skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always appreciated Ada's approach to arrays. You can create array types and specify both the type of the values and of the index. If zero based makes sense for your use, use that, if something else makes sense use that.

e.g.

type Index is range 1 .. 5;
type My_Int_Array is
array (Index) of My_Int;

It made life pretty nice when working in SPARK if you defined suitable range types for indexes. The proof steps were generally much easier and frequently automatically handled.
And they claim patent protection on it. You have to buy a license for Microsoft.
I'd never dream of driving into Central London because it costs something like $90 to park. The congestion charge is pretty much irrelevant for that use case.

Or is land just far cheaper in Manhattan?
@dang This submission is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43437141 but this submission's link is better.
My dad was a police officer and I grew up in the age of AIDS hysteria. Without any hyperbole, my dad spent more time/words drilling in how to protect myself from police than from AIDS. Granted, I had about as much sex appeal as a paper bag full of day old vomit so maybe that was more about probability of facing risk than actual risk. :)
>national UBI

with what money? we already do a lot of that with de facto negative tax rates for the lowest earners.

You bring up a great option though, I have been working to move to a lower COL(see rural) area already. Part of this plan is a draw down on my participation in the labor market, basically a necessity unless I want to commute multiple hours each way. We have gotten by on much less than I do currently, my QOL was very similar, but I was doing more work for myself and my family, rather than my employer or society.
Cont... To the best of my understanding and lived experiences, there is a strong correlation between 'ethical compromise' on the part of the content creator and how much they can expect to be compromised for their work

1. A donation link in the footer... people only see it if they're looking for it

2. More overt reminders (when KDE added a single yearly popup notification, donations dramatically increased)

3. Adding tiers to step up the donations (e.g. maybe you could convince most of the $3.99 folks to do $4.99)

4. Adding rewards to fuel the funder's egos (I try to send personal emails thanking them but this isn't an explicitly mentioned 'reward' unlike, say, positions in the credits)

5. In addition to rewards, supplementing income with sponsors. The sponsors frequently are exploiting both the creator and the consumer (e.g. Honey), but nevertheless compensation does increase. Also, affiliate programs. Hard to do without your own integrity being compromised when recommending products.

6. 'Dangerous' monetization that plays with emotions. Onlyfans creators creating pseudo-relationships. Entire sponsored videos for stuff like gambling.

Of course, it is hard to argue that the oft. underpaid content producers are really the ones making ethical concessions when they exist under a system that... underfunds them... but nevertheless it is undeniable that there are ethical concessions, and these concessions are made because they increase revenue.

The really really sad part is that you really only see big creators throwing doing this stuff despite already having more than enough, and they always get away with it, whereas if a small creator were to pull this their audience would eat them alive.
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents [video]
Surviving the Hug of Death, a Visualization
Did they ever get 120Hz support on v1, and is it a planned feature for this v2?

On my Quest 3, I find 120Hz to be night and day compared to 90.

EDIT: their promo page says that 90Hz OLED feels like 120Hz LCD for VR.
To be a good manager means to run a team well and get stuff done. To be a good VP means to increase shareholder value. To be a director means you are at some percentage of completion of the soul/morality extraction process that happens when transitioning from the first to the second.
Not only is this preference not restricted to compiler programming, but it's not even restricted to programming.

Try to count 4 seconds, if you start at 1 you messed up.
Babies start at 0 years old. Etc..

I do agree it's a convention though. Months and years start at 1, but especially for years, only intervals are meaningful, so it doesn't really matter what zero is (even though christ is totally king)
"I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

I vaguely remember a quote that goes "No kid ever dreamed about growing up to be a middle manager."

I get that work is just a means to an end, but find something you love to do. If you love management, that's great. I love being an engineer, and prefer to be a player/coach over just a leader, and hate that as I get older my age is looked down on.
And a large majority of people are surprising to those that think they understand economics.
I don't know what you mean by lacking structure, but perhaps you are not aware of all the tools that exist, because fixing surface meshes is a rather classic problem. Just type "surface remeshing" or "surface mesh optimization" on google scholar and you'll see thousands of results.

This is a separate problem from triangulation (turning point clouds into meshes) done with entirely different algorithms. It's likely the software you used for this assumes the user will then turn to other software to improve their surface mesh.

Even for operations that are naturally in sequence, you will often find the software to carry out those steps is separated. For instance turning CAD into a surface mesh is one software, turning a surface mesh into a tetrahedral volume mesh another (if those are hexahedra, then yet another), and then optimizing or adapting those meshes is done by yet another piece of software. And yet these steps are carried out each time an engineer goes from CAD to physical simulation. So it's entirely possible the triangulation software you used does not implement any kind of surface optimization and assumes the user will then find something else to deal with that.
They should just do those things for every car. We don't want a caste system for subway riders. Instead make fees dependent on income level and improve the system for everyone so that more rich people want to use it and the poor people who are forced to use it are better off too.
Yeah I'm not too sure what they should be but the lower probabilities are way off.

For -9 it lists 'shuffling a deck and getting cards in perfect sequential order', which is closer to -68. Also being dealt a royal straight flush is more like 10^-6 unless you get more than 5 cards.

Not that I don't understand why, low probabilities are very tricky to get a grip on. And 'winning the lottery' sounds a lot more likely to people than it should, while having the exact same birthday as someone at work is a lot more likely than you might think.
Zero-Touch Bare Metal at Scale
It's not the first time a major airport is down because of power failure, and other airports are working to address this type of vulnerability.

> The power vulnerability for airports was never made more obvious and painful than in Atlanta seven years ago. An underground electrical system fire in late 2017 damaged two substations and caused a complete outage lasting nearly 12 hours at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport

https://www.microgridknowledge.com/microgrids/article/551275...
thanks for the feedback!

Being a developer, I'm aware that the desktop ecosystem offers a plethora of tools for this.

I think my main inspiration in this project was to combine the simplicity of apple notes with timestamped entries, being able to log notes in this form from any kind of device and having cross-device sync.

I released the local-only version so it will be useful to privacy-minded folks
but I do plan to have a cross-device backup and sync option since I believe it's a very compelling feature.
Though those who need to drive to work are now seeing a reduction in traffic, a better experience, and shorter commutes.

For the working contractors that need to drive their van around no matter what, the reduction in transit times seems like a big benefit.
What is this anti-scientific comment doing on hacker news? Evolution is a fact. It happened and it's still happening. The exact way species evolved is theoretical based on existing facts.
Upboated because I've seen this message a few times and find it interesting, a sort-of meta-relevance.

I've had enough of hn for now anyway, time to log off and go outside.
What qualifies as "low" overhead?

RDP will run without issue over a 56k modem in a low color mode to an RDP Host.
What happens if I don't pay? Are they gonna repo the prime rib out of my fridge?
It's the usual cop out so, a shrug of the shoulders and fire some VPs and start the merry-go-round again.

It seems like most tech corporate structures are to figure out the appropriate place in the org chart to wield the axe, so long as it's lower down.
I know one (McArthur) genius who is a cynical jerk but most of them are deferential outside their domain of expertise. This finding might explain why people think the commander-in-thief is a ‘stable genius’ but I am still puzzled that so many think Rogan is the greatest public intellectual of our day.
It's down almost 50% over a 3 month period. I'd hardly call that "refuses to budge".
Yes to both!

If you haven't yet, read the tau manifesto: https://www.tauday.com/tau-manifesto
IPv4 itself doesn't say anything about how many addresses you could have on an interface, not that I recall.
> Sometimes I hear people say that to succeed in our economy you need to offer the best product for the lowest price--or rather, the right balance between the two.

That statement is for where you are able to compete. If you produce, say, wheat, the best quality product at the lowest price is going to win over the marketplace.

But the tech industry doesn't allow competition thanks to patents, copyright, etc.
The receiver does not need any tax forms in the US.

Payers are obligated to issue tax-related forms in certain circumstances. But the receivers don't even need those to file their own tax paperwork.
> (The old BBC Television Centre in London had three independent supplies, I believe)

There's a story, possibly apocryphal, that the UK nuclear deterrent submarines used the continued broadcast of Radio 4 as a dead-man switch to determine if nuclear war had broken out and they needed to open the safe containing their orders.

Which is to say: What counts as "critical national infrastructure" can be surprising.
Many times, the best managers are the ones that are good hackers in the first place.

I get tired of the "eww, management is where engineers who can't hack it go to die" trope.
? who did biden send back. Its over man, you undid Washingtons work, congrats with that monarch of yours , you fulfilled your destiny to be a European history carbon copy.
You know what I like this much better...rule of thumb updated.
Yes, I am. While I am fully aware the current set of AIs don't have feelings or a consciousness as we know it, I can't help but anthropomorphize them, so I'm polite and even catch myself thanking them sometimes.
Don't forget the time that Apple would show your password in plaintext instead of your password hint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15410953

“If a hint was set in Disk Utility when creating an APFS encrypted volume, the password was stored as the hint. This was addressed by clearing hint storage if the hint was the password, and by improving the logic for storing hints.”
I absolutely support everyone's right and freedom to join a union, so long as it's not mandatory. (The couple of unions I was part of in my life, I didn't have a choice if I joined or not afaik) That freedom of choice is a fundamental good that must be respected.

Without agreeing that unions are the solution, I think I agree that there's certainly some big opportunities to close unfair gaps or disparities between W2 workers and other classes of self employment / businesses (in a very Tech + American centric perspective)

1. Insurances tied to employer, not just health, but also disability and life. IMO this is a major barrier to folks not working for the biggest company they can, it's a subtle form of bias towards direct employment, and by the biggest companies.

2. Retirement and other pretax benefits only (easily) available through w2 employment. IMO the tax benefits and vehicles for accumulating assets should be front loaded and universal... A bit like Canada's TFSA program which gives ~5K a year of tax sheltered investment. It's also a bit weird that certain classes of workers can claim a home office, but a WFH cannot, or can expense their tools, transportation, marketing etc, but W2s cannot... (Try and expense your Linkedin account when you're looking for a new job, that's marketing cost). IMO every employee should be ran as a small corporation that has revenue and expenses, and the IRS has very little say over what was or wasn't necessary for the purpose of maximizing revenue.
Thank you for your response. I was curious to know whether COBOL (and all the other languages from that era) still had real professional value worth seriously exploring. I’ve often been interested in older languages for learning purposes, but I actually rushed through APL too quickly. I had looked at some source code and initially thought it was an exotic programming language because of the many special characters I saw. But I was wrong—this language is quite well-designed and powerful. I'll take a closer look at it; it also seems interesting.

In the past, it was possible to create truly innovative languages, but that is very rarely the case now. We are constantly bound by industrial standards, from syntax to functionality.
I've dedicated Sublime Text specifically for my development notes. I use a single folder in my home directory for all these notes. Every new tab gets a timestamped name and this directory assigned (Yes, my sublime's default behaviour is now this), so if I save it, it goes there.

I also have a shortcut to save all files at once, which is great because I end up with a lot open by the end of the day.

It helps keeping track of info I might need later, like backups, text transformations, optimizing DB queries, curl calls, less important passwords, refining emails with LLMs, drafting prompts, etc.

I love how fast my workflow is now: just switch to sublime, open a new tab, type away, and hit `CMD + Y` to save all at the end of the day or week.

For lookup: Mostly, I remember a few keywords and search across files. They're timestamped, so they're sorted in the sidebar (e.g., `2025-03-20_11-02-15-77dee966.txt`).

Shoutout to Odatnurd, who helped me code the plugin and live-streamed it (link in the forum): https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/how-to-auto-save-unsaved-tab....

Things I wish I had:

1. Structure (A scrollable view, with expandable notes, date range picker, better search)

3. Encrypted backups

I find that there are different kinds of ways in which I think of notes (or note types):

1. Dev notes (scratchpad)

2. Thoughts and logs (don't lose it, when did that happen)

3. Long notes we study/review (lecture notes, obsidian)

I feel Notetime is great for [2]. It's a great idea for building a similar sublime plugin.
This is a cool use case for the Stardate app. I've been using the stardate app for a few weeks, and I love how simple it is to record thoughts on the go. Then, take those notes and put them in an LLM to make them more useful.
On Linux it has a larger netmask and you can have multiple loopback addresses.
Italian Court Orders Google to Poison Public DNS to Prevent IPTV Piracy
Free streets are a handout to suburbanites that drive in and don't have to deal with constant congestion, pollution, noise, and collisions that people living in the congestion zone have to deal with.
Any flow of money will be attacked and diverted over time, as much as it can be, by those with the power to pursue it. The first thing that generally happens is some source of rent-seeking. GMI needs a lot of protections from those kinds of systems.
That's an excellent example of what I like to call "good IT hygiene". I too would like to know what kind of tools you have to perform the functional and integration tests, and to execute the various rollouts.
Maybe. When using ARDOP, my laptop generates an audio stream that is then transmitted over SSB, so theoretically it might work.

We have SSB, audio in/out, and cat control, so all the pieces are there.
Last time I checked into this, the answer was no. This is very much a more EU-focused service, based on the stuff they offer. And even then, they don't pre-collect for VAT like Patreon does.

(I just checked and couldn't get a definitive answer but since it's been 5 years [1] since there was any update on a ticket requesting the ability to offer invoices in PDF form of your monthly receivables, my gut instinct says the answer is still, "no")

[1]: https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com/issues/714
Humans are not perfectly rational actors, and will often make the "wrong" decision when better options are available. Especially when a given decision may not be bad individually, but adds up when a bunch of people make the same decision. In these cases, you have to not only incentivize the behavior you want, but disincentivize the behavior you don't want.
Very much so. France is on v5.2 of their Democracy, while the US is still on v1.27
Beyond the hype – how to actually invest into defence startups
Yes, it’s the same with movies. :)

In the extreme, someone could buy one DVD, rip it, and pass it on (for money or for free, it doesn’t matter) to a chain of hundreds of people who do the same and now all get to keep the movie digitally forever, while the copyright holder only sold the single initial copy.

My point is not to admonish anyone, just to point out how passing on the physical copy while keeping an uncompensated digital copy is inconsistent with the goal of compensating creators proportionally.
> You should absolutely have empathy as a manager, but if your empathy is weighing on you instead of enabling you to be a better manager, then you're probably not doing a very good job as a manager.

That sounds... very peculiar, un-empathetic a point of view, like you are blaming someone for facing a difficult moment.

Case in point, if you were to manage managers, and you had to tell that to one of your report facing such a situation... that would be, in that case, a fail in management on your part.

You don't tell people in a tough spot to "toughen up", "not good for that role", not even in corporate environments.

That's plain toxic. And inefficient (whereas you should be looking for a way to improve the situation/morale in some way, short term, and long term).

So you give them the space to explore the situation, their feelings, and you support them to find their solutions. That's how you lead by example. Not by jumping to conclusion "oh... looks like someone's not fit for the role".
Why our brains crave natural materials in our products and environments
>It is not that we have an unusual proclivity for aggressive violence. On the contrary, most other species are far more aggressive than humans. Chimpanzees, for example, are over 150 times more likely to initiate violence against each other than we are. Rather, our species is characterized by low rates of aggression and conflict but extremely high lethality rates when conflict does arise.

I would argue that increased legality IS increased aggression. A person can whack me with a stick or they can shoot me in the head. One is a more aggressive act than the other.
This is well-put. I think it speaks to "its the journey, not the destination", not learning to ski by only reading books, and Chesterson's Fence[0], off the top of my head.

[0] https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
It's almost like humans universally will use systems of power to further their own aims, rather than altruistic ends. And those who do have an advantage in the accumulation of that power.
i must point out that, statistically, this feels like someone saying "i wouldn't feel safe visiting new york city" and linking to coverage of 9/11
> If you haven't already, consider quitting air travel altogether.

Most people travel by plane because it's the only way to reach their destination in a reasonable amount of time.
Says up to 90Hz
Ah, right! Here's an approximate comparison then, measuring from one of the terminus stations serving central London, according to railway timetable data:

0h 30m - Heathrow

1h 00m - Gatwick

1h 00m - Luton

1h 30m - Stansted

2h 30m - Manchester

3h 00m - Birmingham

3h 00m - Bristol

4h 00m - Cardiff

Plus Channel Tunnel trains:

2h 00m - Brussels

4h 00m - Amsterdam

Looks like I was wrong about Manchester being further than Cardiff though!!
One thing I like in a payments system is when the website goes down from a little bit of traffic.
Another good way I've seen it put is, the difference between underengineering and overengineering is that you can fix underengineering.
Interesting approach. Did you ever try to include other factors into the model ? Such as :

* cost of sales (and crm, and billing)
* cost of infra
* taxes (on income and profits)
* taxes (on salary)
* cost per employee (office, PC, software licenses)
* cost of loans needed for the investment

Would be curious to see how big the ratio remains.
From the video, 5120 × 2560 per eye, operating at "up to" 90hz
That is pretty impressive. Large empty spaces like that are a bit hard to come by in the UK.
There is no F5 key on iphones :)

I couldn't find any simple apple-notes-like app, that is available on all platforms, and allows logging in this style.

my private version of this app has cross-device sync, it's just not fully baked yet since I need to implement some form of signup (google/apple), and there's also the privacy issue people are concerned about which I'm not sure how to address.
You no doubt thought that the only thing wrong with Maoist struggle sessions is that not enough people were their targets.
today the government prints money at will, that can change. They will be creating a new federal power with a strategic reserve, it will get abused eventually.
Really?

If Apple released OpenAI's voice mode, without calling it "AI," referring to a "GPT" or a "model" -- if it was just integrated into the iPhone with a wake word, that absolutely would satisfy Jobs.

The problem with these companies is that they can't visualize how a product works for non-technical customers any more. Because everyone they know lives and breathes Silicon Valley. They see billboards for vector databases on their commute, so they think it's perfectly normal to name a product "GPT."

A product containing a language model should never, ever be called "AI" or "GPT" or even "Intelligence." 10 years ago, the only people who knew what the term "AI" even was were the nerdy readers of pulp scifi novels. I'm half joking but the whole town of silicon valley needs their glasses smashed and to be shoved into a locker.
Not quite. The kernel documentation notes that IP aliasing was the original way to have multiple IPs per interface, but is now obsolete, as multiple IPs are directly supported now (and by "now" I mean 2009-ish, with the introduction of iproute2): https://docs.kernel.org/networking/alias.html

In addition, the manpage for ip-address makes this clear:

> The address is a protocol (IP or IPv6) address attached to a network device. Each device must have at least one address to use the corresponding protocol. It is possible to have several different addresses attached to one device. These addresses are not discriminated, so that the term alias is not quite appropriate for them and we do not use it in this document.

https://linux.die.net/man/8/ip
There's many tools to compare this. Over 3 months, Tesla is down 41% to the Dow's 5%; in the last month, it's 27% vs 2%. In those same time periods, other car manufacturers are actually beating the market.
Software all uses electricity, doesn't it?