skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You don’t need to have highly-regarded lawyers advising you to know this, but SBF had (at least) two: his parents, who were with him in the Bahamas.

My experience has been that working with family or very close friends often nullifies or severally weakens professional sensibilities. It would be very understandable and almost expected if his parents are too closely involved emotionally and financially to be objective in this situation, and even if they were, the parent-child relationship also affects how one takes advice.

I would never rely on a close family member for important legal services, it seems almost as bad an idea as relying on yourself for legal services.
This is an ideal use-case for P2P, e.g. IPFS rather than HTTP. No need for a dedicated, always on, always-accessible server at a given IP. Instead, provide the content from any number of ad-hoc, flaky devices; the site will work so long as at least one is online.

Unfortunately, the standard IPFS daemon tends to be a resource hog (otherwise I'd be running it on my Pinephone ;) )
I'm saying we're purposefully ignoring the past to try and paint the change of leadership in a bad light when more likely scenarios exist.

Frankly the attempts to try and spin the narrative that the sky is falling at Twitter are getting tiresome.

The reality is (to the end user) the remaining team appear to be delivering the same experience at a fraction of the cost.
you may have a point about amplification attacks, but that's not the main reason DoH/DoT exists. simply using legacy DNS over TCP will not magically make it encrypted.
Charge backs don't really exist in Europe. The bar to clear for your bank to reverse a payment is extremely high.
Don't forget that Binance has zero trading fees for BUSD pairs.

They've been extending this promotion for a while now...

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-exte...
where are the original tapes? I didn't see them on the site linked.. but I didnt look that hard. I assumed they were not easy to find because not everyone speaks russian who reads that site.
In fact it could be. It's one way of preparing the tea known as "mate cocido" or just "cocido". You brew it as you would brew regular tea leaves.

People here prefer "cocido quemado", which is yerba mate roasted with sugar on charcoal for brewing tea, but brewing cocido as an herbal tea is quite well known and accepted. And I admit the taste is somewhat different not only to other teas, but to other mate brews and beverages, as well.

If you would like to try yerba mate, I'd suggest you do tereré. Nothing like ice-cold tereré in a scorching summer day.
It wasn't a single company, it has been a pattern for a while - that's why I made the post.
>>:Am I reading it correctly that they achieved a ~53% output of energy over input?

Let's add some words. The output energy is electromagnetic radiation and heat. When they do make a conversion to usable energy (electricity) there will be conversion losses.

On the input side, they are measuring laser energy. The lasers are not very efficient so this overlooks a bunch of losses on the input side as well.

They are probably 100x away from real energy gain, and the facility isn't even designed to be used that way.

Never the less, it is a milestone along the way.
> Don't you find it odd that you're willing to distinguish .NET as a concept from e.g. a language like C#, but when it comes to what is, in reality, the NodeJS ecosystem that you have an issue with, you pin it broadly on what you call "javascript" (also a language)?

Does that matter? Both for front-end or back-end you generally use NodeJS now, if you are not using an entire other language (like WebAssembly for front-end and PHP for the back-end). Even if you get rid of javascript for the front-end, you'il still have it likely to compile or minify CSS.
True; however, this was already the direction things were headed for said regimes as much of the world has begun to focus on energy security. On the upside, perhaps the lowered long-term demand for fossil fuels will reduce the risk of additional resource discoveries leading to more despotic regimes.
> American government thinks of its citizens as being so clueless to need such a paternalistic policy.

uh... you really haven't met a lot of US citizens if you think they don't need paternalistic policy.
Could you please explain, what your original comment means. Holding objects close to our face would cause an increase in our eye power?
But again you also mention should reduce focus on peripheral vision which would be achieved by holding close to eye.
What is the suggestion here pls?
Sorry I am ignorant and really want to know.
I'd imagine commodity tritium breeders would be a part of the infrastructure build out and that it will be a highly competitive space as fusion-to-the-home nears reality.
What determines the price that the discovery discovers?
So, one of the things that I probably shouldn't say is the NIF design is not really optimized for fusion specifically (I won't say too much but you can guess why). There are schemes out there that can be more efficient, for example, not even bothering to convert to UV and then x-rays (start at UV in fact, or crank up the intensity of light, the light in NIF is very intense but modern high intensity systems are orders of magnitude more intense, they are however dramatically lower in pulse energy). That plus using modern laser tech when you realize NIF was designed in the 80s, we can definitely make it much more efficient eventually.
A fair while back a startup in Rome that I am very familiar with had lots of fun setting up there. They were a highly scrupulous group, and besides they were going after government contracts, so they paid all of their taxes and regulatory fees, which in Italy is both a financial and incredibly complicated bureaucratic mess that, to be honest, many people and startups simply, um, avoid.

They also had to deal with all sorts of absurdities. For example, they needed high speed landline internet: at the time the only option in their area (Trastevere) was Telecom Italia (TI, now TIM), the government-associated telephone monopoly. To get internet service, you had to start paying TI as if you had service, and then when they got around to it they'd come by and hook you up. So they did this. Three months later they were still paying and still hadn't gotten service. They complained to TI and were told that someone had come out but couldn't find their office because "Trastevere has twisty streets and is complicated". TI said this. They were then put in the back of the queue and had to wait for another three months, until the same thing happened again. As I understand it, it took them almost nine months to get internet service. All along they ran the entire company on cell phone internet plans.
Since past 2 decades, most open source projects originates from the EU

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3524842.3528471
Yes! This site can be extremely toxic because of the VC bent.

If someone made a competitor that had just-as-good tech discussion without the VC “value-add”, I’d never come here ever again.

I also like seeing so many of the ruling class get angry and post about requiring salary ranges, it’s been very entertaining this morning :)
US Covid death toll would be 4X higher without vaccines, modeling study finds
Wind and solar only provide power during wind / during the day. Fusion can provide 24/7 power.
Battery packs can only store so much energy, and Lithium is a contested resource as most of the Lithium produced is required by the automotive industry these days, and the largest deposits are in regions where you maybe don't want to get your Lithium from (child labor, unsafe conditions, politically unstable countries, etc.)

But yeah, future energy will be a mix of available technologies, not a single technology alone. So you need e.g. fusion (or fission) for "baseline" power and wind/solar for peaks
I went much deeper than 5 clicks, into tutorial, about, getting started - no code.

Only thing remotely like the syntax is the cheat sheet.
This was for a few seconds using radioactive "fuel" correct?

So perpetually 10-25 years away at all times?

https://m.xkcd.com/678/

Beware science packaged as press-releases.
Definitely. I'm still not sure what the difference between Abort and Fail is though.
To me it looks like shades of brown
I think the trick is to not have any dependencies, except Python itself, when writing such command line tools. Python does have a large standard library after all. While Python itself surely could be nicer, it is still easier to maintain such a script than a script of similar size of GNU Bash code.
The backing of USDC held in real bank account. They need to move real USD to Circle bank to mint USDC.
You did compare them. But the reason Jeffery Epstein was powerful was because of the rich people who were on his plane/participating in his activities. AFAIK he wasn't a huge political donor. SBF was just throwing money around, which tons of people do. For better or (mostly) worse, donations to PACs and campaigns are entirely legal and not corrupt (well, assuming you got the money legally in the first place)
if you read the article, it also talks about outsourcing software production. In the broad sense, if one outsources both hardware and software production, what is one even left with? Does one produce anything besides putting one's name on fashion apparel?
> achieve President Biden’s goal

This seems unnecessarily partisan to mention
I actually encountered a 4TB git repo. After pulling all the binary shit out of it the repo was actually 200MB. Anything that promotes treating git like a filesystem is a bad idea in my opinion.
you need to pay whomever owns pantone a bunch of money to know that kind of thing

this is now easier than ever through adobe cloud offerings! only 12 usd a month!
Would that mean that you wouldn't need titium to start with? Or that tritium deposits would replenish?

How would it affect the rough calculations above?
Predictable and abundant supply of fuel, and hopefully greener to produce the powerplant itself.
if you believe China is a dystopian state why would a Chinese tech product that isn't even allowed in it's international form within China not itself "dystopian"

imo the most dystopian thing about TikTok is the fact that China intentionally exports a highly addictive product that they don't allow their own people to use
You can't do that at all in long-GOP formats without re-encoding.

What happens is that every so often it sends a complete image - the intra frame - and then sends differences to show what changes from frame to frame. This is a complete and utter pain in the tits to edit with, so most people transcode to an intraframe codec like DNxHR or ProRes although there's absolutely nothing wrong with MJPEG or MPEG2 intra-only.

If you don't re-encode, you're limited to cutting at an intra frame because that's where it starts drawing from. If you don't you get all this weird "ghost trail" stuff happening.
Excellent essay, particularly like the dive into cultural differences, citizens relationship with state, employees relationship with employers, which alongside the more stringent regulations and weaker investment appetite are significant factors to explain the original claim.

Two observations, to add to the discussion:

Firstly, Europe does indeed innovate, but perhaps cannot scale as fast Chinese companies can with their massive internal market, or as fast as US companies can with their global reach. What seems to happen is European tech firms relocate to the US, or get bought out by US companies (Skype etc). Of course, European founders often relocate to the US at very early stage, so those companies in effect 'become' US companies even though founded by European founders.

Secondly, Europe has been highly Americanised over the past two decades; the Internet is a powerful cultural propagator - and it is a US internet. US ideas, concepts, values being readily adopted by European tech culture, and propagated throughout European society. The net effect of this, is that the cultural barriers to US tech adoption are close to zero at the consumer level - every website looks the same, every app follows the same UX etc. Contrast this with tech from East Asia, or India - there is a jarring difference. Hence, European tech companies are in direct competition with more mature, better financed, faster moving US tech equivalents and inevitably get swept aside, unless they can add unique value alongside their innovative service.
Industry does not run on solar and wind and sad to say it, current storage energy is not green.

The cleanest energy available now is nuclear fission, but there is no money in it for the energy industry. It is too plentiful and cheap if implemented properly and capitalism does not like plentiful and cheap.

France has had cheap electricity for decades and it seems it has been so cheap that they don't want it anymore.

This is all capitalist boondoggles.
When the new solution involves voluntary use of git? Not just yea, but hell yes. I hate git.
Qua the USD global position as reserve currency, the US has access to much cheaper capital than the rest of the world. That is why entrepreneurs flock to the US.

It is not "innovation" that is the difference; but the ability to scale up via cheap and risk-willing capital.
No other fusion experiment has achieve greater outputs than inputs.

So this is the first time that a fusion reactor has been net positive for energy production
Userspace isn't slow, some kernel interfaces are
>One issue with this technique is when the set of characters grow above 64, so you can no longer give each one a unique bit.

You can xor arrays of integers.
I don't think the FDA has saved nearly as many people as it has killed, but it's going to be impossible to get good statistics on either variable. "Saving" someone against their will is not a good thing, so even if the FDA had saved more people than it killed, it wouldn't justify its coercive powers.

I agree that the medical insurance industry in the US is extremely dysfunctional (in large part because of regulations), but people have much more recourse when they are harmed by an insurance company compared to a government agency. I doubt more people die as a result of insurance companies decisions compared to the FDA's decisions. I can't find a good estimate for the number of deaths caused by insurance companies, one study from 2009 estimated 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage in the US (these would be more comparable to those who die because of the FDA because they similarly lack recourse)[0], this is probably much lower than the FDA's death toll. FDA was also likely a contributing factor in the deaths of many of those who died due to lack of health coverage because the FDA's licencing costs and the slow and arbitrary way it processes applications are a significant reason for the high drug prices in the US.

[0]: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-fin...
Maybe he means unless this and|or|xor that. That's what I use it for rather than negate every paraneter.
> doubt the NYC Commission on Human Rights has the manpower to scour the internet for violations

New York City has no shortage of investigators with overlapping jurisdiction looking for troves of targets.

> VCs can't manage every day-to-day detail of their portfolio

These are job postings on Hacker News!
You brought up memories of my first PC: Elektronika 1841 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_PEVM), a soviet IBM PC clone. We had it in the mid-90s, even though it was already obsolete. It had 2 5 inch floppy drives, 256 KB of RAM (my dad upgraded to 512 KB in 1997 I think?). We even had a monochrome printer.

I think we were the only family in my elementary school who had a computer for a few years, until modern PCs became more within reach of some folks.
This works in a totally different way, by heating a tiny target fuel pellet with a laser to cause it to collapse and trigger fusion through basically heating and squeezing: more like how a bomb works. It's not easy to see a direct path from this approach to a power plant, but it might involve lining up a steady stream of fuel targets and doing this in a sort of pulsed mode.

Other approaches attempt to create a continuous plasma where fusion can occur confined in a powerful magnetic field, and heated by radio waves to get it going. So there's always fusion happening rather than in short bursts.
Giving credit where it's due: stretching to support an argument that isn't your own & doesn't align with your values is a lot of what makes this place great :D
Man, I feel like you hit the nail on the head here... this is definitely the best way I could think to articulate why `unless` throws me off so much.

Weirdly, Ruby was one of the first languages I learned early in my career, and at the time I had no problem with `unless`. But after years of experience with other languages, I similarly feel that `if` statements now trigger the fast pattern matching circuits in my brain, while `unless` makes me do a double-take and basically translate it into `if not`

At first I thought I was just becoming dumber with age, but I like your explanation better :P
He really doesn’t seem to get it, does he?
It's a matter of taste, but I tend to agree that the more features or constructs a language has, no matter how terse or convenient, the more unnecessary complexity is generated by using that language.

The `unless` keyword makes the interpreter slightly more complicated and is another piece of language the human brain needs to recognize. It may seem inconsequential, but grains of sand make a hill, as they say.

My ideal language would leave out pretty much anything that can be achieved with more basic constructs. It would of course have if-else, and leave out `unless`, but there would also be no switch statements or ternaries. Branching must be done with if-else or by looking up a value in a hash. No `for` or `while` loops because a simple `loop` construct with `continue` and `break` statements can do everything that `for` and `while` could do in other languages. No classes or inheritance because they're magical and they can be effectively simulated by the end developer if that's what they really want.

What I think would be really cool is to have a language with a syntax like Ruby but with only the most basic of programming language constructs.
Tit-for-tat with an authoritarian regime is a bad idea on several dimensions.

A far better reason is that a nasty authoritarian regime is using Tiktok to gather intelligence in anticipation of doing nastier things. Just one example: one of the obvious things to do with Tiktok data would be to correlate it with the OPM hack[1]. Who knows what kind of insights into people's character you might find? I'm sure a trained handler who actually understands their capabilities can come up with far more interesting uses than that.

And note that in that context, stopping US citizens from foreign exploitation is a legitimate role for government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
I hate to ask this, but have to ... is there any danger of these discoveries being weaponized easily by hostile countries? i.e. does this make unconventional weapons more accessible to countries who otherwise have embargoes on technology and material to make atomic weapons?
Most of these small Chinese EV's are for domestic market only - lax regulation means you can drive these golfcart like cars around without needing safety features like airbags/seat belts or own a drivers license.

Also Fiat does not sell the Panda in China so no trademark issues.
Title need (2020).
It's one of the storage providers we'll investigate, now that R2 is GA.

Our Storage server is hosted on AWS, so it wouldn't immediately save money (at least for egress) but we'll also investigate moving the servers to another cloud provider.
Beautifully sampled in the intro to this mix by Nicholas Jaar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h1h1JdaWGk
i think the bigger issue is things like this:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...
Morgan Stanley ised to take a couple of days as well to wire Euros to my bank account. Never ever was that an issue, or something I wanted to solve by using an almast-but-not-really Euro, or Dollar.
It's kinda both a Paxos product and not:

https://paxos.com/busd/

> It is important to understand the distinction between BUSD and Binance-Peg BUSD. These are two different products.
Binance USD (BUSD) is a regulated, fiat-backed stablecoin pegged to the US dollar. The Paxos-issued BUSD stablecoin, as well as its reserves, are subject to strict regulatory oversight by the New York Department of Financial Services. BUSD is backed by reserves held in either or both (i) fiat cash in dedicated omnibus accounts at insured U.S. banks and/or (ii) U.S. Treasury bills (including through repurchase agreements and/or money-market funds invested in U.S. Treasury bills).

> Binance-Peg BUSD, which is not issued by Paxos and is not regulated by NYDFS, is a separate product. Binance independently mints Binance-Peg BUSD on other blockchains (e.g., BNB Chain, Polygon and Avalanche) and pegs the tokens to BUSD on a one-to-one basis. This allows holders of both tokens to swap tokens between Ethereum and other blockchains.
I looked up once how one starts a business in a few European countries and what taxes are. The processes I found were really expensive, and many companies weren’t allowed to exist except by meeting some pretty weird criteria. Then, taxes were insanely high. There were some business types that I could not figure out how to even met the criteria — you needed to be approved by some council who thought your venture was worthwhile and necessary

I remember thinking, “no wonder there are no startups.”

But maybe my research was low quality? It really may have been.
Oh I have. Plenty of Americans do things obviously bad for themselves. Should all of those things be illegal? Debatable
I agree with this - I always found the single ! in conditionals to be too easy for your eyes to slide past and miss. Using `unless` makes it jump out harder that you're only doing the thing if the condition is `false`.
Is image resizing built on top of Cloudflare too? https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/image-resizing/
From what I read they basically want a blanked ban on social media apps from China, Russia etc.
In that case the complexity becomes O(N * A) where A is the size of the alphabet, since at every step you have to go through the whole bitset in order to count how many bits are set.

Edit - actually it should be possible to update the count incrementally, so it should still be O(N) I think.
Ask HN: Does ChatGPT's success reflect poorly on humanity?
If a statistical knowledge-based system can do this well on so many topics, then maybe much of what humanity works on and thinks about doesn't require much intelligence?
If a customer rang would you pick up the phone right away?

Why not treat your potential staff as more important than any of your customers?

Which is harder to acquire? Customers or Staff?
No, it doesn't. Truth Social isn't a social media company.

> (3) SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY.—The term ‘‘social media company’’—
(iii) has more than 1,000,000 monthly active users for a majority of months during the preceding 12 months;
I don’t remember exactly when Congress seemed to figure out they could spell things by making backronyms of bill names, but boy I wish they’d stop.

How about “Anti-TikTok Act of 2022”.
Might be worth looking at non-senator-specific press releases on the topic since this one is focused on Rubio.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/lawmakers-unveil-bipartisan-...
Activation products are of a different nature than the fission products and minor actinides you get in fission reactors, and are not necessarily as fearsome to handle, nor is the total activity comparable at all to what you get in spent fuel.

However, those high energy neutrons do a ridiculous amount of damage to the structural materials, and if there are constant outages to swap and repair components, I don’t see an easy way of making energy economically.