MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xg15 | 2025-11-13 02:58:40+00:00
> there cannot exist an easy way for a typical non-technical user to install “unverified apps” (whatever that means), because the governments of countries where such scams are widespread will hold Google responsible.

You can also view this as a "tragedy of the commons" situation. Unverified apps and sideloading is actively abused by scammers right now.

> Meanwhile this very fact seems fundamentally unacceptable to many, so there will be no end to this discourse IMO.

I get that viewpoint and I'm also very glad an opt-out now exists (and the risk that the verification would be abused is also very real), but yeah, more information what to do against scammers then would also be needed.
by cesarb | 2025-11-13 02:58:50+00:00
> So.. all this drama over an alert(yes/no) box?

A simple yes/no alert box is not "[...] specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren't tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer". In fact, AFAIK we already have exactly that alert box.

No, what they want is something so complicated that no muggle could possibly enable it, either by accident or by being guided on the phone.
by TheRoque | 2025-11-13 02:59:41+00:00
I hardly understand the headline. Steam machine is just a computer, and since it can be used for other stuff than playing games, then it can't have the cheap pricing of a console. Most consoles are sold at a loss, and the benefits are made when selling console-exclusive games. If you sell something at a loss, but users aren't forced to buy your games, then you're not gonna make any money. Hence, the Steam Machine (AKA GabeCube) is gonna be as expensive as a laptop (or slightly less expensive because of the bigger form factor and lack of portability).

On top of that, the base OS can't run a ton of games that run on console, because it runs in the way of kernel anti cheats (think: battlefield, call of duty, valorant, league of legends... the biggest games basically), while consoles are guaranteed to run most AAA games.

So with all that in mind - while I appreciate what Valve is doing a lot - I don't think it'll win the "console generation". I hardly see how it can even be called a console. It's just a PC, and that's how they call it themselves.
by kortilla | 2025-11-13 03:01:10+00:00
Yes, you are out of touch with what has happened with embedded. Companies love internet connected things, especially big industrial things.

It’s absolutely terrible for security but remote visibility into how your 100 ton haul truck is operating via some cloud API is what people like and keep buying.

No air gap, just hooked up to a cell phone network with maybe a VPN if you’re lucky. Either way, the kernel is handling packets directly from the Internet and keeping the kernel up to date is critical.
by LooseMarmoset | 2025-11-13 03:01:16+00:00
A few games I've tried required a little fiddling to work correctly. Some of these, like Dark Souls, required me to get a Windows patcher to run in linux to patch a windows binary, which required me to launch the patcher from Proton in Steam, and know where Steam installed the game. Not straightforward at all, but it can be done. I would not call it an experience for the average Windows gamer.

Some of the latest shooters, will get you banned because anti-cheat.

That said, there's nothing in my library (180 games!) that doesn't run in Linux, and I have a number of games that you can't even get to run in Windows at all anymore.

I think the gaming community should all send Gabe Newell a Valentines Day card, or maybe a Christmas gift, or something. Seriously, the man has done so much for gaming, think of where we'd be without him. Windows App Store, Sony Game Store, walled gardens...
by TheRoque | 2025-11-13 03:01:43+00:00
If that's what happens, then I'm buying one of these right away for sure. I mean, I use steam a lot, but I certainly won't be locked in their "SteamOS". Maybe they are betting that most users will be too lazy to change the defaults and stick to SteamOS (which might very well be the case, and they have a hint of this thanks to the data they have on the Steam Deck)
by mrcwinn | 2025-11-13 03:01:59+00:00
There's another scenario where someone heads to the hospital and get stuck at a red light or behind and accident or you're speeding and kill someone. It's just hard to know sometimes which path to pick when you don't have a guaranteed outcome on either one.

In any case, I'm sorry for your loss. My dad died too due to a heart attack, except he was alone.
by evo_9 | 2025-11-13 03:03:15+00:00
One other semi-unrecognized advantage Valve has over consoles is their generous return policy. I’ve bought many games on a whim knowing if I don’t jive with it I can safely get a full refund. Contrast that with my Ps5 where my 2 year old managed to smash buttons while I was tied up on a work call and bought COD for $69 bucks… no way to refund it and I’m not a fan of shooters. Basically Fd on that one.
by tapirl | 2025-11-13 03:03:28+00:00
Thank you very much for your feedback. I truly appreciate it.

TapirMD is not a superset of Markdown or CommonMark. It simply inherits some of its DNA from Markdown. While Markdown is very simple, it is also highly underspecified and syntactic inconsistent. CommonMark improves on it slightly, but not fundamentally. Moreover, basic Markdown lacks many essential features that web content writers need.

Yes, none of these factors prevent it from being adopted widely. But for me, the limited feature set is the real blocker. I don’t want to rely on a patchwork of extensions and third-party tools.

TapirMD (where MD stands for `markup doc`) aims to address these shortcomings. It is a new language, deliberately not compatible with Markdown, and never intended to fit within the Markdown ecosystem. Its official toolchain is designed to empower web content writers to create rich, feature-complete articles without relying on any third-party tools.

The spec is too long to serve as a landing page. Maybe a concise demo showcasing sample code on the leading page would be great. Thank you again for the constructive criticism.

TapirMD was primarily developed for my own needs as a technical writer, to produce content for my websites (see the .tmd soruce of my articles: https://tmd.tapirgames.com/use-cases.html). Markdown simply felt too limiting. I've been using TapirMD for over a year now and am quite satisfied with it. I'd be delighted if it proves helpful to other writers as well.
by osigurdson | 2025-11-13 03:04:07+00:00
Developers can always contribute as well but the benefits aren't really accruing to them. If open source libraries didn't exist there would be commercial offerings or things would have to be built in house. Also, $100 / year / dev is a rounding error and would add to a company's engineering brand.

It seems like a win / win to me but, of course, no one has to do anything at all. Just don't get upset when maintainers pull the rug out from under you because that is the behavior that is being incentivized: 1) make your thing widely used and hard to replace, 2) get in to large companies that can afford to pay 3) change license, pull rug and get your legal team ready to fight.
by Normal_gaussian | 2025-11-13 03:04:27+00:00
Probably not. Kernel level anti cheat is the problem. I know BF6 isn't proton safe. Fortnite is the same.

GTA VI will probably run single player on proton fine, GTA V does. Multiplayer will probably not.

The multiplayer with kernel level anti cheat will keep Sony safe through at least another generation; Microsoft is less safe as they're so vulnerable this generation anyway.
by Antibabelic | 2025-11-13 03:05:46+00:00
Here's a page with some examples of use-cases that fit Prolog well: https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/business

"Sometimes, when you introduce Prolog in an organization, people will dismiss the language because they have never heard of anyone who uses it. Yet, a third of all airline tickets is handled by systems that run SICStus Prolog. NASA uses SICStus Prolog for a voice-controlled system onboard the International Space Station. Windows NT used an embedded Prolog interpreter for network configuration. New Zealand's dominant stock broking system is written in Prolog and CHR. Prolog is used to reason about business grants in Austria."

Some other notable real projects using Prolog are TerminusDB, the PLWM tiling window manager, GeneXus (which is a kind of a low-code platform that generated software from your requirements before LLMs were a thing), the TextRazor scriptable text-mining API. I think this should give you a good idea of what "Prolog-shaped" problems look like in the real world.
by Fabricio20 | 2025-11-13 03:05:53+00:00
Like the GPUs? How they were up since the bitcoin craze and are still up to now? Yeah I dont think these prices are ever going back down. Specially not since people are buying at these prices and will continue to pay these prices. Maybe HDDs will get phased out though, since you might as well buy SSDs if you are overpaying that much.
by rvz | 2025-11-13 03:06:14+00:00
> Really, the only thing that can go wrong with any of this hardware is the price.

The chances of any of the Steam Machines taking the market share of any of the current generation consoles is so vanishingly miniscule, that I don't think it can even compete against any of them.

It more or less competes against the Linux ecosystem of System76 machines or the Framework computers.

But against consoles? No dent at all in their market share.
by kazinator | 2025-11-13 03:06:32+00:00
How it should probably work is like a tokenizer. Recognize the longest prefix of the remaining input that can Huffman-decode. Remove that input, and repeat.

Even that won't find the maximal amount of decoding that is possible; for that you have to slide through the input bit by bit and try decoding at every bit position.

However, it seems fair because you wouldn't disassemble that way. If you disassemble some bytes successfully, you skip past those and keep going.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-13 03:06:34+00:00
> The Entirety Of US Government

That's a strange way of saying "one person who is a direct lackey of the President".

> only ever does things for one purpose only?

Oh, the career-employees do other purposes... But a big one right now is "avoid capricious weirdos killing my entire career out of spite". That isn't a mission-oriented purpose we should be happy about.
by autoexec | 2025-11-13 03:06:44+00:00
> UHG and its competitors would be happy to sell insurance policies that cover absolutely everything with no questions asked...But customers — mainly large employers — demand that insurers (or third-party administrators) impose more restrictive coverage rules in order to hold down medical costs.

UHG has been caught denying claims for things that employers already paid them to cover for their employees. You can't blame HR departments for that. You also can't blame HR for UHG upcoding/overbilling which eats into the limited resources of hospitals and the limited resource of taxpayer money ultimately resulting in fewer people able to get the healthcare they need just so that UHG can line their own pockets.

While HR departments do have their own issues, they're nowhere near the level of pure evil that UHG is.
by 999900000999 | 2025-11-13 03:06:49+00:00
Ahh yes,the slow boiling continues.

So if I want to release a free android game my options are.

A: Hope Google doesn't change course again.

B: Give Google a copy of my apartment lease,

Would be too hard for them to ya know actually implement sandboxing which would prevent this.

Anything aside from full bootloader access means I'm renting my device.

Too late now though.
by nixpulvis | 2025-11-13 03:07:44+00:00
I mean, I hate that our lives are becoming consistently more and more surveilled, but this doesn't shock me. I've assumed my Google search history is accessible, despite not even being logged in. Of course they are saving conversation. Even if they said they weren't I wouldn't believe it. It's fucking sad, but that's the reality.

I wish I had a solution, so we could all feel a sense of freedom and pressure lifted from our thoughts and actions. But I only see this getting worse.

So am I upset that the NYT's lawyers want access to the records... a little. It's an invasion of privacy. But I'm more upset that they have anything to dig through to begin with.

If only we could see how things within all these companies we are forced to trust actually work. If only OpenAI was actually open. When will we all learn to demand open source, open platform services. Capitalize the development, and capitalize the infrastructure, but leave the process and operations out in the open so users can make informed decisions again. Normalize it like how homes are normally inspected before being purchased.
by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 2025-11-13 03:08:24+00:00
I was thinking this the other day about GP. If I work in tech I work in a team and we pair. Why doesnt this happen with doctors. Why is everything all on one mind to get wrong or right. Yes there is a team of doctors sometimes but they communicate via emails async and you visit one then the next and so on. I guess I know the answer. Money.
by sitharus | 2025-11-13 03:09:04+00:00
It Depends. It's going to depend on your location, how your health system works, and a bunch of luck.

Even in the most well-resourced system if your high-priority call comes in just after a bunch of other high-priority calls you may not get an ambulance in time as everyone's already helping someone else. Also in our current economic system there's a whole bunch of pressures that mean we can't base our medical care availability on the worst case, so sometimes people don't get the care they need due to lack of staff.

However I do think in a good system dispatchers would have visibility to know if an ambulance can be dispatched or retasked and how long it will take to get there. You can't make good recommendations without the information to do so.
by photon_lines | 2025-11-13 03:10:34+00:00
This is 100% true, especially in Canada. I've had multiple encounters with doctors who were not fit for their positions and should not have been working as doctors. One of them nearly killed my mom, and another one was suspended due to malpractice and performing research fraud, but was given her license back and is back to work at the moment. Yes she is fully licensed and back to working as a regular MD in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Jamal
by Insanity | 2025-11-13 03:10:56+00:00
Toronto healthcare generally is quite below the bar. When I moved here 5 years ago, I was told that hospitals are short staffed, ambulances have significant delays, and when you do finally get care you are rushed through the system.

Fortunately I only had one encounter with a situation requiring ambulance (and subsequent hospital visit). Ambulance arrived in about 10 minutes, triaging before seeing a medical professional took hours. There were no rooms so I was kept in a hospital bed in the hallway along with other patients but with some monitoring.

Now to be fair - this was during Covid which understandably put pressure on medical resourcing.
by msandford | 2025-11-13 03:11:13+00:00
I mean you could listen to the reasons that people who have lost trust in the institutions say they lost trust, and then try and rectify those reasons. But to do that is to admit that MAYBE the US govt didn't handle COVID perfectly. And that's a conversation many folks are unwilling to have. So this is the alternative we're left with.

It's uglier this way for sure and will cause more suffering. Sucks.
by hex4def6 | 2025-11-13 03:11:52+00:00
> Intel didn't. Solidigm did. If the author was buying the Intel drive, it was at least 4 years old since they spun SSDs out in 2021.

Firstly, the time between the SK Hynix acquisition (Dec 30 21) and the date of this article is 3 years 4 months, not "at least 4 years".

Secondly, of whether the facility was owned by Intel or Solidigm at the time the drive was manufactured, the Intel PCN states last buy dates of Dec 30 2022 here: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/8055...

The *Intel* SKUs listed in the products affected table will End of life ... Please determine your remaining demand for the products listed in the "Products Affected/Intel Ordering Codes" ... While *Intel* will make commercially reasonable efforts to support last time order quantities ...

It's entirely possible they did a large last-time factory build of drives in anticipation of people wanting to purchase them.

Or, as Solidigm state on their FAQ:(https://www.solidigm.com/support-page/faqs.html):

Why do some Solidigm products have *Intel labels*, order forms, and branding? Certain business elements that were already in place or in development prior to the creation of Solidigm will continue to bear Intel labels and branding for some time.

It's probably that the drives would have been branded "Intel" significantly beyond the Intel / Solidigm acquisition date (Probably until their EOL which was a year later -- it would make no sense to rebrand them). And it seems entirely unreasonable to assume that even a fairly tuned in customer would be digging to that level of scrutiny ("Wait a second! This is still Intel branded! Solidigm rebranded this line in XX of '22, X months before they discontinued them. These must be used drives!")
by chamomeal | 2025-11-13 03:12:09+00:00
Is money still made from console exclusives? I feel like I see less of them these days. The biggest games are cross platform monsters, and the smallest are indie games.

Crazy to think that the Horizon Zero Dawns of the world would be propping up all of console gaming??

But maybe that’s why Xbox is looking to get out. And trying new monetization strategies (gamepass is on Roku or something)
by bytesandbits | 2025-11-13 03:12:31+00:00
I mean. I can't remember last time I used cash. Not in the last 5 years that is for sure. Once I paid someone with Venmo as that was the only way they could take it. Other than that time, I don't remember using cash at all. In SF the two only moments I can recall needing cash for is either some old self-service laundromats or funnily, chinatown where most of it is still cash. In fact recently a bunch of locations I go to often have become cashless. So you wouldn't be able to pay cash even if you wanted to. Business that are cash only do it for one reason, and one reason only, and we all know what that reason is. Slowly but steadily the volume of retail consumer cashflow is turning to digital. Cash is not going away today. Many seniors don't want / know how to use digital payments. Trends show we are moving toward all-digital. Probably 10 years from now +95% of retail will be cash-less.
by perilunar | 2025-11-13 03:13:02+00:00
Americans do that all the time though. E.g. Celsius vs Fahrenheit, Metric vs US Customary units, getting rid of copper coins, 230 vs 110 V electricity, etc.

The fact that large parts of the world do something without any problems is no guarantee that people in the U.S. won't argue about it endlessly.
by arvinsim | 2025-11-13 03:13:18+00:00
Good thing Valve is not a publicly traded company unlike Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft.

> This is the mindset that makes the Steam Machine DOA if not priced correctly. No one will pay $800 just to play Hollow Knight in 4k

I will pay that money to finish up my backlog of games on Steam. I already pay that much for Steam Deck anyway.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-13 03:13:47+00:00
Hmm. My company gives everyone a $500 a year allowance for training and/or tools that we can use through OneRange. It shouldn’t be that hard to get approval to donate to an open source project.

This is all hypothetical. There isn’t any open source project I depend on that isn’t backed by a large corporation.
by klabb3 | 2025-11-13 03:14:05+00:00
> > intercepts the victim's notifications

> And who controls these notifications and forces application developers to use a specific service?

Am I alone in being alarmed by this? Are they admitting that their app sandboxing is so weak that a malicious app can exfil data from other unaffiliated apps? And they must instead rely on centralized control to disable those apps after the crime? So.. what’s the point of the sandboxing - if this is just desktop level lack of isolation?

Glossing over this ”detail” is not confidence inspiring. Either it’s a social engineering attack, in which case an app should have no meaningful advantage over traditional comms like web/email/social media impersonation. Or, it’s an issue of exploits not being patched properly, in which case it’s Google and/or vendor responsibility to push fixes quickly before mass malware distribution.

The only legit point for Google, to me, is apps that require very sensitive privileges, like packet inspection or OS control. You could make an argument that some special apps probably could benefit from verification or special approvals. But every random app?
by Marsymars | 2025-11-13 03:14:12+00:00
I don't know that there really exist any jobs where someone with a 99-IQ who's hard-working and dedicated to getting through the hiring process would never get hired.

And really, if your critical virology lab procedures depend on having a double-digit IQ as a floor... you're probably hooped anyway the next time your 120-IQ employee is having a bad day where they slept poorly and are distracted by family problems.
by java-man | 2025-11-13 03:14:27+00:00
I long though that perhaps a part of the interview for a tech job should be observing the candidate to put the cart back, instead of, let's say, going through 11 technical rounds of coding in a half-baked web IDE.

Did not put the cart back - that means the same approach will be taken when developing. "It is not my problem. They pay people to do it". Do not hire.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-13 03:14:57+00:00
I'd trust Sam Altman about as far as I could throw him and there is absolutely no way OpenAI should be having sensitive private conversations with anybody. Sooner or later all that data will end up with Microsoft who can then correlate it with a ton of data they already have from other sources (windows, office online, linkedin, various communications services including 'teams', github and so on).

This is an intelligence service's wet dream.
by _drimzy | 2025-11-13 03:15:28+00:00
> Do you really think that in a high stress situation you’re going to make the best decisions?

I mean that statement could be used to excuse any mistake in any project/system ever made, and is mostly a cop out. Yes, the system is definitely designed to minimize legal risk for the health-workers/hospitals. A system is only as good as what it's' design objectives are, and if "save a life at all cost" was the objective the system might as well look entirely different.
by speak_plainly | 2025-11-13 03:15:46+00:00
This new model is way too sensitive to the point of being insulting. The ‘guard rails’ on this thing are off the rails.

I gave it a thought experiment test and it deemed a single point to be empirically false and just unacceptable. And it was so against such an innocent idea that it was condescending and insulting. The responses were laughable.

It also went overboard editing something because it perceived what I wrote to be culturally insensitive ... it wasn’t and just happened to be negative in tone.

I took the same test to Grok and it did a decent job and also to Gemini which was actually the best out of the three. Gemini engaged charitably and asked relevant and very interesting questions.

I’m ready to move on from OpenAI. I’m definitely not interested in paying a heap of GPUs to insult me and judge me.
by nodja | 2025-11-13 03:16:21+00:00
All they have to do is market the fact you don't have to pay for online.

PS5 + 3 years of PS Plus = $740

Steam Machine = $700

Add/remove more years of PS Plus if the SM turns out to be more/less expensive.

If you add the fact that games on PC are usually cheaper and have sales more often then it's a no brainer, but that won't convince the FIFA and COD players.