skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scaling the NIF's approach (laser inertial confinement) isn't about more reaction mass per pulse, it's about more frequent pulses, and is probably not going to be practical or cost effective in the foreseeable future. The fuel pellets are tiny (~2mm), their container is only about 1cm and must be nearly perfectly spherical. A continuous power plant would consume about half a million of them per day (6 per second), all of which need to be shot with perfect timing, precision, and reliability to the exact center of the laser sphere. My guess is magnetic systems are much more likely to ever be used in power generation.
Hope it passes. I want that malicious social engineering tool purged from civilization and anyone involved in the creation of it thrown in prison.
I mean, you keep saying "cheap Chinese" have you seen the build quality of say Tesla lately, have tried to get one serviced?

We are in an age of disposable everything, and it isn't just the Chinese with poor build quality, this reduction in quality is driven by the private equity acquisitions and quarter over quarter demands. And this attitude that is ruining production and produced goods in all markets. When you can't innovate or continue to grab more of the market, the only way to increase profits is to reduce cost of production.

And you end up with a shit quality product.
> does anybody know of an editor capable of cutting between inter frames?

https://github.com/smallstepforman/Medo
Can you please make your substantive points without breaking the site guidelines? They include:

"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Its worth pointing out that per unit energy a lot of money is made making economically unviable cargo ship power, submarine and other military naval power, space ship power sources, diesel-electric locomotives ...

True if you want to replace base load of a civilization size network it needs to be economically viable, but we generate "a lot" of power at higher than market minima. Ironically, "good batteries" are the natural enemy of fusion research.

One fun thing about laser fusion is it theoretically can scale down very low and has a trivial "off" switch making it a good resource for engineering tokamak reactor materials or sensors or similar tasks.

The inner lining of a production fusion reactor is hard to make, so a laser facility would be ideal for research. Which is why we have one...
Could this eventually be pluggable with bring-your-own s3-compatible provider? Would love this in front of my DigitalOcean object storage
> Thank you, that is the kind of caveat I was expecting.

The caveat on caveat is that historically explosions (piston internal combustion engines) were developed before continuous burning (jet turbines).
Tonespace: Chord Generator and Visualizer
> How can either side get an accurate assessment of the other in such a short time?

There is little evidence that longer interview cycles produce better results.

"Years ago, we did a study to determine whether anyone at Google is particularly good at hiring. We looked at tens of thousands of interviews, and everyone who had done the interviews and what they scored the candidate, and how that person ultimately performed in their job. We found zero relationship."

- https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-...
> Then why did you bring it up?

I brought up the NFL in response to you saying, "As I write this, there are [not many] people watching SC2 [on twitch]." I meant that casually checking Twitch can give a false impression of something's popularity. I wasn't suggesting the NFL was unpopular.

I also thought I made it pretty clear that my response to your comment about NFL viewership was that we were likely misunderstanding each other, as opposed to accusing you of being wrong. Please consider doing the same next time. This has been a very unpleasant conversation.
> As a linux user...

You answered yourself. Most people are not Linuxy in the sense that they buy an iPhone and don't want to know how everything works.
>please tell me how this actually benefits ME as a consumer

i, for one, am looking forward to a kindle app that allows me to purchase books on iOS.
There are other barriers than patents. First mover advantage, brand name recognition, first to achieve low cost, strategic partnerships, etc.
The ride home is free because the vehicles need to come back anyway to carry more people.

And not within our lifetimes will we be in a situation where people stop being the citizens of the country on Earth they are from.
Except for that sweet, sweet telemetry.
> Solar and wind have massive environmental impacts

Got a source for this? The only time I've seen this has been political talking points that had no backing.
As far as I know, fentanyl only really became a problem because it is so potent that it's easy to smuggle. 50x stronger than heroin = you only have to smuggle 1/50th as much to make the same amount of money.
How's this differ from using git LFS?
I think an argument can be made that it 1) toughens you up-you get used to being attacked and find ways to handle it and 2) can serve the same sort of purpose as hazing, where its some kinda test to see what youre made of in order to be accepted.

I will day probably a vast majority of bullying does not fit either of these criteria and is just straight cold blooded meanness with no upside.
Related:

Ask HN: Why didn't Pony take off? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31606084 - June 2022 (3 comments)

We moved from Pony to Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28777306 - Oct 2021 (175 comments)

Pony – High-Performance Safe Actor Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957307 - Jan 2021 (152 comments)

Pony, Actors, Causality, Types, and Garbage Collection - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24398469 - Sept 2020 (29 comments)

Pony: Lock-less, data-race-free concurrency - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24201754 - Aug 2020 (1 comment)

Pony 0.33.1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21784698 - Dec 2019 (2 comments)

Pony 0.29 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20370448 - July 2019 (19 comments)

Pony 0.27.0 has been released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19285762 - March 2019 (1 comment)

Fearless Concurrency: Clojure, Rust, Pony, Erlang and Dart - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19241427 - Feb 2019 (143 comments)

Pony 0.25.0 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18212633 - Oct 2018 (38 comments)

Show HN: Pony Programming Workshop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17619483 - July 2018 (5 comments)

Introduction to the Pony programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17195580 - May 2018 (72 comments)

The Snake and the Horse: How Wallaroo's Python API Works with Pony - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16768706 - April 2018 (8 comments)

Some high level information about the Pony programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16619264 - March 2018 (10 comments)

Why we wrote our Kafka Client in Pony - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16264845 - Jan 2018 (95 comments)

Dynamic Tracing a Pony and Python Program with DTrace - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15953050 - Dec 2017 (2 comments)

Why we used Pony to write Wallaroo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15558051 - Oct 2017 (84 comments)

Pony Performance Cheatsheet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14999899 - Aug 2017 (35 comments)

Pony: Combining safe memory sharing with Erlang-like actors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14676505 - July 2017 (62 comments)

An Early History of Pony - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14280565 - May 2017 (8 comments)

Pony language 0.11.0 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13846063 - March 2017 (52 comments)

On the State of Pony - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12331458 - Aug 2016 (40 comments)

Using Pony for Fintech [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11849579 - June 2016 (6 comments)

Using the Actor-Model Language Pony for FinTech - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11297836 - March 2016 (1 comment)

Pony Patterns: Waiting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10927475 - Jan 2016 (3 comments)

Pony is an open-source, actor-model, high performance programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10902906 - Jan 2016 (57 comments)

Inside the Pony TCP Stack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10762196 - Dec 2015 (1 comment)

Pony – High Performance Actor Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9482483 - May 2015 (124 comments)
The grinding is extremely fast - too fast for the chick to experience pain before it's dead.

There are far far far more important animal welfare issues to worry about.
I studied a bachelor of software engineering and am accredited by the Australian institute of engineers.

We do exist.
And the review process will cost €1 per line of code.
The true insight here is not using XOR, it's sliding the window efficiently. Here is pseudocode not using XOR.

members = [0]*len(alphabet)

for i in 0...input length:

members[input[i-window_size]] = 0 if bounds ok
members[input[i]] = 1

if sum(members) == window_size:
return i

If `members` is a bit vector and `sum()` is a popcount, this code is equivalent.
You can't make a nuke look like a power plant explosion; they're simply too different. No nuclear power station can explode in that fashion.

A bomb over the ocean wouldn't demonstrate any new capacity, and would be seen as the bluff it would almost certainly be.

A nuke on Ukranian soil would further open the floodgates of Western aid, expand sanctions, and push more nations firmly into the EU/NATO fold as Finland and Sweden already have been.
I recently had to start using MacOS for work after never using an Apple product ever.

Between MacPorts packages, Yabai[1], and skhd [2] I've found myself able to achieve a close enough setup in terms of tiling WM + system keybindings to make the desktop experience close enough to what I have using i3 or whatever else on Linux.

I still don't love using MacOS and would probably never buy a Macbook for personal use, but it's not really that bad and sure beats using Windows + WSL for development since at least MacOS is a UNIX

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
[2] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd
It's also huge fun to deal with the regulations and tax systems of 175 countries.
This, I’ve mostly used unless with guard clauses
License and registration, "Chicken sexers"!
And thanks for the link provided, quite interesting. I plan to redo my canary server with zfs and mysql (primary case for me is ~ 3 times compression) as current one is not much stable highly likely due to my tries to use latest zfs with Ubuntu HWE on 20.04 - this time will use 22.04 with stock ZFS and will go through your findings more closely.
TikTok was originally Musical.ly which predates the death of and competed with Vine.
Do you speak for all people that make purchasing decisions - are you an industry guru? - or are you speaking just yourself?
If our free speech rights depend on the whims of billionaire media owners we don't have those rights in any meaningful sense. I don't think that Twitter changing hands moved the needle one way or the other.
Sure - http://youtube.com/atomic14

And if you want a cool demo, try this on your phone and point it at a sudoku puzzle: https://sudoku.cmgresearch.com/
there's a reason that almost every Korean movie or TV show has an underlying theme of extreme economic inequality
Yikes, that was a typo. Sorry! Now I have to figure out how to squeeze 'not' in there without going over 80 chars.

Edit: ok, fixed now.
> galactic cosmic radiation in particular is the single biggest risk factor in going to Mars

Sorry, I was unclear. It’s absolutely an issue going to Mars. It isn’t front and centre on Mars.
There's a conjecture (I hesitate to call it theory because it's not very well fleshed out) that profanity tends to reflect the taboo and/or sacred things of a society.

Quebec used to be a highly religious society heavily controlled by the Catholic Church until the 1960s. Quebec profanities are full of slangy modifications of terms that, translated literally, mean things like "chalice" or "eucharist". English used to be like that as well. Damn and Hell were harsh words. With the decline in our religiosity has come a decline in the severity of the words. Most societies have taboos about sex and bodily waste, so little surprise that there's a profane term for those things in most languages.

And what about today? Some of the most profane words in contemporary English are slurs used against racial and sexual minorities. N-word, F-word (no, not that one, the other F-word), and so on. Speaking these words invokes transgression of the most sacred values of society. Some are considered so powerful or dangerous, that simply saying them aloud is believed to have the ability to cause psychic harm, which is more than a little reminiscent of the old beliefs about the risk of supernatural destruction being inflicted on communities by God that tolerate blasphemy.

As you note, I think this is likely a universal human tendency. There's always going to be the sacred and the taboo. And taking a big fat verbal shit on them will always outrage people.
> Developers already raise the prices for apps/subscriptions in iOS (vs, say, the web) to offset Apple's cut.

I'll believe most developers offering cheaper prices on other stores when I see it. Nobody is going to lower their prices just because they have moved app stores.
Here's an example a friend of mine ran into recently:

They sold their company and shut down their service for which they charged monthly/yearly subscriptions. They had a decent relationship with Apple, so they emailed their contact and notified them that they'd like to issue refunds to all their users. Apple said that users had to do it themselves. That wouldn't be so bad, but there's (as I understand it) some restrictions on Apple offering refunds for subscriptions, for example if you're 25 days into a 30 day subscription period, Apple won't allow users to request a refund.

This caused users to get angry at my friend and their company.

If they had been using any other payment service other than the App Store, they could have just automatically issued refunds to all their users.
GP was likely referring to power plants that burn things in order to heat up water to make steam in order to rotate an iron core encircled by copper wire. Using kinetic energy like wind or flowing water is a nice shortcut to the rotating iron core. Even nicer: Cut out the rotating iron core and directly produce voltage via photons hitting a semiconductor.

I share GP‘s sentiment though that, in the end, there are remarkably few concepts at the bottom layer of electricity production.

(There are other means of course, but they are not in use for power generation in amounts that can drive even one household, AFAIK)
Nothing is being actually "created", just converted.
It’s not much of an assumption. Read OP again. They draw a clear line between it (five basic emotions) being a Western idea and it being a wrong idea.
> Can you imagine Apple not operating in Europe?

Sure, we do after all have the example of some (non-Apple) companies not operating in China, a similarly important market. If Apple really believe their own rhetoric about how the only way to protect their users is for Apple to control the experience, they'll pull out of Europe rather than compromise on their users' security.
Paid? Or given a crypto asset of questionable utility?
I'm just a layman but I believe by the time our sun has formed, we've gone through multiple star cycles. The early stars were very pure - made basically purely of hydrogen (maybe some helium?). They were huge, burned very bright and died comparatively quickly. Each time stars died, more heavy elements (and heavier elements than before) were produced. Over time the heavy element content (called metallicity) has increased in all stars. I believe there are also theories of white dwarf mergers undergoing runaway fusion and a lot of heavy elements being generated during the explosion.

You raise an interesting question though: what is the earlier point of time where the heavy elements were abundant enough for life (as we know it) to form? Just because we started existing at +13.5 billion years, it doesn't mean carbon based life couldn't have formed much earlier.
Hey dude, bare metal C, microcontrollers, RTOS work, etc is still very much being done and well-compensated at a few giant companies. Apple, Google, even Microsoft are definitely doing it. Any other tech megacorp that wants to vertically integrate with some custom hardware is going to be doing it at some level too. You can shit out a low quality Android phone/IOT device using Chinese subcontractors, but you need an actual competent team of experts to compete at the top end. (I think there's some interesting stuff happening in the private defense industry too, but I wouldn't personally feel comfortable working on that)

My whole career since I started in 2006 has been bare metal C, and I'm doing pretty well overall.
Jeez, this stuff is frontpage on HN? Sounds… pretty basic. I’m sure our AI overlords could produce deeper content.
I like App Store, but I don't like the restriction that stops me from installing older versions of apps. I have a couple iDevices that are perfectly fine, except that their iOS is too old for the newer apps. If I could install old versions of UC Browser, I could breath a fresh air into those devices.
I used to love unless, but now I prefer `if !`. Sometimes when I read `unless` i manually make the conversion in my head. The only problem i've run into is standardrb thinks otherwise and I've not mustered up the energy to bikeshed that change through.
Thank you for following up. IMHO, object-fit is not the right model for server-side image manipulation, since its behavior is only specified when both width and height are supplied. I've also never seen a real world use case for stretching, squeezing, padding, or enlarging images on the server. That should be done on the client. I mentioned some of the same issues on the Cloudflare forum when they announced an image resizing product based on object-fit.

I believe all resizing operations a user might realistically want can be achieved with three parameters: width, height, and crop. Additional x and y parameters (floats between 0.0 and 1.0) could be used for setting the focal point of the crop box.

Examples:

source.jpg?width=400

Iff source width is greater than 400px, scale down to 400px wide.

source.jpg?height=300

Iff source height is greater than 300px, scale down to 300px high.

source.jpg?width=400&height=300

Iff source width is greater than 400px or source height is greater than 300px, scale down to fit within a 400px by 300px box.

source.jpg?width=400&height=300&crop=true

Crop source to a 4x3 aspect ratio. Iff result is larger than 400px by 300px, scale down.
You're a little off base with your history. I make no claim on current usage of the word but saying this was only ever used to wave away obvious and legitimate criticism is not correct.

> In addition to acknowledging that free programs can compete with commercial software in terms of quality, the memorandum calls the free software movement a "long-term credible" threat and warns that employing a traditional Microsoft marketing strategy known as "FUD," an acronym for "fear, uncertainty and doubt," will not succeed against the developers of free software.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

edit: and for the record, I'm firmly in the "crypto is a scam" camp
I migrated from multitail to lnav. Turned out to be a no-brainer.

I second the above, just one pain point with multitail to add. I often page/search/filter in the scrollback buffer (I typoed "bugger" - Freudian slip?) and in multitail the scrollback is a separate window with a frame and everything, which is a pain (copying whole lines using mouse includes the frame, ugh). The filtering/searching being a separate pain.

One thing I used in multitail and not sure if I migrated wholly to lnav was log file syntax highlighting using regexes.
To me your two statements here are in conflict with each other. I use "unless" in Ruby when it leads to simpler code. That ability to write code which reads simpler is its sole reason for existing.

(the headline however, is an exceedingly bad example)
> The only reason big companies do these massive complex multi-hour interview processes that require ten plus people is because nobody wants to take responsibility for a shitty hire so they make sure everyone gets involved so it can’t be blamed on a single person.

This is a very detached view from the reality. The only reason for the company to spend that much time on the interview process is to reduce the rate of "false positives" as it's deemed very expensive at the big tech. Avoiding individual accountability is not the reason
IMO, genetic modification is less humane than grinding the male chicks. In any case, the breeders for the egg layers likely already have logistics in place for the ground baby chicks (pet food, fertilizer, etc) which is likely easier to process than aborted eggs. Since the eggs will presumably be incubated, they won't be human consumable, and how you have an additional waste stream to work with.

Every single laying chicken also dies or gets killed in industrialized farms (indeed, all living things on Earth die eventually), and it's likely a less-instantaneous process than the rooster grinder.
It's 1220 PST. Are withdrawals still frozen?
Amazon's Plan to Kill the Barcode
Just checked out the site:
I really like the fact that you guys are addressing some of the core capabilities in the data stack (ie ETL).

The fact that you guys are supporting DBT natively is a HUGE plus for a data professional like myself.

Will definitely be kicking the tires soon & testing against my own workloads.
It’s important to note a significant percentage of these deaths are cases in which other substances with trace amounts of fentanyl are consumed unbeknownst to the user. Dealers often use the same scales, which is one risk factor for cross-contaminating supply.

My mother is a physician, she just last night told me about a case she saw over the weekend in which a young 20-something nearly OD’d on fentanyl from taking ecstasy. She survived, but with life-altering brain trauma rendering her unable to remember who she is. She needs tubes for her food supply, and a ventilator to breathe.

Here you can see a few images of what is a lethal dose of fentanyl: https://www.dea.gov/galleries/drug-images/fentanyl

Scary stuff, and maybe there’s an argument there to be made in favor of legalizing current black-market drugs. Definitely a PSA to test your drugs.

CDC on cross-contamination: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/other-drugs.html
What are you talking about? The euro is NOT pegged and your last sentence doesnt change that.
Try saying "Golly" instead. Would it work as well?

I suspect not. That's what will happen if you succeed in removing the taboo.
Mass is energy. Add energy (in any form, such as heat) to a system and you increase its mass. Thus, in the NIF reaction, the mass lost from the pellet is mass imparted on the surrounding environment. Immediately after the fusion reaction, before the energy can dissipate further as heat, etc, the reaction chamber system has the same mass as before the ignition.

There are some nuances regarding the distinction between rest mass vs relativistic mass, but they're not really relevant in this context.

I think what trips people up here is confusing mass with matter. Matter is also subject to mass-energy equivalence, of course, but AFAIU in most common types of nuclear reactions little if any matter, per se, is transformed.