MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by combyn8tor | 2025-10-23 20:41:00+00:00
Glad to see someone documenting this. I use the screentime feature to restrict my kid's iPad's and it is so painful. Here are my notes:

- When an iPad is presented to you to enter your parent code to unlock an app, the name of the app isn't shown as the pin prompt is over the top of the app/time to unlock details.

- It's not possible to set screen time restrictions for Safari.

- If apps are not allowed to be installed, app updates stop. I have to allow app installations, install updates, then block app installations again.

- Setting downtime hours just doesn't seem to work. Block apps from 6pm - 11.59pm? Kid gets locked out of their iPad at school for the whole day.

- Most of the syncing between settings on a computer to the target iPads appear to be broken completely. If an iPad is in downtime, and the scheduled downtime time changes, it does not take the iPad out of downtime.

- Downtime doesn't allow multi-day hour settings. For instance, try setting downtime from 8pm - 8am.

- Popups in the screen time settings of MacOS have no visual indication that there is more beneath what can be seen. There is no scrollbar. You have to swipe/scroll on every popup to see if there are more settings hidden out of view.

- No granular downtime controls for websites. You can block Safari, or you can not block Safari.

Edit: Oh I almost forgot this nifty little bug reported back in 2023: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255049918?sortBy=rank

Screentime randomly shows you a warning about being an administrator... no probs you just need to select another account and then re-select the one you want and it'll go away.
by CrimsonCape | 2025-10-23 20:41:19+00:00
Trump opponents might cringe at thinking about Trump as a leader, but it is the origin of his success. The L word is generally over-used and over-ascribed. For example, leadership might correlate with being a "hero" or being moral/just/fair,etc however there's lots of proof they don't correlate. It's a fallacy to think that a leader is also a hero. But some people do (fallaciously) ascribe these positive traits to leadership.

That said, in his domain, Trump leads; he generates the headlines and everyone else follows them.

Is JD Vance generating headlines? Barely. Is anyone else generating headlines? Lets consider a few:

- Tim Walz: mainstream media tries to meme Walz into being a headline generator, but he isn't, and poses no serious contention

- Mumar Gaddafi, Sadam Hussein, Hitler, Mussolini, etc: i'm not sure there has been a dictator that did not generate headlines.

- Steve Jobs: strong headline generator, such that he could have run for president and likely won

- pewdiepie: for a spell he was generating headlines, but mainstream media had no solid editorial narrative for the guy (and his hundreds of millions of followers) which posed a social risk. The more they discussed him, the more risk of society penduluming in some unpredictable way either by martyring him or amplifying his politics, so they chose the "ignore him and let whither" as a strategy which seemed to work, as he has drifted into Japan and been off-the-radar

- Luigi Mangione: a nonzero number of liberal voters would decry Trump in one breath and cast a vote for Mangione to be a politician despite evidence he is a cold-blooded murderer. This probably won't change much after conviction.

In conclusion, intelligent people are forced to lament the state of humanity in which leadership is game-ified so easily and yet so difficult to achieve. "How does one consistently generate headlines" is a difficult question to answer and seems to be one of the core essence of humanity. And, as described above, the origin of people's feelings of why a given person is successful.
by behnamoh | 2025-10-23 20:41:25+00:00
> A lot of people have been ditching Claude for GPT-5 for coding stuff, and Anthropic held the throne for "best coding model" for well over a year prior to that.

Even if GPT-5 was less capable of a coder than Claude, I'd still not use Claude because of its ridiculous quotas, context window restrictions, slowness, and Anthropic's pedantic stance on AI safety.
by joomla199 | 2025-10-23 20:41:28+00:00
I wanted to look up Japanese vocab easily with my voice while running. Wouldn’t let me do it (it could show me dictionary pages but wouldn’t speak the translation into my AirPods). However, I could look up English words just fine.

So I had to set my Siri language to Japanese, and now I can look up English translations of Japanese words…though I do have to speak Japanese.
by cryptonector | 2025-10-23 20:41:30+00:00
It's really not an advantage that DER can be "parsed" without a schema. (As compared to: XDR, PER, OER, DCE RPC, etc., which really can't be.) It's only possible because of the use of tag-length value encoding, which is really wasteful and complicates life (by making it harder or impossible to do online encoding, since you have to compute the length before you can place the value because the length itself is variable length so you have to reserve the correct number of bytes for it and shoot-me-now).
by jborland | 2025-10-23 20:42:46+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. We will add in CLI integration soon!

Could you please explain what you mean by "within branch" context switches?

The way Twigg works is you can choose exactly what prompt/output pairs (we call them nodes) are sent to the model. You can move 'nodes' from one branch to another. For example, if you do a bug fix in one branch, you can add the corrected solution as context to another branch by moving the node, whilst ignoring the irrelevant context spent trying to fix the bug.

This way you can specify exactly what context is in each branch.
by alganet | 2025-10-23 20:42:59+00:00
There are three possible generic values for `tool_choice`: none, auto and required.

Can you remake the call explicitly using the value `none`?

Maybe it's not using Python, but it's using something else. I think it's a good test. If you're right, then the response shouldn't change.

Update: `auto` is ambiguous. It doesn't say whether is picking from your selection of tools or the pool of all available tools. Explicit is better than implicit. I think you should do the call with `none`, it can't hurt and it can prove me wrong.
by pfdietz | 2025-10-23 20:43:03+00:00
The low cost of the modules themselves has led to the suggestion of cost optimized DC-coupled PV systems being used to directly drive resistive heaters. The cost per unit of thermal energy in a cost optimized system moderate scale system (> residential, < utility scale) may be in the range of $3-5/GJ, very competitive with natural gas. Low cost maximum power point trackers would be useful; inverters would not be needed.

Low cost modules allow one to do away with things like optimally tilted modules and single axis tracking. The modules can also be tightly packed, reducing mounting and wiring costs.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-23 20:43:16+00:00
You're referencing a chart like this:

https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/INTERAC...

Notably when the background is red, the line goes down, and when the background is blue, the line goes up.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/20/the-us-has-36-trill...
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-23 20:43:31+00:00
> How do you know which one happened here, are you a mind reader?

If you admit that they could be doing one of two things ("And sometimes ...") but you assume it's actually one of them in particular ("I think they asked for your take, not GNU's."), then this question could similarly be asked of you.
by rwhitman | 2025-10-23 20:43:51+00:00
Exactly, and main reason I've stopped using GPT for serious work. LLMs start to break down and inject garbage at the end, and usually my prompt is abandoned before the work is complete, and I fix it up manually after.

GPT stores the incomplete chat and treats it as truth in memory. And it's very difficult to get it to un-learn something that's wrong. You have to layer new context on top of the bad information and it can sometimes run with the wrong knowledge even when corrected.
by toast0 | 2025-10-23 20:43:54+00:00
Eh, my PHEV has a 2 year oil change interval, which is longer than my ICE only cars. You should probably bring in your EV every 2 years to get things looked at too.

The engine in a hybrid should live an easier life compared to an ICE. No extended idle, mostly running in the power band, etc. There are lots of different ways to setup the hybrid system, but typically, rather than a small stater motor, you have a larger motor/generator that also starts the engine; it's less likely to get worn out, because it's built for continuous use.

In my PHEV, it has a 'toyota synergy' style 'e-CVT' which eliminates gear selection and should be very low maintenance (although mine had to be replaced under a service bulletin due to bearing failure because of manufacturing error) again nicer than an ICE. But some hybrids have a more traditional transmission.

Certainly, you can do ICE only or EV only, but there's a lot of room to use the ICE for things it's good for, and the EV for things it's good for, and blend where there's overlap.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-23 20:43:59+00:00
If any of you had actually paid attention to the source media, you would have noticed that they were explicitly dystopias. They were always clearly and explicitly hell for normal people trying to live life.

Meanwhile, tons of you watched star trek and apparently learned(?) that the "bright future" it promised us was.... talking computers? And not, you know, post scarcity and enlightenment that allowed people to focus on things that brought them joy or they were good at, and an entire elimination of the concept of "capitalism" or personal profit or resource disparity that could allow people to not be able to afford something while some asshole in the right place at the right time gets to take a percentage cut of the entire economy for their personal use.

The primary "technology" of star trek was socialism lol.
by epistasis | 2025-10-23 20:44:31+00:00
You have that exactly backwards: solar + storage is what will give us energy abundance at less money than we could ever imagine from nuclear fission or fusion.

China is winning the AI Cold war because it's adding solar, storage, and wind at orders of magnitude more than nuclear.

I'm not sure who's doing your supposed "envisioning" but there is no vision for cheap abundant energy from fusion. Solar and storage deliver it today, fusion only delivers it in sci fi books.

Nuclear is 20th century technology that does not fit with a highly automated future. With high levels of automation, construction is super expensive. You want to spend your expensive construction labor on building factories, not individual power generation sites.

Building factories for solar and storage lets them scale to a degree that nuclear could never scale. Nuclear has basically no way of catching up.
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by WheatMillington | 2025-10-23 20:44:59+00:00
This is not "good guys versus bad guys", the democratic party are not going to wash all this badness away. They have been guilty of basically the same things, even if at a lesser scale. Biden tried to appropriate billions outside of congress for student loan forgiveness. Political pardons have been a factor since the beginning of the US experiment. Pelosi has been using her position for self-enrichment in the open for decades now.
by marcuskane2 | 2025-10-23 20:45:26+00:00
I think like, 90% of the crypto trading volume is by people who know it's all a grift, but are hoping to get rich while the music is still playing.

People knowingly buy into pump & dumps, gambling that they're on the early (pump) side and hoping to get out before the dump.

People will happily collect commissions selling products they know are scams or will happily collect management fees for parking investor's capital into grifts.

You'll never get truly everyone to recognize it, and it only takes one sucker at the poker table to keep every seat filled.
by antigremlin | 2025-10-23 20:45:27+00:00
That is a very thoughtful piece. Thank you for posting it. I especially like the idea of that new mode of programming (or problem solving, whatever you call it) when people very much enjoy getting an LLM to do what they want.

This is both new and old, because it's the same joy (or dopamine hit) of making a machine do your bidding. Honing your prompts is not that different to honing your shell scripts. I think many people overlook this aspect.
by cryptonector | 2025-10-23 20:45:29+00:00
Eh, for all new things use only UTF8String and you're done. For all old things limit yourself to US-ASCII in whatever kind of string and you're done.

Implementing GeneralString in all its horror is a real pain, but also you'll never ever need it.

This generality in ASN.1 is largely due to it being created before Unicode.
by kevinastone | 2025-10-23 20:45:47+00:00
This was in response to MinIO/AIStor removing the browser-console UI from the community offering (locking it behind enterprise licensing) a few months back.

Unfortunately, this fork has not developed any traction. It's last commit was 4 months ago basically after the initial fork and instantly became dormant.

You can see the list of 'Still alive?' issues: https://github.com/OpenMaxIO/openmaxio-object-browser/issues...
by jajuuka | 2025-10-23 20:45:50+00:00
I mean the pardon was the check and balance on the judiciary. However it's been turned into a tool for personal gain than a saving grace for mistakes of the federal crimes convictions. Both parties have pushed for this monarchic power to be expanded over time. I think it has a place but much like a lot of the federal government it needs a complete overhaul. The checks and balances system works alright but when a unitary party controls every branch there is no one to check that power.
by tuckerman | 2025-10-23 20:46:24+00:00
Agreed, this is a common division of labor and simplifies things. It's not entirely clear in the postmortem but I speculate that the conflation of duties (i.e. the enactor also being responsible for janitor duty of stale plans) might have been a contributing factor.

The Oxide and Friends folks covered an update system they built that is similarly split and they cite a number of the same benefits as you: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/systems-sof...
by chrisco255 | 2025-10-23 20:46:58+00:00
No the parent initially said:

"You know the U.S. has operational military bases on Greenland soil and Denmark was a founding member of NATO and remains an active member, right? The offer to buy Greenland from Denmark was never a threat. It was an offer. The U.S. has made similar territorial purchases in the past, including most famously from our oldest ally the French known as the Lousiana Purchase."

The offer to buy Greenland wasn't a threat.

Greenland isn't setting up defenses against the U.S. Denmark and Greenland are part of NATO and run mutual defense exercises regularly. NORAD runs out of Greenland. There is no threat by the United States to Greenland. The U.S. already runs a military base there and has had several other shuttered ones in the past.

There are threats to Greenland from external actors besides the U.S. including especially Russia that is directly across the Arctic. That's why NORAD runs intercontinental missile detection in Greenland.

There is an offer to Greenland and to Denmark, that if Greenland takes it, would mean Greenland would get billions of dollars in funding and economic boosts to their economy, in addition to even stronger guarantees of defense. If the mutual relationship with the U.S. is not desired, then U.S. can always walk. That's not a threat, that's called mutual exchange. If someone wants a divorce, accepting it and walking away isn't a threat.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-10-23 20:47:15+00:00
> much less a hard drive

This isn't true - my shining moment as a 10 year old kid (~1998) was when the HD on our Macintosh went out and we went down to compusa and I picked a random IDE drive instead of the Mac branded drives (because it was much cheaper) and it just worked after reinstalling macos.
by slg | 2025-10-23 20:47:38+00:00
> What happens when everyone recognizes that the whole thing has turned into a money laundering grift?

Part of the problem is that this seems to describe most of the economy now. Maybe not specifically money laundering, but it’s all a grift whether we are talking about Binance, OpenAI, or Skydance-Paramount. There are grifts everywhere which just encourages more grifts as people see the resulting success and lack of consequences.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-23 20:47:58+00:00
What parts of the experience do you feel are missing if you do not consent to tracking? I have seen one or two cases of malicious compliance where rejecting tracking results in no state being kept, including having rejected it. Keep in mind that the legal definition is based on things that would not be reasonably expected to be kept or distributed in order to provide the service that the user is getting, you can do basically everything except targeted ads or selling user data under that definition, even if people who want to do the above are trying to pretend otherwise.
by nerdponx | 2025-10-23 20:48:22+00:00
That would be technically illegal rather than merely repugnant. It would not however be illegal if the criminal dropped a hint in the news that he would donate to, say, a ballroom that was to be named after the president.

And even if it were outright illegal, the Supreme Court has now ruled that the president is personally immune from criminal prosecution as long as they claim that their illegal activity was carried out in the course of their presidential duties, and not a personal crime committed on the side. Which leaves congressional impeachment and conviction as the sole recourse against presidential misbehavior. Which becomes a problem when the majority in Congress doesn't care that the president is doing illegal things. We haven't had a constitutional crisis like this since the FDR administration.
by nextos | 2025-10-23 20:48:23+00:00
True, also before, during, and after the Intel transition the ecosystem of indie and boutique apps for Macs was great. Panic and The Omni Group, just to name two boutique development companies, were probably at their peak in terms of desktop software. Besides, Mac OS X Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard were polished and the UI was usable and cohesive.

Right now, the quality and attention to detail have plummeted. There is also a lot of iOS-ification going on. I wish they focused less on adding random features, and more on correctness, efficiency, and user experience. The attention to detail of UI elements in e.g. Snow Leopard, with a touch of skeuomorphism and reminiscent of classic Mac OS, is long gone.
by ugh123 | 2025-10-23 20:48:32+00:00
I consider SBF's crime way less serious given that the end result actually made money for "victims"* which was the intended goal from the start.

However Binance guy knowingly commits money laundering and gets the pardon?

* Those victims who did not wait through the full asset recovery process and sold their debt to "vulture investors" for pennies on the dollar.
by cryptonector | 2025-10-23 20:48:32+00:00
ITU-T specs are a pleasure to read and use. The problem is that x.4xx and x.5xx are horrible in details that have nothing to do with ASN.1, like eveyrthing to do with naming. The x.68x and x.69x specs are truly beautiful and well written. You will not see many Internet RFCs written remotely as well.
by hirvi74 | 2025-10-23 20:48:48+00:00
I feel like I am one of the only people that actually really likes iOS 26, iPad 26, and macOS 26.

I really haven't had many problems, and I actually like some of the features. Sure, the UI/UX is not perfect from the start, but there hasn't been anything I have been unable to accomplish because of the new OS. The liquid glass can even be nice with certain backgrounds too.

This is just my hypothesis, but I have noticed that a lot of the people that have been complaining about macOS have been using 3rd party applications for a in their workflow. If I am not mistaken, there were issues with many Electron apps in the beginning. On macOS, I mainly Apple's apps or I'm deep in the command line. So, perhaps I have been fortunate to avoid many of the UI/UX features that many have faced?
by esafak | 2025-10-23 20:49:17+00:00
I will not use WhatsApp any more than I can help it. And it already has Meta AI. I might try it once you support other clients.

Are you going to develop all your own integrations or can users contribute? What are some things you envision users doing asynchronously? I haven't feel the need for an asynchronous assistant, probably because I do not find existing models reliable enough. The most async I go is with coding agents and they need hand-holding too.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-23 20:49:22+00:00
US browsers account for more than 90% of the market share though. The main non-US browsers are Opera (Norwegian company majority owned by a Chinese company) and Samsung browser (South Korean company). Both Opera and Samsung are based on an American controlled open source project (Chromium, controlled by Google).

So for the vast majority of people in the world government ownership of their browser would mean American political control. The current administration has expressed both in theory and practice a willingness to directly exert influence over organizations even when they are supposed to be independent of government control. That would be a concern for much of the world even outside the US.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-23 20:50:12+00:00
> the proof of the pudding is in the eating, as evidenced by the current political climate in the US

We're not a direct democracy. You can't find proof of a pudding in a taco bowl.

Direct democracies fail in self-reinforcing factionalism. "When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government...enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the rights of other citizens." This has consistently happened across history, even in small direct democracies, it's one of the essential takeaways from the Athenian experiment [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Socrates