skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, for the sake of the thread let's assume this is real as you've asked.

In the next months and years the focus will be on "is this useful" and "how can we make this useful". To make use of a sc you need to bring it into shapes we can use. Wires of all sizes and shapes are the big one. Can this material be made into wires like current sc (bonding to a base material to fix the brittleness) or even better can it be drawn into wires? If not, that's a new research area.

Also, we still have no real idea how high temperature sc work (there are two competing theories, but afaik neither can fully describe what we see). That's probably even more important for this new ones. A flurry of research will be into related materials, to see if we can find ones which combine the sc with better properties, but having a theoretical understanding would make this far easier than just randomly poking at materials.

So, assuming we get to the state of usable room-temp sc everything else depends on the price. The lower the price the more they can replace until in the last instance all cables, coils and everything could use them (this will probably not happen for a very long time if ever). In the nearer future they could replace all of their predecessors in places where they are used today: In MRTs, in the LHC and comparable machines, fusion reactors, various cables, some small energy storage systems using them already. Such things.

They also could solve the biggest remaining obstacle for renewable grids based on wind and solar (storage) by allowing far better SMES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energ...

Who knows where we'll go from there, but I think that's enough food for thought for the moment.
Run emacs as a server when you start the machine and use emacsclient to connect with it. Way faster start times.
I think the primary problem with domain fronting that ECH would solve is that ECH doesn't involve using a third party's domain name, potentially dragging a single third party into the censorship muck. My read of the support email signal shared is that AWS was unhappy that a domain they owned would likely become entangled. While ECH will still increase everyone else's risk that is sharing the same load balancer as a censorship target, it is at least a fully distributed risk, rather than requiring the client pick a specific domain or set of domains to pull into their fight.
What's the point of this pedantry? Self satisfaction?
Identical. Bluetooth introduces a little bit of lag 2-5ms but it’s only noticeable if you are working on really large canvases of 40MP or more.
>Fabian Fabrice

*Fabrice Bellard. Also creator of QEMU, TCC, QuickJS, and others.
That function is from a compact convex set to itself.
'Leading back to my original joke, maybe your dentist insisting that you need to get your teeth cleaned every 3 months is how they make their money lol!'

They make their money from implants and advanced treatments costing multiple thousands, not the £100 hygienist fees.

A hygenist, plus a nurse, seeing a maximum of 8 patients a day at £100 a time isn't a business I would want to be investing in.
https://xn--971h.com
> university degree, years of training and experience, professional qualifications, and maybe a strong reputation

Big deal. I have all of those things. Lots of people here do too.
There is a saying I’ve seen: ‘genes don’t speak languages’. Languages can easily spread between population groupings, and conversely a single population can move from one language to another — and both processes happen with considerable regularity. (Consider what happened to Gaulish as Latin spread, or Hittite as Greek spread, or Ancient Egyptian as Arabic spread, or…)
A simple hard drive version of Google's bucket client
Critique of lazy sequences in Clojure
Hasn’t TX had multiple years of grid failures? Not really a “black swan event” if it keeps happening.
do you mean copilot autocompletion or the crappy chat copilot in beta?

you're not prompting copilot that's one reason
It's often most convenient to incorporate any fortified nut milk into your diet which is what I recommend to most vegans.

My Costco-brand soy milk gives me 60% of the day's calcium and vitamin D in my morning smoothie.
Yes and no. The cuprate superconductors were verified right away but didn’t perform well enough in practice to be world changing. If the new ones are real but have a low critical current density, for instance, they’ll matter very little. If the new ones are real but can’t have very small structures fabricated out of them they won’t be good for logic gates.
Plug for the Funsor library, written by Eli Bingham and me for use in the Pyro and NumPyro probabilistic programming languages. We tried to take the "functions are tensors" perspective and make a numpy-like library for functions, aimed mostly at the log-density functions of probability distributions.

Paper: "Functional Tensors for Probabilistic Programming" (2019) https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10775

Code: https://github.com/pyro-ppl/funsor
The delusion here is that some Americans believe that they can remain #1 forever. The hard truth is that countries like India and China that have 4x the population will ultimately have much larger economies and will thus be able to have larger military capabilities.
I’m with you - I easily see how it affects the formula, but I’m not clear on how you decide what the right value, or range of values would be.
Is it stock XFCE, or do I need anything else? Can I just install xubuntu-desktop and that's it?
> What makes you think all libraries are run as well as yours?

I feel like I’m going crazy, I’ve said two times that I don’t think we should be talking in universalities.

Statement #1: my local library is great and is an effective use of public funds

Statement #2: my local library is awful and a waste of public money

Both of these statements can be true and neither contradicts the other. There is no need to come to some universal conclusion here.

The broader point is that you often see this approach taken when talking about public spending: one example of waste somehow invalidates the whole concept. Yet you never see someone say “invest in a private company? Did you not see what happened with Enron?!”
To be called ”Long History” i think it should to extend beyond the current generation.
Modern work is weird. All your energy goes into it. But at the end of the day there's no satisfaction. Just emptiness and exhaustion.

So you invest your remaining time in entertainments, drugs and shopping. Frantically groping for a scrap of joy.

My friends in carpentry call it "feeding the monkey". The monkey must be fed, one way or another.
Loved the design of the front page! I wanted to try it out, but it seems to be missing a privacy policy--or maybe I just didn't find it?
Building the Tiger Tank
The telegraph shattered my spam-paywall-popup-ads everywhere-ragequit limit to a point where I genuinely wonder if they actually manage to convert traffic with such agressive tactics?
You’re right - it’s why there’s comments even in HN like “you can’t run C# on Linux” and the like.
I have no idea how you misunderstood "stress is actually physiological" as some kind of claim about dualism.
> the two must be equally matched in power, else one side would just win

You're confusing actual battle with mere rhetorical arguments, a shouting match. There is no victor, just noise that serves as a distraction.

Besides, the thesis has two parts: what the alleged true cause of inflation is, and how attention is being diverted away from it. They can each be independently true or false.
But, on the other hand, ‘While in most populations genetic and linguistic relations match, mismatches occur regularly as a result of language shift’: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2122084119
> it's absurd to use road maintenance as the reason why the government needs more money.

far from absurd, it's an extremely good example. The USA is filled with public infrastructure that we collectively decided to create but that we do not maintain adequately, because we choose not to spend money on it.

You say our roads suck, and to whatever extent that is true (not really interested in debating that specific point), it's because not enough is spent maintaining them.

Now of course, it's entirely possible that this situation does in fact represent the actual collective opinion of the population: yes we'll build stuff, no we will not pay (enough) to maintain it. But that has not been established.
Intel's enhanced fused multiply-add operation patent
False, we never stopped taxing the rich.

We reduced top marginal income tax rates though, so they moved more money into income and stopped hiding as much in shell companies and inventory.

The top 1% earn 20% of national income, but their taxes comprise 40% of federal income tax revenue.

US Gini coefficient (inequality measure) decreases by a third after accounting for taxes and transfers.
Sure, but hints are not proof. In fact,

> Would people actually[] write like this?

: some people do. What you call «CYA tone» can overlap with what for others is "precision".

It is the quality of the text, then, that hints further to actual intelligence or "artificial struggle".
The direct x86 backend (in fact we have two, one is direct ASR->x86, but it only supports a few things so far; the other one is ASR->WASM->x86, which is a lot more complete and even supports 64bits) seems comparable to LLVM without any optimizations. The main added value of LLVM are all the low level optimizations that it can do. Also our LLVM backend is the most complete, it's our main backend. We will eventually catch up with the other backends.

I think we only require C++11, I don't think we use anything newer than that. If we do, it wouldn't be difficult to change. I think we use `std::filesystem`, which is C++17, but if that is a problem, we could add some emulation of this for C++11.
To be honest, people generally don't want to work. In what way is this surprising?
Similarly …

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

400BC
It's not either/or. Different groups of people can do different things at once. And of the two things you're comparing, one is expert technical/engineering and the other requires expert archivists/translators. They're totally different groups.
Could this GPS tarmac transmitter be a solution for noisy flight path over SFO?
> you got any other account posting behind a pseudonym

This is my only HN account. I post pseudonymously and anonymously elsewhere on the internet but not here.

> You say that as though every dev

Devs on HN usually don't make it their business to present their biased version of the truth to vast amounts of people.
As a long-time software engineer and related positions. When covid started it felt as if the world said "We worked enough we need a collective time off"
I didn't understand the OP to have said that all people that say that are paid shills. To be sure though, people who do complain about wasteful government spending are in fact playing into the interests of the wealthy who want to keep more of their billions.

I know it sounds naive, but we are the government. Don't like what services are elected leaders are spending tax dollars on? Replace them. Bernie Sanders as you probably know requested a 10% cut in the military budget — elect more people like him if this is what you want.

> The real tax base of our society is generated by the middle and upper middle class and they will be the ones that will bear the largest brunt of tax increases.

I am much more sympathetic to people who call for, "Lower taxes for the working class!" When you include the billionaire-class as also-victims of high taxation (and they would of course disproportionately benefit from lower taxes) then it sounds to me like you're essentially carrying water for them to the detriment of society at large.

It seems when most people I hear talk about cutting government "waste" they really mean cutting out government services they disagree with — not really streamlining those services.
None of those services had even a fraction of the market penetration that WhatsApp has (in Europe and basically most places that are not North America.)

WhatsApp is used by teenagers, great-grandparents, businesses, everyone. When you give someone your number in Europe, they won't ask how to contact you, they will just send you a message on WhatsApp 100% of the time. Only tech nerds and small groups use Signal etc.

To be clear, I don't think this is a good thing. But it is simply the reality of the world. It's been like this for 10 years with no signs of changing. WhatsApp could of course die one day, but only if Meta does something categorically stupid or unpopular that forces people off the platform (eg, what Twitter is doing).

WhatsApp is not a social media platform and that's precisely why it is so universally used.
Wealth is transfer from one part of the economic system to another, and extreme wealth is basically hoarding; why is it so difficult to reach a point of diminishing returns of wealth and then give it back in some way that is more impactful than arbitrary philanthropy? One cannot simply say government is inefficient because it is pretty clear that this current system is inefficient in distributing wealth and raising the living standards and reducing the suffering of others (because it has specifically been degraded and played by the wealthy so that they retain as much wealth as possible). The game of wealth accruing that everyone is playing is simply based on an economic system right now that depends upon money, and is a closed system facilitated by the government. Where else does _money_ come from? There is no other source. (Crypto is a joke, because is basically now valued in terms of fiat, so let's not add that to this discussion. It is also a small part of the bigger economic system, which again is founded upon fiat.)

So, this game of an economy founded upon money, what's the point? We no longer act as groups gathering resources from the natural environment; we are now individual actors forced to gather an intermediate resources (money), a reality and an abstraction for resource transfer. I am genuinely curious how the economy can truly be used to reduce suffering of others and create more stable societies.

(please note these are armchair philosophy, economics, sociology points, which would benefit from research.)
not really

- electronics need miniturisation, and wires - can it be made into wires? Can it do 10^11 features/chip? Can it form transistors? that's were most of the loss is currently.

- power transmission gets a little more efficient, and for long distance, which is already feasible with HV DC, it would be more efficient still. But in both cases, only if it's cheap enough.

- confinement is far from the only technical obstacle to fusion. The main obstacle is actually economics. It will simply never be cost effective compared to alternatives.

- Yes, smaller/simpler MRI etc is a real benefit.

- levitation itself is only a small piece of the puzzle, and again, cost.

The real benefits are in things like sensors, and current research where a strong magnetic field, or the ability to rejecting one, is needed.
I've observed the opposite. The wealthy people I know are philanthropic. Similarly the upper middle class is more altruistic than the lower middle class, and so on down the hierarchy of needs.
> But bikers are not a large reason people aren't pedestrians.

They are a significant piece of the reason in NYC, although car-centric road design is a larger piece.

You and several other commenters continue to ignore people pointing out seriously problems that are localized in NYC by quoting stats that are for the entire country.
Autotrain – Create powerful AI models without code
I'm starting to have some major doubts about how much you've informed yourself on the topic here when you say "carnivore" is more foolproof than a much less restrictive diet like a plant-based diet.

You can see this just by plugging 2000 calories of meat in Cronometer and viewing the nutrition holes. Even 2000 calories of bagels gives you a wider assortment of nutrients than 2000 calories of beef.
At scale ... it is better to use CQRS ... sou you have a transaction model which is fully normalized and a read nly model which is wide, if you really want to use a RDBMS.
>>But at the end of the day there's no satisfaction.

If that's the case then you need to find a different job. Plenty of people are really satisfied with what they do at work. I've accepted lower salary for years because the job I did was really satisfying and I'm still glad I was part of it.
Exactly. I find myself constantly switching to non 5.1 audio when watching something on Netflix. I wish they made a setting to make it the default.
> It's always nobody wants to work anymore at the wages you are presently offering.

> It's like concluding we've run out of oil because the price of gasoline went up.

I don't think that these are really perfectly analogous—there really is probably the same, if not greater, supply of workers as there ever was if the wages were right; but, no matter how much we're willing to pay, there's less oil available now than there used to be.
Speak for yourself, I know many people who derive a lot of joy from their work and find it energizing, myself included.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates 400BC
I can't imagine how it must feel for the engineers who put their talent into this wonderful machine to have to contribute to its demise. I remember watching a video from the Cash For Clunkers program back in 2009 [0], where they replaced an engine's oil with sodium silicate and then ran it until the engine was destroyed [1]. Rationale of the program aside, it was so sad seeing a car being deliberately killed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0IcIxhd8ks
Thank you! Please report all bugs that you find once you try it.
Exactly, as long as there's CO2 to use (the inputs to photosynthesis are 6H2O + 6CO2). With atmospheric CO2 now over double the pre-industrial concentrations, there's plenty of that! And water would only be more available, by a tiny fraction, with lots of hydrogen burning.

Oxygen is highly reactive so there's a replenishment mechanism at play to maintain the 21% we know and love in the atmosphere. Of course, if the phytoplankton give up the ghost that will end poorly for anything that likes to respire, but that's a completely different problem and would be as much of an existential issue with or without "white hydrogen" energy.

In terms of scale, you'd have to burn around 1 trillion tonnes of hydrogen to bind 1% of the atmospheric oxygen into water (i.e. reducing the concentration from 21% to 20.79%: the same effect in terms of oxygen partial pressure as being 85m above sea level). This releases 40 billion GWh of energy, or as much energy as humans use, from all sources combined, in 225 years at present rates.
More like, people realized how nice their life's were if they spent less time at work.

I did not understand how much my 45min x 2 commute was draining my stamina before I stopped commuting, e.g.
There are thousands of "commercials from 199X" compilations on Youtube, for pretty much every year from the mid-80s onwards. Some of those have been up for years.
You can also do recurring donations. Running a Snowflake proxy is basically free if you don't pay for internet traffic so it's a very cheap and low work way to help censored people.
To be fair, I've never wanted to "work".
From the 'long' in the title I was expecing this to be more like 200 years not 20 years. There's good form for this kind of literature.

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28169/what-is-th...
Key Elements and Metrics for a Successful Mobile App
can you elaborate on those three people that supposedly indirectly died because of a forum?
People can change their language. Hungary and Turkey speak the languages of conquerors who have left very little genetic trace. (France is in a similar position!) Many Ethiopians speak a Semitic language (Amharic) for reasons unknown to us. Yiddish is a Germanic language spoken by a non-Germanic people. The Chinese of Thailand often cannot speak any Chinese (they speak Thai).

I assume the argument here is that if you see a huge linguistic expansion and a huge demographic expansion occurring at the same time, you can reasonably conclude that they are the same phenomenon and the expanding language is spoken by the expanding people. But the language and the people are not in general the same; people may voluntarily adopt a foreign language without moving (compare India and English) and they may fail to bring their language with them when they move. They cannot avoid bringing their DNA with them, but it will die out when they do, which their language may not.
Great analogy.

Yes, nobody wants to work at poor wages. And these employers usually offer poor wages, but they'll often complain about unqualified people too.

Sometimes it's rephrased from "Nobody wants to work" to "Nobody wants to work... for you"
Thank you for the great feedback. I will correct grammar.

Admittedly, I am biased to ward visual language and close modalities, and that made miss works happening elsewhere like time series. I will check that out and can potentially add a pointer to the paper you shared. Thanks a bunch :-)
Initially I felt the same but I changed my mind mid-read.

The topic of "links should not be styled as buttons" is well-known to everyone who has or had to do frontend web dev, at least I think so.

And the reasons for that as well.

The common violation of this rule on landing pages and CTA-like interstitials is also well-known to every designer or frontend dev who has to work on pages that sell something, I guess.

This essay presents these tradeoffs and developments in UX, and makes a very good point aboit button texts and an annoying next step in this evolution of commercial UX design that I never could quite put my finger on.
Show HN: RotaryGPT, ChatGPT Home Assistant built into an old rotary phone [video]
Humans have never run out of work. By your reasoning trains themselves should have caused mass unemployment. With better tools we just do bigger stuff. This has been true for all of human history.
See footnote 3.
That is not what happens in health software, the UIs tend to stagnate for years with bugs, so users don’t have to learn new workflows.
That’s exactly the point though—where is the evidence that churches are doing “much worse per unit of youth exposure?” OP asserts that religious organizations are doing especially bad, but makes no effort to compare sexual abuse rates there against the base rate. OP is the one engaged in motivated reasoning.

An important fact that gets overlooked is that religious organizations are one of the few aspects of civil society that put children in contact with adults. Really the only secular organizations that do so at a large scale are daycares, schools, and sports. It makes no sense to assert, as OP did, that churches are especially full of pedophiles, without offering a comparison against the other environments where children are exposed to adults.