skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can improve the current density a lot if you can make a single crystal, or at least make your crystal grains larger.

Impure superconductor samples often come out as a spongy mixture of superconducting and non-superconducting bits, the critical current is limited because less then 25% of the cross section is actually carrying current. When I was DIYing YBCO this is what happened most of the time. Every now and then you would get a good one.

See this patent for growing single crystals of YBCO.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6046139A/en

edit: Actually if you look at the sample picture in the paper on page 7, it looks like spongy crap. Nobel prize winning spongy crap, but still. I would expect the numbers to improve as better crystal growing methods are found.
Just like in previous super conductor findings once a material is made and understood that usually paves the way to new discoveries, sometimes those are (big) improvements on the status quo. I'd expect this finding - assuming it is true and verified - to result in massive funding towards the material science labs to try to improve on it. So I'd say this is example '1' of a new class of materials and if it holds up then probably we will find more members of that class once the mechanisms are understood.
That's more like a visit from jack the ripper. Not a shred of evidence left behind.
The whole concept, process of hiring, application must be redesigned!
Well yes and that its properly contained or otherwise shown to not pose an ingestion or undue exposure risk
Either you trust the TLS session to their website to deliver you software you're going to run, or you don't.
UPS drivers never get an overtime rate?
Time-travel seems miraculous to me, but uptake seems very slow to me.

I hope https://www.replay.io/ succeeds.
It's standard in the sense that the vast majority of unibody vehicles produced today have a 5k towing limit.
Well said – and it's mutually reinforcing excuses, even: Hosters don't need v6 because eyeballs support v4 anyway (through NAT); eyeballs don't need IPv6 because there's no v6-exclusive content.

But I suspect that that'll resolve at the very latest when v4 exhaustion starts hurting hosters (and maybe ISPs, they still need a few for CG-NAT after all) in earnest.

And once ISPs run out of internal v4 space and switches to v6 for that, there's no point in not just supplying public v6 addresses as well.
I might be a bit weird, but I find fitting proper connectors onto hardware super satisfying.

I suppose I see a good connector as a good polish to an interface, similar to what might be found in software, for example. I get the same type of satisfaction that comes from polishing the interface for some API or other product I’ve been working on for a while.

It just makes it feel more like a finished product. The final touch. The step moving away from jerryrig wires and oscilloscope probes to rugged connectors.
and GDB isn't a machine?
Still potentially annoying if you deal with some other code that expects UTF-8 proper and you pass it a wtf-8 string that fails the lifted verification.
> Fusion energy production doesn't (really) have that equivalent.

It does, actually. It's the miniaturization that's the hard part.
Is there an alternative explanation possible for the video? Couldn't it just be a magnetized piece of ferrite that is magnetized in a weird way causing it to lift up like that on a strong magnet?
It's in the nature of the device you're using: an Apple device. This implies there are non-Apple devices out there who will inevitably fail the check.

It's also in the way Apple allows its use; however that's not as strong. Apple has positioned this as a way to prevent CAPTCHAs from reaching the customer. Apple is interjecting with the provider and saying Hey, trust us. We can prove its a human because they're saying they're on iPhone. They're not positioning this as a way to deny service. Only to speed up access.
Because it is difficult to map that onto real business decisions and requires oftentimes supporting a large space of possible UI combinations because they haven't been fully ruled out yet.
Oh, the video capture device: because we had everything on analog CCTV, I had two analog TV tuner video capture cards in the server. Plain old 640x480 black and white analog video. When someone pressed the screen capture button on a Cocktail Console, I changed the channel on the video capture card to the appropriate channel, did a screen grab, and dumped the file in a folder on the server. People pressed it infrequently enough that two cards were fine to handle all the volume.

Every day I'd create a new mm-dd-yyyy folder for images to go to, and the Remote web site had a calendar on it. You could go to the site, click on the night you were there, see all the images captured by all people that night, and save your images if you felt like it.
Self-plug. Here’s a fork of the original llama 2 code adapted to run on the CPU or MPS (M1/M2 GPU) if available:

https://github.com/krychu/llama

It runs with the original weights, and gets you to ~4 tokens/sec on MacBook Pro M1 with the 7B model.
Indeed it is. One use of Unicode I do is for icons that can be used by console programs like (neo)vim. I was quite happy that xterm supports Unicode these days so I can use a fast terminal that supports OSC52 system clipboard integration(none of the newer gnome/KDE terminals do).

I was rather disappointed when I noticed my pretty Unicode icons would sometimes end up cut in half :-(
stationary. Hence the 'as long as it is moving' bit above. Because the motion allows for the coils to generate enough of a current to drive the compensation. So you need a support system to bring the assembly up to a certain minimum speed above which it will stably levitate.
>That would imply that NAT is some kind of firewall. It's not. NAT doesn't block connections, so it's not a firewall.

I know. I am arguing with the people who think NAT is a good security mechanism. I called it an accidental firewall because without configuring NAT, you do not have a path from the Internet to a private network. I'm speaking on their terms.

>In the first place, NAT is something you apply to outbound connections, not inbound ones

Where in the literature did you read this? You absolutely can NAT in any direction you wish. Source NAT, Destination NAT, many-to-one NAT, 1:1 NAT, etc.

Source: multi-decade network and security engineer
There is also a video posted above from where the photo is taken and it doesn’t look fake.
What are you using now instead of Personal Capital? I'm still stuck with them and looking for an alternative.
Questions of jurisdiction, evidence and costs all suggest otherwise.

This person has been dragged into an expensive American civil case .

She was clearly contactable as the corps had found her yet she was contacted with what any person who has any cybersecurity training would dismiss as a spam email.

The jurisdiction is a place she has never been.

This should case should have been thrown out, instead she got a summary judgement.

In Australia she could automatically be awarded costs at trial. Here she's going to have to counter sue.

And last but perhaps most significantly, it's clearly not her. Sure, we don't hear about any of the ones they knock back, but this shit would not even get close to getting up in a good legal system.
I started as a beta tester in 2006, took a two year break and then used it extensively until 2011. By that time most of the people I liked had left, but I retained one of my alts until around 2019 when I finally closed the account.

For reasons I don't quite understand, I can't close the @retrocryptid account. Which seems weird. I created it a while ago when I thought having the same name on numerous services was important, but it was never my primary account. I'm not sure what I did or didn't do to disallow me from deactivating the account.

I couldn't care less about the rebrand.
If Apple says it is to prevent the user from seeing a CAPTCHA, trust them at their word, with all the implications it entails.

If Google says it is to prove to advertisers that a human is seeing their ads, trust them at their word, with all the implication it entails.
I ran into one problem with monocoque/unibody construction. I ran my wife's Honda Pilot into another vehicle on icy roads. Around 5 mpg, direct T-Bone. We drove home about 75 miles just fine. No leaking fluids. About 35,000 miles total on the car. Just smashed in the front right a little. Insurance totaled it and gave me $18,500. Body shop told me monocoque/unibody construction is very difficult and expensive to repair. Evidently, for anything more than plastic fender-benders, they're very frequently "totaled" instead of repaired.
Tuition at uc/cal state is free for residents, by law.

You must mean “fees”

:(
In software tools. Hardware tools are hardware.
Correct, the union does not recognize any performance standards. However, getting the (driving) job is done by demonstrating you can meet very high performance standards over the course of 30 days, and other things like even minor dishonesty can result in being fired on the spot. There's also lots of gentler pressure than "work faster or we'll fire you" that happens in practice, with a lot of contract language that can work both ways.
Xmpp is a good protocol. Zero of its problems were caused by XML. It has many really lousy and badly thought of and mutually inconsistent extensions, but an implementation can always ignore them.

All problems XMPP has are caused by the difficult problem which is decentralized messaging. Choose JSON or binary data format and eventually you'll encounter all the same problems again and again.
This appears to be your source [0]. I'm posting it because it's easier to have a conversation about the full report than about your extracts from the report.

[0] https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2022-10/nea-he-rolle...
The limit here is the "context window" length of the model, measured in tokens, which will quickly become too short to contain all of your previous conversations, which will mean it has to answer questions without access to all of that text. And within a single conversation, it will mean that it starts forgetting the text from the start of the conversation, once the [conversation + new prompt] reaches the context length.

The kind of hacks that work around this are to train the model on the past conversations, and then rely on similarity in tensor space to pull the right (lossy) data back out of the model (or a separate database) later, based on its similarity to your question, and include it (or a summary of it, since summaries are smaller) within the context window for your new conversation, combined with your prompt. This is what people are talking about when they use the term "embeddings".
Sorry to post twice on this thread, but this concept gets so little relative attention, and to me, this is a huge and viable idea. And low cost. Sure you need to cover a lot of land but if this technique was applied to farm lands it cloud have a disproportionate carbon sink effect relative to things like direct air capture or carbon storage. Worth additional attention IMO.

“Sprinkling basalt over soil could remove huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere”

https://physicsworld.com/a/sprinkling-basalt-over-soil-could...
Open source isn't about "ethics" and if fact is antithetical to trying to enforce your world view on others, which is the opposite of software freedom.

More pragmatically, I'd suggest anyone who thinks attaching ethical requirements to shared software read this article by open source lawyer Kate Downing who explains how pointless it is: https://katedowninglaw.com/2023/07/13/ai-licensing-cant-bala... To quote (it's a long article, this is nowhere near her full argument):

To put this another way, no license on earth is going to stop the Chinese Communist Party from using a model from Hugging Face to maintain biometric identification on its citizens, if that’s what it wants to do. If a terrorist organization wants to use the models to plan future attacks against Americans, maybe there’s no local court that cares to stop them from doing so.

What exactly is the sort of model that’s ok for North Korea to use however it wants, but whose use will require extraordinary levels of surveillance in the Western world? Are the licensors essentially arming hostile governments and terrorist organizations and only retaining control over law-abiding people? Do the licensors think it doesn’t matter if existing totalitarian regimes entrench their power over their helpless citizens even further so long as the licenses allow them to keep such practices at bay in the Western world? Is their technology not actually dangerous enough to warrant all these use restrictions?

To quote Heather Meeker, another open source lawyer (et al):

... we do not believe that a definition of Open Weights needs to import subjects such as privacy, human rights, or clearance of data inputs into its licensing principles. We know those are important topics, but they will take time to figure out. We are focused instead on the original idea of openness, and preserving the original goals of Freedom Zero of free software and open source.

https://github.com/Open-Weights/Definition

Muddying the definitions and goals of free software with subjective ethics is going to be extremely bad for the community and will accomplish none of the goals its proponents are after.
> Anecdotal of course but even amongst my high school class the only people who went to an Ivy league had 1) Ivy league professors as parents or 2) multi-millionaire levels of wealth.

I once did a LinkedIn search on my cohort of I.B. students from middle and high school, saw the exact same thing play out. The children of doctors and professors went to Ivies for undergrad, but nearly everyone went to competitive public schools (UNC, GA Tech) or "nearly ivy" (ex: Duke) and a large number now have advanced degrees from great schools. I don't think the Ivy kids actually did much better from what I can tell. But I think it's cultural/regional too, I don't think I ever met anyone growing up who went to an Ivy. I basically chose my top-choice college based on my Mom's favorite in-state basketball team (NC State) and never even considered non-public an option.
> I can understand why engineers are predisposed to see instantaneous A/B statistics as self-evidently positive

This is the crucial misunderstanding: in actuality, you are running a panel.

(There is no such thing as an A/B test outside of marketing. Running a meaningful panel requires some information on the population, your samples, the homogeneity of those, etc, just to pick the right test, to begin with. Also, you need a controlled setup, which notably includes a predetermined, fixed timeframe for your panel to run. Before this is over, you have no data, at all. You are merely tossing coins…)
Well I can experimentally confirm that it works on zsh/alacritty ;)
More deflections and thinly veiled ad homs instead of addressing the actual arguments previously presented.

This is just devolving into typical troll vs antitroll bs and I'm not interested in participating.

Review the thread and return to the actual arguments presented rather than continuing to avoid the actual issues raised/admitting you were wrong.
With some other languages, you have big projects that basically are your secondary stdlib. Boost in C++, Apache Commons in Java, etc. These can reduce a lot of your dependencies down to a single umbrella project who stewards everything. The number of developers who work as maintainers on the packages within these projects is probably comparable to the number of developers working on the same sorts of packages in Node, but they're all working under a single banner, effectively. It's about having dependencies within projects as organizations vs the NPM approach where basically every dependency is it's own project and organization.
https://www.foley.com/en/insights/publications/2012/08/emplo...

> An employer has no legal obligation to commence an immigration case. ... The employer may lawfully reject the job applicant because, if hired, that individual will ask the employer to take steps before the federal government to obtain authorization to employ him (an employment-based immigration case).

In other words, if you are not currently legally authorized to work in the US, the employer has no obligation to sponsor you for work authorization, and can simply reject you.

> This situation differs from one in which a job applicant has temporary work authorization that is independent of the employer and the applicant does not ask the employer to take on the legal obligation of an immigration case in order to employ him. The employer should not reject the job applicant simply because he has temporary work authorization.

On the other hand, a non-citizen with a green card, EAD, etc. is protected, and refusing to hire because of those documents is illegal.
To each their own I guess!

To be clear maybe the term « awful » was a bit harsh, I don’t want to shit on TST/Sidebery, I know the limitations they face on Firefox. I said it multiple times, but I’m mad that seeing the relative success of TST/Sidebery in their add on catalog, Mozilla didn’t invest anything in experience around vertical tabs, and tabs in general. Arc is fundamentally a big rethinking of what tabs should/could be in a browser.
Two points:

1. The SQL that I've seen output by PRQL isn't monstrous, at least no more than it would be coding by hand.

2. I do agree that I don't think PRQL will have much uptake until it is baked in to DB systems, at least as a plugin. One reason (among many) that I hate ORM systems is that with native SQL it's very easy for me to just capture a SQL statement from my DB logs and then search my code for an offending statement. But given how PRQL is transpiled, I don't see any reason it couldn't be essentially part of the query planner, so that query logs etc. are reported in PRQL and not SQL. E.g. the query planner already takes text (SQL) -> Query Plan, it seems rather straightforward to go text (PRQL) -> text (SQL) -> Query Plan, with the SQL intermediate just being an implementation detail I don't have to care about as a DB user.
The use case for photographers seems like a side effect of Instagram's popularity, not the problem they wake up every day trying to solve.
> superpowering of magnetic-confinement fusion

though worth remembering we still don't know how to stabilise plasma or sensibly generate electricity from it.

> It blows apart chip designers' thermal constraints

really? much of the heat in chips comes from the /connections/ between transistors etc?
Apple released Safari on Windows when a majority of Windows users were still using IE7. It was a genuine play for a pie of the Windows browser market and its search revenue. It had nothing to do with web apps. When it happened, Jobs positioned its release as a way to make Safari even better, since more people would use it and report issues and bugs.
AI is being used to create child sex abuse images and also to prevent them
How do you decide what model variant to use? There's a bunch of Quant method variations of Llama-2-13B-chat-GGML [0], how do you know which one to use? Reading the "Explanation of the new k-quant methods" is a bit opaque.

[0] https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-chat-GGML
It's never as simple as finding exploits in code review though. Trusted accounts are compromised or the credentials to the package manager are compromised or there is some other supply chain attack. Larger packages tend to have a lot more community and governance around them than your typical JS-style function-as-a-dependency left-pad affair, so maybe they're safer if computer accounts are gatekeeping the published artifacts rather than having individuals embed their personal keys or tokens into the publishing pipeline.

I've had this debate before and, as far as dependencies go, sometimes you have to rip the bandaid off and audit your shit, and understand why exactly you outsourced something to a package.
Anyone can make a GDB. Haven't you noticed? Superpowers are fighting over ASML..
In my experience rubbing shoulders in these circles, kids going to the top tier prep schools are often just really impressive--the culture at these schools normalizes an expectation of high achievement across multiple domains. Not uncommon to see the same kid be a starting quarterback on the football team, an award winning painter, and a nationally ranked debater. I got into an Ivy equivalent college by enthusiastically pursuing my interests at a less competitive high school, and frankly, I think I might have cracked under the pressure at one of these top tier prep schools.

I completely believe that there are many majors/programs at Harvard no more rigorous/educational than those at decent large state universities, but make no mistake, these top tier prep schools are often leaps and bounds more difficult/rigorous than well ranked suburban public high schools, outside of the nationally exceptional magnets like Thomas Jefferson or Bronx Science.
There are other things to consider, specially data transfer and build times (apk is much faster than apt in my experience). If these and other benefits are worth the trouble of musl is up to each individual.
Any thoughts of representing topics across different notes or pages visually? I have always wanted something similar to the https://twitchatlas.com/ but for topics of interest to me. For example Quantum Physics would be a very large bubble. Within that bubble could be links to several sub-topics and branching out from there would be related topics.

I know I am not articulating this the best. I am a visual learner and going through pages and pages in OneNote and cherrytree has been ineffective.
Sharing a comment of mine (that got downvoted) from another, unrelated, thread. IMHO, it somewhat applies here as well:

> Looking back, we can see how Machine Code, with its intricate and challenging nature, paved the way for more accessible options. Assembly language then emerged, providing a higher level of abstraction and reducing the complexities of directly working with machine instructions. And of course, C followed suit, offering even greater simplicity and ease of use compared to Assembly.

> Imagine a future where programming languages, as we know them today, become akin to CPU instructions – a foundational and low-level primitive. LLMs will revolutionize the way we interact with code, providing a unified interface where the complexities of various languages are distilled into a common representation. The proliferation of individual programming languages will wane. Knowing Java or C++ will become a rare skill, akin to individuals specializing in low-level optimizations using Assembly language these days.

> As time progresses, even the convenience of LLMs may pose challenges, given our inherent tendency towards laziness, so an additional layer of abstraction will be introduced, bridging the gap between LLMs and spoken languages. BCIs will revolutionize the act of coding itself so that individuals can seamlessly "code" by simply "thinking" about their desired actions.
I don't have the experience to know if this is excellent, or riddled with factual errors, but I was looking for something like it; ideally a book.

For all the discussion of doing this or that - fine-tuning parameters or re-training a model - I haven't seen much in the way of step-back explainer, what are all the pieces, when can I use a canned binary model (cheap) and when do I need to train my own (expensive), what can I do with them, why have impressive image/video 'generative AI' come suddenly at the same time as ChatGPT and the like when, naively, there's no clear link to 'LLM' or NLP other than the relatively trivial piece of 'understanding' the request. (If that were a breakthrough, surely we would for years have had 'generate me a random Midjourney-esque image', or some selectable pieces.)

What's good 'I took one "Intro to ML" course years ago, just enough to grasp it conceptually as applied stats' reading material?