skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why isn't NIF using these lasers? Wouldn't bringing down the power requirements of their lasers have helped them get to "break-even" faster?
What shade of Pantone gray is the US government curating the AppStore?
There will probably still be wars over other natural resources.
FWIW, I am the author and I submitted this.

I am half expecting some rather crunchy feedback on this. :-/
Stablecoins have totally valid use cases in the crypto ecosystem that don’t involve skirting regulations. People want something that isn’t volatile. It takes days to deposit and withdraw actual USD from exchanges and requires centralized entities that charge fees (or are totally untrustworthy as we’ve seen). Contracts and dapps can hold and interact with USDC to create useful applications that aren’t just speculative investing.
Seems like a good way to lose young voters.

Anyone aggrieved by this would move on to the next social fad and forget that TikTok even exists as quickly as they forgot #kony2012 three months later.

And my guess is that they're not exactly enthusiastic participants in the electoral system anyway.
There are filesystems that support inline or post-process deduplication. btrfs[1] and zfs[2] come to mind as free ones, but there are also commercial ones like WAFL etc.

It's always a tradeoff. Deduplication is a CPU-heavy process, and if it's done inline, it is also memory-heavy, so you're basically trading CPU and memory for storage space. It heavily depends on the use-case (and the particular FS / deduplication implementation) whether it's worth it or not

[1]: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Deduplication

[2]: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E39134/fsdedup-1.h...
> In point of fact, withdrawals are not resumed, and a tweet from CZ today confirms that withdrawals are down and they're waiting for a US bank to open

Thus the proper expansion of the initialism FUD is, (directed at grandparent,) "Facts U Dislike"
Why spin it off? We already have a clone in the form of Instagram Reels.

Also banning TikTok might set off a Cold War of banning each other’s apps and I have to think we would lose more in that scenario.
it makes sense. I always thought the US were the closest country to china in terms of censorship and lack of human rights
> Basically, the very big and undeniable shit hits you, immediately, right now, with regularity, while the hypothetical bits of maybe good news always are touted as breakthrough even though they will just be "for some times later".

This just seems like an argument against transparency in research which I think is the wrong direction to take things since it's more helpful to the overall direction of research to publish incremental results so others can build on them sooner. You may be misconstruing the reporting of small, incremental steps as something akin to crying wolf when really you're just seeing all the hard work that goes into solving big problems that eventually produces "very big undeniable shit". It's all part of the same thing, small steps move you towards a big goal, it's hard to get as excited about them as it is about the final product but you can't have the latter without the former.
His donations to Democrats accounted for 0.025% of all the money Democrats spent on the midterm election last month. Anyone who genuinely believed that can buy you a get out of jail free card for billions of dollars in fraud should seriously re-evaluate how they think the world works.
It’ll be fun in 10 years when you need the equivalent of calling cards to access foreign sites.

In the end it’s hilarious how the American government thinks of its citizens as being so clueless to need such a paternalistic policy.

I wonder how many tiktokers even care about the fact that the app is Chinese.
Issue is these "should haves" are imaginary, and could be attributed to thousands of factors in addition to cannabis use.
Was listening to C-SPAN, they said his written statement for the record of the hearing was very offensive. "I would like to state, under oath," and then two words they wouldn't repeat.

Doing a Google search of "SBF Fuck You" shows he's already told regulators and his lawyers to go F themselves, I'm guessing he said the same to the US Congress.
All of those things seem okay, or even good.
> It's actually pretty common to need to buy things over $10k. It's pretty common for vendors to not take checks. It's pretty common to not have high enough credit limits to cover these types of purchases.

That's a very USA-centric comment. Checks are virtually unheard of in Europe and no one would pay so much money in cash. You would do a wire transfer or a card payment for that.

Payments in cash to a professional from a French citizen have been capped at 1000€ in France for years with virtually no impact. I have never seen or heard of someone attempting to use that much cash.
If I remember from the article/discussion from yesterday, "laser energy" is the energy in the laser beam, but creating that 2 MJ laser beam required 200 MJ.
Isn't Lua's main benefit that it has a small runtime that can be executed inside the context of a large C/C++ executable? Julia has support for C FFI, but it looks like you'd have to manually wrap all of your native code in Julia wrappers.

One library I've really liked for this use case is QuickJS. It's a super small ES2020 implementation written in C. It has a great API that lets you bind native C functions and types into JavaScript functions, objects, and classes. This lets you bind native C code that gets used naturally in JavaScript without needing to write wrappers.
I'm still not following your line of thinking. The nominal interest rate on holding cash is always 0%.
>He basically admitted in the texts to the reporter he thought would be private that the EA stuff was BS.

interested, source?
For me, this topic falls along the same lines as distro ping pong.

I’ve tried many, but have ended up with Cloud Run. It’s been great and costs next to nothing.

Since you run within a Google Cloud Project, you get all the Google tools to use if and when needed too.

GitHub actions usually handle my deployments etc.
This is true! But also much worse; agents from the CCP appears to have infiltrated Google and META and have injected primitive versions of TikTok into both the YouTube app and the Instagram app. No one is safe and the communist conspiracy reaches the highest level!
Also I don't get why GitHub is fitting as a hoster? Because of git and the commit history?
Definitely not because of their strong believes in privacy as a company owned by microsoft...
Why should the US ban Netflix and Google?
Great minds think alike: Twins beat school’s cheating claim, win $1.5M
The negative effect of nuclear were known in 1927 (Hermann Joseph Meller). It would be surprising if we discovered another form of radiation, given calculations lead us far further without showing new forms of radiations.
I'm still a little unclear on the benefits that fusion offers compared to things like wind and solar. I understand that we need to develop better storage technologies for the energy produced by wind and solar, but that seems so much easier than the challenges currently facing fusion. Wind and solar just seem so far ahead of fusion already - they're pretty cheap and very widely deployed on a global scale. In comparison fusion seems very expensive and unproven and even when we get everything to work it might not be much better than a solar farm with a big battery pack. But maybe I'm missing something important about the economics?
Crypto is where you go if you don't want any regulatory bodies at all.

Crypto is where you go if you are naive enough to believe that technology can be an effective substitute for financial rules and regulations.
I'm racking my brain to try imagine what you could possibly mean, and I've got nothing.

Scalars are 1-dimensional. Inflation is very much a one-dimensional number, ranging from positive to negative.

Vectors have 2 or more dimensions, interpretable as a scalar with a rotational direction. So how would that describe inflation exactly...?

And if you're trying to say that inflation changes over time, that doesn't turn it into a vector. That's just a scalar time series.
Squeaky wheel gets the grease. Never assume someone will do the right or legal thing, regardless of status or PR. Can’t explain the Stockholm Syndrome (“but the ones who seem to take offense at the notion that YC might have even a sliver of responsibility here”), people can be emotional, irrational creatures due to life experience and belief systems.

But Sequoia lost $200M on a fraud having done zero due diligence, so perhaps it’s simply different shades of apathy all the way down.
Zoom out to its earliest recorded data around 1945 on that chart, and the CPI inflation in the past couple of years is still clearly the fastest and steepest slope compared to all previous decades, including the 70s when overall inflation got up to 12% and the early 80s when Fed interest rates went up to over 20% to combat that inflation.

Might not look as bad as when it's super zoomed in, but that still seems pretty bad (and definitely historic).
Currently, there are a couple dozen authoritarian regimes, most heavily armed, that are almost entirely funded by fossil fuel exports. That makes me fear things will get worse before they get better.
That basically applies to any large company. Intel has R&D in Israel, for example, and they're responsible for the Core 2 Duo which saved their asses.

ASML was already an incredibly significant player in the industry before that acquisition.
Your definition of "QED" is quite a funny one.

I don't need a JS framework for a thing, that has 2 states, which can be realized using 2 CSS classes and toggling between them. That's maybe a 3 liner, if at all.

I am not using iOS and have no interest in it, so I have no idea what is so special about an _iOS_ switch control. Since I don't know what is that is, I also cannot really want to have it.

Fairly sure that I could probably find some easy to follow tutorial on how to make something graphically resemble a switch, if a checkbox is not sufficient for whatever reason, if I look for it ... Oh I just found a website which lists 20 of them in pure CSS on the first search query I entered: "plain css js make switch"
Because they won’t be able to earn it on their own. The class mobility window in the USA is really closing fast
<<If the expectation is that everything will be cheaper next month than this month

This may be the misconception that is driving this. Nothing will be cheaper ( decrease in price ). It will simply not appreciate in price as much ( price will increase less ).

<< When everyone slows spending at once, it can lead to severe a recession or depression.

Agreed, especially in US where consumer spending drives the economy.

Still, in US, for better or worse, a lot of personal wealth is stored in real estate ( which also manages to explain some US idiosyncrasies ). Deflation would 'destroy' equity for owners of that real estate so a lot is regularly being done to keep the housing prices high and even more to keep them from going lower.

It is not bad in itself. Frankly, I personally see deflation as a way of economy correction, but that is one person that has limited exposure to some of those pressures. But deflation is not what is happening here. Deflation would be a negative inflation rate ( and that is not the case ).

Now..there are few other angles to consider. Higher inflation means our debt is 'worth' less; deflation means it is worth 'more'. If you owe a million dollars in an environment, where an average house costs a million dollars, it is likely that it becomes the norm ( and it is technically good for the borrower ). Interestingly, some would argue US was actually trying to inflate their way out of its staggering debt.

There are also import/export considerations for companies that operate in that space ( as you also noted ), but I am hardly an expert ( or even that interested in that subject ).
Well, Goldberg was an engineer and supposedly did construct his drawings to be 'technically' feasible.
I do have to say the "Tim Cook being shown an iPhone" thing is pretty funny.

But yeah the news value in this is zero.
Sure. But you probably know a few basics about bridges. That’s the overarching point - a basic lawyer thing is if you are ever in trouble, don’t talk to anyone: cops, media, etc. so it’s curious why he decided to anyway.
There's quite a lot of muddled or misunderstood things in this post.

ICF targets don't absorb neutrons.

Direct conversion is well understood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_generator We use steam turbines because they're both efficient and convenient engineering wise. They aren't bad at what they do by any means, so I don't understand why you're saying all these generation technologies using steam is some sort of big criticism.

Thermionic generators are an option when you want to minimize size and complexity however. The reactors the USSR launched on radar satellites used them for example. NASA is considering similar designs for Mars and deep space missions (no, I'm not talking about RTGs, but rather single digit Megawatt scale mini reactors under the MegaPower program).
No, they are just bad at attracting VCs.
> LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05 megajoules (MJ) of energy to the target, resulting in 3.15 MJ of fusion energy output, demonstrating for the first time a most fundamental science basis for inertial fusion energy (IFE)

Yesterday, everyone was complaining about the 2.2:2.0 ratio, but now we're working with 3.15:2.05.

With modern lasers, that'd be a total Q of 0.375 assuming 100% efficiency through direct-energy-capture.

The jumps to get here included

- 40% with the new targets

- 60% with magnetic confinement

- 35% with crycooling of the target

The recent NIF experiments have jumped up in power. The first shot that started this new chain of research was about 1.7 MJ of energy delivered. Now, 2.15 MJ. However, the output has jumped non-linearly, demonstrating the scaling laws at work.

> I’ve helped to secure the highest ever authorization of over $624 million this year in the National Defense Authorization Act for the ICF program to build on this amazing breakthrough.”

It's nice to see this milestone recognized, even if the funding it still rather small.
The current limitation of in-water sailing vessels at the moment is cavitation.

Cavitation is the process by which the pressure of water is reduced so low on the trailing edge of a foil at high speeds that the water instantly boils, turning to vapor, making your lovely laminar flow over the trailing edge of the foil turn into a turbulent flow.

No fun if you were nicely balanced ripping along at 40 kts on an AC75. Now only the leading edge of your foil is working, it needs a higher angle of attack to maintain the same lift, which increases the drag, slowing you down and causing your owner to cry into his billions of dollars because you just lost him the America's Cup.
Indeed, we have seen a ~35% reduction is SPR this year and are not far from 1980s level. I'm also not sure how the US is planning to restore these values given our refinery capacity and poor relationships with other top suppliers.

Not the mention, CPI is one thing, and how the average American feels is another. If you poll random people on the street, this "slowdown" in inflation is not perceived by individuals' wallets. This means consumer behavior is not necessarily reflected in CPI prints.
The future just got a whole lot brighter for my children. This is going to save our planet, not funky wind farms.
Zoom way out and it looks like a nice straight line from 1980 to now
See some videos on YouTube of Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger conducting Berkshire's annual shareholder meetings. It will help.
Hate to break it to you but lots of things are banned in the US for very good reasons.
This is one of the more egregious examples of the complete infantilization of Gen Z human beings by older generations.

No, the kids will not throw a temper tantrum and vote for $THE_OTHER_GUY because you blocked their access to an app. The kids, in fact, stand for more than just politics-as-sports.
I'm teaching an intro programming course (discipline-specific, for Earth sciences) in Julia at Dartmouth. So far so good I think -- but definitely on the sciences side of things.
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Huge!

So much left to do. Capture that output energy. Streamline the machinery that produced the result. Do it at scale and efficiently.

But that's just engineering, as they say. Which is one thing we are pretty good at!!
If Meta controlled the US Government, TikTok would have been banned years ago!
Well - formatting, cleaning transformation to be in the right schema, perhaps enrichment
Just to clarify: Saying no to recurring subscriptions is a BFD. They are what drive the revenue growth of every SaaS. Getting rid of them means they will earn less money in the short term (the next few years).

It's very unusual. The vast majority focus primarily on getting this to work as friction-less as possible.
Most of the Fentanyl comes through the border checkpoints, not around it according to everything I’ve seen. It’s security theater just like the TSA.
Recently discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945863 [740 comments]
Subscribers only :(
You know it's a weak argument when it starts with "but China does it, so we can too"
Putting these in the same basket is hardly justified.
In a healthy economy deflation isn't possible because the money supply naturally grows with the economy. This was true even when we were on the gold standard because banks will be more aggressive with lending, which effectively creates more credit money. The deflation has historically only occurred when a large quantity of credit money gets destroyed in defaults.

The purpose of money is to facilitate mutually beneficial transactions. When the money supply contracts, the "price" of money goes up. People are incentivized to hoard money for the sake of hoarding money, which adds friction to mutually beneficial transactions. This causes a feedback loop, which leads to even more deflation and even less economic activity.
> Still weird to me that a lifeform in a random little planet in a random little galaxy claims to have the essence of universal reality figured out.

Physicists are well aware that their knowledge is not complete. On the other hand, our theories seem to fit reality too well. Physicists are yearning for data that points at new phenomena that would force us to discard the old theories, like relativity and QM forced us in the past. Currently, there seems to be no further good avenue to breakthroughs than staring harder at our data and building bigger experiments and detectors, all the while hoping that the conditions revealing new physics are not magnitudes above what we can ever reproduce on Earth.
Why machines won't replace threat hunters
I'll guess the word "elite" here is not really the best term to convey what parent meant. The phrase "valued in elite circles" at first made me think of George Soros types, in which case the values don't fit. But I think parent meant more of the avocado toast NPR/NYT column writer types when he said "elites", in which case the values described make more sense.

I'll disagree on the point about ability to explain crypto protocols/algorithms. You're either in tech and have a body of knowledge that preps you to understand the details and then you might care about it, or you don't really care about how it works. I don't think there's a group of "elites" of any kind that care too much about you explaining how crypto works.
They announced more funding so I hope it's enough for them to seriously upgrade the experiment or to build an entirely new one with much improved gear.
I’m perhaps overly bullish on your platform so I say never say never!

Transparently, I hope you guys are hiring developers again soon, I had look into becoming a technical engineer on the sales side but we couldn't make the numbers work.

I really can't wait to see your guys next round of innovations!
Welcome to the age of legislating and enforcing everything.

This is why I think congress / parliament, in its current form, is a flawed model. It incentivizes members to be constantly legislating. We don't need legislation day in and day out. Otherwise we end up with too many unnecessarily bloated laws, just for the sake of supposedly "making society more safe and efficient."

The strive by most today is to remove personal choice to ensure "peace and safety." Coincidentally, that's also the phrase used by many dictators.

Unfortunately there's nowhere else for people like me to run. Seems most people want safety at the cost of liberty. I lean the other way. And that used to be a popular opinion.
I'm guessing a, you're still going to prison, but it will be for a few years instead of potentially your entire life.
I tried to do some back-of-the-envelope calculations on what this means in regards to energy costs being saved, because I couldn't find a direct source (maybe GPT could help actually).

Anyway, based on ITER [1] to equate the energy production of a 1000MW coal plant you would need 2.7t of coal for that plant or 250kg of deuterium and tritium for the fusion reactor (split equally). Based on [2] deuetrium costs about ~$15k a kg. But tritium is ridiculously expensive, at $30k per gram (!) [3].

This leads to a calculation of ~$700M for the coal plant and ~$3.75B for the fusion plant (of which only ~$1.5M is deuterium)

I have a few questions and I wonder if any can help:

1. Is the above fusion fuel correct?

2. What measures are expected to bring these prices down to price efficiency?

Of course, I am not calculating the cost it would take for the reactor, storage, delivery etc.

Nevertheless, this is an absolutely incredible development and the people working for this progress should be definitely proud of their work. My generation and the ones following will hail this as a breakthrough moment. Thanks!

[1]: https://www.iter.org/sci/FusionFuels

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prices_of_chemical_elements

[3]: https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-power-may-run...
It's a novel idea! I would have never considered spending tens of thousands of dollars on a vehicle that I wouldn't drive before committing to the purchase. It certainly goes against everything I was ever taught about buying a car!
Does DO or Vultr even offer the HPC instances AWS does? 96 CPU, 384GB, etc? Let's not even mention storage or networking.
Agreed, I think it's institutional. Particularly, the reporters at the big news firms come from privileged backgrounds, are biased towards their own, and use the access that comes with their privilege to further their careers. Those who come from modest backgrounds aspire to join the ranks of the privileged, necessary to further their careers, by sucking up to those above them. "Access journalism" intrinsically favors privileged journalists and incentivizes journalists from less fortunate backgrounds to play along.
everyone's going to go to Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.