skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But what are they going to do? Pay more than the Chief Justice of the Canadian Supreme Court?

Pay your consulting firm 100x more than they would pay any one government employee, and not ask questions about how much of that goes to each consultant.
UK scientists set new record for generating energy from nuclear fusion
I took my Macbook to pieces and there were lots more than 64 bits.
They didn't want to comply with laws requiring giving the Chinese government full access to their data.
Yes, there is some limited evidence both against and in favor of this theory.

Regardless, I found it helpful to see my neurodivergence not as a medical condition or "weirdness". I have trouble living "normal" life, but am still a valid person, be it "brain damage" or "ancestor of night guard / hunter-gatherer".

And here I am, both loving and hating my job as software dev.
Got here because of hyperfocus and easy dopamine from quick iteration.
Sometimes hooked on being in a different world all day, sometimes dying from being stuck in office chair for 8+ hours a day. Go figure :D
If you've logged in it can potentially match your login information or email address to other activity on the web. TikTok's servers could also place you geographically somewhat roughly based on ip address.

Outside of that I agree. It's unclear what data TikTok is supposedly gathering that other apps aren't already and why that's a cause for alarm.
> Your right to watch a husband wearing a chastity cage while his wife pulls a creampie gangbang of race-exploited BBCs will be preserved man. You just gotta show ID.

You misunderstand. I'm saying that such material is by far not the only thing that will be, or is, censored. See for example anti-drug-war sites getting swept under the "porn filter", while pro-drug-war sites are exempt [1]. Torrentfreak and linuxtracker were also censored [2].

Of course every attempt will be made to pretend, as you have done, that only porn will be censored, and to paint everyone that argues against this as a pro-child-access-to-porn activist.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/uk-porn-filters-are-censo_b_5...

[2] https://torrentfreak.com/uk-porn-filter-triggers-widespread-...
Safer entropy accumulation in Linux 5.18's RNG
Exactly this, I’ve observed it as well. MacBook-toting devs often won’t test on anything but Chrome, likely for convenience.

Firefox suffers from this too.
I agree: Null-confirming signals should not be considered evidence to discard the null hypothesis. Decision trees are OK, esp those that have "wait and see" near the root. "See if it goes away" is indeed an information-seeking behavior, and a low-cost one at that.
For emacs users, there are some modes with similar functionalities (as expected from emacs!): picture-mode and artist-mode

See for example http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_ascii_diagram.html
Wish granted! @the.bessie.report on Instagram
Why spend extra money on a worse launch site further north?
Anyone care to explain the down votes?
How lucky you are. Mine requires me to leave before stopping itself in a tree.
It's called moderation.

Moderation has been working fine for public forums since the internet gained popularity.

The problem here is that no one can moderate a community of billions. That's the unfeasible scenario that Facebook, Twitter, etc. find themselves in.
> Travel will not solve your problems on its own, but it can certainly help.

I don't agree that most of what you wrote there in any sense refutes the article or Seneca's letter on which is it is based, but this line definitely rings true to me. I think there are two reasons why it can help:

1. there was a line in a book from the 1940s that I browsed once in a cafe in London, written by someone who was (it seems) one of that era's most committed Egyptologists. Early in the book, he wrote (and I have to paraphrase it now, because I can't remember the elegant, if dated, prose he used): the point of travelling to places where things seem strange and different is so that when you return (or choose) somewhere, even if you had spent your whole life there before, it now also seems strange and different.

2. Getting a sense of the expanded boundaries of possibility can help make the walls of the Box of Daily Experience a bit more porous. When you have a clearer picture of the many different Boxes of Daily Experience that you and others live in around the world, it can (I think) become easier to find a new relationship with your own.
And take back roads (rather than highways).
About 15 min into the video and its giving be strong memories of a book I was given as a kid:

"Build Your Own Sports Car for as Little as £250" by Ron Champion

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Build-Your-Sports-Little-£250/dp/08...

It includes all plans and instructions on how to build a Lotus 7 style car from scratch using a Ford Escort Mk 3 as the donor car.

Always dreamt of one day doing it.

I believe it created a whole mini industry of workshops manufacturing components for amateurs to buy if they wanted to skip a step. There was/is a racing series for them too.
"Due to a court order/legal settlement, this article has been removed."

But they didn't post that, did they?
The Based on your likes: and X liked: sections are becoming way too common in my feed. It's getting annoying.
Neither does TikTok if you don't upload anything.
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Excellent book on the topic of "humanure": https://www.amazon.com/Humanure-Handbook-4th-Shit-Nutshell/d...
"You can't hide from yourself / Everywhere you go there you are" - Teddy Pendergrass (well, written by Gamble and Huff)
They own the facility, which means that they are fully in control of the scheduling, they do not need to lease the launchpad and support facilities at Cape Canaveral, and they also get a slight boost from launching closer to the equator. They literally picked the southernmost spot as they could in the continental United States.

Lastly, given that Boca Chica was little more than a tiny retiree town, placing the facility there means they can buy up and develop all the land around it far more easily than picking some other coastal town.
Not just journalists, but politicians, priests, etc

Yes: https://jakeseliger.com/2019/11/19/have-journalists-and-acad.... Journalists, and academics in the humanities, have become more cleric-like.
No. Fusion is completely different from solar. It can provide steady energy without going down for years. Solar goes down multiple times a day.
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I don't know much about the physics, but it seems like you'd want square miles of solar panels, even in space, and then there's the problem of getting that energy back to earth. On the other hand, in space you'd get a lot of light frequencies that are rarer on Earth. It's not clear to me if those could be harnessed somehow. Regardless, it's a creative idea.
So when generating a private key, is any 256 bit random sequence good (it gets reduced down to the 252 bits available) or do you have to check you didn't pick one of the 2^4 keys that aren't valid? (Actually, is 2^4 even the right number? Seems awfully low, and hence I guess, unlikely)
read here: https://webreader.app/?url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-...
Obviously, legislation to prohibit these untraceable and dangerous ghost automatic super-cars is called for!
OP changed the title, it nowhere says "any other app".
At great risk here, I have to say I agree based on my own experience. Often times people conflate government-funded systems like healthcare or taxpayer-funded university as being socially progressive. I wouldn't do that. You can have universal healthcare and ban gay marriage in your country, for example.
> Did we finally learn how to extract more energy from a fusion rector than we supplied to operate it?

No.

> Could anyone more in the know here explain in simpler and more practical terms please?

It's impossible to tell because the story is incoherent. The central claim is that they "release[d] a record 59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy" but this makes no sense. One can talk about sustained power (over a period of time) but "sustained energy" is a category error because energy is just power integrated over time. You can get 59 megajoules out of your wall socket if you wait long enough.

They apparently did something that had never been done before, but there's no way to tell exactly what that was from what is written in this story.

(This kind of obfuscation is not unusual in fusion research. A cynic might argue that this is because if they were clear about the actual state of things their funding would cease.)
Sure, but that doesn't really address the point. Suppose aliens got really lucky and managed to achieve interstellar travel in just 1 billion years since the big bang. That still leaves the entire area outside of a 12 billion light years radius from us invisible, i.e. they would have to be somewhere within that radius within the next 12 billion years, for us to be physically able to see them. But that radius is like less than 1% of the known universe.

And in actuality, they would need to sit there detectably within the narrow period of a few hundred years or so that humanity is actually looking at that spot in the sky. So, for example, if they were galaxy hopping every few million years rather than cancerously leaving dyson spheres everywhere, and just happened to temporarily brush into our radius of visibility during their nomadic travels, we wouldn't necessarily see them if they got within view too early or too late.
Kalms (valerian). 5-HTP. Chamomile. Theanine.

Listen to a podcast or two to drift off. Reduce blue light both with special spectacles, turning phone into night mode, and using a blue light reducing screen protector.
As of 5-6 years ago some (many? most?) cars still had a good old standard double-DIN slot for the infotainment unit, if you popped off the dashboard's plastic cover.

No clue if that's still true; I think it has become less true over time for sure.

There are benefits to automakers for retaining that standard form factor. Most factory-branded infotainment systems are made by a handful of OEM manufacturers like Bose. Bose makes systems for multiple automakers. So the double-DIN form factor has persisted, it's just hidden.

Problem is, for most cars, the climate controls and shit are all bundled into that infotainment system. So you can slot a standard double-DIN stereo into most modern cars, but you need a replacement dashboard panel and fairly elaborate kit to replace the OEM climate controls and whatever else.

Metra is a company that makes those kits, I think they were pretty much the only game in town last I looked into this. https://www.crutchfield.com/S-57MGZyBW0Mm/fg_112200_FFBrand%...
I would guess it zeroed in on common interests. Videos you like, comment on, or even just watch for more than one time can all give clues into what interests you.
I have a different take away.

This type of thing is why I only run software from the Debian repos or that I build myself. On machines I own, anyway.

I personally still think the UI of web apps are generally terrible, and though they may not be listening to the microphone, spend 10 minutes using uMatrix and it's pretty clear they're spying on you and sending information all over the place.
Tucker Carlson is unhinged from reality and espouses wild conspiracies which falls squarely in the far right.
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When your skills are replaceable you have very little leverage. Journalist are certainly a field where these days you can be easily replaced even by possibly unpaid intern. Only if you have build a name and grinded it out you have some leverage. Thus union is little help if you could just fire your entire staff and pay a few editors to hire new people.
Their products don't seem too popular. E.g. Falcon heavy flew 2 missions in 2019, and 0 since then.
This idea is basically the background behind the recent "wordcel" term/meme that's been making the rounds.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/wordcel-shape-rotato...
As a PhD you might aspire to better but a position in NYC on $80k is hardly "poverty wages".

For starters, there's this little thing called "commuting" you may have heard of. Ordinary people, without PhDs, do it plenty. The NYC Pepsi offices seem to be a medium-short walk from Christopher St. PATH; you would have no trouble living in Jersey City or Hoboken on the (computes) ~$2000/mo rent that would be 'affordable' at such pay. I bet you get tax-deductible transit benefits, too, and a monthly pass is around $100.

There are people in New York working full time jobs to make $15/hr, $30k a year. That's a lot more like the "poverty wages" you name.
I'm confused, isn't all animated content "dubbed"? It isn't like the animated characters themselves are talking.
I don't understand what useful information could be harvested, as unlike Google/Facebook there is no massive tracking pixel product that follows you across the web. I'm a massive critic of the CCP, but I don't see what useful information they would get from this.

I think a bigger "conspiracy theory" I'd buy into would be the algrorithm exploiting political extremes and pushing insane voices to the top...but every social media/media company does that in some way (though not always intentionally.)
Do you use something like Obsidian/Evernote to do this?
Ask HN: Is there a way to decompile iOS and search variable names?
I'm looking for a way to snoop around the iOS codebase if possible. I assume there's no way to gain access to the source code (legally ;)). Is there a way to decompile iOS with variable names intact and search through this?
Yes, additionally JET stands for Joint European Torus, it's not British.

The title is as misleading as calling ITER French because it's located in France.
I feel it's difficult to have good discussion if that's the stance their developer evangelist approaches this topic from. Not only is it tacitly offensive to men, but it marginalizes the women who develop for Safari and have experienced all the same frustrating issues the men have.
There's some close-ups, but it doesn't really look that great in the far shots either. Uncanny valley territory.
Just in cast it makes any difference to you, the Chinese government, who collects all the TikTok data, is a bunch of oppressive mass murderers. Say what you will about Facebook, Google, et al., but they haven't come that far yet.
this is exactly also true for grad students in the physical and biological sciences.
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My aunt once tried to give her great-nephew some money by check. Because her bank didn't have a local branch in the other country or maybe just because the bank workers were lazy, it was nearly impossible to cash it, with fees coming to alnost a third of the sum and time of weeks. Could she have just used this service instead? Without hassle or fees?
Wait, this suggests that Canada and Australia are highly misreporting, but Russia isn't? I thought it was well established that Russia's count was very, very off. This would imply that this model doesn't work very well.
That's why I said "perceived". Eventually something will happen and Important People will pay attention. It just has not happened yet.
Really what Delta is trying to do is speed up all the regional and short hop flights and commuter flights, because aircraft turnaround is a big drag on them in those situations. And if I'm not mistaken, the longer flights would involve a crew change anyway.

Those flights are going to get massively disrupted in the next decade. I know self-driving gets absolutely hammered here, but highway self driving should be a lot more achievable, and when it is, airlines are going to face a reckoning.

I can't wait for highway self-driving to automate 95% of a 400-800 mile trip. No airports, lines, crotches, baggage junk (just pile what you need into the car), crammed in like sardines, no/crappy food, wait for rental car, 1/2 the price (or WAY less if you have a family). Did I mention you get to leave when you want on a moment's notice with no scheduling 10-30 days in advance to get the "best rate"?

A 400 mile trip is practically a wash in time with airport rigamarole, cheaper, and you get to bring a lot more stuff.

A 600 mile trip? Well, a bit crappy, but if highway self driving is up to standard, you can sleep for a lot of that.

An 800 mile trip? Sure if you're single, you'll pick the flight. Family? The economics and PITA of getting a family packed organized and corralled to the airport... I'd still drive it if I didn't have to do the highway concentration drudgery.

And when self-driving EV RVs with foldout solar arrays and starlink/5G internet become a thing...
Phone numbers aren't good identifiers for other reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30258495
Ask HN: Who offers loans on startup equity?
Hi all,

I'm looking to take out a $250k loan that uses some startup equity I own as collateral (the FMV of that equity comes in at ~$650k).

For what it's worth, the company is 4-5 years old and isn't a brand name like, e.g., Uber. That's to say I'd expect industry knowledge would be required to fully appreciate the value of the equity (e.g. investor names, usage metrics, etc).

Who offers loans of this kind?

I don't imagine I can, e.g., walk into my local Chase branch and strike up a good loan for this, right?

Thanks!
Phase 1: Collect data about what users like to watch on TikTok

Phase 2: ???

Phase 3: The world is now controlled by China and we are doing full communism
The sun passing the horizon is affected by your vertical position. Someone in the lobby of a skyscraper has a different sunset time than someone near the top.
Sustainable reproduction is what enables space travel, expansive species spend their time on infighting, they have no resources to fly anywhere, example: humankind. But even in case of humankind, our exponential reproduction is winding down over time. Irrespective of reproduction, a barbaric species won't be able to fly beyond moon.
Podcasts are entertainment, they're a wildly inappropriate medium for rational argumentation or giving evidence or anything similar.

Put another way, you can't expect me to spend my time listening to a podcast just to be able to guess at what your argument is.
Got a source to this manifesto document? Otherwise you’re making a claim that has no backing.
Uh... you mean N=1, unless P=0... :p
We need a better word for "recall" when it's a software update to fix it.

In the future there might be something requiring an actual physical fix, but people might see the headline and assume it's just another software update - because most Tesla "recalls" have been software updates.
Sorry for not being clear enough, this was straight after I installed the app. I didn't search for any content or anything, I was simply recommended things that were clearly from my home country.
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I still remember the gamergate... The secret discussions and the amazing width of pushing the same narrative by publishing same story on multiple platforms... Still probably going on in many cliques...
a comment from a friend of mine
“ I worked at JET for 2 years, That device is from 1979, it's a fucking joke and the $ millions being pumped into it every year would be more useful as paper fuel for a steam engine... the SPARC thing (private, but also in Oxford and in the same compound as JET)is much more promising”
That fate is the technology acceleration with the scientific method versus the glacial development of species.

Meaning its comparable easy to unlock exponential technologys (energy density/ information density) and its very hard to actually self + "tame" a species fresh out of the woods. Just look at our world of 9 billion, longing for ever more surplus, handing dangerous technology to the individual without providing any self-control beyond basic self-surveillance to society members.

Anyone with a basic understanding of biology and a garage full of hamsters, can create a new covid based bioweapon right now. Ever more centralizing systems allow for one hacker to do incredible damage to a society. And while this plays out, there are still people demanding flying cars, so whoever hacks them, can fly them into buildings in case of civil unrest.

The denial about this species being unfit for the stars, unfit even for nuclear energy and the idea that ever more powerful toys will magically fix this "retardation" is whats at the core of the fermi paradox. Most species just murder one another off with exp-tech once the environment and the surplus machinery runs out.
SpaceX started work on Pad 39A back in December:

https://spaceexplored.com/2021/12/03/starship-orbital-pad-co...
Ha, just as the Arctic circle theatre is coming into relevance we're going to switch to batteries, which will not perform well below 10 ºC? Right...

This is stupid and if the Army is really doing this it's a reflection of complete sophistry.
For some games it might be reasonable but the ones i tried with my 100/100 mbit are miles away from the native experience.
Yes, and crucially, there are competing companies that are trying to make even better films to make people watch their movies rather than Disney movies.

It's not good or evil, it's just whatever the people want to watch.
for DSLR that doesn’t have gyro, can i just put a gopro on top of it and stabilize both out of the gyro data from the gopro?
aka safety squints
> Trans culture, at least in part and mostly why it's slanted so far MtF is because autism affects men more than women and they internalized the porn differently

Where is this coming from? This is such a reductionist take on an extremely complex issue. If you have studies to share, I’d be interested to read them.

If you’re basing your conclusions on extreme subreddits or similar places, I would remind you that Reddit is not a direct reflection of society as a whole. Nor are some of the personalities there a direct reflection of their counterparts in other parts of the real world.
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Gut bacteria linked to immune suppression in pancreatic cancer
If what you are proposing is to dump it in the natural areas, this is not a valid idea.

Not all ecosystems admit an excess of nitrogen. Many rare species of wildflowers would be quickly replaced by nettles, elder and other common species and vanish.
Isn't this somewhat expected?

They wouldn't be famous if they didn't succeed on headline-capturing attempts and there are only so many you can realistically do in life. They are dead however as doing dangerous things often enough will kill a substantial number of practitioners.
Also, the report makes the title seem very biased. Home Depot, Reuters, WSJ are all using more 3th party trackers.
My home country does have its own language, yes, but all of my devices (and their virtual keyboards) are in English.
No the moment after they moved to monero it should've been untraceable. The discrepancy you are seeing is that the USG definitely has tools to trace any of these "anonymous" coins. It's highly likely that these are honeypots.

Nobody knows who Satoshi was, everybody just assumes he isn't the feds themselves. Such scenario would be so catastrophic to organizations that rely on its advertised anonymity and it would be the best investment ever since you could just keep denying you have this capability, always coming up with a cover story (keys in cloud, we traced their keys, they were dumb etc).

This would keep criminals guessing, the economic value of laundering with crypto is too great to give it up but at the end of the day, they can only operate under uncertainty.