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> I have absolutely no idea what your first mac app being in 2011 has anything to do with what I said,

You literally said, "The old Mac indies have brand names and a benefit of a smoother transition since they were there before the App Store." I told you I was never an old Mac indie. My one Mac project shipped years after the iOS App Store was well established. I am showing you that your whole thesis is just factually wrong.

> "Prototyping in SwiftUI" made me absolutely cringe.

I can't find "prototyping" anywhere in the thread.

> Please try a modern web dev flow, Flutter, probably React Native.

I've tried React Native, and even dug into its implementation. It is exactly the convoluted, leaky abstraction that it looks like. In my spare time, I act as therapist for friends forced to support React Native at work.

> you seem bizarrely myopic when you handwave about "normal people" and "as a consumer".

Google "app vs website usage" and you'll find plenty of data to back up what I'm saying. Or just ask your non-technical friends and family how they use their phones.

> Then bizarrely combative coupled with "well if you need web build web" -- oh okay!

Normal people want apps. Sometimes web apps are better from a logistical perspective; for example, if your product is a party-invite platform, it's easier to send a link to a website than ask everyone to install an app.

What absolutely sucks is building a native app with cross platform tools, for reasons that have been explained to death over the last 15 years. It's the homeopathic medicine of software, and just as much a waste of time to debate with practitioners.
I’m definitely a lyrics person. I’m pretty sure my wife is a music person. I sent her the article, and looking forward to what she says. I wonder if it’s related to other information processing preferences (I tend to be more rational than emotional, very logical, etc.) so lyrics are captivating to my mind because they contain more directly actionable information.

I do play many instruments and love to make music, but that doesn’t seem to matter. I can definitely hear a song and then sing it back to you after one or two listens (not all lyrics but at least the chorus and some of the verse)
I have a bit of a niggle about the use of the word "polarizing". That word implies things that I think are harmful overall, such as being unwilling to work with people you disagree with.

That said, I agree that it's important to express your opinions and stand by things you think are right. It's equally important to listen to those who disagree with you and take what they say as additional data that may (or may not) lead you to modify your opinion. At the very least, openly and honestly listening to others will inform you as to why they have a differing opinion. "Everyone seems crazy if you don't understand their point of view."

Also, "compromise" isn't a dirty word. It's how we get anything done.
I read the arstechnica post and didn't grok that at all; thanks for explaining. I spent the whole article wondering what prompted them to report on something that happened over a decade ago now.
It looks like that link was accurate. July highs in Zurich average between 70 and 80: https://weatherspark.com/m/60160/7/Average-Weather-in-July-i...
Even if you think a founder is not impressive, if you see an impressive product you are more likely to take the bet. It’s the same old “sales cures all” sentiment where many organizational dysfunctions can be tolerated if the company’s products are in demand
Human population was only a tiny fraction of 20th century numbers back then. There were no casual travelers from Constantinpole to Buenos Aires at all.
Q or @ to execute a macro over all visually selected lines is a feature I didn't know about but sounds amazing.

All too often I create a macro that I want to execute many times, but it's hard to know how many. I've tried the guessing approach but that has a tendency to under- or overestimate.
That's pretty much a reflection of current social trends, right?
It's basically how the Apple Vision Pro mainly works.
It's a semi-decent SVG editor (if you ignore all the XML Editor crashes), but you can't draw in it.
We need proper Neovim gui that is officially maintained
Leaf blowers are one of the most idiotic inventions ever made. What is good about moving throwing leafs from place A to place B, where they will be rotting in the same way. Blowing with all other dust and trash. Luckily they got recently banned in Warsaw.
The dev who you made download and build all those deps just to throw them away for one. Not super fond of the attitude that efficiency for the end user is a necessary evil... but a dev can be expected to endure any indignity.
The government is the actor. Do you think that corporate lobbying gives corporations the right to write their own laws, or something? Lobbying is paying someone to speak to a government representative. Every government representative has the full authority to respond, "No? That's stupid," and if they respond any other way they should be the one held accountable for it.
Show HN: I made a "GPT-4o" powered AI Website Builder that passes The Mom Test
Hey HN!

Here it is: just another AI website builder, but made to be less annoying. From one quick prompt you can enter, it will try to generate a nice website starter you can continue your work with. Type anything from "potato shop" to "local bakery", it should be enough to get started.

No sign up required to try. Any feedback is welcome!
As a Libertarian, I've always felt that govt should be limited to ensuring (not necessarily providing) essential infrastructure. At this point, internet access as part of communications should be considered essential infrastructure.

I always find it kind of wild how Utah tends to be a Progressive Republican state. Projects like this are definitely nice to see.
Agreed. My only real problem is that font size and "UI" size (gutters/etc) being tied feels like an accessibility tax. Aside from that, they're wonderful.

I wonder if we could eventually make a "new term" which shares the same foundation, but atop a rich rendered experience. A GUI written with simple primitives (that could also probably be rendered as TUI, frankly), but with slightly more slick (and expensive lol) rendering.

I know, i know - blasphemy, i'm sorry. But despite my love for the Term (i've been in it for ~15 years now) i long for _slightly improved_ graphics.
The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
The feeling of danger browsing that page trying to avoid accidentally clicking the "Buy" button.
I find myself agreeing with those concerned about the risks of using a spacecraft / suit that has yet to make a successful spacewalk, and the ability to wrangle / work on a telescope without the ability to anchor it down like the shuttle.

Timeline for a Space X capsule visit would also likely be shorter than the other Hubble visits right?
so give money randomly until someone makes you feel better?

why is this better than ai porn friends?
The first statement is not unlikely. Most of the women are only attracted to top 20% of males, but most of the men are attracted to top 80% of females. In previous times a female having multiple partners was shamed upon by society which kept this in check and most of the men got a female partner. Now society no longer shames females to have multiple partner which is causing this divide.
Competition is the antidote to passing it on, which is why regulatory intervention against concentration is critical. Left to it's own devices, competition disappears in capitalism.
I agree that this is a good title for an academic research, but could be clarified a little. Many people don't read articles these days, only the titles. It's imperative titles are not misleading.
>Otherwise you're optimizing for criteria other than "selecting whether to invest in Apple or Uber.

They arent single-mindedly optimizing to invest in the next apple or uber at all cost! They are balancing it against the need to screen out no-name bums that look and sound the same.
And has for some time now. Haven’t used CocoaPods or Carthage in years (thank goodness).
You asked for specifics. The other guy asked for a one-sentence summary. The specifics you seek are in the article.

As an example:

> Looking at suicide rates (which are more indicative of actual depression rates, rather than self-reported data, given the decreasing stigma associated with admitting to dealing with mental health issues), the numbers show that in many countries it has remained flat or decreased over the past 20 years. Indeed, in countries like France, Ireland, Denmark, Spain, and New Zealand, you see a noticeable decline in youth suicide rates. If social media were inherently causing an increase in depression, that would be an unlikely result.

or:

> Specifically, they note new guidance in the U.S. under the Affordable Care Act in 2011 that increased screening of adolescent girls for depression (the rise in depression rates for adolescent girls being key to Haidt’s argument), and a second change in instructing clinicians to record suicidal ideation differently than in the past.

Do you disagree with these specific criticisms?
I covered that, I have 3000 gallons worth of water storage available and means to filter it. I hope to double it in the coming years. Perks of having 10 acres of land to do with as I wish. Some people have hobbies like classic cars, traveling the world, etc, mine is being prepared for climate change I guess? Not sure. It's something I've just been doing the past 10 years or so. There is a whole genre of websites on it if you dig. Not everyone is a right wing nut preparing for zombies :). I'm just anticipating reality. I assume if it got really bad due to climate change I'd have to leave, but mostly I'm covered on natural disasters in my area for the foreseeable future.
You make it sound like LLMs just make a few small mistakes when in reality they can hallucinate on a large scale.
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I love seeing the development of an amazing modern replacement for Vim. I look forward to the moment where it has tons of plugins that are as easy to install as VSCode extensions are.
Hydrogen Storage Could Slash Renewables' Costs
It is clear that R is not doing as well as Python. It is not clear that it is not doing well overall. It is still the best in statistical analysis and interactive usage (sklearn, statmodels, etc are not good enough). Maybe there is a healthy community that can thrive. For the moment being it seems that they are trying to eat SAS userbase.
Including more basic (as of 2024) features in the core like Helix would indeed be a good idea but would go against the existing culture of vim with many plugins competing.
Cox is more than that in Phoenix... I've got 2gb down (100mb up) currently. I do wish they didn't charge 2x or more to host a server at home though (business account).
I'm also a fairly rational person and I like to obsess over sounds and their qualities. I find lyrics to be extra, often predictably sentimental, fluff and its the patterns in the music that makes music. My ex was literally an art student and was very emotional and was 100% wedded to lyrics. So I'm not sure.
he had an amazing feel for mass consumer psyche ("taste") and along with a good dose of charisma
Sort of orthogonal anecdote. I ran freebsd on a failing usb stick for about a year. It had copies=3 or similar on it and zfs just did it's best with fixing things up on the fly. Ran scrub fairly often, it told me things were bad, system kept running. That is to say, flash can stumble on with pretty high failure rate for much longer than I expected.
How is the state in regards to switching from integrated GPU to dedicated GPU? On my old laptop it was impossible to get it to work, it was either integrated or dedicated only, without an easy way to switch between the two. That was several years ago, so hopefully it is easier/better.
Extra points if we eventually find out that someone is communicating with the whales, putting them up to it with promises of fish : )
Reading through the comments here I feel like I live in a parallel universe.

I have Ego products and don't see any problems with them whatsoever. I've used and have gas and corded equipment, and by far prefer Ego. I haven't noticed any functional difference in how they perform, and if anything I get annoyed by gas models because they're heavier and more annoying to start and stop. Sure they're more powerful sometimes but I've never needed the extra power they provide. It's not like I'm going to chop up a log using my lawnmower. I've never had problems mulching anything or mowing well, and it works perfectly. And I live on a fairly wooded property so we get tons of leaves. The batteries last plenty long and charge really fast.

For what it's worth, they do make batteries in different Ah capacities. I don't even remember which ones we have but maybe we have the higher capacity ones?

I can see why contractors might have issues with constant use of cordless equipment. But I'm not a contractor, and my guess is they'd have more problems with battery lifespan than charging in practice if they timed the charging well.

I also understand why people wouldn't like the sound of leaf blowers but to me I don't understand the level of animosity about them, in the sense that there's other things that are much louder that I don't hear laws being passed about and so forth. To me it feels a bit like they're being singled out for some reason, I assume because people believe they're unnecessary? Either that or I'm just not bothered as much by that particular noise.
Aargh, painfully verbose GPT-generated filler nonsense. Naively I thought we were safe from it on HN.
MAD and nuclear holocaust was a meme well before Kennedy. They were building bunkers in the mid-50s in back yards...
You might find relative line numbers useful. `set relativenumber`
Is it time to put a faraday cage in my car to hold all my electronics when I drive? It's certainly tempting.

It was only a matter of time, though. The tech to do this has been cheap and readily available for a while now.
The article is useful because, while most of your other examples don’t pretend to be your friends, VCs often do, at least at a superficial level. Understanding that this seeming friendship isn’t real is important.

VCs do have a helpful role to play in funding many types of startups, but the role of investor is very different from the role of friend.
I think, the connection is Julian Assange. And I think, he was a main organizer of the Cicada 3301. But his teams were definetly not the same for both projects. If you know something about Cicada 3301 games (especially 2012 game), than you can find a lot of similarities between them and 2004 Puzzle Hunt. So, I think, there is no need to mention the name of the cummunity a lot of times.
>> instead they blew it and used a super-high-RPM motor-powered narrow turbine placed inside the pipe.

Because it is a handheld tool. It cannot be heavy. If you want to shove lots of power through an electric motor then that motor has to be either very heavy or very fast. The same is true for turbines. And a lighter consumer product will generally be cheaper to manufacture.
VC management fees are typically 2%/y. if a VC fund has $100 million in committed capital, the annual management fees would generally be between $2 million and $2.5 million. it's a lot of money.
Verizon home, where available, isn't too bad... it's definitely a good backup connection for WFH scenarios.
What you call "petty bribery" are vast networks where people at every level squeeze citizens for bribes, take their cut, and pass the rest upwards to their superiors. People who run the country are the bosses of various bribery chains whose influence depends on the depth and width of the corruption network. They are like competing mafia families: military mafia gets money by skimming contracts and squeezing people for bribes to get their children out of forced conscription; legal mafia gets money by selling verdicts; etc.

It's funny that you mention corporate lobbying. In a truly corrupt place, companies are treated no better than citizens. Companies are squeezed for bribes too, and if they resist, then companies get raided and taken over. Owners get imprisoned on made up charges (or, ironically, for past bribing that they are unwilling to continue) and new owners are installed, usually members of the same corruption network, such as children of officials. In places like Russia, the equivalents of governors and congressmen are all owners of factories, oil terminals, ports, banks and other major businesses. They just steal the companies. It is impossible to run a successful major company without being one way or another a piggy bank for the corruption networks, permanently at risk of losing it all in illegal takeovers. (I recommend Bill Browder's books if you'd like to know more.)

The western world has so little corruption that an average citizen or company never experiences anything like this.
I think that 1:1s are super important for startups, especially those with remote workforces.

When managers are player/coaches and ICs as well (I.e not middle management that focus on ppl management) they are super busy and need this time with their reports to understand progress, detect bottlenecks and blockers, and unblock them / answer any questions. Sometimes jr employees might not even realize there are bottlenecks that will impact them.

These meetings also help fostering a relationship, help with their reports growth, and retain them.
I used to use blink quite a lot on my iPad and I’ve noticed it really going “weird” lately.

They have some script that executed on login, which tried to “upgrade” my connections to mosh by downloading a static mosh bin from some server they own (so, could contain anything) and it was opt out — and lately randomly some keys just stop working on the keyboard (like, the c key just doesn’t work at all in the app).

I jumped ship to Termius, shame. How’s your experience lately?
Show HN: Pinepods – Self-hosted podcast management app with Nextcloud sync
Hey all,

I’ve spent the majority of the last year hammering away at Pinepods. It’s a Rust based podcast management system that manages podcasts with multi-user support and relies on a central database with clients to connect to it. It’s complete with a browser based client and your podcasts and settings follow you from device to device due to everything being stored on the server. AntennaPod is great and all but sometimes I want to listen to podcasts from my laptop. Here’s a great solution to that problem that keeps all your data in your network. There’s also a client edition that you can download and install for mac, linux and windows.

Search both The Podcast Index or Itunes to browse through shows and episodes, Import or export opmls of your podcasts, utilize the standard of podcasting 2.0. It’s all fully dockerized and you can have an instance of your own up and running in 5 mins! You can also add custom feeds using urls of course.

A few other features:
- Playback Speed Control
- Support for feeds without audio in them
- Support for either mysql or mariadb
- Nextcloud gpodder timestamp and episode sync
- Great for Podcast archival with support for mounting a nas or other storage location to download to

If you’re on the fence you can try it out without installing the server too! Check the website for more info!

There’s a lot more to come down the pipeline as well, such as a lightweight TUI client to stream episodes to, alternate login options via authjs and postgres database support (will be rolling out after this weekend). Now is the perfect time to check it out and enjoy continued feature updates! Feel free to open issues or PRs if you experience any problems. Or drop a line on the discord. I’m happy to help!
In San Jose, whenever someone proposes this (or at least getting the gas powered ones to stop dumping carcinogens), they’re non-ironically branded as racist.

People argue the battery powered ones aren’t good for professional use (short runtimes) but that problem was solved years ago. They also argue they’re too expensive,
but that argument falls apart if you include engine maintenance and gasoline in the cost.
Bumblebees and Chimpanzees Can Pass on Their Skills to Form 'Cumulative Culture'
Elician here! Thanks for your comment.

I'm not sure I agree that those rule-of-thumb statistics are "arbitrary" or "fictional"… I guess it depends on what you mean by that. I can say that on our part they're a good faith attempt to help users calibrate how best to use the tool, using evaluations of Elicit based on real usage.

Definitely accept that the tool can work better or worse depending on your domain or workflow though!

One way we do try to distinguish ourselves from vanilla LLMs is that we provide sources for all of the claims made. I mention this because we hope our users can approach the falsification process you mention for Google. We want to show people where particular claims come from such that we earn their trust.

Walking citation trails and verifying transitive claims is something we've talked about but need more people to implement! (https://elicit.com/careers)
Amber: The Programming Language That Compiles to Bash
Also never seen one here in Brazil FWIW
Unfortunately, any meat is unhealthy unless it's freshly caught, or served right after hunting.

The preservative used for meat curing is a known carcinogen, and can't be replaced with any other known substance. Skipping it is also not an option, as botulism is a huge risk.
Five Things to Know About NASA's Tiny Twin Polar Satellites
My point was more so that this task is so trivial, that's it's not testing the model's ability to distinguish contextual nuances, which would supposedly be the intention.

The idea presented elsewhere in this thread about using an unpublished novel and then asking questions about the plot is sort of the ideal test in this regard, and clearly on the other end of the spectrum in terms of a design that's testing actual "understanding".
I wondered the same thing, and I assume the key detail is "can be done from home", because implementation, monitoring and enforcement of something like this could be pretty harmful for businesses and employees. Imagine having to document why you need your employees in the office for certain types of meetings, but not others.
It's better than AI porn friends in the way a screwdriver is better than a hammer for driving screws.
> however the changes required for that are large and will probably have to be introduced in a new Rust edition.

Or more likely: never. The odds of linear types making it into the language are non existing from what I can tell.
I really hate to defend Musk, but this story is a nothing burger. ABA Ethics Rule 1.7 prohibits lawyers from undertaking a representation for one client “directly adverse to another client.” In some cases the conflict can be waived by the client. Rule 1.10, meanwhile, imputes any conflict of one lawyer onto all lawyers “associated” with the firm. Generally, “of counsel” arrangements where legal scholars consult with a firm on a contractual basis are deemed association for purposes of Rule 1.10. (Especially in a situation like this where there’s a 30 year relationship between the scholar and the firm.)

Not only was Musk entirely within his rights to fire the firm, but the ethical rules required Holland and Knight to ask Musk to waive the conflict before the legal scholar ever agreed to undertake the adverse representation.
I'm hoping they'll add this to macOS too. Eye tracking would be great for end-user UX research.

I'd also like to see what sort of weird stuff people come up with to use eye tracking. Games could use that in interesting ways.
Even in the fall driving on the sea of leaves from our maples would slide you around if we didn't clean them.
Scientists solve mystery of ancient 'tree of life'
Four pervasive myths that cause us to abandon science
Is that what AOL Instant Messenger “Punters” used to do?