skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would add: A useable System Preferences app. It's been renamed "Settings" and some idiot tried to make it look like iOS.

It's the absolute worst part of modern MacOS IMHO. As a Mac user measured in decades, it's the thing most likely to drive me back to Linux.

[edit: I am curious why this topic has been flagged]
Cover Flow disappeared somewhere along the line. I found it helpful when trying to find an image.
Stage Manager is great!

OK, it’s objectively terrible compared to every other window manager I’ve used except one.

However, the one it beats is the default MacOS implementation of alt-tab and multiple desktops.
I think your account has to be an EU account, whatever that means. Maybe billing address and other things. But, would be nice if that wasn’t the case. Also, I could be wrong. Try it and let us know?
Singapore is in a politically interesting position. In the one hand, they’re an authoritarian state. They don’t recognize the level of freedom of speech, press, or protest that we do in America. And they frequently cane criminals and execute drug traffickers.

On the other hand, they’re ostensibly a democracy, albeit one where only one party has significant political power. (For a country with the level of economic success that they do, maybe it’s understandable.) Singapore has an extremely low level of corruption on international indexes, even lower than in the US, and it’s seen as very business friendly.

Another thing to note, as I am learning more about it, is the extensive surveillance framework that is already available. (I’m about halfway through Byron Tau’s Means of Control now.) Surveilling people’s whereabouts is trivial, and for a nation state like China or the US it’s often easier to just buy information on the open market than allocate an agency to the task.

My final thought on this is that we’ve heard for so long about how private platforms have a First Amendment right to moderate content how they see fit. There are two cases in front of SCOTUS about this now. While I think this is a comfortably simple point of view, it elevates the speech of fundamentally profit-seeking entities to the same level of protection as that of everyday people. Once we start to block companies based on national security, we need to consider the ownership of other companies as well. Nothing is to stop Elon Musk from taking a bribe from a foreign adversary in a moment of drug-fueled weakness, and that bribe from affecting Twitter’s ranking algorithm.
> Unspecified behaviour would require the standard to give a set of possible outcomes

I don't think there is a requirement that the possible unspecified behaviors are enumerated. The current C++ draft [0] states possible behaviors are "usually" enumerated, but "usually" is not "always", and there's no explicit direction that those behaviors are the only allowable options.

There's also the definition from the C89 spec which doesn't even have that language, only stating that the standard imposes no requirements on the unspecified behavior [1].

[0]: https://eel.is/c++draft/intro.defs#defns.unspecified

[1]: http://port70.net/%7Ensz/c/c89/c89-draft.html#1.6
Apple's PMs removed a feature that was very useful on my MBP: system font size adjustment. Now I must wear my glasses all the time I use the computer. This is not comfortable or fun. I could increase the display pixel size, but then everything looks like garbage when I do wear my glasses.

Apple has lost its user-focus. Its products will only get worse and worse. Fortunately, this creates opportunity for new companies.
Sideloadly?
> Now run the numbers

Why don't you do that, and share the results here?

> I would want to see it done

Why don't you do it yourself?
That’s not very navigable on mobile.

Relevant text:
Re: United States v. Sterlingov, Case No. 21-cr-399 (RDM)

Dear Judge Moss:

As you know, we represent Ciphertrace, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mastercard International
Incorporated (“Mastercard”). Defense counsel engaged Ciphertrace as an expert in the matter
of U.S. vs. Sterlingov, 21-cr-399 (RDM). Ciphertrace prepared an expert report (the “Ciphertrace
Report”), and a Ciphertrace employee, Ms. Jonelle Still, testified at a Daubert hearing before the
Court in August 2023.

It recently came to Mastercard’s attention that, contrary to the wording of the Ciphertrace
Report, some of the data relied upon may be unverifiable and unauditable. This issue was
unknown to Ms. Still at the time of the Report and appears to be due to data collection practices
originating prior to Mastercard’s acquisition of Ciphertrace. It also appears that at least some of
the data relied upon in the Ciphertrace Report may have come from other companies, including
Chainalysis. Mastercard has advised defense counsel of this matter and writes to bring it
directly to the Court’s attention.

As soon as Mastercard counsel learned about the potential data issues, Mastercard launched
an expedited, privileged investigation involving internal and outside counsel and an outside
forensics team. This investigation is ongoing, but we have learned enough to conclude that
parts of the Ciphertrace Report are unreliable.

We regret the unavoidable impact of this issue on the Defense, the Government, and, of course,
Case 1:21-cr-00399-RDM Document 239-1 Filed 02/04/24 Page 3 of 3

February 1, 2024
Page 2

this Court – especially with the fast approaching trial date. We stand ready to answer the
Court’s questions.

Respectfully,

A. Joseph Jay III
for SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP
Electronic warfare. Drones can be jammed. They can even be taken over, like Iran famously did in 2011 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...
I don’t get so much of a rainbow effect, and the shimmering edges of mine are more hairy than blobby if that makes sense. But yeah, pretty good representation.

Note to non-migraine-enjoyers: the grey blob in the video isn’t grey, it’s just an area you can’t see in. Your brain tries to fill it in the best it can, as it does with any eye damage, so you might see a blank region on a page when there’s actually text there, for example. This means the shimmery bit isn’t at the edge of a grey blob, but a strange nothing-zone of fuzziness where things that “enter” the zone may or may not vanish, and which feels distorted and wrong, like a fun-house mirror and a kaleidoscope at once. If they get big enough they kinda go blank, but still aren’t really grey—I’m not sure what color you’d call them.

(At least for me—maybe some people really see a grey splotch?)
I do find my Macs increasingly difficulty to use, but like many things, Apple would consider quite a few of these features 'lost' as upgrades or part of the natural evolution of platforms. For example, getting rid of kexts is probably a good thing while the Settings app is straight garbage.
>> A basic test is to ask how quickly you can find information about a topic that is unbiased by commercial interests.

I'm not really sure that test tells you anything about the state of the web in general, and less the state of the internet, other than (perhaps) how good one site is at one specific query.

Plus you've picked categories (medicine, cosmetics, nutrition) which are rife with commercial interests, endless fringe theories, and plenty of "bad science". And, to be honest, the searches I've done for recipes over the past few years have all been very successful. But hey, maybe I'm lucky.
why has nobody responded to this comment? the OP should yield to this comment
How are you calculating and using this information?
> Remember, it is perfectly valid to be equally aware of how the parties are different, but being more frustrated by the ways they are the same

That's an easy genericism.

In fact this particular issue under discussion is quite asymmetric. It's routine for a republican congress to block legislation that would otherwise pass (c.f. current bills for border security and Ukraine aid, our now-quarterly government shutdown jamboree, etc...). The reverse really is not true. I can't think of a notable bipartisan bill in the last decade blocked by a democratically-controlled government organ. Can you?

It's perfectly valid to have complaints about both parties, but not to invent frustrations about how they are the same.
This is way off. The median US SWE makes ~$120k according to BLS (Govt data). Median. High comp is not at all disconnected from value. Revenue per head for engineers can be extremely high.
For myself, I suddenly lost the ability to read. Then I realized that the real problem was that the words were missing. I wasn't conscious of a hole in my vision, it was just that everything in one part of my vision was gone. Kind of like when you see a star in your periphery but when you look at it straight on it's too faint to see.

As time passed, the zigzag pattern appeared and the hole became more obvious. I thought I was going blind and wondered if I had somehow burnt my retina. It wasn't until later that I thought to google the zigzag pattern. It didn't occur to me that other people would have experienced the exact same, very specific pattern.

I also never had a scintillating scotoma again. It happened a couple of weeks after I started ADHD medication so I suspect they're related. I often get bad headaches and that made me wonder if my headaches had been migraines all along.
Writing doesn't do as much as you'd think for long-term fixed preservation of knowledge. It sure helps, but 1) oral teachings exist and useful practices are passed down whether or not they're written, and 2) at the end of the day books need to be constantly rewritten as they wear out, and ancient libraries burned down all the time.

In terms of building a civilisation in the first place, animal husbandry is vastly more useful than writing because writing is something scribes do (i.e. your non-farming elite - in medieval times, more than 9/10 of the population were farmers, and prehistorical farming was likely far less efficient than medieval farming what with the lack of iron etc), and animal husbandry improves your agriculture dramatically and are a major factor in providing the food-surplus for those scribes to exist in the first place.

In fact, particularly food-poor empires tend to be conquered by more food-rich empires that can field larger armies, so if your hypothetical has-writing empire fought my hypothetical has-animals empire then I expect mine would win. Especially since your army wouldn't have cavalry or charioteers.
Mine is a shimmering rainbow zigzag shape that starts as a point and expands into a halo with the center open to my normal vision until it goes out of my field of vision. Then the headache starts. A dark room and sleep helps me get through it.

Hasn't happened much, maybe 4 times in my life.
I use it mostly in situations where I rapidly need to switch back and forth between 2 or 3 windows. For example developer documentation and an IDE, or Procreate and a photo I'm taking inspiration from.

I'll admit I used it a lot more before I upgraded to a dual monitor setup on my Mac. I still use it a ton on my iPad, since I only have one screen to work with.
FLOPs utilization is arguably the industry standard metric for efficiency right now and it should be a good first approximation of how much performance is left on the table.

But if you mean the reported utilization in nvtop is misleading I completely agree (as someone who uses it daily).

I’ve been meaning to dig into the source/docs to see what’s going on. The power usage seems to be a more reliable indicator of actual hardware utilization, at least on nvidia gear.
Your last point is exactly where I'm coming from here. People complaining about a product is usually a sign of its wide, and possibly avid, use.

After trying UI design tools and web development on Windows and Linux machines and finding the experience very sub-par for my needs, I've found macOS, and by extension, Apple's hardware quality, choice of keyboard layout, ease of use, etc. to be superior for my needs. I have almost no complaints about the Mac platform with the ways I've been able to customize it, and its nag-free experience. As they say, it just works™. ;)

It feels made for UI design & development, with minimal to no configuration, no late nights fixing file permissions or access issues, fixing Linux subsystems, fiddling with very limited terminals, and suffering from buggy piecemeal UI shell packages that prioritize fancy, laggy animations over functionality.

On the contrary, I've found not only doing these tasks and multitasking to be very frustrating when getting serious work done on other machines, primarily frequent interruptions (Windows) and major inconsistencies with global keyboard shortcuts.

For what it's worth, I'm also a staunch Android user, never owned an iPhone, occasionally use an iPad for reading and other content creation, absolutely love my Windows PC for gaming and surfing on my TV, and work exclusively on my MacBook. I'm very particular about using the most suitable machines for the tasks at hand, but well-rounded enough not to be completely captured by Apple.
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Gas has mass, but regardless the word 'particulate' already discounts all gaseous emissions. Particulate emissions are liquid or solid by definition.

CO2 is bad for other environmental reasons, but it doesn't get stuck in our lungs.
> It's worth pointing out that on their eval set for "issues resolved" they are getting 13.86%. While visually this looks impressive compared to the others, anything that only really works 13.86% of the time, when the verification of the work takes nearly as much time as the work would have anyway, isn't useful.

Yeah, I remember speech recognition taking decades to improve, and being more of a novelty - not useful at all - even when it was at 95% accuracy (1 word in 20 wrong). It really had to get almost perfect until it was a time saver.

As far as coding goes, it'd be faster to write it yourself and get it right first time rather than have an LLM write it where you can't trust it and still have to check it yourself.
Devil's advocate, but it's not like all 100% of the population in each of these states is going to start using the free file system. It does sound a bit silly though, I agree!
I'm really sorry to hear that.
There were a few internet articles and even two congressional reports on the problem showing that both the baby food companies and the FDA knew about unsafe levels of heavy metals, but did not address it.

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversig...

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversig...

In light of the scandal the FDA started a "Closer to Zero" program (https://www.fda.gov/food/environmental-contaminants-food/clo...) because I guess zero poison in baby food is asking too much. The website shows that the FDA hasn't continued to outright ignore the problem at least, but you can see that they haven't come close to doing anything meaningful in terms of action levels and don't expect to until Dec 2024.

In the meantime, high levels of heavy metals are still being found in baby food sold in stores:
https://www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/baby-food/are-he...

There are ongoing calls for the FDA to step in and do more (https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2024/attorney-general-james-...) and there are lawsuits in the works (https://www.wisnerbaum.com/blog/2024/january/appeals-court-r...) that you might want to check into since your child could be being hurt.

Some foods are worse than others (rice is a common culprit) so if you're stuck using any kind of baby food off the shelf you might be able to reduce exposure if you're careful about what you buy, but I wouldn't have much confidence in any of it. Once a company has proven that they're willing to poison babies for profit trust shouldn't come easy.

I'm sorry that I was the one to tell you about this, but I'm really glad that you now know and if beech-nut has been hurting your kid I hope the damage done is small and that you're able to get some kind of compensation for the harm they've caused your family. Until companies know that they'll face significant and meaningful consequences if they knowingly hurt us for profit they'll never stop hurting us.
See my other reply for the workflows that I use Stage Manager with. I agree with you about the scrolling, that would be a nice improvement!
Said breaks when I replied, though the article is talking about breaks so it’s an easy slip up.
sounds like you could use to shave a yak.
I dunno. Does the password use case really justify writing and maintaining this code rather than just relying on the little LED light on just about every keyboard that does the same thing? The tiny amount of user pain doesn’t seem to be worth it. Part of engineering is deciding whether we should, not just whether we can.
what about the NYC subway / PATH train? The air quality there is pretty bad -- the trains use standard brakes.
EVs also don't really use brakes. They mainly use regen braking. 50k miles and on the same pads.
I see where you’re coming from. But it’s a fascinating window into the nitty gritty of managing a 20+ year, $1 trillion+ government construction project.

Some of those silly seeming acronyms, like MSC for “milestone C”, probably are included because people who actually work on and around this project have naturally adopted them. I bet there are senior level employees in and outside the government who's whole career has been spent on this one project.

To those people, MSC and ADM are like k8s and MVC
When I bought my MacBook Pro M1 Pro (ugh, stupid names, c'mon Apple!), it was probably the most confident I felt about a technology purchase in years, at least since Apple finally ditched the ridiculous touch bar and gave us back the Escape key and function row.

Aside from me throwing too much at it (should've sprung for 32GB), it's the single best notebook I've ever owned, and the most reliable.

To say it was the best fit for me is an understatement! It's truly great!
I have so many "in-progress" essays about topics where I keep circling back, adding on one bit or another. I've been working on one which, vaguely put, concerns the more unusual aspects of a variable, from start to finish. I suspect that I am not enough of a logician to really consider everything, but I believe that just spending time on the topic, whether or not an essay results, might be valuable to me in some capacity.
I’m sorry, but by whose definition are “they” “impoverished”? And what constitutes “autarky” and “local”? I’m not advocating to abolish global trade or whatever, if you think I was gesturing in that direction.

Buying (food, especially) locally means supporting a robust food chain that’s less dependent on refrigeration, global shipping, and a geographic arbitrage on agricultural labor. It’s better for the environment and connects you to your community and sense of place and seasons.

It means I can know what went into the food, in terms of soil, labor, and pesticides — something that I have no knowledge of at the grocery store.

A pound of apples, meat, or whatever from 1-2 counties away is more financially expensive, but if you can afford it there’s many non-financial benefits.

I’d rather purchase from a CSA than a national grocer, because that money mostly goes back into my local community.

You’re right the money doesn’t disappear when you spend it outside your locality, but it comes back in ways that are increasingly exploitative and/or depressing (chain stores offering no meaningful careers or opportunities for ownership, rent-seeking financialization, warehouses that bring noise pollution and packaging waste, etc.).

Again, if you can afford it, IDK why you wouldn’t prefer to spend the marginal dollar locally (i.e. private / family-owned businesses in a few counties’ radius).

It’s consumer choice and comparative advantage that actually lead people like me to shop locally...
PLCC i80387 or compatible can be had from eBay for less than $20, and PGA generally for less than $30 USD.
Mimicking Diffusion Models by Sequencing Frequency Coefficients
On the contrary, as someone who has worked with both platforms as a developer, this is my personal opinion:

- Around a lot of things software, including the Play Store, Google’s safety and security, for all its ads, tracking and shenanigans, are real, largely verifiable, discussed openly, and pretty fucking robust (not to mention, most of it are actually open).

- Apple’s? Smoke and mirrors! Essentially some vague shit which often ludicrously boils down to Safest Shit Ever On an iPhone™ (and doesn’t go further than that) and never discussed or even offered a glimpse of.
A good way to reduce your support burden is to try user passwords twice: once how they entered it and the second with case reversed.