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Interesting, I just finished the manuscript of a sci-fi novel where one of the narratives is set in an idilic small town, with no scarcity, with AI systems making the life easy for everyone and where learning how to read and write is frowned upon.

Everyone uses voice interface, so writing is looked as an antiquated habit.

I think the separation makes sense. Scheduled meetings spread out through the day rather than grouped together and running efficiently is definitely a bad day for me.

But small, 2-5 minutes interruptions for a quick question never bothered like it seems to do with a lot of people here on HN. I can go back to my focus pretty instantly after a “quick question interruption”.

“New Yorker” magazine I mean. Very long-winded, going into literary tangents, often giving the impression that showcasing the writer’s literary skills are more important than the subject.

Very well written article. Informative, sensible and articulate without going that New Yorker style that I find boring.

Or a conscious choice not related to business. It goes the other way around too, what is obvious to them is not obvious to you.

Yep, I realized that while writing my comment lol

It happened to me when I was reading a new edition of ”The Spoils of Poynton” by Henry James.

There was an essay in the beginning of the book that I started reading on inertia alone (yes, I know, I should have known better). In the first paragraph (maybe first sentence), it spoiled the dramatic ending.

Not only that, in the second paragraph it would give an interpretation of what that means. So I was robbed not only of the plot, but also of a interpretation of my own before reading it. I quit the book after those two paragraphs and never read it.

Nice, didn’t know all those functions had web APIs. Thanks, I’ll give it a try

I have a mobile game idea that is “juggling for blind people”. You would use your phone as the hand to catch and throw balls in the air. All user feedback would be sound (ball going up, then going down) and haptic (catching and throwing the ball).

I am just a web dev so I don’t think I have the skills to make it. Just leaving the idea here in case someone wants to build it

* from Peru

Magicleap also had plenty of smart money behind them. It ceased to be a useful signal for me then.

Yes, that’s a lot of assumptions. That’s why I tried to punctuate that is my opinion, and my view, while speculating how you would use it. Or, more accurately, how “one” would use it, since I know nothing about you and just using the impression that I got from your comment to express my generalization of the issue and my judgemental stance on it.

That said, I am still fully on the side that this use of AI is not IA, agreeing with the author of the post. A “prosthetic leg” is a metaphor for IA, so I don’t think it is that. Neither for creativity, nor for ego actually. It is a subterfuge for, maybe, aiding one into self acceptance of what they can produce artistically.

My advice would be to not use AI and, instead, make an effort into understanding what one can produce without AI, even if it is not aesthetically similar to what others produce. Dig deeper into what one can produce, regardless of any accepted technique for the craft, and that will be art. A more significant art and more humanly creative (by definition) of what the output of an AI would ever be. And a more significant art for any observer/reader, even if it contains what is perceived as rookie vices or mistakes.

I don’t think the machine will find new ways for you to express yourself, it will only find ways you can impress others. As I see it, it is a prosthetic leg for you ego, not your creativity.

The battery gets bad after 4 years. That’s usually the moment I want to buy a new phone already, why invest $99 in a phone that I won’t be using in a year? Better deal with a bad battery for a few months or a year, then already go on and buy a new one.

I never heard of someone who bought a new phone _solely_ for a new battery

> ”Pretty much they buy the new one when the battery of their current one runs bad, typically every 3-4 years.”

I am exactly like this. But I am also use it as an opportunity to upgrade the hardware.

For some time it was memory, although now I am pretty done for 256gb. I don’t need more. Recently it was the new processor+camera. I am not big into photography, but I like to take pictures. And I like them to look great, focused, even with bad light, without doing any setting myself (cause I am ignorant how to do it). Just regular picture of trips, or night with friends. I like the 2x and 0.5x zoom a lot also.

It is also nice for the new updated apps I use to run fast. My 4 yo iPhone SE not only had a bad battery, but it was very slow already.

And, occasionally, some gimmick is actually useful to me, like the notch. I turn off notifications of almost every app, including Uber and food delivery. For those the in-screen info in the notch is very useful.

I’ll probably only buy the iPhone 18 next, but it will be nice have the 5x zoom (maybe more by then) at the least.

Because of this (and I agree it should be banned):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421874

This post is dead not because this post was flagged. It is dead because the user was shadow-banned some time ago.

Whatever they post now shows up as dead

I took the time to find it and dig why they were banned.

Here is dang’s explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421874

It sounds a fair banning for me.

> ” Redundancy in communication is a feature, not a bug”

I completely agree with you.

The article kind of confirmed to me that toasts are good UX.

So OP was correct that a proper use of the foundational layer of HTTP would have saved time, yours in particular, right?

Also, I didn’t get your ”Claude predicted your tone smiley” thing. OP tone seemed polite and clear. Your tone, on the other hand, seemed defensive and dismissive. Even after you realizing that you initially misunderstood what OP said, adding a “I mean” and a “but I like I said” to reinforce you were right even while misreading what OP said (rather than just acknowledging you got it wrong in the first reading).

I would go even further and speculate that you were predisposed to get a dismissive tone from a web forum (your previous Claude test suggests that) so much that you got a perfectly fine comment and misread in a way that it felt in the “wrong tone” to you. Even misunderstanding what the post said. All of that to confirm your predisposition.

No, it was not. Well, kind of depends of what you mean by “back then”. But the term classical music is not a modern creation talking about old music.

The term was created while people were creating this genre of music. Classical originally was meant to refer to things from Antique Rome. But, unlike other art forms, like literature and sculpture, no music from Antique Rome survived, no one knew how it sounded.

This kind of created the opportunity to redefine what “classical” meant in music, so a few people decide, centuries ago, that this genre of music would be called “classical” at that time already, not now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music

“Never” since when?

I was under the impression that Beethoven and the other famous composers after him were pretty big and known internationally in a word without internet. I would call that “mainstream”

If you are talking about 20th century, then I would agree with you

Also my conclusion. Not from personal experience, but the article itself doesn’t seem to justify that classical music ecosystem enables such bullshit. It seemed the fraud had a pretty small impact, which the fraudster being caught pretty quickly.

I feel that any industry or community are vulnerable to some small scale fraud like this.

The fraud investigation and story were pretty interesting and well written though

Apply for jobs at HN Who is hiring, workatastartup.com, wellfound.com, and builtin.com page for your city (if you are in the US).

No leetcode in most cases, but you will have to apply to a lot of jobs (but they are definitely real in those sites).

Keep a spreadsheet to organize yourself and keep applying. It’s kind necessary, but worth it.

Don’t give up! Good luck!

It is a content marketing post, so I don’t expect it to be correct, even if I couldn’t find anything blatantly wrong from my knowledge.

That’s exactly what the post at the beginning implied. That female trees would attract the pollen

An interesting book promotion would meet HN criteria I think. There’s no reason it shouldn’t

Just so it doesn’t seem that unanimous, I feel always obligated to say that I enjoyed Thimbleweed Park’s ending as well as Return to Monkey Island’s ending. RtMI ending actually grows in me each time I think or read about it. I consider now to be one of the best endings I ever saw in a game (I do not play that many games though)

The linked post about who killed adventure games is pretty good too:

https://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/79.html

This is only an issue if you send commands to a LLM as you were communicating to a human.