MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by godelski | 2025-09-16 04:39:25+00:00
Actually there's lots of times I want to use my hand driven driver rather than a motorized one.

I agree with the other comment mentioning analogies have their limits. Are we going to pick them apart just so we can avoid listening? Communication is lossy. Are we having a conversation or just trying to win a game of our own design?

I add that because how I interpreted taeric's point of a drill and a driver is just a variation of "apples and oranges." You can concentrate on how they're both round fruit or you can recognize there's differences. I mean walk into any machine shop or go to your uncle that likes to make things and have them explain why they have so many wrenches of the same size but in different styles. Often the subtle differences are the most important part. Hell, how many people even know what those numbers do on the power drill? Making use of them really ups your game. Same with adjusting the power level on your microwave. Yet I rarely see people use these things which are highly effective and help avoid many common mistakes.
by tstrimple | 2025-09-16 04:39:32+00:00
Sounds like a time a significant percentage of Americans would have considered to be "great" and that they would like to make those things happen again. We know for a fact they aren't pushing for similar tax rates to when America was "great". So what exactly are they referring to? Not a single conservative in existence has been banned from social media because of their passion for debating tax rates. So what is it exactly that is getting conservatives banned?

We have to dance around this bullshit for some reason. Conservatives get kicked out of social media platforms for being outright hateful bigots. If people are getting "cancelled" for being "conservative" then you're admitting that conservative ideology is far more intrinsically tied to racism and xenophobia than it is balancing budgets which is something the Republican party hasn't been able to do for half a century at least. This is the "fuck your feelings" not the "budgets must be balanced" crowd after all.

I think what we're seeing here is that conservatives are learning how to weaponize "politically correct" language. It doesn't matter one bit how many conservatives not just online but elected fucking officials say terrible shit. They are quite happy to cheer on the assassination of elected Democrats and the assault of a Democratic senator's husband. They will make jokes about it just being a jilted gay lover and not the incredibly common right wing fucking nutbag that it so often ends up being. They, including Charlie Kirk, are on record calling for people like Joe Biden to be executed and we're just supposed to roll with it. But don't pay proper respects to a racist piece of shit being killed by the very thing he defended and suddenly they clutch their pearls to the point where they create databases to track folks not being properly saddened to get them "cancelled". To get cancelled from the left you have to be a sex pest or an abuser or an abject racist. But to get cancelled from the right you just have to post quotes from their dead heroes back to them.
by Nursie | 2025-09-16 04:39:35+00:00
> ... and ...?

Personally I prefer the device convergence rather than having to have another thing to keep track of. Plus the added factor of biometrics over pure hardware 2FA.

But you do you, as they say, the point is there are tradeoffs.

> There are ways to implement security without tying it to one of two app stores.

It's not just about the app store - people want to be able to run these on rooted devices, which is an end run around the security guarantees these apps currently rely on.

> Companies might even get creative and figure out hardware standards for secure verification that are portable, open, and give the user control.

I wish you the best of luck in this endeavour.

I hope that they already aren't relying on client-side security any more than they have to. I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with the APIs around biometrics to know if there's a useful way a server can use the onboard devices to verify a user's identity without relying on client-side security in one way or another though.

It's true on desktop we have stuff like FIDO2 authentication using hardware tokens, which are supported on open systems like firefox on linux. I'm sure it's not insurmountable or unthinkable to do similar on phones. At the least there would need to be a system of remote attestation for the biometric hardware, and a way for it to provide a verifiable response to a remote server. Far from insurmountable, but someone will need to actually do it.

Goes against FOSS still though if there are processors in the system which can't be user-controlled, and biometric chips which perform remote attestation (see the recent discussions on how passkeys are fundamentally OSS-hostile).
by socalgal2 | 2025-09-16 04:39:56+00:00
I don't use Launchpad but I can say, for me, Spotlight sucks! It decides at random times not to complete. I have it set to show apps only. I don't want it to find other things. But quite often I'll press Cmd-Space and type something and it won't find it. For example I just tried "pho" and it did not show Photoshop (which is on my system) but did show stuff completely unrelated to apps and I double checked, I only have apps selected in the Spotlight Search Results section in settings.
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-16 04:40:28+00:00
> I’ve also come to this realization as a longtime Mac user. Granted, I’m not old enough to have used the classic Mac OS as a professional, though I did use it in my childhood. However, I was in high school and college during the Jobs era of Mac OS X, and that’s when I started using Macs as my daily drivers from 2006 until 2022 when I retired my 2013 Mac Pro and 2013 MacBook Air and switched back to PCs running Windows.

Me too. I liked opinionated software when my opinions aligned with Apple's. But I found i hated it when they didn't. Around mavericks or Sierra or so I started getting more and more annoyed with all the things being changed for the worse (in my opinion). Then during the pandemic I had plenty of free time to dig deep into my computing future and I moved to KDE. Heavily customised just the way I love it. It's a breath of fresh air not having someone else make choices on how I should use my computer. Haven't looked back since.

I had already left iOS because it's so locked down and the hardware too expensive for the specs. That already broke a ton of the "just works" of course.
by 827a | 2025-09-16 04:41:34+00:00
I suspect that the problem is the tech industry itself; the companies that were supposed to cut out the expensive, bloated middleman became expensive bloated middlemen themselves, which is why when you order a Starbucks Frappe and a lemon cake on Uber Eats you pay $8 to Starbucks, $7 to Uber, and $3 to the driver. Meanwhile, all that caterer has to do is answer the phone; substantially more lean.
by connorjcantrell | 2025-09-16 04:42:31+00:00
So you have your building data, but how does it relate to the physical world?

- What equipment is associated with a given data point?

- How does it's host device relate to physical space?

- Does this host device have a one:one, one:many, or many:one relationship with equipment?

Without bridging the digital to the physical, your data, and your Unified Data Layer as a whole, can't deliver optimal value. I call this the "Context Problem".

For Smart Buildings, contextualizing this data is traditionally a manual intensive process. We have built ML and AI systems to tackle this challenge at scale.
by toast0 | 2025-09-16 04:43:13+00:00
Unfortunately, you might have trouble with light gun games. Some of the HDMI CRTs do some video processing that adds video delay. :(

If you're US based, you would probably use component video (YPbPr) to connect to your 1080i display; you can hook a ps2 light gun to the Y cable (usually green) and it should work if everything else is cool.
by dang | 2025-09-16 04:43:16+00:00
The submitted title was "Ghost Kitchens Are Dying. Here's the $15B Lesson Every Restaurateur Must Learn."

Since "Here's the $15B Lesson Every Restaurateur Must Learn" is obvious linkbait—I would even say shameless linkbait—this seems like a perfectly standard title edit to me.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait"
by nullpoint420 | 2025-09-16 04:43:16+00:00
I'm typing this post on the 395+ 128gb RAM model. IMO, the keyboard is better than the one in the newest Macbook Pro. Just enough travel, and quiet enough so I don't disturb co-workers when I type.

I use it for development running Fedora Workstation. My job involves spinning up lots of containers and K8S KIND clusters.

I often reach for it instead of my 14" M4 Macbook. However, I will choose the Macbook Pro when I know I'll be away from a charger for a while. The HP, as great as it is, still has bad battery life.
by mindwok | 2025-09-16 04:43:56+00:00
That's the purpose of crypto, yes. As it turns out people like having trusted authority in their money movements, and so now we're watching the crypto world just re-invent the financial industry basically as a digital twin.

Just look at Tether, the darling of the stablecoin world, which is minted by a handful of institutional clients. If you squint hard enough, you can see the banks.
by throwaway-0001 | 2025-09-16 04:45:00+00:00
https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/master/pub...

All using plain strings, what happens when you do a typo? Will your app will silently break or you’ll have a compile time error? that’s a huge draw back - in react I can get a compile time error for a typo most of the time
by kkylin | 2025-09-16 04:45:17+00:00
There are also under-the-hood changes that I found truly upsetting: among other things, all the Emacs versions I've tried (stock GNU Emacs or Mac Port, downloaded binary blobs and compiled on my machine) are either immediately unusable or become so slow after a day that they are almost unusable. Tracing things on Instruments suggests a culprit (the culprit?) is NSAutofillHeuristicController. This is not a new feature, but I'm guessing with them pushing Apple Intelligence it was rewritten. AFAIK no obvious way to disable this "feature". (Turning off Apple Intelligence doesn't seem to do it.)

I'm contemplating rolling back to Sequoia.
by gmueckl | 2025-09-16 04:45:46+00:00
A few random notes:

- Your model neglects the charging case with its own battery and microcontroller.

- A Trsla is more likely to be recycled properly than the same amount of earbuds. Itbis also more recycleable because ofnthe high amount of steel and other bulk materials in it.

- The ratio of semiconductor electronics to total weight is extremely different between the two products. And semiconductor manufacturing is extremely resource intensive. All we typically see is squeaky clean neon lit clean rooms, which belie the use of high amounts of aggressive and toxic chemicals that have to be produced somewhere and generate waste that is never talked about.
by data-ottawa | 2025-09-16 04:48:41+00:00
What feels breaking there is when you pinch to open launchpad you are not on home row, so typing to filter is inferior to swiping and clicking large targets.

Cmd+space to open spotlight already worked and typing was the best option for that use case.

I do like the new spotlight experience but this feels like losing a gesture, and it does not spark joy scrolling through the app list.
by mhh__ | 2025-09-16 04:48:41+00:00
I prefer react to no react but the more I use it and other frameworks like svelte I start to find it more and more offensive to every fibre of my intuition as a programmer.

I thought I'd always like the express oriented style but every single time I go back to a project I didn't entirely write it's like going to a roadside picnic of absolute gibberish that would be better off done more dumbly.
by dash2 | 2025-09-16 04:49:43+00:00
> Approximately 7,606 ghost kitchen operations remain active across the United States5. This sounds substantial until you realize how many have closed, pivoted, or failed in the past two years.

The article says this but never actually says how many have closed or failed. The only evidence it provides is that some operators have shut down. But that could be industry shakeout. So, are ghost kitchens actually doing?
by dash2 | 2025-09-16 04:50:25+00:00
> Approximately 7,606 ghost kitchen operations remain active across the United States5. This sounds substantial until you realize how many have closed, pivoted, or failed in the past two years.

The article says this but never actually says how many have closed or failed. The only evidence it provides is that some operators have shut down. But that could be industry shakeout.
by duckfan77 | 2025-09-16 04:50:50+00:00
My server sits next to my existing desktop, and I just move the keyboard cable from one to the other when I need to get at a local interface on the server. One of my monitors has two inputs, and so is always plugged into both, I can just change the input selected. Not the "cleanest" solution, but it works when I need to get at it, and the space it's in wasn't being used by anything else.
by jcranmer | 2025-09-16 04:54:44+00:00
This reminds me of the time I was a young, naïve idiot, and decided I would learn GTK by writing some basic app in GTK. In x86 (not x86-64) assembly. Like all of my other project ideas from that era, never went anywhere, and I horribly underappreciated just how complicated things were.

Kudos for actually getting somewhere in their attempt to do this, a further state than I ever managed.
by cobbzilla | 2025-09-16 04:56:15+00:00
Absolutely. I love playing Atari 2600 games, and it seems sacrilegious to play on anything but an old-school CRT TV.

Also, I’ve heard a CRT is required for NES light-gun games like Duck Hunt. Anyone know if this is true? I don’t have an NES, and if I did, I’d hook it up to my CRT, so I still wouldn’t know the answer :)
by wvenable | 2025-09-16 04:57:29+00:00
> If the latest product seems good, buy it. If not, don’t.

There is another aspect to this though. As a user of an ecosystem, you're committed in many ways. As Apple or Microsoft or Google releases a new version of their operating system you're going to run that on hardware you already own. You're going to run software that you already own on that the OS. And you're doing to use skills and knowledge of that software to accomplish something useful.

In some ways it doesn't matter if the product is good or bad -- you're pretty committed. You're going to be willing to suffer some pain because the alternative is too difficult and too expensive. The only thing you really can do is complain.
by yongjik | 2025-09-16 04:57:45+00:00
I'm roughly in the same camp and my take is: it's wrong when you're being cruel to migrant workers from poor countries willing to work for pennies.

It's also wrong, but not just that, it's wrong and stupid when you do the same thing to employees of a multi-national corporation building a factory that was going to be a major economic boost to your town.
by adastra22 | 2025-09-16 04:57:51+00:00
Vision Pro's only problem is the price. At $1k I think we would see a lot more adoption. I say this as a former skeptic and who gets VR sickness from other AR/VR devices, and hates the idea of strapping a device to my face and being isolated from my surroundings.

I got an AVP for work (long story), and was blown away. No VR sickness. I can work from anywhere with my laptop while enjoying a massive, wrap-around high resolution (virtual) display. I can relive vacation photos in full 3D. I can watch For All Mankind projected on a drive-in movie theatre screen in a lunar crater, while laying in my bed.

I think I'd have to go back to the original iPhone to think of a product that is so innovative and visionary that you just KNOW from first use that it will completely transform the way we interact with computers.

But at $3,500? Nobody can afford that, and only a small subset of the 1% would even consider buying one.
by bb88 | 2025-09-16 04:58:24+00:00
A bunch of movies off hand that weren't mentioned elsewhere. This doesn't include tv shows, the two I remember off hand are M*A*S*H and The Kids in the Hall.

1999: Hilary Swank won best actress for Boys Don't Cry.

1982: Julie Andrews nominated for Victor/Victoria

1983: Barbara Streisand in Yentl -- before she became the effect.

1996: Robin Williams and Gene Hackman in The Birdcage.

1995: Patrick Swayze in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

1994: Mignight in the Garden of Good and Evil directed by Clint Eastwood

1992: The Crying Game
by moron4hire | 2025-09-16 04:58:34+00:00
I think you might be missing out on the standard Time element in HTML5. In use, you set its datetime attribute to a machine-readable format and set its body to the user-readable format.

Also, I tend to think of HTML not as my application view, but as a document that represents a serialization of your view. The actual, live view itself is the DOM. Once that document is parsed and rendered, the HTML source from whence it came doesn't matter anymore. Stringly attributes should no longer be a concern.

Though, admittedly, the HTMLTimeElement's dateTime property is still a string value. I imagine that is more of a legacy issue. The Date class in JavaScript is a mess as well.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-16 05:00:12+00:00
>To any microsoft workers: is this stuff really getting zero pushback internally? It is clear power users don’t want it and that is sort of who copilot is pitched towards vs the masses.

I imagine (based on my experiences as a now-former MS employee) that someone's (or some group's) bonus is tied to the number of Copilot seats installed. Which makes them oblivious/uncaring as to who might push back or how a user might feel. That's muh bonus, brah!

And since CoPilot is high profile, it's gets lots of support from the C-suite, limiting meaningful pushback. And here we are. I suggest learning to use gpedit if you don't already know how.

But don't worry, once bonuses are handed out, those same geniuses will find some other high profile initiative to boost their comp and level. Then we'll see some other square peg destructively jammed into a round hole.
by green7ea | 2025-09-16 05:00:44+00:00
The HP zbook g1a ultra is as close as you can get with Strix Halo. There are two screen options and the OLED one is high resolution. It's Ubuntu certified as well and can run LLMs nicely. The keyboard, trackpad, etc are all to notch. It's somewhere in between a mac pro and max.

I have one and love it but it's not close to my wife's mac on battery life.
by kelnos | 2025-09-16 05:00:50+00:00
> Shared kitchen facilities meant that one staff member prepared food for multiple brands simultaneously. No ownership. No accountability. Just assembly-line cooking with zero connection to customers.

It's funny because it's not like (normal) restaurants don't exist where they have crazy-big menus with a wide range of choices and cuisines. Certainly some of them are kinda mediocre, but many are actually pretty great, and you can get a solid dish regardless of what you pick. Some pride themselves on their ability to make basically anything, and make it well.

A ghost kitchen where the same staff works for several different "restaurants" simultaneously can work just fine, assuming actual training, and an effort to create quality recipes and use quality ingredients.

But I can easily see how a lack of a sense of ownership among the assembly-line-style staff could make this dicey. If you're making random dishes for a random set of "brands" (a brand among many that was plucked out of a hat, complete with AI-generated food images and descriptions), you're probably not going to take much pride in the quality of your work. And I do think the author has a point about connection; certainly a connection to customers is no guarantee of quality, but I think it's a much harder sell to inspire that quality without it.
by tstrimple | 2025-09-16 05:01:28+00:00
Food trucks seem like they would involve more cost than a "ghost kitchen" and the branding on the truck especially will follow you around. If a ghost kitchen sucks, there is no cost in changing their name and maybe even their menu and continuing their bullshit. But there are real costs in re-branding and vinyling your food truck and food trucks deal with face to face business.
by mdasen | 2025-09-16 05:01:41+00:00
It's not just about emotion or loyalty. It's about built-up knowledge and the difficulty of switching.

When you're a long time user, you know how to do everything with what you're using - whether that's an operating system, a programming language, or something else.

The latest product isn't good and your suggestion is "don't buy it." OK, what do I do instead? Buy a Windows or Linux laptop where I have to re-learn a decade's worth of knowing-how-everything-works? Build up my natural flow in a new OS? Find whatever are the Windows alternatives for all the little things that I do on my Mac?

I'm not saying that companies owe things to their customers, but I think it's really simplistic to say that it's just an emotional investment and misplaced loyalty. People have a tool and then a company makes that tool worse. There are other tools, but it takes time to learn them, figure out their differences and how to get everything done with them, etc. Pretending that there's zero cost to switching is disingenuous.

For example: if you're a software engineer and someone made your main programming language bad, there's a high cost to switching to a new language. Even if you're excellent at learning new languages, you don't know which libraries are good, you don't know what various functions are named, you don't know what warts are in the build system (and how to avoid them), etc.

It's not just some emotional response or misplaced loyalty. It's that you've built up skills over many years that are tied to that thing.
by simondotau | 2025-09-16 05:01:55+00:00
The problem is there aren't enough people buying mini phones to make it worthwhile to Apple. But that's only if they keep a mini around permanently.

However if Apple released a new iPhone mini model every fourth year, I'd wager these would be like a McRib-style smash hit sales event, compressing the comparatively small mini-enthusiast audience into a time-limited buying window. It would also trigger FOMO at a time when many people are increasingly willing to delay upgrades for 5+ years.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-16 05:02:13+00:00
Hasbara manufactured consent and weaponized crocodile cries of "antisemitism" are small potatoes when AIPAC foreign influence corruption runs DC but politicians don't want to be primaried, lose their bribes, or be called "spreading antisemitic tropes." It's an ethnonationalist regime propping up another enthonationalist regime plus controlled opposition of so-called Democrats who talk about fictional families and write strongly-worded letters.
by qwerty_clicks | 2025-09-16 05:02:36+00:00
I commonly switch between chatgpt, perplexity, and copilot. Whatever is closest to my mouse or shortcut. Copilot is clearly the worst of the three but I have not true loyalty or most of the time, care. I suspect I am getting weak model responses from perplexity at times but it’s good enough to keep moving fast. Sam mentioned brining memory to people, not just because it’s what ppl want but I suspect my it will help to lock ppl into one platform of snowballing context.