skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
imo, Apple are actually ahead when it comes to the hardware side of the whole thing. Their vertical integration gives them an edge not many can match, when it comes to running ML models. It's a no-brainer for Apple to reduce the barriers for devs to build really cool native Mac/i{Pad}OS applications and incentivize them to leverage the built-in AI/ML abilities to a greater extent. The iPhone in part took off _because_ of the whole app ecosystem that got built around it. Sure they might take a loss in their services revenue in the short term but they get to be _the_ AI platform for at least the next decade and half - both on-device and server side with their new Apple silicon servers.

It's just that most Apple software seems to suck in some fundamental way right now. I don't know if it's a technical issue (SwiftUI being meh when compared to UIKit for example) or a culture issue or the money coming in insulating management from accountability. Software execution has been lagging behind the excellent hardware execution for almost all of the Tim Cook era. They desperately need someone like Scott Forstall to come in, kick butts and get stuff going again.

They ideally have a couple of years while waiting for Moore's Law to catch up to turn around their software side. Otherwise, it's a real shame that all that great hardware is just being used to run Electron B2B SaaS apps.
Nice effort!

I got twice as much FPS on WASM port https://lrusso.github.io/Quake3/Quake3.htm though.
All mega deletes should be authorised. A human person should type in the word "delete" and then only the action should take place. Not doing this is like the decision is taken by VOID created by complex interacting systems.
Self-correction: "... good enough for language users" --> "good enough for language learners."
Luxury has the same cost of land and utilities.

Costs like 15% more and sells for 30% more. Building economy is a losing proposition.
I agree. Artists wonder why more people don't express themselves with art. Writers wonder why more people don't let it all out with words. Car mechanics wonder why people don't fix their own cars. It's not surprising that tech folk wonder why more people don't engage in tech-adjacent activities. Maintaining an independent web presence is a technical hobby.

I think the web is headed in the wrong direction. But what value does an independent web bring people in a tangible way? Maintaining and growing their digital presence in a multi-modal form is extremely simple on the big platforms. Why write a blog no one will ever read on a website no one remembers to go to when you can state your point for one minute in video and let a BigCorp platform do the work for you?
> Look at books. Look at how little variation there is in presentation

I look at a lot of books. I don't think you've summarized them well here. I suggest you look at more yourself. You're missing a lot of beautiful art.

That said, you're right that minimizing decoration and distraction is itself a treasured kind of expression enabled by independent publishing, set against a world where some six Lead Designers get to say precisely how everybody must read and see things this year.

So I very much agree with your sentiment, but you happen to be doing a great injustice to books on your way to saying it. :)
Let's not forget about Palmer Luckey: https://www.anduril.com/
>Software engineering is one of the ways of playing life in "easy mode" (I moved from academia over a decade ago, and I know the difference).

well I have worked all sorts of physically demanding jobs, digging ditches, building offices, tearing down offices...

So yes Software Engineering is easy - except when it's not. When it's easy it is real easy. When it's not it is significantly worse than most of the time at these other jobs. It is hard to explain the stress that a computer can give you when it is refusing for hours to do what you tell it to, but that stress is a lot worse than the stresses of landscaping in my experience.
We have to have thin glasses or contacts. No one wants to wear a bulky helmet thing. Until that happens it will forever be a hardcore enterprise or niche consumer product
It looks like there's a fair bit of redundancy there https://www.ukpowernetworksservices.co.uk/case-studies/heath...

Sounds weird that one substation going down would close everything.
IPSs constantly inject ads and trackers into plain http.

Maybe less so in the West, but on a permanent basis in the East.
In the now distant past, all manufacturers of electronic components published very extensive datasheets, application notes and user handbooks for all the devices that they were selling.

One could typically learn much more electronics from the application notes or maintenance manuals of the vendors than from university courses.

This included LEDs. For instance Hewlett-Packard published a good handbook for their LEDs, where many useful techniques for designing with LEDs were explained, including what you mention, that LEDs may have higher luminous efficiency at very high currents, so for achieving a given luminous flux you may save energy by operating them with pulsed currents.

The use of multiplexing in the interfaces of multi-digit/multi-character LED displays (e.g for clocks or calculators) not only reduces the number of wires in the interface, but it also improves the energy efficiency, because only one digit/character is powered on, at a much higher current, but for a much shorter duration in comparison with a non-multiplexed display.

During the golden era of electronics documentation, it could be difficult to get the vendor documentation, even if it was usually free, when you were located far away, e.g. in another country.

When the Internet has appeared, for a short time it solved this problem so you could be located at the other end of the world and still access easily the datasheets, application notes and user manuals.

Unfortunately, very soon after that, towards the end of the nineties and much more since 2000, the quality of technical documentation has degraded tremendously, so you now have easy access, but to much less useful information.
In a society (or family) where there is no generational gap and parents and children are aligned, parents can be a good judge for a relationship fit.
What he said amounts to “all modern weapons systems can be disabled at the whim of the United States”. And the reference to “years of partnership” highlights the sudden about-face that is now happening with respect to many of those partnerships.
I'm not familiar with ceiling fan regulations, but regulations for recessed lighting (can lights) in some jurisdiction mandated connectors other than edison screws in new construction as a way to force out incandescent bulbs.

IMHO, pretty unnecessary, as once the PAR30 dimmable LED bulbs got good, I don't think many people would prefer incandescent. OTOH, I think they were pushing compact fluorescent, which I don't think ever got very good.

For new construction now, the LED fixtures can be mounted without a can, because they put out way less heat, and some of them are very thin, so they may not penetrate beyond the thickness of the ceiling, which is neat. But for retrofitting, putting a screw in bulb is nice and easy.
Direct-write lithography has been a thing for a long time such as EBL. It's just SLOW. So it's only really viable for devices that are made in low quantities, simple devices or research.
> They must be suffering from some case of extreme perfectionism or something like that.

Are you serious? Did you miss the headlines around their news and text message summary products?
This is an interesting use case. I can definitely see how a colored cell in a grid can serve as a visual indicator to monitor health of infrastructure. Thanks for sharing this.
Vanilla JS and the default browser capabilities are quite incredible these days. Server-side templating (jinja2, twig etc.) + vanilla js and some library sprinkle (htmx, graphs) will cover 99% of all web use cases and continue working 10 years later faster than most new stuff.

I recently adapted 3 open source dashboards made in react, alpine and vue to just vanilla JS for my use case and saw at least 100x speed increase. Data rows that took 2~ seconds to render were visually instant. Granted, the original dashbboard code lacked some optimizations but the vanilla code I replaced it with didn't really do any magic to begin with — just got rid of the incredible overhead these frameworks introduce by default.
>For example, HTTPS-only in browsers and CA TLS only connections in HTTP/3 protocol libraries. It's near impossible to host a visitable website without getting permission from a third party corporation every 90 days.

This is why cacert.org still has value and is worth trying to preserve, donate, and contribute.
The US would tear itself apart if it attacked Canada any time in the next 50 years minimum. They are in an essentially M.A.D. situation with the US even without nukes because American citizens like Canadians and view them as brothers on top of Canada having tons of European ties and military treaties. Wasting money on nuclear weapons isn't going to put them in any better position than they are already in. The only effective strategy if the US started shit would be to bunker down and go full insurgency against occupation, throw out a bit of good pr/propaganda, and wait for internal US strife to collapse the nation as the US is left completely isolated from the entire world with enemies on all sides and within.
> I don't see anything in the news

The President suddenly tried to seize power, in part by declaring martial law. Unlike some other wannabe dictators in the West, he's going to jail (it looks like). South Korea is, indeed, a democracy because its people make it that way.

You need to read the news more consistently - a hard story to miss. And work on your search engine skills. :)
Insurance companies don't really turn your problems into their problems.

It's easier to think of them turning _risks_ of occasional large losses into a steady constant flow of losses.

Whatever level of verification you pick, an insurance company can give you a quote. If you want to implement a very lax policy (without even a photo of the package on the doorstep), the insurance company will charge you an arm and a leg for coverage.

If you pick a more robust system, the insurance will become cheaper.
Thank you. I am in the U.S. and am threatened by these measures. I'm not a member of the IETF, but I rely on their work heavily, and the solidarity is meaningful.
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If what you desire is a tiny, curated web full of like minded skilled technologists, like it was before Usenet eternal September, that exists today. You work hard to get 20 people to respond. You can do that now.

I’m perplexed by these “the internet is a piece of shit now” arguments. If you want to run your own email server to email other people who run their own email servers, that’s totally doable. Your addressable market is even bigger than it was in 1990. You just have to mentally accept that the size of and types of people will be similar to 1990.
You can't expect the benefits of public web without bearing the costs. Just put your stuff under a auth wall (can even be free) and no one will crawl it.
A good enough bullshitter will easily answer that question.
It would be trivial to keep track the IMEI of the phones and to render them worthless by blacklisting them on the mobile networks.
Why is this not done?

Same applies to any stolen phones btw.
But now every app in those VMs needs to ship a TON of custom stuff: text rendering, accessibility, layout, etc.
You seem to be under the impression that 'those foreigner are stealing our jobs'?

You also seem to be under the impression that workers are interchangeable?
Define "recently". They absolutely wrecked their next-door neighbors in the Six-Day War and that was over half a century ago.
> Also, it's weird that the former lead developer has a VTuber sockpuppet that he pretends is a separate project member

What is the actual proof of that?
Carriers have this ability. They'll do it under certain circumstances. This isn't really one of them.

It's extra work for the carrier and can result in innocent people being denied service so they lean towards not banning IMEIs.

Also it can be spoofed so it isn't a surefire way to ban these devices.
big doubt on that and maybe that's a good thing? Let's be honest, right now most of the web is dominated by low effort spam. Taking money away from view farming would dramatically increase the web quality of the web. Suddently that guy who's really into "key gardening" doing research and publishing detailed results on his website actually has viewers — isn't this good? Especially since website hosting is close to being free these days.
Thank you for maintaining such an interesting, eclectic set of reading materials on the topic. I’ve already skimmed through a few of your suggested readings and I’m sold on your general approach. This is going to be something I keep coming back to over time.
Just an example, read https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-search/ , see how many mentions there are to "better information", "relevant", " high quality". Then see how many mentions there are of "we don't expect it to be real stuff".

> Also are you sure that AI designers intend for their llms to adopt an authorative tone? Isn't that just how humans normally type in the corpus?

If designers wanted it any other way, they would have changed their software. If those who develop the software are not responsible for its behavior, who is? Technology is not neutral. The way AI communicates (e.g., all the humanizing language like "sorry", " you are right" etc.) is their responsibility.

In general, it is painfully obvious that none of the companies publishing LLMs paints a picture of their tools as "they are dream machines". This narrative is completely the opposite of what is needed to gather immense funding, because nobody would otherwise spend hundreds of billions for a dream machine. The point is creating a hype in which LLMs can do humans jobs, and that means them being right - and maybe doing "some" mistakes every now and then.
All you need is to go on openai website and read around. See https://openai.com/index/my-dog-the-math-tutor/ or https://openai.com/chatgpt/education/ just as a start.
Who would want a "research assistant" that is a "dream machine"? Which engineering department would use something "not expected to say real stuff" to assist in designing?
OK, but if the delivery is covered, with a "photo on the doorstep" level of proof, and the recipient claims they did not receive it, do they (insurance) pay for the loss or is it going to be an argument?
A credible source said that DHS was using AI software to identify immigrants to arrest, and may have been responsible for the incorrect charges/warrant for the Columbia student leader who is a permanent resident (they thought he was on a student visa, iirc).
Take some responsibility for your own health. You're not chained to your desk; get up and walk around occasionally. Go for a run or hit a quick gym session during your lunch break.

I started having wrist pain years ago and switched to an ergonomic split keyboard years ago which completely fixed that problem. Little laptop keyboard are terrible for any extensive typing.
> Overall, it was a complex, multi-faceted crime ring.

Looks like a not-so complex, multi-faceted LLM was used to help write this article :)
It's fun cause (sweetened) almond milk was considered a delicacy in Italy, and had been supplanted with shitty tasting almond milk in recent years, much like almond-tasting almonds have been replaced with tasteless ones.

I can't tell if it's a change in cultivar or transcontinental transport, but something bad happened with almonds in Europe.
So this seems to switch between two images (one with mouth open and one with mouth closed) depending on the microphone volume. That's pretty primitive since most VTubing apps attempt to do some kind of lip sync or model the lip movement in some way.
You have to admit that even though some parts of the LED bike lights might be lacking, they are still pretty awesome compared to what was available when incadescent lights were the only option.
Probably released and chummed for dramatic effect, or they thought it was their ride off this rock.
>Twenty years ago, the (illicit) norm was to digitize your own physical media

No it wasn't. It was the norm among an ingroup of technically savy young people who, on HN, always confuse themselves with the average user at the time. A normal guy two decades ago was as the other commenter above points out, accessing the internet through a bunch of apps provided by their ISP (it's where the name comes from) a sort of vertically integrated company town, likely completely reliant on proprietary software that was so monopolistic, like IE, it sucked completely. When was browser choice better, then or now?

If you're an average user, not an average hacker in 2025 you have significantly more ways to avoid "big corpo" than you did back then. You weren't on IRC as a normie in 2005, you were on AIM and ICQ, also AOL owned of course. The norm, as in for a normal person, was to engage with the web and the world of computing to two, maybe three mega-companies, they weren't torrenting, ripping and re-encoding media.
No commercialized LLM product released so far would meet Steve Jobs' standard for a high-profile Apple product, and while that standard is clearly much more lax now, there still is one and still higher than what people accept from OpenAI et al. I wouldn't call that perfectionism, just a struggling brand standard that can't afford to lose even more face.

I think many inside and outside Apple hoped that the ways that they scoped their features in the Apple Intelligence announcement would help them pull off something duly reliable and practical, but it's not that surprising that even those ambitions might have bought too deeply into the hype.
Heathrow closed all day after nearby fire causes power outage
I believe that was deprecated for reasons I don't understand, but admittedly, I'm too lazy to check since I'm on my phone.
A GB emulator is definitely not a weekend project if your goal is any kind of accuracy. And even if it was, that doesn't devalue the project or effort that went into it.
I'm a back-end dev, I've avoided being paid to do any front-end work (and/or my bosses have avoided paying me to do any front-end work? hahaha) for getting on a decade now. So no doubt front-end devs will cringe at what I'm about to say (not that I care!). But for the occasional personal front-end stuff that I still do, my "dependency management" is just "copy-paste versioned CDN script tags / CSS link-rel tags into my index.html file". Which is equivalent to (but better than) old-skool copy-pasting into a "vendor" directory" (which of course I also did, back in the day). And my "front-end build system" is just "write vanilla javascript in .js files and include it un-minified un-typescripted un-anything via script tags". I've got better things to do in my spare time, than deal with npm / gulp / yarn / whatever they've invented this week.
I would say it's more like the internal Xerox machines that were built in the mid-1970s at PARC. Most people have no idea how to work with those machines. By the time the 128K Mac came out, people understood what a GUI interface was and knew how to use them - it's just that the Mac in particular was limited by it's hardware.
It's clearly not. The human user is not requesting the resouce. The web browser is.

Where do we stop here? at "please drink a verification can and maintain eye contact at all times"?
<2% of input calories become beef calories. <4% of input protein becomes beef protein. Animal food products require an eye-watering amount more land than plant food products, even milk.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

It is always more efficient to grow and eat plant protein directly like tofu. And even if it were true that you absorb fewer nutrients from something like tofu, then aren't you lucky, you get to eat more food.
>economically viable

IIRC EUV development picked plasma over synchrotron because plasma projected to be cheaper, even though technically synchrotron had more benefits. Queue many, many years of solving for technical challenges for LPP and now commercialized EUV machines cost 200m, 400m for next high NA. Which is about the cost of multiple small or single medium size synchrotron facility. It's amazing plasma EUV works, but it's also a failure in the sense that it is FAR less economical than originally envisioned, which explains why particle accelerator route is still being worked on.
A lot of good lessons to be learned from KNO3. An early lesson was not to melt it and incorporate fuel on a kitchen stove. Next lesson was how to build a outdoor brick stove. Then we learned a couple pounds would fill up several square blocks with dense smoke and burn a hole through blacktop.

Not sure how we made it through our youth without learning what the inside of a jail cell looked like, but I suppose things were different before 9/11.
Governments already provide "free income" in the form of free or subsidized services.

Say you have a fire-department even though you personally might not be paying anything for it because you are so poor that you don't pay any taxes. You have police protecting you and the army. You have free primary school at least.

So I think the question is, would it help for the government to provide more, or less, or the same amount of free services as it does currently?

Would it "increase prices" if healthcare was free? Not necessarily I think. At least not the price of healthcare. Government would be in a much better position to negotiate drug-prices with pharmaceutical companies, than individuals are.
The baffling part of Apple’s AI strategy - they continue to insist on using the “Siri” brand. That brand is damaged beyond repair and has been for many years, maybe since it was first launched 10+ years ago. The recent mistakes of over promising and under delivering have further eroded the brand to near zero. For a company that comes up with ridiculous branding of small features (Retina Display, Force Touch, Dynamic Island) the choice to keep “Siri” and its negative connotations is un-Apple like.
Yes, I think there was a few things going on with covid, most of all the fact that shipping got halted for a year and we're still unwinding the damage from that (although, mostly smooth now).
> Are you serious? Did you miss the headlines around their news and text message summary products?

Actually, riddle me this: Do you really think they would just ignore how that went?
The problem is that human beings are far more likely to know what they don't know. And we build a lot of our trusting work environments around that feature. An LLM cannot know what it doesn't know by definition.
Western Ignorance: Failure to See China Beyond the Party
America need more unions period.
Wait, the migrating birds need the wetlands that the rice pairs imitate. It's not as bad as you think. The whole central valley was wetlands, this is better than draining all of it for alfalfa or almonds.
They've started moving away from Siri with the latest iOS and branded most of it "Apple Intelligence".
> I wouldn't call that perfectionism, just a struggling brand standard that can't afford to lose even more face.

It's very well-known that Apple is perfectionistic. I'm not meaning to say that perfectionism is a negative quality or a bad thing, just that it takes a while.
At my company we make a niche software used by companies globally. Our plan was to arrange a conference in the US for our clients in North/Cental America. Considering the state of the US, we will probably cancel it, as we don't expect our Mexican and Canadian clients to feel comfortable at all. Neither do we at the head office in Europe.
We will instead host it in Europe most likely.
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Fear of AI Winter probably
You could host it in Mexico or Canada, they're pretty nice!