skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COBOL will guarantee your employment, but beware that anything written COBOL is going to be deeply corporate stuff. It will mean that it is hosted by a company that doesn't need nor want to change, or worse that it's reluctant to put any money into upgrading its infrastructure.

The reason people don't want to do it is because it's not fun at all. I once had a project where the client was a bank that needed some COBOL work done. They needed to make a few changes to a program that had been running for years. They gave me the program in printouts. Like I had 200 pages of COBOL to read. And the people working there were people who had been transfered here because they were not good. So they had no idea about what they were doing. The whole thing was extremely frustrating and we ended up dropping the project.
i bet you could charge money for these fixes, and there will be sufficient people willing to pay for it, to make a great side business.
> Except, of course, -0 doesn't exist.

Not for integers on modern hardware. If only hardware used ones’ complement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones'_complement)… ;-)

Meanwhile, the workaround is to use -1 through -5 to index from the end of the array.
Agree. It seems that despite model improvements our brains can still distinguish many kinds of AI generated text from human writing.
A big part of the treadmill is that frontends are seen as interchangeable low level investments steered by sales. Short term superficial requirement drive development often by an external team. Funding for sustaining them is scarce. So after a few years - the original team disbanded except maybe a small fraction and when the list of must have changes become too painful a new team is assembled and with it comes a need to differentiate itself from the legacy and assert control of architecture and purse.
Rubber Hand Illusion Reduces Pain Perception
Do people really think stuff like this makes you look cool? It's super cringe. The only way you get away with being that stupid and that much of an asshole to a room of adults is by being the CEO. This isn't some insightful observation, if the phone was waterproof the demo would have just looked silly as it sank despite having available room. Why did you even ask the question if you already decided the answer?

The engineers know that the phone isn't literally a solid brick of electronics and "can't be made smaller" is normal human speak for "can't be made smaller without time and money we don't have to do it." The smart thing would have been just saying he wanted the iPhone to be smaller, money and resources is no object and we're willing to dedicate time/people to this project to get proposals put together.

Jobs was very good at his… uhh job but stuff like this isn't an example of it.
We're not talking about regulation, but directly responsible professional software engineer licensing.

The federal government classifies most software people as a computer specialist, not an engineer.
> stubborn devs, a loaned Milk-V box, and a middle finger to pragmatism.

That's not what's happening here though? With skepticism, they're willing to give it another try because someone loaned them the needed hardware. They're being pragmatic, and they're not stubborn about supporting RISC-V, as they indicate that if there are more problems they'll drop it again.
I learn of them through my friends, and when I'm actively looking for products or services to meet a need I have.

Ads aren't helpful, for the most part, even if they're about something that I might be interested in. They're very rarely actually informative enough for that.

Even if they were generally useful to me, I'd go out of my way to avoid them because of the data collection that comes with them. I certainly wouldn't be willing to take part in a system where I get paid to see them, because that automatically would involve identifying and tracking me.

By the way... this:

> If you email us and do not receive a reply within 24 hours, you are entitled to $10,000 in a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. federal government, the Department of Defense, telecommunications companies, and defense companies.

Makes whatever this effort is sound deeply unserious. Is that the intent?
> I will now spend some time looking up five articles of American citizens detained in some way in Europe and other parts of the world.

If this wasn't hyperbole, I'm interested in the results.

(With a narrow definition of "other parts of the world", some US citizens arrested in Iran won't exactly be a surprise.)
Sure, but desalination is very power hungry. In Oman they managed to get a desalination plant to be 1/3 directly covered by solar in the desert and they still need alternative power for when that 1/3 is unavailable. Battery costs are still high. If it was that easy, it would be done.
Woah!

You have no idea how much "hole" you just filled in my lexicon. Have been articulating this all wrong for years.
Imagine that the last Major OS release was going to be a bug fix release ... but then AI happened. And imagine this happens every year with some new feature demanding it be shipped.

Having said that, here's the reality of bugs that are assigned to a team. Feature work comes first. The (older) engineers don't want this — they want to fix bugs, refactor code, get rid of tech debt. But ever since Jobs returned to Apple, it's become top-down and the engineers are no longer driving the ship. Management want the features.

So, the slippery part is this: once you defer a bug for an OS release and ship your product, deferring that bug in the next OS is a no-brainer. You already shipped with the bug, why is it so important this time around? So users/devs learn to work around the bug.

Occasionally, as an old-timer, I would on a whim just fix an arbitrary bug that was "bugging" me. Sadly though, the process had become so top-down though that I would also need: 1) someone to code-review the changes (and so already you are encountering your first obstacle requiring "buy in") and then 2) get permission from "management" (this might be the BRB, bug review board) in order to submit the fix and the Radar. (There are periods though when they are lax and bugs can be submitted with little justification — or we would just make up some bullshit to get the bug fix in).

I recall the early days with fondness when a dev just checked fixes in.

Me: Craig, are you working on the Crop tool in Photos?

Craig: Yeah, why?

Me: How does it pick the default for whether to use Portrait or Landscape? Half the time I think the default it picks is wrong. Why not look at the image bounds and default to Landscape if it is wider than it is tall?

Craig: Good idea. I'll make the change now and write a Radar for it later.

Also, a shout out to Brendan who would push back when in a feature meeting with something like, "Okay, which of these features can we drop? Because we have some serious technical debt we need to address that was not own your feature list."
They do their own research when they're ready.

I'm interested in product type X when I'm ready to buy product type X and thus do my best googlefu search for product type X.

I don't need to see nor know about product type X 5 years before I'm ready to purchase it.

This is the fallacy of advertisers. They think that you as an individual are too stupid to do any legwork of your own. They treat consumers like toddlers and drooling idiots.

And said "new products and services" are /not interesting/ to me until I'm ready to engage with said product or service.
I think so:

1. It's only a drop out two of alcohol

2. Carbonated drinks are at a very high pressure already.

I could, if I wasn't feeling lazy right now, do the math to compare the two pressures. Its easy stuff - two drops of alcohol combusted + assumption all the combustion products are ideal gases vs Henry's law for CO2. This last one will require looking up how much co2 is dissolved in the product, but thats not too hard.

But, like the other commentator pointed out.... there's only one way to find out.
Created an issue https://github.com/nafey/minimalytics/issues/4

A little sad since I wanted to try it out
You can think of it as buying yourself more free time to do things other that dealing with computers. One of the things in the union contract is literally the ability to buy yourself another month of vacation in addition to those twenty something days you get by default.

It makes even more sense if you take having children into account. I want to play dark souls with my son more than I want to deal with some css, form validation or api integration bullshit. Once he grows up, I will never have this moment back.
There is another video in the article where it runs quite swiftly up and down the hill. Definitely doesn't feel curated.
Please go find us a 2 liter soda bottle being sold in the United States in 2025 that is made of glass.
After the pandemic it picked up as a result of the pandemic drop off, but it settled.
In the UK there are FTTH products being rolled out by a variety of companies in addition to BTs (and virgins) fibre networks. Many of which are being bought out by the biggest of these alternative fibre providers CityFibre. Many of the ISPs on CityFibre aren't able to buy the IPv4 space they need and are too young to have acquired it years ago like the older ISPs have. Instead they use CGNAT to provide service IPv4. Carrier grade NAT is definitely an issue for the average person because the bank websites often don't work properly/kicks off security as they expect unique IPs for their customers.

The need for CGNAT on IPv4 I can understand, it shows the extent of the problem and cost of acquiring IPv4 addresses, but they are also choosing to not deploy IPv6. Unlike the older ISPs they have no legacy to worry about with hardware to be upgraded and reconfigured and potentially a complex roll out, some of these companies are mere years old. When that use case can't bring IPv6 to the ISPs I have no idea what will.
Nice work! Is it possible to hide the seconds?

Btw, F5 in Notepad inserts a time stamp.
Nobody is buying a $20k home robot to replace a home dishwasher.

But they might to replace a commercial manual dish washing position.

Which begs the question - why don't restaurants use actual dish washers? They have a "Commercial dish washer machine", but that's actually just a final sterilizing step, and restaurant dishes are instead washed by hand.
The Unitree robot is much more impressive.
absolutely not Boston Dynamics.

Fake 3D Video.
What vandalism are you referring to? I wasn’t referring to any cases where any kind of property damage occurred.
North Korea launches new unit with a focus on AI hacking
Disagree. Class consciousness is about realizing that societal classes correspond to their relation to the means of production, not the concrete wage being earned. The majority of developers is part of the proletariat, at least according to Marx.
If there are monopolies everywhere, and a lack of competition (which is the definition of a monopoly), how does that not reflect on the health of the free market and competition?
That’s why you make public schools better instead of drain more money from them to give a limited number of people lifeboats. It doesn’t matter if individuals acting in their own interest would choose to use them. Of course they’d use the vouchers for their own kids even if that meant a little less money available for public schools.

The fact that people would use the vouchers is not proof that the vouchers are a good idea or that public schools are not. It is simply the very predictable outcome of pretty much any time you give individuals the choice to act in their own self-interest over the needs of the population as a whole.

Many/most people if given the choice would also opt to skip jury duty, or to not pay taxes, or to cut to the front of busy lines. This is not evidence that those things are bad. It is evidence that you can’t give them the choice
Category error. Federal departments are changes to the structure and function of government that should require Consitutional Amendments. The imbibing of Diet Coke by the POTUS is not substantial to the structure and function of government.
Looks like there is an admin panel demo, but can't find the login/password
Numbers are a joke. I count from A-Z and then Aa Ab Ac ...

I have Ar apples for sale.

Only $A.J each!
1-based numbering is nonsense. How many years old are you when you’re born?

I notice almost all defenses of 1-based indexing are purely based on arbitrary cultural factors or historical conventions, e.g. “that’s how it’s done in math”, rather than logical arguments.
What’s the overlap between “wants indie games” and “students who don’t work hard on their grades but could”?

There’s a danger that students will see indie games as being “games that aren’t good enough to be worth anything” which could be reinforced by them being given away by schools.

What would the schools get out of it?

If this worked, would it undermine students’ intrinsic motivation and set them up for failure further down the line?
“They come to US so they have a better chance of working in US” seems like it isn’t a counter point.
It's robotics, which is an actually difficult technology. What Boston Dynamics has achieved in the past two decades is impressive.

It took decades for computers, after they appeared in government projects, to become ubiquitous. There were many problems to solve.

In our era, we're just used to average companies hyping up piddling, niche products by calling them new technologies. Sure, if the 'technology' is an electric juicebag squeezer or something, someone can get it from research to market within a year.

All that is aside from whether it's a good idea to thrust robots into the world as quickly as possible. Between robots and AI, we could lose a billion jobs in a short time period.
My high school chemistry teacher did this a few times with a water cooler bottle. In fact, the morning of our graduation, we were having breakfast at the school when he walked on stage holding a water cooler bottle and a lighter. I think he must have used too much alcohol that time because it blew out the bottom of the bottle and the rest of it shot several feet in the air.
Germany and Britain issue warnings about traveling to America
> I suppose 1-based index is more logical

Why?
I guess that's why, though the government would then have an incentive to seize as much as it can legally seize.

It'd be one thing if the bitcoin was just thrown in a hole or destroyed. A strategic reserve is a financial asset though, the government will want to grow that fund to help fund pet projects while running a ridiculous deficit.
git clean refuses to work ?
Historically, a sherrif. Later, local police departments.
has band pass filters around the ham bands, so you’ll lose sensitivity the further you get from a ham band in general.

Thank you, was looking for this.
I concur with this. Been using it on my side project that only have a front-end. The "back-end" is 100% InstantDB. Although for me, I found that the permissions part a bit hard to understand, especially when it involves linking to other namespace. Haven't checked them for a while, maybe they've improved on this...
Musk Set to Receive Top-Secret Briefing on U.S. War Plans for China
Relax...the weekend almost here... :-)

Did not intend to be smug...honestly..not really. :-) In my defense, I have more than 20 years corporate experience in tech AND finance domains, in more than 25 countries. And in the cultural domains of the five different languages I am familiar and whose grammar I regularly brutalize. Can't recognize the problem you are describing, as the mountain that would stop any company from start using LibreOffice.

All that logic in Excel sheets is just a serious governance problem...

"How an Excel error cost JP Morgan $6 billion" - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eriklidman_how-an-excel-error...
See: Bram's Law https://web.archive.org/web/20170629144859/http://www.advoga...

> The easier a piece of software is to write, the worse it's implemented in practice.

In this case, as LEDs become easier and more accessable to implement, they are implemented worse in practice.
I like the idea, but not the web-based implementation. Local first, and ideally an open source app that can work offline when I'm going distraction free.

It feels like a vim plugin. It definitely feels like org-mode can do this.

A few years back I had a little command line tool where I could log things quickly - it was like syslog for humans - but with #hashtags for projects or clients, and then a small tool that would work out how long I'd spent on different things. It required me to write a log every time I finished a task or a pomodoro. I might resurrect that, but having an open file has been cute for me for quite a while, and then I can go back and copy/paste what I need to draft docs and so on.

I do think "note taking" as an app is actually under-served. There's lots of wiki plugins, org-mode, tons of "productivity tools", but actually a single app that lets you just write, then helps you with review (and timestamps, contexts and so on are essential to that), and then figure out actions/todos and gives you seamless interaction with those, and integration with 3rd-party tools (I don't want to copy and paste between vim/emacs/JIRA/asana/notion/trello/apple notes/calendar reminders/outlook tasks/whatever), would be very, very neat.
Yes! And I would edit my original comment if HN wasn't such a POS site!
This pretty closely matches with my experience, and I’m not sure when people show these amazing tools or games built with vibe coding, exactly what percentage is, especially when they talk about not reading the code and just pushing accept all.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s amazing, but it’s also just wrong a lot and develops weird habit, like assuming it knows certain business logic rules that you’ll want, even when you explicitly say you don’t want them, and silently bringing them back during later iterations.

Also, and maybe I either know too much or too little about LLMs, but if you’re training data has lots of bad examples, why necessarily will LLMs keep getting better and better? How does an LLM decide between a good pattern and a bad pattern, particularly for patterns that are not commonly represented in the training data?
Yeah, I do something similar with org-node (org-roam alternative) where every capture templates has an inactive timestamp at the end before the tags.

i.e. Idea: Build minesweeper in the terminal with Ratatui @ [2025-02-05 Wed 18:01] :@someday:

And then I capture it in a daily note (or very rarely refile it) that has an org-id. Then everything gets connected with links and backlinks.

I keep the usual CREATED in the properties drawer empty in case I want to turn that heading into a node for linking at some point.

Though I'm still figuring out some things about my approach as I go. One thing is clear, org-mode can be adapted to quite a lot of workflows regardless of their weirdness or efficacy.
It accounts for them in as so far as acknowledging their existence and assigns them limited scope.

What this paper misses is the behavioral economic aspects that these regulations promote, or more importantly do not promote.

They can see the trees but are missing the forest.
I don't think a glass bottle would break at this scale, but it would be too heavy to fly
Agility and flexibility are practical tasks... on the battlefield... who else is going to pay for these...
"The use of civilians as human shields is not novel.8 Evidence of the
practice dates back to the American Civil War9 and the Second World War.10
The practice has also been documented in the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam
War. 11 United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping forces similarly faced attacks from
weapon systems placed within civilian areas or hostile forces that used civilians
as human shields, for example, in Beirut in the early 1980s and Somalia in the
early 1990s.12 The human shields tactic was also employed by Saddam
Hussein’s Iraq in many of its conflicts.13"

https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/rubinste...
Or wired connection. There are drones that use fiber to resist to electronic attacks. Of course, it's basically for suicide missions only where you fly directly into deep enemy-controlled territory.
Many of us in New England share your feelings, along with frustration and anger about feeling powerless to stop it.
I've been trying to get it to scream with some humorous results:

Vibe:

Voice Affect: A Primal Scream from the top of your lungs!

Tone: LOUD. A RAW SCREAM

Emotion: Intense primal rage.

Pronunciation: Draw out the last word until you are out of breath.

Script:

EVERY THING WAS SAD!
His persistent presence over what can only be called a disaster of the first magnitude is indeed puzzling.
It definitely feels much more homogeneous than it did 10+ years ago. I notice now that in discussions on for example women's rights we exclusively have men talking about how they perceive women to be affected, but "back in my day" it was not uncommon for actual women to share their perspectives. HN has become such a cold house for anyone outside the preferred demographic that they seem to have almost entirely left.
> I think Anubis is a good first start, but the fact that it uses a fixed size stamp, a small one, does not have a reputation database, and from what I can tell, does not have a robust detector of good versus bad players. These shortcomings will make it challenging to provide adequate protection without interfering with good players.

That's what it's intended to be right now. I've been thinking out how to do a reputation database; I'm half considering using a DHT like BitTorrent's for a cross-Anubis coordination (haven't filed an issue about this because I'm still noodling it out into a spec). I'm also working on more advanced risk calculation, but this kind of exploded out of nowhere for me.
> as a once remote cottage guy
You imply you no longer live like this. What made you stop?
No, the issue is:

> without explicitly being asked to do so

You may argue that if you're installing Calibre, you want document file types to be associated with it, but it'd still be nicer if the user was given an option not to do that in the installer itself, instead of just overwriting whatever other file type associations user has had.
Yeah it seems like there’s a serious fundamental problem, or multiple, beyond just the yearly cadence.

Because they still managed to fix all the egregious bugs by August every year, as late as Mojave in 2019.

From my recollection at least.
Convex I didnt know yet - looks really crisp (even has svelte support) !
Do you have experience with it? Does it support (decentralized) E2E?
the [4] is such that since you've told me that its AI , my brain can say that of course its AI , but if you hadn't told me that , I might have thought that maybe this guy speaks like this or reading it in monotonous-ish way (like reading from a script?) and wants to sound professional.

Crazy.

Though I still wish open source to better than elevenlabs. but its all just a dream.
Numbering should start at π (2025) (umars.edu)

Seriously, it all depends on whether u're counting the items themselves (1-based) or the spaces btwn them (0-based).
The former uses natural numbers, while the latter uses non-negative integers

For instance, when dealing with memory words, do u address the word itself or its starting location (the first byte)?

The same consideration applies to coordinate systems: r u positioning urself at the center of a pixel or at the pixel's origin?

Almost 2 decades ago I designed an hierarchical IDs system (similar to OIDs[1]). First I made it 0-based for each index in the path. After a while I understood that I need to be able to represent invalid/dummy IDs also, so I used -1 for that. It was ugly - so I made it 1-based, & any 0 index would've made the entire ID - invalid

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_identifier