skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>this comparison is disingenuous.

I have no earthly reason for wanting practical fusion power to be impossible, or to prevent it if it is possible.

I'm receptive to being un-convinced that it is hopeless, if you have anything to say.

But I am convinced of my conclusion and I put it out there to solicit an explanation of what convinces other people otherwise..

>The comparison is analogous to comparing oxidation of iron bearing minerals to a steam engine and dismissing the idea of fire.

I don't follow this analogy. First of all, I was dismissing practical fusion reactors on earth, not the phenomenon of fusion. So that is not like dismissing fire, but steam engines (I guess).

Secondly, in a parallel universe where fire as we know it was never observed, only slow oxidation, shouldn't we be more skeptical a steam engine would work?

Massive wildfires seem to me like just the sort of evidence that fire technology is practical that I don't see for fusion.

I would like to understand the reasoning that convinces you fusion power plants are plausible and I promise not to reject it out of hand as inadequate whether or not I buy it.
This tweet and the next one in the thread show exactly that https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064
I dont think OP was being dismissive about this whole thing, think OP explained their main point of view when they mentioned,

> A healthier starting point is a philosophical and systems examination of transparency, censorship, and how information proliferates, followed by systems and mechanisms that facilitate a favorable outcome. Anecdotal, sensational stories (like this Twitter Hunter Biden laptop cover-up) are exactly that: misleading anecdotes. They aren’t useful, and being caught up in them is not healthy.

This is the key takeaway in OPs post for me. I don’t think it matters if this is the right, left, up or down it’s about finding better ways to communicate that doesn’t depend on centralized organizations that are prone to corruption of this sort.

This keeps happening and we keep using centralized authorities, even when we start building systems that start off decentralized, they somehow end up being centralized. There's something wrong in the way we organize and think about things. We need to find a better way.
It's a joke, it would be like discussing politics on craigslist.
> some have alleged it contains child pornography as well (with Hunter in the scene)

This is a tremendously incendiary and defamatory claim to make on the basis of "some have alleged". Unless you're willing to name your sources you should not post claims like this.
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I clarified in a subsequent comment that what I'm talking about is explicit coordination. There's a major and consequential difference between a Priest telling his Parishioners during Mass that one candidate is better than another, or a media outlet saying the same thing during their prime time show, and some kind of explicit coordination between the campaign and those entities. The former is just run of the mill 1A protected speech, the latter is much more nebulous.

>i guarantee you we'd find all kinds of instances with politicians from oil rich states.

This is a dangerous subject, but KSA obviously does this all the time and it's not any different than Russian tomfoolery on social media, or what all these people did with Twitter, but we all just sort of let it happen because reasons. It's honestly disgusting.
This wasn't even the Biden Admin as it was 2020 so it was just the campaign team.
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Hey, "democratic operatives" embedded somewhere is conspiratorial. The parsimonious explanation, which is where most people align, is that the content violated the terms of service as determined by Twitter. That's the conclusion supported by the new evidence as well.

Good luck out there.
You misunderstand, completely. A device needn't download all activity, or indeed download anything additional at all. It knows which ads it clicked on and it knows the conversion signal for each ad the user saw. It can thus easily count the user's conversions on the device, then privately aggregate the result with its peers using secure multi-party computation (or a secure enclave).

Even the ads can be anonymously downloaded using a shuffler/mixer, such that nobody knows which ads out of the universe of ads the device chose to target the user with.
I mean it's a self fulfilling prophecy: people only use it for that because it's incapable of doing anything else.

If Siri didn't suck big time I would use it all the time.
Actually type 1 hypervisors running cloud workloads happen to the be most successful microkernels, but monolithic defenders still haven't got it.
Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money
>BUT! I can't help thinking about how Elon might have a grudge against Biden and $44B might be FU money.

This sounds like a "you" problem. For whatever reason you have imagined that Musk hates Biden, despite his DoD giving his company billions in guaranteed contracts for space access.
Oh? That's very strange, it instantly works in private browsing mode, taking me to what looks like a desktop. I tried it again in non-private browsing mode and I still get the login window.

Edit: deleting cache and offline website data in Firefox fixed it. In my experience when this fixes something it's usually because there's a broken web worker and that forces it to redownload.
“Biden wasn't in office at the time of communications, yet was clearly a figure of influence in government.”

What in the world are you saying here? What exactly is a “figure of influence in government“, and how does that matter?
> To protect your security, www.google.com will not allow Firefox to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window.
One of my favorite scenes… thanks for giving me an excuse to watch again
You can see for yourself:

https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector

Shipping is 1.7% of global emissions while aviation 1.9%.

The immoral aspect is that jet fuel at the moment is literally tax free pretty much anywhere in the world. Not because of private jets but to prop up airlines from going insolvent. Not every 'fairness' discussion has to be a 'eat the rich' polarization.

If we are looking at % of emissions then all of this is a distraction, arguably the best bang for buck is to get energy storage + renewables and reduce energy from coal production. If we are looking at it from a social fairness aspect than jet fuel should absolute be taxed.
ls --hyperlink is completely broken for me, because it’s producing links of the form file://hostname/path rather than file:///path, and xdg-open says “xdg-open: file 'file://hostname/path' does not exist”.
> might be how the algorithm is specifically tuned to reward dumb content in the US, compared to rewarding STEM and other educational content in China.

The China distortion field

Anything normally would be laughed at would be considered dead true when comes to China...

Use your f*king mind...
Presidents and members of Congress constantly try to pressure the media to cover things differently, cover things less, or more. This happens every day, sometimes in the obvious form of yelling from a podium publicly or blasting out tweets, but also just as much through direct conversations you and I will never be privy to.

Both political parties do this, and have full time press relations people whose whole job is to do this. We might feel that is unhealthy, but crucially, it is not a violation of the First Amendment. Requests, criticism, even pressure - those are not the same as jailing those who defy the requests, or compelling their speech at gunpoint, or seizing the means of broadcast.
The EU is going dramatically overboard with privacy rights (aka GDPR). It's causing a lot of dont-talk-to-your-neighbor-because-you-might-break-privacy-laws issues, and causing prices to rise across the board.
On the contrary, I strongly recommend against communcations of the ACM.

It’s mostly about opinions, and many of them are quite hypocritical too.

I’ve been a subscriber, but quite frankly I’ve hardly found anything interesting out of the 12 issues i was sent during my membership.
The suppression was the misinformation
Yeah, they keep repacking ideas of bytecode formats that exist for decades, as if it was something novel.

Nowadays the whole hype about WASM containers is basically reselling what Java and .NET application servers have been doing for 20 years.
Awesome - thanks for sharing your hard work! Some very new tricks to me!
Pointing of the most critical fact, that he was not in government at the time, is not “picking apart semantics”.
It's weird to think about.

If you switched the characters here, we all know that this would be the biggest story ever about social media. "Trump Campaign coordinates with Twitter to rig the election" would be the headlines. 2016 really and truly broke so many people's brains.
Trying out ChatGPT with more and more ideas and possibilities feels like two other experiences - trying cable modem internet, and trying WiFi for the first time when neither had existed before.
Id bet that having two other planets that were habitable in the early system is why the Earth developed complex life. These planets aren’t closed systems but instead they constantly (in astronomical terms) flung matter back and forth.
Speaking as a professional gamedev...no. Shader Graph is being pushed but still results in sufficient boilerplate that it's worth optimizing directly.
> I'd rather America does not provoke Russia and have a military presence bordering Russia and not support Ukraine joining NATO.

Appeasing Russia will never work, they have appeased for decades and it just leads to more conflict. The only thing Russia will respond to is being physically rebuffed, luckily this is happening in Ukraine.

Russia was never provoked into invading Ukraine, they merely used their own propaganda machine to invent excuses for the invasion.
With the mind-numbing level of incompetence that they are displaying here, would you actually consider availing yourself of their services? As the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice,…
Compared with the Apple II and the Atari 8-bits, I suspect that Commodore was a bit more tightly painted into a corner with compatibility. The range of differences between any two C64s was likely smaller than between, say, an early 16K CTIA Atari 800 versus a late 800XL, or an vanilla II versus a highly pimped Extended IIe. This likely created a software ecosystem that played it much tighter in terms of poking magic registers and relying on specifics.

I wonder if the reasoning at Commodore was a general philosophical hard-line for "100% compatibility at all costs" or more a researched analysis that said "once we start changing registers X, Y, and Z, we lose major software packages alarmingly fast." They already had been burned a few times with poor platform transitions (see: the attempt to foist the C16/+4 on the market, or even the need to rewrite anything but the most trivial BASIC from the VIC-20 to the 64), so the huge software base for the 64 was too precious to risk.

OTOH, they could have definitely done much more to encourage 128-native stuff. I got a 128DCR a few years ago, but I haven't really broken out the Greaseweazle and prepared anything useful to do with it. All I have is some extremely heat-warped discs that came with some garage sale C64 setup.
Is Trump still influential on government policy etc.? If you don't think so, that's fine, but that's the point I'm making.
Also from NZ.

I would be wary of a government telling me that a horrible terrorist attack has taken place, that a video exists with clear evidence of who did it and why, but that I'm not allowed to view it or show it to others.

I'm fine with facebook removing it.
Zombo! :)
I was sympathetic to the pledge until this

> fulfill their shallow objective of collecting a selfie

And then you wrote two more paragraph of judgemental trash to gatekeep how people are supposed to experience views, as if the new generation families and their circles of friends aren't fragmented and use the technology to close the distance.
Not exactly. Technically the first amendment says "Congress shall not.." and of course over the years this has come to mean government.

But I think it is wrong for the white house to do anything that gifts the impropriety of restricting speech.
IBM and Unisys language environments on IBM i, z/OS, and ClearPath MCP, for 40 to 60 years, depending on the model.

Amsterdam Compiler Toolkit, 40 years ago.

CLR since 2002.
Not an answer to your question, but a vent-rant:
95% of anti-Musk "jabs" are reality and facts, and way over-shouted by Musk's fanatics, butt-kissers, and followers of his cult of personality. I have personally tried to set record straight with multiple instances of people in my private life (with legal documents, news clippings, timelines...) – nothing helps, they always find an excuse for him, it's like a bloody religion. And I'm sick of uncritical and butt-kissing media coverage, his fan club, and his egomaniacal loud existence.
Is there a tl;dr anywhere of what this is? Is it just another for-fun tech demo of putting an OS-like GUI in a web browser?
People are surprised that the White House has a line to Twitter, yet nobody bats an eyelid when you had the former president have a daily call-in with Fox and Friends to set the talking points of the day and to "correct" any "fake news" live on air.
Wait so the parent noticed the DDoS but you are the owner of both domains?
Including reselling language environments as something novel.
Biden wasn't in government at the time, though they did say the Trump admin was working with Twitter on removing stuff as well if that's what you meant.

Taibbi also revealed:

"34.NetChoice lets Twitter know a “blood bath” awaits in upcoming Hill hearings, with members saying it's a "tipping point," complaining tech has “grown so big that they can’t even regulate themselves, so government may need to intervene.”"

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598839971451838465

And on that one posts a screenshot that it was a "tipping point" for Republicans. Meaning they didn't like a moderation action (a curation decision: part of free speech unless Twitter is a gov't utility or something, the government doesn't tell newspapers who they have to publish in the opinion section) and were going to use government threats of regulation to punish it.
Of course your friend would say this.
Probably a naïve question, but why does it need to be run as privileged?
One thing it can't really do is admitting that it doesn't actually know stuff

That's because it "doesn't understand knowing". It's ultimately a search engine. When a smart, wise person knows something, they have something of a model of the limitations knowledge - indeed a serious person's model of their knowledge increases along with their knowledge.

And certainly some people don't have anything like a model of knowledge either. But the strength of humans is when they do have this.
https://archive.ph/pFzNr
>>Edit: so HN wants Twitter moderation and censorship but a country censoring videos and text books is a big no no.

This was your original comment. Yes, people want moderation of their platforms, otherwise they become unusable. Most people want some degree of censorship (CSAM is the obvious case). But there's a big difference between Twitter censoring something and the government doing it. For example Facebook can say "hey we don't want people posting nude photos" - that's censorship. And that's fine; they don't want to run a site that has nude photos.

>>Then Twitter, Facebook, etc do not have moderation teams. They have censorship teams. Because they are blocking content people do want.

Yep, they do both, in varying degrees. The government should be more restrained.

>>You might disagree with Trump. But removing his tweets and banning him is censorship as people do agree with him and do want his content.

Yes, it absolutely is censorship. And if twitter wants to do that I'm fine with that. I don't want the government doing that.
The five winners:

Mukuru Clean Stoves, Kenya: Stoves are fired by processed biomass made from charcoal, wood and sugarcane instead of solid fuels.

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Notpla, United Kingdom: Natural, bio-degradable plastic made out of seaweed. The company made more than one million takeaway food boxes.

Revive Our Oceans, Australia: A programme that has trained over 60 women in both traditional and digital ocean conservation methods.

44.01, Oman: Turn carbon dioxide into peridotite, a rock that is found in abundance both in Oman and globally. It offers a low-cost and safe alternative to traditional methods of storing carbon.
Oh my.. I thought GRE was dead. I saw some professor folks talked about moving on and ditching GRE a while ago .. I guess that's very small sample size.
what is the average SAT score if you give the test to three or four randomly selected people?
A little hard (or cold) to hike the narrows in the middle of winter...
I don’t think it matters ftw. But I will say I voted for Biden and one of the big reasons is he’s well connected across the aisle due to four decades of crunching out policy. Few politicians have his influence.
U.S. dismissing charges against Huawei's Meng Wanzhou
Twitter thread said that score is 50th percentile.
The most concerning thing here is that the FBI was having meetings with Twitter during the campaign, and they weren't about child porn.
The two "others" were Bernie Sanders and Evan McMullin, and the one Republican was Adam Kinzinger, a high-profile Trump critic who didn't even run for reelection in '22. There was a single individual donation of $200 to the RNC.

I don't know what anybody expects, though. Tech workers tend to be young, affluent, educated city-dwellers, and that demographic is strongly and increasingly inclined toward supporting Democrats. Twitter is headquartered in San Francisco, a liberal city in a heavily Democratic state. There's no conspiracy at work here. Republicans could choose to try to appeal to tech workers if they wanted.
Surely outperforming some humans? I don't see how it can outperform perfect scores by 20%?
Whatever happened to that story about possible microbial phosphine detected in the upper athmosphere on Venus?
Finland's PM Sanna Marin says Europe would be in trouble without US
Since I'm writing about a future scenario, such as under the authoritarian President De Santis administration, I quite obviously cannot provide proof. What I know is that laws and regulations should be scoped to preserve liberties under even the worst executive.

The many people who have SSSS on their boarding passes for 'extra scutiny' as part of some cryptic TSA process seem a good enough example of the Govt keeping secret lists of undesirables. A random selection of SSSS tweets:

https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1097895615479144448?t=y2yY...

https://twitter.com/DoualyX/status/1029128870996324352?t=Jn9...

https://twitter.com/SheRoamsAbout/status/1056946018229669889...

Tell me these people are security threats.
They're clearly not acting in good faith and you should stop giving them the benefit of the doubt.
Yes, but there is a thing what many comments here misses: those email do work, so not only they filter out not-dumb people, they are running on a successful strategy.

Using a proper spelling would improve the conversion but also would add a lot more work for the scammer and therefore he can miss a real doofus who can be scammed, so the overall KPI (heh) would be lower.

Yes, it still the same, but with an additional key part.
I'm not sure hollywood has the best instructional material: https://youtu.be/NFQgO4LScWA?t=25
> toward them not really doing much damage.

Most historical evidence suggest that the city was mostly uninhabited for close to a century until the Roman reestablished it.

Same thing happened to Corinth (actually in the same year as Carthage was destroyed) except that supposedly unlike in Carthage the entire male population was murdered and only the women and children were sold into slavery. Corinth wasn't reestablished for a hundred as well.
Inter has this as an alternate.
I must be an idiot: where can you get the book?
It's principle-agent problems all the way down; the compliance and enforcement teams do not care about the best interest of Amazon as a whole. They care about ensuring that the specific KPIs they're evaluated on look good, from top-of-division management down to line members. In all likelihood, Amazon gets exactly what they measure - something like number of tickets closed, number of legal or regulatory incidents, etc.

You always want to identify the job title of who you're talking to and have a good guess as to what their priorities are. It sounds like they repeatedly talked to people whose job description is "close as many support tickets as possible with the hours and staffing resources you have". I'm not at all surprised that the result was getting their tickets closed with zero long-term improvement or concern about their situation.
People don't seem to get this, no matter how much it's explained. Google can piss away millions and be generally idiotic because it's in a duopoly. Your mom and pop software shop can't.
A full career switch will likely be hard. For everyone working on stable diffusion or GPT3 there probably 1000s of people working on rather mundane tasks in ML (nothing wrong with that).

If I were you I would leverage your existing knowledge in robotics and see how AI might apply there.

For example, computer vision will very likely be a major part of robotics. I could also image that there will be Speech2Text models where you can just tell a robot what to do. However, the main driver here is not necessarily the AI model but the people understanding how to use it in the context of robotics.

I would argue that plain AI/ML is highly scientific work and unless you have a PhD in ML or a similar field it will be extremely hard to get into it. Applying models, tweaking them for your use case and all the work around that will create the actual value in most applications.
This feature of a dark desktop wallpaper is underappreciated.
>The B-21 is a digital bomber. Northrop Grumman uses agile software development

I stopped there. We're fucked.
Nice job , looks really cool.
The web content filtering thing was a bit odd.

It was several years ago, but as I recall, Some (not all) NZ ISPs installed the filtering system, which let most IPs through, but redirected some to web proxies which were configured to filter banned content.
> so HN wants Twitter moderation and censorship but a country censoring videos and text books is a big no no.

I have no big problems with websites limiting what users can post (HN is also ding this!), but I have big problems with politicians having ability to for example take down content criticizing them.

Content that should be made illegal to post anywhere at all is in my opinion extremely rare, and basically all censorship system should censor less. Sadly, some things needs to be blocked and once system exists it inevitably gets misused.

Not sure what the proper solution is.
It's optional now, airports can provide their own security.
Yes you can if you have enough memory.
Thank you so much! I couldn't have said it better myself :)