skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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As a physicist studying cuprates, I would caution that many of the strongest claims in the Quanta article are basically clickbait, especially the title of the article, and the notion that this experiment has solved the problem "to nearly everyone's satisfaction".

The actual experiment and resulting paper [0] on the other hand are very good work, and may very well be right, but a substantial amount more work will be needed to determine how much of the rather unusual phenomenology of the cuprates is well-explained by superexchange interactions. I guess even more work will be needed to convince the majority of the field that this the right model for the cuprates, as opposed to any of the very many other models that have been proposed and studied in the past few decades. In particular:

- High temperature superconductivity is not the only strange thing about the cuprates. The normal state (i.e. above the superconducting transition temperature) also has some rather unusual properties that are the subject of much of the current research. Some of these properties can probably be explained as arising from superexchange interactions, but I expect not all of them can.

- BSCCO is one of quite a large family of cuprate compounds. In this case, it was almost certainly chosen because it cleaves easily, producing nice surfaces which are necessary for this type of experiment. On the other hand, it is quite structurally complicated, and in some sense "messy" compared to many of the other commonly-studied compounds. This is actually taken advantage of for the experiment discussed here, but it would be interesting (if possible) to see if a similar result can be replicated in any of the other cuprates.

Anyway, this is quite an interesting experiment, but I'm somewhat dissapointed in the Quanta article for such sensationalistic reporting. I suppose that's to be expected for a popular science article.

[0] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207449119
Coinbase Tested Group to Speculate on Crypto
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/02/05/adacore-secure-auto...

And there's a whole new Paris metro line that runs on Ada: https://www.adahome.com/Ammo/Success/subway.html
Anecdotally, Facebook seems relatively tame these days compared to the firehose of doom & gloom, violent videos, outrage porn, and outright misinformation that fills Reddit and Twitter. Browsing Reddit’s default feeds or popular posts is a wild experience these days.
Depends on the church in question. I know gay people who are accepted by their congregation, and churches that don't have issues with gay people at all. The biggest LGBT youth group in my city is organized by and hosted in a Christian church.
It’s not clear to me what the EU, specifically, wants Google to do here from the article. Any insight?
> It remains to be seen whether Bhattacharya and Kulldorff will be able to show that Fauci and Collins explicitly ordered tech companies to censor them and their Great Barrington Declaration.

They don’t have evidence that the govt compelled the censorship. And the NIH generally doesn’t have this authority, and I doubt most companies believe that it does. Don’t forget this happened during the previous administration, which officially supported the GBD.

They also don’t have evidence that anything was illegal, since preventing misinformation & speculation isn’t illegal and might not be protected by the First Amendment. See the side discussion on freedom of speech exceptions nearby. Whether the GBD is misinformation is totally relevant, freedom of speech depends on the content of the speech.
Apple could still targhet specific endpoints deliberately for repeeat offenders also in the normal Safari.

They could have a privacy feature (default on) which blocks or poisons specific endpoints on specific hosts belonging to e.g. Meta, Alphabet, ByteDance.

Apple are in a unique position here to protect users' privacy since they control the browser of so many. It's unfortunate that they also have their own advertising agenda so any steps they take will always be scrutinzed as being anti competitive and simply making their own ads more profitable. But I'd still want Apple to pull the trigger on more drastic measures like these. The last round of privacy isolation should just be the start. I'd love to see apple e.g. block Facbook ads inside the facebook app and refer to privacy concerns and only unblock them if Meta follows all privacy guidelines elsewhere.
Genuine question: is there a possibility that Monero is being monitored covertly?

It seems an obvious target to be a Trojan horse in the midst of criminals and tax-evaders.
Try spinning up 32+ core instances with local ssds attached or anything not n1 family and you will find that in may regions you can only have like single digits of them
The psychological manipulation is based on the same principles, it's just the application is less refined.
The Big SaaS Short
Pet perks tempt staff back into the office
Hey great job!

I’m surprised credit notes aren’t mentioned here. Have you worked on this as well?

A credit note must be linked to an existing invoice, it can cover all or part of the invoice items, it can be deducted from future invoices or trigger a refund… such a pain!
No, what I'm proposing is that once you create an account you see nothing until you start following people via the "exploration" or whatever, then your default view is essentially "you see what you followed/subscribed to".

No banning Alex Jones (unless he does one of the bannable things). Advertisers are free to say they don't want to do business with his channels, etc. Some are free to say they do.

You start exploring and see his stuff but don't want to? Block it / say "I don't wanna see this" and it should prevent his videos showing up on your feeds (and maybe reactions to it?). Those controls must work, not like the current versions.[1]

I'm also suggesting that the idea of highlighting these tailored content views in this way as a default should count as editorializing, and should then open them to punishment for that content the way a newspaper publishing an editorial is.

It won't fully solve the problem of "engagement-chasing" that currently has taken hold of social media (and really the Internet) but I don't see a better way. At the end of the day engagement = impressions = advertiser $ and I don't see a way to change that formula so there's less

But IMO this makes the speech freer, the platforms more open (and gives them an out with advertisers "hey, we're required by law to do it this way"), and puts the users in the driver's seat when it comes to what they see.

[1]: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/research/library/user-cont...
Calling an argument "bad faith" means that argument's proponent doesn't believe it's true. I highly doubt that was the case with various people -- some of them doctors -- questioning the party line on the pandemic. Being wrong is not the same as arguing in bad faith.

Your attitude is sadly very common. Everyone who disagrees with you is a bad faith actor, engaged in knowing lies to further some shadowy agenda. I think you underestimate how little consensus there actually is, even among the educated.
Sean Carroll: AMZN selling pirated edition of the Biggest Ideas in the Universe
> Apologies to anyone having trouble with the Kindle version of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. Amazon is somehow selling a pirated edition for $9.99 (honest edition is $12.99) with the equations formatted badly. The real edition is fine.

I am truly astonished at this level of ineptitude by Amazon. I would imagine many HN users could create a tool that would flag duplicated books uploaded maliciously.

Am I entirely missing something?
As a German speaker "was" is especially awful sounding because we have the exactly analogous "wäre" (conditional, instead of "war" which means "was") which also sounds very similar.

I've had people try to "correct" my use of subjunctive... which truly saps my will to live.
I'm not being ironic. Your article says he composed two pieces and his instrument skills were "modest". I suspect most people are modest at the hobbies they dabble in. That doesn't make a "universal genius".
Do you care to elaborate? Why do you say it's specious?
Interesting take. I also suffer from FOMO about podcasts and tv series. Especially with long-running podcasts, I never even start listening to any of them as I would need to start from episode 1. In the case of Joe Rogan, that's virtually impossible.

Steamship seems like a handy framework for some prototyping. Are there any similar tools that can do similar things?
The faster you go the higher in the atmosphere you can fly, therefore reducing drag (due to air being more rarefied). So it's not as simple as you're thinking.
Power windows have existed since 1940, and electric since 1956.

In the US at least, safety legislation was watered down, but 2008-9 was the year they were last seriously revised and they appear to now require obstruction detection hence this recall.

The problem is not that your finger might hurt for a second but that a child's neck could be caught while they have their own finger on the switch - part of the reason most cars have a switch to disable operation of windows other than that of the driver.
Huh? The EU tech sector would absolutely love the US giants pulling out (phrasing) of Europe. Who wants to fight all these behemoths that pay almost no taxes here because they "invest" so much
There are tons of Iranians abroad, figuring out a way to cut them off from the local population is definitely a worthy goal for the regime.
We know who. The social media companies did. The question is whether they were doing so at the behest of the government.
We did that at https://qbix.com

As part of it we released open source platform covering all use cases from chat to events, videoconferencing, etc. And it interoperates with Discourse and other open source projects, in case you want to use them instead.

See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LvbFg1aaFE
The Washington Post[1] did seem to engage in a a bit of introspection eventually:

"The Post originally described Cotton’s remarks as “debunked” and a “conspiracy theory” in a February 2020 article. But last week, The Post rewrote the article’s headline, softening “conspiracy theory” to “fringe theory” and noting that scientists have “disputed” it rather than “debunked” it."

[1]"The media called the ‘lab leak’ story a ‘conspiracy theory.’ Now it’s prompted corrections — and serious new reporting." Washington Post, 6/10/21
I do see that the person posting on Twitter may have a different use case than me. But what keeps my small business on Slack, even though we have a perfectly good replacement (Chat) baked right into our Google Workspaces account, is inter-company communication. Slack isn't ubiquitous, but it's common enough that we have multiple clients who use it. If we terminated our Slack Pro account, we wouldn't have a way of continuing to chat and DM with those clients without requiring them to establish new accounts on an unfamiliar service, just so they can work with this one vendor (us).
The difference seems like semantics. You're taking compyrighted data, encoding it, then deriving a work from the output of that encoded data.

If I compress copyrighted works and redistribute them as my own I'm technically breaking them down into some set of data and never actually distributing copyrighted work, right?
Is there a good full text search engine with pluggable storage? I’d like to implement a simple set of apis and use search with other backends.

It sort of annoys me to see people reimplementing storage engines over and over. If it’s embedded use rocks/leveldb/SQLite and it’s distributed use foundationDB. The end.
The free tier of Slack has no member limit, so an open community could sign up 10k members in their workspace if it wanted to. However you can't search or see messages older than 90 days. That might be fine for most, if you look at alternatives like IRC you typically need an external logging tool anyway to keep history, so that's still doable with a Slack bot.
> As the Supreme Court has long recognized and Justice Thomas explained in a concurring opinion just last year, “[t]he government cannot accomplish through threats of adverse government action what the Constitution prohibits it from doing directly.”

> In 1963, the Supreme Court, deciding Bantam Books v. Sullivan, held that “public officers’ thinly veiled threats to institute criminal proceedings against” booksellers who carried materials containing obscenity could constitute a First Amendment violation. The same reasoning should apply to the Biden administration campaign to pressure tech companies into enforcing its preferred viewpoints.

> It remains to be seen whether Bhattacharya and Kulldorff will be able to show that Fauci and Collins explicitly ordered tech companies to censor them and their Great Barrington Declaration.

Fair - I’m overstating.
So far I’ve used six languages to build everything from web apps to desktop applications and C++ is still by far my favourite language.

It is sad that it is still haunted by prejudice due to pre-C++11 era but modern C++ is easy to learn and use, and I recommend every programmer should give it a try.
didn't Microsoft Teams eat their lunch already?

https://medium.com/swlh/why-microsoft-teams-has-been-overtak...
I'm not privy to what Boom is doing, but variable intake geometry easily takes care of this.
As a co-founder of the original Jakarta who was in that conference room at Sun around 1999 (23 years now!), it boggles my mind that the name is still in use and that people still use and work on this software.

This is exactly why you should write unit tests, you never know how long your stuff is going to get used for.
Hmm, this does make me wonder what kind of an effect will deepfakes have on people's general perception of the world?

I might be far fetching here, but wouldn't this lead to people being more mindful of what they watch and interact with? I think all that it will take is a few "state of the art" deepfakes to cause a ruckus and the domino effect should do the rest.

Anyone in the field spent time thinking on this or has had similar notions?
From the article:

> public admissions by then-White House press secretary Jennifer Psaki that the Biden administration was ordering social media companies to censor certain posts, as well as statements from Psaki, President Biden, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas threatening them with regulatory or other legal action if they declined to do so,
+1 that the plastic is the main difference are the "everything to Ryobi"-plastic adadpters you can buy. I use Makita battery->Ryobi tool and it works great.
The Great Dictator 2023 with Charlie Chaplin would be great!
If the page fails to scroll on your screen, just disable JS (one click in uBlock Origin).
Was looking for a good place to post this in the thread but I'll just drop it here. Microsoft Teams still lacks multi-account support on desktop.

As in, you can't sign on to several business organizations like you can in Slack. It's so dumb and disqualifying. Utter nightmare if you work with several organizations.

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/c9995dc8-...

I've bookmarked that page and I check in on it regularly, as Microsoft claims multi-account support is due for late 2022.
Yet, still pocket change.

It is commendable that EU does not allow miscreants to tie up fines in an endless legal maze.
>Which is essentially nothing.

Holy shit.

Is it some sign of being on HN too much?

Sure, 1.45% is small, because % is shitty at representing the real value at this point

at the end of the day it's fucking $4 000 000 000

It's year salary of 2200 well paid engineers

That's industry-changing level of possibilities
Show HN: List of Companies Hiring Remote Software Devs
Traction: Passing the Mom Test
I assume the airlines that buy supersonic planes also have solutions to get the ~50 passengers/plane through check-in and security in no time at all.
Um... I installed Instagram recently for the first time. Every 5th post or so is an ad. That you have no choice over... And there are a lot of suggested content posts which you have no control over.

It's like the same as channel flipping and getting ads blasted at you but now the ads are smarter/more targeted.
Swiss-Based Fund AOG Poured Cash into Joint Accounts with African Politicians
I guess I just wasn't aware of it in the past. Back when I listened to radio, I wouldn't often come across the author doing interviews, but then I only switched between 3 or maybe 4 different stations...
> The question of how the Biden administration has succeeded in jawboning big tech into observing its strictures is not particularly difficult to answer. Tech companies, many of which hold monopoly positions in their markets, have long feared and resisted government regulation. Unquestionably—and as explicitly revealed by the text message exchanged between Murthy and the Twitter executive—the prospect of being held liable for COVID deaths is an alarming one.

I don’t think this threat of liability is in large part responsible for tech companies’ increased tendency for censorship. Keep in mind that many of the most egregious COVID era de-platforming events happened during the Trump administration.

The primary change that’s responsible is the political shift within these companies, with many workers openly advocating for various forms of censorship and de-platforming. As well as leadership that cannot resist such demands, even when they are from a tiny (but loud) minority of the company.
I've broken plenty of rules in the Bible but still always welcomed in a church with open arms.
This is equal parts hilarious and great. I got an especially good laugh out of:

> “Enias, you work at an NLP startup. Just have the computer tell you what this guy thinks”.

Pretty sure that's how we end up with Skynet /s

Do you have to have the transcriptions available or can this work on any audio?
Lyra: Fast, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine written in TypeScript
Text-to-Pokemon – Generate Pokémon from a text description
The Future of NFTs: Why We’re More Bullish Than Ever
They'll just declare it a satellite phone and defect make them illegal.

I mean, we are discussing hair here, so it is a (bitter) laugh to imagine that they are going to let citizens have access to an unfettered network ...
I agree. If you can, just use the make_* functions. It also reduces needless repetition. For `make_*<Widget>(args...)` I need to write the type once, for `*_ptr<Widget>(new Widget)` I need to write the same type twice. Not counting cases for `Base/Derived`.
I know. And it seems like every influencer out there is starting their own podcast these days. Information overload.

Tv series is a good idea! What insights would you extract from them?

I can already see myself analysing the mood in shark tank pitches. I wonder if you can create a model to analyze all pitches on shark tank and then come up with its own. That would be cool!
What an amazing way to invalidate the slaughterbots video! Instead of killing humans, just equip drones with blinding laser weapons!

No need for absurd acrobatics, no need for wastefully detonating the drone, just a few seconds on each eyeball and onto the next human!
This was the fundamental base assumption of the GBD. It depends on herd immunity for its argument to be true and effective.
Maybe a boring question, but where do the money goes ?

Can they use that to finance grants or RFPs for other projects ?
The stance they’re advertising evidently is the contractual partnership they chose to enter - that they agreed to take their money and provide them support on their integrations.

Why are you simping for them without basis? Your absurd comparison would only make sense if the franchise the killer shopped at continued to provide them service and used them in marketing materials as a marker of trust or prestige.
I use alternate tools in addition to Teams. And I use my budget to pay for other tools.
AFAIK, rusted suspension arms should absolutely fail a competently-performed MOT, and give an advisory warning if rusted but not enough to be problematic yet.
I bet early Boom clients would get luxurious treatment and priority. Speed is obviously important to them -- they are willing to pay for it.
> EDIT: I guess I offended some French people, hence the downvotes :)

Yes.

But I have to recognise, they could - at least - hand out "free" train tickets to most of the Parliament staff. Not just between Brussels and Strasbourg, but everywhere in the EU.
they kayak almost getting pulled under blows me away. Thanks, but no thanks!
> My coworker was a med student that couldn't pass the Mcats

That’s not a thing. The MCAT is used for admission into med school (equivalent to the LSAT or GRE).
Communications software and services are generally exempt from those sorts of sanctions.
Lockdowns caused a big slump in industries like retail and transport. In the UK, airline bosses in particular were outspoken about their desire to lift lockdown restrictions as soon as possible.
> The most infamous life claimed by the stride is William de Romilly, the son of Lady Alice de Romilly, who owned the land. He was said to have been swallowed by the Strid in 1152 after trying to leap across.

Why was he infamous? I'm not finding much information on him at all.
Waterproofing your solar lights to make them last longer
Attachment links include the server ID but not the channel ID, so it's not like you can enumerate for files in a server by obtaining the server and channel IDs.

Each attachment's ID is in a snowflake[0], so the urls are

cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/:SERVER_ID/:ATTACHMENT_ID/:filename.png

0: https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/channel#attach...
It is and it isn't, but mostly, it isn't.

The relentless Skinner Boxing which Facebook and similar platforms engage in has no parallel in broadcast media, which can't be algorithmically tuned to harm the victim as much as possible.
You’re right but also note that React Native does not render in a WebView like Cordova. React Native renders native components.
The Absurd Logistics of Concert Tours
>The fastest travel speed we can really understand is about the speed of sound (jet travel), most westerners have travelled at that speed.

To be pedantic, no, not really. Commercial jets can travel at speeds up to 955 kilometres per hour (593 mph) (per wikipedia). The speed of sound is roughly 1235 kph (767 mph). Also note that commercial jets usually travel slower than their maximum speed to save fuel.
> We will look at companies like United and American Airlines that signed letters of intent to purchase these as foolish idiots.

Has it cost them anything at this point? A little PR bump for zero expense and zero consequences doesn't seem all that foolish.
Gender and Age Differences in Love Styles and Attitudes
Speaking out against all the harms and negatives of some highly disruptive non pharmaceutical interventions with unproven efficacy is absolutely not bad faith arguments. It’s the cornerstone of science and democracy.

Anybody in a position of power or knowledge who dared to even hint at asking questions got absolutely steamrollered by a very vocal group of “experts”. They were called alt-right selfish grandma killers who watched to much fox (and sorry, I never watched fox but it isn’t my fault they might actually be right sometimes, I’ve also been a solid democrat my entire life until this nonsense started…).

What we did the last two and a half years is so incredibly shameful. It was the opposite of science and opposite of “following the data”. It was appeals to authority all the way down. We were all told to shut up, “stay in our lane” and listen to a handful of cherry picked “experts”.

The last two and a half years changed my opinion about “fact checkers” and “misinformation” completely. Both of those are nothing more than ways to bully people into submission.