skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scale is everything for fusion (plasma). ITER is very important, as it represents the current most likely way. (Hence the name.)

That said, it's big, design by committee, slow, meticulous, etc.

It's not a fail fast market-driven experiment.

Also, most of the money is spent on the fundamentals, planning, developing operational knowhow, basic material science and plasma vessel engineering.

All in all, it could be better, but at least ITER is actually being built. MIT's ARC is still somewhere between "secured funding for a scaled down prototype" and actually will build something. Though it's great news, that they got funding (from Eni, an Italian energy company).
It's not evil it's shareholder... value... optimisation ! I blame corporate on that one.
Filters for putting emails in folders are pretty common. I use sieve[1] since I run my own server, but many clients and hosted services have their own mechanisms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language...
I use ProtonMail and I am quite satisfied so far. Servers being in Switzerland is a huge plus in my book, compared to Gmail and fastmail which seems to be suggested so often.
I use Protonmail. Its cool that you will not served any Ads. Currently i am using their paid version which costs me 5 euros a month. Give it a try.
This is awesome and looking forward to it!

The one thing that is bugging me is - yet another project that depends on the generosity of a rich person, a project that is so important and vital.
It's £25 a year or £2 a month.
Google Chrome offline installer 2019
http://www.programsnow.com/2018/09/google-chrome-offline-ins...
Yes, but until they’ve got a better one, we’re going to keep using it.
It's not a secret racial motive, it's an overt one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

I'm not saying race is the only factor - this is a multifaceted problem for sure. But race is definitely one of the facets. If you trace the history of a poor urban area back just a few decades, the relevance of race becomes increasingly apparent.

I do agree that it's unproductive to simplify the issue down to just one of the many factors.
Because I can't sync history and bookmarks to my Android phone or my Windows gaming PC.
He didn't step down. He's taking a break. It's not the first time he takes a break either. Let's not be too alarmist.
Do you have a source where co-recursion is used to describe mutual recursion as above? I'm under the impression it refers to a different concept, see e.g. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1442...
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Plenty:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8755492 (javascript)

https://medium.com/criptext/we-need-a-new-encrypted-email-se...
Good points.

I offer an example of "legal fetishism": my own brother insists I sign a 15-page contract in order that I help him out with a few hundred lines of code for an STM32.
The "mission" thing always makes me wonder... What will happen if your mission interferes with making profit? My guess is that, for 99% of companies, mission will be ignored (or changed). This shows that the true mission (i.e. purpose of the company) is making profit and not what they declare.
Example of How SJWs Sneakily Enter a FOSS Project
Sounds like conspiracy theory. There is no relationship between introducing CoC and adding backdoors.
OT but I sometimes get the impression I'm the only person in the world who can't stand "Linus Tech Tips". The guy just grates on me and I get the distinct impression he genuinely doesn't know what he's talking about.

I guess the fact that he's in this list and therefore one of the most popular channels on YouTube would explain why he keeps appearing in my feed despite my unsubscription and continued lack of interest, however.
UK is meritocratic to an extent, but just look at the people at the top: usually educated at elite institutions, and often with heritage that can be traced back to the Norman invasion in 1066!
The debugging tools need to know about that. Usually you would look into the stack trace and see which methods has been called and editing the method object brings us to the source code. Best when things are NOT optimized for low DEBUG and high SPEED.

When I was working more with those things I wrote some browsers for browsing methods in CLIM and for MCL. The Lisp Machine should already have some tools, IIRC. LispWorks also has a generic function browser. One enters a generic function and argument types -> LispWorks shows which methods are used for those.

FOO (FLOAT STRING) ->

MULTIPLE-VALUE-PROG1
CALL-METHOD
(METHOD FOO (FLOAT T))
(METHOD FOO (REAL T))
CALL-METHOD
(METHOD FOO :AFTER (T T))
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I believe a major reason for the widely observed decline in Google's SERP quality is that SEOs got too good at gaming the system. The Panda and Penguin updates a few years ago kicked off a trend of prioritizing content from highly authoritative domains (e.g. big brands) even when that content is less relevant to your search query.

Google has been doubling down on this direction progressively--their justification being that people game the long tail by producing a lot of low quality, highly niched content.

There may be no real solution to this within the context of Google's PageRank-inspired algorithm and this may be an opportunity for disruption.
> academia’s ideal role is to simply advance human understanding in interesting ways

Yes and no. This is an engineering science. In a pure science, the world is out there to explore and find out about, constraining what you do. An engineering science is very much about useful things we can build and how we can get better at doing that. Buildings that stay up and house people/things, planes that can fly, ships that float, that sort of thing.

Without a world to find out about and without being constrained by stuff to build, things get a bit arbitrary. At that point, it's really more pure art than anything else. Math is sort of the exception where we allow that kind of freedom. Sabine Hossenfelder's Lost in Math is a reminder of the dangers of applying that approach to other disciplines.

Anyway, I think it is actually wrong to pin academia's irrelevance to this fundamental divide. The problems in industry aren't too easy / boring to be of interest to academics. They are too hard to be solvable by anyone with the current insane level of publication requirements.

Michael Stonebraker talked about this in detail:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJFKl_5JTnA

It's a great talk.
>US Department of Energy cut off all funding in 2011

Sigh.
The research I've seen planned isn't about plasma physics - it's about material properties, lithium blanket designs, and lots of other finicky engineering details that will be necessary for actual practical reactors of different designs.
I just downloaded Brave and am trying it out. If all goes well I'll be uninstalling Chrome by the end of the day.
Rust, the programming language project, is one of the most inclusive projects there is, and they have a strong CoC. They seem to be doing fine.

I don't think this is going to kill Linux. As for Linus's vacation/break/whatever, it's good that they're practicing giving the reins away. It is bound to happen at some future anyway. It's equally good that they're practicing behaving well, because it's quite possible that the next project lead will not have the history and personality to make bad communication work -- and that could destroy Linux.
This 1-XS server costs 2€ every month and it could perfectly handle the email of hundreds of users. They are charging you more only for yourself, and that's not even factoring in the economies of scale.

https://www.scaleway.com/virtual-cloud-servers/#anchor_start...
For reference, that's about $21m today.
I self-host SOGo on my own machine, it gives me mail + calendar + contact sync. Finally moving off from gmail feels so great.

For others I recommend office365--fairly inexpensive, excellent support, and available either in the EU or entirely within Germany.
Perhaps there could be a system for users to add compiler configs for such gems.
Ah, the "persecuted Christian" angle. Definitely a conspiracy.
They're working on different problems - Wendelstein is working on cheaper and smaller plasma containment, while ITER is focused on operations and materials properties.
Test if a number is prime in polynomial time (2002, Gödel Prize 2006)
Thanks for the comment! This list is pretty much WIP, and I hope to expand the mental health section soon, I believe it's fundamental.
As of now it's just a collection of useful resources that are often recommended to master and phd students, and workflows that have proven useful. ...maybe I should use a better wording :)
The standard plan is $5 per user per month, so for 5 users that's $25/mo.
How do animal lovers generally justify the caging of birds? I've always seen it as a sketchy idea. Does it negatively affect the birds behaviour? Not something I know a lot about to be honest.
I really, genuinely, don't understand why such a bland code of conduct would be a turn off to anyone. I may not be easy to be around, but I try not to be abrasive while, at the same time, making clear why I think something is the way I think.

If you think someone is wrong very often, I believe saying why the person is wrong on every occasion will provide them with actionable information much better than calling them an imbecile. The goal is not to make the person go away, but to help them produce better ideas.

If someone verbally assaults me, I'll defend my point or, when provided with valid reasons, I'll behave like an adult and correct it. If I ever come across as abusive, let me know and I'll try to be a better person in the future.

Is that really too much to ask?
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> Debatable if a German teacher would accept this sentence in an Essay, except as a stylistic element

That's not relevant to determine whether this is valid German. An easy Google finds zillions of these:

https://www.mdr.de/sachsen-anhalt/magdeburg/magdeburg/hund-b...

https://bnn.de/lokales/achern/rheinau-gebissen

> What is really totally irrelevant for the discussion. Please try again to understand the topic.

Please read your own post to understand the topic:

>> I see that native English speakers can learn German rather easily

> doubt that

I gave you a reference to how difficult learning German for English speakers is seen: German is in the 'easy' group.
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I was actually trying to say something more than that workers should be considered investors, because Uber drivers and AirBnB hosts are more than just workers: they literally supply the main working capital of their respective concerns. They are owner-operators in the same sense that a taxi driver who owns his cab is, or in the same sense as an orange grower who is part of the "Florida's Natural" co-op.

Certainly workers deserve a seat at the table, and that's a fine debate to have, but surely even the most dyed-in-the-wool capitalists can agree that the owners of the capital deserve a seat at the table, and that an enterprise which by fiat excludes major capital contributors from ownership is not really a capitalist enterprise, but rather some other more exploitative form.
I always opt for Pick&Return. I live in Europe and mainly use ThinkPads.

Pick&Return means my laptop is mailed to some Lenovo facility in Frankfurt (Germany), serviced and mailed back to me.

The good thing is that once there, all the replacement parts are available and I just get my laptop back in fully working order.

When I sent my X220 for a LCD cable connection issue they replaced the cable, the motherboard and the LCD panel.

Maybe that was not necessary at all, but my laptop came back fully working and has been working for the last four years since that servicing. And all the replaced parts had three additional months of warranty.

It's also worth noting that this whole process took only a week (sent in on monday, came back on friday)

Some friends used the on-site warranty, and their experience was similar the X1C6 described in the article. It's worth noting that apparently Lenovo-licensed technicians can only bring one replacement at the time so if their guessing of the faulty part is wrong, they have to come back another day. Or if, as happened to a friend of mine, they screw up the laptop (a service technician shorted the power connector, don't ask me how), they still have to come back another day.

So yeah, in my experience Pick&Return is the best option.
https://www.northdata.de/ Did something like that: Crawl public registries for companies, parse changes to them and build a graph out of it. Very cool!
Step 1: The fundamentals or core skills - this is the bare minimum you need to be functional.
Step 2: The history or how your area evolved into it's current state.
Step 3: Bleeding edge, the most current developments in your area.
Please reach out by email in my profile and to see my background. I have a freebie one week email course on resumes and separately a LinkedIn Profiles one that will help with fundamental building blocks.
Their business model is reading your email for ad personalization. How else would they make money from reading it?
Proton Mail uses angular1 though https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient, pretty old
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This kind of stuff is super scary for me. Although I don't suffer from any mental illnesses (that I know about!), I take medication for high blood pressure. At one point I was taking amlodipine which eventually caused some bad side effects with swollen legs and the like, so I changed to a different medication. Pretty quickly, I noticed that my life was dramatically better and, for want of a better word, I wasn't in the least depressed.

I've never suffered from depression before, so I hadn't been aware of how depressed I had gotten while taking amlodopine. After switching, I checked the known side effects and sure enough depression is one of them -- to the point where some countries have disallow its use!

It really surprised me how much this drug affected my life without my noticing anything out of the ordinary. What's even more interesting is that this summer I got very stressed about work (something that has never actually happened before) and ended up having a panic attack. So now I'm wondering about the new medication! It's crazy.

The big thing that I keep thinking about is, how much of my state of mind is "me" and how much is my medication (or any other things, like drinking coffee, or beer, or not exercising enough, or whatever). It's made me much more conscious about monitoring my mental state and taking some actions rather than just assuming everything is OK. But it's incredibly scary. I've had quite a few friends with mental illnesses and this helps me understand a tiny bit better what they are going through.

Oh, and +1,000,000 on the journal. It's the only way I can keep track of what's going on in my head.
Link from 2015 - op has an agenda
What difference does it make? "Affirmative Action" vs. "Meritocracy" are principles. "White people are in favor of it" isn't a valid argument for or against either.

The fact of the matter is that through "Affirmative Action", Asians generally receive a handicap, whereas it's the opposite with "Meritocracy". The opposite is true for Blacks.

Pick your poison.
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Because behaving like a decent human being is that hard, isn't it? If a code of conduct hurts your feelings that much maybe you're just not cut out for collaborative work.

I really wonder where the great fear that CoCs will be abused to shut down disagreement comes from. I am not a fan of policing language, but there just aren't many real examples of such abuse out there.

Here is the actual list of examples from the CoC. Which of these do you need to do in order to feel happy to contribute to Linux development?

+Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
+
+* The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or
+ advances
+* Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
+* Public or private harassment
+* Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic
+ address, without explicit permission
+* Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a
+ professional setting

Fight overreach, by all means. Make sure that the CoC contains means to fight overreach. That's all good. But the whole "I can't contribute to this project anymore because I find SJWs offensive" whinging strikes me as deeply hypocritical.
> is one of the most inclusive projects there is

There is absolutely no proof a CoC
drives "inclusiveness", whatever it means, however there are multiple examples where codes of conducts were used to exclude contributors because they said something someone did not like in a setting completely unrelated to the project community.

https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/drupal-larry-garfield-gor.htm...

CoC are political tools to eliminate diversity of ideas and impose an "intersectional" mindset on all contributors, under threat of exclusion.

Larry did not harass anybody in the Drupal community yet was kicked out of any official Drupal related conferences and cannot contribute to the project anymore, just because he shared a fetish with his wife someone did not approve of.
Agree.

Open Source values will still remain - working in a transparent, open (not always nice) way.

More with CoC, harassing people will not be tolerated
Next Day Onsite support from Dell was always fantastic for me
I haven't watched the Abel lecture yet. What is it that you find bizarre?
I just want to reiterate what glandium wrote in a comment further down:

"He didn't step down. He's taking a break. It's not the first time he takes a break either. Let's not be too alarmist."
The great problem was the discovery of "pester power": children are particularly susceptible to advertising. That's why children's media tends to have selling toys as a primary objective, unless it's some sort of state-funded low-budget Reithian production.
Except, by default their primary product was the interface by which may of their users got targeted. They've sat on their hands on privacy for years, offering features for the informed minority, not protecting the majority of their users. It's been Safari and Brave that have started to show proper leadership in protecting users.

Recent attempts I've been making to help teach web developers about the dangers of referers, before they add more tracking pixels or leak reset password links get deleted by Mozilla technical writers because

"
We don't think it's appropriate to have a red warning banner at the tops of the pages. That kind of design element is one we try to avoid on MDN unless it's highlighting the very first thing you need to know about the item, which we don't think it is in this case, although we do appreciate that it is important."

Great idea, let's leave the wet floor warning as a note at the end of the corridor.

See here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/im...
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I am a gay man[0] who has contributed to a number of open source projects significantly. However I stopped when they implemented “Code of Conducts” that deny basic rights such as innocent until proven guilty and the right to face your accuser. (The popular one keeps accusers anonymous, thus the victim has no chance to defend themselves.)

The truth is a maintainer can eject someone without a CoC. The purpose of CoC, as stated by its author in her very bigoted and hostile twitter feed is to eradicate meritocracy.

CoC lets some random person with a political axe to grind derail a project with accusations about things done outside the project (Eg a disagreement on twitter) backed up with a gang of people accusing the project maintainers of being bigots if they don’t eject their intended victim.[1]

This is bullying.

I won’t invest time in projects where the contributors are not respected and maintainers will listen to a politically motivated mob over reason.

Since the proponents of CoCs seemingly are always people who violate them constantly (under the CoC its own author should be kicked from every project that adopts it based on her twitter comments) it’s clear the intention is not to protect anyone.

The intention is to force their politics into open source projects.

[0] This means I get to see abuse from straight bigots as well as SJWs who hate me for being male and apparently think preferring men is discrimination against women! (Or so they have told me on twitter.). I only mention I’m gay here so you understand I’m not some neonazi. I’ve been jumped outside a bar and called a faggot in Oklahoma, but I don’t feel these “codes of conduct” do anything to protect me, quite the opposite. So they don’t address the key case that I’m guessing HN users will assume they do. Gay men are considered highly privileged these days, and thus subhuman.

[1] There are many examples, check the reddit threads in /r/Linux of the abuse of CoC.
Fastmail is on par or cheaper than Google's equivalent G Suite email service to business.
There was a documentary about him released this year I highly recommend called Won't You Be My Neighbor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Won%27t_You_Be_My_Neighbor%3...

As far as examples, here's an episode about divorce that I remember helping me deal with my parents' divorce when I was little.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xxbsV1XTFcA

Or here's his speech to Congress fighting for funding for public television (it's more complicated than just funding for public television, but that's the basic idea).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA

Or one of my favorites, his acceptance speech for his lifetime achievement Emmy Award.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Upm9LnuCBUM
The mission is what the company is aiming to achieve that will have the side effect of making a profit. An obvious example is Apple's mission to make an out of this world almost magic phone (back when the iPhone came out), and profits followed. But get a bunch of execs and say "mission: make money" wouldn't unleash the required creativity to do something like this. Instead they'd be cutting costs on iPod manufacturing or something lackluster like that.
I really think the internet should calm down; this is not even the first time Linus Torvalds takes a break — and in 2005, the result was git.
>CoC are political tools to eliminate diversity of ideas

How so?
Beautifully said. Anyone can understand this when it's put this way.
Both Youtube and fairtrending.com use an algorithm to generate a list of trending videos, so your comment is confusing to me.
Yeah, this is specific to macOS. I also use Firefox on my Linux machine, where it's supper snappy. Kind of strange, considering a lot of Mozilla employees seem to be on MacBooks.
> Look at a graph of GBPUSD. The pound spent all of 2017 increasing in value, and you'll see that by the start of 2018 the pound had erased the entire drop that followed the EU referendum - it was back to the value it was at the start of 2016.

GBP/USD:

* 7 Jan 2016: 1.46

* 20 Oct 2016: 1.22

* 15 Dec 2016: 1.34

Jan-April 2017 were at the level of early 2016, but still lower than just before the referendum itself.

Then it went back down again. It’s currently 1.31

That graph looks like two patches of normal currency variations separated by a vertical line on 24 June 2016. If that’s not a collapse, what is?
I like Rust and all, but its hype obscures any real result. You see posts everywhere telling that the language is great and here are some features of it, but it's not as widely used as talked about. And also it's not like there is noticeable "diversity" Rust supposed to encourage among people who make things with it.
> just 100k people

So more people than not still see the UK as better than elsewhere. Call me when migration turns negative.