skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm excited to see what they can do, but its important to remember they are the only fusion device with a marketing department. Pulsed power generation would be a problem for any power plant, and its viability is predicated on its ability to reset rapidly. Helion needs to demonstrate their 12T compression ignition works, then need to demonstrate the reactor can reset quickly, and they need to demonstrate they can generate enough power from the expanding magnetic field.

Its an awesome design, its just their marketing material has led people into believing we are on the verge of fusion power, which we are not. Also note, I am not against private companies competing, or marketing their product, just remember that it's not quite as great as they claim.
> Hoist the "Mission Accomplished" banner! What happened next?

Al Qaeda's leadership of the era died or went into hiding. The present offshoots have nothing to do with it; all that survived was the brand.

> PIJ is a rival to Hamas

So? They coordinated on this attack. PIJ launched munitions beyond their capacity to manufacture; they got them from Hamas.

> will Hamas or their successors as soon as Israel withdraws from Gaza

Very doubtful. Not Hamas. Something else, but not Hamas. (Maybe PIJ.) Point is, the leadership loses.

> there'll be a powerful set of insurgent groups in Gaza for the forseeable future

What made Hamas formidable was its funding and access to Iranian weapons. The funds flew into Gaza with Israel's consent. And the munitions entered because Israel gave Hamas room. Whatever the endgame, it's unlikely to be one that just hands Gaza back to an Iranian proxy.
We have laws that prevent people being subjected to brain surgery against their will. The credit score concept is ridiculous.

The real battle will be with law enforcement who get a warrant to look at your brain in an MRI.
>4.4 Cross-Subject Performance
Cross-subject performance is of vital importance for practical usage. To further report the We further
provide a comparison with both baseline methods and a representative meta-learning (DA/DG)
method, MAML [9], which is widely used in cross-subject problems in EEG classification below.
Table 2: Cross-subject performance average decreasing comparison on 18 human subjects, where
MAML denotes the method with MAML training. The metric is the lower the better.
Calib Data Method Eye fixation −∆(%) ↓ Raw EEG waves −∆(%) ↓
B-2 B-4 R-P R-F B-2 B-4 R-P R-F
× Baseline 3.38 2.08 2.14 2.80 7.94 5.38 6.02 5.89
Baseline+MAML [9] 2.51 1.43 1.08 1.23 6.86 4.22 4.08 4.79
× DeWave 2.35 1.25 1.16 1.17 6.24 3.88 3.94 4.28
DeWave+MAML [9] 2.08 1.25 1.16 1.17 6.24 3.88 3.94 4.28
Figure 4: The cross-subjects performance variance without calibration
In Table 2, we compare with MAML by reporting the average performance drop ratio between withinsubject and cross-subject translation metrics on 18 human subjects on both eye-fixation sliced features
and raw EEG waves. We compare the DeWave with the baseline under both direct testing (without
Calib data) and with MAML (with Calib data). The DeWave model shows superior performance
in both settings. To further illustrate the performance variance on different subjects, we train the
model by only using the data from subject YAG and test the metrics on all other subjects. The results
are illustrated in Figure 4, where the radar chart denotes the performance is stable across different
subjects.

Looks like it crosses over. That's wild.
Sorry my reply was poorly written. Like with anything, there will be vulnerabilities and techniques that allow for verified boot bypass, which most are not trivial and which need to be fixed, but that does not mean verified boot isn't valuable and working. It means extra cost and work for threat actors and the example was just how it was once done, by not attacking verified boot, but the process before it. Maybe because true persistence was too hard to achieve at the moment, thanks to properly implemented verified boot.

Once the battery runs out completely, then you can be sure verified boot is helping you out. I'm sure there are now other mechanisms that fixed the example of faking the boot process I wrote about earlier.
> The developers and sre's incentives are the same as everybody else in the company: have a great, easy to sell, popular and reliable product.

Being on a team where everyone has a high level of personal ownership and accountability like that is truly wonderful, and I agree, it works great.

You just have to find (or build) a company that explicitly filters out the 99% of people who only want a job for the paycheck and don't care about the customers, the software, or the product.
Virginia is for lovers.
Ohio is for uptime.
Reinforcement learning is not LLM. It's the technology that is used in industrial applications (walking, acting robots, etc) and game playing (e.g. AlphaGo to play Go, AlphaChess, etc.)
"To build is complex; to destroy requires only a single bit!"

Love this.
I think you're supposed to say "cis straight body abled white men". The simple "white men" includes too many protected groups of victims now.
> I don't want to have to submit my passport to share a book review.

Why is it important that you, a person apparently unwilling (hyperbole aside) to prove that you have actually read a particular book, should be able to transmit (ostensibly) your opinions about said book into the heads of other potential readers via a software platform? A small number of verified reviews is almost certainly better than a large number of unverified reviews, for exactly the reason highlighted by OP's article: when there are few or no controls on who or what can post however many reviews, the system is inevitably exploited by bad actors, and said actors often operate at scales that dwarf the impact of a single legitimate reviewer.
I recently watched this webinar[0] about it, presented by the company ParaSoft, which develops a static analysis tool and compliance reporting solution for businesses required to use MISRA C++[1].

[0] https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/18694/602198

[1] bhttps://www.parasoft.com/white-paper/buyers-guide-static-cod...
> after the "Christian" Talibans made abortion illegal, location data became subpeonable to see if someone visited an abortion clinic

Above and beyond that, thinking ahead to people traveling for healthcare, Missouri and a few other states are or already have enacted a crime of "conspiracy to commit abortion", which means as little as booking flights or hotel.
Don't ask Harvard, UPenn or MIT.
There's a long story which I hope soon to be able to document.

One thing I learned was never, ever, ever to judge people on first impressions. I think I thought "Oh no" when they put that kid in my cell, but he was an utterly fantastic cellmate. His case was fascinating; he had stolen approximately $60,000 over several months as a night cashier at Target by managing to pick the lock on the safes next to the register using a pen during hours of boredom. He burned through every penny flying around the country staying at nice hotels every weekend to fuel his burgeoning MMA career. He was finally called to the office by a manager at Target and two detectives were there. He didn't get a chance to deny anything as a roll of $3,000 cash fell out of his pants leg as he was stood right in front of them.
I had a brief vision of a warehouse filled with e-books.

But seriously, I have a similar feeling about book deals. That is, it's a great - and legal - way to pay (off) someone for "prior service", meanwhile the book's sales are shite. But selling books was never really the point.
Confusing that they don't keep their name in line with the C++ version:

MISRA C++:2023 Guidelines for the use C++:17 in critical systems
To be clear, NIF's ignition is getting more energy out of the fuel than the laser they hit it with put in, but there are other energy drains and inefficiencies in the system that make it nowhere close to break-even fusion energy. That requires building a new machine designed for continuous fusion detonations.

So it's a scientific accomplishment, but not that scientific accomplishment.
> to build a production model for them (to power a datacenter) by 2028.

Helion is known to promise the pie in the sky, and soon. In [1] they tell you (in 2014) that they will have a "pilot plant operation in 2019". One year later, in 2015, they let you know in [2] that they will "start building commercial systems by 2022".

[1] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2014/07/helion-energy-plans-to...

[2] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2015/08/helion-energy-raised-1...
> Eugenics and Phrenology were very relevant at the time and used as a scientific basis to justify many attrocities.

Notably, however, not the Holocaust.
I don't think that it's a contradiction.

Too much of any of those is bad. Four year olds are driven by feeling only. Psychopaths are driven by thought only. You don't want the world in the hands of any of those.

It's a good mix of both feeling and reason that we should strive for.
Matter falling into a spinning black hole surrounded mostly by vacuum forms an accretion disc. But friction and heating and radiation will occur in infalling matter no matter how it is falling in. A black hole inside a star would probably not just have an accretion disc, it would have accretion happening in all directions. But the accretion would still involve friction and heating and radiation.
I think the environmental effects were fun, but in longer or large battles, too much of the emphasis was placed on managing them. One thing I appreciated about BG3 is that you can use them to your advantage, but they’re not a primary focus of combat. I like the scale and variety of combat in DOS2 better overall, however. All the BG3 combat, outside a handful of battles, felt trivial and anti-climactic.
A Bit OT, but is there something like the contrary to this - a distro actually fully embracing systemd components?

I have spent lots of time with Linux servers. I’m also very pragmatic. systemd has made lots of stuff easier, is highly configurable, maintained and regularly updated, and properly standardised. I acknowledge people who have a need to feel in control or something, but I just want reliable computers that have a single way of doing stuff. They’re cattle, after all.

So I’d really love something with an immutable system image, signed boot, and systemd services top to bottom, along the lines of the thought experiments in Poetterings blog. Is that a thing?
This speech is, in a nutshell, a call for humanity, peace and tolerance.

It pains me to see a world where our centers of education have become almost precisely the opposite. They have distorted the minds of our young to the point that they are full of hatred, intolerance, bigotry and, yes, racism. All underscored by a solid foundation of utter ignorance.

There's a video somewhere of an interviewer asking university students to list the Great Books they have read. The vast majority of them had no clue what the interviewer was talking about at all. Not a clue. Because our centers of education are indoctrinating, not educating. Those engaged in indoctrination don't want young minds to be exposed to the vast world of thought and reason represented by these works.

Note that this comment isn't about the US. I think I can say this wave of ignorance and hatred has travelled the planet, taking many forms.

A friend often says that humanity is one good power outage away from reverting to cavemen behavior. Frankly, it is hard to disagree with his view. We have seen this time and time again, no power outage required.

This reality makes me wonder what Chaplin's speech might be if he had to write it in today's context.
I still don’t know understand why astronomers had to leave a a specially built building. Can’t you reorganize and move away the two bullies and keep most people where they are to minimize disruption?
Can it read passwords?

I'm guessing it would be worse at reading passwords like "784&Ghkkr!e" than "horse staple battery ..."
I mean, as an individual it is a choice. But as a society it’s not a choice (or, maybe, a better way to phrase it is the “mainstream” is a reflection of the choice society has already made)
Why does your app need to phone home? From Little Snitch:

IP Address 185.199.108.153

Reverse DNS Name cdn-185-199-108-153.github.com

Established by /Applications/NowDo.app/Contents/MacOS/NowDo

Process ID 86223

Code Signature Signed by [redacted]

User [me]

I'm guessing for update reasons, though how many updates are you planning? :D

Also, it'd be nice to be able to put it on my second monitor
Dinorwig Power Station a.k.a. Electric Mountain – A water-based battery
What exactly is your ask here? To censure Lebanon for moving troops within inside its own country? And how does that relate to my question about Gaza.
> And so long as men die, liberty will never perish

> Over the past ten years, the [longevity research] industry has grown in financing from $500 million in 2013 to a peak of $6.2 billion in 2021.
Until you ask for a counter offer.
>as in the crude oil made from all the extinct dinosaurs from hundreds of millions of years ago?

Oil is not primarily made of dinosaurs but rather of plankton and algae.

>its a nice idea, but its technically putting the cart before the horse as those pits wouldn't have been around due to them being formed from decaying organic matter from that time.

You're talking about 100 million years ago as if that's a tremendously long gap but glossing over a span of about 400 million years as if it were a single instant. At any rate a tar pit was just an example of an environment that is conducive to fossil formation.
Why does being less powerful justify somebodies actions? When Marx said, for instance, that the Proletariat would establish a dictatorship, he didn't think they were less powerful than the Capitalists, just that they didn't realize how powerful they were: for Marx, it was always a question of power. And its the powerful who rule.
Bluetooth SBC only? None of the other high fidelity BT tech? OK there are taking that 'early 2000s' too literally. I hope there is a way to drop higher codecs into this.
That's an interesting perspective. A total stranger has gone much of the same trials and tribulations as me, simply due to the fact that they're human, and alive at the same time. Being born, how to eat, how to afford to eat.

If you know someone IRL, you don't magically have something in common with them that you didn't before. A stranger might be born in a foreign country so we don't have that in common. After I get to know them and become friends IRL, we're still not going to have that in common. So the idea that you don't have anything in common with people you don't know seems weird to me because of course you have things in common, you just haven't discovered them yet.

Is a book review by John Updike at all useful to me? I didn't go to Harvard and don't have that in common with him, so why would I value his book review?
Prohibiting exceptions is a toxic antipattern. Once you have more than one thread you want to propagate fatal errors in a sane way. ("Just crash the whole program, #yolo" is not a sane way.)
Are the hipsters the ones using email or refusing to use email? I could see a dude rolling up on a penny farthing to explain why email is the one true workflow. But he'll be embarrassed when a more powerful hipster shows up using a telegraph to send diffs by wire.
In the US at least - in Europe and other regions, the tech is fairly progressive. In the UK we’ve had “faster payments” for eons.
The overwhelming majority of review bombs are from real people, of which ID would do nothing. Steam has shown a really simple solution the problem - a mixture of proof of purchase, and then algorithmically walling off 'irregular activity.' Review bombs on Steam remain relatively regular, but now have basically 0 impact - even extremely large scale ones like when somebody gains the ire of Chinese gamers.

Proof of purchase would require some modest effort on the part of publishers to create a workable and shared system, but it should otherwise be trivial to get going. Publishers have a strong motivation to opt-in since fake reviews are probably more detrimental than not to their bottom line.
> The Man in Black grew up in Dyess, Arkansas, in a community of poor farmers working government land.

Similar. I grew up in Arkansas for 6 years of my childhood working on a turkey farm until I was 11~. Hard work ,7 days a week for 6 years working with turkeys and cattle. Something is lost today by most kids being removed from hard work, I think. Defiantly brings a different perspective going from that to working in the largest tech companies
Honest question: How much of this is engineering and how much is regulation? Everyone overestimated development cycles but if there was 0 regulation and we lived in Ayn Rands' wet dream, do you think they could be close to delivering, or no?
This article is sort of confused on what "data type" means.

Most people who say "data type" accept that it can have methods scopes to that data type: setter logic, conversion methods, and whatever's domain-appropriate.
Similar work for turning thoughts into images: https://medarc-ai.github.io/mindeye/
What an amazing read, about something I had no idea about.

It's such a different tale than what we deal with today, but the same thread. A group of people angry and upset at how other people run their lives, and more than willing to use the state to suppress and deny the others.

Today it's lgbtqia and pro-choice and non-white-people that the state is being coerced into hounding & frustrating, but it's the same wringing of hands scared forces, that can't recognize healthy bounds of what the state should do.

I'm glad to have run across this not-that-far-back bit of historical precedent. In my view, these struggles sap us so, and we would be so much greater if we could socialize better the improperness of using government to intrude on people's lives. Having a good historical basis, I hope, might help.
Unions prioritize whatever it is the members want prioritized.
>I’d like to see some legislation that significantly penalizes companies engaging in layoffs. They should be a last resort, not a well-worn tool.

Be careful, such legislation might reduce layoffs, but might make other aspects of the labor market worse. For instance, in some European countries where layoffs are hard to pull off, companies are very adverse to hiring anyone, lest they hire a dud that they have to keep on payroll forever. Or they only hire them for fixed term contracts, so that if the economic winds change they're not stuck with a long term liability. It's the opposite in freerer labor markets like in the US. Companies are more willing to hire unproven/unconventional candidates because they know they can be easily fired if things don't work out, and they react faster to demand shocks because each hire isn't a long term liability. That's not to say we should accept people committing suicide after layoffs as a trade-off for a more dynamic labor market. A robust unemployment system and/or social safety net mitigates the negative effects of layoffs without the affecting dynamism of the labor market, and should be the solution rather than making workers harder to fire.
I’ll never understand what that guy did that got all of you in such a frenzy. Because Stallman or Torvalds are such socially apt and charismatic people, or what? Yet all those systemd opponents out there don’t seem to have a particular problem with them.

Poettering might have opinions on what Linux should be that don’t overlap with yours, but systemd solves actual problems and works better than any init script shenanigans that came before. If you don’t agree with this premise, I call your proficiency with Linux into question (don’t take this in spite, please, it’s in no way meant personally).
Financially, perhaps the numbers made sense. It was (and still is) a very basic social networking site with poor UX. Microsoft paid for a user base and a rudimentary surveillance system. It would have probably been better for them to just start from scratch. I don’t know a single person who likes LinkedIn. Most see presence on it as an obligation for certain industries. Most of the commenters on there are far worse than what you see on Facebook. It’s usually just one long stream of retired or underemployed old men complaining about “wokeness” and environmentalists ruining the world.
> I wouldn’t probably pay for a service, but I might be happy to pay a one time fee for a function that dumps the todo file (I understand it’s a csv) every time there is an update so I can integrate that on some other workflow (like committing to git, or importing into obsidian).

Yes, it seems there is a strong preference for a one-time purchase over a subscription, so I'll definitely give that serious consideration as we figure out our business model. My prototype for NowDo (which ran on i3/linux) uses Notion as a back-end.

> Another thing I might pay for is a iPhone app so I can mark todos completed on the go, but it’s probably very difficult to to a always on window there.

I think iphones now support widgets, similar to Android - so I think we can do something similar to NowDo's always-on-top. Iphone and Android versions are on our roadmap.
As I said, safety numbers are how they keep everyone on their toes! Can't have it be easy to verify that the Signal servers are honest :) This is why I joke that moxie must be a double agent (I don't think he is, but I find it funny that many of Signal's principles (see also: alt clients; federation; phone numbers; etc.) can be explained that way).

The key material shown in each chat is a concatenation of your fingerprint and their fingerprint, ordered alphabetically so that you are both shown the same thing. By checking two of your chats, you can find out which half is shared (that's yours) and which is unique (that's theirs).

The QR code contains more data, I think your phone number and perhaps a longer/stronger fingerprint (I looked into it once but forgot the details), so that's marginally more secure/foolproof to compare but also even harder to distribute since it'll only ever be valid for one contact
I wish this FS had wider use.

“ZFSonLinux project must keep up with Linux kernel versions. After making stable ZFSonLinux release - Arch ZFS maintainers release them.”

I wonder if a simple wrapper could be written to act as a legal go between? Ie the wrapper somehow matches with both licenses and possibly handles the download/compilation of the relevant ZFS release.

(Support for) One FS shared between almost all FOSS OSes seems like a huge boon.

Has very many modern features built in.

Has a huge amount of history of support and commercial use/acceptance.

Maybe could act as catalyst for more ECC more places.
It depends on the problem domain. For automotive embedded software? Definitely not. But Google, for instance, bans them in much of its server code under the principle that exceptions should denote circumstances where the entire program cannot recover and when a server node cannot recover, logging noisily and failing fast so that it can be restarted into a working state is preferable to trying to unwind a bad state.

Given that constraint, they conclude that the overhead of maintaining exception unwinding and the non-local control flow aren't worth it.
I never got to meet any of my great grandparents. But it turns out that if you find the birth certificate (or other document) of your deceased grandparent [1], that document also has the names of your great-grandparents. And if you find their birth certificate, you can know the names of your great-great grandparents. And so on. I now know the names and even the stories of my ancestors of over five generations.

[1] https://www.familysearch.org/
At least the wiki article on MISRA C cites multiple studies that consider the rules mostly pointless, in some cases outright counterproductive and basically accuses it of being only beneficial to companies selling compliance tools. If MISCRA C++ is anywhere as bad you might be better of avoiding it.
Towards SSH3: how HTTP/3 improves secure shells [pdf]