skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little bit of a rabbit trail, but with this and similar science/reporting issues, I find myself wishing both the hype and the vitriol was taken out completely. What if the world could follow the LK-99 team and replication attempts in near real time and everyone had a sense like "if this succeeds, great, if not, we know one more way it doesn't work". And what if the millions of various studies on any topic were publicly accessible, instantly searchable, discussed intelligently, then novel ideas bubbled up and became studies themselves.

I understand I'm being naive here and ignoring "little" things like funding, profit motives, and basic human nature. But more what I'm suggesting is that there has to be a way to speed up scientific research and application while toning down the hyperbole. This really became apparent to me during Covid. There _have_ to be ways to rethink from first principles how we do and report on science.
Just started learning Nim recently and really loving it.

Even though it's older than its peers like Rust and Go, it still quite the underdog.

Hope more people start paying attention to it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940387
Rust is used for writing entire OS (e.g Redox) or parts of the OS that needs precise management of resources (e.g Linux kernel, Windows). It is used to write parts of web browsers (servo and quantum parts of firefox), game engines and in embedded systems. It's used everywhere that traditionally used C, C++ or Ada. There really isn't a justification to dismiss Rust as a systems programming language. The limitations that you claim are not there. The reasons are there in the other reply to you.
In my experience, I can't stop ChatGPT(4) from endlessly repeating _any_ behavior _or answer_ that I'm not happy with.
Well that's gotta be an awkward family dinner.
Someone who's Asian could give a long convincing speech to turn someone into a massive racist as much as anyone could.
Mercurial is indeed extremely similar to Git. Also, it's two weeks younger, contrary to OP's (apparently now-deleted) assertion that git was replacing hg. (I find it amusing that bzr, git, and hg all came out within a month of each other.)
This was my experience as well, my job was basically to specialize in reverse engineering those exact “baking” techniques in the tube furnace and it is so challenging and subject to variability.
I think racism is often the result of people being told things for a long time, and gradually believing them.
“Uncle” has a specific meaning in English and so this title is misleading.
casimir plates

no magnetic field even required
I agree that it appears externally that immigrants to the US tend to succeed more than those to Europe, but what's the cause? Higher wages and a stronger economy certainly play a role, but I suspect there's more at play here. A more selective visa program? It's one I would argue is overly selective especially when considering that one can be born here to illegal immigrants and be a US citizen.
Man bought private jet with borrowed council money
If someone is running an actual 419 scam in crypto, probably yes; they only want the really easy marks (because there's a non-zero incremental cost to each person engaging so they only want the ones who are likely to convert). Most crypto scams are either pump and dump schemes or some sort of Ponzi, though, and for those it really doesn't matter; there's no incentive to cut the number of participants.
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>Language probably plays a non-insignificant role.

Maybe so, but even Sony and Nissan had non-Japanese speaking CEOs for a while and Japan is not really know for its openness and progressiveness to foreigners.

Also, we're talking about global tech companies which reap profits from the global economy, so fluency of the local language that's only spoken by 5% of the world's population shouldn't matter that much, when those mega-corps hire teams of cultural and language experts for each market anyway.

I'd say it's more culture, mentality and protectionism of the status quo, than the language itself.
Why not?

Even if we were superhumanly competent at on-land infra, you still have to negotiate right of way and bury hundreds of miles of cable overland. The ocean way they just drop the cable off of the back of a boat.
That's the main problem, building a rail line zigzagging around the country is arguably a ton easier than having to legislate, seize, steal and forcibly bulldoze a straight path for a maglev.
Yes, but on an industrial scale.
I had 5 Uber drivers cancel on me in a row last month when I arrived to Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport and wouldn’t take anything less than a tip that was 100% of the fare.

Very frustrating, considering they put Taxis out of business. Sat there on the side of the airport “ride hailing” pickup for a hour wondering if I was even going to get home.
> so if I hadn’t spoken up during deliberation

You are not allowed to use your own expertise that is not presented in the trial to inform your decisions.

That is by law. Or at least, it was in Massachusetts when I last served on a jury. Which brought me to actual tears, btw, because the eyewitness testimony was being weighed too heavily.
I've been using AT&T with an eSIM for a couple years and haven't run into any problems
Dynatrace acquires cloud-native debugging platform Rookout
I am very glad that Uber was deemed illegal in Germany from the get go. All these gig-economy startups are running the same scam: Skip on employer costs such as taxes, health insurance and social security payments by not officially employing people put solely "brokering a deal between two individuals". In Germany, every employee gets paid sick leave. Uber/Foodora/Flink? Not so much. I'll gladly pay a bit extra for an actual cab driver that is properly insured and employed :)
MIT doesn't have research claims, it has professors and graduate students who do research. As an elite institution that is hungry for research grant dollars, it attracts top researchers that often do excellent research but not always.

What human being would even be qualified to judge the research output of a large research university across all fields? A research university is an umbrella under which hundreds of independent teams perform research. You can do journal metrics, but those have a long latency, you are measuring performance 2 to 10 years in the past, and such metrics are not without bias.
cool app/nice design - considering using
congrats on launch

one question: how do you plan on getting users?
You miss the point that you don't know the value of the outcomes. Nobody does because being a matter of judgment about conditions in an unknown future, that's not something that can be known. The best we can do is make educated guesses about potential value.

My personal educated guess is that the potential value to fundamental physics of identifying dark matter is great enough to justify the cost of trying. You're free to disagree, but you're in no position to say I'm wrong.
Actual truth is that reaction content is incredibly cheap to make.
As a Latin American living in North America, I find the obsession with extreme safety (including the fear of lawsuits) exhausting.

Fire codes are one:

I can't put a nice welcome mat in front of my door, because someone might trip on it during an evacuation.

Firetruck sirens are physically painful and always turned on.

Monthly alarm testing, again with physically painful volumes that I can't adjust.

My condo windows only open up to a length about 3/4 the width of an adult head.

Somehow, the rest of the world (outside the anglosphere) lives just fine without all of this.

The rest of the world puts more of the burden of individual safety on the individual themselves - for every new situation, we learn to judge safety for ourselves. In the article, the water section in Disneyland Japan is an instance of this.

Every now and then we hear of tourists from highly safety regulated countries getting in trouble for reckless behavior, as if they hadn't had the opportunity to develop that skill. The unfortunate situation with the tourist in North Korea comes to mind.

Topical: A scene from Hogfather https://geekxgirls.com/images/christmas/sword-safe-discworld...
... and it's not even close to being that far away from the solar system.
The theory I've seen is there are two places that the copper can dope into the lead - one requiring higher energy. Likewise, the higher energy location is required for superconductivity. Right now, it seems to require a bit of luck to both (1) get that higher energy location to sit (2) getting a large enough grouping of it to be meaningful.

It's kind of like playing Skee-ball at a fair. You aim for the center, but often miss into the outer rings. For this to work, you need to land a bunch of throws in the center in a row.
I don't know enough about those two bloggers to comment in a fair manner, but I'll just say I don't think the distinction between arguments and character assassinations is as clear as you are drawing it.

If I think people born on a tuesday have no souls based on deductive reasoning, and invite likeminded folks to spread the word, is that an argument or a character assassination? I would say the latter, someone else might say the former.
It was neither so much a smart nor dumb in the first place.

It has no intentionally, its utterances are not so much as about things, just likely strings of words from its training set.

They can't sensibly limit the meaning of what it says, because LLMs don't so much as have the concept of meaning. They basically have to ban tokens.
One day you'll be having a conversion with someone who obviously does have kids and when they finally come up for breath whilst telling you all about them, they'll ask if you have kids too.

Be prepared for an odd reaction when you say no, like you just admitted to having a contagious ailment, or something equally unpleasant.

Be further prepared for these kinds of conversations to become very common as you get older too.
correct. yet they're still being sold en masse.
If you want to get into soldering, do yourself a favor and invest in a good station, iron, and tips. If you want to de-solder, good quality soldering wick is also really important (I use chemtronics).

I was lucky enough to snag an old Metcal from work for free, and it's fantastic. The way they work is really cool too: it sends a high power RF signal (i.e. AC voltage) to the coil in the tip. Because of the skin effect and curie point, it will heat up until the point where the coil loses it's magnetism, resulting in a self-regulating tip temperature that doesn't need a thermo couple! [1] It responds very quickly to thermal loads, too. It's an expensive system to be sure, but totally worth it especially if you can find it used. They're also great about support even for older units, and you can get the entire schematics online if you need to make any repairs.

1. https://www.metcal.com/hand-soldering/how-smartheat-technolo...
This seems like a great way to make people believe you're smart when you're really just constructing "surprising" talks.
Probably something block based, such as borg
I think we need force fields before we could make something like a lightsaber, and to the best of my knowledge nobody has any idea how we could make a force field.
A lot of these applications depend on properties beyond superconductivity. For instance, if the substance is rigid and brittle it cannot be used for cables, etc.

My hope is that, if LK-99 is proven to be superconducting, once the mechanism is understood it will spur the discovery of a whole bunch of new superconductors at room temperature and pressue.
Well, based on the paper presented LK99 isn't very useful, think of it as a demonstration of a concept rather than that it is an immediately widely applicable thing, the currents mentioned in the original paper are modest (ok, tiny) and it would require a big step still before using this becomes practical assuming it all holds up.

If such a step is ever made then for starters anything that currently uses superconductors would see an immediate improvement in efficiency because the cooling requirement would disappear as well as much reduced engineering complexity. Right now the superconducting wire or ribbon is the simple part, the rest of the complexity is given over to cooling it and keeping it in place under immense stress. The latter part will stay.

Then you can start to think about other real world applications such as in power transmission (no need for high voltages to reduce losses), motors, generators, storage systems and so on. There probably isn't a field where electricity is used that would not be peripherally or directly affected by this invention if it all holds up and the current limit is dealt with. Of course it also needs to be fabricated cost effectively (a 'mere matter of engineering'), but given the price of current superconductors that may well be possible. Right now it's more of a matter of whether it can be done or not, not yet whether it can be done cost effectively and in bulk.
nim is a better python(syntax wise) that compiles to c(or c++,js,etc but c is the default) with GC turned on by default. I have always been wanting to use it outside of what my job needs(c/c++/python). I hope some big players adopt Nim to make it one of the mainstream language.
Wow! Didn't know about this one.
Are you objecting to my 'gave birth' over the original's 'started having babies'?

Like I said[0], I had to massage the title a bit to fit here. That doesn't sound any more exclusively mammalian than the original to my ear. I suppose I could have said 'laid eggs', but that's more of a deviation, and doesn't carry the same implication that they were viable. (It didn't just excrete old eggs, it reproduced after having been revived.)

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36949069
People like me eh? You know so much about me?
I would expect `suf foo.html` to return `html`
Nah, both my English-speaking and Italian-speaking family use "uncle" and "aunt" with a similar amount of ambiguity. It's a term of respect for elder family members, extended or otherwise.
> Any attempt to debate this point is self-refuting.

It would really be helpful if you could show your work on this claim, I'm not certain how it is self refuting.
> You do get the node_systemd_service_restart_total metric, which counts how many times a Restart= is triggered, but that doesn't necessarily say why

Wouldn't journald have details? Of course those might not be hooked up to the main reporting flow, but the debugging info is available once you discover the problem
Because their kids will be growing up in a world where the place they live in is either underwater or on fire.
I would go around flashing every LCD display I found to go black any time any cable news network logo was displayed.
This could be changing, ai translation knocking down communication barriers.
Great question. I'm working on this now. Expect documentation updates soon. https://www.postowl.com/newsletter/ to get updates.
Sounds like you need to perhaps consider egress data costs as a high priority factor when comparing services - by my calculation 500,000 GB on Linode would be about $2.5K, even ignoring any included transfer allowance.
We are back to the public domain and shareware days, because it turns out one needs to make a living somehow, and doing software development for free/gratis only works out when there is another source of income.

Meanwhile legions of developers using such tools, are quite happy earning money while using such tools.

Yes big corporations also have a role to play, yet this quite tragic in the computing industry versus other professions.

So no wonder that SaaS and fremium models got born, building paywals.
JavaScript can be quite “fast” if you’re not copying an array 30 times to get one number out of it.

Yeah. It’s still slow, as it were. But the JavaScript community also very much aligns with various functional programming ideals like immutability, which takes “kind of slow” to “immensely slow”.
I never knew about the `update-index` command. That's going to save me a lot of time. Thanks!
I for one welcome measuring compute power in chess ELO over FLOPS. Let's me know which devices I can trounce and which ones to pay respect to.
“Uber drivers are slaves is a lie” is a bit oversimplification, but the children in mines analogy doesn’t make sense. The idea is to get rid of child labour, not labour in general. It’s not like we don’t have adults working in mines. I know in Northern Ontario there are people who enjoy the job since it pays fairly well. I understand it’s physically excruciating, but consenting adults sign up for it.

In Uber’s case, consenting adults sign up for the terms in employee unfriendly environments (e.g. US). From what I’ve heard from my drivers, it’s either that or some other minimum wage job they don’t wanna do.
Understanding React Server Components
I'm starting to think of capitalism as rule by "winner's curse" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner's_curse). The winners in VC-funded tech spend far too much to win the market, and now have to squeeze whatever value they can out by abusing their customers, their employees, and their reputations. Meanwhile, management socks away money by writing themselves checks, and original VC investment cashes out through the greater fools and co-conspirators of managed funds and the public.

At best we're left with a company that goes belly-up and a destroyed industry that has to recreate itself, at worse we're left with a zombie exploitation machine of a awful company that limps on with enough reach that it still suppresses all competition in marginal markets.
Europe also largely just has a less pluralistic and diverse society than the coastal US.

Difficult to get the exact stats because it is illegal to measure demographic breakdowns in many European countries.
How is it to societies benefit if someone doesn't buy a car? It could be if someone drives less, but if they replace a car with a car driven by another person, it seems to be even worse.
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> “It prefers the stack so strongly that dynamic data structures (sequences and tables, basically its lists and dictionaries) are pointers on the stack to heap data, where the lifetime is managed by the stack frame.”

Isn’t that the same as a C++ vector or map on stack? They allocate internally as needed, and the whole container is destroyed when it goes out of scope.
I've been smoking weed almost every day for about 10 years now. When people talk about weed addiction I have mixed feelings about it. I've only had good experiences and effects from weed, and it has sincerely helped me a lot, but I would say almost the majority of my friends have not. Most people I know smoke at parties, take way too much, or use it as an escape from an already troublesome life. A close friend is bipolar and has depression, and weed literally destroys his life.

Every now and then I get the question if I'm addicted. It's a hard question to say no to when you pretty much are a daily smoker. Sometimes I feel like I can't say no honestly, without stopping smoking entirely for the rest of my life. I have had periods where I haven't smoked, for example when working abroad for several months up to a year, and it's never been an issue. I've never felt an urge or a need to get high.

I obviously do see people struggle, and I genuinely feel for those that do, but is also hard to relate when you have never suffered yourself. Even though I smoke myself and it has done so much good for my anxiety, stress, etc, I don't really recommend weed today, just mainly because I've seen so many people struggle with it. I do smoke in low dosages and never understood why people want to get super high, maybe that is a factor as well.
Just hates gamers!
Things I'm excited for in Go 1.21
Because I have two types of people who understand git on my team. People who use the CLI and people who don't understand git and just start clicking buttons
The ups and downs of 0-days
Because I have always and will always prefer to interact with my VCS on the command-line.

The skillset is portable across environments (I can remote into a box and look at a repo as easily as I can interact with one locally), across editors (I don't have to learn and re-learn how each editor interacts with the VCS), and I can use all my familiar tools to work with it.

As for those workflow examples, I can just as easily do all those things via the command-line. The editor integration isn't anything special. And when I need to something weird and advanced (e.g. interacting with the reflog), odds are I'm gonna have to bust out those command-line skills, anyway.

Why would that be so hard to believe?

Edit: BTW, to be clear, I have no issues with people using GUIs. If you're productive with your tooling, who am I to judge? But you asked why, so I answered why. I don't claim my way is any better than your way.
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Based on our record of environmental interventions; SO2 sounds suicidal. But it only lasts a few days in the atmosphere so maybe it has an in built off switch.
Elon Musk must be feeling much better lately, having confirmed that Twitter is still relevant.
Yeah, if you take it out of context, it's not an universal rule.

People don't get small improvements or practice from reading an article. The advice is spot on in the context it's presented.
In "normal" magnetism, opposites attract and similars repel. To get a metal to repel a magnetic field it needs to have a magnetic charge induced on it. That charge will repel only one of the magnetic poles.

In this situation, this flake repels all magnetism - regardless of pole.
wait until you hear such idioms as "punched in the gut", "made a killing", etc.
Ownership is part of the type system.
In the US, drivers are telling customers to cancel rides (so that Uber doesn't take action against the driver for canceling) when they don't like the destination or don't think the trip is worth it. If you don't cancel, drivers will simply park and wait for you to cancel and Uber's help doesn't seem to want to help.

I think a big thing is simply that Uber is trying to turn a profit in an industry where the margins just aren't that good. In order to make that profit, they've had to pivot to being this "hostile" company. They're putting pressure on drivers to find ways to lower their costs there. They're no longer helping customers in ways that would lose them money.

In the early days, Uber was cheap and support would do anything to make you happy. Now Uber is expensive and support is working to make investors happy.
That doesn't imply anything is out of control. How do you know it's unreadable and unmaintainable? Just browsing the repo it seems pretty under control and organized to me. Firmware projects tend to get complicated, see also QMK for keyboards.
On the other hand, I've never heard of uncle meaning any family member other than the brother of a parent.

At the very least, we can agree that using "uncle" like this is incredibly easily misinterpreted.
I think I see it's last pre IPO valuation was 62 billion? It IPOed at 82 billion valuation, currently sitting at 95 billion. Late round investors maybe could have done better investing elsewhere but this is a success story. I'm sure many investors have divested some shares post IPO at a profit.
"understands" is a loaded word
In the US, investment properties are depreciated over 27.5 years, also calculated independently from land, so not that different.