skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great time capsule. I'd love to see a similar document from the same period from Microsoft, because I really wonder if Ballmer's much-lampooned interview after the iPhone's intro was bluster or a real position held by the mobile unit at MSFT.

"<laughs> $500 fully subsidized with a plan? That is the most expensive phone in the world, and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine."

It's a take that has aged like milk, but Ballmer wasn't (and isn't) an idiot. The rest of the market looked at the iPhone and saw the future, and moved accordingly. I mean, the first major users I saw of the iPhone were BUSINESS users, in point of fact.

So I've always wondered if that was just bluster, or he really was drinking so much Redmond-flavored Kool-aid that he didn't, or couldn't, see what was about to happen.

(In re: Kool-aid, in 2009-ish, my company did a joint deal at a large client with MSFT; we had complimentary products, so we were pitching as a unit. The MSFT guys were genuinely vexed that we had iPhones. Like, personally affronted. And this was in Kansas, far from the mothership. At the time, WinMo was AWFUL. It couldn't even do IMAP without a 3rd party client -- it was Exchange or POP only. None of us had ever really used a WinMo phone for very long, because (at that time) a Treo was still a great option, and RIM hadn't fully wet the bed, so WinMo was pretty thin on the ground unless your paycheck said "Microsoft" on it.)
Perhaps you should inform yourself about the actual problem/proposed solution here - the issue isnt installing a fresh new version, it’s the uninstallation steps required to even get there in the first place. and no, mac os will not let me do this, even when I follow the prompts. docker’s elevated permission scripted solution is the only thing that has worked yet.
> I can't take an Andy Warhol painting, modify it in some way and then claim it's my own original work.

This is a hilarious choice of artist given that Warhol is FAMOUS for appropriating work of others without payment, modifying it in some way, and then turning around and selling it for tons of money. That was the entire basis of a lot of his artistic practice. There was even a Supreme Court case about it.
Those are very minor 'gimmicks' compared to handheld, touch control, motion control, or hybrid.
From your POV yes. But obviously not from Drew's POV.

Now that we established everyone have different POV and a sense of what is right and wrong how do we proceed from here?
Sadly for me nothing renders except this:

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I barely use the joycons.

I mostly play with either a Switch Pro Controller or an 8BitDo (that is actually my favorite).

I have large hands and the joycons are a little uncomfortable for me. But it makes sense, they should feel great in the hands of a child.
This is from the people who brought you "Microsoft Windows 10 Home Single Language 32-bit" though.
Do we know if the aspect ratio is the same? Maybe they're demonstrating Switch 1 games that have a slightly different aspect ratio, but can be updated to fit the new screen in the future?
Yup, I tried everything but scrolling and gave up, since that isn't a normal function in 3d space.
Kodak also bought Ofoto in 2001. So basically they had over a decade lead on Instagram. What did they do with it? Try to drive people to print more photos, on Kodak paper. I don't think they ever really embraced digital, maybe isolated parts of the company did, but the film/print cultural inertia was just too strong.
Thanks for this. My parent's neighborhood has these purple lights and they are terrible. I never cared enough to do even the slightest bit of to understand why this problem is the way it is, until your comment.
>That is great if your idea for a game or other product only requires those already existing assets.

Which many will. Just look at the indie games on Steam, a vast amount of them use pre-existing assets.

Jim Sterling poisoned an entire generation of gamedev's minds against it, but there's nothing wrong with doing so.

>You would have to commission an artist to create them, which costs money that you as a bootstrapped independent developer may not have.

If you want a game with quality, unique artwork, likely a style you want to build a brand around and monetize, you should be willing to spend the money on an artist to create it. Using a technology which is trained on the work and style of artists (without their permission, mind you) to extrude an art-like product just to avoid having to pay for it is gross.

>It also takes considerably more time than generative AI does.

Does it? Chances are that "Walrus riding a surfboard, wearing a top hat, holding a katana in his right hand, and holding a slice of Hawaiian pizza in his left hand" is going to be replete with errors, not have a consistent style, have bad geometry if it's a model, and need to be edited anyway. It isn't going to be what you imagined in your head, because generative AI is a mediocrity machine, and it isn't going to compete against a coherent design implemented by real artists who care about their work.

You'd be better off just buying assets or hiring an artist either way. It isn't even that expensive, artists are desperate for work now that AI is eating them alive.
I am not sure. How would crawlers filter this?
What am I missing? I can sit in my den and watch SpaceX and now Blue Origin launches, in real time see the telemetry data, see stage separation, reentry burns, etc, etc. As for Saturn V, to quote the Byrds "I was so much older then..." but I don't recall any of that. Doesn't film require taking the exposed product to a lab for after the fact processing? While the Blue Origin images this morning were not nearly as good as the SpaceX, to me the images are absolutely incredible. I am a serious amateur photographer and I do still shoot film on occasion but I see little dynamic range differences now in 2025.
Qutebrowser offers that.
Tried to with vector embeddings and stuff and worked out okay-ish but sadly failed to get a solid mvp. Some retro tldr:
1. Fomo of losing papers not looked over by a proper researcher
2. What is a good, novel paper - research undoubtedly has its trends and cold start problem, inevitably fueling papers with overused topics to be tagged noteworthy, negating the purpose of doing daily arxiv digest
Shameless self-PR: we are building p2p cloud gaming at https://borg.games

You should get low latency as long as anyone in your city joins as a provider.
Sounds like extra bureaucracy.
"Switcheroo"
"The Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group.."

From Wikipedia. You are absolutely wrong here, it is as much an ethnicity as it is a religion.

"Palestinian" didn't mean anything before, it's just the name of a land where Jews and Arabs coexisted.
By listening to different points of view and deciding what best makes sense to us. That is why suppressing speech(es) is wrong.
GPU performance should be somewhere between PS4 and PS4 Pro. More memory is a good sign that Nintendo's machine will allow a larger software catalogue than that of the Xbox Series S, where 10 GB has been a severe impediment to porting.
A useful tool indeed!
And upsell a magnifying lens to make the screen bigger.

/s

(1) https://www.thevintagegamers.com/2013/11/game-boy-screen-mag...
I mean, it's almost certainly got updated hardware too right? The Tegra in the OG switch is getting pretty long in the tooth. This isn't just a hardware refresh, it's a whole new console
That is fair. What is your counter argument Drew?
I like the idea of F# type providers but last time I tried (two years ago) they were pretty shit compared to any mainstream ORM/alternative - has that improved ?

Also ORM for simple row selects is a straw-man - their use case is deserializing, updating relationship graphs where they hide away a bunch of code. Should that code be hidden is a different question - but pretending it's there to save you from typing SELECT * FROM foo is kind of disingenuous. Editing graph data structures in most FP languages is just not compatible with OOP approach hence no ORM.
That's false. Intuition does work in quantum mechanics, if you do the work to build up a good intuition for quantum mechanics. Which means exactly what I'm talking about: building your intuition on models that give true results in the situation, and which allow you to combine and remix atomic ideas in useful ways.

Unfortunately the version of QM that is taught in textbooks is not especially useful for figuring out what the intuition is. I have my own model that I've concocted that does a much better job, but there are still plenty of things I don't understand well (having not done, like, a graduate degree in it).
> There's a reason people pay for Netflix despite pirating proposing a higher level of quality; Netflix is just easier

I'm slightly annoyed how this comment completely ignores the moral and ethical reasons someone might want to avoid making an illegal copy of something while denying it's creators any compensation. I need more coffee.
Simple has nothing to do with it. The point is that people ignore warnings all of the time for various reasons. Some people look at the risk/reward factor and decide the risk isn’t that bad. Some people have no idea what the risk means and ignore it. People go sky diving even after having to sign all of the liability release forms, make a video recording while reading a release statement, etc. in Hawaii, there are signs that suggest people to not travel any further due to safety reasons and by proceeding further you do accept all liability. Nobody stops there, and the vast majority don’t even stop long enough to read the sign.

The point being that humans are bad at weighing risk/reward and make bad decisions all of the time.
> They are much better for end users because someone over there cared. Whomever designed the ones in the article clearly does not

This is kind of my point, at a very general level the statement "$thing follows design standards" may or may not mean that $thing is actually better for users.
Stdio Buffering
A feature they could still possibly have snuck in would be the ability to cast a feed from the handheld to a TV.
Directory of job boards by category (remote only, data science, etc.)
The bawk stops here.
My hot take on this is that it is due to a lack of energy. I liked the phrase “a will to have nice things.”

We all want the nice things. However, they require conscientiousness. People who are run down and lack energy struggle with conscientiousness.

So why are we all rundown and lacking the energy required to have nice things? There are many reasons, some controversial.

One that is not so controversial is the industrialization of food. As the quality of food that our mothers consume has degraded, so have their offspring. I believe in TCM this concept is called maternal jing, or the essential life essence that you receive from your mother. Healthy moms breed a healthy populace. This is a problem generations in the making that keeps getting worse.

One that is more controversial is the impact of banking. Money is the life blood of society, and we’ve given bankers the right to siphon off our blood as they see fit. Generations of wealth transfer from the working class to bankers has left the populace anemic.

Japan has it better because they have maintained a more traditional way of life.
I worked with an ex-Kodak guy, and he related the following story to me from the 80’s or early 90’s.

Xerox was kicking their ass, they were completely owning the copier market. But it was a natural fit for Kodak, they knew imaging better than everybody, why couldn’t they get into this market? This guy was on a crack team of engineers a VP assembled to create a competing product. 9 months later, they demo a fully digital copy machine, working, ready to go, with competitive pricing and features.

But the higher ups at Kodak were incensed. They told the product needs a redesign, because Kodak was a film company, so the product needed to use film for copying. The revised product was a complete failure, and was the reason said engineer left Kodak shortly thereafter.

My take is devotion to brand identity is death during these critical inflection points. YMMV
The gpl makes those completely useless for such a purpose.
You could say the same about any peaceful protest, whether it's this, climate, politics, or etc. I don't have a strong opinion about this specific talk happening, but I think that if you see something that's wrong in the world, you should try to right it, extremes notwithstanding.
> I also found Trump's signalling in the whole issue odd. His base and his cabinet is full of the most hard-line pro-israel figures imaginable, but then he goes forward and quotes Jeffrey Sachs and ostensibly pressures Netanyahu into accepting the ceasefire.

It's not odd, considering that most pro-Israel figures (and most Israelis themselves) are not pro-Netanyahu.
Indeed, it is something regulators should be hotter on, because that is not only breaking the spirit but the letter. I think they've been trying to go after the bigger fish in this regard (notice that google's box at least has one click to say no now), but it'll take some time for it to filter downwards, and still people will cargo-cult the pop-ups even if they don't actually need them (which, for the average wordpress blog, you don't).
Just based on teraflops it sits between a PS4 and a PS4 Pro.

But teraflops isn’t the whole picture though, it has other modern features like AI upscaling (DLSS) plus others.

For a portable it’s pretty nice.
We've established that it's as biased against Zionism as it is about Muhammad for leading with the fact that he founded Islam! Your line is bizarre.
Can you elaborate?

My memory is that Apple _charged_ developers to make apps :)
A protest like this is basically just IRL adblock. Do you not use ad blockers because of "free speech" ideology?
To me, Nintendo is more about gameplay then graphics and i hope it stays that way.
I know, and you can basically restore full GameCube compatibility on the Wii U via Nintendont. Neither of them let you use the actual physical games from the old system, and needing to perform jailbreak hacks to use them and load ROMs on anyway doesn't count as much as out-of-the-box compatibility.
Classic innovators dilemma.

The entire point of an organization is to systematize, standardize, and make reliable something that is working.

When that thing stops working, and the wind changes, that organization is now a giant anchor full of the wrong people doing the wrong stuff inside the wrong systems on autopilot.
bit of a weird article to find on the top of HN, to be sure..

But I felt similarly when I picked up Haskell coming from Ruby and Java, so I can understand the attitude. :D
If a colleague gave me LLM responses instead of genuine feedback I would never ask them for a review again. Which may be what they were going for. But sadly this is not what I wanted.

Be better. Someone respected your opinion enough to go out and ask for it. Take a minute to reflect.
There will be useful applications that will change the world and a new hype cycle to chase so everyone will forget about the outrageous proclamations and just focus on the new new thing.
That's my case as well, especially now that Switch has established itself and you can get Switch Mini for $200 if interested in on-the-go experience.
Yeah, I think it would be very challenging for most people. It did considerably better with Graphviz than with ASCII art, but it still had trouble with the transition from a perfectly correct and highly nuanced verbal grammatical analysis to Graphviz. I think this is pretty convincing evidence against ChuckMcM's implicit position. It's weaker evidence against mschuster91's explicit position because parsing is something computers have been doing for a long time, so it doesn't imply any new capabilities.

I'm pretty sure there are part-of-speech tagging parsers using fairly shallow statistics that could also have produced an equivalently good sentence diagram. https://corenlp.run/ seems to produce a correct parse, though in a different format.
Sure, ok I guess. Let's say it's valid, I can agree with that.

... but _why_ point it out? What's the purpose of doing so?
Meh. I have no idea if I am smart or not -- the last several years proved to me I am definitely stupider than I thought -- but I know that with time I only started buying things I directly derive value from or in the worst-case scenario, I'll undoubtedly need during the next few months. No cutesy phone cases, no gadgets "because why not", no extra socks "because you never know", no new toaster because the current one just a tad too big etc. Almost no unnecessary purchases.

It's much more related to maturing on this or that axis than being smart IMO.
To the Switch 2, obviously.
Singapore persecutes Christians? Since when?

They suffer no lack of opportunities for higher education (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Singapore#Educ...), and the current Prime Minister of Singapore is of the Methodist faith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Wong#Personal_life).

Stop spreading disinformation.
Vlad the Impaler, without any irony, cared a lot.
Nice additions - Buganizer has had these for years.

Good that issue types can be user defined.
> What do you need to mine at scale? O&G.

Synfuels produced by atmospheric capture of CO² & Methane by nukkular powered atmospheric processors.

Conceptually like https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Atmosphere_Processing_Plant / https://www.space.com/terraforming-in-alien-universe

Not just one. A global grid of them. At scale, yes?

Right here. Right now.
Perhaps Apple didn't want to cannibalize iPad or Mac sales? I don't know the timeline on this.

Small phones certainly make sense early on when phones were an additional computer for most people. Fast forward to now and for many people they are their only computer and have a greater need of the versatility that a larger screen can provide.
3 months, and he's already deep in acronym soup touting DDD, CDD, TDD, and TST. I'm getting major architecture astronaut vibes.
Datapods – Reclaim ownership over your data
Have you had blue raspberry? It's better than actual raspberry, which is why people go along with it.
"Nokia impact minimal in terms of financials, but may impede US penetration or success"

Now there's a gem of a line...
There are actually many reasons and the commercial insurance industry, while in serious need of reform, is hardly the most significant reason for high costs.

https://www.sensible-med.com/p/the-entire-healthcare-system-...

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/price-we-pay-9781635575910/
NES - 1983; SNES - 1991

Seems about right.
I hope it drives a cultural revival in appreciation of laconicism.
Java was a bonus compared to ObjC, but we looked into supporting Blackberry and it was a nightmare to support all the different versions of java, frameworks, and screen types. Much easier to teach someone ObjC and produce one iPhone version.
So conference organizers get in on the grift while the community is robbed by whatever crypto scam/other bullshit this guy sells on stage? I guess it's fine if they also add a large and prominent "THIS GUY IS TRYING TO ROB YOU" banner to the stage and livestreams.
If you aren’t already familiar, Clayton Christensen’s theories on this, on innovation and disruption, are widely praised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Christensen
Wow I'm just remembering the girth of those devices. My family had some later palm and similar devices... closer to an address book or gaming devices in thickness. My mom's case was like 3/4 an inch deep, 3-4 in wide and like ~6in deep. Not light, and kinda fragile.
They're probably guessing italy.
Right, but it's not the main focus in the majority of games. In many games that do offer gyro support, it's usually able to be toggled off. It's not like the Wii where the core of the controllers was pointing them and swinging them around.
It would be awesome to have new Labo sets that make use of that sensor. But I suspect that Labo will not get a second chance, given that the first sets were seen as a failure (despite being really cool).
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What other person started a rocket company from scratch and got them landing? Of course I want to hear everything he says. Yes, he's crazy - seems to be a requirement if you want to do such stuff. Doesn't mean I will ignore it. I can think for myself, it's not like I take everything at face value.

All that to say, perhaps other people don't prioritize values like you do. The technical excellence that companies repeatedly achieved under Musk is incredible.
Decades ago, my junior college's parking lot was lit by low-pressure sodium lighting. I recall the light being an absolute monochrome yellow, to the point that you had to be careful to remember exactly where you parked your car, because you weren't going to find it by color.

I can't vouch for Germany, but there used to be long, high-output fluorescent tubes and fixtures for street lighting in the US. They seem to have largely disappeared by the 1980s. They weren't very common, but some cities used them. They tended to be used on main streets when I saw them.
I wish we could return to a Wii U like functionality where the switch could be used as a second screen when undocked. That was a really nice feature in games like Zelda where the controller in your hands displayed the inventory or a map.
Trump did not get the majority of the vote, he received a plurality.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/03/nx-s1-5213810/2024-presidenti...
It is exactly that. Americans think of themselves as temporarily poor and embarrassed millionaires.
Are you hackers or what?
Can you expand on what you mean? What heavy computational lifting?
That's a new Mario Kart game they're showing on the screen, not the Switch 1 version.
The new space company is over twenty years old. For such a long development time I figured they actually had a reasonable chance of nailing the booster landing. I bet they'll do it next time.
I could not say the same about any peaceful protest because most peaceful protests are not held to disrupt volunteer-led events. I don’t agree that you should try and enforce your personal preferences for who deserves a conference speaking slot by declaring you’ll try and prevent those you don’t approve of from taking the stage.
Also keep in mind that the iPhone was far from starting at zero: they did not so much enter the phone market as a newcomer as they did pull the phone market into the existing and utterly dominated iPod market. Dominated so much that I don't even dare calling it the mp3 player market.