skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I am not a big fan of the Switch UI. They really took out the "surprise and delight" compared to the Wii U and 3DS. Very bland and straightforward, and yet somehow awfully slow and laggy.
They tried something similar with the New Nintendo 3DS but a lot of people got confused.

Sure, "new" is probably one the worst words you could use. But I don't think "super" would be better. And even if they did use "super" how do you name the next console ?
Nintendo unveils the Nintendo Switch 2 [video]
kiss of death for the poor server, might have been the highest traffic it has ever received
It seems like the days of revolutionary consumer electronics are over.

This looks nice, for sure. But it’s really more of the same. Not surprising. It does surprise me that there’s such emphasis on it, though. There’s the name, of course, and then the entire video is based around “it’s the same thing but a little better.”

Game console updates used to be big deals. The SNES was a revolution. PS2 was huge. Now… PS5? What’s different from PS4, again? Is there a 6? What’s different about that?

I don’t blame Nintendo or the others. I have no idea what they could do here they would be revolutionary. I think the design space has just been thoroughly explored by now and that’s where we are.

This pattern repeats all over the place. TVs are maxed out, with better visual quality than people care about, and size limited by wall space. Computers get a little faster every year. This year’s phones are last year’s phones with a minor performance bump and slightly better cameras. And again, I don’t see what they can do better, and that’s probably how it has to be at this point.

But it’s still a little shocking to see a company lean so far into the theme of “we made incremental improvements to this thing we released 8 years ago.”
The 4th point (bought enough that the return is meaningful) is the killer one. There’s always “that guy” that brags about buying TSLA or NVDA in 2015 and having 100x his money. Then it turns out he only bought like $500 worth. Sure, $50K isn’t nothing, but it’s not going to be meaningful to the retirement of someone making tech worker wages.

Of course, the reason he didn’t buy more was because he knew it was a lottery ticket and putting most of his money in the S&P500 in his 401k was obviously more prudent.
I recommend you find some journalists who's work you find impressive and ask yourself what types of passive inputs could have written pieces like that.
They are fine but they break very easily; after a while they start to "drift" and the games become unplayable.

I needed to repair one pair last year because the drift was unbearable; the repair costs almost as much as a new one. (And one started drifting again.)

I am not a heavy player at all and I got the drift.
I think there's some more you can learn today. The Jewish people have been around well before Christ or Muhammad - some where around 1000 BCE not since the Balfour declaration. That doesn't mean anything regarding this comment thread but that you should know the difference between Jewish people and Israel the state.
Overdrawn was the first MST3K episode I saw. I was randomly flipping cable channels and saw this silhouette of some characters watching a movie with this fat guy barking orders and decided to watch. Within minutes I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. I was instantly hooked.

I downloaded a torrent long ago (missing the KTMA episodes) so I have nearly all of them. During the pandemic lock-down Joel/Mike, the bots and the mads kept me company. When a close friend was deployed in Iraq in the 00's I would burn episodes to DVD and send them to him in his mothers care packages and he had the whole platoon watching and laughing. There are so many good episodes but Time Chasers, Overdrawn, Space Mutiny, Death Stalker, Bride of the Monster, and Devil fish are my favorites.
Design pattern in java.
The joy cons are fine, but I think them always being attached also removes the key benefit of the Switch. That was something that a lot of people talked about when the Switch Lite came out.

They could be better and given the limitations, I think they do the job. If you don't like them they offer the pro controller. But there have been times (especially when flying) that I have used them detached when not docked.

I honestly don't think the Switch would have succeeded the way it did if the controllers were always attached, forcing you to buy another controller for when you wanted to dock.
>And you still had to carry your flip phone in another pocket.

UPDATE: Memory failure! I meant N900, not N800

Why? I had N800 as my only mobile, and was more than happy with it. Stylus was not optional for things like browsing. But most of the time I took it from my pocket, I used it for text input, and physical keyboard made it comfortable to the point no other device has been able to offer me ever since I retired my N800
"Gimmicky" in the sense that they used movement controls and that's non-standard in the industry and went away mostly afterwards. I'm considering anything that isn't a traditional stationary control (keyboard + mouse or controller) as "gimmicky" or out of the ordinary.

In terms of sales, you're absolutely right - the Wii crushed it. I'd be curious to know about usage and software sales though. Maybe I'm wrong (very possible), but almost everyone I knew had a Wii at some point, but they didn't use it outside of a family toy with a few games when they first got it. I'd still consider that a win for Nintendo compared to less sales, but I'd imagine the average Xbox 360 or PS3 had a lot more software sales per console.
My point is that an entire generation of voters sees it as about a 50/50 split. That's shockingly high.
I wish they fixed search in general. It is difficult to find emails if you don't know exact keywords that might have been used etc. often even if you type in the right keyword it still won't find the email, even though email contains it.
And literally zero members of Hamas. It's fascinating how all the population of Palestine consists exclusively of child journalists.
Though the OLED Switch had a much better stand than the launch switch and the stand on this one actually kind of looks like a regression.
In all fairness, Apple didn't expect the market to want giant phones, and were very late with big screens.

Releatedly: It's fun to look at old Futurama episodes, where they joke about phones becoming so small you accidentally inhale them while talking.

We all really thought size was going one way and that was down.
Huh. I guess updated ergonomics / QoL stuff and confirmation of backwards compatibility counts as enough of an update over the last hardware refresh. But zero info on anything that could actually make this worth a buy. Granted, this feels like Nintendo who will do anything to not get dragged into PS/XBOX flops discussions. But without any real upgrade or even games announcements, I suppose most people will keep holding off their purchase decisions for now.
> Sweden starts building 100k year storage site for spent nuclear fuel

We will see what has become of this in 50 years. /s
In my district, direct democracy determines the level of tax. They can't, for example, pass a law that collects a tax on business income or whatever. They could probably collect usage fees of some sort. I'm thinking in school field trips and paid lunches. But truth be told I'm not intimately familiar with the legal or bureaucratic basis for those fees.
I got to this part of the article and concluded it wasn’t worth my time, nor probably anyone else’s

1. Absurd claim that file names aren’t important in a stack trace
2. Claims they’re sharing a feature of F# that is never used, then later reveals they’ve been studying F# for 3 months
3. Then this statement about tagged unions
> too much emphasis was placed on arithmetic when calculators are cheap and readily available.

I felt the same for a while. Until I realized my college math problems were all selected to make the arithmetic easy. Thus by doing all the arithmetic in my head I had a quick cheat on if I was right or not - wrong answers made for hard math and so I'd start over and thus fix the mistake.

The trick only worked for math though. Physics and chemistry often required harder math and so a calculator was needed to finish on time even when you did the problem right (which wasn't always a given)
> In 1872, less than 4% of Palestine was Jewish. It was 17% in 1931. 33% in 1948 when Israel was formed.

Where's the issue ? I thought you Woke people wanted to see more diversity and empowerment of minority groups in the world
If this was that good, why would Google release it?
Show HN: List of AI Agents
Heads up to anyone at a company using Docker Desktop:

If your company has over 250 employees or more than $10 million in annual revenue, it's against their license terms for anyone at the company to use Docker Desktop without paying for a subscription [0]. Docker can and will go after companies who are out of compliance with this (ask me how I know).

If paying a subscription fee for a sub-par product doesn't sound great to you, I encourage you to check out one of the many alternatives available. I've used Colima (MIT licensed) [1] for a few years now and it works great.

[0] https://www.docker.com/pricing/faq/, see the section "Who’s required to pay for Docker subscription plans?"

[1] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
> which combines the best of both of those consoles.

Minus the dual screen of the Wii U, which was awesome. It'd be cool if the Switch 2's dock could work independently of the console, so that you could have a reverse Wii U- experience with it. The dual screen setup can be a neat gimmick for gameplay, but it's biggest strength is the convenience that comes from having a second screen closer to your face. You can have less visual clutter on the main screen, and reduce the amount of menus players need to click through.
Amazon to buy BNPL startup Axio for over $150M
>derive it from something humans have been eating for hundreds of thousands of years

This one stands out to me because, as they say, “the dose makes the poison”. Taking some trace element from something “natural” and highly concentrating it is basically as novel as something new. Consuming a gram of something over a lifetime is different than consuming a gram of something every day.

Also, eating something for hundreds of thousands of years only means that most people will live several decades while eating it. It doesn’t mean people won’t be killed by it. It doesn’t mean people wont get cancer from it in 30-40 years. Killing 1% of the people that eat something would be a perfectly acceptable evolutionary loss, depending on the amount of nutrition and calories provided.

That’s why it is an appeal to nature fallacy. Because it says absolutely nothing about population level long term health effects.
If you don’t eat your own lunch, someone else will…
I've found more incredible improvements in AI than in consumer electronics these days. I'm still daily surprised at just how good ChatGPT is at understanding my pretty complex queries.
I also switched to Fastmail for one of my domains. I am generally happy, just I wish they were better at nuking spam.
Switch 2

Switch is 6 characters long, 6 divided by 2 is 3

Half Life 3 confirmed.
For those not in the know, this is the Ex CIO of Boston Chicken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop
I prefer just "playful" to "mature but still playful". Something about the straightforwardness of "this is a toy for people of all ages, but it is still a toy" speaks to me.
> But it’s still a little shocking to see a company lean so far into the theme of “we made incremental improvements to this thing we released 8 years ago.”

It's certainly more 'shocking' to see Nintendo do it than, say, Microsoft or Sony. But Nintendo hasn't always introduced huge new changes with a console bump — NES->SNES wasn't particularly revolutionary, and there were certainly no gimmicks there. I think it's a very understandable reaction to a) the Wii U b) the enormous success of the Switch
A friend of mine built an open-source curated list of resources about AI agents for Computer Use, including research papers, projects, frameworks, and tools.

Let us know if you have any feedback, or would like to see anything added :)
I get "There was a problem acquiring a content access token from the data service. If this problem persists, please notify your administrator."

Which makes me wonder what a content access token is.
The citations were only to biochar working (at least what I could see) and not a comparison of biochar to other options. Why would/should some (read a farmer) spend some money on biochar if something else works as well or better?
> I like how even in this thread, you have many people - almost certainly very few of whom have no real stake in the fight - bitterly arguing about who is right and wrong

Yep, this is what it's about - a morals swinging contest to see who is purer. I mean, I would have assumed if there was in fact a genocide taking place in Gaza everyone would be happy there's at least a ceasefire but no - no one gives a s**, at least not on this thread. It's about shitting over Israel to feel morally superior more than anything else.
2007. The presentation reads like an eerily accurate crystal-ball prediction of what actually happened in subsequent years.

Evidently, Nokia executives knew well in advance what the iPhone could do to their company.

Evidently, they knew they needed to do "something" to avoid an implosion of their mobile-phone business.

Evidently, despite their prescience and best efforts, they were unable to avoid disaster.

It's as if they were in the Titanic, and saw the dangerous iceberg well in advance, but somehow were unable to turn the steering wheel and change course.
Blackberry took that approach.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2015/05/26/blackberr...

> Instead they comforted themselves with reminders that the iPhone's keyboard was difficult to use and the battery life, terrible. BlackBerry was leading the pack, after all.
No Calls
on the other side, it could be a big plus for new comers into the Nintendo Switch platform
Using the comptime keyword runs arbitrary code and functions at compilation-time.

Is this somewhat comparable to C++ macros?
That’s why these target funds go down to ~50% stocks [edit: at the target date] not 0.
New Mario Kart
Why are you conflating demand with launch cadence?

Falcon Heavy is in R&D mode, which is why there have been fewer launches. That has no bearing on the demand for it.
He isn't boycotting. He is planning to peacefully protest, which I think is reasonable.
A speech he very well may have watched live.
> I am curious: we have reference counting and we have Profile guided optimisation.
>
> Could "reference counting" be compiled into a debug/profiled build and then detect which regions of time we free things in before or after (there is a happens before relation with dropping out of scopes that reference counting needs to run) to detect where to insert frees?

Profile guided optimizations can only gather informations about what's most probable, but they can't give knowledge about things about what will surely happen. For freeing however you most often want that knowledge, because not freeing will result in a memory leak (and freeing too early will result in a use-aftee-free, which you definitely want to avoid so the analysis needs to be conservative!). In the end this can only be an _optimization_ (just like profile guided _optimization_s are just optimizations!) on top of a workflows that is ok with leaking everything.
Yes. It's comic sans :)
Estimates of Hamas membership originating from Israeli state sources should be taken with a grain of salt.

I expect the Israeli regime's blood thirst to be counter-balanced by the desire to free hostages, but apparently not. I don't think bombing hospitals and refugee camps serve any military purpose.
I used to use my phone to record voice notes to capture tasks, thoughts and ideas, but recently i have been using Nebula Notes to record, transcribe and auto-organize individual thoughts into streams. (disclaimer: i work for the company that made it, but i do find it genuinely useful)

https://nebulanotes.ai/
That is great if your idea for a game or other product only requires those already existing assets. However, what about assets that don't already exist? You would have to commission an artist to create them, which costs money that you as a bootstrapped independent developer may not have. It also takes considerably more time than generative AI does.

This is a contrived example but, what if I wanted a 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.

Despite the biases people have against generative AI, it will solve a LOT of problems in this space.
At some point it will be much more economic to dig our junkyards to recover metals we casually tosssed than mining.
My words definitely could've been better. I was referring to "portability" as the gimmick here since it's not the norm in the industry for primary console. Nintendo did handhelds for years, but that was also a secondary thing to their primary consoles. Having their only console also be handheld was what I was referring to as the gimmick here, but I understand the argument that that's not a gimmick.

As for naming, I think it'll be fine since they're using numbers. I'm not in the position of a middle aged parent who's getting a gift for a child, but the fact that Sony has successfully done it for this long makes me feel that it'll work.

Add a letter to the end is awful though. It took me a bit to nail down the Series X vs Series S Xboxs (granted, I haven't owned an Xbox in over a decade). The Wii U definitely confused people as well.
yes. it’s been a stupid amount of work for something I could not possibly care less about, but the issues for me are not the fresh installs of the patched version, but uninstalling corrupted versions.
The Great Race
IMO title should be edited.

Original one is "Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law, ADVOCACY GROUPS ARGUE”

I get that it’s long but IMO HN title doesn’t represent source article content.
I feel like lots of sites that are censored by the bing and google are also being censored by DDG. Is there really any point of filtering out more sites? Search results are so meaningless now. All results simply point to the same 200 links page after page.
Man, this video is giving me some serious Neverhood vibes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neverhood
They supposedly had this console ready to ship a year or even two ago. Rumor is the reason they are releasing it this year is to have a decent catalogue of games lined up for launch and launch window.
I just hope its powerful enough that Indies can target it along with the Steam Deck, rather than just hope an pray like they did for Switch 1's late lifecycle. The amount of <30fps indie titles on there was sad.
Switch⁶⁴ :)
I wouldn't count Toyota out. Their mega battery plant in North Carolina is coming online this year, and the biggest drag on their current EV/PHEV lineup is the batteries. New EV/PHEV models are on the way, and frankly if they just update what they have with better batteries they will be absolutely phenomenal because they are currently great to drive and run extremely well despite lackluster battery range.
So I can only guess the reason why they didn't mention how much more powerful NS2 is compared to NS1, is because it is not that much more powerful?

I would guess only 30 to 50% more powerful
Looks like TikToc will be gone three days.

No more stuck in the scroll.
Most of the time, there's no rehabilitation. These kids just ruin some other kids' lives.
I personally don't have much faith that Nintendo will do that, _but_ I hope I'm wrong. That would be wonderful. Also just removing some of the lag from those games (and the Link's Awakening remake was pretty bad) would be a big win.
And those Chinese programmers can't talk to anybody about what they find.
Those are the real emotions of the people at Blue Origin watching the launch. They've been working toward this moment for 24 years. Should they censor themselves because their "excessive" emotions offend you? Or maybe they should hire newscasters to do an disinterested presentation up to your standards, instead of employees who actually worked on it?
I simply don't use other Google features or in limited capacity. I have Office 365 desktop installation. I set up a NAS as a Drive replacement (that was a bit costly, but no regrets and it actually works across all my computers where Drive would randomly crash, files would disappear etc.) with automatic backups to cloud and every now and then I archive data to external hard drives.
What 2025 Holds for Certificate Transparency and the Transparency.dev Ecosystem
The point is to refute the claim that math never uses a bunch of computer concepts like types - those concepts all have roots in formal math theories and so the claim is false. That that theory is not of much use in the vast majority of math doesn't mean there is no math behind it.
I really wonder how big that market can be. I mean, for people who still haven't gotten a switch or steam deck or anything similar until now, how likely is this going to change their mind?
Fifth best selling of all time and most successful of its generation, per Wikipedia.
If you're managing Macs on anything like an official basis, why are you not using any of the various tools that exist to enable and streamline that?

Macs have built-in device management tools, and there are third-party solutions like JAMF that can definitely run scripts like what's needed to fix Docker, as root, including reboots if necessary.

It really sounds like the primary problem you're experiencing is not what Macs allow, nor even the shoddiness of the Docker solution (which I will not attempt to defend, I agree they should have something more robust), but your company's policies that put you in a position of responsibility but no power.
Did they finally fix the early dying joysticks? Because that's the main issue of the switch.
In my experience he typically has a reasonable point, even if everything surrounding the point is wildly off mark.
Clearly in retrospect these were transferable skills.
If anyone wants to know why Europe has issues with innovation needs to look no further than here

Nokia boomers squandered the opportunity they had with Maemo and kept insisting on the sinking ship (or burning platform) of Symbian

But to be really honest Maemo was also a dud. Because they didn't have the sharp focus of Android and kept a lot of crap from Linux (like X11 sigh)
"advertising works, even when you know exactly how advertising works"
The original Switch was released 7 years ago. I don't think Nintendo needs to justify the upgraded model. It simply is the Nintendo Switch, and we now know they can make it last for a VERY long time. I think that's enough.
I don't suppose you managed to grab it before we hugged it? I guess it will recover and I'll check back, but if you happened to have grabbed it locally I'd love to dig through it today :) (je @ h4x.club if you're able - thank you!:)
This has been consistent across four organizations including one I participated in setting up. They don't seem to have gone far out of their way.
Arg, they make the screen look absolutely huge with that large front glass panel during most of the video and I was thinking to myself, nice! But then at the end they actually show how large the bezels are underneath the glass and it is quite disappointing. Someday we'll have modern smartphone like mini-bezels (a few mm at most) in our handheld gaming consoles, but I guess not yet.
By your stated logic, all laws and enforceable contracts are slavery.

I'm sure you've heard this before, but that reduces "slavery" to "obligation" or "commitment", and dilutes atrocity to banal.