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they aren't really edge cases, once you do this you add 1px to the layout unevenly - I run into this frustration with grid all the time
I'm assuming Biden was actively lobbied by many, many interests to stomp on the railway worker strike a couple years ago. Do you think there's any weight to that?
Party A - we don't have any bright idea right now (some of us are starting to admit we haven't had any for quite a while). While we figure out what to do, at least not rip the copper wires out the walls and set fire to everything? Please?

Party B - "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
There's a big problem with trying to conduct long term projects such as space travel if the administration is going to be spreading lies about the projects in order to appeal to their voters. It means that organisations can't just try to go for the best ideas, but instead has to try to keep changing tack to keep any kind of funding.
Although, rumor is that Apple complying with the USB-C directive was just a stop-gap on the way to them removing the charging port altogether.

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/16/slimmer-iphones-without...
The way that gitlab shines is just fundamentally better than GitHub actions.

It's really easy to extend and compose jobs, so it's simple to unit test your pipeline: https://gitlab.com/nunet/test-suite/-/tree/main/cicd/tests?r...

This way I can code my pipeline and use the same infrastructure to isolate groups of jobs that compose a relevant functionality and test it in isolation to the rest of the pipeline.

I just wish components didn't have such a rigid opinion on folder structure, because they are really powerful, but you have to adopt gitlab prescription
> iterating a GitHub Actions workflow is a gigantic pain in the ass. Capturing all of the important logic in a script/makefile/whatever means I can iterate it locally way faster and then all I need github to do is provision an environment and call my scripts in the order I require.

What's wrong with this?

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/writing-workflows/choosin...
Funny how literally nothing of what you wrote is happening.
They don’t have to drop it entirely, they just stop enabling features there that would trigger the EU’s gatekeeper requirements.

It will hurt their competitiveness and sales, but that’s a relatively small price to pay vs. giving up the product design culture they’ve honed for almost 50 years.
Rewrite of a Flask Web App in Clojure
I thought the Apple regular was rejecting apps from the App store for seemingly no reason.
Who on earth would downvote this comment?

If I could choose a social media with no downvoting, I would. It always starts with good intentions and ends up with "this comment pisses me off and rather than reply I'm going to pretend this is a distracting take".

Off-hand downvoting seems to simply double the popularity effect of voting and exacerbate reduction in diversity of opinion. Daily I see flagged comments where I can't think of a single reason why a comment was flagged outside of unpopularity. Daily, posts that flagrantly violate the rules hit the front page. Plus, I can't say the ranking of comments actually does anything positive for the site. Ordering by most responses would likely be as effective. After twenty years of trying to justify scoring commentary I simply give up.

This isn't a commentary on moderation, btw—dang is excellent. this sort of forum is just essentially broken at a community-consensus layer. I have just come to seriously resent downvoting. I don't think it does anything positive for the site and mostly acts as a wet blanket for opinions unorthodox in silicon valley. I certainly don't see it as the bulwark between us and civility.
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Losing 20% of global revenue is not really an option.
have to or choose to?
It's all about sending a message: Civil protest will ruin even the best known and most established organizations. Dire times for all who disagree with the corporate fascism taking over the USA.
Steve Jobs would say that when they built the personal computer, they built a bicycle for your mind. I think this goes both ways. A computer helps me do my work as a computational scientist in amazing ways. However, It also helps people deliver ideas into other people's minds and gain their acceptance with much less friction.

I think there is a building mountain of evidence that social media, news and content aggregators like reddit, etc. can effectively control people's minds. This is the old data science story of changing the border color to increase sales idea taken to it's limit. Except people don't just change the border color, they can feed a series of interactions to users to guide them from start to finish. And this is happening both in an organized fashion (e.g., radicalizing people towards the right wing by russian agents) and in an unorganized fashion, algorithms delivering content and delivering more and more of that content.

And this is happening at all levels and at all ages. I was offered a job at a large educational technology company that has data for millions of american children currently enrolled in public schools across america. I initially accepted because there were lots of multimodal data problems that I found interesting. I wanted to build a system to make early warning systems for mid to high functioning autism so that interventions could be put in place since that is the number one impact on the quality of adult life of the individual with autism. Once I started, they canceled this project and started a new one that would predict children who would have "behavior problems" so that the students could be "intervened" with prior to the problems occur. Essentially, a Phillip K. Dick style minority report police state for children. No one at the company seemed to see how this was a problem so I quit. But I am sure someone made that software. I am sure this software is being made everywhere because controlling people's behavior prints money.
Painting in Anthocyanins, Installation, 2024
This exact argument can be made in the context of the Biden administration handling Covid. They demanded the party line be followed with regards to "the science" and vaccines, while ignoring what science actually is and attempting to silence anyone who tried to debate or question what was being purported as scientific fact or properly run scientific studies.

Politics will always be partisan, its been escalating in the US for a while now. As long as the trend continues it will always seem like the current administration is the worst, by trend they are. That ignores how we got here though, and what comes next if nothing changes.
It was a longer process actually. Left was against the Vietnam war, right was full of war mongerers.

While feminism and sexual freedom stayed on the left, military industry changed sides.

I don't think the industry loved a new space startup show how bad they are. Neither did the unions like that Elon was so strongly anti-union.

Not inviting him on the EV summit and Tweeting that Ford is the biggest american EV manufacturer was just so strange.
As bird flu spreads, administration sidelines key pandemic preparedness office
Yes, but it requires a truly disciplined management layer to foster such an environment, e.g. not commenting negatively in 1:1s on the comments of a 3rd party and remediate immediately any such accidental remarks that might hurt the safety to be vulnerable.
In addition to the other comments suggesting dagger is not the saviour due to being VC-funded, it seems like they have decided there's no money in CI, but AI... yes there's money there! And "something something agents".

From dagger.io...

"The open platform for agentic software.

Build powerful, controllable agents on an open ecosystem. Deploy agentic applications with complete visibility and cross-language capabilities in a modular, extensible platform.

Use Dagger to modernize your CI, customize AI workflows, build MCP servers, or create incredible agents."
Random thoughts:

Sketching backed by automated cleanup can be good for entering small diagrams. There used to be an iOS app based on graphviz: http://instaviz.com

Constraint-based interactive layout may be underinvested, as a consequence of too many disappointments and false starts in the 1980s.

LLMs seem ill-suited to solving the optimization of combinatorial and geometric constraints and objectives required for good diagram layout. Overall, one has to admire the directness and simplicity of mermaid. Also, it would be great to someday see a practical tool with the quality and generality of the ultra-compact grid layout prototype from the Monash group, https://ialab.it.monash.edu/~dwyer/papers/gridlayout2015.pdf (2015!!)
nonsense, sometimes you want a line
> The workaround is to use a token tied to you instead of GitHub Actions, so you get charged (or run out of quota).

You get charged no matter what, a personal access token doesn’t change anything.

If they are concerned about infinite loops then put a limit on how many workflows can be triggered but another workflow. Each time a workflow chains off another pass along some meta data of “runsDeep” and stop when that hits X, which can be configured.

No, requiring a PAT to kick off a workflow from a workflow is gross and makes zero sense. I don’t want every tag associated with my user, I want it to be generic, the repo itself should be attributed. The only way to solve this is to create (and pay for) another GH user that you create PAT tokens under. A bunch of overhead, cost, and complexity for no good reason.
"Making AI Work in Legacy Codebases" / X
I wanted to do something like this, but have not found a nice way, yet. You do this by hand? Meaning writing the shader code yourself?
> if the administration is going to be spreading lies about the projects in order to appeal to their voters

Isn't that just politics? Pick a president, or a candidate, and you'll find examples of them lying to appeal to voters.
Hey, I was looking for similar tool before starting building stelvio and I found Chalice. It looked good, it's a nice tool but:

- as you mentioned, seems to be abandoned

- chalice mixes infra code with app code within the file (decorators), stelvio keeps them separate

- in chalice you configure lambdas using json. I strongly believe that everything should be done in python

- chalice is limited to lambda/api/queues, stelvio aims to go further/broader

hope this explains, happy to answer any other questions
Well that might have happened, but if it did you should bring it up. You're listing 3 things where there is literally no coercive aspect - they're persuasion techniques of varying legality. If the substance of complaint about government interference in markets was that they ran advertising campaigns that'd be so close to a free market utopia there'd be no point complaining.
Yes it’s only 2 cities now that’s why I’m looking for beta testers. I posted on localized reddit forums but moderators thought it was an advertisement.
Yeah... it seems to me that this kind of circular reasoning has become widely acceptable by people lately, they seem to lack some basic understanding of logic or something.

Sometimes, it works, like when there's a feedback loop and X causes Y which makes X stronger, causing more of Y... but in this case, they're saying "organisms (literally life) started producing oxygen, which originated life". I would agree with you they mean "originated complex life" but they repeat the claim later: "Deep-sea discovery calls into question the origins of life," the Scottish Association for Marine Science said...".
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416451
> Kind of like Nvidia selling GPUs and also offering cloud GPU services?

Different in that ARM only 'designed'. It's more like a framework / library / tool (a very feature complete 1).

The Nvidia case is more similar to having a self-install and then a cloud hosted version of the same software.
What was the actual science?

I also think Covid is nothing compared to the scale of my incompetence list.

What I don’t understand is the nature of these types of comparisons, if someone feels the Covid restrictions were bad, they ok with this? Is that an argument even?
grid can wrap if you auto size columns
We don't disagree here. There are tools which support you in doing this, and I mentioned a few of them in my post (Make, Just, doit, mage). There are many more. I also think that re-inventing these tools is a waste of time, but it is still better than shoehorning this into YAML. You seem to think YAML is some kind of DSL for pipelines. It really is not.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416451
Hebrew wasn't spoken for 2000 years, here’s how it was revived
How do you know it's related to a muon?
I hope more countries will follow suit
As hinted by another commenter this is because a byte is usually the smallest unit addressable in memory so using a whole byte even if the type does not require it simplifies everything.
There was a time, long long ago, when the US had regulators with balls, they regulated Microsoft to stop them pulling this anti-competitive shit.
Where I live there is a separate tax on land and structure. But my understanding is we're unusual that way.

Land tax reform is debated amongst economist. It is a form of wealth taxation, and in America we generally don't tax wealth. And even if we did, unlike having $1 million in the bank - which is a known amount of wealth - the value of land is rather hard to quantify. You could arbitrarily say that all land in the city is taxed at $10 a square foot per year. Clearly that would be inequitable by some land is worth considerably more.

Land, unless it's farmland, generates no income and our tax policy is generally based upon income income tax.
That's fine, they need to support USB-C on whatever dock it needs to sit on to charge.
Portless is necessary for the foldable iPhone model to approach the size of a current iPhone when folded.

For iPhone Pro, USB-c has uses beyond charging, e.g. SSDs for video recording, or desktop docking as macOS and iOS converge with VisionOS.
Yay more dark patterns. /s
Holy hell, a whole administration of Baghdad Bobs(1), with TV channels and news media cooperating, or just duly quoting them.

I wonder if the fascists even care that the Kimmel audience laugh at their ridiculous statements. Although we do know Trump does care, when the UN laughed at his face he later said they were laughing because he made a joke, I wonder how much of the bullshit he creates he enjoys eating...

(1) For the kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC5UTUAxgpE&t=3s
This is a false dichotomy: Noone is forbidding Apple doing intergration of their products. The DMA simply forbids barring competitors from the same access.

Just compare how Apple cripples third party smartwatches on ios.
This would be more easily believed if political posts unrelated to contemporary American politics were also being flagged, but they're not.
> I expect Apple will react to this by scaling down the sophistication and breadth of features they make available to EU users.

You mean that Apple will fight this war over the user's back?

That's one more reason to not buy Apple.
The smallest load/store the original Alpha ISA supported was 32 bits. :-)
They don't intermingle any more. HN used to be a place for that kind of discussion, but it hasn't been that way in recent months. Perspectives that even sort of smell like they're right leaning get downvoted or flagged very quickly, leaving the discussion to be entirely a bunch of terrified left wingers resonating off each other, building their mutual fear and anger.

Something has shifted dramatically in the discourse the last two months, and HN isn't working the way it used to.
The old PDP-10 had 36-bit words but you could write pointers to any range of bits inside a word. On that machine you could write a pointer to a single bit.

I was thinking about a fantasy computer that could run under JavaScript and have 48 bit words (fit in a double) and pointers like the PDP-10 but that could hang off one word into the next word. [1] First I was thinking “screw C” but came to the conclusion that supporting C would not be so hard after all with that kind of pointer.

[1] Think of a Chinese home computer from an alternate timeline where a strange mainframe had a baby with a NeoGeo arcade machine.
I don’t think the government can change it. At the most basic, women, like men, desire financial freedom, and that requires being valuable in the workforce (or having passive income from investments).

Straight paying women to have that financial security is also a problem, because you don’t want to incentivize someone to just have kids, you want to incentivize them to have well raised kids, and that is impossible to measure and a political quagmire.
Solving homelessness is actually pretty easy. You just build a bunch of homes and give them to people. That's it. It would be a fraction of the US budget and any of the top 10 richest people in the US could solve it and still be in the top 20.

The problem isn't that it's hard, it's that solving homelessness would undermine a lot of systems that keep rich people rich and powerful people powerful. Fear of homelessness is one of the main reasons people are willing to work in substandard conditions for substandard pay. An artificial scarcity of homes is what keeps housing prices inflated and rent seeking profitable. Homelessness exists not because it's hard to solve, but because there's a strong will not to solve it.
I hate it, that this is likely good advice.
Code is the new no-code
Things like this are why I hate having to use PATs in workflows. What if I leave the company? I’ll leave a wake of broken actions in my wake. I do not like that at all, a huge point of CI/CD is automation, reproducibility, and NOT being dependent on specific developers/machines.
I think the argument was the Biden admin wanted the Boeing vessel to retrieve the astronauts even after the initial issue with their vessel and instead of having SpaceX get them they wanted Boeing to try again. It wasn’t till it was again confirmed the Boeing vessel wasn’t going to work that they decided to have SpaceX bring them back.

So on the surface it looks like Biden didn’t want his preferred vendor to look bad gave them a second chance before facing reality and getting the other vendor in to do the work.
> product design culture they’ve honed for almost 50 year

That's an interesting way to phrase not supporting non-Apple interoperability.
Understanding Solar Energy
Given the pace of development in this space, it is probably worth noting in the title that this is from November 2024 so the results might be a bit dated.
What's the best img2mesh model out there right now, regardless of processing requirements?

Are any of them better or worse with mesh cleanliness? Thinking in terms of 3d printing....
>I'm betting the workers in Asia doing 80+ hours are equally as weary as the ones in the West.

Of course, but workers in the west also have strong economy and a lot of other better choice than working in a sweatshop. Workers in Asia do not , that's why all offshoring goes there.
EU forgets that this kind of overzealous, micromanaging intervention only reduces incentives to innovate new features and products. If the EU forces companies with a competitive edge (better software, in this case) to make it available to their competitors, what’s the point?

I can make my own decisions about which platforms and software to use, thank you very much. I don’t need or want EU to force companies to build software and products a certain way for some pipe-dream goal of making everything "interoperable."

And if anything, given that EU has repeatedly failed to implement sensible tech regulation, why should the same institution have the authority to dictate how tech businesses build their products?
Goose from Block is also a client that supports MCP.
It can be used both with UI or as a CLI: https://block.github.io/goose/
I don’t understand your approach here.

If it isn’t a “free market utopia” we what? Shouldn’t talk about it or something?

This seems like an argument about being unable to reach perfection in the face of a far worse situation?
Why the battery? Batteries are the least cost-effective part of any solar installation, especially on residential scales.

You can buy this Balkonkraftwerk for 1,099 Euros, it comes ready to plug in: https://solarhandel24.de/collections/balkonkraftwerke-mini-s...

If I scale down my (partially shaded) 12kwp installation, this 1.78kwp plant (which apparently is still legal under German legislation, which allows for up to 2kwp, not 0.8 kwp, as I erroneously wrote above), will generate 1.246 Mwh per year.

If installed today, you'll get 7,94 Cents per kWh that you feed into the network and buying electricity comes at about 29 Cents/kwh. If you consume half of the Balkonkraftwerk's generation directly you'll save 180 Euros. If you feed in the other half, you'll get paid almost 50 Euros.

At 230 Euros per year, you'll have recouped your investment after 4.77 years.

A battery does not make any sense on that scale. It would severely decrease return on investment because its main use case (running asynchronous high loads like heating and charging cars) are not available in this type of installation.

Pure PV installations (without any battery) are practically always profitable within 10 years in Germany, as long as you can guarantee at least 50%, better 70% direct consumption and your plant is not pointing straight north and/or is shaded completely.

Batteries are nice to play with (and ours would have a 12 year break even time at current prices) but if I'd optimize for ROI, I'd never include them and instead scale down the kwp of my solar to hit 65-75% guaranteed direct consumption.
>I mean, those devs might unionize as well.

The word "might" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. If unionization in Asia was so easy we would have seen it happen a long time ago, but what we saw instead was suicide nets on buildings.
Ignoring the magnitude of the lies makes that comparison an act of self-deception. This administration lies on a scale which is unprecedented in modern American history, and they appear to treat it as a loyalty test where people who have integrity are identified and replaced with loyalists. The NASA folks quoted here are clearly aware that this is untrue but also that there will be personal consequences if they say the truth.
Hey, it's time for some basics of accounting. Below are how those going to look like in the books. Assume initially there were $2000 in cash account, nothing in assets.

Cash-Account^^^^^^^^^^^^Assets^^^^^^^^^Asset-Fluctuations^^^^Comments

$2000CR^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^$0CR^^^^^^^^^^^$0CR^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Initial entry/balance

$2000DR^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^$2000CR^^^^^^^^$0CR^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Buying the asset*

$1500CR^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^$2000DR^^^^^^^^$500CR^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Selling asset with a loss*

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$1500CR^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^$0CR^^^^^^^^^^^$500CR^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Final balances

You can see that for each transactions, the CR/DR amount are always matching, but the money flows to different accounts. After those two transactions, the company still has $1500 in cash, and realized a $500 loss, but the sum of all account balances is still $2000CR.

Given the huge amount of transactions and the rounding associated with taxes, thus there might be very small discrepancies between CR entries and DR entries, and that's only legit reason money vanished from accounts. I would expect such amount is no more than a couple of hundred dollars, even take a step back thousands, that's still heaven and hell differences. I cannot find a reason other than fraud can lead to such a big hole.