skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't the problem with Cold Fusion that it did NOT replicate, and thus got sullied with a bad reputation, so nobody wanted to touch it.

Then decades later, it's still kind of open question. Aren't there some studies still going on, more on the down-low since it has such a bad reputation. Kind of like the super-conductor, have to keep it quiet and make really sure before publishing.

Sabine did video on Cold Fusion that was pretty interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbzcYQVrTxQ
The level of schadenfreude in these comments is hitherto unseen. Whatever your view of the management happens to be let's not forget that small features or changes to large systems are not as easy as one might think. That viewpoint is literally a meme [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
How can the censor-in-chief be pushing back against censorship?
WEI is worse, much worse.
I see

> To our passionate, growing communities of movie buffs, sports fanatics, tech trailblazers, and the world over

That sentence can't be correct.

"the world over" means "everywhere on the earth", e.g. "the love for music connects people from the world over" or "the Olympics unite athletes and fans the world over".

But Linda seems to use the phrase here to mean "everyone", as in "movie buffs, sports fanatics..., and everyone", which is just, well, incorrect. How did this pass the most basic review??
While the production method of the original Korean authors is poorly documented, the synthesis method used for this paper is described in a very detailed way, also mentioning a few alternative steps that have been tried, but which caused failures in obtaining the desired structure.

While their synthesis method works very well for something improvised in a couple of days, it requires significant improvements, because the samples are very inhomogeneous, which greatly complicates the measurements and the interpretation of the results.

I believe that the properties of this material will not be completely elucidated until someone grows a monocrystal of it, but developing a process for this might take months, if not years.
> I don't understand how people hate macOS

This is hacker news, so presumably we are hackers. I like being able to look into the system I'm running. When I'm seeing a weird network issue, I want to be able to peer into the kernel's tcp stack. When I see an error, I want to be able to add debug statements and understand it.

That's easy to do on linux. There's great tooling. That's hard to do on macOS.

I run websites and services. I like being able to run them locally, to try and reproduce bugs I see on my server. You can't run macOS on a server in a reasonable way, so the only reasonable choice there is linux.

I can understand how someone who doesn't really want to understand the software they use might want to use macOS or windows. On hacker news, I'd expect most people to understand the desire to be able to tinker and understand the system to a greater degree.
This is the cooperate equivalent of padding your resume with skills like “Microsoft Word”.
Our story starts with Hakomiru, a man who has studied diligently all his life in the art of pencil-making. He first apprenticed with his grandfather 58 years ago, and inherited the the family tradition several decades later. Hakomiru will walk 11,000 kilometers in the coming year, exploring forests and woods looking for the perfect lumber for his pencils. Not just any wood will do. Once a tree is selected and a price negotiated with the owner, the process of felling this tree will begin. Delicate wood saws are employed, no axes as these impact on the tree stump may subtly alter the grain. These saws cost upwards of $40,000 and must not be mistreated! Our artisan Hakomiru will spend no fewer than 16 days sawing it at exactly 67cm above the point at which the tree meets the soil. As the saw approaches the point at which the timber may start to fall on its own, Hakomiru hurries to retrieve it so that it isn't twisted in the felling. The saw will not be ready to fell another tree until it has been polished by a master sawblade polisher, a job that can take up to 18 months! Next, Hakomiru loads the log onto a traditional pencilmaster's log-hauling cart, which he and his assistants will pull by hand into town. From there, it will be loaded onto one of Japan's 296 maglev high-speed trains, where it will take another 17 minutes before it arrives in his workshop on the other side of Japan. Hakomiru is very excited, this may be the best log he has ever harvested and well worth the $190,000 price tag. But that is still unknown, and will be until he can peel the bark in a grueling 30 month ordeal. Should things turn out well, the log can then begin air drying. A translator speaks: "We never let the lumber air dry less than 22 years, and with luck I will live to see this one ready for the next phase, since I will only be 94 years of age at that point!"
I work for a contracting company that builds software for utility companies ,(gas, electric, water,telecom, etc). While I think it's important that people get their heat, light, water and cellphone/internet, it's also complicated. Many of our customers are exploitive (of the environment, customers, or their just local monopolies) is this net good or bad? I don't know. I'm looking for another job because I want to have more impact and I can't quit the system, buy an RV and travel around building poor people houses.
The gradual drop could be the result of a mixed sample where different parts of the material show superconductivity at different temperatures. As more of the sample becomes superconducting, the resistance will gradually decrease until a superconducting path is created between the probes and the resistance reaches zero.
In my reading the author has a pretty good head on their shoulder and an understanding of risk. They aren't going on buying a status car. It sounds like maybe you have a good understanding too if you're not doing the same. So why the concerned reaction to the post? Do you think they're actually making a mistake or are you more worried that someone might read it and get the wrong idea?
I am a bit baffled by the arguments about what the author meant. (Needless to say, people who “prove” they can run `traceroute yahoo.com` are hopeless.)

Traceroute is a byproduct of a complex process that may match the forward path of real application traffic you send to some address. It may not if you have some local (transparent) proxy for certain protocols, or QoS in the middle (that may mis-classify your application traffic, unlike regular ICMP pings), or intrusion detection system, DoS protection system, or low level load balancer on the other end. The author invites to check another explanation multiple times, and it gives at least one example when replies from a certain hop are canonically sent by a different network hop. Some ISPs use IP addresses from private ranges, and they surface in traceroutes. Some ISPs lease others' infrastructure, and you see those IP addresses and DNS names inside their networks. Some ISPs deliberately mess with low TTL packets to cloak details like those from clients and competitors, and keep their physical network layout secret.

You need to know all of that, from ARP to BGP, to understand traceroute output. You also need to remember that one post in network engineering community a month ago that told that ISP M was bought by Corp N to guess that they are probably switching traffic from leased line between IX A and IX B to Corp N's own lines between City X and City Y, which might explain what you see. However, traceroute manual doesn't give you a list of 30 thick books to read in advance, nor does it contain the latest gossip about the state of ISP O's hardware in City Z. Therefore, unprepared user is not aware of all the possible complexities.

This reminds me of “helpful” websites that state that hosts with IP addresses of well known CDNs are located in California. Then people from all other the world run ping or traceroute, and deduce that they have a 10 ms RTT to California. Wow, such a great CDN!
This is used for circuit assembly indeed. The vaccum is used to pick a small component from a tray and place it on the PCB at the right place. As the components are so small nowadays the small tip of the nozzle helps where human hand would be to big.
In the same vein, a major bottled water (plastic bottles) company (Volvic) draining local water sources is a B-Corp where I live… So is Nespresso.
They're still responding to press inquiries with poop emojis, right? Linda and maybe an overworked assistant are comms at this point.
Amazing application and manifestation of induction (storing electrical energy in a magnetic field)! What happened to the idea? Did it go anywhere?
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Photoshop exists on macOS, which is a *BSD. If something already runs on *BSD it's quite simple to port it to Linux.

But they just won't do it until it becomes used enough
"It's not that extraordinary."

How is that possibly true? LK-99 is already amongst the highest-temperature superconductors ever found (with that claim substantiated by at least two independent research teams as of this moment).
> rely on common sense

What does that mean here?

> If you want to use margin as an instrument for whatever you're doing, that's fine. It's not a terrible advice.

The author is effectively buying GOOG on a margin through various cute tricks. That's all to it. With the volatility of GOOG and its current P/E I personally wouldn't do it, but I could be wrong about this, and I don't think anyone who buys GOOG on margin is necessarily stupid.

But the parts about "consumptions smoothing", the assumptions about the stock market returning 7-9%, and the confidence of being able to pay the debt back in a couple months of work is just self-rationalization bullshit. Not because they're necessarily wrong, but they aren't even remotely connected to the fact that he's just very simply buying GOOG on margin.

The only real concern about buying stocks on margin is what happens when the price of your assets drop and you get a "margin call" (not in the usual form since he borrowed money in various ways). When you get a margin call, it doesn't matter whether you think you can earn more money in the future or whether stocks have outperformed interest rates by 3% in the past couple decades, or whether you've been living frugally or not.

I totally get it that the author is just some random dude figuring out life, and I shouldn't be too harsh on him (the person). But the "advice" is honestly terrible, the worry is not that he might ruin his life (as others have mentioned, he's probably privileged enough to be fine), but the audience here on HN might actually be misled and the advice might end up ruining more lives..
Redbean is 2.3mb including TLS, Lua, and SQLite, and the same binary runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Free/Net/OpenBSD.
> It would be annoying to buy a separate device just to access my bank. Not annoying enough to change banks of course

Why "of course"? That would very much be annoying enough for me to switch. I switched banks because they decided to randomly start requiring SafetyNet to pass.
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Man. I hope it isn't.
That would be sad, all this was happening, and nobody had found the old study.
Surely not.
What is this supposed to be a summary of? The temperature at which this team observed zero resistivity was much much colder than room temp.
There are a few ways one can benefit from AIT / SMS Pump:

- Exclusivity: This is where an exclusivity deal is signed with a party for a specific route. But when those parties are engaging themselves with a minimum traffic volume and fail to meet their objectives, they tend to turn to AIT to achieve their objectives.

- Range Leasing: Here we have a rogue party leasing a number range and getting a revenue share of the traffic going through that range. MNO could be aware or not of the scheme.

- Range Hosting: Same as above but hosted on MNO. MNO could be aware or not of the scheme.

- CR Tampering: More complex scheme where a party would send lots of OTP to dead numbers in the hope to drop CR and DR. This might lead to the rogue party getting that traffic afterwards if the customer is looking at switching provider.
> Note: By theory I merely mean the rationale for investigating the effect of x on y. A theory can be as simple as “I think people value a mug more once they own it”.

Hoo boy, the [2019] is well deserved on this one -- that's a dan arielly reference from before The 2021 Accusation and before the recent NPR story refuting his excuse[1].

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/dan-ariely-frances...
Meanwhile Vivaldi Browser is putting its hope in regulation: https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environme...
If you think you're going to lose and give up, you'll certainly lose.

If you keep fighting, you might get a chance to win.

which they will lose just like they lost all the other battles they fought over the past 10 years or so.

The public managed to convince Intel to disable the serial number feature of their processors 23 years ago. It's possible --- there just needs to be enough opposition.

Stop with the defeatism and start by exercising your right to free speech upon everyone who supports WEI and the authoritarian dystopia.
"If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible" - Harry Truman

Geopolitical realism has always involved turning on your allies as soon as they become the primary threat to your power; or even better to induce two rival competitors to fight each other[0]

See Mearsheimer and political realism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait_and_bleed
That’s another good catch. (I’ve also adjusted my quote to show I abbreviated it.)

Also, the day part of the dates are a mixture of single-digit and zero-padded:

6/1 | DoubleVerify brand safety
…
7/01 | Video feature update

The vertical bar separator, in addition to being somewhat nerdy, is missing a space on the last item:

7/28| Ads Revenue sharing

Perhaps these errors are being used to encode a hidden message of some kind? “Help I’m trapped in a PR factory”?
Or, like lots of other DRM, wait until someone figures out a workaround.
Sadly making the underpass deeper did help a little bit. There are now a lot less videos than there was in its heyday (it's 12'4" now, which is a pretty normal bridge height).

Also, I think they raised the railroad rather than lowering the road. I believe there is a video of the weekend they did it on the channel.
When you're a core member of the W3C, and you use that position to push browser features that help your browser and remove features that hurt your ad/surveillance-based business model, you are a steward, and a bad faith one at that.

Your own phrasing indicates that there is a battle to be lost or won, and Google has indeed won. Which is pretty clearly a bad thing for the Internet as a whole, and quite good for a single company and their shareholders.
The ugly truth is that lots of "science" being done today isn't actually science – it's a performance art that superficially imitates certain behaviors that are associated with real science.

And how could it be otherwise? There are nearly 10 million scientists in the world right now. And all of them are pushing out papers as fast as humanly possible. There isn't anywhere near enough statistical brainpower available to quality-control all of that. Not to mention that most people with sufficient expertise in statistics have better things to do than micromanaging science grad students who have a hard time comprehending Bayes' theorem.
But the credentials are for stolen OpenAI logins, not stolen email logins.

While there will be some people using the same password (I doubt many) the people selling them will no doubt have already validated and removed these from the set as they are obviously much more valuable.
Wealth is being destroyed here, no additional value is being created. There's spending yes, but not value creation.
Put that in context when you consider all the "essential" employees he fired couldn't even muster that in the last 5 years. Which begs the question: what did these people do all day?
People are downvoting you because you're saying "Twitter okay" and the hivemind says "Twitter bad". Fwiw I had the same experience, I never cared about Twitter (had tried it a few times and just lost interest) and I've immensely enjoyed Twitter recently. So many weird people just putting ideas out there. TPOT and e/acc in particular are full of smart people I can't find elsewhere (I don't live in SF or even the US, so these aren't people I could access in my community).

I also agree that the real source of the drama seems to be Musk. People are annoyed at him so they have to say "Twitter bad" as a matter of principle.
Regardless of the price point (3.5k or some hundreds dollars) it's more like a heavy phone that you have to strap to both your ears. We had ones that had to be strapped to cars and didn't become popular until they were small, light and cheap.

By the way, do people still ride the subway with those large earphones I remember to be fashionable before covid? I moved and I'm not using subways anymore so I'm missing observations.
I don't think it's nuts. I think there are huge costs to not taking risk that are often greater than the actual risk people take on. And it's a balance and you're not going to get it right by avoiding risk entirely.
Seems like a problem with employment then.
Typically a valid comment in academia at large, but not when high-temperature superconductors are the subject of the fight. If these claims pan out, these guys may be the next Andy Viterbi or Ray Stata.
Smartphone use: 2FA for the day job and voice/text loved ones is about all I use my tracking mobile for.
This is an embarrassingly defensive blogpost. Who are they even trying to convince?
> It's such a fascinating difference in approach between Meta and Apple. Meta literally invites journalists in to walk around its lab…

And you believe that they are doing this out of the goodness of their heart?
historically respect has been reserved for people who kept fighting to the bitter end and not for those who gave up.
The phrase may be "pick and place" along with vacuum
What do you suggest people do, exactly, if they want to change the situation? Is it your position that such a thing is impossible, and we should all give up and move on? How do you think any major change was achieved, not only in the tech world but basically anywhere?
I don't know if you work in this field, but you are putting way too much faith in what has been reported so far

People are way, way overconfident. Most people in the field would not be willing to put it at >50% odds at this point.
https://www.viobank.com/cornerstone-money-market-savings
It became the question when you tried to define the original terms that way, because a definition that can not be used to discriminate what it defines from what ot does not define is inherently nebulous.

And your definition is now circular and can not be used that way.

Hence the claim that the original definitions were nebulous.
California Job Case
> Absolutely disgusting and barbaric

You think it's disgusting and barbaric to allow people to make their own decisions about their own life?

I, ah, disagree with you. I personally think people should be allowed to choose what they do with their own life. Personal Freedom and all that.
To be fair it's still in progress. It's debatable whether that's a good or bad thing. Given how strong the Twitter brand is, it could be a good thing.

But the question remains: what do you now call tweets? Such strong marketing in that verb.
If the law didn't allow local governments to keep fines or seized property the incentive to use the cops for tax farming would be negative.
That seems unlikely, but I should have read TFA.

Hmm, well the only other recent event regarding that email account was that I used it to register on a discord server.
Cryptocurrency gets a lot of hate, but it doesn’t mandate your user agent.
Amusingly, some friends asked me about it shortly after the original announcement. I'm not a superconductor person, but I am a materials person.

My response was, basically, the biggest risk (after toxicity) "is that they got lucky and there are subtle things they did that aren't in the recipe which will turn out to have been critical."

I've done a lot of materials research. It's pretty likely that they got lucky on a small percentage of the samples and spent years trying to figure out what on earth was different. I am excited that 10,000 other labs will stand a very good chance of finding out.
> I’m not sure what blaze your glory means

I assumed the boss made another 420 “joke”.
Shouldn't the url be blog.X.com ?
Well, it's X CEO now and I don't know if I want that on my resume especially since it seems to be a puppet position which you have you no say at in any way.
Hey, I'll have you know I'm very good at Word
An lk99 synthesizer creating a false vacuum decay would be worse.
As I said in another comment before, you could have said the same thing about Apple's restrictions on iOS app distribution, and yet that's about to change due to legislation from the EU.

What leads you to think that a similar thing won't happen here, if the problem is serious enough?
Indeed. I always tell it to use proper fancy quotes and proper apostrophes in its output, but I can't get it to do it 100% of the time despite trying out many prompt variations and telling it the Unicode values etc etc.