skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The managers and researchers at ITER are not swindlers. But they are obliged to do as they are told. The corruption is at the government level, where the patronage and kickbacks are arranged.

The same process occurs anywhere billions of public dollars/euros are involved, and it is not easy to track what they are supposed to buy, or how quickly results should be expected.

Since commercially competitive fusion power is already known not to be possible, no actually-useful result need ever be achieved. The longer it takes to get to the ultimate failure, the better it is for everybody actually involved. Taxpayers excepted, of course.
You should very probably make sure that your statements do not seem to come from Eliza. Substantiate them, ground them, make them defensible - and not oracular: if there are signs of, contextually, «brainwash[ing]» in the poster's statements, make them explicit. Eliza could have written what you did. And with that, you have been gratuitously offensive.

So, where do you see "brainwashing" there?
Or a massively multiplayer online game of hot potato.
Is there any way to get support regarding the API? We are trying to increase the send limit of our application, but can't get any support for over 3 months. No one's monitoring the SO tag as is mentioned in documentation.
Should have history of it getting preserved over 100 years. Others watched it 40 or say 80 years back.
Historically, things that were only meant for the super rich eventually got commoditised for everyone. And: Under current capitalist regimes, this is how humans push the envelope of possibilities, like it or not.

Climate crisis is urgent but token efforts to strike down nascent businesses on the cutting-edge such as Boom is not how the world solves it (discounting the fact that Boom has a path forward to be carbon-neutral: https://boomsupersonic.com/sustainability)
Having a senior leadership position in “late 20s” sure seems like privilege and connections to me. Who cares about “sprints” when your family has all the benefits and the executive positions are the default.
are you writing that from your laptop that loses warranty if placed in a bag?
No one is going to be arrested for being associated with the word hacker alone with no accompanying crime

Unless you can find any evidence of this happening you're just being ridiculous.
Dollar bills are not. (or, well, they are, by inflation itself)
I generally think of “typical” as being the median rather than the mean.
It's interesting to watch the continued narrative shift away from the original sales pitch of self-driving as a solution to human fallibility even at low autonomy levels to stuff like "you wouldn't expect a human to do better in the same situation." It's like that scene in The Simpsons with Homer chasing the grill as the pig atop it connects with increasingly nasty things as he yells "it's still good!"
Isn't bitcoin centrally controlled though? Bitcoin's monetary policy is programmed into the bitcoin software. This means whoever writes (or wrote) the software controls the policy.
Then how come that 57% of Africa's population lacking any form of bank account.
Ok, you don't want the health authorities, virologists and experts in pandemics to answer your legit questions about vaccines.

Who do you think that has earned the stripes and the authority to answer your questions then?

FOX news?, a Russian troll farm?, Beyonce?, Jesus?

Please propose somebody that you would trust and why you think that should be seen as an expert in this field, so we can solve this obstacle and move on with our lives.
It sounds well but working crappy. Tried to install several nix packages using their tutorials - all failed.
The MBA's sleep mode is very inexpensive in battery life compared to the advantages. Maybe you don't open your laptop 50 times in a day, but I do, and it's very practical to be able to just pop into a meeting, take the laptop out, and start typing immediately.
> There is no user representation at any $techco. The future of everything is being architected by closed door committee, free from competing ideas.

"User representation" sounds nice, but I wonder how that would work in practice. After all, there is "citizen representation" in modern democratic governments but most decisions are being architected by closed door committees free from competing ideas as well.

One of the examples that comes to mind is the battle of activists with ICE. ICE is a government agency, so activists, being citizens, at least in theory have a say in how it is run. Instead, one of their main tactics is shaming private companies for cooperating with ICE, which is kind of backwards if you take the idea of "citizen representation" at face value.
Language changes. It's the 2020s not 1980s.

Wait until you learn how people use the word "phone" now to describe a small general purpose computer.
Reading a Cochrane review is worthwhile. Whether cherry picking things you wanted to be assured of out of one is a good idea... well, maybe they'll do a Cochrane review eh?

For example, they've got a study on Paracetamol in treatment of the Common Cold. You might be surprised to see the headline outcome is paracetamol doesn't work. But wait, in what sense exactly doesn't it work? Well, the key observation is that people taking paracetamol still sneeze. Sure, lots of them say they feel better, but if we just count the sneezes we can see it didn't help at all...

Well, I'm guessing most readers have had a nasty cold at some point, and I leave it to you to decide whether "My headache felt better but I was still sneezing" means the cheap medicine was ineffective and you shouldn't have bothered.

Edited to add: Or, say, what one on post-surgical pain relief has to say about paracetamol:

"A single dose of paracetamol provides effective analgesia for about half of patients with acute postoperative pain, for a period of about four hours"

So that's nice.
Is it a "joke", or is it a negative stereotype?
As someone else mentioned, it can be found in the USC (South Carolina) archives[0]. That university has a decent historical library, too. If you’re ever in the area, it’s worth a visit.

[0] https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/MVTN/id/5313/r...
There's probably technologies that are easier to use to solve the unbanked problem.

What I find interesting about the article is that it seems to acknowledge this problem. It's doesn't seem like a "crypto is the solution" article.

Crypto is inclusive in the sense that anyone can participate, but exclusive in the sense that the knowledge barrier is really high.

Does anyone know about any kind of project that teaches young people about financial literacy?
The people posting here may be wealthy, but I’d wager the vast majority aren’t Concorde wealthy
Isn't this expected considering 40% of US dollars currently in our financial system were printed last year alone?
Roles you may have to affect climate change
Deconcentration of Attention: Addressing the Complexity of Software (2016)
How can you embed a simple CODE EDITOR
So basically numbers any tech company can get multi-billion dollar IPO nowadays?
Fighter jets are loud as hell, without the sonic boom.

I've heard a lot of fighter jets. But I also don't believe I've heard an actual sonic boom.
I would like to become a CEO, a TLDR of this text would help
me here :)
America chose Wal-Mart over main Street in the 90s. Cheap shit > good jobs.
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Embryotox is a collection of pregnancy safety info for many drugs maintained by the Charite hospital in Berlin, Germany. It’s very popular locally, I’ve seen it used also in pharmacies.

Paracetamol is the therapy of choice for pain and fever during pregnancy. Doctors, pharmacists, etc all recommend it in Germany. Ibuprofen is more problematic.
Bitcoin mining has also been centralised since about 2014 - three entities are known to control >50% of all mining, and there's no way of knowing how many of the other mining entities they have effective control over.

"Decentralised" is a phantasm.
>It doesn't matter how indirect it is. The important fact is the programmer is getting paid for their work. That makes it professional work.

Do kernel contributions getting paid by the Linux foundation count? What if the offending company is donating to the Linux foundation?

>I think there should be an exception for free and open source software though. We have lots of free software designed to be used by people... The chilling effect would simply be too great.

I understand distinguishing between publishing and use. But we're talking about use here. The person responsible for the use of the bad program is usually not the contributor. So there's no chilling effect here?
There is not really a sonic "boom": the sound you hear is shaped as a cone (behind the plane) so it's continuous and emitted as soon as the plane is supersonic. You only hear it one time because you're static, hence the "boom" (everyone on the path of the plane will hear it at different times). A supersonic plane is very loud, and if you're static it sounds like some explosion ( https://www.thelocal.fr/20200930/loud-bang-heard-in-paris-wa... for a "recent" example).

Usually military plane avoid going supersonic close to cities.

Extract from wikipedia:

A sonic boom does not occur only at the moment an object crosses the speed of sound; and neither is it heard in all directions emanating from the supersonic object. Rather the boom is a continuous effect that occurs while the object is travelling at supersonic speeds. But it affects only observers that are positioned at a point that intersects a region in the shape of a geometrical cone behind the object. As the object moves, this conical region also moves behind it and when the cone passes over the observer, they will briefly experience the boom.
Lobbying is just corruption justified
You do local trades according to your better information, before others who don't have it yet. Those take only microseconds.
Anecdotal, but all of the North Americans I've ever worked with, and am related to, swear far more than any Brit I've ever met. Perhaps it is a generational thing?

I can say that as a teen, the amount I swore ruffled feathers daily in the UK. In that same breath, I suppose foul-mouthed kids do tend to shock.
There is only one boom, when you cross the sound barrier.
Well, have you done both?

Do you actually go to work for the money? Or is it more that given your work is broadly fun (, easy for you, etc.) -- that then you focus on money?

What do you think would happen if the work was more challenging than you could manage, wasn't fun, etc. -- would the money then appear as sufficient?
I assume Boom will be owning the global IP on the carbon neutral fuel. because otherwise all other planes will equally carbon neutral.
OSX has been shit for a while, they've been focused on iOS and emulation on the new hardware. the kernel_task kext is probably the worst offender.

Think Windows is better at this point, at least you can disable the garbage there.
In general, that seems like greatest improvement that can be made, because they optimized language itself.
They made it efficient, but still readable, so you can just read or write the code without much/any Googling. I never really understood why simplicity was considered especially "junior-friendly", while actually more experienced people can benefit the most from it. It's much easier now to just visualize algorithms used in code, without introducing tricky notations. It's also much easier to just write your code, when you finally have syntax and stdlib that will cover majority of typical cases, instead of language, where you need to either reinvent the world or use over-engineered libraries to solve common problems.
Yeah I have one of these, its so overdramatic when it's thirsty.
Three Things Go Needs More Than Generics
Which language do you mean? Python 1.0 seems to have come out in 1994 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python#Version_1).
Indeed. Seeing, for example, how some otherwise balanced adults easily get sucked into sinking thousands of hours into incremental clickers while some find them incredibly boring and pointless tells me it just might be due to different "player styles" as well
Hello (Bonjour) from Your Friendly TV Translator
It's been a while since I've seen Godwin's law in the wild.
>Or just buy a gaming laptop...

I was considering these for work, but most reasonably priced options have a poor display. I think there's a gap in the market for gaming performance with a decent display.

I ended up going with a 4k x1 carbon and been pretty happy so far
Maintenance windows are a mistake
Please do define how Bitcoin or Ethereum (among others) are "pyramid schemes". Cryptocurrencies have indeed been used for pyramid schemes by specific actors, but then again so has normal money, and many other things. Numerous people on this site who presumably have the intellectual faculties to know better toss that little qualification out from their mouths almost reflexively out of emotional crypto-hate, but have apparently never even read a basic encyclopedia definition of pyramid scheme structure.
People often repeat this (also in different contexts, e.g. driving skills) as a "proof" that most people don't know math.

In fact, it's the other way around - a proof that the person suggesting this doesn't know math.

If 80% are skilled at 1 and 20% are skilled at -100, then most are better than average.

Or: Imagine a room of people. Bill Gates walks into that room. Most people are now below-average wealthy.
I think you were just hearing the engines, brother. The boom is two loud claps like you say and you might be worried about your Windows.
A walk in the park, 3000 feet up
"As long as they have users developing in GOPATH mode."

It's documentation written when GOPATH was still a widely used for development.

I think nowadays it's less of a concern to have a module first code base with GOPATH unsupported. It's nicer to use a V2 branch. Or delegate V1 to a V1 branch and maintain V2 in master.
Leaving a dead small animal will draw out larger animals who see an easy meal and do real damage when they connect. It's bad advice.
Oh give over.
Procreate is more capable but the Boox sketch app is more featured than you suggest. It has layers, undo, let's you import a PDF or image and you can zoom in or out. Only supports a handful of colors but TBF they are greyscale screens. And of course you can send stuff to yourself and others via. email, cloud services, nearby share etc.

The Boox devices run Android and are considerably more versatile than the rm2. You can run the Google Books app on there too. Plus since it's Android it let's me clone apps so I can use different accounts which is handy since I have a JP Kindle account and a non-JP one so I can be logged in with both at once which is not possible on an iPad.
Because of non-technical reasons: like economical and political reasons.

Cryptocoins won't solve those issues, nor can they bypass them.
Would you have said the same thing about the Tesla roadster 20 years ago?
> where are all your plants?

> We had a fight and they moved out
Who are you protecting with masks when a country is 98% vaccinated?

Wasn’t the promise in most countries that once that level of vaccination is achieved we can go back to normal?

Or can we just be clear that it’s masks for everyone forever from now on, because that’s what people who want to feel safe want.

This isn’t about COVID any more. It can’t be, because everyone’s had a chance to get vaccinated.
It’s a 5 minutes read
The 'unbanked' problem isn't a technical issue in the first place.
Adding to this I also wish Zoom to use native Pipewire for desktop audio capture, currently Zoom desktop audio sharing doesn't work when pulseaudio is replaced by pipewire
The problem to be solved was found some time ago: shifting money from the poor to the rich.
It's aimed at vintage Macintosh, but wouldn't it work with any old computer using SCSI?
I have an HP machine that I would be happy to resuscitate with a new install of HP-UX, but its CD drive is dead.
There’s no evidence to suggest it’s happening here, but I wonder how effective it is to disrupt ransomware activity by making the community distrust each other.
You're misinterpreting the article.

The "go small to go big" thing isn't about being a CEO of a small company.

It's about taking over a small project, growing it successfully, then using that experience & reference to launch yourself into the CEO position of a large company.
Assuming they use bcrypt

"for bcrypt (the default algorithm), the cost increases exponentially with
the number of stretches (e.g. a value of 20 is already extremely slow: approx.
60 seconds for 1 calculation)." Ruby on Rails defaults to 11 stretches, with better computers that number will increase, and it's recommended to not use below 10 in production systems.

Hackers, or rather security researchers, will try 1000 or 5000 long passwords, 10x per second, which like brings down the website, a DOS attack. Happened to me.

I'm not saying 64 character limit is a good limit, I have my settings at 128 after some testing, but any limit is advisable. A website owner just has to be realistic how long usual (not security researchers) users set their passwords and find a trade-off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_stretching
Still no, I remote into a Windows box for the one tool I need that's Windows-only (BMW's ISTA)
I'm not sure how I could have been any clearer.

I said I was not criticising the choice by the individual developer but rather voicing my frustration at the prevalence of that choice.

I don't eat pork so I don't actually care about that particular market.

And for the record I won't be, I generally don't buy EA.
Ask HN: Why are relational DBs are the standard instead of graph-based DBs?
Hi,

I've been recently exposed to some informational systems where all the domain data was modeled as one graph instead of a set of inter-related tables.

I worked with RDBs (primarily Postgres) for 5+ years and I cannot say that it ever felt wrong, but the more I think about modeling data as graphs, the more it makes me confused why it's not the default way.

Graphs seemed to be:
(1) Easier to scale (both storage-wise and complexity-wise).
(2) Closer to how we model the world in our minds, hence easier to reason about.
(3) Easier to query (felt more like GraphQL than SQL if it makes any sense).

The way I see it, there are two major ways to connect singular entities in a data model:
1. Lists (aka tables) that allow you to sort, filter, and aggregate within a set of entities of the same kind.
2. Relations (aka graph edges or foreign keys) to connect singular entities of different kinds.

... And I can imagine relational DBs being List-first Relation-second, and graph DBs being the opposite. But maybe that's too much of a simplification.

Anyway, looking back at different domains I worked with, it felt like I had spent much more time working with relations than with lists.

Another signal: I have an intern developer, and it took him 1 minute to understand the basics of how graphs work, but then I spent two hours explaining why we needed extra tables for many-to-many relations and how they worked.

Any thoughts? What am I missing? Are RDBs the default way mostly due to historical reasons?

Discussion on this topic that I could find: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27541453
Good, finally an aerospace company that considers reliability and uses software. I have to tell my engineering colleagues, they will be happy to hear they can stop drawing on paper. Also that they can replace the sextants for navigation.
> But nobody is "pathologically questioning" anything around vaccines, regardless of what some people may wish to believe.

When the USA is having massive numbers of deaths and severe lasting illnesses, due to refusal to take the safe and effective vaccines and other necessary precautions, this opinion is just not tenable.

It's literally causing deadly disease, at scale. If that's not classifiable as "pathological", then I don't know what is.
Ooo, this looks interesting.

I'm a huge fan of the Zachtronics games which employ some sort of assembly programming.
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... mainly things that aren't even fixable by cryptocurrency?

- Wars. Most people in warzones don't want to hold a bank account because it is very unreliable. Cryptocurrency won't solve that problem, in fact it will exacerbate the problem because of your phone or computer is damaged it's game over[1]. Also, how do you even transact when you don't have any form of communication?

- Actually don't have anything to bank on. Their money is just enough to survive, so they can't even bank, regardless of its form. Giving cryptocurrency is often a proposed solution, while forgetting that regular currency works fine too in these situations.

- Cultural differences. Most, to be honest, don't want to depart their money to someone they don't know. They were introduced to money just a generation or two ago, so they are relatively new here. Good luck convincing that cryptocurrency is trustworthy in a way that can be easily understand.

[1] I mean you could write them on paper, but that's really stretching it, mainly because you need a computer to execute transactions.
An investgation later revealed that the patient's death was not caused by the ransomware attack, and the patient would've died regardless.
Async Stack Traces in Folly
Yeah, I ended up going with the XDR in part because it was the most screen real estate I could get without sacrificing DPI
Yup, with everything else being equal, given the choice I will always use the project written in Go.
Exactly. Government and the State are not synonymous. Churches, states, and corporations all govern. We don't worry about churches as much, as their power has been curtailed by a lot compared to the past. But both States and Corporations having far too much power is a large and difficult problem. When they are in cahoots as much as they are now you know we're up the creek.
Steam's Early Access is much preferable both for "enthusiast users" and the developer compared to the traditional opaque developer/publisher model. If you're not interested in Early Access, just ignore it and buy the game when it's out of Early Access.
Yes, there may be survivorship bias. But I also think there is no “safe fast way” to become a CEO.

When I look at traders and investors, I see the same thing. Most of them are a result of being very lucky and aggressive. Only a few of them actually did it without much luck (e.g. Simmons).
That's more of a training issue than a software issue.
Technocracy. We'll all live in small flats, every move monitored, resources 'correctly' allocated, quarterly 'health' shots, no cars, we'll see very little nature.

My, how far we've come...
Yeah. I’ve always assumed most of these people are low-skilled thugs. The Russian equivalent of tax or tech support call scammers in India.
If these projections are true, one fifth of Toyota by 2022 and still growing is an astonishing achievement.
The Federal Reserve's job is to keep the banking system afloat, w/ the big banks functioning and well fed. And they do a good job of it.

Everything else in "the economy" is incidental.
>And let's not get into the profit margins which is way better than ICE :)

Why is that?