skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm stepping out to appease the two-body problem.

My impression is that a Manhattan Project for fusion would be successful. We already have all the technology needed to make a successful reactor. The reason things like HTS coil winding are moving so slowly to scale up is because there is no market for it. How could anyone invest in something with no return?

If a lot of money did suddenly become available then innovative and radical platforms could be seriously considered. Things like stellarator platforms designed with adjustable geometry coils to explore many different optimizations without needing to build a new machine every time would be on the table.

Issues related to first-wall and divertors require large machines to develop. They are not unsolvable problems, but those are the ones that need a serious amount of money to test and develop. Theory is way ahead of experiment here. I think it would be easier to find the money for these big machines if the performance metrics of smaller machines continued to increase. The problem is there isn't enough money to keep these new small-to-medium machines coming. Look at the history of FES spending in the DoE budget.

SPARC might be the community's best chance at convincing the public that fusion is worth investing in.
I imagine that advertisers wouldn't have access to the entire bit vector.

Google would also have limit the number of bits an advertiser has access to.
The article doesn't make this explicit, but this game is just using LZEXE. This was an executable file compressor that was very widely used in the early 90s. An early project by Fabrice Bellard!
That seems a little drastic, how is it the opposite of a wiki?

What are the steps to edit a wiki? Click edit page, make changes, add comment and submit. That sounds like almost the exact same steps to me.
Note that Kay actually complained about lack of “real engineering vigor” which maybe was a typo or maybe not.
So instead of methane that will stay ~10 year (GWP of 2.8-3.4) in the atmosphere, you release C02 (GWP of 1) that will stay ~10k year. So short term (for ~10year) you reduce warming by ~3.5, if your look long term (10k years) you increase warming by 285x by doing that.

CH4 + 2 O2 → CO2 + 2 H2O

Not sure I will call that a win for the climate. (and this energy could be put to better use than burning it on crypto)
You should google "uses of gold".
Google tries to kill RSS for a long time, that's it.

TBH, I understand why - using RSS you don't need "help" from Google to decide what you want to see and what don't want.

As for myself, after I installed Miniflux I removed accounts on reddit and other "content sources", because I simply read 99% of content through RSS and as someone already mentioned here in comments, RSS reader is the most used app on my phone now.
"just around the corner" quote from 1955
It means it improves it for itself, bringing it closer to native OpenGL implementations since in that case it was pretty bad, not that it's 10 times better than native OpenGL.

The description actually says that it borrows heavily from radeonsi (AMD's OpenGL implementation), so it means the technique is already used.
List of Roman Bridges
I don't think Zoom "beats" anyone in UX, especially with the dark patterns. They're just popular. I've seen countless times hundreds of people unable to activate the "Computer Audio" option on company-wide meetings because it's in a secondary tab with zero-affordance. Recently they made it very hard to find the "gallery mode" icon (you have to hover a dark area). They also make it borderline impossible to open it on the browser, forcing multiple reloads or whatnot (the method it changes all the time). Honestly Jitsi, BBB and even Teams are all better IMO.
Have you considered creating courses as a form of content marketing and general education?
My favorite reference for comparing physical/digital storage was from a former co-worker of mine. Imagine your vault/storage/library with all of the shelves with their contents clearly marked and organized. Now, imagine someone knocking all of the stuff off the shelves and shoving it all into a large pile. That's your harddrive.
iPhone is always with me, a computer less so. If I’m scanning an item’s barcode to source or add to cart, need a camera on the phone. If I’m looking in aisles for a part, need the phone for aisle and bin #. I remember something while I’m spending time out with the family or running errands? Mobile app. “Mobile first lifestyle.”
Whole point of a machine is it doesnt get bored.
> Why not a type for even numbers? Odd, prime, not-prime, etc?

Why not indeed? See my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28214776 about how to create such types.
Interesting that the trends are pretty much the same at poverty level and 3x poverty level income groups. If it were only a matter of having a decent built environment where you walk past a green grocer on your way home, I'd think there would be a difference between rich and poor.
Why it's hard to give a computer common sense
FWIW, a ~something~ that includes severe fatigue and allergic reactions sounds a lot like MCAS + Dysautonomia.
If obesity were preventable by two free shots, and the ICUs were flooded by an obesity epidemic, I'd consider it acceptable to take that into consideration during triage, too.
That's part of the point though.
In return for you https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3975 for a fundamental flaw in the Nature paper.

As for the differences between Convivial Solipsism and Many Worlds, I am indifferent to them. It is immaterial to me whether I am a singular observer who can only be aware of part of the wave function, or I am one component of a superposition of observers, each of which is only aware of part of the wave function.

I personally lean away from solipsism because I do not think that I, or my observation of reality, are that important. But that is a preference. And I don't have any particular justification for it or reason to disagree with anyone with the opposite opinion.
Clearly that would be a big market, but I'm serious about massage. Massage from someone who is qualified is expensive, therapeutic, and out of the reach of most people, especially at the amount that one needs it. Having a proper massage robot that was actually good would be a life changing invention. It's also really hard to do -- you need to combine force feedback with dexterity, knowledge of anatomy, natural language communication & feedback (like ouch, awww, and I slouch to the right when I walk), and probably many more things to approximately anywhere close to a human.

I'd love to have a robot work on my hands at night after working to heap ease my RSI. It would be a game changer.
I don't think the CapEx of a robot barber would work out, no matter how low the OpEx. (Which is why we don't see very many non-humanoid, pre-programmed robot barbers, either.) Just because the tech would be there, doesn't mean it'd be practical/affordable for mass deployment. It'd likely be the domain of rich people and/or tech companies—just as less-complex telepresence robots are today.

And by the time the CapEx would get low enough to use telepresence for such things, we'd probably have the general strategic AI to not need it.
Now I would really like to see documentation that's not gender neutral.
Elon Musk: SpaceX’s 5-Step design and manufacturing process
For reference, the hydraulic press channel recently demonstrated what the fusion energy released here looks like. 10^6 joules is basically one hand grenade. Very exciting! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDA7EUDOiwU
> distance between the bases of the bottles

I read this as the distance between the edge of the bases, not center. In which case the only solution would be [spoiler]
Can someone explain why pro fonts are so damn expensive?

There are a bazillion free fonts which are great for most uses, but for a font like this where it's not as if the font was custom calligraphy (e.g. for a video game or something) and is just a "good normal font", what exactly goes on to make this font and others like it worth the money?

I genuinely don't know if there are special features of this font that are beyond what you can get from very similar free fonts or if it's just some brand recognition thing.
> Covid hardly kills

Can we stop with the blatant falsehoods? In the US it was the third leading cause of death. It was over 10% of all deaths.

The only way this “hardly” kills is if you twist the definition of hardly so badly that nothing meets that bar
How are you checking this? Are you using an API?
That's astonishing!
‘Zoom is malware’: why experts worry about the video conferencing platform
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-tech...

Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws
https://www.fastcompany.com/90486586/zoom-banned-from-new-yo...

Google Told Its Workers That They Can’t Use Zoom On Their Laptops Anymore
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-bans...

Elon Musk's SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-zoom-video-commn/e...

Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/zoom-lied-to-use...

Zoom security issues: Here's everything that's gone wrong (so far)
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/zoom-security-privacy-woes

Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/zoom-at-your-own-risk/

Attackers can use Zoom to steal users’ Windows credentials with no warning
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/unpat...
This brings back memories.

Wing Commander: Prophecy, Deus Ex

Paid way too much for a Voodoo card but got so much enjoyment from it.

The "American Megatrends" BIOS screenshot... good times.
The reason Zoom won is their meeting URLs which open their app, combined with no registration requirement. It's just a very viral product.
> Anyone who had covid and takes this vaccine is ruining their existing immunity IMO

"Ruining" may be too strong a word but something like this has already been observed with the second Pfizer dose: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.22.436441v1
I had sliced ezekiel bread today. It's rather absurd to lump that in the same category as junk food.
Are you sure? I think steam only does it for programs launched through it.
Looks good, enjoyed the demo. Fwiw the name Lemon might get a few raised eyebrows here in the UK. Its slang for a dud/ broken thing..
Since the 2018 rebranding to Adobe Fonts, there are no pageview or font limits for subscribers: https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/plan-limits.html

Agency clients need their own subscription, legally: https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/font-licensing.html#web-...
I shop once a week and eat extremely healthy. I’ve done this for as long as I can remember even while at college. I don’t think it requires shops on every corner.

To be fair, some produce like bananas and cucumbers can go bad in less than a week. But it’s easy to avoid and if you want them fresh, picking up a handful of items mid week isn’t too much of a chore.
How to redesign Covid vaccines so they protect against variants
Israel-Hating Curriculum Is Coming to California School Districts
Can we expect that people who aren't vaccinated show some solidarity... And vaccinate themselves?

Solidarity with defectors only works when there are enough resources for everyone. When there aren't, we triage. First come first serve, at the expense of people who have not defected is a stupid way to allocate those resources, when there's such a simple preventative measure available.
Interesting story, but the short answer is no, the U.S. did not "lose" Afghanistan because of an app.

It lost because it (by that I mean the U.S. public) never believed in the mission there (which never had much of a strategic rationale in the first place). And because the Taliban, despite enormous setbacks, never lost faith in theirs.

Yes the narrative is "complex" and there's also Pakistan, etc. But in a nutshell, that's what it boils down to.
Many fresh vegetables will last at least 5 days in the fridge if you put them in tupperware.
> They'd rather just ban the people who disagree with them than address them in debate.

Personally, I'm not in favor of banning. On the topic of COVID and COVID vaccines, I've just avoided every "debate" and "discussion" from all sides and when someone at work wants to talk about it, I tell them to shove off (in more polite terms).

However, I once made the mistake of trying to engage in a serious discussion/debate with Young Earth Creationists. That experience is what convinced me that it's better to just ignore certain groups, and, for better or worse, the COVID anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers have exhibited the same kind of behavior so I just ignore them as well.

With YEC what I found was that:

1. They were perfectly capable of making a cogent, reasoned argument.

2. They were almost always starting from demonstrably false, or at least very questionable, axioms.

3. They would never entertain a discussion about the axioms, only about the conclusions.

(3) is why no progress could be made. There was logic in the discussion, and I could follow their logic and understand how they reached their conclusions. Without the opportunity to work backward toward the axioms, though, we could never reach a satisfying conclusion to the discussion (even if it was just, "agree to disagree").

In the situation of COVID, the anti-vaxxer and anti-masker crowds are somehow even more emotionally charged than the Young Earth Creationists I used to know. Which further disinclined me to engage in the discussion, even if they have a point that's worth listening to. And the nature of social media discussions is that, well, they mostly aren't. I mean, we're engaging in a discussion here on HN and even on this forum it gets pretty dicey at times. The stricter moderation (compared to, say, Reddit) helps a bit, but we go off the rails all the time and fail at the objective of coming together to form a discussion board.

As to why the side labeled "disinformation" is so willing to spend the time, because of the belief that they are right and everyone else is wrong and needs to be set right, and the corresponding emotional charge that the belief brings with it. When the world is out to get you, you end up with a fight or flight response. Ever had someone tell you you were wrong and felt a small surge through your body? That's adrenaline, it's a natural response but then the choice is how to deal with it. Take a breath and calm down or lean into it and fight or flee from the situation. The visible part is the "lean into it and fight" group, there are probably plenty of people that fit into the other two categories who just don't show up as often.
and on the front page currently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210076
It's also incredibly risky for advertising and marketing campaigns.

I had one client that started getting their product catalog scraped aggressively, and the invoice for their licensed font usage that month was an order of magnitude higher than they expected (low six figures, vs. low five figures).

They slapped the site behind an aggressively configured enterprise WAF[1] in response to that bill specifically. It made for an abrasive visitor experience, fundamentally broke server logging data (due to header mangling), and constantly broke third party integrations.

It was such a pain to service the client that I ended up convincing their network security team to let me pilot Cloudflare in front of the WAF (that they insisted remain). Ended up using a Worker function to tidy up after the janky WAF header mangling, got them to remove the explicit challenge page, and just swapped out the licensed font for a generic/free one for suspicious activity.

All because of that stupid pageview based font licensing model and its susceptibility to abuse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application_firewall
Likewise for going from classified mode to unclassified mode they would have to sweep the whole facility for sensitive material
I'm from a CIS country (Azerbaijan) and I applaud you for taking on the challenge of empowering the local workforce and exposing them to foreign markets. There's a lot of untapped talent in ex-USSR countries that can produce outstanding work for a fraction of the cost of their western colleagues, while earning a pretty high (relative to local) income. I for one am working for a foreign startup for $23/h and am living a quite comfortable, even luxurious life, while saving a good chunk of my income.

One question in my head was left unanswered while I read through your post and website: who is responsible for finding and connecting with clients? How do you do that (or how are you planning to scale your current approach)?
I don't want Linux to replace Windows, thank you. At least not until I get all the software I need and consistent user experience. I'm happy Linux to run all the servers instead.
Another challenge with bringing back reusable glass bottles is that that approach belonged to an era with more local brands and a smaller variety of products. There were a few brands of soft drink that were all being mixed and bottled at local distributors, and cities had their own breweries that mostly only distributed locally.

Now that we have enough different brands of soda and beer to cover three sides of a convenience store, all made and packaged at one location and then shipped across the continent, I don't know that glass can be considered a less wasteful option. It's not just about the actual piece of packaging, it's also about how much diesel fuel is being burned in shipping such heavy packaging over long distances.
> Drawpile solves the second problem in the most simple way possible: all edits go through a central server, which distributes them to all connected clients (including the originator) in the same order. So, when a client receives commands from the server, it knows all the other clients also received, or will receive, them in the same order.

You don't need CRDTs if you have a centralized server and require clients to be connected to make edits. CRDTs are useful when you want to enable collaboration in a decentralized way.
I paid $300 bucks or something for that video card.

Fond memories, though.
I will, thanks!

Am I correct in thinking that PGO documentation will be coming later as part of the official release? Searching for DOTNET_TieredPGO (mentioned in Stephen's post) doesn't turn up much.

Might give it a spin on Preview 7 this week regardless, Stephen's post has more than enough to get started :)
In a PID namespace [1], it will be able to read /proc, but will see nothing interesting other than a strangely empty system. The process is isolated from the rest of the system as far as processes and PIDs are concerned.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/pid-namespace
Quite impressive that our diet and lifestyle habits seemingly get worse, and yet our lifespan keeps on climbing, when compared to previous generations.

One could say "Oh, they did not have modern medicine, and blah blah blah".

The way I see, ultraporcessed food, medicines, industrialised goods are all part of the same package. And yet we always see the cup half empty.
Sliced bread you buy in the store seems different from the bread you make at home, even whole wheat bread, based on the ingredient list.

Not sure “slicing and bagging” is actually what would qualify it as ultraprocessed, but also not sure if those additional ingredients added actually are unhealthy.
> traditional marketing relies on a thing where the marketer tries to sell the consumer some feature of a product in a way that does not involve delving into details of the product...To a nerd, that avoidance is a very bad thing, because a nerd prides himself on knowing the details.

I agree. Make the details hierarchically drill-down. Have a summary list of features and selling points, and one can click on each one to get incrementally finer detail. Multiple levels may be needed.

If the company is afraid of details, then don't bother trying to sell to nerds. You'll have to trick their clueless bosses instead using vague buzzwords and smiling lying fashionable actors. "If you select our product, you'll look 'in' and cool! Look at our fancy UI animations, the buttons look made of Flubber!"
Steam only does this when you launch an app through steam and only when it is enabled though.

That is quite a difference from broadcasting the name of any binary it recognises.
You might be too optimistic with your neofeudal society because it insinuates the existence of peasants.

They might select the cream of the crop, wipe the rest off the planet to restore it to pristine condition and live in infinite wealth forever.
Algorithm SM-17
I disagree that alternatives are flakey or difficult to use. If anything it's the opposite. I use BBB daily (and sometimes Jitsi) with a very varied group (including people who never had a computer before) and the results are much better than with Zoom. Maybe Zoom is intuitive if you grew up with computers and with bad software, but honestly the quasi-requirement of installation (it's non-trivial to use the web version) and the dark patterns galore are hard to navigate for non-techy people.
Just yesterday, I hat a Renault Koleos in front of me and was wondering why the name looked so weird and I have the feeling that the kerning is just slightly off (e.g. the first O is too close to the K):

https://www.netcarshow.com/Renault-Koleos-2020-1600-0b.jpg
Most people forget that nearly all flour is bleached. This process is highly industrial, using benzoyl peroxide to change the flour from its naturally yellowish color to the white we all associate with "clean" flour.

The industrial processes that make grocery store flour are not just the same old milling and sifting we've been doing for centuries, but a qualitatively different way to treat food.

Further, in the USA, several states still allow the use of bromate to speed up the flour aging process. Any industrial bread in those states will have this rather unhealthy chemical in it.

I'm not remotely surprised to see sliced bread count as "ultra processed".
Depends what you use as "life metric"... Is working 30 years in a tooth paste factory more fulfilling than living on the savanna and hunting then dying at the age of 36 from a broken leg?

I guess we will never know.
Yet we keep making things and automating.

Yes, we have solved hunger. Yes we have solved boredom. We only have to solve sexual needs. Then basically we have automated ourselves out of the "human condition".... But why. What is the point?
my original airpods were bought feb 2018 and mine still last hours on output only, they last maybe 90 minutes using the microphone on calls though
> Is there any way to prevent it?

Hook the stat, openat, readlink functions within the zoom process, experiment with blocking (returning failure) based on arguments.
Taliban accumulate massive amounts of U.S.-supplied firepower
The only thing that's not clear is whether you've read these articles or not. It's quite explicit in their method that pizza made from scratch is not "ultra-processed" because by their definitions, ultra-processed foods are made in industrial processes at industrial scale, from fractionated ingredients of "no or rare culinary use".

"""Food substances not used in kitchens appear in the
beginning or in the middle of the lists of ingredients of
ultra-processed foods. These include hydrolysed proteins,
soya protein isolate, gluten, casein, whey protein,
‘mechanically separated meat’, fructose, high-fructose corn
syrup, ‘fruit juice concentrate’, invert sugar, maltodextrin,
dextrose, lactose, soluble or insoluble fibre, hydrogenated
or interesterified oil; and also other sources of protein,
carbohydrate or fat which are neither foods from NOVA
group 1 or group 3, nor culinary ingredients from NOVA
group 2. The presence in the list of ingredients of one or
more of these food substances identifies a product as
ultra-processed."""