skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things I love about DuckDuckGo:

1) I can search for a handful of specific terms I remember were on a webpage I didn't bookmark, and I can type them in and find what I'm looking for instead of them being "interpreted" by something trying to be too smart

2) Nobody bothers to send them the same DMCA takedowns that they send to Google, so I can find torrents and things I couldn't otherwise

But on most days, Google is easier to find useful stuff when I don't know specifically what I'm looking for or the exact terms to use.

In an ideal world, I'd have Google default to more of how DuckDuckGo seems to work, with a "fuzzy search" option you can use if needed
There are extensions for gzip that can make it coarsely seekable, I wouldn't be surprised if some archive tools used that.
Nightmare fuel, suicide trigger, or both?
Honestly, I don't understand why we can't do both. I don't think this has to be framed as a zero sum problem (I think way too many issues are naively framed that way). With reference to the article, the funding levels over the past decade (globally) were roughly $200m/yr. That's really nothing in terms of government money and well within the realm that just the US could sustain such an effort alone. It would be roughly 0.004% of our yearly budget! That's an insanely low amount of money to spend given the potential upsides. You're right that there's weapons proliferation problems with both, but honestly that also seems like a good argument for pulling that funding out of what is already allocated to military budgets (not trying to defend nuclear weapons here, but we do have to acknowledge the existence of the military industrial complex and that they dictate a lot of the US budget).

> Anyway let's ~~just~~ do fission you guys.

So I agree with you. Let's do fission, but not _just_ fission. Let's put a lot of money into it and bring down the costs. The cost of climate change clearly far outweighs the cost of nuclear plants and waste. And that the waste really isn't a problem, as you yourself have extensively written about. These arguments always go "nuclear vs x" and honestly I want to see "fission + fusion + solar + wind + hydro + batteries." I don't see why we can't have it all. The zero sum arguments seem to make such a dream more difficult to achieve.

Also, good to see you back. Always glad to see your input on these posts.
> The error handling is so far from best-in-class that it's not even funny. Lisp conditions and restarts, which can be implemented in C, are best-in-class.

Adding gotos is not an upgrade to readability and debugability, and comefrom was supposed to be a parody.
Please cross compile on x86 for arm64-apple-darwin with gcc.
After doing this, you should have more insight about these macs.
South Carolina lawmakers want to banish abortion talk from the Internet
And what about non-DT fusion?

Helion, funded by Sam Altman, is doing DD/DHe3 fusion. Non-thermal fusion with direct energy conversion. They are attempting net electricity for 2024.
Yes, but that energy cannot be used for work on the moon...
Is it the quality of the web that has been declining, or is our ability to find quality information on the web (due to Google and friends) affecting our perception of the web?

I'm on the fence on this.

Contributors and commenters on HN manage to surface many interesting sites that would be difficult to find using a modern search engine. There is also a large number of old sites that have continued to exist, even if they are otherwise unmaintained, which are also difficult to find using a modern search engine. On the other hand, these sites may be less common than they used to be.

Likewise, scraped and pasted websites are nothing new. It has always been a relatively low effort way to post content. What seems to be new is how often nearly identical pages appear in the top search results. This could be because it is more common, but it may also be because the algorithms are favouring very particular types of content.
Also the quality of hyperlinks has declined precipitously. Google's big insight was that what people say about a page matters more than what the page says itself. Hyperlinks were fundamental to the (pre-2013) ranking algorithm, in ways that were far more fundamental than just pagerank. This worked really well when people authored HTML pages by hand (or in FrontPage or DreamWeaver) and would promiscuously link out whenever another site was relevant.

It works really poorly when all the links are paid for, or bargained for, or part of social media sites that are overrun with spammers and use rel=nofollow anyway, or are internal-only because every site wants to be its own walled garden. That's the web we've got now.
This was something I actually worked on during the pandemic as I put together a standing desk, better ergonomics, etc. I had been a pretty bad hunt and peck typer, especially with my right hand. (Left hand was maybe more accustomed to staying put due to WASD).

For correction, I think it has come down to making a conscious effort to position my hands correctly and not move my wrist/elbows. It was slow WPM for at least a couple days, but I quickly built confidence and have really gotten more efficient. I sometimes slip back to my old style but I can usually correct that pretty quickly.

For some reason it’s very satisfying when you do start typing correctly, almost like playing the piano or something.
Or, the failure of (most of) those investing in fusion to understand just what has held back fission. It's not safety, waste, or fuel availability.
Track how many calories you are eating. If your weight is stable, you are burning that many. It is literally that simple. If you reduce calories, you will lose weight. If you increase them, you will gain weight.

Individual metabolism makes a difference here, as does body composition.
Thanks!
MealPlanner generates suggestions through a constraint programming solver, taking into account any foods consumed earlier in the day.
The home page tracker shows nutrient consumption (and deficits) for the day.
Maybe the current glow on fusion could actually brighten fission's prospects? At least that thought came to me while reading your original comment because fusion presents an opportunity to update the entire "nuclear" category in people's minds.

Like when a child (or even an adult) says they don't like vegetables and it's pointed out to them that in fact they do like the vegetable called lettuce, so their statement needs updating. Now their attitudes can be reframed.
Thanks for the feedback. I was hoping to get more engagement from the community. I'll formalise this a bit more and then start getting additional comments.

Maybe that'll help highlight what feels off about it? :-)
The American Pitbull Terrier is, in its actual behavior, the prototypical family dog.
Mystery shrouds colossal Brink’s heist at I-5 truck stop
'Free PT' is an idea that sounds good but hasn't actually been shown to solve the real problems of PT such as service quality or safety or the ability to actually get where you need to go. I'd characterise it more as a distraction than anything else. Compounding this it means that the more people using it actually means less revenue per person which is problematic when you need to scale based on the number of people using it (basically you become entirely dependent on public revenue allocation which can really suck if your city/country has political issues with funding PT). My experience has been that when 'free PT' gets floated it's usually instead of actual infrastructural improvements since it's trivial to implement.

And yeah, all these issues exist with 'free' roads and car infrastructure too. Again, toll roads are unpopular, and free car infrastructure is a vote winner. Doesn't mean it's actually a good idea at a systems level.
In fact most of the evidence actually supports the opposite hypothesis: It really doesn't matter.
Getting sick for a week is part of life. We have made things too comfy already.
Indeed. There's plenty of benefits to drinking caffeine; studies that talk to the benefits of alcohol consumption tend to be a stretch at best.

I've seen first hand the destructive powers of alcohol, so I may be biased. But I know for a fact that I'm not alone.
> dollop of fish oil

So civilized commercial dog food includes fish oil right?
The 'Dungeons and Dragons' Movie Director Has the Perfect Origin Story
Here's the scenes from the episode of "Freaks & Geeks" that they refer to as "heartwarming connection."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJAGxAeV7YU
That's why I was careful to write "DT". :)

If someone held a gun to my head and forced me to invest in a fusion effort, it would be Helion.
You have to use "site:reddit.com" which selects that specific domain, otherwise you get any page that contains the word reddit, and spammers are certainly catching on to that trick.
Whether or not that demand is economically valid doesn't really affect the point that demand will increase with more power from fusion, or more lanes for roads though does it? The economy has always been somewhat at odds with the environment.
Excellent long read that doesnt get the attention that it deserves.
If you think none of the industrial, process, or scientific work is done, you are incapable of decomposing the problem into its constitutent parts and recognizing the existance of most of its constituent parts in other parts of industry.

Goodbye.
If you want high quality materials, you need a University library or a journal, whitepapers or an academic textbook. Or if you want practical information and experience, you need to be an employee or apprentice or business owner.

The web is the lowest common denominator. The high quality information is elsewhere and Google isn't allowed to reveal it due to rights holders, such as Google Scholar and Google Books.

I tend to spend my time on Infinity Family https://o2oo.li and https://halfbakery.com a community of inventors and creators. We have an ontology to solve the world's problems and work towards goals and projects as a community. We relax and share opinionated perspectives to problems in the world.
Sure, the overall mix goes back to the radioactivity of the original ore, not a radioactivity of zero.
If you wonder why we still need humans, check this out - https://www.google.com/search?q=beverly+hills+properties - spotted the issue? maybe an AI could've caught it... or maybe lots of amazon-turk (or like) employed folks that give feedback on things...
If I had to guess, it uses wood gasifier technology to run an ICE engine. I am speculating, but gasification is faster than fermentation.

Edit: sorry I was wrong. It's a steam engine.

From Wikipedia:
"The robot was powered by a steam engine built by the Cyclone Power Technologies company called the Cyclone Waste Heat Engine, which produced power through external combustion of biomass (i.e. combustion outside of the engine), an example of a Rankine cycle engine. The engine would power the vehicle's movement as well as being used to recharge the batteries that run the sensors, arms and ancillary devices."
Slightly facetious, but do you port MKL to ARM?

More seriously, it wouldn't surprise me that there is a fair bit of software out there that is written with assembly or x86 intrinsics which isn't worth the time porting, especially if you're not going to deploy on ARM.
Dogs know. This applies to humans too, there is research showing a low omega-3 level is equivalent to smoking for health outcomes. Omega-3s are very important immunomodulators.
Last year was weird, but did you have trouble socializing with 3rd years last year when you were a freshman? Did you have trouble socializing with seniors this year?

Sure, an 18 year old has 10% less life experience than a 20 year old, but as an 40 year old, I can say almost all of you youngin's haven't got much life experience at all, 90% of nothing is nothing. ;p
FWIW, as someone with a degree in physics, I don't know anyone with a similar background that watches her content. It's not that she is frequently wrong, it is that the opinions are pretty biased and cherry picking. She seems to be more focused on content creation than the actual physics. Honestly I think PBS does a much better job, and importantly stresses that their presentation is overly simplified. A lot of science is extremely nuanced and a first order approximation can lead you in the complete opposite direction, so it usually is a good indicator at who to trust. Are they telling you the way it is or are they attempting to convey a complex topic as simply and accurately as possible? The difference is often subtle.
Dude, it's news when an American ISP doesn't participate in dragnet surveillance [0], and it's at the level where switching your ISP isn't going to help.

[0]https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-details-releasedsection-70...
Is that what that feeling in the back of my head was?
Sure, that's a good and fair point. I shouldn't say I oppose fusion R&D. I feel more like we should be more focused on deploying 100s of serialized LWR fission plants right now alongside all the wind/solar/batteries/hydro to solve climate change, while also investing R&D into things like advanced fission and fusion, and geothermal. There's certainly an under-investment in low carbon energy tech in general compared to the world GDP imho.

Still, I do feel that some fusion hype is partially due to people not giving fission enough credit though.

Happy to be back, thanks!
> Managing low performers is a magnitude more work than solid performers; no manager would do this to themselves on purpose. It would be easier to cut their 2 least rockin' stars.

Then what do you do a year (and a half for Amazon) later for the next cycle?

One of the many problems with stack rank cull N% of your employees every year is that "every year" part. At whatever level it's mindlessly applied, if the company wants to keep it at the same head count you by definition have a steady churn of hires, which I'll grant you won't always be good, and fires.
7-Zip for windows is always something I go for on a fresh install. Then I also have rar support. But screw rar.

Also on a fresh install I install WSL, so tar is always available that way too.
Thanks I will start using that. Appreciate the tip.
Just spitballing:

Then pass a law that says any company with a user count exceeding 100,000 must not prevent access or disable an account unless the user in question breaks the law on the platform.

Then establish a simplified claims court, where for a nominal fee, say £500, you could apply to have your case reviewed by an independent judge.

If you lose, you forfeit the funds, and have to pay the costs to the company you claim against, capped at a reasonable fee. Say another £500.

If you win, the company pays the costs, nominal damages, and must also reinstate your account.

If you cannot run your business at scale without externalising the costs on innocent users through false positives, then the business shouldn't be running at all.
I agree - stopped using it more than a year go. certain topics it does well on but overall its become a terrible search engine.
I think for me it's the other way around; if I could write and draw on my Macbook, I would have less use for an iPad. I think with the Surface laptop studio I have, MS has done an excellent job of "jamming" the two together, much more so than the older Surface Book that has a detachable screen.
Yikes, I had been working with “espresso = 65mg” but now I discover that’s a single, and I drink double. Thanks for the wake up.

(Not sure I even know what a single basket looks like)
When I compare products with similar price/performance/efficiency ratios there's no one product/company that stands out to me. What the fuck is everyone on...
Yup.

The more things change, the more they stay the same…
Honestly I don’t think anyone at Google or Facebook really cares that much. They are old companies, the big money has been made, and it’s pretty much impossible to launch a new successful product. Everything big has been acquisitions for a decade. If you climb up to executive level it’s just twiddling thumbs until the cash cow starts to die, then you ride off into the sunset because nothing is going to replace the cash cow.

And then the products - does anyone wake up every day feeling super excited to help push ads and shrill partisan hacks to boomers? It’s like to work there you just accept “this is how it is and I like money” and you punch a card and leave. It must be a miserable existence for anyone who truly ponders it.
My years of experience, good work history, and solid interviewing isn't enough! I have to sit down and PROVE I'm worthy to bugfix software by taking my free time and doing homework. But that's not all! If I don't leave and breathe software, why am I even in the field?

I'll resonate your sentiment - software interviewing is such a burden on everyone. Yet I can't think of many other places that do this. Maybe some 'show previous work' which many can do, but what else? Any other careers that require you to do "exercises" and "live exercises" ?
It's the new "this is the year of linux desktop".
Two decades ago in response to colleagues' worry that I was drinking too much caffeine I quit for a year. All sources of caffeine; espressos, energy drinks, diet cokes.

I didn't suffer any withdrawals.

However I greatly missed my coffee, so after the year I resumed (sans the energy drinks) and will be having my coffee until the day I die.

Quit alcohol nearly two years ago; that's a habit that can stay gone. Definitely feeling the benefits of ditching even what was a relatively modest consumption.

In a way, diet cokes (Coca Cola No Sugar) are my naughty drinks now - so I can see from this study I should probably limit it somewhat day in-out, and as long as I do it should be ok.

I primarily drink filtered water and filtered Sodastream water for my fluids.
I think the post you're replying to is being sarcastic. Nobody would take such a small amount of economic gain over the deaths of millions of people, right?

... right guys?
Considering how much less likely the non-DT reactions are than DT ones from a nuclear physics perspective at reasonable plasma temperature, I'd say it's an extra long shot. We'd expect the easy reactions to be done first, followed by the much harder ones.

Every advanced anything company says net electricity by 2024. I'm not holding my breath.

I'd be thrilled to be wrong.
Sabine is very opinionated, which is fine for a theorist, but I do find that she sometimes slightly misrepresents the views she disagrees with in her science communication.
Sometimes it's really hard or not worth to get proper feedback even when you have a userbase.

If I believe a feature is interesting or may be useful, I'll just spend least effort to create UI and make the feature barely useable for the simplest use case. Pretty much like a demo feature to hook up the users. It's actually pretty helpful to have bugs and limitations. If users find it could potentially solve their problems, or care about it, they will reach out and the ball can be rolling.
Doesn't the Atwater-based system used by the USDA for calculating calories use a database with "apparent digestibility" taken into account? [1:p9]

So, for example, the protein from eggs vs the protein from oatmeal have different coefficients for the resulting kcals. [2:p25]

Of course, there's individual factors that matter and if you alter the food (cook it) you can also change digestibility and thus available calories. [3]

But I would think, based on how the USDA reference reads, that the disparity in digestibility between carbs and fats is somewhat accounted for?

[1] https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400535/DATA/sr13/sr1...

[2] https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400525/Data/Classics...

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4272645/
If none of your credits transfer, would you even tell employers about your two wasted years?

Graduate studies, maybe you have to tell them, but if your top school data is good, why should they care?

Although if you get bored and do poorly because taking the same two years again is repetitive and maybe demotivating, that wouldn't look good.
> I swear nuclear fan boys are just as delusional as climate deniers.

Just an FYI, acidburn is a reactor scientist. It feels a bit silly to call them a "fanboy". Also, I can verify they care deeply about climate change.

I'm also not personally actually aware of any nuclear fan boys or scientists that are climate deniers. They just argue "nuclear + renewables" vs "renewables". Why's that so hard to get? They aren't arguing for coal, oil, or natural gas like climate deniers do.
I'm a longtime Mac user who bought a Microsoft Surface Pro last year that replaced my 2013 MacBook Air. Even though Windows is not my favorite OS, I like having a full-blown desktop/workstation OS on a device that I could take notes and draw on, and WSL has made Windows much more pleasant for me. Also, to be frank, the Microsoft Surface Pro is the closest thing we have to Alan Kay's Dynabook concept (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook ); in fact, I have Squeak (a Smalltalk environment that is a direct descendant of Smalltalk-80) on my Surface Pro.

The iPad Pro is fine hardware, but as a developer I find being restricted to the App Store for my applications very off-putting, and I personally believe this goes against what personal computing stands for; I'm willing to put up with these restrictions for phones, but not for tablets. macOS on an M1 iPad Pro, however, would be a game-changer.
Who said anything about soft drinks? They're putting artificial sweeteners in "unsweetened" sauces and condiments these days. They're getting about as hard to escape as sugar was in the "fats bad" era.
Apple’s new car software could be a Trojan horse into the automotive industry
As well as the fact fewer ppl are maintaining their own websites or blog. The content is now in places that cant be crawled as easily like Instagram, Tiktok and Twitter as well as FB groups.
No, I’m saying to work successfully remotely, you usually need those attributes. That’s not to say you can’t have those attributes and prefer working in an office. I’m speaking about characteristics of people at successful fully-remote orgs who feel fulfilled in their careers. They aren’t getting meaningful socialization from work so they need it on their own terms.
Nonsense. I’ve been immersed in the world for decades and absorbed all sorts of human creativity during that time. When I create something it’s still mine.
I just recycled a 2010 MacBook Pro whose only sin was that I dropped it so a significant portion of the screen was toast. Still ran decently
If the physics issues were the only ones facing fusion, you'd be making a good argument there.

But after the physics comes engineering. Helion's approach is to be more aggressive on the physics in order to greatly ease the grave engineering issues that face DT reactors. I consider these latter issues to be so serious that, overall, I rate Helion as less of a long shot at achieving practical fusion than any of the DT schemes.
"What is glycemic index?"

This isn't "crank science". This is just lack of knowledge. High fibre "carbs" have a lower glycemic index. Fats have essentially none, and protein is low.

Food -> glucose -> insulin release -> glycogen update by liver/muscles -> leptin release for satiety

Simultaneously:

lower blood sugar -> ghrelin release -> hunger

This is just the difference between burning gunpowder and charcoal.