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Yeah, I know there’s a difference. It’s not the same as Bill Gates, but proximity is a connection all its own.
Funny how it is 180DEG opposite of what we hear from team-hype: AI going to replace you, and, AI can "create".
I believe that's not really saying anything if the market is intended to work by the forces of the invisible hand. If it is, the it is working as intended.
Hi Hacker News!

I'm Raymond, the creator of Dialog to World, an app designed to help people learn languages interactively through AI-generated dialogues.

Why this app?

I created Dialog to World after noticing how hard it can be to learn a language without an immersive environment. Traditional methods often lack personalization and don’t adapt well to individual needs.

With this app, my goal is to provide a tool that generates realistic dialogues based on user prompts, helping learners expand their vocabulary and improve fluency in a fun and engaging way.

Key Features

AI-Generated Dialogues: Users can set a context or theme, and the app generates a realistic conversation.
Vocabulary Enrichment: Each dialogue is paired with a list of context-relevant vocabulary to help with understanding and retention.
Personalization: Customize difficulty, topics, or even request corrections to progress faster.

Tech Stack

Next.js: For the front-end and overall app structure.
Mistral: A lightweight yet powerful language model powering the dialogue generation.
Prisma & Neon: Prisma simplifies data management, while Neon provides a modern, performant PostgreSQL database.
What I’m Looking For
I’m launching this project to gather constructive feedback from the community. Here are a few areas where your input would be invaluable:

Is the app intuitive to use?

Do the features address real learning needs?
What would you suggest to improve the user experience or add new functionalities?

Try It Out!

You can explore the app here: dialogtoworld.com

Thank you in advance for your feedback! I’d be happy to answer your questions or dive deeper into the technical aspects in the comments.
Not drm per-se

I was commenting this (from above):

> and I predict that in the near future it will be very difficult to use many apps (or even websites) while running on custom non-commercial builds of your operating system because "your" hardware will collude with the service provider to deny you access.

Many banking apps (and other payment apps) won't work on phones with custom android builds, nor on phones with unlocked bootloaders, same for rooted phones.

But yeah, in turn, unless you have a "dedicated banking phone", this will mean that people will stay with the official OS's with all the DRM features included.

(or well.. as we in the balkans do, pirate stuff)
FPV used in combat these days go a lot further than 4km, you can punch out to 25km+ with a good repeater setup easily, 10-15km with a good mast setup, and strikes using FPV quads out to 45km have been documented (but these are rare).

You just need to plan your battery selection and consider the electronic warfare environment to go the distance.

There’s also the optical fiber drones which come in spool lengths up to 20km…
Also the [general] requirement for a unanimous vote to convict makes this form of juror action quite uncommon. By contrast a single juror can cause a jury to be unable to convict.
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Rural Queensland Australia was amazing and my best views of the milky way. It is something else. There is a lot out there!
Yes the entire statement is false.
They also provide a lot of EFIS (Electric Flight Information System, or "Glass Cockpit") for small GA aircraft. I think AeroDyne and Honeywell are also in this market but I mainly see Garmin there. Like the G1000 (higher models are available on business jets I think).

It's pretty good too, you get a lot of features that were limited to airliners in the past. Like seeing terrain contours around you. Not that I fly IFR (instrument without visibility conditions) but still. I think it's very impressive.
Same here in Sweden
>why do people care so much about that?

Because governments are usually accountable to someone or something.

For example, in most monarchies it's royal blood or even a god. In democracies like the US it's the voters.

Deep States are more powerful than governments (they are the power) and not accountable to anyone and arguably not even desired by the people governed, that is why people care.
Agree with all your points, just wanted to note:

> But the profile of HN has grown. It's a miracle that it's still an interesting and curious group

This miracle is probably just hard work in disguise -- dang et al. HN also has a self-censorship bias and some self-enforcement, but mostly not an abrasive kind -- people (mostly) gently remind each other of the rules, and sometimes viciously downvote comments that are not useful/in the spirit of HN.
> Or Lithuania, arguably[0] the most anti-China

Also one one of the biggest resellers of various products to Russia and other economically affiliated countries they don't even produce locally.
e.g. https://www.tridge.com/news/strange-news-of-the-day-lithuani...

Also countries like Lithuania are not blacklisted. They are still allowed to buy GPUs/etc. below a certain cap. Realistically their domestic demand is nowhere near the cap. So what's' the problem exactly? (unless they want to resell those chips to third parties)
Agreed. I have 1040 as well and it serves me super well, largely because of its battery life (1 recharge on 7day bikepacking trip of ~6hr/day usage), consistency (no disconnects with other data points) and very solid gps (multi band enabled, no issues in forests etc)

UI takes a lot of time to get used to and even then there are many things I hate
Yes yes yes.

I have my own formatting preferences, but my desire to not have to think about them or go to meetings debating them is much much greater.
Good article, I would add the good things about working with media different than text. For example, describing images.
I thought this was a pithy remark but it looks like it's actually pretty close to the truth.

From a recent post by DeVault [0] titled "No billionaires at FOSDEM" (thanks to belter [1]):

"""

In my view, billionaires are not welcome at FOSDEM.

"""

[0] https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42778478
I chose those examples specifically because they’re difficult to replace a physical person there
Humans are social creatures, and social dynamics are as important to us as laws of physics. For better or worse, in every-day life, being right is usually less important than being liked. The basics of survival in the real world enter common knowledge, so that e.g. you know you shouldn't eat random mushrooms, or foul-smelling stuff, nor should you swim in pools of funny-colored liquids should you encounter one outside. Beyond that, you're more likely to die from being a contrarian than from common beliefs being wrong.

As people experience it, the truth about objective reality matters only if being wrong can bite you in the ass. It matters when you're working with physical stuff, where being wrong could be dangerous (perhaps indirectly by ruining your boss's profits). There's a reason science and engineering leap forward during times of war - all the social and political games, all the fraud, all the weird beliefs about the world, suddenly stop being important when the enemy is at your gates, and your survival depends on whether your soldiers' rifles can shoot straight, and the missiles they fire can hit their designated targets. At those times, being wrong about complex aspects of reality is deadly, so it's okay to defy preexisting social dynamics and get these things right.

War isn't the only situation like this, of course. The economy sometimes produces such states, however briefly. A new invention delivering real value requires being right to develop and improve... until the point improvements get more expensive than marketing, at which point truth stops mattering again.

Not everyone considers truth as a terminal value. For those of us that do, living in a world where social dynamics are more important than being right, becomes extra challenging.
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Marine instruments/sonars as well
>That’s not been entirely without good reason, many things were promised then that have failed to materialize. From flying cars to world peace

i mean, Flying cars has been a reality for quite some time now, they just go by another name, "helicopters".
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They make awesome chart plotters and sonar systems for boats. I have a smallish one on my kayak that works very well.
Are all companies in the EU legally required to do business with any company in any EU country whether they want to or not? Seems hard to believe...
Covered under "except rare circumstances". Regulations for utilities, telecommunications, transportation, and financial services are the exception and not the rule.
I don't think we were promised those things.
Garmin is expensive? Maybe, but I got my Vivoactive 5 for $190. For a watch that I need to charge every 7-10 days (vs every day like it is for many other brands) it's a good value, imo.
But there are plenty of "startup games" to be played at startups. Maybe slightly different to corporate games, but also unnerving.
No, you're talking about boosting (equivalent to retweeting).

As you say, you can't add a CW doing that.

So, people re-post manually (the content of the post, and/or a link to the post) with a CW.

The request is not to do that.
you argument is basically nit picking negative aspects from one side, sometimes taking out of context, too, and then pretending you paint a very clear picture when in fact you do not

Firstly wrt. YouToube censorship a lot is abuse of the copyright system YT doesn't care about because it doesn't make them money. There is still ton's of "non-pharmaprofital" content and similar on YT which wouldn't be there if YT would systematically censor it.

Wrt. politicians while people tend put all kinds of labels onto politicians being "convicted" of hate speech is a very different thing. Not only is it not very common, but in close to all case I had looked into it was done very rightfully so. It's just that after the conviction some (most times) right wing propaganda sources love to ignore a lot of the fundamental aspects/claims/arguments the legal process was based on and then focused on some partial side point which by itself isn't enough to convict anyone for anything and pretends they where convinced for that.

And if you would be you I wouldn't write "even just questions". Because questions aren't necessary any less hate speech then non question. E.g. holocaust denier love to formulate their conspiracy theories in questions (and naturally will ignore or claim fake news if someone answers their questions). But just because you formulate a conspiracy theory as a row of question doesn't make it not a conspiracy theory. And the same for hate speech. You always have to take more then just a sentence into context, something legal proceedings tend to do, and something people hit by such proceedings tend to claim they don't.

In general YT "censorship" as in people abusing the copyright system and similar approaches to "take down" content they don't like is an issue, one which spawns to Google and other places, too.

But giving how much mis-information, propaganda and non-pharmaprofitable information and similar you find on YT _even if you are not looking for it_ claiming that there is a huge problem with systematic censorship _today_ is kinda dump. (Yes in the pandemic there had been and issue, for a short time, before it got replaced by banners. It was a very unusual station no one was quite sure how to handle and people did make mistakes. But taking a short period in history and pretending nothing else change since then when a lot changed isn't very useful).
OP acknowledges that it can "create". It can create "endless waffle, drivel, pointless rambling, and hallucinations". So if you're in the business of that, AI can replace you ;)
Yeah all bootstrapped, that's correct. And you're absolutely right, it just makes growing/building unreasonably hard at the beginning because the only funds you have are your own, and it's prohibitively expensive to run ads for the first 100k users when self-funded. The crux with investments always seemed to be the shift of power around the second or third raise for those who weren't runaway successes, when founders start to realize that pressure is now coming from two or three sources, self-worth, investors and possibly clients that were sold on promises and now want to see them implemented. In any case, I agree that being not the first but among the first dozen of employees can be a rewarding and fulfilling choice, it shields from the harshest fire but also allows enough flexibility financially to move on the job as well as in your private life, I'd guess.
> you're looking at working quietly, humbly, but perseverantly for the next 25 years

> That never was sustainable, I think

Another aspect with this being (un)sustainable is lack of affordable healthcare. I bet many people would take more risks if they didn't have to worry about this aspect of their lives.
Also big opportunity for France.
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If you believe that, you're effectively believing that a runaway system of feedback loops is right by definition. But that's basically just a religion that worships a non-personified deity.
You're right, although once something isn't impressive to do it converts to a fashion-related trend. Fashion doesn't often have a practical benefit, so a lot of it is just "I want my stuff to look different to my parents' stuff, and that makes fashion cycles, where people's fashionable floral wallpaper now isn't too different from what their grandparents had.
Yeah but a global environment is a really bad idea. It’s going to trip up those beginners when second project that requires a different version of pytorch.
I think it’s more likely that TypeScript’s features will just be subsumed into Ecma262 with some adjustments to support backward compatibility. IMHO part of TypeScript’s staying power has been that the changes it makes are more conceptually radical compared to the useful but relatively lightweight sugar of Coffeescript for example.
Garmin makes solar powered watches for adventures types in the back country. The Ultra is probably good for scuba diving since you aren’t doing it for so long.
I think Garmin is a really good example of a company that benefits from Apple making the market so much bigger. I had an Apple Watch, got into running a lot, and eventually found the Watch too limiting (bad heart rate measurement, touch only UI were my main issues). I probably wouldn't have ended up a Garmin customer if I'd never got an Apple Watch though.
Knowing how stupid ITAR enforcement is, the guide would probably fall under ITAR :)
Fair enough, looks like the non-stop train doesn't exist any more. Shame, it was 1hr and 5mins when it existed! Still, 1hr 29mins is still not 'middle of nowhere' territory, so I'll stick with my original point ;)
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> For me, the main issue is that every time I voice the idea about building something I get bombarded with premature growth and commercialization concerns instead of excitement about how to solve the problem. I think this is endemic - the entire sector is short sighted and profit obsessed.

Do you think some of this is idea related? If you're building software, many new ideas are not truly innovative in a way that would make execution seem like the place to focus?

An experienced person might hear the idea and instantly have a general idea of how to build it -- but know that the real hard parts are distribution, finding customers, talking to customers, and building the profit flywheel that lets you do more of the previous.

Taking AI as an example just because it's hot right now, but it's a very different conversation if your idea is building a alternative to the transformer (assuming you're talking to someone who could even speak authoritatively on the subject!), versus building an "chatgpt wrapper" app, even if it's very complex/tailored to an industry. Most people won't be able to discuss the industry specific bits so they focus on the tech bits, and then the differences seem to be mostly execution?
The slave isn't going to turn on its master ;)
I enjoy using Kamal as well. It's simple enough for small teams to understand quickly and flexible enough to tinker down at the server level.
Given they're not part of the EU, and you have to pay import duties and VAT, that makes more sense than Poland/Germany.
If they were going to frame someone they wouldn't pick a guy hot enough to have 1/4 of the Internet lusting after him. Luigi is incredibly popular with GenZ and young millennials.
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Exports are obviously not banned... They added a cap and some additional restrictions on Poland and similar countries though

Specifically:

> Those on the tier two list will see the number of AI chips - called graphics processing units (GPUs) - capped at 50,000 unless they have a special license.
Not very favorable for the USA. One of the major reasons for not wanting to live in this country.
Solid summary, very clearly written. If you expanded it with some examples, I'd send it to non-technical family members as a rough guide to getting the best out of chatbots.
Monads but more importantly MonadTransformers so you can program in a legible fashion.

However, there's a lot of manual labour to stuff everything into a monad, and then extract it and pattern match when your libraries don't match your choice of control flow monad(s)!

This is where I'd prefer if compilers could come in.

Imagine being in the bowels of a DB lib, and realising that the function you just write might be well positioned to terminate the TCP connection that it's using to talk to the database with. Oh no: now you have to update the signature and every single call-site for its parent, and its parent, and...

Instead, it would be neat if the compiler could treat things you deem cross-cutting as a graph traversal problem instead; call a cancelable method and all callers are automatically cancelable. Decisions about whether to spawn a cancelable subtree, to 'protect' some execution or set a deadline is then written on an opt-in basis per function; all functions compose. The compiler can visualise the tree of cancellation (or hierachical loggers, or OT spans, or actors, or green fibers, or ...) and it can enforce the global invariant that the entry-point captures SIGINT (or sets up logging, or sets up a tracer, or ...).

So imagine the infrastructure of a monad transformer, but available per-function on an opt-in basis. If you write your function to have a cleanup on cancellation, or write logs around any asynchronous barrier, the fiddly details of stuffing the monad is done by the compiler and optionally visualised and explained in the IDE. Your code doesn't have to opt-in, so you can make each function very clean.
Of course, the unmentioned elephant in the room here is that Apple watches don't work with Android phones (it's possible to use the "cellular" version with limited features without a phone, but you still need an iPhone to configure it), which means that ~70% of the market are up for grabs...
I’ve been coding for 25 years. I don’t need a mentor. I want nice tools when I try yet another language.
But there's still a ton of innovation going on in cars. Tesla and BYD are some of the biggest companies in the world. And conversely, rockets was regarded as a sleepy, government contracting business for a long time.

I don't particularly understand why (some) people say X technology has stagnated, like web or apps. There's a ton of innovation going on - off the top of my head, WebGPU and WASM will unlock huge amounts of performance for web apps, creating a lot of possibilities like much more powerful web game engines. There seems to be widespread beliefs that the market is "saturated" or "well developed". This always struck me like saying automotive startups won't work because rubber tyre technology has stagnated. Webs and apps are just the delivery mechanism for software.

I think there's two flawed reasons people think this. One is that they only perceive the change in people using it. So they think anything which has a lot of people already using it means it's saturated. Two, they as consumers don't perceive the vast, complex systems used to deliver those services. So a website is a website to most people, but they don't understand the massive changes it has undergone over the decades.

The only technology that really dies is very specific ones competing with others in a narrow field. For example vacuum tubes lost to the transistor.
That’s the problem between what LLMs can and what some people think it can. The latter is the real problem and danger of AI.
Using ASML for leverage.
> This is a very extreme stance

It doesn't seem extreme at all. If you've ever worked on a technical project and been given a deadline by someone not in the project who also isn't technical, you'll know the problem with central planning.

> The non-respecting of complexity is happening when one thinks that it is one or the other

This isn't to do with complexity, except that generally the government (or any centrally managed thing) is worse at managing complexity than the government. The government managing something isn't because it's too complex for the private sector. It's because the private sector would have adverse incentives with society-level bad outcomes if it attempted it. E.g. private prisons without sufficient enforced regulation.
Really telling who comments before reading :)

The author of the issue comments that they'll eventually support all cards. What he really is asking for, is what cards people want them to prioritize, not just support.
I’ve had this same idea, and it doesn’t work. Or at least: it works quote well, but the problem is that you get hallucinations. And it can be incredibly discouraging to find out the flashcards you’ve been cramming are completlh wrong.
Scrolling is OK if there is an end. Like a blog post!
you argument is basically "everything is a political position"

which defeats your original argument because if everything is a political position practically it's no different to nothing being a political position and as such

and sure application of law in practice is never perfect

but that doesn't mean we should allow people to systematically harass others on the internet, or systematically spread misinformation which is intended to cause deformation of whole groups of people, or calls for violence against people or propaganda with the intend to create more violent racism, etc.
I know the Ultra has an extra button, but I wonder if you can start a run on it in the rain (ie without using touch). That was what finally pushed me away from Apple Watch, and the marketing of the Ultra is quite funny if it doesn't solve it.
> with the sole purpose to buy chips and sell them to a Polish company

You can. Good luck getting Nvidia/etc. to sell them to you though.
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