skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current robots are a research platform, not a commercial product. The idea is that eventually it would be able to do things like that and many more, but currently huge amounts of choreography and testing are required to produce videos like this one. They've come a long way, but they've still got a long way to go before they could go into an uncontrolled situation and perform usefully, let alone with the level of aptitude apparent here.
The article mentions losses at the hohlraum but doesn't mention losses in the laser. "Ignition" means they controled the implosion well enough to break (almost) even on laser energy, but the laser itself is less than 1% efficient on wall power. Input energy to the entire system is over 400 MJ per shot. Even at max theoretical fusion yield, it wouldn't come close to breakeven.

There's also a firing rate issue. Even if the system produced net power, significant production would require many shots per second. Currently, the laser flash lamps are expendable and it takes on the order of a day (and lots of money) to prep for each shot.

Some of these drawbacks were addressed in the LIFE proposal, which would use fusion neutrons to burn fission fuel in a blanket around the fusion chamber. You could burn spent reactor fuel subcritically (no fission chain reaction), for example. But then it's a fission machine, and criticality excursions aren't much of an issue in conventional fission reactors. In the end, there are many drawbacks and little benefit with such a setup -- even if it worked.

I love lasers, and NIF is a marvel. But there really is no sensical story about power production in it. Even the machine's stated purpose -- stockpile maintenence -- is highly dubious. It is really an elaborate welfare machine, given to weapons scientists in exchange for their support of testing bans.
Contributing to Emacs
Nice to see more noob targeted Linux distros
If you (the end user) download and install a font on your machine, or buy an OS with it pre-installed, then you (the end user) are paying the licensing for it.

If you (the website operator) link to a font from your CSS file so end users' browsers will download and render text with it, then you (the website operator) are paying the licensing fees.
People who actually make sure to vote, homeowners have no incentive to vote for housing bills.

Even assuming there's no increase in traffic, or any other negative side effects, you still lose tons of money as your home would appreciate at a lower rate with more housing being built.

I personally think California is too far gone
What about drug addicts, alcoholics, extreme sports people we let them die too?

This is called solidarity, we pay taxes for that too.

Anyway I would still take my chance.
> Given the rarity that someone types "SEPT4" into excel and isn't typing a date, putting the option one level deep in a menu seems more appropriate than a top level button.

Given the rarity that someone has pasted 100 000 rows into and want them to be autoborked disabling autoborking, at least for pasted data seems appropriate enough for me ;-)
The CDC is finally listening to women about vaccines
I did, I moved to one of the few municipalities in Greater Boston that experienced double digit percent growth in the past decade. Unfortunately, we're still a tiny fraction of the region as a whole, and there's nothing we can do about the fact that most towns in greater Boston built enough housing to grow their population by maybe 1-3% in a decade (tragically including several with access to rapid transit) - while prices doubled almost everywhere here in the same time frame.
What do you think we would find if we repeated the same research for patients who had been infected with influenza, RSV, coxsackievirus, mononucleosis, HCoV-OC43, etc.?
Boston Dynamics shows how bipedal Atlas robot flips, vaults, and falls over
While everyone is focusing on the picosend part of this, I’m more impressed by the neutron detection. Electrically charged particles sound much easier to detect, let alone with any kind of temporal precision
Does anyone know how AlmaLinux compares to Rocky Linux?
The site seems to load extremely slowly for me, but the web archive version doesnt show me a lot of benefits.

Can someone share why would I use it over mac? And if privacy is main seller why use it over linux?
Aaaand the Time's cover a mere 2 weeks later:

Person of the Year:

Rudy Giuliani.

http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20011231,00.html
AND to solve the provisioning of fissile-capable material in third world country by having tech that can work on fissiON-capable material, ie non-radioactive. Which makes carrying those to Africa a progress rather than war material. Which means we might need less bombs.
Sorry to hear that.
- It is definitely tough out there but I think getting in touch with law enforcement should be the first thing

- You can also share posts on social media about it to warn others of it
Can confirm. Lived on farm. Used to get bees in the mail.
Yes, but not just that. Euclid v. Ambler makes it clear that modern zoning is also about pathologizing apartment living. It was a direct attack on density, which it literally described as parasitic. The decision is pretty wild:

> "With particular reference to apartment houses, it is pointed out that the development of detached house sections is greatly retarded by the coming of apartment houses, which has sometimes resulted in destroying the entire section for private house purposes; that in such sections very often the apartment house is a mere parasite, constructed in order to take advantage of the open spaces and attractive surroundings created by the residential character of the district. Moreover, the coming of one apartment house is followed by others, interfering by their height and bulk with the free circulation of air and monopolizing the rays of the sun which otherwise would fall upon the smaller homes, and bringing, as their necessary accompaniments, the disturbing noises incident to increased traffic and business, and the occupation, by means of moving and parked automobiles, of larger portions of the streets, thus detracting from their safety and depriving children of the privilege of quiet and open spaces for play, enjoyed by those in more favored localities-until, finally, the residential character of the neighborhood and its desirability as a place of detached residences are utterly destroyed. Under these circumstances, apartment houses, which in a different environment would be not only entirely unobjectionable but highly desirable, come very near to being nuisances."

Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/272/365

This is all plainly nonsense. These judges don't like apartment buildings. Great. Good for them. I don't like disco or onions. But they invented a constitutional justification for their distaste from thin air and that's modern zoning.
Pfizer Gang Is Pfinished
Wouldn't the lobbying company be incentivised to give lower numbers to show more money is needed?

Besides... Is CBD Statline really a lobbying group or are you just guessing that such groups are involved because it fits your narrative?
Plainly dirty, obviously goes in the trash.

But where then is the line for what's otherwise clearly marked with the recycling symbol? ...especially when there's lingering suspicion the recycling bin contents are ultimately ending up in the landfill with the rest of it all?
AMD’s Threadripper Is the Beating, Heating Heart of 'Most Powerful' DIY Laptop
There actually is a pump + tunnel system connecting the Colorado and Mississippi river systems, though it runs the other way around, bringing water from the Colorado river drainage across the mountains to the east:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alva_B._Adams_Tunnel

The problem is that even once you cross the mountains to the Mississippi catchment, there isn't much water on the east side for hundreds of miles.

If you wanted to get water from the Mississippi River itself all the way west to the Rockies, you'd have to pump it about a mile uphill just to get it to the Denver area.
Qt6 is built with CMake which I feel way more comfortable with compared to the configure script from Qt5 (actually, I probably wouldn't be able to do this with just configure).

However, most of the code I've changed is used in the old buildsystem as well so somebody could possibly reuse what I'm doing in a Qt5 port. I'm not planning to do that though, Qt 6.2 will be perfectly good for my personal and selfish needs. :)
partially. the idea that the market is _the most important_ thing, and that companies know best about how to optimize, and that any time anyone tries to modulate their behavior for the social good - it turns out to be counterproductive.
Skeleton discovered in Pompeii shows evidence of Greek language there
I think HVDC losses over 1000 km are about 10%. This is in addition to power storage losses for responding to grid variability. Grid sharing makes a lot of sense but it will only get you so far. Not even considering the political situation of northern countries being dependent on southern countries. In addition it would turn countries like Turkey, Greece, and Ukraine into strategic assets leading to wars of acquisition to secure energy for Russia and northern Europe.

However you are right about it being a socio-economical and political problem rather than a technical problem. We could totally just build a ring of solar around the tropics and transmit it north at 50% losses over 6000km. If Solar with battery reaches half the price of natural gas I could totally see it happening as energy demand increases.
What about the middle east or Africa or South America?
The 1000 slightly different versions of Webex that are all bundeled under the same brand are its biggest drawback.

My university uses it as well, and the normal latest version of Webex is on par with Zoom. However for some courses the lecutrers use e.g. Webex Training which is barely usable garbage (but is the only version that has built-in quiz features).
Activision drops 'Call of Duty: Vanguard' teaser
Used a similar scope during my grad school tenure for measuring 200GS/s ADCs. RF electronics is a wonderful field.
An Ode to Marmara
New price update, if you're over 26 with Medicaid or ACA in Blue Wall Michigan:

http://www.med.umich.edu/1info/FHP/practiceguides/adult.imms...

Then it's $666.

$195 per shot + $27 administrative fee per shot x 3 shots.
A cheeseburger has enough energy to power you for most of a day. Possibly doing a lot of heavy lifting, and continuously running the largest and most sophisticated neural network hardware on the planet.
Probably for the same reason why you don't reject obese people. 1.5 yrs of pandemic is a lot of time to lose weight and help with overloading hospitals. They should start using scales in front of pubs too or measure body fat :)
It's still disconcerting to me to see that monotype.com after the Helvetica headline. Monotype and Linotype were fierce rivals since their inception in the late 19th century. The cases where a typeface was offered for both Monotype and Linotype hot metal were rare (Times New Roman and Sabon being the most notable cases). It was only in the post-digital era that we saw consolidation where Agfa (at that time wholly owned by Bayer, the aspirin people) bought the company¹ and merged it with their prepress division, Agfa Compugraphic. It was later sold to a private equity firm who 7 years later bought Linotype, at that time owned by German printing company Heidelberg. They've continued their acquisitions since then purchasing FontShop, the largest indie vendor of typefaces, ITC which was founded as a platform-independent supplier of typeface designs and, most recently URW, a newer entry in the type world but largely influential for high-quality designs (alongside some copied designs) and for the creation of Ikarus which was the first outline-based type description system, predating even Metafont.²

1. The late 20th century Monotype was the descendant of the English spin-off of the American parent company. Lanston Monotype did not survive the transition from hot metal typesetting and was never the significant producer of new designs that English Monotype was. Last I heard, the remains of American Monotype (aka Lanston Monotype) were held by a Canadian printer, although that was 20 years ago and he was not a young man so I don't know now).

2. I had previously thought that Metafont was the first outline-based type design system, not realizing Ikarus's priority until recently.
Fluid Framework looks pretty cool! I somehow missed the Build announcement about this.

Maybe it's just me, but it has a SignalR + Orleans sort of vibe to it when I think about the types of problems it solves. I will definitely be digging into this a bit more.
That's how NYC gets its water.
Ok, but this is literally a thread about how cheap second hand clothes coming from western countries affect the local industries of African nations so I don't really know what you're on about
I don't think that people who can't be bothered to learn the pronunciation of their coworker's names are people to be emulated. We learned "Schwarzenegger", we can learn how to pronounce Jan's name, I'm sure.
I think a more apt comparison is to imagine a human being shipped in a padded shipping container with a dozen of her friends to keep her warm and help her feel safe.

I've had chicks shipped to me this way and it didn't appear to be traumatic at all for them. They grew into happy, healthy birds.
IMHO, this is a great example of what a Gnome desktop should be like, at least by default. The rest of my family might actually be able (and willing) to use this.
Oh I can imagine non violent uses. One of these to do my laundry, dishes, perhaps cooking, wash the car, clean the bathroom, generally tidy up and so on would be pretty good.

Keep it humanoid so it can work in the same space as me, then it can fold itself into a box or something when not working.
Right, but that option would have been difficult to execute at 8pm on Monday, when I wrote my comment.
I run cron jobs using sidekiq-cron and monitor them using https://cronitor.io.
What if there's a flaw in your premise: what if their goal isn't to be a brave patriot, then what?

Think of it as if you are writing code for a simulation, that way you may be intuitively more focused on avoiding bugs.
For anyone who is interested in the topic of prosthetic devices, 99% Invisible has an interesting interview [1], showing a different side to these devices. The human side, in contrast to just the technological advancements.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-lows-of-high-tech...
Webster uses humanoid robots as an example usage of 'humanoid'. The word just means it has a human-like shape, ie. two arms and two legs connected to a torso.

Definition of humanoid

(Entry 1 of 2)
: having human form or characteristics

// humanoid dentition

// humanoid robots

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humanoid
Write once, run anywhere: I used to demo for LiveCode https://livecode.com/ at MacWorld and WWDC where I would code a basic app and build separate single-file standalones for Mac, Windows, and Linux, all while holding my breath.
Fortran did have it much earlier. Per wikipedia atan2 appeared in Fortran IV from IBM in 1961. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atan2
Zorin is a Linux distro.
People working in large organizations are frequently not even allowed to install software that isn’t pre-approved by N layers of management. The bottom line though is that Excel is made for data entry. If it’s not suitable for that use case, that’s a big problem with the product-market fit.
Department of Energy wasn't made when the grid came online; it was made when nuclear bombs were invented. The DoE isn't the department of electrical power security; it is the department of nuclear weapons security. The fusion energy research has been painfully underfunded because there isn't a political motivation to solve the problem. How does solving the energy crisis benefit the countries that benefit the most from it? Put another way: when you are on top of the hill, why would you flatten the landscape?
eh, it's a bit too inaccurate to be "nice"...
We know what the problem is. But what is the solution?

I can't imagine locking in the price and paying homeowners the current value of their land.
> School is a closed-world domain—you are solving crisply-defined puzzles (multiply these two numbers, implement this algorithm, write a book report by this rubric), your solution is evaluated on one dimension (letter grade), and the performance ceiling (an A+) is low. The only form of progression is to take harder courses. If you try to maximize your rewards under this reward function, you’ll end up looking for trickier and trickier puzzles that you can get an A+ on.

> The real world is the polar opposite.

Terry Tao makes much the same point in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJ-zpJeY3E
For those wondering, this is 1/335th of the speed of light. Generally relativistic effects start being significant at around 10% speed of light, so no significant relativistic effects from this, I think.
You've got some references to 'Digger' in your docs - perhaps an old name for the product? - and at least one 404 from there as well.
>Easily join an Active Directory domain from the system installer

I'm keen to try this.

Edit: On the flip side, I learned today that Windows can still integrate with a non-AD domain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28213846
Karatsuba's Multiplication Trick Summarized in 1 Minute [video]
Facebook’s New Toxic Stew: Militia Groups and Vaccine Conspiracies
Digging up my residential address or sharing it with other businesses for any purpose other than to render services (e.g. to send a package that I ordered, you might need to share it with FedEx) is harrassment IMO.
The term common in MMOs is theorycrafting, and it gained particular momentum in an era where some common games allowed for addons that could export telemetry data. Contrived or common scenarios could be mined (Monte Carlo simulations if you will) to determine how patterns lined up with theories.
> goal post moving

You're being silly. The guy is explaining his perspective. He's explaining what he believes and why he believes it. He's not writing a thesis or constructing some logical argument. This isn't a debate. Applying the term "goal post moving" to this makes absolutely no sense.

I just feel like you're taking a confrontational approach rather than just trying to understand his position. Nothing he says is inherently contradictory.
> Usually I think trying to make your own language for anything more than a DSL is a bad idea.

Depends what "your own" means. If it's a one-off language just for one specific project, then you're right. But this one is much more than that. Surely you don't think people should stop making new languages entirely?
Because oil is 3+ orders of magnitude more valuable than water, and we use 4 orders of magnitude more water than oil.
That's right, the system name and its default hostname are both references to the serenity prayer. :)
Wow, cool idea!
A system that has intolerable friendly-fire issues would not be used longer than it takes to learn about the issues.
If you like Padé approximants, have you been following Trefethen & al.’s recent work on the "AAA" algorithm etc.? https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.00337.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.10132.pdf

See also the lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1upJPMIFfg
> Spotify's original client back in 2008 started out as beautifully light, custom rendered native client.

I think time is a large contributing factor. A lot of things start off simple and elegant. Then you have to come up with new features year after year after year (how old is the product?) in order to not appear stagnant and keep customers happy. "Oh, this other app got x feature, I want this in the app I use too!!!"

Here's kind of a video to illustrate the point, where Rick talks about iTunes. How it used to be, and how it evolved and is now. iTunes once ruled the world. It was simple, and elegant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKJjLwMUPJI
It is Linux. Seems to be a direct competitor to ElementaryOS. If you already have a mac then no reason. And those who want a mac at all costs will not settle for anything less. This OS is for those who want a polished, cohesive, user-focused Linux-based OS. All these alternatives arose after Ubuntu dropped the ball in the desktop-laptop OS space and decided to focus on server and cloud more or less exclusively. Most of them are built on top of Ubuntu LTS base.
1965: https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standard... pdf page 36
Just like a real hand...
Does he need to know how the Javascript files work, though? The HTML/CSS parts are still logically separated from the rest of the code. I am not sure someone who is capable of working on that type of content would struggle to recognize them. As long as the team is consistent, you can even reasonably predict exactly where such content would be found in the file.

If the designer was handed an HTML page with <style> tags embedded, I cannot imagine he would fall down unable to figure out where the CSS is, and this is not much different.
I think more people should create resources and tutorials, but i dont think it should be in the form of video necessarily. Text form is easier to read and faster to process than video.
Bill Clinton famously donated used underwear, tax write-off claim of $2-6 each.
1. In a capitalist society, I should be able to name the price for something that belongs to me.

2. FaceCrook still has my data after they sell it. Part of their valuation is based on the future value of all the data they have accumulated.

>name calling will not engender support for your position

I find that humor is an effective counter to power. These corporations that are selling the masses trinkets for something of true value while wasting the talents of our "best and brightest" on stalkertech deserve ridicule. Why should I afford these petty crooks any respect?
Seems like a wild overreaction to a single sentence in an article that you acknowledge is factually true
The article says its clickbaity but I just dont see it that badly in the examples probided:

>How I bought £205k flat by giving up manicures, cutting back on smoking and ditching luxuries”, we learn that the eponymous luxury-ditcher was also gifted £4,500 from her mum

or

>How we bought a £240,000 three-bedroom house before turning 30”. The article includes everything from Friend-Bartlett’s council tax to the cost of her haircuts. Naturally, it also mentions the £15,000 gift from her and her partner’s parents.

I find it still impressive to buy a flat worth 240k after getting 15k gift.
Ruby would definitely be a fun port to add to our roster! The SerenityOS pthread implementation has improved substantially in the last year, so you might find it easier to get things working now.
Kerberos for Windows, without AD
What about when the catfish is their system giving out fake likes to sell subscriptions?
Yes, and their most recent water pipeline costs $6B and is going to take 50+ years to build. Not exactly practical for any place that’s not NYC.
> In other words, the onerous mitigations you're complaining about are working?

The QRCODE has been in place since 1 week. Deaths were previously at the same level.

Then explain Sweden, India or Africa. It should be terrible there, it's not though.

FYI in Paris region, between march 2020 and march 2021 intensive care beds have been reduced from 2500 to 1700. And this is like that all other France.

It's a much better explanation why we have so much worse stats than Sweden.
I didn’t understand that the browser would make FLOC cohorts directly available to anyone running JavaScript in my browser. Unless Google also solves fingerprinting (not to mention that I identify myself on many websites), I’m not sure I understand how this is viable. It seems even worse than the old criticism that Google was selling my data. It never did that, but now it’s giving away my data for free!