skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I feel the same way about MLM salespeople, Jordan Peterson fans, gun nuts, Elon Musk fans, and a whole other host of behaviors that are pretty objectively harmful.

Actually, I don't at all, but see how asinine it sounds?
Several commenters here have mentioned demonstration videos. Does anyone have a link(s) to these? Many thanks.
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Well, then why spend all this time searching in a lab? Instead, run a bunch of simulations until the compounds with properties you desire just sort of pop out as the top hits in your simulations?

(I say this as somebody with a decade+ of experience running large ensembles of classical MD simulations, but not so much experience with inorganic DFT)
As someone who just lived in tokyo and loved it, you have to admit that Tokyo, and most of Japan is an absolute hellscape of architectural laziness and function over form to a fault. There are so few "beautiful" areas, outside major boulevards and government buildings. Every street is stuffed with exposed electrical wiring, whirring AC units, generic vending machines, mini parking lots, etc.

It's really interesting how anti-Zen it all is, and how the disharmony of Japanese cities contrasts with the harmony, balance, and simplicity of Japanese parks and temples.

Again, as an urbanist, I ADORE Japan; the public transportation, the convenience, the dense urban fabric, but you cannot deny how ugly it all is haha
Once in a lifetime events tend to be "Exciting" to people, watching history unfold so to speak. The excitement comes from the awareness of this fact, and the fact that it might never be seen again.
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You're seeing a lull in ChatGPT-specific posts but there are two LLM posts [1][2] on the front page as I write this (compared to three LK99 posts).

There does not seem to be any conservation of credulity going on here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958731

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958175
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36963751
I've always been under the impression that the poor contrast is to discourage text posts. Can't remember whether I've read that somewhere or it's just my own assumption.
I love it! I have my printer hooked up to my network with an Raspberry Pi and would be glad to make it easier to print from the iPad.
> So money can't be saved without being borrowed, and the USG acts as a safe borrower of last resort (because the world has lots of savings needs ATM).

Money can be invested in assets other than savings accounts, e.g. the share market. Government borrowing pushes up interest rates attracting saving that might otherwise go into investments that generate returns.

Government spending using debt isn’t like saving for retirement, it’s borrowing for retirement and leaving the debt to your kids.
I'd vote for you.
Yeah they definitely trollin— those basterds!
> Nobody except my brother uses ad blockers

How are they using any modern website without despairing? The web, particularly news sites, is unusable without ad blockers. It's insane, some pages insert ads every two paragraphs of content.
The best of both worlds, at least in my opinion, would be to write a float as a polynomial in two parts (where either part alone is still a float): an integer part with an optional scientific-notation exponent; and a fractional part, where the fraction's denominator is always a power of two.

So 5e3 is a float; 3/8 is a float; and 5e3+3/8 is a float. Each cleanly and exactly representing particular IEEE754 values, while also being readable as a base-10 polynomials.

Maybe fractions of arithmetically-specified powers of two could also be allowed, for really big denominators. 3/2**26, for example.
I'm not sure it is fair to characterize it as scraping. My understanding is that News sites voluntarily put together a little gift basket of title, image, and summary specifically because they want platforms to display it, and can turn it off with the click of a button.

My best guess is that this is actually a collective action problem/prisoners dilemma. News sites would rather not have the summary (and get more traffic), but any one news site that drops it will lose traffic to those that dont.

Because news sites can't organize and collaborate effectively, they were stuck. In this sense, the law was a win-win. Either a hail mary shakedown, or a ban on all summaries.

It is like grocery stores passing a national ban on coupons.
Pons & Fleischman was exciting for about 3 days. Some folks kept looking for decades after.
"Electronic structure of the putative room-temperature superconductor [ Pb_9 Cu( PO_4)_6 O ]" (2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00676 :

> A recent paper [Lee {\em et al.}, J. Korean Cryt. Growth Cryst. Techn. {\bf 33}, 61 (2023)] provides some experimental indications that Pb10−xCux(PO4)6O with x≈1, coined LK-99, might be a room-temperature superconductor at ambient pressure. Our density-functional theory calculations show lattice parameters and a volume contraction with x -- very similar to experiment. The DFT electronic structure shows Cu2+ in a 3d9 configuration with two extremely flat Cu bands crossing the Fermi energy. This puts Pb9Cu(PO4)6O in an ultra-correlated regime and suggests that, without doping, it is a Mott or charge transfer insulator. If doped such an electronic structure might support flat-band superconductivity or an correlation-enhanced electron-phonon mechanism, whereas a diamagnet without superconductivity appears to be rather at odds with our results.

Superconductivity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity

Superconductor classification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductor_classification

Room-temperature superconductor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room-temperature_superconducto...

Diamagnetism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamagnetism
Pixar started work on the Universal Scene Descriptor format in 2012. [0]

Larimer theorized bitUSD in 2013. [1]

[0] https://openusd.org/release/intro.html#heritage-of-usd-at-pi...

[1] https://www.steem.center/index.php?title=BitShares:Proposal_...
I lived in Tokyo for years, which is why I'm pointing out that the publicity photos do not match the reality.
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> In case you aren't, being able to do what you want with your own body does not include a right to harm others

You have to make the argument that drug use doesn’t harm others. In a libertarian thought experiment maybe it doesn’t, but in the real world it does.

In particular, we tend to criminalise behaviors that increase the risk of harming others. Consider drunk driving. Nobody is harmed if I don’t have an accident. But the risk of an accident increases, so we criminalize it. The same is true of hard drugs. The probability I will harm others conditional on meth addiction is higher than the background probability.
Kind of tangential: I recently wanted to move the hosting of my hobby/side gig site to an S3 static site (site generated by me). Thought it would be a few configuration details in s3 and good to go.

A full day later just to be usable in Chrome (since it defaults to https) I had to get a cert and standup a CDN just to make sure your average dingus web user wouldn’t try to navigate to my page and hit nothing.

To be clear, my site doesn’t even have Javascript, and certainly no form submission. HTTPS is complete overkill and now it’s even more overkill overkill since I could be bombarded by half the world population and my site would likely stand up to it.

In a way, they killed the hobbyist website with that bullshit.
They were giving a specific example... It doesn't preclude other places having overdoses...
Yes - Meissner effect is also called Flux Pinning. Superconductor will remain pinned to the magnet in any orientation. Diamagnet will only repel. The video shows horizontal hover - that confirms Meissner effect.
Also the thing will be a really strong magnet while it is storing energy. Even if it doesn't rip itself apart it will stick to stuff amd lose energy.
You are likely correct. Now that this has been shown we will probably get a dozen or more of these over the next decade.

I think the winners will be those which are cheaply and reliably made at scale out of common and non toxic elements and have long durability, or if this isn’t fully achievable something close to this goal.
You have made me realize that my next career might benefit from looking for opportunities where the incumbents are oversimplifying their models.
We detached this (mostly off-topic) subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32744719.
You should check your history.

Americans didn't arrive at this particular set of institutional arrangements by some rational process that weighed the alternatives properly.

Really, have a look at eg https://www.cato.org/blog/there-was-no-place-canada for a comparison between American finance and Canadian finance. The Canadian arrangements were much superior to the old and new American system.

> Similar observations apply to that more fundamental instrument of mispriced risk - limited liability business entities. The worst possible arrangement, except for all the others.

I don't see what's wrong with it? In most countries you can form both limited liability business entities as well as unlimited liability business entities.

When you do business as a company you (typically) have to clearly declare what kind of business you are, and your counter-parties can decide whether they want to deal with you based on that information.

(At least for the most part. If a limited liability contractor paves my driveway, and they damage my neighbour's roses while they are at it, my neighbour never got a choice.)

> Personally I prefer to tilt at the windmill of the asymmetrical payoff diagram of US CEO compensation structures. While it’s still the case that nobody much cares about my opinions on the subject, this one at least has less of an aspect of battle-tested socioeconomic optimality.

Related:

In the years after the big financial crisis of 2008, Credit Suisse paid their bankers' bonuses in the form of 'toxic assets'. See eg https://archive.is/x3GKl

That make got the 'toxic assets' off Credit Suisse's balance sheet. It was also popular with the general public. And, the best part, over time those ostensibly toxic assets actually mostly paid off in full, so the bankers got a much better bonus than if they had gotten straight up cash.

The windmill I like to tilt at is the different tax treatment of equity vs debt in many tax systems around the world. Both shareholders and creditors demand a return on their capital. But when your business pays creditors, via interest and return of principal, that's usually with money that's less taxed ('pre-tax money') than when they pay dividends or do share buybacks ('post-tax money').

Most people agree that an economy with less leverage, ie less debt and more equity, is more stable and less prone to crises. But then we have tax systems that prefer debt.

We should at least treat them equally, or even better, tax debt higher than equity, to nudge company's in the direction of more equity.

(And, of course, there's also the big, big windmill of land value taxes being superior to almost every other form of taxation. But almost no one uses them.)
You're probably referring to https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/1684385895565365248

but the same person admitted they're writing fiction (I would call it speculative fiction drawn from known facts)
https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/1686217806298423299
To be clear, I am not someone who thinks "bad behavior" just needs "sympathy and compassion." I'm absolutely not interested in creating a situation that endangers innocent bystanders in the name of feeling sorry for anyone.

I'm just someone who thinks drug use happens for a reason and doesn't get resolved with sheer self discipline. It gets resolved when the reason for using gets resolved.
The next breakthrough we need is with fusion technology. With unlimited fusion energy, room temperature superconductivity, and (soon) artificial general intelligence, the singularity won't be long off.
On a related note: I am deeply disappointed by how OpenAI has managed to continually dumb down ChatGPT. I’m sure the shortage of NVIDIA H100s and the demand for their APIs shooting through the roof has something to do with it. Perhaps they’ve switched to a quantized model? Who knows.

And yes, LLaMA 2 is awesome. Progress is being made. But it’s slowed down. The novelty’s worn off. Now we’re lacking some fundamental plumbing to reach a useful AGI.

If anyone cares, Bard is proving to be way more useful these days. Especially for research work. And Claude is bar none for document analysis.
You’re giving examples of where the German social norms allow things that are taboo under US social norms. That’s not what shame is about. Shame is a feeling that societies use to enforce social norms and taboos—whatever those norms happen to be.

America is a very individualistic society—people can violate social norms and they don’t feel shame, because they say “who cares what other people think?” My impression of Germany—which is second hand, my wife lived there and I know lots of Germans—is that it is a less individualistic society. Society might allow certain things, but where society doesn't allow those things, there is strong shame-based social pressure.

At least when my wife was living in east Germany in the early 2000s, drug use was one of those taboos. When she mentioned smoking marijuana—something that didn’t raise eyebrows among other teenagers at her rural Iowa high school—the reaction from German students was very negative.
You fight wars with the army you have, not the army you want.

In this day and age, practically everyone has a potato in their pocket. Almost noone has a professional video camera with requisite lens assembly costing at least several grand total in their pocket (not that one would fit in there).
> In the 1970s/80s, an hour of minimum wage could afford you about 7 big macs. Now, it will not even buy you one.

The cost of a Big Mac in 1986 was $1.6 according to the Economist's Big Mac Index dataset[0]. The minimum wage in 1986 was $3.35[1] according to the US Department of Labor.

So you could afford at most two Big Macs in 1986, not seven. Also you can definitely afford one big mac with an hour of minimum wage today (minimum wage: $7.25, big mac: $5.36).

0 - https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data/blob/master/sou...

1 - https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart
All 3 structures you've noted participate in immoral behaviors, some of them far more grave in impact than psychological trickery.

Do you believe businesses/people out there have the intention to disrespect their users? Most often, that's not the case. Hence, we need regulations to combat good intentions gone awry (and most certainly bad intentions).
(This subthread was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32743267.)
Patterns for building LLM-based systems and products
If you haven't seen it, levitating frogs are also quite wonderful. https://slate.com/business/2014/05/nobel-prize-in-physics-an...

An Ig Nobel AND a Nobel. That's quite the achievement.
Having a compulsion to go and stand outside your back door for five minutes randomly in the middle of doing something else is not 'natural', no, it's a learned behaviour from smoking.

Yes, we should all get fresh air and sunlight. No we don't need to pause the tv show and head outside for no reason at 9pm when it's dark and cold.
There isn't a singular group of people (if you will, a They) fulfilling this criteria.

I don't understand why it's worth being bitter about something so joyful and fundamentally human in realtime.
Australia has their own - Montague Street Bridge ("Monty").

It's 9'11 (3.0m)

https://howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com/

It has dozens of warning signs, an overhead gantry with rubber paddles that hit a high vehicle's roof, flashing lights and still gets hit approximately once a month.
Shame relies on personal connections that they want to keep. People turning to drugs are already losing those connections at a rapid rate. Trying to shame them as they walk out the door isn't going to do anything.

America already has an epidemic of loneliness. Chemical numbing is a symptom of this.
Then, let's exclude bash and libc (if we can)
> The very idea of "right" presupposes an objective good

No it doesn't. Not even a little bit. This is complete nonsense and without it, your entire argument breaks down.

Can you share the objective criteria you use to judge things? Also can you send me a list of everything you eat, drink, and do, so that I can make sure you are doing only "objectively good" things?
You can show the bodily autonomy argument is nonsense with a simple thought experiment. What if it were someone you actually cared about? Your son or daughter, sibling, loved one? Would you say "oh well, I guess I have to respect their bodily autonomy". No, you'd drag them into rehab whether they wanted to go or not. Because you know that is ultimately better for them. That's what you do when you care about someone. You don't let them rot and die on the street. Clearly the folks pushing for letting people die on the street do not care about the well-being of those people.
It's not dumber. You can verify this on their models with any prompt you ran at 0.0 when it first came out, I did. It's the exact same model run the same exact way. They've repeatedly confirmed this.
Theres some crossover. Isn't this exactly what a rogue super AI would do first?

- run some simulations and discover a superconductor

- then write up a paper on it ( the paper has some gaps but humans take it and run with it)

- human technology and computing power rapidly accelerates.

- the rogue AI's powers increase exponentially
Because groups of people sometimes come to intractable disagreements, where the cost of fighting is less than the perceived cost of backing down.
The least interesting phenomenon revealed so far is that HN is split into a group who are entertained by watching and discussing emerging tech / science news, and a second group who are entertained by disparaging the first.

I enjoy watching floating rocks and talking to computers.
There's a whole megathread on this on the OpenAI forums: https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-4-has-been-severely-downg...
But are likely less prominent in the 2-hour-commute radius from which many federal workers are driving.
Improving how much? Feom what I've seen its still mostly a death sentence
SIPB?
> with the service I've authored

You created Appmana?
2023 will go down as a miracle year not unlike 1905. Between AI, this, and… what’s next?
Emotionally, it was horrible. Societally, it was depressing to see that we'll never be able to tackle any true large problems, we can't even agree on wearing a piece of paper to protect fellow humans.

But scientifically? Yeah, I'll go with "exciting". The field seemed to move at a tremendous speed, or at least that's how it looked to me as an outsider.

Sequencing within less than a week, extremely rapid movement on the mRNA front (and really, the whole vaccination field - 200 candidates in 9 months), revamped understanding of aerosol transmission, leaps in rapid modelling, tremendous progress in terms of test development, growth in international collaboration, progress in the (public) understanding of chronic diseases, scaling up of wastewater monitoring, ...

Definitely exciting.