skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who said anything about Xcode? The codesign tool is part of macOS, not Xcode. The CLI tool for notarization is bundled with Xcode, but you don't have to use it; they have an official REST API that you can use directly.
The treatment of Daring Fireball articles does feel inorganic to me, but if it is, no one who's talking can say whether it's because of mod abuse or a group of users who really hate the site and want to punish it.

And ... while I can understand frustration and disappointment on his end, the long post yesterday, let alone a second post, and apparently now discussion of it on a podcast where he was a guest, is overboard. He often comes across as a touch full of himself, and it's on blatant display here. Don't blame anyone for being turned off.
yes. I don't think "most of" one thing and "a large portion of" another thing are mutually exclusive.
24x7 on-call must not be a reality imho. I know it is the reality but it should not be propagated and we should not even begin to try and somehow normalise it.

Can't this be simpler? If your system needs to working at night, and it pays (if it doesn't then what are we doing at night?), then you need to hire someone to look after it specifically at night (if possible from a geography where it is not night when it is others' nighttime.. and so on)? i.e follow the sun.
If I had to list the top 5 problems in my life, misophonia would occupy all 5 slots. It's often unbearable, and at the very best I'm in a consistent but low level state of anxiety. I really hope it gets researched more.
You are right but this requires Americans to stop thinking their country is perfect. Any deep introspection and the whole facade breaks down...

Anyone who does not want to worship Jesus or Trump is welcome to check out the Netherlands.
Comic on questions vs answers, "A Day At The Park", https://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park
I'm surprised - simply because I never get Pinterest results on Google. Now admittedly most of my searches aren't the kind where Pinterest is likely to have relevant results, but even then, surely I'd at least see them _sometimes_. But I literally can't remember the last time I saw a Pinterest search result.

Unless, as you suggest, they take over Google Images but not text search results? I could believe that I use Image search sufficiently rarely that I wouldn't have seen a Pinterest result.
At one point a few years ago, Spotlight improved enough that I could use it instead of relying on Alfred. So I deleted Alfred, and whaddaya know...a few years later Spotlight got worse and worse, making me regret that move.
My point is to make a comment on social media and get responses to see what other people think.

All I'm getting at is that any company that distributes code to you and tells you they can't see your data is lying. They just don't want to access your data right now.

I would suggest people understand this and position themselves accordingly security-wise.

If that means not using signal because its not secure enough then ok.

If that means continuing to use signal with the understanding that it's only secure until signal decides they want your data(or a gov forces them to), then ok

Splitting management of an app and service is the exact solution. If signal can't control when to push updates to your phone then they can't control when they want to break encryption.

In your compromised browser example we understand that browsers have an interest in imementing HTTPS correctly and treat them accordingly. That's part of the reason the market is dominated by 2 engines that do their development as much in the public as possible
I think the tech would have landed better with more people if it wasn't branded as "artificial intelligence."

I don't have a proposal for what a better name would have been, naming things is hard, but AI carries quite a bit of baggage and expectations with it.
I was expecting ancient history, the story of the Turing Institute in Glasgow. Established 1983. Dissolved 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Institute

The article is about the second try, commencing 2014.
Maybe the book it’s just not for you. It doesn’t mean it’s not for anyone.

I understand that deep learning is all in vogue now. But when I was in graduate school, a professor asked me why I was using neural nets in a project since it was not as good as SVMs. We used to study Vapnik and VC dimensions, SVMs etc. and neural nets were totally out of fashion.

Imagine what would have happened if everybody were using and researching only those methods because they worked better. And deep learning could benefit from a theory that explains why, when and how it works so well. Maybe someone working on this could develop on it to include it.

Also I don’t think you’re right to assume that all models out there are deep learning models. Yes they are very good for many cases (specially those with less structured data, like image or nlp). But in some cases gradient boosting or even GLMs are better suited for the task (because of the structure and size of the data or because of computing restrictions).

And in the end, people can just want to learn it because they find it interesting.
It’s a bit sad to do only things that are “useful”. That’s my 2 cents.
I'm more a vision person, and haven't looked a lot into NLP transformers, but is this because the attention is masked to only allow each query to look at keys/values from its own past? So when we are at token #5, then token #3's query cannot attend to token #4's info? And hence the previously computed attention values and activations remain the same and can be cached, because it would anyway be the same in the new forward pass?
Kinda hilarious that the people with the money to pay those property taxes would go to such lengths to avoid them.

Still, I'll keep this in mind on the off chance it ever becomes relevant to me.
Sure it's trivial, but it is tacit acceptance that you need permission to make a program on their platform. Permission that needs to be renewed year over year. Permission to earn a living on this platform.

Permission that can be revoked for any reason, including being compelled by someone with more power than Apple.
Humans bullshit and hallucinate and claim authority without citation or knowledge. They will believe all manner of things. They frequently misunderstand.

The LLM doesn’t need to be perfect. Just needs to beat a typical human.

LLM opponents aren’t wrong about the limits of LLMs. They vastly overestimate humans.
Fair point, I was chaining in general and not specifically having a go at yourself.

People are complicated and there's no shortage of head scratching examples of seemingly mismatched fellow travellers.
I'm struggling to see the point here other than semantics. Indirectly or directly, does this change what they presented?
And this is absolutely something one needs to consider when reading medical studies -- if they only use animal (usually mice) models, there's a decent chance the conclusions are not directly transferable to humans.
The most frustrating thing about it is that very many people take it extremely personally if there's even a whisper of a suggestion that they could eat more quietly. To the extent some people will "revenge chew" to make a point that it could be worse. For some reason, that's a huge taboo, and it seems to cross all cultures. The only relationship I can think of where you can say "close your mouth when chewing" and not risk major offense is a parent-child one.

The only thing I find to improve it is to not be tired or stressed when eating with others, or lively conversation as a distraction. Easy, right?
plz try https://www.noteux.com
Slightly OT, but Leonard Bernstein alludes to this in his book The Joy of Music.

There's a chapter about how America was long looking for something musical to differentiate itself from the classical European orchestral concerts, and they went through a number of different formats (think Vaudeville, Variety Shows, etc), before they at last culminated in what we consider the modern American Musical.

(This has evolved again since the late 1900s with much of the genre being integrated into animation - primarily Disney - and live shows needing to evolve in new ways to keep live shows fresh and interesting).

All of which is to say that I quite like the idea that music in the European tradition is nonetheless experienced and enjoyed differently in non-European countries. The musical tradition might be the same, but the culture around it is different.
This KILLS me. It's so frustrating. APFS is supposed to be great at deduping files and such, but in practice it seems like it really sucks. It's bad at both saving a file to the desktop and dumping a million npm files into a directory.
It is an amazing technology and like crypto/blockchain it is nerdy to understand how it works and play with it. I think there are two things at stake here:

1. Some people are just uncomfortable with it because it “could” replace their jobs.

2. Some people are warning that the ecosystem bubble is significantly out of proportions. They are right and having the whole stock market, companies and US economy attached to LLMs is just down right irresponsible.
^^^ this so hard. Voidtools Everything is how I find what I need 90% of the time now.

https://www.voidtools.com/
> You may as well use exception handlers if you're going to go there.

I didn't know about this trick, thanks for sharing.
Interesting. Apple podcasters frequently rant about what a black hole Apple's Radar bug system is. We're talking hours-long rants in some cases. Luck of the draw, maybe? I'm not doubting you, just surprised to read it.

(It feels similar to how those same podcasters absolutely blast Apple Intelligence, while non-tech users I've heard from seem to love it.)
Gemini 2.5 Pro on Windsurf
For anyone finding em-dashes too small, behold the majesty of U+2E3B, the triple-em dash: ⸻
Well yes, I think there should be some tangible damage before you can make a claim like that.
That’s not a conflicting opinion. People support diversity, but oppose the principal approach to achieving diversity.

Note that the questions for both admissions and employment specify diversity as the goal. For example, the options for the employment question are:

> Only take a person's qualifications into account, even if it results in less diversity

> Take a person's race and ethnicity into account, in
addition to qualifications, in order to increase diversity

People support the end of increased diversity, but oppose race conscious admissions and hiring as a means to that end. That’s entirely consistent.
I think many people are just not really good at dealing with "imperfect" tools. Different tools can have different success probability, let's call that probability p here. People typically use tool that have p=100%, or at least very close to it. But LLM is a tool that is far from that, so making use of it takes different approach.

Imagine there is an probabilistic oracle that can answer any question with a yes/no with success probability p. If p=100% or p=0% then it is apparently very useful. If p=50% then it is absolutely worthless. In other cases, such oracle can be utilized in different way to get the answer we want, and it is still a useful thing.
What we call DEI today, Social Justice, Cancel Culture, Activism all going back decades, all strongly influenced by Maoism and elements from the other red perils.

There was a recent article about this here, but its a bit of an open secret with Columbia. They have a reputation for this sort of thing going back to the 60s.

https://nypost.com/2025/03/18/us-news/columbia-in-chaos-afte...

You reap what you sow. In fairness though, all colleges (being centralized bureaucracies) do this to a greater or lesser degree, promoting constraints increasingly to the point where the only way to get to graduation is to violate something along the way, and its a tortuorous process based in struggle.

Then they can make your investment worthless, in the name of preserving their alumni's broader reputation.

"Any potential candidate party member who harms the party is removed from the party comrade." /s
Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry
I’m bullish because many of these models rest on the consumption of copyrighted material or information that wasn’t intended for mass consumption in this way.

Also, I like to think for myself. Writing code and thinking through what I am writing often exposes edge cases that I wouldn’t otherwise realize.
500 watts! I won't need a heater any more if I turn one of these on. I had a 10k lumen led matrix lamp, but I found that it completely threw off my natural rhythm to sit under it for any length of time. It felt like it was perpetually early morning.
And it might even be right and not get you in legal trouble! Not that you'd know (until audit day) unless you went back and did them as a verification though.
Again, another regulatory decision that makes a niche worse off overall....

Abuses of a carve-out aside, having a "Sunlight mimicking" exemption would solve this, with the added conditions that they have to actually stick to the EMF outputs of the sun to get this approval. The article itself does this with “General Wellness Lamps”.

Otherwise, the only non-reg way to solve this would be to find infrared & red LEDs and make the supplementary light sources yourself.
Yes, I am very surprised to hear that you've had such success with reporting bugs to Apple. That is very unlike my experience. I've had exactly one macOS bug that I reported fixed, and that required going to a WWDC lab, talking to a person on the relevant team in person, and having them dig the bug report out of the backlog for a completely unrelated team that it was incorrectly assigned to.
The government could compel signal to do this, no?

They haven't, but if they decide they want to what's technologically stopping signal from:

1. Making an update that doesn't exist in git which pushes decrypted messages to their server when you launch the app

2. Push this update to the app store

If a government ever compelled them to?
“But the plans were on display…”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
my iPhone gets into a state lately where a pane will suddenly lose the the ability to _scroll_. it can happen in any app, but I see it a lot in Safari. Like, what is even happening, this is a fundamental UI interaction. The only way to fix it is to close the tab or force-quit the app. Super weird.
I still remember the Snow Leopard update wiped my drive clean. Talk about most solid software releases Apple ever put out. Period. Yeah right.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/10/apple-owns-up-to-odd...
SpecTec Has Been Adopted
Just reading this title and with only microsoft.com as the URL, I knew with 99% certainty this was going to be oldnewthing (Raymond Chen)
It is exceptionally rare for a contractor to have equipment to move literally anything that takes less than four laborers to move by hand.
You can also block specific subdomains, too. Useful when I want to be able to see finance.yahoo.com items in my search results, but nothing else from the yahoo.com domain.
This is exactly my experience, every time! If I offer it the slightest bit of context it will say 'Ah! I understand now! Yes, that is your problem, …' and proceed to spit out some non-existent function, sometimes the same one it has just suggested a few prompts ago which we already decided doesn't exist/work. And it just goes on and on giving me 'solutions' until I finally realise it doesn't have the answer (which it will never admit unless you specifically ask it to – forever looking to please) and give up.
This book is not for you.

Teaching others how to replicate solutions is very different from guiding people how to solve yet unsolved problems in the field.

This book is for the latter. For the former, you might want to look out for one in the "for dummies" series.
If it was intolerable due to cultural differences or him perceiving it as rude, that's a different thing than misophonia.

Misophonia is when you have an uncontrollable fight or flight reaction to trigger sounds. You can think of it as a miswired nervous system that reacts to certain sounds with fear and/or anger. In this case it's not about preference ("I find the sound rude") but something deeper and more neurological.

It sounds like your friend probably didn't have misophonia if he was simply able to get used to it after a few months.
Hot New Thermodynamic Chips Could Trump Classical Computers
> Also, when she says "none of my students has ever invented references that just don't exist"...all I can say is "press X to doubt"

I’ve never seen it from my students. Why do you think this? It’s trivial to pick a real book/article. No student is generating fake material whole cloth and fake references to match. Even if they could, why would they risk it?
Some people seem to be blocking `w3schools.com`. What is the rationale?
blockchain is here to stay, dont kid yourself
I was confused why all the blocked results said “reset” until I realized I was logged in and had them all blocked…

I don’t recall using this list to populate mine but I think I must have!
It's all their OS software. The Messages app on 18.3 will just... not open the menu to send a photo attachment about ~10% of the time now...
If you write a text adventure, use Inform6 if you like OOP progamming or Inform7 if you want... something else, declaratively. Both can compile to a Z8 game which can run everywhere, from 16 bit computers and up.
I know this format is common usage but don't see it commonly used to represent this fraction-- 50% or half -- where this construct seems needlessly long or formal.

The second part was just playful aside -- not serious. Ofcourse that didn't come through. I know there is a common sensical read that all readers will apply to it and it will not be misinterpreted. I thought this being HN people will find it amusing to treat it as a logical statement and parse.
Spotlight was bad back in the day, so I installed Alfred and started using that. Then Spotlight suddenly improved a lot, enough that it was usable for me, and I deleted Alfred. Then about five years ago something happened internally at Apple to the Spotlight team and it just got worse and worse and more difficult to use, making me regret deleting Alfred.

I wish Apple would just fix Spotlight. They don't seem to think it's worth fixing.
It's more like showing someone from 1980 a modern smart phone you call a Portable Mind Reader and them saying, "yeah, but it can't read my mind."
> Why are you getting paged? Because you built the system.

There are at least two problems with this thinking. The main problem is it's not generally true. The system is created by the entire organization. The people who raise money and allocate capital, the people who set development policies and priorities, the people who design and assemble the components, the people who sell it to customers and negotiate service levels and the people who operate and maintain it all collectively built the system.

Another problem is that it encourages moral hazards. Not paying fair on-call compensation allows unethical managers and sales staff to reap short-term rewards and bonuses by oversubscribing customers, promising more than can be delivered and rushing things to market before they're ready.

If you want happy employees, treat them fairly.
Came here to say this. I loved the voice of the main character.
The history of ADHD research is a common referenced example
Yeah but if your accountant bullshits when doing your taxes, you can sue them.
Edge of Emulation: Campho Advance
> inbuilt into the models of all LLMs is that they'll fabricate a lot.

Still the elephant in the room. We need an AI technology that can output "don't know" when appropriate. How's that coming along?
I would suggest you make sure you don't have any indoor mold. Mold in an apartment caused me problems some years ago. My understanding is that outdoor/natural mold is perfectly fine for most people (including me), but molds tend to incorporate whatever they consume into their spores, because molds prey on other molds so they try to arm themselves.

The problem is with manmade stuff like sheetrock, where the mold grows and then incorporates the binder chemicals into their spores, which are too small to see and yet get inhaled and then leech into our sinuses or whereever.

I've had problems in both work and home situations. I was tested and confirmed allergic; I don't think most people are, but it was rough for me. I'm always on the lookout for those water circles in drop ceilings; they're notorious mold colonies. Once a natural material stays wet for 12 hours, molds will begin to grow.

Just something you might be able to check off your list. Good luck.
> EM dashes break things, such as sentences or thoughts

Some style guides recommend "space, en dash, space" for this, and I prefer that myself – mainly because some software doesn't treat em dashes correctly as word separators for double click selection purposes.

For example, I'm pretty sure that at least some Kindle models would highlight both the word before and after the em dash when selecting one of them, which makes using the dictionary very annoying.
Similar here (25+ years Linux experience, including making my own distro). Personally, I use the Arch wiki for pointers to the current way to do system-level things, which has changed over time, with kernel and userland (e.g., all the things systemd changed, and for various kinds of devices), and sometimes for applications (e.g., what programs are currently available to do some small thing).

Maybe the value comes not just because they bother to maintain a wiki, but that Arch Linux tends to select for above-average technical people, even more than Linux in general does. (Even if Arch people strangely don't run Debian goodness; but we benefit from a diversity of perspectives, even if they are unexplained. :)
Cool rockets? I have always thought that rockets were rediculous. JWST, on the other hand, brought me to tears.
LLM's can't be held accountable.

And many, many companies are proposing and implementing uses for LLM's to intentionally obscure that accountability.

If a person makes up something, innocently or maliciously, and someone believes it and ends up getting harmed, that person can have some liability for the harm.

If a LLM hallucinates something, that somone believes and they end up getting harmed, there's no accountability. And it seems that AI companies are pushing for laws & regulations that further protect them from this liability.

These models can be useful tools, but the targets these AI companies are shooting for are going to be activly harmful in an economy that insists you do something productive for the continued right to exist.
It's fine if it isn't perfect if whomever is spitting out answers assumes liability when the robot is wrong. But, what people want is the robot to answer questions and there to be no liability when it is well known that the robot can be wildly inaccurate sometimes. They want the illusion of value without the liability of the known deficiencies.

If LLM output is like a magic 8 ball you shake, that is not very valuable unless it is workload management for a human who will validate the fitness of the output.
I will get some 'vibe popcorn' in order to see the Hollywoodesque disaster these tools will generate. Like watching Twister, or Dante's Peak.
I don’t think this is as profound as you made out to be. Most complex systems are incomprehensible to the majority of population anyway, so from a practical standpoint AI is no different. There’s also no single theory for how the financial markets work and yet market participants trade and make money nonetheless. And yes, we created the markets.