skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot remember the name of the 8086 trainer kit, unfortunately. That was more than 20 years ago. It indeed looked very much like the MCS-86 picture you have linked to. I could not have remembered the name of CPLD kit either if it weren't for the project report where I have kept a picture of the kit and its model name. It was Xilinx XC9572 PC84 CPLD Trainer.
Lucky break that LLMs became a thing while they were making this
Very interesting. Thanks for posting. Didn't know about all the B&N litigation. In some sense it's a big landmark against software patents. Huge amount of blowback, and now it's much harder to get a software patent. That's a good thing.
I think an argument should be made against normalizing this, which could then lead to OEMs building in internet assisted data export functionality in new cars and people won't know until a lawsuit (likely) starts years after the fact and the harm is done.
Alright, fair enough. I might have not explained myself well then.

Blender "shortcuts" are most of the time one key, followed by others, alternative variations can be achieved with modifier keys (makes sense).

It takes very little time to see what the shortcuts are. Most of the time you can just hover by a tool icon, other times, menus have them clearly labelled by item.

At this point, you know the basics. Your human eyes are very good at perceiving changes in your FoV, and after inputting a key, the status bar presents information on alternatives modes or filters available for that tool.

Eventually, you start assuming (correctly) that other tools behave in the same fashion for a variety of things.

For example, you press "Y" (y-axis) after "S" (scale), and you scale on that axis! If you followed that by a number, you scale by that scale factor! And this can be applied to every other tool. Moreover, this and other combos make sense, are easy to understand. Whatever you may imagine as the effect they have on other tools is most likely the exact outcome.

Blender is very sane, it does exactly what you tell it to do. You do have to make the call, but when that is at a distance of a finger, it isn't an issue.

You can learn by just using it. Information is laid out to you clearly. Modifiers/filters are consistent, making their knowledge easily transferrable to different tools.

It cannot get more intuitive than this.
Ugh, jamon51, I think we slashdotted your website
Elephant tusks are teeth, they don't grow back. Rhino horns on the other hand are hair, so they grow back.
Valve may be working on a console based on SteamOS, so I'd wait and see.
I love everything about the Steam Deck except 1 thing.

I love that its Linux based, and that you can doc it and turn it into a real PC. The interface is polished and its fast. And it's Steam, so I have all my games!

The one thing - I can't play it for more than an hour without getting hand cramps. The ergonomics just aren't very good for me.

I play games all day for my job, and I know I can play an xbox controller or a ps5 controller for 8 hours straight without problems.

Lucky, because its a Steam Deck, I can plug any controller I want into it.
> How is that a conspiracy theory?

I think some people consider information contrary to that communicated by government officials to be conspiracy theory: If the government didn't tell us the truth about something, they conspired to tell us something untrue.

By this definition of conspiracy theory, anybody who is not a conspiracy theorist is credulous. I proudly call myself a conspiracy theorist AKA skeptic.
RoboVQA: Multimodal Long-Horizon Reasoning for Robotics
A reminder that the kind of public that got Omegle shutdown will likely never face consequences for the actions they have done throughout their lives.
Stand up comedians have pretty long careers.
I can only speak to the US, but this didn't stop school administrators - their interpretation was more important than credibility when it came down to decisions made immediately post-Columbine. Parents demanded action from the administrators, even if none was needed, and so administrators needed to demonstrate that they were doing something. Bans on long coats, primarily black outfits, discussing video games, etc. weren't uncommon.

Activities done outside of school that were discussed in school absolutely made it onto this list and would result in suspensions.
Dedicated GPUs break on gaming laptops and do often. It's not unknown, apple underclocked it after to prevent it happening again. I love my Apple electronics but their Intel laptops sucked for me.

Now that you mention it, I had a bad experience with their batteries dying in the cold for a while, and luckily I had applecare and it took mutiple geniuses to decide it was a problem even though the problem was known.

It's funny, when I was in Chicago the Michigan one was always AWFUL for me (never helped, swamped with people, appointments were hard to come by) and the one by the Northside was awesome and much better with CS. Maybe management changed, but it's at best inconsistent with our experiences. The times I went in, I heard tons of other people with the same failures I had, some were sent away and some were helped.

How many times did you go to get problems fixed?
Looks like they over hired
If you do it well, the polar opposite just boots your marketing and overall goodness.
> * Exclusive startup movie

Guys, c'mon, I know that you have to have a longer bullet point list for the premium, more expensive option, but you're making your actual advantages sound stupid by including this one.
They're not "color options" they are "colorways", you rube. And it doesn't come in three shades of grey, it comes in "Lunar", "Equinox", and "Eclipse". Those colors are worth easily $100 of the MSRP right there.
VRR would help so much for when it can't quite hit framerate.
Out of curiosity, what media outlets are you referring to?
Reflecting on 20 years of Windows Patch Tuesday
Usually you don't get the acquisition money right away, you get it over a few years. They know you would just bolt if they gave it up front.
Explore GPU Advancements in M3 and A17 Pro [video]
Their entire argument appears to be "We aren't making more money than all-time peak revenue and usage stats are lower than peak too so we aren't wasting money on it any longer."

Maybe if they had realistic goals that weren't just "try to make more money than ever before" they could have kept going at least somewhat...
You missed the last stages in the cycle: cut down the trees, build stuff with the wood, and plant new trees. If you can use the wood as a construction material that lasts a long time then you’ve succeeded at carbon sequestration.
> * If you use a rental car, Factory Reset the head unit when you leave.

That is ridiculously onerous! Just because geeks can share arcane knowledge about how to be safe does not mean that this isn't horribly anti-consumer.
You definitely can use rust in an embedded space. I rather liked having traits and proper types instead of a giant mess of integer constants. In general I think a lot of the so-called bloat you see with Rust binaries is due to a combination of not using a shared standard library and generics – the former is a non-issue in an embedded context and the latter is well under your control.

Sure, ELF includes a lot of fluff but you're not deploying ELF on a microcontroller.
This strikes me as a less-functional Apple Watch that you wear on your shirt instead of your wrist.

(Yes, Siri is not great today, but that will change very quickly with Apple working hard on their own LLMs.)

Cool project, but not something I imagine most people will want. Like Google Glass.

They even did the cringey stunt Google Glass tried and featured it on the runway during Fashion Week, as if that instantly makes something fashionable:

https://images.fastcompany.net/image/upload/w_1200,c_limit,q...
About 50% of my comp as a Canadian was in the form of RSUs which were in USD, so there's that. But of course, the amount you're given is indexed (in the past quite generously, but less so over time) against local compensation rates.
I can't see this being a hit in any significant way. You will NOT want to use this in public. Why would you want people listening to you dictate, which is the only input option? Why would anyone feel comfortable around you if you were wearing a camera badge?
I came online, completely accidentally with the Eternal September crowd, we beta tested NCSA Mosaic mostly as a Usenet reader 'cos there were almost no websites yet. Still it was not only researchers, "Eternal" September is a reaction to earlier Septembers with a large influx of newbies. And even then there flame wars were a thing.
I wonder where this dislike of talking to computers in public is coming from?

People often discuss private topics on a train, and don't care that others might be listening.

People talk loudly on the phone when in public. Some even talk on speaker phone.

But noone ever talks to Siri or Google or Alexa in public.

Why is that?
I think this is why Google had (has?) a 2 year limit on TVC tenure.
For more demanding tasks like video editing, even 16gb is not that much. Especially when you're working on big projects with hundreds of files and 100GB+ of footage. I can't see how any "pro" device only has 8gb in 2023
Not true for Medicare. How it works is that Medicare splits the US up into regions (can’t remember if it’s currently 5 or 7). For each of these regions, a private medical insurance company handles all of the claims paperwork and the money for said claims comes from Uncle Sugar. This is also why it’s disingenuous when folks trot out the “claim dollars per Federal employee” argument for Medicare.

Note: I’m not talking about Medicare Advantage which is a separate program whereby Medicare pays the premiums for private health insurance plans.
I think they're playing with the form factor. Your watch is, in a way, more obtrusive to use. Their gadget can record the conversation, take photos, take dictation hands-off and is also closer to your head.
If you had a good experience with the steam link would you use it instead? Game streaming from desktop beats any small gaming computer.
A bit disappointing that you cannot purchase just the new OLED screen and replace it in the LCD model, considering the dimensions are the same.

I wonder what the true limiting factor for this is? I'd love to upgrade, but ~$500 feels like a little too much for the usage I currently get out of my Deck.
This is the more common outcome than the successful ones, but people are often embarrassed to share so they are much less reported.

I've seen great engineers end up falling flat on their ass because of trying to do this. The majority of people just don't have the ability/capacity to be good at two jobs, and once people notice that you're meh or worse, it's very difficult to change that. Most people are better off just kicking ass at one job, than being acceptable at two.
Not quite the same thing but many people report when a hospital bill seems high, and they ask for an itemized bill, magically the charges get reduced.
My friend/coworker made the observation: Elysium. (the movie)

Always felt kind of gross to me.
Try to be more upbeat —- you will be getting a second chance.
> More to the point, I don't understand how anybody, on any party or political spectrum, can say "Yup... this is a reasonable system that helps people and needs no change".

Nobody says that, and no one proposed the current system as is, either. Its not even a conscious, mutually unsatisfactory, compromise between competing visions, its simply the current state of an ongoing battle between multiple radically opposed views in a political system which is not good at resolving disputes of this kind, where some elements are successful attempts at implementing sabotage of broader components with the hope that the resulting failure will help politically support a conpletely different design.
Crew 'we're building a ship to go somewhere but we need money lol'

Google 'we'll buy your ship and crew'

Crew 'cool what do we have to do'

Google 'Well we need you up to code for sailing on our
ocean, so you need to rebuild a lot of your ship to look like our other ships'

Crew 'ok we're done, now what'

Google 'drift between our many beautiful ports'

Crew 'whats the end goal'

Google 'we'll forget about you, stop maintaining your ship, and you'll drift aimlessly on our ocean for some years until one of the directors scuttles your ship on a whim'
Mr. Cooper says customer data exposed during cyberattack
Is that real or CGI? I looked at it for a long time and I didn't find any smoking gun (perhaps too much shacking, it looks like fake shacking). I've seen too many videos of Captain Disillusion, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbgvSi35n6o
Yea I've experienced this in capital one. Some smaller non tech companies are chill, where there is really no difference in how they treat contractors and employees.
Deep burial? We have a housing crisis! We should be using them to build houses!
As a person who recently did this, I am greatly interested in hearing more on this subject from you (or anyone else).
I had my FSA provider PayFlex deny a medical co-pay as "Not Medically necessary."

Isnt it lovely when a Private Equity firm decides what is or isnt medically necessary? They were obviously using some automated system to try and deny claims, to hell with false positives.

The best thing is to just repeatedly submit the legitimate claim until it goes thru. There seems to be some non-determinism in these systems and the same thing will sometimes be accepted and sometimes rejected. Bless my wife for taking care of this insanity.
> I'm offering what worked for me

I choose not to believe you because you refused to vaccinate which makes everything you say suspect. Sorry.
I don't think this really competes with a phone. If anything it competes with a smartwatch. And as far as wearable tech, a watch blends in much better.
what if you desire 7 figure income? very few full time jobs in this field would cut it. Only options are to either give up dreams and accept mediocrity, start a successful side business, or possibly work 100 hour weeks stacking multiple full time jobs
Steam is not a publicly traded company. Their decisions don't necessarily have to improve profit margins.
1. You have always participated in it, regardless of whether or not you pay an insurer.

2. There are no penalties for not having insurance, that part of the ACA has been torpedoed.

3. The people who torpedoed it have no intentions of fixing a damn thing about this country's medical system.
What I mean is that what insurers do is try to screw people out of money and receiving necessary treatment to line their own pockets. Here’s a fairly concrete example:

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-i...
When they are shut down by their host because they disagree with the content or are being pressured by twitter, I can imagine that. When they go out of business? I haven't ever seen people complain about free speech under attack at that point. Could you provide an example from these countless outlets?

[edit]When Playboy shut down in 2020, for example, I didn't see people upset about it being an attack on free speech; it was a dated business model that didn't work anymore.
Why this was done as a separate piece of hardware rather than a phone app? Was it the projector that attracted you to the project?
my heart breaks when i read about the trees.

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.
A robot in South Korea mistook a man for a box of vegetables and killed him
> store each intercepted, recorded, and downloaded copy of text messages in non-temporary computer memory in such a manner that the vehicle owner cannot access it or delete it,

You might think why care if its your own car. But if you rent cars this can become an issue where if poorly implemented the next driver could access the information.

It is such an easy feature to implement and suppliers in Europe already do this due to GDPR. I remember working for an automotive supplier where we implemented this feature. The whole phonebook was actually downloaded onto the unit in an encrypted Database. The system would decrypt it on the fly as needed. When GDPR came around we had to implement a wipe feature that would allow the user to delete their profile which included that database.

I feel like GDPR for all its flaws had a positive impact in that it forced the supplier to actually care about this use case.
1. From my narrow/limited perspective, AI/ML engineers and technical product managers.
2. Again from my narrow/limited perspective, no, even with remote employment (because oftentimes those remote workers need to spend significant time in the U.S. and require work authorization).
3. I don't see any likely major changes. The action will come from executive orders and changes in the application/interpretation of law.
There are lots of meme answers here, having spent the last couple of years trying I can tell you, it's really really hard. Companies don't want a weekend or off-hours devs. Upwork and the such are a race to the bottom. Other platforms that claim to be a better version of upwork, are much more dry. What did work? Craigslist and X. I have found two legit clients, both of whom have had me busy with return work. Both are small business owners. Small tech work, one wanted a small site that ended up morphing into a bigger project. The other I ended up setting up some python scripts to automate some ERP stuff.
There is advice from DHH and Jason Fried I believe.

Before you hire start doing that job yourself to understand it and hire only if you are sure you have to hire someone.

If it is only you then get at least one other smart person to share the job and go from there.

If you hire 5 people and take them “just do it” you can as well give me your money or to any other random person effect will be the same.
I'd risk to say it's also quite a business niche, I can't remember what are top players making but they are definitely not doing this purely for entertainment.

Even if we assume it's purely for entertainment, the ecosystem is driving flow of goods (chess boards, chess pieces, chess lessons for kids etc.). I remember seeing chess set in chess shop on Baker Street in London with 1k price tag (and I think this one was not the most expensive they had)
Started with the railroads
Depending on your experience level, I would fully recommend https://codementor.io

You will need to qualify (there's a couple small tests and I think a short interview) but then you'll be able to one-on-one live code with someone, there are full "freelance projects" available, code reviews, etc. You set your hourly rate (by the 15 minute interval) and the free lance ones are lump sum ($100's - $1000's)

One downside: it has gotten a bit more popular over the years, so if you want to be selected for a gig you'll need to be quick and/or convincing. It's not nearly as bad as something like fiverr or freelancer but I have a tough time getting in on requests even with a 5-star rating (good ones fill up with many offers quickly).
You just triggered a memory of the first time I swung my feet up on the monkey bars and got on top through the space between two. It was terrifying and exhilarating
Looks a lot like https://jwt.io/
I've never looked at that list before either. How interesting.
What is the infringement exactly?
Are there actual jobs in Rust? This is not snark, btw. I love Rust and I am currently learning it. Genuinely curious, since I have not seen a lot of listings for it, if any.
I have no idea why you were downvoted (wasn't me) and wasn't referencing it. I was referring to the circular logic of your reply to me where you imply that the very fact that I don't realize I'm being controlled is evidence I am controlled.

And the reason I use Alexa to set a timer is because my hands are occupied in the kitchen. You're overthinking it. Nothing to do with giving up control.
Almost. I was almost sold until they mentioned the monthly subscription. This device looks so futuristic, but monthly subscriptions are (should be) a thing of the past.
AI is about to change how you use computers
Judging from the Digital Foundry video[0], it appears to have a limited form of VRR that will sample the refresh rate closest to whatever you're limiting for (eg. 40fps -> 80hz). It's not a complete solution, but it should effectively "solve" frame timing issues if your framerate is high enough.

For what it's worth too, my experience gaming on Wayland has been great from a consistency perspective. Once you dial in settings that work, the only performance blips you can notice are related to shader compilation. 144hz feels like 144hz, which has not always been the case on Linux.

[0] https://youtu.be/Z1KLj06fn2s?t=257
Why side income? Why not focused on maximizing the salary of your primary job?
Seems like cool tech and I'm excited to see how it does. I guess I'm sort of expecting a flop since this relies on good connection and fast ai over cell signal still seems like a challenge in a lot of places (upload voice file, speech recognition, nlu/llm orchestration, etc) but I do love the idea of a less intrusive 'smart phone' that would let me leave my phone at home more.

On another note, this reminds me a lot of the short story The Perfect Match by Ken Liu. The story isn't ground breaking but is worth a read and harps on AI assistants making decisions for people and driving biases based on the corporate agenda and sponsors (not to get too tinfoil hatty).
The CEO's job is only to secure the straps on the golden parachute before they start hammering on the engine in mid-flight. Once the parachute is on, screaming at people is actually a pretty good hammer.

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I worked at a big insurance company for a while. Contractors could have their birthday celebrated, but cake was not permitted.
I know this is the direct source, but people really need to go read the NY Times piece on this - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/technology/silicon-valley....

> A Buddhist monk named Brother Spirit led them to Humane. Mr. Chaudhri and Ms. Bongiorno had developed concepts for two A.I. products: a women’s health device and the pin. Brother Spirit, whom they met through their acupuncturist, recommended that they shared the ideas with his friend, Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce.

> Sitting beneath a palm tree on a cliff above the ocean at Mr. Benioff’s Hawaiian home in 2018, they explained both devices. “This one,” Mr. Benioff said, pointing at the Ai Pin, as dolphins breached the surf below, “is huge.”

> “It’s going to be a massive company,” he added.

This product was also named a "best invention of 2023" by TIME magazine before it was even released. Entirely by coincidence, Marc Benioff happens to own TIME magazine.

HBO's Silicon Valley may be over, but the real world Silicon Valley is still going stronger than ever.