MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kuhsaft | 2025-10-29 03:45:57+00:00
> It is interesting though how this same conversation doesn't exist in the same way in other areas of computing like video game consoles

Historically, when the first game consoles with game cartridges existed, the hardware was much more niche than the available personal computers. Game system developers designed hardware specifically for games, and game developers developed for those specific systems. Also, physical media for games provided an ownership model and DRM.

In 2003, Apple released the iTunes Music Store partnering with music labels to counteract the prevalence of music pirating. That was the first major digital marketplace with DRM and way before the App Store in 2008!

In 2005, digital distribution for video game consoles came with the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and Wii. Being game consoles with unique hardware, they kept their restricted licensed development model of previous generations.

The iPhone and App Store just followed that pattern. Unique hardware and a licensed digital marketplace to go with it.

Now, the hardware between video game consoles, smartphones, and personal computers are mostly unified; and the only real difference is software, but the restricted marketplace model still remains.

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> The fact that mobile phones aren't yet just a standard type of portable computer with an open-ish harware/driver ecosystem that anybody can just make an OS for (and hence allow anybody to just install what they want) is kind of wild IMHO. Why hasn't the kind of ferver that created Linux driven engineers to fix their phones?

DRM. There are already devices where you can unlock the bootloader and install any OS on it. But then you won't be able to install apps that use the Play Integrity API to ensure DRM. Companies/developers want revenue and develop apps that require Play Integrity.

Any device that doesn't have DRM will never support a paid digital marketplace or paid content streaming.

> Is Android and iOS just good enough to keep us complacent and trapped forever?

Probably. Microsoft tried a DRM supported OS with Windows Phone and that failed.

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That being said, digital marketplaces and DRM have there place to prevent piracy and allow developers and creators to make a living.

If someone has a solution to prevent piracy without a root of trust that would be ideal.
by OisinMoran | 2025-10-29 03:46:35+00:00
I too have this fear sometimes, and for example never want to learn anything about wine, but it's not always the case.

A friend and I have bonded over appreciating the "shit" things, like white bread toast and hotel coffee and I think that's quite a good habit to instill. I love coffee and will hunt out the best spots in any city for a single-origin V60 on ice, but I am equally content in a diner when the only option is literally just "coffee".

Also studying art & practicing photography has made the world a much more beautiful place. Some of my best pictures have been taken in places that are usually considered unphotogenic.

To quote Reggie Watts:

Listen, invest two hundred dollars in a pair of good headphones Take care of ′em, put 'em in your ears, listen to the music Listen to how it′s supposed to be recorded You're missing, I swear to God, forty to fifty percent Of the music that's in there in the first place So if you wanna go back and listen to The shit that you thought you liked You might even like it more, motherf*er

This did inspire me to get better headphones and I have no regrets! I think some parts of the aversion to getting too fancy come from the reasonable ideas of: not wanting to lower your floor, avoiding the hedonic treadmill, and not wanting to increase your burn. This kind of does make sense for coffee: a lot of coffees you get will be out of your control and increasing the fanciness of your coffee is an ongoing expense. For headphones though they're all moot. I can't remember the last time I wore someone else's headphones, and it's just a pretty small once off payment (these have lasted me 5 years). I would strongly recommend upgrading in this department.

As for TVs, I rewatched Alien on my friend's new LG OLED and it was absolutely stunning. I am looking forward to getting a new place and having a nice set up like that. Again just a once off thing.

And just for balance, my computer monitor which I use all the time has an annoying flickering issue that I have just been putting up with for a long time.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-10-29 03:46:41+00:00
I am in the 20$ dollars headphones and 200$ TV bucket too. But for different reasons.

The point of the video/movie/song etc. is the content not the fidelity, there is a level of fidelity that allows 99 per cent of the enjoyment of the content. That level of fidelity typically costs 20$ for headphones and 200$ for tvs.

1080p and mp3s are good enough. The point is to see what's happening on the screen and to hear without noise.
by xKingfisher | 2025-10-29 03:46:56+00:00
> Coding for others is not art.

It absolutely is, and I think it's what separates good from bad and junior from senior devs.

Most devs can produce an artifact that more or less works. But one that has an internal consistency others can understand and extend, one which accurately captures the problem as it exists and ways it will likely change, is much more of an art form.

A big part of that is knowing which situations are worth making a stand. Every you write code or leave feedback, your doing it for your team current and future.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-10-29 03:47:02+00:00
> my belief (without proof) is that in a world of big data, we're all likely on some sort of govt database with a note about what we do or dont do but as a privacy enthusiast I'll continue making it as difficult as possible for anyone to syphon off my data easily and for free.

Almost certainly true! Clearview AI is being sued because they scraped the internet for all our faces. Ever posted a picture of yourself attached with your name ANYWHERE, EVER? You are now in the database. I realized that a talk i held at a software conference was posted on the internet and that meant that of course i'm now forever in all AI Databases anywhere.

There's a reason the NSA build yottabytes of storage for metdata and connections: Save now, decrypt later when Quantum Computers are ready. Every App, website, even your OS is spying on you. Ever google "Tor" or "Tails OS"? Congrats you are now in the NSAs Database as a potential extremist[0]

That being said: The least we can do is make surveilance more expensive. Use Tor, throwaway browser sessions, encrypted cloud storage etc. Your average normie is an open book with everything readable in the cleartext.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore
by Cheer2171 | 2025-10-29 03:47:47+00:00
Then that person is making three felonies: fraud, perjury, and frameup. AirBNB requires a lot of verification, you can't just use Tor, protonmail, and a VoIP number to list a place. That person would leave such a digital trail that would be easy to find with a subpeona. And both AirBNB and the person framed have every incentive to help with that investigation.

Frameup is a big fucking deal.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-29 03:48:22+00:00
Editorials are ok if they showcase a variety of viewpoints, even if it's not balanced. If the board collectively decides on a single candidate, I think most people get the impression that this reflects the newspaper as a whole.

Especially endorsing the same party for nearly 50 years to the point where it's expected as a sign of allegience, and non-allegience if they stop. It meant a lot.
by gxs | 2025-10-29 03:48:33+00:00
It makes sense that everything would converge on the same time

When every company does the same market “research” to figure out what appeals to consumers, over time they are all going to arrive at the same conclusion

As this particular style becomes familiar to people, it only reinforces the preference and now you’re stuck in a cycle

This is why imo there will always be room for a startups - eventually someone deviates from the path and strikes gold, eventually a company is *actually* courageous, does something bold, and moves an industry forward

We are unfortunately getting to a point though where giant tech companies have a stranglehold on resources and it hinders innovation
by fredophile | 2025-10-29 03:49:16+00:00
I don't understand the obsession some people have with keeping your existing plan. Lots of people can't keep there plan under the current system. Insurance companies update their plans regularly. Sometimes they remove plans or exit markets entirely. An existing plan will get small changes over time. If Theseus has an insurance plan for 10 years and the insurance company makes changes every year can we still call it the original plan of Theseus?

If M4A plus supplemental insurance gives me about the same coverage I have now for a reduced total cost that sounds like a win to me. Even if it ends up costing me the same amount the net improvement from everyone having access to basic health care would still be a win.
by atomic128 | 2025-10-29 03:49:27+00:00
Onion links and HTTP response dumps for most of the noteworthy Tor hidden services can be found at https://rnsaffn.com/zg4/ Beware, nothing is censored. It's all there, the drugs, the ransomware, the sex crime, the cryptocurrency scams, but also the good stuff that makes Tor great. If a worthwhile or provocative hidden service is missing from the scan, please submit it yourself.
by more_corn | 2025-10-29 03:51:29+00:00
This is kafkaesque. “I know you committed a crime because I have video”. Can I see the video? “No”. I found the video. That’s not me and they don’t get into my vehicle. “We know it was you” here let me spend a week of sleepless nights collecting exhaustive evidence that it wasn’t me. “Good detective work!”

I wonder if the cops just picked a car at random and said that was the thief.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-29 03:52:40+00:00
So what does "CA fixes the problem" look like in your head? Because they'll give you a new certificate right away. You have to install it, but you can automate that, and it's hard to imagine any way they could help that would be better than automation. What else do you want them to do? Asking them to not revoke incorrect or compromised certificates isn't good for maintaining security.
by zamalek | 2025-10-29 03:53:46+00:00
I no longer support Blizz, so can't weigh in specifically, but: have you tried PrtotonGE? The are also the Proton forks, such as CachyOS's one that support wayland directly (which is in WINE, but not Proton yet) - might be xwayland relayed?

Also, try `LD_PRELOAD="" %command%` to disable steaminput, which can cause input stuttering after around 45min on some machines (such as mine).
by franciscop | 2025-10-29 03:54:52+00:00
I recently tried to play a bit of tennis, which I've already stopped. My friend was appalled when I proudly announced that my tennis racket costed $15. "But we are in tech!" he cried. But for a couple of games, I know I won't be able to tell the difference between a $15 one and a $150 one (I know because I've played tennis in the past).

And true to my predictions, I no longer play tennis and I'm only $15 poorer. I don't know the name for this, but the fact that I avoided wasting $150 and only "wasted" $15 into something I knew might be temporary also feels very satisfying.
by AppleBananaPie | 2025-10-29 03:55:11+00:00
In my experience if the ai voice was immediately noticeable the writing provided nothing new and most of the time is actively wrong or trying to make itself seem important and sell me on something the owner has a stake in.

Not sure if this is true for other people but it's basically always a sign of something I end up wishing I hadn't wasted my time reading.

It isn't inherently bad by any means but it turns out it's a useful quality metric in my personal experience.
by chasil | 2025-10-29 03:55:20+00:00
The classical answer would be RCA, who famously bought Carpetland, Banquet Foods, and Hertz car rental, and was bequeathed the moniker "Rugs, Chickens, and Automobiles" by the investment community.

Buying a stake in Nokia is admittedly different than taking it over and managing it, but the danger there is very clear. Distracted management that strays away from core competence can easily kill the golden goose driving revenue.

The contrarian view is that Berkshire Hathaway is able to hold an array of successful manufacturing and service businesses (Kirby vacuum cleaners, Dairy Queen, Clayton Homes, and the prominent Sees Candy) without losing management control of GEICO and their other insurance holdings.

Hopefully, Nvidia sees the example of RCA and Gulf Western, and will not lose focus on their core competence.

RCA famously birthed the semiconductor industry in Taiwan. I think that focused trade regulation would prevent a repeat of that event in modern times.

Edit: It appears that RCA bought Coronet Carpets, not Carpetland.
by derf_ | 2025-10-29 03:55:29+00:00
>There are dozens of us I guess...

Shine on you crazy diamond, and all that, but...

> I have been continually confused as to why it is being forced down everyone's throat.

Have you never sat on public wifi and tried to open an http site? These days it is highly likely to be MITM'd by the wifi provider to inject ads (or worse). Even residential ISPs that one pays for cannot be trusted not to inject content, if given the opportunity, because they noticed that they are monopolies and most users cannot do anything about it.

You don't get to choose the threat model of those who visit your site.
by iLemming | 2025-10-29 03:55:37+00:00
Yup, totally. Emacs users been impressing juniors for fifty, and vimmers for over thirty years. Pretty much ALL software was ultra-productively done just this decade. Nobody really wrote anything before VSCode came to see the light ten years ago, most were very busy being junior-impressing cultists and remaining seven people actually done some shit in Eclipse and Netbeans.
by rasz | 2025-10-29 03:56:09+00:00
And it wouldnt even be that hard, just two 2kx8 SRAMs (like the ones in every NES/Famicon) and CS line going from the chipset to map it somewhere high outside the range of the chipset was very logical, easily doable in 1987 and most importantly cheap. Those 6116 srams were below $2 retail in 1987 (Byte magazine retail prices), so $4 for big performance boost.

Hell, smart Commodore would design A500 with second trapdoor near the CPU. Ship unpopulated but offer official Commodore "turbo ram" expansion carts:

- $25 4KB version. $8 BOM, 2x $1.95 6116

- $40 8KB. $12 BOM, 2x $3.5 6264

- $100 64KB. $28 BOM, 2x $12 62256

- Extreme $400 256KB. $120 BOM, 8x $12 62256. Would stick out due to big PCB so make it an attractive piece of plastic with cool logo and "EXTREME" design.

Map it at D80000 (potential 256KB of space for activities) and let software vendors auto detect fitted option by running quick memory test. Easy speed boost and easy extra money for Commodore.
by MengerSponge | 2025-10-29 03:57:43+00:00
Direct drive models are a little quieter. Modern drums are slightly larger. Many people live where there is plenty of water, so increasing water efficiency isn't very valuable. It's not worth increased fabric wear or energy consumption!

There isn't much gain. That's the point! She's got a device that's nice to use, repairable, is well-designed, and isn't serving her ads. She's fine! Really. If she wants a new washer, Miele washing machines hold value and can be resold.

She probably doesn't think about it, which is the real gift. She's free to think about literally anything else! I have an extension to the Vimes boot theory, where you don't even notice your boots when they're working like they're supposed to. Most of us aren't enlightened enough to notice and appreciate that our feet are dry. This reduced cognitive overhead increases capacity for creativity and play, which further amplifies the life outcomes of people buying cardboard-soled boots vs leather boots.
by zamalek | 2025-10-29 03:58:48+00:00
Kernel-based on Linux is pointless unless SacureBoot is used with fixed vendor certs (you can still SB custom kernels on most consumer mobos). I believe that only Microsoft exists in the default certs, so impossible for all intents and purposes. Otherwise you can modify the kernel (or Wine/Proton) and do what you want.

Windows has the same issue, but isn't open source and easy to modify. Still, EA are so paranoid that they require it there.
by more_corn | 2025-10-29 04:01:13+00:00
Because this not a doorbell camera. It is a public street surveillance camera marketed to police to “end all crime in America” through total surveillance. Unfortunately the way it worked in this case is the cops picked a random car that happened to drive by the scene of the crime at about the right time and decided the driver was guilty. It’s a chilling warning of the dangers of technology misapplied. Technology gives the impression of infallibility, people get falsely accused and lives get ruined.
by jongjong | 2025-10-29 04:01:52+00:00
We need to replace the DNS system with a blockchain-based alternative where people can own domains on-chain without renewal fees. The public key used to encrypt data would be shown alongside the IP addresses registered for that domain name (same record). The owner of the domain (an NFT) would be able to change their public encryption key at will on-chain. They would only pay a fee when they want to perform some write action; holding the domain and lookups would be free forever. No need to separate DNS from the certification and encryption layer. You know the private key, you own the domain. So much cleaner than the mess we have now.

If someone doesn't like it, they can stay behind on the old DNS system or they can launch a new blockchain with their own version of reality... It's retarded that we need to have one version of reality for the entire planet. If someone in China wants to own facebook.com, they should be allowed. Heck, it could be a separate silo per city. The age of copyright and trademark is over. I don't see AI companies distributing royalties to people who wrote its training set...
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-29 04:02:34+00:00
You can self sign without a developer account and self distribute and all it does is notify the user that the software is from the internet the first time they run it. They can still use the app. If it is completely unsigned, users may have to bypass gatekeeper, but that is just a setting.

If you want to sign using a cert trusted by apple, and distribute on their infrastructure, you do need a paid account.

This seems like a reasonable compromise, quite honestly. That is based on remembering the bad old days of just having to trust that the software you downloaded from some random shareware site hadn't been modified maliciously.
by lynx97 | 2025-10-29 04:03:01+00:00
Complete unrelated to what you actual wrote about, but... This is the second time in a week that I hear dreck used in english. Before, I never noticed it anywhere. First was from the "singing chemist" scene in Breaking Bad, and now in your writing. I wasn't aware english adopted this word from German as well. Weird, that I never heard it until just now, while the scene I watched is already 15 years or so old...
by zmmmmm | 2025-10-29 04:03:20+00:00
Being "anti-web" is the least of its problems.

This thing is an absolute security nightmare. The concept of opening up the full context of your authenticated sessions in your email, financial, healthcare or other web sites to ChatGPT is downright reckless. Aside from personal harm, the way they are pushing this is going to cause large scale data breaches at companies that harbour sensitive information. I've been the one pushing against hard blocking AI tools at my org so far but this may have turned me around for OpenAI at least.
by keyle | 2025-10-29 04:04:02+00:00
The difference is, this is "normal" geometry, with fixed 64x64 textures (or similar) mapped with hard edges (nearest-neighbour filtering, no bilinear/trilinear/blur).

Voxels is quite different: the world is made of cubes of 1 size or various size cubes (any texturing method can apply here, or without, some even use gradient shaders on the cubes).

So you get that pixel art vibe, mapped into the 3D world with smooth movements. The 3D window isn't made of stairs.

In this case, this is done "properly". Because some developers just use normal geometry, normal texturing with bilinear filtering, and slap a post processing shader on the camera view, which makes the view "blocky" without the world actually being blocky - which is cheap, and typically looks cheap.
by itissid | 2025-10-29 04:05:16+00:00
I am not sure it's that simple. Thing is many costs are due to information assymetry: you not knowing something that they do.

For example them counting on you to big hire a lawyer for collecting medical debt or mortgage debt your spouse or parent owes. As a general rule you aren't responsible for it. There are exceptions. e.g. Filial laws(children responsible for parent's debts) exist in many states, but are difficult to invoke. Community property laws https://www.irs.gov/publications/p555#en_US_202502_publink10... in 9 states that can link your income to your partner, when the state you were domiciled in with your partner in a home/condo you bought together.

So in general, adverserial use of AI cannot bring claims "back to pre-AI" levels. Much more likely is the fact is reduced debt collection activity and illegal billing will reduce to a new baseline.
by colonCapitalDee | 2025-10-29 04:05:16+00:00
Ok, maybe I oversold this a little bit. It's running smooth now, getting it to run smooth was not easy. I'm on Ubuntu. I spent a few days in a debug loop. Run steam from the terminal to get a log stream, keep an eye on CPU and GPU utilization and temperature, and futz around in the training range or vs AI bots (more "realistic" than training range). Identify which components of the system aren't performing up to spec. CPU running hot? GPU not being utilized? Steam emitting warning messages? If hardware all looks good, it's probably a software problem somewhere. Identify, then fix. Rinse and repeat until linux performance is in the same league as Windows performance.

Things I'd try:

1. Check in game graphics settings

2. Update graphics drivers to the recommended version (may be non-trivial, I had to update my kernel version)

3. Experiment with different proton versions, including proton GE

4. Experiment with different Direct X versions (in game option)

5. Make sure CPU cooler is running

6. Make sure GPU is being used

7. Use gamescope to configure a virtual monitor that exactly matches the capabilities of your physical monitor
by lynx97 | 2025-10-29 04:05:19+00:00
Ads are not the only problem with the modern web. Accessibility (or, the lack thereof) is more of an issue for me. 20 years ago, we were still hopeful the Internet would bring opportunities to blind people. These days, I am convinced the war has been lost and modern web devs and their willingness to adopt every new nonesense are the people that hurt me most in current society.
by lynndotpy | 2025-10-29 04:05:35+00:00
I'm sure I wasn't the first to think of it, and I think that's roughly what we're seeing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9FMp5QgOvY&t=108s

If you go frame by frame, the texture becomes more detailed, about 8x as many pixels. It looks like a normal LOD switch as the camera gets close to the wall. It might be a texture without enough in-between scales.
by tzs | 2025-10-29 04:06:01+00:00
(Using US law for this)

You have not violated copyright because things in your memory are not copies. US copyright law defines copies as material objects in which a work is fixed and from which it can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.

Your brain is a material object but the the memorized book in your brain cannot be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated directly (I can't look at your brain and "read" the book) and we do not have any machines or devices that can extract a copy of it.