skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is already an alternative method to determine sex before the eggs hatch by analyzing hormones in the egg liquid. [1]

[1] https://www.seleggt.com/

[2] https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/eier-produktion-sinnloses-ku... (German)
To me, the interesting thing about Pony is its system of reference capabilities:

https://blog.beardhatcode.be/2018/10/pony-capabilities.html

They feel a lot like Rust's system of ownership and borrowing, but oriented more towards safe communication in an actor system rather than safe memory management.
I got caught by this with Redis. On an app that otherwise costs over $100/mo to run. It had a small Redis instance for caching. They could have just upgraded it to the $3/mo plan on our behalf, but no, instead they just deleted it one day and brought the app down for a few hours ;-) I know it's "my bad" but it still left a bad taste in my mouth when they could have upgraded it on my behalf anyway!
The asymmetry stems from the days where we connected through the phone lines, which was not designed for data. There it was possible to have a higher bandwidth out from the phone switches than in. That is, dial-up modems and DSL modems could have a much higher download speed than upload.

I don't know about cable, but I suspect it's the same there.

OTH, fiber-based internet often has symmetric speeds. Don't know the stats, but I suspect most fiber ISPs gives you that.
The problem here seems cultural, not legal. College dorms and frathouses seem like the perfect climate for creating a culture of binge-drinking.

1. A bunch of dumb, young adults.

2. Sent away from home to live together, with only their peers for role models.

3. With few responsibilities, and not enough schoolwork to do to keep themselves busy.

I'm not sure why anyone would expect any outcome that didn't include way too many drugs and way too much partying. The drinking age isn't a problem, that set of inputs would produce the exact same thing, whether it was 18, 19, or 35.

If you actually want to solve college binge drinking, kill the frat life, close down all the dorms for local students, and have them commute to school.
No, but most people think hacking, exploring, and founding stuff is cool even if they don't do it themselves.
It's a weird scientific annoncement, punctuated with quotes from politicians...
There's a reason for optimism as for the lasers' efficiency. But there are many other aspects that were only approached theoretically so far, such as how to get useful energy out of the reactor.
Do you mean that people drink it at high temps or steep it at high temp? Can you steep it at high temperature but then wait until it cools down to drink it?
Would it be an option to use io-uring to further recuce syscall overhead? Perhaps there's also a way to do zerocopy?
Used this for ages. People will bring up various alternatives (including just strictly using FFmpeg) and I have to wonder if the only use case they can fathom is clipping 1 segment out of a longer video. All suggested alternatives would involve such a garbage workflow and unintuitive experience for any real project. I dislike Electron as much as anyone else but it works fine here, and does the job better than anything else I've tried. I am very comfortable with FFmpeg and have used pretty much any tool you can name, I still use Losslesscut daily.
A lot of people recreationally smoke cigars and would say the exact same words about it.
Because Brave's business model is to replace the website's advertisements with their own, and give you monopoly money crypto tokens.

Just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I look forward to this every year.
More real than the wormhole. Real enough to get Chuck Shumer to increase next year’s budget, which is why you’re hearing about this at all.
What the Hell Happened to PayPal?
This is the third thread today with pithy "this means nothing takes". If you're thinking of posting a one liner on the subject you should probably stop.

Let's save some time out of discussion now:

1. The lasers at NIF are not designed to be efficient, and they are very old. Modern semiconductor lasers are 20x more efficient. The 300MJ wall plug conversation is stupid, stop pointing it out.

2. Dropping crystals and hitting them with lasers is not hard, we do it in semiconductors for EUV light source generation all the time. In fact EUV light sources do it at 100khz or more.

3. Power extraction from a bundle of hot material is not a particularly unknown problem. It's in fact how every power plant on the planet works.

Make no mistake there are a lot of engineering problems to solve. The "droplets" are enormously expensive, the "firing" itself creates debries which need cleared from the chamber, dt supply is not something that's readily available in large quantities, blah blah. I'd love interesting conversation about what stands between ICF and a real energy plant, not hot takes.
Seemed like this article in Nature did pretty good. They explicitly said: “I don't want to give you a sense that we're going to plug the NIF into the grid: that is definitely not how this works,”
and “Although positive news, this result is still a long way from the actual energy gain required for the production of electricity,” said Tony Roulstone, a nuclear-energy researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK, in a statement to the Science Media Centre.

Still, “the NIF experiments focused on fusion energy absolutely are valuable on the path to commercial fusion power”, says Anne White, a plasma physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

There is a pretty solid disconnect between the public's perception of how science works and happens and how it does. For this to really matter, someone else needs to duplicate the experiment and verify the data. It's a huge win if the hype can lead to that.
Also, sometimes logs stretch across multiple lines, and the other lines won't have the identifier you are searching for. For example, Java stack traces. In that case if you are stuck parsing unstructured logs, the simplest thing to do is to look at the entire file and search for the timestamp that found the first line.
I'm sorry, but where? You've linked to three Twitter posts...

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1602510004795367424

* https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1602676998094069760

https://twitter.com/Travis_Kling/status/1602400700192985100

... and I'm scrolling through the replies and not really seeing anything about anyone confirming functional withdrawals. But that's ignoring the fact that third-party claims of functional withdrawals are irrelevant to my point. None of those claims would change the fact that this downtime was not "pre-announced downtime for a hardfork on their BSC chain". Binance themselves have publicly confirmed this today, regardless of what you're saying third parties have claimed.

* Okay, so you have to click through the shared Tweet on this one, but this appears to be what you're getting at. The few tweets from people at the start of the thread confirming withdrawals all posted during the time that Binance themselves said withdrawals were frozen, and they conveniently offer no actual proof of a successful withdrawal. Scrolling further, there are other people who commented around the same time (or even more recently, since Binance announced they'd resumed) who have been having trouble performing withdrawals. Unreliable anecdata at best.
It used to be that people believed that opportunity isn't a zero sum game. Sometime in the last 10-15 years (perhaps after the great recession) the emphasis started to shift on equality of outcome and people started realizing that this new game is zero sum. After all there are limited number of desirable spots in any arena (high paying jobs, leadership positions, college admissions...). We have become hoarders, and hoarders often have bleak outlook.
There are different types of corruption. Access and speed money actually boosts development like a steroid. Just like a steroid you reap the benefit early but eventually it becomes corrosive. You can hide a lot of problem as long as the growth rate is high.
“Wall plug energy consumption”

I don’t know why but this caused me to picture Alec from Tech Connections in a few years time, showing off his fusion laser plugged in to a kill-a—watt, while he explains carefully, through the magic of buying two of them, why you can get more power out than you put in, and why these old inertial confinement fusors were pretty neat actually.
Average doctor salary is $300k in the US. Top doctors can make over a million/yr. This is at least 3x what most doctors can expect in western europe.
> The actual care is great.[1]

[1] Some exceptions apply. Please see your insurance (if you even have any) for details.
They're not "even bigger", they're structured and regulated very differently now.
I read a comment here before saying that the purpose of the NIF is to get more data for making hydrogen bombs, while being unable to test actual bombs due to treaties. And that the press releases they have about fusion energy are mainly bullshit for the press.

Is there anything to that claim or is it bullshit?
Wait, I thought this was already a solved problem? We've been able to determine the sex of chicken eggs from the outside using lasers for quite a few years now. [0]

[0]: https://physicsworld.com/a/laser-spectroscopy-determines-sex...
> "ignition" means that you get more energy out than the lasers impart. This is the first time anyone has pulled that off in decades of trying, which is a big deal.

The term is refreshingly intuitive. For decades we've been striking stone and flint. Sparks. We just got a bit of kindling going. It's no bonfire. But it's a big step forward.
That's the problem Qodana is trying to solve: https://www.jetbrains.com/qodana/
You can't 1000x investment if there is no barrier to entry for competition.
"Don't have any problems" and "Don't have problems that they are telling you about" are different things.

They may have an abuse@opennic address they've never opened. An ignored problem isn't a problem, well until it is.

Or they may deal with it and not mention the costs of doing so.
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In practice if you want the popcount of anything larger than a couple registers you'll want to use vector instructions anyways though. There are a lot of operations that will speed up certain applications if made into their own instruction, not all of them need to be.
I would note that the entirety of North America banned alcohol at one point, and so theoretically had the same advantage that an island nation would, albeit at a larger scale. Of course, tobacco is not alcohol which can be brewed at home; still.

I'm not entirely sure re: Japan, in that it's hard to get a good picture of the rates of drug use in the country. The case of Japan also reminds me that I'm not really sure about the direction of causation. Is it drug prohibition and legal penalties that causes people to refrain from drug use in countries like Japan? Or does a society that tends to refrain from drug use and which views it extremely negatively internalize those values, such that they're then projected in its laws? Perhaps the general social conscientiousness and social fabric of the Japanese is a bigger factor there than what the law says. If no one wants to use drugs, you won't have much of a drug problem.
Modder makes an Apple M1-powered Wii for retro gaming
I would have to agree. The "in general" though is carrying an enormous amount of weight in that statement.

I think what other commentors may be getting at is that in many cases the simple analogy of asking how 9 women can have a baby in 1 month is instructive here. You could throw trillions at that problem, a need to have a baby in 1 month. Sometimes there are hard limits that money has a hard time addressing.

A case could be made that with enough money put towards advanced technology, like gene therapy to force a fetus to maturity in 1 month vs 9, it could be done with horrendous side effects.

So to your point money does solve all problems, but I think diminishing returns is putting it very lightly.
> Earthers get to walk outside into the light, breathe pure air, look up at a blue sky, and see something that gives them hope. And what do they do? They look past that light, past that blue sky. They see the stars, and they think, 'Mine.'

(from The Expanse)
Who gets to define 'actually caring'?
> Even if the hashmap library knew that the only valid keys were 'a' .. 'z', it wouldn't be magically faster. The best it could do is use basically the same code as a hand-rolled implementation.

This is known as a perfect hash[1]. knowing that you will never have collisions does allow for a faster implementation. The hash map can be backed by an array which will never need to be resized, and you don't have to fiddle with linked lists to chain collisions.

You're correct though, that this is something you will have to implement yourself. Library hashmaps are going to trade performance for general usefulness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_hash_function
Because by association you are receiving the same recommendations. I doubt that this is true over heterogenic, random assemblies.
Without the desire to explore and expand there would be no America. If the Spanish and Portuguese would have waited to solve all of humanity’s problems first and then set out to explore new worlds the world would be a different place today. Same with space exploration. It is in our dna as the most advanced life forms to go out there. It is also a duty to all life on this earth to expand beyond. Finding even a hint of former life on mars means life is a rule not an exception in the universe. Being able to colonise it means we can outsource all our destructive resource gathering to mars. Or even better we can live on it. Doing so would mean trade with earth and as a result development on a scale never seen before.
Didn't someone the same thing about atomic power back in the middle ages?

But that's OK, fusion is a hard thing to do outside of a star. It may take decades longer for it to be practical but doesn't the potential return on investment make it worthwhile to keep working on it now?
It's obvious why it exists. Dollar liquidity inside of the crypto network ecosystem. You can quickly move out of volatile assets into stable coins. You can transfer these stable coins quickly into and out of wallets and contracts. You cannot do either of these as efficiently with pure fiat which would then require an "IOU" from an exchange which would be less transferable, require trust of the exchange, and would insert friction moving into or out of the $.
The current state of cryptocurrency should be enough evidence that people want centralization as it affords the most social investment value.
A CEO eventually has to develop the courage to deliver bad news to the board.
My tips for analyzing logs:

cd ~/logs

cat * | grep <my string>
Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by EU laws
https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers/onlin...

Wilbur Wright asked for the Smithsonian's aeronautical research. They still have the letter. The very Wikipedia article you're referencing, in the exact paragraph you're talking about, contains the words "Orville Wright, whose brother had received help from the Smithsonian when beginning his own quest for flight."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers#Smithsonian_fe...

Sure, the Smithsonian people were assholes about it. That doesn't negate their contribution to the Wright brother's work. Incedentally, in modern timesif you visit the Air and Space Museum you can see the exhibit where they own up to the shabby attempt to promote their late leader over the Wrights. They cover the feud pretty thoroughly -- including having both aircraft.
IMO the idea of decentralization is kinda flawed in todays world. I’m going to go on a somewhat long anecdote, but I promise it’ll all make sense in the end.

I recently swapped email to protonmail from gmail. Why? Because I read an article about the Terraria developer just getting banned and losing his email for no reason. “That could happen to me!”

After a long while of using proton (9 months or so) I got really tired of the lack of ecosystem (at this time there were no public apps on iOS or android besides mail) and I still had to use google for my contacts sync, notes, etc.

So what I ended up doing is moving all my shit BACK to google from proton (massive headache by the way) and then just self hosted my own email address domain. That way if google ever decides to ban me, I can hop over to Cloudflare and point the email domain to another email provider and violà!

One of my main complains with protonmail was that the search function actually kinda sucks. GMails search is so good, and the filters you can make are so easy, I could go on. That’s why google is the industry leader! But why does proton make me feel more comfortable? Zero-trust. Proton doesn’t know what is in my emails at rest, but google does.

So I propose the idea: why decentralize? Compare mastodon and Twitter (pre-Musk). The whole reason that Twitter got huge is that everyone is on it. I loved the old school “everyone had their own message board community” internet, and IRC was really cool. But the VAST majority of users don’t want that back. It’s much more convenient to load up discord to talk to people than an irc client that has like 40 different segregated communities, in the same way that it is much easier and more convenient to use Twitter than to manage all of what mastodon is.

Even then, look at something like Session (the username only fork of signal). I’m not 100% on the details, but they claim to be decentralized, but yet I don’t have to input server details. That means that there has to be some sort of centralized database or application or table that tells me where all of the servers I can connect to are (or perhaps a first server that you connect to that then spreads to another server etc)

You have 4 choices in the modern world:

google (nothing protected, totally centralized, but the most feature rich and fastest)

protonmail (centralized, protected, but not as feature rich and fast)

session (decentralized but there’s still a layer of centralization to make it easy to use, but still more complicated than the first two options)

Mastodon (fully decentralized but wildly inconvenient for the average person, significantly more difficult to use, and likely will never adopt the number of users that Twitter has)

Remember, we are the minority. Google is the best for most people, as is Twitter, as is Discord, as is iMessage or SMS, etc.

People use what is the easiest and most feature rich. Decentralized stuff will never meet all categories of feature rich, fast, and easy to use. It just isn’t possible, and if it was it would be the biggest smash hit in history and we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
Musk’s Twitter disbands its Trust and Safety advisory group
https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/uploaded-fi...

Full indictment. They appear to be going harder than I expected.
I just (last night!) had to take mandatory reporter training on child abuse. Pretty horrible actually.

But it addressed your question. Some kids hear at home things like "you're useless" or "you're a disappointment to me" or "why can't you be more like $SIBLING"? The parent themselves may be under stress and not have enough energy to have adequate empathy for their child, and/or they likely may themselves have been on the receiving end of such treatment, which may have normalized such behavior.

While true, I think it's a cop out to say "groups of humans are just like this". The training I just took was pretty disturbing as it naturally focused on the consequences of awful behavior, but to flipp the statistics around the other way: I was glad the prevalence the worst kinds of abuse (which includes emotional abuse == bullying) was not huge. Most people are not like this.

And sure, some people do seem to simply be bad seeds but the training did (appropriately delicately and dispassionately) show that certain exogenous drivers were more far more predictive of abuse than demographics. I didn't follow this part closely because it wasn't relevant to why I needed to take the training (I'm not a social worker).
> You want to signup for a digital service from the government, your bank, your insurance company,.. . Well you need to send in a copy of a bill and your passport.

This isn't generally the case; for the most part, a UK resident just answers some questions on application and won't be asked for ID to take out financial products. It's only normally if you fail to verify that you'd be asked that, which might happen if you've got no address/financial history here for e.g.

For online government services all tax/benefits are online and pretty seamless. The things that aren't seamless are much less common - for e.g. renewing driving license I remember being quite painful.
Liquor stores and consulting companies don't stack up to the “ great fortunes" gp was asking about.
He'd be a popular poker player since he'd always be giving his money away.
Stem Diversity May Lie in Peer Mentorship
I have a monthly SEPA transfer for Mullvad, zero maintenance.
LosslessCut looks awesome! I also created a lossless video trimming tool a couple of months ago: https://videotrim.app
LosslessCut seems to be more featureful but mine works in the browser without having to install it. It also has the same limitations since cutting times are rounded to the closest keyframes, but this way there's no need to re-encode anything.
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Jadi has been released from prison after 70 days on bail
Recent post on HN about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33484185
Not only the motivations, the social interactions, too.

The behavioural biologists study zebra fish as a model for all vertebrates (except the wise ones, that live solitary).
Loss of freedom for one, just one more thing the government chose for my body because they "know best"
> it seems like a stretch to attribute the innovation to the milk, rather than to the mind of the individual who may or may not have been fueled by milk?

What ever it been fueled with, knowledge wasn't created at an individual's birth, it's an accumulation of a collective and shared effort

The point i was trying to make in my post is; it always starts from the people, for the people to continue, for the people to achieve a civilizational ascension

If we build the means to generate infinite energy for free, then we'll have to ask ourselves if giving that much power to the individual a safe endeavor, or if we should make sure the prospect is for the collective to ascend

Thanks to this achievement, many will learn from it and acquire knowledge to pursue that goal, would it be the case if it was a solo for profit effort? i doubt it greatly

The open source tech industry thrives because it's a collective and shared effort, funding issue persists but that's due to us, individuals, living civilization's transition, it'll be a solved problem shortly
Speculation.

People believed that X:Y was 2.2:2.0, but it's now 3.15:2.05.

The 10% EROI apparently wasn't impressive enough, it's now 54% EROI on paper (assuming less because of capture inefficiencies).

I'm no expert, but theoretically my understanding is that this ratio should scale along this same pattern for higher values of Y.
that's a good thing
The software market shows the same issues in regards to expansion. Multilingual support? A pain. Systems? A pain. How do you consolidate the idea that it is 'easy' when market expansion shows the very opposite?
>This is the first time anyone has pulled that off in decades of trying, which is a big deal.

Are you sure of that? This is from 2014: https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/02/giant-leap-for-nucle...
Seems like the URL gets converted to canonical /Engineering. The actual URL is
https://www.anyscale.com/blog/flexible-cross-language-distri...
Perl also had that delayed syntax check style as an option and I HATED IT.

THING if logical condition

Filter First is far better self-documentation: if condition THING