skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s an incredibly hard place to be, if they approve a drug that eventually is proceed to cause more harm than good, they’ll hang, if they don’t approve, there’s little consequence.

It’s the same problem of being lenient to criminals, if they do nothing and become good citizens that do not commit crime anymore, you gain nothing as a politician, if they commit a crime your career is over.

Given society itself doesn’t value the risks as they should be, why are we expecting the agents of society itself to behave in a manner that will harm them?
I grieve for this man and his family and loved ones, and I don’t know that I’d have the fortitude to fight for anything in the circumstances he’s facing. But I’m not sure what the goal is here.

If there are experimental drugs that may be helpful, then I think any patient in his situation should have the ability to receive them if they want. But I don’t think that FDA should move faster on approving treatments for velocity’s sake alone.

In a perfect world with unlimited resources, I’m sure it would be possibly to quickly assess the efficacy and safety of every new compound. Obviously, as indicated by the continued existence of cancer, this is not that world.
Did you want the version where consent is easy to get and then you still get tons of spam calls, or the one where consent is hard to get and then many useful services don't exist?

And how would a consent law help anyway? Many of these calls are literally scams. They're already illegal and the problem is a lack of enforcement.
Im playing it on Linux (Tumbleweed) right now. Works fine.
What about AFM?

I don't know know if the superconductor has enough phase difference to be picked up in tapping, but who knows

Has anyone produced magnetic cantilevers?
> American culture is almost entirely based on English not European culture.

France also had a pretty strong influence on the founding fathers apparently. From what I've heard English are much nicer than we are
It's tens-to-hundreds of 30 year old consoles though, https://mister-devel.github.io/MkDocs_MiSTer/cores/console/

but yes, it is fairly excessive if you just want to play games, emulation is absolutely "good enough" and even indistinguishable for most. We do it for the love of the hobby ;)
The FDA Is Increasing Skin Cancer
It's exactly like we got one critical item in the tech tree of humanity taken care of.
The two are connected -- the pan evaporation in that region will be higher because of the heat, so the soil will be drier all else being equal. And inherently plants' growth involves evapotranspiration.
Maybe success in life and science isn't about becoming a billionaire?

Even so - if this works out, their prizes and paid speaking gigs will cover a very comfortable life if that's what they want. I'm not sure why they should be entitled to more than that.
How can I modify a chromebook to add a meta key?
Trail running shoes are patagucci.

Wearing trail running shoes for a strenuous hike -- without first building up a lot of ankle strength -- is a good way to get injured.
> Why are't more labs outside China making LK-99 and publish videos?

some possibilities:

- they have not been able to conclusively replicate anything and don't want to publish a negative result for fear of someone else publishing a conclusive positive result later.

- they are more careful to publish something that they are not (yet?) 100% sure about

- they don't care so much about the whole 'science in the spotlight' thing and prefer to go the traditional route of publishing after peer review of one or more papers rather than to make YT videos and having to fend off a barrage of interaction

- fear of getting it wrong.
>a lot if it

Physical goods pretty small slice of pie considering construction/building operations, transportation and heavy industries. Reality is 7B people in poor countries emissions will massively explode as they develop. Having a few billion slightly more durable refrigerators is relatively minor consideration to the billions tons of concrete that's going to be poured for new infra. There aren't any international body nor transnational coersive policies that's going to make poor shift away from budget CO2 intense methods/goods. Growing developing countries aren't going to wait to buy more expensive durable goods if it improves their QoL, they'll get that budget AC for relief as soon as they can afford it. Which leaves subsidies/funding, but no one (especially the west) going to fund developing world infra on scale that matters when infra at home sucks. Consumer goods producers aren't going to abandon emerging markets, and TBH it's more important for poor people to increase consumption and improve QoL sooner than not. Civilization better off when it's +5 warm but everyone has AC, than when it's +2 warm but only some have AC. Unless +5 warm spirals us into extinction, at which it's survival of fittest/geographic luckiest.
They have quantitative magnetization-versus-temperature data taken using a PPMS (an automated physical property measurement system). It shows strong evidence of some kind of diamagnetic transition at ~ 320K. It seems very likely now that this material has some kind of interesting magnetic property, whether or not it's due to superconductivity.
> Seen many inidie DIY PnP projects come and go.

Yes. The Liteplacer [1] was promising. But they insist on selling it only as an incomplete kit. You have to make your own wooden baseplate. The baseplate should be a piece of metal with the holes accurately pre-drilled, because that's needed for precise positioning. The Liteplacer is for making prototypes; it's very slow. As a prototyping machine, it ought to have a solder paste dispenser, but it doesn't.

We need more low end PnP machines. Most American electronics hobbyists are still using through-hole, decades too late.

Placing SMT by hand is beyond many people.
You have to be into using tweezers under a microscope. This is not really that difficult, especially with a cheap USB camera microscope, but it takes practice.
I used to get angry emails from people who wanted to build an open source design of mine that had modern 0.5mm pitch SMT components.

https://www.liteplacer.com/shop20/index.php?route=product/pr...
I think the over/under representation stuff is suspect. If you want to start with the right candidate population, it is not all US university students. It is better to start with the population of students that scored over 1500 on the SAT.
Being a genie, they'll grant their offer to the letter, but do it in the worst way possible for you.
Source? Reminds me of Novamin, which is absent from all toothpastes in the US but not in Europe, Canada, et al
> ankle support

I'm hesitant to get into the full holy war here, but at a minimum you should be aware that this is a hotly debated topic: https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/13910/is-ankle-...

At any rate, I backpack and trail run high triple/low four digit miles per year in the pnw and am 1000% on the fuck boots train. At this point the vast majority of thru hikers advocate trail runners of some form, which isn't exactly new: Ray Jardine has been saying sneakers or barefoot since what, the 90s?

Boots are nice for keeping crap off of your ankles in dense terrain, but the biomechanical ankle support thing is dubious.
> Pick somewhere, and you're good for ages. The nuclear waste of new reactors is even tinier in scale

Where?

It has to geologically stable for a long time.

People 50,000 years from now need to understand your intentions

You cannot do that
I'm generally anti-patent, but if there were any valid case for patents, this is it. Long, hard labor to discover something entirely new that has massive uses for society.

I'd rest my hopes on them not being dicks about it, not on them not getting benefit from it.
I actually feel like the biggest threat we face is a collapse of world order and another world war, even conventional coupled with a degradation of humanism. These lead to a global decay of basically everything, including our ability to outpace our own means of destruction and an entire inability to address climate change. The global environment becoming increasing toxic to our age’s life, including humans is I think ultimately the end of our line.
You don’t want water resistance, you want fast drainage. With decent socks, you’ll do way better. If you get water in your water resistant boots, you’ll have wet feet the rest of the way. If you’re on ice, regular hiking boots aren’t going to be any better than anything else, and you can slap yaktrax on sneakers, too. If you need crampons, you’re out of hiking boot territory already anyway.
Mass fish death: "won't someone think of the fisheries!"

Mass fishery death: "won't someone think of the seafood!"

We deserve this
Your ISP could be incompetent or malicious and not filter bogons out. Or you could be sharing a subnet with another tenant that has a misconfiguration on their end or is just plain malicious.
We have an old PnP that is dogshit with small 0402 parts. Techs have to manually load carousels with parts (easy to misplace parts) and then the machine isn't so good with 0402 so sometimes will place them in the wrong spot or swap adjacent parts. Very frustrating and has cost us a bunch of time and money diagnosing issues that are mostly due to wrong value resistors or caps and resistors being swapped and either shorting out a signal or blocking it. Add to that the lost parts from techs handling them and it really stresses you out.

Finally got a new T&R machine that has been an absolute blessing. No touching individual parts, it's 100% perfect with small parts, and we can bulk buy now to share reels with other projects.
We can barely create self sustaining colonies on Earth.
I mean, that's going for a walk.
That's not how I read it. I think the arrow-rs team wants a merger, and the arrow2/polars team does not oppose as long as they can keep using the arrow2 API. The responsibility to port the changes over would lie with the arrow-rs team, however, as the arrow2/polars team won't spend any effort on it.
This is why you take two pairs of light, quick-drying, easily drained shoes.
People keep saying this I have seen no evidence that anyone at the FDA "hangs" when they approve a drug with unexpected negative outcomes.
I think it’s good to encourage appreciation, but no need to exaggerate risks.

IPCC predicts existential risks to marine ecosystems at temperatures much higher than today. Your child will probably be able to go snorkelling just fine as an adult. My local coral reefs have returned to health after a major bleeching event that was predicted to be the beginning of the end. Sometimes our catastrophic predictions are wrong, or exaggerated.

https://www.aims.gov.au/reef-monitoring/gbr-condition-summar...
I routinely hike 7-10 miles and always prefer sneakers. This is in California where there's not a true mud season and there are paths you can hike on. For conditions like those and I would absolutely recommend something light like sneakers.

I think people over estimate the ruggedness of the activity because it makes it seem more intense. I realize a 10 mile hike is shorter than what a through-hiker would do, but ultimately you are walking on a path doing a similar motion that you would do walking on a hilly dirt road.
Yeah, regular consumer streaming might cover "movies still popular enough but not so new that they're only in theaters." However "all the movies ever made" is a significantly higher bar.

Some examples: https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/popular_mo...
imperial system users totally do mix units like that: 5 feet 10 inches, two pounds and six ounces, nine stone and six pounds

nobody has a tape measure marked in decimal yards or decimal feet, so nobody is going to say 17.8 feet or 17.8 yards

sexagesimal system users also mix units like this: 2 hours, 10 minutes, and 5.2 seconds

same for larger units of time: 5 years, 2 months, and 12 days (which is an example units(1) can't hack)
You might have twice as many overall openings for non-legacy students if you brought that into balance. Or you can complain that one subcategory of asian has a disparity from others and dig into it. That takes time and energy and publicity that is better spent on the real issue.

This is a distraction.
well i imagine they would want to put energy into this one for the particular reason that everyone is currently always saying this topic in particular changes basically absolutely everything in the world. but that would be pure speculation on my part.
They difficulty ratings are extremely subjective. Some of the yellows and reds enrichment/contests. Some of the reds are straightforward but tedious trial and error. Then there is a yellow that requires physical and mathematical intuition about bicycle wheels.

Is this really how to get a quant job? A clever high schooler could solve these with hints. I can solve most, but I'm terrible at advanced calculus and statistics.
A room temperature superconductor would, by definition, maintain quantum coherence (of the superconducting order parameter) at room temperature.
> What is making future generations pay is fossil fuel

That is true, which is why we need to use much less fossil fuels. But nuclear is so much worse.

> nuclear waste is manageable.

That is my point. You are utterly wrong about that
I have been SWE for 30 years. My youngest is off to college and I immediately enrolled in a masters program, apparently because I want to understand QFT which no amount of my own reading without doing much homework has enabled.
>> It’s an incredibly hard place to be, if they approve a drug that eventually is proceed to cause more harm than good, they’ll hang,

Not really. Fentanyl should be a schedule 1 drug but instead we have people getting addicted and dying at crisis levels. And don't forget Vioxx which killed half a million people over 5 years.

So yes, it's a hard place to be but they will not hang when they get it wrong.
Even with piracy, it wasn't possible a few decades ago.
If it pans out I'd rather they become billionaires than your average tech bro.
No you just decide what movie you want to watch and pay $4 to rent it on demand. Very common experience available to anyone with a smart TV or connected streaming device.
The worst possible outcome of weak protection is not creating new materials.
Something along the lines of "the people harmed by this government agency are being surprisingly civil"?

Nobody seems to be doing FDA offices like some people did police stations a couple summers ago. Which makes sense for any number of reasons, but I could see people thinking it doesn't.
I feel like we should distinguish curated trails against actual rough terrain hikes.

A few roots and stones are fine in trail runners. But if you are scrambling on loose stones or tromping in thick brush you want boots.

I think these days there are more hikers doing the prior.

Simple as
Important correction… the catalog of movies is likely significantly smaller than all the movies ever made… the ongoing removal of new movies for business reasons and the market fragmentation mean that reduced profits are leading to corner cutting with respect to the size of stream catalogs, licenses cost money… pirating via torrents while larger also has diminishing returns as you step outside the mainstream movies, unless your lucky and find someone diligently sharing bandwidth to keep content online happens to share an interest in that niche… we’re rapidly losing access to an entire generation of analog only media as people throw source material into the trash and corporate stewardship of original recordings slowly fails one papercut at a time for the decades it will take for work to enter the public domain and be properly archived by the people trying to hold onto all of this.

We could have maglev trains and superconducting supercomputers and copyright will still be deleting our culture to “save money” for corporate copyright owners to increase their profit margins.
In 100 years people will be pondering what it would be like to live between 2003 and 2043 :)

Uh oh, did I just jinx 2043?
I hiked the grand canyon rim to bottom in sneakers. A trail runner would probably be better, but for hikes like this (that are clearly more than 'walks for 99% of people') hiking boots are a bad idea.

A large fraction of hikes are not going through the bushes or through mud. Its on a difficult path, but a path nonetheless where the important factors are simply you dont get tired and you know how the shoes move.
Ask HN: How were the Baby Bells named?
In 1984 seven Regional Bell Operating Companies were created and spun out of AT&T.

Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, Southwestern Bell, US West

Each of them had a very distinct corporate identity separate from each other and from AT&T, which seems odd given they were generated from the same very stodgy corporate parent with an old and overbearing corporate identity and culture

How did each of the Regional Bell Operating Companies get their names before becoming independent? Was there a concerted effort to have significantly varying names and trademarks? Were the names and trademarks developed after becoming independent from AT&T?
units supports the dozenal system by default

You have: QuedraTim
You want: hour
* 1
/ 1
You have: QuedraTim
You want: minutes
* 60
/ 0.016666667
You have: TrinaTim
You want: minutes
* 5
/ 0.2
You have: DunaTim
You want: minutes;seconds
25 seconds
You have: QuenaTim
You want: hour
* 12
/ 0.083333333
You have: Grafut
You want:
Definition: gravity Tim^2 = 0.29558045 m
You have: QuedraGrafut
You want:
Definition: 12^4 Grafut = 6129.1562 m
I'd like to suggest that running wordpress with buddypress may fit the bill... and if you need chat (instead of the chat-similar groups messaging which is baked in) - you can also add wisechat to the mix.

This system is loads easier than matrix imho - although I love love love matrix and want it to continue to succeed and be used.

Blocking spam user signups and setting security plugins and auto-updates is not baked in.. but it's not hard and it's all open source - can run on a droplet or vps easily.
Technology trees are fascinating, how much sometimes hinges on one tiny invention.
WoeUSB-ng worked last time I needed a Windows install USB: https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng
Pyrolitic graphite can evade Earnshaw's theorem only with either specific magnet array shapes or with rotation, they still can't stably levitate on a regular dipole without rotation.
Yes, there exist diamagnetism-paramagnetism phase transitions.
Range != Efficiency. Electric motors are all pretty efficient. It has more to do with how big a battery they were able to squeeze into the thing.

This is different from ICE vehicles where fuel efficiency is more variable and does affect range more.
I didn't see any references to cups or water in these papers.
> Fentanyl should be a schedule 1 drug but instead we have people getting addicted and dying at crisis levels.

Fentanyl is already a Schedule 2 drug, and as someone who has had Fentanyl administered during (medical) operations, I think that's where it should remain.
Ask Physics: does Meissner Effect add weight?
A platform is placed on a weight scale. The scale reads 1kg. A super conductor weighing 100g is placed on top of the platform and it levitates such that no physical contact is made to the platform. What does the scale read?
Yeah, but I want to play with LLMs. I think at least 32GB is a must even for something like falcon-7b.

For coding, I think ram gets a little overrated sometimes. Many projects would work fine on 16GB machines.
Walking along Wall Street is hardly considered hiking...try somewhere like Arizona, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and I'll bet you change your mind...
The implementation of the old API was a problem: extension authors could do almost whatever they wanted.

Today however Mozilla stalls at giving us back basic primitives like for example a programmatic way to hide the top tab bar when an extension provide an alternative tab bar like Tree Style Tabs or Sideberry.
Clickbait title. The article essentially says if you're just going for a short walk on a trail, you can get by with trail-runners. Which... duh.

> "But he notes that trail-running shoes can capably handle a light or moderate hike over mild terrain—it’s rougher environments that call for thicker soles and supportive midsoles."

With that said, I've used something in between trail runners and hiking boots for the past decade: The North Face Ultra 111's are rigid (with a shank in the sole), water resistant, and came with gore-tex outer sole (the previous versions, at least) for great grip. Yet they look like a normal sneaker, which means I can wear them in urban areas without standing out, and don't need to bring other shoes with me when I travel.
“People always overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in ten.” - someone much smarter than me.
Randall Couch's 'Peal' and other literary bells
My most productive time working on DB applications was when I worked with a code generator.

You laid out the entry screens, specified the tables and columns, fired off the generator and magic happens.

You could slam out a basic maintenance CRUD screen, with search, foreign key popups in an hour!

But here’s the meat of if. If you ever needed to go back and update that program, you could do it in minutes.

Add some validation logic? Mechanically trivial. Say a column was added to the table and you just wanted to populate but not even show it on the screen. 5 minutes. If you wanted to add it to the screen the hard part was deciding where to put it, making room for it, putting it in the right focus order. But coding it? Once it was part of the screen the rest came for free.

See the trick was that unlike pretty much every other code generator I’ve seen (which I think are better termed wizards), this code generator was not a one shot deal.

Your code was in a separate file and the generator merged your changes with the generated code to create the final result. So for simple changes, your code file was quite small as the generator built up all the boiler plate around it.

A very (very) crude example is imagine using a typical one shot generator, making changes to the result, capturing those as a diff patch file, and in the future you did all your work in the patch file, applying it any time you needed to rerun the code generator.

That won’t work in practice, but when the patch files uses more semantic indicators, it does work. It worked really well.

This makes the code generator part and parcel to the workflow, and you get to leverage it again and again.

In many of these systems, and especially modern frameworks, they have a happy path that can do 80+% of the common task, but more often than not you hit that 81% mark and you have to toss the baby out with the bath water. Not only is the tooling not able to take you where you want to go, it can’t even take you partway and you’re on your own and your stuck with 100% of the work instead of the extra 20%.

I never really encountered that using this toolset. I had few examples where you should not rerun the generator any more, but it was really rare.
Cold fusion all over again. All the internet predictions of what this will bring are kinda cringey and pathetic
Statement on AP Psychology and Florida
Didn't notice and don't really care, to be honest. It's not something that's on my list of what's important about this site. But kudos to YC for doing that.