skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On top of what everybody else has said, I also don't think it's a given, even if/once we crack the technology, that anybody will actually use it to generate power. I think there's a totally plausible outcome where somebody builds a fusion reactor that produces more energy than it consumes and said reactor has essentially infinite, essentially free fuel, but the design they come up with costs $20 billion a pop to build (or whatever) with no clear path to making it cheaper, and just the cost of capital to build new plants makes those plants more expensive per unit of energy generated than coal/gas/solar/etc. even though the fuel costs nothing. At that point, even if it works, maybe the one demonstrator plant they end up building continues to tick away as a singular novelty and the rest of the world carries on building gas plants and solar.

Fission is already in not too different a place than that: fuel is nowhere near the dominant cost per unit of energy produced. I hope that ends up not being the case with fusion, but it's hard to predict at this point.
I have used Harvard Business Services (www.delawareinc.com) in connection with forming and maintaining several Delaware LLCs. They seem to provide good service and convenience. Remember, in addition to formation, you will need to maintain an in-state registered agent, pay franchise taxes, occasionally perhaps pull down a certificate of good standing, etc. I don't know that the do-it-yourself route is the best. On the other hand, when I practiced corporate law in a previous life, we used a higher-end corporation service company that was substantially more expensive. So I felt I took a reasonable cost solution that was easy to manage for a side project. Note: Nothing here is legal advice; I am not a representative of or compensated by Harvard Business Services. Just my opinion ... YMMV
We ended up implementing a REST API endpoint for SFTP to provide an easy way for web apps to transfer content without having to speak the FTP protocol: https://kloudless.com/products/file-storage/

I can see this being valuable for apps to get user content into S3 more efficiently from the server-side rather than funneling it through hosted servers. The one caveat is programmatic user management, which I'm sure is possible.
Not for watches, but there is a platform for collector cars, Rally Rd [0]. Each car gets its own defined company, you buy/sell company shares through Rally Rd. It's not fully liquid, as there's only one trading window per car per month.

[0] https://www.rallyrd.com/
Really bad attitude
But who uses it except Chuck? And is that page the only documentation?
Aside from conspiracy-theorizing about current events (and I don't use that term pejoratively), people tended to discuss the same topics. New cyberpunk media doesn't come out very often, so people tended to talk about the same books, movies, manga, anime, videogames, and fashion. Some of the alt-chans with dedicated cyberpunk boards would run out of ideas to talk about pretty quickly, since there weren't enough posts that the website had to prune old threads like 4chan did.

Another hypothesis I have is that cyberpunk media is not as captivating as it used to be since we arguably live in a cyberpunk world. In America there is unimaginable wealth inequality, with some cities having insane costs of rent for cramped apartments, with access to the best technology and medicine in the world but only if you can afford it. We also don't have to use media to imagine a world where digital corporations have a huge amount of power over daily life and the government spies on everyone all the time since both of those things are happening right now. I think we live in a cyberpunk world, it just doesn't have huge buildings, neon lights, and widespread punk fashion.

I came in contact with a few guys who wanted to make another alt-chan with a different model (see what other users are typing in real-time, and all posts get deleted early in the morning) but it never materialized as far as I can tell.

Edit: do any of you want to join an online cyberpunk community?
Or is water wet? https://youtu.be/QUAKOgxiXKg :)
Definitely appreciate the prod-ready checklist; it's super useful to have a sanity check that you didn't miss anything.
preference is, on the other hand, extremely important.
Ask HN: Simple Sabotage to combat modern “too big to fail” problems, monopolies?
On HN there are often discussions about how Facebook sucks (pick any of a dozen reasons) and something should be done about it.

People then say "just delete your Facebook" but for the most part Facebook isn't going anywhere at this point. There are just too many people using it and for most people it's just impractical to just leave.

We have similar "too big to fail" problems with companies like Wells Fargo which screw over their customers and force them to sign up for credit cards without their consent.

Employees at WF knew about this but didn't feel there was anything they could do...

A few years back I discovered this:

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/simple-sabotage.html

Here’s a list of five particularly timeless tips from the Simple Sabotage Field Manual:

> To lower morale and production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.

> Work slowly. Think of ways to increase the number of movements needed to do your job: use a light hammer instead of a heavy one; try to make a small wrench do instead of a big one.

> When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large and bureaucratic as possible. Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

... I'm wondering if this could be a reasonable solution for people in these type of situations to fight back.

You're forced to work for a government or corporation you despise but feel hopeless.

Instead of risking your job, life, family, or career, just sabotage.

Create tons of meetings. Deliberately create insane political conflicts at work. Pit people against one another. Spread gossip, etc.

Many whistleblowers will release information but this can be used to track you down.
Observation: It's highly inefficient to place everyone in the same physical space when you can just use their cellphones. By the article's reckoning, that's at least $21,000 loss per year on a business doing $2,000 projects.
Yeah I kinda worked this out eventually. But quite unintuitive. Can hardly call it a "Machine Learning University" imho.
Some startups are reluctant to tell you how many shares are outstanding in the company (happened to my wife). They say you get 100,000 options, but will not tell you the info needed to properly estimate the potential value of those options. In my wife's case, they just said to trust them that it was a valuable offer.
One way people do this is to group pixels by which material shader needs to execute. You want all threads in a warp to execute the same material shader, if at all possible. One way to do this is to use a deferred shading architecture, and do some kind of radix sort by shader id in between the visibility and shading passes.

Using the GP's example of ray tracing with 1-16 branches, if you can figure out in advance, or even just estimate, how many branches you're going to take, you could sort, or even create 16 separate work queues. Assuming we're talking about recursion that involves identical code for each branch, then by grouping threads into chunks that are likely to execute only 1 branch, your entire warp will (hopefully) execute 1 branch, and it will finish in 1/16th of the time that it would take if any one of the threads went the full 16 branches.

If you're not doing graphics, the way people do this kind of stuff is to have some kind of mapping function on the (virtual) thread id that lets them re-arrange the order of events. You have complete control over what the thread id means, so it doesn't have to point to a memory location nor handle your data in a consecutive order. (Of course, you will lose cache coherence for out of order memory access, but that might be small compared to divergence problems.)
If it's not fun anymore, you get nothing from maintaining a popular package
That's something weird about us~. We all notice. Very rarely do people fail to see. They often stay in their persona due to weaknesses, fatigue or fear.
Note that your code will not work; you've shadowed 's' inside the if block because you have 'if s, err := ...'. As a result, 's = defaults()' will set the shadowed 's' variable that only exists within the if block to defaults, but the 'var s Settings' you declared above will not be modified.

Here's a playground showing the issue: https://play.golang.org/p/eE0HEZx1MJu

Go is full of nice little foot-guns like that :)

You would want to also have 'var err error' above the block and use '=' instead of ':=' to fix this sort of issue.
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Best I could find on short notice is the history of the California Public Utilities Commission (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Public_Utilities_Co...). It originated in the desire to control the power of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which had a stranglehold on transportation in California, and used it to squeeze all the money out. That is, first the monopoly (on efficient transportation) happened, then abuse happened, then outrage happened, then regulation happened.

Note that anybody could have built a competing railroad... but it hadn't happened.
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Ma Bell was a monopoly created by the federal government.

It probably would have happened like this:

- phone is invented

- consumers want it

- AT&T starts in one city, other companies start up in other cities

- eventually people want to speak between cities

- different phone companies start networking with each other to provide that service

- AT&T has old infrastructure in the city where they started and consumers aren't happy, so one of AT&Ts competitors goes into that city and starts setting up a newer network that's higher quality

and so on, and so forth
Are you criticizing the abstractions, or amount of infrastructure?
34, yes, jointly supporting a family, DC, salary you can look up. I am staff frontend dev technically, unlimited time off. Can't speak to the value of my equity compensation.
When I visit a random website, it is very hard for that website to compromise my computer or my private data. The only really viable way is a zero-day in my browser, or deception (e.g. phishing, malicious download).

When I install an app on my iPhone, it is very very hard for that app to compromise my phone or my private data.

In both of these cases, I can download and run almost any code, and be fairly confident that it won't significantly harm me. Why? Because they're extremely locked down and sandboxed with a high degree of isolation. On the other hand, if I install random software on my desktop computer, or random packages off NPM, I don't have such safety any more.

The prevalence of app stores and the Web itself speaks to the fact that it _is_ possible to trust random strangers without opening yourself up to a big security risk.
Exciting, feel like a kid again!
I thought intermittent fasting was better for insulin resistance. I can’t read the article right now but was this disproven?
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I grew up in West Germany and some used to call them "Teds". "Rockabilies" was more common. "New Romantiks" didn't exist were I lived, I think we called this "Postpunk" (guys who listened to bands like Tears for Fears).
Except WotC destroyed the printing plates for the rarest cards. So they would only ever be able to reissue but never reprint.
Time to create a sneaker reserve list.
This reminds me of a study we ran at Lift/Coach.me a few years ago where we randomly assigned 12,000 people into popular diets. I was hoping we'd be able to pick a winner, but all of the diets led to weight loss and all had a result within the same margin of error (and yes, there was a control group). So basically, all the diets worked equally.

The only strong signal we got was that people who were giving up soda were the most likely to lose the most weight. The cynic in me feels like we're writing giant book-length stories that are just cover to get people to reduce their sugar intake.

As I read more of the research, I'm coming to the opinion that our framework for thinking about weight loss is wrong. We mostly talk about rules, and I think we should be talking about levers.

You want to pull the levers that cause your body to burn fat while avoiding the levers that cause your body to store fat. That's subtlely but importantly different than calories in < calories out. Your levers include fasting, going Keto, even extreme exercise (most studies against exercise stop at 60 or 90 minutes, but try doing a backpacking trip or other 5hour+ routine).
Anyone know how this was found and whether that process can be automated? There are likely a lot more packages that are infected with the same technique.

I looked at the linked commits: https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/commits/master

and it looks so surprisingly normal.

I am pretty sure I wouldn't have caught it even if I was code reviewing it.

Did someone heroically rerun every package's build process to see if the minified output was tampered with?
Maybe it could come down to requiring npm modules be accessible on a publicly accessible git repository with enough instructions in the package to build that package's output. Exceptions would be the more custom/large packages than the rule. Binary packages would of course also need some exceptions.

There could be a concept of "trusted" packages. That have had at least a review step. So either your package is trivial and easily automated or difficult with manual review. Where the costs are absorbed is the thing.

In the end, I do feel that anything that's being published publicly should have publicly available source, and that the build should be repeatable at the least... that wouldn't prevent such a thing (if it was checked into git), but would at least make it harder to hide.
>Fan of the so-called Heavy-Meta music

I don't know what "heavy-meta" music would be like, but I really want to hear it now.
> I would say trying to deny that 95%+ of humans are clearly either male or female

No one is denying that the vast majority of humans fall mostly into one of two biological sex clusters and identify in a way which historically corresponds to the way people in that cluster have been externally ascribed a gender, so that's a strawman.

> and trying to engineer the laws around a small percentage that want to be differently identified is the social engineering.

Yes, the movement to align ascribed gender with gender identity is social engineering, no less than the attempt to reverse the movement made in that direction is. Virtually no one involved in the effort denies that, either.

One side is trying to engineer to remove a palpable source of harm, the other to restore it.
That wasn't me who made the initial argument.

In any event, the original comment was regarding journalistic misrepresentation. The comment I responded to brought up the issue of relevance given an apparent solution. My comment merely addresses the issue of relevance that was raised.
In which case perhaps the proposed legislation is actually pretty good about how to identify sex... look at the genitalia, and only follow up with the genetics if that's ambiguous. The proposed legislation looks better in light of this, not worse. It proposes to identify by phenotype rather than genotype (although ultimately by genotype of specific genes that result in different genitalia), which is a practical way of categorizing people by the genes (most of) society actually cares about in this case.
Probably Jeff Dean and Paul Buchheit for the people who recruited them for Google.
Crypto-coin-stealing code sneaks into popular NPM lib (2m downloads per week)
Alternatively, they could add a freeze option that locks to the last major version, and all newer releases would be a full release version when you switch maintainers.
Suggesting that the US has become a decadent, past-its-prime empire or that it is turning into a police state are pretty standard-issue critiques and have been for many decades. You can regularly find them on HN, too.
Your comment made me think of Bell Labs.

From wikipedia:
>Bell Laboratories was, and is, regarded by many as the premier research facility of its type, developing a wide range of revolutionary technologies, including radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, information theory, the operating system Unix, the programming languages C and C++, solar cells, the CCD, floating-gate MOSFET, and a whole host of optical, wireless and wired communications technologies and systems. Nine Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories.
Wow, this was profound and I hope this way of thinking will make a big difference in my life going forward. Thank you for this!
Depends on your definition of "worldwide". I think IB is pretty unique in that it offers accounts worldwide access to markets worldwide.

If you only want access to worldwide markets, you can probably do it with a local brokerage.

If you only want a worldwide account, the brokers in the market you want access to will often give you an account.
“Commodity market” would be a closer analogy.
Not quite, the usual case was a local monopoly, due to network effect. As with railroads, in fact the large players had to be forced by government to allow interoperation. Facebook is equally reluctant now.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true, since it could even cause problems during their lifetime (~20 years?). It could cause problems for their children, friends, society, loved ones, and so forth over the next 100 years and that could be construed to be a personal risk. However the heat death of the universe can’t possibly affect with certainty any entity we now know, even the earth itself or solar system. The difference between 10^2 years and 10^100 years is significant enough for me to discount that comparison.
>What if we collectively had the will to invest this much into fusion?

If it were to turn out that fusion power isn’t technologically feasible within useful parameters (currently achievable technology, useful scales, economic feasibility of recovering the costs in the lifetime of a reactor, etc), we’d have squandered vast resources pointlessly.

For a start there are dozens of different approaches currently being pursued. Which do we bless with the billions of extra funding? All of them? Suppose none of them pan out?

It’s not like fusion isn’t being actively investigated and invested in. It is, to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. How about we see how those projects pan out in practice and then progress from there?
Amazing! Does it require a special mod?
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There is a standard library... what comes in Node, or what comes in the Browser... anything beyond that is non-standard. I'm not sure where your problem is here. It's true of any other platform on the planet, some things are in the box, others are not.
No it's not. You have no idea how to build a better criminal justice system. Your armchair HN comment about it is absolutely worthless. It lacks insight, research, balance, and depth of any kind, not to mention practical experience in the system itself. You want to remake a complex system? Go and learn the pros and cons of it, spend a few years in it, then come back and tell people how it can be improved.
Some people feel cagey about saying how many have been issued (or even what stakes the investors have), but anyone that doesn’t share authorized is either confused or deceptive.

I would say though, don’t assume malice! Some people really believe that they’re supposed to keep this secret to protect their investor info or something.
Regardless of whether you want to call it a reissue or a reprint, doing so for, e.g., the Power 9, would decimate the secondary market value of those cards, as a lot of that value comes from people who buy them to play the Legacy or Vintage formats. Obviously collectors would still place a premium on the originals (assuming you could actually tell them apart), but it would still have a devastating effect on the "investors".
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`cat` without any options support is possibly simpler than left-pad.

I think the big difference is that very few people set their systems to trust and receive updates of `cat` directly from the developers of `cat` (and same for all the other standard tiny utilities). Instead, they rely on a Linux distribution to vet the developers' code and to regularly pull in updates. Maybe there's room for a similar model of distributions vetting code in the npm ecosystem.
yes, that would be a more accurate title.
"Better caching of compiled code by allowing sharing of compiled or live objects (classes, objects, etc) between running PHP scripts"

I'm a little confused on this piece, as PHP does have a cross process opcache. People also use things like apcu to share userspace things across processes (uses mmap).
Venus, Mars and Titan look a bit more hospitable than the rest. The Mars one looks like somewhere you could actually encounter on Earth.
It’s not so much that you as a HN user and presumably very computer literate person can protect your own device. It’s more about others who are not like you, and what an evil version of you can install on their devices while tricking them to think there is no problem.

If the phone owner is not knowledgeable about the dangers, they should not be required to become a security expert and download special apps in order to deserve protection from those who would install privacy invading apps on their devices.
> power of monopolies...in general is directly tied to the > There have been entire countries and regions purely run by private entities.

I'm interested in an example of an entire country run by a private entity that was not a dictatorship. It doesn't help that the terms "run" and "private entity" vary from person to person, but something akin to the HEIC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_rule_in_India is what was conjured when talking about private entity rule.

> I don't know what you think adding that adjective is going to change, but sure.

I'm implying no readers/posters have "experience" as stated. The adjective is a clarification, in the case that there was something missed from the strange phrasing.
This. The explanations for journalistic practices are increasingly financial/economic.
> quite literally a single postfix operator

I disagree that the postfix operator is the primary language feature allowing rust's error handling. There is also the Result, aka a Generic Sum Type.

Go does not have generics or sum types, so it can't easily implement the generic 'Result<T, E>'. There's more to this than a bit of sugar.

Note that go does not have a generic "Into" either, which is a godsend for rust's errors.
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Most of the fresh greens at the grocery store nearest to me are not organic. None are irradiated. Whatever prevents romaine from being irradiated, it's not exclusive to organic certification.

The only grocery items I can specifically recall seeing marked irradiated are spices. I'm speaking of grocery stores in Oregon and Washington.
Oh, that makes sense. Totally went past me when I commented. Thanks for pointing that out.
Microsoft used it and promoted it. I never understood why they took so long to support ssh.
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to quote linus: if you don't do security with a network of people you trust, you're doing it wrong.
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I programmed microcomputers in the 70s as a kid.