skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author calls out some truly irritating defects, and Messages is rife with them. But there are bigger ones in that application on both Mac OS and iOS.

Topping the shitlist has to be the inexplicable splitting of group threads for random people in the group, even when everyone is using an iPhone. Suddenly someone in the group gets the messages by him or herself and can't reply to the group. And this occasionally also happens in one-on-one threads: I've had years-old (maybe decades-old) threads suddenly split off into a new one with a friend of mine for no apparent reason.

There's some fundamental incompetence in Message's design, and I'm sure that the addition of RCS has made it worse because it was slapped onto a rotten core.

Oh yeah, then there's the way Messages (or, to be fair, iOS) loses all of your contacts' names if you travel outside the country. This is another brain-dead defect: Just because you're in a new country code, your iPhone suddenly can't associate U.S. numbers with your contacts. How the hell does this go unfixed for one major iOS revision, let alone 15+ years?

Oh yeah, then there's the way Calendar "helpfully" changes the times on your appointments when you travel... meaning that you'll miss all of them if you travel east, because your phone will move them hours later. I mean... who lives like that? I you're going to London on business and the next day you have a meeting at 10 a.m., your iPhone will "helpfully" change that meeting to, say, 5 p.m.

So when the author muses about whether Apple developers ever actually use this stuff in the real world, the only logical answer is no. Or they just take so little interest in the functional quality of their product that they just check in some grossly defective trash and call it a day... and refuse to fix it year after year.

Or... they're not given time and resources to fix it. I'm pretty gentle when filing bugs about Xcode, because I'm sure they are understaffed. But at this point, the neglect has (or should have) exhausted every developer's patience.

Which brings us to a bit of hypocrisy in the post: "Apple is clearly behind on the AI arms race"

NO. Apple's sad capitulation to armchair "industry observers" and "analysts" has contributed greatly to the very defects the guy complains about. Apple should not have jumped on the "AI" hype in the first place. It does not serve Apple's product line or market. They are not a search company or gatekeeper to huge swaths of the Internet. If they wanted to quietly improve Siri and get it RIGHT, fine. But now they're embarrassed, and resources that should have been spent on QA have been squandered on bullshit "AI" that failed.
Because LLM’s, with like 20% hallucination rate, are more reliable than overworked, tired doctors that can spend only one ounce of their brainpower on the patient they’re currently helping?
I did something similar last year, but I was more focused on spectrum and used high powered movie lights, since their spectrum output is much better and you get a lot of lux. You can get most of the parallel light ray effect by adding a hyperrefelector which conveniently comes with most lights. I then added an incandescent heat lamp to fill in the IR part of the spectrum and some dedicated UV LED lights for the UVA part. I'm not brave enough to put in a UVB specific lamp.

I wrote about it here: https://metrep.substack.com/p/improve-your-focus-productivit...
Or politics, where confidently lying is an essential skill.
I guess that Sabine's beef with LLM's that they are hyped as a legit "human level assistant" -kind of thing by the business people, which they clearly aren't yet. Maybe I've just managed to... manage my expectations?
I think Lansing has something that is really unique. I was a fan of what Jerry was doing since The Fledge opened. Before COVID I was there once a week writing code for Lansing's Code For America brigade.

A couple of Fledge members moved to Madison, Wisconsin and were working to start a Fledge there but I don't know if they ever got it going or not.
Is there a way to block Sabine posts by default?
Search feels to me like a good compromise between memorizing terminal commands (including the correct set of parameters to do what you want) and navigating through a UI to find what you're looking for.
> No LLM I have ever used has delivered an expert answer...and that's where all the value is.

If this were true, no one would hire junior employees and assistants. There's a huge amount of work that requires more time than expertise.
> But my jaw kind of drops when people cite an LLM and just assume it’s correct.

Yes but they're literally told by allegedly authoritative sources that it's going to change everything and eliminate intellectual labor, so is it totally their fault?

They've heard about the uncountable sums of money spent on creating such software, why would they assume it was anything short of advertised?
Revisiting "incorrect predictions" is a great way to learn about the error's in one's thinking and grow as a person. If your way of dealing with incorrect predictions is to pretend they never happened, then that learning can't happen. He doesn't have "meticulous, years-long grudges" against anyone who has made a bad prediction and learned from it. He does do it to people who refuse to admit they've ever made a mistake (eg the Bloomberg guy) or people who purposely make mistakes to pump and dump Apple's stock (Trip Chowdhry). To me that's fair game.
> On the contrary. Humans can earn trust, learn, and can admit to being wrong or not knowing something. Further, humans are capable of independent research to figure out what it is they don't know.

Some humans can, certainly. Humans as a race? Maybe, ish.
> This book is not for you... you might want to look out for one in the "for dummies" series.

My guy I learned this material from a healthy mix of ESL and Casella Berger and Billingsley. I could still, to this day, probably do every proof in this book without reviewing the material. And yet, despite all that training, I still argue this book is not useful for absolutely anything except assigning homework problems and setting exams.
Agree to disagree about economies of scale, but FYI busses are ~$500k and seat ~40, meaning ~$12.5k/person. There are a dozen manufacturers of electric 2 seaters today that can build for a quarter of the cost per person, or half if you assume 1 person occupancy. Yes the area per person is larger (tho not by much), but you can make up for that with increased throughput by way of point-to-point operation without stops, faster speeds, and more.

Focusing on rollout, municipal light rail almost never gets deployed in US-style cities due to huge capex, not opex. Smaller vehicles allow incremental roll-out and can use preexisting road infrastructure. Ergo, that's the form of public transit you're most likely to see grow over the next decades.

Drone here doesn't imply flying, it's about scaling down wheeled vehicles and the coexistence of a wider variety of vehicle sizes on roads that is unlocked by the automated movement of mass. Delivery to higher up floors can be done through small in-building elevators. If you think that's unrealistic, consider that it was once extremely popular to use pneumatic tubes to send mail in buildings. Built infrastructure changes based on what is possible, and mass needs to move.
Ghiblify Everything, or Should We?
Exactly, this is cherry picking one counter-example.
Content that kind of looks like technical docs, but without linking authoritative sources, date when it was last reviewed, software it was verified against etc.

Nowadays with AI slop websites all over the place, plus formerly legitimate newspapers not attributing sources & edits either, this may not seem that special. But w3schools earned their reputation when that was exceptionally rude. Also, straight up wrong all over the place. But that is more of a symptom. And to be fair a lot of the software back then was straight up wrong, too. Tough job documenting the reality of the WWW correctly while IE was around.
The last one was a gotcha: it's their newly established York–London flight!

Try Our New York–London Flight Connection.

Or if it was New York:

Try Our New York – London Flight Connection.

Note the additional spaces. Agree on the capitalization though.
Was curious what Dagger does and this is what the homepage says

> The cross-platform composition engine

> Build powerful software environments from modular components and simple functions. Perfect for complex builds and AI workflows.

This is generic to point of being useless.

Everything is a composition engine. Javascript is a composition engine. macOs is a composition engine.
Turn it around. Do these companies pay every developer they interview, including the ones they reject for the bullshit they put candidates through?

Sorry mate, but as a hiring manager, spending time to talk to people for fit assessment is part of the cost of doing business. You don't get to call it theft because the guy wasn't game to play your games. You're the one erecting barriers, not them.
Man I hate to say you're completely right, but you're completely right.

I remember years back being in some social thing where someone was railing on social media and pontificated "absolutely noone wants what Facebook is", and I grudgingly had to retort "you don't want Facebook, but a half a billion people (at the time) obviously do".

Read the room.
I never thought about this but I have experienced this with my children.
It's deeper, but can also appear/disappear and have a cultural component.

My closest mental image is people genuinely enjoying some soup, to immediately puke it out as they hear it's made from crushed bugs, even as it's a lie. The reaction is visceral and uncontrollable, but the cause is not physical and is deeply rooted into their mind.
The Texas legislature is currently attempting to pass legislation that disadvantages solar and batteries in preference of fossil gas. They don’t care about climate change or the future.

https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89...

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-markets/texas-bi...
Of course Google's algorithm is worse. Google prioritises showing you search results that make money for Google. Google has no incentive to show you anything else.

I can't believe I even have to say this out loud. Look up enshittification.
Tell that to the coal miners who parked trains on bridges and then blew them the fuck up, and got us weekends and 40 hour workweeks.
Agreed! So many emergent systems in nature achieve complex outcomes without central coordination - from cellular level to ant colonies & beehives. There are bound to be implications for designed systems.

Closely following what you guys are uncovering through interpretability research - not just accepting LLMs as black boxes. Thanks to you & the team for sharing the work with humanity.

Interpretability is the most exciting part of AI research for its potential to help us understand what’s in the box. By way of analogy, centuries ago farmers’ best hope for good weather was to pray to the gods! The sooner we escape the “praying to the gods” stage with LLMs the more useful they become.
Salaries in the rest of the world look great when you realize that in Europe you're not one medical incident while unemployed from utter bankruptcy
I love projects like these. Between decomps and static analyzers, we've seen so many fantastic games modernized and ported.

Ocarina of Time is able to play natively on just about every system system imagineable (pretty sure native PS1 builds exist)
Sonic Unleashed, previously an 360/PS3 exclusive, now can be played in ultra wide on PC natively.

Majoras Mask got a recent static deanalyzed PC port and has higher FOS and ultrawide mods.

Perfect Dark for the N64 has a native PC port with ultrawide and mouse and keyboard controls.

These are just a few off the top of my head.
Shhh you’ll let the cat out of the bag, me and a whole crap ton of people put food on the table doing just that
luckily us being programmers can fix things like syntax errors.
They vote for him because he is openly corrupt. They just think they will be beneficiaries of some of the corruption.
We will absolutely be supporting KiCad! Placement is something we have big plans for but I think it’s important to have a really fast, cache-friendly autorouter as a foundation (if you are cache friendly, moving components and trying different layouts is much much faster)

Javascript is fairly portable now with many runtimes (some even quite small such as QuickJS or Proffor), so I anticipate people will be able to run locally and build their own ginormous cache :)

I think everyone should be concerned about lockin and fragmenting ecosystems in EDA, but tscircuit and our autorouter are MIT-permissive technology (very rare in EDA) so we play nice (interoperable) with everyone.
Seeed Studio XIAO RA4M1 Runs NuttX
Many people have only tried the free version of ChatGPT, which is a completely different experience than the two most recent sonnet models.
I feel that sentiment on LLMs has almost approached a left/right style idealogical divide, where both sides seem to have a totally different interpretation of what they are seeing and what is important.
It’s great that you and the other contrarians in this thread value that, but my point is that the general consumer likely overwhelmingly chooses to pick whatever is cheapest save for specialized selections like XL or pet.

I think the best evidence of that is how uber/lyft has to use grey-ish patterns to get you to choose upmarket options. They don’t list the fares sorted by price or even list the options in a consistent order, they will strongly suggest upsells like comfort or black or whatever tier they think gives the best chance of convincing you to pay more than the bare minimum.

They also upsell faster pickup which I have to think is a way better value proposition than sitting in a nicer car temporarily.
It’s not a conflict, it’s a hierarchy of preferences. People’s specific opposition to race-conscious admissions and hiring outweighs their general support for diversity. That’s exactly what the Pew answer choice says: “Only take a person's qualifications into account, even if it results in less diversity.” Race blindness is more important than diversity.

You see a similar pattern on many issues. E.g. people support balancing the federal budget. But most would say that they oppose cutting entitlement spending to balance the budget. That is, people’s specific opposition to cutting entitlement spending outweighs their general support for balancing the budget. In practice it just means that people’s preference in favor of the general issue is weakly held, while their opposition on the specific issue is strongly held.
Ask HN: Does anyone else like purely numeric shorthashes?
they're not Particularly Rare, But I think they're more pleasing to See.

For instance This "2822302" Makes me Especially Happy: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox/commit/2822302387c4cb7ff71c4239da3dc5fa4c07e165

It Even Extends up to 10 digits! That's Not Particularly rare - Roughly 1% chance (10^10/16^10 i think) - But i just think they look nice.

Are there any other people out there who are particularly pleased when they hit that? sorta like hitting 7777 on the odometer, or whatever.

I'm also a fan of the purely Numeric Identifiers Twitter/X Uses (and has for ages).

This all reminds Me of That "commit Fuzzing tool" That Can Make Your log have whatever Commit You Want. asked AI, turns out it's: https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit

Lucky Commit! what a perfect name. i guess this ask hN should be: does anyone else like lucky commits?

BTW the sHA has of this message starts with: 20250327
The US Congress has budgeting authority. Says so in the constitution. The only fair way to do this sort of thing is hammer it out in Congress. Otherwise, it's just an exercise in deploying power, and people get upset. It's the other side of "no taxation without representation".

If the executive branch just up and does this as an exercise im dominance, it gives everyone whose metaphorical ox got hired the idea that they, too, can exercise dominance and get what they want.
So he invented a program to do complicated work.
This is just the beginning - and it need not be nation states. Imagine instead of Russian disinfo, it is oil companies doing the same thing with positive takes on oil, climate change is a hoax, etc. Or <insert religion> pushing a narrative against a group they are against.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/03/27/russian-propaganda-ne...
I did not except the biker gang bandidos in Denmark is led by one Abrar raja. I don't know, as an Indian it just feels weird to hear a Pakistani name in that setting.
This amuses me, because if you’re going to Beijing you can just use the way-better-than-America public transportation.
The administration has been totally against facts and science from the first term itself but this time around they started the full descent into idiocracy. The people picked to run agencies, full frontal proclamations by the director of the fbi to go after media entities, catering to the lowest common denominators in their base by making a mockery of the law. All of them are just distractions, the fact that the richest and most powerful corporations, universities and previously reputable news organizations are keeling over, these are canaries in the coal mine. All of this will have a lasting impact on the valley and the U.S. in general, if we are honest about it.

As a person in tech, this time around the tech community gave up on innovation and independence, they are the first to pander to the administration. I cannot imagine the same thing happening a decade or two ago. Something fundamentally changed here in the Valley. I take it as a signal that the powers be don’t believe in AI revolution and that they just want to make a quick buck while they can
I do enjoy his quirky little comments. Nothing ground breaking, but pretty much guaranteed to make me go :Huh! Never knew that"
I trust that you want to say something , so you decided to click the comment button on HN.
I assume with the 'popularity' bias (probably not the right phrase) in the modern internet this is pretty much the future of search. Someone comes up with something cool, posts a pix, and someone else puts it on Twit/Face/Tube/whatever and it gets reposted over and over and over and since the original is some worthless peon as far as the algorithm is concerned you'll never, ever find them.
That's awesome that the ring light works for you.

I wear glasses, and having a ring in the middle of them would drive me crazy when editing videos. Also, staring at a computer screen with lights off to the side is bad enough for me, I don't know how you can look directly into the light. Finally, it isn't compatible with my camera being behind the teleprompter.

Most lighting folks recommend putting one light to the side (say 45 degrees) so that one side of your face is lit and the other has a shadow. Fancier folks have additional fill light to highlight the shaded side and the back of the head (so there is a glow around it).
Takes like yours are just crazy given the pace of things. We can argue all day if people are "too bullish" or literally on the market size of enterprise AI, but truly, absolutely no one knows how good these things will get and the problems they'll overcome in the next 5 years. You saying "I am confused on why people are still bullish" is implicitly building in some huge assumptions about the near future.
Except for multibyte encodings.
> There's no path shown with hits

I guess you do know the path is shown at the bottom of the window if you select the filename in the list of results?
Sabine is lex Friedman for women. Stay in your lane about quantum physics and stop trying to opine on LLMs. I’m tired of seeing the huge amount of FUD from her.
It's so impressively underhandedly sneaky how Microsoft named their ODF-competitor format “Office Open” just as the OO.o hype peaked with OO.o 2.0 having ODF as its native format, when MSOffice finally had a viable and popular competitor for like the first time ever lol

https://www.openoffice.org/press/2.0/press_release.html (2005-10-20)

https://news.microsoft.com/2005/11/21/qa-microsoft-co-sponso... (2005-11-21)
I second this. The cheap USB ones sound fine and never fail.

If I'm sitting at a desk at home anyway, I prefer to plug things in. Power: don't have to think about battery life or power saving modes. Ethernet: don't have to think about wifi. Headset: don't have to think about bluetooth, codecs, or battery. Keyboard: low latency, has followed me through four jobs.

I do use one of those wireless logitech mice, though. The AA battery gives it a nice weight.
Sure, but that's orders of magnitude less likely to happen than a comma ending up inside a text corpus.
> but we assume our nascent AIs, being machines, should always function correctly all the time

A tool that does not function is a defective tool. When I issue a command, it better does it correctly or it will be replaced.
I think we disagree on what memory safety is. For me, memory safety is about "not being able to type-pun pointers and access stuff out-of-bonds", rather than just "isolate address spaces".

> fully sandboxed embedded system, of which Java is not

How so? Nothing stops JVM from sandboxing within the same address space. Then the java API breaks sandboxing in many intended and unintended ways, but the advantage of WASM here is that it doesn't provide a standard API at all - every attempt to provide same functionality will run into similar issues.
The only people still using em-dashes are those who think it's somehow a signal of high intellect rather than being (extremely) behind the times. Case in point: this exact comment section where you see it with ~10000x the frequency of standard human writing, or even the average HN thread.

Just makes me roll my eyes really seeing a human use an em-dash. We've in the age of informality, and at least for me personally I've definitely filed the em-dash away as "a near guarantee the text was written by a machine". No matter how much and perhaps especially because HN commentators are coming out of the woodworks to insist they've been using it daily for years.
well the goal of treating addiction is generally not to 'cure' it but to 'manage' it.
If you can come up with a way of systematically helping populations of people manage their addictions without using money, I am all ears.
> Stanley said this order sets the country “on a path to educational authoritarianism”.

Paying large sums of taxes for a school that is unquestionably failing my children, with no option to attend another school (without shelling an unfathomable amount of money for private schooling), feels like educational authoritarianism to me.
Yep, that’s right!

If you want to be precise, there are “autoregressive transformers” and “bidirectional transformers”. Bidirectional is a lot more common in vision. In language models, you do see bidirectional models like Bert, but autoregressive is dominant.
As long as you hold it out towards the camera when it's somebody else's turn to speak.