skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Deflation is a fall in the overall level of prices in an economy and an increase in the purchasing power of the currency..."

The first part of that sentence says that prices decrease. They do not increase at a lower rate, they actually fall in deflation. Deflation is negative inflation, if you want to think of it that way. Deflation is _not_ small positive inflation.

Since we are on a tech-focused site, the best example is that tech goods are typically deflationary. 1 TB of SSD costs less than it did 3 years ago. Imagine this happening to everything in the economy and you understand deflation.

The second part is maybe confusing you:

> increase in the purchasing power of the currency.

This says that if I have $100 and a good costs $10 today, I can buy 10 of them. If prices decrease (because this is deflation, prices go down) and now the good is $5, I can buy 20 of them with the same $100. The purchasing power of my $100 has increased.

> I think I have to categorize that statement as wishful thinking.

Average US wage in 1970 was about $6,200 (per year!). Then inflation spiked, prices rose on everything. Eventually that filtered back into the labor market because nobody will work if the wage won't buy food at the newly inflated prices. This will happen again, but it will take longer due to labor generally having less power in today's economy vs that of 1970. This will happen whether or not the minimum wage increases, but more of necessity -- laborers will not come to jobs that don't pay their bills.
NY state does not require job postings to include salary ranges, only New York City (and technically not for all job postings).
Couldn't disagree more. Password managers have the same single point of failure that an SSO would. The only difference is that you can't automate onboarding/offboarding of an employee's SaAS applications.
That article makes me think that corruption is (at best) a zero sum game, but maybe in an export oriented economy the losers could be outside the country.
It's not a rationale, it's a commonly used trade strategy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(international_rel...
Which brand do you use? I couldn't find an exact match via web search :(
You know how when you burn something you release the energy in the chemical bonds?

Fusion and fission are like that but for atoms instead of molecules.
Depending on the scale and reactor design, we have really good examples of run away fusion reactions. Run away reactions are easy, controlled ones are hard.

And whilst I won’t doubt that if fusion ever becomes commercially viable the reactors would be walk away safe it doesn’t mean that you don’t need to account for that in your design.
I guess that's "innovative"?
> I don’t understand the bi-partisan dislike of Tik Tok.

It's not hard to understand, it's literally because it's controlled by China.
It is neither weird, nor complex. Use unless in cases where the if has a single, negative condition.
Given how fast solar/wind will continue to be built out over the next three, seven, ten years, the "ton of power" will be there before the EV's.
That’s only because they’re using old school flash pumped lasers, not the new solid state lasers you’d use today if you wanted to make a power plant demo.
What about flag signaling? Asking for a friend.
I'm a bit more optimistic about this. This technology will be more important for space exploration than it will be (currently) on the ground.
You've referenced by far two of the most innovative countries in Europe. What about all the rest? Is it easy to start a small business in Spain and Italy?
For me the initial response time isn’t the biggest deal (and I’m surprised the effect size of a single day delay is so large). What matters more is having a quick turnaround whenever I give you a set of times from my schedule. Companies are so bad at this that I’ve started giving them only fractions of my available time (which makes it harder to schedule interviews). I’m not sure what the solution is because I can’t give you 100% of my available time if you are going to sit on it for three days before scheduling. I’m talking to other employers and need to schedule things with them too.
That’s probably not a new trend. All shoddy old builds will be gone by definition
Also don’t forget the biggest benefit over solar/wind: it keeps on generating power on cold windless nights.
Hmm, let's see if drug prohibition has been tried anywhere and how successful it was...oh.
It's not "creating" energy, it's releasing energy.

The original atoms (exactly which atoms depends on the reactor, but let's assume it's deuterium and tritium) have a certain starting energy. When you fuse them together the resulting atom (helium-4, if you start with deuterium and tritium) moves it into a lower energy state.

Since the fused atom has lower energy than the input atoms, the fusion reaction releases the difference in energy, which you can then capture.
Author here. This was a fun one to work on. Kept finding out about new things I wish I could have squeezed in there.
> In the end it’s hilarious how the American government thinks of its citizens as being so clueless to need such a paternalistic policy

Is it? Given how Tik Tok content is regulated in China, the Chinese seem to agree.
Your statement is commonly believed, but is completely false. Money held in banks, at least in the USA, can be frozen or taken indefinitely by the state with no evidence of wrongdoing or even probable cause.

There is a blog post on my website called "Your Money Isn't Yours" about the time Chase and the state of Indiana conspired to steal all of the money I had in the world without any basis or reason.

Many people misunderstand this about property in the USA. Civil asset forfeiture among several other mechanisms means that property is guilty until proven innocent and can be stripped from you at any time without any evidence whatsoever.

Money held in the bank in your account is literally not your money. It's the bank's money with a corresponding liability to you. They prove this quite plainly by loaning it out to other parties.
That's gnarlier than what I faced, kudos to you.
China is not ban Apple, because Apple willing to store data inside China. BUT, why did US ban tiktok although they were willing to store data inside US. You can ban a company that not obtain the law, but can not ban without any advice.
What if Britain would have simply built 20 Hinkley Point C starting a new one every year at first and then after a couple years multiple every year.

The same people moving form project to project, on-boarding new people. Just as France did in 1980s.

This would result in very cheap competently green grid for the next 100 years.

Wind turbines have to be replaced 3x in that time and you don't have to deal with intermittency at all.

Just as with everything else, without economics of scale it doesn't work.
A lot of the things that defraud non-wealthy people (multi-level marketing, all of those "supplements" you can buy in the medicine isle, false advertising) aren't illegal or practical to sue over.

Let's look at one particular example, the stop the steal scam. Thousands of people were tricked in to donating to the ringleaders of an impossible political cause based on false claims, and none of them are going to jail for that in particular. You could find dozens of similar examples just by keeping an eye on the news, but nobody thinks about it because a certain type of con with victims that professionals can't empathize with has become normalized.
It's not terribly clear from the article, but the headline is false: Lexus isn't developing a manual transmission for electric cars, they're developing software and controls that mimic the presence of manual transmission.

I don't know why journalists think it's okay to engage in such blatant dishonesty. It's not just evo.co.uk:

https://insideevs.com/news/625264/lexus-confirms-manual-tran...

Jalopnik at least puts 'manual transmission' in single quotes:

https://jalopnik.com/lexus-is-developing-a-manual-transmissi...

These are headlines are better:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/9/23501585/lexus-manual-tra...

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42180807/lexus-built-an-e...
Exactly. this seems like a boon to the Meta flavor or digital fentanyl
Huh? How does banning tiktok make jobs? Are you assuming a US based company will spring up with a clone? You really believe that? Isn't it much more likely Meta will use it's power to gobble up any upstart to avoid the competition?
It's not free trade if its one way only.

Banning one application (due to trade reasons) is not "full control" of what apps US citizens have access to.
And the emissions due to mining the lithium and cobalt?

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-co2-emitted-manufac....
Python Package Authors: Zero-config building cross-platform wheels
There's been a long-standing open issue in the community to develop a generic wheel-building service (https://github.com/psf/fundable-packaging-improvements/issues/19) that makes generating consistent, secure, cross-platform wheels simple for all authors.

At ActiveState, we've essentially been building a platform that supports this (among many other things), but we're getting to the point now where it's feasible for us to be able to offer this for free to Python Package authors.

It's still pretty early in terms of finalizing the workflow, so we're looking for folks who are authors of packages who might be interested in getting involved to help shape what this kind of workflow integration could look like. What do you need as an author? What parts work well and what parts are a pain?

I put together a really quick video that demonstrates what this kind of workflow could look like and would love to hear feedback on what pain points you really need solved!

https://youtu.be/jzDme9x4c0A
Warren Buffet? Maybe Bill Gates? Queen Elizabeth II?
It is so rare because tritium is not found in nature in any significant quantity. The amount on the market comes from water recovered from water pools used for spent nuclear material storage.

There also is no enormous market for tritium.
So in short, fusion reactors exist on both sides of the tritium market, by becoming the primary producers and consumers of it, which should lead to significant drop in price of tritium.
Can confirm having done this in a few countries. Registering isn't the problem, getting the business to fit into the economy is.
This makes me feel America is back. This is a big achievement and should not be underplayed whatsoever. Whichever country achieves practical fusion is going to be dominant in the next century.
Fusion bombs have existed since the early 1950s. Technology rapidly developed to the point that they can essentially be built to be arbitrarily large, far beyond any practical war purpose. There is no need for any larger bomb than what was built many decades ago. None of this research is necessary for bombs. All of the difficult problems fusion power generation faces with long-term plasma confinement go away when you're just trying to squeeze as hard as you can and are willing to use fission bombs to do it in an otherwise uncontrolled manner.
https://archive.vn/bZrMm
If only they were shooting a fuel pellet: they are instead shooting a hohlraum, a precision-engineered piece of gold and that, in turn, shoots the fuel pellet with X-Rays, acting as a kind of aiming/synchronization device. The hohlraum is destroyed in the process, and currently costs millions of dollars to build a new one.
Russia has pretty conclusively shown that they aren't even close to the same league as the US in terms of warfare.

Like comparing an amateur pickup basketball team to the Chicago Bulls.
That is until our primary electrical sources aren't releasing sequestered CO2 from the earth's crust, assuming we get there before destroying ourselves. A lot of people do own EVs thinking they're saving the earth while being ignorant to where their electricity is coming from. That doesn't mean EVs aren't going to help us get there in terms of clean energy.
> How could he not?

Well, he’s not a lawyer, for one…
> Now that the US is now allowing more pollution, you see some Manf. is coming back.

The bigger factor is that in some manufacturing areas, labor no longer dominates the costs. If you are using "robots" and other automation, then the cost of labor might not significantly impact unit economics.
China is also suppling the world and the US with very cheap fentanyl.
At the very least, the bottom of the pay range is very meaningful to help filter out jobs and save time for everyone.
Bank transfers aren't about technology; they are created by government regulation. SEPA is a government standard.

The US government, in a sense, couldn't regulate its banks into fast transfers.
> A while ago I read an economic analysis that said the US would optimally have five regional currencies (instead of the single one that it has today) to account for internal trade and wealth imbalances.

That seems pretty silly on its face, but I suppose I've been persuaded of stranger things with a good argument.

> I mean, the US Dollar is a "pegged" currency under that definition too.

Yes and no. My point about pegging a currency really is about organizations that tax, borrow, and spend a currency they control. So the US Government has nothing to worry about in that regard. But all of the sub divisions definitely do - various states, counties, and cities regularly flirt with bankruptcy from time to time.

> I expect that sooner rather than later the countries that have adopted the Euro will evolve a similar system, shifting the bulk of the costs of their social programs (pensions, unemployment insurance, medical care, banking insurance, etc.) to the EU itself and giving the EU the power to tax and borrow as needed to maintain those programs. It will be a hard sell to Europe's wealthier economies, since it would be a major transfer of their wealth to Europe's poorer economies, but I suspect a future crisis will force their hands if the alternative is the dissolution of the EU (Brexit has shown everyone how badly leaving the EU can hurt).

I think, that will be a difficult decision point for the EU. I'm just not convinced that enough members want the "United States of Europe". National identity is much stronger in Europe than it ever was in the American Colonies pre-Constitution.
Likely a lie for less savvy investors. Or they need cash to recapitalize before being able to transfer to wallets. Or people are withdrawing to fiat which would need a bank in many cases. My money is on it being a combination, but that they definitely don’t have reserves to cover a mass run on USDC.
> Often log lines will include a request ID.

Yes, always include a request id in every request structure you create and include it also in the response and print it. It would seem something obvious that everyone does by default but instead, no, it's not so obvious it seems.
That isn’t what this would be used for. In fact, yields for the largest deployed H-bombs today I think are smaller than they once were (due to better targeting capabilities).
I was already upset about Codice Software pulling Semantic Merge and only making it available as an integrated part of Plastic SCM. Now that I see the reason such a useful tool was taken away was to stuff the pockets of a large company, I'm fuming.

I know that they're well within their rights to do this as they only ever offered subscription licensing for Semantic Merge, but that doesn't make it suck less to lose access.
I've never seen weather so bad that it makes produce's price go up a whole year in advance. Incredible.
> Maybe I didn't understand your comment though.

Yes, you have misunderstood.

GP asked what shade of gray goes with US gov running appstore. I responded with a fascist imagery - gray uniforms and black boots. [Those would be certain Americans wearing boots ..]

I agree with GP that taking a totalitarian regime (CPC's China) as a role model is not the right choice for us, at all.
Ultimately US tech firms didn't make effort to follow PRC regulations while PRC tech firms tries to follow US regulations. If goal is to kick PRC platforms out of US i.e. when current rules doesn't generate desired outcome, change the rules to at least uphold the pretense that US cares about "rules based order". It's an optics issue. If US wants to ban tiktok, better to proceed via a less authoritarian lawfare route, because unilateral sanctions (which even PRC hasn't done on US platforms) are more likely to invite blowback down the line when other countries want to curtail US platforms in the future. But short term it's the optics, US going HAM on sanctions/export controls, especially ones that affect rest of world - which I'm guessing longterm goal is to get TikTok off Android/iOS - makes US behaviour much worse than PRC in terms of extraterritorial shenanigans.
European FX transactions still settle T+2, similar to the US, Canada, and India. T+1 is planned to be implemented in late 2024.

If your bank provides an instant settlement, they are most likely paying you out of their pocket, and therefore taking risk.
Is that really true? I am pretty sure that as long as the data is in China and your tech doesn't connect to other countries you are free to use US tech to do business in China. I think this is how Google and Uber did it when they operated in China, they used the same code but had different infra.

Which is why this seems quite strange to me because TikTok China content doesn't show up on the western TikTok because they are completely separate.
It's a net negative with a factor of 400 or so. This breakthrough is not really a breakthrough, it's just marketed as such because NIF needs to justify their funding. Compressing pellets of fusion fuel using lasers has no chance of ever forming the basis of a nuclear reactor.

It's scientifically interesting because a self-sustaining reaction (until the fuel was consumed that is) was achieved in a lab setting (as opposed to in a hydrogen bomb). There might be fusion plasma data in there that are of importance to more serious attempts at actually building fusion reactors.
No, definitely Fentanyl. Oramorph is pretty tightly regulated.
It was discussed a lot in the threads about this yesterday, but apparently the lab had relatively inefficient lasers. Newer ones are an order of magnitude more efficient
It's so strange. If it was food or clothes or medicine, cheaper prices would be obviously good. Who can we thank that shelter getting more affordable has become a bad thing?

I'm guessing here, but probably the same people reaping the most profit from it.
So, you will ban apps from ~all other countries.
Oh, certainly. Most of the stuff was kinda useless and we repurposed massive blade servers to host some tens of email accounts, etc.
I see this as being inevitable. TikTok and ByteDance are secretly mocking us and ignoring our laws. They keep claiming that the transfer of Americans data to the U.S. is "in progress" and I believe the whole thing is an insider company joke. In the meantime they simply keep pilfering and abusing our data.

What's worse, unscrupulous advertisers are actually taking disadvantage of their illegal behavior to advertise to minors and to track and profile them, which is against the law.

The sooner TikTok is banned the better!!
I don't see how this is any different to mutually assured destruction via nuclear weapons.
Lexica Aperture – a model that can generate realistic photographs
Most of the funding for the Manhattan project went into the industrial infrastructure required to produce plutonium and enriched uranium.

It will be time to unleash resources once they have a working fusion reactor design in order to build fusion power plants and the industrial infrastructure required to supply them.

Until then they should of course get the resources they need but I don't think throwing money at them will necessarily speed things up.
I know a few ex-Twitter and ex-Facebook engineers who went straight to TikTok. Feel sorry for what they must be thinking about and going through reading this.
Not just cigarettes — all tobacco products.

How very appalling. Smoking is a human right. Pipes smell wonderful; tobacco generally tastes great and has a positive effect on one’s mood and attention.

Sad day for New Zealanders.
It also doesn't do well with strings that have a null character in it. Which would stop basic stuff like being able to copy/read arbitrary files. So, neat, but not practical outside a narrow subset of problems.
What your definition of SMR?

Because some countries consider even 500MW reactors SMR if they are GenIV.

SMR has become kind of widely used for lots of different things.
'if !<something>' clicks instantly.
for 'unless' I have to read out the statement in my head, and draw mental logic lines about what condition this is checking.
No it is not. A legal entity in Germany cannot offer a contract to someone in Poland. As a german entity you need to create a legal entity in Poland and offer a polish contract.

What synergy do you see? Because I see none.
If it was net-positive today they'd already be plugging it into the grid.
Can solid state lasers produce the high energy needed here?
I think by "rest of the world", they mean "except the US"
>In addition, European investors and entrepreneurs don’t tend to see their ventures as ’lottery tickets’ that might pay off. We like to see things costed with at least a theoretical path to profits

Strange if true. Venture capitalists don't buy lottery tickets anywhere. They build a portfolio of them where the expected value is positive. From an investment standpoint, there is no difference.
Isn't this just a "Protect Meta from competition" bill?
Selection effect: All the people interested in high-risk, high-reward outcomes emigrate to the United States. This has been ongoing for the past 100 years at least.
they'd be crazy not to, unless the ML pipeline didn't support retries: https://skypilot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/spot-jobs...
> Who are our modern J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, Edward Teller, John Von Neumann, and Stanislaw Ulam?

they're working on getting you to click on an ad
This is genius, a fair and balanced option.
Sure we do. It's not that long ago. We're not senile just yet -- ask in twenty, twenty-five years again.
The input energy X is used to create the conditions of high temperature and pressure that are needed for fusion to take place.

When fusion happens, two hydrogen atoms fuse together into one, losing a bit of mass in the process. The mass difference is converted into energy Y (using E=mc2).

In this case, Y was greater than X, so there was a net gain in useful energy.
Sure, but now do 11 at a time with a similar algorithm (which was part 2 of the problem).
I am okay with any amount of partisanship if it means more funding for fusion research.
Because one is hearsay and one is a party admission. This is basic evidence law.
Because they’ve been able to do it multiple times, which is better than the zero or one times before.
The easy answer is that he was zooted to the gills on ADHD meds. There might be others too.
Using metrics to gauge how well the enterprise is doing on the whole and to influence policy decisions and strategy is absolutely good and desirable. It's only when metrics become rules or quotas or measures to compare people or departments as a policy that things go bad.
I've half-suspected that Harbor Freight does this. Doing the analytics could be a good business opportunity. I'm sure once the metadata companies (Amazon, Facebook) meet real retail (not just the high-dollar retail like Whole Foods), there will be interest in this measure of consumer's price awareness.
the 2nd form implicitly returns the value of valid if it's truthy and nil if it's falsey; the 1st form always returns nil
It just seems a little strange to take credit for a milestone when the milestone everyone cares about is yet to be reached. (More energy out than in.)

Good to hear that there's a laser design that might achieve that.