skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as easily for GIF, whose inventor stated that it’s /dʒɪf/, but people still disagree (myself included).

With Ghibli there is the fact that the original Italian word is pronounced with a hard G. In fact, that’s why it has an “h”. We can treat this similar to Roma vs. Rome.
I was able to do it by clicking in a few places in quick succession evenly spread out.
I didn't have any problems creating wechat account. May be I was lucky, I don't know, I just typed my phone number and it went pretty smooth, like whatsapp. Also was able to connect my visa card. I did it in the Kazakhstan and then was able to pay in China, no problems. May be they got exception for Kazakhstan specifically, we recently got visa-free travels there.
Windows seems to insistent on crappifying itself. Even if you have a small set of installed applications, many of them behave poorly. Lots and lots of small paper cuts add up. A few dozen registry entries here, a few files there, seven or eight Explorer right click menu extensions (like eg “Edit with X” instead of just using the normal “Open With”) setup by installers.

The end result is right clicking has noticeable delay in some directories. Boot takes a few seconds longer than it did the first time it was installed. Some applications, even Task Manager inexplicably hang with a white window for a few seconds.

The shell (part of Explorer) no longer displaying anything when searching in the start menu (because it tries to connect to the internet to search bing and that sometimes stops working rendering half the start menu useless).

The “modern” settings app hanging with its blue window and icon for anywhere from seconds to indefinitely.

It’s just a lot of this bullshit that adds up. Reinstalling Windows makes it like it was day one.
I heard a good one. AI isn't art, AI is content. People don't want to create art per se, they want to generate images for e.g. memes or filler / illustrative images on their blog, replacing or being an addition to stock images.

No shade on stock photographers / illustrators, but that's where I see image generation end up at. And you could already get custom illustrations made for cheap on sites like fiverr. The real long term question will be whether an AI generated image can compete with services like that. (my guess: probably, AI images are higher resolution/quality and generated faster, but I don't know the real total cost of them nor that of cheap illustrators or stock images)
> The discussion is whether or not we need a higher level API than that.

Try using DOM APIs to build anything remotely complex or interactive. There's a reason everyone who only uses browser APIs ends up just dumping strings into the DOM via innerHtml.
Not only that, everything I see is tabs - I don't see music notation anywhere and I'm looking through exercises right now.
This is like the old Soviet Ekranoplans [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan
To be fair, it's a really, really big NAS with an interesting use case.
Show HN: FaynoSync simple auto updater API server written in Golang
This application is a simple API server for automatically updating client applications. It allows you to upload your application to S3 and set the version number. The client application can then check the version number against the auto updater service API. If the service has a newer version, it will return a link to the updated service, and the client application will show an alert.

The API server is designed for straightforward and intuitive application management. It supports updating client applications both in the background and on-demand, depending on how it's implemented in the client application. This provides flexibility in choosing the update method that best suits your needs.
Nah. I like the small things that remind us we're still humans, and a little inconvenience is a small price
I absolutely love this - one thought, clicking the words should auto drop them into the first open spot.
Svelte team switches to JavaScript and JSDoc (2023)
You don't give a shit about your offspring? But even so, aren't you at least able to understand that other people do care about their progeny?
In 1959 people still made mistakes. By the time C came around, human error was all but eliminated. /s
A year ago on March 31st, was my ex's birthday - she told me she loved me. Today, I just don't know if that was the most elaborate prank I ever fell for.

Kudos to this guy, at least his prank email was kinda funny.
> This kind of risk mitigation is probably a losing strategy. Lawyers will find any reason to crucify you.

Right, but much better for them to have flimsy reasons that literally won't pass even a cursory glance by a court (like alone time with someone), than give them situations which allows them to introduce doubt about your innocence.
> we’re exiting the scarcity economy of visuals & entering something weirder—where aesthetics become ambient infrastructure, like wifi.

AI is democratizing _execution_, not creativity. The advent of the smartphone camera era allowed for the average person to take vastly more photos than ever before, and yet the photos I personally find noteworthy are either remarkable in their context or aesthetic quality (e.g. [0]) or personally meaningful.

Alternatively put, "culture" values a proof-of-work that is creativity + execution. Taking a photo of a lunar eclipse setting over a crater has global value, because of the effort in planning and taking the shot (read [0], it's great). Me shitposting a meme for my game night groupchat neatly summarizing what happened in our last session of Pandemic: Legacy has local value, because of the creativity in adapting a meme format to our particular context and the execution of the edit, but nobody besides us would find it as funny.

(Interesting aside — I personally think that the photo in [0] is more impressive than someone going all that way to _paint_ the same scene en plein air, because of the split-second precision of the execution. Even though photography may have devalued a lot of the technical execution of capturing a scene, it has opened up new ways in which said execution can be valuable.)

So AI decouples creativity and execution in a way that is, like every innovation before, unlike every innovation before. The Ghibli aesthetic is the soft pastels of the color palette [1] and the comfortable, nostalgic character design [2] but also the restful rhythm of "ma" [3] and the detail lovingly lavished to background characters [4]. GPT-4o devalues some of those things, but it another sense it just re-weights our cultural proof-of-work valuations back towards human effort.

[0] https://lrtimelapse.com/news/total-lunar-eclipse-over-teide-...

[1] https://designmadeinjapan.com/magazine/graphic-design/the-ri...

[2] https://stylecircle.org/2020/09/the-studio-ghibli-closet/

[3] https://screencraft.org/blog/hayao-miyazaki-says-ma-is-an-es...

[4] https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-spirited-away...
Which means mandatory and misinformed playing down a success of an post-Eastern-Bloc CEE country, especially when being better at something than any of the post-Western-Bloc countries.

In economic subjects, it's most often expressed by comments such as yours here.
Goes to show that jokes are 50% about the material and 50% about the audience.
It’s all there in the OP. But since reading comprehension seemed to take a hit due to the need for arguing, I’ll reiterate:

His high-risk bets have largely been buoyed by government contracts

SpaceX wouldn’t have survived without govt intervention. I think the same can be said of Tesla to a lesser extent. That’s not bad, it’s the way things work with high-risk nascent industries.
It is the same in France, the courts are independent in principle, while prosecutors remain under executive control but since 2013 they should not give orders on individual cases.

France has an additional layer of independence compared to the U.S. because of the juge d’instruction (investigating judge), who is also supposed to be independent from the executive, unlike prosecutors.

I say in principle because, judges are appointed in France and not elected. The executive as some control through appointments and career advancements but they are not supposed to use it to sanction or reward the judges.

The effectiveness of these independence mechanisms remains a subject of active debate, as evidenced by the relatively recent changes made to them.
Clients as a Service (April Fool's)
...just wait for the email, click the link, enter your credit card number, and...
>No one cares about your family photos. This isn't about you.

My wife cares. That was the point of my comment.
I'm actually not.

1) OpenWrt software has decent support for NAS-on-router, unfortunately OpenWrt hardware didn't make use of that.

2) OpenWrt hardware has non-replaceable wifi for which OpenWrt simply takes upstream drivers with no investment on their part, not even as much as DD-WRT which have Broadcom drivers working. This makes it e-waste almost immediately.

I think:

- They should abandon hardware entirely.

- If they don't abandon hardware, at least target the router+NAS(+home server) niche, not make a router that's even more hw-crippled than most.

If you look at this webpage [1], where OpenWrt One was proposed and voted for, the intentions are weak and the result doesn't even match those intentions, while the list of what it wasn't intended to be, is exactly what was needed.

[1] https://openwrt.org/voting/2024-01-openwrt-one
I think the "Why?" link on the warning not to edit library imports just goes to #
I'd love to use Kubernetes for my self hosting. The only problem is it's too expensive.
Tangier Island off of Virginia, in the Chesapeake:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180206-the-tiny-us-isla...

Also, for what it's worth:

> Some people have characterised Tangier’s way of speaking as ‘Elizabethan’ or ‘Restoration’ English, but that’s nonsense. Languages aren’t static and the Tangier dialect has changed a lot because of its isolation. It’s a distinct creation of its own," Shores said.
> Or are you just interested in how a literal reading influences American politics?

Yes. A lot of conservatives claim that the Bible is the literal inerrant word of God.
I think Apple will need to make a new phone line. Call it the ePhone.

In a few years we can compare who got it right.
I mean that, in general, criminal laws can be interpreted to take minor wrongdoings and turn them into serious crimes. I’m not saying that was the case with Le Pen.

In fact, I think the conflict between law enforcement and politics in the Le Pen case is largely self-inflicted. There was no need to include the constraint on running for office in the punishment. And it seems like the wrongful conduct ended in 2017. Why did it take so long to work through to a verdict?
I gathered the Japanese government legalized using copyrighted works to train AI last year: https://www.privacyworld.blog/2024/03/japans-new-draft-guide...
Maybe they're not doing Scrum?
Sadly this is true. I make about $200k/yr gross, have a working software engineer for a wife, and have enough in retirement that I could “coast” on contributions for the next 30 years and be fine in retirement. I still can’t be rid of the financial anxiety I started with. My childhood involved a homeless shelter, my college years included struggling to make rent and buy food, and those experiences forever colored how I see and treat money.
you could change the video speed, would be cool if he added a button to do it
The deal is they pay you a fair amount of money to put up with that. Whereas people such as the gentlemen in the article are causing people stress for no reason and with no compensation - and barely even an acknowledgement of misbehaviour.

There are worse crimes in the world, but it is bad.
I won't read this as by rule I am against everything related to pranks, and especially today of all days. I will take this space however to say that we should really do away with this nonsense.
> HTML, JS, and CSS deliver a clean separation of concerns

There's nothing clean about this separation, and concerns are never as neatly separated as people pretend they are.

> For apps,

For apps you need actual app-like things where your separation of concerns looks like the right image here: https://x.com/simonswiss/status/1664736786671869952
The author uses something like `list.push(...objects)` in his demo code, and I believe this is the culprit. Passing many (~100,000) arguments to a method at once using the spread operator is known to cause a stack overflow, because, in JavaScript, each argument is placed on the call stack.
How do you connect your Kindle to the internet to access OPDB/Calibre-web without losing your jailbreak?

Every time I connect my Kindle 4 to the internet, it disables developer mode and I have to rejailbreak. This is despite using an update disabler plugin (I've tested them all).
The US currently have several spy planes over Mexico with cooperation from the Mexican government. Information is being relayed to the Mexican military and cartels are being neutralized as we speak. There just isn't much news about this at the moment. The US / Mexican military and law enforcement are all currently working together in both training exercises and cartel take-downs. The only thing missing is US military boots on the ground. My only known-unknown is how long this will take given the large numbers of cartel members that have splintered off from their original groups.
Except that the Houthis have actually shot down US assets.

https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-military/2024/09/16/ho...

So opesec, against all enemies, is important. Not just for diplomatic and political reasons. For OPERATIONAL (the op in opsec) reasons.
How does this keyword spotting compare versus grammar or intent approach for speech recognition commands with dictation?

How does keyword spotting handle complex phrases as commands?
> Where's this Ghiblification?

The White House twitter account: https://x.com/whitehouse/status/1905332049021415862
Since I've migrated our company to Kubernetes, I almost stopped to worry about anything. It just works. Had much more troubles running it with spaghetti of docker containers and host-installed software on multiple servers, that setup definitely breaks like every week or every month. With Kubernetes I just press "update cluster" in some saturday evening once or twice a year and that's about it, pretty smooth sailing.
I do believe the whole concept of beyond A reasonable doubt was based upon the belief that it is better for 10 guilty men to go free than for one innocent man to suffer. What is happening is a slap in the face of our foundational principles and justice system.
All I am saying is that being lightweight, when you have been around for less time than a mature solution, is a mute point.

It's a cop out way to differentiate because you are clearly not comparing apples to apples.

You have a fraction of the features and a fraction of the bug fixes. You are trying to make it sound like you are a 1:1 replacement, when you are not.
This doesn’t square with most of my experience with React, especially if use it to generate static code hosted by nginx. I’ve found my personal site to always be wicked fast, even though it’s not that complex.
>Just because something is untestable today doesn’t mean it will be for all time.

This is generally true, but such ideas are kept outside the realm of science until they are. In this case specifically, all our knowledge points to this remaining untestable as it would require FTL travel which is on par with violating conservation of energy or time travel. It even allows solving the halting problem (Turing machine in timeloop until it halts, you outside of the timeloop can then check if the Turing machine in the timeloop ever left it).

It is entirely possible that there are things which are true which science cannot verify because of the underlying philosophy by which science operates. Things that exist outside of the observable universe, if FTL travel is truly impossible, would fall outside the realm of science.

>The mere fact that two observers have different observable universes indicates it is indeed an illusory artifact.

Do they? The nature of the observable universe is that, if you can communicate with someone else, any information they can receive and pass on to you is part of your observable universe as all information travels at the speed of light or slower. If they can receive information and cannot pass it on to you, they are not part of your observable universe any longer and no longer exist (exception if FTL interactions are discovered). Thus the only observers that exist in a way you can interact with, can make any testable hypothesis concerning, and thus can be considered by science, are observers in your observable universe.
Did you try? It's a few years ago when I had to create one, but it was just as simple as WhatsApp (just a few more CAPTCHAs). And no VPNs or whatever, straight from a Swiss IP.
Author here: Fair point—React’s baseline isn’t a monster. ~60KB compressed for a barebones Vite/React setup, or even ~25KB with Vue. Medium projects at 200-300KB are definitely workable.

But here’s the point: a single React/ShadCN button, straight from their official docs, still outweighs Nue’s entire SPA demo. Add more widgets—tabs, modals, whatever—and that gap only widens. Nue is flipping the script. Web standards let us start lean and stay lean—smaller codebases, faster HMR, quicker builds. That’s the win: efficiency that scales without piling complexity.
It depends, I ran into this a lot with GPT, but less so with Claude.

But then again, I know how it could avoid the mistake, so I point that out, from that point onwards it seems fine (in that chat).
I also don’t like command like interfaces for all things, but there are cases where they excel, or where they are necessary due to technical constraints. But when the man page for a simple command runs to 10 screens of options I sometimes wonder.
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Although there is lots of hype, vibe-coding isn't a marketing gimmick—it's just continuing the trend we've always followed: moving to higher levels of abstraction. Like going from assembler to C made life better by letting us focus on logic instead of registers, vibe-coding means taking that next leap, writing code that directly captures 'what' rather than 'how.' When the specification becomes executable, there's less room for misinterpretation and fewer bugs, and your mental effort can shift from managing low-level details to clearly expressing your intent. It's not magic; it's just the natural evolution toward clearer, safer, and more maintainable code. It's not there yet, but, just as C++ replaced C which replaced assembler, "specification as code" is the future for most software. Eventually, most of us will be "prompt engineers" rather than "software engineers".
What Is POC (Proof of Concept)?
Yes, vcs can be stupid and blind sometimes too. Just like all of us.

Smart companies now will hire the best of the best from a large pool of people laid off by dumb companies.

Fast forward 10 years - dumb companies are drowning in false hopes, bad staff and mess they created for themselves. While smart ones growing and replacing them.
saw on linkedin. some ai company is starting a vibecoding course.
Yeah exactly. I feel like it's the same on every marketplace: Their incentive is to have good ratings on the platform.

So even if it's not down to taste, but to actual objective factors the platforms don't want to hear it.
It's not copyright infringement / not illegal if it's legal and / or there's an exception for "information analysis": https://www.privacyworld.blog/2024/03/japans-new-draft-guide...

This is the tricky part; is it immoral? I think so, but that's a personal opinion. Is it illegal? Not by Japanese copyright laws.
Windows is just less organized, with files appearing all over the place and without user having knowledge what's really needed.

On Arch Linux, all system files are listed, along with their content hashes and expected permissions/ownership, in the installed package database. So it's possible to just list changed files in /etc or unexpected files in the system, or files with unexpected permissions, and do a manual cleanup/checkup if needed. No idea how I'd even approach that on Windows.

I guess the only time I'd need to re-install would be if I messed the system so bad that manual fixup would be too laborious over fresh setup and reconfiguration. (And I'd have to lose system backups too)
> How could anything be enforced on user-controlled servers?

New laws comes to mind. If a government decides to try to outlaw encryption again, cloud/hosting companies located there wouldn't have a choice but to comply, or give up on the business. The laws could also be made in such way that individuals are responsible for avoiding it, even self-hosters, and if people are using it anyways, be legally held responsible for the potential harms of it.
"An obvious manipulation tactic on the path to abolish cash."

This was the first thing I thought.
Nothing in your view is "web standards". And nothing in web standards can do the heavy lifting of showing things like "`nam` is not defined on object `user`"
> especially if leadership are sensitive to embarrassment.

Funny thing is that I cleared my prank with Peter Sachs because he was a bit of a stick-in-the-mud, but he told me to go for it and he thought it was hilarious.

I didn't clear it with Jim Collinsworth because he was a bit of a jokester himself so I (incorrectly) assumed he'd have no problem with it.
Meanwhile the Xbox 360 kamikaze hack actually involved drilling a chip...
Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building
Maybe they’ll switch their next operation to iMessage.

Can’t wait to see those Memojis issuing kill orders.
I don't know, I'm no lawyer.

However, if I make a drawing in the style of Ghibli, I own the copyright because I made it. I don't know if in Japan, art style is copyrightable.

I don't know if copyright applies to generated content (of any sort) though. It probably does.
Because it’s great, and people that think otherwise are dead to me.