skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the difference? If your competitor is competent, acqui-hire them. If they are not, there is no real competition.
Same here! NASM really gets me out of comfort zone but i’m a good way.
This is one of those things where you want a lot of people looking at everything in duplicate because it is six orders of magnitude less expensive than the alternative.
First phrase in title is a bar.
Based and Grassmann-pilled?
I have the current 512. I won't be upgrading as I can't afford right before Christmas (got to get the kids things) But I will say I love love love my steam deck and I've bought so many more games because of it. Esp indie games. I think it's been great for everyone involved the gamer, the small developer and Valve. I really hope we see them continue to innovate. They're killing it. I honestly think they could make a tablet with SteamOS that just lets you use Bluetooth controls my kids and I would freak out.
I have never seen a car do this without asking you if you want to sync contacts, calendar, and messages upon connecting to Bluetooth. iPhones also let you control this per Bluetooth connection.

Where is this being done without authorization?
Most children who had pokemon cards bought for them likely don't consider the act of buying and opening pokemon card packs to be life altering or ruining events. I also doubt the average person considers buying packs of pokemon cards gambling. So while it fits the literal definition, it's considered different colloquially.

This is very much unlike slot machines and blackjack which can and do take over people's lives.
execute-only as in no reading?
Do you mean marriage-based green card applications? These are super easy and fast now (less than 6 months in many cases) and don't require a lot of evidence of the bona fides of the marriage. A few affidavits can be helpful but they're absolutely not required, particularly if the other evidence is solid.
The punishment imposed in this country for parking badly
So the IMAX company renamed "Omnimax" to "IMAX dome" in about the year 2000, but some of the theatres kept the old name.

Watching an analog flat screen IMAX movie on a dome seems like a horrible mess, but if you digitized it, pre-corrected the distortion and re-printed it to use not-all of the dome screen I guess it could work. Maybe you could achieve similar in the analogue domain with a special arrangement of lenses.

I expect you could take an IMAX dome film, digitize it and translate it to the Sphere quite easily.
I don't know, I kind of like that I don't have to download an installer for every single game I download and go to dozens of websites to download the games, which all would need to input my credit card credentials, and potentially make a separate account. This sounds far worse to me.
> I question a 30% developer fee for using Steam.

30% was more reasonable in 2005-2006 when steam was getting it's first third party games on the platform (and games were cheaper as well, a selling point for digital distribution at the time, which has no longer existed for many years due to greed) and when compute and bandwidth was massively more expensive than it is today. These days the cut should be closer to 5-10% at most.

> Destroying nearly every mod and skin community.

I miss those days so much. When I was a teenager there was always new maps and mods for hl1/hl2 to try out. Now modding in pretty much every game and it's community doesn't compare, most developers won't ever release tooling for their engines and will sue people who reverse engineer their games to make third party tooling. Even 'mod friendly' developers like paradox and bethesda don't like people making changes that affect core gameplay too much and will strip out functionality to prevent people from doing it because they would rather pump out shovelware DLCs to make money.

Valve lucked out by doing all the enshittification in the late 2000s/early 2010s when their reputation was at it's highest. If they had cultivated this same following today and then rug pulled in the way they did in the past they would have killed their business entirely. Imagine if CDPR/A ctiblizzard/EA announced they would never make a game again and would only sell third party games through GOG/Battlenet/Origin, their distribution platform. Their business would be gone in a matter of months.
> The Steam version is not more mod friendly.

One doesn’t need to mess around with sideloading and PC mods get updates more frequently, which in my book would qualify as more mod friendly.

It sounds like the Deck can’t handle Beat Saber better than the Quest 2 though so I guess it’s moot.
Python with numba and @jit is quite fast https://numba.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/jit.html but you need to know how to use it. (I don't know, but one of my coworkers does.)

There is a nice comparison of languages speed and sizes in https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

I like Racket, but editing it without the help of a editor to match the parenthesis is imposible.
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> why not simply let trees do it?

because money
This is the trust that Steam has produced and why no other store will ever come close. This long standing trust that they won’t muck with your running apps, that they won’t just throw popups on your screen (except when launching, tisk tisk), and that they will support the infrastructure required to keep those games and apps up to date.

Second would be Microsoft’s Store. On Apple it would be the other way around: Apple Store over Steam store. But aside of the native OS “store”, steam is the only 3rd party store I allow on my PC.
Illinois has service with both MISO and PJM grids [1]. They're going to be pulling power over HVDC from wind in the central US [2]. NuScale wasn't cost competitive [3], so while nuclear approval is nice (because it is silly to prohibit it from being built if safely and responsibly operated), renewables, batteries, transmission, and demand response is cheaper (collectively) [4] [5] [6].

[1] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-MIDW-MISO?wind=false...

[2] https://soogreen.com/project-overview/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38199061

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37502924

[5] https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/Tesla-Master-Plan-Part-3.pdf

[6] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/21/us-can-get-to-100percent-cle...
Not for me. Maybe your getting ABed.
Yea anyone who's visited Vegas knows that from the time your plane lands to when you takeoff, you're basically just spewing money to everyone constantly. I think there are at least 5-10 people just between your airline gate and your hotel room door with their hands out looking for tips.

Not a place to go if you're frugal.
That's surprising. They definitely should reapply. Where are they from and where do they live?
Those who can, do; those who can't, sue.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38208016
Since you have some experience in the field, How do you see your views becoming reality?
It's also important to recognize that corporations aren't a thing that can care about you in the same way an individual could. You're better off not thinking of them as having any form of central agency.

They evolve and change, we have to deal with it.
With their migration to Chrome/electron/not sure what it is, Steam isn't as light weight as it used to be.

Especially on older PC's. It noticeably slows down the start up, does eat a lot of ram. It's definitely noticable on a friend's 2014 laptop with 8GB ram and a slower SSD.
I used to work for a temp agency (clerical, not in tech) and I remember once seeing what my agency was getting paid for me on an hourly basis. Iirc, it was something like 3-4x what I was getting paid hourly. It was kind of sickening tbh. Plus many agencies forbid temps from being hired away without paying an outrageously hire fee to do so.

It felt like being an indentured servant in many ways. The only upside was that if you hated the place you worked, you could always ask to be reassigned someplace else. But that's the only major plus I can think of.
Yes. Edited now.
That's one aspect of reliability, but the one I was more curious about was determinism. If I repeatedly run the same test suite on the same code base and the same data and configuration, am I guaranteed to get the same test results every time, or is it possible for ai() to change its mind about what actions to take?
> Tumblr literally made people addict to porn.

Are we allowed to blame the internet, or the transistor for such effects too?
Are you a U.S. citizen or permanent resident?
Why is your imaginary burden more important than someone's passion?

I find Rust people to be really annoying these days if you can't even write software in the language you want to write without being a burden to society.
The only lawyer to take her case? I thought he specialized in cases like these?
I know i'm getting close to Torment Nexus territory but how do you get an LLM to run code as the response? Given that an LLM basically calculates the most probable text that follows a prompt, how do you then go from that response to a function call that flips a lightswitch? Seems like you'd need some other ML/AI that takes the LLM output and figures out it most likely means a certain call to an API and then executes that call.

With alexa i can program if/then statements, like basically when i say X then do Y. If something like chatgpt requires the same thing then i don't see the advantage.
I understand that you want to feel good about your purchasing decisions, but you just are not seeing how low you are setting the bar.

I use these products and am deeply invested in them. They are good, but much farther from perfect than you think. All of these stats are hollow relativism.

If two companies were detonating atom bombs in your neighborhood, but one provided you and your family with super solid umbrellas to catch the ash, you'd probably be swollen with praise for them as well.

There I go demonizing again... I really shouldn't be comparing a corporation with greater market value than the GDP of some countries to a nation state with the power to instigate generational environmental disasters. Totally different, not worthy of comparison at all.
I think this is the reference you mention: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/omoav/mmnp_pap...
It depends almost wholly on the behavior and demonstrated skill and decorum of the lawyers from that batch.
Same MSA so Houston and Austin would be considered different locations,
> It's always been a remarkably lightweight application.

Don't know if I agree. I remember having to turn it off a lot in the early days - but that was ~20 years ago. I will grant that unlike a lot of software it hasn't bloated too much in the intervening years, while hardware has gotten a lot faster.
I would guess it has more to do with current and anticipated future availability than anything else.

I don't work in hardware, but I've read some wild anecdotes about the extreme difficulty of establishing a stable supply chain if you want to keep manufacturing exactly the same product for N years. I guess this won't be any surprise to the HN crowd, but often when you buy an X, it will have some different parts to the X (identical SKU) from last year and the year before.
California has a privacy law that makes a large swathe of possible reasons (essentially anything to do with your private life, which covers most off-the-clock activities) specifically illegal.
This appears to highlight differences in our perspectives: while working with (and supporting software for) 4 most recent major Debian releases, the latest stable one feels like a fresh one to me, especially if it is updated to the latest available package versions (and minor release). The packages are not supposed to be cutting edge there, but "stable".

I also don't mean to blame Rust's ecosystem (let alone the language itself) in the sense of complaining about it, though talking about this feels that way, and I thought it might be useful to clarify: it appears to aim less "stable" and more "cutting edge" (or "experimental") versions and practices than "stable" system distributions do, and than more mature ecosystems tend to do. Likewise, I wouldn't call having a slightly older compiler version in system repositories a problem with package manager: this is a useful approach for getting a stable system, relatively well-tested and with predictable changes. Not every system has to be this way, but in some cases it is useful, some people (myself included) generally prefer those. And unfortunately those fail to play together smoothly at the moment, but I view it as an issue arising between those and their approaches, not as a problem of one of those.
Should be fine (although your ability to access work materials might be limited). Visiting the Shanghai office is a decent alternative to the tower's paid observation deck (similar situation at the Taipei 101 office)
I bet there is a mobile/desktop app in the pipeline.

This pin is a great input/sensing device feeding an AI which gets an incredible amount of information about the owner’s context.

Combined with an old good computer (desktop/smartphone/tablet..) this could be scary revolutionary:-)
First thing on the forum: BG3 doesn't represent asexual people!

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1086940/discussions/0/3944650...

Steam takes 30% to make everyone slightly dumber
Romanian residents & citizens.
Even stranger is the fact that mom was rejected last year and the next person in the queue was a friend applying for the same visa and stating the same intention of visiting me - he was granted the visa.
Not strictly true as Iceland was ruled by Denmark for a long time and only became fully independent in 1944.
I think you should let kids be creative and TRY to make useful things, but the quality of most things I made in school when I was creative and developing things was rather low quality in general because I needed to have all the learning experiences. So I don't think in general kids should be trying to build quality useful things but maybe we can just let them take a shot at everything to see how to do it instead.
See from my point of view you are being unfair to Windows. Brass tacks- both kind of suck for desktop usage.
Do you have any leads you'd be comfortable with sharing?
Physically make contact as in, tap it with your hand TNG style? Or worse, hold contact with your hand? How do you project the laser display and talk without using both hands? Is the hand criss crossing difficult I'm this situation?

An LED comes on... Is it bright? Can you see it direct line of sight from your eye to your shirt without fussing with it? Is the LED just there for others to know the owner isn't recording the conversation?

Can the camera passively watch in hardware with a firmware update? Is the physical contact for audio capture in hardware or software?
I saw this on Product Hunt and checked it out today. I was impressed by how seamless the user experience was. Well done. Do you mind sharing the tech that was used to build this?
And can now watch his dream of so many years languish in the app store. Money is only a part of the equation.
Gamestop has a single interaction with the sales process. Once I've bought my game, unless I want to return it, I never have to think about gamestop again. So while the "get the game to the store" costs more, the act of swapping money in exchange for the game is basically 0 work. Gamestop has logistics to deal with as their primary service.

Valve has a perpetual obligation. I might buy the game and then never even download it. Or I might download the game. delete it. download the game again next week. delete it ... etc... And take 1000 screenshots that I want them to host, and upload mods for a game that they have to host and people may download. And this may happen forever (or at least until Valve ceases to be a company).

Fable III isn't even available in the Steam store anymore... but they have a repo hosting the game files. And they still take updates (the package was last updated in july 2023, even though its been off the store for years). According to SteamDB there are 14 people playing it right now. Steam has been supporting a game that they haven't even sold in the past 8 years.

I'm willing to bet that if I ask gamestop for anything regarding support for a game from 8 years ago they'd just laugh at me.

tl;dr - physical distribution has cut and dry limited obligations, but steam has to deal with stuff forever.
People who were raised from childhood with a particular form of gambling as a regular thing seeing it as different than “real gambling” generally isn't surprising, but it doesn't mean that there actually is a real meaningful difference beside personal acclimatization.
Often just an electric keyboard but yeah
A Possible Winner from WeWork's Troubles? Adam Neumann
Once in a while I catch up with friends in a coffee shop and I usually get some death stares from those remote laptop workers.

A coffee shop is NOT supposed to be quiet. If you want quietness go to a library.
> I am beginning to think that the people who say Wayland was created for a corporate environment first and foremost are correct. Sigh...

There is a giant gap between your use-case (no third-party apps, totally separate machine for accessing sensitive websites, etc) and a "corporate environment".

The vast, vast, majority of users (yes, even Linux users) would like to access their bank's web page without worrying that some security flaw somewhere (maybe even in a "curated" app they installed via official repositories) is allowing someone to upload screenshots of their browser window to some nefarious third-party.

I'm not optimistic about Wayland, either, but I'm sure as hell not satisfied with X.
It looks like windows is just a store for Microsoft products nowadays. While having the majority of the OEM devices with windows, MS are really pushing their services and subscriptions on the users. And they do it the M$ way,the most annoying and mischievous way. Personally, I have one laptop with Win11 pro, for playing a couple of games. The pro edition should be for professionals, right? Nope, it's the same annoying and intrusive experience as the home edition. Screw it. I have other laptop with Pop_OS, a world of difference. My work laptop has Mac OS, and I'm really surprised how apple is so much less intrusive and annoying than Microsoft. Don't have an Apple ID? No problem, you can use your PC, we are not asking/begging every 3 days to create one. You aren't using any apple apps? Sure, you can install and use what you want, we will not cry and appeal to your emotional side. Wait? You installing Google chrome? Go ahead, just install like another app. Just change the default browser, with no questions, just 2 clicks. That simple. Windows looks like the android version of Chinese brands, full of ads and preloaded with bloatware, really.
I would assume that is what happens with babies. Unless human development is that deterministic down to the cellular location level, I would imagine that rod/cone neurons are wired somewhat randomly and the brain spends months sorting out that neuron pathway #16384948 corresponds to the cone(x: 1340, y: 960, .leftEye) while pathway #16380021 corresponds to rod(x: 1280, y:720, .rightEye). But I have no clue so maybe I am completely wrong.
They oftentimes will support EB2/NIW filings in my experience but to be clear, because of the green card backlogs, almost certainly an EB2 filing won't allow you to stay past your STEM OPT; you will need another basis to live and work in the U.S.
Normally I'd consider it an acquihire when a company acquires a startup / smaller company and immediately announces the discontinuation of the product. Less so if there's an attempt to continue developing the product, even if it eventually gets shut down.
> Part of me just wants to get rid of my phone if I get a device that does the actually useful things. Get info about something, checks and sends messages in a smart way, checks the bus.

This requires an always-on device, or always-in-the-cloud server processing your data and pushing updates to your device.

The former is limited by physics (battery), the latter is limited by how much data you want accessed from the cloud. Neither are solved by open source.
I suspect the only thing most people use EGS for is to claim the weekly free games and the free Amazon games.
To allow disallow, click the smaller rectangles to the left, on mouse over they are grey and red squares.

>uMatrix lets me see how many resources of what type were loaded from that domain.

uBlock Origin > Logger (its an icon)

> enable javascript for just one third-party host

Red button (with more enabled) disables a specific resource in a nested-list UI very similar to uMatrix AFAIR.
Nuclear energy is so economically inefficient that the biggest political scandal in Illinois this decade is about the nuclear company bribing political leaders for subsidies. Their former CEO is going to jail over it. The long time political boss was finally indicted over it. Hard to comprehend how blatant bribes have to be in this state to be prosecuted.

I'd love to see expanded nuclear, but if that requires corruption it's a tough pill for me.
The TCP RFC (circa 1974) has an example API with more meaningful error messages than the BSD socket (circa 1982) API.
When it launched all I can remember from the press was ‘steam takes too much money from developers and we will take less’.

That’s not really a selling point for me, the person who buys games to play them.

To this day I can’t name a single gamer-facing feature epic game store has over Steam that would entice me to give up 20 years of built up trust. I buy games on GOG a bunch, I buy games primarily on Steam and have a steam deck. What’s in it for me on EGS?
The Escapist is a much, much smaller brand than The Onion. Looking at google trends, the search traffic for The Onion is about 35x that of The Escapist over the past 12 months. It's also in a much more crowded space than The Onion and a much younger brand. The Onion is a big fish in a small pond whereas the The Escapist is a minnow in a vast sea. I don't think they're comparable.
Missing out on a huge part of the market is comfortable territory for Tumblr
...litigious people are likely a large part of it.

That, and let's face it: lawn darts were just a matter of time before someone took one to the head. There were some truly bad ideas back then.
There was nothing backhanded about that, that was useful relevant information.
Once you bought the car they now have a monopoly on the software that is available. There should be laws against this type of monopoly.
Can you see any paths to improve it? I'm sure any radical changes would upset one political side or other, but are there provisions or processes that are just lose-lose and could be adjusted without making either side unhappy?