skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We used deterministic game play to implement multiplayer on the GB Color port of Vigilante 8.

The GBC Link Cable would pass 1 byte in each direction at the same time. It's a pair of shift registers filling each other up across the cable.

The game was locked to the GBC's frame rate. There was a lot work to update the screen that had to happen in each (effectively) V-Blank and if it was missed the smooth scrolling stuttered.

At multiplayer startup we passed our seed. To run it looked like this:

On frame A it reads the controls, and packs them into a byte and puts that in the transfer buffer. The transfer occurs while it renders frame B. At the start of frame C it has the local controls encoded in the byte sent on frame A and it has the other side's controls in the byte received in frame B.

It applies the controls to the game state and renders frame C. Local and remote controls are applied with one frame delay.

There was no frame delay of the controls for local play so if you ever lost in multi-player feel free to blame lag and me specifically if you need to.
100 people sharing a shard of 5TB each is even better (more resilient).
So "abliteration" is apparently a portmanteau of "ablate" and something else. "Intervention"? "Iteration"? Who knows?
I'd argue Google doesn't owe you "discoverability". You're absolutely free to sell your app to users with no involvement from Google. If you want Google to help you advertise and distribute your app then I see nothing wrong with them imposing some conditions on that.

This is unlike how Apple does things where they literally block your app from running on your customer's devices unless you get Apple's approval (and pay them), and there's no option whatsoever to cut them out of that process.
A hand-wave without substance? Yeah, sure. At least point out something that is disproven if you want to make this kind of statement...
The Future of Vector Search
The story is poor, the conclusion maybe accurate in that it's likely a non-story:

> Qualcomm bought a company called Nuvia to do this, and it originally used Nuvia's architectural license. Arm's argument is that the Nuvia license was canceled when it was taken over by Qualcomm. A new deal would have to be negotiated if that holds up in court.

> So, there you have it. Arm wants Qualcomm to stop shipping the product it's been contesting, but to be honest, that's not usually how these things end. It's unlikely that any product will be delayed from hitting shelves. These cases tend to end with one company giving a bucket of cash to the other, and everyone moves on.
It's definitely rather bad at the moment. Probably a tiny bit better than last year/the beginning of this one, since I've had a lot more interview calls than I did then, but still really bad compared to previous years.

Now it seems like 80% of open positions are for senior developers/engineers, the list of required technologies for these roles is higher than ever, and you're competing with hundreds if not thousands of other candidates too. If you ever want to feel depressed about the market, one look at LinkedIn's candidate numbers for any role is probably gonna do it.

As for why this seems to be the case... the best I've heard is that the end of the pandemic shook multiple industries to their cores.

Interest rates were good (for these companies) during that time period, so they had money to throw around on hiring developers en masse. And with everyone locked inside, internet based businesses were booming, whether it was online tools like Zoom, media companies like Netflix or gaming companies as a whole.

Unfortunately for them, when the pandemic ended, all this went away. People went back to normal life, and in many cases, actually spent far more time offline than ever before. So the stats went down, the beancounters and CEOs panicked, and we've seen the effects ever since.

All those companies either shut down, laid off a bunch of staff or outsourced the work to some cheaper locale, and said staff flooded the market. So now it's an employer's market where they can be ultra choosy about who they hire, and where the requirements to get hired are higher than ever.
I don't trust the device, the maker, the company behind the facial recognition technology, and you. If I give software access to analyzing my face it opens the door to overt and covert acts that further erode my privacy.

But really, I don't need a reason other than I'm uncomfortable with it. I worry about people who are comfortable with it..
The FDA is the one to blame. They basically run the healthcare industrial complex. It will all make sense when it is acknowledged that the FDA works only for the healthcare industrial complex, and not at all for the taxpayer. This is because the healthcare industrial complex is what gives funding to the FDA via fees and other legalized bribes.
I was a comic artist. In the past decade virtually everyone I know switched from Photoshop to Clip Studio Paint. It was cheaper, more lightweight and had features comic artists needed like streamlined flatting tools and manga asset integration.
Can Language Models Use Forecasting Strategies?
Wish i could see Twitter posts.
https://archive.ph/1PYpz
ITT: biology has no impact on psychology. guess all those anti-depressants need to get tossed out the. Pretty sure schizophrenia is heavily genetic / predisposed, too...
Like Mark Zuckerburg, I do..

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/22/mark-zuck...
The individual torrents are only a couple GB to a couple TB each. You can automatically generate a list of torrents of how ever many terabytes you are willing to seed

1: https://annas-archive.org/torrents#generate_torrent_list
they also did release LLM models, and zstd, and mold, and and and... a lot of stuff
Is there a link to the legal considerations of contributing as a seeder?
Would definitely buy if they either had a Linux version, or ran in WINE.
Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Romania, Vietnam, Africa. Often anywhere near those too
Assuming continuous sound. You don’t need to send many packets for silence.
I think people are fixating on this sentence at the beginning -

> For a wild animal, the default state is health.

Maybe OP meant a state of balance? For all those that describe injuries and parasites - those kill the host if they aren't 'healthy'. Having parasites is not inherently unhealthy, there's a bunch of symbiotic relationships out there.

I agree though - you eat clean and get rid of the junk, you will be more healthy. Nothing in this article sounded crazy to me, and honestly shadow downvotes on reasonable replies with no reasoning leads me to believe the vested interests are in these forums as well protecting their image.

Also to be clear - OP is not talking about GMOs, they're talking about wonder bread where all the nutrition of the wheat is stripped out during processing, leaving you eating nothing but carbs and sugar instead of a more balanced food with fiber which helps you process the other things.
The Magnet Fisherman's Dilemma: What to Do with $70k Before It Disintegrates
Both of my Nest devices that got the update were bricked into an unrecoverable state. Forums and Reddit are full of similar stories. "Shipped" is a very generous label.

I don't know anyone outside the Fuchsia team that takes it seriously.
Why Is Building Pipelines Different from Software Development?
It is surprisingly good, it still lacks many features but it's a welcome competition in the field. However, I wouldn't go through the trouble of leaving Adobe for another closed source suite. The underdogs are always the good guys until they aren't.

If/when I ditch Adobe, it will be for an open source stack.
Implicitly, people who are too old (or too European) to have grown up with an NES.

But yeah, I 100% agree that the overwhelming draw of Nintendo consoles is their exclusives, so it's mostly orthogonal to Xbox/PS/PC. If you want to play Mario or Zelda or Pokemon or Fire Emblem, you've got one choice. The common idea that the Steam Deck is competing with the Switch is almost entirely wrong.
If the managers don't get taken in by charismatic bullshitters, sure.

If the managers don't have super busy schedules, leaving them little time for "auditing work" and "reviewing historical data"

If the managers aren't managing workers who know much more than them, meaning they're poorly equipped to understand how hard a given task is.

If the managers have perfect vision into untracked work like prioritising tickets, helping people in other teams, interviewing, coaching new starters, performing code review, working on cross-team standardisation efforts and so on.

If the managers don't feel looking over people's shoulders or demanding webcams be turned on in meetings would seem distrustful and intrusive.

If the managers have time to keep track of everyone's health, wellbeing and equipment so when a spot check finds periods of low productivity it can't be explained away by a broken keyboard or wifi problems or having the flu that week.

If the managers think firing one person is guaranteed to let them hire someone better, with no hiring delays or freezes.

If the managers don't feel they're buddies with the people on their team, who they eat lunch with every day, and they have far greater affection for the corporation they work for.

And if the managers don't benefit from having a larger empire, incentivising them to respond schedule slips by hiring more people

Then yes, the manager could indeed address many of these scenarios.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/nyregion/couple-magnet-fi...
Ask HN: What do you do on the weekend?
Yeah, the car dealerships are one of the more toxic interests in politics due to their legally-protected niche, and are in general a horrible leach on the economy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_zWFGOSD28
You don't have to seed 24/7. It's OK as long as (parts of) torrents get seeded regularly.
Bukele did not think the same and he was right.
I drag around a 60MB portable version of CS3 that does 99% of anything I'd need to do.

I've found myself missing out on the generative AI fill train but recently discovered Krita AI diffusion, not too difficult to set up and use from a PS diehard, and pretty magical.

https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion
> and people who were previously kids.

That's a pretty damn large market (= all adults). I think you meant to say "people who were previously kids playing Nintendo"
If anyone can comment on good alternatives for After Effect, I'd be interested to know.
Maybe. However such training is essentially considered mandatory compliance at any publicly traded company once you reach a certain size, especially if you sell to the government, and IMO probably not related to any specific event they became aware of.

I've had to do the same mandatory anti-bribing public officials training annually at US companies a fraction the size of Microsoft. The anti-bribe training is so common at large companies in the US, there are companies that sell ready made one-size-fits-all training videos specifically on this topic that are then usually the thing the employee has to sit through anually.

In my experience, different cultures have different feelings on the moral failings of bribes. Some of my colleagues grew up in countries where it is a common business practice, it probably makes sense for large orgs with global employee base to have to establish some kind of baseline for acceptable business practices. Similarly, I know several people who came to study computer science in the US and tried to bribe police officers upon being pulled over for speeding, simply because it's how you handle the matter where they grew up.
I don’t get it. If you do not want to participate in the preservation and distribution of the archive, why don’t you just move on instead of complaining?

Besides, gluetun+chihaya+qbit containers do the job without breaking a sweat, and without ever having to remember that you run a VPN - as it’d only be tunneling the containers of your choice. gluetun is the best image ever made!
While that is true, all towns and villages under 80,000 inhabitants in my area (100 km around the village where I grew up) had historic centers with (at least) dozens of buildings that looked like my example from above, and were spared in WWII. These old half-timbered houses are so extremely common here that as a child I thought that all towns and villages looked like this.
For Photoshop:

1) Photopea (quite brilliant for most of the things photoshop can do)

2) paint.net for not too advanced edits

3) Krita

For After Effects:

1) Natron

2) BlackMagic Fusion

For Premiere Pro:

1) DaVinci Resolve

2) KdenLive

For Illustrator:

1) Inkscape

2) Graphite

Please note that most of these are not feature for feature replacements, but for the most part and most common tasks, they are very good offerings.
> the headset does not light up the entire room

Isn't there this front display for the pass-through eyes? That switches off automatically if there is no interaction, or it's just not very bright?
A 2k-Mile Bangkok to Beijing Train Trip Gets Closer with Trial Run
> India does as well as China.

> But they are cheap! Very cheap. Read the 3rd article I linked - it's the actual Indian government strategy around BMD.

The only place that liquid rockets are specifically mentioned:

> Scientists are also working towards making interceptors used in both layers operate on solid fuels. This is because chemicals in the liquid fuels corrode the fuel storage tanks easily. Therefore, most of the missiles are not kept in a ‘ready-to-fire’ mode. Also, it takes a minimum of three to four hours to fill the liquid fuel in the missile,9 a hardly acceptable scenario wherein precious time will be lost in case of an emergency.

It seems pretty clear that:

1. This particular rocket has no military application because the rockets that India uses use hypergolic propellant (presumably UDMH and NTO), while the planned rocket uses LOx and RP1, which are cryogenic propellants (well, at least the LOx is).

2. India is pretty clearly trying to move away from liquid fueled rockets because, as I said in my previous comment, the operational aspects are really terrible.
That's sure cool for Face ID. Now all that's missing is the same level of faith in all the rest.
> Rust has never advertised itself as a panacea.

Rust may not, but random Rust programmers rave about it all the time as if it were a panacea.

> expand on what is expressible within the safe subset

I hope that Rust itself keeps going further in this direction. Even with the residual unsafe code, bounds could be implemented to limit the possible damage, and correct it as soon as feasible.
Email apply@ycombinator.com for advice.
People often forget how financially limited they were when they were young. There are even college freshmen reading your comment for whom $1k would change their lives. Such as this one who is currently contributing to Textadept on school machines from 2013 on NixOS installed on a USB drive (don't recommend, CPU I/O wait time is frequently >%50) because he spilled coffee on his laptop last semester.
https://www.photopea.com/ is a good free alternative to Photoshop. It is a 90100 product - 90% of the features 100% free.
Recently live development capabilities were added to Ruby as well, thanks to latest patches to inf-ruby, now it's possible to eval code around the breakpoint and in the global context as well, everything available right under cursor.
I still don’t think there’s an alternative for After Effects. People always say DaVinci Resolve, which seems like a good replacement for Premiere Pro, but not After Effects. I’ve looked into a lot of entrants in this area but one has nearly as rich a library of effects. Please prove me wrong, I’d love to stop paying Adobe $600/yr.
If you mean for storage, real time codecs are actually pretty inefficient for that use case because they don't get much use of temporal redundancy. Although I'm not actually aware of a non-real time audio codec specialised for voice. They probably exist in Cheltenham and Maryland but for Meta this likely doesn't make a big enough part of their storage costs to bother
Probably because this case can have a lot of impact on HN readers lives. But I agree with you it's definitely out of scope, and seems to have been flagged already.
I am logged in, but for the past few weeks, replies won't load and I get an error message on my iPhone. The whole website is much slower too. I'm sure someone will tell me to use the app, but I don't have any intention to do so.
I have the same impression.

Facebook the social network reputation may be not shiny, but Meta the engineering company reputation is pretty high, to my mind.

It's somehow similar to IBM, who may look not stellar as a hardware or software solutions provider, but still have quite cool research and microelectronics branches.
Okay so is there somewhere on the Internet that I can get a VPS with crypto? Because I'm not going to use traditional payment methods to access this.

EDIT: Thank you to everyone for your recommendations. I shall find an anon seedbox. I don't mind if it's nuked. I imagine I'll just pay per month and losing one month's spend won't hurt.
Their GPUs are literally “hardware SIMD”, and Metal is conceptually very close to CUDA. Apple just chooses to focus on consumer hardware instead.
I said we don't have enough earths to support everyone living in sprawl. That's talking about resources, not just land.
They also use Telegram actively for latest announcements, fyi.

https://t.me/annasarchiveorg
Yeah, I've Googled around and even asked ChatGPT. There seems to be no record of a for-profit side business. At least before Elon left. Of course they created one about a year after he left, because they're were running out of money, and would need to shut-down otherwise.

I can understand not wanting Elon to be the head of your company. His behavior is a little erratic.
It might have a Weissman score in the fives, but I haven't seen a real-world implementation. Does it use middle-out compression?
Sounds like excellent institutional procedure -- can you point to documentation that that is indeed the intended process?
I suspect the answer is a bit of both. On the one hand, the era of zero interest rates is apparently over, so that'll effect things a bit. And the end of the pandemic means that the numbers we saw during that time period probably won't happen again, at least without a major world emergency breaking out.

But things will likely improve eventually. Probably due to a mix of laid off developers finally finding new jobs, a decent percentage of developers/engineers leaving the industry, and new companies being founded in future.
copyright law would've already burnt the library of alexandria several times over, just something to consider about the validity of these laws written and bribed into law by publishers
http://mercadolibre.com force this and I hate it so much.
Micronics SLS nylon 3D printer makes electronic circuits
They’re not complaining they’re asking a question. I think you completely misread the tone.
> If I, as an individual, had the choice between handing out instructions on how to make sarin gas on the street corner or not doing it,

Be careful and don't look at Wikipedia, or a chemistry textbook!

Just a reminder, the vast majority of what these LLMs know is scrapped from public knowledge bases.

Now preventing a model from harassing people, great idea! Let's not automate bullying/psychological abuse.

But censoring publicly available knowledge doesn't make any sense.
Wouldn't this be a good application for IPFS?
Hang on. I think the OP is trying to find a middle ground between their level of comfort and contributing to the project. I think their intentions are positive; they want to help but are constrained by their other needs or priorities.
I don’t think that’s true anymore: see WWDC presentation about Private Cloud
Ukrainian cops collar Kyiv programmer believed to be Conti, LockBit linchpin
2024 and Gimp remains horrible (as it has always been). It’s cool it brings value to you and others but Photoshop replacement it is not.
Aren’t they also going the subscription way soon?
it isn't just one audio codec. they also released and continue to release the best self hostable large language model weights, they have authored many open source projects that are staples today such as zstandard, react, pytorch
> If SpaceX could produce a rocket every 72 hours it would be a concern too.

Just FYI, SpaceX is trying to launch a Falcon 9 about every 48 hours this year.

So far they seem pretty responsible about things, though.
Any good guides for basic editing? Tried it a couple of times some years ago and couldn't get it working and/or got lost in settings.
Capture One instead of Lightroom
Wild Weather Is Roiling Electricity Prices. This Startup Is Looking to Help
I like Google Keep and One Note. Nothing fancy, but lets me quickly jot notes down or sketch plans with my pen with infinite canvas capabilities.
AH == a16z it seems.
How AI is helping students improve in reading and writing
The issue isn’t the rocket: it’s what you have affixed to it (the payload).

The rocket itself is purely a delivery system for a payload after all.
There's a wonderful blog post on the PS3 Architecture - https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-3/ that gives a good overview of the Cell processor with linked resources if you want more detail.
I know your Duet problem well. I've got a Duet around here. It was slow from the beginning. Noticeably, it would often slow to a crawl while Chrome OS was downloading an update in the background. And sometimes, it would be slow after waking for about 5 to 10 minutes and then suddenly go to a more acceptable speed.

I also have a Lenovo Ideapad Chromebook running on an Intel 4020 with only 4GB. Despite being slow hardware, it runs circles around the Duet. The 4020 can be sluggish at times, but it never had the big slowdowns of the Duet. It could even run Visual Studio Code at acceptable speeds. Something was very wrong with the Duet. Usually Chrome OS is good on lower end hardware.
Mullvad will even let you pay with cash (stuff dollars into an envelope).
Lots of people seem to have forgotten that not long ago, these questions were practically unsolvable even by the best models. Similar to how a few years before that it was impossible to come up with a model that could reliably distinguish between between cats and dogs. The frontier is moving all the time and no concrete evaluation has stood the test of time so far.
Thanks! Can you share some more details on the usecases and features used?
ChromeOS literally defined a whole market segment of low cost tablet/laptop devices that could be distributed in mass to schools/employees/etc. The security model was the best of any operating system option.

Android has its place on mobile, but we see how well it has gone for Microsoft trying to take a single OS and make it work across mobile/tablet/laptop.
This works because we've been conditioned to install videochat plugins, no matter the security warnings.

Personally I installed a few of these. I remember when running Google Meet without Chrome required some plugin and when Zoom required admin password every now and then to perform an update (even after the Mac vulnerability incident[1]).

I hope I'll think twice next time I see a prompt to install a plugin like this.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-silent-update-zoom-a...
There’s two issues here: getting paid to work on a product; using the product yourself. People often do one without much of the other. People dogfooding do both.

For the original question, a survey might want to separate these two. One just says people are working on a product. Why could be any reason, like just making money. People using it, but not paid to, are more valuable as reviewers.
What does that mean? The library of Alexandria was happy to burn down all on its own, centuries before copyright.
I highly recommend https://mullvad.net/