skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the original Ecco came out on the Megadrive (Genesis), I spent all my hard-earned money to buy it. That game is obscenely hard. I got frustrated, so I sat down for the afternoon with a pen and paper and somehow managed to decode the password system. I teleported to the final level and completed it the next day.

Then I was wracked with guilt about spending all my money on a game I completed in two days.
Is not this against the Ghidra EULA?
I'm afraid I haven't really understood the argument.

To put the opposite view:
Versioning could be done with individual functions in the code for example but we don't do that - we just update all the places that call it.

We usually start to do versioning where there are boundaries - such as with components that we bring in from external sources or with projects that are maintained by separate teams.

A version is usually a response a situation where you cannot update the clients that use the api yourself.

So monorepos can be seen as a way of just saying "actually I can update a lot of the points-of-use of this API and I should instead of creating a new version and waiting for someone else to finally use it."
The Stupidity of Google's Site Reputation Abuse Policy
> about 15 million less for the democrats

This is wrong. We don’t know how many people voted for democrats or otherwise yet. Heck, California still has millions of votes to count.

Your mistake is that you’re comparing a known total from 2020 to a count in progress from 2024.
Kind of funny, because there's another product we use that's just called Chat, so we'd never say that. "GPT" is a better shorthand IMO. It's also not specific but I don't know of any other product that uses it in the branding.
Ask HN: How would you launch a Social media payments platform
Hey HN

I'm building a social commerce payments platform called KuwaPay that will allow users you shop directly from social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. So I made an MVP, it's a link to a checkout page where customers can buy products in a few clicks and brands can use that in their ads or stories and highlights.

First, how do social media platforms like Instagram and others allow me to integrate my payments app on their platform? And what other feature you as a buyer or seller would like to use in it? Shopping through social media (social commerce) is a big opportunity in the next few years as I have tried to make an Instagram store. I am building on the problems I faced as a seller and buyer.

Share your thoughts on this. Your advice would help me a lot thank you.
But dominant doesn't mean it's the only one... most of my friends are on WhatsApp, but I use iMessage to talk to my wife (unless it's a group of friends then it's back to WhatsApp), apart from one or two friends who aren't o ln WhatsApp and then I use FB messenger... we have one gaming group with one guy not on FB and one guy not on WhatsApp, so I'm the meatware bridge between them.

And then I have people who only use Discord...
We are currently focused on business customers :/ but that may change in the coming months!
search for "Ultrasonic Mist Maker"...
a guy with a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering, who then worked for years at MIT, isn't an intellectual?
Is there any practical reason to put a footlong sub in a wind tunnel? No. Do I need to see someone do it? Yes!
One good thing about the Javascript ecosystem: if you don't like it, you only need to wait 6 months for it to have changed completely!
Market share matters for a communication system though.

Why bother to run a server or install a client if there's nobody to talk to?
It's not really 100k years. A ROCm subset good enough to run an LLM can be done within a year or so. You can _technicall_ run it now with tinygrad.

The silence from AMD has been deafening, though. I can't fathom why they're just ignoring the AI market.
While people like to scream and lose their mind about who the president is and what they're blathering on about today it's this situation that I never see any politician talk about in a meaningful way and I never see get attention. This situation impacts the average person and has the potential to impact the average person more than who the president is at any given time. Because at least with governmental politics there is actual recourse.

Until we demand that our government begin to prioritize consumer rights against these modern-day robber barons this kind of stuff will continue to happen. Unfortunately until it happens to you nobody seems to care. Often times the person that happens to gets blamed because their actions definitely must have caused this.

This would actually be a fairly simple thing for the FTC to correct if they wanted to. They're already empowered to do this kind of stuff and wouldn't need any new powers granted to them. They could simply say when an account is suspended or disabled or you are banned including a shadow ban that you must provide the specific details of what caused the ban and what specific provisions were violated in the terms of service. Because when you're the size of Google you effectively are a monopolistic common carrier. So being able to say something like we can do this at any time for any reason is not appropriate at that scale. Because denying you access to phone service is denying you access to a basic utility.

It would actually be interesting to see state boards of utilities begin to pull things like this under their control. This would give enormous consumer rights to people. Because while your landline carrier can deny you service and remove your service they must have very strict documented reasons for that and there is an actual transparent appeal process as part of it. Filing an appeal and not being able to be part of the appealed discussion is not an appeal at all.
> Simple diversity doesn’t speak to a level of security.

Yes. That's where the standards requirements I mentioned come in.
I dunno, blockchains have been around for over a decade or more, and the stuff you listed might be cool. I don't know, because blockchain itself is such a toxic brand that I automatically disregard anyone and anything related to it.

It's like there's a swimming pool full of sewage, and sure there might be a new PS5 Pro floating in there, but I'm sure as hell not wading in to find out.
When I used to work in grid computing almost 20 years ago, we were already running fusion experiments, realtime streaming the data to the grid, which would rapidly analyze it and compute some new parameters for the next run (I think they had a 20 minute downtime). I don't think it was considered machine learning at the time, though (and was certainly not deep learning as we practice it today).
There is another Battlezone game which is a reimagined/updated version of the coin-op game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(2016_video_game). It was a decent bit of fun and notably had VR headset support.
Going from Python to Go was very easy for me, and I do feel much more productive. I don't want to work with Python ever again.

Rust is a beast though, I tried picking it up several times, but lose interest quickly. The language is interesting, but the learning curve is a problem.
Good clients which let users communicate outside their own ecosystems: Gajim, Dino, Conversations, Monal, Movim, ...
Jippity sounds dumb but it's growing on me. I wonder if that domain is still available... No, registered in 2023
I guess I also hope that. But it seems like 'cope'.

It's only a free country, until it isn't.

I want to agree. But it seems like the kind of reasoning people use when they are 'hoping' for the best. 'It wont be that bad'.

Sure. Maybe as an atheist, you are not feeling persecuted, today.

Ask a trans person if they are feeling any persecution. They are literally being beaten up, lives threatened. It's same old story, when they come for you, who will be left to help.

Women have less rights today than they had before Trump. That is a persecuted group. You can't say that isn't religiously motivated.
Aye, Cap'n, I'm suffering as miserably as I can.
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By analyzing a memory snapshot from the flycast emulator, I found that the buffer at 8cfffb34 holds the visible portion of the initials you type in. But if you keep typing, the characters you put in before get pushed into the buffer at 8c3abf18.

After loading the memory snapshot into Ghidra, I found that the function at 8c0334d8 reads this buffer. It performs a transformation on the buffer and then checks whether the transformed value is a list of six special ones.
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How?
I got most of what I need on hard drives already. Have plenty of movies and music and games, I keep a copy of everything in Dropbox on each computer, and I don’t need to download anything special to work on game development in Monogame or Love2d, they’re pretty low on dependencies (that I can’t just copy from other existing projects).

And since I use git, even my version control stays nice and local.

Main things I would need to make an offline version of, offhand, are my GitHub Issues list, as that’s online only right now and where I track what I’m doing on my games, some documentation for Love2d and Monogame would be nice, and our recipes.

We have a few printouts for some recipes, but most are linked in a Google Sheets excel file.
Many companies in big tech make insane profits from the surveillance-advertising complex. Is Meta especially bad in this regard? Google, Apple, etc. all do their own tracking and advertising, not to mention TikTok, Reddit, etc.

Everyone has their price, I guess. History won't remember any individual FAANG peon anyway, but for that peon, that salary could mean early retirement, a good life for their kids and grandkids, and maybe even generational wealth. I wouldn't do it personally, but it's a tradeoff many would accept.

Seems like the "wrong side" of history is winning anyway, and likely the big US antitrust efforts will all be shut down soon, so today's ethics will probably just seem like a fringe has-been in a decade or so. For any individual developer, they can choose to be a Stallman-like figure and crusade against all the woes of commercialization... and probably get nowhere... or they and their family and their kids can all be rich and live comfortably, regardless of where history goes. It's the old "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" mentality, I guess. Not a hard choice for many.

Most of the world doesn't really care about this stuff. They struggle just to put food on the table. For immigrants coming from worse regimes or weaker economies, especially, FAANG money can be transformative. For every upstanding, ethical developer who refuses a job, there will be 10,000 waiting in line after them.
The only hard part of dealing with nuclear waste is the social aspect. If not for that, you can simply and safely dump it into the ocean. Water is excellent shielding and the amount of uranium/etc already dissolved in sea water is absurd. Put it in a stainless steel vessel first if you want most of it to decay before coming into contact with the water, but that's not even necessary.
>> unless you're Low COL

> I lived in Duluth

I had to retrace the thread to be confident, but I think you leapt to Minnesota-local from an oddly-capitalized fragment of the phrase "low cost of living".

Nevertheless, I enjoyed your personal perspective on the scene history there. :) I can echo your observations from the Boston scene -- e.g. when the one song gets used in a movie or TV show, and new fans of the "new band" have no idea about the years of hard work and crap jobs and crap roommates that were required to get the opportunity.

Still, I loved those years.
I disagree. I mean, it could be worse, but notepad has become feature-laden enough that it almost eliminates the usefulness of the program. I may as well use a full text editor.
Seriously, a use case where LLMs really shine: bullshit padding. It's quite amazing to be able to turn ramble into coherent text. The less obvious tax is that if you don't put effort you will never be able to learn how to write and that will most likely affect thinking too. Writing will remain a valuable tool for improving thinking though, but likely for a lot fewer people.
They very much were; there is a reason why the vaudevillians were all poor immigrants and why much of the modern entertainment industry was established by entrepreneurs/conmen running away to California to escape Thomas Edison.
> Refactoring across repository boundaries requires much more activation energy as compared to spotting and performing gradual refactorings across folder boundaries. Technically it is the same, but the psychological barriers are different.

I love the "activation energy" metaphor here. But I don't agree that "technically it is the same." At my current job, we have more than 100 minirepos and I am unable to confidently refactor the system like I normally would in a monorepo. It's not merely the psychological barrier. It's that I am unable to find all the call sites of any "published" function. Minirepos create too many "published" functions in the form of Nuget packages. Microservices create too many "published" functions in the form of API endpoints. In either case, "Find All References" no longer works; you have to grep, but most names are not unique enough.

For this reason, the kind of refactoring that keeps a codebase healthy happens at a much lower rate than all the other projects I've worked on.
Non mainstream media by its definition probably doesn't attract much people and damages would be restricted; I think the most damage happens in crowded echo chambers where a critical mass, assuming there is one, would be easily reached. Yes, very likely corporations would find other ways to exploit people addiction, and educating kids before it's too late is a good move, however I don't expect much cooperation by parents.
It's not just small towns—I live in San Jose, and I like blues and jazz. A few venues played live blues, and one closed during the pandemic.

Even San Francisco does not have many venues, given how vibrant a city it once was.

Previously lived in LA, even there venues were closing left and right even before the pandemic.

It's the taste in music too, high rental costs for venues.

Another reason we want to move to NYC once our kids are off to college.
The author should consider himself lucky. Just one google service has been suspended. I got my account banned for no reason and lost access to more than 10 years worth of emails, documents, single sign ons to different apps, etc.

Only invoking GDPR and the ownership of a domain name allowed me to regain access and restore email service. Without GDPR I would've got nothing at all.
> I sat down for the afternoon with a pen and paper and somehow managed to decode the password system

Would love to hear more about this, if you have any recollection :)
Very detailed texts on every level of networking, from NICs and LANs to BGP routing so I could bring it back up.
Mandatory objection to this blog post: https://gultsch.de/objection.html
It's probably demographics to a large degree. A lot of people have families and family-related activities and they largely drop out of random socialization.
And indeed, solutions have already appeared: RSS
> Nuclear power plants are largely considered as one of the most reliable sources of energy.

Reliable how?

I mean we first have the issue is we've never built one so how we can judge reliability?

I assume the author is alluding to the apparent abundance of fuel for nuclear fusion. This is and isn't true. Obviously hydrogen (particularly protium) is abundant. Deuterium is relatively abundant, even at ~150ppm. Tritium needs to be produced in a nuclear reactor.

Current hydrogen fusion models revolve around dueterium-tritium ("D-T") fusion. This is because you need to neutrons to sustain the reaction but that presents two huge problems:

1. Because everything is at such high temperature, you eject fast neutrons. This is an energy loss for the system and there's not really a lot you can do about it; and

2. Those free fast neutrons destroy your containment vessel and reactor (as do free Helium nuclei aka alpha particles).

And then after you do all that you boil water and turn a turbine just like you do in a coal or natural gas plant.

So "reliable" is an interesting and questionable claim.

There are other variants like so-called aneutronic fusion (eg Helium-3, which is far from abundant) and those aren't really "neutron free". They're really just "fewer neutrons".

So what about containment? Magnetic fields can contain charged particles and you have various designs (eg tokamak, stellarator) and that's what the AI is for here I guess.

But the core problem is to make this work you superheat the plasma so you're dealing with a turbulent fluid. That's inherently problematic. Any imperfection or failure in your containment field is going to be a problem.

Stars deal with this by being large and thus using sheer size (ie neutrons can't go that far without hitting another nucleus) and gravity.

It increasingly seems to me that commercial nuclear fusion power generator is a pipe dream, something we simply want to be true. I'm not convinced it'll ever be commercially viable.

I'd love to be proven wrong and certainly won't stop anyone from trying.

In a way AI is the new blockchain. Go back a few years and you had a gold rush of startups attaching every idea to "blockchain" to build hype. That's what AI is now. I don't think it fundamentally changes any of the inherent problems in nuclear fusion.
Mushroom Color Atlas
> There is, for example, as far as I understand it, still plenty of attack surface for them to run different software than they say they do.

I would not say "plenty." The protocol that clients use to connect to a PCC node leverages code signing to verify the node is running an authentic, published binary. That code signing is backed by the secure element in Apple's custom hardware (and is part of the reason PCC can only run on this custom hardware, never third party clouds). So to attack this you'd really have to attack the hardware root of trust. Apple details the measures they take here.[1]

Having said that, it would be a mistake to assume Apple is trying to cryptographically prove that Apple is not a fundamentally malicious actor that has designed a system to trick you. That's not the goal here.

What they are providing a high level of guarantee for is that your data is safe from things like a rogue internal actor, a critical software vulnerability, an inadvertent debug log data leak, or a government subpoena. That's a huge step forward and nowhere near what other architectures can guarantee in an independently verifiable way.

[1] https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compu...
I'm very glad that there isn't an OS-wide thing like "Apple Intelligence", personally.
As I recall (because I was paying very close attention at the time), the FBI dropped the case on the morning before the first court session. They'd either cracked it last minute or had the info earlier and hoped to set a precedent but veered at the last minute because their case was weak enough not to take a chance. I was extremely angry at the FBI at the time and ranting to anyone who would listen about the privacy implications, so I remember this well.
Lots of co-workers in Serbia do this today. Someone gets a fast fiber connection and they run an Ethernet cable to their friend in the building across the way. They both split the costs.
Here it's simpler, you fill out the form on your phone, take a picture on your phone and then the passport arrives in the post. Then you eventually sign it after a bored border official passes comment.
What a legacy to leave behind. RIP Mr. Cash, thank you for your contributions to humanity. May many others follow in your footsteps.
Part of it is that consoles are just PCs now. There is absolutely no excuse to not be backwards compatible in the current day.

But by the same token, consumers are realizing that consoles are just a less useful version of a gaming PC. The real deal has infinitely more utility for not much more money. Console makers are trying to sweeten the pot (or staunch the bleeding) by artificially expanding their library with prior generation games. At least until they get bored and decide to black hole all those same games, Sega.

Frankly I don't see any point to consoles anymore apart from the Console Experience(TM). A PC does it better, faster, cheaper, with literally more games than your entire extended family can play in their combined lifetimes. It also does literally anything else you could want.

A console plays games and streams Netflix and that's about it. It has an artificially limited number of titles, and after a point will never get more and will become a stupidly expensive paperweight. A gaming PC can be useful for over a decade with no upgrades.

Especially since couch co-op is no longer a thing game studios are interested in, there's just no point. I don't expect to ever buy another console.
Monal on iOS is making a lot of progress recently.
I don't understand this sentiment. Donald Trump has done nothing nor intends to do nothing that is either pro or anti abortion. His actions pushed abortion legislation back to the state level, which is how it should be. Forcing federal legislation on this topic is ludicrous because of differing opinions, so what Trump did is an absolute win for everyone.
The e in eDRAM doesn't really mean DRAM embedded in the cpu, it means DRAM embedded inside a logic process.

Modern DRAM chips are manufactured in an entirely different way on a very different process than logic chips, and the manufacturing processes are incompatible. eDRAM was a very different implementation of DRAM that could be manufactured on a logic process.

The difference between eDRAM and DRAM is not just that eDRAM is closer, it was also typically dramatically faster, but also had shorter retention period requiring more frequent refresh.
What do you mean by "1gbps from/to the internet"?

125 MB per second × 60 seconds per minute × 60 minutes per hour × 24 hours per day x 30 days = 324 TB?

If you want 1 Gbps unmetered colo pricing, AWS is not competitive. So set up your video streaming service elsewhere :-)

https://portal.colocrossing.com/register/order/service/480 offers unmetered for $2,500 additional per month, for the record.

If you have high bandwidth needs on AWS you can use AWS Lightsail, which has some discounted transfer rates.
Could you please share how did GDPR help in this case?
Compared to what? Compared to IRC, yes, but it's not really comparable.

The closest comparison is probably Matrix and that is a pretty complex protocol too.
I'm the first to dogpile on the Democrats in a lot of areas but I feel they have done very well with the FTC in the past 4 years and it is a shame they did not do a good job at highlighting their accomplishments. This short-lived era of attempting to hold corporations accountable is likely done though now that Republicans are in complete control.
If you use Google services eventually this is going to happen, its common and widespread and they aren't interested in fixing the problem. You never get an answer as to what you did wrong and likely it was just an algorithm error anyway. Avoid anything of substance on a google account and what you do use assume it could disappear tomorrow.
Actually who you vote for determines this a great deal. A democratic president actually brought some bite back to the FTC.

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/10/02/biden-ftc-antitrust-...
There Is No Ideal Drug Policy
we recently traveled to Kaga and that's where I saw what appeared to be the "aging population" in full effect. it was a pretty big city around the Kagaonsen station, and it did look like it _used_ to be bustling and full of life at _some_ point. now, you can drive around and you'll barely see anyone around. if you do see someone, it's likely someone at least 50.

though the caveat is that maybe we visited at the wrong time (it was a weekday). maybe the youth only show up on the weekends.