skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are a couple different types of cynicism and one might be more justified than the other.

The first one I see is along the lines of "This was only net energy gain in the plasma and not overall so it shouldn't be called a breakthrough". The net energy gain in the plasma is still a huge step and rightfully called a breakthrough.

The second one is along the lines of "These are just intial results and the article says the data is still under review". This one I totally get. Replication of scientific results and accounting for all sources of errors is real big deal. The NIF had an experiment last year where they we able to achieve an ignition reaction but were unable to replicate it.
i think the top e-sports games are terrible: cs (the recoil system is a literally a hack), fortnite (F2p crap[1] and its not really a real game, you can feel the OOP system while you're playing as it takes several round trips for any action other than moving/shooting to happen), pubg (bloated amateur project). then theres valorant which aside from being F2P is largely boring as hell in the same way as overwatch. ive been told that my assumption that LoL is wonky RPG-esque metacrap is correct. only the starcraft games look alright, those are the only big games i havent played yet.

there's very little happening in the world of multiplayer games. the only ones with consistently decent netcode are COD and BF. after their first few flops (like BF2) they finally mastered it. everything else is downhill from there. theres not much you can do to make your game good when it has no substance (at the very least you need a solid implementation, let alone interesting graphics, which Lol, Overwatch, and Valorant lack) other than hype it up.

1. fortnite was acceptable for an alpha quality project in the first few months, then they got skins and the FPS dropped by 3/4 for any causal hardware, and it was all downhill from there
PV = nRT [0]. The (P)ressure is directly correlated with the (T)emperature. You would need to use a small (V)olume to balance the equation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_gas_law
Was your doctor reluctant to prescribe it for occasional use? As I understand it, providers typically expect you take ADHD meds daily.

I ask because my attention issues are task-dependent, but doctors tend to view even the suggestion of occasional use as a red flag for recreational abuse.
Investment Skill Is a Poor Substitute for Long Life Expectancy
> nothing at all like severe ADHD ... cases generally diagnosed in children because it's so obvious

I think the thing you might overlook with this statement (truncated slightly) is that sometime people are able to mask their symptoms, especially those who are highly intelligent and who may fall into an "inattentive" diagnosis, rather than the "hyperactive" side. I agree there are different levels that the affect can have on folks, however there is a difference between the boredom/procrastination/etc. struggles with someone who has ADHD and someone who doesn't. It's isn't just something that "everyone deals with to some extent or another". And proper diagnosis techniques will also sort for false positives, to eliminate folks who are actually "just bored", for example.

That said, this is something that studies have shown very much needs to be addressed not only from a medication aspect - sometimes it is definitely necessary and in many cases all the behavior techniques in the world won't make up for the chemical imbalances. But it should also be addressed from a behavior standpoint, via CBT or other therapy as well as other wellness techniques you mention, like good nurtition, sleep, exercise. From the studies I've read, the best results come from a combination of the two, not from ignoring or promoting one over the other.
True, I meant "quickly" on a relative scale. One advantage the 1st gen fusions would have is immunity to the supply shocks of fossil fuels and the intermittency of solar/wind. Plus we have workable electric vehicles and every home that has fossil-fuel powered heat by definition has a connection to the electric grid.

It wouldn't happen overnight, but I can think of few things that would kickstart the electrification of everything better than functional fusion power plants.
A friend of mine did this for a living in his early 30's, he said those flights are probably the most dangerous things he's done in his life. He'd fly commercial to Canada, scout around for a good plane, arrange the sale and the various bits and pieces of paperwork, strip it down as much as possible, install extra fuel tanks and some other gear, then go to Halifax, check the plane over once more and then start puddle jumping hop by hop until reaching continental Europe. You could not pay me enough to try a stunt like that, let alone several times.
$500m settled by Google for ads from “Canadian” pharmacies (many of which weren’t actually in Canada).

Chump change for Google when they settled it, but basically free venture capital when they booked it as revenue:

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2011/aug/24/google-se...
YouTube circumvents the DMCA with a custom process, which is why fraud is so rampant - they intentionally designed a system to enable fraud (at the behest of media companies)
There must have been some logical reason they didn't win out, but those Burlington Zephyrs were the best looking diesel streamliners. Those Union Pacific streamlines aren't in the same league.
> It’s particularly dangerous if a smart person gave you the requirements because you might not question them enough. Everyone’s wrong. No matter who you are, everyone’s wrong some of the time.

The source of this quote can be polarizing, but it's quite true unless you're in some really rarified circle.
Can't wait for the Black Metal scene to hear about this, good albums coming!
That's fair, I mistakenly apple-and-oranged this one.
Explicit vs. implicit typing may be more useful. A statically-typed language with full type inference may look identical to a dynamically-typed language.
Not really convincing since Rust is 99% hype from people who misunderstand C++ and are just happy to join an "inclusive" cult
I wonder how this compares to just using mdadm block device level raid5 or raid6. And then a normal filesystem on top.
To be fair to the original commentator, their comment was moved from a different article where it was not so clearly explained.
Most people in tech are cynical about tech because they intimately know the vision is waaay further out than reality, they know the breed and sometimes the names of the squirrels running in the wheels making it work, and have gone through more figurative duct tape and baling wire than most developing nations.
Sure you can have a little prohibition. Many prohibitions have exceptions. Between drug scheduling and various scopes of jurisdiction and enforcement, prohibition can be shades of gray.
“VICE News reached out to several manufacturers and retailers that sell tianeptine to ask for comment on the health concerns surrounding the drug but did not receive a response.”

Name them. Why not?
Is France justice system unfair too? Because it seems like he's not really eager to face it either.
extraneous files seroed

Though I've used XFS a lot over the years. Mostly because the Debian installer gave 12yo me the choice between ext2, ext3 and xfs, so XFS it was because it sounded cooler.
The recession speed is a statistical average given the distance. Individual galaxies might vary some, but the trend is clear.

At these extreme distances, I'm pretty sure any motion due to the local (to the distant galaxy) gravitational field is negligible to the perceived recession due to the expansion of the universe[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law
Very disappointed by the discourse in this HN thread. The same old quips over and over. "NIF is just a nuclear stewardship program", "it's not actually generating power", "fusion still 30 years away".

I think it's very clear, given the past year that NIF has had, that they are very rapidly approaching a point where we have the tech to "solve" inertial fusion.

https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/papers-presentations

Getting fusion right is done a magnitude at a time. Right now NIF is within 1 magnitude if they built it with modern laser tech. Many fusion designs are 10 magnitudes away or more.

Their most recent article has a ton of great data and next steps:

https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/magnetized-targets-boost-nif-im...

This includes

- Cryo-cooling the main target

- New alloys

- Magnetic compression of targets

The recent advancement that helped reach ignition (in the last article) boosted performance 40%.

The advancement between then and now: nearly 60%.

Within the past 6 months, NIF has nearly doubled energy output of the reaction.

Plus, if you know anything about fusion research, you'd know that energy outputs tend to scale non-linearly with energy input and size. This tends to be on the order of the power 3 or 4. Hence the existence of ITER.

NIF has uncovered some new science, closed the magnitude gap, and made it actually realistic for inertial confinement to be a feasible tech for a power producing plant.
Great resource. Straight to the point and well explained.
Cricket would be an alternative example that most Americans don't already understand
Web3 Doesn't Exist
If it did that on its own, we would be past the Singularity.
To truly compete with YouTube, Twitter would need a video discovery algorithm at least on the same level. Multiple large-following (1m+ subs) YouTubers have said that as much as they have grievances with YT, other platforms like Twitch and Twitter don't have the kind of discovery tools they would need to grow an audience there and make money.
(Twitter would also need really robust advertising infrastructure for this, IMO)
Btrfs let me down one time and for a file system one time is too many.
Maybe I'm just cynical but I think the ship has sailed for BTRFS RAID 5/6. It's now part of the global mindshare that BTRFS RAID 5/6 == data loss, no one wants to be the guinea pig that proves it works.

Better to direct resources towards bcachefs or ZFS IMO.
If he was flying Halifax-Newfoundland-Greenland-Europe the planes must not have been too small, because the Newfoundland to the next hop distance is quite large. The absolute shortest single leg distances involve going through Iqaluit and then Greenland.
That's not necessarily true without knowing what model they're using though. If they're doing dimensionality reduction, the model could learn that if the shirt is present, than the human part of the image really isn't important because the presence of the shirt is a 100% accurate indication for people.
That’s my recommendation too.

Because Ubuntu is tailored to people who are asking ‘which Linux.’

And because it has it’s own StackExchange site.
So by 10 years I don't mean playing casually for a decade, it's literally 90,000 hours. And Diablo Immortal is a little different being a PVP game, having good gear doesn't just let you solo dungeons, it means people paying their way into kicking your ass every time.
Which is hard, when you're looking for an answer: something you don't know. How do you tell what's "quality" and what's not?

LinkedIn is actually better off than most sites, because it already has a "people you actually know" filter built in. If you've connect to randoms, you'll get random content. But if you connect only to people you know, you have a decent filter. And if people you know start posting rubbish, block them.

Any pseudoymous sites are in a worse position, because you can't tell a person from a bot.
Ask HN: Is this interview process fleecing candidates for ideas?
Hi all,

Community feedback means a lot to me, especially when I'm faced with niche uncertainties.

I'm currently in an interview process but can't shake the feeling that the questions being asked are far and above what is typical or necessary. This is not for a senior role, and I was allotted a 4-hour window to complete all prompts. Here they are:

=== BEGIN ===

Question 1:
How does an effective Security program benefit <company>? How do you measure success?

Scenario 1:
Your team has been tasked with migrating a handful of production API services, databases and front-end applications to Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) in AWS. You’re specifically in charge of identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities during this transition process.

1. How would you begin to break down the problem? What questions do you need to get answered? If you had to create a migration and security plan with just this info, how would you approach it and what would the plan look like?

Let's say we plan on migrating one of our legacy backend APIs to allow for High Availability. The setup is a single instance/server that is running a <language> app, database, and a messaging queue system on our current cloud platform.

1. Define what you would propose we do to meet the goal of High Availability after migrating it to EKS. What tools would you use?

2. How would you handle security and what would be your must have items?

3. How would you handle logging? Security monitoring?

4. How would the configuration of the instances/services and user management be managed?

Assuming things went great with the single API migration above you are now asked to provide a plan for the following:

1. What would be the ideal way to plan to eventually provision all of our infrastructure? What are some key things that you would think about and plan for?

2. How can we incorporate security into our CI/CD processes given this new environment?

3. What would you propose if you were asked to standardize our production and non-production environments?

Scenario 2:
An engineering team wants to release a new application into our different environments and production in the coming weeks.

How do you work with that team to provision the application and resources for each environment?
How do you verify their work is secure?
What tooling would you build to allow greater autonomy and automation for future application deployments in the future?

=== END ===

Is it possible that this organization is using responses from myself and other security engineers to make decisions about their environment? No NDAs have been signed; any feedback is welcome and appreciated.
Would any of the organizations you've used it in be willing to pay more if it worked better?
It is a pretty big hack. I seem to recall in 11 (at least around RTM time, maybe not now) that if explorer.exe died then all the windows lost their rounded corners. There was definitely a dev build where if the start menu crashed (also explorer.exe I think) the windows 10 one would reappear, although that might’ve just been because during development they shipped both start menus.
And remember that YouTube’s system is not DMCA. DMCA rules do not apply nor do any protections. The YouTube system is designed to favor copyright holders and those who claim copyright.
Losing focus is an automatism for me.

It's not that I think "Well, this is boring, I won't read it!"

It's like I want to really read it, suddenly I'm on Twitter, Reddit, 9gag, IG, etc.

It happens in a matter of seconds to minutes and I don't even remember how I opened an app/website.

I can dampen this effect a bit by blocking websites and uninstalling apps, but then I zone out in my mind and don't remember what I read.
this is one of the only good takes I have seen on Musk and the issue of how he is steering his brand. I think he is really foolish and truly dangerous but he is no dumber than any other successful business guy when it comes to making big decisions. I am not that interested in how many D chess he is playing or if he is like Richard Branson and jut does things by feel. Branson is the brash marketer of past decades who I feel Musk most resembles - the brand is a direct extension of the person and the name goes on various different business. Dyson is another in a slightly similar vein and our former president is an exemplar of the style as well.
Glad to see Btrfs getting continual updates. It's my favorite filesystem for my personal machines (work and home PCs). The feature set is just awesome. I just hope it doesn't get completely abandoned as its development seems to have slowed significantly.

The only thing it's missing before I consider it full-featured is stable RAID 5/6. But it looks like that hasn't been forgotten.
Are you being coy? They clearly explained what they meant by anesthetic in this context.
I think it's fair to say SC1 did introduce esports to Korea, but it was SC2 that introduced them to the west in a big way. And certainly in the west SC2 was larger than BW, probably even once you include the korean brood war scene. I think you're diminishing SC2 a bit _too_ much in your effort to point out the contribution of SC1.
I love how nuanced the thinkers of HN are. Given the responses here, evidently the options are to either (a) let Purdue market heroin to kids or (b) ban all non-pharmaceutical drugs and give no-knock warrants to FULLY TACTICAL® DEA AGENTS so that they can smash in the doors of non compliers.

EDIT: this was in response to the pre-edit version of the comment. I think the current version of your comment is much more reasonable. I broadly agree with your point: when people have bad incentives they will do bad things. So my response to that is to try to give doctors better incentives, and limit the extent to which pharmaceutical companies like Purdue can inject perverse incentives back into the system.
> Between drug scheduling and various scopes of jurisdiction and enforcement, prohibition can be shades of gray

You’re describing enforcement. Prohibition is the legal action that precedes its enforcement. That semantic nuance is derailing this discussion.
One of the main reasons creators put content on YouTube is the discovery algorithm. It's much easier to grow an audience for videos on YT compared to hosting it yourself.
1.1 is available here:
https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v-1-1-origin...
Yeah for sure, I wouldn't ever say anything is truly universal. Just a trend I've noticed with my own ability to focus on even things I do enjoy and in my own experience it can be difficult to untangle things when you have a comorbidity of depression, ADHD and anxiety which is pretty common in adults.
Phosphatidylserine (It is a nootropic) + Bacopa Monnieri, It comes as capsule and you can get it on Amazon.

Plus Ashwagandha (KSM 66), other non patent Ashwagandha is not that effective.

After trying everything and not getting results, this works. Phosphatidylserine puts one in zone for hours and Ashwagandha (KSM 66) (morning and evening) calms down chatter in mind.

Stating this after trying multiple things.
Bing is directing searches for their service to the fake web site, which is then serving up porn after a few seconds delay. I'd say it is hurting them.
We could look at it as a problem, but if we keep idiots safe from this bullshit, they'll just go do something equally as stupid. If we get rid of this it'll be one less thing we have to thin out the herd.

I look at it as a solution.

.../s
Rocket League is very watchable by people unfamiliar with it too. It's just Pong in 3D. It's 3v3, and you can manipulate the paddle in very creative ways, but it's basically just as simple.

I was pretty much done with gaming until I found Rocket League. It's one-of-a-kind in so many ways, I'm not sure it'll ever be outdone. If it can't survive an industry crash, I don't think any eSport game will.
I really hope plv8 maintainers can finally ditch v8 And pave the way for using yjs in all tits glory.

Unfortunately, v8 basically is a bloated mess and postgres just stopped supporting it cause it's build process is horrendous.
Well, duh: codeine is a great cough suppresant; it's also an opiate.
My ICE vehicle averages 30 mpg. We drive ~12K miles/year. At $3.5/gallon, fuel will cost 12000/303.5 = $1,400/year.

An EV can average 4 miles/kwh. Let's say I go on 4 road trips each 500 miles (charging at $0.35/kwh), and other times I charge at home where I pay $0.15/kwh. This yields $570/year, so savings of $830/year.

My ICE was purchased new with a 10-year warranty, and so far has been very reliable (fortunately). Maintenance involved oil changes and brakes, averaging $120/year. But EV will have more frequent tire replacements and higher insurance premiums, so let's call it a wash.

My ICE costs now ~$20K new. An EV with the same mobility* (500 miles of range with a reliable refueling network) is either the expensive Teslas or Lucid Air, costing $60-100K more. Even the cheapest Tesla, the Model 3 will cost ~$40K for the long range.

Even if the EV charged for free, it will take decades to recoup the upfront purchase price. Even for the cheapest EV, which does not provide the same mobility, it will take ~10 years.

Depreciation could differ, but since I will always need a car, it doesn't matter - any money I pay for a car will always be locked in it so not usable for other things.
Home Story Cup still was 5-10+k viewers for the last time very time I looked. Half that for other larger tournaments. I think it still is surprisingly solid, myself I watch only very infrequently these days.

I'm reporting what I see in the channel counter. Since I'm still subscribed to some major SC2 channels I see the numbers even when I don't watch myself.

Tp me this is far from "dead", but I don't care about tens of thousands of viewers and lots of commercial activity. Just look at what this kind of "success" did for soccer. Maybe a bit more would be better, mostly for the Korean casts by the Tastosis duo, which unfortunately disappeared from Twitch and one has to go and watch it deliberately.

The other one I watch is Back2Warcraft (my only WCIII channel, so I name it directly instead of the game - but it's the biggest one anyway). 1k regularly, a few times that for the bigger events. Even the casters could not ignore the disaster that WC III Reforged was, and in quite a few ways still is.
Thanks for sharing your comments.

I have a flurry of thoughts on all of this:

- Vice is often very hyperbolic

- but these sure sound like real stories

- the medical community is kind of famous for telling people their symptoms aren’t real, so I’m cautious of any claim

- but maybe you’re not saying it’s not addictive, and while it might be able to destroy lives, it’s just not “heroin” magnitude.

- maybe the “heroin” label is a term developed by the community and not Vice itself

- how this isn’t controlled in the US and Canada is beyond me. Ignorantly this makes me wonder if it truly is that dangerous. Then again there sure are a lot of chemicals out there…
I had a chat with AK over on Mastodon and seems like dynamic linking libc should work just fine for cross compilation targeting SerenityOS!
As far as wildfires go, so is carbon dioxide. CO2 is not a typical reactant of combustion.
I have seen this criticism for some other video games, but it doesn't really resonate with me.

At least for the examples I was aware of, they didn't so much hype them as simply take money as funding or normal advertising.

I was surprised by how strong and negative the reaction by fans was.
Right. Livermore has been working on this since the 1970s, with increasingly powerful lasers. Now, they claim "theoretical breakeven" - slightly more energy came out of the reaction than went into the reaction. But 100x less than went into the lasers, let alone the whole facility. Nor is energy being recovered.

This was never expected to be a power plant technology. It's a research tool, for studying fusion.

"Technical breakeven" is when the plant generates enough energy to run itself. This is at least 100x below that.

"Commercial breakeven" is when it makes money.

How's that Lockheed-Martin fusion thing coming along?[1]

[1] https://lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/compact-fusion.htm...