has made my code better is that I tend to use more dataclasses and namedtuples now. It’s easier to say List[Person] than List[dict[str,Union[str,float,int,Email]] etc. That also makes IDEs a lot happier because now I can say Person.bir and tab-complete it to .birthday. It’s a little more effort to set up, but a lot nicer in the long run.

But again, I find that fun and productive on new code. Darned if I wanna jump through those hoops on stuff that’s been running in production for a decade. I’m more of a fan of “type it as you touch it”.
<REDACTED. I think you’ve seen that I provided enough>

It’s all there (I’m trying to not give away too much, we’re not connections, but I can see your education and your work history and your endorsements, let me know if you want more proof).

EDIT: looks like you updated the link. ~Let me know if you want me to delete the info I found.~
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i live in texas and no, there’s not. because it didn’t happen.
I wonder how many GHz we will get from high performance 64bits risc-v multi-core µArch with those tools.
Seems quite odd that the coast guard would have a higher duty of care than a school or a sheriff's office. Has there been any successful lawsuits where the coast guard failed to save someone and were sued?

I found this[0] but it appears to be ongoing. The state appears to again argue they have no duty to rescue anyone.

[0]https://www.courthousenews.com/lawsuit-over-coast-guard-call...
They were also incentivized to release new models to fix the unpatchable root vulnerability of the first gen.
TUI is just a thinly disguised GUI. I mean it's pretty cool what they've done, but if it's effectively just an alternative graphical frontend (that happens to run in a terminal emulator), well I guess someone out there has a use case where they need to run this over an SSH session?

Personally I find CLI (not TUI) and/or client libraries a much more attractive proposition; otherwise a native application, that uses proper system widgets and integrates with the rest of your desktop environment (an icon in the dock, system notifications, matching light/dark theme, etc), seems superior to a TUI in all aspects? (Except for "I need to run this over SSH / serial console"...)

Am I missing something here?
Please explain how Chicago is "effectively insolvent."
right, they save that second option for regular consumers.
People seem to do fine dealing with iterators—which are defined by their operations (hasNext, next) and are convenient because they have a dedicated syntax (foreach)—without the need for enlightenment from esoteric "iterator tutorials".

Monads are defined by their operations (flatMap/bind, unit) and have a dedicated syntax (do). I agree with you: just get used to flatmapping stuff and the concept will sink in.
> The transform is "transform the wrapped properties into some IO call", and all transforms are explicitly sequential.

Not every monad has to do with IO. The oddity of Haskell is that Haskell has this IO type and every real world action has to produce an IO value, but the defining characteristic of IO isn't that it's a monad.

Now, in the IO type, we use monads to sequence I/O operations, indeed (like "read something to the keyboard, then write this same something you read).

But there are other monads that do other things! Monads always enable you to write sequential-looking code (through do notation), sure, but they don't need to execute sequentially - and most of them has nothing to do with IO!

For example, the Cont monad enables writing code in continuation-passing style [0], and it's famously difficult to grok [1]. Suffice to say that it enables using the "call with current continuation" operator from Scheme (which doesn't work on IO, but works on Cont) [2]

[0] https://www.haskellforall.com/2012/12/the-continuation-monad...

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3322540/how-and-why-does...

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20451022/how-to-interpre...
Who is deciding what is in the best interest of "the people?"

Motor vehicles are an absolute necessity in the United States, both for economic and personal reasons. If people didn't need cars, they wouldn't buy them. Mass transit will never be able to replace motor vehicles, and trying to shoe-horn an wholly ideologically-driven agenda will blow up in everyone's faces spectacularly.
This is the first I've seen data on high demand growth this summer (I live in Texas and try to follow these issues).

> The power grid has seen overall demand grow 7% this summer, after two decades of predictable 1% per year growth, and 10 preliminary demand records since late June. [1]

[1]: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/erc...
If you had lived through the last blackout and still lived in Texas, then absolutely yes it’s newsworthy. We want to grade our government accurately. Almost having a collapse again is a bad mark on the test score.
Where is "around here?" That's kind of important.

As others have said elsewhere, most government contractors that require a private entity to outlay millions of dollars have a similarly long term (75 or 99 year are both common) to prevent the government from just changing its mind after the capital improvements have been made. As the article states it took a decade for CPM to make back the $1.16B it spent on the contract, which probably doesn't include any actual improvements they made, if any.
There's a lot of misunderstanding in the comments so far regarding bitcoin mining incentives. I urge you to read this thread describing the split-second load-shedding response time from the POV of one of these miners:

https://twitter.com/ogbtc/status/1699588007664275873

It also goes into the other mechanism by which they make money (being natural sellers of future energy demand contracts during times of high demand). This mechanism is similar to how other commodity markets operate with producers, consumers with steady future demand, and consumers with unpredictable short-term demand.

Our energy grids need to keep an equal demand/production at all times, and on-demand load-shedding is a valuable part of this equation. The bitcoin miners are providing a service to ERCOT and being paid for it. If there were a more "productive" source of on-demand energy usage, then it will replace the bitcoin miners, this is how markets work (of which both energy production/consumption and capitalism in general are).

This is the reality of how the texas energy grid works at present. The bitcoin miners, for lack of a (subjectively) "better" option, are filling the two needs of elastic load-shedding and predictable future demand. The first is very hard to fill, the latter can probably be fulfilled more productively with steady demand from other industries (factories, data centers, other things that run 24h per day).

One more edit: this whole equation changes COMPLETELY if we have the ability to store energy production in times of low demand to be used in future times of high demand (batteries). We don't currently have this at any sort of reasonably useful scale, we need this, and the current "market" everyone is upset about is a bandaid on top of the lack of decent storage options. For the climate folks, the anti-bitcoin folks, whoever disagrees with what I've said here: Fix the storage issue and everything gets magically better. Good luck, it's a very hard problem with very nasty environmental impacts, I'm rooting for you.
Wait, so instead of charging their crypto mining customers more, they are paying them not to mine? WTF? You have to love their "free market" energy grid /s
Probably one of the few Apple trademarks with an official exclusion from Apple's ownership.
Calling this a "fantastic deal" is the opposite of civil. The article literally has "disaster" in the title and goes into excruciating detail about how damaging it has been to the city.
> That's why I said that's not an option.

>> but I'd argue it's still the right call and will rarely make the situation worse.

That statement confused me. I don't understand your position then.
What’s the deal with archive and cloudflare?
I think the last couple of Switch hardware versions filled that niche. This is meant to be a brand new console. It's interesting that they're keeping the Switch name, considering how that panned out with the Wii U.
I see. I am spoiled, I think. :)
I used to subscribe to this idea too, but I've since tried to leave it behind. I ended up just not using tools that gave me a benefit the majority of the time. Ripgrep is a great example. So much better than grep IMO but not going to be on that remote machine. When I need to, I'll adapt to egrep. Same with vim plugins. I ended up just not using stuff I liked so I wouldn't get used to it. Felt backwards to me.

If you spend a ton of time on remote machines you won't get control of, I can absolutely get it though. I think as long as you know the backup and you can adapt, we'll be fine most of the time. Knowing the idioms to get you part of the way there to the convenient functionality is a good enough mental polyfill.
Many makers I know of are using PlatformIO these days: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=platform...
I believe you are intentionally misunderstanding. The term "tug of war" is not used to indicate armed conflict or even a problem. It indicates balancing forces that you want to maintain - pull the rope too far to one side, and you end up in a suboptimal extreme.

Unless you work with clones of yourself, there will always be differences in opinions and priorities, and not every feature and bug fix can be a company-wide stakeholder meeting, and you certainly will not get any social points for trying to micro-manage other teams.
Regional blackouts are kinda common in Texas. The article briefly mentions the AC frequency doing too can damage the grid. This damage can actually lead to months long power outages for large regions.
Indeed.

Me: Hey checkout <website>.com

Them: type <website> without .com in address bar, click on search results link that may or may not be correct.
Given it all started in 2005, I'm very surprised to see they're raising capital. I guess I incorrectly assumed they would have been very profitable by now with such a large user base & number of units shipped. 18 years is a long time.

The market has moved on significantly from when they first started (Raspberry Pi having launched things like the Pico etc), and there is a large amount of competition, so I do wonder if their growth aims are realistic.