skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just is, the law specifies exactly under which law articles websites can be blocked, and all of said articles are quite specific about scamming, phishing, extortion of personal data, etc
I think you missed the point.

Fusion power is 100%, hands down possible. There is no question in this.

It's all about cost, and my point was, when, not if fusion power is a net positive, will other things be cheaper?

I find it incredible how people on HN, a more technical site, seem to consider 10 years a long time, or even 100. Or that money is "wasted" because the research and work will "vanish", which is beyond absurd. Every penny spent on fusion, and cold fusion comes back to us in many wsys, there is no waste.
Labrat: Stealthy Cryptojacking and Proxyjacking Campaign Targeting Gitlab
> One thing I don't understand is why housing prices are not falling.

1. There is still lots of money out there. Unfortunately for Jerome, getting it out is way harder than pumping it. It might take years.

2. Lots of people are locked in low fixed-rates mortgages that they'd exit if they can refinance at the same rate. This makes the market non-liquid and keeps the prices artificially high even though the volume are down.

> When you are a landlord and the home doesn't rent, my first instinct would be to lower the price until people start showing up, yet this doesn't appear to be happening.

Most people in the US use a rental agency. These are greedy and sneaky people. That being said, rents are down in most of the US. The market is correcting but it came from a very high place.
Was their generosity for gifting you candy crush turned away?
I did the opposite move, North America to Europe.

It’s quite an adjustment. It feels like companies here are the complete opposite: you should feel lucky they’re allowing you to give them your money. Not happy with it? Fuck right off. We made a mistake? Too bad so sad.

I feel like there should be a middle ground between return everything and return nothing, but I am regularly appalled at the contempt with which companies in Europe treat their customers.

And before you tell me I’m wrong: this is a generalization, I’m sure $anecdote will prove me wrong, my point still stands.
Another reason is that the Tor network has been overloaded since it's inception. If Mullvad can take off the load slightly for the uh... less necessary users (aka those who used Tor Browser for anti-fingerprinting uses rather than the type of protection offered by its onion routing), then that would be a win in the books of the Tor Project.
Sure, but try coming up with that without even remembering what invert meant (it isn't a word that is commonly used in practice outside of CS education and l00tcode). Most of the problem in l00tcode question is just figuring out what is being asked for, not in doing the ask. That's why studying and understanding lots of l00tcode problems as prep is very effective (even if you haven't seen the problem, the problem is probably adjacent and you can understand it more quickly during the interview).
I love this because it's exactly the thing that an enraged engineer who is stuck in the last row waiting to get off a plane would create -- just a little naive given airline incentives, couples, families and the limits of human patience :)

I would much rather if all planes had a second staircase at the back, jet bridges aren't needed. That, or let people check luggage for free again so they don't need to manhandle carry-ons.

My guess is that airports also prefer a slower release of passengers -- it means customs lines and bathrooms aren't immediately saturated.
LK-99 was actually an amazing litmus test.

You can absolutely dismiss the opinions of anyone who acted excited about it.
Hey, the BarcodeDetector API has been around for some time, just crucially not on iOS. I didn't know about the polyfills though!

If you're looking to only scan QR codes, https://github.com/nimiq/qr-scanner is a library I can recommend and which I've used in a previous project.

One thing the BarcodeDetector API does not give you is a UI for your barcode scanning. Basically it's your job to acquire an image and pass it to the API. With STRICH, you just provide an HTML element and the scanner will live in there, including controls for camera selection and flashlight (only on Android, unfortunately).
> I’m fond of pumped hydro, which we can do anywhere with a height difference

Not really economical unless you've got some suitably-shaped geology to build most of the storage vessels out of.

The lithium issues may be addressed by sodium-ion, which is now mature enough that you can buy it on aliexpress.
> Maybe not the national grid, but there are plenty of places in the US where the sun shines a lot more than 40% of the day during the winter.

It looks like Los Angeles only averages about 37% for the year as a whole, and Albuquerque averages about 38%, so I'm skeptical that there's anywhere that gets "a lot more than 40%" in winter. You have to take clouds into account as well, remember. Cloudy days exist even in desert areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_sunshine_dur...
This doesn't change how or when Google sees the web pages a user visits. If they were using Chrome with all sync features turned on, their browsing history was already being sent up.
> To me this is the killer feature of Starbucks, and it's why I'm a stockholder.

Well seeing you are a stockholder you may want to know my experience.

I'd say Starbucks at least in my city in Canada has degraded mainly due to the talent or workload of its staff. They got too fancy and also try to make orders too fast. Getting it fast but junk is pointless. It seems to have started when mobile orders became a thing if I had to guess when it began.

I used to like their flat white when they actually made it correctly. They used to bang the pitcher to get out the big bubbles, it had a nice uniform beige with a white dot of milk on the top. It had a nice astringent taste from the ristretto shot.

Then the workers started (told to?) pouring milk ending with a leaf on the top for every cup. I felt like saying who cares or don't worry just pour it and move on to the next person. They don't seem to bang the pitcher to remove big bubbles. The look of it is mostly white not beige as if someone dropped their latte picked it up and gave it to you.

What a mess! And it's 100% time. I ask for a flat white now and then but realize there no way they'll ever make it right again.
do you understand that things that you can't see still need to be juggled? the problems don't magically go away just because you can't see the artifacts. what happens is you lose complete control over how they're juggled and you retain as much control as the compiler owner deigns to give you (see generic in Go). please see all the pain of working templates in C++.
There used to be an icon on the desktop titled "My Computer". It's titled "This PC" now. That seems a sufficient summary of how MS/Windows views things.
Looks like the majority of HNers commenting here are showing clear signs of envy or resentment over this person's achievement. That's all I need to know about HN right here.

So you know what?

Massive congratulations to this student being so good that they don't need to take a LeetCode interview. Leetcode is not the only way.

Perhaps the ones that do have to take the coding interview probably haven't built something interesting themselves...

Either way, Leetcode, Hackerrank tests for hiring etc are all garbage. Great that this student's work speaks for itself enough to get an internship at Apple.

Well done for them!
I love it!
A suggestion for much further down the line: a timeline on the map which composites many maps from a similar time period so you can see them all stitched together (somewhat like how https://skyvector.com/ stitches together multiple sectional charts into a continuous map, though I know it can't be as seamless).
Or you could attempt to run some extra processing steps to warp the map to match the background map's projection.
Those are both big undertakings, though.
I've built a bespoke warehouse scanning application in the form of a PWA before. Our scanners are meant to always be connected to the internet, but there are dead zones in the warehouses and sometimes the connection just drops out of the blue. We added support for limited offline mode, essentially remembering its state, syncing when the connection comes back or warning the picker to reconnect if they leave it offline too long.
that's fine - i'm not complaining i'm waiting patiently. keep going!
> very cool

Yep, exactly -18C cool.
[dupe]

Lots of discussion on this weeks back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36841837
I felt a similar way with the news of the fusion 'breakthrough' around 6 months ago. "Fusion power is here! All we need to do is engineering!".

They achieved this fusion by creating a container of material that produced massive amounts of xrays when it was bombarded by a high powered laser. These xrays caused another container's surface to ablate at such a rate it compressed its interior to the point that fusion was achieved.

However, this being a weapons lab, they created the experiment to model the secondary device in an H-Bomb. The secondary is theorized outside the Top Secret world to be a cylindrical tamper of (enriched?) uranium. One hypothesis in the public sphere, is its the primary device's Xrays that cause this to ablate at such a rate and that the inside is compressed to achieve fusion. The purpose of the fusion is primarily for the neutrons it generates, which are used to cause a massive amount of fission in the tamper, producing the majority of the energy. For example, if replace the uranium with another non-fissile material, and you have a "neutron bomb".

The reason the breathless hype annoyed me is that at no point was usable energy the desire of the test. In fact, the test solely was to feed real world data back into the supercomputer models, so that we know how our existing stockpile of weapons would work or even perhaps to find optimizations. We know this mechanism of ablation causing fusion works, we've known for 60+ years, all we're doing is doing it in a lab.

I'm not sure why there is this need to hype these events, like fusion or LK-99 so much. It seems that being a naysayer is reacted to as if the naysayers are explaining a magician's tricks. As if we don't hype these events the public will lose interest, or even our children will drop out of STEM careers.
The comment you're replying to is saying there's 2 processes, and it matters which one you're in.

System A optimizes for min(p(hire|bad_candidate)). System B optimizes for max(p(hire|good_candidate)).

System A has resume screens, long lead times, and Leetcode out the wazoo. System B has a few convos, short lead times, and review of actual previous work product.

Horror stories come from great candidates in system A. This article is describing how to get into system B.
There are other Chrome extensions that will do stuff like this. I'd never choose to have Google do it for me if I could have a third-party extension that I trust do it instead (or even one I don't trust 100%, but which offers some level of anonymization).
> and the need to spread our bets by exploring the universe.

I would like for us to get our house in order before we start this process.
Algebraic data types in Lua (almost)
The airline lost his bags. He crossed the Atlantic to find them
Sure. Now if you could get MS to sell you LTSC...
TechNIK's Cyberdeck.io
I've been working on a web application that has a bar code code scanning component and I will say that while the apparent performance of this library is impressive, I am not a fan of this pricing model, and that alone pushes me to use alternative libraries [1]. As an aside, the library I'm thinking of is based on zxing-js and seems to have perfectly acceptable performance scanning the bar codes in your OSS comparison [2] using the demo implementation [3] (it scans bar codes despite the name being "html5-qrcode").

For a library like this, the only really appealing pricing model is a flat fee that buys unlimited use of the version I buy in perpetuity (even if that fee is several thousand dollars). I'm not, however, going to pay monthly forever for code that (1) you wrote once and is now static, (2) that you aren't hosting, and (3) that I need to integrate into my application myself. That feels like paying my car manufacturer a monthly subscription for heated seats [4].

If I need support I will happily pay you a support fee. Moreover, I cannot take on the liability of my app's bar code scanner ceasing working because you decide to close your doors and then the license won't reactivate.

[1]: https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode

[2]: https://strich.io/comparison-with-oss.html

[3]: https://blog.minhazav.dev/research/html5-qrcode

[4]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/12/23204950/bmw-subscription...
Easily generate function metadata (json) automatically for GPT function calling: https://github.com/Jakob-98/openai-functools

My colleague and I have been working on this tool and using it in some internal projects. It works quite well as an intent->functions machine, and makes the process of invoking functions with GPT a lot more bearable. We hope to make it a library which does one thing so great that it will be the industry standard in its niche, so looking for some feedback on the documentation and use.
I'm absolutely positive that I've been described as "difficult" many times throughout my 30-year career as a computer programmer. I've picked up on a lot of frustration from other people around me - but that's almost always when I tell them I don't know the answer to the question that they just asked me for an answer to. I can figure it out, I'm qualified to figure it out, but I don't know the answer _right this ver instant_. So I'm "difficult".
I still use discs for archive purposes. Just as it is described by

https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/con...
Where I live now has implemented sensible policies that make life pleasant, so I’m fine with the status quo here.
Article from Le Monde:

https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2023/07/06/le-senat-vo...

https://archive.li/krUfW

> To prevent multiple attempts at scams by e-mail or SMS, the bill must also allow the establishment of a free "anti-scam filter" sending a warning message to anyone who is about to to go to a site identified as malicious.
> instead of putting it in /var/tmp/usercache-<username> directory?

Can't use fixed paths in tmp dirs, that's either a security issue or a denial of service attack waiting to happen. I can `mkdir /var/tmp/usercache-prmoustache`.

> Put that into /usr/local/<username> instead!

Not writable to regular users, and not meant for that.
At least the author is honest about "trusted computing" not existing for the user's benefit.
This is a fine simulation, and, as described, it does not account for overhead baggage handling, and as mentioned in other comments: families traveling together.

If you have ever taken a commercial flight, you have seen it: the individual that needs two people to team up (or one highly capable one) and lift up or down their 40-50 lbs (~20 kg) roller from the overhead. Half the time, their help is in their party, but it slows things down.

I would estimate that this happens at least once every 4 rows on a fully occupied 6 seat wide aircraft.

Given this, forbidding passengers to bring carry ons aboard that they can't overhead lift themselves would be the only way to speed things up regardless of boarding/deboarding strategy.

Is that practical? Probably not.
Sorry, but that's incorrect.

Leaving aside the mind-blowingly large amount of research on summarization that existed in 2019, I'll say this: by then the task was so we'll understood that there were multiple tldr bots on Reddit.
This comment feels a little conspiracy theory-ish.

If a sufficiently big block of customers likes the idea of 'minority, lgbt and women's rights as you put it, they you're gonna see a bunch of companies trying to present themselves in a way that if favorable to that block.
Why? Build more. Interconnect with HVDC.
Show HN: Add_service – CLI Tool for Effortlessly Adding Systemd Startup Items
Managing systemd services for startup programs can be complex and tedious. To simplify the process, I created a CLI tool called `add_service` that allows you to quickly add systemd services without manually writing configuration files.

Example:
$ pip3 install add_service
$ add_service "`which python3` -m http.server 80" --user root --name http_server

Usage:
add_service shell_file/cmd [--user root(default `whoami`)] [--name service_name] [--start]

Feel free to use and provide suggestions.
Top Google AI experts pick Japan to set up on their own
To be fair, Homebrew is great product design, but actually pretty janky software engineering. Anyone who's had it wreck their PATH a couple of times isn't going to be an automatic yes vote on a technical screen.
Good, 'cause I was really confused there for a second!
Yeah the ideal replacement would be a 14500 or 18650 but they run at 3.7v so they would break a lot of electronics meant for alkalines. There are also CR123A batteries which are lithium primary cells and are much better for low temp applications or for long storage times. They also have a matching 16340 rechargable type which has a similar voltage.

The problem is, the average consumer is too dumb to be able to understand the difference, even the enthusiast flashlight/dive light/firearm light people have some holdouts who insist everything should just be alkalyne because they don't understand any of this.
Not an answer to your question really, but it's just going to get easier and easier for people to make stuff. Laws are not a great tool for stopping or even slowing that.
Which is why it's so important to make Russia pay dearly. They didn't just attack Ukraine, they attacked civilization. Every human alive will suffer to at least a small extent as a result.

Russia must be confronted with economic, political, and yes, military incentives to behave very differently in the future, or at least to take more responsibility for the reckless actions of their leaders. In the meantime, working towards independence from fossil fuels has become even more important, even for those who aren't otherwise known for advocating good climate stewardship.
A nice story, and a unique situation from someone who obviously shouldn’t be giving anyone advice.
I'm working on https://commitspark.com , a headless CMS where all data is stored in a GitHub repository with branching/merging workflow support for content.

Reading/writing content from/to GitHub happens through an Open Source API library I released. For the content data schema, I simply require a plaintext GraphQL type file inside the repository. The schema then automatically determines the API structure as well as the editor-friendly UI that I can generate on the Commitspark website when you log in via GitHub.

Even though Commitspark is already publicly available, it is still 100% a side-project that doesn't earn me any money (yet).
YouTube is cracking down on videos with medical misinformation
It really is, and it mirrors the hype cycle around LK-99.

In the case of these laser fusion stories, the effect described is at least real, but the press is happy to spin it in wildly optimistic ways.
Proof That LLMs Understand
One of the reasons I use Qubes OS is that it makes functionality like this easy, with strong guarantees that there won't be a leak since it is achieved though VMs in the background. With any application you can configure it to use only a certain VPN, or have multiple separate instances of the same application connected to different ones
I'm curious about what off-the-shelf machines you would compare a fully modified gagguino. Granted, I don't have one so I'm only going off the feature set listed on the page, but short of a Decent ($$$$) I can't think of any competitors with features like flow profiles.
> Some electronics which depend on this, will malfunction or work very shortly on rechargable eneloop or similar.

Take a closer look at the graph you linked to. Those devices will also stop working very shortly on alkaline batteries. The voltage as a function of discharge capacity curve for alkaline falls below Eneloop about 1/3 of the way in.

That means that if the device can work at alkaline voltage after it has used about 1/3 of the alkaline capacity it will also work as long or longer with an Eneloop of the same total capacity.

The alkaline curve voltages falls below max Eneloop voltage after about 10% discharge. That means a device that actually needs a voltage above Eneloop voltage was poorly designed. It is either going to be ridiculously wasteful on alkaline batteries (unless the user realizes that when the device conks out due to low batter the batteries actually still have 90% capacity remaining and uses those batteries in some other device designed by a competent engineer instead of throwing them out as dead) or should have been using something other than AA batteries such as CR123A that will be above 1.4 V throughout most of its discharge curve.

The only problem you should see in a well designed device that was designed for AA but for which the designers did not take into account rechargeable vs primary is that the battery indicator might not be as accurate on rechargeable. That's because simple batter indicators use the voltage to estimate where they are on discharge curve.

If this assumes an alkaline discharge curve then with a rechargeable it will think fresh batteries are at about 90%, which will rapidly fall to around 75%, and then think it is barely declining for a long time until the batteries are actually at about 10%, and then it will rapidly go down.
Does the Monument device have the option to share albums/folders across the Internet? Do I need to open a hole in my firewall for this?

Edit: I've reached out to the Monument team as well.
I know many are still using Windows for a host of reasons, and it feels great to be able to have unhitched my wagon from Microsoft. For months now I just use GNU/Linux, thanks to two things: there's a plugin for Calibre that obviates the need for Adobe Digital Editions (which I was having trouble getting to work on Linux, possibly due to my own ignorance), and giving up videogaming (some multiplayer games use anticheat software that doesn't play well with Linux, hence sticking with Windows. My friends and I are adjusting to other ways to stay in touch at a distance. They've been supportive, as gaming has been an unhealthy escape for me for decades and I hadn't told them until recently). Now I have more time to read, communicate, feel balanced and less distracted, and boast on social media (HN...) about how good it feels to have ditched Windows ;)
Musk has all but confirmed that he has bipolar disorder. He also takes ketamine, but maybe not by doctors orders :/

It would make sense that SpaceX's flight surgeon (Dr. Anil Menon) won't clear him for orbital flight before he gets his disease under control. Launch is always somewhat stressful. you don't want someone who can get into psychosis to get there in very public way.
Now you're begging the question of how hard it is to break it up!
He’s Wikipedia famous, but I’m not sure how relevant he is in the community to warrant it. Maybe he doesn’t actually exist, and this is all a just a ruse?

I’d be interested to see if there’s any linkages between contributors to those two pages.