skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lotsa reasons.

(1) We are used to the same "news" story being cycled again and again. I think a year ago we heard about a previous breakthrough in ignition. When I hear a story like this my first instinct is that the old story has been recycled and I'm not sure that there is any actual news.

A few months back it was announced that scientists had discovered a black hole that was nearest to the earth and it still gets posted to HN which makes me wonder if they discovered a closer one.

(2) For a while there have been two parallel tracks, one of very slow development efforts at LLNL and IETF which might yield a power source in 50 years and another about firms from Lockheed Martin to scrappy startups who are promising to build a "Mr Fusion" tomorrow. There are still memories of the Pons & Fleischman affair from the 1980s and a strange subculture of LENR activists who claim they will sell you a fusion power source today. One could easily assume "fusion is the new blockchain" in this climate

(3) Fusion research has proceeded with no direct line to a practical power source for a long time, the sharpest critique you hear is "the point of the NIF is to do subthreshold tests of nuclear weapons, not develop a power source"

(4) Fusion is really hard. They might have to get the energy output up 100 times and increase the shot rate 500,000 times to build a real power source, even if 1-3 aren't enough to make you dismiss the whole thing. People will point out that ignition is a big threshold and it might not be so hard to increase the energy output from here out, but we have a long ways to go.
Just checked. It is.

I am not surprised - I feel like I was marveling over some similar ODBC dialog back in 2009.
Flight Attendant Fired at Behest of TWU Union Wins Reinstatement
Sounds like propaganda in response to the Chinese buying oil from Saudi Arabia in Yuan. The timing is too convenient.
Um, so I clicked the second link, and was redirected to a not-safe-for-work website.

Luckily, I am at home, and my children are at school.

I have no idea what happened, or why I got redirected, but I can certainly suggest not taking up the idea to serve disgusting content (given I clicked a link that someone on HN posted, I shouldn't be subjected to that).
Was this off of CD-ROM or a stack of floppies? I think 3.11 was the last of the floppies, but memory is hazy around what 95 install media was. Pretty sure 98 was CD, but that could be a fun "bonus round" to force an install from floppy.
The mirror is almost certainly running their own ads, given they strip the JavaScript out.
Your first sentence is a whataboutism, that ends in criticizing the left about whataboutism.
You may be allergic to something on/in it, such as a pesticide or fertilizer perhaps? Especially if it all came from one processor. Did it come from a dispensary?
Ah, the stuff on HN never ceases to amaze me. This is awesome and something my friends and I would have loved to play.
I traveled coach from CHI(IL) to SAC(CA) with a mountain bike in tow on the Zephyr for $120 at the end of October.

Not aware of anything comparable cost-wise, especially bringing a fully assembled ready to ride mtb along.

Annoyingly however, even a Greyhound bus does the trip faster than the Zephyr. Such is the sad state of passenger rail in the US.
Yeah...it's like Windows version of Jenga. Which piece will make the tower crumble?
This article goes for an easy thing to write about (rich-seeming people getting backlash for posting as if they aren’t affected by the increased cost of living or whatever) but the point they hint at in the title doesn’t really materialise and it seems it maybe doesn’t actually matter to luxury influencers if they aren’t really reaching the people outside their target audience.

I thought there were two interesting things though:

- the mention that tiktok tends to throw everyone together leading to things going viral being dunked on. I don’t really know about tiktok but that doesn’t seem great. Feels like a problem Twitter also has.

- discussion of more middle-of-the-road influencers. I’m curious how companies are thinking about marketing in the near future. Unfortunately the article didn’t really talk about this because it was harder to find sources or the narrative was less compelling or there are just far more people/companies involved and so less can be written about it in general.
Not for me (US)
Yeah probably, but wouldn’t really be sufficiently punitive to really deal with the problem. It should be a % of the abuser’s revenue
Incorrect. They have to go back to their day job if their sales get low enough. If selling 1,000 units a year in a market of 10,000 units a year is enough, they don't suddenly starve if the market expands around them but they don't and now they're selling 1,000 units a year in a market of 100,000.
It wasn't "Windows Phone", it was Windows Mobile or Pocket PC 2000. All the releases of Windows Phone definitely didn't have a UI like the regular desktop version of Windows and only existed after the release of Android.
downvoters of this comment, be sure to leave a link to your blog, too
How long has humanity been working on fusion? Wasn't Ivy Mike in the early 50's? Glaciers continually progress too, but it's not obvious on human timescales.
Where do you put the coffee mug down?
>This article was originally published on Sifted on May 19th, 2021.
Is this content just licensed by Lago? What's the deal here? I see that sifted is paywalled.
I keep seeing lots of talks of nuclear energy being the next greatest form of energy, but ever since Chernobyl, it seems like people are afraid even though Chernobyl was a one-off incident that wasn't regulated well.
This is insane! I wonder how people were able to survive, I'd probably die from starvation.
As you said, stable is not necessarily good. A fully developed spin is incredibly stable to the point where you might not recover from it even if you try, but it also reliably takes you into the ground with too much vertical speed.
Anyone have insight into how this new development differs from this article from back in 2014 about the NIF, entitled: "Fusion Leaps Forward: Surpasses Major Break-Even Goal"

https://www.livescience.com/43318-fusion-energy-reaches-mile...
Can’t easily disable them in Canada. And all alerts are sent at “presidential” level, while the issuers fail to geo-target them, so you get alerts for “abducted” (usually child custody dispute) several hundred km away.

Buuuuut, these alerts are LTE/5G only, so I’ve set up an iPhone automation to switch my phone to 3G in the evening and back to whatever in the morning to avoid alerts at night. I’ll cry when 3G gets shutdown.
App for bird lovers gets people out into nature, helping wildlife conservation
Did you intentionally skip Vista?
EV’s aren’t microwaves, you can plug in to the grid at 7PM and not start charging until 2AM. So yes, demand isn’t absolutely constant but it turns out it’s even better than constant as demand for EV charging decreases when other sources peak.

Some people charge at home, others at the office, and some exclusively at fast chargers.
If You Don't Talk About Genetic Enhancement, Parents Won't Know About It
What makes this man wise, when the effects of excess sugar and a blood sugar spike are well documented and aspartime in diet is one of the most heavily-researched sweetners with nothing more than questionable claims attached (and unlike some sweeteners does not have a GI load)?
10 ways KDE is just better
My gut tells me there is no way a single cpu model can quickly spit out useful scores here
I recognise myself in this (except that I don’t have a diagnosis or medication). However, for me it’s a certain kind of boredom that’s painful. I like reading, running, sitting and thinking, and similar activities which might not be very intense. But at work, routine tasks or even technically interesting tasks which aren’t urgent in some way can feel painfully boring to me.

The most successful moments in my career have been when I have been at a place long enough to know the domain and being reasonably comfortable in the code base. Because then I have been able to take on those really difficult and urgent tasks. And I don’t get nervous or stressed while doing it :)
I'm just glad these scientists are working on something other than nuclear bombs.
In all seriousness, Hot Wheels would probably offer some premium sponsorships there.
That's the most charitable read I could come up with, too. It's such a tenuous connection, though, that one wonders why it's even worth mentioning in this context.
No, this is like research into TNT being presented as a potential way of creating a power plant by capturing the energy of the explosion. The real purpose is producing better explosives.

This is not some bizarre idea - Lawrence Livermore is officially a part of the DoE's research into maintaining and improving thermonuclear weapons. That there are some vaguely imaginable applications in energy generation is at the very best a bonus.

Remember that each shot of the lasers also destroys 10 million dollars or so of the highly precision engineered "housing" for the fuel pellet (called a hohlraum).

The lasers don't directly hit the pellet - they hit the metal walls of this hohlraum, causing it to grow so hot that it emits x-rays, and its shape is perfectly aligned so that those pellets hit the two sides of the pellet at exactly the same time, causing two "ripples" to compress it so much that they force the atoms to fuse in the middle and produce a chain reaction that has to consume the entire amount of fuel before the force of the implosion dissipates, at which time all of the matter violently explodes. The brunt of that explosion (and the neutron bombardment from the fusion process) is taken up by the hohlraum, which is ireedemably destroyed and can only be, at best, melted down as raw material for the next hohlraum.

Edit: tldr, this is exactly as useful for energy generation as an internal combustion engine whose pistons are destroyed every time the fuel ignites.
Thanks, I guess. What a bewildering site that was. Its certainly a very obtuse and hard to use query tool
Hey, why don’t you try harder is what I’ve heard all my life. I can’t. I’ve tried. I failed. I lost a lot of things. Made a lot of mistakes due to focusing on the wrong thing at the wrong time (most recently nearly got heavily hurt with a mill although I know I need to be very careful and I was fully engaged)

So no, it’s not only with boring task. I’d love to. My life would be far easier.

Heck I can have hyper focus on boring task because it’s relaxing.

So no. It’s not only will with boring task :(
9-1-1 doesn’t usually call me at odd hours though.
Doing that in 2022 with machines from back in high school would be a true test of patience
Mozilla has an open source tect-to-speech project, called deep speech.

https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
I'm not particularly science-minded; but when he talked about how his Boring tunnel deal fixed flooding, this Floridian lost it right then and there.
All of Apple's toolchain is LLVM, which also means all 3rd party apps running on Apple devices are (almost?) all LLVM. Google Chrome is now built with LLVM, Android is getting there with Clang, and who knows what else inside of Google is built with Clang. These aren't tiny percentages.
I had a bad experience with Strattera too, and now I'm on Vyvanse, which is an amphetamine but not the worst. I'm still on a low dose but not bad. I'm feeling some improvements and thinking about some specialized therapy.
Wow that would be a scorched earth policy, would it not? You would then be deplatforming video and image hosting sites, discussion forums, and blogs. Including people.kernel.org, the Linux kernel developer blogging platform.
That's because for 90% of new products, the old stuff performs better, uses fewer resources, and has been debugged in ways the new stuff has not.

All the new stuff, however, has marketing and looks shiny.
Oh, interesting. I’ll read up more on that.
Not only that, but the capsules that are used for the experiment are expensive and difficult to produce. And you'd have to be continuously blasting new ones for each burst of energy you want to generate.

Taking those costs into account, being able to use this method to generate power seems really non-optimal.
This is some really cool anti-scraping inside baseball. Is it safe to say that Cloudflare uses these techniques for weeding out bots?
For more context, the earlier design looks to be the original Balitimore and Ohio "EA" type, he original E-series engine. One remains in a stuffed and mounted state at the B&O museum in Baltimore.

A similar design was used for the Santa Fe's E1A units.

The protruding headlamp design was in the later design E3A, E4A, and E6A types. (The E4 was unique to the Seaboard Air Line, but the E3 and E6 were produced serially for many operators).
> But that's energy, no electricity
as far as fusion viability is concerned net energy (over whats put in) is enough. the whole electricity is moving the goal post because there are plenty of other sources that primarily produce heat.

Now regarding efficiency of laser itself, sure they are inefficient but from just nuclear fusion pov net energy gain is a significant milestone in itself. lasers can get incrementally more efficient, at least there was not incentive to make them super efficient so far & there are no known fundamental problems with making them efficient.
> (f)Misrepresentations.—Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section—
(1)that material or activity is infringing, or
(2)that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification,
shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner’s authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it.

512f is currently unenforced by the courts. Judges are not state machines, it matters not what the technically correct decision may be, they are not required to make it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenz_v._Universal_Music_Corp.
Consider reaching out to Afraid.org first, https://freedns.afraid.org/contact/

They are the ones providing the subdomain
I try to live my life this way. People think I’m an optimist, but really I think the world is mostly BS and I try to acknowledge the good things. It works for me.
I think we all are about to feel Generative AI fatigue. When our feeds & ads are flooded w/ content that, on the surface, appears to have high-quality visual elements plus well-crafted prose, it'll take us that much longer to realize that some bot/troll/scammer used generative AI to give their content the gloss of quality.

To borrow a concept from cryptography, before now quality art and prose was "proof of work", that is, a signifier that a human or corporation took the time or invested in production of quality. Examples: A well-written, fact-filled article just sounds authoritative & you trust it more. A beautiful, polished book/movie/album cover suggests production-values someone invested because they believed in the product's market value.

Now, if you see quality product art or article copy you'll have to hesitate and maybe do an extra level of vetting to determine if you're looking at something actually good or something whipped up in 10 minutes to just _look_ good, maybe for nefarious reasons.
I take it you've exclusively bought the pricy ones; try using Safari for a week on one of the entry-level devices, and you'll find it leaks memory like a sieve and easily gets in such a state that the only way to get websites to load without crashing is to reboot it.

Is Apple QA aware of the issue? Probably not, since they presumably only test on the high-end models.
For those who don't know what @ElonJet is: It is not a human's account, it is an account where a bot posts locations in the world of Elon Musk's jet (which it gets using publicly-accessible data).

TBH, I believe that bot activity regulation and censorship of people are two distinct issues. Still, the search-shadowbanning of @ElonJet is quite inappropriate.
Yes, Canada, LATAM, New Zealand have compatible time zones with Pacific time.
Yes, it was the direct successor of NT 4.0. Windows 2000 was still an OS aimed at the "professional" market, though. XP was the first consumer/mainstream oriented OS based on NT.
It’s disappointing to realize not everyone likes you and finds you charming. Some people are actively annoyed by your existence. My takeaway from stuff like this isn’t just twitter is annoying but that polite people may think all of this about you but just have the sense to keep their mouth shut. Only thing to do is accept that you can’t please everyone.
I’m a physicist and it’s absurd how much career concerns push us to overhype even the most incremental research effort. I’m not surprised the public are sceptical
I really feel this need be a YouTube series, "Hot Ones" style, while interviewing interesting people in tech.
What a crazy world we live in where someone can license their code and someone else can use the code under the terms of that license.
“Rich men should be less concerned with their health and more concerned with making me happy” is a wild take
Unfortunately, yes, you’re right. It’s not real nation. It’s just south dialect.
Maybe we paid attention when our parents told us the tale of the Boy Who Cried Wolf.
As has been said before, once you reach a certain level, the two often become empirically indistinguishable.
5 Reasons Why Being Full Stack Was My Best Career Choice
If there is emergency, I'm sure you'll find out very soon that something is happening. We are usually not living in lone solitudies.
The baseband is an entirely separate SoC that is a blackbox outside of the control of GrapheneOS. And your radios are solely under the control of that system. GrapheneOS just asks it nicely to do things on its behalf.

All of these privacy focussed phone OSes tread lightly on the fact that there are a grand total of zero modern open source basebands in existence.
Ah, yes. The good old SPARC 'pizza box' that accompanied the 70-pound NEC 19-inch monitor, and the mirrored mouse-pad. Them's was the days.

I too was a Solaris 2 fan, with SunOS (retrospectively renamed as Solaris 1) before that.

For several years I was running both Solaris on SPARC and Solaris on x86 on the same bench.

Then in 2001, Linux killed both of those.

EDIT: On a whim, I looked in my archive directories for 'solaris', etc and came across the following:

/a/comp/iso/solaris-2.6-x86.iso
/a/boot_images/sol_2.6_x86_boot
/a/comp/iso/solaris7_x86.iso
/a/comp/iso/solaris_8_x86_boot144.img
/a/comp/iso/solaris_8_x86_dev.conf.asst.img
/a/comp/iso/solaris_8_x86_1of2.iso
/a/comp/iso/solaris_8_x86_2of2.iso
/a/comp/iso/solaris_8_x86_documentation.iso
/a/comp/iso/solaris_8_x86_languages.iso
/a/comp/iso/solaris_companion_software.iso
/a/comp/iso/solaris_star_office_52.iso
If you ever actually look into Unstable diffusion Kickstarter, you’ll notice that they’re not actually claiming they’ll manually label a dataset the size of Laion-5B - that’s a much bigger task than what you seem to think it is.

Even if a million people are labeling images, without any overlap, 5 billion images would mean each of them has to label 5000 images each.

What Unstable diffusion folks seem to be doing is that they’re using a few thousand labeled images to train a caption generation model and then use it to create a huge multimodal dataset with text and high quality images.
IQ and the Problem of Social Adjustment [pdf]
> Meanwhile, a Windows desktop never felt like something new.

Well. There was plenty of "new" UI enhancements over the years which I resisted as much as possible. Imagine a meme of Garth from Wayne's World, "We fear change..."

I always hated the more smooth and colorful Windows XP theme. Computers back then were resource constrained enough that you'd notice the fact that it wasn't "free". It wasn't until Windows 10 that I stopped trying to make the shell look as much like Win2k as possible. The extra UI eye candy on modern systems is as near as matters "free" now, as long as you have plenty of RAM.

Now I am just trying to make Windows 11 look as much like Windows 10 as possible.
> Well, it's an anaesthetic

I thought it was a stimulant
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I agree with you 100%. That's why I bought a 10" Boox Eink tablet last week - to read real print without maintaining a printer. The PDF reader the thing comes from supports PDF annotations, and it comes with a Wacom pen, so I can continue to highlight and scribble.
this is interesting.

i feel like i could or should use this criterion, but how do you interview someone and find out if they're monsters or not?
Does Google.com allow anybody to instantly mimic an artist's style? Obviously AI laws haven't been put in place yet - it doesn't mean it's not unethical.
Georgia coyotes are remarkably small
Ah you're right, I should have read the article before commenting, haha. I agree it's not an ideal solution. A disadvantage I imagine is that this syntax pushes the problem onto the parser/consumer to keep track of overlapping regions.

> Milestones are empty elements that mark the beginning and end of a component, typically using the XML ID mechanism to indicate which "begin" element goes with which "end" element.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlapping_markup#Milestones
Very encouraging to see at least some enthusiasm for this. This is the real way forward.

We can't just stop using energy. We can't buy our way forward with "carbon offset" fees. And, most importantly, we can't just redirect all of our environmental conservation efforts to eliminating energy use. Remember when we were going to save the rainforests? Don't forget why we called these "green" initiatives in the first place.
I am not depressed and experience the exact same weekend malaise of the person you’re responding to described.

I found an exceptional game last weekend that I played through. I laughed, I cried, it was fantastic. I spent a lot of my free time on it, and beat it.

This weekend I was just a little disappointed I couldn’t wipe my brain and play that game again.

I don’t think that’s depression, it’s just being unwilling to put up with a game or activity being boring.
Note: this isn't my blog, just copied the title word for word