skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John Holmstrom is a celebrated writer and cartoonist best known for cofounding Punk magazine in 1975. He later chronicled the counterculture for High Times, restoring the magazine’s reputation for subversive humor and advocacy journalism. But less remembered is Holmstrom’s career as a video game critic. Between 1981 and 1985, Holmstrom would document the emergence of video games as a cultural force to be reckoned with. An adolescence steeped in trash culture—comics, wrestling, and rock ʼn’ roll—sensitized Holmstrom to the value of games at a time when many commentators viewed them with condescension. In Heavy Metal and the short-lived Video Games, Holmstrom published pieces that challenged skepticism of the medium. His career in games journalism lasted fewer than four years, but his work can be read as an alternative history of the different directions that games culture could have gone had it not been extinguished by the video game crash of 1983. (Disclosure: I am the author of this article)
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/11/the-war-nerd-the-tig...

I like the war nerd's dispassionate perspective on things, but I'm not an expert so I don't know how "correct" this is.
This article is not about ITER, it is discussing a new reactor being built by an MIT spin-off company called Commonwealth Fusion Systems. They plan to build a demo reactor by 2025, and a full scale power plant by 2030.
In 2020 I used to think the humanity in general was handling the covid pandemic rationally, competently, scientifically, putting political and commercial interests aside in the face of common danger. I believe the complete opposite today.
As noted elsewhere in this thread this one looks like human misunderstanding and has already been raised internally for fixage.

Shame it slipped through the cracks, but at scale eventually something's going to no matter how hard you try.
>The performance of pretty much every PHEV I've seen is abysmal.

The Chevy Volt was pretty sporty (damn the suits who killed it), and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI-DUULV1tE

>The people buying a Model 3 or Model S to replace their BMW or Mercedes

Well there's your problem. The fact that EVs are toys is making you think PHEVs are also toys. There are PHEVs currently on the market that can compete with the Ford Focus and the Honda Accord.
I didn't work in the field, but I had a good friend who was doing weekly product planning calls and getting us in front of PT's on a regular basis to show our product and discuss what they felt was important. I agree with you, it would have been better to have some personal experience, but I'm not sure if this was sufficient or not.
Huh, that’s cool. I live by the river Amstel. Wikipedia says “The Amstel begins where the canal Aarkanaal and the river Drecht meet, just north of the village Nieuwveen in the province of South Holland.”

But there is so much goddamn water around here, no one really cares whether the “source” is somewhere in the alps.
Instead of burning natural gas at the building, burn 5x as much at a power plant hundreds of miles away to generate electricity, then convert it back into heat at the building. Smart.
Where are you based and what kind of help are you looking for?
Spoken like a realist. I’ve frequently interacted with the worst parts of Europe, my Telegram is constantly spammed with ads for guns in Benelux (FGC-9 really booming lately). I’ve stayed in the “ghetto” in Sweden where shootings happen on a weekly basis, spent a month in Transnistria, sat down for lunch with separatist fighters in Ukraine.

Nowhere in Europe does the situation come anywhere close to being as fucked up as in Mexico, not even in the literal warzones.
Now that does not surprise me at all. It's a nifty system that I didn't quite click with when I tried it, I should give it another go perhaps.
Nice of you to assume that all white people had a chance to colonise (rather than be colonised and conquered by neighbouring nations on a regular basis). I'm not carrying the sins of the English-speaking (or otherwise formerly colonising) nations, so could the whites == colonialism assumption stay wherever other such weird assumptions belong.
Exactly what I came here to say, thank you.
How do you handle and respond to failures? Or add some kind of RPS limit?
Might be a bit too much, but depending on their autonomy level, if they grant you Power of Attorney (PoA), you can do manage everything without involving any technical solution.

Technical solution wise, sharing credentials via 1password or bitwarden is probably the most straightforward approach IMHO.
You can pry my gas stove from my cold dead hands.
> It was originally designed to be a physical book but we realized it made more sense to be downloadable

Kinda wish they'd stuck with that. It feels like they made a bunch of decisions in the design that made sense in that context, but would have not been ideal choices if you were designing it as an online reference.

Still cool, and glad they did it and made it available. Hopefully the license means we'll see some nice improvements.
This gave me a good laugh
His list is 90% Fox News talking points. It's blatantly partisan.
Sorry, I don't have any sources other than what turns up on eBay.
You can also fully charge a 10kWh battery overnight on a 120V charger.
Good point, and this was another problem we hit. Procurement for larger practices was done outside of the individual offices, making the sales less direct and more complicated to find the right person to talk to. Ultimately, we decided to target smaller practices hoping for a more straight forward sales process due to this.
I kind of hope not. Electric heat is far less efficient than heat pumps.
We have solutions for this. It is called public housing.

My grandmother was homeless until a social worker found her on the streets and got her an apartment (in D.C.). The logistics are actually quite simple.

$5K houses aren't the main solution. We need inexpensive medium to high density apartments.

I will admit in the Bay area, adding a $5K house to every SFH lot might help a bit. In reality it would be $5K house + at least the same in permitting.
In San Francisco some pay over 50% in taxes. It's not that the government doesn't have enough money. They have a spending problem and always find new ways to waste it on the homeless industrial complex with very little result. In fact they found a way to spend over $60,000 per tent[1]. Not per home, per tent!

1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/S-F-officials-w...
> Arnold Schwarzenegger donated $250,000 to build 25 tiny homes intended for homeless vets in West LA. The homes were turned over a few days before Christmas.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/rnmtpn/arnold_...

There's some good details there about people already doing this kind of good work.
Fast, cheap and out of control!
I'll add that virtually all running groups you find on Facebook or Meetup are very welcoming of new runners of all experience and ability levels. Having the regular schedule of a running group helps a lot with keeping up the regular exercise, especially when the weather gets questionable.

Running groups seem intimidating to everyone - even reasonably fast amateur runners. Once you go however you will find you will meet lots of interesting people all working to stay healthy or challenge their own personal goals. It's absolutely not a competitive environment.
This is the type of online rage that we as a community need to stamp out.

Be better.
Related — Postgres (other RDBMS's too, probably) has JOIN b USING (column, ...) and NATURAL JOIN. IIRC, both fail when there's ambiguity in column names.
Powder skiing. No friends on a powder day. 1.4 m of fresh and -29 Celsius. Heated boots, snorkel system, heated vest, down coat and pants.
I bet even the patient wouldn't put up with that gigantic list.. 45 "chapters" is kinda too much!
Why are you carrying on with this "both sides" garbage? If you couldn't see an asymmetry under Trump you must be blind.
Hello! Great question.

The past year I’ve fallen in love with life. This has been a combo of a few things - I found work as a consultant where I get to share a unique perspective that when paired with the work of others produces outsized results.

I get paid moderately well by nearly a dozen clients but am the lowest paid team member on each team on a monthly basis - so I don’t feel too much pressure to deliver exceptional results all the time - and the number of clients I have means if I get 1 win a year for all clients I can have a true win each month professionally.

These wins and experiences make me feel like I’m growing and contributing.

Aside from that I’ve developed open and honest relationships with my lover and my friends and see them regularly and I live with housemates so I get my extraversion solved through work and natural interactions even in covid. The honest relationships with my lover and number and depth of friendships has allowed me to not hold any desires back from asking while having less pressure to be the doer of everything. Teams and ideas naturally form over time which has led to fun side projects and profit as well.

I prefer now to give perspective rather than advice but I’d say having a “deal centric” attitude and meeting a lot of people and trying to start things with them - usually based on some process that provides value so you have a process to lean on - seems pretty solid.

For instance building internal portals for small teams or organizations and taking a small ongoing fee to do it could help you. Instead of project based work with a time bound - low to moderate monthly fees with a variety of people can allow you to find creative energy where product management, analytics, etc can help other peoples visions come true over years.

You can see visions come to life without too much stress and avoid a single point of failure.

Happy Christmas and lmk if you’d like to work together on something like this.
Exactly, it induces demand. Same went for efforts to reintroduce ivory in a more ethically sourced way back onto the market. Demand exploded and kick started poaching again. There are other examples too.

As for buying coalmines, typically mining rights are sold to miners as licenses that owners expect to get a percentage from. When the buyer turns out to be an environmental NGO the license gets revoked pretty quickly. This happened in the US earlier this year. These strategies will often run into implementation complexities.
A different way to get to the same result as a minimum fuel requirement would be to raise base prices and offer steep bulk discounts. This would be easier to enforce than a minimum fuel requirement. Unfortunately it might raise "price gouging" complaints.
> Kotlin is just syntactic sugar of some newer java features on top of older java.
Looks like someone hasn't actually spent time discovering how amazing Kotlin is.
> but everyone pretty much with ADHD is a failure in their head.

> planning out a thing. making that list. coming up with ideas. sketching it out. everything up until DOING THE ACTUAL THING.

This post hit me right on the head. I have infuriated colleagues with this type of behaviour. At an old job I got bored with a mildly interesting task that I just could not focus on and the progress fell behind. My boss moved me on to the most boring job on the project thinking I could better handle it and boy did I pull out a 6 hour focused task into 6 weeks of depression and anxiety. I would stare at the same 2 windows for an entire day sinking deeper into unproductive spirals.

Ironically HNews might have kept me sane in providing interesting things to read. It’s probably why there are so many ADHD types here.

I have discovered now that a “normal” job just doesn’t work for me. I’m going to get weird with it.
I don’t know how we got here…
The Soviets didn’t defeat the Japanese though, and they benefitted substantially from American supplies. As did the British, which kept the Nazis occupied in North Africa, in the air, and elsewhere.

Anglosphere people underrate the Soviet contribution but it’s not clear the Soviets could have done it alone.

Though in fairness, by November 1943 when the torpedo attack happened perhaps they could have.
Right, you need some historical context to understand the situation. 10 years ago JS was a shitty language with a far worse ecosystem. It deserved the hate it got. Then ES6 came along 6 years ago or so and added tons of super valuable language features. Suddenly you don't have to deal with the hoisting semantics of var or worrying about what 'this' is all the time. It was so nice that people started using Babel to use the new features ASAP. Then a couple years later, once everyone has a transpiler in their build process without a second thought (this used to be controversial!), TypeScript comes along and provides another huge leap in how pleasant the language is to use.

Now it's a pretty nice ecosystem, but it used to be pretty bad. Not everyone's biases have caught up yet.
I’m a pretty strong atheist. It’s odd to me too. However I’m answering why the Bible over other religious texts. That one at least feels obvious.

The people reading it were likely Christian. The majority of the people listening would’ve been Christian. The majority of the people that footed the bill would’ve been Christian.

Like others have said, you don’t have to believe in the existence of a diety to feel moved by words from some religious texts.
"There are exceptions for new buildings used for certain activities, including manufacturing, hospitals, commercial kitchens and laundromats."

Want to take bets on who consumes the most natural gas, households or the exceptions?
A lot easier to switch to renewals with electricity. I don’t know of a way to do that with natural gas.
Ahh yes, I know a few people who work in healthcare tech in Germany and it seems like you're way ahead of us. I'm glad you're able to leverage tech a bit more effectively over there. My impression is that the tools the US uses are far behind due to over regulation, which I hope is changing as a result of covid.

And don't be sorry! Most people who have a successful startup have many failed startups behind them, there's only one way to learn most of these lessons.
You might like dex[1].

[1]: https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang
Apparently forking a 3rd party repo INTO the Microsoft github org is, yes.
Take the test https://www.understandmyself.com (not free)

If you are high in openness (likely) you will need change and creativity to feel alive. On the other hand, most job will want to keep you in the same place to extract the maximum value from what you know.

You might need to find something where that part of you can grow: start a company, technical sales, consultancy, etc
Commonwealth Fusion Systems plans to hit Q>10 net energy gain in their SPARC reactor in 2025, and then turn on a continuously operating ARC power plant around 2030. They plan to use a steel vacuum chamber which will need annual replacement. The rest of the ARC reactor will be shielded by a FLiBe molten salt blanket which will absorb neutrons and convert their energy into heat.
"New buildings in the biggest U.S. city with 8.8 million residents will have to use electricity for heat and cooking"

Hmm, I wonder where the electricity comes from. If it comes from natural gas as well, then they're just adding another step of energy transformation, which is aka more inefficiency, right? Or worse, maybe some of the electricity comes from dirtier sources than natural gas.
Yes very! I use the AR750S as my home router and I never had to reboot it manually in any situation.

Though the updating process can be more streamlined, I had to redo all my configuration when updating from openWRT 19 to latest 21 (could have been my own mistake during flashing, at least I have firmware updates).
It’s hard to imagine, how they designed this chips without having modern wafer design tools. Crazy
My question is whether or not rubocop can autocorrect it to whatever. If so, I really dgaf about this.
I agree with the NYT argument that publishing such privileged material should not be subject to prior restraint. But if they improperly aquired them as alleged, they should be liable for damages and penalized after publication.
thanks for the book, very kind of you. it is rated 4.9/5 stars in Amazon too!
Or make their docs, tutorials, and UI better?
Sure, I'm not claiming that they'll be there next year (or possibly ever). If the predictions/promises/whatever you might want to call it, hold true, they'd be great, and it's not totally crazy like the perpetual motion people.

If not, then we've spent a few billions and probably just learned a lot of interesting stuff and improved a bunch of scientific areas.
Cheers to those that are working. Not to say that jobs that don't work on x-mas aren't important of course. To those that aren't working but also have truly important jobs, catch you on the flipside in 2022!
Power plants are way more efficient, transfer loses are way exaggerated, and most of the energy will be soon provided by only renewable sources.

EDIT: and according to this [0], most of New York's electricity is already carbon free.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=NY#tabs-4
Pfizer booster’s ability to prevent symptomatic Covid wanes within weeks
I would by this!
From an ER doc working in remote Alaska today, thank you. These have been trying years for all of us and while no one I know in the field expects to hear "thank you" for doing our jobs it certainly feels good.
Wow, this is oddly stupid. I thought just weirdos wanted this kind of change and this is the first I’ve heard of a municipality.

Gas is so efficient for heating (and great for cooking), it seems bad for climate change to not allow it.

Theater seems to be catching on and I hope we don’t see more climate change theater regulations.
But is Facebook the product or it’s social/recommendation algorithms open source? Is Google’s search engine or ad platform open source?

Companies are open source where it’s of value to them, but they don’t give away the family jewels if they can help it.
Maybe it's different for people with AD(H)D than Asperger's, but I don't get it. There is nothing good with having a brain disability. Aspie pride is about as dumb as people in wheelchairs being "proud" of being born without functioning legs. And to Homo Sapiens the brain functions I lack is almost as important as walking ability. Asperger to me hasn't meant "a little quirky" like Sheldon Cooper. It has meant total inability to "get" other people and their intentions. Asperger may have made me an awesome developer but if there was a pill or treatment to cure it, I'd take it in a heartbeat. People calling Asperger their "superpower" is laughable.
Same here. I have had the displeasure of experiencing multiple multi day electricity outages in the Northeast, and having a natural gas connection to the house was an immense lifesaver.

Heat (from gas fireplace), hot water, and home cooked meals were no problem.
I wish at least for cables/connectors they'd done both male & female pinouts and standard footprint layouts vs having a bunch of ortho projections of a cable that don't really add any value.
Telegram is anything but secure; even Facebook is safer, says Signal founder
But some advertiser can’t put you in prison
As I recall her point about the deceptive reporting of gain figures was spot-on. It’s something I’d observed throughout the 20 years that I followed the field fairly closely, being intermittently involved in several fusion-related projects. Especially in inertial confinement, claims of “break-even” are almost entirely devoid of meaning. So how, exactly, do you think she overstated anything?
There's [1] but I'm not impressed by the efficiency numbers.

Also, no need to go through electricity. Significant part of my city is heated by waste heat of power plant that would otherwise go out the cooling tower.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-gas
gotta build a relationship with it. once the two of you have had a heart to heart and accepted each other, you can start smoothing things out.

talking about the fear, natch.
I hope he did not inhale the fumes.
I think this article slightly misses the point.

If the architecture was actually failing - that is, if it were dumping core when running regular workloads, or crashing, or corrupting data - that would be a real reason to not use it.

But it seems like it's simply slower than they'd like, plus there are features they want (better casing, better LEDs, remote management). These don't have much to do with actually running code.

Speed isn't everything. We don't put supercomputers in to space - we put slow but extremely reliable processors in to space. Slow and reliable is much, much more important to space and financial (non-trading) applications than fast and not-as-reliable.
Yes, and Crossfire [1] too. Can’t believe how much of my PhD time was spent playing that and Xemp [2], though it got to the point that I could glance at a terminal-client map and run with it.

I recall the crystallography dept getting excited thinking there was some new research going on, because of the way I lay out my empire maps, and me leaving a printout or two lying around, back in the day :)

[1] http://www.crossfireatlas.net/world.html

[2] http://www.wolfpackempire.com/
The Book of Genesis is from the Torah though, isn't it?
The real problem of India is bureaucratic corruption. Basically bureaucrats hold so much power and control in Indian government and the sheer size of it (central, provincial and local) corruption is deeply embedded in it.

And their answer to basic inefficiency and ineptness is - imperialism. A lot of Indians still see imperialism as the reason why millions of people in their country still living without electricity or basic sanitation. It’s funny I was talking to my uncle the other day and he was pointing out how many railway lines in rural India had basically zero upgrades since the British left. Politicians across the board are all corrupt and inept.

Well here is a new kind of imperialism. Thousands of smart and wealthy Indians emigrate every year. What would take the west millions of dollars to produce and retain such talents, they get it for free. Why rule India when you can just get the wealth transfer indirectly. Look at all the F50 CEOs.
Shhhhhh. Something must be done, and this is something. Therefore it must be done.
> They will be prone to catastrophic failures if plasma containment fails, easily killing everyone in or near the plant.

I think that is impossible because plasma isn’t actually that dense and if you turn off the magnets it immediately stops being plasma.
Those who really want your product now have to mob up outside your stall and hope they're the next lucky random fucker. They're still waiting.

Those who don't really want your product don't wait in a line for it anyways - the length of the line itself is a natural filter for availability of the good.

Basically - has satisfaction actually gone up if those who would be extremely satisfied by your product no longer receive it, and random folks who may or may not want your product do? I'd bet money the answer is a solid "NO".
A huge power plant that burns 5 times the amount of gas also generates more than 5 times the energy compared to you burning it at home at your stove. Especially for cooking it really surprised me that cooking with gas is still so common in the US. Here, basically every new house has uses induction which has become really accessible.

When it comes to gas for heating I'm somewhat indifferent. Even if the electricity is primarily from fossil source (which I don't know, but it is likely) I'd imagine it is a whole lot easier to continue improving the energy production to reach net-zero than it would be to wait and replace the gas heating in thousands of buildings.
These sanctions are frequently a point of negotiation against our adversaries. That’s my evidence that they matter. Unless you think they’re just wasting their asks on things that they don’t care about?

What evidence do you have for it being profitable (to whom?) to exploit (how?) the American people (by whom?)?