skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found it devastating that there are no distinct agreed-upon words denoting zero- and one-based addressing. Initially I thought that the word "index" clearly denotes zero-base, and for one-base there is "order", "position", "rank" or some other word, but after rather painful and humiliating research I stood corrected. ("Index" is really used in both meanings, and without prior knowledge of the context, there is really no way to tell what base it refers to.)

So to be clear, we have to tediously specify "z e r o - b a s e d " or "o n e - b a s e d" every single time to avoid confusion. (Is there a chance for creating some new, terser consensus here?)
Missing a few. Check out mine visualized in 2D quardants:

https://paradite.github.io/ai-coding/

Also there are a lot of cli tools in this space:

https://prompt.16x.engineer/cli-tools
Why couldn't we have just added another byte to IPv4 addresses and called it a day? Hell add two bytes.
Human perception of absolutely everything is influenced by the surrounding conditions.

Every so often a study goes viral that demonstrates that humans can be fooled about such simple things as whether wine is red or white, whether a dog is happy or sad, whether an accused criminal is innocent or guilty, just by exposing the human making the judgment to some simple extra stimuli.

It will be more interesting when I see a study like this that doesn't find any difference.
efficiency of no MPPT is around 10 percent lower then with MPPT system so no issue. 2000 watt is maybe max what you can have on balcony - physical size, and 2000 watt inverters are like 20 $. well connecting anything to grid is/should issue, offgrid noone cares.
> What does it look like when rubber meets the road?

The book The Logic of Collective Action helped me understand.

TLDR: Collective bargaining helps prevent the free rider problem. It's just game theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action

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I have so many complaints about unions. Very briefly.

#1 Suboptimal governance. Especially when leadership gets "captured". But that's always true of all human orgs. I have nothing helpful to add here.

#2 Accelerating inequity. Corporate profits up while wages remain stagnant. Just as u/singron commented elsethread. I just don't understand how this isn't the central issue. For every person, union, voter, policy maker. For everyone.

#3 Adversarial relationship (in the USA). Labor and Capital (via their proxy, Management) need to work together. My only notion is to encourage member (employee) owned and managed co-ops. (Which would need access to financial support of come kind, eg "slow capital". Which is antithetical to Wall St, neoliberalism, rent seeking, yadda, yadda.)

That said... I'm very pro-Labor. And unenthusiastically pro-union, out of necessity, until we figure out something better.

Like you suggest, no way simply unionizing magically resolves my complaints. Meta stuff like culture, policy, laws, expectations would have to change, to create the space for "better" unions. Stuff like repeal Taft Hartley Act, institute sectorial bargaining, investment banks structured to support social endeavors (like co-ops), yadda yadda.

And I have no clue where to start.
I'm not a Musk fan but I actually think they are kind of cool. Though opinions differ - Onion: https://theonion.com/am-i-ugly/
> They don't care what you think about the limit

The outcome for greedy, corrupt towns who enjoy profiting by abusing the law is DEATH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome,_Ohio#Dissolution

So perhaps, for their own survival, they should care what their victims think, and not abuse their position.

> as someone who lives on a too-straight street [...] where dickheads constantly drive well past the limit

Then fix the street. Modern design codes call for chicanes and street furniture to narrow the street. When streets are narrow, drivers naturally slow down.

A straight, wide road with a low speed limit is like a door with a handle and a sign saying "push" - and you want to fine anyone who intuitively pulls the handle.
Have been using Instant for a few side projects recently and it has been a phenomenal experience. 10/10, would build with it again. I suspect this is also at least partially true of client-server sync engines in general.
I live in the US and my daughter has/will have less than 1 mile to walk to every school she'll ever go to before college. Just an existence proof though!
They over-promised and under-delivered.

Many of the most interesting features (like LLM Siri) were ultimately cut from ios 18. Maybe next year.
Macron is definitely centre-right...

He's literally a former investment banker who's been trying to dismantle the welfare state, lower taxes, increase business friendliness, etc... He's also been tough on immigration lately. Not sure in what world any of this would be considered leftist policies...
And energy intensive humanoid robots are gonna help them fight that fight?
In a capitalist market, it is explicitly not proportional to the amount of value you provide. That is the underlaying principle of capitalism…

Read up a bit, man. Even a capitalist would agree with this.
The Android assistant with Gemini is quite good nowadays, very close to parity of features with the previous one. It's not there yet but Google decided to develop it in the open, similar to the old "beta" products. Hard to see Apple doing the same.

The main issue to Apple is the different mindset that takes to deliver hardware vs. services. Delivering hardware you have one shot to "wow" your customers, and Apple keep nailing this process in a way that the whole industry can't keep up with anymore. On software, that doesn't work that well. You can totally be disrupted by a startup that delivers an MVP faster with 30% of your perfect product that would take 3 years to deliver. In this way, Google's assistant strategy in the short term was spot-on compared to Apple's. You take the hits of bad feedback in the short term in the hope that being in the game can create enough momentum to get you to a solid position of features and know-how in a couple of years.
Again, misleading data.

There are legitimate reasons to not like Musk or Tesla, no need to resort to misinformation. If there are no such reasons then it's a bad thing to try and make things up.
I won't say yes or no, but here is my experience:

Once you know a few programming languages, learning an extra is really easy. And COBOL is among the more easy.

It is good to start with a reasonably designed mainstream language like Python, Java, C#, Go,... and learn to think like a programmer. Then pick a few weirdos like lisp, prolog, haskell, and learn what languages can provide if stretched. COBOL, Basic, PHP,... are today less well designed language that will teach you bad habits. As a first language, you'll have to unlearn things to grow.

Cobol programmers tend to be less paid and work slowly with gnarly code bases. By definition, you work for businesses that are bureaucratic and slow in changing anything. Your colleagues will be near pension age. Do you want this company culture?

You will have work forca long time, of course.

Users already know you'll answer that lots of their questions are impossible. It's easy to say no to them when they e.g. request a strange UI change.

Being a (human) translator between cobol and the rest of the company is a nice path to architect. It's rare to find a programmer talking to both sides of the IT world.

Cobol itself isn't the biggest problem. Even the mainframe isn't. But everything else will be bespoke to the company, underdocumented, hard to learn. That may include the text editor you use.
Yes. GitHub actions can be just a thin wrapper to call any Nix commands that you can run locally.

> How do you automate running tests

You just build the Nix derivation that runs your tests, e.g. `nix build #tests` or `nix flake check` in your workflow file.

> deploying to dev on every push

You can set up a Nix `devShell` as a staging area for any operations you'd need to perform for a deployment. You can use the same devShell both locally and in CI. You'd have to inject any required secrets into the Action environment in your repository settings, still. It doesn't matter what your staging environment is comprised of, Nix can handle it.
Oh, as in Tony? Nah, forgot about him.

Yeah, I have very little time for the self-diagnoses of a guy who refuses to go to a psychologist, tbh.
Or evidence that the existing speed limit is unsafe (e.g. good arguments, car accidents) and should not have been set in the first place.
CRDTs work well for linear data structures, but there are known issues with hierarchical ones. For instance, if you have a tree, then two clients could send a transaction that would cause a node to be a parent of itself.

That said, there’s work that has been done towards fixing some of those issues.

Evan Wallace (I think he’s the CTO of Figma) has written about a few solutions he tried for Figma’s collaborative features. And then Martin Kleppmann has a paper proposing a solution:

https://martin.kleppmann.com/papers/move-op.pdf
> Those who can, block ads, and as a result are deprived of the chance to learn about new goods and services.

They block ads because they're sick and tired of advertisers shit and potentially sick and tired of a consumption-based society.

They're not deprived of anything.
Because every node that is supposed to be able to route these packages need to be patched to understand the new package format. So its is equally difficult.
Cloudflare builds AI to lead AI scraper bots into horrible maze of junk content
"vision is all you need”

Vision is obviously important but it is most definitely not all that humans use to drive successfully.

One of the most important things is not only recognizing what you see but also projecting it into the near future and responding appropriately. For example, seeing a truck tire disintegrate ahead of you on the freeway.

Things you can't see are equally important. Like black ice. Or the sound of a nearby crash or a honking horn. Or the status of a traffic light that is positioned just in front of the setting sun.

FSD needs all the help it can get and suggesting otherwise without proof is immature and foolhardy IMO.
run ads, ask for donations, include genuinely premium features for a fee? anything other than restricting basic functionality.
I humbly submit '1ndex' and 'ind0x', or '1dx' and 'i0x'.
I guess gyoza encapsulation would work with some "farsz" padding to make a gyoza-stuffed pierog pass visual inspection. (I'm using my local Wagamama's gyoza for reference, your gyoza sizes may vary).
I would add that typically the O levels there (officer in military) in corporate usually have bonus/equity as part of compensation, like a major element of comp, not some $1k petty cash bonus.

These are also the levels where if there is a massive screw-up, you might be the person ousted so there is a fair amount of accountability.
I’m had all three titles at various points in my career but the reality is that my responsibilities and operational altitude varied widely from company to company. I just completed a job search after being laid off and one of the challenges of finding a job in leadership is deciphering what each company actually wants from their managers or directors or VPs.

Some roles are “hands on”. For others that’s a red flag. For some it’s all about managing people and emotional intelligence. For others it’s all about technical acumen and technical direction. Sometimes what they are really looking for is exactly what the last person in the role did. In other cases, they want the opposite of the last person to hold the role.

The only thing you can really depend on when it comes to leadership titles in software, in my experience, is that one’s title explains which meetings one is expected to attend.
> Existing career auditors are not the problem.

If they were the solution there wouldn't be a problem.
Or you could spend 5 minutes in TamperMonkey and replace the button with a working one. 10 minutes if you want to hide the other upselling interface elements.

I pretty often make little fixes to websites I use. It's quite satisfying.
I've been doing keto and have more energy in general
Because then I can store all the books on my NAS and easily share the Calibre library with calibre-web, which again is accessible from the internet.

I could install it on my laptop, but then nobody else could access it when it's in my backpack :D
I've heard the statement "Let's just see if starting with 0 or 1 makes the equations and explanations prettier" quite a few times. For example, a sequence <x, f(x), f(f(x)), ...> is easier to look at if a_0 has f applied 0 times, a_1 has f applied 1 time, and so on.
He might be arguing for "no".
Well yeah it would obviously constitute a new protocol and hardware/software would need to be upgraded, but beyond that everything that worked in IPv4 would continue to work in this theoretical protocol.
Judgement Day was supposed to happen on August 29, 1997. We're really behind schedule.
The bias to assume that computers are going to produce correct answers is extremely strong.

People intuit that Wikipedia is written by people, so they can apply that knowledge appropriately.

For some reason, most people have a knee jerk reaction to a fully synthetic statement that biases them strongly towards the assumption of veracity.

I always think of LLMs as “my functioning alcoholic veteran friend bob, who has several PHDs and was blown up a couple of times in Iraq”. That seems to be a good framework in order to intuit the usefulness of llm generated output.
Software is weird because it is expected that should be free (as in beer) for most consumers while while being for profit and giving high salaries to its workers. I struggle to think of any other privately owned sector of the economy that works that way.
The scroll performance on your site is lagging quite heavily on my computer. Seems to be all the nearly-invisible backdrop blurs, because when I zap those from the stylesheets it perks right up. Not all the way up, but the majority of the way up.
If you use org-mode, you can just set up a git repo which auto-commits with gitwatch. And run magit-blame when you want the timestamps. With the advantage that it doesn't distract you when you don't need to see them, but super useful when you want to check when a note is written.
This is why I recommend people look into Monero (a cryptocurrency) as a form of currency and savings. I've had my bank accounts frozen for no reason and I don't trust this system anymore.
TFA talks about addresses being too long and the compromise to support variable-length addresses. 64-bits would have been fine.

Grandparent is engaging in the classic tech industry tradition of talking confidently about something they have very little knowledge about. Surely old people learning hex isn't what's stopping IPv6 adoption but why not, they explained IP addresses it to their Nana once at Christmas (you never visit!) and she nodded politely and so they're an expert on networking.
I'm just getting a blank page on Firefox and a few of these errors in the inspector output:

Uncaught SecurityError: Security error when calling GetDirectory

It does work on Chromium. And it looks nice. I wish it had keyboard navigation though, which it doesn't seem to have yet, so I can quickly correct a previous entry.
Google Maps had already launched and had really surprised everyone at how much better it was than any other mapping tool a few years before iPhone launched. and just the interactivity of it in general independent of it being a “map” was a paradigm shifter.

Yes, the iPhone put it in everyone’s pocket, but if Apple had built a handheld device that was powerful enough to run any interactive mapping tool Google Maps was already the obvious choice.

It’s a minor quibble, but to say Apple played a majority role in Google Map’s success doesn’t ring true to me. In 2007 Google Maps was easily overtaking all other mapping tools with or without the iPhone.
Did you fight it? The tree should have gotten your ticket thrown out.
>My (early) retirement is very well taken care [...] I couldn't care less about unions, I never felt oppressed or disadvantaged in any way in past 20 years across 3 different countries and many jobs, in contrary.

Where in Europe? Early retirement is a dream for the vast majority of European SW engineers. So you're in a very privilege position that's very hard to nearly impossible to achieve.
Apple forced to open these iOS features to other gadgets
Yeah, still being on Windows 10, I almost didn't put the complaint in the comment. Lots of reasons it might just be an environment issue for me.

But, in my development experience with firefox, the issues it seems to have always seem performance related (or compliance with web standards related), and I figured that even if others weren't seeing the issue, there was still probably something underlying that could be figured out. So thanks for going through the debug! It's nice to know that there may be an optimization available for the project, and it feels like it might even be an additional performance gain for chromium, if I'm understanding you right? Might be some reason they need to do that sync after every opcode, but I agree with your suspicion that the canvas is probably being over-rendered to.
I enjoy discussing/debating politics, but tend to flag things that are framed in a fashion designed to elicit rage-bait rather than discussion, which very much includes this story. In particular I think the immigration question is really quite interesting to debate and discuss (from both sides even!), but this article and consequently this thread is predictably just people kind of spaz raging with minimal concern for facts, data, or broader questions. Low quality topics invariably turn stuff into /r/politics where hyperbole, emotionalism, and broad level misinformation replace any sort of meaningful discourse.

Like if you think about this issue for a minute, what exactly is it that you think should be done differently? People being detained and deporting for violating their visa is not new, but it's typically not covered in the media - it happens thousands times a day around the world everywhere. In fact this issue all started when Canada refused to allow entry to her because they suspected she wanted to illegally work, which led to her detainment and investigation in the US once Canada refused to accept her!

And if one is upset about the fact that she was cuffed then you're implicitly claiming officers should be able to treat people differently based upon their appearance or sex - oh boy the sexism/racism ragebait would be incoming in a heartbeat. So what is the issue that's even to be discussed?
Aunts and uncles and grandparents rarely have to deal with MACs. Back in the day it was still quite common to have to manually enter some IP-addresses, although it was probably not common for "non-technical" people understand anything about IPv4 adresses either.

I for one to still to this day and age don't really understand IPv6 addresses, and admittedly haven't tried much. I typically disable IPv6 at the kernel because it's been nothing but trouble.
Except about the one issue that republicans will deport you for speaking about even though you’re in the US legally.
They need to stop or else make their crawlers easy to identify and block. However I have no faith that AI companies will play by the rules.

They already cost people time, money, and their mental health by using adversarial tactics to evade blocking and ignoring robots.txt

https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externali...
It's not so much a question of disagreement. The fact that you have found value as a user is fine by me, of course! Maybe your use-cases should be captured by the Siri development team.

If Siri has been useless for more than a decade, that also means that many users are barely using it, if at all. I'm not the only user of a system containing such applications that has found zero concrete value in them.
I think that "zero-based" and "one-based" expressions are the distinct agreed-upon "words" and they are terse enough.

I can suggest "z8d" and "o7d" otherwise. (/jk)
Heat pumps come with a lot of restrictions. What about constant noise? Plus stating that they are cheap ain't correct. Our housing unit in Switzerland recently needed to replace older oil heater and one of the options was heat pump... which was by far the worst choice based on various criteria and we at the end voted for the oil again.
I’m not saying you should ever trust them completely but as UIP and the attacks on major law firms show we are now in a new, mob boss-like era where unambiguously illegal demands are not hypothetical. The threats we used to talk about were things like national security letters, which for all of their faults were at least a legal process administered by people who had some boundaries.
Oh yes, journaling. Without accounts, and no export. I can't live without my weekly timestamped notes. org-journal does that for the emacs brethren.
For the Game Boy/Color, I recommend Wario Land II and Donkey Kong (1994) as sleeper hits.
It's interesting that Whisper from OpenAI that has been released so long time ago is much better than Siri and also support like ~50 languages and an be run actually realtime on iPhones. They could even take it probably for free since its MIT license but most likely they have not invented syndrome at Apple.

Actually ex-Apple devs are running company that optimised whisper for apple devices and even provide it on HF open source: https://www.argmaxinc.com/team

Just very good multilingual STT would improve Siri experience a lot. I'm wondering if apple privacy policy backfired and they don't have much data they can use for training.
> created: February 20, 2007

i hope you're trolling mate, got an account since 18 years and never wondered what the [-] button does? :D
Is energy per liter often the limiting factor? Suppose a 70m² apartment with 3-meter ceilings costs US$3000 a month because it's in an expensive city center like San Francisco or Manhattan. That's still only 17¢/liter/year. Expanding your hot water storage space from 45 liters to 200 liters consumes space worth US$27 per year of your rent. Even that cost seems far too low to be a limiting factor, and the vast majority of people live somewhere much cheaper than that.

I think that what actually costs money is not the space but the tank. Higher temperatures mean not only more expensive materials and shorter lifetimes for tanks and piping but also higher conductive losses.
It's not equally difficult, because they decided to change a lot of other things, including some key details.

Not saying all those changes were bad, but at least for me it also makes thinking about IPv6 when using it much more foreign than if it had been just a larger address space.
Calibre can update the metadata on your books semi-automatically. Grab hi-res covers, get the back cover texts, mark the book as a part of a series (and which number it is).

It can also automatically convert the books to different optimised formats, for example: you don't need a 4000x3000 resolution full colour front cover if you're uploading the book to a 6" BW eInk reader.

Also Kobo has their own "KEPUB" format that is optimised for their devices and converting standard EPUB to that format results in faster page turns etc.
Since when is it there? Because i had interfaces with both v4 link-local and DHCPv4 addresses since i can remember.