skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if LK99 turns out to be a dud, it's proven that there's a great need and great opportunity for more direct communication from scientist on their experiments via the internet. Live Stream of the Synthesis, Twitter Threads giving life updates of different teams, etc.
And of course there are plenty of zero-cal mixers (like seltzer water) that you can add to the liquor and make it as sippable as you want.

That's the real play... decent gin, soda water, maybe a splash of lime juice, served on ice in a pint glass (usually ordered as a double or else it's too watery).

You up with something as sippable as beer, with fewer calories and zero added sugar. (except a little from the lime, but lime doesn't have that much by fruit standards).

PS: Shot glasses are for college students. A glencairn (good luck...) or a rocks glass are far better. Much of the taste comes from smell so you really wanna get those vapors up your nose... at least if you're drinking something worth drinking, and not just trying to get plastered on the cheap.
> Looks AI is going to even put the webcam girls out of business.

I think camgirls will survive because the interaction with their audience is part of the appeal - there is a parasocial aspect to it.
The JS can't directly compute whether you have or haven't visited the link based on what it looks like. They actually used to (like 15+ years ago) but browser makers patched that REAL fast after some toy projects were able to reveal OUTRAGEOUS amounts of personal info just by getting someone to click a link.

Instead they have to have you the user do something to indicate which ones you can see and which ones you can't. That's why you HAVE to click on the squares. And if you click on white squares, it'll (wrongly) think you've visited sites you haven't. If you click on NONE of the squares, it'll think you haven't visited any of them, since it won't have any way to double check the info.

So that's why they can't "just render it outside the viewport." For sources, see the other comments by folks with good info.
Ah, this is really good. I'm thinking about teaching Python with a focus on game programming for my friend's son and my own son (in perhaps 6-8 years).

I think it could be pretty fun to dump a Raspberry Pi 8GB (with all software installed) and a keyboard in front of him and start programming small games. I'm sure there is a way to use game programming to teach from scratch. I just need to find an introduction book and adapt it with game programming examples.

But one issue is that kids today are getting used to things like Roblox so I'm not sure whether they would enjoy programming simpler games. I think a "graduating" project could be an Ultima-I spinoff, or some 2.5d engine such as Wolf3D's, but simpler.
Three pixels at double-wide horizontal resolution, to be fair.
Master Scraping: Scrape Millions of Google Map with Distributed Crawler
Interestingly, Canadian text corpuses were really important in training translation models.

Canada has a very accurate (human generated) English/French corpus of all parliamentary transcripts, which can be used like a Rosetta Stone to train machine translation models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansard#Translation
Take a real close look at the scale on that dashboard. While peak power is about 9Gw, sometimes up to 12GW, the lowest power output overnight is 6GW and that's the absolute bottom.

So in a standard 24 hour day, there is at minimum 6GW of capacity which is always available and always demanded. And for most of year that's 2/3rds of the total demand which ever applies.

The question you are not answering is whether the cost of building a proportionally larger nuclear plant - i.e. one which can meet the upper ends of this scale - is substantially more expensive then a smaller one.

The answer is pretty obviously no: nuclear plants are front-loaded in capital and construction costs, but their relative size has very little impact on the cost of building them, or their maintenance needs, or even fueling costs.

The reality is renewables haven't got anything on that except from an electricity market which mostly doesn't care about them. Start asking renewable generators to well you guaranteed kilowatt-hours throughout the year and watch the "cheap" power skyrocket in cost.
Wow, August 1 2023 hasn't even come yet. Superconductivity is amazing.
Is the JDSL not the worst API ever made?

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect
How to cut down your Reddit usage
Filing stuff on EDGAR isn't registration under the Securities Act.
As recently as this morning I was able to collapse comments on mobile web by just tapping to the right of the commenters name.

edit: tested right now and it still works for me
This reminds me of how annoying “efficient” appliances are. To comply with increasingly strict energy and water regulations, modern washing machines have small capacities. But that just means I have to do two loads. It’s not actually efficient at all. Certainly not time efficient. Each load probably has some energy and water overhead as well, so more is worse. Also, since agitators require energy, they are becoming less common, so the clothes are less clean, too, and that probably leads to extra loads being done.

The way we talk about and regulate efficiency is all messed up.
So you think it's perfectly okay for a company to punish people for the criminal acts of their national government? I wouldn't expect such jingoistic garbage from commentators on s site like this. Also, I doubt you would accept if it was applied to you for being Australian. You claim differently, but likely you would complain, perhaps here, about how unfair and unjustified it was, which is reasonable. Unreasonable is being condescending to such a valid complaint from others because you're not in their shoes and it's easy to deride them for being some "other".
People have voted with 130 billion dollars a year that Meta ads are an effective means of influence
I would expect it from a private corporation. I would not expect it from a government agency.

Usually, a government agency is more interested in getting people to create things. The motivation is that by offering a prize, they encourage people to create things. Acquiring the thing is not the point. Of course, they need the right to depict the product, but they do not usually want to use it for anything and everything that they want, in perpetuity, including the right to make derivative works (without your permission, I might add).

The way that this is designed, I would not want to encourage anybody that I know to participate in it. You may disagree, but we probably have different thresholds for what we deem to be acceptable risk.

Let me put it another way. If I were to pour my heart and soul into this project, the absolute maximum value that I could extract is $20k, which is ~$13.7k after taxes. That is the ceiling. That is it. Why would I do something that would take so much time for so little potential? I would rather risk my time on something that has no ceiling. I would give the same advice to anyone. Never settle for anything when there is an artificially-imposed cap on the earning potential.
> alcohol enjoys a seemingly protected status

Well, the US tried Prohibition. Drunkenness went down and crime went up.
Solving for High Cardinality at 500M requests/minute
Anyone here experimented with kratom? What was your experience?
That sort of explains why I started going to irc to ask.

But yes, interacting with pedantic or toxic people often makes things difficult, and I even met toxic people on IRC. Of course it's my job to do my research before I ask since I'm using somebody else's time, but there are limits.

I often spent an afternoon to prepare a question to thoroughly explain a problem I had, to make sure an autistic user could not criticize how I did things or have anything to say. I have nothing against autism, but sometimes it explains why some people are just toxic for no reason.

I do remember having a question closed for being opinion based. That was funny.

Setting up a bounty helps, but last time I used one, nobody answered.
This is one more inevitable step in machine generated images.

My main objection to this site is that the prime example, “Mindy”, definitely does not look like “a girl next door” but rather looks like a model or like someone with near-perfect body measurements. The latter is not what people understand by “girl next door”. It’s more like “my dream girl next door” for some boys and men.

I’m sure there’s a “market” for machine generated images of “girl next door” and “boy next door”, but this one is not it (as of yet). The other image sets on this site are too small to judge anything.
Okay, I don’t really know what you’re trying to do here. It doesn’t sound like you’re interested in conversation. Have a nice rest of your day.
These days I often edit my original question to add more guidance instead of telling it where it went wrong. Seems to prevent chatgpt from going down a wrong path as well as from apologising. I'm using chatgpt 3.5.
And, I feel it should be said, that unless you are in a union-hostile environment you can generally in a similar way pick up a toolbelt, walk into a few union halls and ask for steady skilled work with good pay and benefits and they'll explain the path to get there with them which, at a good union, will be transparent and fair - one of the main potential benefits of trade unions is democratizing the trade skills qualification process.
The flip side it that it may eliminate a lot of competition. I still won't be participating (for reasons that I give in another thread), but it's worth remembering that these types of technical difficulties can be a gold mine in the real world.
For many years (since 2014) the API for Metrc (the cannabis reporting engine in Colorado and other states) would NEVER return any useful data at all, simply an empty JSON array. So after each operation, one would have to query the search endpoint for plants or inventory to discover the new items -- and hope you could positively identify which one was the new one you were looking for.

That and not supporting B2B transactions via their API. They would alternately claim it's for security or that the States were not asking for it. States would tell other software vendors that Metrc coludn't do it. Neither party could move the ball.

Only now, in 2023, have they started responding with the ID of the newly created items (why not a fully inflated record of what was just created) and working to support B2B.

These state run APIs, from a for-profit corporation, are not good for the public (they hide, or cannot handle important laboratory testing data) and they are not good for the licensees, especially the small businesses. And there is no accountability -- agency points to vendor & vendor points to agency.

Sadly, getting these State agencies to understand the beauty of distributed/federated systems -- and the difficutly for small businesses to respond to RFPs -- keep us from having nice things.

End of rant.
Sounds like they have it the wrong way round. Considering the uncertainty surrounding all of this, and the initial problems with replication, why would Nature publish this before it has been independently replicated?

Not sure what they're worried about here. They already have priority, and if this replicates, every journal on Earth will be fighting over the privilege to publish it.
MFC felt pretty awkward to me, though I was introduced to it after Swing and C. I suppose it's all matter of perspectives and preferences.
Liquid gas may feed some of the world, but there are many left out with this centralized system.

I am glad that decentralised electrical from solar and wind can fully replace the old system and look foward to a new many-noded culture which can allow all humanity to flourish.
These are crystals.
Getting large (millimeters scale), pure crystal of the required structure is not easy.

You can't do superconducting experiments on powder.
It doesn’t have just one opinion on those things, though. If you prompt it to be for eugenics, you get an opinion that is socially unacceptable. But if you prompt it to be against eugenics, you get a much nicer response.

I suspect the question of what an LLM _really_ thinks has an answer that looks more like a probability distribution than typical human opinions do. (Actually, even humans give different answers on polls, depending on how the question is asked.)
An importunately verbose and complicated API that I've recently come across is that of LMDB.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Databa...

Here is a long page explaining how to initialize things. (Warning: HTTP only!)

http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/starting.html

Ya gotta create an environment with mdb_env_create. So okay, that is ready to use, right? Constructor has been called, we have an object, right? Nope! You have to open it now, with mdb_env_open.

But what the above page doesn't tell you is that mdb_env_create has flags. Oooh yeah. MDB_FIXEDMAP, MDB_NOSUBDIR,
MDB_RDONLY, MDB_WRITEMAP, MDB_NOMETASYNC, MDB_NOSYNC, MDB_NOTLS, MDB_NOLOCK, MDB_NORDAHEAD, MDB_NOMEMINIT, ...

What are all these for? Should you be using any of them? Are the defaults good?

So, once we have an env with the right flags, we can mdb_txn_begin. This takes flags again. Luckily, only MDB_RDONLY applies. Probably ....

So we are ready to transact now, right? Nope. "Once a transaction has been created, a database can be opened within it using mdb_dbi_open()." [Which has seven flags!]

But wait, the documentation hastens to add: "[a]lso, mdb_env_set_maxdbs() must be called after mdb_env_create() and before mdb_env_open() to set the maximum number of named databases you want to support."

Finally, "[w]ithin a transaction, mdb_get() and mdb_put() can store single key/value pairs if that is all you need to do (but see Cursors below if you want to do more)."

Ah cursors. Here, mdb_cursor_create doesn't have flags, phew! But there is an integer op code. mdb_cursor_get is basically the ioctl of database access.
MDB_FIRST,
MDB_FIRST_DUP,
MDB_GET_BOTH,
MDB_GET_BOTH_RANGE,
MDB_GET_CURRENT,
MDB_GET_MULTIPLE,
MDB_LAST,
MDB_LAST_DUP,
MDB_NEXT,
MDB_NEXT_DUP,
MDB_NEXT_MULTIPLE,
MDB_NEXT_NODUP,
MDB_PREV,
MDB_PREV_DUP,
MDB_PREV_NODUP,
MDB_SET,
MDB_SET_KEY,
MDB_SET_RANGE.
You are proposing build 4 times the power generation: Renewables for the daytime load, Renewables for charging the night time storage, the night time storage, and then a whole extra set of power plants for emergency standby.

Why would hydrogen combustion plants - which don't exist at the moment, don't have turbines on the market, don't have a fuel supply pipeline - be cheaper then current coal fired powerplants?

So your cost of generation already is - at minimum - at least as expensive as a coal fired powerplant, in terms of fixed costs for maintenance (and investment - who's building these when they can't sell the power from them?)
TIL. Looks like they have it documented (since Apr 2022, based on the github history), it cannot be modified or customized, and that it sometimes causes problems with SEO crawlers!

https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/get-started/r...
The economic games I've seen all were terrible simulations of markets, and would teach the wrong messages. Monopoly is one such example. (One of its major faults is one must roll the die and do whatever you land on says.)

I expect a banking simulator would hew to the ubiquitous propaganda that the Fed is there to stabilize the money supply. (It's actual purpose is to inflate the money. See Freidman's "Monetary History of the United States")
Does this support timestamps within a day?

When playing murder mystery games, frequently I need to construct a timeline of events. This would be the perfect tool if I can mark timestamps.

EDIT: yes it does! But looks like it needs to be in the ISO date format.
So the groups trying to replicate right now are basically wasting their time?
Show HN: An MIT-licensed ChatGPT plugin that loads and edits files locally
It strikes me reading this piece, how insanely high ROI it would have been for this guy to have hired a really good life coach. He learned so many lessons the hard way way after he was ready to learn them and someone who was capable of transporting those lessons back in time to the point where he was ready to hear them would have generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in excess value.

Unfortunately, there are so many "life coaches" that they drown out the people who could have actually been a good coach to this person.
If you replaced the sine function with a sawtooth wave (n - floor[n]), you would have continuous, uniformly distributed "pseudorandom" numbers from this method.

I think the round() function in CSS is still experimental, but you may be able to get a similar effect by intentionally underflowing a floating-point calculation.

Arcsin(sin(x)) would also work, or arccos(sin(x)), but you would probably have to make an approximation of arcsin/arccos for yourself.
I think a huge part of that is translation: imagine what you might sound like if you wrote a press release for or tried to explain to a layman some project you're involved in, and then had it translated to Korean.

Some benign description of why room temp atmospheric pressure superconductors are interesting becomes 'a brand-new historical event that opens a new era for humankind'.
Yes. When USCG rolled out Subchapter M and increased demand, one solution would have been for companies to hire three years previously people that they did not need and find a way to get them the necessary seatime. Maybe they could have installed more bunks on the boats.
You could pay to license someone, making the cost to you more but the position attractive: even with a 3 year lag. It’s not a labor shortage, it’s a business decision.

Sometimes they’re tough.
>... reaping all the benefits that go with better overall brain function: financial, social, career, creative...

Have all that yet I was an heavy cannabis user from 14 to 40. The reason I stopped is that I developed Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome. The nausea was debilitating and I didn't want it to progress to vomiting.

As long as your passionate by what you do cannabis pose no problem, but I will conceed that it makes doing uninteresting things almost impossible and that this is probably harming some users in the way you describe.
It's a cheaper version of a cable package that can be used by up to five google accounts that might not share the same physical household. EG a subscription with multiple premium channels and a good range of channels available in two households could easily be $400-$500 not including internet. YoutubeTV for a similar range of content would be ~$100.

The purpose of youtube for most consumers is to consume video content. Much of the professionally produced video content is TV shows and movies which obviously remains popular. This includes by reference content originating from a range of platforms HBO/Showtime/Starz/Paramount/AMC and so forth

EG you select HBO and Showtime as part of your package and can view the same content as is on MAX or showtime in the singular unified youtubeTV interface. Kind of a mixture of TIVO and netflix with a better interface.
+1 for Mentour, being a commercial pilot himself his insights are fantastic.
Anecdotal, but at sufficiently high doses, I've noticed that you can make contact with extracorporeal entities. I perceive them as distorted cartoon characters. I have taken other psychedelics like LSD-25, but only edibles at very high doses give me this effect.
Related: Can We Rely on Our Intuition? - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-we-rely-on-ou...
The Emperors for the Job
At this point, there are insufficient captains/hammers at any price. Lots of projects are blocked on lack of captains. I am selling tugboats because we cannot crew them. This is a direct result of USCG Subchapter M.

edit to add: This whole thread now feels like defense of the Efficient Market Hypothesis. We have an entire industry facing a stricter regulatory framework that increased demand for captains while fewer humans are being born in the U.S. This is a shortage.

I get that one can just increase wages and immediately get more cashiers or burger flippers. Other problems have more complicated dependencies.

edit more to add: I realize now I did not fully appreciating your argument, which is that there is never a shortage of anything?
There's also the possibility that the original team is deceiving themselves. By all appearances, they're deeply committed to this result (that could be an act, but that's not the sense I'm getting). But those biases could creep into the analysis of the material: in this particular field, a lot of things are witchcraft (witchcraft that occasionally works). So take a novel material with some interesting properties and human interpretative fallibility, and you get the paper. Which would still mean a powerful diamagnetic material, but that's... well, not something we'd have kilothreads on HN about.

My stance (did research in high-Tc superconductors in undergrad ages ago, but doing banal software dev nowadays): who knows. The "easy replication" idea has faded away, which isn't promising, but maybe? It's fun to put my faith in Twitter anime catgirl avatars, though, so I'm still rooting for it.
My neighbors are cam girls. They spend all day in their backyard diddling themselves. On weekends they have mud wrestling in their kiddie pool, and occasionally rent a bouncy castle.

Honestly, they're young and I think it's great they make money by partying, but it wouldn't be terrible if they had to find a new career path before they turn 30. And it wouldn't be a great loss to society if selling your body suddenly stopped being more lucrative than selling your mind.

That being said, as the OP stated, this won't replace camming. Because people pay for cam girls to have a sense of power. Overheard in my yard recently: two girls from this crew discussing a guy who wanted them to insert real vegetables into themselves. Which they rejected due to health concerns. And offered to buy silicone vegetables. The cam-man apparently didn't want that so they were discussing how much to charge him for putting themselves at risk of infection. That guy, whoever he is, won't be happy with an AI girlfriend.
Speak for yourself, I've been living in the future for 15h and 27 minutes already.
Have you looked into Ruffle? A lot of ild Flash games have been adapted in Ruffle...

https://ruffle.rs/
Also you don't need to heat baby food, and you don't need to heat formula. It should not be cold, but room temperature is fine.

It was a godsend when our pediatrican told us this. He said just use powdered formula, mix it with room temperature water at feeding time. No need to refrigerate premixed formula, no need to heat it up, no need to carry it around in a cooler when you're on the go.
Decades -plural- seems optimistic at this point.
> these types of technical difficulties can be a gold mine in the real world.

It is. A11y is hot in web dev right now, but the Library of Congress isn't paying out anything close to that for this and normal web pages are much simpler to make accessible than games.