skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zooming into a map, a picture, a webpage, or quite frankly most things would be rather awkward if you didn’t know where it would zoom in (or if it would always zoom into the center of the screen, for instance).

As another comment mentioned, it appears to use the cursor position as the pinch-gesture location.
> What happens when I already have all the calorific or reproductive value I need?

How would you even determine how much you need? You labor under the illusion that you're an intelligent being. Evolution does not care about "enough"... because there is no way to determine what "enough" is. What is enough today will not help you survive tomorrow's famine. Best stock up now. If you were so smart, you'd get that. What others call greed is subconscious anticipation of calamity.
What's weird to me is that you guys frame it as a bad thing. For me as a European it's the opposite, I'm in trouble if someone doesn't take card. Nobody carries cash any more.

I think pretty much all stores still accept cash, but most people here just never withdraw any. It's pretty much just old people and people buing illegal stuff
Australian supermarkets are screwing producers by making lowball offers on stock and increasing prices far beyond inflation to consumers. They are both price gouging and performing other shady business practices at the same time.
So, those employees who feel like working six days or more per week are free to make those days remote? How nice!

If you work -1 remote days, and 5 in-office days, you can achieve the four day work week!
> Do that many people even work on AI development?

That's not the relevant figure. It's more about how much capital has been wagered by large tech cos and the major startups & VCs on a near-complete takeover of white-collar work by AI (as that's the only level of payoff that could possibly justify the mind-boggling level of investment).
It can't be that difficult to fire people if these "RTO or GTFO" ultimatums are so popular.
The benefit is if you often have to work on remote servers where only Bash is available.

Then, using the same interactive syntax locally and remotely is simply less jarring, since switching between e.g. the Fish and Bash for-loop syntax every hour causes lots of mix-ups. (I write a lot of loops interactively in the CLI.)

I used Fish for ~5 years and loved it, but I ended up going back to Zsh myself.
That's what it means to have two chains. One chain undid the transaction. One did not. Do I really need to explain this? Both things happened because there are 2 chains. Only one of them is worth something but they both exist.
> You're suggesting some kind of emotional immaturity

Depends on who's in charge.

Meta has shit PR primarily because Zuck doesn't like/understand comms.

Hes bollocks deep in AI because he likes it. Even though it costs him shareholder value (dropping those billions on new data centres to run massive loss making AI infra. )
> Managers and executives felt a tiny bit less powerful for a small amount of time due to their workers pushing for remote and having the leverage to do so.

They are in 'avoid responsibility and blame all misses on circumstances outside their control' mode. Remote work is the perfect excuse for incompetent management in big tech.
Well I'd say it encourages poor nutrition by allowing people to continue to eat terrible food, while briefly suppressing their appetite for it by slowing down gastric emptying. While this isn't every case, people's nutritional choices are unchallenged and often remain unchanged.

That flows to the dysmorphia stuff. I meant that it indirectly encourages body dysmorphia because it side-steps the shame and compulsive behavior that lead to the person's original obesity. So long after the weight-loss, you remain freighted with the toxic "weight-based" mental model of your body, rather than a holistic one of nutrition and well-being.
Susan Kare, who designed many of the original Macintosh's graphical elements, also designed many of Windows 3.x's icons.

https://www.famousgraphicdesigners.org/susan-kare
How the Soviets Stole a B-29 and Called it Their Own [video]
IF companies wanted to make vehicles that complied with the diesel emissions requirements of say Michigan, they could make a fully unrestricted diesel. The federal government buys Fords with diesel engines with factory EGR block off plates and no DPF for example. Do as I say, not as I do.

Consumer diesel engines had no controls up to around 1999 I think
> SMH at the cruelty....

Many (most?) people have a fundamental need to feel superior to some "other". This need is strong enough to the point where they'd rather be doing poorly themselves so long as there is at least some other group that's doing worse. Were you to give them an opportunity to significantly improve their own lives but in a way that everyone ends up on the same level, they'd balk.

Obesity is one of the few conditions that are socially acceptable to openly mock, and as such, it's like catnip to people who need to feed their inferiority complex.
There is no way to join w/o having a job at a union shop. I want a union I can join no matter where I work and that can help me find a new job. Why isn't this the model?
Employers want the employee in the office to produce the same amount of work but they want them to roam and bother others because they might be making money elsewhere? That sounds foolish.
If there are employees who are putting in a few hours of work each week and management isn't able to catch it, what will bringing these same employees to the office accomplish exactly?
It's only a matter of time before the EU gets wise to this - this move is simply to delay the inevitable and buy themselves some more time to act anticompetitively. When they feel like the EU is closer to disproving their argument (because there is no technical reason this can't be opened to third-parties in a secure way), they will suddenly announce that they have found some magic and miraculous way to do it and release the feature, bringing them back into compliance.
>Maybe it doesn't have to be that way.

It does. All utopian ideals are at their core anti-human and authoritarian. The only way a utopia can realistically exist is by fundamentally re-engineering human nature, or killing everyone who doesn't get with the program. Eugenics or genocide. Probably both.
Thank you all for beta testing Sequoia for the rest of us!

Jokes apart: I tend to wait 2-3 months at least before upgrading. There's usually a number of security fixes, and a number of bug fixes, in the first, well, 2-3 months after a new Mac OS goes live. After that, things become quite stable.
> both x86 and a solid GPU technology that comes with it

If only Project Denver had kept its original goal
> How is it a moral judgement to say that some folks don't put in the effort to control calorie input?

The implication that anyone reading it walks away with is "... and it is because they don't care enough to try and/or are lazy." If that wasn't your intent, cool, but that is most often the implication.

My only point is that most folks who "don't put in the effort" have put in the effort, and have failed. Multiple times, over and over again.

Sure, some lazy folks exist. It is a tiny minority of those who are obese, though, most of whom have given up because they had tried and failed countless times, or have simply accepted that there is no hope for them (cue tears and depression).
No, the most important thing is not causing a collision.

We don’t need to guess here, Waymo is way safer than human drivers as a car and a pedestrian. So clearly optimizing for “not confusing human drivers” is not correct.

Human drivers frequently run into stationary objects and plow over bikers/pedestrians so maybe there’s a huge category of situations where they *should* be surprised
A while back I prototyped (very roughly) an auditory equivalent to “syntax highlighting”, using ambient tones and white noise, rather than discrete beeps/sound effects. [1]

I’m actually revisiting this project right now! I’m reimplementing it in Rust and also exploring different ways to communicate parser state and other contextual information through sound.

[1] http://marycourtland.github.io/AuralJS/
Wow, there's a lot to unpack here, and most of it just doesn’t hold water. Let's break down why this take on WFH is way off base.

First off, blaming Yahoo, Intel, and AT&T’s issues on WFH policies is a huge oversimplification. Yahoo’s downfall wasn’t about remote work; it was a mess of bad leadership, constant strategy shifts, and failing to keep up with Google and Facebook. Intel’s problems came from falling behind in chip manufacturing and losing its competitive edge, not because their employees were working from home. AT&T’s headaches are tied to their massive, poorly integrated acquisitions, not remote work.

Then there’s the claim that no company has had long-term WFH success—completely false. Look at GitLab, Automattic, and Zapier. These companies are 100% remote and are thriving. They’re not just coasting; they’re competing and winning in the marketplace. The idea that WFH kills culture and innovation just doesn’t stand up when you see how these companies operate.

The whole “remote work kills productivity” argument is outdated. Studies and real-world examples show the opposite: many people are more productive at home without the daily commute and office distractions. Plus, companies have tools and strategies to keep teams connected and engaged, so the idea that culture just dissolves over time isn’t based on reality. Culture isn’t about being in the same room; it’s about values, leadership, and communication. And remote companies are proving you can have a strong, action-driven culture without a traditional office.

Also, let’s talk about this idea that employees’ good intentions aren't enough and that without the office, everything falls apart. This screams of a lack of trust in workers, which is not how modern businesses run. Successful companies trust their people, set clear expectations, and hold them accountable—whether they’re in the office or working from a coffee shop. It’s not about babysitting; it’s about outcomes.

And this notion that computer science professionals won’t have bargaining power because of some glut is just not accurate. Sure, there are more CS grads, but the demand for skilled talent is still high, especially for top performers. Companies offering WFH flexibility are not just doing it out of kindness; it’s a strategic move to attract and retain talent in a competitive market. Restricting WFH options actually puts companies at a disadvantage.

Bottom line: dismissing WFH as some kind of fad or liability ignores the reality that a ton of companies are making it work and even excelling. If anything, leaders worth their salt are those who adapt, trust their teams, and leverage the benefits of remote work, not those who cling to outdated office norms.
Everything is about GPUs these days.

Be it little GPUs inside the CPU package or be it consumer GPUs or big GPUs in data centers.

Unless Intel can start to get its GPU act together, it won't be leading the industry again in a hurry.
Probably Celestial, considering a PS6 is still a few years out, and Celestial is due next year on 18A with Panther Lake.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/intel-to-offer-panther...
The economic goals of management and labor are fundamentally at odds, so any explanation which isn't us-vs-them is going to be missing a key dynamic and motivating force of the relationship, at least to some extent.
Thanks for the advice! I tried downloading this app and set both displays to HiDPI and UI elements seemed to sharpen, but certain icons are still blurry. I didn't see any options related to setting the framebuffer, I assume this happens automatically. Will keep experimenting...
Wow, that might be the best part of the update. System Integrity Protection shields /usr, /bin, and /sbin, so I prefer to use the system provided executables in those directories when possible.
I mean, how else would you explain the product search UX on amazon.com?
Second-chance pool?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774614
Of course you can opt out!
It's a great time to switch to Linux.
Have you ever worked in big tech? They put you on a perform plan pressure you to quit and then let you go. It's one of the more easy things they have to do.
Aren't you able to just copy an image from Preview or whatever, and go to the folder's 'Get Info' dialog and paste it into the icon area? I used to do that on MacOS 9 and macOS ~10.7
Their standard of living has improved dramatically precisely because of access to technology
> “We want to operate like the world’s largest startup,” Jassy wrote. “That means having a passion for constantly inventing for customers, strong urgency (for most big opportunities, it’s a race!), high ownership, fast decision-making, scrappiness and frugality, deeply-connected collaboration (you need to be joined at the hip with your teammates when inventing and solving hard problems), and a shared commitment to each other.”

When I hear a C-level saying they want to operate like a startup, the text processor in my head just replaces that with "we've decided to cut a lot of you, and work the rest like dogs". My condolences to everyone at Amazon whose lives are being turned upside down by this stupid decision, although I guess you knew the company you were working for.

Come to think of it, most of the startups I've worked for were WFH. None of them had assigned desks.
I really hope not. I found that intensely annoying on Windows.
Thinking like this doesn't help you understand the game, and if you don't understand the game, you can't play it.
https://archive.ph/q2F98
I worked remotely years before the pandemic, and it was great, for the most part. But there are people who definitely hate it. And there are also people who love it, but can't be trusted with it.
That's a strange machine. It's too bad so little is known about how it attached to the rest of the radar system. It's clearly a special purpose machine, one with manually programmed ROMs, built to do a very specific task. But what? Did it beam-steer the radar? Process the returns? The special-purpose I/O gear that must have been present is gone. The console is clearly just a programming and debug console, not something for seeing what the radar was seeing.

The US's main over the horizon radar of that era was Cobra Mist.[1] It never really worked well. Too much interference, supposedly. Trying to bounce radar off the ionosphere is inherently iffy.
The US instead deployed line of sight radar chains, such as BMEWS. This required sites strung across northern Canada, but worked.

More modern over the horizon radars do work, but have much more compute power behind them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_Mist
There's a separate entitlement used for remote access software without the repeated prompts (com.apple.developer.persistent-content-capture), so you basically need Apple's permission to build that category of software now, and open source remote access software is not possible.

So the category of software will still have some working entries (existing players will try to get approved, and probably will), but it's hard to imagine anyone will want to build a new one knowing its viability on modern macOS completely depends on filling out a form and hoping Apple's approval bureaucracy likes you.

Anyone who's used these unusually locked down entitlements know whether you can apply for it before building the software, or if App Review needs to have their hands on something functional first to approve it?
^ exactly, thanks for taking the answer perfectly.

It's basically panel 2 from this:

https://xkcd.com/568/

Beyond the initial publication of the doc, the peer review process is much more sane than trying to review a bunch of power point slides. Similarly, it's much much easier to refer to a well written document when it comes time to implement or reevaluate an idea than going over some power point slides and maybe an associated recording, to say nothing about searchability, discoverability, and maintainability of an actual written document vs PowerPoint slides.

Also, idle side speculation: I wonder how much (if any) one of the underappreciated early employees @ Amazon had a hand in proselytizing this, given she (MacKenzie) is an author.
> In these bigger companies it is very time consuming and difficult to fire someone.

Not at all, most of big tech literally has firing quotas... which combined with the typical incompetent/parasitic management means good engineers are fired and terrible ones stay on/get promoted.
Count me in as interested!
Managers at Amazon just enforce dates and identify the underperformer on their team.
LLM Evals Done Right
Here, a House Representative questioning student loan relief announced in August 2022. Not framed as an issue of others paying for the debtors, but rather "what relief do those who already paid off their debt receive?"

https://x.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1562461372851847168

Senator Chuck Grassley: "For our government just to say ok your debt is completely forgiven.. it’s completely unfair"

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1562530929838436355

Reporter question during the announcement: "Mr. President, is this unfair to people who paid their student loans or chose not to take out loans?"

https://www.c-span.org/video/?522478-1/president-biden-remar...
Right. This gives us a glimpse of the control systems trying to get useful data out of it.
People forget that 30% was a discounted rate compared to the old java app stores run by the telecoms.
I believe Apple uses it in at least one of the auxiliary service processors in their current portfolio under the moniker "Darbat" or "L4/xnu"

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...

https://microkerneldude.org/2016/04/14/so-the-fbi-cracked-th...
I was going to say, at Google I don't think the majority of the things the PP claimed as true at AWS apply until L8 (at least in Google Cloud).
I configured Visual Studio to play sounds if a compilation succeeded or failed (to wake up if it's taking too long). I also configured it to play a sound if a breakpoint is hit (quite useful if you are debugging a game and some assert you don't care triggers)
What Hath Woz Wrought (1979)
I feel left out sometimes given that I'm still on Mojave. Everyone else is enjoying their new features.

But I also like running 32-bit apps and knowing where the system preferences are (because they haven't changed every year for me). So swings and roundabouts.
Continuous testing tools would make good use of audio. It's been a minute since I have been in need of such a tool, but I could appreciate differentiating sounds for passed/failed.
What sucks is that other companies will follow Amazon because “Amazon did it”. Other company I worked at went to a “hybrid model” to be followed at the end of last year. Ended up “silent quitting” by using up all of my PTO and sick time which allowed enough time to get my bonus and find a new job. Of course I was put on a PIP but by that time I was already gone, lol.
That's more on Microsoft's sudden shift to enshittification as a business model rather than making good software.

Apple has is actually enshittifying too (dumb UI changes, worse apps - see "Catalyst", etc), it's just that Microsoft has became a trailblazer in that field so Apple still feels good in comparison, despite the many downgrades.
Rails’ nightly CI already needed a fix: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52937
Never heard of this? Where? What location?
People like Elon Musk do not suffer the presence (or continued employment) of people who tell them no.
Tribalism is in, nuance is out. I'm as much a fan of WFH as anyone and will never go back into an office, but posts like OP's aren't getting us anywhere—they just reinforce the idea that WFH is an immature demand of an entitled and antagonistic subset of engineers who they'd be better off losing anyway.
Yes. I’ve modified maven so that it says “Success” or “Error” (with the command `say` of macOS). It’s very useful when you have a build of 30-50s that you execute dozens of times a day.
In the settings you can turn off this margin
Does it count all of the chromium based apps that query some webpage behind the scenes? Because other than a few brave exceptions, my impression is that most apps are nowadays glorified (and bloated) websites.
If we are talking foundry, Intel could still manufacture amd chips in their own fab instead of tsmc. Given that 18A is good...

This would be strange, but it would show Intel will do what it takes.
Current generation APAP works great - not sure why you’re calling it awful. And I disagree that more channels are necessary - that’s a statistical implication that not true in general and shouldn’t be assumed blindly here. What needs to die is regulatory capture and bureaucratic barriers that take health care out of patients own hands, which is what the sleep study scam does, at least in the US, where you cannot get a CPAP/APAP device otherwise.
I personally would not want to work in a place where managers had such little flexibility. I'd quit, if pushed. But Amazon wasn't like that pre-pandemic and I suspect they are returning to pre-pandemic norms so I don't think that's the case here.
I agree.

Honestly I think apple has become both too impersonal and too controlling.

SJ at the helm would have made things more personal, and might have headed off all the rot that has led to poor developer relations, anti-trust, and relentless profiteering without clear benefits.
> But it feels like the “sour grapes” cohort is the fastest growing one, and increasingly is tilting all discussions that direction.

> Like a bunch of grumpy old men, we don’t like new things here, the 90s were the peak of the internet and computing apparently.

I invite you to consider, based on your own wording, that you are doing more feeling than rationalizing. It is some work, and perhaps not completely possible, to do a comprehensive and correct meta analysis aiming to gauge the state of rational vs non-rational commentary on HN.

> bitter about AI, bitter about social media, bitter about the Saas model, bitter about Crypto, bitter about ads, bitter about privacy, bitter about capitalism, bitter about Elon Musk, bitter about every damn thing imaginable

The fact that the world is imperfect is not a reason to ignore that the world is imperfect. One must of course satisfy their Ego and make some peace with the world that is around them that it is in some sense "good", but the act of a rational mind, after it is done indulging the (necessary?) behaviors of the animal in which it resides, is to relentlessly nitpick, criticize, deconstruct the world around it, as far is it is possible, without feeling.

Yes, all those things suck, or have things that suck about them. If one of them is the field in which you work, you may even resent the criticism. And yet, it is only by acknowledging what is wrong that we can build and do what is (more) right.

Perhaps what I will say, is that if HN is supposed to be a place of technical innovation, it is undeniably true that it is no longer possible to easily innovate, anymore. And if that is true, then there should some discussion of all the ways that what has been built now constrains/no longer makes possible the alternatives. That is not something you can change with a "happy go lucky attitude" or renouncing a cynical one. In fact, one can argue that "can do no harm" attitude is what has brought about this venture. Perhaps a slower, more considered approach, would have resulted in a better outcome.
Geez, not this shit again. (One of the many ways you could tell Oracle was doomed in trying to find and convincingly argue a tenable position against Google: half the people half the time argued that Google should be sued for implementing Java, and the other half the time argued that they should be sued for not implementing Java.)