skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it needs a certain density of debris to get into that Katamari Kessler Syndrome.

Also you might want something with a low aerodynamic profile to help with reentry
We are a bit lacking in data to use engineering and science.

For me the biggest reason to take them seriously is their biggest investor, Sam Altman, believes in them and he's smart and presumably can see the data. Maybe they've conned him - who knows? Still I think they'll do ok.
The milestone is that they surpassed Qplasma > 1. This has not been achieved before even though fusion has been done in ICF and MCF machines.

Qplasma > 1 is significant because it now enters a regime where the burning fuel heats up unburnt fuel. In MCF machines this is referred to as a burning plasma. In ICF machines this is referred to as ignition. Ignition in MCF machines is Qplasma = infinity, where no external heating is used. This is on the table (maybe, theoretically), we just need to build machines with sufficiently high triple product and plasma control surfaces then learn how to do it. We'll have MCF burning plasma machines soon.

https://twitter.com/jb_fusion/status/1506964692627034118

Helion has not talked about triple product numbers. I wish they would, because that's the key metric for understanding how far they are from D-He3 burning plasma. Also, having the triple product history for all of their machines would help show scaling laws. These are currently closely guarded secrets. Targeting D-He3 fuel means a much higher coulomb barrier needs to be overcome and a higher triple product is needed to reaching burning plasma.

Check out slide 40 for more details on fusion fuels.

https://suli.pppl.gov/2022/course/IntroductionToFusionEnergy...
> Multiple 100+ year old sports seems to have coincided their arguably greatest of all time players play at roughly the same time.

I agree!

> ... Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal,

And most of all Novak Djokovic. It's totally insane that these three were playing at the same time. Now Djokovic has 373 weeks as world number 1 (Federer 310 weeks, Nadal 209), 21 grand slams (Federer 20, Nadal 22), six ATP World Tour Finals -- arguably the hardest tournament ever-- (Federer six too, Nadal zero) and contrarily to the others (if I'm not mistaken) Djokovic also held the four Grand Slams at once (consecutively but over two years).

Even though Federer was a bit older these three mostly played at the same time and that is completely insane. It makes their achievements even more incredible: the records each of them would have had one of the two others not been there would have been even more unbelievable.
Your link says what I said: it's jury-rig; jerry-built is something else, but people get confused and say jerry-rig; so many people do this that it's 'not wrong'.
> I'm seriously considering importing my next car from Russia or India

I'm highly familiar with India. So, keep the following in mind:

(All of this is w.r.t European cars in India; situation is different for Indian, Japanese, Korean, and American car companies)

1. Cars manufactured in India (including Mercedes/BMW/VW/Skoda etc) are set up for right hand drive (steering wheel is on the right, and cars are driven on the left side of the road).

2. For high end brands you don't get as much configuration options as in Germany; limited choices with interior materials and colour. The flip side is, the time from booking a car to its delivery is relatively short, provided you buy a model that's relatively widely sold. ie., a Mercedes C200 shouldn't take too long to deliver. But the AMG models might take longer.

3. German cars are crazy expensive in India.

4. For most German brands, the parts are imported from Europe and assembled in their plants in India (this is called the "CKD - completely knocked down" route). Would be inefficient to then move that car back to Germany.

5. Higher end German cars (like, BMW M models, Mercedes AMG models etc) are directly imported into India from Europe. Direct imports have extremely high taxes. Again, would be inefficient to ship it back to Germany.
Bil Herd mentions in a few re-tellings that the C128 had power problems when they tried to use the CP/M cartridge originally intended for the C64, so it got "absorbed" into the design instead.
He bought Twitter. From day one he didn’t need to be CEO. But he chose to immediately show up and make big changes, both in personnel and in the platform itself. He doesn’t need a poll to hire somebody else to run the company.
I made a calculator to see the compound effect of tiny habits
There's only so much fuel for that fire and it seems like it's running out now that he's no longer going to be making wild changes or potentially stepping down.

That it coincided with a period of advertiser regression doesn't help.

I think we need to stop pretending that the only possible answer for seemingly misguided decisions is secret brilliance.
I can’t find the data to confirm my gossip, but I believe organic produce has more ecoli and food borne outbreaks than conventional. So while there may be health benefits for organic lettuce, for example, there’s higher risk of food borne illness.
I want to believe this but I can't find a source, can you share where you've read this?
They expect the blog to survive the company.
But then you'd be stuck with 480p quality media.
Ask HN: Remote Working and Cameras-On
I work remotely so a lot of interaction is done via online meetings.

In some cases though I just don't feel like sharing my camera and I have to fend off such requests. And that does not always go very well.

Am I weird or overprotective with this? How do you feel about the whole camera-on issue?

PS: In the past I've quit an interview right after I was told that there's an always-camera-on policy for remote workers (i.e. you'd have to have a camera on for the full 8 hours you'd work for them). Dunno - it sounded like sh1t from Black Mirror and it gave off a lot of red flags IMO. This present situation kind-of reminded me of that weirdness (well it's not the only one but show me a workplace that gets better -as in more relaxed and libertarian- with time and I'll buy you a beer).
Yes, please do. And - my big mistake - don't think your body will be able to do the tricks that you could do yesterday and get away with it. If you are used to taking risks scale that down before you meet a risk that is not easily recoverable. Case in point: I like to tinker with bikes and I owned a whole bunch of experimental ones that I'd take down for rides, one of them a low racer recumbent. I'd fallen off that thing many times and never as much as a scratch so I figured it was pretty safe, even at speed. Cue my surprise when I ended up with a right leg and ankle broken in many places after being launched from something as exciting as a speedbump... If i could re-do that day I would be so happy.
I'd argue that it isn't sad but in fact quite wonderful that piracy is an option. These companies don't deserve our sympathies. They are doing it to themselves.
How did this almost cost you your job?
> Waxed/greased materials or just wool do a good enough job for most mortals and have served us well for thousands of years.

Yes, but they're more expensive to manufacture. Capitalism is looking to min/max these things, as are consumers since people can't afford wool / waxed materials anymore - also because they can't find them anymore, except at specialist and smaller venues.

We tried shopping for new winter coats the other day, most of what we found was plastic or some cotton. The more expensive stuff we found was more polyester, but at 6x the price. There was no shop (on the high street) that sold anything woolen or cotton.
> HBO has

"Had"

Thanks to a past life making all this streaming stuff work in the first place, we still subscribe to “ALL THE THINGS!!!”

We also tape[1] the shows we like, to more easily watch time-shifted. We could rely on provider DVRs, but when we first set this up, most didn't offer that, or only offered in terrible quality.

In recent years, we nearly stopped. In 2021, for example, I didn't tape anything. In 2022, I did again because not all brands' DVRs supported offline viewing, and we're happy about it as we now find ourselves having taped things that have been taken off the services we pay to make their libraries available. We can still watch these, even though they've been memory-holed by the brand.

If they keep this up, it will create a new market for an updated TiVo, at least as easy to use as a VCR (which the linked item is not).

PS. Note that in US, time-shifting is fair use. Getting it to work is unreasonably difficult. A consumer product that simplified this would be cool but if too easy (a) would need a war-chest to defend itself, and (b) in that defense could put fair use itself at risk.

- - -

1. i.e. https://www.silicondust.com/product/hdhomerun-scribe-4k/
Hey Hackers,

I’m Marc. I build startups from Bali (more https://marclou.com)

I made this calculator to show how much can be achieved in a year with tiny daily habits to inspire people.

For instance, if you read 10 minutes a day, you’ll finish 12 books in 2023.

The app is made with NextJS, hosted on Vercel. Tailwind + DaisyUI for the CSS.

If you have any recommendations or suggestions, I’m here reading the comments!
So then what you're describing is essentially just another word for personality?

Also, I said nothing about sex. I said I understand the genders man and woman. I don't understand any of these (50+? More?) other genders. So I was hoping someone could list some of these lesser known genders and explain how transitioning from one of them to another one would work.

Since I don't know their names, I'll just use placeholders and ask how does one transition from Gender R to Gender S? I'm asking for examples.
Good point, although I'll note that Romans were known for their infantry, and their armies tended to recruit non-Roman (pastoral?) auxiliaries for cavalry.
Italians. Apparently we Italians can be still the butt of jokes and stereotypes with impunity.
1/4 of companies that IPO'd in 2020-2021 trades below $2, risking delisting
No, it stands for "football", which is what soccer is called in French.

FIFA is "Fédération internationale de football association".

I never claimed that French people couldn’t call things whatever they like in their own language :)
I guess "ETL" in the article stands for "extract, transform, load" [1] which seems to describe a workflow/pipeline concept for importing data into a database.

The described company was into "reverse ETL" so I guess ... report-generation? Taking data from a database and presenting it nicely.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load
NYT subhead: Inside the world of Ironman XC, which makes the endurance contest a little more endurable — for executives who can afford to pay.
I read this book a few years back: https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future/dp/... Here are my recollections/opinions (stripping out further qualifiers to save space)

The truth is somewhere between what the boosters want you to believe and what the detractors want you to believe. Elon's very smart and works incredibly hard, but has a serious ego problem and isn't pleasant to work for. A bit like Steve Jobs maybe.

No CEO can succeed without attracting talented people and inspiring them to excel, and Elon has been very successful at that. By working incredibly hard, thinking incredibly big, and setting high expectations, he inspires everyone else in the company. But he's also capricious in a way that demoralizes people and burns them out.

We like the story of a lone hero who does everything. But there are many people who worked at Elon's companies and played a key role, but feel underappreciated in a way that the author seemed sympathetic to.

The "people managing Elon" thing is true to a degree. It so happens that I've spoken to a couple employees (one SpaceX one Tesla) who both told me stories like this. (Specifically the two stories were something like: (1) "We adjusted the Tesla to optimize for the route Elon drives, even though that hurt autopilot performance overall" and (2) "We keep having to explain to Elon the basic probability math that explains the importance of continually testing rocket components")

At the same time, "he's mostly there to bring money and hype" seriously underplays his role. As an extreme analogy, imagine you had a toddler who told you "[Mommy/Daddy] I designed an awesome treehouse and I want you to build it". You keep saying you're busy and treehouses are impractical. But your toddler gets you to buy into their vision, and challenges you to overcome obstacles until an awesome treehouse is built. Even if you did all the work in this analogy, you have to give your toddler some credit. The power of visionary leadership and extreme determination was one of my big takeaways from the book -- again similar to Jobs with the "reality distortion field", I guess.

Social media moderation requires a humility and good judgement -- not Elon's strengths. But it's definitely not a coincidence that he's started so many successful companies.
I wish there was just a standard protocol for making movies and music available on the global market and then a pay per view based payment system. Cut most of the middle men and maximize availability across the world (instead of just/first to the US like is still common for some reason). I think that would result in shows reaching maximum audiences at minimal prices. For all I care put some ad filled alternatives out there for cheaper viewing while you're at it.

I do want streaming without ads. I just don't want multiple subscriptions and apps etc that are all not really good.
That reminds me of a blog post where the author managed to run Linux on an HDD, that is, not only using the HDD as the storage media for a Linux install, but instead running the kernel on the HDD's internal IO controller, SOC inside the HDD that actually runs the plates and everything.

Unfortunately I could never find that post again, because all searches for running Linux on HDD return obvious results for using the HDD as an install media, not as the computer.
Oregon altered or suspended some rules regarding self-service early during the pandemic.

https://www.oregon.gov/osp/programs/sfm/Pages/Self-Service-R...
I agree. Schematics, documentation, software should be in government escrow, otherwise you're not allowed to patent. Software updates have to be saved here as well.

If the company goes bankrupt all IP will be released to the people. At least then motivated people can learn how to fix things.
Also most “personally customized “ environments can be copied around with 1 config file or a few dot files at this point
This is the way. Too much electronics has LEDs which remain on as long as there is power connected. A switched wall socket or switched power strip is the only sane way to keep electronics in a bedroom.
Ask HN: Best tips for reducing eyestrain while coding with astigmatism?
I was diagnosed with astigmatism in 2018 or around that time. I haven't been to the eye doctor since, but at that point my vision was around 20/20 or slightly impaired. I did get glasses, which I rarely wear, but I have been wearing them more recently because I feel that my eyesight may be becoming more of an issue. For example, after long periods of coding or looking at my phone screen, I see floaters. Sometimes I wake up seeing them and have a low-productivity day or take a nap and some Advil in the hope that it is related to a migraine.

I am mainly interested in what tools, settings, and themes people with astigmatism use, and if you have any preference for light or dark themes. Personally, I cannot stand light, whether it is physical light or light on screens. When my 5-year-old turns on the overhead light in my bedroom, I pull the blanket over my head or shout to turn it off. I feel like Gizmo from Gremlins.

I am a developer, and my main tools are Terminator + Tmux, Chrome, DBeaver, and Visual Studio Code. The font I am using is Jetbrains SemiBold. I just tried the Solarized Dark theme and I am kind of liking it, but I feel like I might be able to find something slightly better. Before that, I have used Night Owl, GitHub Dark, Material, and a few others.
I believe that is already being done. As I said in my comment here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34049171) switching between two active inputs takes about 1 second for me.

The problem that OP is facing is switching to an inactive input that went into power saving mode. In that case, the link between the inactive device and the monitor may have been broken and it's impossible to know if the device is the same as the one before after reconnection (with the same exact video settings etc.).

This doesn't have to be the case though. Before I found out how to use I²C on Apple Silicon Macs, I was using a Raspberry Pi connected to an HDMI input of the monitor that could listen to DDC commands through an HTTP server: https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/journey-to-ddc-on-m1-macs/#the...

And because I didn't want that Pi Zero to get hot, I managed to only keep the DDC lines open and stopped the video signal from being sent using `vcgencmd display_power 0`.

With those settings, the monitor still switched between inputs in 1 second, with the added small latency of having to run `vcgencmd display_power 1` (which was fast enough once it was automated to run on input switching)
Their funding isn’t getting cut. US spending on updating the nuclear stockpile is going up substantially.
Work Not Welfare Is Key to Escaping Poverty
I originally wanted to blog using LaTeX, and convert that to HTML. I ran into all of these options, and also started writing my own LaTeX->HTML flow, but it got too complicated to be a hobby project. It turns out that there are parts of LaTeX that are really hard to generically convert to web constructs.

I settled for markdown with KaTeX for math, although I would like to return to the LaTeX->HTML project at some point soon.
Trading Games
https://archive.vn/FVPYd

I have wondered if there are predictors of when average returns of IPOs will be high. When the IPO market is hot and it is easy to list, that may be a bad time for retail investors to buy IPOs when they start trading.
I'm no expert, but it feels like it's everywhere and comes in and out of every orifice and pore.

But getting it out alone isn't the full story, it has to stop getting in first / as well.
Though isn't it highly likely that core devs working at the big tech giants have access to 10x-100x faster compute, e.g. some secret TPU successor at Google?
Academia is about writing papers in the same way industry is about writing ad copy…. You have to do the project before you write a paper about it.
No, he’s saying “we can’t rule it out, but the evidence doesn’t currently support the assertions being made about trans generational epigenetic transmission.”
When somebody these days mentions DVD, you can count Blu-ray as well.
Yes, I only focused on the top five frameworks :)
I just checked and Sails, once on place five, fell out of the named ranking in 2019
https://2019.stateofjs.com/back-end/
Had no idea that there’s a reboot of this show currently on AppleTV: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/ghostwriter/umc.cmc.3z6okqcnxoo...
Sorry for a not-very-original recommendation the book Atomic habits.

Set specific times of the day to do it. Instead of Tuesday do 10 push ups say Tuesday 8am before shower, 10 push ups.

You can also find a sport you enjoy and does not feel like a chore. I recommend swing dancing, climbing, or skateboarding. Good luck!
Well, there's MVS360 from awhile ago.
Is there some good, free, open-source ADA implementation one can try out?
My camera is on for meetings, and occasionally over lunch/tea/breaks if I'm feeling social.

(for real meetings. over 20 participants and I'll camera nope as well)
This better keep me off GitHub, my leisure time is at risk here!
This gem comes up semi-regularly on HN; previous thread (with 43 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25902615

I know Whitney's style is a strict no-no, but it's beautiful how he regards C as a pliable material, rather than as a hard tool with standard modes of use, and uses it to define his own rudimentary DSL to build J on top of it.
Time invest on a good NAS + Plex
"main of Science" is my best guess
Hi, most models performs best at 16KHz. Current architectures does not support real-time speech enhancement but I plan to add that in future.
For those who were wondering what "MCF" is (like I was), the above author is likely referring to "magnetic confinement fusion"[1].

Contrast MCF with "inertial confinement fusion"[2] (ICF), a different (and apparently competing) approach taken by the National Ignition Facility in this latest announcement.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_confinement_fusion

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion
I've just seen on google (on askubuntu) that it can be possible to make Ubuntu ignore soldered RAM and use the socketed RAM instead.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1428808/can-i-disable-one-sl...

"There isn't anyway to disable RAM as far as I know, but there is a way to have Ubuntu ignore the bad RAM, but you need to know the addresses of the RAM in question."

Can someone evaluate the plausibility of this?
Asch Conformity Experiment (1950s) [video]
I first read numpy all in lower case as imports and pronounced it num-pee, rhyming with “this road is bumpy.”

I am frequently stupidly oblivious, so the first time I noticed the docs spelling it “NumPy” I thought that an odd spelling for a package called num-pee.

Only when I heard it in a presentation did it all click and I laughed at my misunderstanding.

I now attempt to say “num-pie” but frequently mispronounce in error.
Thanks for all your links! I haven't decided on what to next :D
I may be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure they're not saying they're shutting down and are not in the process of shutting down. They are pivoting. And are in the process of the pivot.

If they think that blog will survive long than the company then really it doesn't make any sense for them to keep all their marketing efforts up. Which this is clearly a part of. And it really does not make sense for them to publish that they're shutting up shop in the same post as they're talking about signing 5 companies to support deals.
Oof. Steam link is great and all, but I've been wondering how green the grass is on the green side. I guess it's now brown.

I'm not sure if Steam Link (software) supports 120 Hz or HDR, but I haven't found any hardware decoder that does. Steam Link (hardware) is also defunct.
Here: http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1
Although one possible problem could be if your hardware breaks down in five years and you want to take that as an opportunity to upgrade instead of doing a simple like-for-like replacement – drivers for then current hardware might not necessarily support old LTSB versions.
I wouldn't mind a disc if they removed all the ads from them. Put it in, play the movie. It's funny to watch something on DVD from decades ago to see ads for things released decades ago.
Wasn't Unix proprietary and very expensive at the time ?
Software stacks keep becoming so unnecessarily complex. I suspect this approach will hide more stack details and therefore promote even more pico-services madness.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-children...

> In a meta-analysis, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and China Medical University in Shenyang for the first time combined 27 studies and found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children.

My GF is from the UK where they fluoridate the water. Tap water is undrinkable (flavor) and should only be used after boiling (evaporates the fluoride and chlorine). She had pretty serious fluoridosis (demineralisation of her teeth) which sorted itself out while living here (NL, we're lucky to have fresh groundwater).

IMO, fluoride is fine for external use (in toothpaste), but shouldn't be consumed. If I may put on my conspiratorial tin-foil hat, it's a means of population control - keep them stupid and docile.