skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone already knew fusion was possible, after all it happens everyday in the sun and we know how to make fusion bombs. For a fun science project you can even make https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor at home and get started fusing atoms right in the comfort of your home. The NIF news is a good step, but it is quite far from a working fusion reactor. For one, it is a single shot reaction after which significant recharge time is required; it is not a steady state reaction. Secondly, it may have been energy positive when measuring energy released vs laser energy in, but you cannot charge (these kind of) lasers with heat. The electrical energy required to pump the lasers was much much bigger than the energy released. Converting the heat energy to electricity would run into all sorts of efficiency losses as well, most notably the Carnot efficiency which states that for any set of practical temperatures (ie with a reasonable cooling source like a river and with a turbine operating temperature that doesn't melt the turbine blades) the efficiency won't be all that much higher than 60% or so.

BTW, it made front page on all of the news publications I regularly follow so I don't see this as being ignored so much as that it is merely one item in a huge stream of other important news.
Presumably the M name was inspired by C, the nickname given to the mi6 chief in real life.

The C comes from that being what the first chief of mi6 used to sign, his surname was Smith-Cumming. Interestingly, he also famously said, after it was discovered that human semen works well as invisible ink, that "Every man his own stylo" - rather appropriate for a man named Cumming.

edit: wiki says that staff under him used that phrase, I'm not 100% sure he coined it or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield_Smith-Cumming
Steel manning really only works if you can assume the other person continues to argue in good faith. If the other person keeps moving the goalposts and demanding you construct a strong argument for their behavior they're just being abusive and I would suggest the best course of action is to leave.
It's just business sense: if the previous guy drops the client like a hot potato, it's a pretty strong hint that they're trouble. Although in SBF's case you don't really need to rely on subtle hints to find that out.
I've been trying to find my "life's work" for years. I've tried writing, painting, drawing, programming, linocuts, woodworking etc. I really want to find that thing but nothing has been fulfilling enough so far
Apple will reportedly allow side loading of apps in iOS 17
If that's your view on privacy, fine. But what about these accounts?

- https://twitter.com/BillGatesJet

- https://twitter.com/bezosjets

This selective ban is indefensible, obviously personal, with no ties to any overarching principals.
In my dysfunctional organization we spend half of every quarter planning OKRs for the next.

First we have to collect all of the O's from top down and adjacent team blockers. Then we have to craft measurable KRs. Engineers are usually involved to size the effort of each. Then we need to make sure the total size maps to our bandwidth. We spend weeks prioritizing, and negotiating, pushing back up and to the side the work we can't take, and organizing cross-team dependencies to refine them to the final prioritized set.

At this point engineers have been dragged far into the planning process for sizing and have been thrashed by hearing glimmers of a chance to work on project X only to find out it's de-prioritized for project Y and now they have to size that effort instead.

The PMs will remind you if there isn't a number or a binary-sounding deliverable in every KR, and will hound you about getting a baseline and building the measurement tooling if there isn't one available. Sometimes making something measurable means instrumenting A/B tests, building dashboards, or instrumenting some metric capture. If it can't be measured, it can't be done in the OKR framework.

Once we begin the actual work In the glorious 4-week period where we aren't planning our next quarter OKRs, we're meeting daily and weekly to report progress at different levels. It's exhausting. This is where a lot of blatant funny business occurs with how folks measure and report progress that destroys the whole process.

I think on paper OKRs sound logical. Concrete goals and measurable deliverables are good. In practice it's a huge time suck and far less actual progress is made. It's a toilsome framework and a drain on morale. The only folks who seem to like OKRs are upper-management and PMs who are so detached from actual work that it's the only way they can feel like things are happening.
Making Dioxus (almost) as fast as SolidJS
It took Hank Green (someone I feel is exceptionally good at distilling scientific oddities into layman-speech) about 3 minutes to explain the backstory as to why this was exciting news.

It's a big deal, but understanding why it's a big deal requires a fair bit of knowledge which can't easily be digested without time most news outlets are unwilling to devote to it.

https://www.tiktok.com/@hankgreen1/video/7176414313681292549...
I'll let the FAA know they're instrumental in violating the privacy of jet owners.
even the cherrypicked stuff he did release is a nothingburger
It doesn't have to be perfect - the blocking thing is only a regulatory compliance and PR thing about how they're "protecting" children. As long as the regulators are happy and the PR is working, nobody internally cares or wants to make it 100% bulletproof (also because making it so will increase the support burden helping users who can't use the bulletproof verification flow despite being over 18).
Lets not pretend that just because some people happened to be right, that is an indicator of some information that they had. Most of the hate towards Twitter came from hate towards Musk.
He is definitely changing course here (he has publicly stated he wouldn’t squash this account) but my idea is, one of his peons is enforcing some policy about automated scripts controlling accounts. Has anyone read the TOS or seen what has changed?
Has Elon ever heard of the Streisand effect?
In theory it doesn't have to. In practice, yes.

My comment said that rust had a great cross-platform story, not Dioxus. If I was doing cross-platform rust I'd use cacao for iOS, Dioxus for web front end, et cetera.
Didn’t Sweden take this risk? Looking at the data, it seems to have paid off unless I’m reading it wrong
Sort of like saying if you have nothing to hide, why should you be afraid of the police? Civil liberties are just a luxury for the innocent?
Post photos of your garden and we will be able to take a look.
> there is a difference when its made extremely accessible

This has absolutely no meaning and has no parallels to surveillance of private life.
All the worst people I've ever known have argued against any goodness or altruism existing.

All the worst cheaters say everyone cheats (which apparently is enough justification to supersede their own public marital vows.)

Arguing that people are universally terrible is a huge signal that the person making the argument is terrible. Don't go into professional partnerships with them, I've seen at least 3 people like that whose behavior has devolved into eventual jail time and they've wrecked their companies.

The world has a surprisingly high percentage of amoral assholes who have a vested interest in pretending everyone is as misanthropic and self-centered as they are, but it's still a small minority.
Weird take. I think the real reason they failed is because people don't actually want much from them after the novelty factor wears off.

"By the way, I can..."

You are a light switch

"Oh my god"
This particular story is the moral equivalent of a company breaking the million dollar barrier. From a certain point of view, it's big news... but from another more objective point of view, "a million dollar income" is completely arbitrary. The set of caveats they add to "got more energy out than we put in" in this particular story is equally arbitrary.

Or, in other words, yes, this isn't as big a deal as you think, because they are... well... at least shading the truth. They've created a fairly arbitrary and practically useless measure for which this is "over unity". What's more, this isn't just me being negative; as many people observed in the HN comment chain there are ways in which it's kind of arbitrarily low too, like, we already apparently have lasers that would be more efficient and make the overall ratio of input to output look better. It's arbitrary in a lot of ways, not just self-serving ones.

It's not a huge breakthrough. It's an incremental step. That's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. We're going to see a lot of incremental steps between here and where even we finally land on with fusion. But there's been so many and will be so many more incremental steps that they aren't really newsworthy for a general audience.
Bots are allowed on Twitter if disclosed, which ElonJet was.
Artificial or not (I argue not), my statement is still correct. I am not sure what you are defending here.
> There is an alternative justification in the right to privacy. Such accounts are indeed reckless with no corresponding need to know. No one's free speech rights are being suppressed here.

But Musk had previously called out specifically this account as one that he would not ban (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456). So, whether or not he has a right to ban it, this represents a reneging on an explicit commitment.
Nothing new under the sun. This is politics as its been since 2012. Redditors in this thread will clutch their pearls and nothing will come of it.
Absolutely. And pretty much no one in mainstream media is talking about it, other than some very surface level articles about how it will "finally" make social media companies responsible for the less savoury content. Which it will, sure, but at an incredible price.
While I’m unsure I’ll be using Swift for the rest of my life, I’ll continue to work on my little tool to detect unused code for as long as I can. It’s my most popular open-source contribution, and it brings me joy knowing others find it useful.

https://github.com/peripheryapp/periphery
Indeed, Pareto distribution.
FTX had KYC as does any exchange with bank accounts. But that doesn’t prevent people from paying nominees for register accounts for them either.
I see a ton of comments here laying some blame on the physical platform by which information is relayed (PC vs Phone/Tablet/etc.), but I think just as much blame can be put on how we access that information on any platform. UI has changed drastically over time, and what is considered good UI depends on what context the UI is used from.

What's good for regular old consumption is not good for utilizing tools in the workplace, at least for the most part. Apps such as TikTok and the like are very little more than Skinner boxes, and having to go through extra steps to get the reward when using an honest to goodness tool UI on the job immediately disrupts the reward pipeline in one's head and causes frustration.

Sure, phones have contributed to the one touch paradigm of such applications, but it comes down to usage context just as much. It's no wonder that kids are struggling with what millennials understand to be applications.

I'll also add that despite rumors of the age of the hacker's demise, it is very much alive and well. It's still the case that only a fraction of the population has that itch to take a look under the hood. Only the technological landscape has changed
I think they're more than happy to let the US foot the bill for the criminal trial. I'm sure there will be plenty of civil lawsuits flying in from all corners of the globe though.
I'm similar, though not necessarily chores - usually other projects.

In my goal tracker, I set high levels goals to be productive, but then about 30 different possible tasks count as productive. I track them at a low level so I can keep a good track of my time, but they all count towards the high level daily/weekly goal of being productive. That way I make sure I'm just doing _something_ productive, if not the thing I planned to do, rather than screw around surfing Reddit or something.

Of course, this strategy works much better if you're a bootstrapped founder with 40 important tasks in front of you. It works less well if you have a daily standup with a project manager stressing the importance of only doing the JIRA ticket at the top of the backlog. So YMMV.
The focus on masking and vaccines is really just cope that the average person in the first world is so atrociously unhealthy.

You want to reduce strain on the healthcare system? Mandate exercise and outlaw fat people.

Passports for restaurants that show you've been eating healthy.

Of course that's facetious, inhumane and absurd, but so is the public health policy we get shoved down our throats.
I'm happy to affirm for you that I don't believe that there's a "grand conspiracy", just routine groupthink dynamics. :)
> Having two independent implementations is good for finding code depending on compiler bugs.

I'd go as far as to claim that having multiple independent implementations is a basic requirement for any programming language which has any aspirations of being production-ready.
> then just don't eat there

But all my local events are on it. So yes I can delete my account… but that amounts to becoming a social outcast.
Part 69
I mostly just want one of the formats to become the new defacto standard.

I wouldn't be too put out if either "won". If for example Apple did their usual weird thing and vowed to only supported AVIF then that would be an unfortunate reality I could live with.

Having said that, the data put forward by the AVIF team to support their removal of the rival is somewhere between partisan and fraudulent. The current submission is very measured in its criticism.

Most worryingly, from a non partisan standpoint, poor benchmarks lock us all into inferior performance.

If for whatever reason AVIF becomes the standard, the team's crappy report immediately becomes a barrier to actually improving the performance of AVIF, because any honest attempt to improve it will show JPEG-XL in a better light and therefore cause embarrassment.

Since we already went through this with WebP Vs MozJPEG it's sad to see a rerun.
Oh you mean like how Trump invited crackpots to the capitol? You seem to want to both ways.
I use virtual machines that can be paused. I can freely go to different tasks without too much friction.

You should also document all steps that got you to a certain point, so they can be quickly recreated.
I agree, which is why I'm not advocating writing or designing your own toolkit. Instead we as a developer community should focus on the "next generation" of toolkits for the modern cross-platform world. Take all that we have learned from GTK, Qt, Flutter and all the web stuff and incorporate it into something new for the next 10-20 years.

Rust is a nice language for that since it is already a "next-generation" language in terms of memory safety and its momentum is still building. Projects like Druid, while far from ready, are a good starting point.
He certainly has not demonstrated that he's in favor of free speech. He did restore a bunch of accounts - mostly far right trolls - and banned a bunch of others. It's not like Twitter wasn't a cesspool before, but he managed to make it worse while blaming the previous regime for being asleep at the wheel. The guy who used to be in charge of content moderation recently had to flee his home after Musk suggested Twitter had been turning a blind eye to child abuse and his army of sycophants went on the warpath. This is after he fired the entire team responsible for dealing with that garbage. He accuses companies who are cutting back advertising of being against free speech. The guy is a straight up cyber bully. Anyone paying attention has known that for years. Free speech only matters when it's his own free speech.
SEC to Propose the Biggest Trading Reforms in Decades
This thread has nothing to do with emissions. It's about privacy and surveillance.
Thanks for the info - you mentioned a second attempt - is there any public info about it? I remember their first offering which was based on a company called Limitless which ended up going into administration, but I'm not aware of any other attempts?
Ok I’ll reframe. The speech doesn’t have to cause harm under new moderation rules, it’s all this guy’s toy. Nobody is punching Musk not even with a fire extinguisher
There's a very real argument to be made now that remaining publicly in control of Tesla is bad for TSLA shareholders. The brand is going to suffer if he doesn't at least put a plausible puppet at the head of the company.

Twitter is already a lost cause. He wanted to create a more popular Parler. Probably it'll just end up in the same place with the same niche user base.

At least SpaceX has Gwynn.
Killing agility with excessive meetings
This site seems to confirm that the plane is indeed on the LADD list https://laddlist.com/aircraft/N628ts

Thus the only public source is ADSBExchange because it uses croudsourced data. Imagine that people put crowdsourced license place readers on their private property and then through a made an aggregate of this data on the public movements over every car available (and charged commercial users.)

That would be quite problematic for personal privacy.

ADSBExchange isn't quite the same as that since airplane movement is less granular and thus less privacy is lost. Also, the people who use private jets tend to be rich and powerful, so there's an aspect of "punching up" here that is not present in the crowdsourced car movement analogy. Still, I don't think the privacy considerations here are as cut and dry as the people who are claiming "it's public data, what's the problem?" are making it out to be.
golinks.io is a close copy.
As of right now, @bezosjets and @ZuccJet, operated by the same person as @ElonJet, are both active.
Just my guess, I think his mind has some deep delusions because of drugs he is using and maybe more.
It depends I think it's extremely hypocritical of Musk to ban speech like doxxing, based on his past comments.
It was covered in Zone Economie (Radio Canada, Quebec daily) and they rarely talk about science related news.
https://archive.ph/C4XwD
I meant in regards to the article mentioning the need for fire blocking and other additional work to prevent spread of fires in walls.
The Unicode model is complex and overengineered. Like many Python features, it requires permanent marketing until people believe it is good. It provides a steady income stream for those paid to "work" on Python.

The right way would have been utf-8, which is the only reasonable representation.
Indexing could have been broken early in Python 3 or outsourced to a special type.
> Treating an illness is even more profitable than curing it

You have to actually treat it though - if the patient dies, it isn't profitable either. I suppose (all morality aside), the optimal profitability would be in a cure that required an annual installment fee.
It's all about what we call a "reasonable expectation of privacy" right? And all Sweeney did was publish information that was already publicly available[1], right?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sweeney
The mind as a "suggestion engine" is an interesting take. On one hand, it supports this idea that the mind is a separate thing from our "true self," but it at least acknowledges that some of the suggestions are valuable.

Contrast to my pseudobuddhaguru friends who think that the mind is 100% ego-driven and that, if they could only silence this alien voice in their head, their "true self" will take over and they will achieve enlightenment.
Ah, interesting, effects are not one shot.

I still don't understand how effects allow taming mutability. Can you point me to some resource (possibly understandable by a layman without knowledge of advanced type theory)?
Setting up Kafka on Docker for local development (+ bonus ClickHouse setup)
The $13 billion is now only worth $7 billion btw.

The bond market has shifted. Twitter still owes $13 Billion of course, but those bonds are toxic. No one wants junk-bonds from Twitter right now.
What about all of the death threats that politicians and election workers in Georgia received because of Trump pushing election lies on platforms like Twitter?

Georgia's Secretary of State and his family received death threats.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/11/politics/georgia-raffensperge...

Some election workers had to leave their homes because of death threats

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-threats-geor...

But Trump's account was reinstated so I guess only Elon's personal safety matters.
There are also PR reasons. The general public unfortunately believes that this is a good thing and is indeed "protecting" children. IMO it would've happened regardless of regulatory reasons.
You don't understand the nature of firefighting. Hours, even days of boredom, punctuated with adrenalin-filled sprints. Rarely overworked, but pushed to the limit as needed. If we didn't love it, you couldn't afford us.
It was only a matter of time, I can't believe anyone fell for this. As soon as he started banning "parodies" of himself this was the only logical next escalation.
Rust is a "new" language and many packages from other languages get reimplemented in it. This is similar to Julia. Unfortunately, I had the experience that many Julia packages are not of high quality, not maintained, or do not run any more on the newest version.

How is this in Rust?
He explicitly mentioned he wouldn't ban elonjet so I'll hold my judgement until more is known or if there is just silence from his side.
Oh, so this publicly accessible information should not be subject to free speech, even though it's clearly publicly available? Should all speech that could incite crackpots be limited?
I don't know whether that's true or not but I don't think it matters even if it is: my point was that if you ban china from buying they will steal. That's true whether they're banned for Reason A or for Reason B...
True believers on here. Naming these shots a "vaccine" was a stroke of marketing genius, but thoroughly dishonest.

Most of the public assume something along the lines of "one and done" when it comes to a vaccines, not constant boosters followed by still catching covid multiple times, and they promise that they are "working".
You’re right. I misinterpreted ‘record usage’. I found a 2013 blog post [1] claiming a 143 thousand tweets per second peak.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2013/new-tweets...
The implication that free speech people are hypocrites is a little premature. The policies just changed. I'm sure there will be several opportunities before the day is over to gotcha someone in some genuine hypocrisy, but let's see how this one plays out.
How would that work in practice? Like give shares to workers as the company becomes more valuable?
https://www.axios.com/2020/12/25/fauci-goalposts-herd-immuni...
The data are very clear. It’s not even a debate. It’s not surprising at all that women find deep value in motherhood.
Specification are not immune to bugs.
Could new AI tools help with such endeavor?
I typically maintain a list of tasks that can be accomplished in 6 hours or less. I pick a task based on my mood and motivation. I rarely work more than 6 hours.

Usually accomplishing a small task builds enough motivation to accomplish another small task or a larger task. Getting started always seems to be the hardest part.
Correct, I was responding to the comment re:policy and not Jet tracking
Fetch a user’s timezone in JavaScript with Edge Functions
It's incumbent on us as more senior engineers to reach out to younger folks, not the other way around. That is an art I see properly practiced less and less these days.