skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, you really think it's that hard to have a camera running in a lab that records footage continuously, and you save the clips where you succeed?

What percent of the cost of running these experiments do you think that is to buy a nest or a unifi camera?
Heck, Do you believe the university doesn’t already have a surveillance system almost certainly in the hallway to the lab. Plenty of them even have cameras in every lab already.
In the past two weeks, I was in three material science labs in Georgia, and South Carolina and all of them had cameras in every lab.

This is not that hard. If you wanna argue that it’s not helpful, that’s one thing. But arguing that it is difficult seems very silly.
a version of this already exists in VSCode but you need to enable it from settings
Amazing. Collaborative bookmark management needed to happen.

Imagine deciding you want to learn a new skill and not having to start from square one learning the lay of the land around your newly chosen subculture but rather it's already been curated for you and you can hit the ground running with great links to various assets and communities like software tools, forums, discords and video tutorials. I love the archiving functionality too.

Your website looks great and all the information I needed was right there. Concise, informative and neat.

I think the real value here is a tool that will allow people of all kinds to aggregate relevant content and help onboard people to the communities they know, live and love.

I feel like a freemium model would allow this tool to reach a massive scale as I see awesome utility in it but I don't expect normal people would self host or pay for it even if it cost 10 cents. It's just too much inertia.

I feel so dirty telling you how to charge for your own product.

Pagerank and SEO killed search. What you have here sounds a hell of a lot better.

Awesome work mate! I'm aways up for a chat.
>Then writing a web app with backend and frontend in the same efficient language.

How does that work?
What i mean specifically is how convenient is it to use js interop in dev time, and not just compile nim to js as a standalone lib?

Can we simply call something like browser API directly from Nim (Or with fairly simple wrapper)?
Can someone explain where the (suspiciously) scary nomenclature of "forever chemicals" comes from?

Google neutered their normal search engine, so in order to search by date I went to Google Scholar and I have found no use of such term well into the 2000s.

It looks like a journalistic invention, does anyone have am origin story pointing to a scholarly source?
What is a DSL? Personally the presentations I give are usually simple powerpoint slideshows, and I don't try to make them fancy
Another flaw is trying to anthropomorphize the tech
omg this place sucks
Git fails to make the common paths simple. There's no need for most of the complexity to be so prevalent in day to day use
Sometimes it does get tricky to find the root cause

That's the problem though. People get lazy, doctors offices take too many appointments, throw some antibiotics and bring in the next patient. We as a society need to dissuade this behavior and reward applying scientific methods, lab tests, tissue samples, etc... even if it is perceived to be invasive or expensive. The medical system has become too focused on profits over patient longevity. Instead they are incentivized by high churn patient turn-around, most often just treating symptoms or making problems worse.

I believe there needs to be a new model created to displace and disrupt the current model. There have been some attempts using functional medicine and more of those clinics are being created but that is not fast enough to catch up to the national security conundrum of mass mortality issues resulting from lazy and profit driven procedures.
How likely is this to lead to breaking all encryption by enabling way bigger superconducting quantum computers with way more qubits than are reasonable nowadays? Is this just going to turn into cyberwar on steroids?
> Just curious, Do you live in a cycling friendly city? And how is the public transport?

I do, but I work remote and I honestly don't even think there are any tech companies in my city even if I wanted to work locally (which I don't).

> Also, your response confirms what I said earlier. Not factoring in people that prefer an office will mean you replace the office with another form of an office.

If you count zoom/discord/slack/github... as "another form of an office", then sure. I really do mean that successful companies in the future will not have a physical presence if they don't need to.

> The worst performers in my career has usually been the remote folks. But we can post all the anecdotes we have, but guess time will tell.

I think it's pretty easy to see how being pure remote is superior from a talent market perspective. How can "people who live within commuting distance to the office" ever compete with "the best people on the planet I can hire"?
I've used 3+ dictionary apps and I prefer this Webster's Writer's Dictionary app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/websters-writers-dictionary/id...

The definitions, while slightly archaic, are evocative of the etymological valences in ways that other dictionary apps (Merriam-Webster, Oxford Dictionary, Dictionary.com) lack. The WWD also has a pleasingly clean UI, smooth interaction, and no ads.

Special mention of Etymonline's etymology app.
FWIW, I think Scott Galloway has an interesting take on this:

https://www.profgalloway.com/work-from-office/

One of his arguments is that for younger employees, in that it provides an opportunity to create social connections. For example, it appears that ~20% of people meet their spouses at work.
> With SIMD, you always have to check what the compiler generates, you can't just write something and expect it to be vectorised.

This is indeed a serious problem, and not just because the autovectorizer implementations vary. The SIMD instructions also vary quite a bit between CPUs and CPU architectures.

D solves it in a novel way. First off, D does not autovectorize conventional code. D includes an array language, and array operations are converted to vector instructions, if those instructions exist. So, if you try to use an operation that does not exist on the target CPU, the compiler issues an error.

The error enables the programmer to select the appropriate action - emulate the behavior, or use another set of operations or algorithms that are equivalent and are supported by the SIMD instructions.

This avoids the problem of the compiler silently inserting emulation instructions that may be dramatically slower than alternatives. It saves the programmer the need to do asm dumps of the code to see if it was vectorized or not.

Frankly, the whole autovectorization approach bothers me. A compiler is designed to convert high level code into low level instructions. The autovectorizor converts low level code into higher level instructions. It's just fundamentally wrong.
if I don't do this (actually I use magit to select each hunk to stage, but that's just add -p with a fancy interface) then I'll accidentally commit testing log lines and that sort of experimental code

I never, ever commit -a. That flag horrifies me. I want to choose, specifically, each line of code that I am going to publish.
I haven't seen any where College Kid went to become a doctor/lawyer/engineer.

They've all referenced "useless" degrees, which I've interpreted broadly as people who get degrees for the sake of having degrees - especially those who look down on people without degrees.
>E.g: As an immigrant, the office has been useful in seeding my social circle and learning useful things about Berlin that I probably wouldn’t have know.

HN will tell you that you should make friends outside of work and that they shouldn't be forced to come to the office just to socialize with you. /s
I would not call std/json it "terrible in performance" probably still way faster then what you get in many other languages (like python). But yes the JSON lib I wrote is faster due to avoiding branches and allocations.
My point is that they affect individual contributors but they are being held up by middle management as the motivator to return to office. This is self serving and largely disingenuous. The real reasons for RTO involve middle management feeling uncomfortable or unable to micro manage in a way that actually impedes productive work.
Can you say more about the internships? It sounds like you're looking both for interns as well as people to train them.
Yeah, hnews is the place to be, nobody here is ever excited about anything new.
The Meissner effect has a lot of potential even outside of the energy efficiency changes (which is by far the most important).

It will be fun to see trains levitating over the ground without any friction loss from the wheels at high speed.
Whataboutism is detrimental to discussion.
That's my point -- there is no more important research problem in computer science right now, IMO, than figuring out how to distribute training.

I don't believe that it is provably impossible, or at least I haven't seen any such formal proof.
Relevant Veritasum video about levitating things like strawberries or frogs: https://youtu.be/g0amdIcZt5I?t=1017
> In short, you work for them, for free.

No, if that was the case the permissions would be exclusive but sublicensable, not non-exclusive.

> It’s pretty obvious that they plan to put this on their website,

Yes, and?

> I also found it interesting that they require a cheat code to allow judges to play all levels.

Seems to be a sensible way to make evaluation possible when a game might naturally have a longer gameplay with progressive enabling of content. What do you find interesting about it?

> And, they don’t like copyleft licenses, either.

Copyleft licenses limit the utility of the code as a starting point for others looking to consume LOC resources; serving as that seems to be a secondary goal behind the primary civics education goal of the project.
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Is Canada remote an option as well?
> The problem here isn't automation, it's power. The workers whom the robots could benefit are instead harnessed to the robot to the benefit of the shareholders.

> Workplace democracy, AKA unionization, AKA the thing Amazon has pulled out every dirty trick to prevent, is the difference between centaur utopia and reverse-centaur dystopia.

-- https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/17/reverse-centaur/#reverse-...
Do you do your editing while writing ? If yes, just stop. Problem solved. Just start a day with editing, and only editing, previous day work.

Maybe look for a distraction-free (which usually means "fullscreen + bars removed") plugin for your editor.
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Third replication on some Chinese website https://www.zhihu.com/zvideo/1669820225079070720
I know it's awkward in some ways, but would you consider remote workers? I'm from London (in the UK) but really like your product.
Ignore mobile phones, put in a nest, whatever.

It is not that hard or expensive to record footage for a few days at a time having a continuous overwrite.

You likely don't even need to go that far -Most universities have cameras everywhere, anyway, including plenty of universities that have cameras in every lab of this kind.

It is also done by millions of home users all the time.

As I said, yes, things can be faked, but who cares that’s not the point
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Using a cheap soldering iron is not even remotely as dramatic as you make it out to be though? If you're working with expensive parts, sure you want your equipment to match, but a beginner won't be doing that. A beginner will have a 555, a few resistors and two airwires and honestly you could solder that with practically anything.
I wonder what the impact of cannabis being illegal federally has on this sort of thing.

A lot of people went from drinking beer and wine when Prohibition was first enacted in the US and moved to liquor. This happened because many of the speakeasies would rather have a given volume of liquor versus beer because they can serve more customers and there is less of a concern about your product being large and conspicuous.

With illicit drugs you often find the producers making the drugs more and more concentrated so they can move more product in a smaller volume and then step on it to make up the bulk later down the supply chain.

It would make sense to me that dispensaries would be more interested in buying and receiving higher THC product because they can either do more with less or they can have customers come in less often and serve more of them.
>and prevents them from intercepting it to take credit.

Ah the old "middle manager man in the middle" attack.
as the creator of htmx.org... that's bait
Your statement that placing bets does not affect the outcome is true but I don't think you draw the right conclusion.

If markets don't capture current sentiment accurately then bet against every news item.

Let's say there's a market for a coin flip, and periodically, news comes out that makes the market lopsided (one way or the other). You should trade against it. Every time. If you are correct, this strategy will win on average, until the true breakthrough news item, which you'll be on the wrong side of. Just don't keep doubling down, because the final trade will be the one you lose.

This will demonstrate who has "deduced a more accurate prediction". Everyone else put together, as events unfold, or the opposite of that.

*changed to will win on average.
OLTP databases. I've used Oracle, MySQL, and Postgres in anger (in that order, historically), plus DynamoDB and MongoDB if you want to count those. I have to admit Oracle has some technical superiority but the pricing is insane. MySQL is a joke. MongoDB has zero use cases. Just Use Postgres.

OLAP databases/query engines. Redshift, Athena/Presto, Snowflake, BigQuery, ClickHouse. It's complicated, actually. I guess my strong opinion is that Snowflake is massively overrated and it will perform worse and cost you more than you expect.

DAG frameworks. make, Luigi, Drake, Airflow, DBT, Prefect, NextFlow, others I'm forgetting. Airflow is hot garbage. It's frankly an indictment of Data Engineering as a specialty that we've formed a consensus around such a poorly-designed piece of software. In fairness, no one has really gotten this right yet. I like Luigi but it has its own shortcomings and continued development is an open question. Sadface.
One thing to note when making comparisons like this is that LLM output is not deterministic, in the sense that if you ask it the same question 10 times you will get 10 different answers. So the question to ask is not, “is GPT4 better on this one specific question?”, but rather “does GPT4 produce better results on average?”. I would bet that it does, for no other reason than that it is much larger, and LLM performance seems to just scale with size. Also worth noting is that the more detailed your prompt is the better the response will be. Sometimes you have to encourage GPT to get the best results. GPT4 should be able yo handle much more complex and detailed prompts than 3.5
This is the most exciting science event to follow recently.

Just wait until the normal media picks up on it. A story made for TV.
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You can't trust compilers anymore because they are way too aggressive about considering well-defined but platform-specific behavior to be "Undefined behavior".
There may be another cause of that. There appears to be an explosion of background tasks running, even when you do nothing. You can look at the task list and see them. The disk drive light comes on when I'm not using the computer.
It's always better to take a taxi from JFK--if it's feasible and assuming you take a real taxi and don't get scammed by the dudes who try to hustle you when you're walking out of the airport with luggage.

As mentioned, they have pretty much set rates to go into Manhattan, and it's cheaper to go to other areas as well. I used to live in Williamsburg until very recently, and had to take Ubers from JFK occasionally when I landed at a terminal that had a bad taxi situation. The Ubers were expensive AF; over $100 total. Taxis were always sub-100, even when I used to live in Manhattan.

My main issue with taking Ubers from the airport, though, is that waiting for them takes forever and the designation pickup locations are clusterfucks. In contrast, the taxi stands have orderly lines. This is heavily terminal dependent, though; when landing at the American Airlines terminal, the taxi situation is great. The line is never too long and moves quickly. But, as mentioned, sometimes one lands at a terminal with a massive taxi line that moves like a snail. At that point, maybe one opts for an Uber--for which the wait is 10+ minutes, and may increase as time goes on and drivers are switched (!!), and the cost is extortionate.

In non-airport situations in NYC, taxis are always cheaper. Not always feasible outside of Manhattan (there aren't enough driving around in most parts of the other boroughs), but for any intra-Manhattan trip, taxis should be preferred.
Signal uses SGX in a similar fashion to ensure that the contact hashes are only uploaded to trusted servers running good code.

https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
Jesus, I do not envy them.
Microsoft had no real competition back then, and in their core business (desktop and office) is still quite uncontested. Alternatives to parts of the Windows, MS Office, and various corporate systems exist, but nobody offers the complete package. Extensions to their platform were never required to be perfect, just good enough that being ubiquitous (thanks to the platform) is enough to sell it.

Also, is it really against the interest of their employer to create products that lock in customers and make it harder to migrate away? Creating a market for support and customization, with MS sitting at the source of the knowledge and being able to sell crumbs by printing books and other training materials, and offering training and certification courses?
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A famous Swedish author still types on typewriter for this reason. However, I assume his editor cleans ups his scripts in ways others can't count on.
Over the years I've had many of those but I often ended up preferring some for some tasks but overall using most of them.

Examples (including dead products and random tools you might not always put in the same league):

Desktop Environments:

Aqua over GNOME3, GNOME3 over DWM/Windows, DWM/Windows over KDE, KDE over non-DWM/Windows

Terminal Emulators:

Terminal.app over gnome-terminal over iTerm2 over urxvt over xterm over Windows Terminal over CMD.exe

Editors:

Sublime Text over Atom over vim over BBEdit over VSCode over nano over Notepad++

IDEs:

IntelliJ over Xcode over NetBeans over KDevelop over Eclipse over Visual Studio

Browsers:

Safari over FireFox over Chromium over Chrome over Edge over Edgeium

Shells:

bash over zsh over csh over powershell over command.com

Databases:

Postgres over FoundationDB over MySQL over MongoDB over SQLite over Neo4J

IaC:

Terraform over SaltStack over Ansible over Chef over Puppet over PS DSC

Public Clouds:

AWS over GCP over Azure

Communication Collaboration:

Slack over IRC over Matrix over Signal over smoke signals over tin cans with a string over not communicating at all over MS Teams

Workload Orchestration:

Kubernetes over Nomad over CloudRun over ECS over systemd units over Swarm
That doesn't mean they're not subsidizing individual markets to remain competitive though. It just means the average is marginal.

IIRC Uber lost $2B on the Chinese marketing simply because of subsidies.
>My prediction is that we might get rid of the office and replace it with the office in another form — most likely better.

You'll have to explain what you mean by "most likely better" and then make the case that your "better" is enough to draw workers to an office that a bunch of them don't want to be in for all of the reasons HN has listed.
With those services in Germany, all Uber, Bolt and others are doing are connecting you to a driver at a German company, a driver who is paid a living wage and has all of those benefits AFAIK. Those services notify you of this arrangement with every booking.
Superconductors have a critical field, you can't pump unlimited amounts of current through a superconductor.

(I think there were some comments going around that this material has quite a low critical field, so there would have to be some substantial improvements on this even if it is superconducting)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_field
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None of your definitions are less nebulous than the terms you defined.
Thanks! Maybe one day but for now we're trying to build a NY team. Appreciate you asking though
Superconductor means low resistance. Low resistance means less loss due to heat on a wire. Room temperature superconductor also means more efficient magnets for motors, coils, ending up in cars, MRI machines, etc.