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by melvinroest | 2025-04-24 11:42:15+00:00
I replaced "code" for "singing" to make a point.

> This comment section really shows the stark divide between people who love singing and thus hate AI-assisted singing, and people who hate singing and thus love AI-assisted singing.

> Honestly, I suspect the people who would prefer to have someone or something else do their singing, are probably the singers who are already outputting the worst singing right now.

The point is: just because you love something, doesn't mean you're good at it. It is of course positively correlated with it. I am in fact a better singer because I love to sing compared to if I never practiced. But I am not a good singer, I am mediocre at best (I chose this example for a reason, I love singing as well as coding! :-D)

And while it is easier to become good at coding than at singing - for professional purposes at least - I believe that the effect still holds.
by lud_lite | 2025-04-24 11:43:21+00:00
The travel things you describe to me are work (in a good way) getting away from it all can give you the clarity to know what big moves to make. I recently went to Tokyo and didn't touch work at all. The only way!

For those who can't afford that like the sister comment you can explore your own city (or suburbia or countryside). Everywhere is exotic to someone. In all 3 cases a bicycle does a good job!
by taraparo | 2025-04-24 11:43:23+00:00
The Eclipse Foundation has been experiencing a significant infrastructure outage since April 21, 2025, affecting several core services. While the main website (eclipse.org) remains operational, key components such as the account management system (accounts.eclipse.org), and download servers have been impacted. The root cause has been identified as a storage-related issue, leading to disruptions in authentication and access to Eclipse-hosted tools and services.

As of April 24, 2025, there has been no detailed public explanation or estimated time for full recovery.
by NalNezumi | 2025-04-24 11:44:06+00:00
I think one (often forgotten) good advice to get used to the mode-switching is to move the ESC key to Capslock on the keyboard. It's tedious to learn to always go to the ESC key, upper left of the keyboard. Capslock is available from home row, and you should probably not use CAPSLOCK anyway, it's a bad practice.

Put ESC key there instead and vim becomes wayyyyyyyy more ergonomic.
by chongli | 2025-04-24 11:44:11+00:00
I’m not a fan of motion-action. Most of the time in vi, all I’m doing is moving around. When you input a motion key in vi it moves you accordingly with no fanfare.

The motion-action paradigm, on the other hand, primes the editor to expect an action. In many cases this leads to multiple cursors being left in your wake, which I find really distracting.

I think this stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of the vi paradigm: the primary purpose of vi was to extend the traditional line-editor ed (which was designed for editing through a paper TTY terminal) to full-screen interactive editing on a video terminal. Since early video terminals had very low baud rates, vi needed to be very efficient at reducing screen redraw. It just so happens that this emphasis is perfectly matched to the most common editing loop: jump to a location within the file and insert/delete/replace some characters. Thus vi happens to be perfectly optimized for this editing workflow and so I believe this is the reason for its enduring popularity.

The other task which vi is strong at (but which is otherwise secondary) is editing in the large: making multiple changes to a file simultaneously. This, I believe, is the primary strength of motion-action paradigm editors. In other words, they get it backwards! Thus they can’t help but annoy me while I’m working with their constant attempts to infer large-scale edits from my simple desire to jump around the file and make small changes. They are giving me a freight train when all I want is a car.
by bdelmas | 2025-04-24 11:44:42+00:00
A high price in a font won't sink a business as a high price in truffle would for a Michelin chef... The price of a font for a business is extremely negligible... Or again you shouldn't buy it if your business is too small. And if it's that small you should be able to justify the value added by buying that font as truffle does for the chef.

So we are back at what OP said.
by sandworm101 | 2025-04-24 11:44:56+00:00
But to get the sail-wind interaction you need the movement of the boat. To get the movement you then need the hull-water interaction. Modeling just a static, vertical, sail doesnt really demonstrate anything practical. It is more akin to similating a captive foil in a wind tunnel.

The obvious next step would be to calculate the cog and tilt the entire rig in response to sail forces, which sheds wind until a balance point is reached, or the boat flips.
by jmyeet | 2025-04-24 11:45:03+00:00
Another way to put this: Tiktok won.

I agree that the days of posting "this is what I had for dinner" are over. Facebook is a cesspool of your weird uncle posting conspiracy theories. IG isn't a friends network anymore. It's for following influencers.

Tiktok has a following tab but anecdotally I don't know anyone who uses it regularly and as a significant portion of time on the app. It's all about the FYP. And Tiktok's algorithm is far superior to any other in this one way: how quickly it updates. You watch a video about ducklings and within 2-3 videos you'll be seeing more videos about ducklings.

Compare this to FB, IG and Youtube: it seems like the process of learning what you like is far less responsive, almost like there's a daily job that processes your activity and updates the recommendation engine to your new interest levels.

Also, Tiktok is very good at localizing your interests. By this I mean, the other platforms will push big creators on you. On Tiktok it's a common occurrence to stumble on a video from someone I've never heard of who has 20M+ followers and this is the first video I've seen in 2+ years from them. On FB or IG, if someone has a massive following, you'll almost have to block them to avoid seeing them if it's something you have zero interest in.

These companies like the whole friends connection because it's a network effect, keeping users on the platform. Without that, it's so incredibly easy to switch when the new thing comes along.

I would say that the rise of group chats instead is evidence of how social media is failing users. People do want to communicate with a closed group. It's like they say: any organization app has to compete with emailing yourself. Any social media has to compete with a group chat.
by walterbell | 2025-04-24 11:45:06+00:00
Thanks for sharing information on another portfolio company owned by the publisher of this article, i.e. two degrees of corporate separation. Are there public tools which can provide ownership and portfolio analysis about any article URL? Do you have any feedback on the privacy-focused content of this specific article?

For social network analysis of article metadata as a proxy for article content quality, the author is founder of Ludlow Institute in United States, whose board of advisors includes, https://www.ludlowinstitute.org/about

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by mr_mitm | 2025-04-24 11:45:12+00:00
Being small and relatively unknown has advantages. Sean Carroll touched on this:

>But what I'm trying to get across is there are a bunch of structural reasons why physics departments tend to be conservative, and the conservative in the sense that they're gonna hire people who are working in the areas that are sort of the sure things rather than the gambles, and the same thing goes for funding agencies and prize committees and so forth, academia in general, not just physics departments, there's a lot of structural reasons why things are conservative, and I do think that's a problem, you even see it in institutions like the Perimeter Institute, which is one of the world's greatest physics institutes right now, but when it started out, it was much quirkier, Lee Smallin was there, and Fortiny Makapulu and a bunch of people, and they were doing loop quantum gravity and weird approaches to the foundations of quantum mechanics.

>4:10:24.8 SC: And as it grew and became more respectable, they turned into one of the world's great physics institutions, as I said. But they also became much more just mainstream and ordinary. It's a part of the life cycle of a Physics Department or Institute. You have a plucky band of rebels and they kind of equilibrate and they become more normal and traditional, and you can't blame them, can't plan that particular institute, 'cause they're just trying to be a good a Physics Institute, and their little part that they play turns out overall, to make it harder and harder for small idiosyncratic research programs to flourish, there are people who have tenure or senior people and they can work on their own quirky little ideas.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/07/31/245-...
by piva00 | 2025-04-24 11:45:18+00:00
Very few people actively try to be supreme jerks and ruin things, that's very abnormal behaviour for a human being.

It's much more common that your inner narrative keeps finding justifications for why what you are doing is important, and the damage you are causing is either justified or not perceived as so damaging.

The issue is the system we live under doesn't really incentivise moral and ethical behaviour, the rewards to be reaped are much larger if you act immorally, people like Zuck are able to tell themselves what they are doing is ok for "making the world a better place". But there's no reward for making the world a better place, the reward is for you showing revenue growth, user growth, and Zuck chased that even though there was an inflection point where the "good" was outweighed by the "bad".

> Zuck, if you’re reading this- thanks for being part of the thing that allowed me to continue communication with my friends when they weren’t nearby, and thanks for continuing to provide that for my children.

All of that could still have existed without all the appendages included to extract more money from the machine. Without creating feeds of content measured by "engagement" to the point it became detrimental to the users themselves, all the good Meta has done could have existed if morals and ethics trumped profit-seeking. And for that I do not thank Zuckerberg, at all, even though I do understand he is also a product of the system, in the end he (and Meta) abused one of the most powerful feelings of humans (connection among each other) to extract as much money as they could without regards to the dangerous side-effects that many pointed out were happening when Facebook was growing, there was no care about anyone, you and I were swindled.

It's unfortunate, I hope you can see that, for all the good provided over years on fostering connections, it was just spoiled in the end by his greed, and carelessness.

We can do better than that, no need to thank Zuckerberg for fucking us over.
by drdrek | 2025-04-24 11:45:29+00:00
This is exactly the type of people the cultural purge in big tech came to flush out. Trying to change a multi billion dollar company from the inside is delusional, self serving, narcissistic and ineffective. Who the hell do you think you are in the great machine of 100,000+ employees companies, of billions invested in them.

The change is going to be political, regulatory. These companies always can't change until regulation is there, and then they miraculously adapt. If you took big tech money for 7 years you were not part of the solution.

The lengths some people will go to self explain why they were not egotistical is amazing! This is not an expose, everything is well known, this is a books worth of convincing herself she is a good person after all.
by jsiepkes | 2025-04-24 11:45:37+00:00
> Can you name an OS that gives more support to OEMs than Android?

I don't see how this is relevant for this discussion? The whole point is that Android is only opensource in name. You must license Google Play services from Google otherwise Android is practically useless since you can't run 99.9% of the Android apps. When you license Google Play services Google will also impose all kinds of other restrictions on you which have nothing to do with Google Play services. Like for example mandating you don't set Perplexity AI as the default...

Imagine Microsoft "open-sourcing" Windows (by doing some source drops at regular intervals) but you wouldn't be able to run all the existing Windows applications on it without licensing closed source software and online services from Microsoft.
by Mystery-Machine | 2025-04-24 11:45:53+00:00
Based on this and other comments in this HN thread, harnessing the lightning energy for potential use wouldn't be a replacement for a power plant. However, if the resources for the lightning energy capture are/become too cheap, this could be a replacement for solar panels. Instead of replacing the power plant, it would replace/complement electricity production of a single home/building. Maybe with big enough batteries that can capture this energy, it could become a viable solution?
by maccard | 2025-04-24 11:46:13+00:00
I think the middle ground is healthy.

I'm in my early 30's, I have a job that I get to "create" in (I make video games).

> I immediately wondered if this individual had a family, friends. Had this person already seen the world and its many sights and wonders? Had they already experienced everything good there is to experience in this one lifetime that they were so bored of it that they would prefer to work instead? Had they already swam with whales, explored dense Amazonian jungles, climbed snowy mountains, explored the countless alleys and backstreets of Tokyo, etc.

Lots of these things are best done when you're younger, healthy, and able to do these things. I would _much_ rather live in a nice house in a nice area with exciting things to do from my mid 20's onwards and enjoy those things for years and years and years, rather than live in a smaller/cheaper/farther out place so that I can retire 10 years earlier and start living. I'd rather have 1-2 of those things to look forward to every year than say "I can't wait until I'm 50 and I can finally start doing all those things".

My dad counted down the days until he could retire, talked about how he would finally get to do X Y and Z. About 2 years before that, health conditions caught up and now he's not fit to do so many of those things that he was so excited and happy to do. If the tradeoff for me is working until I'm a little older while getting to enjoy the journey, rather than minmaxing the time that i can work and retire, then I'll choose to enjoy the ride.
by daxfohl | 2025-04-24 11:48:32+00:00
Well maybe a local Airbnb MCP could have access to your phone to call the host. Or to your wallet to pay.

That may make more sense than having a separate "wallet MCP server" running locally and having the LLM coordinate the transaction. While the premise of MCP is to allow LLMs to do such things, idk if I want an LLM to be hallucinating with my credit card.
by rottc0dd | 2025-04-24 11:49:03+00:00
I think there are some similar remarks on Bill Gates in another good memoir by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen [1]. Even on his school days, Gates was so sure he will not have a competition on Math, since he was the best at math at his school. When he went to Harvard, (which I somehow remember as Princeton(!) as pointed out by a commenter) and saw people better than him, he changed to applied math from Pure math. (Remarks are Paul's)

> I was decent in math and Bill was brilliant, but I spoke from experience at Wazzu. One day I watched a professor cover the black board with a maze of partial differential equations, and they might as well have been hieroglyphics from the Second Dynasty. It was one of those moments when you realize, I just can’t see it. I felta little sad, but I accepted my limitations. I was OK with being a generalist.

> For Bill it was different. When I saw him again over Christmas break, he seemed subdued. I asked him about his first semester and he said glumly, “I have a math professor who got his PhD at sixteen.” The course was purely theoretical, and the homework load ranged up to thirty hours a week. Bill put everything into it and got a B. When it came to higher mathematics, he might have been one in a hundred thousand students or better. But there were people who were one in a million or one in ten million, and some of them wound up at Harvard. Bill would never be the smartest guy in that room, and I think that hurt his motivation. He eventually switched his major to applied math.

Even Paul admits, he was torn between going into Engineering or Music. But, when he saw his classmate giving virtuoso performance, he thought "I am never going to as great as this." So, he chose engineering.

Maybe it is a common trait in ambitious people.

Edits: Removed some misremembered information.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Man-Memoir-Cofounder-Microsoft/d...
by Balinares | 2025-04-24 11:49:10+00:00
That's not how it works. You can't sell without someone buying from you, and if you're selling everything then buyers will know your stock is worthless and will not exactly be rushing to take you up on the offer, except at whatever severely depressed prices will generate a profit margin from liquidating your assets.

He's much better off propping up the stock with a bit more grifting for as long as that will last and living off loans taken with stocks as the collateral.
by exceptione | 2025-04-24 11:50:09+00:00
Thanks for chiming in.

React doesn't win speed races, but the mentioned slow-downs are rather extreme and would be noticeable.

I agree that one should benchmark against React-MUI as the baseline. In fact, that would give Solidjs a meaningful (less synthetic) benchmark, as in this case we have a wide range of non-trivial one-for-one components to compare with. A goldmine for performance testing.

If SolidJS could outperform React in these kind of workloads you would have a great proposition.
by susam | 2025-04-24 11:51:14+00:00
Indeed! Sometime between 2010 and 2015, I used to often work with Windows computers, so I wrote a tool for myself back then to remap Caps Lock to Esc on Windows machines:

https://github.com/susam/uncap

While it was certainly possible to do that by editing Windows registry (and I have noted those techniques too in the README), registry changes couldn't be enabled or disabled without a reboot. That's what motivated me to write the above tool. And indeed, having the Caps Lock work like Esc made using Vim a much better experience!
by CharlieDigital | 2025-04-24 11:51:17+00:00
I saw an interview with Cesar Milan a few years back where he talked about how he survived after first coming to the US. He said something to the effect of (paraphrasing)

> "America is amazing, you could get two hotdogs for $1 at 7-11. That's all I needed to survive."

When we visited Tokyo last year, we ended up eating a lot of 7-11 onigiri for breakfast as there weren't many places open when we were up and heading out. $2 will take you a surprisingly long way if you're not picky.

The same for housing. I know folks that are making mid 6-figures who live in shared houses because housing is not something that they value; it's a place for them to sleep at night.

It's about what you value and then how you exchange your time on Earth.
by imiric | 2025-04-24 11:52:16+00:00
What a ridiculous video that's reading way too much into a silly 5 second clip.

Bill Gates may be competitive, but this specific event, and the whole idea that it somehow represents a shift, is completely unrelated to the current topic. People have different private and public personas, and even present different personas to different people. This is completely normal, and often the only way to cope with being a celebrity, especially for introverted personality types.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-04-24 11:52:17+00:00
Note the Mexican government has expressed skepticism about the IMF’s projections : https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexicos-president-say...

And I for one tend to agree, I hardly think Mexico’s GDP will experience growth lower than Canada’s and Canada is projected to have some growth. Compare media and reports from both countries and you’ll see a lot more worry and impact in Canada than in Mexico.
by pdimitar | 2025-04-24 11:52:24+00:00
I can't claim anything objectively because I never truly looked at it scientifically.

I simply come from bad neighborhoods and the amount of times I heard "shhh, don't go there, people will see you" from guys who clearly were looking to start for trouble, was substantial in its own right.

Anecdotal evidence, sure, but from a psychological point of view the people who want to steal or harm others feel much safer doing so in the darkness, I have found.
by myrmidon | 2025-04-24 11:52:38+00:00
On what time horizon does this happen? Because this sounds like a wishful utopia to me.

I would expect current progress in AI to deliver the equivalent of a veritable army of consultants for very cheap, available to basically everyone within a decade or so. But that is not gonna make foreign labor worthless (or labor in general-- maybe a lot of whitecollar/creative work, we'll see). But trade is always gonna have value until the earth is perfectly homogenous, simply because it allows you to get value from both being better at things than other nations (=> export) AND from being worse (=> import).

If you are gonna go full autarky, you are going to be left behind by countries that don't, because all the spread-out efforts will struggle to compete with nations that put actual focus on things, and in-housing everything will drive up costs and prices tremendously.
by myself248 | 2025-04-24 11:52:43+00:00
For the time being, I just store my keys in a little cast iron dutch oven, sitting on top of the fridge.

It's extremely effective as a shield for the 125kHz LF wake-up signal, and I've been unable to elicit a response when they're in there, even with a relay setup that reliably wakes them up from several feet away otherwise.
by tsubo164 | 2025-04-24 11:52:50+00:00
I’ve been working on a small scripting language called Turbine, designed to be embedded in C and C++ applications with minimal overhead.

Turbine uses a Markdown-inspired syntax, aiming to be readable and writable by both engineers and non-engineers. It comes with built-in container types like vec, set, and map, and a straightforward C API for integration.

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
by krisoft | 2025-04-24 11:53:02+00:00
> And then how do I loan it to a friend without the rigamarole of adding them as an authenticated user?

By making adding an authenticated driver not a rigamarole, but easy and intuitive.

> What if I'm not able to add them as an authenticated user or authentic myself to let them drive, e.g. I'm injured or very drunk?

They call you an ambulance.