skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Afraid
They mentioned the name of the app in the article “KiwiServices”
It has a pretty bad reputation from an earlier era when it was actively providing bad information [0]. That's largely been resolved from what I understand, but the reputation lives on.

People may also just find that they don't get a lot of value from it, but if that were the only reason I'd expect geekforgeeks to rank equally high with it or higher.

[0] https://www.w3fools.com/
The folly of the War Powers Resolution.
They're newer, but they aren't at all similar to what ships on Apple's OSes anymore. These days, the layers have flipped, and CoreFoundation is becoming a wrapper around swift-foundation.

CF functions toll-free bridge the CF types to their Foundation counterparts and invoke the corresponding Objective-C API, which is either implemented directly in Swift, or is a wrapper around the Swift function.

An Apple employee on the Foundation team posted an example of how calling `CFCalendarCreateWithIdentifier` works here: https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-foundation-now-available/73...

I'm sure it's still a work-in-progress, but their definitive goal is for the OSS swift-foundation codebase to be the same as what ships in their OSes, which was never the case with swift-corelibs-foundation.

Edit: I found a conference talk by some Apple folks that goes into more detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn6C_XEv1Mo
furiously models doughnuts
How to ruin a real estate agent's day: arrive at your showing appointment wearing a tyvek bunny suit and headlamp and immediately demand access to the crawlspace.
Have you considered you are using it incorrectly?
Does this api allow me to enumerate the users (by phone number) using the service? That would seem to be bad as well. I. guess that it depends on what their fix was.

If this really was the first api request made by the app, and it has a serious vulnerability, then the omens are not great for the rest of the api calls either.
Seems a bit needlessly long when employed for a concept more mundanely called "half". A lay person uses half more often, I would imagine.

For all other fractions, I don't feel it is that odd to use X out of Y construct.
I appreciate that you took the time to write this. Well said
This is such an unbelievably dismissive assertion, I don't even know where to start.

To suggest, nay, explicitly state:

Engineering started out as just some dudes who built things
from gut feeling.

After a whole lot of people died from poorly built things,
they decided to figure out how to know ahead of time if it
would kill people or not.

Is to demean those who made modern life possible. Say what you want about software developers and I would likely agree with much of the criticism.

Not so the premise set forth above regarding engineering professions in general.
ok, but people are building determinative software _on top of them_. It's like saying "it's ok, people make mistakes, but lets build infrastructure on some brain in a vat". It's just inherently not at the point that you can make it the foundation of anything but a pet that helps you slop out code, or whatever visual or textual project you have.

It's one of those "quantities is so fascisnating, lets ignore how we got here in the first place"
MacBook mics are fine assuming you sit close enough to your laptop and directly infront of it.

If you have it off to the side and aren’t sitting
pretty close it will sound like butthole

Proper positioning is pretty important.
I’m being completely candid. I’ve always understood “affirmative action” to refer to having different hiring or admissions standards for different races: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/nyu-website-defaced-a... (“Affirmative action is a policy designed to promote opportunities for historically marginalized groups, particularly in education and employment, by considering factors like race or gender in admissions and hiring decisions.”)

But people answering polls don’t necessarily know that. Which is why you need to look at polls that are worded more specifically.
Ah, so it's like Star Trek movies.
Apache NuttX and small systems – Modbus slave example
IMHO, Mac OS X contributed decisively towards making Apple cool, which was followed by lots of boutique apps and the success of iOS. Loosing that critical mass of developers, even if it's a tiny userbase, would worry me if I was a top leader of Apple.
Yeah, fuck bob.
If only it was merely useless. I know its reputation but it had some information that MDN did not have, so I used it this once in recent years. Turned out, the information was simply wrong and so I made a wrong decision based on that. (It might have been about favicon format support in different browsers. Presumably it was Safari that never had support for vector graphics whereas w3schools listed it as such, and it's not like you can just download Safari to double check.) Regardless, what I'm sure about is that I alerted them to whatever the problem was, but for me it was the last nail in that coffin
Well you see, there are lots of people that are dependent on bullshitting their way through life, and don't actually contribute anything new of novel to the world. For these people, LLMs are great because they can generate more bullshit than they ever could before. For those that are actually trying to do new and interesting things, well, an LLM is only as good as what it has seen before, and you're doing something new and exciting. Congratulations, you beat the machine until they steal your work and feed it to the LLM.
maybe you can ask an llm to explain it.
I wish I knew what it was. If those kinds of posts are #4 like you say, then there's no indication on them of who shared it or why I'm seeing it. Half of the posts on my feed are either AI garbage, unfunny memes, or local news from pages I don't follow. [Here's an example](https://i.imgur.com/ZDB0QVv.png).
I... think so? Whichever one works with Microsoft Realms, which is the $2/month solution I settled on after somewhat-getting a self hosted server to run for a little bit on my desktop.

I figured that I make a six-figure salary as a software developer, I can afford $2/month so that I don't have to fucking become a sysadmin for a game server my child depends on.
Have you considered kicking tires on Linux installed on your MacBook?

I have a 2018 Mac mini running Ubuntu well. It actually dual boots macos as well using the refind bootloader. Refind can be installed and booted from a USB key as well so pretty straightforward to try. Make a empty partition from macos for Linux. Then boot Linux iso and install there. Boot refind and you can select which os to use. The 2018 mini even supports esxi and windows if you want to quad boot
For me, I hiched my wagon to the Apple team, years ago, and have held on, through some truly disastrous times.

I can't predict whether or not they will get past this, but I'll keep hanging on, anyway.

The code quality (the bits they let us see), however, seems to be going downhill, as is the quality of the documentation. These are things that always held up, in the past.

It's fairly discouraging. I suspect the quality of their hires has been going down. I'm not sure what it is, they want, but it doesn't seem to be quality.
I have this issue as well, and some of the problems I've noticed are:

- People don't want to feel judged, and people will assume you are judging them (not the core issue with misophonia)

- It takes energy to change and accommodate and people might rather not

- If you don't have misophonia, it's not very understandable or relatable to others

While I wish I could snap my fingers and have everyone change, I think I'm more of the mindset now of:

- I need to try to get help (therapy) to minimize the impact on myself

- It's worth asking the few people you spend the most time around to meet you halfway on this stuff

- It's probably unreasonable to ask most people to alter their behavior (and tiring to keep asking everyone)

That said… I'd be lying if I didn't often think "OK man it's not that hard to just close your mouth." But that's more of an inside thought.
> It's more believable (still not very) that they disproportionately avoid studies.

Women are definitely strongly underrepresented in medical texts, and it's not typically by choice: https://www.aamc.org/news/why-we-know-so-little-about-women-...

A lot of "the consensus" in medical literature predates the inclusion of women in medical research, and even still there things are not tested on women (often because of ethical risks around fertility and birth defects).
You honestly think anyone in the US wants to evaluate just why Americans turning to drugs? Nobody wants to open up that can of worms.
To be fair, I agree with you that the recent OS X control panel changes suck shit and are awful, and get worse with every update.
My biggest annoyance with recent macOS versions that most QuickLook plugins stopped working. Apparently one could re-develop them with their new framework-of-the-day, but I have no doubt a lion's share of what I'm using will just become abandonware.
No, it's not. AI uses em dashes far more frequently than the average human.
I've heard this a few times with Claude. I have no way to know for sure, but I'm guessing the problem is as simple as their reward model. Likely they trained it on generating code with tests and provided rewards when those tests pass.

It isn't hard to see why someone rewarded this way might want to game the system.

I'm sure humans would never do the same thing, of course. /s
What is the point of making JS go faster? It is already fast enough even on older computers for the stuff it is designed for, making crappy UI.
earthly has something like this. it's wonderful.

https://docs.earthly.dev/docs/guides/debugging

there's also https://github.com/ktock/buildg
He's being rewarded for the work he did as FCC chair. This is an established pattern. Be an industry regulator, and conduct yourself in a way where you cater to your industry with the expectation that you will be rewarded after your term finishes.
If I'm evaluating a potential application whose core functionality does not require external resources/servers (Dropbox for example) and they don't at a minimum offer some kind of perpetual fallback license (aka the Jetbrains annual subscription model), then I straight up bounce.

Examples of good alternatives

- Pixelmator > Photoshop

- Davinci Resolve > Premiere

- Reaper > Audition

I have no interest in renting my tools.
Yeah and at the same time there are efforts to verify standard library using Kani: https://model-checking.github.io/verify-rust-std/

Between this and Bjarne Stroustrup panic leaked email to C++ standards committee members, it's going to be interesting for Rust's future.
It's a garbage site and there are far better non-profit web specification and utilization sites like MDN Web Docs. https://developer.mozilla.org/
If you were employed there was never a time in American history were food was expensive. When you consider the relative price increase needed to serve quality food to students cost becomes a bad joke. The reason is that nobody is America cares because there is no food culture there is food product and nationalization.

The idea that you can have a national lunch program, with 0 national dishes and no standard for preparation is only something that could come from D.C.

America has plenty of regional cuisine that is likely cheaper to source locally, people just rarely take into account the fact that money spent close is much more likely to come back to you, 90%/10% is a good rule here. For every dollar you spend you get 90 cents back if the entire supply chain is local and 10 cents if it's completely external.
ToolsAI
What is this product so I can avoid it?
> Some people are just uncomfortable with it because it “could” replace their jobs.

What jobs are seriously at risk of being totally replaced by LLM's? Even in things like copywriting and natural language translation, which is somewhat of a natural "best case" for the underlying tech, their output is quite sub par compared to the average human's.
Ya and it’s something in maybe the top 3 of most used user actions. Really indefensible
Does this actually give you the same intensity as sunlight? Or well, close enough to it that the light can diffuse into the rest of the room? In my experience my 4000lm projector doesn't have anywhere near the intensity to properly approach sunlight.
No man, I wish I had done these things when I was on Adderall. They're good for anyone, whether they're medicated or not.
Are people really this hung up on the term “AI”? Who cares? The fact that this is a shockingly useful piece of technology has nothing to do with what it’s called.
Can our brains recall precise citations to tens of papers we read a while ago? For the vast majority, no. LLMs function somewhat similarly to our brains in many ways, as opposed to classical computers.

Their strengths and flaws differ from our brains, to be sure, but some of these flaws are being mitigated and improved on by the month. Similarly, unaided humans cannot operate successfully in many situations. We build tools, teams, and institutions to help us deal with them.
Anyone who doesn't understand this either isn't required to use to utility it provides or has no idea how to prompt it correctly. My wife is a bookkeeper. There are some tasks that are a pain in the ass without writing some custom code. In her case, we just saved her about 2 hours by asking Claude to do it. It wrote the code, applied the code to a CSV we uploadrd and gave us exactly what we needed in 2 minutes.
The nice thing is that there are several apps which replace it and do a lot more at the same time. (Like LaunchBar, Raycast, Alfred)
Snow Leopard was macOS moving so slowly people thought Apple were abandoning the Mac.

Apple changed how they tied OS updates to hardware sales in this era and this left a lot of Macs on Snow Leopard for half a decade. So people remember that last point update – which was as close to a low-term-stability release as Apple has ever had.

But to get there, Snow Leopard received 15 updates over 2 years and it was really just point updates to Leopard so it was more like 29 updates over 4 years without a major user facing feature. And this was after Leopard itself took over 2 years to develop.

If Apple did nothing but polish features and reduce bugs for 6 years, people would proclaim them dead. And they might actually be dead since their entire sales model is tied to cycles of development, promotion and delivery. For those of us who remember Apple getting stuck on System 7 between 1990 and 1997 and how the company nearly collapsed in that era: it would be a delay almost on that scale.
Carney:"The old relationship we had with the U.S. ... is over"
Carney: The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over.
Is your testing adversarial or merely anecdotal curiosity? If you don't actively look for it why would you expect to find it?

It's bad technology because it wastes a lot of labor, electricity, and bandwidth in a struggle to achieve what most human beings can with minimal effort. It's also a blatant thief of copyrighted materials.

If you want to like it, guess what, you'll find a way to like it. If you try to view it from another persons use case you might see why they don't like it.
You’re moving the goalposts. LLMs are masquerading as superb reference tools and as sources of expertise on all things, not as mere “typical humans.” If they were presented accurately as being about as fallible as a typical human, typical humans (users) wouldn’t be nearly as trusting or excited about using them, and they wouldn’t seem nearly as futuristic.
It sounds like what you describe. He was absolutely disgusted by people eating in public. And he described it as the chewing and swallowing and noises that he couldn’t stand.

I made it a point of going to the cafeteria with him and my friends would join us - usually in a table of 10, mixed sex. In retrospect it was probably torture for him. At the beginning is when he confided with me about his phobia about eating but maybe out of naïveté I didn’t care - he was my friend and he ate with us and eventually it didn’t seem to be the big deal it was when I first met him, especially after he got a bf in the friend group.
I definitely suffer from this - no other semi-regular occurrence in my life makes me as stressed/irritated.

However, I'm not sure I agree that the taboo you describe is a kind of unreasonable cultural quirk. It is a pretty uncomfortable imposition to be asked to eat more quietly. It's more confrontational by nature than e.g. asking somebody if they wouldn't mind being a little quieter in the theater. And yes, some people surely become too provoked by the request, but also the person making the request could often do a better job with the tone. Either way though, finding a truly non-provocative angle for this request is basically intractable.
> It's hard for me to picture that women see receive less medical attention than man: completely inconsistent with my culture and every doctor's office I've ever been to

“Medical attention” and “coverage in medical literature” aren't even remotely the same thing, so dismissing a claim about the first based on your anecdotal experience of the second is completely bonkers.
> That's it! Language models like Claude aren't programmed directly by humans because they are indirectly programmed by humans when they are trained on large amounts of language data generated by humans!

... and having large numbers of humans reinforce the applicability ("correctness"), or lack thereof, of generated responses over time.
Except for when the placement of the icon strip with the trashcan symbol changes to the bottom of the context menu because of the location of the context menu on the screen. Bonkers. No idea why the UI committee would’ve okayed that one.
> How do you pass someone going the speed limit

You don't. It is not legal to exceed the speed limit while passing. There is no such thing as needing to violate traffic laws. There is no such thing as not being able to brake or slow down, regardless of who's behind you. Sometimes it is not possible to cross several lanes in time to make a certain exit, while driving legally. Your legal option is to proceed to the next exit, regardless of whether that makes you unhappy. If driving legally makes you unhappy... that's a YOU problem.
Google was fantastically impressive when it first came out.
The Future of AI Belongs to Experienced Operators with Good Taste
Are you using aider in your mycoder?
https://twitter-thread.com/t/1905132853672784121
G. Brandon Robinson swears by U+2010 for hyphens in groff's Unicode output [0], but I see it as a hypercorrection. The most common convention by far (among authors who use Unicode and care about dashes) is to use U+002D for hyphens and U+2212 for minus signs. Not even the Unicode Consortium uses U+2010 for hyphens in its documents, and I'm not aware of any major organization that does.

As far as appearance goes, almost all fonts I've looked at make U+2010 identical to U+002D (i.e., they don't put any 'minus' into the 'hyphen-minus'), but a few make U+2010 a smidgeon shorter.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38121765
This is correct. On top of that, the failure modes of AI system are unpredictable and incomprehensible. Present day AI systems can fail on/be fooled by inputs in surprising ways that no humans would.
I don't know about fastlane, since my CI/CD is just a shell script, and signing and notarising is as hard as (checking the script) running `codesign ...` followed by `notarytool submit ... --wait`

Yes, you need to put keys on the build server for the "Developer ID Application" (which is what you need to distribute apps outside of AppStore) signature to work.

You do not need to give any special access to anything else beyond that.

Anyway, it is indeed more difficult than cross-build for Darwin from linux and call it a day.
Those are very minor changes and almost everything besides superfluous things like the UI design are the same.
Not related to the post, but you don't believe in physiotherapy? You know, the "help grandma to go from wheelchair to a walker after a fall thorough controlled exercise" people. You don't mean chiropractors, right? Terms do get weird country to country, so maybe in the US it's more woe adjacent.
If you treat them like a temperamental muse then you’ll have far more success.

They excel in spitballing more than accurate citations.
For me, LLMs are a bit like if you were shown a talking dog with the education and knowledge of a first grad student: a talking dog is amazing in itself, and a truly impressive technical feat, that said you wouldn't make the dog file your taxes or represent you in court.

To quote Joel Spolsky, "When you’re working on a really, really good team with great programmers, everybody else’s code, frankly, is bug-infested garbage, and nobody else knows how to ship on time.", and that's the state we end up if we believe in the hype and use LLMs willy-nilly.

That's why people are annoyed, not because LLMs cannot code like a senior engineer, but because lots of content marketing a company valuation is dependent on making people believe it's the case.
> LLMs function somewhat similarly to our brains in many ways,

Including the arrogance to confidently deliver a wrong answer. Which is the opposite of the reasons we use computers in the first place. Why this is worth billions of dollars is utterly beyond me.

> unaided humans cannot operate successfully in many situations

Absolute nonsense driven by a total lack of historical perspective or knowledge.

> We build tools, teams, and institutions to help us deal with them.

And when they lie to us we immediately correct that problem or disband them recognizing that they are more trouble than they could be worth.
in 2019 these things could hardly speak, in 2024 we trained one that outperforms all but the very best in the world at competition programming.

the bull case very obviously speaks for itself!
There is indeed a lot of evidence of this but you've got the direction backwards- it's not that women avoid studies, it's that for a long time studies specifically excluded women. Ditto for people of different races. This is why these days (well, as of today, at least) the NIH has a whole set of very well-established policies around inclusion in clinical trials that include sex, race, and age: https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/i...

And this isn't for "DEI" reasons, it's literally because for decades there used to be drug trials that excluded women and as a result ended up releasing drugs that gave half the population weird side effects that didn't get caught during the trials, or just plain didn't work as well on one group or another in ways that were really hard to debug once the drug was on the market. That was legit bad science, and the medical research world has worked very hard over the last thirty years to do better. We are admittedly not there yet, but things are a lot better than they used to be.

For a really interesting take on the history of racial exclusion and bias in medicine, I recommend Uché Blackstock's recent book "Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons With Racism In Medicine" which gave a great overview.

Oh! And also everybody should read Abby Norman's "Ask Me About My Uterus," it gives a fabulous history of issues around women's health.
MilliForth for the 6502
The Arch Linux wiki is an absolute goldmine.

I briefly used Manjaro, Debian and Ubuntu before that, and now am primarily a NixOS user, yet I still find myself coming back to the wiki.