MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by c-hendricks | 2025-09-25 19:40:14+00:00
It's not limited to Electron applications:

https://github.com/neovide/neovide/issues/3225

Other Tahoe issues with non-Electron apps:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/33182

https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/7255
by Arathorn | 2025-09-25 19:40:19+00:00
Honestly, this was the reaction I expected to have when I first started using the new roomlist (which was built by the Element design/product/eng teams, rather than the old one, which was originally written by me).

However, in practice, I've rapidly found that I genuinely don't mind the new layout, and actually prefer it. (And I tend to be have a bad attitude to change in general). The reasons are:

* It's way faster to switch rooms

* You can filter on People by hitting the People filter button rather than having a dedicated section.

* I spent my life scrolling around the previous sections, or manually resizing them, etc, whereas the simplicity actually feels a bit refreshing and lighter weight.

That said, this is an initial release of the new room list, and there's a bunch of work to be done still:

* Need to support collapsing the LeftPanel like we used to be able to.

* There's a plan to re-introduce Sections again (so you can see your favourites etc separately to the main contents if you want - and reclaim muscle memory)

In terms of where to manage Sessions in Element Web/Desktop - it should always be the 'Sessions' tab in Settings? If your server is using native OIDC (i.e. matrix-authentication-service) then some of the management gets delegated to MAS and links through to account.matrix.org (or wherever your MAS lives). But if you can't see any way to manage Sessions, then it's likely a misconfiguration or a bug; please let us know the details.
by brene | 2025-09-25 19:40:20+00:00
Hi - Rene from Casco here. Thought to share a bit about our journey of dealing with auth for browser agents before Prism. We have a diverse set of customers whose login experience differ dramatically. Sometimes it's directly accessible on request, other times, you have to click through into a "login menu", other times we'd be dealing with Google sign-in and OTP.

We initially tried manually uploading session cookies to our browser agent after we authenticate locally. But soon realized how unscalable that is. We needed a general purpose API that allows our agents to auth into any application reliably. We needed something like Prism because making an agent reliable for our vertical is hard enough and I don't want us to maintain infrastructure just for the purposes of managing test user credentials and session management. If you're using browser agents and they've "hit the auth wall", then you know what I'm talking about.

Thanks for building Prism for us and letting us be a pilot customer. The API is straightforward and a pleasure to use. Can't wait for user sign-up and GitHub auth support to come soon.
by zokier | 2025-09-25 19:40:38+00:00
It is worth noting that at the turn of the century x86 wasn't yet so utterly dominant yet. Alphas, PowerPC, MIPS, SPARC and whatnot were still very much a thing. So that is part why running x86 software was not as high priority, and maybe even compatibility with PA-RISC would have been a higher priority.
by sib | 2025-09-25 19:40:54+00:00
It's sad to see it come to this.

When I worked there (more than a decade ago) senior leaders and old-timers were extremely proud of the fact that they did things like sending "your Prime membership will renew in (a month - I think) - be sure to cancel if you don't want it to" emails. This was quite different from typical subscription services providers at the time.

In fact, I had more than one old-timer mention that they would ask employment candidates about the Prime pricing and renewal strategy and that candidates who said something along the lines of "it's best for people to subscribe and then never use it so we make margin on the service revenue" (along the lines of gym business models) would be rejected.

They really wanted people to want to be Prime members (this was even before Bezos' famous "you'd be irresponsible not to be a Prime member" comment...)
by SirMaster | 2025-09-25 19:40:55+00:00
I want to like VR, but there is still just too much distracting internal reflection and stuff through the lenses for me.

I really want a good headset for watching movies at home in a virtual IMAX, but yeah every headset I have tried leads to distracting blooming or other glare and reflection issues with the lenses.

Yes the Apple Vision Pro is not good enough, neither is the Big Screen 2 at least to my standards.
by mywrathacademia | 2025-09-25 19:41:45+00:00
First they came for the Lockdown skeptics And I did not speak out Because I was not a Lockdown skeptic Then they came for the Social distancing skeptics And I did not speak out Because I was not a Social distancing skeptic Then they came for the Face mask skeptics And I did not speak out Because I was not a Face mask skeptic Then they came for the Vaccine skeptics And I did not speak out Because I was not a Vaccine Skeptic Then they came for the Vaccine passport skeptics And I did not speak out Because I was not a Vaccine passport skeptic Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
by sipofwater | 2025-09-25 19:41:51+00:00
"every time I play a game., ssd 100% active and 0 read write": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5564041/... (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5564041/every-time-i-play-a-game-ssd-100-active-and-0-read)
by eschneider | 2025-09-25 19:42:37+00:00
Yeah, I've been doing that a bit, mostly with STM32G474 (arm core) chips and my own Forth system. I'm not using it for production code, but I definitely use it for prototyping/experimenting with the SOC to see how the system actually behaves.

A simple Forth REPL gives a nicer environment for poking at the low level hardware than going back and forth with C/C++.

I could easily do production code this way, but TBH, I work with other people and have to share code, so C++ is generally the way to go there. :)
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-25 19:42:39+00:00
>AI is going to augment radiologists first, and eventually, it will start to replace them.

I am a medical school drop-out — in my limited capacity, I concur, Doctor.

My dentist's AI has already designed a new mouth for me, implants &all ("I'm only doing 1% of the finish-work: whatever the patient says doesn't feel just quite right, yet"—myDMD). He then CNCs in-house on his $xxx,xxx 4-axis.

IMHO: Many classes of physicians are going to be reduced to nothing more than malpractice-insurance-paying business owners, MD/DO. The liability-holders, good doctor.

In alignment with last week's (H)(1)(b) discussion, it's interesting to note that ~30% of US physician resident "slots" (<$60kUSD salary) are filled by these foreigner visa-holders (so: +$100k cost per applicant, amortized over a few years of training, each).
by chaseadam17 | 2025-09-25 19:43:02+00:00
Sure small loans have higher rates but they are lower margin and less profitable. They require way more overhead relative to loan size and a drastically higher chance of default (I used to underwrite small biz loans, many times you can’t even get recent and accurate financials - eg for a small plumbing biz). Just look at the market - there’s a reason all the big banks compete to bank Apple but the SBA has to step in to try and stimulate small biz lending.
by freeopinion | 2025-09-25 19:43:09+00:00
The concept of common carriers in not a wartime concept. Should occupied Ukranians keep providing service to their occupiers on principle?

Aside from the common carrier concept, operating a significant war-supporting facility makes you a significant target. And I don't just mean a target for criticism. Datacenters risk a security threat on a whole new level if taking them out is important to war operations.

Would you criticize a commercial port in the Black Sea if it turned away Russian warships? Harboring Russian warships makes it extremely likely that your port could become the target of missile strikes. If you want to remain an innocent bystander, don't harbor combatants.

This is not a statement in support of any side of any war.
by kypro | 2025-09-25 19:43:10+00:00
You're all assuming that predators who are already deliberating using apps which are encrypted to share CSAM won't just move to something else where there is encryption – which will always be possible unless the EU fines a way to ban maths or reverts back to the pre-digital age.

This might catch the odd moron sharing stuff on Facebook or on their phone, but I doubt it will stop the average offender was is already going out of their way to use encrypted apps/services.

But okay great, at least you catch the morons I guess, but at what cost? Here in the UK it's pretty common to be arrested for tweets at it is. There's no doubt in my mind this will be used to catch individuals committing speech crimes who are currently getting away with it because they share their opinions behind closed doors.
by johann8384 | 2025-09-25 19:43:15+00:00
Well, yeah, the pictures they included with the articles is a sim farm with devices available on a TOR site the same way you lease space on a server with EC2.

So, it maybe could have been used to initiate a TDoS attack if someone rented the capacity but that's not what it was there for. They caught a subcontractor and they want us to think they caught a kingpin.
by toast0 | 2025-09-25 19:43:51+00:00
Historically, when Intel is on their game, they have great products, and better than most support for OEMs and integrators. They're also very effective at marketting and arm twisting.

The arm twisting gets them through rough times like itanium and pentium4 + rambus, etc. I still think they can recover from the 10nm fab problems, even though they're taking their sweet time.
by Ar-Curunir | 2025-09-25 19:43:54+00:00
This is an issue that you would face in any language with strong typing. It only rears its head in Rust because Rust tries to give you both low-level control and strong types.

For example, in something like Go (which has a weaker type system than Rust), you wouldn't think twice about, paying for the re-allocation in buffer-reuse example.

Of course, in something like C or C++ you could do these things via simple pointer casts, but then you run the risk of violating some undefined behaviour.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-25 19:43:58+00:00
> article you're commenting on quite literally mentions that employee pressure

Fair enough. I’m not buying it—the timeline doesn’t work, and the broader literature on disruptive protest is mixed, leaning towards negative.

What clearly swung the odds was the Guardian reporting on the frankly brazen meetings Microsoft executives decided to take. Without that reporting, this wouldn't have happened. With that reporting and absent the employee protests, this would have still likely happened.
by sgjohnson | 2025-09-25 19:44:18+00:00
You can still find applications written for Windows 3.1 in the latest builds of Windows 11. Something regarding database drivers if I recall correctly.

Now imagine if you could get rid of all that legacy crap to make it work in the first place. Microsoft CAN’T do that, because the entire premise of Windows is backwards compatability.

Apple? They don’t care. Killing 32bit apps? Just make an announcement saying that in 2 major macOS releases, macOS won’t be able to run 32 bit apps. It cuts down bloat, and it cuts down on the potential attack surfaces for malicious actors.

Obviously just about everyone would agree that Windows 1 -> 7 was progress. I don’t think you’ll find too many people who’ll say the same about Windows 7 -> 11.
by budududuroiu | 2025-09-25 19:44:27+00:00
I get your point, but this is baked into the social contract in China. You obey the party, give up some personal freedoms, and in exchange the party will make sure you live a prosperous safe life.

The current EU political class has completely lost their Mandate of Heaven, they command 0 respect because they’re spineless empty bureaucrats looking for a cushy consulting job after they’re done being lobbied by their future employers.

Even if your utopian idea makes sense, I don’t trust the EU politicians to bring it to life, just virtue signal
by DangitBobby | 2025-09-25 19:44:41+00:00
Of course I understood there were vast cultural and political differences causing tension. I just also believed that we had a shared system of fundamental values enshrined in the constitution and when push came to shove, we would all rally behind it. That's what I thought American patriotism meant; I genuinely thought I could count on Red voters to rabidly defend the constitution.
by miles7 | 2025-09-25 19:44:57+00:00
Not at all clear from the paper whether you need a quantum computer to do these calculations or whether the same circuits could be simulated classically.

(I.e. from what I can see the paper never mentions the amount of entanglement or complexity in the quantum state, or that they used state-of-the-art simulation techniques like tensor networks to check.)

If someone knows of a blog post, supplemental material, etc. that reports this I'd be curious to know.
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-25 19:45:08+00:00
1. No, investors pay for it, not consumers. It's not how R&D works, the final price is the one that optimizes total revenue with no link to software dev costs as producing a new unit is free. If Apple had slave devs fed on biowaste costing $0 to the company, they'd still charge the same price for the icloud subscription as it is the optimal price according to them.

And before you try to argue that "reduced profitability will decrease investment", the US tech sector is already the most profitable in the world, and will still be if the H1B program ends, so it's unlikely to happen. And higher salaries will bring in more local workers, that will attenuate the wage increase overtime.

2. Yes but the focus was tech jobs, which is the main source of H1b workers. I already said that in healthcare it could be beneficial.

Rest is unrelated. Unlike immigration, you can't avoid technological progress, which is why I'm saying that you are trying to slide the conversation with sophistic arguments. And AI is not a total replacement (that's AGI), but rather an help to improve productivity.
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-09-25 19:45:50+00:00
So ChatControl means that e.g. Signal would be obligated to automatically scan pictures and messages sent for CSAM. This is beyond encryption. And if they were to actually do that, it would mean it's non sensical for people spreading this material to use it as they would immediately be caught, so they would just use other tools.

But people are talking about both - the ridiculousness of the premise that this would help combat this and additionally of course the cost of privacy.

It's beyond encryption. Teenagers sending each other pictures could get flagged by AI etc. Any of your messages and images having potential to get falsely positively flagged.
by Dig1t | 2025-09-25 19:45:54+00:00
Yes the guy who was sent to jail for saying words that the government didn’t like. He was further persecuted for making a film about it as well. Put in solitary confinement for nothing other than _saying words_.

He is completely correct about Pakistani rape gangs, the growth of Sharia courts and laws in the UK, and growing violence against the native British.

Side note: the UK government fines and jails more people for speech than most authoritarian dictatorships, including Russia.
by vaishsagar | 2025-09-25 19:45:56+00:00
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Over the past year I’ve been running all kinds of scrappy marketing experiments:

Grew the app to 12,000 users within 2 months

Did it with almost no ad budget — relied on scroll flyers, Instagram reels, grassroots outreach, direct mail, and partnerships

Even got covered on the local news: https://www.fox9.com/video/1671245.amp

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And the IG page for visuals: @backyard_uptown

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by zenmac | 2025-09-25 19:46:05+00:00
Nice! Learned something new today. Seems like a way for error correction. One can store parts of data with some more metadata and if some parts of the data are lost, the original can be reconstructed via some use of computational power.

Seems like some kind of compression?

Is that how the error correction on DVD works? I

And is that how GridFS is can keep file store slow low compare to regular file system?
by simianwords | 2025-09-25 19:46:10+00:00
> It feels like blockchain again in a lot of weird ways.

Every time I keep seeing this brought up I wonder if people truly mean this or its just something people say but don't mean. AI is obviously different and extremely useful.. I mean it has convinced a butt load of people to pay for the subscription. Every one I know including the non technical ones use it and some of them pay for it, and it didn't even require advertising! People just use it because they like it.
by stalfosknight | 2025-09-25 19:46:32+00:00
No, it means some people are doing it wrong either because:

1. They don't know how to do it the right way

or

2. They can't be bothered to do it the right way

#1 I can understand. We all make mistakes as we learn and grow as developers. #2 is just arrogance / laziness on the part of the developer. Compounding it by blaming the platform owner that clearly and explicitly told you not to go that route is gross.
by chaseadam17 | 2025-09-25 19:46:37+00:00
There are lots of ways… you could back it with a basket of real assets (eg gold, commodities, etc) or multiple currencies (eg to reduce the role any one central bank plays) or create a new process for delegating central bank authority (eg with better transparency). I’m not saying I have the answer but I’m quite confident that in the next few hundred years we will have digital and stable mediums of exchange that are better than the US dollar for most holders, in terms of lower inflation, more interoperable, more transparent, more stable, etc.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-25 19:46:54+00:00
Not cross border. The only purpose German surveillance of Poland would have furthered would have been (again, with the benefit of hindsight) their own occupation. Not the safety of Germans in Germany.

If the Armia Krajowa had carried out an October 7 style attack on the German homeland, against German civilians, their memory would be mixed, not the virtually unblemished heroism they deservedly command in the historic record.
by kstrauser | 2025-09-25 19:46:57+00:00
It absolutely was. It was possible, hypothetically, to write a chunk of code that ran very fast. There were any number of very small bits of high-profile code which did this. However, it was impossible to make general-purpose, not-manually-tuned code run fast on it. Itanium placed demands on compiler technology that simple didn't exist, and probably still don't.

Basically, you could write some tuned assembly that would run fast on one specific Itanium CPU release by optimizing for its exact number of execution units, etc. It was not possible to run `./configure && make && make install` for anything not designed with that level of care and end up with a binary that didn't run like frozen molasses.

I had to manage one of these pigs in a build farm. On paper, it should've been one of the more powerful servers we owned. In practice, the Athlon servers were several times faster at any general purpose workloads.
by the_snooze | 2025-09-25 19:47:14+00:00
The thing is that professors and research groups aren't fungible. Each one that moves represents a nontrivial loss in expertise for the US in some field. There are only so many groups doing basic research into materials science for microelectronics, for example---certainly not at all 187 R1 universities. But something like that is a strategic asset for the US, to the point that there's a DARPA office specifically to fund that work (https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/mto).
by McAlpine5892 | 2025-09-25 19:47:16+00:00
This pains me so. Every time I have to hear "individual contributor", "leadership", or "the brand" I die a little inside.

Please just call me an employee or engineer. As for "leadership", I am somewhat convinced that the word "management" would lead to a mid-life crisis. Such inflated egos. As for "the brand", they are my employer.

This Newspeak has benefits though. Mainly that it hides in plain sight the top-down hierarchy of power that exists. Despite that fact that some employees are on food stamps while others make millions, it _sounds_ like everyone is on on somewhat equal footing.
by jedbrooke | 2025-09-25 19:47:17+00:00
> I tried to ask GPT-5 pro the other day to just pick an ambitious project it wanted to work on, and I’d carry out whatever physical world tasks it needed me to, and all it did was just come up with project plans which were rehashes of my prior projects framed as its own.

Mate, I think you’ve got the roles of human and AI reversed. Humans are supposed to come up with creative ideas and let machines do the tedious work of implementation. That’s a bit like asking a calculator what equations you should do or a DB what queries you should make. These tools exist to serve us, not the other way around

GPT et al. can’t “want” anything, they have no volition
by jdashg | 2025-09-25 19:47:53+00:00
A bunch of my friends in VRChat dropped $1500 or so on Bigscreen Beyond 2e orders earlier this year, and are ecstatic to finally be receiving their kits. I'm eagerly awaiting my own ship date email in the next few weeks.

The people who are hooked are hooked, but it's in too slow of a growth curve to keep the attention of the hypergrowth omninationals. Inshallah the megacorps remain minor players.

The metaverse is here, for those with headsets to see. But all Meta will be remembered for in VR is sad tech "demos" that turned out faked, and, for a time at least, solid budget wireless headsets.

Mass media is still waiting for faster horses, but the real transhumanists already have one foot out of the physical world. (And sometimes four!)
by browningstreet | 2025-09-25 19:47:58+00:00
I've wanted to quit Prime a bunch of times, but my recent experiences in the Bay Area:

* Sometimes I want my order on my Prime day, but they insist on delivering it to me 3 hours from when I ordered it.

* When my son got COVID, we ran around town looking for COVID tests. Target was out of them entirely. So I ordered them on Prime and they showed up later that day. A bunch of them. And 3x cheaper than the COVID+FLU tests I found at CVS later that day.

* Yeah, ads on Prime suck. But I'm rewatching a 90s show and ponied up $3/mo for no ads.

Screw Jeff Bezos, but then again.. I got COVID tests when I needed them.
by efreak | 2025-09-25 19:48:04+00:00
Firefox nightly is pretty darn stable, though I'm not sure if there's any security issues with it. I use it for both mobile and desktop, and have for the past 5~10 years and haven't had any issues that weren't fixed by immediately downloading a fresh build (this happened twice) or were caused by me performing unsupported/insane actions (transferring browser profiles (indexeddb) on mobile via CLI commands using remote devtools).

I've got one buggy device, but I suspect corruption due to the error message and I'm more interested in saving the unsyncable data I've got on that profile than I am in trying to fix it by clearing data.