skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gnome is very different from Aqua.

I used Gnome daily for a really long time. Gnome 3 is actually pretty good these days but it took a while to get there.

Aqua is still pretty solid but some of the shine is starting to fade.

I have all the Apple Intelligence stuff turned off yet I got a pop up ad in the OS for “Image Playground”

Apple’s solution? Turn off Image Playground in Screen Time settings. Ridiculous.
I doubt total sales have peaked. Economic growth and population growth will likely keep that going up.

But EVs are eating enough market share that combustion cars are likely never climbing past their peak again.
In the Budapest Memorandum USA promised not to attack Ukraine if it gives back Russian nukes to Russia. They kept the promise.

In the same memorandum Russia promised the same thing. They broke the promise. Repeatedly.

Nonetheless, I agree that more countries should develop their own nukes. Especially the ones like Poland, Baltics and Nordics. Not because it's a good thing to do, but because the world is what it is.
Disappearing scrollbars pisses me off as well.

But I can tell you how/why (I think) it happened.

They dropped them in iOS when the iPhone rolled out. It made sense given the small display area where even a 10 to 12 pixel column makes a difference.

And then, sadly, there came the slow roll to make both MacOS and iOS look the same and so they started auto-hiding on the Mac as well.

It's the form-before-function that I loathe ever since Jony started making round mice or USB connectors impossible to find.
See pages 6 to 12 of this declaration:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69608613/6/1/doctors-fo...
It definitely wasn't! I remember the irix 5.x and earlier days. By default, it shipped without any X11 authentication enabled. This meant everyone on the network could keylog your machine.
I don't think this is exhaustive and things have expanded since this was published, but this[1] somewhat covers this

> CDC webpages currently note that the "CDC's website is being modified to comply with President Trump's Executive Orders." Specifically, the CDC has been purging its website of topics related to diversity, gender identity, and LGBTQ issues. In addition, CDC researchers have been ordered to retract papers submitted to journals that use words or phrases like non-binary, transgender, LGBT, pregnant people, and more.

Ive heard HIV and contraception related information was also removed [2].

> Among the many pages that remain down are Health Disparities Among LQBTQ Youth, Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of Vaccine for Mpox Prevention, and Fast Facts: HIV and Transgender People.

Other government sites [3] had similar purges for different topics:

> The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York alleges the agency illegally scrapped essential webpages without public notice last month, after USDA Director of Digital Communications Peter Rhee ordered staff to archive or publish “any landing pages focused on climate change.”

[1] https://www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/generalobgyn/114078

[2] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/removal-pages-cdc-w...

[3] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/climate...
Hesgeth is sending an extra $4B to Israel (in case anyone thinks this is about saving money).
Some rose-tinted glasses looking at the past. There was a time when your entire computer would crash if you just looked at it funny.

Raw stability of software is much higher -- there are just more minor annoyances because there is also much more software.
Thank you. This is exactly what the site should have listed in its about page. Assuming it's still current.
not just conservatives, people who decided we can afford to pay attention and apply critical thinking also lost faith in anything where any combination of 2 or more of the following intersect: corporate profits / medicine / government / politics
https://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/31530-lawmakers-urge-tr...
Is it not still supported?
What did it for me was a period of: “I see you are delivering an important presentation. Let me force install an update and reboot three times. Right now.” I’ve spent too long watching reboots to have Windows in my life for my limited time on the planet.
I feel most people still don't realize that China is facing a demographic crisis. If their demographics matched the United States sure, but its unlikely china will be leading many of these future technological situations. Don't take me the wrong way, they have a great opportunity in front of them but just the resources required to take care of their elderly is going to suck up a pretty hefty amount of resources.
Good for Europe in the long run (potentially)
The problem is the release cadence, especially around mobile devices. Driver packages for them tend to be worked on right up to shipping, because they are developed in parallel with the hardware.

Android using the absolutely most head or tip version of the Linux kernel sounds like a QA nightmare of its own.

Mobile SOC has to have everything to start up the phone, as there is no bios like system that the driver is kind work through. Maybe this is a problem that could be solved, but it hasn't been yet.
Non-sequitur

A crazy person yelling at nothing on the streets is not the same as a president with a suit and tie inside theWhiteHouse.
HN doesn’t like reasonable questions in general. Jeff Geerling once got on the wrong side of HN moderation (falsely accused of spamming); you should see the hate for HN in the comments on his post about it. Many choice words, increasingly completely deserved.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/i-almost-got-banned-h...
If it’s sentient, awake or self-aware, you should give it wheels and find out what it does, or wants to do.

https://www.mycostories.com/post/fungal-cybernetics-mushroom...
> Just get used to working around them and ignore?

Pretty much. It's not like the other operating systems are better in this regard. In general there's a lot more software that's buggy like this than software that's reliable
that’s a lot of propaganda for one comment wow
Interesting observation. I suppose most startups haven't existed for long enough for the meta-optimizing employees to be promoted over work-optimizing employees, yet.
Interesting question. Why didn’t America fail right off the bat with this problem? What has changed that this type of behavior is becoming increasingly common?
Also increasing military support for an even more entangled crisis - Israel.
Show HN: SunPark – Florida's beach parking finder
I built SunPark to solve a frustrating problem that I kept encountering during beach trips in Florida which is finding a place to park near the beach where I am heading

SunPark is a web app that helps you find and navigate to convenient beach parking spots. I focused on making it simple for now.

I'd appreciate feedback on:

1. The UI/UX - is it intuitive enough for first-time users?

2. Performance on mobile devices

3. Additional features that would be useful

The app is currently focused on simply finding the nearest beach parking spots to the user, I plan to add more features like more information about amenities for each parking lot. You can try it at https://sunpark.app/.

This is my first time building a mapping-oriented app, so any insights from those who've worked on similar projects would be greatly appreciated!
Also Europe will have to increase its nuclear arsenal since it is clear that Europe can't no longer rely on US. Europe was too trusting for too long.
Yeah. There is very little evidence of coherency.
wasn’t the context of the comment above about Canada becoming a 51st state? I feel like people just aren’t paying attention
Where? Any links? I am curious.
Yeah I think the whole thing was planned in Riyadh between Trump, Putin and MBS.

Which makes one wonder what MBS's role is. My theory is that he will organize OPEC production cuts, designed to boost Russia's economy and crush Europe's.
For those wondering why this exists: many of the pages that were formerly listed on the CDC website have been disappearing, likely in response to recent executive orders, though this has not been made explicit.

As an example, I checked the Women's Health page and noticed a lot of removals -- the pages on menstrual health and hygiene ([1] vs [2]), or the page summarizing health disease statistics in women ([3] vs [4]). That's just from 5 minutes of glancing through, and there are probably many others.

It is useful to compare the differences between the two sites, but it would definitely benefit from a list of what has been changed. Right now this primarily helps doctors and scientists who need to access data they already knew about (i.e. via bookmarks) but is less useful for observing patterns in what is being censored.

[1]https://www.restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov/womens-health/mhh-co...

[2]https://www.cdc.gov/womens-health/mhh-continuing-education/i...

[3]https://www.restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov/womens-health/featur...

[4]https://www.cdc.gov/womens-health/features/heart-disease.htm...
> If you’re someone who grew up on Macs there’s almost nothing in the Linux desktop space that tries to replicate that set of patterns… it’s all Win9X-type taskbar setups, mobile-type setups (GNOME, Pantheon), old niche *nix setups (e.g. WindowMaker), and of course minimal tiling WMs. There’s no clones of Mac OS of any flavor.

Have you seen https://hyprland.org?
There will be a world war within the next 3 years, not 10.
Doubtful that would ever happen. And all sides know it.
I am a bit skeptical about all the announcements. Are companies really investing, or just making announcements? I wish it were the latter!
That's not true in my experience. I started at Apple in 1995 and user experience was king. Honestly, Jobs return was more or less the start of the decline (but, not of the stock price of AAPL of course).

Why did Apple engineering culture decline then? It became top-down, no longer bottom-up.
"Open" meaning 2 of 3 flagged and dead
Presumably 2024 will also be bad due to interest rates. But, of course, that doesn't say anything about "real" demand.
Cool - thanks for the response. I do have a question though - when you say "I didn't want to burn through my limited Kagi trial searches..." How does using your engine overlay not use up the Kagi searches? I found that I still had to login to Kagi in order for it to work - thus using up my limited (100 searches per month) level. Please explain!
Sure, but frankly, I've heard plenty of people speaking the most flawless King's English who didn't make any sense at all.

re: translated math papers: haha we've all been there. Once I had to read a bunch of 70's-era papers from Russian Mathematicians. The translators, bless their hearts, I'm sure knew everything there was to know about Dickens and Dostoevsky, but it was clear they had no clue what the math was all about :-)

Oh well, Math is the universal language, right? chuckle
Judge Bates issued a temporary restraining order to the CDC to restore certain websites.
The current administration aren't really isolationists. Hell, they've threatened buying/invading Greenland and the Panama Canal.

They're opportunists, protectionists, and authoritarians. I mean, Trump himself has praised Xi for ruling with an iron fist, and extending tenure 'for life', remarking he'd like to do the same. Musk would pretend to support democratic views if they were the dominant view of the current administration, or somehow thought it would benefit him. But like I said, they're opportunists - people who exploit current circumstances to gain immediate advantage rather than being guided by consistent principles or plans. They're not really isolationists...
> Only idiots think immigration is uncontrolled. Practically all immigration is from government granted visas.

"Uncontrolled" in this context doesn't mean people hopping the border unbeknownst to the authorities. It means immigration at a rate high enough that it's beyond the capacity of the host nation to integrate the newcomers to its culture.

A village of a thousand people can accept one additional person per year indefinitely with no material change to its way of life. But it cannot accept, say, a hundred a year, especially if the hundred immigrants come from a substantially different culture, without fundamentally changing the entire social fabric.

And when such massive changes to society occur without buy-in from a convincing majority of people?[0] Well, only idiots would wonder why people think it's out of control.

[0]: In the UK, Brexit made it clear that in fact the buy-in was in the other direction.
And yet I think we're at another point where things are so bad that we need another bug-fix-only release. (Or two or three in a row.)
All good! Hope you feel better soon.
This is what I mean, your experience is drastically not the norm for millions of people and I very much wish they didn't have to work but they need to if they don't want to subsist. The economy hasn't exactly been favorable toward the working class for the last 50 years.

20% of people in the "retirement age" still work dude.

If you also read my comments, this person isn't actually working and they have zero savings and while they get social security and medicare they still need to pay a mortgage, insurance, utility bills, and food. They want to work but can't.

According to you they should simply start a business with AI, what business who the fuck knows but apparently AI is enough to make him whole.

If the idea of his age bothers you, it wouldn't really be different if he was 55 or 45 or 35.

The issue I take with your comment is you don't really know what struggle is or how people live below the federal poverty line. Telling them to simply create jobs is akin to "let them eat cake."

A baffling statement made with no compassion.
Yea I totally agree. This is selective memory.

Perhaps there were peaks and troughs in individual technologies. Late 2000s / early 2010s felt like a good time for operating systems, for instance.

But is everyone forgetting having to navigate through Flash websites and Java Applets using Internet Explorer, for instance?

Also, people are just forgetting. There’s nostalgia in this thread about the iTunes desktop app, for instance. That program has been a pile of trash for as long as I can remember back in the 2000s.
this is not a Trump problem, with instant global communication no leaders can be trusted by your logic, it’s not unreasonable to think that Biden took power and allowed Putin and Blackrock to each carve a piece of Ukraine off for themselves and Zelensky is a puppet of these corrupt grifters, that looks far more likely than Putin giving orders to Trump, especially with all the Burisma/Hunter emails and money trail, and considering Biden not only allowed it to happen but funded much of the destruction too, follow the money
With official linux support on Windows, I really love developing on Windows, it's the best of both worlds. Mac on the other hand feels like a second hand citizen to both linux and windows depending on what you're doing.
Usually people save money in a savings account.
Nonsense, even Reddit says this place is full of toxicity beyond themselves. And that was five years ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/diduoy/hacker_news_...
My personal pet peeve is how Apple used to be the Best of the Best in photography, including Dolby Vision HDR support for both video and still images, but now their software has failed to catch up to Chrome and fails at the most trivial operations.

As a random example: It is impossible to use any non-Mac device to produce a HDR image that an Apple device can handle correctly:

JPEG XL is "supported". Narrator: No it isn't. The point of this file format is proper HDR support, but Apple loads it as an 8-bit SDR image no matter what.

AVIF is "supported" and even loads as HDR... on one device only. You can't forward such an image via any iOS or MacOS app. It becomes a non-picture file attachment.

My Nikon Z8 can generate glorious HDR HEIF files -- the native Apple image format -- which doesn't work either. Why? Because Apple software can't handle "HEIF", they can only handle the incredibly specific tiny subset of it that very specifically the iOS Camera app produces. Nothing else works properly, or even at all.

You can spend thousands on a camera, thousands on an iPhone or iPad, thousands on a Macbook and... they can't handle pictures. PICTURES!

Meanwhile a $500 TV from ALDI will happily show me HDR images in a dozen formats because they use Chrome OS or Google TV.
Isn’t this the perfect type of project/product for Kickstarter?
Which are flagged is a moving target (only 1 was last I checked.. and it was a duplicate). They're not dead.. still vouchable. But you're aware, you've commented on other copies of this story.
Thanks. That document is four pages. Where is the "Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for a Restraining Order" referred to at the beginning?

edit:

- “The Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System”

- “Data and Statistics” for “Adolescent and School Health”

- “The Social Vulnerability Index”

- “The Environmental Justice Index”

- “PrEP for the Prevention of HIV Infection in the U.S.: 2021 Guideline Summary”

- “HIV Monitoring”

- “Getting Tested for HIV”

- “National ART Surveillance System (NASS)”

- “CDC Contraceptive Guidance for Health Care Providers”

- FDA webpages on “Study of Sex Differences in the Clinical Evaluation of Medical Products”

- “Diversity Action Plans to Improve Enrollment of Participants from Underrepresented Populations in Clinical Studies”

[1]: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277...
Everybody has different trackpad habits and they can be hard to put into words. For example, trackpads used to have buttons at the bottom, and you'd naturally use your fingers for pointing, and the thumb for clicking. Now the buttons are gone, and new users click with their index fingers, which can be tiring and inaccurate on some trackpads (especially older/cheaper mechanical ones).

Right-clicking also has a history. Because Mac trackpads only had one button (unlike PC touchpads), the way to right-click was to point with either your index or middle finger (high precision), then put down the other of these two fingers on the trackpad while doing the thumb-click. It will not move the cursor, so there is no loss of precision. At least that's what I did for a long time. (Although I don't lose precision if I hold down two fingers and press with one of them either.)

And it gets more confusing when Apple changes the defaults. They've flip-flopped between touch-to-click and press-to-click at least once. I'm not sure if using the bottom right corner was ever the default for right-clicks? And then they also removed the video clips that taught you some gestures in the system settings. And I think the whole "deep press" gesture is an anti-feature that only confuses people, the dictionary lookup used to be a three-finger tap and that was fine. But the Magic Trackpad 2 needed a headline feature, sigh.
I live in an area where there are a lot of wind mills along a nearby range of hills. There is also another taller hill which allows you to look down on the wind mills. In all the times I've driven up there and stopped to look out at the vista there were no birds at the base of the windmills. None. On any of them.
My team hates when I write POSIT shell.
"Very weird" is investing in a currency you can't use. Illiquidity is one thing - having to wait hours for an idempotent transaction to finish is a horse of a queer color. Bitcoin itself is a vehicle for second-layer chains, none of which have to abide by Bitcoin's principles of sovereignty or decentralization.

I'll just let you down easy here, the strategy involved is little else than legitimizing a market rife with fraud. Call them shitcoins all you like, Trump is happy to treat them with the same "strategic" levity he attributes to Bitcoin. Are you sensing a pattern, at all?
Matches my brief FAANG experience well: the vast amount of time devoted to performance reviews and the gaming of them versus actual productive work was… something I’d never encountered in my previous 15 years of work.

Well compensated hoop jumping at least!
> The article mentions that microplastics was another theory

The mention of microplastics was in relation to why the piles of biosolids were smoking. Speculation that heat from composting was burning microplastic particles.

Breathing burning plastic and ingesting large amounts of PFAS can both be harmful at the same time. The 'micro' part is irrelevant, you don't want to breath burning plastic regardless of the size of the particles burning.

Polluting your neighbor's property IS NOT OK. Normally externalities are more ambiguous, but this is literally polluting your neighbor's land. This isn't just a failure of our laws, this a failure of a community.
The US Telco Sprint was spun off from the Southern Pacific railroad - train lines are convenient places to lay fibre trunks
> Good, well-funded public services make productive citizens and a strong economy. Austerity leads to a dead country.

Most Western European nations have a government expenditure as a percentage of GDP of roughly 50%; half the economy is government.

Singapore, a famously productive country, is around 15%.
Sure, TSMC would want to do that to salvage what they can. I wonder if the Taiwanese government is as keen on that arrangement though; TSMC plants are their biggest bargaining chip, and Trump has upending the entire world order mere weeks into his term.
I thought I was the only one dealing with this!

Made me consider that my magic keyboard was getting old or having bluetooth issues, but it does not happen on ANY other inputs.
This is an article about laying off a group (18F), that was never established by Congress in the first place. So I think if someone invokes checks and balances here, it’s fair to enquire what they think checks and balances are.

Saying “hey, don’t you know what checks and balances are” seems ruder.
I'm curious about your dock/hub. There's a good chance I just ordered the same one as I try to build a more sophisticated home station. Which one and how does it bug out?
Game Programming Patterns – Web Book (2014)
Everyone agrees? I don't agree.
It's one thing to stop all aid to Ukraine. That makes you an asshole in a world full of assholes. But it's another thing to do that while simultaneously working to restore relations with Russia. There is only one word for that: evil.

Back in the late 90s to late 2000s, people in Western Europe generally had pretty negative views of the US. It was the country that refused to fight against climate change, launched an invasion of another country based on obvious lies, and so on. People were genuinely debating whether Bush was a bigger villain than Putin. And it wasn't just about the young and the left. Our elites hated Bush so much that they gave the next guy a Nobel Peace Prize for not being him.

Since then, Putin has worked hard to raise the bar for being a bigger villain. But Trump seems to be genuinely trying to compete.
Or at some point, corporate IT bans desktop Linux because they can’t manage it.
Not related to your main point, but I am happy to see we are in somewhat of a resurgence of innovation in keyboards. There are some innovative new designs, entirely novel approaches to key inputs, and personalisation and craftsmanship has never been more impressive or achievable.
Current progress is here: https://fsl.yellowapple.us/zig64/dir?ci=trunk

Right now it's just a bunch of WIP Zig interfaces for the N64's hardware, but the end-goal is to get it developed enough for homebrew gamedev.
I doubt everyone agrees on anything. If you have contrary numbers please just save all of us the time and share them.