skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in the US, $100K/yr puts you comfortably above median income. If I had $100K/yr of GUARANTEED income, I would stop working for money and do whatever I felt like for the rest of my life.
It's a matter of perspective. When you run a business, all of your public communication is marketing communication. That's why they're phrased in the positive, and they're not necessarily highlighting the shortcomings they're aware of.
> maintaining a nuclear deterrent without nuclear testing

What is meant by this?
Y is the energy that was holding some hydrogen atoms together which you have liberated (while destroying the atoms in question but that's OK cause it's abundant).
I haven't fallen in love with a piece of software this quickly in so long
MIPS for the Masses
“If you are [not]” serves a different function than “unless.”

“Unless” is a conjunction, and its presence creates a double negative with the end of the sentence making the sentence extra clunky (“unless you’re a Ruby dev, you shouldn’t read this article.”)

A few iterations later, we get to the correct syntax, “read this article if you’re a Ruby dev.”
He said some pretty awful stuff about race and gender on Twitter.
Or even a static website that you can deploy on many free CDNs, such as cloudflare pages, vercel or netlify.
Furthermore we know that the wallet spent coins in 2017, three years after Hal's death. Someone other than Hal had (has?) access to the private key for that address.
Why is rice ok? It is processed, high carb, low fiber. Good if you are starving, tastes good, but seems like it should be skipped as much as a typical junk food.
Also, SpaceX did it 60 years later.
Apple, and only Apple, gets to decide what is allowed to run on the devices consumers own.

Similarly, Google is converging on the same anticompetitive practices with the Play Store.

This duopoly quite literally prevents competition in the mobile app distribution and mobile app payments markets.
Um, no. "Regular" extensions used XUL. XUL is mostly gone. "Regular" extensions worked by directly modifying the code that controlled the browser and content, sometimes by decompiling existing functions and patching them with search & replace. Now the content is in its own process, the extension is in a sandbox, and the only code you can screw up with search & replace is your own extension's.

The browser has been "crippled" into a much better architecture.

But yes, there are some seemingly arbitrary restrictions on what APIs are exposed. Some are to save people from themselves, some aren't implemented because of the maintenance burden or resource cost, and some are a result of bad prioritization and/or lack of vision. Reasonable people disagree about what falls into which category.
No, you can have a fusion booster, like in the "Sloika" [0] design, but for a Teller-Ulam design, that is a H-bomb, you use a nuclear primer to ignite a fusion reaction and by far the most energy comes from the fusion part. [1]

[0] https://www.atomicarchive.com/history/hydrogen-bomb/page-11....

[1] https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Library/Teller.html
This is 100% Figma related.
> Europe doesn't really have winter compared to North America, unless you're making a quip about their energy crisis ;-)

Neither does most of America. You nitpicked one place in NA then forgot sweden finland and norway exists...
I'm sure they'll be able to afford volcano insurance. I bet they could even find someone who's willing to insure their homes against Elf invasions.
> And, you didn't see that here.

We all literally did. You said, quoted:

> I don't need to read other's research about dark mode to know how it lessens eye-strain. I have performed the experiment myself with my own eyes.

That is exactly the same as "I know this is true and I don't need researchers telling me otherwise".

> It is ridiculous to wait for what others say about whether dark or light mode strains one's eyes more, since each person already has a pair of eyes to test what works for them.

That's not how having eyes works - you are physically incapable of measuring eye strain yourself without external equipment and rigorous scientific process. Your subjective perception of reality is not objective reality itself, and your perceived comfort level is not consistent with the actual strain being put on your body, full stop.

Your logic of "each person already has a pair of eyes to test what works for them" directly implies that things that feel good are good for you, which is objectively not how the body works.

You're completely and categorically wrong here.
“It’s a shed, not a bridge” is a great engineering slogan.
When a baseball batter hits a ball at a record 120mph, you calculate the impulse of force (∆p) they put into the swing to cause that result, not the total calories the player consumed during the past year in order to build their muscles.

You're arguing that the process of charging some inefficient lasers (aka eating food throughout the year) is invalidating this entire result. That was never part of the experiment, nor is it relevant to this test.

I understand exactly what you wrote above, and I'm telling you that it's not relevant to this discovery. You're arguing a non-sequitur in the classic definition.
IIRC part of the issue is that NIF's lasers are very old and much less efficient than more modern ones. So the 300 MJ needed to power the lasers is higher than would be expected if this were commercialized.
Plenty of hundred and more year old wooden houses where I live in Norway. It can be hard to tell though until you see someone take off the external planks to renew them and you seethe solid baulks of timber underneath.

My wooden house was built in 1953 with a concrete watertight cellar serving as the foundation. The wood doesn't start until more than half a metre above ground. I see no reason why it shouldn't last another fifty years or more.
A long time ago we discovered Twitter used a round robin of three servers for assigning IDs to tweets. We inferred the round robin was done by doing mod 3 of a signed int32, and because that space doesn't divide neatly by two it meant one of the three servers saw less load than the others and we could map ID assignment volume according to how often it overflowed and hence estimate total tweet volume for a given period.

Some of the details escape me (this was a decade ago) but it was a fun combination of statistical inference and CS knowledge that I don't get to use often. Whenever integer overflow comes up in a systems engineering context I get a little tickled.
> As a raw vegan my blood sugar was low

Interestingly, as a pre-diabetic zero carber my blood sugar is excellent in as little as a week. Not meaning to make fun of your diet, just observing that what you ingest != what's in your blood stream, we are very complex chemical machines.

In this case a moderately high carb diet like yours results in low sugar, while a diet with <5g of carbs a day results in healthy sugar levels.

(The reason is insulin. Remove dietary carbs, you generate less insulin, so blood sugar flatlines, with gluconeogenesis to maintain the minimal levels to function, while the rest of the energy is provided by fatty acids)
The "unsafe app" thing may be against the new law. The text of the law is "The gatekeeper shall not prevent business users from offering the same products [...] at prices or conditions that are different from those offered through the online intermediation services of the gatekeeper"

Keyword being conditions. Having a third-party app store disable a bunch of functionality would be different conditions than a first-party app store.
In my experience, "balloon framing" meant that a two story house was framed with two story studs. That is, 14-16 foot studs, sometimes sistered if the local wood wasn't long enough.
I don't know but Martin's claim just showed up on the Wikipedia page > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux

> On December 13, 2022, Martin Shkreli alleged that a message connected to a January 12, 2009 transaction sent to the Bitcoin wallet belonging to Hal Finney, who received the first ever Bitcoin transfer, revealed Le Roux as being the sender.[44] This claim was debunked in short order by Bitcoin developers such as Peter Wuille[45], and Greg Maxwell[46]. These individuals, along with other less known pointed out the poster of the signed message was not even competent enough to spell Le Roux's name correctly. In addition, the signature does not appear in the public blockchain.
exactly. this has nothing to do with proving it is Santoshi, nor is it a hash collision.

All it means is multiple people have Hal's private key and somehow either Martin is one of them, or he was told to post this message.
Apple may argue you paid to get a locked-down device and I don’t think they ever claimed otherwise.

Also, if you buy an Xbox, Tesla, Fitbit watch, fridge, etc. you can’t load whatever you please, either. Why would all smartphones be different?

If you look at it historically, the PC is about the only device allowing that kind of user control.
> What would be some use cases for this?

It can do image recognition, speech recognition or text classification (eg, is this positive or negative sentiment) using the same model architecture (trained on different data each time)

It's very competitive in each of those fields with the existing state of the art. This is interesting because usually the models for each of those fields are different.

> How does it work?

It's trained by passing sequences of data (pixels sequentially, words in order, speech as a wav file) with part of each sequence masked out. The model has to learn to correctly guess what is in that masked area.

The innovation is that it instead of predicting the masked area directly, it tries to predict what the representation of that masked area is in the Neural Network itself. That's extremely unusual (I don't think I've seen that before) and I'll need to study it more to completely understand why that explains the better performance.

It's also very fast to train.
Probably but big houses here are also built with brick
Someone probably joked they would never reach that scale when they wrote that code
My son has a masters in nuclear physics and i've always been curious as to why iron causes stars to explode.

He does an excellent job explaining things and put it to me like this.

Elements to the Left of Iron can undergo fusion and release energy, Elements to the right can undergo fission and release energy.

Iron IS the line because it needs energy to do either of these.

All elements want to find stability, and Iron is that Element because it needs energy for either fission or fusion.

So yes, Iron is the dividing line and this is what makes it so stable.

Edit: forgot to link the chart when referencing left or right..

http://www.splung.com/content/sid/5/page/benergy
You might want to have a look at Pgx:

https://github.com/tcdi/pgx
Wow. That was long overdue. Thank you!
Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever (2020)
Well, the alternatives are:

- let the free market create even more perverse incentives

- let regulators use even more restrictive means of limiting innovation

As someone who errs moderate on the economy, I'd prefer that we don't lean into either extreme. Neither one seems to work well.
Android, macOS, and Windows aren't being blamed by Facebook public for a $10 million drop in ad revenue due to a change in iOS policies, so it's not quite the same fruit.
Hi!

Shipnix does not provide the hardware itself, but uses a third-party server provider like DigitalOcean. So the server costs are extra.

Thanks for the feedback. I meant to add a line on the pricing page to clarify this, but it slipped. Will add this withing a few minutes!
I would guess a lot of people don't associate feelings with colors, or at least associate them on a one-to-one basis. For me there is lots of texture and shape involved. But I found the basic self-interrogation great for self-awareness and it inspired me to realize I can be a little more systematic about it, just in a different way than the site creator.
Congrats to the Adams brothers.

To my knowledge, Dwarf Fortress is the closest thing to Hari Seldon’s Prime Radiant
Yet, in a way, it is, isn’t it? What is curing disease if not increasing life expectancy?
Eh, kind of. Builders in the northeast didn’t choose balloon framing because it’s thermally efficient - they just didn’t have alternatives in the same cost range. Many homes in that region were build with masonry claddings as well to increase thermal mass and R value of the wall.

The foam sheet insulation you speak of is relatively new to the industry, at least for middle class homes. Having a continuous layer of insulation outside the framing definitely makes stick framing more energy efficient than it would be with traditional fiberglass batt insulation in a wall cavity.
Could it be argued that we should invest more in ICF and less in tokamaks, given this result? I don't know enough about the field to say.
Entering the World of DSPs
Summary: a private key associated with the very first non-coinbase transaction in Bitcoin appears to have signed a message making the claim in the title.

For those downplaying the claim based on the source, this is irrelevant. The signature and the public key are all that are needed. The author is irrelevant to verification, although he probably has an interesting story to tell about how he came about this message and signature.

The payment was locked to this address:

1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3

The first payment can be viewed here:

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/f4184fc596403b9d638783cf57...

You can see that this payment was included in block 170. The network produces ~144 blocks/day. So this transaction occurred almost at the launch of the network.

Hal Finney has claimed, without proof AFAIK, that this payment was made by Satoshi to him:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0

The implication is that a private key known by Finney signed the message claiming that Satoshi was Paul Le Roux. The latter was the subject of a piece speculating that he was Satsoshi:

https://www.wired.com/story/was-bitcoin-created-by-this-inte...

This doesn't necessarily mean that Finney was involved. You can browse the transaction history associated with the address here:

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwx...

As you can see, a signed transaction was published as late as ~2018~ 2017. Finney died in 2014.

So there are a few possibilities for what's going on, including:

1. Finney is not dead.

2. Finney's private key was leaked to someone who signed the message.

3. secp256k1 cryptography (the kind used for Bitcoin signatures) is now broken.

4. Finney signed the message sometime before he died.

Given that few outside of Bitcoin know about Finney's legendary status, (3) seems unlikely because the attacker could have just signed with the private key for the genesis block.

This leaves (1) and (2), and (4). I'm doubtful about (1). Finney suffered from a horrible, fatal disease and it was obvious in the interviews he gave.

The most likely explanations are (2) and (4) IMO. The presence of the transactions signed after Finney's death is consistent with (2).

When a Bitcoin payment is spent, the private key often has little monetary value (but a lot of privacy value). So the cryptographic material encoding it might be treated in ways allowing it to be used by others.

Then again, it's possible that Finney signed the message, later died, and his private key was leaked.

However, you slice it, this is not clear cut. There are various kinds of evidence that would make it more so, but AFAICT, they have not yet surfaced.

Edit: Maybe Finney signed the 2017 transaction before he died and then it was later published. This kind of thing might be done for estate planning (although not a good idea). The transaction:

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/70ec308460a38f6de25f89c6ed...

spends three coins locked to the 1Q2 address and is dated 2017-09-05. However, one of the coins was only appeared in 2017. This raises the question of where that coin came from and whether it could have been minted before Finney's death.
His Ponzi scheme started in 1991. Ponzi schemes are exponential, so more than 90% of the volume was after 2002. What's with the leading zeros?
Yes. That should be solved too.
Apple is blamed by Facebook publicly for a $10 million drop in ad revenue due to a change in iOS policies. Google is not.
A good long(ish) read. A case of "the biter bit" as the mental effects of understanding the pains of the would-be renters starts eating into the author's mental health.

The bit at the end with the premises video-camera whirring to watch her go into the newly rented apt Struck me as the other side of this digitized rental coin.
YouTube spam comments are out of control. Many comments with 1000s of upvotes
Billionaires are now chasing the critical magnet rare earths
You must not have experience with elderly relatives on the edge of Alzheimers or other forms of dementia. It happens; it happens to the best of us.
I’m not thinking about just replacing grid energy, but carbon removal. If we can get fusion scaled up and efficient it should be no sweat to use it to just remove carbon from the air

In fact carbon removal might be a great way to subsidize fusion at the outset so that it can be overprovisioned/have a guaranteed minimum price
I think that’s a silly argument.

First, aren’t smokers paying for it through the high taxation of cigarettes?

Second, wouldn’t this argument also apply to people that drink themselves to death? Or eat themselves to obesity? Or snack on sugar to diabetes? Should we not cover someone’s medical bills if they attempt suicide or drive at high speeds and crash?

I’m saying this as a non-smokers who hates the smell of cigarettes.
I realize not all signatures are on the chain, that’s obvious if you know what a signature is. That’s why I’m asking whether it appears on the chain. :)

If it appears somewhere associated with that transaction, that’s pretty strong evidence that Shkreli is correct.

If it does not appear on chain at all, then Shkreli is wrong and his post proves nothing about the identity of Satoshi.
That's the price of devs having to deal with shitty Apple ecosystem
False dichotomy. The alternative to AWS is not building your own data center. It's renting bare-metal servers from Hetzner/DigitalOcean.

Zero hardware headaches with x5-10 lower cost.
I made one seemingly fine on a iPhone X - but I updated via a cable to my Mac instead of doing it on device.
What you're saying is that you like Apple's playpen, so everyone else should be forced to stay in that playpen, too.

If you want to stay in the playpen, that's fine, but there's no reason why users who want to use the full potential of their devices shouldn't be able to in order to keep you happy.

It's not a dichotomy. If you want to keep your options limited, stay in the playpen. Users who value freedom, competition, and efficiencies of markets can also enjoy those things, but they currently are prevented because Apple will pull no stops to protect their App Store moneyhose.
These comparisons are entirely correct and accurate.

The linked article is about objective measures of eye strain and health. Unless someone explicitly says otherwise, it's very reasonable to assume that they're also discussing those objective measures instead of subjective perception. If not - they're completely off-topic and they shouldn't be commenting here.

In particular, the comment earlier in this thread "I don't need to read other's research about dark mode to know how it lessens eye-strain. I have performed the experiment myself with my own eyes." doesn't say "my subjective perception of eye-strain", so we can assume that they're referring to the objective measurements, as is the actual topic for the thread.
got caughtup in the gamergate/qanon drama and it's all downhill from there

imo once you lose your anchors to reality and social media becomes your world your mind is gone there's just so much contradiction and noise
A few weeks ago I had a windows installer that was silently failing when upgrading from an older version (installation from scratch was working without issues). And as windows install logs aren't exactly easy to read, I was stumped, until I took an upgrade log from an older, working build, strip all date information from both files and compare them, checking all the sections which were different, until I found a line indicating that a colleague had forgotten about a limitation when dealing with msp (don't delete components on minor upgrades, but I didn't throw any stones as I've done the same mistake, twice, one and two years ago...)
Are there any thoughts on how this will become a power plant yet? It's awesome to see it filled up, reacted and then reset as a proof of concept, but can it ever be a continuous flow through the chamber without losing that ignition temp? Or will it be more like a 4 cylinder engine where each reactor is at a different stage of being filled, heated, reacting and emptying, with the net result being continuous?

Edit: Taking the internal combustion metaphor further, I'm imagining these connected in a circle. The grid is the starter motor to power the first laser, then each active chamber powers the laser on the next one (probably by capacitor not directly). Thus the energy production moves around the circle with each chamber being flushed and refilled before the laser powers back on. How far off is that image in my head? I've never actually seen it described
This from that auto-transcribed story below the video is just .. beautiful:

“Not only do masks prrhinologist Dr. Benjamin Bleierotect you from the direct inhalation of viruses, but it’s also like wearing a sweater on your nose,” he said."

Poetry, of machine-translation kind.
Ok, I've lowered the upper bound. Thanks!
That's using a 5 percent withdrawal rate.

A 4 or even 3 percent withdrawal rate is more likely to be sustainable. Those are also rates I see suggested more commonly on retirement planning sites.
A recommended diet is considered affordable if it does not exceed 63% of the median income

63% of income on food is expensive

the question is relative to what

Relative to the standard American diet, what you are suggesting is expensive. Processed foods may be bad for you, but they are unarguably cheap calories.
I think this is the same thing I was trying to address with this paragraph at the end:

> Another suggestion: provide browser extensions and iOS/Android sharing menu items so that it's easy to open an web page in the reading app. If there's one or more RSS feeds detected, throw in a subscribe button with checkboxes for each feed. The "shareable subscribe links" should include a link to the original RSS feed in the page metadata. Then if I click on the subscribe link but want to subscribe with a different RSS reader, I can do so easily.

i.e. we should be sure to provide smooth user experiences both for people who don't yet use a feed reader and for people who do. Agreed that Mastodon does this nicely, and I think adding in some browser extensions/mobile apps would help to automate things a bit more.
Please don't call him Australian, we don't want him.
I also have no idea what this guy is talking about but I can tell you "has a" is always better than "is a" and that inheritance is always a huge mistake. Even in UI.
With modern products, it is easy. Check out the ZIP System which glues foam insulation to OSB.
Well, if you had a giant, heavy slab at the lowest possible point - silly not to use it as a frame. Some EVs are somewhere in-between - not strictly body on frame, but also no unibody.