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Nintendo is the Apple of videogames, especialy with the vertical integration and pricing.

Their games were always incredibly expensive. 30 years ago, I remember being stunned to hear that my friend's SNES copy of Mortal Kombat II was GBP 70. From this Reddit post, I'm seeing Canadian prices were equally absurd. CAD 95 for Batman Forever on SNES.

https://www.reddit.com/r/snes/comments/12aq8zu/snes_games_pr...
You're spot on. Sometimes with ai codegen we end up offloading some of the intentionality to the AI. They work surprisingly well at filling in the details for under-specified prompts. I think it's important that this tool capture not only the prompts and context given, but also the full set of responses back from the model. There are implicit requirements buried in those responses as well that are made explicit at the moment a developer decides to accept those changes.
I had luck with WD-40. Bought Switch ca. 1 year after Zelda, small drift was mitigatable through whiggling the joys a long time. Then, Witcher, I had enough of it and sprayed a tiny amount into both. Working like a Charm since then. YMMV
MLCommons Releases New MLPerf Inference v5.0 Benchmark Results
This gap is filled by the likes of Couchbase where a single org controls the majority of the stack (spoiler/disclaimer alert: I've been working on Couchbase's Sync for 8 years)

You get local the document-level atomicity for sync. Multi-document transaction support on server side, KV access, SQL inside JSON docs or even across multiple documents, Full Text Search, and fine-grained/RBAC for document-level synchronization - but the cost is as much lock-in as it is financial. You can't mix and match storage, query or sync without pretty big tradeoffs.
Not sure what the betrayal is? He contributed a quote for yesterday's post. https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-enterprise-plan-9-suppo...
As a teacher, my first rule is, be kind. Sure, there are people who will take advantage of the situation, but they are not really taking advantage of me.

In this case, I'd have a harness that ensures the parts they were given work as advertised, and make it the students' responsibility to report within the first 3 days if it is not working.
Yes, although just having the faulty hardware isn't enough. They also have to use the tools to show that it behaves incorrectly, which is surely a lot more work than just following the book would have been. That is the part that is easily reproducible. The student already knows how, so in a few minutes he can set it up in front of the prof and show him. The prof needn't do anything other than watch for a few mins.

If more of these cases crop up then you should get suspicious, but you also need to consider the impact of giving a student the wrong chip and expecting them to succeed! I think Blackstone's Ratio should apply here personally
Try small businesses, large corps which don’t sell IT products, or even universities / government / etc. Avoid startups / competitive places.

You probably want to address your anxiety as well - where it comes from, how it affects you, can you do something about it, if you can’t how you can deal with it, etc

I’m supposed to be a high achiever professionally speaking ( by most metrics I’ve done well enough at least good enough for me), but still have to keep my natural anxiety in check. Surprisingly enough I’ve eventually figured out that when I’m stressed out there’s a reason, and that I can actually find it if I search for it. If I don’t look for it then I just end up completely paralyzed. The solution usually boils down to addressing the thing I’m afraid of.

Changing careers is another option, but there’s no reason why your anxiety won’t come back so I’d work on the anxiety first.

I wish you the best !
Yep, mostly thanks to enterprise. There's a group policy for just about anything you could ever imagine you'd want Windows to do (or not do).

Granted, a lot of it isn't super discoverable, or exposed to the user in a pretty GUI (it mostly lives deep within the registry, a good chunk undocumented), but it truly is a general purpose OS in every sense of the word.

Unlike most here I actually like and enjoy using Windows (doubly so with WSLv2 and the new windows terminal), although I'll admit since WSL I pretty much use Windows as if it were another Linux distro. But over the years I've come to learn a lot of the ins and outs of what it can do.

That said, if Microsoft continues down this MS account, consumer hostile behavior even more it's going to be time for me to say my goodbyes to windows.
Generative Reality and Generative UI Using Multimodal LLMs
I found more tools from previous discussions:

https://tabnotes.page/

https://original.littr.me/

https://feather.wiki/

https://zareith.github.io/chillmd/

Although most tools use the "contenteditable" trick, I noticed some save the *entire page* as HTML. I used a different approach to enable downloading just the editable content:

const blob = new Blob([content], { type: "text/html" });
const url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
Hacking the call records of millions of Americans
I would worry less about other people being able to run rc scripts and more about them being able to read/edit them.
We see overwhelming amount of interest each day a role is open on our site. In order to get through the applications (we read each one), they can't stay up for too long.

We might open the role back up next month for more applications, so keep an eye on next month's Who's Hiring post.
To piggyback, is there a good USB Blu ray drive?

(And is there a known good CLI tool for backing up copies of them?)

I have some Blu Rays I worry will be lost to disc rot 20 years from now...
Of a single sinusoidal component, sure, this is true. But phase differences between sonic features are absolutely detectable.

The effect is most noticeable on raw synthesized tones: sawtooth, square wave, etc. These tones contain sonic energy concentrated at discontinuities in the waveforms. The ear can hear this, as a "buzzing sound".

Run these tones through Paulstretch (even with 0 stretch), and the sonic energy is distributed throughout the wavecycle. These tones retain their spectral character, but noticeably lose the buzzing character.

I've uploaded a demo here: https://chris.pacejo.net/temp/phase.wav It is a 55 Hz sawtooth tone, alternating every 2.5 s between the raw tone, and the tone fed through Paulstretch with no stretching.

There was even a paper written on this. Laitinen, Disch & Pulkki, "Sensitivity of Human Hearing to Changes in Phase Spectrum". [1]

Paulstretch muddies up percussive transients (like hi hat strikes) as well.

Anyway it's the reason things like gammatone filters exist for analyzing audio. They reveal phase correlations in the same way the ear is able to. Windowed Fourier transforms (used by e.g. Paulstretch and Audacity for various purposes) obfuscate these relationships.

Aside: please try to avoid snarky armchair dismissals on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "you are trying to sound intelligent" does not advance discourse.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ville-Pulkki/publicatio...
> even while violating the Geneva convention.

Uhh . . . yeah, no. As someone who served, that's flat-out offensive.
Herding in the non-fungible token (NFT) market (2023)
It's not "losing" color.

At periods when technology resulted in new color possibilities, people went overboard with color. Make all the things colorful!! Think of the technicolor sixties. And we can go back in history and see the same thing with new clothing pigments, new paint pigments.

But when everything is colorful, nothing stands out. Everything being colorful is as monotonous as everything being, well, monotone.

Modern taste is more about more neutral-colored foundations with color accents. Don't paint a whole room green -- have a gorgeous green plant that stands out all the more against its neutral background. Don't paint a whole wall orange -- have a beautiful orange-hued piece of art on the wall. It's just more tasteful to use color as one element, along with size, shape, texture, and so forth. Making it the main element in everything is just overdoing it. It's bad design.

I don't want constant "riotous color", as the article puts it, in my home, or my workplace, or while I'm driving. It's visually exhausting.
Silica gel was at the core of a cool water collection contraption to collect moisture in the dessert . Now add this and the ability to sinter sand together in the dessert and you could print windstills with robots.
It's fascinating because its the reverse of the usual way to solve this problem. Typically, games would be region-locked. For the first time Nintendo has locked the console itself to a language and a region.

I guess the benefit for Nintendo is that outside of the reduced price, there are zero benefits for players to having a Japanese version. It used to be that a Japanese 3DS was cool to have.
Rippling Employee Admits to Sharing Company Information with Competitor Deel
Something that helped with my anxiety is changing the way I think about my physical and mental issues where even if I have some underlying conditions causing anxiety, it should not define how I feel about it because I am in the control of how I feel. Even if you have tinnitus, and it causes you great discomfort, you must convince yourself that tinnitus does not define how you feel about it, that it does not cause continous issues, and that worrying and digging on the causes of it can actually make it worse because our brains are stupid sometimes.

It does help, but you must push through it. Your body will give you signals that its not ok, but you must try to ignore it, and then you may actually feel better, even if your underlying causes did not change.
I would say it never left - it was there from the very beginning, see for example [0].

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-...
I think it's a stretch to compare the battery in a phone to the hand-wired collection of lithium batteries from various laptops. Even if the odds are still low, the calculus works out to be concerning when it's your home and livelihood.
You're not entirely wrong, but when it comes to SQL, the trade-offs are unavoidable. You either embrace a conventional, not-SQL approach with all its limitations, or you treat the database as the single source of truth (SSoT). Both have downsides, but configuring a designated local or shared database for this purpose is no less reliable than conventional approaches.

As for type providers in general, I don't think databases are the best example of their typical use case. Most type providers don’t interact with external systems; they usually parse schemas, configuration files, or other structured data to generate strongly typed representations. The database-backed approach is just one variant, not the norm.
> In mid-April 2022, about two weeks before the Wiesbaden meeting, American and Ukrainian naval officers were on a routine intelligence-sharing call when something unexpected popped up on their radar screens. According to a former senior U.S. military officer, “The Americans go: ‘Oh, that’s the Moskva!’ The Ukrainians go: ‘Oh my God. Thanks a lot. Bye.’”

> The Moskva was the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. The Ukrainians sank it.

> The sinking was a signal triumph — a display of Ukrainian skill and Russian ineptitude. But the episode also reflected the disjointed state of the Ukrainian-American relationship in the first weeks of the war.

> For the Americans, there was anger, because the Ukrainians hadn’t given so much as a heads-up; surprise, that Ukraine possessed missiles capable of reaching the ship; and panic, because the Biden administration hadn’t intended to enable the Ukrainians to attack such a potent symbol of Russian power.

And this is my biggest problem with the last administration's policies on Ukraine, despite the fact that they were vastly better than the current administration's. They acted like the goal was to step on Putin's toes without pissing him off too much, not enable Ukrainians to successfully fight a defensive war after 10 years of Russian aggression. The response to the greatest Ukrainian successes was dismay and pullback. After 2022, there was very little forwards thinking, only reactions that came months late and at the expense of thousands of lives.

I'm not saying that Ukrainians were perfect, they have a TON of problems and mistakes of their own. But they were also put under ludicrous constraints. It's totally absurd that ATACMS was only provided after Congress forced their hand (despite Congressional stonewalling otherwise!). Imagine if Ukraine had been able to hit Russian airfields on Ukrainian soil with cluster ATACMS in spring 2023 before the offensive instead of after it had fallen apart, partially due to those same airfields. Or if cluster shells were provided before Bakhmut fell rather than after.

There was no coherent strategy, only endless handwringing and over-intellectualization and Kremlinology.
Vietnam seems to like it, fine. Pretty popular in France and Germany, too. If you have ever had Bustelo, then you've had it.
Whoops, my bad.
As if this has anything to do with locality? Rulers of parcels of land small enough you could see it all from a single hill have been utter despots before. Heck, just look at how some parents treat their children.

This is what happens when you elect a convicted felon, rapist, bullying loser compromised by the Russian state who outright says he wants to be a dictator and he puts sycophants and bullies into positions of power to do exactly that.

Saying this is about local vs nonlocal governance is nothing more than shirking the responsibility of 70,000,000 Americans who wanted this and 100,000,000 Americans who couldn't be bothered to stop it.
For Git one could look for .git/config. There must be something equivalent.
Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta
Wouldn't you also need a two parameters for the arc starting position and stopping position for each circle, and then a few more to identify the areas that need to be filled, along with the color?
"Sorry! The URL you requested was not found on our server."
I have more issues with it when there's food in my stomach vs when there's not. In fact if I eat anything within 15 minutes (in either direction) of consuming creatine, I will for certain have diarrhea. I have zero issues with it on an empty stomach. These days I just make sure not to eat anything within an hour of the creatine and I'm good.

Agreed on the loading phase. It's not worth it.

EDIT: should add that I've been taking creatine for several years
Exactly, and there are plenty of examples within the tech industry. Apple/Android app store fees didn't end up at 30% because of ruthless competition that drove margins down to almost nothing. If a market is controlled by a duopoly the two parties can easily keep prices absurdly high and everyone else has to just deal with it.
> You're both complaining about extra keywords while trying to make the case of adding yet another one

I did no such thing. async is already a keyword in F#, I'm just saying they should drop the brackets and remove the required return statement.

> In language design there are always tradeoffs but I'm unable to see how your suggestions would improve the language in the general case or even in your specific case

It would make the language easier to read, for one, and would reduce the amount of specialized syntax needed for specific features. It would preserve the original ML-style syntax for an extremely common operation and not force users into wrapping anything upstream of an async call in a computation block, which is the ugliest syntax feature of F#

> Computation expressions are a generalized concept which are there to add the exact kind of syntactic sugar that you're after

I understand that, and my argument is they failed to do so. The syntax looks bad. They could keep it for all I care, but they should add even more sugar on top to make it not look so bad.
they're routinely very short, and the only non-obvious syntax for someone familiar with a C-like language is the ~ command and redirecting to stderr. They're pretty much always easier to read (and write) than bash scripts in general because of how little weird/surprising syntax there is. Not being a derivative of ALGOL has its perks.

Most scripts are write-once:read-never, especially if you actually implement -h/--help
Wrong. I can tell what you're mad about, and I find it petty.
I think we're talking past each other.

> I took a small company that was living contract to contract into a world where they started making millions in annual recurring revenue.

> There's no secret, magic bullet. All I did was make sure we were delivering progress at a regular cadence. Kept communication channels open. And tried to, but ultimately failed at, training the sales team to stop with the secret deadline negotiation

This is what I call hitting deadlines.
Keying the car of some schoolteacher in a grocery store parking lot because you’re mad at Elon isn’t fighting for your life, it’s being a childish asshole. The fact that you can’t see that suggests you are as well.
Just keep in mind there are a thousand people right behind you who would be ecstatic to be able to work on this "nightmare" in order to earn a paycheck.
Or Chinese Gooseberry -> Kiwi Fruit.
ATACMS is usually pronounced "Attack 'Ems", FWIW.
Does Amazon have any consumer product that people actually like because it’s a good product? Maybe kindle? Which always felt half assed compared to competitors. Obviously people like Amazon, but I think that’s for objective reasons (convenience/price) and not emotional/subjective ones like your need for Tik Tok/Twitch.

Even Amazon studios feels more miss than hit.
searched google. nothing funny found. very disappointed.
Forget Notion and Obsidian, reasons Google's AI note-taking tool is the future
Vaguely related and also fun: https://www.koalastothemax.com/ (2011)
The PS2 era didn't have the infinite cash machine that is GTA online. They're milking it for as long as they can. It also doesn't make sense to release something for latest-gen consoles when a huge chunk of the market are still on PS4s and XB1s.
I would argue that the main reason is because everything is about money, and the shorter marketability of everything. Colors are polarising, and affect the unsold inventory and perceived resale value.

Why manufacture objects in 10 different colours if you know the green one is going to be a tough sell? Why buy a blue car if you think you’re going to sell it back after 2 years and struggle to do so?

You don’t want things you don’t intend to keep to have personally, period.
> the thesis of ‘everything is securities fraud’ is that US law is somehow more responsive to financial-market claims than it is to other, substantive claims.

Seems utterly plausible. Financial-market claims feel rather likely to arise much more often, relatively speaking, among rich people than poor.
And all of those are simply translation and scaling of 36 parameters with an implicit unit circle at the origin.

Then if you want to factor out rotations, drop another parameter and say the 1st explicit circle lies on the x axis.
Is the massive problem you see that the Chinese might be doing this or that the company that sold/gave you your device absolutely is?
I’ll nitpick you back: if done correctly, consensus can have quite positive scaling consensus groups can have quite a positive impact on tail latency. As the membership size gets bigger, the expectation on the tail latency of the committing quorum goes down assuming independence and any sort of fat tailed distribution for individual participants.
Fun fact: in the G4/G5 era, the SuperDrive was a Pioneer DVR-1xx rebadged. That's how I got into them in the first place :)

This is also why the Pioneer-branded models work just perfectly in Mac OS 9 and every version of Mac OS X with no PatchBurn necessary: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/patchburn
I like that Nintendo recognises that the mouse is a superior input device, but their vertical joycon implementation seems more like a gimmick than an actually useful device. Balancing and sliding a vertical joycon doesn’t seem like it would be particularly stable. I foresee an actual traditionally shaped mouse sold by Nintendo in the future.
I think it has everything to do with US strategy: What do you want to get out from this war?

I guess different interest groups have different answers. And sometimes they don't want to share the answers for apparent reasons.
What does this offer as an alternative to node? I’m looking at the supported platforms page and the list is essentially the same as the node ones… does it have a wasm target? An embedded target? What’s new here?
I won't pretend to be an expert on the cultural aspects of this, but the most compelling historical proof they have of their thesis is that chart showing the measurement of hue over a whole bunch of objects in museums, by era.

Is it possible this is a bit of... https://xkcd.com/1138/ ? The Y axis is 100% because you can only look at the objects we have, but that doesn't reflect the fact we don't have 100% of objects from 1800. We only have the objects we cared enough about to protect.

So... in someways, (in no way proof of anything) this could show the opposite? We produce a lot of junky monochrome things that get thrown away fast, and things that we care enough to protect for generations tend to be coloured. We're sort of seeing the half-life of things by colour in that chart.
https://archive.is/AKW4N
> You also see the sanitization with how war is conducted, increasingly from a distance. Bombing an enemy rather than putting in ground troops (or at least delaying putting them in).

. . . because the American public ever since Desert Storm has demanded sanitized, bloodless wars. As soon as you have so-called "boots on the ground," it magically becomes a "quagmire." Yet everyone insists we prevent the next 9/11.
We used it to allow pepole to include song lyrics in their letters sent to loved ones. Unfortunately it was a constant source of breakage in the app and we eventually removed it when they pushed a very breaking change and there wasn't any availability to rewrite that part of the app.
Interesting article. It seems every war post-Cold War has turned into some kind of proxy war. No matter how much US politicians who are isolationist try to spin the Ukraine war as a "territorial dispute" and how well it plays with their domestic base, the US has been intimately involved since the start.

Perhaps the Cold War never really ended and there's been a secret conflict in the background ever since?
WebStorm and the like do a fine job inferring types, saving me a lot of time.
Some people like things that you might not like.
I've had a bit more success on the front end as it is possible to see the results of a change very quickly. In fact I would prefer it to just auto-apply the changes and I would visually inspect. It isn't bad but the workflow is pretty slow. The resultant code is also very verbose - likely 3X more code than an experienced engineer would create (this is one part that I am certain will improve dramatically in time). While I do use this workflow, sometimes I feel like I am just being lazy as opposed to productive.

I'm just being honest. For my use case, I would be much better off if LLMs could just do everything.
So what happens when I stuff an LLM inside a robot, and when I ask it to pass me the pen it passes me the pen?
This was obviously designed as a customer-friendly way to cut scalpers out of at least part of the initial supply chain. Scalping has been an incessant problem in console gaming due to supply shortages, and it makes everyone miserable except the scalpers. Valve provided a similar release strategy with the Deck as what Nintendo appears to be doing here, and it was extremely successful and welcome by the community.