skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your wiki source:

> The power densities needed to ignite a fusion reaction still seem attainable only with the aid of a fission explosion, or with large apparatus such as powerful lasers like those at the National Ignition Facility, the Sandia Z-pinch machine, or various magnetic tokamaks. Regardless of any claimed advantages of pure fusion weapons, building those weapons does not appear to be feasible using currently available technologies

Nothing about this result from NIF seems to suggest that igniting fusion is any easier than previously suspected.
How did FB promote TikTok?
Maybe.

But whatever the goal of your organization, achieving that goal is going to depend on the people you hire.
No, it’s because it’s from China which bans US tech platforms. If this came from the EU or SK there would be no discussion on this in Congress.
And that's how we like it! USA USA USA!

/s?
YC’s HN altered the submission in a way that erases the previously stated fact that this behavior is a violation of NYC law, which leaves the discussion unresponsive to the question and also risks the appearance of trying to hide the illegal behavior.

There were probably other reasons behind the change but to preserve the meaning of the post something about this being a possible/likely violation of nyc law should IMO be added back to the post.
100%. If you are a wholesome person, it will be wholesome. If you are hateful, there's so much hate on tiktok.
Something that I've experienced from many years in enterprise software: 90% of enterprise software is about versioning data in some way. SharePoint is half as complicated as it is because it has be a massive document and data version manager. (Same with Confluence and other competitors.) "Everyone" needs deep audit logs for some likely overlap of SOX compliance, PCI compliance, HIPAA compliance, and/or other industry specific standards and practices. Most business analysts want accurate "point in time" reporting tools to revisit data as it looked at almost any point in the past, and if you don't build it for them they often build it as ad hoc file cabinets full of Excel export dumps for themselves.

The wheels of data versioning just get reinvented over and over and over again, with all sorts of slightly different tools. Most of the job of "boring CRUD app development" is data version management and some of the "joy" is how every database you ever encounter is often its own little snowflake with respect to how it versions its data.

There have been times I've pined for being able to just store it all in git and reduce things to a single paradigm. That said, I'd never actually want to teach business analysts or accountants how to use git (and would probably spend nearly as much time building custom CRUD apps against git as against any other sort of database). There are times though where I have thought for backend work "if I could just checkout the database at the right git tag instead needing to write this five table join SQL statement with these eighteen differently named timestamp fields that need to be sorted in four different ways…".

Reasons to version data are plenty and most of the data versioning in the world is ad hoc and/or operationally incompatible/inconsistent across systems. (Ever had to ETL SharePoint lists and its CVC-based versioning with a timestamp based data table? Such "fun".) I don't think git is necessarily the savior here, though there remains some appeal in "I can use the same systems I use for code" two birds with one stone. Relatedly, content-addressed storage and/or merkle trees are a growing tool for Enterprise and do look a lot like a git repository and sometimes you also have the feeling like if you are already using git why build your own merkle tree store when git gives you a swiss army knife tool kit on top of that merkle tree store.
The "attack" is equivalent of trying to rescue opioid addicts from heroin. Or like you said, cracking down on raves (because we all know what really fuels and motivates those parties.

I hope more ethical companies take over the void. In fact, I see YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter in a position to fill the void since they've introduced "shorts" and some things similar to tik tok.
Wind and solar have a max theoretical output that is constrained by physical space and competition for its use, in addition to weather patterns, etc.

Fusion energy has a theoretical max that’s orders of magnitude higher.

Wind+solar is the path to decarbonization and sustaining our current world.

Fusion is the path to post scarcity. If/when we get scalable commercial fusion, it’ll be like the transition to oil - society will radically change, in ways we can’t predict.
Reserve requirements aren’t relevant anymore because capital requirements have largely taken their place. Capital requirements are not zero.
Exactly. They can use it to boost the opinions that they favor. The feedback loop of "I talked about opinion X and got tons of love" and "I talked about opinion Y and everyone got mad / ignored me" is very powerful, especially on young people.
That's taking it a bit too far. While there's definitely some truth to McLuhan's "The Medium is the Message", TikTok is a tool, not a statement. As an analogy, we can have free speech while enforcing noise ordinances prohibiting people from yelling through megaphones in residential areas.
Internet is already partitioned, especially when it come to China (Great firewall). You say to do like EU but it made things worse; For example, this is what i get when i try to browse yahoo.co.jp:

https://abload.de/img/screenshot2022-12-13aa4exy.png

NY Daily news:

https://abload.de/img/nydailynews-wearecurrlwd3x.png
Everyone is ignoring elephant in the room, because it is not PC enough for woke culture.

It's capitalism. In US you can get reach by innovating, in EU you just pay more taxes due to socialism-capitalism hybrid alike system.

Hence both talent, entrepreneurship and innovation flourishes in the place where it can be rewarded.

Truth is painful.
Questions around influence are good, but what I’m referring to is different.

There were numerous posts on this forum who were adamant that nothing would happen to SBF because they were certain that he had the Democratic Party bought and paid for. It’s the certainty that I’m calling out here (“comic book level), not the skepticism.
> I wish Elixir support wasn't just one guy from Jetbrains working on it in spare time though...

Better that than the travesty they did to the intellij-hcl plugin, where they .. hired? in-housed? I don't even know what they did to that plugin except completely and utterly broke it and made updates to it go into this weird black hole
Presumably they just need to wait until 9am when people at work, so I wouldn't consider that a default.

If they say they need a few hours at 9am, they've defaulted. It would be a big "ha" if they couldn't get them together by 9:05am because they've done shady things with your money.
Regulation, as per EU and many other countries?
The US does have those unicorns, and while its great for the people that got rich off of it, I don't think its been a net societal benefit. People are conditioned to expect all software to be free. This kills the ability of long term stability for a company - and forces them to spy on the users or the usual vendor lock in. How many SMBs in the US are making decent money selling software?
It’s not following, it’s tit-for-tat in game theory which can pressure your partner to behave better.
> that put processors capable of protected mode (the 286--sort of--and later) into protected mode temporarily.

Or, on the 386 and later, permanently, running DOS as a vm86 task instead. EMM386 and similar did that. It was very transparent, so you usually wouldn't notice, and even for programs that would like to drive protected mode themselves, there was an interface called DPMI (earlier VCPI) with which they could wrestle protected mode away from the memory manager (being the exception to "permanent").

DOS4/GW, which most probably know from DOOM and other games, used that interface.

For software that did not use DPMI/VCPI, you usually got a message like "CPU already in protected mode" and had to disable your memory manager (usually by rebooting).
Among us old programmers, clever was a scornful word. I still believe that clever programing is the result of an emotionally immature attitude. I don't care how clever someone is. It's showing off and gets in the way of reliability and maintenance.
I started saving my MFA seeds in Bitwarden.

Also Microsoft Authenticator has cloud backups (but you can’t import android to iOS or vice versa)
They were mostly banned because they refused to follow Chinese law, what US law has TikTok refused to follow?

Apple for instance follows Chinese law, and does a lot of business there.

America loves to talk about the "rule of law", but will just ban anything that competes with it's MIC controlled platforms.
I assume this doesn't apply to most YC companies, but the smallest companies (with fewer than four employees) are exempted from the law: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/cchr/downloads/pdf/publications/...

It's nice that there's a carveout for small companies, who don't need more friction as they're trying to get off the ground.
>big tech is bad,

Yes, the internet can be toxic, and sometimes that means that we have to talk about that and who made it that way and why. Sometimes that is a little ugly and complicated. We don't always agree on how it could be made better, though in general I think we want it to be. Those who don't are still on Twitter.
So you don't think you can present the same 2 sets of facts with different tone/connotation and achieve drastically different outcomes in public opinion?
money is always the bottleneck in some sense. There are diminishing returns but in general more money will make it happen faster.
These encrypted DNS services are usually blocked here in Iran. The unencrypted ones are compromised, too. I use self-hosted dnscrypt.
Either way, they haven't received the money.
If it creates positive pressure around the nose and mouth, does it have to be completely sealed? This isn't being used on spacewalks or anything.
The article took it down to 2 by adding an extra hashtable. It's possible to go down to 2 without using an extra data structure.
In the 90s, we had Tipper Gore trying to ban explicit song lyrics.
Maybe I missed it but it's not a net positive output. From the article, the implication it is:

"LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05 megajoules (MJ) of energy to the target, resulting in 3.15 MJ of fusion energy output"

From newscientist, the same info followed by a rider:

"generated a power output of 3.15 megajoules from a laser power output of 2.05 megajoules – a gain of around 150 per cent. However, this is far outweighed by the roughly 300 megajoules drawn from the electrical grid to power the lasers in the first place"
Data storage regulations are boring poindexter. We need lines like, “TikTok is digital fentanyl.”
It IS pretty damning that Bezos (and Gates IMO) are the ones held up as "not letting the wealth and power change you". Bezos literally flew in a giant cock-rocket wearing a cowboy hat.
There's a lot of outrage performers invested in crypto who want to make this about _anything besides crypto_.

So instead of people taking a close look at the crypto space and saying "wait, maybe a lot of these other projects are flawed", their anger gets focused on the press and the regulators. It's pretty ridiculous when you think about it -- is the NYTimes really responsible for FTX because the tone of their pieces wasn't sufficiently harsh? I'm skeptical.
And the same with marijuana, sugar, citric acid in drinks and alcohol....right?

Then next barbecue because of the carcinogens, and making fire overall (tar).
You can also spend them in several places in Europe with ease, albeit at an exchange rate that means you should not.
can you elaborate on what was wrong with the NASA thing?
For the US, I think it is cultural. Americans are taught from a young age that it is do or die. And they do a lot, they die a lot too. It is evident with the relationship to money, in Europe, we are told to save money, never spend what you don't have, etc... In they US, you should invest until you have nothing left, and then live on a credit, not using money you have is seen as a waste.

I sincerely think that it is part of the reason why the US is so successful as a country. It has a population that is both hard working and efficient in a way that is unseen in other countries, mostly because it has no choice.

For China, I think the reason is much simpler: it is huge. It has twice the population of Europe, and four times that of the US. And they are just transitioning to becoming a developed country. India is a bit lagging as a country, but I expect it become a major force in the near future for the same reasons.
Why do people stand on line to buy the new iPhone every year when they know the price will drop significantly for that model in the next year? In fact all technology has steep depreciation (last year's TV model is significantly cheaper than when it first came out, even in absolute terms). But for some reason these are the hottest selling products
I kind of love how creative they get with it. It's just a fun thing they get to do.
To say Europe is not "good at innovating" seems to fly in the face of history of technology. It is possible this article is a European's way to deal with the fact that social mobility is the elephant in the room. It is possible that the issue is European establishment's (social/economical/political) reluctance to having to deal with newly minted tech titans in their midst?

Family members giving founders grief is also a telling sign: a mild form of enforcing a social taboo.
That’s no different from any nation, though.
The fall in house prices will probably not affect the prices of rental units. The cost of acquiring a home should be roughly the same, considering an increase in interest rates.

Rental prices might fall if people are forced to sell their houses at lower prices. In my area, people buy houses on 30-year mortgages with variable rates and require an in-law suite to finance it partially. The margins are so thin that I encountered people who had to sell their homes because of increased property taxes.
Because NIF can also potentially use the UV lasers directly, without converting to X-rays in the Hohlraum. Direct drive would be more practical for an actual power plant version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy#M...

So instead of “x-rays” I left it as the more general “light.”
I thought they said it could fly unmanned.
> 2. This is from an inertial confinement approach to fusion. Unlike the magnetic confinement approaches that we often hear about, this approach doesn't really create a continuously hot, spatially constrained bit of plasma that can then be used to heat things up -- it produces more like a small but intense explosion. There are real doubts about whether you can, even with very favorable energy-out ratios, industrialize that into an actual power plant. It's more challenging to harvest energy from an explosion than it is to harvest energy from a bunch of plasma flowing in a circle.

Thank you, that is the kind of caveat I was expecting.
Maybe moving away is the wrong word, and I actually mean the iOS. I can't use safari on other platforms. I can't install the original version of other browsers, they r just reskins of safari. So no I'm not using ios
What is an example of a run away fusion reaction?
Where do people who do these kind of crimes go when they're sent to jail? Like.. is there a jail for financial criminals? A place where you're not sharing a bunk with a serial killer but just a billion dollar fraudster?

Or are they usually put into the same place?
I suspect it was a mistake/typo (someone confused "paternity" for the general term).
Well, I would rather follow the money. Ad budgets for the next year might consider this possibility and TikTok revenue will suffer.
It amounts to plausible deniability. "We do just enough so you are less likely to sue us."
To achieve fusion for power production, you need more output than input. For 60+ years this hasn’t been achieved in a replicated fashion. Now it has, and it’s 50% more power rather than 0.1% more power as was sometimes shown for 2 nanoseconds before. So now we know fusion for power is possible. If it can be scaled successfully (now likely not an if anymore, but a function of time), then we have the ability to have clean and safe energy 24/7. That would help mitigate the worst of climate change, and if cheap, turbocharge the entire economy.

What’s the circle or not big milestone here?
It's capable of maybe later on being made uncrewed.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/12/03/air-force-rev...

> The service has not fully delivered on, or explained what, that unmanned concept or capability would look like. Defense experts told Military.com prior to the rollout that it is unlikely we’d see a fully autonomous bomber anywhere in the near future.

They also canceled the drone wingman:

> In 2021, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall publicly discussed the idea of having a drone counterpart to the B-21 that would essentially act as a wingman alongside the bomber. But Kendall later backtracked, telling Breaking Defense in July that the concept was not as “cost-effective” and “less attractive” than previously thought.
These are old structural problems. My dad spent his career at the intersection between semiconductor science and industry in Germany and I spent my childhood listening to the exact same complaints the author has.

I've decided to spend my life in the US and I think the cultural differences are spot-on. However, as I'm reaching the end of my career and things haven't really changed on either side of the Atlantic I wonder: does it matter? Why not have two large economic superpowers with different approaches, excelling in different areas?
I think you should think of it as “this lumber only needs 1 match to light it on fire while that lumber requires 10 matches to get started.”
My best answer for you is https://docs.sciml.ai/DiffEqDocs/stable/solvers/ode_solve/#F.... It's the list of the ~250 different solvers you can choose from (note that most of these have a bunch of customization options). DifferentialEquations.jl has heuristics that do a pretty good job of picking a good algorithm on it's own, but it also lets you test every algorithm you've heard of (and a bunch you haven't) to find the one that works perfectly for your problem.
> such as new plants being too expensive to build and old obsolete plants being too useful to decommission?

There's no guarantee that these issues will be surmountable.

But fusion largely avoids the fear association with past fission disasters and fears about nuclear waste. This is a non-trivial political problem in many parts of the world, especially much of Europe. If fusion becomes economical (big if) and the differences between it and fission are well communicated it might be easier for the world to swallow.

I think visions of a 100% fusion world are fairly pie in the sky. Most of our energy most of the time will probably come from already viable renewables. But renewables cannot offer consistent baseline power all day, year-round, in every part of the world. We need either huge breakthroughs in storage, or carbon-free baseline generation. Economical fusion if it were achieved could offer that without some of the most politically difficult drawbacks of fission.

I'd probably still bet the farm on renewables + storage though, at least for my lifetime.
Wow so all this was accomplished starting from scratch in January 2021. Given another year or two and a second Biden term we should be finished.
Some content may be wholesome, but the dopamine-stimulating AI algorithms that abuse human psychology are never wholesome. And we should never justify the dopamine abuse with "people have the power to choose" because that never worked out with cigs, opioids, crack, gambling, or any other addictive activity or substance.
Everyone assumed my comment about hubris referred to how he's running Twitter now. I think what he's doing is dumb, but that's not my point. His biggest problem is he way overpaid, and saddled the company with a ton of debt. My hubris comment was referring to him talking big and signing a deal he never intended to follow through on. He could run Twitter perfectly and still be forced into bankruptcy by the end of '23. IMO, that's a very likely scenario.
>They are spending 14% more on recruitment advertising than they would have to if they just put a range in the salary box.

Mind you I prefer when companies post salaries, but 14% greater/fewer applicants does not directly equate to 14% greater/lesser spend on listings. A company only needs one qualified applicant. More applicants means you might find better candidates faster/more easily, but by itself listing salaries isn't necessarily going to save the company money.
> You: "Stop spreading FUD, this was just a planned downtime."

Certainly, except that isn't all that I said. After the above, you dropped:

* You: Here is a bunch of links of people getting withdrawals no problem.
Many language implementations internally translate source into a simplified de-sugared dialect as you describe as an early compilation step. I believe both ghc and rustc currently do this.

Though, I think it's rare to expand a pattern match/switch into an if-else tree, and much more common to expand an if-else into a 2-way pattern match/switch.

If you're really keen on such a language, you could fairly easily implement such a language as a pre-commit hook source code re-formatter so that all of the source in your repository is in your favorite language subset.
Madoff was treated very gently for decades.

Incidentally, here's the list of real estate in the Bahamas purchased with FTX funds.[1] Here's the "Albany resort", where most of those properties are.[2]

There was discussion earlier about prosecutors having to prove criminal intent. Did this happen by accident, or were those guys stealing the money for their own benefit? It doesn't matter much what Bankman-Fried has been saying. When the prosecutors have to convince a jury of criminal intent, expect those pictures of the Albany resort to be shown. They didn't buy all those luxury condos with FTX funds by accident.

[1] https://restructuring.ra.kroll.com/FTX/Home-DownloadPDF?id1=...

[2] https://www.albanybahamas.com/
Julia's VSCode extension provides linting, debugging, and live interactive development features that go beyond the language server:

https://www.julia-vscode.org/
What Does Copyright Say about Generative Models?
Google "national ignition facility careers" and this is the first link

https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/careers
> Vine [...] filled this niche but it was ultimately killed by Facebook (who promoted Tiktok because they didn't want Vine making inroads with their users) and Twitter (by not developing it further).

Agreed on the twitter part, but the FB part feels like a pure conspiracy at best, and is just factually provable to be false. For one, Vine was killed off in September 2017, which is the same month that TikTok became available internationally.
> is there a reason they can't simply store a token from stripe/paypal/etc, or is that still considered PII?

They do still accept those payment methods, and that is exactly what they do for them[0], but recurring payments forced them to retain that data for longer than they were comfortable with, and they decided that the cost to privacy outweighed the convenience recurring subscriptions offered[1].

Another thing to note is that you won't be getting any e-mails from them reminding you to renew your plan, since they never had your e-mail in the first place (Mullvad "accounts" are anonymous numeric tokens).

[0] https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy/#payments

[1] https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/6/20/were-removing-the-opti...