skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the framing of what's happened so far as "failure" is probably the main thing responsible for this perception. It's true that progress has been slower than many had hoped and the most optimistic had projected, but "failure" sort suggests that the things the research community have been trying haven't represented meaningful progress towards the goal of power production, which isn't the case.

Q (the ratio of energy out to energy in) has improved by about four orders of magnitude since controlled fusion was first achieved, and it's been a slow, at least reasonably steady march since the middle of the 20th century to achieve that progress. The current record-holding Q for magnetic confinement is around 0.67, so we need well under one more order of magnitude to get to the point of "theoretical break-even" (Q>1) -- we're most of the way there. A plant just barely better than break-even probably wouldn't be commercially viable, though, and while estimates vary, that point is probably somewhere in the 10-30 range, so we have maybe another order of magnitude to go after break-even. I don't think there's anything to suggest that after decades of progress we'll suddenly stop being able to make more.

It's true that things have slowed down somewhat in the last 10-15 years, but most of the blame there goes to the need, in order to continue moving forward, to build bigger and bigger reactors, and the need to divert resources to that goal (mostly ITER). To the extent that promises of going faster have turned out to be hot air, it seems like they've mostly been in the form of novel approaches that do fusion in some fundamental new way that avoids the need to build an ITER-like thing. These approaches seem to often involve lots of unknowns, and end up getting bogged down in practical issues once they're actually tried (surprise plasma instabilities and so on).

Recent advances in materials science (mostly REBCO magnets) and computing, though, offer a path to progress on the regular, bog-standard flavor of magnetic confinement fusion (tokamaks) on a smaller scale -- that's what this is. The nice thing about that is that the plasma physics here are very well understood, and have been heavily researched using conventional/not-super-conducting magnets that won't ever achieve break-even, but create identical plasma conditions inside the reactor (MIT Alcator C-Mod is effectively the conventional-magnet predecessor to this project). Up until now, the only real question was whether or not they could build strong-enough REBCO magnets, and now they have, so this is all good news and reason for optimism.

Of course, commercial viability is a whole other question involving lots of questions besides physics. But the physics here seem to not be in serious doubt, unlike some of the proposals from other startups that are more exotic.
In fifth grade, I had to write a paper on Evolution vs Creationism.

We had to do an oral report. I was terrified.

I picked Creationism.

I used the lack of advanced life in the Cambrian as my evidence of a God.

Nice teacher. I forget her name. I think it's Mrs. Gonzolas?

She told me a story about her marriage. She got married the previous year. Her, and her husband, went to Mexico on their honeymoon. They decided to drive their VW van.

They parked for the night near the ocean. Something they did for the past week. She, and her husband, saw three sombreros poke their heads over a mountian. They went to sleep. In the middle of the night, they took her husband. They didn't take their belongings, just her husband.

She never saw him again. She contacted police, and drove straight home. She never found out why they took him.
While you don't need to pre rinse the dishes, you should at least probably scrape any leftover food off of them. I don't think I've ever had a load of dishes with enough physical matter on them to actually block a drain, and I've never pre rinsed.
The thing about RVs is that generally, you won't have to drive them often. Average solar panel produces about 15 watts per square foot, so over a course of a month with about 7 hours of sun a day, that is 3 kwh/square foot. So 50 square feet of panels, which is the total area of a large bed, will get you half the range over a month.

Also, there will undoubtably be hybrid options where you can have a multi fuel generator charging your batteries.
Excellent point! The problem is that systems like this that received government funding never die... Too many politicians support them in return for votes.

My kids will be doing a combination of apprenticeships and online learning instead of universities in the US.
It's not just a random remark, the self-hosted implementation of the compiler which is being worked on as we speak (type?) has multiple backends, one being the C backend which will be used to simplify the bootstrap process of Zig.
CDC tightened masking guidelines after threats from teachers union, emails show
They can legally lie to you about what is legal. They can also lie, without any reprocussions, to justify any physical force they feel like using.
From the article:

> I’ve largely covered sqlc’s objective benefits and features, but more subjectively, it just feels good and fast to work with. Like Go itself, the tool’s working for you instead of against you, and giving you an easy way to get work done without wrestling with the computer all day.

I've been meaning to write a blog post about sqlc myself, and when I get to it, I'll probably quote this line. sqlc is that rare tool that just "feels right". I think that feeling comes from a combination of things. It's fast. It uses an idiomatic Go approach (code generation, instead of e.g. reflection) to solve the problem at hand, so it feels at home in the Go ecosystem. As noted in the article, it allows you to check that your SQL is valid at compile-time, saving you from discovering errors at runtime, and eliminating the need for certain types of tests.

But perhaps most of all, sqlc lets you just write SQL. After using sqlc, using a more conventional ORM almost seemed like a crazy proposition. Why would someone author an ORM, painstakingly creating Go functions that just map to existing SQL features? Such a project is practically destined to be perpetually incomplete, and if one day it is no longer maintained, migration will be painful. And why add to your code a dependency on such a project, when you could use a tool like sqlc that is so drastically lighter, and brings nearly all the benefits?

sqlc embraces the idea that the right tool for talking to a relational database is the one we've had all along, the one which every engineer already knows: SQL. I look forward to using it in more projects.
Clearly, it's n + 2*i^4 layerations.
Let me know when the advance comes from Elizabethtown Community and Technical College. That would probably be affordable to put in production.
Ok thanks, that's more clear.
Another suggestion: Don't repost too much. A few repost are ok, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html , but you reposted the same article 7 times in 2 days. Users will get angry and flag your posts, and the mods will notice and may ban your site and your account.

The rules are not clear about how often you can repost, but in my opinion it's like a week, perhaps 2 or 3 days. At most 1 per day, but 1 per day is too much for my taste.

Also, reposting the same article more than 5-10 times will make people complain...
Wells Notice
Does the average person have a good sense of how big animals were 500 million years ago vs. 250-300 million years ago? The latter of which was quite big, and any 'massive' from there on would be fitting by modern standards.
Pretty much. Fundamentally Kubernetes “won.” Try to pitch your company on something else and you’re asking them to bet on something else “without particularly active investment” to use your words. As well as much less of a complementary software ecosystem.
Yeah--I misread your question. :)
Soar Cognitive Architecture
I also like the fact that the QR codes can be verified offline. The question I have is just because it can be done without sending data will the "BC vaccine verifier app" work this way or will it transmit the data anyways?

I am concerned that the data will be collected under the guise of future contact tracing, the eventually be use by other government agencies such as the CRA to target non covid issues such as cash declarations and taxing service workers tips.

I would think an offline, third party(non government), premium app that allows service providers to comply with the mandate would be a profitable venture.
Before my fully electric car I had a Chevrolet Volt (not the crappy Bolt)

Aside from the battery recall, what's crappy about the Bolt? $36,000 for 250 miles of range and the reviews seem pretty good. That said, I was disappointed that they canceled the Volt.
I think the point is that dealing with a pandemic is very hard and at least some of how we are dealing with it is based in magical thinking, based on how we approach all problems.

If anything the main group he points at is bureaucrats, which in the West are not so much a leftist group as a career path in very centrist politics. The fact that he talks about social construction shows he's at least somewhat versed in postmodernism, which is generally associated with left and post-left thinking.

He does mention leftist elites, but I think he's more talking about the media narrative than some kind of conspiracy plot.
He acts like it's unique to the "west" but fails to realize it's also unique to the "east". So that particular straw man doesn't quite work.
"In the West, Covid has acquired a variety of features that demand constant and heavy-handed technocratic intervention. This is not the case everywhere, but in the West, where technocratic bureaucracies dominate,"

Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, S. Korea? Arguably even Japan pragmatically.

Basically all non-Western states with modern economies have take roughly similar actions, some of them much more stringent.
Yes, headers in text plus body in any content type is incredibly simple and flexible. It’s hard to imagine redesigning HTTP/1 to be any more straightforward.
My friends load up their dishwasher without rinsing, then call their pup over to clean off the food

They must have a small dog, if it fits inside a dishwasher.
If someone wanted to make a true to life film, you'd have the scientists detect the asteroid, predict the collision 10 years in advance, and the rest of the time would be watching politicians debate whether or not a fetus is sentient until the asteroid crashes into earth and extinguishes all life.
> The phrase "leftist" properly applies to a group of people who essentially haven't existed in the United States.

There are large numbers of people who describe themselves today as leftists, and there have been for the past 80 years. People across the political spectrum, academics, and the news media use the term in relation to contemporary politics.

If you are using a definition that stopped being relevant 80 years ago, it will be hard for you to have a coherent discussion with people today.
I am trying to imagine a social network like that. How would it be different?

A social network is the place to gain clout, so high profile people would continue giving away their IP for free.

The network itself could still display context-aware advertising.
People in glass castles… something about bricks
Will the compiler have something like go's ability to vendor code locally? I've worked on some science projects and this has been a hard requirement on some systems for tape archive storage.
We have recently switched to GitHub actions and in addition to the above, there are two others which impact us:

Sometimes the checkout action fetches the wrong commit! The SHA in the GitHub environment variable says one commit, but the actual code is different(!). Because we don't know why this happens we basically need to do an unshallow fetch of the whole repo to be sure we have what we expect.

Using autoscaling self hosted runners, it is not currently possible to instruct the agent to finalise the current job but to accept none after it. This is essential to avoid broken workflows while scaling in. Gitlab supports this via a signal, but there is no equivalent.
I think the grinder is a matter of convenience. It means there is no filter to change, ever. I've never actually had a dishwasher with a filter. I don't even know where it is located!

If the filter were very easy to reach/remove/clean/replace, I would consider the benefits of a dishwasher without a grinder.
Webinar: Search Query Expansion Using NLP and Machine Learning
I remember reading about Seymour Papert's Logo back in the 80's and getting blown away by how elegant and luxurious the language felt. But, the need to start Logo environment first in order to run a program kept me away from it so I kept working with BASIC and Assembly. That kind of friction matters a lot.
Also true: The son of a coal miner in West Virgina is going to have a lot tougher path to success than the son of Sundar Pichai. And yet they don't teach their employees that 'America is a system of plutocrat supremacy'.
That might be a fun project if Hacktoberfest comes back this year, get open source projects building images for arm64. A lot of times it’s easy to do.
You seem like someone who appreciates new information. You might find some new-to-you information here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio, here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_polio, or in the citations for these articles.
Polio pre-dates 20th-century pesticides by thousands of years. Polio vaccines are estimated to have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

Having a nutritious (and/or well-supplemented) diet and healthy lifestyle are important. No one doubts that. But medical records and studies have shown that that only gets you so far w/r/t to things like the Delta Variant. The only way to tell if your immune system is up to that particular task is to see how it responds to being infected. Lots of people have made the mistake of overestimating just how much their immune response is under their control. The subset whose immune systems proved unequal to the task are the ones in emergency rooms.

Given that Salk gave away the Polio vaccine for free, you have to ask what the financial incentive would be to gin up a made up virus.
You might like this short story: http://mrsfacca.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/1/2/7612927/opabinia_...
A feature of the HTML spec that's so new even IE11 doesn't implement it? That hardly seems like a glowing recommendation for HTTP/1.
You can only apply for a fresh H1B once a year around April. It's a lottery with less than 30% chance of getting it. If a tech company wants to bring a European employee to the US they would have to wait until April, apply and if selected start work in October.

It's a lot of time and uncertainty so they don't do it unless you're already working in their EU office and come over on L1 or something.

Most H1B sponsorship is done for people already in the US on student visas (F1 OPT) or a transfer of an existing H1B visa that's been already through the lottery.

Your best bet would be to try for an O1 visa but they have their own set of odd requirements.
1. Tax matters
2. COL matters
3. AUD-USD conversions aren't that straightfoward when discussing this.

$1200 a day puts you into the top few percent of salaries here in Australia. I don't really care what a "brisbane sized city in the states" might be doing, because moving there means I have to live in a country that I'm not a good fit for culturally.
Rate of pay is empirically determined by the intersection of supply and demand for that job, not by how important a particular person or group thinks a job ought to be considered a priori.

Where supply is much larger than demand -- that is, where many people can easily replace the person doing the job and perform similar work -- wages are low. When not many people can do a demanded job, wages are high.

Note that I am not making any moral claims about this fact being good or bad; just pointing out that it is indeed an objective fact.

This dynamic notably holds true even in non-capitalist economic systems, such as in Communist countries where the rate of pay is legally fixed at the same level for all jobs: people simply barter out of band with non-monetary forms of value transfer (блат) instead, to compensate for the inability to use money to find the supply/demand intersection.
I call GPT.
I guess there's a need for social media deep fakes, so to speak.
To play with these concepts, you can write a FUSE filesystem where each file has inode 42, while being wholly separate nodes & handles. Linux VFS doesn't really use the inode number internally for anything while a direntry is alive.
I’m using high frequency in a domain specific way here: neuroscientists consider gamma (30-100Hz) to be high (temporal)frequency for action potential activity. But I wasn’t just referring to temporal filtering—the skull acts as a low-pass spatial filter, too [1].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8813415/
Here is a copy of a standard field interview card:

https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/2021-09/I....

[edited] wrong spot to have this
One thing everyone forgets about the Volt and the timing of it's demise; the end of production coincided with the phasing out of a lot of the tax credits/incentives provided by the govt. For most of it's life it was a 40k vehicle you could get for closer to 33k.

GM likely saw the writing on the wall, people probably weren't willing to pay the full MSRP. Especially when Kia/Hyundai is managing to provide plug-in hybrids for 30k. (As far as quality/fit, I sat in an early Niro Plugin and the interior was something in between the Bolt and a Sonata... but some people care more about price nowadays.)
Someone tried edge lit acrylic: https://hackaday.io/project/165079-lixie-ii-the-newnixie-for...

What appears to be a commercialized version: https://www.banggood.com/Geekcreit-Pseudo-Glow-Tube-Clock-DI...
I'm still waiting to post my retraction about the U.S. never repealing the Patriot Act. I'm pretty patient though.
GitLab team-member here. Obviously coming in with a lot of bias, but I wanted to address how each point relates to GitLab CI/CD’s view of the world. I’m also thinking about writing a longer post with more details as I have a lot of thoughts (™) about this topic.

2.1 Caching isn’t available: GitLab has this everywhere.

2.2 GitHub Enterprise Server is behind GitHub Enterprise Cloud: GitLab ships the same code to GitLab.com as it does to our self-managed customers. This was a tough decision but has a lot of benefits...the central being feature parity and scalability for self-managed folks

2.3 Using Public GitHub.com Actions: This is a symptom more than the problem itself - relying on third-party plugins for build jobs is scary, and leads to many of the same issues we’ve seen in the Jenkins ecosystem - easy to get started, hard to maintain.

2.4 Dockerhub pull rate limiting: for self-hosted runners, you can use a registry mirror or Dependency Proxy to reduce your number of pulls from Docker Hub. The key is the entire platform has to be there to enable the right workflows.

3.1 No dropdowns for manually triggered jobs: GitLab also doesn’t have drop downs, but does have the ability to pre-fill these values.

3.2 Self-hosted runner default labels: I think this is also more of a symptom than a problem. 3.3 Being able to tag and use runners for specific tasks is key - so I understand the frustration and we’ve spent a lot of time on this.

3.4 You can’t restart a single job of a workflow: You can do this with GitLab.

3.5 Slow log output: I haven’t seen this be a problem, and is a benefit of our scalability features being built into the self-managed code.

3.6 You can’t have actions that call other actions: There are lots of ways to relate pipelines (parent/child, triggers. etc.) in GitLab.

3.7 Metrics and observability: The GitLab runner has Prometheus build in, and the dashboards we use to manage GitLab.com are partially public: https://dashboards.gitlab.com

3.8 Workflow YAML Syntax can confusing: This can be really hard to get right. I learned to stop worrying and love the YAML long ago, and I know we’ve got through a lot of iterations to try and get this right.

I'd love to know where folks think I got this assessment wrong. And is there value in writing more about it?

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What, you can't predict what 7 billion people will do? Amateur! If only people listened to me, the know-it-all, then everything would have gone great! And the previous 12 times I have been wrong were just me experimenting to get this right or just enemy's propaganda, whichever I can prove easier, this time it will work, trust me!

Fake news haven't been created just because people love to lie, it has been created because people love to listen to conforting lies. Plato's cave in a nutshell.
QR codes are about the easiest possible attack vector for malware. Is there a decentralized malware scanner that I can pass the QR code through first?
“The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.” — Robert R. Coveyou
It has its pros and cons.

Pros:

It's generally stable and in my experience works at least as well as windows 7.

DPI scaling is quite reliable and performant.

Vendor drivers are installed automagically by windows update's background process. It's a bit annoying that you can't disable or pause this process without killing it, so waiting for AMD's 300mb video driver to download over a slow connection is a bit confusing, but it's nice you can skip the usual install step and set a decent resolution without browsing to a webpage in 640x480 first. I would rather have an explicit user-controlled package manager, but this is a step in the right direction.

Cons:

They deprecated control panel in favor of the settings app, but the settings app is missing several important settings, so you still occasionally need to dig through control panel, which is a frustratingly fragmented experience.

"Fast boot" (a minimal hibernation mode) is enabled by default, which locks all of your ntfs partitions on shutdown, so you can't mount them read/write in Linux until you leave windows via reboot or disable fast boot.

The bootloader installs in the first EFI system partition it finds, even if it's on another disk and doesn't have room.

If you have a working internet connection during install, you are forced to create a system user that is linked to and named the same as your Microsoft account. Disconnecting from the network during that install phase gives you the option, though.

Exclusive fullscreen mode has been quietly replaced with an optimized windowed borderless mode. It's nice until you want to cut out that tiny extra latency, and then it's a nightmare. You used to be able to check "disable fullscreen optimizations" in properties for your binary, but that doesn't work anymore. You can add some registry entries for the binary, but that only works sometimes.

You can't shut down without installing updates anymore. Not even via the alt-f4 from the desktop modal like you could in 7.

You can delay updates for a limited period of time, and you can set "active hours" when updates won't be forced. Assuming everyone follows a fixed schedule and wants updates installed ASAP is frustratingly authoritative.

Updates try and fail to install when you don't have enough free storage. Is it that hard to just check first? It's this just a passive-aggressive way to remind users to free space? All I know is that it sucks.

There is a lot of bundled garbage, mostly links to app listings like candy crush on the Microsoft store. Just more clutter no one wants.

You can't opt out of all telemetry, which is a frustrating privacy violation.
> I asked "How so?" and, rather than offer any answer at all, you've replied by jabbering about the blockchain again.

No need to admit that you detest anything 'blockchain'. I'm assuming that you have your own working clever idea to this then?

Very easy to sit there and criticise than to actually build anything...
Camcorders sipped amps, wristband seeps microamps up to single digit milliamps.