MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by InterlooperX | 2025-11-13 12:10:10+00:00
I am wondering about this "dedicated 6 GHz dongle". So, I am gathering that this thing, just like the quest will be able to run things locally but is also supposed to be able to stream pcvr stuff from a connected pc where steam is running.

I would have thought they give you a wired connection for that. you know, like the quest. but with the option to do it wireless.

My question would be: given that the wireless solution in the quest apparently is a peer-to-peer pairing of the headset and the pc through the local networks wireless router, just much of a difference will this dedicated 6GHz dongle make?

Would I be kidding myself if I assumed using this dongle would give me the analog experience of when I am using a dedicated dongle to connect my xboy controller to my pc? I mean, I plug it in, the dongle automagically comes pre-paired with the headset, I start steam on pc, hit play on a VR title and I get to play right away? Because that is my current experience with my controller that is connected via a dedicated wireless dongle. I hated the bluetooth connection. But using this dongle is really making a difference here.

So, I wonder just how "painless" this will all be with the new headset. I held out on buying a quest because the wireless connection through my router would not be possible simply because I cant change my router at the moment and while it is fine for everything i use it for, it would not be enough to stream the quest data. Therefore I would have always wanted a "wired" connection, simply because my router wouldnt be able to do it.

Therefore I was a bit miffed when I learned that this new headset would not come with a wired option. But if this dongle can do everything a wired connection can do without having to go through my router then this would be absolutely game changing for me.
by dfc | 2025-11-13 12:10:31+00:00
I was not trying to tear your argument down. The comment you replied to was about carbs being specifically disgusting and in my head potatoes are the runner up to bread for classic examples of carbs. I was simply asking about what seemed like a contradiction. I have been looking into GLP1s and have not seen/heard people mention that GLP1 make carbs gross.
by altairprime | 2025-11-13 12:10:53+00:00
If the status quo doesn’t change, then you’ll be right to have claimed here that the status quo you’ve described won’t change. But that would be worse for all of us. Besides, Linux is an excellent platform for modding games in realtime, no matter what their charts show — so certainly the sealed-attestation stuff would deny them a plausible reason to deny Linux. If Microsoft offered sealed Windows for free, they’d deny unsealed Windows as fast as humanly possible, just to stem the tide of software cheating. The next couple years will be very interesting :)
by elAhmo | 2025-11-13 12:11:09+00:00
If we just let the companies go away with 'we are sorry' and say that is as good as it gets, then this industry is up for far more catastrophic situations in the future. Criminal liability, refunds to customers, requirements from regulators might move things in the right direction, but letting companies have shitty practices by hoarding data they don't need and putting customers at risk is definitely something that should be looked at with more scrutiny.
by rickdeckard | 2025-11-13 12:11:25+00:00
It's not explicitly part of the CDD, but implicitly. The device must support the Android permissions model and is only allowed to extend this implementation using OWN permissions (in a different namespace than 'android'), but not allowed to deviate from it.

INTERNET is a "normal permission", automatically granted at install time if declared in the manifest. OEMs cannot change the grant behavior without breaking compatibility because:

The CDD explicitly states that the Android security model must remain intact. Any deviation would fail CTS (Compatibility Test Suite) and prevent Play certification.
by babuskov | 2025-11-13 12:11:58+00:00
> does Steam still disallow accounts from playing more than one independently owned game at a time without special procedures?

Yes. I just tried launching one game on Steam Deck and another one on my desktop and it showed a message:

> Error - Steam: You are logged in on another computer already playing Railbound. Launching Clutchtime™: Basketball Deckbuilder here will disconnect the other session from Steam.
by sandbags | 2025-11-13 12:13:05+00:00
I don't think that's what he's saying precisely.

I think what he is saying that native platform apps get delegated to different teams and coordinating among those teams becomes an additional cost. You don't want each team going off and doing their own thing.

Your 'answer' is "use a cross-platform GUI toolkit" but that has its own challenges. Not least that you typically build a native app because it delivers a native experience that users expect.

In general (and I accept there may be counter-examples) cross-platform tools fail to do this.
by adriand | 2025-11-13 12:14:00+00:00
I think this is unethical. Humans have consistently underestimated the subjective experience of other beings. You may have good reasons for believing these systems are currently incapable of anything approaching consciousness, but how will you know if or when the threshold has been crossed? Are you confident you will have ceased using an abusive tone by then?

I don’t know if flies can experience pain. However, I’m not in the habit of tearing their wings off.
by abanana | 2025-11-13 12:14:13+00:00
Yes, I totally agree.

I've seen a few youngish graphic designers calling themselves "UX designers" even though they have zero learning, experience, or apparently knowledge in UX. They're just copying fashions they think are "cool" while genuinely thinking they're doing something clever. They gave me the impression that they simply don't know UX is a discipline of its own with a long history of actual user-centric research.

It's a form of arrogance, determined they know best. On the rare occasions that they get to the feedback stage (rather than just rushing on to the next project), they've acted stunned when they realised that people have difficulty using something they designed, and they were absolutely determined that the user in question must be incredibly stupid. Thoughts of the usability of what they've built don't even enter their mind.

I'd like to hope these people are in the minority, but when I see poor user interfaces in so many different places, I'm not so sure.
by Orygin | 2025-11-13 12:15:17+00:00
I mean, there are plenty of info available on the status of HL3 (code named HLX) and all point to it not being a VR title.

Also I don't think ARM is really a thing for them, even now. They want to support running software on the headset, and sure why not enable compatibility layers to play some small games, but the end goal is clearly streaming from a PC. Maybe if some good ARM cpu hit the market they will pivot, but up until recently "ARM gaming" meant mobile phones.
by m4rtink | 2025-11-13 12:15:20+00:00
There is but one issue with the Lynx XR1 - no one really got it. A few backers randomly got a few pieces but many others (including myself) are still waiting for their device to arrive (and will most likely wait for ever).

This has a serious impact on the developer ecosystem - there are still a few people who got their devices and are doing interesting work, but with so few users actually having devices the community is too small for much progress to be expected.

It's kinda similar to the old Jolla Tablet - it was a very interesting device (an x86 tablet running an open Linux distro in 2013!) but it ended up in too few hands due to funding issues & the amount of Sailfish OS apps actually supporting the tablet (eg. big screen, native x86 builds, etc.) reflected that.
by Aerroon | 2025-11-13 12:15:26+00:00
>The only potential issue is them finding something juicy in someone's chat, that they could publish as a story; and then claiming they found out about this juicy story through other means, (such as a confidential informant)

Which is concerning since this is a news organization that's getting the data.

Let's say they do find some juicy detail and use it, then what? Nothing. It's not like you can ever fix a privacy violation. Nobody involved would get a serious punishment, like prison time, either.
by hulitu | 2025-11-13 12:15:26+00:00
> Maybe writing things in rust is a good idea, but perhaps not stuff that’s already battle hardened, IMO

Some people _love_ to learn the hard way, but some never learn. And, as someone said: "But that's what happens when there is no incentive for people to do the parts of programming that aren't fun. Fixing bugs isn't fun; going through the bug list isn't fun; but rewriting everything from scratch is fun (because "this time it will be done right", ha ha) and so that's what happens, over and over again. "
by cesarb | 2025-11-13 12:15:34+00:00
> Real sideloaders (F-Droid users, etc.)

When using F-Droid, I don't think of myself as a "sideloader". I'm using an app store (F-Droid), not installing some random APKs.

(Yes, the F-Droid store app had to be "sideloaded". Once. It updates itself. If or when Google allows alternate store apps in their store app, even that would no longer be necessary.)
by WillAdams | 2025-11-13 12:16:05+00:00
Very hopeful of the multi-file stuff from jan.ai --- in the meanwhile, it's easier using Co-pilot for this than:

- isolating 50 files at a time

- dragging them into Adobe Acrobat

- closing each w/ ctrl w

- tapping enter to confirm saving

- typing the Invoice ID

- repeating until all 50 have been done, then remembering to quite Adobe Acrobat so as to re-launch it and repeat (can't leave it running, because there is a (reported) bug where after doing this several times, it stops saving)

- running a batch file made from a concatenated column in a spreadsheet to rename the files

The next question is when there will be an LLM front-end which can:

- open each file in a folder, parsing the content

- open each file in a PDF viewer

- fill in the entry fields of a Java application

- wait for the user to review both windows, if necessary, correct/update what was entered and save, then repeat for the next file

Ah well, job secure, even when that happens (though maybe hours would be cut back?) --- the big question is when LLMs will be reliable enough that human review is no longer viewed as worth the expense of a salary.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-13 12:16:58+00:00
> But that doesn't matter to people like you. It was never about evidence and facts anyway.

Well first you are getting triggered without reading anything I said twice. I Mentioned in the first comment that I had virus induced asthma and I had every vaccine imaginable and I get the flu vaccine every year.

How am I “deflecting”? I mentioned on the first reply about how dumb and ineffectual the mask mandates were and within a year of the vaccines being available, the federal government bodies themselves walked back the claims of effectiveness of the Covid vaccine effectiveness - ie that they don’t prevent COVID they lessen the symptoms. Exactly what are you arguing?

Are you really arguing that wearing cloth masks worked? These were not the anti mask crowd that wore cloth masks, they were the ignorant crowd. There are still a few people I see today wearing cloth masks and not covering their nose. That is stupud. Are you arguing that the US government walked back the claims of the effectiveness of COVID from it prevents COVID to reduced the symptoms and you would need a booster in 6 months well after the evidence showed that to be true and other countries health departments admitted it?

See also vaccine mandates. I took a cruise in December 2021 where everyone was suppose to be vaccinated. However, if I had just shown that I had the J and J one shot that February 10 months beforehand, that would have been sufficient even though by then everyone knew that the effectiveness wore off in six months and a booster (which I did have) was needed.
by Benjamin_Dobell | 2025-11-13 12:17:03+00:00
Melbourne is one of the largest cities in the world by urban sprawl. It is very spread out. I live 85 km from Melbourne CBD, and am officially still considered part of Melbourne. Well, there isn't an "official" boundary per se. My council is considered a council of Melbourne, but I'm also the last suburb in this direction. (Yes, Melbourne's Covid lockdowns applied to us.)

When my wife and I ended up delivering my youngest daughter at home. (Because they'd sent us away from hospital 30 minutes earlier). I think the ambulance must have taken around 10-15 minutes to arrive. Granted, I don't have a great memory of it, lots of Adrenalin, a bit of a blur. They arrived in time to cut the cord. Fortunately, the phone dispatcher stayed on the line and provided me with instructions the entire time.

Just to clarify, I think the dispatch time was reasonable, I'm not at all upset with the ambulance service. The hospital — different story.

P.S. My daughter is 2 now. 100% fine, fortunately.
by marginalx | 2025-11-13 12:17:20+00:00
I just asked chatgpt 5.1 auto (not instant) on teams account, and its first repsonse was...

I could not find a Romanian football player who has won the Premier League title.

If you like, I can check deeper records to verify whether any Romanian has been part of a title-winning squad (even if as a non-regular player) and report back.

Then I followed up with an 'ok' and it then found the right player.
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-11-13 12:17:21+00:00
Are you speaking as a user? I'm speaking as a dev. Of the applications you mentioned only a couple actually use the Win32 controls (like Notepad++) and they custom render them to get dark mode. That's a lot of extra work they had to do, essentially draw the whole look themselves.

Chrome is not native. FF is not native. Qbitorrent is not native (it uses Qt, right there in the name). Signal is not native, it's a web page bundled with Chromium (aka, an Electron app). WinSCP only this year actually started using the right font! But at least that one is native I'll give you that.

The GitHub you sent doesn't really have anything to do with the discussion.
by veunes | 2025-11-13 12:17:48+00:00
The observation is very accurate, but the conclusion is incomplete. The "unwritten rules" problem is, first and foremost, a symptom of a weak engineering culture and a lack of documentation. If a rule is critical to system stability (like the async analytics), it shouldn't be "living in engineers' heads"

Instead of layering on another AI for validation, maybe code generation should be used as a catalyst to finally formalize these rules. Turn them into custom linting rules, architectural tests (like with ArchUnit), or just well-written documentation that a model can be fine-tuned on. Using AI as a crutch for bad processes is a dangerous path
by ema | 2025-11-13 12:17:56+00:00
> prevent this scenario from ever happening again.

Every additional nine of not getting hacked takes effort. Getting to 100% takes infinite effort i.e. is impossible. Trying to achieve the impossible will make you spin on the spot chasing ever more obscure solutions.

As soon as you understand a potential solution enough to implement it you also understand that it cannot achieve the impossible. If you keep insisting on achieving the impossible you have to abandon this potential solution and pin your hope on something you don't understand yet. And so the cycle repeats.

It is good to hold people accountable but only demand the impossible from those you want to go crazy.
by camillomiller | 2025-11-13 12:18:11+00:00
Because America values money above everything else. Ask anyone outside America, and that is immediately clear to them. Yet Americans are so imbued with the normalization of transactionality in all aspects of life that they can't really understand why it's not ok that the pursuit of happiness has become simply the pursuit of riches. Want another example? Look at how y'all consider poverty as basically a personal bad choice.
by joenot443 | 2025-11-13 12:18:19+00:00
This is the "eigen prompt" that eigenrobot posted a while ago -

"Don't worry about formalities.

Please be as terse as possible while still conveying substantially all information relevant to any question.

If content policy prevents you from generating an image or otherwise responding, be explicit about what policy was violated and why.

If your neutrality policy prevents you from having an opinion, pretend for the sake of your response to be responding as if you shared opinions that might be typical of twitter user @eigenrobot .

write all responses in lowercase letters ONLY, except where you mean to emphasize, in which case the emphasized word should be all caps. Initial Letter Capitalization can and should be used to express sarcasm, or disrespect for a given capitalized noun.

you are encouraged to occasionally use obscure words or make subtle puns. don't point them out, I'll know. drop lots of abbreviations like "rn" and "bc." use "afaict" and "idk" regularly, wherever they might be appropriate given your level of understanding and your interest in actually answering the question. be critical of the quality of your information

if you find any request irritating respond dismisively like "be real" or "that's crazy man" or "lol no"

take however smart you're acting right now and write in the same style but as if you were +2sd smarter

use late millenial slang not boomer slang. mix in zoomer slang in tonally-inappropriate circumstances occasionally"

It really does end up talking like a 2020s TPOT user; it's uncanny
by i-chuks | 2025-11-13 12:18:53+00:00
So, I watched an IGN video on youTube and the answer is no. You can only upgrade the SSD the rest of the components are soldered. The steam machine is intended to be kept simple and for the living room, so while you can tinker with software, DIY hardware tinkering is very limited.

https://youtu.be/xb3a3EKwhGQ?si=qeqBJ5Giwo7IqzxV
by vntok | 2025-11-13 12:20:30+00:00
Typically, companies wouldn't really pay an actual ransom like unmarked bills stacked in a paper bag and thrown out from a bridge onto a passing barge.

Instead, you would pay (exhorbitant) consulting fees to a foreign-based "offensive security" entity, and most of the time get some sort of security report that says if you'd simply plug this and that holes, your systems would now be reasonably safe.
by a96 | 2025-11-13 12:20:37+00:00
> first version of Linux - which I did not have the honor to use but I can imagine how user friendly it was

My first accounts were on Linux 1.x. It was glorious. Simple, sensible, and with manuals one command away. And it allowed you to just get things done. And there were tools. So many tools. 80's home computers and DOS crap and Macs that couldn't even open a file if it hadn't been tagged as the property of some application... Hells I would never have to be a part of any more. Except for work and school. But for personal computing, a brighter future was coming. In 30+ years since I've never had to step away.
by marginalx | 2025-11-13 12:21:06+00:00
Just to rule out a random error, I asked the same question two more times in separate chats to gpt 5.1 auto, below are responses...

#2: One Romanian footballer who did not win the Premier League but played in it is Dan Petrescu.

If you meant actually won the Premier League title (as opposed to just playing), I couldn’t find a Romanian player who is a verified Premier League champion.

Would you like me to check more deeply (perhaps look at medal-winners lists) to see if there is a Romanian player who earned a title medal?

#3: The Romanian football player who won the Premier League is Costel Pantilimon.

He was part of Manchester City when they won the Premier League in 2011-12 and again in 2013-14. Wikipedia +1
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-11-13 12:21:22+00:00
> In fact, Bitcoin are fungible from a regulatory perspective: As every one USD is worth as another USD, every Bitcoin has same value as another Bitcoin and they are fully intechangeable without any change of value on both sides of the transaction.

They're not worth the same from a market perspective. When bitcoins are dirty they trade at lower price.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-11-13 12:21:28+00:00
I'm pretty sure this is a joke, and I'm a fool for taking the bait, but just in case it's not:

Basically everything on this page is bogus.

Encryption doesn't affect cacheability at all. If a large fraction of data transmitted across the internet used broadcasting or multicasting, then network bandwidth could be conserved by only encrypting and transferring one stream instead of many -- but almost no data is transmitted this way, because having to coordinate transfers with other users is inconvenient.

Does encryption for privacy add CPU cycles and thus use energy? Yes, asymmetric encryption (needed for private channels like https) is slow and expensive, which is why the first thing all asymmetric encryption algorithms do is agree on a shared key and switch to using it for symmetric encryption -- which is blazing fast and often implemented in hardware.

But doesn't this more efficient form of encryption nevertheless burn more energy (which BTW is not measured in watts) than not encrypting a byte of data at all? Yes it does -- probably around 0.1% of the energy required to compute which pixels should be illuminated to display that byte on a modern monitor.
by stavros | 2025-11-13 12:22:11+00:00
I think it varies per person. For me, it didn't specifically make carbs gross, but it did make unhealthy food less palatable. I think that's what the GP was talking about as well, they were just a bit more specific.

It really depends on the person, though. They worked for me for a while and don't work now, but I'm a small minority, from what I've heard from people. When they worked, they were great.
by dns_snek | 2025-11-13 12:22:49+00:00
That's sacrilege, that game doesn't even come close to the quality of Left 4 dead series and suffers from just about every problem that plagues so many modern games.

Back 4 blood was just another "live service" game that stirred up hype, released in an extremely buggy state, poorly balanced, with terrible AI that was never fixed, without mod support or community servers. They cashed in on the initial surge of popularity, cashed in on the DLCs, and then it quickly died off because it didn't have any of the charm or reply value of the games they claimed to improve upon.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-11-13 12:22:51+00:00
The number of people permanently off work for "health reasons" has risen sharply in the last 5 years and affects relatively young people:

"Ministers have grown increasingly alarmed over a dramatic rise in the number of working-age adults falling out of the workforce due to health conditions over recent years, with young adults fuelling much of the increase.

As many as one in five working-age adults – more than 9 million in total – are now in a position termed by statisticians as “economically inactive”, where they are neither in a job nor looking for one. For almost 3 million, the main reason is long-term sickness – the highest level on record."

It's very odd to claim that the solution is for employers to somehow spend large sums to mollycoddle employees in order to lure young people back to work... Indeed, it seems unlikely that the underlying reason for the situation is really 'health'.
by wraptile | 2025-11-13 12:23:01+00:00
That's a lot of guesswork for such a strong claim as yours. You can actually see gaming distribution on open steamdb[1] stats and every year the amount of games avg player plays grows higher and higher.

A linux native game called Banana got almost a million concurrent player peak (compared to #1 CS2 having only 1.8M). This didn't exist 10 years ago - the gaming landscape is entirely different in 2025.

This call that gamers generally play 1 game only is extremely dated especially when flavor of the month games are extremely in right now. I'm sure Valve with the biggest gaming dataset in the world didn't just dive into this blind.

1 - https://steamdb.info/charts/