skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
humanity, defined loosely, can definitely build a bigger reactor than the sun. the milky way is a trillion times bigger than the sun, and mostly made up of stars (as opposed to large black holes, which are probably effectively inaccessible), so there's plenty of material available

already-existing natural blue hypergiants can reach energy outputs several million times that of the sun, in large part because they're on the order of 100 times bigger, usually limited only by the eddington mass limit. bat99-98 is estimated at 226 solar masses. so designed artificial stars can clearly reach that size, and conceivably, with a better understanding of plasma dynamics, they could be stabilized. in fact, we already know† how to build an even larger star: if you build a star of very low metallicity (similar to natural population-iii stars, of which possibly none survive today), its eddington mass limit is much higher, around 1000 solar masses

more likely, though, the humans will instead build a larger number of smaller, safer reactors. microscopic black holes can convert mass into hawking radiation at manageable photon energies and useful power levels. the necessary experimentation poses no risk of creating a large black hole (the density of matter necessary to grow small black holes to macroscopic proportion doesn't exist outside of the cores of stars, and the necessary quantity of matter at those densities is also literally astronomical) but will surely involve many explosions as starving black holes explode in a final tantrum of high-energy gamma rays, and of course must be carried out in free fall to prevent your nascent black hole from simply falling between the atoms of your laboratory floor before exploding deep inside your chosen planet

constructing larger reactors, by contrast, does pose a risk of producing phenomena such as disappointing white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, or worse, supernovae, rather than a useful power source

if we believe dyson's calculations, though, a much more worthwhile thing to do is to figure out how to slow down our entropy production enough to preserve life into the cold, dark post-stellar era

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† i mean we know in scientific terms what the structure of such an artificial star would be, where to find the materials, and what would be required to bring them together in the right way. it's fairly simple, actually. the only difficult part is getting a large enough budget to build the necessary fleet of spacecraft to harvest 10³³ kg of hydrogen and helium, about a billionth of the milky way, and bring it together over a distance of several light years; plausibly you need on the order of 10³⁵ spacecraft, about 120 doublings of a von neumann probe
Don't most economists think that corporate profits should not be taxed? (When all else is held equal.) By that argument, the real problem is taxation of the profits of for-profit corporations...
"Credit unions (and other US 501c3 organizations) do not exist to make a profit, and any income they have in excess of expenses is reinvested. There are no dividends."

A lot of non-profits funnel the "income they have in excess of expenses" to their execs or friends of the execs who provide business services. They don't reinvest or give to charity.
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> Proofs can be only true or false

Yes.

The fact that we don't know the truth doesn't mean there isn't one.
It's only a natural reaction when nothing else is in control. Unless you think that social media platforms are fine as is.

I understand the hesitancy to government control, but at some point, what other mechanism is there? I'm seriously asking.
That's purely your choice on the libraries you use. Nothing in the language is forcing you to do this. Getter/setters are just a requirement of JPA which you don't have to use. In fact if you just use jOOQ or query dsl you can map to Java records.
Anecdotally, uwaterloo is the suicide capital of universities. Them math programs be hard.
then tell me, why do you need scientific approval before consumption of novel substances, while such other forms of consumption (that access the brain's networks through other modalities than ingestion) are by default "ok"? or are behavioural interventions must be considered as strictly less effective and not require any approval, unless used in a medical setting?
and that brings to another question - if it's only the medical setting that decides whether a substance should be considered for approval for consumption (although there's also zero proof that the applications in question thave no psychoactive effects - its rests entirely on your personal feelings), are all other settings simply out of bounds for legal (and, most importantly, moral) considerations?
And the way you objectivize such items like "intrinsic value" (completely individual, i.e., case-by-case domain, obviously involved in choice of substance of addiction in all cases of addiction), for me, renders your arguments completely awry. And comparison with conversion therapy is just plain edgy and intentful misrepresentation for the sake of ackchyually.

In my view, this is a perfect case for "there's legitimate doubts about the safety of this technology, so let's ban this until it's completely proven to be safe to consume".
Scaled to at least 30k components for Facebook :) https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/6al7h2/comment/dhg...
Ask yourself this, would Bari Weiss publish a piece that included voices that defended NPR?
anabolic steroids will kill you idk why you'd want to mess with them.
All gambling for children? Or?
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> - accommodating parents and their child raising needs with policies that don’t come out of 1950: every working parent I know with remote jobs experience significant flexibility here.

Flexibility for parents is great. I've worked remote for a long time and having additional flexibility to take care of sick kids and still get some work in while they're asleep and later in the evening is great. Much better for everyone than forcing another PTO day just to stay home.

However, I've also been seeing remote work and parenting being pushed way too far since COVID. One of my friends cancelled daycare for their 3 year old, thinking they'd just watch him at home while they worked. Didn't take long to realize that they weren't getting much work done while tending to the demands of a 3 year old, and it became impossible to hide when the child would interrupt every meeting multiple times over.

One local company I'm familiar with went remote during COVID and had significant problems with quality of work and communications. The kind of quality problems that impacted customers (not a traditional tech company, their product required employees to do specific work for each customer). When they started narrowing down on the problem employees, one of the top causes they uncovered was parents of young children trying to do the job while watching their kids. It can work with a 13 year old home for summer break, but it just doesn't work for very young kids who need a lot of attention.

> - preventing sexism, ageism, and other forms harassment at work: can’t sexually harass someone quite as easily in a fully auditable zoom/slack environment vs in office.

I'm going to have to disagree with this one. My friends in HR said the number of inter-employee problems went way, way up during COVID remote work. Employees communicate outside of official channels, in voice meetings that aren't recorded, and in chat rooms you don't control. Some people get extremely difficult to work with when they're arguing with a screen name instead of talking to a person face to face.
The people or the corrupt autocrats who send secret policemen out and about?
So can LED screens be used as a camera?
Careful with that. If you tell some bosses that you've got some spare time they'll just give you other tasks to do.
Search "physical modeling" on dafx.de: https://www.dafx.de/paper-archive/search.php?q=physical+mode...

You might also like to search "analog modeling" or "virtual analog" for models of analog electronic circuits (distortion pedals, filters, etc.)

Book about modeling, eg., car engines in Pure Data (eg., for games): https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262014410/designing-sound/

You might check out the source code to Émilie Gillet's (of Mutable Instruments) Rings and Elements modules: https://github.com/pichenettes/eurorack

"Designing the Make Noise Erbe-Verb" Reverb Design Lecture": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il_qdtQKnqk&t=18s

Sean Costello's (of Valhalla DSP) blog about mostly reverbs: https://valhalladsp.wordpress.com/
I mean, if they’re not turning a profit, taxation isn’t going to be a problem, but what I really want to know is: the USA has the most expensive health care system in the world, with the worst outcomes of any first world system. How is it not making money?!
It is a tip on how to organize lmao
It's content-based discrimination, which means it goes straight to strict scrutiny.
The algorithm is actually quite old. While dang is the result of numerous modern innovations, the approach has roots in a 1770 technique due to Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pázmánd, who is perhaps better known for his work on speech synthesis.

While you may see other users talking about "him" in a personal manner, any appearance of sentience is, I assure you, entirely ineluctable.
A healthy proportion of local American hospitals were set up and later expanded through many, many rounds of charitable proto-crowdfunding in the first place. Fraternal (Shriners), ones with Saint in the name, and so on.[0] Credit unions were of course formed to provide local lending pools in good times and bad and to smooth out the peaks and troughs of credit availability.

The phenomenon that a lot of American credit unions now advertise and compete with the capital markets (for where to get money from, or where to invest it) and with interstate banks, or that farm-credit nonprofits compete with nationwide programs, is an unanticipated and relatively recent legal development (and most interstate banking holding companies themselves are only 40-50 years old - before that, they couldn't coordinate across state lines).

The wider phenomenon that it sometimes seems like "everybody with the choice to do so" is merging into the fast lane due to red tape and other incentives is partially sampling bias, but even if it's true I don't consider it to provide proof that we should get rid of any remaining slow lanes. Probably we need more specific types of slow lanes, some of which will let you switch lanes later but cost you the back taxes.

There are many different nonprofit tax code section 501 types already, but I don't think that nonprofit status itself is a very well tailored conceptual solution to answer "what kind of slow lanes are useful nowadays?"

There are many commons and cooperative options that are hard to shoehorn into 501(c)(3). It would be nice to have some social benefit activities protected from taxation even in otherwise-taxable cooperatives.
While some American state legislatures have enacted a "Low Profit Limited Liability Corporation" or L3C status available, the first thing you learn about it is that it is no different in tax status from any other LLC. HM Government in the UK offers a CIC or Community Interest Company business model, and this requires all profits to be reinvested for the benefit of a geographical area designated by the enterprise, and has an asset lock so that its possessions cannot be distributed to shareholders, although there can be shares traded -- all of which might be steps in a promising direction. But again there is no tax exemption (partial or total) for which these social enterprises are specifically eligible.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Hospital
That's very good. All the DEI brochures I have seen portrayed young good looking people of different colors. I hope we will get more diversity and inclusion for disabled people.
Trello board with three lists Done/Doing/ToDo

Make a list of all the stuff you need to do.

Prioritize it.

Move the top item to the doing list and start working on it.

When you’re done move it to done. Take the next item off the to do list and repeat.

I use other lists on trello to maintain cards for my research or to move features off the to do list that aren’t necessary for v1.
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I don't actually think it's unreasonable. Meta probably earns $2,000 in a span of a few seconds. They can afford to provide users with basic services such as account recovery, that allow users to use the services under the terms that were agreed upon when the user's account was created.
> many fond memories of it, but mostly when I think about it I'm filled with sadness, because the people there deserve so much better. They're constantly knee-deep in corruption, both street level and just the very blatant kleptocratic presidential family

I spent 2 years driving the length of the Pan-American Highway, and 3 years driving right around the African continent.

What you said can equally be applied to many places I spent a good deal of time in. Incredibly friendly, warm, kind and happy people to a degree I did not know was possible on planet earth. Sadly they're held down by corruption, ineptitude and the West.

Happily, virtually every single person laughs, sings, dances and celebrates basically everyday, because they choose to be vibrantly happy despite all the BS.
I wasn't referring to the bullet cluster specifically, but this obsession with the bullet cluster is typical of the confirmation bias in this field: hyperfocus on what confirms bias and ignore the countervailing evidence. The past 30+ years have seen many "corrections" to get LCDM to fit observations it did not predict [1]. Clusters in general pose challenges to both MOND and LCDM for different reasons [2,3], but LCDM's typically get ignored and MOND's treated as a fatal blow. As I said, neither theory is fully satisfactory, but it's clear that research on these questions is fairly one-sided.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/7/1331

[2] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ace62a

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138764732...
230 is good. Crazy people want to remove it because they stand to profit from it
So snow at 13,000 feet in the summer, deep inland. How has there not been attempts to develop this for alpine sports? The quality of the snowfall plus the terrain seems made for it.
Thanks, it's really useful to have a reference point. Having played about a bit with which device is left to warm up, I'm fairly sure it's the 85102 (IF box) that's drifting. I've also tried my old 8350B sweeper instead of the 8341B and although the pattern's very different (different band-switch points) it drifts about equally badly. The odd bit is that it looks like it's related to the sweep position - I get a sawtooth effect as it drifts, like so: https://www.jamiecraig.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image....
And I'm always amazed by how much some other people think the free market can do no wrong and should be treated in a completely laissez-faire manner.
It's the same thing as everything else. Everyone cares about those things conditional on business going well. Do I care about Somalian kids starving? Yes. But conditional on my not starving. If I'm starving, and I have just enough money to eat, you bet I'm not sending shit to that kid in Africa. He's going to die. You can bill that as "This guy doesn't care about starving African kids" if you'd like.
> It's one of the most beautiful sequences in all of cinema -- a grieving couple rediscovering intimacy and joy. The way it is intercut with them dressing, getting ready for dinner, the way you can see it brought happiness and affirmation and some sense that life is not over and love survived a terrible loss. It's central to the entire film: to why they are in Venice in the first place, to their commitment to each other, to their determined love for each other.

Also known as a "sex scene." And at a full five minutes, it's a rather long scene :-)

It's also one of the most notorious sex scenes in cinema from that era, with persistent rumors that Sutherland and Christie actually were doing the deed.

But I think you wrongly inferred that the commenter was trying to dissuade people from watching the movie because of it. I interpreted it just as a fair warning, lest you think it might be a fun pick for family movie night with the kids and grandparents.
Your observation is backed up by modern neuroscience. Effective multitasking is largely a myth.

Obviously one can context switch, but every switch comes at a cost. That cost could be hidden by happiness boosts from not having to think about this difficult thing (=pain) and instead do something simpler that feels like lower hanging fruit and gives more immediate gratification (=reward). But the shower you mention is key and can't provide progress on multiple hard things at once. I agree that this is akin to a procrastination strategy and commend you for the analysis and self reflection.
If we could get an ice-9 that raises the freezing temp of water by only a couple of degrees, that might be hugely useful in a world of climate change. We could keep our glaciers and the wonderful year-round fresh water supplies (rivers) that they enable.
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I think the point is jobs that can be done from a computer are not necessarily the bulk of jobs that require commuting.
> Tajikistan looks to be an interesting case of Islam being kept in check

"In check" in this case means a 7-year civil war that ended up with 1% of the country _dead_ and around 15% of the population displaced.
It depends on where you work and what industry you're in.

A majority of the leads I get from recruiters about dev work are from companies who now have hybrid or full on-site requirements. It's being outlawed like you say, but there is a push from certain companies to be back in the office.

The last three contacts I've gotten from recruiters always ask me if I'm ok being in the office three days a week on job req's they've contacted me about. So take solace in the fact more people are opting out of these kinds of jobs and recruiters are telling me the more companies require in office or hybrid, the smaller the pool of worthy candidates - regardless of whether they're disabled or now.

There is push to get people to go back into the office, but at this point, I'm not seeing a real willingness for people to jump at those jobs right now.
That's a good point. Eliminating commute let me play with my children after school. Even started to have a pizza together for lunch. Started to have lunch almost every day with my wife, instead of my colleagues or looking at our phones in the canteen.
kapa has a nice dashboard where you can select what you want to include in the RAG backend (docs, code, forums, discord...). They also do some things with showing you what users are asking, the responses and ratings, and being able to make corrective actions (?)

I saw a dev tools company poking around on a video call at one point, don't have access myself
Thanks for the suggestions - I'll definitely have a poke at it in TDR mode, that's a good plan.

Thanks also for the scikit-rf driver - I've an 8753ES as well, and I've used scikit-rf with that, but not yet with the 8510.
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As told in certain science fiction, I like to imagine that dark matter/energy is the "pollution" or other side effects caused by some alien civilizations [over]use of faster-than-light travel.

Which is actually a terrifying existential threat to think about: The more an earlier civilization uses FTL, the more space will expand, and eventually it will become all but impossible for younger civilizations to traverse space without becoming dependent on the elder races.
hmm, I think there's a ton of operations work, marketing, clerical work, data entry, sales, production (like fashion) and merchandising, logistics, customer support / experience, that's just 10 seconds of brainstorming.
> a small fish who just needs sso for compliance

Unfortunately, a need for SSO is about the only reliable way to gouge a large corporation. As a small fish you may like SSO, want SSO, you may even think you need SSO, but you really can get by without just fine. You're small - you can get around the requirements, or pivot, or whatever. A corporation is big and slow and can easily get themselves into a situation where not adding SSO will become a blocker for deals denominated in double-triple digit millions, but abandoning your product or the whole business segment will cost similar amount of money. In that situation, the vendor can have a field day milking the cash cow.
> in the sense that their return type doesn't fully describe what the code does

Sure they do, at least in Haskell. Bottom inhabits all types.
Yes, hybrid work is a reasonable position to take, I think. One cannot deny the benefits of occasional in-office meetings/socialization while accepting the benefits of WFH.
How does infrastructure look in places like Norway and Finland?

Why can those countries have what they have but America some how can't?

What are they doing that America isn't?
We lost the source code in any usable form. Even if we dug up the printed copy, scanning it would be tedious as hell. :) So we ended up reverse engineering our own game, fun times.

But yeah, "actual" in that it's a real commercial game (30k copies or so) developed and released in 1987. If memory serves right, we started in late autumn'86 and it was published around November'87.
Erm, there was a reason why Turbo Pascal (and the other Borland stuff) was such a big deal.

And that dates to 1983.
I think the question wasn't about the technology. The question is why doesn't android more intelligently manage Wifi connections. The foundation is of course the network stack, but to manage bidirectional availability you just need to have a bidirectional connection, or even pings, or whatever you can think of being google to detect if the connection is stable. If it is not, and the mobile network connection is, then - don't use wifi.
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