MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brailsafe | 2025-10-11 00:36:08+00:00
> The team who designed it should be fired and replaced with people who priorities a professional appearance and usability.

Eh, I disagree about who should be fired. The designers and implementers are not (necessarily) the ones who decided it was their job. As far as I know, and probably depending on department, Apple internally works in annual cycles and sort of decides what the mission is up front. Any designer or engineer voluntarily taking on what was probably the inane grandiose idea of a higher-up should be commended for their ambition even if they knew it wouldn't go. More likely (imo) people are working on what the company has decided they work on, and the people trying to make it work are grinding themselves down in service of that goal and keeping their jobs in a crazy economic time.

Scott Forstall was the one to be fired for having basically bad taste with regard to iOS6 (as far as people knew outside the company), which was the right move if anyone was to be.

In this case, it's whoever made the call to try and overhaul multiple OS' in this way in the span of probably a year or two, and who clearly didn't prepare sufficient escape hatches or internal feedback mechanisms for the project. The people working on it are just working on it, and sometimes you gotta grit your teeth and try to make something happen that every part of you knows won't happen.

As an analogy, any iOS or Mac developer knows XCode sucks, but we shouldn't go calling for the XCode team to be fired, because the current team are basically the museum curators and it would be stupid to try and overhaul a 20-30 year old insanely complex critical piece of infrastructure like that in any short period of time without massively disrupting everyone who relies on those tools. Improvements and refactors need to be relatively conservative from an end user's perspective, and aligned with business goals from the company's perspective. To fire them would imply they're actively deciding not to make it better at the lowest levels, but it's doubtful to me that they have the power, time, or resources allocated to them to do that. If they were to be given the go-ahead to do that, they'd probably at best produce as effective of a result as the team who were tasked with redesigning all of the OS' this year and given no way around launching it in alpha. In that case, it would be more fruitful to be mad that Apple isn't investing in a better newer alternative development experience or editor while XCode chugs along, and likewise with OS26, we should be vocally annoyed at the initiative, timeline, and arrogance of releasing it in this state, but the team is probably doing their best at this point to incrementally improve what is probably to them a failed project on a massive scale that they didn't likely have much of an option to commit themselves to.
by blurbleblurble | 2025-10-11 00:36:46+00:00
Unfortunately it's kind of hard to truly restrict its usage. The data transmission and sensing capabilities of WiFi are two sides of the same coin: flashing morse code via a light into a room also makes it possible for anyone with eyes to see what's in the room. WiFi uses non-visible radiation but the same principle applies. What's more, higher transmission rates are made possible by higher frequencies of radiation which have physically more capacity for information density, whether information encoded into the radiation by a special device or encoded into it from from interaction with the environment.

If you want more information about this whole thing as an engineering project, check this comment from a few years back with lots of links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444
by kuon | 2025-10-11 00:37:53+00:00
For me the only thing that really matters, and globally sucks with WiFi is roaming.

My house is old and has stones walls up to 120cm, including the inner walls, so I have to have access points is nearly all rooms.

I never had a true seamless roaming experience. Today, I have TP-Link Omada and it works better than previous solutions, but it is still not as good as DECT phones for examples.

For example if I watch a twitch stream in my room and go to the kitchen grab something with my tablet or my phone, I have a freeze about 30% of the times, but not very long. Before I sometime had to turn the wifi off and on on my device for it to roam.

I followed all Omada and general WiFi best practice I could find about frequency, overlap... But it is still not fully seamless yes.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-11 00:38:42+00:00
It won't happen by 2027. 2028 at the earliest, but still unlikely. It requires new factories, using new processes, new mining operations, new battery production facilities, new designs, staff, training, QA, multiple companies all collaborating together in new ways, it requires tons of cash and approvals, etc. Granted, Japan can get a lot done with handshakes, but this is a very aggressive timeline.

A lot of companies will say a lot of things because it boosts the stock price and costs them nothing. They need good PR to help convince all the parties involved to complete the deals they need to get all this done.
by idiotsecant | 2025-10-11 00:40:01+00:00
If I had the ability to track users heart rates in response to advertisements, media, political content, etc that would be quite valuable for producing content that better captured users and made them feel what I wanted them to feel. Heart rate says a lot about what we're feeling and our attention, especially if you have it all the time and can match it to what we're looking at.
by pants2 | 2025-10-11 00:40:25+00:00
Yes, their capex spending is mind-blowing. Astronomical. But OpenAI has also pretty much lived up to its promises so far. I don't see them straight up lying to investors the same way that Tesla does.

Not only has OpenAI launched multiple viral products a year multiple years in a row, but their mission is to create God, so I think the TAM is pretty large.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-11 00:40:34+00:00
"TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring an image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok” "

The violation notice from tiktok:

"Violation reason Shocking and Graphic content Part of the joy of TikTok is coming across new and unexpected content. But the platform is not a place to intentionally shock, upset, or disgust others. We recognize this type of content may be triggering, cause psychological harm, or lead to extreme discomfort. We do not allow gory, gruesome, disturbing, or extremely violent content."
by db48x | 2025-10-11 00:40:35+00:00
You can’t expect a bureaucrat to know about that kind of thing! If it’s not printed on a key right in front of their nose then no government employee is going to be able to type it in.

But that’s not really the point. No matter how many keyboard shortcuts the clerk at the DMV memorizes there is always going to be some text that they just cannot reproduce accurately. Whether it’s an accented character from the exotic land of Spain or some real Zalgo, something is going to get lost. No individual human can correctly deal with all possible textual forms.
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 00:41:08+00:00
> Right now besides the M and A series of processors it’s hard to tell if there’s anything in the Apple stable that is genuinely superior for my actual life.

Agreed. I'll likely stay on iOS 18 as long as it is reliable and useful on my current iPhone, then I'll be switching to something running android with a physical keyboard. I'm pretty deep in the Apple ecosystem, but these updates have made it clear no one at Apple has a plan for the software.

So many Apple ecosystem details are half-baked and make no sense these days. For years, tags show up in some places but not others. iCloud for the web supports a completely different subset of features for things like Notes, a HUGE bummer if you want to access your Notes in a browser.
by andix | 2025-10-11 00:41:15+00:00
The glass style for iOS app icons is completely idiotic. It's optional though. It doesn't even look good, it just makes the home screen look a little less crowded, but the UX is horrible.

Especially widgets are really bad. The widget for my car shows the battery level as a bar chart. During charging it's green, if there is a charging error it's red, when parked it's white/gray. In the glass mode I need to look really hard to see what's happening. All the color coded information is gone. Same for my todo list widget, due items are orange, long overdue items are red. With glass mode on they all look the same.
by phantomathkg | 2025-10-11 00:41:38+00:00
As ex-Smart TV app developer, I would stay with Sony's Android TV. Reason being

- Samsung Tizen is sluggish. - LG webOS is fiddly and don't feel it gets enough attention and care from LG. - Other brand is just slow. - On hackability, Android is far easier to handle than any other brand.

Mind you Sony has a few line and some run Android, some run something else.
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-11 00:42:09+00:00
Fun fact, the 2 longest periods of peace in history are called the Pax Romana and Pax Mongolica. The Mongolians and the Romans are known for fighting wars, lots and lots of wars. The only prolonged periods of peace in history are when one country or empire gets much stronger than the rest.

Another fun fact, the lowest per capita worldwide war deaths in a specific year in world history occurred in 2019.

And finally, when the US goes isolationist, the rest of you animals start killing each other instantly. So keep it up if you want a lot more "history" to happen in your lifetime.
by chrneu | 2025-10-11 00:42:19+00:00
Absolutely. Your IoT devices should be on their own 2.4ghz network running on a specific channel to isolate them. You should also firewall these devices pretty heavily on their own router.

The only devices on wifi should be cell phones and laptops if they can't be plugged in. Everything else, including TVs, should be ethernet.

When I moved into my last house with roommates their network was gaaarbage cuz everything was running off the same router. The 2.4ghz congestion slowed the 5ghz connections because the router was having to deal with so much 2.4ghz noise.

A good way of thinking about it is that every 2.4ghz device you add onto a network will slow all the other devices by a small amount. This compounds as you add more devices. So those smart lights? Yeaaahh
by bcrl | 2025-10-11 00:43:08+00:00
DECT phones run on the 1.9 GHz spectrum which doesn't get absorbed by water like 2.4 GHz, and will penetrate through many other materials far better than higher frequencies.

Most people place wifi repeaters incorrectly, or invest in crappy repeater / mesh devices that do not multiple radios. A Wifi repeater or mesh device with a single radio by definition cuts your throughput in half for every hop.

I run an ISP. Customers always cheap out when it comes to their in home wireless networks while failing to understand the consequences of their choices (even when carefully explained to them).
by everforward | 2025-10-11 00:43:40+00:00
> I suppose one case where I would change my mind is if there was evidence that more affordable underground roads reduced the investment in public transit.

It's Friday night so I lack the motivation to go on a stats-finding expedition, but anecdotally this seems like a circular issue to me. Public transportation sucks, so no one wants to fund it and we invest money into car infrastructure. Traffic gets worse, but public transportation is still bad because we haven't improved it, so we dump more money into car infrastructure, and etc.

I do hear you about the practical realities, though. Most people will drive if they can, because it is more convenient (so long as we can keep building more roads, even at exorbitant prices).

I think there would be far less support if people could see what they're actually spending on car infrastructure. At least in the US, it's currently so fractured it's hard to get an idea. Registration fees, gas taxes, federal taxes that get pumped into highway maintenance, etc. There's no clear "we spend $X on car infrastructure, and we could have really good public transportation for $Y".
by ghshephard | 2025-10-11 00:44:53+00:00
Nowadays most cloud customers jam their racks full of absolutely vanilla (brand is mostly irrelevant) 128 vCores / 64 physical cores, 512 GByte servers for ~$18k - w/100 GBit NICs. That Sun 4500, maxed out (with 10 Gbit/Nics), sold for $70k. ($110K in 2025 dollars).

What's (still) super impressive was the 48 drives. Looking around -the common "Storage" nodes in rack these days seem to be 24x24TB CMR HDD + 2 7.68 TB NVME SDD (and a 960 GB Boot Disk) - I don't know if anyone really uses 48 drive systems commonly (outside the edge cases like Backblaze and friends)
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-11 00:45:50+00:00
Getting LSP to work on recent versions of Neovim is one plugin + one line of configuration. Here are the steps for enabling clangd:

1. Install nvim-lspconfig plugin

2. Add `vim.lsp.enable("clangd")` to init.lua

You can even enable LSPs on a per-project basis by taking advantage of the revamped exrc feature:

1. Add `vim.opt.exrc = true` to init.lua

2. Add `vim.lsp.enable("clangd")` to $projectdir/.nvim.lua
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-11 00:46:43+00:00
This logic makes no sense...

- When they make announcements about a new supercar they're going to make, it's not to stop you from buying a Lambo. Car companies have to be seen to be working on something new; it generates PR, which generates goodwill, advertises the brand, and helps buoy the stock price.

- Buy an ICE vehicle now because they might make an EV later? Why not buy an EV now and then buy Toyota's EV later? Either way you're buying two cars??
by kace91 | 2025-10-11 00:46:56+00:00
Spanish is probably the most likely language to be succesful (due to the amount of spanish speakers in the US). Still English to Spanish, while passable, is very clearly not something that passes for native speech.

Funnily enough, I'd say it reads like most of my American friends here in Spain - the best way I can put it is, it's fluid spanish from a brain that is working natively in English and translating on the fly, rather than a mind thinking in Spanish.

This is obvious to me because I speak both languages, so I can trace back in my mind the original, native English phrase that resulted in a specific weird spanish expression. a Spanish monolingual can probably only tell that it doesn't sound native.

The important point though, is that there is no significant loss of meaning other than the text being annoying to read. it won't work for literature but it's perfectly serviceable for pragmatic needs.
by iDon | 2025-10-11 00:46:59+00:00
A search for : "character studies of old farmers" yielded good results. The results are drawings / engravings, which may reflect the balance of the collection, and perhaps this subject is more used in practice than in marketable oil paintings.

Since this is a semantic search, using a vector embedding, it will handle meanings better than a text search, which would handle names better.
by Analemma_ | 2025-10-11 00:47:53+00:00
Powerline Ethernet is a coin toss though. Depending on how many or few shits the last electrician to work on your house gave, it could be great or unusable. Especially if you're in a shared space like an apartment/condo: in theory units are supposed to be sufficiently electrically isolated from each other that powerline is possible; in practice, not so much. I've been in apartments where I plugged in my powerline gear and literally nothing happened: no frames, nothing.
by kuon | 2025-10-11 00:47:58+00:00
I feel like I am not asking THAT MUCH from my neovim setup, but it is so complicated. My collection of vim config is about 1000 lines, that's insane, but when I try to trim it, everything seems required.

My requirements:

- language support (syntax, formatting)

- lsp (I want the goto definition)

- file browser

- quick jump (fzf...)

- a little bit of eye candy, nice fonts and a few icons to make things clear

- auto reload if file changed externally

- splits I can manage with the keyboard

- persistent undo

- in terminal or with excellent SSH remote editing

I would love to have an editor with better defaults. I don't mind learning something good and robust if it will serve me for years.
by godelski | 2025-10-11 00:48:45+00:00
Not quite that level, but you can get 8TB nvmes. You'll pay $500 a pop though...[0]. Weirdly that's the cheapest NewEgg lists for anything above 8TB and even SSDs are more expensive. It's a gen4 PCIe M.2 but a SATA SSD is more? It's better going the next bracket down but still surprising to me that the cheapest 4TB SSD is just $20 cheaper than the cheapest NVMe[1] (a little more and you're getting recognizable names too!)

It kinda sucks that things have flatlined a bit, but still cool that a lot of this has become way cheaper. I think the NVMes at these prices and sizes really makes caching a reasonable thing to do for consumer grade storage

[0] https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-8tb-black/p/N82E16820...

[1] https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100011693%20600551612&Order=1
by advisedwang | 2025-10-11 00:48:56+00:00
They may have been throttled/deprioritized but often the plane just has a really high latency connection. Some in-flight internet is provided via geo-stationary satellites, which has a minimum of 250ms latency. Even when a low-earth orbit satellite is used, I expect they are being back-hauled to the WiFi vendors datacenter before going out to the internet.

When your latency gets in the hundreds of ms, no amount of bandwidth is going to make your internet connection feel snappy. And buffer bloat means even a workload that could theoretically saturate a high latency connection may actually get trashed.
by chrneu | 2025-10-11 00:49:01+00:00
Ethernet will usually hit hardware limits of your HDD or SSD before it actually maxes out. 1gb ethernet is better than wifi in 99% of cases because wifi in the real world is pretty bad, even with modern standards. Why else do they have to continually revamp the standards to get around congestion and roaming issues? Cuz wifi is garbage in the real world. Ethernet = Very little jitter, latency, or packet loss. Wifi = Tons of jitter, latency and packet loss.

Your take is really weird and doesn't represent the real world. What blog did you read this on and why haven't you bothered to attack that obviously wrong stance?
by max51 | 2025-10-11 00:49:19+00:00
I strongly believe the "how many R in strawberry" comes from a reddit or forum thread somewhere that keeps repeating the wrong answer. Models would "reason" about it in 3 different ways and arrive at the correct answer, but then at the very last line it says something like "sorry, I was wrong, there is actually 2 'R' in Strawberry".

Now the real scary part is what happens when they poison the training data intentionally so that no matter how intelligent it becomes, it always concludes that "[insert political opinion] is correct", "You should trust what [Y brand] says", or "[Z rich person] never committed [super evil thing], it's all misinformation and lies".
by nomel | 2025-10-11 00:51:23+00:00
I suspect this is data driven. It would be reasonable to think that long term engagement drops if people don't enjoy what they watch, in aggregate, even if short term engagement is high for "non joyful" content. From what I can tell, TikTok is powered by dopamine, not cortisol. With dopamine being the "joy" hormone...

edit: is there some inside knowledge to the data or algorithm that I'm not aware of that's driving these votes? is this some unreasonable perspective? do humans seek stress, long term?
by sfn42 | 2025-10-11 00:51:36+00:00
Yeah, I'm not saying it to be mean I'm just calling it as I see it. Can't recall if it was the article or a comment or both, but someone mentioned that it's hard to understand API docs in some cases because it relies on understanding the language itself.

If you don't even know the language well enough to read docs I'd say you're an amateur. And if you're one of those people who just chronically don't read docs you're definitely an amateur. I mean you may have a job and you may even build stuff that kind of works, but unless you're sitting down and looking closely at the details you're not doing things right. You can't be. Doing things right requires looking closely at the details.

And I know from experience that there's a vast number of employed amateurs who write nothing but legacy code.
by chrneu | 2025-10-11 00:52:08+00:00
For what it's worth, I think most ISPs that do this will host their speed test in-network so their speeds are inflated. This benefits both the ISP and whoever is in charge of the speed test(like speedtest.net).

So they're not really increasing their network load a measurable amount since the data never actually leaves their internal network. My ISP's network admin explained this to me one day when I asked about it. He said they don't really notice any difference.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-10-11 00:52:23+00:00
We just passed 1.5C, we will almost certainly pass 2C by about 2035 and its going to be catastrophic. Far from decreasing CO2 emissions we are not only continuing to increase but doing so at an increasing rate. We will be extinct a large number of species on the planet at this rate, likely 50% or more and we run the real risk of collapsing civilisation if we don't change urgently.

But we sure did make a great profit on those datacentres so worth it to destroy the planets habitats.
by 9cb14c1ec0 | 2025-10-11 00:52:25+00:00
> I suspect we can design a very interesting new kind of financial instrument for finance and compute that the world has not yet figured it out

Hmm, can't figure out why this statement makes me think of Enron. After all, OpenAI certainly isn't trying to do massive infrastructure build outs while struggling with a relatively limited cash flow, or anything like that.
by testaburger | 2025-10-11 00:52:29+00:00
being realistic given the current administration, the best avenue for those that care about climate change would be to lobby their representatives for nuclear and specially coal to nuclear transitions (https://www.energy.gov/ne/coal-nuclear-transitions) and lobby for more government funding directed to accelerate this. This would be palatable to the current administration while also supporting the goal of less c02 and other emissions.

Heck this also takes away any incentive to restart the coal plants by private companies if they are being financially supported and already in the process of converting them to nuclear, and it takes away an incentive to build more long-term because each nuclear plant provides a lot more power on average. Another thing to lobby for would be for more SMRs funding and less regulation overall in nuclear (it's insane how overly regulated nuclear is based on one soviet fuck up of a crappy underfunded/flawed powerplant (chernobyl). Fukushima plants (commissioned in 1971!) were hit with a once in a lifetime 9.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami on top despite being less than 100 miles from the epicenter even with regulatory lapses and no direct deaths.
by gnarlouse | 2025-10-11 00:52:42+00:00
My honest take, there are only two problems with iOS 26:

1. Footers in safari routinely render in the middle of the screen.

2. iPad mini simply is not the right platform for the new "windowable" functionality, but you can opt out, so there's no harm aside from maybe eating up some storage space.

Aside from that, I don't see the usability problems people are frustrated about. Maybe I'm still young enough to "get it." I think Liquid Glass is great. It feels like a return to Aqua (early Mac OS X), which was always my favorite. I for one welcome a "UI you want to lick" after years of this ridiculous spartan minimalism that started with iOS 7 and ate everything Apple.