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by pndy | 2025-06-09 20:26:47+00:00
This whole flat style fever which doesn't distinguish between active elements and informative text allowed to spread darkpattern tactics which lead to deploying adverse or even harmful changes for users. It also contributed to nullifying customisation under linux - looking exactly at you adwaita.

My age shows here as well and I'm not in any way excited about this design change at all. Suddenly Apple decided that this fancy acrylic glass animation for widgets, interface that says "look we aren't stagnant - we did something" will be enough to diverge attention from other problems. I sincerely doubt that it's gonna be.

This release feels like a return to transparency trend which we had somewhere around Vista and initial KDE Plasma releases.
by saghm | 2025-06-09 20:26:53+00:00
> They are just simplifying assumptions that allow formal proof of properties like optimality.

And when they're done, the proofs are recognized as being fully out of touch with with the reality we actually live in based on the fact that their assumptions are also out of touch, and nobody actually tries to use them to make decisions about how to do things in our very real and non-simplified society?
by leakycap | 2025-06-09 20:27:06+00:00
I'm also only a sample size of one, but I previously offered web development in a similar fashion (pre-LLM) and I found that clients didn't have the working knowledge to even know what they wanted to guide or influence the project in any meaningful way.

Perhaps your audience would be able to work with the dev/LLM in a more harmonious way -- I found that both the developer and customer became frustrated with the experience and most projects reverted to a "here's a draft, let me know what you want changed" flow to satisfy the deadlines. Don't let me deter you, I'm just sharing what derailed me in a different but similar adventure.
by jandrese | 2025-06-09 20:27:15+00:00
IMHO skeuomorphic design had a few wins, but also plenty of losses. Sometimes the real world interface is just not as intuitive as it should have been.

But I'm 100% behind you on "make buttons look like buttons" and "don't hide functionality behind arbitrary gestures that you never tell the user". UI designers may hate menus these days, but they were so good for letting a user browse through looking for the thing they want. Search boxes are a good speed improvement, but should never be the only interface object because many times the user doesn't know exactly what they're looking for.

This is also why most voice assistants don't get used very much, there's no easily accessible list of phrases they know and they aren't smart enough to really understand what the person wants, so people end up using the one or two phrases they know the assistant can handle and forget about it otherwise.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-09 20:27:20+00:00
> This depends on the bias of the original coin. P(H) can be arbitrarily large

> There's really no good excuse to obfuscate the question and then move the goalposts when they (very predictably) fall into your trap.

Interesting. Because I see the guy pulling out the one-in-a-million coin and expecting it to run at a similar speed to be doing a gotcha on purpose, not falling into a trap and having the goalposts moved.

And I think "well if it's a million times less likely to give me a heads, then it takes a million times as many flips, but it's just as reliable" is an answer that preserves the impressiveness and the goalposts.

It's fast relative to the bias. Which seems like plenty to me when the original claim never even said it was fast.

(And if the coin never gives you a heads then I'd say it no longer qualifies as randomly flipping a coin.)
by pests | 2025-06-09 20:27:43+00:00
I was musing before sleep days ago about how maybe the internet still is just a fad. We’ve had a few decades of it, yeah, but maybe in the future people will look at it as boring tech just like I viewed VCRs or phones when I was growing up. Maybe we’re still addicted to the novelty of it, but in the future it fades into the background of life.

I’ve read stories about how people were amazed at calling each other and would get together or meet at the local home with a phone installed, a gathering spot, make an event about it. Now it’s boring background tech.

We kind of went through a faze of this with the introduction of webcams. Omegle, Chatroulette, it was a wild Wild West. Now it’s normalized, standard for work with the likes of Zoom, with FaceTiming just being normal.
by TZubiri | 2025-06-09 20:27:45+00:00
Mmh

If I paid salary of 100k, and invested 100k. Then I made 0 profit regardless, actually I would have a loss of 100k?

I guess the difference comes in if I made 200k, so I would have a profit of 100k.

Not sure how it affects the pnl, but is it fair to say it doesn't affect total tax, just distributes it more evenly across years?
by ben_w | 2025-06-09 20:27:55+00:00
> Do you really think that Apple, of all companies, did a cross-platform UI refresh based entirely on vibes without considering user taste, usability, accessibility, etc?

Yes, I think they would do that.

Lots of historical examples of Apple making weird design choices for decades now. I'm old enough to remember the hockey-puck mouse on the original iMac.

Also, here's a list of bugs I've personally observed over just the last two months: https://gist.github.com/BenWheatley/29a3c22203d90ae80465cdb1...

3.3 trillion dollar market cap, and the *clipboard* is no longer reliable. The mail badge is an unreliable count. The wallpaper sometimes disappears. The alarms don't play out of whatever speaker or headphones you're using for all your other audio.
by nailer | 2025-06-09 20:28:40+00:00
Bugdrop won't work for most users, since they don't real tooltips.

1. I load https://bugdrop.app/

2. The site days 'try bugdrop' and points to the left bottom corner.

3. I click the bug. Nothing happens.

On further inspection, there is sometimes a tooltip that tells me clicking won't work and I need to drag the bug over the part of the UI that failed, but I didn't read that when I first used it and I won't use it a second time.
by Peacefulz | 2025-06-09 20:28:42+00:00
We definitely have evidence of cancer being present in the animal kingdom (that includes humans) deep into the fossil record so I might suggest that they are mistaken.

Pruitt, S. (2019, February 11). "How Old Is Cancer? At Least as Old as the Start of the Dinosaurs, Fossil Shows." HISTORY.

https://www.history.com/news/cancer-dinosaur-fossil-earliest...
by ineedasername | 2025-06-09 20:29:31+00:00
So many of these articles jump around to incredibly different concerns or research questions. This one raises plenty of important questions but threads a narrative through them that attempts to lump it all as a single issue.

Just to start off with, saying LLM models are "not smart" and "don't/won't/can't understand" ... That is really not a useful way to begin any conversation about this. To "understand" is itself a word without, in this context, any useful definition that would allow evaluation of models against it. It's this imprecision that is at the root of so much hand wringing and frustration by everyone.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-09 20:29:37+00:00
https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/50th-edition-spring-2025 ("Traditional life goals are shifting, with only 48% of young Americans saying having children is important")

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/msu-study-finds-number-of... (“We found that the percentage of nonparents who don’t want any children rose from 14% in 2002 to 29% in 2023,” said Jennifer Watling Neal, professor in MSU’s psychology department and co-author of the study. “During the same period, the percent of nonparents who plan to have children in the future fell from 79% to 59%.”)

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-... ("64% of young women say they just don't want children, compared to 50% of men.")

A record-high share of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/28/a-record-...

The childfree are ungovernable - https://beneaththepavement.substack.com/p/the-childfree-are-...

(us specific, ymmv)
by bilekas | 2025-06-09 20:29:39+00:00
> The general framework is still based on the same core principles and regulations, therefore cores most of the systems are much more alike than different.

No not really, I can say from an IE point of view, the reason the border at northern Ireland was such an issue for Brexit was because the good Friday agreement was because this was done outside of the EU. If the EU had the same authority as the Federal in the US as an example, there would be a hard border.

General framework yes, for regulations, but how you run your government, absolutely is up to you. Just look to Ordaban in Hungary. Not exactly playing well with the EU, doesn't mean the EU can force him to do something.

Edit : Again there are nuances with the EU. And there are issues, but overall it works really well.

- Was going to correct Orban's name but he's worth less the effort than typing this.
by hollerith | 2025-06-09 20:29:42+00:00
If we are going to judge the Berkeley rationalists and the AI doomers by the Zizians, we should also judge Harvard University to be a violent fringe organization because the Unabomber went to college there. The Berkeley rationalists essentially run a school (called the Center for Applied Rationality) that the Zizians went to. The leaders of the rationalists publicly distanced themselves from the Zizians years ago, before the Zizians started with their crimes.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-06-09 20:30:05+00:00
It's not that macoscontainers is empty, it's that the site is https://darwin-containers.github.io

Read more about it here - https://github.com/darwin-containers

The developer is very responsive.

One of Apple's biggest value props to other platforms is environment integrity. This is why their containerization / automation story is worse than e.g. Android.
Show HN: ForkOff – Live Fork and RPC Desync Monitor for Ethereum and L2s
by ForkOff | 2025-06-09 20:30:12+00:00
I built ForkOff https://forkoff.io to monitor block height desyncs across Ethereum and major L2s (Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, etc).

It polls pairs of public RPC endpoints every 30 seconds and flags any divergence that could indicate a fork risk.

Features: - Live status table showing block differences and sync status - Reliability tracking (success/failure counts) - CSV export + simple API (for devs or dashboards) - Covers 8+ major chains, more coming

It's lightweight, anonymous, and free to use. No wallets, no cookies, no BS.

I'm open to feedback, ideas, contributors — and curious if anyone would find this useful for ops, tooling, or infra alerts.

https://forkoff.io
by yuehhangalt | 2025-06-09 20:30:18+00:00
You must be too young to remember because a lot of the early user interface design principles, based on actual research, were pioneered by Bruce Tognazzini and Jef Raskin at Apple. Tog on Interface and Tog on Software Design were THE bibles back in the day and Apple's Human Interface Guidelines showed how a company could and should adopt consistent user experience across all of their products.

It honestly saddens me how far Apple has fallen.
by fragmede | 2025-06-09 20:30:28+00:00
> and then extensive fine-tuning through human feedback

how extensive is the work involved to take a model that's willing to talk about Tianamen square into one that isn't? What's involved with editing Llama to tell me how to make cocaine/bombs/etc?

It's not so extensive so as to require an army of subcontractors to provide large scale human feedback.
by flambojones | 2025-06-09 20:31:33+00:00
Salaries aren't a one-time expense, so is the amortization rolling? Like, year 1, you pay me $200k and deduct $40k. In year 2, you pay me another $200k, do you get to deduct $40k for year 1's salary and $40k for year 2's salary?

I guess another way to ask is, does this mean that if you keep someone for 5 years and don't change my wages, is their yearly salary effectively fully deductible? If so, does that create incentives to try to keep employees longer-term in order to make them more cost-efficient?
by tialaramex | 2025-06-09 20:31:40+00:00
It's always been true for all cryptosystems.

When Trustico decided to light their whole business on fire they sent people's private keys to the root CA they were reselling, triggering all the relevant certificates to immediately get revoked.

But if you were like "LOL, use keys you picked instead of my own private keys I tell no-one? Do I look like moron?" then no matter how stupid, greedy or incompetent Trustico were they didn't have your keys and couldn't give them away on purpose/ accidentally.
by leakycap | 2025-06-09 20:32:10+00:00
I've tried to escape the walled garden to Android before, and I've given up. No matter which company's phone or what version of Android, it didn't work well as a phone, alarm, and reliable device that I use for stuff like my home security. Things broke on Android like clockwork, and the clock didn't work.

The latest Google pixel devices are specifically blocked from using Wyze devices right now due to a typo in the pixel's configuration files, for example. Stuff like that happens constantly with any phone in the super fragmented Android ecosystem.
by msgodel | 2025-06-09 20:32:33+00:00
You're not running a deepseek model on your macbook.

Gemma is Google's distillation of their larger Gemini model (at least that's my understanding.) Qwen is alibab's model. Qwen is usually very good at code, gemma tends to be a little better at everything else.

There are Deepseek distills that use either qwen or gemma as a base. I haven't been impressed with them though. TBH I've felt like most of the reasoning models are overhyped.
by ben_w | 2025-06-09 20:32:55+00:00
> This is also why most voice assistants don't get used very much, there's no easily accessible list of phrases they know and they aren't smart enough to really understand what the person wants, so people end up using the one or two phrases they know the assistant can handle and forget about it otherwise.

Thank you for saying this, you've just made me realise they share all the problems of text adventures while having none of the excitement.
by submeta | 2025-06-09 20:32:57+00:00
Good Lord, this concept of „liquid glass“ is ugly. Not visibly distinct, looks blurry, not clear and sharp. And then they overlap with the content. I never liked the overlapping menus in Notability app either.

This is a flop like the flat keyboard design. Making worse by trying to make it better. Verschlimmbessert.

And this from a company with unlimited financial resources.
by sh34r | 2025-06-09 20:35:37+00:00
From a more left-wing perspective, it certainly doesn’t feel like a coincidence that Section 174 kneecaps anyone who’d try to compete with the FANG trusts. I’m sure an oligarch paid good money to insert this rubbish into the tax code. Well, relatively good money. American politicians are shockingly cheap to pay off. Probably only took $10k each, to convince them to destroy billions in economic value.

It’s a rare thing these days: a law everyone can hate, regardless of ideology. You don’t have to be a Laffer curve believer to recognize that you can design tax schemes that would destroy competition and/or cause excessive deadweight loss. After all, if all taxes were created equal, we could just replace them with a money printer.

Hopefully it doesn’t take three years to reach a consensus on these moronic tariffs, which are far more destructive to the overall economy.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-06-09 20:35:45+00:00
I realize that no government today operates by spending money into existence with one hand and taxing it out of existence with the other, but I always assumed that QF was designed for use with that kind of system (likely a DAO responding to voters on some general purpose chain like Ethereum).

Why else would you dream up such a scheme except for the purpose of replacing the one we're using (e.g. the one where the scarcity of money is determined by bankers' willingness to issue loans)? Perhaps the author is right that QF is not optimal, but what we're doing now does not care whether a funded venture helps or harms the people, so I'd say the bar to clear is pretty low.
by yoyohello13 | 2025-06-09 20:36:56+00:00
It's kind of weird how politically charged dog ownership has become seemingly out of nowhere.

I love dogs, I had dogs as a kid, I have a dog now. I don't, nor have I ever thought my dog is a replacement for children. My dog doesn't hold me back from forming human relationships. Yet there is this weird online value judgement (never actually seen it IRL) that owning a dog is somehow a betrayal of the human race.
by anonym29 | 2025-06-09 20:36:58+00:00
I felt it was pretty probable that in his head, he was thinking "bitcoin style cryptography", which makes his claims much more technically accurate (even if the implementation ultimately ends up effectively handing over control of private keys to the service provider), and that he likely just had a brain fart in translating the idea from his head into written language, a common phenomenon that affects pretty much everyone at some point in time.

Maybe I'm just being too generous to people suffering from the human condition. We should probably start holding everyone to the standard of absolute perfection all the time - never misspeaking, never making any typos - and start reflexively discarding any and all ideas that have any kind of minor mistake in them; that sounds like a much more rational and reasonable approach.
by Animats | 2025-06-09 20:37:07+00:00
If you submit a really detailed bug report, such as one where the problem was reproduced under a debugger, it becomes a "the reason you suck" speech. This really upsets some dev teams. The usual responses of the "turn it off and on again" and "reinstall" don't make the complaint go away.

There are two bugs in Firefox I'd like to report, but it's futile. One is that, launched on Ubuntu, Firestorm does disk I/O for about three minutes on launch. During that period it can't load complex pages, although it loads ones without Javascript fine. The other, again on Ubuntu, is that it freezes when large text boxes are being filled in. This only happens on some sites.
by tossandthrow | 2025-06-09 20:38:12+00:00
I really agree in all your points, and the the 10% would be the proposed practical middle ground - but it is neither a good model.

I don't know how to tax this.

But I can identify the issue: You can channel your revenue into a non-taxible assets that you can bring into the next accounting period tax free.

Regardless of this is stocks, bonds, gold, unsold inventory, or IP, that is not fair.

I would hope for someone to device something that is fair and easy to understand. And then I would hope for them to get it through to the politicians.
by dang | 2025-06-09 20:38:17+00:00
Whoa, please don't get aggressive on HN. Regardless of how much of a problem certain dogs are or you feel they are, it is not ok to post like that.

Edit Unfortunately, your account has been breaking the site guidelines in other places too. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44225114.)
by basisword | 2025-06-09 20:38:28+00:00
After installing the betas I'm very surprised at how much a departure this is on the Mac. Feels like using an iPad all of a sudden. There are some nice bits but they're going to have to tweak it significantly over the next couple of months. Safari tabs are an abomination. On other hand Spotlight has some great improvements and Launchpad is gone.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-09 20:38:42+00:00
This type of emission may be directed (or at least, emitted by something rotating, so directed at different locations around a circle as it rotates). That would leave it firing at Earth some of the time, and firing other places at other times.

Or, it could be something that flares up every 44 minutes, and is emitted in all directions at once. We really don't know.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-06-09 20:38:59+00:00
That is making assumptions that aren’t based in reality. Serious software R&D stopped relying on patents and copyrights years ago because they are effectively non-enforceable in many cases.

A significant percentage of algorithm and foundational computer science R&D in software is now protected exclusively via trade secrets. There are no other practical options. This wasn’t always the case but all other forms of protection have steadily eroded over the last couple decades.

Weaponizing the tax code because you have an ideological aversion to trade secrets doesn’t seem fair to me.
by interiormut | 2025-06-09 20:39:03+00:00
As a long-time R user, I truly miss the elegance of `data.table` and base R in general. Today, I mostly write in Rust and Python. But R just feels elegant and purposeful. I force myself to avoid R these days though because that's the aesthetic of other people (who only see beauty when they look at python) and paying R roles are scarce.

I will say that Python has the `datatable` package by H2o that is close to R's `data.table` in elegance. I wish it had the widespread adoption that Pandas enjoys.

https://datatable.readthedocs.io/en
by itsibitzi | 2025-06-09 20:40:21+00:00
On spam:

We’ve got some basic filtering for full on DoS type attacks already.

The difficulty here is that a user can produce a reasonable amount of spam from a spread of IP addresses which would be disruptive to our journalist users but below threshold to be considered a DoS attack.

It’s tricky because we can’t have anything that could link a given message to a given user as that would break anonymity.

We’ve got some ideas with anonymous credentials from app attentions for the more long term. E.g. if you’re expected to submit 1 message an hour from your queue you can request 24 single use tokens from the API by performing an attestation that you’re running a genuine app. You then spend these as you send messages. We don’t have a full spec for this right now such that it can be fully anonymous but that’s the general idea.

There’s also some possible spam detection we can do in the journalist GUI which we’re interested in exploring. Right now the spam control is quite basic (muting) but the message rate is low due to the threshold mixer anyways so not so bad.

On key management:

Each journalist has an encrypted vault which requires a key derived from a password. If this password is lost and the journalist has no backup then it’s game over. We need to regenerate their identity in the key hierarchy as if they were a new user and messages they’ve not seen are lost, there is no way to pick up those sources again.

We have some plans on using MLS as an inter-journalist protocol which should enable having multiple actual humans per journalist/desk listed in the app. That would depend on the journalists agreeing to have their vault be shared of course. Once multiple humans are backing a single vault then the risk of password loss becomes smaller as if one journalist loses their password the other journalist should be able to share their back messages to them.