skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to your point, here’s the producer of FFVII, Hironobu Sakaguchi:

“It was starting to become clear to us what the memory capacity for the different next-gen consoles would be. Our games were going to need a huge amount of memory. The Final Fantasy VI CG demo we made for the Siggraph exhibition took 20 megs all by itself. We thought that demo had a lot of visual impact, so there really wasn’t much question about which hardware we would use; if we were going to realize the promise of the demo we had shown at Siggraph, nothing but the CD-ROM format would suffice.

Another reason for choosing the CD-ROM was related to price. I think one of the big reasons the first Final Fantasy was favorably received by players, and the later games in the series gained so many fans, was that you could buy those games for around 5000 to 6000 yen. We tried to have the same pricing for Bahamut Lagoon, Gun Hazard, and our other later Super Famicom games, but using cartridge ROM meant those games had to be sold for over 10000 yen. New players did not flock to those games like they had before. If we used CD-ROM for Final Fantasy VII, we’d be able to have a 2-disc game at a price of 5800 yen. I was hoping it would be possible to make a game that could sell several hundred thousand copies.“

https://shmuplations.com/ff7/
Never too late to try! Take your time. Emacs will outlive us all. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Is all telemetry good in your eyes?

Telemetry is a cheaper solution to hiring quality assurance. Many will feel sharing their usage details to increase profits is acceptance and others might feel this free product isn't so free anymore.
> “Given the density of the corridor, Amtrak should be trying for 150-220mph speed limits, but even 125mph is generally agreed upon to be the lowest end of HSR.”

In the UK and Europe, 125mph (~200 km/h) is considered the top speed limit of conventional rail. Legally, operating speeds beyond that require full in-cab signalling, positive train control, upgraded safety and structural requirements, and whatever else is required for HSR. Further, all the trains operating on a section of line need to be upgraded to those standards if any of them are to run at speeds > 125mph.

The UK does have some sections of conventional line that are capable of > 125 mph running, and even have done so in the past, but this is no longer allowed.

I’m not sure if the US has similar rules, but it wouldn’t surprise me if so!

> ”A surprisingly easy way to make the train go faster would be to redesign the switching sections…”

Yes, generally speaking, fixing the low-speed bottlenecks will typically yield the biggest benefits for the cost in terms of overall journey time.
>US Innovated and operated

Oh boy... Not even "US designed". It's "US innovated".
So what are the text-based facts / details, w/o having to spend time on watching another one of these videos?
> Can I now trust modern python installations to have native-json enabled sqlite built in?

There is no absolute guarantee because distros can use any supported SQLite version to build Python (though Debian [1] and thus Ubuntu has long enabled -DSQLITE_ENABLE_JSON1), but you can expect that any Python version released shortly after 2022-03-16 [2] supports JSON functions in the Windows and macOS builds.

[1] https://sources.debian.org/src/sqlite3/3.16.2-5%2Bdeb9u1/deb...

[2] https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/31655
The sketch perturbs the generation, but that’s about it. Going with the kitten prompt, I’m unable to get any given pose or positioning of the kitty. Drawing a second cat only changes the pose of the only one again. Mirror image the sketch: the tail curve changes. Add a random dot: get a whole new pose.
Works “great” in Singapore?

You can’t access public housing unless married or over 35.

The rules keep being changed because Singaporeans see housing as a lottery - and it is. Land a new HDB in a prime location and you can sell it at market rates 5 years later. A cool $500,000 in your pocket.

Oh, and everything is a 99-year lease, so after paying $1M for a resale HDB you get to give it back to the government and walk away with zero.

Don’t get me wrong, it worked great at rapidly housing a large population in a country with limited space. But it’s far from an optimized or sustainable system.
Elixir or Erlang Internship
Hello I'm searching for an internship in either of these languages.
I want to interact with system with a lot of concurrency and/or fault tolerance.
Ideal time would be starting May 2025 as I will be able to dedicate 4-5 months, but 2 to 3 months is also possible starting June 2024.
I've got a SCHENGEN visa so anywhere in SCHENGEN area is fine.
In deustch
This would break digital ownership specifically, as you wouldn't be in control of their copies, which are trivial to make.

Besides, you agreed not to do this! That's the immoral act. First sale doctrine or no, agreeing to not do something and then doing it is immoral.
I can’t see God, so I can’t know. I do find truth within the slippery thoughts that resemble consciousness and logos as the thing which is always outside of any set, including ones not yet defined. In the sense that when some thing is not yet extant then becomes extant in a set, then clearly logos is outside of all sets. As soon as it is defined it pops outside.

As slippery as that intuition is, I tend to find truth in neither what god is nor isn’t. For any descriptor isn’t. But whatever that is, may or may not be.

In retrospect, God feels similar to a holy donut. a torus both manifested in form at the magnetic plane and invisible in the hyperbolic giving rise to primordial motion. Simultaneously inside and outside.
NBA Courtside and MLB w Ken Griffey Jr were fantastic sports games. NFL Blitz was also more fun on the 64 with 4 players.
It got released for Xbox and on the Switch.
Biggest mistake by far was letting adtech completely TANK the performance of sites just so they can satisfy paranoid adverts. It's an absolute travesty that a top 3 reason to install adblock comes from a performance POV, because these simple static webpages* are forced to inject MB's of ads into your feed first.

Reddit as a site was never optimal to begin with and it only became worse when they decided to homeroll their own image/video hosting. But the biggest consequence of surrendering to ads turns base Reddit into feel like its 20 years older than it is.

>It baffles me why Reddit would want to cut support for 3rd party apps when they were a key component in the Reddit ecosystem.

money and control, the root of most evils in the world.
Well if you can redefine what the bits mean you can make any number. "let the value of the 8 bytes be tree(n), where n is the unsigned integer value of the bytes". There, I just blew the article's big number out of the water.
> Remember that 80% of Singaporeans live in HDB flats

This statistic includes the young people living with their parents. So, not exactly a refutation of my point.

Young couples in the rest of the world typically rent for a few years before before they buy their own place. The tax treatment in Singapore makes this very unattractive.
Parrot offers a drone that's engineered in France & Switzerland, and (to some degree) made in the USA. https://www.parrot.com/us/drones/anafi-usa

Anyone have experience with these, or with other drones of unusual provenance?
It happens a lot in prose magazines like The New Yorker, Harpers, and Lapham's
I just love that straight up £->USD conversion without mentioning the 150 years of inflation since 1875.
Of course this is right out of sci fi and many dystopian stories. Yet palm scanners have been around for 50 years but they have always been slow - can this really do the scan as quickly as current fobs, cards and phone entry systems?
5000-Year-Old Tablets Can Now Be Decoded by Artificial Intelligence
This 100%! I joined the board of YIMBY Action [1] a while back, and our mission is to help open/grow local activist groups to push for the YIMBY movement's pro-housing goals at the local level.

We help get people elected, get them support to pass better laws, and sue the cities when they don't comply with the laws to compel them to do so.

We've spearheaded the action on "RHNA / Housing Element" [2] which helps push CA cities to do better, or like you said, allow the "Builder's Remedy" to bypass a lot of their stalling tactics.

I'd recommend anyone who cares to check out the sites below, come to a meeting, or donate to the cause. We even have a "Sue SF" fund if you want to help sue the bastards that make our rent too damn high and push people into poverty and homelessness.

[1] https://yimbyaction.org

[2] https://yimbyaction.org/rhna/
Firefox will search for bookmarks from the address bar in exactly the way you describe.
Also to expand to your thoughts in context I’ll add that daemons and angels are etymologically related to messages. One can infer that to resemble thoughts. Messages sent from the prime logos.

Then there’s the whole Bible declaring itself as a LLM bit as a recursive definition of god, word, and flesh. So there’s that.
I'm pretty sure they're confusing VoLTE which only needs your phone and your provider to support it (and provision it, etc, etc, if you're roaming, there's more, etc, etc), and the higher fidelity "HD Voice" G.722.2 codec, which does require end to end support. Your provider might connect your end as HD Voice to a call terminating as POTS on the other end, but I'm guessing probably won't.
Orion has a port of the web extensions API (used by Chrome and Firefox extensions) on top of WebKit.
are you sure you're counting reals? not rationals?
> In the UK and Europe

UK is part of Europe. It's like writing "In California and the USA", or "In Mexico and North America".
Open Source would be MUCH better, but I'm seeing you're working on it, will wait till then I guess.
> It's inspired me to start a ground up rewrite of my Emacs configuration in the quest for simplicity, so maybe there's hope for my config yet.

Allow me to be the first to encourage you, for the satisfaction of it :) I too recently yak shaved my Emacs Gnu and wrote about it too, for utility of course, but also for joy. And, I wrote about it here:

"Emerging from dotemacs bankruptcy the hard way"

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/emerging-from-dotemacs-bankr...
How about providing a top 3 of the better choices out there instead of making a generic comment? I would love to find a better choice.
> This would break digital ownership specifically, as you wouldn't be in control of their copies, which are trivial to make.

Why is "people can copy it for critique" compatible with ownership, and "people can copy it after a certain number of years" compatible with ownership, but "people can copy it when you're done selling it, or in places you won't sell it" not compatible with ownership?

I really don't understand.

> Besides, you agreed not to do this! That's the immoral act. First sale doctrine or no, agreeing to not do something and then doing it is immoral.

I don't think I've ever agreed to something like that on top of copyright.

Are you applying this idea to existing media, or suggesting it would become the new normal?

And I think first sale doctrine would get in the way of a contract clause that does almost but not quite the same thing that copyright does. But I'm not an expert there.
GPTs largely supersede plugins. They can call any existing web API without you having to host your own plugin API, and they handle auth.
It isn't an editor, it is a lifestyle :)
> Works great in Singapore.

Try moving to Singapore and see how that works out for you. Until you or your spouse are a citizen (and the other a permanent resident), and then wait some time.

I’m not sure how a city in the USA could give away apartments (or sell them at subsidized pricing) without some sort of residency restriction, and even if the federal government was funding it, you couldn’t just let everyone live in the most popular cities, someone will need to live in a flat in Gary Indiana for example.

Singapore can do this because they can restrict it to citizens and PRs married to citizens, migrant workers don’t need to be considered.
Ask HN: How much do you read in a year?
Having end-of-year vibes, I started to realize that I tend to read a lot less of the things I wanted to read in the first place, and my to-do lists with books that might be interesting only keep increasing with time; at this phase, I don't think my reading speed will be able to make it, not even in 20 years from now. My reading speed is good (maybe a book/+articles per week), but even then, it's too slow to consume all the books I have in front of me.

What about you? How much do you read?
The Supreme Court is mostly fixing its own precedents which are clearly wrong. You have to huff the glue off a bunch of law review book bindings to think that the framers went to all this trouble to create a tripartite government of distinct powers, but that they permitted Congress to create executive agencies that exercise the power of all three branches at once. The fact that we even pretend that’s constitutional is merely the result of the last time the President threatened to pack the Court to achieve political ends. (And no, the power to set the size of the Supreme Court is not meant to be used to “threaten” it to decide cases in particular ways. That’s an insane interpretation of that provision.)
From the website:

> 1. Orion is currently available for Apple macOS, iPadOS and iOS. We are planning support for other platforms in the future.

Zilch on timelines though, so don't know how much of a priority it is for them?
Huh. Both hanging and not hanging feel both right and wrong for their own kinda conflicting reasons. And til. Thanks op and author.
I agree 100% on the loading times. This is an issue I still have and find myself often just playing something from an old cartridge (N64 or Gameboy) rather than waiting for a modern game to load up.
NFS scales and operates incredibly well however it has constraints.

Like any tool, it has its appropriate uses.

Why would you exclude a useful tool from your arsenal because of perceived downsides that are easy to hide from the layer above with appropriate system design?
I haven't seen a single neo-Nazi / QAnon expression since using Twitter. And I doubt Musk send a missive to amplify these things.
This is very cool.

For US inter-city rail there is also Amtrak’s official Track Your Train: https://www.amtrak.com/track-your-train.html
That’s great for you and other N64 owners. However the sales figures don’t lie.
Synergies

Also: Less competition.
Last I calculated this, a new car emits in the range of 8-15 tonnes CO2e (lower range for gas cars, upper for some EVs before they started guaranteeing renewable energy in production).

Driving emissions numbers I remember off the top of my head are Swedish averages, around 2.5 tonnes CO2e per year (15000 km/year). This is averages for the Swedish car fleet, which tend to be smaller models and more modern than many countries.

So: sure, production emissions are a big factor, but driving the car can easily win the efficiency savings back in a fraction of the car’s lifetime.
Oh, yeah that is in fact exactly my workaround - play them on Linux/SteamOS! :D
A year working with HTML Web Components
This is wildly cool, I want one. No clue what for, but 1k sequencing!

Interestingly their other products use nvidia gpus - up to 4 A series! Could be small but they use a GV100 in a smaller machine soo… maybe A100s! Did they make an ASIC for this small sequencer? FPGA? Offload to openCL/Cuda on the host computer? Very interesting

They also sell their larger machine capital cost free apparently? And only charge for consumables.
Example: https://dalle.party/?party=42riPROf

> Create an image of an anthropomorphic orange tabby cat standing upright in a kung fu pose, surrounded by a dozen tiny elephants wearing mouse costumes with mini trumpets, all gazing up in awe at a gigantic wheel of Swiss cheese that hovers ominously in the background.

That's hilarious, but also hilariously wrong on almost every detail. There's a huge asymmetry in apparent capability here.
Neat! I too use org as an SQL workbench. In fact, I am doing so as we speak, but with Postgres. However, some work with SQLite is nigh, and I will crib from your notes. Thanks for writing it up!
It didn't "work" on me. I read the article, picked up on the fact that this guy's is probably conservative, and was pleasantly surprised by the conclusion he drew to the problem of AI making intelligence obsolete.

I can form my own opinions, without people like you insinuating that I've been manipulated.
Full thread without logging in: https://nitter.net/jakezward/status/1728032634037567509
CPU? GPU? I/O? Or there is non there in?
KakaoTalk seems like a messaging service; LINE seems like a messaging service; WeChat seems like a messaging service.

Could you link me to 2 - 3 interesting accounts on these platforms so that I can browse their thoughts?
> I firmly believe that a democracy works better when there is local control. San Francisco is already the most densely populated city in California, with three times the density of LA. If it is the wish of the people of SF to go slow on development, is that really unreasonable?

I agree with this sentiment, as long as it's equally applied in an even more local fashion: If it is the wish of the people of a neighborhood, a street, or indeed a singular plot of land, to go fast on development, is that any less reasonable than less local control, such as by the city?
I never got actual Postscript to we work on Linux and my Brother. It looks like the ripping runs on the host side, and what gets printed is bitmaps. Works fine on Mac and windows though.
Is there an argument to be made for a lighter browser such as this being more secure than Safari or Firefox on macOS?
I’m not sure if you were around but, at the time, there wasn’t really the concept of being “console exclusive,” it was just the default. PlayStation, PC and N64 were all so different that making a game cross-platform was a real challenge that only really happened after its success was proven on one platform.
You agree to these terms when you purchase any media, as these terms are codified in US copyright law.

If you buy media, thus agreeing to US copyright law, and then violate it, how is this a moral act?

But again, setting aside US copyright law, how would it be a moral act to agree to something and then act in opposition to that agreement (given the low stakes of what's involved here)?
Zoning at any level you mean. Look at how the California Coastal Commission has hobbled urban development in this state compared to seaside metropolis in Asia or Latin America or really most anywhere else in the world that sees investment in development.
The account that posted the article also posted an explicitly anti-Semitic comment that promotes the conspiracy theory that Jews are secretly in control of the media[0]:

>Uh, yes. Elon does not follow the program, and doesn't have the kind of pull Gates has, even though he's richer. Gates is the poster child for state initiatives. Elon is out on his own agenda.

Edit: Using Gates as an example. Check Media Matters' donors and get back to me. (Spoiler alert, tons of huge Jewish NGOs. Who did Elon piss off by correctly claiming had outsized influence, again?)

Does knowing that the author explicitly promotes anti-Semitism change your opinion? I'm also curious if this information changes your opinion that I'm reading too much into the article.

Edit: I linked the wrong one, there were two anti-Semites in the same thread. Here is the correct comment that was removed for violating HN policies:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38438884#38439602

Here is what it said (I had it open in another window before it was removed):

>I wish people were a little more skeptical about the negative claims about Twitter/X in the press the last few days, knowing that Elon Musk has pissed off some very powerful people with his recent comments.

Different person, same anti-Semitism, same conspiracy theories being promoted.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38441058
yes long term support for every stable release

things can still change between the releases

RHEL 9 is supported until 2032, with the right support contract you might get even more years, idk.

so you have another ~8 years with Xorg on RHEL

and since RHEL made Wayland the default in RHEL8 (released mid 2019) it is clear for 3+ years that you _slowly_ have to start planing migrating to Wayland. Which means customer have around 10 years time to slowly plan and execute the migration.
The stupid thing is that the groups that reflexively oppose private housing in San Francisco (namely REP Coalition, CCHO, SFTU) chose “don’t demolish rent controlled housing” as their rallying cry for why they are calling to oppose this ordinance that streamlines new apartment buildings, which sometimes requires tearing down an old building. Which means that they are foregoing the Costa-Hawkins exemption in SB 330 (2019) that allows and requires demolished rent controlled apartment units to be replaced by brand new rent controlled units (which are the type of rental units that they like). They are foregoing win-win solutions due to extreme tribalism and economic illiteracy.
Depends a lot on what you are using IPC for. It seems to me parallelizing computation for performance, isolation/sandboxing, local usage/testing of netowork-able communication, and desktop/system services signaling are the most frequent use cases. Binder and dbus both target and work well for the desktop/system services part, and badly or not at all for the other 3.
Wrong. 2/3of a cars pollution are produced in production. The fuel consumption, polluting as it is, needs 20+years to catch up to the gestation environment damage of a car. Perverse as it sounds, old rusty clunkers are more environmental friendly.
Yeah, Bernie Stolar made some interesting decisions over the course of his career. I do think he catches too much flak for his SEGA tenure, since it was impossible to save SoJ from itself.
Reluctant CEO becomes billionaire at Netflix rival in Japan
Quite right. I should have said “UK and continental Europe” to satisfy both the pedants and the politically sensitive ;)
Elaborate but aggressively overstate your position in exactly twelve words.
Look up Henry George for a constructive approach on how to solve this exact issue.
You think the framers went to all that trouble to create this complex process for making laws between two houses of the legislature and the signature of the president, but thought it would be totally cool for unelected bureaucrats in some executive branch agency to do the same thing?

Arguments about the “current scale of the US” obviously don’t tell you what the Constitution means. And even on its own terms that argument makes no sense. The federal government isn’t in charge of “running the entire nation.” It’s pretty remarkable to say that we should ignore the tripartite system of government because that’s makes it easier to disregard federalism.
JFR is... Java Flight Recorder? https://docs.oracle.com/javacomponents/jmc-5-4/jfr-runtime-g...

I find it both an interesting challenge to discover what people mean when they confidently toss out acronyms, while also an annoyance for randomly throw out acronyms.
No, it's more along the lines of the "Why are manhole covers round?" and "How many barbers are there in Portland?" questions that Microsoft used to love a long time ago.