MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigglywiggler | 2025-09-12 05:48:16+00:00
I made an account just to jump in here because this debate infuriates me every time I see it. So basically all the stuff that makes apple devices actually measurably better has to be opened up so that some rando can make a half hacked together attempt at compatibility? For what? So that people have even more rubbish e-waste to choose from?

Apple's main strength is their flawless ecosystem, everything made by apple works perfectly with everything else made by apple.

My airpods switch seamlessly between my apple devices, my watch unlocks all my stuff, my phone can be used as a camera and mic for my macbook, all of my devices besides my earbuds can be used to pay for things. All of it works completely seamlessly, no annoying popups, no dialog boxes, no asking for permission ten million times, no random disconnects. Literally no friction at all, once a new device is set up it's done. This frictionless-ness needs Apple's proprietary modifications to standards to function and it needs Apple's devices to be individually secure and all of these seamless connections need to also be secure.

If users want that then they buy apple.

If users want the spam ridden garbage hole that is Google's Play Store, or the terrible jamming of Android into poor quality cheap devices or the rubbish quality of most consumer tech in general then they can buy whatever they want but I don't want $10 aliexpress smartwatches to be able to seamlessly connect to my phone. I don't want random bluetooth earbuds from the petrol station to be able to access an API that lets them send transcripts of my calls anywhere they like and I definitely don't want a low barrier to entry for devices that can airdrop me stuff or paste to my macbook if I'm out and about.

Mybe Apple should just lock it's devices down so that they only work with other Apple devices full stop. Then there wouldn't be a market for compatible devices to compete in. I'd be happy because I have never once bought a non-apple device that I care about connecting to my phone. I'd have to buy a new monitor but that's ok.

All consumer tech right now is literally rebadges or mild modificatioins of stuff from AliExpress and I don't want that in my nice clean ecosystem. If these competitors want to actually compete then how about they make something that's actually better in some way instead of just hamfistedly copying whatever Apple comes up with? Live translation exists on google devices, if you want non-apple accessories and live translation then just buy a pixel and pixel buds? Nobody forces anyone to buy into apple's ecosystem.

I have switched between ecosystems multiple times and every single time I ended up back with Apple since I bought my first iPhone 5 back when they were new. The issues that android and windows devices have far outweigh the cost of Apple lockin. Especially for someone who just wants their devices to work as what they are and doesn't care about tinkering with them.
by etoxin | 2025-09-12 05:48:41+00:00
Most people take photos of DSO's, but while you've got the gear, why not photograph the moon. It's also technically fun. Using a cooled camera, I video the moon/Jupiter at 20fps at 3000x3000. Then using software, I only take the frames where there is minimal atmospheric distortion. With the remaining frames, you stack them to get a very detailed image of the moon/planets.

Look up the other gear from ZWO the maker of the seestar.
by Liquix | 2025-09-12 05:48:53+00:00
obligatory plug for Navidrome [0], a "personal spotify server" which is simple to set up and allows playback + offline caching on any desktop/mobile device. it's a really polished piece of self-hosted software.

although there is something refreshing about the simplicity and resiliency of OP's setup.

[0] https://www.navidrome.org/
by henrikschroder | 2025-09-12 05:48:54+00:00
People have been making websites exactly like this since the 90's.

Every single one of them have ultimately been massive failures, because you are re-inventing the wheel and putting a window system that you control to sidestep the window system that I control.

> I had a lot of fun in building it

Yeah, me too! But I learned my lesson.
by alvah | 2025-09-12 05:49:34+00:00
Just yesterday, asking it to make some design changes to my study. It did a great job with all the complex stuff, but asking it to move a shelf higher, it repeatedly gave me back the same image. With LLMs generally I find as soon as you encounter resistance it's best to start a new chat, however in this case that didn't wok either. Not a single thing I could do to convince it that the shelf didn't look right half way up a wall.
by Razengan | 2025-09-12 05:51:35+00:00
> Or even better we could build cupboards in the aparments and people just keep their personal supply.

Hate having to annotate explanations to obvious things but I guess it wasn't obvious:

Stock up for the next few months. (after paying for it)

If they don't need/use it, it gets redistributed. (from the local shared storage unit)
by xp84 | 2025-09-12 05:51:39+00:00
This is definitely admirable, for lack of a better word. It's frustrating how having been in the "streaming world" for a decade now, it put a stop to me getting music that I can own DRM-free which puts a pretty big wall in front of this optin for me.

It's kind of like we've been incurring debt all that time, and the "payments" are all deferred as long as you keep the subscription. But if I drop the subscription, suddenly I don't own any music newer than 2015, despite having paid $1200 -- it was just to rent music from Apple all that time.

Which kinda would be fine since I can afford it and it allowed me to get more music than I probably would have bought with a $1200 iTunes gift card.

But as you pointed out, Apple Music (and in my humble opinion Spotify and YouTube Music) both have modern-day UIs that are a horror show, only getting worse with each passing release. But the only choice is to keep subscribing to one, or rebuild your library at great money or time expense. :(
by _caw | 2025-09-12 05:51:58+00:00
I love observing the moon, whether that's taking a picture with a telephoto or peeping through telescope.

There's something special about seeing the craters with your own eyes and then sharing that with friends. The framing & cropping, zoom, color of the sky are all unique to that experience.

Plus the moon is always looking slightly different each time, with different areas shadowed; fuzzy details one day are sharp the next.

And it's a skill like any other, which feels great to improve day after day.
by gf000 | 2025-09-12 05:52:34+00:00
> They're honor system, which is dumb when you could have browsers not send that data back without opt-in.

Given that there is no objective way to differentiate between functional and tracking cookies, your "technical" solution would also boil down to honoring marking certain cookies as such by the website owner, effectively being the same as what we have today.

(Though I do agree that the UX would be nicer this way)
by stevula | 2025-09-12 05:52:39+00:00
The Stack Exchange link is incorrect about -ite being etymologically derived from lithos, as one of the commenters there noted. Maybe a misunderstanding of this wiktionary note or similar:

> But by the Hellenistic period, both the masculine -ίτης (-ítēs) and the feminine -ῖτις (-îtis) became very productive in forming technical terms for products, diseases, minerals and gems (adjectives with elliptic λίθος (líthos, “stone”)), ethnic designations and Biblical tribal names.

The meaning of that is not that -ite is etymologically derived from lithos. It’s trying to say that mineral names like “hematite” (αἱματίτης - literally “blood-red”) are originally adjectives agreeing with an implied noun lithos.
by pantulis | 2025-09-12 05:53:33+00:00
As was said by someone on X, OpenAI doesn't have the money and Oracle doesn't have the GPUs.

I'm not saying the agreement does not makes some sense to both parties but at the end of the day this a highly leveraged operation, the money is not there and will need to be raised by both players. So a lot of financial risk is involved.

Perhaps they can pull this off because after all they are smart people. But it seems like the free money party is open and others will follow suit until somebody drops the ball and then we'll be back in a crash.
by captainmuon | 2025-09-12 05:54:23+00:00
> Cellebrite admits they can not hack GrapheneOS if users had installed updates since late 2022.

So, how do I know that GrapheneOS is not a honeypot for the really big fish?

At this point it seems if you really want to be safe, you have to add obscurity (in addition to conventional best practices). Like changing the pinout on your USB port so the exploit device can't connect.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-12 05:54:44+00:00
> I think that's primarily because there's no Schelling point for this. There's no single place where everyone who preferred the other form would go to.

It seems like what this needs is a search engine that actually surfaces that sort of thing, because that's not a chicken and egg problem. It can open on day one by indexing the existing non-commercial blogs and free-to-read substacks etc., which makes it immediately useful for people who are looking for that.

And then as more people use the search engine, people are more encouraged to create that kind of site because the people looking for it now have a way of actually finding it.
by kergonath | 2025-09-12 05:54:57+00:00
> In this case, it's apple doing the untoward thing, by artificially limiting users' devices, seemingly only for anticompetitive reasons.

Not really. They are complying by not offering features that would be considered anti-competitive. It’s not untoward, it’s just following their interpretation of the law. We obviously don’t know the discussions between Apple and the EC, but in public it’s American nerds who are complaining that the EU is bad.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-12 05:55:02+00:00
>I'm sure when he said that, he never thought he'd be the one paying for that right. Would be interesting to see if this does or does not affect that stance

Exactly.

When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him. -- R. A. Lafferty
by simianwords | 2025-09-12 05:55:22+00:00
Memory is by far the best feature in ChatGPT and it is the only reason I keep using it. I want it to be personalised and I want it to use information about me when needed.

For example: I could create memories related to a project of mine and don’t have to give every new chat context about the project. This is a massive quality of life improvement.

But I am not a big fan of the conversation memory created in background that I have no control over.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-09-12 05:55:39+00:00
in what way is it malicious compliance? the law just requires you ask for consent. that’s exactly what companies do. some companies violate the law by asking for consent in a way that is misleading or incorporates dark patterns. but if the law says “you must ask for consent before you do X” and companies ask for consent before they do X, that is just compliance, not malicious compliance.

As an example of true malicious compliance, some companies intentionally add trace amounts of allergens to all their food, that way they can just claim that all their food contains allergens and not be at risk of being accused of improper labeling. but the intention of the law requiring accurate labeling was clearly not to get companies to add more allergens to their food. it requires a level of creativity to even think of complying like that. It requires zero creativity to think “this law requires user consent before tracking, so let’s ask for consent”.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-09-12 05:57:11+00:00
> Is it unfair to compare the median white american to the median Japanese, just because the U.S. also has a large Hispanic population that mostly descends from low-education post-1970 immigrants from impoverished Latin American countries?

It's a bit unfair because the average white American is wealthier than the races you excluded from American. The average Japanese person includes everyone from all classes, it does not skew towards the wealthier. If it did, you might see a different result.

Like I asked, does the comparison hold if you segment the results by economic class?
by adityaathalye | 2025-09-12 05:58:07+00:00
Sadly it is not a new species, otherwise what a name it could have slagged...

Nacktschneckecus Klingelstreichus

Also mysterious... why did nobody just... walk downstairs to look? Use them peepers? At least we know no software engineers are to blame. Along with the slug, we are the one group most reluctant to walk.
by raffraffraff | 2025-09-12 05:58:27+00:00
In my teens I started collecting CDs instead of tapes even though I didn't have a CD player, because I record them to tape on someone's player. So when I got my first PC and shitty little modem, I had a nice little stack of CDs to rip, as soon as that because feasible. (Actually, I remember ripping Rage Against The Machine's "Bullet in the head" to .wav in 1994, I think, and then deleting it because it took up most of the hard drive space). I've used audiograbber, EAC, Nero and a whole bunch of encoders. I must go back and find my earliest surviving rip and see what I used to encode it.

Anyway, none of what the author is doing is novelty to me, I stuck to my guns this past 30 years. I buy on Bandcamp or 7digital, or I rip charity store CDs. Occasionally, for really hard to find stuff, I download from YouTube or get a torrent, but only if I can't find it legally.

I've been running Musicbee on Linux/wine for a decade (I think). My last two DAPs were tiny, light-weight Hiby models.

I have had happily never actually paid for any music streaming service.
by NSUserDefaults | 2025-09-12 05:58:33+00:00
I was also frustrated with some aspects of streaming services so I wrote my own offline alternatives: Tiny Player for Mac and for iOS a similar solution to Doppler: app + companion uploader app for the Mac. All free: https://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-player-for-mac/ and https://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-player/
by chvid | 2025-09-12 05:59:08+00:00
Denmark is in a crazy situation where what we saw as a key trusted partner (the US) all of sudden is extremely hostile towards us due its re-ignited territorial ambitions in Greenland. In public discourse this is being met with riducule and disbelief but I believe behind the scenes in government it is being taken quite serious. And obviously having our payment infrastrcture in the hands of an adversarial nation is unacceptable.
by TFYS | 2025-09-12 05:59:09+00:00
Thomas Piketty has collected that data. He showed that the rate of return for capital is larger than the rate of growth, meaning capital owners are getting an ever increasing share of the economic output. Income inequality doesn't really account for this, look into wealth inequality. The wealthy are also good at hiding their wealth to avoid taxation and publicity, I'm not sure how much the studies consider that.
by dnissley | 2025-09-12 06:00:13+00:00
I disagree that the measures you're suggesting will move the needle on fertility, since they will be enjoyed by singles, dinks, and families alike.

If you want more children you have to reward mothers directly and significantly in line with their potential earnings. Not a paltry few thousand dollars, but more than enough to offset the price of daycare in hcol cities. I want to mimic social security but for families, and that means concentrated benefits (that directly incentivize voting turnout and interest group formation).

At the same time I want our country to continue to be competitive globally when it comes to business, and not turn into whatever Europe has become. We can't just add this as a line item to our budget. We are not that rich and we have financial problems that are looming.
by shaan7 | 2025-09-12 06:02:42+00:00
Yep, it baffles me that a lot of people would rather not have the option to reject cookies. Its weird to say "I don't want to stop a website tracking me because the UX is terrible. I'd rather get tracked instead.". Of course, it would be better if the UX were even better, but I'd rather take something over nothing.
by rubymamis | 2025-09-12 06:03:17+00:00
First off, I've built a block editor (which is also a text editor) in QML. I wrote about it extensively[1]. It was an amazing developer experience, I enjoyed every bit of it.

> In Qt, have found that it's often best (much less and simpler code) to have simple editing actions right in the model, which has the data available anyway.

I believe that's also what I'm doing.

[1] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor
by pfannkuchen | 2025-09-12 06:05:06+00:00
Yeah I don’t really get the 2A people who want guns to protect from a tyrannical government. To do that you’d need to make a whole lot of other things legal like tanks, anti aircraft missiles, artillery, etc, and allow civilian groups to get together and practice using those things for combat. Without that, the intent of the 2A has sailed long ago.
by urda | 2025-09-12 06:05:22+00:00
> Show the fact that the EU made the decision to not have this feature instead of apple.

It is thanks to EU regulations, which are literal facts in front of us. That’s why the feature isn’t shipped in the EU, because of EU’s own choices. At this point it’s clear you’d rather ignore that, so no reason to keep engaging. One last time: this is on the EU, not Apple.
by riffraff | 2025-09-12 06:05:31+00:00
All out war shocked the shit out of the 20 somethings in Ukraine too, many fled, and yet Russia has not made significant advances in the following three years.

There's no plausible world in which Russia has the strength to take on the rest of Europe, in, say, the next ten years.

(Let's assume nukes are out of the question)
by Marcelorm81 | 2025-09-12 06:05:43+00:00
Think about it: the most powerful CEOs in the world — Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Google, OpenAI — all sitting at one table with Trump, taking turns flattering him while deciding the future of speech, knowledge, and AI. It should have been the biggest meme on the internet, but somehow it barely made a ripple. Maybe the platforms don’t want us laughing at it. Maybe it’s too scary to confront. So we built All-You-Can-Suck-Up Buffet — an 8-bit satire game where compliments are your only weapon and the stakes are our digital future. If the memes won’t spread, maybe the game will.
by Y-bar | 2025-09-12 06:06:22+00:00
Apple regularly have PR battles with governments, this week they openly sponsored a study on the App Store in Brazil to defend their ability to be the only store on iOS. Recently they fought UK publicly regarding encryption. And they have fought FBI publicly with press releases and interviews regarding similar things. Apple executives have also publicly spoken about their disagreements with DMA in 2024 and 2025.
by dcrazy | 2025-09-12 06:06:32+00:00
I can’t find any mention online of the `SystemTokenInformation` enum member outside of this article, even in this otherwise very comprehensive collection of documented and undocumented values: https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/km/ntoskrnl/ap...

Seems like SystemTokenInformation might be a very new addition, possibly even Windows 11 only?
by jitbit | 2025-09-12 06:07:33+00:00
We run a (pretty) big multi-tenant SaaS app on dotnet and I was literally able to downgrade our production servers from 4-core-16GB vms to 2-core-8GB on AWS when going from .NET 6 to .NET 8 (we only use LTS releases b/c compliance, don't ask). Super excited to try .NET 10. Also, almost zero breaking changes when bumping versions, which is very refreshing compared to the front-end world.

That said, while C# (and the dotnet runtime) are awesome, MS is doing it a disservice lately (poor tooling, Cursor/VSCode controversy etc. etc.) C# could've been so much bigger...
by cyberax | 2025-09-12 06:08:59+00:00
> Spotify, the company that whines about Apple the most, pays Apple $0 (sorry, $99) for building the entire market for consumer mobile internet upon which their business depends.

You mean, Apple leeches that glomped onto Spotify success to prop up the iOS market share? When not having Spotify meant that people might end up moving to Android? And yet they still required Spotify to pay 30% up until 2022, when the "reader app" exemption was made?

Remember when Apple offered Spotify private APIs for subscription control to work around the iOS App Store piss-poor subscription management?

That Spotify?
by jcul | 2025-09-12 06:09:35+00:00
The stuff that I notice not working are:

* Google wallet NFC payments

* Always on now playing

* Always listening OK Google

Android auto used to not work but they added support. Voice commands to Google while driving don't work for me, but may be possible to get working.

Google voice commands work, but you need to open the Google app.

Google wallet works fine for tickets, bar codes etc, just no NFC payments.

Android song search works for me, there's a quick access file for it and it works great. I think pixels normally show what's playing on the lock screen, offline. I think this might be the same thing, triggered manually. Though I'm not sure if it's offline or not.

I'm in Ireland and any backing apps I've tried work fine, PTSB, AIB, revolut, IBKR, Trade Republic. I've had no issues there.

It's a very stable OS IMO, the extra user profiles, being able to choose whether to have Google play or not, and what level of access to give it. I've used it on a pixel 6, which died not too long ago, and now a pixel 9a.
by lm28469 | 2025-09-12 06:10:44+00:00
Better be ready and nothing happens than being sitting duck thinking Europe will be free of wars forever. Governments spend money on much more ridiculous things

These things are the equivalent to people having an emergency backpack with their travel documents a bottle of water and a few dehydrated meals, statistically you will never need it but if anything happens you'll be glad you're not roaming the streets in pyjama, barefoot and without any documents/food
by johncolanduoni | 2025-09-12 06:11:05+00:00
I don’t know anything about jurisprudence, much less EU jurisprudence. Is there anything that would make the EU demanding that Apple not restrict these features from the EU to avoid allowing competitor products illegitimate in the eyes of the court? The law would still be only directly affecting the requirements for selling their productions under the EU’s jurisdiction. However it would consider facts about their behavior outside of the EU as essential to showing their noncompliance.
by dnissley | 2025-09-12 06:11:33+00:00
I use steelmanning to connect across cultural divides. This way I don't end up writing off half the country as deplorables. If I simply wrote them off in this way it would be contributing to the decay of our social fabric. So instead I intend to mend the social fabric by attempting to understand the emotional place that these deplorable ideas come from, which by themselves are often quite reasonable. Isolation is often how people end up with these ideas, so it's important to connect to them, and ultimately to love them.

That goes for both sides of our political system, and beyond to the rural urban divide, the gender divide, the racial divide, the class divide, etc.

I think I found out about by reading rationalist stuff. E.g. Less wrong and slatestarcodex.
by nulld3v | 2025-09-12 06:11:52+00:00
My understanding is that no smartwatch takes SpO2 readings during activity/workout tracking as the sensor is not accurate when you are in motion.

The 20h number I mentioned is from the OP: "For continuous outdoor workout tracking, Apple Watch Ultra 3 now gets 20 hours of battery life in Low Power Mode with full GPS and heart rate readings." Low Power mode disables AOD and SpO2 (which is already disabled anyways during workout tracking).

I doubt SpO2 is very battery intensive either, certainly it can't be worse than the heart rate sensor. Both sensors work in the same way fundamentally.