Hacker News: needle0

New comment by needle0 in "S&box is now an open source game engine"

needle0 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:04:15 +0000

A major advantage of using modern game engines is the multiplatform support. This seems pretty weak on that front.

New comment by needle0 in "Poka-Yoke"

needle0 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:16:29 +0000

"Yoke" is pronounced like "yo K", not like the control wheel of an aircraft.

(Then again, seeing how nobody pronounces Pokémon as Pokémon, I guess striving for accurate pronunciation is a lost cause)

New comment by needle0 in "Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200"

needle0 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 08:38:51 +0000

To be pedantic, two cameras were enough for the headset to track itself (eg. Lenovo Mirage Solo). The reason that headsets nowadays have 4 cameras is for it to also track the hand controllers that are being held by the user and being flung around nearby...which this also seems to lack.

New comment by needle0 in "Internet Artifact Museum"

needle0 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 02:26:00 +0000

Right - the fact that Emoji and Emoticons share the first 3 letters is a complete coincidence; The word Emoji is a portmanteau of the Japanese words É (絵; picture) and Moji (文字; letters).

New comment by needle0 in "Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)"

needle0 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 01:03:02 +0000

How many "____, the Japanese ____ of ____" exist?

New comment by needle0 in "iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues"

needle0 — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 09:55:49 +0000

So, whatGate is the scandal's name this time?

New comment by needle0 in "A basic guide to using Asian names"

needle0 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:21:50 +0000

As a Japanese native I'm torn on this. On one hand, respecting the local ordering & notation seems to be good manners. On the other hand, this creates an ambiguity where some people are writing Asian names in local notation and some others writing in western notation. (This is even true for Japanese people themselves, as mentioned in the other comments.)

At least things were consistent when everyone wrote them in western notation; now we can't be sure which part is the family name and which part is the given name, especially if it's from a country that you're not familiar with the order/notation rules. There's the "write the family name in all caps" rule to assist with it, but not everyone follows that rule either.

New comment by needle0 in "Lessons From Linguistics: i18n Best Practices for Front-End Developers"

needle0 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:13:31 +0000

Not covered here: fonts and glyph appearances, which will nearly always end up displaying wrong in certain Asian languages -- https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/

New comment by needle0 in "Why even let users set their own passwords?"

needle0 — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 15:11:53 +0000

Gonna be eagerly waiting for the time when we can finally change our behavior at will, be it neural implants or nanomachines or whatever other method of direct intervention to the brain.

New comment by needle0 in "So you want to write a GUI framework (2021)"

needle0 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:05:05 +0000

Only one paragraph for l10n and i18n? A GUI framework written only by people speaking English is 99% most definitely going to get font display wrong ( https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/ ) and will have a plethora of locale-specific behavior bugs ( https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/... ).

New comment by needle0 in "First up-close images of Mars’s little-known moon Deimos"

needle0 — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 13:25:55 +0000

I can't be the only one who initially misread UAE as UAC.

New comment by needle0 in "RIP WC"

needle0 — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:02:54 +0000

Despite all the renovation, the newly installed 2023 toilets don't look that different from the ones it replaced.

Electronic bidet toilets should really be the norm by now. Sad that the expectations haven't changed.

New comment by needle0 in "Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise taxi to stop it"

needle0 — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 01:17:25 +0000

Well, "never" is a strong enough word to extend even into science fiction land (or 100, 1000, 10000, 100000 years into the future and beyond). Hence the reaction you got.

New comment by needle0 in "Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift"

needle0 — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 04:54:26 +0000

I myself don't strongly agree nor disagree with the individual arguments -- I'm not knowledgeable enough on the subject to form an opinion either for or against -- but the point was rather on the very strong hostile emotions displayed by the people posting them. It's like the hatred comes first and the individual arguments are brought up afterwards to justify it. I'm wondering where and why such negative sentiments come up.

New comment by needle0 in "Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift"

needle0 — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:30:01 +0000

Looking at social media in Japan, I tend to see strong enmity towards solar -- eg large solar farms destroy the surrounding environment, they don't fit in with Japan's mountainous terrain and are prone to breakage during storms and landslides, failure to generate after snow, processing of obsolete units, etc. While there seems to be merit to many of the arguments made, the overall hostile attitude towards solar in general comes off as surprising; it's as if they think solar is by default evil. Wondering what shaped this attitude.

New comment by needle0 in "Twitter was special. But it's time to leave"

needle0 — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 09:10:53 +0000

This was probably written with only the English-speaking part of Twitter in the writer's field of view. English in Twitter doesn't comprise even a third of all tweets ( https://www.vicinitas.io/blog/twitter-social-media-strategy-... ); in fact, for pure tweets that aren't RTs nor replies, the above data even shows there are more Japanese tweets than there are in English, albeit by a slim margin.

So, I agree it's about the people, but I don't see the people leaving, at least in the languages I use.

New comment by needle0 in "Gundam and anime replace rampant politics in Japanese Twitter Trends"

needle0 — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:09:40 +0000

Both the Japanese video sharing site Nico Nico Video (nicovideo.jp) and art commission site Skeb (skeb.jp) have regularly made statements about their intent of regulating their services based on Japanese law, and explicitly NOT what US-based tech companies impose on their services.

Skeb is even in the process of launching its own cryptocurrency, intended for use in payment within the service, to avoid pressure from US-based credit card networks like Visa or MasterCard.

New comment by needle0 in "Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffusion models"

needle0 — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 02:28:44 +0000

Personally I am strongly on the opinion of favoring openness, but since you asked, there was this: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/xofxo3/a_j...

The hoax was pretty quickly debunked, as the attempt was pretty crude. The images were full of artifacts and the image sizes were all 512x512 squares (the default image size for Stable Diffusion) with no attempt made to crop it to more common aspect ratios. So in terms of harm "done" I guess it was pretty minor, but I'm still leaving it out here since it made big enough of a commotion to make it to nationwide news stories.

New comment by needle0 in "Show HN: Stock Photos Using Stable Diffusion"

needle0 — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 10:42:16 +0000

512x512 is standard for SD generated images, but seems pretty low res when you look at it as a stock photo. Might be good to provide an AI upscaled version of the image for download.

New comment by needle0 in "Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need updates"

needle0 — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:25:07 +0000

Which is the reason that Apple is never going to conquer "traditional" gaming. Traditional games (ones that are NOT perpetually updated live services) and rock-solid-stable development targets have always been very close -- game consoles would always be guaranteed to run any game that's ever been officially released for it, even if it's an unpatched launch-day game running on the final hardware revision of console 8 years after release.

Even if Mac hardware manages to vastly outrun the top end gaming PCs on raw performance, they'll never be seen as serious mainstream targets for this reason alone.