skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert (I'm a physics prof who once took a seminar on nuclear arms control back in college), but what they're trying to do here is much, much harder than making an atomic bomb. If you want nuclear weapons, this work on carefully controlled and contained fusion is close to the opposite of what you'd need to do. (Fusion power is in general much cleaner than fission, at least where lasting radioactivity and waste are concerned.)
I use android with worse hardware just to use Firefox with addons. As chrome and safari are moving further from usability, it would only be better for Firefox. Android Brave is a good contender though
> Macros are the only reason why you would need vim today. ... Everything else something like vscode already provides.

I've yet to see vscode get an equivalent for

% ! some-filtering-command

Being able to slice and dice a buffer with command-line tools is so very, very, very powerful.
>They’re accomplishing every feature except a modern functioning browser.

>Eventually Firefox is just gonna be an SVG renderer with “ethical cookie tracking”

lol, the Firefox shitposting has become so lazy.
I know this is from the DOE but is this real real or this is wormhole "real"?
My question for you: why stop at state-run ones?
I thought we had passed this mark a long time ago, but only during short stints.

However, the way they're realizing it by shooting a fuel pellet with lasers is unsustainable and impractical IMHO.
A combined cycle power plant can be more than 60% efficient (LHV).

The efficiency of an IC car can be in the low 20%s. And cars burn a fuel with a higher C:H ratio than natural gas.
Life is about the activities you "waste" your time with
Hope the third world countries understand this and ban Twitter and Meta apps.
> "despite not significantly changing in functionality since Windows 3.11."

Here you can run Win 3.1 in a VM in your browser with a click: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows31 and Calculator is in accessories. Make sure to put it in View -> Scientific mode for a full comparison.

Now launch Windows 10 Calculator, you'll see that it is resizable, Win 3.1 calulator can only be minimised. Win 10 shows Unicode characters like Pi, square root, superscript exponentials, Win 3.1 shows them as "x^y" and the letters "PI".

Win 3.1 has a memory. Win 10 has a history log of calculations done, a scrollable editable copyable history and clicking on the entries brings them back to do again.

Win 3.1 has a bug where (2.01 - 2 == 0), Win 10 has that fixed.

Win 3.1 has normal and scientific mode, Win 10 has normal, scientific, date calculation, multiple unit converters, equation graphing with customisable theme, zoomable scrollable live updating high quality, themeable graph.

Win 10 integrates with the Windows contacts in some way to let you share graphed equations with other people. Currency conversion pulls currencies and live rates from the internet.

Win 10 has Programmer mode which does base conversion, logic gates, bit shifting, bitwise number representation with click-to-toggle-bits for entry and viewing.

Win 3.1 calculator is a binary blob, Win 10 calculator is open source MIT licensed on GitHub https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator
Fusion bombs (H-bombs) were functional in 1952
Maybe this guy isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
It would still be high pressure, just high pressure air.
This isn't a good comparison. A more appropriate one would be to compare the environmental damage, cost, and deaths due to cars to the "wall socket like magic" versus seeing a physical car on the road. You don't have to go to the hospital to see people who were maimed, and you don't really see the strip mining taking place to create cars, for example.
It’ll just be YouTube shorts most likely.

Reels is pretty terrible.
Great detail, thanks. Any suggestions for further analysis/reading on the 70s recessionary environment?

Didn’t you have the black swan of the US going off the Gold Standard as a major inflationary driver at that time? Is there a similar looming inflationary pressure you see now?

My (limited) model is we’re seeing some supply-side disruptions and a some hot demand from Covid stimulus, but it’s not clear to me if these drivers are likely to continue through 2023 and beyond. (I assume mostly not, with Ukraine being the big problem, but mostly for EU rather than US.)
If I search for job listings for Boulder, CO or Colorado, US on Walgreens' website, I get zero results.

It did pop up with New York City job listings, like this one:

https://jobs.walgreens.com/en/job/new-york/duane-reade-shift...

Which do not list the pay range, but have tiny text at the bottom that says

>To see the salary range for this position please click here: Pay Transparency Duane Reade Shift Leader .

https://jobs.walgreens.com/en/paydrsfl

And then if you search for similar positions, you get:

https://jobs.walgreens.com/en/paypht

https://jobs.walgreens.com/en/payhsrph
https://www.convoylive.com/

Please find the evidence of taking over the capital. That website has every livestream mapped, timestamped etc so you can often look at multiple livestreams for any given time at multiple different spots. I see zero evidence supporting your claim. I do however see people protesting, at least one bouncy castle and lanes purposefully kept open for emergency traffic nearly all the time. You can just link the stream and timestamp url here when you find it.
I would argue most do especially those who accrue it over time. Most power isn't in the broad open nor does attract attention necessarily (unless thats where it draws its source of power). It's those who attain it (power/money) in very short order that have significant difficulty adjusting to their change in circumstances.

You are only pointing to the very few who couldn't handle it or are drawn to attention.
This is not true. The recent 60 minutes story specifically says the type of content is completely different because it is heavily moderated in China which is the total opposite of what we see in the US or elsewhere outside of China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0xzuh-6rY&ab_channel=60Min...
Fair enough. I suppose using the dismal science as the organizing anecdote in this particular conversation is a point I shouldn't cede :) Maybe something like accounting, corporate finance, or tax law makes for a more interesting conversation.

But then, maybe that's also the point. I also wonder: how many people listen to endless audiobooks on macroeconomics or fiscal policy? How many people listen to endless audiobooks on tax law or corporate accounting?

The CS equivalent might be the number of people who consume endless quantities of data science fluff content on today's-ChatGPT-stable-diffusion-DRL-etc. vs the number of people who spend the same amount of time watching videos on CUDA programming, data cleaning, how to design annotation projects, and so on.
Are Gen Z's TikTok users? I thought that was mostly for Millennials and more recently, Boomers.
Mind the old aphorism:
>The Cobblers kids have no shoes.

Not everyone brings work home with them, or forces their kids down that path.
How to write API errors that keep your users moving forward (2021)
So, the approach here would be that it would just be a much more efficient process.
This is usually how Cow Shares work; in practice it's closer to a deposit entitling you to benefits, which is probably the best type of contract for this situation.
How does the Climate Catastrophe justify getting rid of electric cars?
Exactly for the commit history: we want to make our legal agreements, and any changes made to them, as transparent as possible, we thought GitHub was the most accessible place to do this
This is my pet peeve with the current way of popularizing science, it's just a step apart from "what these scientists found will shock you! News at eleven!". Seems aimed more towards attracting funding than showing a technological breakthrough.
The text of the treaty was kept secret even from congress [0], and to read it, they had to request the exact (single) chapter ahead of time, and were not allowed to bring any means of copying into the room where they read it in solitude. If they even got the text itself, and not a 'summary' [1].

Meanwhile, "industry representatives" had free access to it, and were largely the ones writing it.

The TPP (and other similar trade agreements) are nothing but backdoor means of subverting national legislations in favor of corporations. If four years were lost to China, the corporate authors of the TPP have only themselves to blame, as it was so hideous and anti-consumer, it was one of the few things Trump and Bernie Sanders agreed was bad.

[0] But, obviously, not from the other governments negotiating it, showing that the secrecy was not to gain an advantage over the other parties, but over ones own voters and politicians.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership#Secr...
Forget a return to office: We're living in the age of side hustles
Like a fusion reactor can be used as a neutron source to effectively make a breeder reactor.

However, most countries can dig up rocks out of the ground with radioactive isotopes that can act as a neutron source. However, this has legitimate uses as well from research to medical imagining. Also any power generating reactor is gonna want to use those neutrons to make Tritium otherwise it would quickly run out fuel so not something you just want use on something unrelated to running the fusion reactor.
LosslessCut is great, but I needed something quick when I cleaned up old GoPro videos. Just open an mp4/mov in QuickTime Player, trim it and save under a new name. It will create a lossless cut. If you need several from same video, you would need to repeat the process on the original file.

(unfortunately, the trimmed video won't get the same metadata, so I also needed to use exiftool -TagsFromFile oldvid.mp4 -all:all newvid.mp4 )
Instagram is dying, if TikTok is banned Youtube wins.
I hope commercial fusion power generation becomes a reality but I'm far from convinced that's the case. What we see here is just solving one problem with many more to go.

Energy output exceeding energy input produces a surplus of energy. That's a must and that's the breakthrough LLNL is announcing but le tme list the some of the known barriers to producing electricity:

1. How stable is the reaction? What failure modes does it have? While fusion doesn't have the same failure modes as fission does (eg Chernobyl) it could still result in significant damage to the container or even the facility;

2. What's the relationship between capex ("capital expendiutre"), lifetime, maintenance and power generation. An extreme example is if your power plant costs $50B with annual mainteance of $2B and a life of 30 years but only produces 100MW of power then even though the fuel is free it's not economical because those capex and operational costs have to be amortized over the life of the plant;

3. How available are the fuels? Of course hydrogen is abundant but most of it is protium (H1), which is not useful for current fusion research. Most of it is DT fusion, meaning deuterium (H2) - tritium (H3). Deuterium is naturally occuring (IIRC ~1ppm). Tritium is not. It needs to be bred.

4. What about neutrons? Neutrons create two problems. The first is energy loss. High speed neutrons are energy loss from your system. Inertial confinement (ie this result) tries to capture neutrons with a "shell". Older designs (eg ITER) use a tokamak, which is magnetic containment of a superheated plasma. Magnetic fields are great for containing electrons and hydrogen nucei because they're positively charged. Neutrons obviously have no electric charge so just escape. The second problem is the damage these neutrons cause (ie "neutron embrittlement").

5. How do you convert that energy into power? Nuclear fission, for example, heats water into steam that turns a turbine that generates electricity. This isn't particularly efficient and greatly adds to the costs. It's another system that needs to be maintained. "Direct energy conversion" would be the holy grail here but that's all very theoretical at this point.

Once you start adding up efficiencies in the different stages of electricity generation you have to do significanlty better than simply exceeding power input.

It's a notable achievement but as the release says, viable power generation is still a long way away (ie decades).
We use imgproxy[1] for doing the resizing. We utilize open source services for the entire stack, so that you can self-host Supabase.

[1] https://github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy
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An Excel spreadsheet to help you solve WORDLE puzzles. Exploring Excel's text matching and manipulation functions. Still a work in progress. Feel free to contribute.
I see teenagers overthrowing the US government as more likely than this bill passing. Cats out of the bag - the only possible course is mandating the physical location of the data and preventing it's transmission to china...but good luck with that.
Frankly the limitations of electric cars might be a step in the direction of pushing out car culture. They’re more expensive, it’s not clear there are enough batteries for all the cars people want, and we may never solve the range problem. This might naturally push more people to public transit, albeit not all at once. The big issue in my mind is that public transit cannot be a solution _everywhere_, even if it could and should be greatly expanded.
You can't get a little bit pregnant
That's right, HN has authority ... and you are a real psychologist.
Isn't the real performance gained by eliminating the triple nested for loops and memoizing over a sliding window, rather than the use of XOR? You would get the same order-of-magnitude improvement if you used a map combined with iterate-only-once approach.

Ie, it's undeniable that the final program works much faster, but the article should really be called "a smarter memoization trick."
Realistically, if there are goods that are deeply important to somebody, they will already be tracking that price. For most people that will be housing.
I mean, the US Dollar is a "pegged" currency under that definition too. A while ago I read an economic analysis that said the US would optimally have five regional currencies (instead of the single one that it has today) to account for internal trade and wealth imbalances.

What makes the US dollar work in practice is the active role the federal government takes to internally rebalance the economy through taxation and spending, particularly with defense spending and social programs like Social Security, Medicare, and the FDIC. People in wealthier states (including myself) like to complain that we get a bad deal because we get less back from the federal government than we pay in but that's a crucial feature of the system that keeps it from getting too unbalanced.

Additionally, in the US the federal government (for all practical purposes) is not required to maintain a balanced budget while the state governments are. This constrains the ability of state governments to issue too much debt while still providing a relief valve for emergency spending needed during economic downturns or other crisis (such as the COVID-19 pandemic).

I expect that sooner rather than later the countries that have adopted the Euro will evolve a similar system, shifting the bulk of the costs of their social programs (pensions, unemployment insurance, medical care, banking insurance, etc.) to the EU itself and giving the EU the power to tax and borrow as needed to maintain those programs. It will be a hard sell to Europe's wealthier economies, since it would be a major transfer of their wealth to Europe's poorer economies, but I suspect a future crisis will force their hands if the alternative is the dissolution of the EU (Brexit has shown everyone how badly leaving the EU can hurt).
I believe the counter-argument is that they should charge for features but that security should be available to anyone. Imagine if "passwords longer than 6 chars: now only $8/mo!"

That goes double for products where paying for "enterprise" is only to get SAML, which at least in my experience causes me to go shopping for an entirely different product because I view it as extortion
I'm glad this took off. I think some of the posts were fixed!! :)
> Several months ago, I found myself having a few mocktails and splitting vegan snacks with Sam Bankman-Fried at a restaurant near my house. We touched on, among other things, his proposal to create a new publication featuring writers he liked, including me.

> I declined, which obviously in retrospect was the right choice. I told him that I like my Substack just fine and make plenty of money, though he was happy to offer more. But I also told him that given the extent to which we agree on a lot of important issues, I thought it was a lot more valuable to these causes for me to maintain credibility by not accepting any of his money.

Meanwhile the CEO of The Block received a $43M "loan" from SBF[1].

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/podcasts/the-breakdown-with-nlw/sbf...
Why security solutions are bad at securing sensitive data?
born in '88 and didn't get the reference
Interesting!
Very curious how well this can be integrated and if it actually boosts productivity
Much more compact, less use of land or sea real estate, more power produced per volume and throttleable.
An Expandable Explanation into Hackathon Organizing
Ah, it's the old slippery-slope argument again.

I'm fine with banning all apps from countries that require their app-makers to share data with the government. If that requires an international treaty to codify when a company must share data (e.g. only with a criminal warrant), then great, let's do that.

China would refuse to sign that treaty? Even better.
For the Fusion the particles need to get close - but not to close. So the particles in the Tokamak get heated up to reach that. Also it's designed to run continuously but the challenge is the magnetic field so the particles won't hit the wall. (And cool down very quickly)

The Inertia based fusion works by providing the heat/energy with lasers, so the fuel would have to be replaced continuously.
Because it would distort the market for digital identity information even more? When it comes to commodifying online behavior and selling it in digital marketplaces we need less market interference, not more.
Don't Be Too Clever
Internet on Mars and Interplanetary File System
> But maybe my research was low quality? It really may have been.

Creating a company is the smallest of barriers in many countries in the EU27 this can be done in a couple of hours and a few forms and a few hundred euros. In some countries you can even do it online.

Now the ability to secure investors funding now that is a much bigger challenge, which is why you end up with European startup incorporating in Delaware, or New York to increase their success rate with US VCs.
Mars Now
I like how over 60 years after the nuclear boom, it somehow just happened to happen today. Just when the world is ready to transition to electric vehicles on a global scale, just when oil companies aren't able to make as much money from oil as they used to, just when one of the major suppliers of fossil fuels (Russia) is at war with the West, it has somehow magically happened.
What a coinky-dink.

Throw lots of money at something when you need it to happen and then it will happen. Or have control over the technology and don't let it see the light of day until it benefits you financially and makes your enemies lose their main stream of income. I truly applaud this timing and will err on the side of conspiracy rather than coincidence reading more about this "breakthrough".
I always enjoy bert_hubert's writings, they are unique.

It seems in europe we know what the problems are, but not how to solve them.

The best way to make money in europe in the past decade+ is (was) to invest in US Tech Equity

Subsidies and grants are job creation programs, let's not kid ourselves.

The financing problem is a vicious circle: Europe is making it hard to become rich and treats you like a criminal for daring to make money (But it's fine if you have inherited it). Without rich people who have knowledge of industries, money is not reinvested into tech.

> we have a surplus of idle technologists that would love to program and make things if only someone asked them to do innovative things

And pay well. We have a lot of people remote working because they re not fools
I think we can take an other look at this "innovation" in couple years. Just how well many of these "innovative" companies end up doing.
Makes sense. It’s an iNfLatIon hEdGe.
Don’t need to be too coy about the fact that NIF was built to recreate the processes inside an H-bomb after underground nuclear testing was banned. They literally use the same concept of a “Hohlraum” (here in miniature) where heat and light (from a fission trigger in the case on an H-bomb, lasers in the case of NIF) convert to x-rays on the outer casing and evenly illuminate the fuel pellet casing which ablates a bit to drive implosion which triggers the actual compression heating of the fuel pellet. Heck, some previous tests even used a uranium tamper (because in part, uranium has high inertia due its density thus prolonging the period of high pressure), just like a real H-bomb.
Would it be possible to use a shader of some sort to make antialised fonts look better on GTK?
Is this fiction or non-fiction?
There's not much detail on the page, but from the screenshots I'm guessing this is mobile only? (Guessing iOS only but maybe there just aren't Android screenshots...)

Mobile app only systems are a huge pain (literally) for me as due to some wrist issues, typing on a tiny screen instead of an ergonomic keyboard is difficult.
Yes! If you resize your images correctly, your users use lesser data to load assets from Storage. A side benefit is you will be paying us lesser in egress fees.
Google and FB famously pulled out, if they didn't they would still be there. It's the US that is stopping google, etc from operating there, remember project dragonfly that the prevented from going into china?

Amazon is doing decently there currently.
OK. There are P2P mobile based social media services such as https://www.manyver.se/ already running. Although every node is serving/getting messages, I am not sure they can be called servers.
Regulation makes it very hard for startups. And Europe has a lot of those.
What does "banning" an app mean, in the practical sense? I guess Apple and Google would remove it from their stores; how about side-loading? Would ISPs be responsible from blocking the website? Mobile carriers? Would we prosecute VPNs? Would it be illegal for individuals to engage with it? Are we going to put all of gen-z into jail?
I think it's more about the mindset behind your comment
I've been on the other side of a hiring process like that.

It literally went like this:

"Oh shit, didn't we interview so and so for that like 3 weeks ago? Oops! Are they still available?"
Your calculations don’t mention energy (J), only power (MW in your post). Fuel supply and cost correlate with energy produced, not power.

Parent post suggests that tritium is a fixed cost, more like a construction cost than a fuel cost. We can’t answer this question without a lot more information. We’d need to know how much tritium is needed to reach the point the reactor breeds more than it consumes, if at all.
> If I were an individual, I wouldn’t really care about how the criminal charges were structured

Yes. But! As an individual I care if the laws protect me. Have they been clever enough to only scam people like me, would they still go to prison?

As long as the answer to that is yes, I don’t mind if something else they have done is easier to prosecute.
This looks terrific, thank you! I'll go over it this weekend.
So.. we attack our enemies by building large fusion power plants in their countries, and then blowing them up? Why not just build a traditional nuclear fission power plant and blow that up? It seems that would be a lot cheaper.