skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have you heard of this new concept called recycling?

Yes, I have. If you have absurdly good 90% recycling - unheard of in this area - and a cycle period of 10 years, you run through material once entirely in less than 500 years.

Sure the Si part is readily available, but what about the metal used for building the thing that transports the thing to the other thing that transports your solar panels for recycling? What about waste products of smelting when recycling? What about the ground water use? And here is the real killer, what about the cost? Show me a design that scales to even 1 billion people, without forcing the rest into slave like conditions.

Our technology, is not sustainable period. Practically none of it is. That thought does not bring joy to me. I used to subscribe to the technology and ingenuity will fix it mindset. But the harsh reality is, 999/1000 needles point in one direction. It's desperation to cling to that one last little maybe, the verdict has been reached. Physics doesn't care about our sentiments or arguments, our politicians can't reason with physics or bribe it.

In Tom Murphy's words:

> Energy transition aspirations are similar. The goal is powering modernity, not addressing the sixth mass extinction. Sure, it could mitigate the CO2 threat (to modernity), but why does the fox care when its decline ultimately traces primarily to things like deforestation, habitat fragmentation, agricultural runoff, pollution, pesticides, mining, manufacturing, or in short: modernity. Pursuit of a giant energy infrastructure replacement requires tremendous material extraction—directly driving many of these ills—only to then provide the energetic means to keep doing all these same things that abundant evidence warns is a prescription for termination of the community of life.
I use Apple software and hardware all day every day. There was a patch ~13 years ago where things were really rough but I haven't noticed many issues over the past few years.
Except when zoning intentionally destroys the value of neighborhoods where undesirables live - how the highways were built, red lining, etc.
Russia has exactly one aircraft carrier that nearly sank of its own accord. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_aircraft_carrier_Admir...

Taiwan should be building a lot of drones if they intend to fight. However, that's not the only possibility; recent shifts in US posture may encourage the "voluntary reintegration" local political faction, including the possibility of handing over TSMC intact.
They're game testers.
> That finding one woman anything less than immediately perfect will cut me off from all the small, lovely moments I have had with women across the world in my life.

You had those moments. You could keep trying to chase that bouncing between different partners going forward, but consider: a) more women exit the dating market with age (especially the good ones), b) there is a richness of experience also to be found with a devoted lifelong partner which can't be had with a mere fling.

As time goes on, your odds of success are harsher either way, risking being alone much of the time. But in particular, good long-term prospects more rapidly diminish.

Opportunity-cost goes both ways. Speaking from my own bias and experience, investing and relishing in a life-long relationship with a flawed-but-loving partner is worth it, having had the non-committal phase when I was younger.

It's difficult to maximize for some characteristics in a partner. Beauty, sure, you know what you like so you can ball-park. Many traits/qualities are difficult to discern and luck-of-the-draw: reliability and trust, compatibility and love, capacity to raise children well, etc.

No one is perfect and there is no unicorn, novelty is attractive in itself. My heuristic is if a partner can be assessed as "good", holding on is the right move.

I think about Voltaire's Candide often, and the lesson applies here.
For me work stuff bothers me like making a mistake/looking dumb. But also when other people make mistakes I don't judge them that harshly/don't obsess over it as opposed to myself.
I never liked iTunes. I always found it horrible and difficult to find my way around. Apple Music makes me miss those days.
> Ediff is still a GUI (yes, even if you're running emacs -nw).

I'd dispute this, and more likely call it a TUI[0], unless of course one wants to go with the really pedantic point that all text is graphical.

It certainly isn't what I would associate with the words GUI merge editor, which feels to me more like what Sublime Merge for example does

> I also thing Ediff has some very annoying behaviors - the fact that it doesn't use intuitive names for the two buffers (especially because of Git's annoying nomenclature when rebasing vs merging), and the fact that there's no shortcut for inserting both the A and the B changes into the destination, which is a common operation.

Yeah, A, B, and C (and when doing the (z)diff3 thing, Ancestor) are certainly not the most intuitive names for the respective buggers (ours, theirs, result, and base in more Git-ish nomenclature) but it gets clear enough with practice. Not really a defence for bad UI, but eh, computer science is certainly known for that.

As for the "keep both" operation, yeah, that's lacking in ediff. There is one in SMerge mode (C-c ^ a) which of course activates when the buffer has any valid conflict markers, but at least in three-way merges, it also keeps the ancestor which is not usually what one wants.

Although at least when I was doing a lot of conflict resolution, a lot of the times it made sense to merge things by hand anyhow (it was a bunch of mega-merges related to a technology upgrade which had been half abandoned due to lack of time/focus from higher-ups), but I agree that the lack of "keep both" is problematic. Should probably file a bug report.

> I haven't really used the JetBrains merge UI, so I don't know if it's better or worse, but I don't think it's very hard to improve over ediff.

Probably not, but it also shouldn't be too difficult to improve on ediff either. And well, I at least like it better than the JetBrains resolution view or whatever VSCode has

[0]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface>
Something that turned me on to these issues in the first place was reading through the P&Z committee minutes for my rural New England hometown, where simply opening a hair salon in an existing, vacant commercial space in the village center has been a multi-year affair because their variance for not having off-street parking expired when the previous business closed.

It's in a 150 year old commercial building and has had a variety of even higher-traffic businesses in it for decades, but now the town has created this artificial barrier to filling the existing space, which clearly functioned just fine before (the town has plenty of parking), and is dragging the process out through meeting after meeting. It's frustrating to watch.
Here in Los Angeles we have honest to God oil derricks on public school grounds and in the middle of our neighborhoods but you can't build an apartment or open up a new corner store because of zoning.
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The crux of this seems to be that "reviewing code written by other people" isn't the same as "reviewing code written by LLMs". The "human" element of human-written code allows you to utilize social knowledge as well as technical, and that can even be built up over time when reviewing the same persons' code. Maybe there's some equivalent of this that people can develop when dealing with LLM code, but I don't think many people have it now (if it even does exist), and I don't even know what it would look like.
When I first moved to the city, I had a mockingbird in a small copse of trees right outside my bedroom window, open to the summer heat. He imitated car alarms all night.

I envisioned him as a punk rock kid who liked to replay our human obnoxiousness back at us to see how we liked it.

I had a great deal of appreciation for that bird.
It really is bad. I mean, the navigation design is bad to start with (just back, no forward? Genres are under Search?), and it’s buggy. It hangs randomly and sometimes it just doesn’t make sound (you had one job!).
When was Russia a democracy? [1]

It should also be remembered that Putin enjoyed real popularity, especially during his first Presidency because he brought back order and living standards improved. Regarding Ukraine, the way he took Crimea "back" with barely a shot fired was also extremely popular in Russia.

[1] https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/why-russias-demo...
If that's even true, that's still not even close to the same thing.
Electrons become fractions of themselves in graphene, study finds (2024)
That is a common assumption, but there are ways to get your PC to do better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=a0GW8Na5CIE

Blender has a lot of other problems, but CUDA/Optix support is there for reasonable hardware =3
> Yes, FaceTime requires that the Apple user initiate.

My customer clicks the link whenever they want, and my phone rings like any other FaceTime call with the label I have given that link in my phone.

That's what I think most people want and mean by "initiate", and so I think it misleading at-best to suggest the customer (non-apple user) is unable to initiate the call.

> You are correct

And this is the first correct thing you have said.
Article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-07010-7
Using macOS since Tiger as daily driven. Never been worse. Needs a “Snow Leopard” year.
> The world was good, but the world was no longer full of all these possibilities. What, then, fills the void where possibility once lived?

Children fill this void
Initially it was building out the basic feature set. Now it seems every time they add a new swipe or icon it breaks my mental model of how my phone works without adding something that I needed.

Apple is caught by their own success: the iPhone is mammoth hit but they've reached the end of its growth. So they've got a whole organization built around making it more compelling to grow the sales, but they should really switch gears: put the iPhone into maintenance mode and invent something completely new. Easy to say, hard to do, trillions on the table if they pull it off.
I would bet that the reason for the drop in quality is the focus on delivering features in order to secure promotions and ongoing positive performance reviews.
When things are performance-sensitive, you want things to be tunable and predictable. Good luck playing with the JIT if you rely that for performance...
> but deferring to the UN's IPCC reports on the topic. I encourage you to read the reports.

Did you actually read them? They say that in order to keep the temperature raise below 1.5/2deg, we essentially have to reduce the global economy by 1 covid crisis every year and find a miracle way to capture CO2 massively. So they really say "it's pretty bad".

But that's not all! The IPCC reports require some kind of consensus and are notoriously optimistic! Every single year, what we observe (as in, we measure) is that the IPCC models were optimistic. Every. Single. Year. So the IPCC reports say "it's pretty bad", and this is optimistic!

Finally, we are living a mass extinction right now. It's not a prediction, it's a measurable fact. Life on Earth is collapsing, already. Remember the dinosaurs? What got them extinct is the climate change that followed the asteroid, right? It was a lot slower than what we are measuring right now.

So yeah... the only thing I can imagine could keep us alive where the dinosaurs (and most big animals) got extinct is technology. But you know what? Technology is globally adding to the problem! Again, not predictions but facts: every year with emit more CO2 thanks to the "progress" in technology. A lot of technology is getting better and requires less energy, but rebound effects completely cancel that progress.

We are on the verge of collapsing, and at a time in history where we would need to be extremely smart and work together, the geopolitical instability is increasing by the day.

Are we doomed? Probably. But if there is a chance we survive, what we need is to do less with less, but in a much more clever way. Lots of work for engineers and scientists, but not on AR headset or LLMs. For some reason nobody is interested in saving our arse, they'd rather try to get rich.
You probably would, but that's the number one complaint about Debian: "Where is my fix of new shiny?"
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The podcast app is the same shoddy-ness. Re-arranging things in the queue is such a PIA.
> This entire concept of city-states exists on a premise of peaceful coexistence and cooperation

F*ck no. From early Sumerian cities to Greek city-states, they were at each others' throats regularly. You can speak of peaceful cooperation maybe in certain stages of Ancient Egypt, and very early Anatolian settlements like Catalhuyuk.
I'm aware of UI inconsistencies, like this dated article below.

https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/macos-12-monte...

But was curious is are people having stability & reliability type of software quality problems.
If Spotify doesnt work they are dead in the water. If Apple Music doesnt work, thats a rounding error.
It's not a sudden realization, it's just realizing that the body is just not the same, and time is more precious, not much margin of error.
Who needs somewhere to live or money in the bank?
I concur. To add, I wonder how much of the “old guard” is still at Apple? Apple used to be perfectionistic when it came to software, even during the 1985-1996 interregnum when Steve Jobs was absent. Besides Steve Jobs, Apple also had people like Bruce Tognazzini and Don Norman who cared deeply about usability. When Apple purchased NeXT and built Mac OS X, Apple’s usability focus was married to reliable, stable infrastructure, culminating with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which I believe was the pinnacle of the Mac experience. (Though I’m partial to the classic Mac OS from a UI point of view, Mac OS X had a better UX due to its stability.)

I suspect a lot of Apple’s decisions in the past decade regarding software is due to an increasing number of Apple employees who are not familiar with the philosophies of 1970s-era Xerox PARC, the classic Mac, NeXT, and Jobs-era Mac OS X. Granted, it’s possible to be too introspective, too focused on the past. Unfortunately Apple’s software is losing its perfectionistic qualities, which has long been the selling point of the Mac compared to Windows and Linux.
I'm retirement age. I don't get it, and found the piece to be overly-pessimistic. I'm with joshuamcginnis. OTOH, one could argue that I've just stumbled through life, and succeeded (for however one might define that) through mostly luck. I'm fine with that.
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> If you want your packages delivered sooner why not set up your own small communities next to Amazon distribution centers and work out a deal with Amazon to pick up your own packages? Maybe they can even give you a Prime discount for self-pickup??

In fact, we could build a large warehouse, with adequate parking and even transit, and the warehouse could be brightly lit, and it could not only allow you to pickup what you ordered, but you could see what was available for sale, and even have self-checkout machines that would take card or cash.

We could call it something like "Wall of Markets" or "Walmark" perhaps.
Paper in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08470-1.
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Tried without adblocker and turned off pihole. I did get it work on Zen Browser (FF engine). So my FF might have gotten borked. Console is giving me:

Failed to create WebGL context: WebGL creation failed:
* tryANGLE (FEATURE_FAILURE_EGL_NO_CONFIG)
* Exhausted GL driver options. (FEATURE_FAILURE_WEBGL_EXHAUSTED_DRIVERS)

Glad its workin for others!
Thanks, I'll give it try!
I'm sure the internet police's thorough investigation into themselves has shown they are doing nothing wrong.
It's a bit hit and miss for sure. If you turn off the subscription and Apple Music portal stuff it works fine though. I use it with a cable to sync to my iPhone with offline files I ripped with XLD from CDs. It's all the network crap that breaks it.
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> Never been worse.

How so? Would you mind giving examples.

Note: I'm not disagreeing. Just curious what software quality issues you're having exactly.
I'm in Calgary, Canada, but I don't expect it's a particular outlier in North America on this front.

Houses become tear-downs mostly based on economic viability and comfort, not based on their habitability. I lived for ~10 years in a desirable inner-city neighbourhood that was originally bungalows from the 1960s. In the time I was there close to 50% of the bungalows were torn down (or trucked off - last I checked the value of the physical home being trucked off was in the $10k range after costs) and rebuilt with either larger homes or denser units.

My landlord bought a second bungalow in the area and did a full reno, keeping the guts, and by his math he was basically break-even per sq ft over tearing it down and building bigger/denser.

To your original point, the 1960s bungalows and the 2010s homes (or 1960s home renovated to modern standards) do have vastly different prices. Modern builds are much better from so many perspectives - electrical, plumbing, layout, lighting, insulation, heating/cooling, air quality, fire resistance, etc. (including ways that can't be upgraded even with a gut job - e.g. you can't upgrade from 2x4 framing to 2x6 framing for extra insulation space) - it would be deeply weird if all of those improvements made no difference to prices.
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I know this doesn't help if you had time-bound goals for your life, but I have to stress, people actually don't care. Raymond Chandler was not "uncovered, like toxic waste" when he published The Big Sleep, his first novel, at 42, but celebrated as anyone else.
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Amazing. The mental peace you've gained this way probably vastly outweighs the initial investment and missing out on the newest "features".
Not sure if this is trolling, but I think proof is pretty clear:

1. Computers cannot self-rewire like neurons

2. No computer operates with the brain’s energy efficiency

3. Human learning is continuous and unsupervised, which is not possible for any computer
> For most authors from Ayn Rand to Karl Marx I get the idea that they genuinely believe their ideas would make life better for the majority of the human race. I don’t think the problem with their ideas was obvious to them when they wrote them.

The catch is that today we are literally living what Karl Marx predicted to the letter.
What do you mean, why? I was easily able to install it on my M2 Macbook Air.
So that is wikipedias "opinion" which any one could edit. I should edit that to reflect where the performance came from. Always check sources. ( The reference comes from intel386.
com)
You can log into your Mac and your AppleTV and your iPhone and your iPad and all the services Apple has to offer with your Apple account. How is Microsoft offering the same thing any better?
Well earned. Best overall movie since Napoleon Dynamite.

I happened into the Hacker Dojo (in Mountain View) the other night after traveling in from Central Valley for the weekend and about 8 of us watched the movie glued to our seats and discussed it for another couple hours. My first thought was "this looks like Blender" when I saw the cat, and we did talk about some that resolution and information density as one layer of the movie. I had no background on the movie, had never heard of it, just happened in by chance. Massive serendipity felt tho, on a side note. Kudos to the team who did the film.