skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. This is a weirdly negative and short-sighted article. It's like... yeah, maybe lasers aren't the way to go, guy. But the fact that we proved it in a practical, empirical test - regardless of the method we used - means that all of our theories are strengthened. All of our research into the topic is either on the right track, or can now be measured against a practical result. It's... huge. It's a huge deal that was rightly praised.

And, like you said, nobody who was interested that I talked to failed to understand the pretty simple setup: overall cost is the asterisk, but gain factor is great! The best I can assume is that this guy deals a lot with students and maybe students didn't grok the whole situation (as all idealistic and naive - wonderful traits in students - are likely to do).

In any case, it just seems really pessimistic to say "really don't expect anything to come of this laser process", because of the obvious practical reality: other fusion researchers aren't all using lasers to create fusion, yet all of them can use the results from the laser fusion to make efficiencies in their own designs.
I have shopped online almost exclusively for over 20 years and have started doing the same thing. If I buy a fan at Home Depot, I can be reasonably assured it won't go on fire. They have product buyers that assess the quality and prices of products. Amazon purposely does not have this as it would open them to liability. So "Independent reseller" GOODAIR fan is not at all assessed, and they only provide a platform for users to judge the quality of items and post reviews.
come now, strip back the layer of bullshit verbosity and what does this really say?:

~there's a lot of a bad news around, so people are excited about potential good news~

as if before climate change there'd never been media hype over scientific breakthroughs

this whole article makes exactly one interesting point: the media hype around fusion fails to properly illustrate the actual energy being put in to the experiment. it explains this well once, then wraps it up in snark and verbosity and repeats and re-explains it 5 or 6 times

the useful information in this article could be imparted in one, maybe two paragraphs
Craterish?
Excellent point, Ill never forget taking a history of armageddon narratives course in 2012 when the Mayan calendar was ending and how simple the social / economic function of end-of-the-world narratives seemed in historical context. Specifically in the context that they have been present for at least as long as weve had writing, which is to say as long as we've had class-stratified societies.

Domesday narratives put us in high-arousal states. We listen to authorities more unquestioningly, we think less critically, we buy more stuff.

Of course that's a slippery slope that can lead to climate denial and conspiracy theories but I like remembering to question who's getting research grants or selling zombie apocalypse gear...
Thank you for teaching me a new word! (limerence)
This is what I worth the most as well. In fact, you can already notice the conflict of interest in many of the GitHub issues.
It's not well known or advertised, but it can be used with other langs and frameworks too:

- Rails

- AdonisJs

- ASP.NET Core

- CakePHP

- CanJS

- Clojure

- CodeIgniter4

- ColdBox

- Django

- Go

- Masonite

- Mithril.js

- Node.js

- Phoenix

- PSR-15

- Statamic

- Symfony

- WordPress

- Yii2

- Flask

source: https://inertiajs.com/community-adapters
Still that uses a lot of radio signals (Wi-Fi)
It is on its second edition, I believe.
>> That's not really the user's fault though. They didn't pay because the things to buy were not appealing enough.

My point was that people not only don't pay if they don't have to, they ridicule those who do, even while enjoying the benefit provided by those who do. It's a weird disconnect rooted in selfishness.
> archaeologists working on a 17th-century cemetery

Maybe it is just me, but 17th century seems way too recent to be digging people up. I’m into family history and I know who a lot of my ancestors were back to the 1500s and even into the 1400s. There are surely people alive right now who could trace their family lines back to some of the people being dug up.
Hawaii governor vows to block land grabs as fire-ravaged Maui rebuilds
Traversing the PCI bus and waiting for interrupt handling on completion add costs. What you really want is to shove the encyption to the NIC so the data comes out of main memory and never returns.
I've used, but don't currently own, a Cafelat Robot (https://prima-coffee.com/equipment/cafelat/robot-barista-gre...)

The Robot made great espresso, and I was just about to buy one for myself but then the Meticulous Espresso machine (https://meticuloushome.com/) was announced on kickstarter and I splurged on that instead (deliver by end of year, or so they say.)

If for some reason that doesn't work out, I'll get the robot
You’re a bit off. The punishment for disobedience (which was the act of obtaining knowledge of good and evil) was death. Expulsion was not of paradise (which was the entire earth, now tainted and corrupt), but of access to eternal life. Your analogy may fit better than you thought.

Regardless of your feelings about religion, Genesis 3 is not long and foundational for a significant number of groups throughout Western and Middle-eastern history.
Too many efficiency losses. Let's compare a BeV and a hydrogen vehicle. starting with a fully renewable source of electricity. For the BeV, we lose 5-6% over transmission lines, 5% of that converting AC to DC, another 5% on losses charging the battery, then another 10% at the electric motor. That's ~75% efficiency from your starting electricity to your wheels.

With hydrogen, you lose 30% to electrolysis, another ~25% to transportation, 50% converting the hydrogen back to electricity, then 10% at the electric motor. That's a power to road efficiency of 20-25%.

So this big advance is improving the electrolysis efficiency from 70% to 90%. That's a big advance, but it still only improves your overall efficiency from 20% to 30%, well below the BeV level.
1) can it recognize handwriting? 2) can it identify where a child made a mistake when ‘showing their work’ aka error analysis?
A tool that guides a kid to their mistakes would probably be more useful than on that solves a problem on their behalf.
Note that an IP address counts as an identity for its purposes.
Am working on a 360 degree video player/image viewer mostly pointed at businesses who’d like to integrate the technology without branding or hosting from other providers.

https://staging.sightsurround.com/
At first I thought this headline was about Baldur’s Gate 3.
I hang around the OpenAI forum every day. The common sentiment this month is the opposite - ChatGPT v4 is worse, and v3.5 is actually better for many use cases. 3.5 handles roughly double the input tokens, so it's a lot better for programming and seems to be better at holding long conversations too.

There still are message limits too, it's just double.
> The GP in question is a generic ramble about distaste for current government.

For the last 4 presidents and their ~15 governments (20 years), both "left" and "right".

But I agree said rambling remains quite generic nonetheless.
Are we just making lists of things I'll never do?
I find the visual system an unconvincing example of EMR having unexpected effects on biological systems - it's an organ specifically designed to amplify tiny amounts of EMR, with a very small sensitivity bandwidth.
Yeah that seems way low. In oregon you can have 4 plants and 8 ounces total (227g) at home, and can carry 1 oz (28g) on you at any time. Those are a lot more reasonable limits.
I'm more than happy with either of those variations. My favourite though would be Elm's syntax ;)

type Message
= IncrementBy Int
| DecrementBy Int
| Set Int
This is actually so much better.
Good luck detecting a Wi-Fi access point from orbit, let alone the next starsystem over.
Gift Article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/driverless-car-acciden...
We've been exposed to artifically-generated EM radiation for well over a century. The effects should've been very visible by now.
All of that said, engineers are not static -- everyone is learning and changing all the time, so "problem" engineers after you've eliminated the above are simply people who have a ways to go before they change enough to become effective in your org (or, quite possibly, your org and its processes have a ways to go before more than an extremely specific type of engineer can become effective). Then it's just a value-prop of "do we think it's worth it to wait it out for this particular employee" because they're always learning and leveling up.

Other problems, like dishonesty, not doing enough work, not appearing to level up, honestly all come back to comp/benefits/company-culture. I genuinely believe that a good manager with sufficient resources can get good engineering work out of literally anyone, given sufficient time and (possibly quite high) resources.

And sometimes, the employees that require the highest investment in that regard can have a very high return when they finally do level up. In fact, I find that a really good predictor of success is simply ambition to level up. I care about that much more than I care about raw skill at the time of hiring.
And you’re missing OP‘s point.
There is a lot of trashy behavior that is legal, that doesn’t make it right (ethically). Our societies have worked without putting everything into law, instead relying on public decency.

We don’t put into law how often and how you have to wash yourself, we just assume that most people will do it. But if everyone stopped washing themselves and public transport and the workplace became unbearable you would see legislature follow. Likewise if everyone overused deodorant.

I suggest that you consider Kant’s categorical imperative: “ Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law”.

What would our society be like if everyone smoked weed and did so everywhere? That would be unenjoyable even for weed smokers. “Others do it too” or “but not everyone does it” don’t make the actions of the few ethical.
I am about halfway through and really enjoying it. The audio book is great, it’s narrated by Romero himself and hearing it in his own words adds to the experience.
https://www.semiform.ai - playing around with a replacement for web forms using LLMs to parse free-text responses and create structured data.

Not perfect right now (you can try it out at https://www.semiform.ai/examples to see what I mean) - trying to figure out a few things:

- How to deal with a 'half-completed' response where the user hasn't provided all the requested information? Not really possible for most traditional forms if fields are required. Could be helpful or counterproductive.

- Need to make it simpler for non-technical users to set up an effective form. Right now planning to add templates to help with this, but I think there's more to be done here
The scary part of this is it went through construction cones and flaggers with stop signs to end up in the concrete. Basically, this thing went right through a construction zone without stopping.

Granted, people are this dumb every single day. But who is liable for the fines here?
We've heard that "it might" for years. Actual evidence would be nice.
> If you have a critical need for leap second time you're typically using your own means of NTP and not Microsofts broken ass bullshit.

I love that statement! It reflects my 40 years experience in software - if you're doing something serious then don't use Microsoft's broken ass bullshit. I smile and remember Microsoft's origins as a gaming company. To this day that's what they're best for!
> Never had a problem with archive.is links.

I've been having that problem with archive.is links for weeks.
And also block 3rd party (linux distro) repositories that also ship Firefox?
To bring it full circle, that low-spoken bit from The Tempest? Some of that is Anthony Head, of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
We can implement everything on an infinite tape read/writer, but the point is performance. I'm trying to find something to say about you calling a CPU "esoteric" due to its ISA, and then calling its ISA specifics "just another ISA". Kind of seems like a 180 in the middle of your sentence. But one way or another TCO and indirect calls are crucial for modern languages and I'm glad eventually it'll be usable in WASM as you pointed out in another comment.
Startup, shutdown and migration are all periods of significantly elevated risk. Especially for systems that have been in the air for a long time there are all kinds of ways in which things can go pear shaped. Drives that die on shutdown (or the subsequent boot up), raids that fail to rebuild, cascading failures, power supplies that fail, UPS's that fail, generators that don't start (or that run for 30 seconds and then quit because someone made off with the fuel) and so on.
You are quite right.
I tried to read The Goal and bounced off due in part to the aforementioned writing style, which seemed super trite and straw-mannish. Does the fact that you keep re-reading the books suggests that you haven't found a better way to re-approach that material?
It feels like captchas are mostly to stop humans from creating multiple accounts by hand nowadays.
Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? — Mckenzie Wark

»McKenzie Wark argues that the all-pervasive presence of data in our networked society has given rise to a new mode of production, one not ruled over by capitalists and their factories but by those who own and control the flow of information. Yet, if this is not capitalism anymore, could it be something worse?«
That is why the movement is slowly but surely winning over adherents.
Ok I see your point. Thin for me is basically dependent on where the actual (bulk of) computation happens.
> reCAPTCHA: The accuracy [for humans] of image classification was 81% and 81.7% on the easy and hard settings respectively. Surprisingly, the difficulty appeared not to impact accuracy.

I'm surprised, too. My solve rate (as a human) is <50% for reCAPTCHAs of the form "select all squares containing a motorcycle/bicycle".

Does anyone have tips for solving them? (Is the rider part of the motorcycle? Should I select a mostly-empty square containing a single handlebar?) All I've determined is that the system prefers contiguous sets of ~6 squares.
CAPTCHAs are supposed to tell humans and robots apart, if robots are all doing better than humans, maybe we should flip the acceptance criteria to make sure you are not performing task at superhuman level, (until we train bots to do this). On an unrelated note, I have found captchas that don't even work and reprompt me all the time, I wonder if there is some naive filtering behavior they are applying.
Composition matters a lot too (rubble pile vs monolith). Many things affect whether it will be a bolide, and at what altitude.

But size is the most important feature because it is unbounded. You can’t be more direct than a perpendicular impact, but asteroids can always be bigger. And a 10km rock at pretty much any angle is much more energetic than a 10m rock, no matter what you do.
Even Mike Rowe would turn down that one.
Very classy.
CAPTCHA is just usefully accidental punishment for evading surveillance capitalism while casually browsing the web. There are sites where getting through a CAPTCHA is literally impossible if you are using privacy controls, you just get stuck in an endless loop of CAPTCHA completion. But if you're "logged in" to the surveillance network, there's zero friction whatsoever.
Would love to get STLs + BOM for this
The title says 'fusion' but the talk is actually about NIF and their inflated PR.

Fusion energy companies like CFS (tokamak) or Helion (colliding FRCs with direct energy capture) might start producing electricity to the grid in less than 10 years.
I'm advocating not being an asshole, I never mentioned regulation. There is rightfully social stigma about stinking, littering, other antisocial behavior. Just because someone can be disgusting doesn't mean we should be cool with it.
100% this. Few people have been able to answer the question of "how does it compare to a heat pump that has a SCOP of 4?" without me having to fight the urge to roll my eyes.

By the time (highly explosive) hydrogen gets into people's homes I'd be surprised if it was even 20% as efficient as a heat pump.
Human abilities are typically gonna fall into a normal distribution. There’s definitely an opportunity for driverless cars to have a much thinner dangerous end of the tail. You can’t fix stupid, but you can limit an algorithm…
Vision presumably came about from a biological system that was somewhat affected by photochemical interactions, which then evolved to be useful. That is to say, a living thing must have existed at some point that didn't have vision, but which was affected by light, such that more precise and useful light sensitivity evolved.
Or "turn on your webcam and say/do stuff"

I have a feeling other humans verifying you mechanicalturk style one time is the future.

But imho, the payment route makes sense and also this is the problem as random paywalled sites and web monetization. A cash equivalent bearer of token payment method is what is needed.

1) verify+lock funds
2) get bearer to pay funds or funds unlock in x minutes, cancelling the payment
3) token is presented to payment processor who will revoke the token, issue funds to payee with a new token matching that value paid
4) anyone holding that token can pay for stuff, you can just email or move tokens with usb drives or store them im a secure vault service

I believe the main obstacle to solve so many web issues are KYC laws and lack of constitution amendment level laws that give the people right to trade using a bearer token (cash or not) and transfer funds peer-to-peer without a third party or disclosing their personal info (again, all like cash).
> This might be a naive question, but are driverless lanes being considered? For instance we have bike lanes all over the US. It might make sense to make a similar investment for AI-friendly lanes to help transition to driverless transportation.

That idea doesn't make sense. Where would the space for the dedicated lanes come from, especially on city streets (like the one in the OP)? The existing traffic could use those lanes more effectively, and it would be wrong to waste it because driverless cars suck and their developers are insistently shoving them out the door despite that.
Well, if a corporation is technically a person, I would say the owner of the driverless car. Assuming it is owned by a corp...
> weird version of ADA

Spark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

And it's Ada not ADA which makes me think of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
But the GOODAIR fan says it's UL certified and can produce 12047492037 CFM of air!

It has 3,000 5 star reviews, surely it's high quality
Was fun to google image search "car drives into wet concrete." Humans are worse drivers than I thought!

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=557782243&sxsrf=AB5stB...
Raw rpm was horrible. I used it and I wrote about it, but it was a nightmare. I think I sold an article which was just "here is how to install KDE 2.0 on Red Hat Linux". It was about 3 pages long, and included something like 200 dependency packages that you had to hand-install, one by one.

I am curious to hear what Debian was like before APT came along in 1997 or so.
12% doesn't seem viable as a car replacement
These are electric fields not RF right? That strikes me as a big difference. The paper discusses using electrodes pretty early on so one would think if just radio waves worked they’d use them?
Celsius filing revealed 15,000 personal crypto wallets holding $3B at their peak
Captchas are often implemented on the payment forms themselves to prevent card testing.
> AI consuming copyrighted data and producing an output has to be considered a derivative work (or indeed, the model itself will be considered a derivative work) or IP protections are effectively broken.

It’s not derivative work though. First, a human didn’t create it, so copyright protections don’t exist on its output. Machines don’t enjoy copyright protections, people do.

It’s mechanically copying and reproducing part of its input data set. Making a tool that regurgitates others’ copyrighted IP is going to been seen as aiding mass copyright violations. Exactly like how Napster got sued: they’re holding a bunch of material they shouldn’t be. The only new twist to this case is the data is encoded in a transformer’s weights. This should be correctly seen as the same as having encrypted copyrighted data using a lossy algorithm.
In my opinion, it's a perfect replacement for LGPL, EPL, and MPL to ensure SaaS users are covered by the terms of the license.
I'm from "the old Europe" and not French. Your point?
This is certainly a pattern that can set in (and it did last time I saw a therapist). But I do believe a most therapists start out with a good-faith intent to fix people. There's a lack of therapists and a long line of patients waiting for help so it's not like they will be out of a job anyway.

The bigger problem is that there's very little scientific rigor in what they do. They don't have enough tools or skills to actually help me, because the science isn't there yet.
Same here.

But I tried Ubuntu "Warty Warthog" and jumped ship.
U.S. nuclear power plants typically refuel every 18 to 24 months. The average planned outage time is about a month. We never hear much about how nuclear power plants only have a ~95% planned uptime.
> Dear god, each US citizen smoked 5 cigs per day on average in 1930? It's mind-boggling.

The US population was smaller at that time, so it was probably more. It also peaked at about 4500 in the 60s [1], so it was even higher then.

I do suspect the pareto effect applied here, and the heaviest 20% of smokers raised the mean for the entire population.

For example, about 70-80% of alcohol consumed in the US is consumed by the top 20% drinkers.

1: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/11795/chapter/4#42
You can't re-calculate a radial source into an area like that, most of the phones radiation is going into the other direction than were you are.
The comment didn't say "90% solar", it said "90% renewables". That includes hydro and wind, which don't stop at night or in the winter.
Or Chirac and Balladur's 1995 presidential campaign accounts.

The only recently released the Constitutional Council’s archives, 25 years later, and it’s been quite enlightening.

Our Supreme Court "equivalent" basically approved, enabled, contributed to and hid away blatant fraud, then lied about it for years, all under the guise of avoiding "political consequences".

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/politique/affaire/affaire-karach...
I wonder if this had anything to do with them being desensitized to cones because of the cones on the hoods...
The browser was invented in Europe.
Global warming is bad, but you have to see the positive aspects too.

Case in point: my local news just published an article saying that global warming is disrupting spider romance. I, for one, am pretty excited about that!
> I don’t enable watch history but would still like to see recommendations. Could be based on geography, or overall trends, or time of day.

The Explore tab has "Trending, Music, Gaming, News, Sports". And each of those has more specific sub-sections.
That approach will not work at all.

Majority shops have captchas since crawlers are like mini denail of service attacks on their resources and they continue day and night.

You will not pay a single webshop to browse its inventory let alone dozens you currently check before buying anything.

Like it or not this is what the internet runs on nowadays so killing that would have much bigger fallout than anything annoying captchas could do.
Yes, the current Tor Browser is based on Firefox 102.14.0esr.

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1252/