MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by freetonik | 2026-03-02 22:32:23+00:00
Coincidentally, I had to leave macOS for a Windows 11 pc about a month ago and it’s… fine. There are absurd bugs and ux decisions, but I honestly think there are different but equally bad aspects of macOS. On the other hand, some of the things in windows land are just nicer.

For one, my network samba shares stay connected and mounted through restarts. I could never make this work reliably on macOS.

File explorer is good. Finder always felt clunky and awkward to use. In addition, certain class of software exists for windows and not for macOS. Like FilePilot, Anything, MusicBee, Foobar2000 (Mac version of the latter is not the same as the windows version).

The biggest issue so far for me is keyboard shortcuts for text editing. Cmd-based movements are great and I have very deep muscle memory by now. I could not find a reliable way to recreate this on windows (I can make the cursor movement work, but some selections don’t work the same).
by shagie | 2026-03-02 22:32:36+00:00
The author is nominally Daren Tang of WIPO.

https://www.wipo.int/web-publications/wipo-guide-to-trade-se...

...

Trade secrets have been hidden gems for too long. It is time to bring them into the light, so that they can truly sparkle. Whether you are a policymaker or business manager, a researcher or entrepreneur, we hope this Guide helps you to see the power of trade secrets and the value they bring to businesses strategies and global innovation.

Daren Tang
Director General
World Intellectual Property Organization

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The documentation about the organization is at https://www.wipo.int/en/web/about-wipo

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the United Nations agency that serves the world’s innovators and creators, ensuring that their ideas travel safely to the market and improve lives everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPO_Copyright_Treaty

The World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty (WIPO Copyright Treaty or WCT) is an international treaty on copyright law adopted by the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 1996. It provides additional protections for copyright to respond to advances in information technology since the formation of previous copyright treaties before it.
by water-data-dude | 2026-03-02 22:32:37+00:00
Everyone else is throwing in there 2¢, so here's my pet proposal.

Here's the undeniable fact: everyone (ok, almost everyone, but it's a rounding error) hates the switchover in spring, when you have to get up an hour earlier. Conversely, everyone (or a rough approximation) likes the switchover in the fall, when we get to sleep in an extra hour. So why don't we just get rid of the switchover in the spring and get rid of the one in the fall?
by reify | 2026-03-02 22:33:07+00:00
I always thought, from experience, that you became a master of your specialist field, regardless of what it is, after working at it for 10 years.

you could be a baker, a scientist, a psychologist or a developer.

But fuck me, all you wankers using AI can do it in 10 minutes.

using a few skills, is not coding.

going all in, says it all

adding a few forward slashes, is not coding.

using the word paradigm shift because some other fantasists booster used it, is boring as fuck.
by kypro | 2026-03-02 22:33:08+00:00
Depends what you mean by sane I guess...

I've been thinking (and worrying) about AI for decades so this last few years have been extremely hard for me. A lot of the stuff I worried about when deep neutral networks first began to work are now beginning to play out and if anything timelines are significantly shorter than I imagined they would be.

I've believed since around 2012 that the most likely way I'd die is from AI so this isn't new, but until around 2021 the error bars have always been quite large. In the last few years that error has rapidly compressed to the point at which I'd now very confidently bet we're all doomed (were there any point in me betting on that). I have few uncertainties left in the core trends of how things will progress from here, and the uncertainties that I do have are really more about how quickly doom will come and how bad the ending will be.

People who know me IRL kinda get why I'm freaking out right now because stuff I said that sounded insanely stupid before are actually now starting to materialise. But online I keep having to decide if I'm okay with sounding insane on this given how important it is and how concerned I am. I think the right thing to do is to sound insane and at least try to convince people we need to change course ASAP because this will not end well. Plus I'm having nightmares constantly at the moment so I'm really feeling the need to just express myself.

The number of serious risks we now face are almost endless and the probabilities that they occur are relatively high for the most part. Even most people with vested interests in the AI industry who are actively building these systems will give high single digits to low double digit odds that they're helping to build a technology that will kill us all lmao. And more concerningly most them are either lying or genuinely uneducated on why alignment is hard. The lunacy of the situation we're in is astounding.

So how am I staying sane? At this point I've more or less come to terms with what's coming. I'm just worried about those I love because I don't want them to suffer. It's frustrating so few seem to be thinking beyond risks like job losses right now and that's making me feel a bit insane at the moment tbh. I suspect people will catch up within the next 12-24 months.

As for the geopolitical uncertainty, that's always been a thing. 9/11 felt far more scary than anything that's happening today imo. The full scale invasion of Ukraine was significant, but hardly unexpected or even unprecedented.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-02 22:33:31+00:00
School and business hours are already fairly arbitrary where I live. The only places observing "standard" hours seem to be banks and even many of those stay open later in the evening these days. Meanwhile the schools do everything based on juggling a limited number of busses meaning that start and end times are staggered over a period of 3+ hours. You see evidence of this in traffic patterns as well. It starts early with the trades and runs well into the late morning due (AFAIK) to tech.
by io_eric | 2026-03-02 22:33:37+00:00
Technically, it’s not just about the download pipe. A 2MB+ WASM blob or JS bundle imposes a heavy CPU parse/compile tax. On mid-tier mobile devices, this results in main-thread jank and a 'Time to Interactive' (TTI) that kills user retention before the first frame even renders.

Beyond that, the 'Canvas-only' approach is computationally expensive. You are effectively re-implementing a rendering engine (layout, hit-testing, paint) on top of a rendering engine. While the browser's native DOM/CSS engine is a highly optimized, hardware-accelerated C++ powerhouse, a Canvas-only app has to manually calculate every pixel and handle every event in the WASM/JS loop. This drains battery faster and runs hotter than letting the browser do what it was built for.
by looneysquash | 2026-03-02 22:33:48+00:00
Maybe there's a gap in my knowledge of notation, but I was confused by:

> Let’s define the Lagrange basis functions

It looks like you defined `l_i(x)` as a piecewise function or a step function.

But then you show with it's actual definition later in that section. (That's what that section is building to and explaining.)
by BoorishBears | 2026-03-02 22:33:51+00:00
If you've never used an iPhone near it's storage limit, I wouldn't wish it on you.

Performance nosedives, then it starts bootlooping randomly, and eventually you can't even delete stuff because there's no space to delete things.

You resort to randomly trying to remove apps, but sometimes that fails because of the stability issues.

-

The only reason I replaced my 12 Pro was storage, and I made up my mind never to skimp on storage again.

That phone lasted me 5 years and could easily have gone several more, so I see it as an extremely cheap investment across the lifetime of the phone.
by chpatrick | 2026-03-02 22:34:02+00:00
Nice ad hominems, good job.

It's the same deal with small phones. Everyone thinks they're a great idea, then when they actually release them no one buys them. You can't plan your products based on what a small group of users want.

I use Graphene myself and I think it's great but this idea that it's something the average user is clamoring for is just fiction.
by rayiner | 2026-03-02 22:34:19+00:00
> Sorry I'm having trouble parsing this because the first and second sentences seem to contradict each other. Or I'm just bad at reading.

Sorry, I was unclear. You have a law that says that pre-bankruptcy transfers that were made to avoid liability can be voided: 11 USC 548: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/11/548. So say J&J put the liabilities into a subsidiary, but didn’t give it a check. The creditors would have been able to void the transfer of liability and give it back to J&J by proving that J&J transferred the liabilities that the subsidiary couldn’t pay.

To work around that, J&J did a particular formulation of the Texas Two-Step where it gave the subsidiary a big check to pay for the anticipated liabilities. The fact that J&J had to do that shows that the fraudulent transfer law does have some teeth. It was the reason J&J had to take the approach that ultimately got the subsidiary kicked out of bankruptcy court.

> If I may ask, given that LTL was funded with many multiples of its liabilities, why was the bankruptcy appealed

So the amicus brief from Public Justice—which I had no involvement with—does a good job of explaining the public interest concerns: https://www.tzlegal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022.07.0.... Bankruptcy court is a debtor-friendly forum and gives debtors tremendous leverage over creditors.
by amatecha | 2026-03-02 22:34:50+00:00
yeah the 4:15 PM sunset actually means it's getting dark at 3:30 PM. Pretty ridiculous. For everyone like "the kids have to walk to school in the dark!" it seems like they aren't considering that kids generally don't care at all what the morning is like because their day is about to be consumed by an obligation they never agreed to (school). When they're finally free for the day, it's effectively dark outside. The perspective among my peer group when I was a kid was that daylight savings system is totally clueless, has never made sense, and we should permanently switch to the schedule that allows more daylight after school (aka DST).
Show HN: DeadSwitch – Encrypted USB vault with dead man's switch
by chuckgreve | 2026-03-02 22:35:57+00:00
I built DeadSwitch after realizing that if I died tomorrow, my family would have no idea how to access any of my accounts, crypto wallets, or important documents.

$120 billion in Bitcoin has been permanently lost — most of it because the owner died without passing on access. That number haunts me.

DeadSwitch is a portable encrypted vault that runs entirely from a USB drive. No cloud required — your data never leaves your device unless you want it to.

How it works:
- Store passwords, crypto wallets, financial accounts, documents, medical info, legal info, and personal video/audio messages
- Assign specific items to specific beneficiaries (your spouse gets financials, your kids get personal messages)
- Set a configurable check-in schedule — if you miss enough check-ins, it automatically delivers everything to the right people
- Print an emergency card PDF for each beneficiary with instructions and a secret code

Tech: AES-256-GCM-SIV encryption, Argon2id key derivation, XChaCha20-Poly1305 for video/audio. Multi-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux). Open source.

Adding an optional $10/mo cloud vault backup for belt-and-suspenders protection.

Happy to answer any questions about the crypto/security implementation.
by rcarmo | 2026-03-02 22:36:21+00:00
I have been feeling the same way _for years now_, and am writing this on this machine: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2025/11/05/2200 - an Intel MacBook Air running Fedora Silverblue.

I have been writing on/about and using Macs for 25 years, have had a bunch of semi-catastrophic failures with Tahoe (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/02/18/1230) and Time Machine (https://taoofmac.com/space/til/2026/02/01/1630), and I have also been running Fedora daily for four or five years.

Were it not for Apple Silicon, I would probably be running Linux only today. But after Tahoe, I am very, _very_ motivated to accelerate my transition. And, ironically, I can make GNOME look and feel more like what a Mac should feel like than what Tahoe does.

But like I wrote the other day (https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2026/02/26/0806):

> The most likely [outcome] is that they will simply carry on without acknowledging any of it publicly and discreetly patch the most critical issues, because they are still making tons of cash on hardware and services and software quality really hasn’t been a priority in half a decade.
by dashultz | 2026-03-02 22:37:07+00:00
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by ASalazarMX | 2026-03-02 22:37:38+00:00
> - that a bunch of users won't jump ship if Apple stagnates for 5 years

This is the most unlikely proposition, given how Apple has managed to be a decade behind and still very profitable.

Besides that, having a Claw-like AI with full access to your phone is surely a recipe for disaster. IMO Apple is being justifiably cautious in staying an spectator, looking busy, and waiting to make a deal with the winner of the chatbot wars.
by jasonjmcghee | 2026-03-02 22:37:39+00:00
I certainly don't run 6 at a time, but even with just 1 - if it's doing anything visual - how are folks hooking up screenshots to self verify? And how do you keep an eye on it?

The only solution I've seen on a Mac is doing it on a separate monitor.

I couldn't find a solution here and have built similar things in the past so I took a crack at it using CGVirtualDisplay.

Ended up adding a lot of productivity features and polished until it felt good.

Curious if there are similar solutions out there I just haven't seen.

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/orcv
by pembrook | 2026-03-02 22:37:59+00:00
> [on windows 11] my network samba shares stay connected and mounted through restarts. I could never make this work reliably on macOS.

It’s wild to me that Apple has allowed SMB on MacOS to be so broken/slow and poorly implemented for so long. It’s been this way for over a DECADE.

I have friends who work at production studios who complain about network storage and MacOS all the time given any modern video workflow involves a NAS.

You would think a company that halos creative workers in all its ads would care about this. But they happily ignore since “SMB that works” is not a feature that will get much mainstream attention in a flashy keynote (that nobody watches anymore anyways).
by somat | 2026-03-02 22:38:14+00:00
Obviously(/s) the solution is to change to a sunset centered day. new day starts at sunset so people can get up late and enjoy the maxim number of daylight hours.

I always find it strange how particular people are about the numbers attached a purely astronomical phenomena(myself included, but I am pretty hard in the "let the sun figure it out camp"). If they want more "daylight" hours then get up at a time to enjoy them. But people would rather bend over backwards fiddling with the numbers as if that is going to change how long a day is.
by certik | 2026-03-02 22:38:31+00:00
Author of LFortran here. The historical answer is that both LFortran and Flang started the same year, possibly the very same month (November 2017), and for a while we didn't know about each other. After that both teams looked at the other compiler and didn't think it could do what they wanted, so continued on their current endeavor. We tried to collaborate on several fronts, but it's hard in practice, because the compiler internals are different.

I can only talk about my own motivation to continue developing and delivering LFortran. Flang is great, but on its own I do not think it will be enough to fix Fortran. What I want as a user is a compiler that is fast to compile itself (under 30s for LFortran on my Apple M4, and even that is at least 10x too long for me, but we would need to switch from C++ to C, which we might later), that is very easy to contribute to, that can compile Fortran codes as fast as possible (LLVM is unfortunately the bottleneck here, so we are also developing a custom backend that does not use LLVM that is 10x faster), that has good runtime performance (LLVM is great here), that can be interactive (runs in Jupyter notebooks), that creates lean (small) binaries, that fully runs in the browser (both the compiler and the generated code), that has various extensions that users have been asking for, etc. The list is long.

Finally, I have not seen Fortran users complaining that there is more than one compiler. On the contrary, everybody seems very excited that they will soon have several independent high-quality open source compilers. I think it is essential for a healthy language ecosystem to have many good compilers.
by recursive | 2026-03-02 22:38:45+00:00
Believe me, I wish I had documented it. I didn't realize that this would be surprising or controversial until I described the experience later to others. Some people basically didn't believe me.

The basic flavor was that I spent at least an hour getting a working apple account and getting signed into it, and I used at least two other devices to achieve that.

I do vividly recall that whenever I performed the final successful account verification, rather than seeing a success message, I saw a page or webview that just had a huge XML document in it. I only knew that attempt worked after I just tried logging in again. But that was one papercut out of dozens from my hazy recollection.

If I ever set up another Apple thing, I'll take photos, but it will probably work perfectly then. Oh well.
by bluebarbet | 2026-03-02 22:38:58+00:00
This question IMO reveals how the abstraction of numbers can imprison our minds.

It literally makes no sense to say, "I prefer to have an extra hour in the evening" (the morning and evening will always have equal numbers of hours). Or "I hate it when it's dark at 5pm" (translation: "I hate when it's dark at 5 arbitrary periods after an arbitrary moment that may be hours either side of solar noon").

My solution: pick the time peg closest to the "correct" one (i.e. standard time) and stick to it. People who want year-round "summer" evenings can continue to have them by a very simple expedient: getting up earlier in summer.
by Joker_vD | 2026-03-02 22:39:02+00:00
> I suspect many people don't even know they are uncountable.

Well, most English speakers may not know the term, but they can feel the concept just fine.

> In French we can have both: le logiciel as some uncountable mass, or un/des/N logiciels if you need to count them.

This mostly works in English (and other European languages) as well, e.g. "Two teas/beers, please" etc. But in English this turn of phrase is much more restricted which is indeed a shame.

And let's not even start with pluralia tantum.
by jasonvorhe | 2026-03-02 22:39:28+00:00
I don't get what's so user-hostile about Android. Everything negative about the ecosystem is mostly Google Play and the legacy of every OEM forking Android for the better part of a decade. Sure, file pickers are inconsistent, filesystem is chaotic but it's performing quite well on most hardware, runs on phones, TVs, laptops, tablets and mini PCs and AOSP doesn't contain any hooks for Google to siphon off data. GrapheneOS isn't so much undoing evil Google stuff but extending upon their work and improving memory protection and adds security features that can be easily toggled based on assumed threat models of the user.

Google's ownership of Android is definitely headed towards user hostility though, I'm not arguing against that. But just the source that GrapheneOS is based off of doesn't contain too much stuff that shouldn't be there, to my knowledge.
by friedtofu | 2026-03-02 22:39:33+00:00
Eesh, that does sound rough. The last Samsung phone I owned was the Galaxy S5, I see on the Wikipedia page Samsung devices have been locked down since early 2021 :(

Not like I would try to give you advice on unlocking your phone in the first place as I'm mostly clueless myself.

Maybe time to trade up or sideways? Graphene OS only officially supports Google Pixel devices anyway(for now). If Motorola could somehow recapture the magic of the Razer today with a new phone, that would be cool too!

https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices
by mrbuttons454 | 2026-03-02 22:39:43+00:00
I have been a Mac user since the classic mac days. I waited in line for the first iPhone.

macOS/iOS 26 are bad enough that I've begun switching to Linux. I preordered a Clicks Communicator and Pebble Round 2. Switching from a Macbook Pro M4 to an Asus ROG Flow Z13 with Debian.

macOS 26.3 updated clang and broke my emscripten workflow.

I tried to unrar a file but the version of unrar provided in homebrew is deprecated because it's no longer signed/blessed. I ended up SFTPing the file to a Linux box, extracting, and bringing it back.

My son wanted to try a Java minecraft app on his iPhone, but it required insane workarounds to enable JIT to get acceptable performance. This isn't a technical limitation, it's put in place specifically to protect Apple's walled garden, and their precious services revenue.

Despite the thousands of dollars spent on these devices, I don't feel like we own them. We can't run code without the platform owner's permission. We are at the mercy of the platform owner, that has been making increasingly worse decisions.

I'm really enjoying trying the available alternatives. My hope is that enough of us get fed up, and develop a thriving ecosystem in the open source world. I'll certainly be contributing back the things I build.
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by staticassertion | 2026-03-02 22:39:54+00:00
I mean, these are all just metaphysical claims. It also doesn't seem to address brute facts, which would be within reality, so it seems sort of pointless. It also doesn't seem to address infinite regresses.

Even if I grant your "axiom", which is just that "reality exclusively contains reality", nothing interesting follows from that for this conversation.