MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-06-10 00:25:48+00:00
That model stops working as soon as you try to distribute software at scale. You need some kind of standardisation and baseline. Otherwise your customisations conflict with someone else's customisations, with consequences that vary from mildly annoying to catastrophic. And the whole idea of shared software collapses.

It would work if you had strict access control to each feature in a common code base. But Git hadn't been invented yet.

The other issue is performance. Compiled ST isn't particularly slow, but you lose the modifiability. Interpreted ST has a mixed profile - some features are slow, some are fast - but generally it was slow compared to C.

Today that doesn't matter so much, but it was a drawback at the time.

It's a seductive model and I totally get the appeal. But it's not quite as straightforwardly superior as it might appear to be.
by sudobash1 | 2025-06-10 00:26:19+00:00
Just the other day I noticed that some kind soul set up http://subprocess.run to redirect to the python3 documentation.

I do get frustrated sometimes at the "omnibar" because of its inability to determine if I want to search for something or go to a url. It is especially irksome because the TLDs keep getting extended and I can't keep track anymore.
by gerdesj | 2025-06-10 00:26:30+00:00
Foxes, pigeons, rats etc are generally described as vermin yet they perform vital ecological functions and are somehow maligned for performing it.

They are scavengers (int al). They help keep the place cleaner in return for a small amount of crap and some extra disease vectors.

What I'd really like to hear is that a bunch of clever kids at Google realise that a city has an ecology all of its own and that they need to fit into it and not the other way around. If they have managed to attract foxes then make the best of it.

I wonder if there are there any Plane trees on it?
by zapzupnz | 2025-06-10 00:27:50+00:00
Not quite. As another user mentioned, there's Swift Playgrounds which is complete enough that you can even upload apps made in it to the App Store. Aside from that, there are also IDEs like Pythonista for creating Python-based apps and others for Lua, JavaScript, etc. many of which come with their own frameworks for making native iOS/iPadOS interfaces.
by quantadev | 2025-06-10 00:28:11+00:00
Consciousness is essentially made of brain waves, and it's the 3D positions of the EM fields which is at the core of it. So it makes sense that jiggling around brain matter to where it is in frequencies that resonate with the same frequencies building consciousness then we can alter conscious state.

It was recently discovered that when listening to music your brain waves sync up to the same frequencies, which I had predicted for a long time. This means the "computational model" (i.e. synapses and neural nets) theory of consciousness is mostly wrong.
by abaymado | 2025-06-10 00:28:17+00:00
There have been a couple of instances, where I would try to debunk a conspiracy theory to a friend or family member and the next day, I would wake up to "Real/TikTok/Short" video with an AI narrating there exact argument. Most of the time, it's not even an LLM generated text turned to voice, rather an AI voice used to read a text the content creator has provided it. As long as it sounded like ChatGPT, Siri, "Her" combined with confirmation bias, people are treating these LLMs as their new oracles, as you may say.
by LoganDark | 2025-06-10 00:29:08+00:00
On Android devices with AVB (so basically everything nowadays), once the bootloader is unlocked, so many things already either lock you out or degrade your service in various ways. For example, Netflix will downgrade you to 480p, Google Pay will stop working, many apps will just straight up disappear from the Play Store because SafetyNet will stop passing (especially on newer devices with hardware attestation), banking apps (most notably Cash App) will often stop working, many other third-party apps that don't even have anything to do with banking will still lock you out, etc.

On many Android devices, unlocking the boot loader at any point will also permanently erase the DRM keys, so you will never again be able to watch high resolution Netflix (or any other app that uses Widevine), even if you relocked the bootloader and your OS passed verified boot checks.

On a Mac, you don't need to "unlock the bootloader" to do anything. Trust is managed per operating system. As long as you initially can properly authenticate through physical presence, you totally can install additional operating systems with lower levels of trust and their existence won't prevent you from booting back into the trusted install and using protected experiences such as Apple Pay. Sure, if you want to modify that trusted install, and you downgrade its security level to implement this, then those trusted experiences will stop working (such as Apple Pay, iPhone Mirroring, and 4K Netflix in Safari, for instance), but you won't be rejected by entire swathes of the third-party app ecosystem and you also won't lose the ability to install a huge fraction of Mac apps (although iOS and iPadOS apps will stop working). You also won't necessarily be prevented from turning the security back up once you're done messing around, and gaining every one of those experiences back.

So sure, you can totally boil it down to "Apple still punishes you, only a bit less", but not only do they not even punish your entire machine the way Microsoft and Google do, but they even only punish the individual operating system that has the reduced security, don't punish it as much as Microsoft and Google do, and don't permanently lock things out just because the security has ever been reduced in the past.

Do keep in mind though, the comparison to Android is a bit unfair anyway because Apple's equivalent to the Android ecosystem is (roughly; excluding TV and whatever for brevity) iPhone and iPad, and those devices have never and almost certainly will never offer anything close to a bootloader unlock. I just had used it as an example of the all or nothing approach. Obviously Apple's iDevice ecosystem doesn't allow user tampering at all, not even with trusted experiences excluded.

Fun fact though: The Password category in System Settings will disappear over iPhone Mirroring to prevent the password from being changed remotely. Pretty cool.
by amlib | 2025-06-10 00:30:12+00:00
> That is impossible on Gnome. You get a dropdown of a few fixed values, none greater than 60 minutes, and you better like what choices the Gnome devs have granted you. The workaround requires some brain surgery in the terminal.

AFAIK what gnome does is not give you any options above 15 minutes, but they do provide a toggle for disabling screen power saving and toggles for other such power saving features.

I've always been able to disable if fine, what irks me is the artificial 15 minutes limit in the drop down menu, forcing you to edit dconf entries to increase it...
by david-gpu | 2025-06-10 00:30:17+00:00
> At a previous company, we were forbidden from using translucency (with a few exceptions) because of the performance cost of blending.

I imagine this was on mobile devices.

Blending was relatively expensive on GPUs from Imagination Technologies and their derivatives, including all Apple GPUs. This is because these GPUs had relatively weak shader processors and relied instead on dedicated hardware to sort geometry so that the shader processor had to do less work than on a traditional GPU.

Other GPUs vendors rely more on beefier shader processors and less on sorting geometry (e.g. Hierarchical-Z). This turned out to be a better approach in the long term, especially once game engines started relying on deferred shading anyway, which is in essence a software-based approach that sorts geometry first before computing the final pixel colors.
by flowerbard | 2025-06-10 00:30:23+00:00
Ultimately this is about mastery of a tool. The problem is that you can’t teach mastery.

I can’t tell someone how to drive in ice in a way where they can really understand it. I can’t explain how certain specific news sources are biased and how to critically think. I can’t explain how to cut wood on a table saw so it’s perfectly straight. The only way to learn is through repeated usage and practice.

You can tell users that a LLM can make mistakes — and many tools do — but what does making mistakes really mean? Will it give it a recipe for a cake when I ask for a cupcake? Does it give 14 if I ask to add 3 and 4? Will it agree with me even when I suggest something totally wrong? What does hallucinate mean? That means it will give me a fantasy story if I ask how to change my oil filter?
by rtpg | 2025-06-10 00:30:36+00:00
The "modifiable image" model to me poses a huge problem of just not knowing what has changed and what is going on. I believe that things like Pharoh integrate into version control, but just on a fundamental level being able to throw away everything and go back to some notion of a clean state is very helpful when working on a mutable system.

Distributed version control and CI makes it way more tractable to work on even a small team IMO.

I would be very curious to see someone stream a "real" workflow using something like Pharoh or other smalltalk-like envs though. There's a bunch of short clips showing "beginner" demos but for such a visual system I would expect there to be more detailed presentations of the actual workflow.
by dekhn | 2025-06-10 00:31:04+00:00
Some of these replies are from folks who want to stir unrest and don't actually believe what they're saying.

Other folks read selectively; they skim over or ignore the statements they don't agree with.

Yet other folks are ideologically motivated and use rhetoric to convince others.

The best we can do is to counter with well-documented facts, like direct quotes, with full context, and actions taken. In this case, I believe the person we're arguing with is selectively ignoring statements that RFK has made (repeatedly).

Vaccines are powerful tools and they are not without their problems. But RFK has weaponized mistruth in pursuit of his goals.
by the_other | 2025-06-10 00:31:09+00:00
> What makes you think that? Do you have a specific example from the keynote in mind?

Almost every button and menu they showed was harder for me to read than the ones on my current generation Apple gear. The icons on buttons are indistinct, the text is hard to read. The buttons themselves seem to sink into the content "below" making both the buttons and the content hard to see.

Some examples:

- the tabs at the bottom left of the photos app

- the address bar in Safari (what a complete mess... you can't see the content beneath because the address bar blurs it, but you also can't read the address bar because the glass effect destroys contrast

- in the colourless "translucent" colour way, all the icons look the same

- the (admittedly cute) "squish" effect when tapping menus and some of the buttons looked like it would slow down all interactions

- the highlights and light/colour bending effects are utterly distracting, catching your eye when you really want to be skimming the content or overview to orient yourself in the UI

True, I've not used it... but I was watching along with the launch video with rapt Apple fan-boi attention and I was surprised by how uncomfortable the new UI seemed to be. I've never felt that before.

This new design style is certainly "fun", but it looks like it'll get in the way of fast use of the tools.

I want my OS to promote clarity of affordances, and then to recede away from my attention so I can get on with doing what I was trying to do. This new design style looks like it's trying to hold on to my attention all the time I'm using the devices. (Admittedly today's keynote was an ad for the new design, so that sense of attention grabbing was hopefully accentuated over day to day use... but I'm skeptical.)
by owenthejumper | 2025-06-10 00:31:55+00:00
That's a dangerous mis-information. You are reporting on deaths from measles (and others), but not cases. Both went down, but cases much less than deaths.

Measles also cause other issues than death - weak immune system, blindness, and other conditions not covered in your mis-information chart.

Improved access to medication, antibiotics to fight secondary infections, better healthcare overall, have reduced death rates from measles prior to vaccines.

Less measles cases is better for EVERYONE. Those vaccinated, those unvaccinated, or those that are vaccinated, but did not get immunity.

The amount of measles cases plummets in...1964, the year after the vaccine was introduced
by beansbeansbeans | 2025-06-10 00:31:55+00:00
I see, that's strange. Yeah, feel free to share the details/logs with me - you can open an issue on my blog's repo with the relevant details and system info.

However, I'm still suspecting it's something specific to your antivirus not knowing what to do with WASM code(which is used on this page). I found something similar on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/eaglercraft/s/heVtPy60lG. I wonder if that's the issue.
by grepfru_it | 2025-06-10 00:32:05+00:00
I would not use section 174 as a reason not to startup but rather as a way to ensure you are running a lean ship. It’s very possible the rule change could be retroactive. Thats just my poker take on this bluff. It may not be retrospective or it may not happen at all. But indecision will kill some startups, the ones who don’t will be a year or three ahead.
by gnopgnip | 2025-06-10 00:32:58+00:00
The reasoning behind depreciation is matching the income produced by the valuable asset, not really about resale value.

Presumably the value for tax purposes is based on the cost because the cost is harder to manipulate for something like software. Like some big box stores argue under the "dark store" theory they should be valued for much less because they have restrictive covenants banning competitors from using the property if sold, or that vacant property should be used as comparables.
by pseudalopex | 2025-06-10 00:33:05+00:00
''Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,'' says Steve Jobs, Apple's C.E.O. ''People think it's this veneer -- that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.''[1]

Interface design is not a place for unlimited creative expression. But recent user interface trends exclude many design idioms and relegate one to a limited range of creative expression also. Some people think they look better. Some do not.

Accessible interfaces have become uglier in ways which did not improve accessibility. And recent trends have made them less accessible in some ways also. Choose not enough contrast or too much. Choose contrast or color where both were before.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/magazine/the-guts-of-a-ne...
by lovecg | 2025-06-10 00:33:27+00:00
Could the vibe be due to the fact that HHHH… seems like the coin could not just be biased - it could be completely broken and come up heads every time. There are two distinct possibilities here:

1) the coin is broken and is always H

2) the coin is random or possibly biased, and you got a string of H by chance

And observing the string of H… increases the probability of 1) in the Bayesian sense.

With the two coins you eliminate this possibility altogether - a broken coin can never produce HT or TH.
by acdha | 2025-06-10 00:33:50+00:00
Administration officials are saying deployment is in progress: https://www.latimes.com/california/live/los-angeles-protests...

California isn’t “inciting” anything - this is a few people in a couple of parts of the city and so far it seems like a protest with some violence on the order of a bad Raiders game, nothing remotely like the 1992 riots much less an actual insurrection.
by zapzupnz | 2025-06-10 00:34:34+00:00
The theatrics of being *forced* to use completely optional, opt-in features has been a staple of discussions regarding Apple for years.

Every year, macOS and iPadOS look superficially more and more similar, but they remain distinct in their interfaces, features, etc. But the past 15 years have been "we'll be *forced* to only use Apple-vetted software, just like the App Store!"

And yeah, the Gatekeeper mechanism got less straight-forward to get around in macOS 15, but … I don't know, someone will shoot me down for this, but it's been a long 15 years to be an Apple user with all that noise going on around you from people who really don't have the first clue what they're talking about — and on HN, no less.

They can come back to me when what they say actually happens. Until then, fifteen dang years.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-06-10 00:35:19+00:00
The one place it really shines for me personally is bash scripts.

I've probably written 50 over the last two years for relatively routine stuff that I'd either not do (wasn't that important) or done via other means (schelpping through aws cli docs comes to mind) at 2x the time. I get little things done that I'd otherwise have put off. Same goes for IaC stuff for cloud resources. If I never have to write Terraform or Cloudformation again, I'd be fine with that.

Autocomplete is hit or miss for me--vscode is pretty good with CoPilot, Jetbrains IDEs are absolutely laughably bad with CoPilot (typically making obvious syntax errors on any completion for a function signature, constructor, etc) to the point that I disabled it.

I've no interest in any "agent" thingys for the time being. Just doesn't interest me, even if it's "far better than everyone" or whatever.
by djoldman | 2025-06-10 00:35:28+00:00
I tried to read carefully so please forgive me if I missed it, but I didn't see anything addressing response provenance or performance as in accuracy/other_metric.

The difference between a web search and text generated by an LLM can be that a web search points to actually existing companies or entities that make statements. Sometimes this is required and summaries or paraphrase are insufficient.

For performance or whatever metric one chooses, it's likely that web search wins some and loses some. It would be interesting to see an in-depth shoot out.
by harry8 | 2025-06-10 00:35:45+00:00
One story I heard of his influence was that Stevie Wonder did a guest spot in a Sly & the Family Stone gig and could feel the energy of the whole place, heaving.

Took that feeling and with a new record deal giving him creative control did Superstition, Higher Ground and all those classics.

It's hard to be cynical enough about rock history you see on tv, but it's at least plausible that one genius can inspire another, thinking of a Haydn & Mozart kind of thing.

"If You Want Me to Stay" probably my favourite Sly Stone track.

I never got around to listening to his stuff with Funkadelic, maybe today is that day.
by dh2022 | 2025-06-10 00:35:58+00:00
Nit: when anyone dies in a hospital the money-makers are the health providers, not the drug-makers. Health providers (think “non-profit” hospitals and medical centers, as well as clinics) have the biggest operating profit margin and return on equity in this business: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurance-companies-arent-the-...
by pxc | 2025-06-10 00:36:48+00:00
Imo, the GUI isn't really the most important part of things like Docker Desktop.

The nice part is that they (a) set up the Linux VM that runs the Docker daemon for you and (b) handle the socket forwarding magic that lets you communicate with it "directly" by running the Docker client on the host OS. This is likewise true for Podman Desktop, Rancher Desktop, etc.

The GUI is icing on the cake, imo.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-10 00:36:52+00:00
Pair programming is also not suitable for all cases

Maybe not for many cases

I mentioned this elsewhere but I find it absolutely impossible to get into a good programming flow anymore while the LLM constantly interrupts me with suggested autocompletes that I have to stop, read, review, and accept/reject

It's been miserable trying to incorporate this into my workflow
Ask HN: Do founders get honest feedback on their pitch decks?
by johnzakkam | 2025-06-10 00:37:04+00:00
I've been through a few VC meetings and noticed a pattern: friends and advisors are too polite when reviewing pitch decks. They miss the brutal questions VCs actually ask.

Thinking about building a tool that generates realistic VC questions based on your pitch deck - the skeptical stuff like "Your TAM math doesn't add up" or "Why can't BigCorp clone this?"

Is this actually a problem other founders face? How do you currently get honest pitch feedback before investor meetings?
by FabHK | 2025-06-10 00:37:14+00:00
> Especially here on HN I see “what’s the difference?” arguments all the time. It looks like it to me so it must be it. QED.

To be fair, the Turing Test (a human observer interacting with two terminals, one with a human at the other end, one with an AI, and the human not being reliably able to tell which one is the AI) has long been seen as the operationalization of the concept of general intelligence.

In other words, it is precisely so that when it is - by looks, by an external interrogator - indistinguishable from intelligence that it is, in fact, intelligence.
by duxup | 2025-06-10 00:37:22+00:00
IMO the definition of an MVP is pretty low on features, just bare bones, works well enough to demonstrate the main concept(s). 3 months is a LONG time for an MVP.

Depending on the product ... in 3 months, you could do better than an MVP with good direction / clear vision. (good direction and clear vision aren't easy to be sure of tho...)

YC? No idea, I got the impression they were more concerned with the Business IDEA more than raw product output.
by tzs | 2025-06-10 00:37:36+00:00
> Puppies are 100 percent part of the reason for the westernized world’s population problem.

Isn't "100 percent" redundant here? In general X is either part of the reason for Y or X is not part of the reason for Y. I can't think of any example where X might be say 87% part of the reason for Y.
by LoganDark | 2025-06-10 00:37:47+00:00
To be fair, this is how homebrew for Apple devices has always worked. You've always had to effectively reverse engineer the platform in order to write privileged code. Although I get the argument that if Apple were explicitly trying to support alternative operating systems they probably could have done more to make it easy, really what they were doing with this was first and foremost enabling additional use cases for macOS, and then maybe silently doing it in a way that third parties would also be able to benefit from. The Asahi wiki does a bit of a better job of explaining this, but the suspicion is that Apple did this not necessarily to make it easier for alternative operating systems to exist but to prevent the Mac from needing to be jailbroken when alternative operating systems were bound to happen anyway.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-06-10 00:38:25+00:00
> Making a broken thing go faster only makes it worse.

The key question is "For whom?" Because there are clearly winners and losers as in any social fad.

> Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a risk... The only sensible action to take... is to hold off... adoption of “AI” [until] extensive study [for] side effects [and] adverse interactions.

The adverse effects are already here, quite visible in the comment sections of most popular sites. Nobody is going to stop the world in order to be certified by a self-styled QC department, so study it in motion, a lot can be done that way too. Making unreasonable requests as a precondition for studying AI risks is actually quite wasteful and damaging.

> There is no winning in a debate with somebody who is deliberately not paying attention.

You shouldn't be engaging in a debate with that kind of people. Doing it repeatedly sounds like a Stockholm syndrome, you read psychology books, you should know this better than me.