skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Once you take into account that you waste a lot of energy heating up the plasma, and that you capture less than 100% for energy production, and that there are all sorts of auxiliary costs like magnets, the picture is a whole lot less rosy.

The startup costs of heating the plasma are only significant in the high density/high confinement time/low temperature regime of pulsed ICF devices, which use no magnets.

The notion that laypeople have an accurate idea of rosiness based off of Qplasma progress is not one I can treat seriously. The jump from Qplasma 0.1 to Qplasma 1 is similar to the jump from Qplasma 1 to Qplasma infinity. We burn the plasmas to find the minimally viable machine and we do the science and engineering to continually push it down (obviously the world can not run on NIFs and ITERs).
A platform conductor once (maybe 15 years ago) explained to me that taking photos of the train entering the station was forbidden because the flash could distract the train operator at the crucial moment where a person falls into the trench. There was a sign posted, that's why I asked.

Back then I thought this to be a very rare edge-case and it seems to be. But since then I personally witnessed persons falling into the trench twice. Furthermore I learned that railway and train operators take security pretty seriously, because anything that could go wrong probably kills you.
Never unless you are friends, or in the same culture. Or you really need help finding your way. Or to get laid.
So easily. Step 1: pass law. Step 2: for infinging projects with > $x stars on $whatever issue C&D under threat of $consequence.

If you believe tangling with state-sponsored legal machinery is no big deal, I feel sorry for you.
‘Bored Apes’ investors sue Sotheby’s, Paris Hilton,others as NFT prices collapse
I was wondering why they would load all the fonts, and this seems like a reasonable answer.
as a contractor i enjoy when clients want yolo driven development
Thank you for mentioning this. I always find myself going further back and forth with employers who allow a take-home exercise but ask that it be time-boxed nonetheless; it's difficult to try to unpack how they're trying to communicate what kind of time pressure a role experiences, and that if I took longer than their expected time box, does that look bad just because I needed some more time to understand the problem?
At most companies the consensus is that if you want to understand the product, you need to master the code. Which can suck for legacy code that doesn't follow sane conventions.
I can't speak for Apple. But team specific hiring does have some big downsides. It allows some managers to brings friends / family in that are not really qualified. I once worked with a team that every single person on the team lived in the same town, and had some personal connection to the manager, they were not good. Without some standardization or minimum bar, it leaves teams to figure out how they hire, and that might not be good.
I found that the voltage does not say much, at least not for a general type. Just put your multimeter in 20 A mode and make sure you connect the red cable to A terminal. Use it to shortly short circuit the batt. A good (charged) battery delivers >8A
Do you mean they’re more likely to become managers and thus no longer write great code, or something else?
I started making the transition, and then I realized that it makes me think of each eneloop as a device that I need to think about and maintain. How much life does it have left in it? How can I measure that? How can I remember which is which?

It's been a few years, so I couldn't tell you exactly what happened that made me think this way. But some devices worked with brand new eneloops but not as well with older ones.

Also, my camera flash dies (e.g. drops from usable to unusable) much more rapidly with eneloops. I missed a few one-of-a-kind photo ops and then decided the flash only uses alkalines now.
Use Git to rewind time and write tests after refactoring
AI increasingly used by students to do their school work, teachers can't tell
Cleaned up some Objective-C code maybe.
I chose Racket for a project that involved lots of AST manipulation. Those ASTs were already in s-expression format, so Scheme seemed a natural fit.

The lack of static types was annoying; Typed Racket helped, but was so slow I only enabled it during unit tests (more precisely: Typed Racket functions can be faster than those written in normal Racket, but calling them from normal Racket functions will be slow as it performs run-time checks)

https://github.com/Warbo/theory-exploration-benchmarks/tree/...
Worst part for flow is how fast chatgpt logins expire. Ironically probably some kind of anti-botting measure or is there a better explanation?
There's a lot of precedence for regulating commerce based on who owns the company and what country the owner is in.
Scheme is an especially appealing elegant and powerful language. And it attracts people who aren't in software or programming languages for the money.

So, the stakes are very small, in terms of commercial value, but...

If you think of Scheme as an oasis, relative to most popular programming languages and communities, then the stakes can be quite large.
This is a good suggestion. I assume you mean FOSS maintainers can create a variant (package?) that's optimized for performance. I'd thought of a similar variant, but for telemetry based on the recent Moq incident https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066312
> The South Korean paper claimed

As I understand it the paper was a leaked preprint. Which means they didn't "claim" anything, but were distributing it to get peer review and feedback before publishing.
just that zstd points to Facebook
This is highly likely to be Google Meet using CODECs (like VP8/9) where the hardware acceleration is nothing like as well developed (read available or power efficient) as the h26x series, which Google are resistant to for licensing reasons. They also like doing simulcast, where the burden of encoding different stream resolutions for different end clients is performed at the sender end, when others do this transcoding in the cloud.

Edit: Meet also apparently uses MediaPipe, which in browser does results in heavy WASM/GPU usage which on a native API could go to a NN accelerator instead. It is fair to say that stuff can melt batteries too.
Classic methods such as blood sucking wounds on victims or witness reports of hearing Toccata and Fugue in D minor playing in the background suddenly.
This isn't a Windows problem. This is an app problem, and in this post's case, Quicken. Quicken is looking to where Windows keeps fonts and, on every startup, accessing all of them.

Windows doesn't tell the app to do this, the app is choosing to do so. And if not fonts, it could be something else. (I've seen a homegrown enterprise app that would go weird if there was too much stuff in C:\Temp because it used it and scanned the WHOLE THING on startup for its stuff. Again, even though C:\Temp is a Windows folder, this is an app issue.)
Bram Stoker Claimed That Parts of Dracula Were Real

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37144560
My point is that to produce hydrogen via electrolysis, you need to input energy. Due to thermodynamics, you can only ever hope to get 0.9 units for each unit of input energy.

With fossil fuels, you don’t need to input energy to get them. At least not in the same way. You can run a pump to pump them out of the ground. For each unit of energy that goes into the pump, you likely get 1000x units of energy out.
Professional designers, on the other hand, need to care not just about typeface and foundry, but also about the exact version of fonts.

Back when magazines weren't nearly dead, I did production for a few years. The very first issue I worked on, I screwed up an ad by using a newer version of the font - the leading tables were different and a text block wrapped when it shouldn't have, so the advertiser got a couple free runs.

Always turned off rendering in lists and menus where I could, because it was not useful, slow, and harder to read.
I'm guessing post 9/11 mania.

There were a lot of attempted strange policies about photography post 9/11 in the US. Some stuck around for longer than others. They were all absurd, not like you have to take photos to case the joint / before you set off a bomb.

At one point Amtrak had a photo contest to take photos of their trains and submit them, and a guy was arrested by Amtrack police for doing just that.

What is interesting is that after any attack one of the first requests is for people who took photos that day to turn them in so they can see if there was anything important captured.
Worthless clickbait.

SQLite is beloved here (for good reason) but this adds nothing to our understanding and utilization of it.

The gold standard for correlation confusion: https://pastafarians.org.au/pastafarianism/pirates-and-globa...
This is the reason Americans are losing their edge. There is heavy risk aversion. It is a cultural dead-end. Risk needs to be counterbalanced by securities, but risk cannot altogether be avoided.
Avoiding risk has a very heavy intended punishment.

The other side of the same coin is also not good, to take too much risk. But all in all, current American culture looks insane from a distance. Especially concerning how kids are reared. Recipe for drug addiction and depressions.
So I can understand how having a phase change causes the material to have a critical temperature but why does it also have a critical current and a critical magnetic field. A simple phase change material wouldn't have a variable critical temperature dependent on current?
Same, but the software could:

1. Optimize for rendering the on-screen fonts first, then fill in the rest after the user’s starting looking at them.

2. Cache the preview. If it takes longer to render the sample text than to load a png, save the rendering so you can load it again next time.
Real engineers force push to production at 4pm on a Friday because they don’t write bugs
Costco sells DeLonghi dehumidifiers, so not quite all.
You do wish. Because in countries that pay even passing pretense to rule of law and democractic systems, regardless of how you may disparage the idiots in charge, this is how it works. They pass laws. They don't just fuck you in the ass.
Nuclear Winter and City Firestorms (2009)
How does having a reliable twitter-like service help? I can think of a few ways this could work:

1. Government/regulator-run account that publishes a message for every product recall.

2. Each manufacturer is required to run an account that is only for recall announcements.

3. Each manufacturer is required to run a separate account for every product they ship that is only for recall announcements for that particular product.

All of these suffer from problems that I think make them infeasible.

#1 is probably the easiest to get people to subscribe to (since they only have to do it once), but then any announcement for a product they own is drowned in all the noise from products they don't care about.

#2 is perhaps the worst of both worlds: customers have to remember to subscribe when they buy a product from a manufacturer they haven't bought from before (though at least they don't have to re-subscribe for successive products from that manufacturer). But same problem as in #1 where they will likely miss announcements related to their product, since there will be announcements for a bunch of other products too.

#3 is the best from a signal-to-noise ratio perspective, but I don't see a lot of customers remembering to subscribe to a new recall feed every time they buy a new product.

The only way to ensure that people get notified when they've bought products that are later determined to be dangerous is to somehow require that the point-of-sale process includes product registration. But that's terrible from a privacy perspective, among other things.
Ex-Google & Stability Ai to Build AI Inspired by swarm intelligence
The latest AMD instance launched by AWS, M7a, is unusual in that 1 vCPU = 1 physical core - the same as Graviton but not like the Sapphire Rapids M7i instances, which still use hyperthreading.

I wonder if this is a signal that the whole industry is giving up on SMT. Maybe just because of the poor ROI, or maybe because mitigating the associated vulnerabilities has become too problematic.
I think their point for syngas (or better yet synthetic liquid fuels) is that solar will be so cheap that the efficiency won't matter.
The most remarkable thing about your comment is that if US does a single thing you suggested we loose what we are about and what separates us from countries like China…
Emotional Connections Can Drive Change: Applying Fearless Change Patterns
It may be possible to increase this capacity, for example by releasing iron salt aerosols. These would generate additional OH and Cl radicals by photochemical reactions in sunlight. It would be better to use that increase to destroy methane, though.

I also wonder if it could be better to make hydrogen by electrolysis of salt water and produce chlorine instead of oxygen. Released into sunlit atmosphere, chlorine is rapidly decomposed to Cl radicals which will rapidly react with methane (or hydrogen). You'd want to release it at sufficiently low dilution that there's enough methane in each air parcel to consume all the chlorine, though.
Regarding the accuracy question, I have a pretty recent article: https://mfasold.net/blog/assessing-nebula-genomics-dtc-wgs/
> Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
I have this with movies. I don't back them up because of the storage requirements. Everything is ripped from BluRays that I own, but... can I be bothered re-doing them?
I tried to apply for Adyen's service in early 2021, we already had an existing (and working) payment system set up, and had heard good things about them.

1. They asked for a detailed walkthrough with screenshots of our payment process, which detailed the whole conversion process from the time of signup until the checkout/payment. Fair enough - they could have checked themselves, but I can still understand why they would insist on this.
2. It took six weeks to get a call back from them. During the call they said that they needed 80k EUR in reserve funds from us, but if we did not have the cash, then "no worries, we'll just capture the first 80k sales before making any payouts". Felt to me like they were only in search of much bigger fish with that much cash lying around.

So we went with Stripe instead. The whole process took 20 or so minutes, from signing up, entering company information and uploading company and shareholder documentation to the "you are ready to accept payments" screen. I couldn't believe that was all it took, but it worked, and we have been using them ever since.

Edit: Disambiguate which service I applied for that did not work out.
> educational, moral, economical, political, diplomatic, security, judicial, medical

Which one is better? Because I don't see one.
You can even simply point in a direction above the cows and slightly above ground and ammo act as a shield and nothing can get through
AniMath?
What good is placement within a matrix if you can't see what the axes are?
you don't actually believe that "work together" crap do you? You realize you're dangling a job over their head, right? There is a power imbalance. You'll never see "work together" in an interview because you're not colleagues on equal footing.
The only real solution to our copyright problem is to roll it back significantly. Get rid of DMCA section 1201 and reduce copyright terms back to the original 14 years plus a single renewal.
A look into the finances of SpaceX
I don't get how this would ever work, apart from preinstalled/precompiled or proprietary browsers? Just grab a copy from another country, or someone can create a script to download the source code, patch out the offending censor code and then compile the browser from source - it's not like it's hard to install dev tools anymore. Or even just distribute the uncensored binaries. Chromium and Firefox are both open-source.
And not even all ISPs, only the few most popular ones. Even if that's probably 96% of internet users, that looks like the law does not treat all citizens equally.
"Funny" story about how these are so bright today. Have a cable modem with blinding LEDs. Put a few layers of Post-its over it the second night I think. Came back to look a while later. Guess what? The light is so strong it bleached the color out of the paper above it. Like the sun does.
Off topic, but it seems like South Park has made me selectively dyslexic.
They use AI and machine learning? Hello?
Whether this should be done in-place or not is a completely valid direction in which to take the discussion and would be a "pass" from me. Also a "pass" would be `return itoa(atoi(input)+1))` with relevant caveats.

An O(1) in-place solution with a sane API exists in C++ and the form of it is also a handy indicator of whether candidate who proposes solving this in C++ is familiar with more recent standards or not.
Insightful and informative.
Why do you control the fans when the motherboard has a built in temperature sensor that will control them for you? Windows 11 consumes a standard interface like ACPI/PECI and uses that to collect system data.

MSFT does have an article for people complaining about this issue, the accepted answer is updating your bios drivers/firmware.
Here's one: Macron, Alstom, General Electric.
The React Flow library has free documentation, but more extensive tutorials on how to use their library are part of their paid offering. (More about their model here: https://reactflow.dev/blog/asking-for-money-for-open-source/ .)
Sure, you can sell solar for cheaper when the sun shines. But if we want to consider replacing the entire grid, we need to look at the cost including storage and not accounting for slack in other generation sources!
I find it hard to believe that the most successful startups are the ones who code 80h per week unless you guarantee that the output of the code is big $$$
Demo node added to my profile, try OpenSSH prior to other SSH libraries
Wouldn't that be DOA though? This has to be some sort of flaw that creeps in slowly.
I love D, learned it back in high school, but unfortunately it just seems like D is one of those great languages that just isn't going to take off. It just doesn't have a big enough champion to bootstrap a thriving large community that would make more people want to learn it and more companies adopt it.

On its technical merits, one of the best languages out there. It gives you insane performance but is so much easier to learn and write than C++ or Rust.
Indeed that is part of the concern. Lennart was an influential person while at Red Hat. When you see the same few people coalescing around 'standards' forming and everything they peddle happens to involve them or be written by them...

The guy works at Microsoft now. That ought to tell you where his values were for free software this whole time.
I've always hated this smartass retort from Carlin (who was awesome otherwise). this is indeed a pedantic distinction. there may be billions of planets like earth around but what make it special is the life on it & we are destroying that for some imaginary 'capital' that wont matter in large scheme of things anyways.

The other significant problem with this punchline is that it is still heavily human centric. we are not gonna go away without a major fight in/against biosphere. and guess what since we dont ascribe any value to it other than how its useful to us its going to take the brunt of destruction. at this point if we hold our population & resource utilzation where we are and eventually settle down to a smaller size I'd be okay with it as long as we give the rest of biosphere a chance but we all know thats not going to happen. We need to keep growing, thats the system we are in. And sure there will be some targeted geoengineering & green energy hopium for us to hang our concerns on but at the end of day we'd end up in the same place.

there was a line I read somewhere that made me realize our current predicament, it goes -- if a distant civilization just looks at the rise in atmospheric greenhouse gas composition of the planet, they wont be able to tell if its a intelligent species consuming fossil fuels or a bacteria that just learnt metabolize fossils and just growing exponentially. its the same curve largely. So much for human discretion & intelligence.

/rant end.
"Hired goons" - upgrade to "Security." They can keep on eye on your place and notify the police if it appears someone is residing who shouldn't be there. As has been mentioned elsewhere, squatting laws only come into effect after so many days (where I live it's 30). It's not like you went away for a weekend trip, come back to squatters in your house, and you're now screwed. Doesn't work that way at all.

Edit - confirmed with wife, who's a property manager. The key, at least in our state, is a property must be vacant before squatter rights applies, otherwise it's trespassing. Squatting then is a bigger concern for vacation homes, beach homes, and the like. What is considered vacant? Well, that varies by locale! Literally, YMMV.
Heh... Logic!

Well - now they no longer need to hide themselves away, they are hiding-in-plain sight...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_blood_transfusion
> equating an immediate, personal, lethal threat to distant, indirect and vague lethal threat

You are missing something very fundamental.

Eco terrorism requires neither personal threats nor lethal threats.

I already gave the example of deflating the tires of SUVs.

Spiking trees is a classic example for woodland preservation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_spiking . The primary goal is to increase the economic cost (increased damage to saws) and decrease the profit (by causing discoloration). The goal is not to harm people. Common practice is warn people that given area of woods has been spiked.

By your definition, this sort of eco terrorism is a valid response. There is no direct lethal threat to spiking a forest and posting plenty of warning signs, so it is not a violent action. Logging the forest becomes riskier, but then again, swimming in many rivers became riskier due to industrial pollution.

> That is such a vague statement

It was a reminder of the scenario I previously posed, with details that already answered your questions.

The main goal is to get you to realize that you are too focused on requiring violence, when there are many other ways to harm or kill people.

As a matter of general good governance we must often be informed by statistical models estimating the numbers of people affected and severity, rather than names. We know lead causes health problems, even if we can't single out who will be affected, so we've worked to phase out lead.

> I mean by your logic if your neighbor decides to burn plastic in a camp fire you’re allowed to kill them because “they released carcinogens that I could breath and give me cancer that kills me”.

There is nothing in what I wrote whereby one can logically draw that conclusion.
Of course hydrogen is a fuel.

The implication you are trying to make there, that hydrogen is useless because its manufacture does not violate conservation of energy, is ridiculous.
My reasoning is, AAA or smaller use alkaline, they start off 1.5 volts and last a very long time. (if you use nimh, they are only 1.2V). AA or higher: use nimh or li ion instead, those are generally more power hungry devices.
Never took the time to have a look for it: have xorg the priviledge dropping code or do I have to start it with the priviledges already dropped?
Our productivity is increased by ChatGPT but we increase workload as well. We have to work harder like our peers or competitors do.