skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's wild that the Super 3D Noah's Ark unlicensed game didn't have its own CIC chip and required plugging an official cartridge on top to pass the copy protection check. Goes to show the lengths publishers had to go to bypass Nintendo's strict licensing. I wonder how many other unlicensed carts used similar CIC workarounds.

Super 3D Noah's Ark is the only game that seems to have survived to modern times, but I remember there were quite a few more. Nintendo wasn't happy about the religious-themed games but knew it would be extremely bad press to go after the developers, so they strong-armed the major retailers instead. I used to see the games developed by Wisdom Tree in Christmas stores, book stores, and small regional retailers.

In non-western countries, there were pirated games that used the same "piggyback" technique to avoid the CIC, but this was less common since PCBs were pretty expensive to manufacture in smallish quantities at the time. Console game piracy didn't _really_ take off until CDs became the dominant format. Arcade game piracy actually had a pretty robust underground market, though.
Let's be accurate about this.

Both US Tech and Mainland Chinese Tech are years behind the Republic of China's Tech on the island of Taiwan.

But where Mainland Chinese Tech is advancing rapidly by throwing huge amounts of cash at the problem, the US Tech is expecting to be boosted up by Taiwanese companies building fabs in the US. Saves billions, by doing things 'on the cheap' rather than bettering actual US Tech in its own right.
Not a myth at all.

https://www.wired.com/2001/12/aspergers/

What made silicon valley blow up was the 'autism epidemic' or 'geek syndrome'.

The traits of autism are what make you 10x better then neurotypical at the same effort level.

https://hackernoon.com/my-journey-to-embrace-neurodiversity-...

Essentially we are suddenly the powerful and wealthy in society and that's why politicans are on board with fixing the inherent discrimination and prejudice of us.
This is a thing of great beauty, even on a phone. Congrats!
The lack of upvoting of and discussion about this article here reminds me of the largely empty donation bins around Silicon Valley during the holidays. These are indictments of a vastly rich and unequal society that fundamentally lacks compassion, solidarity, and empathy.
Yeah I've thought this myself for a while; GPT-4 class assistance is now a standard tool for me.

If a prospect client or company bans it, it's a hard no from me.

I understand that might be too extreme a red line for some, but for me, life's too short to wait for laggards to catch up with the inevitable.
yeah! especially those farmers, taking advantage of the algorithm of plant in the spring, harvest in the fall. what fools!
Sorry for the late reply, i guess hn doesn't show replies so I sometimes check my comments on my profile to see what's up (tell me if there's a way to be notified)

They replied something in the lines of "we sent your considerations to the department concerning buyings these things. We'll let you know" and then they didn't let me know
web development…

Yeah, about that. Expect to be disappointed.

Sadly, web development (for employment) is largely toxic. Next to nobody doing that work understands the work they do. You have heard all the names for this: imposter syndrome, Dunning-Kruger, expert beginner, and so on.

Think about it from the employer’s perspective. There is no formal training for web development. That’s why bootcamps and giant frameworks are ubiquitous. They discount the price of training by shooting less prepared people into the workforce. In most cases that is good enough when all the employer really needs (90% use case) is bodies in seats to put text on screen for basic CRUD apps. They want more (accessibility, security, performance, durability) but understand those things are not essential (until you are sued) cost much more.

The result is many people with low confidence just trying to retain their employment or hopping between employers to drive up the cost of employment. In some cases there will be people professing their expertise but usually it’s bullshit that is clear to the employer except for small employers who cannot tell.

If you want to do more consider what that means for your peers who cannot do more. They will push back out of fear because either they lack the confidence to be their in the first place or they are lying about how awesome they are and fear being exposed.

I was in that line of work myself for 15 years. I will never go back for less $500,000. One third of that will pay for my experience and ability to deliver while the rest pays for dealing with the institutional failures of that line of work. Instead I now do enterprise service management for a government entity where I get to work with excellent people and great managers.
FWIW - This (GP post) is not my experience with eReaders. Not sure if they have the eInk one or not (like the Fire or tablet ones), but I have the eInk sort.

Anyway, I really like it because it's far lighter weight than a paperback, easier to hold, and I can have like the entire library on there and take it with me. I don't experience the distraction that they are referring to, because there's really not anything else to do except read my book. How much time can I spend on settings? Browsing my library? As far as brightness I leave it alone mostly and don't think about it unless it's irritatingly one way or the other.

I have no idea what "navigation setup pages" are - I've been through several different Kindles and I pretty much just take them out of the box and start reading. There's nothing to "set up" outside of logging into my Amazon account.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!
Also, I never noticed he looks exactly like Gilfoyle until you mentioned it.
"Remember when the Internet wasn't just 5 websites, each filled with screenshots from the other four?"
This is a hit, congrats on your success! My favorite part is sound and music design: the SFX and music mesh well, the transitions are seamless and intentional e.g. when the warp stalls there is also a breakdown on beat.
Great question! I'm going to answer it the only way I know how... with a bit of a story of the history of things. Sorry if this bores you.

The problem I realized over a year ago was that nobody had hourly rental access to high end AMD GPUs. In addition, access to high end Nvidia was equally difficult. I signed up for a CoreWeave account, put in my credit card and was told a few weeks later that my account was not approved.

In effect, the only way to get access to super high end compute, was to be involved in HPC and that requires connections. At the time, we also didn't even know if AMD was going to seriously adopt AI as a strategy.

My view was that there were actually two problems, lack of general access and that everyone was putting all their eggs into a single basket. Mostly because of that lack of access, and because AMD was lacking a great developer flywheel story.

I spent August to December building a business plan, closing funding, forming the business, hiring my co-founder full time, securing data center space, securing direct relationships with vendors, and designing the system we were going to deploy. There are a million other little details in there, but this is long enough as it is.

Oct/Nov of last year rolls around and suddenly AMD has changed their tune. Lisa Su doubles down. Dec 6th, MI300x rolls out. We made our first PoC order in January, received it in March. It just goes to show how cutting edge and how long all of this takes. 3 more small (not hyperscaler) businesses sprung up during that time, all offering effectively the same product. We went to the data center, deployed our PoC and about 2 weeks later, we had our first customer onboarded. I call all of that validation, and was able to secure further funding based on it.

To answer your question, I'm not sure that I need a specific USP. The demand for compute isn't going down. If I have a product that people want, and I can offer them ethical, honest, truthful, great service around that product. All based on decades of experience. Can't that be enough? Myself and my investors believe so.
https://archive.is/eVlvh (sorry, that didn't work at all!!)
Big tech.

Practice leetcode hards and read the books on teachyourselfcs.com to prepare for the interview
If this is true, we just need to make companies liable for their subcontractors. They apparently know they can escape responsibility by farming out work they're not supposed to do.
Depends on if you consider Android, ChromeOS, and Ubuntu to be the same OS or not.
I think the Klingons destroyed pioneer 10 too.
The battle of Rust versus Go

https://github.com/jdx/mise
The highway institute testing stuff isn't regulated.
Oh no, not the pirated software!!
I'm just the opposite. One of the worst things about vacations was having to carry along all those books or take a detour to a bookstore (if there were any) to buy more. Now I just carry a single small e-reader. It's a great savings in terms of cargo space.

I don't consider an e-ink reader very complex. You charge it once in a while, download books to it once in a while, and otherwise it's basically a book except it remembers what page you were on.
I saw the second part of your comment coming, while reading the first part - in my mind's eye :)

Uncanny valley, or maybe I just read the signals and interpreted them right.
Read, usually.
An Apple-esque expensive stuff. (A pen sheath, $32.)
I don't need Steam to run my games or to pipe data into my Valve Index either.

It's still unclear to me why an account is needed. I mean, I get the profit and control motive, I just don't understand the technical reasons.
The Marine Corp actually just became the first military branch to pass an audit:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/02/24/marine-corps-...
The wonderful world of research paper identifiers.

DOI (Digital Object Identifiers) are used by many modern research papers as sort of a UUID for papers, run by doi.org.

But they're discipline-specific. So they're used widely by certain disciplines. But others use different databases.

So for biology-related papers, NIH's PubMed ID. Or for Astronomers, Bibcode.

All are "global" identifiers and each has some kind of consortium that's trying to make theirs the One ID. DOI seems to be the closest.
They seem to also be spamming posts.
A bunch of other posts on the front page are getting bombarded with these spam messages too... I figure dang is probably aware by now (although idk what specific measures HN has against this sort of thing).
A lot of the posts here are just individuals' opinions, not universal experiences. Yours may well be different!

Personally, I carry an e-ink reader everywhere and read it every time I get a spare minute or so. It's done wonders for my reading habits. And unlike this topic's creator, I basically set the font and formatting once and almost never mess with them again.
> I think it really warrants saying it without sugarcoating... this is exactly what a terrorist does.

What about this situation made you think it warrants saying that? What is your definition of a terrorist? I thought a terrorist was a person that spread terror by acts of violence. Which is not what's happening here.
Americans are out of money and wall street needs to keep the ponzi of infinite growth going.
Everybody's different! I prefer to read on paper, I know many other people who prefer to read on their kindle. Whatever works for you is the right answer for you!

I still use ebooks when I travel - I'll usually have one or two actual physical books with me, but I'll also have a few loaded up on my iPad in case I get bored or finish them early.
Let's hear your distro journey! What did you start with, what do you currently use?
That's encouraging. It's definitely not fluff and original. The feedback would be valuable even if you don't end up liking it.
This is easy in most modern programming languages.

JVM ecosystem has IntelliJ Idea profiler and similar advanced tools (AFAIK).

.NET has VS/Rider/dotnet-trace profilers (they are very detailed) to produce flamegraphs.

Then there are native profilers which can work with any AOT compiled language that produces canonically symbolicated binaries: Rust, C#/F#(AOT mode), Go, Swift, C++, etc.

For example, you can do `samply record ./some_binary`[0] and then explore multi-threaded flamegraph once completed (I use it to profile C#, it's more convenient than dotTrace for preliminary perf work and is usually more than sufficient).

[0] https://github.com/mstange/samply
Isn't it to much for just calculating the number of token?
If you use a term like "Virtual Reality" to describe things it eventually just becomes what people describe. Everybody knows what a VR headset is now. Everyone knows what VR is now. That is VR. The allusion is completely gone.

It's like describing snow to someone who has never seen it. No matter what they allusions they have about snow before they see it, once they've seen it, they know that is snow. And everyone they talk to will have the same meaning.

Same with Augmented reality, mixed reality, whatever. Once it becomes mainstream one of these terms will stick and that's just what it will be. Or it'll be so ingrained in the experience that we no longer even use a separate term to describe it.
OK that's ridiculous....
The high torque needed when starting from zero is a lot more dangerous than the need for high speed. The former creates current bursts that can overheat the regulator circuitry, while high speeds need less current and also provide better airflow to cool down electronics (and batteries).
The main problem to me however is the need for very fast charging which quite often overheats batteries without any airflow; I'm not sure battery packs can detect if any of the cells is overheating, as placing a few thermal sensors here and there cannot monitor all of them. They simply have to stop this fast charge thing that aside being dangerous also lowers batteries life significantly.
https://archive.is/4nYD0
If you just want to fling something out there fast, I think this is a pretty cool way to do it:

https://youtu.be/NQFqDKRAROI?si=28yrQW8B2IfbGvqj&t=883
What are the row of green rectangles in the middles of the longe edges?
Can I be a beta reader? Always looking for more good hard sci-fi.
>Most of the microplastics in our groundwater comes from landfills

That's almost true by definition, but how worried should we be about groundwater microplastics vs other sources?
> Triggers deep memories of Crackdown
USB is a frighteningly deep rabbit hole. I thought it was going to be easy when I first dipped my toes into the USB stack but boy was I in for a shock.
Strangely, this isn’t listed as a trope here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/StarTrekTheMotio...
Microsoft also tried this with phones...
I posted this somewhere else, but I feel it's important to note here:

Forking Nix would take an immense amount of effort, and the maintainers are already overworked. There would absolutely be a community split, which means that there would be even more work required than before to just maintain both of the forks and keeping them in sync. The nix language itself has no spec right now, meaning the behavior is defined by the singular existing implementation. Forking Nix itself will very likely introduce incompatibilities that are impossible to remedy. A lot of the power of nix comes from nixpkgs (where the entirety of NixOS is maintained as well), its build system hydra and the binary cache, the servers, CDNs and agents for which are sponsored by external companies (we're talking 0€ cost for something that would normally cost 10s of thousands every year). Forking would lose all of that, it's pretty much impossible financially.
Ah yes. The well known categories of junk food being bottled water and coffee. Maybe you're one of the weirdos who categorize pizza as "junk food", but no reasonable person would expect that California Pizza Kitchen, DiGiorno, Delissio , Jacks and Tombstone (which are all sold next to each other on the same shelves) are all owned by the same company. That accounts for 80%+ of the chains in major grocery stores. The "competition" is entirely fabricated.
Inside EA Sports F1 24's Massive Physics Overhaul
> The further away

Yeah, I agree that this is definitely a weighting factor. But neither do I think it is good to return to isolationism. Globalism, despite its many flaws, has clearly contributed to the long peace. Encourages negotiations at the table rather than on the battlefield given that in the end, wars are primarily economically driven. Better to destroy economies than people, even if the former can indirectly result in the latter. (wish there were better solutions and a larger gain, but that's a whole other conversation fraught with far more complexity)
As usual I get quite hopeful when I hear about a new operating system.
We so absolutely need paths to move away from what we have today.

I didn't even know what "mixed reality operating system" was so that made
me hopeful. May include some nifty quantum processing.

Alas, it is just stuff built on top of Android, which is built on top
of the Linux kernel.

Perhaps "Meta Horizon SDK for Android" would be a better label?`
If an LLM hallucinates a method name you'll find out the moment you try and run the code.

Code has a built-in form of easy fact checking, which makes it one of the most appropriate applications for LLMs. It's much harder to spot a hallucinated fact in a paragraph of prose than it is to spot a hallucinated API method.

The skills you most need to develop in order to take advantage of LLM assisted programming are code reading, code review, manual and automated testing and being really good at thinking of edge-cases that might not be covered.

It turns out these are important skills for being a great developer already - LLMs just force the issue on them a little more.
Stop bringing up YouTube embeds, it is literally 0% of my point. I literally do not care.

The problem is 100% the use of LLMs to pull the content in an unsanctioned manner. Considering that YouTube has sanctioned methods to share this information, in the form of transcripts, this directly competes with something that the creators are already making in a not-as-good form.

Additionally, it makes the video less desirable. The embed does not matter; creators allow them for a reason. It is the conversion from video to text in a way that the creators did not ask for and likely do not want.
Very slick and potentially very powerful. After a few minutes playing with it, I have a few recommendations:

- Variables should have more types, like an array of objects

- Prompting should incorporate Jinja2/Nunjucks

- For every prompt, I should be able to create many different test examples, along with an answer key, and measure how well it does across many tests

- It should auto-save. I did a lot of prompting work and then clicked another icon. When I came back, all my work was gone. (In fact, I don't see where to save at all! Maybe I'm just missing it.)
Fake Tags Add to Real Chaos on American Roads
There's basically no point scientifically for doing the four-planet flyby again. Since Voyager, we've already done much better at Jupiter and Saturn with years-long orbiter missions. A quick flyby wouldn't get us anything we don't already know at those. Voyager gets the mindshare because it was first and the four-way slingshot is fun to visualize, but the reality is that Galileo and Cassini and Juno delivered thousands of times more data.

We could use more investigation at Uranus and Neptune, but we'd get much more out of extended orbiter missions to those rather than another quick flyby. A Uranus orbiter is currently one of the higher priority missions in planning, and there's a launch window for a Jupiter-Uranus slingshot in 2034 or 2035.

(What I wonder is, how much planning do these things need? Why can't we just launch another copy of Cassini to Uranus and skip all the expensive design? You'd need some changes to antennas and power supply for a more distant planet, but the scientific instruments and computing platform should just be reusable designs.)
But how would one conditionally enable or disable the “final” keyword on class members without a preprocessor macro, even in C++23?
This is normal behavior. We feed our allies and starve our enemies.
Transistors are much faster than synapses so a few can simulate a bunch of synapses. As a result you can probably get by with like a million times less than your estimate.
What you wrote makes doesn't sense because Horizon OS doesn't require a Facebook account or any account on social media.
JEDEC could only standardize ECC modules.

Microsoft, Intel or AMD can, anytime, require ECC for their certification/logo programs.

Intel and AMD could even make their new chips only boot with ECC.

And FCC could make ECC a requirement for certification.

All these parties (and more) are enabling non-ECC memory, to the detriment of mankind.
OpenAI have paid plans that promise not to collect your data already. I think Anthropic do as well.

People seem not to trust companies which make these promises, which is unfortunate for the industry.
GoLang and Azure APIs.

I've been attempting to add a oauth2 device code flow to a Tacacs server with the goal of extending Azure accounts to access network device management planes. Pretty neat, I can get a "enter this device at URI" from the router/switch and let Azure do it's 2fa/compliance etc. Currently trying to get token validation working on the tacacs server =).

Ultimate goal is have a reverse proxy web front end kind of like Apache Guacamole that does the Oauth for the user and when they click on a network device, the JWT is passed through to the network device over SSH and thus the tacacs server which is relatively local to the network device which will validate it and let the user into the network device.

Playing around with GPT4/Opus a lot lately and man... I have feelings. They've been a great learning tool to learn the basics of Go though so I'm thankful.

It's going swimingly /s but I seem to be making progress. Slowly, I'll bake this into my bigger network management tool if it an be secure and make sense to do so...
This branch might actually lead somewhere.

I think it's in the it just isn’t what most people think it is which we've already been more specific about in other comments, is where we'll find those details that can say whether or not Dennett can be classified as an eliminative materialist.
...or everyone will just move elsewhere.

I think the TikTook ban is stupid, but assigning TT this kind of importance in a generally fickle space is dumb.
https://archive.is/uOZsC
Having no customers does help a lot.
>The issue with the medical system is similar to the issue with prisons: It has no person that is motivated to care about it.

Why prisoners must be able to vote or you cannot claim to have a democracy
What direct evidence exists to say that globalism clearly contribute to long peace? As far as I know, there is only proof of globalism failing to contribute to peace, where invading nations continue their invasions even after heavy sanctions.
Thanks a lot for your kind words! Metroid Prime wasn't a direct inspiration but it may certainly have had some influence on us, as we loved playing that game when we were younger.
Those broad rules were proposed and rejected on the basis of being too broad. That is exactly what the mentions of "concern trolling" are about, and as that is an effective way of preventing any change to the structure that would allow to drive those people out, this cycle has continued for months, if not years.