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by drivebycomm | 2025-09-06 04:21:00+00:00
Not a personal attack, and the post is completely valid, but it won't bother me much if you succeed in having my posts censored, as Hacker News (and Western media in general) often censors many people's posts for a variety of purposes, some deeply and completely immoral and corrupt, for this was a drive-by comment from a temporary account.

That programming language designers have to be careful about a type system and its type checking's asymptotic time complexity was 100% widely known before Swift was first created. Some people like to diss on mathematics, but this stuff can have severe practical and widespread engineering consequences. I don't expect everyone to master everything, but budding programming language designers should then at least realize that there may be important issues, and for instance mitigate any issues with having one or more experts checking the relevant aspects.
Show HN: Seedream 4.0: The Unrivaled King of Image Models Has Arrived
by gamehow123 | 2025-09-06 04:21:24+00:00
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by abdullahkhalids | 2025-09-06 04:23:54+00:00
Most Physics undergraduate programs have a course on Modern Physics, which is often taught in the way you are asking for. Though only up to the origins of quantum mechanics. This textbook, for example does this [1].

The problem is that after the basics of QM, there were literally hundreds of papers by dozens of important scientists developing the subsequent theory. And you can no longer teach the subject in a linear historical fashion.

[1] https://www.cengage.com/c/modern-physics-3e-serway-moses-moy...
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-09-06 04:24:26+00:00
Thoughtful article. I read the introduction several times, picking it apart in my head.

> When done right, animations make an interface feel predictable, [...]

Predictable how? If you anticipate the animation, then you will have predicted it. But you also could anticipate the lack of an animation, and you will have predicated that.

> When done right, animations make an interface feel [...] faster,

Do they make the interface feel faster because no transition ever occurs in less time than the animation? Or is it that literal motion on the screen tricks us into thinking something is "going fast"? A nearly instantaneous, unanimated change in view must feel faster than an animation, no?

> When done right, animations make an interface [...] more enjoyable to use. [...]

This is true sometimes. It's particularly true when you're interacting with controls that have a "real physical world" analogy, like buttons, sliders, and page flips. On the other hand, if I click a button and a bunch of sparkles happen, that's not enjoyable to me.

> When done right, animations [...] help you and your product stand out.

If your product has animations and competing products do not, then yours stands out insofar that it has animations.

> But they can also do the opposite. [...]

Correct!

> So how do you know when and how to animate to improve the experience?

> Step one is making sure your animations have a purpose.

Or... don't use animations unless the app involves animation. Or do, there's nothing I can do about it.
by nlawalker | 2025-09-06 04:25:59+00:00
See also Microsoft's TypeSpec: https://typespec.io/ and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/typespec/o...

It's actively developed and used to spec Azure services, see https://azure.github.io/typespec-azure/ and all of the public Azure service specifications at https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs (they're all OpenAPI for consistency, but newer development happens in TypeSpec, and the OpenAPI is an output).
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-06 04:26:55+00:00
Like my other cars, I plan on driving it into the ground :)

And the range is overkill for me, really. I could live with 100 miles or so and not worry, so even if the battery wears down to 50% SoH (right now it's 93% after 36k miles), I'll still be happy.
by cm2187 | 2025-09-06 04:27:06+00:00
Not general marketing emails, rather loosely targeted phishing or pointless spam email (one liners which I am not sure what point they serve other than nuisance) from leaked email addresses.

The benefit of having a custom domain is that I provide distinct email aliases to each website, which I keep track of, so I know which website leaked an address (and I also see those email aliases in the failed login attempts to my mail servers).

That also allows me to severe my relationship with a website if they start spamming me, so that may also create a selection bias since I am unaffected by the sort of spam resulting from the same email address being leaked to data brokers and used for marketing, because I delete the alias at the first offense. So I get mostly hit by websites that got hacked.
by gamblor956 | 2025-09-06 04:27:28+00:00
Nvidia said that they saw weakness in the upcoming months due to companies overextending themselves on AI-related spend. Meta has frozen AI-related hiring. Most AI startups have also paused hiring. AI funding went from "say AI and get $100m" to a parched desert in the space of about 4 weeks. There was a well-publicized MIT study about it 2 weeks ago that found most companies saw little to no benefit from AI, and now non-tech companies are not only no longer bragging about AI in their marketing materials, they're actually cutting back or eliminating their AI spend.
by egberts1 | 2025-09-06 04:27:35+00:00
Biggest problem with AirBus font is 1|ilL7 oO0@ ,.

The best font for programming is Source Code Pro.

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Code+Pro?preview.te...,.

Second best is IBM Flex Sans

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IBM+Plex+Sans?preview.text...,.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-09-06 04:28:32+00:00
>So incentivize the native population to have more kids.

That is an idea. Although we murdered 9/10 of them and relegated the rest to stinking refugee camps (oh, sorry, "reservations") for eight or nine generations. And even today we have a huge problem with murder/kidnapping/disappearance of young women of those groups, which we're apparently unwilling to address.

Any other bright ideas?
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by mindslight | 2025-09-06 04:29:00+00:00
They might be "good faith" in terms of the relationship between corpos and government, but they most certainly are not good faith in the relationship between corpos and individual software freedom. One can't simply sprinkle ZKP faerie dust and obtain any desired security properties. These systems simply cannot provide the claimed security properties without relying on treacherous computing that prevents individuals from running the software of their choosing on their own devices.
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-06 04:30:10+00:00
$15k after adjusting for extra $2k added to trade-in (my offer was $15k, but they bumped the trade-in value of my Camry up $2k to compensate since that was better for them then adjusting the price down $2k), and at the end of the year I should qualify for the $4k used EV tax rebate (I have the paperwork), so ideally it's an $11k purchase.

I'm happy with that.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-06 04:31:01+00:00
> If reduced bloodflow is known to be the cause

But it isn't. Correlation isn't causation. There are so many possible relationships between somewhat correlated things like this.

The difference in blood flow could reflect less need due to upstream ADHD impact bottlenecking something else. Adding more oxygen there would be no different than the benefits of more oxygen anywhere.

That is just one of dozens of alternatives to your - straight from circumstance to explanation - leap of imagination.

There is a reason why we value science, despite it being an unnatural and difficult way to think for many. And often frustratingly slow. (Given science is a new idea, we have no specific evolutionary support for it.)

In contrast, "Plausible" reasoning is trivially easy, but is a disaster in terms of reliability. (Not being pejorative, but the other word for argument by seeming plausibility is "bullshit". We all have done it. For some people it's habitual, even motivated.)
by iLemming | 2025-09-06 04:31:44+00:00
That's just existing muscle memory. Nothing is wrong with you and nothing is wrong with Clojure. I had the same feeling when I started with Lisp. Give it some time, it's absolutely worth it. Interestingly, every single programmer I introduced to Clojure as their very first programming language had no issues picking it up. Later, they complained about difficulties getting used to Javascript and Python.
by bccdee | 2025-09-06 04:32:09+00:00
Nope, because unions merge columns. `select * from Actor union select * from Movies` gives you [(0, "Harrison Ford"), (0, "Indiana Jones")], which is a problem because we can't tell which rows are actors and which rows are movies. What we need is [(0, "Harrison Ford", null, null), (null, null, 0, "Indiana Jones")].
by caydenpiercehax | 2025-09-06 04:32:47+00:00
Most people pursuing this include display + microphone.

The microphone lets you pick up voice, which is critical. Captions, translation, note-taking, etc. all benefit from this.

Even Realities G1 is this. Mentra is releasing a pair in first half of 2026 like this. Display + microphone.
by BoorishBears | 2025-09-06 04:33:37+00:00
I started freelancing at 16, graduated high school at 17, started my first "real job" later that year.

If you graduated at 18, went to college for at least 4 years, and have already spent 7 years at AWS... you odds are you're pretty much my age if not older lol (31)

Big yikes
by caydenpiercehax | 2025-09-06 04:36:25+00:00
That sounds nice but there's problems in reality.

How do the glasses serve as a "dumb camera to your phone"? What protocol do they use to do this? It doesn't exist. It's something that must be solved at the OS layer.

What if you want to use multiple apps? Are you going to spend 2 minutes each time disconnecting Bluetooth from one phone app, connecting to another, and then using it? No, you need to runtime that lets multiple apps access the sensors as needed.

Do you want to make an app that accesses the microphone? If you want to have translation app running at the same time that you're taking notes, then again you need some way to allow multiple apps to run at once.

MentraOS solves those problems.
by mingus88 | 2025-09-06 04:37:07+00:00
Claude tried to explain the meme but without the horizontal bar, it was not 4-panel. It contradicted itself explaining the dots. It makes no sense:

• : (one person standing) • :| (two people, one standing, one lying down) • :| (two people standing) • ; (one person standing, one lying down)

So I had to look up the meme, saw that the entire representation relies on a strike through. That’s how you get one person in 1 panel. That’s how you get four panels at all.

Sure, if you have seen the meme without formatting, you would recognize it. You probably have seen bots reposting without the right formatting it just like I did.

Or you didn’t. Who can say for sure? That’s my entire point. Comment sections are dead
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-06 04:38:45+00:00
The point isn't that it's a clever truth-seeking strategy. I'm sure some number of his health claims are true! He'll probably even publish some new recommendations which were better than the old ones, and promote some accurate groundbreaking research I won't believe. I'll have plenty of time to learn the accurate stuff later when HHS isn't dedicated to convincing me of nonsense.
by latchkey | 2025-09-06 04:39:26+00:00
You're obviously bearish. I'm not. My own anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise to the things you're pointing out.

I personally get benefits from consuming AI in my own life. I willingly pay for the service. I'm excited to watch it progress and improve.

On the business side, our customer base and usage is growing. We mostly service businesses building useful AI utility.

I'm totally excited to watch this play out however it goes.
by infamouscow | 2025-09-06 04:40:31+00:00
Six months ago I wrote

> The free lunch in the SaaS space is (finally) over, both literally and metaphorically.

> What people ought to be doing is moving to remote, rural, and low cost-of-living areas that have been completely ignored by investors and techies for decades. We live in a post-covid world. Starlink works great. There are simply no excuse. Clinging onto the vestiges of Silicon Valley circa 2014 is a fools errand and has been for multiple years. It's time to start opening mocking people for being delusional.

> Interact with your new rural community, and really understand their problems. You can start sprinkling technology in to help and expand from there. These markets have been ignored for a long time because their treasures are not shiny enough for VCs to pay attention to—not because there isn't tremendous opportunity to do some good and making a living.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185407
by ipaddr | 2025-09-06 04:40:43+00:00
Not a real senior (20+ years) they have been around every type of situation and have realized no one true path exists and are open to all ideas. Those 7 year seniors have reached a point where they know their framework/area methodology better than anyone and will push for what they know works best for them. Those are the ones who need solid leadership or cargo culting is likely.
by randerson | 2025-09-06 04:40:47+00:00
Even then, it is rarely a good economic decision. Its hard to predict which cars will rise in value that much (unless you're spending $800K+ on some invite-only limited-run hypercar). The storage and insurance add up. It'll invariably need repairs after that time, which can cost a fortune on a limited run car. The opportunity cost will be investing that money in the stock market, which is much more likely to 10x your money.
by sterlind | 2025-09-06 04:41:32+00:00
you can actually declare containers directly in Nix. they use the same config/services/packages machinery as you'd use to declare a system config. and then you can embed them in the parent machine's config, so they all come online and talk to each other with the right endpoints and volumes and such.

or you can use the `build(Layered)Image` to declaratively build an oci image with whatever inside it. I think you can mix and match the approaches.

but yes I'm personally a big fan of Nix's solution to the "works on my machine" problem. all the reproducibility without the clunkiness of having to shell into a special dev container, particularly great for packaging custom tools or weird compilers or other finnicky things that you want to use, not serve.
by alnwlsn | 2025-09-06 04:42:58+00:00
I continue to be skeptical of text to CAD, because to make it work, you're going to be doing a whole lot of this [0]. This is an extremely high bar to clear to be better than even the most basic of CAD skills.

I'd wager that for most of the CAD I work on, I would not be able to accurately describe what I want in natural language. If you've been able to, please share examples!

[0] - https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap13fj/15day4-mailbox.html
by o11c | 2025-09-06 04:43:57+00:00
One particular "feel" that people often get wrong: on a scale of up to around 1000 light years in each dimension (on the order of a million stars, or a hundred thousand sun-like stars - I haven't done the integrals over the density), the placement of star systems is largely homogenous. Most galaxy-scale structure (such as the spiral arms, or core vs rim) only starts becoming significant when you get bigger than that.

Now there are 2 caveats to this - first, there is a measurable density difference as you get closer to the galactic plane. And second, globular clusters do do their own thing.

What this means for fiction is that you must commit to either:

* The overwhelming majority of systems must be irrelevant; relevant systems are hundreds of lightyears apart (it is trivial to disappear into uncharted systems assuming you can maintain your spacecraft), and galactic structure does matter. Or,

* If even a modest percentage of systems are to be relevant, then you can't care about galaxy-scale structure at all. And you need to have something stopping people from gratuitously flying out of bounds (this might be as simple as "no compatible languages and no compatible fuel pumps").
by MrJohz | 2025-09-06 04:44:32+00:00
With saving, I usually add a confirmation directly next to the save button, so the save button itself doesn't change state (people often like pressing save multiple times!). But even then, I find a little bit of animation that moves the "saved" text away from the button to indicate where it's come from can be really helpful for intuitively connecting the two interactions. The animation should be fast (100-150ms max, often as low as 75ms), and subtle (just a slight step to the side), but it gives the user more of a feeling about what's happening.
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-09-06 04:46:48+00:00
Not only is their argument circular but it is wrong. There is no need to use 50 million lines of Python, Pytorch, Numpy, Linux, Cmake, CUDA, and god knows how many other layers of madness to do inference.

It is literally on the order of tens of thousands of lines of code, instead of tens of millions, to do Vulkan ML, especially if you strip out the parts of the kernel you don't need.
by krapp | 2025-09-06 04:49:02+00:00
Maybe Musk, Gates and Zuckerberg are neurodivergent, IDK, self diagnosis is often self-serving. I don't think they are billionaires because their powers of autistic hyperfixation were properly directed.

You said there were "just 3 examples of the top of your head" as if there were a much larger pool from which to infer a correlation between autism and wealth. In most cases autistic peoples' special interests don't have million dollar market potential. I suspect the potential for wealth and placement on the autism spectrum are orthogonal to one another, and that factors like education, class and luck play bigger factors.
by al_borland | 2025-09-06 04:49:30+00:00
> only at that exit event.

What if there is no exit event? So if the student decides to run a profitable company, the teacher that owns a share doesn’t get a cut of the profits? I’d expect the teacher to get a distribution any time the student does.

> Startup founders don’t see themselves as servants of their investors, and neither should students.

I haven’t founded a startup, but I’ve seen enough startups I’m a customer of take on funding from investors. Incentives change. They nearly always cave to pressure to produce more profit, so the investor can make their money back, even at the expense of the vision for the company or the long term health of the business. They are also more likely to seek an exit than to build and grow the company for the long-haul. That’s the deal when the investor invests.

As a student grows, they require different teachers. Your freshman accounting professor isn’t going to be the one helping you sort things out for a billion dollar company. If they are cut off as deadweight, it undermines the whole concept, as they were still a building block to get you to where you are.

For teachers, it just feels like a perverse lottery. Go for volume and hope one pays off.
by BoorishBears | 2025-09-06 04:50:33+00:00
I don't know if anyone has actually read the article or the ruling, but this is about pirating books.

Anthropic went back and bought->scanned->destroyed physical copies of them afterward... but they pirated them first, and that's what this settlement is about.

The judge also said:

> “The training use was a fair use,” he wrote. “The technology at issue was among the most transformative many of us will see in our lifetimes.”

So you don't need to pay $3,000 per book you train on unless you pirate them.
by simonw | 2025-09-06 04:50:37+00:00
Sell me that bridge then, because I believe OpenAI's staff who say it was because inference costs went down: https://twitter.com/TheRealAdamG/status/193244032829380632

Generally I'm skeptical of the idea that any of the major providers are selling inference at a loss. Obviously they're losing money when you include the cost of research and training, but every indication I've seen is that they're not keen to sell $1 for 80 cents.

If you want a hint at the real costs of inference look to the companies that sell access to hosted open source models. They don't have any research costs to cover so their priority is to serve as inexpensively as possible while still turning a profit.

Or take a good open weight model and price out what it would cost to serve at scale. Here's someone who tried that recently: https://martinalderson.com/posts/are-openai-and-anthropic-re...
by briHass | 2025-09-06 04:51:24+00:00
Security is always the excuse, but it's a local device connected to Wifi. Add a setting to the existing menus that is opt in to turn on the new API.

Beyond that, there's what, like 4 or 5 parameters that are useful to set, and a few that can be read. It wouldn't be necessary to over engineer the API, even a few simple, fixed TCP packets to query state and set the basic parameters like mode, fan, room and set temp would be all that is needed. It can be ugly and basic, just release the info and other devs would run with it.

For example, the older TPLink Kasa line of smart devices have a simple TCP packet protocol for local control. The 'security' was easily reverse engineered (simple key autokey cipher), but there wasn't any outrage. Their simple scheme that wasn't meant to be widely known meant it was possible for others to build the integrations.

https://www.softscheck.com/en/blog/tp-link-reverse-engineeri...
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by shadowgovt | 2025-09-06 04:51:50+00:00
That's what I mean. Nobody I know thought there'd be a chance of getting to L4 (much less L5) without LIDAR. They doomed the goal from the gate and basically lied to people for years about the technological possibilities to pad their bottom line.

It's two steps from selling snake-oil, basically. Not that L4 or L5 are impossible, but people who knew the problem domain looked at how they were approaching it hardware-wise and went "... uhuh."
Show HN: Countdown Web App
by paulr70 | 2025-09-06 04:53:57+00:00
I created a simple web based count down.

https://mycountdownto.com

Pick a date, time and Timezone - and make it look great with a background image from Unsplash…

Use it to count down to your birthday, favourite sporting event, the end of your current agile sprint, project deadline - and share with your team/family/public…