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From its fundamentals, conflating product design philosophy and engineering simplicity is not a good start
> Even pessimistic scenarios don't predict threats to buildings

Floods, storms, droughts, fire? They appear to be getting worse.

More restrictive codes designed for better fireproofing buildings, for instance, can solve a number of problems in California in fire prone areas. Another thing that has a political solution is forest management. Lack of water can be solved by desalination, which becomes an energy problem rather than a water one. Very dry areas can benefit from solar panels because they reduce water loss from evaporation, thus reducing the pressure on water supplies.

It is expensive, but that's another problem.
It's actually worse than the title suggests. It's $5 per month! I wonder what justifies this recurring cost.
Are longer context windows all you need for AI codegen?
The man behind Apple's modern design philosophy is Jony Ive.
And of course there's the old tale:

Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.

Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.

Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.

Americans: This is the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, the second largest ship in the United States' Atlantic fleet. We are accompanied by three destroyers, three cruisers and numerous support vessels. I demand that YOU change your course 15 degrees north, that's one five degrees north, or countermeasures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship.

Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_and_naval_vessel_ur...
The company can charge whatever they want for this feature. Most people who can afford to use a good camera as their webcam will never use it, because they know the quality is worse and they'd rather use industry-standard HDMI.

If I asked Sony for a power generator to charge my camera's battery, they could charge me a million a month if they'd like. Hopefully that would signal to me that there are better and more standard options.
But this cuts both ways. The insurers chose to provide their services in the area for the amount of money agreed upon. If anyone was more aware of the risks and probabilities, it's them.

Why do they get to pull out now when it's time to hold their end of the contract?
My Canon EOS R8 can be configured to connect via USB-C as a webcam and works perfectly.
> it's down to better cameras; higher resolution and framerates than "traditional" cameras used in this kind of recording

It looks cool because of the angle and framing though, someone knew exactly what they were doing. Without the angle/framing, you can have all the resolution and framerates in the world, it still wouldn't look as cool. It's a cinematographic choice that made that shot.

> But it could be better still, the camera setup in the clip still gets a lot of shaking from the blasts.

I'd love to hear ideas how you'd prevent the shaking. Forget gimbals or similar semi-pro setups as they wouldn't be nearly enough. What are you attaching it to, in your better setup? A drone would be blown away, and anything attached to the ground would likely start to shake regardless of your setup.
I'm becoming more of an AI sceptic as time goes on - there do seem to be valid uses that save time for people, but it almost always needs some oversight by a knowledgeable person.

The problem with companies just pushing out these kinds of services is that the 'AI' is unaccountable and the companies typically just shrug try to point the finger of blame somewhere else. What is really problematic is with AI being used to make decisions for e.g. welfare applicants.
Nice point. Still, in wast majority of cases, house keeps standing -> habitant survival chance goes up.

Cars being on the move, makes that distinction much much more relevant
As an autistic individual, I find task management systems invaluable not for their own sake, but because they help me overcome my natural difficulty in switching between detailed and big-picture thinking. While I excel at focusing on details, I can struggle to identify true priorities. My simple system (voice memos processed through Claude) helps me intentionally zoom between granular tasks and high-level priorities. This isn't about getting lost in productivity tools - it's about having the right support structure for how my brain naturally works.
I believe the pricing changes remain in effect even if you disable the Gemini features in your Workspace admin, as they are now bundled and not a separate add-on: https://support.google.com/a/answer/15400543
I would be interested to know how Japan combats wildfires. Historically at least it was quite a big problem, if I recall correctly.
The tooling for Flutter is better, but Expo brings React Native much closer.

I fend that React Native app "feel" more native because they're actually using native components, but controlled via a JS runtime. Flutter on the other hand mostly renders to a canvas and re-implements native controls (although it can also wrap native components like RN does).

This leads to there being less of an "uncanny valley" in React Native apps compared to flutter. It also means that all the little details from the system (the text selecting and editing interactions in text inputs being a major one) are idential to native apps when using React Native, because it IS the native component.

The downside to this is that you need to consider platform differences more with React Native, which is one of the things which leads to developers without mobile experience having issues with it.

As the article says, you get the most out of React Native if you're a mobile developer, or at least have someone on the team who is. You can't abstract away all the details of a mobile platform without some tradeoffs.
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The tax system is over complicated! Why the distinction between toys and dolls?
Thanks. Yeah that seems to be the same AVC/h.264 'personal and non-commercial' text the 2010 article I linked centered on. MPEG-LA spoke to Engadget[1] (finally found a working link I could read) and said that a separate license for shooting commerical video isn't required and that distribution of commercial content via licensed providers (Google/Youtube, Apple, etc) is fine.

It seems the one caveat, per the Engadget article, is directly distributing AVC video to end users (I suppose like a direct download link on a personal site) is what requires a license but that license is free to obtain.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2010-05-04-know-your-rights-h-264-p...
I suspect you maybe haven’t used Dart then because it’s genuinely not even close. I know in a philosophical sense everything is subjective when you squint hard enough but I’m also talking about very clear and concrete things.

Just to give one simple example. Take the concept of a mixin where you want to essentially create a partial class interface and use it for basic composition. An incredibly straightforward 101 level OOP concept.

Then take a look at how it works in Typescript here:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/mixins.html

and contrast that with how you do the same thing in Dart here:

https://dart.dev/language/mixins

I’ve got extensive experience with both. I promise you Dart is much much much nicer to work with on every relevant metric I can think of.
I switched to being a professional shooter for 3 years. I came back because the pay was awful and it's really hard work. And despite all the downsides, I make more impact with my programming (and it pays a LOT more).
No.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/world/africa/kenya-space-...
First, I'm a fan of LLMs reducing friction in tests, but I would be concerned with the false sense of confidence here. The demo gif shows "hey I wrote your tests and they pass, go ahead and merge them"

OP makes a valid point

> Now we contend with the “who guards the guard” problem. Because LLMs are unreliable agents, it might so happen that Claude just scammed us by spitting out useless (or otherwise low-effort) test cases. [...] So it’s time to introduce some human input in the form of additional test cases, which is made extra convenient since the model already provided the overall structure of our test. If those cases pass, we can be reasonably confident in integrating this function into our codebase.

In our repos, I would love to have an LLM tool/product that helps out with test writing, but the workflow certainly needs to have some human in the loop for the time being. More like "Here I got you started with test coverage, add a few more of your own" or "Give me a few bullet points of cases that should pass or fail" and review the test code, not "go ahead and merge these tests I wrote for you"
> You cant write a spotify.com or a amazon.com with jQuery and have 100s of engineers collaborate and maintain.

True but you can write a Spotify or Amazon that ten developers maintain.

We have a huge problems with cargo culting what big tech monopolists use when small teams have fundamentally different needs and would be more productive with smaller tools with less overhead. Though of course the fancy stuff looks better on a resume so can't really blame the devs.
Every legal allowance I disagree with is a "loophole", every legal allowance I take advantage of is intended functionality.
It stands for Monte Carlo search tree.

Ie. Better outputs from models, not external tooling and prompt engineering.

https://github.com/zz1358m/MCTS-AHD-master
By that standard, many alphabets, including the Phoenician and Arabic alphabets, aren't "real" alphabets.
> What are you trying to say?

Perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysmic_pole_shift_hypothe...
Real solution: assess risks and mandate building houses that can withstand those risks. Hurricanes? Find out what is the maximum possible hurricane and mandate construction standards that a house will withstand it with minimum damage (24" reinforced concrete walls etc). Same for fire.
Trump says he wants to bring manufacturing back. Let's see what happens.
First Shuttle orbited astronauts and successfully recovered all intended components. Every Saturn 5 was successful, the 3rd flight sent a crew to lunar orbit, and the 6th put a crew on the moon.

To date a Starship has yet to be recovered after flight - and those launched are effectively boilerplate as they have carried no cargo (other than a banana) and have none of the systems in place to support a crew.

Some people are really fetishizing iterative failure - but just because you are wandering in the desert does not mean there is a promised land.
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Yeah there is a huge amount of rationalizing how the debris aren’t a problem. Everyone is certain it will burn up before hitting the ground, and if it doesn’t, it will land somewhere that doesn’t matter… but I don’t think anyone knows that for sure?

Rockets are cool but it’s everyone’s planet, if this continues to make a huge mess, do us regular earth citizens have recourse?
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> Coding assistants based on o1 and Sonnet are pretty great at coding with <50k context, but degrade rapidly beyond that.

I had a very similar impression (wrote more in https://hua.substack.com/p/are-longer-context-windows-all-yo...).

One framing is that effective context window (i.e. the length that the model is able to effectively reason over) determines how useful the model is. A human new grad programmer might effectively reason over 100s or 1000s of tokens but not millions - which is why we carefully scope the work and explain where to look for relevant context only. But a principal engineer might reason over many many millions of context - code yes, but also organizational and business context.

Trying to carefully select those 50k tokens is extremely difficult for LLMs/RAG today. I expect models to get much longer effective context windows but there are hardware / cost constraints which make this more difficult.
photography? firearms?
OP expects the camera comes with some decent convenience at that price.
> They don’t give a shit about privacy directly

But then this submission is explicitly about them giving a shit, and your own example shows that they do give a shit. Since GM didn't allow people a choice regarding their privacy, FTC looked into it?

I really don't understand how someone can see this story about FTC giving a shit, and then proclaim "They don't give a shit". If they didn't give a shit, why do something?
Kind of surprised HN bashes Elon more than Zuck idk why lol
Yes, I also think around 2008 or so the most widespread use of Flash might already have been newgrounds et al. I don't remember really ever caring for Flash on Linux though.

I do remember writing CMS backends for Flash websites in 2001, but that was the early time I think, before AS3 and really cool stuff.
Lazygit has a terminal UI but might otherwise be what you're looking for: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
Same in France where the money goes to the local RIAA. Even if it’s a hard drive meant for Linux, or to store public domain stuff. It’s basically a mafia that gets our money despite copying for backup purposes being completely legal.
> The author points to Japan to illustrate that you do get measurably better results when people habitually try to do good work

People in Japan habitually kill themselves because of their stupid work culture. Maybe that's not the best example.
I will say, though, that booster catch is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
According to seetings it is turned off. Maybe it is still in the rollout phase.

https://pasteboard.co/VMquys4aUA9P.png
Next time go to the cashier instead, and complain to them about the self-checkout terminal ??
> After all, if I installed spying software on GM's computers, and sold the extracted data to, say, Toyota, I'd face hefty fines. And spend time in prison.

You're going about this all wrong. Setup a company, create a landing page and do some B2B contracts for selling that data, and you too can be a "Data Broker" fully legally. But yes, approaching this as an individual is most likely illegal, you're supposed to do it as a corporation.
Well the problem I feel is that there is a disconnect between game devs chasing success or even just love making games and the desires of the core gaming crowd.

The majority of games being released today are in a few crowded genres, that frankly the majority care very little for. Go outside that, the space for competition quickly dwindles that just a proper, non exceptional execution would be sufficient for success.

Take Project Wingman for example, considering there is literally only ONE other competitor in Ace Combat 7 for a modern arcade jet fighter game, it was very much axiomatic from the trailers alone that it would be successful, and it was.

The same thing with ELIN, or Forever Winter, Noita by the sheer virtue of ambition of their ideas, even a flawed execution may be sufficient to drive a loyal crowd.

Success is the conjuction between ambition and execution, and if we presume one is dedicated to execute, then there are plenty of ambitious ideas waiting to be realized. If someone tried to make a successor to Mirrors Edge, or mech game in the vein of ACFA, or an Anime-style FPS, and with decent execution, I would be very sure of their success. It has nothing to do with luck here.
> Write some decent tests, commit, move on.

Move on to what?! Where does a junior programmer who doesn't understand what the code does moves on to?
It’s also often possible to know what a human will be bad at before they start. This allows you to delegate tasks better or vary the level of pre-work you do before getting started. This is pretty unpredictable with LLMs still.
Yes- very impressive feat of engineering.
It may have been a customs and taxation issue here, but manufacturers are constantly adding costs of their own onto software before often reversing track.

Examples: Leica (for Fotos) charged a princely sum for various trifles before removing these fees.

Naim: charged £35 for the control app - which I paid - before going free, and now the app is the only way to control whole swathes of their increasingly-execrable hardware.

These two companies’ kit is expensive, luxury, premium, however you want to refer to it, and so they probably felt comfortable wringing their customers a little more. Probably understandable in the case of Leica owners who will pay £250 for a viewfinder dioptre correction lens (puts hand up again) but less so for hifi owners.

It is not that audiophiles haven’t been shown to spent inordinate sums on the dumbest, snakiest, oiliest tat this side of an Oxford Street souvenir shop, but it has to be material and palpable.
Because he gave us some llamas to play with. That aside he is just a beaten horse nobody takes meta serious. The only thing they do is acquire or copy/paste they had no internal innovation for nearly a decade.
Have you used Cursor, which GP actually refers to?
This is a duplicate of this identical post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41147651

Where's the "showing"? It looks just like link flogging to me.

Here's a link for you.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/24201/how-did-th...
I mainly use it as a typing assist. If it suggests ahead what I was thinking it saves time.
One possible reason is that I'm using popular tech stacks (Next.js, HTML/JS for demo website and SDK). No niche frameworks or tools like nbdev (I've never heard of that).

Also I've been prompting ChatGPT and Claude for over a year, that might help with communicating with Devin.
Might be useful to add tags. The more complex credit-based services often have categories (e.g. ec2, s3, etc). It could be useful for the dev to track service usage by spend, the client can get visibility into their own spend breakdown, and free trials often break out the free credits amongst different services.
China's Xi Offers Olive Branch to Trump by Sending VP to Inauguration
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How Rivers Cuomo uses Flutter [video]
That first one has always felt super crazy to me, I've figured out what lots of "arcane magic, don't touch" type of functions genuinely do since LLMs have become a thing.

Even if it's slightly wrong it's usually at least in the right ballpark so it gives you a very good starting point to work from. Almost everything is explainable now.
What are the main differences to Rapidapi?
Oh, I do hope that there will be an option to reduce the price if setting is off. I've thought of the same thing. And this all reminds me of MS price hike (also with including the AI) -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42735193
I saw few people around testing and it is quite disappointing. Sometimes a task might take forever and deliver a bad result or fail completely.

It seems it is targeting few specific problems and whatever else is just too hard.
I also think that, thought it is expensive, it is cheap for the technology behind it and it won't be able to keep that price for long
The lad is using an Apple computer which is a closed walled garden architecture designed specifically for whales. I'm sorry, but this is an invitation to be fleeced. A loud cry to everyone around to put their hands into your purse and grab some money.

Now you understand why people fight for open source software and use Linux. Join us or keep dealing with the walled garden scams.
I mean, it is. Just because you agree with it doesn't mean the label changes. And I don't necessarily hate what happened either, nor would I probably personally prosecute the guy. But lets not mince words, if you (try to) use violence against civilians for political/ideological/religious motives, that's pretty much the agree-upon definition of "terrorism".
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Basketball ?
I think the time limit is because of the way the imports are classified.

I believe that under 30 minutes, allows it to be a digicam, but over, requires it to be classified as a video camera.

Most pros generally take scenes as groups of short runs, so that doesn't matter (Canon is used extensively in professional entertainment).
Starship blew up in front of us. Had to divert
Counter strike?
Wouldn't this work with some kind of PKDF instead?

Like: Password ---> PKDF ---> PIN

And then Password XOR (Key from TPM) -> LUKS

But i guess this kind of logic is not for a bootscript, but for tools like systemcd-cryptenroll.
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> To date, no Starship has been recovered after flight.

This is irrelevant, as none of the flights included any plans to recover the Starship. The objective for each flight has been to dump the vehicle in the sea at the target zone.
> Because the natural world is what we are fit for.

Good thing we live in cities then!
So what does a rocket company need to do to be imrpessive in your eyes?
That depends on what you mean with "pull out". Typically you pay a premium and that means you are insured for a certain
period. A year or so.

Everybody who is insured at the moment of course needs to be paid by the insurance under the terms they had agreed to. The insurances should not be allowed to "pull out" of this responsibility.

But what about the next year? If no insurance wants to offer you another term, especially not for those same conditions, then it's their choice to "pull out" in that sense.
Great work. Nitpick, the $24.9 looks strange I'd suggest $24.90 or even $24.99
It’s a pretty expensive way to make fireworks.
A few critical ingredients being: no denialism about their vulnerability, strong social and economic commitment to reducing vulnerability, lack of reflexively blaming floods on illegal immigrants or trans people
It's amazing what people built 2000 years ago, and sort of depressing too. I went over to a friend's house recently who had gotten a new outdoor hot tub. That thing isn't going to last 3 winters let alone a volcanic eruption.
You’ve answered it yourself. Without TPM you have no idea if you can provide the secret to the system or if it’s compromised. Whether that secret comes from TPM or network is secondary.
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