skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between SCUMM and something like "Celeste Engine" is that Gilbert and the rest of Lucasfilm Games decided to reuse Maniac Mansion's code for their next titles, while nothing reused Celeste's code (yet). SCUMM even has it in its name ;)
In the late 1800's there was increasing interest in mysticism and eastern religions in the West.
One lady, Helena Blavatsky an Ukrainian co-founded a movement called Theosophy which
made it's way to India and merged with a mish-mash of Indian nationalists and Hindu philosophers around 1880-1890.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky#India:_1879%E...

As a young boy JD Krishamurthy (born 1895 in south India) was picked by leaders of the Theosophical Society of India as
a 'vehicle' for an expected World Teacher. JDK quickly gained a following and wrote profound philosophical books
that people found hard to understand which only increased his popularity among those seeking Eastern mysticism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti

Like many Indian godmen and spiritual entrepreneurs, JD Krishnamurthy set out for the most lucrative market for his work: California. He spent the rest of his life churning out psychobabble and settled in lovely Ojai valley (having an affair with his best friend's wife). For a sampling of JDK's profound wisdom you should check out his quotes [3].

Here's a sampling:

“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”
― Krishnamurti

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.”
― J. Krishnamurti

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/850512.J_Krishnamurt...
Maybe you can answer a question I have: what companies are still supporting C compilers for sign-magnitude and 1s-complement machines today? I've been programming for almost 40 years now, and I have never come across any machine that is sign-magnitude or 1s-complement (I have encountered real analog computers---a decent sized one too---about 9' (3m) long, 6' (2m) high, and about 3' (1m) deep, requiring hundreds of patch cables to program).
Operators occasionally run surveys where I live. This is useful anyway because you really want additional information that you'll never be able to get otherwise, like "what's the purpose of your trip?" or "how did you get to the station and how long did it take you?".
The story says that the goverment will issue free season tickets, not remove ticket scanning.
The US government spends about as large a percentage of GDP on healthcare as the UK does. It's just that in the US we double-dip for asking the users of healthcare to pay the same amount again.
If you have to ask. I would say yes...
Imagine if the precautionary principal had to be used for any other technology. We wouldn't have electricity, cell networks, airplanes or antibiotics. It is an impossible standard.
Great point that I hadn't considered before. Like how adding more lanes to a road just creates more traffic. I hope things don't go that way but I can see it happening.
"In any case, the result is that a tar extractor which wants to support both pax tar files and GNU tar files needs to support 5 different ways of reading the file path, 5 different ways of reading the link path, and 3 different ways of reading the file size."

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
krannich solar, minimum quantity will be a pallet
I thought they were ultimately limited by problems of corrosion at the electrodes?

Helion's scheme to turn fusion heat into pushing E&M fields back through their magnet to generate electricity is pretty different from a standard MHD generator.
Was Deadspin mainly about snark? I didn’t really read it but got the impression it was mostly the same very online journalists as every other blog, writing the same things as every other blog, ie anxiety pieces about things young people in cities think is important.

That’s a good business if it gets other online people to form parasocial relationships with your writers, but it’s bad if every piece starts and ends with “but what’s really important is this political issue I just saw a tweet about”.
The fun thing is, GNU tar already has a hash map implementation, and it uses that hash map to make sense of hard links in the archive creation code. It's just not used in the extractor for whatever reason.
They've also demonstrated that they can derank the Wikipedia clones. Funny how that ability is lost when the site in question makes money for a competitor.
It could have been in support of one of the recent Batman reboot movies. Stealth marketing?
You would give something in the ballpark, not gibberish.
For those interested in search engines, recommend checking out Vespa.ai[1][2] - the engine behind several features at Yahoo.

[1] https://vespa.ai/
[2] https://docs.vespa.ai/en/getting-started.html
Indeed, fusion has never been a certain number of years away, it's only ever been number of billions of dollars away, as projected here [1].

Though, luckily, it looks like that was a little over-pessimistic: it's not like the field has been sitting on its thumbs despite having, in terms relative to the potential, negligible funding: [2].

[1]: https://imgur.com/3vYLQmm.png

[2]: https://phys.org/news/2021-11-unveiling-steady-fusion-energy...
I am genuinely surprised that there is so much interest in the comments here and excitement about fusion energy powering the future. Yet I see surprisingly few numbers or physics being discussed. Kind of disappointed for a forum that is supposedly technically-minded and able to speak mathematics.

There was this great MIT paper [1] published a while back that's still to be rebuked, talking about the serious technical challenges. Furthermore, there's Maury Markowitz's blogs that have been around for more than a decade showcasing why economically future can never work competitively on the grid [2].

Fusion is great science, it may eventually return a net positive in energy, but it has so many problems that make it impossible to use commercially.

[1]: http://orcutt.net/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Trou...

[2]: https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/why-fusion-wi...
Fare classes exist on trains. Less granular than picking your own car, but still some choice.

Some long distance trains you can pay for a private cabin with decent meal service, or just a single seat and access to a vending machine.
You realize that people who don't own cars pay taxes that are used for car infrastructure?
That's not what I mean. I mean the concept of addition. Sure they can't add large numbers but they can to some level understand the ballpark of what adding two large quantities (not even necessarily numbers) together looks like.
yeah, the ones using SO
You're not wrong about symlinks being problematic; there's an LWN post about it from yesterday: https://lwn.net/Articles/902247/

Luckily, most systems don't support directory hard links. (IIRC, maxOS does though, through some extremely hacky mechanism.)
Interval arithmetic doesn't use those numbers. It works just fine in the computable reals, for instance. (We can of course uniquely refer to elements of R beyond the computable reals, but it suffices for the purpose of demonstration.) If there's no difference between the number being part of the set vs being absent, is it contributing anything?

Well, they contribute "this sequence has a limit" for all Cauchy sequences. That's it. Some proofs that depend on the existence of those limits work. But you never do anything else with those numbers. Their "existence" is about faith more than it is utility. That's a very different kind of "existence" than a number like 2, or ⅓, or π, or Chaitin's Ω, or anything else that be communicated uniquely in finite space.
Actually, I think the strength of modern steels is a limiting factor for fusion magnets. Plasma "beta"s are only a few %, so for a few atmospheres of plasma pressure your magnetic cage needs to be like a pressure vessel that contains hundreds of atmospheres. And with large holes poked through it for access. If you look at CFS's magnet test from last summer, there's a huge amount of steel.
You realize a gas car contains a tank full of highly flammable and explosive liquid that it uses in small quantity to create small explosions thousands of time in a second?

Of course they catch fire. what's surprising is that they don't do it more, but that's the result of ~150 years of evolution.
> Men with large dogs will be perceived as more masculine than men with small dogs.

A Pit Bull Terrier is smaller than a Golden Retriever and yet one is often seen with muscular men, while the other is the prototypical family dog.
> other than in the form or solar power

and wind and hydro
I'd imagine the excess energy goes out into space.

They key difference between nuclear and fossil fuels is the emissions each generates. Fossil fuels burn into greenhouse gasses which trap in heat. If we switch to nuclear, those greenhouse gasses won't accumulate as much.
Being a contractor isn't a magical get out of politics card, it just means that you often have even less ability to protect yourself from them.
They're not really pits, they're microscopic tubes that stick up from the surface. The point of them is to act like a chimney for steam to rise from instead of sticking to the surface of the pan where they insulate the water from the pan itself. That said, they also probably add surface area just from being a bunch of tubes sticking up into the water.

I still support you in your endeavors of dimpling cookware. There are worse ways to kill a few hours than doing science in the kitchen.
Some people want to change the definition of gay and lesbian, as one example.
I have often heard that the popularization of the "meta" term came as shorthand for the "metagame" of Magic:the Gathering in the late 90s, when the big tournaments like the Pro Tour came about. I do recall first coming across the term then, but I wouldn't care to make any definite claims about the actual etymology.

Quick explanation for those not familiar: at an extremely simplified high level, MTG tournaments are a rock-paper-scissors game (with many more options). To some extent, part of the ability to play a tournament well is external to your ability to play MTG, and consists of your ability to predict the distribution of rocks/papers/scissors/etc in the field of players, and picking the appropriate countermeasure.
Sigh, this again.

Induced demand is still valid economic demand, and congested roads are still being used productively. There's a reason why sane governments don't regularly "improve" roads by removing lanes.
Personally I've never been asked for candid feedback on my manager, which would be necessary to meaningfully evaluate them.
Let us, per the article's title, do the math...

* Total energy consumption = 10^26 watts (hope the caret comes through HN formatting)

* Assume some magical generation and transport mechanisms which don't involve energy gradiants (avoiding pesky thermodynamic realities), and are 99.9% efficient.

* Total waste energy is 10^23 watts.

* Radiators are on Earth, and we dedicate 1/2 of the entire surface area (not just land) to radiators. Earth has about 5.1 x 10^8 km^2, so say 2.5 x 10^14 sq. meters.

* Radiators for the waste heat would be dumping 10^23 W / 2.5 x 10^14 m^2 = 4 x 10^8 watts per square meter. That's 400 megawatts. Per square meter.

* That's a black-body temperature of 9,165 K (the Sun's surface is 5,772 K). Peak wavelength is 316 nm. So half the Earth's surface is a glowing UV light pointed at the sky. I don't think we'd have to worry about the ozone layer disappearing. (A very bright, inefficient UV lamp--plenty of infrared, hard UV, and soft X-rays to go around!)

* OK, so put the power plants in geostationary orbit. Say 1 million power stations, each with radiators 1 square kilometer.

* 1e6 stations * 1e9 square meters = 1e15 sq meters.

* So, that's only 1e8 watts/meter! Hmm. Still 6,480 K, but peak is blue-violet rather than UV. Still lots of UV and infrared, but it's space, who cares. Just don't cross the beams (ha ha, meaning no deep-space traffic). And mind the Moon! (Wouldn't want to give anbody on earth a reflected sunburn).

* The radiation pressure from the waste engery for one power stations would be about 730 kN (160,000 pounds). Would need counter-balanced beams.

* Geostationary orbit is about 26,000 miles. The surface area of a sphere that big is 2e16 square meters. So about 1/20th of the sky would be covered with powerplant radiators.

And this is just for the hypothetical 0.1% waste energy. Multiply all of the above by 1,000 for the actual used energy. So you'd have half the Earth's surface as power receivers slurping up 400 gigawatts/square meter of X-rays and hard UV. Each power station would see a force of 739 mega-newtons; you'd have to have a counter-balancing beam pointing away from Earth. And then you'd need to radiate away all that energy after it was used.

Edit: Oh, and while 1/2 of the Earth is receiving 400 GW/m^2, the other half is using that amount. Which would be the real limit. I don't think anybody would carry around a 10 GW iPhone 237+.
Is it a stretch to assume Twitter will assume he admitted to the crime though? I’m pretty sure in a en somewhere the author will be flagged as « this account posted confirmed revenge porn in 2022 ». What if their bots think another tweet of his is revenge porn? Will they ban him forever with no appeal? What if they decide to report it to the authorities? What if Twitter decides to show this info on profile pages to warn the users of potentially offensive users? What if there’s a leak and the author becomes publicly flagged as someone who posts revenge porn?

Honestly this is scary as fuck.
Amen. I try to do things fairly rough and allow myself to quickly pivot if I’m feeling like what I’m building will take too long and there may be other more important tasks.

The one bit of process I do follow is I generally write up some quick notes about what I’m trying to achieve. What is the purpose of this feature (i.e. what is the customer goal or marketing goal) and then I write up how I’m thinking of solving it. That gives me enough context in case I revisit things later and forget why I even started it.

From there I usually think about the design (UI and architecture) and sketch out a bunch of things. I’ll go for walks and think about it a lot.

Once I have enough to code, I’ll make a todo list in a markdown file (usually the same one with the notes from earlier). I just keep checking off tasks in there and adding new ones.

Eventually I start getting most of the tasks done and often there’s enough to either just test it/ship it or not. I just go with a gut check as to whether I should add more polish or not, but I try to cut myself off once the main use case works and looks decent.

I usually test for a day or two before shipping.

This is how I coded up most of the recent features of my app. (See my profile for a link.)

To be honest, writing the features is the easy part. The hard part is marketing and finding users.
Reading through it quickly, it looks like this is for files that are available to read, but write-protected? Not read-protected documents like a password protected Excel workbook?
They are expecting a lie-less, and politic-less future. :)
Also see this article about biases/self conformational behaviours in AI https://text-generator.io/blog/prompt-tuning-tips

Similar to some answers about including a few example questions/answers prefixed with Q: and A: to put the model into a more factual question answering mode.

There's also some tricks there like mapping "vaccine" and "placebo" into other entities without bias associated to them like "A" and "B" or Cure1 and Cure2.
It's not the search you need, but the search you deserve
I really appreciate this reply. I didn’t realize that 1984 was part of the standard US curriculum- that’s interesting.

Thanks for engaging with me!
That China and Russia don't want to depend on American operating systems is obvious.

But EU should not depend on an American duopoly either. Even if they are not our enemies their legal system when it comes to data protection and customer rights are not really compatible. And a duopoly is never healthy.

But Jolla has never managed to get any EU funding? Not that that would have never happened before, think Airbus. And I bet there are many smaller ones.
CTFs are not free-for-all competitions, they are clearly time-bounded and designed for enjoyment. Having a team show up with a zero day chain for Linux that they designed for a year spoils the enjoyment of everyone else.
> Yes, they do.

You ignored the part of the statement where I then said (to then say "And this is why the world should be switch to socialism" or "this is why you should be a vegan".)

> Plenty of abstract mathematical concepts have zero connection to anything in nature or in the physical world.

Ok, and whether or not we say that this mathematical model is "real" or not, in some abstract sense, will not result in the mathematician telling me to be a vegan.

Basically, I can say "sure, your math model is real, in your own self defined axiom, but I can simply not care, or change any behavior, and thats fine".

> that your argument rests upon the simple fact of calling their arguments circular

So, the point of calling them circular, is that the philosophers I am referring to, aren't happy with me saying "Those are just axioms that you have. Sure, whatever, they are 'true' in a way that doesn't matter at all, outside of your own set of made up axioms, and if I don't have your axioms then I can simply not care, and there is nothing provable wrong with that".

The problematic philosophers I am talking about are the ones who are not just saying "here is a set of consistent axioms". Instead, the problamatic ones I am talking about are the ones who say "These axioms are true, because the universe said so, and therefore you should be a socialist/vegan/ancap/whatever", and they pretend like that is the same thing as using some chemistry knowledge, that is used to make rocketships.

> Nobody said you "have to listen" to anyone. You don't have to listen to scientists, mathematicians, ect

If I don't listen to scientists, or mathematicians, when trying to build a rocketship, then my rocketship might explode.

If I don't listen to a philosopher's argument about how a dualism magic soul exists, nothing happens. No rockets explode. I just make the philosopher upset that I am not becoming a vegan because they think the universe proves their axioms correct.

> could equally apply to any other discipline with 'circular' axioms, such as physics

Once again, thats fine! Because if we say that some set of untestable axioms isn't real, the physicist isn't going to get upset, and say that I am evil for not supporting whatever political argument they are making, because the universe proves them true. Its all just axioms. Mine are just as good as theirs. Philosophers have no authority on any of this.

> You're assuming your own axioms here.

Hey we've finally gotten there! Thats fine! Lets just say it is axioms all the way down, and nobody should listen to someone claiming that their axioms are proved to be true by the laws of the universe.

Thats the difference. I am not going to go around claiming that the universe proves my axioms. You have axioms. I have axioms. And philosophers have axioms. And just because someone is a philosopher, it does not mean that they can then wield that, and say that the universe proves their axioms true, and therefore thats why I have to support policy X or Y.

Just call it all axioms, and admit that philosophers aren't any better than anyone else's set of circular axioms, and call it a day!
It sounds like you were a fantastic manager who cared about their team, I'm very sorry to hear that. Seems like it can be a very thankless job a lot of the time.

Hopefully we can normalize showing appreciation from all directions (direct reports, sr mgrs, directors, etc.) for those who deserve it.
Yes it is arms race, google has far more resources than spammers do so they should be ahead easily.

You underestimate the resources google has at its disposal.

They simply don’t care because there is no real competition to worry,even with this spam you are still likely to use google, so why would profit motivated company bother ?
Yeah. The whole article is filled with rusofobia. Something, something narrative. Russians are a drop in the ocean of the Panama papers, yet they are covered as it is about them.
What have I done to deserve this?
Considering we’re already into the sixth mass extinction, apparently not.
They’re usually occasions for the organizers to learn :)
But where are the fusion neutrons? (See Voodoo Fusion [1])

[1] https://vixra.org/pdf/1812.0382v1.pdf

I'm a professional fission guy. I started out in fusion and switched to advanced fission. These days I don't see why we don't just build lots more regular old LWR fission reactors.

Imagining that somehow fusion is going to a) work, b) be cheap (fuel cost is only 5% of total nuclear fission cost so who cares), and c) not have the same stigma as fission is kind of weird in my mind.

For example, there are leaks of tiny amounts of tritium at some fission plants and people lose their minds. Fusion reactors will have many orders of mag more tritium. Will people not lose their minds just the same? Tritium is notoriously hard to contain since it's so small. It can permeate through metal like a hot knife through butter.

Also, lots of people worry about fission and nuclear weapons proliferation. So does fusion get around this? Not really. In fact it's worse. Did you know that the two materials you need to make thermonuclear weapons are tritium and plutonium? Tritium breeding is required by almost all practical fusion power plants (the other reactions are 100s to 1000s of times harder, I don't care what x random fusion CEO says, they're in it for the sweet billionaire side project money).

Plutonium is made by irradiating natural uranium from the dirt with neutrons. Practical fusion reactors have lots of neutrons. Really high energy ones too.

Anyway let's just do fission you guys. It's way easier. It has been working fine since the 1950s. It's zero carbon. Waste problem is solved (see Onkalo, and reprocessing). It net saves millions of lives by displacing air pollution. It runs 24/7 on a tiny land and material footprint. We have enough uranium and thorium to run the whole world for 4 billion (with a b) years using breeder reactors (demonstrated in 1952 in Idaho). Get the Koreans over here to build some ARP1400s or the Chinese to build some Hualong Ones until we figure out how to project manage again and then call it good.
Has SpaceX disclosed whether they're profitable or still burning investor money?
That's useless since he didn't cause any suspicion in medical authorities, he was just a 55 year old patient, presumably with pneumonia. He was of no public health significance until the retrospective analysis was done in January.
Deleting the “h” from “/watch” in any YouTube link redirects to a creepy video
True, and of course I'm speaking for myself here.
Commercial fusion power probably makes it more economical to spend more energy recycling materials.
Solar + battery isn't much help for

- under the earth

- under the ocean

- deeper into space

Granted, we don't need a lot of power in these places right now. But if we have the option...then maybe we'll find some good ways to use it.