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> Also, an AI company would only ever care to purchase, scan, destroy a book once. Presumably many books have more than one copy.

The OP article sounds quite opposite though - that AI companies are doing exactly this - destroying books so only they have the scanned content.

A good quote. I didn’t mean the question as “atheist vs believer argument”, but rather as an environment where ideas are accepted and flourish. Because I understood the parent comment: “He eventually got bored.” as "He got bored by the corporate environment not getting his ideas and thus went to a better organization in that regard."

So now, how was he, the one with brilliant and unorthodox ideas, got accepted in an institution like seminary? How he felt having arguments there, etc. …

>> He eventually got bored. He retired and joined a seminary.

Wow, got bored and joined a seminary - Do you know how does he feel there? A genuine question - Did he expect to get excited and challenged in a seminary?

If this is a fact:

> 1. Patented algorithms that are effectively impossible to license in a commercial setting.

then does anyone know how "OpenCV has been the foundation of countless production systems" is possible, as the OP article claims?

Cool! Do you have some good links about the story behind this development?

>for the /show list, your submission can stay on the "front" there for almost a full week

Good to know this and yes, ShowHN gathers more discussions with the author. One question: is it still true, that a submission can stay for days on /show for days? I read here recently that with the LLM trend of creating software /show became very overcrowded.

Well, the amount of valuable comments that would form a good discussion is highly correlated with the time a project being on front page, isn’t it.

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> What most people dont get ...

The OP Blog post is comparing web versions vs applications. Both on the phone. And arguing that browser representation is often better than app functionality. Using desktop vs small screen phone is a different matter.

BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cm29zmpdj3vt

Could you please elaborate on:

> I'm actually being taxed for owning an EV.

> I don't know why people use 'new' and 'delete' in all the examples ...

Why? Because the blog post is titled "Understanding C++ Ownership System".

> As engineers, scientists, researchers, etc our literal job is to break down problems into many smaller problems and then solve them one at a time.

Our literal job is also to look for and find patterns in these problems, so we can solve them as a more common problem, if possible, instead of solving them one at a time all the time.

Thanks for the clarification.

> Greenlanders … as well as the rest of the EU …

This might be off-topic for the main discussion, but worth to point out: Greenland is not a part of EU.

The actual link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46270918

Perhaps prototype in this case.

The person you are asking doesn’t say that they looked and found the service through ads. They say that the cleaning companies spent 35% on marketing. And therefore everyone that uses these services pays 35% more as a result. Not only customers that find the service through ads.

And remote workers are available for much longer hours than the office workers or comparing to the old times when everybody was in the office.

Makes no sense and is not needed. The original is short enough.

The changes in society are accelerating and thus people cannot adapt fast enough. The society doesn’t necessarily become more complex.

Relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344703

Yes, the upside of the contemporary on-line software distribution is clear. No question about this. "The good old days" :-) reference was only about the comprehensive and ordered documentation that often used to come with the physically shipped software medium.

Right! The good old days when the software used to come in a box with several varied width books containing all these Four, and one named Getting Started.

This same set could be easily "transposed" to the contemporary world of web. With all the proper indexing. Why is this "art" "lost" for most of the software :-( ...

BTW, one Excellent incarnation of this documentation art is on the front page right now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43381627

And here is the original submission in nature.com

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08615-w

All surnames derived from occupations started at certain point of time. Ancestors of Tailor, Smith, Miller, Fletcher, Fisher, Cooper, etc. had different last names at certain time in past. If a change didn't occur these "occupational" names would not exist.

People that work at art galleries are not artists.

Immediately under the title you will find:

> by University College London

Therefore repetition may not be necessary.

It should span over the New Year:

Dec 21 to Dec 31: 11 days is actually Dec 21 to Jan 1: 12 days and still only 5 vacation days.