skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. By that link, it seems they was able to stabilizing 'droplets' where two plasmas co-existed simultaneously inside Tokamak.

I wonder if they thought if it would be possible to accelerate such plasma droplets in opposite directions for to take Helion's aproach [1] if needed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29119180
Wikipedia already has articles covering unsolved problems for at least physics and presumably other fields too
What economic system optimizes for progress, and how do you define that?
Relatively simple, but effective at least for me. I've a notes folder, and every day I'll save a text file called YYYYMMDD.txt, and in it I'll write lots of one liners like,

Note: Do something
Read later: some url and description
Bug: whatever

Then I'll just grep on a particular term and keyword and rank by filename to get the most recent.
"the comment I replied to is discussing if Russian subcultures or culture can seem Cartoonish."

Why did you inserted 'subcultures' here?

The smsm42 subverted the discussion of the robot fuckup with a russophobic comment specifically saying 'It's a culture-wide thing' and you were replying to the comment saying 'there is no way they are that cartoonish'.

Nowhere subcultures are mentioned except in your comment where you offered a game review as a source of information about Russian culture ('a really interesting perspective on *at least* some aspects of Russian subcultures and their prominence') and partial confirmation of the 'culture-wide thing' comment.
On the other end you have California where people will sue the state for thousands if they trip on the sidewalk, scraping their knee a bit. I suppose the USA and ex-USSR still remain polar opposites in some respects.
True story I once had a discussion with a developer about search in general like for your website, for the internet and the difficulties involved. Precision vs recall, relevancy vs popularity, ranking etc.

He was dumbfounded that i would want to spend two weeks 'tunning Solr queries' for a project. He asked( nay stated)

"Why ? Search is a solved problem ?"

We no longer talk to each other.
No that's under the assumption that we have limited funding.
On the topic of flash cards, the Leitner system is pretty awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system
for me it's similar. bad reviews are usually the ones containing any believable or even constructive information.
I follow the same approach, I use obsidian to create the daily note with a button. When I study I take notes there and then if I have to, I move them to different files
FICLONE is the underlying ioctl:

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl_ficlone.2.ht...

As of Linux 5.18, it's supported by btrfs, xfs, overlayfs and some networking filesystems.
Outsourced payroll typically costs $2-4 per employee per pay cycle. A big part of these provider's focus centers around taxes and government compliance which don't apply since these are 1099 contractors responsible for their own taxes. In some cases, the workers are outside the country.

Regarding stealing money from your workers --- outsourced payroll may be an option but the workers themselves will ultimately pay the price for the unnecessary overhead and expense.
> xz does have support for integrity checking

Archives need not only a way to check their integrity but also error correction, which xz does not have.

However, you can easily combine xz with par2, which does provide error correction.
I'm assuming that:

1. There's some non-thorough verification of the items rather than completely trusting the merchants.

2. Merchants could sanctioned if caught sending counterfeit items.

3. You don't get to choose how Amazon stocks its fulfillment centers.

4. Assuming that part of the suggested con is to set the counterfeit items price to a fraction of the Sold by Amazon, I'd guess that Amazon would probably be more careful with grouping vastly differently priced items together regarding of their ID.

Again, these are all just assumptions but with that in mind, I would guess it won't be an easy thing to pull off.
> In addition the trains are horrible unreliable and stacked with people

Hello from Amsterdam! I've lived in five countries, including the Netherlands for the last five+ years.

Your statement is so false to the fact that I have no trouble calling it a deliberate lie.

First link I found:

https://analyticsindiamag.com/why-92-6-dutch-trains-arrive-t...

"When it comes to punctuality, Dutch railways are in the top three of the world, right behind only Japan and Switzerland. The Dutch railways, also known as NS, have seen an average of one million train commuters every day with 92.6 % of trains arriving on time, an incredible stat for the Dutch railways. If you are from the Netherlands, you probably can’t make the excuse of the train being late anymore. With this level of punctuality, Dutch railways are continually looking for innovative technological ideas to keep its spot in the top three."

All of this is well-known. I think the reddit term for "telling lies to push car ownership" is "carbrain".

You should be ashamed of yourself. Really. Do you have nothing better to do than go out and tell the most transparent lies on the Internet?
> Still, I do feel that some fusion hype is partially due to people not giving fission enough credit though

I wonder if this is more a marketing thing. Fission has a bad rep so people try to evade it by getting funding for fusion or SMRs (I know this is fission too) instead. Which people don't associate with classical nuclear reactor tech. Even though it's probably better to just put that money towards a new AP1000 from a cost perspective.
This is just a classic case of light pollution by grow lights.
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek from early March and Immune by Phillipp Dettmer from February (mainly when on a holiday)
https://analyticsindiamag.com/why-92-6-dutch-trains-arrive-t...

"When it comes to punctuality, Dutch railways are in the top three of the world, right behind only Japan and Switzerland. The Dutch railways, also known as NS, have seen an average of one million train commuters every day with 92.6 % of trains arriving on time, an incredible stat for the Dutch railways. If you are from the Netherlands, you probably can’t make the excuse of the train being late anymore. With this level of punctuality, Dutch railways are continually looking for innovative technological ideas to keep its spot in the top three."
France wanted revenge for Haiti's independence and to send a message to its other colonies. So, Haiti had to pay huge amounts of money to France until 1947. In order to fund this, they began harvesting wood at an unsustainable pace which led to deforestation. This in turn led to a decrease in agricultural output which started a cascade of other problems.

It has been essential for the development of almost every country in a similar situation, to initially rely heavily on agriculture. If you remove that, then that's a recipe for disaster.

There wasn't knowledge/investment in the country to jump to an industrial economy so they got stuck in their developmental phase, because of the massive deforestation.
Actually, come to think of it, I'm pretty sure this can be achieved with a combination of async/await and error types.

If the inner function yields either a value (or none) or an error, the outer scope handles the error amd returns control to the async function (optionally with state gleaned from the handler) you have all the pieces.

I believe yield lacks any kind of syntactic sugar (planned), but is possibly in current async functions.

Viewing it through that lens, I can see it as a viable alternative to eschewing exceptions altogether.
If it's high sales then it's counterfeited even more. The counterfeits are sold for 20-40% less than Amazon's (presumably real) stock, and so Amazon lists the counterfeits as the only Buy Now option.
The top comment missed this part of the article entirely where they actually did mention and consider some effects of colonialism, and dismissed it as a major factor (due to the reasons given in the part I quoted, and more, "Indeed, Mats Lundahl, the leading economic historian of Haiti, does not even include the indemnity in his list of decisive events in Haiti’s economic history.").

Whether that was wrong or too simplistic might be up for debate but the assertion that they didn't mention imperialism is just incorrect.
I've been sort of considering going this path with my own search engine, but I feel whenever there is any sort of interactivity, there is the serious problem of spam and abuse; I'm not quite sure how to solve that.

Feels like accepting user content no longer flies on the web in 2022 due to the effectiveness of bot spam and lack of viable countermeasures :-/
Electrical engineers don't use i, because i is used for current. They use j instead. I've heard them called jolly numbers.
They sure do!

I have quite some experience working in Waterfall orgs. Starting around 2012, I noticed Scrum becoming the default. But, not much changed, just the ceremonies are called differently!

At many orgs, Scrum is just a thin veneer over top-down planning. It gives the developers an illusion of freedom while being in practice yet another instrument of control.

Not that there is anything wrong about wanting to control your org's processes! Could we just be more honest about it?

For example, the daily standups are advertised as a tool for team synchronization. More often than not, it's status reporting with the PO/SM intently listening and probing. A well-gelled team will obviously sync itself on the go without any need for this ceremony.

The worst offender is often the retro. I've been to way many retros that were completely led by the manager (PO, SM). But even if the manager is out of the room, what's the point?

A tightly knit team won't need a biweekly retro. It solves its problems as they arise. I would prescribe retros when the team is freshly formed and abolish them as soon as it gels. Then, let's meet offsite once in a while, hang, shoot the shit, and discuss the big picture.

I think that overall Scrum has brought some benefits and some agility to sw development at big orgs and maybe it's only there where it still provides some value. I'd be interested to learn whether startups of today use it at all?
Whatever source we use it needs to be built out at breakneck speed. It just seems that wind, solar, and batteries are more amenable to that than nuclear in a basic logistical sense. All of the ways people suggest to make nuclear faster and cheaper already exist in those fields.
Hunter-gatherer cultures were also only ever one bad season away from starvation/famine, highly dependent upon very specialized workers. Agriculture required more work in quantity of hours, but there are decided advantages to it - general prosperity being the primary one. Humanity has voted on this. By and large, cultures have moved in one direction on this question, consistently, for eons.
The only way to stop this is via regulation.

The mobile providers use public spectrum that they license from governments.

Make it a condition of the license that they are only allowed to provide dumb pipes and PTSN services. It will reduce the value of the licenses, but not by much, because this is a service that they haven't introduced until now, so was not priced in to the original auctions.

Note that while using VPNs will assist, the telcos have your IMEI/PSTN numbers and assign the underlying IP connection (whether CGNAT or otherwise). So they can track the traffic at the L2/L3 level.

Then they can introduce a "merchant's service" that takes that traffic and maps it to an identifier that's provided to the websites/advertisers. Even if the L4 traffic is encrypted, the packets themselves could be extended to include the information they need before it exits their network.
https://dr-emann.github.io/squashfs/squashfs.html suggests this may be possible with a small handful of HTTP requests (less than 10, likely 5 or 6).
Nobody can work with engineers who are unwilling to commit to a schedule. Often it is very hard to make them commit and even if they do initially they often start missing deadline after deadline. A total nightmare for project management.
very impressive, now show me their infant mortality
Tech booms fuelled liveability busts in Silicon Valley and Bengaluru
Michael Barnsley's Fractals Everywhere is one of the best intro books i found on the subject

https://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Everywhere-Michael-F-Barnsle...
Well I heard conflicting info on this one from Baltic states citizens. On one side they are clearly working much more efficiently, as long term economy shows and align more with western approach to things and values.

On the other side, every single person from there I've asked this specifically agreed their country is utterly corrupt mess, government after government, with tight coupling to big brother russia and mafia.

Its not unique to Baltics, I come from former V4 (poland, czechoslovakia, hungary) and we have some variant of that. Legacy of our fucked up russian tyrannical overlords from cold war is still running strong through very fabric of our societies (plus last 20 years of very effective FSB/GRU psy-op to sow hatred and division all around EU to weaken it, allowed by weak politicians like Merkel).
This public will probably be able to understand mode (type), median and average - in general.
Power to gas (incl reverse) is terribly lossy right now.
If you need 0 termination simply write

const char foo[] = {
#embed <file.txt>
, 0
};
I absolutely love my B&N Nook. I'm on my sixth Nook, across four generations. Because I don't live in the US, and the Nook is not available locally, I'll sometimes buy two when I'm in the US for redundancy.

The devices are snappy, but not as snappy as the newest Paperwhite or Oasis from what I see on Youtube. Still, I don't even feel the pageturns. It's still faster than turning pages in a dead tree book. The killer feature is the backlight. The backlight level is adjustable to a far lower level than the Amazon devices, which is nice in a completely dark room. And on the Nook one can set the redness level, I keep mine right in the middle usually.

Another nice think about the Nook is that you can install arbitrary Android apps right out of the box - including the Kindle read app from what I've been told (I don't use it). I do install Ankidroid on my Nooks, in fact that is my primary use of the devices. I sync Ankidroid over wifi with Anki on my computer.
Glad to see people showing some love to fractals !

A year ago, I built a tool to explore the Mandelbrot set fractal on the browser using vanilla JS.

Repo : https://github.com/yzdbg/mandelbrotExplorer

Demo : https://yzdbg.github.io/mandelbrotExplorer/
Zstd is still just as bad when it comes to the most important point:

>Xz does not provide any data recovery means

For the common use case of compression a tar archive, this is a critical flaw. One small area of corruption will render the remainder of the archive unreadable.

I don’t know how we found ourselves with the best formats for data recovery/robustness fading into obscurity - i.e lzip and to lesser extent bzip2.
The only compressed format left in common use that handles corruption is the hardware compression in LTO tape drives
> In contrast to South America, where agricultural land was divided into large-scale farms called ‘latifundios’, Haiti began independence with widespread land ownership where nearly every household claimed a few acres.

Isn't this just a complicated way of saying that the other countries still had slavery?

> Latifundios relied mainly on peonage, which is a form of unfree labour or wage labor in which a laborer (peon) has little control over employment conditions, with features of feudal serfdom.[2]

Fits with this theory mentioned later too:

> Lundahl thinks this failure is related to the land redistribution: since everyone had land, there were no landless laborers to exploit, so the elite’s only chance at rent extraction was through overthrowing the government. Given the dearth of business opportunities, one of the only ways to get rich in Haiti was to back a coup in exchange for special treatment from the new government.
I wonder why the robot did it.

Was it because it was programmed to also be the arbiter? And actively prevent people from making illegal moves?

If so the designers are idiots.

Or maybe it was a bug and it thought that the finger was a piece?

If so the designers make a bug. Still worrisome but at least not plain idiotic.
This serves as another example to me that governance and conflict resolution in the Debian project is really poor.

Maintainers are free to do whatever they want, even if it doesn't make any sense at all.
> [... ... ... ...] What can we do about it?

Might be better off (for Haiti) not doing something about it, if there's any truth to things I've read previously that blame US aid/intervention.

e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/11/haiti-and-the-...
I am unfamiliar with the technicalities of the DMCA, but is it possible that it may not be applicable in this case?

If I am not mistaken, the DMCA deals with removal of copyright infringement per se from digitally available media. However, the listing of this product on Amazon's website is not in itself a copyright infringement. Instead, it is a "legitimate" listing of a product for sale which happens to be counterfeit when eventually received. Illegal no doubt, but can it really be taken down by DMCA procedure?
> propaganda

Well you're right, Russia (especially under Putin) has spent a long time presenting itself as the bogeyman of Europe with rampant international threats and assassinations, and now you're surprised people are afraid? That was the whole intention and well congrats, it worked. You don't get to have it both ways so kindly piss off.
Yes, indeed.

Even in the European Union, it is possible to pay around $5 for all the meals of a day, including not only adequate quantities of vegetables and fruits, but also a moderate amount of chicken meat.

However, for that, you must be cost-conscious, because from the same shops you could buy an equivalent quantity of food, but at a price even 10 times greater, when you choose to buy processed foods, even those as cheap as bread, instead of buying only raw ingredients.
Piracy sites are full of high-quality scans of books that don't offer PDF versions - even modern ones. Sometimes it's the only way to read an out-of-print book where a paper copy is simply impossible to find.
We could get there even quicker with a little effort.
News diet? You talk as if worldwide mandates and forced vaccination, all justified by the supposedly sterilising immunity, never happened at all. It's still happening though!
Another great "Gotcha!" from gdy.

You have made no points worth addressing and contributed nothing to the conversation.
> Regarding estimates, it really is frustrating when a non-engineering manager cannot understand the inability to state any reasonable time estimation.

On the flipside, it can be frustrating for managers that engineers sometimes can’t understand that they have to manage deadlines.

If the engineer doesn’t make an educated guess at the time it will take then the manager is put in the position of making a non-educated guess (because you can’t effectively run a company without having any idea of either time or cost to deliver).

The idea that it’s possible to have a project with no budget or time constraints just isn’t often the reality of the situation.

Imagine going to a customer and having to say “Ok, we’ve talked to the engineering team and in order to deliver that feature you asked for they might be able to deliver it in a day for £2,000 or in a year for £500,000”

This doesn’t mean that you can’t give sensical ranges, or state your assumptions when doing the estimate.
Looks interesting but the "credit" aspect tends to complicate things and doesn't really fit my needs.
I understand that a whole lot of people are upset with Russia right now, but this is completely unsubstantiated.
I'm sure we can all add plenty of fresh examples of bad organisational
dynamics. Other than texts like Gall's "Systemantics" is there an
equivalent to Acemoglu and Robinson's "Why Nations Fail" but for
companies and projects?

Here's some of mine:

Put "security" before all else. Pointlessly surveil and monitor your
staff for feelgood security theatre. Mandate MFA for every trivial
login so that simply checking your email becomes a tedious schlep.

Spam your employees. Send out daily self-congratulatory ego-trips as
"newsletters" celebrating how well the company is doing. Sap morale by
reminding every lowly engineer just how insignificant they are, what
huge profits the company is making and how much senior salaries
are. For bonus points use a "no-reply" internal address and make it
impossible to block them.

"Team build" by putting on mandatory "social" events, and various
awareness and training. Shame employees to do not "participate"
because that have actual work to do.

Keep zombie projects alive. Even though clients have cancelled and
everyone knows it will never be delivered, keep projects running for
the sake of appearances and to keep managers close to retirement in a
job for another year.

Actually, stop me! This could go on all day. Someone really should
write a book "How to kill a company".
Might make for a good movie, but otherwise just a bunch of malarkey.

There isn't a short set of DNA which marks each person uniquely. This sci-fi weapon needs to recognize a scattered set of changes in the DNA, then activate some sort of toxin? Or trigger a virus? Which must be enough to kill the person, but not affect anyone else.

So it's what, a bioweapon - with all the difficulties that entails - then a sort of sensor genetically added to the viral/bacterial genome so each cell can recognize just the right DNA, along with some sort of error correction system to prevent mutations in that sensor system.

And, you know what you could have if you could create genomically targeted bioweapons? A cure for cancer.
If we move to a microservices architecture, we can use 100 developers to solve same the same problem in with ten times the hardware!

With growth like that, we'll be unstoppable!
Not having team of six can be alleviated by setting realistic expectations.

If you hire 1 or 2 devs and one gets sick don't expect other one not to take vacations he planned 2 months ago.

It will hit your bottom line but that is the risk you will have to eat as an owner and not your employees.

Manager at big.co usually does not have option to "eat a risk" so he should put preventative measure for such a scenario.
Growing your team too fast will always result in integration problems. Both quality and culture wise.

Quality can be enforced by tooling somewhat (automatic formatting, enforced linter rules in CI etc.), but culture takes time.
I tried that, but my cakes just don't come out the same.
Of course, this is what happens when we privatize services. They get shittier on purpose as the owners extract as much value as profit for themselves as they can at the cost of everyone else

This is the whole point, of course they'll give the same old tired lines of improving and doing better while never actually investing in making their service improve
> Dutch railways are in the top three of the world

You're missing the point: even a "top three" railway kinda sucks compare to point-to-point car usage.
You know I have little sympathy for these 'victims'. I used to speak in clubhouse rooms to the shills and the hodlers. The reaction to any dissent was astonishing. They were like a cult. In many ways the group was a cult. The promise of something for nothing created a lobby of the purist arrogance I've ever witnessed. I think they got exactly what they deserved. Those people earned their poverty.
I work in a small company, and we have a team of 3, if you count liberally. One colleague does front-end stuff, there is a tester who is intimately familiar with the way the software is used, I do the rest. That's really enough for the moment.