skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Superconductors can make very powerfull lossless conductors, and therefore powerfull magnetic fields. Which is great if you need to contain a fusion reaction. Also not needing to cool one side to near 0k and the hot side to millions of degrees helps viability of fusion.

Processors basacally convert almost all power into heat by resistive losses. With room temparature superconductors you'll only consume energy on the state changes of the processor.

With this superconductive material you could create loops of wire (like a resistor) but instead it would store energy practically lossless in a few seconds.

Superconductivity up to 100c and 1bar would be a historic moment in human ingenuity.
Yeah, I agree. It seems like the implementation simplicity comes at the cost of making it unreliable in the sense that depending on your schema design / data patterns, you could end up with much worse performance instead of much better performance. Also, if you do achieve better performance by really spreading out what pages you hit, you're decreasing your SSD lifespan through write amplification. [1]

On the bright side, the interface is simple enough, and maybe they could just swap out the implementation underneath for something more sophisticated later.

[1] Or on HDD, you really end up with lots of seeks for reading as well as writing. But that's probably unfair to consider: if you're using HDD, probably wanting more concurrency isn't your biggest opportunity to improve.
I feel like you anonymously and uncredibly (no offense intended) saying "sounds legit" kind of ignores the problem being pointed out here...
EPA process 1: use standard formulas. This is what Mercedes does and is more conservative and seems more accurate.

EPA process 2: Run tests and justify your numbers, essentially there to grandfather in range estimates from pre-2020
I don't think we need new technology for that.
The interconnects would have better loss functions. We'd be able to crank up the frequency to processor levels.
> has supposedly been waiting in the wings for a while

I'm not sure if that holds, the tic tac UFO has no actual wings :P
Maybe they've been in space so long that atmospheric flight is problematic for them? That seems unlikely, though.

My personal, unsupported belief, is that if there are aliens, Earth is like a nature preserve, and all the crashed ships are idiot tourists who, despite being told not to touch the buffalo, desperately want to touch the buffalo.
It's sad to see this kind of pop-sci garbage. This isn't science, it isn't even philosophy. It's pure speculation.

And hey, speculation is fine - but as soon this kind of speculation is phrased in an authoritative "this is how it is" kind of way, it becomes absolute garbage IMO.

It's even worse when it comes from an actual scientist.
Isn't it more compelling rather than less that my actions back up my words? I previously lived in California!
> All of the people who lived in the country of the Tigris and Euphrates were white. We don’t know how nor when nor where colored people first lived, though it is interesting to guess.

I guess you can read this as a funny, outdated text but I personally would not give it to my kid.
> The only thing it lacks is an open code base, but the team behind Vivaldi seem to have enough respect for their users

If it doesn't have an open codebase, how would you know?
That's not just from food and drink. Food and drink is much less, as you can see if you read that page.
Statement-based memory for neural code summarization
I believe you are right, here is a recent forum comment stating there are no plans to move this into the main branch: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/fccd3d8ccf9e45b9ae29f2e77...
Anyone have a non-paywalled link to the actual study?
If you open the patches and see their content, a good part of them are just one liners, or small file changes
> the ones that are left now are limping along in maintenance mode and just copying whatever Chrome does.

I think they're just padding out their resumes for the next job. If you aped a part of chrome into firefox, that probably gets you a leg up for working at google, or some company that has chrome integration.
Opposing same-sex marriage != opposing someone's existence

Unless you literally are same-sex marriage?
Corrected link: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/11/19/crinkle-crankle-ca...
I'm sorry you had to go through that. That is really terrible.
Anyone who thinks the utility of an EV is identical to an ICE car in the US is deluding themselves or never gets out of town.

I’ll probably take 10 long car trips a year often for camping but sometimes visiting friends. I know that most of the areas I’m driving through when I go east do not have the infrastructure at all and even if they do they’re still a hassle to use and add a bunch of time to a long drive. My mom had an EV so I have experience with range anxiety and the inconveniences of not running the AC, etc.

It’s a bad purchase in my opinion much better to get a hybrid
I'm afraid not, the magnetic field might be a bit too strong.

But for local/grid storage, it's perfect. Also, infinite magnets, this might allow for less neodymium in renewable. And probably dozen new applications we don't think of yet.

I said 3 years ago on this website that the only techno silver bullet I believed in against climate change was room-temperature superconductors, as this would help tremendously on

- interconnections,

- energy storage,

- efficiency,

And obviously help with plasma research, that would then help with both fusion and space catapult.

I was disappointed way too much by tech news in the last 10 years, but if this is true, I'd be really happy.
Does debugging work for you?

Neither in Notebook nor in Lab can I click in the gutter to set breakpoints. The debugging panel is open, the documentation is clear (except that by default there are no line numbers and you have to activate that), but nothing happens.

Where exactly am I supposed to click?
That process of irradiating food doesn't make the food radioactive.
Thanks for the comment! Yep Google provides Datastream. We tried it out and the experience was pretty good! However it was very much tied to the GCP eco-system. With PeerDB, our goal is to be open - be community driven than cloud driven. Also just to mention, as called out in the post there are more features apart from cdc (query based streaming, postgres as the target etc) that we will keep adding to help Postgres users.
I remember when it was fairly common practice (as reported on forums like Reddit at the time) that more tech aware family members would replace the Chrome icon with the IE one most of the time nobody noticed. People felt so passionately about getting off IE they'd do tricks like this (and others) to escape it.
> automated plagiarism without understanding anything

I'm old enough to remember the memes campaigning to rename "software engineering" to "googling StackOverflow", so plagiarism isn't a point against the value of an LLM, and given the case of an LLM made by StackOverflow using StackOverflow data it's also not a legal issue.
> You’ll have to do some deeper statistical analysis to discredit what they’re saying.

I don’t need to discredit it, my default is to not believe it unless there has been verification by an independent body. Over time you learn to look at the wording of claims from a company and read between the lines. They may have cherry picked some stat under certain conditions but it won’t be representative - the small print will read stuff like “highway miles, during daylight hours when compared to similar vehicles” which gives them a bunch of wiggle room.

Many companies claim things in their marketing material, I’ve never know anyone to take it at face value but todays the day I guess.
>Because what you are describing is not a smart contract, at least how it is nearly always commonly understood.

Shrug. So now we've moved through your criticisms of "it's not possible" and "it's not useful", and we're splitting hairs about whether it's in the right category. It seems like you want to have a conversation where "smart contracts" means exactly/only Ethereum as it exists today. If you're asking about the use-cases of abstract technology, and then pivot to insist that discussion revolves around existing brands/implementations, it feels like you're moving the goal-posts. You're of course free to insist that smart-contracts ARE ethereum and vice versa, but ironically when you do that you're a clear victim of marketing, and you're essentially endorsing the branding that you claim to dislike!

If "mere API automation" is disqualified as "smart contracts" according to your definitions because it isn't blockchainy enough, and if everything that IS blockchainy is disqualified as stupid or a scam, then I guess you win debates before they start. But that's just not a very interesting conversation for any one else.

FWIW, ethereum does have a concept of oracles ( https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/oracles/ ). I wonder if ethereum and zapier did have a lovechild, would you call it a smart-contract then? Do we need the contract AND the decision-data AND the assets to be blockchained, or can we blockchain a subset and still call it a smart-contract?

A mix between zapier, plus something like ethereum, together with legislation that requires open-APIs for critical services is probably exactly what we need to satisfy tons of practical real world use-cases. That's what you claimed to be interested in, right?
ChatGPT is a wrapper to the GPT Completion API with some sane defaults. With a new beta feature you can edit the system prompt via ChatGPT, but you still can't adjust the other parameters you can reach with the API.
Seems to be a single post?
Any craft coming from outside our solar system and trying to stop inside it would leave a huge energy signature as it slows from some significant fraction of c.
Maybe though I know a lot of foreigners in America that act like this. So is it an American problem of a societal problem?
Much like stocks average returns are higher than govt bonds.

Risk should be compensated by higher expected return, otherwise it's not worth it
Ok, if that's the case, why the imperfect demonstration? Why not dozens and dozens of videos showing such a monumental success in action? The lack of clear evidence, especially with social media frenzies, is a red flag in my opinion.
Teams is the worst software I’ve ever used. I get frequent issues with it connecting to AD. It uses ungodly amounts of ram and cpu. Its ui is unintuitive. It’s really bad at telling who is active away or offline. It’s difficult to tune notifications since it’s chat and channels specific. Its video quality is bad. Its audio quality is bad. You can’t copy and paste code into and out of it easily. The chats have too much white space. There aren’t good emoji options in reactions.
Can you link some _substantial_ changes? I've clicked on random on 10 of the files and haven't seen more than 2 line change.
The parent was using the term in the context of insurance companies or manufacturers authorizing the repair. Not that of a legal licensing system.
I encourage you to read the proposed statute. It's not very long.

KOSA requires that social media companies cannot target children with certain types of ads or provide algorithmic recommendations, when they "reasonably know" that the user is a minor.

A company implementing E2EE can simply make the choice to either not serve minors or to not provide certain features (algorithmic content targeting, targeted ads) to users who are minors.

No new age verification is required.

Tech has had a knee-jerk reaction against doing anything to protect children online since the Slashdot days, because proponents of draconian laws often say "think of the children". But that doesn't mean that EVERY law intended to protect children is bad. And Meta et al need to be held to account.
> You can enable free-roling wheels in the car and push away

This was mentioned a little earlier and further down in the comment tree but many thanks to you too for clearing this up.
Yikes. I had to dig deep to read that rant. Ultimately, the best definition in the article defines Design Thinking as such:

> “It’s an approach to problem-solving based on a few easy-to-grasp principles that sound obvious:
- ‘Show Don’t Tell,’
- ‘Focus on Human Values,’
- ‘Craft Clarity,’
- ‘Embrace Experimentation,’
- ‘Mindful of Process,’
- ‘Bias Toward Action,’ and
- ‘Radical Collaboration.’”

I'm not really sure why he is ranting though - these are the principals espoused by some of the most successful VC's, founders, and world renowned Architects.

Does anyone understand why he is so angry?
"Works on my Tesla."
I think this is a problem because a lot of what people use to shop an EV is the headline range number, which you are declaring is not accurate. This is false advertising.
Not really close, because performance is logarithmic in training compute.

That is, each additional percentage point of performance requires exponentially greater investment in compute during pretraining.

Llama 2 was pretrained on 2 trillion tokens -- a significant investment in compute, for sure, but still not enough to get close to GPT-4.

And this is only one benchmark.
> While they can be effective, they can also have a complicating effect because organizations need to procure, integrate and measure multiple solutions to build a robust defense against cyber criminals.

This is exactly the class of problem that Reach Security [0] hopes to solve -- it analyzes company security tools and chooses optimized point-in-time configurations for the organization automatically. It's hard or impossible to hire enough experts to really effectively run a security org for a large company, and this product helps arm the security team with tools that would otherwise require tons of analysis to build.

Caveat -- I work there, haha.

[0] https://reach.security/
I know, I did not think for a moment that you were making such an accusation. I was referring to the other comments on HN/reddit over the past week making those accusations. Sorry if my comment came off that way.
I once did this by accident when fueling up my car; it just so happened that the gas station's rewards program was linked with the Safeway rewards program, and I happened to be filling up my tank just as the 867-5309 account for my area code hit some critical threshold. Hey presto, 20% off (or something like that; it was a long time ago).
By using a software you don't automatically endorse every feature it has.
A job doesn't have to add value at each instant to add value.

Companies can't spin up new workers in an instant. So for some jobs, they'll need to keep people on staff but not really working. They're there for specific tasks, or when more effort is needed, or for intermittent operations.

A lot of office jobs aren't like factory lines, where output is constant and directly related to input. That doesn't make the job bullshit. It just means that "40 hours per week" is an arbitrary number, the result of centuries of conflict between labor and management, and there's nothing sacred about it.

The amount that the job is worth depends on the job and the company, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with hours served. They need an employee to be prepared to fill that job, and the pay is negotiated on that basis. There's no reason to be expect it to be a straightforward function of prevailing hourly wage and 40 hours per week.
Distribution of power is worth the overhead.
I like the idea in principle, but with the way the US government is going, you get section 28 again on the grounds that being trans is a mental disorder curable by conversion therapy.

Which it isn't. If I hadn't had trans people on the Internet I probably would've killed myself.
I genuinely wonder how it compares to the 3 USD USB GPS I bought from AliExpress.
Nike shoes only harm people if you kick them, or throw one hard enough?

Blood diamonds only harm people if they swallow too many?
Education in the Netherlands uses Microsoft quite heavily as well and so when the pandemic started it was also either Teams or nothing at all.

However, the reason for this wasn’t so much MS being evil as Google and others basically ignoring sensitivities about where user data is hosted. MS guarantees (well, sort of) user data is stored in the EU when customers set it up properly.

No one else does (or did, maybe things have changed by then).

So the monopoly MS has here is basically because they do what their customers want them to do.
Legendary tech billionaire (Jim Clark) accused of fraud in pot startup lawsuit
Thanks! I've casually studied German, but I'd never come across "Jo".

"Jo" kind of reminds me of Dutch vs. German, where many corresponding words are just slightly different.
Predictive Debugging: A Game-Changing Look into the Future
What exactly do you mean by "modify Mv3"? Brave committed to continuing support for Mv2 [1]. Adding native adblocking capabilities is also definitely a more complex change than just bundling an adblocking extension.

Brave maintains patches in a very specific way [2] to ensure maintainability. My impression is that Kiwi's patches are structured in a way that technically works but isn't easy to keep rebasing on top of upstream changes. Kiwi's been chronically outdated compared to upstream Chromium whereas Brave generally gets updated within a day of a corresponding Chromium release.

[1] https://twitter.com/brave/status/1574822799700541446
[2] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Patching-Chromiu...
Yes - https://www.tesla.com/support/refer-and-earn
*When asked by GPT4 to compare the outputs.

I'm a staunch believer that it would be foolish to rely on GPT4 for quality comparisons, and it has been mind boggling to see so many people do it and treat it as perfect proof of anything.

It would be slightly more understandable if there was a study to see how human and gpt4 preferences compare, but I'm unaware of any such thing.
And yet the ATF still exists.

Once feds get power over something, it's very difficult to get it away.
I appreciate the suggestion. I'm diagnosed ADHD, OCD, and bipolar II, and clearly have symptoms of PTSD. A childhood screening for autism came up negative, and the only matching symptoms I have are explained by the other diagnoses. Most of the hallmark behavioral indicators of autism, I lack.

At a certain point, these disorders are descriptions of patterns of behavior and I'm sure there is overlap between the conditions which contribute to autism and ADHD, both genetically and environmentally.

I've intensely daydreamed and talked aloud to myself as long as I can remember. Extremely visual and aural thinker. Had OCD tics my entire life, first one I can remember is when I was 5, I couldn't stop swallowing and it was causing my throat to bleed and leaving me unable to even speak a sentence. The therapist I was sent to completely failed to catch the OCD at the time, and she actually ended up in prison for forging her license so I stopped going to her.
It is, however, federal law, and consequently the first place you start to see if something is a right under the US legal system.
Maybe, I don't really care about regenerative rate, I just notice my meter going to max when braking hard. I only use the battery for city driving and hard acceleration on the motorway anyway. It's great for merging onto the Spanish motorways.
> Competition is better than no competition.

But Slack competed. It forced Microsoft to improve, then it lost. "Competition" doesn't mean artificially keep competitors alive when they can't survive on their own. If Slack was that much better then we wouldn't be having this convo because companies would see the value and pay for it.

The actual problem is that companies just aren't seeing that much value in Slack.
Same with cans, corrugated sides, tops and bottoms are for strength and pressure resistance. Actually most corrugated anything is done so for strength.
Aaactuallly…

Our society is build on a foundation of relatively cheap energy. Massive amounts of energy are built into the production of every item of food that reaches your fridge or item that reaches your closet. The unleashing of stored energy was the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

If energy became 1000 or 1 million times cheaper, it would transform society. Global warming would be solved. Food would be solved. Water would be solved. Equal access to all materials goods would be solved. I’d personally be living in a Dr. Evil base on top of an alpine glacier that I myself re-froze. That or a floating city over the South Pacific.
Kids are useful to farmers; they add laborers, increasing output. Kids are less useful to software engineers; the kids are a cost center and demand time away from the software engineer’s gaming and tinkering allotment.
This was just posted a few hours ago and when I tried it they were neck and neck (for me, LLama 2 won by a 1 question, but it was close): https://llmboxing.com/

It looks like the eval is open sourced so you could easily build a version w/ your own questions for blind testing...
I had an epiphany recently that as the tooling for WASM matures, we'll likely return to a visual programming model. I know Microsoft has doubled down on this front (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz...) but I'm ideally this is still a universe of HTML/JS/CSS that's easy to pick apart under the surface.

This Internet Canvas seems like a step in that direction.
> creating art or music or playing go

One of these things is not like the others
No, “trolling” is actually correct. It’s less widely used than the meaning you refer to these days though.

> the act of searching among a large number or many different places in order to find people or information you want

> It takes me 45 minutes of trolling on the internet and I’m still confused.

— https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/trolling
like this; an ECU is an ECU. match unit to make and model.
gap the ECU from remote modifications. an ECU doesnt require keys, they are not part of the required properties of an ECU.
Ok?

Not everything in the world has to be science. Some things are not science. It’s fine.
Ask HN: Could you share your portfolio site here?
Building a Rust Workspace with Bazel
Great work team enhance.dev, web components is the way to go.

I read a lot of strong opinions about the use of NPM when the framework boasts “No JavaScript”. Probably it’s a fair point. But I’d still like to see more enhance and Lit-like frameworks - yes I said framework, cause it takes you one step closer to the native browser.
Believe me: I have the same concern. Sec. 3(6)(b)(1) satisfactorily addresses my concerns. Platforms do not need to prevent minors from accessing materials that they are specifically seeking out.

Also, the set of "mental health disorders" are specifically enumerated in Sec. 3(a)(1) and do not include any trans-specific medical issues, and includes the language "consistent with evidence-informed medical information" providing ample defense opportunities for companies who want to promote or provide trans-specific material.

Finally, there are other statutes on the books that are more useful for political bullying of social media companies. To the extent that KOSA could be weaponized, the battle is lost anyways.
He eventually quotes someone as:

“It’s an approach to problem-solving based on a few easy-to-grasp principles that sound obvious:‘Show Don’t Tell,’ ‘Focus on Human Values,’ ‘Craft Clarity,’ ‘Embrace Experimentation,’ ‘Mindful of Process,’ ‘Bias Toward Action,’ and ‘Radical Collaboration.’”

All of those are pretty sound principals proven to be effective by most innovators though. Screaming at people is easier than actually learning to be effective, and I suspect is the root of his outrage.