skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting take. I'm mostly not affected by that because I use except from the OS itself nearly no Apple software to be not trapped in the Apple golden cage ever. No photos, no Apple mail, no Apple maps, no Notes etc etc. and/but I also use no iPhone. But system settings is awful, at least I can search there to not wrap my head around it.

I actually see progress in things that matter for me as software dev like virtualisation and Docker support. And with frameworks like MLX I can even run image generation tools like FLUX locally on my Mac (search for mflux). Amazing! And Apple Silicone is a screamer... still cannot believe I have the fastest single core PC on Earth in my laptop.

I only thing I use is the calendar to see my personal and work Google calendars aggregated at the same time.

So far I'm happy with macOS. If the whole graphics industry (Adobe etc) would support Linux more I would even switch away to Linux but because I'm dealing with photography, color correction and a little video too I will never switch to Linux (the graphics system quality in macOS is way too good). Windows is unfortunately no go too because of the built-in spyware and ads in the OS (like WTF).

I consider Apple Intelligence also as a sort of spyware. I don't want to activate it ever (but it gets auto activated after updates) and I don't want it to download its stuff and waste space. If people want to use it: fine, but if I personally opt out, I opt out fully Apple!
Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's?
It's not even that Snow Leopard was so great. It's that what came immediately after was so poor. Lion was noticeably janky. Things seemed to improve again with Mavericks becoming quite stable after numerous point releases. Then there was a glimmer of hope around High Sierra/Mojave/Catalina, but since then it's been steadily downhill.
Interoperable Randomness Beacons
I guess that laughter provides a lot of context that helps learning.
Non-Thinkpad Lenovos have some standouts too. I'm running Debian Stable on an AMD Yoga Slim 7 from a couple of years ago and sure, it's not an Apple, but for the £800 or so I paid for it, it's a really polished machine. Loads of ports, and it's approximately performance-competitive with a Dell XPS13 from about the same time that cost literally twice as much.

The one snag I ran into was that when it was new, supporting the power modes properly needed a mainline kernel rather than the distro default. But in the grand scheme of things that's relatively trivial.

I have an M1 Macbook Pro from work and honestly I'm not tempted to get one for myself. I am tempted by the M3 and M4 beasts as AI machines, but as form factors go I'm just not sold.
Verifiable, unpredictable and unbiased random numbers as a service
I don’t like Pinterest, but it’s easier to explain than conspiracy: a valuable demographic was underserved because people tend to overlook that women are half of humanity.

Mood boards do nothing for me, but that isn’t true of everyone.
Authority, yes, accountable, not so much.

Basically at the level of other publishers, meaning they can be as biased as MSNBC or Fox News, depending on who controls them.
Wizards. Actual, honest to god, wizards
The good thing about style guides is that they’re guides, not laws :)

That’s one thing I really like about English: There’s no central authority decreeing what’s right and what’s wrong top down, and it feels like there is some room for individual preferences and experimentation.

Very refreshing, compared to e.g. German, which has more than one semi-official authority gate keeping “correctness” in speech and writing.
I’ve been recently comparing a lot of different models on coding tasks for work. It’s the worst work I’ve ever enduring in my life. It’s like trying to convince the most eager and literate goldfish to program. They’re occasionally very helpful, but for the most part they’re just more work than they’re worth. Maybe they can save me effort in the long run, but it would seem only at the cost of my patience and sense of satisfaction with my work.

I will say my own experience had me ranking Sonnet 3.7 below Gemini 2.5 tho
Which is pretty ironic in a thread littered with people asserting LLMs are useless because they can hallucinate and create illogical outputs.
Ubuntu: Benchmarking a Distribution
It feels like OP is not using the tools that LLM are correctly. Yes they hallucinate, but I've found they rarely do on first run. It's only when you insist that they start doing it.
Yeah the amount of "piffle work" that LLMs save me is astounding. Sure, I can look up fifty different numbers and copy them into excel. Or I can just tell an LLM "make a chart comparing measurements XYZ across devices ABC" and I'm looking at the info right there.
You're literally the 'peacock' being described. You've expressed your preferences and needs, with no mention of the needs or preferences of your staff.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/R9T6i

I doubt the jeans the author is buying from Amazon are genuine product, maybe just really good knockoffs.
Identity by Any Other Name (2019)
I've used WinCompose¹² to add key composition to Windows for many years (after discovering the concept in Unix-land), which I still find more convenient than the other options I've tried (including the Windows Emoji keyboard).

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[1] https://wincompose.info/

[2] Though having checked just now, the sequences for en-dash and em-dash don't seem to be working. Perhaps one of my custom macros is interfering somehow… (it is behaving overall, ellipsis just worked as did the following diacritic and other symbols: áèîöūñ±⁰¹²∞¡¿‽π⬚). I'll have to poke at it later and see what is ary.
If you're in the EU:

Leverage the GDPR and contact Google's DPO (Data Protection Officer) to inform them about the problem. If the problem is not solved or there is no reaction, lodge a complaint with the DPA (Data Protection Authority).
> That picture of my kids reading together above, which is from a real photo—I exclaimed in delight when it appeared in the chat window like magic. So I totally get it. It’s a softer world when you have Ghibli glasses on. But by the time I made the third picture, it was less fun. A creeping sadness set in.

Silicon Valley finally disrupted Studio Ghibli! Are you proud yet?
Sure, but does any of that support the claim that LLMs were marketed as superintelligence?
> Are legally liable for defects in design or manufacture that cause injury, death, or property damage

Except when you use them for purposes other than declared by them - then it's on you. Similarly, you get plenty of warnings about limitation and suitability of LLMs from the major vendors, including even warnings directly in the UI. The limitations of LLMs are common knowledge. Like almost everyone, you ignore them, but then consequences are on you too.

> Provide manuals that instruct the operator how to effectively and safely use the power tool

LLMs come with manuals much, much more extensive than any power tool ever (or at least since 1960s or such, as back then hardware was user-serviceable and manuals weren't just generic boilerplate).

As for:

> Know how they work

That is a real difference between power tool manufacturers and LLM vendors, but then if you switch to comparing against pharmaceutical industry, then they don't know how most of their products work either. So it's not a requirement for useful products that we benefit from having available.
Because pretty much everyone who isn’t from the US is on WhatsApp, and voip calls quality is infinitely better than normal voice calls.

I either use FaceTime or WhatsApp.
This, 100%. Agile (properly done, for whatever value of “proper“ you choose) is fine for websites, apps, consumer facing stuff. For things that must work, in predictable fashion, for years, it’s often inappropriate.

OS work is somewhere in between, but definitely more towards the latter category.
Ask HN: Simplest way to productize my graph layout algo?
I've developed an algorithm that produces good planar layouts for graphs with arbitrary structures. (Obviously, extremely non-planar graphs won't yield great results, but it works well on the kinds of graphs you'd encounter in practice.) It's similar to Graphviz's dot, but I believe my algorithm produces better layouts, and the entire process is real-time and iterative, allowing users to add or remove nodes/edges mid-process without the long wait times of Graphviz.

I can provide some layout examples from earlier versions if anyone is interested.

Now I'm trying to productize this algorithm, but the options are overwhelming. Graph visualization has so many potential applications, such as real-time visualization of programming language semantics (control flow graphs, dependency graphs, event triggering graphs), a visual heap memory debugger, or an improved node editor. I know these applications are genuinely useful, but I'm concerned about the long development cycles. I'm leaning towards simpler tools, like a mind map editor. Traditional mind map tools only support tree-like structures (with some manually-controlled extra edges), but my algorithm can automatically lay out arbitrary graph structures, which I think could be quite appealing.

First time posting – I hope my question is clear and relevant!
Drand v2.0 security post-mortem
Rocket Lab, Stoke Space Join National Security Space Launch Competition
This article makes a lot of noise about RTO being about corporate peacocking and/or real estate. But it also cites a source that a third of people _prefer_ in-office work and another third of people _prefer_ hybrid work. I don’t understand why it leaves no room for the simplest explanation: the managers pushing against remote work simply belong to one of those two thirds.
As someone who runs a decent sized site with AdSense, I wish.
I had my real bookshelves behind me for most of my remote career. Mostly because my old sociology professor called attention to what backgrounds people get in media reports tells you a lot about them.

Sadly, we had a second child and we put a cot into the room, so I can't have my books behind me anymore :(
It's definitely standard, but in what way is it clearer? An abbreviation is never more clear than the full thing it abbreviates.

EDIT: I saw your explanation below, and you make a very good point.
If the training data had a lot of humans saying "I don't know", then the LLM's would too.

Humans don't and LLM's are essentially trained to resemble most humans.
This is a troll. Well done
A lot of irony in that comment.
I've never heard of spelling regressing.

I think my spelling ability is mostly correlated to how much I have read. I know how to spell many words I've never used myself.
> Another channel is writing a formal letter requesting your GDPR rights to deletion on paper

GDPR is EU, UK is not. how does this work? surley the UK didn't adopt the GDPR voluntarily?
Papers or articles like this always rub me the wrong way. They seem to take for granted that powerful elites aren't ever actually conspiring. I know they're mainly addressing the low-iq/schizo ones primarily but it's still annoying considering countless "conspiracies" have been shown to be true
Damn, local LLM just made it up. Thanks for the correction, I should have confirmed before quoting it. Sounded true enough but that's what it's optimized for.. I just searched for the quote and my comment shows up as top result. Sorry for the misinformation, humans of the future! I'll edit the comment to clarify this. (EDIT: I couldn't edit the comment anymore, it's there for posterity.)

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> Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

— Oliver Heaviside

In 'On Operators in Physical Mathematics, part II', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (15 Jun 1893), 54, 121.

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Also from Heaviside:

> If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

> "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.

> There is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.
> This is your interpretation of what these companies are saying. I'd love to see if some company specifically anything like that?

What is the layman to make of the claim that we now have “reasoning” models? Certainly sounds like a claim of human-like cognition, even though the reality is different.
> US is trying to strengthen NATO by pushing the other members to spend more on defence

And by threatening to invade Greenland (which is Danish territory). And by starting a trade war against EU. And by having the leaked messages of US vice president describing how much he despises Europe.

The US has a very odd way of strengthening an alliance by alienating its allies.
oops, meant for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43461885

But since I am here, I thought it was about US Broadcaster NBC and its owner Comcast. But was something else, an interesting read nevertheless.
The fact it could be compiled in WASM is a good thing, given the Chrome team was considering removing libxml and XSLT support a few years back. The reasons cited were mostly about security (and share of users).

It's another proof that working on fundamental tools is a good thing.
Kids don't apply logic or rules consistently nor fairly. They frequently misinterpret them on purpose and evaluate them in spectacularly unfair ways.

Also, it actually make sense to want the kid to go to sleep sooner then adults and also to go home for dinner or whatever.
>Scientists say that retreating glaciers are revealing stores of precious metals

Easily mined ? That is a shame for those areas, no wonder Trump wants to invade the Arctic Areas :(
> you don't need WSL on MacOS because, well, MacOS is already a *nix environment.

Right up until you need Linux syscalls. If you're doing anything with containers it's an annoyance.
Because that is a short-sighted system where society is incentivized to, over time, concentrate all property and power into the hands of fewer and fewer wealthy individuals and corporations, until eventually one day there is no more mom-and-pop. Mom-and-pop is shrinking and will continue to shrink because of "wealth-neutral" policies. Just like what's happened with agriculture. You can't buy a ranch or farm today if you're not a millionaire, and eventually the same will be true of all property that is resource-constrained.
You can make it a video call, or invite other friends in. Even when the called person is on android. I'm not sure if that would work with regular call. (iOS to iOS probably has this already, I don't know)

Also you are connected via wifi, it's free. Even when you are in another country.

For a long long time I had a prepaid sim, and would just call my out of country family on whatsApp / Signal from home. Basically did not pay anything for it.
The Nvidia Rubin NVL576 Kyber Midplane Is Huge – ServeTheHome
What is the alternative that you use, how do you provide data access in a clean, separated, maintainable way?

I have seen it a lot in my career, and have used it a lot. I've never used it in any situation to switch out a database layer for something else. It seems like we have very different careers.

I also don't really see how it duplicates code. At the basic level, it's practically nothing more than putting database access code in one place rather than all over the place.
We’ve already been over this, JD…
'Barely any developers who can't develop for shit.' That's a frustrating sentence to unpack.

Is the claim that the majority of developers are proficient because of Leetcode as a filter?

I don't think Leetcode is a useful interview tool when the actual role deviates from the style of questions that are expected to be completed in an interview scenario. And this is a prevalent issue.

Clearly it can be gamified and I don't think this makes for good engineers. It makes for people that are good at solving Leetcodes. Jira tickets aren't Leetcodes.

Whatever technical filter is implemented (pairing/take home/in house white boarding etc.) I care much more about observability, logging, approach to difficult problems etc. and general attitude.

Run me through the architecture for previous solutions that have been worked on. Did you own it? Were there any outages? What happened when requirements change? How can you ensure what you've created is fit for purpose for the organisation?

There's so much more to engineering rather than just code. And in my experience many engineers are worse at this than they think.
I didn't read every word of the PDF, but I didn't see a definition of coastline derivation. See the Coastline Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox
Mostly that in such a reality software engineering will cease to be a thing; however industries based around physical resources such as manufacturing, construction and healthcare will continue to employ people, and by extension, the CEO.
> """happiness"""

Not following leaks, or just the news, not living in the real world, not caring of the consequences of reality: anybody can think he's """happy""" with psychedelia and with just living in private world. But it is the same kind of "happy" that comes with "just smile".

If you did not get information that there are severe pitfalls - which is by the way so unrelated to the "it's sentient thing", as we are talking about the faults in the products, not the faults in human fools -, you are supposed to see them from your own judgement.
>"285368737954-83645" is... well I have to assume somewhere in the 10-100K range?

83645 is five digits, so certainly in the ~10,000 range.
> "writing down exactly what he wants" is just coding!

That would make good project managers and business analysts "coders" and they are not coders. It is only in this age with LLMs does that line between functional requirements and code become blurred.

He doesn't know how to write code well; he knows how to write requirements and instructions well from managing offshore teams.

In practice, his instructions are detailed in the functional domain. Engineers bias too much in the technical domain.

> The flip side of 'we replaced our dev team with vibe coders look how fast we print shitware' is now shitware value falls close to 0, as anyone can make it.

Actually, he recognizes this and said something to the effect of "this is the end of SaaS" meaning that anyone can build this. That's his biggest fear going all in on this (he is still keeping his day job despite this project gaining traction so quickly)

But I don't think this is true; I think there are still some technical barriers (at the moment) like one needs to know to instruct about databases, set up external services, etc. The AI is writing the connections to some third party APIs, but one needs to know what an API is and which one to use to instruct the agent.

A future may be coming where this is no longer the case (e.g. combining deep research and computer use that will automatically set up domains, connect external services, etc.), but it's not here yet.

> 'shitware'

Is it "shitware" if customers are paying because they are deriving value from it? He's got 30 customers, a few of which paid annual subscriptions because it provided value to their actual business. Is it "shitware" because it's not handcrafted? Does it matter if it's solving some real problem and customers want to pay for it?
You lay the rhetoric on so thick (“cash heads”, “pushing the narrative”, “corporate overlords”, “profit-making abomination”) that it’s hard to understand your actual claim.

Are you trying to say that LLMs are useful now but you think that will stop being the case at some point in the future?
Same as it always has. It was in place before Brexit.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-and-the...

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/679/contents

https://uk-gdpr.org/
Claim for a missing tooth
Your WhatsApp's user ID is your phone number, so it makes sense to be able to use WhatsApp directly whenever you have a "Call" button somewhere in the UI. Same for messages.
It goes back further than that. I remember being able to buy key-combo cheat cards for System 7, and I have no reason to think the shortcuts they covered wouldn't also have been present in System 6.
As someone who was over-employed in '21-'22, I think RTO is mainly there to prevent employees from making too much money. It's not that they're worried about loss in productivity as much as their loss of leverage against the employees. The threat of making someone homeless is a benefit they enjoy. Having multiple jobs removes that threat and empowers employees to push back and be assertive. Which is the real threat to profits.
You don’t realize it (yet) but his post was not serious.
The UK incorporated GDPR into our local laws as GDPR UK[0] and the DPA[1]. I don't know whether the punitive measures still hold up though.

[0] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/679/contents

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/contents/enacte...
As a boss, I honestly don't care. The business exists to get make money, and if a side effect of that is not letting people work, or pretend to work, in their pajamas, so be it.

As a person, I would like people to think of me as fair. And that's for the workers to decide not a commenter on a forum.
Not just terraforming. The magnetosphere would have to be restarted and as far as I know humans do not have the ability to do this yet. No magnetosphere, any atmosphere created would be lost and the surface dwellers would be at elevated risks from solar radiation. One mitigating control would be living under ground but any time I bring that up the HN crowd take giant dumps on it. The alternative is remaining in a space suit or pods for the rest of their unnatural lives.

All that aside humans are not mentally stable enough at the best of times to survive in pods. To your point about a colony on Mt. Everest all the biodome experiments on earth have failed and these test subjects were vetted to be physically and mentally fit. Just being in space for a prolonged period takes a massive toll on the health of astronauts glaucoma, muscle and bone loss, neurological damage. It takes several months just to get to mars so the test colony would be starting at a significant disadvantage. It would only take one unhinged person to put the lives of many pod dwellers at risk. All of this and more is just a recipe for a massively expensive disaster and that's just the known-knowns.
This would make more sense with a parallel port and/or the DIN connector used by keyboards before PS/2, both of which have been extinct for much longer than PS/2, which is still being added to some main boards.

I would have included an RS232 D-Sub serial connector but those are still used if not for mice.
but most phone numbers you are clicking on a web page (the cited use case) won't have a whatsapp account behind it
One thing that always strikes me in assessments of intelligence in young children (specially in comparisons with animals) is that they focus on what children can do, where as the really remarkable thing about young children is how fast they can learn.