skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your take on this is accurate, but it’s a little deeper than a welfare program. The government needs to maintain a population of cleared scientists who know how to calculate things like fusion yields, simulated with classified codes. These fake fusion energy programs contribute to that; some of the most capable scientists don’t want to work on weapons, so they can kid themselves that they are working on “energy”.

There is no reasonably foreseeable future with fusion as part of the electricity grid. Even if we got fantastically lucky and were able to build a practical (magnetic or inertial) reactor in 50 years, by that time improvements in energy storage and transmission technologies will have allowed renewable energy to dominate, and no government would be crazy enough to permit it to be built.

http://progressive.org/op-eds/let-cut-our-losses-on-fusion-e...
Why are these nonsense fantasy world comments so common here?
Note that loading the program into memory is also a pass. Producing an installation image is also a pass, as is installing the program into the target. When we are talking about compiler passes, we don't count these, because they are outside the compiler.

When we consider a compiler that puts out assembly language, if that works without producing an AST, just by generating assembly in a syntax-directed way as it followed the phrase structure of the code, then we call that a one-pass compiler. What it makes is assembly language, and it does that in one pass.

Producing executable code from the assembly requires another pass, but that pass belongs to the assembler. The compiler is not even running, and so it can't be a pass of that compiler.
How long does covid immunity after natural infection last?
But you are advocating against sending free clothes with the goal of creating a scarcity so that people work to produce clothing, which they’ll essentially buy back. This is macabre.
Like Archimedes said, "Give me scrum points and a long enough sprint planning meeting and I can move the world."
Because doing "meaningless" work is a necessary step toward meaningful work.

Learning & internalizing showing up to work on time, following directions, doing what's needed (even if unpleasant), completing tasks, etc is vital to becoming entrusted with the worthwhile.

Whether individual or national, inability to produce basics prevents realizing future potential. Sure, truckloads of clothing is free - so no need to produce it ... but then nobody knows how to make clothing worth selling/exporting, and remain dependent on truckloads of free donated clothing. Apply same to most other skills & industries, and the country becomes, and stays, an economic basket case.
They don't always release weights and often the code and weights are delayed from the paper.

But more often than not they release a lot of their weights and/or research code.
I started working in node around version 0.8, before both native Promises and async/await.

I worked with guys that started after async/await.

The new guys just think of everything like it's synchronous. They don't understand Promises. They never look at code and think "I can run this in parallel with Promise.all and a reducer". They just await each thing one at a time.

So, I'm not sure the async/await annotations are really helping us when devs just use them like decorations that just have to be there for it to work.
That every x86 CPU in Ultrabooks thottles itself into the ground while M1 on MacBook pro is almost impossible to throttle determined this is a lie.
Yeah, I mean, it's just generally astounding that the food I eat is enough to power even a sedentary lifestyle, let alone one with a bunch of running and other exercise.
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> If it doesn’t work within 2-5 years, it’s not going to work. Cut your losses and run.

That seems very arbitrary. I would say twenty years is not enough, because a longer time period would mean that older, experienced Taliban fighters and organizers would be too old to continue their activities or just dead. It also isn't enough time if we haven't done a good job managing our efforts there, and we needed better leadership and accountability around our efforts to establish the new government and their military (more at https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/how-americ...).

I cannot understand why you think 2-5 years is the magic time to judge an effort like this by. Do you think that's true for everything in life? If a company can't IPO in 2 years they should just cut their losses and run?

> Maybe there was some support for this in some areas of Kabul, but certainly not in the countryside.

What's your evidence for this? Every poll I could find on Google suggests there is broad support for democracy in Afghanistan.
4.5 million dead people disagree with your conspiracy.

No one is getting killed from the vaccines. It’s rounding error.
The "cha-ching" is a placeholder for "strafe the rioters".

Too cynical?
How's that? I could see climate change decreasing biodiversity for sure, but how would decreasing biodiversity lead to climate change?
Good idea but when I used them the balls were fairly small and not very accurate. So hitting cameras might be tough to do completely enough to block visit.

Is there a paintball shotgun?

Yes, there are [0]. But it seems like they shoot “slugs” and not a spray of paint in a cone.

[0] https://paintballglobe.com/paintball-shotgun/
A container runtime engine needs to be deployed onto a Linux distro. Which distro may not matter to you personally if you only use managed services, but it'll matter an awful lot to the managed service provider.
A special-purpose scope-limited robot probably washes your dishes already. What remains is putting them in and out of your current robot. Dextrous manipulation is tough, and likely to be very expensive for a while.

Amazon currently pays people to fill boxes for a good economic reason.
Thanks; I assume it's a challenge anyway.
You'd think so, but it turns out that reversing compiled code in an automated fashion doesn't usually produce very readable results:

https://derevenets.com/examples.html
As with macOS Safari, they did make it optional and the headlines announcing the reversal are misleading/confusing.
Yeah, not really. I've worked at some big companies, and currently at one you almost certainly have heard about in the news. The features you describe don't justify the complexity of these apps. Usually these features are implemented without any real consideration for the overall architecture, independently, and within a bubble such that the engineers and PMs on the project locally maximize the feature's complexity. Then it cascades when the feature is integrated into the rest of the app.
That doesn't mean they are not nasty or don't need be checked for. Better than HIV/AIDS for sure, but common enough that a vaccine could be better.
Is Boston Dynamics primarily a viral video company? If not, why do they keep getting bought and sold?
Can leaflet replace OpenLayers for scientific purposes?
The more of the world that does it, the better it works for everyone.
Do you have a reference? The screenshots look like Gnome.
They can’t even wait for the pandemic to be declared a permanent state..
1. In a capitalist society price is dictated by supply/demand

I would expect Facebook's valuation is less about knowing you like dogs and more on the fact that their advertising system allows people to show dog teeshirts directly to people who like dogs

I'm surprised the average user's data is worth even $20/year
nice investigation/report on some changes, but only kind of surface level. And it ends abruptly? I don't know what happened at the end/did I miss something?

Overall, at least public facing, I feel like Twitter has been firing on a number of cylinders, finally launching a bunch of stuff and engaging on a number of difficult design and social issues (successfully or not)
The Monterey Peninsula area has terrible water management. Sewage spills into the ocean have been a frequent problem. Despite the housing shortage, property owners can't get building permits due to a lack of water.

https://www.montereyherald.com/health/20180224/addressing-th...
I never said all ad systems are evil, yet you are saying no ad systems are evil.

I never said that if someone doesn't care about the purpose of their work, they don't care about social problems.

If you're going to turn this into a debate, at least try not tearing down strawmen.

The point of my post wasn't to make strong claims about ad systems being universally evil. It's just like, my opinion man, that some are. The point was to state that I do not want to work with people who, knowingly, do their work in an ethical vacuum, focused entirely on the technical problems at hand.
One of my colleagues has just been through this rigmarole with the review process.

Apple kept rejecting it as it would crash when logging in. We didn't get any crash reports and could not replicate any issue ourselves. Several submissions later, the decision was made to put in a whole bunch of analytics and tracing, we get the logs back and... The "crash" was a pretty clear error message because they weren't following the simple 2 step login instructions provided to the reviewer.
Having toured NIF a few times and worked in one of the buildings adjacent to it a few summers ago, I will say the energy stuff always seemed more like a way to get funding. The main use and aim for NIF is and always has been to re-create some of the conditions inside nuclear weapons and similar fusion-based reactions.

The whole NIF building has the ability to switch modes between classified and unclassified. They wouldn't have gone through the trouble of making this a toggleable feature on the building if they weren't actively using it for both.
I think that the next one will start with the letter K.... for AFK
A classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLcjUmBncZ8
Please, Would you mind one of these days updating your blog post with the instructions you gave to sollya? I'm trying something stupid with log1p and can't get sollya to help, mostly because I'm not putting enough time to read all the docs...
> no government would be crazy enough to permit it to be built

Why? Nuclear fusion doesn't have the meltdown risk or waste problems of fission.
These posts are a big highlight of every .NET release, you can tell Stephen Toub puts a ton of work into them. Can't wait to give the profile-guided optimization a try.
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apparently HAART sort of ages people's organs, according to patients' testimonials. that's better than dying of AIDS but still not ideal.

also, doesn't your immune system lose like 30% of its T-cells after you seroconvert, but prior to developing AIDS? iirc that's why HIV+ people are considered immunocompromised regardless of viral load.
Yet here we are, having achieved what so many claim to want yet fret when achieved: capitalism has increased productivity so high, and costs so low, that we can literally "clothe Africa for free". Why the imperative to take from the productive, when they will freely give generously from their surplus?
For me, my interest is in sort of lateral thinking for any problem. For novel situations, I like to think of what the positive and negative impacts are and particularly what “hacks” might be able to get unexpected outcomes.

I’m typically like this for everything, but for robots that can jump around and stuff (and will likely soon do police and military actions) this is novel enough for me to explore this for the first time.

I think similarly about facial recognition software for how to evade and confuse. And also for biometrics, locks, etc. Any of these things are interesting to me and I want to know how to do stuff with them.
Swift error handling rationale and proposal (2015)
Interesting that there isn't any mention or use of CRDTs, that would have been the first thing to see from this document.

Nevertheless, it is still refreshing to see a different way of doing things like collaborative drawing without them.

Curious to know of this design decision.
No one has mentioned butterflies yet. Not an advertisement: we ordered butterfly caterpillars from insectlore.com and it was pretty awesome to watch them go through their life cycle. Our kids were squealing with wonder when the butterflies finally broke out of their chrysalises. Then after a day or two, we took them to a nice wooded area and released them.
Zoom has fixed the UX in this business, which is the one thing that matters most™, and which is why they will continue to be successful.

It's like a restaurant which has the absolute best food by a mile, so they remain in business despite the cockroaches and unfriendly waitstaff.

Most customers don't really care about privacy and security, they just want to pretend, and as long as they can easily pretend they're happy.
An article about covid that isn't filled with doom and gloom? What a nice break. While I think the author is right, what I fear is that the media will continue to freak out about every new variant and every new spike in cases leading to this weird state where it's not that bad, but everyone thinks it's getting worse.
Are there any studies yet that say something about the risks of long covid when vaccinated?
No, thank you. I've learned what science is. It's pretty cool, you should look it up.
Is Ubuntu desktop being deprecated or something? That would be sad news, I really like how Ubuntu works out of the box
Clearly this lawsuit worked out so well he now throws a hissy fit and cancels his app.
This looks awesome! Not sure I'd uninstall my current distro for it though...
This isn't totally surprising and has been studied previously with other respiratory illnesses. [1] There is also a correlation with severity of symptoms as shown in this paper and other cited sources. I'm not going to speculate too much, but one would hope that as severe cases decline, so too should these cases of "long covid".

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31718695/
Raising budgets don't intrinsically guarantee better results. Would a larger staff of physicists etc. lead to more breakthroughs or quicker results? Or would it just be piddled away in frivolous experiments, nicer Aeron chairs and the like?

A physicist friend from NSF told me once that $50 billion would be about right.
One favourite of mine is the recent Zero-K/Spring example of an Athena (cloaked gunship constructor) sneaking on the top of a silo launching its nuke, with just the right timing so that the missile hits it and explodes still partially inside the silo, before the Athena is shot down by AA (because decloaked due to proximity to the silo) :

http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/1784?postID=189519#189519

Or maybe also this (BA?)/Spring one, dating back to the time when shields were invulnerable to plasma shots and deflecting them, featuring a shot being randomly diverted to hit a commander that was hiding in a bunch of buildings, wiping out half the base in the resulting death explosion !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5eBkn45Jo4&list=PLkuJSFWAxE...
I feel like I live in a bizzaro world...

First, I’ve been working remotely over skype, audio-only, for over a decade.
Yet in 2020 and with the emergence of zoom, it’s suddenly become an expectation that everyone is incessantly and awkwardly staring at each other through screens for the whole workday.

Second, the few times I’ve used Zoom it’s been absolutely garbage, with video and sound dropping or just not there (this was a university paying for Zoom’s services).

Yet I use teams everyday, and while I have plenty of complaints about it, at least I can get the sound and (screen-sharing) video that I actually need for my work.
Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics
People have even seriously proposed towing icebergs to California for extra fresh water.

https://californiascienceweekly.com/2019/06/11/towing-an-ice...
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Well. yes. Using AI means you learn one theory, and now you can do voice recognition, chess and parkour with state of the art performance (except perhaps when it comes to minimising compute) ...

And then there's where it takes off. There isn't a single human that can come anywhere close to the language knowledge base AI algorithms can build up. Even a team of 100 humans would not have the breadth of languages algorithms have these days. Yes, context understanding humans still have the edge, but it's shrinking every day. But so many language aspects, from translation to grammar, machines outperform all but the very best humans, and 99.9% of all humans even within one language.
I suspect on a large scale over time, post death donations exceed annual donations by quite a bit.

So, old uncle X dies, state fund stops paying his nursing home room in 3 days, after everything of value or mentioned in the will is picked over or set aside, its all gotta go somewhere and somewhere is three relatives with trailers driving to goodwill.

There's simply not the time to determine his 1970s suit is currently resellable as retro kool, his 1970s neckties are 50:50 resellable, and his 1970s fancy dress shoes are simply trash. You've got less than two seconds per item, times up, now help load up the bookcase its all gotta go and the sooner we're done the quicker this depressing job is over. Toward the end, people are like "box of old plates? I don't have time for this toss it on the Goodwill trailer".

Think of his neckties from the 70s, someone doing a 70s school play or costume party or maybe some kind of art exhibit might pay good money for perfect condition, and badly stained goes in the trash, now what about the one in between that's not perfect but better than most people's daily wear? People LARP on the internet about being experts on everything especially apparently clothing resales but we're kinda in a hurry here and my MiL is not an expert on that topic so she's seemingly randomly tossing stuff on piles for trash or recycle or goodwill, I mean she's trying but we as a culture do not license "cleaning up the estate of deceased relatives" so she's just gonna toss stuff semi-randomly.

WRT to hoarding, consider that red necktie thats a little worn and has a tiny stain on it. He wouldn't throw that tie out, because he was married to my long deceased aunt while wearing it 60 years ago, it meant a lot to him ... but not to anyone else and now he's gone. Or that hideous endtable, I mean, sure a 1960s collector might want it if its in perfect condition, but he never threw it out because it worked perfectly well even if nobody post 1980 would consider buying such a thing.

Oddly enough things are simpler with terminal patients. He handed his bible to his sister when he said goodbye so when its time for estate cleanup nobody has to wonder where the family bible is, its been at his sisters house a month ago. I suppose a surprise death might be more work. But, the cancer finally got him so just ship everything in the room that isn't food, to goodwill.
Real world, 2016—Wave’s new second-biggest problem is that we have outgrown Quickbooks.

Wow, I'm curious does anyone know what kind of scale that tool operates at and where its limitations arise from?
Probably for life and that includes variants as well. See https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31008-4
Your last claim is highly misleading. The position of the CMA is that other advertisers need 3p cookies but Google doesn't. So it's just not true that they would have been fine with a straight out removal of 3p cookies with no replacement mechanism. They will demand there to be some mechanism that gives small ad tech companies more data than FLOC did.

As for the first point, do you have a region in mind where the regulatory authorities have greenlit this? Certainly not anywhere in the EU, given they launched a pre-emptive probe into the plans before anything was launched. Or in the US, where the unlaunched plans are included in the antitrust complaint being driven by the states.

Look, there's a lot of complaints one can direct at Google. But this isn't one of those things. Given the amount of scrutiny how could they possibly unilaterally launch anything related to this, beyond tiny experiments?
I agree it's not getting nearly as much attention as it should in policy discussions (which the linked piece essentially is). Too much is focused on infection per se, hospitalization, and death, as if those are the only three outcomes to care about.
It is built on Gnome (3.38). The Zorin taskbar looks based on the Dash To Panel extension. Zorin ships with Gnome or XFCE for the light edition. There is no KDE spin.
Is Apple still going ahead with this plan? Even after all the backlash? Can rooted iphones stop the image scanning process?
All we need to do is quarantine the developed world for just a little longer..
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The only thing holding back renewables is cost -- particularly that there aren't really off-the-shelf battery storage solutions yet, the reason why this article is a headline is in itself indicative that it's still immature as of yet. However, it's obvious that this is going to be solved soon, the actual battery tech is there.

and if cost is the main thing holding back renewables, nuclear will never win, because it's an order of magnitude more costly. It takes a LONG time for something that costs a billion dollars to break even versus renewables that cost $100M.
You've made a silly mistake and just did 1/8th the work, so of course it was 8x speedup. I am still wondering how the numbers would look if you could inline atan2f from libc. Too bad that isn't easier
Croatian travel blogger raises $50K to rescue his guide from Afghanistan
Before it became a video game, Fortnight was a popular facetious codename for projects at my employer.
> It's funny you say that, but really, there are just a lot of people that don't want to get any of the vaccines, myself included. That's because, with a thought cost-benefit analysis, it did not make sense for me.

Honestly, the US has met the number of vaccinated people I expected to see, even ignoring any cost-benefit analysis of the specific vaccines available. When I looked at other vaccination rates in the US before the COVID vaccine rollouts, I expected the COVID vaccination rate to meet somewhere in the 50% to 70% range at the end of everything. I don't know what the target goal was for whoever in the government tracks this, or what the public was expecting, but I was expecting the 60%-70% range to be the end goal. Right now we're at 60% at least one dose, 50% full vaccination.
Nearly two years into the pandemic, and it’s still difficult for a layman to get credible information beyond the basics.

I read the whole article and it seems convincing to me, but does it reflect the scientific consensus? The author does not seem to have any scientific credentials, and the site seems to have a specific agenda - which does not necessarily disqualify the content immediately.

Does anyone have links to more credible sites supporting or denying the claims made in the article?
Twitter investigated executive's too-harsh leadership style
Iridium networks [0] initially launched with lots of capital and kind of only made it after stuff was sold at bankruptcy prices. Although I don’t think they are phenomenally successful.

I think there were a few dot coms that got bought out of bankruptcy by larger firms, maybe pets.com and toys.com (although toysrus is gone now).

Polaroid [1] too although I think that’s more branding than technology.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications
[1]