skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had the same feeling. This had all the hallmarks of vaporware for me - something was introduced in a TED talk (that's a personal turn off). No clear definition or description. Then the fashion show, and for what? Building "buzz"? About what? Then I started hearing some chatter about it but still no info on what it is. I felt like someone wanted me to get excited about it but provided no value whatsoever.

Now, this thing's introduced and what? The laser interface seems clunky, no idea how it holds up on a bright day outside. Most of the interactions are done by voice which, at least for me, have never been satisfactory on way more powerful and polished devices. Then there's the privacy - I'm assuming that for this thing to work I need to give it access to everything. How long has this company been operating and battle testing its security? How good or bad its track record is with regard to selling my data? And yes, I know that my smartphone already knows everything about me. But those things are built by either Apple or Google which at least have some track record and I know what I can expect from them, more or less.

I still don't understand what am I getting here? What's the revolutionary, exciting thing? The AI? The lasers? The voice interface? The always-on-your-person?

If I remove the lasers, add a screen and a OpenAI/whateverLLM interface & integration I get what? An Apple Watch (or Google or whatever) that's 1-2 years out probably.

What's nice however that they're trying things. The laser thing does seem cool.

edit: Commas, sentence structure.
I tried this and I’d usually didn’t do a good job. This surprised me.

I think it’s because each point on the cv conveys a lot of information and you need logic to put it together.

It would get experience from different jobs mixed up and write sentences that were obviously factually wrong
YC-GPT in now live on OpenAI's GPTs
This is a standalone device with its own cellular connection. There is no smartphone involved and no notifications to reply to.
Thankfully, the ACA made insurance mandatory for everyone. Not only do we have a garbage system, we're obliged to participate in it.
Yes the design of the Sphere means it will never be a successful venue for touring acts. Any entertainer performing there will have to be committed to at least a month of shows, probably more.

That said, it's a unique concert experience even setting the visuals aside. The sound is immersive, coming from all around you rather than the wall of sound typical of most concerts. As such, while still plenty loud, your ears are not completely destroyed by the end of the night should you forget your hearing protection.
I'm planning to send it in to them this week for some repairs (USB-C port stopped working, replace the rubber feet, and replace the battery). I have to pay for the battery replacement (~$100 I think). Hopefully it improves the battery life. IIRC, I was getting 4-5 hours when I first got the machine. Never got anywhere close to 11. Maybe it's how I'm using it.
I want a small, inexpensive gaming computer to connect to my TV and have been thinking about the Steam Deck or a mini pc like the Minisforum HX99G (Ryzen 9 6900HX). Would the two computers be roughly comparable?

I'm looking for something small because I don't have room for anything bigger. The Steam Deck is appealing because it doesn't seem very computer-y. What I want is a console that plays PC games. I've tried SteamLink between my desktop computer and AppleTV but it was a terrible experience.

Is there something better than the Steam Deck that isn't expensive (ie not more than $2000).
I know it's the same crate, but they changed its name. `gcc` is the predecessor of `cc` in terms of name. If you depend on `gcc` instead of `cc`, you won't have any of the new improvements.
There's a larger problem with writing papers, that results in this problem that I discuss here[0] and it looks like you're getting at too. What I'd say is that authors (being one myself) are writing papers to reviewers, not to other researchers in my niche (sometimes it feels like not even my several levels of abstraction above).

I can confirm having to significantly tweak papers in ways that I would not have done writing to other researchers. I have papers with hundreds of citations as well as top benchmark scores on papers that could not pass reviews with the most common complaints of "not novel" and "I don't know who would find this useful." This has been one of the most challenging aspects of my PhD and certainly one of the most frustrating.

But the larger problem I see is that everyone is simply hyper-hacking every metric that they can. This is beyond academics, I'm sure you see it in your work or politics too. I think we need to have a serious discussion as to the fact that metrics are proxies and not always aligned with our goals. Or that they stay aligned with our goals, because if someone gets an advantage by optimizing towards the metric rather than optimizing towards the abstract goal we actually want.

It's not AI turning the world into a paperclip that we should be afraid of, it's humans doing that.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38200598
I agree, BUT, i think it's going to get a lot better soon. Ie i loathe Siri because it felt like there was always some incantation i had to remember. Like a very terrible CLI. LLMs though, even if we never get intelligence right, i think can help this area significantly.

Combine that with areas like GPT Vision, (GPT?) Whisper, etc .. it'll start feeling a lot more natural here very soon i suspect.

TBH i'm surprised Apple isn't pushing this much harder. They tout Siri so hard but it's just worthless to me. It feels like apple could make a AI Pin like this, but visibly from the public side i have zero idea that the're even working in this space. It feels like they purposefully watched the boat sail away.

edit: Sidenote, Pin + Airpods would be a nice way to interface more quietly too.
I feel like we're not mentioning the elephant in the room: helium.

Helium is a non-renewable resource that we don't have a lot of down here on earth.
Just so you know, the burden of proof lies with the person making a claim, in this case you, claiming the health benefits of olive oil are 'propaganda'. If you think you don't know enough to make a claim, that's fine, you can always a nice neutral question, like: What are the health benefits of olive oil?
hopefully not too little too late
And the Deadspin offshoot Defector is bleeding money, too.
Sade's song as eulogy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK3IlV3l9xY&t=45s
Reimagine your enterprise apps on Apple Vision Pro
This thing better not come with a speaker. Public speakerphone users are among the most obnoxious pests.
You don't need to learn to ride a bike if you prefer motorcycles.
That's not actually how the industry works in the general case. Health "insurance" companies no longer provide much insurance. Instead they mainly just create provider networks and administer claims on behalf of self-insured group buyers (mainly employers and unions). The remaining fully insured market is relatively small.

Health insurers have low profit margins. You can read their audited financial statements for the publicly traded ones. Some are even non-profit. 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%. Even if we were to replace commercial insurers with some sort of "Medicare for all" system that would have only a marginal impact on costs to patients and availability of care.

The real drivers here are the big employers. They are the ones ultimately paying most of the bills, and they insist that insurers ration care to control costs.
Grid scale tracking systems keep getting cheaper but neither always wins.

Solar tracking makes more sense when you look at wholesale rates over a day. Peak demand prices start right as static solar production falls off so you would need batteries not just more solar panels to sell at those rates. On top of this costs like land, inverters, and wiring gets amaorterised across more hours of production.

Wholesale prices get influenced by the deployed solar power including rooftop solar. Which adds yet another dimension to these models.
Anti-cheat is usually a kernel extension, I don't think you can do that in Proton.

Edit: yes, I know EAC is Linux supported, but you can't use proton to run a Windows kernel extension.
> Only the pretentious call soccer “football” in North America,

Lots of people whose cultural origin isn't in the US or Canada do, and that overlaps a lot with the people who care about soccer at all.
Fair, but often there's a retention package that can be a large part of the acquisition offer total that could be hard to resist.
You can disable Sync Contacts (PBAP) and Notify Messages (MAP), and then the Bluetooth head unit won't download your contacts or messages.
> The European Union isn’t sovereign. It likes to pretend it is, but it isn’t.

I'm going to assume you're misinterpreting rather than trying to be disingenuous, but I was obviously referencing the nations Ireland signed the series of treaties starting with the Treaty of Lisbon (which Ireland signed in 2009).

France, Germany, etc. are perfectly within their rights to hold Ireland to the agreements it made.

> They’ve just about always been just lies of convenience.

Your examples are proving the opposite of what you appear to think they do. The US would be a much better example of what you mean, but that just demonstrates that nobody currently wants to take the US on.

In any case, Ireland is perfectly free to exit the treaty normally if it chooses. England showed them how.
The security implications of a chinese owned brainwashing app installed on devices around the world is concerning yes.
>it will stop listening as soon as you break contact

..or so they say
You can even make the joke that you're guiding the LionRover from Space, their virtual desktop solution
using AA/CP won’t prevent your car from being exploited.
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>> 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".

1. Many of the most painful core issues dont manifest until you have a real issue. So people assume it will work for them, until it does not.

2. There is so much money being made on the other side that there is a huge push for lobbying to keep the system in place.
Price of gold is ~$60/gram, so this is not especially expensive in the grand scheme of rare metals even if it's significantly more expensive than copper.
Easy to learn, safe, fast: pick two
A 10 person startup without a business model? And all the tech got thrown out. Clearly an acquihire.
They need their modern Chiat\Day because right now they are about to squander the best movement in hardware tech in 10 years.
How much will they pay for you to stop?
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More Executives Vanish in China, Casting Chill over Business Climate
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Valve tries to make it easy to run a proton-compatible anti-cheat system which I believe is built in to steam libraries, but developers still have to choose to use it notably Microsoft seemed totally uninterested in using a proton compatible EAC for Halo Master Chief Collection last time I checked earlier this year. I read online it should have been easy to switch to the proton compatible EAC but some devs might not want to.
At this point, I just assume that anything I put on the internet, and anything I put into the custody of any third party, will be used to train AI. I also assume that the only way I can "opt out" is to not put things on the internet and not let any company have access to my data.
Honestly, I don't think the concern is this particular product or company, even if they can truly adhere to a privacy-first policy. For me the consideration is a slow erosion of privacy from any company or product. For instance: twenty years ago the idea that someone could quickly take a discreet high-quality video with something in their pocket wasn't possible. Smart phones made that possible, then we see things like Google Glass and now these accessory pendant devices will make it even easier. To be clear, I'm not against things like the Humane and Rewind pendants, I'm just curious about how they will impact society, especially considering how quickly we're moving without putting much thought into their impacts.
No, that the code is poorly documented, or that the names are poorly chosen.
Just be sure not to automate your humanity away with LLM prompts.
One thing I am quite interested in here is the gesture controls. Google completely fumbled their Project Soli (although I bet they filed a thousand patents for it) but it's the kind of interface I want when driving my car. Buttons are better than touchscreens but gestures could be better than both.
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I have been using stock PopOS, and my battery life has been poor.
Is an apple watch already solving this, already has my phone number on a cellular plan, can easily text and call, has Siri (not the best, but can be improved), could use a ChatGPT app, can leave my phone at home, etc?
They absolutely are.

I have multiple friends who received cash offers from investment companies when selling their homes. It's fairly common and well known.

"We buy houses" companies are everywhere. It's their entire strategy.
That is confusing to me as well, yes.
Oh, this is pretty cool!
I was hoping to try and create a custom GPT too, but couldn't resist trying the API before.
Seems like the back buttons are a worthy tradeoff if you're looking for a Windows-based handheld. The Ally is faster and has some nifty tricks but Windows holds it back, compared to the snappy, polished feel of the Deck.
Proton has some support for easy anti cheat.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/02/proton-7-easy-anti-che...
Instantly destroy? Or acquire?
> I'm in the US, so that seems kinda strange.

I love this comment :-) So much to appreciate here.

As someone who sees the "not available in your country" quite often, I'm delighted with this mistake (it must be a mistake).
Try overemployment. Get an easy second job that you allows you to meet expectations with minimal work.
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> It was a sexist website offering bad advice for impressionable, young women.

Maybe. However I feel obliged to point out that there are countless media outlets that fit this description for men, but when they get shut down a common reaction is that free speech is under attack and cancel culture has gone too far.
there are automated mining trains, today. https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/stories/how-did-worlds-bigg...

if you are building new then an automated isolated railway network is not hard to achieve; and with any airship infrastructure you are pretty much building new anyways.
If only there was some kind of service for finding good side gigs ...
If it's an expensive procedure and you want to know what the cost will be you'll usually want to submit for prior authorization before the procedure. In an emergency this isn't an option but for any other treatment this can give you a lot of clarity about what your out of pocket will be - doctors (or their offices) should be able to handle this if you ask.
I understood your comment as you describe it

Regarding point 2, I still cant be compelled to care. I mean, in the context of an individual sure, but your context is the business with this leading disclaimer about the individual.
> The closure and layoffs come at a difficult time for US journalism.

I think we can do with less click bait "journalism" - good riddance.
List of GPTs Directories
There are a very wide variety of Windows based handhelds more powerful than the Steam Deck. AyaNeo seems to crank a new one out every 4 months!

I came across a google doc a while back where people were obsessively cataloging them. There are many which have come out in the last 2 years. You have your pick of options. They usually run from 400 - 1200.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1irg60f9qsZOkhp0cwOU7...

ETA: This list has gotten out of hand, lol
I actually use my Deck almost exclusively in docked mode. If you just want a low-cost alternative to a PC for gaming, consider picking up one of the now-discounted LCD models.
Yeah, I've always loved libraries. The amount of stuff you can learn is mind-boggling, and the environment/atmosphere encourages delving right in. I still distinctly remember when my local library started carrying CD-ROMs... I mean, I had the internet, but it was very slow, and suddenly I could borrow these games/"edutainment"/educational software... So awesome. For some time my friend had no internet connection and we'd go to the library together and browse stuff, discuss what we found, etc. .. Such a great place for people to grow their knowledge and understanding of the world (and whatever they are interested in). <3
Yeah, people already have phones. This is could just be a phone app.
There are seats in the lower section that sit partially underneath the second level. You will get a great view of the band and stage but lose some of the projections going on all around you.

We sat in the 5th row of the 300 level. The visuals were amazing there but the stage was quite far away. If you can afford it, something towards the front of the 200 section would be the sweet spot between being closer to the stage and positioned to be fully immersed in the lights show.
> If you were already buzzed before going, then you would need a cheaper price to continue drinking

Because judgement and rational decision making are things that already being under the influence of alochol increases, rather than the opposite?
This isn't just google, it's every company with contractors and employees.

Microsoft learned the hard way to not treat contractors like employees. https://www.reuters.com/article/businesspropicks-us-findlaw-...

Nobody else wants to learn that same lesson.
Quite a few bridges were burned to form the company, an acquisition would be a surprising development.
Haha what do you mean, that's the main feature they are advertising here. I agree that the advent of portable high-output, low-power audio amplifiers is chiefly responsible for the downfall of human society so I, too, hate to see it.
I have been really happy with my steam deck - I would strongly consider it if you don't mind that the hardware isn't cutting-edge. I rarely use it connected to a TV, so the relatively weak GPU might look worse than it does on the small screen, but otherwise it has been fantastic.

It "just works," like a console. Which would be another good option.
For green cards, it's really more about what can you do to increase your chances; for nonimmigrant work visas, the main issues are (these probably aren't non-obvious, to answer your question) unauthorized employment, overstay, criminal record, and immigration fraud.
The name reminds me of the Calculus of Constructions [1], the type theory underlying proof assistant Coq.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_constructions
Not at Google but I was a contractor at a hospital. All the employees got active shooter training. I guess the contractors were meant to be fodder.
>> I'm a bright guy but I don't know how I'd live with the cognitive workload, stress and uncertainty over having to deal with all of this (the networks, the uncertainty over price and bills, the bills coming for weeks and months after care, the myriad involved parties, the rules and limits and interpretations and just... everything).

When you have a real issue, it takes hundreds of hours to deal with it. Smart employers know that this eventually comes out of company time and productivity, esp since most of these calls need to take place during business hours.

Smart employers will advertise "100% paid health plans, etc, etc."

Penny-wise employers, even white-collar jobs/offices, will often provide the bare-minimum coverage, and pretend it has no effect. Except it does. You can see it when your cubicle-neighbor is on a 2hr call with insurance, etc. I've had colleagues who will block a 4hr meeting on their calendar titled "calling insurance companies to figure out bills" as open protest. I've had people in the office just spend a day or two on the phone with doctors' offices, visible, both out of desperation and as a subtle form of protest for the organization's choices in health plans.
It only ignites in the presence of oxygen and a source of ignition so as long as you keep those things away from the hydrogen it should be quite safe. It's a solvable engineering problem. Use only materials that cannot burn for the gas envelope and structures immediately adjacent to it. Locate the engines as far out as possible on pylons. Divide the gas envelope as much as possible to limit the fuel supply for any fire that does start. The major complication is not adding too much weight but there's no reason airships couldn't be as safe as airplanes.
Glutathione worked for me
It takes one to know one.
I'm shocked at how bad the presentation video is.

Almost the entire beginning of the video is about which colors are available and how the battery snaps, with zero hints about why I would need a cringe projector on me.

I can't believe this was shipped by ex-Apple people. Imagine Steve Jobs introducing the iPhone like this: "We are introducing a revolutionary new device. The first thing you should know about it is that it has a charger and an Apple processor. The second most important thing: here is how the battery works."
Thanks for doing this. My GF is from Mexico and would like to come work in the US. It is quite the process. Paying for an attorney could be very expensive for someone from __not_the_US__. Do you have any advice on what tips the calculus such that it's worth the cost to contract an attorney?
Wow, it's very rare for companies to move in this direction. This is the polar opposite direction of what Apple's been doing.
It's funny because later in the article he mentions the difference between Google and Amazon, and this is a huge one. At Amazon you can't even open the building next door without approval.
> The idea that your Doctor... who actually knows what is going on wants to do something and your Insurance can just say no is ridiculous.

Death panels for a captive market, so it's all good.
Why risk it when you can write a risk-free loan to the federal government at 5.35%? (Maybe it's not risk-free if Congress forces them to default, but the Fed has some plans for that, and the stock market is unlikely to have a great day if we default.)

Margin rates are something like 13% right now. You might get lucky and see SPY do better than 13% a year, but you are risking a lot. People would not buy a primary residence at that rate, for example, and you can live inside that while you pay off the loan.
A single performance target means devs can fairly easily make tweaks and fixes to get "Verified Compatible" with Steam Deck which means more games work on ALL steam decks and its easier for casual consumers to just pick it up, buy some games, and have a good experience without knowing anything about PC gaming.

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.