skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks to be a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor and is a very common hobby fusion project. A very powerful electric field drives the fusion. No positive energy output from this style of device has ever been reported.
I keep in mind that I tend toward arrogance and think twice whenever "oh, I can do that" pops in my head. Also, splitting tasks with a team means other people can grab what they do well and I won't overreach.
I feel like CEO pay is one of these emergent problems with our current system. We have this group of people whose salaries are just astronomical compared to the average person in the company, and whilst it's true their job could technically make more of a difference these payouts are totally asymmetrical and completely independent of how effective a CEO is.
That, or: "ere". Length equal to "new" :)
In 15+ years of building and maintaining SWIFT-connected systems that run SWIFT-provided software, I’ve never encountered a situation where a SWIFT message has “just disappeared”.
Any reason not to just use a third party Swift JSON library?
There is absolutely no situation where safety-critical code will be pushed to production builds without extensive testing, analysis, and verification, if the org standing behind it wants to live. This holds for medical device technology and autonomous vehicles. Furthermore, there is no situation where a junior full-stack developer with five months of experience will get anywhere near these systems, let alone write code without thorough code review by senior developers.
"Respects your freedom" badge seems to be hardware-related. This is exactly what we'd need for the software products too!
Linus will have major egg on his face when devs are issued 7nm ARM Macs that blow anything x86-based out of the water.
That sounds interesting. Its exactly the kind problem solving I enjoy. You also gave some good advice on what prerequsites are needed to work as a HFT trader. Is HFT the same as algorithmic trading? If not what are the differences?
Funny and evil.
Oh I'm sure there's plenty of places where they've helped.

I think you're right about the future though - unlike a Walmart I see precious little lock-in for Uber.
For emphasis, use italicization, not quotation.
>> anyone can get a website and domain name.

Except they can't. The outrage brigades come after the registrars and the hosting services and the payment processors and anyone else they can coerce into compliance. A few platforms have survived this process (...so far...) and are thriving, but joe schmoe will get disappeared in no time at all.
Worth mentioning there are a number of hobbyists/enthusiasts doing this, and there's no reason to be skeptical about the result itself. The link in this post is deep in the same site, but http://www.fusor.net/board/index.php is pretty active.

This particular achievement is notable because Jackson Oswalt might have been the youngest person to home-build a fusor, or at least the youngest to have spoken up about it.

Also worth noting that this is a year old. Looks like he's been plugging at it since then:

https://www.foxnews.com/science/teen-builds-working-nuclear-...
There is a real problem of journalist and people who work in media in general being too entrenched in social media
What the? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_certification

Sure people can lie and mislead to get one, but they can do that with any certification to some extent.
And thus HN became a perfect museum of silicon valley trends, hypes, and deaths.
I love that people make and share things, and I hate to pour water on announcements. I admire the effort that went into this.

That said, it makes me sad to see more fragmentation in the Material space. When Material launched, it was a set of design guidelines. A bunch of open source teams (like Material UI) stepped up and put together libraries that implemented those guidelines for specific view frameworks. This project looks like one of those efforts.

Since then, the Material Components for the Web project has formed. It's staffed by Google engineers who collaborate with the designers who write the Material Guidelines. They faithfully implement the Guidelines and makes updates as necessary to keep pace with design changes. The project is designed to be wrapped by other libraries to work with specific view frameworks.

I'd hope that any Material library for the web that's put together in 2019 would leverage that work. It will more faithfully follow the guidelines and be easier to maintain over time, because there's already a team of people responsible for maintaining the underlying framework.

If you haven't already, take a look at Material Components for the Web. You might have a better time if you back Material Kit with it.

https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...
I love that HN doesn't change for change's sake. One problem I have with tech orgs is that inevitably their designers will find work to do, necessary or not.

So when things do change, I like that it's very methodical and usually quite minor.
Did those wives have any way to make the kind of money needed for their lifestyles themselves?

After all, it's not like wealthy bachelors were common during the recession.
You can pay for YouTube Premium. It lets you watch the videos ad-free. I assume that the creators still get paid for my views, since I'm paying for the ad-free experience. I don't even have to bother choosing who the money goes to. Just watch their videos and they get a few cents.
>I think equating ugly with hard-to-read is a common mistake

This is just a semantics argument. I can replace "ugly" with "hard-to-read" if you want. I think it's both, in this instance.

>Honestly, I find that rating the readability of the object versions vs the switch statement is bikeshedding.

I agree in the context of code review, but since this is what we're talking about I figured I'd share my opinion.

>Another thing that is worth mentioning is that objects consume memory and allocating memory in JS for this is just wasting orders of magnitudes more cycles and sacrificing throughput for no good reason - other than to try to be clever and avoid an idiomatic and optimizable construct.

Premature optimization. If you need to optimize, then do it. Otherwise you should prioritize what you consider understandable and easy-to-write code. I guarantee the vast majority of javascript written would not be ill-affected by this.
I figured 'they' refers to website developers.
Ask HN: Why Is Gmail Spam Filtering .gov?
Gmail recently began aggressively spam filtering emails from US government agencies with .gov addresses, as well as .com addresses from major US and multinational corporations. Aside from setting up filters manually, this change is destroying the value proposition of using Gmail for important communications.

What change caused this, and why can't Google be contacted in any communication channel when things break? It's dangerous and irresponsible to spam filter .gov!
Who defines what beliefs are odious?

The point is not to convince the person you are talking to, which is very difficult given how much people stick to their political beliefs, but to convince the lurking third party, who has weakly held opinions. If they can see in the debate that one person has the stronger argument, you can convince that third person. If they see one side refuse to debate, angrily yell, and banish the other to places like the_donald, well, maybe the undecided lurkers will wonder if perhaps the person got angry because they had no good counter-argument, decide to go explore a place like the_donald, or some other echo chamber where they just become more convinced, that also has no counter-acting voices of reason. The people in the_donald agree with you by the way, and don't give space or respect to people with odious blue tribe beliefs.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Business models are the most significant innovations for any business. Google or Maps or Gmail is jaw-droppingly expensive software but its sustainably free.

There might be way for software like Mathematica. For example, having marketplace that sells professional plugins like aerodynamics simulation for aircrafts or autonomous trading library etc. You can also have special classroom edition that charges nominal amounts or the enterprise edition that has cloud and IT support. The large chunk of platform can potentially be free and open source.
I have no valuable addition to the discussion, hope its okay but just want to say thank you antirez for your impressive work. You're leading the way for us others to follow
Part of the problem is that too many people think “polite” just means “no profanity or name-calling.”

It is impossible to respectfully argue for a racist or homophobic position. The very nature of what you’re arguing for is that some people are inherently less than others, which is the opposite of respect.

But if you state such an argument without using naughty words, a lot of people will misinterpret that as respectful and demand that it be given respect in turn.
I can definitely see where you'd get that impression, but that's not the impression I got from it. I don't think he's trying to define or establish meaning of the word "theft" at all. He seems to simply be establishing a baseline for the thought experiment by asking a rhetorical question. Most people would agree that it is "theft" if one man steals a car.

It's similar to a thought experiment I heard regarding abortion, where you start at 1 day and say, "Is it ok to abort at 1 day? what about 1 week? month? 20 weeks? 40 weeks?"

But I could very well be misunderstanding it myself.
Need to be careful that Docker and LXC both default to unprivileged, however they use the term to mean different things.

If you say “don’t run your containers as root on the host”, this matches the issue better.
It sounds right to me, except that the living standards don't go up, the surplus goes to the edu/housing/healthcare rent seekers.
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That's good to know. What kind of companies hire HFT traders in those parts of the world you mentioned?
You know, the rest of the planet is setting the standard. So diverse - compared with the rest of the planet- yes.
People outside of tech have anxiety about the future of tech.

People inside tech having anxiety about it?

Seems to me the anxiety has far less to do with tech than with the nature of the economy and employment in general.
Let's say that the special treatment for Amazon were eliminated. That is, only about ~%80 of the tax breaks were in effect. So now Amazon only receives ~$2.4 billion in tax breaks through the pre-existing incentive programs.

This is pure speculation, but I suspect the opponents wouldn't have altered their tone. At any rate -- I agree with you that Amazon shouldn't have received the special tax cut, and they didn't need it, and it was foolish of the State/city leadership to offer it.

I wanted AMZN to come here to NYC, but that whole charade they put on was a turn off. meh.
Why not just say "capitalist" since "right wing" can mean many other things? Why use the more ambiguous term when the more precise one will do? Is it intentional?
Problem is, relatively benign viewpoints are labelled as racist, misogynistic or homophobic when they aren't. And it's done in an effort to silence "undesirable" opinions.

What I've noticed the most about SF are it's inhabitants being shocked (shocked!) to learn that people have views different than them. It's as if their entire world ends at the city limits.
If I were a criminal and saw a "NO CRIMINALS PLZ" sign on the door of a house, I think I'd be far less likley to break in...

That houseowner has probably set boobytraps etc.
I got some IPO shares in Redhat due to some bugs I reported. Made a good amount of money enough to jump start me going back to college the next year. Half way through the first year the tech bubble collapsed. Before long employers were going bankrupt or having massive layoffs. I remember some laid off workers were clamoring to get enrolled into college near the cutoff window.
The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing [pdf]
CPA: You do it wrong, IRS audits you for years.

Barber: You hold a sharp object to somebody's head wrong, you could take out a chunk of scalp. If you're malicious, you could do more.

Electricians: You do it wrong, you can literally fuse your corpse to the thing you were working on.

All of these are greater consequences than having prod going down. In these fields, things can go very wrong very fast, and all these professions are right to same some form of certification.
“It was like my brain threw the blue screen of death on me.”

My brain goes into kernel panic and forces me to restart from GRUB using an earlier build.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIqbMCfR3r0
Hangovers can be avoided entirely if an individual remains perpetually intoxicated. People existing in this havonger-free state can't stop drinking as it could cause DTs/death.
If you do not make an argument at first instance, you cannot appeal a judgement on the ground that it was not considered.

So you're fighting in the lower court because you need to fight there. Remember, it's the fight that costs money, so no matter what you're always on the hook for something.

The question ends up being are you on the hook for the cost of the fight or the cost of paying them off.
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The income share agreement is strict (Leif helps us handle that). For the staffing agreement, there's no penalty if they decide to work somewhere else. Ultimately we have to rely on the positive relationship we have with the trainee.
The command line C/C++ toolchain is fine, at least now where this is basically reduced to clang and libc++.

The problem is basically everything else:

- The ever changing build systems. And every new "improvement" is actually worse than before (I think currently it is some weird mix of cmake and Gradle, unless they changed that yet again).

- Creating a complete APK from the native DLL outside Gradle and Android Studio is arcane magic. But both Android Studio and Gradle are extremely frustrating tools to use.

- The Java / C interop requires way to much boilerplate.

- Debugging native code is still hit and miss (it's improved with using Android Studio as a standalone debugger, but still too much work to setup).

- The Android SDK only works with an outdated JDK/JRE version, if the system has the latest Java version, it spews very obscure error messages during the install process, and nothing works afterward (if it needs a specific JDK version, why doesn't it embed the right version).

The Android NDK team should have a look at the emscripten SDK, which solves a much more exotic problem than combining C and Java. Emscripten has a compiler wrapper (emcc) which is called like the command line C compiler, but creates a complete HTML+WASM+JS "program". A lot of problems with the NDK and build system could be solved if it would provide a compiler wrapper like emcc which produces a complete APK (and not just a .so file) instead of relying on some obscure magic to do that (and all the command line tools which can do this outside gradle are "technically" deprecated).

...hrmpf, and now that I recalled all the problems with Android development I'm grumpy again, thanks ;)
> rather because I was suggesting something antithetical to their ideology.

Ideological differences are a major source of arguments turning ugly and lots of downvotes, if you disagree with whatever majority in that particular forum.
It's about trying to find words for the reaction you have to a work of art.
I don't see how anything you said proves "tax avoidance" is a consequence of market-friendly policies. If anything, it's an indication the tax code should be streamlined and simplified, which itself would also be market-friendly.
Have you checked the email headers to see if they give any clues why they are tagging the emails as spam? There are a few sites that talk about reading the headers. [1]

[1] - https://emailheaders.net/gmail.html
Scaling Graphite to Millions of Metrics
The CEO is the only person in the company who can really negotiate for what they're worth (instead of the commodity price for their labor) because business people don't usually have specialized irreplaceable positions and technical people are not usually negotiation experts.
Allowing your users to run something as root inside a container should violate a security audit. And yes, Docker is almost irresponsible to continue defaulting to root.

But containers themselves should not -- there are plenty of security benefits to using containers. There is no real difference between an LXC container and a runc container besides the fact that Docker defaults to running thing as root and without user namespaces. That is obviously a bad decision, but it's not an indictment of containers as a concept.
"Yet another force" is accurate I think. Many open source developers, as soon as they discover that evangelizing is a less stressful job than actually writing code, go into the "teach everyone to code" and "we need more minorities" business.

It's good business once you know how to exploit it.
> We once envisioned the internet as a place of revolutionarily open discourse, where any idea under the sun could get posted somewhere and read, no matter how crazy or bad it seemed, with the worst ridiculed and dismissed, but still able to be read, and the best rising to the top.

Maybe I had a late start, but as far as I remember the internet has never been like that. So much of the forums and comment sections I used to read were mountains of junk, starting with the way people would write "First!" as a comment on nearly anything. The best didn't rise to the top - things that generated the most interest did, and the two were often completely divergent.

> It seems like we're moving in the opposite direction these days, with the internet as a means to control, oppress, and indoctrinate. Giant tech corps effectively taking over most means of communication and using their powers to openly censor things are part of the problem.

Feels like the reverse to me. Giant tech corps are failing to take measures against actively harmful memetic material - antivax, MLM, conspiracy theories, racism/white supremacy, extremism, etc. because these things drive their primary metric: engagement.

Generally, it feels to me like large tech companies only take action on these issues after significant public outcry or advertiser action. The problem of censorship has little to do with them and everything to do with opposing groups that harass or threaten individuals (Scott's post being a prime example).
The CEO (and upper management in general) pay scale is total BS when viewed through normal compensation lenses, unlike normal people who are paid for their time, upper management is usually compensated on performance -but- they are compensated on the performance of their company (or division) and they get all the pie. Since nobody else's pay is scaling with performance (outside of bonuses which in my experience usually don't exceed 5% annual salary) their salaries end up inappropriate scaled into the stratosphere because the company's performance justifies increasing compensation to employees to retain them and sustain that performance. In actuality employee retention is bottoming out in the modern era (compare it to the 60s) and people are the top make f-u money that is so out of step with the people doing work at a company that it isn't even comparable.

Wealth and earnings inequality is a serious issue in this modern world and it's ridiculous, some people are more efficient than other people, nobody is 100x more efficient than anyone else. Take an arbitrary dude off the street and give them the experience of a CEO and I bet you that substituting him in would at most lose the company 40% of growth/whatever.
While it may be theoretically true there is a small linguistic hint at the bias - you hear "left-libertarian" as its own distinct term as opposed to right-libertarian implying a default of the term as right leaning.

Not going to get into any messier qualitatives like no trur scotsman/libertarian in name only or crypto-politicals.
Software engineer unions are coming, and it will start with the games industry. Attitudes within our field are changing! Used to be you couldn't mention the U-word without a dozen engineers jumping down your throat bellowing about "efficiency" (for whom and what?) but engineers are smart and you can only fool them with the same old anti-union propaganda for so long.
So you claim that ")(" is balanced?
Reminds me Perkeep also. https://perkeep.org
The counterargument is: Odious as defined by who? By me? Heh, eschaton, your beliefs might not come out so well by that measure.

Defined by you? No thank you.

Defined by society? Twenty years ago, homosexual marriage was an odious belief by that standard. Today, it's not (instead, opposing it is now considered odious). Same with racism sixty years ago. Same with slavery 160 years ago. "Odious" is a moving target. But for your argument to have any force, "odious" has to have some real moral weight to it, not just be society's current consensus.

That leaves odious as defined by a group of right-thinking people. Problem is, there are many candidates proclaiming themselves as being the right-thinking group, and they all contradict each other. How are you going to pick one? By what you most agree with? Again, no thank you.

(Note well: This is not "no thank you" specifically to eschaton. It's "no thank you" to any individual who wants to set themself up as the arbiter of what is "odious". I don't want anybody to have that power - unless it's me, of course.)
I’m also inside the beltway, and indeed, my first reaction to that comment was “come to the DC area!”

As a bonus, a lot of the people are actually involved in the process somehow, so the discussion is a lot less abstract and theoretical than usual.
It's along the same lines as the type of romanticizing you might see when certain addicts (recovering or otherwise) discuss their experiences with one another. It occasionally becomes a game of one-upmanship where each is discussing miserable experiences with a subtext of pride as if to strengthen their appearance as hardcore or interesting or who knows. The behavior is by no means limited to or universally true of addicts, but there's certainly a type and it comes through in Bukowski's writing. This flavor of romanticizing isn't necessarily intended to inspire envy, but awe.
Agreed. The fact that pay is often still astronomical in the case of the worst possible outcomes strongly suggests that leverage is just an excuse. I'm pretty sure that the real answer is that CEO pay is just the Rules for Rulers [1], capitalism style.

[1] Rules for Rulers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
Do you have some sort of announcements list or a way I can be notified when you expand to other countries?

As an aside, while teaching web dev, do you put any focus on accessibility for users with disabilities and other special needs? Is your platform accessible to students using assistive technology like screen readers? You're possibly offering something here which could have an impact on the high unemployment rate among disabled people, many of whom are lacking skills or opportunities to obtain them. Would be happy to talk with you more about this if you're interested - full disclaimer: accessibility and usability are my dayjob :)