skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Funding" isn't really a good answer IMO. I don't know a ton about Fusion research specifically, but NASA is horrifically inefficient with money compared to private competitors. Giving them more money won't magically make them more efficient. Reasons why include:

- Their incentive is to optimize for political approval, which means spreading facilities among as many congressional districts as possible, which creates a ton of inefficiency from poor communication and the need to constantly ship things around

- Public approval is the goal and failure is the worst possible option, so things tend to be optimized to take as few engineering risks as possible and have huge amounts of bureaucracy to spread the blame for any possible failure

There's a reason why SpaceX started landing rockets with a fraction of the money that NASA spent on building ridiculous boondoggles.
I feel this barely qualifies but I still think back on it as a formative moment. My dad had parental controls installed on the family computer, and they were pretty strict (I remember at the time that, for example, IGN was blocked). One day either my sister or I discovered that he'd written his passwords down on a sticky note.

I'm not sure exactly how I figured out to do this, but I was able to log into my dad's account, open up the terminal, then kill the daemon program that controlled the firewall to disable it. My fading memory tells me that I was simply inspecting the list of running programs on top, saw one named 'integod' (Intego being the name of the company that produced the firewall program), and targeted it. Worked like a charm and you can probably imagine what I used my newfound freedom for (I was in middle school).

Pretty basic command-line stuff, but I do credit the early exposure for my ability to pick up more advanced concepts more quickly when I entered the workforce.

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One of my more proud work hacks was on a business trip where I couldn't deploy a source code change but could change the compiled binaries and libraries, so I changed some instruction to a NOP to get around a showstopper bug.
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Nonononnonono.

That is, yes on pole structures which can be great.

But remember, a pole building is, ipso facto, a temporary structure. The poles are always rotting.

Even the 8x8 heartwood columns 30x coated in creosote ... after 30 years of service they had to be chopped and under-joined to prefab concrete columns.

And so with that in mind, the idea that you would replace a 6x6 column (with 6x4 = 24 inches of surface exposure to ground and fungi) with a 6x6 exterior exposure and another 24 inches of interior* exposure (between each 2x6) is crazy.

I know people are doing it. I know the wood is treated. It is in the ground and wet and if you dig it up in ten years you'll have 3 little 1x5 wedges surrounded by rich, fungus filled dirt.

I don't know if a pole structure is the right choice for (you or your project) but do yourself a favor and use actual poles.
He and Emile Gagnan invented the scuba diving regulator used today. Before that was either a hose or snorkeling.
Link - https://t.co/yYYrXuPgLI
No it wouldn't. C-Span isn't broadcast for one thing, for a second it's newsworthy, and for a third they could just say/write 'I f**ed up'

The US is so babyish about this stuff. One day people shout about free speech absolutism, another day they hold mock fainting fits over common swear words that virtually everyone uses. In other countries this would not merit anything more than an arched eyebrow on the part of a newsreader.
How did Martin Shkreli figure that out?
I'm neither and I did, so...
Anybody have any details on what/why this is happening?
Ah, it similarly explains why Gangnam Style was such a big hit compared to that artist's other works. My understanding is that Gangnam is a very affluent area (neighborhood?), especially as compared to some others, and the song was intending to speak out in some way against this inequality.

(I don't remember where I heard this, so take it with a grain of salt; I'm not sure how accurate it is.)
My five letter first name for some reason was not a premium domain (probably because it's not an English name and someone didn't do their homework) and I pay $12 / year. Of course the name would be snatched up quickly so I did buy it during the early access period when I had to pay $250 or so as an early registration fee.
As an analogy to your shell customization thing:

I switched from QWERTY to Dvorak a long time ago, a few years after learning to touch type. Does it make me more efficient on my own computer? Probably slightly -- Dvorak really is a well-designed keyboard layout, but it's impossible to know whether my WPM is any higher than it would've been on QWERTY. However, I make way more mistakes and type way more slowly whenever I sit down at a QWERTY keyboard. I had to re-learn how to touchtype QWERTY after switching to Dvorak, and my skill never got back to the same level. It also leads to extra inconvenience every time I lend my computer to someone else, install a new OS, etc.

I think this means my average typing speed (weighted average of the time spent at Dvorak keyboards + QWERTY keyboards) is probably flat or possibly lower than if I had just stuck with QWERTY. When combined with all the effort I spent learning Dvorak, re-learning QWERTY, and making many mistakes in the early years, I think my lifetime productivity is probably even lower. I don't recommend that people switch, even if I think Dvorak really is a better layout.
That's not the purpose of the research, though. They are solely focusing on the energy transfer between the lasers themselves, and the output from the reaction. It's not clear that higher energies or bigger targets will teach us anything new.

Upgrading the lasers would slow the project down as new hardware is installed and issues are worked out. Not to mention I doubt the new hardware is cheap, and may be more expensive than burning excess energy using old laser tech in the meantime.

Other research groups work on laser efficiency, and the "final product" using this method (if it ever proves viable) would put together all the best pieces to get the best efficiencies.
You seem to think that your phone's pin is used directly as some sort of encryption key for cloud backups, but that's not how these systems work. Your pin or face or fingerprint unlocks your phone's secure element, and the secure element contains a randomly generated high entropy encryption key for your data.

This is why you can casually change your pin code in your phone's settings without it chewing through your battery and data plan reencrypting and reuploading gigabytes of cloud data.
Stick and frame is an excellent construction technique. Built to modern code it'll not creak in the wind nor rot away. Further it can be framed by one person if needed with nothing more than a pick up truck and a local hardware store. It'll not fall over in an earthquake. Renovations are easy. Insulating is easy. It's a carbon sink. And best yet, it's much cheaper to build.
I wish they would provide an "Explain like I am 5" to everyone that doesn't know ML.
Well, that is no justification for any slowdown. The "code model" does not need to be complete the moment I start an IDE or open a file or project in it. A temporarily incomplete model is very acceptable. More work can be put off to a background thread. It can be delayed until I perform the first action, that actually needs a complete model, like say a renaming of something. There are relatively few actions like that. Many facts can already be concluded from import statements in various languages.

Furthermore we are fighting a strawman here: Who in their right mind opens a 100k line code file in an IDE? And who in their right mind creates such a disaster in the first place? This is not a realistic scenario we are talking about here.
Could you elaborate on your point a bit more? If you're talking about utilizing the weak force vs. the residual strong force then I'm not sure this argument holds up.

Also, when comparing to renewable+storage you have to consider how much land has to be dedicated to energy use in these scenarios. Wind and solar require orders of magnitude more than a potential fusion reactor (or an existing fission reactor).
Income and wealth inequality, but some studies have shown that consumption inequality hasn't changed much, and that the trend is the opposite when you look at leisure time inequality.
And apple won’t actually look too deeply at your code, that’s just marketing. So, neither is the current model a solution to that.
> the "use android" argument is getting really tiring

Why? Android is a legitimate alternative, one that the majority of the world population uses. You have many makes and models of handsets from which to choose. You want the polished apps with a completely open and free environment. Maybe you should ponder why such apps don't exist for the open and free ecosystems?
> I for one believe in the principle that I paid to own the device […]

I paid for an iPhone for my mom so that she could not load whatever she damn well pleases, because if she does I have to deal with the mess afterwards.

Some folks are okay with walled gardens for specific purposes. If that's not you, that's fine. Perhaps Apple iDevices are then not for you.
Nice to see a different application of the same concept I'm pursuing with Hey Homepage. I chose to have the feed creator and feed reader in one-and-the-same app. Just like with Facebook or Twitter, where you can read and post in the same interface. It's combined with a microblog/timeline, that can just as easily be viewed by regular people in the browser who've never heard of RSS. Openness and accessibility are key, no walled gardens. My website system also publishes an OPML file and an accompanying list of recommended other websites (just like a blogroll or webring).

I subscribed to your feed and wish you luck with your nice projects! I did miss an RSS icon on your site, however. ;)
Could someone please clarify the connection between the wallet:

1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3

And the signature:

HM7vpPSUbNsfDHRX6gv8xxWcVNHEc/3pOk0YrVehaGoUdbWizznfzOdELkLd1EjSXsW1oE5vHAkNAPzrAVzhuoI=

how do we know that the two are connected? (I'm guessing one of them hashes to the other.)
Hahah, not bad at all! I guess it coulda picked up on Mayor Poopyface.
There’s this. Though it would look nicer with another |.

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I would have stopped using the phone if it were a party line full of trolls. That’s social media.
Every indication is that he's lying through his teeth about being unaware.
I think the threat of Meta forcing users to migrate to a hypothetical 3rd party app store is overblown-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30808926

Now, they might try to entice users with deals and such (sort of like Epic's gung ho free games discounts on their gaming platform against Steam), but I highly doubt they'd pull their apps from the official App Store. Too much risk of blowback.
That depends entirely on how much friction there is involved in the process. I think you know and Facebook knows that technical hoops at the level of, say, enabling developer menus on Android is a bridge too far for the average tech illiterate user.

Reminder that Epic tried this with Fortnite and eventually went back on the play store. And this was on the platform that had sideloading since day one.
We're also fundamentally lazy creatures. Useless expenditure of energy does not promote survival. We're predisposed to do nothing. Couple that with our ability to amuse ourselves with endless entertainment and it's tough to get people moving.
Those are called Guard clauses and they are implement in plenty of systems.. this paradigm has nothing to do with "Ruby".

In any case, the Ruby community already has good guidelines on the "Unless" usage, there are few scenarios where they are useful but it's not like you find them everywhere in a codebase.

For example, we don't use "Unless" with "Else", or use Unless with negation (like the article), or use Unless in nested If statement, etc. Rubocop will catch many of these and warn you.

My point is that experienced engineers will use the language as it was intended to and not abuse its features.
The cryptography checks out. The source is irrelevant, might as well be from Trump.
"The device transmitted on its own, my client didn't cause the transmission."
Having spent a little time on a French research ship in the 90's, I can believe th wine thing.
I am not sure I understand, how could this be a conspiracy?
Can someone who knows more than me about the internals of bitcoin help me understand:

1) Is there a place on a blockchain explorer somewhere where I could find the signature that Shkreli has posted? I tried looking up the wallet address and found the transaction from Jan 2009, but I don't see that signature anywhere.

2) The reason I ask the first question is that I believe that if the private key is compromised, then whoever has it could have generated a new signature corresponding to that wallet address and any arbitrary message, correct? So if Shkreli is in possession of the private key, he could just be banking on people not actually verifying that the signature he posted appears on the blockchain?
Oof. Apparently my irreverent tone was not well-received.

I'll be more sober about it. A cryptographic hash is not proof that data was signed by a particular individual, unless you know for certain that individual is the only person who has the key. That is a hard standard to meet with a dead man when the key has demonstrably been used after his death. That transaction in 2017 means that someone besides Finney simply must know Finney's key. Anything signed by this key cannot be trusted to have come from Finney.
You don’t think a 30% tax on users for the privilege of using an AppStore app and Apple’s abuse of that are problems? But somehow the AppStore affects government abuse of iPhones?

The AppStore would have never been a problem had Apple not been so greedy and draconian about it.
The hype machine is fully engaged, and may lead to an influx of budget, something of deadly seriousness to DoE. They have had trouble getting funding increases for this kind of weapons work when it was represented as weapons work. Pretend it's not, and people fall all over themselves to praise it.

But it is weapons work, first, last, and always.
When your response to criticism of iOS is, "just use Android!", I think it's fair to apply the same approach to desirable popular apps: just use the alternative apps & services.
That’s actually not half-bad. I think I’ll use that, thanks!
No it doesn't. If you throw some fuel in their general direction, oxygen fires are self-sustaining with relatively little effort. It takes more effort to stop a large oxygen fire than to make one.

Fusion is the opposite. Fusion's natural state is Not Fusing, so in ICF you have to keep compressing and heating the fuel. Using equipment with optically tight tolerances and epic pulsed energy densities. Which are somehow maintained reliably for long periods. In spite of significant debris and huge temperature swings.
But we do have that (based on legal industry titles). Typically they're called "associates". Some companies even have "senior associate" (ie, not lowest rung) before losing the "associate" prefix on their next title (whether it's engineer, or consultant or whatever).
Thanks, I did what you said and it worked.

I used the Bitcoin-QT tab and filled out the three fields and got a green message at the top of the page that said "Message verified to be from 1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3"
I was shown it in high-school by a particularly good social studies teacher.
Sorry, I was being somewhat sarcastic and it misfired. The only real option is the last one. The key is most likely compromised.
Well in the proper sense the EU isn't a nation in any case. I was being loose about the governmental level at which regulation of foreign entities take place, which I think is fine for a HN comment!

> And England kinda speaks for all of them for this kind of thing

Well yes, it's 4 nations, except that England doesn't believe in the other 3 ;) Though it's only just coming to terms with the self-existence of most of the old Empire for that matter. Writing as someone who was born in the least likeable of the UK nations (England), and has lived in all but Wales.
AI can be quite useful in real-time computation for magnetic confinement. But sure, that's beyond GPT-3's current capability.
Luckily DNS over JSON didn't actually take any hold, but for an uncomfortably long time it was one of the major candidates (alongside DNS over XML). Queries are still often base64'd versions of the binary packet though, which is almost as wasteful. The overengineering of a simple protocol and the wrapping in layers of additional complexity to a fraction of developers' lives just a teensy bit better is what makes me associate this tech with the "DNS over JSON" people.

The idea behind it remains the same. HTTP/http2/http3 as a carrying mechanism for an existing binary format makes no sense when none of the benefits of the new format are actually coming from the HTTP protocol. This only increases the attack surface and complexity of the protocol. I don't know, maybe there's a benefit to setting cookies and language headers for DNS requests but I'm not seeing it. The only potential benefit touted in the RFC is that web applications can now do DNS lookups in a standardised way and I don't see how that's a benefit for anyone but user hostile companies.

Now we've reached the situation where HTTP/2 server push has been deprecated in almost all browsers but is still part of the DoH spec. I don't see the benefit of including server push support in the first place but because it's part of the standard we'll have to deal with potential servers relying on features disabled in libraries or unmaintained code in libraries that lays dormant because the major consumers of HTTP have stopped calling their methods.
Why not something simple like "mycarisa2018ford"?
A good question. Rep Ocasio-Cortez, questioning the current CEO of FTX in committee, seemed to suggest that there was more going on behind the scenes than was admitted to in the firm's legal filings of yesterday. I haven't been following the case closely so I'm not sure what her line of inquiry was aimed at.
Thanks for the clarifying reply. I thought most folks who cared knew it was about context switches and not speed on one side vs the other. Now I'm really interested to read the full article.
And others?

Hope not, especially by everyone and their mum.
Truth. I hung onto Android for many years for that little shred of more choice, mostly the ability to install APKs. But Apple’s stability and user experience runs laps around Android and it’s extremely hard to justify not going with iPhone. Now I would have 0 reason.
This won't be solved by 3rd party stores. You need to buy a mac and pay the developer fee just to BUILD apps for iOS.
I love Firefox. I use Firefox on Android with UBO. However, I wish they allowed about:config tweaks and user.js so we can have full control of our browser on mobile. To adjust about:config I'm forced to use Firefox Beta on Android.

I think going forward to be consistent with Firefox's values, the user should be allowed to turn off telemetry etc via about:config and I hope they make this available in the future.
Most don't recognize the visual references but every scene in that video is from a famous movie, show, or popular music video but remade with garbage blowing instead of snow or whatever. So it ends up being sharp criticism of society as a whole.
When I was a high school kids in the 90s, the dairy across the road from the school would sell individual cigarettes to the kids for 10c each. Utter scumbags. How many addictions began with that thin end of the wedge.
So keep her within the walled garden? Hell maybe even enable parental control if you really want to roleplay as her technological parent.
Uh yes of course there were several competing potential suppliers of light sources (just as there were entire EUV systems) but all the other ones didn’t work and were not close to working. That is the definition of a critical enabling technology. Cymer was in fact the only game in town.
>If you consume them you don't impact me

But your insurance, and with that your pocket, and smoking outside also is also not impacting you...Or only very indirectly...
Tritium is also used in gun sights.
> We can do so much with HTML 5 and CSS 3 already. The argument is to not use React or similar, when a simpler way using standard conform means is available.

There are no simple ways to build UIs available in HTML5 and CSS3.

It has neither state handling, nor reactivity, nor any APIs that don't make you tear you hair out (or build another lib/framework).

It's a horrendously bad half-low-level half-high-level API with hundreds of one-off solutions and special cases that form no coherent whole.

You still can't reliably animate adding to and deleting items from a list without hacks because even if you so much as look at DOM, it will re-layout and re-draw the entire document.

It still has no collection of well-specified built-in controls beyond a few primitive ones. https://open-ui.org/ is about twenty years too late.

But sure, you can finally put items in grids now. I guess that's nice. But when you need a dialog element you need copious amounts of hacky Javascript to make it properly accessible. Go figure.
Play this scenario out to its logical conclusion. If we are in a situation where Apple and the government is targeting specific apps for removal, this becomes a game of whack a mole that the developer always wins.
Show HN: An open-source UI Library with automatic routing and SuperComponents
You can claim customer money is secured claims.

Like I said, IANAL, but in all the cases I'm aware of customers went first.
You realise that's what Apple has been doing for the past 15 years? Force users to do what's best for them, and only them? Anti-competitive practices do not serve customers, they increase prices and prevent innovation.
wright brothers first flight?
I think waffling and trying to be equivocal before coming to some sort of conclusion just scores well in chatbot training, especially when the bot picks up on the subject matter but not the precise intent of the prompt or has a lot of conflicting statements in its corpus to summarise.
If this is true, wow.

I've read about Paul Le Roux before as he is likely the person behind Trucrypt.

While he's a criminal, if he really created Truecrypt and Bitcoin and also ran an international drug/gun running operation...I'm impressed. I think this dude's story could make a awesome book/movie some day...
Is it possible with old iPhones? I have an old one just laying around doing nothing.
>Choice is not always easiest to the user, and iOS's original value proposition is that it removes much of the choice and makes things easy, so that they just work™ and include all you may ever need™. Good thing if this apples to you; you just need not make any changes to the way you're already using your iOS device.

But this now removes the choice for the end user who likes the it just works™ experience because the developers with power like Meta will likely force it on us. It is reducing Apple's power, but it is empowering Meta, Google, Amazon, and other big tech companies who are seemingly even less likely to act in the end user's best interest than Apple.

If you were one of the users who wanted the choice of adult content or a different browser, you always had the choice to use Android.
Do you know about the Progressive Web Apps for Firefox extension? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pwas-for-fire...