skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also PhD Materials Chemist. Agree completely. I follow superconductor publications and this is the only RT claim that has made me tell my friends "this could be the one". Using an electron paramagnetic resonance instrument like a beach combing detectorist is too hilarious to not be true.
We built a spaceport on a Scottish island
What's a large language model doing when it's not being queried?

Am I correct that they only compute information when dealing with a prompt? If so, that seems like a fundamental flaw. An actual "thinking machine" would be constantly running computations on its accumulated experience in order to improve its future output.
By far the biggest issue it utilisation of the GPUs, if people worked on that instead of throwing more power at problems this would be way less of a problem
I think so. In some languages electron tubes are called lamps.
Now maybe we can finally get members to pitch in raking the copper and lead filled backstop at the local shooting range.. :)
>the value of 1-on-1s isn't clear to the author

Maybe if you read the rest of the article, you'd realize the author does understand the value of the 1-on-1, and is presenting an introduction based on his reader's [likely] misapprehension of their value (and the [anecdotally observed] fact that most people do feel they are pointless and/or drudgery)
>let’s see some clear unambiguous levitation of small grains with little dead weight

>we “mastered” wet clay ceramics thousands of years ago

>I don’t think a lot of the researchers rushing to perform replication are being sufficiently thoughtful about the nature of the samples they are producing. (lol)

I'm now interested in seeing your characterization and replication efforts.
You make the laws that regulate the country's entire commercial sector.

In your spare time, you buy and sell stocks.

Maximize your wealth, but with stealth.
They publish surprising and high-profile results, yes.

However, there's also an informal crazy claims filter. If your paper is so surprising they think it might be made up or wrong, they might ask for extensive revisions prior to publication.

So they won't publish my paper saying the moon is made of cheese no matter how surprising such a finding might be.
Yes, how did you know? Here’s my portrait: https://www.potato.horse/about
You should throw in a few newlines in your path for good measure.
From what I've seen the utilisation is still pretty poor, they're being used so poorly and most companies can get away with less GPUs. Instead of looking at how to optimise their workflow they just slap GPUs on
Kinda reminds me when the car dealership wanted feedback on my reservation of maintenance... Not yet actual maintenance, but the reservation process. FU Delta Auto...
The Indian team didn't follow the actual instructions, they altered them thinking it yields the same substance but it appears the change in process did have an effect on it otherwise
Desktop is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Most people don't even own one anymore.
Apple is as close to WeChat as you can get in Western countries.
A battery that transform all energy it stored into heat sounds more like a bomb instead. Imagine someone accidentally heat up the 'super-conductive' battery to the point that it is no longer super-conductive.
Hooking an LLM up to a loop would solve that.

Then you can find a way to include a described video feed and method of movement into the mix.
Its a been a while since I did any X development but as far as I recall as an application (client) developer you generally only needed to know about the client library you were using together with some lower level details from Xlib?
i wish there was a way to do this declaratively, like:

“here is the partition structure i want, here is the filesystem, the users, the packages i need installed and the services i need running”

Setting up machines and customizing installations would be a breeze.
On Modularity of Lexical Analysis
No, we can't keep current consumption patterns, if we want our civilization to survive. Animal ag is driving us towards its collapse, and fast.

We could switch to plant based diets and free upto 80% of all agriculture lands, some 35% of habitable earth, the area a size of Africa, and reforest/rewild that.

That's probably the only feasible option we have at this moment to stop us from environmental collapse.

Your solution is technological in nature. While theoretically possible, it doesn't meet the timescale and amount required.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectare. This large reduction of agricultural land use would be possible thanks to a reduction in land used for grazing and a smaller need for land to grow crops.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/

Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63657-6

Calculations show that, maintaining the actual rate of population growth and resource consumption, in particular forest consumption, we have a few decades left before an irreversible collapse of our civilisation. Making the situation even worse, we stress once again that it is unrealistic to think that the decline of the population in a situation of strong environmental degradation would be a non-chaotic and well-ordered decline. This consideration leads to an even shorter remaining time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_(population)

Climate change, resource depletion, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, overpopulation, soil erosion, and overfishing are all symptoms of ecological overshoot.

Soil erosion -> agriculture

Pollution -> farm runoff, eutrophication, pesticides/herbicides, greenhouse gases ...

Climate change -> CO2 + methane + N20 -> 15-26% from agriculture

Overfishing -> Empty seas in 2040's -> veganism

Deforestation & biodiversity loss -> mainly driven by agriculture -> 80% of agriculture is animal ag (pastures) -> veganism
I don’t mind color, but pushing beyond the 16 colors is often a stretch without a very specific use case & bound to lead to a lack of legibility for some unless both foreground & background are defined—which has a tendency to look just as bad in a terminal. Similar issues happen with CSS when folks define color but not background color.

But the one CLI trend that annoys me is using Emoji terminal. I often find their colors and shapes to be too distracting, commanding too much of the visual hierarchy of output. They also have a tendency to kind of fall apart when some characters or combinations of characters are missing or they no longer line up with the monospace output. A big part of CLI output is being able to scroll through the logged output, but the Emoji actually make visual scanning more difficult.
Absolutely, good for the author. However, given the numerous examples of Google pulling the plug on nonessential projects, I don’t see this as strictly positive development.
Iceland both produces and consumes 100% electricity from renewables for instance.

You have the issue you talk about with all generation that isn’t load-following, including nuclear. France solves this by exporting subsidized electricity in time of low demand while importing in time of high demand, which is winter. In the surrounding countries like Italy and Germany you have gas-plants that jump in when needed.
Oh yeah, those Verilog courses are like the next level up from nand2tetris in wrapping your head around those kinds of things. I got a lot of mileage out of writing some automated scripts to run through Xcelium's interactive shell so I could get a faster debug loop going with them.
gitignores are usually committed (they're treated like a normal file), so yes, in this context that would delete it from everyone.

There's .git/info/exclude, but that has some kinda large surprises if it excludes a tracked file and I don't recommend anyone use it unless they know what to look for and can always remember what they've excluded.
The percentage of U.S. Citizens with the education and temperment to become software engineers is way smaller than you are assuming here.
Ask HN: Does going to a stretch school help or hurt?
Have there been any studies comparing outcomes between going to a more competitive school where you'd be less prepared academically vs. a less competitive school where you'd be better prepared?
Do hard things. The jobs are fewer, but hiring is easier, they pay better, and you will mostly have better job security. Most people prefer easy or trendy things because that is the maximum of their capabilities or because they lack the discipline to follow through.
Also, based on its continuous experience, it would be able to prompt you (send multiple messages in a row after not getting a response) or it should be able to wait for you to send multiple messages before responding.
I once was told I was using the word clustering wrong (I was doing k-means, not computers).
And you are under the impression that people are not working on that?
We have an entire class of amazing fluorocarbon materials, and the EPA didn’t do anything about it. And now it appears that may have been somewhat of a mistake.
I'm surprised they even have those feeds at all. I presumed their days were numbered when Sounds came out. It's not just them, a lot of podcasts seem to really not want you to use their plain old RSS feed, instead hiding it behind collapsable segments and similar. I guess they get more metrics (and maybe money) if you use Spotify or Apple Podcasts or whatever. Then of course there are the ones with outright exclusivity deals

It's a shame because RSS podcasts are naturally distributed (probably because they date from back when that was the default mode of the web). No need to bow down to someone else's content rules - if you have a domain and the ability to host some fairly small files, you can have a podcast which can be loaded into thousands of apps across all platforms with no central authority

I'd also take that as a lesson to some younger people getting into decentralization afresh and thinking it requires heavyweight federation. You don't necessarily need a complicated protocol and your servers talking to each other. Just standard client interfaces and then the client can do the aggregation with distribution as a natural property, like the web
They are. FSR tests side by side with DLSS most people can’t tell the difference or pick FSR. Then you tell them which is which and they turn around and say DLSS is better. People are just bias to Nvidia.

They haven’t had gfx card driver issues in years now and people still say “oh I don’t want AMD cos their drivers don’t work”.
Show HN: Web Environment Integrity warning banner for websites
If a visitor is using a WEI-enabled browser (e.g. Chrome, Edge, Chromium) they will get a full-page warning that their browser is harmful, with a link to the FSF's explanation of why WEI is bad and download links to various browsers that oppose WEI (currently: Firefox, Safari, Brave, Pale Moon, GNOME Web).

The user has to close the warning banner to view the website content.
I suspect you'd still need very low temperatures to make this work, even with a high temperature superconductor: low temperatures reduce thermal noise, which may be an issue at such time scales (unless you pump a lot of energy per bit, which means high voltages (limits scaling) or current/capacitances (also limits scaling).
>isn't that a little bit your fault?

If I invent a Sports game and someone falls playing it -- am I also responsible?

Certain structures have expectations e.g. a bridge should not prematurely collapse. A skyscraper should not fall over. Falling off a climbing frame is an 'expected risk' and therefore not the fault of the designer. A sign saying you're at risk is plenty of warning like a wet floor sign!
I just got all your entries back in my reader (rss2email) so I assumed you did some work on it. :D
You forgot filenames like "CON" or "aux" or "NUL" which are disallowed on Windows entirely. Also having filenames that differ in capitalization only. And hard links, don't use those. And paths that are longer than whatever is the limit on NTFS (it's not very long).

IMO it's better to just avoid file systems altogether if you can and put everything in a database.
God Bless Unicode!
For this, you can use .git/info/exclude.
Uber posts first quarterly net profit
It might also turn out that lime for the concrete will become a rate limiting material. Not to mention the energy cost involved in mining both it and creating the carbon nanopowder.

But, a material with similar hydration properties to concrete, a biopolymer for instance, might exist and be made with less cost...

We actually have to start thinking about replacing concrete with something else to be more energy efficient and sustainable.
It’s a great time to be a pirate.

It seems silly to me, some people will pay a lot for steelbox editions, more than three months of a streaming service, seems the studio should take their money.
Does it honor NO_COLOR?

If not, then I have https://github.com/alrs/nofun
I’m not saying to plan for it.

I’m just saying that a silver lining of the mess we’ve made is that we probably won’t have that ice age in 50,000 years. We’ve likely disrupted the cycle.
In my experience, there is almost always a simpler way to handle these cases that involves being able to put a file in gitignore. This is one of the big advantages of environment variables, for example - they can typically be stored in a .env file (with a .env.default file checked in for new developers to copy from), and loaded dynamically in different configuration systems.

If my local setup requires me to ignore changes in checked-in files, I usually find that I need to handle configuration more cleanly.

(I did work on a project that made use of git update-index - this was a terrible mistake and caused pain every time we needed to update the config file in the repository. Please never go down this route!)
Nobody is certain _why_ it works yet, and even the original team are only able to occasionally get it to work. The exact composition & impurities of the inputs are likely very significant.
Planet lays off about 10% of workforce as satellite imagery company restructures
> It's nice this works fine on your white-on-black terminal

I was curious about this as well, as I found the images in the README a bit hard to read. In fact the program itself seems to use quite sensible colours in my white-background terminal, and it also respects the NO_COLOR environment variable.
Is the diamagnetism itself useful? In other words, even if it's not superconducting, does this have industrial applications?
Even on the DC input which ostensibly isn't doing anything it will probably be wiggling around a lot. You can attack electronic safes by analyzing the power draw into their computer as you type into
I don't believe that people who buy weed under the age of 21 should face any legal repercussions.

I believe that people who sell weed without checking for ID should face licensing repercussions. This is how regulation of almost every other industry works. Chicken farmers, beauticians, and mortgage brokers obey the rules (usually) not because they are afraid of being sent to jail, but because they are afraid of losing permission to practice their business.
Activating type checking mode in VSCode was a game changer for me when running python, help catch loads of the edge cases for correctly for some production code
The Science of Affirmations
Would love to hear more. You can reach us with any of these methods https://www.pypy.org/contact.html
Is this "replication" using a sample of LK-99 from the original researchers or did they successfully create a new sample?
Spolsky wrote about this 23 years ago.

>The other trouble is that it’s so easy to get knocked out of the zone. Noise, phone calls, going out for lunch, having to drive 5 minutes to Starbucks for coffee, and interruptions by coworkers — especially interruptions by coworkers — all knock you out of the zone. If a coworker asks you a question, causing a 1 minute interruption, but this knocks you out of the zone badly enough that it takes you half an hour to get productive again, your overall productivity is in serious trouble. If you’re in a noisy bullpen environment like the type that caffeinated dotcoms love to create, with marketing guys screaming on the phone next to programmers, your productivity will plunge as knowledge workers get interrupted time after time and never get into the zone.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...

Others have known since the 60s or 70s - it's touched upon in Brooks' 1975 The Mythical Man Month
Early onset of glaciation via warming instead of cooling. Counter intuitive idea.

It’s unclear that it would play out that way. One could look at what happened the last time it stopped to get some idea, but things are different this time. We have a lot more atmospheric CO2.
Especially the first two threads (I think those have the highest scores for "superconductor" on HN).
It's very common in Denmark, and it makes it easy for the courier company to leave the package at a kiosk or parcel locker instead of trying to deliver several times.

I was called several times for packages sent to work when the office was closed to non-essential staff, as there was no receptionist and it wasn't clear the building was open. (Business parcels are generally not redirected to a kiosk.)

I can't remember being called for personal deliveries. It's more common to just get an automatic text saying which nearby kiosk/locker has the parcel, with a code to claim it.
It looks like a combination of static analysis and live execution of what they call "pure" parts of the code, i.e. code that doesn't affect state outside the current function.
I think this theoretical result by Griffin at the Livermore Lab explains why labs are having difficulty replicating the LK-99 sample: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.16892.pdf

There are basically two repeating crystal cells. Her theoretical calculation shows superconducting properties when you substitute one cell for copper, but not the other. The "bad" substitution is a lower energy substitution that occurs more easily.

"Finally, the calculations presented here suggest that
Cu substitution on the appropriate (Pb(1)) site displays
many key characteristics for high-TC superconductivity,
namely a particularly flat isolated d-manifold, and the
potential presence of fluctuating magnetism, charge and
phonons. However, substitution on the other Pb(2) does
not appear to have such sought-after properties, despite
being the lower-energy substitution site. This result hints
to the synthesis challenge in obtaining Cu substituted on
the appropriate site for obtaining a bulk superconducting
sample."
Not in the current public version, but you are thinking in the right direction. Sty tuned ;)
You can have a global grid of solar power. Since you don't loose energy on transmission and half of the planet is illuminated by the sun at any given time, you can have uninterrupted solar energy 24/7. The fuel is practically unlimited, the only cost would be the initial cost of building it and then only maintenance cost.
> we're in an era of exponentially increasing ability

No, we're not. We can't increase consumption indefinitely in a finite environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_(population)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_capacity#Recent_Warni...

> no history of consumption being artificially restricted at a global scale

There have never been 8 billion people on the planet.

> we should be massively increasing clean energy

Agree, but that alone won't solve it.
The Ethics of Making (and Publishing) AI Art
Something I wished I’d known when I first started is to look at the job listings in your local area and see which languages are being used. You might be able to get lucky and get remote work straight away, but you’ll probably find it easier to get a local job in an office. I learned JS and React early-ish and no companies in my backwater town were really using it yet. If I’d have had the money to move to one of the big cities I would have been able to get a job straight away but I didn’t so I ended up going back to working menial jobs for a while before I eventually landed a development job.

The other component to consider is what type of company or problems do you want to work on? If you want to work on games, you’re best off learning C++. If you want to work on web applications you’re best off learning Typescript & React or Ruby. If you want to work on Wordpress sites: PHP. If you want to work for corporate companies, C# and the Microsoft ecosystem or Java are probably your best bet. If you want to work on crypto or for Amazon then you probably want to learn Rust. If you want to work on embedded systems: C or Rust. If you want to work for google: Go. If you want to work for Apple or on iOS apps: Swift. If you want to work on Android apps: Kotlin. If you want to work in AI and data science: python.

If you have a particular company in mind, try and find out what their stack is and learn that.
How SaaS architecture impacts pricing and profitability
Echochamber.js
The UFO Hearing – What Happened? What’s Next? [video]
Turns Out There's Another Problem with AI-It's Environmental Toll
This is why I specifically wrote about "spoiling the EXPERIENCE OF WATCHING Oppenheimer", not "spoiling the story".

A movie is so much more than just the story or story outline (which I do know as I've read the excellent "The Making Of The Atomic Bomb").

I really love to experience movies with as little before-hand information as possible — I don't want to read about that great moment where actor X enters the scene, I don't want to read about how they did that awesome camera work in that one scene, I don't want to read about that dialogue in that one scene where the whole audience in the cinema broke into spontaneous applause etc.

I want to experience these kinds of things myself, as uninformed as possible.
> material science however almost always all you need is a trial and error

Is it science if you essentially fiddle something until you get a result you are after and then try to fit a theory that would explain the result of the fiddle?
Get of my fuck lawn!
The world’s least liveable cities are starting to improve
I have been a software engineer for 30 years before falling into running a tugboat company. I am not assuming anything.
This is the exactly the reason why I use auto-restarts.

I know there are problems in the software I am running, but I don't what to think about it. I want it hidden from myself.
i support this. capitals are basically useless anyway!
Euclid Dark Universe telescope reveals its first sparkling images of the cosmos
> So far "nigerian email spam" was easy to recognize. Grammar mistakes, bad translation, very bad wording... But now every fringe group, can generate gigabytes of text and arguments that make sense!

"nigerian email spam" contains grammar mistakes, bad translation, vary bad wording... by design. To weed out those unlikely to end up sending money.

I don't know how you can make an argument that makes sense about being chosen by royalty of a country to help them in some way.