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by flkiwi | 2025-05-02 15:29:16+00:00
Having just started (and slogged through the interminable intro piece that is tonally completely unrelated to the main game), I'm keeping an open mind, but it feels like this is scratching a very particular itch for a very particular group of gamers who have been largely ignored for a decade or more. It's not bad at all and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes, but the turn-based approach feels _very_ old (in both good and bad ways), and the dialogue system..

"We leave tomorrow." click A "Huh" click A "We must drink tonight" click A "You're a bad influence" click A "Huh" click A

Someone will probably tell me this is the convention in the Final Fantasy style and that's FINE, and this would go a long way to explaining the reaction. It feels like a well above average game that is a GREAT game to a subset of gamers because they haven't had a game like this in so long.
by colonial | 2025-05-02 15:29:23+00:00
> Do you also sterilize your kitchenware?

In the US, the FDA requires commercial dishwashers to hit 165F. Consumer washers usually start around ~120F (from the water heater) but even my "landlord special" cheap GE washer claims to hit 140F, which is enough to kill off 99.99% of bacteria in just a few minutes.

So, yes, more or less involuntarily - although I certainly don't mind the lack of salmonella on the forks I use to prick chicken breasts.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-05-02 15:29:37+00:00
No, I think others are missing the point. An "Agentic scenario" is not dissimilar from passing code manually to an AI, it just does it by itself. And if you've tried to use AI for Rust, you would understand why this is not reliable.

An LLM can read compiler output, but how it corrects the code is, ultimately, a semantic guess. It can look at the names of types, it can use its training to guess where new code should go based on types, but it's not able to actually use those types while making changes. It would use them in the same way it would use comments, to inform what code it should output. It makes a guess, checks the compiler output, makes another guess, etc. This may lead to code that compiles, but not code that should be committed by any means. And Rust is not what I'd call a "flexible language," where lots of different coding styles are acceptable in a codebase. You can easily end up with brittle code.

So you don't get much benefits from types, but you do have the overhead of semantic complexity. This is a huge problem for a language like Rust, which is one of the most semantically complicated languages. The best languages are going to be ones that are semantically simple but popular, like Golang. Although I do think Clojure's support is impressive given how little code there is compared to other languages.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-05-02 15:29:39+00:00
In support of "democracy", some States tried to prevent Trump from being on the 2024 ballot--that is, to prevent the demos from selecting who they wanted.

There are several similar stories from Europe where the putatively democratically elected leaders are working to save the demos from itself.

So #NotAllDemocracies, but more than there should be
by perdomon | 2025-05-02 15:29:41+00:00
The difference between the quality of software in the Apple App Store versus the Google Play Store is dramatic, in my opinion. Apple has succeeded in increasing the bar to entry and standards to the point where a lot of the blatant trash/advertising malware present in the Google Play Store is caught by the net of the App Store submission process (and the $99 developer fee).

I do believe the court when they say that Apple has engaged in seriously anticompetitive behavior, and I don't look to Apple as some sort of altruistic honest company, but I also am curious to see if this reduces the average 'value' of a given app in the App Store. On the other hand, it could encourage the development of high-quality software since devs aren't paying the 30%+ tax on App Store sales.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-05-02 15:30:05+00:00
No doubt; Windows gaining ads is the most egregious form; because it combines advertising with an upfront payment.

I think many of the worst offenders, and so much of the problem, would go away if we combined a payment with a mandatory ad-free experience, for any bundled software. Buy a TV, no ads allowed on the TV itself. Buy a computer, no ads allowed on Windows itself. Buy a Mac, no ads allowed in Apple News, should it be bundled. If it's truly free software that the customer did not directly or indirectly pay for, then ads are permitted; but the moment there's a payment, it's over. You can have Free with Ads, you can have Paid with No Ads, but never both.

That would not stop Discord from getting worse, or other services like them; but not allowing a paid + ad combo would solve most of the painful problems.
by _fat_santa | 2025-05-02 15:30:28+00:00
GTA Online in GTA V changed the game entirely for Rockstar and they realized they could make oodles of money off it. I'd say we would have seen GTA VI come out in ~2018 had it not been for online, and we would have seen a couple of single player DLC's too.

I don't think GTA V was originally intended to have such an expansive online component and they just had to keep duct taping shit to make it all work because it was a cash cow. Now I think the reason GTA VI is taking so long is they are trying to get the online "framework" right so they can push content for the next decade.
by FredPret | 2025-05-02 15:31:37+00:00
This is a natural consequence of:

- major oceans on two sides, very similar country on one side, and only one border with a truly different country

- 25% of the world's economy

- very easy to travel, work, and do business internally across the US

- some cultural and lots of climate diversity inside the US

All of which means you can live a very full and happy life without ever leaving the States or even thinking about what happens outside of it.
by ellis0n | 2025-05-02 15:31:53+00:00
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by tzs | 2025-05-02 15:32:04+00:00
I don't see how you can so easily dismiss discussion of P2025's role in this administration as just Reddit stuff.

Around 30 of this administration's cabinet members and agency heads are the authors of the parts of P2025 that covered the subject of the cabinet position they now hold or the agency they now head, and their actions are closely following the plan they laid out in P2025.
by S0y | 2025-05-02 15:32:43+00:00
Honestly it baffles me at this point that Suno keeps trying to generate lyrics when everything else it generates sounds so good.

All of these example get ruined by the most simple and boring lyrics imaginable. Poetry is an art and clearly the model doesn't yet grasp all of its nuances like it does for the rest of the "composition".

At this point the only thing that gives this away as AI generated are the vocals.
Show HN: I built an app that extracts action items from voice conversations
by ernicani | 2025-05-02 15:32:47+00:00
After 6 months of development, I'm launching Echo Notes, a tool that transforms audio recordings into organized notes with automatically extracted action items.

The problem I was solving for myself was losing important details in meetings. I'd find myself frantically typing notes while trying to stay present in conversations, ultimately doing both poorly.

Technical implementation: - Built with Next.js and DaisyUI for the frontend - Custom audio visualization using Canvas API with real-time frequency analysis - Backend transcription pipeline using OpenAI's Whisper API - Post-processing with a custom GPT prompt that: 1. Extracts action items and to-dos 2. Identifies people mentioned 3. Generates contextual titles 4. Formats everything into clean markdown

The most challenging part was optimizing the audio processing pipeline to handle varying file formats while keeping the UI responsive.

I'd love feedback from the HN community on the user experience and suggestions for additional features. Currently offering 50% off for early adopters.

Try it at: https://echonotes.fr
by rjsw | 2025-05-02 15:33:00+00:00
Programming languages don't really define drawings. There are several standards for the data models behind the exchange file formats used in engineering though.

Someone could try training a LLM on a combination of a STEP AP242 [1] data model and sample exchange files, or do the same for the Building Information Model [2].

[1] http://www.ap242.org/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Foundation_Classes
by HistoryLogs | 2025-05-02 15:33:02+00:00
I've seen many people draw a comparison between Trump and Hitler (because of course - people compare everybody to Hitler).

But what I don't think people remember is that a guy like Hitler didn't just show up and "make a dictatorship". He was an opportunistic guy who showed up when Germany's democratic, constitutional republic was weakened by a poorly-functioning congress, and most of the actual power was concentrated in the executive branch. When the time came, Hitler wasn't the one who passed the Reichstag Fire Decree allowing him to suspend the freedom of the press and jail his political opposition. That law was passed by president Hindenburg.

Hitler didn't create a dictatorship. He was handed one on a silver platter - by an ailing 85 year old man with too much power.
by sinuhe69 | 2025-05-02 15:33:08+00:00
I don’t think passing the job interview is too difficult if one works as a team and intended to deceive. More difficult is IMO the transfer of money. They must establish a wide networks with many “stealth” bank accounts. I suppose one can open such bank accounts with a fake identity but it’s not simple. The control of financial flow is much tighter than things on the internet.
by bigyabai | 2025-05-02 15:33:14+00:00
Apple is currently profiting quite handsomely off gambling games marketed to children. They deliberately limit the App Store to encourage games like Clash of Clans and shitty Farmville clones because letting you emulate Yoshi's Cookie wouldn't make them money.

They're both unprincipled. Sweeney just happens to be correct.
by rs999gti | 2025-05-02 15:33:19+00:00
> You have a President who is ordering the defunding of tons of groups (universities, media, aid, institutes) while not clearly having that authority

You have to read into this line from the article:

> Congress directly authorized and funded CPB

He may not have the authority, but his influence over certain congress people and CPB board members can get the process moving.

Also, I have always wondered why CPB cannot just cut federal ties and become a sponsored non-profit?

During all shows you always hear or see that they are sponsored or have grants from major Fortune 500s, private families, and other institutions.

Also, whenever this defund topic comes up, CPB always says, "we receive very little from the fed, so our funding is not much and can be ignored." Well now is the time to put up and split from the US federal government officially.

https://www.propublica.org/article/big-bird-debate-how-much-...
by WillAdams | 2025-05-02 15:33:23+00:00
Had Self-aid and buddy care when I was in the service, and became qualified and volunteered as an EMT for a while after getting out. I do have a Wilderness Survival First Aid Book on my Kindle, and I'll definitely add it to this list.

I actually had a copy of _The Metal Lathe (Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap, Volume 2)_ ages ago, and slotting in the full leatherbound edition of all 7 volumes is likewise a good fit.
by ceejayoz | 2025-05-02 15:33:24+00:00
It's pretty clear in a chart.

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/increasing-prevalenc...

> They also found that the increase in students diagnosed with autism was offset by a nearly equal decrease in students diagnosed with other intellectual disabilities that often co-occur with autism.

> The researchers conclude that the large increase in the prevalence of autism is likely the result of shifting patterns of diagnosis that are complicated by the variability of autism and its overlap with other related disorders.

> Recent reports from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest that there has been an increase in the prevalence of autism from 1 in 5,000 in 1975 to 1 in 150 in 2002, and to 1 in 68 in 2012. Much of this increase has been attributed to increased awareness and a broadening of the diagnostic criteria for autism. But this new research provides the first direct evidence that much of the increase may be attributable merely to a reclassification of individuals with related neurological disorders rather than to an actual increase in the rate of new cases of autism.

> The diagnostic reclassification of individuals from the category of intellectual disability to the category of autism accounts for a large proportion of the change, which varied depending on the age of the children. The researchers estimate that, for 8 year-olds, approximately 59 percent of the observed increase in autism is accounted for by reclassification, but by age 15 reclassification accounts for as much as 97 percent of the increase in autism.
by MisterBiggs | 2025-05-02 15:33:50+00:00
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by dangus | 2025-05-02 15:33:53+00:00
You call it deferment of the problem but I call it elimination of the problem.

Yeah, a $500 phone comes with 12GB of RAM (Pixel 9).

A $150 GB phone comes with 6GB of RAM. Still quite a healthy amount and less than my last grocery bill. That’s cheaper than two iPhone battery replacements for an entire new phone.

This is before the devices have depreciated on the used/refurbished market. I can buy last year’s Pixel 8 for $230 and it has 12GB of RAM.

It’s totally fine to not want software bloat but at some point it is better economics to improve the hardware.
by elizabethmcn | 2025-05-02 15:34:26+00:00
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by koolba | 2025-05-02 15:34:32+00:00
> This is quite sad. PBS and NPR were jewels of the American system. The right-wing has latched on to the message that all public-funded media that isn't right-wing-biased is _bad_ and are trying to kill it everywhere.

It's pretty hard to argue that PBS and NPR do not have a left wing bias. The closest thing they'd have to a conservative voice would be bringing in a token anti-Trump (generally former) Republican.

NPR's legal affairs correspondent was close friends with Justice Ginsburg. The latter even officiated Totenberg's wedding. Do you really think she could give an unbiased report on anything involving the court? Get real... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Totenberg#Conflicts_of_in...

Real question is, why are we subsidizing it all?

If the masses want to consume left wing dribble, let them fund it themselves. The right already does that for conservative talk radio. Let the market decide.

PBS would always make mention of support from, 'Viewers like you". When in reality it was from "Tax payers of which 50+% likely do not agree with funding this content".
by dukeofdoom | 2025-05-02 15:34:48+00:00
Judging from the French movie (with Pierre Niney) I saw last year (which was awesome btw) , and my vague recollection of the book, there's lots of physical skills involved. It's not just an intellectual pursuit, but more like applied science in getting vengeance. Really fun read. Big chunk of social media is self improvement. Stumbled across this guy yesterday and actually gives pretty solid advice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYsr2jkf_3A
by ogogmad | 2025-05-02 15:34:50+00:00
It seems that the authors are skeptical of real numbers (even computable ones???) while being perfectly comfortable with power series. I don't see how one of these can be acceptable and the other not. Sadly, their point of view seems incoherent.

Maybe it's a gut reaction because power series can seem so "nice" to them in their experience.

Maybe if someone explained Computable Topology to them, then they could be more accepting? But if their judgement comes from the gut, instead of intellectual integrity or reason, then I'm not sure it would be worth trying it.
by ta1243 | 2025-05-02 15:35:15+00:00
> Emoluments, tax returns, the porn star, lying under oath, J6, "fake news", losers and suckers, bone spurs, snubbing Carter, crowd size bullshit, grab em by the pussy, obvious nepotism, lock her up, separating families at the border, "very fine people on both sides", "stand back and stand by", sparring with Fauci, now jailing judges, deporting people off street corners, letting Musk gut government agencies, etc etc.

It was always burning since the world's been turning?
by mjevans | 2025-05-02 15:35:30+00:00
Less red tape, easier to manage 'processes', fewer environmental / labor relations...

It's those last two, impact on the commons and unfair worker treatment, that are examples of where I _would_ support reasonable tariffs. Particularly if funds from those tariffs went to remediating the impact and were agreed to (also observed) by a majority of other leading countries / economic blocks.
by vel0city | 2025-05-02 15:35:33+00:00
> The system as it currently exists - overzealous immigration enforcement which is often but not always enjoined - cannot ship me to El Salvador

These people had no due process. If you have no due process, you too could be sent there. You'll argue, I'll just show them I'm a citizen. Who are you showing it to? Who are you proving it to? Who goes to review that? Which court reviewed these people's legal status? Which court reviewed the crimes Abrego Garcia was guilty of? Which court will review your case while you're already on the plane before you can even contact a lawyer?

Many of these people have lawful status in the US. They had their lawful status rescinded without due process and were trafficked out of the country without due process. Thinking "that can't happen to me!" is lemming ideology.

US citizens are already being removed from this country without due process despite having due process rights. And you're suggesting I shouldn't talk about it. That me talking about it ensures the next planes leave somehow.

> One of the best ways to ensure there are more transfers to El Salvador is to spread the narrative that courts are powerless and nobody can stop the administration from doing it

It has already been proven the courts are powerless to prevent it -- its already happened! The court told them to stop, the executive branch went ahead anyways, the court said to bring them back, and yet they're still there. Me pointing this out isn't ensuring those planes continue, Trump and his administration remaining in office ensures those planes continue.

Other than your theoretical arrest and expulsion from the country everything I've stated has already happened and is continuing to happen despite what the courts have said. After the first plane that was told it wasn't allowed to leave left and was doubly and triply clarified these planes aren't supposed to go, another plane left. Despite what the courts said. You really think the court opinions are what's holding up the next plane? Why didn't it stop those other planes?

And why would Trump stop? What, he's going to be impeached? As if that hasn't happened before. Congress isn't going to remove him despite him continually breaking the law.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-05-02 15:35:48+00:00
Nah; we'll find out they reset development four times or something as scope expanded and hardware became more powerful; and so it's nothing but bugs and still rushed to the deadline. To me this screams scope creep, development hell, and constant redoing of existing work; and good luck not turning into design-by-committee when that happens.

(Edit: As the comment below points out, this happened to Windows Vista. There are plenty more examples though - Metroid Prime 4 was even announced by Nintendo, before being completely scrapped and rebuilt for another 6 years, finally coming out this year.)
by michelpp | 2025-05-02 15:35:49+00:00
> There is nothing mathematically wrong about that world

Thank you for acknowledging this. Every time Norm's work comes up on HN there is a subcurrent of comments about how his philosophy of math is wrong or dumb whose are arguments can be summed up as "Lol no infinity wtf".

Do I personally agree with his philosophy? No. But I still watched all his videos because they are entertaining, thoughtful, and his is rigorous in his definitions and examples.
by pwil30 | 2025-05-02 15:36:02+00:00
Pleasantly surprised to see this on the HN homepage! Our agency (Longbeard) rebuilt this website a few years ago. It was fun working with the great people there, including Br. Guy who is a fantastic ambassador for the VO.

As you can imagine the Castel Gandolfo telescopes are mainly historical at this point due to light pollution, so their VATT facility in Arizona (Mount Graham) is now where most of their actual astonomical work is conducted.

Interestingly, the VATT in AZ is directly adjacent to the LBT facility on Mount Graham, which has a near-infrared instrument formerly named - believe it or not - LUCIFER (Large Binocular Telescope Near-infrared Spectroscopic Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research).

This was changed to LUCI in 2012 as the name predictably caused some problems and confusion.