skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, unless the utility of this devices is large enough to override existing cultural norms, there's actually very few venues where it feels "comfortable" to voice interact with a device.

I went through this exercise with GPT voice. It's an awesome capability, but other than perhaps walking outside, or sitting in my office, there's no other space where it feels "ok" to just spontaneously talk to something.

A grey area is when you perhaps have headphones in / on and it looks like you're in a phone conversation with somebody, then it kinda feels ok, but generally you're not going to take a phone conversation in a public area without distancing yourself from others.

There's a reason most casual communication these days is text rather than voice or video calls.
> A health care company collects money under the premise that "these premiums you're paying will cover you if something bad happens"

That's not the premise of insurance, though. The premise of insurance is that a large group of people pools their money (through paying premiums), out of which the people in need of assistance get paid. It's not that you'll be "repaid" your premiums in services. It's pooled risk, not a kind of savings or investment.

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.

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.
Considering its rarity and industrial usage, it’s quite a steal even.
Not really. But it's critical - in addition to checking at least 3 boxes/criteria - to argue and demonstrate overall sustained achievement in the field.
I think I have a general idea on how to implement basic TCP/IP sockets while staying true to QBasic 4.5's spirit (i.e. not introducing functions like _OpenConnection/_ConnectionAddress etc.)

The "API" I have in mind would look something like

```

OPEN "TCP:\127.0.0.1\80\LISTEN" FOR INPUT AS #1
INPUT #1, CONN$
IF CONN$ <> ""
REM CONN$ contains something like "TCP:\127.0.0.1\80\REMOTE_HOST\REMOTE_PORT"
OPEN CONN$ AS #2

REM ... respond to request
PRINT #2, "200 OK"
CLOSE #2

END IF

```
In the past it was sales&marketing only with smattering of a few "guest desks" for visiting engineers. And the site leads at Waterloo (at least) lobbied hard to prevent Toronto from ever really having engineering for real. Probably out of worry about centre of gravity being sucked away, etc.

IMHO it limited Google's hiring ability in Ontario. And it made me (and others) have to sell my house in Toronto and move when my employer was acquired. I tried the van/bus commute for 6 months and it was too hard.

Then the Geoffrey Hinton folks moved in there I believe. And I think some AI R&D was happening there?

And then COVID happened, and everyone was WFH but when you did go into the office and book a desk, it became possible to go into the Toronto office instead.

I left after that so can't say how it is now. Google goes through waves of "defrags" where small groups and teams in peripheral offices are... purged and merged because there's a feeling that "strength in numbers" for a particular project pays off. I wouldn't be surprised to see what happen post-layoffs.

The Toronto office, when I visited it, was small. Food was good though.
Because they were built using subsidies. Nuclear has a competitive OPEX cost when the plant has been paid off.

We are 50 years from that point for any potential new builds.
Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff
Sign of the times. Another classic name from the earlier days on the intertubes may be about to vanish.
reaching HuggingFace LLM leaderboard #1 after recent ranking refresh!
Your suggestion that embeddings are only meaningful to the (presumably generating) model isn't quite right. You can pass them through any suitable model you like (e.g. a logistic regression, kmeans) and get decent results.

You couldn't do that with a hash, as far as I understand it, as hashing doesn't attempt to put similar things together -- quite the opposite.
There is of course a lot of US-centrism and exceptionalism out there, but GP could just more benignly be noting that Valve is an American company, so it really would be strange for them to not launch in the US as part of the first cohort.
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SteamOS is a controller-first environment, which will give you that console feel. It's just so well done.

I can't speak to performance but I've heard game streaming works really well on the Deck.

I play a lot of "couch co-op" games with my kids while docked to a TV. Low requirements and very console-oriented. Compared to the Switch, here are some things that I bump into:

1. If you have 4 identical controllers, figuring out which is "1", "2", etc is hard. The Switch uses colors and LEDs to make this easy.

2. You need to walk over to wake it up. A controller can't wake it up if it's sleeping.

3. If you pair one of your identical controllers to something else, pairing it back is clunky since you don't know which one needs reconnecting.

But on the positive side, my young kids aren't put off by the leaky abstraction over PC gaming. They actually kind of marvel at the wide range the little device has but admit the advanced wizardry (game mods, desktop mode) can only be wielded effectively by Dad.
> The Ally and the Legion GO (and other power constrained devices/devices with APUs) will benefit from some devs' performance and power optimizations for steam deck, and SteamOS based devices will benefit from fixes that work around issues with proton, both of which would be less likely to be addressed if there weren't an entire market of consumers you can access by getting that "Verified" badge

IF that is the case, then the argument for why they would not increase the performance is not valid. They could have kept the same resolution but made it more powerful.

You can't say other devices will benefit and still make the argument that the steam deck had to stay at the same performance level. It's one or the other.

It's perfectly fine that Valve didn't want to upgrade it but I just don't buy the argument.
How is this form factor better than a smartwatch with a proper screen?
I think you're very disconnected from the average american if you believe that.
Five years after it took on Steam, Epic Games Store is yet to make a profit
Potentially useful context: If you’re not covered by a small employer, your claims are typically being self-insured by your employer. Your employer uses Cigna or BCBS for administrative functions, but they set the tone for the amount they’re willing to pay. That’s why you’ll see differences in coverage even though you ostensibly have the same insurance provider in the same state.
$700 + $24/month for an uglier plastic name badge + police body camera. No thanks

Also:

To put on the Ai Pin involves placing a magnetic battery pack on the inside of a shirt or other piece of clothing, and letting a magnet on the Pin itself hold the system in place. It’s altogether about 55 grams, or 2 ounces, nearly the weight of a tennis ball. People with pacemakers should consult their doctors about potential magnetic interference, Chaudhri says.

It's pretty heavy and the backside of the clip is a magnetic battery pack.
We're using kapa.ai for this right now, pretty happy with them.

It's an LLM trained on our docs, openapi spec, github issues, and forum posts.

Definitely been helpful to our customers and users to find answers/pointers to docs more quickly.
Yes… but the publications you're losing is not just the clickbaiters, it's a superset of that.
I'm scratching my head. Why I would want to put an API in front of an API which I want to use?

So instead of

requests.get(
'https://some_api/some_endpoint?some_params',
headers=some_headers
)

I have to do

requests.get(
'https://some_other_api/i_want_something_from_some_api/some_other_endpoint?some_other_params',
headers=some_other_headers
)

?

What is the benefit of doing this?
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I wholly agree with your sentiment, but as someone who cares to actually take action for my privacy this kind of onerousness is par for the course, unfortunately.
That sounds awkward?

Anyway, it's cold season now in Europe, and it's interesting how much less useful my Apple watch is when it's almost always covered with a sleeve.

Something that goes on top of your clothes makes sense.
SpaceX, BlueOrigin fits the bill
It seems like we are in agreement.
Huh? It's a rather basic sentence? Is the use of a semicolon considered art these days?
In my time at Cisco, I was impressed with how well they integrated contractors. Wasn’t like this at all.
So post facto punishment and not consumer protection.

WA has a referendum system, though, so if people in WA care about this, you can get something on a ballot and vote it into law.
The interesting thing is that the biggest changes to how we handle software patents came from the courts, not Congress. I suspect that eBay v. Mercexchange had a bigger impact on SCOTUS than Amazon did, but there was a ton of law review activity around the '411 patent. I must imagine this was a factor in judicial decisions around 101 eligibility.
In my last job search which ended 2 weeks ago. I wrote one good cover letter per day, sent directly to both the job poster and the application if it was possible to post a letter.

Then I spent 20 min spamming my CV at anything remotely relevant.

2 interviews came from cover letters, 2 from spamming my CV and one came from an inbound recruiter who contacted me. The offer that I accepted came from the inbound message from a recruiter.

It was still worth applying to the other jobs because I was able to use my offers to negotiate a higher salary.

The cover letters had a higher success rate per application than just sending my CV, but just sending the CV takes 1-2min whereas a cover letter is half an hour, so spamming the CV is a better use of time.

Job search lasted 6 weeks, but the last 4 of those were focusing 100% on my interviews and not applying for more.
Does anybody here have experience using a Deck booted into Windows with VR headset connected for playing Beat Saber? How well does it work for this purpose? Not finding too much info on that particular setup online.

This revision appears to fix my main gripes with the original model so I’d like to buy one, but if I could use it as an ultraportable Beat Saber machine it’d make the purchase more justifiable. While my Quest 2 can technically run Beat Saber natively, the Steam version is vastly more mod-friendly and PCs generally don’t choke as badly on complex custom maps as the middling smartphone hardware in the Quest 2 does.
Would love to know an alternative as well.
I've had clients try to save money by off-shoring, and 5 out of 6 times it actually ended up more expensive and super late. If you can find the rare gem in a low-cost area then it can be a good strategy, but the odds are very much against you.
For those unaware, these rules are pervasive in the US corporate world, and stem directly from Vizcaino v. Microsoft in 1996. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp

Effectively the fact that an employer treats a temporary employee "the same" as a regular one (i.e. by granting them the same perks) is construed by courts as evidence that they are not temporary.

So, if a company wants to hire temp/contractor employees, they just can't do this. It's not a "caste" thing, it's not about deliberate discrimination, it's not about keeping wages low or reducing overhead, and it's absolutely not unique to Google.

Blame the courts, basically. It was a terrible decision, for exactly this reason. Its effect is directly contra to its intent.

> If you worked with a TVC, you'd get training that felt like you were learning how to own a House Elf: "Remember, never give them clothing or they'll be free! And report them if they ever claim to work for Google."

Yes! That's exactly what happens. And it did, to Microsoft, and it was extremely expensive. So no one wants to see the same thing happen to them.
Just leaving this here:

https://jezebel.com/have-you-ever-beat-up-a-boyfriend-cause-...
Jeffrey Katzenberg Says AI Will Eliminate 90% of Artist Jobs on Animated Films
> there is support for these projects, both solar and wind in rural communities. And support does outweigh the opposition as a whole. When we ask people, do you support or oppose solar energy and wind energy projects separately being built in the following areas, communities across your state, in your local community, or on a property near yours, we could see that support does outweigh opposition across the board. As you get a little closer to on properties near yours, you would expect to see some of the support drop off ... and the opposition increase, but not nearly as significantly as we thought it would.
Wait, who even is in control of that ccTLD right now? That government was just violently overthrown.

That Wikipedia page (.ne) hasn't been edited since the July 2023 coup d'état, so I doubt it describes the current status of things.
Meh is fine. I’m better off doing Mechanical Turk than trying to go above meh at an employers.
This is just copy-paste from the steamdeck site:

GENERAL

Updated APU to 6 nm for better efficiency

Updated memory to 6400 MT/s, improving latency and power management

Increased thermal module thickness and performance

Increased active area to 7.4" (from 7.0")

UPDATED DISPLAY

Updated refresh rate to 90Hz (from 60Hz)

Updated peak brightness to 1000 nits

Updated touchscreen polling rate to 180Hz, improved latency and accuracy

Updated WiFi / Bluetooth module

Added support for WiFi 6E

Added support for Bluetooth 5.3, supporting newer codecs such as aptX HD and aptX low-latency

Added third antenna near the top of the device for better Bluetooth performance, including when docked

Added support for wake from Bluetooth controllers

AUDIO

Improved bass response for an overall flatter sound profile

Added support for using onboard microphone array simultaneously with the 3.5mm headphones connector

CONTROLS

Adjusted analog stick top material and shape for increased grip and dust build-up resistance

Adjusted analog stick post material to improve interaction feel with front cover and reduce wear

Improved reliability of analog stick touch detection

Improved responsiveness and tactility of shoulder buttons switch mechanism

Adjusted D-pad snap ratio and diagonal interactions

Redesigned trackpad for improved fidelity and edge detection

Greatly improved trackpad haptics feel and precision

POWER

Improved battery capacity from 40Wh to 50Wh

Improved battery chemistry for faster charging, from 20% to 80% in as little as 45 minutes

Changed charging LED to WRGB

Added support for waking up from initial unboxing by long-pressing power button instead of requiring AC power

Adjusted power supply cable length from 1.5m to 2.5m

Added logo to power supply

FRAME
Reduced total system weight to ~640g, or ~5% less than Steam Deck

Rear cover screws now thread into metal

Adjusted rear cover screw heads to Torx™, as well as other materials and geometry tweaks on the heads to reduce stripping risk

Lowered number of screw types throughout system

Reduced step count required for common repairs

Improved bumper switch mechanism drop reliability

Moved bumper switch to joystick board for easier repair

Improved display repair/replacement to not require taking rear cover off

SOFTWARE

Greatly improved memory power management firmware

Added preliminary support for open-source BIOS and EC firmware

Improved resume time by roughly 30%
I'm sorry, I just have to say it. Over-employment is unethical and SW devs just shouldn't do it. It's ethical to have multiple 1099 or corporate clients; just bite the bullet and go into business for yourself.

I don't care about arguments regarding the unethical things employers do to employees. It's wrong, period.

edit: what a trash heap of replies.
Thanks for your reply.

However,

- he's not touching it during the phone call
- it's not super clear in the demo when he's saying "your engagement comes through your voice, touch, gesture, or the lasering display"

How do you engage through (a) voice or (b) gesture then?
> What do you think of the argument...

I think that a single train can hold over 1000 people, and requires much less energy, not to mention space, materials, infrastructure and maintenance, than hundreds of individual cars in which these 1000 people sit in 1s or maybe 2s.

Again, it doesn't matter how they are powered; cars suck as an idea; simply because of how horribly they scale. They require tons of resources to build, they require tons of resources to maintain. They eat up tons of space. They kill hundreds of thousands of people per year. They are energy inefficienct compared to trains.

Oh, and railway-based public transport systems would be trivially easy to automate, compared to cars.

If we invested even a sizeable fraction of the resources into public transport that we waste on building ever more lanes and ever bigger parking lot hells right through our cities (aka. our livingspace), barely anyone outside of actual rural areas, would even need a car.

And this isn't a pipe dream. This is how actual people in actual cities live, today. Many european and asian cities are completely accessible by public transport.
Please Google “medical loss ratio”
Since I was trying to give an example of two compatible classes, no, it's not apt, since their member functions have incompatible side effects.

Hm... Hypothetically, with a lot of effort you could design a dummy class (A) that implements only the members you want to investigate and where necessary returns a different dummy class (B) representing the element type. If someone ever tries to take the address of a B (you have to delete operator&() and/or get() if it's some kind of smart pointer) then you know you might be dealing with iterator invalidation.
Maybe it /was/ a good tradeoff for users but the past few years I think people have become very disillusioned with Google. If anyone still gets excited about a new Google service being announced it's either because they're new to the Google ecosystem and haven't yet experienced year-after-year of having products and services you rely on repeatedly cancelled out from under you and replaced with something noticeably worse, or they're a masochist.
This seems like a lot of words to just say "FEED ME!"
Definitely would. I tried to use my PS5 controller linked to my Apple TV 4k and it was super laggy and looked bad.
It'll be a very dark day for us all when Valve turns evil.

Steam Deck has been a modder's dream since it came out. Just having "desktop mode" be a standard option has been amazing.
I’m doing it and most friends were doing it. Layoffs have taken a lot down to just one job though.
I'm so unsurprised that he's part of Alcor. The comments on HN lately do make me hopeful that this quote: "He is the techiest of tech evangelists, the purest distillation of Silicon Valley’s reigning ethos." is starting to be about the past and not the future.
And it's an 18,00 seat venue that only uses half the arena for seating. Picture taking a typical NBA arena and putting everyone on one side of the court without any additional crowding, they didn't shrink the seats down to 12 inches wide or anything.
Not to say I recommend turbo-longing SPY on margin, but a few notes for the less conservative:

If you want to trade on margin, IBKR offers 5.83-6.83% [1] going down as you borrow more. They also pay 4.83% on idle cash.

With that said, you'd probably be better off with UPRO or SPXL for longer-duration holds (since your losses cannot exceed your investment) - and /ES or /MES for short-term holding since futures contracts are 60% long term capital gains treatment no matter how long you hold them.

> People would not buy a primary residence at that rate, for example, and you can live inside that while you pay off the loan.

If that's your benchmark we know people are paying more than 5.83% for 30-year fixed ;)

[1] https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/margin-rates.p...
Google isn't hiring much right now, so the options are pretty limited. I expect it will loosen, but have no inside info.
I said this in a different news thread on this topic but that one didn't reach front page.

They need to narrow down the scope of this product. It's a product with an unusual form factor. They should Make it perfect just for a few things. And don't try to kill the phone or any other device.

There is a beautiful use case for this. It's like an apple watch with a sim. Out working in the field, with things in hand, ask for whatever you need to ask. It can even do FaceTime showing what's in the field. And enable police patrol to approach a target and use remote intervention to neutralize a situation.
For me it is not, I use my Steam Deck has a way to carry the games that I play with a controller on my PC or Console... mobile. I use an Elite Xbox Controller and rely heavily on the back buttons.

TBH I don't think Windows holds it back when once I am in the game (the part that matters) the experience is the same.
So I am not necessarily going to disagree that the way school is setup up the optimal strategy is to cram and then purge the data after the test.

However I have had a revelation recently in regards to learning where I realized that even if it is an intellectual skill we are trying to master, repetition is still required to do anything other than move a vague knowledge to applicable knowledge.

I think part of the problem of schooling is that we focus so much on having knowledge and completely divorce it from practice or application in any way, meaning that the knowledge largely feels useless, and it results in students being unmotivated, and feeling as though time and effort is wasted. This is probably driven because most of these tests are simply "can you regurgitate the knowledge by filling in the right bubble? After all we know that the mitchondria is the powerhause of the cell, but there isn't much application anyone gets beyond knowing that fact.

I think if our efforts were on mastery of a skill there can be value in worksheets, and homework.

EDIT: I'll add given that you are on HN you probably also remember and understand more from school than you realize.
A cozy golf game you can play on your Steam Deck in front of the TV
Hi All I'm really into cozy games and wanted a chilled out golf game that I could play on my Steam deck in front of the TV. So I went and made one myself! I made it so that levels are easy to traverse through but you can challenge yourself if you want to.

I have demake in development for a game jam at the moment as well. This is I link to an early version of the demake https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=136972#p

I will have an update with updated physics soon and the physics in the Steam game are a lot better. Please let me know what you think.
I don't think Apple is the pinnacle of repairability by any means, but they have been making slow improvements in this area (like replaceable back glass in the new model phones, the entire mainboard doesn't need to be replaced for common repairs as often now, etc).
Didn't they already do that a while back? I'm sure this time around would be different given their traction now.
Don't do upwork. Even with US only positions it's become super competitive after 2020
That sounds a lot like gatekeeping.

These tools will empower folks who aren’t developers to build stuff and maybe learn a bit more about how programming works.

They will enable folks who have ideas, but can’t express them, to actually be able to create what they are imagining.

That’s awesome.

Code isn’t beautiful (except for a few rare exceptions). Creating something with code is.