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This is what you get when worm infested brains lead the country

Don’t blame the worms, they’d have done better on their own…

Or insect infected brains (ref: Braindead TV series)

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That's why I drive with my eyes closed. Looking at the other cars on the road isn't going to have any effect on them.

Don't worry we're not going to do anything to mitigate their collapse either. Especially not with this attitude.

Or our reaction to and preparedness for consequences of early collapse? Is course correction impossible?

Most scientists don’t expect a full collapse this century, but even a significant slowdown would have major climate consequences particularly for Europe and Africa.

*based on current data...

If you stop collecting data, (y)our theories and models cannot be updated. So you end up being stuck in time with what you have already measured.

Imagine if in (your chosen profession) you were limited to the tools of 1970 to do the work expected of you. If you work in programming, could you have made an LLM, a complex database, or even modern reactive websites with the likes of cobol and fortran?


> Tracking the currents isn’t going to have any effect on the currents.

That's exactly why I never get tested for sexually-transmitted diseases. I mean, I'd rather not know, right??

/s


> The price thing is really true.

No price tag can make me use insufferable MacOS, the same as iOS.


Agreed. For programming , Linux > Mac, but Mac > Windows.

Using both Linux (at home) and Mac (at work), the differences are small for development. But my dev stack is basically just Neovim & CLI tools.

That said, I’ll never work on Windows. 15ish years ago I did some .net work. C# was a fun language but development on windows is a special kind of torture.


Anything in particular that your Linux experience adds over what is available on macOS?

> now publicly manifest as "Golden Dome

"Golden" goes perfectly in line with the current president's office decor


"Home Depot presents the Apparently Gilded Dome" didn't have the same ring

> People praising it in the comments seem none the wiser

Or.. they simply like it? Regardless of what we think about it


Indeed. I've heard a few compositions that I knew were AI-generated and still thought were pretty good.

Look up Xania Monet. AI artist “signed” to Warner Bros with a multimillion contract after “she” charted on Billboard.

There’s an appetite for this.


Wow I had no idea there were already popular AI artists. Xania Monet has ~500k monthly listeners on Spotify and some of her (its?) youtube videos have millions of views. This is depressing.

I don't think it's people deliberately seeking this stuff out. For whatever reason, the algorithms love recommending AI content, and I'm sure the numbers are juiced to some degree with bot farms.

Not that it still isn't depressing.


>the algorithms love recommending AI content

wouldn't be surprised if it's because they don't have to pay out for AI music.


I love my hour long AI songs, I listen to them over and over again. Check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfqOEyLFrJI or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-dRotOi01Q

Just re-upload it. AI generated work cant be copyrighted.

Even if the courts won't uphold the copyright, that doesn't prevent people from claiming your videos and initiating YouTube's copyright process against you. This is a recurring problem for people who upload their own original performances of public-domain compositions, particularly solo piano.

Indeed. False copyright claims should be illegal, they're an invitation to fraud.

What if you claim it first against them? You wouldn't be punished for a false claim, since they're not.

uhh, no

Reasonable people can believe they have a legitimate ownership right when they petition YouTube for copyright enforcement for AI-generated work. The courts might eventually disagree, but that's a different thing than knowingly making a fraudulent misrepresentations to YouTube for financial benefit. This difference makes the proposed behavior criminal fraud. I highly recommend not risking twenty years of prison time for like maybe a couple hundred dollars in ad revenue.


It's not knowing misrepresentation. You AI-generated the same video, so how were you to know it wasn't yours? Just don't show them this HN thread.

Besides, nobody's actually checking


An often repeated talking point that's broadly false without further context. Mechanical output on its own can't be copyrighted, that hasn't changed. However it can be if sufficient (as determined by the courts) human creativity went into causing it to be output.

I think the op mean people writing stuff like: "Amazing what a human soul can create", "This is such a beautiful song. I'm so happy it's not another AI slop" type of comments. I have a fairly popular youtube channel with AI generated music, I make it very obvious that it's AI, yet I still get hundreds of those comments a month.

I make it very obvious that it's AI, yet I still get hundreds of those comments a month.

That suggests you've done a good job of directing the AI to generate what people like.


or that the comments themselves are AI/bots? (not meant as a criticism, other than of youtube itself)

This map is inaccurate, for at least one major FAANG player. General metro area seems to be good but actual physical location is way wrong, not even the campus is right

Yeah even the very large DC I worked at 20 years ago still isn't listed, and it's still operating.

> Model S Plaid has faster acceleration than Luce and they have similar top speed.

People don’t get sports cars just for the acceleration.


The Luxe doesn’t look sporty at all, even if it has excellent handling.

Good thing neither are sports cars.

Why would your head always be turned to one side? Have one monitor in the middle (the main one) and secondary either left or right. Having split screen right in the middle of my field of view is ridiculously unpleasant

It's a bit snobby, both shelving and the desk.

Now when I checked his website in little bit more detail I get that feeling more and more. Looks like someone who brags about a lot of things he owns and cannot shut up about it.


I've been following Fatih on Twitter/X for many years now. He's someone that appreciates good design, and posts about it all the time (not just things he's purchased/owns). So he's someone that appreciates good things, and then reviews and shares for others to benefit.

Some people have other hobbies that cost a lot more than enjoying fine furniture, such as cars. It's easy to dismiss something as snobby when it's not a hobby you share. But if you get to know him (for me, obviously from a distance and only from following him on Twitter), he's anything but a show-off.


I suspect it might be more like:

  while true:
    optimize life
personally my setup is on iteration <n> of keyboard, mouse, desk, monitor, computer, wrist rest, etc etc etc etc

That’s a rude and terrible thing to say about someone you don’t know. I guess hiding behind anonymity gives people courage.

How is it "rude" and "terrible" (dramatic much?) to infer a loose profile from someone based on what they willingly decide to share with the world? Maybe parent is wrong, but that's their perception of the author based on what they put out there.

"Please don't judge me by what I say or do or really think" - Ashleigh Brilliant

Lol. I just love things man. What a rude comment. You even don’t know me :) Check my x.com/fatih account for more. I don’t withhold the things that bring me joy.

This thread is full of cynical and bitter takes.

I think it reflects on the current state of things. I wonder if people look at this kind of fancy stuff and associate with a life that is ever more out of reach, instead of something to aspire to.


Don't forget the $700 desk lamp.

> 2. It asks for access to your email via Apple's Mail app which I don't use

Assumption that people use Apple services by default is wild


Mail isn't documented as a requirement, but the first item in the Requirements section is "macOS (uses launchd for scheduling and Messages for iMessage)".


Is Messages to automate responding to broker texts or just for notification?


The mail app is a native Mac app but it can use any email account. It's an SMTP/IMAP/POP client.


True. But Apple also enshittified the UI and they had an unforgivable data loss issue with Mail back in the Catalina days, which is why I switched to Thunderbird and haven't looked back.


They probably built it just for themselves. More the first person in the post title.


Given oop info I can found online, they built it to advertise themselves, I think show hn would have been much more appropriate

Mac in requirements is wild tho


If it was windows or Linux only I feel like no one would bat an eye. Plenty of software is OS dependent. Am I missing something?

I do think they should’ve put that in the title, however. Save a lot of people time


I agree with you for the no one would bat an eye had it been windows or linux

I do find the project cool, just a bit too sensationalized given the title


They probably wouldn't have shared the GitHub repository with hn if this was the case.


There are "show hn" submissions for things that people just want to show off multiple times a week.


This was not tagged as a show hn ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Malta is a country, Sicily is a region


> Malta is a country, Sicily is a region

Regions can sign deals too…?


A country is a region.


I believe GP's intent was to point out that a company can get into an agreement with a government (make an offer they can't refuse), but a company cannot get a "region" to sign an agreement/contract with them.



Yes the continents too


What region is UK?


That whole thread is absurd, but if I would have to answer I would say Great Britain is the name of the region/group of islands? Open to be wrong, I know little about the UK


Great Britain is the big island.

UK (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is a country consisting of several countries and other territories.


with a president called Renato Schifani.


It doesn't make it any less-region


But what exactly is your point?


38.1097387° N, 13.3520066° E


What's their point?


Because Sicily has a President, an offer to them that can't be refused, can be made. Can a region sign contracts? In this case, yes.


lol "president"

I have a president in my neighborhood's polka club too.


At which point, your neighborhood's polka club can enter into certain kinds of contracts on behalf of the members. Same as the region of Sicily.


Sicily has over 4 million inhabitants. Probably the budget of your polka club is slightly smaller.


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