skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
General Fusion recently gave up on their original design (a spheromak-type plasma inside an imploding liquid metal vortex.) Instead, they're going to a spherical tokamaka where liquid metal compresses the plasma from the outside.

In this new concept, there is now a solid wall on the inside that is not shielded from the plasma by a thick layer of liquid metal. That means power density limits due to limits on wall loading will apply to their reactor, just as they do to conventional DT magnetic fusion reactor schemes. So, the major theoretical engineering advantage of their idea has been lost.
There's dozens of species of mosquitoes in areas with endemic malaria and 2 or 3 that transmit malaria.
I think most of the dynamic/static bias depends on the specific experiences of your problem domain.

If you have a lot of types of data to model(layers of records, sequences, indirection, etc), dynamic types make it easy to start bodging something together, but result in write-only code. So you end up wanting to have additional structure and definition - maybe not immediately, but just after prototyping is done and you have a first working example.

If you're just applying a routine algorithm that ultimately does a round trip from SQL, you don't need that additional assurance. The database is already doing the important part of the work.

If you have simple data but it needs to go as fast as possible, you end up wanting to work at a low level, and then the machine size of the data becomes important - so you end up with a static types bias.
Reddit's /r/writingprompts would probably take this and run with it.
I had a big fight with the other co-founders of a company regarding work hours a while back. Most programmers hit something like up to four "good" hours per workday, the biggest problem is capturing those hours while they're at work. A separate problem is hitting those hours while they have access to their manager or colleagues that can help them overcome small but time consuming problems.

I'd like to think that programmers have a creative or even artistic occupation (personally I'm more manager than programmer these days). Forcing something creative out is rarely good or even possible. The majority of the employees in my organization are in sales. There's a limit to where you can push that for most people too, but it is a different kind of limit.

Personally I've only put in proper 80-hour work weeks something like three times working as a disillusioned startup "employee" or as a consultant in extreme crunch because of launch marketing costs. Sure, something is deployed and it you certainly feel a sense of accomplishment but it's not something that should be used by any serious company expecting people to stay longer than a year or two.

With that said: people checking/answering their email or checking error logs at odd hours "for free" really do bring value to a company though.
Ever been in a university faculty meeting?
As someone who works on a game that is pretty popular I'm not sure I buy this.

I'm certainly not aware of nVidia doing anything special for our game, and honestly, they haven't really been super easy to get help from when we have attempted to ask them questions about problems that are nVidia specific that we run into.

Since we are not a big publisher, it's super difficult to maintain a relationship. We will get assigned someone to talk to, and next time we actually have a problem that person will have quit / moved to a different department / stopped caring about us.

Our game is in top 10 on steam right now, and is typically in the top 20 even during low periods, so I would have thought we would be somewhat higher up the priority list for specific attention if that was going to happen.

So all of that is to say, we pretty much have to deal with the problems ourselves, not rely on nVidia to fix them for us.

That being said, people complain about problems on AMD in our game all the time. So why is that?

Forget game specific optimisations, I think it's just that nVidia has just plain better drivers in general.

When we are developing new engine features, the difference is pretty clear. If you naively implement a shader, it often runs faster on nVidia initially. It's usually possible to persuade the AMD drivers to run things just as fast, but it's totally non-obvious how.
I like to remind people of shit like this when they claim that the United States government is an "oppressive" presence on the Internet. Yes, the five eyes nations are actively trying to backdoor crypto, and there is a lot of bullshit going on, but you don't need a license in North America to operate an http daemon. In China you do. The GFW is no joke, and they are seriously trying to bifurcate the Internet.
Oh! Another cool one you should know about: If you're worried about Google knowing what you buy, Google actively scrapes your email for receipts for purchases you make, you can view it here: https://myaccount.google.com/purchases

There is no way to opt out of this, the only way to remove this data from this form is to delete the email. While Google claims they no longer use your Gmail data for ad tailoring, they arguably could use the purchase history data they store about you... much of which comes from your Gmail data.
Everyone opposed to this should have to write a letter explaining why to the mothers of all the children that die every day of malaria. 3000 letters a day should just be doable if you learn to write fast and don't say much beyond that you don't care about their loss and grief.

Edit. Yes this is an emotive argument designed to jar people into looking at the consequences of dithering. It is fine for us rich to worry about possible unintended consequences, but doing so has a terrible outcome for real people [0].

0. For the record we already know what happens when you remove the particular species of mosquitos that transmit malaria from an ecosystem as we have done this using pesticides in the places rich people live. The answer is nothing other than people stop dying of malaria.
What will you do the day AWS decides to jack up their prices 50% and there are no competitors?
I’ve noticed that when I’m on my deck the XS WiFi signal is below 1 mbps while my iPad Pro is at 80 mbps. When I’m closer to the router both devices get roughly the same download speeds.
I believe these are color cameras, yes.
When the AI Meets Users' Intent, Google Takes a Cut on Every Sale on Earth
Yes, because every book needs a Frankenstein Complex.

That's just about the Least Predictable Plot Twist In The Universe, I daresay.
Haxm doesn't use hyper-v, hence you must disable hyper-v to use haxm.
Everything has an adoption curve, when Chrome launched why would the average user use it? But eventually it went through the adoption curve and even with Google aggressive nagging too time to gain mainstream traction.

The same thing is happening with surveillance and spyware and the self serving 'users don't care' that many tech apologists use to distract from their stalking and lack of ethics is already out of touch and disconnected from increasing mainstream awareness and disgust with surveillance.

Just yesterday Craig Newmark announced a $20 million donation to a new publication modelled on propublica to examine tech surveillance. It's only a matter of time before surveillance implementors and apologists begin to look like the sellouts that they are in the public eye.
Malaria reproduces both sexually and asexually depending on its lifecycle stage.
Because a lot of it is FUD.

I've never signed into Chrome, but I am able to access 2 Google accounts... and Chrome still shows me the "Sign into Chrome" option.

Version 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)

(I normally just use Chrome for development)
After the US national speed limit was repealed in the 90s, Montana had no posted daytime limit. The law stated you had to drive "reasonable and prudent for conditions". The law got tossed by the state supreme court because there is no objective standard for reasonable and prudent.
Mosquitoes seem like they belong on the bottom of the moral weight spectrum, above viruses and below bacteria.
> "Somebody should do a better job!" "Why don't you try yourself?"

This argument makes sense when you're talking about a problem that one or two people control rather than a large system with higher stakeholders who may not have interests aligned with your own.

But I'll assume you're right for a sec. Let's assume that Google cares a ton about making sure their privacy policy is consistent, but it's just an insanely hard job and nobody could do any better.

Why does that matter? In that scenario, I still don't trust your privacy policy. I don't care whether it's inconsistent because people are incompetent or because the problem is hard. In either case, the privacy policy is unreliable. If I can't trust it in Chrome's case, how can I trust it in Gmail's case, or in Adword's case, or in any other product?

In a way, saying it's a hard problem is even worse. I would have felt better if you had come back and said, "oh, the Chrome team is just uniquely incompetent, but everybody else has got their stuff together."
>> "...convert all speed limits to suggested speeds (thereby abolishing fines for speeding)"

The State of Montana had this until the late 1990's, when the Fed's finally forced Montana into having a speed limit again by threatening to pull all Federal highway funding.

Other fun facts are that you could get a driving license at 14 years old (or a "ranch driving license" at 12 in some semi-rare cases), there was no seatbelt law, no motorcycle helmet law, and no law against drinking and driving[0].

[0] There was a law against being drunk while driving, but not a law against drinking while driving. This lead to the classic canard: "How far is it from Butte to Helena?" "Oh about four beers."
I'm assuming you're joking. But you can use Chromebooks if you want to remove the separate OS layer for simpler uses.
Does anyone actually accomplish 40 hours of work a week within a 40 hour work week?

In a typical 40 hour work week, it'd take me 80 hour 'of time at work' to actually get the 40 hours of actual work, meaning most weeks, I might to 18-25 hours of actual work.

The issue, I think here, is requiring people to go to a place, to do a thing, for X hours per week - given the ability to be flexible about working hours, most people will do more, in less time, and be more available for customer needs.
Yes, yes. Since you are so experienced, and everyone else is "low status," riddle me this:

If C++ is so great, why does every joint turning out even halfway decent C++ have to subset the bejesus out of it? Even in game dev, where resources are plenty, they still subset it.

Could it be that maybe, maybe, someone discovered that even competent devs do better work when a few pieces of duct tape are stuck over the sharper, rustier edges of C++.

On low RAM devices, I'd subset it all the way down to plain C. Fellow low status developer Linus Torvalds would do that at the outset for any device.
Yes agencies like to spy. Do they have a camera in every house in America?

Again, I’m not saying they wouldn’t or wouldn’t like to. But saying “they do EVERYTHING post-Snowden” isn’t a very good argument, and definitely isn’t a fact.

And if the claim is “spy agencies spy” then the country of origin for your data probably doesn’t matter. Invoking “post-Snowden” usually relates to Prism, which was a partnership with specific providers.
From your link: Vivado HL WebPACK™ Edition: no-cost, device-limited version of the Vivado HL Design Edition

It's not as simple as an upload to github.
https://opensource.com/business/16/5/how-transition-product-...
Does anyone know what types of spinal injuries and circumstances this treatment is theoretically limited to? The article doesn't go into detail.
Yeah I directly quoted from the privacy statement and the line I quoted is still there.

Seriously though, searched for "signed in" (like, ctrl-f). There's an epic ton of things that they are allowed to do for signed in accounts versus normal browsing even with sync disabled. These are all directly quoted from the privacy policy and do not require syncing to be enabled-

* If you are signed in to a Google site or signed in to Chrome and Google is your default search engine, searches you perform using the address bar in Chrome are stored in your Google account.

* Payments. If you are signed in to the Chrome browser and you have credit cards stored in your Google Payments Account, then Chrome will offer you the option of filling those cards into web forms. In addition, if you enter a new credit card into a web form, Chrome will offer to save your credit card and related billing information to your Google Payments account.

* Language. In order to customize your browsing experience based on languages that you prefer to read, Chrome will keep a count of the most popular languages of the sites you visited. This language preference will be sent to Google to customize your experience in Chrome. If you are signed in to Chrome, this language profile will be associated with your Google Account and, if you include Chrome history in your Google Web & App Activity, may be used to personalize your experience in other Google products. View Activity Controls.
The key word in my previous comment would be 'analogy'. In any analogy, some elements in the analogous domain have no mapping. I was highlighting the isomorphism between code undergoing refactors and theories undergoing paradigm shifts, in terms of linguistic structure; I was not commenting on the social components of either.
Is it common for banks to publish data like this?

Aggregate data of how much money a specific company is paying to people I would expect to be covered by privacy laws?
That might very well be, but is it obviously so? What if there was a position that takes 19 moves to solve in the fastest way possible but the next-best solution takes 21 moves? Is there always a solution that takes an even number of steps?
Here's a question I often like to ask myself about people I interact with:

> What is this person's equivalent of "F you"?

For a typical east-coaster or northern European it's likely to be exactly as in the question. ;) For some people, "I'm not sure I 100% agree" is about as close as you'll ever get. The left-coast average seems to be much closer to the second option. I'm not saying it's a bad thing - in fact I find it quite pleasant - but it can trip you up until you get used to it. At my last job, it took me years to figure out how to interpret my Indian colleagues' responses correctly (if indeed I ever did). This kind of calibration is an under-appreciated skill.
Enhancing the Netflix UI Experience with HDR Graphics
Code formatting quotes makes quotes very difficult to read on mobile. I wonder why we couldn’t just use quotation marks?
I suppose due to the increasing risk of being broken by competing neural networks, recaptcha appears to be moving towards a model based on usage heuristics in v3. This is something that is more easily achievable by a small startup, so I hope to see competition for this type of solution if there isn't some already.
Pandora brought in $1.4 billion in revenue in 2017. Actual revenue is also revenue.
I presume cgo?
Hit the "web" button under the title, Washington Post doesn't pay wall from Google results.
Iron: Isolating Network-Based CPU in Container Environments [pdf]
How does that compare with european or US missions?
This needs to happen as soon as possible.

According to the WHO http://www.who.int/malaria/en/

There were 216 million malaria cases worldwide in 2016
with 445 000 deaths.

Developing nations, especially in Africa are most severely affected by this.

Whoever, manages to eradicate the mosquitoes surely deserves the Nobel prize in Medicine as well as the Nobel Peace Prize.
Not unlike systemd, not too long ago...
181 is actually 20(18)1st release, following the underlying IDEA version. They lag behind one version, IDEA now is 182 and 183 is in early release program(eap)
There's very little "playing along" between Google and China, far less than Apple. Search is the only product that has a chance of working there right now, Play Store is just dead weight there, and most companies that ship Android in China will bundle their own app store. Apple iOS bundles a spyware system module on the other hand (for China only).
I get where you're coming from, but it applies to me equally in plenty of other domains.

There are countless things I understand the basics of but am not an expert in. That's why we specialize, because we can't be experts in everything all the time.

I don't mean it to be condescending, I mean to express that I can know that stars are powered by nuclear reactions and yet not have a firm grasp of what that really entails.

Most people, including myself, have a shallow understanding of a lot of things, and a deep understanding of very few things relatively speaking.
As I understand it, TLA may technically be untyped but that's simply because you are supposed to implement your own more granular type checking as part of your spec.
It's very naive/irresponsible to imply that anyone who would be concerned about massive ecosystem impacts doesn't care about malaria victims. Even the researchers are hesitant.

> The scientists acknowledge the technology raises serious concerns. So it will require broad political debate, rigorous regulation and the consent of people living in any areas where they might be released, they say.
I did forget something. Your site works with uBlock Origin set to block all third party stuff. It is astounding to me the number of sites that can't load their content without what feels like terabytes of external libraries. (I have limited bandwidth, so my default is to block.)
It became bad when it stopped making progress, because the team was largely disbanded and the product stagnated in maintenance mode.
it might have still ended up as 20 hours of your time doing the actual 'work', but all the ceremony and support around everything else if 5-10x what you think it will be.
I think it's pretty good that you came to ycombinator yourself!

I wish you the best of luck once you catch up with the CEO of Tierranet (or perhaps you already have!)
Anyone have any idea why big sections are blacked out in many of these pictures?
Hello, thanks for the detailed reply.

I am not from a software development background (I am kind of (Verilog), but am not much familiar with the best practices of software development). So you comment was quite insightful for me.

>The reason why static linking has been all but banned is security and bug fixes: with static linking, the bugs and performance issues are fused into the resulting binary; fixes to libc will require a complete re-build.

Wouldn't the same apply to the whole binary itself even if it is dynamically linked? What if the app itself has a security bug? Wouldn't the overhead to fix+recompile the statically linked binary be the same as that for dynamically linked?

[Or may be the problem is that the users with the binaries build with buggy musl-gcc need to be aware that there's a security risk, and that they need to download the fixed version I later re-deployed?]

> If you're delivering static binaries for embedded firmware images, this will quickly turn into a security maintenance nightmare, especially for end users of the final product.

Hmm, my goal is to deploy simple CLI apps. Here's an example of one[0] in progress. If someone wants to try this CLI app for Todoist, my goal is that they should be just able to download it and run.

> Linking dynamically with libc will never be an issue on illumos- or any real UNIX-based operating system because libc includes all previous interface versions and can therefore guarantee that it is backward compatible.

Do you know if I to use illumos/OmniOS/SmartOS (this is the first time I am hearing about these) on Travis CI? And how?

> Long story short: develop and build your software on an illumos-based operating system like OmniOS or SmartOS and dynamically link only with libc and you won't have to worry about static linking for convenience delivery: link on the oldest version of SmartOS and sleep well at night knowing your application will work on the latest nightly build.

Thanks! If I can do this on Travis CI (or any other auto-deployment solution via GitHub or even Gitlab), I am willing to give that a try. I am open to suggestions and pointers on how to do that.

> As an added bonus, your binary will be smaller and

+1

> the runtime linker will only mmap(2) the required code pages out of libc into memory.

That part, I did not understand :)

[0]: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ntodo
There was a great jailbreak thing that predated this (and force touch) where you accessed the caret-placement mode by swiping across the keyboard. It was really great, and it never failed, which happens a lot for me with Apple's force touch implementation - I end up pressing harder and harder with no effect, until I have to give up and accept some random character getting inserted, then delete and try again. I think I had that jailbreak mod on an iPhone 4s.
Come on...

I do like the idea of killing them of. Still it is very valid not to extinct a species because of us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

China is irrelevant to the average western internet user, to whom the US govt is indeed an oppressive presence.
Do they work offline?
"under what conditions is the consensus opinion wrong"

Someone I read suggested (specifically regarding Musk), it's a productive state of hypomania, that isn't full-blown mania.
Newest windows versions allow running docker and the android emulator side by side,through windows container platform
> Why would the web need Vulkan-style APIs

For the record, there is an Apple-led initiative to bring a modern GPU interface standard to the browser:

https://webkit.org/blog/7380/next-generation-3d-graphics-on-...
Tech Giants Spend $80B to Make Sure No One Else Can Compete
No. It does OAuth with GMail, but it's a local client.
Does the Chrome team actually pay attention? Privacy is a thing now.
I wonder if one day we will have technology that does a comprehensive scan for fossils without having to dig them up. Right now it's surprising that they find anything considering how manual and hit and miss the process is. i can't even imagine how much good stuff we will never find with current methods.
Here's what you do: ignore it.
> users who post submissions and comments

That's a far cry from weighting by comment instead of by user, not to mention the other factors I mentioned. Maybe it would help if you could provide a link where people could look at the raw data (properly anonymized of course) and do their own analysis instead of relying on yours.

> people's preconceptions about HN are amazingly strong

Indeed. As you point out, nobody's exempt. Of course, there are ways around that. The proof's in the pudding. There are probably many people here who could do a real sentiment analysis and compare the result to other sites. I'm as sure as you are of what that would show, even though we make different predictions.
I don't think Twitter search can go back that far.
This is an emotional argument. I don't believe opposition is about morals, it's about concern over messing with the food chain. It would be incredibly naive to think we can mess with the food chain consequence free.

What if crashing the species results in millions of people dying? Will you write a letter to all those mothers?

I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but we need to know exactly what effects it will have first. And "grieving mothers" is not sufficient.
The most recent, somewhat comparable (though not really), would be the ESA's Rosetta mission to comet P67. That cost around $1.8 billion[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft)#Design_an...