skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The two sides had not signed a contract, she told The Post.

I was thinking this was probably going to be a slam dunk for the AfD. However, if no money had yet exchanged hands, and there was no contract, and only an oral agreement, then this might be a case where the little details are really going to matter.

In all likelihood, the non-existent service is going to be punished. An oral agreement is still an agreement, and they did receive merchandise, which could arguably have value.

However, I would expect this one to settle out of court, away from criminal liabilities, because otherwise it may drag on for years.
So making people click an extra link to go somewhere off site is better? I'm not sure I agree.
>I know, we hear much talk about
transformation -- about the coming Great Singularity, the Omega Point, the
emergence of a new global consciousness.

I have an alternative theory, something like an Anti-Singularity. Or maybe the Peter Principle of engineering development - every piece of software and hardware will be developed one stage beyond what is possible to debug or make reliable. Thus, we will end our technological days desperately trying to make disparate and barely-functional systems do something useful.

For evidence of this theory, be a sysadmin.
A headline which gives people the wrong impression is still misinformation. It makes the world less informed than before, as people rarely read articles after reading the headlines.

Edit: And it is super important to point out this misinformation in the top comment to an article, so that we can correct as many people as possible. So stating that this is misinformation isn't just some pedantic complaining, it helps correct the view of a lot of people and maybe will help make more people think a bit before writing headlines.
I would say nay, for a number of reasons.

Let's take the somewhat sunshine scenario first. You make something that actually succeeds. You start earning a lot of money. Has each of you contributed as much to the outcome as the other. And will both of you say so about a person they have only met online. Prisoners dilemma. Or at least could be if one decides to screw the other. And I think every piece of research ever done about behavior online points to the fact that people are less empathetic towards each other online.

Second point: I have started to believe that the most important factor in any endeavor, whether it being starting companies or otherwise, is to do it with people you really enjoy spending time with. Whether you succeed or not you have to make the journey, that journey might as well be with someone you really like.

You can of course find someone online that you end up really liking, but I would advise against a "fully remote" relationship.
Then we both agree
I disagree. Understanding what you may have done that wasn't appropriate is in my opinion the only way to avoid similar situations in the future.

Why not allow meta-discussions? If HN is striving to be a place where interesting topics can be discussed, then I suppose commenting etiquette should fall under that heading for sure.
That's awesome! I've looked at their phones in the past when shopping for a new phone, I just wished they had a version with U.S. cellular bands.
Unfortunately that's common in a lot of places. Many of the cathedrals were actually used to billet roundhead troops, and they seem to have spent their free time doing that sort of thing.
Could someone enlighten me how laser fusion of prefabricated pellets (at least that's how I understand the idea in the article) can generate electricity? In a Tokamak or Stellarator, we collect heat on the outside, AFAIK and generate electricity in the good, old, "make something spin quickly" manner. But in a laser-ignition device, we need to shoot a pellet into some kind of chamber, so that chamber better be relatively cool or our pellet melts or deforms before it can be hit by the lasers, right? So how does one tackle that problem?
> React offers an unopinionated path for the front end only, thats not really Rails.

I would argue that they are close, with Rails getting less and less "convention over configuration" with time, and people focusing more and more on the frontend. They were made at different times and it shows, with React leveraging plenty of ways to not really write backend code anymore (GraphQL, things like Prisma, Firebase).

> Its also probable some people will get sick of it eventually and hoprfully Ruby is now a more viable option. Php is the most hated technology in the last Stackoverflow survey, thats pretty bleak.

Most developers don't even know this survey exists. I'm far from a PHP fan, but the group of people that use PHP and hate on PHP is a small minority of PHP users and haters. Ruby and Rails are mostly unknown in France for example, while everyone knows Java, PHP.

> To me Ruby is nicer so I am sticking to where I am happy.

That's the important part! At the end of the day, they are relatively equivalent tools and we are humans, so emotional attachment matters. The diversity and cross-pollination benefits everyone (except beginners).
Communication multiples due to the number of people involved.
Has this been resolved yet? Should we collectively be reading between the lines?
Sure, if that’s your rebuttal and your willing to accept millions, then yea some people will of course blame religion in cases where it’s not at fault.

The inquisition for example gets marginally worse treatment than it deserves. While they did torture many innocent people to death they were sometimes used by others as a means of murder. The death total wasn’t 10’s of millions either. Hell they even regularly let innocent people go

On the other hand some significantly underestimate these evils by insisting on hard evidence of each individual death. Which of course fails when paperwork was lost or was never created, people died from the torture before they could be burned etc.
Who knows. The problem is not getting fusion, but getting fusion to economically produce power. Hopefully one of the startups figure out some way to make it work.

I have a hard time seeing the NIF approach becoming economical. It's more of a science experiment.
It is good to see that the per capita trend has reversed, maybe if the global population would not increase steadily we may actually not increase energy consumption steadily.

Edit: I found an interesting nature article[0] that looks at different correlations of population and consumption to identify if there is an anthropocene epoch. There are pretty clear-cut trends but who knows, maybe Earth's population will actually reach a kind of steady state.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00029-y.pdf
I would probably not have the same response, indeed. Allow me to explain: my dislike of the way these companies have acted is not political.

Gab rolled their own SQL injection prevention and failed at it, published the source for it (because they forked Mastodon and had to) and got hacked. When they got hacked they tried to cover it up and did barely anything to fight the fire they created. They got hacked again because they never reset any user tokens in the aftermath.

Parler got hacked due to them building a platform on Wordpress, using 3rd party plugins that were riddled with security holes that they never updated. On top of that due to their decision to use WP their entire platform got scraped using the sequential IDs.

And we've all seen this entire Epik debacle.

I see these as a complete betrayal of user trust and it makes any similar platform or service potentially dangerous to its users, that's all. If you're interested in my political opinion: I'm very torn between censorship and free speech as far as any entity in guardianship of others' speech is concerned, I still haven't found a balance where I'd feel comfortable planting myself because no decision happens in a bubble and is shielded from consequences in a bubble.

So, to circle back, I don't dislike Cloudflare for hosting Gab, I wouldn't even say I hate Gab for being Gab, I just avoid it. I don't know if I'd do business with Gab or not, but I'd say this: if you develop a reputation, whether thanks to you or people outside of your influence (the press or social media, for example), you have to manage it and act accordingly or risk causing a fallout.

Now, personally, I'd avoid white supremacists and anarchist groups, malware providers, hacking groups and any extremists as far as doing business with myself.

However, I'm not in charge of a giant company so I don't have to draw the line and I'm thankful for that, I certainly don't know if I'd have the wisdom to both consider my best interests, my company's best interest and the world's, all at once.
Deciding that it's not meant for mobile is a perfectly acceptable position to take, in my opinion.
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The first thermonuclear weapon (or H-bomb) test was successfully completed in 1952. That is, a nuclear bomb that uses a fission reaction to create the conditions for a more pworful fusion reaction, which is either the final step, or is used to power an additional fission step, amplifying the final explosion many times more.

The NIF experiment explained here, which uses a laser to generate X rays by heating the walls of a heavy metal hohlraum, and then uses these X-rays inside the hohlraum to compress a pellet of gas to ignite a fusion reaction is very similar to the conditions inside an H-bomb, which also generates X-rays (via a fission reaction) to compress and ignite a fusion reaction.

The weapons use is relatively simple - fusion reactions expel much more energy than fission reactions, and using the power of a fission reaction to compress and to ignite a fusion reaction inside a large amount of gas expels much more energy than simply exploding the power of the fission reaction outwards.
Price still seems absurdly high for backup purposes.

$0.015/GB/month means $150/10TB/month, but you can buy an 10TB USB hard drive for around $150-250 which is likely to last at least 10 years on average, so the service costs on the order of 100 times the cost of just the drives.

Though maybe CloudFlare is not the best suited company for the "lots of cheap drives for backup" business.
I literally want it. I prefer the virus over the treatment if the chances are 99.9%+ that I survive it. I expect it to me more like 99.99%+.

I say so since the beginning (when there was no vaccine): let me get it so I can help in old folks homes.

But what I got was mandates/lockdowns and free mRNA treatments. Not taking the jab means lots of hassle. I see what govts are doing to us. I dont like that. So I resist.
This is precisely how I approach writing a journal. Some days are easier than others. On the not so easy days, simply writing anything, in an almost stream of consciousness way, gets the ball rolling and the thoughts and feelings finally gel in to something comprehensible.
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Why are you blurring the previous row? Why are you disabling scrolling? These are hostile to the user.
It's not that catastrophic failure destroys a good chunk of the plant, it's that any accident in the hot part of the reactor becomes very difficult to repair. So even a relatively minor accident can turn your multibillion dollar investment into junk.
Odd how humourless readers downvote a comment thats both apropos (or at least arguably), undeniably true and incidentally funny.
There seems to have been a new impetus to the construction in the last ten or so years. No idea of the schedule though. I guess I should have said "more unfinished".
"Is this the best tool for the job"

is a very simple statement that should be universally applied. Somehow, people have been convinced that "tech", now re-defined as "the latest and greatest internet-connected widget", is the best tool for every job, when (for example) regularly meeting up with friends is actually the best way to form deep social bonds and reap the rewards in personal development, or finding some other way to entertain yourself than passively staring at a screen is a more productive way to occupy your brain and life energy.

We really have become ensnared by our own creations.
> Honestly I think you're proving the need for this ban on YouTube. You seem to be trying to get it right, but you've been hoodwinked by the misinformation.

I think you're proving the need never to censor information. I think you're the one who has been hoodwinked.

https://rumble.com/vn3y22-tfnt9-cdc-and-fda-vaccine-committe...

Please jump to around 35:00 where Kirsch compares serious adverse reactions to all vaccines of all kinds from the five years immediately preceding COVID, and the COVID vaccines, and finds, for example, around 3000 times as many reports of pulmonary embolism associated with the COVID vaccines.

Kirsch is right. FDA and CDC are both ignoring huge warning signals from VAERS. Huge, obvious signals. They should have seen them, but didn't, and they ignore them even when brought to their attention.

This is the kind of information being kicked off of YouTube.
Have you reviewed the data yourself? Very few of the domains containing Nazi or far-right terms have ever actually been live sites. The ones that are/have been live are a very tiny subset of the overall customer base. There was a recently suspended Twitter account, @epikfailsnippets, that was publicly outing “the fash”. They got a handful of sites that were actually hosting hateful content before moving on to “Christian fascist” websites because there really weren’t as many hate sites as they claimed/expected. The majority, well over 99%, were innocent users using Epik for domain services.
Looks interesting. It is not very clear to me where the "plrivacy-first" comes in.
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Excellently written article!
Whoever downvoted maybe give me feedback about what you disliked about my comment
When I was promoted to manager the COO who was above me gave me the following advice: "For an employee, the direct manager is the company. People will judge the company, and decide to stay or leave depending on how you perform".

It's funny how looking back this is exactly why I decided to change companies, before and after. I absolutely loath interviewing, but it only takes an unsupportive manager to tip me. On the other hand, my direct superior now, a CTO, is completely different from every other manager I had, so I have zero desire to leave, the risk is just too much.
Yea. I wasn’t familiar with Sinch but it does sound like they are a Twilio competitor.
From the article:

In a video, researchers demonstrated making a contactless Visa payment of £1,000 from a locked iPhone.
Apple said the matter was "a concern with a Visa system".
Visa said payments were secure and attacks of this type were impractical outside of a lab.

Even if they want to blame Visa, Apple always touted the security measures THEY took so I am curious how they will square (pun not intended) this.
"green energy sector not making their minds up and flip flopping between solar/wind/fusion/etc"

Since fusion does not work sustainable yet (or at all), I would not classify it as green energy. (Where is for example the tritium coming from?)

But once it works - it likely will not magically supply all of humanity at once in a way, that is way cheaper than what we can have with wind, water and sun now.

So why flip flopping? We use what works. If fusion really works soon, awesome.

But honestly, I have to see, to believe. What I see is, that solar and co. are working now and do not require a fundamental breakthrough for very, very complex machinery under heavy fusion fire to work consistently.

And desserts for solarfarming, we have enough. As well, as many, many roofes in the cities.
Solarfoils might be the next big thing to cover them big scale cheaply.
And stationary batteries can be made of cheap materials avaible in abundance.
Lots of other possibilities, too. Simple, reliable tech, compared to Fusion. So fusion would be nice to have, but I would not allocate more critical ressources to it, that might be better spend elsewhere.

Sure, investing into the energy grid, sounds not as sexy and interesting as building a fusion reactor. But maybe that is, what is currently more needed, to make it more flexible for the fluctating renewable energy sources.

And with the sun, we have already a big working fusion reactor. Why not focus on harvesting that energy more?
I loved the keyboard navigation. Alt+H opens Firefox's Help menu for me however. I wanted to try using it for a while, but then I wanted to comment here, and well, it seems like commenting still has to be done from the normal interface... :)
cobbled together to avoid any cloud: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28705136

otherwise dedicated apps for it exist or you use google location history and some online plotting tool.
The "right wing" doesn't really care about free speech, they are only talking about it because they "feel" that they are being "suppressed".
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If your phone is older than an iPhone 11 or you're not upgraded to iPhone 15 then you won't have this feature
This is is not good writing any more than curling a single finger a thousand times is good exercise for the body.
The main thing is that the extension would still have to be able to run its JS on any page to be able to show the interactive sidebar. Not sure there is a way around that, unless chrome decides to implement the sidebar api that firefox has (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...), then the sidebar code doesn't have to run in the same context as the page.
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How do I read the comments?
> ...that even the simplest tasks contain when rolled out to millions of people.

Wasn't this precisely the focus of the article?
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We buy books that we don’t read, gym membership that we never use, clothes we never wear… I guess corporations are no different?
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I particularly like the response time (low latency). It's underappreciated in web design.
The biggest example of your last point that I've seen first hand is Electronic Arts and Frostbite.

Mandating that all EA games be made with their own engine has caused so many delays, rushed games, and broken products by teams who have already proven they can deliver amazing games on their own terms.
It's not copying and pasting of public data, it's illegal obtaining of other party's data. Extra illegal since credit cards got hacked as well. Just a reminder if you seed this torrent.
If parent is referring to rainbow-identifiers, it seems that it uses so called syntax tables, which are used for syntactic parsing of documents, they are created by the buffer major mode and are shared between modules. They are used for all kind of things, like indenting, cursor movement, etc.

At least that's my understanding, I'm a long time emacs user, but I don't have a very deep knowledge of the internals.
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Glad there are sane people in this world still. This SJW trend needs to die. It's cancer to society.
> Non-existent words should be easy to check for.

I'm interested in your magical solution because this is a hard problem.
ITER may deliver something tangible, but also something that is not on any realistic path to being competitive. It's far too large for the power it (or DEMO) would produce.

It's also possible ITER will just deliver a negative outcome, if they can't figure out how to control disruptions sufficiently. A reactor that violently breaks itself is not something anyone would want to buy.
It's hard because it's meant to be hard.

Once you have a large org that's making money, you don't really know exactly why it makes money. Sure, there's annual filings and there's still the elevator pitch of what the org does. But the actual how of how it works is difficult to describe in causal terms: if team X or Y was not there, the business would do better/worse? How does this team interact with that? It's really a bunch of informal relationships between different people, and both the people and the relationships change over time.

So what you want to do when you know the whole sorta-works and you want to keep it that way is you pour glue all over it. You try to formalize processes, you give people titles and you make hierarchies. That way you attempt to stop the firm from inadvertently slipping into dysfunction.

The side effect is of course that everyone who works there can see ways to improve things, but they can't see a way to get those improvements implemented.
Please work on this more, this is just such a pleasant interface! On the other hand, the criticism here in HN is also mostly correct. It should be more accessible, but definitely a great start!
> Since these policies so rarely help improve or ship features, it’s just an ever-increasing source of productivity loss from the perspective of someone who wants to get stuff done. When internal politics are complained about, this is typically the root cause.

"Why do I have to fill in this mountain of paperwork, in triplicate, just to get permission to do this basic activity that is an essential part of my job, and hence the permission being granted is a foregone conclusion anyway?"

"Eleven years ago a guy named Bob tried something similar and screwed up terribly."

"But not the same?"

"No, but similar. So anyway now we have a 'process' to make sure nothing like that will ever happen again."

"Is Bob liable to make the same mistake?"

"Oh no, he's learned his lesson. Also, he was fired a year later, so he's not around anyway."

"So, has anyone made the same mistake since?"

"No."

"Do you think I'll make the same mistake?"

"I don't believe so, no."

"So why do I have to fill out the paperwork to avoid making a mistake we all know I won't make, especially now that I've been made aware of it."

"Just in case."

"Just in case, what?"

"Well, how do we know that you won't make mistakes? We have to have proof, some sort of written evidence."

"But you can't prove ahead of time that people won't make mistakes! People don't make mistakes on purpose, so no amount of paperwork will ever stop mistakes happening."

"You're just being argumentative now. You're not special, everyone has to do the paperwork."

"Why everyone? You just said only Bob ever made the mistake!"

"HR told us that we can't make rules just for Bob, so everyone has to follow the same rules. That's fair."

"But you don't need the paperwork any more, you got rid of Bob!"

"Yes, but the process has been established, it would take a lot of time and effort -- and paperwork -- to change it now."

"It's less than making everyone jump through unnecessary hoops just to do their jobs!"

"Maybe, but I'm very busy. Back-to-back meetings to discuss important matters, like how several staff are behind on their paperwork and may need to be disciplined."

etc, etc, etc...

I've had conversations like that -- nearly verbatim -- at several organisations in contexts such as:

"Why does it take four weeks to add a firewall rule?"

and:

"Why is the minimum permitted change turnaround time two months?"

and:

"Why can't person responsible for system X have access to said system X?"