skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Derek Lowe is a layman? I grant his specialism doesn't precisely match the field, but it's easily close enough I'd expect him to be able to smell bullshit on this if there was any, and his latest "In the Pipeline" suggests much more the scent of roses.
> bans political topics

Boy, I sure wish that my current employer banned such conversations in the workplace. They make things really tense and uncomfortable.
Call Screen is a nice addition to global call control (or whatever it gets renamed to per carrier), that just prompts callers with a simple "press this button to continue the call".

Went from every day at least a dozen calls mostly from spoofed numbers, to only getting the important ones. Call Screen winds up being just a nice cherry on top.
I've seen plenty of anarchists who do recommend tearing everything down. Antifa has clothed themselves in the name of supposedly being against fascism, but they define fascism as any current system of government. They're anarchists, though the media covers them as "activists."

You're right about number 2, though.
Tangentially related to the game Kentucky Route Zero?
Metaculus has some markets on LK-99, for example
My lowest cost per kWh in SF Bay Area is $0.34 or 5 times your energy cost.
I can switch to a plan where past midnight it’s 0.25 but it will bump a good chunk of the day to over $.50 per kWh

In other words, until I get solar, charging a vehicle at home is not a money saving proposition for me
Those rules are defined in the actual bet. I think it was "three replications of room temperature superconductivity by X date" or something like that.

I looked closely because I very much wanted to bet tens of thousands of dollars on "no", but I couldn't because I'm in the US. The two outcomes would be I'd make a lot of money or humanity would make the biggest breakthrough in generations.
The happiest country on Earth makes the darkest music
I've gotten 6 spam calls so far today.
Ahah the witches of the internet are pulling the strings
Do you have a good reference? Preferably one that mentions a control application because I’m curious to see what the model assumptions and speed look like in that context
They achieved 23 hours. https://social.treehouse.systems/@AsahiLinux/110548137464042...
>Part of it is that Apple has the margins that they can spend a little more on parts.

This part is duplicated by the business or professional branded products of Dell/HP/Lenovo/etc.

I think the part that cannot be duplicated (without very significant time and money) is the tight integration between software and hardware. Even if the other companies spend a little more for the premium components, they are not able to squeeze out the same performance.
It is a bit more nuanced than that, on both sides, you should always look at the full situation.

There's many things, like stability, and how the firm treats you that SHOULD be considered. But they should be considered, as benefits, and given a value.

I faced this on my last job search. I ended up declining a FAANG to goto a small firm. No regrets when the FAANG laid off a few months later like I predicted they would.

... Always watch out for yourself. Money isn't the only thing that matters. Relationships matter etc.

But as always: Business, is business, nothing personal.
Looking at the study they source, one reason they were able to get the fossil fuel price to low is that gas prices have fallen recently.

Anecdotally, gas prices seem to be the mostly wildly fluctuating commodity price that I’ve ever been exposed to as a consumer. I would definitely not tie a necessary function like transportation to something so unpredictable unless I had any other choice. Can’t wait for used EVs to become more widespread.
It was exactly one of the point that were criticised in the original paper.
I think that the supposed Reddit “expert” that ridiculed it should really be shamed to apologise to the authors.
And together with him a lot of other people in various other places on the net.
I'm wondering whether there is any reason why condensers can't be used for all program optimization. It seems like the definition would allow that:

> The primary means for shifting computation is the condenser. A condenser is a component that transforms a program, yielding a program that is semantically equivalent under a stated set of constraints (e.g., “class X will not be redefined”), but may be smaller, faster, or better suited to a particular
execution environment.
The jump at 250K looks like bad contacts to me that fixed themselves during cooldown. Rewiring the sample and remeasuring should get rid of it. The field dependence is indeed a bit weird. One would expect the critical temperature to reduce with increasing magnetic field (magnetic field weakens superconductivity), but here you don't see that. It's expected that the superconductivity is very strong for such a high critical temperature and the fields applied are not strong enough, but with better measurements you should still see a small reduction in the critical temperature.
What's dysfunctional about it? An employee-employer relationship is a business one, after all.
That's because the people who are building the AI actually know how it works, understand how fundamentally simple it all is, and know that there's no room for consciousness to magically emerge. The current state of AI is not so much a story of any kind of "intelligence" being amazing, but rather the sum total of humanity's data being amazing. The amazing feats LLMs perform come from the words we all wrote, not the code they wrote. The code just unlocks the previously latent power of all that data.

It is nothing close to being an actual intelligence, regardless of how much we anthropomorphize it. We also anthropomorphize stick figures, stuffed animals, and weighted companion cubes.
I read it. I confess I'm largely remembering previous articles that loved highlighting the amount of margin that Audible demands.

For the DRM complaint, I'm mostly sympathetic, but I have a really hard time believing it is not at the insistence of the publishing companies. They literally force library lending to go through similar DRM schemes. And it is largely in their interests to make sure you can't purchase the cheaper Audible version of a book and take it out of their ecosystem.

That last point is ultimately my main gripe here. Audible has incentives for you to buy more from them. Which they largely pursue not by locking your current purchases to them, but by offering better prices and funding better books. To try and "stick it to the man" by bitching about DRM schemes is a hell of a non-sequitur that smacks more of virtue signalling than it does actual concerns.
It failed with my gold laminated butt plug idea I've had bouncing around my head for ages.
Everything but the Crab language is worthless fluff.
110K actually makes me excited as someone with a physics background. It seems more realistic, and there's always the possibility of finding full room temp later, too.
What about European or Japanese scientists? And about Korean scientists not part of the original team?

The last should also be able to get their hands on a sample provided by the original team and won't have to do reproduction attempts, right?
> things that the Bible depicts as actions where a good stoning is in order

Didn't "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone" combined with the fact that none of us are without sin basically mean that a good stoning isn't ever in order anymore?
I'm hoping this means we will be able to run Linux binaries on ChromeOS at some point - I'm specifically interesting in being able to run Visual Studio Code (for Linux) and some dev environments and use Chromebooks plus a Linux-compatible OS as my dev machine.
For me, the article only shows 1 data visualization which is expressly about the Rural vs. Urban divide. I don't think the article did the topic much justice. I wish it had more data analysis, rather than how it quotes specific numbers, in several cases, without really using them to relate to the thesis of the article.

For example:

"In 2021, according to the cdc, 107,000 people died of drug overdoses, the vast majority linked to heroin or fentanyl. No other rich country comes close to this rate of drug deaths (though Scotland is not that far off). And in 2021 around 43,000 Americans died in car crashes, which was the highest figure since 2005 (the number fell a bit last year); in Germany the rate was a quarter of America’s. Around 26,000 were murdered, against just 300 in Italy."

This is very very general information. Yet the thesis (I think?) suggests that health outcomes are different based on Urban vs Rural living. Why not relate not general opiate consumption data, but rather compare urban & rural opiate consumption, and relate to to another correlating factor such as education or economy. The article does to a degree, but I feel like it's lacking in analysis.
Mobile is blocked by Google and Apple, that's all. You can't fix that.

What you can fix, though, is an ecosystem built on a pile of left-pad-quality hacks that change every other week. Hence the various attempts to jailbreak the accidental monopoly JS was born with.

Unfortunately, this project doesn't even try to do that, and still relies on that pile of hacks. As such, it's never going to be particularly popular - why suffer most of the JS-ecosystem pain plus the additional pain brought by a transpiler?
Oopsie doopsie, Arizona spent the entire month of July over 110F, India is outlawing almost all rice exports, South America is over 100F in their winter, Antarctica is missing an Argentina-sized amount of ice in its winter, cacti in the Mojave Desert are wilting and dying in heat even they can't handle, and Iran just flat out shut down for two days due to the heat.

But sure, people are going to migrate slowly and not die in great numbers as receiving nations pull up the drawbridges and rain arrows on the intruders.
You bet! I didn't read it as a dunk at all, and again I agree with the critique!
> Yeah and I've got a $400 lab fridge (no freezer, no nothing) of similar vintage that I've yet to have an issue with. Flukes happen. I think it's hysterical that refrigerators that have similar price tags to cars I've owned exist in the world. Nice racket for someone I suppose. Some people's kids...

:) Well I guess today is the day you learn that everyone has different interests and tastes. We like to cook and a fridge the size of the one we have means we can hold a few weeks worth of food that we prepare.

it also means we can stock up on fridge food so we don't need to buy it every day and the large freezer means we can keep food for longer.

You could also consider that we just may have alot more money than you and us spending $14,000 on a fridge is the equivalent amount of our income or net worth as you spending $400 on a fridge.
Author-defined custom HTML elements, with all of the behaviour and interactivity defined in a way the browser natively understands.
> Just look at modern America, a giant portion of folks cannot survive without gov assistance now

Boomers are more than “a generation or two ago.”
What does the FCC have to do with the mobility scooter coup?
I like the “solid” squashes fine (butternut and friends, not sure what you call them) but i cannot stand spaghetti squash.

they’re quick to cook if you peel them first. you can do it with an ordinary veggie peeler.
Intel's Lunar Lake Architecture to Feature 8 Battlemage Xe GPU Cores
Except for when a restaurant is calling you to let you know that your table is ready.

Or your doctor's office is calling to let you know they suddenly have an opening this afternoon.

Or your Uber driver is calling to let you know you left something valuable in their car, right after they've dropped you off at the airport.

And so forth. I've learned from hard experience that silencing all calls from non-contacts bites you in the ass. There are legitimate calls that benefit you now, where going to voicemail defeats the purpose.
The jump looks like bad contacts to me. The wires you attach undergo stress during the cooldown, and such artefacts can happen with small samples. Rewiring the sample should get rid of it.
They're talking about text messages. You can send a text message from an email address. For example "8675309@txt.att.net" would send a text message to Jenny if she were an AT&T subscriber.
Any number of things. It’s up to the company and its employees.
>And no, you can't just say, "they would have gotten a larger cut in the other marketplaces," as I am literally asserting that Audible is the largest marketplace because they grew it

Ma Bell was the largest telecom because they grew the industry. That doesn't mean their actions once they had monopoly power in a large market were particularly beneficial to anyone but themselves.

>Again, if you are worried that they will "turn bad in the future,"

No, they already did. Their actions now are bad. Exclusivity deals are bad. Their enormous cut is bad.
There is a shelf-space issue.

Let's assume most of high-quality ad-spaces are available for "broader campaigns". Once each small business broadcasts ads here, they will compete for space. Price of space-unit goes up.

Then some ad-space-seller opens Pandora's box: "hey I can allow you to narrow the audience by location targeting. Each unit is more expensive but conversion rate is higher so you will end up with a better margin overall"
They could add a __bool__ method to the class the returns false when that level of the namespace is empty. That would allow:

if a.b.c:
print("c:", a.b.c)
I enjoy how much complete control Python enables. It’s fun to turn it into what resembles a different language.

I want to make a library where you never ever call functions with fn() notation. But just utilize accessors and absolutely bastardize dicts.
Oh, interesting to hear that feedback. We actually changed the slogan just recently with the new major version of swup, because it became much more versatile and extensible than in previous versions ;)
That's a lot of reading, if you're reading them from cover-to-cover.
Was going to ask about applications - but applications are there in GitHub in description. Thanks seems like something I might use one day.
They can move it to the cloud as I move to Linux...
I’d say that it does work pretty well. It could simply be that I’m sampling too much from the LLM which is causing it to hallucinate more than it should, hence why I needed to spend so much time filtering out the hallucinations. But I think the risk of “made up” stuff in what’s supposed to be an accurate representation of a scanned document is big enough that you might always want to do something like that for quality control purposes, just to be on the safe side.

I used the Llama2 13B Chat model ggml weights from TheBloke on Huggingface.
> I think it was "three replications of room temperature superconductivity by X date" or something like that.

That doesn’t sound like a sufficient market resolution condition. Surely it would need to be something like “declared by specific Party X to be a room-temperature superconductor” where Party X is sufficiently trusted by all market participants.
The "defund the police" movement originated with BLM, not Antifa. And the Wikipedia page[0] for it mentions the plan, in general terms

supports removing funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources. Activists who use the phrase may do so with varying intentions; some seek modest reductions, while others argue for full divestment as a step toward the abolition of contemporary police services. Activists who support the defunding of police departments often argue that investing in community programs could provide a better crime deterrent for communities; funds would go toward addressing social issues, like poverty, homelessness, and mental disorders.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police
My state has flat tax rate of federal taxable income (after deductions). Most years its free online filing and typing 5 or 6 numbers. Takes five minutes. The tax softwares dont like that because they get half their income from state filings.

I dislike that I dont get the long term capital gains discount like on federal.
I think the rule of thumb, though, is that most things don't turn out to be viable, and then most viable things are only barely useful due to constraints. But occasionally they DO occasionally come up with world-changing technology.

Dark example, but the atomic bomb for instance was a dramatic improvement in our capacity to destroy things: night and day difference.
> I am a human being. I do not exist to ensure that my employer is operating with the greatest productivity possible.

You literally do if you are employed by someone. You expect money from them in exchange for productive work. You are free to start your own business if you want to be however-productive you feel like that day.

For head-down productivity, sure, you can be better at home. But that's not the entire picture, is it?

In-person collaboration is always better than remote messaging/video calling. It just is, and probably always will be.

It's very disingenuous to pretend remote collaboration is anywhere near as effective as in-person collaboration.
Looting a couple handbags or iPhones easily gets you over the felony limit, still no action. The police in the Bay Area just really don’t want to do their jobs unless there’s a gun involved. The law change provides a convenient scapegoat but doesn’t actually explain the inaction.
He covered exactly that (and again today on this news: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-02/the-us..., it's free by email but I think unfortunately no (legitimate/non-archive) way to find old columns for free if you weren't subscribed at the time):

> When we last talked about this in May, I looked at various rules — for money market funds, for Federal Reserve collateral, for cleared derivatives margin, for bank and insurance capital — until I got bored; all of them say that Treasuries are Treasuries, that they are treated as about as risk-free as it gets, without any reference to ratings. [...] If you have that trade, please email me! If you were allowed to hold Treasuries when they were rated AAA (by Fitch), but not now that they are rated AA+ (by Fitch), I would love to hear about it. But I don’t think there are a lot of those people out there.
I am curious why you don't think they aren't better than the alternatives? Are they amazing and beyond improvement? Of course not. But most of the alternatives are crap.

This is basically the same as the sad affair of enterprise software. The vast majority of that industry is actively bad. Not just not good, but actively bad.
> You cannot 'treat' those people. Nobody can un-addict the drug addict except the drug-addict themselves.

This isn't true. You give them opioid antagonists such as Suboxone. It's not a one-and-done thing, true, but while on these meds they do not want and could not enjoy the drugs.

A full treatment plan, such a Portugal uses on anyone caught uncontrollably stoned in public, can take up to a few years and involves eventual job programs, etc, to leave the person happily employed and housed.

> but the hard work has to come from the person them-self.

No, this is old stigma-based thinking, just from the other point of view. There's no need for someone to do the monumental task of detoxing and through shear willpower, deny any future hits. The antagonists take effect almost immediately, blocking the need, and quickly the desire.

> "go to treatment, do 30 days of parole - or go to jail." The effectiveness of this kind of treatment AFAIK is tantamount to a joke.

True, that is nonsense. It needs to be jail, but your choice of jail with rehab or just jail, and it needs to be until a body of experts (many themselves ex users of the same drugs) feels you are ready to be released based on evidence-based treatment plans. Then, back to jail to serve your remaining sentence if applicable or released into the public if your crimes were only drug related and you're unlikely to re-offend.
I completely agree that's a valid argument. I just think it is rational for someone to come to a different conclusion, given identical priors.
> tabs ARE objectively better than spaces

It takes two to make an argument, and I think both those viewpoints are wrong!

Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment.

(actually, I have an idea for dynamic tabs which might do both jobs better that I need to throw a demo of together to try to convince code editors that it is worth implementing)
Oh, sure. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I completely agree with the implication that you can't spend your way out to a cleaner future. I mean, you could certainly spend a lot of money today to avoid spending money in the future, which is a category that your example of clean energy could fall into.

I was being slightly tongue in cheek, but what's a little depressing, is that when I look at analysis of things like carbon sequestering, it's really hard to end up carbon positive when factoring everything in. These kinds of things tend to then add credence to the idea that you can't spend your way to a cleaner future.
Research does exist you know. This is immensely helpful for a huge number of people in academia.

If you want to build a company, perhaps you should do what everyone in the industry has done for millennia, copy the movements performed and optimize them while doing so.
Who told you that they are not attempting the reproduction?
Even US labs are attempting it, some of them explicitly in the open like the Argonne National Laboratory.
Here you can find a non-comprehensive list of reproduction attempts: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-tempe...
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but I do believe that Americans ability to cooperate (both with each other in general and between the private and public sectors) is not now what it was in the mid-20th century.
Honestly, I'm not all that interested in it, and am certainly unqualified to suggest improvements to the model. I'd have to go back and read the article more carefully, along with probably a bunch of other material as well, to evaluate it properly. Seems like one of those scenarios where if you torture the data enough it will tell you whatever you want to hear.

It just struck me that both the red and blue traces in the last graph he presents, where he arbitrarily(?) adds another term to the math, are so ridiculous as to not be worth further consideration. If there's a more subtle point, like I said, I'd need to re-read to find it. Either that, or the author needs to bring his lede up front and center. Demonstrating that one bit of math is bad by making up another equally bad one doesn't carry the point as effectively as he was probably hoping it would.
Even though I've never used Angular, and do not build web apps at all, we have put custom HTML elements to great use at work. It's also not about locking down styling, but it's a neat way to package up _functionality_ and behaviour that otherwise would be just defined ad-hoc in JavaScript, and to provide a dead simple way to (re)use that functionality in a declarative way from HTML.
Twitter's Blue Ticks are now so toxic that paid users can choose to hide them
The weapon part of the US contribution is way overrated.

The Soviets produced 157k airplanes, the US only gave them 11k (7%).

US gave 7k tanks, Soviets produced 87,500 (8%).

The main contribution by the US was support vehicles like jeeps and trucks and fuel. Neither the aircraft or tanks were very notable beyond the very early years.

The Soviets largely did it on the own armour/aircraft wise. Which was why Hitler was so obsessed with invading in the first place. He knew unless they rushed to invade Russia could unleash it's massive capacity for production that'd they'd be impossible to invade on their own, or at a minimum be way harder to beat.