MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0x457 | 2025-11-12 19:38:45+00:00
Most controller/headphone dongles come with USB-A, so 2.0 in the back makes sense. Radio for new steam controller is integrated.

I have a Y-splitter for my PS5 controllers and if I didn't, I would have had some sort of controller dock. I assume I would do the same for this. Either way, TV is too far from my couch for a cable, so I wanted to keep playing and charging I'd use a powerbank from my coffee table.

Gigabit Ethernet...that's sad, I'd take 2.5G, so I can better stream my legally ripped Blu-rays. I assume most people don't care because they would use Wi-Fi or their switch only goes to 1G. Better than JBL making android TV sound bar with 100mpbs.

I think it purposely designed, so you don't try to build a NAS on it.
by kkfx | 2025-11-12 19:38:54+00:00
No thanks. It's 2025, identity needs to be resilient, so having a national public blockchain that every public administration entity, every private who wants to participate, compensated for the IT resources they provide, whether a citizen or a business maintains well, that makes sense. The fingerprint of a key is shared, this key is on a smart-card, therefore offline, on well-known (bank cards, SIM cards) proven and reliable platforms, and signs what is needed with zk proofs where required.

Identity on mobile, proprietary platforms, whose level of complexity makes it humanly impossible to understand them even for governments themselves, notoriously closely monitored and yet with a long history of bugs and problems, is UNACCEPTABLE.

It's time to understand that IT is the nervous system of society and that public information must be public, for everyone, not for a specific actor and with no specific actor being "more equal" than others.
by oskarkk | 2025-11-12 19:39:24+00:00
Yeah, I know about that, but I was specifically talking about SpaceX winning contracts by simply being a better option than other competitors, not because of any "friends in the government". Musk wasn't even a billionaire yet, and I doubt he had government friends at the time who did him any personal favors. And in the end the government got what it wanted, Tesla did make a lot of electric cars and repaid the loan much earlier than required. While the current government that Musk helped get elected ended all subsidies for electric cars.
by dpark | 2025-11-12 19:39:47+00:00
No one is going to buy “multi transaction fee” because of pennies being phased out. This makes no sense.

You have constructed a whole chain of absurd claims that have no basis Did you forget that right now, today, stores willingly take a cent off virtually every price so they can do the x.99 thing?

> So this argument is just "you may be right, but I don't care." That's not an argument, imo.

No. I can simultaneously believe that you are wrong and also that the fundamental concern is absurd.
by throwup238 | 2025-11-12 19:39:52+00:00
> Georgia isn't going to punish you for going the speed limit in the right lane, they passed that law recently and called it the 'slow poke law'.

So you’re saying they had to pass a law clarifying a contradiction in previous laws? Those contradictions were my original point. And it still only applies to the slow poke lane.

> It really isn't.

Oh you sweet summer child.
by firefax | 2025-11-12 19:40:02+00:00
>I'd say screw it, get rid of nickles and dimes as well. Quarters can stay, for now.

Let's do it like Japan does, only one type of currency. And that currency will be the penny. One dollar note? No buddy... that's a one hundred cent note now.

We may or may not continue to mint one dollar coins (previously one cent coins), but everything will make... cents.

(I guess this style of humor is better delivered verbally?)
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-12 19:40:15+00:00
To be fair, of all the LLM coding agents, I find Codex+GPT5 to be closest to this.

It doesn't really offer any commentary or personality. It's concise and doesn't engage in praise or "You're absolutely right". It's a little pedantic though.

I keep meaning to re-point Codex at DeepSeek V3.2 to see if it's a product of the prompting only, or a product of the model as well.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-11-12 19:40:21+00:00
Just show the price including tax. (half-sarcastic, because obviously that would be an unpopular change for sellers because it makes the visible number go up, but it would solve two problmes...)

They could still set the post-tax price to something that results in round numbers, at downside of the pre-tax price having more decimals.
by paxys | 2025-11-12 19:40:29+00:00
A bit too sparse on details.

- No price

- No indication for whether the CPU/GPU/RAM/SSD are upgradable or all soldered together on the board.

- "4K gaming at 60 FPS with FSR" but doesn't mention what kind of games it can run at that quality.

- No performance benchmarks, or mention of what the equivalent retail CPU/GPU to their custom one is.

At face value this seems like a $500-600 PC, and that's also the price it would be able to compete with consoles at.
by nradov | 2025-11-12 19:41:10+00:00
Taxis lost at least partly because the workers were assholes. Refusing to take credit card payments (the card reader is "broken") or not picking up members of certain ethnic groups or not driving to certain areas. Sure some cabbies were nice, honest people with good customer service skills but those were the exception in many cities.

There was nothing stopping taxi companies from raising investor capital to build better apps and back end technology infrastructure. They were just lazy and incompetent.
by engeljohnb | 2025-11-12 19:41:10+00:00
Seems like people here are pretty negative towards a "conversational" AI chatbot.

Chatgpt has a lot of frustrations and ethical concerns, and I hate the sycophancy as much as everyone else, but I don't consider being conversational to be a bad thing.

It's just preference I guess. I understand how someone who mostly uses it as a google replacement or programming tool would prefer something terse and efficient. I fall into the former category myself.

But it's also true that I've dreamed about a computer assistant that can respond to natural language, even real time speech, -- and can imitate a human well enough to hold a conversation -- since I was a kid, and now it's here.

The questions of ethics, safety, propaganda, and training on other people's hard work are valid. It's not surprising to me that using LLMs is considered uncool right now. But having a computer imitate a human really effectively hasn't stopped being awesome to me personally.

I'm not one of those people that treats it like a friend or anything, but its ability to immitate natural human conversation is one of the reasons I like it.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-12 19:41:12+00:00
If you really want something that takes Prolog strings instead (and want the full power of prolog), then there are bindings to prolog interpreters from many languages, and also SWI-Prolog specifically provides a fairly straightforward JSON-based server mode "Machine Query Interface" that should be fairly simple to interface with any language.

https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=mqi-overview
by macintux | 2025-11-12 19:41:34+00:00
As best as I can tell, not universally. I'm rather obsessive about watching brake lights around me; my state doesn't have safety inspections, so I try my best to alert other drivers when they have brake lights out.

I've definitely observed Teslas coming to a halt, and the brake lights only kick on at the very end. I don't know how widespread the problem is, but it's very annoying.
by yupyupyups | 2025-11-12 19:41:46+00:00
>every other fuckass blog with 0.5 daily visitors was behind Cloudflare

Lol, that's so true.

>Google wants to be the only entity with unrestricted access to their catalog of other people's content,

Yeah, data is money. Reddit are doing the same thing, but even more aggressively. You want API access? Pay an astronomical amount of money for it, that is other people's content. Reddit also hosts a much small amount of media relative to YT.

For YT, I'm not so sure the increase in traffic is a drop in the bucket for them. It can depend a lot on which videos are being fetched. Cheap storage is cheap only for storing a large amount of data, not doing an unusual amount of (random) access.

Who knows.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-12 19:42:03+00:00
The original point was this:

> > IMO it seems like it should safe to trust code being served by Google on the official Youtube domain

Which came from a misunderstanding about where the downloadable solver script comes from, as it doesn't come from youtube.com, it comes from github.com (yt-dlp org), I was just correcting that misunderstanding.

> You can’t very well run yt-dlp without trusting yt-dlp code.

That makes a ton of sense and I agree! I'm not sure how that is related to anything though? I download yt-dlp from Arch repositories, so yes I'm trusting Arch maintainers and of course yt-dlp developers. Then I'm adding a manifest which controls what this application can actually access, which is basically a VM config, where I define that it can access youtube.com (and a bunch of other sites I mirror/archive). This is the part that shouldn't have github.com/* access.

Again as mentioned, not a big issue, plenty of workarounds, so not the end of the world.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-11-12 19:42:04+00:00
Re: wages, we have info from reporting. BYD had protests last year when they cut worker overtime at one of their factories, dropping salaries that were previously 8.5k-11.5k USD to 5-6k. Foxconn offers base rate around $2.50/hr, so 5k USD without overtime (which you'll inevitably work). This used to be higher as well.

Mexican autoworker wages came up during the GM UAW negotiations. Those range from about $9/day (~3k USD) up. Higher paying positions tend to go to Americans crossing the border.

Vinfast pays about 100M dong (4k USD with bonus) to their factory workers in Vietnam, which is quite a decent wage locally from what I understand.
by axiolite | 2025-11-12 19:42:30+00:00
penny-rounding “imposes a tax of $3.27 million Canadian dollars from consumers to grocery stores on a yearly basis in aggregate

https://economics.ubc.ca/news/penny-rounding-profitable-for-...

eliminating the penny would require producing more nickels to “fill the gap in small-value transactions.” But nickels suffer from a similar “seigniorage” problem: the 2024 U.S. Mint report said the five-cent coins have a unit cost of 13.78 cents each.

https://time.com/7215870/trump-us-penny-mint-costs-one-cent-...
by barbazoo | 2025-11-12 19:43:01+00:00
Loved the concept, tried it out, didn't work, at least not for RDR2 which I was trying to play. But how would it work, there is Linux, Bazzite, then there is Steam, RDR2 needs the Rockstar launcher, it's such an intricate web of dependencies, I'm not surprised something isn't working.
by godelski | 2025-11-12 19:43:25+00:00
> you need an alternate product, and not an alternate browser engine.

Sorry?

The engine is what reads the protocols. It's how the internet is navigated. It is... the car to the road.

> Maintaining an opinionated fork is cheaper than maintaining an alternate browser engine

I believe I EXPLICITLY mentioned this.

> This allows you to invest more resources into the product

Incorrect.

It allows you to invest more time into a different aspect of the product. A browser isn't just a UI interface. It isn't just the style of the car. It isn't just the paint job. Chromium browsers are like taking the engine and drive train, chassis, power train, and suspension out of one car and putting it into a new body. Sure, that's a different car and saves you a lot of time and effort but the cars are going to have very similar performance and capabilities.

Let's put it this way. If Jeep was the dominating car company and decided all cars have good suspension and then Jeep, due to their "expertise in cars" got an unequal say in how roads were designed, then they might want to do things like make roads more rough and bumpy because their cars can handle it and a Porche couldn't. Does that make roads a better place? For everyone? No, that just kills Jeep's competition, further embeds their market dominance, and let's them dictate a critical part of our infrastructure.

You're so focused on the trees you've missed that they're part of a forest.
by lycopodiopsida | 2025-11-12 19:43:39+00:00
> Besides that there is a bigger question that I need to answer for myself: given the quirks of FreeBSD, what actually would the benefit of using it be?

I'd say less maintenance, churn and deprecating knowledge. I've used FreeBSD as a desktop for the whole 5.*-branch (good times) and I am sure that I would still find myself home should I install it. Linux... not so much, though some distributions are better. There was that idea of "stable core and bleeding-edge applications" and freebsd did deliver, at least in those time, because ports and OS were not same, unlike in linux package management.
by SparkBomb | 2025-11-12 19:43:47+00:00
No it isn't. I cannot do anything meaningful about it.

I have written in the past to MPs (many times). I was either ignored, or I was told I didn't know what I was talking about even though I actually was working in a related area.

If I talk to my friends, they don't care. If I talk to my relatives, they don't care either or understand. If I talk about it on the internet, I am told I am wrong and I should shutup, even when I post direct evidence of something and back it up with references. This hasn't been just one thing either, it been many different things.

So I want you to tell me what am I supposed to do exactly?
by whatamidoingyo | 2025-11-12 19:44:10+00:00
Although I gave up on it, I had a similar idea. I built "VimTools", which allowed you to navigate between different sources on a webpage (via dev tools) and edit them, vim-style. I didn't get beyond the navigation part, though.

If you can implement some Vim-style navigation and key-bindings into this, that would be awesome!
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-11-12 19:44:34+00:00
> Comparing rope and an LLM comes across as disingenuous.

What makes you feel that? Both are tools, both have a wide array of good and bad uses. Maybe it'd be clearer if you explained why you think the two are incomparable except in cases of disingenuousness?

Remember that things are only compared when they are different -- you wouldn't often compare a thing to itself. So, differences don't inherently make things incomparable.

> I struggle to believe that you believe the two are comparable when it comes to the ethics of companies and their impact on society.

I encourage you to broaden your perspectives. For example: I don't struggle to believe that you disagree with the analogy, because smart people disagree with things all the time.

What kind of a conversation would such a rude, dismissive judgement make, anyways? "I have judged that nobody actually believes anything that disagrees with me, therefore my opinions are unanimous and unrivaled!"
by slg | 2025-11-12 19:44:35+00:00
You're right that it's "not too-too hard" to get them, but it's also "not too-too easy" to actually use them in comparison just plugging a USB-C cable into the device. The process you will have to go through to recharge this will become incredibly annoying for something that will eat through batteries as quickly as a VR headset. Think of all the criticisms Apple has received over the years due to the Magic Mouses charging port being on the bottom and that only needs a charge every couple months, this will need to be charged after a few hours of use.
by MostlyStable | 2025-11-12 19:44:45+00:00
I don't even agree with partly. 100% of the blame, in my opinion, is on the policy-caused supply restrictions. I will admit that this is at least partially a semantic debate about what "cause" means, but in my opinion "blaming", even partially, AI, data-centers, or any other large power consumer for the price increases actively makes solving the problem harder and is anti-useful.
by zahlman | 2025-11-12 19:45:08+00:00
Before Canada stopped using its penny, it was common to find American pennies in circulation.

It's still fairly common to find American nickels, quarters and dimes in circulation. (Probably mostly dimes if I had to guess.) They're generally accepted at par because nobody is even really looking at them and if they did it wouldn't really represent being, well, short-changed.
by clan | 2025-11-12 19:45:21+00:00
I daily drive FreeBSD on my desktop with KDE. It is not as smooth as Linux and requires a little more tinkering compared to Linux. But I love it!

The killer features for me:

- The pf firewall. Rules you actually understand!

- Jails! When you cannot have Zones this will do.

- Native ZFS. Stable, mature, safe and with all the features you can dream of.

- Linuxulator. Binary compatibility with Linux if need be. Can be put in jail as well.

- pkg/ports. I really like it but I might have been indoctrinated.

- Networking stack. Good. Stable. Makes sense to me.

For a nice graphical UI Linux is more smooth but if you are willing to tinker it can work. As Linux gets all the attention you will see stuff such as Chromium lag behind.

I can understand that can scare people off. But FreeBSD feels like a comfortable old glove for me. I will suffer the minor holes. My beard has grayed and my hair line is non-existant.

If waiting for a laptop I would perhaps wait for FreeBSD 15 for much needed improvements in WIFI. If you want fast WIFI today you need weird hacks routing through a Linux VM[1]. It works rather well but it is honestly a bit clunky.

[1] https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
by kkfx | 2025-11-12 19:45:23+00:00
No, what I need is NixOS, a configuration with a language that's a bit hard to digest but effective, which I can build and read, allowing me to replicate my infrastructure, create custom ISOs etc, in an almost totally automatic and manageable way on domestic hardware at a domestic scale.

What's needed isn't a rambling YAML and immense resource consumption; it's IaC, built-in to the system, that can do what's necessary not for an IT giant that lives off others' services run in-house, but for me, a private citizen with just a few of my own services, little time to manage them, a need to quickly replicate the infrastructure because I don't have infinite data centers, so if the homeserver dies, I need to buy another cheap desktop and set it up, restoring it on the fly. So if I'm offline for a few hours, nothing happens, but hardware costs money, so I need to use it well, and so on.

The giants' solutions are not one-size-fits-all.
by rsync | 2025-11-12 19:45:23+00:00
Yes. There are vendor-specific utilities that have escaped into the wild that allow bad actors to reset various SMART counters, etc.

A lot of abuse came to light during the launch and initial mining of the (ridiculous) Chiacoin[1] during which Chia miners would burn through SSDs to within a hair of their usable life, reset their SMART stats, and sell them as new on Amazon or ebay.

As can be seen in my above comment, larger distributors like "Maestro Technologies" have their stock polluted with parts like this and I find it very unlikely that they are not aware of the status of these parts they are selling as new.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Network
by totallymike | 2025-11-12 19:45:42+00:00
1-5: not a concern

It'll be the lawyers who need to go through the data, and given the scale of it, they won't be able to do anything more than trawl for the evidence they need and find specific examples to cite. They don't give a shit if you're asking chatgpt how to put a hit out on your ex, and they're not there to editorialize.

I wont pretend to guess* how they'll perform the discovery, but I highly doubt it will result in humans reading more than a handful of the records in total outside of the ones found via whatever method they automate the discovery process.

If there's top secret information in there, and it was somehow stumbled upon by one of these lawyers or a paralegal somewhere, I find it impossibly unlikely they'd be stupid enough to do anything other than run directly to whomever is the rightful possessor of said information and say "hey we found this in this place it shouldn't be" and then let them deal with it. Which is what we'd want them to do.

*Though if I had to speculate on how they'd do it, I do think the funniest way would be to feed the records back into chatgpt and ask it to point out all the times the records show evidence of infringement
by pixelready | 2025-11-12 19:45:44+00:00
Same here. The trackpads on the steam deck work great. Might get this for docked mode. Kinda wish a splittable controller was more common for ergonomics ( not great to be clenching your chest on a centered object like that for hours on end, similar to non-split keyboards ). Seems like split controllers are still reserved for VR and nintendo switch style systems for now…
by jokethrowaway | 2025-11-12 19:46:03+00:00
Claude is ChatGPT done right. It's just better under any metric.

Of course OpenAI has tons of money and can branch off in all kind of directions (image, video, n8n clone, now RAG as a service).

In the end I think they will all be good enough and both Anthropic and OpenAI lead will evaporate.

Google will be left to win because they already have all the customers with the GSuite and OpenAI will be incorporated at massive loss in Microsoft, which is already selling to all the Azure customers.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-12 19:47:46+00:00
It’s not a question of them not making fees. No one is proposing that Visa and Mastercard can’t charge merchants. The EU caps merchant fees and Visa and MC are still widely accepted. I know in the UK at least interest charges are much higher since the banks make less in fees - yes part of the transaction fee goes to the bank.
by jorvi | 2025-11-12 19:47:59+00:00
Gyro aiming being on all 3 console platforms would be such a huge boon, because then it could finally get implemented in every shooter. And they could start heavily nerfing the frankly ridiculous aim assist that controllers currently get.

Back buttons would be another nice one. Right now there's just 2-4 buttons too few on controllers, and it often leads to strange button mappings that either shift with context or require multi-button activations, which gets even more annoying if you have to do it during, say, a jump.