skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DHS Censorship: Banning Speech That Casts Doubt on ‘Red Mirage, Blue Shift’
Binance is in a good position since they now know who to short.
IKEA for Business front end evolution
I just feel so sad reading Tooles because it reads like his autobiography, edited by his madness.
They already did, it's why the Ukraine's running on NATO "volunteers" now.
A mild bit of power
In 2000, Moore's law was still going strong and had been for the past 40 years (Dennard scaling not ending until around 2005). At that time it was actually more difficult for people to imagine a future that did not include practically unlimited computing capability. I'm not just talking about the unwashed masses, even many experts and leaders in the silicon industry did not see what was coming - Intel released the Pentium 4 in 2000 and was saying it would scale to 10GHz+ in a few years (https://www.anandtech.com/show/680/6).
The NASA Puff proposal would be more aptly described as a boosted fission engine.

From their intro [1]

This synergy has been observed in the development of other fission-fusion devices.

You may be wondering what "other fission-fusion devices" were ever developed. The answer is of course, nuclear bombs.

The first fission-fusion device was not a thermonuclear bomb, but a boosted fission one [2]. In such a device, there's a little bit of Deuterium and Tritium in the center of the Plutonium pit. When the Plutonium starts undergoing fission, the temperature increases to tens of millions of degrees, and the D-T fusion reaction happens; the energy produced by that reaction is negligible. What the reaction does is release a huge amount of neutrons that go and split nuclei of Plutonium, therefore boosting the yield of the fission in the bomb.

The idea with Nasa's Puff proposal is the fusion is triggered first, using a plasma confinement device, similar to a Tokamak, but linear, not toroidal. The device is well below breakeven. But you don't care about the energy produced by the fusion, only that enough neutrons are released to go on an split a bunch of fissile nuclei. Few people are aware, but not only Uranium and Plutonium (and other heavy nuclei) can undergo fission, but also Lithium. Lithium can't sustain a chain reaction, but if external neutrons (or protons) are provided, it is happy to split and release a respectable amount of energy in the process. Pound per pound about as much energy as Uranium and Plutonium.

The end result is a very hot plasma of millions of degrees that is expelled and provides huge thrust and specific impulse. Of course the ejected plasma will be radioactive, and that's why this design can't be used on Earth to produce energy, or other useful things.

But in space, blowing some radioactive stuff is not a problem: it will simply spread out and go on and on forever and ever. 99.9999999% of it will not encounter anything for billions of years. The few particles that will, by luck of the draw, encounter something will be no different than other cosmic particles coming from supernovas, or other sources.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/puff/intro

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosted_fission_weapon
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Fed should make clear that rising profit margins are spurring inflation
FTX was actually based out of a headquarters and wasn’t on the run from governments.
This is some impressive work.

You might like to look at the work HuggingFace has been doing (on non-iOS versions). They can run it in under 1GB RAM:

> If is also possible to chain it with attention slicing for minimal memory consumption, running it in as little as < 800mb of GPU vRAM

https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/optimization/fp16#offl...
Linear history is good, and having multiple commits in a PR doesn’t prevent it. The only change is adding n (ideally well crafted) consecutive commits rather than 1.
(Apologies for the flame war quality to this comment, I’m genuinely just expressing an observation)

It’s ironic that Apple is often backhandedly complimented by hackers as having “good hardware” when their list of software accomplishments is amongst the most impressive in the industry and contrasts sharply with the best efforts of, say, Microsoft, purportedly a “software company.”
Apple Limits AirDrop in China After It Was Used for Protests
How about LUNC?
to offer an alterative: write all the code you want and throw it away. Don't get attached to the work of your hands. The code is the water; feel the problem, move towards the value.
> For solar, Net unit is not W but Wc.

Journalists can't even get Wh vs W right.

> You are asking to do what Germany has been doing,

How was I suggesting cancelling renewables so your country's leader could get a job at a russian gas company?
EU says it has serious concerns about Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act
How do you break into kernel engineering?
If not priority, at least fix the actively-misleading results page. So many examples, choose your own adventure.

One that annoyed me today: on mobile, reddit search results will all say like "3 days ago" or "6 days ago" and then the actual link takes you to a six year old post.
Believe me, I would love to chat with my parents living across the ocean over VR! I guess what I'm trying to say is this need would not be replaced with VR though - it would be more of a necessity because of distance. I also think we vastly overestimate the number of people maintaining long-distance relationships (of any kind) beyond close relatives or friends on a daily (!) basis. I cannot back it up with numbers, but my gut is most friends and families (and workers) are still and will always be "local" enough. So, for occasional use when traveling etc. sure - this would be a killer app. I just don't think this would be as ubiquitous as phones for daily use - unless the technology is so seamless it doesn't occupy or need any more space or weight etc. and be as portable as a phone. So, if we're talking about mass adoption by the majority of the population for daily (as opposed to occasional) use, I just don't see VR in particular replacing phones anytime soon.

AR on the other hand, could become more ubiquitous in that sense, if it can be worn casually and be looking "cool" enough to not warrant weird/dorky looks. But time will tell, I guess.
Not broken for me fwiw on four different machines, one is ARM.
Software folk taking the 10x thing seriously is akin to PC gamers unironically calling themselves the "PC master race". I have a hard time taking that conversation seriously.
I would (and have) buy a cookbook on Amazon before sitting through recipe ads. It’s as bad as porn hub.
Elon took over a struggling business and has quickly made it worse
"can charge itself 40 miles a day in optimal conditions." <- I believe this is the "basic math" that you were asked to run.

Using random numbers from Google for a Tesla 3 for an example, it has a 50kWh battery and 305 miles of range. That's 164Wh per mile. 40 miles would require 6,560Wh.

Assuming you leave the car in perfect sunlight for a full 8 hours every day, and there's no cloud, and you get 100% sunlight for the entire 8 hours, then you'd need enough panels to produce 6560Wh / 8hr or 820W.

I could probably barely fit 300W-400W worth of panels on top of my vehicle, and that's with covering the hood, trunk, roof, everything.

So even in the MOST IDEAL possible scenario, where you have your car in perfect sunlight for 8 hours a day, you're not even half way to producing 40 miles per day.
They are still maintaining iOS 12...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213428

Published Date: August 31, 2022
Non-immersiveness is huge feature for casual phone use though. When browsing my phone I usually want to be aware of friends/family in the same room, to notice if my pet is getting into trouble, and be approachable if someone wants to speak to me. Putting a VR headset on blocks all of that out, which is something I absolutely don't want most of the time I'm on my phone.
If I were in Zuckerberg's position, I would leave the Oculus to gaming and let it mature there and maybe sell it similar to industrial use cases. I would then focus on Rust and typescript and create an OS on the phone that allows you to run Rust and Typescript apps. Likely a typescript bridge to rust. Now you have a whole ecosystem and developer community waiting to disrupt the mobile device with the two most popular languages. They will naturally build for the web and then for the Rust phone that runs typescript Natively like the React Native JSI for rust. Zuck if you're reading this, this is how you survive and beat Android and Apple. Use the power of developers who will innovate the shit out of the system that will likely not exist fast enough on the other two phones
and the AR dystopian future of brain implants is exactly what most people, even if it became popular, would refuse because of basic ethical, civil, religious, biological, political, etc reasons.... i think that kind of "game changer" is where most people would draw the line, even if it would improve their lives somehow.
You are assuming that all that matters is wealth, which isn't the case. Bangladesh has lower homicide and robbery rates than the U.S. Even Vietnam has much lower homicide and robbery rates.

The US incarcerates a lot because we have a lot more crime compared to other wealthy countries. The US has the same homicide rate as Argentina, about 5 per 100,000. That's a decent proxy for the overall size of our criminal class. In many cases, Argentina is a good proxy for the U.S. -- a formerly wealthy nation that has declined, suffers from corruption, and has quite comparable demographics and income distribution to the U.S. (although a lower level of absolute income).

The US incarcerates 3.5x more people than Argentina, which drives the robbery rate to be about 1/10 that of Argentina. We can see what happens when some localities like SF or CA decide not to prosecute non-violent crime -- you get an explosion of robberies. So poorer nations like Argentina that also have a large criminal class end up just forced to tolerate higher levels of robbery.

Whereas nations that don't have such a large criminal class - be they wealthy like Japan, middle income like Vietnam or poor like Bangladesh -- simply don't need to make a decision to warehouse so many people or face an explosion of crime.

Unfortunately the US does need to deal with this and make some tough choices. Either we go the Argentina route and only incarcerate the most violent offenders -- basically taking the SF approach nationwide -- or we pay for a carceral state to warehouse our criminals. When you go the Argentina route, you get a lot of walled compounds, armed guards, as the wealthy have to spend money on personal security while the middle class and poor are just robbed a lot more.

But pretending that we arrest people for no reason at all, and that this does not result in lower crime rates -- I think this is an inaccurate description of the trade offs. There are real trade offs here.
What makes you think the Aptera is a death trap? It's made out of carbon fibre.
Not entirely sure about the usecase, but podman itself integrates well with systemd, like creating services. But it feels like you want a full systemd OS in a container instead of a VM. Not the best practice. VM might better for this, though Podman can run systemd based services. And Podman in docker or podman in podman is not an issue.

https://blog.while-true-do.io/podman-systemd-in-containers/

Podman machine starts a VM that is just a Fedora distro, with systemd and you can create multiple instances. This way you can run these system containers easily.
AI can now select and reject your photos based on face expressions, focus quality, eye quality, and other parameters within minutes using this software. This is a huge relief for wedding photographers. It will soon launch AI support for nature and wildlife photography too.
Amazon Becomes the First Company Ever to Lose $1T in Stock Value
The article mentions the Sion is using lower efficiency polymer-based cells integrated into its body panels. But also the curved panels ideal for aerodynamics means a real tradeoff, as current curved panels have poor efficiency.

Right now nobody is going to heavily invest in solar car R&D, but if this becomes a common feature the simple desire for longer solar ranges is going to push efficiency.
the developer is about to have a MASSIVE hosting bill

the download restarts from 0% if the app is sent to the background, as there does not seem to be a download manager. This is especially problematic for the large 1.5gb file.
What aspects don't you like, or which do you miss?

I ask because I'm currently working as staff+ and still enjoying what I do. (The '+' part is advising on other teams/groups discussions and proposals.) I spend much more time discussing and advising on designs before implementation or reviews of both designs and implementations. This seems to be a better use of my time than writing as much as I can myself but then still have much designed and written poorly that amounts to piles of 'tech debt' (though not intentionally borrowed) of varying kinds. Also keeping large parts of the current system and future directions in mind when doing all the design/reviews makes things fit better now and down the road when it will need to change to accommodate new requirements. If there's a conceptualization that keeps boundaries between domains cleanly separated there isn't as much friction figuring out how to make more things fit.

I completely agree that moving too far up leads to being hands-off too much and could easily lose touch with what matters now and not what was previously known.
In a practical note, you can just use FTX and Binance to convert between USD and BTC. Withdraw them as soon as possible so your funds safe (as long as the BTC network)
People don’t have their life savings wrapped up in Twitch streamers
Not on cloud; cloud. Like AWS, GCP and Azure.
I've been using this approach for some time on my Pro X. I wrote a script to start the docker daemon on first shell startup prior to systemd support.
Walkmans were big hits 50 years ago. Blackberry phones 20 years ago. I wouldn't exactly say music players and smart phones had a track record of failures.
The title is clickbaity, as far as I can see you still can disable chat and meet in order to get rid of the left bar, which is pretty close to the old design, it makes sense that they don't want to maintain both versions and it doesn't seem like a plot to ram chat down your throat.
Don‘t forget the IRS!
One day I discovered an independent engine: LibWeb (Ladybird Browser) which is developed from scratch. Quite brillant guys and effort.
Filed at <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138298...> with a burner phone number.
I am using Cloudflare R2, which doesn't have egress fee and I am getting about 5k Class B operations right now. Unless Cloudflare changes their end of the deal, I think it is OK.
IIRC iOS 12 is a special case for a specific device set.
>less productive as a worker

SKR/JP/TW all have extreme work cultures relative to west for highend sectors that are globally competitive, society structuring labour to work 100% harder to be 10% better than your lax competitors is not "efficient" but still viable way to brute force into leadership. Heartless capitalism works.

As for work/retirement dependency ratios - some considerations (and blame Zeihan for popularizing spasming over demographic pyramid and neglecting the politics in geoPOLITICs) there's a reason Chinese households have some of the highest house hold savings rate, most don't expect retiring with comprehensive safety net. CCP + citizens know they're not going to transition into developed high-income country with comprehensive welfare state anytime soon. Culturally and structurally PRC is relatively well calibrated to to weather a demographic decline, with likely a reversal in demographics when multiple inheritances starts concentrating into single children households once deaths > births in coming years. I'd expect baby & consumption boom especially among more affluent/educated regions with spare wealth.

TBH I'd be more worried over developed west ALREADY breaking down from being unable to support onerous welfare obligations that's been getting worse with immigration. There's a reason protests over generational QoL decline is happening in west not PRC. IMO implementing these trial [0] community centers for elders is pretty much enough to keep Chinese seniors content - cheap meals is enough to bribe people who rememeber hunger - old people who can't vote nor have energy to protest. Combine with recent focus on building out pharma & medsci sectors with automation [1] and ability to negotiate cheap bulk med acquistions = CCP should be able to take care of elder on a pareto budget. Few are going to complain CCP won't be spending magnitude more resources to stretch life expectancy from already above average of 78 to "high" level of 80-84. Nor would CCP want that burden if speaking heartlessly and strategically.

[0] http://sh.people.com.cn/n2/2021/1204/c134768-35035843.html

[1] http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-08/12/c_1310123218.htm
There is no free lunch.

Plenty of people complain about the delay in sending cash digitally. Or Paypal siding with a buyer and the seller having their cash pulled back automatically because the buyer lied and said they never got it. Or money being tied up for months as resolutions to disagreements are verified.

Either you accept a bunch of controls to reduce fraud (and all the complexity and delay that goes along with it) or you get instant, irreversible payment transfers.

Your choice.
Admitting mistakes and taking responsibility are two different things. People were calling for the first, not the second.

What they're complaining about is that Zuckerberg can't take responsibility here, it's too late (being responsible would have been gambling less), but he is claiming he will which is more obvious marketing speak (sounds good, doesn't make any sense).
I don't know about the rest of the country, but in ND and MN everyone uses "guys" to refer to any gendered group of people
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

--Carl Sagan
Internet 101: Projection
To be fair, that's also true for Walmart and co.
Show HN: Minecraft Stored Inside a QR Code
It's a copy of Minecraft that I managed to store on paper.
This is a bit of an idealist view of criminality. Plenty of criminals are criminals because "real work is for suckers". Look at the theft rings in San Francisco (catalytic converters, shoplifting), it's not some poor destitute victim, but rather a part of a criminal organization that rakes in millions of dollars.

They could certainly get a regular job like most of America, but they'd rather make easy money.

More social services ain't gonna fix that.
That's completely normal and very unfortunate. I only learned about the geometry of the eigen*s from an EE professor who loved math.

Unfortunately, the history of the eigen*s is rooted in the opaque and cryptic (but rigorous) linear algebra definition, and the non-rigorous but meaningful geometry came later.
You are correct. It is generally believed that the large increase in percentage of students going to college is a major contributing factor in the decline of average performance. I have read reports claiming that secondary education at the very high end has retained its quality, but I haven't looked into that myself. So, it may be plausible to claim that while the average level of performance has declined, there is still the same population of high achievers in absolute numbers. I would be interested if somebody knows a good reference on that.
Sorry to break it to you, you have me all wrong.

I am a young-ish immigrant whose most recent partner worked in one of the SJWiest professional jobs. I am best friends with many communists (like real ones, who have immigrated from countries where that's a thing). I am the YIMBYiest of YIMBYs, an atheist and fairly good at keeping appearances. If I could vote, I would've ended up voting Democrat (however reluctantly). My almost-a-coop-house roommates were so diverse that we looked more like the painfully diverse university pamphlets than a real house, and it was the best time of my life. And I am actively moving to arguably the bluest neighborhoods in all of US some time in 2023.

What part of this reads Republican to you ? In fact, it is because I am considered an 'in' person, that I get to hear the kind of blind faith that gets peddled around as facts in many of the circles I inhabit.

> actively harmful

You keep saying that, but never elaborate on what you mean by it. It is convenient to have harmful mean "things said by people I am not supposed to like". I have been bullied enough through school to know what bullying looks like. The pressure to conform is now higher than ever.

The most dangerous people I've ever met have been the ones who are absolutely sure that they are right. Today, I see that strain most often among my fellow educated-urban-blue-coded circles.The fact that they are able to sustain a number of obvious logical contradictions in their heads points to a level of either brainwashing or fear that is dangerous for any human.

I don't dislike this new brand of pseudo-liberals because they hate the christian conservatives. I specifically dislike them because they ARE religious conservatives. Just a different religion.

> as simple as US brand of neoliberal social conservatism

The hubris to make that statement my man. Try to sit down with them for once, over weeks, over months and slowly their side of things will make sense to you. You don't have to agree with it. I don't either. But, 'without reflection' it is not. Sit down with someone with empathy and explore difficult topics. Nothing is obvious in this world. Deriving a worldview that is consistent with your core values is difficult, and we have so little visibility into the long term effects of our actions.
How are you going to wear a headset without compromising face to face video? I can't even imagine a theoretical solution and not a single company is working on this problem. Am I wrong? Obviously on a very long timeline you can solve this problem but the next 5 years? No way.

>I want the ability to have a quiet side convo off to the side. I want the ability to write on a whiteboard off to the side that people can look at when they want instead of taking-over the entire viewport for everybody.

None of this requires VR and is available in, for example, Jitsi video chats.
Everyone can do kernel development. Linux and the BSDs guarantee that. To get a kernel engineering job, once you've gathered some experience, you could become an embedded engineer, or e.g. a driver engineer... Modern kernels are vast, there is always opportunity to branch into new areas.

If the question is how to learn kernel development, I would say it probably involves reading some books about modern OSes in general as a primer, reading specs (e.g. the reference manual of the CPU; just like other references you fortunately don't have to read all of it to get started), and reading lots of kernel code (that will be true throughout your entire career). The aforementioned OS kernels also contain documentation that really helps getting into specific areas.

You can most likely find some good lists. I started long enough ago that I have a hard time recommending any specific resources. It was during a time where there were entirely "unmodern" OSs around, such as MS-DOS or OSs on home computers, so my learning involved some transitioning between OS paradigms, mostly going from simpler to more complex. That would not really apply today.

It's also hard to make general recommendations in the first place, because parts of the kernel range from high level, where the jump from userspace programming is not that far, to potentially rather arcane, such as low level memory management or context switching code.

From a glance at your comment history, it's very likely that there's some part of the kernel where you can just jump in, and expand as necessary.