skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If one of the main blockers in ipv6 adoption is updating routers and switches and all the networking gear and endpoints to support the new address scheme, how in the world would your “just extend ipv4 to 64 bits” solve that problem specifically?

123.123.123.123/48 or whatever would be completely useless and dropped by an incompatible router and a server wouldn’t know what the hell to send its packets back to if it even got a response from something with that.
Can you help me understand how this relates to my comment? We’re talking about what skills make you more marketable.
One would hope the utility would have a spare transformer or two sitting around, I guess that’s not guaranteed tho. MV and HV transformers have extremely long lead times like you said.
> Not denying it

Your original post did though!

Heathrow undoubtedly does the most air cargo. Sure express often comes into EMA on dedicated flights, but lots of freight comes in the hold of passenger aircraft, and that’s where Heathrow is king. The lack of passenger traffic is undoubtedly a key reason why EMA only does 1/5th of Heathrow’s air cargo, as as you have noted it’s ideally located to serve a lot of the UK.
Regardless, I can imagine how rage inducing it is for the Apple CEO to use Siri, then immediately after use ChatGPT Advanced Voice mode. Its like what Siri should be, regardless if this much or that much people will use it.

If Apple made a voice mode as advance as ChatGPT, and no one used it, then you can throw away Siri all together (and i'd assume Apple has the data that shows people actually use the Siri)
He seems to be quite active on there. I think he also has a blog on hey.com but that's blocked at my employer as it's an email domain.
> It's constant change for the sake of change.

This is far from isolated to Apple, too. It's a cancer that's infested virtually every single software company in the entire world at this point, and it's endlessly frustrating. If they don't have some New Shiny Version to show off to the tech media and blogosphere everyone starts acting like the software itself is a dead man walking. I also think it's partially down to all these same companies trying to justify subscription billing with a constant trickle of "new stuff" that the application in question does that you're meant to feel like you'd be missing out on.

I don't ascribe to this notion whatsoever. I in fact far prefer my software that barely changes at all over time. My most reliable and useful computer is my huge Ubuntu box that lives in my laundry room which handles... I mean frankly it would be easier to say what it doesn't handle, which is anything Apple adjacent because that's all proprietary, and it doesn't handle my security cameras because I couldn't find a linux-based solution for that. Literally every other automated function outside those two categories is handled by that machine, with a mix of software I've downloaded and configured and a fair bit that I've written myself.

I say all this to say that machine barely changes at fucking all. I do security updates of course and occasionally have to tweak something but the apps on it are the same, it serves the same internal websites, it runs the same scripts, like clockwork. I LOVE that thing and my life would be in an utter shambles if some overpaid tech executive had the power to randomly change how it works to justify his salary.
I think you're wrong about that. Things look pretty dire, but we're at the front end of this, not the back end.
The indieweb isn't about anything but writing for yourself. Focus on writing the stuff you'd want to read, and you'll enjoy the benefits of clarifying your thoughts in written words. You get all the bonuses of referencing your work later, having a record of your activity, and maybe sometimes even grabbing someone's attention when they stumble across your site later.

Not everything you write will go viral on your favorite social media sites, and that's OK. I POSSE (post on your own site, syndicate everywhere) everything I write, and some of my posts get thousands of views, while some of them might get tens of views. The things you think will be popular aren't, and things you don't think will be popular, are. You can't always get lucky.
I’m also surprised, but more because I remember very vividly his previous post on sync[1] which described a much more user-friendly (andm much less startup-friendly) system.

[1] https://tonsky.me/blog/crdt-filesync/
Why do you write “you” as “u” here? I don’t want to be rude, but it’s very jarring to see juvenile txt-speak in a serious discussion.
Computers, Spies and Private Lives (1981)
This 1981 Nova episode starts with Nixon's radio address about the American Right of Privacy. "A system that fails to respect its citizens' right to privacy fails to respect the citizens themselves."

It discusses cryptography, including public key cryptography, describes worries about the possibility for abuse, the use of personalized data for targeted political mailings and marketing, and the Minitel introduction on Saint-Malo. There's also a staged pen test and a kid who get caught breaking into a university computer.

One scene mentions how people are worried about the tracking possible by using ATM. The banking rep says that would require computers which are 1,000 times more powerful.
You have never driven through Utah. My one and only speeding ticket ever was when the speed limit changed from 55 to 30, and the sign was behind a turn and a cop was right there who grabbed me immediately. Of course the speed limit went back up to 55 about 100 feet after that. I hyper noticed this BS everywhere since.
at the whitney art gallery (nyc), the ground floor is 1, but the basement is -1. there's no 0 in between

it bothers me way more than it should. i have to tell myself that the point of art is often to evoke emotions, and the rage i feel is included in that
Sure. Email is in my profile, shoot me a message and I'll put you in touch
I think this makes sense for applications applications that are just managing data maybe? But if your application needs to do things when you change that data (like call to a third party system)... Syncing is maybe not the solution. What happens when the total dataset is large, do you need to download 6gb of data every time you log in? Now you've blown up the quota on local storage. How do you make sure the appropriate data is downloaded or enough data? How do you prioritize the data you need NOW instead of waiting for that last byte of the 6gb to download?

It is like a useful tool, but not the only future.
Never quite understood the color spectrum complaint, most of the incandescent bulbs I've ever seen are astoundingly red (low temperature), while I've always gotten the greatest color accuracy in my spaces from daylight-temp LEDs.
That makes sense for the ID system or a database, but for arrays in a language I still prefer starting at 0. It makes frame buffers easier easier to index
The UK is very good at sabotaging itself in order to enrich corporations/shareholders/politicians/oligarchs. No foreign influence necessary.
Base437 – Octet's True Colors
Announcing DirectX Raytracing 1.2, PIX, Neural Rendering and more at GDC 2025!
For those already using this MCP, what does it bring more comparing to just assemble more specialised MCPs together, like filesystem, fetch, git, brave-search.
Oh, I see. My apologies, for some reason I thought the fire started in the early morning hours.
1. They are giant assholes.
2. They're idiots.
3. They're weaklings who have no idea what real strength looks like.
4. Their political base is about the same.

That's not an "or" list. It's "and".
having to hit an extra key and miss out on cross-device syncing sound like two great reasons to not emulate this in anything else
Have you used ChatGPT to investigate something you're knowledgeable about?

ChatGPT is consistently lying (hallucinating), sometimes in small ways and sometimes in not so small ways.
Hello, Manifest dev here, most backend-as-a-services rely on an UI and it's harder for AIs. In comparison, Manifest high-level DSL is really understandable by gen AIs. It's also very easy to validate in comparison to bootstrap frameworks that come with a lot of files.

But you are right we should explain it somewhere !
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You're objectively right. I have been running emulators recently with System 6.0 and was surprised at how much crashing I must have just tolerated. I shouldn't have made it appear that I was defending the quality of pre-OSX Mac OS. (Although we were talking about how quality has come down of late.)

As an engineer before Jobs came back — and for a few years too after he was back — there was still a sense that engineers could call the shots with their own frameworks/apps. Copland, Pink, all that — you can dismiss them as failures but they were engineering trying to toss off the "technical debt" of no true multitasking. So, again, it was bottom up and was at least a joy to be an engineer working on the OS at the time.

As I say, for a few years Jobs let engineering call the shots as NeXT became integrated in the OS. I was on the Graphics team then and a whole new graphic architecture and window server were created more or less from scratch (heavily borrowing from NeXT of course since most of the graphics engineering team were NeXT).

At some point though the major changes were in and management began to take over. "Quality" was eventually measured in unit-test code coverage, for example. (Sigh.)
I have been considering for some time whether I should change the backend. LSM trees and a much simpler implementation than, for example, RocksDb seem attractive.
AI can forecast the weather in seconds without needing supercomputers
https://archive.today/F8zFi
Question for Calibre fans, what do you use to convert your ebooks to audio books or just general TTS?

And, since managing your own (usualy de-DRMed) files is important to you, do you also feel like you want offline audio files?

I'm asking because I'm working on an app for myself that converts my Calibre and Zotero books to clean mp3s for listening on my own. I also find that offline conversion results in much better quality TTS outputs instead of apps like ElevenReader or Speechify.
It is definitely my engineer myopia, but octaves in music should be called dozens
I guess the questions I have are whether the prevalence of psychopaths has remained constant or decreased over time, and/or if the general level of violence in all people has gone down.

(And by psychopath, I loosely define it as people who enjoy hurting other people.)

In other words, we have information about the victims, but not the perpetrators.

My hunch is that it is both.
If you wanna know why I chose binary keys - I wanted the user to be able to use any data type, cross language support, also I believe the way we have it now is faster for comparisons I believe. I overall think this a bit more efficient than storing a string key.
Seems like Prisma + PostgREST but more tightly coupled. Neat idea, certainly seems useful for some small-scale projects.
https://GitHub.com/oro-os/kernel :)

Still in early stages of development, mind you.
Nah, it's always been like this. Libgen bounces around a lot between domain names and semi-official mirror sites, that's just the nature of piracy.
When my badge doesn't scan at work, that is great art
The point of doing it this way is to have complete control over where every fiber goes, if everything is working correctly you have zero stray fibers.
I always liked the way Code Page 437 looked (OG IBM DOS font). As a kid I really enjoyed the aesthetic of that, and scrolled through binaries just for the way it looked. Graduated to making a tool in BASIC (and then C because BASIC didn't handle binary output "right" IIRC) to print random characters endlessly, because it looked cool. That was one of the things that got me into programming.

This little idea brings that aesthetic to the 'modern world', bringing back the classic "High ASCII" code table, by creating a mapping to equivalent Unicodes. It will probably just work, no need for any special font. So, enjoy!! :)

Included and demoed are a small tool/lib to convert binary to Base437 and back. Source is: https://github.com/BrowserBox/Base437
Some Questions About an Autodidactic Autopen
Actually new product categories are vanishingly rare, so it's a sure bet that when something new comes around, people will be talking about it and I'll hear about it at some point.

But you do have a point -- avoiding advertising does mean that there may be some specific new products and services that I won't hear about for a while (although I will eventually). Personally, I don't see that as a real problem that requires solving.
Launched my first Stripe app to help founders understand their customers
I just developed and launched my first Stripe "dashboard app" (https://docs.stripe.com/stripe-apps) - which is a way Stripe allows developers to embed custom UIs in the Stripe dashboard and distribute through an app marketplace. I thought this was pretty cool, so I wanted to give it a shot.

The app helps you understand your customers by automatically researching firmographic information and recent news about the companies buying your product - if the customer uses a work email. It uses the new OpenAI Responses API to do the research - so results are not always correct, but working on it! This is especially true for smaller companies that may not have much public information available.

It's basic for now - but it allows you to answer simple questions about who's buying your product, and gives you a starting point to find out more about them.

The app is free, and I have more features planned, including aggregate reporting over all customers, to answer deeper questions like:

* What industries do our best customers come from?
* Do we sell more to large companies or small companies?
* What's our ICP?
* What's the geographic breakdown of our customers this month?

etc...

I'd love to know what people think - I'm open to feedback and would love to tailor the next set of features based on specific requests. So please let me know if there are workflows or insights you'd like to be able to see using this information. Thanks!
The reason I'm so pessimistic is the thing I said higher up in the comment chain:

> The ugliest part of all of this is that if voters completely reject Trumpism in 2 or 4 years and go back to a sane path, they won't have done it because they were convinced of the gross immoral capriciousness of the Trump administration. The only reason American voters would reject Trumpism is if they decide he's bad for business, and caused serious economic harms.

If Trump did all this crap and it made the stock and job markets boom, he'd be home free. That alone is enough for me to lose all faith in the USA and hope for a future where I can isolate myself as well as possible from the USA's malign influences and capricious actions.
This is covered in the article. They change so much they may as well be new. There are tons of apps out there that have a mix of React class and functional components, for example. And didn't Svelte just make a huge fundamental change to its api?
in this context 'your boss' is usually a level or two above your direct manager on org chart
Take it as the most senior person you can get regular face time with, this also needs to be gamed.
Setting aside the ethics concerns for a moment. If your automated process publishes without coordination don't you forgoe any possible bounty? I thought this was a profit motivated operation.
Another example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402696
And strangely enough, by the last President! Not even this fresh new one that we expect all the bizarre pardons from. That one was a Joe Biden classic.
I've just realized, thanks to your messages, after years of using the without a second thought...
I heard a Steve story from a relation that was a high level exec during his tenure. They were running a meeting about failure rates of (Macbooks, phones, I can't remember which exactly). They knew their stats well, parts, how to source, costs, etc. They spent months on research. They presented it to him from an operations nature, e.g. the costs and such. His response was along the lines of: TV's are amazing technology, they've improved in every way, and are cheaper than ever. But when is the last time your TV broke? They don't break. They never break. And they always work. That's our strategy. Make it happen.

Obviously it didn't quite work out that good (although I guess in my personal use cases, it has). But the point of telling me the story anyways, which I think matches here, is he had a way of pattern matching the average persons expectations based in reality, and applying it to their technology, and then aligning people towards ambitious goals that were on some level based in reality (i.e. people use TVs, they are similar technology, people don't expect them to break). I don't know how much credit is him or others and all. But I know from these kinds of stories, and from my own experience elsewhere, that some people just regularly and instantly "get it", and Steve Jobs seemed to be one of those people, and to also have the station to force others to go along.

Here I think its pretty obvious Apple is both the worst performer in AI, and also the best positioned to capitalize on it. In that sense their current state is clearly demonstrative of some major failure. Its hard to imagine someone like Jobs being in the same position in today's rate. LLM's are phenomenal technology and their use cases are vast. And we've all got these devices ready to take advantage of them, ready to listen, to respond, to coordinate, etc. And here i am asking Siri to turn down the volume and it either turns it up, gets confused, or misinterprets and goes on some tangent. There's a wildly large gap in what Siri does now, and what we 100% know it could do based on the existing tech many of us are using every day.
Yes, the history of the name is as you write. But the value of the command lies in finding the commits, and, especially, in finding which lines changed together.
Timestamped notes/lines are great, I've had these in my .vimrc for years

"insert date
iabbrev <expr> dts strftime("\* %D - %A\n\t")
"insert datetime
iabbrev <expr> dtt strftime("%D %H:%M:%S:")
None of which work.

There is no good method to take a 3D scan and make a sensible mesh out of it. They tend to have far more vertices than necessary and lack structure.
I think it's a good idea in general to just try and replace every switch and outlet if you buy a home that was lived in for an extended period of time. We moved into a home that the previous family lived in for 30 years and I've been working my way through replacing everything. I've found some crazy work in some of the junction boxes. Most weren't grounded which isn't super surprising. Many were wired incorrectly which is a little less surprising.

Also it's a good exercise in making sure the electrical panel is labeled correctly. Ours was somehow only labeled like 75% correctly.
Depends how many basement levels there are.
As an expert in this: What's your opinion on using optics like this as actual neural networks? Any big drawbacks or big real benefits
A GameBoy emulator written in PHP would certainly piqued my interest, but more like a morbid curiosity than anything else. :)
FWIW, I think this article could just as accurately be titled "Diagrams Developers can, and cannot, generate".

I'm mainly speaking to the ability to read IaC code ([probably of any library but at LEAST in my case] cdk, pulumi, terraform, cloudformation, serverless) and be able to infer architectural flow from it. It's really not conducive to that use case.

I could also, kidding/not kidding, be speaking to the range of abilities for "mid" and "senior" developers to know and convey such flows in diagrams.

But really my point is this feels like more validation that AI doesn't provide increased ability, it provides existing (and demonstrated) ability faster with less formalized context. The "less formalized context" is what distinguishes it from programs/code.
Impressive in terms of quality, not so much in terms of style. I tried feeding it two prompts with the same script - one to be straightforward and didactic, then one asking it to deliver calculus like a morning shock-jock DJ. They sounded quite similar, and it definitely did not capture the vibe of 97.3 FM's Altman & the Claude with the latter prompt.

But then, I got much better results from the cowboy prompt by changing "partner" to "pardner" in the text prompt (even on neighboring words). So maybe it's an issue with the script and not the generation? Giving it "pardner" and an explicit instruction to use a Russian accent still gives me a Texas drawl, so it seems like the script overrides the tone instructions.
> UK, Italy and Japan are building a 6th gen fighter right now

They are starting to /design/ it now. Tempest is supposed to enter service in 10 years' time, which I will believe when I see it.
I don't think it's "wrong" per se - it's zero-based indexing and ranges are consistently inclusive of start, exclusive of end. But, it breaks the "fence-post" mental model that some people use, and is less intuitive than MatLab's indexing approach IMO.
Can you search the web for probable corrections to broken links? Has anyone had luck doing this with a web enabled model?
I think awareness is growing
USA, Canada, the EU, the UK, Japan, New Zealand and Israel – all the countries that matter to me. I don’t care what Russia or Iran or other non-democratic, tyrant led countries designate the terrorists as. Especially the ones doing weapon deals with them.

It is a tragic situation where on both sides people lost families and feeling of safety, yet your concentration on hate doesn’t let you see the complexity and the fact that there are two sides to this conflict. You know nothing about me and what I would like to see.

As I said, there is a big difference between labeling the whole nation genocidal, especially ones who protect their families and criticizing government, specific IDF conduct – you are making hateful generalizations that aren’t going to bring any justice to anyone. You are only fueling hate based on lies.

I disengage. You are lying and your hatred has consumed you.
There isn’t a monolithic “CRDT” in the way you’re describing. CRDTs are, broadly, a kind of data structure that allows clients to eventually agree on a final state without coordination. An integer `max` function is a simple example of a CRDT.

The behavior the article found is peculiar to the particular CRDT algorithms they looked at. But they’re probably right that it’s impossible for all conflicting edits to “just work” (in general, not just with CRDTs). That doesn’t mean CRDTs are pointless; you could imagine an algorithm that attempts to detect such semantic conflicts so the application can present some sort of resolution UI.

Here’s the article, if interested (it’s very good): https://www.moment.dev/blog/lies-i-was-told-pt-1
Dr. GPT: Empowering Your Healthcare Decisions with AI
I wrote this article detailing my recent experience helping my dad navigate some complex health issues with AI models. In the process, I came up with a good set of prompts and procedures for getting really high-quality diagnostic feedback and analysis from the best frontier models. Hopefully others will find it useful.