skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NIF achieved plasma combustion over a year ago, as documented in a Nature article earlier this year. If there is a threshold being crossed, that was it. The recent shot tuned that experiment to increase the yield. So now the the total released energy (not capturable, or usable, but released) is greater than the total non-fusion energy captured by the target (not put on the target, but actually captured and turned into useful heating and compression). But that's a completely arbitrary milestone.

And, most significantly to me, there is no argument being made anywhere that this milestone is on the path to anything other than a dead end, local optima. That is, that you can further optimized the shape, quality and size of the hohlraum, and shape of the laser pulse to get to a Q that actually has something to do with power generation. (I have no doubt that achieving combustion/ignition is useful for NIF's real purpose, which is to simulate H-bomb physics to aid in maintaining our stockpile of city-destroying weapons - they have in fact created a nano H-bomb).
My exposure to crypto exchange fraud and to fusion startup fraud are both zero. People with different levels of exposure will need to evaluate accordingly.
> They can't get a visa. They come as dependents of someone who has a visa

That is not how entry works: at the point of entry, passport control require each individual to have a valid visa. https://www.ivisa.com/united-kingdom-blog/united-kingdom-sta...

> read the news more

The news lies about how easy immigration is! That's a big part of the problem. You need to speak to some actual immigrants.
Thx I'll check out out. Fwiw I made myself watch David Chapelle latest special and to your point somewhat,felt it's greatest sin was that it was unfunny - flat jokes,poor timing and delivery,and felt more like his discussion with critics than attempt to entertain.
The issues with the way they handle commits is a fairly fundamental disagreement, one that ensures he will never use github for development without it being changed.
It's been fine for years now.
You'd probably do a credit card chargeback - same as if someone failed to provide any other good or service you bought online.
And like most statistics, they can be read to support almost any conclusion you want. A deeper dive on that study shows that it's not really that simple, or that distressing: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-...

Important quote:

America is an imperfect democracy, in other words — but it's hardly an oligarchy. When the rich and middle class disagree, each wins about half the time.
Yes. However, this is after the fact when the damage is already done. Referendums allow people to directly change decisions that public disagrees with and force the representatives to obey the outcome. They are as democratic as it gets - direct will of the people.

Of course, propaganda is still a powerful enemy, but at least people have a chance to win against rich lobbies.
The word master is on that list. It has common non-offensive meanings for almost a thousand years.
Disclaimer: I am a CS professor.

I don't think AI advancements will cause a problem for the value of the degree (or rather, if they do, then it wasn't a very good MS degree). The value of formal university CS education done well, at both BS and MS levels, is learning skills in a context that integrates those skills into a knowledge framework that transcends any particular technology and hopefully outlasts several trend changes. The specific ML algorithms you would learn in an ML-focused MS will likely be out-off-date soon; the training on problem formulation, data preparation, fundamental limits of learning, and the theory of how ML works will not only outlast many technology shifts, but give you a good framework for navigating those shifts and integrating new advances into your knowledge.

There are likely many programs that would not provide this kind of foundation. But in understanding in general the value of an MS, this is how I would advise a student to think about it. (and on MS vs BS, BS usually provides some opportunity for specialization but is very much a generalist degree; an MS provides more opportunity for specialization and credentialing on that specialization.)
Yeah, I really meant in a controlled reaction situation. Should have been more clear.
Radio City Music Hall is a private venue, they can ban or exclude anyone they want, as long as it's not due to membership in a protected class. You don't have a right to attend a Rockettes show, and if she doesn't like this policy she can start her own Christmas Spectacular show.
I can see a future where we can't do that anymore either, because climate change will displace many people and weather will also become a topic that might hurt some people's feelings.

While typing this, I realized we're there already. During summer, when talking about the temperature, people already feel the need to add their opinion about climate change to the discussion, which then becomes political.
Can anyone speak to the difference between this and Phaser?
One of the original uses of "Elmo" is to evade Twitter's ongoing filter/ban on Elon related trending topics.
I'll stick my neck out and claim that we know with a good degree of certainty that the incidence of violent assaults was far higher back then. Pinker's "The Better Angels of our Nature" is a good source for the slow decline of violence over the centuries, pace spikes caused by industrialised warfare of course.
Is there a list of universities that don't do this kind of thing? I wouldn't want to send my kids to a university that published this, I want them to think for themselves. I certainly will strongly discourage them from applying to Stanford. Are there others I should be wary of?

(incidentally, not _all_ of the list is ridiculous, but most of it clearly is)
that's just one of the reasons why Cloanto has kind of a bad reputation among Amiga enthusiasts.

Don't use them unless you want that warm and fuzzy feeling of having legally obtained the Kickstart ROMs instead of just grabbing them from archive.org...
More importantly: A lot of tech jobs get A LOT of applicants. Often the college degree requirement is simply a quick-and-easy filter. You might have an awesome resume, but without the degree, whoever's reading the giant stack of applications is just going to move on to the next one.
Not agreeing/disagreeing with the message, but the style of writing here is quite nice. It's focused, reasoned, and doesn't make too many assumptions about your tools and environment--and I appreciate that acknowledgment.
We use to jokingly say that whatever the estimate is, the actual time it takes is twice as long, and increase the unit.

So if the estimate is 2 weeks, it's gonna take 4 months.

Surprisingly, the latter is a more accurate estimate most of the time.
> Christianity forbids usury as well

I don't believe this is correct. Admittedly I'm agnostic though, so I may be mistaken. But I've studied the subject quite a bit as an outsider.
> What seems unique here is that it is that it an unorganized mob. The democrats certainly try to get the wokes support, but there is no woke party. Obama even called them out as keyboard warriors.

I remember back in ~2010-2012 when this was seen as an exciting, new, positive development. That was back when we were talking about 4chan trolling Scientology <insert "Oh Fuck The Internet Is Here" meme here>, and the Arab Spring (back before it became apparent it wasn't just Twitter vs. authoritarian governments, and that people didn't come out of it better off). I remember cheering to a TED talk that talked up decentralized activism, comparing it to "murmurations", complete with video of starlings flying to "Pachelbel - Canon In D Major".

A decade later, I don't find it inspiring or exciting anymore. I find it utterly terrifying. Yes, even back then, I had the thought on the back of my mind, that this "unorganized mob" could be abused (something the TV show Continuum later reminded me of), and is capable of pushing for both the right and wrong thing. But there was this sense of optimism that it'll "arc towards justice". Oh how very wrong we were back then.

> And this is why I disagree with Elon, I don't think the wokes are any more dangerous than any other performative religion or subculture. They are annoying but have no real goals other than winning the virtue signaling game.

I don't know what Elon Musk has to say about this, but I disagree with what you wrote here, for two reasons.

1. They've already proven to be much more dangerous than "other performative religion or subculture". Other religions and subcultures didn't manage to make people afraid of speaking their mind on the Internet. Other religions and subcultures didn't manage to change hiring policies, standardize all kinds of weird trainings in corporations, or make a well-known university publish an absurd list of "bad words".

2. If anything I was taught about late 19th and early 20th century was accurate, socialism and communism started with decentralized, organic movements popping up all around the world. Those movements were then quickly co-opted by competing political upstarts, who first started to fight another - until, after a lot of bloodshed, one group emerged victorious, took power from the incumbents, and became a defining force of 20th century history.

My point being, decentralized, distributed mobs with no real goals but lots of pent up energy are a resource to political schemers. They are thus dangerous in the same way spilled gasoline is: on its own it just smells bad, but it creates an environment where a single spark can lead to a lot of devastation.
Relevant agreements are perhaps one of:

1. OP <--> Partner (confidential agreement) <--> Microsoft (MPA)[1]

2. OP <--> Microsoft (MCA)[2]

3. OP <--> Microsoft (MOSA)[3]

The different types of agreements have different limitations of liability clauses. What OP wrote indicates a "partner" is involved and if this is the case, Microsoft have essentially shifted liability for fraud and billing non-payments onto the "partner"[4], who would then either wear the cost or try to shift this liability to the OP. It's not that straightforward though as any of the three parties could have a share of liability, and the "partner" would be very unlikely to want to get in a dispute with Microsoft as this would impact their other business. Liabilities are possibly also impacted by default spending limits and caps that are imposed by Microsoft on different services[5].

Allowing a $200,000 bill for one month (a 200x increase) has the appearance of being very poor financial management from the "partner" as they're potentially going to be stuck with unsecured $200,000+ liabilities from their customers if the customers became insolvent. I suppose it is possible the OP and "partner" have a bank guarantee in place to cover at least $200,000 but I'd hazard a guess they may just try to rely on an insurance policy instead to cover these rare events.

[1] Microsoft Partner Agreement (MPA): https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE...

[2] Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA): https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/docs/customeragreement

[3] Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement (MOSA): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/support/legal/subscription...

[4] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/non-payment...

[5] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/offer-detail...
Oh, I don't think it means anything, I was just being a jerk :-)
Depending on what your app is, I've found server-side rendering to be superior in nearly every way. I don't use Rails but Django is the same way. Django templates, bootstrap, jQuery and sprinkle in a little bit of HTMX here and there and my productivity has never been higher.
The best part of the whole "Jack Tramiel leaves Commodore, buys Atari" story is the part about Atari floating debt to Amiga. The debt was coming due around the time Tramiel bought Atari and, at the last minute, Commodore acquired Amiga and Atari was paid-off. There was litigation following-- Tramiel was never one to let something go quietly-- but in the end we got the Commodore Amiga.

In some alternate universe there were Atari Amigas and likely no Atari ST.
I don't know about market share but they are don't really have the ability to wield their monopoly power to hurt consumers, I'm a casual gamer I must admit but I have games on other stores/launchers. I think the thing people like the most is that people actually have a choice from Windows, the original monopolist
If we were serious about politicians actually representing the will of the residents in their district people it would be way more accurate if policy and votes were based on a public statistical analysis sanity checked only by "is what the people want actually doable."

But we're not. We don't vote for politicians to represent people faithfully, we vote for politicians to represent our interests in a much more abstract sense.
"It's just 25 cents..."
Yes, it is a common misconception nowadays that there is a causal link between language and society. For example, in languages such as Spanish and German, feminists are seeking to introduce gender-neutral words in an attempt to facilitate equality. However, this is not the correct way around – language is shaped by society, with gender roles and stereotypes influencing the language rather than the other way round. Therefore, making changes to language is not only ineffective but rather counterproductive.
I was bullied at work for rejecting this. Actually not even so much for rejecting it, just saying that if we were going to do it that we should not to make such a big, self-congratulatory public statement about on our company blog.

I'm the "CI/CD guy" (sorry, person) and so far I'd guess I've spent about 40 hours fixing builds as a result of this change, pretty much always unexpectedly. Every time this happens I feel burned again.
Not sure but two or three years ago I watched some videos from an audio engineer who migrated from the trash can to the 2019 cheese grater and he seemed pretty happy. He ditched several Thunderbolt enclosures and filled his tower to the brim with cards.
There are some examples at the bottom of the page. I think this biology taxonomy one is pretty cool: https://obsidian.md/images/canvas/canvas-lunaris13-full.png
With AWS you can host a very robust website using API Gateway, (AWS Lambda or ECS) and either RDS or DynamoDB for a datastore. All of this can come in under their free tier for a huge amount of traffic.
For the curious, this is referring to Amazon's 7" Kindle Fire tablet (which uses a traditional LED-based screen) and not Amazon's 7" Kindle tablet (which uses a reflective e-ink display).
I could never understand why it was adopted. It was written to solve problems that nobody faced. I still remember Fedora Core 2 (??) being useless with audio due to them adopting PulseAudio. I try to minimise my contact with any of Poettering's software as much as possible since then.
Thank you, I hate this.
While your main point stands, I doubt that crashing even a moderately sized planetoid into a star at any achievable speed would do much to that star. It definitely wouldn't cause a normal supernova.

You might be able to produce some nasty radiation/ionized crap/relativistic debris that would be unpleasant for that greenish scum clinging to some of the planets, but it'd be a really expensive way to do even that.

Sure, if you get close enough to C, you can deliver as much energy as you want, but you're probably going to use the energy of several stars to get a small object going fast enough to deposit a really destructive amount of energy into a single star.

Efficiency is part of finesse...
> I just really worry the degree will mostly be worthless by the time I graduate considering the rate at which AI is advancing.

Unlikely. There might be less routine work grinding out boilerplate code to be done but competent developers are far from being replaced.

> if we’re all going to be unemployable in a few years anyways

I'd be more worried about the economic outlook for the next couple years.
> International banks have spearheaded an absolute explosion in global economic growth.

I assumed it's the other way around. Economic growth comes from technical and cultural advancements. Banks are a symptom of that growth.
Do the American "lantinx" and their "allies" at fancy Universities do?
All private tabs share the same container and it is only thrown away when you close them all. Otherwise you would not be able to move tabs between private windows for instance
Many states have referendum style systems, such as California.

Heck, a county voted to split from California. That won't happen though.
Sell it man. You clearly seemed to have lost focus for your own reasons and I don't even want to judge you but don't leave paying customers without answers. You will find a buyer easily if you say Yes.
Thank you for being one of the few avowed communists in recent memory to refer to the Soviet Union as such, but I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion that the kudos for today's events should go to Nazi rocket scientist and "father of space travel" Wernher von Braun.
“If the truth shall kill them, let them die.”
-Immanuel Kant
Who says the distros are using the lock file? AFAIK, Debian doesn't use ripgrep's lock file, for example. They don't have to, because of semver.
Crypto/payment startups are a sort of sudoku distracting VC's and software engineers, building an abstract world of endless technical complexity that passes for fulfilling work.
I want to program my electric car to charge whenever the instantaneous market rate is below $0.10/kwH. If the instantaneous market rate of power goes above $1/kwH, I want my air conditioner to shut off. If everyone else did the same thing, the price would never get much above that.

Shielding people from the realities of supply and demand is what leads to overconsumption. Give them tools to control their consumption based on true market rates and everything will sort itself out.
This is such a ridiculous strawman. Not a single person in here is arguing that we should be allowed to use that word, and I think as a society we agree that it's 100% not ok to use that word (unless you're black.) It's not even on the list!

What this list does include is the word "user". Are you really suggesting that thinking this list is silly is the same as wanting to use the n word?
still waiting on the Xbox SX and then the enhanced Xbox SEX
So I initially gave up on this show part way through the first season, but not because I hated it exactly it just fell off my radar and didn't grab me. The sex in it did seem...out of place and kind of shoehorned in. And the Joe MacMillon character's out of control Jobish behavior irritated me. But the season 1 finale was solid, I liked many of the characters and the subject matter so I went back to it and I'm so glad I did.

It is now one of my favorite shows of all time. The characters were slightly retooled after season 1 and their bizarre family structure is very compelling. The backdrop of the era was why I really showed up for the show but the characters and performances were why I loved it.
I'm surprised so many people voted yes. I'd rather Elon waste all his time on Twitter than Starlink, Tesla and SpaceX. What did he even do at Tesla before Twitter?
this really shined the light, thanks for this.. I find it strange how people would use this, it is a political art style or something
Yes, this is exactly what they started with in 2011, see the launch post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614

> Over this past weekend I had the idea to build a sort of link shortener but with a payment system built-in. There have been many times in the past where I wanted to share a link - on Twitter or just through IM with a few friends - but did not want to go through the overhead of setting up a whole store.

All the same comments as here, but I suppose they ultimately pivoted away from the link format. I suppose it's the perfect MVP though!
> the problem is that there far too many people in the UK and not enough work

> And, of course, the point of UC was to get people back into work

You cannot get people back into work if there is not enough work!

> zero-sum because population growth is so far in excess of productivity growth

"Productivity" is usually computed as a per-person number.
This is usually from a CDN trying to prevent a DDoS.
The poll was very close, and probably heavily biased towards people who spammed accounts/paid bots to vote yes.
According to clown logic, isn't it, by implication?
Adam Smith would disagree.
Mine didn't in practice. I think one was a FireWire audio interface and the other USB. Never could get it to work properly.
Satire. The way to fight this is with satire. Perhaps we should post this list to Github, make whatever ridiculous additions we can think of, and take pull requests from all quarters. Then we just need to find a way to broadcast it.
The result of Brexit referenda can be attributed to caging away citizens from a democratic decision-making process on the things that matter. It was a vote of contempt not on the matter. If more referenda were held, the contempt for the lack of democracy would fade away as it's in Switzerland.
The geography of the USA, bordered by massive oceans and weak/friendly neighbors along with being a huge and productive landmass with a unified culture, is one of the many reasons why it is unbelievably overpowered as a country, and unlikely to lose its dominance anytime soon.

China might be competitive in terms of massive, productive landmass, but it simply will never be as secure in its borders as the US with strong and less friendly neighbors all around it. That will hold it back from surpassing the US as the dominant superpower. Ditto India, Russia, Brazil, and any potential rising powers in Africa.

By far, the biggest threat to US dominance is balkanization. Fracturing the union and creating deeper geographic divides in American culture would create enough internal strife to hamstring its power. Maybe that's inevitable over time for such a large landmass and the unique conditions of American colonization were never going to last more than a couple hundred years before it started falling apart.
It is worth to note that the users of such service can set an expiration date for linked resource access.

This can be used, for instance, by gig workers to deliver documents to their clients, while conditioning the retrieval of such documents to a payment.
"Alien" doesn't only mean "extra-terrestrial", for example: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat...

And: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/12/gender-segre...
What's new here? People have been selling things online for 30 years and selling digital things (ebooks, zines, videos) for just as long. This is basically a lower-tech Gumroad.