skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> costs power, which damages our planet.

It's useful to realize that in the long term, more power equals better. Our planet doesn't care how much power we use. So long term, we should not think "let's use less power so we 'protect our planet'", but rather "we should use more power if we can".
Are other forms of diamagnetism temperature dependat?

Because this one is.
Well, this is a strong counterpoint to the alumni/patronage theory. All the Ivies seem to be selecting the smartest of the bunch. Grades and standardized test scores matter.
> only the odds of recovery and amount of time on support are the differences

These are large differences. We can argue about inefficiencies, but people do recover from decades-long comas. People don't recover from being dead as a doornail.
Well as the other poster commented: there are many editions of this book and they were kinda mass-printed. I've got an "original" one as it is really from 1575 but the author died in 1566. The version I have is in old french and, yup, some people did put actual physical plants pressed between the page!
GPT 4 already does this. I wonder what competitive edge Grammarly is implementing here.
> The power that flows from value creation is “mild”, whereas the power that flows from political acumen is “direct and high”? Man cmon. Power is power. Have you not noticed the entire lobbying industry and who pays for the majority of it?

The difference between the two is the number of sources of said power.

The power that flows from value creation is “mild”, because there are many avenues/paths for creating value. Value creation is inherently derived from what at least one person sees as valuable in of itself, as thus less concentrated. The changes brought by said value creation is limited to the people that see its value & congregate around it, and when a better/more valuable creation turns up, their decision to leave or stay with the existing creation is ultimately theirs.

The power that flows from political acumen is “direct and high”, is because that power has the ability to control everyone's lives, and that there is only one place where said power is allowed to accumulate: The State. Power inherently concentrates when only one apparatus is allowed to accumulate power. This makes manipulations & corruption of that power much easier to perform, since it inherently concentrates into few hands/figures.
It's true that it's not a huge savings, but there's some savings. The EPA estimates approximately 1% reduction in fuel economy for each 100lbs added, so you might get a few % from the the battery weight savings.
I have talked to a number of homeless folks (I tend to go to a bagel shop for breakfasts most mornings) and a few of them are former engineers, both software and hardware. A little untreated mental unhealthy, a divorce, loosing the job, and boom. A lot of engineers have various rough bits to their ability to introspect and be flexible and so on. Being unwilling to bend in ways to go along to get along, and once you are older and you get off the track of normal life, home, etc., it's excruciatingly difficult to get back on.

For the matter, the one person I grew up with that has been homeless had a math, physics and econ triple major from Duke. Also no drugs involved, but maybe some untreated OCD.
So we're using a color space that has two channels dedicated entirely to color, which is the only thing the model needs to learn.

The model doesn't need to touch the lightness channel at all, only predict the noised added to the color channels at train time.

At inference time, we start with a real lightness channel (b/w image), and initialize the color channels to random noise. The model iteratively denoises the color channels while keeping the lightness channel locked.
Thank you. You're probably right. It's like I'm totally new to this life and reality so I tend to panic.

I'll try changing my environment and calm myself down.
Ah that is very interesting! I'll check in mine to see if I can find anything about cannabis.
> People don't recover from being dead as a doornail

Not yet they don't. Plus, depends on how you define dead. I know people who have recovered from being dead quite a few times.
I believe there’s no way to stably suspend an object on permanent magnetic fields, so if this is stable and doesn’t fall down then it’s hard to argue superconductivity isn’t involved.
In this hypothetical scenario, immortalists would always outcompete deathists, so this wouldn't really be an issue.
Gas back in the day was also shipped with lead additives. Things change. I don't think I've ever had a home router that didn't also advertise a stateful firewall and I've been buying home routers since 802.11b was a new thing.

Are you sure you're not thinking of modems not shipping with a firewall? Because yeah, a pure modem probably doesn't have a firewall. I wouldn't want a modem with a firewall.
The exact same video URL (https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV14p4y1V7kS/) is linked to in this article. There doesn't seem to be anything new here.
The town where people live underground
I guess you feel that AWS should pay for the IPs and then give them to you for free. Makes sense.
There's something archetypical to this story. The rich have been trying to use their wealth to buy immortality for at least 4000 years—what we're looking at here is just a modern form of mummification, with a veneer of science instead of religion.
I have never once heard the fans in my Mac Studio
Just to respond to your city charging comment, I live in London and had my Model Y for almost a year. We have many on-street charging stations around town, which I use regularly. Sure it’s not as convenient as having either my own home charger or the speed of filling up a gas tank, but it’s definitely do-able, at least here.
There's a huge difference there: we know for a fact that some coma patients can recover, while recovery of cryogenics subjects is still so completely theoretical that the basis is "somebody will figure it out eventually".
It's funny to look back at all the chat circa 2010 about how tablets were going to replace personal computers. It just hasn't happened. For most people they're a third device after a smartphone and a laptop, or a device for kids.

Tablets have remained a niche market, but within that the iPad is doing fine.
It's been a while since I looked into this in detail[1], but AFAIK Chromebooks are actually normal PC laptops with different firmware and OS, so the first thing I thought when I saw "Purchasing Drivers" was are you f'ing kidding me? Aren't they possibly just the freely available official manufacturer's drivers INF-edited with the slightly different device IDs of the hardware?

[1] If I remember correctly, someone was able to turn a Chromebook into a standard PC by just flashing the BIOS corresponding to the identical non-Chromebook model, but this was a long time ago.
mentioning "damaging the planet" twice referring to a handful of refrigerators is pretty farcical
In Scandinavian regions, at the very least, the Viking warm periods were not as warm as today; fresh evidence suggests that they were less warm than many have stated:

Tree rings reveal that it has not been this warm in the past 1,200 years

AUGUST 3, 2023: https://phys.org/news/2023-08-tree-reveal-years.html

Fennoscandian tree-ring anatomy shows a warmer modern than medieval climate

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06176-4
You are comparing the heaviest Ioniq to a lighter trim of Rav 4. If you compare models more similar in price the difference is significantly less.
> It won’t have your memories but that’s as close as we can get.

I'd argue it's not much closer than just having children. It's still far from preserving self, because you don't preserve the "consciousness" whatever that is.
It’s a breath of fresh air reading about actual revolutionary science happening.

The deluge of news about non-replicable results, fabricated data, overhyped press releases from both academia and industry had become really depressing. For once after a long time it’s the real deal.

Even if this is not a RT superconductor, it’s now evident that the original authors didn’t cheat and are not crackpots as initially suspected by most.
There's a huge difference there, in that information storage via cryogenic preservation is an at least theoretically valid basis. It's still "Step 2: ???" but steps 1 and 3 are compatible with known science.
I'm still busy with Jagged Alliance 3. And BG kind of slid off of me back in the day so I'll probably skip this too.
Yet in the chart, at the bottom ("Commentary"), it says:

"Their 100- and 177-point SAT score lead ... seems to have hurt, not helped, their chances of admission"
It's useful for some practical conversions like fuel efficiency calculations. I think in USD per mile and it's handy to be able to directly take CAD/liter and l/km for my trips to Canada.
I want to be that slave, man.
Coma patients are actually alive, though, and have been known to come back.

If you believe that dead people have come back, you're religious.

...this might be controversial, but I'll argue that thinking you'll live again if you get chronically frozen requires as much faith as believing you'll live again in an afterlife.

There's not much evidence for either, so you're left squinting heavily at vague suggestive outlines, making your bets, then hoping and trusting it works out.

The difference is what you put that faith in, and why.
The paper shows a clear phase transition to diamagnetism as the material is cooled. That would be seen in superconductors and not in regular diamagnetic materials. I'm not aware of any that have that kind of phase transition. Though since we're in weird territory here, it's important to note some weird non-superconductor behavior that's beyond regular diamagnetism might be going on as an alternative explanation. But it is weird.

ETA: also, in the presence of a magnetic field, that transition temperature decreases. That's pretty huge. Unless this paper is fraudulent, I take this as the biggest positive evidence so far that something besides simple diamagnetism is going on. And, cards on table, with the assumption that the paper is not fraudulent, this pushes my odds above 50% for the first time.
Can you draw that conclusion from these charts? The only SAT score chart is a mean SAT score across the entire US, not the Ivies
Nuclear power to combat the climate crisis
Yeah, it's a bit striking that apparently these refrigerators are morally wrong, but not the billion-plus others.
Calling people magatards probably doesn't help much
Bowl Feeder
Step 3 being... resurrection from being dead 100s of years? What known science is that?
Mummification was probably compatible with the best known "science" back then.
My wife and I are both starting with Hogfather, which seemed as good as any and worked as an easy gift (I can't recall if I bought it for Christmas or Father's Day)
They didn't surrender after the first, and the military leadership didn't want to surrender after the second (the emperor did anyway and there was an attempted coup).

Note that more people were killed by firebombing Tokyo than either nuke, Japan was completely at the mercy of US bombing raids before the atomic bombs and they still refused to surrender.
I work at krea.ai. We are for sure making art extremely accessible, but we consider it enhancing creativity rather than replacing.

I fully agree that being able to generate an aesthetically pleasing image with an AI that has been optimized to do exactly that is a banal application of creativity.

I do think that AI has incredible potential to make (and become art).

The best AI artists don't just throw art into midjourney, they experiment, create their own secret sauce.

Training models has become an art form in and of itself: ai artists curate incredible datasets and devise recipes for training stunning models. Their workflows span multiple companies / tools / models.

AI just means that the goalposts for creativity are shifting. Boring people will use AI to make boring art, artists will find completely unexpected ways to use the tools we build to create art forms we've never imagined before.
>the answer to the second is trivially Yes, regardless of the value of X

then don't do it?
Any recommendations for Lyme disease treatment?
IIRC, GNU Units was once the center of a small controversy. Google (still, AFAIK) offers unit conversion as a part of their search box; you can type a unit conversion into Google and get a conversion done. Some people noted this, wondered about what the backend might be, and typed some stuff in which was known to trigger a then-present bug in GNU Units. And wouldn’t you know it, Google showed the same bug. This was all well and good, since GNU Units uses GPL, not the AGPL (which did not even exist at the time). But then some time later, Google fixed the bug; the unit conversion could no longer be triggered to exhibit the bug. But no fix for GNU Units was forthcoming from Google. At the time, this was surprising and cause for some hullabaloo, since Google was still ostensibly in their “Don’t be evil” stage.

(Disclaimer: I only heard about all of this via the rumor mill; some details may be wrong or omitted.)
Microsoft is trying to replace Chrome on Windows with Edge pretty hard. How far are we from Windows Store popping up when trying to buy a game on Steam and offering a discount or informing you that the game is on Game Pass?
I can’t begin to explain the misery of watching a loved one, close to you, fall into the trap of bullshit medicine. Someone who was otherwise bright and intelligent lost their ability to think critically because they were suffering too long. Or maybe it’s severe mental illness. Even worse, they may extend their fears to their children and family, forcing their Internet bought potions on them.

What I have found is that all the bullshit medicine keeps similar company: Chronic Lyme, Bartonella, Biofilms, non-native Parasites, mold, heavy metals, and even emf sensitivity.
Features that need servers — which all remote ones do — have a running cost, so it's fine for them to be a subscription. However, paying to use the hardware you already have installed on your car, like heated seats or smart headlights, is absolutely not fine.
>Rich people will pay the premium, which subsidizes the cost of the car for others. In other words, poorer customers will get a cheaper car.

This sorta thing is usually done because retooling an assembly line so the car can have different features can be incredibly costly. It's often the case that all cars are built with the same features and the cost of this hardware is also included the price of the cheaper car with the features disabled. The "rich people" just pay a premium to have 'off' switched to 'on'.
“beyond their own death”

I wouldn’t be so quick to judge, they may merely have a different definition of death than you do.

In fact, it’s quite likely the line you’ve drawn for what death means to you would be sacrilegious in a previous time.

It’s all relative.
Just because you are not a scientist in the field does not mean you cannot engage and improve your critical thinking skills. I do not need to lighten up, you need to learn some intellectual rigor.
Agreed. It's felt like so many of the technological marvels have either happened quietly (e.g. the reductions in chip size) or in the past (e.g. all the physics breakthroughs of the 1900s). Like ChatGPT, this seems to have the characteristics of being both accessible and completely novel.
I own a Manncorp MC-400 Pick and Place. Surprised wiki does not mention Manncorp or Autotronic or Quad. Seen many inidie DIY PnP projects come and go. The latest generation of low-end Chinese PnPs like Neoden have seen increased popularity for personal and small batch use.
I believe so, as long as it can be poven beyond doubt that your cooperation would lead to convicting a criminal. But IANAL!
Biosafety in DIY‐bio laboratories: from hype to policy (2021)
I feel like the host of “in 30 years we would have X” made 40 years ago are suddenly manifesting.
>As such, modern tellers of the story have put their own spin on it. In addition to the films and books, dozens of paranormal podcasts have devoted episodes to the Bell Witch, and nearly every one of them offers a different explanation. Some insist that the Bell farm was on Native American burial ground—a standard trope, almost exclusive to white Americans, as a way of engaging with the Native American genocide while keeping it at arm’s length. Another popular interpretation focuses on a schoolteacher named Richard Powell, who supposedly wanted to marry Betsy Bell when she was a teen. He is said to have summoned the Bell Witch to haunt the family after being rebuffed by Betsy and her father—an explanation that plays up Betsy’s vulnerability in a world of toxic, abusive men. Others conclude that Kate Batts, as an unpleasant (by all accounts) and unmarried woman, was a scapegoat, a version that taints the story with misogyny.

Is this the paragraph that hurt you?
According to Brave Privacy Policy, participation in the Web Discovery Project is "opt-in". How many Brave users have opted in to sending data to Brave.

How many Chrome users have opted in to sending data to Google.

Sometimes uninformed consent is not actually consent. These so-called "tech" companies love to toe that line.
The beauty of repetition? Wow... I must be out of the loop
It depends on whether or not technology in the future allows the revival of the deceased. If true, then I imagine many people (rich ones) will pay to store their bodies for 10 to 20 years to wait for the progression of medical knowledge ("frozen for a cure", so do speak).

I doubt that such expense will be paid by insurance policies unless 1) the technology became common or 2) it's a privilege only for the powerful.
Haiyoo, what kind of person are you when even in death you can't give back to earth the body you borrowed.
I use this daily eg.

temp 42F

or

temp 39C

#!/bin/sh

if echo "$1" | grep -q '[0-9][0-9]*[fF]' ; then
val=`units "tempF( $(echo $1 | sed 's/[a-zA-Z]//g') )" tempC`
echo ${val}C
else
val=`units "tempC( $(echo $1 | sed 's/[a-zA-Z]//g') )" tempF`
echo ${val}F
fi

exit 0
If you look at the actuarial tables, 'immortals' would still statistically die eventually from something unrecoverable.
Most likely the bleeding edge state of the art! Embalming practices of some cultures mystified modern science for quite a long time, iirc!
If Greenpeace hates him, that’s a pretty good indication that he’s a reasonable scientist imo.

Greenpeace is generally unreasonable politically and scientifically. Their efforts to stop nuclear development have likely caused a third of anthropogenic warming. Their campaigns make the public hate them. They are not a good org to trust for balanced science.
If we can recolor jpegs from the 1800s, I'm confident we'll be able to recover frozen connectomes.

I wouldn't place any limit on our future computational abilities or techniques. And even things that lie beyond the limit of detection may fit some into some clever model we've yet to imagine.
I thought like lawyers and doctors with their clients/patients, crime was an exception?
>a veneer of science instead of religion.

Science is some people religion nowadays
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamagnetism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnshaw%27s_theorem
I am super confused. Where did I say the "billion-plus others" aren't morally wrong? Or is this a straw man demonstration?
Recommended "Making Money", I was ordered not to read it in bed because (1) I can't stop and (2) I couldn't stop laughing.
Funny but there's still corrosion, cracking, and holes to connect wires to the battery.
> ...this might be controversial, but I'll argue that thinking you'll live again if you get chronically frozen requires as much faith as believing you'll live again in an afterlife.

I would say they are similar, but there's a key difference there. One relies on believing in the ingenuity of humans and the improvement of technology, both of which have been observed. The other relies on believing in the word of people who came long before you, which has been observed to be less then stellar.

The fact of the matter is you literally have to choose between those 2 or giving up completely.
That's why I said "doornail"; the people in question are sufficiently dead that the company here doesn't think they're at risk of being sued for killing someone.

Maybe we'll be able to reanimate people eventually; for the time being, people definitely do recover from comas.
A couple notes from trying this, though people have probably already said them:

Would be nice to be able to pull down the conversation box so that it can fit more text in it (forgive my vocab, not a software guy lol).

Would also be nice to cancel my audio if I screwed up, as is common when learning a language. This leads to incorrect words/phrases ending up in the conversation and hurting the flow. For this matter, it would also be nice to undo things you have already said, though perhaps this is a limitation with the ChatGPT API?

All in all, really cool! Great job on this.
I prefer the procedure from 20 years ago. Where ADHD was defined by having the systems, and then testing every other thing that it could be.

It took my son 2 months to be officially diagnosed. A real pain? Sure. But a heck of a lot better than the situation today where kids with chronic sleep deprivation are given an ADHD diagnosis, then sent home with a medication that masks the sleep deprivation while giving them insomnia.
If nothing else, the internet has taught me that a surprising number of people are interested in retro.

Thawing people from 1000 years ago could be as casual as an unboxing video.
Thank you for the straw man argument.
Agreed. People who willingly purchase a vehicle that includes subscription fee for features built into the car absolutely are cretins however.
I suggest we instead start solving the problem by launching a crusade against ice cream stands. Those are _everywhere_!
Yes, they really are. And if you like them Gaiman's 'Neverwhere' is also really good.
Yes, in two forms:

First it shows a temperature graph vs moment, as they heat it it loses the diamagnetism around the temperature LK99 is said to be superconducting.

Second only a superconductor will have net-zero field, which means "stable" levitation. In the video they approach the sample with the magnet and flip it while the piece is mostly "in place". A regular diamagnet generates a external field that "follows" the field applied so it would likely move sideways, that is why to "levitate in place" a diamagnet people normally use a Halbach array.

EDIT: A Halback array is made alternating the poles N-S of the magnet, so that forces of repulsion created by the diamagnet cancel. This is why you will see people using multiple magnets when levitating pyrolytic graphite.
> rich

I just went through their inquiry page. They give 65 euros/month as the estimated price, for my selections. (I'm older than most HN commenters, which presumably means a higher price on the insurance. OTOH I picked neuropreservation, which should cost less than whole-body.)

Further, early adopters create a market which will predictably be served at lower cost as it grows.
Why are folks trying to prove that this material is a superconductor in roundabout ways, like levitation, dimagnetism, etc? What is the reason they don't just test to see if electrical current flows without resistance? Surely there is something I am missing here.
It's not nobody dying, it's only nobodies dying. Eh? Eh?
It's even more weird than that.

units(1) can compute "starting at T Celsius, if i add N degrees celsius, how many degrees Fahrenheit did I add? and defaults to this for naive attempts to convert between the two, AND "what is X Fahrenheit in Celsius?"

That is, it can convert between delta-C and delta-F, and also between absolute C and F.
In the Gemini spacecraft this was almost true. The ram they used would overheat if accessed too frequently so the assembly coders had to be sure to add no ops or find other things to do while the ram cooled down.