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Usertour: Open-source user onboarding platform designed for developers
The bicycle. It's a surprisingly recent invention despite its simplistic material and manufacturing requirements.
I can't speak for OP, but for me it's because this place is full of engineers who place their faith in evidence-based reasoning.
> there is much less interest in reading the many ecclesiastic documents [...] In science and technology, there is very little that becomes truly obsolete

Documents that contain administrative minutiae or legal rulings or whatever may only have value for historical study, yes, but one major reason for the very existence and authority of the Catholic Church is to serve as guardian of her doctrines and their development, and to communicate them faithfully across generations. Meaning, the doctrines of the faith are never made obsolete, or else the faith, and certainly the authority of the Church, is undermined. The understanding of them can be deepened and expanded over time, but the doctrines themselves are fixed.
You're not wrong.

However, the trouble with this line of thinking is that you can't tell when he's serious and when he's not. This is why large numbers of Americans voted for him despite being opposed to much of what he said he was going to do when elected: they thought he was bullshitting and being hyperbolic. Now they've learned better.

Besides, anyone who's willing to threaten war as a negotiation tactic is literally a warmonger, not someone who is opposed to it.
> So in curious if there’s a certain time period that people look to and make an argument that the change wasn’t worth it.

Not trying to be a smart-ass, but probably every generation as far back as one can imagine (adjusting for exceptional conditions, such as war, famine etc.).
Yes but she will still have to abide by the covenants.

And those might include things preventing majority owner from buying everything at $0.01 per share.
As LLMs get better and better at imitating bad writing it will become impossible to tell the difference
As the ice melts most of the issues we're talking about will become distant memories.
Can you explain from first principles why you think it’s important? National identity is a relatively recent concept so it’s clearly not essential or fundamental to human culture. It’s not clear to me why I should care more about people in New York (2000 miles away but part of the same geopolitical entity) more than people in Brazil.
Like most human endeavors where a technology is coming of age, there was a full aviation industry of hobbyists and nascent entrepreneurs. Most of them were little known by outsiders and on occasion some of them were put in the public spotlight because they had an interesting success or a whimsical failure.

Just take a look at the L'Aerophile gazette that started on the late 1800s. Similarly to computers, it's like reading the early editions of Byte magazine. There was a profuse number of people and small businesses from all over the world looking for collaboration with different goals in mind, selling their products and exchanging, stealing and improving on ideas of each other:

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb344143803/date
https://archive.org/details/larophile08besa
Although it sounds very bad, there’s actually a good argument for paying disabled workers below-minimum wage:

- Disabled people get paid (what is supposed to be, but not actually, a living wage) by the government, so they aren’t living on the wage.

- No company would hire them if they were forced to pay minimum wage, because companies are greedy and would always hire a more productive non-disabled worker.

- Many disabled workers want to work not for the pay, but because they enjoy the work and/or want to feel productive. As stated, they get paid by the government, so in theory they don’t have to work if they don’t want to.

With the caveat that disability payments outside of work should be raised, so that nobody (disabled or not) feels like they must work a too-boring or too-hard job to afford a decent standard of living (unless absolutely necessary for society to subsist, but that’s another discussion)…I think it’s a great practice.

Maybe there are good arguments against it, but a good argument needs to provide the full context.
The problem is that, despite medical science making advances abound, doctoring as a profession changes exceptionally slowly, and most doctors (especially male doctors IME) take an adversarial approach to patients who have questions.

I have a relatively common autoimmune disease. I have had much better experiences with NPs than doctors in explaining that certain medications are contraindicated for people with my disease.

Ego has always been a massive issue in medicine. I wonder if this is exclusive to the US, or if we see it everywhere.
Yes. And that often happens.
He was the first to mass produce cars. But given that cars and mass production already existed it was probably only a matter of time before someone decided to mass produce cars.
It's not just good, I found it to be way better than a standalone shotgun mic connected via USB. I researched this for WFH and found a lot of people saying you were going to spend hundreds to replicate the quality in a more "professional" mic setup. Super impressive.
When Wilbur Wright first demonstrated his airplane (a Model A somewhat modified while repairing the damage caused in shipping) in Le Mans, it was immediately apparent to the mostly enthusiastic crowd that this was the first fully controlled flight any of them had seen - a tight two-mile circuit with a controlled landing near the launch point. Many of those present would have been well acquainted with what Santos-Dumont and other pioneers had previously achieved.
Show HN: Ask the Software Architect
Have you ever wondered what adding that missing feature to your favorite open-source software would take?

I want to explore how effective RAG-focused LLMs can be in accurately answering complex or nuanced questions about improving sophisticated systems. With over a decade of experience as a software architect, I have formed some opinions about what constitutes a good signal when analyzing large amounts of code for this purpose. So, I wrote this web application, an MVP that allows you to ask a question (once a day) about the software architecture of a popular open-source project. You can ask about the current architecture or about how to enhance that architecture to accommodate new capabilities or to pay down specific forms of tech debt.

Here is the list of open-source projects that have already been indexed: Cassandra, Debezium, Druid, Elastic Search, Lucene, Kafka, Neo4j, and Spark. Are there other open-source projects you would instead ask software architecture questions about? Feel free to post a comment about them or upvote another comment that already lists them.

The pipeline behind this app is compute-intensive. This project is self-funded and on a considerably lean budget. Waiting for the answer to your question would not be a good experience. There is no signup, but I do require an email address to verify that the question comes from you and to receive the answer. Outside of that, I have no interest in your email, so feel free to use a temporary email service such as Mailinator if you feel uncomfortable with providing your real email address.

This is a learning adventure for me, so I look forward to your feedback, especially regarding any hallucinations in the answer to your question. The app also has a rating and feedback collection experience, which you can use if you would prefer a little more privacy.
Along with the almighty dollar worship was the super patriot worship, which some say was started by W Bush to support his war effort. Both are, from a christian view point, hypocritical. The current administration is full steam ahead on the former and busy killing the second with the tool of embarrassment.
You can be transhumanist (want to improve humans with technology) without all the rest of what the article is refering to. It's just conflating way too much.

I think that transhumanism (the way that you'd find on wikipedia) is a noble pursuit and what article describes is a bunch of hogwash that I'd never hear of outside of anglosphere.
I mean, both have a big role to play. You mention rocket tech, which is a perfect example of the strengths and weaknesses of public and private enterprise.

Public enterprise can be great because it enables societies to leverage huge amounts of capital (at one point, the US was spending 4% of GDP on the Apollo program each year--the equivalent of $1 Trillion/year today) to accomplish goals that are beyond the capacity of private industry at the time. It suffers from being totally divorced from the normal constraints of economy, and so tends to way overspend (4% of GDP is frankly insane) and to get stuck at local maxima (see SLS).

Private enterprise is basically the opposite. It can never match the government in terms of spending big to pull tech forward by decades--the profit margin doesn't really work that way. But it lavishly rewards the efficient allocation of capital, which (so long as there is meaningful competition) creates a drive to constantly improve tech. It's painful to think about where rocket tech would be without the recent advances born of private capital!
if apple's flailing around, not sure what to do, it seems to me that a decent placeholder would be:

- for each paying icloud customer

- run a small LLM model (llama or gemma3) that is fine-tuned on that customer's cloud content

- provide access to the model in a flashy new app which lets them ask questions about, search and generate derivative works from their own content

that's it

i bet a lot of people would like it
Showdown at the Institute of Peace
Not easy it sounds. Generated file has JSONL and each has summary or advisory lines. My script just processes them to a Markdown in Go.
I do like the idea, but here is my first experience: I added "Launch MyProjectName website" (using the real name) and here's what it generated as sub tasks:

- Open a web browser

- Type "MyProjectName website" into the search bar

- Press "Enter"

- Locate the official MyProjectName website link in the search results

- Click on the link to access the website

- Wait for the page to load

------

EDIT:

Rate limited, so to reply: I think most people understand there is a difference between launching a website and viewing a website.

If the AI wanted to know more about my role - whether I am a programmer, a designer, or someone that would use a high level Wix/Squarespace type tool - it should ask me.
Musk is inextricably tied to MAGA and global rightwing populism at this point, DOGE or no DOGE. If and when the US starts invading allies and sending Democrats to El Salvador, the brand will become unsalvageable barring Musk’s complete eviction from the company — and maybe not even then.
Isn't Nebula very close to YouTube 2.0? Or if one is ok not having algorithmic recommendations/curation then peer tube <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43403377> is surely better than centralized
Indeed. I can't help but think that anyone thinking Apple is trying too hard to be fancy on something like "audio quality from microphone in a laptop" doesn't quite grasp what Apple's about.

There are many advantages to vertical integration as regards end-user-experience.
Rickover's final testimony to congress in 1982 speaks about this:

Corporate Power A preoccupation with the so-called bottom line of profit and loss statements, coupled with a lust for expansion, is creating an environment in which fewer businessmen honor traditional values; where responsibility is increasingly disassociated from the the exercise of power; where skill in financial manipulation is valued more than actual knowledge and experience in the business; where attention and effort is directed mostly to short-term considerations, regardless of longer-range consequences.

Political and economic power is increasingly being concentrated among a few large corporations and their officers - power they can apply against society, government and individuals. Through their control of vast resources, these large corporations have become, in effect, another branch of government. They often exercise the power of government, but without the checks and balances inherent in our democratic system.

With their ability to dispense money, officials of large corporations may often exercise greater power to influence society than elected or appointed government officials - but without assuming any of the responsibilities and without being subject to public scrutiny. Woodrow Wilson warned that economic concentration could ''give to a few men a control over the economic life of the country which they might abuse to the undoing of millions of men.'' His stated purposes was: ''to square every process of our national life again with the standards we so proudly set up at the beginning and have always carried in our hearts.'' His comments are apropos today.

Summary: https://www.worldfuturefund.org/Articles/rickover.html Full testimony: https://www.jec.senate.gov/reports/97th%20Congress/Economics...
The complexity lies in the fact that there is rarely a bill of sale like "Priceless scroll taken from tomb under ancient church before it was demolished - ISIS". There's a lot of laundering and changing of hands before they even go up for sale by these brokers whom HobbyLobby purchase from. This is completely antithetical to the ideal process for the sake of scholarship and preservation, which is meticulous and slow, documents all of the context before even touching anything, maintaining a chain of custody so that context is preserved even after removing artifacts from the site, etc.
> There are already far, far too many examples of physicians not trust patients about pain.

I am friends with a couple of ER doctors, who are probably the worst offenders (self-acknowledged) in this space. It's based on a real phenomenon, though, of drug-seeking behavior.

As people with chronic pain communicate with each other (through things like Reddit) on the best way to communicate to doctors that their pain is legitimate, those techniques are also inadvertently taught to other people who are seeking pain medication for recreational purposes.

I think the cause of widespread drug legalization has been weakened by a couple of real world efforts in that direction, but I still stubbornly cling to the belief that if people are allowed to make their own choices, then you can partition the recreational users from the chronic pain sufferers and maybe let medical science have a slightly better change of addressing the latter case. That said, given factors like cost and insurance coverage, it may just be a realigning of incentives rather than fixing the problem itself.
I don't think the math libraries for proof assistants are good enough to support undergrad math very well, but they may be occasionally useful in specific places. I still think you will dominantly be doing informal proofs to make progress with any velocity.
Surprisingly, there’s also still no simple explanation for why a bicycle works. It’s easier to understand how a modern microprocessor works than a bicycle.
I would generally describe a piercing/stabbing pain as very localised and relatively painful, as opposed to something like an aching pain, which is over a larger area and generally less intense. I don't think I really use more descriptors than that when referring to pain
I heard an OpenAI engineer give an eye-opening perspective that went something like: anything above machine code is an abstraction for the benefit of the humans that need to maintain it. If you don't need humans to understand it, you don't need your functionality in higher-level languages at all. The AI will just brute-force those abstractions.
Based on Fedora which is owned by a US company. Why?
You see, I'm afraid we might need to smuggle information to US the same way very soon.
I'm unsure how to interpret this statement. Are you saying that the amount of pain experienced depends on the patient's prior exposure and some 'tolerance' stat? And that we should ignore their actual statements about, and reactions to, stimulus when assessing the effect of that stimulus on them?
I'd think that the problem with LFOs is that they don't make it easy to think about rhythm- they are tied to specific times. So it's a hard tool for that kind of work.

I've been enjoying tools like "euclidian rhythms" where you have a variety of sounds that all have a fundamental division of beat that they share but have differing numbers of beats-per-bar. I have a squarp pyramid sequencer that implements that quite well.

You might look in that direction if you haven't already.
The article basically builds up a straw man definition, which makes the whole thing rather worthless.

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism) gives a much better overview of what the movement is and its history; the "came about in the 1990s in silicon valley" is just wrong, to start with.
OK, I get what you are saying now, and I agree if we are talking about KVM.

That's not how Kubernetes works by default, so I thought we were talking about container runtimes. I still disagree strongly from both a practical security and theory standpoint if we are talking about container runtimes implemented using namespaces and cgroups.
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If only we could all be so rich. Have you looked into PRP? My neighbor got an injection for his shoulder, $3k here, although apparently you can find it for way less.
Whenever they have, they have been bought by larger and richer (mostloy US) tech companies. Look at Deepmind, Skype, Nokia, Tandberg, etc... Arm is another (although Japanese rather than US-owned). There are also many cases where European founders base their companies out the States for access to higher funding (eg Stripe, Spotify). Another factor is that US multinationals have a large presence across Europe in terms of employment - if a large component of the top tech talent of Europe is employed by US companies then they are less likely to build large European companies.
I never used cplint, but I use other software (including I built myself) to process KBs with many billions of facts.
And if we collapse the jet stream they will be living deep under ice. Global warming != Everywhere gets sunny
The SEC filings were a giveaway

> The California-based company has publicly reported that it is in financial distress and stated in securities filings that there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
And you act like software engineering is whatever it is you're apparently doing for a living. This field is big, and there are more corners in it than just line-of-business CRUD apps.
tech could seriously learn from his other quote:

> I did not recruit extraordinary people. I recruited people who had extraordinary potential—and then I trained them.
It sounds like you are intentionally leaving out the meat of the article’s criticisms, which is that the schemes involving “charity” and “giving” are essentially tax dodging.

> Less evident these charitable contributions equate to sizable tax breaks. These tax write-offs are calculated using the highest appraisals possible, which is not necessarily indicative of the actual sum of money paid out by the Green family for the land. Counterintuitive as it may seem, this practice frequently allows the Greens to save far more money than what they spend via hefty deductions.

Hobby Lobby is, according to this article, taking advantage of the nebulous valuations of artifacts to minimize tax burden in a way that is morally questionable at the least.

Matthew 19:24
I use co-pilot for enhanced tab-completion of small blocks of code. Basically, it saves me some typing now and again. I find it guesses incorrectly a third of the time but I often still tab complete then go back and fix it. Is this "using ai to write 90% of my code"?

When I have used copilot conversation mode and requested a refactoring or provided what I felt was a clear description of my task, the result shave always been a failure that required more time to resolve than if I had just done the work myself.

These are issues I could see and determine where wrong. I weep for the future where these changes get pushed live because no-one knows what the vibe-coders did any more.
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I mean this could've happened with a human counterpart too (although, I know, less likely, but still). You probably gotta be at least a little more descriptive and specific about the task.
There were 100s of Newcomen engines throughout Europe which were mostly used to pump water. They were being deployed ~50 years before Watt improved the design.
That would be expected for a browser environment though! I don’t want any module my browser imports to silently import something off the filesystem without telling me.
Show HN: Bulletproof sessions – secure, cookieless session handling
I had this idea for a few years already and now I also managed to implement a proof of concept for it: instead of relying on cookies or tokens to identify a user, have a service worker intercept and sign all the requests to the server (with a private key generated when the service worker is initially installed).

The server identifies the user based on the public key corresponding to the signature.

BAM! no more cookie sessions, so no more sessions hijacking and session replay attacks.

I also wrote a blog post [0] detailing some advantages over the traditional session handling mechanisms, but I feel this enables endless possibilities.

Appreciate your thoughts&feedback!

[0] https://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2025/03/bulletproof-...
"Collecting and processing of barometric data from smartphones for potential use in numerical weather prediction data assimilation"

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/met.1805

https://github.com/dmidk/smaps
Yes because that always happens. Did you not notice the last decade of negative press on Trump and other Republicans? That's just noise and frankly I'm baffled I have to explain this.

France is probably one of the most capable military intelligence centers in Europe, have a large amount of nuclear power and supporting infrastructure and is a Muslim stronghold in some areas. So clearly, something more than just surface level WWE-style drama is going on.
I was sitting at a Starbucks next to a VERY noisy street on a google meet call on an M1 Air with usb-c AirPods (the cheap 19$ one) and I asked the person on the other end if they can hear me at all. To my surprise they couldn’t hear any noise just my voice. No idea which part in the whole setup achieved this but I feel like stuff like AI and all have some applications that can blow you away. Not putting the damn thing in everything!
There's a latent conspiracy theorist deep inside me that says they've figured out the only way to stop the warming is the complete collapse of all post-conflict industrial society and start building again.
At least Leibniz is still famous for the biscuits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz-Keks
Unions can be quite useless. No strike clauses can make them basically a paid extension of management.

I'm not suggesting that this would be an existing union.

It might be a wholly new single issue union.

But I hear ya. I've been in useless unions
Zarathustra? Sales? I find it indignant. Sort of like calling your backup manager Jesus. Not many Zoroastrians around these days, though they are not absent from the world. Brutal honesty for you.
Nobody knows why this snowy owl is orange
While Mobileye has focused on using lidar+cameras with each effectively serving as a form of "backup", they have also demonstrated a full city drive using nothing but cameras. I've seen enough from Waymo to see that they could easily do the same thing.

I expect both to keep radar and lidar for quite a few years, but I think its usage will consistently decline to zero or near zero over the next 10 years.
They've now added a LICENSE file. Seems they went with the Boost Software License (a fairly simple permissive license similar to the MIT License).