skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It runs many more games than the Nintendo switch right from the start, with many people being able to play games on the go without buying them again.

It's not perfect, but it sounds like a much better deal than the Steam Machines which didn't really offer any additional value to anyone and were much more limited.
Presumably most people use usb for peripherals that don’t require usb3 spec. Webcams, input devices, etc.
Ask HN: How do you handle SMS and MMS?
I want to send and receive SMS and MMS from my computer. My carrier has been extremely unreliable and I am sick of paying them for bad service. Are there any good tech solutions for this?
The one issue with this is going to be the storage space. 512GB isn't really enough for multiple AAA games. It will also be interesting to see what the battery life is going to be on this thing, and how well they've tuned the controller hardware.

It could either be an amazing upgrade for mobile gaming or incredibly janky.
This is really good & helpful! Wish I had this thing years ago when I was doing pro-bono financial planning for family members. Would have been much easier than building spreadsheets for them...

Couple of points of feedback:

1. The UI flow for adding financial goals (like putting excess earnings into taxable investments, rain day funds, etc.) didn't make it immediately clear what that section was for. Some clearer explanations in that section might improve your funnel.

2. The way that debt is displayed by default on the stacked chart sort of makes it look like an asset, which is confusing. My reaction was just not to trust the chart for the whole duration of having a mortgage. Changing the house asset value in the stacked chart to home equity instead could maybe be a fix?

3. I really liked the little red exclamation indicator when a plan involved you running out of money b/c you retired too early. It felt very well calibrated to clearly indicate the inadvisability of that particular plan w/o being overwrought.

You might want to add less alarming yellow indicators to pick up not great, but not terrible situations like you retired too early & all your assets are tied up in retirement accounts and illiquid assists (e.g., home equity), so now you are eating early withdrawal penalties unnecessarily.

Great work!
> There are lots of histograms and empirical data supporting the conjecture.

There's a very interesting implicit question there: why should counterexamples be small? [1][2] Certainly, counterexamples to many conjectures about infinite sets can be found with a brute-force search, even if the problem is merely semidecidable. But isn't that simply an example of selection bias?

There is a certain subjective beauty in having counterexamples like 9 or 341 or even 23338590792. But is that just anthropocentrism? After all, no matter how many cases we check, we have made absolutely no progress in exhausting the whole set of natural numbers! We can never reach even reasonably easily constructable numbers like 3↑↑↑3 (using Knuth arrow notation [3]), and still almost all[4] natural numbers are bigger than that.

In physics, there's an (often implicitly made) assumption that more evidence in support of a hypothesis makes it more likely that the hypothesis is supported by any future evidence as well. But why should we be able to make that assumption? We do, because it seems to work, but why should it still work tomorrow? This is, of course, the famous philosophical problem of induction [5]. But math is basically what happens when you explicitly reject inductive reasoning and then start to explore the space of things that can still be reached, using purely deductive reasoning!

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/449886/the-largest-...

[2] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/111440/examples-of-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_all

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
> they are completely out of touch with what is actually possible

I think it's the opposite, actually.

It's like we're trying to find solutions to this and I'm like, "well, what if much of Texas just had a power outage for weeks during the coldest part of the year; sure some people would die but we'd save a lot of carbon emissions". You'd rightly balk and say "that is INSANE". And then climate change would do it to us anyway.

So it seems to me that the ones who are "out of touch with what is actually possible" are the climate change skeptics and the incrementalists. How can you ignore what's already happening?
No one is talking about censoring arguments about what constitutes reasonable levels of immigration, or whether the government is spending too much, or what rights states should have vs federal gov. IE conservative policy positions.
The divide is on topics like anti-vax, nonexistent election fraud, et cetera. IE, actual lies.
Thanks! Appreciate the subscription, and I'm stoked you're enjoying the app. I imagine there are others in the FI community that might also get a lot out of it, but I'm not quite sure what the best way is to spread the word. Most subreddits don't allow self-promotion, and same with the Bogleheads forums and wiki. If you or others have any ideas, definitely let me know. Pretty much all my time has gone into trying to make the actual tool, so I haven't done much at all in terms of marketing.
This is no way similar to Louis Rossmann's case. If the military would want to repair its fancy stuff it would.
Anarchy in UK Court? Ex-Sex Pistols Sue Singer Johnny Rotten
I am not from US, but reading this makes me feel US is very, VERY vulnerable.

They made it so they are more dependant on logistics than any army already is, meaning if they ever got in a war against peers (China, Russia, etc...), USA could lose the war because the front line got cut-off or sieged.

Seriously, for example if you send a special force group to sabotage a carrier for example, then all you need to keep the carrier non-funcional is siege it, place boats with anti-air equipment in certain positions and shoot any airplane trying to reach the carrier.

Land battles against bases seemly can be won by just sieging them and waiting all their gear to break, specailly if it is in harsh environment (like desert or snow), don't need to wait them to run out of food or ammo, just have to wait until their gear stopped working properly and then you can assault.

How the leadership doesn't see that?
It can be about that, but it's also about the low end, the modders and weird hybrid devices like this.
I hope it has better latency than the Nintendo Switch - if you build your own hardware with display included, why not make it fast!? Why does it need to have a 20+ ms response time!?
> Funny how the FAANG companies never make open source work a requirement

When I got rejected from Google the feedback was I should do more open source work.
I just saw about the dock, if I didn't build a new PC recently I'd be definitely considering that for gaming.
Oh very good point. The GP’s $1 million number per falcon 9 launch was ludicrous.
Here is the community created ProtonDB: https://www.protondb.com/

You can check how well titles are supported, or if you need tweaks to make it work.
Regardless, without Nintendo's library, this thing is going to sink. And frankly, if the switch had no Nintendo exclusives, it too would have sunk.
Yet another successful game vs Yet another failing hardware device.
> I think it's at least a fair question to ask what makes "execute x86" such an important application?

x86, ARM, POWER9, and RISC-V are all the same class of assembly languages. There's really not much difference today in their architectures.

All of them are heavily pipelined, heavily branch predicted, superscalar out-of-order speculative processors with cache coherence / snooping to provide some kind of memory model that's standardizing upon Acquire/Release semantics. (Though x86 remains in Total-store ordering model instead).

It has been demonstrated that this architecture is the fastest for executing high level code from Bash, C, Java, Python, etc. etc. Any language that compiles down into a set of registers / jumps / calls (including indirect calls) that supports threads of execution are inevitably going to look a hell of a lot like x86 / ARM / POWER9.

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If you're willing to change to OpenCL / CUDA, then you can execute on SIMD-computers such as NVidia Ampere or AMD CDNA. Its a completely different execution model than x86 / ARM / POWER9 / RISC-V, with a different language to support the differences in performance (ex: x86 / POWER9 have very fast spinlocks. CUDA / OpenCL has very fast thread-barriers).

There's a CUDA-like compiler for x86 AVX + ARM-NEON called "ispc" for people who want to have CUDA-like programming on a CPU. But it executes slower, because CPUs have much smaller SIMD-arrays than a GPU. (but there's virtually no latency, because x86 AVX / ARM-NEON SIMD registers are in the same core as the rest of their register space. Like... 1 clock or 2 clocks latency but nothing like the 10,000+ clock ticks to communicate to a remote GPU)

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Look, if webservers and databases and Java JITs / Bash interpreters / Python interpreters could be executed by something different (ex: a systolic array), I'm sure someone would have tried by now.

But look at the companies who made Java: IBM and Sun. What kind of computers did they make? POWER9 / SPARC. That's the fruit of their research: the computer architecture that best suites Java programming according to at least two different sets of researchers.

And what is POWER9? Its a heavily pipelined, heavily branch predicted, superscalar out-of-order speculative core with cache-coherent acquire/release semantics for multicore communication. Basically the same model as a x86 processor.

POWER9 even has the same AES-acceleration and 128-bit vector SIMD units similar to x86's AVX or SSE instructions.

You get a few differences (SMT4 on POWER9 and bigger L3 cache), but the overall gameplan is extremely similar to x86.
Due to its openness and built-in controller this looks like a great device for emulators and remote play / cloud streaming.
Hi! Interesting point. At Apideck we're a happy (paying) Postman customer. We're not aware of any collaboration limits on the free tier. We created Portman with the intention to scratch our own itch by using OpenAPI as the canonical format to drive our API lifecycle and test automation.
I don’t know if this has changed but the problem with This is the same as the stream controller. Pc game interfaces aren’t designed for controllers and aren’t intuitive. This can be seen if you just compare Minecraft Xbox vs Java and the lack of some little menu optimization really makes Java a pain to run on controller only.
There is no equivalence, zero. Folks rioting because they're tired of being repeatedly shot and killed by police (there is no such thing as an organized "antifa" militia, but you already know this too), is in no way shape or form the same thing as the "Jews will not replace us", and trying to overthrow the US Government because they didn't like the outcome of the last election crew.
This used to be called war profiteering and was a crime and a great shame to those who did it.

We need to get rid of the patent system and dramatically overhaul intellectual property to increase competition and reduce barriers to entry.
The screen's as big as the largest model for Nintendo Switch, I think the hardware is fine. The problem is that most PC games are optimized for higher resolution and screen size (especially the 4x or strategy ones), and unlike Nintendo where there is a standard 5.5" ~ 7" size you have to optimize for, the PC developers don't have any top-down pressure to port their game for smaller screens.
Internally, it might be a single USB 3 interface routed to a hub chip that breaks out one USB 3 and dual USB 2, or maybe even three with one of them going to a GPIO controller or some other random peripheral.
And if you add 5% for import duty, you get a number very close to 419 EUR.

I don't however know how much the import duty is, it seems to be a number that is very difficult to find :).
The issue comes if you are communicating between different binaries (for example, RPC requests or message handlers). Just because you can change the code atomically doesn't mean you can deploy the client and server atomically.

As someone pointed out though, proto mitigates a lot of this.
I love introductory textbooks. Some of my favorites:

"Starting Forth" - Leo Brodie

"Computer Science, Logo-Style" series - Brian Harvey

"Algebra", "Functions and Graphs", "Methods of Coordinates", "Trigonometry" - I.M. Gelfand (does anyone know if he completed his Geometry textbook? I've never seen it. I've also never seen his "Calculus" or "Combinatorics" books, although I know they exist. I suspect his "Combinatorics" book is more advanced than he intended to produce.)

"Sage for Undergraduates" - Gregory Bard
> It's usually difficult for people with decent upbringings to even conceptualize why a child might willingly remain estranged from their family. But there are a lot of people out there with really good reasons to do that.

This sums up how I feel about this topic. I read all these accounts of how people's perceptions of parent-child relationships change after they have kids, or how there's still mutual love between them and their parents despite so-and-so, and I understand.

I am well into adulthood with a stable marriage and career; I've been to therapy, and done all things reasonable to heal from whatever it is I came from. By all accounts I've been pretty successful on that front.

But goddammit, when I think about my parents, I move between seething resentment and gratitude that I decided to cut contact. And this is an improvement.

As you say, people with good enough upbringings can't conceptualize why a child might remain estranged from their family; I'd wager they impose perceptions of their own (good enough) parents when making that judgment.
It's possible that each of the individuals, rather than act with bad intentions, simply exist in bubbles in which they heard these allegations, and repeated them here without checking them first.

Hopefully, if this is the case, these individuals realise the bubble they exist in, and give such topics more scrutiny in future.

That said @textgel, I find bringing up individual user's details a bit unsavoury; By all means, distinguish between long-term vs short-term users, but I don't think you should bring up employer, even if it's public info.
I'm required as an Arch user to also reply and say I'm an arch user, and approve this message.
> If I had a nickel for every person who thinks they have an “original” app idea I’d be a millionaire

err, hate to burst your bubble, but I already had the idea for making a nickel a pop off of those people, and I'll fight you to the death over it.
If this really counts as fair use it turns into a giant loophole to steal any IP you want. Just create a website with a github-like TOS, upload some disney copyrighted pictures to it, train a GAN super overfitted on the images, and then claim mickey mouse as your own.
Haha, I read it and wondered why they put a computer in a desk. Buy a desk, get a free computer!

What?!
There are a few (re)solutions in the wind. The latest one that I've known is `west` (part of Zephyr-RTOS project), but I haven't tried yet.

There may have wrong description (FIXME) but a sort list is found here: https://github.com/icy/git_xy#why
This is why I think the crazy ambition of the project is so important. If they're wrong by an order of magnitude they still change everything.
> Buffer bloat killed cybernetic synchronicity.

There's something very interesting about this concept of "cyber-sync" - when is now? Is your now different from mine?
While we're reporting our experience, I'll say that my experience with Proton has been highly mixed. By which I mean I have seen several games work pretty much flawlessly, and several that were pretty much totally busted, and many in between. I think there are also quite a lot of games that benefit from customising the Proton setup instead of just using the default configuration (there are often guides online for particular games, advising what version with what tweaks will make things work), but tbh I rarely have the motivation to go down that route. I usually check protondb before buying things.

For what it's worth, I no longer have a Windows install. If a game doesn't have a Linux version and doesn't work on Wine/Proton, I just live without that game.

I will say that I give Valve major kudos for their work on Proton even with its limitations. It's one of the primary reasons that I continue to use Steam and haven't done much with GOG or other sources (despite GOG's admirable stance on DRM)
I have a Steam Controller. It performed well in several games. However, my experience with it and most games was very bad. Most games did not really support it and community keybinding presets were either non-existent or unplayable. I had to learn how to use a controller as if I did not use any in my life. I had to spend a lot of time to get everything up and running and learn the controls. Most of the time I switched back to wireless keyboard and mouse or xbox controller.

I hope that controls on this device will be decent and the games are playable.
You should be able to install Windows on it. As they say on the website you are free in your choice of OS. Then the anticheat shouldn‘t be a problem.
>> I was thinking AMD Renoir but Zen 2 and RDNA 2 is an odd combination. Is it custom?

I don't recall any APU with that combination. The 5700G which is due next month is Zen 3 with Vega graphics.

Personally I don't care much about RDNA 2 but I would like the hardware AV1 decoder.
Snark isn't a sign of offense.
> A more expensive Nintendo Switch

and? Consider this is HN, which is largely populated by people with the disposable income that this doesn't much matter.

> with the attractiveness and weight of the Sega Nomad

... which competed with the Gameboy

> Complimented by the extensive Linux gaming library.

First, this is much larger than you might expect.

Second, it's only limited _on the device_. I see this being used as a thin client into a desktop gaming PC that you already own, which presumably will be running Windows.
I love a good distro story but it doesn’t seem very relevant here.

A Linux distribution like Ubuntu, Arch or Gentoo provides a platform for users to configure their system. The distro is a toolkit for finishing up a generic OS into the specific workstation needed by the user to do their work.

Steam Deck on the other hand has one job to do: launch /opt/steam and run things linked against libsteam. The end user won’t be doing anything with the OS itself.

Accordingly, the underlying distro just doesn’t seem that interesting. What about the distro could possibly be surfaced to the end user/gamer that they would care about?

It’s not like Steam will apt dist-upgrade their device: upgrades will be a complete reimage.
No. Maintenance and repair of a contracted item are governed by the active contract. That means if a soldier steps in to repair the item the military is breaking the contract and the assigned contractors won’t touch that item moving forward. This is problematic because the soldiers in place likely don’t have the dedicated resources to assume full ownership.
I'm "country folk" and have never experienced this kind of attitude from "city folk" on the basis of my address.

Then again, I do truly, sincerely, earnestly believe the enablers like Fox News, the GOP, et cetera are evil. The people who listen to them aren't evil, just deceived.
This article (https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...) by madaidan goes into quite a bit of detail regarding the security of the two browsers. Things are improving on FF, though.
Cmon, don't gatekeep games. There are inputs, outputs and challenge. Fits the classical definition.
i know what you're saying and this wouldnt be out of the box, but wait till someone gets emulators running on it, within a year i'd say
The original paper is from the 1950s and this has been studied a lot since then.

From doing a lit review on working memory capacity, it seems that our capacity is highly dependent on the context of the task/information and the individual's expertise/skills. One particular replication study I remember was not able to replicate the results. I tried applying it to more complex tasks (e.g., coding) and it did not work at all.

I recommend Radvansky's book "Human Memory" if you want to learn more.
I wonder how much software is in this system?
Obviously not much, after looking at HN over the last many years:
-Ransomware attack - pay or we turn off your heart pump!
-The system will now shut down, ok?
Over a whole year of operation seems to be a pretty good test of system hardness.
Cool Earth more or less does that.

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/report/cool-earth/#2-what-do...
My current cards will lend me thousands and thousands on zero notice, to spend pretty much anywhere.

XMR really doesn't feel like it offers that.
The famous Boeing 707 prototype barrel roll over Lake Washington (2015)
I guess that would be a reasonable complaint if it wasn't so that Steam is already Valve's main product, and that this device is intended for playing games from Steam!
At this point, i can't tell if I'm an arch user because of that meme, or if that meme is true because I'm an arch user...either way as an Arch user, I must make you aware of this fact whenever linux operating systems are brought up (I think it's even in the EULA). This has been a PSA.
> that's bigger than every natural number in the ZFC sense.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

Even for nonstandard models of the natural numbers there will never be a single number larger than all other numbers, since that violate the Peano axioms.

Did you mean by "in the ZFC sense" "the standard model?"
> make Proton viable for the majority of titles

Protondb[1], which collects user reports, says:

18,811 games reported
15,261 games work

which is about 81% - a bit more than a simple majority.

1: https://www.protondb.com/
The ign preview suggests otherwise:

https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-hands-on-impressions...

> This flexibility means you can do pretty much anything on the Steam Deck that you can do with a regular PC. Connect a mouse and keyboard? Yep. Alt-Tab out of your games to a browser or video? Sure. Load third-party programs or even other game stores like Origin, uPlay, or Epic Games Store? No problem. You could even wipe Steam OS entirely and install a fresh version of Windows if you want – but the default Steam OS is smooth and efficient at getting you into your games, so I imagine most people won’t want or need to go that far. The point is, you can if you’d like to.
A feature I think would make this a killer app is to be a truly hybrid experience. Similar to how Parallels can make it seem like apps from a Windows VM are running as OS-X apps, MS needs to create a more seamless experience.

How great would it be to just have a shortcut link to open Photoshop on my powerful high memory optimized Cloud VM and other apps from my corporate provided VM.

Secondly, when I hit Start I should be able to tab through my connected VMs, or see an aggregate list of all start menus of all my VMs and local PC.
Yes, I can, see links in this thread.

And plenty of them elsewhere, but all in dutch.

Google terms "site:.nl drugsgebruik middelbare scholen nederland" "site:.nl drugsgebruik lagere scholen nederland".

Enjoy. And if a school in NL claims that they don't have a drug issue: find out if they really don't or if they are simply closing their eyes because it's too uncomfortable to discuss.

There is no evidence that schools in nl do not have a drug problem, but there is plenty of evidence that they do.

For instance, an article about Arnhem:

https://nos.nl/artikel/2322862-steeds-meer-blowende-jongeren...