skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Helicon". I hope that's an accidental mispelling, not libel.

Why exactly do you think they need to provide public data? They're a company, not academics. They've provided data to their funders, who have also had external experts review the results, including the famous JASON physicists. The result of this got them $500M for Polaris and another $1.7B conditioned on the success of that machine.

My impression of Helion is from when I thought their ideas didn't work. This invariably ended up being because I had some misunderstanding of what they were doing. When I thought of a concern, I would find they had already addressed it. This makes all of the things they're doing ring very true. Maybe it will end up not working, but it's not because of anything obvious.

Your comment about high energy protons is wrong. The fraction of MeV-scale protons that will undergo a nuclear reaction in a target is very small and drops to essentially zero if the material has high atomic number (because the Coulomb barrier is too high). The induced radioactivity from the protons will be negligible in a properly designed system.

About the tritium: the pulse in Helion's design is so short that the tritium nuclei do not have time to thermalize. At the energy they are initially produced the DT fusion cross section is about an order of magnitude smaller. So, most of the T (I'm estimating all but a few percent) will not fuse before the pulse ends. If they have a gas with a low D:3He ratio, DT fusion is suppressed even more. They appear to planning a scheme where there are DD reactors that make 3He, and then D3He reactors that consume it. The latter could be designed with a much more favorable neutron environment.
> Also: while Kanye is clearly his own kind of category of crazy, what “other racists”?

>

> I don’t know a single such case.

One example I remember reading about was Andrew Anglin [1], the founder of The Daily Stormer [2], a website that, to save you a click, Wikipedia describes as "an American far-right, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, misogynist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, and Holocaust denial commentary and message board website that advocates for a second genocide of Jews".

As his Wikipedia article [1] notes,

> Anglin was banned from Twitter in 2013, but was reinstated weeks after the site was acquired by Elon Musk in 2022.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Anglin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer
He has repeatedly shown a proclivity for lying, so I don't know why it should be ruled out altogether. And regardless of what the intent or driving motivation was, it's still hypocrisy.
Why shouldn't you have to pay a few bucks to advertise your other social media sites? Surely you're wealthy enough.
Let's say good grid-wide energy storage technology - generating hydrogen or ammonia, pumped storage, whatever works. Lots of technologies, and none as challenging as fusion...
I feel like that would destroy him honestly. Kind of like how after SoftBank gave Adam Neumann $1B and told him to "get crazy," he succumbed to his worst instincts.

Not to say Coffeezilla is a grifter, but I think Coffeezilla is thriving in part due to his constraints. If he had a huge budget and resources, he wouldn't be an agile nobody who could convince anyone to get on the phone and tell on themselves. He'd be just another news outlet, with too much to lose to act in the way he's used to.
Accenture is the contractor responsible.
Open Source, self-hosted alternative to LinkTree and LinkInBio
For those looking for a self-hosted option for their twitter profile
Why would fusion be bad for peaking ? It got none of the fission problems regarding that.
I’m curious to hear your thoughts on him banning Ukrainian phone numbers, effectively making it so that Ukrainians can’t sign up to share information about the war.
Also seems to work that way for the FlatPak version, for what it is worth. I also have never seen the please restart page.
The second goal should also never have stood. Clear foul on Glenn Hoddle.
Was there ever a time when faking injuries like a toddler wasn't an integral, unpunished part of the game?

I like watching the WC because soccer is interesting enough to see once per Olympiad on the world stage. The final today had some amazing shows of talent and teamwork, but it is primally revolting to me to watch grown men writhe in faux agony with one eye on the ref, when their opponent's foot whiffed some air past their shin.
The point was that dotted-list-p doesn't have anything to do with the "serialized form" (printed representation) of the list. Dotted lists are important because they are one of the two types of improper list, the other type being circular lists. Many Lisp functions work on proper lists.

Of course NIL is an ordinary symbol. It has roles, the same way other symbols have roles. Are you saying the symbol &BODY is not an ordinary symbol because it is a lambda list keyword? Are you saying the symbol T is not an ordinary symbol because type boolean is (member t nil)? Are you saying symbol * is not an ordinary symbol because it is a special variable bound by the REPL, it is used in declaration syntax, and also is the name of the product function? Are you saying MUMBLE:VAPORIZE is not an ordinary symbol because it names the most dangerous operation in the mumble library? They are all ordinary symbols, sometimes with unique roles. Because NIL was chosen to satisfy the role of the empty list, is it any wonder that type list is (or cons null), type null is (eql nil), LENGTH and ASSOC and other list functions can deal with it etc.? Of course not. That doesn't make NIL qua symbol any weirder than any other symbol that has particular roles in a given context.

There are many symbols in Common Lisp that you cannot DEFUN. See section 11.1.2.1.2 in the hyperspec. Since NIL names a constant variable but not a standardized function, macro, or special operator, you can bind it to a function lexically using FLET or LABELS.

Once again, NIL is not a cons, it is an atomic symbol that also represents the empty list, so it's no wonder that LISTP returns true and CONSP returns false. CAR and CDR take lists (again see their entries in the CLHS) so it's no wonder that they can work with it. RPLACA and RPLACD take conses only so it's no wonder that they don't. At the risk of stating the obvious (again and again) the type null is (eql nil) so it's no wonder that NULL returns T for it. That operators treat a symbol specially does not make a symbol weird. It merely means that it serves a particular role. Any symbol can take any number of roles within a program. That doesn't make the symbol weird. I will repeat once more, because I've a feeling you didn't get this. It doesn't make a symbol weird.

It is a basic matter, definitely. I learned all this stuff about conses, atoms, symbols, lists, etc. very early on, as baby Lisper. I don't know why someone who spent 35 years programming Lisp should have trouble understanding all this, and has to keep bringing up new irrelevant/incorrect claims instead of just opening a beginner's Lisp book and re-reading the first chapter or two, where they talk about all this stuff.
>Maybe what matters to NSA bureaucrats making contracting decisions is knowing that Bezos will give them lucrative private sector jobs?

So wouldn't that mean the last thing they'd do is raise a fuss about what some random WaPo reporter, that Bezos has almost certainly never met, wrote which has probably not even gone viral? Just ignore it and give AWS the contracts...no?
"Bezos basically destroyed Blue Origin in 2017"

This sort-of implies that BO was functional prior to that incident.

BO was founded in 2000. By 2017, they had existed for 17 years without reaching the orbit. (Which SpaceX managed in 6 years, Astra managed in 17 years, RocketLab in 12 years).

It seems to me that BO is just continuing to be an expensive failure, which, unlike all the other failed space startups, keeps dragging itself on, because it can rely on basically unlimited funding.
correct - I've learnt different perspectives and expanded my way of thinking

and also learnt many many people do not bother with thinking, and just throw crap out - due to their immediate emotions
At this point I have trouble feeling sympathy. All of us former and some current users have been outlining the problems with snap for years, this one included.

Just find any HN thread (or probably Reddit and Twitter threads) about ubuntu or snaps from the last few years and you'll see.

At this point it's akin to starting smoking today then acting shocked when you get lung cancer.
Canonical is doing a great job replicating the BOFH. It's an integral part of the traditional *nix experience.
I once found a loved one in grave condition, without a pulse. What followed was like a surreal movie that has its frames out of order. I remember a thought of surprise at basically flinging furniture out of the way. Very much a passenger in my body at that point. I began CPR. Muscle memory is right. I was not really conscious throughout most of it.

One of the few things that resembles a thought during the entire episode is something like "you cannot think about this right now if you do you will collapse". A jumble of eternal instants. It dragged on. And on. And on. Eventually, very eventually, the paramedics arrived. I had another thing resembling a thought. I can collapse now. I can look away now. I have no basically no memory until the next day when I saw her, awake, in the hospital.

I know the day and time it happened. I checked the logs after. The paramedics took less than 5 minutes to arrive. But it was outside the normal linearity of my experience. It doesn't fit between the day before and the day after. For a while, the jumbled movie would play in my head, involuntarily. I think I was trying to make sense of it, fit it in, when it really doesn't fit. Experiences and memories I couldn't easily process because I didn't really experience them consciously when they occurred? Maybe something like that. It went away with time, and does not bother me these days, but descriptions of PTSD do make a lot more sense to me now.
Protection of minorities has nothing to do with democracy, and is often anti-Democratic.

Exactly. And that means protecting minorities from abuse - particularly abuse caused by short-term or ill-informed policy making by politicians - is the big challenge facing any political system based on representative democracy. But before you can get that far you first need to have your representatives democratically elected in the first place and most of us don't right now.

In the west, minorities are increasingly being invoked by elites as pretexts for strengthening anti-Democratic institutions and overruling majorities.

Careful. Relatively few policies implemented by Western governments actually have a clear, verifiable majority of the public in support of them. For that you essentially need either a referendum or a clear result electing representatives on an explicit platform of implementing that policy and where that policy is known to be the deciding factor in voters' choice of representative.

For everything else in a representative democracy we elect our representatives usually based on some very narrow set of priorities and yet those representatives are entrusted with deciding on any government policy that requires a decision throughout their term of office. There is a very long tail of minor issues that can still profoundly affect the lives of many people yet where the representatives making the decisions certainly were not elected based on their position on those particular issues. Even on major issues situations will inevitably change during the term of office of elected representatives and their response to any emergency was almost certainly not something voters had an opportunity to consider before making their choice at the last election.

Representative democracy has obvious practical advantages over requiring direct democracy for every little decision any government ever makes but it also implies limitations on the democratic mandate granted to representatives and by extension on the legitimacy of any actions those representatives take on behalf of their electorate. Strong checks and balances are essential to keep representative democracy democratic. One common safeguard is to have constitutional rules about the most important policies where the powers of any current representatives to act in those areas are limited without going back to their electorate for a specific decision to change the foundational rules. Another is having a power of recall so that if the voters who elected a representative are unhappy with their actions then they can require a fresh election that might choose a different representative instead. Crucially both of those safeguards ultimately depend on an explicit decision by the entire electorate, which can and should be more powerful in a democracy than any decision by elected representatives.
I think at first thought it's annoying, but it's worked for me since Everquest since I know the company I'm subscribed to will deliver updates forever, and if they don't I just cancel. I think it is annoying that I have to keep track of all my subscriptions, but that's a very minor inconvenience.

Subscription services have almost single-handedly ended the consumer need for pirating software as well.
In my opinion you shouldn't expect future updates of any kind from software that you own. I wouldn't expect them to keep updating it because it obviously makes them no money. I would expect them to release a new product to keep making money.
So here's the thing, the entire software development industry is topped around the concept of constant maintenance. Android keeps updating so all android applications must constantly be updated to keep compatibility. It's gone beyond security patches to "business cases keep changing so the software is never done." And when that's the case, it is not economical for a company to charge ou once and keep providing you a service indefinitely.

I refuse to rent anything too. So the only option is FOSS. That means I do a lot of my own maintenance (my password manager database isn't backed up on some server I don't have to think about for example).
The Observer view on Scotland’s controversial proposed gender reforms
Do you have a Mastodon account yet? I'd like to continue to follow you.
But why is 'abnormal' always treated as a negative?

This is one thing I don't get about modern woke politics. We are supposed to be accepting of each other, but need to ignore the things we are supposed to accept.

People are different, people are abnormal, why can't that be celebrated?
Some people buy (rent?) videos and books, then download a DRM free copy from bittorrent.
This is fair, but you would think that once he realized what kind of bag he was holding, he would also possess the clarity of mind to realize a need to step back and learn something about the internal workings of the industry, let alone the company he had just acquired without any due diligence.

If Elon had simply sat back and done "almost nothing" after the purchase, instead taking the time to really learn about something he had just bought, he would not be in this PR firestorm, let alone getting forced to sell off billions in TSLA stock.
As I understand it, if Twitter shuts down tomorrow Musk will still be tremendously rich man. Sure, he will upset some investors but the debt he took for the buyout was actually in the name of Twitter and he won't be exposed to it.

Maybe he doesn't have to make Twitter profitable to justify the outrageous price he paid, maybe it's good enough to make it break even?
Rule #1 of any forum is don't moderate the forum that you are active on. Musk is finding out the hard way why this is the case.

Happy to see your post here though!

Edit: and while we have you here briefly, Happy Holidays!
Argentina dominated most of the game up until France scored. Was a very fun game to watch.

I'm pretty sure Argentina's 3rd goal should have been revoked after a VAR review. Messi looks off-side for the second to last pass that starts the play. I assume VAR reviewed the ball on the goal line and the last pass but didn't look at the pass that started the play right before?

I wish the reviews were televised. We get to see the referees making decisions, why not the VAR communication too?
He had plenty of time to think about it before deciding to fire all the people he fired in the cruelest way possible.

It may have been satisfying to him because he has a caricature in his head of who they are and what they did and it made his fans happy. But impulsive? No, there was plenty of time for smart to override impulsive here. This is something -- arbitrary, chaotic, intentionally cruel -- but it isn't impulsive.
(author) It's also a very kind show. I think the folks he gets (or got) on the radio are a different audience than those who might call into an Internet streaming show. I suspect the experience on the new show will lack some of that variety even though it'll still be the same great people, unfortunately.
The cemetery of defunct space startups is pretty big, including the one founded by John Carmack.
Excuse my ignorance but let me treat this thread as a safe space:

should I prefer the use of the term "pendejex" to be gender inclusive in Spanish?
I'll bite

- the ability to explain why you think a certain way or did something (i.e. when you ask a child why they threw a glass they'll say "I don't know"

- the speed at which you learn/process new information

- the ability to understand your emotions and the level of control you have over them

- your willing to engage in debate

- how inquisitive you are
I agree that its misleading to say "medicine", but I don't agree with the message of your second sentence. Forgive me if I'm assuming.

Consider that too much of anything is bad. If I understand correctly cancer has to do with cell reproduction rate.

So you can imagine then, that there could be an optimal rate of cell regeneration for longest life/cancer avoidance. Too low a cell regeneration rate(no exercise) and maybe, too fats a cell regeneration(10 times more exercise) both lead to cancer.

The point I am trying to elaborate is that a piece of information, even if they do not match all the cases they still are "significant".
I would chalk that up to slow service degradation more than malice. Twitter is likely slowly running aground.
If only.

Companies are more than happy to charge you for a subscription for years then the second they decide to make a new model force you to buy that and pay the new subscription
Twitter is under a consent decree by the FTC related to user privacy, not market competition.
Don Bradman in Cricket.

Apparently, a good batting average for a modern-day batsman is 40+ with those above 50 being exceptional. Bradman's average was 99.94. The second highest average of all time is 60.97.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bradman
"I haven't "left Twitter." I just don't want to keep using it while it's banning links to other sites. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn more about Mastodon."

https://mas.to/@paulg/109536542792559441
As a software developer, I experienced the need for subscription revenue first hand. Regular users want support for their software and there's only so much you can do for a fixed one-time payment. As an example, Windows might update on their computer without their knowledge but that Windows update breaks something so the user is like "I didn't change anything but your app stopped working" and in that situation you're supposed to sell them a paid upgrade to the next version?

As a user, I share your concern. To me, SaaS means I might end up with files that I can't open anymore because the app needed to open them was forcibly upgraded.

In my opinion, the solution is what JetBrains does. Regular subscription payments but you get perpetual licenses so you can keep using old versions as long as you want.
I try to think about subscription costs in multiples of 12, so if I see a $6.99/mo subscription service, I just think "would I pay $84 for this?" and the answer is often no. That's a fairly simple strategy. Obviously, every pricing team wants to lock you into the yearly cost for a long time, so you should really think of it as more like $840.
No offense, but pg doesn't really post all that much stuff that would make me reconsider Twitter as a platform if he left. And, to be fair, neither does anyone else. Twitter is a marketing platform not a social network.

I use it primarily as a RSS feed and the occasional "get up to speed with the latest news fast" alternative.
Not directly, but the warm water in the block will mean that at least some heat is immediately available once you start the car. The main benefit of block heaters is not in heating the cab, but heating the engine itself so that it's actually possible to start it.

That aside, never understood the value of "pre heating" the car interior. If it's that cold, you're wearing a coat and gloves (or should be). Start the car, drive off, and you'll have heat within a few minutes.
One thing to note is that the stats in the article don't appear to be normalized to me. It's just a lot of "# of X since 2010". So, it makes sense that the best will be played more often and get more play time to help drive the separation greater.
>> Can we say it's mostly dead?

>> For example, is it more or less dead than perl?

== The current state of Perl 5 for Python fans ==

Perl 5: I'm not dead!

TIOBE: 'Ere! 'E says 'e's not dead!

Internet: Yes he is.

Perl 5: I'm not!

TIOBE: 'E isn't?

Internet: Well... he will be soon--he's very ill...

Perl 5: I'm getting better!

Internet: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.

TIOBE: I can't take 'im off like that! It's against regulations!

Perl 5: I don't want to go off the chart....

Internet: Oh, don't be such a baby.

TIOBE: I can't take 'im off....

Perl 5: I feel fine!

Internet: Well, do us a favor...

TIOBE: I can't!

Internet: Can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long...

TIOBE: No, gotta get to Reddit, they lost nine today.

Internet: Well, when's your next round?

TIOBE: Next year.

Perl 5: I think I'll go for a walk....

Internet: You're not fooling anyone, you know-- (to TIOBE) Look, isn't there something you can do...?

Perl 5: I feel happy! I feel happy!
Someone who claims to hold a basic concept of something as straight forward as "free speech absolutist" and doesn't see the logical incoherence of proceeding to ban reporters and others who publish and aggregate publicly available information (@elonjet).
Snap is awful, no arguments there. I think the more important thing here is that the very idea that something should update itself is so incredibly insanely broken and I cannot for the life of me understand why it's the norm.

The number of times I've been hacked and suffered a data loss is astronomically small compared to the number of times I've had something update and suffered a data loss, or more importantly the number of times I've had something update and cause a regression or break something. Then I have to spend my precious time bringing something that was PREVIOUSLY IN A WORKING STATE back to a working state, which is one of the most infuriating feelings.
Isn’t that expected behavior? Solution: don’t update Firefox while you’re running it. [1]

1: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Skip_package_from_being_upgraded
>There was a consistent attempt to counter any ideas that ran counter to a certain narrative.

An attempt by whom? Please be specific and name names.

Counter to which specific narrative? Please be specific and detailed.

Otherwise, you're just making unsupported claims. Not a good look, friend.