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>Flooding the internet discourse with Ghibli memes is not "making the scarce more available", it's producing knock-offs that have the potential to saturate our collective minds and make then "vaccinated" against the real Ghibli.

I feel like this claim rests upon several unstated claims that don't seem rigorously proven. What does it take for an art style to be "saturated" in culture? What would it mean for a brain to be "vaccinated" against it?

Hoel presents the case of semantic satiation, the idea that the repeated use of a word leads to a loss of meaning and a preoccupation with the syntax and structure of the word itself, as an analogue. But semantic satiation is a very short term effect. Having once engaged in semantic satiation does not permanently make words lose their meanings.

Similarly, I am really skeptical this short term fad of using OpenAI's current image model to replicate Ghibli's work will permanently cheapen the semantic meaning of Howl's Moving Castle or Spirited Away. Hoel quotes a twitter user that apparently feels this way, but I really think people are being hyperbolic about a short term experience. Having not been on twitter much the last week, I've only been dimly aware of the phenomenon and I would guess that it won't even make it to May as a mass phenomenon, though I'm sure a handful of people will remain obsessed with it. I just don't see how that could ruin a great work of art either for me or for the culture at large.
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Thanks for https://aumont.fr/posts/Jails-backup-nocodb/ too
> Aesthetic minimalism?

Also cost reduction. Save pennies cost lives.
it needs a sequel to cover the last 7 years.
Its not big frameworks making the web big/slow. Its...

Yes, its absolutely the big fucking frameworks. In most cases it is the actual literal use of the frameworks, but even that isn't the real problem. The real problem is deeper. You can call it second order consequences.

Its developers that cannot optimize and cannot program without something like React. If you took React away would you suddenly not be able to do your job at all? That's horrible problem to have. The result is a bunch of toxic defensive posturing by people who suddenly appear not qualified to do the work.

If you cannot dig deeper you certainly cannot optimize deeper. That makes the assumption you are actually measuring things and optimizing things in the first place, which many developers aren't. Again, if a given developer lacks the capabilities to dive deeper they may also lack the capabilities to measure things, as is quite common.
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Well, we can't have the hoi polloi rising up against their betters, now, can we?
I sometimes wonder about being able to fully simulate a human brain. Maybe even scan/copy a real person’s brain.

So many philosophical, ethical and legal questions. And unsettling possibilities.

We will probably have to deal with this someday.
Disclaimer: author of the SDK here.

It is _potentially_ more restrictive than writing pure Python functions, but the plus side is that we can interject certain Airflow-specific features into how the agent runs. And this isn't mean for someone who knows agents inside & out / wants the low-level customizability.

The best example of this today is log groups: Airflow lets you log things out as part of a "group" which has some UI abstractions to make it easier. This SDK takes the raw agent tool calls and turns them each into a log group, so you can see a) at a high level what the agent is doing, and b) drill down into a specific tool call to understand what's happening within the tool call.

To your point about the `@task.llm_branch`, the SDK & Pydantic AI (which the SDK uses under the hood) will re-prompt the LLM up to a certain number of attempts if it receives output that isn't the name of a downstream task. So there shouldn't be much finickiness.
I really have to wonder why Spain isn’t a viable launch site .. anyone know?
Any good book that delves into the detail of the code breaking done at Bletchley park?
If any one's looking for the answer to why it's not recommended to edit library imports - when you import collections from the library, you can receive updates whenever the collection author publishes a new version. These updates might include new exercises or improvements to existing ones. However, if you've made your own modifications to the collection, these personal changes will be overwritten when you update to the newer version.

It's mentioned on the faqs page - https://www.captrice.io/user-guide/faqs.html. Missed updating the link. Will push a fix shortly.
Definitely enjoy the scenery. I've done Bletchley and the National Cryptologic Museum, the former is in a genuinely beautiful location, especially if you have sun.
We used to talk about the CEO's golf buddies.
Some senior sales exec invites a CEO to join him for a round,
spends the time on the course giving his full sales pitch,
buys a round or two at the 19th hole,
next Monday: NEW INITIATIVE!
Y’know, I’m inclined to agree here, but I don’t think it was always this way. Over the last few years I’ve been feeling really fatigued, I suppose, by April Fool’s Day, and I think feeling this way has coincided with the rise of fake everything on the web. Rather than one day a year where we get to be amused by pranks in good faith, we’re mentally on-guard every day trying to identify whether a story or (increasingly) an image is real or not. Rather than one day a year where you’ve got people sending you stuff like “ALIEN LABORATORY DISCOVERED UNDERNEATH PYRAMIDS” accompanied by obvious-to-you GenAI images, now it’s every day, and still not everyone is in on the joke (and a joke is the best-case scenario behind creator’s intent).
The problem with scrolling is that you'll be presented tens of options you don't care about because the options have to be determined in advance and be the same for everyone.

That's why the “advanced search” is almost always hidden somewhere. And that's also why you can never find the filter you need on an e-shopping website.
I remember playing Liero as a kid in the UK.

Such creative ideas.
That "backend" vs. "frontend" split is entirely artificial. That code you would run server-side to convert your data into a fully-rendered page is still very much part of your "frontend" organizationally, even though it might be hosted on the server.

(Strictly speaking you can have a web service that's purely about spitting out raw data in a form that other organizations can use, but that's the kind of thing that Semantic Web and Linked Data standards are intended to address. Not something that your garden-variety website has to be concerned with.)
love it! Just wanted to share my support.
Original title (too long for HN): Inside YouTube’s Weird World Of Fake Movie Trailers — And How Studios Are Secretly Cashing In On The AI-Fueled Videos
So far this "re-thinking" is just dumping loads of innerHtml's and trashing the entire DOM.

The only reason it's fast is because browsers have been optimized beyond any sane reason.

E.g. your table demo removes and re-adds all rows on every button press. This is not re-thinking. This is throwing all we've learned out of the window and starting from scratch.
Bingo! Having tons of `CustomEvents` with arbitrary handlers gets unwieldy. One way we "solved" this is by only allowing custom events in a `events.ts` file and document them pretty extensively.
Taking a 3 month voyage was still an uncommon thing to do for a person, it’s just that it was the most common type of intercontinental journey due to lack of competition.
Disclaimer: author of the SDK here.

Airflow actually uses decorators to indicate something is an explicit task in a data pipeline vs just a utility function, so this follows that pattern!

It also uses an "operator" under the hood (Airflow's term for a pre-built, parameterized task) which can be subclassed and customized if you want to do any customization.
It hasn’t enough to satisfy industry or regulators.

As long as that C code is valid C++ code, it’s still a problem for C++. Backwards compatibility with C is a strength, but also a weakness. The Go and Java folks invested in rewriting dependencies in their own language to prevent problems, if C++ is truly that much safer than C, the C++ community could do the same, and demonstrate that it’s safer.

This is the power of opt out vs opt in. You can’t forget to run the borrow checker in Rust. That’s a practical, real-world advantage.
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Obviously every type system in practice has escape hatches. But I’ve never seen another staticly-typed language where you need to break out of the type system so regularly.

Go’s type system has your back when you’re writing easy stuff.

But it throws up its hands and leaves you to fend for yourself when you need to do nearly anything interesting or complex, which is precisely when I want the type system to have my back.

I should not have to worry (or worse, not worry and be caught off guard) that my pool of database connections suddenly starts handing back strings.
One could say that it also raised awareness of Ghibli movies to people who didn't know them (and I know quite a few who never heard of him). So I'm not sure it's all black. On a different angle, it shows how silly humanity is and thirsty for models has become - and let's all now make Ghibli pictures because it's cool is just the latest tiktok dance, performed by some who claimed they'd never dance on tiktok.
People want to express their creativity stuck in their head without having the skill or training (privilege of the training) to be a legit artist. I think it’s awesome that this removes the barrier and empowers people to be creative in ways that they previously could not.
In the meanwhile on the App/Play store some native apps like YouTube weight around half a GB... but only the web is bloated
And they can time it so they get the sun at the same relative location for each photo pass.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit
> The research paper will tell you everything except how to reproduce this work in minimal effort, it's like they are hiding something.

They are. I used to work in an adjacent field. Everyone was open about doing it - they're competing with others for grants, and worry that if they reveal the secret sauce, others will move faster than they can.

You can say you performed a DFT calculation to get the result, but anyone who's studied these types of simulations/calculations knows that it's highly nontrivial to implement, with lots of coding and numerical tricks involved. So it's extremely hard to reproduce if you don't have detailed access to the algorithms.
My favorite language is Python, but I wouldn't write a blog post about it because no one would care.
> Education stuff is more of a political talking point than reality. In reality US education spending per student has continually increased and is always near the top of the world.

This is disingenuous, and itself a political talking point.

> In reality US education spending per student has continually increased and is always near the top of the world.

It is much more nuanced than “money in equals IQ out”.

Where does the money end up? Not in classrooms, unfortunately.

What is the average ratio of teachers to students? Is this number going up, up, up?

Now do counselors, nurses, etc.

How much are teachers spending out of pocket for classroom supplies? Has this number gone down, down, down?
I went into Rocksmith because of this promise and for me it worked out well. Though it did not greatly improve my guitar playing skills beyond some of the basics, I do enjoy that I can interact in some way with the music that I like. It's like whistling along with your favourite song but with your hands, so the experience is much more engaging and it's feels more rewarding than guitar hero as the sound that I'm making sound a lot more like music than that clicking of buttons.

Nowadays they have a subscription service, I don't know what the quality of that is. But I mostly still play on the "2014 remastered" edition with a "real tone cable" on macOS, but I think they updated that and you can play with any "audio interface" device you like. There is also the customsforge library for unofficial songs, but quality varies.

Between Rocksmith and Youtube tutorials, playing along with my favourite songs is the most fun I can get out off playing guitar that my skill level and time investment allows. I'll never play in a band or make a decent sounding song, but enjoying and getting enveloped by music is good enough.
> be me

> start up BASIC

> PLAY "l16ecececececececececececececececec"

> thunderous footsteps as my dad RUNS to pick up the phone that isn't ringing
> does not resemble in the slightest what happens in France.

Are you really so sure?

Why was she the only one barred from running from office? Why not the other eight officials also found guilty?
There's a good deal of sci-fi on the topic. My favorite of them is Neal Stephenson's Fall; or, Dodge in Hell.
Looks like it's already supported in Alphatex - https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/metadata#tuning. You will need to specify the following metadata in the tab editor

\tuning G2 D2 A1 E1 B0
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My favourite language is also python, and I would love to read your blog post on why your favourite language is python :-)
I find it refreshing to see a plausible aprils fools in a sea of overly obvious content marketing/PR-approved ”fools”. (And yes I was fooled by this one for a minute.)

> Spreading speculative or misleading information, even in jest, just muddies the waters further and makes it harder to find reliable news.

Meh, a drop in the ocean. Especially in AI where even CEOs are vagueposting unverifiable claims on a daily basis.
Also mmacevedo https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
Only two weeks ago did I use a script found as a Gist to delete all my Google reviews and attached photos, after a bad but genuine and factual review of mine, accompanied by photos as proof, was removed after the place complained. It’s bullshit all the way down.
I suspect part of it is also that Nvidia actually does a lot of things in firmware that can be upgraded. The new Nvidia Linux drivers (the "open" ones) support Turing cards from 2018. That means chips that old already do much of the processing in firmware.

AMD keeps having issues because their drivers talk to the hardware directly so their drivers are massive bloated messes, famous for pages of auto-generated register definitions. Likely it's much more difficult to fix anything.
Dabitum
You only have a certain amount of traction budget to accelerate. You can spend that budget on trying to stop, you can spend that budget on turning. Spending it on both can end up with you losing grip and having less traction overall to achieve your goal. A modern car's computer will assist with trying to keep traction on the road so can be good to try to do both if you're not 100% sure what to do.

But also, turning often means you're going to enter another lane of traffic with potentially other cars/people/obstacles in there. So blindly swerving can sometimes end up with a much worse collision.

I'm not going to say you should always do X or you should always do Y or always do X + Y. There's a lot of situational conditions on that. But only kind of turning and only kind of stopping is probably not going to work.
I believe this is commonly known as marketing.
> Researchers are struggling to understand what's causing the deaths.

Poison or disease ? /s
I had something similar for many years (triggered by an episode of afib brought-on by triggering my vagus nerve). The one thing that has helped me fully get rid of these (after YEARS of trial-and-error) was getting onto beta blockers (Propranolol).

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Wow, that sounds awesome. I'm jealous.
It's not but it still happens. Network effects and social proof are powerful, even amongst Linux users who consider themselves "technical".
how does a digital nomad visa help "moving abroad"?

yes, it let's you work in another country for up to 6 months; however, once it expired, you will have to move back. if you are looking to move permanently, a working holiday visa + job hunt is probably the better option.
I am going through the alphatex docs in more detail and looks like other stringed instruments and even piano are already supported.

Check this for bass guitar - https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/metadata#tuning

Check the example here for piano - https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/notes/#multiple-voices
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On the contrary, what is presented by the OP is one of the many reasons that worship of science's heroes, unfashionable for decades, a whiggish pablum, is justified. If great results were birthed fully-formed -- a view I've frankly never heard anyone profess who has bothered to consider such things even briefly -- they would hardly be any heroes. Even little children who reflexively chomp on every superhero film aeroplaned towards their face understand this.
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See also:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/tech/apple-ai-artificial-inte...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518576
Totally get that; I'm on the older side, so personally I've been down this road quite a few times. We're ALWAYS on the verge of our profession being rugged somehow. RAD tools, Outsourcing, In-sourcing, No-Code, AI/LLM... I used to be curious about why there was overwhelming pressure to eliminate "us", but gave up and just focus on doing good work.
> People are robbing themselves of the joy that can only come from putting yourself through hardship in pursuit of a goal.

This is such an old man “I used to walk uphill both ways” take.

Not everybody has the TIME COST to pursue being an expert in art or code or whatever. But if they have an amazing idea and can now use AI to produce the idea then that is a beautiful thing!

For example: Having an idea for a cartoon used to be a dead end. It would die in your head because most people cannot stop their life and dedicate a substantial amount of time, effort, and sacrifice to produce the single cartoon idea.
If this is some elaborate troll or April Fools to confuse me, you've succeeded. I have no idea what you're going on about.
Nue JS reactive library is based DOM diffing. The next version also has keyed rows.
So how do you get that data (status) now (if(is-critical-peak-event){})? Do the smartplugs gather some smartgrid-style data?
Yeah it was sort of cool. There were entire software products built on top of Notes and its forms and workflow.

I never had to program any of that, so can't speak to that side of it, but where I worked we used Notes to quickly build a lot of internal forms and workflows, and had some internal discussion forums and documentation in it, it all worked pretty well as I recall.

The one weird thing was we had to run it on OS/2. The only OS/2 machine in the server room.

We didn't use it for email though.
It's well established that completing the same task more slowly at a lower clock rate is actually less energy-efficient.
In the UK we called it ticket tape and it was terrible. The devices barely worked and they cause a bunch of friction so you end up calculating a value of 'g' that's off by like 30%.
If you like watching right-wing educational propaganda, sure.
Excellent points both. I need to ponder this…
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Oh, BTW, the whole "Friction is directly proportional to the normal force": My Ass!

I could never reproduce it well in the lab, because it's really not true. Take a heavy cube the shape of a book. Orient it so that the spine is on the floor. It's a lot more friction to move it in one direction than in the transverse direction. Yet the normal force is the same. Any kid knows this, and I feel dumb it never occurred to me till someone pointed it out to me.
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There's another with the same vibe for Tetris. I believe it's called fistful of quarters. Not nearly as good, but great soundtrack.
Worth noting that the Cold War ended in the middle of the Osprey's development, and the peace dividend really stretched out the timeline for a lot of programs of that era. With higher consistent funding like we're seeing now, stuff will probably be adopted faster
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I live in Vienna and frequently kayak (not canoe) the Donau. It’s a very fun and adventurous river, and there are lots of little side channels and island (Au) regions that can be explored. In Spring/Summer, it can be a delightful escape from the city, with many lovely little spots to escape to and forget that civilization even exists.

I’ve considered taking it on a longer paddle, for a few days (must of mine are day trips), so this is really a great resource.
Show HN: I made a Neovim-inspired homepage with Vim-like keybindings
I made a Neovim-style homepage that can be fully controlled through keybinds.

My favourite part of this is the theme system
- Catpuccin Mocha
- Claude Code

You can fork the repo and customize it with a simple config.ts file

Demo: https://eers.dev
Gh: https://github.com/eersnington/neovim-style-portfolio/tree/m...
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MCP is all fun, until you add this one malicious MCP server and forget about it