skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of the progress on fusion and whatnot, China's move will force the US re-enter nuclear in the short term, if it decides to offer more than just platitudes to "climate crisis" goals. It's the only clean, abundant energy source supported by the sane and rational subset of both of the main parties.
> How startups expect to make progress or deliver a groundbreaking products following this inverted psychology is beyond me.

The vast majority of startups are not doing any groundbreaking technology, they're just packaging some crummy REST APIs written in a hairball of messy slow code.
> In this study, we enrolled healthy volunteers who were to be vaccinated with an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (Vero Cell) ... To our surprise, we observed quite consistent pathophysiological changes regarding electrolyte contents, coagulation profiles, renal function as well as cholesterol and glucose metabolic-related features, as if these people had experienced an infection with SARS-CoV-2.
The 8 year old iPhone has such high value because it can still be repaired.

A 2021 iPhone will hold less of its initial value in 2029 than the mentioned 5S holds today.
in cold climate you mine bitcoin to warm up your house or you will feeze to death, or you can just let the electricity make heat doing nothing.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Ithkuil/comments/nnvuzn/welcome_to_...

Seems like the latest iteration of the language has stalled due to developer burnout, which makes sense, given the staggering scope. I wonder if machine learning or programming language developers could provide meaningful support? Maybe some mathematicians?

Using English well can be a life's work - to create a language intended to improve the depth and nuance of expressed meaning is crazy ambitious. It doesn't seem TempleOS crazy - anyone have any firsthand experience of Ithkuil that can recommend for our against it?
Thank you @kyawzazaw for posting this! I'm the developer of the app. I'm happy to answer any questions :)
“Are 4 nodes less reliable than 3?”

The answer is 3 is no less reliable then 4.
Okay, let me repeat. I’m not speaking about NSOs founders or the org. The concern I’m highlighting is that we’re not treating our most brilliant minds with the care that keeps them happy here.

That is the link to episode 47 of dark net diaries.

I guess Hacker News has devolved into a place of talking over each other and downvotes.
Censorship in China is completely orthogonal to whether the issue will be investigated or not. This is because censorship's primary goal is not to suppress anti-government information, but to supress collective action. Both pro- and anti-govt messages are censored if they have collective action potential. Conversely, anti-govt messages are not censored if they lack collective action potential.

Furthermore, the Chinese government is very responsive to citizens' feedback. This means actually addressing feedback by changing policies. Online criticisms and offline protests are common. Threatening the govt with collective action, increases response rate.

Thus, a seemingly paradoxical phenomenon is common in China: messages get censored and the govt does something about the issue.

All these claims are shown by research:

Harvard: Conditional Receptivity to Citizen Participation: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in China http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.703...

American Journal of Political Sciences: Sources of Authoritarian Responsiveness: A Field Experiment in China https://china.ucsd.edu/_files/pe-2014/10062014_Paper_Jen_Pan...

Harvard: How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-censorship-china-...

At the end of the day, westerners will still not agree with how China works. But I think it's important to keep in mind that China works quite differently from popular imagination.
That's fascinating and excellent to hear. How does management (and everybody else involved) determine that they're a bad team fit vs. a bad hire?

In some cases it might be easy: if the developer has done highly visible, rockstar-level work elsewhere, or if folks on the team have worked with them in the past.

What about other cases, where you have a good engineer with a solid career that hasn't had high-visibility wins? If I was working "in the trenches" alongside such an engineer, I might have a sense of this, or I might not.

Maybe I just haven't worked at a company where this sort of patience is viable. FB and others have effectively infinite amounts of cash. But at the companies where I've worked, there's never been the patience (or cash) required to let 100-250K engineers sort of slowly find their way.

I feel I should reiterate that I'm 100% in favor of this; just kind of amazed it's possible. =)
> I don't read fiction it's a waste of time

Some truths are only mass-publishable as fiction.
This type of antiscientific/clickbait reporting shouldn't be on HN. ITER (whatever you think of its results, its competition with more modern approaches like commonwealth fusion systems, and fusion in general) has never been designed for, and has never claimed net-positive power production. It's a prototype vessel for research.
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I thought 20 years difference was extreme. This is 40 years. He could be her grandfather.
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Wow, that’s some impressively bad statistical analysis.

The author cherry picks 2019 vs 2020 for deaths from natural disaster showing a decline when basically everyone stayed home in the US in 2020.

He also uses natural distaster deaths rates from 200 years ago to compare to now.

Somehow these statements prove Democrats are more likely to believe that natural disasters are killing more people.

He then says emissions have declined 14% over the last decade, by again pausing a CoViD recession year. Emissions are statistically flat to slightly declining (<5%) from 2009-2019:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183943/us-carbon-dioxide...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/517376/us-greenhouse-gas...

Emissions data is highly variable and has relative high error margin. +/- 5% or more.

He normalizes data to prove his preconceived notions and then picks outlier years. This is the 2nd most egregious representation of data I’ve ever seen.

Yet another trash article from substack.
> but wow... its expensive!

25 dollars is expensive? Should I remind you that you're complaining about the cost of a few beers while typing your complaint on a >$1000-dollar device.
You don’t even need a tcxo. If you don’t care about holdover, connecting the pps pin from a $5 GPS module to an $15 SBC will give you a time source that is significantly better than anything you can serve over NTP to your clients. NTP is always gonna be the weak link for a service like this.
When Microsoft did that kind of thing we called it “embrace and extend.”
Imagine the intellectual poverty of thinking that A Farewell to Arms and Beethoven’s Fifth are wastes of time but the a16z podcast and Good to Great are where it’s at. Might as well be an ape at that point.
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Does that work? When you tell that voice to shut up, does it fall silent?
I've briefly tried the IVAS system on, and it seemed pretty obviously useful. I mean, HUDs are basically just assumed to already exist in hollywood movies. It doesn't seem like that complex or arcane a product to me.
There's also plenty of couples from different wealth levels doing just fine. I'd say reveal it early, though not necessarily on the first few dates.
Extremely bias research. Just a bunch of gotcha style statements to agree or disagree with like “More people are dying from natural disasters.” and when survey takers guess wrong they’re put in the “believes misinformation” bucket. Of course statements are carefully crafted to be ones conservatives agree with.
I'm not trying to be condescending, but I think there is a disconnect between the chaos of NYC streets and footage like what is in this video. How does an AI car that is programmed to maintain its lane, operate safely and obey traffic rules operate in an environment where there are no lanes or traffic rules? People in NYC zoom around and honk the horn and cut each other off without regard to traffic rules (aside from the red light and speed cameras). With bikers and mopeds regularly speeding the wrong way down one way streets and weaving in between traffic and slow moving/stopped cars. It just seems like an impossibility to me as someone who has driven in NYC for decades. I will tip my cap to anyone who can ever design an AI vehicle that can safely and efficiently navigate NYC traffic.
doubtful there will be any serious investigation or consequences if this in fact occurred. he will just be moved to a less glamourous post at worst. but the party will take care of him.
It's needlessly mocking and dunky. You could have just used the points you supplied to the follow up question.
A very long time ago.

Today you have to be careful when dealing with apple repair as they have been found to repeatedly engage in money grubbing tack ticks which border on fraud.

And that is ignoring the fact that in general they tend to not repair component but just replace whole components (because it easier) while hindering others from providing proper repairs (because money) even if it necessary for e.g. data recovery (because from their POV you are stupid if you don't auto-sync everything with the iCloud).

It's also ignoring the fact that apple had in the recent years repeatedly some very questionable design flaws (like strangely over sensitive power management chips, missing heat pipes and similar).

And ignoring that by soldering everything including the ssd on the main-board preventing on-main-board repairs a lot of damage from a problematic USB hub to a broken SSD will always lead to a whole main-board + ram + cpu + ssd + ... replacement which makes many repairs unreasonable expansive.
I remember when I was young how cool I thought it was to enter a small number of DOS terminal commands in order to run certain games.

My dad wrote the commands down for each game (e.g. Wings of Glory) on note cards and I had no trouble doing it myself after that, like these kids.
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And Republicans more likely to disbelieve true information about climate change... duh.
Disclaimer: I'm the app developer.

Thank you for the kind words, and I'm glad you like DevUtils! I just want to drop a quick comment about the license terms.

"This is a perpetual license and includes one year’s worth of updates"

In the last 12 months, I added 10+ major upgrades[1] with a lot of new tools, bug fixes, and improvements.

I think the 1-year upgrades term is the best way to keep me motivated and keep improving the app.

This license type is the same as seen in many other popular apps like JetBrains IDE, Sketch, TablePlus, Parallels Desktop, etc.

I hope you understand.

I do offer student discounts and special discounts if you are from a country with a low-income level. Feel free to hit me up anytime (email in my profile).

Thanks!

[1]: https://devutils.app/changelog/
This has very little to do with scale.

He didn't really scale up to get from 1 RPS to 12 RPS. It's just that he was already invested in a scale (full PC build drawing heaps of idle power) that didn't match his requirements.

i.e. it's faster for a Tesla to go 5km than a plane when both are from rest. That doesn't mean that you've scaled up by using a Tesla to get there faster.

You aren't going 12x faster by choosing the Tesla. You're just not going 12x slower. It's hard to write into words, but it's a dumb thing to say.
It's like the consolation prize/participation ribbon of major operation.

Congrats, your kidney's been replaced and you'll have to be on immunosuppressants for the rest of your life, but at least you won't get dementia.
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> How does an AI car that is programmed to maintain its lane, operate safely and obey traffic rules operate in an environment where there are no lanes or traffic rules? People in NYC zoom around and honk the horn and cut each other off without regard to traffic rules

These are all good points, which is why I want to see this test happen. Maybe Waymo can handle it, maybe not -- but this is very useful info to measure the state of the art of a market leader (which I assume Waymo to be).
I really like this app for quick tasks. @trungdq88 thanks for also leveraging setapp[1]. I am using this via setapp subscription.
1. https://setapp.com/
Right but running a heat pump or burning biomass is also a preferable choice for heat production.
I don’t actually have one loll, if I actually end up finishing this and editing it up I’ll post it to this one [1]. I’ve been meaning to try making videos for projects though, so I’ll try to make it interesting

1: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCcP2O68iv1HZfWxK05jMkGA
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I don't get what point you are trying to make. Yes, the vaccine efficacy drops over time. This is expected since the antibody levels in the blood drop over time. The manufacturers have pointed out from the beginning that this drop and the potential need for a third shot have to be determined from real-world data, as was done in many studies.

Now the picture seems to be that vaccine effectiveness does indeed drop over time, but protection against severe disease remains pretty strong, with the possible exception of old people who tend to have a weak immune response. Most governments have reacted by recommending third shots to this group in order to further improve the protection.

I really can't see any controversy here. This is precisely the procedure one expects when a new vaccine is introduced.

It is also worth pointing out, that even without boosters the vaccines vastly outperform any medication tested against COVID so far. And they do that much cheaper and with lower side effects.
Back from my time at Amazon, one of my favourite technical videos on the internal educational/YouTube thing was from a service team explaining how hard accurate clock sync in distributed systems was. One of those problems
I’ve just taken for granted over the years. But just layers and layers of complexity where naive assumptions at any point get you the wrong result, but it’s not at all obvious you have the wrong result.

I really wish they made more of that stuff publicly available.
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I'd agree with the top rated comment in the OG thread that the children are just enjoying spending time with dad. I recall my love of computing was sparked by my father, but it was mostly self-study. As echoed here love of any subject seems to require the child to gravitate to it personally.

Though the children should be what, 15-16 and 12-13 by now, it would be interesting to hear their perspective.
Transporting GPUs in 2022:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGZLYx8StWk
I know for a fact my drivers do not phone home. The only GPU driver I've used for years is the one that comes in the linux kernel. It's open source, I haven't read all the code, but I know I could and I know the developers wouldn't be phoning home.

I'd bet a large number of linux users are in this situation since nouveau (nvidia), intel, and amdgpu drivers all exist in the linux kernel and work well.
>As for traffic cops, here's a video of Waymo obeying hand signals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OopTOjnD3qY. No reason this couldn't be replicated in NYC as well with some improvements.

This is an incredibly idealized version of "traffic cop" that doesn't exist in NYC. Here's an extremely well disciplined example of a traffic cop in NYC. They don't stand in one place, they are constantly challenged by traffic from all direction, they sometimes stop certain lanes, and tell other ones to go, with all sorts of gestures. And this is only a 4 way intersection without much traffic, and without any construction or significant pedestrian traffic. Its one thing to program an AI car that can drive under idealized, predictable conditions and entirely another to drive in the chaos of the real world, especially NYC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Z7jS3Yb5Q
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Sorry, I don't think so. If one is living inside the European Economic region one might just travel to Norway but from outside of Europe it becomes harder I guess.
Like the ability to double measurements. In the emacs example you'd be able to hit a key bind, enter how much to divide or multiply the recipe and it would automatically change it.
Does that mean cockroachdb or others could implement a Spanner like DB?
I saw but there no much other than legit advertising to their product. Only on this article (at least) you can see how you should "use" this eVTOL: https://www.zevaaero.com/2021/09/22/the-case-for-evtol/
I wonder if this fork will be backported to Lua, the extra features like strong typing maybe activated with a compiler switch or something.
This drivel doesn't deserve to be on HN. There's no difference between this and any other misinformation spreading on Facebook or Twitter.

This is a crackpot website by right wing nutjob who is totally unqualified and just wants to sell you his insane books about some sort of massive conspiracy among scientists to waste time on fusion instead of his obsession, low-energy nuclear reactions. Because, yes, that's what scientists are working toward, a conspiracy to do nothing.

Krivit is a charlatan plain and simple. Even his bio is absurd, it says he's a "recognized subject-matter expert on Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) research". He has a BA in some sort of administration field, nothing to do with science.

This would be funny if Krivit didn't clearly have a mental illness and strong ties to the Heartland institute. I hope ITER has good security.
I mean doesn't Microsoft already phone home a unique GUID identifying the hardware in your computer that it ties Windows key activations to? And since Microsoft owns Canonical, probably in Ubuntu as well (on the defaults)?
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At least in English, the spoken articles are biased towards things that people think are funny. For example half the "Culture and society biographies" are people who were in the Netflix show "Tiger King". The health section is full of articles detailing all the things you can do with a urethra, "pussy torture", etc
Does anyone know of something similar for Windows?
I took the MIT Distributed Systems course and also got stuck several times on how exactly something should be done. The Raft paper is good but in practice I found it quite difficult to reason about when certain things should be allowed to happen. I.e. when a "supposed" leader receives a ping from another leader in a newer epoch, how often do I check that? Should I just interrupt what I was doing? Only after I finished processing a command?

I am probably overthinking it and should just keep it simple and have the leader produce "wasted" entries until it realises that there is another accepted leader.

I tried implementing Raft without looking at any existing implementations, but that is probably not a good idea. It's very easy to get lost in the weeds.
Thank you very much for your support, Andrei!

I'm a solo developer and this means a lot to me!
> It seems like these organisms are > 90% meat. Why do they have so much meat? What do they need all that meat for?

Whales cultivated them for consumption.
Two things:

- that would go from my tool budget paid by work as soon as it is better since my browser is my second most important tool.

- as mentioned above I propose starting with a soft fork, as set of patches to be applied to the latest Firefox
Anyone in here have kids that have zero interest in computers? My kids had no interest and as I get ready to start my second round of hanging out with little ones as my kids have kids, I wonder if I just need to do things differently.
> If it truly served no purpose, it would be gone.

Why? Removing it serves no purpose either.
I don't think you can make a judgement about a company. I think its really about the team and manager.

My first team at twitter was horrible, from the team members to managers, toxic and stressful. I was stuck doing after hours work, and oncall was miserable with constant off hours pages and no one had desire to do something about it.It was terrible for my mental health. I couldn't wait to leave. I switched teams and it was like joining a new company, unbelievable. People respected my opinion, no one was an asshole, everyone was polite and friendly. There's constant stupid shit going on with the directors and vps, doing reorgs or w/e trying to justify their existence i guess but none of that effects me. Plenty of of coworkers and friends at work have had similar experience. Some teams are truly hellish nightmares and some are great.
Thank you very much, @p2hari! Setapp is a very good platform!
Good vintage, needs a [2003]. It would be hilarious if the lawsuits were still hanging around.
I had to think for a second about the first one, assuming you meant Queen Elizabeth. Well played.
Interestingly enough, Zhang was a close follower of the previous CCP leader. CCP leaders usually switch every 8 years between north and south, but the last time it was supposed to switch, it didn’t. I don’t know why.
I’ve heard the term before - and it’s in MW. Check out definition 3 here:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrip
I wish Redlands was a little closer to LA! Seems like a cool place to work.

I couldn’t believe when the owner bought/preserved Bixby Ranch (on behalf of the nature conservancy). I was a daily ESRI user for years, but my heart leans toward QGIS — yet ESRI will always be in my good graces after that Bixby move.
Not according to their own front page: "Luau (lowercase u, /ˈlu.aʊ/)". It would also be very unlikely, because it would make it different from the usual pronunciation of the word "luau" [1], which it seems to be making a pun with.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/luau
> just pointing out that the possibility of appendicitis wasn't by itself an argument against its continued existence

Except that yes it is an argument against it.

Your reduction breaks down because it conflates "a reason" with "all reasons".
It's pretty obvious why the local power monopolies don't want the transmission line to be built: Once it starts operating it means anyone can start buying clean, renewable power for cheaper than anything available in-state, thus putting an end to rent-seeking by the legacy players. Can you imagine just cutting your heating bill in half?

Quebec even wanted to finance EV charging stations throughout the state. All built and operated locally of course. I guess out-of-state and foreign big oil didn't like this.

Depressing. I guess there's a reason the state is poor...
A bit of a digression, but when is it appropriate to introduce kids to a computer at all. Isn't 2 years old too young? There are ways to entertain creativity and abstract thinking at that age that involve more physical activity. It does seem like they will spend the rest of the time attached to monitors regardless of what profession they choose. I always wanted to delay that as much as possible.

Although, I am an avid terminal user and former emacs fanboy, I don't understand the appeal of a command line in this case. It seems, that it is rather a shortcoming of UI that you have to switch to cli to achieve a maximum productivity in development work. There is Logo, there is Scratch, there are some other nice apps for iPads + guided access to teach kids about underlying of computing. CLI seems like a very opinionated way of doing things, rather than exposing underlying structure.