skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBH, a little knowledge is worse than no knowledge. Fewer chances to overestimate your own understanding in the later case.
Had to fly again last week for work: I kindly ask the TSA employee if laptops need to be in or out of the bag I carry as I pas through the checkpoint. He says "yes", so I proceed to remove my laptop. As I'm pulling it out, the exact same employee yells at me "NO, laptops stay in the bag".
Ask HN: Are we headed towards a slowdown of programming tools adoption?
A few scenarios:

- A dev is two layers deep in plugins / frameworks / libraries and realizes it would be quicker to work with stdlib or core.

- A dev reaches ORM caveat territory where exceptions require a careful path, and they drop to native database language.

- (From the management side) because of various fears the decision is made to roll-our-own instead of importing a package.

I hypothesize these scenarios are all examples of cost-benefit analysis. Therefore I expect the rate of adoption of new tools to gradually decrease as programmers reach the threshold where adoption cost outweighs benefits. Indeed, I would even expect a reversal: programmers flocking towards lower levels of abstraction, abandoning some tools in the "rebound."

Is this being seen in the industry, or is my hypothesis (or conclusion) off-base?
Do you believe that banks hold every dollar they receive in deposits in cash in their vaults?

Because that's not how banks work at all. They make loans, and if enough people demand their cash back they will have to move things around to honor those withdrawals. That's how every bank in known history has operated.
Actually, inflation expectations as polled by the New York Fed [1] is down in the short, medium, and long (1-year, 3-year, 5-year) term.

[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/research/2022/202...
Related ongoing thread:

Nuclear-fusion lab achieves ‘ignition’: what does it mean? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33971953 - Dec 2022 (82 comments)

Two threads from before the announcement:

Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945863 - Dec 2022 (755 comments)

Secretary Granholm to announce major scientific breakthrough by DOE [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33968357 - Dec 2022 (160 comments)
I think it's a reflection of western society. Working in the US and later back in Canada I have had a feeling of dislocation and malaise about the world. The last couple of years due to Covid has really accelerated this feeling. Before I used to never understand the tribal nature of politics but now I increasingly get it. I can see why right wing and left wing are so viscerally against one another. It is about two fundamentally different world views - and increasingly incompatible.
sometimes, when two small particles fuse, they become a single larger particle, but the larger particle's mass is slightly less than the sum of the masses of the two smaller particles. The slight difference becomes energy released, and the amount of energy released, roughly speaking, is E = mc^2.
More often than not, that just means everyone uses Venmo. Free, and not tied to my personal banking.
Europe invented the printing press, the steam engine, the railroad, electric light, radio, the internal combustion engine, the airplane - plus a whole lot more!

Is that not being good at innovating?

BTW, I'm born, raised, and live in the U.S. It just strikes me as odd that someone would claim Europe isn't good at innovating seeing as how they created most of the elements comprising our modern world.
Yea, that's some pretty poor research.

When a deadly bus crash occurs in the vast majority of cases a few people may die at the impact zone (for example a semi hitting the back of the bus).

When a deadly plane accident occur it is very common for there to be no survivors at all.
Wow, speak of toxic and abrasive. Apologies for the missed etiquette, I will likely never do that again—I recently switched the account to private and simply did not realize it. Just wanted to share a workstation picture, but never mind: "toxic fucking cancer" seems the kind of attitude that drove me to limiting Twitter usage, but it's here.
What is fusion-to-the-home?
Do you know if it is possible to access Douyin outside of China?
I think it would be an interesting experience to see it first-hand and also I guess the language barrier would no be a huge issue if the content is similar to TikTok.
Because the americans are smarter with eliminating competitors

Huawei - ban

TikTok - ban

EVs - subsidize tesla
I won’t cry if TikTok disappears forever but you’re deluding yourself if you think TikTok is anything more than an iteration on a whole ecosystem of addictive digital content apps, that just happens to be owned by a Chinese company

Nothing wrong with playing protectionist games and fighting to remain the home of the worlds most influential tech companies, but let’s be honest that this is what it is. We’re not doing this to protect the children.
What we need is some universal moderation guidelines. Like for example; sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me.

As long as people follow the server rules, aggressively presented arguments, anger, fear, rude words said to famous accounts, should not lead to de-federation. Our rules already disallow all forms of xenophobia, transphobia, attacks, doxing and all that stuff.

End users need to take more responsibility for moderation in the fedi. That's why we have the Mute button. But people would rather take "action" with the Report button, than the Mute button.

Because they get so angry at some stranger online. You don't know anything about that person, or what they're going through.

I have experience meeting reformed nazis, previously violent people who are trying to reform. So people go through stages in life, and maybe sometimes they're a bit off, but some day that person is going to wake up and then we should be able to help them out of their daze. De-federation makes this impossible.
In a way, this is not really a problem.

Most likely, since we're speaking about two giant companies, the solution is a ticket away or a phone call away. Somebody from Twitter must get in contact with somebody at Github to ask them to re-assign the necessary repositories.

I'm curious to see whether Twitter will have a public outage. Until that happens, most people screaming at the cloud (on twitter, of all the places) mean very little, they aren't really significant.

----

tl;dr: whatever. if you can still post "twitter is on fire" on twitter can i can read that on twitter, then twitter isn't really on fire.
This is just investor fraud. Customers funds are a separate issue not regulated by the SEC.
So for my entire lifetime Fusion has been 30-50 years away. Now it's 29-49 years away?
Touching the 3rd Rail of Data Science: “R or Python?”(w my own myopic benchmark)
Banning cigarettes is protecting public health
Current thread on the actual announcement:

US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33971377
One thing I love about Vyvanse is that it really does have an all-day effect. I'm wired, active, and focused from the moment I take it in the morning, until 11pm or so at night. Unfortunately this also means that it takes a lot of self-discipline to keep a good sleep schedule, which isn't something us ADHDers are very good at, especially as the medication wears off. On just Vyvanse alone, I have a hard time falling asleep and sleeping well.

I got the idea to augment with melatonin from a Slate Star Codex post. Since the author is a board certified psychiatrist, I decided to trust this info. Google should get you the original article, but here's my memory of it: melatonin is safe, little to no side effects, and should be taken by anyone as a first line attempt to fix sleep issues.

Melatonin is ridiculously safe. It basically has no detrimental effects in large doses. As a result, nutrition companies are in a war to make ever bigger over-the-counter doses because those sell better. But unfortunately while 5mg isn't toxic, it also makes me sleep 10 hrs and wake up groggy. As a result it's hard to find over the counter melatonin that is in the real dosage I want, 0.3 - 0.5 mg. However I found that Costco sells kids melatonin gummies with a 1 mg dosage, which is the smallest you can find on the market without paying extra. I just cut/bite the gummies in half to take approx 0.5mg a night. It's perfect, and I'm sorry it didn't work for you :(

The one thing that doesn't replicate for me from the SSC post is that he suggested taking melatonin 7(!) hours before sleep. I find I get tired upon taking melatonin immediately, and to take it early just screws ups my circadian rhythm.

Regarding the dream thing... Here's the weird thing: I have aphantasia when awake, and typically don't dream. But when I take melatonin I not only sleep better, but have vivid dreams that I remember upon waking. I guess I'm fortunate these don't turn into nightmares, generally. I guess I'm saying I can confirm your experience that melatonin leads to active dreaming, but maybe the nightmares are caused by something else? That is to say the melatonin is working to get you quality REM sleep, but some other interaction or issue is agitating you to make those dreams unbearable. Maybe worth talking to a doc about what can fix persistent nightmares.
If this ABSURDITY will see the light I'll be finally convinced about Lebonian's stupidity of the masses...

Oh, BTW as an EV owner (seeing the crappiness level of modern connected crapware inside the vehicle perhaps user is a better term, since the OEM is the real owner) I found MANY issues in such vehicles, one I do not found is the pleasure of driving without "engine regime steps" with constant torque and so on.
I think when comparing PV/wind to nuclear (fusion or fission) generation, we should include the cost of storage for renewables in the comparison.

Renewable generation + storage gives a system that's capable of meeting base load needs, just as nuclear generation does. Cost comparisons among base load-capable technologies is a better way to evaluate the economics, IMHO.
One "good law" to paper over 9000 other very bad laws.
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I suppose that tiny amount of gifted top-shelf crypto I have parked, underwater, in Coinbase for the last N years is going to just evaporate, isn't it.
hmm, you're doing `unless` with `!` in condition you're doing it wrong.

unless user.has_errors?
user.save
end

IMO better than `if !user.has_errors?`, at least for me: I will read it as "unless" in my head even in languages that only have `if`. You know what? I will just start using `unless` even harder, I will even make a rust macro for that.
There is (1) irritation, and (2) the things that people get irritated about. It doesn't make sense to talk about (1) without (2) or (2) without (1). (The irritators to a person will insist that they are innocent and that all the blame lies on the irritated but they keep doing what they are doing despite the negativity.)

Toxic positivity about, say, crypto, has a link to toxic negativity.
Why post this question? The article you linked answers it clearly.
Basically zero effort/intelligence compared to a lot of these, but the business wanted backup records from our CMS (of sorts), because they were gun shy of catastrophic losses after spending like 250 human hours on manual entry the last time. Thing was, the API provided zero means for export, either mass or individual.

Motivated to prove myself, I ended up writing a crawler with all kinds of contingencies for the crap UI, which would press the "Download" button that downloaded each record as a JSON file (couple thousand of these). Then my little node app would shoot the JSON files to an S3 bucket for safekeeping, parse them, and save each record in DynamoDB I believe it was.

Doesn't take a genius to come up with the idea to write a crawler, but no one else did, and the business was entering a state of frantic desperation re: this issue, so I felt pretty smart for a bit.

Then a few months later they abandoned the CMS and all it's corresponding data.
you can work as a self employed developer etc. been there, done that, mostly its a non-issue
Please don't feed the distraction machine. He donated just as much to Republicans.
Tangentially related, but I think this is an interesting fact, all the atoms in our universe/galaxy/solar system with a mass up to that of iron are formed in the core of stars in stellar fusion. Hydrogen fuses into helium, and as a star nears the end of its lifetime you get heavier elements like lithium, carbon, and so on. Under normal stellar fusion no elements heavier than iron will be produced, and iron is only element number 25. If you just looked at nucleosynthesis through the lens of stellar fusion, it isn't obvious that there should be any heaver-than-iron atoms at all in the universe.

These heaver-than-iron elements are created in a very interesting and exotic process. When a large enough star dies it explodes in a supernova, and a huge amount of energy and neutrons are released in a very short period of time. This supernova generates enough energy and neutron material that small amounts of heavier elements like gold, platinum, etc. are created through exotic nuclear fusion reactions, even though these heavy fusion reactions are energy-absorbing.

It's interesting to think when you're wearing jewelry made from gold or platinum, all of those atoms in your jewelry were created during the death of a star.
Lookup any online benchmarks, Chrome outperforms Firefox in most cases.

A lot of sites are dropping support as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32388863
Apple's Japan investment crosses $100B, CEO Cook visits chip epicentre
Criticism.... calling it whatever it is. A "report", "analysis", an "accounting of finances"
FWIW, many grocery stores in the US had delivery many years before Instacart came around. Europeans have this really weird, ignorant understanding of America.
There are a few gotchas with GRO, although I'm not sure they're applicable to Wireguard - in particular, there used to be a line in the kernel vswitch code that dropped a packet if it had been processed by GRO. A while back I spent a long time debugging a network problem caused by that particular "feature"...
I'm not sure I understand your criticism
Most likely they will comply like Huawei complies--say they are complying but do the opposite.
N=2 with me but yeah I can understand. Obviously that's why economic niches still exist and broad models only explain broad trends.
Current thread, about the actual announcement:

US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33971377
The first sentence in the article linked in TFA:

>Prices for vegetables have almost doubled since last year after the states that grow fresh produce for the US winter saw water cuts and storms that decimated supply.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-09/us-vegeta...

It's not that complicated to understand. Did you miss the discussions of water rights last year and every year before that for the last, like, decade?
You might as well be right and TikTok could just be ByteDance's Facebook, only reason for it being separated from its Chinese version is the desire to capture market with content which China would ban otherwise.

However, as a user of VK, I can tell you it went totalitarian rather quickly after the Russian government decided it is time to exercise its power as the indirect owner of the company.

Hell, even Yandex, formerly famous search engine was forced to sell user facing bits out when puilo ramped up repressions. Can you imagine having a search engine like Google where the side news feed were forced to be sold and now belongs to a separate company wholly owned by pro-government or state entities, and they still had to continue showing it exactly where it were on their search page?
Even if it doesn’t get smaller (unlikely), we as a society build stadiums all the time. Large construction projects are a small price to pay for abundant clean energy.
That's not how banks work
One small thing:

// Turn on bits as they enter the window
set ^= 1 << (s[i] as u32 - 'a' as u32);

// Turn off bits as they leave the window
if i >= window_size {
set ^= 1 << (s[i - window_size] as u32 - 'a' as u32);
}

"turn on" and "turn off" actually mean "flip", right? Each bit is not a present/not present flag, it's the parity of the count of number of occurrences. Which still works, because of the "counting how many characters appear an odd number of times in a window" thing.
I am not under 30 by a decade.

I installed tiktok and it was all videos of people getting gross ear wax out and popping giant zits. Maybe I swiped the wrong way or something.

This is not digital fentanyl, its more like digital Ipecac syrup.

I uninstalled tiktok
Facebook and Instagram were banned because they wouldn't obey China's censorship and surveillance laws, not because they were western tools of influence or whatever.
> Uh what US warfare have you been watching?

Russia is struggling with Ukraine and the NATO weaponry they've been gifted. 100 mile supply lines proved too much, and they failed entirely to achieve air superiority.

There's zero reason to think they'd do better against the US more directly.
How many tide pods did the girl eat?
America never went away. The major scientific and tecnological achievements of the the last 30 years are virtually all American.
No.

RICO is for charging the boss if you don't have direct evidence against them. In this case they do, so they don't need it.

Also the phrasing here is just wire fraud (18 USC 1343) and conspiracy (18 ISC 371). If they were going towards RICO, you'd expect to see them talking about "patterns of activity", "operating a criminal enterprise" or other phrasing from RICO statues (18 USC 1962).
They said a lot about the national security (including weapons research) aspect of this during the announcement.
And the follow-up clarification post:

Clarification/correction of Rust in 2023: https://www.ncameron.org/blog/untitled-2/
So, they generated 3.15 MJ energy from the target, at a cost of an input of 2.05 MJ laser light. Pretty exciting.

However those lasers aren't very efficient, generating the 2.05 MJ required more than 300 MJ of electricity.

What is the path forward... Can anyone elaborate? Do we make the lasers 100x more efficient? Will hitting a target with a 100x mass yield 315 MJ?

Edit: thanks everyone for the clarification. Really helps me putting the numbers in context.
Gates seems to be caught up in Epstein stuff. Maybe. So I’m not sure where he stands. He does know when to shut his pie hole though.
Latest xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2710/
You certainly seemed to be using your argument as a proxy for "our lack of regulation means we can live as we like without dependence on the rest of society", and I'm pointing out that's wrong. To repeat: your focus on the specific ways where you are not dependent does nothing to refute all the ways in which you are.

I agree you have broken bridges and unpaved roads and raw river fords and whatnot that no one is fixing for you or trying to making you fix. I just don't see how that's interesting?
>> Canadian style widely encouraged assisted suicide model

Canadian here; we're pretty much the polar opposite of our southern neighbours and I'd argue both of us are too extreme in our approach to health care, but I don't think you can accurately argue we have a "widely encouraged" model for ending your own life; except maybe compared to some states where life starts at ejaculation. There's a big difference between "access to" and "encouraged to".
The US strategic arsenal.
your emotions, your brain, your body. They are all just meat. Much as lifting weight will make you stronger, studying will make you smarter, practicing recognizing your emotions and where they come from will help put you in charge of your feelings.

Think of a triangle. Each corner is think, feel or do. You can change the inputs on each corner and it'll affect the other corners. Having a feeling problem? Interrogate your thinking or actions around the feeling. Change them and see what happens to your feeling.
No longer possible to have a Ukrainian number verify a Twitter account
I've personally found that the Canadian economy is basically just arranged around vacuuming up government money while producing as little as possible.
> that stays inside the 640K barrier

Yes, but to be super pedantic, it stayed within the 1MB barrier[1] that real mode could "officially" address. It was perfectly okay to have your EMS window above the A000h segment in memory, i.e. above 640k, if no device was using it.

[1] Plus some change known as the "high memory area" (HMA), an artifact of how linear addresses are calculated from segment and offset.
The one that bugs my friend the most is that the minus is a totally different width from the plus in most variable width fonts.

Personally I have not found this to be a big problem. Brackets are visible enough and indentation is the main way I see them anyway. I would LOVE to see a serious attempt at a variable width font for coding but already for me the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
You might be right — we threw enough money and put humans on the Moon. The Manhattan Project was well funded and produced results as well.
> fission power

you probably meant "fusion"

> My father still finds it novel that he basically gets to wear Dick Tracy’s watch.

Well, except for the front-facing camera, but that's trivial to add at this point. And as a 50 year old, I agree. I feel like being incarnated in '72 has gotten me ethereal tickets to the greatest technological expansion/brouhaha in all of human history, and I don't know what my soul did to deserve this pleasure. Everything I've been into as a kid "before it was cool" has absolutely exploded: Computers, electronic music, gaming, telecom, AI, green energy/electric cars... but also science, medicine, etc. are making tremendous progress (I'm down 35 lbs thanks to Mounjaro, a brand new drug). Hell, even that weird side interest in UFO's (one of the first sections of the library I discovered as a kid) has paid dividends with the USG finally admitting they're real. BRB, I have to pinch myself. Unironic "what a time to be alive"!

> giant robot laser death spiders

you should probably worry more about the silent airborne drone army suicide bombers first. (What was the movie that actually featured a scene with those, btw? I think it had Morgan Freeman? EDIT: Found it, thanks to those other technological wonders, Google and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JFxhhJEYk)

There will always be dangers with progress. Two steps forward, one step back. But I leave you with this. I asked ChatGPT to summarize this article as a sarcastic poem https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/everything-sam-bankman-f... and here's what it gave me, and I'm still chuckling about how awesome this is:

Sam Bankman-Fried talks a lot

But it's all just hot air

He tries to seem transparent

But he's just trying to repair

His reputation, once so grand

Is now as tarnished as can be

He's just a fraud, don't be fooled

By his attempts at publicity.
Gyroscope-free flight control and wind sensing system for 10-mg robots
Are you counting PACs?
Because keeping unreasonable sums of money on hand has been the primary downfall of the majority of crypto exchanges?

I don’t think they necessarily hold it all in house, I believe they pay an institution to manage holding reserves for insurance and security reasons.

Agree with you on the bad accounting though and that we will find out soon how bad it is.
> That ain't good.

Your takeaway does not match that article. The article details how "no measurable success was ever achieved" and that the large amount of energy required to start fusion is hugely prohibitive.

I don't see how the NIF's success here changes that.
This isn't true. I use Zelle on my credit union's website. No app or phone required.
I disagree with your characterization and I point to my own.