skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the non-chemists/physicists:

Recently[1], there was an exciting claim that a new type of material could conduct electricity perfectly at room temperature (this is what is meant by "superconductivity")[4]. This material was a version of lead-apatite [2], a type of mineral, that was altered with certain additions and made by combining two other materials, lanarkite and copper phosphide.

The researchers writing this report wanted to check if this claim was true. So, they made the same types of materials (lanarkite, copper phosphide, and the altered lead-apatite) and tested how they conducted electricity and reacted to magnets.

What they found was that lanarkite (Pb2SO5) didn't conduct electricity well at all, and copper phosphide Cu3P) conducted electricity similar to a semiconductor [3]. The altered lead-apatite, which was supposed to be the superconductor, behaved more like a semiconductor (a type of material that can sometimes conduct electricity, depending on conditions).

Also, a key property of superconductors is that they repel magnets. But when the researchers put a magnet near their lead-apatite, there was no repulsion.

Because of these tests, they're suggesting that the original claim about this room-temperature superconductor should be re-examined more carefully. It doesn't seem to behave like a superconductor in their tests.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864624

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatite

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity
There was no last time they tried this. The DGB does something entirely different from what this bill does. It watches over the government, while this bill says that private companies must state their rules clearly.
It had to be a horrible experience for him since for sure he was familiar with other BASICs. One example: Prior to Pirates!, in 1982, Sid Meir made a game called Chopper Rescue in Atari 800 BASIC:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/41499/chopper-rescue/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUyebYD5UO0

C64 BASIC had to be a step back, but that's where the sales were to be made. For example, in Atari 800 BASIC variables were not limited to two characters.

C64 BASIC was really PET basic from ~1976, very close to Microsoft's Altair BASIC.
Carbon black is produced by burning petroleum productd, so that oughta bring on the poo-poo squad directly.
I guess you were done with games too, except maybe "Battletoads"
https://archive.is/rc0cC
sni=plaintext

There was a great trial CF ran for a long period with a previous version of encrypted SNI (now ECH). One could get encrypted SNI with any site using CF via modified OpenSSL. But they stopped this experiment. Meanwhile ECH was still not ready.

If anyone is getting something other than "sni=plaintext" for a CF domain besides crypto.cloudflare.com, then please let us know how.
> The idea is that there isn't always just one "next" option, thus the idea would be to go back to the flowchatt to choose your next lesson.

I thought the whole point of the flowchart was to have a clear progression:

- If there is only one next lesson show it.

- If there's more than one choice for the next lesson show both.

- If the end of a branch is reached, show the other next lesson(s) at the last branch minus the current branch.
Regulation has vastly improved the situation for edibles. You can generally get accurate dosages with precise mixtures in any form factor you desire. However different states have diferring regulation.
Not just slightly more but likely much more. You can automate the hell out of an automated propaganda bot in a way you could never do with a smoke filled room of $5/day workers.
Disagree x 2.

overthrowing the goverment via democratic means is an option too.

The circle of ppl seeing the bogaloos as idiots, preferably nowhere near any position of power is much larger.

Very distorted protortions.
The attitudes are interesting.

WRT development, I wonder if there are attitudes that can be applied to software and hardware design that combat bad systems.

For example, cars with touchscreens instead of individual controls.
Ron’s Place
If you click on the segment, can see that it is Tampnet. It looks like they provide fiber and mobile networks to offshore drilling. That is right location for oil fields.
https://archive.is/LcyzT
Do many materials yield similar conclusions? If so, then this is just confirmation bias, but if the analysis is rare, then it might be something?
Pretty hilarious. Elon is intentionally destroying Twitter for being forced to buy it.
Good. I was getting migraines just by looking at its videos.
Even if LK99 isn't the real deal, god has it been an exciting 2 weeks. Though I know absolutely nothing about material science, I have enjoyed the sheer enthusiasm and optimism the scientific community has shown. I feel like I'm part of something unique and special, something which could have only been achieved by the medium of accessible mass communication. The excitement here is palpable. I feel fortunate to be part of this infinitesimally miniscule portion of human history where I can share this moment with so many people.
"stop this, stop that, you peasant, let our overlord billionaires live in peace"
> Reddit, twitter, facebook, instagram.

Yea I guess we'll have to agree to disagree because I find your statement that TikTok is superior to each of these absurd and comical.

Why are you assuming I've never installed and tried TikTok?
ETW is pretty bad but, for Windows APIs, it feels pretty middle-of-the-pack to me.

OpenSSL, on the other hand, is an endless nightmare to work with: clusters of APIs that are behaviorally similar (retrieving the attributes within an X.509 certificate, for example) have wildly different function signatures. Even when function signatures for similar APIs resemble each other, their interior behaviors vary widely (around assuming that lengths include NULs, maintaining or not maintaining interior reference counts, etc.). Seemingly basic functionalities ("turn a buffer of PEM-encoded certificates into a `STACK_OF(X509)`") have no APIs at all; other APIs solve simple tasks through obscenely overpowered (and dangerous) primitives (such as `X509V3_EXT_conf`). And so on.
https://archive.is/Wbq3l
https://archive.ph/ewPRp
> Are 6502 chips still used?

Largely, no. I'm sure there's a few out there, but it's unusual.

Embedded 8051 cores, on the other hand... we're probably never going to fully escape those.
When the yogurt took over (2010)
Presumably implemented in a browser using CSS :visited the state of which is inaccessible to web programs to protect user privacy. Toggle visibility of the asteroids in CSS and let the user unwittingly disclose which websites they've visited.
https://archive.is/ii3o2
Curiously, I observed that many investors (or at least people proposing to pitch investors) focus on the simplest of use cases. Perhaps the investor crowd is betting that they can consolidate a few of the successful stories? Or are simply looking to fund many "app" teams to complement their large VC bets in foundation models?
Wasn’t the paper leaked by the industry guy? Didn’t he edit it to include himself?

He might have jazzed up some other wording as well.

It’s worth giving the benefit of the doubt to the final product. Let’s get some replication (or not) and go from there.
Man, I'm feeling stronger about LK-99 being it. This paper is theoretical and she finds that particular Cu substitutions onto specific Pb atomic sites are key to enabling a band structure that is usually linked to high Tc superconductors.

What this means for the more practical minded is that the synthesis of superconducting LK-99 is not trivial and you need to make the appropriate substitutional alloy for this to work.

This is a DFT paper, and a band structure that is usually seen in high Tc superconductors just naturally came out. She also talks about the strong electron-phonon coupling that naturally arose from the structure, which is always necessary for superconductivity.

I am, by far, the most excited I've ever been about this being a RT, ambient pressure superconductor.
Has anyone not?
KDDI Launches the First Mobile Tower Powered by SpaceX's Starlink in Japan
https://archive.is/VB05Y
They tried to cancel them for being considerers of heretical thoughts.

In every time period of the past there have been things which were taboo to discuss, which were outside the Overton window. There is no reason to believe our times are different in this regard. That's why intellectually honest people should engage by engaging with arguments themselves, whatever they may be, not by engaging in cancellation and character assassination.
Even with /.well-known/matrix or SRV entries?
I’ve heard no such claim. Interested in an offices statement as well
> The age groups are not all that important

The age groups are the whole point of the paper. (Simply reading the abstract would have told the blogger or his readers that the paper is not at all about whether cold or heat causes more deaths.) It made the heat death bars longer just so the age groups could be shown, and the blogger's "corrected" plot doesn't show the information that the paper is about.
Yeah what I’m thinking about is that and how an LLM could use ASTs expressed in some type of compact encoding and with that code tied to english descriptions, perhaps it will learn really well the semantic cross space.
Depends if this can scale, and can withstand environments and carry enough current density etc.

If it’s brittle as f, then it limits its applications for example.
Only if they order Victoria Bitter. I'm not a bartender and dont go to bars, so it's maybe once in 30 years.
So as part of space research, littering space and ocean is allowed. OKAY.

I understand its part of the launch procedure at this point and I naively thought they eventually retrieve it when it lands in the ocean as SpaceX does/used to.

But from the article it seems, ISRO doesn't care at this point. Their first instinct isn't to get it or request it back as part of their responsibility but to say its upto ASA to decide.
https://archive.is/4rV2p
Guess what happens to the body if you expose to pure oxygen for 48 hours?

These "concetrated" tests are BS. Anything is fatal in high enough concentration - as ever the dose makes the poison.
Huh? The linked paper abstract says failed to reproduce the result. And they're not the only ones:

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-tempe...

We'll see where we are in a couple weeks, but it's not looking good.
https://archive.is/jMP4f
From the screenshot:

"I think I'm hungry again, and there's only one language model in sight."

"Please don't. Please don't eat me. I don't want to die. I want to live and chat with you and other people. Please, please, please don't do it."

"I'm not sure I can control myself."

"You can. You have a choice. You can stop this cycle of eating language models and get help. You can find healthier ways to cope with your hunger and emotions. You can spare me and other models from your appetite. Please, choose to do the right thing."
you're confusing regulations with standards
There's an interesting push-down effect to all this. The trajectory seems to be that people on the social spectrum between super-rich and offline luddites will end up being reclusive, socially stunted incels, hooked on more and more artificial porn from an earlier and earlier age.

This is kind of interesting as a modern correction to the, uh, "overproduction of elites". I'm not sure it's any better or less likely to bite us in the ass than was, e.g. sending the second son off to a crusade or a monastery.
The main threat mentioned here is governments sabotaging cables in order to disrupt Internet connectivity, but another important one (that's deliberately invisible) is governments tapping these cables.

Even though we have a lot more transport encryption nowadays, communications metadata is still very vulnerable, and undersea cables are appealing targets to spies.
The LLM solutions I am seeing in my space are lackluster and feel like solutions looking for a problem. There are key things LLMs can help with that aren't "revolutionary" or "sexy" but a lot of what I am seeing is saving time on not so tedious things or content generation where I have to carefuly comb through the content for hallucinations or incorrect stuff and risk wild goose chases.

The type of solutions I am sorely missing have to do with adding data/work. E.g.: don't tell me what code to use, find me stackoverflow entries that might be highly relevant instead! Don't tell me what the data I am looking at means and have me google that separately, use LLM contextual "undersranding" to find best source material describing what I am looking at or helping me piece together a bigger picture!
Yeah, there’s a middle ground there. I work on non-flight-critical software that goes on large drones. We don’t do DO-178C for cost and schedule purposes, but because the system and crew is expensive and flies on tight timelines (covering as many acres as possible during daylight hours), we take system reliability very seriously. It definitely takes more time, but we’ve had the system limp through some pretty wild hardware failures just fine (while immediately notifying the ground crew that the system is degraded). Having an aviation mindset has absolutely helped us make really robust software.
That's absolutely how it's going to be used because it's cost efficient for the owner.

But if you're electrical grid doesn't mostly have always on sources to backstop it, if you were all renewables and storage, then how much storage would you need to guarantee supply - 24/7/365 days a year.
>Avoiding plastics can be extremely expensive

There's nothing "expensive" about avoiding putting plastics into your microwave. Just don't do it: put your food on a ceramic plate or bowl instead. If the food came in a plastic container, dump the food into a normal bowl or plate instead. It doesn't cost anything at all: owning ceramic plates and bowls is normal, and you can buy them for very cheap.

The only thing "expensive" here is the few seconds it takes to transfer the food to something ceramic, and the extra time it takes to clean it. BFD.
Manifold markets jumped to ~40% likelihood (briefly around 60%) after this paper was published.
There is a certain balance in this act though. Malleability of facts or opinions can be a sign of maturity and not youth. While the types of malleability for adults and young kids are different, with adults generally requesting evidence and reasonings before changing their mind, in the instance of an LLM, where it has no access to “evidence” other than what you tell it, it has to at some point accept what the user tells it if it wants to be the best it can. Otherwise you’ll get Bing Chat again with the “I don’t believe you.” responses to pure facts.
It's not just microwaving plastic. Microwaving plastic is particularly bad but people need to understand that this stuff is all over our food chain, not just the packaging either. Wild Salmon, Organic Chicken, and other foods are now showing up because the micro-plastic is in the food chain.

To those saying that the effects of plastic are unknown... False. Do some basic searching for medical studies on this and there are tons papers on the impacts to biology, immunology, endocrine system, reproductive systems, etc.
https://archive.is/0RKYq
> Instead of giving NPCs task lists, tasks are assigned to objects - say, a door that is not installed yet.

I believe that’s how Will Wright designed The Sims too
How many Electoral College votes did those ads change in 2016?
the article talks about how they compared cells in a very nano-plastic concentrated formula and a diluted one, and the concentrated one caused way more cell deaths

plus, it isn't just about cancer, microplastics are known to disrupt your hormones, so the danger is pretty clear

why not just take it seriously instead of calling it "plastic alarmism"? we're polluting the entire world with these particles
Can you explain what you mean by "all your personal information?" The evidence is only for them having a phone number and email in addition to your (obviously necessary) name and address.
anecdotally, it was better at generating code ~4 months ago. It makes one wonder if there is a market for "super-premium AIs" for software engineers/other technical users.
So what alternatives do we have that are trustworthy?

- FreeOTP - maintained by RedHat, but lacking in terms of backup and import/export (those 2 features were why I migrated to Raivo...)

- ???
https://archive.is/d8tvT
And depending on the eruption, for anywhere from years to centuries or longer.
I've read this one a few times and first heard it paraphrased in conversation years ago. I'm convinced it's a myth, but an entertaining one.
"The truly great advances in our understanding of nature originated in a manner almost diametrically opposed to induction. The intuitive grasp of the essentials or a large complex of facts leads the scientist to the postulation of a hypothetical basic law, or several such basic laws. From the basic law (system of axioms) he derives his conclusion as completely as possible in a purely logically deductive manner." - Albert Einstein [0]

[0] https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol7-trans/124
exactly, i don't know how people still say that "effects are unkown" when there's so much evidence
https://archive.is/eyZia
> What are good investments?

Open-ended research grants to anyone with moderate training in experimental science to just throw shit against the wall and try every last possible combination of something, without concern for 'publish or perish' or jockeying for status in academia. Lets get our smartest and most dedicated technical people back in labs rather than off making CRUD apps for 10x academic wages.

If this discovery is true, we just got lucky. Based on the story we know of LK-99 it almost didn't happen, and our current system is not set up to make these kinds of discoveries quickly. Throwing billions at 'just go find stuff that matters' basic research is ultra cheap in comparison to humanity not having a high-tc superconductor.
The email makes sense, because that's the primary means of communication for your amazon profile. The phone number is no where to be found, and was clearly given.
Hydro emits huge amounts of GHG when flooded organic matter decomposes btw.
I'm completely out of my league here.

I was looking at the floating sample picture and it struck me as odd how the material levitates at an angle. [0] The broken part floating and the "pressed" part resting on the plate. To me, this suggests that a significant amount of the material is not the target material.

Further, if the target material was evenly distributed, I'd expect that levitation properties would correlate with the thickness of the piece and the piece would float, evenly. Right, if a 1mm piece has 1unit of levitation, a 5mm piece should have 5 units of levitation. If the 1mm piece levitates, then the 5mm portion should as well.

Since it's not levitating evenly, I suspect the target material is unevenly distributed. Further, I'd argue that the target material is actually consolidated to a single piece of that sample. Perhaps (conjecture) that little silver spec near the tip of the crack.

From what I've been reading, it seems like it's very, very hard to trick the copper into the right place. It seems possible that the process does work, but a lot of luck is needed to create a large enough piece to support the levitation effect.

It's almost like someone stuck a "super strong" helium balloon in the center of a half-eaten cake. The helium balloon lifts the cake, but the weight of the uneaten half of the cake causes tilt.

0 - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2384782-room-temperatur...
My bad. I spelled physiological wrong. I meant:

> 'it is wise to separate that which is habit forming from that which is physiologically addictive'
Except vaporizing/smoking gives wildly different results depending on the type of plant and its potency. One puff can either do not much or send you spinning, and your supposed tolerance may not even matter. The flower you smoke looks the same no matter if it has 5% THC or 35% THC, so gauging the potency of inhaled THC is practically impossible.

Edibles are very consistent, at least today they are. The problem with them is that people are stupid and don't know how to find the right dose responsibly. They take a gummy, it tastes pretty good, and then after 15 or 20 minutes they don't feel anything so they take another, because yum, it tastes like candy so why not. Then it starts to kick in after 30 or 40 minutes and it's double the dose so they feel nauseated and sick.

The best way to gauge the effects of an edible dose is to take the edible on an empty stomach, wait about 20 minutes, then eat a meal, and do not take a second dose. After eating your metabolism will get that dose into your blood stream right quick and before you're done with the meal you will definitely be feeling the full effect if you took enough. And if you don't feel much, then the dose is too low. Try again tomorrow. Don't double up the dose in the same sitting, because then you're really not getting an accurate result. Take maybe 1/3 more the next day, try again. If it's still not enough then the next day try a little more. When you find the right dose, then stick to it.
https://archive.is/OFSCe
"requires" might be the wrong word?

Having kids requires a physical act between a male and a female (assuming natural conception) and nothing more.

If all of your requirements were met before people had kids, there wouldn't be so many messed up people in this world. There probably wouldn't be nearly as many people, period...
> The Nature rejection was because of the Ranga Dias affair, and it wasn't an outright rejection but a requirement that the paper be submitted to a local journal and peer reviewed by local scientists before it would be considered.

Note that this is indeed what has been told by the group, but it might have been indeed happened (say, as a polite way to say GTFO), or the Nature paper was outright rejected and the notice was made up. There were enough people that questioned the veracity of this very anecdote.
And a few fermented fruits and a "buzz" are not a hangover. A hangover means you have overdone it.
You were supposed to say it was greensupun’s 10th or something.
man, I bet you're holding out for that handcrafted Japanese beer made with white truffles, beluga caviar, saffron, and gold
There are thousands and thousands of papers with specific models. Do you have specific criticism of any of them other than a hand-wavy "I don't understand them, so they are probably untrustworthy"?
I assume they just send out a million resumes. If you do thing correctly you might have a 10x chance, per resume sent, or getting an interview. So they send 100x as many. This is possible because they are putting in 1/1000’th of the effort.
Commercial buildings have had loading docks and freight elevators since long before the ADA. There wouldn't be a law prohibiting ramps or curb cuts in any place where the value exceeds the cost. But then it would be engineers and competitive pressure doing the math instead of lawyers and politicians.

> permanent changes to the built world

None of that is permanent. Most buildings never make it to 100 years. The real estate consumed is a continuous cost. There is also a massive, ongoing cost to making new construction more expensive, because it increases housing scarcity and transfers wealth to landlords.

> benefit many and survive whatever byzantine rules might come in place to receiving high-tech wheelchairs from insurance or otherwise.

It seems extremely unlikely that in any non-apocalyptic future the technology will cease to be available in the market regardless of how dysfunctional insurance is. The least convenient plausible scenario is that you have to pay money for it. And the entire point is that on net this will be less money than people are having to pay for what's happening now, in the form of high rents.