skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And they will succeed around 1% of the time.

In fusion research, pessimism is realism. Especially in laser powered fusion.

This experiment is producing 2.5 MJ of output for 500 MJ of input.

Roughly once a day.

After decades of basic research.

It's a scientific breakthrough in the sense that the rocks are now being banged together hard enough to make sparks. And a little more is known about rock banging than was known ten years ago.

But it's clearly not going to be producing power on a commercial scale any time soon.
It doesn't feel like the AI is making meaningful decisions in this, so I'm a bit underwhelmed.

It seems like they've created a new sculptural style based on a system of constraints that yields an interesting new style, but I'm left wondering if all of those constraints are imposed by the humans: feels like the AI is being used as a tool to render the ideas of the humans rather than making interesting decisions itself.

I tried to get chatGPT to write OpenSCAD a couple weeks ago. Made a good outline and structure for the code, but the spatial relationships were all wrong (somewhat unsurprisingly)

I think taking a collection of 2d images and sculpting a plausible rigged 3d model is the direction of AI I'm more interested in. We have photogrammetry already, but what if the subjects are 'pokemon': and every image of them is from a different angle in a different pose - some features may be squishy, some rigid. The ability to take a character, extract a model and poses and propose additional poses would be incredible: such a tool could let a kid who learns how to draw create a character and drop it into a video game, and use it.
The first German Wind farms had direct connections, without expensive inverter stages. So they are generators, but they are also indistinguishable from motors.
There is sometimes wind, sometimes not and the windmills humm about.
I still have videos of windparks where some windmills run in opposite directions, those are very rare now, you find them on YouTube.
Doesn't matter with government subsidies. How much power they generated, was long a mystery in engineering. Maybe it still is?

So they advance and they made sure they only turn in one direction. It is better for the funding this way.

So some just didn't turn and started humming. There are big parks and some are running fast, but some are taking a break, but why?
There is no wind in this one spot maybe?
Do we have enough power already?
Why doesn't it move when it could?

It took some time and then most projects have been retro fitted with costly inverter stages, moving from AC to DC to AC again. Maybe multiple times, depending on the business model and how many parks are packed together.
This way it's much better to calculate the cost, since the subsidies are drying up.

Obviously all of them are now pure generators and can never be motors.

It would simply be stupid to assume otherwise.
In order:

- 100% remote only

- Flexible schedule (e.g., I can start at at 8am or at 10am. I can go and pick up the kids at 2pm from school. I have a dentist appointment tomorrow morning. Etc.)

- salary. At least 15% more than what I’m making now

- standard health insurance

- vacation days. No BS (e.g., unlimited vacation), just plain usual number of vacation days (around 30 where I live)

- people. I take a look at LinkedIn and check out the people who work there (experience, past companies, personal websites, Twitter profiles, etc.)

- product. Is it actually something I don’t hate?

- tech stack. Is it something I actually don’t hate? Would the stack make me more employable in the future?

- no on-call. This is getting more difficult to be picky about with all this stupid movement “you build it you run it”

- hardware. I hope I can choose the hardware

Everything else (conference budgets, learning budgets, etc.) are nice to haves but I couldn’t care less.
> Companies cannot control their "AI" because their output is beyond the scale of their ability to QA.

Right, now extend that thought to "replacing" programmers with AI. This is allegedly a scale at which we _can_ QA.

Perhaps we reduce the job to humans QAing bot output as has been suggested by others.

Now what happens when it fails QA and the bot doesn't come up with a satisfactory solution that meets the requirements? Perhaps the programmer has to... program? What about when the requirements change? Who performs the work for feasibility requests or exploratory project spike? Sounds like the programmer was not replaced by AI.
I had a Treo when the first iPhone came out. The Treo had cut-and-paste and 3G wireless. The initial iPhone had neither.

The Treo may have been inferior in other ways, but it can be hard to remember how limited the first iPhone was.
this guy obsessed with the word "rickety"?
Did they say it was a blood thinner? vs. lowering the blood pressure in her pulmonary arteries in conjunction w/ heparin as the blood thinner?
rip in peace kid. Hope the League games & amphetamines were a few lifetimes of fun.
The referenced article on glanceable reading links to a paper[1] with an interesting result. It finds uppercase text is more quickly recognised than lower case text for individual words.

The paper suggests customisable text settings in user interfaces may actually interfere with legibility, although it is not immediately obvious in which scenario this might occur.

> The significant interaction between typeface size and case shows that design factors can influence one another, as in this case the taller capital letters assisted readers in quickly distinguishing stimuli presented at a smaller typeface size. Consider, for example, an interface where the user may enlarge or reduce the text size. The present data suggest that this seemingly minor degree of control could have unintended consequences. Reduced lettering height could lead to interactions with other design decisions, and surprising emergent issues. More generally, the customizability of operational interfaces is called into question, as end-users may choose combination they consider aesthetically pleasing, but are ultimately operationally detrimental.

1. http://jdobr.es/pdf/Sawyer-etal-2017.pdf
Don't have a direct source, I've only been following loosely, but he was just arrested by the Bahamas government https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1602446984090107905
He didn't publish it. He tweeted a link to a news article about a court case, in which it was argued that a student-teacher relationship was unethical even though the student was over 18 (the court leaned toward yes, because teachers have power over students while they're enrolled at a school).

Would you want me to judge your character based on the headlines of news stories you submit to HN?
Unless this was in northern VA in the late 1990s, I suspect more it’s just that there’s a certain kind of person who is disproportionately represented on HN who spent high school doing certain kinds of things. Did you take apart CRTs to make lifters too: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jrfBrrDfdEA? :D
LoL events get 100-200k streaming viewers because Riot pours money in to promoting them. SC2 tournaments look amateurish in comparison because they are self-sustaining, i.e. funded by the sponsors and viewers with no support from Blizzard. The question is not why SC2 doesn't get more viewers, it's why a 10+ year old game that barely even gets bugfixes can still support an industry of professional players and commentators.

It's a matter of perspective. If the Superbowl struggled to sell tickets, but more people than ever were playing football in parks, would that mean the sport is dying or thriving? I think that's what this article almost managed to figure out: esports isn't failing, esports in a big arena with cheerleaders and fireworks is failing, while esports in the form of streamers cobbling together a decent paycheck from youtube+twitch+patreon is surprisingly popular.
Yeah. If the US manufacturing can't become competitive in a global market, then whether globalism is dead will not matter: there was no globalism 100 years ago, yet the US economy arose while Britain's declined, simply because the US could build better, cheaper, and faster. Allyn Young didn't believe that the finance center would move from Britain to the US because Britain was appeared so powerful 100 years ago, well, the rest was history.
They just arrested him on behalf of the US and say they plan on processing his extradition quickly once it is formally requested. I don't think they like the spotlight.

https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1602446984090107905
Much sooner than I expected. Figured it'd be a couple of years before the AG was secure enough in their case to bring charges. This is MUCH faster than Madoff or Holmes.

Then again, he's been much more out in the open about everything. He pretty much laid the prosecution's case out to the public for them.
Ohio has electronic titling now for dealers.
When fast food made access to warm savory flavors cheap and near-instant, did sit-down restaurants become an archaic concept?

I feel insulted by your assertion that I'm thinking uncritically.
My understanding is if you want to launder money, that you create a business in the Bahamas or some other Caribbean island. I don't think the authorities there are really the best arbitrators of truth.
Except it depends on usage. In Soviet times and places "reactionary" meant being against the regime.
They're not really wrong - I use light themes but occasionally experiment with dark ones and though both transitions can be jarring, the dark->light one is easily worse. The issue is that the shock is temporary, and long term using light themes avoids the "flashbang" issue of mixing light/dark colorscapes.
I'm getting 2+ gigabits down so it depends where you are. This is Verizon 5g, tmobile idk.
> Homelessness isn't caused by tech workers making more money than you.

This is not at all the point made by the author. The finger is being pointed at regulations which prevent increasing the supply in housing driven by NIMBYism. The article points out that the crisis dates back to the 80s - predating not just the current tech explosion but also the dotcom boom. Knowledge workers are not just programmers.

> Other cities with harsher climates have less homeless people because they can't survive the winters homeless, but that's ignored in this article.

The article does not ignore but explicitly addresses your point ("[...] With similar reasoning, we can reject the idea that climate explains varying rates of homelessness. [...]") and brings high rates of homelessness in cities with harsh winter climates: Seattle, NYC, and Boston.

> There is more nuance to homelessness than "tech workers make too much money"

What you wrote has nothing to do with what's actually in the article.
fwiw, I do think the labeling issue is a fair point. I just doubt it would have much impact.

as for the rest, it reads much like the rest of the sensationalism typically heard when the general public funds out about a new drug of abuse for the first time. if you wanted to write a piece like this, I doubt it would be hard to find a handful of people who became severely addicted to alcohol from the first sip.

and I suspect you will want to split hairs with me on what exactly "casual vs addicted" means, but the figures I can easily find suggest that opioids have a similar addiction risk versus alcohol. it's hard to find a good denominator for casual opioid users, but this [0] study puts the rate of addiction among PM patients around 10%. meanwhile, about 10% of Americans over 12 years old develop alcoholism [1]. not quite an apples to apples comparison, but the raw "addictiveness" is likely within the same ballpark.

[0] https://journals.lww.com/pain/Abstract/2015/04000/Rates_of_o...

[1] https://drugabusestatistics.org/alcohol-abuse-statistics/
Yes, courtesy titles are common in New York Times due to their style manual:

> Requires that the surnames of subjects be prefixed with a courtesy title (such as Dr., Mr., Ms., or Mrs.). (However, since about 2015, courtesy titles have not been used in sports pages, pop culture, and fine arts)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Manual_of_S...
Related: `m-x glasses-mode` inserts a virtual underscore (configurable of course) to turn camelCase into camel_Case
rm -rf /*bin/* would probably be more similar to deleting "program files"
A human receiving that request might say something like "fuck off."

A human serving as a representative of a corporation's products? Go ask a brand rep on Twitter or something to pretend to be a racist, see how much luck you have.

Pointing out issues with a company being able to scale one part of the product (generation of content based on a big mess of inputs) without being able to scale the quality control of the input or the quality control of the outputs is fair game. We see it all the time with discussions of Facebook or Twitter making money off of putting ads next to whatever dumb shit users post.
>so XFS it was because it sounded cooler.

That's what redhat though ;)
Why didn't you install Ubuntu to begin with? It looks like you already knew Windows was "ad-ridden and keylogger infested spyware".
I guess this means he wont be testifying tomorrow ?

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/12/sbf-scheduled-to-testify-t...
Why did he stay in the bahamas? Was he allowed to travel?
Sorry that you lost everything. Keep in mind that RAID is not backup. I also don't understand the correlation between reaching a certain number of disks vs any other scenario. Disaster can always strike, so it's best to be prepared.
I think Intel is in the process of rebranding HEDT into "Workstation" market.
Yes, actually. Never in decades in had to do something about climate control urgently. There is always a pause when you can do it safely even on a touch screen. I used Android Auto quite a lot before Google broke it.

As I said, if we're talking about advanced cars, touch panels are more versatile, better suited for future updates, and all important functions should understand voice commands anyway.
crapet bomb
Inevitable, but a lot of talking heads used the delay after FTX's collapse to sow doubt about corruption, media failure, etc.

Feds were probably gathering evidence from Day 1, and the restructuring CEO seems to have found it: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BA/BA00/20221213/115246/HHRG...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33962116
according to https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linu..., btrfs devs say you should not add degraded to fstab, and doing so can easily result in data loss.
SerenityOS is a monorepo, so as long as the entire OS + userland compiles, they don't really have a stable ABI yet.
The few scenes I've followed (so two) have died because funding disappeared and the games stopped getting updates, with one ladder being taken off the internet entirely.

I am hesitant to bother getting into any new esport.
>I haven't lost data

User error...both with btrfs and zfs ;)
Since most big-tech workers are not transphobes, they do not share your views. So, if Musk's actions continue, he will likely alienate a substantial portion of his customer base.
I had an interesting journey with my ADHD, unlike most of the other people I've met who had it.

I was diagnosed fairly young (some time <10 years old), because my mother is a pediatrician, did research into my behavior, saw signs, and had me diagnosed by a doctor. For most of my life up until my late teens, I was on a regular regimen of stimulant ADHD medications (in addition to the other structure imposed on my life by middle+high school and living at home). I did very well and got into a top public university.

Once I left for college though, my life fell apart. I had no one to make sure I was on a schedule and taking my meds. I basically quit taking my meds, struggled to attend class & do assignments, and nearly flunked out of school a couple times.

I loathed myself. I thought "what good am I, if I can't function without the pills?" This was a toxic mindset, but I stuck to it through college and for a few years after. I think the only thing that saved me from total ruin was the fact that I found tech work so engaging that it never felt like a chore to me, and I was able to succeed despite my false start.

Being off the meds forced me to develop a lot of coping mechanisms I never learned as a kid. I externalized a lot of my executive function into reminders, calendars, and habits. I cut away all unnecessary tedium in my life. I became addicted to coffee, because (surprise!) stimulants helped my symptoms & dealing with life in the workforce.

About a year ago though, I decided to start on meds again. They aren't a silver bullet for me of course (the real silver bullet all along was having my mom's structure and support in my life), but they help a lot and I can notice the difference. It's so much easier to deal with necessary tedium when I have the meds in my toolbox again. I don't feel the need to be on them 24/7 (probably a good thing), but it's nice to know I can take them and not feel shame about it anymore.
Maybe this was the only way to ensure he testified
About time. Hope the rest of FTX and Alameda folks responsible also face criminal charges.
Just one day before the hearing at the US house? very interesting. Why not let him talk if he was going to incriminate himself more? Somebody sure didn't want him to talk tomorrow...
> it might take decades of work to build up enough capital to start a small business, while someone with the right connections and half the talent is handed money for little effort

You can't have it both ways; either it takes decades or it's handed over for little effort.

You also don't need much capital to start a few small businesses. Obviously it depends on what you want to do. but it won't take decades to start a dog walking business, for instance.

All business requires working with other people, and other people have money. I started selling hair products in tandem with some guy I met at a men's shed when I was unemployed. The "right connections" isn't limited to your notion of "upper class" whatever that might be.
People were mad that he kept getting invitations to speak, but I bet all those interviews and comments show up in evidence.
Full statement by the Bahamas AG Office: https://twitter.com/sarahnemerson/status/1602448748109512704
Nit: Madoff was faster, but that's because he confessed everything to his children.
I really did read it, I just really believe that your biases are clouding your critical thought about this.

> invoking deferred block in each caller up the call chain back to the root

Yes if the caller writes N defers in the same function or across M functions then the code will run N defers.

Why is this any different than nesting N loops, in the same function or across M functions? It’ll still run N end of block control flow statements without them being “explicit”.

At the end of the day “explicit” typically is really just a replacement for saying “familiar with the previous documentation, don’t change things”.

Anyways, that’s all I can put into this conversation. Please just try to consider that you’re conflating familiarity with simplicity and leverage System 2 to really ask yourself if what you’re favoring is valuable to the group or just the NIMBY.
The climate aspect is most definitely covered in the article.

As for the bus issue, most sources I found (eg, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...) show that the flow is _out_ of the big coastal cities when it occurs.

I'm sure there is more nuance, but zoning and the lack of true market forces to build more and denser housing seems to be a very large piece of the puzzle.
Alright, well, now that that's done - let's go find all those people in the past threads who were saying things like SBF will never be arrested.
Antidepressants don't "make you happy", alcohol does that. Antidepressants are intended to give you the ability to get out of bed in the morning.

If depression was just caused by inhumane work environments, why do Americans have it and not Bangladeshi T-shirt makers?
I assumed the was just directionally wise? That is, it is clearly useless here, as there are no "dependencies" passed; but in a real app you almost certainly have something there.

Still digesting the rest. I'm curious why the mix of raw HTML. (Not in why it is a bad idea, but why it was felt necessary.)
In theory it should allow fine grained control over raid levels at the file/directory/subvolume level. So that depending on the specific needs you can set direct/raid1/raid10/raid5/raid6 without having to setup different arrays for each level you want to use and then have to manage the relative space between them. I can imagine uses for that but the reliability of the more tested solutions is much more important.
I think SBF made it too easy and the fact that he has been on a media frenzy trying to play innocent here must be a slap in the face to the AG.
And he confessed everything to the FBI when they first talked to him..
If I was debating or even considering the ethics of sex with a student I would expect people to get upset, yes. It would require a severe disconnect from reality for me to think that they wouldn’t.
rest in pieces in peace?

thats dark.
Maybe he was scared he was going to get arrested in the US?
Lot of similarities to how Social Media was built over the last 15 years.

There was never any deep thought behind adding the Like button or Click/Upvote/Follower count to everything. The tools and protocols were simple. Even kids can use them. We can scale it. It drives engagement. It gets the funding or the advertising dollars. So lets add it to everything, was pretty much the depth reached in any architecture/design discussion.

Its looking like we are now permanently trapped with these Counts acting as some random signalling architecture injected into and underlying society. No one seems to know how to change it. And its no surprise over the last 15-20 years, Trust of the general public in Tech, has fallen below that of the Banks or the Military. Its falling further every year (this year thanks to crypto) and the way things are being built, will probably reach the level of Trust that TV News has soon.
The Bahamas attorney general just announced he's been arrested while they wait for the US DOJ to formally request extradition.

https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1602446984090107905
I was somewhat set back when a train barreled through the station just feets away at 50mph. Sure the p/a warned about that (moments earlier), but still, I didn't expect that from a "nanny" state like Germany.
I'm curious what sort of passwords you are texted that you are expected to type in? Only "passwords" I get texted on a regular basis are purely numeric, such that this is a non-issue.
No, look forward and get Binance and the Tether guys.
> Over the long term, you will suffer some side effects - worse sleep, tolerance builds up, and your ADHD symptoms will likely get much worse if you stop medication.

Nothing like this should happen. They will improve your sleep and your symptoms will get better over time without medication.

If you get tolerance, take magnesium and NAC.
Make every photo a potential profile pic by learning how to pose