skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument being made doesn't require a linear relationship between size and cost. Remember, we're looking at two objects with the SAME power output, one much larger than the other.

The MTBF/MTTR of fusion is actually looking like an extremely serious problem. Fission reactors can operate with 2% of their fuel rods leaking. A single leak through the vacuum boundary of a fusion reactor will contaminate the plasma and shut things down. And repairs on a fusion reactor are going to be much more difficult than simply replacing fuel rods. The innards of any fusion reactor will be so radioactive that hands-on maintenance will be impossible.
1.5 Mega Watts (for the avoidance of doubt) is about a tenth of the output of a single modern wind turbine at full tilt. It’s not a lot of power.
I mean, as I said, those were some rules I learned while training. I never really raced, so I don't know how those apply in that situation.

I should've given some more context. I'm from a South American country, we used to train in a road that goes around a fairly big park, so it makes a +- 3km rectangular lap. We rode on the lane closest to the sidewalk, so we could pretty ride past the traffic lights.

It's a pretty busy road during the day, but during "training hours" (19:00), there's less traffic. Still a lot of cars, and there's a bus stop along the way, and not every bus driver respects cyclists (they'll overtake you, then stop in front of you). There's a particular section where there's a major road that merges within our lap, and there's almost no working public lights, and the road is full of potholes, and there's a broken pipe somewhere, so the potholes are always full of water.

So yeah. If you're riding in a fairly big peloton, NEVER go aero. It can literally kill you. I've seen it happen.
Your problem is plainly answered by Hayek in The Use of Knowledge in Society
Sorry to sound cynical but...

If they cannot vet one guy, how will they vet 2000? And are there even 2000 people in Flint with an idea they actually want to pursue, that is viable and the only thing they need is 25000USD?
compare it to the space program. that didn't really have any directly useable goal. but the technology produced in the process is used everywhere.
DT fusion may or may not work. maybe the problems may get solved some day, maybe not. we'll never know if we don't try. and the technology we get in the process is valueable regardless.
lmao typical redditor who only reads the headline of an article. there's literally a factual mistake in every third word of your comment
I just thought it had something to do with the loser of the last presidential election.
> ...because that is really what they are discounting when they create money - the available labour hours

Can you explain how demanding full employment follows from that? I'm not seeing it.

It seems that by this logic, advances in fusion energy and AI which obliviate the need for 99.9% of humans to work at all would be seen as bad. I'd call that perverse.
These video ID verifications were just shown last month to be unsafe by the CCC. Public health insurances in Germany aren't allowed to use it anymore.
Instructions how to fake your ID on these systems can be found in the net.
thanks, since I'll be going in via the normal recruiting channel, I assume it's best to bring this up in the initial phone screening phase with the recruiter? or could this harm me if the recruiter decides to just back away without escalating it higher up the chain? it's big tech corporate, so not sure how much agency recruiters have, and how closely they work with the teams they are trying to recruit for?
First rule of thumb from the article (describing computing power): "If [an Intel] X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals 2X."

BUT - the second rule of thumb from the article: "If it costs X to buy an X86 platform of a given capacity, then it costs 2X to buy a similarly powered RISC/Unix, Itanium, or proprietary system, and it costs 4X to buy an IBM System z mainframe."

(And that's presumably for buyers who are just as deep into the learning curve, staffing curve, etc., for RISC / proprietary / System z, as "normal" buyers are into those for X86 stuff.)

Quick conclusion: Unless your need for per-core performance is extreme, or you're already using IBM Power systems, you should never waste time considering IBM Power systems for any of your computing needs.
Package management. It's nice to only have to upgrade one for a system-wide change.
Every scenario for fusion power requires extremely expensive processes to extract heat, and then using it to drive steam turbines. But operating steam turbines, all by itself, costs more than renewables.

These extremely expensive processes would cost way more than is needed for fission. But fission is already not competitive. (See above.) So there is no future for fusion driving heat engines.

There just might possibly be a future in aneutronic fusion, fusing deuterium with 3He and extracting the energy directly electromagnetically. But all these announcements are not about that.
And much more enjoyable. I haven’t tried Copilot yet, but the process of letting it generate something and then checking it for accuracy sounds mind-numbing and stressful. Kind of like supervising a car that’s on assisted cruise: I don’t enjoy that either.
It certainly makes you realize that translation is as much an art as a science. For example we have a core concept of "Collections", many languages this could be translated in multiple different equivalents and we want to make sure that the closest is chosen. Misunderstanding might be someone that translated to Collection -> Drawer which isn't really correct.

Abuse has been minimal, mainly things like adding smiley faces into translation strings or just what you'd consider to be purposefully poor translation here and there. We use CrowdIn to manage the community and it provides tools to ban contributors in these cases.
Pragmatic State Management in Flutter
> My initial statement wasn't for or against - it was that the method of argument isn't going to work on many people here on Hacker News, not because we're a bunch of antivaxxer conspiracy theorists, but because we're predominantly a bunch of people who work with logic, day in day out.

Looking at the comment section here, I do see a large number of anti-vaxxers, and their comments appear to be very popular. I've noticed this quite a bit on HN, and I'm not sure what the reason for it is.

I know a lot of people both in tech and in scientific research. While tech people are generally very clever, that does not necessarily mean that they all understand how scientific research works, or that they keep up with the latest research into coronaviruses. A common mistake that some technical people make is assuming that their reasoning ability in programming, engineering, etc. somehow means that they don't have to have domain knowledge to discuss a different technical subject.

You have to actually follow the research into coronaviruses to find out what's known about the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Simply put, people who get their information from Ebright's Twitter thread are not in a good position to evaluate this question.

> By all means, bring your faith. Bring some evidence too

I linked to a very thorough scientific paper on the subject, which establishes that the initial outbreak in Wuhan was at the market, not at the lab. If you're calling that "my faith," you're just not arguing in good faith.
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You're not going to connect to a satellite while you're in a city. Only when you're in a middle of nothing and that's the whole point.
i thought the "reveal" was going to be dall-e or google images or something along those lines.
They're common in Singapore because of the southern Chinese influence. You don't see them often in Malaysia or Indonesia tho (outside Chinese areas) because frog is not halal.
I think instead of bending the knee to the idea of fatigue, it’s more important to accept that humans really are screwing up things on a massive scale faster than ever. Plastic straws, chemical sunscreens, gasoline, etc are all very recent inventions. It’s not unreasonable to look at massive unprecedented changes in the world and conclude that some of these things that came into widespread existence within recents decades is also causing massive destruction that only began in recent decades.
This sounds like a policy that every company should adopt and keep forever

In addition to pushing for a carbon tax, obv

And employees should be allowed to implement this same policy now and indefinitely
If you have goals beyond feeling good in the moment then sometimes it’s worth feeling bad for some time to achieve them. Most people definitely spend a lot of time doing things that will never lead them to that deeper satisfaction but that shouldn’t stop one from trying. And to enjoy the struggle along the way.
A bit late but hope you see it.

I mean that what we call the "competent part of Europe" is only competent in a myopic level. When it comes to their own local economy as if it is operating in vacuum. I argue that most of the foreign policy decisions of these members where made with short-term view of their own country economy, completely F'ing up their long term prospects by ignoring the potential and the dynamics of the periphery.
Comics The last human-created art
Easy, get yourself a OpenWRT router, Xiaomi AX3200 is perfect, you need to flash it but there are many howtos.
Then, use Huawei as Modem, connected to LAN port.
If the Huawei has Bridge, great, if not, Double NAT but you get to control everything on OpenWRT.
Principal/Staff Engineer is usually the next level from Senior. Tech leads are also often just unpaid pseudo-management positions. Sounds like you might be interested in an “architect” role perhaps? Of course, these titles and their roles will all vary from company to company.
A friend recently got what he thought was a great gig with an engineering firm - turned out it was more of a cult - rah rah sessions, after work bowling, softball - and they weren’t shy about shunning anybody who didn’t want all in right away.

He got bullied and saw others bullied too - we figure it’s why they prefer to intern pipeline and hire and retain - a lot easier to brainwash when young.

I mean it’s not a bad company, they do strong and good work - but acting like it’s the best place ever? Well, most of them have only worked there. We were like, offhand we’ve each had two better jobs than that one.[0] They used culture as a bait for lower pay too.

There’s something really disturbing about a company in 2022 wanting to act like a cult rather than accept the job market is turning more mercenary by the day. Oh well, their choice to fail.

[0] - Daniel Tosh “America #1” stand up bit for reference
Where would you get the energy to accelerate constantly for nine years?
I have the ACR ResQLink 375. It's the second one I own, the previous one I lost in the Pyrenees (attached it to by shoulder straps in a bad way and could not hear it fall due to the winds). The reason I mention it is that NOAA (which register each device) were extremely responsive when I reported it to them in case: 1. It somehow activates. 2. In case someone finds it and report back to them (they agreed to inform me if that happens).

While it might have been possible for me to retrieve it (I spent a day searching it) if it were a tracker device (such as InReach), I found that even if you find a Garmin device, Garmin support won't disclose any details about its owner or contact them on your behalf. I'm not sure if for privacy or commercial reasons but I just found it awkward (I didn't find a device myself, but learned about it through Garmin support forums).

If I were to buy a new PLB today, I would have considered the newer models with Return Link Service (such as ResQLink 410 RLS). It doesn't let you communicate, but notifies you that your distress signal has been delivered to.

Just read the other comment. While I guess hours response is an outlier in clear sky conditions, I really wish that Garmin would have made stats publicly available
Highly recommend integrating with CrowdIn, it's free for OSS and makes managing the translations _much_ easier, you can have their git integration push approved strings directly to your codebase.
Well, yes, there is that. Although when you get at or above 12" wheels it's much better.

Still, we have a local saying here - if you ride you fall at least once a year. If you didn't fall - you're not riding, you're pretending to.
Same, also for hiking.
You get easily into quite deep questions with money... Anyway, there are good reasons to argue that dollar bills owned by central banks are not money - at least in any meaningful sense. To see why, let's assume a central bank prints a bill with value of a googol dollars, that is 10^100 dollars and puts it in the vault. Is there any meaningful way that amount of money has just exploded? Do we see e.g. monetary inflation? No.

The moment when bills become money in meaningful sense is when they end up in circulation. And they end up in circulation, when - you guessed it - central bank lends them to banks. The bills are a liability of a central bank, thus they are a note which says that central bank owes that amount to holder, thus they are debt. Yep, I agree, this is confusing and requires very careful thinking.
> The fact that the cost-structure doesn't work now is the indictment.

given this entire thread is about a hypothetical future where we have unlimited clean energy I'm not sure why this is a problem
Spinoff technologies from space are another "sell the perception" thing. There's a lot of BS there. But as long as the public swallows it, it works to justify the program.
I got two for 48€ eatch, Euro now is cheaper than dollar so its sub 50$ for sure.
Flashed and using it, its a great/cheap router for home. Really speedy, using it with Wireguard on the entire network, perfect really
> as women can choose too. In the XXIth century, 100% births are voluntary.

I'm not sure where you live, but those choices are not available everywhere. In the USA, they are actively being taken away. So regardless of what choices should be available, your stance is woefully out of touch with reality.
I guess it depends on what “workplace harassment” means; I, perhaps incorrectly, took it to mean sexualized or gender-specific harassment, since that’s what RMS is usually accused of, but I did not find anything of that nature in that Twitter thread. Of course, RMS might be guilty of harassing people in general at the workplace; that’s entirely possible, and not very surprising, since he’s never been one for social niceties.
I never understood why Apple hasn't moved much earlier and much faster to own the entire telecommunication stack and infrastructure, including carriers, home internet, satellite internet, etc. Seems like an obvious move from the outside. Buy an iPhone, log in with your Apple id, it works everywhere on the planet.
Eventually, yes. Right now waste heat is a tiny fraction of excess greenhouse heating, but if we kept multiplying our energy usage by a couple percent per year, we'd boil the oceans in four centuries.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...

If we invent fusion, I think we could grow exponentially for quite a while, but it'll mostly happen in space. Controlled fusion makes a really great rocket.
> The fanaticism of Rust devs makes me think it's probably massively overrated

Or it's enthusiasm for something that's genuinely worth being excited about. Such things do come along from time to time. It's probably not a good idea to be permanently jaded, to assume that everything is zero-sum, that we can never again make progress by bending tradeoffs.
> There's a lot more than a few paragraphs on the wiki

You're right, I wasn't very fair to the wiki. I would have failed out way quicker without it. It wasn't intentional, it's just been a bit since I was looking at all this. My memory had dropped the details and left me with just my overall impressions.

That said, the wiki still was a bit short on some of the deeper details. I remember a fair number of places I'd feel like the wiki had just enough to tantalize the possibilities but not provide some of the important pieces to put it together into something useful.

And being community driven, I was a little wary of taking it as gospel. Even popular and stable software often has some niggling issues with community documentation.

> I think you should try asking questions on this particular Slack before you write it off

I'm not writing it off. I have no doubt it - and you - would be very helpful. I just don't consider it documentation, in the same way I don't consider a knowledgeable friend documentation.

Part of the reason I didn't pop in was that I was stuck doing a slow one-finger hunt-and-peck on a blank keyboard at the time. Searching the web was more than frustrating enough to make it real tempting to ignoring the cost of typing, never mind Slack. And partly I admit I just don't like asking questions in that format unless it seems like a reasonably complex/detailed/weird question.

> point VSCode at Talon's Python interpreter

Yeah, that probably would have helped. My setup at the time didn't have much for Python, so I was mostly using the REPL and basic searching.
Think bigger also automatically means "think way more expensive". I was more thinking about something that can be placed in a small charging pod around the entrances of popular but dangerous areas.
> this time the Adriatic Sea is an American hegemonic lake

Yeah, good point, even though I hadn't realised it.

And to share some more about my recent new knowledge on Russia and on the Soviet system, and also related to Albania, I was a little surprised to learn that one of the reasons used to de-throne Khrushchev in the autumn of 1964 was the Albanian–Soviet split [1] that he, supposedly, had helped create. I say I was surprised because I didn't think the highest echelons of power in Moscow cared that much about a country from their hegemonic "periphery", so to speak, one that wasn't directly geographically confronting the West, like Czechoslovakia or the GDR.

To be honest I don't see almost anyone attacking the US President for "losing" a current peripheral ally that is part of their hegemonic area.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian%E2%80%93Soviet_split
The topic is nice, but above all I thoroughly enjoy the writing.

I feel like I get a lot more done precisely because I don't like to eat frogs. I sleep until I'm rested. I don't touch my computer until I've had tea on the balcony. I work on what feels right, when it feels right, for as long as it feels right. If the weather is nice, I'll hop on my bicycle and forget about work.

But when something sparks my interest, I have stores of energy to throw at it. My appetite for work is unrestrained by the frogs I've had for breakfast.

I embraced the fact that I am not a machine, and that my output is neither constant nor predictable. I'd rather respect the tides of my energy than fight against them.
The survival rate increase dramatically with wealth

Also pancreatic cancer that was likely comorbid with his dietary choices, to begin with, so it's not just about the treatment of choice.
There’s poop in the ocean, but you don’t want to swim in the sewage plant’s outlet before it dilutes, right?

Same for corals.
One bit of psuedoscience correlates to another. Okay.

One test measuring extroversion only manages 0.74 correlation with another. I'm not impressed.
Yeah, that's the tax fraud part.

Let me buy this painting @ $500k and then donate it with a value of $1m, net $500k tax rebate.

So much of it is just shady shit using Art as a store of value.
Stoicism is not enough
Xbox Elite Series 2 Core Release
And this is thermal power, so divide by 3 to get electrical power.
Interestingly, there is a similar French expression: "avaler des couleuvres" ("swallowing snakes").

It also means "doing things against your will", although it has the additional sense of doing them because you're gullible (not sure if this sense is also present in the English expression).

https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/avaler_des_couleuvres
Even the evil Chinese government do better in this..

For the majority of people, the tax deduction is just in your income, and you have a (although questionable in privacy) mobile app if you are getting tax return or need to file for other off-the-book incomes.
> we have a bad theory about how our minds work, one so dastardly that it could have only been devised by the devil himself. It goes like this: We humans are, deep down, lazy and gluttonous creatures. If left to our own devices, we will do nothing but eat Pringles and watch Netflix. The only way we can escape our indolent nature is to exert our higher faculties over our base instincts.

I believe that allegedly wrong theory applies perfectly to me, since I have watched myself descend into the junk food - junk flix routine. It started with a mild depression which was a perfect excuse at the time, and then continued down into the pits of procrastination where the lazy part of me was feeling fabulous. Thankfully, the devilish side went completely crazy with guilt and frustration, never mind their Satan worshiping sidekick - the wife - and eventually delivered me back into productivity heaven/hell.
Alternatively 95% iOS users have no idea RCS is a thing and just think Android sucks because it can't handle video messages the same as iOS. So rather than pressure Apple to add RCS they pressure their friends to get iPhones.
True enough. But by the time that could be fielded, our energy problems will already have been solved, or civilization will have collapsed.
The article addresses that argument directly.
Did they get this idea from Pickle Rick...?
What would this accomplish aside from spreading your code all over the screen, making it both hard to read and edit, and reducing your freedom of formatting for semantic sense?
> Fair enough on the mouse, but in-display fingerprint sensors are notoriously bad and noticeable on the display with screen protectors.

What do you mean? My OnePlus 9 Pro has an in-display fingerprint scanner and it works wonderfully, with or without a screen protector (they warn you to redo the scans if you add/remove one).
To intrude in the privacy of unclothed people, then later spin the story in such a way, reveals a quite sinister mind.
You must have .NET 6 SDK installed.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0
hi john, your first paragraph is my phd (2021).

its a massively under researched area because relational data has more... dimensions to it and is understandably not as exciting to most.

happy to discuss (email in profile)
I imagine the premise is that if you mount this disk in an implementation that doesn't understand these structures it works and you don't corrupt it, making the format backwards compatible with old implementations. This is similar to the trick used to add long filenames: putting a special 8.3 file with a ~ that includes the full file name.