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> Can you please provide some evidence that this kind of scripted and recitation-heavy instruction is beneficial compared to other approaches?

Singapore/Hong Kong/Japan/Taiwan/Macau dominating the PISA

Same in French

That’s a great point, in a similar vein I routinely see people post photos on social media taken with their phone, side by side with a photo taken by a high end camera, saying “I bet you can’t tell the difference, expensive cameras are a waste of money when phones are so good”.

Well of course, you’re comparing 1.5 megapixels compressed JPEGs. If you display those photos on a large monitor - let alone print them - the differences will be immediately obvious.

The industry is mature and trying to squeeze out every cent it can from as many customers as possible now.

Boring flat UIs are more amenable to being endlessly tweaked and AB tested by product managers with no vision other than “make metric go up”. UIs are thoroughly tested to ensure people will engage with the product as long as possible, in the ways that are most beneficial to the product owners.

It’s the difference between hanging out in your friend’s backyard, and hanging out in Disneyland.

As a user, it sucks. Only way out is to actively pursue and use software made by small, human developers rather megacorps. There is still fun, quirky software out there but it doesn’t have $100M marketing budgets so it’s on you to find it.

Right, and the point ppl are making upthread is that deterministic signal processing and probabilistic reconstruction approaches are apples and oranges.

That analogy would only make sense if a Louis Vuitton bag was the same price as a North Face one yet outperformed all the competition when you take it on a 3 month backpacking trip

Except it doesn’t

Birds who can soar for hours on end with thermals won evolution as far as I’m concerned (they have befriended the spirals)

If you spend time around bicultural people or 3rd culture kids you’ll find this is definitely an issue.

Eventually most people figure things out and make the most of it in adulthood, but it definitely makes for teenage/young adult identity crises that monocultural people don’t have to deal with.

Has no one made a nifty app that shows you what cable is plugged in to what port? Or is that not even technically feasible?

It's a weird state of affairs. I spent a lot of time around doctors through family and an (ex) significant other, and my take is that you just can’t absorb the quantity of material they have to, and do the quantity of things that is required of them, without becoming a bit disconnected as a result.

The fact that med school + residency means you basically have to put your life on hold throughout all of your 20s while other people are figuring out the whole “being a young adult in the world” thing leads to very… particular emotional development.

Medical school doesn’t particularly encourage questioning the status quo or established practices.

Some of them can recalibrate after a few years in the real world, but many never really escape that bubble. It’s hard to radically change your outlook on life in your 30s (let alone when you now have to repay huge debt, in the case of many American doctors)

The problem with video games is that publishers want to get on as many platforms as they can, so they have no loyalty to any specific hardware platform, which goes against Apple’s entire modus operandi - Apple wants its 3rd party developers making things only for Apple platforms, so that it’ll be really hard for customers to switch.

The only way to get around that in gaming is to have 1st/2nd party developers (like Nintendo/Sony tend to do), but making games has never been in Apple’s culture. Movies/TV shows are a bit closer to their DNA, and they’ve started producing those with mixed results - games would be a much taller order.

Seems trivially demonstrable because you can just chain things forever?

Mary ran after the dog and the dog was brown and a cat came along and…

There's an interesting phenomenon where any time a long time HN user says that discussion quality has been declining (something many have reported), a moderator will essentially say that people have been claiming that for as long as they've been moderating, but that it does not match their observations.

I've always found that contradiction interesting (and puzzling).

> pure stubbornness or some weird, jealous hoarding mentality happening on the museums side

Little people fighting for their big egos are far from uncommon in those institutions.

> Is there no equivalent to "contempt of court" in french law? Is this typical?

The French legal system has been under extreme duress over the last decade or so.

https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/04/02/justice-la-c...

Bet lost.

If as a technologist you can’t imagine companies making money selling software to happy customers without relying on the brittle trendy framework du jour, my only advice would be to spend less time making silly bets with strangers on internet discussion boards and more time looking at boring profitable companies.

I have UIKit (iOS) code that’s over a decade old and still compiles and runs perfectly (it might look a bit off on new hardware form factors - eg content bleeds into the notch - but that’s about it).

I have Python + Tkinter code that’s close to two decades old and still runs great (doesn’t look great tho but it didn’t look great at the time either).

I have some vanilla JS websites that are about as old and still work great.

As other commenters have noted, boring stable choices are there. Ignoring them for the fancy novel brittle stuff is entirely on the programmer.

Alright, talk is cheap, show me the code.

Is Cyc essentially a 15 million line long Prolog program? Based on the article’s hand wavy description that’s the best I can put together.

OLED should be coming to MacBook Pros within a year or two. If your current laptop still works for your needs, I’d wait for that to upgrade.

I'm not sure where you saw the intent to shut it down - OP is doing a great job being involved with their kid, if only every parent was like this! - just making sure people don't get confused about what is going here, as we routinely see (including on this very site) tech people who genuinely believe that human teachers can and should be replaced with AI.

The important bit here is that you spent time with your kid and engaged with her, not the tech that you put in front of her.

Neal Stephenson, when asked on how to make the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer real: “Kids need to get answers from humans who love them”

> One of the things special to me about the night watch is that it's huge in real life which I never really appreciated before I saw it. In contrast, the Mona Lisa at the Louvre was disappointingly tiny.

I had the same experience seeing a print of Hokusai’s Great Wave. For whatever reason it was built up in my mind as a huge piece, but in reality it’s the size of a standard sheet of paper.

Those 100MP digital medium format cameras are the most exciting tech in photography of the whole 21st century as far as I’m concerned.

For my “serious” photography work I shoot medium/large format film, and every digital camera has left me non plussed. I may be a little obsessive about image quality, but what’s the point of dropping $5k on a setup that gives worse results than a wooden box and a sheet of film?

Then I got the Fuji GFX100 (the Hassy was a little out of my range :-) and… wow. Totally different ball game. I can finally produce digital images that rival film scans.

Seeing what museums have been doing with them has been super cool.

> Apple recorded almost 100 billion in profit in 2023. They can afford to hire every single UX and UI designer on the face of the planet with that money

Lots of senior people have left in the last 10 years, and Covid/RTO dialed up the exodus to 11. Many of the best Apple designers - the ones who had been there for over a decade or two, with lots of deep, hard to acquire skills/knowledge - are gone, and they made so much money from stocks that there’s nothing Apple could offer to bring them back, seeing as the reason they left is that they missed the scrappy high impact environment of the 2000s/early 2010s and got tired of the trillion dollar company vibes.

It’s a tough problem to prevent, and it’s only going to get worse.

A tangential but related problem is that old school designers came from a very different background than modern day UX designers - since UX wasn’t formalized as a field back then, it was industrial design/print design/architecture/software nerds who found themselves having an interest in designing UIs who got the jobs. Today’s junior UX designers all have the same portfolio of hamburger menu apps and nonsensical personas and are lost the moment they have to design something more complex than an informational website in Figma. There might be 1000x more UX designers today than there was 20 years ago, but finding amazing ones in all the noise is harder than it ever was (the same way you can find tons of junior devs who can copy paste React code from chatGPT, but good luck finding devs that can write clean high performance code).

The company is still streets ahead the competition in many areas tho so I’m not too worried about the stock price for the next 5-10 years. Beyond that, who knows.

The image of SJ in a leather jacket flipping off IBM often comes to my mind. Apple is as old, has as many employees, and is much richer, than IBM was at the time this picture was taken. Time for founders to go take pictures of themselves flipping the bird in front of AP.

This is a bad analogy. The factory producing crayons doesn’t need to ingest hundreds of millions of copyrighted works as a fundamental part of its process to make crayons.

Because they invested billions of dollars into making said devkit and despite seeming promising the actual general usefulness of it was still extremely unclear, so it was down to 2 choices: a) kill it, or b) ship it and see what happens when the rubber meets the road.

Arguably Apple has never done b) before, but then again they’ve also never poured billions into a R&D project like this before. (The only other example that comes to mind is the car, and that one got killed, so maybe they were loath to kill the two billion dollar science fair projects at the same time).

Posted last week: ImRAD is a GUI builder for the ImGui library

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41261426

SF is probably the city with the strongest Japanese influence in the continental US though. Idk if your observations would hold in Houston, Chicago, or Miami.

> Westerners will pay small fortunes for a cloud subscription bassinet but can't create the basics of a functioning community.

What a weird way to phrase things. It has been systematically dismantled and taken away from them over the last few centuries by a relatively minuscule group of people with vested interests.

Your comment is too late, I already launched my startup that stores data in 3 databases calling “patent-pending human biology based neural retrieval” and raised a $15M series A

> I would guess that my biggest issue is not the details of the IAP, but rather marketing. I don't really do much of it outside the occasional tweet or social media comment. These blog posts are my primary marketing strategy.

Spot on. Makers think releasing the product is the end. It’s actually just the beginning. Now that your product is released, you will live and die by the sword of marketing.

As an indie developer, I made a month worth of sales in 3 days when a YouTuber mentioned my app. Not even a big YouTuber (few tens of thousands subscribers).