skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My layman's understanding:

There has never been a net-positive-energy magnetic confinement fusion experiment. Inertial confinement fusion has had 2 events that were "more energy out of the fuel than delivered to the fuel." But is still about a factor of 100 away from what is needed for "more electricity in than out"
My brilliant manager still has his home office day during team meeting. So the whole team sits with headsets on their desks and talks to the manager who’s sitting at home. That’s how return to the office plan works for the peasants. Good that I am leaving soon.
There are "tall" applications and "wide" applications. Almost all advice you ever read about database design and optimization is for "tall" applications. Basically, it means that your application is only doing one single thing, and everything else is in service of that. Most of the big tech companies you can think of are tall. They have only a handful of really critical, driving concepts in their data model.

Facebook really only has people, posts, and ads.

Netflix really only has accounts and shows.

Amazon (the product) really only has sellers, buyers, and products, with maybe a couple more behind the scene for logistics.

The reason for this is because tall applications are easy. Much, much easier than wide applications, which are often called "enterprise". Enterprise software is bad because it's hard. This is where the most unexplored territory is. This is where untold riches lie. The existing players in this space are abysmally bad at it (Oracle, etc.). You will be too, if you enter it with a tall mindset.

Advice like "never user joins" and "design around a single table" makes a lot of sense for tall applications. It's awful, terrible, very bad, no-good advice for wide applications. You see this occasionally when these very tall companies attempt to do literally anything other than their core competency: they fail miserably, because they're staffed with people who hold sacrosanct this kind of advice that does not translate to the vast space of "wide" applications. Just realize that: your advice is for companies doing easy things who are already successful and have run out of low-hanging fruit. Even tall applications that aren't yet victims of their own success do not need to think about butchering their data model in service of performance. Only those who are already vastly successful and are trying to squeeze out the last juices of performance. But those are the people who least need advice. This kind of tall-centered advice, justified with "FAANG is doing it so you should too" and "but what about when you have a billion users?" is poisoning the minds of people who set off to do something more interesting than serve ads to billions of people.
I'd just be happy with Safari having a functional IndexedDB - an old web standard.

https://gist.github.com/pesterhazy/4de96193af89a6dd5ce682ce2...
> But SSRIs do work.

This is not at all settled, and for the people who believe it wholly, the effects that are claimed are marginal. It's fine to talk about the benefits of SSRIs, although they may be controversial, but to use them as a basis for believing in other things is like 12 steps too far.
This is an incredibly good article, like whole standard deviations above the average article quality on that site, for people who are wondering. It took a lot of research to track all those lines down and I'm glad someone took the time to do it.
That’s a huge risk for SF to take, and it also assumes someone who doesn’t want to live in NYC because of the rents will choose SF instead and not a 3rd city.
true. but on the other hand, the 'theoretical' is being turned into practice as evidenced by this 8 minute containment. the best a tokamak can do is half a second.
This matters about as much as the US defying the UN. Chrome needs to be spun out.
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If branches were rebased and then merged with `--no-ff` that could work.
What are you comparing it to? There is witness intimidation going right now on another high profile case and I doubt they’ll revoke bail. I am curious what are the normal thresholds before you get bail revoked.
The multi billion dollar carriers certainly didn’t start out at $25 a month…
There is time when you cut your useful idiots loose. And when they have run out of money, or you can make example of them makes perfect sense.
You don't understand what "reduce to" means in this context. In the intended meaning (where, X reduces to Y means that if we can do Y in O(T(n)) time, we can do X in O(T(n)) time) those aren't known. We can't reduce division to a constant number of additions of the same size.
We don't have buckets, so we must use the spoons available for now.
One immediately apparent flaw of this argument is the assumption of energy use growing by 10x over a century. But in developed countries, energy use per capita has been roughly stable for decades. The 2 main drivers of energy growth will weaken over time (population growth + countries becoming developed).

Also, if energy use does increase by 10x, the solution is simple, build giant refrigerators powered by fusion energy to cool the atmosphere. (joke)
The "old money" entrenched nepotism that typically outlasts the short attention span of the people watching the circus
Customizing Cosmic: Theming and Applications
I blame the easy availability of additional resources in the cloud for a lot of problems here. Prod db slow? Get a bigger EC2 instance. Still slow? Hmm, maybe bigger again! Why bother tuning.

Now... Who knows why our AWS bill is so high?

With real hardware in a DC, you'd have to justify large capital expenditures to do something that stupid.
I think he was warned about the consequences of making public statements. I think he thought he knew more than anyone else. I am guessing that he will have an extremely hard adjustment to prison. But who knows? He could end up being the shot caller.
Normal people do.
My intent was less "we should name things better" and more "using common words a common way is fine, even if they don't reflect the exact semantics of the word at its inception".
Problem with SSRIs is: Does depression cause reduced serotonin, or does reduced serotonin cause depression?

A recent paper [0], [1] claims there is no connection between reduced serotonin as a cause of depression.

Which in my book says depression is a software problem more than a hardware problem, even though the software problem can create reinforcing hardware problems.

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/2022...

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/what-causes-depression-not-low-seroton...
But they are too sporadic to become popular.
I figure the people giving him their money were just betting they were in at the relative top of the Ponzi. Everyone knows these are scams, they're just hoping to hit the jackpot and drop the bag on some other sucker before it all falls apart.
Never should have been allowed out. Absolutely braindead move from the judge.
Maybe, but the most probable event here is a kid with too much money and fame
Show HN: iOS App – AWS Dictionary
Hi, I made an AWS dictionary that help quickly check an AWS service, basics of Pricing and some Facts.

It also helps drawing AWS architectures by allowing to drag and drop this AWS services icons to other apps like Apple Notes or Freeform.

Everything is opensource https://github.com/tigpt/AWSary

I would to get some feedback to keep improving it. Thanks
All of your arguments are pretty valid, but still it DOES NOT excuse Bonin for keeping the damn joystick pointing the nose UP for MINUTES on end. At some point in time you must reflect upon what you are doing. If my hypothetical car needed to do a turn right, and I keep pointing the steering wheel left for many minutes and still do not realize that what I am doing is antithetical to what I want to happen, the blame is on me. I place the blame for this accident 75% on the crew, and 25% on the stupid design decisions made by Airbus. Averaging control inputs is an inexcusable design decision, and not mechanically linking the controls is the cherry on top. If those 2 design decicions weren't made, hundreds of lives wouldn't have been lost that day, even with the amazing level of incompetence shown by Bonin et all. And every Airbus flying nowadays still have this fatal flaw.
What's there to believe? Standards follow implementations. The W3C aren't the browser police; they just standardize the interoperable things browsers do.

It's not W3C's (or WhatWG's) role to "oppose" random things browser vendors decide to do.
my ignorant imagination says to look for the sweetspot between a lookup table and chunks as large as possible.
Has anyone had luck with fine-tuning Llama-v2-7b using the paid (€11.00) Colab Pro?
Heh, yeah or the UN defying anybody who is a member of their own security council.
So? Since W3C approved DRM, any self respecting user should struggle to take them seriously.
SmartTubeNext, if it's an Android smart TV.
Funny enough I frequently have the opposite problem, justifying repeatedly why Cassandra is a bad fit for relatively short lived, frequently updated data (tombstones, baby).
...or he ends up with a bunch of fresh new charges in addition to all the existing ones, some being of the very exciting felony class.

I don't see how that's very rational at all.
Because this isn’t a Reddit /r/politics thread.
Journalism Maybe: The media's blind spots in covering Afghanistan
Sounds like the four stage strategy of the Standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis in the BBC show Yes Minister:

In stage one we say nothing is going to happen.

Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.

In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do.

Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now.
This is like the third time it is on the front page.
Low performers == people acting with empathy? I thought the Earth's best employer would "lead with empathy" [1]?

I'm (voluntarily) leaving today after 5 years, I guess my performance was good enough to let me stay for that long.

[1]: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/two-new-leader...
Ok so Google ignores W3C on WEI.

But could someone else create a W3C proposal that could counteract WEI? It wouldn't have to implementation-specific but rather one or more principles drawing a line in the sand that shouldn't be crossed like what WEI is built to achieve?
>I knew it wasn’t going to be enough to just win a fight anyway

Im sorry to say this, but no. Its much easier than you think. Mere fact of wanting to fight back changes the way you are perceived. You dont need to win anything, you need to show some backbone and stop being a pushover. Bullies will move to next easiest target and leave you alone. They want easy bullying, not fights. Bullies smell fear, you were bullied because you were afraid to fight back.

victor106 in another comment asks "How do you teach resilience to a kid? What are some things you can do from they are toddlers to teach them?"

You sign your kid up for karate/taekwondo/judo/aikido at age ~6. https://www.shojinjudo.com/wordpress/judo-for-children/ The point is not so he can learn how to fight back, its so he/she never has to because of self-esteem, confidence and self-respect gained thru training.
I may be wrong, but I believe that bail forfeiture would be a separate order from revocation/remand, with its own hearing. The summary of the revocation order (the full document isn't up yet on CourtListener) refers to remand to custody but not forfeiture.

I think it can occur for both failure to appear and other violations of bail conditions, but I don’t know, on practice, how common forfeiture is for violations of other bail conditions.
> Do you, in all honesty, think the US showed its full might against the taliban in an all out war?

No, the one thing the US government held back were nukes.

Of course, I could see how those were off the table against a foreign country, but those concerns wouldn't apply to domestic use. The LARPers would stand no chance against H-bombs, which shows the truth of your original point. Small arms can't defend against a willing US military, because a willing US military will just nuke them.
Of course. It won't encode touch and smell.
The Monolith is often a marker of several naive assumptions.

Yet some interesting patterns will emerge if teams accept some basic constraints:

1. A low-cpu-power client-process is identical to a resource taxed server-process

2. A systems client-server pattern will inevitably become functionally equivalent to inter-server traffic. Thus, the assumption all high performance systems degenerate into a hosted peer-to-peer model will counterintuitively generalize. Accordingly, if you accept this fact early, than one may avoid re-writing a code-base 3 times, and trying to reconcile a bodged API.

3. Forwarding meaningful information does not mean collecting verbose telemetry, then trying to use data-science to fix your business model later. Assume you will eventually either have high-latency queuing, or start pooling users into siloed contexts. In either case, the faulty idea of a single database shared-state will need seriously reconsidered at around 40k users, and later abandoned after around 13m users.

4. sharding only buys time at the cost of reliability. You may disagree, but one will need to restart a partitioned-cluster under heavy-load to understand why.

5. All complex systems fail in improbable ways. Eventually consistent is usually better than sometimes broken. Thus, solutions like Erlang/Elixir have been around for awhile... perhaps the OTP offers a unique set of tradeoffs.

6. Everyone thinks these constraints don't apply at first. Thus, will repeat the same tantalizing... yet terrible design choices... others have repeated for 40+ years.

Good luck, =)
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The article's first paragraph is golden

Rudeness has consequences in fairy tales. Strangers met on the road may be more than they seem, so politeness is prudent. If a farmer is working his land and a passing old man asks what he’s sowing, he had better not answer, “I’m sowing cocks!” if he doesn’t want three-foot-tall phalluses sprouting in his field at harvest time. This is the lesson of “A Crop of Cocks,” one of more than a hundred obscene folktales compiled by the nineteenth-century Russian ethnographer Aleksandr Afanasev.
Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge
Yea they are kinda confusing, especially when you get into the 3D ones like klien bottles and roman surfaces. I also recently learned that if you make a mobius shaped transmission line (like a ladder line) and you send a pulse down it, that pulse will continue looping until it dissipates (or forever if it is a superconductor).

https://www.microwavejournal.com/articles/21001-printed-reso...

I have no idea if there are any advantages over a simple planar circular loop though.
Fusion reactors are pretty non-explodey. Really all they can do is spring a leak, then fill with air and extinguish the plasma. Maybe if you quench the magnets hard enough you might get something dramatic like leaking a gram of tritium.
WEI would be super valuable if it was targeted at corporate network infrastructure.

In those situations, enterprises have the jurisdiction and need to know who is connecting to their network.

Putting a technology like this into a browser seems to only benefit sites that monetize their content...
really need a simple "put your source stuff in this directory, then press this button, then chat with your contents" type app/module/library.

too much implementation detail required make it inaccessible for any non-significant use case. i imagine privateGpt will get there slowly
you just did this mindless form of character assassination...

let's focus on the crimes they both uncovered. please.
I found going to the doctor strange as a kid growing up. I had science class and had to know the details of things on the test. But going to the doctor, they didn't tell me what I had. They usually didn't know exactly. Mostly it was just treating the symptoms.

This bugged me, but I would get worn down by it and sort of give up the "search for truth". I feel bad, and then I rest, or take ibuprofen, or drink fluids, and my body just fixes it eventually and the mysteries continue.
I’d be happy to chat offline. Your current work and my current work I think share a lot of similarity. My GitHub is avcarr2.
Vancouver Hospital Defends Suggesting MAID to Suicidal Patient
In fairness, it has a screen and keyboard connected, but no mouse. Adding a mouse would be trivial.

Anyway, 20TB takes a 3.5" bay, something my laptop lacks.
I would definitely do the opposite of this - 3 months is a while and i think the cost of complexity would take a long time before it comparec
> Of course you now need Kubernetes but you could just throw it in a basic, managed cluster that only runs that component.

What a time to be alive.
You, no. The state according to the established laws? Yes. Terroristic threat, for example.

In this case, SBF had voluntarily limited his speech in order to be out of jail for a crime he was already arrested for.
science is a mechanism for testing hypotheses. it may not be as medically rigorous as we want but modeling the complete receptor interactions and exactly what sorts and degrees of modulation happens as a result across the whole brain and body is really, really hard

btw this is why i think the phrase "the science" as it relates to a pseudointellectual synonym for "the answer" needs to die
To the people with private jets and 3 houses by the beach
Yes, MTBF as reported on the spec sheets is purely a distraction when it comes to SSD reliability.
Lapsus$ report recommends federal agencies clamp down on SIM swapping
> IMHO, generally speaking, Samsung SSD products are the best on the market.

There seems to be 870 EVO reliability issue going on for years now [1]. Shit happens, what matters is how you handle it. Samsung has yet to issue any public statement on the matter.

[1] https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/samsung-870-evo-b...
if remote work stays SF will be in a similar situation to Detroit, although they will be somewhat better off just due to the climate and location of SF making it a desirable place to live. But SF will still lose a ton of tax revenue if fewer tech workers are living in the area
Do I get it right that all SBF had to do to stay out of jail (at least until trial) is exactly nothing, and he still failed at that?
>> The sunk cost of unused office space has been a major factor in companies’ decisions to change their RTO approach, says Kacher.

I'm not sure that the author, or the company executives, know what a sunk cost is. Just to clarify, since there is a younger generation on HN now, 'sunk cost' is something you have spent money on that you can't get back.

The 'sunk cost fallacy' is the mistaken belief that you have to use a resource you have already spent money on (sunk cost into).
Long ago, I was introduced to the theory of Mappers and Packers[1], which are polar opposites in the ways that people can learn things. Mappers (like me) have a mental model of the universe which represents facts and knowledge as puzzle pieces that have to fit together into a coherent whole. Any inconsistencies in the fit between those pieces drive us nuts. When we encounter a new set of facts, we have a background process that tries to make them fit. Then all the new connections arise over time as we realize new ways we can combine old facts.

On the other extreme, are packers. They have optimized for packing facts in bulk, with little regard for how they fit together. If you give this type of person a set of instructions that require a wider knowledge of how things fit, they will get lost, frustrated, and/or need support. If you anticipate this, and spend a bit extra time to show how to handle all of the possible contingencies, (and give them a document of this) they're good, and will be quite happy with your support.

I think that mappers take more time figuring out the model, compressing the facts to save space, and increase applicability in general.

[1] https://wiki.c2.com/?MappersVsPackers
And we still have people crying Safari being new IE all the time. The remaining minor incompatibilities that we have now are nothing compared to what we had in IE6 days, and yes, this is the price we pay for not giving complete control of the web to a single ad company.
Querying the cloud provider apis for current state? Go to the actual source of truth?

I'm sure there are complications i don't care to see here, but why is "this is what is actually deployed" not the default case?
Thank you for all of the great information!
> What are the first principles here?

One of his first principles might have been (example):

"Leaks really work well. I leaked some stuff, it got me good results, and so logically this path is open to me for problem-solving."

This is how subjective logic works for millions of people every day.

Obviously to you and others, if you don't combine that with some wisdom and foresight derived from broader knowledge on the context in question, it might backfire.

But what happens next is probably this: He'll stay in the game and adjust his subjective logical foundations.

"Leaks can also be very risky AND therefore..."

That's a huge difference between him and other people, he is a speculative theorist by nature. Even now he probably won't discard leaking out of hand.

It's not a life lesson about leaking for someone like that, it's a lesson with specific parameters in a specific context.

Is he reinventing the "leaking" wheel in a dumb way? Possibly. But, he's also making the logic his own, which is extremely powerful as experience accrues.

Especially if it turns out that leaking is basically an art one can master, he could probably find a way to master it, because there's no big-picture roadblock in his mind that says "leaking private info to help your case is bad, the end". This is not nuanced enough, i.e. smart enough, for the way his logic operates.

Since he is amenable to working with details, his thinking style has strong long-term flexibility and leverage advantages. Even if it fails hard sometimes.

Just for illustration purposes though. And, once again, I'm not here to talk about his moral character. I also do not believe that he's consciously choosing how to use his personality characteristics. He's working naturally with what he's got, these comfortable, reinforced patterns of good, bad, and everything in between.
I'm also deduplicating that data by not storing it locally.
Bugs in Codesys V3 SDK could cause RCE, DoS attacks on industrial facilities
> I think it could be it doesn’t really matter as much as it gets focused on.

Not to downplay everything you said, because that's a great mentality to have towards technology, but regarding this point, the problem with technology is not that kids are spending too much time in front of a screen. The problem is with the content they're consuming, and the people they're exposed to online. There's a lot of potential harm from being manipulated by advertising, to seeing disturbing content like Elsagate, to getting absorbed in the vapid and obnoxious culture of influencers, to meeting someone who might actually harm them.

It's good to be pragmatic about how children use technology, as they will be surrounded by it during their lifetime, but it's also important to have strict controls, boundaries and discussions with them so that they understand the very real threats that technology enables.
The threat of the earth heating up by 0.3 degrees due to energy production is irrelevant or at least absolutely worth it as a tradeoff for working fusion.

The dangers of climate change is not that the earth heats up by some small amount, the earth can easily cope with that. It is that continued greenhouse gas emissons are causing a ever increasing heatup due to trapped solar energy.

(It is also extremely strage that he argues for geothermal in his comments. Does he not realize what that is? Literally heating up the surface of the earth with energy from below.)