skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thinking on fusion is quite different. It's a technology that used to be considered the default future, but never made a lot of practical sense when examined closely, and now the justification for continuing to pursue it is becoming increasingly threadbare. In a decade or so this will become impossible for even fusion supporters to deny as the alternatives crash in cost.
I am not sure that comparing only sovereign wealth funds per capita tells the whole story. For instance Australia has a lot more private wealth saved up than Norway. At a lower GINI coefficient as well! I am also not sure that the major resource exports like iron ore and coal have the same ability to extract cartel rent extraction of oil, which is a lot more concentrated in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...
Wealth per capita $USD 2021:
Country Median Mean
Australia 238k 484k
Norway 118k 276k
The Australian compulsory super-annuation scheme has made Australian long term pension sustainability much better than the rest of the world. How much of the wealth that could have gone into a sovereign fund has gone into private savings instead? I don't know if Norway or Australia did better.
Canada announces Covid-19 vaccine mandate for travelers on trains and planes
Radical Chemistry Discovery That Reinvented Catalysts Wins Nobel Prize
It’s telling that the article about a “graphical user interface” is only text. I’m all for new ideas but a circle-based UI sounds terrible.
I think it's becoming a more and more accepted that some subset of the population just can't help themselves the question is what do we do with them? A second internet with permeated child safety controls?
Lol. University administrators are not virologists.
Same here! I’m going to see if I can find the cable around here somewhere.
I agree! I've seen Cassandra in production, and learned why it was put there. With it, you still get some of the SQL goodness, but most guarantees are only within one shard.

With that, you let go of the global ordering, because global ordering / single-point serialization just becomes technically infeasible. At that point you usually don't exactly need them, though. You only need local order within a transaction.
Once the child is past the age of breast feeding, biology has nothing to do with how well you can raise a child. It might determine who ends up with the child since judges tend to favor women, but that has more to do with tradition than their innate parental expertise.
To be trivial means to be unimportant, but there is a difference between unimportant and irrelevant. For example, if we found that factor X led to minorities making y% less, but y was 0.00000001, then factor X is trivial, but depending on what you're doing, it may be relevant t the discussion at hand.

Often though today, the things mentioned are not only trivial (not having any meaningful effect) but also irrelevant (in that the causal relationship hypothesized is extremely strained if not non-existent).
Heh, that's a good reference I hadn't read before. I feel like maybe Clojure and OCaml were strike one and two followed by a home run with the F# and dotnet call. Prob feeling real smug right now with aot, wasm, and hot reload being first class citizens haha.
> Mozilla is a global non-profit dedicated to putting you in control of your online experience

Well, I think this is a huge misstep if that’s really your mission statement, Mozilla. Selling “my” eyeballs to ad vendors is not giving me control of my online experience.

It’s, frankly, behavior we expect from Google. From Apple. Facebook. Is this the company you wish to keep?
No it's not. Advertising is natural, from pretty flowers, to peacock and spider dances, to animals marking territory and making whatever mating noises they care to.

The advertising industry, which generally means the corporate owned, mass surveillance apparatus that is every authoritarians wet dream is malicious.
Poloidal field coils in ITER (and really any nuclear MCF machine that will ever be made in the future) integrate dynamic control. They operate on the microsecond timescale, which is expected to be sufficient for expected instabilities. You'd never move a vessel that fast. It's my understanding that instabilities aren't heavily affected by the vacuum wall's location anyway.
I personally don’t think it’s a good idea for lay people to be using systems where they can’t delete their user data. Maybe Apples isn’t the right platform for such things.
Reminds me of the guy that streamed a talking banana on Twitch, where viewers could make it say things. People submitted variations of the n-word and got him banned, and after trying to filter out all character combinations he could think of he wrote a phonetic filter. That apparently worked much better than trying to think of every permutation of characters that sounds like bad words.

https://youtu.be/bJ5ppf0po3k?t=715
Forest Has Been 'Trapped in Time' for 100k Years, Scientists Say
> Don’t Shower During a Thunderstorm

If this was true you could link a news article.

We have 7 billion people we are running an experiment on we don't need any wanker theoretical academics here.

I have seen interviews from people touching metal that leads to the outside of the house for instance being lightly struck.

People deafened because it hit the power cables while listening to a plugged in iPod.

No showering.

Stop listening to academics. They make money not from the truth, but getting on TV or being published != truth.

We have a running simulation, you have a brain, use it.

(Catching a cold is however an interesting 'myth')

[Edit] I'll eat humble pie - Actually it's true - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bath-lightning-deaths/ Either holding the shower head or alternatively through the metal floor (bathtub) is how it does it.

"Wishkeno said the lightning bolt struck a tree, traveled through its roots, entered the house through the plumbing, shot into the bathroom where she was standing in a metal tub and jolted her."
A World Ordered Only by Search
> is colonized?

It’s almost as if you’re being intentionally obtuse. The established term (that I used) is “modern” colonialism - it doesn’t necessarily involve physical colonization, rather systematic external control.

Russia has been tussling with the West for a prolonged period now. Regardless, they are the second largest exporter of oil to the USA. (1)

Canada is an American, Western country. Not sure why they would fall under my reasoning, which was specifically about non-Western countries. The USA is the one usually leading this oil-hungry warring - it’s even a meme at this point.

Brazil has various issues, most stemming from external influences corrupting the local political powers. Oil is just one of them, they are also coerced to deforest their country for European exports. (2)

(1) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/russia-oi...

(2) https://e360.yale.edu/digest/major-portion-of-brazils-export...
I get that. Your comments resonate with me.

As for the CPU...

I paid a few hundred bucks as I put together a great 8 bit workstation and had similar thoughts.

We are buying the system. A lot went into these things. A lot can still come out. And the skills can matter to us. Maybe that helps some.
Where did you get that science?
Ask HN: How do ex-employees sell shares in a late-stage, pre-IPO company?
I was an early employee of a company that closed their $150M series E in May. I'd like to liquidate some of the shares I own instead of waiting another 2-3 years for a possible IPO. I understand there are secondary markets that broker these deals but I haven't had any luck with them. Can I find an interested buyer myself and skip the wait/brokerage fee? If my former employer and its investors have a tendency to exercise its ROFR, can I just approach them directly with an offer to buy some of my shares?
Birds Have a Mysterious 'Quantum Sense'. Scientists Have Now Seen It in Action
CloudFormation/Terraform/etc are also configuration management programs. They just work on the APIs of cloud vendors, rather than a package management tool's command-line options. They've been given a new name because people want to believe they're not just re-inventing the wheel, or that operating on cloud resources makes their tool magically superior.
No mention of Gorilla Hooks, my favorite method of attaching anything to the wall up to 50 lbs.

Basically you drive a curved piece of metal through the wall, as you drive it in it curves up to impact the drywall above your insertion point, and it has a hook on the end.

It works so much easier then any of the stupid anchors, and I haven't had one fail over 15 years of using them for everything.
> hanging (often), times out, rollback hanging not succesful

The timeouts in CF are ridiculous. Especially with app deployments. I can't remember which service it is, but something can wait up to 30min on a failed `apply` and then wait the same on a failed revert. Only then you can actually deploy the next version (as long as it wasn't part of the first deploy, then you get to wait until everything gets deleted as well).

(yes, in many cases you can override the timeouts, but let's be honest - who remembers them all on the first run or ever?)
Which country are you from/talking about?
> But if you are deploying a structure once only, do you really need this?

Exact reason why I'm building my company. I worked on several teams now where developers would spend weeks figuring out how to get their apps to run in AWS instead of releasing features. At one company, we solved the issue by letting the devs use Terraform modules - but ended up with a different issue: devs would just copy/paste code without fully understanding why they are spinning the infra in that way. It's my honest opinion that developers should not be forced to become cloud experts.
I recently published an app on this platform and the whole experience was really smooth.
To be fair, some have said this leaker from Facebook is quite vulnerable to being sued or even prosecuted and are probably wondering why Facebook is not taking legal action against her. The most obvious guess is that she is effectively protected by the press that Facebook is receiving at the moment. Without that publicity, i.e., the help of "conflicted" journalists, her legal arguments for protection seem rather weak.
> Ecosystem matters a lot these days.

and having a big ecosystem doesn't mean it's a good or a healthy one either.
Qtotal doesn't affect the physics of the plasma. Qplasma does. Making a machine that burns plasma is expensive. Actually understanding burning plasma is necessary to build a reactor. This basic understanding appears to be lost on Sabine.
On the old end of that band...

When I was in SV during the dot com boom, the combination of the gender imbalance in the area (I seem to recall it being about 80 single women for every 100 single men between the ages of 20 and 29), the lack of having any firm tie to the area (no hope of getting a house - it was all single bedroom apartment rentals) and the, lets call it "cost of courtship" - it really didn't make financial sense to invest too much time or heart into dating and trying to get married.

Later and elsewhere, the expectation that I'd be the single source of income for a family of a previously divorced woman and step kids was a distinct turn off for trying to pursue a relationship later.

Having siblings get married, have kids, and get divorced and the continued difficulties with that a decade later makes marriage and kids even less appealing to someone who has never had either to see what benefit they provide (yes, I'm sure they do - I just don't know what it is in relationship to my own investment of time, money, and heart).

Now, I'm going to say I'm a grumpish graying beard who's too set in his ways.

Sure, it would be nice to have a partner in life to take some of the household decisions. Managing a house as a single adult is more difficult and expensive than doing it with a partner, but the degree of change that I am expected to make accommodations in my life just makes it feel not worth it to even try to pursue.

And as I write this, I'll note that I do have at least a bachelor's degree, I am employed, my salary is well above the median earnings reported, and I am not financially vulnerable; nor am I living in my parents' home, institutionalized, or have any children in the household. So in those respects for this survey, I'm atypical.

---

Aside: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/11/the-share-o... is an earlier reporting of the data based on the 2007 - 2017 data.
In the pre-smartphone age, calculators represented the only widely available mobile gaming platform for bored high school kids. That motivated a lot of people I know, including me, to dabble in programming.
A lot seems to be riding on the definition of delete.

Apple's announcement says:

must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app.

It's only "initiate" deletion, so if we treat that as Step #1, then if Step #2 is, as in the NYT example, to ring support to confirm your intention to delete you account, then this may not deter much user-hostile behavior. It just kind of smears it to a different part of the tablecloth.

It also specifically says 'deletion' rather than cancellation or disablement, but I doubt Apple are going to follow up on this eventual deletion (or alternative watered-down definition) of account past this "initiate" step.

Will users have recourse through Apple if their "initiated" account deletion request goes no further than step #1?
> Firefox is developed completely in the open and accepts external contributions

This is overstating the reality. For much of these controversial changes, supporting documentation in Bugzilla links to sources like Google docs, JIRA and Figma, which are private to Mozilla employees. Similarly it was discussed that much of the development discussion moved from Mozilla IRC (now Matrix) to the private Slack instance.
That's a PWA (Progressive Web App). It exists but support is spotty on most platforms and non-existent on iOS.
California is shutting down its last nuclear plant
UCHealth Denies Kidney Transplant to Unvaccinated Woman and Donor
Why not just convert numbers like 1 to i or l then check with a manually created bad word list?

Would regex be really much faster than checking it against a 1000 or more bad word list?

Also bad word list can easily get updated by moderators as well, I really can’t understand the logic behind using so much regex.
F# at its heart is OCaml without functors, and with its original structurally typed OO model replaced by .NET's.
It’s so laughable that we care about whether a generated string contains some temporally relevant profanity. We truly are still barbarians, and will be viewed as such by history.
Awesome project, I'll check it out. We're building something similar but visually instead of code.
The GitHub Enterprise organization thing poses a request to GitHub: is there an audit trail for this kind of operations (moving organization to be a part of another org)? If there's none yet, the need is apparent.
Since we're swapping TI calculator stories...

In 8th grade Geometry class circa 2007, I had an awesome teacher and loved the subject. I found an extra TI-83+ laying around the house from my brothers. I found a guide online and started building simple programs.

A few weeks later, there was a quiz. I asked the teacher if it was permissible to use calculator programs on the quiz. He thought a moment and said it was fine as long as I wrote them myself.

So I wrote a very simple program that probably did little more than guide which formula to use in a basic decision tree.

It was the hardest quiz of the year, it was just difficult content. My class has 1 A, 1 B, 1 C, and about 23 F's. I was the B.

After that, graphing calculators weren't allowed.

Mad respect for Mr. Gass. He had two Apple IIe's and had programmed Wheel of Fortune and Jeopard! for review days ahead of tests. He had a couple TV's around the classroom so everyone could see the game well, and would turn on Bill Cosby during some working sessions because at the time, he was a well respected man.

Mrs. Gass was also a math teacher. Some students who had both teachers made shirts which advertised "I passed Gass twice"
Not a disorder. Totally normal. This is why cognitive models distinguish between visual and verbal processing.
one thing to just merge it, but another entirely to reopen it twice disregarding what the maintainer has asked of you before forcing it. At the very least disrespectful and arrogant.
Probably an A/B triggered in installations that allow Firefox studies. That's the feature used to conditionnally deploy these.
I imagine he came to that conclusion only after he reviewed the exploration reports, maps, and other internal documents within the ministries.
Exactly, I made this and sadly it won't go away until enough people install it. Even after spending some $ on a certificate this is the case.
Hope it didn't stop you from trying. :-)
> TF can be used as a managed service.

Sure, but I never seen that myself. If TF was used it was always own set up infrastructure at best.

> The same is true with TF, except 100000% better unless you're paying boatloads of money for higher tiered support.

Again, all places I worked had enterprise support and even rep assigned. I think I only used support for CF early on, I don't know if it was buggier back then or I just understood it better and didn't run into issues with it.

> CF syntax is an abomination. Lots of the bounds of CF are dogmatic and unhelpful.

I would agree with you if you were talking about JSON, but since they introduced YAML it is actually better than HCL. One great thing about YAML is that it can be easily generated programmatically without using templates. Things like Troposphere make it even better.

> CF generally takes an entire DevOps team to care for, for any substantial project.

Over nearly 10 years of my experience, I never seen that to be a case. I'm currently in a place that has an interesting approach: you're responsible for deployment of your app, so you can use whatever you want, but you're responsible for it.

So now I'm working with both. And IMO I see a lot of resources that are not being cleaned up (because there's no page like CF has, people often forget to deprovision stuff), also seeing bugs like for example TF needs to be run twice (I think last time I've seen it fail was that it was trying to set tags on a resource that wasn't fully created yet).

There is also situation that CF is just plain better. I mentioned in another comment how I managed to get datadog integration through a single CF file deployed through stackset (this basically ensured that any new account is properly configured). If I would end up using TF for this, I would likely have to write some kind of service that would listen for events from the control tower, whenever a new account was added to OU, then run terraform to configure resources on our side and make API call to DD to configure it to use them.

All I did was to write code that generated CF via troposphere and deploy it to stackset in a master account once.
If you want the full experience:

https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox

Wait for it to boot, Start > Run, type mplayer
File > Open, click In the Hall of the Mountain King.mid

:)
> help with problems are a support ticket away

While this is true and AWS support is very responsive and useful, it doesn't mean they solve all the problems. Sometimes their help is: "I'll note that as a feature request, in the meantime you can implement this yourself using lambdas".
No, they should get their full salary, as the author is. The overtime complicates things, I'd personally lean toward including the overtime pay they were projected to have earned to avoid creating the chilling effect you describe (either in perception or reality), but I can see the case for excluding it too.
Given the Dr Kheriaty was infected last year, wouldn't that mean that even by EU standards, he would be considered the same as a Covid-naive individual?
This story was mentioned on a related discussion 2.5 weeks ago:

· Norway is wealthy because of oil. Can it give up fossil fuels? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28576597#28577318 | 50 points | 66 comments

The previous discussion was also spawned in similar fashion:

· https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19594153 | 347 points | April 7, 2019 | 129 comments

· Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19590854#19593054 | 443 points | April 6, 2019 | 249 comments
I never could understand what was addictive. I kept my account for a few years because I used the chat and posted art my friends and family would enjoy. When I got a smartphone I quit the platform since I could do that stuff on my phone's messaging app. Only thing that seems appealing to me now is the marketplace versus Craigslist.
I recently did a comparison of Pulumi and CDK. Pulumi's AWS abstractions are sadly nowhere near as good as CDK patterns, resulting in far more code needing to be written for the same result. I've also noticed that Pulumi seems to have a hard time accurately tracking state for AWS resources.

Pulumi does work very well in the Azure space as Azure resources are already well abstracted.
That sounds excellent, actually. What's the apple hide my email thing though?
Is there any evidence that therapy is helpful? Haven't seen any evidence supporting it but I might not be searching correctly.
Reminds me.

Anyone got the link to delete your Apple ID? It's been years since I've had a need for mine.
I am not versed in all the details here, but it is clear there is a diverge of expectations between MS and some of the repo owners. This is just part of business. Legal agreements and projects are complicated. Not everything is going to be spelled out. In a good business relationship you acknowledge this and work in good faith to resolve differences when they occur.

However, top comments make clear there is a dire need for professional communications training among these programmers. There is entirely too much emotion on display here. Stuff like this:

While I appreciate that this must have been hard to write, this is a total non-apology and just about meets the incredibly low expectations I and others had for the .NET Foundation's public statement.

.. and the other comments like it, are not productive. There is a difference in expectations, so resolve it by making offers to MS for proposed changes. Ultimately there is a negotiated settlement or you walk. That's it. Don't bring emotions into it.
George Stone (Composer of Canyon.mid)
I agree with the gist of what you write, but I think your text below (although correct) is misleading.

"But that's not what's happening across the Western democracies."

Western democracies do indeed have poor social reproduction, but I do NOT believe "Western" or democracy is the driving factor. If anything, your statement understates the issue because below replacement fertility rates are rapidly expanding and by no means restricted to the West or to democracies. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

There are ~ 90 countries where fertility is below replacement including disparate non-Western countries like UAE, China, South Korea, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nepal, Lebanon, etc... including those that are not democratic.
The obvious difference is that Norway fairly compensated the very few assets on the ground owned by foreign parties at the time.
Whereas Iran had massive assets on the ground mostly owned by foreign parties, that were ‘compensated’ at fire sale prices?
I'm curious about whether using Postgres native partitioning was considered? If so, I'd like to hear the rationale for not doing it.

It seems like you made the database sharding decision as a result of vacuum taking too long. Partitioning the problematic table (assuming you're storing "blocks" in 1 giant table) would have enabled per-partition vacuuming, which will avoid long running vacuum processes.