skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will be no useful fusion power produced on Earth in this century, at least in a Tokamak.

Tokamak fusion is a jobs program for high neutron flux physicists, to maintain a population to draw on for weapons work. It does not need to produce other results.
"I would have gone with (installing MSDOS), what were your reasons for going the other way?"
Incognito is also blocking me.
The sentence does appear to illustrate that neither the writer nor anyone who edited the story is close enough to the industry to understand some common terminology. It lowers my confidence in the publication’s analysis on related subjects.
Very cool! Does it have any games yet?
The title should probably be corrected, as this is for prosthetic covers only.

It's not a limb customisation platform in any generally accepted sense.
Just a day ago someone on HM mentioned that the Diablo Canyon plant is being shut down because it would need a 7B USD cooling system (evaporation towers), and building 40 GWh storage would cost less.

(I found this ~400 USD / kWh for 4 hours number, that gives 17.5 GW for 4 hours for 7B. by W Cole at NREL.)
"Sonic" was the first holy-shit game for me. (I'm 38.) It blew away any console game I had seen to date. It was truly amazing: the speed, the irreverence, the colors, the music.

Genesis spoke to me as a gamer in a way that NES and eventually SNES couldn't: I didn't care about strategy games or long adventures, so Genesis' hardware decisions were right up my alley. I liked NBA Jam, not Zelda.

Another really amazing piece of tech that I think goes underdiscussed is Sega Channel, which was both awesome and way ahead of it's time.
With that many kids the older ones are probably helping raise the younger. My wife's cousin has 5 kids (in relatively short intervals, I think there's less than 10 years between the oldest and youngest) & the 2 oldest ones help out a lot.
Having children is more important to society than having workers. It is a grim fact that the calculus of life in almost any Western country is that you can have maybe one child, but better none, if you want to have a decent life.

We are literally a dying breed, and on our way to extinction, we’re wholly unable to even have a conversation about the problem.
Oh for sure I expect private extensions - in fact there's even a namespace for them in the RISC-V specs. A bigger problem is not private extensions, but companies adding ad hoc MSRs and instructions, and in fact one company has already done that. Most likely we'll ignore these and try to work with the companies to get them to do the right thing in future.

Note that Intel also provides private extensions to their best customers. (I believe they are fused off in chips sold to general customers.)
> I kind of feel like a microservice that takes JIRA tickets as input and outputs code these days.

What made it feel any different in the past?
Also: most people think the terminal is something nerds use because they think it look cool. They see that thing and it looks to then like a wall of Katonese text — something they will never understand, partly because they think they can't, partly because they decided not to care.

In teaching the first steps should always be to make clear:

* why is this interesting, why would they care?

* why is this easier than it looks? (Take their fear away to get them started, reintroduce fear later as you see fit)

* show some examples that solve problems they always had, but never could solve any other way

Not all will learn, but even if you just managed to get people to understand why this makes sense and that it is totally possible to things on your own, you succeeded.

The worst teachers in my life where those where I had to learn something incredibly complicated without having a remote clue what it is needed for.
I'm one of the authors of the post, we're trying to extend this work by crowdsourcing censorship measurements from different vantage points in India.

We've compiled these tests into an android app, please consider running it if you live in India and would like to contribute to the research :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.censorwatc...

It's completely anonymous, doesn't require any permissions, and does not store any user related information.
You think there isn't evidence that China is already participating in information warfare at an unprecedented scale?

US OpSec is terrible and it's still obvious.
Absolutely. The marketing, the irreverence, even the way they announced "SE-GAAA!" all made (for me) the Genesis supremely cool, and the Nintendo supremely lame.
A related article on London clerks: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-23/the-exqui...
There’s quite a large grey area between the two, to the extent that anyone who aggressively avoids tax using ‘state of the art’ accounting schemes is well aware that they’re on legal thin ice.

TL;DR: Think “Schrödinger's Criminality”.
And you get to do it, in addition to your commute, and anyway you'll also clean it up before you use it. I'm not sure why we all can't seem to jump to the foregone conclusion : COVID-19 will be with us for at least one year, and since many people won't trust vaccines, it's gonna take some time to be safe-safe.

Hot desking is another fuck-you to workers, a new low for people as 'interchangeable' cogs. Snowcrash prophecy.

Subsidizing for a simple cheap desk at home + electricity + Internet for 1 or 2 years is less expensive than any office redesign or move they'll attempt, just the price of the cardboard boxes and moving company exceeds it...

It feels like a psychological trap that no-one wants to switch to 'the new normal' and be done with it...
> If so, then what happens if you happen not to enjoy the content?

Why not do what all European countries mandates for all other online purchases: allow refunds. If you regularly have users refunding most stuff they buy: stop doing business with them.
This is not true, for client keys ssh-rsa is just fine.

If you're using certificates then you may need to get those resigned. But most people aren't using certificates, just bare rsa keys.

And ssh-rsa client keys don't specify a hashing algo at all. Even if you specified `-t rsa-sha2-512` it would still output a ssh-rsa .pub.
That's 5 or 6 hours a day for 5 days a week. Do you think toddlers just look after themselves for the rest of the time?
For me it's mostly about ease of collaboration. I love hashing out math/design problems on a whiteboard. Even with good tools there's nothing that allows the same sort of natural, dynamic conversation. Meetings turn into a series of loosely connected speeches, especially when there's large numbers.

I also find that simple conversations take way longer, especially when there's disagreement.

Thirdly video calls are super draining.

It's also really difficult to get separation between work and life. I find myself doing home chores doing the day intertwined with work.

Unlike some commenter, the social aspect isn't that important to me, but there's definitely some camaraderie missing. In the office, I feel like part of a team that's working together to achieve something. At home I feel like one of a swarm of drones that occasionally communicate for information exchange. It's not very fulfilling.
Essential remote work tools to stay productive in 2020
I'm also a scripter and love the CLI but notify-send is really nice to be alerted when locally-executed long-running scripts end (for example, a terraform plan)
What are you talking about ? Most people working with sound today do so by using a DAW like Ableton, QBase or Fruity Loop that work on Windows or sometimes Mac Os
I am a Swede - there is no way that I want 12 kids. From both a personal point of view, and for the environmental reasons (though I get it if you are adopting).
I don't think you were paying attention.
TikTok is the generation that is most malleable to propaganda in a way that can undermine an entire generation. TikTok also has history of recording telemetry that’s extremely alarming.

Look into what is mined. Look into how algorithms get optimized to influence behavior. See a recent paper on this with using social media to shut down a power plant. Memetic warfare is real and it’s been going on in cyberspace for a while now. Every single bit of information is manipulation.

Every social network is a memetic warfare piece and TikTok is a primary target.

Lol at the downvoting. Bunch of brainwashed people here already.
You mean 安? I don't see anything on the page that looks even vaguely like it.
The huge difference: Youtube subscriptions are free.
They could have stopped running the stop sign at any point because they knew it was a problem for decades. They just decided it was too inconvenient to stop despite the constant protests of the passengers.
There is evidence of WeChat being involved in building up PRC's censorship framework[1]. Comments from American citizens were used for this without their consent. It's not improbable that they are carrying out similar exercises on TikTok's data.

1. https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch/
A question of scope. Do you want people to understand every intricate of the system? Do you want them to grasp the basic concept?

Or do you want people to be able to use it on a day to day basis?

These are very different courses
It actually has been a problem before, in rather recent memory I may add [0]. China is, for all intents and purposes, a bad actor. They keep positioning themselves infinitely closer to "the line" without seemingly ever being able to cross it, even when they're caught red-handed undermining US security.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
Thanks. I think the bad experience was partly my fault. When I picked iOS and SwiftUI, I think I extrapolated too much from the overall fit&finish of the user-visible iPhone universe, and consequently didn't vet SwiftUI (and some of the more general barrel aspects) as much as I should've.
I don't know how it works in your country, in mine kids are in kindergarden while the parent(s) is at work. After that it has both parents available.
> I don't know how you reconcile rule of law with such drastic interventions in the rights of companies without evidence of wrongdoing

How far reaching does the rule of law go? Like the US is governed by rule of law, but when you bring in international elements, can all parties operate under rule of law ?

It seems almost in this case that the argument made by the US is actually that TikTok is not governed under an agreed upon rule of laws. Such as it needing to share information with the CCP or having to comply to any other of their wishes.

Also, rule of laws just means the laws define the regulations which apply equally to everyone (which means everyone that bought into the society which honors those laws). So the question here is, do the laws give the president the ability to block a foreign company in such situation? If not, then this should be blocked, though laws could be made to block the company as well, just not exclusively enacted by the president.
Are you trying to imply that those countries aren't real enemies of the US and it's all just a war with Oceania?

You should probably break the news to them, given their continued behavior I'm not sure they're aware it's all a front.
That allows you to combine the disadvantages of CLI and UI.
Those are held to a much lower standard. I've seen people on HN seriously argue that we need to isolate nuclear waste from the biosphere for multiple generations, including contingencies for the collapse of English as a comprehensible language.

What is the plan to isolate the poisonous meals in a solar panel for multiple generations? There isn't one. It just goes in landfill, I expect with relatively little concern for if it is setting up the next Flint, Michigan scenario.

I doubt any form of energy would be economic if it was held to the same standards as Nuclear. It is perfectly safe, has proved itself to be perfectly safe now that we have 50 years of evidence and then the operators have to spend however much it takes to make it safer than that. This impossible task turns out to be hellishly expensive.

There are literally 2 or 3 stories where there was a bad meltdown, and even then the damage seems to be comparable to having used coal over the same period of time. Worst-case scenario with 40 year old reactor designs is comparable to business as usual, and people start arguing over if that is safe enough.
If podcasts were solely promotions of speakers, no one would listen.

Mike Tyson or Bernie Sanders or any other guest on Joe Rogan's podcast doesn't need further promotion.

If you're a guest on Joe Rogan's podcast you already are a celebrity.

To state the obvious: people listen to Joe Rogan podcast because they are interested in what the guests have to say about things they are experts in and Joe Rogan is a good interviewer who asks good questions and lets the quests talk.

Not to mention that interviews with people are just a subset of podcasts.
Theoretically, CCP could abuse location services to track movements of military personnel and civilians in a war. Since FB isn't Chinese, that is less of an issue for large scale surveilance. Also, if the Chinese had a zero day that they could exploit by pushing a malicious TikTok update, they could get root access to these phones and use them for surveillance on a large scale.

Sure, this is all hypothetical, but it's not unthinkable in an all out cyber war. Nations are stockpiling zero days and other hacks just to have an advantage when it becomes necessary.

Note: I don't have TikTok, so no clue if they actually use location services, but every app seems to do that nowadays, so I just assumed it does.
> at 80% salary.

This hits home hard: my newborn is now one month old, and I had to forgo the 11 days of leave.

Why? Because there’s a hard cap on the salary: I ran the numbers for me for the current 11 days in France it means over 1k€ of income just vanish, and it’s not like we can make loans, rent, and other fixed expenses disappear, right at the moment where we have to shell out money for the hospital and general baby equipment. If it were 28 days that would be over half of my salary going poof.

Union agreements say that for the employer to fill in the remainder it’s required I’d be in this company for at least two years, but I joined only a year and a half ago.

It so happened that I took barely any off days during this time so I took a month to bond, which sure took its toll on me (not the bonding of course, the lack of time off for over a year)
Those policies are discussed in the open, don't generalize your countries dysfunctional political culture to the rest of the world. Also, don't assume then that your legislators considered the externalities such as poverty and working poor of such a disparate society.

Europe is fine, don't confuse the absence of tophits for an absence of a strong middle class. I'm tempted to say Europe is in fact one of the most resilient economies at the moment for this reason, but that is not a very relevant debate here.

What people need should be for them to decide. Staying with your newborn until the age of 1 does not seem wildly out of the ordinary for us a species (we notably born prematurely anyway). And then requiring equality also does not seem unnecessary to me ( in order to give families the choice of whose career to sacrifice).

You couldnt demonstrate better why I will never leave Europe for work, I just don't share that Protestant work ethic to which so much seems to be sacrificed. There are other things in life. Perhaps not yours, but certainly in mine. I wish everybody to opportunity to have a life outside of work, even if they decline to make use of the right.
There are a couple of Indian apps[0] trying to replicate Tiktok functionality. Many of them saw a surge in usage after Tiktok got banned. Not sure about the current numbers though.

[0] https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/mitron-c...
I had forgotten some of the history here. LibreOffice was forked 10 years ago from OpenOffice, which in turn resulted from Sun open-sourcing StarOffice in 2000. StarOffice itself dates from 1985! I wonder whether there is any of the original code left.

There is a chart of the various other forks on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice#Derivatives
The ground under solar panels is not just lost. Things can still grow, and can be a more valuable ecosystem than intensive farmland.
Pretty much yes, unless ISPs start blocking IPs as well. We haven't seen this in India (at least yet)
Having already covered all the topics, I didn't follow the course, let alone finish it, but would recommend its progression, especially for anyone who hasn't (yet) done a CS undergrad.
Which is probably good you didn't have the guts. Being passive-aggressive-impolite to people won't help them to be more polite about running over others' time.

I always did the knock-on-door + tell them my meeting time has started and never had an issue, be assertive and people will move quickly. Escalating impoliteness doesn't help anyone except your own sense of self-justice.
It’s the typical measure of rubes. I still remember the “freedom fries” and WMD hysteria. Back then a certain group had to be bombed back into the Stone Age. Today, that same group is being oppressed by the evil totalitarian regime which is also on the verge of destroying all of your freedoms.

In both cases, a collection of plugged in, “informed” citizens, whose brain matter has been shaped by a constant drip of state propaganda, were doing the mental gymnastics required to justify evidence-free actions of their government.

This will play out as well as the last attempt did. “Mission Accomplished.”
Nothing has become easier; everything is becoming more difficult as technology advances and we've just learned to automate the complexity.

But the automation comes with the downside that we're forgetting how to build simple systems at all.

Put differently: Try explaining your docker compose setup to a beginner that only knows how to use normal desktop software.
Just out of curiosity: Have you considered creating a small Linux VM for your local development...? That might save some frustration.
Even if we're being that cynical - taking on much more work than you can handle and increasing your expenses multiple multiple times for the next 20 years - that's not retirement.
do you have a source for the >10x? because that was my assumption as well, but after reading through [0-3] i'm pretty amazed how cheap solar and wind have become over the last years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
[1] https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/solar-power-cost-decrease-...
[2] https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2019/
And that screenshot with the DOOM logo in ASCII didn't help with my misunderstanding either. "So it's DOOM rendered in ASCII running on elisp inside emacs?"
Facebook allows anyone to purchase targeted messaging, but it's an American run company which likely makes the difference - there is likely a perception (real or imagined) that FB will be willing & able to combat "enemy" messaging.

In regards to the value of 60 second funny videos to share messaging, part of the strength here may be exactly because it's a platform for short, funny videos; as long as the ideas being communicated can be slipped into a funny video in a subtle way, people are hearing them without even realising it. (e.g. perhaps videos making fun of American leaders, undermining their authority etc. - certainly not hard to do with certain leaders...)
it's ironic that we have such a hard time preserving information of a technology that runs the world today, a technology that is called "information technology"
It reminds me of the "war" between Facebook/Microsoft and "open Google".

Facebook had access to Google's Gmail open API and could ask people to send invitations to the platform to all of their Gmail friends.

Similarly, Microsoft had open access to GChat and wanted to implement it in Skype.

Google couldn't do the same because Facebook and Microsoft had closed APIs. So it chose to close off its own APIs, too.

It sucks for everyone when rivals abuse your openness.
Contrast ratio is largely independent of backlight brightness. Intuitively this makes sense, because the panel is essentially just an adjustable light filter, which you'd expect to behave linearly.

Example: https://www.prad.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/lg-34gn850-ko...
I noticed this a few months back, back when someone kept posting anti-meritocracy articles hoping for a thread that wasn't a train wreck. I started testing their algorithms by repeatedly posting the exact same comment and observing what happened. This triggered changes to the algo itself, and eventually it moved from downvoting to flagging, or maybe a human supervisor did. This was across multiple accounts and many weeks of posts. Eventually dang told me to stop. My current account name is a tribute to this.
Another piece regarding PSX, it was the first console SDK to really push for C and C++ based SDK, finally making the pure Assembly cross from previous console generations.
Articles are more of a product that is sold, and less of a service. There is no close interaction required like in a real service business. A service customer has to interact with the service provider and therefore a longer-term ongoing relationship is beneficial to both.

But even then, a low-individuality service can be one-off and is expected to be. Think e.g. of a car wash. Or renting VMs in the cloud.

So I don't think newspapers, selling their totally unindividualized, standardized and prepackaged good (can't even pick just the sports section) is anything like a "service" or comparable to most SaaS. However, they continue behaving like it saleswise, alienating their readership
There’s evidence online, I don’t have it handy but a quick search found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...
Then tell them you installed GNU coteutils, and recommend them to do the same.
It's somehow very satisfying to play with this :)
Is "on-sites" days where people work on site? Is it people who work on site? Is it something completely different that Google is creating? The sentence is guessing it's the first, admitting it could be anything else.
Books that changed My Life in 2020
This reminds me, a company I worked at used a bash script + zenity to automate the programming of devices using open-jtag. It worked pretty well and let the workers (skilled mostly in soldering and electronics assembly) do the programming and flashing of a fairly involved embedded device.
We eventually ended up replacing it with a local web-app but the zenity version was fast to write and good enough that the quick and dirty prototype survived for several years.

My pitch for zenity would be - "Need a prototype gui for users that struggle in the console? Consider zenity."
Be careful what you wish for... while I've always been a huge fan of the First Amendment, the consequences of completely unrestrained speech have never been clearer, with quite significant numbers of people believing that Bill Gates engineered Covid-19 to implant computer chips in your brain through vaccines, and other stuff which would be hilarious if it weren't so destructive.
I can echo that.

Still only 2% of men take the leave, while 42% of women do [1].

I can only speculate as to why.

1) Our cultural wiring runs deeper than just "sex is a social construct"

2) The German system is still quite complicated. As countless online calculators and private consultancies helping you filling out the forms prove. As well as the above statistic itself, since financially it would make more sense if the father took as much leave as possible (if he earns more, the family gets 65% of "more").

[1] https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Arbeit/Arbeitsmarkt/Qualit...
One, you cannot do those two things at the same time and be productive. Two, having kids implies having a shitload of housework. Not having to sit two hours in a car staring at other cars helps with that.