skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
subject for a scifi/cyberpunk/thriller !
Can't view that thread without logging into the monstrosity of twitter/x
This thread covers some: https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1685088625187495936
There's quite a club: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22Renegade+Researcher%22&i...

Varmus Reprimanded Over 'Renegade Researcher' - "a former NIH geneticist accused of conducting forbidden embryo-related research on the NIH campus in 1994 and 1995." - https://www.science.org/content/article/varmus-reprimanded-o...

Biotechnology: The Renegade Researcher - who injected "genetically altered bacteria into 14 trees in the hope of protecting them from Dutch elm disease" without EPA permission - https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,965...

Renegade Researcher Says Alzheimer's Drugs From Bristol-Myers, Pfizer May Be Unsafe Or Ineffective - https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlangreth/2010/08/23/reneg...

"Elliott Kotze is a community and counselling psychologist and renegade researcher in Cape Town, South Africa." - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095935352110616...

It also finds people I would describe as being in the alt-medicine and pseudoscience fields.
Agree; it also helps to write documentation supporting the example. On several occasions I ended up reworking APIs I'd been working on after writing documentation for them, as some of the elements were too complex, looked inconsistent, or just didn't feel right.
Now there's an interesting optimisation problem...
Once, I tried to write a GUI program in pure win32, that would have a custom window shape like demoscene intros/warez cracktros.

Once.
This is a calculation with density functional theory (DFT). Props to the tweet author for mentioning this work, but it doesn’t seem like he knows much about the physics of materials because the explanation re: band theory in the tweet is (imho) not good. For those not familiar with materials physics, the fact that bands cross the fermi level does not make it a superconductor, it makes it a metal; the interesting finding here is that there are isolated (ie, far from other bands’ energies) and flat (ie, non dispersive) d-band states which is related to superconductivity

Anyways props to Sinead for doing the work here. Having a theoretical understanding of why LK99 behaves why it does (if it does) will be important for its optimization and commercialization. Briefly reading over the methods it seems(?) like it was quickly done with a GGA functional (given there is a +U correction) rather than a hybrid functional so this was probably not “heavy compute” as the tweet author would have you believe. OP it may be productive to just link directly to Sineads publication rather than this tweet

For reference I also work at LBL on computational materials, I have met Sinead on several occasions and she is very legit.
Great to hear, will keep an eye out for it. I take the saved pages and pull them through my workflow via API.
No, exactly not. The cost of infra is dominated by the transmission network and that transmission network is very expensive to build and maintain, a superconducting network would have some massive advantages. Besides, the losses are in the 5 to 7% range for a typical grid which may sound great in theory but is still a function of the distance between the generators and the consumers. So you can't really put those where you want them, you put them where you have to in order to minimize the transmission losses or you'll have to live with larger losses. Superconductors for the grid would give far more freedom in siting and would allow all kinds of neat tricks such as transporting solar power across the planet based on the day/night and seasonal cycle and likewise for wind power depending on where it is currently blowing the most.

Generating costs are a small fraction of the final price of electricity, taxes and transportation are the big ones.

If you just look at superconductors as a replacement for any old piece of wire you're going to miss out on a whole bunch of advantages, it is a clear qualitative difference which enables solutions that are entirely undoable today. Yes, there is HVDC, but the lines are expensive and due to the high voltages involved are not easy to interface to or from. They do have some unique advantages, being DC they allow non-synchronized grids to be connected.
> I now have some Go websites running for a long time with daily Systemd restarts.

Are the restarts needed because there's malicious over-size content being sent to it, trying to exhaust the server resources?

If so, then "http.MaxBytesReader" might be helpful:

https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/dbhub.io/blob/5c9e1ab1cfe0f...
I'm not sure about that. This is going to be a crazy century.
I don't think "everybody assumes batteries". Pumped hydro has been around for a long time, and anyone with any interest in the subject knows it's cheap and effective.
I remember using this site for checking my work in a number fields course years ago; I never realised it had so much more

Very weird seeing this on the front page
.hm Domains Borked (2019)
What would really integrate with the developer workflow would be some kind of npm command that can check the package.json or the lock file and generate instant output on the console. You can then have whitelists, integration with CI/CD, and lots of other neat stuff.
Nature basically publishes the sensational claims papers. That's their model, anything "high impact" goes there. It's then on other scientists to publish work refuting it or proving it's not correct. It's an issue that the refutations tend to go in lower impact journals, but it's the way it's works.
Instead of the old "fly X miles get X points", it's now "pay X air fare get X points".
> Also I just realize sharing his prompt become as annoying as people narrating their last dream, soon, it will be the pinnacle of cringe

Nah, that was a year or two ago - the era of GPT-2 and GPT-3 and tools like AI Dungeon. Those stories tended to have (at least for me) a heavily dream-like quality, in the sense that I could spend an hour or two role-playing together with the AI, and then, for the rest of the day, I would feel weirdly confused as if after a particularly vivid and trippy dream.

With ChatGPT (particularly via GPT-4), I find the transcripts to be either boring or completely mind-blowing. But, so far, never trippy.
Also, the overly muscled guys out the front of night clubs aren't there for "obscurity" type security. ;)
> I don't know what Kwon actually wants out of all of this stunt

He may be just a grifter. Or he may have played a key role in the discovery but was going to be put as the 6th author (at best) in the joint paper. If so, he has already gained much more recognition than he would have otherwise.
How? You mean that it'll be an increasingly smaller fraction of the total body of text in the conversation?
I don't understand why so much breath is wasted on the lab leak debate.

As I see it, there are four questions regarding the lab leak theory that have actionable answers:

1. Is it feasible in principle for dangerous viruses be released into the wild by a lab leak -- Yes

2. Do we need strict regulations to reduce the chance of lab leaks -- Yes

3. Is any form of external pressure likely to push the Chinese government into increasing controls on their labs if that is not already a priority for them -- No

4. Is any form of external pressure or even material evidence likely to push the Chinese government into admitting responsibility for the COVID pandemic -- No

Take note that whether COVID leaked from a lab has no bearing on the answer to any of those four actionable questions listed above. So what's the point of the debate? What are we aiming to achieve other than playing a blame game?
They have cheaper similar devices. For example I use the boox note air 2 at about half the price.
Maybe ironic but I wouldn’t be where I am without Windows APIs.

I was 19, and I was a member of some forums where folks shared knowledge on how to (ab)use various technologies for profit; many of these technologies were Web-based. I didn’t know any Web programming, but I knew VB.NET from some community college courses (with some fundamentals from high school) and I figured out how to drive this browser and interact with pages.

This allowed me to automate various Web interactions and make a few bucks writing code, which eventually led to my current career as a professional software developer.

I was getting paid (not much lol) to build apps before I knew either of brands like “port” but I hope that, no matter how much money is in the table, y’all feel good about every deal! Respect
In case they can't get in your gate or can't find your apartment, they need to call you. This is a commom practice in any home servicing industry to ask customers to rate them. The contractor is likely just doing this to stay on amazon's payroll.
Nah cause AMD could be being used if they had software. Also Intel is totally different fabs and wafers, but both are not close in software to Nvidia
I have a PhD in material science and worked with superconductors, here are two things that is often misunderstood:

1) it takes a undergrad to make and measure a superconductor but a Nobel laureate to explain it.

2) in theory if you understand the mechanism of something you can improve it. In material science however almost always all you need is a trial and error approach to end up with a good result.

Conclusion: the effect is probably true, the explanation not

edit: typo
Wasn't the original target of nginx back in the nineties to hit 100k requests per second with less overhead than (at the time, standard) apache2?

With that in mind + the general advancing of hw since then, it wouldn't be too suprising if nginx could handle that load easily. It'd just get more difficult if you wanted to put anything else (ie. metrics) on that endpoint since afaict nginx doesn't have anything to monitor those things if you don't have the Enterprise version of their tools.

In any case you might be misreading the setup for the parent here - the recommendation is just that if you're doing this in the context of a webapp, that this sort of behavior is trivially easy to bounce back in JSON using nginx.
Who knew conservatives long play would be to blame climate change on beavers?

/s
Chinese zoo denies its sun bears are people in costume
You can dual-license, but you'll have to get contributors to sign a CLA.
It reminds me of a big swathe of survival and/or base building games where you have to balance out things just right, or real life games like Werewolves.
Electrogenetic interface to program mammalian gene expression by direct current
With Linux, there was an independent need for a "pull from upstream" model, so one was built then further developed. That wasn't necessary for the BSD's, and by the time someone would consider rolling their own "distro" they would probably already be part of the FreeBSD project.

A part of it is certainly userbase size, but the project seems to allow more competition while still being part of FreeBSD. An example, FreeBSD ships with three different firewalls. With Linux, each one would probably have built their own distro with that being the key difference between them.
Update: this algo is now publicly accessible in LlamaIndex at https://github.com/jerryjliu/llama_index/blob/e567e6a20cf89b...
Not really relevant to this since it is ultimately a 2D game, but Prison Architect has a "hidden" 3d mode for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9MhCZSgc_0
Many years ago I had someone copy and paste two pages from an Oracle manual, complete with formatting, in response to an e-mailed screening question about MySQL that required a one line answer. It was just an initial screening where we had relatively low expectations and halfway expected a lot of people to search - letting a few too many people through was ok, we just wanted to whittle down the pool.

But after that we realised the screening worked even better when we input random sentences from the answers into Google and used it to weed out the people who were not just dishonest enough to give a verbatim answer from somewhere without disclosing it, but who very often did so in ways that meant they got it horribly wrong. E.g. another example was the guy who copied and pasted a forum post. Not only was the answer wrong, but it was followed on the forum by a large number of responses from other people explaining why it was wrong.
I just forwarded this solid article to my colleagues. Did you perhaps miss the meat of the article that's after the video?

PS: The song is also very good.
But if all players work together and vow to not buy any property, they will just keep accumulating money (the odd card aside) and eventually bankrupt the bank.

(I'm aware you can't technically bankrupt the bank but you get the idea).
How I get my head around it is, a material forged under ambient pressure and room temperature may be superconducting (lose resistance) as either pressure goes up or temperature goes down (or both).. so if the material itself is forged under high pressure and high temperature, the room temperature normal to us is very low for the material (?).

Probably all materials are superconductors at some crazy pressure/temperature.
For others in this thread, this algo is now publicly accessible in LlamaIndex at https://github.com/jerryjliu/llama_index/blob/e567e6a20cf89b...
Unless something has changed, customer data leaks to any merchant selling through Amazon.

You can fulfill an existing SKU via Prime and get full name and shipping detail on anyone who buys.

This means anyone selling on Amazon can ~buy personal data of people who want a particular product by setting the lowest price among sellers, clearing your inventory first.

At least this was what I observed selling an ebike part I designed (new sku) and competing to sell bafang ebike motor brake sensors.
Tech spending has remained surprisingly stable in 2023
Portable lightweight consumer rail guns
Which approach is "better" varies, though.

Given an imperative UI and a small amount of time (depending on the surface area of the API) I can create a declarative interface to it.

I cannot do the reverse given a declarative UI.

My observation of declarative UIs is that, sooner or later, due to necessity, they tend towards the inclusion of imperative elements ("If we are running as Super-User, then $FOO must be a button, else it must be a link to a page requesting Super-User privileges").

At the end the "declarative" UI is declarative for only the most trivial usages. Any non-trivial usage includes hacks or workarounds to implement conditional elements, loops (for collections of elements) and subcomponent specialisation (for element reuse).
I was surprised to learn a few months ago that 6502's are still in production, so there must be some use for it. Perhaps replacement parts for industrial equipment from the 70s-90s?
I've seen this great video about it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaOLBOuyswI
These earthquake standards are updated frequently. Kumamoto earthquake mentioned in the other comment is a typical example. Nowadays many believe Level-3 is a must(耐震強度3. I don't know about the U.S. equivalent. Do they even have one?).

I don't know about your wife's case. Some people believe earthquakes are like the lottery (and there are a few people who believe it's a god's will. Like Shintaro Ishihara after the 3.11 earthquake).
I lost track in the first couple of sentences. «On March 30, 2023, Brazil and China signed a deal to enable mutual trade and investment directly through the local currencies, casting aside the United States dollar as an intermediary.» Wasn't that possible until now? Why not? Does this mean that the yuan and the real weren't convertible without an interediate currency? Or was there some law in one of the two countries?
There are linear scaling DFT codes but they’re not available under open source licensing, only a strange license:

https://onetep.org/
Counterpoint: Eve Online has both a massive in-game economy and a player base doing a ton of things on the side, including things like giving out loans and the like.

I mean the legitimate loans are outweighed by the scams so people are hesitant to actually set up these things, but still.

Renting is another one, you and your friends can rent a system from one of the larger alliances and get some protection while doing money making activities.
Jwz: Uber headed to court after SF bicyclist refuses $1M settlement
Feel free to use the algo! Happy to help and reach out if you need help with implementation!
> bit skeptic of PKD... but I'm glad I took up Ubik a couple of years after

'Ubik' the novel, not the substance, I take it.
in the novel [spoiler], Ubik is a store-bought aerosol product which can be used to temporarily reverse deterioration... or is it...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubik
I don't think you can explain anything about GPT in such simple terms. I was speaking from experience.
I know of no such scientific model. Indeed, almost all of them do not predict observed data.

Newton's universal law of gravitation didn't predict huge amounts of stuff in the solar system. Rather than say it's wrong, we supposed there were missing planets.

All models i'm aware of "predict" in the sense that they make existence claims; they don't "predict" observations -- on the latter, they'd basically all 'wrong'.

The body of science we call "gravity, space/time, etc." makes the following existence claims: there is a sun, earth, planets, there are forces, masses,; these have properties that give rise to interactions; etc.

From this body of knowlege, most of what we can predict abotu the observable universe is wrong. simply because, ex hyp., we arent able to observe enough of it.

The models here arent wrong, we just do not have enough data to match them to observations. The world really has forces,masses,planets,etc. and they interact such that F=GMm/r^2 subject to {some constraints}. But if we use that to predict where "everythign should be", nothing is in the right place. We're missing a lot of "Everythign".

This "science predicts observations" is humean problem of induction BS. It's never been true; it's radically sceptical; and is a deeply broken model explaining how we know things.

If we had to literally have models from observations to observations, knowledge would be impossible.
Well, they're still there, they just don't get a platform and the creators get doxxed and hounded off the internet. A fairly recent example was a(nother) school shooter game.
How can humidity at sale be correlated with anything but how thick the leaves are and when they were picked?

Density is just a measure of humidity in practice and thus pick date.
That just shows that the vast amount of developers are morons that have an inability to empathize.

Doubly so at larger companies.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV14p4y1V7kS/

Latest update: the diamagnetism has been confirmed from a tiny LK-99 replica sample. The Author posted:

> Under the guidance of Professor Haixin Chang, postdoctor Hao Wu and PhD student Li Yang from the School of Materials Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology successfully for the first time verified the LK-99 crystal that can be magnetically levitated with larger levitated angle than Sukbae Lee‘s sample at room temperature. It is expected to realize the true potential of room temperature, non-contact superconducting magnetic levitation.

Update: second video showing it's not paramagnetic

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV13k4y1G7i1/
If we forget about the Intel patents AMD also needs to produce their own x86 flavour.
The majority of nginx distributions will not get any major bumps during the lifetime of the distros they're in. Whether that's because the distro itself has policies against that (Debian, Ubuntu) or because the distro version expires before nginx' stable release does (most of the ones with a higher update frequency, ie. Fedora) so by the time the version expires, they can just go to the next stable version on the release after. This is pretty much only a risk if your distro is completely rolling release and even those in my experience at least offer an "lts" package of some sort.

So that's not a problem. Besides the majority of nginx setups don't rely on too fancy things; most of the stuff that gets changed in updates that affect config files are the fancier nginx modules.
But that first contact point transistor, even if it degraded rapidly actually worked, the challenges were to package it properly and to make it smaller and more reliable. This stuff, assuming it is all true is more at the level of the first inkling that semiconductor diodes might be a thing. We still have to reach that transistor stage (which would mean we an expensive way to manufacture a small stretch of usable conductor, say a few cm). Then you can start thinking about high volume production in any desired length and commercialization. So from a strict materials science point of view there is still a ton of work to be done even if everything so far turns out to be true. There is a good chance that even if the material isn't superconducting in bulk small regions of it are (the chances of that are actually higher than that it is all superconducting) and there is still a good chance that they are simply mistaken.

But even if it is just superconducting grains smaller than a millimeter that would already be a massive discovery.
"This makes me way more excited this discovery miiight be for real."

I agree it is a strong indicator, that there might be more to it, when there is already fighting about the rewards. It is a shame though, if it really works, there should be enough fame (and money) for everyone involved.

I mean, a worldwide lossles energy grid, high speed trains, fusion plants and floating cars do sound nice .. assuming the material is real and can be mass produced eventually. Till then, I remain sceptical, though.
Using AI to write is more like peeking at your neighbor's output during a school exam.

Or rather, since the AI also stole from others, peeking at the neighbor's output, who in turn stole it from his neighbor.
I had to choose a VCS for a project a year ago. At that point jujutsu looked extremely promising but immature. It's great to see that so much progress has been made. I can't wait to give it another go, the next time I get to choose a VCS for something. Innovation in this space is desperately needed.
In addition to the others, there is also https://www.dns.toys/
> Popper said that for a theory to qualify as science, it must be capable of being proven wrong. For example, for the theory of gravity to be scientific and correct, there must be an experiment which can prove it wrong. Is there such an experiment? Has anyone proven the theory of gravity wrong? Is it therefore not scientific?

I think you're misunderstanding it?

The requirement isn't that there exists an experiment that proves gravity wrong, and has been performed in reality. The requirement is that for the theory you propose, there must be some conceivable scenario in which you decide your theory is incorrect.

Eg, if you posit "All swans are white", when it's falsifiable. All you need is a black swan to show up. But there is no requirement for this to actually happen, there's no problem with every swan in the universe being white.
Here you go :)

https://github.com/erikbern/ann-benchmarks/pull/451