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by conductr | 2025-09-30 20:29:19+00:00
Thanks for the response. Certainly respect your direction but I happen to think the trend will mature versus fade away. I know you're going after this certain niche, which I understand, but I don't think most people care as much about knowing exactly what is going into their bodies. I mean, sales and the average American diet proves as much. For me, the convenience of keeping a packet in my bag/desk/car/etc for weeks or months far outweighs the control over flavor and cost. Also usually prefer a tropical punch flavor over lemon/lime and that's more difficult to recreate on the fly (probably "natural flavors" lol). I don't have a workout regimen I just sometimes do work that is labor intensive and it helps me recover. It's usually an unplanned activity and the powder stuff is stable and available when I need it and really that's all I care about. I haven't even looked into the ingredients to see what it is that is actually helping me, but Liquid IV definitely is helping me recover and feel more hydrated than Gatorade ever has. Helps with cramps too, which I just assume is K but again, I haven't even looked. Just wanted to share my "customer journey" as anecdata, obviously no right/wrong path here and it's your company to push in whichever direction you want. Best of luck with it, I will give it a try if I ever see it in my area!
by 7thaccount | 2025-09-30 20:29:28+00:00
I might do the same if there isn't anything already pre installed. On most of the RHEL machines I've used there has at least been some Python or Perl interpreter installed. Maybe that was just something the IT folks did.

I'm not really talking about making something longer just to be more clear either. I just meant all the nice libraries and Python data structures seem to allow me to do complex things in a short amount of code. Bash and Awk and all the Linux commands are great for simple things, but I haven't figured out how to handle more complex data outputs.
by bunderbunder | 2025-09-30 20:29:36+00:00
By contrast, when I was studying Spanish using something more similar to the Assimil method, I was reading full length novels and watching Yo Soy Betty, La Fea within about six months.

It's not just me. There's been some research on this sort of thing, and it tends to find that just about the only thing that's slower than Duolingo is traditional classroom language education.

Admittedly I was doing more than 10 minutes a day. But that's because I was legitimately having heaps of fun. I wanted to spend a bunch of time with Spanish, and I didn't need any weird gamification tricks to help me sustain that level of motivation.
by tarentel | 2025-09-30 20:29:38+00:00
I agree with your last point. I get the criticism of Duolingo and it is fair, but I can't agree that it is completely useless. I learned/am learning French. I can get by with non-English speakers and people won't immediately switch to English when they hear me.

It took about 5 years of on and off practice. Not sure how much actual time I put in. Duolingo was one aspect, where honestly I probably learned like 75% of my vocabulary. I also have a French wife and friends, took classes, hired teachers, watched movies, read news, etc, etc, etc. I probably could have got to where I am without Duolingo but I'll never know. Learning a language is a pain in the ass and I don't think any one thing is really going to do it. Duolingo is free and can be one aspect out of many that will help get you there.
by felixakiragreen | 2025-09-30 20:29:43+00:00
Brilliant.

Until you have 2 people that are near identical. They don’t even have to be twins, there are plenty of examples where people can’t even tell other people apart. How is an AI going to do it?

You don’t own your likeness. It’s not intellectual property. It’s a constantly changing representation of a biological being. It can’t even be absolutely defined— it’s always subject to the way in which it was captured. Does a person own their likeness for all time? Or only their current likeness? What about more abstract representations of their likeness?

The can of worms OpenAI is opening by going down this path is wild. We’re not current able to solve such a complex issue. We can’t even distinguish robots from humans on the internet.
by psychoslave | 2025-09-30 20:29:53+00:00
I did contacted them. All of them who didn't yet have a referenced public position on fight chat control for France. By phone. Only two responded with a clear alignment. Good that I did it by phone, because apparently for some of them getting several thousand emails per day can only mean they are victim of a spam attack.

Not only they don't represent anything but there own little interests, but they won't even have the decency to express clearly what they are standing for. Even lip service is not assured anymore.
by invisibleink | 2025-09-30 20:30:01+00:00
> I’ve been using tools like Cline and Roo-Code quite a bit, and the idea of rethinking the core stack/UX from scratch resonates a lot.

Would love to learn more about your experience with cline. We spent quite some trying to add multi agent capabilities and improve the overall ux/devex of Cline (and its clone Roo) to make it more intutive for developers. we found that its stack is not built for these capabilities, and the codebase was not as stable as we would like it to be. it required a major rewrite, at that point being another cline clone made no sense to us.

> The agent workflow and devex feel like the hardest problems to get right

yes, AI coding agents are probably the most complex agents out there. our approach comes from actor model, where each agent manages its own event-loop. we found this is incredible robust way to build specialized agents that interact with one another within multi. Too early to say but

> Excited to see it open-sourced and will definitely give it a spin.

thanks. still brewing but will let you know. appreciate your feedback.
by dagmx | 2025-09-30 20:30:09+00:00
It’s not out of nowhere. It’s just that people didn’t pay attention to their mobile chips.

But Anandtech had articles as far back as the A12 7 years ago where it was competing with the intel chips of the era

A secondhand link because anandtech is restructured now unfortunately https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/05/apples-a12-bionic...
by brandonb | 2025-09-30 20:30:18+00:00
It's more the former -- we've gotten so good at detecting high cholesterol and reducing it, that the majority of residual risk is now in the other factors.

(There are some people who dispute whether cholesterol is causative, but most cardiologists believe LDL cholesterol, or ApoB, causes heart attacks and strokes --based on both mechanistic evidence and randomized control trials.)
by dstroot | 2025-09-30 20:30:22+00:00
This is the issue. I feel bombarded by trump's firehouse of bullshit, but some of it has to be important, right? So how can Kagi create a "smart" trump filter that focuses on the most important stuff and reduces the firehose. I tried Kagi news and created a "trump" filter and *every story in the US section was gone*.
by bsenftner | 2025-09-30 20:30:28+00:00
VFX artist and developer here, who's deep into this stuff, and it is really not there. It's an island of itself, barely controllable and barely usable with other media. They are just now getting around to generating alpha channels, with virtual none of the existing pipelines for any AI video or image generation tools to even incorporate and work with alpha channels. This is just one of several hundred aspects of incompatibility. It really seriously appears as of no one at any of the AI video generation research teams has any professional media production experience, or even bothered too look at existing media production data standards, and what they are making tool-wise is incompatible in every possible respect.
by apercu | 2025-09-30 20:31:22+00:00
"Agreed. And I mean, I think the nuanced investigations of what AI is and is not good for or capable of, and how it might or might not be made sustainable going forward both economically and environmentally, are a much more meaningful, interesting, and worthwhile check on the hype than dogmatic rejection, because just as hype won't convince anyone sane, neither will dogmatic rejection built on a biased accounting of what's going on with no vision of the possible futures available to us."

Totally, but I don't thinkthe average layperson, journalist or financial analyst will understand any of that nuance (nor pass that info on, because what gets clicks is outrage, and of course, Zitron sells clicks).
by jrm4 | 2025-09-30 20:31:34+00:00
It sounds like a dumb kind of centralization; yes, you can download all your old stuff, in the hopes that someone else will host it for you eventually.

The smarter thing is the thing we already have with email (and that Mastodon can do) -- you have to place trust somewhere, so do it with whatever decentralized server you choose. I get that it's not robust -- or more specifically you DO have to trust whoever's running the server -- but that's better that the now obvious goofy centralization that Bluesky is now subject to.
by brandall10 | 2025-09-30 20:31:58+00:00
Of course, but this is basic human psychology when power asymmetry is at play. Frank "held the cards" in this deal, so to speak, and was helmed by a CEO that demonstrated sociopathic tendencies willing to do whatever it took.

You can of course hold to a particular standard, but if a competitor is willing to relax that standard, you lose a distinct advantage.
by walthamstow | 2025-09-30 20:32:30+00:00
> I die inside every time somebody dumps a jar of Ragu into a drained pot of overcooked spaghetti.

I can give you even worse than that. It was common in the 00s in Britain, maybe still is, to serve pasta as a bowl of plain, dry boiled spaghetti with sauce poured on top.
by SkyBelow | 2025-09-30 20:32:49+00:00
My issue is that the copyright aspect are what prevents me from using this as much as I otherwise would.

About 6 months ago I asked a few different AIs if they could translate a song for me as a learning experience, meaning not a simple translation, but more a word by word explanation of what each word meant, how it was conjugated, any more musical/lyrical only uses that aren't common outside of songs, and so on. I was consistently refused on copyright grounds, despite this seeming a fair use given the educational nature. If I pasted a line of the lyrics at a time, it would work initially, but eventually I would need to start a new chat because the AI determined I translated too much at once.

So in this one, if I wanted to ask it to create a video of the moment in Final Fantasy 6 when the bad guy wins, or a video of the main characters of Final Fantasy 7 and 8 having a sword duel, would it outright refuse for copyright reasons?

It sounds like it would block me, which makes me lose a bit of interest in the technology. I could try to get around it, but at what point might that lead to my account being flagged as a trouble maker trying to bypass 'safety' features. I'm hoping in a few years the copyright fights on AI dies down and we get more fair use allowance instead of the tighter limitations to try to prevent calls for tighter regulation.
by latexr | 2025-09-30 20:32:52+00:00
> That was 7 years ago, pre-Apple Silicon.

There have been rumours of Apple wanting to shift Macs to ARM chips for 14 years. When they made that announcement, they already knew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Apple_silico...

It was obvious it was going to happen. I remember seeing Apple announcing iPads doing tasks my Mac at the time could only dream of and thinking they would surely do the switch.

> It turns out that people want windowing options on their large and expensive tablet, to do long-running tasks in the background

The problem isn’t them making iOS (or iPadOS) more like macOS, it’s them doing the reverse.
by mtalantikite | 2025-09-30 20:32:57+00:00
I think the thing I dislike about Duolingo is it sort of catches the casual person into a trap by misleading them into thinking that by using this app they'll learn another language. It's not that it's a bad app, it's just that that's not going to happen. There's no one resource that will get you to even an intermediate level in a language. And the State Department's FSI estimates are unfortunately pretty accurate for hours to fluency [1].

For me to put a foundation for French down it was: Assimil for about 6 months (30 min/day), 30 minutes of daily comprehensible input, and Anki & Clozemaster for vocabulary (~15-20 min/day). Mixed in there was a couple months on Yabla doing listening comprehension, some grammar study from Bescherelle books, and some tutoring on iTalki. After about maybe 9-12 months I could listen to RFI's broadcast targeted to learners [2], but even then I still needed to go to the transcription a lot at the beginning.

To mislead people into thinking that doing some vocab study for 30 min a day in Duolingo is going to get them anything beyond the most basic grasp of a language is kinda not cool.

[1] https://www.state.gov/foreign-service-institute/foreign-lang...

[2] https://francaisfacile.rfi.fr/fr/
by immibis | 2025-09-30 20:32:59+00:00
There's actually a much better idea that's been floating around. Require over-18 sites to set a certain header. Then anyone who wants to can install a browser on their kid's device that will block pages with the header. There's no privacy implications, no surveillance implications, no need to make VPNs illegal as long as they pass it through; it's just a plain old parental block with a regulation keeping it always up to date. Yes, you may have to stop your kid installing random software on the device to bypass whatever blocking you set up, but you had to do that anyway. If it's Apple or Google they could easily enough require everything in the app store to respect the flag when the device is set to kid mode.

(If the government does the incredibly overbearing thing and does not do the simple and effective and unintrusive thing, it proves their motivations are surveillance)
by aurareturn | 2025-09-30 20:33:01+00:00
Their chips weren’t selling because:

1. They’re useless for training in 2025. They were designed for training prior to LLM explosion. They’re not practical for training anymore because they rely on SRAM which is not scalable.

2. No one is going to spend the resources to optimize models to run on their SDK and hardware. Open source inference engines don’t optimize for Cerebras hardware.

Given the above two reasons, it makes a lot of sense that no one is investing in their hardware and they have switched to a cloud model selling speed as the differentiator.

It’s not always “Nvidia bad”.
by atoav | 2025-09-30 20:33:02+00:00
I play in a band. Since we're just 4 people a code of conduct would be ridiculous. What isn't ridiculous however is that a group of people who do some shit together need to be somewhat on the same page what is acceptable and what isn't. You don't need that with just friends, but any project beyond friends needs people to agree on what kind of social space this is meant to be. If you don't talk it out the shittiest person is going to define it for you.

And beyond a certain size formalizing that makes sense. Not as a tool for punishment or to point to, but so everybody can be on the same page and you know if someone acts out of line they do so despite better knowledge.

If a code of conducts contains stuff you are within the bounds of anyways, why would you care it is there?
by ivanjermakov | 2025-09-30 20:33:04+00:00
From another angle, user doesn't need 80% of your application. This is a key to keep software simple, fast, and convenient to use. The downside (for some) is that because every users's needs are different, software needs to be tweaked and compiled by the end user.

Notable example of this approach is suckless' programs[1] such as dwm, dmenu, and st.

I also took this philosophy and wrote hat - a hackable text editor[2]. Mostly because tweaking neovim was not a pleasant experience and took more steps than it should.

[1]: https://suckless.org/

[2]: https://github.com/ivanjermakov/hat
by apercu | 2025-09-30 20:33:17+00:00
Hey, I didn't say NATO was effective (they should be shooting down anything Russian that violates their NATO airspace, just like Turkey did).

I just said NATO is really important at the moment. It's a tool - an important tool - but that doesn't mean it's being wielded correctly. Is that the fault of the hammer or the fault of the Trump supporter holding it?

:)
by rockercoaster | 2025-09-30 20:33:23+00:00
Labor costs remain the limiting factor for me. The numbers only work out well if I DIY most of the work, despite being in one of the two or three most expensive electricity markets in the US. Like, the panels could be free and it'd barely change this, the labor's so expensive.

The other discouraging part is that as I understand it it's tricky to build the systems out a little at a time, e.g. start with five panels and no battery, add another five panels and batteries to the mix a few months later, add another ten panels another year later, stuff like that, without ending up with a lot of duplicated equipment and kind of a mess of an installation.
by selectodude | 2025-09-30 20:33:47+00:00
Running like a business means providing services to profitable customers. This is, surprisingly, the exact opposite of what government is supposed to be doing. The USPS would be plenty profitable if it didn’t have to maintain the infrastructure to deliver a letter from Honolulu to Barrow for 50 cents. Medicare? Not the best business model. Roads? Forget it.
by colesantiago | 2025-09-30 20:34:31+00:00
> People will get it. They're smart. They just need exposure.

I really doubt this.

If you are in the creative field, your work will just be reduced to "is this slop?" or "fixed it!" with a low effort AI generated work of your original work (fuck copyright right?).

I already see artists battling and fighting putting out their best non AI work only for their audience to question if it is real and they lose the impressiveness.

This just already undermines creators who don't use AI generated stuff.

But who cares about them right? "it is the future" and it is most definitely AGI for them.

But then again, the starving artist never really made any money and this ensures that the artform stays dead.
by SpicyUme | 2025-09-30 20:34:41+00:00
Maybe I'm just lucky but looking at special interest blogs I appreciate the comments from other users/experts/makers. Diqus is the latest in a string of commenting tool and they all seem to have issues over time. A favorite blog resource of mine got nuked after the comments were filled with spam, and possibly used to hack the site. Unfortunately the blog was a collection of years of specific experiences in places with very little other information for that activity. I've talked to the owner about getting information in the years since and he's been helpful, but building the site back would take too long for him, so it's mostly gone. The comments there were useful for updates from people who visited those locations, or found alternate routes/approaches.
by zozbot234 | 2025-09-30 20:34:47+00:00
That argument ought to convince you that there's a mere "possible world" where that bank account turns out to exist. Sometimes we are implicitly interested in these special-cased "possible worlds", even though they'll involve conditions that we aren't quite sure about. Non-constructive existence is nothing more than a handy way of talking about such things, compared to the constructively correct "it's not the case that the existence of X is always falsified".
by dmwood | 2025-09-30 20:35:16+00:00
Depending on the field, 3 Gy IS 'small' (with respect to doses to tissue during cancer treatment, which can be 60 Gy). Whole body doses of 1 milliGy in the environmental biz are considered worth examination. Even investigations of biomarkers for radiation exposure typically use doses in the range of 3 Gy.
by Animats | 2025-09-30 20:35:17+00:00
Is this the New Midsize Airplane, the "797", again? [1] That's been on and off for over a decade. Should have been shipping by now.

The COMAC C919 is finally shipping, although it's not a great aircraft and China still imports the engines. COMAC will probably do better in the next round.

Will Embraeier build something in that size range? They could. They already build small midsize aircraft.[3]

This looks like Boeing missing the market.

And it's all because the Southwest CEO wanted to have only one kind of airplane. That's the cause of the 737 MAX.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_New_Midsize_Airplane

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919

[3] https://www.embraer.com/e-jets-e2/e195e2/en/
by refset | 2025-09-30 20:35:58+00:00
For anyone else curious about what a practical loop implementation might look like, Steve Yegge YOLO-bootstrapped his 'Efrit' project using a few lines of Elisp: https://github.com/steveyegge/efrit/blob/4feb67574a330cc789f...

And for more context on Efrit this is a fun watch: "When Steve Gives Claude Full Access To 50 Years of Emacs Capabilities" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJUyVVFOXOc
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-30 20:36:04+00:00
I think Apple knows exactly what they're doing, but was forced to choose between making the product more about demonstrating their tech and end goals or being mass market mediocre and chose the former. Nobody would've cared about what amounted to a Quest wrapped in a Cupertino design with similar performance, specs, etc. It's very much in line with the original iPod and iPhone, both of which took a few iterations before becoming category-defining hits. It'll probably be the second or third-gen Vision device that'll fix the AVP's nits while also keeping or improving upon its strong points.
by Ukv | 2025-09-30 20:36:15+00:00
> His comment was worse in that it generalized a whole lot of people

The only statement sebstefan made specified "the people who came to interview for the Rust roles of my company" and likewise for Java applicants - groups they presumably have first-hand experience with. It was jhoechtl's previous comment that generalized to "the Rust workforce".

> I disagree. It's much more likely, in my view, that newer languages will appeal to people who value the wrong things in a business, like which language they want to use for the excitement [...]

Whether your views on people who learn Rust are positive or negative, you do still seem to agree that there are factors that can cause people with different levels of experience or attitudes to programming to choose different languages.

> anyone with a long experience in trying things will know that language is very low in the list of things that help [...] The only things that really help writing software are static types and tests...

Not necessarily the syntax of the language - but languages will have design decisions and ecosystems build up around them and that can make them better suited for particular purposes. Rust's borrow checker is very effective at reducing memory safety bugs without losing performance to GC or reference counting, for instance.
by layman51 | 2025-09-30 20:36:16+00:00
Do you have any suggestions for supplements to the Japanese course on Duolingo? I feel like I'm almost ready to make the leap after having built up a good streak and slowly realizing that some of the Duolingo sentences apparently sound unnatural. For example, on review lessons, Duolingo quizzes the sentence "My name is" by using "iimasu"[0]. This older video[1] that is part of a playlist that tracks the Duolingo course claims that it incorrectly teaches you. It's not really explained why it's wrong though.

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%A8%80%E3%81%86 [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FNrpMQZzJ0&t=457s