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Is there any other approach to fusion than ITER?

I mean fusion capable of practical power generation.

D-T fusion is the easiest, and yet super hard. Tokamaks are the only design that we know how to build in order to meet the goal, with maybe stellerators in second position. Inertial fusion work for scientific and military experiments, but are far from being a usable power source. Things like fusors and its derivative are great hobby projects with a few limited practical applications, but we are not even sure if it is physically possible to produce more energy than we put in. As for LENR (aka. cold fusion) we are essentially at the "thought experiment" stage, when it is not a scam.

One other idea that may work with current tech is to dig a large cave, line it with really thick material and detonate hydrogen bombs inside it, extracting energy from the heat of the explosion. I don't think I need to tell you that even if we can do that (unsure), we certainly shouldn't (absolutely sure).

Or, take, advantage of that really big fusion reactor we already have and makes us go around in circles.
Jobs as a software engineer at 1m/year? Sorry, I simply don't believe you.
Government programs that benefit poor people generally aren’t tied to inflation. This is not going to change.
In Germany selling crypto for fiat after year should be tax free.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/05/11/germany-publishes...
Voyager 1 cost $250M. Voyager 2 cost $895M. The Apollo missions cost $25B. Why didn't we send a lot more Voyagers? Not counting Mars, with 7 other planets and 18 or so large moons, we needed at least 20 more Voyager missions.
Working on open sourcing my search engine. Trying to get gitea to perform well off a Raspberry Pi 4.

The entire thing is in one big repo with code for all marginalia.nu projects. Needs structure to be accessible to more devs.

Also reworking the test strategy as what I did before makes
a lot of assumptions that do not generalize, experimenting with TestContainers for E2E-tests.
Don't know much about Fleet, but their accompanying space project is slowly getting better and better!

I'm liking it a lot. It isn't something particularly great yet but I like having my own domain, I like having integration with Jetbrains products, I like my own repos in a not-so-public location, I like extremely-easy-to-set-up CI.

Gitlab checks most of these boxes too but.. Dunno, Space just feels more intuitive to me. Might be due to the docs being really solid.
well, you have the foldable android
Perhaps not a direct catalyst as it was the Fenian Raids, in particular the battle of Ridgeway, that led to Canadian Confederation. The Fenians were largely Union Army veterans of the Civil War. Lincoln's decision to allow the formation of ethnic Irish regiments to aid recruitment allowed for the military organization and training of the Fenian Brotherhood.
> There's only 25 pounds of it on the whole planet.

"Because we haven't needed more until now, and it's mostly man-made."

There wasn't any plutonium on Earth, either, until we decided we needed some.
> Are any of you willing to back up any of these bold sentiments with actual money? Or are you just like the rest? All words, no soul?

If you are so sure of this then let us make a Real bet. 50 million sounds good yes? And if you don't have 50 million we can simply bet your entire net worth.
Click on the webgl tutorial link. https://nehe.gamedev.net/news/how_i_made_mario_kart_7_engine...
Postgres Query Optimization: Left Join vs. Union All
Seen this kind of thing several times.

"Assistance" programs meant to prop people up with so many reporting requirements and perverse incentives that punish you for improving your situation to the extent that the best path is to not even try to improve your situation and be entirely dependent on the program because when you do start earning income or saving anything, they take so much away from you that there is a significant cost to any amount of improvement until well after you'd be self-sufficient. i.e. it is more expensive to earn any income than it is to earn none, and the constant threat of losing support of the program (explicit threats) is much more anxiety inducing for the most vulnerable populations often than the situation they were trying to exit.

Being homeless, getting into a program to help the homeless, and then constantly being threatened with a return to homelessness if somebody doesn't do the paperwork exactly right is just crazy, but I've seen it first hand.
They said YT, not YC.
I haven't done whiteboard coding interviews for a long time, but this was a problem back when we did. We started by using generic coding problems that someone got from somewhere (probably a popular book or website). Occasionally someone would show up and basically recite the solution from memory.

Having 4 different problems is usually an okay defense for this because you can spot when the candidate recites some answers from memory but then struggles through relatively easy questions they obviously haven't solved before.

The fact that you had all 4 memorized defeated that heuristic, of course. The smart companies are careful to rotate their problems and customize them in ways that will trip up most recited answers.

> I had the all time best score for that company, and everyone thought of me I am some kind of genius, which was certainly not true, because I know my limits, and I am far from it.

> Nevertheless, everyone was a little disappointed by me in the next 6 months. I was quite junior, and had junior problems.

I mentored college students and recent grads for a while. A lot of them had been convinced by the internet that they just needed to memorize enough LeetCode problems to squeak through a FAANG interview and then they could relax for a decade or too until early retirement. It was like all of the Reddit memes about CS careers collapsed into a single narrative.

I spent a lot of time reminding them that high paying companies have high expectations and it's not as simple as collecting $300K/year to do nothing. Of course, they didn't really want to hear it from me.
Correct. Price of BTC denominated in Tether goes up, price of BTC denominated in USD likely goes down, as a) Tether liquidates crypto assets to cover redemptions and b) people sell off their crypto assets due to uncertainty/fear in the market.
It seems like every fusion post is bound to have at least one commenter point out that the sun is a working fusion reactor, as if literally anyone in these threads will learn something from this observation.
These tools have existed in Sass/LESS for a decade, and in modern design tools too. There is no excuse.
Oh, I'm not playing games.

They're literally different and you know it to be true, but you'd prefer to play semantics because you can't back it up with logic. Like the idea that losing your job for failing to comply with public safety measures is the same as being charged with murder for aborting an ectopic pregnancy. Severing an employment relationship is nothing like incarcerating someone.
Stock appreciation is a hell of a drug. I have worked with multiple engineers making multiple millions a year. They were all ICs.

To break into the 1% in SV - you need to make $3.6mil/yr. Just let that sink in. It's a very rich place.
you learn math by doing lots of problems, the same is true for leetcode. sure there are patterns and tricks to it, but you have to do enough problems to apply them "intuitively". it's one thing to know you need two pointers to solve a problem, but a different thing to actually code up the solution...
If you're referring to the issue with inflation over time making old policy numbers no longer make sense, it could definitely happen, though I think most UBI proponents prefer a design that automatically adjusts for inflation for exactly this reason. But if you're referring to the part where onerous means testing and other eligibility rules make life harder for the very people we want to help, then no, I think one of the fundamental benefits of a UBI is that it avoids all of that.
You need to speak to more senior people who work at companies that make their money selling software or Internet services. ("Senior" is not 5 years of experience. Think engineers in their 30s & 40s.)
Are you inadvertently hitting a big .git/ with every find?
I swear, modern day white people who have nothing to do with colonialism seem to be far more obsessed with it than those who experienced it (it's 70 years in the past and we can no longer blame our problems on it).

I don't think this nonsense behaviour should be tolerated. A white person should not be any more ashamed of their culture than an Indian or Chinese person.
Not quite. I'm concerned that they would offer UBI, and then add conditions later. It's pedantic to think that officials would care that this is "not technically UBI anymore." It would be called UBI, but you would be required to comply with different standards to receive it.
That's a totally fair objection and one I'm sensitive to as a vocal advocate for moving ES teams away from the custom crap that we've spent the past 40 years doing.

I still think the weird limitations you get from "what about embedded" are often just obvious canaries for problems present throughout much of the vast diversity of computing. For example, sampling profilers used to have serious issues on WSL (where perf must still be manually compiled) and WINE. Having instrumentation hooks also makes things like AFL and custom sanitizers possible. The flexibility isn't always reasonable (e.g. don't assume little endian, don't assume 8-bit bytes), but there may be valid use cases that weren't considered at the toolchain/language level.
When eBPF meets TLS. Defeating TLS encryption with eBPF tricks [pdf]
It would seem that I did not do enough for your liking to make it clear that my feelings weren't necessarily rational or reasonable.
Which is fine! Nobody has to do LC and nobody has to apply to companies that use LC interviews.

The reality is that when most people sit down and think about the math behind the finances, avoiding LC on principle comes with a massive opportunity cost that can exceed millions of dollars over the span of a career. Which again, totally fine if that's not your thing, but we should still let people know what's at stake.
Book Review: Making Nature
Wow, I completely missed the link in your earlier comment. Looks like my theory about neuroticism was not supported by that paper though.
Archaeoastronomy
> while she had lab space she was not in charge of her own lab

I'm getting the feeling that you're just making this up as you go along.

She had an independent lab at Whitehead. That's the entire point of the Whitehead Fellowship. It even says on her own lab's website that she established an independent lab at Whitehead.

You can look at old versions of her lab's website and see that while she was at the Whitehead, she did indeed hire several people into her lab.
It's unbelievable how much time, money, and wasted potential productivity the USA spends trying (and failing) to make sure that "undeserving" people don't have access to government welfare benefits of various kinds.
See, a protest - even civil disobedience - is working within the system to change the rules. Sovereign citizen stuff? Not so much.
Some more details from the linked Belarusian source, thanks to google translate:

The book had been banned in the Soviet Union until 1987. It was translated in 1992 into Belarusian and became a bestseller. Recently new editions were printed by the Yanushkevich Publishing House. The publisher Andrei Yanushkevich has been detained, following the opening of a bookstore linked to the publishing house. Around 200 books were confiscated and are being evaluated if they contain extremist material.

This is not the first independent publishing house facing repression.
>> Tldr: as a general rule you can ignore the ethics section of ML papers.

More generally still, you can ignore the ethics of ML researchers- pretty much for the same reasons that you can ignore the Great Turnip of Justice in the sky.
+++By this point it is in fact Donald Trump. Hitler was famous once, not anymore, people don't connect with the Holocaust and WW2 like they did in the 90's. If you're born after 2000 it might as well be the Napoleonic Wars, some stuff that was on the test and nothing more. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. But now it's Trump. Because of all the bad press. There was a slowdown in the media markets when he left the presidency because they were talking about him or his administrations in the majority of headlines. I judge 65% of big headlines were about him or his administration. Well you can't look at it objectively, it's different for every news source. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ I'm going to swear this comment cryptographically, like I did in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31451260. Nonce: 27965+++

EDIT: I'm having difficulty working with HN, especially puncuation modifications, it's tricky to copy paste into eg https://geraintluff.github.io/sha256/

To get that oath, hash that message as ASCII, everything between the triple +'s, "+++". Keep those out. You must get

0002a29ee3e809d4dcf5adc2bc1fc7ed61a10a01efc37eb2207bdad9193b1ebf

But copy the string into the console, not in the entry. This is currently not an easy process.
>I think one of the greatest features of UBI is that it gets rid of all of that by design.

But you can't guarantee that "by design", only "by name." As we know with politics, the name of a program is not tightly coupled to its effect.
Stanford releases most of their courses for free for the world to consume and improve their knowledge and help humanity.

It is not about internet points, but the fact that how anti-capitalists the intellectual elites have become despite massively benefiting from it and the single biggest factor that has driven down poverty on a global scale.

No one read the article. It was beautiful well-written. Instead HN, like reddit went all pitch-fork "Hurr Durr, Bad Capitalists"
I don’t understand — having the option to write a sestina or a haiku is nonsense behavior?

You’re just looking for something to be mad at.
My sister is disabled and has this problem. She has a pile of cash at home as a result of it rather than safe in the bank or in investments. Like, you'd think someone who's paralyzed has a life that's hard enough, but yet we've created infinite hoops for her to jump through still.
The reaction is supposed to be self-sustaining. The reactor walls are supposed to emit more than enough tritium to satisfy your needs.

Whatever you bring from outside is just to bootstrap it once you turn it on. (I imagine they are not collecting the tritium between runs, but it's something you are expected to do.)
> And the threshold for it (SSA calls it “income disregards”) is so astonishingly low that I asked Ne’eman about it. He believes the number is a holdover from at least 1972, when SSI was created. SSI borrowed some of its numbers from a previous aid program for the blind, and didn’t index them for inflation. Fifty years later, they remain the same, despite a sevenfold increase in the consumer price index.

I haven't found concrete history here, but as far as I can tell, the income limit may have made sense in 1935.

https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/public-welfare/aid-for...

Though, that legislation lists $30/mo, not the $85 listed in the article. Still, that's less than $700/mo today according to this sketchy-looking inflation calculator[1], not enough for rent in many places. Another sketchy data point[2]; average rent in 1933 was $18/mo (which kinda makes sense, as housing has been skyrocketing vs CPI).

[1] https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1935?amount=30

[2] https://findanyanswer.com/what-did-a-house-cost-in-1935
> Did those numbers ever make sense?

Only in a cruel, actuarial sense.
GP can and does install "admin apps" such as Find My Device that can remotely control your phone. They can remotely enable any permissions they like. And no, uou can't opt out of those "helpful" admin apps because they aren't for your benefit.

As more and more people are realising the value of privacy, the Big Goog is trying to obfuscate how much data it collects and how much data it allows others to collect.
if we want to significantly curb global warming, long term solutions aren't where we need to focus effort
USENIX has been open access for years.
Some ACM conferences and journals (e.g. SIGCOMM/CCR) have been open access for several years.

One step that ACM could take that wouldn't require any technical changes to their existing infrastructure would be to officially offer republication and redistribution rights to any non-commercial digital library including arxiv.org, archive.org, sci-hub, etc..
Ah yes, does Hacker News automatically change the URLs to old.reddit.com? The link I posted is reddit.com but it's been changed to old.reddit.com
Now automatically send in the answers to the various weekly magazine and newspaper competitions to get a passive prize income.
That would totally fly in the courts of e.g. Judges Kaplan or Preska.
Exactly. And if you wanted a Git aware tool, you could just run 'git ls-files'.
You control the detonation with either an engineered or natural cavity filled with fluid. You can then use the fluid as a big thermal reservoir to run steam turbines. Per wikipedia:

>"Dropping about two bombs a day would cause the system to reach thermal equilibrium, allowing the continual extraction of about 2 GW of electrical power."

Now... the part you're not getting is that if you can do all that, you can almost certainly just use conventional fission power generation, which is what we really, REALLY need to be doing anyway.
The OP says largest army at the time, not largest ever
The government cares mostly about maintaining its own power, not helping disabled people who happen to live in its territory.
I'm reminded of an article I read about an AI that competed in a crossword competition and one particularly difficult clue it faced was "Apollo 11 and 12 [180 degrees]". I don't know if it would be allowed as part of a cryptic crossword, but the number of letters in the (words of the) answer were 8, 4.

The answer to that clue is included here:

https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2783.htm
I don't know if OWL rolls its own thing, but there is a "numeric nd-array" type in the standard library in ocaml [1]. In any case "native arrays" in ocaml or other are dynamic vectors, so it wouldn't make any sense to build numeric arrays on top of that. And in ocaml you're probably using inductive lists or trees more than dynamic vectors.. So it's not really "unsatisfying": different datastructures for different needs.

[1] https://v2.ocaml.org/api/Bigarray.html
When I was a student and wanted to get a small job to get some pocket money, I couldn't, because after reporting it, my mom would lose some family benefits and we'd be worse off at the end of the day. This was a recurring theme until I graduated and went on my own.
We’re facing a catastrophe. I and others have described elsewhere that the path we’re on is much, much worse than even the most dire of predictions the IPCC makes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30947756

Teller et al anticipated your objection. It’s why the reactor is supposed to dig into sold rock. If there’s a catastrophic failure then it’s yet another subsurface nuclear test. And the more advanced designs considered for Project Plowshare produce minimal residual radioactivity. All of the products dissipate within 6 months.

So, in the worst case scenario, the facility gets buried under tons of rocks, far away from any water. And the residual radioactive products rapidly decay into being harmless with 6 months. Any induced radioactivity from the neutrons produced during the explosion will follow a fairly predictable pattern as well.

This can be done.

In exchange we get a reactor that creates nearly limitless power for entire countries.
UBI is always going to have a de facto cutoff where some people pay more in tax than they receive in UBI (unless your government is funding it solely by money printing or having massive amounts of oil per head of population).

The only question is what that level is at and how steeply the relevant taxes reduce turn its net benefit to a net cost, and that's something governments determine just like the tapering on any other form of benefit.
How much longer can Google own the internet?
https://github.com/albertkx/berkeley-crossword-solver
Ask HN: Anyone having a hard time staying motivated with stocks low?
I know it's not officially a recession yet, but a lot of people in our industry have compensation that can be pretty stock heavy and tech stocks are down quite a bit. I've noticed I went from being very active/motivated during normal times, to struggling for motivation lately as my comp is down quite a bit from even my original offer. Just wondering if anyone else is feeling it like I am
>On the plus side I know dozens of ways to refactor for legibility and 'accidentally' improve performance at the same time.

My favorite is "That nested loop is kind of hard to read, how about making a dictionary/hashmap instead?"
>He didn't deny the NDA and settlement.

That doesn't prove/disprove anything.

>SpaceX could easily make a a statement that it didn't happen

Why? They have already settled.
Imho it’s awesome to learn. I don’t personally like crypto, but the idea of a blockchain is somewhat genius.

Satoshi’s paper https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf is _very_ easy to read.
It lacks the key advantage of fusion reactors over fission: not contaminating its working fluid with radioactive isotopes. For something like PACER, you have to extract the heat by running the hot fluoride through heat exchangers to run steam turbines. This is difficult and expensive to make safe. Like with conventional fission reactors, you have to be extremely sure your heat exchangers will last 50 years with zero leaks, because you can't touch them once the system has been running. And leaks are extremely dangerous. So every weld has to be triple-inspected and so on.

A second disadvantage is that the parts would undergo constant thermal cycling. Conventional reactors are run at a very steady output level to handle base load, because turning them up and down regularly would cause the moving parts to fatigue and crack over time.
I believe the copyright notice in the Apache license is for the license itself, not for the software it covers. If the software is all rights reserved, then it is not open source. By definition Open Source Software grants some rights to the users. Though I'm sure it was just some boiler plate they stuck in the readme.

In any case I really just wanted to point out that it is open source, even though at a glance it looks like it might not be.
how can this market be not saturated yet after ~20 years of saturating?
Most colleges don't care, especially if your standardized test scores are high enough. The main problem is with obtaining scholarships, they will care about grades a lot. I left before completing even a single semester because I hated it, but my 2.0 GPA didn't stop me from getting admitted anywhere.
This is the correct framing: we are willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year as a country, so long as the framing of that money contains the lie of deservedness.

Contrast our funding of SSI with our funding of the defense industry, an industry that would be virtually indistinguishable from a middle class jobs program were it not for its tendency to start wars in the Middle East.