skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Apple-Silicon MacBook Pro and Mac Mini for software development. I hardly ever use Apple software for business/personal/productivity. Jetbrains IDE tools, Docker, Homebrew work great. I install Chrome browser and use Google services, AWS and GCP consoles, etc. via the browser. YouTube for video, Google Music app.

As for all Apple software, I might use Preview or Numbers (spreadsheets) on occasion, and I'm forced to use Finder, which I hate. And Terminal works well. I avoid Safari.

Apple "PC" hardware is solid. I use third party apps though, little Apple software, there are better alternatives. I've used Android since the HTC Dream (I think it was the first Android phone in the USA) and have stuck with Android since, with few problems.

Edit: I thought the Apple Vision Pro would be interesting (I couldn't justify the expense) but I saw the value supposedly would be greatest for those fully bought into the integrated Apple app ecosystem and iCloud. I'm not the target user.
You don't need FAA approval if you cancel the FAA...
Except there is a truck sized hole of de minimus exceptions, so effective tariff rate is practically 0. but I guess it’s a good excuse for a market correction.
USA leaving NATO was floated. I don't know how realistic any of it is, just that these are the terms being negotiated.
> If he interferes there,

How will you know at this point? Would he need a sharpie this time, or will he just shout at them over the phone and change the conclusions?
How far/long do you commute to your office?
Voting behaviors will seem strange if you look at things exclusively through the lens of a young-ish worker when you live in a society that is 35% retirees, 5% wealthy, and 5% living off the state.
What does the online safety act require websites to do?
Beverage giants mulling legal action against government's PET packaging bottles
Beverage manufacturers are considering legal options against a government decision setting an April 1 deadline to implement an over two-year-old order that requires them to use PET packaging bottles that are made of 30% recycled food grade rigid plastic.
Tarrifs if they were real would be anti inflationary, as they would discourage consumption.
You can build systems to fail safe, so that lack of proper maintenance leads to the plant becoming safely inoperable, and only grossly-improper maintenance would cause a fallout incident.

Is this guaranteed to work? The Chernobyl disaster was caused by grossly-improper maintenance, so… :shrug:. No matter how many physical safety mechanisms you have, a determined mechanic could remove them – but at that point, it becomes deliberate sabotage, which is rare, detectable, and not unique to nuclear power plants. (You could probably kill more people by destroying the right dam in the middle of the night.)
Oh, I hoped it's about nuclear weapons. Pitty, it's not. Now, as US is slowly leaving NATO, European countries should urgently work on increasing their nuclear capabilities, developing strategic and tactical nuclear weapons and means of delivery (rockets, bombers, submarines).
No, the company selling smartphones with /e/OS is called Murena. https://murena.com/faq/
I doubt he'll care at that point. It’s already been (subjective) years since that crash.
The direction where market must go on that is clear. Higher standing charges for grid connection, more variable market rates. And maybe also more variable transfer rates. Meaning that roof top solar will get less economical as true costs will shift to times when energy is pulled from the grid. Home batteries will shift some of this, but if you want power after they are dark and everyone else want it too it will be expensive.
Where and when? For how long? Does it include dealing with wastes? Does it include powerlines, maintenance and land?

It's not a universal answer.
Agree except maybe...

> The fact that one can make electricity out of oil.

If you do that, there's little benefit from car electrification. Also electricity is cheap usually when the car is not charging and vice versa. People arrive home, start cooking, washing clothes and plug in their car. The sun is already set and the local grid's unprepared cable sections cause voltage drops. The energy dilivered by the pv panels at noon is worth less than 10 percent of the nominal price. That is what holding EV usage back right now.
https://archive.ph/PBPbM
Honestly hard to say. There are a number of styles of architecting Nim libraries and programs, and almost none match my own. My most particular criticism of the Nim ecosystem is the abuse of macros: There are a number of libraries implementing huge chunks of functionality behind macros such that code paths only appear at compile time and are not reflected in sources. Some libraries constrain macro use, but many are built entirely out of macros. I'd say to avoid looking to those examples.
I’ll never forget the Great HN Vote where everyone decided to get on board the Trump Train
Simple fix. Pay for the commute and then we'll see how efficient rto vs wfh is.
As a medical student, I used the dragon dictation software (no AI) to write notes in the ED and more recently I used a pilot of this ai version to write clinic notes.

Overall, I was quite impressed. It definitely made writing notes much faster, which all doctors hate to do. While it had some problems with where to put key pieces of information (like putting details from the physical exam back in the history), it only took 5 mins of rearrangement after the visit to complete the note.

For simple diagnoses, it does a decent job coming up with the assessment and plan, probably because all the simple diagnoses were in the training set. For more complex ones though, it needs to be exactly dictated by the doctor. I can see this being used very well in primary care.

Edit: When I said “coming up with an assessment and plan” I mean documenting the assessment and plan based on the ai’s recorded conversation with the patient. The conversation with the patient is meant to be understandable. The “assessment and plan” documentation on the other hand is jargony and meant to be read by other physicians.
He did not win by a landslide. He didn’t even get a majority of the vote. The final tally was 49.8% - 48.3%. A victory of 1.5% is not a landslide.

Further, Trump spent a huge amount of his campaign denying any association with project 2025. I also don’t recall any moment where he said he would turn over control of the government to Elon Fucking Musk.
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If they were of the same race as your dad, the question "how come these people that aren't even from here have a better life than me?" would still be valid.
Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers
LiCoO2 / NMC aren't the popular chemistries any more. LiFePo4 is a remarkably stable chemistry, with extremely low risks of fire.

In the unlikely event that they do catch fire, they are extinguishable with water.

Nothing has zero risk, but there are much more stable chemistries available than those that formed this (rational) opinion.
They will always refuse to admit they were wrong or that they were duped. The reasons for hardships and failure will always be due to the group of "others" stymieing their progress. The enemy is both cleverly evil and simultaneously feckless. I know some trumpies and they think things are going swimmingly.
Just updated it to allow empty headlines. Still working on the other two but making progress on #2...
Technical skill has very, very little to do with the emotional impact of music.

One of the most famous mantras in punk music was "this is a chord, this is another, now make a band"[1]. "Imagine" by John Lennon is a song written using the simplest scale and chord progressions, using a very low 4/4 tempo.

The hard part is not knowing the biggest amount of chords, it's knowing what not to use to carry your emotions.

Also, the "time investment" is the music. Once the final waveform hits the tape/DAW/recorder it's not art anymore, it's publishing.

And for most artists "learn to make music" is usually the fun part. Complicated and frustrating sometimes, but rewarding. For a lot of them, the "now play it in front of other people" part is the truly annoying one, frightening in some occasions.

[1]https://austinkleon.com/2019/01/13/this-is-a-chord-this-is-a...
Windows drivers are absolutely version specific. Try to install a driver for an old Windows version sometime.
They look good
Maybe not well known, but during the 20th century a number of nations started a nuclear weapons program, but then were convinced to halt the work by security guarantees by the U.S.

You better believe that every single one of those nations is now revisiting that decision.

For those wondering if Italy can afford to build nuclear: their economy is larger than Russia’s. As is Brazil’s, another nation that put nuclear weapons on hold per U.S. request.
He'll just get his own account to approve his flights.
The law only matters to the extent that it’s enforced. Get rid of all the enforcers, and you’re home free.
All of the news stories about unlikely Trump voters having regrets are just ragebait. Journalists can always find someone for readers to laugh at because they voted for someone who was openly against them, but that’s a different issue.

The real interesting voter regret is when the likely Trump voters start realizing that their guy isn’t who they thought. It’s not going to happen quickly because denial and rationalization can go on for a very long time.

I am starting to see it in some of the VCs and crypto people I know personally and follow on Twitter. The launch of the Trump memecoin went through a rationalization cycle where the crypto people tried to spin it as a good thing, but now nearly all of them have given up and agreed it was a bad move for crypto

One of the loudest pro-Trump VCs in my state has gone from being a cheerleader to asking questions about what DOGE is actually doing. The trigger for him was, strangely enough, Musk having public issues with the parents of two of his children. Something about realizing that he’s not a good family man and father finally broke his illusions of Musk as the perfect hero.

I think it’s little things like this that will start making people ask questions about their heroes. The more topics and agencies they get their hands on, the more people will be impacted and be forced to reconcile their reality with their imagined ideals of this administration.
Interesting that the CNN article makes no mention of how badly under-utilized government office spaces are.

https://wolfstreet.com/2025/01/25/doge-seeks-to-shed-vast-am...
“A recent report from Sen. Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa who chairs the Senate DOGE caucus, found that not one of the headquarters for any major agency or department in Washington is more than half full. GSA-owned buildings in Washington, D.C., average about a 12% occupancy rate. The government owns more than 7,500 vacant buildings across the country, and more than 2,200 that are partially empty.”

DOGE is hamfisted in its execution but why are we spending massive amounts of money for office buildings while people work from home? I'm a fan of remote work and would prefer that we crash the Commercial Real Estate market by canceling leases rather that stuffing people back into cubicle farms, but I think the context of trying to kill two birds with one stone (improve building utilization and also identify who is actually doing work and not just fucking off) makes some sense.
As a follow up you can now edit/delete world events by copying them to your timeline.
Extreme fear and looting.
Its much easier to destroy than to build, and this is thoughtless destruction. How can anyone expect thoughtful reconstruction?
So you think Americans honestly think nuclearly destroying Europe will give them peace?
Supabase more popular than MongoDB
Finally someone remembers this quote! He told the GOP voters what was coming and they still gave him the keys to the kingdom. When Medicaid is severely limited, we'll see if they get the message. (for instance, childbirth costs and seniors in nursing homes.)
Synology, thanks I'll take a look
EACopy, Robocopy alternative with a bunch of different features
Of course it does. They changed course several times specifically because of bad press. Like killing the CSAM device scanning, or reinstating Epic’s developer account, or not killing web apps in the EU, or apologising for the crushing ad, or, or, or.

There is even a joke amongst Apple developers who all know that Apple’s claim of “don’t go to the press, it never helps” is a blatant lie as it’s the one thing that works.
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What's the price of solar power at night?
Considering the insane business and government bureaucracy in Italy, I can’t wait for this to happen within the coming centuries.
> time after time it has been shown in average people is way less productive months after moving to remote.

[citation needed]
Grug bad say WFH bad, Grug hate meaningless job, Grug want hide at home, no traffic for Grug
Show HN: Eliminating Vulnerability False Positives Through Code Analysis
Vulnerabilities in 3rd party dependencies are the top vulnerability management problem due to false positives. Decade old SCA tools still dump vulnerabilities by package version matching without looking at code i.e. the source of truth.

Security tooling gets ignored if they don't lead to remediation. This is the problem with security tooling throwing too many false positives.

We added code analysis support in vet, our free and open source supply chain security tool. As part of the first use-case, we implemented the ability to track and collect import usage evidence by analysing AST of supported languages. This helps confirm that a vulnerable library is indeed used in first party application code.
Accidents happen, you cannot eliminate completely the risk, but that is fine as long as you minimize the risk. People died because of wind power [1] but since the event is quite rare we don't ask ourselves "how do we stop wind-power-related disasters".

In the case of Fukishima, only one person died directly because of it. About 2000 more deaths can be related to the nuclear accident, for example because they were displaced and living in worse conditions [2]. Since this is the kind of event that every few decades (we have to go back to Chernobyl for something similar) I would say that it is not a reason for worrying.

For comparison, that is 1/10 of people that died in Japan because of the Tsunami that caused it, and it is less than the number of people that die every year for traffic accidents in Italy, so if I was Italian (wait, I am!) I would be more worried about the road traffic than a nuclear accident.

[1] https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2024/07/two-engineers-h...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident_cas...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_an...
People like to say that Obamas jokes about Trump got him to run. But I wonder if Obama never helped Ukraine keep their democracy if we still would have ours.
Based...
I'm PL based. The law made it impossible to refuse, but the fire law renders chargers unusable unless there is a facility. https://moto.infor.pl/prawo-na-drodze/ciekawostki/6604742,el...
They want to destroy the so called "dark state" by scaring and scarring officials out of their wits to do their biding, "the art of the deal", trimming the budget is the excuse.
> For European reactors that seems to be either Mali/Niger, or Russia. Both not excellent if the goal is geopolitical independence.

Australia, Kazakhstan and Canada are main suppliers.
I mean it sorta gave Russia a reason to attack us in the only way they can. Their super power is corruption.
I don't really see how that makes a difference. A talk with the title "my API demystified" is an equally bad sign.
i’m going to post the quote above again, with more context from another quote, because you’ve avoided quoting the bit which actually demonstrates that this is a big enough reason to assume that enough people were fooled.

> On 27 May, the UK Statistics Authority chair Andrew Dilnot made a stronger statement against Vote Leave, stating that the continued use of the figure was "misleading and undermine[d] trust in official statistics".

misleading is politics speak for “lying with statistics”.

> A study by King's College London and Ipsos MORI, published in October 2018 found that 42 percent of people who had heard of the £350 million claim still believed it was true, whereas 36 percent thought it was false and 22 per cent were unsure.

two years later, after the claim was repeatedly denounced as being misleading and false multiple times, 42% of people surveyed still thought it was true.

that’s a significant representative proportion of the population, given 52% of people voted to leave.

it’s no wonder that 7 years later “brexit remorse” among leave voters is sitting pretty at around 60% or so (cba to source this, i think it was a yougov poll reported in the independent).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_Leave_bus

> bringing it up one-sided is a bit grating.

i find people who lie, and people who defend liars, grating.

we don’t get to pick our reality. we just have to live in it.
How DOGE operates; Elon in his own words [video]
The question that's needed to ask is whether you'd like the language or its ecosystem to guard against these things, or whether you are a decent and disciplined developer.

For example, Go's language guards against unused variables or imports, they are a compiler error. Assigning an `err` variable but not using it is a compiler error. But ignoring the error by assigning it to the reserved underscore variable name is an explicit action by the developer, just like an empty `catch` block in Java/C# or the Rust equivalent.

That is, if you choose to ignore errors, there isn't a language that will stop you. Developers should take responsibility for their own choices, instead of shift blame to the language for making it possible.
I don't care what "best practices" are. Seemingly everyone sticks to these, yet here we are discussing that software quality everywhere throughout the industry has taken a dip.

> Except those technologies are now deprecated and you don't know when they might be removed.

Views and activities and XML layout will never be removed, of that I'm certain. After all, Compose does use views in the end. That's the only way to build UIs that the system itself understands. And, unlike SwiftUI, Compose itself isn't even part of the system, it's a thing you put inside your app.

I don't care about deprecations. Google has discredited itself for me and its abuse of the @Deprecated annotation is one of the reasons. The one thing that's very unfortunate is that all tools unquestionably trust that the person who puts @Deprecated in the code they maintain knows what they're doing, and nothing allows you to selectively un-deprecate specific classes or packages; you can only ignore all deprecations in your class/method/statement.

And, by the way, I also ignore the existence of Kotlin. I still write Java, albeit it's Java 17. The one time I had to deal with Kotlin code (on a hackathon) it felt like I'm coding through molasses.
The crucial importance of education was mentioned in the original post, and "good intention" is implied as an effect of proper education. "Tiranny" in the intented context ("tiranny of the majority") is close to the actual meaning of the term, of "unfair power" (that of the usurper: illegitimate, hence dubious).

But the point is, a proper decision system boosts optimality at most "under inspiration" from the preferences of the voters, but not bound to that. Those voters may not even be a "majority"; there are many implementations (already forms of "ranked preferences") in which the idea of "majority" largely loses its meaning, etc.
https://archive.is/ppH6Z
> It seems like some of the people who don't think our government is functional are determined to make it so.

This has been the playbook for all of my life at least. Probably longer than that.
Triple Buffering, a Debrief
I have several European friends East and West coast, mostly in tech.

They all started working towards packing/selling their house, going to Canada or back to Europe as soon as past November. Their (shared) hesitation first was not whether to move or not, but finding which country would be the easiest to accommodate to.
This is what Trump campaigned on though. This is what he said he'd do. Did people vote for Trump because they thought he was a liar?
> After disabling Apple Intelligence when you do the next mini update to 15.3.1 Apple intelligence is enabled.

This should be criminal. And I believe it might actually be criminal in EU.
The united states of america is being dismantled from the inside
Not sure if he'll care about the specific accident, but he always cares when someone contradicts him...