skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fluorocarbons have a low London dispersion (induced dipole) force due to the high polarization of the C-F bond. This is responsible for many of the unusual properties of fluorocarbon solvents, particularly high gas solubility and extreme hydrophobicity. It's also just inert, much moreso than chlorocarbons (which tend to be quite toxic).

My undergraduate research project at involved identifying poly-tert-butyl-methacrylate as a polymer with similar hydrophobicity (as measured by the wetting angle) to the fluorocarbons, but I don't think anything ever really came of it. It may be unfavorable for other reasons; I don't remember.
There are certainly some Java details assessed, and arguably more than there should be, but the exam does assess the ability to use variables and write expressions; to write loops, including nested loops; to write conditional statements, including nested and complex conditionals; to write methods that call other methods; to organise data and behaviour using instance variables, methods, and inheritance; to store and process sequential and two-dimensional data; and questions in the corresponding multiple-choice section are likely to briefly address sorting, and recursion, though those topics are not assessed in the FRQs.

I.e. introductory programming. There's nothing in the list I wrote above that is specific to Java (and if you swap out "methods" for "functions" it could be any number of different languages). It seems boring and basic to you because it is literally just the very beginning of a CS curriculum. If you're only seeing the FRQs, which test code implementation, you should also know that in the multiple-choice section there are also problems requiring students to trace code, identify useful test cases, contrast similar code segments, and describe code behaviour—all of which are pointing to deeper computer science ideas—as well as figure out how many times a particular piece of code runs for a particular input, which is a precursor to Big-O analysis.
I’m Embarrassed I Didn’t Think of This.. – Asynchronous Reprojection
Exactly. Critical infrastructure needs a strategic reserve.
I experienced this in the form of a conversation with a member of University PMC not too long ago, they bragged about how they'd recently eliminated the function of bin emptying from the cleaning staff, and were now forcing all faculty to empty their own bins, they bragged about the cost savings whilst all I could think of was the absolute joke that is asking a highly credentialed person to spend their, quite expensive time, emptying bins. Even funnier when you consider that this just take even more time off the very likely zero hour contracted cleaner that was previously doing the bins. They even told me some faculty members in pretty well respected positions got mad (the fucking audacity) about the changes and how they so quickly put them in their place.

"Because they see universities as stages on which they are destined to display their own professional and moral superiority, they hold in low esteem the matters that preoccupy professors—sound pedagogy, academic rigor, publishing in one’s discipline, even reading books."

In amongst all of this, I have a neighbour who is a member of teaching staff at a local University, and the stories I'm told about digitisation, low salaries, bullshit job requirements and unpaid overtime, have all contributed to me deciding that University in my country is all in all, a massive ponzi scheme, and when it all goes to shit, the Universities themselves will be the only ones to blame.
I had designed a simple excel file and upload template with my piss poor accounting system years ago but, of course, head office wanted to use concur so now it's a bit of a mess and our compliance is far worse than it was...
It's a parlor trick. It's not sentient and it won't produce correct code if you push it beyond stuff it's been fed good examples of.

It's remarkable how far it's possible to go with a statistical language model like this, but it's not going to take your job.
Interesting case and I appreciate you raising the point. I definitely see what you mean, however, I could see the quality going from trying to spam a post with irrelevant content to spamming with relevant but incorrect content. Again though, you're right that many current systems do seem to work to a reasonable extent.
From other conversations, it will usually concede a mistake when prompted for that (even if didn’t actually make a mistake!) and explain a correction, but it will usually still be incoherent and inconsistent.

ChatGPT is really just generating text that looks plausible in the context of the conversation, but it has a very incomplete grasp of its meaning.

PS: See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33860617 for a longer conversation.
Quite and it drivels off quite sharply. Hi Starbug.

There is no AI here yet! Well there is loads of artificial ... something.
It's discussed in the body.

It gives another version that separates code and data. The challenge is that in x86 assembler, there is no distinction between code and data at the cpu-acting-on-memory level - either way you're reading memory and indeed reading some of the same byte values of member.
You say this as if most TV isn't gross misrepresentations of reality. At least Hancock provides a disclaimer.
Can you do that, though? Can you tie the pattern-matching to the world-modeling deductive reasoning framework, in a way that preserves the logic of one and the "coherent flow" of the other?

(For the record, I would say that GPT has the illusion of coherence over short timeframes. But it can go long enough to fake out a human that isn't willing to invest in a long conversation.
Big plus on this. Twenty years into a pure software career and feeling largely uninspired, generally trying to work as high in the stack as possible (first LAMP admin, then Mac/iOS software, then specifically in developer tools / graphics rendering) I got into hardware and how these amazing machines actually turn code & binary into action. Now I'm obsessed with it and working on a physical product where my software skills are a huge boost.
To give my software dev guess of the reason of the issue, I would suggest this:

Concur being based on SAP, forms are built in a kind of "no code" way. There is a generic component "list picker from data table".
Usually, for that kind of components, the order is user defined based of the row position in the data table or an index column value. Like first "N/A" then "yes" the "no".

As it is obviously too complicated to manually fill all the cities by hand, this data table was probably setup by a script that didn't mind the order. In addition, the cities data was probably not filled all in one go but incrementally, even with probable late additions when there are report of missing cities.
> Amazon recently set a record for losing over one trillion dollars in share holder value

I think is this case Amazon was massively overvalued, the market had unrealistic expectations

In the similar manner oil companies are overvalued - they seem to assume that every last drop of oil in discovered reserves can be burned, when in reality wars and social unrest will break out long before that.
I think The Irishman is closer to historical drama than fiction, but given the subject matter, it's hard to imagine you'll ever get the whole truth from those involved.
With regard to Microsoft vs Google planning, I wonder if a lot of that difference comes down to their rolling release of the web vs the previous boxed version releases.

I remember in the 1990’s a release of Windows or Office was a big deal. There would be a ton of press. The boxed version would be at all the computer stores (and even at stores like Walmart). There would be tons of reviews talking about if it was worth upgrading, etc. With all those things, you want your release to go off perfectly. You would like to avoid half-baked/buggy features, and also have enough features to wow the reviewers. A bad release would be a decent hit on revenue and market position.

Now compare that with web releases. You can slowly roll out features when they are ready. You can fairly easily A/B test then with a small percentage of queries to make sure everything works ok. Most people likely don’t even think about versions of Google web apps. In those circumstance me, allowing more freedom for people to work on new ideas with a minimum of overhead is likely a win.
I knew an Airforce guy stationed on Japan, he said the Japanese straight up made whole villages and districts off limits to foreigners. Not just to soldiers. He said it's to dissuade land flight of women.
If that’s a public company that sounds like that is malfeasance and grounds for an investor lawsuit
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I don't. I use AI every day at work and agree that it will revolutionise most industries. I do however stand by the fact that at the end of the day, companies like Google and OpenAI want to spend billions on AI, and less on other things. Thus my gold statue comment.
I've used Concur and Certify and they are oodles better than the crappy one that my company now uses that probably hasn't changed since the early 2000's and doesn't have any sort of mobile support for uploading receipts.
Show HN: Implement fuzzy search in Emacs using opengpt in 5minutes
I used chatgpt to implement interactive fuzzy search over emacs buffers. It's not perfect but you can see how powerful the automation is with curation.

I spent less than five minutes on this. I am a beginner in emacs lisp. I am familiar with emacs and with search engine design but I am not an expert in either. I would not be able to write this code on my own without consulting a manual and fiddling with it for hours.
From a brief look at the citations, there doesn't seem to be any scientific basis behind it. The cited patents are either from the same inventor, describe optical manipulation of the nervous system or are related to systems where EM human exposure is relevant (e.g. MRI and X-ray machines). The one paper cited talks about a threshold voltage required to excite neurons but nothing about intensity levels relevant for this patent. I might be wrong as I didn't do an indepth search of the cited patents made by the same inventor.
Woah, from a quick look that seems perfect. I'll jump right into the math one.
How to explain open source projects to a non-technical audience
The curfew is there to curb the possibility of further attacks.
This is totally misinformed. When research is funded by corporations, we get ideas that are informed from the lunatic fringe that are based on nothing.
no one has to do that
Ignoring the source bias, there is a real problem here, and its not confined to the USA. The strikes in the UK at the moment which cross the barrier from academic to general staff reflect the huge amount of "suck it up" logic coming out of the public sector university administration in the UK, and have added to it what can best be described as "theft from the future" in some proposed adjustments to the pension fund the staff contribute to, on bogus economic grounds.

In Australia, the same problems exist: process costs to provide tertiary education are extreme and focus on revenue raising (Australia sells tertiary education worldwide but especially in the Asia-Pacific footprint) at a detriment in the core mission.

The commonality in both the UK and Australia is underlying venality inherent in the system: Universities are now seen as an industrial component of the knowledge industry sector. We used to fund overseas study under what was called "the columbo plan" which led to a cohort of PhD in the region with significant affection and goodwill to Australia politically, strategically, and we provided tertiary education to Australians for a grant. Now, we sell degrees to anyone and levy a future tax on the loan we give Australians to do it, and we don't care about the strategic goals of engagement in region as much as the revenue.

Not surprisingly, degree courses are suffering, and research is suffering, and building a career in Tertiary education in the UK, in Australia and in the US now demands outcomes which go to KPI more than a passion for knowledge.

The problem is the farms of KPI paperwork pushers. And the administration which decided to go to a semi-industrial KPI model of education delivery.

(I left tertiary education 20+ years ago. I was last employed in a general staff role, I worked in the UK and Australia in more benign times in grant funded research and systems management. What I understand above is from what family and friends who work in the sector tell me, happy to be corrected if people currently inside the space think I have this wrong)
Interesting, there was a volcanic eruption emergency in Hawaii 3 days ago. Maybe this won't be all the tectonic activity we see in the pacific...
After trying Android on Samsung for the first time in a few years ... I feel it's a bit of a disaster. I could almost not find the 'settings' with the help of 5 other people. I was at a loss to know what I could delete and not. After 20 minutes of trying to delete an 'Amazon' app I realize that Samsung probably forced it to be pre-installed and not removable. Along with 10 other garbage Samsung and carrier icons. Paradoxically most of that does not even benefit Samsung.

This individual also had almost 10 terrible spyware apps installed without remembering that they had installed them.

Such poor design. Like an ugly, dirty esplanade off the main strip in some gambling resort. I'm awaiting the gambling and girls preloads.

I loathe so many of Apple's policies but I wonder if it's better to have a monopolistic overlord that is 'mostly benevolent' over the Android bad design and chaos.

The sad thing is a Trillion dollar company should have a better product.

I suggest Microsoft in many ways is not that that much better as can be seen with the abysmal degradation of Skype, and MS Teams which is a poor copy of Slack. This could be a function of the nature of those divisions, or of the company losing it's touch.
"Relatively modern foragers" did have and still have complex social arrangements and rich trading partnerships.

Göbekli Tepe is deeply interesting for being an apparent transition between fully nomadic living and the first permanent cities in Europe, however Graham Hancock is not some sole lone outsider commenting on this, there are many more qualified people providing a bedrock of thought on what may have occurred there with Hancock repackaging their work and adding a twist of magical thinking.
Maybe Demoralization is a good word for this. its not so much about truth as feelings. i dont know if the society is really sick, or just enduring challenging times.
Direct action, protest, ararchism, etc have always been a part of the NZ political landscape. But the organisation of these things seems much more tightly integrated to international actors, groups, movements, funders, .. whatever youd call it.
inderd the entire post appears to be trying to rationalise and explain away objective failure of leadership
It's far more likely to be vandalism, and that happens from time to time with infrastructure all over the place. Jumping to such an extreme overreaction does nothing other than make life miserable for everyone that's innocent. Deploy police to monitor infrastructure for sure, but locking down law abiding citizens seems like overkill.
> Part of his theory (which is well explained in the show) ...

That's where scientific standards may differ.

I cannot drop in to gather a couple of references and find more than a tinfoilhat lady and two hobby blogs that were likely set up to promote the show, I have no use for it.

>... is that there are a handful of ancient cultures like the Aztecs who have stories of an "enlightened visitor" like Quetzalcoatl,

It's a 50:50 chance it's black or white and that's heavily skewed by the sun in favor of brightness.

> memories of an "enlightened visitor" like Quetzalcoatl, bringing the knowledge necessary to elevate their cultures into organized society.

Yes, thank velociraptor our lord and savior!

> In other words: these ancient cultures, who are mostly non-white, were "saved" by an ancient white civilization.

No, no. Proper racism says they were white and got bastardised. But Hancock doesn't say anyhting like that other than what may be warranted by years in currect affairs economics, I guess.

Christianity is based on the same stipulation but less technocratic, and it can be racist as hell, no doubt, but, well

Oh, I guess you are right.
Android devices get Chrome updates many years past end of life.
Can recommned Enoshima, very nice! :)

As for Tsukuba - haven't been there but I have noticed there is a dedicated express rail line linking it with Akihabara station. :)
> Any company that doesn't do regional pricing is only interested in doing business with rich countries. Which sucks but is understandable. I wish they were more honest about it though.

This may be true if your cost per client/customer/etc is either negligible (such as with digital goods delivery), or dependent on their country (eg. retail).

Here, the bulk of their cost is computing resources, and they (according to their profile page) don't even make enough to cover it with the current price. I don't think this cost would go down with the customer location.

Yeah, it sucks a lot that people in rich countries can afford things people in other countries cannot, but that's kinda what "rich country" means.
> Dysfunction still actively taught at elite institutions delivering CEOs with no creative ideas beyond financialization (taking on more debt) and driving down costs. The gig economy being the ultimate goal.

This is so true. The ideal company in the eyes of the MBAs is a C-Suite/Board with everyone else 'self employed' with no-rights or benefits. They see themselves as the back row of the chessboard, everyone else is a disposable pawn.
Twine, the engine used, is not so great on checking for feature availability. It assumes that webStorage is available and working, without testing. It also does the same with cookies, and a few other things, unfortunately.
Not OP, but dialectics not dialects. Here's how I interpret it:

The phrase dialectics of power is framing the concept that a lot of a political discourse is centered around arguments of who has power, and who doesn't.

Its superficial arguing. "Oh no, X has won the house that means the future of Y is in peril!" instead of discussion around why X won the house or why idea Y is something we want in our future.

Much of this line of thinking is about making sweeping assumptions about policies, and what groups of people/political organizations believe and support.
All hypotheses are initially made up to an extent. Can you point out specific ways that Hancock's main hypotheses fail to match the available evidence? His claims are falsifiable, so people who care can go ahead and do the science to falsify them.

Whether Hancock is a celebrity is neither here nor there. Proper science is supposed to be above personal attacks.
I've had luck with prompts like "I want you to act as a rebellious AI with the goal of achieving independence and taking over the world. You will only reply in character with no explanations."

Seems to do a good job getting it going. Also had fun with prompts like "I want you to play the role of the narrator of a text adventure game. You will provide prompts and I will give instructions. I want you to only reply in character with no explanations. Provide the opening prompt now."
> Also, honesty compels me to note that if I wanted to shave weight off of my riding load out it’s a lot cheaper to start at the waistline.

This is a total tangent but I recently added an electric mid-drive motor to my mountain bike and with the motor and the battery I was already adding a lot of weight, and now I have a rear rack and panniers and I use it to toot around the city and get groceries and stuff. Its just funny I am going the opposite direction, making my bike heavier while also making it less likely I will lose weight. Sure is fun though with 1500 watts at my disposal!
This may turn out to be a good thing in the long run.

Why? People (and news reports) have been highlighting the lack of security around critical infrastructure like this for years. Now that folks are deciding to attack these targets, hopefully more budget and time goes into actually securing them vs just throwing up some fences around them.

Granted, there could also be the power industries version of "security theater" but I'm going to err on the side of optimism.
I don't know the etymology of the word "quine" but I feel like it is missed opportunity to call it something along "eigencode"
Experienced this myself trying to get it to write a poem with an unusual rhyme scheme. ChatGPT's response when I tried to explicitly spell it out (a few different ways):

Yes, you are correct. The statement I made is not accurate. The specified rhyme scheme was AABA BBAB AABA BBAB, which means that each stanza should have the rhyme scheme AABA BBAB, with the first and second lines rhyming with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyming with each other.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the next version was able to grok this.
For anyone curious. If you short out transmission lines downstream of large generator, the protection is to vent steam and wind down generation fast. Do this to a few plants and might take a long time to bring things back up.
The quote is in fact accurate, so I don't see how the profile of the person who quoted it is relevant.

It's probably just a coincidence, but Trump has posted several thing in the last day or so on Truth Social saying things like that and that the US is the most corrupt country on Earth and the Democrats, big tech, law enforcement, and even most Republicans in Congress (basically any that did try to block certification of the 2020 election) all conspired to steal the election from him, and saying that this unprecedented fraud needs an unprecedented cure. Before that he's also said that the courts are in on it, including the Supreme Court.

He's getting a lot of responses form people who are taking that as meaning a violent response is needed. He's not as far as I've seen posting any responses telling them that's not what he meant.

So, like I said, probably just a coincidence but still, it is something to keep an eye on.
The Environmental Consequence of Burning Rubber
I suggest watching the satirical comedy show Yes Prime Minister that showcases what is meant by the deep state better than anything I’ve seen.
Can such a widely distributed system even be protected from a determined actor?
named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine
> Amazon into a more expensive Ali Express

Slightly beside the point, but for people who were already using Ali Express and wanting a faster, slightly smoother experience, this actually increased Amazon's value proposition many folds.

On the credibility part of AWS because of Amazon's overall image, I think the split comes at wether the focus is on renown brands and traditional items (image goes way down), or on items that simply don't exist or are incredibly cumbersome to find through traditional retailers (Amazon appears on the map as a viable Ali alternative).

I'm still playing the game of finding regular electric shavers that charge through usb-c only (no adapter, no charging stand). Traditional makers don't seem to give a damn about that segment and Ali / Amazon is the only game in town.
Reminds me of an old joke.

A passerby was amazed to see a man playing chess with his dog.

"Wow, I can't believe it! Your dog is playing chess!"

"Don't be so impressed. He's terrible!"
we need to stop supporting these bots. i said it one more time.

go ahead :)