skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Yes, but the really hot part is not emitting visible light. ;)

If you're curious about why the bottom glows: ExB drift pushes electrons to the bottom. I'm sure that doesn't make sense, but unfortunately there isn't really a shortcut to understanding here. Some books are pretty accessible though (I'm a fan of The Future of Fusion Energy).

https://ebrary.net/174598/mathematics/drift_motion_energetic...

And, of course, there is always the freely available IAEA textbook:

https://www.iaea.org/publications/8879/fusion-physics
What is BizOps? I noticed a lot of the non-technical roles here have that title. I've read wildly varying definitions ranging from Strategy to KPI management and data analytics, has the industry settled on a relatively consistent definition?
I guess that's an interesting way to point out that the domain most dominated by women over men is fashion and the domain most dominated by men over women is engineering (or porn in the case of "shemale"?)
> wonder if my career destroyed my ability to make and keep friends

You spend thousands of hours at your job. It is inevitable that it will change your personality.

Choose wisely.
Can you suggest something less drastic than eliminate capitalism? For example, “enforce existing anti—trust regulation”. Tossing out a system that basically works in the hopes that a complete rewrite will solve all of our problems never works.
Yeah, this feels like a no-true-scotsman, except for 'startups', made to discredit OP's reality.

Telling OP to ignore the writing on the wall and show loyalty to a toxic leader is not good advice.
A little nitpicking about GRE, it really doesn't seem to matter anymore. There is a wave of schools making it optional, and often outright banning it from submission.

Anecdotally, I have a near perfect-perfect GRE score (334/340, perfect score in quantitative), with at least avg position on other criteria (I think). I failed to get even interviews in many mid-tier US universities last year.
There are several words in this chart that I cannot associate with anything, nor recall having seen them before. At least personally, I would say I know a word by knowing under what context it can be used, and I don't even have that.
>> - Developers should get a “cut” whenever Apple makes arbitrary changes that completely break 3rd-party apps. If the app’s code doesn’t change but Apple does change something, their behavior is literally creating problems for developers with no cost to Apple. Let’s charge them!

> So when Apple introduces new features and frameworks, should developers then pay Apple? This doesn't seem to make sense.

I thought so too at first but that brings back one idea I had that most independent software vendors will probably hate and puts more control in Apple's hands but here it is anyway:

Apple can add a way for developers to submit source code, assets, and machine readable build instructions in an Apple supplied format. Apple then builds the bits that goes on the App Store. Developers already pay USD 100 a year for the privilege of being on the App Store anyway, right?

This way, if Apple introduces new features and frameworks, they can automatically update the code as needed and push updates to the users?
I have a 20A 220 circuit for an electric kettle with multiple 6-15Rs. It has a 20A gfci breaker.
Why pick up the passengers only? Plan ahead and build it to pick up the entire ship, including not just the passengers but all the materials and supplies they had packed as well.
These are staircases, not ladders
A giant wave off of Ucluelet in 2020 is the most extreme rogue wave ever recorde
The Art World’s Spider Man
Maybe instance-level configuration?
Why don't we all use code editors that know how to render things like Graphviz and Markdown with lists, tables? Maybe in a side window rather than in the main display, but like, come-on...

Like, Visual Studio Code supports something like this:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=joaompin...
I don't know how I would describe my thought processes. Typically I am not really aware of how they work except for having a vague sense of objects of various textures and consistencies sort of sliding around, banging together, clicking, etc in the back of my head somewhere. Neither visual nor textual.
I would think that asking for more detail and more "why" versus "how" questions would effectively weed out those people.
While I agree with the advice to leave, this person may be reluctant to leave because their compensation package is not fully vested. There is a famously toxic culture at - uh, you know, a large internet retailer with a prominent web services business - whose primary compensation is/was stock on 2-4 year vesting schedules. I personally know people who had literal heart attacks, mental breakdowns, and other serious and life threatening health consequences that arose as a direct result of staying in that toxic environment too long.

It's not worth it. My friend who had a heart attack at 40 would gladly trade back the $750k in stock he got in exchange. Life is short.
As an Indian working as a biology postdoc, I can't speak to the experiences for people in physics, but at least in biology at this level Americans don't seem very interested. At my midsize institute that's got a reasonable reputation, I would be hard pressed to name a single American postdoc. Almost all the PhD students are American, and almost none of the postdocs. Chinese & Indians alone account for probably 60-70% of the postdocs, and they are the ones who stick around the longest (probably due to the extremely high bar both these nationalities face in terms of getting work visas). Speaking to the American PhDs the most common refrain I hear is an unwillingness to accept a postdoc salary for a couple of years (currently around ~ $55K) - when industry jobs are relatively easy to get for American nationals, and come with double the salary.
They were also a part of rotating rust drives, which made it very fun to find old ones and pick them apart.
I would make a distinction between striving for excellence, which is a desire for self-improvement and involves competing with yourself to do better, and competing with others in a desire to outperform them.

I think you have to strive for excellence in some key areas in the your life, especially where you have talent or a strong affinity to participate or contribute.

I find it's much more useful to collaborate with others than compete, but your mileage may vary. When I see other people who are incredible, I try to find a way to complement them and collaborate with them on projects where we have common interests.
Jordan Peterson – [Writing] The Secret Skill the Universities Are Not Teaching
>have authority to ban federal employees from using an app

Not sure what we're talking about at this point. Trump's executive orders about tiktok that were thrown out of court were something different.

Trump or just the department who owns a given device can of course say "don't put X on government phones" and so on, but that's way different than what Trump tried and failed to do with tiktok.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05671-4 ("Generation mechanism and prediction of an observed extreme rogue wave") [open-access]

>"A 0.9 m CoastScout wave buoy (MarineLabs) was deployed 13/08/2020 at Amphitrite Bank (48.9∘ N, 125.6∘ W) about 7 km offshore in 45 m water depth. The buoy records surface elevation at 5 Hz from a 3-D inertial measurement unit (IMU), and from differential GPS. Data are recorded in 20 min bursts every 30 min and are available in near-real time."
It was not like Apple was a good considerate benevolent dictator before power got to their head. They have always been like this.

Apple won't have had the resources to develop something the Apple Silicon or most other products, if they aren't ruthless about their profit.

Is it worth the cost for society ? Depends on the POV, it sucks to be the handicraft producer when a big factory opens up, but more people do get product and benefit from it.
I was worried about how long the initial indexing would take for a recent full text search implementation in Postgres.

Took less than a second on a few hundred thousand rows.

Naive and simple is good enough for now.
At Aserto we recognize this problem and address it by offering candidates a choice. They can either take a take-home assignment, or opt for a whiteboard style interview question. This approach lets us meet candidates where they're most comfortable and removes a degree of bias from our interview results.
> Before anyone chimes in with "you can do that with macros," patched-in and after-the-fact typing doesn't count.

Why not? Common Lisp macros allow a programmer to implent a new language and to make optimizing compilers. Take for example Coalton, which is a strongly, staticaly, and strictly typed language that can interact with the base language
Previous threads:

A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637134 - March 2021 (66 comments)

A Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13190601 - Dec 2016 (16 comments)

The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9003735 - Feb 2015 (23 comments)
Yes, exactly. This is a recurring problem with Yang... he talks about a lot of subjects, but it's clear that he's barely scratching the surface of the problems he's talking about. My impression is that his way of engaging with a topic evolved on mainstream Twitter, and he's applying those same Twitter-oriented techniques in other avenues.
I see no way Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Uber, ... would join such a union. And if they did, would they have way too much influence on the union?
It might still be a biased sample. Probably most people on this website regardless of gender are interested in science and technology.
Any source on that Q=30 requirement for practical reactors?

I’d assume that anything >1 is theoretically “profitable” and something like 2~5 might already be economically viable.
You can't say fusion is impractical while saying solar and wind is better by hand waving all the current concerns and technological walls we still haven't solved. Plans on an whiteboard do not count, sorry.

Storage isn't solved, land space isn't solved, efficiency isn't solved, just like fusion isn't a solved problem.
Don't forget: there would be many more recalls on record, if Tesla had not been playing fast and loose with fixing the issues via OTA updates.

As it is, this recent trend reflects the fact that regulators have demanded that Tesla follow standard recall procedures, even if they can fix it via software without laying hands on the vehicle.

I want them to succeed, but they increasingly make it hard to believe that will be possible.
We're excited for the challenge!

Arc was released after we'd already been working on this for a while so it did take us a bit by surprise. We'll compete by focusing on building an amazing team and a high quality product.
Thanks for the feedback. Great idea!
Same with assuming that prestigious schools are more likely to produce amazing research. I have found the absolute worst papers from otherwise respectable ivies. A case of someone buying their PhD, I assume.
Private equity gobbling up everything for sale or rent has the patience and money to sit us all out.
Or, more likely, simply die, and take fair local government with it.
> Apple isn’t perfect. The App Store isn’t perfect. Developers aren’t perfect. The App Store review team isn’t perfect. Everything isn’t perfect.

This is key: because individual centralized actors are imperfect and even corruptible--whether due to intrinsic motivations or extrinsic application of force--it isn't acceptable to concentrate so much power onto them; in a talk I gave at Mozilla Privacy Lab a few years back, I covered a lot of these failure cases throughout our industry with real-world "this actually happened" examples, including (as this would of course be one of my focuses) looking at numerous ways in which Apple's App Store moderation has been the problem instead of the solution.

https://youtu.be/vsazo-Gs7ms
I think that's just another facet of what a ban would look like.

But as far as tiktok until someone gives the commerce department or someone else new powers, so far that seems out of reach.

Granted, I believe there are efforts to give them that option.
Tailscale will do this!

tailscaled --tun=userspace-networking --socks5-server=localhost:1081
I never got to leave the office, except for the brief period I had contracted COVID and was quarantined at home. Unsurprisingly I had contracted it at work.

Consequently, I can't share the enthusiasm of the crowd that seems to have deluded itself into believing this whole mess would usher in the age of the Glorious Work From Home revolution.
Interview questions to ask your interviewer
While I've done a bit of Scratch with the 5yo on my lap providing creative input, at this age I mostly prefer screen-free activities that teach programming/computing concepts.

A few things we've done are Exploding Dots Machines [0] and stories about functions and boolean logic. [1] Peter Rowlett tweeted about a little sorting algorithm activity he did with his 6yo, which I've been meaning to try. [2]

Another idea I want to do sometime is a "Robot Mommy" game where the kids give me instructions and I interpret them super-literally (kind of like those "how to make a PBJ" games). I can see this one going in a lot of different directions, but I'm thinking to start by being a human Logo turtle and let them control my steps and turns.

I'm always on the look-out for more of this kind of thing, if anyone has any suggestions or recommendation!

[0] https://bancosparenting.wordpress.com/2021/07/14/exploding-d...
[1] https://bancosparenting.wordpress.com/2021/05/08/pickle-and-...
[2] https://twitter.com/peterrowlett/status/1479857933202739209
Servers running since 2001 in Hetzners DC
it's real. cannabis is the only thing that has helped me with my ADHD
24-hour population distribution dataset based on mobile phone data from Helsinki
Central European fellow here. If you have a few years of experience under your belt and a tolerable English level there's no point you should continue working like this.

Consider going remote for foreign companies, you can easily double that rate.
Not entirely true. There are a few porn sites that have had success moving away from "all scenes access" subscription models to load up an account and purchase individual scenes from the pool models. And, of course, services like Clips4Sale have always worked this way. I suspect it would work well enough for any kind of cross platform video on demand service, not just adult, but no such thing exists right now because streaming providers largely don't work with each other the way porn providers do, preferring to own both the content and the platform.

Another part of this is I guess the payments aren't really "micro" in the video case, as filmed scenes are more expensive to produce and more valuable to consume than most written articles, so they can charge more per scene than anyone would ever pay per article.
Automate It: Turning GitHub Releases into Mixpanel Annotations
Reminds me of the CEO of my last company shudders

I still had nightmares many months after I left that place.
This brings to mind something interesting to me.

I have had 5 jobs in software in the past 10 years, and the first four were frustrating in different ways. Frustrating coworkers, bad pay, annoying location, dismal office, no vacation -- all different combinations of problems.

My current job, however, at a reasonably well known non-FAANG tech company, is in most ways perfect. I work remotely but have a NYC salary. My coworkers are delightful. The work is stress-free with top-of-the-line work-life balance, flexible PTO and a lot of holidays. I have no complaints.

EXCEPT that it's insanely boring. It's just such meaningless, boring work.

And that's the quandary. I know how stressful and frustrating most jobs are. I know this job is 90% perfect other than leaving me feeling unfulfilled. I know the odds of finding another job with such a combination of factors is very low.

So I stay, even as I see talented engineers moving on as described in the reddit thread and in this one. I'm not staying because I can't get work elsewhere - I'm staying because I don't believe I can find comparably stress-free high-paying work elsewhere.
What? I buy iPhones because they work, are simple, are supported for a long, long time, and aren't riddled with trackers, trojans, and whatever the heck Android generally has baked in. I have very few apps on my iPhone other than the ones that come pre-installed (by Apple, not by my cell provider).

I'm sure I'm atypical, but I do wonder how much an app-developer rebellion would really affect folks. I can't imagine my wife or parents switching to Android even if all of the non-Apple apps were to disappear tomorrow.
Canada is unexpectedly one of those countries. Accessibility here is a nightmare, especially in big cities. As another partner of a person with limited mobility, I always notice and appreciate the difference that 40 years of ADA has brought to construction in the US.

(I'd take universal health care over improved building codes any day, but both would be nice.)
And enterprise apps are notorious for being stagnant and difficult to use. Not the newfangled SaaS stuff but the legacy stuff that has the SLAs you're talking about.

Apple's decision to break apps that don't update is a user-centric decision. Just like deciding against GC and forcing automatic reference counting for more consistent UX performance is a user-centric, developer-hostile decision.
Anyone that remembers history correctly will remember when the iPhone was first released Apple wanted to make ALL the apps.

Then developers started jailbreaking the phones, adding their own apps to them.

The Appstore wasn't obvious for Apple, and it was only after developer backlash that they changed their tune.

So you can say that Apple did everything but the truth is that the success of the iPhone is from the COMBINED effort of Apple, and the work of developers in the community.
I'm all for equal dignity and value, but I think you are misunderstanding the situation here.

The fact is that money buys better health and familial outcomes. The parents want that for their kids. Manual labor, regardless of how well it pays takes a toll on your body and generally pays less than a lot of the highly sought after knowledge worker jobs.

I really think the rising cost of living is whats driving these kinds of ideas. The parents want their kids to make more money so they can have a better life - a reality in america. Others see this and assume that the blue collar job is bad or something.

If we had an adequate healthcare system that didn't favor the super rich with good outcomes, I would agree. Until then, my kids are going to be encouraged to go into a career where they can make lots of money sitting in an air conditioned office.

I've worked the blue collar tough as fuck jobs, and now I work in an air conditioned office making 15x as much. Objectively, which one is the better job?

I agree, not how it should be, but you gotta get yours.

Also, if you've ever worked in the trades you would know that a large portion of them are ignorant and uneducated. That stereotype exists for a reason. Its just a fact, and they have a tougher time navigating life because of it. I've lived it.
Norwegian in London here. This is how the UK looks to me compared to Norway...
If you simply assume that your spacecraft uses its own engines to accelerate to cruising speed, then the Δv to decelerate is approximately equal to the Δv to accelerate.

Similarly, if the engines are operated at a constant acceleration, then the distance needed to decelerate is equal to the distance needed to accelerate.

Fuel(/reaction mass), on the other hand, us not equal. The fuel to be used to decelerate must also be accelerated first, meaning more fuel is used to accelerate than to decelerate.
SEC looking into Apple’s use of nondisclosure agreements, whistleblower says
Network effects. Even if you were the best hardware/software maker in the world it would be difficult to compete with a walled garden that has locked in many customers both technically and culturally.
Another question is exactly how far ahead the NSA is. Remember their budget was estimated at $10 billion back in 2013, more than facebook’s revenue at that time, twice what Twitter’s is today. So picture two companies the size of Twitter working largely on breaking encryption.
This. Journals aren't science. They aren't even good for science. They create the wrong incentives for scientific publishing and are a primary driver of the replication crisis.

Open forums with science publishing for the sake of science should be the direction of travel, but we see a trajectory towards gatekeeping infected by corporate profiteering.
Last call to voluntarily migrate Java accounts
Discussed at the time:

Program above and beyond your actual ability by using FreeMind - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580537 - Sept 2012 (67 comments)
SpaceX will lose up to 40 satellites it just launched due to a solar storm
Hi, we provide a free plan for Hacker News users, so I don't think "free" is somehow "unrealistic". Paid plans are mostly business-focused.
The 'lock' variable is shared among threads. Compare is needed to avoid stomping on the lock acquired by another thread.
Those are the only powers that would be necessary to effectively ban TikTok from the US. Without app store access and without CDNs, TikTok would be dead in the US. And from my understanding of the Huawei situation, doing these by prohibiting US companies from doing business with TikTok is within the power of the President.
> When Apple introduced the iPhone, it didn’t have an App Store. From the moment the iPhone was announced, everyone speculated that it was only a matter of time until one was created, and a bit more than a year later, Apple announced it would allow developers to create iPhone apps and sell them in the App Store.

This is not exactly accurate. Everyone speculated about an SDK (like for the Mac). When it was finally announced, the locked-down “App Store” aspect of it was a surprise.

And it was generally greeted positively; after all, at the time it was pretty hard and expensive to go to market with new client-side software. Websites were way easier, and in fact that is one reason Apple initially were all-in on web apps for the iPhone.

(There were also honest concerns whether Apple had the chops to adequately secure a phone SDK so that calls would always work.)

The bad feelings about it built over time. One could say that people have started taking the existence of the iOS ecosystem for granted. But the world has changed around Apple. It no longer looks hard to go to market with software, so people no longer think Apple’s cut is fair.

And I think the article is correct that Apple has increasingly viewed it as a tax, not pass-thru expense.
I'd love to work at CFS. Cambridge, MA is right down the road from me and there is no greater cause right now than fusion energy in my opinion.
That is certainly a chilling thought and definitely not an unlikely turn of events. Society seems to need some level of governance in order to function, but who can we trust to govern for the people and not turn to tyranny? Technology is such a beacon of light for advancement but also so dangerous in the wrong hands.
I'm not an aeronautical engineer or anything... but the downwash from the rotors onto the large fixed undermounted wings on the RSRA test model is some serious WTF, no?
I kinda like that all but a couple outlets in my house can't kill me.

Also, I boil my water on an induction stove plugged into 50 amps at 220 volts. I'm not waiting around, to put it mildly.