skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it's at the root just an ethical capital allocation problem. We can split hairs about specifics but it's hard to argue Petro is interested in the common good, it's obviously interested in making money from oil extraction, common good be damned. I'd much rather incentivize a very different, more ethical form of industrial practice. More efficient, more local, less tragic commons. More locally recycled paper bags and food that comes in banana leaves. Less single use plastics that are generally impossible to recycle locally. More bike lanes and more transit, two things oil companies are traditionally villainous about lobbying against. Fewer oil spills, less tanker mileage. Less land allocated to vast chemical plants. More carbon tax. Etc.

As long as we're hooked on the conveniences of plastic and gas stoves, it will be difficult to achieve a Star Trek type future.
What I encourage people to do, and what I was encouraged to do by a professor, is to find the value in things. Yes the thing, any thing, has great flaws, risks, is an imperfect match, etc. That goes without saying, and is is in some respects pointless to say - we can stay in place without going through the effort of researching something. It's the value in things, and finding that value, that moves us forward.
The fact that you didn't see what he was ACTUALLY referring to is actually funny in that it means you don't really understand what having an ADHD brain is actually like.

He isn't saying this is literally the situation. He's referencing the fact that this is what its like having an ADHD brain. Your BRAIN is the one constantly interrupting you, all the time, bringing you focus away from what it SHOULD be focusing on and onto other random things, making doing consistent DEEP and thoughtful work really hard.

The "workplace that isn't suited for the type of work" you refer to is just saying that my brain isn't suited to the type of work. Which like, yeah... I agree. Thats why I take medication.
Suppose we have a world with working inertial confinement and stellarator fusion. Are there applications where one does better than the other?
Many, if not most, computer models represent data as a tree. Some data, however, can't really be represented by a tree, because a "thing" can have multiple parents.

The example in the link:

Example, with lines marked up:

<line>I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother,</line>

<line>Who prays continually for Richmond's good.</line>

<line>So much for that.—The silent hours steal on,</line>

<line>And flaky darkness breaks within the east.</line>

With sentences marked up:

<sentence>I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother,
Who prays continually for Richmond's good.</sentence>

<sentence>So much for that.</sentence>

<sentence>—The silent hours steal on, And flaky darkness breaks within the east.</sentence>

If you care about lines and sentences, this is difficult to represent as a tree.
Web3 Tokens: Balancing Short- and Long-Term Investments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal

> social aims like job creation and reducing economic inequality

> the plan could cost between $51–$93 trillion over the next decade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_Back_Better_Plan

> the largest nationwide public investments in social

> a variety of social policy initiatives

> $1.9 trillion

> $2.3 trillion (which, when combined with the American Families Plan, amounted to $4 trillion in infrastructure spending)

> $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill
No that's just nesting. It's overlapping if the lifetime of a child tag is greater than the lifetime of the parent tag.

Example if you have two paragraphs and bold the end of one and the start of the next

<p>hello <b>world</p> <p>this is</b> your captain speaking</p>

Obviously bold is a poor example as you can just terminate and start a new bold without penalty. But if these were more semantic elements like "sections" and "verses" and "lines" then it might not be possible.
"seems" based on what?

What research?

For you personal?

Public transport mandated ffp2 masks though at the beginning and in Bavaria I primarily saw them.

But still of everything the mask thing is and was always a no brainer. Even if a good study might say later it did only save a few x people in comparison to the effort I don't mind.

At the beginning there was also a lot of isolation due to overwhelmed hospitals. They were real and still struggling.

The biggest issue in my opinion was that we as a society with so much knowledge and automitsation struggled sooo much with either people working from home or not needing to work.
I’m going to guess that these won’t quite meet your definition of facist but it’s pretty clear the guy is a full-on shitposting edgelord at best.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-30/column-e...

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/elon-musk-s-hitler-twe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_Elon_Musk
Yes ... but language models like ChatGPT can provide valuable insights and perspectives that may not be present in discussions among 'real' people. And promoting diversity of thought can provide a platform for under-represented voices to be heard.
It seems to me that without regulated centralization, crypto will never work / take hold and be a little niche that only enthusiasts care about.
Many on HN have the same response to many things in every domain, not just research.
I asked my dad what they did on a long (8+ hours) bombing mission in WW2 when nature calls (a subject never covered by documentaries). He said "we used empty ammo boxes". I asked what they then did with the ammo boxes. He said "extra bombs".
GNU Aspell
It's not reflexive-contrarianism as such; it's that the science press has historically been so, so bad that cynicism is the only healthy response. Think of the last 5 things you've seen in the science press: which ones were overemphasized? Which ones were exaggerated to the point that they didn't reflect anything meaningful about the actual result? And thinking back on the press releases over the years, what percentage of what you've read end up having an actual effect on the world? Add to that the fact that this is about fusion breakthroughs, something that has been wrought with complete disinformation by the science press since the late 1940s. Of course people here are going to be cynical about it.
That's a wrong fact. Every critical vuln gets fixed as fast as possible in any kernel. Linux actually sometimes takes their time.
I see a lot more advertising for Ford and GM EVs. Marketing departments get paid to take advantage of situations like this.
Breakthrough in nuclear fusion could mean ‘near-limitless energy’
The government most of the time is acting on the behalf of the people who elected them. There are plenty of rich people who have stolen their riches. Neither is a perfect "voice of the people" or "true meritocracy"
What's the connection you're making between Mastodon and BitChute? I'm missing it.
Vox Media Will No Longer License Chorus, Its CMS Software
Wellbutrin worked wonders for me. Works immediately, similar to amphetamines and is easy to obtain legitimately.
For what it's worth I found your whole comment easy to understand because it was well constructed and very logical, so much so that I didn't even notice the typo because your intent was so clear that I subconsciously auto-corrected it.
Sure, I don't doubt that there's a market for people who want to save money. I'm saying there's probably enough demand for a low hassle car purchase at higher price points that CarMax won't be the only player in town. If my area can have 10 auto dealerships of a single manufacturer, I hesitate to think that only CarMax is able to absorb the demand of low-hassle purchase.
Late windows 95/early windows 98 was my first computer with a single usb port and no drivers for usb memories.
I find it odd that the creator of Action Office 2 apologised for it. Having grown up watching the media of the 90's and 00's, and then working in open spaces, I look at office cubicles with a fond anemoia. I would very much appreciate having my own space at work.
It may not be trivial, but it's a solved problem. Many rich text UI widgets and corresponding backing data structures exist today, based on a tagging system where tags can trivially define regions that overlap with each other. It's tricky and full of corner cases, but not that hard if you put your mind to it, and it's not computationally inefficient either.
A quick look at a globe can tell you there are a lot cheaper markets in the same/close timezones to the US at least. Culture is obviously more nebulous, but it seems like something the US is better at exporting than any country as well. It's why I've long cautioned people about remote work - the work might end up more remote than they'd like.
Reflexive contrarianism is far healthier than blind credulity. Skepticism should be the default state, especially for claims of amazing scientific breakthroughs.
Florida State University College of Medicine researchers have linked aspartame, an artificial sweetener found in nearly 5,000 diet foods and drinks, to anxiety-like behavior IN MICE.
Solves no problem.

Fusion plants have exorbitant feedstock price volatility and are only marginally smaller than a fission planet, despite square footage not being the scope of the worlds' energy problems today.
Just tried Alacritty on my Mac. With no special config. At first glance I find the fonts don’t look as nice as on iTerm. Maybe I’m missing something as to why this is supposed to be better than iTerm.
Hakavlad / nohang – A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux
Some people buy and hold inventory, but it's pretty common to do a process called "drop shipping" where you have a relationship with the manufacturer, and have them ship it to the customer. The benefit for them is YOU deal with the customers, and YOU do the marketing.
High profile individuals Tweeting out qanon like statements is measured?
> I mean, how many times can you be wrong in the same two sentences.

If you believe I’m wrong then a simple citation is enough. You don’t need to sprinkle your rebuttals with arseholery

> And you would apparently be shocked to know even win3.1 could do font scaling/etc,

Font scaling as been around for decades. That’s clearly not when I mean when I was taking about desktop scaling.

And I still think the max resolution you described would be uncomfortably small for most people on a 21” monitor. These days operating systems scale widgets to work around that problem. Back then there was no such thing.

> You might also be surprised that

I wouldn’t, and again, no need to be an arse with your rebuttals. we are all grown ups so show some maturity

> i have a 17" LG I purchased in ~97 (might have been 96) that I ran on my personal computer at 1600x1200 still sitting in my attic

I do too. Never had a graphics card powerful enough to output that though and I had a pretty decent graphics card for that era. Or so I thought.

Just goes to show there was a lot of hardware out there I didn’t get to play with.

You make some good points. Pity about the way you made the.
> This website is seriously infested with reflexive contrarians

No it's not.
It's possible to so a much better job with automation too. Context aware cropping, accurate aspect ratio, quality filtering by various metric... all solved problems long ago, but absent from Laion-5B for some reason. Perhaps it would be a good idea go collaborate more closely with image experts for the next round.
The NIF is using old laser technology. Current tech can get above 20% efficiency. Sure, that still means more improvement is needed, but 200x is probably an overstatement by an order of magnitude.

> So we might be as close as 10-20 years away, as always!

I don't really get the cynicism here. This is a huge milestone that's been passed. Maybe with this, we actually will be 10-20 years away. Or maybe it's more like 30-40, who knows. But this experiment shows that net-positive energy is actually possible to do with our current understanding and technology; before this, I believe much of the skepticism was based on a belief that it may not actually be possible to get more energy out than put in, at least not without technology that's significantly out of reach.
Thanks.

Yes, I'm rejecting well paying jobs constantly because I couldn't bear to be employed and working 40h a week again.
Wait... this was RePet from Total Recall.
I have so much trouble squaring the "genius" narrative with the "alienating the core constituency that buys electric vehicles by making my personal brand into a MAGA hat" reality.

Isn't moving humanity to mars the ultimate in cautious, long-term thinking while burning your personal and company brand value the ultimate in reckless short term thinking?

The apparent rationality and irrationality blows my mind.
I agree with the spirit of your comment, and I am extremely excited by these results. However, I think the history of fusion has showed us that the cynics have had a much better track record than the fusion optimists, haha.

My very uninformed opinion (nuclear physicist by training, but not specialized in fusion, lasers, or plasma physics) is that we’re still 20 years (haha) away from fusion energy making its way into the power grid. And that is assuming this result (or other things, like the relative instability of global energy markets lately) causes an increase in funding for the field so that they can solve all the pesky engineering issues related to efficiency, reactor lifespan, reliability, cycling speed, etc.
I mean, you nail it on the head. It's not "congrats on limitless free energy" but more "looks we might still get value in the future if we keep pouring money into this." Positive indicators at milestones are good. Onward.
In high school my friends and I had a basement drinking game called "System 32 Roulette." We had a fresh Windows 98 machine and you had to pick a file inside c:/windows/system32/ by random and forcibly delete it then reboot the machine. If the computer booted up and you could successfully get back to that folder, everyone else had to take a drink. If not, you had to finish your drink and then reinstall Windows.
My problem with programming (of which I've been trying to really do decent at for years but failing) + ADHD is my memory is absolutely trash. I'll spend a week or two working on an app and then put it down for a month and it takes me a day just to get rolling with it again because I basically learn/work by brute forcing things to work as opposed to remembering concepts that would make it work without having to do so.

It's frustrating and makes me often give up. I work in Ops, so it's not a day to day thing for me to write any code. Thankfully with all of the fires and different things to work on in Ops I think it's a very good fit for an ADHD person.
I use Warp daily as a fang dev, they have constantly improved the product.
I'm a believer.
lol yeah, that was in a job ad. i live in alabama though.
I don't see any reason why not. After all, GitHub pages is a repo, which you can upload an APK to.
We still don't know that.

> “We note that you own or have issued crypto assets and/or hold crypto assets on behalf of third parties,” one of the questions said. “Explain whether these crypto assets serve as collateral for any loan, margin, rehypothecation or other similar activities to which you or your affiliates are a party.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-asks-public-companies-for-m...

I know lots of people in finance who are claiming the big banks used made up coins as collateral for stocks, and the house of cards just hasn't collapsed yet. And if you look through their 13F reports it kinda confirms it.
I don't think it matters from a justice perspective.

From the perspective of someone watching the crypto world discover failure by failure why the modern banking system is the way it is this particular situation is amazing to witness. Everyone believes they're a genius when line goes up. Line goes down and everything falls apart.
The older I get the more I think it's just counter signaling that one is smarter than whoever did this work, which is almost certainly not the case.
Knowing something or knowing how to use something is not the same as using it. This is a classic struggle between those without ADHD and those with it. People without ADHD think it's just a training issue. It's really not. This is an especially difficult dynamic between non-adhd parents and adhd kids. Ask me how I know.

In other words, I know how to use Outlook, and it can help. I know how to use Post-it notes. And it helps a little, but if I don't have a chance to write out a post-it note and put it in a prominent place (with the other 250 prominent post-it notes in a prominent place) it's going to get lost and/or I'm going to forget. This isn't just a "you're just not organized" problem. One of the bigger challenges is categorizing things.

As you can see just in this post, my brain started sprawling out to all the issues that confront someone with ADHD and the scope started to spread and I started talking about other things besides your post-it notes idea.

This isn't a training issue. Largely, the issue is with impulse control and a dysfunctional intrinsic rewards system. Here's a video with some actual useful advice for ADHD people and their managers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tpB-B8BXk0
They have since added the ability to do this.
Maybe, maybe not? One reason for a sildenafil prescription could be prostrate surgery for cancer. If that works, and it's a one-and-done, then no further health problems from that should surface. OTOH, if one is taking sildenafil because of side effects of blood pressure medicine, then yeah, there's a point to be made there. OTOOH, some folks take it for side effects of some traumatic event, which did not necessarily have any effect on overall health.

So I'm not so sure that a sildenafil prescription is a reliable health indicator.
My farm has been enabled by tech. Certainly I see many doctors, lawyers, etc. down at the grain elevator playing the same game.

However, what I was referring to is that many older farmers just slogged through many years of making nothing until the debt was paid off. Not a whole lot different to what the indebted younger farmers are doing, as described in my previous comment, just that they're 40-50 years deep into the process and now sitting on that wealth.
Asking as a layman, are there any hybrid solutions between inertial and magnetic, or are they mutually exclusive? I'm imagining using magnetic field for macro-control and laser for micro-adjustment. Kind of like SOC designs that have separate cores optimized for different workloads.
People seem to live vicariously through these influencers so yes
Windows is built like my old apartment was decorated. 20 layers of paint over the top of mouldy wallpaper.
I developed windows during the Windows 10 timeframe. Although I left before windows 11 was conceived, it's painfully obvious that it is just a UI reskin on top of 10. This was preordained by certain organizational choices made during my time there; namely, that the "Shell" team responsible for the start menu, desktop, and other UI tidbits[0] was completely divorced from the rest of windows development, with their own business priorities and so on. This was the team responsible for Windows 8/.1, so as you can imagine they were somewhat sidelined during Windows 10 development. It appears they have their revenge, first and foremost from the promised-never-to-happen rebranding (whereby they jettisoned the Windows 10 brand which was an embarrassment for that team and that team only). That the result is only a reskinned 10 is the natural result because that is the only part of the product they have the authority or ability to change.

The Shell team was trying to push this same new UI during my whole time at Msft, with at least three cancelled attempts that I was aware of even from an IC perspective. By the end the embarrassment was contagious.

[0] Plus Edge, as part of the same vestigial business unit. This explains the central position of advertising in the reskin, because Edge in all of its forms was always meant to drive ad revenue. That is the distinct business priority I mentioned earlier, which sets this organization apart from Windows (NT,win32,etc.) development proper, which was shifted to Azure.
The lasers they use today are 20x less efficient than state of the art. The capacitors are also massively less efficient. So they only "need" to drive the Q factor of the reaction up by ~5x to be positioned to build something with a net energy gain.

Because of the physics of fusion (or ICF) returns on power are non linear. It's very much possible research here results in a path to a "net gain facility".
A Twitter employee used an internal tool to turn off my 2-factor authentication
What magic did it take to get these things moving from a dead stop? I assume the clutches were hydraulic or used a retroencabulator. Diesel electric works so well because it removes the clutch, and the electric motor has maximum torque at zero rpm
> Some people, says Winter, only tend to do what they’re interested in – “what lights up our brains” – which causes them to de-prioritise other urgent tasks.

I’m definitely guilty of this.
> You say that like it's a bad thing.

It can be, yes.

Exhibit A: Alex Jones. Whacky conspiracy theory and snake oil peddler. It's literally in nobody's interest he be published anywhere, apart his own personal financial one.

In most cases there's probably a good reason for someone to be shunned by everyone "mainstream".
What does being a "fang dev" have to do with the quality of this terminal?
I believe consumption patterns in general will reflect political leaning. For example a college kid probably travels to and from home requiring airline tickets, Uber, etc. Whereas a rural kid might have need of satellite wifi and diesel vehicles for long haul trips. These are inherently different consumption patterns that require brands to pick sides for their respective consumers. If anything the trend of companies choosing political sides will become exacerbated by consumers.
It could be that the person is not from the west and/or not a native english speaker.

And unnecessary specific example goes here. In russian language, every (99% of the time, illegal) drug that is associated with abuse is called a narcotic (including cannabis). There isn't a russian language equivalent word for "drugs", "drugs" is a synonym for "narcotics" there. There is "medicine" and there is "drug"/"narcotic".

Which is why I saw, more than once, middle schoolers there in an English language class giggling once they saw a "drug store" sign in a photo, as it led to the "hehe, why do they sell drugs/narcotics at pharmacies there, US is a weird place huh" jokes.
I'm not an expert but I've been following the field for a while. It's telling that negligible venture capital is pursuing this route to commercial fusion, and the only cheerleading for it comes from DOE lab press releases. That's because the NIF is a thermonuclear bomb simulator developed by a lab tasked with both thermonuclear bomb development and also developing a portfolio of civilian applications for its technologies. Even if the NIF were to break even on the entire power plant package in theory, harvesting energy from fast fusion neutrons is hard enough in magnetic confinement designs without them pulsing like a bomb as they do in ignition designs.

Meanwhile the VC money is quietly piling into tokamak and stellarator magnetic confinement designs, driven by high expectations from real breakthroughs in ReBCO tape manufacturing technology. These superconducting tapes can be manufactured like semiconductors and can develop magnetic fields that were previously impossible, which is a key manufacturability enabler in a design whose path to commercialization is far better de-risked overall. There are still concerns with the durability of equipment needed to capture the neutrons in these designs too, but ReBCO tapes were the real prior changer.