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by wkat4242 | 2025-05-26 03:18:49+00:00
Yeah I don't really care about money as long as I have enough to live. Work life balance is much more important.

Also, in countries with high wages, expenses like rent are also much higher. Except for goods that are roughly the same everywhere.

I live in a low wage country in Europe but I don't have nor need a car (I hate driving). That helps a lot as it's a huge money sink for fuel, parking, maintenance and insurance. I have unlimited public transport for 20€ per month.

But yeah we have US employees too
by eGQjxkKF6fif | 2025-05-26 03:20:34+00:00
Prompts such as 'the importance of please and thank you' 'How did this civilization please their populus with such and such' I'm sure with enough engineering it can be fixed, but there's always use cases where something like that would be like 'Damn, now we have to add an exeption for..' then another exception, then another.
by const_cast | 2025-05-26 03:20:52+00:00
Okay but it's not even, like, 1% applicable. How many miles out of all miles driven are on Waymo? Honestly, I'm probably being far too generous with saying 1%.

When people say "self driving is here!", they mean most cars on the road are autonomous. The reality is that's 20 years out. The technocrats won't tell you that, but just think about it. Average age of a car on US roads is 13 years right now.
by BrawnyBadger53 | 2025-05-26 03:21:21+00:00
The medium changes the way you interpret it. I think we'll see it similar to how 3d always looked cheap when people were figuring it out. Once studios learn to not suck at AI art, I think I and many others will be willing to buy. Slop is just the easiest thing to produce when everyone is still learning. My guess is we'll see more in-house models being produced that are fine tuned from in-house art that has the style the studio aims for and that will be used for rapid iteration on designs before the final product is then redrawn or edited by humans.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-05-26 03:21:35+00:00
> Nordic model

I see this term used frequently in Anglo-American media. I don't get it. What is special or different about the "Nordic" model compared to France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Austria? Their regulations, tax rates, and social benefits are nearly identical.

> with limited ambitions outside their borders

I don't understand this phrase. Can you explain more? Some examples and counter-examples would help.

Also, I don't buy the argument that "small democratic countries" are so different than larger ones. I hear this argument a lot from both sides (big and small). One difference that I do see is how they choose to use their military power, but that applies to non-democratic state also. Ultimately, the goal of a democratic state is to (1) get rich and (2) treat your citizens well (free speech, along with decent education, public safety, healthcare, and retirement).
by stephen_g | 2025-05-26 03:24:35+00:00
I’m legitimately surprised by this idea - surely people in countries that use Fahrenheit don’t go around saying things like “Oh I thought it was going to be 54 degrees but it’s actually 55, so much different!”

I’ve grown up with Celsius and never felt the need to use decimals in day to day weather discussion… Many air conditioners let you go up by half a degree C and that’s more than enough precision, more than I’ve ever felt was necessary in everyday conversation.
by drchiu | 2025-05-26 03:24:52+00:00
I have been working on Broadcast (https://sendbroadcast.net).

It’s an email marketing tool, self-hosted, for use with existing ESPs like Postmark, Mailgun, Amazon SES, etc.

Been working on this since September 2024, and have been consistently hacking away at it weekly: https://sendbroadcast.net/changelog.
by BSTRhino | 2025-05-26 03:25:51+00:00
To be honest, that's kind of why I'm here posting about it. I think https://gatew.easel.games is impressive, but I also know the engine is capable of so much more than what people have made with it so far, and I'm trying to find people who have dreams but haven't found the right tool yet so I can build that for them.

The pricing model and how to run Easel sustainably is a huge question. Easel is basically a free product, which is what I want because (a) I would just like people to use it and (b) multiplayer games need lots of players. I made the upfront decision to never run ads on Easel because I want parents and schools to be happy with it being used by their teenagers, and that has greatly changed the business dynamics. I have very delicately managed the cost-efficiency of Easel only expecting about 1% of people to ever subscribe to Easel+. For this reason, I've avoided expensive features so that one dedicated server can run at least 1 million projects and handle thousands of concurrent players at a manageable cost. It's been a real slimming exercise.

I know the catalogue is small, but despite that, there are some people who come back and play one game every single day on Easel. There are also people who come back and make games every day on Easel. And there are some who do both. We have people exceeding 100+ hours a month sometimes. It's these people who Easel+ is for. Easel+ is designed as a package deal with a bunch of different game-playing and game-making perks so that people can decide for themselves what parts of the package they find valuable. But I would honestly be happy to have thousands of people using it and not paying a cent. This is my life's work and I just want it to be used, even if I have to fund it all myself.
by aidenn0 | 2025-05-26 03:27:19+00:00
I agree that almost every format is a composite; you seem to not, which makes me think you mean something different than I by "composite."

Your reply suggests that, if all the metadata is auxiliary it can be segregated from the data and doesn't count as a composite.

However, that doesn't exclude archives (in many use-cases the file metadata is as important as the data itself; consider e.g. hardlinks in TAR files)

Nor does it exclude certain vital metadata for images: resolution, color-space, and bit-depth come to mind.
by tomhow | 2025-05-26 03:27:54+00:00
Banning political discussion was briefly tried here, nearly a decade ago. It failed, but it did reveal (or, remind) that there's no way to get a community like HN to agree on where the line should be between "politics" and "everything else", and that indeed that very question is itself political. So, there will be no more attempts to ban political discussion here. There will just be continued emphasis on the guideline that only stories that contain "significant new information" are considered worthy of discussion on HN.

But we do ask you and everyone to heed the guidelines, particularly these ones:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

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by stephen_g | 2025-05-26 03:29:33+00:00
It literally doesn’t matter at all what’s 0 and 100 though. Honestly if you’re familiar with one system, the scale feels intuitive to you, and if you’re familiar with the other then the other one does.

Like people tell me that the US customary system is “more human scale and intuitive” but I literally cannot picture, say, 15 inches or ten feet - it just means nothing to me unless I mentally convert to centimetres or meters.

So much of these arguments boil down to “I grew up with this system so I can intuitively use it, so it must be superior”
by dangus | 2025-05-26 03:29:53+00:00
While they are paying all required taxes, and he’s maybe even doing positive things as you describe, the “community” (federal, state, and local levels) is investing more money into him than he is returning to the system.

That in itself is a simple fact that you can verify with basic publicly available government budget/taxation statistics numbers.

It only really works out okay because not everyone is doing what the author does. If everyone did what the author does we would have to drastically change how we organize our society.

A shorter way to say it is that the people who build the roads, fill potholes, and pick up garbage tend to work a full time job. If they all decided to only work one or two days a month (current unemployment rate: 4%) we’d have an instant crisis.

And maybe that realignment is okay and we could do that, but that’s not how it’s set up now.
by rawgabbit | 2025-05-26 03:30:27+00:00
You could come out and say the B word. The British transplanted a massive number of people throughout their colonial possessions which later fueled ethic violence.

https://britishonlinearchives.com/posts/category/articles/62...

https://asiatimes.com/2019/06/malaysias-indians-face-growing...

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-22-mn-43757...
by skissane | 2025-05-26 03:30:54+00:00
> But Celsius as a temperature scale is no more logical than Fahrenheit

Celsius is more logical:

(1) the endpoints of Celsius are boiling/melting point of water (at standard atmospheric pressure). The lower endpoint of Fahrenheit is the lowest temperature Fahrenheit could achieve using a mixture of water, ice and ammonium chloride-using the freezing point of pure water is more logical than using the freezing point of an ammonium chloride solution-water is fundamental to all known life, ammonium chloride solutions don’t have the same significance (and why ammonium chloride instead of sodium chloride or potassium chloride? of the salts readily available to Fahrenheit, the ammonium chloride solution had the lowest freezing point)

(2) Fahrenheit initially put 90 degrees between his two “endpoints” (ammonium chloride solution freezing point and human body temperature), then he increased it to 96. Celsius having 100 degrees between its endpoints is more logical than 90 or 96

(3) while for both Celsius and Fahrenheit, there is error in the definition of their endpoints (the nominal values are different from the real values, because our ability to measure these things accurately was less developed when each scale was originally devised, and some unintentional error crept in)-the magnitude of that error is smaller for Celsius than for Fahrenheit

(4) nowadays, all temperature units are officially defined in terms of Kelvin - and Celsius has a simpler relation to Kelvin than Fahrenheit (purely additive versus requiring both addition and multiplication)

(5) Celsius is the global standard for everyday (non-scientific) applications, not Fahrenheit, and it is more logical to use the global standard than a rarely used alternative whose advantages are highly debatable at best
by terrycody | 2025-05-26 03:31:19+00:00
Let's focus on talking about the self-taught resources please, don't talk about other off topics, not everyone learning to find a good job on big companies, the reality is, when a man/woman want to self studying CS, he/she age is already not a fit for those companies.

We want to learn even after the right age, just because we love the computer.
by ajross | 2025-05-26 03:32:26+00:00
> That doesn't sound right.

Which is usually how these arguments go.

Are there more or fewer homeless people in the US than in 1982? There are fewer. Is the number of people per household larger or smaller than in 1982? It is smaller. Is the average home larger or smaller than in 1982? It is larger (very significantly so). Do the math. We're building housing faster than population growth. QED.

And, overwhelmingly, we're building that housing in suburban sprawl, because that's where it's cheap to build housing.

Now, there are many arguments about whether this is good or bad or whether policies could be better or worse. And I think you'd find you agree with me on more than you don't.

But statements like the above that seem to take as a prior that "massive immigration" (sigh, again) is somehow creating an infrastructure crises are simply wrong. Period. Start with correct arguments, then tune. Don't yell about one because your priors tell you it "doesn't sound right".
by dmoy | 2025-05-26 03:32:27+00:00
Yea for concrete numbers:

If you have somewhere between $5M and $10M in a HCoL American city, you are probably no longer working class insofar as you could quit, get on ACA healthcare, and rent a decent house or buy / mortgage a decent house and live a pretty comfortable life indefinitely. But you're on the very low end of not-working-class and are living a modest life (if you quit and stop drawing a salary).

If you have under that threshold (in a big expensive US city), you are probably still working class.

A lot of software engineers can get to $5M-$10M range in like 10-30 years depending on pay and savings rate. But also a lot of software engineers operate their budgets almost paycheck-to-paycheck, and will never get there.
by discarded1023 | 2025-05-26 03:32:42+00:00
Fantastic news and well deserved; even when Andy Pitts goes categorical his papers are very readable.

I got told a while ago that Streicher's "sequential" domains had solved the full abstraction problem for PCF [1] ... was it that or something else that killed off the work on game semantics?

It seems that Jon Sterling, author of the tool used to express the thoughts at the link, has made recent progress in domain theory [2] but perhaps the "synthetic" qualifier means it's not the real thing?

[1] Streicher's notes/book on domain theory sketches the construction but does not take it anywhere; I wonder what the reasoning principles are.

[2] see e.g. https://www.jonmsterling.com/jms-0064/index.xml
by tomhow | 2025-05-26 03:32:52+00:00
Please don't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to. In discussions like this we need everyone to pay extra attention to the guidelines, particularly these ones:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

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by IAmGraydon | 2025-05-26 03:33:22+00:00
>delta doesn’t reimburse for missed connections claiming air traffic control policies are outside of their control.

Reimburse? They'll put you on another connecting flight of your choice as any airline does. I did this on a Delta flight with a missed connection due to delay just last week. They also automatically upgraded me to Comfort+ at no extra charge for the inconvenience.
by durraniu | 2025-05-26 03:33:25+00:00
That's really cool! I made something similar but much simpler using R Shiny.

Edit: Looking at the featured story, I notice that the character illustration is not consistent currently. I got relatively consistent character illustration from scene to scene by asking the LLM to write a prompt for image generation based on the story text and use the same character description in each sentence. That got me pretty consistent character drawings. Also, to keep the same drawing style, my prompt was like:

Drawing style e.g., Digital painting {drawing prompt}
by anonymousiam | 2025-05-26 03:33:26+00:00
You've left out a lot of important facts. BTW, my wife is a legal immigrant, and I helped her mother become one too.

A legal immigrant is not yet a citizen, and they must petition the government for citizenship, a process that takes about five years from my personal experience. Up until the immigrant becomes a citizen, their petition can be revoked for any number of reasons, such as criminal activity. If the petition is revoked and they stay, they're still a "legal immigrant" by your definition I guess, because they originally immigrated legally.

Also, MANY countries have denied or cancelled visas over "free speech" from the applicant.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4ylw3rq5o
by theamk | 2025-05-26 03:33:46+00:00
> it's obviously preferable to get paid for the entire tour on the day it's announced

it's only obvious to "private equity" type people.

There is energy in the concerts - and a lot of people go to live shows for that. Otherwise, one would listen to the recording / watch music videos instead - it is cheaper and the seats are nicer too.

If the seats are half-empty, or only full of people who are ready to pay exorbitant prices, that energy is reduced... people like concerts less, and eventually those concerts are not sold out anymore.

So giving up (or even worse, cooperating) to scalpers is like selling your business to private equity - you get some money, they get some money, and your customers/fans are f*d.
by sampullman | 2025-05-26 03:34:07+00:00
Image optimizer site using WASM builds of Jpegli and Oxipng: https://image.samatech.tw

I made it because the desktop software I use (ImageOptim) doesn't support Jpegli, which I find to be much better than mozjpeg for most types of jpegs used on the web.

There's still a lot of missing pieces, like adding color quantization and other PNG options, improving the UI, parallel webworker support, etc. The code is open source and can be used as a library: https://github.com/sampullman/image-opt
by wat10000 | 2025-05-26 03:34:28+00:00
More to the point, there are people who carefully ensure that those angles are correct, and that all of the angles result in the car’s occupants arriving at their destination instead of turning into a ball of fire. It’s just that this process takes place at design time, not assembly time.

Software the same way. It’s even more automated than auto factories. Assembly is 100% automated. Design is what we get paid to do, and that requires understanding, just like the engineers at Ford need to understand how their cars work.
by zetalyrae | 2025-05-26 03:34:55+00:00
In fairness to Emacs, this is a bit sour grapes on my part!

I have tried to go fully into the "Emacs mindset" (org-mode for everything, multiple pages of custom hydra keybinds etc.) a number of times and I always bounce off. I always feel there is some activation threshold that if I could cross it, I could enter editor nirvana.

I used to joke that the way I use Emacs is I open it, give the empty buffer a very meaningful look, C-x C-c, and open VS Code.
by bibin765 | 2025-05-26 03:35:29+00:00
I am currently working on thethoughtcatcher.com

It started as a side project to explore the latest AI trends. Now it’s something we use daily — and others are starting to as well.

Thoughtcatcher is a lightweight, AI-powered notes + reminders app that acts like a memory companion.

It helps you: - Capture raw thoughts and auto-tag them using AI - Set smart reminders triggered by context and meaning - This was a game changer for me personally - Search and chat with your notes like a conversation — not just by keywords, but by intent

Example? You’re walking out of a meeting and think: “We should revisit that pricing model after the new release.” You jot it into ThoughtCatcher — no structure, no stress. A week later, right before the next sprint planning, it reminds you. Just when you would’ve forgotten — it remembers.

What started as a learning project has grown into something useful — not just for individuals, but for teams too.

We’re now exploring B2B use cases like: • Project knowledge management • Shared team notes with smart search and chat • Meeting follow-up insights and reminders • AI-powered team memory for client or product work

Want to try it out? Android users: Download the app iOS users: Use the PWA — just “Add to Home Screen”

Still early. Still learning. But ThoughtCatcher already feels like something I wish I had years ago.

Would love your feedback or thoughts. And if you’re building something similar— let’s connect
by ajross | 2025-05-26 03:35:32+00:00
So... you're saying that a warrant issued for Khalil without probable cause, and that he has no expectation to be secure in his person and effects as a result. And his right to petition the government for redress of grievances is suspended pending deportation.

All because of some random law passed in 1952.

But don't worry, everyone. The fourth amendment stands!
by const_cast | 2025-05-26 03:35:38+00:00
Marxism is when ultra-capitalist slightly right leaning politicians make boring policies to further enrich the American capitalist class. Oh and also some token "woke" stuff that doesn't really help anyone but I guess doesn't make anything worse either.

There's not a single Marxist in American politics at any level of power that matters. We have two neo-liberal parties that are both right leaning. One is ultra-right and one is ever so slightly right leaning.
by mmooss | 2025-05-26 03:36:21+00:00
Humans are social animals and follow social norms. One thing sophisticated communicators do is define the social norm and people follow them. It really doesn't matter what they say, but that they demonstrate that they are in control of the norm.

Notice that Trump often says nonsense, or says things everyone knows he can't be trusted about. But he demonstrates his power to control the social norms through his initiative, the emotional power of his rhetoric, his power overall. People perceive that the herd will follow him and go that way. Perception becomes reality.

With Altman and Ive, here are two powerful people demonstrating the same thing, to a different audience in a way appropriate to that audience. It doesn't matter what they say. The fact that it's obvious nonsense makes it more powerful - it shows they are so powerful that they can brazenly BS and still execute. Your comment shows that you believe the herd will follow them. Your perception becomes reality.
by _kush | 2025-05-26 03:36:45+00:00
https://lookaway.app

I'm working on the next major update for LookAway. I'm improving the wellness reminders to be smarter - instead of nagging you on a timer, blink and posture alerts now only trigger when you actually need them.

Also adding productivity stats so you can see how taking proper breaks during prolonged screen time affects your work output.
by OccamsMirror | 2025-05-26 03:36:53+00:00
To makeitdouble's point, how is this any different with an LLM provided solution? What confidence do you have that isn't also beginning an unlimited game of bug testing whack-a-mole?

My confidence in LLMs is not that high and I use Claude a lot. The limitations are very apparent very quickly. They're great for simple refactors and doing some busy work, but if you're refactoring something you're too afraid to do by hand then I fear you've simply deferred responsibility to the LLM - assuming it will understand the code better than you do, which seems foolhardy.
by rtpg | 2025-05-26 03:37:23+00:00
> Tooth's processors didn't have nearly enough RAM to run Lisp directly [1] so instead we used a custom-designed compiler written in Lisp to generate 6811 code.

Was thinking about this point in the 2002 article.

As a Python user, I could imagine a lot of pain going into "try and compile my Python code" (notably downstream from hashing and operator overloading meaning that I might have to end up shipping the entire Python object model into my binary). But perhaps Common Lisp avoids a lot of that mess by being "just" functions?
by thewileyone | 2025-05-26 03:38:15+00:00
I've trimmed those in my life that don't root for me, doesn't matter loudly or quietly. I've deepened relationships that I've had for 10, 20, 30 years by rooting for them, loyally and unabashedly. I've foster new friendships by rooting for them, deservedly or undeservedly. I've realized that it makes my life more fulfilling and it's given me a solid reputation as a side benefit.