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Huh let me guess: it is Apple Intelligence causing it

Now while it is true that some aspect of the Apple experience suck, my experience is that Windows and Linux are also sucking more (Linux less than MS, but still, not helpful)

I definitely would want more transparency for Apple but this is one of the things they "no can do", they just fix it one day (usually) and off you go.
Personal pet peeve: CarPlay not pausing what you are playing when you hit the infotainment power button is really dumb.
I think Poland and Yugoslavia also have great graphic design from that time - especially theatre posters.

None of these countries were Soviet states of course - they were a part of the socialist block.
> I was going to say I don't understand this mindset, but I guess I do. I can't really agree with it, though.

Agree. I can sympathise with the mindset, because I watch so many others approach their lives with a "Grand Plan" - but it's not something I've ever set out to do so I can't claim to understand it.

I do daydream of successes - Olympic gold medals, pop band hero, etc - but that's all they are to me: daydreams. I was brought up to approach life with a "you've gotta laugh, innit!" attitude and, for the most part, it's worked out well for me. I never made it to the Olympics but I won a few races back in the day. I never got any of my novels published, but they're written and available for people to discover thanks to the wonders of modern technology. I've also been blessed with bucketloads of serendipity, taking me to successes I could never have guessed were possibilities for me when I was sub-30.

I ain't ancient, but I do know this: the keys to a Good Life are ... Good Friends!
I wanted some amount of notoriety when I was younger. I wanted to do something important. Accomplish something that helped people. It was mostly notions of having done some really cool project that people would talk about.

I'm in my mid-40s and I appreciate now what I couldn't then: Any kind of attention, greatness, notoriety, etc is entirely fleeting. You will have 15 minutes of attention and unless you do another great thing the best you'll get is "what have you done lately?"

It sounds glib, but really you do need to become comfortable with yourself where you are. I don't even know if that's possible in youth, and I don't want to discourage people from chasing their dreams, but you set yourself up for a lot of self-inflicted misery otherwise.
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It’s funny to see my home town mentioned here in this context after over a decade of quipping online that the noise will always be an issue for drone delivery. I live in a more noisy urban area now and yet, I still can’t fathom the noise of drones buzzing over my house every day all day, or as often as I see Amazon trucks passing by. It would be awful. I think people like the idea of this, but have never actually witnessed what the sound of these devices is like. It’s loud.

And fwiw, college station is no quiet place. We have trains and they can be heard for miles. My house was a couple miles away from the tracks and I could hear the vibrations and horns all throughout the night as a kid. I still remember the cadence exactly even a few decades later.
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The path that got to that was funny. One day I went out to take pictures in the Monkey Run Natural area and was planning to take my Zeiss wide angle lens but instead I packed the kit lens from my camera which has a nice range of focal lengths but has really ugly bokeh.

I developed a style that involves a very small aperture for wide depth of field (f/22 if I can get away with it) that uses DxO's noise reduction if that means cranking the ISO too high (got DxO at the recommendation of other photogs because I was having trouble shooting volleyball indoors) and boosting microcontrast to make up for the small aperture softness and using color grading to brand the image. 'Ugly' turns into 'opinionated' and even though it is digital end-to-end it comes across like a picture you'd find in an old book that was taken with a huge view camera and a long exposure.
Heat pumps are typically 200-400% efficient. That is, they move 2-4x as much heat as they produce to move that heat. Although that is usually radiating energy to a fairly warm atmosphere. If they are pumping into an extremely cold environment you will get insane efficiencies since you are 'going with the flow' with regards to entropy increase.
Apple Music on Mac definitely needs a ground-up rewrite, though I worry it'll lose uncommonly used features, like the ability to upload and stream your own music. I think a lot of Apple Music weirdness is from the fact that it's been built up over the years upon iTunes, which was essentially a completely different product that offered different thing. No one is really buying digital music any more, but they still need to handle everyone's old libraries and purchases, so there's a weird disconnect between your local music library and your cloud Apple Music library. So there are completely separate screens for viewing e.g. an album in your local library versus "in the cloud" even though they're both views for the same content.

Incidentally the iOS Music app has generally been pretty good to me, but starting in the most recent iOS update has been having crashing issues. I'm not sure what exactly causes it, but it's typically when I rearranged the queue then minimize the player to get back to the home/library screen.
Show HN: von Neumann could have invented quantum computing in 1946 [pdf]
I installed a ground sourced heat pump a couple of years ago, and my heat pump manufacturer refers to it as geothermal: https://www.waterfurnace.com/switch . Most people don't think of this as 'geothermal' however so I avoid using the term.
The best lesson I learned growing up is that there really aren't any adults, there are only older young people. This is either extremely comforting or extremely terrifying depending on your perspective, but as the years go by I've found it to be no less true.
I just don't understand why Apple UI designers hate scroll bars with such a passion.

It's probably just me, but I feel that many apps on Apple follows the same pattern. For example checkout and compare the scroll bar experience on ChatGPT website (Chrome) between a Mac-book and a Windows laptop.
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> I can never find what I'm looking for

Overcast might be the app for you. No affiliation, I just like it.
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Here's my personal canary in the coal mine that something must be fundamentally broken in Apple's software development process:

- on a recent macOS version, right click on the desktop, select 'change wallpaper' => the new settings panel opens

- click on 'Custom Color'

- now hold and drag around the 'color cursor' in the color selection circle for a few seconds

- stop dragging and notice how the color cursor continues jumping around erratically (it's impossible to actually select the exact color you want)

- same thing happens when using the linear slider below the color circle

This bug doesn't lurk deep in some obscure part of the settings panel, it's the only way to change the desktop background color. A QA specialist would stumble over this in 5 minutes of trying to break the app.

I made it a hobby to check this bug after each OS update, it's broken since the new settings panel was introduced in Ventura. As a good citizen I also wrote a Feedback Assistent ticket (FB13805690 - 21-May-2024) with attached screen recordings and all, but of course I could just as well have sent that report into a black hole :)
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Yep. A lot of software companies are suffering from this short-term-ism that results in incentive structures that value things that move the stock price rather than make for a strong long term company.

It may eventually blow up in faces, but a lot of the people making money on it today won't be around to see it.
The more leverage a piece of code has, the more good or damage it can do.

The more constraints we can place on its behavior, the harder it is to mess up.

If it's riskier code, constrain it more with better typing, testing, design, and analysis.

Constraints are to errors (including hallucinations) as water is to fire.
> This gives them an advantage when compared to Ahead-of-Time (AoT) compilers that must choose the code to generate once for all.

I assumed they were talking about the general case, which is nearly useless to discuss. I just kind of filtered it out as internecine bickering amongst academics. The actual data are still interesting tho.
Why would I care what my boss eats?
Always when an article of this author gets posted on HN there's a Rust fanatic saying how his code does not work and how wrong he is for committing the sin of using C in current year.
> Capitalism appears to be the emergent system of many independent agents engaging in voluntary trades

Not correct - in Ancient Egypt, all the land belonged to the people through the Pharaoh (great house), and they both had the independent agency to do voluntary trade with they wanted with part of the produce and lacked that agency as they had to pay some share from the land assigned to them as taxes.

> I don't see a whole lot of e.g. Set or Horus worshippers these days, for example.

Except the modern cultural paradigms originate from that very Ancient Egypt. From the monogamic marriage paradigm to higher education. And those Set, Horus etc have been meshed into the 'one god' concept as its aspects, and then that one god and practically every major thing in the Ancient Egyptian religion were used to create the modern religions. From 'weighing of the heart against a feather' for judging the goodness of the recently deceased in the afterlife to the very concept of after-life judgment, most religious belief traits come from Ancient Egyptian religion.
Well, DUH, right tool for the job.

Raspberry Pi is when you need either GPIO or a small size. You are also paying premium for a long-term support and a lot of information on the web.

If you don't need all of those features, don't use them. Used NUCs are better value if you need a general desktop computer. Chinese embedded SBCs are much cheaper if you are can handle missing/wrong documentation, weird kernels and a model disappearing only after a few years.
I'm with you about being an NBA player but I suspect most people, if they devoted themselves to it, could learn to paint competently or understand quantum physics at a phd level. It would "just" take years of study and practice.

We only live so long so we have to pick and choose. Especially as the years remaining clock down.
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Not quite sure what you're trying to say, but the MacBook Air 11" 2015 model supports macOS Monterey[1] which got a security update 6 months ago[2].

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/103260

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Monterey
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> t's not possible to determine from these tests how much of those longer streaming times are down to efficiency or the iPhone 16e's larger battery.

Hm.
Hype on X with AI Built Games (vibe-coded)
There is a hype of people creating games by only promoting LLMs

The known indie hacker Pieter Levels created a Flight Sim with 0 experience in dev gaming, it not only became popular but also generated more than $30K in revenue in a week selling Blimp Ads in it!

So many people started creating their games and posting them on X that I decided to create a directory of vibe coded games https://aibuiltgames.com/

I built the first version in less than 1 hour using Copitlot and tweeted, it went semi viral having had over 500 likes https://x.com/rrmdp/status/1895169783747801435

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Thanks!
Another vote for Overcast.
Enlisted swear to defend the constitution first, in order of precedence. This is the way it is commonly understood.
I don’t find the frame.work laptops to be particularly “value” oriented, you are paying a decent chunk for modularity/repairability.

Something like the $2k price point of the Asus G14 line is going to stomp all over the Mac in GPU performance, scores similarly to the base M4 in multicore CPU performance, and is using lpDDR5X so the memory performance is quite high as well. The aesthetics leave a lot to be desired but…
Reworked UI's (and also renamed products) are the bane of my tech existence. I think I'm going to learn Emacs, build up the musculature of my C-C and C-X pressing fingers, and live out my days in the terminal.
Sure, to greater and lesser degrees! Prominent master-planned examples include Seaside, FL [0]; Celebration, the Disney-designed suburb near Orlando with its “town center”; and, in a less ambitious variant, The Villages, a collection of retirement communities notionally premised on “village”-scale lifestyle (and accessibility by golf cart) [1].

My impression is that people like them just fine when they get built, it’s just not The Way Things Are Done at the (rather local) planning level. Maybe more about inertia than malice—and, like so much of the built environment, planning today is accountable to the accumulated political weight of all the individual families’ and developers’ decisions that led up to this point.

[0] https://www.theamericanconservative.com/new-urbanist-paradis...

[1] https://www.thevillages.com/shopping-dining/
Some projects die continually because there is no "buy in" not because the project is the incorrect path. The advice on how to get the buy in seems reasonable and probably can be adapted or tweaked depending on the specific circumstances. I think the author is trying to get us out of the confrontation of "exact same initiative you're trying, in the exact same conditions, multiple times. With the same results." and more on the way of getting those employees on board with understanding what pitfalls caused the original plan to fail.

Looking through these examples with the employee lens I can see some of that in myself and can also see how that is not productive.
That's not been my experience. If I hit power off on my volume knob, it's effectively pause to CarPlay. Does your car treat it more like mute?
> I have all-too-brief moments where I experience a visceral sense of literally meeting myself, and the joy therein.

or the moments where I experience a visceral sense of literally meeting myself and feeling aversion because I realize I'm not the person I thought I was and I need to do and be better.
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Show HN: LLMcomp – compare cost and results of different LLMs on the same prompt
Hey HN,

I often want a quick comparison of different LLMs to see the result+price+performance across different tasks or prompts.

So I put together LLMcomp—a straightforward site to compare (some) popular LLMs on cost, latency, and other details in one place. It’s still a work in progress, so any suggestions or ideas are welcome. I can add more LLMs if there is interest. It currently has Claude Sonnet, Deep Seek and 4o which are the ones I compare and contrast the most.

I built it using a port of AgentOps' tokencost for the web to estimate LLM usage costs on the web and the code for the website is open source and roughly 400 LOC.
If suburbs are truly people's preference then we shouldn't need laws to mandate their existence
I love that I had to install a shim service [0] with the same ID as Apple Music's since it can't otherwise be turned off, which was causing Apple Music to appear every time I pressed a media key but had no media playing.

That's the kind of shiesty KPI-boosting tactic I'd expect from Windows, not a machine I paid almost $4000 for. Apple comes installed with a ton of irremovable bloatware and somehow gets a pass.

[0] https://lowtechguys.com/musicdecoy/
So far in my early forties I have:

* Learned to pan for gold on creeks and use sluice boxes
* Learned QGIS from scratch to play with mapping, data viz, gov't data sets and API's, etc
* Learned to DJ, DJ'd 3 weddings as a wedding gift for others, and experienced profound joy in making mashups and remixes on the fly
* Acquired power tools and started to learn metal working and wood working in my garage shop
* Decided to learn to weld, so I bought a welder for 50 bucks on FB marketplace and learned with no in-person classes or courses, only YouTube university. Now I can weld, and a whole new world of possibilities has opened up as being able to create and make things is like a superpower.
* Rediscovered skiing and snowboarding after being away from both for 20+ years

In terms of learning new things and acquiring new skills, my early forties have been a period of creativity and discovery, not to mention doing my best to be a good parent to our kid and a good husband.

I'm quite proud of these accomplishments, and none of them have anything to do with career or making money.
What's odd in Flow is the contrast between the near-realistic non-animal rendering, and the non-realistic animal rendering. It didn't bother me much - it was clearly an aesthetic choice - but I know people who were bothered by the contrast.
I grew up in Middle America Suburbia, with big yards, cul-de-sacs and strict zoning laws. I thought it was normal that, for anything you wanted to buy, you had to get in a car and drive to it. I was told it was because of zoning laws, and it was meant to keep the neighborhood "peaceful". Well, in college I dated a girl from East LA, and she once took me to visit her family. The neighborhood had zero zoning enforcement. Every house was basically a residence and a small business - hair salons, taco shops, car repair shops, etc. It totally shocked me, like "How could people live like this?" And then we walked the neighborhood. I was shocked again how everyone knew one another so well, and all the little businesses served one another. It was a full-on bartering system, like, "Here's some fresh tortillas. Tell your Mom I'll be by next week with my daughter to do her hair for her quinceanera."

I lived my entire childhood in the same house in Suburbia, and I still don't know most of my neighbors' names. The neighborhood was "peaceful", because of zoning laws, but it was boring as shit, and most of all, I'm not so sure having to get in a car and drive just to get a box of cereal was a good thing.
If you think of an emotional scene in a movie, say "frankly my dear I don't give a damn" in Gone With the Wind or whatever, there is obviously emotion in the scene if you watch it and you see the characters/actors experience it but the film is a stationary thing when it's sitting on the shelf, similar to a fixed 4D structure. I figure reality is like that.
I really think they could have done better with `Visualization3.mp4`. The black and white ICCapture screen recording of an LED light (?) doesn't really do a whole lot to show off the achromatic capabilities of their lens.
The power of interning: making a time series database smaller
Outside of breaking encryption, what class of problems are most likely to be solved if these chips are successful?
Mojave made my Mac Mini mid-2015 without an SSD completely unusable.
Yeah annoys me too.

You can turn them back on everywhere in Settings -> Appearance -> Show scroll bars always.
Yep. Last commit 5 years ago, not included by default on distro's or kernels, build-from-source-and-hope... ;-)

The kinect1 appears to be "OOTB-ish" at least on ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libfreenect

...so just an advisory that for casual purposes a Kinect1 is going to be better than a Kinect2.
I think the weakness of this argument is that “domestic American drones” will just be using parts, or entire drones, made in China

“Ukraine are producing two-and-a-half drones a day now.“
What is that supposed to mean? A drone has a lot of parts. I can make 2 1/2 drones a day if I have the parts.
No, I'm definitely not! But I can't imagine the US defense sector doing anything sensible otherwise.
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