skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
deckhd [1] creators (third-party 1200p screen for deck) said it's not possible, as it will require modifying main board (something about voltage regulation, if i recall correctly)

[1] https://deckhd.com/
>Their decisions don't necessarily have to improve profit margins

They can always rely on the gambling money. Takes 0 effort (all digital), unregulated, and it's enormously popular on Steam.
For the rest of us, we call ethics problems “opportunities.”
How much taxes will be paid in the EU when the giants leave? Ireland is making a judgement here, one where they understand that they have more to gain this way. That is: unless you are trying to make the claim that they have been bribed by Apple.
> I think one of the ways that health insurance (at least in the US) has gone horribly wrong is that it became a means to pay for routine medical things rather than just exceptional ones.

This is solved by high deductible health plans.

> In order for it to work financially, most people have to never have claims in excess of what they paid in. The whole point is to be able to cover exceptional and rare disasters.

This is where the problem is. Humans will have health problems and will have claims, especially after age 50. Which means (assuming a stable population), the present value of premiums has to equal the present value of all the healthcare you will need (until you get to Medicare, age 65). Which is a large number, especially considering the obesity/hypertension/diabetes/heart disease rates.

Which means premiums are effectively just another tax (except they are no longer mandated). A big wrinkle here is declining proportion of younger populations to pay for older populations, so the premiums young people pay for healthcare older people receive now, but when the young people are older, there will be fewer younger people to pay for them, so it is also a marginal “age” tax, where the younger people pay for more than what they will receive. Exactly the same as Medicare taxes.
This looks like a cool toy that high-level members of an organization will buy, and nobody else.

It can’t compete in the consumer space, because it doesn’t let you waste time on social media. It can’t compete in the corporate world because it doesn’t have a screen — no email, no spreadsheets, no collaborative chat application we’ve all grown used to. And it can’t even be great for photography, since you need another device to view the photos and videos this thing takes.

If this thing takes off for its impressive AI capabilities, smartphone makers can pump R&D into their AI, and give us this for free as a software update. But right now, the only people who will use this are folks whose job involves scheduling meetings and firing off quick text messages to colleagues and clients.
Not necessarily. I was a tech lead where I could only hire contractors. The run of the mill CRUD staff augmentation contractors were making about $65 and the contracting company was billing $100 a hour for them with no health care benefits, no PTO, no 401K match.

On the other hand, the “cloud consultants”, who were just old school operations folks who only knew how to do lift and shifts and make everything more expensive were billing $200 an hour. It was a small shop owned by the partners.

Long story short, I left there went to a startup for two years to get real world AWS experience, got hired at AWS in the ProServe department (full time job) and when I got Amazoned three years later (two months ago), I was able to negotiate a side contract with my former CTO for $135/hour and even that was low. I did it because I found the project interesting and I consider my former CTO a friend.

FWIW: I did get a full time job within three weeks.
Be afraid.

I tried to get my 3090 working in Wayland/KDE/Arch for about a month (after repeatedly running into the same issues on my 2060 laptop) and gave up.

AMD IGP output it is... and I just game on Windows instead. But even then, neutering the leftover bits of the Nvidia driver (which I need for CUDA) that keep breaking electron/chromium is making me pull my hair out. I still hold my breath opening VSCode, wondering if its going to freeze or not.
Brothers - a tale of two sons is a good story driven 3d platformer. It can be played with one controller, both holding it.
When I went to other sites I just had to file a ticket and that was it. If something were to be approved, it was automatic, unless it was a restricted office/building. Maybe it depends on the job role.

Not too unusual, other companies I've worked were very similar.
Agreed, but unfortunately this just clears the stage for influencers both if this variety and their young man grifting doppelgängers of the Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson schools.

It’s a golden age for toxic life advice. TV and movies always served up a diet of dysfunctional advice but it was at least labeled as fiction. Now we get a steady stream of cursed “how to be a victim” / “how to be an abuser” advice labeled as fact.
That's an interesting word. I assume it's when a large company buys your startup just to have access to the talent, without much regard for the startup's product? What sorts of offers do they make to the founders?
Have you considered tax or municipal code enforcement?
I know someone who did it successfully - unfortunately one of the company is failing though so he'll have to come back in our income bracket

I think it's a sad reflection of company culture of this time if you can put in 1hr of work per day and coast along.

We really got soft with all this bs. Which is why I don't have employees, just contractors I paid (quite a bit) to deliver results - not butts in seats or doing "anti-harassment training"
Ask HN: Is the age of high salaries over in the tech industry?
Here's what I see:

Interest rate hikes in the US, UK, EU, etc are rising and are still high.

VCs, companies and angels aren't investing more capital in startups in all stages.

Startups and companies are tightening their costs and turning to mass layoffs which are still happening, e.g. Stripe, Block, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Snap, Cruise, etc.

Interestingly, companies like Meta have done layoffs of SWE only to start hiring for the same position again at a lower salary and compensation.

Ever since ChatGPT was introduced, firms like Accenture (one of the biggest professional services firms) done 18,000 layoffs and is now making a full $3BN embrace of AI.

I'm assuming the salaries would be lower here, but unless a tech employee is working at OpenAI, it doesn't seem that high salaries would last in this current age as ChatGPT looks set to take on more tasks.

Most software SaaS services and startups would mostly be replaced as OpenAI 'GPTs', this obviously causes the vast majority of startup ideas and the value captured by OpenAI.

I'm not disputing that tech employees can't use ChatGPT / GH Copilot, is just that I don't think firms would pay high salaries for work that can just use ChatGPT or Copilot.

So, is it over?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/business/dealbook/accenture-ai-billion-consulting.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/accenture-to-cut-19-000-jobs-2-5-of-workforce-84c1ecdd
The cost of the raw materials is a rounding error compared to all other aspects of semiconductor manufacturing.

The entire industry is a game of "value-add". The blank silicon wafers start out with effectively zero (or negative) value. The raw materials are worthless to the business. Only once validated features (process layers) begin to accumulate do those raw materials begin to inherit some sense of value.
Nothing; he's just a hater.
Yep, me and my son are currently daily users of QB1.1 in DOSBox. Works nicely, but you might need trial and error to figure out the [Break] key when you're on a laptop.

Haven't tested, but QB1.1 or 4.5 should also work with vDosPlus [1]. The original vDos apparently has issues with keyboard input in QB, but, arguably [2], this has been fixed in vDosPlus.

There's also that bootable USB stick with FreeDOS or SvarDOS or smth on bare metal + native QBasic within it. I imagine this would actually make a really nice, responsive and distraction free environment for a child. DOS could also boot straight into QBasic via autoexec.bat, or present some fancy personalized menu.bat for the child, which is, yknow, cool. Or... it sure used to be in 1995. :)

As a non-native English speaker, I must also say that QBasic's simple syntax is incredibly good for teaching programming to children. Not too many footguns with weird (#$ymb0ls{}) either. It really is a great teaching language, even in 2023.

1: http://www.vdosplus.org/

2: List of additional features as compared to original vDos: "Keyboard IRQ1/INT9 handling for running programs such as MS-DOS EDIT, QBASIC, Visual Basic and XyWrite": http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/vDosPlus/featurelist.h...
> the expectation was that if i sucked up enough ("demonstrated my value") they MIGHT make me a real boy, like some bizarre Velveteen Rabbit fetish game.

Google goes out of its way to emphasize that TVC "conversion" does not exist. You can interview, but you'll go through the same process as anybody else, they'll make sure you don't interview with anybody you know, and your achievements as TVC are discounted completely.
Stand a meter away from a wall and wave a laser pointer such that the spot travels back and forth between two points a meter apart in one second. Move two meters away, but keep your movement exactly the same; the spot now moves two meters in one second.

Move two light-seconds away and do the same movement. The spot now moves two light-seconds in one second: twice the speed of light. Of course it takes two seconds from when you turn the laser on to when an observer at the wall would see it, and four seconds before you see the spot on the wall, but the spot itself moves faster than light.
To me it reads more like someone with a positive disposition (or someone who has founded a start up and doesn't want to burn bridges) laying out the problems without saying they are problems. I mean come on - the upsides: we "merged cultures", "our app lives on", "careers have bloomed" versus downsides "we quit", and "we don't think we actually delivered what we wanted to". But it's ok because after everyone who cared about the product quit, maybe someone else will might make it happen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You could change none of the facts of this blog and write it as an aggressive rant about how Google murdered their startup, forced them to re-write the entire thing, stopped them shipping by being a bureaucratic nightmare, and the big take away is you can succeed at google if you "play the right game" if you know what I mean. It's ... not positive.
Also, they have a much more narrow target market with different interests and priorities.

"PC gamer" correlates with "hardware tinkerer" much more strongly than "telephone user" does.
Sadly, has been a shell of itself for many many years.
700$ for a device I can't watch videos on, locked to one provider and has only first party Apps.
An immediate flop there is no doubt about it.
This simply incentivizes a rapidly revolving door between practice and insurance, with a likely effect of making the actual practioners as a populace more friendly to the insurance companies in general (in expectation of quid pro quo).
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I suspect a large number of people are learning that Playboy shut down in 2020 from reading your post.
Worth noting that Murray was recently detained under terrorist legislation (no right to a lawyer, no right to silence), his devices seized and passwords demanded and given.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/10/incredibly-i...
Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks Out After West Bank Visit [video]
>Valve turns evil

Some people and legislators are arguing that unregulated digital gambling is very very evil
I've been trying to figure out how to disable my trucks cellular antenna without disabling any other systems. It's proven more difficult than I thought.
Impossible for the HN Crowd: Hold Breath for 1 Minute
The cost of raw wood is not a big contributor to the cost of housing. The shortage of land where people want to live and are legally allowed to build is the biggest problem. Behind that, cost of construction labor.
Very few side businesses would cut it as well.

I wonder if growing a successful 7 figure income is easier than becoming a 7 figure exec.
The dimension of the screens are not the same, though.
There's something going on with AI startups in France
> And... Is the OLED not VRR? That was my #1 wish for the original Deck (with #2 being an OLED)

According to LTT it is due to the physical connection. Basically the panel is the same as Switch OLED and thus uses whatever it uses which is MIPI and thus no VRR (need eDP for that). The hardware clearly supports it (just plug an external display with VRR support into the deck and it works)

https://youtu.be/uCVXqoVi6RE?t=179

Basically Valve doesn't do large enough volume to make proper custom display economical so they have to take whatever they can get.
Being a slumlord is side income for many people.
Given that PC gaming thrives on modding, it's only right that the most PC-like console gets it right.
This has the added benefit of having some recognizable sign that someone is using the camera... which despite proclamations that "the public" is ready to accept being on camera all the time, I'm not convinced is true when it's someone wearing an overt device pointed at you and possibly recording, but you're not quite sure, all the time.

I for one have no particular desire to be part of your "context" (nor the company's training data set) without knowing it.
I remember reading fun but great article about trading with ants [1].

[1] https://worldspiritsockpuppet.com/2023/01/10/we-dont-trade-w...
Algorithmic trading. Especially in markets that offer leverage. It plays to SWE software strengths, the likelihood of having capital reserves, and is also great fun!
The screen is thinner and the battery is larger -- it's also, as others have said, a larger screen. The bezels are smaller.
Building towards a new default rendering model for web applications
And a smartwatch offers a lot of health features, too! Something many people seem to find interesting and useful.

The watch is an accessory to the phone that adds features plus offers convenience and if you want to, it can temporarily substitute your phone like when you go to the gym. A cellular Apple Watch combined with Air Pods can do a lot. And both the Apple Watch and the Air Pods have use cases in addition to that in other situations. I don't see that here at all. I see a device with a very limited feature set.

Edit: Wording
But remember that is because these companies were exploiting the use of contractors to deny them employee protections.

True contractors won’t care: they work for themselves and have multiple clients anyway. But these "red" people are employees in all but name, so that the companies can save money and other protections. A small slip up by Google (Apple/FB/MS/tons of others) and these folks get the protection they deserve.
If you want a leveraged position in the S&P 500 (either long or short), you can buy/sell S&P 500 futures with an implied financing rate that is approximately the risk-free rate. That's better than using margin. If you did use margin, Interactive Brokers offers lower margin rates than most retail brokers.
>it's a caste system

One required by federal policy. Companies are legally bound, or at least incentivized to not risk lawsuits, to degrading temporary staff so as to distinguish between regular employees and contractors.
The carbon in the wood used to build houses will slowly (or rapidly in the most unfortunate cases) release back into the atmosphere by various mechanisms.
It's wrong if it's a breach of contract.

Nothing unethical to having multiple jobs. Plenty of poor people outside of tech do it
OpenAI will solve its privacy problems before you
> The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) set a minimum 85% medical loss ratio. The insurers have to cover their operating costs and profit margins out of the remaining 15%.

That's also a perverse incentive though. With capped "profit" windows, how is a company to make more money? Well if healthcare costs increase, then premiums need to. 15% of 1.3X is bigger than 15% of X, after all. And healthcare providers are unlikely to object to higher prices.

And what if your insurer gets involved in vertical integration - perhaps Kaiser style, perhaps less formal? Now you get to reduce the actual cost to you (the insurer) by removing the middleman, and you get increased profit by keeping the price the same. It might show up on a different ledger on your books, but nonetheless...
Insurance companies should not be able to override a patient's doctor in making a determination of what's not "medically necessary".
Here are other related links:

code: https://github.com/microsoft/SoM

demo: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3894247/281586831-...
Not bad considering the UK is a dark rainy hellhole for solar.

NYC is 40.7’ North, Toronto Canada is North 43.7’, London is 51.5’ North and that’s the southern part of the UK.

Edit: To be clear I don’t think battery backed solar is a good fit for the UK today, I’m just surprised how close it is.
No doubt there are some HR/legal folks wanting to avoid the liability of 'training' someone on something that goes badly. The workaround to that is to have the training in an auditorium and not keep attendance on who is in the room.
James Dolan is New York City's best tax avoider.
https://www.rustjobs.fyi
Maybe the subreddit is fanfic but the phenomenon itself is definitely not - I’ve been told by multiple founders they had experienced it with remote employees.
> What I want is a console that plays PC games.

Yeah, the Steam Deck is exactly that and I've been extremely happy with mine.

Just be aware of some caveats:

- It's not powerful enough for the most demanding games

- Some games have evil anti-cheat or is otherwise not supported by proton yet (unless you install Windows, which you totally can)
The upgrade to 90 Hertz is really good for a non-obvious reason:
In the Steam Deck userbase, the "Golden 40", playing games at 40fps and the screen at 40 hertz, is a pretty well-liked trick for getting the frame time right in between 30 and 60fps at 25ms while "only" needing power to render 10 more frames per second than 30, making for a much better experience than 30.

The only problem with this is if a frame is slightly late at 40 hertz, you're waiting the full 25 ms for the next one instead of 16.6ms at 60hz.
Being able to run the screen at 80 hz for 40fps games cuts that stutter time on a missed frame in half to 12.5ms, and will make a huge difference!
This feels like the Kinect in that, if it works perfectly, seamlessly, responsively every time, it would be an amazing "the future is here now" gadget. But if it doesn't, it's just a tech demo with no real use.

The pin form-factor is awkward. At least with a watch, you have watch functionality to fall back on, making it immediately useful, and you can discover incremental functionality--health, message, alerts, etc. This is all or nothing (and I think it's going to land closer to nothing).
Reminds me of Dubl-Click's calculator construction kit for classic MacOS. I spent, I think, $75 on it back when that was a lot of money for an underemployed kid; never got any real value out of it, but was fun to play with.

https://www.macintoshrepository.org/1894-calculator-construc...
Yeah. Its basically free performance, and free power savings, and also makes the whole configuration process less fiddly.

Those are all things you particularly want on the Deck.
Can you expand on that? How did humane burn bridges to form the company?
G/O has a history of hostile relations with a number of its sites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G/O_Media

It probably all makes some kind of private equity "sense."
> they started bringing in boring European names

Those European style names are because international clubs began investing in MLS.

The Abu Dhabi royal family's fund that owns Man City has 80% ownership of NYCFC, who started the "FC" naming trend in MLS, and plenty of other MLS clubs are owned by people who also own European clubs.

> Half of the league’s names are an insult to North American sports culture

What the hell is "North American sports culture".

Naming conventions in Soccer/Football have always been European based because it is the primary region for prestige Soccer.

It's like complaining about Israeli or Chinese Basketball leagues using NBA style names and jerseys or Mexican College Football (yes that is a very popular thing there, and the Big12 is considering adding them to the conference) using Big10/Big12/Pac12 style branding and stadiums despite soccer being more popular in those places

The aesthetic matters from a branding perspective.
"If you have access to Copilot through your organization (Copilot Business plan), please contact your organization administrator to ask your account manager for access to this private beta."

I don't think you can apply yourself.
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> Blame the courts, basically.

No, blame these companies for trying hard to avoid workplace protection.
If you want 7 figures you need to learn how to grow it from 5. Either start your own business (which would come from this side hustle) or invest every penny you earn across a diverse portfolio and do that for a couple years. You may get lucky and end up with 7 figures. If you just saved your money, over time, you will absolutely have 7 figures.
I was preparing to possibly have to do this, but it looks like I've narrowly avoided it. My family has a procedure scheduled Dec 4, and my work insurance is changing plans Dec 1. Got pre-approved with previous plan, previous insurance company is exiting health insurance totally. New plan needs 15 business days to approve it, and can't start that until we get group numbers, and there's a holiday in here.

But, the doctor has been able to get us in due to a cancellation, before the insurance expires.
What does it feel like when (critically, not 'if') it accidentally shines into your eye?
Do some people do those things in public? Sure.

Does everyone else look askance at them and think they're being rude by doing so? Also yes.
"This item is not available in your country"

The country in question is Switzerland, probably the richest country in Europe, where many people would have bought it on spot.

Regional restrictions are so stupid.
In my experience, knowing why a health insurer denied a claim isn't useful; it just becomes a maze of medical billing codes and definitions that always ends at "insurer wins."
How do you compete with Codat.io?
poster-child commentary rationalization of anything by conjuring demons.. call the exorcist!