skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"reminder that Nintendo is made out of pure evil"

If that was the case, why do you want to replicate their walled garden so urgently?

There's so many YouTube videos on how to play ripped Switch games on SteamDeck that I would be truly surprised if that didn't affect cross-platform sales numbers. So maybe Nintendo is even being pressured themselves by their developer/publisher partners.

And those Yuzu people were happily looking the other way when people posted pictures of FTP servers and their ROM lists in the official discord. I wouldn't be surprised if this emulator had a similar type of users.

I'm conflicted about this because I want to see old games preserved. But "preserving" Zelda a few weeks before its official release painted a huge target on that crowd.
Having written some Rust and a lot of Ruby, I find Kotlin to be a really nice "typed Ruby". Just like Ruby, Kotlin is an OO language in the core that is really friendly to FP. It's terse (not as terse as Ruby, as there are types to specify); but MUCH terser that Java.

Kotlin is serious about null-safety.
Eh...I wanted to love it, got first Jolla device (still have it in the drawer) but I simply couldn't made myself use it... Swipe navigation is just annoying and imprecise to use daily :|
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What I love about `jq` that I can edit my query (or "program") by appending tokens at the end. Similar to unix pipes. With plain SQL that is not easy.
That's an interesting perspective I'd not considered before. Maybe there are different "registers" of Rust, in the same sense that linguists talk about registers in human languages, where you use your language differently for different purposes.

And thus, maybe if you're writing something that doesn't need to be screamingly fast absolutely all the time there's a register of Rust where putting lots of things in Rc<Box<T>> is completely acceptable, in much the same way that you might use a lot of impolite words around your friends but you don't in front of your employer.
The FCC interference requirements are designed to prevent your usage from interfering with others. It's perfectly acceptable to interfere with radio signals for yourself. Anyone who grew up in the 90's and had a car without a built in CD player has used an FM-transmitter to broadcast the audio of a portable CD player to their radio, interfering with any other FM signals on that frequency, albeit in a very small area around the car.
Let's see, one can hope, but before that they have to abandon decades of a business model based on rent seeking and up-selling memory and storage at 10× the price. Wall street won't like it and only the EU can incentivize them enough.
It seems to me most of the big ethical challenges would involve acts which would already be atrocity-proximate even involving regular wombs. Weird experiments, clone armies, etc.

The common case seem much more straightforward, such as laws to prevent a hospital/creche from early-terminating a 9-month lease on Uterine Replicator #123 for non-payment, different fields on "birth certificate", some case-law around, er, "miscarriage" events, etc.
Article title: Node.js Dora Metrics: Faster Deployments, Slower Merge Times

You submitted this 7 days ago[0], and two other middlewarehq.com articles between.. Please don't use HN primarily for promotion https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41690658
For me the response was just:

```The young whale that visited Pillar Point Harbor in 2024 was named Teresa T.

It was a humpback whale that ventured into the harbor, likely by accident.```
they would make you wait for 3 hours queueing
Unfortunately I don't think so... the house market will only go up and areas will remain behind...
Never said that religion was responsible for all or even most wars. But you can't deny it plays negative role in many wars. It wouldn't have to be for theological reasons, since it seems the article would only count these cases as religious wars. Religion is often used to segregate humans into opposing tribes, where without religion they could be a single nation, or even same ethnicity.
ive been commenting here since 2014 but have to constantly make new accounts because HN bans me for expressing problematic beliefs. the fact that this thread got through the filter feels like a miracle or a dream… you need to read more carefully. i used the word effectively for a very specific reason. even the insanely sympathetic and humane punishments on the books in western countries now would basically stop crime if they were applied and implemented properly. if punishment were actually likely. if prisons werent just boot camp for criminals. social clubs. prisoners emerge from prison emboldened, not humbled. our system is broken and it stays broken because people are crappy. recently i actually decided to stop caring because its so pointless.

oh and your hands are waving a lot more than mine… you clearly dont want to think too hard about this
The voicing and delivery matches exactly to Natasha Legero and Moshe Kasher who have a podcast "Endless Honeymoon". Not sure how they feel about it but I'm sure a lot of their audience works at Google.
the studies may be flawed in that they look at the wrong age range. I'm sure many people on this site were born between 1990 and 2000. That generation knows how to use computers innately because they lived the most important part of the evolution of the consumer desktop as well as the transition that saw everything and everyone move to the internet. Before all the simplifications and streamlined UIs. Before all the assistants. Before every problem was already solved by someone else.

I imagine that an AI-native generation will be the same, but with respect to AI.
Fiction:

1) The Sherlock Holmes Canon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Sherlock_Holmes

My first exposure was through "The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes" and it made such a huge impression on me with its focus on the use of step-by-step logical reasoning to solving problems that in a sense it taught me to "think rationally" in real life. I then set about acquiring the complete canon and have read them all so many times that i can quote entire dialogues/passages from memory. The language used is also elegant and beautiful with lots of memorable phrases/quotes/quips etc. Every kid should be asked to read the complete canon and then discuss takeaways from them.

2) Charles Dickens - Started with Oliver Twist, Great Expectations

These books (read the unabridged versions) were my introduction to the "Human Condition/Human Values" faced by people from different economic strata. His books span different genres but always end with a positive note. The writing style is beautiful with a healthy dose of Melodrama, Humour, Vivid descriptions etc. which draw you in and keep you engaged. Here is a good essay on his narrative technique - https://www.lsj.org/literature/essays/dickens

Non-Fiction:

1) Physics for Entertainment by Yakov Perelman - You can get scans of all his and other Soviet authors books at - https://mirtitles.org/

In those days (80s in India) American/British books were generally not available and too costly but Soviet books were easily available and very affordable. My dad bought me this 2-vol set and that motivated my lifelong interest in Science. An example: I was enamoured of the protagonist in "The Invisible Man" by H.G.Wells but Perelman uses it as a scientific case study and shows that instead of being a most powerful man (because he is invisible) he would be the most powerless/pathetic man. Read the book to find out why :-) It also kick-started my collection of Soviet Science books eg. "Science For Everyone" and "Little Mathematics Library" series. Teachers/Students should take a look at these books and use them productively in the classroom/self-study. They are concise, precise with no fluff and a high s/n ratio.
Depends on the age, but for age 9-14ish, one series is hands down the most influential thing I've ever read:

The Animorphs series.

It's both incredibly good entertainment, but also really digs into morality in a way that has shaped how I think of things even so many years later.

Second to that is the "My Teacher is an Alien" series. They're fun books, pretty light, but the last book of the series, likewise, instilled a lot of morality-sense in me, since it's basically a tour of the bad (and good) of humanity.

For a bit of an older age (~15?), nothing quite impacted me like Ender's Game did. Again, a lot of ideas of what is moral and what isn't. (And yes, as others in this thread have pointed out, the author has a problematic legacy, make of that what you will.)
I guess it’s also not worth it anymore. Engines seem to be quite good nowadays. I guess shifting the budget to assets makes a bigger difference.
> soldered RAM

Soldered RAM is faster than socketed RAM. What's faster still is Apple's current approach: putting the RAM inside the CPU chip package. This is one of the reasons why Apple Silicon chips are so screamingly fast and handily beat any x86 chip core-for-core.

> to the increasing annoyances of macOS either in the name of security (e.g., notarization, the popups that request permission to read user directories, which is really annoying when using LLVM's debugger in modern macOS)

These help prevent malicious software, such as downloaded apps or even web pages, from exfiltrating or tampering with user data. Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1200/
I used to own a Jolla phone, and there was something magical about it. At the time, their ideas and execution were a breath of fresh air, and the experience was amazing even despite some unavoidable teething problems. I happily used it as my daily driver for about 2 years, proudly showing it off to friends at every opportunity, and not wanting to switch to another phone.

Now, as such things go, many of the unique ideas dreamt up by Sailfish have been absorbed into the major OSs (which will no doubt claim they innovated them themselves), and Jolla had to close because competing at both the software and the hardware model simultaneously turned out to be unsustainable for them. And my own Jolla phone developed a hardware fault and that was that.

So I reluctantly switched back to Android. But none of the mainstream OSs managed to quite capture that magic, even despite having now copied most of its features. And when I tried the latest version of Sailfish on a Pinephone about a year ago, it too no longer felt like it had that sleekness I had come to love on the Jolla.
Yeah, but what maps the characters 1 and 0 to the numerical value 10? I bet it’s the same chain of compilation, at some point leading to an assembly compiler, and that itself leading to some proto binary implementation, maybe even going into bios/hardware implementation?
> Such a service is the opposite of a flywheel (a brake?) in practice. Those tokens are extremely low quality data.

I think not. Say you ask the model to help solve a coding problem. It gives you an idea, you try, it fails, come back and iterate. They can save a note for later finetuning - what worked and what didn't work, using you the user as a validation system for the LLM.

But you might also have your own experience and help the model where it struggles, and finally achieve the task. That is how the model can borrow both your experience and your manual validation work to improve itself.

Some tasks are spread over multiple sessions, or multiple days. They can cluster and look at your progress over time. The latter steps provide rich feedback on the quality of the former steps. Hindsight is 20/20.

Even in chats where the user doesn't perform validation there is rich feedback, people share some of their tacit experience. It's a form of delayed feedback, humans act as caches of unique experience.

The way I conceptualize this is as a search process - problem space search. LLMs can search better with assistance, and humans also search better with assistance. LLMs collect experience from millions of people, they funnel experience into their logs.
Clarification: everyone in the US. These small transmitters were not legal in many other parts of the world
What was real was that a bad design that the company operating the plant was warned about repeatedly, survived an earthquake, but didn't survive a tsunami. As a result, there was an evacuation. And nobody died from anything directly related to the power plant itself, only due to the evacuation. Multiple times more people died in an oil tank fire in another city due to the same earthquake+tsunami. And during its lifetime Fukushima saved countless lives by not emitting air pollution.

On the "generating reliable power for a country" scale, everything is a tradeoff. There is no perfect solution that just works with no downside, especially in geographically challenged countries such as Japan.
Same, if anything I'd look for a SQL-like language for JSON.
GPTs are, in effect, rather powerful templating engines.

It's fascinating. This tech can extract a template for a typical podcast, extrapolate from a mundane CV, plug that to the template and produce a podcast script that your typical copywriter would.

> But it lacks any insight, not even a rehashed conclusion, and doesn’t really seem to integrate the knowledge

Is it the GPT that is lacking here or the source material it learned on converges to this?
MagSafe can also cause problems.

I seem to get black sand in mine, which is magnetic.

It leads to scorch marks, which can’t be good.

New Zealand has a lot of black sand beaches. I’ve never taken a laptop to one and only go to them a few times year. Why all the laptops on the house end up with magnetic sand in the port is a mystery.

That said, I love magsafe.
My favourite version of Windows was Windows 2000. It was stable, visually consistent and fairly simple.

But Windows 11 is a massive improvement over Windows 2000 in many, many areas. Just because Windows 2000 was my favourite doesn’t mean I think it’s the best. It doesn’t even have built-in support for WiFi.

I think they’re even moving towards something that could be my new favourite Windows. Windows 11 is the first Windows with a visual style that I actually find appealing, and they seem to be making some serious efforts to make it all visually consistent too. The new settings app has its flaws but if they just finish the work of supporting all the features of the old control centre and finally have a unified place to change settings, I would say it’ll be all-in-all better than Win2k.

The GPU driver system and WSL2 are leaps and bounds beyond what Win2k could do. The built in support for virtual desktops and window arrangement is something I would never want to be without.

Yeah, on the Mac side I remember Snow Leopard fondly. That doesn’t mean I think it’s the best. On Mac I see even less reason to think older versions of MacOS is better in any way. They’ve stayed visually pleasing and consistent, haven’t made any huge UI changes similar to Windows’s attempts at making a better start menu, and have added many genuinely useful features over the years.
Accept that wherever you live has transformed from a high trust area to a low trust one.

Where I live, just leaving a package outside the fence (postman can't even get to the door) would be bonkers. And this isn't an area with a lot of crime. People just don't trust eachother much to begin with.
> I feel like if you're really going to go and write a rails clone, you need to spend a little bit of time digging into some of the other failed attempts and reasons they failed (eg. 1, 2, 3) first.

The idea of creating a "one man framework" like Rails in a systems programming language like Rust is a very tricky one. I don't think you can mimic the best productivity features of Rails without metaprogramming. Yes, you can do something like it, but the abstractions would leak all over the place making it uncomfortable for a Rust developer and not good enough for a Rails developer.
Could you please provide the links for your project and channel?
Disasters are known to happen at night. Cars can drive on terrain we just usually don't because it's seen as impolite. This isn't about transportation (or the width of your tires) it's about having a layer of security, some storage for more than what you can physically carry, a place to sleep off the ground, and shelter from the weather. Plus, you know, a radio.
SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029
> Will Apple keep increasing performance at this rate, or is this an exception?

I want to believe that but a lot of the performance gains have been the result of frequency boosting and you can not do that forever.

What is the current limit to that? Probably around 5Ghz right?

They are squeezing more out of the silicon but the frequency has been the primary contributor recently.
Plug in the debugger and give it 5 minutes to warm up!
Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

It saved my life, two times.
First time inspiring me, second time literally.
Because kids can afford to spend 14 hours a day playing with an AI. You can't.
> I feel a lot of anxiety when I'm forced to touch fragile bits written in Ruby, Python, and JS.

I resonate with you even with TypeScript, since it's just annotating types but not the true value under the variable. You would have to go to a greater extent to make sure that everything from outside (library code, parsing HTTP responses, database queries, etc.) conforms to your annotated types. Even in the same project code created by other people, I often doubt the validity of the types, asking myself questions like: Should I validate this? What if this has already been validated, thus making mine a performance waste? Does this object contain extra sensitive information that could be leaked when used in a logger?

After having experience with Rust, working with TS feels like navigating a minefield where every refactor could detonate hidden bugs or behavior collectively accumulated by all the historic code and dependencies, small or large.
I found this[1] article to give a nice overview over spiking neural networks and their connections to the more "traditional" neural networks of modern fame.

In particular the connection between the typical weighted-sum plus activation function and a simplistic spiking model where one considers the output simply by the spiking rate was illuminating (section 3).

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9313413/ Spiking Neural Networks and Their Applications: A Review
He was referring to HTTP 1.0 & 1.1
While Rocket was one of the earliest Rust frameworks that really pushed for good UX (via proc-macros), I think it has largely fallen out of favor in many parts of the community. For a very long time it required nightly Rust versions to build, which is a no-go for many people wanting to use a framework in a production setting. Also for a period of ~2 years it was stuck in a 0.5.0 release candidate limbo where the latest stable released version was significantly lagging behind the rest of Rust web frameworks (requiring nightly; no async support yet).

Maybe it will be better now after the 0.5 hump, but in general the development history of Rocket is something that dissuades me from using it when compared to e.g. Axum.
In democracies (or any other government type other than the theoretical technocracy) smart people don't necessarily get to make decisions. Political considerations and dumb voters have to be taken into account.

If a party has been anti-nuclear for decades, they won't change their stance even in the face of reality, and regardless of the actual facts and arguments.
> Your rationale doesn’t make sense since every single usb port on the device can also charge it.

It does, because as I said, we now have a charger that basically amounts to e-waste. As the result of its supposed benefits being very weak and its downsides very real.
GPUs live in desktops and phones, but apps live in remote datacenters, so the future seems to be sending rendering commands to Javascript frontends on end users' browsers.
I hope so I guess, but, using it's potential to do what? Our globally connected supercomputers in our pockets are already being used to watch commercials interspersed with videos who mostly are product placement. /yay
Smalltalk (and Dart) also have "cascading" which is method chaining with special supporting syntax e.g. in ST you'd send four different messages to the same object with something like

scene add: sprite;
add: otherSprite;
setBackGround: stage;
start

I'm not sure if it matches the "reuse values from previous computation" but it should since messages will affect the object, you just don't have local variables.
Yes F# has come along for the ride with modern .NET and it's as cross-platform as C# is. However, a lot of the really shiny .NET stuff is tooled up mostly for C# users, so it can be a challenge if you wanted to do something like a .NET MAUI (cross-platform GUI library) application in F# because the tooling and the content out there to teach you about it assumes C#.

F# can usually handle C# things - they put a lot of work into ensuring interop with new C# features - but the languages are from different paradigms so it is sometimes a bit awkward despite F#'s comprehensive OO support.

Personally I struggle a bit with F# because it doesn't have typeclasses, and a language that looks that much like Haskell but doesn't have typeclasses just feels weird to me.

Although it might get them... C# are looking at adding a traits-type feature (they don't seem to know what to call it yet, but the design's been kicking around the language team for ages now and keeps getting discussed), so F# could presumably piggyback on that if they wanted.
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It is always a good idea to write a library, not so for frameworks https://www.brandons.me/blog/libraries-not-frameworks
Thanks for this feedback. I hear what you are saying. If I understand correctly its like LLMs are a black box doctors dont understand and while it talks back in a friendly voice it can cause harm if it says something awful. While this is not likely due to our prompting it is not impossible either.

Junru and I will discuss the approach with pediatric care based on this. And I agree having domain expertise/advisors to guide us in the right direction is important
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RT in pure trials: 511ms
RT in mixed trials: 804ms
Mixing cost: 293ms

RT in task-repeat trials (in mixed blocks): 804ms
RT in task-switching trials (in mixed blocks): 1026ms
Task-switch cost: 222ms

I think this is very easy to "train" and would expect to see significant improvements on the second and third attempt.
You do, but that means there is no roundabout when you need it the most.

The problem occurs mostly when the dominant flow is given multiple lanes.

A fairly common solution/workaround is blocking the view of the approaching traffic, forcing it to slow down. But again, this doesn't work well on large roundabouts that allow people to speed up to of 30+ mph.