skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say anthropomorphizing humans is already deeply misplaced!

Each one of us is totally unlike any other -- that's what's so cool about us! Long ago, my neighbor Diogenes proved, by means of a certain piece of poultry, that no universal Platonic ideal of human-ness can be reasonably established. (We've largely got the toxic fandom of my colleague Jesus to thank for having to even explain this nearly 2500 years after the fact.)

There is no universal "human shape" which we all fit, or are obliged to aspire to fit. It's precisely the mass delusions of there ever being such a thing which are fundamentally misanthropic. All they ever do is invoke a local Maxwellian process which heats shit up until it all blows the fuck up out of the orbit of the local attractor.

Look at history. Consider the epic fails that are fascism, communism, capitalism. Though they define it differently, they are all about this pernicious idea of "the correct way to human"; which implicitly requires the complementary category of "subhuman" for all featherless bipeds whose existence happens to defy the dominant delusion. In practice, all this can ever accomplish is to collapse under the weight of its own idiocy. But not without destroying innumerable individual humans first -- in the name of "all that is human", you see.

Materialists say the universe doesn't care about us puny humans anyway. But one only ever perceives the universe through one's own human senses, and ascribes meanings to it through one's own cogitations! Both are tragicomically imperfect, but they're all we've ever got to work with. Therefore, rather than try to convince myself I'm able to grasp the destination of the history of my species, I prefer to seek knowledge of those things which enable me to do right by myself and others in the present.

But one's gotta believe in something! Metaphysics is not only entertaining, it's also a primary source of motivation! So my belief is that if each one of us trusted one's own senses more -- and gave up on trying to delegate the answer of "how should I be?" to unaccountable authorities which are themselves not a human (but mere concepts, or else machinic assemblages of human behaviors which we can only ever grasp through concepts: such as "society", "morality", "humanity") -- then it'd all turn out fine!

It simplifies things considerably. Lets me focus on figuring out how they work. Were I to believe in the existence of some universal definition of what constitutes a human, I'd just end up not noticing that I was paying for a faulty dataset.
> Someone willing to operate a motor vehicle without a license is one step away from manslaughter.

I suspect there are plenty of undocumented immigrants in states that don't have the equivalent of AB 60 licenses who are perfectly safe drivers. Perhaps even safer than licensed drivers, since they have more to lose from moving violations.
https://www.tvo.org/video/could-americans-brain-drain-be-can...
It is indeed starting to feel like that.
> These lamps have two spectral peaks: a narrow peak in the blue range, around 450 nm, a broader peak in the green, centered around 580 nm. That greenish peak falls off sharply, and has almost no energy in the red end

Check figure 1h in the datasheet of the LEDs author used https://otmm.lumileds.com/adaptivemedia/832eef99dd3139f98fa9...

The second peak is near 650nm and while it drops fairly quickly there is still decent amount of power at even 700nm. In short, they perform far better than your stereotypical crappy white LEDs.
Absolutely. I love the work they have been doing on the backend, like PQ3 [1], but it just doesn't work for me when the Stickers and Emojis extensions on Mac leak several GBs of RAM and I have to terminate it several times a day to free up memory.

Another thing I dislike is that it stores the whole message history on the device. It's nice to have at times, but I send a lot of photos, which adds up in storage over time. I pay for iCloud, and store my messages there. Why does my Mac need to hold every single photo I have ever sent?

[1] https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/
worlds. world's would indicate that a world owns something.

Also, you can just write -s instead of -'s as the apostrophe indicates possession
You have a point, but it is also true that some software is far more rigorously tested than other software. There are categories where it absolutely is both scientific and real engineering.

I fully agree that the vast majority is not, though.
I genuinely do not care one tiny bit about doing this right. At all. I will use the minus key for all of these like I always have and nothing bad will ever come of it. Find a better way to channel your limited energy.
> Sequoia is incredibly reliable 7 (soon to be 8) updates in.

I disagree with that part. ;-)

We wouldn't even be having this discussion right now if today's updates were incredibly reliable.
Raw models may not be good enough. I wonder how thinking models do on these
I love Nord's UI. Not sure if you would or not. They do have some menus, but most performance-useful functions are assigned to a physical knob or button, sometimes with a shift modifier. It's evident that a ton of thought went into the ergonomics, when I compare it to other keyboards I've played.
And how would you safeguard the next regime? With F35s and bombers?
Is not as rigid as you picture it.

Comics and books inspire people to get traits and achieve things like the characters from the stories. As an example: Elon, because of reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation and other sci-fi books, got inspired to do space stuff. Not to become a sci-fi writer (although that could have happened as well)

Many scientists and engineers have been inspired this way when they were kids.
How do you get yours to drive into a parking lot and park correctly? My HW4/v13.2.8 gets indecisive and ignores lines when getting to a destination. I always have to disengage before I can use parking mode.
"banned books" has a number of connotations. In common PR culture it refers to books that school districts have censored, but are otherwise generally available for sale .

In this article they are referring to popular books on Amazon that are censored from theocratic or Islamist countries.

If you want to find the real banned books, look for books that are $300+ on Ebay. Those are books that publishers refuse to publish and retailers refuse to sell. I'm not aware of statute banning those books, but they are in a practical sense banned from publication.
> If the Department of State issues you an F or M student visa, this means that you are coming to the United States to study. You should not take any action that detracts from that purpose. Maintaining your status means:

> Fulfilling the purpose for why the Department of State issued you your visa.

> Following the regulations associated with that purpose.

She isn't being charged with a crime. What are you talking about? What does engaging in politics outside her county have to do with education?

https://studyinthestates.dhs.gov/students/maintaining-status
this is the definiton of bikeshedding
Seattle and Portland have so much more in common than each wants to admit.
At first I thought you meant roguelite, but that isn't it.

But now I think a roguelite version of this game could be quite addicting.
Since I still have operating systems on the mind from another HN thread, I would phrase this as being aware of the whole system and optimizing it globally. And speaking as someone with horrendous time management habits, I fully agree with the statement "everyone has time". Not that we can achieve whatever we want, but up to our potential, perspective drives everything. Don't worry about what you can't control; worry about what you can control. Easier said than done, of course.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1904933435803877882.html
> - Keyboard sometimes doesn't get out the way any more when it should.

Depends on where you were seeing this of course, but this could very well be an app problem instead of a system problem.

Native UIKit/SwiftUI do a little bit of keyboard management for “free”, but there are many circumstances where it falls on the developer’s shoulders to do this. For cross platform frameworks, some do keyboard management others don’t even try. For web apps it’s a coin toss and depends on which of the gazillion ways the dev built their app.

It’s not actually that hard, usually just a matter of making sure that your scrolling content either resizes to match the keyboard-shrunken viewport or adding bottom padding equivalent to the height of the keyboard and then and adjusting scroll position accordingly, but it’s not unusual to see this partially or fully absent, especially on poorly built cheapest-bidder-contracted apps.
First pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation
I was on call in a 4 man startup for a 1 week rotation for about 9 months, 6 years ago. I still have an anxiety reaction when my phone rings. Can very much relate to the author's thoughts about PTSD.
Never had on call in 25 years with American startups. Surprised that faangs have on call but offer no support or limited that may take days to get a response from a customer perspective.
Bad managers are hard to predict. Even if you like your manager now, there's nothing to say they can't be promoted/reassigned/quit and you get a new manager that sucks. On-call being a thing is easier to get an answer on ahead of time
> I could walk item by item through System Settings and point out many equally inexplicable decisions. Did anyone at Apple really believe a Mac user’s life would be better if common features were buried deep in menus?

I have to agree with this, System Settings seems very inconsistent (design) and has terrible information architecture / organization.
I can confirm this, being resided in several European countries. I do my groceries twice daily as the supermarket is 7 mins walking 2 mins cycling distance. Most people do the same. Some people, including my immediate neighbors, do a monthly big grocery shopping to fill up their freezer.

I guess I can survive 72 hours, with rice, beans etc at home but sometimes there's not much left. There's often some meat in the freezer for 1-2 meals.
No, there is no IR to speak of, however a lot of people tell us they feel warmer when they stand under it - just a psychological effect but interesting to observe
The LED datasheet has Typical normalized power vs. wavelength graph (figure 1h) https://otmm.lumileds.com/adaptivemedia/832eef99dd3139f98fa9...
Adding signing as a requirement can easily make what was once a very simple distribution mechanism into something much more complex - now you need manage signing certificates and keys to be able to build your thing.

The cost is far far higher than the price.
For those who downvoted this - how does a millimeter of difference in the length of a line matter?
Here's an easy, if not always precise way to remember:

* Hyphens connect things, such as compound words: double-decker, cut-and-dried, 212-555-5555.

* EN dashes make a range between things: Boston–San Francisco flight, 10–20 years: both connect not only the endpoints, but define that all the space between is included. (Compare the last usage with the phone number example under Hyphens.)

* EM dashes break things, such as sentences or thoughts: 'What the—!'; A paragraph should express one idea—but rules are made to be broken.

Unicode has the original ASCII hyphen-minus (U+002d), as well as a dedicated hyphen (U+2010), other functional hyphens such as soft and non-breaking hyphens, and a dedicated minus sign (U+2212), and some variations of minus such as subscript, superscript, etc.

There's also the figure dash "‒" (U+2012), essentally a hyphen-minus that's the same width as numbers and used aesthetically for typsetting, afaik. And don't overlook two-em-dashes "⸺" and three-em-dashes "⸻" and horizontal bars "―", the latter used like quotation marks!
It should be noted that Snow Leopard was pretty buggy until several versions in.

Our memory is a lot rosier than the reality.
The luxeon 2835 website that’s linked in the article has a data sheet for the LED source. Scroll down and you’ll see the spectra for various subtypes of that source.
Alternative clean-room implementations exists, like microG, but it is quite limited compared to Google Play Services though.
Sure, but this is another avenue to onboard people to the upgrade train. Sure your display is great, your CPU is great, the speakers are great. But the AAA graphics scale up every year and there are often big performance cliffs for new features on old hardware.
Programmable Bumblebee Transformer Robot
Calling vandalising a particular brand of car a hate crime? That's a big stretch.

For the record, I'm not a fan of Musk or Tesla. That said, I don't agree with damaging private property to make a point about either of them. I do, however, support the Tesla Takedown protests and hope that they can continue peacefully. With this administration, those protests will probably be outlawed before we know it.
> No, they alter and modify the software as they see fit.

Well yeah, but you choose the maintainers that do it the way you prefer. In your care you say you like Arch better, because they "patch less" (if I understand your feeling).

Still they do exactly what you describe they should do: write a recipe, build it and ship a binary. You can even go with Gentoo if you want to build (and possibly patch) yourself, which I personally like.

> Here's one of the recent examples: [...]

Doesn't seem like it supports your point: the very first comment on that Reddit threads explains what they did: they split one package into two packages. Again, if you're not happy with the way the Debian maintainers do it, you can go with another distro. Doesn't change the fact that if you use a distro (as opposed to building your own from scratch), then you rely on maintainers.
I hire for a variety of knowledge work roles (albeit not software engineering).

If somebody can figure out a way to pass the interview with AI they can probably figure out how to do the job. If they can’t, they get fired. Some people who pass the interview without AI end up getting fired, too.

I don’t think there’s anything unethical about using AI to pass an interview.
Apple (at least current leadership) is programmatically degrading it's products so people would buy a new one. Who expects anything good from such a team.
Even outside of work. Two personal examples, out of dozens this week:

1. Asked ChatGPT for a table showing monthly daily max temp, rainfall in mm and numbers of rain days, for Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. And colour coded based on the temperatures. Then suggest two times of year, and a route direction, to hit the best conditions on a multi-week trip.

It took a couple of seconds, and it helpfully split Vietnam at Hanoi and HCM given their weather differences.

2. I'm trying to work out how I will build a chicken orchard - post material, spacing, mesh, etc. I asked ChatGPT for a comparison table of steel posts versus timber, and then to cost it out with varying scales of post spacing. Plus pros and cons of each, and likely effort to build. Again, it took a few seconds, including browsing local stores for indicative pricing.

On top of that, I've been even more impressed by a first week testing Cursor.
Okay, but at that point why bother with the intermediate OCI images? Especially with nix, if you're gonna use Nix you may as well build the OS directly (i.e. use NixOS).
... I'm not sure I've ever found any GUI system search reliable enough that I've used it on-purpose (though accidentally, sometimes) on Windows, Linux, or Mac. I always just use "find" and "grep" (and ripgrep when I remember that exists and realize I just grepped a lot and will be waiting for like an hour if I don't re-run the command with rg instead). Or nothing on Windows, which is fine because I haven't used Windows for anything but launching video games in about two decades.
We have to invent more ways to pay rich people for being rich, and AI looks like a promising one.
US Govt is upselling AWS as a PaaS?
The pricing chart just doesn't even begin to make sense. What is this? Do any of you have experience with it?
The difference with dev oncall vs doctor on call is that it is self inflicted.
Why are you getting paged? Because you built the system.
Either your system isn't resilient enough, or you have noisy alerts. Both are problems you should be motivated to fix.

I have been on call 24/7/52 in SRE roles most of my career. It has either sucked hard, or not at all. And the time it sucked the most was because every single practice was bad. And now, I build better things because of if. Paying me more for on call wouldn't have changed how much it sucked. It wouldn't have made any material impact on my actual quality of life. But it would have done two things:
1) made me feel like I can't complain
2) give me less motivation to fix it

Paying for on call doesn't seem like a win. I want happy employees, not disgruntled but silent ones.
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Claude is amazing for UNIX janitoring. Having it go through installing torch and various other things, automatically making venvs, and so on, made me realize how much of my life I've wasted dealing with stuff like cpan and pip and npm.
Prototaxites, an ancient treetrunk-mushroom-like organism that preceded land plants about 400M yr ago. Its fossils contained plantlike lignin instead of funguslike chitin or chitosan.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643340v1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites
In many places I'd seriously question the motives for asking about either in general. Do you really need gender info to write better targeted spam mails for your SaaS product?
I disagree. Some cursory searches on Clickhouse show me:

1. There was an exponential increase in people talking about FOSS, leveling out in 2021.

2. There's been an exponential decrease in people talking about startups, leveling out in 2021.

With that in mind, remember that there are karma gates to flagging and that you need many fewer flags than upvotes to sink something. My suspicion is that HN had a pretty big culture shift starting around 2016 but really peaking by 2021 that shifted from the old startup, builder focus to its current FOSS, anti-authoritarian mood. In other words the culture that used to be on Slashdot and technical subreddits found its way back onto HN. While the older HN was more homogeneous in its makeup and narrower in its topics it was also a lot less contentious than today's HN is, mirroring the culture found on Reddit and comment sections of tech-focused publications like The Verge. Today's HN is broad, unfocused, and a lot more like a mix of r/technology and r/programming than it used to be.

Flaggers, I suspect, have older HN values. They preferred the narrower focus of the old site and really dislike the highly contentious big comment threads that are on today's HN. It's hard to have proof of this since flaggers only interact by flagging, but it certainly is the opinion that I have as an older user well over the karma threshold to flag. As such I suspect we're seeing a culture clash play out where the flaggers are trying to hold onto older HN values while commenters here are engaging with HN in the way it's considered in the zeitgeist today, namely an alternative to tech subreddits.

Maybe the flaggers will keep the site balanced between the two perspectives but I suspect either the flaggers will get tired and churn.
The Nonprofit Caught in the Fray of Trump's Attacks on Big Law
The real hidden gem in that deal would have been keeping Motorola's cable set-top box. It owned more than half of the cable box market, and would have been an opportunity to push YouTube TV and Google TV into the hands of the majority of the market overnight.
that was 1854. You basically only needed Ohm's law for that, which was discovered in 1827
Absolute banger. I am convinced it will be held up as a true classic.
node is the wrong tool for any job.
I think most people would probably consider that acceptable as a specialty product, but chafe against it being half of a duopoly. And I think it's also grown less and less acceptable to people as Google (and Microsoft, for the other duopoly Apple contributes to) have also become increasingly anti-consumer.

I don't resent the existence of Disneyland, but I probably would if 90% of all outdoor parks I could visit were either Disneyland or Facebookland.
I have my own solution that I've been using for many years — I record all my bash history.

Bash has a hook (cannot remember the name on my phone) that is called on every command.

It's easy enough to write into a file the command together with the directory and git branch.

Then I can grep it with a bash function that colors the dir and branch in the output.

It does not replace ctrl-r but it's a great addition especially when running multiple sessions and bash saving just the last one
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476793

Decades have passed and HN still can’t automatically dedup submissions.
Sample Breakdown: Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990-2024) [video]
Also while Apples software quality has definitely diminished over the years, Windows in the same period has utterly CRATERED. Like I get along fine with 11 for my gaming PC but with every single update one feature or another becomes notably broken.
Her point is not just "LLMs can't cite links", but "LLMs make shit up". And that is absolutely a problem.
Windows 11 LTSC one is quite good because it's so damn stupid. You can indeed hit start then just type what you want. Only does files though, by name, which is fine.
But it's meaningless a signal for bad managers because basically everyone does on call in some form. That's what this whole discussion is about: how ubiquitous it is.

The only job I worked that didn't have a formal on-call rotation ended up with me unofficially on on-call, with the same expectations as though that had been set up up front: boss calls whenever he calls and expecting an answer, and I'm left deciding how badly I want this job. Turns out management there sucked and I ended up on on-call after all.

If you find a company that actually has a good story for why they're able to get away with no on call, that might be a good signal. But if they're out there I'd love to hear from them, because most people here are just speculating about better alternatives, not speaking from experience with ones that actually worked.
Regarding Spotlight, one thing that started happening for me on Sequioa was that Finder and other apps started getting very slow to react to file changes. For example, I can save a new file to a directory, and the Finder window takes maybe 10-20 seconds before the file shows up in the list. If I navigate to a different folder and then back, the file is there. I notice the same delay in apps like IntelliJ.

I could be wrong, but apparently Spotlight is the service that drives this kind of file system watching. I think macOS has a lower-level inotify-style file system event API, which should be unaffected, but Finder and these other apps apparently use Spotlight. I really wish I had a fix, because it's just crazy having to constantly "refresh" things.
I regularly see this but I feel like it's disingenuous. Akin to saying "if we simulate enough monkies on a typewriter, we'll eventually get the right result"
I agree completely.

When I was a kid, I would ask my parents questions all the time, and usually they knew the answer to my questions, but occasionally they would say something like "that's a really good question", which usually meant "I don't know but I should probably find out". It made me feel like a grown-up.
Part of my problem is my place has a lot of windows and is on the ground floor. So those are both good things, but the combination means I have to keep the curtains closed to maintain any privacy. Lighter curtains or something might help.
In clear terms, what would I do with this? What activity does it help me with? What program do I replace with it?

"The devops operating system" does what?