skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The manufacturers of ground source heat pumps use the term 'geothermal' in English: https://www.waterfurnace.com/residential/products/geothermal... https://enertechusa.com/geothermal-product-catalog/ - the term is confusing though
the way I've always thought about this uncertainty - the time will pass anyway. good choice or bad, but you can't avoid the time passing by trying to carefully consider which one to choose, and indecision eats the same time away, right?

as you note you're already probably living in some imperfect city. you might consider buying a house more of a commitment to it, but how much more than coasting along in apartments thinking of where to buy the house, for example? you'll live somewhere in that time either way. you might as well commit to things.
Lack of focus.

I want UNIX not emojis.
Right, not in my backyard. If they want to defend theirs, that is their choice. If they don't, and they want the noise, the traffic, and the air pollutants, I encourage them to seek these projects for their backyard.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50000-0

> Regulators, environmental advocates, and community groups in the United States (U.S.) are concerned about air pollution associated with the proliferating e-commerce and warehousing industries. Nationwide datasets of warehouse locations, traffic, and satellite observations of the traffic-related pollutant nitrogen dioxide (NO2) provide a unique capability to evaluate the air quality and environmental equity impacts of these geographically-dispersed emission sources. Here, we show that the nearly 150,000 warehouses in the U.S. worsen local traffic-related air pollution with an average near-warehouse NO2 enhancement of nearly 20% and are disproportionately located in marginalized and minoritized communities. Near-warehouse truck traffic and NO2 significantly increase as warehouse density and the number of warehouse loading docks and parking spaces increase. Increased satellite-observed NO2 near warehouses underscores the need for indirect source rules, incentives for replacing old trucks, and corporate commitments towards electrification. Future ground-based monitoring campaigns may help track impacts of individual or small clusters of facilities.

https://scitechdaily.com/toxic-toll-where-warehouses-rise-so...

> Toxic Toll: Where Warehouses Rise, So Does Air Pollution

(recently assisted in scuttling an industrial park project in Northern IL [someone else's backyard, not mine], it can be done)
A web browser doesn't need to scope of "copy every thing Chrome does".
I can assure you that if you "went back to linux" you are the furthest thing from the target audience you can be.

Not to downplay your experience, but it is almost certainly not what Apple uses for user feedback.
But are they using mentioned pencils?
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Yep... same with google...

Make old chat system better (or just maintain it?)... meh boring...

Make new google chat.. talk.. alo.. i mean hangouts? Yep, promotions, bonuses!
I have been struggling with the same problem for quite a while. When I was in high school and my early 20s I had a group of friends I was constantly hanging out with. I realized a few months ago that I hadn't seen or talked to any of them in more than two years. We all changed and went our separate ways. I wondered if I would see them again. I found it troubling to think that I might not - but the love was still there, even knowing that we might never all be together again. It can be difficult to enjoy something for what it is (or was), rather than for what it could be. As we age we are forced to reconcile the potentiality of our dreams with the finite reality of our lives. This can be discouraging (and even frightening) but it can also allow for a much deeper enjoyment of the present moment. I do not need to worry about what something might become - I can just enjoy it for what it is here and now.
> But it was capitalism that ended up producing AI

No, it was the scientific method. Back in the mid to late 19th century when scientific research was done in an open-source way without the presence of capital and corporations, science had the fastest progress it had in human history. After the capital took control of science and research through patents and funding, the rate of progress slowed greatly. Thomas Jefferson's views on patents also aligns with this: He said that countries that did not have patents were as productive as those that did have. (he was the first president of the patent office).
Most of that is driven by the top 10%. The top 10% now make up 50% of all consumption in the US. Again demonstrating that inequality matters.
It's surprising how little effort is needed to move the needle on those kinds of things. If you started showing up at meetings and complaining about wanting the hair salon, it could be the difference between tabling for another month and letting it through.

Especially if the number of people complaining keeps growing.

I've seen it happen. The vast majority of these things go so far under the radar that it's no wonder the decision is often the "conservative" one (by which I mean status quo, the activity that requires no activity).
Calm down or this poor fellow would start designing own CPU architectures soon.
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Microsoft seems to have a scam call number on the Azure sales page
At time of posting, the listed sales call number for microsoft goes to a healthcare scam line. Just wanted to give a heads up to my fellow microsoft haters.

800-440-2008 if you want to verify, call at your own risk, doing so will likely increase your inbound scam calls.
I am not even going to read the diff. Temporary backpedaling, small or big, is irrelevant. The people who made the original decisions still steer Mozilla and their intent is clear. I switched to Librewolf (other forks may work just as well) while doing my best to support Ladybird and Servo; more independent rendering engines, more democracy, less centralization of power. We'll see.
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As somebody still in my early 20s, I am viscerally aware of these advantages provided to me slipping away year by year. I apologize for being vague but I would be interested in hearing advice from those who felt the same what they wish they would have done in their 20s to minimize future regret.
I moved to Android this year. iOS accessibility just doesn't make the iPhone worth it anymore. Braille becomes more and more unstable in VoiceOver every year, and Android works way better with Windows and Linux than iOS does, and Mac accessibility, frankly, sucks.
On the most recent episode of ATP podcast, an anonymous person wrote in to say that when they worked at Apple until ~2013, there was effectively no QA team on macOS.

Granted that was over a decade ago, and "no QA team" doesn't mean no testing, but given the numerous bugs in macOS today, and that they almost never get fixed, I'm not surprised.

(FWIW, I do not experience this bug you mentioned)
In summer the ground is much cooler than the air, so it outperforms an air source heatpump for cooling the house too.
Wrong thread I think :)
Wii Sports 2 sold 30M units, 3 years post launch. That’s top 30 for all platforms all time.

Even 5 years post launch Just Dance 3 sold 10M units.
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They are comparing Javascript JIT to Javascript AOT, to avoid the issue of language design.

"The fastest contemporary JavaScript implementations use JIT compilers [27]. ... However, JIT compilers may not be desirable or simply not available in some
contexts, for instance if programs are to be executed on platforms with too limited resources or if the architecture forbids dynamic code generation. Ahead of time (AoT) compilers offer a response to these situations.

Hopc [25] is an AoT JavaScript-to-C compiler. Its performance is often in the same
range as that of the fastest JIT compilers but its impossibility to adapt the code executed at runtime seems a handicap for some patterns and benchmarks [27]."

In the context of JS it's reasonable to think that JIT may have an advantage, as the language is difficult to statically analyse.
You simply dumped me with the inane digital / analog hint. Like I missed that transition. Excuse me? YOU started to talk about analog photography, just to make me look like an idiot.

Just saying it uses digital photography doesn't give me any clue. Is the tech bleeding edge or 20 years old?

My initial argument was that it takes time to add new tech to space flight, due to radiation concerns. Your argument is that they use digital tech now. Which doesn't disprove my point, nor does it point out any mistakes I made.
It would still be the same place and that place is called San Francisco California
I agree, the "JITs can be faster because X Y Z" arguments have never turned into "JITs are actually faster".

Maybe that's because JIT is almost always used in languages that were slowed in the first place, e.g. due to GC.

Is there a JITing C compiler, or something like that? Would that even make sense?
iPad OS is largely dysfunctional in a myriad of other areas too. I like my iPad but the number of times Chrome or a simple app just freezes is getting out of hand. Also there is a bug where the iPad will freeze if I had a Bluetooth device connect while the device is locked. I think this got fixed in some recent update but it happened frequently for well over a year and it'll lock the iPad for 15-60 minutes at a time.

These issues are becoming more recurring. Meanwhile Apple is trying to sell me on some stupid intelligence that I do not need.
100%. I'm not OP but have had similar experience. My basic UX hasn't changed beyond trivialities in pretty well over 10 years. Contrast that with SaaS and many modern mobile apps that get completely redesigned every couple of years whether you want them to or not, and you have zero control on even the timing of the update. I've found a lot of refuge in open source as complete redesigns just for the hell of it (or to justify a full-time job) are nearly unheard of, but there are definitely tradeoffs. Usually (though not always!) the UX isn't great, but it will be functional. As a person who prefers function over form (though does harbor an intense appreciate for the latter), this is often a good trade.
I wouldn't call Apple's hardware as premium quality. Premium price yes, quality no - not since PowerPC times.

I was an owner of the original crackbook, have had a magic keyboard, magic mouse both fail shortly after warranty period, I can't count the number of power leads that have started fraying (thank goodness for USB C!).

Ass for iPhone screens - seem to be very breakable compared to other manufacturers.
I mean yeah that's cool, motor oils, memes and all that. Meanwhile we destroyed ~70% of life on earth in the last 50 years. But cool, I'm glad you figured out this very deep metaphysical quest every human being has to complete in their life to attain a higher plane of existence: which motor oil should I use!?

I'll tell that to the kids with deformed necks and backs who scroll tiktok in groups for 2-3 hours a day in the bench in front of my building, I'm sure it'll enhance their lives

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/13/almost-7...
Do you need a blocker if you run PiHole?

It seems to do the job for the house very nicely.
I went back to Linux because I can at least decide when I'm ready for updates that changes my workflow. Neither Windows nor macOS gives me that experience. I wouldn't put Linux on a pedestral when it comes to UX/UI/design, but at least it doesn't rugpull me once a year (or more often with Windows) with forced updates.

As someone who cares deeply about UX that doesn't get in the way and allows professionals to do their work effectively, I'd be a hardcore Apple fanboy if the UX was actually good for that.
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It pauses for me when I hit the mute switch though. I pretty much never power it off.
It's starting to sound like it's time to create a GitHub repository and start putting it all together.

My elisp skills are basic, so I could help more with testing, coordination, publishing packages, or documentation.

Shall I create the repo?
I was thinking Haskell not Rust :) But yes, for sure, you'd have to tackle it bit by bit with some sort of bridging if you decided it was worth it.
iPad 10th Gen doesn't even support the Apple Pencil Pro. Are they using any Apple Pencils at all?
Wow, how dare you omit that Windows 11 24H2 IoT LTSC exists.

/s
> 250 years ago George Washington could have financed the entire Revolutionary War

That was a rebellion, not a revolution. The colonial elite broke away from the mother country. They sculpted the eventual legal and political structure to protect their power and privilege without having to pay taxes.

If you're looking for a revolution, better look at the French Revolution or the October Revolution.
> - stop dragging and notice how the color cursor continues jumping around erratically (it's impossible to actually select the exact color you want)

Tried dragging color cursor for 30 seconds+, no issues at all. MacOS 15.3.1 (24D70) on 16" M2 Max.
As a guy who's dating in his 30s I'm just envious he's able to choose "the best woman" and doesn't feel his options are limited to the only woman in online dating who's willing to stick around
rebase, too, probably, I've never done one of those, but I hear they're popular.
this is misinformation -- zoning is complex; basically it appears that "if zoning was ever used to separate minority neighborhoods" then it becomes "zoning is to prevent mixing of races"

Let's be perfectly clear -- racial segregation is illegal in the USA; zoning has many implementations, many uses, many pressures and has baggage from historical situations
2x USB4 according to the specs, which (as I understand it) is Thunderbolt compatible, although I don’t believe framework has paid for the certification.
Interesting. I've been looking at the Framework 13 to replace my Asus. Now the older versions are cheaper too. In these cases I go by the assumption that the leap in perf is mostly not noticeable to me so I would go with the old version.
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> The development of Firefox costs around half a billion $ per year.

Half a billion, IIRC, is what Mozilla gets from Google every year. This is AFAIK mostly not spent on developing the browser.

To add insult to injury AFAIK it arrives through Mozilla corporation (which develops the browser) and is then funneled through to the foundation to be spent on "initiatives".
May I ask, what machine you are running it on? On my Celeron (4GB RAM), things are OK-ish.
I was thinking about that too. I wasn't so sure but this SO entry eclipsed my doubts:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7222164/mmap-an-entire-l...
> It's meaningless data to you

I decide whats meaningless to me. Not you. Not mozilla.
For what its worth, I can't reproduce this on 15.3 (24D60). I don't have a "Custom color" option. I see "Colors" and I click a Plus button to add a new color. Also I have my system connected to a caldigit dock and I'm using a mouse, not the trackpad.
It's ironic you would pay a premium when the biggest reason for continued "new features" is to justify an SaaS sales model.

Excel '98 probably covers 95% of users use cases. But here we are.
> 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

This resonates. I'm also at retirement age. And when I look back over my career I realize that it was mostly luck. I was so anxious much of the time (afraid I might make a mistake or make the wrong decision) and I wonder if I would've been more relaxed knowing what I know now? And if as a result of being more relaxed I would've actually performed better. I'm pretty sure I would've felt a lot more at peace.
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I'm single in my 40s. I was the same way. Just pick one. Soon there won't be any to pick from my friend.
I think somewhere around that age is when a lot of folks start noticing how many “last times” for various experiences are piling up, and that a ton of their remaining experiences are also going to be “last times”. It’s when you realize you’re in a slow-motion process of saying goodbye to life.
Any compilations of such ideas?
> Feature prioritization over optimization: Engineering resources appear focused on new capabilities rather than fixing existing performance problems;

People are keeping their phones longer they used to, which is obviously a problem for device makers. Therefore they must lean on new feature development too sell new phones. "Increased reliability and stability" is not a good consumer sales pitch
I know people tend to get very upset by this but if I’m not mistaken the M1, M2 and I think the M3 processors all now have “unfixable” hardware level security bugs on par with SPECTRE that destroy the concept of a Secure Enclave AFAIK.

https://wccftech.com/macs-running-apples-m1-m2-and-m3-chips-...

So essentially they might be fast but they all have genuinely fatal flaws in them.

But it’s not just the software that stinks.
I'm a little torn, I see your point. I don't get to choose by myself how language and symbols are co-opted and used - see the whole "all lives matter" debacle that had many well meaning ignorant people spouting off racist garbage. On the other hand, do I really want to let an egotistical asshole - the very one actually fallen prey to the thing he claims so many others are victims of - dictate how I use language? There is a movement to reclaim words - or maybe not let them be misused - in a way that doesn't just roll over, hading over parts of the language, whenever fascistic assholes decide to appropriate them.
From the specs:

> Interfaces

> Supports USB4 with DisplayPort output and USB-PD power input on the rear two slots

> Supports USB 3.2 with DisplayPort output and USB-PD power input on the front two slots

https://frame.work/laptop13?tab=specs
I'd be fine with Amazon drones flying over my house, as long as Amazon pays a fair usage fee. Usually it'd be pay-per-use, but for companies of their size I'm thinking of introducing monthly enterprise subscriptions. Contact my sales team for further information!

Oh, and SSO is obviously enterprise only.
What is this "Custom Color"? I clicked the "+" icon to open the color picker and did as described and I cannot reproduce this.

Sequoia 15.3.1 (24D70)
You are right, I'm talking more about features that the average (modern) user would need, like automatic SSL setup.
And if you don’t want to worry about hosting it yourself, NextDNS is easily one of the better ways I spend $20/year.
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Desktop icons snapping to the grid has been broken forever too. Every once in a while I'll have a space in the "grid" that just won't accept anything to be placed in it.

And god, don't even get me started on how the icons rearrange themselves when you're organizing your home screen / control center. I can't believe they actually shipped it like that and still haven't made it any better.
It reads a bit like a verse from the song Time by Pink Floyd, which perfectly encapsulates the sense of existential dread that so many of us feel more and more often as we get older.
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