skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ELI5:

ICs are manufactured on silicon disks called wafers. Discs have two sides, and traditionally, everything was done on top. We can now do power on the bottom. This makes things go faster and use less power:

* Power wires are big (and can be a bit crude). The bigger the better. Signal wires are small and precise. Smaller is generally better.

* Big wires, if near signal wires, can interfere with them working optimally (called "capacitance").

* Capacitance can slow down signals on the fine signal wires.

* Capacitance also increases power usage when ones become zeros and vice-versa on signal wires.

* Big wires also take up a lot of space.

* Putting them on the back of the wafer means that things can go faster and use less power, since you don't have big power wires near your fine signal wires.

* Putting them in back leaves a lot more space for things in front.

* Capacitance between power wires (which don't carry signal) actually helps deliver cleaner power too, which is a free bonus!

This is hard to do, since it means somehow routing power through the wafer. That's why we didn't do this before. You need very tiny wires through very tiny holes in locations very precisely aligned on both sides. Aligning things on the scale of nanometers is very, very hard.

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At the risk of just mouthing off my favorites, there are a lot of genres today are the best they've ever been. The post-punk revival out of the UK is great. The "chambery" Black Country, New Road and the "mathy" Black Midi are some of the best we've seen and there are other exceptional talents in that scene. Noisy-shoegazy-indie rock is also a great scene right now with artists like Jane Remover and Mitski releasing what will be important albums for ages to come.

Note, Mitski debuted in 2013 but most of the strongest records over the past few years, from hip-hop, pop to experimental rock to metal, seems to be by artists or individual who've been making music for around a decade-ish roughly. Maybe this disqualifies the whole lot and you're trying to highlight some weakness in the debuts of the past few years. If so, maybe you should wait a decade? If not, I can assert that some of the most talented artists of history are making music today. By any metric.
Fun little devices, really outgrew its origins as a business organiser to the point that a 13 year old me demanded one. Sure, I had a Gameboy, but I wanted a portable computer with real programs, dammit!

I still have my Zire 31. Some day I will take it out of the drawer and savour the remains of my neglected island civilisation in Village Sim, before jumping into a spaceship and trading highly profitable goods in Space Trader. Then I'll enjoy some low bitrate YouTube rips in Kinoma Video, the few I could cram onto the 64MB SD card...
Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat
Common Connection Errors in PostgreSQL and How to Solve Them
There are certain trade offs when designing process. TSMC researched with partners how AI and HPC (high performance computing) chips most likely will look like and adjusted process accordingly.

In fact this is big deal as until recently the processes were more tailored toward mobile application (that is were trading some switching performance for lower power consumption). Look like we are back in 2000s when speed/density is again more important than power consumption.
Nearly every government handles things like sales taxes quarterly. Each quarter the merchant submits a report to the government showing the sales and the tax collected in the previous quarter and sends that collected tax to the government.

The due date for submitting the previous quarter’s taxes will generally be late enough that the merchant can wait until most items or services sold at the end of the previous quarter have been delivered or performed.

If you have to refund a customer after you have submitted your taxes you can take the amount of tax that was included in the refund as a credit the next time you file with with the government.
Not listening for some time indeed sometimes helps. I now try to avoid listening music I really really like too often. It's something beautiful you take out of its box every few months/years. Stuff like Ole Coltrane or Miles Davis' Filles de Kilimanjaro.
Yeah when you use OpenAI you are giving them free labor for data curation.
That's true, but that's different from the argument in the article that I was responding to.
It's not how you said it -- it's that for no apparent reason you're making a political jab at a large group. Plus it seems to seems to have no bearing on the article.
I have the same vision. In a world of near-instant translation, it seems plausible that local languages become more fragmented and insular – a good thing for the diversity of languages.
What I like about this post is that it shows that it's starting around the late 1990s. "Bowling Alone" being published in the year 2000, means the problem was from before.

You then have bad actors like Jonathan Haidt who cherry picks his data to allege it's social media's fault... you know from practically a decade after the fact.

What's also interesting is that trust in institutions moreso started dropping years later probably around 2003? But also overall trust in your proverbial neighbour is low as ever.

I think I need to write an article referencing this article.
Shutting down, but not shutting up: Germany's nuclear debate rages on
They're also upgrading some Arleigh Burkes (and everything bigger that will stay in service) with SEWIP Block III (EW).
For a few months in 2008, i was renting a house just over the area code boundary. I switched carriers just before porting became a thing. I still have that area code, and the only other person I know with a number in that area code is my spouse. I used to get many calls a day from that same area code (trying to appear as a local call) even though I now live about 2100 miles away. iPhones are great at sending them directly to voicemail if they are not in your email, address book, or recent calls, and I get one voicemail every few weeks that is mostly static now.
A Logic Language for Distributed SQL Queries
Terribly ironic of you to want to divert library funds to homeless when the homeless are some of the most faithful users of libraries in major cities. Homeless aid organizations even base their programs around libraries.
No, I keep a blog that is self-hosted. I find that self-hosted is the best for ultimate control but unfortunately it's much easier to reach larger audiences with platforms like Substack, Medium, YouTube, etc.
I’d argue these aren’t problems for all but the most frequented sites. Throwing your site behind someone’s walled-garden rather than developing the 100 or so lines to deal with the problem seems a shame.

Thinking aloud: Query your one SQLite table for unchecked comments, send each to telegram/a single HTML page with ‘approve’ and ‘censor’ buttons. Auto-unapprove-and-uncheck comments with words from an editable list (NFT, Bitcoin, etc). Easy and would cater for most personal/hobby use cases.
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revs chainsaw
> I'm not from the USA.

Cool, me neither...

> I even said don't shoot the messenger!

Except you're not really carrying a message from someone else, and that's not a magic incantation shielding your ideas from criticism...

> In my personal viewpoint, shutdown all coal plants tomorrow and send black roses to their accountants.

Cheers to that!

As for the rest, I like to consider myself practically apolitical. I refuse to engage with people who unduly politicize things that should just be scienced. Just because someone wants to claim that creationism vs evolution is a political issue doesn't mean I have to sit and patiently listen to them.
It’s not competitive because policy has been designed to make it expensive. This is underhanded and leads to circular reasoning. Nuclear is similarly expensive. Wind and solar would be even more expensive without extraordinary policy support.
a few years ago i received a week of robo calls after renewing a domain lease. don't remember which registrar but i do remember that my number was redacted in the whois record and concluded that their process must be leaky. (also german)
You'd hope they were junior. The guy who set up this mess originally had 10+ years of experience...
I argue that insults are only fallacious reasoning if you don't have good reasons to back up the insults.

If someone screws you over, you lay out the reasoning for why you're angry at them and then you insult them. The insults are not the argument. They are the conclusion of the argument.

Once again if you see an insult, conclude someone is being histrionic, and refuse to see their actual sound arguments, then you are making the fallacy fallacy, and throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

You are also making an ad hominem against the author - arguing against the personal credibility rather than the credibility of the actual argument. That specific kind of ad hominem is called tone policing.
I agree, which is why I advocate for universal limits not just on the internet but on energy usage and the size of corporations, too.
The types of arguments discussed here ("once someone predicted a bad thing and didn't happen therefore no bad things will ever happen") seem to be based on vibes more than logical statements. Twitter is rife with specious arguments that may have an appealing ring of truthiness to them but dissolve under the slightest scrutiny.

Trying to fathom what kinds of people would seriously believe that the underlying basis for the argument holds is to misunderstand the audience and their modality of reasoning.

It is indeed disappointing that most people end up with ideas and opinions that don't hold up to any kind of scrutiny but it is also the world that we live in, so we shouldn't be terribly surprised by it.
For UK folk, StratLAN is still rocking - July 4th-8th

https://stratlan.com/
What do you think a desktop environment is? Name one desktop environment that does not have its own file manager or terminal. Name and shame the platform and toolkit that lacks these basic necessities.
This isn't quite right. Big wires (ideally entire planes) deliver power. Small wires deliver signal. Half and half isn't the right split, and you don't want to make power wires smaller.

The very different requirements of the two is where a lot of the gains come in.
This being Javascript, you can at least fix this locally with a simple "confetti.resetti = confetti.reset".

There are some software engineering costs to this approach, but, as is transparently obvious to all thoughtful observers, the benefits massively outweigh them, so I say go for it.
>If you were to make a Venn diagram of amoral and illegal (including civil malfeasance) have a pretty large overlap.

What is moral about the American Medical Association using Taxes to fund their artificially scarce residency programs which causes consumer prices to go up?

Okay, so that one falls outside the venn diagram.

With lobbyists writing the laws, I'm really wondering if there is as much overlap as you think.
Weirdly they understand it well enough to be angry at third candidates spoiling the election, but aren't able to make that last, tiny connection.
There is a grounded reason: to limit technology usage. The amish do it and in many ways their society is much healthier than normal society.
Do your past experiences lead you to do the next thing? If you could perfectly know my past, could you predict my next decision? Do I have free will in that case?
I can see why this might be fun to work on, but as a user, why would I want to learn a logic language when I could just write the SQL myself?
I have no idea if this is normal for a Rivian, but it sounds incredibly high.

My Tesla M3 (LFP for the record, I doubt it matters) was parked in my garage for about 25 days while I was abroad and it lost about 2%. Not 2% per day, 2% overall.

Recently I was away for a week and when I came back it was at the exact % I had left it.
Whistleblowing documentary spreading in Europe or upper Americas might go OK with solid operational measures such as open wifi war driving, etc.
China, Russia, etc: nope.
Because I legitimately thought it would be a field where I could maximize how much of my brain I used. Instead, it turned out to be 99% dishwashing.

I very much loved undergraduate studies. I legitimately love studying what has been done and what has been discovered already. While we often say that we know nothing (it's somewhat true), the amount of human knowledge that already exists, especially in the life sciences, is unfathomable. And that's genuinely challenging and exciting.

But as soon as you start actually doing the research work, it's a lot less exciting, not much happens, and there is not a lot of problem solving (at least not in comparison to software). It's just a slow methodical grind, with pretty much no pivoting opportunities. You just stick to the plan, and you must try the same thing over and over again. I was surprised by that. Your experiences may differ depending on where you worked, on your funding obligations, and on your specific research area.

And after you finish your PhD, you might get lucky and get one of these fancy $ 40k post-doctoral fellow salaries. /s

(The way science works at a large scale is pretty fantastic, but how it feels for an individual is a very different thing.)
C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS [pdf]
That seems like a lot still - I’ve left mine parked at the airport for a week and seen no meaningful drain.
This is elegant. Shows the passion that goes into building some thing that looks so beautiful and easy to integrate.
There's a few things you can choose to do at any time. You can almost always choose to for example close your eyes and keep them closed. Why don't you do it? You have the free will to stop blinking but your brain doesn't pose you this question so you don't even consider it. But now it's considering it. I'm just trying to reduce your argument to the absurd, and probably doing a bad job, but I don't think you can separate the list of options that appear to you from the question of free will, to me it's paramount to what happens after, so if what happens after is what defines free will or not, the list has to be part of it.

Did the first particles that ejected from the big bang have free will?
For 10gbit+: Mellanox SN2xxx. Probably the SN3xxx, SN4xxx, and SN5xxx too but I can't afford those.

For 1gbit: Ubiquiti Edgerouter ER-4 and ER-6; both have SFP cages for fiber optic transcievers https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/194153 https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/er-4
I find that I learn more from books than any other medium. I think it's because of the process of writing a book. It takes extreme dedication, passion, and a deep knowledge of the subject. Most books I've read have been reviewed by multiple experts and their content is presented in a structured and comprehensive way. Authors spend a significant chunk of their life writing a handful of books, many books you read are someone's greatest life achievement.

If the same amount of time and care were put into, say a YouTube video, I'd prefer the video. But that's very rare. My reading is 100% informational however, so I am biased in that regard.
I spent a decade working as a journalist covering the nonprofit space, please tell me more.
Yeah, the LSP does seem to go through some seriously bad days/weeks.
I think it's entirely coherent for someone to be worried about losing their place in the world but not worried about autonomous jet fighters.
Ah that's a shame, I've never had much issues luckily and heard good things about Linode. I believe they are cheaper than DO now too.
Europe Moves Forward with Major Hydrogen Projects
Go programs are a nightmare to package for linux distros due to the way they handle dependencies so I would strongly discourage any other language from copying the Go model.
Zapier, LucidChart and about a million other SaaS companies do this as well, because it's something people would search for. There's nothing in the Google blog that suggests they're turning the screws of SEO-optimized content.

https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-update-mar...
TSMC N5 is indeed about 30% more Transistors/mm2 than N7 as you might expect so seems reasonably meaningful?
Thanks for the clarification. Luckily BNC connectors are rare nowadays. It happened at a friends house. I lost contact but I'm pretty sure he's still alive but maybe their house is still dangerous.
He was even kind enough to point out exactly how to defeat such a system!
This is great, has a ton of options and other solutions are way more laggy
If you are an idle game enjoyer like myself, I cannot recommend Antimatter Dimensions highly enough. This game makes you do math, has deep lore, somehow, and is just generally an ode to game design. The core mechanic is based on 1.8e308 being infinity, too.

Here's a link, enjoy a mild, time-gated addiction: https://ivark.github.io/AntimatterDimensions/
It will be 18A first.
> Force passenger to check hand luggage in.

For the most part, this is on the passengers. Everybody wants to bring the largest hard sided rolling luggage that could possibly be a carry-on these days. Those things take up space in the overhead bins very inefficiently, and the planes weren't made with that amount of carry-on capacity per passenger.

But something I thought of the other day is that when they start gate checking bags, it means they sold too many tickets that include a full size carry-on, right? Counterpoint would be that the later boarding groups implicitly may have to gate check their bags, and that's why they're cheaper.

I'm pretty adamant that most people should use soft travel backpacks or duffel bags. The proliferation of hard sided rolling luggage as a carry-on is a scourge.
These kind of comments make me sad because I remember being younger and believing this stuff.

Companies are legal entities, they are amoral. What you are seeing is a leader. I really hope that leader that you believe in, and inspires you to believe and comment such things on HN never fails you.
The donation popup on Wikipedia is not a color I like. "Login to continue reading" and other fake paywalls don't create a more dynamic user experience...and fucking cookie consent forms, don't get me started.

I don't dislike JavaScript. I dislike JavaScript being used to make the web suck. So I have NoScript for when it sucks too much.
According to the EIA, more than a quarter of the us coal fleet will be retired by 2029. This is 10 years before these regulations would be at full strength:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=54559

The last large plant came online in 2013 and noone has plans to build more. This is the economic reality of coal power in the US. It cannot compete with renewables (even when coal gets more subsidies) or natural gas, and it certainly cannot once it has to price in the cost of the pollution (particle, heavy metals, and carbon) that it previously made all of us pay for.

The hand wringing about politics in policy, or this EPA decision impacting energy prices are misguided and ignorant repetition of memes that the coal and other fossil fuel industries promote to perform a rear guard action and slow for their competitors who are beating them on most fronts with cheap, clean, zero marginal cost energy with very stable pricing.
I don’t either. It’s like saying there are more smaller rocks than bigger rocks and concluding there’s something wrong with geology.

You can’t count all languages and then divide by total population and say that the dividend is the proper amount of speakers every language should have. It’s idiotic. It’s like saying we should have equal outcomes in a given society (pick homogenous S Korea for example) and saying there should be equal outcomes despite a bell distribution. It flies in the face of reality. Some people are more apt, some people are lazy, some just lack ability for what they choose despite all efforts. It's not to say we should avoid unfairness --but the saying we should have equal outcomes is silly.
One of the things that helped me back in the day was installing and running Arch Linux for some time. While it's not programming per se, it gave me the terminal/shell/sysadmin skills I needed in my programming career.

If you have time and don't already have good UNIX skills I highly recommend it. Do it on "hard" mode though, no shortcuts. I'm sure there are scripts out there to install Arch easily, don't go for them - do it by hand!
Technically, COSMIC uses libcosmic rather than iced. It is a custom toolkit based on a modified version of iced.
I’m confused how they are doing stuff like this in light of West Virginia vs EPA?
Ah, so it would only require a global coordinated effort to decide on limits and taxes, as well as to avoid havens where companies could avoid such regulation.

I suppose that isn't as absurd as I thought.
When you don't have enough corpus in a given "small language," generation of correct grammar, the right word choice and paragraph-wide coherency go out of the window with LLMs.

You need "Plain old artificial intelligence" systems, which are designed for these languages, which are more complex, more fixed machines but can generate better output with less "knowledge".

Otherwise, LLMs plus small languages without enough corpus become "language in garbage out," and you'll do more damage to these languages.
* Drag/drop support from Finder.
* Git pre-commit chokes Sublime Merge (for some weird reason), I'm sure I can troubleshoot this but I every time I take a swing at it, it blows up in my face and I give up
* Strange autocomplete issues
* A few other things I forget about, but will try it again and see if I can remember
Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison
This is a super cool project (first time I'm hearing about it), great work to everyone involved!

Is the intent to have multiple tribler-like instances serving different (content) domains or more of a one-spot search that content providers can serve their content through? I ask as I'm wondering about how you foresee this "degrading" as it scales as that is where most current content platforms fail apart as they try to grow/maximize audience.
Sorta like tech companies these days.
I was introduced to this idea by the book Permutation City. Great read.
It is simply natural that as the internet grows and English resources become more and more valuable (a value to which AI adds), other languages will become crushed.

Frankly, I think it's not good. Yes, we are increasing short-term wealth by uniformizing everything, but in the larger scope of things, we are also locking humanity into a machine where there is less and less variation, all for the purposes of advancing technology.

And, should continued technological advancement turn out poorly for society (as it is seemingly doing with climate change, made possible only with science and technology), the lack of variation will make it almost impossible for us to adapt. It's just like in evolution: a lack of sufficient genetic variation makes it harder for populations to adapt to rapid changes.
As original names they're under copyright in the US and UK, and in the UK the estate also retains right of publicity.
It’s exactly the same phenomena at play like after S.A.C. was found guilty of insider trading / or trading with a black edge Point72 (the successor brand) is more popular than ever with capital allocators. Funny how the world works.
1.6 nm is 16 A. If they continue the BS for much longer, the "feature size" will be smaller than the lattice of Si.
It’s wrong and, frankly racist, to imply Americans are incapable of innovation. Immigrants are used to suppress wages, that innovation you describe is a key aspect of American culture and can be replicated in defense by Americans. One big problem is that the politics of the most innovative areas has been pretty anti-defense tech until very recently
What would you consider Elon's constant posting about Tesla on social media qualify as?
China is approving new coal power projects at the equivalent of two plants every week, a rate energy watchdogs say is unsustainable if the country hopes to achieve its energy targets.