skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the credible sources look at their publications in scientific journals. They might be wrong but this is nothing like cold fusion.
> ReasonML seems to be just sugar coating

That’s exactly what it is, no secret about that, that’s the goal of that project.
Why are the adjustments so coarse here? What's the limit to making them finer, which I assume would make sense?
I've found that in recent years, non-Prime orders will sit at the "ordered" phase for an extra few days, before finally being shipped at the same speed as a prime order.

I thought it might've been a holiday crush sort of situation, but it continued well past the new year (2019)
If I close down, I have to refund all my customers.

And it isn't a limited company, so those refunds come out of my personal bank balance.

You can bet I'll be running it for 10 years.
You're talking about purchasing cost, there is additional cost as well. Who supports it,how much more does it cost to support. How easily can you issue new yubikeys,what is the cost of that delay? Do you still keep passwords or hope people keep their yubi's in a secure place?

Business cost example: some important guy is making a business deal but he lost/forgot his credential and can't login to show a presentation. If that credential is a password or TOTP key, he calls helpdesk and gets it sorted out. But if it is a FIDO key and they are on the other side of the planet (or a city close by where you have no support staff) that can humiliate not just the person but your whole company. Are hackers a bigger risk than a guy losing his yubikey? Depends on who you are and what you do. There are even more subtle costs like people forgeting their yubi at work/home and losing man hours for when they have to retrieve it. Malicious insiders swiping a fido key to do harm because of how much trust a session authenticated with a fido key has,etc...
It's not so much about efficiency as capital cost.
New Green Technology Generates Electricity ‘Out of Thin Air’
27 comments and not one hit of the word “inertial”! The line about not being thermonuclear and the description of the device in question (a sphere with lasers) points towards an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) device. Most of the fusion research eggs are in the thermonuclear basket, specifically magnetic confinement fusion. It is good to research a diverse set of approaches, but there are more engineering challenges to ICF reactors than there are to MCF reactors. Pulses on the order of 1-2 Hz requires a mechanical system that can cycle out the exhaust and replace the pellet in that time. Going to reactor scales also requires high load thermal cycles. MCF ain’t easy, and brings it’s own engineering challenges. The ones I always hear are things like wall materials and fuel recycling, but these are largely solved or in the process of being solved. The engineering challenge I see as the most difficult for MCF are related to steady state operation. Tokamaks have no way of being steady state. Stellarators do, but now the next problem is wall conditioning. Wall materials outgas in hot plasma. A lot. Like more than the fuel puffed in. The way this is handled in science machines is with glow discharges of various species: plasma just below the temperature to cause wall sputtering, coating the wall with carbon and boron for their absorptive properties, etc. No one’s run a steady state hot plasma before, so no one knows if these will be a non issue in reactors. Keeping the plasma clean may be a challenge to keep the plasma from terminating. Aside from that MCF is ready for prime time. It needs a big reactor for scaling laws to make it energy profitable (and potentially money profitable). We just need some very expensive test reactors to smooth out these issues.
It will not go without replication, trials and production, regardless what oracle you have. And keep in mind that the oracle has a quite significant error rate. You won't get an immediate solution, just proposals. And whether or how a drug works is also dependent on the environment and there are dynamic aspects and complex processes within a cell extending over space and time. It's much more complex than speech recognition or self-driving cars.
> gas can freeze too

Man, please look up methane freezing point
ReasonML is just an alternative syntax for OCaml. Often people use "ReasonML" shorthand for "ReasonML, converted to OCaml, compiled to Javascript with BuckleScript" and "OCaml" for "OCaml compiled natively" but it's perfectly possible (and actually really easy) to use OCaml with BuckleScript and Reason natively.

Also note that despite the "O" in the name, OOP in OCaml is rare (for instance, there isn't any in the code in the article).
So is there a way to invest in this?
Only the helium nucleus is formed as part of the fusion reaction, so it starts off being positively charged, and not later stripped of its electrons. That, in principle, creates a current which can be used almost directly.
I feel it's slightly more complex than that.

With a new significant portion of the workforce able to work, you enable on one side, new economic needs (more transports, more kindergartens, etc) and on the other side you enable more production of goods which in theory should improve the material conditions of a society. Basically a society should be more efficient if it stops excluding half its available workforce.

But a the same time, housewives where not passive actors in the economy, they did had an economic impact (raising children, etc), just that this economic impact was not measured previously. However it was probably not equivalent to a paid job in term of economical impact, and for obvious emancipation reasons, it's definitely not a state to return to.
"Worse than thought" and yet, all the alarmist predictions keep failing to materialize.

Surely this isn't another alarmist prediction, is it?
Processors are pretty good about only using what they need. And compared to my hot water heater and fridge the closet computer sips juice. Shit, I have two 60 watt light bulbs illuminating my porch all night to keep raccoons away from my garbage bin.
All about it on "The development of Chez Scheme" paper, written on its twentieth anniversary.

https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/hocs.pdf
This seems like a cool idea, but the Yubikey NEO that I use to log into github doesn't seem to be accepted by the page. I doubt I've hit the 25 website limit.
That post was reeking of sarcasm even if it was hidden well :-)
Congress investigates Amazon Ring’s relationships with local police departments
> There's literally nothing new about the idea. The real trick is being incredibly lucky and finding something that actually works in humans after multiple trials.

I guess I'm not sure where the dismissiveness is coming from here. Are claiming this could have been trivially done before? If so, why didn't you or someone else do it already?

Or are you claiming it's an uninteresting result that is not worthy of publication or attention?
While what you say is true, the contents of these meetings should be public knowledge. A lot of citizens of a few countries had their lives almost destroyed by the decisions of these politicians, so is only fair they know what was discussed, who defended them, etc.

Let us not forget the pressure the ECB (and other european institutions) put on some countries that have come to light after the fact. (Like only allowing emergency liquidity assistance to be used based on bailout conditions, thus interfering and blackmailing supposed sovereign governments)

edit: And to be fair, while I don't like Varoufakis, the fact his party wants these recordings to come to light, means there is probably something there are is damning to someone
It's not earth shattering but malware/attackers will use things like this for evasion.
Convicted drug dealer accidentally “loses access” to Bitcoin account info after being convicted and forced to turn over all of his bitcoin?

Right.
Pretty hard to own a VPS which has no external ports open, even if the software on it is years out of date. In fact, updating software is probably a bigger security risk than not doing so, because you never know when someone manages to package a malicious bit of code into a common debian package.

Also, if it did get owned, I'd just have to spend a few hours rebuilding it - no bitcoin wallets or anything to steal on there.
what happened afterwards to Greece is also pretty shitty
Email-over-TLS provides encryption to your mail server, not to end-to-end encryption to the recipient of your email. That's what this entire discussion is about (and "encrypted email" in the article refers to PGP encryption, not TLS.)
The CDC has finally issued a level 1 travel advisory for Hong Kong as of February 21st.

That's what I call "dragging feet."
I tend to terse also.
Are you using a custom CPU from AMD? I spun up a N2D instance and it's showing up an "Epyc 7B12" and I can't find any details about this CPU anywhere.
Apart from a small point I think this is excellent. In particular I am disappointed by how easily people slip into thinking the name of the thing is the thing.

The small point (more than a nit) is on “making a fake web site that appears to crash.” But indeed, be as minimal as possible so you can do a lot of rapid experimentation.
> without being reliant on any private, corporate, or nation controlled services

Sounds good in theory until one is faced with a fraudulent vendor, a suddenly empty wallet or a transfer error due to some "fat fingers" mistake. Then people somehow get nostalgic for "how much of a shitshow the payments industry is" and how quickly it acts on chargebacks, scams or unauthorized spending.
When Paintings Come to Life
That purpose isn't covert, it is funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration(NNSA) under the Stockpile Stewardship Program, which built the facility to mimic fusion conditions to assure the viable of the US nuclear weapon stockpile. From time to time other scientist get to use it for other fusion experimentation.
> An awesome lisp, a top successor for Common Lisp and a playground for experiments and initiating people into Lisp.

As good as its development environment might be for learning purposes and research, it is no match for neither LispWorks nor Allegro Common Lisp, so it is hard to be a top successor.

In fact there isn't a single commercial Scheme has successful in the market as those Lisp environments, with exception of ChezScheme, used commercially by Cisco.
Why not something like GNU Taler[1]? It's a centralized digital currency with privacy for the payer at its core, but payees are always identified (very useful for taxation purposes). That sounds like exactly the use case for a government entity that wants a digital cash replacement.

- [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Taler
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. All citizens deserve to know what their politicians are saying behind closed doors.
Strong disagree - the only reason you know that he's not just talking about profitability is because the author pushed the CEO.
PG never justifies this, and just claims that "with essay writing, publication bias is the way to go." There are a huge number of essayists that I have the option to read. I would prefer to read each of their best thoughts, rather than read more of their thoughts.

In my life, Twitter is for hot takes, and Feedly is for deep thoughts.
Mental Model for Japanese
yes, it's a C# system, though it's written for the .net framework 2.1, and assumes a desktop so care isn't taken to reduce GC pressure very much. The unity job system is based on structs and unmanaged memory to avoid GC pressure, which in hindsight is a good idea for targeting broader platforms (phones, embedded)
I implemented something similar when I was playing around on a personal page. It's built by Jekyll and inlines a base64 version of the jpeg with a CSS blur filter, then lazyloads the real image and transitions it in via opacity 0->1. You can see it in action here: https://www.road-beers.com/
Jai Language Primer(2016)
Interesting - One of the things we teach is that we don't want our people competing with the slides, so if you want to put up a quote to expand upon it, first you have to read the quote - otherwise, you're talking and people are reading
The one still active account cited by the article looks legitimate, albeit operated by a crank. The same probably couldn't be said for their followers.
Agree.

Also ironic how this is the top-voted comment on an essay that, itself, spends so much time talking about the inevitability of misrepresentation.

I could write an essay on that myself.
People actively seek out fakes

Then they should be marketed (and priced) as such.
Yeah, we're missing some details here. Could be tips or hours worked as sibling comments suggested. Life is messy.
I think same standards should be used when police records criminals, judging criminals on what they said in private by a public standard is extremely unfair to them.

What about watergate was that unfair too?

Sure if he was leaking offhand sexual preferences of people recorded he would be crossing a line, but somehow I doubt that's what will be leaked.
A thread every five years! Interesting regularity.
You're right! The toolbox is far better too
Real ID application documents can be submitted online, DHS says
The Neo doesn't support FIDO2, only U2F.
Writing an academic essay means fashioning a coherent set of ideas into an argument. Because essays are essentially linear—they offer one idea at a time—they must present their ideas in the order that makes most sense to a reader. Successfully structuring an essay means attending to a reader's logic.
" if you never speak it because you're afraid to say something wrong, you'll never learn"

If you're afraid to say your idea because you know (or suspect) that it's wrong, then you have already learned the hardest part of the lesson. Of course, it still remains to find out what the right idea is, but voicing one that you know to be wrong is hardly going to help with that.
As a developer, how do I lend my support to stopping google from trying to steal the web?

Something actionable, something specific to my semi-unique position as a developer?
I didn't like it. I mean, the argument and data were interesting. What bothered me was the narrative, it was trite and disingenuous and clearly written by a clueless white guy.
Except steam generators are pretty cheap - they're off the shelf, and will be a drop in the ocean compared to the total costs of the first fusion plants.
As someone who works on a stellarator: no plasma experiment in fusion research is easy to do.
I don't see a privacy extortion wall, but I do see pictures with completely the wrong aspect ratio.
> Clothes are pretty dry already after that

Dry and very wrinkled
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I'm curious to see how this tee shirt is received among Bitcoin maximalists. On one hand, it's Bitcoin positive, on the other hand, it uses Ethereum technology.
Glow-Up: Bringing a Teenaged Website into the Modern World of SPA
One of the reasons that it is difficult to predict power output exactly is not knowing exactly how much will be lost down to Bremsstrahlung, (ELectromgnetic Braking Radiation).

In any event, ultimately practical proven results will always trump whatever the current theory may suggest.
That's why I'm wondering how to score it. If I give too much weight to the surface it won't make sense definitely. So at the beginning surface and price were the most important so then I had a lot of really big and cheap apartments from suburbs as first results, which didn't make sense, then I introduced rating based on district and few other parameters and it improved rating a lot but still, it's not good enough. I will check this Utility, thanks.
Which begs the question why not learn the real deal, instead of adding another layer to debug.

Programing isn't poetry.
So... what is their Current Q number?

“The fusion energy gain factor, usually expressed with the symbol Q, is the ratio of fusion power produced in a nuclear fusion reactor to the power required to maintain the plasma in steady state.” [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor
Another, better-written take on this: https://www.thecut.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.htm...
To be fair to you, I probably misstated when I said 1000, it was just an example. I think what I actually bought was really closer to 200 or something.
Eh. It's not inaccurate.

For whatever reason, I've fallen into a kind of side job of helping various people with their computers (I have trouble saying no) and I have noticed that as people get older, their desire to deal with UI changes declines rather rapidly. Many operate purely on muscle memory rather than re-reading and re-parsing whatever new UI gets rolled out.

New things on the screen (or in menus) can induce a kind of paralytic panic and now with Windows 10, Microsoft feels rather free to just ... add stuff, wherever. My first Windows 10 tablet was baffling because stuff kept appearing when I know I didn't put it there. This prompted me to get ahold of and install Windows 10 LTSB. I could not be happier with the result. After a bit of wrestling, I was able to control when updates occurred (if at all) and the random UI changes vanished.

I, too, am getting older.

How much bunkum fluid versus crystallized intelligence is, I do not know, but this has seemed to be a trend I have picked up.
Fusion happens in the core of stars but is powered by gravity. “Temperature” in this case is individual particle speed (in eV) because the particle speed distribution is not necessarily Boltzman. Higher particle speeds are needed because our confinement fields are weaker than the force of gravity inside a star.
fear mongering

please have actual figures about death and cancer, and compare them with car exhaust and air quality

it is illegal to dump nuclear waste
Success-win-growth guys usually elide a discussion of ethics around things like that, so I’m not surprised.
Upvoted — the first minute or so of the video is very helpful; it shows (what looks like) PowerPoint slides with drawings of a proton (1H nucleus) hitting a boron nucleus (5B11); the proton fuses into the boron nucleus to create what presumably is a single carbon nucleus (6C12), which then splits into three helium nuclei (each 2He4) without emitting free neutrons.

(The very-crude video technique was fascinating to this non-artistic person: Create PowerPoint slides, add subtitles for "narration" that float in and out, and finally add stock music for background. That might be useful for flipped-classroom courses.)
The leftist solutions are to get rid of of the conditions entirely, and find non-means-tested ways to accomplish goals more universally. The advantage here is significantly reduced administrative costs, freeing up time and energy of those in a tough situation on recovery rather then stress over beurocracy and limitations, and of course, people not viewing the people on the programs as morally deficient.

Social security, fire departments, medicare, primary education etc are all available broadly, and are broadly liked by people. People using these government handouts aren't considered lesser for it.
Follow the Money for AR's Trajectory
I think their point is, after the API is restful, all SDKs are replaceable with an Http client.
you will need energy in 50 years, so the medium term metric is useless

investors only care about short term and medium term
Installed Windows 10 Home a few weeks, poked around for 5 minutes searching for an offline option until I gave up. I know it used to be there but they have removed it.
Again, you don't have a metric to optimize.

You could, for a simple example, label a number of these properties yourself, with values.
Say you could go rate 1000 of them with a rating out of 10.

Then you could learn the importance for each of these parameters by trying to approximate your rating (regression of some kind).

Alternatively, because labeling a lot of these, and doing so accurately is a non-trivial task, you can look into generating these ratings.

In learning to rank for search for example, you can extract this information from interactions the users have with your items.
Release faster and beat your competition to market
Well, that is true.
What happened? It's a success story.

I get that people do not like the fact that they can't retire now at 55yo or that they had to privatize a few big national companies, but I think it's a perfect example where the doctor knows better than the patient what's best for them.
Is it possible to agree with the assessment of severity of this privacy issue without being regarded as supportive of the way Google uses its monopoly to force certain webstandards on the web?
I don't disagree with the spirit of doing user research before building things, which is sort of the rage now, but I really think that if people are reading this they should hear the counterpoint loud and clear:

Do not mislead your users.

Really, I can't imagine it makes such a difference to have coming soon. I doubt -- though I don't know for sure -- that simply telling people you already have the product is going to give you a company changing amount of information.

In any case we should have benchmarks that will help. (Example: Perhaps the "coming soon" tag costs you 50% of your signups, so just double the amount you receive as an estimate, and then remove the tag after you build it).
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It'll be like the early 2000's if switching to another browser was most likely just IE6 reskinned.
The answer was even weirder than I thought! They only have one driver in the family! Rayiner has 3 cars! :)
I tried documenting the Facebook Graph API with OpenAPI. That didn't work well.
Ask HN: Just Interviewed
I just interviewed with booking.com [not sure if I can provide recruiter's name] searching for java/backend profiles for their payment division in Amsterdam. They want to build up their own payment gateway. Also in wider context Booking.com aims at widening the offering from accommodation solely into the whole travel package / holiday experience.

Package would be €100k + equity circa $30k vesting over 3 year period. It could ho higher but nothing that would convert a freelancer back into an employee. They can offer a relocation package for senior profiles, however no private / international school package.

Now for the ask-hn part: is there a place where we could post about interviews taking place so that the information asymmetry while job searching is reduced. Would this be a viable business, or perhaps a non-profit? Please comment especially if you ever tried / considered something similar.
Presumably the experience itself helped you get other jobs that would’ve been unattainable had you not had a prestigious internship at intel.
With all due respect you are ignorant. You really think other people with Win10 professionally managed have your problems? Is your problem the OS or the fact that it wont let you run it unmanaged? How do your customers feel about security?
That type of blanket statement is a great example of theory vs. practice.

In theory you’d want everything to be public in the interest of informing your populace.

In practice that’s nonsense. There’s genuine national security concerns, forthright debate of alternatives by advisors, and discussions of limits on negotiating positions.

Earring on the side of transparency is a good idea but there’s a whole lot in government that should never, and will never, be public.
You're not going to make an appreciable amount of helium with this process.

And MRIs of the future will be constructed with REBCO magnets and cooled with liquid nitrogen.
A lot of people don't like dogs or are allergic to them. Bringing them to work is somewhat inconsiderate to say the least. But if the senior staff is doing it too, there's probably nothing you can do about it.
Dry February sends California back to drought: This hasn't happened in 150 years
Indeed, the four elements, like Man alone, are weak, but together the form the strong fifth element.

https://youtu.be/2IfCUsBpR-I
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