skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one expects a computer to work exactly the same way as a phone or tablet.

I don't expect there to be any difference soon. There no point for a laptop when it is just a screen plus a keyboard, which you can do with a pad.

There are clearly planning for convergence.
This comment doesn't track at all. Trying to get a fresh macOS machine to include everything a new hire needs to do basic development work in a Kubernetes environment requires a bunch of Jamf intervention, brew scripts, and dot files. And even then the first week you're constantly needing them to go to their security settings to allow "untrusted" programs to run. Meanwhile someone with a bone stock Fedora Workstation install is 99% of the way there. Yes, you can bikeshed all day get lost in your custom.el, .vimrc, or window manager options, but you can do that on macOS too.

For most dev machines Fedora + vscode gives you RTR productivity while maintaining a respectable level of free-as-in-freedom.
For the future, I'm anticipating vertical screens rather than horizontal ones. Laptops, for instance, you'll open up, and then rotate the screen so it's vertical. Big movie screens will also be vertical, requiring theaters to have much taller ceilings than they now have.

Why would you want this? Well, apparently, everyone these days likes watching movies and such on vertical screens, so that's the way the industry needs to move. I don't get it myself, but then again I'm not someone who watches TikTok videos.
Apple Updates App Store Review Guidelines Around Social Media
I still avoid using flatpak due to the lack of proper integration. Flatseal helps a lot in fixing some of those issues (at least in Fedora) but I would rather go and find an .rpm or .deb than rely on Flathub for anything but a quick test to see if I like an application.
They are probably using openAI under the hood, and last time I checked that wasn't free, so login is a way to rate limit.
Changelog: https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/-/blob/main/CHANGELOG.m...
Discord Edge and Embedded developers community site more than doubles users
FriedrichN? Is that an allusion to Nietzsche? It would certainly be fitting the sharpness of your observation. Wouldn’t be surprised to find the thought you expressed here in “Human, All Too Human”.
Great tool and nice to see such active development on it!

From 3.0.0 to 7.0.0 just during this year, though.. ? I guess very few are depending on the library interfaces which I imagine are being broken, or do the major version increments just signify nothing of importance?-)
It is not.

https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/bumble-now-unsolicited-...

> This sending of unsolicited nudes, or cyberflashing, is not only violent and pernicious, it’s entirely without consequences in 49 states.
I do the same, but report 8 hours. I automated this task in every job that required to report hours. I refuse to work in a clock in clock out fashion.

Thankfully I now have a job that autoreports 8 hours. I never even opened the software to edit hours.
It's context dependent. If you manage all hardware as a team, that statement is wrong. However, if this means your hardware integrity can't be guaranteed, you have bigger problems.
I think the System Settings app can be improved but I think the hate is a little overblown. How often are you really in the system settings anyways?

I'm really enjoying Stage Manager so far as well.
Back in the day, we used to have several monitors when developing web applications, mainly to mimic laptop use and desktop use.
I thought that the dynamic resizing features in modern UI development would negate the need for these, but apparently not.
Future of UI, or rather HCI, has to be voice or gesture. First company to make an intuitive interface and UX for the internet that everyone can use for their TV will be onto a winner.
It used to be snappy for the whole system, then it took a horrible regression.
“But what about security? Are you sure you want to stay on an older version of Mac OS? — Thankfully I’m tech-savvy enough to know what I’m doing. The two Macs I use most are still on High Sierra and Mojave, and haven’t received security updates in quite a while. I haven’t had any security-related problem whatsoever.”

How do people keep thinking nonsense like this, and then repeating it online to endanger other non-technical folks who also don’t know better?

Author has no idea if he has had any security problems, because most malware isn’t about to alert you to it’s presence.

You don’t run out-of-support software on an internet-connected computer.
Yours is for MacOS while the article is for Wayland.
The "ease" of slack and discord stimulate not understanding the underlying technology.
>The new Settings app seems like an improvement to me.

While using Gnome's style for the settings application is a huge improvement, the implementation is laggy and doesn't scroll smoothly. And it takes a while for each Stack item to load and render when it's selected. x86_64 here.
The "risk of mortality" is 100%. Perhaps there are some foodstuffs that increase expected lifespan; but youcan't reduce the risk of mortality. We're all mortal.
Yeah, what? I would happily argue the optimal UX ever present in Windows was either Windows 7 or Windows XP.
Did you see who the co-author of the paper is? :)
Ranting ranting about an optional function (Stage Manager). But good to know it's your last Mac. Thanks.
Search engines can't crawl Discord servers. We're losing a lot of valuable information and knowledge.

I hope one day, we will move off of Discord and into some sort of live chat software that is built to be indexable by search engines.

Who's building it? If not, who wants to build it with me? :)
It is actually an (older) figure of speech/idiom. Nobody actually has problems with proctologists.
GPT type bots have been writing news articles for close on to a decade. With a little light editing they're indistinguishable.
I don't have the budget for that at the immediate moment, but yes, I know.

I do think my point still stands though. I don't think it's acceptable for software to run this slow, even on this. I'm talking windows has been idling for hours and basic tasks like clicking on the volume slider are sluggish.
This is really wishful thinking.

>At best the AI could use the equivalent of screen scraping to use existing apps, but eventually all apps should be replaced by APIs that just extend the capabilities of the AI engine.

Why would companies want to expose APIs in this manner? Instead, they can force you to access them only through their app, and that way they can force you to sit through advertising, and otherwise control how you see the information and how you're allowed to interact with it. Open APIs cut them out of a lot of profits.

>You should be able to tell the AI engine something like "as soon as the weather forecast predicts snow, order a snow blower from Amazon".

This is crazy: this way, someone could just have their AI do these tasks in an automated way, without paying some company for the privilege.

Instead, what we need is an app that's the only way to access these APIs, and the app will give you ways to set up automation, but only in the ways the company wants you to, and poorly. Then they can charge you a monthly subscription fee for access to this automation app, and also embed annoying advertising in it.
Right! Punch Drunk Love, that’s it!
My life was significantly improved when I discovered control shift paste, which pastes just text without format. But un-desired formatting of text remain the bane of my life.
The "closing the app after copying and before pasting" case is very interesting. Shows how even things that sound simple turn out to have very tricky edge cases as soon as you start optimizing and really thinking about how to implement them.

The clipboard manager solution seems okay, but copying everything immediately seems like it defeats a lot of the elegance of the design. Perhaps it'd be preferable if the original program held the clipboard until it was about to exit, at which point it would issue a "last call" sort of announcement so that a clipboard manager could optionally "take over" the clipboard. But that wouldn't capture crashes or any app that doesn't send such a signal, so perhaps the aggressive copying is more thorough. But if that's desirable, maybe always copying data to the window manager is the better choice. Presumably Windows is doing this?
Maybe. I suggest reading About Face : on Interaction Design if you’re interested in this topic OP.

The Affinity Suite has a nifty feature where, if you own the other packages, you seamlessly can edit a photo from Photo in Publisher for instance. Or a design in Designer from Photo etc. nothing loads, it just works.
Before Flatpak I had tons also of unaudited repositories too, binaries in my home, appimages (I still have some of this) ... Flatpak have tons of things yet to improve (security ones the more worrisome), but it is a step forward from what we had before (specially if your workflow needs many apps that should be always updated).
In general yes, however not sure windows on arm is a target platform for game devs?
The Z3 was made for aerodynamics calculations, and more generally civil engineering.
It is structured under the presumption that some people think that AI generated CP is harmful, and AI researcher think that some people think that AI generated CP is harmful, and are afraid of the potential backlash.

The commenter did not necessarily adopt any of these positions themselves.

I agree that you were civil about it and no harm was done other than a bumpier than necessary comment thread.
Oh yeah, I had to use a brand new MacBook for work stuff, and I was literally yelling at the Desktop Picture settings (for example). Buttons that are just a floating text label? I didn't even realize it was a button until I randomly guessed it _might_ be, secretly hoping it wasn't because it didn't look like a clickable element whatsoever... spoiler alert: it was a button. Like, come ON. It's 2022, stuff like "a button should look like a button" was something Apple themselves standardized on like, 30 years ago?

It's so glaring. What are these buttons in the FaceTime dropdown at the top right of this[0] screenshot? Why are there four different shades of buttons? Again, why don't they look like buttons? The flatness reduces meaning - maybe they're just status indicators? Actually, looking at the screenshot I'm not even sure they are buttons now?!

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20220712084619im_/https://www.ap...
I'm pretty sure Apple also wishes for the next Mac to be the last. And though that's unlikely, it does look like where they're heading is to over time move to iPad devices + cloud services. It's better business for Apple, and better experience for users.
TrueCrypt died a developer burn-out death a long, long time ago.

FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows: VeraCrypt -> (whatever)

FreeBSD: geli

Linux: XFS -> LVM2 -> LUKSv2 (dm-crypt +? dm-integrity) -> dm-raid (RAID 10) -> (lots of spinning rust)

macOS: FileVault 2

Windows: BitLocker
Seems odd to leave India out while keeping China on the list next to France before Germany. Apple is going to manufacture the gadgets in India and the former Indochina region.

Will be interesting to see the memory capacity on the next new Mac Mini expected in one or two month.
That first link is a thing of beauty.

Also, it's terrifying because it's just one of hundreds of standards that WebKit (and Firefox) might not have the time and resources to fight.
> Brightness keys don't work without disabling a kernel module.

Why brightness in every laptop is software controlled? I am so frustrated when every time I press brightness+ or brightness- on my Linux laptop, the desired effect comes after 5-10 seconds just because my CPU is busy by something else. If I have 20 steps of brightness then changing from minimum to maximum or vice versa is never less than a minute.
OK, I've had enough of your constant need to deliver insults and misinterpretation.

Live long and prosper.
Just FYI, you're being downvoted because generally on HN you should just upvote if you have a contentless agreement comment to post, AKA a "this"-style post.
I just cannot believe that the new System Settings is what really got shipped.

What. The. Hell.
> Apps are data silos that prevent an AI from doing the things it could.

If you're a company, that's not a bug, that's a feature. Data is your asset and releasing it for free is almost always a net loss.
Are you sure you're talking about the right op?

This is in response to the ex Google employee not the author of the article.
One of the better graph visualization tools!

Which tool do you people use most often for graph visualization? I kind of linger between networkx, Gephi, graphviz and d3.
Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down
You can use head as stated in the article:

sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/boot.1 bs=512 count=1

sudo head -c 512 /dev/sda > /tmp/boot.2

md5sum /tmp/boot.1

06d6f2aa3e7c33ad06282f70aa4e133b /tmp/boot.1

md5sum /tmp/boot.2

06d6f2aa3e7c33ad06282f70aa4e133b /tmp/boot.2
We still have to wait a bit longer for web push on mobile safari. I hope it's worth the wait
A good summary on Hickel: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/against-hickelism

"Very few people know how to build/grow anything end to end. Consumerism appears to be the only way to live in the West right now (with it, a shared feeling of powerlessness)."
I recommend you read the Unabomber manifesto. It's much the same sentiment. And I don't mean it in a reductio ad hitlerum type of way. I've read the thing and hey, the motivational part of it is reasonable. It's not wrong. It makes sense. However, the conclusion I draw is that we need to acquiesce to the fact that complex, (seemingly?) fragile systems built on increasing specialization make us uncomfortable, and do them anyway; in practice, they work much better.

"degrowth seems like our only way out"
Degrowth is not a way out. We know very well how humanity functions in the low-growth conditions; when the pie is fixed or growing only slowly, whatever it is, one's only way to improve one's lot is at the expense of someone else. That doesn't tend towards communitarian utopia - that tends towards things like feudalism - the way to improve your lot is to get more land, and you will never give up the land you have voluntarily because there's no growth, so there's nothing better to be had in exchange. So the only way to get more productive assets is to take them from someone.

"Is believing technology will save us from climate collapse really that, a belief? Believing this would mean society should keep doing its thing for a tiny tiny chance of getting a free "get out of jail" card (i.e. decoupling is not a fable after all)."
Is believing in "climate collapse" really that, a belief?
"The largest impact of climate change is that it could wipe off up to 18% of GDP off the worldwide economy by 2050 if global temperatures rise by 3.2°C, the Swiss Re Institute warns."
IFCC numbers are even lower although the ones I could find claim they might be an understatement. World GDP has recently been growing by 2.5-3.3% a year. So, if it went down 18% from current values, we'd be all the way back to the apocalyptic hellscape of about 2015.
With respect, I was pointing out that the word asbestos has certain gravity that would have attracted clicks.

To suggest I didn’t read the article is in bad faith. I did read it, and quite liked it as it happens (I had no idea of the extra heat shields over the engines and how that detail had been lost to time). It just could’ve done without the clickbait title is all.
> The topic of bullshit jobs has been overhyped.

I think that's true and it's a shame Graeber's choice of language
basically offends. Who wants to hear that their job is "bullshit"?
And let's face it, sometimes we feel good name-calling all those people
whose work we don't understand.

Unfortunately that over-hyping subtracts from real and serious
questions about why we're burning resources (human and material) doing
perfomative acts.

Even the things you mention, like mobility and development regulation
can be "perfomative", as "acting out" of things we think we ought to
be seen to do but no longer have the courage to examine.

This is down to the cult of "the system" as a Big Other, which must be
appeased - something I'm not sure Graeber articulated well. But it was
a key step in the unravelling of the Soviet system, and I think we are
repeating it now in the West.
San Diego ER seeing up to 37 marijuana cases a day – mostly psychosis
Yes it does! It uses the pre-cmd hook of shells and sets the environment, similar to how direnv works.
This design could have an interesting security twist to it. The copy side could maybe infer who the paste side is and change the output, similar to the problems of piping curl into bash.
Why is the editor integration and autocomplete still so poor? Shouldn't strong types help with that?
It helps if your problem is only the visuals, but sadly reduce motion keeps all the delays the same. There's a 1.5 second delay when switching spaces with the touchpad gesture (on 120Hz screens; the animation takes longer the higher FPS it's running at), and that animation turns into a 1.5 second fade animation with reduce motion. The new space doesn't gain focus any faster.
Huh. That seems to work. I would have expected that to create a copy of the device file, i.e. /dev/something becoming synonymous with /dev/stdin.
Developer != UNIX.

Apple is still great for Apple ecosystem developers.
To business people, not having absolute centralised control over clients is a key issue.
Please stop. I am tired of your insults and misinterpretation.
I switched to lenovo+linux+regolith for daily use a long time ago after my mid-2010 macbook pro started having problems. I love the productivity gain from using a tiling window manager now, and can't imagine using anything else.

In terms of finder/preview, I've since moved to using vifm (tui) configured with zathura(pdf/djvu), calibre(epub), sxiv(images), mpv(videos). This works very well with the tiling window manager.

Notable (https://notable.app/) works very well as a notes app and you can also sync it with your mobile and use Noteless (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.redsolver....) on android with the synced notable folder

Kitty terminal (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) is great as a terminal, fast, and can also display images.
> Because the Finder powers the desktop too and its windows are not separate processes. In fact no application on macOS spawns additional windows as separate processes, that's a Windows/Linux thing.

That Finder and the desktop are a single process is an implementation detail that should be hidden from UI mechanisms like this.
Confirmed (I'm at UTC+8, SEA)
Command line and config files are really not a great way to learn a system, once you know what you are doing its faster, but arranging the actions you can take in space with something that represents the current state of the system is by far superior for anything new. There are bad GUIs but fundamentally I believe a system where you can see what is going on will always be easier to learn.

M$ forgot whats actually good about their OS, its been slowly metastasizing, but even so I dont think desktop linux is the answer. There are some real advantages to the windows paradigm, the idea that the program and the window are the same thing is important; the application should always show what its doing and what you can do. Settings are selected from all the possible options (you dont need to know whats available in advance)
Yes, https://downdetector.com/status/whatsapp/
Confirmed in Israel
For context, choosing the block size has implications on the speed at which data gets written to a USB stick, so not being able to tune that on cat can be a problem.
Well, again, I didnt call this paper pseudoscience. The "culture of papers" around this is pseudoscience. It's aim is to misapply computational descriptions to things in order to build PR credibility for their own projects -- everyone from Stanford, MIT, etc. does this, and it's awful.

Attributing spin to particles is explanatory. You can, for example, perform the stern-gerlash experiment.

The problem is something like this, take the formula f(a, b, c; A, B, C) = a^A.b^B.c^C

That formulae describes gravity (a=m,b=M,c=r; units of GN), electrostatics (a=q,...), pendulums, oceans, thermodynamics... etc.

The formulae is a pure syntax on to which we can impose a wide variety of radically different semantic. Knowing that formulae can be used with a system is meaningless. It can be used to describe an aspect of almost any system.

The explanation part comes from the semantics of that formulae.

What computational descriptions do is simply show that some formulae can be used. A priori, we basically already know that even, eg., that formulae above "describes the brain". That doesnt mean the brain is anything like gravity, thermo, etc.

The false equivocation here is this: since the syntax of transformer models applies to the brain, their semantics as used on digital computers shows the brain is like a digital computer.

This is a false equivocation, and extremely unlikely.

If people want to make the above claim they need to perform an experiment which shows that the brain is operating like a digital computer, that a formulae applies to both is unsurprising.

We should expect some aspect of the airflow in a room to be describale with the syntax of a transformer.
Thank you so much for doing this (or, at least, intending to) and apologies for calling you "not tech-aware" :)

Also thanks to our anonymous benefactor who actually uploaded the books to archive.org.
When I read these type of comments, I wonder if OP is living in some kind of bubble. Large corporations spent billions over the last years migrating to the cloud. You can't simply 'undo' that. All fine and dandy for small orgs, but they aren't the ones AWS makes most its money with.
So they keep providing updates mostly focusing on people that heavily rely on the Apple ecosystem (iPhone, Mail & Safari, ...), without seriously improving the fundamental features of the OS. Well: very disappointed, again.
I am writing half an OS, the front half. It displays a full GUI in the browser. The goal is native distribution over a network with full decentralization.

For example in Windows you can drag and drop file(s) between windows to move those file(s) between directories. In my application you can achieve all the same interaction which may move those file(s) to a different directory, different personal device, or different user. The experience is the same whether the application is running on Linux, Windows, or OSX.

In this application when you double click a file, in the browser to execute it, the OS default application associated with that file type opens just like in the native OS. If that file is on another personal device or another user it is copied to the local device for execution.

In order to minimize clutter I have a button to minimize all windows to a tray, but that is hardly original. Soon I will start working on a terminal emulator (also displaying in the browser) for remote terminal access to personal devices.

I know many people don’t like interfaces written in JavaScript but it is portable to things like Electron and Tauri. The test automation executes in less than 10 seconds on just the local device or just under 2 minutes for full peer to peer testing. Because this is all JavaScript there is a bunch of low level concerns I don’t have to reinvent, like accessibility, but the socket based decentralization does require new transmission handling and some original security work.
Certainly energy crisis is of political nature, but let's say Germany invested massively in the renewables. It's just not the best source of energy in most places in terms of return on investment. Not to mention the intermittency problem. If they just didn't close their nuclear reactors, Germany would be in much better position to weather off the crisis.