skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Potentially vital R/D happening in such a way as to have almost zero chance of actually becoming a product.

My assumption, of this early work, is to scoop up important patents.

Related to important patents, varifocal is almost certainly the future of HMDs.

Having fixed focus, as all HMDs do now, is fatiguing and strange. A really interesting example of this is, in VR, hold something close to your eyes. You'll see that it gets blurry. Now close one eye. You'll see that it's clear. It's not that it's actually blurry, it's that your eyes are refusing to put up with the physical nonsense of a fixed focus 3d world.
Wondering how karma / 'popularity contests' on sites like hn will play out in AI infused web.

Armies of bots pushing particular stories on a set of news outlets? AI controlled accounts with sole purpose to downvote (make 'disappear') particular stories? On many sites, AI controlled accounts vastly outnumbering human controlled ones? (turning humans into powerless minority). Websites using methods to verify that users are actually human? (like, send copy of ID or similar). Webs of trust, of people 'vetted' by each other to be real people? AI pushing content so fanatically & everywhere that most of the web turns into garbage blurb? (well.. even more than today ;-)

Interesting times...
The Bill of Rights is a patchwork of conditional, wishy-washy broken promises, isn't it?

If I sign up for an account on Facebook, then I agree to waive my first-amendment rights.

If I walk into any number of stores or churches or government buildings, I agree to waive my second-amendment rights.

Sixth amendment? Just keep redefining "speedy" and make enough excuses for trials delayed and justice denied.

Tenth Amendment? If a state passes a law judged odious by the Federal Government, then kiss your funding sources bye-bye!
YBCO which has a critical temperature of around 90K has a critical field in excess of 250T. So 9T is not expected to weaken superconductivity much for a sample with a critical temperature of 110K.
Fair enough. It's fully deductible when used to offset capital gains as far as I know.

To offset regular income, it's only $3000 a year but losses can be carried forward (though it stays at the dollar value, no inflation is taken into account).

So often largely deductible with some caveats.

It still seems asinine that bad investments are essentially tax subsidized, but whatever.
Well, researchers usually have to get their own grants and must thus work on whatever various funding sources deem worthy. Further, academic positions typically have duties that researchers may not like - administration, reporting, teaching, etc
That's what they're economically motivated to do, and it will work. The main job of your insurance companies is to find a way to refuse your claim, and the main job of the recipients of government grants is to reduce deliverables and compliance monitoring.

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> Telecom industry consultant Doug Dawson wrote a blog post calling the RDOF process "badly flawed since the beginning. Some auction winners bid down prices a lot lower than expected. The areas that were available in many places are scattered and don't create a reasonable footprint for building a broadband solution."

> "I have no doubt that many RDOF winners are now looking at a broken financial model for fulfilling their promise. They are stuck with a terrible dilemma—build the promised networks and have a losing business or pay a substantial penalty to withdraw from RDOF," Dawson wrote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner's_curse
I really wish I'd went into physics in school. This all sounds deeply fascinating, but I just barely understand the top level of what you're explaining.
> comment was about a general case

Greentext quoting to prove you can't read is like punching yourself in the face.
Thoughts on Operational Responsibility
What are you even talking about? Read the blog post one more time, please.
This is already a thing: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en
As someone who has worked on superconductivity I'd say that all of these are all potentially HUGE, but meaningless individually because they require experimental replication. They point to at minimum a new class of high temperature superconductors at least as good as current industrial ones. To know if it's truly transformative or not though we'll need multiple confirmations from big name labs. That's going to take time, so this trickle is exciting but won't mean much until the dust settles.
Crostini should already host a fine vscode. https://chromeos.dev/en/linux

ChromeOS seems to consider it an anti-goal for users to be using the OS like a general purpose OS. Crostini allows them to keep the rest of the system locked down, where-as just running vscode on ChromeOS directly would mean giving Vscode more unconstrained access.
> What about "most arbitrary goals are incompatible with human existence" requires super-human intelligence?

The "taken to the absolute extreme" part.

> A human who wanted to "build as many paperclips as possible" could cause a great deal of destruction today.

Maybe, but a) no one really wants that (at least not as their only desire above all else) and b) we aren't superintelligent so it's hard to gain enough control and power and plan well enough to do it that well

> talking about a goal that has sub-human-intelligence sophistication

There is no reason a simple goal can't be followed in an intelligent way or vice versa. This is called the "orthogonality thesis". There's a good video about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUO6pjwFOo
Web components fill an important niche: creating a library of components that can be easily used in react, angular, some other framework, no framework, or some framework that someone will invent next year. I expect their usage to increase over time.
Singapore is now the most powerful passport in the world
I don't think that one project dying with its maintainer because he thinks woke is stupid is comparable to the community-hostile changes in trademark policy. No, not the flip side at all.
Emergency rooms in cities like Frankfurt often have a table of basic fees for visitors without German/EU health insurance.
To each their own, and everyone’s life has different complexities, but a decade of never answering a number I don’t know has yet to be a problem. A few times a year I’ll get a message from the doctor on my answering machine. That’s about it.

Generally they prey on people who cannot override their fear of missing out. It’s the “you may have already won!” trick in a different format.
> I’m not sure why you’re 20 comments deep on HN

Why are you?
"shillouettes" are what politicians use ;-)
You're right, it's WSL; so, just dotfiles.
I pay hourly prices in Chicago, and it's often .03 or .04 $/kwh at off peak times.
A PDF is also available for those that have trouble reading that raw text (https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-23-652A1.pdf)
This is really super cool. I wonder if you could use elevenlabs or something similar to make the voice more legit because it feels at the moment like I’m speaking to a satnav (in French).

I also got fluency score None which, let’s be real, is pretty accurate. But I feel like I need a bit more to help me learn.

The microphone interaction is really nice.
I'm in SF and paid PGE $0.50938/KWh for peak hours electricity last bill.

Actually, from down thread, CA electricity goes up to $0.58!

https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36978291
You can get a 3-month CD with around 5.2% APY right now. If you ladder them, you can keep a portion of your savings relatively liquid while still earning a decent, FDIC-insured yield.
Comparing cost of full battery to full tank is meaningless because the ranges are different.
How much does it cost to drive 100 miles on model 3 vs say Camry hybrid.
My calculations showed that differences are not significant at my $.35 per kWh rate and $4.5 per gallon.

Of course camry hybrid costs thousands of dollars less than tesla* and has a range of 500 miles.

* my household does not qualify for income based incentives
I've used ChatGPT (GPT-4) to write production code.

As long as you keep the scope small ("Write some example code that calls $API in Python", "Make it asynchronous; so I can queue up n calls and execute them in parallel"), it generates perfectly good code that is easy to understand too.
Products are more expensive in Europe because we have (on average) ~20% sales tax. And because the general tax pressure is higher because we have more state services.

In terms of PPP someone should look it up (on mobile)
The __contains__ method should be used (and indeed is). What if a.b.c = False?
The Apple Vision is way more akin to the Meta Quest and you can buy that today for $300, not Apples $3,000 price tag.
I Became a Modern Bootlegger
I was worried about that too before making the bet, but I realized I couldn't do it anyway and stopped worrying about it.

You can find the whole resolution criteria here if you want:

https://manifold.markets/QuantumObserver/will-the-lk99-room-...
There seems to be two camps in language design: those who want to see their punctuation, and those that want their punctuation to be invisible. Python, CoffeeScript, YAML, Wisp: these languages still have punctuation. It's just spaces, tabs, and carriage returns -- all invisible. I always prefer to be able to see my punctuation, and it's very difficult for me to understand why anyone else wants the opposite.

Languages that try to be concise are like textspeak. Its fast wen u jst need 2 send throwaway msgs lol. That's what makes them popular for scripting: writing a quick script is like writing a quick text. It's "write-only". But you would never write a technical document out of textspeak: clarity is much more important than brevity. So it is with serious programming languages. It makes invisible-punctuation languages feel like toys. And yes, I'm even including Tensorflow with Python: those are still mostly "write-only" scripts that are not meant to be maintained like professional software is.

Stop making your punctuation invisible.
I would be very surprised if FAANGs permit their employees to moonlight like this.
There's probably some HN reader that already scooped up the hackeronesies.com domain and is currently making several thousand per month selling programming-themed baby clothing :)
this is cool!

i use a lot of defaultdict trees[1], and convert nested dicts to/from flat dicts with dots in their keys[2].

never underestimate the mighty dict.

1. https://github.com/nathants/py-util/blob/6844917fb51e9d24de1...

2. https://github.com/nathants/py-util/blob/6844917fb51e9d24de1...
Same, my post-it wall of to-do projects that would reshape CS only grows and yet my time just gets soaked up by meetings and trivia. :(
> then they can negotiate much lower prices with the labels

Or alternatively, if the labels are not stupid, they'll negotiate for a higher price per listen (or similar), as they are still as essential to the service as before.
When you see this, it’s a sign that someone built their web components with React/Angular/Vue on the brain.

The tech is fine. You can achieve amazing progressive enhancement with web components by understanding and effectively using <template> and <slot>. However, many web component developers never learn this.

The problem you’re describing is a training/marketing issue, as discussed in the post.
Weizacker wasn't alone in that opinion:

[John] Von Neumann was, at the time, a strong supporter of "preventive war." Confident even during World War II that the Russian spy network had obtained many of the details of the atom bomb design, Von Neumann knew that it was only a matter of time before the Soviet Union became a nuclear power. He predicted that were Russia allowed to build a nuclear arsenal, a war against the U.S. would be inevitable. He therefore recommended that the U.S. launch a nuclear strike at Moscow, destroying its enemy and becoming a dominant world power, so as to avoid a more destructive nuclear war later on. "With the Russians it is not a question of whether but of when," he would say. An oft-quoted remark of his is, "If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at 5 o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?"

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/project...
good article except for the firefox shade
This. Along with the federal government more generally. And also all of the companies that lobby or otherwise work with the federal government. NoVA is adjacent to DC and has a better tax environment than MD, so that's where all the government data centers are going to go.
It is super common things to do when you actually adopt it as system. People choose either -4 or -8 to be 1x measure of space and setup the size in config.

Of course there is a big group of devs who use tailwind for easy copy paste templates that never change the config. But those who use as system use config a lot.
Similar experience, it makes it easy to integrate components into partner pages because they can treat it just like any other HTML element and we don't have to worry about the vast majority of possible namespace conflicts thanks to the shadow DOM.
They aren't reacting because this isn't really proof of anything. The test apparatus they used can't actually measure 0 resistance. Superconductivity is implied (thats the most straightforward explanation) but not actually demonstrated here. Its very hard to interpret from the limited data presented. There could be a whole host of contaminants, issue with the experimental setup etc etc. Its hard to go from look at the interesting material properties in this graph to room temperature superconductor. This is also the only confirmatory information we have from the team; their sample didn't show diamagnetism.

The reasons to be skeptical are: 1) lot of videos floating around that are just at the threshold of convincing 2) poor results from other teams 3) there is a history of superconductivity discoveries like this that never pan out 4) skepticism of the original paper
> The basic premise is that it has somewhere in it that is telling it to make more paperclips. Put the constraints there.

What constraints do you suggest? If it's just changing "make as many paperclips as possible" to "make at least x number of paperclips" (putting a cap on the reward it gets), here's a good explanation of why that doesn't really work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao4jwLwT36M

If you're suggesting limiting the types of actions it can take, then to do that to the point that a superintelligence can't find a way around it (maybe letting it choose between one of two options and then shutting it down and never using it again) would make it not very useful, so you'd be better off just not making it at all

> If you're saying such an AI would be too smart to be a simple paperclip maximizer

No, that's not what I'm saying. Any goal is compatible with any level of intelligence, there is no reason why it wouldn't be possible to follow a simple goal in a complex way. Again here's a video about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUO6pjwFOo
Actually you're right, that was my mistake. Current-gen autoregressive token predictor "hallucinations" probably can't be fixed, but yeah, the way forward will involve new architectures and I would place my bets that something like world models will be involved to ground generative output.
Yeah it seemed suspiciously high for HumanEval and it only ranks 14th for JS and 7th for Python on other benchmarks now: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mike-ravkine/can-ai-code-resul...

WizardCoder is a bit of a problem since it's not llama 1/2 based but is its own 15B model and as such the support for it in anything practical is near nonexistent. WizardLM v1.2 looks like it may be worth testing out.

All of the LLama 2 fine tunes I've tried out so far have weird issues though. Saying unrelated things at times, ignoring parts of the conversation and such. Could be fine tuning or prompt template goofs or Llama 1 may actually be a more self consistent base model overall.
I'm probably one of the few people whose mind went to X11 on reading this headline (and was pleasantly surprised to see an article about 'X' these days) instead of the garbage dump that used to be Twitter...
I remember being in Tysons on business a few years back and could see across the road to the mall. But I couldn’t just walk there to find dinner because there was literally no way to walk across the road.
Reading the full report, the author is trying to include secondary costs. For example, a Luxury EV using mostly commercial chargers, the owner will spend ~12 hours per month charging at an hourly wage of $33, costing another $401.50 per month. After rolling these secondary costs back into the cost to refuel, some of the EV scenarios are more expensive than ICE.
The devastation of marking things read
> Of course, criminal process has a higher proof bar and requires a public prosecutor to care enough to do something

Wage theft really should be a strict liability crime -- only proof necessary to convict is that it happened, not that it was intended.
ESG is nothing more than making companies kowtow to Blackrock.

Kiss that ring, companies, and maybe they'll throw a few crumbs at you.
Check out Panda CSS as well (https://panda-css.com/), I've been using both VE and this one, they're both great.
Whether something is superfluous or just complete/rounded out is in the eye of the beholder.
IIRC Crostini requires certain hardware CPU features, so you need a Chromebook model that supports it. Most Chromebooks released after 2019, as well as select earlier models in the list in the Wiki

https://chromeos.dev/en/linux/linux-on-chromeos-deep-dive
You can see it on https://dashboard.stripe.com/radar or if it's easier I prefer adding a `Dispute activity` widget to the Dashboard (https://snipboard.io/vEamVF.jpg).
“What's #ESG Score and How it is calculated”

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-esg-score-how-calculate....

“There are several organizations and rating agencies that calculate ESG score”

“Corporate Knights: Corporate Knights is a media and research company that publishes an annual ranking of the world's most sustainable corporations. Their methodology evaluates companies based on a range of ESG factors, including carbon productivity, diversity and inclusion, and clean revenue.”

From the Corporate Knights website itself:

“All publicly-traded companies with over US$1 billion in revenue are assessed across 25 key performance indicators, including % sustainable revenue, % sustainable investment, % taxes paid, carbon productivity, and racial and gender diversity.”
This is more or less verbatim the justification given in US public messaging around the bombing of Japan’s cities, and it’s heavily reiterated by Rhodes. The problem is that even if you fully accept the bloody logic of this, it wasn’t what the Interim committee specified for the atomic bomb target list: “the most desirable target would be a vital war plant employing a large number of workers and closely surrounded by workers’ houses.” This didn’t apply to Hiroshima. It did apply to the secondary target used in Nagasaki, but not to the primary target. The fact that more appropriate targets were passed over in favor of (largely unbombed) residential targets is not some unfortunate necessity of the war, it was a deliberate decision made to show the world how powerful the bomb was. That decision might - in the very long run - have saved more lives than it took. We should talk about that. But we can’t talk about it if we’re busy fooling ourselves.
Lonely nights are coding nights
>Anyone who works with music software, to this day, deals with the pain of physical hardware keys.

And anyone who works in the automotive industry, sadly.
The only 20th century alternative to capitalism was socialism whose only fruits were a massive pile of skulls. So are you talking about going back to feudalism? Monarchy?
My favorite example of this: https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/kegalv/my...
How can you make a statement about 25 million people like this, leading with "I've been there twice"?
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I...do not prefer this syntax.
I subscribe to Clarkesworld because I love a good short story and I want my house to be filled with boxes of books that my son can discover when he’s old enough and if he’s inclined the same way I was as a kid reading what my parents did.
Transmission loss is a real and important reason why you can't, say, cover the Sahara with solar panels to get unlimited free energy for mainland Europe and Africa (barring all the logistical challenges of actually pulling something like that off). This is because you lose a significant amount of energy just by moving it from one place to another.

With RTP superconductors, you get near perfect transmission from the site of energy production to the site of consumption. You could put wind turbine in remote sections of Montana and power up Chicago, something which previously would have been impossible.
Not if you use a credit card; a quick call to Visa/MC/Amex will get your money back instantly in Europe too.

The main difference is that, in Europe, debit cards are often used in the same way as a CC - except they are just a direct pipe to one's bank, and once the money comes down the pipe there is no easy way to push it back up.
Ah OK. You had me scared there for a minute. :-)
As a web user of 26 years, it describes precisely what happens.
I wouldn't mind a sanity check on using Web Components in this context:

We have a bunch of sites written in different frameworks (React, Rails + Hotwire, Phoenix + Liveview) that we'd like to have a shared set visual components between them. Think things like:

- Buttons
- Text spacing
- Layout cards
- Headers

Pretty low level stuff, the most dynamic behaviour might be something like showing / hiding content in an FAQ.

Web Components seems like a reasonable fit to encapsulate the design elements and reuse them across all these different frameworks (probably coupled with Tailwind CSS on each site to enforce consistent colours + spacing).
Because most people don't realize Lincoln was basically a Marxist. The pendulum has swung so far from that norm in the modern day, thanks largely to an Ayn Rand objectivism-fuelled orgy of biollionaire "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" propaganda.
I don’t think that is pedantry.
Translations are interpretations by a third party that may or may not have an opinion on the topic.
Thanks. And wow, that's as fuzzy as I was afraid it would be:

> ...Willing to adjust this criterion after receiving more info from relevant theorists/experimentalists...

> ...I don't intend to require that replications be published in a peer-reviewed journal... However, I do intend to wait a few weeks/months to resolve so that any pre-print can be adequately investigated...

> ...Since high Tc superconductivity is not my specific field of expertise, I'm willing to defer to a consensus of subject matter experts on whether a pre-print is convincing or not, and I am willing to contact some beyond the usual twitter personalities...

In other words, if there's any kind of gray area in the results, it's going to be whatever this person decides, whenever they want to decide it. Definitely not something I would ever put money behind.
Not to mention that every new category of SC discovered helps nail down the theory of how it all works.
The Slutsky Effect in Python
How to create patterns akin to the ones known from stock markets and even 'cycles' from random numbers.
Ask HN: The dust has settled on the AI goldrush. What startups are succeeding?