MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-08-26 01:17:27+00:00
> The problem isn’t that one little bird has died. The problem is that the bird might be dead because the whole mine is filling with deadly carbon monoxide or highly flammable methane gas

This is where I'm at with Apple at the moment.

I know this sounds crazy or stupid, and people on reddit made sure to tell me as much, but the recent iOS, macOS, and watchOS betas have actually caused me to abandon the Apple ecosystem. As far as I'm concerned, there isn't one bird dead, but a whole bunch of birds. I suppose I'm a little more sensitive than Gruber. I find the design language (or lack thereof?) in Apple's recent work to be largely void of life, inspiration, purpose, craft, or anything else I'd come to expect over the last 25 years of using their platform. The quality in terms of performance, efficiency, bugs, intuitive user interfaces, and so on has been dropping for years now. The last OS revision is exemplary of this decline in a deeply concerning way.

I've been so disheartened by things like this, and I'm confident it represents the end of an era so to speak, that I've already come to terms with it and started moving off of Apple's ecosystem.

For me, the move is a matter of pursuing systems which allow me a bit more freedom. Apple has restricted me in ways that I permitted for decades now, but I permitted it because the compromise was worth it. I don't see it being worth it in 5 or 10 years, so I'm starting the transition now. I sold my watch, gave away my iPhone, and started shopping for a ThinkPad.

It's hard to give up macOS and Apple hardware (the value prop has become kind of insane, really), but seeing their recent OS work takes the sting away. I'd love to see them recognize their mistakes and correct course, but... I don't think I'm their target customer anymore, frankly. The people who think I'm an idiot on reddit are their target market, I suppose. That's fine. I'll learn to love Linux and Windows for different reasons and regain some privacy and control over my machines.

My family will certainly stay on Apple's ecosystem.
by l72 | 2025-08-26 01:17:35+00:00
I have an intel framework running fedora. I have found that intels s0 sleep just uses way too much battery. I’d expect that in sleep mode, it should last a week and still be above 50% power but that is definitely not the case.

I ended up moving to hybrid, where it suspends for an hour allowing immediate wake up then hibernates completely. It’s a decent compromise and I’ve never once had an issue with resume from suspend or hibernate, nor have I ever had an issue with it randomly waking up and frying itself in a backpack or unexpectedly having a dead battery.

My work M1 is still superior in this regard but it is an acceptable compromise.
by treetalker | 2025-08-26 01:18:06+00:00
> " … The executive power of the United States is vested to me as President and, as President, I have a solemn duty that the laws of the United States are faithfully enacted,” the president wrote in the letter to Cook.

Be. Executed. Be faithfully executed. That's why the president is the chief executive, not the chief enactor.

Not exactly the constitutional scholar Obama was. But, in light of the recent "executive order to make flag-burning a criminal offense", perhaps this is a pertinent and revealing Freudian slip.
by mquander | 2025-08-26 01:18:27+00:00
When you rely on an LLM to write for you and then present a melange of your work and the LLM's work without attribution, it makes it impossible for others to usefully interpret what you published.

Are you saying that e.g. securely attached children perform better in school, because you know that in your capacity as a educated psychologist? Or did an LLM write that based on its best guess? None of your readers can tell. So how should they know whether it's true?
by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t | 2025-08-26 01:19:32+00:00
Fairphones are also LineageOS and postmarketOS compatible, both options are without tracking and without Google's mandated policies.

LineageOS without gapps is really usable if you set aside the "big" social media apps. WhatsApp can be sourced from their website as an APK. The social apps like facebook, instagram, snap, tiktok and others all require Google Play's tracking services (aka gapps).

For YouTube there's multiple better alternative open source apps available, and mastodon, amethyst and the fediverse apps on f-droid are far superior in terms of performance to the Google Store alternatives.
by IFC_LLC | 2025-08-26 01:21:01+00:00
Oh, I will. I will. I'm quite amazed by the dedication of the team that supports the framework and how good of a care they have been taking about it.

Funny enough, one of my first articles I've ever written on the internet was about RoR. It's dated 1st of March 2010. Gosh, It's been 15 years. At that moment I used https://rubyforge.org to download RoR, Instant Rails for Windows and Aptana as an IDE. 15 years have gone by, but RoR is here just like PHP is.

So it's getting better and better.
by vosper | 2025-08-26 01:21:16+00:00
Your HEPA filters must be real ones. HEPA is just an acronym anyone can slap on anything, there's no accreditation.

Recent testing on the Vacuum Wars channel showed big differences between filters from the vacuum manufacturer and off-brand "HEPA" filters. Probably the same applies everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAIYRykQkMk
by bengt | 2025-08-26 01:22:54+00:00
Yeah, even to just know what's up it's probably important to try.

If switching between multiple editors you should look to include a .editorconfig file in your project to have 1 place to configure things.[1]

The following are the extensions I've found to use in VSCode / Cursor (these can be saved to / recommended to a project by being listed in the `.vscode/extensions.json` file).

* [2] Ruff

* [3] BasedPyright

* [4] Todo Tree

* [5] Rainbow CSV

* [6] Mermaid Chart (I’ve found Claude to be good at generating these)

* [7] Live Share

* [8] Even Better TOML

* [9] Error Lens

[1] https://editorconfig.org/ [2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=charlier... [3] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=detachhe... [4] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Gruntfug... [5] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mechatro... [6] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MermaidC... [7] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-vsliv... [8] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tamasfe.... [9] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=username...
by gwerbret | 2025-08-26 01:22:57+00:00
> There are lots of examples of MAID being pushed upon people that do have other options and made to feel like it's the only one.

I'm not really surprised. It looks like Canada's healthcare costs are growing exponentially, and are outstripping growth in GDP. These costs are mostly driven by hospitalizations. If a government can carefully promote the message that hospitalization means suffering, suffering is hard, a life with suffering is not worth living, and that relief is quick and easy, then a route is charted to a reduction in healthcare expense. It would certainly help if the large physician organizations are on board, and the nation's major broadcasters lean into euthanasia-friendly messaging.
by lucb1e | 2025-08-26 01:23:24+00:00
It's also super nice to take notes on the fly for OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete, for holding the device up to the sky and it tells you what planet is so bright in the sky, for navigation... These things don't work on a laptop. Even if you want to carry a full-sized system in place of a smartphone, or use Ubuntu Touch, I'm not aware of software to do these things in the convenient way that Android apps let you

Of course, that's a software support issue and not a constraint imposed by the OS. Someone could make Stellarium desktop work with an orientation sensor. It's just that nobody has done that particular thing, as well as a million other things that work super well on mobile

So is it second-class, or is it just a way that is optimised for output rather than input? You get the turn instructions presented to you, you can watch videos and listen to music, note-taking is optimised to work with a few taps and is reduced to the essentials you need. You can work them out later on computer if you have time at home over of course, but at least you can contribute that way with ease
by Retric | 2025-08-26 01:23:50+00:00
> They misreport the value for tax purposes

Regular people also commit fraud which can make some differences here. But in general it’s the state who decides what something is worth for tax purposes not the individual.

> they own it through some other legal entity that is all negative

Unpaid property taxes result in forfeiture, so again the state’s getting paid here. It’s financial voodoo around other taxes which causes such structures.

> they own it in countries that don't to property taxes

So do regular people, the important bit is where such property is located not who owns it.
by autoexec | 2025-08-26 01:24:05+00:00
"the argument that it's for our own good." is their instance that we should accept this loss of our freedom to run the software we want because it protects us. It doesn't actually protect us though, so it isn't worth it and we shouldn't accept it.

My original statement had nothing to do with motorcycle helmets, but if using them required us to give up enough of our freedoms they could also become unacceptable for the level or protection they provide (or fail to provide) us.
by dataflow | 2025-08-26 01:26:03+00:00
> It was all about masks/no masks, remember?

No I don't. What I remember is that they said a lot about social distancing and going outside, and for those who do have to be around others, they initially said you gotta wear N95 since ordinary masks aren't very effective, then they said there's a shortage of N95 masks so please just wear normal masks since at least it's better than nothing, and save the N95s for the hospitals and other high-risk settings/workers.

If you remember it differently, please explain what I'm misremembering, because (unlike a sizable fraction of the population) I don't remember hearing anything nonsensical or misleading about masks, especially given the information and resources they had available at the time.
by lh7777 | 2025-08-26 01:26:59+00:00
Personally, I'm more dismayed by this change:

> Apps that haven’t been updated with Tahoe-compliant everything-fits-in-a-squircle icons are put in “squircle jail” — their non-Tahoe-compliant icons are shrunk and placed atop a drab gray Tahoe squircle background, to force them into squircle compliance.

I've been replacing some app icons with their older, non-square versions for years (Firefox is probably my favorite). Will be disappointing to lose that option -- I've never understood why Apple feels the need to standardize app icons like this.
by pkilgore | 2025-08-26 01:27:22+00:00
The vast majority of MAID provisions (95.9%; n=14,721) were for individuals in Track 1; 4.1% (n=622) of MAID provisions were for individuals in Track 2. (See Section 2) [1]

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications...
by bigiain | 2025-08-26 01:28:29+00:00
A long time ago, I used to work at a place that decided to stick iPads onto meeting room doorways to display who had the room booked (because people are the worst). These'd last 7 or 8 months before the battery puffed up enough to be noticed, or in a few cases to crack the screens. I grabbed a few power point timer switches, and set them to only over up the charger for a hour a day. Never had another battery puffing failure - at last not in the next 2 or 3 years before I left. (As the iPads got old, charging for 1 hour per day wasn't always enough to keep them running 24x7, but I'd set them to start charging at 6am so worst case was someone needed to power up the iPad and start the room booking webapp on it in the morning. If a particular iPad got its battery into a state where that was happening regularly, we just adjusted the power point timer to charge twice a day, morning and evening.)
by squigz | 2025-08-26 01:29:02+00:00
> What we do have is the words of people saying they do not wish to die, but are taking MAID due to necessary supports not being offered instead. What percentage would you consider too high for that?

But these are separate issues, no?

I mean, if we don't have MAID, the existing failings of our healthcare system won't just go away; they won't just magically get the support they need. Instead, they'll die anyway, probably in a painful way.

Of course, for this discussion to be worth anything, we'd need more details. What does "support not being offered" mean, precisely? ..How many people is this actually happening to? And no, we can't just believe accounts posted on social media. And even if we did, are we going to get the other side of the story?
by tvb12 | 2025-08-26 01:29:07+00:00
On the subject of adding more buttons, I think there needs to be a rethinking of mouse button events at the OS level. Gaming mice with 12-20+ buttons have to resort to creating keyboard events with weird key combinations because there aren't actually that many mouse events, which is insane. There are currently only 12 valid integers (12 types of "click") sent from the raw mouse events. Those need special handling because the numbers are chosen very strangely, but why can't we agree that for any number within some range, the odd number is a key-press and the even number is the key-release, or something like that? You don't have to create named events for all of them, but the raw integers should be valid even if you have to use the lower level events.

If I want to build a mouse with 32,000 buttons, the limit should not be the operating system's mouse event.
by wvenable | 2025-08-26 01:30:24+00:00
I only personally know one person who has chosen MAID. He was a close family friend and was very ill. He decided that once he got to the point where he could no longer walk that he didn't see any further point in living. There was nothing more any medical system could do for him. He reached that point and he died on his terms.

I also had family member die recently; he was 95 years old. At 85 he said it was time to go into a home and went and did that for a few years. But at 95 he just decided he was done. He told everyone and then he just stopped eating. Within in a week he was gone.
by strange_quark | 2025-08-26 01:30:35+00:00
I agree that a lot of Apple stuff has gotten worse recently, both in terms of objective quality in the number of bugs, incomplete features that don't work properly when shipped, and in terms of the company trying to coerce even more control over its platforms and simultaneously enshittifiying them. It's ridiculous that they region lock OS-level stuff like 3rd party app stores and alternative browser engines.

But from where I'm sitting, everyone else is doing what Apple's doing times 100. The latest Windows releases are aesthetically groetesque, both Google and Microsoft are trying to jam chatbots into everything, both Windows and Android are jammed full of ads and nagging "suggestions" to try some useless feature. Now Google is cracking down on Android sideloading.

Desktop Linux I guess? I don't have time for that, and the hardware is so much worse than a MacBook.

There's simply no winning, unfortunately.
by c0balt | 2025-08-26 01:30:49+00:00
To add to the other commenters, in the spirit of providing feedback for the next iteration:

- responsivity, the site does not scale well on portrait screens, specifically the email input is shifted to the left and partially off-screen

- layout, the header is not vertically aligned. The elements are off-center

- design, it looks nice at a first glance but lacks polish. Consider starting with an existing landing page template (there are lots of free ones) and refining with AI, if you are unable to create one yourself or hire/ask someone.

- contact/ TOS, you provide your (presumably) legal name and email address. If this is a real fund you should at least provide some sort of address and name of the fiscal host. A personal gmail address also strongly indicates that this is not a functional fund with proper organization of fiscal resources.

- name, already mentioned by other posters but the llama part is not good. My first thought was "Meta has new fund?" however the site's content directly squashed this (no legal contact -> no proper fiscal host). Even disregarding trademark concerns, you don't focus on llama but on open-source models, so please try to name it appropriately.
by treesknees | 2025-08-26 01:31:17+00:00
From some research, Unifi Protect doesn’t support live audio or audio playback for third-party cameras. It also lacks support for people and vehicle detections.

I would likely consider using this setup for some inexpensive auxiliary cameras to enhance coverage. I’ve also had the desire to add a cheap remote camera while I’m staying in an Airbnb. However, I wouldn’t use this system for any serious surveillance around the house.
by unsignedint | 2025-08-26 01:32:04+00:00
I’m not “eager to give up” interoperability — I’m saying interoperability without trust isn’t worth much. Calling it orthogonal doesn’t change the lived reality that the abuse rides on that interoperability at scale.

If the only way to preserve interoperability is to accept decades of unresolved abuse and perpetual patchwork fixes, then that’s not a trade-off I find compelling. At that point we’re not debating facts, we’re debating tolerance levels — and mine is lower. I think that’s a good place to leave it.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-08-26 01:32:06+00:00
About 18 months ago in Quebec, my aunt, who was terminally ill with cancer, had to go to the hospital for severe pain. I had a phone call with her just before she went in, and while the idea of suicide had come up occasionally, usually during bouts of sundowning, it wasn't her focus at that moment. Once she was in the hospital's care, she was offered a permanent solution to her suffering. After a seemingly normal visit with her sisters that night, she died by assisted suicide the next morning. Her sisters were shocked and devastated.

While I think people should be free to choose, I don't know how much information hospital staff should be able to give.

Difficult.

Edit: I'm not 100% certain as to the timeline. She may have been in the hospital for 2 days.
by ekidd | 2025-08-26 01:32:33+00:00
I mean, in my country, it's increasingly unclear to me whether things like "loudly criticizing the executive branch" are now considered criminal. Recent executive branch statements on this issue seem to indicate that they may consider some critics criminal just for being critics. But it's hard to be sure. And so far, every critic they've threatened to arrest has also been accused of committing other crimes.

So "the government only considers a duress PIN illegal if it is used to facilitate crime" seems like a potentially tricky standard to apply.
by righthand | 2025-08-26 01:32:42+00:00
Right so your quibble is that part of your audience is not portable, not that federation makes posting harder. You either maintain a centralized service account or you don’t. That hasn’t changed with Meta services. It is Threads that doesn’t allow for portability.

Further a tombstone would point users to the new account if they choose to continue following you. This can be done in a post and your bio.

How bad is it that your two accounts end up in the same feed? By your own admission Threads is a different audience.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-08-26 01:32:46+00:00
> Attention as a concept itself is already quite unintuitive

Once you realize that Attention is really just a re-framing of Kernel Smoothing it becomes wildly more intuitive [0]. It also allows you to view Transformers as basically learning a bunch of stacked Kernels which leaves them in a surprisingly close neighborhood to Gaussian Processes.

0. http://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.ht...
by clipsy | 2025-08-26 01:33:26+00:00
> What we do have is the words of people saying they do not wish to die, but are taking MAID due to necessary supports not being offered instead. What percentage would you consider too high for that?

What you do have is a handful of anecdotes, to put it in more honest terms.

What's fascinating to me is that the discussion of these anecdotes revolves around wanting to eliminate MAID rather than -- gosh, I don't know -- offering those necessary supports instead? The anecdote (in the article) about it being easier for "some people" to get MAID than to get a wheelchair makes for a great soundbite, but the people who quote it always seem more interested in eliminating MAID than in providing wheelchairs to those in need, for some odd reason.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-08-26 01:33:41+00:00
For my personal site, I let the bots do whatever they want—it's a static site with like 12 pages, so they'd essentially need to saturate the (gigabit) network before causing me any problems.

On the other hand, I had to deploy Anubis for the SVN web interface for tug.org. SVN is way slower than Git (most pages take 5 seconds to load), and the server didn't even have basic caching enabled, but before last year, there weren't any issues. But starting early this year, the bots started scraping every revision, and since the repo is 20+ years old and has 300k files, there are a lot of pages to scrape. This was overloading the entire server, making every other service hosted there unusable. I tried adding caching and blocking some bad ASNs, but Anubis was (unfortunately) the only solution that seems to have worked.

So, I think that the main commonality is popular-ish sites with lots of pages that are computationally-expensive to generate.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-08-26 01:33:54+00:00
the wrench is uncanny, weird if you regularly see wrenches in real life... they likely did this to make the bolt larger, but it ruins the concept

might have been better off simply going with the bolt metaphor, sans wrench, even though it's less apparent... though the squircle also kind of fights with other shapes as containers

the old stethoscope on a disk icon is super cheesy, but at least it means something
by lucb1e | 2025-08-26 01:34:29+00:00
Suspect, they wrote, and that happens all the time. If you go into a store on the way home from work, and 99 days this works fine but the 100th day they want to look in your bag, but you can't show them confidential drawings of the Google Pixel 14 Max that you carry as part of your work, now they'll think you really did steal something and you went from no suspicion (spot check) to definitely a suspect and new things start to apply to you, e.g. if you leave without resolving the suspicion the police might have grounds to enter your house or search you when you walk out next time. The suspicion is based on being a suspect, not on any actual evidence (nobody saw you put anything in your bag)
by sothatsit | 2025-08-26 01:34:58+00:00
> writing C code that does not crash all the time is significantly harder/expensive

This is just plain not true. The fact of the matter is that if you stick to good practices, writing C code that does not crash under regular usage is not at all difficult. The problem is that writing C code that is guaranteed not to contain memory issues is extremely hard. But writing programs that don't crash "all the time" is not at all difficult.

This is why I can understand the push to use memory-safe languages to avoid memory safety issues in critical or widely-relied-upon programs. But the main reason you are using it in these cases is to avoid memory safety bugs, not to help you write programs that don't "crash all the time". And even then, the main incentive is that memory safety bugs can be quite severe bugs in areas like networking code, where they might become a significant security risk. The crashes aren't even the main concern here.