skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it activated itself a few months ago on mine. There was never any prompt. The setting is way down in a submenu and had two separate switches enabled; no chance I could have hit it by accident.

It's nice to know that it can be toggled back off, though. The ads themselves certainly gave no indication.
Careful though: this too is a model. Worse: sometimes models are not just useless, but have negative utility.
What they are getting at is the concept of "fiduciary duty". Executives appointed by a board or partners in a partnership must act with fiduciary duty, which generally means they have to act faithfully to the wishes of the shareholders. BUT, the shareholders can specify any values they wish. They don't have to be maximizing shareholder value, they can be to pursue environmental goals, or social improvement, or anything they so chose.

In modern publicly owned corporations, most shares are actually held by intermediary banks, and votes are done via proxy. Most shareholder resolutions fail, and votes are given to those who most claim to maximize shareholder value. It doesn't NEED to be this way, but this is the way it is now. But it could be different.
> You can basically peg someone to 45/50 or older if they complain.

Not me (aged 60, happy with using self-checkouts in general, resigned to the occasional glitches)
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
I won't be defending Nintendo because their issue with joy-stick drifting, their unwillingness to fix their design flaw, and their constant efforts to stop video game preservation really pisses me off.

But emulators are hit or miss, specially if you aren't tech-savvy enough to fix specific problems, and depends on the people's preferences:

- they need to install and configure an emulator, which isn't fool proof

- go through the hoops of downloading ROMs from sometimes sketchy sources

- configuring each game to work well

- self troubleshooting any issues they might have with some games

- not wanting to play their games online (which in Nintendo's case the online experience is truly lacking)

- not have any moral issues with piracy for games that are currently selling in both physical and digital format and are widely available

Nintendo's Switch is due for a very necessary upgrade, but the console is still widely available, very convenient with minimal setup and troubleshooting, and very plug and play. With the added benefit that you get to support developers to continue making the games.
Why should someone pick ReScript over TypeScript? What unique difference does it bring to the table to warrant fragmenting one’s focus?
Some stores here in Norway uses computer vision to identify the produce, I tried it out last summer and it successfully identified ~9/10 with the rutabaga being the one it didn't manage, but the touch keyboard was responsive and easy to use for that one.

For things with more than one option (e.g. organic/non-organic lemons) it would show the 1-4 products it though was relevant and I just had to click the touch monitor on the correct one.
OP might be a non-English language speaker. Many languages don't use capitalization at all. Some languages don't even bother to put spaces between words, it's all driven by context.
Google.

Unless you are in US, then all bets are off because carriers think they are God
I would assume, in the context of Microsoft encouraging engagement (specifically the PR feature of GitHub), the more engagement they have the more code is put into their system, thereby allowing them more data to train Copilot and other ML models.
For an example of GitHub enraging its users and ignoring all feedback see the feedback on the new feed:

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/13130

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/65343

The feedback is overwhelmingly negative, and has severely disrupted many people's workflow, but GitHub doesn't even acknowledge the problem.
The main benefit is that markdown is really readable _without_ rendering. You don't need to edit and then open in a browser.

You can comfortably read plaintext that has a little structure, while HTML adds some ceremony that makes it a bit harder to glance at the material as the tags are much more in your face.
Yep, they want to use VR and AR to sell furniture. I’ve heard far worse metaverse ideas than that.
Interesting, I'm looking for a solution to render PDFs at the moment, it looks like that one actually does not use chromium, unlike most tools that I've seen that render HTML to PDFs.
What's the advantage? Is it more lightweight / faster / reliable?
I tried it a few times but had to stop because:

1. Obsidian imposes its own take on Markdown. For instance, why can't we disable "indent using the tab key"? It's so annoying to accidentally indent/quote text while pressing tab to do something like "accept autocomplete suggestion". Obsidian's response to users' complaints about this was not reassuring: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/option-to-disable-tab-to-indent/...

2. I had to install tens of plugins to give Obsidian the features I needed, which felt too hacky and unstable in the long term.

3. I don't want to learn a new set of keyboard shortcuts for simple things like expand/collapse the sidebars. You can customize lots of things but at that point, why not stay in your IDE (e.g., VSCode) and simply add Vim Wiki extenions?
Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth still so unreliable?
I've never worked on the BT stack, and I have only very high-level idea of how it works. But no matter the hardware, the operating system and the use case, BT is orders of magnitude less reliable than WiFi and other wireless protocols, and I don't understand why.

Some things that are surprising:

1. Devices from the same manufacturer can't see each other

2. Bluetooth audio turns choppy for no reason

3. I have never seen BT work at all on Windows, even in 2024. I cannot think of a single example where I managed to connect a BT device to a Windows computer.

4. BT audio is sensitive to my body moving, for example bluetooth headphones consistently drop audio when I walk at a specific pace.

Is the main source of problems something about the range of frequencies BT uses? Is it a hardware problem, maybe due to the low power? Why haven't we been able to make it work reliably even after 25 years?
If the car was plugged in before I left, then yes to all three.

The first is always true for at least a Tesla and you use the nav. A Tesla knows it's cold outside. If you punch a destination into your nav, it'll tell it what percentage will remain when you get there and it's always accurate.

The second is true if you charge the car while it's warm. We travelled from Ottawa to Quebec City in the cold, stopping to charge 3 times, and it always charged quickly. We knew enough to charge before parking the car rather than charging after the car has been parked.

The third is true if the car is plugged in and you tell it when you want to leave. It prewarms the cabin & battery.
The upper limit of instruction density on x86 is much higher than any RISC.
Cause it will likely happen in nature as well.
Do you do IAP? Stripe or paypal is just slightly more inconvenient than Apple pay. Does not being in an app store hurt your marketability at all?
Thanks for the informative link
It's great that medicine managed to develop despite the Internet not being available at the time. But the next generation of medicine will only exist because of the Internet, and it will be orders of magnitude more advanced.

In the long term, people will look back and say that although medicine did develop first, it only really got serious traction when the Internet and related technologies appeared.

> Without the internet, I'd have vastly reduced choice in entertainment.

This is facetious. Do you really believe that current medical care does not benefit from the Internet at all; that it's only used for entertainment?
I don’t use Obsidian, but I use wikilinks in markdown.

Recently I wrote a lightweight alternative to Dataview, which renders directly into the markdown itself. It’s a lightweight standalone script that embeds any references and builds those “recaps” in a more portable way.

In case anyone is interested, let me know: https://twitter.com/matteing/status/1746598313745371263
I would have liked the article without the image more.
> Honestly, I don't know how Nintendo survives

Cause they never lower the price on their first part games lol
... but a small apartment costs $4000 in NYC which would cover the payment, gas, insurance and everything on two or three big SUVs. Without some revolution in the cost structure of urban life, "transit friendly" is going to look like going from the frying pan to the fire for most people.
Yeah, and as it happened this was an iMac with a Magic Mouse, so plugging it in was also not an option.
Who said "purely"? The arguments in favor of Apple here are invalid for a number of reasons. OP is just saying you don't need to bend over backwards to defend them, they're not an underdog anymore and haven't been for over a decade.
Yeah, I think the UX here in the Netherlands is much simpler and easier than in other countries. When I go to the UK (e.g. Tesco Express) I have to select a bagging option, there's no "no bag" option at the beginning of the transaction even though I'm only buying a litre of milk, then when I put the carton down in the bagging area it triggers an alarm saying a store assistant is coming, but they never do because they're too busy serving all the other customers at the regular checkout. So I give up and try a different checkout, blocking the one I've just tried to use for 2 minutes.

I posted about this on Linkedin too and got a few comments about the complexity in the UK, USA, France and elsewhere. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/samcritchley_it-hasnt-deliver...
Or randomly and suddenly change lanes or brake, or both, and you’d better be ready for that every second of your drive.
Yes, and that's why printers are nearly universally reviled as exploitative. Even people who aren't keyed in on why open source is important all understand the ink costs more than it should.
"THC induced schizophrenia" you can't get out is just schizophrenia.

People who have the predisposition for schizophrenia often get their first psychotic episode from things like drugs, stressful event, exams, changing jobs, temporary lack of sleep, pregnancy and the time around delivery are strong triggers.

THC induced pycosis also happens.
What tech stack would you recommend if I wanted to pursue this path? I know React + Node.js but I'm not sure if there might be some frameworks that might be helpful to know. A bit new to the realm.
A garage is not needed, and you don't need to plug it in overnight. (My electric car is in a carport, and I only plug it in charge is below 50%.)

Yes, it is inconvenient (and likely more expensive) if you can't charge the car at home, or at work. Cities have electric street lights, but curb-side EV charging is rare so far. I guess that will change.

Heating the battery does need some energy, but heating the interior of the car (for the passengers) needs more. But driving needs most energy, of course. Electric cars typically have a heat pump by the way. Gas cars don't need that because they can use the waste heat of the engine, which is otherwise lost.
Sam's Club does this in the US and it is great.
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the hits that were released for the previous one however will still be pirated.
Music streaming platforms must pay artists more, says EU
> Im not trying to be insulting but this also isn’t a legitimate difference of opinion scenario.

You are claiming that it’s literally impossible to honestly disagree with you; that the only possibility is that I’m deliberately acting the fool? Do you really believe that?
They are pretty great. Sad that it was apparently only an aquihire by Weber.
didn't Yuzu copy Ryujinx open source code, and now Ryujinx close sourced some of its code?
Meanwhile here in Central / Eastern Europe, self checkouts continue to be adopted and work just fine. They’re especially great for convenience stores where you can grab a quick snack, pay, and be out in a minute.

The difference may be that there is zero expectation of theft here, with shoplifting also being punished as the crime it is.
>educate their users a bit.

This is something they could do immediately. Send a push notification showing how tomorrow's bitter cold forecast will reduce their vehicle's range by XX%.
Great write up. It hits the nail on the head with the issues with server components.

For me it makes Next.js a non-option for a serious framework since it depends on a canary build of React with unfinished and undocumented features.

I won't touch server components until they are shipped in a stable release and are included in the React docs.
Just saying that AI should be leveraged wherever possible to level the playing field across the board.
It’s bad because the government is artificially manipulating market forces and prevents price discovery. Imagine you’re thinking of starting a small airline, like a Jetblue or Spirit, but investors know that if the business ever plans to exit through an acquisition, the government will intervene. Well, as an investor I’d be a lot less likely to invest.

As a result, you stifle the free market and prevent the emergence of competition. The knock on effect is less choice for the consumer and a less efficient market.
Isn't an analogical question a major flashpoint of culture wars in the US?
iroh developer here.

willow was not developed in a vacuum.

the willow folks have worked with us while we have implemented many ideas from willow, starting with range based set reconciliation ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13567 )

they have been open to removing parts that have turned out to add too much complexity to implementations.
This is (I believe) the PR that fixed this specific issue: https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/pull/5933

In short, no - from my understanding, it does actually fix the underlying issue, rather than special-casing the game. I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few edge cases like that which are special-cased, particularly for older games (when "abuse" of CPU/GPU quirks was more common to eke out extra performance).
I have moved to Obsidian after One Note, Notion, and Trilium. I learned something from using each; but ultimately I wanted the portability of Markdown and with Obsidian I can always fall back on the root folder container all my markdown. (which I backup)
I can share my user flow if it helps people...

1. You can turn on support for other file types, so you can move source code/etc in.

2. I have the Day Planner plugin; but it's just JavaScript; so mine is highly customized and uses various sources to generate me a daily calendar/planner in the morning.

3. I don't use Zettelkasten; but all of those systems have something to learn from them in regards to organization. I have a setup I like; but with a personal rule that if I'm not finding something or I feel stuck; I spend time reorganizing.

4. I use tags a lot now; it would take an entire blog to explain why - but the TLDR is that I switched to focusing on WHEN and TAGS instead of trying to perfectly put the right content in the right place.

5. I'm able to use Obsidian on a plane really well - tablet on tray, K380 on lap. I'm frequently getting out 2,000 words on a flight.

6. I manage my work (software dev), campaigns (D&D), personal project, etc all on Obsidian. I even have some code in it when appropriate and its nice.

7. !!! Templates. I've started creating and using templates. So if I want a checklist, ctrl+shift+t/cmd+shift+t and I choose one of my markdown templates and it gets inserted. I currently have "meeting", "1:1", "Pomo Checklist", "Campaign Session".

8. I mentioned this; but I don't hesitate to go into plugins and just change their code to do what I want; it is one of my favorite features.
Given very careful instruction this might have worked. But I didn’t know this trick myself to begin with. Now I do!
I love Switch Emulator on SteamDeck! Thank you Ryujinx and Yuzu.
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Nintendo caters to a casual crowd, just the right type of people to not want to faff about with setting up emulators and pulling games on hip new systems. Non-techie people like to e.g. not have to troubleshoot crashes at the boss cutscene 2/3 the way into the game (as an example of the issues BOTW Wii U emulation had for a long time after release) or understand shader stutters and options to work around them.

I think the other part of it is we're ~7 years into the console's life and it uses a ~9 year old chip that was weak at release. Their next console seems imminent and how many years of "emulation doesn't even work anyways and if it did you'd need to do it on a beefy computer" will that give again?
Checking their repo, it's almost fully written in c#. .Net can be this performant now?
This was the case with Pons and Fleischman too, wasn't it? Reports that something strange was happening for years/decades afterward. I never knew what to make of that, either. Can people just never give up on false leads? Are there all these marginal effects in science that are being discovered, that never rise to the threshold of unambiguous detectability and once public sentiment shifts, no one's willing to admit there is something there ever again?
I think a lot gets missed in these types of comparisons with the US because the US is both a much less urban country, and also a federal system where a lot of problems get pushed down to local governments.

These two forces work in opposite directions of attraction.
Because the country is less urban than Western Europe, the most attractive places to live are not exclusively the big 3 cities. Our wealthy people are pulled away from the cities as much as they are attracted to them.

Meanwhile, a lot of national problems - drug addiction, homelessness, mental illness.. are essentially handed down to cities to deal with. Blue cities by and large have more social services, shelters, lax drug laws, needle programs, etc.. which attracts people who have these problems. Further, some cities like NYC have laws on the books that essentially force the city to provide a shelter bed for anyone who wants one.

Right now we are seeing this made worse by NYC absorbing a disproportionate number of migrants which are then the cities responsibility to house/feed. Wherever you stand on migrant policy, NYC has received a number of migrants equal to the pre-existing number of homeless shelter beds, at a time when shelters were at a an all time high utilization. So our homeless/shelter budget which is already higher per capita than most of the rest of the country just needed to double.

So blue cities end up with disproportionate number of problems they need to solve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox
I'm not a particular fan of self-checkout for more than a handful of non-restricted bar-coded items. But, subject to that caveat I find that self-checkouts in general are far less fussy than they used to be about using your own bag etc.
How many people actually do this though, as opposed to how many people's models contain other people doing this?
Have I found a bug? I entered JFK and Heathrow, it resolves to correct airports but the map shows a route between London and Lisbon.

Addresses used:

John F. Kennedy International Airport, JFK Access Road, Queens, New York, 11430, United States

Heathrow Airport, Cranford Lane, Hatton Cross, London Borough of Hillingdon, London, Greater London, England, TW6 2DN, United Kingdom
It's not about tech stack. You can build an audience with anything useful. Focus on sharing what you know and you can build an audience slowly. It takes time and no shortcuts.
They do, but instructing them to enable Bluetooth using only the keyboard didn’t seem feasible to me.
It's an axed discussion.
> What's the point of "self" checkout if somebody is required—not by failure of the system but by rules—to come help me several times during the process?

In my nearby Walmart they have a dozen or more self-checkout stations which only require a few staff in total. Most people don't need assistance.
Engagement isn't just driving ads. It's driving engagement: The "toothbrush"-factor we called that in app-development: do you have an app that people pick up like their toothbrush: without much thought, several times a day?

Engagement means people have you in their workflow, on their radar. I would love it if Github is something that I don't have to think of, that is invisible and out of my mind. I'd love it if it's something I never have to visit, open, see or interact with; as as little as possible. I'd love it if it were preconfigured to take work from me rather than impose yet another inbox, timeline, bookmarks, "likes" and so on.

And if you consider "advertisements" very liberal, that's exactly what Github is: a place for companies to attract eyeballs and engagement on their software.
Sounds like prison.
The answer is both. Devs will first try to fix it by correctly emulating the system behavior because like you said, that can also fix other games and because that is the right thing to do. There are occasions where doing that can result in a huge performance penalty or some other underised behavior so they just resort to hacks in the emulator or straight up patching the game.
I have a friend that just purchases the game and then pirates the dump (as it's much easier that way to obtain the dump). That's maybe technically illegal (IANAL), but I don't think anyone should be worrying about violating the letter of a law so long as the spirit of the law isn't being violated.
I guess you missed the part where Linus Torvalds has apologized for years of being a jerk.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/linus-torvalds-apolo...
Yup, and a good implementation that already handles Integral anti-windup, and damps Derivative bump when changing setpoint, variable cycle rates, etc.

Here’s a decent implementation in Python:

https://github.com/pjkundert/ownercredit/blob/master/pid.py
> did you have an accurate gauge of exactly how far you could travel?

My ICE almost stranded me during the recent freeze. Conditions affect fuel economy for all vehicles.

> Did you have reliable, strong heat in the cabin?

This feels like an imagined problem. EVs heat their cabin more efficiently than ICEs. If you end up off the road during a storm (been there) an EV will last longer for the same fill level. They also tend to heat up faster due to not having to adjust the entire thermal mass of the engine block. I used to leave my heat off in my ol' minivan during most commutes. If there wasn't snow on the windshield for me to clean off while the car warmed up, it wouldn't heat up fast enough.
vanilla llama.cpp (run a `/server`)
Wondering the same here
You could always apply for a programme Bsc and or Msc in Biology at a university in Australia. There are even agents throughout Europe who set you up with a proper application and assist in this. They get a kickback when you are admitted.

Hard sciences degrees were really hard to get into in Norway too. Some times the best way to win is by not playing their game.
Interesting! If that’s the case, great! But I believe the couple in question is on an older iMac not upgradeable to the latest version of macOS, so they would still be out of luck.
Steph Ango's entire site is a treasure trove of useful and intriguing posts.
Interesting that Ryujinx is written in C# - I'm not sure why, but at first thought I'd have expected something like a console emulator (where one would have to do "unusual" memory / GPU operations to fully match the quirks of the platform) to be written in C or C++, like Dolphin or PCSX2 (Wii / PS2 emulators) are. Though clearly they can make C# work well for it, and the benefits of working in a managed language are probably worth it.