skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This survey also shows ~80% of those polled to have an impression of one of:

* neither positive or negative

* don't know, or

* unfamiliar

If you look for surveys that ask about support for Israel directly, you will get significantly different numbers.
That's a terrible take to blame the engineers for the complexity, not the ever changing specs, headcount inflating and managers that have no idea what software engineering is. I would blame the CTOs.
Why was it problematic? I have different SSIDs for different things, and that works fine. I do wish I could cut ports off at the router between devices, but that doesn't seem possible with my small UniFi router. SSID isolation is working really well for me, though.
Been using coolify to host my blog + analytics + a couple personal projects for around 6 months.

Good for 1-click installs that “don’t need” a lot of maintenance, like Ghost, Plausible, etc.

Had some issues with spikes in CPU usage (similar case: https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify/issues/3226)
Monitoring is not enough but I just go straight to the container im looking for and htop it.

For not 1-click I still sometimes feel like bumping into a brick wall, and go for a standalone docker-compose setup outside of coolify. Coolify is too high-level to debug small Docker intricacies (or maybe it’s that I’m bad with that).
I get that people want to Categorize All The Things, but this doesn't seem like a particularly useful category. If you look at the list in the Wikipedia article, it includes "skilled tradespeople/technicians". That alone represents a pretty big chunk of work traditionally considered "blue collar."
Most of the people in that room had worked blue collar jobs, worked through school, and retrained in white collar professions.

I would have been incredibly rude to tell them "No, your job isn't _really_ white collar, and you haven't changed your social standing as much as you thought."
I read on an old Kobo, using Kepub files. Their Kepub renderer is quite good.

I think Kindle's renderer hasn't changed significantly for many years, and it had always been pretty bad. I always say that Kindle seems to have been created by people who hate books.

The best renderer around is iBooks on an iPad, which as far as I can tell uses an up-to-date Webkit.
Yes and even better if your pieces of paper are what the peasants use to trade with one another. That means you can make more paper money and it keeps value because it's in demand beyond your own trade needs.
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A shocking number of people are completely incapable of being alone with their thoughts.

I was at a bathhouse the other night and these two people were both playing videos, out loud, on their phones while having a conversation. They couldn't even have a conversation without some distraction.

Nowadays everyone has an earbud in their ear playing a podcast, music, or audiobook. Every task has to be accompanied by audio. People avoid social interaction by listening to something. Etc etc.

There are huge benefits to doing chores in silence or being outside without segregating your sense of sound.

It's up there with social media.

I'd be really curious if any mental health professionals have studied people with anxiety conditions and how much audio they listen to throughout the day.

It was either Radiolab or this American life that aired an episode about how the Sony walkman changed society forever. I think they were really onto something.
If the US has convinced itself that able-bodied young men who are good at following orders are the people who need social support then it is quite a bit worse than mere waste. That is $800 billion spent keeping the US's best labour out of the labour force.

The US isn't sending sad cases over to Japan to cash welfare checks.
The change from Netscape saying the official dimensions are 88x32 to everyone using 88x31 seems worthy of more investigation. The idea that Netscape made the unofficial one 31 instead of 32 as a way to tell who was official or not doesn't seem very likely to me.
The definition of being first, and the definition of what modern versions are derived from, are two totally different things.

The latter has no bearing whatsoever on the former. It's very interesting in its own right, but it's completely different.
Whether you want to use a "grey collar" category or not, it's still best to avoid putting white collar on a pedestal over blue collar.
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Its more complicated isn't it. People can be favourable towards one side in a conflict without fully identifying with their goals. And they can be sympathetic to people without fully supporting the nation or its institutions.

My guess is that the global political elite are a small social circle of wealthy powerful people. And that if an action is socially acceptable within that group then it has little cost in the real world. It is not a conspiracy or anything or an evil plot. It is just how people behave.
88 x 31 pixels? I had a hard time grasping, what the author is talking about. Especially since he shows large banners, not smaller buttons.
I built a 'slice of function pointers' bytecode interpreter in Go in 2019 for the Algorand VM (Blockchain smart contract stuff) and before that the same pattern in C for a toy JVM around 2005.

It's a good pattern!

The Algorand VM was focused on low overhead running thousands of tiny programs per second. Version 1 had no loops and a 1000 instruction limit.

The JVM was focused on low memory, towards possible embedded microcontroller use.

So, 'array of function pointers' is nothing new, but it is a good pattern.
Ah, if that's the case I can understand the argument a bit better, but maybe the article should then be titled "the insanity of being in one of the best-paid professions in one of the richest countries in the world, and still having poor working conditions".
Pro tip for everybody: do not post any text as images

Never should I receive a Java exception hundreds of lines long as a cut off JPEG file.

Or a screenshot of a Google Sheet missing the information you’re talking to me about.
Tangential question: does Medium automatically add emojis to article headings?
This is a nice compilation of the work, it was great to see in one place
This is a ridiculous way to view things.

Of course, it is their job to try to upsell you insurance.

In the US though, the insurance is completely reasonable if you want to have no risk. Drop the car off with no risk of a ding or scratch for a few bucks.

Framing it like the mafia loan sharking is completely absurd.
There is of course absolutely zero chance of this happening. But I didn't actually expect that amongst people rather than lobbyists/corporations the very idea would actually be considered controversial, subversive or offensive. I'd have brought popcorn if I expected this incredible display of mental gymnastics. I guess I assumed that even people who are forced into the situation where ads are their bread and butter directly or indirectly still know about the damage and think the whole thing is gross. (I've been there and done that myself..)

Now I'm thinking of the "neighborhood beautification projects" in Abbey's Monkeywrench Gang though where the guys light up the cutting torches to cut down any billboards that get too close to the Grand Canyon. The fear of course is that police might drive by, since if you think about it the activity itself is really reversing vandalism more than anything else. Apparently today you would have to worry about mobs of concerned citizens tearing you to pieces for taking away their right to be advertised to? I'm so amazed by the very idea of this I can't even get that disgusted or angry about it. What else are these people up to, how do they live and what else do they think? Like, if the best food was determined by ad budgets, do they wonder what to have for dinner ever, and what's the most gourmet cuisine in that world? Best candidate for the election is the one with the biggest ad budget? Channel surfing to get away from the annoying so called "content" that prevent you from seeing ads? I feel a bit like I've discovered alien life or something
I think it's disingenuous to suggest they're putting themselves at a disadvantage with an RTX 3090, especially in a comparison to an inferior product that isn't even shipping yet.

RTX 3090: 24GB RAM, 936.2GB/s bandwidth

Tenstorrent p150a: 32GB RAM, 512GB/s bandwidth

an extra 8GB of ram isn't worth nearly halving memory bandwidth.
But this is HN and comments should be helpful for everyone.

Your snark is not welcome here.
FWIW that 10% almost entirely comes from the current economic shock. At the beginning of 2025 1 USD was about 1 Euro.
I think maybe you one don’t understand how payroll works and two need to put more effort into participating. Or less.
I have no idea why you’ve been downvoted.

Downvotes are now a measure of emotion more than anything else. Validity isn’t a consideration.
What, if anything, is Big Bird
> You seem to be implying that all claims of regulatory capture, or even simple incompetence or bias, are all the result of Russian propaganda

Can you quote me on that? Because it's like you didn't even read what I wrote. How can I be more clear than:

> To be clear, I'm not saying this article is a propaganda piece; what I'm saying is that this sort of opinion from someone who doesn't seem to fully understand the subject is a prime example of something that could be amplified for propaganda and contribute to institutional demise.

How is this implying that ALL claims, incompetence, or bias ARE the result of propaganda? And where am I wrong to say that this sort of thing is being amplified by, for example, popular US Podcasts that were, and some for sure still are, being funded by the Russian regime?[0]

This isn't a conspiracy theory by the way: it's well known that there are people being paid to promote propaganda, and there are people - like you said and well - that want to sow distrust for their ends, and also get paid by Russia to do it. There's still an ongoing investigation about the example I gave, but it's probably a mix of both.

But these aren't just the two types of people in the information space, that's just silly. Still, you should pay attention to who has, or gets, a big reach.

> Part of the solution is transparency and full information.

Is it? Because the solution seems to be about having a certain aesthetic, being loud, and disregarding everything else - you just need to make pauses to say "and that's a fact/the truth is/everyone knows this/it's common sense". Just look at the Trump administration, it's working pretty well for them.

[0]https://www.cdmrn.ca/publications/tenet-media-final-incident...
Same for me. I think it's english only.
Small Countries Should Not Exist
Hey now Rust is also garbage collected:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555249#43592602

I wonder what they'll add to it by tomorrow...
It's actually quite common and typical for freelancers.

Unfortunately when you evaluate a project, initially everything looks and feel just right, that you wouldn't have any problem delivering the end result as soon as possible.

But..! We know how customers ask for small "favors" of "tiny" changes that won't affect the whole project, or so they think(!), which eventually end up delaying the whole development as they become painful hurdles, only to find yourself struggling to deliver the project so you can get paid in time.

Those who know this nightmare, know!
If someone leaves and you never hear from them again - that’s not friendship, that’s a cell mate
Be serious now. Plenty of useful, privacy-required queries can be run with 24GB of VRAM, especially given the existence of e.g. Gemma 3 27B and the heavy NVIDIA-targeted optimisation work that has occurred.

The Tenstorrent cards exist, but are low in availability and the software is comparatively nonexistent. I'm excited for them too, but at the end of the day, I can buy a used 3090 today and do useful work with it, while the same is not true of TT yet.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/tcpa-faq.html

Quote from here and the idea is from this https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200167344_Informati...
Are you doing nothing or are you doing "nothing" like scrolling social media or playing video games?

Sitting in silence is vastly different than doing nothing productive.
that's a bed-time story - Anduril will interview people from Europe but then explain that they can't hire people from Europe.
Surely there is a difference between me (private person ) selling my 1 car/house or company Y advertising their latest car model (they want to sell 1000ds).
I assume KOReader has a better renderer for epub but will have to test how it compares to the stock software+kepub. So far I've only used KOReader on my device.
An einer Waldorfschule hast Du selection bias
It surprises me that the eBook (clarification: epub) format is basically XHTML because 1) that means that every eReader needs to basically be a web browser 2) this sounds like it would make reformatting for different devices NOT easier
Audiophiles are a niche manufactured market, not an elite group of super-hearers. Their existence is more of a result brand identity and bonding over a shared passion for spec purity than the natural result of their innate capabilities.

They love to show off their setups, but how many audiophiles do you know who post their wetware specs (ie- hearing test results)?
> What has Anduril done? Tried to sponsor some conference. Post a job ad on a project forum

make weapons for a government controlled by putin
It didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.
Economizing is a uniquely human delusion whereby you suddenly think that principles of human centric markets somehow ascend to a primal force of the universe and aren't just a coping mechanism we use to try to peaceably coexist with one another without sinking all our time into killing one another to decrease competition like the rest of the life on the planet.

Nature doesn't do markets. We do. If you apply market thinking to the wrong things, bad things happen. You don't serve the market. The market serves you.
Sorry, my mistake: the title is Permanence. Author is Karl Schroeder. If I remember correctly (and clearly my memory isn't to be trusted), Watts says in the afterword of Blindsight that he violently disagrees with Schroeder, or the perspective Schroeder offers, in that book, but I believe he recommends it as a rich exploration of many of the issue Blindsight explores.

Thanks for the write up. I'm completely sold on Sunflower series, and will probably read it next. It sounds very promising -- and probably short enough that I can slip it in between books 1 and 2 of the Culture series.

Thanks also for the encouragement to stick with Banks, too. I'll try. I'm not sure I'll be able to last for six full books though. The storytelling in Consider Phlebas -- which I'd call action-adventure sci-fi maximalism -- isn't working all that well for me. There's so much technobabble. There are so many lasers. So much ink is spilled filling out the world just for the sake of it. It's a massive overload and baroque overdose of sci-fi tropes. So far the most interesting episode has been, I think, the main character's interaction with the shuttle on the island.
An early but interesting end to the 2024-25 polar vortex season
I have seen it. Yes, they technically exist. Nobody buys them though.

They are ridiculously expensive. Their use-cases in modern compute is a rounding error towards zero. We just don't build computers like that anymore, for good reason. Memory and CPU rarely fail, and when they do fail, they fail the entire box and just replace it. In 99.99% of all cases it's cheaper and easier to do it that way.

There are vanishingly small use-cases where it makes sense to do hotplug CPU/Memory. They charge accordingly.

Like I said in my parent comment, virtually nobody needs uptimes measured in literal decades. If you are in the .01%(rounded up) of compute that actually needs that, the chances of needing to do it with x86 is even smaller.

One example are the VISA and Mastercard payment processing platforms. The way they are designed requires 24/7 literal decades of uptime. When they have partial outages, they make international headlines and end up writing letters like this: https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-com...
The classic issue of who made the first tongs could be inserted here, with some hammering.

(It's a classic legend. There is an Islamic legend that Allah gave the first pair of tongs to the first blacksmith because you need a pair of tongs to make a pair of tongs. There's a Nordic legend that Thor made the first tongs. In reality, somebody probably used a bent piece of green wood, which didn't last long, but could be easily replaced.)

His piece "Vibe Coding, Final Word"[1] is relevant right now.

[1] https://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/04/vibe-coding-final-word....
Have you tried asking on their IRC channel?
I wasn't, sorry if I was confusing.

My point was that the logic "I can imagine that it may be worth doing X even if there is a cost Y, so it must be worth it" is wrong. If it may be worth it, it means that you need to investigate.
The Mensa Reading List for Grades 9-12
I'm basing my VMS process memory layout comment on: Virtual Memory Management in the VAX/VMS Operating System by Henry M. Levy and Peter H. Lipman, Digital Equipment Corporation. It's an old paper, but I believe, still essentially correct.

I looked into Mach circa 1991, when I had a NeXT. The NeXT OS was based on Mach 2.0 as I recall, perhaps current Darwin docs will help there. I don't have any preferred modern references. Googling for "Mach operating system" pulls up quite a few.
Top US Scientists Write Open Letter to the American People
A lack of universally recognized richtext format is really a problem. Why? practically any rich-text that needs to be rendered across platforms (web and mobile devices) are now being stored as html or markdown or app-dependent json.

HTML was never envisioned as a cross-platform richtext format and markdown lacks almost half of all formatting features. Specialzed json is even more evil because the content becomes unrenderable when the parent app goes out of existence.

op's suggestion (accomodating formattings as unicode bytes) might not be optimal however I'm happy at least somebody thought of this as a problem to solve.
Exactly: if your templating logic accidentally produces a syntax error, now you can't log in to SSH. There's much less chance of that scenario with include directories. This applies for infrastructure as code scenarios, changes made by third party packages, updates of ssh, manual one-off changes, etc.
A thousand times this. I’m not interested in showing colleagues the genuine me. We are just temporary acquaintances until we all move on, as all work arrangements are temporary.
Time to fold Vermont, Wyoming, Alaska, South Dakota, Rhode Island, DC, North Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Maine, and New Hampshire into one big state, based on the author's weird argument.

And with the exception of Alberta, BC, Quebec, and Ontario, Canada can collapse the rest into a single province/51st state. /s
In practical terms there isn't an alternative. Sure there are websites without ads, but they won't tell me about what happens in my community. Sure, I could go to the town hall and watch sessions, but it's not practical.

Also: Even alternatives to YouTube will end up in the ad market. Just see the different streaming services where one already pays and who are rolling out ads. And well, YouTube still is the central place with all the videos. The only choice I have is using an ad blocker, which could be seen as amoral.
What I'm missing in modern ebooks (like epub format) is more metadata. Who's talking (character data)? What emotional aspects does the scene have (angry, happy, sad, in a hurry)? Where does the conversation take place (geodata)?

I'd love to see at least:

- character: ID, Name, Gender, Age
- mood: ID, Name (Happy, Sad, Angry, ...)
- place: ID, Name, Acoustic (Outside, Inside, Cave, ...)

This could be prepared by the author, work as a glossary, enrich the whole ebook experience and also would be a great preparation to teach AI voices how to convert a book into an audiobook.
Simple Zero Analysis Multi-Armed Bandit
A simple Zero analysis Multi-Armed Bandit
Reproposing Pearson-Neyman sample size calculations to create simple bandits with no need for dedicated software. Obviously not optimal but often a very good option.
Not the OP, but one way to look at it is:

All Advertising is Marketing, but not all Marketing is Advertising.

I think the distinction should be thought of as Marketing (not Advertising) is to inform customers that opt-in to the information. Usually, marketing (excluding the Advertising arm) is for the benefit of a willing participant, where-as Advertising is for the benefit of both the willing participant and also the Advertiser (& advertising media) against an unwitting participant/user.

An example could be a product, company, political candidate's website that has a calendar for upcoming events, information pages about the product, etc. This can include tacky graphics and UI/UX, or even strategic language to stand out and show "personality". What it can not have are advertising boxes for unrelated advertising injections that the user did not go to the website to learn about. That would then be a Marketing site with banned Advertisements. The same for the Marketed product, they can not Advertise on unrelated media; basically inserting itself against the users will (the Advertised product being placed/injected/"forced" upon the person/user).