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Markets are open, gray, black, or closed. There are no "free markets".

"Free markets" rhetoric is a catchy slogan for might makes right. No contracts, no rule of law, no fair and impartial arbitrators, no opportunity for recourse (tort). So not a market.
Hello everyone - David (creator of XState) from Stately here!

Excited (also anxious) to see this on Hacker News. Please keep in mind that it is a public beta: we have many features and improvements planned.

If you have any suggestions, comments, or bug reports, please post them here: https://github.com/statelyai/editor-feedback/issues

EDIT: Also, we host office hours every Friday, where we answer community questions https://www.youtube.com/statelyai

Thanks, and happy diagramming!
I found the news article more informative than the Chrome blog post: https://blog.google/products/chrome/finding-answers-gets-bet...
Talk about a captive audience....
We're currently on course for having trouble existing across generations. The path we're on now I don't think meeting fusion goals will be big concern if there's anyone around to even be concerned.
Seems like these systems assume only human urine will go into these storage systems. But in reality, people tend to flush more than just fecal matter, urine, and water down the drain.

In order to clean the toilet bowl, people will use highly poisonous cleaning solutions. How will these cleaning solutions mixed with the stored urine affect its usage as a fertilizer? Even if it is eventually dehydrated, wouldn’t some of the cleaning solution still be present?

What happens if you send other types of fluid down the “urine only” toilet or system (ie, blood, vomit)?

People will even flush drugs, dead pet fish, alcohol and other non-human waste products down the drain.

In theory, it sounds like a great way to reduce our carbon footprint. But if they are designing the system on the assumption that people are smart and will only use it as intended then it might actually cause the opposite effect.
Not unless those actors running those non-KYC exchanges are well hidden away from US extradition. Anybody who doesn't have KYC requirements in this space are risking serious prison time. People don't know it yet but the guys running Tether are going to go away for a long time. What they are doing is far worse than Liberty Reserve and Arthur still has 16 year left in his sentencing.

Morgan and Ilya appear to be the original hackers as well so on top of the money laundering sentencing which is around 10~20 years, they now have to deal with the hacking charge which appears to be a separate trial.

Morgan and Ilya aren't the only ones involved and the rest of the guys will eventually appear on DOJ website.
Let people crowdfund good-quality journalism/blogging/policy work. Patreon and GoFundMe are good first starts at the problem, but of course their political bias is highly problematic. If anything, it is all the more urgent to fund high-quality work on the other side of the political spectrum - surely they deserve way better than their current focus on Trumpism and anti-vaxx protests!
> What happened to the wealthy?
They used to keep these things amongst themselves rather than announce everything to the public.

Still happens.

See this $600 hat which is sold out, used as a wealth signaling mechanism. And also as an aspirational luxury good now that the masses are aware.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/succession-morning-show-luxury-...
What a long winded way to come to a narrow conclusion - "Stay at your day job and enjoy it."

Environment matters a lot. It's not "travel for 1 week" that will cure the mind, but rather, removing the slave labor you don't enjoy from the box entirely.

The author seems to miss this critical point (that many people are unhappy with their day job because it's basically debt/wage slavery without ownership).
Not GP, but the code in the article passes 'unsigned int mutex' by-value, and then operates on its address (which will potentially be at a different stack address on each invocation, and will certainly be different for different threads.) It won't serve its purpose at all.

To my eye, the code is fundamentally broken in a way that's surprising for an article trying to teach threading, and it's likely confuse someone unfamiliar with these concepts.
She makes several significant mistakes in that video. One example is the energy used to heat the plasma is now heat in the plasma identical to the heat generated by fusion. This means you can recover a percentage of that with a steam turbine.

Second a great deal of ITER’s energy usage is as a science experiment not a fusion reactor. Most of their monitoring equipment for example is irrelevant to an operating power plant. Thus Qplasma is giving relevant information where Qtotal is largely meaningless at this stage.
Why would any experimenters optimize for Q total if Q plasma is a prerequisite to get anywhere?
I see, checked those out in the past and I'll take another look. Question was more regarding hardware though, but it's ok if you can't answer.
That was a rhetorical question, of course, but thank you for confirming my opinion.
Starmer was having some drinks after a long day with his coworkers in the office - all was completely above board and vetted by the met police. This was a story thrown out by conservative outlets in a desperate attempt to distract from the real scandals of Boris going to full on Christmas parties that were prohibited under the laws his own government passed.
I was very confused until I realized the link doesn't match the title at all.

The title of this submission is linked to this url:

https://topstartups.io/startup-salary-equity-database/

(though the actual title there is "Startup Salary & Equity Database")

Otherwise you do not get any salary/equity information. You get links to who works here (LinkedIn), reviews (GlassDoor), company web sites and jobs (Lever).

The title of the linked submission is "Top Startups 2022 - Funded by Sequoia, A16Z, Y Combinator"
Thanks a lot, I nearly waisted money, I am using OBS to organise my videos and sometimes live streaming. I had a bad quality from my Macbook Pro and I will ty my phone this time.
Thanks,
Jongi
is absurdly premature.

Only relative to our own existence. If the universe is ~14 billion years old, and life was plentiful, you might expect life to have emerged elsewhere hundreds of millions or a few billion years before us. That allows for enough time for signals to have reached earth, even at slow light speeds.
The conversation here on HN is quite funny. I can imagine the same conversation taking place in China: the data on US apps goes straight to the US government.
The only people I know who used Minidiscs for consuming definitely had a hipster vibe going on — thinking of a guy who also DJed and wore studio headphones everywhere — rather than something most people did.

On the music nostalgia point, I jumped on Cox's first cable modem deployment in San Diego in early 1998. That was awesome by the standards of the time: I went from a 56k dialup connection to 10Mb _bidirectional_ and they didn't filter inbound ports so you could run your own HTTP, SMTP, etc. services. Everything was great — and then about a year later Napster launched and the entire network crawled to a halt as people were just downloading crazy amounts of MP3s and DVD rips (I had a coworker who was representative: he downloaded _everything_, even music he didn't like, just because he could). That quickly lead to inbound port filtering and aggressive throttling. It took until ~2013 before I again lived somewhere where I could upload at 10Mbps or better.
> There are ways to do it effectively, of course, but no simple or pleasant ones.

What are they? I was mulling this over a few days ago, as there are occasional things I want to check on Safari or iOS Safari (also on macOS in general occasionally, but that’s far secondary), and so I looked into macOS VMs (expensive, because Apple’s software EULA requires any such provision to have a minimum of 24 hours), second hand late 2014 Mac Minis (the oldest that run the latest version of macOS), more special-purpose browser VM arrangements like SauceLabs which used to be not terribly expensive, that kind of thing.

I use Firefox primarily, and I’d like to be able to test things on Safari like I can with Chromium, but as far as I can tell, there is no free or inexpensive alternative: the alternatives are things like US$25 for a day or possibly month of an inferior experience (and try to make head or tails of the utterly deceptive pricing at https://checkout.macincloud.com/), or buying at least AU$450 (more typically AU$600) of second hand physical hardware (Mac Mini Late 2014, iPhone 6s, if you want to go with the oldest and cheapest, regardless of how much longer they may be supported; and that’s skipping an iPad; if you wanted to go with the cheapest new products, AU$1,778).

Look, if I cared about Internet Explorer still I could even download a VM from Microsoft specifically for the purpose of testing in IE! I wish Apple would likewise give me macOS and iOS VMs for Safari testing.
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Sabine is overly critical IMO. The distinction she is making is known to anyone who has spent a little bit of time thinking about fusion (hopefully that includes the grant writers) and projects like ITER are explicitly aiming for Q=10, not just "breakeven"
The problem with solar is unpredictability and A LOT of batteries needed to bridge the mismatch between production peaking at noon and consumption peaking at late evening.

Both of these are solved with fusion power.

Energy market operates on the assumption that whoever unbalances the network has to pay for balancing it. Providing too much and too little energy is both bad - you have to pay someone else to use more/less or to produce less/more to balance the mess you made. There are specialized powerplants for this, they are "on standby" and jump in when needed - and they charge much more than the normal powerplants. When there's a big shortage they can charge absurd prices for energy. And if you caused the shortage by mispredicting weather - you have to pay for it.

This makes the energy provided by solar panels much less valuable than the energy provided by a predictable, controllable source. Often by 1:10 factor.
I agree with most of what you said.

> If I don't expose them to coding, how could I ever know they're interested or not?

About this one; programming nowadays is not some obscure niche thing that it's impossible to come by unless introduced by someone else. I started my programming career (being paid to do) when I was a teenager. There was no-one using computers around me let alone knowing what programming is to introduce it to me. I believe nowadays everyone in a somewhat developed or developing country will have the opportunity to choose whether to learn coding or not.
- Lack of proper support for PWAs (this alone would likely take care of most complaints/scrutiny about AppStore monopoly). Especially since WebKit is forced onto any browser for iOS (there's no other choice for developers).

- Lack of proper support for real extensions; the most recent versions have basically neutered extensions for Safari to the point of being useless - as I say: "if it doesn't run uBlock Origin, it's not a real browser"; this is mostly why I've moved to Firefox as my main browser now.
> On social issues average European and its country is way more conservative than average American.

Dubious.
I had that already, but in this case it didn't work for whatever reason.
> (...) If you empathize with someone, if you "understand," then you'll realize why they behave the way they do, and you'll realize it's all okay.

Its good to see the world from the eyes of others, but that doesn't make their actions OK somehow.

I never heard anyone say that (as in a mainstream idea)
It’s possible that’s part of the secrecy process. Fork the project so only the team working on the secret can see it, bring it back in when it’s ready for prime time.
Vaughn's book The Challenger Launch Decision doesn't tell this truth: the root cause of the accident can be traced back a decade to the acceptance of a design that was "unsafe at any speed".

Every other manned space vehicle had an escape system. The crew of the Challenger was not killed by the failure of the SRB or the explosion of the external tank, but rather when the part of the orbiter they were in hit the ocean. They could have build this into a reinforced pod with parachutes or some other ability to land but they chose not to because they wanted to have the payload section in the rear.

In the case of Columbia it was the fragile thermal protection system that did the astronauts in. There was a lot of fear in the first few flights that the thermal tiles would get damaged and failed and once they thought they'd dodged that bullet they didn't worry about it so much.

"Normalization of deviance" was a formal process in the case of the space shuttle of there being meetings where people went through a list of a few hundred unacceptable situations that they convinced themselves they could accept, often by taking some mitigations.

When the design was finalized it was estimated that a loss of vehicle and crew would happen about 2%-3% of the the time which was about what we experienced. (Originally they planned to launch 50 missions a year which would have meant the continuous trauma of losing astronauts and replacing vehicles.)

It's easy to come to the conclusion that it was a particular scandal that one particular concern got dismissed during a "normalization of deviance" meeting but given a poorly designed vehicle it was inevitable that after making good calls for thousands of concerns there would be a critical bad call.

"Normalization of deviance" is frequently used for a phenomenon entirely different than what Vaughn is talking about, something informal that happens at the level of individuals and small groups. That is, the forklift operators who come to the conclusion it is OK to smoke pot at work, the surgeon who thinks it is OK to not wash his hands, etc. A group can pressure people to do the right things here, but it's something different from the slow motion horror of bureaucracy that tries to do the right thing but cannot.
The articles code for mutex_lock is this

mutex_lock(unsigned int mutex)
{
while (!cmpxchg(&mutex, UNLOCKED, LOCKED))
futex(&mutex, FUTEX_WAIT, LOCKED);
}

Now consider what happens if someone calls it

volatile unsigned int my_mutex = UNLOCKED;
mutex_lock(my_mutex);
...
mutex_unlock(my_mutex);

my_mutex is copied into the mutex parameter. The mutex parameter is updated to locked. mutex_lock exits, which destroys the mutex variable. my_mutex still has the variable UNLOCKED.
This is incorrect, at least as a general principle.

I haven't done "slave labor" for more than 20 years, having initially imagined I was rich enough to retire at 32 (that turned out to be wrong), then later converting an open-source passion project into a very comfortable middle class living. No boss, no rules, no schedule, just lots of people who love what I do and that includes me.

However ... the Box of Daily Experience is still a feature of my life too.
> First, you would never, ever get into a car with that logic.

The logic isn't applicable to any set of risks. As deadly as cars are, the risk of car crash death is much, much lower than 1/5000 per trip. It's probably closer to applicable to being a drunk driver, and "you would never operate a car drunk" is pretty accurate for many people.
“Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you?” -Seneca

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.” -Hemingway

“ No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It's like your shadow. It follows you everywhere.” -Murakami

Amazed by how history is recycled perpetually.
Consensus among geologists is that substantial portions of that island did in fact drift away from what we know as France.
Something like 3/4 of US corn production goes to ethanol (mainly for gas, people don’t drink that much) and feed.
I'm not sure it's Brexit related - but I've noticed more and more that when the UK media uses the expressions Europe or European, they are referring to the European continent as if the UK was not part of it. I've even heard it used in this capacity in a work presentation which caused confusion in the multi-national audience - "in Asia it's X, in Europe it's Y, in the UK it's Z...". I consume quite a bit of UK media so I knew what they meant but others pulled them up on it and the presenter seemed initially perplexed that anyone would think that "Europe" included the UK.
Tried that already, didn't work..
What makes you think this is an exception?
"Gender" is just a word. Words have meanings, and meanings can change over time. As with gender and sex, you seem to be confusing your stubbornness with common sense.
Aside on your aside, Kubo and the Two Strings is also really impressive. Until I saw the behind the scenes short video I had no idea it was done stop-motion.
I think a big part of the problem with funding the news is the way papers handle online payments. I would happily pay a dollar or two to have online access to the NY Times, WSJ, or even my local town paper for a day. What I absolutely do not want to do is spend $500+ on 3 or more subscriptions that I will not read, or not read much of, on most days. For papers that still have a print edition, you can buy the day's paper. I don't know why you can't do the same thing online.
I did - and there are some pretty constructive comments on here (and some less so). I noticed this was your first post on HN so I hope the attention hasn't been to overwhelming and you are able to pull some constructive value from it (I hope you like candor).

Lions share of comments are that your attitude that comes through in your post is more junior than senior for a megacap tech company, 5 months is very short at a large company to get situated and don't underestimate working with good people. Also the role interviewed isn't always the role delivered - especially at fast growing organizations but, if you are capable of navigating a large company there are typically roles more suitable. It takes experience and confidence to probably navigate large companies effectively.

At the end of the day if the fit isn't the right fit then make a move. I wish you the best of luck on your journey - given your confidence and strive to learn it sounds like you will land somewhere quickly and hopefully more fitted.
it's just about the worst "game" you could imagine. Why is it simulating (poorly) outdoor cycling when it could instead invent a new form of competition a la tron or rocket league?
Anyone can move their tokens on-chain so nobody is forced to trust an exchange. Exchanges aren't gate keepers. You don't even exchanges to acquire Bitcoin; many deals are done OTC or salaries can be paid directly on-chain. Also, most whales only keep a fraction of their total holdings on the exchanges.
I'm wondering about what you know that we don't? Is there a project to move the UK physically out of Europe?

Or will this fusion go out of control and demolish the UK in a nuclear fireball?
I don't think "let's save $5 a month and then have a catastrophic blackout" was a goal. I think it was the usual handwavey "the market will solve everything because good markets are so efficient" argument, which turned out as it usually does because the market isn't good.
I'm not a fan of Sinophobia, but the CCP has made it very clear that home grown tech companies will be in full cooperation with the state.

With that in mind, consider how much user data TikTok has and what might be done with it.
> And we're past the point of telling parents to parent.

This, to me, is the root of the issue with this stance. Say what you will about modern parenting, handing the reins to the government is guaranteed to be worse.

The effect of porn is still not fully understood, and is the subject of much study (and conjecture). Findings from those studies are far from conclusive, and certainly not to a degree that would warrant this level of government intervention.

Make no mistake, these new proposed rules are a “moral” stance to please a certain demographic, not a stance based on good science or understanding of the topic.

You might find it interesting to read about the history of sexual violence in the world. Violence that still exists, yes, but some would argue that porn has provided an outlet where one can explore fantasies safely.

You claim without evidence that right wing incels exist because of porn - a dubious claim at best.

You claim without evidence (or understanding of the underlying psychology) that trans people only exist because of porn - this is where the argument becomes preposterous.
Apparently, about 12% of the land or 29,690 sq km in order to meet current energy demands (electricity, petrol, oil and gas). Apparently, only 6% of the country is currently built on which suggests that for any country of a similar latitude, you can estimate a land total of double that currently used per person. This does not take into account energy storage and assumes no energy is generated at night.

https://www.finder.com/uk/solar-power-potential
PlantUML can export to text too. And it aligns all the boxes and arrows for you.

Still, great idea and great implementation :)
Thankfully, there is 0% chance of this happening in America.
What kind of data? TikTok knows what content I interact to... on tiktok. That's it. Unless they have an android 0-day or something. It has no access to my mic, camera, browsing history, contacts list, or anything useful. Guess who has access to all that, if they want it, though? Google and Facebook (through whatsapp). What is the privacy concern here, exactly?
> to replace synthetic fertilizers

That synthetic is the key. Replacing it makes sense - but why replace current wastewater systems at an enormous price tag with "tech magic" when we could simply use existing supplies of animal dung?

> and reduce some of the strain on ageing and overloaded sewer systems.

ETA: Actually, sewer systems are more strained by not enough wastewater flowing through them - they were designed to the load of many decades ago, prior to the invention of water-saving toilets, showers and other appliances. Now, there is not enough water let in, and the sewage doesn't get swept away - the result is smelly [1].

[1]: https://taz.de/Wasserverbrauch-in-Deutschland/!5032936/
“Journalism” has never been good when it comes to covering anything that didn’t effect the White middle class.

Journalist reflexively took the word of the police department and prosecutors and didn’t believe minorities when they complained about police misconduct. It was only when everyone could film the police that it became apparent.

On the other side, the rise of Trumpian populism came about because everyone ignored rural White America including journalist.
They banned tik tok ?
I guess, why is it thought that it could be cheaper than geothermal, for example? Geothermal doesn't have fuel at all. I don't see how fusion produces energy cheap enough for it to be super abundant. And maybe that's just a failure of my imagination, but there seem to be massive gaps in others' reasoning that nobody has been able to fill me in on.

Space travel is an entirely separate type of energy use, and I could see it being the only option for lots of applications. But that would be much further away, and the significant hurdles there can also be solved by other future tech advances like direct conversion for fusion to electricity.
An other large drawback with solar is the required latitude. The further north it gets the fewer hours of sun light, and the energy you get is lower from the lower angle of attack. At the same time the energy needed for heating goes up during winter.

Solar makes great sense for places where energy consumption is higher during the summer than during winter.
Do you feel oppressed / depressed? Your work life sounds great (compared to an office rat as portrayed in the article)