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by conor- | 2025-11-12 20:03:41+00:00
Rootkit anti-cheats can still often be bypassed using DMA and external hardware cheats, which are becoming much cheaper and increasingly common. There's still cheaters in Valorant and in Cs2 on faceit, both of which have extremely intrusive ACs that only run on Windows.

At the level of privilege you're granting to play a video game, you'd need to have a dedicated gaming PC that is isolated from the rest of your home network, lest that another crowdstrike level issue takes place from a bad update to the ring 0 code these systems are running
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-12 20:03:53+00:00
> I'm reminded of when Minnesota passed the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act (MCIAA) close to 20 years ago. (Some) restauranteurs - along with the GOP - made pronouncements about how this would destroy the economy. No one would go to out to eat or for a drink again. Doom and gloom.

Yeah, they had done the same thing when California did the same thing 30 years ago. The fact that it didn't happen then didn't stop them from doing it everywhere else similar laws were subsequently proposed.
by poly2it | 2025-11-12 20:05:01+00:00
A resolution of 2160@110° is kind of low normally, effectively being around 20 pixels per degree. I wonder if they could pull off something like what the engineers behind the Simula VR headset did, where they shift the outer resolution to the centre of the lens, up to 35.5 PPD, higher than the Apple Vision Pro. Last I checked, it was difficult to find off-the-shelf VR displays suitable for pancake lenses with a resolution above 2160, so this might be the best option.

https://simulavr.com/blog/ppd-optics/
by andrepd | 2025-11-12 20:05:07+00:00
> In Cyberpunk 2077, running at 4K, it’s a surprisingly stable 60fps, albeit with the caveat of that using FSR 3 upscaling on Performance mode with Medium quality settings

So it's not running at 4K nor 60fps. I wish people would stop calling 1080p upscale through some dogshit filter as "4K"...
by SparkBomb | 2025-11-12 20:05:21+00:00
There is a tribalism aspect to all of this.

I also get people want to personalise stuff. I drive an old 4x4 and modded it (nothing too crazy), and I am planning on getting an Armstrong MT-350 if I can find one. Each one will require me actually doing work on the vehicles.

> And to be frank, in our current climate, politics is very important.

I heard that 20 years ago when I was in my early 20s. Everyone claims it is of the upmost importance at <current time>. Even if it was, putting a sticker on a laptop isn't going to change it.
by hinkley | 2025-11-12 20:05:36+00:00
Intel was already built on the Pentium at this point. Not as iterable as pure software but decoding x86 instructions to whatever they wanted to do internally sped up a lot of things on its own.

Perhaps they would have been better off building the decode logic as programmable by making effectively a multicore machine where the translation code ran on its own processor with its own cache, instead of a pure JIT.
by Aachen | 2025-11-12 20:05:45+00:00
The person above said "run", not "install". I don't build my own car either. But in this case it's more of a marketing/discoverability problem than a knowledge gap on setting it up because it's nearly as simple as using them

Idk if it's just me but I do hate these suggestive questions. If you've got something to state, spit it out
by mynameisash | 2025-11-12 20:05:59+00:00
> society is not civilization. local vs global.

I agree, and I am still pointing to the collapse of society, not civilization. My infrastructure is local. If local society collapses, what reason do people have to maintain transmission and distribution lines and electrical substations, to work at power plants, to maintain fiber optic or copper lines for internet connectivity?

Even if "the internet" as a whole is still around, the inability for someone to connect to and to use it means cryptocurrency is similarly useless.
by totallymike | 2025-11-12 20:06:04+00:00
I'm not a fan of NYT either, but this feels like you're stretching for your conclusion:

> They hired "experts" who used prompt engineering and thousands of repetitions to find highly unusual and specific methods of eliciting text from training data that matched their articles....would have been the end of the situation if NYT was engaging in good faith.

I mean, if I was performing a bunch of investigative work and my publication was considered the source of truth in a great deal of journalistic effort and publication of information, and somebody just stole my newspaper off the back of a delivery truck every day and started rewriting my articles, and then suddenly nobody read my paper anymore because they could just ask chatgpt for free, that's a loss for everyone, right?

Even if I disagree with how they editorialize, the Times still does a hell of a lot of journalism, and chatgpt can never, and will never be able to actually do journalism.

> they want to insert themselves as middlemen - pure rent seeking, second hander, sleazy lawyer behavior

I'd love to hear exactly what you mean by this.

Between what and what are they trying to insert themselves as middlemen, and why is chatgpt the victim in their attempts to do it?

What does 'rent seeking' mean in this context?

What does 'second hander' mean?

I'm guessing that 'sleazy lawyer' is added as an intensifier, but I'm curious if it means something more specific than that as well, I suppose.

> Copyright law....the rest of it

Yeah. IP rights and laws are fucked basically everywhere. I'm not smart enough to think of ways to fix it, though. If you've got some viable ideas, let's go fix it. Until then, the Times kinda need to work with what we've got. Otherwise, OpenAI is going to keep taking their lunch money, along with every other journalist's on the internet, until there's no lunch money to be had from anyone.
by isr | 2025-11-12 20:06:40+00:00
Just off the top of my head:

- these boats are not in American waters. They are in their own, or neighbouring countries waters, and are being attacked by vessels whose home waters are 1000s of km's away

- they are not being interdicted (which is illegal kidnapping anyway, see above). They are just being killed. Plain and simple.

To put your argument back to you. Latin American countries who are combating narcotics trading armed paramilitarys, who are mostly getting their arms from US supply chains. So, for example, Mexico is entitled to go into US waters, and "interdict" American-owned boats with US citizens on board? Without any kind of warrant from even the Mexican courts, much less US courts?

Or, scratch that. Mexico just sinks them.

Should be ok, right?
by greycol | 2025-11-12 20:06:41+00:00
I expect it does help with MRP and weight as well as making them more robust with no usbc drive to be worked free (especially if people try playing cabled up as inevitably happens when controllers run out of power halfway through playing). I'd expect there will be third party options to replace the cover/battery exactly how your thinking with a nice dock to put them down in for people who prefer it.

Realistically though if the cover for the battery is nice to remove/insert then it wouldn't surprise me if having a battery charging station and hot pairs of batteries to swap out is actually the nicer usability option vs cording or dock downtime (if you leave them sitting on the couch with a low charge then need to charge halfway through).
by giobox | 2025-11-12 20:07:12+00:00
While it's a dealbraker for me too, locking the spec is how Valve can make a stable hardware target for devs with the "Steam Deck Verified" program, which they've also announced is coming to this box. This is one of the main reasons the specs for the Deck have remained almost identical since launch as well, Valve have said as much in interviews.

I expect to see this and the Deck try to follow locked hardware revisions every few years, just like a console, to allow the verified program to work effectively.

This product is so not aimed at those of us already building our own gaming boxes, but I'm guessing more a way to tempt those who have only ever owned gaming consoles into the Steam ecosystem.

> https://www.steamdeck.com/en/verified

FWIW some early access previews note the box does have a socketed M2 SSD and what looks like upgradable RAM.
by bluGill | 2025-11-12 20:07:14+00:00
The more important question is how many people are killed by non-autonomous cars in the same situation. It is inevitable that someone will be killed by a self driving car sometime - but we already know lots of people are killed by cars. If you kill less people getting autonomous rolled out fast than human drivers would that is good, but if you are killing more people in the short term that is bad (even if you eventually get better)
by fsckboy | 2025-11-12 20:07:54+00:00
it's a bit weird that I never thought about it before this, when I already had the facts in my head: the triode tube amplifier was invented by Lee de Forest, but he had no idea how it worked or even what it was capable of. then 45 years later, the solid state transistor amplifier was invented, and they had no idea how it worked either.

for people who have not had much EE education, what is important about triodes and transistors is that they amplify. you can put a signal in (a signal like from a microphone responding to your voice), and put some power in (like from a battery) and these amplifiers can make an output "copy" of the signal which is more powerful/"louder" than the original.

from this basic function, everything that we think of as "electronic" flows. we would still have electric things like light bulbs, heaters, spark plugs, electromagnets, but basically just electric steam punk frankenstein machines, and nothing subtle. Amplifiers are termed "active" electronics; without them, we'd simply have passive electricity.

I didn't read this article because I already know how these things work, and the article looks extremely confusing, and I've already read my fill of explanations that don't explain anything and (not saying this is one of those) I don't want to even risk that again. it is very difficult to find explanations for how transistors work that make any sense at all.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-12 20:08:05+00:00
It's not really false I think. It's 'no', which is an answer to a question "Do I know this to be true?"

I think there should be a room for three values there: true, unprovable, false. Where false things are also unprovable. I wonder if Prolog has false, defined as "yes" of the opposite.
by MostlyStable | 2025-11-12 20:08:10+00:00
>time it takes to actually plan, build, and commission.

This is, currently, mostly regulatory. Yes, in the absence of any regulations at all it would still take time to plan, build, and commission, and I am not advocating for literally no regulations, but solar and wind plants could probably be spun up in well under a year under a dramatically reduced regulatory burden, almost certainly faster than a new Datacenter can be built. They are, after all, dramatically simpler installations.

And that's not even thinking about the fact that in this alternate reality we are imagining, power plants would have been being continually built for decades, and the new demand would be a much smaller drop in the much larger bucket.

So I think that in an alternate regulatory regime both A) yes actually power plants could built ~ as fast as data centers and other large power consumers and B) we would have so much more power that increases in demand would be less of a shock to the system.
by simonw | 2025-11-12 20:08:10+00:00
The NYT situation concerning data retention was resolved a few weeks ago: https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-no-longer-has-to-preserve...

> Federal judge Ona T. Wang filed a new order on October 9 that frees OpenAI of an obligation to "preserve and segregate all output log data that would otherwise be deleted on a going forward basis." [...]

> The judge in the case said that any chat logs already saved under the previous order would still be accessible and that OpenAI is required to hold on to any data related to ChatGPT accounts that have been flagged by the NYT.

EDIT: OK looks like I'd missed the news from today at https://openai.com/index/fighting-nyt-user-privacy-invasion/ and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900370
by antisthenes | 2025-11-12 20:08:16+00:00
This drive model is 7 years old.

It is WILD that anyone in tech assumes this will come as new. Simply no one makes the same model of "consumable" for 7 years. Intel doesn't even sell Intel-branded SSDs anymore, that division was spinned off.

It's also WILD that you would trust something as sketchy sounding as "Maestro Technologies" for a mission-critical task.

I bet they were cheap though.
by jstummbillig | 2025-11-12 20:08:26+00:00
> We’re bringing both GPT‑5.1 Instant and GPT‑5.1 Thinking to the API later this week. GPT‑5.1 Instant will be added as gpt-5.1-chat-latest, and GPT‑5.1 Thinking will be released as GPT‑5.1 in the API, both with adaptive reasoning.

Sooo...

GPT‑5.1 Instant <-> gpt-5.1-chat-latest

GPT‑5.1 Thinking <-> GPT‑5.1

I mean. The shitty naming has to be a pathology or some sort of joke. You can't put thought to that, come up with and think "yeah, absolutely, let's go with that!"
by oger | 2025-11-12 20:08:39+00:00
Sigrok was offline for a couple of days but seems to be back online.

While researching the outage (which seemingly was caused by AI scrapers hitting the site hard) I learned that interesting discussions about the future direction of the project are happening on the mailing list

https://sourceforge.net/p/sigrok/mailman/message/59249346/
by daveguy | 2025-11-12 20:08:42+00:00
Ok, great. So he'll only lose 10% of his net worth per year if it fails. Better for some VC to lose 1% of their net worth per year.

The point is, VC money for an AI venture is not chump change even for someone with a $10-$100MM net worth. The point still stands, including his own expected investment.
by ianferrel | 2025-11-12 20:08:48+00:00
I live where there is no sales tax, so it's not hard to imagine!

But good luck convincing every state, county, municipality, and other weird governing body that requires something other than that and also collects a weird sales tax.

Or go with the solution that papers over all that nonsense: a flexible and maximum $0.04 per purchase discount.
by jjice | 2025-11-12 20:08:51+00:00
Yeah I agree with this. Archive everything that I think could potentially have value. Any newsletters or nonsense (before I end up unsubscribing) get nuked. Edit: Login codes and login links as well are clear to be deleted as well.

Any actual two way communication with another human absolutely gets archived. I love myself an audit trail. It's saved my ass more than once.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-11-12 20:08:56+00:00
First of all, consider asking "why's that?" if you don't know what is a fairly basic fact, no need to go all reddit-pretentious "citation needed" as if we are deeply and knowledgeably discussing some niche detail and came across a sudden surprising fact.

Anyways, a nice way to understand it is that the LLM needs to "compute" the answer to the question A or B. Some questions need more compute to answer (think complexity theory). The only way an LLM can do "more compute" is by outputting more tokens. This is because each token takes a fixed amount of compute to generate - the network is static. So, if you encourage it to output more and more tokens, you're giving it the opportunity to solve harder problems. Apart from humans encouraging this via RLHF, it was also found (in deepseekmath paper) that RL+GRPO on math problems automatically encourages this (increases sequence length).

From a marketing perspective, this is anthropomorphized as reasoning.

From a UX perspective, they can hide this behind thinking... ellipses. I think GPT-5 on chatgpt does this.
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by hpx7 | 2025-11-12 20:08:56+00:00
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We hope to achieve a few things with this product: 1. Democratized access to a wide variety of open source and licensed voice models 2. Ability to mix and match speech to text, reasoning (llm), and text to speech models to form inference chains for agentic voice workflows 3. Focus on latency reduction via (a) running models in 14+ regions around the globe, and (b) colocating models in the same datacenter to reduce networking overhead within a inference chain

The models are made accessible as Serverless API endpoints with token/duration based billing, and also available as dedicated deployments for enterprises with specific compliance requirements.

You can check it out here: https://models.hathora.dev/
by elchananHaas | 2025-11-12 20:08:56+00:00
Disclaimer - I'm not a Tokio dev so what I say may be very wrong. Some definitions:

Future = a structure with a method poll(self: Pin<&mut Self>, ...) -> Poll<Self::Output>; Futures are often composed of other futures and need to poll them. Tokio task = A top-level future that is driven by the Tokio runtime. These are the only futures that will be run even if not polled.

My understanding is that Tokio async locks have a queue of tasks waiting on lock. When a lock is unlocked, the runtime polls the task at the front of the queue. Futurelock happens when the task locks the lock, then attempts to lock it a second time. This can happen when a sub-future of the top level task already has the lock, then it polls a different future which tries to take the lock.

This situation should be detectable because Tokio tracks which task is holding an async lock. One improvement could be to panic when this deadlock is spotted. This would at least make the issue easier to debug.

But yes, I think you are right in that the async mutex would need to take the future by value if it has the capability of polling it.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-12 20:09:19+00:00
You’re making the classic logical error of “your thing doesn’t have the workaround needed for an issue that only happens with my thing”.

You need 10K containers for Node and Python apps because they use a single threaded runtime! The best way to scale these is to deploy many small containers.

The .NET runtime is fully multithreaded and asynchronous and supports overlapped I/O. It scales to dozens of cores, maybe hundreds in a single process. The built in Kestrel server is full featured including HTTP/3 and TLS 1.3! You don’t even need NGINX in front of it.

Not to mention that unlike most Linux-centric programming languages, it deploys reliably and consistently without needing the crutch of containers. You can simply copy the files to a folder on the web server(s), and you’re done. I’ve actually never seen anyone bother with containers for an ASP.NET web app. There is very little actual benefit, unlike with other languages where it’s essentially the only way to avoid madness.

PS: Every Node app I’ve ever deployed has been many times slower to build and deploy than any ASP.NET app I’ve ever seen by an order of magnitude, containerised or not. Go is comparable to C# but is notably slower at runtime and a terrible language designed for beginners too inexperienced to grok how exceptions work.
by jm4 | 2025-11-12 20:09:34+00:00
It's basically a more powerful Steam Deck that's connected to a TV. The games will be "verified" and the settings pre-tuned for ideal performance just like the Steam Deck. They did a good job making the most of mediocre hardware in the Deck.

My initial thoughts were that this thing would cost considerably more, but I'm looking at the specs and it might not be too bad. Maybe it'll start at $499 or $599 and go up $749 or $849. I'm guessing SoC and not easily upgraded. It says Zen4 so it won't be Strix Point/Halo, but maybe some bastard variation with a Zen4 core and newer GPU than the Deck.
by cube2222 | 2025-11-12 20:09:40+00:00
IMO there is not much reason to use WiFi 6 for almost anything else. I have a WiFi 6 router set up for my Quest 3 for PC streaming, and everything else sits on its 5GHz network. And since it doesn't really go through walls, I think this is a non-issue?

The Frame itself here is a good example actually - using 6GHz for video streaming and 5GHz for wifi, on separate radios.

My main issue with the Quest in practice was that when I started moving my head quickly (which happens when playing faster-paced games) I would get lag spikes. I did some tuning on the bitrate / beam-forming / router positioning to get to an acceptable place, but I expect / hope that here the foveated streaming will solve these issues easily.
by ngcazz | 2025-11-12 20:09:45+00:00
It's not a dumb take. There is a clear definition of fascism which his recent reactionary writings and attitudes as a business leader have met to a T. You might not like what I'm saying, maybe you're fine with DHH on some "what I don't mind can't be possibly be fascist" level, but it absolutely meets that standard.

Other than that; stop putting words in my mouth and stop poisoning the well. You and the OP are strawmanning a claim that the article is written in bad faith and thus avoid engaging with its substance.
by ThatPlayer | 2025-11-12 20:09:46+00:00
Except most anti-cheats started on dedicated servers because it turns out most people are not interested in policing other players.

Punkbuster was developed for Team Fortress Classic, even getting officially added to Quake 3 Arena. BattleEye for Battlefield games. EasyAntiCheat for Counter-Strike. I even remember Starcraft 1 ICCUP 3rd party servers having an anti-cheat they called 'anti-hack'.

You can still see this today with modern dedicated servers in CS2: Face-It and ESEA have additional anti-cheat, not less. Even modded 3rd party server FiveM for GTAV has their own anti-cheat called adhesive.
by Yokolos | 2025-11-12 20:09:51+00:00
> They should have put them just above the joysticks, like the PS5 controller

I don't understand how that would be in any way ergonomic. The new Steam Controller's layout has a proven track record with the Steam Deck, which is essentially identical. It allows you to play KB&M games like Alpha Centauri on the Steam Deck without any external peripherals. It would be utterly unplayable if the trackpads were in the same place as the PS5's pad, which is basically just used to open a menu or map or for gimmicky in-game gestures.
by jecel | 2025-11-12 20:10:06+00:00
My own memory of the events (which might be very wrong) was that a new vice-president of IBM semiconductors decided to drop bulk CMOS and focus exclusively on SOI (Silicon On Insulator). That suddenly left Transmeta without chips to sell. They had to scramble to find a new supplier and design their next generation processor for it (since the Crusoe wasn't portable to any other fabs). They were able to launch their Efficeon on TSMC 130nm (with a later version on Fujitsu 90nm) but the gap in supply was far worse for a startup than it would have been for a big company.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-12 20:10:07+00:00
The C# team admits to looking at how F# features work, but also keeps trying to make it clear that C# doesn't have a goal of entire eating F#.

C# still doesn't see itself as a functional programming language, even as it has added so many features. It may never get first-class currying or the broader ideas like generalized computation expressions, for instance. It certainly won't get F#'s cleaner syntax with fewer mandatory semicolons and whitespace nesting rather than curly brackets.

F# probably isn't going to disappear for a lot of similar reasons that GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler) didn't disappear when F# was started (nor when key contributors left Microsoft). F# often already sees more outside open source contributors than contributions from Microsoft employees.