skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. The only thing you need one for is the Mac App Store, but most software is either not on there to begin with or is also available directly from the developer's website (other than Safari extensions, which are mostly Mac App Store only). But not only does Apple not force you to sign in with an Apple ID, if you do it doesn't take over your account (i.e. Windows makes your email address your username and you sign in to Windows with your Microsoft account password). Allowing password reset with your Apple ID and uploading your FileVault key to iCloud are both optional (and they ask you instead of it being opt-out). And you can also choose to sign into just Apple Media Services (App Store, iTunes, etc), leaving iCloud signed out (or you can use different accounts for each).
DIY Synth Database
In my experience, arguing co versus contra is a sign you are working with dubious design decisions in the first place. Mostly this is where I punch a hole in the type system and use Any. That way I can find all the bad architectural decisions in the codebase using grep.
To the extent that it's the President's job to represent the country's interests as opposed to delivering tears for his supporters to savor... not all of us believe that the "best deal" must end with Canadians hating us after we extort, threaten, insult, and abuse them. From a practical standpoint, I'm not convinced that the reset underway of the US-Canada relationship is likely to bring a net benefit to the US.
Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, and Bush didn’t deliver on most of their campaign promises. And those are the only ones within my life time that I can say that with 100% certainty they didn’t. I only (sort of) became politically active in the late 90s and definitely in the early 2000s, and it’s been fucked since then in my mind.

The sudden opposition with the stock market daily valuation by leftist is mostly new to me though. For 4 years between 2016-2021 every leftist I ever met complained about how age and dementia is a hard line for them (I live in Seattle so that’s like 7-times-a-day type interaction)

Then for 2021-2025 no one ever addresses how Biden (the oldest president in US history) couldn’t comprehend what room he was in.
The current administration has shared favorable views on "public-private partnership", which suggests that outright nationalization isn't the goal; I'd imagine the more likely scenario is that national assets will be dismantled and their functions will instead be contracted out to private operations with horrendously corrupt deals.
>rapidly failing social media platform

What suggests that? It seems neutral to me. It gained a billion dollar valuation since the acquisition. Ad revenue is returning back to the levels it was at. There were other revenue streams added to more effectively monetize it.
Sounds like they only evaluated GPT-4o and weaker LLMs like mid-last year?
Apples and oranges: AI's incommensurability problem
AI's struggle with incommensurable values—decisions like justice versus public safety—poses a significant challenge to agentic AI. Allan McCay's recent article delves into this issue, highlighting how AI's optimization focus may lead to choices misaligned with human judgment. Addressing this 'incommensurability problem' is crucial for developing AI systems that can navigate complex, value-laden decisions effectively. See here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-025-02317-7
IMHO the US is turning into an oligarchy / autocracy like Russia. Musk is one of the oligarchs. We all know what happens to oligarchs when they get too close to eclipse the top dog and go near a window.
Reduce labor costs to increase profits. But that's for the good of a small number of people when all meaningful work can be automated. And I don't trust the billionaires to make society better for the rest of us.
> Who decides whether order is lawful or not?

The individual. If your boss orders you to do something illegal, it’s up to you to be sceptical and do your research. That’s the only way it can work without converting a part of the population to drones.
And yet you're letting your own personal experiences override statistics, yourself? What's the prevalence rate of abuses of power among law enforcement officers?

"Well-documented patterns of abuse" are not statistics! But, if I'm mistaken and they are, please let me know what percentage of police officers engage in abuse of power in their career. I'd love to see those kinds of statistics!
Sorry, I'm seriously afraid I'll live long enough to see a generation of polar ice cap and glacier contrarians come up, like the flat earthers.
Virginia to become first state to make speeding impossible for some drivers
I wouldn't be so dismissive of the objection.

That loop involves way more flexible goal oriented attention, more intrinsic/implicit understanding of plausible cause and effect based on context, and more novel idea creation than it seems.

You can only brute force things with combinatorics and probabilities that have been well mapped via human attention, as piggy-backing off of lots of human digested data is just a clever way of avoiding those issues. Research is by definition novel human attention directed at a given area, so it can't benefit from that strategy in the same way domains which have already had a lot of human attention can.
> which I define as: a system which produces novel hypotheses based on current scientific knowledge that are likely to be true, and is capable of evaluating their likelihood quickly enough to be relevant to human endeavors.

Produces hypotheses which are likely to be true? Pardon my ignorance, have we even proven gravity to be true yet? Sure, I think gravity exists and is true, however your definition of AI seems like Swiss cheese.
Do you think its possible that they could be optimizing for a different problem domain than the one you judge them for?
Yeah, that's exactly what a HUMAN would say ...
RFK Jr. forces out FDA's top vaccine scientist, Peter Marks
https://archive.md/TuoCK
Apples, Oranges, and AGI: Why Incommensurability May Be an Obstacle in AI Safety
It seems to me one could replace each text node with the offset. Perhaps limit it to longer instances?
I think the whole idea of "original insight" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Most innovative is derivative, either from observation or cross application. People aren't sitting in isolation chambers their whole lives and coming up with things in the absence of input.

I don't know why people think a model would have to manifest a theory absence of input.
That's got to be the most tenuous argument I've ever seen - the most merchandisey item is a T-shirt.
> I can’t see Swift surviving as a mainstream language beyond the next 5 years.

I got into macOS development when Swift was first released, and used it heavily up until 2022 or so. I think I agree with you. The compiler is just too slow, and the language is too complex. And I think the issues are fundamental.

It sucks because I’m willing to develop for macOS exclusively, but the whole package is so rough and frustrating. Somehow they had every advantage (endless resources and complete platform control) and couldn’t put something together that’s better than Rust/Zig/whatever. Not to mention the inability to ship any useful AI developer tools, the dumb constraint of only shipping new major updates once a year at WWDC, the lack of ANY modern game development framework, etc..

I think I’ve finally talked myself into giving up on it.
When you set up a new mac or install a fresh copy it asks you to sign in/create an account once, you click no and it never asks you again.

It then asks you if you want to enable siri, you press no and you never see it again.

>If I recall correctly you can't install anything from the app store on an Mac/iPhone without an Apple account.

You can download Xcode using their site instead of the App store, but you still have to login to download the file. I guess there isn't anything preventing you from running the installer downloaded from another user's computer. Still as a developer you can install the command line tools through the terminal and then code in non apple languages without the app store.

I'd argue most users install standard applications (since this is a computer and not an idevice) which provides you a clear path to using the computer without ever having to make an account.

That does not answer your question, but i'd push back and say that Apple accounts dont really intrude on the user like Microsoft accounts do. You dont need to use it to login, you don't ever see it other than the app store or the setting menu, you can disable icloud and not even use that. Most importantly though like I mentioned there is still a path to avoiding it completely.

This is night and day difference from Windows where this entire thread is full of all the tricks Microsoft plays and really, people here are justifying registry hacks as if thats normal. Its not.

Mac is slowly probably following Microsoft, not the other way around. If Mac sinks into the nonsense that is Windows I'll have to go back to Linux (and eternally hate my life forever maybe after ~30 years of my life revolving around computing, I will rather give up computing than go back to Linux).
Hi CEO of DBOS here (we’re a restate competitor).

I really enjoyed this blog post. The depth of the technical explanations is appreciated. It really helps me understand the choices you’ve made and why.

We’ve obviously made some different design choices, but each solution has its place.
So you’re thinking it’s even more petty than what the article said? Woah.
They didn’t name it that, IEEE did.
After the time expires, your conversation disappears. I didn't have time to read the AI's responses, and now there seems to be no way to go back and review. I'm scouring the Inspector but it seems to be completely gone. Disappointing dataloss experience. :(
"I was thinking last night. Shouldn't <all innovation> we make help people instead of replacing them? Why must innovation be in the direction of and at the cost of replacing humans?"

-Humans when electricity replaced lamplighter jobs [1]

[1]: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/learning-from-automation...
> what I was taught, in high school ~30 years ago

They should still be teaching it? I don't think much has changed? I went to school a decade ago, and during that time we still wrote essays following these guidelines.

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/writing_...

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/...

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/the_writing_proce...

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Also, there are many different forms of writing. People write in forms other than argumentative essays, etc.
It’s not so much my experience, but an understanding of why people unlike us face hurdles to even trying out Linux to make the switch.

If you go on distowatch, look at the download pages for the top ten distros. Some are better than others, but most present a dizzying array of options and terminology that assume the person reading is already familiar with Linux and those options.

It would be trivial to add in some “If you don’t know what you’re doing pick this one” to a given flavour to at least give somewhere to begin. Ubuntu at least got that part right at one point in time, but the community largely still has the soft-gatekeeping stance of “if you don’t know what you’re doing this isn’t for you”.
Is this new? I've been using icloud with a custom domain for about a year and just had my first failure today with an address that I've actively been talking to all week.
This is correct, but there are plenty of Tesla dealerships to protest outside and cars for people to remember they don't like him. People could protest outside a SpaceX facility but it's unlikely they would garner any attention by doing so.
It's not clear. The relevant text seems to imply that an attacker can link their own device to a target account via providing a malicious URL (vs. commandeering an already-legitimately-linked device, which I guess is what you're imagining). That sounds like a legitimate flaw. But there are no details.
As well as howling dogs, and bats crashing into things.
I have no trouble beleiving having a central bank that can buy government debt with newly created money, essentially taxing the populace via inflation without exposing representatives to voting on a tax, might be highly attractive to governments worldwide. It is a fairly reliable way to burden the populace under an illusion they don't well see through.
Any entity that can afford to invest billions of dollars can probably also afford to litigate if they see fit.
Most of the literacy education efforts started in the 1800s in Kerala. For example,

> Education in Kerala has deep historical roots, dating back to the rule of local dynasties and the influence of colonial missionaries. The rulers of Travancore and Cochin played a crucial role in establishing schools and promoting learning, especially among marginalized communities. The British and Christian missionaries also made significant contributions by setting up institutions that emphasized modern education.

> In 1817, the Travancore government issued a royal decree stating that education should be provided to all, including women and lower castes. By the early 20th century, Kerala had already built a strong foundation for literacy, ensuring that access to education was widespread.

https://livekerala.com/blog/how-kerala-became-indias-most-li...
This can vary locally. In Commonwealth countries those things are often called "wires", or even "flexes" if you're my age or older.
Every AI company is buying access to data sets or sources of data.
I honestly have the opposite experience. I am guessing upu either develop on the .net platform or games.

Unix-likes are far more productive environments for what I do.
I didn't say that search itself is a UX fail. It's not; it's great!

The UI fail is if search is required to find the setting every time you need it, because categorization and/or navigation is broken otherwise.

As to keeping your hands on the keyboard, that's an argument for having proper keyboard support in any UI, complete with hotkeys and shortcuts. The big difference between these and search is that the former is (if properly done), consistent and predictable. So e.g. when the app adds new things in the future, your existing key sequences will still do the same thing they did before.

To take your specific examples, if I do Cmd+Space, "mouse", Enter on my system, it will bring up LinearMouse, not system mouse settings.
If Trump is on a path to tank the economy, the asset markets will react immediately to that prediction and everyone will know it. This may well be the most tightly binding constraint on Trump and Musk's actual behavior right now. Right now markets are doing worse than was predicted after the election but they're not that terrible. This seems to predict that Trump will muddle through somehow, as the most likely outcome.
The solution to dual boot is easy.... Nuke windows.
There are many places in which you can hide a 2TB micro sd card...
While billions of people do operate without cars (I’m one of them!), I feel like there’s a conditionality kind of constraint here: of the set of people who would normally be operating cars on local US arterial roads—that is, of the set of people whose privacy this technology impacts in the first place—what proportion seem likely (or able) to do whatever privacy-implicated things they need or want to do without said cars?
Yes, here's an old ad from Canada's Liberal party using NAFTA to attack the Conservative party:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eBcRYmk88jw

That said, most people, in any era, on both the left and right, probably agree that 'sudden tariffs for no reason whose details change every few weeks' are a bad thing.
What does that mean, and is it even true, given template value parameters or constexpr for example?
As others have said, the openai sdk is the defacto baseline sdk everyone uses. Like how every object store is compatible with S3.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmanabhaswamy_Temple_treasur...:

> The valuables have been accumulated in the temple over several thousand years, having been donated to the Deity, and subsequently stored in the Temple, by various Dynasties, such as the Cheras, the Pandyas, the Travancore royal family, the Kolathiris, the Pallavas, the Cholas, and many other Kings of both South India and beyond.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] Most scholars believe that this was accumulated over thousands of years

Remember that most Roman gold ended up in India. India was the main far East recipient and trading partner of Rome, not China (trade with China was mediated by Indian kingdoms). And that was one empire with which South India traded. It's unfortunate that a lot of narratives about India are driven by the North. The South is way more interesting, in my opinion (I'm biased).
What about an xAI shareholder who just paid $45 billion for a bag of rotten turnips?
CMake 4.0.0 Released
It's the new normal

https://apnews.com/article/nikola-trevor-milton-fraud-trump-...
Checkout /askconvervative, since Trump has been elected it's a pretty interesting place to lurk.

What I find really interesting is how many "conservatives" seem to think that it's fine if the rest of the world has a low opinion / doesn't want to buy American made products anymore. Like it's amazing to me that people think America becoming a nothing from a something is good.

I'm not 100% sure how much of the views on there represent actual "conservatives" but it's just a fun yet frustrating sub to browse.

Ultimately it will lead to more of the "we're hard done by attitude" that seems to have some popularity and eventually maybe lead to conflict depending on how bad the economy gets.
You make them less money if you are not online so why should they care?
I think the author can decide how they wish to present their work
Mixing ARM NEON with SVE code for fun and profit
That's actually a great example. Note that it is a distinct sentinel error value that needs to be checked for (contrary to your initial assertion), and if you forget to do it, you'll just end up with garbage.

But also, let's say the read function in question is named ReadInt32. Then what does it return on error?
Heres a little life saver that fit my use case.

https://github.com/ElPumpo/TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker
Yeah, oddly lots of information in that domain.
Pretty sure France would lend Canada some nukes when needed.
> The valuables have been accumulated in the temple over several thousand years, having been donated to the Deity, and subsequently stored in the Temple, by various Dynasties, such as the Cheras, the Pandyas, the Travancore royal family, the Kolathiris, the Pallavas, the Cholas, and many other Kings of both South India and beyond.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] Most scholars believe that this was accumulated over thousands of years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmanabhaswamy_Temple_treasur...

People have a really hard time understanding inflation and time, but, anything that's lasted this long is going to be wealthy.
I can +/-5ms jitter using a cheap GPS receiver with serial over USB.

Using the same receiver, but with a PPS wire to a GPIO pin on a raspberry pi, I get +/- 5µs jitter.

If you are interested, I have a write up with live graphs in the hamburger menu here: https://www.developerdan.com/ntp
Time for him to learn about what the IRS calls constructive ownership.
> The proper response is "that could be valid, we need to find a way to measure it".

With all respect, no. You don't treat every possible hypothesis as potentially valid. That's conspiracy logic. Valid ideas are testable ones. If you're not measuring it, then the "proper" response is to keep silent, or propose an actual measurement.

And likewise a proper response is emphatically not to respond to an actual measurement within a commonly accepted paradigm (c.f. the linked headline above) with a response like "well this may not be measuring the right thing so I'm going to ignore it". That is pretty much the definition of ludditism.
Oh you missed that we hate the SEC lol

It is a creature of the New Deal where many of its programs exist on shaky constitutional ground, existing primarily because standing with the courts is difficult to achieve

Although the New Deal is heralded in the history books, most programs of the new deal were declared unconstitutional within 10 years, and everything that remains should be heavily scrutinized with that knowledge

The SEC stands out like a sore thumb when you really look at it

When its not blatantly separating classes, it is the state arm of FINRA and openly captured.

Just keep EDGAR for financial reports and thats it. They can’t even explicitly define what insider trading is and isn’t.
Where do you buy TCB? I've seen sites like Denimio and Bears Tokyo that sell them - do you have any experience with such sites?
Re: 2026, it's possible Democrats could take back the House, and then be able to impeach the President. But it looks like they would need to win 32 of the 33 seats up for grabs in the Senate - 20 of which are currently held by Republicans in solidly red states - to guarantee the 66 votes necessary to convict. That seems unlikely.

And think about what would need to happen if you'd like to see actual change in leadership of the executive branch. You'd need the House comfortably controlled by Democrats, with the Senate controlled by a supermajority of Democrats. I think that you'd need both the President and Vice President impeached, convicted, and removed from office, while preventing the current/acting President from having a new VP nominated and confirmed, so that the Speaker of the House became acting President. This seems even less likely.
Why is being a "marginalized group" relevant?

And honestly, given the struggles police forces in the US are having with staffing, it does appear that cops are becoming increasingly marginalized. Especially since the primary driver behind the decline in recruitment seems to be the risk of social stigmatization.
This is going to suck for setting up shared lab laptops...
https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/11.8/LICENSE (BSD 3-clause)
Crypto does not exempt you from KYC and AML requirements.
That's an easy jab but I want to know what these kids and teens were eating every day. The immune system can not do its job fueled by poptarts©, toaster-strudels©, hotpockets© and Monster© energy drinks. Too much of the picture is missing to even begin a redneck thesis.
The idea is that the USA basically pissing off it's friends is a great idea and that the USA doesn't really need friends, or friendly trade agreements is where people get confused.

People are using the term isolationist because that's what this is, there is an idea here that The USA can just piss the world off and destroy it's reputation because the whole world just can't go on without the USA and the USA doesn't need anyone else is really misguided and it is an isolationist policy.

What I find most fascinating is that when I read MAGA / Conservative posts online, many of them seem to think that it also doesn't matter if people boycott American made products. If sentiment towards America is negative, it's seen as a positive thing.

Let me ask you this, what on earth is the point of on shoring manufacturing, and making America great again, if it's only great within the confines of red states in the USA?
I learned that most diesel cars and trucks are still dependent on electronics for fuel injection and also have a higher minimum-quality of diesel.

The prepper nerds seem to advocate for Cummins 12-valve engines from the 1990s or the Toyota 1HZ.

There's a whole lot of old diesel LandCruisers out there. I'm guessing that's the sweet spot for it still being a normal car that mechanics can maintain while still being comfy and looking cool.