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Instead of making a bunch of tiny individual projects, start working on one project that can start tiny, but grow over time.

I can’t help but think about this interview [1] with James Thomson who wrote Pcalc for the Mac. He wrote a little calculator app to help him learn. A fairly basic project, but then kept going. Any time Apple releases something new he ports Pcalc over to learn that new things, be it the watch, or even Vision Pro. When he wanted to learn about 3D graphics, he made an about screen for Pcalc that ended up being its own app where the user could drive a car around and it was a little physics sandbox. It kind of reminded me of the Easter egg in Excel 97, where the user could fly around a 3D world and find a spot where all the devs names would scroll by.

I’m kind of like you, where I like tiny projects that can be elegant and avoid complication. But to get better, the projects need to grow, and I’ve learned the most from project I’ve had which grew over time to become more than originally scoped. Sometimes this requires full rewrites along the way. Starting again with the knowledge of where previous decisions limited you can be helpful when starting other projects in the future.

You might see some of this as bloat. Maybe it is, but that’s part of the learning as well. What features are truly useful vs bloat. How can you implement new features while keeping the core experience feeling lightweight and fast? How can you design the features so the app is still simple and approachable for a new user, yet grows with them to be capable for power users? How can it adapt to fit different use cases?

So that would be my advice. Watch the interview below, and then pick a project that can start simply… your MVP… and then integrate and expand it with new features over time. Each feature is its own mini-project inside the larger project. You could look at almost any piece of software that has been around for a while for inspiration. Pick something you’d actually use day-to-day, and maybe one some people you know would use too. When you use it you’ll naturally start to generate your own feature requests, and if other people will be using it, you’ll have to develop with end-users in mind, which means more error handling, bug hunting, user friendly UI, documentation, help, onboarding, etc… all the stuff that probably doesn’t happen with little projects.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ZbWVTQNk0
As usual, Peter Woit is skeptical:

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13924
This is just big studios trying to avoid the 1948 Paramount vs. USA situation, where they were banned from owning cinemas and thus creating market competition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....

They're trying to not make that mistake again and being forced to actually... compete!
I think many of us are underestimating Microsoft because of how crappy Windows is and keeps being.

But as a business entity they've been ferocious from the start, and succeeded through sheer perseverance where Google gave up after some tepid tries.

Xbox would have been killed by Google in the first year. Exchange would have stayed in beta for a decade, and Office365 would have had no support if it was in GSuite.

If Google were to find a way, I think they'd need a radically different approach, as I don't see them ever fixing their focus problem.
Disney has a monopoly on streaming Disney properties online, and is abusing it to the detriment of America consumers.

That's a lawsuit from the anti-trust commission that I'd love to see. They can't own movie theaters, after all.
Google incentivizes low-quality content, content that well-intentioned and -
designed search engines must deal with as well. At this point, we're seeing a garbage in/garbage out problem.
I don't have any particular love for string string theory, but this work seems more sensible than several of the commentators here appear to think.

One of string theory's many problems is that it gives you an absurdly large number of different theories. We assume some of these look like our universe but we don't really know.

This work is attempting to find versions of string theory which match the real-world physics we observe, which could lead to cool stuff (but probably won't).

For example let's say there is exactly one version of string theory which has protons in it, then suddenly instead of looking at this vast sea of different theories with no understanding of what we're doing, suddenly we're looking at this one model that happens to have the proton and trying to understand that.

Edit: on the other hand if people do this sort of work and we decide that none of the different versions that string theory gives us match anything that looks like physics in our universe, that would also be interesting.
My favorite SFXR alternative is this one which has a very nice UI: https://sfbgames.itch.io/chiptone
To read a single cache line from DDR4 (basically the same for DDR5 but I'm less familiar) the memory controller needs to:

1. send ACT
2. wait tRCD(RD)
3. send READ
4. wait tCL
5. read the burst from the DQ

The original 10ns number was only taking step 4 into account. tRCDRD is just as long if not longer. Then the burst takes a couple more ns.
Well the article mention the 13inch development was paid with $9 million seed round.
And $18 million Series A later on paid for the 16.

In the end it's twice as much as when they break in the laptop category.
That was my first thought also. OTOH, Framework's business model is "we're going to charge you more to get that thing you actually wanted without locking you into stupid business models."

I would absolutely pay a premium for a decent TV without all the advertising crap that pops up every time I turn on the TV.
I think you are either an extreme outlier (not having a unpleasant trip while having taken over hundred) or delusional about your drug consumption. Your recommendation of consuming a mind-altering substance DAILY for stress relief " and other positive effects" lets me lean towards the latter.
While each person is indeed different, their brains tend to work in a comparable way.
I thought 13" would be too small but it's all right, i was used to thick screen bezels.
ThinkPad is made by Lenovo, when I see how bad the Lenovo laptop of my dad is, I don't think I will buy a Lenovo one day.
Don’t you think it’s possible that car makers are moving in this direction in anticipation of a day when you no longer have to be paying attention to that extent while driving? Or do people still think that day is very very far off because based on my experience with FSD we’re not as far as everyone thinks.
I read this as I'm standing next to my bare esp32 with dht22 temp sensor hanging off it with DuPont wires...

Nevermind the ones in the schoolhouse, basement, chicken coop...

So, yeah, I fully agree. One day I'll buy a 3d printer but until that day, wires and some tape. Everything seems cheap enough to be sacrificial if that's the end result.
Interesting one is 12k years ago around Younger Dryas
When I was a youth I was given PAXIL by a corrupt psychiatrist that had gotten paid off by a highly dubious pharmaceutical company that would later get sued for fraud by the US government. Their published research was horseshit (they manipulated their studies) and their snake oil probably resulted in the deaths of scores of youth. I wish I was connected enough -- socially -- to have good-clean-fun vs being put through a ringer and it does appear that -- at the very leaset -- microdosing mushrooms isn't associated with massive upticks in suicide.
The Sound of Sorting – "Audibilization" and Visualization of Sorting Algorithms
Many people thought Alicloud would eat AWS/Azure/GCP's lunch in the developing world, since they expanded really fast and priced aggressively. But there's a limit to what even extremely price-conscious customers will accept, and their service quality and support was just not up to scratch.

Chinese manufacturers are steadily creeping upmarket though: Haier, BYD, Xiaomi, DJI, Anker etc are all producing increasingly solid hardware with software that's distinctly not great, but tolerable (and certainly good enough to compete with Japan/Korea, who don't exactly shine on this front either).
They can use it to better recognize bots and fakes (b&f) ... though b&f can weaponize it too ... don't know, looks like b&f have an upper hand here.
The more desirable upgrade from Win10 is Linux 6.8. With proton and the game emulation ecosystem built by Valve there’s really no reason left to run Windows.
Totally relatable as streaming issues often are kafkaesque due to licensing, shoddy platform maintenance etc. I can really see a resurgence of physical media at some point. Personally I'd be collecting UHD BDs even more if it weren't for "4K remasters" which rely on AI image reconstruction way too heavily.
I'm waiting for folks to implement a Reverse Google Search.
We got one, and we love it. My daughter dropped hers and bent the case. We ordered a new case (which, admittedly, was a significant percentage of the price of a new laptop) and had it repaired within an hour of delivery.
No surprises here as predicted in [0]

"Anyone building $0 free AI models that can be used on-device, like Stability, Meta, Apple, etc have already 'won' the AI race to zero."

The surprise here was that Google joined in the $0 free LLM race. Even when this is all over, both Google and Meta can do more than just LLMs; and people really have to think beyond this.

But at this point, it is clear that OpenAI's head start on GPTs is rapidly getting eroded as everyone else is catching up.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37606400
Meta.ai requires "login with FB" for me. :-/
Has FileMaker Pro changed / improved / worsened significantly since then? The latest release is FileMaker Pro 2023.
From the article: "Today, Framework has about 50 employees, and it plans to expand to 60 before the end of the year, with “a bit of additional team growth” in 2025."

This amounts to $1M+ per new employee, which can get you pretty far. If the prototype of their new product looks promising, they may receive additional funding for production or form a joint venture.
Why are you wanting to disable it?
I'm glad I permanently moved to Linux 2 years ahead of this.
>Why is this the case, anyway? Music streaming services [...] mostly all have the same content,

Producing song tracks or books is "cheap" compared to tv & films.

Because tv series episodes cost more than $1 million each and movies productions can cost over $300 million, the studios are more tightfisted and financially incentivized to hold on to them exclusively for their own networks & streaming platforms instead of licensing it out to all the other streaming services.

Right now, the studios believe they can get more $$$ by using their exclusives to attract more subscribers rather than the sum of licensing money they could realistically negotiate from all their competitors. (The streaming competitors all want to underpay for licenses which contradicts the ip owners wanting max dollars.) E.g. Disney thought the old Netflix license contract was too much in favor of Netflix so Disney pulled their content and used it as "exclusives" on their own streaming service to attract subscription revenue. In other words, the early years of Netflix streaming where they seemingly had "everything" (that consumers look back on with fondness) ... was also the time period where Disney/HBO/etc thought they were getting financially shafted by Netflix.

Music doesn't have the same economics so the content owners are more willing to syndicate across all music streaming platforms. Nevertheless, there are a few "exclusive" arrangements such as Garth Brooks only offering his studio albums on Amazon Music and rejecting Spotify and Apple Music. It's definitely not the norm compared to tv & movies.
Huh, I don't have that at all (I'm Dutch). Is this a non-EU thing they built in for selected markets?
Thinkpad and non-Thinkpad Lenovo's aren't built the same,
don't base an opinion on Thinkpads off bad Lenovo gear.
Yes there is a “chill” mode that refers to maximum allowed acceleration and “chill mode” that refers to the level if aggressiveness with autopilot. With both turned on the car still exceeds the speed limit by quite a bit. I am sure Tesla is aware.
Show HN: A simple tool to help with job search via Google (and why) – Joseef
TL;DR: Google has all the data and allows searching several companies job portals at once. That's how I've found my current position. This tool helps to manage queries.

Some time ago it became apparent to me that most job boards I know became aggregators — most companies have their own job portals or at least pages on their sites, and those aggregators most of the time just collect postings. Of course they try to add value to it, but sometimes they try too much (adding complex interface), they choose what companies to show to you and postings become stale.

So I tried searching on companies' job boards directly with Google excluding middleman, as those portals often don't have search features, and found my current position!

At that time I stored queries in my notebook. But recently I've realized that Google is even more powerful — it allows searching on several portals at once. With this, complexity of queries starts to grow and managing queries in the notebook becomes difficult — queries are too long and hard to edit (add or exclude portals).

Initially I thought that it was too simple to be shared with others (anyone can Google), but when complexity started to grow I made this page and it looks like now it may be useful to others.

Hope it helps you!
I would really like to have RTEMS on a RPI, however it's most focused board's are "space stuff" like LEON Spark's
I don't care about the motives or purity, I can just be happy that for whatever reason a company is releasing open source models and not just saying only a small group of weirdos in the bay area are responsible enough to use it
Well, if I select Norway I read:

"We haven’t opened ordering in your region yet, but we’re looking forward to getting there!"

This is definitely illegal inside the European Economic Area, but I guess they are not aware of that. It is allowed not to ship to a specific area in some cases, but not refuse to sell entirely based on the country.

If there is someone from Framework Computer Inc. reading this message: you do not need to comply with any local law if you are not targeting a specific country inside the European Economic Area; you just need to follow the EU rules. Therefore, it does not make any sense to prevent people from a specific EEA country to buy your products (and that is illegal as well). Please fix it! :)
Open source has many advantages, but either support is terrible or you are paying for support. If you can support yourself open source is great. However if you need help the options are often not very good, and when they are good they are not cheap - might or might not be competitive with non-free offering.

Since Zoho is trying to attract small business, support is something they can beat open source one. (I don't know if they do, just that they can)
> assign all blame to him as a manager.

Can you share who are the others we can blame?
IKEA selling cheap food in their restaurants is actually a rather fair comparison, and one they were criticised for on several occasions.

We do have some legislation that tries to prevent businesses for selling things under the cost to combat this.
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“People come to us because we are trusted,” Raghavan said. “They may have a new gizmo out there that people like to play with but they still come to Google to verify what they see there because it is the trusted source and it becomes more critical in this era of generative AI.”

Seriously, in which reality-distortion bubble does Prabhakar Raghavan live?
The AI Revolution Is Crushing Thousands of Languages
Don’t 2 million people fly between Los Angeles and San Francisco every year?
EV's grew 31% in 2023 and will likely do a similar amount in 2024. The issue is that the number of available vehicles grew more than 31%; expectations were for around 50% growth.

I don't think you can call 31% growth lacklustre.
I've been very happy happy with https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu as a Start Menu replacement. If ads have rolled out to my Windows install, I wouldn't even notice.
Yup, exactly after the whole Redis fiasco and RedHat Enterprise Linux Situation last year. I'm unsure about even the type of licensing let it be restrictive or non-restrictive.
I don't want to build an organization or community that will be disappointed to a project they have contributed part of their time to.
it used to be the case that reddit threads became read-only after six months, but they removed that limitation about a year ago i think
Quicksort isn't great when comparing two items is expensive.
Even streaming a film in the original language can be hard. If you want to stream the English version of a Hollywood movie, you often can't do it from your country. It might only be distributed in e.g. German or Italian.
The error message from rg says exactly what is the problem though?

And that’s what people say BeeBase should do here too.

Something like:

Error: invalid name: must start with uppercase letter

Not some obtuse message that you have to go look up in a manual for no reason
There is a way but no one ever likes it when I bring it up:

Build a search index that excludes anything with ads on it.

Yes, that excludes a lot of content and no, I really don't care if it does. We'll always have Google for that.
Part of this podcast: https://microarch.club/episodes/101/ linked previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39989427

Previous excerpts from this podcast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011960
Honestly this is stupid, if you want to have integrity the answer is to have less balls in the air.
There is absolutely nothing on the phone I need or want to interact with while driving that is not covered by bluetooth audio controls.

Perhaps you should reconsider your driving needs vs safety?
Phones also use WiFi access points and some Bluetooth beacons to get a better location. AFAIK only Google and Apple have up-to-date maps of these that are useful for navigation, and no one else does (Mozilla threw the towel a year or two ago).

Cars can theoretically have better GPS antennae, and can do better dead reckoning using wheel position and wheel rotation speed. But do they? I haven’t seen any evidence that any car actually does better than a modern phone.

Especially inside a dense city, WiFi location can be much more precise than GPS.
Yes I know, not the case, and before you ask, I also don't engage with atheist videos. But that's only one example: the recommendations are really bad in a lot of ways for me.
Can I opt out of consuming any ai generated "content", please? Thank you.
Thank you for your question.
The list is generated by selecting nearly 40,000 of the most popular words in English.
Eventually, I plan to add words in other languages, such as Spanish, French, etc.
Then, using natural language processing libraries and LLM, the words obtain their grammatical classes and sentiments.
I have different servers that will then have the job of checking the availability of the domains.
Every week, I retrieve the results and automatically generate my various speadsheets using a Python script (the openpyxl library is really nice).
So basically this won't affect the LLM training but will still remove useful information and answers to questions? Wonderful...
I don't think it's that old, but it's way older than 2018
Notes on LLM GUIs
Subjectively, I feel the same. That said I don't use it much any more -- when Apollo closed I stopped participating on the site.

I saw lots of comments shortly after the blackouts that 'felt' AI-generated, and when I rarely go there now from search results, using the awful new site, I see little content of value.
You give Apple too much credit, and Microsoft too little.

The common conception is that Microsoft created the “flat UI” thing wholly from scratch, it was seen as totally original and unique at the time, it took no obvious immediate influences from contemporary software design trends.
Update on the plan for phase-out of third-party cookies on Chrome
Why do so many people, even web developers, think anyone lets you do `UPDATE` or `DELETE` in their databases?! They let you do `INSERT`. That's it. You can insert add a new edit and you can add a delete. They don't actually delete or overwrite anything.
Except for Germany, where Sky got an exclusive deal and expect you to pay 28€ per month for the privilege. I'm grandfathered in the yearly 65€ subscription of F1TV and as soon as I am no longer allowed to renew I'll probably forget that the sport exists.
>“They may have a new gizmo out there that people like to play with but they still come to [us]

Same last words from the Nokia and Blackberry CEOs when that new gizmo from Apple came out in 2007.

>Seriously, in which reality-distortion bubble does Prabhakar Raghavan live?

The Gavin Belson one.
The only problems I've had with AliExpress is the anxiety of choosing a seller where a cheaper one exists. All the hardware I've ever bought has been exactly what I ordered.
> So blaming Raghavan for what happened at Yahoo! is just stupid.

He joined yahoo in 2005, if my memory serves correctly yahoo was already pretty much IBM-dead by then.

The downfall of yahoo was due to the hard push of popup ads in the late 90s and very early 2000s. Much like the google history of today though, maximising metrics at the cost of user experience. But it all happened in yahoo way before he joined.
Maybe when its done we can ask it to make their discovery into some fun rap song or something?
From TFA:

> Europol’s Executive Director Catherine De Bolle, said:

> Our homes are becoming more dangerous than our streets as crime is moving online. To keep our society and people safe, we need this digital environment to be secured.

Well yeah, as per the traditional definition of "to be secured", that's exactly what stuff like end-to-end encryption is for. Seems like the problem is just that the European Police Chiefs apparently have a different definition of "to be secured".

So tell me, dear European Police Chiefs, whom do you think I should want my communications to be secured from? Aha, not you, you say? Well, sorry, I beg to differ.
Kudos for breaking ground on letting outside investors into a Series A [0], but it seems weird to just grant that voting power to the CEO. Can't tell if it's the CEO using that to reduce the dilution on his voting power due to the raise or a practical way to try to balance outside investment against the chaos of a hundred individual investors - if it's the latter it would make me feel better to proxy those voting shares to an investor & have the ability for the members to be able to vote to undo the proxy (especially interesting that the details of the proxy voting agreement aren't even posted so you can't make a determination a priori to applying). The former feels a little dishonest & a way for the CEO to make a cool 1M under his name without putting his own money on the line.

Of course, I also don't have experience with this kind of setup. Am I reading too much into this & this is fine?

[0] https://frameworkcomputer.typeform.com/community-round?typef...
>I think one should attribute a good amount of credit of this to Yann LeCun (head of meta's research). From early stage he have been vocal about keeping things open-source, and voiced that to Mark before even joining. (and credit to Mark for keeping that).

That's all very nice and good, but Meta keeps things open (for now) because it's perfectly aligned with their business goals. It couldn't have happened any other way.