skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Step 2 is ripe for the right competitor. When Google entered the search engine market, it blew people away by providing incredibly relevant results, compared to the competition. You would be hard pressed to say the same today. However, the same quality of results can still be achieved, I am quite sure. It is "just" a matter of figuring out how, and executing on it. Given how Google found success, I think it is actually just a matter of time until a new challenger makes their entrance.
The article you linked to states this as the reason for the project being scrapped:

> But a group of residents organized as “Save Our Mesa” argued such a large installation would be an eyesore and could curtail the area’s popular recreational activities — biking, ATVs and skydiving — and deter tourists from visiting sculptor Michael Heizer’s land installation, “Double Negative.”

I also searched the page and the word 'climate' doesn't appear even once. Why do you consider this to be an example of 'climate activists' shutting down a solar farm project, and do you have any other (actual) examples of it happening?
It's still around, but it's no longer being improved, just getting maintenance. Most of the people involved with it migrated elsewhere.

Most who used Dreamweaver and relied on its extensions are now using another similar app called Wappler.
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I don't know what makes you so so confident about your prediction, and what you've written about fusion's relationship to waste is, I'm pretty sure, inaccurate.
it is tragic they do not use SVT-AV1 https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1
that makes AV1 dead on arrival
It would be shocking if HTS manufacturing research did anything other than accelerate. If there are fundamental physical limits to run in to then they are very far away. This is deep in the engineering limited area. How much abuse from strain and radiation can your HTS handle? The better your answer at a cheaper cost, the smaller and more powerful of a machine you enable. Humans know how to make pretty strong steel, so the superstructure won't be a limiting factor for a while if ever. Making HTS tapes and divertors that can handle what we ask of them are the material challenges. There is room to be clever with physics to lessen the divertor problem.
> it's worse than a forum for creating knowledge people can search through later

A forum.
I'm old enough to have seen playing live at the stadium Zico, Platini and Maradona. They were all excellent players, but of course Dieguito was out of this world. Unfortunately his inner weakness turned him into a victim of the sharks that very often approach young successful sportsmen in order to bring them into their shitty corrupt world luring them with parties, luxury homes, fast cars and lots of girls.
But the energy transported to Earth from your space power plant still creates waste heat when it is used to do work (and also when it is transported to earth). You cannot beat the second law.
A high share price allows companies to issue stock on the public market and raise money. Just so you know. So there is valid utility to buying stocks.
It means we are closer to success when we see a lot more VC funding of nuclear fusion versus government (taxpayer) funding. VCs don't have the timeline or ability to lose money without much consequence or blame like the government does.
Can we get some background on this?
That's a very valid point, but I've been doing decently well in my current university - I don't think I'll flunk out or anything.

Thank you very much for your advice!
Yes, yes, yes :D There are so many topics in this space that are so interesting it's like a dream. I would add to your list

- sentiment analysis

- roaring bitmaps

- compression

- applied linear algebra

- ai

In a vent diagram intersecting all of these topics, is search. Coding a search engine from scratch is a beautiful way to spend ones days, if you're into programming.
Phrased a bit nicer, the PP will always result in the decision to not do something, because you can never be 100% nothing bad will result.

This is why people only apply PP to things they don't want done.
No, Cloudflare should worry about what sites they host and enable. How Google ranks the sites that Cloudflare hosts is a secondary issue, and is outside of Cloudflare's control.
> It's very annoying that git became more popular, it's such a disaster from the usability point of view.

I don't understand this sort of comment at all. What's so hard about git?

You clone a repository, you checkout a branch, you pull changes to that branch from the remote server, you commit a change to your local repository, you push those changes to a remote server.

What's so hard to get?

It's even more absurd when people try to claim that mercurial is so clear while criticising git for being unintelligible, when mercurial follows the exact same patterns but had to confuse people by leaving basic features like stashing as an afterthought to be implemented with ad-hoc extensions.
Actually those are pretty nice features. My oven has rollout racks, but why can't my fridge has those as well...
Pretty much. My main problem is with socializing - will I be able to socialize with the 18 year olds I'll be living with?
It seems more reasonable to me to try to figure out what would be a reasonable amount of money to spend on these projects independently, instead of tying the amount of clean energy deployment to the amount clean energy research for no apparent benefit
You're not wrong about the "dense" thing, but it sure highlights the need to keep examining and reexamining the relationship between services like Twitter and e.g. censorship, governance, and the First Amendment. Nobody's breaking the law here, nobody's being unreasonable, I think, but this isn't a great balance of power.
It can. You can use whatever CSS framework or library to create themes.
The overwhelming majority of farmers haven't "used seeds from their last crop" for well over a hundred years.
You're looking at HN as a conversation where someone is giving "you" unsolicited advice that you are taking as criticism instead of as a open forum where that comment is also generally useful to all the lurkers out there.
I personally like reddit for public discussions. r/fusion used to be a ghost town with crackpots a few years. These days there are occasional good discussions and the crackpots are chased off.
The mechanism they describe is exactly how desiccant compressed air dryers already work.

It is hard to believe that they really have come up with some super novel desiccant. If they did, it would be instantly useful in this already existing commercial application and trivial to integrate.

In practice, we already have good rechargeable desiccants that work well for a very long time (ie 10+ years at constant duty cycles)
I suppose we have different standards for what constitutes car-centric development. Even if all those parking lots were built up, I see a whole lot of pavement and not a lot of pedestrian / cycling infrastructure nor greenery (I looked on street view). I mean, there are 18-wheeler semis on those streets!

Add to that urban freeways with enormous junctions ringing this supposedly dense core, cutting off surrounding areas from car-free access.

Yes, the city center has some tall buildings. The car is still dominant on its streets though.
Unless you make the trains go 900km/h, you are talking about very different things. “I need to rent a car at the end of this train journey, which itself is about the speed of a car” is dumb — just rent the car, don’t waste money buying a train ticket as well, and travel on your own terms. So the only thing it offers is being cheaper than renting a car for one extra day for long journeys.
OTOH, 2004 was a long time ago, and a lot has changed.

That article could be a college freshman in the fall.
I googled Oxagon and got this:

> A city in NEOM, OXAGON will be a new paradigm where people, industries and technology come together in harmony with nature.
Any idea on why flights are so expensive there? I felt the same way traveling in Africa where it was around the same cost to fly back to any major EU capital as it was to go to any other major destination in Africa even when relatively close (e.g. Doula to Lagos) and I'm just wondering if there's some dynamic at play given you can get super cheap flights in Europe and somewhat in the U.S.
They did say solar and battery.. So taking it literally I think they're correct that if we had a battery technology such that it provided consistent cheaper energy we wouldn't need a hypothetical nuclear backup.
Lol! I'm curious how slow it got... How slow are we talking about here?
“Generally considered” may not be good enough given that that general considerment is corporately influenced (in terms of research funding, media, narratives inside the industry, etc.).

I mean, I’m not an expert, but altering the expression of genes already present could be hugely dangerous in theory. These expressions are based on extremely precise feedback loops and interrelationships.

I guess we could use a coding analogy: if you’re using a statically compiled language and you make a code change that compiles and makes the unit tests you have in place pass, it probably works. But it might not… and in this case, what are the risks of the “might not,” especially when we’re layering these modifications on top of each other? And do we need to take such risks?
I think the chances were slim. I think he reduced those chances significantly by being rude. Assuming someone who can help sees his blog post, I think he's also reduced his chances that they'll want to spend their time helping him.
There's also a "Logan's Run" effect in play where if the population of newbies is so overwhelmingly large, they set the norms and elders don't even get a voice in many discussions - they may not even be in the same circles. I think this holds for both the internet and gay examples: young people do what is convenient to them and don't ordinarily look forwards or backwards, so you ended up with norms for, e.g., social media, shifting on cycles of about 4 years as new user cohorts entered and tried new products with no awareness of the previous ones.

And all we've been doing for decades in that space is making things that onboard the newbies a little better. Now when something new and hyped launches, a bunch of people run in and claim the space speculatively, like a land rush(or maybe crypto mining, for an updated analogy). Their intuition is that they have to "win" at social media and get a high score, and there isn't a strong enough group of elders to add perspective and suggest that they need to define their goals independent of the platform, so they just roll over and succumb to whatever the algorithm is pushing that day.

Likewise, there's a stereotype of an intense party-drugs-hookup culture in the gay scene. But the one time I remember speaking at length with elders of that community, it was in a much more toned down party with literary readings, instrumental recitals and cake. And I think that's kind of suggestive of what a healthy culture is, really: it's the part that can survive to old age, which by its nature means it is usually a little more buttoned-up than what a young person craves.
Yeah, "dot jpeg" in the title is what pushes it over the line for me
Same here, except I use Unpoly for all my side projects.
Sometimes free still costs too much. (:
I semi-recently (two years ago) did an Amtrak trip from DC to LA and there was 0 security. I got there early because I didn't want to miss a leg of a 3 day train trip but there was no need.
There's a huge amount of hype in fusion these days. Companies are getting big investments just by saying "we're over unity." None of their investors will recoup any money.

Getting above unity is important but it's still a very long way from systemic over unity of the entire lifecycle of the process that turns fusion into electricity on the grid. And that simply won't happen in my lifetime or most of your lifetimes.

What will likely happen during our lifetimes is we develop large-scale electricity storage mechanisms. Together with decentralized microgrids, storage will enable most of the world's electricity to be generated by renewables. The sun is a giant fusion engine, and it's the only fusion engine that will be practical for us during at least the next 50 years.
Are you not from the United States? Here, it's very common to find all of those things in one "super store". Walmart, Meijer in the Midwest, Fred Meyer in the Pacific Northwest, no doubt others in other regions of the country...
Being a (low level) manager sucks, though. At least if you're a competent programmer and could get by with a very similar pay with little involvement in politics.
Anyone who's been awake for the past 5 years knows how shitty and unethical a company Facebook is. If they'd been there since the beginning, they could have figured out how lets's say "flexible" Zuckerberg's ethics were. And there are plenty of companies that are ethically benign, if not doing real good in the world. To suggest that people should act ethically, even when money is involved, is not classist. And, if you think it is, consider what "class" a(n ex-) Facebook engineer is likely to fall into. (Hint: the one with the financial means to care about ethics.)

And I will thank you very much to stop putting words in my mouth. I have not suggested that anyone not be able to reintegrate into society. I am, however, suggesting that they pay their dues back to society before doing so.

Tell me: what acts do you feel are justified by "just following orders," and under what circumstances?
Batman, please save Google’s search quality!
Just wondering, isn’t it viable to have Solar arrays in the Sahara/equator regions and have the power transmitted to temperate zones? Is the transmission the issue? Is it politics? Super conductors? I’d love to know why we can’t have a follow the sun global grid…
In my city, the metro decided that this summer it will be fare-free on weekends. The bus operators count people in their system as they board. This is how they simply track the usage.
A search index is often made of smaller independent pieces often called segments. So you can download & process progressively the data locally and upload it to an object storage. And run queries on it. That's what we did here for this project: https://quickwit.io/blog/commoncrawl

Also an interesting blog post here: https://fulmicoton.com/posts/commoncrawl/
> Yes, I read the manual every time I need to do anything but push and pull. Because I have to. ;-)

Can you provide a single example of what you think is the absolute worst userflow that git provides for a basic everyday feature? I'd like to understand why some people repeatedly make a mountain out of a molehill regarding git's user experience.
Yeah, better, ban all the telephone cold calls. Noone answers them anyways...

For the fairness, compared to emails, I guess this one's a bit harder one to solve -- There are bit of context to work with -- address, contents, etc., and there are so many to classify and get feedback against. (To be able to effectively filter therm, it'll need a lot of spams, as well as non-spams!)

Screening phone calls is hard, considering those systems can only work with a phone number which may be spoofed (although, with STIR/SHAKEN, this is increasingly getting some attention). There's a lot of privacy implications (and perhaps a bit of legal implications) to be able to scan contents of the call.
That cocaine regimen implies there's some sort of multiday benefit to cocaine. Whereas it would make sense than any benefits from the drug would be from contemporaneous consumption during a match...
Pretty much this. Although it does take some good physical senses to really pull out the spices/herbs in some things.
The competing explanation is that "machine learning" is actually making spam generator systems smarter, so spam gets harder to detect.
The article mentions both "conservationists" and "endangered species advocates", who I believe tend to consider themselves (and are considered by others to be) environmentalists. Here's an example of a wing of the Nevada Democratic Party (who according to their bio, want a #GreenNewDeal) also being against the development: (edit, forgot the link: https://twitter.com/LeftCaucus/status/1374527780034015244)

For another actual example of this happening, see the scaling back of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility
If I said "being a programmer sucks", people would tell me I can do another job and let someone who likes the job do mine instead.

Not so for the poor manager, somehow. The poor manager who, in most cases, bent over backwards to get that promotion.
I did the same! (Well, I audiobooked it).

I thought it was really good too. Though personally I liked Dark Matter and Recursion more.
Although it's been a few years since I lived in Germany I strongly disagree with this sentiment. I never had a bad train trip and I took them semi-often for work via Berlin-Munich and many times for pleasure around the country and continent. They far surpassed those in Eastern Europe for instance (although the train from Romania to Moldova was fun partially because it felt like time travel into the Soviet era)
I am no statistician, but all they did was a linear regression on an extremely small population and concluded that, somehow, correlation = causation.

> "Our outcome of interest is Soccer Prowess, which counts the number of players, born in a given country, nominated to the Ballon d’Or in the period 2016 to 2019"

An extremely small population.

> "The estimated coefficient on Meat Consumption is smaller when we include the full set of control variables, but remains positive and statistically significant."

Doesn't mean anything?

They somehow also conveniently ignored all the players who eat meat and don't make it. And the cocaine.

I am not sure what this is about.
You can make a targeted tax to get something financially equivalent.

Politically popular although? Probably not. Americans really really love their cars & suburbs and would also get angry at everything getting more expensive due to higher freight costs.
1) Nothing
2) It will continue
Huh, I had to re-read the article.

"But let’s not overlook the key point: continued growth in energy use becomes physically impossible within conceivable timeframes." (conceivable timeframes ~ few 100 years)

As far as I understood, the argument is not "we are doomed" but that there is a natural limit to the growth of energy consumption in the not too distant future using some naive assumptions.
In any case, it is implying that 2.9% growth per year is a lot! if it is extrapolated by just a few 100 years.
Do I misunderstand something? Why is this controversial?

But I did not yet read all the linked later posts.
> Which is to say you should basically always play up your quirks, not hide them.

Not going to lie, I don't think this matters if you're a dude. I found that almost no women I dated even read my profile.

I was always up front about liking video games, board games, tabletop rpgs and the number of times date #1 would end on "You Like Dungeons and Dragons!? Ugh" was higher than
not.

I don't mean literally the date ended there, just that there was no chance of a second date after that point.
There are parts of the culture that has its basis in Roman, Greek, Germanic pagan culture, etc. You don't just drop previous aspects culture because you adopted a new one. Culture evolves.
Why assume the data should be null terminated? Its an array with a known compile time size. Binary data often needs to include 0 / NULL.
Boy WHO cried wolf, no one cares.
Well, there will be more LNG terminals at the ports soon I would guess, but it does seem like there is a huge hesitancy to build more gas infrastructure that would diversify away from Russia because it isn't green
Summarized:

"Women viewed men as less masculine when holding the cat; higher in neuroticism, agreeableness, and openness; and less dateable."
The Engineering of a Disposable Diaper
Unfortunately the majority of Seattle's homeless population actively refuses proper shelter or assistance [1], but if that's different in Spain then I can see how it would lead to different outcomes.

[1] https://www.q13fox.com/news/report-more-than-half-of-homeles...
Note that these are 59MJ of energy released by the fusion reaction. No attempt was made to actually catch them. And even if they had been captured, they would not have been able to power the magnets + cooling systems used to confine the plasma. We are very very far away from actually producing even 1W of usable fusion power.
Private Investments usually need returns within a 10-15 year time scale. Once practical fusion gets to that point, we should expect money to come pouring in which will help make it a reality.

We’re seeing something similar happening in self driving cars
>My TBR pile is about 140 books long at this point, so I don't think I'll run out of things to read. :)

Haha, my main list of books to read is 748 books long... :|

I highly recommend First Law, one of the better fantasy series I've ever read.
I will push back there. Automobiles rarely pay the cost for their transportation infrastructure. Some of the roads are good, some are bad, some are congested some are clear. The populations adjust their life around the infrastructure not the other way around. Since the streets are already free, for public transit to compete in any way, it also ought to be free... we should expect people to adjust to ideal public transit living locations for the exact same reason.
beans, $700 / metric ton [1]
rice, $500 / metric ton [2]

a meal of 65g dry rice and 55g dry beans per person.

700m * 3 = 2.1b meals per day
115,500 tons beans = $80.9m
136,500 tons rice = $68.3m

Total $149.1m/day

I'm sure at these quantities you can get much better prices of rice and beans, even just browsing on alibaba. I'd guess we can probably get that down under $100m from alibaba. Probably even lower at the quantities we're talking about.

1 - https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/red-bean-wholesales-s...

2 - https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Jasmine-Rice-Long-Gra...
wait, is that a thing with tar???

EDIT: nevermind, I read the actual article. This only happens if you explicitly tell it to with the -P flag.
How the iPad turned “an appropriate” into “apathetic appropriate” escapes me. Sorry.
You don't need image recognition to count passengers, there are other sensor types that could detect bodies. Or you could get rid of the facial recognition parts and just focus and record body shapes, explicitly avoiding trying to track or identify individuals.
Once again not caring about spending time with people in person turns out to be the ultimate survival life hack.
Wow seeing him live must have been something, not least beside Zico and Platini! The closest I got to him was watching him manage Argentina vs Scotland in a friendly @ Hampden (they won 1-0), but he's a very popular figure in Scotland so it was almost like a home game.

I suspect that if you come from a poor, vulnerable ubringing and you're thrust suddenly into this world of plenty and wealth where you are basically a god then you're going to fly off the rails somehow. It's happened quite a few times by now.
Thornhill et al, NEJM, MPOX summary:

-98% gay/bisexual

-41% have concurrent HIV

-95% transmission by sexual activity

-13% hospitalized for derm/anogenital lesions

-No deaths

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2207323
I fully support this term being mandatory in all companies.
EMDR - for everyone hear saying "yes, trauma is real". Its worth trying and I've seen it do wonders for some people. Not so much for me, but the ideas fit with how my own shit eventually resolved.
And tidal.
you could always use the guy collecting tickets to collect that information. or use turnstiles. or a myriad other ways.
Yeah. And Wind, Gas, Hydro, etc.

Basically everything except fission, tidal and a portion of geothermal. Admittedly it's not a terribly useful classification.