skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad to see two sticks in addition to the trackpads.

The Steam Controller with its one pad/one stick approach was...interesting but I just couldn't adapt to it for most games.
The problem is that many stations migrated from well propagating VHF to UHF with the digital migration. The higher frequency signal experiences more fade due to atmospheric conditions and ground clutter. They also jam multiple channels into the same bandwidth the single old channel used to occupy, further reducing EIRP per channel.
It is simple empirical data isn't proof. It is as if you were testing primes 2 yes, 3 yes, 4 no. Here is empirical data that only 2 primes exist. Should we believe it?

Sure for Collatz we have tested more than 3 numbers but we can't guaranty it is true until we test all infinity of them, or have a proof that doesn't rely on empirical data. To do otherwise would be to look like a fool when someone got around to testing N+1 and it no longer being true.
Good ol' overscan helped "hide" the horizontal and vertical blanking. Litterally turning on/off the scanning beam of electrons while it retraced from left to right and from bottom to top. the number of milliseconds each of those on/off blinks required. lots of monitors had an underscan mode and professional monitors even had H/V delays where when all of them were enabled, you'd get the cross pulse mode that would allow you to see lots of interesting info that lived in the overscan portions much more easily. things like VITC and CC "marching ants" in the scan lines outside of active picture. there were even ID tags that could get stored into the lines.

And then we had the infamous Blue-only mode to help set the colors on the monitor. 100% bars, 75% bars. full field vs SMPTE. pluge. ramps. audio sweeps.

good grief, it's actually starting to feel like an actual funeral of people trading stories of memories good or bad. rot in hell NTSC!!
Storage seems like it'll be an issue unless you only want to play indie games. It says it's got the hardware to play AAA games, but even last gen AAA games like Doom Eternal won't fit on the base model, and the next step up with more sufficient storage is more expensive than the next gen consoles.
Yes, I am 100% advocating for a cheap shortcut when it makes sense. The vast majority of projects will not find success and do not warrant thousands of dollars of investment when a boilerplate ToS / PP will do. OP did the due diligence of at least reading through and trying to understand theirs. I do not think it is appropriate to grill them about it, hence my comment.
I disagree. Prefacing statements with "I feel" only acts to highlight the subjectivity of the statement which makes it much easier for the offending party to dismiss in practice.

"That statement was rude" makes the speaker consider their statement from their own perspective
vs
"I feel like that statement was rude" which causes the speaker consider whether the other party rationally feels that way. If the speaker doesn't see the offended party as a rational individual, then any statement like that will automatically be dismissed.

IMO this underscores the biggest failing of NVC - it requires both parties to abide by it. If the speaker does and has an adequate level of EQ to actually successfully use it, then they would most likely take you feelings into account even if you aren't using NVC so there's no benefit. Conversely, if they don't use it or see the benefits of EQ, explicitly adding "I feel" before every statement isn't going to achieve anything except annoying the speaker while they dismiss your feedback just as quickly as they would have anyways. Ironically, NVC strikes me as a way to _feel_ like you're communicating more effectively without much or any net positive impact on the receiving end, which doesn't seem worth it to me.
It really depends on the nature of the business. Some companies don't write any code that wouldn't contain trade secrets, some write code exclusively for customers who will own the rights, etc.
A more optimal system would surely require a sophisticated technical implementation. I don't think the problem with that proposal is with technical people, but more so with the culture and organizational structures that rise to the top under within our current system.

A super-wealthy, benevolent entity + good culture + comprehensively good ideas + a good technical implementation seems like what we need right about now - making this happen under the circumstances we find ourselves in seems like the tricky part.

EDIT: "good" would probably be more accurately stated as "sufficiently adequate".
It’s a US thing. My dentist is very good and the topical numbing stuff they use is powerful enough to not feel the needle going in. But gas is available to help those with phobias or anxiety.
> Deck

What an uninspiring name! (with unfortunate mispronunciations). Looks very interesting though, price point (starting at £349) seems very competitive.
Poor article on the topic (Daily Mail, after all), but the prediction itself is probably approximately true. It's not really matter of if, but how soon. The conditions required to prevent such a collapse are not impossible, but so far seem highly unlikely.
Rapid increases and extreme months in projections of US high-tide flooding
Yes. This has been tried before. A lot. It's straightforward to put a lot of loosely coupled compute units on a single chip, or at least a single box. The question is, then what?

- ILLIAC 4 (64-cpu mainframe, 1970s): "A matrix multiply is a master's thesis, a matrix inversion is a PhD thesis, and a compiler may be beyond the power of the human mind".

- Connection Machine. (SIMD in lockstep, which just wasn't that useful.)

- NCube (I tried using one of those, 64 CPUs in an array, each with local memory, message passing hardware. It was donated to Stanford because some oil company couldn't find a use for it. Someone got a chess program going, which works as a distributed search problem.

- The Cell CPU in the Playstation. (Not enough memory per CPU to do much locally, and slow access to main memory. Tied up the entire staff of Sony Computer Entertainment America for years trying to figure out a way to make it useful.)

- Itanium. (I went to a talk once by the compiler group from HP. Optimal instruction ordering for the thing seemed to be NP-hard, without easy approximate solutions.)

Those are just the major ones that made it to production.

But then came GPUs, which do useful things with a lot of loosely coupled compute units on a single chip. GPUs have turned out to be useful for a reasonable range of compute-heavy tasks other than graphics. They're good for neural nets, which are a simple inner loop with massive parallelism and not too much data sharing. So there may now be a market in this space for architectures which failed at "general purpose computing".
It is! A new version, in fact. It includes Proton.

(I'm not sure if SteamOS v2 and below were already Arch-based, but it's interesting to know that v3 is, given that the Steam Linux Runtime is mostly Ubuntu-tested)
That nut-job is a professor in the university system? The situation is more dire than I previously thought. It's like if Alex Jones was a professor.
Liftoff is an an excellent book. Recommended for anyone interested in SpaceX or space in general. The writer's style is a bit dry, however it's a fun story regardless. The gritty insides of the early days of SpaceX are both what you hoped to read about and sort of crazy remarkable (like the elaborated story about the imploded Falcon 1 that was being transported by C17 and ultimately saved SpaceX from oblivion). People risked their lives to make SpaceX happen.

It reminds me of a bigger company version of Masters of Doom. Same hacker ethos driving those early days.
Ha I’m a Mangalorean too and made a similar comment a little before yours.
I really hope that this market picks up steam (heh) and we get to see even more bigger names coming up with devices. The Aya Neo [1], OneXPlayer [2], and GPD Win3 [3] have all come out relatively close to each other with different ideas of what people want in a handheld gaming PC.

Valve seems to want to get in on a price that is more competitive with the Nintendo Switch, so its hardware specs are a bit worse it seems than the others in the market. The plus side to this is that the base model comes in at just $399, though that is with eMMC storage, while the next bump up uses NVME. The other specs seem to be identical across the 3 SKUs, though.

The trackpads a la the steam controller seem appropriate for the types of games that require a mouse on PC, which is unique in this product market. Gyroscopes are also built in, which I'd presume would work similar to the Wii U and Nintendo Switch for aiming. I don't think it'll be as good as a mouse, but I've found that aiming with gyroscope on the Wii U was much easier than using just the analog stick, so hopefully it makes FPS games with a controller more pleasant for me.

I also think it's interesting that it is using SteamOS, which had been kind of abandoned by Valve for quite some time. This also means that it is depending on Proton for game compatibility, which in itself is a huge statement on their confidence in the maturity of it. Without it, this would be a complete failure like "Steam Machines" were. If it works out well, maybe we'll finally see a real product instead of a tech demo from Dell and other PC manufacturers. Exciting.

[1] https://www.ayaneo.com/aya-neo

[2] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/onexplayer-best-performin...

[3] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-win3-the-world-s-1st-...
What I've been surprised about is the fact that cable has been really slow at adopting newer digital codec standards.

AFAIK, pretty much all cable transmissions are MPEG2 (and analog for a long time before that). It's a little nuts considering all the benefits and readily available hardware decoders of new standards. A H.264 stream would look WAY better with far less bits.
Well I guess their time developing the Steam controller isn't all for naught. Looks similar in concept, except with dual joysticks and thumbpads (instead of just 1 each) and extreme deemphasis the traditional X/Y/A/B buttons, and 4 (instead of 2) back paddle triggers. Which is great, I loved the paddles on my Steam controller.
In some cases, we aren't in a position to normalize the database due to legacy situations.

However, one thing that could be done is to use views (maybe scoped in their own schema) to make the database look normalized (Facade the database). This would help with writing future SQL.

It is then possible to iteratively normalize the underlying tables by pointing legacy code at the normalized views until the denormalized tables are no longer in use. Finally, "convert" the views into tables and drop the denormalized tables.
microSD cards are pretty cheap though.
In a calendar year, you can only acquire $10k in I bonds [0] What do you do with the other couple million you're stuck with?

[0] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds...
If they want the IP rights to my International Flatulence Database, I'll gladly plaster their name and copyright all over it.
There are a lot of safeguards like certificate transparency logs. They would be caught.
It is indeed SteamOS, though they're claiming that Proton will be improved for this:

> For Deck, we're vastly improving Proton's game compatibility and support for anti-cheat solutions by working directly with the vendors.
It's not so much that the key people at the top of Facebook "see no evil," but that they truly, sincerely, earnestly believe there is no evil to be seen, or if there is any evil, they truly, sincerely, earnestly believe they can subdue it with great engineering and great management.

They fail to see what every outsider, and many insiders, clearly see. Paraphrasing Upton Sinclair:

It is difficult to get people to see something if their wealth, status, and self-worth depend upon not seeing it.
The 3DS is really neat. It does do the postcard thing ("parallax barrier"), but only to make sure each eye gets a separate image. It then uses face tracking to get a much more accurate idea of exactly where the eyes are and renders the image with that in mind, so slightly moving or turning your head adjusts the image appropriately.
It's different in terms of inflation schedule, contract support and of course that it's not trying to be anything but a meme. Would you mind elaborating on your thoughts?
Many people pursue clicks and likes for revenue, but many people don't. If I put one of my songs on youtube, I don't really expect to make any money on it, or even to get likes or whatever. But a few people do see them, and like them, and apparently enjoy them. I'm OK with whatever here.

And that is the mistake the author makes. Sure, many people are trying to game their side hustle into revenue and careers, but many, many more people aren't. They just do it for fun, and if something comes out of it, great.

The former may be more visible than the latter, but there are plenty of the latter out there.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to an American city is a tired and boring talking point?
> Not many success stories out there.

Where are you getting your information? There are entire businesses built solely on top of FB/Insta/etc ads. I went 15+ years on the internet without buying anything from an ad, and then in the last 5, I've made at least 5 conscious, purchases from Insta ads. They've become really good in recent years.
From 1980 to the late 80s or so people were struggling just to get Smalltalk to perform at reasonable speeds on microcomputer class hardware, so saying 1980 isn't really fair. And most of the research that went into getting Smalltalk (and Self) to perform well on those platforms was then used to get Java to perform.

In actuality, Smalltalk gave Java a headstart.

That said, Smalltalk just doesn't in general "play well with others"; its image based development environment, especially.
Sure, but it's not like that's a coincidence, they're surely using that to mean 'very small, D4'. And even if not, it just seems like an odd choice of name to me to have it consist of three words all meaning varying degrees of smallness.
Do I understand correctly that this reinvention of the CPU moves the microcode to the code being ran (such as an OS kernel) rather than the CPU itself, giving the compiler the responsibility to use the CPU efficiently?
Though note that that True/False machine could also quickly lead to the discovery of actual proofs, for example by making it extremely efficient to search for counterexamples. "The Collatz conjecture is true for all n ≤ some_huge_number." Also perhaps by making it extremely efficient to search for correct proofs in a lexicographically ordered list of proofs. "The shortest valid proof of the Collatz conjecture in the list of all proofs in my formalism is before proof number some_huge_number."

Although I think the basic version of the machine is "just" the first Turing jump oracle

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

-- it depends on how you formalize the inputs to the machine, right? -- so maybe mathematicians would still be busy afterward. :-) Maybe the machine is an oracle with infinite Turing degree?
I used to use Atom to store notes before I came upon Obsidian. To be honest I'm thinking about coming back. I think I used to write a lot more when I was using Atom.
Completely disagree with the causes of the Great Depression, which is a very complex topic and primarily the result of easy money, a stock market bubble, subsequent trade barriers and tariffs, and the utter mismanagement and idiocy of governments worldwide.

But again, I have a radically different view of economic history from the mainstream, which I accept and am ok with.
I'm not sure how sending it over the wire to Visual Studio doesn't count as distribution. Distribution without attribution, reference to where it came from, how it's licensed, etc.
Technically, they aren't distributing "your" code. It's laundered through their machine learning algorithm first.
Once in a while there's something about Google removing critical content from their properties here on HN, but well, there is no public data to make-up one's mind, so everybody just assumes their default instance.

Anyway, Google is quite famous for removing all kinds of unrelated things from the people it deemed worth removing something. So, I'd say the odds of the OP's blog being removed is rather high, just not for the reason you assumed it is.
If you are putting up code on GitHub to which you don’t have all the rights you’re actually in violation of their TOS and you are violating the rights of other copyright holders. I understand this is common and may not violate community norms or expectations but it is technically a license violation on multiple fronts. Contributors who add to existing GitHub projects are providing the same license to GitHub as the project maintainer though per the TOS.
> to use your code to improve their products and features

>It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content

I'm curious. Copilot isn't actually part of github. It's a plugin for Visual Studio wouldn't that mean copilot is distributing code hosted on github, outside of github? You can't use copilot without visual studio.

How is this not Microsoft just parasitizing all the code hosted on github to make visual studio better? Which as far as i know, depsite being owned by Microsoft is not actually part of github.
Finally a linux gaming console

Now valve, for the love of god, PUSH NATIVE LINUX GAMING, proton only as a way to supplement the library..

Reduce your steam tax for the companies that provide a native linux build

I will not buy this if your main selling point is "proton"

As for the price, 419€.. very bad marketing, 399€ would have been perfect... you got greedy for 20€, that'll hurt sales
The pricing even doesn't seem unreasonable. If the device is of a good quality, this could sell pretty well.
If Bob is unable to give GitHub the rights that GitHub demands, then it means Bob was unable to lawfully upload the code to GitHub in the first place. You're making an argument that Bob violated GitHub's terms, not that GitHub is violating Alice's (though that may also be true).
Verifiable Design in Modern Systems
What if I told you that this is literally what feminists mean when they talk about "toxic masculinity" and that pop feminism (i.e. what sells ads/clicks) has barely anything to do with actual feminism?

Toxic masculinity refers to the idea that masculinity is narrowly defined around a number of traits and social expectations that are harmful both towards men and to others. E.g. "man flu" is a thing because it's generally not socially acceptable for men to show vulnerability but men often see illness as an exception to that and thus some men use seemingly minor illnesses as an "excuse" to be vulnerable and dependent. Likewise emotions other than anger are often difficult to express for men but sports (football in the US, the other kind of football in Europe) is an "excuse" to express sadness and emotional proximity between (straight) men.

The point here is that these gendered expectations and behaviors aren't innate but they're upheld by society. Women's liberation was able to overcome a lot of stereotypical expectations for women (though certainly not even most of them) but it wasn't followed by a "men's liberation" doing the same for men, except as a direct response where women's liberation challenged male gender roles. E.g. with women no longer being expected to take care of the home by themselves, household chores like laundry and cooking have become socially acceptable for men.

Pop feminism individualizes these problems by ridiculing men, but the problem isn't individual men, nor men in general really. It's a social problem and much like women's liberation it requires a mass movement to solve. Except most men still aren't aware there's a problem and those who are often don't think it's fixable (much like women who rejected the suffragettes or the later waves of feminism).
Valve, you created a lot of products that were great but then you dropped them for some or another reason.

I would like for once for you to keep working on a singular product, release multiple iterations, make it better and make it the market leader.
It would be easier for me if I could start with a template. Having a few buttons for representative simulations like "married high income" and "single FIRE" that you could then adjust to your scenario instead of starting from scratch would be nice.
all of the ones i know of that did this, ended up hiring some guy that had very strange expectations of what code should look like, coded the company into a corner and the whole thing flopped. ive now had to come in and replace two of these types, rewrite the code and get the company functioning once scale started to happen. ive found that often those with really impressive resume(like the over funded startups like), have a very limited skill set making them not the best candidates for lead positions anyhow.
Valve has a pretty bad track record with hardware, do they not? I'm not very aware of this industry, but the vague impress I have is that they've tried this a couple of different ways and it hasn't gone well for them. I'm curious why they would make this play again.
Typo in the title. It’s “Steam Deck”, not “Steam Desk”.

Interesting that Valve is diving deeper into hardware. Remember when they still made video games? Remember when there was still a hope they would some day release Half-Life 3?
A Modest Proposal About Ransomware
No they are referring to the fact that click throughs are not necessarily the only relevant metric for evaluating the success of your ads.

It's not technically challenging to track users if they click on your ads
> Basic principles of civilized society like respect of private property (which is the company which is owned by shareholders) and respect of contracts, and these principles are more important than employee wishes to play CEO.

This alone isn't enough to argue that it's not immoral because the company is their private property. What if Amazon bought up all the farmable land in the country/world and started charging prices that were unaffordable to 90% of people and causing starvation. This is comparable to what's happening, but instead of one company it's multiple companies and instead of food price it's employee conditions

edit: to be clear, I know my point isn't enough to prove it IS immoral either, just that the private property point isn't enough to prove that it isn't. I don't think I'm capable of arguing this argument all the way through, But my opinion probably falls closer to Marx than most people. The only thing I do know for sure is that what we have now isn't working, and if capitalists don't want socialism/communism to take over they better fix things soon.
It doesn't seem like there's a single reviewer involved. Whenever we've encountered this behavior with reviewers blocking, simply resubmitting seems to "fix" the issue.
I am planning on getting married later next year - would we be able to add that in for the future?
> Can it build GUIs?

Yes. The GUI framework is called Spec (Spec2, to be specific) and supports multiple backends, including GTK.