skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's always been a lot of room for them to optimise performance on macOS to a level that they do iOS, but modern Apple basically wants macOS to go away and sees it as more of an annoyance, so they don't spend any time tuning it. Then the elephant in the room is SwiftUI itself, there's a performance cliff there, wherein if you've optimised everything else, you might just hit the brick wall that's the layout engine with no recourse or ability to even peak under the hood. We're at a point now where building a fully native macOS app, with the first-party toolchain, will give you far worse performance (in terms of responsiveness not resource usage) than something like Electron. I have a suspicion teams inside of Apple are also running up against these issues as they start to actually adopt the framework.
This seems quite reasonable on the surface but it neglects the evidence of sheer incompetence from the first Trump term.

There's no 5d chess here. There's no scenario where ceding Poland and Ukraine to Russian authoritarians leads to a more free world and a victory over Chinese aithoritarianism. There's just rampant and opportunitistic corruption.

The US is being carved up from the inside and nothing about this process will help the impending conflict against China.

The sooner we all recognize this like the Europeans seem to be doing is the sooner we can coordinate to destroy authoritarians wherever they may call home.
Not sure what the other guy uses, but I use this Anker with my LG OLED to get RGB 4k@120 HDR with my M1 MacBook Pro:

https://www.anker.com/products/a8317?variant=42329259475094&...
I've put that in the title above, as it seems less baity and more neutral. Thanks!

(This is in keeping with the site guidelines - "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" -https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
Show HN: I vibe coded a free screen studio alternative that runs in the browser
The Apple experience seems very luck based. Sometimes it goes great but if you hit the perfect storm of issues you're just totally out of luck

I also do agree that their modern software is shockingly bad, and it is strange because, as others note, what they offer to third parties is generally quite good so third party applications are often quite amazing. It seems like Apple are unable to develop for themselves
Previously I have been using JSON. However there are multiple structures with relations between them so... this seems to be a database.

Extracting data from it also becomes really really easy with selects. Otherwise I would have to implement, or reuse some algorithms to filter JSON data, etc.
The same people will vote for radical conservatives after inflation and prices rises again. And they won't vote for democrats no matter well democrats run the economy.

It is not inflation. Inflation is something they latch on when convenient.
I can recommend Zotero. You also don’t have to pay for storage if you have a server/device that is webdav capable. I connected it to my Synology nas and the setup was trivial.
I agree - more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251574
Amazing to see Russia win the Cold War—one we didn’t even know we were in. Their propaganda network is so strong that it took 3 weeks to go from “Russia is the enemy” to “eh, we have other problems” amongst the folks who…subscribe accordingly. Absolute masterclass in projecting power in the digital age.
I will never buy an EV, not because of its powertrain but because there is no way to avoid their spyware.

Granted, the same goes for modern gas cars, which is also why I stick to secondhand but premium pre-infotainment cars
Another absolutely horrific act of sabotage making the whole world worse for no particular reason.
Do people consider it hurtful, or was it coopted as a slur by people like Musk who just want to erase trans people?
Agree. I think they have best ratio between User and Developer friendlyness.
Seems to me the US has been trying to make Taiwan redundant for years, that, along with the most recent events, makes the writing on the wall clear. I think Taiwan will blink first. To me, the hate that China gets from the US elite is just because China is a success story, which puts American hegemony in doubt.
Pardon my ignorance , how is it different from MCP servers and having a supervisor agent selecting and executing the right MCP tool
The reasons are pretty obvious IMO:

1. Control. It's pretty awkward if your main product depends on an open source community who might say "no" (or "fuck off you worthless imbecile") to half the things you want. You'll end up with a fork (they did!) which has serious downsides.

2. Stable driver ABI.

3. Modern security design. A microkernel, and Rust is used extensively.
The UK (and particularly England) is the among the most centralised countries in Europe. The overwhelming amount of local government funding comes from central government, with local taxation being a small fraction. This means there's very little incentive for local governments to approve development, because they don't see the financial benefits but do have to fund local services, and they're the ones that get blamed by NIMBYs.
We have a toaster with a built in FM radio. That thing is pushing 15 years now. Obviously adding an FM radio to a toaster is idiotic and we don't use that feature, but the toaster part just works. It was a Christmas present from my wife's employer, so I can't imagine it being all that expensive.

But I see your point, we've had multiple other toasters, some toasted themselves to death by melting their own plastic casing.

The saddest failure was a Krupp coffee maker, that thing was amazing, made the best coffee. Sadly I melted the power cord on a stove top. This was before I had a proper set of tools, so I gave up trying to remove the "security" screws, that would have let me open it and replace the cord.
LOL. Do you think a few thousand soldiers can beat a country's military?

And what makes you think EU countries won't kick out US soldiers until then?
> As soon as China catches a whiff of the program, it’s an instant invasion

This is correct and why any such project would need to be intensely covert and/or externally facilitated.

> doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) rests on both parties being left in guaranteed ruins

You don’t need MAD. Tehran isn’t aiming for MAD with America, and neither is Pyongyang. The threat of even a tactical retaliation has, to date, been sufficient to keep great powers at bay.

Oung is speaking the language of deterrence and non-proliferation; we are past that, unfortunately [1].

[1] https://mondediplo.com/2022/04/03nuclear
The phone was a domestic politics issue.

Actual Russian assets exist, people like Jackson Hinkle and Tim Pool. Trump generally doesn't fit the mold.
I don't use copilot but Claude integrated in Spacemacs through gptel.

On difficult things (new conceprs I don't already know): -100% efficiency. I just end up reading the manual/code and figure out things by myself.

On day to day things: +20% efficiency, mainly because it's a faster search/reminder.

On simple things (like boilerplate): +300% efficiency. It eliminates the tedious, boring bits for me so I have more time and brainpower to focus on the first category.

How I reached these numbers? gut feeling.

How I get consistent results? I add project files as context and then write as detailed prompt as I possibly and reasonably can (this does take time). Rubbish in => rubbish out, so it's important to prompt well. I've found out that I need multiple successive prompts to get good results with refinments, rewriting in place always gave me poor results.

Overall, it's a boost but since nowadays I tend to spend my time in the first category mainly, I don't end up getting that much out of it. The 10% people claim seems right to me.

I guess I'm more motivated to do the boring bits as I'm not the one actually doing them, just reviewing, and they fly by faster, but how do you even quantify that? enjoyment points?
I always thought this was due to Bluetooth issues or me mistyping the password. Thanks for confirming that this was not the case.
It really depends. If you have a good, small enough team, and a clear design, with a well defined and limited scope, it shouldn't take that long.

If your team is too large, and especially if you don't know what the use case is, it can take a very long time. You asked for general purpose and fully capable, so you're probably in this case, but I think the desired use cases for Fuchsia could be scoped to way less than general purpose and fully capable: a ChromeOS replacement needs only to run Chrome (which isn't easy, but...), and an Android replacement needs only to run Android apps (again, not easy), and the embedded devices only run applications authored by Google with probably a much smaller scope.

But it also depends on what 'from scratch' means. Will you lean on existing development tools, hosted on an existing OS? Will you borrow libraries where the scope and license are appropriate? Are you going to build your own bootloader or use an existing one?
"China can currently be easily blockaded"

Back in the day we used to add [citation needed] to statements like that.

Sure, if anyone tried to blockade continental China (coastline from Vietnam to Korea!), controlling Taiwan would be helpful, but chances are it would not really make all that much of a difference. It's not exactly Gibraltar or the Bosporus.
I'm testing out Wiim in a couple rooms as a replacement for Sonos and the initial results have been positive, though I haven't been using them long. So far my biggest complaints are that every model in their lineup has a different protocol compatibility list and that the Spotify integration isn't as well-polished.
Who? I don’t know any cryptographers that think this anymore.
People don’t want to admit it.
The illustration in the article is extremely appropriate.

It's quite strange why Americans tolerate that an unelected, and even unappointed foreigner would destroy their country piece by piece. Isn't that exactly what the much-touted second amendment was designed to prevent?

Edit: YCombinator "AI Startup School" [0] used to present the list of speakers, and Musk was the first one on that list. Now there's no list anymore. It would be interesting to know if it means he's not coming, or if YC isn't comfortable with publishing their choices.

[0] https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus

Original text on that page was: YC is throwing our first-ever AI startup school in San Francisco on June 16 and 17th.\n\nAI Startup School will gather 2000 of the top CS seniors, masters, and PhD candidates in AI to hear from speakers including Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Andrej Karpathy, Andrew Ng and many more
The US and the EU globalists have outsourced nearly all manufacturing to the east. Waging war on China is basically shooting yourself.

As if you needed more proof, covid hickup disruption of the supply chains were an ample demonstration.

The US gets this, and has now turned towards being less dependant. The EU still doesn't understand, or is willfully blind as an acknowledgement would mean giving up some fantasies they have.

Since the 70's the US' main export has been printed money, 'IP' and war. The first two are worthless if not backed by the threat of the third. Weapons is about the only thing dollars can buy if oil can be traded in other currencies.
BRICS is rapidly becoming a contender for a trade platform that they failed to stop.

You can't wage war in the manufacturer you rely on.

This means drastic changes in US policy are needed. This means returning to self sufficiency. This will take time even when you try to speedrun it.
Was it already happening when platforms started supporting stuff like Iceberg? But is kinda nice to see things like Snowflake have definitely their place on the ecosystem but too often at margins especially with huge workloads Snowflake creates more issues than solves them
This article is plain wrong. It ignores that the largest amount of housing ever built in Britain was council housing post war through to Thatcher.
If anything, this move might motivate China to attack Taiwan ASAP.

They already lost access to Taiwanese chips, why would they let US to build capacity?
The UK tried a mildly libertarian government in 2022. The experiment lasted 50 days.
In practice surprisingly similar to switching between apps and tabs on modern ios + mobile Safari.
The answer to that is relatively easy, WinUI 3.0 being shoved into Windows, even though UWP has failed to get adoption, after so many reboots even those of us that were deep into it got pissed off and moved elsewhere, leaving the Windows team as the only group of folks still trying to push it.

Go have a tour on Github for the endless collection of issues, some of them 5 years old, when Project Reunion was announced.
If you want to battle e-waste, buy a used toaster.
Their posturing during peacetime does not translate into showing up during wartime.

In fact we have already seen how they cosy up to dictators during wartime. The USA spent decades and decades backing military coups and assassinating democratically elected leaders all over the world under the guise of fighting the Cold War only to suddenly do a U-turn and pander to Putin. Russia has won the Cold War without direct military confrontation with the US.

We have also seen how Trump's first administration betrayed the Afghan government by negotiating directly with the Taliban and locking the Afghan government out of the process. He's doing the same now with regards to the war in Ukraine.

If you know any Taiwanese people, ask them whether the removal of "we don't recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation" brings them any comfort in light of how the Trump administration is treating Zelensky and America's NATO allies. Ask them what they think of Trump's expansionist rhetoric about annexing Canada, one of America's most steadfast allies with centuries of friendship.

Talk is cheap, and Taiwan as well as America's other Pacific allies are beginning to see through it.
> So what can we do to prepare?

EMP is what my ignorance in electronics suggests. But to be fair, people like you and me have no recourse against drone technology.
I think the above comments are because JIT gets so much positive press, someone wandering in from outside could be mistaken for thinking that JIT isn't coming 2nd in a two-man race with AOT.

I've been around long enough to hear that Java and JIT are gonna overtake C++ any day now.

The title on this article doesn't help.
PFAS and microplastics are not good, and likely bad.

But the sheer quantity that would be required to actually kill livestock in anything resembling a clear and causative timeframe is mind boggling.

Like 10% by weight or something, likely, if not more.

That seems either really unlikely to be true, or such gross malfeasance that it’s gonna be hell to pay.

pulls out popcorn
OPEC just announced an increase. MBS wants to hurt US shale so when trump drills more they push the price down.
I know of at least one fatality in my acquaintance circle. "A drunkard cracks his skull when falling from a Segway onto hard pavement in a tourist zone" isn't the kind of story that makes international news, unlike Heselden's demise.
The metal slide was exciting. Pair it with sand and cardboard and you flew.

Japan still does the roller slide for the same effect.
So given the choice you still choose CarPlay.
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I really wish this trend of prompting gen AI models with text would stop. It's really meaningless. Musicians need gen AI they can prompt with a melody on their keyboard. Or a bit of whistling into the microphone. Or a beat they can tap on the table. That is what allows humans to unleash their creativity. Not AI generating random bits that fit a distribution of training data. English language is not the right input for anything except for information retrieval tasks.
It also pisses me off, but I am not paying for Apple prices on personal devices, and since Slackware 2.0 back in 1995, that there is always something that makes me waste weekends on GNU/Linux, so Windows it is.
Reminds me of Ferrari sparkling wine, for a few years they were the only Ferrari’s on the podium.
Why Hasn't Hacker News Implemented TOTP for 2FA Yet?
Hey HN,

Been thinking about account security and noticed that Hacker News still doesn't offer any form of 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication).
Given the tech-savvy community here, it seems surprising that we don't have this extra layer of security.

TOTP (Time-based One-Time Password) would be a great option to start with, considering its balance of security and convenience.

So, I'm curious:

* What's the hold-up with implementing 2FA, specifically TOTP? Any technical hurdles or other considerations?
* How important is 2FA to the HN community?

Seems like a no-brainer to add 2FA and beef up our account security. Thoughts?
Taiwan is composed of the refugee losers of the Chinese civil war. That gives them zero legitimacy to continue as anything but a breakaway state occupying a formerly Chinese province.
Yes, not saying this is bad at all, just kind of funny. When you think about it it makes sense though. Why wouldn't want someone have a possibility to distribute an efficient engine.
I apologize profusely for this: made this account to contact you. The Apple website has locked me out of my old account and isn't letting me make a new one. Can I please pass on my resume to you directly? Thank you.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I have ADHD and it's late enough my medication has wore off. You may know this already, but ADHD is not just a lack of attention. A common symptom is getting hyper-focused on things I shouldn't. For me that is usually just compulsively editing texts, but I guess it's also writing manifestos.
Near as we can tell, the levels of PFAS (depending on the compound!) or microplastics to actually be causitively fatal to a farm animal - especially on the timescales of their typical lifespan - would be mind boggling. Like drinking-from-the-outlet-of—a-teflon-factory likely wouldn’t even do it.

The concern everyone has been having is that these compounds may be (evidence at current known exposure levels still iffy!) causing long term cancer risk increases or interfering with hormones.

That is not even in the same ballpark of ‘dies in 3-5 years’.
macOS really wants to do different things for TVs vs monitors, so if it decides your monitor is a TV for whatever reason, it’ll probably prefer YCbCr and also not offer any HiDPI modes except exactly 2x

2560x1440 is a strong indicator of a monitor, but 4k over HDMI tends to get detected as a TV
I do think it matters that people default to male. I wouldn’t want people to keep calling me “she” because I happen to be in a woman-dominated field. I understand why one would find this grating.
You're trying to sell this as the USA dividing and conquering Russia and China against each other.

But it looks much more like Russia dividing and conquering the USA from the rest of the democratic, human rights supporting West.
Is this always safe to do? I think I broke my PC once by killing some important system tasks
iTunes was such a piece of garbage. It would literally get stuck in a login loop whenever you tried to open it and it was pretty unintuitive design. Apple Music is not perfect but 100x better than iTunes. However, I never bought Macs for Music. It has always just been the most ideal development machine.
This seems like the natural progression of agile and promoting frequent releases - more shallow features and bugs, less optimisation
The main problem is that you may not want the state to know how many porn sites you're accessing.

That's where you'd want an intermediary: you log in on porn site A => redirects to some intermediary which only needs to check your age => login from the state, get age, send user with verified token to porn site.

Porn site only knows your login and the fact you are an adult.

Intermediary knows someone needed to validate their age.

State knows this random no porn site wanted to check some claims about you.
Yeap, EVs are great when you can charge at home and your journeys are all short enough to return home each night to recharge.

This is what I do. Love it. Never ever going back to ICE.

Those very few times I have to make longer journeys and need to charge? Have found a few fast chargers on routes I take that I try and use, but its majorly inconvenient and stressful compared to ICE. A big downside.

So great for being our personal car for local journeys. Bad for long journeys.
- google and stackoverflow are definitelly gone on the long run. Prototyping of new tools become so much faster. Building my personal knowledge base went down a lot because models are quite good but my knowledge base still contains the lessons learned the hard way. Doing week reviews using digital diary instead of handwritten diary also saved lots of time.
> why couldn't I just regain control from the AppleID that had been logged in for years from the phone?

Maybe Apple is doing this in an automated way to prevent people using several accounts for storage.

On Google Drive, if you run out of space, you can create a new account, and switch when needed.
Or, perhaps, a bot?
Capturing the Invisible: Boom Supersonic and NASA Document Sonic Breakthrough
Europe can't help Taiwan. The US won't.
It literally was scripted already in the Project 2025[0]:

They said exactly what was going to happen, all pre-planned, and anyone is surprised that it is happening?

To be clear - FUCK Project 2025 and especially FUCK anyone messing with NOAA/NWS.

And if you think I'm exaggerating:

"Focus the NWS on Commercial Operations. Each day, Americans rely on weather forecasts and warnings provided by local radio stations and colleges that are produced not by the NWS, but by private companies such as AccuWeather. Studies have found that the forecasts and warnings provided by the private companies are more reliable than those provided by the NWS."

[0] https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA...

"Break Up NOAA"
> Not AI generating random bits that fit a distribution of training data

How is that specific to text prompting? If you tap your fingers to a model and it generates a song from your tapping, it's still just fitting the training data as you say.
Personally I mostly see it used in anger, so I wouldn't use it, unless doing a biology report.

It also has the weird problem that you mostly see it in a "do you identify as cis", which I at least don't... I am cis, but that's not question. This leads to some really weird situation where you have teams of larger middle age straight, and cis, men, but you have one or two that answer that they don't identify as such.

This is very much off topic, but I'd personally I'd prefer that we just stop labeling people. Just use their name, it's fine, you don't need to know or even understand the gender of the person who makes a repairable flatpack toaster. It's an cool project regardless of who made it.
Wondering if the unacknowledged agenda Musk is acting on is to cut off all data that informs us of the trajectory of climate change?
Chinese companies seem to not have much trouble getting a hold of advanced chips, despite the embargo. There is also very elastic demand for less advanced chips despite China's efforts towards autonomy.
Because that's what the article claimed?
Well, there are talks about a mineral deal with Russia, others also mention gas and oil. Who knows, maybe it can grow into an all encompassing trade deal. Very good for America. The best.
Russia is close to becoming a Chinese client state. I don’t think Trump can stop this.