skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin,and I'm talking about Bitcoin only, is not a scam. It's a new asset class that will grow in popularity once people get used to it. The volatility will also be reduced as people get more comfortable with it. That's not to say that it can't fall down hard at a moment's notice now. It may even go down 90%+. No one knows. I'm just saying that over the next few decades, it will become more stable.

Many scams have been associated with it and there will likely be more, but Bitcoin will power through. People still need to be careful but Bitcoin itself is just new and that's primarily why people distrust it.

Unless governments decide to clamp down hard on it, I suspect that we are past the point where there's a danger of it disappearing.

Look at the SPDR Gold Trust EFT(GLD). It's a way to invest in gold without actually receiving the physical gold. People that invest in it have never and will never see an oz of gold yet people are happy to trade it and put it in their long term investment portfolio. Bitcoin will follow a similar path but it's many times more flexible and durable since there's no one owner that can make decisions that will put its interest over the users.

If you can't stand the ups and downs, and there's no reason to say that that will change in the near term, stay away...
Why? The company is good at what it does. It generates money. Someone else is expert at something else, but needs capital. Why do you need one company to do everything on Earth?

Warren Buffet's wealth comes from finding companies who are good at what they do, and moving money from ones with excess cash to those that need more cash.

Would you rather put your money or capital into a company that promised to never do buybacks? To never, ever give you a return on your investment? Why would you buy that stock? Why would anyone ever buy that stock from you?
I don't see how it could establish legal precedent in a way that would be meaningfully useful to Nintendo in other court cases (well, I guess the fact the Yuzu devs settled could scare others into also doing so, but I mean in a legal sense)
Building Reactive Systems with Event-Based Architecture
> (It is true that Yuzu can also play homebrew software. I think the situation would be different if Yuzu was tested exclusively on Homebrew, and only emulated features which homebrew software uses. But then no one would care about Yuzu. Yuzu has tons of game-specific fixes for commercial titles.)

Yuzu can also play games that were backed up by people who legitimately own the game. The legality of that might be questionable in the US, but not everywhere.
Did you try it on mobile? Seems to work fine on my iPhone.
> Back then, as it is today, the bigger issue was the choices companies made in setting up their environments and the rules they set for their developers, rather than the shortcomings of the tool.

I partially agree. But: one of the really nice things about distributed version control systems like git is that the guys running the servers can't make rules about what you are doing locally.
I bought a WebTV for my dad back in the late 90s to show him what the internet is.

He went straight to a mail-order-bride website and destroyed his life.
There's also a 'is-even' package, which depends on 'is-odd', which in turn, depends on 'is-number'.

'is-odd' is a little bit more involved than 'is-even'. What it does, is:

> Returns true if the given number is odd, and is an integer that does not exceed the JavaScript MAXIMUM_SAFE_INTEGER.[0]

The full implementation of 'is-number' is as follows:

'use strict';

module.exports = function(num) {
if (typeof num === 'number') {
return num - num === 0;
}
if (typeof num === 'string' && num.trim() !== '') {
return Number.isFinite ? Number.isFinite(+num) : isFinite(+num);
}
return false;
};

Ridiculous as it may be, my guess is that provides a unified way of number checking while avoiding the pitfalls or crazy consequences which could arise from divide-by-zero[1], which I guess might prevent less-experienced folks from tripping up on some of the Javascript gotchas? I'm not really sure. That being said, I have seen those package dependencies in some serious stuff.

Do I agree? I'm not really sure to be honest. Probably not.

[0] https://github.com/i-voted-for-trump/is-odd/blob/master/READ...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

EDIT: removed redundant sentence
Yes, App review sucks, it's only slightly better than nothing.

> I was asking for proof, which you still haven't provided.

And won't, since that's not public information. The best anyone can do is show that it sells like hot cakes.

Reliability doesn't come from sandboxing or notarization only. But from forbidden behavior, less rope for you to hang yourself with. I think that amounts to a much higher percentage of sales than the cool factor of simply attaching an Apple logo, but the precise amount is everyone's guess, of course.
>I remember that flying in the 90s was a hell of a lot smoother than after 911.

When living in Redwood City, from 2000 to 2001 I could leave my apartment, park my car at SFO, get through security, and get to the plane's gate within 50 minutes.
More unrepairable e-waste in the making. Gross.
Dark patterns: How air travellers are deceived into paying more needlessly
Discord does have client mods (Vencord, BetterDiscord) which do help. They technically are against Discord TOS, but I've been using Vencord and BD for several years with many friends, none of us have gotten punished yet.
Great article! While I haven't done anything as involved I have found using technology to track health issues to be empowering myself.

I'm curious about your thoughts on insulin pumps. I'm not very familiar but I know a few people with T1 that use them and seem happy with them. My understanding is that the idea is that they both monitor glucose levels and supply insulin to keep things stable. Have you considered them? Is there a limitation/downside to them that isn't obvious to a non diabetic? Thanks!
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Honestly i have a far easier time finding working no-std libraries for anything i need on embedded Rust compared to embedded C++. Arduino ecosystem is an exception, but that's not necessarily something i'd put in production
Actually I did read the whole thing before posting... There are different CGM models where some require scanning and some report continuously. My reading was that the author's model seemed to only support scanning thus the need for the hat, rather than periodic updates to an app that newer models provide, but it doesn't seem 100% definitive from the article as I don't know if on newer models data export might require scanning? The point of my comment was that rather than all this work, getting a different device could more-or-less enable the desired functionality without so many workarounds and the bulky hat device by eliminating the whole scanning/inconsistency aspect. Though if you want to pull the raw datapoints etc. and export them elsewhere, then there are still more complications. The non-scanning ones might still be a bit unreliable as well, not sure where that aspect is coming from.
Slight tangent:

Back in the primordial olden days, people used to patch binaries. These days, we just compile them from scratch, when we want to make a change.

So it's not too surprising that people apply the same approach to the whole OS installation.

Mutation is hard to get right!
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Touchscreens tend to be a plague in cars—the last place you want sluggish non-responsive visual attention magnets. What's worse, a poorly engineered and implemented one may render your vehicle inoperable (safety-wise) and thus force you to expend exorbitant amount of money to get them replaced. Physical buttons are high availability and do not depend on absurd amounts of complexity to perform basic functions. It's impossible not to pay attention to this after being burned once by it. Even if a car may offer some limited physical buttons (such as defrosting) for the least ease of access, it may happen that you're unable to revert its secondary effects until you get it fixed.
Yeah, I am writing word by word, but I am not predicting the next word I thought about what I wanted to respond and am now generating the text to communicate that response, I didn't think by trying to predict what I myself would write to this question.
People have a license under the GPL to redistribute Yuzu, and the devs know this - I don't think a settlement can compel them to commit perjury (which is what they would be doing if they knowingly lied in a DMCA takedown)
I'm curious, any specific reason ? Screws not allowed ?

Would appreciate your insights
I read Turchin's book, but what I didnt understand was how you could fit large-parameter models on such a small number of instances provided by history, w/o cherry-picking examples? What is the intuition?
Not the least bit helped by the fact that there seem to be several models all called the "Model S", but with very different controls.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/models/en_us/GUID-DEB259C...

For vehicles manufactured as of approximately January 2024: To sound the horn, press the middle of the steering yoke (or steering wheel). For vehicles manufactured prior to approximately January 2024: To sound the horn, press and hold the horn button on the right side of the steering yoke (or steering wheel).

"press and hold" doesn't seem like it'd be easy to do if all you wanted was a quick toot.
Yeah. Even competitors are required to buy a ticket (at full price):

# Apply for a Sever Throwing Slot <-- Note the typo too ;)

Please get your CloudFest pass before filling out this form.

To me, it feels like a scam more than anything.
This was the primary reason I bought my 2024 Mazda3, instead of alternatives in market. The Mazda was the only option that had physical controls for everything. In fact it disables the touch screen altogether when you exceed 10mph, forcing the use of physical controls. It works flawlessly with wireless carplay
The Osborne wasn't an MS-DOS machine but an 8-bit CP/M machine, which was the standard for generic computers at the time (Apple, Commodore, etc. had their own non-compatible systems, but you could for instance buy a Z80 card for an Apple to run CP/M on it and the Commodore 128 likewise had a Z80 built in for running CP/M besides its native 6502 and OS).
You can do this on daedalOS https://dustinbrett.com/

edit: and obviously you can play Doom on it
> Copying isn't theft

What about your private key?

What about your bitcoin?

What about your nude photos, sex videos, text messages, emails, and personal health information?

What about your brain and its memories?

What about your intellectual outputs for training AI and selling your skills below your wage?

What if you worked for a game company and they let you go because they didn't hit sales targets?

...

> I'd expect plenty of others would disagree.

What's your use case? That you want better wifi or faster FPS on the Switch?

Because a lot of people on this same forum argue that we need complete control over our iPhone/Android devices. No App Store, no Apple fees, no Apple control. Yet these same people get argued down by much of the audience here.

I'd imagine that many of those arguing in favor of Apple's racket are the same ones arguing it's okay to pirate Nintendo games.

Nintendo has one device that is specialized for a single purpose, and it's positioned in a marketplace full of alternatives. People have broken it and are circumventing its only revenue lever.

This isn't as inconvenient for you as it is for the company scrambling to maintain its most important revenue stream.
Pumps work alongside something like a libre and you’re correct they can deliver insulin.

Unfortunatley I’m not eligible for an insulin pump on the NHS so for now I’m sticking with injections. I do a good job of managing them this way so it works for me for now.
for future readers, the setting is now shipped in >v0.49. The default is now back to GPT-4 as it has lower latency but you can manually change it to Claude 3 in settings if you wish to try out Anthropic's new model.
In Sweden she would tell you she is winter swimming.
> There is no easy solution to manage services and infrastructure: people who hate kubernetes complexity often underestimate the efforts of developing on your own all the features that k8s provides.

This. I was trying to create some infrastructure and application once, using various AWS and off the shelf components. I stopped halfway through when I realized I was reinventing k8s, very poorly. That's when I switched gears and learned k8s.

With that said, I use it sparingly due to the inherent complexity it brings, but at least I have a better handle on how and when it should be used and when it should not, and what problems it solved, since I myself was trying to solve some of the problems.
> In 2026, Euro NCAP points will be deducted if some controls aren't physical.

> Euro NCAP is not a government regulator, so it has no power to mandate carmakers use physical controls for those functions.

Why isn't this headline clickbait, what am I missing?

edit: the headline used to have the word Regulator in it.
> if you want to reverse the car, you have to use on-screen controls!

So? If you're switching to reverse then by definition you're stopped (or nearly so) and can afford to take your eyes off the road. The control is no further than most cars' center tunnel-mounted gear levers. Plus it only has the two common drive/reverse settings accessible via the swiping action, rather than all the rarely-used options. (Do you know how many times I've shifted into Neutral or Low by mistake in an unfamiliar car...?)

What exactly is the risk?
And i suppose you think you're the one to do it?
Are you from Europe?
My first time flying was 1982. Back then you dressed up to fly (suits and ties for the men, dresses for the women). Metal detectors had been in place for less than a decade (before that, “skyjackings,” where the plane was directed to go to Cuba, were a monthly if not more frequent occurrence). In-flight service included drinks in actual glasses and metal silverware for any meals (when I moved off-campus, I liberated some airline silverware to augment the dining-hall silverware I ate with in my apartment). Meeting arrivals at the airline gate was a common practice (as was saying goodbye at the gate).
What's the distinction, then ? I can't imagine a company can set precedent to their liking on basically any issue by suing someone who has a vague relation to that issue and doesn't have to money to fight back to get them to sign up to some random settlement that says "the company is right, please set a precedent on this issue. - person who didn't have the money to fight back", right ?
Wow that's crazy. On my framework I think the same jump cost like $30
Although it's not open source, Linux-based creatives shouldn't overlook DaVinci Fusion. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/fus...
It never really went away for me. I still reach for it in every web app. Over time, I've stopped using some parts of it that used to be timesavers... e.g. shifting away from $.ajax calls to fetch, but it's a good base for rolling your own responsive frameworks if that's what you want to do. And it's what I want to do, because I dislike the paradigms for react and vue, and have no interest in relying on those projects.
Buybacks at market price don't distort the valuation. You could make the same wrong about claim about dividends distorting market price my making the stock temporarily more valuable shortly before the dividend pays out.

A buyback is a more efficient dividend. It doesn't force a realized gain, and stockholders can choose the size of their cash out whenever they want, instead of the company forcing it.
I'm somewhat puzzled - the obvious answer is that you don't have to use them. Rust by itself is no less feature complete than C. Anything you can write in C without dependencies, you can write in Rust without dependencies too.

Of course, dependency-reliance falls on a spectrum for any individual programmer. On the one hand you have script kiddies with 400 npm dependencies gathered from arcane Discord channels - on the other you have old bearded wizards who don't understand why you'd need printf() when you can just mov rax 1; syscall.

I find Rust is not strongly opinionated about this. You can just as easily eschew dependencies as use them. There's usually a good array of options available, or you could always FFI to a C lib directly if you need to.
Hmm, are we talking json parsing? Yes, the field would take the zero value. If you need to differentiate between the zero-value (eg empty string, 0 for numbers) you’d typically use a pointer only for that purpose. That kinda sucks but there are some good arguments for zero-defaults too.

The unmarshal functions take a reference but they don’t need to be declared as (heap-based) pointers. You can pass a `&val` directly. It needs a reference passed in to determine the type.
> 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.

You mean George Russell? And my impression is that it was influential with Miles because it was one of the early examples of the modal/horizontal approach being fleshed out as text over and above it being LCC specifically.

Harris' approach is based on what he calls the sixth diminished scale.
You meant four siblings? (3 brothers + 1 sister)
Hm, thought they did more than standard replay. Do you know anybody outside of embedded that can do true multithreaded time travel debugging? I do not keep too much up to date on Linux native solutions. Most of the new ones I see are either just wrappers around rr or really hacky replay-based and should really just be wrappers around rr.
As far as I'm aware, the DMCA doesn't have any sort of exception for archival, but it does have one for software interoperability, which emulators definitely are, regardless of how current the hardware being emulated is.
Your brain is undergoing some process and outputting the next word which has some reasonable statistical distribution. You're not consciously thinking about "hmm what word do I put so it's not just random gibberish" but as a whole you're doing the same thing.

From my point of view as someone reading the comment I can't tell if it's written by an LLM or not, so I can't use that to conclude if you're intelligent or not.
Moving our electricity consumption onto nuclear is quite possibly the single best thing we can do to combat climate change.
Because this gets deployed in real world, affecting real people. Ethics don't exist only in kids curriculum.
> what good is the 14th amendment then?

well, section 1 is kinda catchy:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

> a non supreme majority could fail to ban an arguably dangerous candidate?

yep. working as designed. i love this quote:

"So ultimately, it will be up to the American voters to save our democracy in November." -- Jena "Captain Obvious" Griswold
And yet you use WhatsApp because the European alternatives are hot garbage. Same with every other product domain.

Regulation isn’t innovation.
> Also, VSCode is built on Electron

That's not the point. The point is that it doesn't use a framework like React, Vue, etc., it instead directly creates and manipulates DOM elements, somewhat like Puter.
> gas pedals in many modern EFI vehicles feel more like foot-operated potentiometers than throttle linkages.

In my EV it literally is a potentiometer. I really miss the feel of a physical throttle linkage on the snow and ice, I feel it's much more difficult to judge grip.

Also, since it's just a pot, I don't know why there's not a speed mode for it, it to make it operate the cruise control speed set-point rather than torque.
"Break"

"BREAK!"

"BREAAK!!!!"

"OH GOD PLEASE BRAKE!"

crunch

Problems can occur if it the voice system brakes (pun intended). ;)
I have never heard of an ad-free lockscreen on Kindle and I pay for Kindle Unlimited. So I have to pay even more to get ad-free, if that's even possible. And I'm sure that's just for Kindle. Need to cough up a few more dollars for ad-free Prime Video. And ad-free shopping on Amazon. And that's just one service. Can't wait to hear what I'd need to spend for the same if I used Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and a Quest even though Meta owns all of them. And I can just imagine the hellscape Microsoft will create when you have to pay a subscription fee to use Windows 12 Home With Ads, as your baseline option.

The average American isn't exactly awash in cash to spend on privacy, you know.
Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)
oh man, condolences! i bet it took them a long time to start hotplugging usb after that
This is true until a Judge decides otherwise under penalty of permanent imprisonment.

As for the AGPL, the AGPL is regarded as the most deadly toxic irradiated poison ever concocted to big tech. You'll be in a very serious meeting with your supervisor, HR, and lawyers if you use AGPL code in big tech. But they'll more likely just outright terminate you. If you maintain a prominent AGPL project, they will not hire you and put you on a blacklist when they find out.

The virality of the AGPL is something no lawyer wants to test in court. They're scared shitless of it.