skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I drank the "creating products that prioritize user experience over feature checklists" kool-aid back in ~2013 sometime, and got myself a first Macbook when I worked at a software startup the first time. While it certainly gave a more "premium" impression in terms of hardware/UI/UX for the first few years, around 2016 I had to move back to Linux because the software experience and the user experience is just too poor, outright buggy and changes all the time.

Even basic UX like "Can still see navigation map on CarPlay when someone calls you" seems to be just not thought of at all, or not being able to move the cursor left/right because the current iPhone keyboard mode only allows number. There are a thousands of these tiny cuts that just makes it such a pain to use daily.

Which is a darn shame, because the hardware is truly amazing, from everything from the displays, to keyboard and trackpads, to the general feeling and the CPU. But the software experience been so shit for the last decade that it's hard to justify going back.
The tablet that replaced my Kindle and iPad is finally getting a successor
If that's the case they should stop doing that no give them selves the legal right to do it.
You really expect everyone at 45 suddenly turns around this switch and comes to your conclusion? Now not to be patronizing but that seems really naive.
Agreed; Apple's software quality is rapidly approaching unacceptability.

I'm in a regular video call friend group, every day we call and chat for a bit. A few days ago we "officially" decided to just call in Discord instead of Facetime. Discord's mobile app has its own set of issues, for sure, but we would regularly hit an issue with Facetime where especially as people join and leave the call, other peoples' microphones would become shadow muted; it would look like its sending audio from their end, but no one else could hear them. For non-video participants, this could mean minutes of not being heard before realizing the issue, leaving the call, and re-joining, which fixes things.

Also Facetime related: If you use your iPhone as a continuity camera for your Mac, if you get a Facetime call while your iPhone and Mac are close to each other, you cannot answer the call on your iPhone. If you think about the implications of that, it sounds crazy; like "there's no way that got through testing", but its true. Your iPhone displays an ungrokable error message that took me, a tech guy, several Googles to understand what was going on. The only option in this error message is "Disconnect". You click that, and you're taken back to the home screen. If the other person has not disconnected from the Facetime call, you can manually launch the Facetime app and join the call from there. But if they've left it, you just missed the call, and it does this Every Single Time. I had to turn off Continuity Camera. Its crazy!

That's just the latest ones; the list of issues is really quite endless, and it only gets longer the more of Apple's services you decide to inflict upon yourself.
Transitioning from Founder-Led Sales: The "We Need More Schmedleys" Problem
So, as an ignorant foreigner... surely someone already _has_ tried this, right? Like, I gather US zoning is pretty localised; there has to be _some_ local authority who has tried it.
Adding an anecdote I'm one of those newcomers having rediscovered rails a few months ago after all the buzz around version 8.

I just got done porting https://www.skatevideosite.com (and our custom admin panel) from sveltekit/fastapi to Rails and I'm stoked on the results so far.

I need to write up my experience about the rewrite, having a blast so far.
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When software is so bad that tactics “just throw more hardware inside” stops working.
hmm... doesn't seem to be working in Chrome 122.0.6261.128 (Official) or Firefox 135.0.1
Second this - here is a guide for good setup for this https://mailsnag.com/blog/rails7-vuetify3/
Not really. Check out that reddit thread it goes into details about this topic. It has surprising details.
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I smoke the occasional cigarette (1 pack per year basically), and enjoy the relaxation and alertness nicotine provides. I tried gum, but disliked the headache I get from consistent nicotine use (cigarettes and gum the same in this way). Have not tried zyn, but I assume it will do the same. I know and do meditation, and exercise. These are good - but I'm looking for that chemical that is a great alternative to nicotine, but one you've found that's maybe better for you? From my point of view, it's all about the enjoyment of the occasional chemical altering of mental state to something that's in some ways a kind of optimal: relaxed, focused and alert.
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> After multiple prompts

It generally maintains the tone you set. Remember that it outputs most likely tokens based on the system prompt of its owners + your system prompt + the whole conversation. If OpenAI and default system prompt tell it that it's a helpful cheerful secretary/assistant, you get best results if you talk to it "professionally".

I heard you could make Claude say "kurwa" a lot while helping you program in Go if you convince it that you want a conversation with your ziomek Seba from your backyard with whom you like to share kebab and browar, so there goes.
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Curious for more info on the outage. Did someone trip over a power cord??
I'm not sure if you mean; sometimes people will write a response that makes me wonder if they understood what I meant, but then I'll ask to clarify.

And sometimes "ok" can be ambiguous, too, I guess - depending on contxt.
Hi, Pedro

Is Reactjs stack ok?
You know, you've told me that about views and components before, and I keep forgetting. I am so used to getting burned by software that has two names for things because a couple months or years later, ah yes, now that you mention it there is this one tiiiiny distinction that happens to be why the app is on fire now.

It would be great if you could expand your explanation of the metaprogramming into a comment in the code. When I read it, I didn't immediately recognize the technique and its tradeoffs, so it seemed like an odd decision rather than an informed one.

Having two versions of phlex would be a strong negative to me. I don't like to see dev teams spread themselves out, it's one more choice I'd have to make when adopting, if switching between them I have new risks that they've slipped out of sync in some way, and it's altogether another odd decision that has to be explained.

What I was trying to say about the code is that I share the previous commenter's experience of "welp I guess if we want that bug fixed we have to click 'fork' on github... while we write up our plan to migrate away". Having had that experience several times, Phlex looks like an acceptable risk.
the part of their claim that does the heavy lifting is "code written by other people" - LLM-produced code does not fall into that category. LLM code is not written by anyone. There was no model in a brain I can empathize with and think about why they might have done this decision or that decision, or a person I can potentially contact and do code review with.
Ah, I will check 1Blocker later, I clearly missed it! Thanks for the recommendation.
Mozilla reverses course on its terms of use
The people doing the annexing gain power and influence by extending their reach and base of constituents, but they don't (as individuals) pay the price of supporting those neighborhoods.
I would pay a premium for a system that never gets any new features except for bug & security patches.

In fact, that's more or less what iOS was for a long time, and I loved every second of it.

Once you have a good feature set, you can spend years and years ironing out 100% of the bugs and vulnerabilities and you'd build a rabid fanbase of crotchety tech-saturated users like me. I want something that Just Works.
Sure, it's an opinion that goods need to go to warehouses before being distributed to supermarkets. what industries are permitted in your utopia?
Suburbs used to be built with convenient access to businesses until 1946. They aren't mutually exclusive features of a pleasant neighborhood. Most American's have never experienced a well functioning old suburb and don't realize the scale of the hellscapes they are really living in.
Looks interesting, have you tried utilizing a multimodal model?
Graph embed does not appear to work in FF 135. Loaded in Chrome though.

Edit: Seems to be a me issue.
Amazon will use the postal service when it's the "best" option available (decided by some supercomputer AI somewhere, probably).

What Amazon is deathly afraid of, and is a reality, is Walmart dropping stuff off at people's houses. The local Walmart provides next-day (sometimes same day if ordered early enough) free delivery of most anything non-perishabale they have in stock. Walmart already has the neighborhood warehouse, they just had to add a delivery driver or two. 90% of Americans live within 10 miles of a Walmart.

That could eat Amazon up and spit it out almost overnight. They know it, too.

And the batteries and toothpaste from Walmart are almost certainly not counterfeit.
He's just muddying the waters in bad faith, ignore his "plausible" arguments because as you're demonstrating, they aren't. They are constructed to appear plausible and waste your time.

The only winning move is not to play.
Ah but what you are interpreting in layman english is actually a term of art in marketing that means "this will change as soon as it becomes more profitable to do that".
I lived near an office for a good portion of my career when I was single. The office was definitely not a social spot. Most of the people that liked RTO when HN has been polled were married people with kids. If you're married with kids and live near a tech campus in a major city then I think it's safe to say that you're very wealthy.
Not mentioned -- Cornell has an $11bn endowment that can be tapped to make up some of the shortfall. Any issues with Federal funding will be hurting smaller schools and schools with smaller endowments way before hurting Cornell.
Building the Feynman motor that fits through a sewing needle's eye
I Saw Democracy Die in Russia
It could be revelatory.

Like the first time I played Super Mario Bros. on an LED screen. Finally I could see each pixel clearly, exactly the way the original artist didn't intend!

Edit: in all seriousness, this makes me wonder: has anyone ever re-orchestrated Beethoven's Fifth? Say, in the orchestration style of Ravel or Strauss? Someone must have done this, even as a joke, and I'd love to hear it. (I know about the "Fifth of Beethoven" disco tune which is great, but that's not what I'm asking about.)
Apart from the usual advice to "start working on a patch to learn the internals," which is not as easy to do because it's a mature product and most of the low-hanging fruits have been reaped, I'd also suggest checking the extensions shipped with the main source tree under $top/contrib.
Each one is self-contained and usually works with a subset of the internals.
Some good ones: pageinspect, pg_buffercache, pg_prewarm, pg_statstatements, pg_walinspect
fantastic - thanks for posting
Some thoughts on autoregressive models
It seems to me like the iPad in particular has the worst software quality. Not that iOS on the iPhone is perfect, but it really seems like their workflow is to build for the phone first, then hammer it in place to work on the iPad as an afterthought.

There's so much basic stuff that doesn't work, like if you pull out the keyboard into its split mode, it constantly covers the text input that you're typing in - even in Apple's own apps. The split keyboard may as well not exist for how impossible it is to use.

But there's also just been a lot of usability issues seeping into iOS over time in general. Like those text effects they added in the latest iOS update that constantly force their way onto my messages when I don't want them. And more recently, the "recent emojis" tab doesn't update to my recently used emojis. I think it's been stuck on whatever were my recent emojis were when I did the last iOS update.
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Apple had to switch CPU architectures and build their just to make their OS feel as snappy as KDE and Gnome does on mid-tier hardware. I wonder how long it will take until enough technical debt accumulates to a point where Mac OS feels like it drags again.

The absolute worst was the transition to SSDs if you were stuck on a hard to upgrade HDD-based Mac. It became super clear that Apple devs stopped caring in the span of a year.
In college, I remember writing and posting to Facebook a poem about my frustrations with my own impotence in the face of Big Issues Facing the World, and ending it with something along the lines of glancing at a sunny window and watching, out of the corner of my eye, "my youth jump out it."

That was half a lifetime ago. My depression seemed to have a better grasp of "what it all be" than my ambition.

Depending on how my health holds up and what my generation's asbestos turns out to be, I'm either over-the-hill or shortly on my way there. I never had exceptional strength or stamina, but I notice it yet diminishing. First gray hairs in my whiskers this year. And people look at me like a weird little old man, especially at nerd conventions and on public transportation.

Still, I can't shake the idea that I might claw my way to a Leslie Jones moment. I'm trying to abide by the Shonda Rhimes Doctrine, and build, rather than placate myself with thoughts that the real me is still asleep. But the balance between teenage dreams and adult realities is hard to maintain; and giving oneself wholly to either - to become a defenseless blob or a hollowed out husk - is out of the question.

I appreciate this meditation.

Oh, one last thought: reaching the age I can remember my parents being when I was in grade school has been especially sobering. Right about now, I would be preparing myself (and my siblings, one unborn) for a life-altering 700-mile move, and I just cannot imagine it.
Uber is piloting accounts for teenagers in India
The distinction between "big cats" and "small cats" is whether or not they purr. Ocelots and Cheetahs are wild "small cats" which can purr. Lions, tigers, panthers are "big cats" don't purr. There's a taxonomic distinction.
Worked for me (FF 135.0.1 on Ubuntu)
The CarPlay "limitation" is likely to be a road safety/liability issue.
It works on FF135.0.1 (aarch64) for me. Ad blocker?
TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
I think it has more to do with a gradual industry-wide race to the bottom in terms of quality. Reliability, attention to detail, correctness occupy a tiny fraction of the "budget" compared to security, slopping out features, and beating competition to market. I suspect that startup culture being the crucible where a large portion of engineers learned their chops and the massive amount of new blood in the industry who are primarily there for money are the biggest factors.
I wanna give the author the benefit of the doubt but its hard to when they chose language like:

> Here are the specific steps you can take "as a leader"

Feels a bit leaders/followers mindset, makes me extremely uncomfortable.

While the article contains some level of decent herding cats advice it comes from the perspective of outsourcing the problem into the employee and while that can happen, I am sceptical of the framing.
The other bigger reason why they are doing this is that it removes having to deal with licensing and using any Qualcomm provided firmware & hardware designs. It doesn't quite free them from having to license any patents probably. But other than that, they no longer have to deal with anything Qualcomm on the critical path to shipping hardware & software.

Depending on what their patent licensing with Qualcomm looks like, this also might free them up to embed 5G capabilities in just about any other device they have that isn't a phone. Combined with soft sims, there's no need for sim card slots even. Think laptops, vr goggles, apple tv's, watches, etc. That stuff is/was mostly blocked on licensing and Qualcomm taking a cut; and only partially on power requirements. I wouldn't be surprised to see the C1 in some future mac books. In fact I'd be surprised if that didn't happen.

Some Chinese phone companies like Huawei have been doing similar things and use their own chips rather than Qualcomm provided ones and of course the whole notion of Qualcomm enforcing their patents in China is not much of a thing.

It will be interesting to see what happens with 6G and beyond. That will be the first standard where Qualcomm has to compete with multiple competitors competing on quality and features. Apple won't wait for them to do whatever. And likewise, companies like Ericsson/Nokia might start talking directly to Apple about making sure their network infrastructure works great with IOS.
Sure why not, updated.
>>> What, then, fills the void where possibility once lived?

Laughing at the world for letting me exist.
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Not a DeepSeek issue or any other LLM in particular. Data is from CommonCrawl
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The major threat is SAM and other anti air. Maybe the US's stealth or long range cruise missiles would be enough to knock down and keep down the opponents anti air coverage but it's not guaranteed. Neither side has been able to gain safe access to the skies in this whole conflict, modern AA is just able to cover such a wide area it's hard to get ground assets close enough to strike.
I don’t read the piece as trying to convince anyone that the perspective presented in it is correct or true, and am kind of surprised that multiple posters here read it that way.
I can't help but think Apple should have focused more on hiring the top engineers/designers than on the diversity of their workforce.
Right, so that means that to produce 300MW reliably from the solar or wind farms you'd need about 900MW nameplate capacity. I'd be really curious about the solar side of it too and whether that 30% is overall or just during daylight. Either way, you end up having to overprovision the unreliable sources such that you have enough capacity to both charge your battery pack and provide power to the grid.
The sad thing about this is that in the Android ecosystem, you are likely to get just as shitty software on a much, much shittier hardware. You cannot have nice things. Oh, and just buy a new one while we're at it, lmao.
Apple's $500B US jobs 'investment'? Same old, same old