skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A tokamak isn't "cold" as there's a clear and deliberate containment mechanism and a physical boundary delineating a macro environment of extreme energies within which fusion occurs.

Sure, but as you noted this definition becomes fuzzier at smaller and smaller scales, which IMHO reduces its usefulness quite a bit as it doesn't do a very good job at differentiating between hot and cold fusion beyond "how small of an apparatus can we build with current technology".

> and there's no chance mainstream science would ever attempt to qualify and quantify what counts as "cold" because the phrase "cold fusion" is already taboo

At least to me, it seems that there are at least two potential definitions of "cold fusion" already floating about (though to be fair, I don't know whether these are "mainstream" definitions):

1. Fusion which doesn't require high-energy/temperature nuclei

2. Fusion (maybe "regular" fusion, maybe not) which takes place at small-enough scales that large containment apparatuses are not necessary

The first definition might work for a (relatively) precise definition of cold fusion, while coming up with a similarly precise one for the second definition looks like it'd be harder.

The physicists in the article appear to be using the first definition, although I don't know whether that is the most widespread definition used among "mainstream" physicists. Fleischmann and Pon's setup seems to fall under the second category.

Granted, it looks like you're much more familiar with the subject matter than I am, so there's a good chance I messed up something or another.

> So that's why I say that today "it's not cold fusion" implies that a claimed result comes packaged with a plausible model, where in turn plausibility is partly a function of the need for new, fundamental physics.

That was an interesting dive into the historical aspect of things. I really appreciate you taking the time to type out all that explanation!
PC gaming has always had an element of troubleshooting and workarounds to get them working on some systems. I play lot's of old games, and it's rare if ever that I can't find patches or workarounds to get them working.

It's also not quite the same to compare something you definitely could get working with more effort (like spinning up an XP VM) to something where there is literally no way at all, like when OnLive went away.
The fact that you are so willing to believe all the propaganda put out by the government without refusing to look at the facts is the issue. Even about the so called drug-nexus, you seem to have not noticed the following:

1. That we are soon going to be #1 when it comes to Covid cases worldwide.

2. That our economy has been in the worst shape since pretty much any time in the last 60+ years

3. That China holds well over 1000sq kms of land (the combined size of Mumbai and Chennai)

4. That the parliament has basically suspended any democratic functions and is passing bills willy nilly with no discussions

5. That unemployment is the highest it has been in decades

But lets keep focusing on Bollywood - just as this govt intends for you to.
The way you choose to live your life sounds like punishment.
What gives Epic the right to force me to use their store?
In another system, like XP, the standup might allow you to absorb a lot more info about your peers. Within the metronome of Scrum, too many people are under time pressure to save face and are likely to say their but and tune half of what everyone else says out entirely.
If you expel or jail a few to make an example it would probably cow the rest.

(In case anyone isn’t certain, I do not support this line of thinking. But since authoritarianism is fashionable nowadays I fully expect it to happen)
Can you not do your own research?
I wouldn't be surprised if, at Google's scale, something or other is disrupted all the time.

I think I'd prefer a status page that reflected that, or even no status page at all with an explanation, rather than a lying one, though.
Seriously? Ping tried to lookup "https://www.google.com/" - it does not understand or parse protocol schemes.

ping www.google.com
> So you could say that "man dies due from hypokalemia due to excessive licorice consumption not counterbalanced by having an otherwise healthy diet" which is possibly more nuanced, and possibly more (or less) helpful depending on what your purpose is to clarify or simplify things.

Could you?

Do you have anything to back up the idea that an otherwise healthy diet would counteract the very specific problem of hypokalemia?
> People seem to forget that the expected total death count from day 1 was, and still is, expected to be the same no matter what actions taken

This is so wrong. One has to really wonder what motivates you. Mask wearing alone, a simple action, dramatically lowers predicted infection rates
Yes, that's more or less their plan.

I mean, they aren't going to expel the students from their university, but they are going to drop the pretense of in-person classes.
Nothing on planet is worse than Zoho. I tried their email service and even after I marked the same sender more than 100 times as spammer, their creepy service still not putting their emails automatically to the spam folder. There were many other issues with their service. Don't use Zoho or you will regret it.
Mathematica seems to be betting on knowledge graphs

https://www.wolfram.com/language/12/rdf-and-sparql

and ctrl+f the RDF section here:

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/04/version-12-launc...
Magawa the mine-detecting rat wins PDSA Gold Medal
> light semantics of the hyperlink: the anchor tag is the semantic web, giving you information that a server-side image map or Java applet or Flash movie or JS-driven navigation couldn't reliably identify

This, 100x. Complex and precise ontologies don't survive a distributed environment because communication is competitive. Publishers don't seek to describe themselves "accurately" (as if everyone could agree what that means), they seek to attract a certain type of attention in maximum quantities.

The protocols that survive that policy framework are those that "carry their own weight" for both listeners (by compressing information that would be hard to get) and publishers (by allowing sufficient expression to pursue selfish ends without lying).

Hyperlinks nail this trade off (at least well enough that pagerank successfully trims the noise). But Semantic Web gave little incentive for publishers to represent themselves, accurately or at all.
And where do you see the "make you rich part"?
You should still worry about other parties having access to your data. Your local police can possibly request and get access to that data from those parties.
But if you have the app behind a load balancer that can discover new tasks, rolling restarts for updates do not negatively affect those parameters.
There is an American crow at a local wildlife rescue that will periodically say "American crow." I feel fortunate that I got to make a recording of it.
I don't understand how anyone can tolerate stand ups, how is this not micromanagement?
Except Mama Cass.
If you are referring to the full URL being hidden in the address bar that is an ongoing change to align better with other browsers (notably Safari) and an effort to improve security (e.g. google.myscamsite.com would show just myscamsite.com).
Is supporting multiple language matter? They should localize apps and games as usual. I suspect that fast internet connection and putting servers near users are matter. Seoul and Tokyo looks good place for connection and population density.
I have the exact same problem and the exact same condition. The justification is kids “might use them to get high” but as far as I’m concerned it’s a handout to Doctors. An inhaler is only $25 without insurance.

Recently I have been able to setup a video call with an urgent care clinic to just write me the damn prescription and add about a year’s worth of refills, $50 for the call, but it’s still stupid I can’t just walk in and buy an inhaler off the shelf.

You didn’t specify a country, but if you can setup a call with a doctor, I would encourage you to go that route. It’s still more money than you should have to pay, but it’s better than going in person and in my experience, a lot cheaper.
I found Adobe opaque and difficult to work with. Subscriptions are presented with an $x/month but you have to pay for a year. Cancelling, at least at the time I last dealt with them, was also very difficult: I paid for a year, but then wanted to cancel auto-renewal: Nope! I'd have to wait until the last 30 days of my subscription. Since then I've decided to suck it up and deal with Gimp and Inkscape even if they lack some features and feel a bit clunky at times.
What kind of tasks benefit from this tool? I don't understand what you're doing even in theory "when you want a graph database but you also want reasoning".
Something I've discovered is one way to acquire a taste for things you want to like eating is to narrow your diet substantially to where that thing forms a substantial component of your sustenance.

Obviously this isn't a great idea if that thing is a junk food snack or the like, but if it's a nutritious healthy kind of thing you just don't enjoy yet, in my experience this method acquires an appreciation and even craving for it within a few months.

It's as if the body learns this is the stuff of survival that's in season now.
> and he doesn't even own his own i-device yet

you probably don't either... are you an admin? or is Apple the only admin?
Search results were either failing or taking a few minutes to load in Hong Kong this morning
"It's awful that a $2 trillion tech company's price fixing conspiracy flatlined and consumers in 2020 pay really low ebook prices. What is American justice coming to?"
I mean if last December you had told people that we would issue stay at home orders and lay off 20 million people in the span of two weeks then keep all that stuff for six months they would have called you ridiculous and paranoid too. And yet here we are
no because Tor browser bills itself as privacy orientated. Sending any kind of telemetry data compromised that.

Telemetry data is made up of two data sets: interaction data and technical data.

Interaction data includes information about your interactions with Firefox such as number of open tabs and windows, number of webpages visited, number and type of installed Firefox Add-ons and session length, as well as Firefox features offered by Mozilla or our partners such as interaction with Firefox search features and search partner referrals.

Technical data includes information about your Firefox version and language, device operating system and hardware configuration, memory, basic information about crashes and errors, outcome of automated processes like updates and safebrowsing. When Firefox sends data to us, your IP address is temporarily collected as part of our server logs.
Aside from offering the ability to collect IAP in general I’m not sure what the case against Apple is here. Did they do something specific to incentivize the creation of these kinds of games?
Nicholas
jsut build something
Are you sure it's "in America" and not "outside Europe"?
As a present search Googler, it's more of a testament to how easy it is to run a service that doesn't need to accept transactional writes from users, contains little or no private data, and where >1% taint is acceptable.
Looks similar to the IBM Design Language[0] UI icons

0.https://www.ibm.com/design/language/iconography/ui-icons/lib...
That's true, but for Epic's tying claim they've argued that the tying product is iOS app distribution and the tied product is payment processing, which again relies on establishing that iOS app distribution is in fact a valid antitrust market.

If that fails, they might be able to amend their claim to argue that iPhones are the tying product, but then that opens up a different set of questions about how much market power Apple has in the overall smartphone market.

(They also need to establish that payment processing is actually a distinct product or service from app distribution, which is not necessarily obviously true and depends on a separate set of factors.)
The compiler has not committed to a behavior, it is free to compile that code to trap the next time you try if it so wishes. "Implementation defined" means that on this particular implementation the compiler will always do the same thing.
Why the new e-book series: 10-min READ
> AppStore reviews are too lax and they should be much stricter

> I have kids aged 10, 7 and 4

So you want to protect your children because you can’t parent effectively? And you get to decide the criteria for approved apps with your short list of acceptable financial transactions?

What about grown ups who have the ability to delay gratification and who can police themselves? Why should your rules for children affect me? (And by the way, I also have small children, but I know how to parent their screen time)

This is another “save the children!” fire alarm. Save your own children, don’t push it on Apple to parent them.

I’m glad you don’t have any power over my world.
Calculus 1 in 12 Hours
A man presents to the emergency room (finger pointing to ceiling) complaining of ringing in his ear.
That's really interesting. I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for sharing this.

Stock indices ideally approximate taking a share of "the whole economy". What's your explanation for why this (seems to) not work in Europe?
type of device (iPhone, iPad, etc)
Not to mention this decision was likely made by the UN-ELECTED Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, Jill Hunsaker Ryan.

I did a quick search of her background and she was almost indicted for falsifying Covid death data to inflate the total number of deaths[1]. Once she was forced to accurately report the numbers, the number of deaths magically dropped significantly. Won't hear about this in the news!

[1] - https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/gop-rep-allege...
I pretty strongly doubt that the arrival rate of new docs at search is an order of magnitude greater than that at Gmail.
It's usually less to do with whether automation works and more to do with having an internal party to hold responsible, when it comes to these things.

Google doesn't need an internal party to hold responsible for the concerns of free mail users or their own contractors who are called "content creators." In part because Gmail users and YouTubers don't lead fortune 50 companies and play golf with Google Execs like Google Cloud customers do.
Yes. All I want is a latency-optimized EC2 (I'm no twitch gamer, <= 25ms is fine) instance with a decent streaming client on pc/mobile. Let me decide to install steam or epic or origin or whatever and use my own stuff.

This is where NVidia went wrong. They're basically providing that sort of thing, but wanted to present it as their own game service as though all the other storefronts were just backend plumbing. Not a bad consumer experience, but also not what publishers are licensing when they stick their game on Steam.
Yes, it's just the maintaining it religiously part that's surprisngly hard.

Like, things and emergencies come up just like they do in a normal business but you have to go all the way back into secure mode to address them.

That process takes time and effort. Cleaning runs to location where you connect, switching hardware, activating all the vpn chains or tor connection, etc etc. Coordinating occasional OTP key exchanges, time/location randomization, etc. ...you didn't slip up and get lazy with the entropy generating your "secure" encryption key did you? You have to find drop shipping locations and those expire or go wrong.

Or there was a car at location X which is a choke point that is technically on your list of triggers for counter surveillance but it's 7PM on a Friday and that cute girl you're supposed to meet is waiting. Do you assume the worst and burn everything, re-do your secure connection point or just ignore it and go through your usual process since 99/100 it's likely to be a false alarm? Or hey, the delivery guy was a day late on the 1-day shipping you used to limit the time frame the agencies could use to get a warrant, and now it's outside your predetermined acceptable window. Do you have the discipline to take the loss and refuse the package?

You get the idea. It's exhausting and people make one stupid mistake and get called out on the internet for being a moron.
There are two competing worldviews here:

In one, some subset of humans are just mindless automatons who are helplessly subject to manipulation. They only buy things they have been tricked into thinking they want. They have no personal agency. In this world, how do you ethically conduct any business? Is it even possible for you to do anything? How do you know you're not one of the mindless automatons who's just being manipulated into doing something against their interest? What choices can you even make?

In another view, humans can be lied to and manipulated to some extent, but ultimately have agency and can make choices for themselves. I've been a smoker. I can tell you from experience that smokers want, need, and like to smoke cigarettes. They are not stupid. They are not unaware of the risks. Many eventually decide, yes, they decide using their own brains and free will to stop smoking. I know it happens because I did.

If you decide there's no such thing as personal agency, I suggest carefully following the consequences of that logic and seeing where it leads you.

> Companies spend capital T Trillions a year on corporate research in branding, impulse packaging, habit formation, etc. etc.

How do you know they weren't just manipulated into spending that money on advertising services they don't want need or like, since that's apparently a possible thing to do? Why would anyone bother building a product at all if you could just use advertising to manipulate people into giving you money for something that is of no value at all to them?
Why are developers being managed by non technical saavy managers? This sounds like a red flag.
The PolyForm Shield license prohibits competition with the original project, but then goes on to define "competition"

> Goods and services compete even when provided free of charge

If you host your project on Github under this license and I fork it, then my Github page is competing with yours and I am therefore in violation.
No evidence cited, far fetched claims, and a political bent. Quite simply, that isn't how it (history) works. Mass immigration of different cultures always comes with at least a little violence and everybody doesn't pack up and leave ever - there are always some who stay. And then you go into a "Western imperialism violent / all other cultures peaceful" thing which is just sily. Without reading anything, I'm tempted to say your underlying political beliefs are slanting your claims. Let's see what the internet says...

BBC quotes an expert (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26431858):

> The correction to "cuddly" Vikings had gone too far, says Prof Simon Keynes, an Anglo-Saxon historian at Cambridge University. "There's no question how nasty, unpleasant and brutish they were. They did all that the Vikings were reputed to have done."

> They stole anything they could. Churches were repositories of treasure to loot. They took cattle, money and food. It's likely they carried off women, too, he says. "They'd burn down settlements and leave a trail of destruction." It was unprovoked aggression. And unlike most armies, they came by sea, their narrow-bottomed longships allowing them to travel up rivers and take settlements by surprise. It was maritime blitzkrieg at first.

> Worse was the repeat nature of the raids. The Vikings, like burglars returning over and over again to the same houses, refused to leave places alone.

Simon Keynes appears to be a reliable source, an expert at a prestigious university free if scandal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Keynes

But let's find another. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sorry-the-vikings-really... quotes David Dumville (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dumville) and Stefan Brink (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Brink)... Seems like two more reliable sources to me.

So, basically, you were downvoted for being wrong. People downvoted without replying because it was obvious that you were wrong, but they couldn't work up the effort to provide you with references (as I've done here).

Also, you're not supposed to complain about votes.
The one algorithm you need to know for ML: Gradient Descent
Glad to see at least some folks in Search understand this :)
That’s called “being framed” ;)
Yes, those are important. Surprise to me that xylitol gum is toxic to pets too.
> Or is the definition of "App Store" used here narrow and arbitrary?

The whole thing is narrow and arbitary in service of the dishonesty of the companies involved. If they care about choice, why is Epic forcing me to install their store to access games on a PC or phone? If they care about consumer choice, why can fans of Joe Rogan no longer access his material without becoming Spotify customers? Why do Epic and Spotify not have the courage to compete on a level playing field?

None of this is aimed at consumer choice. None of the companies have a commitment to that, or I could have downloaded Borderlands 3 for the PC on the same day via Steam, the Epic Game store, or the Windows store. Instead, Epic chose to make it an exclusive to prevent consumer choice.
They don't seem to mention at all that light skinned, light haired people could be suffering from albinism - a taboo condition that would absolutely be the kind of thing ancient peoples would sacrifice folks over...
Page views are one of the variables of the page rank algorithm

If you keep going to the site over and over, then potentially it counts as new views (albeit not unique ones)

That said Google probably exempts their own sites from page ranks since they you know, own the search engine
I hope Amazon has plans for better distribution than their current datacenters. They have absolutely nothing in the US south or mid/mountain west. Maybe they'll run in some edges like Stadia?
> People seem to forget that the expected total death count from day 1 was, and still is, expected to be the same no matter what actions taken...

Could you provide some sort of source for this? This seems completely illogical as our goal has never been heard immunity.
I think this is a long tail type issue, assuming publishers can find a way to get a profit sharing agreement from the service providers based on time played. In the short of things, publishers make some money on each sale and then monetize on micro transaction, season passes, etc. The clear push towards “games as a service” from all the big publishers reflects this line of thought, i.e. we want to keep making money from this forever (or as long as the company can be counted on to actually run the service). But, and I admit this part assumes some form of payment to the publisher based on continued play, if the game is played via streaming subscription (which would probably have tiers or some such for access to individual publisher’s libraries) then the publishers can in theory keep making money on a finished product over the long-term.

However, I agree that this system is very likely to NOT benefit developers, it will be the publishers that make the cash and it will become a haggling point in dev/pub contracts as to the amount, of any, the devs see from these continuing fee arrangements.

All said, I cannot see a time when I’m willing to go in for full game streaming as a stand alone product. I can imangine paying for Microsoft’s game network or something if I wanted a console this generation. But I have 7000+ DOS games, and a few external drives full of Windows games, and then emulators and ROMs, so I think I’m good for gaming and don’t fit the target for a streaming service.
Writer Anand Giridharadas on tech’s billionaires: “Are they even on the same tea
To which they'd respond "Yeah right, put the kettle on we'll be right over"