skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im posting this reply from my mainstream smartphone: a pocket supercomputer with a 4K 60Hz HDR video camera. I’m chock full of designer vaccines and can watch a catalog of almost all the movies ever made on demand tonight. I listened to an podcast in my EV on the way to work. And SpaceX probably launched 60 satellites this week on the 14th flight of a rocket that flew home afterwards.

Things have been moving along.

edit: comments are quibbling about the fraction of all movies ever I can see on a paid streaming service. This is like complaining about that the meals and elbow room are not wonderful on a $400 flight from LA to London. It's a goddam miracle and you're still grumbling. Please tell me now how your $12/mo Spotify account doesn't have the June 1972 Grateful Dead New Jersey show your mom was at, and is thus near worthless. I spent $12 in 1980s money on single album in my youth.

Let me amend my grossly hyperbolic statement and say I could stream on demand more movies than I could ever watch even if I did nothing else the rest of my life, including many but not all of the good ones. Now the statement is strictly true, but did this make my contribution better?
That's kind of my thinking - there is almost no chance they stumbled upon nirvana + did it in the best or most efficient way. There must be many possible optimizations to the chemical structure + fabrication techniques.

Is it possible that the inventors do not receive a dime of royalties?
No, I'm sorry, but this is an important moral issue.

The Jewish people have a right to exist.

I'm not going to stand blithely by while people chip away at that by JAQing the proposition that there is even such a thing as the Jewish people.
The CDC itself had language on their website to the effect that Covid posed less risk than influenza to young children. Pre 2020 freakout, would we ever have approved an influenza vaccine using a novel delivery method on the basis of less than two years of testing in humans, and less than one year in the young cohort?

The FDA's "torpor" is easily overcome when incentives are aligned in that direction.
we can totally stabilize the sun as a white dwarf in only a few hundred million years if that's what we want
Let's see:

* uses a mix of sources from different years
* a lot of guesses eg. arbitrary calculation with international students and Jewish SAT scores
* Uses Mean SAT Scores nationally, not from Ivies
* "This guaranteed to not unfairly over- or under-count any demographic" lol
* Commentary makes conclusions about entrance based solely on SAT scores despite that not being anywhere near the full picture of an application

Calling B.S.
The Wikipedia article on LK-99 is not a bad starting point.
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> No addictive properties.

This needs more context, because unlike stimulants, you can't quit guanfacine instantly or you'll feel pretty ill. You have to taper off it for a week or two.

Also, you can't drink on it (enjoyably) and it made me feel tired and emotional.
you'd hope that if we know that, the actual scientists confirming this stuff know that too
The resistivity measurements I've seen are 4 wires soldered onto a chunk of material several mm long. If superconducting crystals are growing inside a bulk material, they might be much smaller.

Suppose I had a polycrystalline material with ~ 100 um long superconducting segments. How could I measure the resistance of individual crystals?

It's worth finding small superconducting crystals, because you can probably find ways to make them larger.
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For #14, some of us went a little nuts optimizing the dynamic programming solution down from months/OOM to milliseconds, and going past the original suggested problem size of a few hundred to a maximum problem size of 133 million: https://gwern.net/problem-14
The definition of WWW is that it consists of web resources being accessible over Internet via HTTP. Also the term URL is a core part of WWW conception.
The problem AWS has is the design of VPC internals.

As the first hyperscaler, they gotta pay the legacy tax.
As a linguistic category it includes teineigo and set phrases, but when a JP learner says keigo they probably mean the stuff introduced the "keigo" chapters of JP textbooks, which starts with おっしゃる, 下さる, いただく, お～になる and so on. And again, those are everyday usages that are perfectly reasonable for even an intermediate learner to want to practice (and the person you replied to may be beyond intermediate). Sure there's also lots of other keigo that most learners would rarely encounter, but that's no reason to jump all over someone who says they want to practice it - you wouldn't tell someone not to bother with kanji just because there are characters they'll never need.
Investing is a fancy word for making profit off of other people's labor, a.k.a. parasitism
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Unlikely:

Consumer advocates are calling for unified national laws against scalping after tickets to see Taylor Swift perform live in Australia were being resold at vastly inflated prices within just hours of presales opening.

unless the scalpers are paying the bonuses.
I bet that any breakdown of this sort:

- minority X

- minority Y

- minority Z

- the uncategorized ones

Is going to find weird behavior around the last group, regardless of whether it's skin color or some other feature that's chosen to generate the partition.

Something about remarkableness (being a minority and being in the ivy league are both remarkable traits) not being evenly distributed.
For me from how the saga of 1st paper and 2nd paper started I had a feeling that something really unique has been found and the drama and politics is because of trying to claim the glory of it not because it was fake.
Yeah I’ve read a lot actually, which is why I’ve changed my mind about the severity of these problems. Most predictions are just conjecture with no real link to good models. I’m always happy to read more papers if you know of any good ones. All the ones I’ve read on low ocean oxygen have convinced me it isn’t a very critical problem.

Just a few things you get wrong: thinking models are 100% accurate, thinking scientists have everything “nailed down” and assuming that I don’t know enough to back up my opinion.
"we just started building a few weeks ago"

So, you've put "a few weeks" of work into your project, but nevertheless already feel confident that you can market it as a medical treatment. Why?
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Reread what I wrote: follows the same pattern.
You can get a composition of matter patent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_matter) for something shockingly novel, and this might be. It's super hard to find anything that would qualify, but I've been awarded them before for materials science research.

You can write stuff down generally enough that it's hard to make small changes and get around it. I did a lot of "1-10%" stuff in the claims.
Since the 1970s Caries vaccine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caries_vaccine) has been under development. Streptococcus mutans was modified in the 2000s to not produce acid (BCS3-L1) with the hope to end cavities, gingivitis, etc., but has seemingly disappeared maybe to reappear in 2033 when the patent expires. Hope to be able to stop brushing teeth before I die or at least still have some left to chew food.
H4 can transiently exist under some extreme initial conditions, it's just not probable and it wouldn't exist for long as it evolves into molecular hydrogen.
You're not my lawyer!
If you want to be on the forefront of learning, well, that takes just a tiny bit of effort on your part.
Hispanic is one of those really funny ones. A catchall for people with wildly different backgrounds. My wife and I are both eligible for to tick that box due to Spanish ancestry, but everyone understands that it’s basically a proxy for mestizo. I’ve heard that a lot of African-descended people from Spanish colonies do identify as Hispanic though. I don’t know about Indios.
And it’s only going to get faster… unless it all ends suddenly.
4 wire resistive measurements to cancel out the resistivity of the probes is a standard practice[1].

[1] https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/ni-daqmx/page/measfunds...
The paper shows that the sample isn't attracted to the magnet, only repulsed.
Well next time you get that big customer that scales your traffic by 500%, enjoy sitting around waiting for Dell to ship you a bunch of servers or whatever while we just change an integer in a repo and hit terraform apply.
Here in Australia we regularly talk about the tyranny of distance that impacts us. In Covid, it turned into the world largest moat.

With the rise of ecological blow back, resource scarcity/hoarding, and seeing the seeds of authoritarian policies being planted - I suspect that this moat will be used in future to welcome immigrants with open arms. Those arms being rockets, machine guns and grenades.

A grim future ahead if true.
I don't want to caveat a bunch of stuff with "IANAL" but I am not.

However, they have told me what I interpreted to mean that if someone improves it but uses it then they need to license the underlying patent. That just makes sense, it's required in order to implement their concept.

And in reverse the original company can keep doing whatever they want as long as it isn't covered by the referencing patent. Makes sense to me there too, if they come up with some other clever way to make it good enough more power to them. There's no reason for them to pay some other people who patented something they don't use.
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I’ve skimmed that as well, its more about the ensuing posts and papers that are equally obtuse and have no update on wikipedia and aren't front page news anywhere

I can’t understand them enough to judge, but is the lack of immediate fanfare from digestible reputable sources an indictment, or am I early? I cant tell where to put energy
I think with a solid verification of superconductivity at room temperature, we probably don't see anything in 5 years, just because the production is so hit or miss. But I do think we see massive investment and research on this line of materials and different production techniques. Going from Science to Engineering and making this a thing you have plant making. I think its a 10+ year thing but its big.
All of the "it floats" videos are unattributed leaks or come from less-than-reputable sources.

The reputable sources only ever show videos of the sample touching the magnet.

From what I'm reading, several different types of materials can angle themselves like this from a magnet, but only Type II superconductors will float above a single monolithic magnet.

Until we see a confirmed video from a reputable source of a visible gap between the sample and the magnet, it's not confirmed that LK-99 is superconducting.
Personally I feel like the reason behind the change is obvious. Pornography is everywhere. People don't get their kicks from 1970s movie love scenes anymore because hardcore fetish videos are a few clicks away. The same way boys no longer lust after the lingerie section of the Sears catalog. But the culture carries this at-will objectification as bleedover into everything else. And I think it's also why the youngest generation right now is fixated on knowing their exact, granular label for sexual identity and orientation, even though young people are having less sex than they've ever had.
Not sure about a car, but healthcare definitely
What’s wrong with a TI-84?
Because the discussion unfortunately devolves almost immediately into appallingly anti-semitic nonsense. I think that many minority groups tend to stick together because not only is it practical, but it keeps them close to their culture. The side effect of that is that success "stays in" the group.

I observe a similar effect in my partner's family. My partner is Vietnamese, and their family placed heavy value on personal success, or the success of who they married. I can't speak for Vietnamese culture, but it may be a cultural value too. The result? One half of the family is incredibly well off, and the other half is supported by them to help raise them beyond their circumstance. It isn't a conspiracy as some posit, it's familial love and mutual support.

One could argue they are doing the same as what Jews who came to the US also did: stick together and help each other, because it's a rough world out there. Some decry it as nepotism, as if those who are wealthy are not allowed to have preference for their own kind simply because they are wealthy. In that same vein, not everyone proves to be successful. It can simply be a matter of statistics or circumstance, but people place the blame on the individual or the group at the wrong times.

I for one avoid any discussion on the matter because all too often it proves non-conductive to actually useful conversation.
Just like how plenty of people see reasons to start wars and waste tax payer money on bureaucracy. Or why billions of people choose to join one religion instead of another... All logical right?

How do you explain different religions being very popular and yet contradicting each other on many critical points? They can't both be right if they contradict each other yet they may both be hugely popular...
Nothing is completely ‘safe’. Even too much water can cause hyponatremia.

The correct question is does the potential benefit outweigh the potential harm? For adults over the age of 40, the vaccine was a no-brainer. For very young children — where the risk was always very low — the question was more complicated.

The European Medicines Agency was even more cautious than the FDA in approving the Pfizer vaccine for 5-11 year olds. I haven’t been following the story recently so I don’t which European countries, if any, have approved the vaccines for children under the age of 5.
https://archive.is/UoPOb
This simplifies them a fair bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXWbdxOAuDs
I hate class action suits. Seems I missed the deadline to opt out. How is this supposed to apply to me when I didn't even know about the settlement?
Weird, I was just looking into this yesterday and found https://fck-nat.dev/
A couple of weeks ago i had a CC go out of date on Spotify when I was on their mobile app. To put a new card in they asked me to go on their desktop page to renew my subscription. They dont take the payments on the apps for this 30% reason. I'm thinking they sideline it there for the same reason.
Mostly it’s due to the secondary chips being a quirky pain. It’s emulation was ahead of many others for a number of years in the late 90s & 2000s but hit a wall
Something I'm a big fan of is making a small successful ticket (for example migrate the functions in one file) and then applying it map-reduce style across the entire codebase. This could help a lot, and by definition addresses repetitive work.

We have this (to some degree) with issue templates, where you can pre-populate some text and fill in the rest. We're also thinking about good ways to offload that work to Sweep.
It is easy to look rich when you are maximizing the credit cards.

It is easy to pull people out of poverty when short term thinking can overshoot beyond long term carrying capacity.
> in the US, you can't patent a material

I'm no patent lawyer, but there is literally a US patent-office category covering "material" for exactly this kind of invention. Section 505 - "Superconductor Technology: Apparatus, Material, Process".

> This is the generic class for subject matter involving (a) superconductor technology above 30 K and (b) Art collections involving superconductor technology. Apparatus, devices, materials, and processes involving such technology are included herein.

https://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/classification/uspc505/def...
Yeah - I think the next 40 years are going to be absolutely stunning to witness. It’s an amazing time to be alive and be a nerd.
> AGI

Wait, I missed that one. Was it yesterday?
I'm well aware "my comment" falls short of the full story.

It's best read as a minor edit of a portion of the comment above mine.
> If there was no minimum wage and no OSHA, would you look at the opinion of all workers or just the people who agreed to work for a low wage or in an unsafe condition? Obviously the former, because all workers are subject to coercion to agree to work for low wages and in unsafe conditions, and the point is to protect all workers from that pressure.

Obviously the latter, because the former includes a majority of people who aren't subject to such coercion, e.g. because they perform skilled labor and have negotiating power. But who may be in favor of such rules for perfidious and selfish reasons (e.g. because they're in a position to benefit from destroying smaller competitors) or because they're so separated from the lives of the people actually affected by the rules that they support them out of ignorance.

You can see this because people will answer polling questions like "do you support a rule that improves worker safety even if it increases production costs" without asking a single question about the details, like how much it improves safety and how much it increases costs. Even though it's obvious that rules with a poor cost/benefit ratio hurt everyone by making things cost more, and hurt the people nearest to the cost increase most because it comes out of the revenue the business uses to pay their wages.

Which is how we get "worker protections" that harm workers. Because prohibiting lead and asbestos are good rules, but there are also bad rules that people with cushy jobs nevertheless support because they sound good and the negative consequences don't affect them personally. Why should we put weight on their misaligned and uninformed views?
People care about Oxford vs University of Bedfordshire. LMC Munich carries more weight than Hochschule der Wirtschaft für Management HdWM Mannheim
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I love mine too
Ah, teaches me to try to be lawyer :)

The patent is here for reference: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2023027536A1/en

And yeah, they left off Au.
I doubt many people care about private aspect of the VPN. They usually want to access services which are inaccessible from their primary IP.

I'd say that VPN is a way for Internet to work around artificial obstacles.
At some point I was looking at using a units library, but came up short because I could not find one that could convert using log scale units (which I needed). The same is True for gnu units.

It can convert from linear to log units, e.g.:

You have: 10W
You want: dBm
40

but not the other way around (unless I'm missing something):

You have: 40 dBm
^
Parse error

I understand that log units are tricky to get right, but in some fields they are pretty ubiquitous.
TBH bigger issue is bulk of new emissions is going to come from ~7B (85% of global pop) poor people from global south who all want to develop and own their own refrigerators, air conditioners etc. Value engineering cheap consumer goods so they can have it ASAP is more important. Frankly budget models without basic features in countries with low labour costs actually get fixed/repaired because it's economically viable. But really physical goods pretty small slice of pie considering construction/building operations, transportation and heavy industries.
My layman understanding is that this paper states the team replicated LK-99, and confirmed that it has a property of a super-conductor - this particular type of magnetic levitation.
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Unless you're in snake country, in which case leather > canvas.
If a website tells me to disable Adblock to use it, I go somewhere else.

The modern web is already too damn heavy. I just built a new PC. I figured 32gb of RAM would be enough for a while.

It wasn’t.

I now have 96gb of overpriced ddr5 just to be able to basic tasks.

I wonder if windows 10 is the culprit? 16gb of ram was more than enough for windows 7 doing the same work.
That would be me, completely happy to take the blame here :)
We manually update the content here so the code works just fine for now.
$300? Christ… I bought by MegaDrive+32X+MegaCD for less than that combined recently.

Tho I’m glad this project exists that’s… a huge chunk of change for a 30 yr old console
Your response to "by that metric, essentially almost everything is disallowed" is "well yeah, just don't do it". I don't think that stance would sit well with most.
https://archive.ph/UoPOb

Not sure why this is getting front page attention but this is largely a fluff sales piece.

> Dr. William Spielfogel, a podiatrist in New York City and medical adviser to the Good Feet Store, has seen sprains and fractures in patients who don’t wear more traditionally appropriate hiking footwear. “If anatomically you have weak ankles, flat feet or a history of injuries, it would be better to add some arch support,” he said.

Forget the arch support - if you are actually hiking and/or are not in the best shape or are in an area with Snakes and low brush you are much better off with the ANKLE support of actual hiking boots.

And I'll add, since it is a sales piece, as I put <100 miles or less a year on my boots, I am on year 13 or 14 on my Salomon boots with zero evidence of stopping any time soon with them. Definitely worth the money.
What do you mean "next"? People are dying today (and in previous years) from heat waves (and floods, and hurricanes, etc etc). Climate crisis deaths are here, and will only accelerate.

I agree, we need to take it seriously, and that does need to involve large public investments, a carbon tax that's comparable to the actual externalities created by emissions, and broadly changing the way a lot of the rich world lives.

But maybe recognizing that people are already dying can be a valuable step towards acting in a way commensurate with the scale of the problem?

- let's see DAs in locations that have deaths clearly due to climate change bring charges (e.g. manslaughter) against the largest emitters. Every time ExxonMobile is in the news, it should be mentioned as "oil and gas company and manslaughter defendant ExxonMobile" etc.

- let's see a serious attempt to tally the number of casualties to the climate crisis there have already been, and put that number on a billboard on a building in Manhattan. Surely the number of people we kill is at least as important as the national debt, right?

- let's see some country with whom the US has normally friendly relations, after a climate-crisis disaster, earnestly raise the discussion in an international forum that emissions at current levels, especially given that we have known about the warming impacts of those emissions for _decades_, constitute a form of environmental terrorism.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/02/asia/south-korea-heatwave-dea...
https://www.azfamily.com/2023/08/02/14-additional-deaths-mar...
For me spam is at the bottom of the list of things Apple can't handle.
Found https://test-ipv6.com and:

https://ipv6.ams2.test-ipv6.com/ip/?callback=?&testdomain=te...

I get the following from Chrome:

> This site can’t be reached

> Check if there is a typo in ipv6.ams2.test-ipv6.com.

>DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
The last 20 are already mindblowing to me, to the point that I am a bit overwhelmed. Just reading to keep up with all of the tech developments is basically impossible today.
Can you be more specific about what you do?
I've never heard of EXWM. That looks great.