skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting enough to get upvoted to the front page, though, and that's the HN way.
Examine all Nintendo software releases for potential violations of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) licenses, and if any are identified, take legal action to ensure compliance, similar to their approach with emulator developers.
Can you point to some other examples of technology companies that lost their competitive advantage and were able to pivot successfully into an investment fund? It's an interesting premise but I am at a loss for an existence proof of any firm successfully executing the transformation.
Why, is Mortal Kombat banned in Vietnam?
My understanding:

1. You use the username to connect to Bob.smith.123. This creates a conversation with the user who currently has that username.

2. You can’t see that user’s username, just “Bob Smith” or their name in your contacts, so them changing or deleting their username isn’t even visible to you. Your conversation is unaffected.

3. If, in the future, you add username Bob.smith.123 again, it may be a different person.

I think the name is a mistake, I’d have called it an “add code” or something. Clearer to explain a new thing than to say a word that means a dozen wrong things and always be correcting everybody.
Youtube recommended a similar video where they tested various patterns. Spreading paste over the the whole heat spreader resulted in a small air pocket, while the same method with an additional paste dot in the middle didn't have such issues. But at that point maybe you're getting too much paste instead, as mentioned you want as thin layer as possible. At the end of the day, it probably doesn't matter much anyway.
> Tesla is probably at greatest risk here, having recently ditched physical stalks that instead move the turn signal functions to haptic buttons on the steering wheel.

I hate to break it to the article writer, but a haptic button on the steering wheel, while absolutely not easy to use, is a physical control.
How do I listen to it? Just seems like a mishmash of sounds.. I don't see the genius.
Fantastic article, great to see the personality, drive and passion of these early microcomputer pioneers. Same vibe as Halt and Catch Fire.

I like the unifying theory of needing both the waves of publicity to succeed, as well as building a functional well-run business at the same time.
I upgraded from a 2015 MBP with 16gb of ram to a M3 Pro with 36gb. It’s a night and day difference, the machine is much more responsive and I mainly use it 30 min a day, or sometimes for a few hours in a row. And charge about once per week, getting about 14hr battery life.
Beyond Language Models: Byte Models Are Digital World Simulators
I had bad latency issues on WiFi with wireless. It made video calls bad. The problem went away completely with a MoCA wired connection.

The fact that the computer in question is an ancient PC running Windows 10 on some old WiFi standard surely does not help. Probably a new computer would fare better on WiFi.

But going wired allowed me to keep using ancient hardware that is practically free. A better PC would have cost hundreds of dollars more.
I recently read that Miles was delving deeply into the Lydian Chromatic concept when he was composing for this.

I haven't been able to find out more about this, or how much it actually influenced him or his preparation for Kind of Blue, but it's about as strong an endorsement for Barry Harris's work as it gets.
There are still physical P, R, N, D controls right below the phone chargers. They aren't exactly easy to use, though.
Yeah, I'd be curious about this, as well. A garden-variety 1U server sitting in a rack somewhere could be pulling 80W at idle and 1KW at load.
68 versions of hot garbage until you click on "Business."

Then you have to pay real money and you might as well buy a Mac.
> Nintendo likely isn't thrilled that people can play their games without buying their hardware even if the games were legitimately purchased, for the same reason Apple cares if people can use iMessage without an iPhone. But that is Nintendo's problem; adversarial interoperability is a good thing.

Does the cartridge not count as "their hardware"? I know Nintendo doesn't sell the consoles at a loss but they don't make all that much off it.

iMessage is different because the software is free and Apple builds their brand on the feeling of exclusivity.
I've been having trouble finding good ones in Tokyo. Blue Note Tokyo seems nice but is pricey and often sold out far in advance. I've seen some others I'd like to go to, but they double as cigar bars and my lungs don't enjoy smoke.
> npm’s download stats are naïve by design: they are simply a count of the number of HTTP 200 responses we served that were tarball files, i.e. packages. This means the number includes:
>
> automated build servers
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> downloads by mirrors
>
> robots that download every package for analysis

When we talk about how we can help the planet climate change wise, there has to be a huge amount left on the table when it comes to build environments recreating themselves from scratch multiple times a day (CI/CD without "proper" caching) at a huge scale

I wonder what 1 person driving an EV does for the planet vs 1 commercial airliner vs 1 developer implementing "cache" at a huge company/project
Compaq gets credit for the first true IBM compatible PC by virtue of creating a compatible BIOS without exposing themselves to IBM's published source code. Was this also inherited from the Osborne design?
Former Twitter CEO sues current owner
The military of their country of residence may not be so happy about that? War is not a fun TV contest
Yes yes I get the cheaper/update factor of touch controls. And I don't mind a touch screen for complicated functionality.

I mainly gripe about losing physical buttons for main functions such as temperature control, radio/music control, lights, windshield wipers, etc.
> As such, saying that "Jared Diamond is wrong" without looking at concrete historical facts from our past does not help anyone, no matter if the people doing it like to brandish themselves as "scientists".

Good thing the article didn't really say that, then? They explicitly agreed with some of his proposed mechanisms.
Why this Bitcoin scam still going high?
I thought all Bitcoin was scam, HN said that for decade? Tether is also scam but why are they still buying this??? why it is not crashing?
I had a really nice time seeing a jazz show at the Tower records last year. It was completely by chance, just happened to be there right when it happened. But I would like to be more intentional this next time. Thanks for your notes.

I saw a guy play jazz in Miami two months ago and he lives in Tokyo. I'm going to see what he's up to and where he plays. Email me if you want to know what I find out.
Switch emulator Yuzu reaches $2.4M settlement with Nintendo
numbers have all of mathematics as a background which is what makes it so easy to design apis for them

graphs are a much newer development, I think there's a very deep connection between category theory and graphs in general (and also computers make both much more useful somehow)

lambda calculus can be used to define numbers but it's a wonky construction, it's reminiscent of how sets can also be used to define numbers.
The imaginary property maximalist truncheon seems to really be heating up. Too many naive devs following the web startup handbook while not realizing that the aim of their project conflicting with the corporatist status quo means they have to do things much differently. The world can't move on from centralized hellholes like Github (aka Microsoft) and Discord soon enough. It's a damn shame how much development effort has been wasted by these traps, and how much the corporate world has been primed to think anything they don't like can just be bullied away with the legal system. As people move towards freer communications tools that don't just respond to requests to roll over with "how many times?", this entitlement is going to result in demands for ever more draconian Internet restrictions.
Doesn't sound like science at all, does it?
Don’t worry, there’s an unlimited supply of keyboard warriors dying for the chance to convince the world they are noble freedom fighters by forking the code.
Scott Hanselman has blogged and youtubed about having type 1 diabetes over the years with various tech hacks. A while back he hacked it so his blood sugar showed up in his terminal prompt... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_meKUIm9NwA
You can find more info here: https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...

I don't blame you for not knowing about it. They were extremely unclear about it at the time it was implemented, and to this day they've refused to update their privacy policy the very first sentence of which is a lie. Make of that what you will.
DirectFile, IRS's new free tax site, is now open
https://archive.ph/cmJKx
A short while back someeone asked what Hacker News would be arguing about, if it existed in 1976. My answer was "Bill Gates' famous 'An Open Letter to Hobbyists'".
From what I can see X is arguing that because they allowed previously banned hate content back onto the site by changing the terms and conditions, the CCDH reports were done to intentionally harm the company. CCDH has been operating on X since 2019 in basically the same capacity as they do now so X is trying to argue that in 2019 CCDH started its work knowing it would hurt X financially in the future if changes were made to the terms and conditions.

Basically it doesn't make sense and is hard to follow because the argument doesn't make sense in the first place. X seems to to trying to say "TECHNICALLY, Your Honor..." and the judge isn't having it.
This is excellent, just what I needed from a barebones SEO tool as a total newb.

Simple, clear, gets the data right from my Google Console setup and shows a simple graph and a list of keywords.

Would love to connect on Twitter and offer more feedback/support if you're there.
But the organization wants to see physical controls for turn signals, hazard lights, windshield wipers, the horn

Are there really cars where the horn is not a physical button/ring on the steering wheel?

IMHO the driving UX peaked in the 1960s, and was largely unchanged into the 2000s, until touch screens started taking over.

Compare:

https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads...

https://images-stag.jazelc.com/uploads/theautopian-m2en/2010...

https://www.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2017/07/Tesla-Mod...

At least the steering wheel and pedals still behave the same.
Touchscreen controls are the feature on my Tesla I dislike most. Try poking a small icon an arms length away while bouncing over typical Midwest roads and you'll see that it's impossible to do while keeping your eyes on the road. Physical controls would be fantastic, but at the very least they could:

* Radically improve the ability to control the car with the scroll wheels on the steering wheel.
I don't mean assigning certain functions to the buttons, I mean having a cursor I could glance at, then put my eyes back on the road while I click right twice, up once, click again and then scroll to change whatever.

* For the love of all that is holy, ANCHOR controls to the top or bottom of the screen where you can brace your hand on the bezel while trying to poke the buttons. Pretty much the opposite of the fan control that is right in the center of the screen.
I mean all that code still runs on servers in a data center. “Serverless” really just means “stateless”. You can just huck the servers they use for your service.
What would you do instead? The silicon sphere idea? It's not like hauling around physical kilograms is going to be any better.
It seemed to me every "X" doubled as a "Smoking X" in Tokyo...
I loved this article about Osbourne. Also, the quote (paraphrased), "The past is an explanation of the present"
Was curious to check this out, but no Firefox support is a non-starter, unfortunately.
I think there are several other tracks on the album tied for this same distinction. :)
It's encrypted with an easy to brute force pin and stored using SGX

https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...

Even if we forgive them for keeping/using phone numbers, all of the other data collection is entirely unnecessary and it's also exactly the kind of data the feds have been asking them to hand over.
That’s the WSTA member listed in the site.
For some reason I'd assumed this was the kind of thing that the original Mac Mini would morph into, but of course I was wrong. Searching for "PC Stick" shows up some interesting options.

I would dearly love to find a use-case for this[0], which with a USB-HDMI might work almost as well

0: https://store.planetcom.co.uk/collections/gemini-pda/product...
I also got my license around that time with eb6, paper charts, VORs, NDB approaches, … and I don’t miss it a bit. Nostalgia - yes. But not missing it. I like to fly direct, I like to get LPV approach to 200 feet at an airport that would never ever ever would had had an ILS installed, I like traffic and weather on ADSB, I like my ForeFlight, and list goes on. The new technology helps to make flying safer. Yes, you need to know how to use all of this. And yes, it’s complicated. But the benefits are great too.
Depends on what the data center does, and what time period we're considering. 1990s data centers probably didn't have very dynamic power consumption, as 1990s computers generally didn't.

A modern datacenter serving some consumer facing service likely sees a big difference in cpu usage and thus power usage between peak and off peak.

Otoh, if it's doing non-interactive data processing, it could be near 100% capacity consistently.

Personally, I'm guessing AWS has a noticable peak and trough on power. But if it makes sense, they do have the spot market which could be used to attract or repel load in order to hit a consumption target.
Guys World War 2 Is A Lie It Didn't Happen
I do have to say that was the silver lining to Docker Hub starting to rate-limit. So many people finally got around to implementing caching once it broke builds, and then it was usually accompanied by realizing that they’d left a significant amount of build time on the floor for what was usually a very modest amount of work.
His name was Max Harddrive and he did kickflips on his keyboard. Nobody could beat his quarter mile downloads.
interesting, thanks. yeah, we're going to see some truly horrific, unprecedented things this decade
The A3000 wasn't really much of a revision. True, it had a hack that made it possible for the CPU to access chip memory 32 bits at a time, but the chipset remained using a 16 bit data bus for all accesses. When running in the 640 pixel wide hires graphics mode using 4 bits per pixel, the memory bandwidth was completely saturated. The really sad part is that a motherboard the AGA chipset (which actually increased memory bandwidth for graphics, but not for the blitter and other parts of the chipset) was ready in an A3000 form factor about a year before the A4000 shipped. Heck, the A4000 couldn't ship in quantities to meet demand because Commodore was cash starved and couldn't afford to pay HP to make more chips. What a series of complete and total failures by management.
Especially depending on the environment. A fanless machine in a building with no AC will also just suck to use as it makes everything so hot.
I used to take part in a similar event at a lan party in my youth, with dead hard drives instead of servers. They're the perfect discus. Distance was recorded by where the hard drive stopped instead of where it first landed, so underarm bowling became the top strategy. I think the record was well over 200m using one of those round seagate pocket drives.
Yes, thank you for speaking to the reality on the ground, which a lot of folks in these comments are pretending doesn't exist. We have standards and codes, but I've worked on many new construction sites where nobody gave 2 shits about what, how, or why. They threw shit together, and as long as it looked close enough, it even passed inspections (always another job site to go to after this one after all). I personally know of many $1 Million+ houses in the Chicago area, that house some very shocking surprises inside their walls.
Sure, any individual server: but amortized over 1000s? You'll develop an average just from traffic, and it'll be a lot higher then the bottom end - since otherwise why have the datacenter? Why not use spare capacity in your other datacenters?

The trick is that you sign a contract with the utility to guarantee a particular type of usage - and utilities love people who burn Watt-hours rather then Volt-Amps (i.e. a power factor near 1) since they're a lot easier to service, and people who promise to use power fairly consistently.

The utility says "we'll give you a lower overall rate, provided you promise to consume at least this much electricity" - in practice of course, you could consume less but you'll pay for it no matter what.

But compute is great for this model: it's fast to move applications onto and off servers, so hitting that minimum is easy.
not even fancy. this is basically the wake-up call service, which is mostly automated
Sorry about that. It should hopefully be fixed once we change our A/V stack in a few months. I unfortunately do not have specific details on why the A/V stack only works with Chrome-based browsers.
Tenstorrent Gen1 Grayskull Devkit
I’ve been saying this since DALL-E was released three years ago: image generation is going to be a can of worms, forever.

Google was clumsy here (in the same way that OpenAI was with DALL-E) but no amount of patches are going to fix the culture wars. Taking a text prompt and turning it into a picture is always going to be contentious. There will always be some amount of real bias and some amount of perceived bias on top of that.

And it’s incredibly cheap and easy for users to find real or perceived bias if they’re looking for it.
I worked at a 4day work week company and this is spot on. When I left for a better offer they showed my "real comp" which included at a 25% multiplier for the day off. I worked most Fridays because they needed me to.
This assumes that there is much of a market for high-quality information. It exists, I pay for some of it, but I doubt it's as large as the market for middle-quality information, and from Perplexity's perspective they will care less about what content they get than how many people are using it. So summarizing McClatchy or Sinclair news would be just as good for them.
Live fast, die wide, have a pyre / explosive dispersal memorial. Leave a crater. Put the "fun" back in "funeral"
they're (barely) paid for their services and have (some) human rights now
In my experience the vast majority of people just don't actually think about money in a holistic way beyond specific purchasing goals.

They might think of a home deposit, or keeping up the payments on their mortgage, maybe even paying off the mortgage, having a pension, etc.

But it's very rare that people think, well, I spend X a month, if I had 2X I could get by for 2 months without working, 12X a year, etc.

So then the entire focus just becomes raising the salary. Taking a pay cut, taking time off, etc, basically becomes an impossibility like moving the Moon.
I don't think you understand what Temporal does.
If anyone needs graphs in XSLT, I wrote a BFS over a graph library once while feverish https://gist.github.com/pjlsergeant/50a3d086d9513612cb397a13...
No, I can't. It is not easy research for me to find some tech company which collected 100b in cash, and has main business collapsed.
"You know nothing, Jon Snow"
Is it really "playable" on Android, at least 30 fps? Doesn't it overheats easily?
Is there now native control for Worktrees with Rider (or any of the JB Tools for that matter)?

I tried Worktrees a couple of years ago but not having any integration with them with Rider led me to walk away.
It was from one of his podcast appearances. Which doesn't narrow it down much, unfortunately. Most likely options:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgwjcqhkOA4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIKbp3KcS8A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcQMYNi9a2w
The headline sounds a lot more supervillain-ish than the article. Probably done on purpose in pursuit of the almighty click.
Who's anonymous? My account is under my real name.

Anyway, sometimes people know what they're talking about.
A reminder to all that 50 years ago was 1974 and not 1954.
I’ve never seen this before — love it. Thanks.
NHS likely doesn't pay for Dexcom. Someone has figured out how to make the Dexcom app broadcast values it's received, it works great: https://www.patreon.com/byod
>At least the steering wheel and pedals still behave the same.

For now, companies are experimenting with drive by wire. Don't think I like that concept.
> they [Reagan and Carter] basically subscribed to the same religion and shared an idea of what a good society looks like. That’s no longer true.

Agreed that it's no longer true — now ask yourself why that is:

• Carter was always a pragmatic liberal, a civil-rights supporter in 1960s Georgia. If anything, as the years have gone on, he has become more Christian — in the original sense of "accept that you're not God, and seek the best for your neighbor as you do for yourself."

• Today's GOP would likely be unrecognizable to Reagan, and certainly to Eisenhower and Ford (and, perhaps, Nixon). Today, the folks running my former party regularly deride people like Mitt Romney, John Boener, and Paul Ryan as RINOs.

In the 1920s and 30s, the NSDAP wanted a particular type of society in Germany. They largely got their wish — with world-catastrophic results.
Not that I’m aware of. It was a nice code base, but all very custom. Even the network stack was custom. I would think companies could get a lot more adopting all the open stuff available now.

It did have a life for several years after I left in MSNTV. Maybe someone else here knows its fate.
> I'm saying that as a human you can restrict yourself to a being a next character predictor

A smart entity being able to emulate a dumber entity doesn't support in any way that the dumber entity is also smart.
IMHE, it's been part of widespread discussions in the AI research and AI safety communities since the 2000s.
If I was buying a new car in the US today, which automakers are doing a better job wrt physical controls?
Yeah “OS” really overused.
This is a fascinating comment to me. I understand not really feeling jazz, but it doesn't even sound like a song to you? My only suggestion is to jump into the middle of a few songs and try to hear the rhythm and song structure. They can often be difficult to pick up when they start slow. All Blues might be the easiest. I sincerely wish you luck, because it's really incredible music.
that seems reasonable
Simply put, the assumption is not factually true, based on actual owner surveys, for example https://theicct.org/publication/real-world-phev-us-dec22/

"Real-world electric drive share may be 26%-56% lower than assumed within the EPA labeling program."

"Weighting by number of vehicles per model, real-world fuel consumption averages are 42-67% higher than EPA label consumption"
Thank you for the report! We're using Mintlify for the docs (which that URL links to). Let me report it upstream to see if they can fix.
> It boggles my mind just how car makers thought it was safer/easier to have touch in a car while one is driving.

It is likely that neither safety nor ease of use were part of the automaker's "thought process".

It is much more likely that a first misguided "designer" created the first touch panel control and somehow sold it to "management" as being "futuristic" and/or "ahead of the competition". And once the first car model arrived with one, the rest, like firefox to chrome, felt the need to play the imitation game for fear of being seen as not as "trendy" or "futuristic" as that other guy. I.e., purely the "fashion trend" aspect.

Then, as they proliferated, the reduced BOM costs from removing every other previous mechanical control was reverse justified as the reason for continuing to add them to ever more car models.