skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A scheme that benefits all, such as guaranteed minimum income, will always face great resistance in the US, because enough US citizens are zero-sum thinkers. If it helps people we hate, it must be bad.

> Why aren’t we giving everyone a fair chance at Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by providing them the fundamentals they need to get there?

Because for a lot of Americans, relative order within the social hierarchy is more important than absolute level of prosperity: it's more important to have someone below us than it is to do well.
He was right. If the first fencepost is centered at x=0 and the second at x=1, and you want to give the rail in-between some identifier that corresponds to its position (as opposed to giviung it a UUID or calling it "Sam" or something), 0.5 makes perfect sense.

In computer programming we often only need the position of the gap to the left, though, so calling it "the rail that starts at x=0" works. Calling it "the rail that ends at x=1" is alright, I guess, if that's what you really want, but leads to more minus ones when you have to sum collections of things.
Some phones have fans??
But we don't have even a set of definite trajectories. If we see e.g. an electron coming towards a hydrogen atom and then an electron moving away from it, not only do we not know whether the incoming electron "bounced off" or whether it settled into the orbital and "kicked" the electron that was already there out, but in a fundamental physics sense what occurred is some weighted average of both (in the same way that we don't merely "not know" which of the two slits an electron went through but in an important physical sense it partially went through both).
Wow! What a game changer, thanks so much for this.
Is it still going? I watched "The Art of the Steal" documentary and thought it shut down.
I feel like you've expressed something I've been struggling to put into words for awhile now.

Sometime around a decade ago, a switch flipped for me and "being online" in such a transparent way just felt incredibly uncomfortable for me. And for some reason this drastic change has been so curious to me for awhile. Because I actually am someone who loves discourse. I enjoy talking to strangers and learning about them (in moderation) and I've never had a problem having a pointed opinion and discussing it. Back when FB felt "small" and had a greater balance of text posts vs images/video, I relished posting and discussing with my network.

But like I said, something changed and yes it was around the time that political discourse took a turn to say the least. And while that may very well be a factor, it doesn't fully explain my overwhelming discomfort with the idea of "putting myself out there" online in any meaningful way.

I've been going to art therapy for awhile and this fear has been something I've been exploring. I've been describing it as a "fear of my own narrative being taken away from me and perverted in front of me without any regard for my own actual truth". That's the best way I can explain it. But that explanation has always felt like it was still missing something.

I think your analogy filled in the rest for me though. It's the omnipresent threat of nonconsensual spectacle. Or perhaps just the fear of that threat. And something inside me just being totally opposed to even entertaining that hypothetical even though logically I know "the onlookers don't matter, their opinions don't matter". Just feels like I'm not wired for this era of online identity. Which sucks since for the majority of my life I've felt the opposite.

Sorry for rambling, I thought I was just going to say thanks and move on haha.
Whenever I explain to someone when or why to use 0-indexing, I like to say:

Start from 0 if you are counting boundaries (fenceposts, memory addresses)

Start from 1 if you are counting spaces (pages in a book, ordinals)

Floors are a case where both make intuitive sense, which is maybe how we ended up with European vs American floor numbering.
Free money never works. It’s been attempted countless times. In fact, it exacerbates the wealth gap as the rich own assets that scale with inflation while the poor do not.
>a serious discussion

hardly. this is an informal internet forum of mostly anonymous people chit chatting about random stuff instead of working.
Not sure that maps to how a foundation works. The Eclipse IDE is something that's maintained and expanded on by the community, not the Foundation. I've heard a lot of folks are not interested in modernizing the Eclipse IDE, but just maintaining it.
> I think the problem that developers may feel is that they want to earn more money for being a better developer, but not nessicarily accept more responsibility or spend less time developing code.

Well the problem is some people don't get there is a limit of how much impact and additional revenue you can create for the company by writing better/more code. And that would serve as a basis for paying you more.

The thing is a guy helping out via mentoring 10 other people or recruiting better talent will create much more impact on how the company functions than if he wrote 2x better code or 2x faster. There is simply in almost all engineering effort a hard limit of how much a single person can contribute.
COBOL will guarantee your employment

Only if you are a tiny handful of major financial centers or willing to drop everything and move to basically anywhere. If you are in a midsized city there is probably only 1 or 2 companies in need of COBOL developers and if they're not hiring you're screwed. I saw this happen to a friend of the family. He'd spent his entire 20 year career working as a mainframe and COBOL developer at the regional office of a Fortune 50 company in our home town. When he got let go, he literally could not find another job. There were plenty of programming jobs around, but not for someone who had spent their entire career programming COBOL.
> blocking AI will mean blocking most people too

If that's websites want, they should have that option.
I'm not aware of any documentation which lists this so I used ChatGPT to help me compile a quick list. I took a quick look and it looks accurate, but of course there might be inaccuracies.

1. E-Book Editing – Calibre-Web does not include the advanced eBook editing tools available in Calibre, such as the eBook editor for EPUB and AZW3 formats.

2. E-Book Conversion – The ability to convert between different eBook formats (e.g., EPUB to MOBI) is missing.

3. Metadata Download & Management – While you can edit metadata in Calibre-Web, it lacks Calibre’s ability to fetch metadata and covers from online sources automatically.

4. Advanced Plugin Support – The desktop version supports third-party plugins that extend its functionality (e.g., DeDRM tools, additional format conversions, etc.), which are not available in Calibre-Web.

5. News Fetching – Calibre can download and convert news feeds (RSS) into eBooks automatically, a feature missing in Calibre-Web.

6. Full Device Integration – The desktop app allows direct connection and syncing with eReaders (Kindle, Kobo, etc.), while Calibre-Web is limited to wireless downloads.

7. Bulk Import & Export – You cannot bulk import/export large numbers of books via Calibre-Web as efficiently as with the desktop version.

8. Virtual Libraries & Custom Columns – While basic library browsing is supported, advanced sorting, searching, and virtual library features are more limited in Calibre-Web.

9. DRM Management – If you use Calibre with DeDRM plugins, these do not work in Calibre-Web.

10. Built-in Viewer for Some Formats – Calibre-Web supports reading EPUB and PDF files in the browser but lacks the extensive format support of Calibre’s built-in viewer (which can handle MOBI, AZW3, CBZ, CBR, etc.).
the paper is clearly linked in the marketing article, bub
Siri is less than 50% useful when asked a simple question. My kids and I make a joke about it whenever we ask it something in the car. I don't understand how Siri is so exceptionally bad and why Apple didn't do something earlier. It's embarrassing in 2025.
People learn best in different ways. Some learn best by reading, some by tinkering, some by watching and listening. I heard this over and over in school and college.

I don’t think it has anything to do with reading speed. When taking in complex technical information, you spend more time thinking and trying to understand than actually reading.

If you’re finding that you can quickly race through content, it probably just means you find the content easy to understand because you’re already familiar with many concepts.
> Heathrow is massive and uses a lot of power (1-2MWh/day)

It's 3 orders of magnitude more: 1-2GWh/day.

https://www.heathrow.com/content/dam/heathrow/web/common/doc...
I laughed out loud and can't agree more. If I have to boil down law school to one sentence, it's this one... it depends on the particular circumstances.
> Dijkstra's opinions seem to carry extra weight mainly because his name has a certain shock and awe factor

So you claim this is just an appeal to authority and as a rebuttal you give appeal to emotion without being an authority at all?

> the 1st element of a sequence being denoted with a "1" just seems obviously superior

> I'm sure there is a culture that counts their first finger as 0 and I expect they're mocked mercilessly for it by all their neighbours

> 0-counting sequences represents a crazy choice

5G chess move.
Whether mere incompetence from those whose job it is to check such installations for failure or bad actors, other 'bad actors' will have gained a useful indication of how vulnerable Britain’s infrastructure is to attack. It's reckoned > 290K passengers have flights cancelled or diverted and ensuring chaos for days.
...yeah, I get that, and have been articulating that better through career coaching, leadership skills development, and actual work. My comment on this piece was self-referential, though, in an attempt to explain what I got from the piece, and how it affected me. Hence the extensive use of I/Me/first-person-perspective.

In an actual leadership role, my role is to build and maintain the bridge between our team, their expertise, and the agendas of those above us. I champion their successes, and shelter them from unwarranted blame. I set the tone, and in order for them to be successful, it needs to be a tone they resonate positively with. It's a role that's part translator, part leader, part firewatcher, and part strategist, all on top of the usual IC stuff - at least initially, or as needed (e.g., headcount reductions, RIFs).

At least for initial management roles, it's about maintaining balance - ensuring the team is productive and can succeed, without letting them burn themselves out or get dragged into "makework"/"busywork".
There's "significant problems" and there's taking out *the* most important airport in the country. Yes, there are other airports but this one matters most. Both in terms of (inter)national perception and in terms of real damage to the economy.

From an US perspective it'd be like taking out JFK, LAX and ATL at the same time. But even then, it doesn't really compare.
The local first people (https://localfirstweb.dev/) have some cool ideas about how to solve the data synch problem. Check it out.
> As part of the changes, he’ll be leaving that team, though the Vision Pro software groups will follow him to Federighi’s software engineering group. The hardware team will remain under John Ternus and report to Paul Meade, a hardware engineering executive who worked on the Vision Pro.

So the VisionOS programming team is joining the Siri team umbrella? That's kinda weird.
> When I said "in line" I didn't mean 1:1 or 100%. I may have picked a bad phrase there, I was intending to say that there would be a strong correlation between the two and that a majority of the extra Monet would go towards price increases.

If so, then explain how you're making the jump from "prices increase some" to "you would need Marx style price controls" or "otherwise UBI will fail to cover the necessities"? If you give me $X and I spend $X * r of it due to price increases, and r < 1, then don't I have (1 - r) * $X left in my pocket, meaning it could be made large enough to cover the basic necessities? This isn't complicated math.

I don't get why "prices increase" is seen as such a mic-drop phrase that shows the system would fall apart. Prices already increase for all sorts of reasons, it's not like the economy falls apart every time or we somehow add Marx style price controls every time. Sure, prices increase some here too. And then what? The sky falls?
Not only that but Siri seems to even have become worse than it used to be.
Here:

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/writing-workflows/choosin...
Cross-compilation is much more hassle than native, especially with GCC. It's feasible for individual apps, but I would not want to set that up for an entire Linux distro.
No, HN is only loosely affiliated with the American oligarchs.
A fundamental misunderstanding of human nature. There is a significant non-majority of the population that will take the money and do absolutely nothing but waste it.
I know absolutely nothing about radio so I can't really answer, sorry! But there's really something to be said about using PyTorch (or any other ML framework for that matter) as a general purpose optimizer. The modeling capabilities of torch.nn are quite extraordinary, and the fully dynamic nature of the PyTorch graph (something that wasn't really possible with previous frameworks like tensorflow) is really something that hasn't been talked about enough in my opinion. It's like differentiable programming, basically. You can write any "normal" python function and get an *exact* derivative of it. There are some caveats but it's very very powerful.
IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol
Wow, this post could not have come at a more welcome time.

I'm a Solutions Architect, and after 4 years in-role am agitating for advancement; a 2-year merger put everything for everyone on hold until its resolution. It's become clear that there has been no plan for advancement.

After unsolicited and vague promises of a director or even VP(!?) role before the merger resolution, they have since been talking of *maybe* a manager, or maybe *maybe* senior manager role. *Maybe* managing just two of my current developers, whom they are preparing to off-shore. This all while they have promoted another SA to a director position; a well-deserved promotion at that.

Oh, they're also getting rid of the Solutions Architect job itself: soon I will be "Lead Analyst".

This is all to say that the post and all your comments are very helpful! Love this site.
Platform as a Reflection of Values – Bryan Cantrill (2017) [video]
FWIW, the approach described here is what services like Databricks, Snowflake and BigQuery are already doing. It's also an implicit reminder that while PostgreSQL is both great and ubiquitous, its single-stream TCP wire protocol is a bit of a relic from the previous century.
Yeap: https://www.nationalgrid.com/incidents
> A scheme that benefits all, such as uaranteed minimum income, will always face great resistance in the US, because enough US citizens are zero-sum thinkers. If it helps people we hate, it must be bad.

I've only heard objections within the context of people being worried that giving money will reduce productivity and raise prices.

> Because relative order within the social hierarchy is more important than absolute level of prosperity. It's more important to have someone below us than it is to do well.

This is the "inequality" discussion. It's true that a lot of people are worried about relative order, and I agree that absolute prosperity is far more important, but I doubt those people are against UBI.
Yes, that does describe the current thinking (and behavior) of many US citizens.

So the key question is this: how do we go about CHANGING those attitudes?

The steps Jeff takes in this announcement seems like an excellent "lead by example" step toward doing that.
>top results are blogspam

It gets even better. When I first tested this feature in Bard, it gave me an obviously wrong answer. But it provided two references. Which turned out to be AI generated web pages.

Oddly enough in my own Googles I could not even find those pages in the results.
We have had interest in using our serverless stream API (https://s2.dev/) to power sync engines. Very excited about these kinds of use cases, email in profile if anyone wants to chat.
Thank you for the kind words Ivan and your work on the Python FFI.
Hah yes I was also getting deja vu here. I spend too much time on HN I think.
Delivery meaning the deployment part? I think by necessity that does differ a bit from happens locally just because suddenly there's auth, inventory, maybe a staging target, whatever.

All of that is a lot more than what a local dev would want, deploying to their own private test instance, probably with a bunch of API keys that are read-only or able to write only to other areas meant for validation.
Forget multiplication, even addition becomes simpler.
Heat Pumps Became America's Hottest Home Energy System
Microsoft is exploring a way to credit contributors to AI training data
The UK has a weird National Grid system whereby the cost of electricity is the same nationwide (except Scotland)

So datacenters build in London as the connection/electricity price is same as building in rural areas and they'd obviously prefer being closer to users in London.
I like this. I feel like "offset" hints at the reason for starting at 0. "How far do you have to offset your feet (from the beginning of whatever space we're talking about) before you're touching the thing in question?" If it's the first thing, you don't have to move at all, so zero offset
Because there was no competition. Alexa similarly gave up trying to improve theirs after it launched. I've never tried Google's voice assistant but I assume it wasn't very interesting before GPT either.

I'm not convinced it was a technical limitation, even stuff like voice parsing was not improved or basic functionality expanded horizontally.
≥(And by psychopath, I loosely define it as people who enjoy hurting other people.)

why though, literally no one else would define it thusly?

Sadist sure, but sociopathy has a very distinct definition already.
It's not the microbes in my experience, it's the heavy metals suspended in the water.

It's like a 0.1% damage over time effect. A few days drinking it? Fine. A few weeks? Still fine. Months? I started feeling just a bit more sick until I cut it out for filtered water.
To be fair, I’d counter with Jobs picking Jony Ive. Ive made gorgeous, lustworthy art objects that sucked as computers. The nadirs for me were iPhone 6’s bendgate and the 2015 MBP. Damn the functionality, we’ll make these suckers so slim you can shave with them! No one was begging for a MBP so thin it had to have compromised keyboard switches. Also consider the mouse that couldn’t charge while you use it, and the trashcan Mac Pro.

Those devices looked beautiful but they weren’t good at actually being used. Jobs let Ive design for a museum, not for the people using his creations. Cook let that continue for a while but finally reined it in and gave us useful designs again.

Which isn’t to say that Cook hasn’t made or isn’t making mistakes. I just meant that as a reminder that it wasn’t all wine and roses under Jobs.
I absolutely do. The Apple Intelligence pitch where you can ask it "what time is my mom landing?" and it knows who your mom is, can RAG messages and emails from her to obtain a flight number for today, and then use a tool to look it up and respond back is 100% where the future is heading.

I'm excited for it, and like Apple's high level privacy protecting narrative with the secure cluster stuff. We'll see if they're ever able to deliver.

Has the Pixel Gemini assistant gotten to that level? The Google Assistant was always better, and I know the switch to Gemini was a little rocky at first, but in theory it should be able to do that stuff, without all the privacy verbiage.
Would love to chat with you about your project! I'm very interested in jax also. You can find my email on my website if you wanna get in touch :)
If factory workers could delete the processes and equipment they work on with the press of a button, they would be bought off too

Paying tech workers high wages reflects the need for them to side with capital when it comes to protecting assets

I had an Ask HN last weekend that did not get any responses but I would still love to learn what governance prevents workers from deleting key software products and their backups because I can't believe boards of directors are not responsible to guarantee product continuity to shareholders
To the OP, your next search should be “what’s my ip”, followed by a DNS check. Also, no region is being auto selected in DDG which might be the clue.
I think it could be interesting. There are only a few Thousand COBOL developers left, median age is in their 60s-70s or something like that. Don’t know the extent of the problem but I know VC/growth investors are thinking about it. Had a chat with one this week, not on this topic, but they brought up COBOL and basically hinted that ATM infra would collapse if a COBOL dev decides to take too long of a vacation (hyperbole).

Worst case scenario you become the youngest COBOL dev in the world and it becomes a really interesting talking point / part of your story.
On a tangent re: memory safety in operating systems —

We hear a lot these days from the (very much in-the-open) debate over how much (if any) of the Linux kernel should be rewritten in Rust for memory safety.

But does anyone know if a similar debate is also going on inside Apple re: XNU/Darwin, or within Microsoft re: NTOS? (Maybe not using Rust in particular, but some other memory-safe systems language?)
Never talk to police, always ask for a lawyer.
Probably, but definitely check for bullet holes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
Instead of billionaire-directed patronage, just tax wealth and let the democratic process decide how to allocate it.
Yahoo sells TechCrunch to investment firm Regent
Very cool.

I do agree, much to prove still.

If you want feel free to join the Discord and we can talk in real-time. Could be a diverse and interesting conversation.
'Buy European': call for sovereign fund and higher Europe tech autonomy
As someone who works as an indie contractor and bills hourly, I have been wanting something like this for an eternity. Looks pretty cool and will take it for a spin.
In my opinion, if January 6 wasn't enough to convince the American electorate that he isn't fit for office, nothing he does could do it.

I also don't believe the argument that it's a minority of Americans. If people really thought he was a danger to democracy and thought that was a problem, they would have voted. So the way I see it, the overwhelming majority of Americans (i.e. more than 70%) didn't think he posed a legitimate danger to American democracy. That's a really really worrying demonstration of beliefs and priorities.

I support you in disagreeing with me though. I want you to keep fighting and I want you to do everything you can to resist this.

Americans can't afford to believe they may have voted for the last time. But simultaneously, the rest of us can't afford to plug our ears and hope this all goes away.
original title was: ‘Buy European’: Airbus and others call for sovereign fund and higher Europe tech autonomy
The Cult of the American Lawn
Don't you think the people who are more zero sum, are the ones who are very focused on inequality (rich getting richer means poor getting poorer), who are also the ones who are most likely to support stuff like this? Direct payments, minimum wage, guaranteed income, welfare, etc?
The future of internet liability is uncertain as Congress targets Section 230
What would you suggest as a backup? Supposedly they have generators/redundancy but the place requires so much power that that can only maintain critical functions (I guess ensuring incoming flights can still land and taxi in the mins after the power loss).