skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It offends me that I must use Firefox or one of the WebKit forks instead of w3m, eww, links, elinks or my own program which parses HTML.

It offends me that in order to read a document I also have to grant the author of that document execution privileges on my machine.

It offends me when a page’s images are all blurry, low-resolution images (which would be redownloaded by the Javascript I have disabled).

The World Wide Web is a web of documents. It offends me that is has instead become a consortium of walled gardens.
But there are 3 parties here: writer, reader and platform, for want of a better word.

It needs to reward them all to a point it is sustainable.

I don't frequent Substack much so maybe it's not apparent to me, but given it's business model promoting paid should be expected surely? Is that a dark pattern? Certainly feels it's low down the spectrum when compared with most online marketplaces.
To each their own. I've been running Sway on most machines. I only run X11 in one place, because there nvidia stability forces me to use i3 instead[1].

Sway and Wayland is just SO much better than X11 and i3. No screen tearing. Keyboard doesn't just randomly reset its mapping. More stable. Window resizing just works, instead of having X and i3 teams do blame fingerpointing.

I've had multiple annoying bugs in X eventually reach a core X developer, who then says "yeah that's a bug, but it's core to X, so it basically cannot be fixed".

> Fifteen years, and Wayland still isn't as good as X11.

To each their own. For me it's not even close. I'm so done with X11.

[1] that may be solvable. I'm not up to speed on the latest in nvidia driver bullshit. But I rarely use that machine, so it's probably less pain to just live with i3 instead of fixing it.
Rotation matrices (i.e. orthonormal matrices) are a complicated manifold in 9 dimensional space.

Rotation quaternions (i.e. unit quaternions) are simply the unit sphere in 4 dimensional space.
More a general question, what is your strategy for working on topics/technologies that seem to be quite "counter-culture", internet, cyberspace from within an 'established/establishment' academic institution?
That was always a lie. Always. Exact quotes were often disregarded, and even sometimes still aliased. What exists for precision is "verbatim", which was added after some bonehead a Google decided that the + operator, such as +needthisprecisely, was conflicting with "Google Plus" searches.

So they deprecated the + operator, and started blathering on about how quotes did "the same thing", which it never did, and never has!

If you want terms to appear as typed, the closest thing to the old + is "verbatim" under "tools" after a search. Verbatim was added back in, after people howled at the loss of the + operator.

Note the + referenced:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040202021515/http://www.google...

You can see that in 2004, Google never aliased terms, the ~ operator was for that.

(Everyone used + for "always include this", for any needed word, for almost 15 years before Google removed it.)
love that hooli is one of the companies on the homepage!
This is a good occasion to pitch the sublime https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
I still don't particularly like the idea.
That does not follow at all. Perhaps they simply don't want to spin off a future competitor, and decide that selling simply isn't worth that future risk.
Does OSX not have an MPRIS equivalent?
> Like somehow it’s a bad thing for a newsletter platform to optimise to help their customers grow.

> where people put in insults because they’re offended you asked them if they would like to subscribe.

It's a bad thing because people don't like the resulting UX, as your experience indicates. Interesting that Substack is aggressive enough in pushing folks to subscribe that they need to build subscription blocking because people hate the nagging so much they submit insulting email addresses. You would think this would be an indication to both Substack and their customers that the UX needs significant work.
Sounds like a response to Intel's 18A process [0], which is also coming in 2026.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/int...
instead of signals and power path going through the same side (frontside) causing all sorts of issues and inefficiency, they're decoupling where power is coming from (from the other, backside, err side).

More importantly, intel saw it as one of two key technologies of them moving into angstrom era, and was touting itself they'll be the first one to bring it to life (not sure they did).. so this seems to be more of a business power move.

more on all of it from anandtech: https://www.anandtech.com/show/18894/intel-details-powervia-...
>1.6nm

Gotta love how we now have fractions of a near meaningless metric.
I'm also clueless. First search brings up https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-details-powervia-bac... with a nice diagram

It looks like the topology for backside moves the transistors to the middle so "singal wires and power wires are decoupled and optimized separately" instead of "compete[ing] for the same resources at every metal layer"
Most of the Voyager acceleration was done by using gravity assist ("slingshot flybys" -- effectively falling toward a large mass like Jupiter and missing). As far as I know gravity has not improved or become better since the 1970s.
It IS an unreasonable expectation. There are so many reasons it's unrealistic, from the fact that it's a niche skill, to the friction that it creates before one can just write or interact with others. Comparing it to driving is not a good example; a much better one might be everyone learning to fly. Because you know then we wouldn't have to take commercial flights.

My partner deals with a large set of people that can't manage to print a PDF, let alone deploy a static site to GitHub pages. Lack of technical ability does not imply lack of intelligence. Most of the people she serves could learn to patternmake and design their own garments, but instead they buy her sewing patterns and download them. Because at the end of the day, they want to sew a garment and enjoy it, not jump through the learning required to design the patterns from scratch (though a small subset might eventually do that).

I grant you that an increasing set of children are getting a technical education, but they're only one part of a very large global population.
Computers Are Overrated
Yes you're right that it's a global problem, but that should not be an objection to taking initiative.
In Belgium it is mandatory for new houses to collect rainwater from the roof and use it for your toilet or washing machine, or to use a special well to let it soak into the ground slowly. This is quite cheap actually. The main purpose is to avoid this rainwater to come into the wastewater system.
Optimising your landing page, changing button colours, etc are not dark patterns. It's called good business.
You're going to end up with some level of IDB'd (involuntarily denied boarding) passengers in any world where seats/safety equipment break, equipment changes, crew members get sick and/or time out and airline personnel need to be shuttled to crew another flight that would otherwise be entirely cancelled, or unexpected weather [higher than typical temperatures, unfavorable winds] or airport conditions [runway closures/temporary shortening] preclude a full gross weight takeoff.

As a passenger, I appreciate that my airfares are lower and some airfares have increased flexibility because the airlines have a deep understanding of the turn-up ratio and sell tickets in light of that fact. I appreciate the cases where [probably without my awareness] a flight or cabin crew/member [or maintenance tech and part] has been last-minute flown in to crew/fix a flight that I ended up taking rather than having it be cancelled.

Does it suck to be IDB'd? Sure. Does it happen often? Almost never (around 23 in a million or 1 in 44K embarkations). People in the US are about 5.5 times more likely to be killed in a car crash in a given year than be IDB'd on a given flight.

https://archive.is/YfLWG
So if you're not against paying for access to media, why are you against paying for access to software? If you're against DRM, that's an argument I can support more
Some 20 years younger, there is a 1990s DOS era game called Triplane Turmoil which is a similar dogfighting game with multiplayer and solo campaigns. It was a small time indie hit in Finland and Europe back in the day when games were distributed as floppy disks in the mail.

It is now open source, on Debian you can just apt-get install triplane .
I think the Windows Phone was the first from Microsoft with the flat UI. While it didn't take off, I remember a friend who had a Windows phone and thinking how radical and different its UI was.
I did something similar many years ago in VHDL. There was a site called opencores for different open source HDL projects. I wonder if is there any good HPC level large scale distributed HDL simulator exists today? It makes sense to utilize modern GPUs for making RTL level simulations.
I hadn't tried Copilot but Continue + Claude Sonnet worked pretty well for me, really sped up development of the last hobby project I've done in Rust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra_Deep_Space_Communicat...

(pdf) https://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/files/820-100-H.pdf

70 meter antenna, 80 kW X-band transmit power (122 dBW EIRP)
Why can't the feds get their own chat suite together? How are all these companies, loaded to the gills with foreigners, to be trusted with the government's secrets?
With this 2 lanes setup, if too many apps are abusing or dysfunctionning there, they won't work properly since the bandwidth would be severely limited as low as possible in the network hierarchy. People will mecanically drop those apps, unfortunately including the apps not abusing.
Been working out quite well even without the ads, actually.
"Non profit" in USA are still very much profit-driven; only stipulations are:

+ must have a board
+ give away 30%+ of earnings (easily done by attaching a value to the OSS free installs & handling issues w/o billing)
I’ve tried this with an index card once and quickly filled it up. As I ran out of space I found myself question if someone was card worthy, which was a distraction.

I also tried writing in the margins on a book. I don’t like writing in the book due to it losing a lot of ability to shared after the fact, or if the book isn’t mine it’s a non-starter. That said, it was a very different experience, it was more like having a conversation with the author.

I may need to experiment more to try and find something that works.
" In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

-Mortimer J Adler

I think this quote applies too.
If anything this causes the airlines to be extra cynical and try their hardest to keep the delay within the 3h window. Whatever it takes not to be liable.
ISPs no longer providing free hosting and VMs, and blocking port forwarding doesn't help either.
Accessibility. Some people are actually just here to read.
That's what the original standard was for, after all.
Customers for economy class seats are very price sensitive - if you were enjoying the experience then the airline wouldn't be cutting the services offered close enough to the bone to offer a competitive price.

You can pay for a slightly better experience, but it's very expensive!
You're throwing words around in apparent criticism, but there's no substance to it. Environmental protection policies should be about as controversial as the idea that we shouldn't shit where we eat. If you want to call that politics, then sure, I guess.
Exactly so. A legal case is ongoing, not yet judged, so there is no genocide in law. And on your second point, it has already been widely debunked as Hamas propaganda; in any case, the evidence adduced would not constitute evidence of genocide. The rush to claim genocide is more indicative of the state of mind of the accusers than anything else.
That phrase intrigued me too, so I followed the link to the source, and it turns out that it was expected to be exhibited before the auction (no idea if that actually happened):

> Ahead of the auction, the painting will be exhibited in Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain and Hong Kong.
I haven't used it, but teams is on Linux, and might be polished enough for your needs:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/...

Consider evaluating it in a VM before taking the plunge.

Good luck and Happy Porting!
I still think the defense industry is the greater evil (since nearly everything that starts out as "defense" ends up being used for "offense"), but I 100% agree with your argument against the modern tech industry.
> Since threads are processed in parallel, tiny-gpu assumes that all threads "converge" to the same program counter after each instruction - which is a naive assumption for the sake of simplicity.

> In real GPUs, individual threads can branch to different PCs, causing branch divergence where a group of threads threads initially being processed together has to split out into separate execution.

Whoops. Maybe this person should try programming for a GPU before attempting to build one out of silicon.

Not to mention the whole SIMD that... isn't.

(This is the same person who stapled together other people's circuits to blink an LED and claimed to have built a CPU)
https://www.imec-int.com/en/articles/how-power-chips-backsid... has some explanation that's a bit beyond ELI5, but they have 2 pictures:

frontside: https://www.imec-int.com/_next/image?url=%2Fsites%2Fdefault%...

backside: https://www.imec-int.com/_next/image?url=%2Fsites%2Fdefault%...

Another graphic samsung used: https://www.thelec.net/news/photo/202210/4238_4577_1152.jpg

From https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/samsung-to-i...

> Typically, backside power delivery enables thicker, lower-resistance wires, which can deliver more power to enable higher performance and save power. Samsung's paper noted a 9.2% reduction in wiring length, enhancing performance
Stop using one of the GUI applications.

A good one to start with on mac is probably Finder.

Type 'man man' to learn about man pages.

Read the pages for 'cd', 'cp', 'rm', 'mv', 'find', 'cat'.

Try each one.

Move around the filesystem, move or rename some files.

That's all a good part of what you'll be doing on the cli.
I don't think it's about being honest. Organizations are difficult to manage. Join a shitty org and try to make it better. You're not entitled to some role doing something you love in a perfectly run organization. Such things don't exist and if you think you're smarter than everyone else, manifest this organization somewhere
there is a good youtube video that explains it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyZlQY2xmWQ
OpenRA looks great.

> For others to join your game, you must forward a port in your router for them to connect to. By default, OpenRA uses TCP port 1234. You can test this on sites like canyouseeme.org yourself.

This however concerns me.
No, that is wrong - if the outcome of this regulation is coal export with the same end use + co2 for transit + no sulfur scrubbing because emerging markets coal plants have lesser env standards, it doesn't make sense.
That's fair! I've looked long and hard at the Chevy Bolt in the past, but I think other car models have surpassed it.
You claim that gold has "fundamental value" and imply that bitcoin doesn't.

If you don't understand why bitcoin has fundamental value, then I'd bet you don't understand why gold has either. If you understand why gold has fundamental value, it's self evident why bitcoin has it too (far, far more in fact).
The defense is the bill of rights.
Enron's a perfect example of what happens when you have some pretty good ideas being executed by absolute sociopaths.
Could you share? What are the media outlets that passed positively your elimination? And you are still using them?
give me feedback pls
Spam management is the hardest thing about comments. That’s a big part of what Disqus takes care of. I know you wrote that you would want approve and delete so as to moderate comments, but it becomes a big and unpleasant task, wading through the spam comments to find the good ones.
Substack has to pay back its VC investors who expect a massive return. That alone is enough to ruin most of these services. But Substack’s revenue model incentivizes bad behavior on their part. Whereas Ghost apparently charges by usage. So, the incentives for providing good service are aligned with the goals of their customers, rather than their investors.
Deno literally did this[1] in order to be browser-compatible[2], and everybody whinged about it. I happen to love that I can just import an HTTPS URL inside Deno code. It's really nice for playing around with libraries, writing little scripts that pull in dependencies, etc.

[1] https://docs.deno.com/runtime/manual/basics/modules/#remote-...

[2] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#modul...
Just fyi, confetti are candies in italy. Not bits of paper.
There's no need for condolences, it's not personal. Business is churn and crisis.

If you've never seen it yourself, it's only that it hasn't occurred to you -yet-.

It's in the news every day with reports like Tesla lays off thousands to cut costs while board gives CEO $50 billion payout.

I do not see this as explainable through any idea of incompetence. It's about some wiley edge of control over profits.

It's not contradictory that firms depend on skilled labor but are incapable of producing the conditions for constructing the needed labor force. Business has a long track record of enslaving labor and prefers to wreck labor as a force. Even at business's very best, it's widely understood that business / community partnerships are required to meet needs, where the community funds the training from which business cherry picks "talent" and while negotiating tax breaks that get passed on to investors executives.

This can't be explained as incompetence, it's explained through organized contention between specific vested corporate interests and the broader community who bears the costs of cultivating the labor force.

It's a story of business competency that led to Michael Moore to write about his stories about Flint Michigan, which became emblematic of US corporate culture.

Within corporate enclaves you can always find a small population who have never endured the ongoing existential crisis which is business churn: People for whom the crisis of labor hasn't occurred...
yet.

For the special few who get to the grave in business having never seen any pathos... Is this good luck or a curse? There's no shortage of evidence!

Look around your community and the commons, do you see decay? Is it explainable through "competence" or "incompetence?"

It seems some other language is needed to explain what we see.
Ask HN: Junior developer here, seeking a mentor
Ive been passionate about CS for a couple years now, programming/learning just about every day. Im trying to go to college and major in CS. Shooting for MIT or Harvard. I use Arch Linux as a daily driver which gives me a lot of XP just from it being super DIY.

Most of my experience is with Python, Bash, HTML, CSS/SCSS. I am starting to learn low-level systems languages like C and Rust, with a focus on Rust. Im also getting myself familiar with relational databases. I'm still getting a feel for what I actually want to do, so I experiment a lot, just like to learn how stuff works.

I personally haven't met anyone IRL that is interested in programming or tech in general, so I've kind of been going about it by myself. It would be awesome to meet people who know more about it than me, and bounce ideas back and forth and learn from them. Would also love to contribute to a project, my github contributions are pretty low and it would be good XP.
Other people's experience you witness, directly or via delayed medium, is your experience.
Okay sorry, I'm not from the US and sometimes I think I live behind the moon.

Do you mean with drone war, the usage of drones in a war (like they do in Ukraine and middle east) or a 'war' between manufacturers?
Natural gas emits less than half the CO2 of coal per unit of energy due to its chemical makeup, NG is the "cleanest" fossil fuel.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48296
So you quit potentially life-saving research because you couldn't open a terminal session to a cell culture? Why did you even enter that field in the first place? Genuine question.
We already have all the tools we need to attack and destroy any corporate officer who does such a thing. But we also have a rigged, corrupt legal system.
IPv4 didnt even exist when it was launched. They should have waited for ipv6
These exotic (non linear algebra based) embedding representations are often slow to take off unless they have an obvious use case.

The other one that I've always been curious of is Poincarré Embeddings [1] - where the embedding also has a hierarchical representation of the space.

There's issues with these becoming popular:

1. Querying the embeddings requires more math knowledge than just "lol cosine similarity". This also requires to write code for the query

2. You can often easily match the performance with regular embeddings by just adding dimensions and training more. So the advantage of exotic embeddings has to be with the information in the more complex mathematical abstraction.

So they need a killer usecase to become popular, it's hard to move the needle.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08039
This is not true, and I do not know what gave you that impression. What you're describing is a side effect of using systemd-sysext, but I do not know why you would be using that.
Formation of memory assemblies through the DNA-sensing TLR9 pathway
Time travel in picture caption:

> In 1977, President Bill Clinton [right] presented the National Medal of Technology to Bob Kahn [center] and Vint Cerf [left].

What does Jimmy Carter think of that?
Rust's Cargo and crates.io are separate, just as another example.
It's also a great opportunity to give the TSA agent hands on practice. Need to get them skilled up, frisking on behalf of "on the go" VIPs. They usually laugh at that joke while fondling me.
I don't know if the job market is tough (yet). My contract ended last month but I decided to take one month of vacation before thinking about the next move. Then now after a month I decided to take a sabbatical year to shift my focus to AI/ML.

Maybe in a year the market will be better, maybe I will be better for the market.
> Compare that to the Navy's LCS program, a massively expensive clusterfuck with very few redeeming qualities.

Which, to be fair to the Navy, is as much Congressional meddling and military procurement seeding--if you stop paying your contractors, they stop being military contractors and the knowledge you'd like walks out the door, which doesn't excuse the LCS program but does explain some of it--as anything else.

When we say that we're bad at procurement in the United States, there's a lot of targets for blame. (I think you're right that the Air Force tends to have the best project execution of the service branches though.)