MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kittikitti | 2026-03-02 22:40:14+00:00
"In return, Abu Dhabi’s G42 cut ties with China’s Huawei, and Humain pledged not to buy Huawei equipment — effectively locking Beijing out of the region’s AI expansion."

This is a great point, and one that I will be keenly watching because I wasn't aware of this. I was aware that Beijing is purging Israeli technology so it's even more interesting given the article posted.
by kjkjadksj | 2026-03-02 22:40:27+00:00
It is astounding to me how unperformant time machine is. When I went from the 2012 mbp to the m3 pro there was zero difference in time machine peformance. Still taking half a day for a couple gb changes. Moving at orders of magnitude below disk read write. Wtf is even happening under the hood of the time machine service? Rclone would be like warpspeed in comparison.
by jshaqaw | 2026-03-02 22:40:34+00:00
Apple hasn't been able to ship software in decades.

They got bored of computing. Writing was on the wall when they started producing movies because Hollywood people are cooler than nerds and hey why earn a giant cash pile if not for some execs to have fun with it.

This is a company which hasn't done anything meaningful to innovate since Steve Jobs died.

Yeah I have all Apple gear. It's fine. Whatever. Nicest commodity on the block. But they could have done so much more in the last 15 years.
by umpalumpaaa | 2026-03-02 22:40:59+00:00
You can simply import Swift packages and either they expose an Objc interface or you can provide it yourself – by wrapping it in Swift and exposing the things you need via @objc etc. You can - at the same time - also hide the wrapped framework and make it an impl. detail of the wrapper so that you could switch the wrapped framework while keeping your app code mostly stable. This also reduces the number of imported symbols… import 3rdPartyFramework imports all symbols, extensions, classes, types etc. vs. import MyWrapper only brings in the things you really need.
by sarchertech | 2026-03-02 22:41:01+00:00
No worries. I wasn’t offended. Just surprised because I knew I had double checked.

Oh yeah I think it’s likely the very first version didn’t have it. But I’m much less sure about when it could have first popped up. I think it’s highly likely it showed up before the Swedish version. But I’m not very confident. Also it’s possible that the version Jansson was working from didn’t have it, even if a version of it with that text existed at the time.
by karel-3d | 2026-03-02 22:41:07+00:00
I don't have anywhere to escape. With iOS I have at least a chance with Android (even when I am locked in due to Find My, which is still the one thing that works great and keeps me at Apple).

When someone (Google?) finds me a way to seamlessly find/lock my phone from my computer, my computer from phone, and they all find my wife phone and computer, and they all find my keys and my wife keys... that will be the day I escape.
by nicktikhonov | 2026-03-02 22:41:31+00:00
I didn't try Soniox, but I made a note to check it out! I chose Flux because I was already using Deepgram for STT and just happened to discover it when I was doing research. It would definitely be a good follow-up to try out all the different endpointing solutions to see what would shave off additional latency and feel most natural.

Another good follow-up would be to try PersonaPlex, Nvidia's new model that would completely replace this architecture with a single model that does everything:

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/personaplex/
by exmadscientist | 2026-03-02 22:41:40+00:00
> winter just doesn't have enough daylight to think you can get everything done with sunlight

That's the perfect way to say it.

The other piece that a lot of people are missing is the whole larks (early risers) vs owls (late risers) divide. I think the best illustration of that is to ask, if you got your pick, which shift you'd take, based solely on your own body and habits: 8-4, 9-5, or 10-6 (or perhaps even further in one direction)? My guess is that the answer to that question predicts your desire for Standard or Daylight time pretty well.
by recursive | 2026-03-02 22:42:14+00:00
Not so trivial that I didn't struggle with it for an hour. I'm not an Android power user. (I think?) I'm not even particularly a fan of Android. It's just the (hot take) least bad option I've tried.

More to the point, it seems reasonable to design for onboarding brand new users. That was never a strength of Linux, which most Linux fans would probably acknowledge. What ever happened to "it just works".
by burner420042 | 2026-03-02 22:42:31+00:00
I'm sure the enthusiasm is appreciated but Graphene is very different even from stock Android. It's not simple enough for mainstream, and UI is odd.

I'm typing this on an iPhone and my pixel 10 graphene is just to my left. It's my favorite Android distro but I wouldn't daily it.

I love how boring and quiet the OS is though. It doesn't try for engagement. Battery life remains very good. The distro is close to being what the Microsoft phone wanted to be.
by shagie | 2026-03-02 22:42:38+00:00
That's partly because it's in the same timezone as Poland. Madrid is further west that London, but London is an hour behind. Moving Spain to permanent DST puts it on the same effective timezone as London.

http://blog.poormansmath.net/images/SolarTimeVsStandardTime....

Without the DST offset, Spain much more "red" than England.

It's not so much a "permeant DST" but rather a "we want to change to GMT without moving out of the CET timezone."
Show HN: Zi2zi-JIT – Generate Chinese font in one hour
by zi2zi-jit | 2026-03-02 22:43:08+00:00
Hi folks, zi2zi-JiT is the follow-up work to the original zi2zi project (https://github.com/kaonashi-tyc/zi2zi). Now with JiT (Just image Transformer) as the backbone, it can generate high-fidelity fonts in under one hour on a single GPU.

Fonts created with zi2zi-JiT:

- Zi-QuanHengDuLiang (权衡度量体): https://github.com/kaonashi-tyc/Zi-QuanHengDuLiang
- Zi-XuanZongTi (玄宗体): https://github.com/kaonashi-tyc/Zi-XuanZongTi
- Eva-Ming-Simplified (Eva明朝简体): https://github.com/kaonashi-tyc/Eva-Ming-Simplified

Pretrained weights and LoRA fine-tuning scripts included.

I'm sharing it here in the hope that this tool reaches more people and truly helps individual CJK font designers.
by MoonWalk | 2026-03-02 22:43:13+00:00
There are lots of other regressive, mind-bogglingly inept changes scattered across the included applications.

One of my favorites is in Apple Music, where the transport controls and song-title display has been moved from the top of the window down into the content-browser or song-list area... where it's "transparent" and overlaid on other text or album art.

In Mail, the "get new mail" button has been REMOVED from the toolbar. WTF? WHY? So when you're awaiting the ever-more-widespread 2FA from something you just logged into, you get to dig through a menu to hurry up retrieval or re-add the button to the toolbar (which casual users are not going to know how to do).

The utter stupidity of these flailing, desperate changes should concern every computer user. Microsoft is lost, and Windows a clinic on dereliction, design incompetence, and hostility toward users. That leaves Mac OS as the only tolerable consumer computing platform... and it has taken a profound turn for the worse with Tahoe.

And all for nothing. Apple's blunders here don't make sense from any perspective.
by rafaelmn | 2026-03-02 22:43:34+00:00
I'm sorry but if your out is linux and windows because you're not happy how stuff doesn't "just work" in the Apple ecosystem boy are you in for a bad surprise.

However bad you think Apple is getting with MacOS - windows is getting worse. And Linux ? Good luck getting decent hardware that will run without having basic functionality issues. Queue the linux brigade "my PC works perfect, what linux issues are you having". Meanwhile I can't use bluetooth on my desktop (works perfectly fine on windows), and I was watching laptop reviews from justjosh recently where he's adding a segment where he is trying out linux on the device - and his experience on the two videos I've seen "sound does't work, wifi doesn't work, BT doesn't work ..."

All that said I am looking into leaving the Apple ecosystem as well because I just don't like how locked down and the devices are, but I'm fully aware that it's going to take significant effort for stuff that I'd get out of the box from Apple.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-03-02 22:43:41+00:00
9-5 aren't sacrosanct. When the 9-5 song came out approximately nobody worked from 9-5. Standard working hours were 8-5 with an hour for lunch. Starting at 7 was far more common than starting at 9.

The song is about a secretary who didn't get a lunch hour, so started an hour later than her boss.

Tech workers generally start at 9, but that started decades after the song came out.
by dang | 2026-03-02 22:44:01+00:00
That's very much in keeping with the proposal I floated last week (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096202) and again yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47213630), and I'd love it if we could make it work. Basically what we want is the source code, and generated code by definition is not source.

The problem is that it's not clear exactly what format that takes nowadays. If it were a single one-shot prompt, you could share that. Ditto if it were a single session with Claude Code or whatever. But the iteration loops going on here are much more complex and noisy than that.

So where I'm currently at is: we'd be willing to build something to support this, but what would we build? What would be the a v0 of this or, to use pg's old phrase, the first quantum of utility?
by reify | 2026-03-02 22:44:13+00:00
Its not that difficult really.

Considering that AI never hallucinated in the first place.

It basically fucks up and squirts out shit.

Its like putting too much animal feed in a cows mouth and waiting at the other end with a bucket.

hallucinate is a made up word for the stuff you eventually get in your bucket.

Excuse me for two minutes while I pop to my toilet to hallucinate a big turd.
by Jtsummers | 2026-03-02 22:44:31+00:00
> Why does NPR call Gugusse "a human clown" ? He is not wearing clown clothes.

Strange of you to criticize NPR for that bit seeing as they didn't come up with that description for Gugusse. From the LoC page for the video:

>> Gugusse the clown appears to control the actions of Pierrot Automate, a child-sized automaton standing on a pedestal. By turning a crank, Gugusse makes him march and wave a stick. As Gugusse turns the crank, the automaton gets bigger until it is the size of a grown man. Suddenly the automaton is controlling his own limbs. He hits Gugusse on the head with his stick. Gugusse pulls the automaton off the pedestal and picks up a large hammer. As Gugusse pounds the automaton on the head, he gets smaller and smaller. At the final stroke of the hammer, he disappears.

So they're using the supplied description of Gugusse. If you have an issue with it, take it up with the Library of Congress.
by ElijahLynn | 2026-03-02 22:44:40+00:00
Gonna say that the switch from X11 to Wayland that was pretty much forced this year across many distributions, broke a ton of things too (screenshot programs, keyboard shortcuts), however, all the code is open source, and there are workarounds and source code available but it still sucks.

Basic keyboard shortcuts are still broke with the Wayland migration. e.g. Copyq has this janky workaround for a shortcut to register with the xdg-portal (that works until reboot, then stops), Warp terminal claims there is no support, Flameshot was impossible to configure, have to use the built in Gnome shortcut tool now. The whole ecosystem got wrecked. I have been so irritated by this that I've been considering switching TO the mac ecosystem, BUT this thread is good on my eyes and makes me disinterested now.
by Aaargh20318 | 2026-03-02 22:44:49+00:00
I use my 13” iPad Pro M4 almost as much as my MacBook Pro. I’m typing this on it right now. It is by far more comfortable for consuming any kind of media than a laptop.

If I’m researching something and I need to read any significant amount of text I’m going to grab my iPad and find a comfortable spot instead of sitting at my desk. Even though I have 2 big monitors.

I also have a Magic Keyboard that I can simply pop on if I need to write any significant amount, like this, and pop it off again for pure consumption.

It’s an amazing device for watching video (the tandem OLED looks incredible) and I often use the pencil to sketch out ideas.
by sailingparrot | 2026-03-02 22:44:53+00:00
> This question IMO reveals how the abstraction of numbers can imprison our minds.

Is it the abstraction of number that imprison our mind or just the reality of having a job and other social constraint based on all of us agreeing on a time?

When most people can’t leave their job before 5pm, wether it’s dark at 5 or 6 makes a huge difference.
by boznz | 2026-03-02 22:45:03+00:00
"Voice is an orchestration problem" is basically correct. The two takeaways from this for me are

1. I wonder if it could be optimised more by just having a single language, and

2. How do we get around the problem of interference, humans are good at conversation discrimination ie listing while multiple conversations, TV, music, etc are going on in the background, I've not had too much success with voice in noisy environments.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-02 22:45:04+00:00
If there is only one such structure, if it is unique, then the question of its existence goes away. What would existence mean?

We would just know there was a unique self-consistent all consistent form covering structure. And that any form within that structure, with a sophisticating self-sensing self-interpretive ability, would experience its own existence.

Existence would then mean, part of the unique self-consistent, zero-information, independent of any externality, structure.

A perceived existence as a result of a unique tautological structure, not a result of any external composition.

And the phrase "I think therefore I am", would be tautological in both senses. As evidence. But also, as the actual meaning of existence. Given a self-aware form within a tautology, its perception of existence is the nature of existence.

Reality was always going to be something that forms structures, that are somehow inevitable, the only possibility, not something selected or manufactured by something else.
by triceratops | 2026-03-02 22:45:19+00:00
> The bankruptcy court didn’t agree that having too much money was a grounds for dismissing the bankruptcy filing. The appellate court reversed, finding that a company that had too much money was legally precluded from filing for bankruptcy.

I understood that. My question was why challenge the bankruptcy if there was apparently already enough money for everyone who won? Why not just go to bankruptcy court and pick up your check?

EDIT: Looks like this question was answered with an edit to the post I replied. Thanks!

Another commenter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224462 said that

1. funding commitments have been unenforceable in other Texas two step bankruptcies

2. allowing a bankruptcy court to figure out payments would turn all the thousands of plaintiffs' cases into a defacto class action (my understanding of what this person wrote).
by kmdupree | 2026-03-02 22:45:23+00:00
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by sschueller | 2026-03-02 22:45:28+00:00
Of course, why wouldn't they? They do not work without a meta account. /s

Is anyone at meta going to be bald accountable?

An absolute privacy nightmare especially in places like Switzerland or Germany where recording people (subject focus) even in public is not permitted without consent but you have tourists now showing up everywhere wearing these.

The LED is barely visible during the day and some have modified their glasses to disable/remove it.
by thesz | 2026-03-02 22:45:35+00:00
> So NNs too really (damn autocorrect, it's rely, rely) on human insight and structuring upon which they can then build over.

If so, one can repeat it with other basic models as well.

It is possible to train deep decision trees forests [1]. Then I believe that it is possible to train deep convolutional decision trees forests.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.08835
by nicktikhonov | 2026-03-02 22:45:37+00:00
I'm sure LiveKit or similar would be best to use in production. I'm sure these libraries handle a lot of edge cases, or at least let you configure things quite well out of the box. Though maybe that argument will become less and less potent over time. The results I got were genuinely impressive, and of course most of the credit goes to the LLM. I think it's worth building this stuff from scratch, just so that you can be sure you understand what you'll actually be running. I now know how every piece works and can configure/tune things more confidently.
by dylan604 | 2026-03-02 22:45:40+00:00
> (against fresh drivers)

How many people roll out of bed, rush out the door and jump in the car before they're actually awake? In my circles, that would be a larger percentage that of those that get up with plenty of time to wake up. I'm not sure any time of the day is safer regarding attentive drivers. Especially if we're going to consider idiots on their phones while driving.
by esbranson | 2026-03-02 22:45:54+00:00
> Based on the public record, it's unclear

First section summary.

> First, the bar covers actions "under such authority"—meaning actions that exceed the statute's grant fall outside it entirely.

The authority, which is omitted in the article, is likely subsection entitled "Authority". Who woulda thought. (a) Authority.—…(1) carry out a covered procurement action; and (2) limit, notwithstanding any other provision of law, in whole or in part, the disclosure of information relating to the basis…. There is no mention of "was built to address foreign adversary threats to the IT supply chain" in the aforementioned authority. The rest reminds me of sovereign citizen arguments: good luck lol.

> "Adversary" is undefined, but

This holds more water. Too bad the court will be prevented from reviewing the underlying record with which to decide, for a coequal branch, who are adversaries. And unlike IEEPA, these definitions are not in the Constitution.

> Pretext

The underlying record, and their decision to "limit" disclosure (not "not to disclose"), is unreviewable.

> the required findings don't hold up

Dang, ignorance of "no action … shall be subject to review" is doing real work. It does not matter if only the record cannot be reviewed. If a court cannot review the information, it cannot make contrary decisions.
by benoau | 2026-03-02 22:45:59+00:00
> Even ignoring bugs and design changes, in which way does it serve users to phase out Rosetta 2, which in a container-heavy world is more or less required for developers due to the ecosystem of ARM64 Linux containers being nowhere near as widespread as for AMD x86-64 ones, and which keeps many applications runnable that otherwise wouldn't be?

This is what tells me I'm completely misaligned with Apple's vision of the future.

Why would I want an OS that aspires to prevent me from running perfectly good software that runs very well??? And at a time when even smartphones are starting to run x86 software well!

That's literally the opposite of what I want from a computer. If I have to choose between losing Mac software vs losing x86 software it is much easier to leave Mac software behind.
by lossyalgo | 2026-03-02 22:46:32+00:00
I also have a lot of friends who deleted WhatsApp, Facebook, etc. over the years due to privacy concerns. I also know a few people who have dumb phones for the same reason. I have gotten a couple friends to install NetGuard firewall on their Android phones and gave them a quick tutorial how to whitelist new apps and they are very happy that they have some sort of control about what comes in/goes out of their phones. All of the above groups are very non-technical. And on the other end, 50% of my technical friends don't seem to give a shit anymore - maybe they realize it's futile to even try, since the panopticon is multi-faceted and drains a lot of energy trying to keep prying eyes away. Ignorance can be bliss?
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-02 22:46:50+00:00
I appreciate the usecase you're describing but I feel like "that has good runtime performance (LLVM is great here)" is at odds with the rest of that list. I don't see that as a problem though. I think it's useful to have a very fast lightweight compiler for development and prototyping (both of projects and the compiler itself) and a slower one for highly optimized production releases.
by casion | 2026-03-02 22:47:04+00:00
You've created problems that don't exist. They're concerns that most people don't have.

You don't know what to say. That's fine.

You might be wasting their time. That's fine.

You might not know how to end the conversation. That's fine.

It's ok to be awkward. It's ok to be honest. It's ok to bother people as long as you take their feedback appropriately. It's ok to walk away without saying anything.

The more often that you talk to people and actively reflect on the REAL outcomes of it, the sooner you'll realize those concerns aren't shared by most other people.
by partiallypro | 2026-03-02 22:47:14+00:00
I don't see how it's condescending or naive (at least anymore than the relative anti-US stuff you I was responding to,) name a large company or big innovation Europe has produced in the past 20 years? The whole continent is basically flat on growth for the past decade. It's literally in the numbers. Europe has been in denial, not the US. It has been very much left behind by China and the US. The US controls its own monetary system, European countries do not, that makes the debt issues a bit exaggerated. Not to mention China's has tremendous debt itself.

Also we do have universal social security, and while many medications are expensive at least they are available. Try getting a weeks worth of ibuprofen in Germany, it requires a doctor's appointment. I love Europe and have lived there, but talk to virtually any business person in Europe and they both envy the US and China, not themselves. If you can't see that painfully obvious reality, I don't know what to say, honestly.
by elAhmo | 2026-03-02 22:47:21+00:00
I don't understand people complaining about Apple using ~nearly latest processor on a device refresh. What are they supposed to do, not put a year old CPU inside, use something from a decade ago?

If you are on an iPad from 5 or so years ago there, or happy with your device, sure - there is no reason to upgrade. But the very same reason that you do not have to upgrade is that Apple put a fairly powerful chip in your device a while ago that is still holding today.

It should be a common sense that these devices are for first time buyers or for users of very old devices that finally end up upgrading, and why would those people not be treated with a fairly recent internals?