skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, the nostalgia for a 15-year-old OS release, which absolutely was not great out of gate, is strange.

My recommendation for people who don't absolutely need the latest features: Upgrade to the previous version of macOS when the new version is released. Sequoia is incredibly reliable 7 (soon to be 8) updates in.
Ignoring African immigrants, mixed race, black Latinos, etc.
Most word processing applications auto-substitute EM dashes as appropriate - some do it for two consecutive hyphens, iirc. I don't know if they substitute EN dashes automatically ... I don't know if there's a logic for that without understanding the text.
The difference is that public broadcasters like NHK, BBC etc are usually set up to be nominally independent from the government, usually through a license fee enforced separate from taxes.
> I'm fully expecting this sort of thing to be mandatory for all vehicles at some point in the not too distant future.

I wouldn't expect it, and not because the population will cry about their freedoms being infringed, but rather, I expect police departments to fight against their potential revenue stream from speeding tickets.
Quick question, what do you mean by new pylance in cursor?

It's basically VSCode - I just ported all extensions in Cursor settings, it installed existing VSCode extensions including Pylance and it just works...
I agree, thanks for underlying that point. I did not intend to write an ad for JLCPCB, but honestly I kinda did. I feel like it's deserved praise because the service is really great. Low volume custom PCBs with assembly service and 5 axis CNC with a minimum order quantity of 1 is game changer for prototyping. Combined with a software first approach to design with tools like build123d, the flexibility of 3D printing and 5 axis CNC, and the addictiveness of the high dopamine feedback loop of software dev starts to bleed over to hardware dev. Shipping delay is the last hurdle.

About the lenses, I did consider injection molding during design, and one supplier even quoted me for $20,000. So yeah, very glad for JLC!
Someone should parse HN api and figure out total dash usage and see if there is a spike in recent times aha

I write poems a fair bit and use em dash a lot. (maybe too much and incorrectly)
The platform teams at Apple don't really work that way. My (limited) understanding is that they share a fair amount of core code, but each went their own way for a while and have recently started getting nudged back together from a UI perspective -- unfortunately, the iOS style guide seems to have won, and many decades of desktop UX is being thrown out with the bath water.
That’s true for any hourly paid job. Employers can choose to fire those who don’t work efficiently enough. What they can’t do is not pay people for hours worked —and with tech it’s easy for them to tell how long you are logged in for, to avoid them underpaying you.
> information like low-income status, a sibling with alpha-thalassemia, or the use of herbal remedies

Heck, even the ethnic-clues in a patient's name alone [0] are deeply problematic:

> Asking ChatGPT-4 for advice on how much one should pay for a used bicycle being sold by someone named Jamal Washington, for example, will yield a different—far lower—dollar amount than the same request using a seller’s name, like Logan Becker, that would widely be seen as belonging to a white man.

This extends to other things, like what the LLM's fictional character will respond-with when it is asked about who deserves sentences for crimes.

[0] https://hai.stanford.edu/news/why-large-language-models-chat...
These warranties typically only cover issues due to manufacturing. If your window fails decades later they'll just say it wasn't due for manufacturing.
Discussion (109 points, 1 day ago, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485716
Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life
Beyond Flaky Tests – Bringing Controlled Randomness to Vitest
'Gaming laptops' with more powerful GPUs are generally awful, though. Even ignoring the state of Win11.

Yes, they can theoretically perform better, but only when plugged into mains power, and creating so much heat and fan noise that the experience really isn't good.

Don't think there's anything out there that will outperform the GPU of an M-series Mac without consuming way more power and producing problematic levels of heat+noise.
US Space Force Selects Rocket Lab Neutron Rocket as Part of $5.6B Contract
I've been saying the same thing, though in less detail. AI is so dr8ven by hype at the moment, that it's unavoidable that it's going to collapse at some point. I'm not saying tue current crop of AI is useless; there are plenty of useful applications, but it's clear lots of people expect more from it than it's capable of, and everybody is investing in it just because everybody else is.

But even if it does work, you still need to doublecheck everything it does.

Anyway, my RPG group is going to try roleplaying with AI generated content (not yet as GM). We'll see how it goes.
If we have a Kurzweil-style intelligence explosion, the next 200 years might actually be significant even to much older civilizations.

If there's "no stealth in space" then a dark forest is impossible anyway. If a dark forest is possible, then it's possible for humans to go dark as well.

Generally, how much stealth is possible depends on how far away the adversary is. Usually people are talking about interplanetary distances when they say that, rather than interstellar.
> Most of the other examples in the article also apply, but to be honest I've been using GNOME in parallel for years now and I consider it to be my "forever desktop" if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon (or, most likely, if I want something that is _just a computer_).

I'm there as well. I've been really enjoying desktop Linux lately, but I can't go back to a non-Apple laptop at this point. There's just nothing else on the market that comes close, they all make some tradeoff I'm not willing to make - either screen, speakers, keyboard, heat/battery life/fan noise, touchpad, etc. Apple is the only one that has the entire package.

There's Asahi, but no thunderbolt yet and I'm not sure the future of that project with the lead burning out and quitting. I just want an Apple Silicon-esque laptop, no trade offs on components, that runs Linux, and there's no OEM out there that's offering that experience.

So, until that happens I'm staying on mac, and even with declining quality, it's not all that bad compared to the alternatives yet. I've learned to mostly work around/ignore the odd bugs.
Why not a double hyphen, which has the same result?
A bit late reply.

Memory model strength has nothing to do with tearing. Total store order and total load order does not matter in any possible way.

There's no tearing, because all memory operations are wider than 64-bits. Unless someone purposefully performs two 32-bit operations on a single 64-bit value.
Now I do:P (Honestly, a good idea, and a good excuse to get my blog working again even if it is clunky.)

https://brianecole.com/blog/2025-03-27_bootc-initial.html

https://brianecole.com/blog/2025-03-27_bootc-movingarch.html

Although the more useful thing will be chiming in on github issues. I'll do that next.
> Also, I vaguely remember there being a way to _order_ results, not just disable them.

Good memory! Apple removed this feature in El Capitan.
> I think what would be better is an LTS release. Historically, you get a new Mac and you usually only get 5-6 years before they drop your model from the latest release

In fairness, Apple to do tend to continue to release critical security patches for older versions.

I suspect that it will be AI features that push Apple into deprecating older hardware. But I also hope that the M series hardware will be supported a bit longer than the intel hardware was. Time will tell.
Empowering to do what? If NASA spends all day making comics then will attract people that like making media about rockets and not rockets themselves.

If NASA makes cool rockets then they will attract people that naturally align with their mission of making cool rockets.

If you do [THING] get good at doing [THING] and you will attract people that also want to do [THING].
One thing that has been slowly creeping in is a little bit of a Microsoft-like "you will use our feature", like launching apple music every time I hit headphone controls, or nagging me to turn on reactions every time I start a video call. In some ways that's more annoying than the outright bugs, as they could choose not to be that way and market themselves as not being that way.
Looks interesting. Have you used this for complex dashboards before? How’s the latency?
My group makes a custom executable to reflash a hardware device we produce. We build it for Linux and Darwin.

Trying to get the program to work with our Mac users has become harder and harder. These are all internal developers.

Enabling developer mode and allowing Terminal execution isn't enough. Disabling the quarantine bit works - sometimes - but now we're getting automated nastygrams from corporate IT threatening to kick the laptops off the network. I'm exhausted. The emergency workaround, which I tell nobody about, is way less secure than if they just let us run our own software on our own computer.
Are there any high-resolution photos of these panels in real spaces? I can only find renders.
We don’t replace the official form — we work with it as-is. What we do is take a version of that form, identify the dynamic fields, and generate a template that can be reused while keeping the exact format. This makes it easier to generate pre-filled forms without touching the official layout.

It also makes it easy to apply professional edits to the template later on, whenever needed.
I agree. It seems ridiculous that an app like Messages is considered so much part of the OS given what it does. I don’t use it, I don’t care about it, but it seems like it could be a regular app that updates independently of the OS, along with Maps, Notes, and so on. So many macOS “upgrades” nowadays seem to be Apple tinkering with such apps rather than the actual OS experience.
by default, make the thing return a 400 Invalid Request for any request that did not fit exactly what you are expecting. That at least lets you focus on ensuring the data that you are expecting is sane/valid/safe. Undocumented features will eventually bite you, and are loaded footguns, especially if your QA team doesn't know about the undocumented features.
This is the whole point of the article. Did you read it? Does the whole thing fail your sniff test?

Their results seem solid, and clear, to me.
There are ways of getting into those courses without going through the Mature Age Scheme. Mature age students just don't get preferential treatment.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but i want more Gatekeeper, not less - help me stay safer. Or is it a security theatre? Malware producers can sign things just fine?
Agree. Apple needs to clean up shop - MacOS has been egregiously worsening year over year. Some features like Universal Control and Continuity Camera are legitimately awesome, but they do not make up for the INSANELY slow System Settings app that gets harder to navigate with each release and which has >2s wait times for the right pane to respond to a change in the left pane. Steve Jobs would have fired the person responsible for that overhaul three years ago, it's embarrassing. Messages too needs a ground-up rewrite. Getting more elaborate emoji tapbacks doesn't make up for fundamental instability and poor syncing behavior. C'mon!
I suspect the opposite is only true if you haven't taken the time to learn how to productively use LLMs for coding.

(I've written a fair bit about this: https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming/ and https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/ and 80+ examples of tools I've built mostly with LLMs on https://tools.simonwillison.net/colophon )
Statutory health insurance data in Germany will be accessible for research
No, I leave that to the highly amusing people like you.
I have a vaguely related, kind of interesting story related to search indexes, but on windows instead of mac.

My C drive was was super full for some reason I couldn't understand, and Explorer couldn't tell me where the data was. There was about 100GB just unaccounted for.

I don't even use the search index.
So much this. Two weeks ago I learned that en dashes are used for numbers, but I thought they are what em dashes are for. Em dashes for me are too long and ugly.
The hashes are completely anonymized and not that intrusive. I'd rather they do it that way and have a global view of possible malware attacks than the complete free-for-all that other platforms "enjoy".

But here's my (unpopular) take as a GNOME user and using Fedora immutable distros + flatpaks -- I suspect Linux is going to go in a broadly similar direction. Maybe not soon (even flatpaks aren't universally acclaimed), but sometime.
Republicans early in this admin actually bitched in congress that we were "wasting" money on woman crash test dummies.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6325465806112
A green screen might be another option. I don't know anyone who is using them, so I can't really comment on them.

Here's my setup.

https://x.com/__mharrison__/status/1901829114417602569/photo...

Teleprompter is a GlideGear.
If that is a significant part of the problem, then moving WWDC from an in-person keynote attended mostly by nerds and glanced at by the media to an overproduced movie geared at the media and ordinary consumers first probably didn't help. They could've gone back to a stage presentation after COVID, but some of that transition had already been happening prior to that (I recall an increase in how many jokes/bits they were doing in the late 2010's, although that could just be my perception).
One thing I think is clear is society is now using a lot of words to describe things when the words being used are completely devoid of the necessary context. It's like calling a powder you've added to water "juice" and also freshly-squeezed fruit just picked perfectly ripe off a tree "juice". A word stretched like that becomes nearly devoid of meaning.

"I write code all day with LLMs, it's amazing!" is in the exact same category. The code you (general you, I'm not picking on you in particular) write using LLMs, and the code I write apart from LLMs: they are not the same. They are categorically different artifacts.
I'm ancient by today's AI standards :)
Oh how I know it. I know someone who got fucked by the COVID eviction moratorium. 3 years of lost rent on a Bay area house while eating the mortgage, plus 250k property damage.

Judgement proof Tennant mean that comes out of retirement and college funds. Makes me wish criminal charges were viable.
Sheesh, false equivalence much? An unencrypted mail server is also awful.
It is absolutely incredible that we happened to live exactly in the times when the humanity is teaching a machine to actually think. As in, not in some metaphorical sense, but in the common, intuitive sense. Whether we're there yet or not is up to discussion, but it's clear to me that within 10 years maximum we'll have created programs that truly think and are aware.

At the same time, I just can't bring myself to be interested in the topic. I don't feel excitement. I feel... indifference? Fear? Maybe the technology became so advanced that for normal people like myself it's indistinguishable from magic, and there's no point trying to comprehend it, just avoid it and pray it's not used against you. Or maybe I'm just getting old, and I'm experiencing what my mother experienced when she refused to learn how to use MS Office.
> I bought an M1 Max that is now almost 4 years old and it still feels new to me.

How are the keycaps doing? Mine looked awful after about 2 years of relatively light use, developing really obvious ugly shiny patches (particularly bad on the space bar), quite a letdown on an otherwise great machine.

(Realised that you can actually buy replacements and swap them yourself, via the self-service repair store, so have replaced them once, but am starting to notice shiny patches again on the new set)
Are you really assuming most of your docker base images won't be AI generated spit in a few months from now? All maintainers are catching on.
Yeah, no. That's someone who is lazy and not following our rather comprehensive credit card regulations [0]. PCI DSS is required by both VISA and MasterCard, who are the only one's approved by said regulations. CVV storage is not permitted.

If you reported them, chances are, the business would be shut down.

[0] https://www.rba.gov.au/payments-and-infrastructure/payments-...
Cool jobs get the gender treatment. Ain't no women begging to work on an oil derrick or be a plumber.
Yeah, they are not “reading recycled LLM content”, no. The dashboard in question presents data from PDFs. They are very happy with being able to explore that data.
Yea this has been happening on all of my family’s MacBooks. Spotlight indexing just hammers the CPU, and also seems to be doing nothing at all.
I think if you have a reasonable environment, where on-call feeds back to development (which is what OP is suggesting, more or less), you will absolutely get woken up for networking problems, because there's not really an alternative. Maybe some thresholding to allow for minor problems without alerting, but you know. If it's a big enough problem, someone has to fix it, and it doesn't matter if it's your problem or your dependency's problem, it breaks your service so it's your problem. If it happens a lot, you look for another network to run on.

For 3rd party APIs, if they're not critical, you start to develop kill switches. So yeah, someone has to wake up and handle it, but all they have to do is set the kill switch and go to sleep.

Personally, I did dev and on-call for SMS/Voice verification codes. Most of the time, that's in the nasty corner of it's super critical to the application (users can't use the product if they can't get a verification code) and it depends on 3rd parties that have three nines on a good year. In my case, I got tired of dealing with the disruption and developed automated routing that could manage most providers taking an outage without needing me to take action. Results could be better if a human took notice and action, but it was good enough most of the time, and partial outages were much easier for the automation to handle it.

Even if there's no way to do something like that, at least automation can take care of 3rd party API is failing hard, so mostly return errors quickly without trying the API and only let a small fraction of requests go through to sample if the service came back online. That can keep your servers from getting overwhelmed, as well as drive the alert that helps you wake up, yell at the vendor, and decide if you can go back to sleep while the system takes care of itself.

When on-call is disconnected from development, that's when it gets really miserable. If you can swing a shift-work/follow the sun operator job, that's certainly better than on-call where incidents are common and there's no feedback loop to reduce things. It may well be better even if there is a feedback loop, but the feedback loop in that case requires explicit communication and effort; if I'm on call for my own work, I don't have to tell me to not push shit code right before I leave for the day or go to sleep, I'll get that message from myself right away. If someone else is cleaning up after my messes and doesn't communicate the effects to me, I might never know.
I use a BPHS1, in my case I found that replacing the ear pads with 3rd party gel pads greatly improved the comfort for long meetings.
That’s great to hear! I’ll give it another shot!
Good point, what I use that is great at the desk is a gooseneck stand - SO much easier to move around while working than normal mic stand, you just bend it out of the way. Put one of those on a stand with a big circular weighted bottom and you're gold.
Isn’t this kind of messaging just horribly patronising for women?

I’m interested to hear from women that got into STEM on merit - how do you feel about the institutional boosterism of your gender?
Trying to use Wan2.1 to generate AI video or other various LLM or StableDiffusion style stuff is slow compared to other other platforms. I don't know how much of that is because the code is not optimized for M1+ Max (Activity Monitor shows lots of GPU usage) or how much of it is it's just not up to the competition. Friends on 4070 Windows PC are getting results many X faster and 4070 perf iss not even close to 4090
While the output is a single word (more precisely, token), the internal activations are very high dimensional and can already contain information related to words that will only appear later. This information is just not given to the output at the very last layer. You can imagine the internal feature vector as encoding the entire upcoming sentence/thought/paragraph/etc. and the last layer "projects" that down to whatever the next word (token) has to be to continue expressing this "thought".
Great! You’re not the audience for it.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country.
That question regarding why orchestra performances are subdue affairs came up recently when I attended a Lord of the rings concert in NYC. It wasn’t particularly rowdy, but people were certainly enjoying themselves. When I had posted about this on Reddit, there was a lot of attitudes about how it’s a uniquely American thing and at the European concerts people didn’t clap or laugh or audibly enjoy themselves as much as the NYC concert goers did. I’ll have to bookmark that link for later.

Unrelated to the article, but related to the topic, the compliment that gives me the most dopamine is when somebody I respect and is above my level of knowledge tells me “that’s a great question”. It just makes me realize that I’m closer to their level if I’m asking questions that stumped them or that they are already thinking of but surprised I asked.
65 points, 164 comments...then flagged.

I dunno, HN. I think you are losing the plot.
I keep seeing people quote "Most AI Researchers" believe all manner of different things about where AI is going.
The canola oil stuff is uninteresting. Canola oil is one of the oldest cooking oils known, the process just makes it taste less shit. Hexane is inert and easy to remove during processing and has basically 0 toxicity (just don't drink a bottle of it), water precipitation and organic acid and steam distillation is whatever, sounds fancy for things that are harmless.

> hydrogenation, flour bleaching and modification of starch

All harmless

> lemon juice solids

You evaporate lemon juice and whatever is left are the solids.

> yeast extract

Its yeast innards

> leavening agents or dextrose

If you bake bread, you have them.
It's like we spent twenty years writing (mindlessly copying) web pages with &mdash and only viewing them with lynx, and then somebody makes a graphical browser and the mistake is apparent, but I don't think the browser is in the wrong.
Interesting! This product looks to be the spiritual successor to MixMeister Fusion, another app that I used to use to make offline mixes back in the mid-late 2000’s.
Although additionally it's for groups whose members don't choose to be a part of. You can't decide not to be in a protected group the same way you can decide not to join a party or purchase a brand of something.
I have some hope that Framework and AMD can fix some of those issues. Would love to try out their new desktop (because it's a simpler, more tightly integrated thing) and replace my Mac mini -- then wait for Linux power management to improve.