skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it does. Long term Apple user here (since 2007). I'm typing this on a 5 year old pile of junk with Windows 11 LTSC on it. The (M4) Mac is sitting next to me acting as an SMB server until I can be bothered to get all my stuff out of it. It's just tiring using a Mac these days. It's difficult to explain but everything feels slightly frustrating. The nice things are really nice. The whole experience is quite nice. Until you hit a problem. Then it's a complete pit of pain and misery and there just aren't enough ways out of it.

Had a few issues with iCloud syncing and data loss as well and what with being based in the UK and the general problems with geopolitics and the cloud I figured I'd try and get as much stuff out of iCloud as possible. Well there's not much advantage now. Most of it is in the ecosystem tie in, not the hardware. And on top of that the provisioned services such as Apple Music are just pain for me on a daily basis. My entire music catalogue disappeared in a puff of smoke when I was offline for nearly a week. The one thing I wanted it for!

So back to the PC. I ran out of disk space on the (soldered in SSD) Mac. I can't delete anything and macOS has leaked out about 20gb suddenly. I don't know what this is other than about 5 gig of it is Apple Intelligence despite telling it to fuck off. So it's late Friday afternoon and I need to get something done so I can have a clear weekend. I dig in the junk cupboard and find a couple of hard disks but no way of connecting them to the USB-C only Mac. Amazon solutions aren't available for delivery until Sunday. There upon I discovered the kids' "covid work PC" for when they were home studying. Despite the acceptable 16Gb of RAM it only had a meagre 256Gb disk in it. No worries. Opened it up and there's a hole for an SSD in it. It now has +500Gb SSD. Brilliant. On goes windows 11 LTSC. I'm back up running R in under an hour and have transferred all the data over.

I never went back. It feels better here. This thing is a swiss army knife. And extension of me. Not the other way round like on the Mac. The Mac feels like it feeds off me: both cash and energy. Apple need to fix that.
I think people misunderstand how the feed works.

My feed consists 4 types of posts:

1. Friend posting their own content

2. Posts from followed pages

3. Posts from groups I'm a member of

4. Content that my friends share from pages/groups I don't follow

I feel like people are seeing #4 and blaming Facebook for showing them irrelevant content. Like, if my friend Bob shares a post from a page dedicated to memes centered around the TV show "Lost", then it is entirely the fault of Bob that it's appearing on my feed even though I don't watch Lost. Facebook should take zero blame. Yet, I feel like people do blame Facebook for it.

I don't see content from pages I don't follow unless a friend has shared it specifically.

I don't know where the complaints about feeds being full of brainrot and low-quality content comes from. Your feed is what you make it.
Would it make sense to hire someone? When you run a solo person business getting over the mental hump about hiring someone is difficult. If rewards are great and things are stable (16 years is stable) what is preventing you from hiring someone to help with at least some aspect?
> ...change in the user base...

Agreed. (Change in the user base, or in the sentiments of the user base.)

That user base, and its apparent coordination (directed, or emergent), is the main reason I don't engage as much here any more. It's a dirty pool.
Ask HN: How are you dealing with AI-assisted interview cheaters?
Ethical questions aside, if you interview engineers remotely, how are you dealing with the proliferation of AI-assisted interview cheater software?

Have you had someone pass an interview and then later they can barely perform?
The article mentions exactly that excuse:

> If on-call engineers were to receive compensation for each incident they resolved, it would incentivize them to intentionally build systems that fail so they could increase their pay by increasing their on-call load.” My guy, that is sabotage and fraud. You are hypothesizing a scenario where your subordinates are committing actual crimes. If somebody is doing criminal acts at work, fire their ass! Not to mention that anybody who deliberately self-inflicts on-call load is a goddamn idiot and should be sacked just on that basis alone.
They filled the feed with ads and Facebook recommended content including updates from people, groups, and even other apps that no one asked for but generated them even more revenue than the content we did want and did ask for (up to a point, one which seems to have been hit finally.)

It was all over when they ended the default reverse chrono feed. It will never be good again. I can never be good again. The only good use cases today are mostly around Messenger because your contacts list is all that's useful at Facebook any more.
I'm trying to find tasks that look like they're equivalent to cheating on homework, but it's not clear to me which categories might apply.

https://lite.datasette.io/?metadata=https://gist.github.com/... shows everything in task_pct_v2 which mentions "writ" but excludes "code" or "program" to try to filter out the code stuff.
Appreciate the sentiment, but in my humble opinion, seems like they should lean into creating even better automated testing, because adding all the new bugs to their suite of automated tests would be a more certain way to decrease their chance of happening again.

But, in a sense, this still incorporates your idea, because the devs and QA must be given the mandate of finding these bugs, and also towards making the automated tests cover the bug's related test cases (as well as charged with improving the test code itself, which is often in a mediocre state in most code bases I've seen at least).
Nice! I just got my Apple //c set up again and am looking for new software.
> later versions of Snow Leopard after almost 2 full years of bug fixes.

This is what’s being asked for in the article.
a) might just be a quick cartoon

b) it might well be that the author really wishes they could draw a cartoon but can't, and resorted to AI to convey their aesthetic choices

I think your pessimism is unwarranted--AI illustrations do have their use.
> being responsive to an increasingly sophisticated adversary

"Those who refuse to give up essential Liberty to purchase temporary Safety deserve to have to deal with the GNOME desktop user experience."

I miss macOS sometimes.
Just to be clear, the probability for "An" is high, just based on the prefix. You don't need to do beam search.
A core conflict is determining who should hold complexity ("how much" is implied). From an operating systems perspective, I like seL4's approach of being a highly minimal kernel, which necessarily means pushing out significant complexity to userspace to handle. I want to go even further in that direction. Despite the massive complexity spike, kernel minimality has significant benefits for increasing userspace programs' power. I think programming languages are somewhat different. Both operating systems and programming languages are deeply foundational notions of abstraction, and even mesh: Smalltalk[0] or Forth being said to include an operating system isn't outrageous. An operating system exposes languages (e.g. shell commands, syscalls, libraries, services) and a programming language undergirds a system. My suspicion is that it's because an operating system is built up, whereas a programming language is the tool in hand. They're at such different levels of construction that they aren't comparable. I have a refinement, which also ties in something I sneakily avoided earlier: programming languages are like kernels, especially microkernels like seL4. Bundling the whole OS is cheating; the job is already done. But I think there's still a difference. When a kernel is built, the OS isn't far behind; a purpose is set. When a programming language is built, it's made (usually) for generality. The exceptions to this (domain-specific languages) prove my point: they have a purpose in mind. The complexity is still there, but building an operating system seems to provoke long-lasting further abstractions (services, components, libraries) whereas programming is more fragmented in its abstractions (frameworks, libraries, language features). Put another way: operating system developers seek simplicity of the whole system, since that is there scope. It's harder to define a system for programming languages, although it is there (the sum of programs produced), and so optimizations are more local at the expense of global progress.

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2525528.2525534
Please try to enjoy each key equally and not show preference for any over the other.
Anyone using LLMs to simulate economic systems?
Yeah I know they can map cities, was thinking about scanning the sky, probably dumb/doesn't make sense but yeah
> what science or evidence drives the best practices?

management "science"
US administration revokes $11B in funding for addiction, mental health care
Yeah, it always seemed pretty wasteful to me. In every single forward pass the LLM must basically start out from scratch, without all the forward-looking plans it made the previous times, and must figure out what we are doing, where we are in the generation process, as in the movie Memento, waking up after an episode of amnesia, except you're waking up in the middle of typing out a sentence, you can look at the previous typed words, but can't carry your future plans with you ahead to the next word. At the next word, you (your clone) again wakes up and must figure out from scratch what it is that we are supposed to be typing out.

The obvious way to deal with this would be to send forward some of the internal activations as well as the generated words in the autoregressive chain. That would basically turn the thing into a recurrent network though. And those are more difficult to train and have a host of issues. Maybe there will be a better way.
> The models still _generate_ response token-by-token, but they pick tokens _not_ based on tokens that maximize probabilities at each token.

This is also not how base training works. In base training the loss is chosen given a context, which can be gigantic. It's never about just the previous token, it's about a whole response in context. The context could be an entire poem, a play, a worked solution to a programming problem, etc, etc. So you would expect to see the same type of (apparent) higher-level planning from base trained models and indeed you do and can easily verify this by downloading a base model from HF or similar and prompting it to complete a poem.

The key differences between base and agentic models are 1) the latter behave like agents, and 2) the latter hallucinate less. But that isn't about planning (you still need planning to hallucinate something). It's more to do with post-base training specifically being about providing positive rewards for things which aren't hallucinations. Changing the way the reward function is computed during RL doesn't produce planning, it simply inclines to model to produce responses that are more like the RL targets.

Karpathy has a good intro video on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI

In general the nitpicking seems weird. Yes, on a mechanical level, using a model is still about "given this context, what is the next token". No, that doesn't mean that they don't plan, or have higher-level views of the overal structure of their response, or whatever.
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> updates from people, groups, and even other apps that no one asked for

I do not experience this in my feed unless it is an activity from a friend, in which case, I would expect it in my feed.
This was an outstanding article and its time on the front page was limited:

https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_th...

You're "just asking questions" and inventing percentages. The above example is pretty clear.
A strange choice of words. It's like saying “cannibalism is pretty gross, but the chef outdid himself on those slices”.

Moreover, even if it's complex from the technical point of view, morally it's dead simple: hired programmer is the same as dirty grunt with a gun, and the leader delivering speeches, and the rocket engine scientist, and the data processing clerk, and everyone in between. They all serve the Order they believe in, the king of this world.
I’ve had so many issues with it as well! To the absurd level where I could not search for settings in the Settings app… People all over the net have had all kinds of issues and there’s never been any help other than „oh go and reindex”.
I disagree, there is absolutely no easy way to do it on Windows. You can install a third party program that emulates the compose key but on macos it "just works". And I think that makes a difference for 95% of users
A beachside surfboard rental shop is not "New Zealand". Stop being so ignorant.
I was thinking of that the other day. I think I stayed on High Sierra as long as I could.
what are some good alternatives to mac os? there some features like image/text copy-paste being cross device that are insanely useful that make it hard to switch
I think it's mostly down to three factors:

1. Uncompensated oncall is legally tricky in many EU companies, so a lot of midsize companies look at the cost of paying for oncall, or sometimes just the time of administering paying for oncall, and decide they can do without. High frequency oncall is also often restricted (e.g. more than 1 week in 6 is not legal here)

2. A lot of the smaller companies are europeans selling to europeans, and are much more used to a business culture of availability during office hours. Especially there's a bigger share of like b2b back office stuff in europe compared to like, restaurant POS systems.

3. Larger companies do seem more into follow the sun. A lot of the big tech in europe are subsidiaries of US companies, so if they're in Europe it means they've already opened one remote location, and therefore are more likely to have another (California, Europe, India is a super common arrangement)
He did start to write a lot about US politics, which for me is enough to stop reading his blog.
Of course hotels take your CC, how else are they supposed to charge it? And maintenance men accessing your home without a heads-up is very much illegal and not commonplace.
This was a completely different attack chain.
Opencore legacy patcher would be to differ.
Depends on where you live, work, and invest. Still, I would recommend chatting with a local accountant to be sure if a significant contribution to a donee qualifies as deductible. Note most large universities will be registered in both the US/Canada.

https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/cra-arc/formspubs/pub/p113...

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Years ago, I remember seeing that a firm was using fiber optic bundles to bring sunlight in from the roof into the inner spaces of an office building.

Does anyone know anything about that?
As a Seattle-area resident, I didn’t even need to click the link to know which Portlandia skit it was going to be.
What this person is describing are not norms here.
It's fine if you stay away from the consumer releases. Windows 11 LTSC (based on 24H2) feels like windows 7. Most of the stuff you had to futz with powertoys and GPOs back then. That hasn't changed. I quite like it. It has been utterly boring compared to my recent Apple experiences.
That's c-cedille here, because to write English fluently you need to be able to type French loan words like façade—but not quite so often as someone in Switzerland, probably (especially so in some parts of the country!) so I assume you've got it somewhere even more prominent on your keyboard.
There was no confusion there. Yea, one is a room and one is a means of communication on mobile devices, but nothing was said that implied differently.
"we’ve built systems so complex we no longer fully understand them. We must now use scientific methods - originally designed to understand nature - to comprehend our own engineered creations."

Ted Chiang saw that one coming: https://www.nature.com/articles/35014679
This really is exactly how I feel. There are too many tradeoffs to switch to non-Apple hardware at this point. I'd love to run Linux/BSD full-time, as many of the apps that I frequently use on my Mac are FOSS (e.g., R, PyCharm, darktable, etc.) I've been a Mac user since 2002, and Mac OS X served as my gateway to the Linux/BSD world (that, and a short-lived use of RH 6.2 on an old Dell laptop). IMO, macOS really does need a Tiger/Snow Leopard-esque release, but I'm not sure the vast majority of macOS users would even appreciate such a release.
I imagined something quite different than this when I read the word "spinoff". But apparently,

> The new entity will be 100% controlled and consolidated by Ubisoft.

That makes me think that this is simply a restructuring to get some extra investment from Tencent, who already own part of Ubisoft.

With that said though, the statement that they aim to "expand multiplayer offerings with increased frequency of content release, introduce free-to-play touchpoints, and integrate more social features" seems completely at odds with the claim that they also want to "drive further increases in quality of narrative solo experiences". In fact, I'm guessing it will be much more of the former at the expense of the latter.
Fun fact: stack datatype is called "Keller" in German, meaning cellar. You put stuff in it, but to fetch the thing you put there first you need to take out everything else you put there after it.
Is your pricing also a fraction of coelux's, or just the dimensions? :o)
Better link than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43496474 which links to the tool rather than the blog post about the tool
> the ground truth in math is nature

Who was it that said, "Mathematics is an experimental science."

> In his 1900 lectures, "Methods of Mathematical Physics," (posthumously published in 1935) Henri Poincaré argued that mathematicians weren't just constructing abstract systems; they were actively testing hypotheses and theories against observations and experimental data, much like physicists were doing at the time.

Whether to call it nature or reality, I think both science and mathematics are in pursuit of truth, whose ground is existence itself. The laws and theories are descriptions and attempts to understand that what is. They're developed, rewritten, and refined based on how closely they approach our observations and experience of it.
We provide full 1nm resolution SPDs in our download section so you can do any kind of calculations you want. Worth noting the SPDs change a lot depending on the color temperature of the light. In terms of similarity, trying to match sunlight exactly is not ideal because UV is bad for you and IR is a lot of water energy that can be produced in other ways more efficiently. For energy efficiency we focus on the spectrum that is most important for humans (versus plants, fish, etc). This is mostly the visible spectrum as align with our cones and the blue spectrum aligned with our ipRGCs. Most people don’t know about ipRGCs so we have a research page about this here:
https://www.innerscene.com/research
For the visible spectrum we target 90+ CRI for the full CCT range (3000-40,000k) but it goes as high as 98 and even R9 goes up to 9& as well. You might find this content about ipRGCs and melanopic light interesting

https://www.innerscene.com/products/circadian-sky/CircadianS...
But that's the problem with being in a bad company no matter what. If it weren't on call it would be something else that that manager would be making you suffer through. That doesn't mean on-call as a concept is terrible or that it's uncompensated labor, it just means that bad managers are capable of screwing up your life with any tools that you give them.
Just yesterday I was trying to find a file in Finder, using the search, and it could not find it even though I was just one directory up from the directory it was sitting in. It made no sense to me at all. Reading these stories, it’s clicking for me.
I think this is overly cynical. There are a number of ways an LLM can help actual education and research, and people are willing to use the LLMs this way, as opposed to cheating.

An LLM can be a really great (written) language coach / sparring partner. It could give you a lot of sensible, valuable practice in a foreign language it knows well, in a free form, while noticing, explaining, and fixing your mistakes.

An LLM may be great at searching, analyzing, and summarizing large numbers of natural-language texts. It could be a great paper research assistant, helping you find relevant articles and books, or relevant passages in them, finding similarities, contrasts, prerequisites and consequences, agreement and objections.

Unsupervised study with unwilling subjects is a pretty poor idea, LLMs or not; they will spend their effort on cheating, not learning. If you want different outcomes, work on motivation first, the rest will fall into place.
Yeah I stopped using spotlight a few years ago. I didn't really notice that I stopped using it until recently. It just became useless. I reorganised my stuff carefully so I know where I put it. I think that turned out to be more powerful than hoping a search engine over the top would be able to sift through the nuances.
I submitted this link as a better replacement for the link on this post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43499523
I disagree. From the article: "The same year Apple launched the iPhone, it unveiled a massive upgrade to Mac OS X known as Leopard, sporting “300 New Features.” Two years later, it did something almost unheard of: it released Snow Leopard, an upgrade all about how little it added and how much it took away. Apple needs to make it snow again. Snow Leopard did what it was made to do. It was one of the most solid software releases Apple ever put out." This gives the impression that it was solid out of the gate, which it was not. And the next paragraph specifically mentions "2009’s Snow Leopard". But later Snow Leopard releases were in 2011.