skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Europe's far from one single entity in education systems, and social system that's part of.

In France, for example, you're far more likely to get into a top university if you have a parent that's a teacher. I postulate here: the interdisciplinary learning system, vs. the Anglo subject focused system, that looks good on paper works out quite hard to find success in without knowing success in navigating it and putting the pieces together.

In Germany, good luck becomming the CEO of a large company without the right breeding. It happens, but not a lot. There's turtles all the way down, from managing relationships with other stakeholders (i.e., knowing who runs them) to bank funding (funding from stock is less prevalent than Anglo, it's mainly debt funding, importance of Landesbanks). Screw the well qualified engineers, middle management will squash them sucking up the class divide at the top.

Sweden, prized for community. "So fucking claustrophobic I had to leave", "curtains twitch, everyone watches each other", "if you don't conform to the system, you need to be strong" "a nice place to retire, possibly" not only one Swede has said to me on their experiences on getting out [emigrating], interestingly all from smaller southern towns. [Interestingly, 'Collectivism' being the flip-side of 'Individualism' can mean those on the 'outside' of the collective have a much harder time than when there's no, or a weak, collective. See [1] Geert-Hofstede 'Model of national culture'].

Europe's very class based, it's less transparent, more insidious.

[1] https://geerthofstede.com/culture-geert-hofstede-gert-jan-ho...
If you can't answer the question then you won't ever understand how to measure zero resistance.
I won't buy a non-native Linux game that's not on steam. The steam Linux stuff "just works", I don't need to mess around with wine/wintricks/proton or different wrappers like lutris.

If the developers have a native Linux version that I can buy directly from their site, I might do that as well to show my support (but still buy it on steam since it's just too convenient).
It is not about the gear, it's about security people that force you to disable IPv6. "You do not have a valid technical or business reason to use it. And, as electricians say, a VISIBLE circuit break provides the best assurance that this circuit will not kill you. Lack of IPv6, as opposed to just firewalling it, is the equivalent of the visible circuit break. I would also enable a whitelist of permitted ethertypes on all switches, and not include IPv6 there."

And let me quote from CIS SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Benchmark v1.1.1 page 191: "3.1.1 Disable IPv6 (Automated). Profile Applicability: Level 2 - Server, Level 2 - Workstation."
I got pretty deep into bioglass a few weeks ago. It's a calcium sodium phosphosilicate that attaches to your teeth and eventually regrows into basically real bone. The mechanism of action is very interesting.
Artificial general intelligence, and it does not exist yet.
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Can someone with more knowledge talk a bit about the most immediate and practical uses of a room temperature semi conductor? From what I understand, non-chemical batteries (ie: current-trapped-forever-in-a-rock), hand held MRI machines, passively levitating trains, and dramatically simpler nuclear reactors are on the table. However, the articles I can grok don’t exactly give a hint as to how far A is from B - ie: does a room temp super conductor solve for 5% or 95% of these challenges?

I’ve never been filled with regret for not going to college. I did extremely well for myself and my family by avoiding it, despite my desire and my love for learning. But reading this… I’m very jealous of you physicists!
French study from 2023:

> This study aimed to demonstrate that severe neurological motor deficits in the context of late tick-borne disease with mixed microorganism involvement are eligible for long-term combined antibiotic/antiparasitic treatments. The inclusion criteria were: 1. neurological limb paralysis with a disability score >4 according to the EDSS Kurtzke disability scale; 2. serological tests pointing to an involvement of the main tick-borne microorganisms Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., Babesia, Anaplasma, and Bartonella; 3. a general disease for more than 6 months with fatigue, pain and subjective cognitive deficit. The patients were administered long-term treatments with repeated cycles (at least three) of 35-day IV ceftriaxone and repeated oral regimens of azithromycin–doxycycline and azithromycin–doxycycline–rifampicin. For Babesia, repeated courses of atovaquone–azithromycin were administered. Ten patients had intractable or severe motor deficits before treatment in the context of Borrelia (two cases) Borrelia–Babesia (four cases), Borrelia–Babesia–Anaplasma (two cases), Borrelia–Babesia–Anaplasma–Bartonella (one case) and Babesia–Anaplasma (one case). For several months, five had been in wheelchairs, and four had been walking with sticks. Seven patients out of 10 (70%) showed complete remission after a mean active treatment duration of 20.1 + 6.6 months, with a mean number of 4 ceftriaxone cycles. Three patients showed an initial remission but suffered secondary antibiotic/antiparasitic-resistant motor recurrences. Among the nine patients with Borrelia serologic positivity, treatments obtained complete remission in seven cases (77%). The findings of this ten-case series suggest the usefulness of long-term antibiotic/antiparasitic treatments in patients with severe late tick-borne neurological deficits with highly significant elements of tick-borne involvement.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10294829/
After WWII, Mutton Fell Out of Favor in the U.S. Can It Make a Comeback? (2019)
Not on a single magnet though, it has to be a shaped array.
It’s just a local copy of many, and can run even when offline. Like git. No nightmares.
It compares a non-US, international demographic to a US only demographic if you need help spotting the fallacy.

The world sends it best and brightest to these institutions.
It's been over 10 years since Michael DeHaan created Ansible, and he decided the world needs a new IT automation system designed for 2023 and beyond, not a port, but a spiritual successor. Introducing: https://www.jetporch.com/
I always liked how one option can contain half the world’s population, including two of the world’s most populous countries with very, very different cultures, looks, and basically everything. And then there would be 5 different options for various Native American tribes.
chipsynth MD is a musician-targeted emulator of the MegaDrive's sound chips; one of the authors goes into the difficulty of recreating things at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLxTHYGLKY0

(From memory: they sourced a variant of the sound chip with digital output, characterized the DAC that way, then built a test suite to compare emulator behavior with a real chip)
The GitHub project has no license file that I see. Does anyone know if this is going to be released under an OSS license of some kind?
No, we need HDCP ears.
You will not be getting in a senator's ear for the maximum campaign donation. Senate races are nosebleed expensive, and the federal maximum doesn't scale with the kind of race. It has not been my experience that large donations to congressional candidates get you any real airtime either (which is a good thing), and House races cost 1/20th what Senate races cost.

Now, if you max out any Democratic race anywhere in the country, Raja Krishnamoorthi will ring you up from Illinois CD8, and you can talk his ear off. But it's a grift. He's not going to do anything for you. With my John Williamson voice activated: he - just - likes - talking - to - donors.

As regards affecting legislation, I'd be interested in hearing some specifics about your experience here. What legislation did you see get altered, and what were the tactics that accomplished it?
would love to see something equivalent for functional or lispy software design guide instead of object oriented approch.
I think the problem is that they're on an internet link aggregator complaining they don't understand a topic.

There are means to correct that on the same interface. If he's satisfied that a tikTok video has sated his curiosity, that's fine. But a well-referenced Wikipedia or any number of books or university websites or sciHub skubs will also get you there.

Unless you don't care that much. In which case, why post?

Not every post about a topic should have a handholding first comment. It's fine you don't comprehend the totally of every post, and it serves no one to state the obvious on every post you don't get.

I was exhausted when every fucking post was Haskell and the clear superiority of functional programming, so I just ignored it it read silently.

Even if a conversation seems important, you can simply be silent and absorb information knowing you may want to catch up. The internet functionally contains infinite information about the topic at all levels of explanation.
They existed as independent companies before AT&T bought them. Some under different names. See, for example, pacbell
I appreciate you trying to help in some way but I didn’t ask anything related to these resources…

Edit: I didn’t read your comment charitably as I should have. The resources are helpful in the broader context and you illustrate that moderate effort can give a layperson some literacy about this.

Still, the root comment contains a perspective worth knowing about. It’s a shame that the commenter is getting dragged for expressing it.
Me too. The day a 1000 nit display comes out they can take my wallet.
Also see:

Driver says he was 'trapped' in hot Tesla after battery died https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36964921

14 points by ajdude 2 days ago | 20 comments
I really don't see how they're much worse than the average in their industry for almost any of those. Mac Mini, Studio, and Pro all want an external monitor, and that's essentially the same product lines any other company would sell an external monitor on. With the iMac being a smaller part of the line, they're maybe even more in line with the rest of the competition on monitors.

I literally own a Framework. I care about this stuff in general, but it's not like they're making equal or worse products. What Apple is getting out of their M# processor lines is insane. Honestly, it's questionable if my modular laptop is better for the environment with how much more power I have to spend charging it vs. most of Apple's options, given that I've generally kept using my laptops for 5-7 years at least.

I've thrown away way more e-waste on my fully modular external monitor Windows/Linux desktop than I've thrown away Apple products over the years. Modular essentially means "throw away some of your parts regularly". What else am I supposed to do with a 6 year old CPU and Motherboard? I could run it as a server, but I don't need to consume that power for anything really, so it just sits in a closet for years until I throw it out.

Anecdotally, I was between buying a M1 Macbook Air and a Framework 2 years ago. I'm already curious about upgrading my Framework to the new AMD mainboard/CPU set. I can almost promise you if I'd bought the M1 Air, I wouldn't even be considering an upgrade for another 2-3 years. Repair/upgradeability also makes it way easier to impulsively generate e-waste.

Because you keep editing in more stuff - I'm really not sure I can blame them on the "making new hardware terminology" line. It really doesn't seem like it's so you can't compare it. There's plenty of benchmarks comparing it. They clearly went to ARM because it got them a ton of compute power on very little power. Yes, it can't compare to an old Intel chip the same way, but there's plenty of folks pursuing this line, and it seems like it's been well worthwhile.
1) doesn't make a whole lot of sense. A perfect understanding of something doesn't mean you can fix anything wrong with it.

3) has already happened. The AI chat bots aren't very smart, but they're clearly capable of some degree of basic reasoning.
Am I reading your comment correctly, which is essentially

> rich people must have it extra bad
The most popular footwear on the Appalachian Trail (a 2000+ mile thru-hike, although not all survey responders did the whole thing) are trail runners:

https://thetrek.co/appalachian-trail/top-footwear-appalachia...

Traditional hiking boots are quite heavy, take a long time to break in, and provide unnecessary protection and support if you know what you are doing. On the other hand, a lot of thru-hikers are completely wearing through multiple pairs of trail runners.
You should look into MDFourier. "MDFourier is an open source software solution created to compare audio signatures and generate a series of graphs that show how they differ." The Genesis was one of the primary targets for this software, and for that reason I believe that Genesis sound emulation is very accurate.

https://junkerhq.net/MDFourier/

Genesis sound emulation is indeed tricky because there were multiple variants of the sound hardware in the Genesis over the years. Some emulators model multiple variants.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/104tgvs/sega_gen...
Glad to be corrected, thank you.
I get the idea of superconductivity at room temperature in theory. But I don't have enough knowledge to understand in real terms, how will the world change if this is true?
I am possibly not following your comment - I have no idea how much it would cost to have it synthesized. I would guess a pretty binary distribution between “surprisingly cheap” and “staggeringly expensive.”

Are you saying the point of the post is that he is soliciting evidence of unapproved compounds that the FDA is sitting on that might be useful to treat his condition, and if he can find out about them, he’ll have them synthesized? That’s pretty brilliant if so. If that was the message though, it completely eluded me.
Ok, we've changed it now. Submitted title was "The Cartel That Controls the US Food System".
> let's say the paper completely checks out and they have discovered this miracle. How strong are the patent protections on materials science?

If it's literally a room-temperature superconductor, the present state of the law is irrelevant. China won't play by the rules. If Korea tries to corner it in the West, the rules will be replaced. (This would have been true had the inventor been French or American, too.)
Why do people continue to lie, or at least irresponsibly overstate, quantum computing results? Is it just a grift for funding? Or are they true believers who think with enough resources, reality will eventually catch up with their hype?
How many people would've owned CD-ROM drives between 1984 (when CD-ROMs first hit the market) and 1988 (when ISO 9660 was finalized), though?

The bigger pain point for me was around booting from CDs; even though El Torito was around by the time I was potty trained, there were still plenty of PCs out there from before - and it's those PCs on which I cut my teeth as a kid :)
It would have been more convincing if you had given real past examples rather than speculative future ones :)

Although I'm pretty sure there are plenty that many people can think of, so it doesn't really detract much from your point.
For one, lossless storage of electricity.
So next up, we'll be hiring people to put the bugs into the code base, so AI companies like this can stay in business, right? No bugs means no AI to fix bugs.
I too dabble in the dark arts.
That's just not fair. "Sorry, honey, I need more drinking money, so the biggest thing you can do to optimize the family budget, is wear second-hand clothes and eat at soup kitchen".

Screw that, I'm not sacrificing my lifestyle for their profits.

>It’s a tired argument that these things lower our quality of life: we are all going to die to global warming because we wont stop abusing fossil fuels to selfishly maintain our quality of life.

Nope, you are being used. If the rich seriously thought that we are all going to die in our lifetimes, they would not be having kids and buying waterfront properties. Nope, they don't think so. They created the whole sense of panic and urgency, so you would not be asking them why you can't afford kids, house and a healthy assortment of gourmet meats, but would instead go after people like me who do not buy into the BS. You need to be skeptical, look what people actually do (rather than say), and who owns the people that say things that influence you.
Same Fringe Problem
I'd go as to far as saying GPT-4 is capable of fairly complex reasoning, at least in my experience tossing complicated questions and situations at ChatGPT Plus.
There is a great podcast series called 'The Great Simplification' by Nate Hagens. It is basically just a series of interviews with people about the predicaments of our times. Nate has been working on this theory of 'the great simplification' being a coming event when our monetary systems catch up with the ecological systems that actually govern our world. That there is a lot of credit embedded within our very monetary system that cannot be redeemed long term.

That we have issued credits for energy and materials that we cannot actually claim at the volumes needed.

It is a compelling idea and that looks fairly plausible. Nate does a great job of walking the fine line between pessimism and optimism, something which Cory Doctoro describes as both side being defeatist.
I guess it's a mix of
- It's a good opportunity to gain visibility by working something grabbing the news. 1st room temperature superconductor, that's big
- (Under)graduate lab interns can be thrown onto any crash projects at will without much repercussion or resistance, boss is boss and should not be subject to questioning

I did a post-doc in China, so that's my sample size N=1 piece of cheap opinion
It's apparently hard to measure zero vs extremely low resistance with the two probe setup you are imagining (I guess because the probes and wires aren't superconducting, so most of the resistance in the circuit is not in the sample). The graphs I have seen are all made with a four probe setup [1], where a constant current is run through the outer probe pair and the voltage across the inner pair is measured. If the inner probes have contact issues, the voltage (and inferred resistance) drops, potentially to zero.

[1] https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/ni-daqmx/page/measfunds...
Haha, Sweep also handles small features and writing documentation! There's a huge scope of software work besides fixing bugs, and to be fair, most of the work in bug fixing is not in the actual coding but thinking about the problem.
There's a wonderful paper on 1) from a few years ago:

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...

>Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?

>We show that the [neuroscience experimental] approaches reveal interesting structure in the data but do not meaningfully describe the hierarchy of information processing in the microprocessor. This suggests current analytic approaches in neuroscience may fall short of producing meaningful understanding of neural systems, regardless of the amount of data.
Show HN: Try my new Bash prompt
PS1='\$ ' # short and sweet prompt

old_cmdno=${old_cmdno-0}
old_lines=${old_lines-0}
old_cols=${old_cols-0}

prepare_terminal()
{
stty rows $((LINES - 1))
printf "\n\033[1A"
old_lines=$LINES
old_cols=$COLUMNS
}

update_status_line()
{
local exit=$?
local getcmdno='\#'
local cmdno=${getcmdno@P}
local esc=$(printf "\033")
local pwd=$PWD
local dots=

[ $LINES -eq $old_lines -a $COLUMNS -eq $old_cols ] || prepare_terminal

local status_esc="$esc[7m$esc[m"

while true; do
[ "${pwd#/*/}" == "$pwd" ] && break
local status="$esc[7m$(date +%m-%d/%H:%M)$esc[m $HOSTNAME $dots$pwd"
local status_len=$((${#status} - ${#status_esc}))
[ $status_len -le $COLUMNS ] && break
pwd=${pwd#/}
pwd=/${pwd#*/}
dots='...'
done

status_len=$((${#status} - ${#status_esc}))

[ $status_len -gt $COLUMNS ] && status=

printf "${esc}7$esc[%s;1H$esc[K%s$esc[1;%sr${esc}8" $((LINES + 1)) "$status" $LINES
if [ $exit -ne 0 -a $cmdno -ne $old_cmdno ] ; then
printf "!%s!\n" $exit
fi
old_cmdno=$cmdno
}

PROMPT_COMMAND='update_status_line'
You don't have to use AWS' appliance (the NAT GW) to do NAT. You can NAT your traffic yourself from a t2.micro Linux.

AWS used to maintain a AMI to do just that, nowadays you have to do it yourself, but it's honestly not much more than adding 2/3 iptables rules.

I find this trade-off to be exactly the reason why AWS is so good even for small startups. You can bootstrap something quickly, though it will be a tad expensive.

And if you need to down your costs later on, you start chasing the quickwins like maintaining your own NAT gateway. The same could apply for all managed services.

Maintaining your own OpenVPN VS AWS VPN.
Maintaining your own Postgres VS RDS.
etc
The de-integration was forced by a court. Whatever they named themselves they were always going to be something bell-ish to the customers. Odd decision to take a national monopoly and to de monopolise .. make them regional monopolies instead.

About the least competitive anti-competition outcome except in respect of LD calls. Perhaps it was recognition of the public utility functions. Almost every other nation went with a national telco and so at the ITU was present as a nationstate.
And yet the developers do not have to pay the tax to use Valve’s roads. But if those developers choose to do so, they may get my business, which they otherwise were not likely to.
What's the service? asking for a friend.
I don’t know anyone who’s informed disagrees that the FDA needs significant reform now. In fact the only good thing I can think of coming from the Trump era it would have been operation warp speed, which could have been the seed that started this reformation. But alas. Nope.
In that case, the spend in the top bucket must come down since no one is shifting into that bucket, therefore total spend still has to come down (if the premise was true).
>Then there is a yellow that requires physical and mathematical intuition about bicycle wheels.

I got this one "wrong" because I assumed it was possible for the bicycle to skid and so swing the back wheel out of alignment.
Yeah, same with how I watch YouTube ad-free for free.
What's with the urge to use very small (pitch) SMT components though?

I've had a bunch of (ex) collegues who seemed obsessed with using the smallest possible parts, even where totally unnecessary. My theory is that it's some weird kind of bragging like "look at me I can handsolder parts that are small enough to breathe in".

Not saying you did that in your designs, but just my general observation of people in the field :p
AWS didn't start with "VPC", and people who still had access to the much-easier-to-conceptualize EC2 Classic only got forced off recently; Amazon VPC wasn't actually launched publicly until after Google Cloud.
A matter if time until accurate replication is more affordable.

It exists, but you often see crap like this https://youtube.com/shorts/naDRRFFVNZM?feature=share
What kind of car do you have? Your car almost definitely shares its gps location to the manufacturer and downstream data brokers.
Theoretical insight on the LK-99 material
Yeah, nah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_affair

National pride and science are not a very good mix