skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those people will break an addiction for fame. When the show is over, they'll be back to eating.
I disagree with that. As an occasional user of MacOS, the new Settings app is quite bewildering. There are just as many dials as in Windows and sometimes requires a trip to ChatGPT.

And for reasons I don't understand, why is the window itself not resizable?
This isn't normal in Australia or New Zealand, at a national or a local scale. But you can't draw conclusions at a national scale from a local interaction, either way.
> being oncall forces the quality of software to improve.

Only when it's the managers that are on call.
Photos definitely regressed in last release. I like change and new things (AI searching/tagging photos is extremely useful) but when they changed it I realized how important my muscle memory was for that app and features like pulldown iCloud sync/status seems to be gone and other small things changed in annoying ways.
Pretty sure at least one vendor was accused of cheating on 3D-Mark at times as well.
This works if you're on call for your systems. In many situations (ranging from small startups to big tech), you're also on-call for the systems of sister teams.

Not that there aren't other ways to fix that. But fixing the erroring service isn't practical in all cases.
(How about when you see a pun in an HN thread?)

:)
I think what the parent is talking about is called "residential sale leaseback agreement".

Hugh Hefner did this arrangement with the Playboy mansion - https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesrealestatecouncil/2017/10...

Conrad Black also did a similar deal for his place - https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/conrad-black-sells-2300...
Just because they aren't tying their products now doesn't mean that they aren't abusing their monopoly position and leveraging it to boost up their non-monopoly position in other markets.
What do you mean by 'addictions are not breakable with money'?
Are you saying that medical intervention and healthcare are not effective for people suffering addiction?
AI Timeline – The Road to AGI
No reason you can't escape those special characters.
Fedora atomic distributions in general are great. I recommend Bluefin-dx over Bazzite (they’re both GNOME-based Fedora Atomic from the same group— universal blue) for developers, because it’s really easy to install the packages that Bazzite gives you, and it comes pre-installed with Docker.
Vibe Coding Security Top 10
I built a very bright light source using a lamp stand from Ikea and the brightest, narrowest beam LED reflector I could find from my big box hardware store. The project works and gave about 10,000 lux but had a few drawbacks. After reading a book for a while a got a headache. The slightest imperfection (read dirt) in the arms of the armchair becomes super obvious. When I look at my right arm holding the book, it's so bright I'm sure I can see veins and arteries. I ended up getting a lamp less bright and that's great for sewing/electronics/fine work but there are limits for how bright you might want to go indoors. I kept the too bright globe for demonstration purposes.
Everyone keeps making this comment but the article’s about the idea of a maintenance release more than about Snow Leopard. It was a good idea that’s stuck around in the dev community, something we’ve been talking about forever, so it’s basically a meme at this point to say “Snow Leopard release”
I have been using a Mac since the 128k came out. System 7.5.3 and Snow Leopard 10.6.8 are in my opinion the high water mark for both OS’s.

I still have some 10.6.8 install media for both server and client. Truly loved them both.
It doesn't matter whether it is anonymized. Apple has no business collecting information about what executables I am running on my own computer, or even whether I'm running executables at all. I don't care what their stated purpose is. I don't care what they want a "global view" of. It's my computer, not theirs.

I don't even mind that they've introduced a level on the totem pole that's above root. But on my computer, -I- should be the one at that level, not Apple.
Thank you! I’m sorry I overlooked those files. I greatly appreciate this perspective and research.

It’s clear that your company leaves no stone unturned.
Seek out mentors and places to directly/indirectly use/practice/apply "in real world" what learned in CS classes. Note ideas/suggestions from instructors about things would have liked to cover in class, but not enough time. Note ideas / things that catch one's attention when doing hobbies / clubs / related free time activies. Try applying things from CS classes. aka one off database of classes, grades, anticipated food/food budget as related to degree plan / 'free months off' before completion of degree.

concept idea: can one make a completely 3d printed fax machine? [6][7][8] aka re-invision things with knowledge have (or learn more about what knowledge gaps have & fix it!)

Look at that plan B that can/is supporting persuit of plan A. Note: Plan B might have come from checking out above suggestions. Plan B might become better deal than Plan A!

?? Read up on history's, didn't plan it this way, but worked out because "right place, right time" aka apple/xerox alto[4]; michael dell/dell computers; facebook; musk & paypal; home brew computer club; "chocolate bar to microwave"[2]

Learn to use what have available to use/do something with (ideally as way to exercise/reinforce CS stuff - aka hackathons. ). Keep at it until have something that someone unfamiliar with what doing would be able identify it as related to computer science stuff.

Keep a 'cs journal'[5]

Humor - A key ingredient to engagement, meaningful connection, and creativity in youth development.[0]

Wit and Humor [1]

in search of a boaring business [3]

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[0] : https://blog-youth-development-insight.extension.umn.edu/202...

[1] : https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1907/09/wit-and...

[2] : https://www.technologyreview.com/1999/01/01/236818/melted-ch...

[3] : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/business/young-profession...

[4] : https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html

[5] : https://medium.com/@holasoymalva/how-to-make-a-programming-j...

[6] : https://nano3dprint.com/?utm_term=3d%20printed%20circuit&utm...

[7] can it be done without 3d printing electronic circuits? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax

[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTvPC_hkeGs / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCzMLl-cB94 / dynamic view master! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOQi4BmXRAo

anaology and the roots of creative intelligence : https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/analogy-and-the-roots-of-...

notes on precise and serendipitous creative tools : https://indefiniteusage.substack.com/p/notes-on-precise-and-...
Wouldn’t such a statistic cause a feedback loop?
I think it depends on what distro you're talking about. Corporate distros like RHEL and SLES are absolutely going that way. It takes a lot of effort to backport fixes, and the money's not there in desktop Linux to make it worth their while if containerization is a viable alternative. Red Hat's gotten rid of a bunch of graphical applications for RHEL 10 and stated that users can get them from Flathub as an alternative. I believe there was some consternation when CentOS Stream 10 launched without even a packaged web browser and the advice was to install Firefox from Flathub (there's a lot of use cases where that breaks stuff), but it appears they've walked that back and started providing Firefox as a traditional package.

However, less corporate distros that mostly just ship built upstream software as-is since they don't have to support it for long periods (think Arch, Fedora, Void, etc) don't have that problem, so I expect we'll continue seeing them use traditional packages.
15 seconds for 3 minutes is quite slow, the open source thing i use, spleeter, says 100x speedup over realtime with a GPU, that would be 1.8 seconds for three minutes, which means that spleeter could, in fact, given all of the arguments of what i asked, do it "realtime".
> Also some systems have no clear ownership, so nobody has an incentive to fix them.

It’s even worse when the system isn’t business-critical: a reporting service, a manual intervention tool, something that quietly supports a process. When it fails, everyone is affected, but no one is accountable.

Ironically, these are often legacy systems that have been rock-solid for years — so reliable they’re forgotten… until they break.
I've been tracking that on and off for years - https://parans.com/

Not sure it's really caught on, but it's out there
Avoiding conflicts of interest is key, but lacking interests is worse imo. Having someone with experience in the role has value and I generally think his AI policy is excellent
We do. But we're not in an innovation environment anymore. It's pump and churn what we're currently doing and hope we brute force "intelligence". Ironic situation.

There's lots of promises out there but not much action nor real world appeal to this stuff. That's pretty much textbook gifting as of now.
I also wasn't sure what they meant by a "rowdy orchestral crowd".

I don't see a problem with audibly expressing one's appreciation for the composer, conductor and performers during intermissions or at the close of a piece, but IMHO it would be downright disrespectful to carry on during the performance itself.

Quoth Franz Liszt to Nicholas I, emperor of Russia, who apparently had the temerity to talk during a performance, "Music herself should be silent when Nicholas speaks".
They still have to formally charge them and go through court cases to defend that determination.

https://www.justsecurity.org/109012/legal-issues-deportation...

> To prove that an LPR is deportable, the government must convene a “removal hearing” before an immigration judge. At that hearing, government attorneys must prove deportability by “clear and convincing” evidence. A number of provisions define the procedures for conducting removal hearings with some specificity. Under those rules, the government must afford LPRs (as well as others in removal proceedings) notice of the charges against them, a right to confront the evidence against them and present their own evidence in response, and a lawyer if they can afford one.

…

> While 237(a)(4)(C) itself makes the Secretary of State’s determination central to the question of deportability, no provision of immigration law grants the President, the Secretary of State, or anyone else unilateral authority to “revoke” LPRs of their status—by Executive Order or otherwise. They must follow the procedures described above.
I would say to keep learning and get project and internships on your resume as early as possible, don't wait until senior year.
Not joking. Do these artificial sunlights help with the allergies? If yes and if it's not insanely costly I'd just try to get something like that for my bedroom during allergy seasons which most often coincides with no sun (winter, rain here). Even in those seasons when the sun comes out in its glory, the allergies (which mostly is my nose turning into an infinite source of salt water), which were driving me stark raving mad since days - at times weeks, might just vanish within an hour. Yeah, w/o even stepping into the sun. (And no, I am not D deficient.)
I worked at Apple Retail during the Snow Leopard launch. I think I still have a boxed disk somewhere, too. I remember it was not a product I had to sell to customers. People came in asking for it.

Another highlight of that job was selling a green iPod Nano to "John Locke" from LOST
10^4.5 = 31622.77
How many people with polio do you know? What’s her explanation of why polio almost disappeared after everyone was vaccinated? Couching a bunch of BS in “if she’s right” makes you sound like a shill.
RuneScape Archive Project is paying $500 bounty for old versions of OSRS
Damm shame. Really hope they remember this inevitable resentment when it comes time to vote on policy. It seems the '08 grads did not.
Gravitics Selected by U.S. Space Force to Demonstrate Orbital Carriers
I am totally invested in the Apple ecosystem, which on principle I'm against (closed systems never sat right with me), but at the time (beginning ~2015) the products and services were so well integrated and genuinely improved my life it was hard to see how things could ever get this bad. I'd still never (ever) go back to Windows, and Linux doesn't have the same feel or ease of setup as macOS, but I am genuinely, deeply concerned about this trajectory for Apple. Albeit super opinionated, but I feel that macOS was the saviour of modern aesthetic computing especially when Windows started its rapid decline post 7. I’m fine trading some frustration—like extra steps for untrusted software—if it keeps macOS secure and fast, free of Windows-level adware or telemetry. But right now, macOS has never been in a worse state.

I recently emailed Tim expressing the same concerns as the article and regarding specific issues with Messages and Mail resource usage and was surprised to get a response from Craig requesting more information and sysdiagnose files, but this is where feedback ended unfortunately.

The current state of the macOS UI is atrocious, devices don't all need the same button shape or menu UX flow across all devices as they are inherently interacted with differently. A Mac isn’t an iPad — why force the same rounded buttons and simplified menus on both? They’re interacted with differently: keyboard and mouse versus touch. I have no idea why this is so difficult for execs to understand or important for them to change. Software teams at Apple are so lucky to have the Apple Silicon innovation on the hardware side, Intel Macs would catch fire on boot-up running any of the latest releases given how atrocious the resource usage is.

While I'm here whinging, the iOS swipe keyboard is garbage (almost totally unusable now) where before it was perfect with the innovative predictive hit-box expansion pioneered by Ken Kocienda. I think that's now been replaced with AI prediction which in 2025 I don't understand why it can be so embarrassingly bad. I had to upgrade to the iPhone Max recently to hit the letters properly. Also Apple I never want to tell someone to "duck off".

Initially I was understanding, but quite frankly now I'm just pissed that it has gotten to this stage, and there is no indication of resolution from execs about these issues.

I’m starting to worry that Apple could go off the deep-end - the way of Microsoft - coasting on hardware sales while letting software quality slide (albeit seeming intentional from Microsoft's side of the fence). I get it — software isn’t where the money is, hardware drives the business - but the two are inseparable BY DESIGN. When macOS struggles with basic functionality, it undermines the value of the Mac itself.
That’s basically every company and every system ever. Things are always in a state of flux, constantly being worked on. People come and go, priorities change and technologies evolve.
The OP needs to write with some more focus. Most of this reads like a very long rant by someone who was woken up too many times recently.

> We need to talk about Kafka

No we don't, that entire section was irrelevant.
I tend to not defer to marketing departments regarding how I pronounce company names, especially for made up words.
Interesting paper arguing for deeper internal structure ("biology") beyond pattern matching in LLMs. The examples of abstraction (language-agnostic features, math circuits reused unexpectedly) are compelling against the "just next-token prediction" camp.

It sparked a thought: how to test this abstract reasoning directly? Try a prompt with a totally novel rule:

“Let's define a new abstract relationship: 'To habogink' something means to perform the action typically associated with its primary function, but in reverse.
Example: The habogink of 'driving a car' would be 'parking and exiting the car'.
Now, considering a standard hammer, what does it mean 'to habogink a hammer'? Describe the action.”

A sensible answer (like 'using the claw to remove a nail') would suggest real conceptual manipulation, not just stats. It tests if the internal circuits enable generalizable reasoning off the training data path. Fun way to probe if the suggested abstraction is robust or brittle.
So..... smart mail merge?

I don't understand how the two things in the before/after slider thing are even related.
> I believe there was some consternation when CentOS Stream 10 launched without even a packaged web browser and the advice was to install Firefox from Flathub

Ubuntu does the exact same thing with their snap repository, the Firefox apt package from Ubuntu is fake. At least Flatpak is a community-led project unlike snap.
The anti-Pinterest political party
I always love how Reddit views the world as the US and Western Europe.
Yeah, there's also an likely apocryphal story about tanks and machine learning:
https://gwern.net/tank

The more you work with large-scale ML systems the more you develop an intuition for these kinds of properties. If you work a lot with debugging models and training data, or even just dimensionality reduction and matrix factorization, you begin to realize that many features are highly correlated with each other, often being close to scaled linear.
Yeah, any text based question with a text based answer eventually ends up getting posted on a forum for an AI model to scrape.
Great points, and devil is in the details. Insurance in this case was Medicare Advantage. In hindsight, Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap) would've been the better way to go for that situation and what I have loved ones using now.
I think it’s more likely that Kagi users value relevant search results & accurate information.
I replaced my pads with microfiber ones. The pads don't cause me pain, the top of my head hurts after 4 hours or more.
Hi! I'm one of the authors.

There certainly are many interesting parallels here. I often think about this from the perspective of systems biology, in Uri Alon's tradition. There are a range of graphs in biology with excitation and inhibitory edges -- transcription networks, protein networks, networks of biological neurons -- and one can study recurring motifs that turn up in these networks and try to learn from them.

It wouldn't be surprising if some lessons from that work may also transfer to artificial neural networks, although there are some technical things to consider.
> If NASA makes cool rockets then they will attract people that naturally align with their mission of making cool rockets

This reminds me of founders with a legitimately cool product being floored by their lack of sales and marketing efforts translating into a lack of sales.

Nothing sells itself. If we want astronauts, we need to keep the astronaut brand in schools. Art is a proven way to do this.
Doesn't the show demonstrate lots of people who don't lose weight and lie about their intake?
I am confused about what subset of books you are referring to. Many expensive books, in the range you mentioned, are collectible editions of books still in print.
Also, every time you run something in Windows (whether it's part of the OS or an App) it can be a trip down memory lane, UI-wise. Oooh, this dialog is 2015 vintage! This dialog is styled like Windows 8! This one is from the XP era! Ohh, and that rarified dialog has controls that have not been changed since Windows 95!
Anti-Orbit Laser Submarines (2017)
I am confused. I’m not a doctor, but why would a model perform poorly at detecting diseases in X-rays in different genders and races unless the diseases present themselves differently in X-Rays for different races? Shouldn’t the model not have the race and gender information to begin with? Like a model trained on detecting lesions should perform equally well on ANY X-Ray unless lesions show up differently in different demographics.
Why do people relapse so often if medical intervention works?

A doctor can set 1000 broken legs. Can they cure 1000 addicts?
The recent Photos app update was a major regression.
Why remember all these little tricks Apple makes you do to use your own hardware?
Usually it does de-dupe any submission with "significant attention", but I'm not sure what the threshold for that is.

I'd think the submissions from two days ago (206 points, 93 comments) would have qualified. (It's the exact same URL so that's not why it wasn't de-duped either.)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Something both this blog post and the Github Repo[0] do not point out very clearly is that the stock wireless card that comes with (if you choose it), at least, the AMD 13 isn't supported by FreeBSD[1]. Of course, you can swap it for a compatible one though.

[0] https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/freebsd-on-framework

[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Framework_Laptop/13_AMD_Ryz...
Going to a remote is not the same thing as backup/redundancy within the studio. The broadcast was never interrupted. The latency between remotes can be mindnumbing, and with inexperienced reporter/anchor stepping over each other unable to sit through the delay it's pain inducing for the viewer. But that's an unrelated tangent
> I suspect Linux is going to go in a broadly similar direction.

Linux is pretty diverse, there are still distributions out there that haven't adopted systemd.
Well yeah, do you think people who are well rested and non stressed have oncall rotations they want to shove up someone’s nether regions?
"Academia is an absolute fucking cesspool of political corruption, soul crushing metrics gaming and outright fraud functioning mostly as a jobs program for nerds that only produces valuable science completely in spite of itself, not thanks to it, because it manages to trap some genuinely smart and hard working people there like a venus fly trap its prey and keeps them alive to suck more “citations” and “grants” out of them."

This is not my experience with academia. Rather, my experience was that a lot of very idealistic people tried to make their best out of the complicated situation set up by incompetent politicians.
This is definitely a classic for story telling but it appears to be nothing more than hand wavy. Its a bit like there is the great and powerful man behind the curtain, lets trace the thought of this immaculate being you mere mortals. Anthropomorphing seems to be in an overdose mode with "thinking / thoughts", "mind" etc., scattered everywhere.
Nothing with any of the LLMs outputs so far suggests that there is anything even close enough to a mind or a thought or anything really outside of vanity. Being wistful with good story telling does go a long way in the world of story telling but in actually understanding the science, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Hmm, never heard that before, I’ll have to research it more. Maybe the UV from sunlight is killing something you are allergic to. We don’t have UV for safety and energy efficiency reasons but you could try buying some strong UV lamps and see if that helps. Ideally you turn them on when you are out of the room so they don’t damage your eyes or cause cancer.
On that topic, do you have any proposals aside from lifting caps?
I use Bluefin-dx as well, but pointed out Bazzite due to the mention of gaming. It's been rock solid for me for that use case.
CoreWeave raises $1.5B in scaled back IPO as investors' AI enthusiasm cools
Here's an example: Gekaufte Journalisten (Bought Journalists)
A few decent-looking resources linked in the blog post - adding below for easy access.

- Model Context Protocol on GitHub: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol
- Docs: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
- Matt Pocock MCP Tutorial: https://www.aihero.dev/model-context-protocol-tutorial
- Block's Head of Dev Rel's take on Agentic AI and the MCP Ecosystem (and a bunch of other articles): https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2025/02/17/agentic-ai-mcp...