skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair -- I will grant you that there's a lot of uncertainty about what would happen now. I don't think it's completely blind, I lean towards "there are predictable negative effects", but we don't really know. And it's totally reasonable for someone to be less certain than me.

My response to that though is still that uncertainty is not a great position to be in when passing laws. I would point at SESTA/FOSTA as examples of legislation in the same rough category that looks like it should make sense, and then gets passed and has a lot of side-effects that turn out to be really bad for everyone. If SESTA/FOSTA had passed and everything had gone wonderfully, I might be more open to other conversations about adding additional liability.
The article, nominally on 'good (essay format) writing', was an example of #1. We here illustrate #2 wonderfully (a quip on both communicative fallacy and the human condition). #3 is aspirational, but also puts purely functional writing (without art) in its place. #4 concerns perhaps pathfinding as purpose, in creative intellectual work. #5 suggests monodimensionality as a defining quality of poor writers. #6 ties all of the above in its application to programming.
While interesting, the ethical implications are what got me interested in the extended mind theory. If I cut out a piece of someone's brain, and that turned them into a lesser functioning human being, then what I did would be considered unethical by most people's ethical frameworks. But what if I took away your paper and pencil, or computer, or abacus? Is that unethical? This has tangible effects on schools that lack funding for tools, or those imprisoned without access to books and writing material.
> Old ones maybe.

Even the "quiet" new ones cause a problem when placed in the confined area between buildings[1]. It projects low frequency noise into the neighboring structure. Very hard to deal with. You still need to be careful with placement[2].

[1] http://www.quiet.org/readings/a-c_sound%20advice.htm

[2] https://www.eugene-or.gov/DocumentCenter/View/17196/Neighbor... (PDF)
Modes generally suck, but are often either unavoidable or better than the alternatives.

For example, every graphics program has a "mode" for creating e.g., curves, whereas the "default mode" is selecting. This is very much a mode, but it is clearly indicated to the user by (typically) a change in cursor shape. It's still a mode (affects what clicks of the mouse do), but it's tolerable because it is directly entered (by selecting an icon to enter the mode), and feedback is relatively clear.

There are modes, and then there are modes.
LA has similar problems: http://seliger.com/2017/08/30/l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-f...
Is this article really only one paragraph long, or is there some kind of paywall on the site?
I don’t really see how the author being white or male has anything to do with whether it’s accurate or not.
The problem is that global warming is too large a subject to be distilled down for debate. It's like cancer. Can one cure cancer? Maybe, but not in one blow. Even discussing something like breast cancer versus colon cancer is practically discussing apples versus oranges. The same for global warming: discussing the hole in the ozone layer versus acid rain versus rising temperatures versus melting polar ice caps doesn't feel like you're talking about anything that fits comfortably under the umbrella of "global warming" or even "climate change". That is to say, the concept of "climate change" is a PR disaster that desparately needs its conversation redefined.
The low end Rigols make good entry-level scopes, and have a surprising amount of capability for the price.

As for learning resources, I came across a decent article on the subject when I was starting out (1), and most of the oscilloscope manufacturers have whitepapers on SMPS diagnostics, the Tektronics one I read a while back (2) gave a good overview. A lot of the whitepapers have a manufacturer-specific focus, but they still have good information that can be applied to almost any oscilloscope.

If you want to get really into the power supply and do high-side measurements you'll need an isolated differential probe, which can cost as much as an inexpensive oscilloscope, but for DC output measurement you shouldn't need anything special. Current probes are a lot more affordable if you're interested in looking at loads or current fluctuations/harmonics, but that's more useful after you've figured out a bit more what specific properties you're trying to measure.

1: https://www.testandmeasurementtips.com/test-switching-power-...

2: https://download.tek.com/document/3GW_23612_7.pdf

Edit: I forgot to mention that the EEVblog forums are a good resource also, but they sometimes aren't as friendly as they could be towards people just starting out.
Observations.

This is one of my longest tl; drs, particularly for a short essay. This to me signals high content ratio (low compressibility).

As somebody who tried for years to get people online to pay attention to my essays, I am not super confident that we have good content-discovery mechanisms for essays online [except video essays, which seem to thrive]. Thus I don't take this essay as personally relevant, as I am not personally convinced that a good essay written by an unfamous person, would warrant enough attention to justify the rigorous revision process.

I notice PG chooses to view the essay through an artistic/historic lens that puts him in the minority. It seems to me he strives very hard to stay above the primal desires that dominate the internet-attention-economy. A very tough challenge.
I don't have access to this document, is there a mirror?
No the idea has no merit.
If (corporate) borrower defaults on its obligations, it often leads to bankrupcy, forced asset sale and liquidation / dissolution.

Considering that laws probably does not assume possibility of bankrupcy or other way of dealing with insolvency for sovereign, that does not mean defaulted debt disappears. It may or may not be reclaimable in local courts (based on local laws), but it likely could be reclaimable in foreign courts. That would cause long-term legal clusterfuck for Greece and that would likely be much worse than the current state.
This reminded me of our Analysis prof. "I really hate Iternational Mathematical Olympiad. The problems there give you the false impression that math-theorems have elegant solutions. No. You are usually banging your head against the problem, and when nobody is looking you use dynamite!" - especially the "lost in a jungle" part of the quote :)
Plot twist... Satoshi' Bitcoins were in cold storage, but got burned up in a fire.
Don't use low-fidelity prototypes to test desirability
This article is nothing more than a bulletin updating us on the latest developments in the case, painted up to look like more than it is.

In recent years, since journalists are motivated by clicks/eyeballs, and such things are most easily garnered by outrage, such emotional bias in reporting has sadly become the norm.
These companies are selling an addictive poison and continuing to get away with it -- never forget that.
I'm a DO customer. I tried to figure out what running a windows server would cost on Azure once (since DO doesn't provide windows). I didn't manage to figure it out after like 20 minutes, and the complexity was just mind blowing. I literally got a bit of a shock, and felt pretty stupid that I couldn't figure out such a simple thing. The thought going through my head was something like "does people actually use this?". So that's a radically different perspective for you :)
While I didn't try to use Docker (though we did use the same pxhere image :-p), I also struggled to get a productive setup of OCaml. Getting a switch running wasn't the hard part, it was making the environment suitable for real project work. I had a set of Make targets in mind (test, build, shell), some language dev features I wanted (jump to definition, type of expression under cursor), and some properties of the project (pinned dependencies) such that it took a fair bit of fiddling with dune/opam to get it working https://morepablo.com/2019/08/fresco-jesus-ocaml-setup.html

I find OCaml really enjoyable once I got going, but I do think the initial setup is a major barrier to larger adoption. I think a post on howistart.org might be useful, but it'd probably be polarizing since most functions have two major ways of doing it (Jane Street vs. not, Lwt vs. Async, etc.).
Any modern epistemological system results in increased posterior probabilities of the AGW hypothesis given the evidence we have so far to the point that extraordinary evidence is required to nudge that probability.

This is no different than saying "the science is settled on the Earth being flat - it's not". That's not a dramatic cover-up of the flatness of the Earth or a rejection of the scientific method. It's an expression of surprise on the part of an informed person who looks at the balance of evidence for falsifiable theories that fail to falsify.

In the end, we all have our own epistemological systems but if yours does not lead to high probabilities for AGW, your model probably doesn't have high predictive value for reality.

That doesn't mean I'm mad at you. I'm just as surprised you'd waste your time on it as much as I'm surprised other people waste their time on other stuff like flat earthism, creationism, etc.
So for the record I am all for renewable, I run solar down here in the Keys and think everyone who can should. That being said my issue is that, there are real environmental disasters that are getting co-oped that won't be fixed by cap and trade and reduced emissions. Some of these like the reefs are dire and will cause an ecosystem collapse, they need to be addressed properly and not co-opted for an agenda. They literally cannot wait and are not some future prediction, they are rapidly collapsing as we type. The other problem is you get band-wagoner jumping on intentional misinformation to co-opt the catastrophe as a here and now prediction of how dire climate change is when it has negligible to any relation to the environmental damage happening. I am not saying climate change is not real, I am not saying we should not do something about it. I am saying there are agendas on both sides and that needs to be considered as it can have dire consequences in the other direction as is the case with the destruction of reefs around industrialized nations. Which just so happen the be the worlds two largest reefs.
Not really, but they do exist, and I've exclusively worked for startups or small companies for 8 years now.

We only have a handful of large corp companies to supplement startup growth (Garmin, Cerner, etc). Another commenter lamented about wages, but I've never had an issue with that. The key is to position yourself as a big fish in the small pond that
is KC. To maximize your wage growth: The usual strategy of "being an expert in X hottest sexy technology" doesn't work here, you have to respond to the market wants.

The main benefit of KC is the extraordinarily low cost of living, easy commute, and low population density. If you're an urbanite, you'll likely find it too small. The benefits though are low taxes, low housing costs, little government involvement in your personal life, quiet living, and the best barbecue on planet earth.
Use free energy to sequester infinite carbon!
Use Firefox. And not only use Firefox, but also promote Firefox. Make sure that all your browser screenshots, presentations, etc show Firefox.

As a developer you, like many of us might be the family tech support. Switch them to firefox.
The unique weapon that took out Soleimani
To shed a different light on this: think of temperature as walking through mud. Your legs lose energy trying to slowly pull a lot of mud behind you. Now think about skiing. A lot less snow is dragged with you but it flies fast.

Here, what is interesting is if one fusion reaction does happen, then the alpha (helium) particles leave at 2.9 MeV. After two collisions with protons, if the second proton they have hit hits in turn a boron nucleus, then it will have exactly the right energy (612 keV) to have maximum chances at initiating a second fusion reaction.

612 keV is like almost 7 billion degrees °C if considered as thermal energy, and no experiment anywhere will get that hot for long. But compared to the energy of the exiting helium nuclei, it's still much lower (0.612 MeV vs 2.9 MeV).

In other words, instead of cascading all the energy down and hoping the sea of particles rises to a few billion degrees so enough particles do fusion to keep the sea of other particles hot, here, the energy is preempted by proton atoms after just 2 collisions and used immediately to start a second reaction, which yields more helium nuclei at 2.9 MeV, essentially producing an "avalanche" effect.

Finally, yes, they seem to have devised a way to obtain at least a small part of the energy electrically, without relying on thermal energy, via direct electric field deceleration of very fast charged particles.

This is like "the ultra rich (very fast particles) manage to create value among themselves without having to cascade their wealth down to the crowd (cold particles), and then upload that value to hyperspace (the electric field from the electrodes), without ever interacting with the mass of the crowd (the mass of the target), until a sufficient amount of fusion reactions have been realized"

The avalanche process is explained in Hora's 2016 publication, with a schematic page 9: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1016/j.mre.2017.05.001

And yes, a petawatt (the energy of present day ultra-fast lasers) is a lot of power. It was just chance that there was very little practical use to this kind of power - until now.

That being said, I am not a true expert myself of this topic, so the true barriers laying in front of this concept might be better explained by the other comments here.
This article does a poor job of explaining what could be controversial about the 2015 Eurogroup Meeting. Who cares? This just sounds like Euro-Politico Soap Opera.

After some digging, I found this:

> The Eurogroup on the 11 July 2015 discussed the request by the Greek authorities for financial assistance from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and their new proposals for a reform agenda.

https://www.europeansources.info/record/extraordinary-eurogr...

So presumably, the recordings provide evidence of some kind of back-door deal between the EU and Greece as terms for refinancing its debt.
Very misleading. The car will only accellerate to the speed already chosen by the driver. It doesn't seem odd for itself to accellerate up to speed limits
In representative democracies people don't really have much control over the day to day operations of the government.

They are also often deliberately kept in the dark about the decisions being made. Even if they had the necessary information available, it would be almost impossible to keep up with everything since people have other more important things to do to e.g. work.

> Over time, I've found that the elected government really does represent the general population.

I don't know where this happens, but if/when it does it's more of a fortunate accident than the default outcome.
Your skin color isn't based on your actions, but your wealth is. It's not a fair comparison to make. You should be judged for your actions.
One can idolize Hemingway to a fault. Removing the unnecessary is largely what a second draft is for, no matter who's doing the work; concision is a virtue, but to pursue concision above all else risks erring into insufficiency and rendering oneself unable to write in one's own style and voice, rather than in an emulation of someone else's.

Voice elevates an informative essay from a dry recitation of facts, offering the reader little of genuine interest, into a conversation in which the reader is able and welcome to participate. Voice also offers interest of its own, which can help sustain a reader through what might otherwise prove intolerable complexities or difficulties in the subject matter of the work.

You may, of course, consider this, and consider the virtues of the Hemingwayesque ultimacy of concision, and decide that the latter outweigh the former. I don't agree, but we all ideally write in our own ways. I would, though, ask that you do consider those virtues - and their contrary vices - rather than partake of the blind veneration of Hemingway so common among the rather dim luminaries of modern literature.
The newest AMD CPUs decrease clock speed based on parameters like heat, which AVX2 under heavy load will cause. So, AMD also decreases clock speed when executing AVX2, indirectly. Though in a very different fashion, continuously, rather than a distinct mode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_...

United States: 0.17%

Germany: 0.37%

Canada + Sweden: 0.36%

Not as many as other countries.
on unlocked intel cpus you can change the avx multiplier in the bios.
I hope you’re not thinking that I think government intervention is good because it’s the Democrats. I think they truly believe that government intervention is good. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Google is in the unfortunate position that Republicans don’t like them because they are bunch of “hippy liberals” and Democrats are well Democrats.
Forcing consent before selling browser histories violates our free speech
> They earned their property through voluntary agreements with other individuals.

Employment is not a "voluntary" agreement for many people.
Why didn't we just bomb Al-Qaeda into oblivion in 2 weeks? Why couldn't we just shoot communism in North Vietnam? Martial law and occupation are ultimately enforced by infantry patrols. Plus, tanks need fuel and governments can't carpet bomb their own cities.

But it's not just about resisting hypothetical martial law in the future. It's about having a free culture now. Just like encryption, it is the difference between power deriving from consent the governed and an open-air prison and also has legitimate use for personal protection. The mere fact they don't want you to have it is reason enough to keep it by tooth and nail.
"Google Just Gave Millions of Users a Reason to Quit Chrome" - very clickbaity title. Forbes is bad, and HN should not let Forbes get the upper hand.

Maybe "ScrollToTextFragment chrome browser capability to worry users" would have been better?
There's a bunch of other search engines out there; no one is forcing you to use Google search. Duckduckgo, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, etc. are all viable alternatives. If Google needs to open-source their search algorithms, then why shouldn't all their competitors?
I want you to explain to me in what situation such a lender could ever have a loss.

I want you to explain to me why it's reasonable that the lender makes profits when things go right, but the public has to take the loss when things go wrong.

Isn't in the nature of a free market that lending is an inherently risky business ?
Not so simple. If the clone gains significant market share it can enforce compatibility.
Roald Dahl's work is some of the most delightfully readable and engaging writing out there in my humble opinion and that was written nearly one hundred years ago in the 1930s and 1940s.

Good writing is timeless, I may suggest that adding hyperlinks under a new word you introduced inside your essay that requires clicking on and reading a wholly different story to understand the current story you are reading, is a terribly under-performant way of communicating information inside an essay to the reader.

When did using "+" instead of "&" become acceptable in proper English? I understand this is a tech blog and I have no problem with "+" used in a tech context, the use in a virtue signalling piece on the rules of writing a good essay seems misplaced.
Why a pellet? Why not a gas of boron and hydrogen? Easier to feed continuously.
Dated 2016, revision 14.5, if you look.
Use Firefox. Try to convince others to use YouTube. Never use features only available in Chrome/chromium browsers.
Is there any difference between "secret compromises" and corruption if the compromises are against citizens' interests and will?

A black box might work IF it can be ensured that all data considered will be bundled with the decision. But how can such a thing ever be ensured?

We'll soon have source-included but secret-compiler software as a technical possibility, by means of zero-knowledge computational proofs.

It seems a bit much to ask politics to follow that state-of-the-art, which means that closed-doors talks* should be outlawed if the EU wants to have leg to stand on v. rising anti-EU sentiments.

*. indefinitely-closed-doors talks. A mandatory post-mortem including release of the talks themselves after a set period of time would go a long way.
The title is profoundly misleading. Fusion has not been achieved using this method, the "leapfrog" results are from simulations.
Say you have a long page that lists “Pre-existing conditions” at the bottom, and near that section is also a unique image or other external asset. If you click on the link and cancer is in your list, the page will scroll and load the related assets instantly. Without cancer in your list, you’d only load those assets through human scroll, which would most likely look different timing-wise. Thus you can determine with high probability whether your target has cancer listed (if you have access to DNS records, as mentioned in the example, and the target is using a browser that delays offscreen asset loading - like this same latest Chrome).

Whereas anchors tend to be generic (#preexisting-conditions), this new scroll behavior can be used to create an existence check for any user-specific text on the page (in carefully crafted scenarios). There are probably other variations that could be devised on this concept, since it allows indirect page interaction that can bypass authorization walls (since the browser would transmit cookies normally and such).
Ah, yes, thank you. Though as far as I can tell, it’s brought up, not in the context of saying that it’s a successful strategy for having engaging dinner parties, but in the context of saying it’s a good strategy for writing essays.
I loved that essay :)
Yeah I've become wary of "scientific breakthrough" articles that never seem to materialize into anything.

But ITER uses huge tower cranes and trucks in the thousands of tons of material required to sustain a temperature hotter than the surface of Sol because of their fuel selection.

It seems the small player with a new approach that perhaps demands less complexity in their scaled up commercial reactor could win a commissioning contract with a lower bid during late 2020s early 2030s international bidding.

"First milestone is demonstrating the reactions, which should be easy."

And "chirped pulse laser amplification" is the recent discovery Hora says will make it possible.
Best way to learn on the internet is to give the wrong answer and get corrected
I think this varies a lot by subject. Certain fields reward ambiguity and vagueness quite heavily. Good academic writing tends to be the exception rather than the rule. This may be true of essays as well as good writing is quite rare. I think the criticism is less about accessibility and more about the general trend towards uselessness of academic writing in a lot of fields of academia.
https://truthinitiative.org/research-resources/emerging-toba...

For those who also had no idea what an "IQOS" was. Looks like it's an e-cig you shove a cigarette into. Seems dumb. If I was a kid, I wouldn't think it seemed preferential over regular e-cigs.