skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see others have responded with specifics. That's cool and all but it seems a bit futile to me because Apple has all this data internally and could act upon it if they wished.

Certainly with "crashers" there are crash reports from the field (you and I) that are sent back home and filtered into various databases. Internal tool allow Apple to see the "top crashers" (and you can filter to specific OS, hardware, etc.). There will be Radars filed for these and they will be sent to the appropriate teams.

The issue of course is the degree to which these take priority over feature work, etc. If Apple decided to do nothing but address these for a year or two we could have nice things again.
HDR was a one-hit-wonder, and has dramatically fallen behind the competition.

See my longer comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43249634
I "grew up" (from college, before then didn't use computer much) on Linux and I use a Mac at work, it's pretty easy to switch back and forth for me. Just need my tiling WM, my always on screen. I do miss that you could close the laptop lid on Linux without it sleeping. But otherwise, not much complaints either way.
Right, so at this point the bar for improvement is low.
I use GNOME daily on one of my laptops and I don’t agree at all. It has some surface-level similarities, but overall is more comparable to something like iPadOS or Samsung DeX when connected to an external screen+KB+mouse.

The global menubar is the biggest difference, but there’s also a pervasive difference in philosophy throughout the desktop; where macOS will have power user functionality tucked away in a menu or hidden behind a modifier key (progressive disclosure), GNOME will just remove the function altogether.

Pantheon is very similar, except dressed up in an (admittedly pretty) skeumorphic theme that reminds me of OS X 10.9 Mavericks.

That’s not to say it doesn’t have its charms, I use it after all, but it’s not a Mac OS analogue in any way.
Location: Cyberjaya, Malaysia

Remote: Yes (8 yrs experience)

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Hey, Muzani here, looking for a new adventure. Sweet spot is Seed to Series D. I've built startups from scratch. I'm working at a unicorn (YC S15) that's scaling rapidly across multiple countries. I'd like to help startups in between these stages and can bring more than just the engineering.

I'm a natural with AI/LLMs and it would be great to work with these. Also have some solid mobile and FE experience. I can do BE, but I like building pretty things (see the resume for an example).
ios is capabilities based, no?

Edit, to explain: in ios, everything revolves around mach ports, which are capabilities.

https://docs.darlinghq.org/internals/macos-specifics/mach-po...
There are also services that can do the sheet metal bending for you if you have the cad designed. Of course shipping can get pricey, but I think it’s not prohibitively expensive.
Greenwald was libertarian/right leaning. Went from supporting the Iraq War to being a Ron Paul fanboy to a useful Tankie idiot for the Silicon Valley right. Now a grievance grifter and an apologist for Putin and Assad.

Bari Weiss is not a liberal. She's a culture war grievance grifter.

Matt Taibbi got mad he got called out for his shitty sexist behavior in Russia in the 90s when MeToo happened and made a hard right turn. Now a grievance grifter.

See the pattern?
Also, if you get into an EV now, before everyone else does, you can still enjoy a cheap fueling experience for a little while longer
I want an electric bike but I want to go places with it and I’m worried about it getting stolen when I lock it up outside a shop. Do you have one?
Some context, the average labeller on our platform puts in a single digit number of hours on our platform, works whenever and how much they want, and earn significantly more than an uber driver.
If anyone has heard Joe Armstrong's talk about how communication is limited by latency and data can only travel so fast. I think having smaller a partitions locally is an optimal point.

If You want global consistency then you'll have to either spend some time at runtime to achieve it, Have complicated protocols, fast networking, synchronized clocks.

Does this look like actor model (from Erlang) if you squint a bit?
"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts"
Cars are too expensive new, that's why sales are down, imo
> Our ability to have the world's de facto reserve currency and hence our ability to sustain debt loads way in excess of usual is largely dependent on the US being the world's cop and sole superpower.

Dollar status as reserve currency started unravelling quite some time ago. It started with China's started becoming world's factory, more so after they got in to WTO and started using it to their advantage. My belief is that wallstreet believed that they could influence or coerce Chinese leadership into opening up Chinese economy and profit from that, all that G2 talk. China after 2008 crisis with ascension of Xi, belt road, challenges to foreign companies etc. acted completely against wallstreet expectations. Now, America can either try splitting world economy and be sole power in their sphere or start working towards multi polar world.
I went with filen.io, the apps work great and provide client-side encryption. You can sign up for a free 10GB account.
Not all Democrats are liberals; not all liberals are Democrats.
We Should Own the Economy
This reminds me of an editor that Datalogics produced back in the 1990s that edited SGML-based documents. The formatting could be directed by the context the element was in--the enclosing tags at various levels.
> Greenwald is a liberal

Greenwald was never a liberal and never would have described himself as such.

Anyhow you haven't really even scratched the surface of all the lefty people who went right. And it's not even a new phenomenon. Heck even woodie guthrie swerved right during the red scare. One could say that the pastures are greener on the right side of the commentariat.
Discord works by clicking a button - you get to signup, you fill in your email, bam you're on the Discord channel in your browser. Zero friction, nothing new to learn for the user.

IRC on the other hand....
I'm not as worried about those who have ears, but don't hear, as I am about the effect LLM's will have on English.

Grammerly was bad enough. One of my oldest friends is from Transylvania, and he could tell such great stories in his eastern-european accent and cadence. When he collected those stories into a book, he ran everything through grammerly, and the book reads like a soulless newscaster ;-(

When people start en mass to run their prose through LLM's to "correct" it, English will lose one of its main arteries.
I think it's within Document 6 (Feb 6)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69608613/doctors-for-am...
Use WSL2 so you get best of both worlds.

Windows, an OS that's compatible with almost all hardware and devices.

Linux on WSL2, an OS which is probably the best for most work.
This is correct to be fair. I’m not sure I’m good at it though, just…realistic. I do know people who died riding, four of them over the years. A few more who had accidents, including a guy that was run over by a truck causing his leg to explode like a sausage.

The cause was almost always the same, riding beyond their abilities. I’ve never had any illusions as to the fact that I’m not Valentino Rossi and I’m pretty sure this is why I survive. I drive exactly the same way, extremely defensive and within my abilities. I treat being in control of a vehicle with a level of seriousness I don’t see from most.

If someone discusses motorcycling with me, and they can’t convince me they are going to approach it in much the same way, I advise against getting on one as heavily as I can.

The very first person to die that I knew was an 18 year old work experience kid who took it up because me and my friend both rode and he thought it was cool, we were young ourselves still and encouraged it.

He died on his first trip on a popular route for weekend riding, only a few corners in. From witness accounts he tried taking a corner at the same pace as the older more experienced dudes, entered with way too much speed and that was that. Dude was still on his learners, didn’t even make it to his full license :(
I know of it but haven’t tried it. It looks kin to minimal tiling WMs like i3, but with a lot of polish applied. It’s nice I’m sure, but it’s not all that Mac-like.
What do you mean? We want images and text to live in the same latent space, and be represented by similar vectors if the two correlate. How else would you want to do it?
the denial of capacity factor makes me want to tear my hair out
That notebook looks like it opens all the way flat. That's something which has been difficult to find in my experience.
Compared with what, for god's sake? Explosions, mad Arabs, trekking across the horrible desert, dim British superiors doing the dim British thing, dubious Turkish sexual practices, etc. This is boring??? Though I must admit O'Toole does camp it up a bit too much.
Wind Energy, like Solar Energy can be stored in Battery Energy Storage Systems to provide reliability to the grid in the event of shortages.
I got an FTP account, mounted it locally with curlftpfs, and use SVN on the mounted filesystem. Quite trivial, really.
Can I just ask - forgive the potential ignorance - if EVs have been proven to be less net carbon emitting with their manufacturing and expected disposal emissions factored in?
Your brain is just on one end of a spectrum that doesn't really respond to the same things as some other people's brains. There are plenty of people who are moved by things that have nothing to do with plot, and would never say something like "made up symbolism". Images, sounds, and symbols evoke mental connections and feelings in many people. A painting has no plot, an abstract painting is made up symbols. Many people find incredible depth and beauty in these things. Some people find that David Lynch's work is the most impressive tapping of human dream like subconscious ever achieved, and others absolutely do not understand it at all.
Not yet. It's on my list. Mostly out of curiosity, because it isn't an OLAP application. While it is read mostly there are single row updates, just not enough to make multiple writers a frequent event.
Check out "The Price is Wrong" by Brett Christophers[1]. It explains at length that what matters is not price, but how profitable an investment is. And how wind and PV don't look great without subsidies in various guises.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Price-Wrong-Capitalism-Wont-Planet/dp...
Also works if you have North Sea oil revenues that you can use to pay for mass unemployment.
IVs are, while not the most complicated skill a medical practitioner needs to learn, a tricky thing to get right. Too deep and you risk causing real damage, too shallow and you're not hitting the vein, wrong spot and you miss the vein, etc, etc.

And most people wouldn't be happy with a needle permanently tapped into their vein, so not really viable.
One rock picture?
Are those 15 minutes representative? That seems pretty high if so.
User agents do a lot, even innocuous things like spell check or SafeBrowsing. Pretending like a browser simple retrieves and renders html is either really funny or dishonest
Apologies. I've fixed the link.
These days, we have many better options, but back in the day, Fortran was also used for compilers (e.g., IBM's Fortran H), operating systems (such as PRIMOS[0] and LTSS[1]), symbolic computation (e.g., early Prolog implementations), and real-time control systems[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRIMOS

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livermore_Time_Sharing_System

[2] https://webhome.weizmann.ac.il/home/fhlevins/RTF/RTF-TOC.htm...
Meta optimizing employees have issues hiding at smaller companies where one person has a vision of what needs to happen and quickly identify someone not pulling in one direction.

Once you get big enough, upper management has tough time figure out who is meta optimizing over work-optimizing. Not to mention there might be multiple meta optimizing employees.

IME, it's around 100-150 employees which lines up with Dunbar's Number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Kind of cool for a presentation deck. Sorely needs keyboard navigation support though.
As someone who wants to be productive at work, I chose Windows over Mac and Linux. Thankfully I had a choice.
No, if you just use the standard JavaScript cast to integer incantation, |0, v8 will optimize it. asm.js is valid JavaScript.
Samuel Butler's 1872 "Erewhon" fiction book which features a society which banned all complex machines because of a prior machine intelligence uprising is the direct, and directly referenced, inspiration for the "Butlerian Jihad" in the Dune book series.
The same thing happens under Linux with some monitors and AMD graphics drivers. A lot of monitors have poor standards compliance (and the standards aren't great either).
Pretty surprised not to see SNAFU [1] on that list. Very comfortable to use, kind of a mix of thiserror [2] and anyhow [3] I think.

[1] https://github.com/shepmaster/snafu

[2] https://github.com/dtolnay/thiserror

[3] https://github.com/dtolnay/anyhow
does hackernews sell "grassroots support" the same way reddit does? almost seems like it
Yes. The break even is at around 15,000 to 20,000 miles driven for replacing an ICE. This obviously varies depending on electricity source.
Have you checked out Pop_OS?
I think (hope) you mean the former :-)
You can really see this when trying to build apps with Swift & SwiftUI. The language and the framework seem to be optimized for nice terse WWDC demos but both fall apart pretty quickly when you start to do any heavy UI lifting with them. And I think that's starting to bleed into their own native UI now too. The lousy macOS settings app is a good example.

Unfortunately there don't seem to be any good alternatives to Apple. Windows is even worse.
Actually owning your laptop instead of being locked in a garden/prison managed by a soulless corporation is a must for me.

macOS is open.

Notably MBP benefits don't matter much you're using your laptop as a mobile workstation. People love to boast about Mac's batter life, but my Framework is set in BIOS to 60% of max battery life because 95% of the time it's standing on a stand, plugged to an external screen and keyboard&mouse. As a developer I need a proper chair, split keyboard, good posture, if I want to make it to the old age with this lifestyle. Laptop form factor is for this 5% of the time when I want/need to work from somewhere else than my desk.

If battery life doesn't matter to you, then surely speed does right? M4 Pro is roughly 56% faster in ST and about the same in MT.

Also, if you're a developer there's a lot of perf loss and impedance mismatch with Linux ecosystem (like x86_64 emulation) on Mac.

Even after emulation, Apple Silicon is often still faster. The fastest Windows laptop is actually an M4 Max running Parallels.

So Framework is kind of a Linux dev go to machine ATM. Different priorities. For others ... yeah... a nice appliance like MBP might be a better choice.

Agreed. I think most people prefer macOS as a dev OS to Linux.

Oh, and the biggest advantage, is that I can replace a lot of stuff and not need to lose my stickers!

Framework's parts are known to be very expensive. It's probably cheaper to simply sell your Apple Silicon laptop (which always has high resale value) and simply buy a new one.
The blanket removal of all pages in the women's health category is certainly an interesting choice. I guess the next step after denying that there may be more than two genders is to ... deny that there's more than one? Or that gender exists at all? Equality at last!

(for reference: https://www.cdc.gov/womens-health/mhh-continuing-education/i...)
FWIW, I've had the expiry month of credit cards stored in Safari increment on occasion (leading to failed online payments, trouble getting a flight, etc.) several times, to the extent that I now always include the expiry month in the card nickname. Mind boggling.
If you have some hardware that only works with Windows I guess I can see some value there.
This scratches a corner of my brain I didn't know I had. It's the start of the month and I'm writing investor updates, and seeing an author who...wants to treat writing a book like it's a startup and a book advance like a raise...neat!
Lawrence of Arabia was also a story about how superpowers abuse people and use them as chess pieces stabbing them in the back. But at least the Saudis had the last laugh.
Related Herbert audio interview on the origins of Dune. Sorry it’s a YouTube link. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A-mLVVJkH7I
Xubuntu. It doesn't feel bloated at all. The software I use is Firefox and VSC, which update almost on a weekly basis sometimes, neither of them feel "old". I've actually been considering switching to something else from VSC because it changes too much and is getting kind of bloated for me, I really just want a text editor with syntax highlighting and a file list on the left panel.

If I was to nit-pick, I would say that having competing package managers apt and snap is annoying and I've considered switching to Debian over that.

The real surprise to me was that I liked the Framework trackpad more than the Macbook one. I assumed that would be the best thing about the Macbook and was surprised when it wasn't.

I sold it to a friend and she loved it. To each their own I guess.
Fearmongering the American public into believing that it would happen is how Trump leveraged this deal, and how he spins it to his base that he wins yet another negotiation to make America stronger. Same playbook as the Apple and OpenAI/Oracle "investment" announcements.
Probably. It’s public knowledge that all Y Combinator alumni get a special indicator, and can recognize each other on here, but nobody else is allowed to know who they are. For all you know, that post which was downvoted to oblivion, was solely because it upset five of the insiders, who are also the five replies calling you stupid.
> to destroy confidence in federal government

not only domestic unfortunately. For 3 years Russian trolls were posting everywhere that US will abandon Ukraine like it happened with Afghanistan and Iraq, and today Trump stopped all the military aid to Ukraine, even the stuff that was already in Poland moving toward the Ukrainian border.
Could you point to some evidence for this claim?
EVs have an initial higher carbon footprint after production than ICE vehicles due to their battery.

However, the initial CO2 footprint is dwarfed when compared to the operational footprint of ICE vehicles. Takes a few years for the scale to tip in EVs favour, to which then there's a substantial difference.

> BNEF studied the US, Chinese, Germany, UK and Japanese markets. It determined the lifecycle CO2 emissions of a medium-size BEV manufactured in 2023 and driven for 250,000km would be 27-71 per cent lower than those of equivalent ICE vehicles.
And all of those numbers pale in comparison in how we cruelly we treat birds used in the food supply chain (eggs, chicken etc).

The recent kurzsesagt video is a great intro to the topic ( https://youtu.be/5sVfTPaxRwk)
Every day seems like the worst day so far. 47 more months to go. Sure would be nice if we had more than one branch of government.
Sure, please send me an email and we can go from there.
The first amendment prevents the government from abridging the right for people to assemble and peacefully protest. Given that there's a public safety concern, one could argue there's nuance here, but you can hardly blame them for taking the safe route and avoiding violating our constitutional rights, and it's doubtful there was enough precedent for the CDC to feel comfortable taking the legal risk.
Is Trump even allowed to do that? Didn't he get impeached for basically the same thing in his last term?
Ah, cool. But that also means each penalty is $10. Eep.
Maybe that's true, but maybe the average cost of a new car in Asia is quite a bit lower, so the overall effect is still declining total overall sales (measured in USD)?

Here's a fascinating video about a city in China that's full of cute electric cars that cost less than $5000 USD each:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AomxytSwrkY
https://opensrs.com/email/pricing/

https://proton.me/mail/pricing

https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/us/

https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/pricing/
You distribute pv and wind over large areas and they get destroyed by weather, get dirty, require significant maintenance. If individuals want to have wind turbines or pv installations that's great - but these things are a giant mess at grid scale - absolutely awful.
Some of those stats look a bit shaky. Npu on the Mac has less tops. The ram is lower clocked and I doubt the gpu one too frankly.

M4 has by far the fastest NPU of any laptop according to Geekbench. https://browser.geekbench.com/ai-benchmarks

Not that it matters - it’s not the base config or performance where things fall apart for Apple but rather adding reasonable amounts of ram and storage. Straight from reasonable to extortion pricing thanks to lock in

In terms of value, the M4 Pro is still comfortably ahead. The difference in speed, efficiency, component quality, and overall package is worth the value.
It might not matter to Google, but it would definitely matter to the hardware vendors who'd write drivers and ship devices with Fuchsia.

So many GPL violations in the Android world currently
Exactly. Fedora on the desktop is wonderful, and on laptop is really good assuming reasonably supported hardware. I have a framework 16 and 13 and both run fedora really well.
Yep. Their tweaked GNOME variant isn’t too bad, but it doesn’t fit the bill much more than vanilla GNOME does. Not that enthusiastic about what I’ve seen of COSMIC so far.
I was never that close to the Fuchsia project, but knew quite a few people who worked on it.

My understanding from them was, as much as I can remember it now, something like:

1. That yes, Fuchsia was originally intended, by at least some in senior leadership on the team, to replace both Android and ChromeOS. This is why Fuchsia had a mobile shell (or two?) at one point.

2. The Android team wasn't necessarily on board with this. They took a lot of ideas from Fuchsia and incorporated them into Android instead.

3. When Platforms were consolidated under Hiroshi it brought the Android and Fuchsia teams closer together in a way that didn't look great for Fuchsia. Hiroshi had already been in charge of Android and was presumed to favor it. People were worried that Hiroshi was going to kill Fuchsia.

4. Fuchsia pivoted to Nest devices, and a story of replacing just the kernel of Android, to reduce the conflict with the Android team.

4a. The Android team was correct on point (2) because it's either completely infeasible or completely dumb for Google to launch a separate competitor to Android, with a new ecosystem, starting from scratch.

To work around the ecosystem problem, originally Android apps were going to be run in a Linux VM, but that was bad for battery and performance. Starnix was started to show that Fuchsia could run Linux binaries in a Fuchsia component.

5. Android and ChromeOS are finally merging, and this _might_ mean that Android gets some of the auto-update ability of ChromeOS? Does that make the lower layer more suitable for Nest devices and push Fuchsia out there too?

Again, I was a pretty removed from the project, but it seemed too simplifying to say that Fuchsia either was never intended to replace Android, or always intended to replace Android. It changed over time and management structures.