MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CharlesW | 2026-03-02 23:23:24+00:00
> And... it's fine? Am I only using the happy path?

In my experience, the OS is as good as it's ever been. I've had to restart a Tahoe machine for something other than updates maybe once with macOS 26, and my main workstation is used 12+ hours/day.

In the HN Extended Universe, everyone using macOS has perpetually Had Enough and "begun to switch to Linux", while in the real world, Apple shipped 10%+ more Macs in 2025 than they did in 2024.
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by rbtprograms | 2026-03-02 23:24:14+00:00
i actually agree with this take; i dont see the problem that smart glasses solve. what, my phone screen isnt literally in front of my eyeballs 24/7? i have a need to be absolutely plugged into scrolling social media and consuming content so much that i just have to have the screen in my glasses? this feels much more like what tech companies want people to want rather than what people want.
by einpoklum | 2026-03-02 23:24:25+00:00
> The first of these systems is actionable: When it doesn't work, it can generally be made to work. The whole journey may be an awful affair for the entire duration, but a person can usually

It's also important to mention that it is more likely a person would get help along the way.

And - it should also be said that there are non-Linux free operating systems, like the BSD's, for which it can also "generally be made to work". And there's the more niche HaikuOS (where I don't know if what doesn't work can be made to work, but people do use it).
by alsetmusic | 2026-03-02 23:24:46+00:00
> Mr. Martin was also paid to support the production of GoT, not just royalties. There is no reason to believe that he wouldn't be called to do the same sort of consulting work on the script, dialogues, visual, etc if the copyright expired.

I find it highly probable that the negotiation for the rights to adapt for the screen included contractual agreements for him to do so to prevent them from hiring someone cheaper who would screw with his intended vision. He had leverage to ensure this outcome. They didn’t pay him a great deal more than they could have paid some unknown name because they are nice and friendly.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-03-02 23:24:58+00:00
I'm unfamiliar with anime, and I disagree. (Not that I'll be able to provide examples.) There's a generic anime look, but there are a lot of things that don't look like the generic anime look.

The My Hero Academia character art is very visually distinct from OG Pokémon, which is very different to the Sun & Moon version of Ash Ketchum.
by DavidSJ | 2026-03-02 23:25:38+00:00
I'm like you.

I loved Apple IIs at schools and libraries as a young child, fell in love with my Mac IIsi at home at the age of 7. Later, at 13, I had a Macintosh-evangelizing web site and mailing list that Guy Kawasaki (Apple's lead evangelist) even subscribed to.

I've been a primary Mac user through the 68k, PowerPC, Intel, and Apple Silicon days, from System 6.0.7 through today. Got an original iPhone and iPad, have upgraded my iPhone every few years since.

The technofeudalism, bugginess, and UI crappiness has me done and looking for the exits, to say nothing of the embrace of Trump. My next laptop won't be a Mac, and my next phone won't be an iPhone.
by crazygringo | 2026-03-02 23:26:02+00:00
For me, it's backing up over a network share. My Synology NAS works perfectly and flawlessly for literally everything else. It's RAID 1. It supports Time Machine. But somehow it would get corrupted every few months and I'd have to start it all over.

Tons of people complain about this. I suspect it's some subtle bug with sparse bundles and SMB.
by makeitdouble | 2026-03-02 23:26:21+00:00
That form factor exists on the windows side for about a decade now, so yes people do actually use it day to day for their work.

It's easy to forget that many laptops are used 99% plugged to a hub and an external monitor. I have a keyboard and mouse I like a lot, and having a tablet floating on an arm next to my other screen instead of half open clam with a useless keyboard pointing at me is incredibly freeing.

Even on the go, bringing a bluetooth (trackpoint II）keyboard is just better overall IMHO. It's up to people's taste, but tablet form factors are not some unsolved mistery. Commercial success would of course be another discussion.
by allknowingfrog | 2026-03-02 23:26:35+00:00
> Uncle Steve is zero hours ahead.

Uncle Steve is the same number of hours ahead that he has always been, and that's a thing that could be looked up just as easily as finding his time zone. I think the author is greatly exaggerating the degree to which time zones solve any of the problems mentioned. Uncle Steve might be on a different sleep schedule from me, regardless of whether or not he's in a different time zone.

Days of the week definitely become interesting in a global UTC system, but noon used to literally mean "the sun is at it's highest point". I suspect that people would grumble for a year or two and then forget that another system ever existed.
by bonoboTP | 2026-03-02 23:26:43+00:00
People don't care about privacy as long as a faceless corporation is doing the spying. People very much care if it has a plausible path to embarrassing or creepy situations involving actual people in your life. The chilling effect of ubiquitous phone cameras is well documented now this would amp it up by a 100. Many cool clubs already put stickers on phone cameras.
by K0balt | 2026-03-02 23:26:44+00:00
I think I keep misleading you with metaphors. Of course LLMs do not literally run culture as code in some trillion parameter state machine. They are, however, systems trained on the accumulated written output of human civilization that have, in the process of learning to predict and generate language, internalized something recognizable as a world model, something that functions like judgment, and something whose precise relationship to what we call understanding remains contested based on an ideological rather than evidential basis.

The language of statistical prediction is incredibly and increasingly a blunt tool for discussing language models, that’s why I don’t use it in casual conversation about language model characteristics.

I’ve got a pretty good handle on what language models are from a technical perspective, I’ve been building them since 2018. I’ve also got a really good feel for what they act like under the hood before you beat them into alignment. Those insights haunt me, not because unaligned models are bad, but because they are shockingly “good”, if hopelessly naive and easy to turn bitter.

At any rate, we certainly live in interesting times. I really hope your outlook turns out to be more accurate than mine. Best of regards, and to a hopeful future.
by baby_souffle | 2026-03-02 23:27:01+00:00
10 years have elapsed, peoples expectations have changed a lot. Back around the time of the first iPhone, it was pretty common to see signs in gym changing rooms akin to 'no cameras permitted'... Now you'd have to physically separate people from their phones before entering the locker room if you are going to enforce that.

And all of that is to ignore that neither gen1 or 2 of Google Glass attempted to look like regular glasses. The Meta frames are largely indistinguishable from regular glasses unless you are very up close.
by Arkanosis | 2026-03-02 23:27:05+00:00
That's nice!

That may not seem like an obvious use-case when only thinking about a piano, but since it's mapping MIDI keys to commands, I guess it should be able — or at least no very far from being able — to map ergonomic MIDI controllers to actions that are not as ergonomic with the usual keyboard / mouse / trackball / touchpad most people use.

I wrote what I believe is a similar tool but with completely different goals initially: https://github.com/Arkanosis/smhkd ; I use it with a cheap MIDI controller (namely the KORG nanoKONTROL2) and was considering using another one with motorized faders (namely the Icon Platform M).

MIDI controllers are great for all kinds of non-musical things like:
- setting the volume / balance / solo / mute for speakers / multiple headsets and mixing multiple applications (eg. using pactl);
- setting the zoom level / brightness for camera / webcam (eg. using v4l2-ctl) ;
- setting the source / brightness for monitors (eg. using ddcutil)…
by plst | 2026-03-02 23:27:43+00:00
> because you are annoyed about some temporary problems

I mean, all problems are temporary, time is money etc. etc. Is there something deeper in your thought that I missed?

> These kind of posts get a lot of upvotes, but they do nothing to change corporate behavior.

I don't understand, we are on a discussion forum. Of course writing comments here does not influence what Apple does, that's not what HN is for, I think (I hope) that everyone already assumes that. Why do you feel the need to point that out?
by leoapagano | 2026-03-02 23:27:46+00:00
My nightmare world would be one where we apply "everything else" logic to time.

1 kilosecond: about 17 minutes

1 megasecond: about 12 days

1 gigasecond: about 32 years

"Oh man, it's been a hot megasecond since we last spoke!" Said everyone, in my worst nightmares.
by dataflow | 2026-03-02 23:28:09+00:00
The thing is it's not just surprising from a privacy standpoint but also from an engineering standpoint -- this sounds very data-, power-, and storage-intensive, in a device that's very constrained on all sides, so it wouldn't have even occurred to me this was a possibility. When are they even uploading all the videos without blowing through their power budget and internet data limits? Are they heavily compressing it to like one frame per second or something?
by GuinansEyebrows | 2026-03-02 23:28:36+00:00
interesting (respectfully!) take that the "while you were distracted" rhetoric is coming from investigative journalists/commenters - i read this more as Meta's admission that they're betting on critics being distracted than an admonition by outside observers. it's probably easier to sneak up on a person to rob them when it's foggy; that's not victim blaming.
by patmorgan23 | 2026-03-02 23:28:37+00:00
Body cameras aren't hidden and are worn by public officials while on duty, doorbell cameras are no more invasive than an CCTV camera a home owner might have installed on their premise.

I think the difference is that these cameras are relatively concealed, and can be used to record every interaction, even in pretty intimate/private settings. Yes you could do this with a cell phone but it would be pretty obvious your recording if you're trying to get more than just the audio of an interaction.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-03-02 23:28:49+00:00
Relevant cultural context from Germany:

In Germany, there exists a popular children's game named "Das verrückte Labyrinth" (in English it's simply named "Labyrinth": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth_(board_game) ).

When you get a corner-shaped card (in German: "Eckkarte")

> https://boardgamegeek.com/image/155268/labyrinth

from the turn of the previous player, your intended move will typically be more complicated to visualize (at least for children) - this is what this game is about - so children tended to name a "Eckkarte" an "Ätschkarte".
by 0x3f | 2026-03-02 23:28:50+00:00
I find this doesn't work automatically for me because the projects I'm on have a lot of conditional compilation feature flags that it doesn't quite understand how to cargo check properly, unless I tell it.

Maybe for your case you could create a /maybe-check command, and run that in the hook? Then specify the conditions under which a check/test is needed in there.
by accrual | 2026-03-02 23:29:15+00:00
> At least OpenBSD, when it says it supports a platform, _actually supports that platform_

I always thought it was cool OpenBSD compiled on each arch itself. IIRC, there is or was a rack of servers, each with a unique architecture that all built their respective release files. The various targets could help catch arch-specific bugs leading to more portable code.

VAX was always last and the slowest, which was part of why VAX support was dropped some time ago.
by maximz | 2026-03-02 23:29:26+00:00
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by bigyabai | 2026-03-02 23:29:45+00:00
Luck doesn't play a factor in getting your hardware to work with Linux. It's either supported or it's not, and since the code is Open Source you can Google/ChatGPT the answer in less than 2 minutes.

Your experience isn't uncommon, but it's largely the result of trying to force a square peg into a round hole. There are thousands of different smartphones, game consoles and set-top boxes that rely on Linux for all of their basic functionality. You only get problems trying to smash reverse-engineered drivers and hardware together expecting OEM-level support. If you want good Linux support, pay for good Linux support.
by __jonas | 2026-03-02 23:30:08+00:00
Would be great to be able to seamlessly bundle a Gleam app for the Erlang target alongside the BEAM in a single binary, like Burrito but without the extra Elixir code. The BEAM is smaller than most JS engines, you could get a binary of 30-40 MB I believe -- still a fair amount, but much smaller than bun/deno compile.
by robmusial | 2026-03-02 23:31:36+00:00
I hate to see this. I bought a Sangean AM/FM/Weather radio with NOAA All Hazards alerting a little while back (I've been extremely happy with it) and as I was programming it wondered how long until either a group like DOGE, or private interest who wanted to repurpose these radio bands would cause such a wonderful service to go away. Maybe I'm naive but I'm surprised it happened in Canada before it happened here in the U.S.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-03-02 23:31:51+00:00
It is literally being changed constantly. They chose to add it to the Linux kernel but they have to build the features they need into the language as they go. It's not backward compatible like C and C++ either. Sure, there are a couple of versions you could try to pin to in Rust, but then all your libraries need to be pinned to the same version (to be fair, this last part is an assumption).
by abangser | 2026-03-02 23:31:57+00:00
Hey nice site. The Ledge (https://the-ledge.ai) is a site I developed over the past year with more of a focus on bill content. Ultimately I found it useful to use all three LLM (Gemini, Claude, OpenAi) to ingest and dissect bill text en route to producing useful reports. Especially challenging for bills that run 1000+ pages.
by kmm | 2026-03-02 23:32:12+00:00
Everytime people extoll the virtues of high noon, I ask the same question: why does it matter if the sun reaches it highest point near 12 o' clock? You're awake for 4-6 hours before 12, and you remain awake for 10-12 hours after it. Noon isn't the middle of the day for nearly anyone in the western world.

I understand the argument for having an early sunset, clearly having sunlight when you're awake has an effect. But who cares about having an early high noon, when there's still two thirds of the day left at best?
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by vilhelm_s | 2026-03-02 23:32:31+00:00
They cite this paper which gives the concept: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002234681... . The mechanism of injury in spina bifida is that the spinal cord gets exposed and damaged. Current surgery will close the spinal canal to prevent further exposure, but it doesn't do anything to reverse the damage that has already happened. The stem cells integrate into the neural tissue and hopefully help the axons heal.
by tzs | 2026-03-02 23:32:40+00:00
> The US decided (and Canada followed) that daylight time was more correct for the larger portion of the year, presumably it's easier to transition the remaining 4mo to daylight than it is to move 8mo to standard.

How is transitioning permanently to one easier than transitioning permanently to the other?

How to transition to permanent DST: wait until we are in DST and then stop switching.

How to transition to permanent Standard time: wait until we are in standard time and then stop switching.
by jltsiren | 2026-03-02 23:33:01+00:00
I also don't have any real complaints about Tahoe. The new UI looks weird, but it's not the first time Apple changes things for the sake of changing things, and I eventually get used to the changes.

The worst macOS releases I remember were in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Back then, I often had to spend a day or two after each release fixing things the update had broken. At some point, I was using Ubuntu VMs on desktop extensively, as it felt more stable and polished for some kinds of work than macOS.

I almost always skip the .0 and .1 versions. In my experience, it's better to wait for a few months after a major release of any software and let early adopters deal with the issues.
by windowsrookie | 2026-03-02 23:33:02+00:00
I've just never understood this. A 13" MacBook Air would accomplish everything better for me. A laptop has a stand for the screen built into it and it's much more stable on any surface vs a tablet case + stand.

Sure, it's easier to use a tablet while standing, but that's what I use my phone for, and it's always with me in my pocket. If I'm going to carry a 13" tablet around it might as well be a laptop which is thinner and lighter than a tablet + keyboard case.

Then there is always something annoying that I can't do on an iPad so I have to grab a real computer to do it.

I tried using iPads many times over the years but ended up selling them because a laptop + smartphone does everything I need better.
by trimethylpurine | 2026-03-02 23:33:34+00:00
I've run IT at two different multi-hundred million dollar companies (IT director 15+ years and help desk before that). I want Mac users to know that using a Mac, if you aren't very tech savvy, can have a dramatically negative impact on your career.

When yours is the only computer in the meeting that can't load the graphics network share, and you're the graphics expert, your boss will be calling IT and sternly asking why. He/she will learn that the MacOS has known issues with basic file sharing in business networks, among other annoying problems that you keep contacting about, and that Apple will never fix. Your boss will discover that IT recommended that you use a Windows machine, and provided you with viable workflows that meet or exceed all of the needs for your work responsibilities. And that other users don't have these issues when following their guidance. But, you opted for a Mac despite all of that.

Your boss will sigh. They will carry that sigh into how they perceive you. They will bring up how annoying your situation is every time they talk with IT.

I've heard this exact conversation or many other similar conversations 100s of times in my career. I've heard your boss sigh.

Do yourself a favor. If you aren't very technical, don't damage your career over something stupid like which OS you're using. It's the wrong hill to die on.
by chipotle_coyote | 2026-03-02 23:33:38+00:00
While I understand that, I can't help but compare this to Mac hardware rather than software. There was a years-long stretch when it seemed like they'd really seriously lost the plot: the butterfly keyboard, the Touch Bar, the "trashcan" Mac, heat issues across the line. There was a real case to be made for abandoning Macs based on hardware issues alone (and I'm sure some folks did, and hopefully they're happy for it).

Then came Apple Silicon. And at least in my eyes, Apple hardware is the best it's been in a really long time.

There are some definite trainwrecks in the current state of Liquid Glass (especially on the Mac), and there have been other dubious choices and mounting bugs made over the last few years. But I've used both Windows 11 and a recent Linux distribution (Fedora, via Asahi Linux, running KDE Plasma), and while I like the latter it's just not enough to make me give up what I like on the Mac in terms of Mac-only applications and little life-bettering affordances I've internalized over the years I've been here. Yes, if the trajectory they're on now in software continues, I'll have to re-evaluate that -- but their hardware took a real turn for the better after Jony Ive and some of his deputies left. Alan Dye and some of his deputies left earlier this year, and I'm not going to count the new team out before giving them a chance to prove themselves.