skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a valid question, but to put it in perspective, the sun bathes us in dramatically more kWh than we need to annually power the world every few minutes. So fusion would be a drop in the bucket at a global scale.
The first human flight lasted 12 seconds, don't judge achievements by the numbers.
Geologically speaking the Earth is on the tail end of an ice age and has been way hotter than it has been today. I'm sure a mammoth would thrive in places like Alaska and Canada.
Google index used to be fairly more competent at finding relevant issues for a query, especially if some words were synonyms of what found in the snippets at even loosely related
The site operator asks Vodafone "what is the unique account ID for the machine accessing my site right now from 17.56.2.43:3452?", and Vodafone gives them an account ID. They can then use that account ID to correlate to previous interactions you had with their site, even if they were coming from different IPs.

Https and DoH don't protect you in any way from the site operator wanting to serve you ads, and Vodafone will always know what IP:port they assigned you personally (well, your phone).

Tor, VPN and proxy services can protect from this, since they decouple your original request from what the server receives. Of course, the latter two can also sell your information instead of Vodafone.
Oh man, that's fantastic. I love it when companies can keep their sense of humor
We’ve had that. Turns out it just shifts the battleground from “I want my company to control the world” to “I want my ideas to proliferate through the whole world”.

Not only do we end up with https://xkcd.com/927/ (15 standards), but we end up with massive amounts of work being essentially trashed because it’s in one of the tiny tiny fragments that gets passed over.

Maybe I’ve just gotten old, but I’d even compromise by making the “power user” the most targeted demographic again. Power users want things to work well, they want the ability to use hardware and software on their terms and for all sorts of things the creators may have never intended, and they want to customize anything that they choose to.

Remember how XP’s theming engine was trying to win users back from all the replacement “shells” like litestep? Or how macs had wild extensions like one that could rotate the mouse cursor as it followed the point? Or mouse-based gesture applications? Or generative art screensavers? Or websites dedicated to showing of the beautiful artistry of user-created desktop UIs where each was entirely distinct from the other (even on Windows!)?
DESQview doesn't count? I thought it supported the 8086, though a 286 or 386 was preferable. (I was using an Amiga at the time!)
Walgreens broke into my rental car last time I parked in the wharf?
Ironic (in the business sense) because the post-mass-quit Zombie Deadspin is so over the top with the identity politics takes on sports that it is eye rolling at times, almost an experiment in absurdism. And that happened ... right-o ... as soon as Defector launched, it was such a transparent revenge move by the private equity ghouls/goons.

I welcome left-wing and anti-establishment takes on sports. Mainstream sports are hyper conservative (flags! anthem! flags! jet flyovers! flags! honor the military! flags! honor more military! uniforms! borderline eugenics!) with THE MOST RIDICULOUS corporate welfare with publicly financed stadiums, publicly financed training areas, massive tax breaks and favorable tax law, and a fawning bootlicker media/PR division.

Left wing takes on sports are extremely important because there are many societal themes at play with sports. The manipulations by the right to fleece the taxpayers. The last functioning unions and debates about fair pay and revenue sharing. Health care and pensions. Race and discrimination. Homosexuality discrimination. Blind loyalty and jingoism vs loyalty to higher ideals and sportsmanship. So much sausage making that is too boring for regular enterprises to get attention becomes front page news in sports.

Of course there's the corruption. Soooo much corruption, favorable non-prosecution, getting let off by the cops, fake "investigations", repugnant work conditions.

And the comments on deadspin were pretty good. Any site with "pretty good" comments is a gem in the cesspool. The usernames were fantastic. HN users have disappointingly lame usernames by comparison.
Do you really think teachers or doctors or lawyers (!!!) or journalists don't backstab each other? :-)))
One advantage of tar is that, because the format has no built-in support for compression or random access, the entire archive is compressed together. Similarities in adjacent files will improve the compression ratio.

To support random access, the ZIP format must compress each file separately.
i wonder how this compares to the amount of money invested in autonomous driving startups
Please do write about it and your thinking behind it. There is so little out there written in the space.
You think Pax Americana is the only thing standing between Honduras or Colombia or Yemen and instant genocide?
That's precisely my point: the slowness comes not from TeX but from the LaTeX macro packages that the user has included on top. And if you want to make things faster for the user, you don't have to replace TeX (which is already plenty fast); you have to replace the macro packages or provide faster alternatives.

If you're going to create a new system with a new way of doing things (i.e. not using the existing popular LaTeX macro packages), then you can already do that on top of TeX, by just not using those packages! (Use LuaTeX and program in Lua instead of via TeX macros, or do the programming outside and generate the TeX input, or whatever.)

What I'm proposing is that the hard/worthwhile problem is to take real users' real LaTeX documents and give them ways of profiling (what inefficiently written macro packages are making this so slow, because surely it's not the typesetting) and replacing the slow parts.
… but i always thought Robin laid an egg?
>and then they want to say that the universe proves them right, even though it has zero connection to the real world.

That's a failure of the argument, not a failure of philosophy. Everything from ethics to epistemology has philosophers arguing against unjustified assumptions. One could say the whole of philosophy is picking out unjustified assumptions. It's perfectly fine to start with a conclusion, so long as you can also argue your way there. If you don't think the argument is valid, then say so. What do you think philosophers do all day, just agree with eachother on every statement?

>is that mathematicians don't use their self referential axioms (in a situation which does not connect to the real world)

Yes, they do. Plenty of abstract mathematical concepts have zero connection to anything in nature or in the physical world. Some philosophers of mathematics even argue that mathematics has no root in the physical world. Besides that, the position you're arguing for is known in philosophy as 'pragmatism' - so don't pretend it's not philosophy. You're assuming your own axioms here.

>then claim that they are the experts on literally everything, because well "truth" and "ethics", by definition are everything.

That's not true; moral philosophers confine themselves to the world of moral philosophy. Epistemologists confine themselves to the world of epistemology. They don't claim knowledge about, say, physics or biology.

>a mathmatician isn't going to say that they are, by definition, the experts on truth and morals, and therefore I should do what they say anyway.

The definition of morality is literally 'what you should do'. If you disagree with that, then talk to a philosopher or just post an argument somewhere. If you don't think morality exists, then congratulations, there are philosophers who argue that too!

I'm not impressed that your argument rests upon the simple fact of calling their arguments circular (i) without specifying why and which arguments are circular in particular (ii) and saying that there are no goals to be acheived by even talking about, say, epistemology.

Nobody said you "have to listen" to anyone. You don't have to listen to scientists, mathematicians, logicians, historians, or anyone, really. But if faced with an argument you can't counter it ought to be to your embarrassment that you refuse the conclusion without considering the argument itself. All of your arguments, all of them quite philosophical in themselves(!) could equally apply to any other discipline with 'circular' axioms, such as physics (the principle of universal uniformity; the reliance on fallible observation and testimony) or logic (the axiom of non-contradiction).
Was it because he/she was Ukrainian or, was it because Apple has a strict hiring process that could not be flexible enough to give a pass when the country where the candidate come from is at war?

Unless the person managing that hiring process is a supporter of Russia, I can’t see why Apple would not hire somebody due to the Ukrainian citizenship.
I don't know, maybe it's less authentic, but it's fun that at least it's still in the DNA of the place. Credit where it's due, even if it's not the same as in the past
You'll be happy to learn that Python's builtin tarfile module extracts and overwrites `../parent/paths` and `/absolute/paths` at those locations. Never use Python.
In the US, money from gas taxes is used to fund non-road-infrastructure, but conversely money from other taxes is also used on road infrastructure. It seems like on the whole gas taxes and toll do not cover roads (see eg [1]).

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/gasoline-taxes-and-user-fees-pay-o...
I would expect that a small to medium e-commerce site would cache all their pages.
Reading the comments on this easter egg not working for some makes me wonder if it's been A/B tested as every other feature nowadays. We are really approaching a Schrödinger's digital age.
Agree. I think the praise here is coming from the fringe "very online" demographic that are wrecking the media and entertainment environment.

Few people read Deadspin. Few people read Defector. Few people watch SportCenter anymore because they try to emulate Deadspin. Professional sports broadly have lost significant viewership because they listened to the media noise around them.

It seems like these things are only successes if your goal of success is reclaiming sport as a pass-time of the idle-handed elite. Because commercially this turn has been a profound failure.
Forget driving your car, on some routes Amtrak is slower and more expensive than Uber (for two people, not even considering the fact that you pick your time and get dropped at your door)
I've started and ended 100 Amtrak trips in Chicago. The train is one of the reasons Chicago (and Memphis) exists.
I'm an American who has traveled a fair bit outside the US. I'd never heard of sardines on toast until a British person made a thread about it on the cooking board on 4chan, maybe a year or so ago. I guess it's not too common in North America, at least in the stars-and-stripes part.
Great White Sharks Are Scared of South African Orcas
What sort of arguments do you see made on this website that this would refute?
You seem slightly confused. This is a public forum not a phone call. If you need some level of control over how people reply, talk to a carefully curated group of friends who will comply with your whims.

This thread started off interesting and turned embarrassing.
I would tend to think that already this case would be considered as terrorism as it is an attack on national critical infrastructure.
You didn’t include shipping. UPS isn’t gonna deliver canned food to each tent in places like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigray_War#Humanitarian_crisis
> You may think that the numeric values (file_mode, file_size, file_mtime, ...) would be encoded in base 10, or maybe in hex, or using plain binary numbers ("base 256"). But no, they're actually encoded as octal strings (with a NUL terminator, or sometimes a space terminator). Tar is the only file format I know of which uses base 8 to encode numbers.

Tar’s “competitor”, cpio, does this as well (at least in one of the popular implementations). The Xcode XIP file, if you’re familiar with that particular format, is a couple layers of wrapping on top of a cpio archive, so deep inside my tool to expand these there’s a spot where I read these all out in a similar fashion: https://github.com/saagarjha/unxip/blob/5dcfe2c0f9578bc43070...

More generally, though, both tar and cpio doesn’t have an index because they don’t need them, they’re meant to be decompressed in a streaming fashion where this information isn’t necessary. It’s kind of inconvenient if you want to extract a single file, but for large archives you really want to compress files together and maintaining an index for this is both expensive and nontrivial, so I guess these formats are just “good enough”.
Yes, I should have said electrical power. ITER isn't even attempting to produce any. DEMO is a concept, not a planned facility; the plans will be drawn up based on the results of ITER, hopefully by 2030. Note that DEMO won't even be a particular plant, several countries participating in ITER are hoping to go on to construct DEMO plants.
That's just not true, at least theoretically speaking (I have no idea about ZIP's actual internals). One could do a two-pass algorithm to find common substrings to build a dictionary, store this shared dictionary once, and then compress the files individually referring to this shared dictionary for the common substrings.
You seem to be pretty generous in saying Amazon pretends. I thought they gave up all connotations of giving a shit long ago
Veterans Affairs
I feel like this is bait, but I'm taking anyway. Order from Congress, no, you're correct; but ordered by a federal judge: https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/DktRpt.pl?161905

It's not pay walled, per se. PACER is free up to a number of requests. If you don't have an account, make one. If you don't want to put forth that effort, then you are most certainly arguing in partisan and uninformed bad faith. I was going to link a free copy, before I realized the aforementioned bait.
Cheap, sustainable power is in the interest of most governments that haven’t been essentially paid off to stay on fossil fuels. But because the existing tech is more invested in various political campaigns and parties across most of the world they’ll keep progress from happening in areas of public funding. From our left you’ll get the anti-nuclear zealots and from the right you’ll get the anti-government spending zealots, so it’s pretty much a political loss until fairly recently with the EU designation of nuclear as an option to support nuclear of any sort. While climate change is serious and matters it bothers me deeply when I see older nuclear facilities shutdown while new coal power plants show up the same year. It really seems like backwards progress in much of the US in our energy sector anywhere that hasn’t had massive renewables investments.
Instead of leaving why don't they stay and fight?

Nothing will change as long as people run.
Those things might explain some rising investment in alternative energy in general, but I don't think either them would be specific to fusion.
9k per year is in line with in state tuition at a lot of schools in the US too.
As someone who has dealt with Lightfoot's destruction of the CTA. (Well not so much as destruction as much as intentional neglect and lying about it over a long period of time) I completely agree with this. CTA used to be mostly reliable and good. Now, there are serious questions as far as to trust it to go out drinking or using it for everyday commuting for work.

As a result our roads have become chaotic to drive on.
Absolutely open to contributions :). Didn't pay attention to licensing yet, will look at options.
This is extremely true. I should have also added that sometimes situations and people are just toxic, and when that happens all you can do is try to get out of those situations. If you have burnt out coworkers and an overworked manager -- these might also be red flags
Thanks for the details, didn't remember it so well.

If your biggest owner is Rostelecom, talking of having no ties to Russia doesn't sound like a very correct characterization of the situation.

Yes, turnover from Russia was already zero last year.

But have they found a new owner? I haven't read anything (but I don't follow it very closely, so I might have just missed it)
It is doubtful that fusion will even be cheaper than old-crappy-PWR-fission.

It is very very very doubtful it will beat wind/solar as they continue to drop in cost, at least not for probably... 40 years. We're looking at 10-20 years to a viable commercial design and construction.

I place fusion like next-gen fission: worthy of continued investment in research and maybe some subsidized consumer plants (if/when fusion becomes viable).

Even with viable fusion, there will likely be degradation/radioactivity of the power generation cores from fast neutrons and other problems.
It'll ultimately be dissipated by infrared radiation into space. Earth receives something like 173,000 terawatts of radiation from the sun; this is equal to the amount radiated out as infrared, except for the "radiative forcing" which is the amount by which the world is heating. Radiative forcing is currently something like 1000 TW. All of human civilization is powered by something like 20 TW.
If we want to stop global heating we need to use a fraction of those 20 TW to "turn the ship" of size 1000 TW.
Shouldn't the national high speed rail be at least as subsidized as private flight companies?

This particular flight I'm discussing it's more convenient. Getting to the high speed train station is tricky (there's no subway there!), you have to go to the closest one and then walk 10-15 min, which is just slightly faster but harder.

Let's see times:

• Train: 15 min to the station + 15 min early + 1.5h in the train + 15 min in destination = 2h15min

• Plane: 30 min to the station + 30 min early + 30 min flight + 30 min at destination = 2h

(this is domestic flying where you normally just walk in fairly straightforward)
The episode involves a species that talks by referencing stories by title. It cant be translated without knowing the stories.
Typology: Pub
Scrum and “Agile” has ruined every job I've ever worked at
Yes. We're currently living through a golden age of stellarator design powered by new algorithms and optimization techniques.
ITER is also not planning to capture the neutrons. It is only planned to produce more thermal energy than the total amount of electrical energy put in.

DEMO will be plants built independently by several nations following the research from a successful ITER. They will be the first time that any attempt is made to actually convert the fusion products into electricity. There are currently no concrete plans for any DEMO plant - those are contingent upon ITER's success.

If everything goes to plan, the first model DEMO plant would begin operation in 2051. So, as I said, we are a long way away from producing even 1W of usable electrical power from fusion.
I was responding to a very specific comment.

As for cost effective - subsidies. Big fat subsidies, especially for the poor countries. There are more important things than cost effective. We're all in this together
Large parts of the Earth's surface are going to be generally uncomfortable now, never mind 10. Of course it'll be worse by then.
I went in a Krishnamurti binge last year. I most liked his conversations with physicist David Bohm, a good friend of his: https://www.bohmkrishnamurti.com/

I found some of his books tiring after a while. Good stuff though generally.
All models are biased, all humans are biased too unfortunately, often models have similar bias to us, I actually struggled to see what was wrong for a while, perhaps because of internal biases, we assume cures or vaccines are net positive based on their name instead of the data.

Try the models at https://text-generator.io not sure if that will have the same biases or not but if not then you'll at least see massive cost savings vs OpenAI
Well, just don’t do networking in the VM your builds run in and you’re good, maybe.
CTF is kind of like the security equivalent to what a cooking drama show (think Gordon Ramsey and a bunch of contestants) might be to being an actual chef.
"Monkeypox spreads in different ways. The virus can spread from person-to-person through:

direct contact with the infectious rash, scabs, or body fluids
respiratory secretions during prolonged, face-to-face contact, or during intimate physical contact, such as kissing, cuddling, or sex
touching items (such as clothing or linens) that previously touched the infectious rash or body fluids
pregnant people can spread the virus to their fetus through the placenta

It’s also possible for people to get monkeypox from infected animals, either by being scratched or bitten by the animal or by preparing or eating meat or using products from an infected animal.

Monkeypox can spread from the time symptoms start until the rash has fully healed and a fresh layer of skin has formed. The illness typically lasts 2-4 weeks. People who do not have monkeypox symptoms cannot spread the virus to others. At this time, it is not known if monkeypox can spread through semen or vaginal fluids."

the % to get monkeypox seem very low.

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/transmission.html
The USDA Food Database
This is just a bad analysis. You have to go to the comments to find relevant terms like "Dyson swarm" and "Kardashev scale". The worst mistake is limiting energy collection to what hits the Earth.

Here is (IMHO) the likely course of humanity, assuming we don't descend into fascism with the upcoming climate-change caused mass migration and starvation or otherwise wipe ourselves out.

We will build Dyson swarms. What are Dyson swarms? They are nothing more than a collection of orbitals that orbit the Sun. The most basic form of these is an O'Neil Cylinder, which is about 3 miles in diameter and 10-20 miles long. You put solar power collectors on these things and they're pretty much self-sufficient.

Why this size? Because you can build that with a material no stroner than stainless steel. Any larger and the centrifugal force will of rotating for spin gravity will tear it apart. If mass production with graphene ever goes anywhere, it opens the door to building McKendree Cylinder, which could get to ~300 miles in diameter and thousands of miles long.

So the question is why. Several reasons:

1. You can effectively collect all the energy the Sun outputs;

2. This is only predicated on solar power, something we can already build. It isn't predicated on nuclear fusion power generation, for example. I'm personaly not convinced fusion will ever be commercially viable. It might and that'd be great but it's not a pre-requisitie for that and that's what's important;

3. It requires no new physics or no magical new materials; and

4. Here's the big one: it's super-efficient in creating living area per unit mass. I think I saw an estimate that you could build a complete Dyson swarm around the Sun with ~1% of the mass of Mercury. Such a Dyson swarm could comfortably house more than 10^15 people with an energy budget per person orders of magnitude than what we have now.

So a brief note about the Kardashev scale. This is an approximation but a Kardashev-1 ("K1") civilization is defined as using the entire energy output of a planet. This is estimated as 10^16 Watts. A K2 civilization uses the entire energy output of a star, estimated at 10^26 Watts. A k3 civilization is the entire galaxy at about 10^36 Watts.

Humans use about 10^11 Watts (IIRC) of energy. So a K2 civilization might have 10^15 people but have access to 10^26 Watts of power. That's 10^11 Watts of power per person.

The scale of a K2 civilization is almost beyond comprehension.