skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the positive side, lower productivity boosts employment. It has always been well understood that a few good programmers, properly motivated, can potentially outperform a team of 100. It is perhaps a good thing that companies continue to ignore this truth else millions would be unemployed. Of course, AI is poised to upset the apple cart and millions will end up begging anyway.
That only works for nonexistent files right? Not files that exist but whose modifications you want to ignore.
Surely it is redundant as they considered and came to a conclusion on this topic months ago when "US scientists confirm ‘major breakthrough’ in nuclear fusion"
6 ASP.NET Core Open Source Projects to Boost Your Practical Skills
Some rocket parts are made buoyant to make sure they can be recoverable, some are not which are expected to sink to the seabed.

If something surfaces, it can be considered hazardous and the agency which launched it is liable[1] to take responsibility if it causes damages. In this case, no damage happened but not taking responsibility or even attempting to suggest a solution is what I mostly raised my concern about.

[1] https://www.unoosa.org/pdf/gares/ARES_26_2777E.pdf
I think the point is the train of thought "There's a hole in the fence, so the lion could get us, but that can't be right or they would've been sued, or the fear of being sued would make them notice and fix it. So we must still be safe." A rejection of reality based on a different worldview.

It brought to mind the story about the two economists who see $100 on the ground. One wants to pick it up, but the other tells him not to waste his time, because if it were real someone would have picked it up already.
Thank you for the links. I agree with the one about memes. I don't know that the first one went poorly so much as had disagreement from the community.

"If you believe that the discussions are useful... create the site."

That's a poor counter right there. It ignores both the rate of success/failures of new sites, network effects of old sites, and switching costs. Almost all projects to do site X with improvement Y fail for these reasons even when people on site X think Y is a good idea. A large number of people almost never move to the new platform. Knowing that, wiser people try to go where the people are already at and make improvements there.
The building not open problem is annoying. UPS seems to understand it but lots of the courier companies are still learning. I’ve had to paste a large sign to the door saying “I’m here please call X and don’t return as undeliverable”.
I think you want git's skip-worktree?
I'm not sure I understand the criticism. You have three functions of type (int, int) -> bool. Where the type system accepts one, it accepts the others. I fail to see the issue here? How is the type system supposed to distinguish them? It's up to you, the developer, to do it. If you have two ints x and y, and you mess up and pass y to a function where you wanted to write x, the compiler is never going to catch it for you either.
And yet the space treaty has made it clear that a) the agency has ownership of those parts b) they are liable for any damages caused and/or should be responsible for it.
Thanks, that makes sense from context. It sounded to me like the first syllable was rú, which got me wondering whether 铷 rubidium magnets are a thing... I found a patent for a "rubidium iron boron permanent magnet" https://patents.google.com/patent/CN102832038A/en but I guess that 铷铁硼 is a typo for 钕铁硼.
Maybe it's like making an omelette. I have the recipe, I have the egg, yet I can't make it like a chef.
Iirc the LHC experiment would not be possible without those superconductors. That’s a pretty big deal.
I have not stated a view on whether the hypothetical material of unknown toxicity should be used or not.

I am making a political claim that bureaucrats will behave in certain, highly predictable ways.

If the material proves to be what it claims to be, it will not be banned. At most, it will be highly regulated, as that will preserve and expand government power.
Old school handwriting, probably [0]. When people had to squiggle the glyphs on paper they had all sorts of weird and wonderful ways of scribing. Consider that the integral symbol is actually an S.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
I think replication is reserved for redoing all the things and getting the same result.
Your comment makes it sound like you don't understand the physics of it at all.

What does Uranium have to do with this? What does "performance of uranium" means? What do you think will happen when you bombard it with "radiation"? What kind of "radiation"?

Uranium is most commonly used in fission devices, not fusion ones. Fusing Uranium would absorb energy, not liberate energy, this is why we split it. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/170716/is-there-...

For heating, you'd be better off using a heat pump. Or I guess you could take some radioactive material and shield it. Or even a breeder reactor, but that's fission.

I do not want to come across as disrespectful, but what you're saying sounds like alchemy, or the kind of "science" they show in superhero movies.

I could understand using a layer of metal to produce x-rays, and concentrate these to heat a sample (a bit similar to H-bombs, BTW), but I am not a nuclear physicist either. Real physicists have thought about this much more than we did, and if there was a simple pathway to practical fusion, we'd know about it by now. I think you underestimate the complexity of all this (kind of a "Dunning-Kruger" effect), go watch the "MIT's pathway to fusion[1]" videos for an introduction to the problem and modern approaches :)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk
It’s not simply moving it’s levitating due to repulsion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissner_effect
Thank you! LLMs have raised the floor; not the ceiling. It's much easier to do stuff that was already kinda easy, but not easier to do things that were hard.

Maybe LLMs free up intellectual bandwidth for some, but what will we do with that increased productivity? Mostly scams for now, but I'm sure it'll be able to find many other net-negative or wealth-extraction applications.
> Transistors "just" made it more efficient.

Sort of, the thing about transistors isn't the efficiency as much as the scalability.

You'd be very hard-pressed to make a modern processor out of vacuum tubes. It would be enormous, tedious to build (couldn't use modern lithography), and also consume tons of power.
thank you very much. I didn't think it'd take so many effort from your part. sorry.
Would be pretty cool to use multiple dispatch, a la Julia. The encryption function knows which one you're using based on the types you pass as arguments.
That’s up to the shipper, the fedex and ups software is pretty configurable.

You can also enter information for UPS etc that are visible to them by scanning the tracking but not on the label.
I hear this claim often that your brain chemistry changes from substance use and it makes sense when you look at addicts. But with other things relating to addiction, I found claims to be hyperbole. An example is addiction is a disease no different than cancer. We don't want to tell addicts to just cut it out. But is it true? Are there scans of people before and after a while of chronic substance abuse that shows brain differences? Can we scan someone's brain and tell that they're addicts? Honest question, I don't know
This style of displaying comments looks pretty funny.
That's a bad metric because there are many other things that can affect per-capita birthrates. There are birth control products that make it so even the most virile man with an explosive sperm count getting laid isn't going to result in a birth. People have have choosing less and less to have children, and deferring those choices to later in life, and I don't think that has anything to do with microplastics.
Aha. Poor writing for sure on my part.

Specifically (from Vince's account) there was no ditch or anything separating the lion from the visitors - just a chain link fence, alongside a hedge. Looking through the hedge, Vince and his wife could see a ragged hole in the fence, not a big opening but the result of some unrepaired damage, and in theory big enough for the lion to jump through, though perhaps it would have to leap up in the air a bit to achieve it.

The fence was certainly there to constrain the lions, but in the true "she'll be right" kiwi modus operandi, the maintenance crew had either not seen the hole, not repaired it, or perhaps decided to leave it due to the presence of the hedge, which acted also as a partial barrier.

Here, suing people is not really a thing for physical accidents, as we have an organisation called the accident compensation Commission (ACC) which acts as a state run insurer in case of accidents to NZ -ers or even visitors. So you don't need to worry if someone slips and breaks their leg on your poorly maintained pathway, because ACC will step in and make the victim whole (in theory of course - this is a government department after all), shielding you from legal liability.

That's except in some other circumstances, such as health and safety violations, which these days (the events I am writing about were many years ago) would most likely ensnare the reckless wildlife park operators, in the same way the various tourism operators involved in the recent white island eruption tragedy are currently before the courts for (alleged) h&s violations.

What I was trying to convey was that assuming a situation must be safe, because otherwise someone would get sued, is not a wise strategy here.

Sorry for the confusion! Should have been clearer.
Really like what this does and the look of it! Congrats
That is just the physical layer.

Robotics is behind in making a 'human'.

Even AlphaGo had a human moving the pieces, and nobody would say that was evidence of any 'lack' in the AI.

It's just an interfacing issue, engineering will eventually solve.

Edit> What I was getting at. Take Robots as the physical interface layer for the AI. AI advancements are currently outpacing advancements in Robotics. So potentially AI could use real humans as the 'hands and feet' to do things in the physical world, by giving directions. Something will be needed to bridge the gap until Industry can be done completely by robots. Until then, AI wont be able to manufacture itself.
Sounds as though you've read the page before.
> You cannot build really new things by engineering. [..] The science must come first.

Which came first, man made winged objects that flew, or the equations of winged flight?
Also, because they involve trade-offs. Ideally, a compiler optimization would result in code that is better in every measurable aspect. For example, dead code elimination results in a smaller binary, fewer branch points, and fewer runtime computations. Array padding, on the other hand, requires a larger memory footprint to accommodate the padding.

If an optimization is only beneficial in some cases, compiler authors are rightfully wary of enabling it in all cases.
> and do not necessarily imply superconductivity, let alone high temperature superconductivity

That's true, but are there superconductors that do not have those flat bands?

If not then it wouldn't be evidence that it is superconducting but it would at least check one more expected property (based on the evidence obtained about superconductors so far).
I was a chemistry major, but didn’t take it up as a career so I won’t pretend to be an expert. There are a lot of tools in the chemist’s cookbook for dealing with exactly this sort of problem. It doesn’t mean it’s easy, but experienced chemists will understand how to approach solving this.
This is the main take away I always get from these types of articles. The question is usually:

Why is this software using so much energy and by implication having a negative impact on the environment?

and not the more logical:

Why do we have to pollute so much to produce energy?

We have more sustainable and environmentally friendly ways to produce energy, software that uses energy doesn't care where that energy comes from, so if it's environmentally friendly, great!
Your 99.5% target simplifies failover. As long as you don't do it very often, you can just drop sessions; it's not ideal, but it's within your target and just carefully schedule the maitenance (and take the failures when they happen).

If you can, the least equipment option would be to run ECMP from your application servers; no need for a load balancer at all. If you can run 10Gbps on 8 cores, a 16-core server (which is a small server) might do all you need; if so, you could do CARP/VVRP/IP takeover and have everything run through one box at a time.

Or, HAProxy will work fine in front. If you want to make it easier for HAProxy, don't terminate TLS on those, run in tcp mode and let the application server do TLS; but then you can't let HAProxy split requests. If that works for you, you could do better with something that can do Direct Server Return so your load balancer doesn't need to process outbound traffic, but I don't have experience running that kind of load balancer (only being behind one), so no software recommendations.

For HAProxy, especially tcp mode HAProxy, you want a power of two CPU cores that's no more than the number of NIC queues, hyper threads disabled. If you do it right, all the traffic stays on the same CPU, although it's tricky to align the backend connections.
What exactly did Nancy Pelosi gain? It's not like she wasn't going to be re-elected. I perceived that more as a favor to her party than as a career-booster.
Yea I was a little surprised to see the comment "It wouldn't hurt to look at the logs or the metrics, just in case" paired with the previous comment "there's not quite enough information exposed in the Prometheus host agent's systemd metrics to make it easy".

Not everything needs to be monitored in a single way via a single platform. A cron job that greps/awks syslog for relevant strings and sends a slack message, email, sms, something would be a step function in the right direction.
We have The Domain in Sydney which hosts events and concerts too, so large crowds also are fine to some degree. I assume water and sun and fertiliser go a long way. But I've seen in other areas (and probably The Domain but I rarely go) they will put up temporary construction fences for regeneration when it needs a break and starts to show dirt.
People seem to never understand this - megacorps have a certain generic level of shittiness, but small local businesses can be absolutely amazing or insanely shitty.
I believe this is the goal of nixos but I haven’t been able to get beyond the syntax.
When the magnet is moved below the flake, the flake stands up, meaning it is being repelled. This is the case for every magnetic material, but what they do in the video is flipping the magnet around so that poles are reversed, a normal magnet would be attracted = flake flat on the surface but instead it is also standing up. This shows that the material is a diamagnet at least = it always creates an inverted magnetic field to the magnet.

So here's why this could be big: Not all diamagnets are SC but all SC materials are diamagnets.
> Where on the S-shaped curve are we?

No-one knows.

We can however make educated guesses based on:

- Extrapolating the last couple of years of progress.

- Scientific studies of LLM quality scaling in proportion to input data size, parameter count, and total training compute ops.

- How much more training data is available.

- Reasonable budgets, especially the cost-efficiency of inference, which appears to be more limiting than training, especially for long-term usage and profitability.

- Efficiencies such as 4-bit quantization, algorithmic improvements, etc...

Based on the above, there is at least a factor of 10x scaling available in many directions within a year or two, but not likely all at once. E.g.: 10x context window size at the same intelligence level? Sure! 10x inference speed? Doable! 10x cost reduction? Coming soon!

All at once? Not yet, and not for a while. Everyone is hardware constrained, and demand is pushing up prices and limiting the training scale maximums.

Maximum intelligence is much harder to predict. The current generation of AIs are trained on human-authored text as their input data. They're trained to predict that text. That means that they're "blurry JPEGs of the Internet". More training might make them "sharper JPEGs", but not necessarily smarter because the Internet didn't get smarter.

They'll better model humans, but they'll still be modelling humans, not superhumans.

That can be fixed with self-training, etc... but that will take a lot longer. I'm guessing 5-10 years, which is in line with the predictions of AI futurists that seem to know what they're talking about.

Many of our jobs will remain safe... for now.
Hyperbolic tangent :P
Show HN: Build websites with drag and drop and WYSIWYG editor in VSCode
"If you were a Henry VIII-style character but in the film Trainspotting, how would you describe an n-tier architecture capable of serving 50 requests per second?"

Edit: I had to. Here's a small excerpt: Scalability: Allow the architecture to grow in strength and size.
It's funny that you asked that and then someone posted an app that's almost entirely Hy language. I'm just sharing it so you have one example:

https://github.com/atisharma/llama_farm/tree/main

The AI's have limited ability to either handle large documents or track conversations. This tool is an attempt to solve that problem. It works with OpenAI and open-source AI's.
If you have a room temperature superconductor, does that mean you can make a superconducting transistor from it?
> People only really learn when they’re surprised. If they’re not surprised, then what you told them just fits in with what they already know.

And under that is picture of quad-bike, where wheels fell off!

People do learn from mistakes. If you are "surprising", and loose all wheels, people will learn from that mistake! But they will never ever interact with you again! You will get on banlist as a moron and clown!

Real value is in boring, predictable and repeatable stuff that delivers. Like I spend 90 minutes on lesson, and it gives me 1.5% skill increase. I do it 100x times and I have something. You will never be able to "surprise" me and deliver value 100x times! Smart people do not eat junk food!
Thanks for the idea, I hadn't considered checking if PlantUML could do that...that's what I get for pidgeon-holing that tool for hierarchical state machines I guess.
open source software FTW!
Is this the same as “valves” that were always talked about in the distinctive sound retro (now) guitar amplifiers?
What about a Parks and Recreation simulator?

You play a libertarian running the department with the goal to destroy it from the inside.
The target is not to determine whether the client is in the UK, but whether the client is a specific license-payer or at a specific address. GeoIP doesn't help to get either of those datapoints.
The thing is - there is a totally easy and simple mechanism to create early-stage believability.

Take a video of you producing and testing it, with a mobile phone.

It only works 10% of the time? Not an issue, post 10 videos.
Whatever.

Would it be perfect? No, of course it could be faked.

But i guaranteed people would be a ton less skeptical and willing to push hard on this if the original authors had done this sort of thing.

It's honestly not that hard to set up a tripod and a mobile phone, and even in the circumstances here, where they apparently got pushed to publish quickly, it could still show that it works.

It also would help those trying to reproduce see exactly what you did, in detail.
Tailscale Docker Mod: Simplified Networking and Secure Application Hosting
The tailscale docker mod for linuxserver.io containers makes it easy to connect a container to a tailscale network. I used it to host a couple of my apps and so far it‘s been working great.
If you find your bottlenecks in SciPy or Numpy, then PyPy will not help. Those are primarily written in C, so the PyPy JIT cannot peer inside and do any magic.
I haven't taken a science class since I was 16 but could the battery be grounded to prevent an explosion?
HN has a search function (bottom of the page, not ideal but the search itself works quite well), type in superconductor, then select order by date. That will give you the stories as posted in reverse order.

Or click here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Title: The Ship of State
Drug access and use is rampant in prisons as well
The speed of trains is generally not limited by engineering. It’s limited by corners, i.e. obstacles. There are already very fast trains in existence that don’t use maglev.
> remember it was Labour that stopped the BBC

A New Labour government run by friends of Murdoch. You can guess the constant there.
COM is a very good idea, very badly executed, ignoring VB 6, .NET Native and C++/CX attempts at improving it.

Unfortunely WinDev seems blind to how it is perceived from outside Redmond, is keen in sabotaging DevDiv efforts to make it usable, and keeps pushing it everywhere, moreso after Longhorn.
I'm not sure what you refer to exactly, but none of the tech presented as solutions in the article really lock you into their model when things "evolve beyond". Quite the contrary, actually.

Migrating from, let's say, Django, to something else requires you to basically rewrite your app from scratch. Migrating from SQLPage to Django requires you to run the standard django `python manage.py inspectdb`, then copy-paste your existing database queries, and your are ready to go.
Poor documentation and ambiguous examples can really slow the development process, and nobody really wants that, right? This article is to help you have a smoother experience and potentially fill in the gaps that vague documentation could have left that I have unfortunately encountered.
Exactly. Just dash and name, except where I've made a request that they might choose to not honor, in which case I do sign off with "Thanks,"

My family member's mother in law writes emails like:

"Dear X, I hope this letter finds you well... warmest regards"

She will never be convinced not to.
Every construction site I've seen has a water cooler and the people are allowed to take a drink every time they walk by. Either that or the people all come to work with their own water which they bring with them all day to drink when they want. Nobody cares about the few seconds lost to someone having a drink.
>If you are a renowned developer and have an insecure algo, ...

Example of such an insecure algorithm that might be relevant here?
.NET runtime comes pre-installed since Windows XP.

Also many of us already in the 16 bit days would rather use C++ frameworks than raw C.

One really needs to be quite masochist to use pure C in Windows.
Keep in mind these folks probably haven't slept or taken a shower in a week. I can't imagine the intensity of making a legitimate replication attempt.
This thread isn't about gaming, it's about compute.
You prefer São Paulo's management of their open air drug markets? Massive police crackdowns and punishment that have become routine and exorbitantly expensive, over decades with no progress besides shuffling people around. What's the hardline authoritarian solution after that point, mass execution?
I presume you don't have a "modern desktop" installed. Hell, even Firefox spams $HOME with "Downloads".
From an information theoretical point of view, they are just saying to not transmit non-information :)

Anyway: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Oh I see. I'm surprised if they upstream DNS requests though, it doesn't serve any legitimate purpose? The whole point is that they respond 172.16.0.1 or whatever for the CP to everything? (Until MAC address known or however they track.)
Health care returns to its pre-Covid state: Cruel and incompetent