Hacker News: slevis

New comment by slevis in "Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover"

slevis — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 14:56:33 +0000

Just looked through the entire website to answer this question. Seems like they only accept english books :( "Types of ebooks we don’t accept: - Non-English-language books. Translations to English are, of course, OK." (https://standardebooks.org/contribute/collections-policy)

New comment by slevis in "Palma 2"

slevis — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:19:11 +0000

Well, the bigme hibreak pro might be what you are looking for

New comment by slevis in "Palma 2"

slevis — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:17:09 +0000

Bigme Hibreak Pro is currently the better option imo. Especially for those who want it to be even more phone-like

New comment by slevis in "Reflecting on WikiTok"

slevis — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:53:46 +0000

> This phrasing seems to suggest they think they invented the idea of "TikTok but it's Wikipedia".

The author is giving credit. Literally the opposite of your interpretation.

> I had the same idea in my notes app dated a couple years ago.

On the other hand this seems as if you now want to claim to be the inventor of the idea?

New comment by slevis in "California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers"

slevis — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:23:12 +0000

It would be imo worse if the information just gets lost once 23andMe shuts down. Make genome and health information open access.

New comment by slevis in "Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline"

slevis — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:12:14 +0000

If it feels hard to reason on, it might be a hint... Sales people provide value. Maybe a sales person would have told this project to focus on being an alternative to Notion or Google Docs, as they are different apps/use cases.

The only reason why they might need less developers is because they are a copying an existing product, so less R&D. There is no reason to assume that the teams behind Notion, Outline, Google Docs ... are less effective than the French Government.

New comment by slevis in "Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline"

slevis — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:17:38 +0000

Obsidian is on a fundamental level a very different app to Notion (you already mentioned the web app, databases, ...). It is also not even close to being "hackable to the core", it is not open source. That title belongs to Emacs.

New comment by slevis in "Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline"

slevis — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:02:51 +0000

> All the people who were working on Notion now can go get some on the job training to learn to farm.

This would only work if the government replacement would be more efficient than Notion (in the sense that the French government employs less people for a product of the same quality).

New comment by slevis in "Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline"

slevis — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:52:13 +0000

Several companies have tried to "reproduce" Notion and have failed. I don't like or use Notion but that is just extremely ignorant of the USP behind it. Dunning–Kruger much?

New comment by slevis in "What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)"

slevis — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:56:30 +0000

Do people really really agree with "Shorthand constructs that combine statements decreases difficulty"? The author even identifies a problem with the example from the original guide.

New comment by slevis in "Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)"

slevis — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:38:42 +0000

This is my main problem with Ecosia as well. I don't believe planting trees is really a good option to help the climate and I have zero trust in tracking progress of those projects in a lot of countries. I would much rather them e.g. investing in solar or sponsoring open source projects.

New comment by slevis in "Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)"

slevis — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:33:40 +0000

... because AI Chats are consuming more energy than search? This is a flawed argument. Internet search also started out using more energy than looking up things in your local library, so maybe we should go back to that?

There is no way around increased AI usage. Would be great if Ecosia plays a key part in its adaption to balance it with environmental goals.

New comment by slevis in "Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index"

slevis — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:23:55 +0000

With Ecosia I always have to think about the actual impact of planting trees. Imo there are better options to help the climate. And I have zero trust that tracking progress in some countries is really possible. But better than nothing.

New comment by slevis in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

slevis — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:16:30 +0000

I am using Ada atm. Not a "modern" language but I believe it might have a great future :)

New comment by slevis in "GLP-1 drugs – the biggest economic disruptor since the internet? (2024)"

slevis — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:26:10 +0000

Some comments below someone claimed the opposite... do you have any studies?

New comment by slevis in "GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)"

slevis — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:07:51 +0000

Well, the author did not reference any actual studies. But some people here have shared an effect on their general impulse control. Do you have any pointers to good studies about this effect?

New comment by slevis in "GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)"

slevis — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 20:23:54 +0000

Because the author assumes that the drugs are not only anti-obesity drugs but impulse controlling

New comment by slevis in "GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)"

slevis — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 20:21:32 +0000

Is GLP-1 really changing general impulse control? But I do buy the argument. If impulse controlling drugs are going to be effective, the economic impact is basically not quantifiable... not only the economic impact but it would change society as a whole in extremely fundamental ways (e.g. dating)

New comment by slevis in "AI Is Stifling Tech Adoption"

slevis — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:23:17 +0000

Looks like I might be the minority, but I disagree with this prediction. Better models will also be better at abstracting and we have seen several examples (e.g. the paper LIMO: Less is More for Reasoning) that with a small amount of training data, models can outperform larger models.