skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t need lock in just support.

Business model is called open core hundred of billions in market cap here as most folk don’t want to build/train their own models and will pay for support and help https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model

Can look at databricks and many kfheds
In those days you went to a small market nearby and bought a meal sized portion of food. They didn’t have Costco.
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Even if it is, we can coat it in epoxy and deal with it. And even if we can't, remember the first semi-conductor was germanium. If we have a theoretical and practical reproducible RT Superconductor we will very fast find new, better ones.
i came across this exactly as the author did, as i’m sure very many others did. he doesn’t say if the RH manual describes the reason for it, or just names it.

i had to learn the reason for myself experimentally just as the author apparently did, so i think the RH manual was probably lacking.

i do find it clever but also arcane. perfect greybeard material
https://archive.is/f9Unf
“Err on the side of caution,” when applied to every single thing in a parent’s life, translates into a great deal of stress and anxiety. Don’t microwave plastics! Don’t feed them box mac & cheese because it has phthalates! Don’t use Himalayan rock salt because it has microplastics! Don’t let your kids touch thermal receipts because they’re covered in BPA! Check plastics before you buy to make sure they’re BPA-free! Actually no, BPA-free plastics can be worse than BPA-containing plastics! Buy glass to be safe!

And that’s just the plastics. I could go on all day. Parenting in an internet-connected world is nonstop pressure from well-meaning people who likely don’t realize the additive effect of their well-meant advice.
Styrofoam is plastic. Dow Chemical got a fancy trademark but microwaving it is just as awful. It's extruded polystyrene foam, I would avoid eating food out of it (even if it's not microwaved).
This is a great idea to help keep track of all the amazing cocktails and people etc.... especially considering it might be difficult to remember after a few of said amazing cocktails!
Centuries ago, some people had the same concerns about the printing press. If "fools" fell for religious heresies then their souls could be damned to hell for all eternity, at least according to leading experts at the time.
>efforts on WEI and similar sandboxes. It may help with horrible issues around CSAM

Once, anonymity is gone, your ads will outsmart you and pedophiles will just hop to another communication channel.

Both WEI and "think about the children" is a weapon too, if you will.

I think, the only right solution is education. But that cost money, which apparently is hard to solve.
I said this all through the social media contagion as I watched elderly relatives fall for increasingly disgusting memes and help spread them: Cut off the internet to people who can't write a coherent sentence. It's terrible enough to see people you love destroyed by greedy human writers. This is just a lot of dry fuel for an AI.

The story of the Tower of Babel is a premonition of what Facebook and Twitter have attempted to build; the LLMs are the "heavens" the tower is attempting to reach.
org-mode is fairly structured by default. It's hierarchal with built in support for properties on nodes. There's a built in format for dates.

Not sure how well any of the non-emacs parsers work though.
That is pretty depressing. It's funny how easy it would be to not give yourself away too. It's ridiculously easy to spot some of the general ChatGPT tells and simply not recite them.
I strongly agree and yet have marked this offtopic.

(saving this for the next time someone claims we moderate HN according to our personal beliefs...)
The biggest issue is the fridge is buried behind cabinets in a 30 1/8” opening. They overheat.
Normally (at least in my field), that’s beyond the scope of peer review in the traditional sense. Peer review typically just involves review of just the material submitted to the journal (manuscript, data, maybe code depending on its size and complexity). Depending on the experiment, reproducing a result may require resources, equipment, or skills unavailable to the reviewer or that cannot be acquired in a reasonable amount of time needed for the review.

Peer review serves basically as a smell test where capable experts certify that the paper is novel, interesting, properly justifies its claims, and contains enough detail to reproduce the results. It is not uncommon for only a few labs to contain all of the expensive, specialized equipment to reproduce an experiment, and getting that experiment working (if it is reproducible) can take a significant time commitment from multiple individuals in a lab. Also keep in mind that reviewers are normally not paid for their services, journals typically want at least two independent reviewers (who they pick, sometimes with input from the author to narrow down who has the background to perform the review), and going from submission to publication is typically a many-month process without the high standard of reproduction.

Reproduction happens in the manner that is going on right now. If your publication makes waves, people will want to build on your result and either reproduce it as a first step or conduct a related experiment that adds evidence to support the hypothesis. This way is far more practical, but the devious thing is that, if you lie and manipulate your data, some poor grad student might waste two years of their PhD trying to get your thing to work.

Having journals or some independent body fund reproduction themselves runs into both capital challenges and the problem of attracting a large enough number of capable scientists to cover every discipline who would only want to work on reproduction full time. As nice as that would be, I’m not sure such a venture would work in the real world.
I really hope this unlocks a class of superconductors and isn't a bizarre oneoff compound, because the EPA of 2023 is not going to let us wire the country with thousands of miles of lead-based ceramic wire.
But that doesn't make sense. As a microbiologist, I can tell you that plenty of bacteria can survive 80C. if you were were worried about sterility, you'd boil the mixture for several minutes (even so, there are extremophiles that can survive that but they aren't in general dangerous)
tell it. It remembers for a bit.
I feel like you're being technically correct but in a kind of useless way.

Yes, nothing stops you from defining the square root function such that it returns an element of R^2. It's perfectly legal mathematics, functions can map arbitrary domains to arbitrary codomains after all.

But I've never seen it used anywhere. Maybe there is an area where such a definition makes sense... but regular real (or complex) analysis doesn't really normally do such a kind of thing.

The problem is that you want your typical functions like square root (and logarithms, which in the complex case also aren't unique) to be functions R -> R (or C -> C). Otherwise you can't compose them and then everything is kinda weird. In particular, you don't get the vector space structure that the article is all about.

When working in a structure, one often doesn't want to leave that structure and go to another one, but keep the same structure (or at least one that is related in an interesting way, such as a quotient structure). That just leads to more interesting mathematics.
immutable functions are also relations. but i digress.
It's trained on random text scraped from Reddit, not statistics.
To be fair, making an app in 2008 (when WPF released) with JS was a completely mess. WPF was usable and they introduced data binding/MVVM. In 2018 (React/Redux), it's fair that JS seems to be advanced vs WPF. Though its productivity isn't so bad (unless you want to fully customize everything).
Like stochastically generate into an intermediate representation that can be procedurally compiled to code right?
What’s that API smoking?
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You pick one reactor design and make dozens of them. That will be much cheaper than building a bespoke reactor type every time.
That's wild. Sorry people were negative to you. That sort of reaction is very alien to me. I've had thousands of beers with many hundreds of people and never really encountered that.
I feel the same, benchmarking in general is a pain but a good benchmark for us could go a long way.
Another one

https://whatismyip.akamai.com/advanced?debug

https://ipv4.whatismyip.akamai.com

DNS-based

drill whoami.akamai.net

The second one might be useful to verify one is not using local, ISP-provided DNS, or to see whether a DoH provider effectively geolocates its users, e.g., Cloudflare.
Seems to me that the potential of simply lifting a weight up (storage) and down (generation) beats these fancy engineering goals for cost and practicality. Especially if the weight being lifted is a container full of rocks. At first glance there are plenty of those everywhere. No hills or reservoirs needed either.

Of course, no papers need to be published ... that may be the goal.
I haven't seen any durability issues with my modern fridge. I've had the same cheap (about $250) one for 10 years. It has worked without a hiccup all that time, and I live in a country with a relatively unstable power grid.
Hey, could you please follow the site guidelines when posting here? You've unfortunately been breaking them repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think we’d all be pleased to build something out of passion and have it survive a decade without corruption, probably harder than it sounds
That's true but if a reputable journal publishes this before that verification is in and it ends up being mistaken or even a hoax or fraud then their reputation will be dinged so with the stakes this high given the material and the visibility there is a fair chance that they will indeed wait for independent replication before committing to publishing it. But I don't see it happening during the peer review process itself, it will happen simply because another lab tries the same and gets lucky (or not, in which case the whole thing will blow over).
Okay, if we don't correct English on HN that's okay. My foreign friends ask me to do this with them but I get that HN is a different forum and that we are not friends.
You just spawned a good genre of games, thank you sir.
I've actually enjoyed and done much more sober than I ever did during my entire drinking years.

But to stay on point, the original article is "Alcolhol without the hangover" - keyword "hangover". A hangover is a symptom you have overdone it, not just a few drinks with friends while socializing. It's more like, "I can't remember what we did after 6 beers and then shots", sort of mentality, and not eating or drinking enough water. That is when you have poisoned yourself.

40% of convicted murderers used alcohol before or during the crime.

70% of all drunk-driving fatalities were with drivers with a blood-alcohol level of 0.15%+.
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all you say is true but that isn’t a false dichotomy defense. it’s “just” a refutation of his position. to contest a false dichotomy you need to explain that there is a third choice.

i find the fear vs freedom dichotomy to be a legitimate set of choices. you didn’t argue against fear, you argued against individual freedom vs societal freedom. which is not what the gp was going on about.
The main advantage of solar thermal is it’s really cheap so you can just scale collection to cover winter heating. That’s why adoption is so high in China even relatively far north. As to the US, the cost savings just isn’t that appealing for most people. It’s frankly ugly, complicated, and has minimal payoff at current prices.* Passive solar design can have significant benefits while looking much nicer. But if you’re increasing the cost of electricity or gas then suddenly it’s looking significantly more attractive.

* Except of course when people want to heat a pool, that takes crazy amounts of energy.

“Israel became the world leader in the use of solar energy per capita with 85% of households using solar thermal systems (3% of the primary national energy consumption)” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_water_heating
Almost like there's no moral imperative to have a conversation with what's effectively a really complicated script!

Good suggestion.
Why is that interesting? The Taliban would not have reached the heights they reached without the US. They were instrumental in fighting the Soviets during the Cold War
Excellent and well-outlined info correcting my outdated understanding — which is also why I noted “in the past” several times in my comment :). Sounds like regulation has allowed for greater edible consistency indeed. AND that people taking too much too quick is still a thing, regardless.

That being said, the other side of this (in a pre-legalized world) was that the plants you grew on your own tended to be within a certain potency range, which meant 1 puff roughly equaled another — as opposed to baked goods, where butter could end up spread throughout inconsistently. There’s also the swifter intake-to-feedback loop when smoking/vaping, which made “taking too much” easier to see coming and avoid. Thus my old fashioned POV.
I once concluded an interview with a candidate who was rather conspicuously engaged in clandestine typing, subsequently rectifying their previously incorrect answers. I suspected they were resorting to Google, given this was before ChatGPT came out. Much to my surprise, they ended up landing the job.
Yes, Annoy is probably not the best tool for the task. Are the vectors sparse?
By "until recently" you mean "almost 100 years ago"?
And audio nerds everywhere are still lusting after germanium transistors to this day!
https://vuejs.org/guide/quick-start.html

The "Global build" section shows off how easy it can be the best.

More complicated stuff with modules might be harder especially when dealing with NPM build stuff, but it's generally pretty nice.
Can you please follow the site guidelines when posting here? I'm afraid you broke them more than once in this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can anyone explain what this means in relation to the ability to synthesize it in superconducting form?

Is there a way to force the Cu to the correct site? Or is looking for a new material with similar properties the way forward
You broke the site guidelines repeatedly and badly in this thread, as well as in other recent threads (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36923982, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36736880). That's not cool. We have to ban accounts that post this way, because it destroys what the site is for. I don't want to ban you!

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Fortunately many of your other comments have been fine, so this should be easy to fix.
Useful for UA sanity checking I guess
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If you're not logged in, Twitter profile timelines seem to now show Tweets in the order of popularity (likes?).
I think this explains ETW's horribleness pretty well:

> Now, normally, a game developer would have no reason to use the Event Tracing for Windows API directly. You can use tools like PerfMon to view logged information about your game, like how much working set it was using or how much disk I/O it did. But there is one specific thing that directly accessing Event Tracing gives you that you can’t get anywhere else: context switch timing.

It's been awhile since I've run wpa and wpr but I thought you got context switch timing these days with the built in tools such that there's no need to do it yourself. IMO having a good ETW API is probably low ROI.
> But, as the article points out, the impacts of these plastics in real life is completely unknown, and considering that these plastics have literally been in use for the better part of a century, that puts a pretty strict upper limit on how bad they can be.

From this we know that they don't instantaneously kill you.

Does it cause cancer? Endocrine disruption? Long-term cognitive issues? That's hard to say, because we don't have much of a control group that hasn't been exposed to these things. But it seems unlikely that it's good for you, and when the cost of avoiding it isn't that high, why volunteer to be a test subject?
Sorry about my late reply! I've been very busy.

So, basically, nobody would have any interest in preventing an explosion of new strong cryptography is that right?
I randomly found out today that the fridge in my house (previous owners bought it) is a 10k item. It sounds crazy but on the other hand it's a beautiful large fridge and you kinda want that I guess.
Well, the appendix has gone from we don't know it's function, or it is a useless appendage, to it might have a role in our immune system [1].

[1] https://www.news-medical.net/health/Why-do-Humans-have-an-Ap...
It feels like CA is one of the most litigious companies in software, maybe worse than oracle for patent shenanigans.

Just because they settled, doesn't mean the whole story is being told. There is nothing any of these companies have been doing that are massively novel.
Because clearly they have way less traffic now ;)
They're talking about a newer paper that provides some reason for optimism.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case I'd guess it had something to do with the title being rewritten in a misleading way.
> To be fair it's more like 12 cents per kWh for actual electricity and the other 30 cents for delivery.

It seems that in Quebec (see the other reply with 6 cents per kWh all included), moving electrons through a copper wire is much-much cheaper. Something is very wrong with the PG&E costs.
Could you explain why? Sounds intriguing.
>It's a shame that these papers were published before they were polished by the authors.

Saying nothing about these specific papers, in general I disagree strongly.

I find the peer review process to be extremely flawed. If you get a bunch of interest from experts in the field on the internet who comment and do work to understand, replicate and analyse (and without hiding behind fake-anonymity) that is a million times better in every dimension than anonymous "peer review." That is, it works better as a BS detector, it works better identifying issues in the data analysis, methodology and so on.

Anonymous peer review has been great compared to alternatives for hundreds of years, just now, our alternatives are frequently better than that.
The author makes it sound like Stack Overflow was a non-profit. They were sold for 1.8B:
https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/02/stack-overflow-acquired-by...

Literally sold at the peak.
It's going to be a long time before it's put into use if this paper is correct. While it's exciting that a mechanism has been discovered (possibly), it seems to imply that the current method of synthesizing it is partially luck-based, and not very high quality. Of course, if we do understand how it works, lots of people will put lots of research into making a more reliable process, but it's going to take time. I'm not sure a clear path forward exists.
Or maybe a general safety thing. It's hard to spin "your giant metal X blew off the roof and crushed a family". At least with autopilot they always get to say "the software kinda malfunctioned and we blame the driver anyways."
I've added some custom instructions that have helped make chatgpt far more tolerable:

- When generating code, do not provide an explanation unless I ask you to.

- When generating code, prioritize brevity and performance.

- Do not apologize.

I find the responses much less sycophantic, even when not relating to code. I asked chatgpt about this:

> In general, your instructions guide me to provide responses that are succinct and focused on performance. They also signal your preference for direct communication without additional context or explanations unless specifically requested.
Interviews are more of an art than a science. I try to keep it conversational and open-ended.

If I sense something amiss, my opening is simply for them to tell me about themselves with no further context or direction.

Normal candidates will start asking me what I want to know as they trickle out the things they're most proud of. They'll ramble for a bit and then eventually I will pull on some threads they gave to get the ball rolling.

Bad candidates will either freeze, start reading their resume to me, not talk about work, or just start saying nonsense. Maybe all of the above. I give an extra shot to those who freeze by giving them a nudge, but I wrap it up immediately with the rest.
Yes, that was misleading. I'm sure it wasn't intentional. I've edited it now.

(Submitted title was "STEM professionals ask Nature to retract COVID-19 lab leak paper")
Don't get too excited --- theorists have predicted nine of the last five physics breakthroughs (pace Paul Samuelson).
Nice to be modest after building off of Rosalind Franklin's unaccredited work.
Here is the exact ratio of carbon to hydrogen to oxygen to phosphorus to nitrogen. Mix them together and bake to get DNA.
The fact that it apologizes makes it superior to (most) humans lol
I've also asked it repeatedly to not apologize, but if it must, at least apologize correctly. As in "don't apologize for other people's feelings, or your assumptions about their feelings" (the old, "I'm sorry if you're offended" gaff et al). With often similarly hilarious and recursive results!

I also try to get it to own its mistakes. Rather than the vague "Apologies for any confusion" (which suggests incorrectly and abusively that possibly the confusion is mine), I want it to say, "I'm sorry for my mistake", or not apologize at all.

No apology is better than an incorrect one!

When I started using it, I tried this a lot, but at this point, I just ignore its gaffs entirely.
We've changed the title now. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952292.
Sure! You can pass exact=True to the search interface.

> Adding to index appears to be very slow.

Interesting. Can you please elaborate? We benchmark it on daily basis, but there is always a chance we forgot some corner case :)

PS: Thanks for considering us! USearch is already used in production by a few companies (small and very large), and we would be happy to assist with integration!

PS2: Argument name inconsistency is solved on the main-dev, and will be released with a bunch of major changes in 1.0 this week.
> after weed got super easy to find in my state.

This is, frankly, a damning indictment of our current approach to legalization.
I find instructing at the beginning to be brief, don’t provide redundant information, refrain from apologizing, etc helps a lot. Also regenerate any apology to remove it from context. Once you establish a context without apologies it reinforces.
Hand-waving rhetorical nonsense: until it's a desert planet and 99% of species are extinct.

Wake up and smell the climate emergency.