skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New scientist got a reply from the authors and a few other experts: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2384782-room-temperatur...

>Kim has only co-authored one of the arXiv papers, while the other is authored by his colleagues at the Quantum Energy Research Centre in South Korea, some of whom also applied for a patent on LK-99 in August 2022.

>Both papers present similar measurements, however Kim says that the second paper contains “many defects” and was uploaded to arXiv without his permission. In that paper, the work is described as opening a “new era for humankind”.

>Other experts that New Scientist consulted were similarly sceptical about the results and the data produced. Some raised concern that some of the results could be explained by errors in experimental procedure combined with imperfections in the LK-99 sample.
Does not blocking Chromium devolve in behavior to a comparable level as WEI? Seems like the same problem is introduced: breaking the web.
I'd encourage a strong "progressive tax" that could for example follow the power law: you get log(x) of what your influence is. Getting to 1x (let's say a median pay in a given country) should be pretty easy but to get something like a $1M you would have to make software used on a massive scale.

Whatever revenue you generated that is above what you got paid would go towards the less "lucrative" projects and maintainers keeping the open source going.
What about the part about it that says it’s in “beta” and requires the driver to pay full attention at all times?
I don't want to put words into the OP's mouth with regards to his assertion about Schmidt, but given the loose wording: "basically shadow president", it's fair to say it isn't meant literally, and it usually comes with a negative connotation and to imply that Schmidt was so deeply involved, from a standpoint of strong biases in favor of Google and the obvious potential for corruption in participating as an advisor to someone (Obama) who doesn't have the same grasp on technology — and the extent and length of Schmidt's involvement throughout Obama's terms.

It could be said that Schmidt disproportionately influenced important decisions in the tech realm, to a degree nearly equal to executive authority, because it presumably (and greatly) outweighs the opinions of the other heads of Big Tech, so long as Obama was naive enough to agree with him on key issues he didn't fully understand.

This is especially damning in light of the NSA / Prism scandal during Obama's term, and Big Tech's involvement and compliance with that.

Of course, anyone could assert this about an advisor to a President depending on the President's level of knowledge and outright willingness to apply their advice, even if in spite of fairness (competition), rights, laws, or precedents.
I miss Cold Fusion. What a wonderful idea. It's a shame reality didn't cooperate.
The Apple Collection (1986)
You're just saying that the problem with legislation is you need to legislate. Yes, enforcing laws first requires writing them.
Wear these downvotes as a badge of honor for truth-telling.
I'm still of the opinion the industry response to spectre was wildly overblown. It's been five years and not one single damn person has been a confirmed victim of it yet we all tied an albatross around our CPU's neck the moment the news broke.
Daily stand-ups are a problem when people don't understand the purpose of the meeting.

Social bonds are built through repeated casual social interactions. Standups are a mechanism for building social bonds within the team by creating an environment where they take place.

If you think that standups are about status updates or resolving blockers than you're being led astray.
If both believe in it and fulfil their bargain, it is not fraud.

Fraud requires intention of missleading.

Also, what most customers want, is emotional comfort. And whatever we think of it, it seems to work for them. Even though personally, I'll go with south parks take on it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sH0dZDnD_GI
It isn't. Permanent magnets would be unstable. This would have to be a diamagnetic or superconducting material.
There is a third concern besides scale and linkage -- errors and accountability. Sometimes these services are wrong.

When they are wrong, and people get arrested, go to jail, or pay thousands in legal fees to clear themselves...there is no accountability. Sometimes, the law enforcement who use the systems rely ONLY on these systems, not on the underlyer data (e.g. images) to validate an arrest.

Minimally, the services should have to produce an original image/video when surfacing information that will be used for legal action. Secondly, the services should be held financially responsible for legal costs when mistakes are made.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/technology/facial-recogni...
"Hello, world" and Bell Labs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_World
I've commented in more detail elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36885174) but I don't understand how holdbacks solve anything about this issue; if anything they make me more skeptical of Google's motivations.

The TLDR is that I don't see how I'm supposed to believe that this discourages sites from using invasive fingerprinting techniques if those sites are essentially required by holdbacks to still have those invasive fingerprinting techniques at the ready: and 1 in 10 requests even from a browser that implements WEI will still be subjected to those fallback techniques, so your browser/device is still basically guaranteed to be fingerprinted by any site you visit regularly.

You can't discourage the development of something and require it at the same time.

And if the experience of non-participating browsers is so much worse that it's obviously better to implement WEI, then we're right back to the same DRM and competition questions that we had before.

If holdbacks are rare enough that sites can ignore them (or statistically filter them out and determine if a browser actually implements the spec), then those sites don't need to have a fallback mechanism and we're right back to DRM. However, if holdbacks are common enough that sites can't ignore them (and if they can't statistically determine whether or not holdbacks are holdbacks or a non-implementing browser), then everyone is still going to be subjected to the fallback techniques that Google says it's trying to discourage.
I'm reminded of Robert Tilton, who was exposed for depositing/trashing prayer requests/donations without actually praying over them. Sadly it seems like he largely escaped intact. I suspect being a grifter is a very strong risk factor for being too lazy to grift 'correctly', no matter how easy it would be.
But he wasn't being transphobic, far from it. He was reflecting upon his own experiences of gender dysphoria, what he learned from this, and how he dealt with it. His trans journey is no less valid than anyone else's.
> I recently broke down for an entire day after a judgemental encounter with someone, and learned about Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

Highly recommend to be radically honest and natural about everything. Every time you get a piece of info about yourself aka natural feedback will immediately enlighten you and help you expand your perspective and move forward.

It's a bit counter-intuitive because so many of us are taught to hold thoughts, words and actions back, but once I stopped doing that, things started to improve massively.

I watched non-ADHD people attempt the same but none of them evolved (my sample is small, 40+ people, I don't have notes on all of them). So far, the only difference I could find, was ADHD-pattern-recognition + that weird ADHD-Naïvité <3
There's an active incentive NOT to disrupt that relationship.
I'm gonna go ahead and say in 2023, one detailed picture (512x512) is worth about 30 words.
Speaking about WordPress, what does anyone do about diffable version control and automated deployment? From my naive perspective, it seems like an opaque database is just a bad idea
> We didn’t need a JIRA board or a roadmap or someone to help us plan or prioritize. We simply got our work done. Imagine that.

How did you prioritise?
DRN is a database of historical vehicle locations (2019)
Tell that to your boss.

Also if google wants to, I'm sure they can obscure it
> And if your hosting server does not support SQLite ...

I thought SQLite was file based. What's there to support?
18-Wheel ATV Is Borderline Unsettling to Watch
I would argue it's both: Yes, there are more scientists than ever but the scientific landscape has also become considerably larger. Everyone is doing research in a different niche and every niche occupies maybe 5-10 people. Also, no one knows all fields or research anymore. So any sort of breakthrough will take time.

And we probably did have a lucky run in the sense that the phenomena in fundamental physics are comparatively simple – at some point you will have solved them. They are not nearly as complex as phenomena in condensed matter, for example, where there might be some overarching patterns & schemes, but ultimately every material is still going to be slightly different and come with unexpected (or at least very material-specific) properties. (The recent discovery of the room-temperature superconductor might be a prime example here.)

The thing with complexity is, well, that it's complex. Why are you expecting any general breakthroughs?
BlackRock: The Company That Controls* the World's Governments [video]
[dupe]

More discussion and report over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36884230
I'm actually using Facebook a lot lately after having sworn off reddit a long time ago. Cursed AI, a group related to the kind of car I own (report/sharing problems), local news...

I don't really use it much for the social stuff.
I had more than one remote co-worker reach out to ask me about or commiserate over whether or not the business would fire them for not being vaccinated. I can certainly say people _felt_ coerced and manipulated which might be the most important part at the individual level.

I also watched a lot of people get vaccinated and rack up multiple infections in the following year.

My wife convinced me to do it but I was very conflicted internally. I ended up fine and still haven't had an infection, as far as I know.

My brother desisted and wore a mask all the time at work, he cought it once, maybe twice.

Whatever the results are in the end, the damage to people's trust in the government, pharmaceuticals, and media may never be repaired, pro or anti mRNA vaccine.

It's a real tragedy.
In the South, which lagged way behind the North for the simple reason that slavery was a disincentive to innovation and industrialization. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about this. The difference between slave-holding South and mostly-/entirely-slave-free North was stark.

Slavery didn't build the U.S. The mostly-slavery-free North built the U.S.
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can anyone summarize the volume of such training that was used in the comparison?

EDIT: At least the isometric exercise part is answered in the comments below [1]

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36884118#36884647
This is the second, slightly cleaner paper with more figures: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2307/2307.12037.pdf
Even better, they lease the camera systems to police departments to put on traffic lights at major intersections and along highways.

When doing a search very few of the hits I've seen have been from vehicle mounted cameras.
Editorialized the title because the original title, "This Company Built a Private Surveillance Network. We Tracked Someone With It" exceeded the title length limit, and is slightly clickbaity
Link to an actual article/release/links:

https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
Why are we in debt to them? Google has become stinking rich from everything that they've done. That's payment enough.
Meta Reports Second Quarter 2023 Results
>so maybe it is just diamagnetism.

Superconducting levitation is just due to the perfect diamagnetism of the superconductor, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdiamagnetism
> I don't totally understand the concept of having an everything app. Isn't the OS the "everything app"?

Why are you downloading apps from the App Store instead of running separate OSes? This is the same concept, just one level down.

Really, WeChat is just a browser with extra APIs and a website catalog.

> Do people like the wechat experience because you have one login and don't have to go through an onboarding process in every mini-app?

I’m not fully familiar with its history, but from what I understand Tencent added more and more “apps” to their chat app and eventually let third parties into it. This is exactly what Facebook did in 2010: we also had third party “apps” on Facebook. They were also just iframed websites with extra APIs.
There are loads of bounty payouts in the hundreds of thousands. Probably 1000 payouts per year at that size. Most protocols would rather pay out $1 million than lose $100M to an exploit.
I agree. It sounds like an army private testifying before congress about hidden stocks of blinker fluid. Whoever originally played the prank on him must be rolling on the floor during this testimony.
More discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36884230
What grid scale storage are you referring to? The only one I know is pumped hydro, and that's quite iffy efficiency wise, can be expensive, and you need the landscape to do it (I'm personally in a very flat area with nothing for a good thousand miles).

Legit question too. I know we have a bunch of nascent tech, but haven't heard of anything at scale.
> while countries like China that have left the market run its course have jumped from having a billion poor to lifting 600 million out of poverty.

It's more complicated and nasty than that.

Markets are much more efficient than central planning. Outside of perhaps North Korea, nations mix them to varying degrees and ways.

The Chinese government permits markets up to a certain size, and then it begins taking over the large players via things like replacing leadership, buying off leaders, absorbing leaders, threatening leaders with "re-education", things like that. The companies then engage in markets internationally but are heavily managed internally by the government.

Just look what happened to Jack Ma.

So China is using these international markets to bring in tons of money and has brought generations out of poverty.

BUT

We shouldn't ignore the One Child Policy that lasted for decades. We also shouldn't ignore than Deng Xiaoping's market reforms came _after_ Mao killed 10s of millions of people pushing his Communist utopia. We shouldn't ignore that the Chinese population was deliberately restricted so there would be fewer Chinese to divide the prosperity among.

It's complicated and nasty.

I'm less familiar with the Chinese government's involvement in African nations, but the bit I've gathered is this: they are the dealer at the casino, they always have the advantage, even if you're winning individually, the casino is raping everyone else.

Yes, nations should be wary of foreign aid from The West. Nations should also be wary of investment from China. Neither are looking out for the people of the nations they claim to be helping.
I think you can choose to enable or disable the SQLite driver when compiling php.

Not sure why any host would disable it, but I could see it happening.
Can we just send some current through it and see if it heats up?
Also note that the Amazon padded packaging says to remove paper labels before recycling, but it practically impossible to remove the Amazon paper labels (at least in my experience).
> adjust your paths as necessary.

What does this mean, exactly, and how does it prevent llama from carrying on a (rather pleasant, actually) conversation with itself?
Ask HN: Anyone else getting continuous adverts from YouTube?
As per the title, anyone else getting continuous adverts from Youtube, making it impossible to watch anything on Youtube? Cant jump forward as it goes straight to an advert, even started watching youtube channels in the search list, but the youtube controls keep changing as well as well as dissappearing. One even managed to crash the computer, wiped out the screen, the keyboard, the mouse.

Keep getting an Eon advert over and over again, 20 seconds long, singing away something about time is running out, and then immediately after the Eon advert loads of junk adverts for spurious health conditions which all seem to be voiced over by the same bloke?
it feels like the most unlikely number of ET races monitoring earth would be 1. If it's possibly _at all_ that there is intelligent life elsewhere and it has the capacity to reach across the galaxy / universe and monitor us, surely there'd be multitudes of them given the scale of the universe. so it's not that weird to observe this kind of diversity.

(not making a claim on the veracity of the reports)
>There is no physical evidence whatsoever.

You do know that you literally can't make that claim in good faith, right? That is simply your belief and, in fact, is contrary to the testimony of all three witnesses, all of which were personally invited to speak before Congress because of what they know. Clearly, you were not invited, though I suppose that itself is a belief.

All three witnesses claim that advanced military sensor platforms have gathered extensive information on UAP. Is that a piece of a craft? No. However, one of the witnesses testified under oath that he had direct knowledge of where such materials exist. You should want to see where his claims lead, if you truly believe in your closing statement.

>The only “evidence” is hearsay.

If that's your position, you didn't watch the hearing. One of the three witnesses is only there because he experienced a UAP while serving as a flight commander, and his former aviators reluctantly persuaded him to come forward. That individual is a primary source.

>Also, the members of the committee can lie without repercussions, so I don’t believe them. And the military lies to the public all the time.

Ah, so you're a conspiracy theorist. /s

>Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Any person can dismiss extraordinary evidence as illegitimate if they reject the underlying premise. You can have video evidence of a person clearly committing murder, but that doesn't mean a family member won't still claim it's not them or it's fabricated. A piece of material from a craft could be brought out in a hearing, and some people will still claim that it's fake or impossible to prove that it wasn't made on Earth in a government lab. An alien could testify before Congress, and some people will claim it's an elaborate fake using rubber masks and advanced robotics.

In this case, we do have historically-extraordinary evidence (submitted as sworn Congressional testimony and personal statements) of the existence of UAP. You just don't accept one or more of the following underlying premises:

- Physics as is commonly accepted is incomplete.

- Military pilots are better observers than the average person.

- Life of equal or greater intelligence exists beyond humanity.
Be very careful with this around folks with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Anything you say can and will be used against you to maximum destructive effect. Including them actively triggering the states that cause you to be confused and dysphoric anytime you seem to be starting to figure it out or get away.

And they will often actively lie to you or manipulate you if they know you’ll take what they say seriously and uncritically. There are many, many ways to do this.

Many ADHD folks are people pleasers, and NPD folks will actively use those people’s tendencies to destroy them and grin while doing it. I’ve seen it, it’s deeply disturbing.

Open and honest communication is great, with those capable of the same. Doing it with someone who is pathological is a recipe for disaster.

It’s possible to survive, but not until they’ve been fed through the meat grinder a few times and potentially after suffering more pain than you can possibly imagine.
They paid for a psychic reading, and from someone who they thought was a psychic. They weren't paying for psychic powers to be real. If I buy a book on psychic readings, is it alright for them not to send it to me because psychic readings aren't real? Is it "redundant?"
Ask HN: Are there any Business classified or Business Listing website for USA?
Hi,

I am trying to find any business listing or business classified website, especially for the USA, other than Yelp or Google GMB.
I was originally OK with some collection just to help their product team but seeing IP address, device ID, and account IDs makes this a massive nope for me. And I won’t change my mind on that even if they defensively drop them after seeing peoples feedback. I’ve paid for this app for nearly a decade and have been an adamant fan and user of their software. Why break my trust over something so stupid? I was expecting an apple-level privacy protection effort here. With so many paid users, there’s just no need to collect so many personal details to verify the legitimacy of data.

1pass - take a hint from apples privacy preserving photo scanning snafu last year - if you’re upsetting loyal users, take a step back, and rethink the system.
They’re probably thinking of shared hosting environments that don’t have the SQLite library for PHP installed. That seems like a concern you could raise about any database connector, though
Video description:

"What is modularity? Dividing code into separate files? No! Hiding data? Well, up to a point...protecting implementation details? Well, that’s a bit nearer the mark. But what does that really mean? How do you protect the implementation details of a module or an object? And why does it matter?"

"In this lesson, I look at some of the ideas and the history of modular programming. From Smalltalk to Modula-2, and onwards to C#, Ruby, Java and Object Pascal, I’ll try to explain what modularity is and why your code will be more reliable if you make use of it."

A summary at the end of the video:

"There is no one clear definition of modularity. Modules mean different things in different languages and different things to different programmers."

"But when I talk about modularity I mean a style of programming in which the internal details of an object both its data and its code are sealed off from the code outside that object. And to communicate with an object you have to use precisely defined ways into and out of that object. In some languages those ways into and out may be declared as interfaces. To an object-oriented language like Smalltalk the interfaces to an object are provided by methods that respond to messages."
Especially with empaths, they can sort of take over your mind for a while. I had the same experience in the past, although it was definitely distinguishable from the daydreaming I knew, which was more often just activated because of boredom at school or as a "passive pastime" in the train.
Doesn't this not work here? Just flag/downvote and move on.
Why though? Are all batteries inherently two way redox reactions?
Their Metaverse strategy is pretty much dead. Zuck didn't even utter that word during earnings. I guess it must be giving him chill after going through the roller coaster ride of their stock price swing. I don't think they are going for another rename anytime soon. But, when they'll - what they would like to rename to? I hope not GenAI. It's naive to name your co after a tech. Microsoft didn't call themselves Windows, then a rename to Azure, then again to ChatXXX :-)

Meta earnings official page - https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
My only point was it takes more than a billionaire with a dream to create a space program. VG is a complete failure from a getting into space perspective, I don't care how much money investors have given to them. They don't have anything unique or worth mentioning.

How Branson shuffles money around between VG and VO is irrelevant if the goal is getting into space and the name of the company matters even less.