skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can does apple need a new mini every year, or even every 2 years? The 13 mini bought today will probably still do everything that 90% of customers need it to do for another 5 years. Even the SE which is 3 years old now can probably do most things for another 5 years.

Also, the 12 mini was released 6 months after the 2020 SE, and the 2020 SE was released ~4 years after the previous SE. it stands to reason that many people who wanted a smaller phone jumped on the 2020 SE, and then had no reason to buy a 12 mini.

Also, the 12 mini battery life sucked. The 13 mini is perfectly usable though.
Everything you've listed is either profit for the owners, or ensuring future profit for the owners.
Does anyone else think submitting the same topic a day late should result in a suspension?

I think submission quality would improve if people were forced to lookup if the topic has already been discussed.
Try to check with Clover or any other pos companies, that might help you.
i doubt the steam deck has enough ram to handle cities skylines, i pretty frequently hit 20 gb on larger populations
Ymmv. Personally, I find the trackpad too cumbersome and only ever play games that are suited to the gamepad.
Animal models do not always, and in fact quite often not at all, translate over to humans.

We all know this, but it is worth bringing it up on a regular basis.
Why Europe decouple from China? That is someone else's confrontation.

With just one move (Ukraine nationalist stooges), Europe is messed up for the next 20 years.
It was so small that a solo developer reimplemented the entire kernel.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/hygtnx/mesospher...

https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/tree/mesosphere-...
From a user's perspective they're running on Linux, though from the games' perspective they're running on Windows, thanks to Proton (based on Wine).
You can use TOTP on your PC too.
.... and if we think its bad now, its going to be waaayy worse in a few years, with ai bots undertaking most activity online.

OMG, real life is beckoning!! I'm going to have to get dressed and go outside again!
EVs (at least those with road-trippable range) are currently aiming for a "luxury-ish" segment, because it helps hide the cost of the battery.

Extra $8K on a $50K car isn't too bad and can be hidden by cutting costs somewhere else. But on a <$20K car there's nothing left to cut, and the extra cost takes it out of the budget segment.
> outrageous fees for Google FI

Last I checked, they were asking for $20 / month for unlimited calling and texting. Do you consider that outrageous?

As an alternative, Google Voice will host your phone number for free. It works with every WiFi connection and even while traveling internationally. Have you considered that?
Yes, the resolution should be roughly comparable to working on a typical 20-something inch HD PC screen from normal desk distance.

EDIT: Although since the screen pixels are aligned to your eyes (head, more specifically), and not to the environment, this means the rasterization of the text will shift around as you move (even slightly). Which means it'll be slightly blurrier than a screen of similar resolution, as you can't employ "pixel snapping" and other tricks (as seen on Windows) to make low res text look better.
If I had a game say on GOG instead of Steam, how seamless or usable would that be please?
amazing value indeed. You'll get a good 5 very high quality hours on each of them.
Check with Clover or other pos companies, that might help you.
I was on the open AI website and I was looking for training jobs but I couldn't find anything. The article mentions a guy who works for open AI training the AI
"Beneficial" ? Are you a scalpel ? Only scalpels benefit from that shit...
I love my deck. It's my preferred way to play games these days. For better or for worse, it's also been the reason I've spent more time playing games this year than the years before.

The console like quality gives it a different feel compared to a controller hooked up to a gaming PC in my opinion. The fast sleep/resume also makes it super easy to pick up and play for a short while without having to worry about not making it to the next save point in time.

SteamOS/HoloISO is so good that I seriously consider installing it on my next gaming computer when the time to upgrade eventually comes. It has tons of issues with Nvidia hardware (as with any kind of Linux distro) but other than that it's one of the first times I've seen Linux for the mainstream done right. Read only system images, all software installed in the user directory makes for a very stable hassle free update experience. You can unlock the system partition if you want, but I intend to keep it read only for as long as I can.

It's not some kind of magical machine that will make you experience fun, though. If you're already happy with the amount of game time you're getting and you don't think you'll use it, don't get one. It is what it is, a handheld console. I bought mine knowing I'd probably spend a significant amount of time on it playing games in bed and on the go, and that's where it has really shined for me, especially when I was too sick to sleep for a few days.

If you've already got a gaming PC or console and a tablet/large smartphone, consider getting a comfortable controller grip for that instead and stream the games over your network. I've got pretty good experiences streaming games over WiFi and even over the internet this way. It's fiddly to set up, but it'll work for significantly less money than a separate game console.

If you've got money to throw at your gaming hobby, also consider more powerful alternatives. I think the 1200x800 screen is fine for the Deck screen size, but some people don't like it. The machine is also clearly optimized to play games at that resolution, hooking it up to a monitor can quickly show the limitations of a 15W chip. There are more powerful gaming handhelds out there, often running Windows and some kind of homebrew console environment, for a significantly higher price.

If you know anyone with a Deck, ask them to try it out for a few minutes.
SOA is optimal only if you are iterating sequentially over many elements on a subset of the columns.

Really the right layout is access dependent.
Cheaper for RHEL licenses (with reduced scope of support) than Red Hat themselves, meaning SUSE is a RHEL license reseller approved by Red Hat?
I love mine. I use it both in handheld mode and docked to a TV. It's great for playing games anywhere around the house if you have a few spare minutes. Also great for travel. The openness is really cool. I've added several non steam games to mine (e.g. Plex). It's not perfect though. I find I get a decent amount of lag using bluetooth controllers while docked and some games don't play super well (even "verified" ones). Occasionally I'll use it as a linux desktop too, but not often. I like that it has the option though.
> It also ended serfdom.

Hardly.
I have a common name, so a ton of people think they have my email address when logging into things. I suspect this triggers 2FA much more than normal as I am constantly logged out of things and have to use 2FA to log back in. Lately I had a pretty funny series of events.

I kept the number from the last country I lived in solely for 2FA of accounts from that country and after almost a year I've managed to change over most things but not all. A week ago I decided to change that physical sim to an esim as I only need to enable it occasionally. I did the process for this, and at the end I got a link to last country's app store. The only way to install the esim is to use this app and it is only in last country's app store. I haven't logged into that for a while so it needed email confirmation. I haven't logged into the associated gmail address for a while so that needed 2FA confirmation by SMS. So I'm now locked out of an email address, apple id, and phone number.
They are protected by copyright, but anyone is free to learn from them.
Dwindling dwarves dwell dweep :)
KISS is a feature indeed.
I like to think that I can drive my tooling, and I do appreciate not having my choice of build system being affected by this library.

I understand that some libraries are themselves so big and complex that they need a build system. Each library I want to use that doesn’t is a blessing.
Well the variance on it is definitely huge by human timespan standards, but I think it's not entirely unlikely that most humans that have ever lived will live between something like 1700-2200 AD. Could be 1700-3500 as well if we're lucky.

It's also entirely possible that ancient Greeks had a discussion like this and decided that they'll all be dead soon, and couldn't have been more wrong, so the error bars are obviously massive when dealing with only an arbitrary fraction of the distribution.
I haven't played Cities Skylines on the Deck, but other mouse + some keyboard management games (Victoria, Crusader Kings, Hearts of Iron 4 (to a lesser extent), Football Manager) are perfectly fine. It takes some adjustment to get the proper layout that makes sense with any shortcuts you might want (e.g. pause, adjust speed, open this or that menu) but they work perfectly fine.
>extremely competenet tech people

I'm not competent with tech (I'm not a developer, just a lurker on HN) and I find Mastodon as easy as email if you understand email.

What are these tech people competent about? Do they understand email, at least conceptually?
Well this turned into a begging fest for invites. Sorry about that.
I thought a valuation of a company on a stock market was a reflection of its potential future profits.

So with these recent influx of capital to me that's the market saying that it believes Nvidia and Apple are going to bring in profits in the future so here's money now to grow in order to capture those profits that come in later.

I'm probably misunderstanding aspects here though.
>the year of the Linux handheld.

Android achieved that many years ago.
> Only in government schools can children and parents be so profoundly harmed and disrespected, with no accountability.

* Religious schools, programs, and camps have entered the chat.
What emergency in a classroom?
For sure i have come across websites where my eyes rolled ("common guys, i know you are better than this").

But the web has not been transformed from a web of users to a web of data mined "product" without very conscious moral choices by many commercial actors.
I like it. I use it fairly frequently too.
The killer feature: instant on/off AKA 'Pause'.

I've had a single-player game of CIV5 going for MONTHS now. The Steam Deck is PERFECT for pick it up, play for 5 minutes (or a couple of hours), pause it, and resume later.

I have 2 main use-cases:

-couch-playing. When the Wife-unit is watching her shows, or I get bored but still want to be in the same area as her; I can play this on the couch without it being intrusive.

-kids playground. When the kids are at a playground I'll start playing as a way to pass my time until it's time to leave and/or I need to play with the kids too.

Both situations can have frequent interruptions, IMHO the Steam Decks' ability to suspend the game and then let me resume without a problem is incredibly helpful.

I also LOVE that because it's a "real PC", I don't need to fight with config oddities with linux on a laptop. Plug in an external monitor/keyboard/mouse and you have everything you need.
It really pushes the envelope on many fronts - thermals, displays, materials, sensor integration, specialised hardware… I would never expect any rollout like that to go as planned.
The killer app is the brand. People trust and furiously consume the brand because of mental conditioning.
It's worth considering that spying on DNS is a tremendous privacy leak, much more than "the most they can do" implies. An aware user might configure their system with DoH and use a privacy respecting DNS provider but for many users on a default home connection the ISP is pretty much able to build up a traffic profile of everything you visit and when you visit it. A VPN provider can close this hole too quite easily.

Just from DNS, your ISP can:

1. Infer shopping habbits.

2. Infer which communication services you use (flag users hitting signal.org)

3. Infer when you install, update, or open programs based on telemetry DNS, potentially the versions being run, and how long they run for.

4. Infer when you're most active, infer sleeping habits.

5. Infer probability of health problems if you're hitting more medical sites.

6. Infer political alliance from news sites you visit.

And much more.

Since US congress dropped the rules preventing ISPs selling this data this might be the most insidious thing your ISP can do today.

If you believe that a VPN provider is less likely to spy due to it being the incentive for a paying customer, then a VPN with a no-log DNS option is a huge privacy win. I would argue DoH with NextDNS by itself does more for your privacy than any VPN does with IP masking.
>I spent $50 picking on-sale indies and quickly had a backlog.

I've actually kept track how much money I've splurged on PC games this year. I've spent 420.10€ directly on Steam and I have 56 direct Steam Store game acquisitions in my license history. Outside of Steam, I've spent 111.30€ and I have 151 "Retail" acquisitions (which aren't all games since "Forza Horizon 5 Oreo Zonda" is in there). So a total of 531.40€ spent and 207 product activations.

Feels pretty cheap considering previously I used to buy actual physical box copies of PlayStation games, and those were generally not cheap. Average game price for those is like close to $40.
> It should be more specific, they should not be allowed a smartphone in school at all. But a phone, yes definitely. In europe it's a lot more common to send your kids alone to school, so I definitely think they should have a simple phone.

That’s the usual policy here in France. Smartphones are not allowed at all. Dumb phones are but they can’t be taken out of the bags in the classroom, which makes sense. I am much more comfortable giving my kid a dumb feature phone as well. It’s enough to send text messages and call in an emergency, but it makes him less of a target for mugging.
Efficiently updating implicit in-order forests
Even AI? :)
My point exactly. This article could have been written: "AI is biased against drawing just one banana" and I would have preferred it. And I said "almost" because I skimmed two of the paragraphs in the middle that seemed unlikely to contain information.
Arch Linux, btw
Compared with deck, no suspend continue.

And I read that the button can stuck and it can get hot.
Same, i almost exclusively used it and deleted instagram
It may create demand for the hardware, but it will diminish demand by developers to make apps for it, knowing the audience will be small. And Apple has an ecosystem to bootstrap here. If they fail, the whole platform will die.

I'll be curious how they navigate the difficulties of getting this category to self-sustainability.
I remember my first paycheck from my first real job, I went out and bought a new modem. Don’t remember exactly what, but it was a big upgrade from the 2400 baud that came with my computer
It will probably redirect to 112.
Reddit has real value if you wanted to build a search engine or train AI…
In the UK at least, most major ISP block torrent sites, and if a copyright holder complains to the ISP that your IP was downloading a movie they have the rights to, you may get a warning letter from your ISP through the post, including the filename you were downloading. This has happened to me in the past.

VPNs solve both of these problems for me, however shady they may be under the hood
Well said. I define ‘safe AI’ as tech that enriches human life, rather than serving as tools for controlling people at scale and and negatively impacting peoples’ lives.

I am between ankle deep, and knee deep in writing a new book “Safe For Humans AI” and I have been reading as much as possible on the subject. I am in learning mode.

Not too far off topic: I read this article [1] today and it really hits on AI, productivity, history of technology, etc.

[1] https://zhengdongwang.com/2023/06/27/why-transformative-ai-i...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fediact/ ?
Sure, but there have been many copyright cases about plagiarism (in writing and in music). It's rarely cut and dry. There's a fine line between inspiration and plagiarism, which can only seemingly be settled in court. That approach is not feasible when dealing with the amount of data (and copyright holders) that Google gobbles up.
That slowdown started in my view with Word 97 and Windows ME‘s Explorer, which tried to be unnecessarily „smart“, of course at the expense of compute resources.
The key advantage of passkeys is phishing immunity.
They have for a while now in my experience. I'm not sure if it's still a thing, but there used to be these like sacks at the door with numbered pockets in which you'd put your phone until the end of that specific class.
So you’re not having the twitter experience, you’re living in a twitter ghetto away from the public?
Though I’d love to see the price of these specs to come down that quickly I’m not optimistic they will. Those MicroOLED panels in particular are extremely difficult to manufacture with terrible yield.

I don’t know that a killer app for it exists, but with its built-in developer base it’s inheriting from iOS thanks to using the same APIs (a dev base that’s notoriously fast to pick up new features, at that), I believe the chances of a third party dev finding a killer app are significantly higher than with prior AR platforms.
You can install GOG games the same way you do on any Linux desktop from the Deck's handheld mode (usually through Lutris or Heroic). After that, you add the games to Steam as a "non-Steam game" and it'll show up in handheld mode just like any Steam game.

Installing new GOG games from the GOG library isn't quite as easy as installing Steam games is, and you don't get the extra testing and verification for running games on Linux that you get on the Deck.

You do get all of the benefits from the Steam UI, though, like controller remapping and game specific performance profiles.
Why is it so terrible in particular?

Regarding information safety on the Internet, I think the cat is long out of the bag now. Forget AI, information is already weaponized at scale. I mean in the way like in this Wiki collection [0]. AI is, while probably powerful, just another tool in this toolbox.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades#Opinion-i...
I absolutely love it. It even runs Diablo IV incredibly well, so I alternate between my gaming laptop and the Deck.
Science is not magic. It has produced some magical results but it is just one way of obtaining knowledge. I have seen nothing in my casual perusal of the age extension literature that makes me think it’s any more than modern day alchemy, hoping for some magical compound that grants immortality, from trace evidence of beneficial properties.

I think age extension is likely possible, and that it will require continual rewriting of the human genome to regress cellular aging, fight cancer, and repair damage to the brain and vascular systems - and all other organs, really. It will require a stupendous technological investment and infrastructure and require much better knowledge of the human brain and cognition than we have today. Certainly nowhere in the next 100 years, we do not even know the causes of or have effective treatments for common forms of dementia, and our cancer treatments are frankly barbaric.
Especially when the GUI is just a hastily thrown together wrapper for some other command line tool that’s worse than the original.
Android is based on Linux but it's still not open source, got a lot of closed source stuff on top of it. I wouldn't exactly call it "Linux" which generally means GNU/Linux
> If you have an android phone yourself, maybe it's not actually SMS and it's actually RCS[1]?

And, in my experience, Android pushes you heavily to enable RCS; every time you open its messages app, there's a chance that it will randomly ask you to enable it, with a large button to enable and a small link to dismiss the dialog without enabling. I never tried, but I expect that once enabled, it'll never ask again, so it might have been enabled by accident sometime in the past.
GPU Inference Costs for fine tuning LLMs
I'd argue that this view is a bit misogynistic because it doesn't attribute women with having agency.
Like how are the "maximize window" and "minimize window" buttons even supposed to work? (That traffic light on top of your windows)

Or why don't we have Copy and Paste keys on our keyboards. Or Undo and Redo keys?

Or why is the USB drive in the back of an Apple monitor?

Or why is everything so opinionated?

Or that mouse that could only be charged with the cable plugged into the bottom so you couldn't use it?

Or in earlier versions of OSX, you had to upgrade the OS by starting iTunes (wtf?) ...
> Owning it should be basic human right, like wearing clothes!

NOT having to own an abusive manipulation tool should be a basic human right.

And let's be very clear about this: almost all apps are intentionally designed to be manipulative. Try disabling notifications for example, and most apps will whine and whinge and bully you until you enable it. The design of these things is thoroughly and profoundly abusive.

Never mind of course that "smartphone" in practicality means "Android and iOS", and "must give monies to this huge duopoly" is something I have a bone or two to pick with as well.

> Large number of students in Nederlands do not speak local language

This problem can be solved by learning Dutch.
I hope they can perfect this and use it in places like coastal New Jersey.
Is this supposed to challenge the switch? Personally, as a lifelong PC gamer, I've never been able to get into handheld/mobile stuff, or even consoles - its not even the screen size, but the controls and overall experience. I want to be upright in a chair, with a full keyboard + mouse in front of me. I like to use my dual screens to research stuff in downtime or check on settings/optimizations. Is this primarily used on the couch, or in public whilst out and about?
What if becomes super cheap?

I think immortality would be bad for humanity, but ~40 more productive years would be beneficial. Currently we take 25 years of preparation in order to work 35.
Yes but you're missing the point.

The infrastructure needed to fully support hydrogen would take decades to develop. Starting with some way to efficiently manufacture hydrogen without using even more fossil fuels.

It's the stall that they wanted --- to give them more time to milk ICE and adapt.

There is no corresponding infrastructure delay for EVs which are already being adopted.
Ohh yup, you are correct, to solve this problem, we don't do our own email server but use an external service. Right now Bespoke uses AWS SES to send emails. To self host it you need an AWS SES account. We have added a guide in the docs on how to do that easily.

In the future we might make it much more simple, so you can just opt into any smtp service and start sending emails.
Wouldn’t modern medicine would be considered “radical life-extending technology” to people living 200 years ago?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-...
>VC-backed

There’s your problem.
> Common C libraries in MS-DOS,

Honestly, never came across those in the C compilers I used back then.
the moral of the story is, nothing happened, RHEL was a great product, everyone was happy. Just like I think they will be when they realize CentOS Stream is still a viable product.
Medieval Technology and Social Change - Medieval Technology and Social Change https://a.co/d/8RuGXQM

Not a book, but the old Connections series is really wonderful for broad overviews along a narrow band. I wish there were more things that took a similar approach - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series...