skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an issue with Messenger notifications on one device, a laptop. The messages get delivered just as quickly on this laptop as on other devices, but the notifications can take minutes to come up. Also, the number of unread messages sometimes gets stuck out of sync, for example showing 1 when I have no unread messages. I've tried rebooting, and I've tried disabling and re-enabling notifications.

I'm still on Sonoma, so the next thing I could try is updating to Sequoia, but that feels foolish. Only one thing is wrong. It could be worse. How often does updating software actually make it better? Apple should feel like the exception to that cynicism, but it doesn't, which is bad news for them, since their entire business is predicated on being the exception.

A premium product that's worth the money. That's such an easy thing for people to stop believing in if the reality doesn't live up to it.
Screenshot shows program in GW-BASIC 3.23 from 1988. I tried it in GW-BASIC 1.0 (the version Microsoft released with a free license a few years ago) and it worked as expected. It also worked well in PC-BASIC.

https://gitlab.com/tkchia/GW-BASIC

https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/ (or just pip install pcbasic)

The debug-commands seemed to work fine with the debug included by default in DOSBox-X, but I was too lazy to input all of the digits. I never had any idea how to use debug, so I learned something new here in addition to some more things about mnemonics.
Indeed. It's a Tragedy of the Commons type of issue with the way most corps are run nowadays. When you're just starting out it's understandable to be very short-term focused as next year doesn't really matter much if you go belly up next week. But once companies have some establishment, it's insane to me how little thought goes into long-term planning. That is, until you realize the incentive structure they've built essentially penalizes executives/management for sacrificing short-term opps for long-term health. For example, but slicing R&D to the bare minimum (and often below that level) and driving revenue high up and to the right by pumping up sales/marketing efforts, you can look like a business genius, and just as it starts to really hurt the company you're moving on to the next gig, and often with an exit bonus of some kind.
Ukraine is producing way more that that: they're up to millions per year: https://thedefensepost.com/2024/10/03/ukraine-produce-millio...
mitm means you can control users network, doesn't it?

Another question, does this work with https?

And the third one, if this was the thing some dishonest governments or vpn providers would do this already. Would be cool to read on that (genuinely, not implying this never happened)
Vue3 is great. Also Svelte5. But I’m not sure I would use either of those for an email. And sometimes you don’t need any interactivity in the frontend and server-side-rendered HTML can be a good option.
I was just thinking the other day how there is a ton of friction now after they moved on from skewmorphic. Say what you will but I always knew exactly where my specific home directory folders were because they looked so distinct in the finder sidebar. Now I have to actually read the damn folder names because everything looks the same.
A good writeup of just a smaller subsection of my grievances with Apple under Cook's recent leadership: stellar hardware increasingly hobbled by bungled software.

Funny enough, I had the exact issue the OP had with my M1 iPad and Notes, writing down Kubernetes coursework and notes by hand to try and make it "stick" better mentally (an entirely different post, someday) only for Notes to crash, losing most of my work since the last time I opened the app. It got so bad that I was regularly synchronizing and duplicating notes to preserve my work ahead of the next crash, and splitting notes up into quarter-chapters to reduce the likelihood of app crashes and iPad overheating.

Apple has been so feature-focused to keep up with shareholder demands and industry fads, that they've neglected the core user experience. iTunes used to be the best way to organize and consume music, and nobody has really taken up that mantle since Apple abandoned it in favor of their streaming service. Same with local media and shared libraries, now tucked away into obscure apps in favor of more streaming platform priority.

That feature-focus extends to general OS stability as well. Safari gulping down battery life on my iPhone because it's not properly suspending tabs anymore. iPad suddenly no longer charging without any error message or warning until a reboot is triggered or the battery completely dies. Siri responding as far away as physically possible from the actual speaker, including on devices I don't even own, bypassing multiple other devices that stand between the speaker and the responding device. The AppleTV needs weekly reboots because apps don't load video streams properly, giving a black screen with audio or an HDCP error message despite every other device in the chain showing it's the AppleTV not engaging HDCP. HomePods suddenly ceasing music playback without any command to do so, often mid-song.

It's just getting worse and worse, to the point (pre-RIF) I was seriously looking into an honest-to-god HiFi to replace stereo homepods in my bedroom. I've already ditched the Music app in favor of Plex's Music App (don't even get me started on how awful it is, but it's still better than Apple Music), I've all but given up engaging in music discovery via CarPlay, and I've long since moved local media onto a Plex Server in lieu of a single, simple, efficient iTunes library. That's just the media side of things, too.

Don't get me wrong, Apple's kit is still lightyears better than an equivalent Windows 11/Android setup, especially for my family members who don't want to wrangle with confusing UX and have largely moved into a streaming-only lifestyle - though even they're increasingly frustrated with Apple's updates breaking things or forcing them to rework their processes.

But that only works for so long before users get so sick and tired of it, that they'll take a chance on an upstart competitor.
My dude needs to go outside. Also: beware of writers writing about what reaching such-and-such an age is going to “feel” like. They only know a little.
In comparison, my experience with a Quest 3s with MetaHorizonOS.

It has a screen recording feature that when you use it the first time it asks you whether it can use the microphone. It claims that this can be reset somewhere in the settings. So the first time I used the feature, I disabled the mic.

A couple days later I wanted to record with mic and searched through the settings but found nothing. Googled it and discovered little. Many posts and answers pointing out that other feature settings require a factory reset to be able to alter initial settings made.

I searched again in the settings, fiddling here and there but found nothing in the settings nor anything that fixed the setting.

In the end, I had to do a factory reset. Then I was able to enable the mic for screen recording.

The device is good enough but the UI is a nightmare. Bulk deletion of notifications? Not possible. Getting out MetaHorizion? Three to four menus until a pause button can be used.

Much prefer my Apple devices - no BS, no factory reset.
Probably not. I don't own one as I'm lazy. I actually paid for AdGuard and use it on my iPhone and iPad. It comes with a mini PiHole implementation built in.
I think the missing piece here is that JavaScriptCore (JSC) and other such systems don't just use inline caching to speed up dynamic accesses; they use them as profiling feedback.

So, anytime you have an IC in interpreter, baseline, or lightly optimized code, then that IC is monitored to see how polymorphic it gets, and that data is fed back into the optimization pipeline.

Just having an IC as a dead-end, where you don't use it for profiling is way less profitable than having an IC that feeds into profiling.
Ah now it's getting interesting :) So far I could reproduce the issue across several machines, also on new demo machines at the Apple booth of electronic discounters - so I don't think it's something about my configuration, but maybe it has something todo with how I'm using the trackpad (but I'm just sliding around with the right-hand pointer finger).

PS: the mystery might be solved => that buggy 'Custom Colour' UI item only shows up under specific circumstances, which for my specific usage pattern is 'obvious' - see my sister comment for details.
They have to reverse course on so many things. There were countless red flags as Big Tech planted their devs in Mozilla to undermine their privacy value. There's no going back for me, unfortunately.

https://www.osnews.com/story/140247/i-told-you-so-mozilla-wo...
El Salvador's wild crypto experiment ends in failure
I dont think anyone would care if some people just had huge piles of money in the bank. Its what they do with the money that causes problems. That's income.
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?
accept, let go and surrender.
> In this context, she's essentially leveraging her power as manager to get folks to agree to her reality. This is definitionally manipulative.

Well said, I got the same impression.
If you haven't tried out the various Linux desktop environments for a long try, give it a try yourself. I'm having a way more stable experience with Gnome than I ever had with Windows or macOS the last decade or so, especially when I can chose when I want to upgrade, and I don't get nagged about it once a day.

But before that, I'd agree with you, it would have be stupid to prefer anything Linux over OSX or Windows, back when they were rock-solid. But today?
https://archive.ph/hRaoz
In general if I buy some hardware and the OS is ok, but any supplier apps are just an afterthought. If that be from Huawei, Samsung, Microsoft, Apple, etc, a TV, a phone, a computer. On my iphone I have a folder with all the Apple apps, just in case) but otherwise I use other apps. I also have an extra Samsung phone, same thing.

Supplied apps are free and therefore paid for otherwise. Normally full of ads and only sporadically receive updates to repair bugs or add new features.

The goal is often only to keep my tight to their platform, be it Samsung, Apple, etc. Those apps are an investment in the future which probably do not do well in a companies one quarter horizon.
The 21 year old founder/CEO is largely a myth too. Not that they don't exist, but they usually aren't very good at their job.
The Oldest "Map of America" Is Mysteriously Accurate
I’m just baffled how Russia switched the frontline using fiber drones. It’s genius and worrisome at the same time.
Thing is, over-optimizing is not optimizing. "No plan survives contact with reality", as it is said. Optimal strategies in games, for instance, include lots of adaptive branches to deal with the suboptimal reality of what actually happens - otherwise the plan is really fragile.

(Having said that, restarting a game over and over in order to force your one perfect linear optimal plan to eventually work out can be lots of fun. But this is not an option in real life.)

While I'm on the cheesy aphorisms, I'll throw in "life is what happens while you're busy making other plans". But that one's too pragmatic, I think. It's not as if we have zero control. Maybe a more accurate statement would be "life is what happens while you're busy making loosely similar plans".
In *some parts of Los Angeles. The city is getting better district by district, if only incrementally.

The east side of Los Angeles (Los Feliz Silver Lake, Atwater Village, Echo Park, Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Glassell Park) has managed to replace most of its neighborhood councils with YIMBY-sympathetic types that are pushing for mixed use and density along their arterials.

Not that it’s the end-all-be-all solution, but compared to the west side where I have family, it’s a breath of fresh air to see neighbors generally cautiously enthusiastic about new development rather than immediately trying to figure out how to stop it by default
Verizon uses band 13 (700Mhz) but it just lets them put the tower even farther away.
On one hand, its super cool that a Blender made film won an Oscar. On the other hand, I hate that this film is being held up as a "Blender film" since it really doesn't showcase what Blender can do. Blender is capable of far, far better visuals than what this film chose as their art style.
original title: The Oldest "Map Of America" Is Mysteriously Accurate & Experts Still Can't Explain Its Precision
Blender Studio is working on a Godot game: https://studio.blender.org/projects/project-dogwalk/

Godot has been evolving dramatically in the past few years. The fact that they are so productive and consistent is amazing. Congrats to the whole team for keeping up the same level of quality as you see in major open source projects. That is no easy feat.

Interesting how Godot reminds me of Unity's golden years back when it was Mac-only. Focus on developer productivity, ergonomics, and of course, shipping games.
I don't, I still use my horrible iPhone 12 Mini for CarPlay. Waiting for it to either get too old to get updates, or for it to break before I move back to Android, I guess.
Geological activity is usually a problem for geothermal cooling. Conductivity of lunar subsurface is your main problem. Generally what makes geothermal really effective is the monstrous thermal mass of solid and liquid material compared to air as well as it's much higher conductivity. While that is true on Earth, on the Moon things are very different.

The problem isn't so much geological activity or lack thereof, as the nature of lunar regolith. Lunar regolith has a conductivity of 0.004W/mK. That is lower than aerogel! So unless the subsurface has a much higher conductivity, using subsurface cooling would be doomed.

Edit: Lunar Regolith is only the first 4-5 meters of the lunar surface.
> Ass for iPhone screens - seem to be very breakable compared to other manufacturers.

That one always seemed weird to me, some people break their screen, iPhone or otherwise, regularly, but I've never even scratched one.
It is difficult IMO to be a great writer until you are at least somewhere around mid life and have lived quite a bit of life and been in enough situations to pull inspiration from.

Young people are good at developing talents involving physical skills, but rarely do you find young writers who produce any great literature. And of those young people who happen to be amazing writers, their skill only improves as they get older and wiser, they don’t really hit a peak until they have mental decline in old age.

So if you hit 40 and you’re not good at anything in particular in life, you might still find there’s time to be a great writer, the journey has just begun!
The original developer simply sent me the zip file of the entire source code of the old app. Nothing special really.
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I believe in re-incarnation, so I've failed at this thousands of times.
I like the writing style of this essay!

"During his masters at MIT, he was tasked with studying the “differential analyzer”. The analyzer—a steampunk vision of electromechanical relays and ad
hoc circuitry—was built to solve differential equations (ironically
one of Boole’s main interests as a mathematician) and pioneered by
the brother of Lord Kelvin (one of Boole’s close friends). Shannon’s
fitting tribute to Boole was to deconstruct the messy circuitry of the
analyzer and systematically resynthesize it with Boolean algebra. In
the process, he invented modern digital circuitry"
A couple of months ago I had an iPhone in my hands for half an hour, for the first time. I was helping to debug some WiFi and also a minor printer issues, and all there was was this iPhone.

It was hard to use. It was all full of inconsistencies and some things that were simply illogical, which left me wondering for a while. Maybe I just was forced to deal with the wrong apps and it might have been a similar experience in Android, but Apple's marketing department really does a superb job at selling those devices.
I’m not sure where you saw forced updates. I’m usually 2 to 3 major versions of macOS behind.
28 year old, turning 29:

Spend as little time at home as possible. Travel. Find community. Live in a big city and make a ton of friends and throw lots of parties and bring people together, forming your own community. That's what I did and I feel like my 20s have been fulfilling, and I'm looking forward to what my 30s bring.
I basically stay on whatever macos version I have until they pull security updates for it. Seems to work alright so far. My last two OSs were mojave and now Sonoma (due to the new mac coming with it) having skipped all the rest including the latest sequoia.
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This is actually a kind of important setting to turn on if you're doing web development. At my work the developers use MacBooks and it's not rare to get bug reports about double scrollbars and whatnot which are caused by certain nested views with bad CSS, but it wasn't caught before release because the developer doesn't have scrollbars turned on, so you don't see it until a Windows user tries it.
Notably, the do not reverse the course on the selling of user data. This is still a non-starter Mozilla. Do you not realize who your core base is? The only people who still use Firefox are people who value privacy and extensibility in our tools. Still a "no" from me dawg
So it's the Dubai argument. "The city life is great, especially for ex-pats, don't mind what's being swept under the rug over there".
Thanks. It's Youtube keep crashing on Ubuntu 22.04 every 10 minutes and I don't know why. I turned off hardware acceleration and did a few other tweaks, but judging the look of reddit posts I found, there is no solution. That's why I also keep a Windows laptop.
Yeah, but that's the perspective of a veteran of the industry and not an "up and coming author." We have this narrative that people get rewarded for their virtue and not their ability/willingness to play the silly little game, and it takes a while to see through it especially if you tend to be more idealistic.
> Who doesn't want their Amazon packages delivered sooner?

Scanning through my recent orders, 90+% of them could take a week to arrive and I wouldn't have noticed, much less minded.
List of people indicted in the International Criminal Court
> I call on Apple to return to its roots - creating products that prioritize user experience over feature checklists. The company that once proudly created products that "just work" needs to reclaim that ethos.

But this is a mythic past, not the real one, embarrassing software bugs have always been present! Moreover, it's never been limited to just software, remember premium laptop keyboard design fiasco, for example.
The niche for drone delivery is the one that Zipline found - delivering medical supplies in remote areas with poor road access.

For the majority of cases, it's a stupid idea. If you really want to automate away delivery drivers, self-driving vans probably make more sense, when self-driving tech gets good enough.
You can't log into your Mac with your Apple account; you still need a local account created first, and it has its own login and password separate from the Apple ID associated with it (if any).
Ring (an amazon-owned company) had to pay a fine for allowing employees unfettered access to people's footage. [1] No need to "be fair" to Amazon here by pointing out other tech companies.

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/05/...
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