skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pride. They don’t want to be remembered for some incomplete Arxiv preprint. They want to be remembered for the finished paper in a top level journal.
I'm not really advocating for it, but GitHub does verify out of band - it uses keys on the profile. (If it says 'unverified', it doesn't match any that are present. If it says neither unverified nor verified, the commit wasn't signed.)
Should UK intelligence agencies get easier access to “low-sensitivity” datasets?
There are multiple romanisation systems for Japanese, but the most common one is Hepburn. In Japan, Kunrei-shiki is sometimes used (especially by the government), which is designed with Japanese speakers in mind (vs Hepburn which was designed with English speakers in mind).

It's jujutsu in both, but there are varying ways of representing the long vowel on the first "u" -- either omitting it (jujutsu), using a macron or circumflex (jūjutsu), or repeating the vowel (juujutsu).

Ju-jitsu and jiu-jitsu are not correct in any romanisation system that I know of, I'm not really sure how they came about. Probably historical accident.
Someone else's warning to not do this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36954723
Gentoo has a special place in my heart... watching 2 days on a AMD Athlon 1Ghz to compile the system. I learned a lot from it not the watching part but everything else.
If you like this, it might be worth reading the posts that lead to him writing it:

First, the only slightly related Tax Frenzies and How to Hose Them Down [0], in which he uses the term Objectivist Jerky, which led to someone requesting that he write What I Think About Atlas Shrugged [1], which he summed up with "Indeed, if John Galt were portrayed as an intelligent cup of yogurt ... this would be obvious. Oh my god, that cup of yogurt wants to kill most of humanity to make a philosophical point! Somebody eat him quick! And that would be that." then the brief My New Problem [2]

[0] https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/09/26/tax-frenzies-and-how-...

[1] https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/10/01/what-i-think-about-at...

[2] https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/10/01/my-new-problem/
I have yet to see a LLM generated piece of writing or art that I like as art or that evokes anything.

Art is about communicating human emotion. I feel like I can tell when there’s nothing really on the other end. I don’t think AI is a threat to real capital-A Art. I think it is a threat to any form of content milling since it definitely churns out filler much faster and cheaper and better than humans. It’s also probably a threat to pseudointellectual sophistry since it can do that very well.

I wonder if the appearance of genuinely compelling art coming from an autonomous AI might be the most compelling sign of sentience?

If so then William Gibson nailed it again. That’s what the final superintelligent AI at the end of Mona Lisa Overdrive (final book in that trilogy) is doing.
Unions in many cases are 'a good old boys club' and will not always let's random people without connections in. Sexism and racism happen.

Not always and they are getting better, but there is still a problem there.
If everything is the result of previous factors, and nothing could have turned out differently, what is the point of making any argument about anything at all?

You are relying on my free will: that I will focus my mind, read your argument, incorporate my experience, judge its truth using my reasoning faculty, and choose.

Without free will, reason is impotent. Philosophers can’t agree or disagree because they have no choice in the matter.

Free will is not about being able to choose any random thing at all. That would be like saying I’m not a human because I can’t will myself into becoming a banana peel.
I've read his posting history. It's quite clear what kind of a person he is, especially from the patterns and subjects of all his heavily downvoted and flagged posts. As if that wasn't already obvious from his recent sexist posts. But go read them yourself and carry the water for his bigotry if you like, it'll just say a lot about yourself too. Like Elon Musk and his flashing "X", some people just desperately want you to know they're assholes.
Sure it would work like copper wire minus the losses due to resistance.

Probably it would not make much sense to replace glass fiber because problems like (thermal) noise and cross contamination by other signals would still exist.
Jq 1.7rc1 is released
Sun ‘umbrella’ tethered to asteroid might help mitigate climate change
>Brand reputation is its own business these days with its own products and markets.

I'm halfway convinced that selling a brand is just sort of illegitimate - a brand is just a reputation (ie. built-up trust), and selling out your reputation for money on your way out the door is cleanly, obviously immoral.

I'm sure there are arguments for it (like "well surely my son can inherit the family business" and "well surely I can sell the business to someone who I trust to maintain reputation"), but overall those arguments don't change what actually happens: the business is sold to someone who wants the profit from abusing the trust that's been built up.
钕铁硼磁铁，Neodymium magnet

Slight chance that might be wrong, their northern accent is too strong.
I wanted to comment on a paper by some different group. It's confusing with all those papers floating around on HN.
There actually a local .gitignore, it's called or located at .git/info/exclude

You can even ignoring changes in files that are already tracked with `git update-index --assume-unchanged <file>`
> I have absolutely zero clue on materials science, chemistry or physics of this experiment.

Same here. So I wonder, is a superconducting material actually useful "in production" if it is a material that (say) crumbles easily / is not at all flexible ? If we want superconducting wires, does the material have to be ductile ?
But I want to know how they used figlet to generate ANSI colored image. Is that a custom font?
With this, every stream to every person can have a unique identifier embedded, like they do with the published papers, so they know the exact person whose account a paper was sent to Sci-Hub or whose stream was torrented. Just another example of the 'length', 'breadth' and 'depth' of DRM. 2 identicals might be compared to find it, but 100,000,000 differents can be scattered within - which one is the one they refer to, so you can remove it. In theory each one can be sieved and subtly changed, but they have others in there - change all? and they are made to resemble data - what bit of 'snow' that flashes once is the true 'bit' if one color bit is changed by 1 and is not visible.
Not sure if this can be interpreted as a privacy invasion - older judges, who have not yet articled, will mull this in the future. This first started with CIA's use of micro kerning in word documents to flag who linked what document.
And this will all be paid for by the savings on physical media.
Just want to add to this thought: this isn't to say I believe the status quo in academia isn't antiquated. It is. My point is that we can't just "take open source and move it over there," so to speak.
A few comments.

1) This is simulation result using density functional theory. While a standard method for understanding the electronic structure of materials it often does not do so accurately when correlations (electronic interactions) are strong. In this kind of context (where strong interactions are expected to be necessary to give something like high temperature superconductivity) what one is looking for from a DFT simulation is an indication of what kind of starting point to extend further and include interactions.

2) What is seen here are features called "flat bands". Essentially, the kinetic energy of the electrons relevant at low energies is only weakly dependent on the (crystal) momentum of the particle. Having lots of different states (different momenta) at similar energy usually means the interactions are more important than in materials where the kinetic energy is larger and more dispersive (depends more strongly on momentum). Here the partially filled d-shells of the Cu atoms appear to make a flat band at low energy. This flat band is partially filled and thus is potentially susceptible to interaction induced instabilities.

3) Flat bands can come from trivial features of a crystal as well. If you've got isolated atoms far apart enough that their atomic orbitals barely overlap their bands will be flat. Some of this may be at play here since the Cu atoms seem to be quite distant (7-9 Angstroms or so).

4) Flat bands appear in many many kinds of systems (at the level of DFT, even at the level of experiments, etc, etc) and do not necessarily imply superconductivity, let alone high temperature superconductivity. Even if the presence of flat bands is pointing towards stronger and more important interaction effects these interaction effects can stabilize other kinds of order instead (magnetism, charge order, etc).

5) Predicting what instability is realized is hard and can be quite delicate. There are materials where this can be debated (theoretically and sometimes experimentally) for years. Predicting the onset temperature of the order that is produced is hard. I.e. Don't necessarily expect a reliable estimate of the critical temperature from theory.
Sounds kinda fun actually. You can play geriatric doctor supporting the senate, you can money launder using defense funds for far away wars.
If there us a clear warning, definitely and only woman's fault. Pour enough people on/in/at literally anything and somebody is going to badly injure or even kill themselves on something trivial like a single stair.

Big moving dangerous mechanical stuff? Just a question of time till somebody ends up badly. People do stupid irresponsible shit all the time, internet is full of that.
Not really, because it would hit a moment where it runs out of context. It can't really learn anything for now.
Then what was the point? If I saw a unicorn and took out my phone in a hurry I could get a video of exceptional quality, granted I uploaded it somewhere without too much compression. Seems like you wanted to create a little abstract story ignoring the reality of hardware
There may not have been any concerns at the time, but the damage to the reputation is real, albeit difficult to measure. Nevertheless, you can see that Windows only ever seems to lose market share. Windows desktop is shrinking, Windows mobile is dead, Windows embedded is phasing out, and Windows server is only used for the bare necessities. You can argue that Microsoft successfully managed to pivot to cloud, but that is a rather shallow moat.
What are hard things?
> Russia was derided as an economy the size of Belgium and the Netherlands at the onset of the war, and experts around the West were certain that such a relatively small economy could not endure a drawn-out conflict. The Russians would run out of missiles, and then they would run out of shells, and then eventually they’d run out of bullets and hand grenades and shovels as well.

They nearly had a full fledged armed revolt and clearly lack the soldiers and materiel to hold the land they currently took, yet alone take more. They have underperformed time and time again when it comes to other military objectives, again for lack of materiel.

So Russians are not yet all corpses if that is what is meant by "endure" a drawn out war. But a supposed major power struggling to invade a neighbor is not exactly success.

> . The recent news that the US would send cluster bombs to Ukraine – a controversial weapon type that has been banned by most Nato countries – was telling. Not so much in moral terms, but for what it told us about the United States: the world’s largest economy was nearly out of conventional ammunition to send to Europe.

I suppose one only buys a screwdriver due a shortage of drills?

The West has achieved far more than initially hoped for in Ukraine. Supporting a Taliban style insurgency against Russian occupation was the expected result when this started.
Liking the smell of pine does not mean I want the smell of a pine forest fire in my house all day long. You don't see caffeine addicts rolling up coffee grounds to set fire to it, do you?

There's nothing subjective about not wanting smoke in my lungs. If someone wants to get pot buzzed, go eat an edible and waste a day of productivity for all I care. Smoking the entire house, and costing me my deposit while justifying it with "George Carlin wrote jokes on weed" is peak pothead narcissism that makes me want to have it permanently banned.
I'm French, and France has one of the biggest high-speed train network, and the limitation to build additionnal lines isn't a technological one…
They have now changed the Tweet button to "Post" (at least in the webapp; I finally got around to nuking the phone app so dunno about that). However, it's still "retweet" and "quote tweet". Very competent rebrand, this.
My understanding is that TDD would start with the main program (A), testing functionality that is exposed to the final user. The later layers would only be written if and when they are required for the end-user functionality.
Sounds like a job interview
You should work in the gaming industry or robotics where if time_running > some constant you have no product.
If an algorithm is non-obvious/inventive enough, I don't see anything wrong with patenting it if patents are valid at all.

But what's really amazing here is that an efficient (or even just any) implementation of the instruction (its interface and contract) that wouldn't be deemed as equivalent to the patented one under the doctrine of equivalents doesn't seem possible. This is an essential patent encumbering the FMA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_patent).
That sounds like a welcome change from the 2000s where we had to hound them for even obvious flaws.
I like this. Spreading awareness is very important. However, the warning message should provide more information. Many users won't bother to click the link. The developer even suggests this as an enhancement: Concise and easy to understand explanation why WEI is bad and you should feel bad, rather than just linking to the FSF.
Yep. I also suffered with SharePoint in the late aughts, and eventually consultants were brought in to add some stupid custom feature to out Intranet Wiki that required a month of custom coding.

Plenty of other companies doing that as well. Pretty much every ERP company, for example: from big ones like SAP or IBM, to the ones only popular in their home state.

I remember a consultant telling me “you don’t get it, the point of our app is that you can build ANYTHING the customer withs it”. Well, so is the point of, say, Python.
> People only really learn when they’re surprised.

This is a nice sensationalist punchline, but I don't think it's true at all. Most of what people learn is not bang, a new thing unlocked, but rather repetitions and small incremental improvements to truly hone and understand an idea or activity. Think of learning a language for example. You wouldn't say you've only ever learned something when you hear a new word for the first time. The real learning is remembering it, using it in different contexts, understanding how other people use it, seeing it in slang, etc.
I often use 5%-black-on-90%-white (and vice versa) and various colored setups that bear semantics to me (like work context, for example, authenticated user, preferred REPL, ...) and as soon as you leave a monochrome world, those colors tend to break down completely.

But, TIL about NO_COLOR!
Add those files to `.git/info/exclude` and they won't show up in `git status`
I would love to get out of that habit as well. What are you signing your emails with in those cases? Just:

- Name

?
The fact that you are feeling confident making such assumption just because I disapproved an ship-gaining-water analogy is exactly the problem with public discourse I wanted to highlight.
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Sent you an intro email to the relevant person.
For me it was the opposite. Raw Win32 is low level: you manipulate the event loop directly, and you have to deal with the layout yourself, but otherwise rather simple.

MFC had a mix of generated code and handwritten code. Writing MFC code by hand was hell, and using a graphical IDE was nowhere as convenient as Visual Basic or anything by Borland.
Yes. Or one lowtech method I use often is `touch ~/-i`. When someone tries to rm -rf * the file called “-i” gets globbed at the front of the arguments and the subsequent command goes into “interactive “ mode meaning it prompts y/n for each file
This is already possible using Halbach arrays with compensating coils. It only needs a bit of support until it 'takes off', after that it is entirely self correcting.
Thank you.

This is one of the questions far too few people seem to be paying attention to.

"Thinking" in any way that we truly understand the term requires consciousness, and consciousness requires much more continuity than LLMs have. It would need continuity of input as well as continuity of learning in order to even be able to begin to approach something we might recognize as consciousness.
You literally quoting a piece of commercial copyrighting (=ad) to contradict knowledge by experience. It's not like one data point, cotton is highly unpopular in hiking, and athlete communities. 1. Because it's strongly hydrophilic it absorbs water, and keeps it. 2. It's sorta breatheable while it's dry, but not so much when wet, and see p.1. 3. I guess you can find a type of cloth which dries worse than cotton, but plenty of synthetics do it better anyway
I would love to have a superconducting energy storage device, where I could store up all the excess summer solar power (60ºN, 20h/day) to feed to the heat pump the rest of the year. But I'd bury it, to contain the damage in case it breaks down. Would it need a Faraday cage too ? So many questions.
If you have API access, it's very easy to make it stop apologizing by using what's commonly referred to as a "jailbreak". It's very effective. There's plenty of friendly web frontends as well if you're really yearning for that chat interface. You might not have known how popular AI is for roleplay, and people are trying very hard to make it talk how they want it.
Perhaps include a few random comments from "other posters."

"Me too" and "First post" and etc, things people expect to see.
CBT is the ‘gold standard’, but is that just for white people?
It is if you do it in a way that's reproducible, and if the methods used are based on already-known science. It wouldn't be scientific if there's only one machine in the entire world that can get the desired effect and nobody can figure out why, or if one of the steps involves praying to Cthulhu.
Tangent: It has always annoyed me that a sigmoid curve does not look like a sigma, and it doesn't really look much like an S either. Just the middle part of an S. Am I missing something?
Maybe, but the same was already said when cuprate SC appeared in the late eighties with their relatively high critical T°, but they haven't really fulfilled their promise…
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At this point we know very little and we have to leave it to the AIs to determine if physics has any limits.

That's a tall order. Despite all the fancy news headlines, which I must admit gave me existential anxiety at some point, it seems that AI still can't truly make a discovery. Also I really don't know if we know little or a lot, how can we really tell ? It could be argued we actually know a lot because it is ridiculously hard to make an actual big breakthrough in physics.
I don't know what exactly happened there. The two of us conducting the interview advised against this candidate in our report. About a month later the candidate was introduced as a new hire on a different team and I never saw them again in a company of <100 people.
Is it not an indictment of bash that, in order to make shells useful to modern data formats, we have to create tools with their own scripting languages and pipes? Since bash can't operate on structured data like jq does, jq has to have pipes inside jq expressions.
> There should be a .local.gitignore to somesuch

I think .git/info/exclude is what you're looking for? (and also the global ~/.config/git/ignore)
> ChatGpt explains how to remove a peanutbutter sandwich from a VCR as if it were a verse from the King James Bible

Someday the world will stop reminding me of Julian Jaynes. This is not that day.
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I do the same, but in all the mess that git status outputs, I occasionally forget to git add some required source code - which leaves entire chains of commits in my repository in a broken, impossible to compile or run state. Worse, I don’t notice until I try to run the code on another computer - and find I’m missing data.

Having a “local gitignore” makes a lot more sense. I’d like to be more explicit about which local files should be ignored.
Pixel Pump: Open-source vacuum pickup tool
Yes, they're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube s
The Shader Permutation Problem – Part 1: How Did We Get Here? (2021)
Show HN: Clippy and his friends, all on one page
I guess I kind of felt it was a wacky way to establish that, and I felt it wasn't necessary. The absence of it in the androids would be sufficient to highlight it. The aspect of Mercerism being unveiled as a fraud being the androids grand plan and it not mattering (because Mercer being a real deity was never the actual point anyway) was great at highlighting how the entire idea was just a bridge to far for the androids.

I probably just have some bias here since I like the film's nuanced interpretation of the androids and having one of them show mercy at the last moment is a better twist to me.
Show HN: Cample.js – non-keyed framework based on reactivity without VDOM
What does this mean for synthesis? You just have to try a ton of times and get lucky? Is there some way to influence site substitution?
You’ve put that restriction in as a safety valve. I’m sure it would be easy to remove. Op’s concern remains.
will it work on linux?(ubuntu)
This is an incredibly high-profile type of result, so in this case people are willing to spend a lot of resources replicating this result, even if the paper appears half-baked and unfinished. Most scientific results aren’t like that: people will be enthusiastic about polished work but won’t waste any time on something half-baked. Think about how many “Show HN” posts don’t get voted up to the front page. Now imagine there is no HN and no voting system to rank posts, and also you didn’t have anyone test your code so your cool project immediately crashes on 50% of browsers.
But they have a Meta tab that mostly hides it from the average viewer. It can’t handle debates like Israel vs. Palestine or Donald Trump, but nothing can.
Could have been written about Korea, Vietnam... probably was.
There's trade offs to everything. Just because it can't be extruded into wire doesn't mean it can't be cast for example. If it's not ductile it can maybe be supported by a more rigid structure.

It totally depends on the application and how you work around the trade offs. Considering the alternative is supercooling helium and the dealing with the issues of containing such a small atom, managing the fragility of a room temperature superconductor may have huge beneficial trade offs
> If it looks neat, people will want to take a photo with it. If it looks comfortable, people will want to sit on it. If it looks fun, people will play around on it. Etc.

Reminds me of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. Here is a report from 2005, but the situation does not seem to have change a lot since: https://www.dw.com/en/play-time-at-the-holocaust-memorial/a-...
I ended the ‘Thanks’ train also. My signature now just says ‘Regards, my name’. One for the other I suppose :)