skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, it’s a cousin of European Opel Rocks-e or it’s clone Citroën Ami. Never understood who are the buyers of such vehicles. Ideally it’s for cities. But cities normally already have public transportation. For countryside they are dangerously too slow.
Should I read the damn article or not? I still have no idea
Good.

The examples cited were scammers and grifters.
>I looked up once how one starts a business in a few European countries and what taxes are. The processes I found were really expensive...

In UK [if we're still allowed to count ourselves as part of Europe!] it couldn't be easier... or cheaper:

Fill in an online form. Pay your twelve quid [they even take PayPal] and --Hey Presto!-- you're now a company director.

https://www.gov.uk/set-up-limited-company
Why do you think that? They've successfully intervened in anticompetitive markets even where all participants are fully EU based (e.g. railways, train manufacturers).
Apple can sell "walled" phones in US. so FB/Google will have no choice but continue to do business with the Apple Store. So US citizens should have no reasons to plain that EU is forcing them to have choices.

You also need to look passed the FUD and see that you have Android and you can't find a good example that you are forced to install a third party store to get some must have application. Geeks would unlock their phones and some apps might offer a cheaper version on a third party store forcing Apple to compete.

If you could also replace Siri with a better assistant you might even get Apple putting some work in their apps and improve Siri. Either way custoemrs will gain a better voice assistant if there will be fair competition.
Abort/Retry/Ignore (so slightly different) still quite commonly happens with some installers when they don’t succeed in closing an application that uses a component they need to update.
"You'll need to read a book or two and buy a few hundred $ of chisels."

There is a third way ... timber framing with steel column caps and timber connectors, etc. ... steel plates from Simpson that you connect with lag or through bolts.
Beef, butter, eggs.
We are bringing millions and billions of these animals to life. Stating that they face similar or worse fate in nature is not realistic as they wouldn’t exist in the first place.
> So, not the UK then.

The power dynamics involved are universal - and as has been linked elsewhere in this thread, the UK is no exception.

> please refrain from blindly transferring this onto UK police personnel

There's nothing "blind" about it - because again, the power dynamics are universal, and has has been linked elsewhere in this thread, the UK is no exception.

Cops are cops. They are definitionally given special privileges and powers over the general population, and the temptation to abuse those special privileges and powers doesn't magically go away just because you choose to plug your ears and pretend they have your best interests at heart. There's a reason why the phrase "All Cops Are Bastards" originated in the UK of all places.
Since 1.0 it has gotten way better. There's still work to do (obviously) but there has been continual improvement.
I think that's just like, having problematic ideas. There's definitely some ancap/libertarian thinkers that give me the creeps. But most of the ancap/libertarians I've spoken to are against coercion and authoritarianism.

Let's not paint with a broad brush, it's unfair to the people we're debating with (most of whom aren't fascists) and it just makes us look like fools who see fascists behind every idea we don't like. Which makes it difficult to argue that specific people really are fascists when we need it.
B-frames should simplify this a lot. Only this very short portion would be re-encoded
I have a relative who does that for their only job - drive and deliver for Doordash, Ubereats, and Wal-mart's in-house delivery service. It's possible to find pretty steady work across all the apps for those, particularly when there's multiple deliveries overlapping on similar routes. I'm not sure if it's quite a living wage overall, particularly considering car maintenance and depreciation which hasn't really hit yet.
ITER is built in France, but is financed by many countries outside of EU, including the USA. It's not a huge cost per-country.

> the ITER Members China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States

See https://www.iter.org/proj/Countries
I was only every a very very small rackspace customer, but my recollection was that what Rackspace were actually fanatical about was telling you how fanatical they were.
It always rubbed me the wrong way, regardless of the quality of support I received, so now, 10+ years on all I actually remember about them is that they were vaguely irritating.
We ended up moving to Rimuhosting, and while I think the quality of support was probably equivalent, to my limited sample size, Rimuhosting was much less in your face while providing it, so the actual experience was far more pleasant.
Can't wait to not use my banking apps or MDM stuff anymore because my device could be compromised because I installed something from a third party store...

edit: it's a jab against apple that they will introduce restrictions like that. lmao
> Without the desire to explore and expand there would be no America.

...

Is that good or bad?
Thanks for the quote. I also thought the "40 megaton" stuff in the series was way overdramatized. I had no idea they really thought this.

But of course nuclear was very new and these were also the guys that believed an RBMK could never explode.
For the last past years (at least 2) I've been eating eggs which comes from farms which do not kill the males.
whois paypalsucks.com
Domain Name: PAYPALSUCKS.COM
Registry Domain ID: 42655783_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.enom.com
Registrar URL: http://www.enomdomains.com
Updated Date: 2022-11-15T08:40:51Z
Creation Date: 2000-11-14T21:06:26Z

Man, it's been a while.
Sunsite! Yes! That was it!
Bro, the post effected positive change (several updated job posts before regulatory bodies were involved), and could have been done with a lot less tact. For example, I could have screenshotted or even just mentioned offenders.

Maybe the tone wasn't perfect - but isn't it YOUR job to pay attention to what gets posted here? Were you not aware of the labor laws in these states? It isn't something that happened just a couple of times.

Get off your high horse, buddy. HN has gone down hill in the last 10yrs and part of that is because of these stupid policies and actions.

There's no transparency into what you do. Your words are just words.
Nodejs now has async local storage built in, which makes this fairly easy.
> Compared to these engineering challenges demonstrating ignition is the easy part.

Again, let's discuss what those challenges are. A bunch of talk about how hard it might be with no detail on what makes it hard isn't really informative to anyone.

> the work to produce and develop a system to reliably shoot hohlraum targets is an order of magnitude harder than shooting a static target in ideal conditions.

Please see my note #2 about EUV light sources and similar technology. My understanding is the timing and precision requirements are much higher here, but on the other hand the "rate" of fire would be necessarily much lower making something perhaps feasible.

From the presentation and panel today, one of the key drivers seems to be the purity of the capsules and the ability to correct for asymmetries in the implosion caused by them. The results announced today where not because of the purity of the capsule, but instead because of the correct prediction of the asymmetries in the implosion and the ability to counter that with modifications to the laser strength and timing.

The NIF isn't (as others have noted) necessarily focused on bettering these two factors.

What I'd like to understand is what are the major tradeoffs in ICF vs MCF that would drive pursuing the difficult engineering problems of one vs another.
Yeah, I don't like the investment aspect of it. I own a home but many of my friends and family members do not. I'd love to see prices go down.

What do I care? I can afford my monthly payment and plan to die in this house.
There is a limit to the amount of upset one can feel before it either becomes debilitating or certain sub-conscious self-preservation mechanisms kick in and dial down the empathy.

Unbelievable cruelties are happening all over the world at this very second. All of them are bad, and trying to grade them is a grotesque affair with no good outcome. If I tried to subject myself to upset over all of them, I'd do nothing but sink into non-stop depression.

I propose a charitable reading of parent: they are upset about the practice and don't condone or support it in any way, but when it comes to some ladder of priorities in solving the most dire issues of the world, there are sadly bigger cruelties committed on animals than this. All of it needs solving, but given limited resources we still need to (sadly) pick the bigger evil?
A developer can issue a refund request on behalf of a user - its just that they can't do the refund themselves because the developer doesn't hold tokens for processing the payment. Doing so gets into issues of PCI and user privacy.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/transacti...
Well, let's say when I first learnt about this, I thought this concept of dumping living (and cute af) animals en masse into rotating blades was an idea only the sick heads of splatter movie authors could generate.

Apparently it's also economically very efficient and therefore real.
For the last past years (at least 2) I've been eating eggs which comes from farms which do not kill the males.
Don't know exactly how they do it, but the possibility is available. They are more expensive, but if you feel is not ok to kill them...
Noulith: A new programming language by the current Advent of Code leader
Law goes into effect next year.
My favorite paper on the subject is:

https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c11462/c11462.pdf

I'd also encourage you to look at actual numeric data from the time period - measured CPI [1] across different categories, fed funds rate [2], money supply, etc.

The data tells a very different story from the story - for one, it was neither caused by oil shocks, nor limited to the 1970s. It actually started in 1968, and the 1973 oil shock happened when the U.S. was already in recession from a Fed tightening that began in 1972 to deal with 1970's high inflation. Personally I'd attribute the cause as a series of poor decisions that were papered away by low interest rates, but which eventually compounded to devalue the currency. Vietnam took many young Americans out of the workforce and redirected production to war, Nixon pressured his Fed chief to lower interest rates, Nixon took us off the gold standard, Nixon introduced price controls (which further compounded supply issues), the oil shock hit, banks raised interest rates to compensate for inflation, which raised the cost of housing, which caused more inflation, until Volcker finally caused a massive recession and got it under control.

Note also that there were multiple waves of inflation (6.2% @ 1969, 12.3% @ 1974, 13.3% @ 1979) + Fed tightening (9% @ 1970, 11% @ 1972, 13% @ 1972, 18% @ 1980, 19% @ 1981). These were effective but not persistent - in between inflation fell to 3.3% @ 1971 and 4.9% @ 1976. Even in very high-inflation years you had some months with virtually no inflation - for example July 1973 (0.1% MoM), March 1974 (0.2% MoM), July 1980 (0%).

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. IMHO this was caused by having an economy that's very tightly optimized for ZIRP & globalization; introducing a pandemic that killed a million Americans, took another ~4.5M out of the workforce, and closed borders; and adding on some geopolitical black swans like the Ukraine war. Now workers need to reallocate from speculative high-margin activities like tech startups back to fundamentals like growing food and hauling trucks, and that is unlikely to happen unless the wages for truck drivers in the future exceed those of software developers now. We'll get cycles in between as the Fed tightens and loosens and causes recessions, but we don't fix the root problem until average income is ~$200K/year.

[1] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/consumer-pri...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
I enjoyed the HBO series, and appreciate the book and podcast recommendations contained in this thread. "Voices of Chernobyl" by Svetlana Alexievich is definitely at the top of my list of books to read for next year, as the characters in the show seem to have been distilled from her stories based on hundreds of interviews with liquidators and survivors.

The following [0,1] news articles describe Ms. Alexievitch's other works including "War's Unwomanly Face" about female combatants in WWII, and "Zinky Boys" about the Soviet-Afghan war. Only a few of her titles have been published widely in English despite her having won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2015.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160822202409/http://www.ibtime...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160906203202/https://www.thegu...
Yeah, though this would greatly increase the expense over the chisels, I'd think. For my build you need one 1.5" and one 2" chisel (I have Sorby, ~$125 each), though a 2.5" slick is nice to have. And then some sharpening stones.
The really interesting thing here is that the creator of this language (betaveros) is using this specific language in the Advent of Code contest where he is currently number one on the leaderboard:
https://github.com/betaveros/advent-of-code-2022

Which is an interesting take on the concept of domain specific language.
Alice estimates how transparent the Milky Way is to antimatter
Ask HN: Any other Twitter users seeing an uptick in spam DMs?
I'm wondering if this is a systemic thing or just me. I keep my DMs open so my customers can DM me with questions. It used to be rare for me to get spam messages (maybe once every few weeks?), but over the past few weeks it has become more frequent, and now I'm getting spam messages daily (3 so far today). Most of the spam messages are about hiring for part-time jobs and have the same basic message structure, so it seems like Twitter should be able to easily identify them as spam, since I've reported them.
Europe is not China.

I just talked about how this is about moral authority VS legal one. Here it is about commercial markets VS cultural centres.

Europe is not just a market. Europe is the (historical) centre of the western world. I don't think big tech can/want to leave it. If they say so, IMO they are just bluffing.
I keep getting lost in the numbers here. What was the net gain/loss for the entire system? Without the “lasers are 1% efficient at 20% energy loss with 40% energy transfer loss” and all that.
Agree, and I succeeded with that too, but for a shorter period. As a raw vegan my blood sugar was low, but I developed brain fog and intense cravings after about six months. I believe that path is sustainable for people with lower protein requirements and a healthier digestive system than mine.
I don't think you even really believe that yourself.

https://youtu.be/7LKy3lrkTRA
You don't understand. ITER will RESEARCH, how existing materials withstand in real fusion reactor, and gather parameters of real fusion reactor, so other science facilities will have benchmarks.
Probably something in the vein of a DHT. There is still a lot of progress that can be made in that area, in terms of performance, content addressing and cooperative/adversarial search strategies though.

I pick on DNS because it's an easy example of another thing you have to manage hosting your own content. Also, domain names are a hot mess and people mostly prefer to have identities ala Facebook, which could easily built into a decentralized protocol.
A carrot, a cabbage, a bell pepper or a butternut squash will contain a significant amount of carbs, all of which is in the form of simple sugars (glucose, fructose and sucrose mainly) so they avoid those foods?
US debit cards have chip and PIN in some cases like cash withdrawals. Not sure of the rules.

Credit cards also have 2FA (“3D secure”) for less trustworthy online sites, mostly international.
>> I mean I didn't manually

Manually or automatically issuing is insignificant. Your work was automatically copyrighted when you wrote it, if you did nothing else - such as agreeing to exchange those rights for a salary from an employer, or declaring the software as licenced under specific terms, or performing the necessary actions in your jurisdiction to enter the works into the public domain, if you did none of these, then it’s yours to claim as an asset if you want.

>> nothing is removed and value is added

No asset was removed - ownership of the copyright of the software still remains unchanged when people copied your open source software.

However, no new asset was created. They derived value from your software hopefully but they didn’t gain a new asset.

What if you licenced it under a really permissive licence like apache? It’s still the same story. someone else can create their own asset by changing your apache licenced software and distributing it as theirs. They’re in breach of that particular licence if they try to redistribute completely unchanged work under a different licence.

>> a painting has more value than the paint and canvas

You’re conflating valuation with accounting. The value of an asset is a different and often subjective concern, from the accounting of ownership of it.

A painting has more value than it’s raw materials (hopefully!), but that tells us nothing about how to account for ownership of the asset.

If i have a case of beers that i bought for $50 and i take it to the beach and sell it for $100 to a group of thirsty friends, the valuation changed but the chain of custody of the asset was zero sum all through.
another big thing, last time I checked IG was way less family friend than Tik Tok though.

Tik Tok won't give you NSFW content even if you search for it. They made an excellent job filtering it.
>It was low quality. Setting up a business in the UK, for example, costs £40....

£12. See my reply above: https://www.gov.uk/set-up-limited-company
"To demonstrate that the type of fusion studied at NIF can be a viable way of producing energy, the efficiency of the yield — the energy released compared to the energy that goes into producing the laser pulses — needs to grow by at least two orders of magnitude."

Lots of claims on HN that we were one order of magnitude away. Similar claims were made in other threads made about how we were really close to commercialization with better lasers. This article has the right take, this research is valuable but its impossible to say anything about whether indirect intertial confinement fusion is commercially viable. Best case scenario [1], we still have a way to go.

[1]: An Assessment of the Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy (2013)
Sure, but that obviously isn't what people were talking about with respect to developers giving refunds. I provided that feature to developers in Cydia and gave refunds directly to users and it was still appreciated by all to have that feature.

Regardless, to address your (off-topic) addition: do you actually request refunds from Apple often enough to be willing to pay 10% more for the privilege? You'd have to be asking for refunds for 1 out of every 10 products you buy for that to make sense...
Yes, it was ChatGPT generated. Per the disclaimer at the bottom:

"Disclaimer: This essay was generated by StableDiffusion (the image) and ChatGPT (the text)."
I totally agree with your main point but it is very wrong to equivocate the three letter agencies to the threat authoritarian governments gaining knowledge and thus power over a nation pose.
> governments should not haunt founders for alleged tax crimes over paper valuations

> Our banks don’t like startup founders and neither do many of our tax agencies, who often consider paper wealth to be real wealth. While they consider the paper wealth to be real, the tax agencies want to get paid with actual cash.

> Banks, tax agencies and even family members distrust startups and will make life difficult for you.

And on top of that the insane, purely insane, amount of paperwork. And if you mess up, it's fines, fines, more fines, then fines over the fines for not having paid the fines soon enough.

The problem in most of the EU countries is that there's an ever growing public sector and administrations that always inflate in size full of people producing hardly anything besides rules and crazy paperwork that those who want to actually work have then to fill.

You have IRS public servants coming to your place and saying stuff like (this happened to me): "Had I opened your file before I'd have noticed there was no money to take". I was clean but this gives the mindset: these guys come knocking at your door with the mindset: "There's money for the state to seize".

I've literally seen a public servant, while I was very polite, not answering me, taking a paper from a pile of paper, the only pile of paper in its office, and slam it on the desk, without saying a word while she was... Playing minesweeper. For the role of that one public servant was to "serve" that one paper (some stuff you had to fill to require the right to prevent other people from parking in your street when the moving truck comes: of course this requires one dedicated servant only for that in every single town hall in Belgium? WTF...).

It's a never ending Brazil (the movie) dystopia infernal circle of paperwork leading to more taxes being paid, leading to more public servants being hired, leading to new taxes.

As the saying goes: *"In France you plant public servants and taxes grow" ("En France on plante des fonctionnaires et il pousse des impots").
If there is an audiobook version in English of the Legasov Tape transcripts out there anywhere, I would very much like to give it a listen.

I'm completely naïve about the business of audiobook and podcast production, but would certainly support the production of something like that in the only way I know how, which is to say I would pay money for it. Given the recent interest I imagine others would too.
You are comparing company that makes trucks with a company that makes precision scientific instrumers, and you are declaring that truck companu is more efficient per kilo of produce. this is stupid.

Nasa develops nuclear reactors, landed on titan and has reached pluto. Spacex vehicle has never left the Earth-moon system.
Then don't. You have the option, but no one is forcing you.

Giving people more options is not a bad thing, you should trust everyone to make their decisions.
Yes, so much this.

Not only is it much easier to raise animals in a more humane manner than is done industrially, when people live closer to their food source they understand the sheer amount of resources -- land, water, deforestaton -- that goes into every kilogram of meat. I think people would eat a more reasonable (i.e. a lot less, and healthier) amount of meat if they saw and experienced the impacts of meat farming first-hand, from cutting down trees to create land, treating the land for farming enough food for the animals to grow before you can kill them for meat -- rather than selecting "beef" on a food delivery app without thinking about anything.
Israel cares more about birth counts than virtually any other country in the world by virtue of their relationship with the Palestinians. The Palestinians are rapidly approaching the tipping point where they will outnumber Israelis. At that time, it's possible that Israel would have to renegotiate which country controls which regions.
Former LLNL employee here, they hire a LOT of foreign nationals. Several people that I worked with there were Canadian.
This is just a dressed up "some people are saying" puff piece.