skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused by this. Does the US have the productive forces and resources to replace petrolium with solar panels (and the required energy storage)? Does it have the nuclear fuel to replace petrolium with fission reactors?

What alternatives to petrolium does the US have that it does not rely on others for?
Orbital Assembly New Equity Offering for Hybrid-Gravity Space Station Dev
I don't think it's a substitution. Lexicographically, there is a difference between an alternative (colour / color) and a synonym (hue). Now darn might look like a variant if you don't know the etymology, but ignorance is no basis for etymology. The substitution might abuse this fact somehow, but it isn't fooling nobody, is it? I hope the article will explain, but I expect they are blissfully unaware of how intricate soundchange is.

For example, dang seems to be a cognate of danger, a francophone form of damage, evident in quelle domage "what a pitty", very far away from damnit "may he burn in hell", but the details are hazy. So people err on the safe side of I know what you are doing with the minced oath. In reality, it's prudishness mixed with language racism, excuse my french.

> a pilot study of 100 people who spoke one of five languages that are only distantly related: Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean or Russian

That's where I stopped reading. Because my statistics isn't up to the task of engaging their methods, and not because I were a militant defender of multiple language genesis. I just really need an excuse to spend my time better, elsewhere.
This was my thought as well. Perforce has its own issues, but is an industry standard in game dev for a reason: it can handle immense amounts of data.
Yes, incredibly significant. That is why the systems are different.
This work is the result of decades of effort under many administrations. This PR piece makes it sound like it all happened in the last two years under Biden-Harris and a set of Senators and Representatives who all happen to be from one party. I had to stop reading to get the vomit taste out of my mouth.
The most surprising thing I've learned from this is we're only allocating $624 million / year to this program. We really need better mechanisms for deciding how to allocate taxes.
Founding Engineer vs. CTO, who is the right one for your startup?
It'd be interesting to see the benchmark environment's raw ChaCha20Poly1305 throughput (the x/crypto implementation) in the analysis. My hunch is it's several times greater than the network, which would further support the argument.
Good point. What are they going to do to make me look cool then? Vaping (especially in cooler weather) looks ridiculous.
I didn't mean that at all. That would be ridiculous, and totally worth criticizing.

It's simply about untangling your mind. Often people get so wound up in pathology due to their problems that they make things worse than they need to be, so in that sense it can make things easier.

I never said in my example that my realization caused my problem to vanish. In fact, in some ways things quickly got worse, because now I'd started trying to deal with it without deflection.

> a person is sad because she’s not aware of her inner problems

A person is sad because something's fucked. If she doesn't even know what that is she's going to have a have a harder time dealing with it. Maybe it's something simple to fix, maybe it's not.
No need to worry about Cold Dunkelflaut!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xsg9iK5yo
Zelle REQUIRES a banking app.

I've used it through the web with no problems. Maybe it depends on your bank?

Totally agreed that the trend of requiring devices that have preinstalled rootkits is terrible.
> to set up DMA, IRQ, PORT, etc. settings to make sound work

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There are no ethical companies in the social media space - they're all trying to maximize engagement and manipulate you for economic gain. This is more like telling opioid addicts: "don't take that Chinese heroin, use our home-grown stuff instead".
It would help things immensely if people were more honest. Sometimes it takes more than a week to verify everything on their resume. References often don't get back ASAP. It's not like we won't ever find out that they were lying about their previous job. There are always some applicants who talk a lot, take credit for others' work, but can't actually anything.
Nobody said at all costs.
The main backlash for fission is not cost but danger.

Fusion removes it.
Ethereum has a potential use case for being productive (useful for ownership of digital assets). Bitcoin... that's difficult to see why it would be used.
Their silence on vaping IS promoting alternatives though
I'm not a fan of crypto, but that sounds like a stretch. I'm not aware you can go into any bank and withdraw e.g. a million just like that. It could be different in different countries, but there is a limit to what you can get done.

It could be careful manipulation on Binance's part, but we'll find out soon enough.
As a French person living in Sweden this does not match my experience about overworking. Working hours can be unreasonable in France and people in startups hace a much better life/work balance in Sweden. I know plenty of engineers working 8-19 or so in France, whereas in Sweden it basically does not seem to exist at all. You do your 40 hours and not more. In France officially it is 35 but outside the big companies you actually end up more around 50-55.

One thing I noticed in France on the other hand is the importance of the diploma. In Sweden it has very little value, whereas in France it sometimes shapes your whole career. And the good students coming from a good school directly get high paying jobs in big comfortable companies so that does limit the incentive to risk it all in a startup instead.

Regarding the cost to hire I think it's a false issue. It actually costs more to hire in the US because salaries are higher. Job safety and how hard it is to fire people largely depends of your company culture as well, in my experience for startups it is a very secondary problem. Usually if an employee is a clear misfit they also feel bad and are happy to take an exit package and get a job somewhere else that fits better. It is however a concern for larger companies when you have an employee of 20 years that would never find another job at the same salary level, is without motivation, and is nearly not possible to fire (you have plenty of those in the big french companies, having worked their whole carreer there and just waiting for retirement while doing the minimum not to get fired with cause). But that should not really impact innovation as you wouldn't find those employees in a startup.
Loosely related: a few years ago I wanted a simpler alternative to some of the more feature-full log viewers out there so I threw together a tiny (50kb) app that might be useful to some folks in here.

All it does is consistently colors the first field in a line from stdin so you can quickly see which log lines have the same first field.

I used it in combination with the parallel[0] command to prefix log lines by replica name when tailing logs across machines: https://github.com/jasisk/color-prefix-pipe

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
I really don't get this either. The guy has got to have a whole legion of lawyers. How are they allowing him to still speak publicly? I'm not even important and I've been consoled by company lawyers to not talk about stuff just "just in case". Yet this guy is is involved in one of the most high profile cases of all time screaming from the mountaintops about it.

This whole FTX thing is very suspicious on all kinds of levels internally and externally. So many things about FTX don't make sense as presented.
> The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
> more ethical companies... YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter

What do you use as the measurement for more ethical in this case? I see the companies you mentioned completely equivalent(all pretty bad) in terms of making choices that are best for our shared society.
For lossless audio only editing, and a very polished experience, check out

https://www.rogueamoeba.com/fission/
How do you deal with people lying on their resume? I'm curious what your hiring process looks like.
Conversely, if someone is tailgating you then tapping the breaks at 120 mph is much more dangerous than at low speeds, as they have less time to react. Likewise the sudden shock of going straight from inflation to deflation could be much worse than deflation after a long period of stagnancy, as not only do you suffer all the issues of deflation but you also have the delayed response of things adapting to the inflation.
Did you read the article? ByteDance's headquarters is in Beijing and these leaked audio tapes are talking about engineers in the headquarters logging into U.S. servers.

This isn't some smoking gun about CCP surveillance, but more about how the sausage is made for a global app.
Just visited France and it seemed all these people do is eat baguettes, sleep in, and work <20 hours a week.
Military interventions to blow up other people’s under construction fusion reactors will still be a thing, worry not
Here is the key element:

Musk has previously said Starlink could be spun off in a public listing once cash flow is more predictable. In June 2021, Musk said the company would need to invest $20 billion to $30 billion to maintain Starlink’s competitive position.

The basis for SpaceX valuation, much in the way Tesla's valuation is highly dependent on self-driving happening within a relevant time frame, depends on Starlink becoming a significant global telecom player, not just a niche player like Viasat.

Lots of open questions for both, but the most crucial one that jumps out to me is whether next gen Starlink satellites can create a reliable performant "backbone" in orbit to solve the performance and coverage limitations of a "bent pipe" architecture.

I put "backbone" in quotes because it will probably be significantly different from a terrestrial internet backbone. But it is the crucial element. This isn't as daunting a problem as full self driving using only computer vision, but it has never been done at the proposed scale and with performance and reliability that have to compete with terrestrial networks.
> In theory you might have insurance, but while unconscious you might still ‘pick’ an out-of-network hospital or anesthesiologist and end up with huge bills. If you know the right people and can afford it, you could then negotiate this down. Maybe. I know several smart Americans that had to live from their car while they sorted out financial issues.

This particular issue is, supposedly, fixed. See:

https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises/Ending-Surprise-Medical-Bill...

According to a sign at a hospital I read recently, this protection cannot be waived in the ER. The ER is simply not allowed to issue a “surprise” bill. (Which still permits outrageous bills, but insurance pays them per the usual rules.)
> Uh what US warfare have you been watching?

The one where the US tends to perform well against its adversaries. True in the Civil War. True in WW1. True in WW2. True in Korea. True in Vietnam. True in the Gulf War. True in Afghanistan. True in Iraq.

And now just a smidgen of its old weapons are helping Ukraine humiliate Russia.

The US was in Afghanistan for two decades with 1,932 soldiers killed by hostile action.

Russia lost 15,000+ soldiers in Afghanistan in ten years (probably far higher given the information available and how we've seen Russia lie so dramatically about its losses in Ukraine). It's going to lose 100,000 soldiers in Ukraine in a little over a year.

The US could have held Afghanistan perpetually with 15,000-20,000 soldiers on the ground. The Taliban is a joke of a fighting force, they never competed well with the US; but they have replacement numbers, and guerrilla wars are very time consuming to fight and require massive troop deployments to actually win (you have to suffocate every corner of the enemy presence, like battling an infestation). It wasn't worth it and voters decided that, it had begun to become an unpopular nation building exercise despite the very low losses for the US.
What’s your source for the $1bn?

Axios wrote that he spent $37 million on the midterms:

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/15/ftz-crypto-bankman-fried-de...
> People in Oregon and New Hampshire tend not to have very strong affection for their state

No, but people in the South have an affinity for the South and people in coastal cities have an affinity for those, too.
> If you happen to want a cut just 20 frames after a keyframe, those 20 frames could be computed (decoded) in order to create a new keyframe right in the spot you wanted.

All the P-frames and B-frames in between two I-frames have to be recomputed. That’s by definition re-encoding and not lossless.

You could re-encode just that small segment though.
This is vaguely reminiscent of the xor swap procedure, although it seems more practical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_swap_algorithm
GOVNO: A Better Way to Manage Projects
As opposed to a neutral protocol not controlled by any one entity. Think of it like email or the telephone network, versus the various instant messaging silos.
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it.
People give that one a lot of crap, but what it meant was just "press F1 after connecting the keyboard". In later BIOSes at least the error could usually be turned off, if you want to boot without a keyboard.
A Hydrogen Bomb. It is basically using a nuke (fission) to trigger fusion instead of lasers.
This was explained by another commenter yesterday, but this is not an issue. The 3.15:2.05 ratio is the news as it is the part that was difficult to achieve. The 300MJ accounts for significant laser inefficiencies in much the same way that the 3.15MJ of output won't convert to 3.15MJ of electricity as the conversion is not loss less.

In other words: it's a net-positive output for that reaction, not the whole process, there is still a lot of work to be done before you and I exchange comments on a server powered by fusion energy in homes powered by fusion energy.
So, they need to find gullible 3rd parties that accept to give them hard cash (USD) in exchange for their in house created clown money (BUSD), and then use this hard cash to go to the market and buy USDC. How is this different from FTX padding their balance sheet with billions of their own made up clown money? Crypto is ponzies all the way down.
I don't think they do, since they started with research done by the Smithsonian Institution.
I don't see the problem you're trying to allude to. Sounds like the algorithm worked as intended. TikTok quickly learned what you like and stopped showing you stuff you didn't.

Unless you're implying (not saying you are, just asking for clarification) that we should limit free speech based on words you (or some government official) find objectionable. Isn't that what China already does and what the US wants to avoid?

Should Andrew Shulz be banned because a lot of his jokes are racial? I'm guessing you'd be offended by a number of them, but I don't think that means Netflix/Youtube have a "content problem".
Well, technically speaking all those grand stategy games by paradox have turns - one month in EU4. Every player queues up actions in between turns, but they are doing it at the same time. IMO if we're being pedantic it's neither and is something in between skewed towards turn-based.

It's nothing like "pure" RTS like starcraft where everything is actually real time. Their 4X games have: speed control, pause, turns (days and months, depending on a game and action). If you remove ability make turns simulatinusly and make a single turn into a day - not much will change in gameplay other than it will take longer.
Just use structured logs, its 2022 ffs.
Its available on Good Old Games along with the sequel
> That game was awesome.

And there was nothing like it ever since. Single aspects yes, but not the whole package of game mechanics and story.
I think capital costs & construction times are going to be extremely important.

I think the biggest reason nuclear energy stopped being built is it takes too long to get political wins.

NuScale and other SMNRs might be able to help with that.

However, the capital costs & construction time for Fusion Energy should theoretically be much lower than nuclear reactors.

But are we too far away from it being a reality that anyone is predicting how much?
Pdd: Date diff command line tool
> The Park government provided these capitalists promotional privileges—particularly cheap credit from state-owned banks and monopoly privileges in local markets—to grow their firms

Sounds to me like the losers were Koreans whose businesses were crushed by an unequal playing field.

Had there been true competition, who is to say there wouldn't be more thriving and innovative businesses in Korea?
I noticed that very little of the flame graph is crypto which implies that the system under test could do 20-30 Gbps of ChaCha20Poly1305.
What scheme do you imagine that fusion could be used to replace petroleum that would not also work when powered by solar? Production of synfuels using hydrogen, for example, would also deal with solar's intermittency, leaving the energy sources to compete on the basis of levelized cost. The levelized cost of solar has become quite low, and it's very difficult to see how any fusion scheme, and DT fusion in particular, will ever compete.
There's nothing necessarily inherently wrong with TikTok, we as a society just aren't ready for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane

I'm sure some people can use TikTok responsibly but many can't. I also wouldn't want a foreign government (any foreign government) to have such a powerful psyop tool under their control. The extremely rapid feedback loops allow beliefs to coalesce so quickly that I imagine many people will get stuck in harmful local minima.
What is your point? That we should distrust everything in a scientific journal? You are shifting the goal post. First, you wanted a publication. Now, you say that would not be enough?

I am inclined to believe a publication unless other plasma physicist come out with a contradictory information.

It's easy to be cynic...
> We’ve gotten tot he point where we’ve gone way too far off the deep end when it comes to this narrative around political influence. the collective imagination seems to have risen to comic book level proportions.

Seriously. If I had a nickel for every time someone had posted on HN "SBF is immune because he donated a lot of money to Democrats" I'd have… well, a lot of nickels.

Madoff donated a lot of money to Democrats too and it didn't help him one bit.
I think the confusion here is at least partially due to most articles obscuring the primary purpose of the NIF. Its not supposed to support commercial energy development, its supposed to support nuclear weapons development under the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, where testing bombs via setting them off is banned.

So the NIF is supposed to give a testbed to study implosion created fusion reactions that produce enough energy to "ignite", that is, propegate the reaction to the rest of a hypothetical bomb. In that case, the amount of energy needed for the infrastructure to produce the initial implosion doesn't matter, what matters is that the energy coming out is more then the actual energy that triggered the reaction, so that the hypothetical bomb would blow up and not fizzle.
> The cuts are usually slightly off from where I'd ideally like them to be, I think because LosslessCut can only cut on i-frames[3], but it's a totally fair tradeoff for my use case.

There is an experimental "smart cut" mode where it re-encodes the video between your cut and the next keyframe. It will of course not be entirely lossless though

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126
We get taxed at 60%+ rates, have no energy and got trench warfare like it is the 1918. There's not much room for "innovation" in this hole.
Doesn't explain why they'd never get with the time and accept electronic submissions, which are probably easier on their end too.
Abort: stop run, return to DOS

Retry: retry the operation (great after you put a floppy in the drive)

Fail: return from system call with an error code, program keeps running
How old is someone in 7th grade middle school?
11-12?

Neither a good Lord nor a LOL for the death of a preteen who made dumb decisions.
You read the candidates CV, you ask them what they last worked on, ask them why they want to work at your company, if they are okay with the posted salary range. Maybe have them write a short bit of code to make sure they aren't totally bullshitting you.

That takes about one or two hours.

Then you think about it, and if you want to hire them send them an offer the next day.

First 3 months of the contract is trial period (you can fire them without severance in the trial period if it doesn't work out).

Not sure why you need weeks to evaluate a candidate, either they are a fit or not.
> Except colorways

It's not even so much that that was bad—except in the way all FF updates are a little bit bad, since they like to hit you with useless pop-ups or spammy extra tabs that auto-focus next time you open the browser—as that it was weird.

Making a huge deal out of adding themes—a feature FF had years and years ago, except that they were much better then—was so strange. They acted like it was some kind of big deal and I was over here like... wait, did you guys cut that feature at some point? It was like Microsoft making an announcement about adding a Start button, and all the copy reading like they didn't even realize that was something they'd already done.

The time-limited aspect was also odd (and, in that case, a little bad, in that I think many found it off-putting).
Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram already provide alternatives that are nearly identical in functionality.
A uranium-gun bomb has a very simple theoretical basis, but enriching uranium is very expensive (and was even more expensive in the 1940s. Producing enough enriched uranium was the only hard problem in making that bomb; in fact they did not even test the bomb before dropping it on Hiroshima because they were fairly sure it was going to work and wouldn't have enough enriched uranium for a second bomb on the timelines involved.

Plutonium was significantly more easy to produce, but it did require some novel engineering for the implosion lens. They weren't sure it was going to work and did, in fact, test the bomb before dropping it on Nagasaki.

I think the Manhattan project is a great example of where more funds can help; if the funds were more restricted, it's entirely possible they would have gone with the "sure thing" of the uranium bomb instead of spending resources on the less sure plutonium bomb. Trying out multiple ideas in parallel often "wastes" money since if you try ideas in tandem, you will always try the high-percentage ideas first.
Flu, RSV and Covid are wreaking havoc but teachers don’t feel they can stay home
Apparently the semiconductor industry already has lasers that are 20x more efficient than what was used in this experiment.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. If customers didn't want their USDC deposits converted, they shouldn't have used Binance. Its not a public service company. Same goes for your expectations of custody, they never claimed to be one.

Conversions are even announced when you go to deposit USDC:

"Please note that your USDC Deposit will be auto-converted to BUSD at a 1:1 Ratio. Please refer to announcement details. https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/e62f703604a9..."

I don't see how your point holds, besides "customer expected X, but got Y" - but this is because customer is misinformed, not because Binance has an obligation to store USDC 1:1 (in this case).