unit_circle (u/unit_circle)

unit_circle commented on MacBook Pro Insomnia manuel.bernhardt.io/posts... · Posted by u/speckx

teejmya · 8 months ago

I've worked around this problem on each mac laptop I've owned over the years by configuring "hibernate on lid close."

When I open the lid of the mac it takes maybe 20-30 seconds to resume. I consider this a small price to pay in exchange for reliable sleep and less battery drain with the lid closed.

If you want to try this, run in the terminal:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25

If you don't like it, you can restore defaults with:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3

unit_circle · 8 months ago

This is the simplest solution that enables the behavior that I think most people who care enough to comment here want

unit_circle commented on Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries' wired.com/story/sam-altma... · Posted by u/spenvo

unit_circle · 9 months ago

Side note: I'm noticing more and more of these simple, hyperbolic headlines specifically of statements that public figures make. A hallmark of the event being reported is a public figure making a statement that will surely have little to no effect whatsoever.

Calling these statements "slamming" (a specific word I see with curious frequency) is so riling to me because they are so impotent but are described with such violent and decisive language.

Often it's a politician, usually liberal, and their statement is such an ineffectual waste of time, and outwardly it appears wasting time is most of what they do. I consider myself slightly left of center, so seeing "my group" dither and waste time rather than organize and do real work frustrates me greatly. Especially so since we are provided with such contrast from right of center where there is so much decisive action happening at every moment.

I know it's to feed ranking algorithms, which causes me even more irritation. Watching the brain rot get worse in real time...

unit_circle commented on Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion xfinity.com/support/artic... · Posted by u/bearsyankees

0xbadcafebee · 9 months ago

I'm sure people will want to make it seem like Comcast is doing something evil here, but they're not:

> Comcast does not monitor the motion and/or notifications generated by the service.

> This feature is currently only available for select Xfinity Internet customers as part of an early access preview.

> WiFi Motion is off by default.

Features like this at Comcast are typically one or two engineers on a random team coming up with a cool idea, testing it out, and if it works, they ask if they can roll it out en-masse. If it's just a software or server/backend thing and it doesn't have any negative impact, it gets accepted. Despite their terrible customer service and business practices, they do some cool stuff sometimes. They also release a fair bit of home-grown stuff as open source, which is expensive and time-consuming, but [they hope] it attracts engineers.

unit_circle · 9 months ago

It's all well and good until the MBAs get a hold of it... Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum.

unit_circle commented on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday reuters.com/technology/ti... · Posted by u/xnhbx

unit_circle · a year ago

This is very welcome as a parent in the USA. It is also sound legally, and was a long time coming. Nothing of great value is being lost and in a year users will have moved on to something else.

There are two positive effects here: 1. A company that is meaningfully foreign is losing control of a mass media asset. 2. Children and young adults are losing access to a product that is not good for them.

A country should not allow foreign powers to control platforms with so much reach--full stop. We do not allow foreign entities to own radio stations... Imagine how much deeper these platforms penetrate a person's mind, and how much larger their audiences are. We should all be MUCH more concerned about how these apps are stretching the social fabric (throughout the world) and how every society's ability to function is effected. I challenge anyone voicing discontent at this result to question whose interests they are voicing.

American manipulation of American minds... Yea! That's the point. I'd rather have someone with interests as aligned as possible with mine working for, owning and ultimately making business decisions at these companies. Regulation as appropriate to further align them.

Which leads me into my next point: I think that everyone here would argue that TikTok is in a class of its own with regard to very engaging short form content and rapid feedback feed training. I would argue that these attributes make it necessarily vapid and reactionary, providing little to no net benefit to either the individual or society to begin with.

If you disagree, what is the value of this product to the user and to society? Does it make people's lives better? I think that when the harms are considered, the answer to both is ultimately no. There are very well-documented negative effects on focus, happiness, and anxiety in children, which persist into adulthood from social media[1]. I don't think it can be argued that something that makes you feel good and connected in the moment but disconnects you from your immediate neighbors and friends and is highly correlated with mental illness is good.

Social platforms (TikTok included) are putting our children at a disadvantage mentally compared to previous generations and need to be more regulated. If these platforms (TikTok and other short-form rapid feedback products most of all) are of dubious value to begin with, what is the harm being done here?

Finally, I conjecture that we've only gotten a taste so far of how power can be wielded through these instruments. Even if Elon decides NOT wield his asset overtly during this administration, I believe we'll see more overt demonstrations of the power of social media sites in the next few years if relations with China continue to deteriorate and Russia becomes more desperate, with Meta clearly becoming less scrupulous.

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1. https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/research/the-evidence

unit_circle commented on Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris cnbc.com/2024/10/25/jeff-... · Posted by u/donsupreme

jrflowers · a year ago

I like that many people here have speculated that Bezos simply wants to avoid the ire of a possible Trump administration. This is very charitable, so much so that it ignores another reasonable guess a person could make based off of the same objective information that we all have — that this action is an endorsement, and the person that chose to endorse a candidate did so because he wants them to win.

On one hand you can imagine that Bezos somehow wants a Harris presidency but doesn’t want to appear that way out of fear, but that sounds more fantastical and wishful than “The guy whose company is currently trying to wholesale eliminate the National Labor Relations Board(1) likes Trump’s policies and wants him to win”, especially when you think about what’s going on with the other guy(2) that’s trying to destroy the NLRB.

Sometimes when people indicate they want something to happen it is because they want that thing to happen.

1

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-joins-companies-ar...

2

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-leaps-into-the-meme-history-bo...

unit_circle · a year ago

This is so obviously the nail on the head. Shocked how far I had to scroll

unit_circle commented on Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods apps.apple.com/us/app/cry... · Posted by u/mrtksn

Osiris · a year ago

This is really a Bluetooth issue. The same happens with any headphones that have a mic on any OS.

When Bluetooth mode is switched from Headphones to Headset (with mic), only much lower quality audio codes are used.

Does anyone know if Bluetooth 6 adds support for higher quality codes for Headset?

It's a big issue, in my opinion.

unit_circle · a year ago

Bluetooth 5.2 was supposed to fix this issue. Indeed, my S22 phone with Jabra Elite 8s sounds great in calls.

MacBooks newer than 2023 SHOULD have better call quality. They have Bluetooth 5.3¹. Can anybody confirm this? I have been meaning to try pairing my earbuds with a floor model at a store and testing audio quality but's only to satisfy a curiosity for me.

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1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/111838

unit_circle commented on Ask HN: Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives? · Posted by u/JSR_FDED

unit_circle · 2 years ago

Neither are exactly a 1:1 replacement, but check out backblaze and syncthing. A combination (syncthing for device sync, backblaze for offsite backup) might suit you.

I was impressed with syncthing when I used it ~2 years ago and I assume it's matured since then.

unit_circle commented on Princeton group open sources "SWE-agent", with 12% fix rate for GitHub issues github.com/princeton-nlp/... · Posted by u/asteroidz

unit_circle · 2 years ago

A 1/8 chance of fixing a bug at the cost of a careful review and some corrections is not bad.

0% -> 12% improvement is not bad for two years either (I'm somewhat arbitrary picking the release date of ChatGPT). If this can be kept up for a few years we will have some extremely useful tooling. The cost can be relatively high as well, since engineering time is currently orders of magnitude more expensive than these tools.

unit_circle commented on Via ferratas are finally catching on in the United States smithsonianmag.com/travel... · Posted by u/geox

unit_circle · 2 years ago

Western American wilderness is different than Europe--it has very few human improvements.

Personally I'd love to see it retain that character and I think this is the wrong direction.

Imo if you want a European experience you should go to Europe.

unit_circle commented on Via ferratas are finally catching on in the United States smithsonianmag.com/travel... · Posted by u/geox

hunter-gatherer · 2 years ago

I personally would rather not see these in the wilderness. One of the things that make the little remaining wilderness we have in the US "wild" is the friction to entry. I have some seasoned experience with mountaineering and wilderness stays and what makes it remarkable is the smaller footprint from humans. The more accessible it is the less wild it becomes.

unit_circle · 2 years ago

The one counterpoint I'd like to make here is tat. Imo it's better to leave minimal high quality, long lived gear than soft goods that deteriorate over time that can make for a dangerous descent and produce a fair bit of garbage.