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IMHO that’s mainly because the modern open/public internet kind of sucks. The ratio of content to garbage is extremely bad
> where I code without types and it's perfectly fine

Is it? In my experience it goes downhill with the square of the size of the project.

That one 500 line glue script that does one thing and interacts with just the standard library? No types, yeah baby!

That 50k line app partly written by some dude who doesn't work here any more? Now it's getting annoying.

More? Even worse.
Nice!
That would have probably saved me a lot of time when implementing on the website instead of trial and error. Current version on the website is however only done with CSS (and React).
It does apply to the UK. Very little new public transit gets built, what's there is permanently overloaded. Whenever I visit I regularly end up on trains where you have to stand for the entire 1hr journey. Many lines are full and can't be easily upgraded short of massive signalling reworks (moving block etc). Reliability is poor because there's no slack in the system. Root cause is more people + little/no new capacity.
Encrypted Messengers in 2024
> Wikipedia is an interesting one because I suspect the culture that drives Wikipedia is a mystery to ousiders. It is to me. It didn't seem to be partisan...

IMHO, a big part if it is actually ideological battle, at least nowadays. Individuals and cliques going about on little crusades to impose their views. If there's a conflict, there's a long, slow bureaucratic battle where, through the selective enforcement of existing policies and setting new ones, one side emerges victorious and gets to impose its view.

The starting point for the selective enforcement was "what side would your typical basement-dwelling geek favor," but that's evolved over time.

The other big part is pedantry.

> Given the incredible public good the editors are responsible for it'd be impolite to observe many of them are unhinged but the thought does occur.

Honestly, I think that's table stakes for playing the Wikipedia game. Anyone else gives up quickly.
Are you sure about that? As I said in another comment that’s not my experience. Might be wrong, I’ll double check tomorrow at work.
This seems to contradict the testimony. Assisting to tfa, there was no price Microsoft could pay that would have made Apple use Bing by default.
> I think Mozilla should just run an ad auction to choose the search engine

This is not exactly what’s happening? Google is just willing to pay more.
Related iFixit blog post from 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27885176
In public transit you can sit down and read something during the ride, but not in a car. So the further you go the more public transits advantage grows as the total effort doesn't go up with distance, it is much nicer to sit in public transit for an hour than drive for an hour.
Has the author of this article ever driven across the US? It takes days and days. The US is huge; it makes absolutely no sense to build mass transit connecting that many places where people live when it's so uneconomical. The US isn't China; the government can't just decree that something happen.
Not very likely. Even "gridlocked" Congresses pass a lot of legislation, it just doesn't attract much attention.
Only manual transmissions would really cut down on texting and driving.
Congrats on the launch and kudos on building on bold ideas.

I think car rides are "good enough" for a certain distance vs short flights. Short flights (tiny aircrafts) are so expensive because they have to compete with the good enough option and I am not sure that can ever happen.

The more important point is that flight accidents can affect people or buildings that are far away from roads - practically anywhere within a certain range of a flight path. This will have huge effect in people's mindset about safety and work against the popularity of such flights.
Elon Musk, or the team behind Elon Musk?

That's a lot for one single man, specially when diablo season 5 is just around the corner
Related from 2 months ago:

We're ending our Samsung collaboration

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456107
Are Chrome plugins capable enough to sustain a paid store model? I thought they were becoming more restricted to stifle ad blockers.
It's written by the CEO of LinkedIn. So there's a huge bias in favor of making people's employment temporary so that they rely on his product to find further opportunities.

I mean, that would be great for LinkedIn, right? If everyone had to start a new job every 2-4 years?

But at large companies, experience at the company is very valuable. Proprietary tooling, complex codebases, complicated processes, etc. all contribute to a big amount of time wasted during onboarding. The more you switch jobs, the more time gets wasted to onboarding.
Weird piece. First, the "name dropping" claim comes after an event in which no name was dropped. It was plagiarism of a work that had been (almost) forgotten. That's certainly something that plagues classical music. There are many wonderful composers whose works are rarely performed. It's as if there are scores of emporers, all regally clothed. That adjective doesn't really work here, does it?

Name dropping in program notes and cd liner booklets (which are still being made for downloadable music, by the way) is a thing, that's true. But it's one of the few objective things you can say about a musician. People like winners. It's advertisement.

But then comes the "WTF" moment of the article:

> Many classical music lovers still reject aesthetic developments made over a century ago

Here, the author seems to think he has the high ground, and discredits everyone who doesn't like 'modern' music. I don't think it suits anyone to judge someone over taste, and it certainly doesn't help the popularity of classical music. One could just as easily argue that people who listen to modern music are poseurs who aggrandize their importance by name dropping the difficult pieces they pretend to enjoy.

See how easy that is? No facts or logic needed, and the accusation is almost irrefutable.

So, whatever the point of the article is, I think the author doesn't manage to lend it credit. Rather, it's another empty piece, in the style so common of art criticism, where haughty dismissal of common opinion passes for knowledge and understanding.

Oops, I did it again.
Now you’re downvoted too.
I dont know the logic behind us getting downvoted just discussing about a search feature present in apple’s browser

There are some weird people in this thread
>If the decision will not be bad for Google, then why would Google spend so much money and time to defend against it

To stop Apple from creating its own search engine.
I totally agree that they dropped the ball on Siri, but they had plenty of money and employees to work on that if they wanted to. I'd argue that the canned car project and the Vision Pro consumed way more resources than the in house silicon, for a worse return on investment.
To add to the original article's point, even the IDEs are optimized for typing. Think how they auto complete { and " and other stuff that comes in pairs for you. Great when you crank out new code, can be maddening when you're editing.
Why are you failing to read the context? Demeaned economically.

And you can't charge me $100 to buy your album. I have plenty of alternatives to choose from. Basic supply and demand.
Ask your local IDE nerd to rename a variable in a language that is not supported by their IDE ;)
This video has been a good introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHNNW8c_FaA

I live on the coast of Norway so I am trying to keep up with the research. It is exactly as the article says: Even if there's "only" a 10% chance, or even 5%, that's a huge risk to take to stay. So I think it's important to pay attention to this henceforward.
Ron Kaplan and Allen Newell try make double-sided copies on a 1983 Xerox [video]
The first link in the article is specifically about the fact that men don't experience and aren't aware of how common these issues are for women. Its first anecdote is from a female assistant professor, who is probably similar to the female lecturers you think no one treated differently.

https://www.sigarch.org/what-happens-to-us-does-not-happen-t...
Water has huge thermal inertia. Laptops don't. They may freeze quite quickly. Something to bear in mind for the future.
I wouldn’t hold your breath
Likelihood-ratio inference on differences in quantiles
The only way to find places is word of mouth from people who have no stake in the venue. This is the only signal not being gamed.
I still think it’s likely, especially with AI in the picture. 500 years is a long time.
This is such a weird piece that I have a hard time figuring out who it's actually even aimed at. Surely the quote unquote richest kids in the world don't need a pep talk that says "it's fine to be rich, it's fine".
Please, please, please don't let your bees swarm unless you are 100% certain you have the support of local conservationists and professional beekeepers.

Where I live, feral honeybees are an extremely damaging invasive species, causing huge declines in both native pollinators (by taking their food) and native birds (by taking their nest sites).

Feral honeybees also threaten domestic honeybees by spreading diseases. Up until recently, we were 100% free of verroa mites, but now they are spreading through feral populations and will cause major population losses of domestic bees.
Regardless of the actual legislation, the widespread implementation of cookie banners has resulted in default acceptance by the general public who have no idea what it is they are actually consenting to.
Yeah, I'm not talking about people who just want something convenient and nutritious when they're in a hurry, I'm talking about extremists who genuinely don't like eating anything ever and treat it like needing to use a toilet.
God, this makes me so happy. I well remember that self-portrait on the cover of Amiga Magazine back in ~1986. I was so excited about the platform, the technology, and the possibilities.
Looks fabulous!
How is everyone managing user authentication for their platform?
I am thinking of using only SMS based authentication for my SaaS. Any suggestions?
Save it + state as a bookmark sorted by days.allow nn to sort it topological " your obsession with frogs" finally on return to the topic "search frog" allow for a revisit of the past im chronologoc order giltered by topic similar to a search result.
Looks more like a typical manual car clutch setup, but interesting anyhow. Definitely more complex than the modern equivalent. Would not want to work on these..
The states along the coasts aren't huge (they are roughly like large European countries) and there isn't good public transit there either compared to the rest of the first world, and that is where most people live.
I don't think the GA market will ever grow that large though - not without substantial effort to make compliance with all the regulations effortless.

You need more pilots, so making it easier to navigate and comply with Parts 61/141/142, with 67/68.

You need more aerodromes; Part 139.

You need more aircraft, that's Parts 21, 23, 33, 35, 45 and maybe 34, 36 and 39 too.

You need more mechanics; Part 66 / 147.

You need more maintenance facilities, Part 21, 39, 43, 145.

There's maybe 50,000 active GA pilots (PPL or LSA) doing it for pleasure regularly? The rest are time building for the airlines, and same for mechanics.

To get that 50k to 500k to 5M actual people ... I think an affordable aircraft is probably the easiest part. Maybe it'll get people interested? Though you can already buy factory-built LSA's for $300k that'll do 150kts (see Risen); Europe already has a booming LSA scene ... but it hasn't really resulted in more people flying, not as far as I can tell.

I don't think an aircraft is the missing link, but I can't express how much I'd love to be proven wrong!
Let’s say you want to change some text enclosed in parentheses (a very common operation in programming). How do you do that in your IDE? In Vim it’s just ci( .
There are a lot of hurdles. I'm not exactly sure why an end-user would even want to use ISO20022. Some end-user system may use ISO20022 behind the scenes, but the UI's are very simplified. ISO20022 as far as I have used it (20+ years in finance) is for payment networks. And a random person can't just send messages on any payment networks that I'm aware of. These payment networks generally exist as message queues that are interconnected and they use ISO20022 as the data format.

Not to mention that the flows of ISO20022 messages are full duplex. If you send a message you need to be ready to handle a response (acceptance or rejection of a credit/debit for example).
How a search engine looks hasn't fundamentally changed since then. I'd argue the same about other products, like phones, excel, word, or operating systems like Windows. Yes, the newest versions of these have more sophistication than earlier iterations, but they are just extensions of the original basic idea. Sure the iPhone 15's camera is way better than the original iPhone's, but it's still a phone with a camera and a maps app.

Also, states are different than they used to be, but there is still a lot to learn from history, and you often see that similar struggles get fought over and over, or similar mistakes get made. Verdun has been a major battleground in WW1 because that's where Charlemagne's legacy got split up. As another example of a phrase still relevant today, there is "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...
The tone of the article is one of advocacy rather than reasoned analysis, as I assume is the tone of the book. That is not what public transit needs at this point in the US.

Many urban transportation types and city planners in general give off a culty, can-I-tell-you-about-my-Lord-and-Savior-Mass-Transit vibe that is very off-putting to many, if not most Americans. Their writings gloss over the practical issues of American weather, last-mile, families with children, lugging home shopping, aging…along with deprecating any personal valuations of saving time, spontaneity, avoiding unpleasant interactions, carrying your large purchases with you…. You ignore my real world, lived experience in your screeds, I ignore you. And so they shout into the void.
You can't take a train to anywhere you want. Tracks will always be less accessible than roads or the sky.
Hire a CEO? Train someone to help do your job and concentrate on your health for a couple of months.
>Do you think that those people would still want a car if they lived somewhere with a good public transit and walkability?

Yes, I really do. You can see it in comments here on HN and any other place the transit-vs-cars discussion comes up and Americans are involved. Sure, there's some Americans who'd really like to live someplace with good public transit and walkability, but don't be fooled: most Americans (IMO) just aren't like this and really do want to stick with their car-based lifestyle. If most Americans were like you say, there'd be a huge exodus of Americans moving to Europe.
Huh? Luggage votes?
Ask HN: I need advice for my solo project
Hi,I had recently got the impulsive idea that I should try to start a company that specializes in creating UI/UX interface and Interface research for AI products.It is obv not a unique idea nor I intend to be.

My thesis is that in long term landscape of LLMs products, the LLMs will be equally powerful but will be competitive based on their interface and user accessbility.

P.S I can be slightly biased as I dont have hardcore ml/ai knowledge as I am not that smart.I do have web dev and ui/ux experience.

My aim is to make 50k dollar revenue in the upcoming 12-14 months from my startup

EDIT:Slighly inspired by this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5mG4z343qg

Do let me know some (valuable) advice.Feel free to reach out to me to my email!
Maybe but that would be unproductive : google if full of ads at the top of the page and we would probably need to scroll, loosing precious time. Don’t think coworkers avoid it on purpose though.
Well, you never know if vim users are upset because you are calling their editor an IDE or because you are calling it "not an IDE".

I'd say "vim user" is already an insult in itself, so that doesn't matter at all ;)
Thanks for letting me know, it was a typo in the "click-away closes nav menu" logic that opened it on the first click – all fixed now.
Using Artificial Intelligence to set a guitar sound
The ancient art of roasting agave
This doesn't seem like a disagreement. They still have the best search engine at the moment.
> I didn’t know that GANs were still in use

Their still in use literally by every latent diffusion image generator, they typically target the latents of a GAN-trained decoder.

Same for audio, most audio models generate some representation that is converted to audio by a GAN-trained codec.
I have never used Yelp before and it has never played any role in my life.

Must be an North American thing
Personally I have always decided my next read from the bibliography at the end of any book.

I dont need a manipulative algorithm to make decisions for me.

I dont need to "track" my reading, I have a small home library.

I order my books from Waterstones or Blackwells.

I dont like book reviews. It takes away the excitement of reading.

Reading a book is an individual experience and everyone has a different view.

I dont read, visit or promote "goodreads" because it is a subsidiary of the Amazon monopoly.

Independent book stores not Amazon.
“Only more secular governments get to allow harmful vices for the greater good.” I hadn’t really thought about it before, but yeah, that’s naturally the way it goes.
I use Yelp and Google Reviews pretty regularly. If a restaurant has a bad score it might still be good. If it has a good score with lots of ratings then it's probably pretty decent.
As an EU citizen, same here. I don't want to be tracked and my behaviour sold to the highest bidder without my consent. And again, DHH is clever,
"because if the EU can screw up something as basic as cookie banners this bad"
not sure why he doesn't get this.

While his other points are worth discussing, and we can discuss the lack of second of second order thinking by politicians, him mischaracterizing cookie banners as EU law, makes it hard to take the article seriously.

The reason for cookie banners is a corporate culture of "checklist compliancy" - the same that also led to CrowdStrike.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41158416
Reformatted:

- (00:00) Introduction
- (09:26) Elon Musk
- (12:42) Telepathy
- (19:22) Power of human mind
- (23:49) Future of Neuralink
- (29:04) Ayahuasca
- (38:33) Merging with AI
- (43:21) xAI
- (45:34) Optimus
- (52:24) Elon’s approach to problem-solving
- (1:09:59) History and geopolitics
- (1:14:30) Lessons of history
- (1:18:49) Collapse of empires
- (1:26:32) Time
- (1:29:14) Aliens and curiosity
- (1:36:48) DJ Seo
- (1:44:57) Neural dust
- (1:51:40) History of brain–computer interface
- (1:59:44) Biophysics of neural interfaces
- (2:10:12) How Neuralink works
- (2:16:03) Lex with Neuralink implant
- (2:36:01) Digital telepathy
- (2:47:03) Retracted threads
- (2:52:38) Vertical integration
- (2:59:32) Safety
- (3:09:27) Upgrades
- (3:18:30) Future capabilities
- (3:47:46) Matthew MacDougall
- (3:53:35) Neuroscience
- (4:00:44) Neurosurgery
- (4:11:48) Neuralink surgery
- (4:30:57) Brain surgery details
- (4:46:40) Implanting Neuralink on self
- (5:02:34) Life and death
- (5:11:54) Consciousness
- (5:14:48) Bliss Chapman
- (5:28:04) Neural signal
- (5:34:56) Latency
- (5:39:36) Neuralink app
- (5:44:17) Intention vs action
- (5:55:31) Calibration
- (6:05:03) Webgrid
- (6:28:05) Neural decoder
- (6:48:40) Future improvements
- (6:57:36) Noland Arbaugh
- (6:57:45) Becoming paralyzed
- (7:11:20) First Neuralink human participant
- (7:15:21) Day of surgery
- (7:33:08) Moving mouse with brain
- (7:58:27) Webgrid
- (8:06:28) Retracted threads
- (8:14:53) App improvements
- (8:21:38) Gaming
- (8:32:36) Future Neuralink capabilities
- (8:35:31) Controlling Optimus robot
- (8:39:53) God
- (8:41:58) Hope
Operating environment and deployability are practical differences.

Blender can be used to create assets consumed by cables.
It’s not the despair, I can stand the despair. It’s the hope.
Most excellent restaurants where I live would never post pictures of their food anywhere and have no web presence at all. In many you can’t even reserve a table - you go there and eat.
Those who need a lot of web presence / pictures etc are usually not great (good but not great).

If you see lots of people in a place and it’s crowded it’s probably good.
Obviously because the world revolves around US politics. What else could there be to talk about beyond politics.
I was thinking this too, but on second thought, I can't imagine Apple making Google the default for free under any circumstances. That's a ton of free referrals, in a way the best advertising slot that exists on an iPhone.
Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, but Something Else Does, Study Says
It's for job security. Your replacement won't be able to figure out anything, will be very slow, get fired, and then they'll rehire you at consulting rates.
Asus is a pretty large brand, not really "hidden". Also, they don't have the greatest reputation for warranty repairs. They were on the shortlist for my current phone and I opted for something else due to that (a while before their media attention).
There's a PC alternative for all those. And even a computer free one.. at least in my EU country. To me it would not be a bad idea, and the governements should ensure it's still possible to do all those things without a smartphone.
"x-rayed, photographed and your ID copied."

And then the data sold to the highest bidder to make a profit.
Sounds awesome! Are you guys hiring at the moment?
The Verge doesn't report this, but other reports have said that the watermark is easily beatable by doing things like a Google Translate roundtrip, or asking the model to add emoji and then deleting them.
An offshoot of @wyndham's own post, "The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine". [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41167615
State Monad for the Rest of Us
A series of articles starting from the very scratch and getting to the State Monad. It's thought to be novice-friendly: although using F#, it assumes no knowledge of it. If only it aroused someone's curiosity around F#, that would make my day.

It shows how algorithms with mutable state can be implemented with pure functions, with immutable variables only.

The series itself is an excuse to take several detours on other Functional Programming topics: currying, partial application, recursion, Functors, Applicative Functors.

The source code includes F# and C# examples. In the next weeks it will be followed by code examples showing how to apply a state monad in practice.
Clean and beautiful, great job!