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I would argue it's less satisfying. I like bikes and I still had to look it up.

I'm one of those people who get annoyed if it's too loose. But I can just impose that restriction on myself and look down on people who rely on obscure words.

it sounds like the author (and you?) are using the CLI? I've found the mac desktop app to be great, or at least solve many complaints I had with the terminal version.

One gram of carbs is 4 calories., so more like 400 calories per hour.

It was confusing when the running industry switched from calories to grams of carbs, but that's all anyone talks about now.

Someone should make a website or project and post it on HN, and then set up an AI agent takes the top comments and just implements them.

I live in Sausalito just north of SF. We have a few cameras on the way into town. Seeing this map actually makes me feel safer. Sure there are hypothetical privacy issues, but for me they're easily outweighed by safety. I don't really get the issue. Ideally this information would be available to law enforcement, but would require a warrant. Is the problem that they can access all of this data without a warrant now?

Ya that's a good point for competitive scrabble. However today I think a lot of people's main exposure to Scrabble comes from WordsWithFriends (and recently, the new NYT games version). In those games, there's no penalty for getting a wrong word, it just won't let you play it. In that context, I at least think it would be nice to have a setting with a more limited list... it could be like Chess timed variants.

It's obviously an impossible challenge to draw those contours in language. Wordle did pretty well though! And going the other direction, just allowing everything that could possibly a word, just starts getting ridiculous.

IMO scrabble would be improved by a similar limitation. There's too many nonsense words.

You didn't try them!? If you have the ChaptGPT app it's super simple and worth a try. I talk to it in French a lot. It gets tedious though, because after almost every question it tries to end the conversation with "let me know if I can do anything else to help". I really want it to pretend to be curious and continue the conversation. I've thought that this could be fixed with some better prompting, so I'm excited to try out this app.

we have them for our cats, they're great. Sometimes they're hiding in bushes and we don't realize they're 10 ft away. Other times they're down by the neighbor's house. It's not perfect but it tells us which direction more or less. And definitely more peace of mind if they ever got lost. They

They make breakaway collars so if they get caught on something it won't trap them.

Congrats! I never stopped coding, but AI makes it way more productive and fun for sure.

$100 seems like a lot. I guess if you think about it compared to dev salaries, it's nothing. But for $10 per month copilot you can get some pretty great results too.

What about the era of flash cartoons? Remember "End of Ze World"? In a way that's throwaway crap. Or it could have been written as a comic strip, or animated manually. But Flash kinda opened up this whole new world of games and animation. AI is doing the same.

One that comes to mind is a sort of podcast-style of two cats having a conversation, and in each "episode" there's some punchline where they end up laughing about some cat stereotype. Definitely low quality garbage, but I guess what I mean by "barrier of entry" (sorry for the buzzword), is just that this is going to enable a new generation of content, memes, whatever you want to call it.

It's pretty entertaining.

People always like telling stories. Books, comic strips, movies, they're all just telling a story with a different amount of it left up to the viewer's imagination. Lowering the barrier to entry for this type of stuff is so cool.

I think you have to be pretty pessimistic to not just think it's really cool. You can find issues with it for sure, and maybe argue that those issues outweigh the benefit, but hard to say it's not going to be fun for some people.

For sure! It's an interesting point. But from an economic point of view, it's better for consumers if there are clean boundaries and every layer is commoditized.

And you have to have a monopoly though? Farms provide the most value to the world but there's so much competition that it's commoditized, so as far as I know there's no super valuable farms... Hopefully the same thing happens with autonomous cars, cloud computing, etc.

That's how competition should work. Every layer should have multiple providers until the companies get all of their profits squeezed away and users get the best possible price.

Definitely true in practice, but I don't think we want discretion. What I mean though is as a deterrent, you can either have a "fair" fine that's enforced 100% of the time, or 2x the "fair" amount with 50% enforcement, etc. When it's 100x the "fair" amount with 1% enforcement, and you see everyone else not being enforced, it feels unfair.

That's a pretty extreme example, maybe the idea doesn't hold as much there. But yeah, if 99% of murders weren't prosecuted, the 1% who get charged might feel like they were singled out (and maybe they were, because of some bias or discrimination). Again, 100% enforcement is better.

It feels less fair though. When everyone is driving x mph over the limit but only you get pulled over, it sucks. So I agree for efficiency of enforcement, but I'd rather see 100% enforcement (automated if possible), with more warnings and lower penalties.

why would OpenAI release an open weight model? Genuinely curious.

I haven't used Cursor or Claude much, how different is it from Copilot? I bounce between desktop ChatGPT (which can update VS Code) and copilot. Is there an impression that those have fallen behind?

I thought it was a nice clear summary, I wouldn't care if it was from an LLM. This summary should be at the top of their page. Maybe it'd be nice if there were a Chrome HN plugin that adds a summary like this to all articles on HN so you can get the context before either reading the article or skimming the comments.

A good point. Certainly for raster analysis it doesn't make sense.

But any type of vector data could be modeled on a sphere, right? Points, shapes, lines. And I saw "better" because even the best suited projection will have some small amount of distortion.

Either way, most things use planer geometry so projections are necessary, and you need to have some understanding of how all that works

I remember learning about the infamous missile threat map in a GIS class -

https://georeferenced.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/worldmapblund... https://www.economist.com/asia/2003/05/15/correction-north-k...

the software implementation is much less trivial

Aren't most geospatial tools just doing simple geometry? And therefore need to work on some sort of projection?

If you can do the math on the spheroidal model, ok you get better results and its easier to intuit like you said, but it's much more complicated math. Can you actually do that today with tools like QGIS and GDAL?

Nice work! I also made a recipe app, but after seeing the recipes people generated on yours, I'm choosing not to share it at this time.

Seriously though - vibecoding is great. Even better (or only feasible) as engineers who can dive in when we need to.

My app is iOS and I had never done any Swift. I do have AI generation but that was more of a fun afterthought. The main utility is extracting recipes from the web and having a synced shopping list that I can share with my wife.

on my flight to France

...did you not use Cursor to build it?

What actually changes? ublock origin is still available, right? But it just can't block requests?

My understanding is that adblockers: 1. block requests from certain domains 2. block elements matching certain criteria

Does this change just affect #1?

I love that this comes up every so often on hacker news. I used love Magic Eye as a kid, and have been taking stereo photos on and off ever since. Experimenting with how to take them (moving camera, from a plane, etc), and how to view them (cross view, and putting them into Meta Quest).

Thanks for sharing!

They do? Well not exactly, but even with the multiple iphone cameras, you can do "spatial capture" (https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-vision-pro/capture-dev...), and see it on a Vision Pro. I don't know exactly how it works, presumably somewhat with classic stereo photography from the slightly displaced cameras (wide and ultrawide), and some more complicated computer vision tricks.

But yeah just having the cameras on either side would be great, although you couldn't play around with the distance as easily.