skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plenty of other obstacles remain than those noted above, too. Current calculations compare energy generated against the NIF laser’s output, but that brushes over the fact that the lasers draw more than 100 times the power from the grid than any fusion reaction yields. That means either energy gains or laser efficiency would need to improve by two orders of magnitude to break even in any practical sense. The NIF’s fuel pellets are also extremely expensive, says Kritcher, each one pricing in at an estimated $100,000. Then, producing a reasonable amount of power would mean dramatically increasing the frequency of NIF’s shots — a feat barely on the horizon for a reactor that requires months to load up the next nanosecond-long burst.

"months to load up" is even a euphemism - IIRC they have to repair parts of the lasers which are so overpowered that they damage their guidance optics with each blast. So the cost for one shot is even higher than the $100,000 for the fuel pellet and the cost of the energy consumed by the lasers. I wonder why everyone skirts around the obvious here: the NIF's task is weapons research, and for that, fusion reactions which last nanoseconds might be enough, but there is no way this method can be scaled up so it's actually a cost-effective way of producing electricity...
Toyota has probably shipped more battery capacity in hybrid cars than most EV manufacturers to date.

They don't need to catch up to anything.
The statement did not seem to imply that the Waymo was turning.
"File could not be found; apologies have hereby been made"
No, I don't think there's any concrete evidence either way. I'm not trying to argue that it was Rust that made it succeed - I'm sure in reality it was some mixture of both, as well as other factors.
Given SpaceX's amazing progress in 2023 (and every year before) I'd bet the Mars mission is going to happen.

People don't seem to realize that in 2023 they broke the record for most amount of launches of any entity on earth. They beat the second best record (Soviet Union at 60 launches in a year). His Falcon heavy updates broke the record for most amount of cargo delivered(beating Saturn V).

The rate they are iterating on Starship means they may make their targets on that ship this year.

The private sector has made incredible progress in getting this green initiative done. While the investments in EVs and batteries have definitely helped, a lot of this rhetoric based targets have gone nowhere. Just look at the results of COP21. I was there in Paris. It feels like such a long time ago now.

The real question is why these initiatives fail? Maybe its just not possible to have the entire population transition over to a new way of thinking about emissions. After all what are emissions? They are an unaccounted for externality. Some percentage of the population cannot make their lives/businesses/operations work if they have to account for this cost.
..using the laser approach. Other approaches don't have that issue:

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tokamaks-stellarators-l...
Considering I participated in thread where there were many people who held the position ~”inmates get what they deserve” I think one issue is education and perception.

Also, you are absolutely correct, and when missing inmates show up in shallow graves with missing organs cynicism is wholly justified.

When has self policing led to anything but corruption?

https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/01/15/alabama-inmates-bodi...
Why friendships have started to feel strikingly similar to admin
It is a full port of VLC so it should be able to handle this task. You're probably referring to the frontend which differs from the ones used on desktop but that does not mean the functionality is not available. It is, you just access it differently. Either enable the 'Take a screenshot' option (Controls Settings -> Take a screenshot) and use that or send an intent to do so. The former works while watching videos, the latter makes it possible to automate this task from within termux, Tasker or Automagic.

You can also just install vlc in termux and use the command line interface:

~ $ apt search vlc
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
vlc/stable 3.0.18-7 aarch64
A popular libre and open source media player and multimedia engine

vlc-qt/x11 3.0.18-7 aarch64
A popular libre and open source media player and multimedia engine

vlc-qt-static/x11 3.0.18-7 aarch64
Static libraries for vlc-qt

vlc-static/stable 3.0.18-7 aarch64
Static libraries for vlc
I really want to see how you can hold your 15" laptop and play a game or type something while doing that.
I enjoyed this version more. While less focus oriented it was more calming than the high-contrast dot. thanks for sharing!
Hybrid. I'm nitpicking, but current full electric Toyota cars are not that good or popular.
You are looking at individual countries. Europe has a transmission network, as well as battery storage, pumped storage, hydro generation, wind, solar and some nuclear. You keep adding renewables and storage, and keep retiring fossil generators. Europe has enough wind potential to power the entire world, for example. It's not impossible, it's math.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map?wind=false&solar=false

https://www.energy-storage.news/europe-reached-4-5gw-of-batt...
> I don't think I'd be comfortable sharing this much personal information with a stranger on a job interview.

Then lie and tell a good story.
And Usenet! That never caught on either, though. We've had more web browsers with RSS support than web browsers with email support.
Heat pumps are nice and efficient, but expensive to build and reliant on grid. Makes you more dependent and at the exact moment things get bad - during a weather emergency. Nobody, especially in NY state, should be without a fuel- burning heater.
In Defense of Anthropomorphizing Technology
This to me feels like most of his plots.
I tend to use both. Thanks for not only providing content but also making it available to all.
> I know people around these parts think that Tesla has uncovered some magical factory building ability, but can you even consider the fact that maybe Toyota knows what they are doing?

Not a Tesla fanboy (I'm turning mine in for a Rivian), but the OP wasn't saying this, not sure how you got that conclusion. They are saying for a car company they are (1) way behind and (2) any investments they are making won't reach fruition for years, nor likely make a dent in the industry.

Outside of MB and the Chinese EVs, the design of Tesla motors is far superior. Their build quality and finishing is awful however - something the traditional players do really well.
How are you liking templ? I've played around with it a bit and am not totally sold on it yet.
So if we fix a > that should have been >= we should add 49 lines of comments explaining this? Or perhaps the PR is doomed to never be ideal due to being short.
> layers

Thinking in terms of layers is still essentially 2D.
> The accident airplane was required to
be equipped with a CVR that retained, at minimum, the last 2 hours of audio information,
including flight crew communications and other sounds inside the cockpit ... The CVR was downloaded successfully; however, it was determined that the audio from the
accident flight had been overwritten. The CVR circuit breaker had not been manually
deactivated after the airplane landed following the accident in time to preserve the accident
flight recording

How the fuck is this still a problem on brand new aircraft?
This is laughably bad faith. Tucker isn't "observing" that the (I will not use the word native as that's fucking ridiculous given US history) population is becoming less "white". Demographers are, and have been for decades. No Tucker, Musk and all these other racists are shouting that it's a problem and the end of civilization. They're shouting about rape and crime and all sorts of other crap. It's racist at its core and people like you trying to carry water for it and whitewash it as just an observation deserve strict scrutiny and derision.
TIs the decision of where to send the money made on a per-case basis by the local PD?

If so, that sounds like just one more option to seize for profit or harass if the case is too weak.

I still think if the only option is to transfer, the general incentive structure is improved. Stealing with profit motive plus harassment is worse than stealing just for harassment.

I also think in general, to effect change, to campaign for a single thing, easily explained, is the most successful approach.
Dirt cheap 3D printer for sale
Akin to an Art or Music Critic mixed with investigative journalism. They dig around deeper if their b$ detector goes off while looking at an abstract or paper.
Intel before Patrick P. Gelsinger only made chips for Intel.

ARM doesn't make chip

on the low-end and mid-tier chip, you have plenty of fabs like Global Foundries, UMC...etc.

on the high end, you have Intel, TSMC, and Samsung
I've always thought there should be a modern, lightweight jQuery alternative like this. Well done! I love the syntax and have been implementing something similar (although with inline events and more than just the standard array methods). [0]

Do you have an article/screencast on how the locality of behavior is implemented in both surreal and its companion project css-scope-inline? I'd love to understand it so I can maintain it longterm and add it to my own projects.

I'd love to talk with you about your philosophy of the web. I think we could sync up about some things!

[0] https://hyperspace.so/All.js.png
No. Children are property.
HSBC is rotten to the core. Regular judgements against them for facilitating outlawed behavior, zero systemic reform.
> consumer electronics, from rice cookers to door bells

I doubt rice cookers and toasters are using the latest chips for TSMC. E.g. the ESP32 microcontrollers are manufactured by TSMC on 40nm, and there are a bunch of different companies that have similarly sized/powerful microcontrollers being manufactured (e.g. STMicro).
China is relatively poor on access to oil and so oil-related interests have not been powerful enough to slow this transition down there.
If all your journeys are under 200 miles, that makes the case for an EV (financially) less plausible, not more. If you are an Uber driver who does 200 miles during morning rush hour and 200 miles during evening rush hour, it doubles your fuel savings.

If you only drive say 20-40 miles a day, that's a ~600-1300 difference a year. That's nice, but it seems it would take years to offset a claimed 4x in the price of a car. It seems unlikely you would even own the EV long enough to pay the difference.
I think there's a lot of good ideas in the Podcasting 2.0 set of specs, but the insistence on stapling crypto shit into it (even for quote-unquote good reasons) has meant that I've got no interest in recommending it as a thing. The podcast tooling I'm building incorporates some parts of what they recommend, but digging into it is sufficiently radioactive that I'm not putting that brand name anywhere near my stuff.
Podcasts have been supported on the iPod from the mid-2000s, years before Serial took off and VCs descended upon the medium with dollar signs in their eyes.

Maybe Apple hosts it because it's a legacy thing that doesn't interfere with Apple-only podcasts.
Snow Crash is parodying cyberpunk (I think). Hence the strong Neuromancer vibes, it's intentionally derivative.

Cryptonomicon is my personal high point. The Baroque Cycle had set pieces just as good as those in Cryptonomicon, but there were too many characters for me to hold in my head.
I guess that's why they're using "Momentary Fusion" in the title? Of course, it wouldn't have hurt to mention in the article that other approaches which might be more feasible also exist...
Every entry just get stuck on "loading..."

Tried disabling adblock, checked devtools which has no failed requests or errors though there were 4 "itemspecifics" requests that all returned 204 with no body
Good point! Seems like the writer has accidentally optimized his interview for narcissists, psychopaths and pathological liers who excel at manipulation, instead of true high-potential young people :)
Multi-shift R&D is a weird proposition. Is it for best using machinery?
In those hybrid systems, you only need the electric heating elements when the temperature outside is extremely cold. In the average winter season, my auxiliary heat, the electric furnace, runs less than a dozen times a year. The rest of it is all handled by the heat pump.
I don't remember/most likely not (also I don't think we had an "Athena"(?) store nearby.
I probably got them in some record shop that was selling posters of musicians and that was part of the stock.
Show HN: Mutable, an addon that can hide anything on the web is now open source
A few months ago I released Mutable, a browser extension and app that allows you to hide/blur/replace anything on the web containing text you don't want to see. Now it is open source with the MPL 2.0, allowing people to transparently see what's going on for privacy reasons and even giving them the option to mess around with the code if they want to add new parsers or features for whatever reason. Check it out here and let me know what you think!
The first time I encountered such a jump scare was someone presenting their animation done in Macromedia Director. Not kidding, it was really traumatic in nature at the time. And I just didn’t get the fun others supposedly felt for this kind of “fun”.
If we jump this far off the beaten path we can probably stop assuming that whatever was transmitting the data would be limited to the 4 dimensional space we're trapped in and could in theory have causal connection via higher dimensions.
ty, I'll give it a try
> Is there a specific policy that he championed that is responsible for this?

This was something the President activity campaigned on (Build Back Better), pushed through Congress, and signed into law as The Inflation Reduction Act.

While it did little to reduce inflation (outside of medicine), it was a massive win for people who wanted more investment in clean power generation, more funds for the ACA, lower drug prices, and higher taxes on certain corporate entities.
This is all just memory and not the processor itself
Translation: the business didn’t want to pay enough
For example, here's the BBC homepage in Firefox, Servo, Ladybird, and NetSurf: https://i.imgur.com/kCReCPd.png

Here's Wikipedia: https://i.imgur.com/IshNWU2.png

Ladybird implements far more web technologies than more well-funded, longer-running alternative browser projects.
Generally you only need to submit them to three platforms:

* Youtube Music (replacement for Google Podcasts)
* Spotify
* Apple

Every other podcast platform uses Apple APIs to get your podcast info, and it will be available on, for example Pocketcasts, as soon as it shows up on Apple Podcasts.

There might be a few other smaller players that you still have to specifically submit to, some of them have died off. The ones above will get you to the vast majority of listeners.
True, if I care. I use the R-Pi as a screening method, not really as the means to dig into something malicious and analyze it in detail. I have other tools for that.

My reasoning for using the R-Pi is that it's disposable, so if the USB device turns out to be an electrical USB-killer, it doesn't kill any hardware that really matters to me.
I'd rate The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon as his peak -- the mid-to-late 90s.
i don’t buy that premise. in practice we’re seeing a lot of evidence that you can’t trust the open evals because of contamination (maybe accidental, though there’s definitely incentive to cheat and move up the leaderboards).

closed/subjective ranking and evaluation has been around since there were critics. yes it’s hard to bootstrap trust, but i can’t see a way around it because the open evals can’t really be trusted either.
It's basically an optical illusion. When things are in motion, your brain is better at ignoring the compression artifacts. When they're still, they're glaringly obvious.
> > Most smart people are actually terrible at having the drive/follow through to take things to completion. They’ll usually want to give up at the first sign of failure or slowness.

Also, sometimes these people who don't follow through to take things to completion might "just" have something like ADHD. Struggling with finishing tasks is a very common ADHD symptom, and a good manager will help someone use the other "good" skills to compensate for such an issue. (Personally I believe the reason for this is perfectionism.)
OP needs to discover the <acronym> html tag or define their acronyms imo.
i thought they were talking about press releases. sheesh
If your class instances are attached to the DOM somehow, you may be looking for CustomEvents?

document.querySelector('#something').dispatchEvent(
new CustomEvent('myCustomEvent', {...options})
);

and

document.querySelector('#something-else').addEventListener('myCustomEvent', () => {...});

You don't even need CustomEvents if you don't need to carry extra data with the event. You can just do

new Event('myCustomEvent')

and dispatch it.

For triggering 'click' events and such, you can create and dispatch native events, as described here [1].

More verbose than jquery, like most native DOM APIs, but works well.

If you're not dealing with a DOM element and just need to dispatch/listen from a class, try out EventTarget [2]?

Your class can inherit from EventTarget, and it gets dispatchEvent and addEventListener, just like a DOM element and you can use any of the above things with it:

class Test extends EventTarget {
...
}

let foo = new Test();
foo.dispatchEvent(...);

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/Creating...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget
Keen observation! We needed to start somewhere with our messaging, and that place is basically to reach out to people in my own position. Given that familiarity, we could build a message and test it out in this niche.

In some regards I'd love for that niche to be large enough to provide a good revenue stream for our team. The features we'd build would be more obvious to us, and they could be designed for a more technically-skilled audience.

That seems unlikely, though. And while building for the technical folks is enticing, I also would love a world where more people from various backgrounds are blogging. I would love to be able to go read 20 years of blog posts from my parents, or to read blog posts that my children write as they enter adulthood.

We've already done some user testing with non-technical folks and there are, of course, glaring challenges. Building for regular people who'd like to write will be hard work, but we have a team with lots of experience in this area!
I think the framing around these sorts of discussions always annoys me because few sci-fi books (and certainly no Neil Stephenson books) are primarily written as predictions. They are written as stories, with technology serving narrative above all else.

Snow Crash in particular uses the metaverse mostly as an excuse to include sword fights and motorcycle/monorail chase scenes. Fantastically fun in my opinion! But that motivates all kinds of choices (making the Internet a literal place with a street grid and real estate, where people can get chopped up by swords) that real XR tech has no particular technical use for. And I would implore any engineers using Snow Crash as an inspiration to consider how absurd it would be to take all the world's most sophisticated technology and dedicate it to gratifying personal power fantasies. It starts with the almost pornographic display of advanced weaponry and logistics deployed to deliver a pizza, and just gets more gloriously ridiculous from there. The main character is named "Hero Protagonist". The main antagonist has a nuke strapped to his motorcycle. Take a hint!

Anyway, I am happy Diamond Age gets a call-out because it is by far my favorite of Stephenson's novels. And I think the Young Ladies Illustrated Primer is one of the all-time most interesting technological plot contrivances (the Imago machine, game/civilization of Azad, and Shrike all providing strong competition). But the technical constraints/capabilities of the Primer have almost nothing to do with realistic limitations/advantages of AI technology, and everything to do with getting the right characters into the right places at the right times. We need a Miranda to provide the Primer's voice so that Nell can have some kind of human connection in the end, and we need Miranda to be paid anonymously so that Nell won't get that human connection too soon. The Primer is a language model not a robot so that Nell will have to solve problems on her own. Yet she can learn Kung Fu from a language model because we need a few action scenes. I think really the interesting question posed is "Can a person grow up to be influential given no resources except a perfect education?" not so much "Can a language model provide a perfect education?". Many characters in Diamond Age seem to agree with the former notion, but in the end it (SPOILER) gets shot down when Nell needs control of an literal army to come out on top.
Aka interviewing for culture fit.
The BBC is another bad actor in this space (although increasingly irrelevant). Their decision to "hide" most of their RSS feeds whilst still labeling their proprietary app subscribe links podcasts was unethical.

I see hope in the Patreon model. I don't mind paying a monthly subscription for a specific show if I get a locked down RSS link.
Spotify is certainly monetizing their podcast platform. At least for the Spotify-produced shows, they’re injecting ads regardless of whether you pay for premium service or not.
I have only ever read Snow Crash. I enjoyed it. However, I read it in 1992. When I think about it now, I bet reading it today would seem odd... like watching old 1950s shows that make predictions about the world of tomorrow.
The comparison was more to dissuade people from grouping them together in the Canon. If I was to be trite I might say that the likes of Slaughter House 5 and Neuromancer are Graphic Novels, whereas Snow Crash is a Graphic Novel.

When I learnt that Snow Crash was actually originally conceived as a Graphic Novel, it was like a large puzzle piece finally clicked into place. I would have preferred to judge it on its merits in that medium to be frank, as Stephenson is very passionate and has some interesting takes and somewhat Randian fascinations tertiary to his plotting, but ultimately I feel that his narrative reach always exceeded his grasp.

As for missing the point, I can only point to my acknowledgement of the existence of Snow Crash's TvTropes page, and my countless hours arguing the point online on this and other fora!
Well those of us who have never heard of "momentary fusion" read the title to mean "momentary breakthroughs in fusion"
Speed trap fines should also definitely go to the state coffers, not to any one PD. Speed traps should discourage speeding in critical places, not be "financially gerrymandered" in mis-designed intersections to optimize revenue for a starved PD.

IMHO it's weird that the police even has something to do with speed traps, those should be handled by Transportation Department or some such.
> The initial premise was you can make an account anywhere and it works transparently anywhere.

No, that premise is a misunderstanding of the actual initial premise: build a bigger system via federation, that is a series of independent systems that can agree or disagree on precisely what level of interoperation they will engage in.

Some people mistakenly imagined that everyone would make the same choices, and thus "make an account and it works everywhere".
geez. That's really bad considering the fact that this is an Elon Musk Company. also, most people don't know that Elon Musk is on the autism spectrum. not necessarily extremely high on the spectrum, but it makes some of his ideas slightly justified.