skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... Q-plasma is above 1 for the first time, which is a huge deal.

Q-total is still below 1, but some of that can be improved through already-known laser efficiency advancements, and also by pushing Q-plasma higher.

I think pushing Q-plasma above 1 is the big gate though, isn't it? I mean, partly psychologically. Showing that it's actually technically possible.
Deal breaker for me -- always run with multiple panes/sessions/windows.
Please don't.

Society forces everybody to interact socially. In a society where everybody is expected to date anybody, forcing somebody to date is still abhorrent.
> simplicity and clarity ...

It may be deceptive. Just look at how various compilers or even the same compiler with different options interpret the same C code.

> as explicit as possible

C is not assembler.
I know for a fact that many people who worked on this are also on HN. You should know that scientists see posters on this site mostly as representatives of the software engineering world. Seeing this kind of sneering attitude so frequently on display here is pretty embarrassing and casts the whole profession in a poor light.
Beznau nuclear power plant in Northern Switzerland takes the honour of being the oldest nuclear power currently in use in the world. Construction on the plant began in 1965 and Beznau 1 began producing power on 1 September 1969, with Beznau 2 following in 1972.

It's either build new ones or turn them off. Switzerland has the ability to store vast amounts of energy via hydroplants. Alternative energy like solar is therefore quite useful even at night.
It is also fucked up how the left manages to convert all conversation about its censorship into whataboutism about the terrible things that the right has said.

All I want is a discussion platform without left-wing censorship, but with fact checks on right-wing conspiracy theories. Where controversial things can be discussed. Like how stupid it is that California policies in favor of racial equity helped keep 3/4 of COVID vaccines received in January of 2021 from going in ANYONE's arm. See https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-story-of-vaccinatec... if that tidbit surprises you.

Is that too much to ask for? Apparently so...
Elon is even going after Wikipedia now for revealing his dark secrets.
A full-stack JavaScript boilerplate used to build 30 live startups
Is overcoming fission's political problems harder than fusions technical problems?
The location of the Windows 11 taskbar cannot be set through any UI options. They do not officially support changing the location of the taskbar according to available documentation. The upgrade message inside Windows 10 explicitly calls out this deficiency along with other before continuing. There are registry hacks that change the location, but this is unsupported.

Docs: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-use-the-t...
For being a tech entrepreneur forum people here are strangely very anti science and technology. The top voted responses to every new product announcement are essentially "why do we need this? Pen and paper work just fine".
FTX’s inner circle had a secret chat group called ‘Wirefraud’
In the tree in which a sentence is decomposed, some of the groupings of the branches are purely conventional, not based on any objective criteria.

Around any verb there are several phrases with distinct roles: agent (subject of transitive verb), patient (direct object), subject of intransitive verb, subject of predicate linked by copula, instrument, beneficiary (indirect object), nominal/adjectival predicate, various kinds of circumstances (manner, place, time, direction, cause, purpose and many others).

Especially in the case of the transitive verbs, where frequently many of these roles are simultaneously present, there are no good reasons for grouping some of the roles together with the verb into a "predicate phrase".

The useful decomposition is into a verb and a list of roles, some of which may be implicit. This is like parsing a procedure invocation in a programming language, into a procedure name and a list of arguments, some of which may be implicit.

There is also little benefit in splitting first a "noun phrase" with one of the three roles that are usually called "subject", but which do not have much in common, except that they are more frequently the topic of a sentence than other roles, and because of that in many languages the verb agrees with them (which is a redundancy that does not add information, even if it may aid in correcting errors).
We're hackers, engineers. We poke around for problems before there are problems and we pry open the black box to make sure it's not just filled with Bullshit. If you want to unquestioningly lap up everything that's offered to you, then I've got some ocean-front property in Afghanistan I'd like to sell you.
tl;dr: These tricks work pretty reliably against budget AI systems. But not good ones.

The surprising truth is that these camouflage anti-patterns often work across many AI models. It's been a fairly baffling result in many research papers that the same trick-images work regardless of the model, but with an important catch...

The models need to have been trained on the same dataset. If the model was trained on COCO (super common for finding objects in an image), then you can fool it. Since there are a handful of academic datasets that underlie a ton of CV models, these tricks will often work.

But if the AI company used their own dataset to train the model, you can't fool it like this. (Unless you have an insider steal the dataset for you.) So if a company is good enough to come up with their own data, this doesn't work.
The reality of course falls short of the most optimistic projections, but e.g. for batteries: look around! Wealthy countries at least are now full of little gadgets that couldn't have existed even a few years ago due to the battery demands. A walk down any street in NYC you'll see probably 5-8 different personal transportation systems that are pretty close to sci-fi.
Whether intentionally or not, I think he instinctively has been trying to disassociate "his brand" from the rest of the green or progressive movements overall. The electric car industry suffered for decades under the NPR and kombucha crowd. But if there is one common thread to his success, it has been to completely ignore the existing identifiable market and make your own (Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla).

Musk wanted bros and rednecks and meat-eating red-blooded Americans all alike to think a Tesla is cool. Actual environmentalists would follow suit regardless as a captive market - waste no effort on them.

And I think he sees Twitter the same way. Twitter's core demographic is a captive group of left-leaning educated users. If he can successfully flip a switch to appeal to everyone else in America, and hold on to enough captive current users in the process, he will have successfully grown the pie.

I don't actually know if this is Musk's blatant strategy or if he is "crazy like a fox". But Musk has engaged in conservative-leaning flame wars for several years at this point. However, he just recently admitted to casting his first vote for a Republican this election cycle.

That means during all of those years he was saying flamboyant things and meeting with Trump etc, he was largely saying one thing and doing another.

So I'm leaning towards the idea that he is a bit more coy than he lets on and sees political drama as a sort of business asset.
Was 2000 already NT and free of DOS?
I realize this isn't relevant for a discussion about future investment, but the current "value" of the whole energy infrastructure for a state is probably in the hundreds of billions of dollars, right? It's been built out over decades, of course, so the actual costs per year are much lower.
people specifically looking for places where the read/write hole on raid56 is addressed, the problem is stated at minute 9 and solution of a new "raid-stripe-tree" presented from min 14 and on
These seem a tad pricey, but very, very cool!
Abuse contacts never work. I've never had any success hounding them about malicious sites they host.
The average working American sacrificed a lot in the name of striving for your 'globalization'. Your generic demonizing of these people is gross and dishonest.
I am not denying that people tend to shift towards the right with age or that older people were more likely to vote for Brexit.

But that's neither why Labour is in the opposition nor why Leave won.

I objected to that suggestion and the rather nasty 'generations war' tone.
Snipcart may be of interest.

https://snipcart.com/
> For instance, when setting a user's password in Postgres, you can do the hashing on the client side, even for non-trivial schemes like SCRAM. This means that the password itself never needs to move over the network, and that's very desirable.

Off-topic, but I’m surprised more online apps don’t employ something similar.

It would all but eliminate accidental leaks that occur from logs being incorrectly stored / misconfigured, not to mention worries about MITM attacks (useful for corporate networks, or public networks).

Given how many people share usernames, emails, and passwords across sites I find it quite important to mitigate those issues as much as possible.
It's a little irritating that the meta content attribute doesn't match the title of the article.

But in any case, it seems incomplete. This is really arguing the end of high school English "as we know it," I suppose. Arguing that writing will no longer be an essential skill to teach. Even if true, it doesn't follow that the courses will stop existing. Creative writing and studio art are already not essential skills, but courses for those still exist. They're just relegated to being electives rather than core curriculum.

High school English also doesn't exist solely to teach writing. It also teaches reading, as well as inculcating some level of shared cultural experience with past and future generations by becoming at least passingly familiar with some of the canon of English-language literature. The question of how to actually assess reading proficiency and familiarity with the material becomes more challenging, sure, but having those as educational goals still makes sense.
Discovering trends in BERT model embeddings for semantic context determining
Part of it is that we read about "breakthroughs" in diverse fields only to see nothing come of them. Past experience creates valid doubt. Also, as exciting as this might be, we are nowhere near a practical application.

Overall, I'm glad there are still points of excitement and we haven't come to a halt.
Ha, I came here to post a link to that song. Anyway, here's the Guy Clark version!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxsTZyIS1ck

Many years ago, the Amtrak station near my house had a pedestrian bridge across the tracks, and in those days it wasn't enclosed like it is now. My mother worked and so I spent most days with my grandfather and we would often go fishing in the park nearby. On the way home we'd stop at the station, walk out on that bridge and wait for one of the trains to come through. I had not yet heard "Texas, 1947" then, but when I do now I'm six years old again, watching the express come screaming up from DC on its way to New York. I never did get to lay a nickel on the track.
The ymf825 seems to have been discontinued:
https://www.switch-science.com/products/3399

I find it funny that yamaha thinks there'd be a market for embedded sound generators, outside of music enthusiasts.
What article? It's people speculating on the announcement that another announcement is coming. It just feeds into the hype machine. With this level of hype, watch them come out and show off the Segway!
Have been using aliases for years so incoming emails arrive at prearranged inboxes.
Often they use format `Box###??' where ### are any digits and ?? is one or more alpha characters.
Uber employee records leaked online; Uber says data related to a vendor breach
More like putting out a platter of "Free Food!" for grad students.
An example of the context in which I want to tamper excitement comes from a post by a journalist writing for the FT, an outlet that is (relative to its peers) usually quite matter-of-fact: https://twitter.com/thomas_m_wilson/status/16020118886526320...

> SCOOP: Net energy gain in a fusion reaction has been a holy grail in science for decades. Now I’m told US scientists have done it. A massive breakthrough with revolutionary potential for clean power. US Energy Secretary to hold a press conference Tuesday: https://www.ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef-4e33-adec-cfc345589...

Instead of particle physics, perhaps a better comparison would be to quantum computing "breakthroughs" that come out from time to time. Within the field I'm sure there are breakthroughs that inch us closer to something useful (useful in the way it is described in these articles, solving currently unsolvable problems, etc.), sure, but we are so far away from something useful that these inches are ultimately quite underwhelming to the general public (people like me).

By all means, I will occasionally read and enjoy great science reporting on these topics, but I have been conditioned to massively downplay the general significance of such news, and I think it's quite well justified, and not mere cynicism (cast as a negative).
> without penalty

It’s actually fiddlier than you may think. Take “Ta” for an example: in most decent fonts, there will be a kerning pair that tightens those characters, tucking the “a” underneath the beam of the “T” a little. The shaper thus needs to follow the actual fonts being used, for kerning purposes, rather than the markup—but this is still visible at the element level, with getBoundingClientRect().

Take this demo (which depends on your default font having such a kerning pair; if it doesn’t, you may need to find one that does and change the font by inserting <html style="font-family:sans-serif"> or similar after the comma):

data:text/html,<p>Ta<p><b>T</b>a<p>T<b>a</b><p><b>Ta</b><p><b>T</b><b>a</b><script>document.querySelectorAll("b").forEach(e=>console.log(e.getBoundingClientRect().width))</script>

This shows five variants of “Ta”, with the last two being <b>Ta</b> and <b>T</b><b>a</b>, and prints five numbers to the console, the widths of each <b> element. Numbers one and four (both corresponding to a <b>T</b>) differ if you have a kerning pair such as I describe: for me, the first is 11.7px, and the second 10.73333px (though it overflows that width in its rendering) because of the <b>a</b> that follows it. If you gave bold elements the style `display: inline-block`, it wouldn’t kern the pair and would thus go back to 11.7px.

Most fonts could really use italic-aware kerning (that is, kerning a pair where one glyph is regular and the other italic), but it’s sadly not a thing.
https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html
When you consider the power that big oil and gas have worldwide, and all they've already done to sabotage adoption of clean energy, it just seems improbable to me that one day tech will arrive that provides unlimited clean energy without some kind of big ugly fight. Big. Like I can see these guys doing everything from run of the mill regulatory capture to kill it all the way up to supporting right wing (or communist) conspiracy theories or movements to destabilize democracies (all things that have been done in the past). I seriously wouldn't put anything past them. Maybe I'm being too paranoid but I have a hard time believing in any future that involves yanking away trillions of $$ in power from a small group of unscrupulous people.
My matrix bot that transcribes speech in audio messages
Seems like censoring a website known for hosting hate speech is a bit different to censoring mastodon
Hide number setting is something telcos can change remotely, at least its common.
Because people like to shit on fusion, sometimes understandably so, after decades of over-promising and under-delivering. It's annoying and tiring, but there we have it.

Yes, it's true that in this case we didn't actually "get more energy out than we put in" when considering the full closed system, but the point of this research was to see if they could get more energy out of the reaction itself than was put into it by the lasers themselves. Presumably the next step is to see how far they can push this, still without bothering to think about the energy needed to power the lasers themselves, because, again, that is not the purpose of this research. There are other people working on making lasers more efficient, and the overall project will benefit from that research (and so will the NIF, if they decide it's worthwhile to upgrade their 90s-era lasers to something modern).

I think a lot of people here are having knee-jerk reactions and didn't read the article where they very clearly explain the caveat and what the researchers actually did.
Here's a study showing it has no effect on anxiety in rodents: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22105...

Sure...PNAS is more prestigious, but I'd wait for this to get replicated before even considering any impact on humans. Aspartame's from the 70s, and has been seriously studied for decades.
I continue to be perplexed at the apparent backlash over "the Airdrop change". (The change which limits the visibility of the recipient to "Everyone" for a max of 10 minutes.) When I consider the technical details of Airdrop's capabilities and implementation details, it is my conclusion that Apple's change increases end user security and privacy, and is not at all the kind of thing that would benefit an authoritarian government.

I am seriously bothered that everyone seems to have the opposite reaction. Am I missing something obvious?

1) Is there any definitive evidence that "China" requested the change to limit Airdrop's discoverability to 10 minutes? What rationale would they have for requesting this specific change?

2) How is protestors use of AirDrop negatively affected by this change?

I do know that protesters attempt to send images to any available airdrop recipient, but on the other hand, these users devices are advertising their presence publicly, in many cases without the awareness of the user. Airdrop beacons cause enough trouble in public spaces as it is, that I'm surprised the feature was ever designed this way in the first place.

Anyone purposely looking to disseminate protest information already has many better ways to do it: a wireless hotspot with a splash page, for instance. IMO this focus on Airdrop is a red herring, and worse, may be based on a flawed premise.
Elton John Quits Twitter over “misinformation policy”
I am not at all familiar with the hardware design of phones, so I want to be very clear in my understanding.

Are you saying that the electrical signals from the microphone and to the speakers pass through the baseband chip before/after going to the main chip on the phone? Or that the baseband chip has separate access to the microphone and speakers?
Four days ago:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600964083913588736

> I continue to oversee both Tesla & SpaceX, but the teams there are so good that often little is needed from me
I've seen the video on Twitter a ton today and Elon is even responding to some of them? I don't think what you are saying is accurate.
Nigeria’s vice-president on the hypocrisy of rich countries’ climate policies
HILIFE-II Inertial Confinement Fusion Power Plant Design:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150404075829/https://hifweb.lb...
Back in the day when I was in school, and there was a IE monopoly, I wrote a simple HTML parser. Instead of parsing it into a tree, it just recorded the beginning and end position of tags as indicies into the string. I think I did use a stack to match nested tags properly. But overlapping markup was common back then, and IE rendered it "correctly" IIRC. This simple parser was enough to power a scraper (I don't remember what I was scraping. Maybe a competitor's emule link site or something like that :-P) and a crude rich text renderer, which I was very proud of.
No it doesn’t. UEFI boots into bootmgr.efi, which loads up winload, which loads either ntoskrnl or hyperv
There's a lot of loooooong necks, though.
Did they upload the performance or just the Elon musk portion?
It's not that easy. Have you seen the electrical infrastructure that those need?

We have some spaces with Chargepoint chargers where I work, and they are powered by several electrical boxes that are each about half as big as a parking space. There is some serious juice being pushed through those -- and the Chargepoint chargers are only serving 30-40 amps, which is about the same as a home charger and nowhere near what a Telsa Supercharger delivers.

This kind of stuff is not trivial, or cheap. Tesla spent a lot of money to get their network to where it is.
Funding is starting to kick in for private laser fusion attempts. Over the past couple decades, lasers have advanced even more dramatically than superconductors.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.2.2021102...
Lots of things break if you move "C:\Program Files" to a different drive (and make it a mountpoint), updates try to RENAME from a temporary directory into it, but fails because it's a different filesystem instance. IIS used to also kernel panic in this case.
This sounds like me, but i just keep putting it down to my poor time keeping skills.
Not so; the mRNA technology used to develop and deliver the vaccine has been in progress for decades. The hardest parts were done before SARS-CoV-2 ever existed, but it's wrong to claim that "the vaccines" needed to be tweaked - they never existed.
Half the country votes Republican—that’s hardly an extreme perspective.
Crowd boos Elon Musk after Dave Chappelle says to ‘make some noise’
No they responded that "AML/KYC violations " (the allegations they responded about) were "generally (although not always) victimless crimes."

The violation wasn't money laundering the violation was not putting into place state mandated guards to impose AML compliance and the appropriate (arguably unconstitutional) searches.
IANAL but my impression is that there are fairly easy ways around this law, and I doubt it would apply to crimes outside of US jurisdiction.
Argument - Monty Python
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ
In my experience, the more someone has deep understanding in tech, the more they are critical of it. Especially true in my field of infosec.
Nuclear usually refers to nuclear fission. Fossil fuels are not the product of nuclear fission. Even if they were, saying that things powered by fossil fuels are nuclear powered is just a terrible take.
Agree with the first sentence. I worked at a couple of national labs and the number one priority is to keep the lab open by justifying the flagship project. NIF has a long history of disappointments so it's nice to see some success, but it still isn't clear building this thing was justified. The main rationale during the planning stages was "stockpile stewardship" which loosely translate into "making jobs for nuclear weapons scientists even though we aren't building any."
What is your opinion of ITER? https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2022/05/world/iter-nucle...