skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your phone lacks the controller interfaces these devices have though. I guess it depends on if you can hook up a controller to your phone, or if you're able to play the games you like without to much fuss on your phone screen.
7% is about a quarter or two of growth, but not a fundamental blow. The upper end of 13.6% is much more painful, but probably still only like a year of growth. Will this make Facebook change its business model and incentives completely - I don't think so. We'll still have to deal with design for engagement and data harvesting/storage/analysis at a grand scale.
Don't stop there! Let's have a countably infinite variety of sandwiches, with a countably infinite number of sandwiches of each variety.

Still enough natural numbers to eat them all, one per.

But still not enough sandwiches to feed all the (so-called) real numbers one sandwich each!

But if sandwiches grew on trees, and we had an infinite branching tree with two branches at each branching point, and every branch has a (pair of) sub-branches, then natural numbers could not eat all the sandwiches, and the sandwiches could feel all the (so-called) real numbers.
Honestly when you boil it down, almost all relationships we have are transactional to some degree (money, emotionally, physically...). Unconditional love is very hard.
I initially clicked this link thinking it was a Valve-branded Stream Deck. Only then did I realize it was a Valve-branded Switch instead. :P
Precisely this. The book refers to the difference between a 'need' and a 'request', and what differentiates the two. In this case, this would fall under the category of a request, and is not considered NVC.
If you want to kill GitHub CoPilot, start posting useful snippets of code which contain security backdoors, and wait for CoPilot to put them in something.
Valve is like 90s id Software without Carmack. They understand business models. They know that the money is to be made in game engines and game platforms, not games themselves. However, they’ve never had the technical talent and vision to execute on that.

Half-life was supposed to be a demo for GoldSrc. It never took off and I can’t name a single 3rd party GoldSrc game. Likewise, Half-life 2 was supposed to be a demo to sell the Source engine but I’ve yet to see a successful Source title that wasn’t Valve-based.

They tried with the Steam console (the name of which escapes me) and I don’t know anyone who owns one (despite the excellent controller). Now we’re at them trying their hand at a Nintendo Switch competitor. Based on their past failures, I don’t see this being any more of a success.
Does the Index VR work with the Steam Deck?
"Half-Life is a PC game, not a video game in my book."

Seriously, Alyx is pretty obviously the future of video games. Have you tried it? It's incredible.
> Economies don't grow from some abstract demand existing, they grow from production (of final goods and services). Investment in productive assets is the key to the economy's growth.

Production of something not in demand is a nonsensical way to try to grow an economy.

Investment serves an economy by allowing production to happen to meet demand. It's not something we need to encourage particularly hard because it has a built-in profit motive. A billionaire spending all their money is an incentive for other people to invest in the production of those things being built, which is important because it creates income for the workers, which creates demand. Investing for the sake of investing in production otherwise is limited since if people aren't buying, less money is circulating, and less actual useful stuff (such as improvement in living standards) can happen as a result. But I suppose that pointless production (a lot of recent VC activity looks somewhat like this) is still better than a billionaire parking money in hedge funds or HFT shops that are just buying/selling stocks that represent past investment, instead of that money going to the productive enterprise itself.
Facebook seems to have the upper hand vs UBO at the moment. For the last year or two my feed is full of ads.
Never heard of it, so no. But I've heard of Elgato, and of Steam!
The inimitable Nokia Ngage!
Im not sure how apples to oranges it is, but a GTX 980 (Released in 2014) has 5 TFlops. Genuinely curious how powerful this might be for GPU intensive games. (Call of Duty, Rust, etc..)

Maybe this is equivalent to something like a MX-150 or GTX1050?

Should be totally fine for Valves games though (CSGO, TF2, Etc..)
If you go to cancel a subscription, there should be a modal that pops up warning that persisted data will be removed if you continue to cancel.

And yeah I see your point on wanting to come back and update things periodically. Is this perhaps where the yearly / lifetime plan options make more sense? Or are those priced too steeply in your estimation?
It should not be possible to receive a patent something this obvious: tow an EV to charge it. Ford should not be able to corner the ability to charge a small EV being towed behind a campervan and lock out the rest of the industry.
A steam machine if you will
> All models of Steam Deck support expanding your storage via microSD cards. Games stored on a microSD card will appear in your library instantly.

This makes buying the model with limited storage a bit of a no-brainer. I'm glad Valve supports external storage.
I would also add you need to look at how you spend money.

Many of my peers and people I know have terrible spending habits. usually of the form 'I have X coming in a week I will spend Y' not thinking through that some other thing is going to take up most of X and now they have the debt of Y hanging over them.
This. Only rolling releases are fit for end user systems; point release is a server meme.

Not only is having new stuff good from a feature and hardware-support standpoint, but, paradoxically, new software seems to have WAY less bugs than old software. (I assume this is because devs are mainly on the new versions and don't care about old versions that much.) Try using CentOS 7, with ancient, should-be-rock-solid versions of apps. Dolphin crashes every time you load into a large directory. Kate's keybinds are broken. Tmux refuses to support 256 colors. I get none of these issues on Arch or Manjaro.
Especially coming from a supposed lawyer.
Sega Nomad. Sega GameGear.
> 40Whr battery. 2 - 8 hours of gameplay

Battery life doesn't seem too good.
Yes, this.

Most of the things I've had to do at work are very mundane things. Many boil down to shoveling JSONs around from one system to another or dealing with another former coder's bullshit. The actually interesting, hard tech knowledge I have comes mostly from spare time explorations.

I was asked at an interview about CANbus once, and that's not something I would have known from work, but I aced the question because I did quite a bit of side project hacking at reading a car's sensors.
I would not classify the Switch as portable gaming. It definitely acts more like a console.

Of course this is ultimately a definitional issue, but there is IMHO clearly a difference. I think rather than "mobile" the distinction might be "touchscreen only" gaming; contra some of the wild predictions I recall on HN about a decade ago, "touchscreen only" has failed to displace all other input mechanisms, because it's honestly not all that good. It works, and can be better than nothing, but I think it's hard for touchscreen to ever attain that transparent "flow" state where controls just disappear, and is table stakes for being a 'core gaming' platform.
> Do I need a Steam account to use Steam Deck?

> The default Steam Deck experience requires a Steam account (it's free!). Games are purchased and downloaded using the Steam Store. That said, Steam Deck is a PC so you can install third party software and operating systems.

I like their middle finger against other console and smartphone manufacturers.
Slave contracts were a thing as well, but I think it is pretty clear that the original concept was one of mutual consent.
They have a great track record with hardware. They have a poor track record of hardware adoption.

I have the Steam Controller: it's fantastic, so versatile, and everything it claimed it would be. I have the Steam Link: works great, brings my desktop to any TV in the house. I haven't used their VR equipment but from those that have, seems like basically the reason get Oculus instead of Valve is because of Oculus exclusives.

I've been dying for this form-factor for years, since long before the Switch came out. Valve has been losing tons of money from me in the form of purchases, because games in their library haven't been in the right form factor, so I've bought them for mobile and for Switch, when really I'd rather have bought them in Steam with a mobile-play option.

I've explored the mobile-phone-with-controllers-streaming-from-a-desktop option, and it's just not what I'm looking for. I've been looking for a feasible option in this space since the Razer Edge came out in 2013, and there just hasn't been a good one...not with phones-with-controllers-attached (have to stream), not with mini-laptops (bad ergonomics and performance), etc. I've looked into a number of homebrew efforts to try and get Steam games onto my Switch (streamed or otherwise) but it's just not worth the commitment of time and effort when I could spend the same $10 for that indie game I want on Switch instead of on Steam.

I reluctantly got a Switch two years ago. I was reluctant because although I've been wanting this form factor for years, I also wanted a device that was compatible with my Steam library. Since buying the Switch, I've only bought Switch games (and not a single Steam game) mostly because being able to play on that form-factor is worth the price-premium to me.

It's Valve's excellent record of delivery on hardware that makes this a pre-order for me. Super excited about this.
I like this concept - it feels like they are repurposing rather than price gauging like everyone seems to these days

also I like that this may actually upset the mobile game space which frankly is a stain on the gaming industry imo
i think we're disagreeing on whether any level of centralization is acceptable, or even good (with centralization defined principly as the consolidation of people and resources here). i'd contend that yes, some degree of centralization is beneficial, but too much centralization gets overwhelmed by negative repercussions.

in this specific case, imagine if we had thousands of mini-youtubes, each with their own curational quirks. no single mini-youtube could unduly influence the whole zeitgeist. most (all?) will be flawed in their curatorial duties, but none could move public opinion in any meaningful way. viewers could also jump from one to another and be exposed to many different editorial perspectives, even without necessarily being cognizant of that. however, if every mini-youtube were relegated to being a single person each (i.e., no centralization), then we'd lose the benefits of aggregation and curation.

the problem of course, is that we societally accept size and growth as good things, and i'm arguing that they're only good to a certain point (and see your argument as saying all centralization is bad), and that we need to change incentives as a function of size/centralization, so that we get right-sized organizations, rather than unaccountable behemoths. our current incentives make right-sizing an unstable equilibrium point on that curve, which is why it doesn't happen.
I dual boot windows and linux, but have not booted into windows in years. I can play many games on linux now, but having a completely separate system means I can keep games and work separate. The dock also means it can be used as a real gaming computer. I also refuse to play mobile games, but might make an exception for the ability to play full pc games on the go. Normally I would never consider such a device, but the price point, size, and the dock makes it almost a no-brainer.
If I want to develop software for this platform do I have to go through steam?

Btw Looking at their link for developers and they accidentally a word here:

> This site is a resource for Steam developers - here you can about developing for Steam Deck, developer kits, and more.
My own personal experience with Arch & Debian Sid is that Sid is noticeably more stable than Arch, long term. Maybe Valve thinks it's easier to address the stability problems on an Arch-based distribution rather than deal getting the latest versions of stuff on something Debian-based?

I'm also sure that Valve's system is going to have a smaller set of software than I'd use on an Arch desktop anyway, so there's less surface area for stuff to break.
A court needs a case. A case requires at least one litigant who is willing to go all the way to the extent of forcing a court hearing (rejecting settlements along the way and risking that a court will decide against them). I don’t see the courts as being the rate-limiting factor when we’re contemplating licenses that are 30 years old last month (GPL v2)
You can install any OS on it, it's just a PC.
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What? Have you seen Nintendo Switch sales numbers?
Does what is known or what is proved change?
That is a great link. Perhaps even more interesting is this: Valve is working with anti-cheat vendors for Linux (Proton) support. So one of the biggest remaining obstacles to Linux gaming may soon be addressed as a side effect of this.
Everyone is superstitious some people are just in denial. It wasn’t an accident that progressive ideology went down the eugenics path, or that countries like China engaged in things like the one child policy. Atheist utilitarianism freed of superstition can justify a lot. As against it, you can repackage the concept of “the inherent dignity of every human life in the eyes of god” into a variety of secular packagings but that doesn’t make it any less superstitious.
Sounds like ergonomics. If it was weight based I’d expect you to experience pain or cramps near your shoulders or upper back, not your hands.

Tingling in your hands sounds worryingly like RSI, I’d see a doctor about that.
If you create a Wedding expense event, there's a checkbox which should update your status to Married when that event occurs. Does that help?
I wonder if more money will go to “influencers” whose reach can be somewhat more easily well understood.

Can’t wait to see more paid placement in content, getting around my paid subscriptions, ad blockers, and “do not track” requests.
Alternative conclusion: as with all things in a capitalist society, there is a small minority of people that is killing it, and they are not making it easy for everyone else to discover their playbooks.
Actually, thanks to error correcting codes, a digital signal can get right up against the Shannon limit. You can't improve on the Shannon limit.
It's much less than 3x the weight of a Switch. They list it at 670g and a Switch with Joycons attached is about 400g.
Mostly because it implies that some Turing machines halt that actually do not halt. That is unless you are willing to accept that a Turing machine can halt in some number of steps that is beyond any number that can be written. And I don't mean can't be written in the sense that we don't have enough paper. Just cannot be written in principle at all by our notation for numbers.
I'm also wondering if they'll open the door to third-party apps on the Steam Deck, which could let you use it for other cloud-based gaming platforms like Stadia.
I sat in a dentists chair in South America with my mouth held open for an entire working day once before, with a 1 hour break so the dentist could have lunch.

Aside from that, I had another bad experience with a horrible dentist who refused to give me enough anesthesia. What a delightful man he was....

I hated going to the dentist before those experiences, so you can imagine how bad it is now - the sound of the tools, the burning smells, and the sensations against my teeth... makes me physically cringe thinking about it.

When I'm in the chair I just completely tense us - it might as well be a bed of nails for all I care; actually, that might even help keep my mind off it :)
I'm calling it now, people looking back on this thread six months or a year from now will have found your speculation false.
Proton supposedly works well with Windows only games, and you can apparently install Windows on it as you would a normal PC.
It's about the same size as a large smartphone. Having a screen with half the ppi of an iPhone would definitely be noticeable.
For the married scenario, would you suggest just combining income, cash, investments, etc. under one person?

Also, is there a way to model purchasing a house in the future? Probably the biggest decision I am struggling with right now.
Why spend time on it? To borrow from George Mallory: Because it’s there.
I was thinking AMD Renoir but Zen 2 and RDNA 2 is an odd combination. Is it custom?
I guess the Github Copilot authors did not handpick projects they checked were legitimately put on Github. So they are accomplices in that case.
For those of us with older eyes, I am skeptical -- the screen is pretty small for the amount of detail PC games often want to display.
I wonder if they have lanyard loops so you can hang it around your neck like those heavy RC controllers xD
I find it strange the phrase "political weapon". As if the idea that there might be an issue in the country and politicians wanting to do something about it makes it a weapon. "Oh no Mr. Smith, your not allowed to mention the things that are wrong, otherwise people might think your using it to point out the flaws in your opposition."
The fact that you're flagging this means you know it's the truth but you just have to flag to keep the narrative.

Did you figure it out?
Well, those are PC games, optimized for all sorts of hardware, like spinning rust, where other stuff is happening in the background as well.
NVidia's CUDA into PTX into SASS is pretty darn good.

The SASS assembly on NVidia's instruction set seems to be manually creating read/write barriers at the assembly program level instead of leaving it up to the decoder. PTX exists as the intermediate step before SASS for a reason: all of that read/write barrier placement is extremely complicated.

CUDA cheats by making the programmer do a significant amount of the heavy lifting: the programmer needs to write in an implicitly parallel style. But once written in that manner, the compiler / computer can execute the code in parallel. The biggest win for NVidia was convincing enough programmers to change paradigms and write code differently.
I wonder if the triggers are also two-stage, like the Steam controller's. I loved that feature, found some niche uses in some games.
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I went out of my way not to give Facebook any moral high ground, and yet you still managed to get offended.
Even if only computable numbers exist, it's inconvenient, to do math on them in bulk, so it helps to have a set of virtual/potential numbers (misleadingly named the "real" numbers, even though almost all of them (100%) will never be realized in any way).
>But we’ve seen products like this before — the NVIDIA Shield, for one. Pretty cool piece of tech, but didn’t exactly start a revolution.

People forget that these devices without marketing and consistency they won't go far.

Nintendo, Sony, even MS that came later to the party have hundreds (if not thousands) of millions poured to build their brands, over decades... Sega knew how to play this game and still didn't manage to hang on...

They are already taking the crops of nostalgia, that's for how long they have been around. Leveraging these devices base on hardware it's nothing in the great scheme of things.
Valve engineers explicitly frame the Steam Deck as a PC with an integrated controller rather than a game console: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtiRGTZvGM
Why is Rust a "shouldn't" here? (And usually, parsing doesn't require any unsafe blocks, though it's not 100% clear to me exactly if this would or would not require it if things were written in Rust. It also depends on how much is... it's not a simple yes or no, which is one reason why I am curious about your opinion.)
Sort of. DMCA protects service providers against copyright infringement claims related to stuff uploaded to their services by third parties. So long as they adhere to DMCA requests, they’re not violating copyright law themselves.
Here's an inquiry for those more knowledgeable about IP law than myself: what's the state of the law regarding training an AI on copyrighted material besides code? I was debating this with someone in relation to the high definition texture packs for old games people have been making using models such as ESRGAN - do these infringe the copyright of the rights holders of the original assets? Or are they considered sufficiently transformative to be considered an original work?
Just thought I'd mention, that I have not had great results with this. But presumably it'll be a different story when supporting one known specific hardware shared by many Steam users.
The Switch power bump would've probably only made sense in 4K docked gaming anyways, and people are probably not going to buy one of these for docked gameplay.
I don't think it's super useful to make a distinction here between businesses and people. Regulating people is like:

- Don't spoil common resources

- Don't commit violence against others

- Don't gobble up resources and hoard them for yourself

- Don't mislead others

These apply to businesses too, and when you think about it, it covers a lot:

Plastic bags/straws: spoiling common resources, no one can use them

A/C: uses a lot of energy, only use it when you must

Buy local: when you factor in externalities like atmospheric carbon production, road construction and maintenance, and human suffering (road accidents, lost wages and political power due to corporate agglomeration and financial draining of communities), it falls under "don't spoil common resources" and "don't gobble up resources".

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But more broadly, I always find the "let's rely on individual action" option odd. Besides much of pollution being industrial and not addressable by individual action, it's also obviously not working. So is your position that we deserve what we get? That seems super unsatisfying to me.
Thanks! If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to reach out any time.