skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my cousin had several Tengen carts when we were kids. He knew then that they would be valuable in the future, and he made us be very careful with them and wouldn't let us near them unless he was observing. we were 12-13, something like that. he was mature, even then.
It's being blocked at the DNS level, yeah. Must be happening fairly close to me. I wasn't on a VPN, but jumping on a VPN fixes it.

Thanks for checking! Good to know this isn't affecting too many people.
You can override it as the poster, but you have to edit it back to what you wanted after initially submitting to do so. (And I suppose I don't know if that's intentional or just the way it happens to be.) If you submit 'Foo bar' it will be made to be 'Foo Bar'.
This is not true, but I can see how one can lead to think this is the case given the poor journalistic reporting on the subject.

At the time being we have no experimental access to the regime where quantum gravitational effects are relevant. So no theory of quantum gravity has been falsified experimentally. That is, none have failed because they didn't match the experiments. The experiments have not been carried out yet because we don't have the technological ability to do them or we haven't had the ingenuity to infer how to retrieve experimental data from available sourced.
Again, my point is not that FB Messenger will stop working in the web browser altogether. My point is that FB Messenger will stop working in the web browser if you don't have the FB Messenger app installed on your smart phone as the primary device.
> Anything object oriented is slower than anything procedural.

Well, that's not always true; it's better to use a profiler.

In many cases, it's trivial for the compiler to inline objects (e.g., used as predicates for <algorithm> routines), resulting in better performance compared to the equivalent procedural code.

> running constructors and destructors is expensive

If the object is not polymorphic (and sometimes even if it is), the compiler can inline both the constructor and destructor, resulting in exactly the same assembly output as the procedural code.
How do I start the NAS up, SSH in and type the password?
Show HN: VideoGist – Useful YouTube video summaries
Hi all! I put together a website that summarizes youtube videos.

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There's a Michael Chrichton-like thriller series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child that (so far) mostly has to do with the Museum of Natural History in NYC and other histories of NYC.

I just finished the third book in the series called "The Cabinet of Curiosities", a riff on the same subject.

If you liked Chrichton thrillers and the movie Night at the Museum, you might enjoy this Pendergast series.
In Swedish, "Sydsverige" often just means the very southern tip with Skåne and Blekinge. I never hear people say "Stockholm is in 'Sydsverige'" in Swedish.

But that wasn't the context in this case. I described the situation in Sweden to a person from Germany.

In that context, I think it is reasonable to call the southernmost one third of Sweden "Southern Sweden".

It will give him the correct mental image of what I meant when he looks at a map of Sweden.
Integer underflow flips it to trillions.
> You really cannot blame only the companies without blaming the consumers too.

Right, the problem is structural, but consumers for the most part aren't and can't realistically be in the know as to the horrible work conditions under which what they consume is produced, most of them aren't particularly happy with their own work conditions in the first place. And even if they do know (when the company has failed to hide it from them) they often don't have a choice. Consumers also don't lobby for worsening the conditions and abolishing the rights of workers. Companies on the other hand are almost always in the know, and choose not only to continue to benefit from this exploitation, but are also willing to go to tremendous lengths to hide, defend or expand this exploitation.

And yet neither of the parties are "evil", the most "enlightened" liberal will realize they both take part in the same economy and use that as a justification, but the consumer can not change this through their consumption (even an immortal, omniscient and perfectly rational economic agent straight out a neoclassical economic textbook would consider this an uphill battle) nor the producer through their production ("another will take my place" and so on).

Now to me if you (not you) recognize this, that the problem is inherently structural, but you're unwilling to criticize and rethink the structure, I have to assume the structure doesn't bother you all that much or worse, that you're a defeatist. Either way the good news is that there is an endless amount of other things to point your finger at (like China).
Man, the SEC covers itself in glory so frequently.
Magnetic Monopole
Possible w/out walrus

(but —due to walrus' rather expansive notions of scope— the sol'ns using it are shorter)
Anybody who becomes the target of large orgs is going to have a bad time. Just think about the guy who was falsely accused of being the pipe bomber at the Atlanta Olympics after he saved people.
The title could be made much clearer by saying "X" tokens per second, with "Y" model,on "Z" hardware, and what the model load time was. The quantisation level and byte size helps too.
It's naive and foolish to upset the money gravy train.

The reality is most countries are corrupted to varying degrees by economic concerns, and it doesn't matter if the country claims to be communist or not.

There is no reward except misery, exile, indefinite imprisonment, and/or assassination for pie-eyed, meat-headed idealists.
Meta has made an extension that verifies the hash of the web version of messenger and whatsapp and it's using Cloudflare as a trusted 3rd party.
Cloudflare's writeup is at https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-verifies-code-whatsap...

This seems like a good step in the right direction, but I am trying to figure out if anyone else can use this to publish more secure web apps and I can't seem to find any instructions or mentions of how this is usable for anyone else than just meta and their users. Is it?
The last 5 years of V8's garbage collector – wingolog
Again, someone using far too kind a word.

Where "others" = "total fucking sociopaths who know nothing but greed and should not be participants in society".

In that case, yes, I agree.
We're living in a simulation, and it's buggy af.
I’d also use the comparison between what was claimed about EU regulations in the UK during the years leading up to Brexit, and subsequent developments. The money spent promoting those false claims was effective.
You can say that again. My spouse can't remember where the other end of the ladder is when carrying it, to save her soul. Like a 3 Stooges sketch. Never let her carry anything longer than her arm.
Crossing the RF over IP Chasm [pdf]
20 years ago that was, in fact, the solution.

(I wrote some tools back then to convert between 256-colour TIFF and the "AWBM" format needed by the BIOS on VIA's EPIA motherboards.)
I think a large part of the problem was the cost of discoverability. On modern PC and mobile, with the availability of free games, it costs nothing but time to wade through piles of bad games. Even on the C64, piracy was prevalent enough that it was easy to obtain and try a large number of games.

Atari 2600 games required purchasing cartridges and therefore an outlay of money. Without the internet, it was difficult to get reviews or feedback on the quality of a game without knowing someone that actually purchased it. Added to this, most of the games sold at full price, regardless of the quality. It doesn't take the purchase of too many full price games that were really bad before one gets very hesitant to lay out cash for a new game.
Agree. Either that or then it's clear that NULL and empty have a different meaning, which in turn means the query should respect that.
Electric eel’s zap can transfer genes to nearby animals
Ylva Johansson, the EU commissioner who proposed that (apparently failing [1]) law, has used Meta’s model behaviour in reporting CSAM material to NCMEC & EU authorities as the justification for why that law should exist.

Considering it was Meta’s policy to scan even when not mandated, it seems like an internal shift in attitude.

[1] https://fortune.com/europe/2023/10/26/eu-chat-control-csam-e...
Used to do this with mdadm/zfs etc for playing, it works well. They're just block devices at the end of the day :)
>How did they do it? As it turns out, crime. Unable to reverse engineer the chip, Tengen convinced the United States Copyright Office to hand over the source code of the lockout chip, claiming it was necessary for a lawsuit. With the code in hand, Tengen could make their own clone with ease. And Tengen was going to sue Nintendo for antitrust violations, so they probably figured they could get away with it.

Brilliant
We used the PVS-7 monocular devices in the Contingency Response Groups. While it wasn’t anything I’d want to live in, it works ok enough to drive a HMMWV at night safely

These new ones would be wild, I’ll see if I can get a demo this year somewhere.
Almost every time I try to use Birdnet to identify a bird, these cheeky bastards decide to go silent the moment they see me pulling my phone out of my pocket.
...in a 500 mile radius blurb around Blue Banana.
EU closer to landmark AI Act after marathon overnight talks
Are you all on drugs? This is the company that published a poll speculating on the death of a missing woman. The one that asks you to explain yourself when you try to close OneDrive, and ignores/resets your browser preferences while also forcefully installing crapware like the Bing bar. They're the ones about to create a mountain of ewaste by making Win11 unusable on older hardware. They're also the ones fighting government (and winning) in order to consolidate the game industry to further reduce competition and hurt consumers. I could keep going, but it's a very long list.

There seems to be some small pocket of tech people who are permanently enthralled by this organization. Does Nadella have is own reality distortion field? If so it must be pretty damn strong in order to pierce the smell of dog shit surrounding his employer.
loopback devices would be even easier... but not as fun
How to Think Clearly (2021)
I'm sure men dominated the field of beer drinking.
> Laws that go against human nature fight an uphill battle

I'm reluctant to name it "human nature", but let it be.

Most laws are needed to restrict "human nature". Moral codes exist to restrict "human nature". So it is the fate of a law.

> The function of the group is to survive as a group; it will do whatever it takes to achieve that.

It is an oversimplification I believe. Groups have very different goals, and sometimes money is more important then group existence. Groups can accept additional existential risks to increase profits, in such cases it means money has more importance for a group than its existence.
I recently re-started a subscription to paper copies of wired mag. Apparently they just had a chief editor change. It was absurdly cheap, like $5 for a year. I think Conde Nast are just trying to keep some paper subscribers.
> Want to order some food from some new delivery website? Hold on, I just have to sit on this screen for 30 minutes pretending to read the EULA -- oh nevermind, I'll just go pick it up.

Well, that would be ideal, because in order to actually get users, the company would have to have very simple and reasonable terms. After all, that's the case for the cast majority of in-person businesses.
I only have some annecdotal stories, from a friend who grew up in Croatia and then had to flee during the Yugoslavia war, where one of the parents is Serbian and the other is Albanian. The stories are both from his childhood (being pushed into the sea as a kid, because they noticed he's from a certain group, not being sold bread as a kid because he used the wrong word when ordering) and from recent years (e.g. getting beaten up at a bar by a group of people, because from his accent it was clear he wasn't from that area).

I'm not trying to say that Serbia sucks, or that Serbs suck, or that all Serbs are like that, or anything in that direction. Almost all people I personally know from ex-Yugoslavia (including Serbia) are great people. But – especially given the conflict-rich history of that area – there are still a lot of conflicts and animosities between ethnic groups, and Serbia also has its fair share of xenophobia (in contrast to what GP suggested in their comment).
> Tengen convinced the United States Copyright Office to hand over the source code of the lockout chip

Wait, did the copyright office actually hold on to source code? Or is it that a court made Nintendo share it? I’m trying to wrap my head around the effort required to catalog all source code for copyright.
I think “robbed” is a bit hyperbolic.

Pay isn’t linked to inflation directly for a reason. Not everything I spend my pay on is affected by inflation, especially not in real time.

It’s possible to run your own business and link directly to pay and real time profits.

But the exchange for not getting weekly pay increases to match inflation is that we don’t get drops when companies lose money.

Pay isn’t linked directly to purchasing power and is really a market function. Companies pay as little as they can pay and workers work for as much as they can get. Obviously this is simplified and macro, but my point is that pay is based on need, but on availability.

I wouldn’t want a “fair” system that only paid me based on inflation and other factors.
I agree with this. FDE for semi-autonomous network devices is just so you can more safely dispose of the drive at end of life.

I would like FDE + untrusted device encryption for a NAS. I am glad Syncthing is working on this.
If they want to jump the shark by crashing GnuPG into a compatibility reef, I won't be upgrading. "Don't break shit" is the first rule.

PS: Photon hosting private keys is, to me, a nonstarter. It makes their entire platform and investment in GPG pointless.
The link makes the claim that only small ale was drunk in medieval times because water was considered unhealthy, but I thought that was an urban myth?

From the depiction of the home as the woman’s sphere in medieval Northern European literature, it isn’t surprising that brewing was women’s work along with cooking in general.
Fast Inner-Product Algorithms and Architectures for DNN Accelerators
These criticisms may apply to Java, but are not so clear cut with C++. Boxing/unboxing doesn’t exist, constructors/destructors have only the overhead you’ve put into them (and as bad as iostreams is, C++’s RAII is as glorious), vtables are only built if you’re using inheritance, and std::vector stores objects linearly in memory, yielding terrific cache and prefetch performance (in contrast with Java and its pointer chasing).
but then, why do they not take no for an answer and keep nagging about it, and interpret "never" as "not in the next two weeks, but ask again, please!" if they don't have an interest in having these messages there?

(and no, "it's to help YOU, the hapless user! is of course never the right answer. Corporations never do things for users without an interest of their own.)
Precisely this. And exactly because people have no clue of the boiling water they’ve been put in and the rising temperature.
RLHF is probably the reason for this.
> if the price I’m paying is having no access to wildly overhyped AI toys

wildly overhyped AI toys that are not even available in the countries where they launched (Gemini Pro is not multimodal as others have pointed out, Gemini Ultra will be available only next year)
> But once too many people switched it in the 'do not track' mode, the industry decided to simply ignore it.

My recollection was that it was Microsoft deciding to turn this flag on by default that led to it being ignored by Google. I.e. Microsoft saw a chance to use it against their biggest rival, diluting it in the process and gaining nothing.

I think there's an argument for trying again but requiring an explicit choice. And then give it the force of law.
They should learn from US: it's not corruption, it's lobby.
I think there can be good stories that capture interest, however you should use some sort of method to first test the waters whether this sort of story would be interesting to the other party.

Reading the blog post, the story about tripping due to bad shoes to me would be a turn off to hear. Because are they going to tell this story from out of nowhere?

If they started off with "I had a crazy scare today, I almost slipped and fell walking high up.", I might appreciate it more since I can choose myself then to ask whether I want to hear more details about the story.

Otherwise the story just takes up too much time and it's not polite to interrupt them. It's a risky investment of time that the other party might not appreciate or care for.

Of course it depends on the personality of the person who you are telling the story to. Some people definitely may appreciate the detailed visuals etc, but to me when someone ends up with a long winded answer, I tend to think "man, they could've just summed all of this information up with one sentence".
> So what are the alternatives here?

Stop being wilfully ruled by war criminals and start prosecuting their crimes.

The civil means for wresting back control over our government exists - we have to have the courage to use it. That means, prosecuting our own war criminals.

After all, it is the criminals with the most blood on their hands which want to use the tools of the state to repress the public, from which they derive their actual power, and who are the only ones with the resources to actually do something effect about the criminals getting away with it.

These rights-violating mechanisms exist to protect the criminal ruling elite only.

Seriously, to clean up our government: prosecute our war criminals. The war crimes are real, the crimes against humanity are real, the human rights violations are real. What isn't, is the general publics' stomach for the embarrassment they must experience in order to confront the fact of their own wilful rule by dyed-in-the-wool war criminals.

This discomfort at the fallacy of our own moral authority over nations considered to be 'worse human rights violators' has to be replaced with outrage at the actual human rights violations we are allowing to be committed in our name, or else we continue the slide into the abyss..
And the brake slam the parent refers to happens on autosteer all the time, it’s not even an issue with FSD.
So a spike protein slightly different than what was intended could have been produced?
If these are things that few people agree with, well count me among the few.
Show HN: Temporary Note – Convenient way to use a browser tab as a notepad
> how differently do people over in the East Asian sphere (primarily Japan) handle

I don't see any other example other than the Japanese? East Asia is not like Europe where the border is blurry and services are interchangable. Even moreso in the context of the Internet. The 3 big economies: China, Korea, and Japan, all have their own search engine, their own messenger, their own payment system (even their own card networks), etc. Cultural exchange over the internet is also not that common, especially outside of Japanese media subculture.

Extrapolating Japanese (and in some capacity Han Chinese) culture as The East Asian culture has long been problematic. Even in the internet era we still maintain each our diverse culture. Hope the author understands that.
Hi HN! I realize there's no shortage of note-taking apps, but I wanted to make one where you don't need an account, don't need to download an app, and your notes won't be sync'ed to the cloud, etc. I used to use Windows Notepad for this, but now I use a Mac and everything from Notes gets pushed into iCloud.

If you just need to write a shopping list or jot something down quickly instead of a note that you'll need to keep for a long time, Temporary Note might be useful for you:

- Accessible from any device with an internet connection & web browser

- Notes are not uploaded to the cloud, but keep in mind that they're in the URL, so they might make it into your browser history

- There's a few features for dictation, speech synthesis, fullscreen

- Am considering adding saving notes as txt files, but won't be adding any cloud sync or accounts; it's not that kind of note-taking app

Would love to hear any feedback on whether it's useful or not, or any feature suggestions.
users: false

you must respond within 30 days of receipt, but you can and should tell the company you are just fine with the previous terms, and not interested in the new ones.
> The "Meat shield" disinfo

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2023/10/12/Ga... cites al-Sisi:

> On Thursday, he said that Egypt was already hosting “nine million guests, as I call them, from many countries who came to Egypt for security and safety.”

> But the case of Gazans “is different”, he said, because their displacement would mean “the elimination of the (Palestinian) cause.”

That's "stay there, no matter what", al-Sisi could unilaterally open the Gazan border, after all. In plain English: Meat shield.

> Most people were just regular farmers. That you think a whole region were bloodthirsty barbarians really says more about the racism of american media than anything else.

First, I don't consume american media.

Second, most people in Mandatory Palestine were regular farmers, alright. The armies of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq were anything but.
They buy the asset and crank rent as high as they can. That’s capturing supply. When you buy a home, your payment is fixed for the life of the loan, and instead of being exposed to annual rent increases that can greatly exceed inflation, you as the homeowner are insulated from a private corporation’s extraction efforts due to that fixed payment (while your potential annual wage increases inflate away the debt).

Google yieldstar to understand the collusion in doing this. If homes don’t end up in the hands of people, they end up in the hands of corporations who treat their renters like cattle. At current build rates, supply may never exceed the rate at which institutional investors can acquire these assets, hence the need for legislation and regulation.

https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...
Interesting example on page 57 of the technical report[1] with a poorly worded question:

"Prompt: Find the derivative of sinh 𝑥 + cosh 𝑦 = 𝑥 + 𝑦."

I couldn't understand what was being asked: derive what with respect to what? Gemini didn't have that problem, apparently it figured out the intent and gave the "correct" answer.

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...
Maybe at the beginning. But later they will definitely want to hear more about what was accomplished on past projects, and that lends itself to the story.