skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My phone has come up in some dreams. But it seems my dream world can't properly render it cause it's always blurry, but even when I'm doing something specific, it has never, not once, worked the way its supposed to. My dream phones always do about 1 action and then completely stop responding. Then i get confused because i had a specific task in mind that's slowly fading and all i know is this diffusing rectangle in my floating palm is disobeying me. The dream moves on
My personal moment of "CEO's -- they're just like us!" was walking into a Kinko's in Santa Monica to drop off a package, and seeing a sweaty Stephen Elop frantically photocopying documents the week his part in this debacle came to a head.
I mean, you talk about the problem, and everybody loves you and rushes to agree with your observations.

You talk about the [underlying reason for the problem][1] and everybody hates you.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation
Yeah, all zeldas, marios and pokemons will be there by default. Still no new info ;)
They already exist, but of course aren’t exactly the same https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FreeFont
> - No mention of[…] Java support. Lack of Java would shut out a big mass of existing SW
Check out https://django-bridge.org/

It allows you to use a regular Django backend with views, forms, urls, etc but render the UI with Javascript
I wonder if they have a new control technique up their sleeve. Innovative gameplay and pushing new control ideas is one of Nintendo’s signatures. That said, being the switch 2, not a new console, maybe they kept it the same and just upgraded the processing and graphics hardware.

Looking forward to more!
Do you mean paying others to game for you?
Yeah, that's why we put sharp turns at the bottom of roads too.

It is selfish to only think about the driver coming from the hill. The driver that thinks it is okay to drive 45mph in that situation.

Do you see the irony of your statement.
Nintendo never really uses brand new tech. It's their design philosophy. https://medium.com/@adamagb/nintendo-s-little-known-product-...
Had a bug about two years ago that I just could not reproduce. In fact, only the engineer who reported it could reproduce it. Finally, I did "go to gemba" and went into the test lab and watched him use the machine.

He was doing a complex operation and was young and fast enough to overcome the keypress reporting interval. Literally it was just someone doing something we didn't expect and doing it fast enough that the sequence got messed up.
Eh, I think as always is still just comes down to resource contention right at the root of the issues. We still all monk e, some things will never change.
Mirror since the 3 already posted don't actually work: https://archive.org/details/document_20250116
Hey HN!

I'm Tim, a developer shipping apps from his bedroom.

Would love to read your feedback about this little tool I made.
> i don't have reasonable grounds to conclude that israel didn't have evidence to conclude the hospital had lost its protected status due to being used in hostilities. Thus i can't conclude that israel violated the laws of war either.

That is... quite preposterous.

In any case, if the IDF had even one iota of credible evidence, they would put it out there - instead, all they put out are lies and deception, like the ridiculous 3D animation of Al-Shifa hospital, the Arabic calendar that was claimed to be a list of hostages, verifiable planted evidence, or most hilarious of all, the numerous pristine copies of Mein Kampf.

So let's examine the evidence shall we?

1. The IDF has not published any credible evidence that Hamas have used any hospital for resistance purposes
2. The IDF has repeatedly been caught fabricating evidence
3. International doctors working at hospitals in Gaza say they have seen no evidence of Hamas in hospitals
4. The IDF has now destroyed, damaged or otherwise decommissioned every hospital in Gaza, even going as far as smashing up medical equipment left behind and setting fire to evacuated buildings
5. The IDF itself has illegally set up bases of military operations inside Gazan hospitals it's decommissioned
6. The IDF has been embarking on a campaign of genocide, purposely destroying civilian infrastructure, such as water facilities, power plants, banks etc
7. The IDF recently tried the exact same thing in Lebanon, where they have been destroying civilian other infrastructure, and then made false claims to "justify" bombing a hospital - but they failed, as they were unable to control the media in Lebanon and they showed it was just a regular hospital
8. We've seen IDF soldiers, in their own words on social media, talk about "exterminating" Palestinians for over a year - so the IDF isn't exactly a credible organisation
9. We've seen IDF war crimes with our own eyes and ears almost daily for over a year - so the IDF isn't exactly a credible organisation
10. We've seen Israeli politicians and TV personalities spread hatred and racism, and issue clearly genocidal statements almost daily for over a year - so the state of Israel, also an aparheid state, isn't exactly a credible organisation
If you are able to string that series of words together with a question mark, you have absolutely no business speaking authoritatively about the Syrian conflict.

Yes, Hezbollah was propping Assad up. They actively intervened in the civil war on his side and were responsible for several mass atrocities in Syria including blockading villages to starvation and mass executions. They have been involved since the very beginning of the conflict in 2011.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah_involvement_in_the...
Brings back memories of visiting northern Virginia as a teenager and recognizing all the town names from IRC servers, like Ashburn, McClean, Vienna, and several others.

I saw the VA governor speak at some point in the late '90s, and he touted Virginia "internet capital of the world". I naively thought it was because of all the IRC servers.
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Have you considered doing this for mice? Im fine with a normal keyboard, but mice, maaaaan. My hand doesnt sit right on any mouse, and my hand is always dragging on the pad, etc.

I briefly thought about like a form fitting style, where you go and have your hand scanned in resting position on a dummy mouse, and then the mouse body is formed for your hand. This could also allow for button customizations as well.
> Sure, you can classify A/B testing as one extremely suboptimal approach to solving MAB problem. This classification doesn’t help much though, because the other MAB techniques do “magically increase the rewards” compared this simple technique.

You are quite simply wrong. There is nothing suboptimal about an A/B test between two choices performed until desired statistical significance. There is nothing you can do to magically increase anything.

If you think there is, you'll have to describe something specific. Because nowhere in the academic MAB literature does anyone attempt to state the contrary. And which, again, is why this blog post is so flawed.
A big problem is not length but width. I've 3d printed a _pad_ for solo joycon and the difference is day and night
In this case if (num_lines+1)(sizeof (char)) is zero that is certainly unintended
Thanks for providing a definition of a commonly understood legal term that I used.

Here’s a screenshot of the accusations of bribery contained in the Hindenburg report: https://imgur.com/a/cta3zuj

If you take even a cursory glance at the report, the main issues are not accounting.
Can you explain why every good phone that Nokia released during the period was killed instantly?

To this day I've not seen a phone that felt more responsive than the Nokia N9, which also looked amazing. Yet it was killed pretty much the second it was released.
You can point it out a million times, but they don't care that Elon Musk is a hypocrite, they only care that he pisses off the wokes.

Their definition of "free speech" is literally "the freedom to piss of the wokes without consequence."
Ask HN: Need new international CC payment provider with low fees
Anyone that uses CC payment provider with low txn fees (>2%) on their website which also allows for transfer of payments abroad? I need to integrate new CC payments in my website as the current CC payment provider don't allow transfers to foreign bank accouts and I'm planning to move my business to Dubai soon.
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This is fascinating. A reminder that being (broadly) right in your analysis doesn't necessarily mean you can execute to turn things around.

They note the impact to the high-end, the fact that UI is crucial, they even had a good guess at 2008 sales numbers (estimate 14m, looks like real was 13m).

I was intrigued by this bullet point on how their Maemo platform could help:

* Cellular development of the maemo platform and the politics surrounding it?

Any folks from Nokia in this time care to shed more light on that? I always felt the N9 was a beautiful piece of design and implementation - just late and under-supported.
Agree. PlayStation 1...5 has worked well for Sony. XBOX is a mess (I am an XBOX guy myself).
The BSD license permits redistribution and use, with or without modification. This permission is conditional on a copyright-related thing (among other things), but there's nothing suggesting that the license is limited to copyright-related rights. If someone grants you a BSD license to their software and then sues you for patent infringement for redistributing or using it, it seems like they'd be likely to lose the lawsuit because they granted you a license to do what you're doing.

On the other hand, there's nothing explicitly stating that the permission is intended to extend to practicing the patents embodied in the software. That's just an inference any reasonable person would draw from the language of the license. It may be better to state it explicitly, as the Apache license does.

But it may be worse, because longer licenses contain more to argue over, and once you start listing the particular causes of action you're promising not to sue for, you may miss some. Suppose your program is for chemistry and includes a list of solubility parameters for different compounds. If someone copies that, that's a potential cause of action under national laws implementing the sui generis database rights in the EU Database Protection directive: https://www.eumonitor.eu/9353000/1/j4nvk6yhcbpeywk_j9vvik7m1... which postdates the authorship of the BSD license and isn't mentioned in the Apache License 2.0 either. Plausibly the explicit listing of copyright rights and patent rights in the license will incline courts to decide that no license to database rights was intended.

Some future legislation will presumably create new intellectual property restrictions we currently can't imagine, even if it also removes some of the ones we currently suffer from.

(A separate issue is that the patent holder may not be the person who granted the license or indeed have contributed in any way to the creation of the BSD-licensed software, which is just as much of a problem with the Apache license.)

Issues like these require thoughtful deliberation, and unfortunately the Reddit format adopted by HN makes that impossible—in fact, the editing and replying deadlines added for HN make it a medium even less amenable to such discussions.
I hope that was not a serious question.

It doesn't understand anything because it's not conscious.
I believe it lol, in the presentation you can see they are still moving forward with the sms focused windowing design while the iphone was introducing the touch screen.

Now of course I’m looking at it retrospectively but still
Bravo on them making the video 2:22 for Switch 2.

Edit: the mobile web version of the same video shows as 2:21. Interesting YouTube bug!
Smartwatch bands can contain 'major' levels of toxic PFAS, study finds
Don't fret. The IT systems in Finland's top polytechnic grad school have always been shit.
> The Gaza war is not about revenge, it’s about security.

Neither. It's about land, resources, and trade routes. The justifications are about revenge, security, religion, etc, but that's not what's keeping this all going.

> As far as justifying killing and abuse, the world is a complicated place.

There's nothing complicated about illegal occupation, apartheid, systemic rape and torture, or genocide. There really isn't.

> I think killing is justified in self defense

Sure, and the UN agrees. Try comparing casualty rates some time.

> Israel is certainly a bad actor but Hamas is far worse

By what possible metric? Certainly not as measured by civilian casualties. Not confirmed rapes or torture. Not hostages taken. Not in tons of bombs dropped on civilians, not on targeting of journalists and UN workers, not in terms of hospitals bombed, or schools, or mosques, or churches, or ancient landmarks. Not in terms of 'who started it'. Not in terms of buying media and politicians favor, or spreading lies designed to justify atrocities.

> What I think is clear is that Israel is not obligated to go easy on Hamas

They are obligated to follow international law. And we (the Western countries arming and enabling them) are obligated to punish their failure to do so.
This is a fantastic post. I really feel like these concepts should be introduced to programmers much earlier on in their education and this article does a great job of presenting the info in an approachable manner.
Right, what i take issue with is that you hear similarly dehumanizing things said about palenstinians on mainstream news outlets in the US every single day (my friends in group chats share thme). I don't think any dehumanizing language like that is a good thing but really hard to act like there isn't asymmetric policies applied here
He only cares about benefiting himself and promoting his image.
Nothing is perfect but it's ridiculous to say Node is more chaotic than Python. What's the Python package manager of the month? uv? poetry? pipenv? conda? pip? pyenv? setuptools? virtualenv? venv? pdm? easy_install? pymgr? mamba?

Some only create environments, some only install, some don't even resolve packages, some don't create lock files, some only install python, AND NONE OF THEM agree where to install!

Where does npm install? node_modules and it's been that way from the start.

*I added a fake one to see if people can spot it.
I don't think so, it's just a massive intranet project with tons of third-party dependencies¹ that spews out a 20 MB minified JS build. I don't think we even modified the original CRA configuration. No typechecking, no eslint or anything else during the build process, they were all run separately when they were needed.

1: like support for various file formats that are constantly needed by every user and it makes no sense to lazy load them
What information sources do you use to find the cheap + growing things?
Iceland was invaded by a foreign power (the UK) during WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Iceland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_occupation_of_Iceland

(Very politely, but still...)

> Uncomfortable with the crowd, Consul Shepherd turned to the Icelandic police. "Would you mind ... getting the crowd to stand back a bit, so that the soldiers can get off the destroyer?" he asked. "Certainly," came the reply.

> One Icelander snatched a rifle from a marine and stuffed a cigarette in it. He then threw it back to the marine and told him to be careful with it. An officer arrived to scold the marine.
I’m glad to see Nintendo found a form factor that’s kind of gimmicky that actually worked. The Wii and Wii U were too gimmicky, but portability was a great choice. I’m also glad to see backwards compatibility.

I’m excited to see what kind of hardware improvements have been made. The switch came out in March 2017, just about 8 years ago. Just due to the way Nintendo games have their animated charm, they’re able to make their games look excellent on that hardware still. That said, I’d love to see how good a Zelda game looks on some new hardware.
The Israeli security narrative is not hysteria. It is a fact that Palestinian militants have committed terrorism against Israelis and they plan to continue to do so at every given opportunity. The same can not be said for the Jews in Germany(nor the Jews in Israel either, they have by and large not committed to a terrorism campaign like Hamas has). A bit confusing to me that you can’t see the obvious difference between lies and fact.

Unfortunately the Palestinians have left the Israelis with the options of “oppress the Palestinians” or “be the victim of terrorist attacks”. I don’t think they’re wrong for choosing to be safe.
> almost certainly very few of whom have no real stake in the fight

This is a common Zionist take saying that just because someone is not from the region, they cannot criticise Israel's mass slaughter of children. Also, this has very much to do with American politics, as the US is the main backer of the apartheid state.
> do you really think that overnight they changed

No, as you said yourself it happened over a long period. And the reason? They probably realised they were getting played by Israel, who wanted them to be violent to "justify" their continuing genocide of the Palestinian people and theft of their lands.
Didn't Microsoft have something like that? Sketchflow?
Looks like the sliding controllers bit means that they will work like a computer mouse.
No. Does this mean that solar systems will eventually be consumed by the stars at their centre, planets falling out of their orbits due to gravity? It does not. Gravity doesn't work like that.

The planets may be consumed, when the star runs out of fuel and swells a lot, and such is the Earth's fate. But that scenario is not one that happens to black holes.
This is a one-sided description of the conflict. I am empathetic to Israel, because they also do not have a lot options.

Israel, as it it currently constituted (based on 1967 borders) is not a viable state if the West Bank is a hostile entity with a standing army, and funded to a similar extent as Hezbollah. The West Bank bulges into Israel and effectively cuts the country in half and places all strategic targets within shelling distance.

The Palestinian position seems to be "trust us that if you give us full, un-fettered independence, then we will not be a hostile entity" - but that's asking for Israel to place an enormous amount of trust in present and future Palestinian people and leaders, without any historical reasons to base this on, and highlighted by the worst case scenario of Hezbollah in the north, a foreign-controlled militia funded to the tune of 1 billion / year, and potential a hostile party in the West Bank (and Gaza) - effectively surrounding the country.

And it is more than just demilitarization. A demilitarized Palestine is not enough if, for example, Iran funnels hundreds of millions of dollars in arms to militia groups.

Hence we are where we are .. with Israel unable to disengage because doing so presents an existential risk to their nation.
Classically, a CEO is an intern with a bald spot and an ulcer.
It's a philosophy that worked for them incredibly well with the Switch, so unlikely they'll totally reverse it for the Switch 2.
From `malloc(3)`:

Nonportable behavior
The behavior of these functions when the requested size is zero is glibc specific; other implementations may return NULL without setting errno, and portable POSIX programs should tolerate such behavior. See realloc(3p).

POSIX requires memory allocators to set errno upon failure. However, the C standard does not require this, and applications portable to non-POSIX platforms should not assume this.
> Any folks from Nokia in this time care to shed more light on that?

Cellular connection was not allowed for the Linux devices so they don't compete with the Symbian phones. Nokia had deeply dysfunctional internal politics at that point.
Relieved that they are just iterating instead of trying to go for something radically different like they did. Everybody is pretty happy with the current feature set, just add some stuff and get a nice power upgrade in there and you're all set for another 6 years.
Jesse Schell's book is a great read beyond game design.

Thanks for the other links.

To leave something in return, here's something I read the other day and kept thinking about it (I'm designing on a PvP motion based game)

"In competitive games, there is little more valuable than knowing the mind of the opponent, which the Japanese call “yomi.”

As a side note, I would even argue that the “strategic depth” of a game should be defined almost entirely on its ability to support and reward yomi."

The Yomi Layer concept is a reminder that moves need to have counters. If you know what the opponent will do, you should generally have some way of dealing with that.

https://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/7-spies-of-the-mind
Right, not a point source and not exactly a blob either; more like swirls. I'm not learned in this area either.
> homes stolen by Iraqis, Egyptians, Moroccans... A peace treaty can't truly be comprehensive until they get reparations for that injustice.

What do Palestinians have to do with Iraq, Egypt and Morocco?
The hand placement when using the controllers attached to the screen somehow looks even more uncomfortable than on the original.
Don't the attachable rails help the width (or did you mean thickness)?
Attaching the grips helps a lot with that.
Honestly probably yes to all of those. Except for small children the dreams are probably also non-visual like in the case of blind people.
They probably dream about "weird feelings" (chills, shivers, cold, heat etc) and smells and sounds and whatnot.
The TST also assumes that some of the instincts are inherited from our ancestors (e.g. that uneasy feeling when you walk alone through the forest at night - because for thousands of years predators could kill you in that exact scenario) so a baby's brain might dream about those feelings too (probably without visuals, just chemically induced feeling of uneasyness).

And back to the screen scenario:
To the brain "excitement" is also "stressful" from a chemical PoV. So if you really really enjoyed some game (as a kid or whatnot) you probably dreamt about it too.
Intel embraced Linux when they bet big in datacenters in early 2002. The momentum they got from there, with Linux dominating the sector, made them realize how much of a benefit it is to have a free software stack. With Linux they were able to go head to head with the incumbents of the day.

Linux and x86 became unbeatable in the space for 20 years.

They have known how important it is. They won't forget.
I don't understand the point of a comment like this - the article is about a historical figure who is relevant to a large-scale event. Why is that a bad thing, and why do we need to solve all other issues in the world first?
call to dispose other's people money is easy.
you are free to make you donation.
> Equal shot at virality

What makes you think that? The process is not open and fully controlled by the company running the show
Probably makes it feel more legitimate and "booky". Some young people i know got obsessed with the idea they should read more because it makes people more intelligent. Then they choose the murder of the week to read. If it's the same size as Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov it feels much weightier and important. In addition to flashy colorful covers, I'd imagine it's just an effective marketing choice
I actually don't mind modern version of Nintendo Tip Line
It's a nice thought, but internationalisation would make that difficult. On my system, the Noto international font weighs about 170 MiB compressed (gzip-compressed TTF, sans and serif styles, all weights, including symbols and colour emoji).

Even just focusing on Latin scripts, a few hundred fonts would roughly double the compressed download size for browsers and Electron apps.

It might be possible to come up with a better compression scheme which exploits redundancy between different typefaces, but as far as I know, that tech doesn't exist yet.
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