skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last year I read The Double Helix and The Code Breaker within a few months of each other, and what really stood out to me is that while we celebrate the first person who discovers something, in reality there were several teams all racing to the finish line, and were sometimes days or only even hours behind in presenting their findings. Yet only one team gets the accolades and their names in textbooks, the others are a mere footnote at best.

This was my first time reading about the history of discoveries like this, and I guess prior I thought these celebrated names had moved humanity forward by decades if not centuries by connecting the dots of the runes of the universe, but the reality is really very different.
I was curious about the other comment about divorce rates and pre-marital sex, so I looked it up. The results are from a government survey, so it's a pretty unbiased source. The reported outcomes could be scrutinized since I think the site I link is a bit of a traditional values kind of site.

But between these numbers and your personal feelings, I think the data speaks more - https://ifstudies.org/blog/counterintuitive-trends-in-the-li...

More broadly though, all your deductive reasoning doesn't mean jack! We're talking about human behaviors over large scales, not to mention billions of people we aren't even measuring from other countries/cultures. I think trying to put labels on what these people think and go through from the comfort of your desk chair is presumptuous.
Is it not? Especially in this context. People who are cryogenically stored, died due some reason - old or trauma. We cannot resurrect old people; trauma medicine is hardcore and we can sustain and fix some people, but sometimes we cannot.
> I specifically gave the example of selling it not being covered by what I'm talking about.
Many people agree with you. Here's a question though. If you observe what they do as against what they say, it's clear that governments in major economies do not share your and their concern and indeed it's difficult to see what can be done if they did. Example: just recently we've seen the British Prime Minister sign off a new raft of offshore oil and gas licenses. This is probably not unrelated to the dramatic decrease in average living standards in the UK thanks to energy policies. UK Climate protesters seem to have had a negative impact on the public especially since Britain's contribution to global warming is estimated to be around 1% - for a population of around 67 million.

Reduce industrial activity? Look at the Mauna Loa CO2 levels from 2020 to 2023 which do not appear to deviate from their regular increase of around 2.3 or so ppm. So even a 'devastating' industrial economic shutdown had no perceptible effect on the relentless increase.

Certainly one contributor to recent warming is the 10% increase in water vapour in the atmosphere brought about by the January 2023 under-sea earthquake off Japan. It's estimated to have projected trillions of gallons of water into the sky thus causing a substantial heating effect.

https://www.aier.org/article/the-devastating-economic-impact....

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-16/tongan-volcano-impact...

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1115378385/tonga-volcano-stra...
Casio Watch Rings
Just needs to scale up. We need several kilotons of this material ASAP.
> these days people can grow into functional adults first, which might not happen until their late 30's.

Some (many?) won't. Adult means taking responsibility for your own actions to me.

In "archaic" societies, girls become women at the onset of their period. Boys have to undergo painful rituals to become a man. No puberty problems or teenage suicides in sight because these young humans have their place in the tribe and are treated like the young adults they are.

No artificial age barriers (18/21). The brain is actually done at myelinizing at 25.
I'm not a gamer myself, but my wife is and she frequently points out the creaky door sound effect when we watch movies. It's amazing how often such a small set of effects is reused.
Huh. I’ve never had telemarketers leave messages. Their system seemed to detect and give up.

If that’s what other people experience then yeah, this may not be a silver bullet.
I'm sorry but this is BS (and I don't mean that as a personal attack, just a repulsion to the idea)

As if researcher must drop everything they're doing and attempt to reproduce every wild claim. It simply doesn't happen because these people are able to work through hypotheticals and form value predictions... Just like they do with any other research resource allocation decision.

No, it's far worse to lock up knowledge behind academic institutional norms and hide and yell "rigor" when anyone is curious to see what's being worked on. People can decide for themselves what is worth pursuing and the OP is likely correct that we're doing damage to our own progress by not disseminating a hypothesis that's being worked on but could use more resources. Furthermore this fear of someone publishing before you in a race to claim the Nobel prize likely doesn't help.

The institutions should formalize and normalize a method for broad open access to research in progress and broader collaboration.
I completely agree. The transphobia on this site is plentiful and abhorrent. The moderators are less than worthless when it comes to it (heavily implying they are part of the issue) and the moderators HATE when you point out failures in their moderation.

It should be expected given the rest of HN, but I'm putting it plainly for others as well, the site has a massive bigotry problem with its users, and a moderation issue with its moderators
Arguably you didn't buy it. Sure you physically own the hardware but you didn't pay for it.

Depending on how you look at it the hardware was paid for by:

1. Tesla as a "marketing" expense. They expect that the $50 of hardware will make a significant number of people pay $500 for the feature. If 1/5 people upgrade that is an expected return of $100 for that $50 marketing cost.

2. The people who purchase the heated seat upgrade. It was more cost effective to install the hardware in all cars than to set up a second production line. So if 1/5 people buy this package their effective cost is $250 ($50 * 5 cars) and $250 is Tesla's buffer + profit margin. So the people who pay for this package effectively pay for the hardware in all cars.

If you enable this feature for all users both of these no longer exist. So the effective cost goes up which would likely raise the price. (Yes, I know that cost and price aren't directly related).
Argentina is probably the best available use case for cryptocurrencies: There's a reasonably well educated population, living in a relatively safe country with decent productive infrastructure, yet facing massive problems due to monetary mismanagement. Sending money in an out of the country through normal, legal means is highly taxed. So it's not an environment so unsafe where the best bet is always just leaving the country, or a place so well set up that cryptocurrencies are far more trouble than they are worth. Bypassing their local banking system is just so profitable, normal people can end up ahead with cryptocurrencies, despite all the well known disadvantages.

It's unsurprising that basically any project that even comes close to seeming reputable is going to have attention. It'd be better for the country to have working fiscal and monetary policies, but it's not as if they've just had only a year, or four decades, of troubles in this regard. Changing broken, entrenched systems is just really hard.

So yes, every cryptocurrency project out there is probably going to have better chances of success in Argentina than anywhere else. Extrapolating from Argentina to the US or Western Europe is risky though.
You've got me wondering how much cheaper ITER actually gets if you don't need the magnets to be cryogenic.
I'll reframe this for you: in a liberal society, we default to open social policies rather than closed ones. There's no moral or principled legal basis for the civil right of marriage being extended to only straight couples.

Restricting polygamy does have a principled legal basis: it's historically associated with subjugation, and you don't have a civil right to subjugate others. If and when that association vanishes (i.e., society is convinced that all parties are able to competently consent), then there will be no legal basis for excluding them from the civil right of marriage. Your "ick" response is not a valid basis.
On Arch Linux, use

$ pacman -Qqo $(which ping) # -Qqo is --query --quiet --own
iputils
$ asp export iputils && cd iputils
$ # see PKGBUILD for URLs, or if you just want to have a look:
$ gpg --import keys/pgp/*.asc # or pass --skippgpcheck to makepkg below
$ makepkg -od && cd src # -od is --nobuild --nodeps

On NixOS with the new-style CLI, using

$ nix eval nixpkgs#iputils.src.url
"https://github.com/iputils/iputils/archive/20221126.tar.gz"

for the second step usually works, although I don’t know how to figure out the package name reliably (ls -l will usually point you in the right direction, but for ping it just gives you the wrapper).
Why would I want to save a click? The project is very cool and I will use it.
There is also no data to back up the opposite assertion. It would be rather surprising to see comments on HN based on hard statistical data - an implicit "IMO" prefix makes sense to apply in most human discussions.

> That does not mean that every non-HN user...

Not every - but I do believe it is still the majority. There are a lot of people out there, and the knowledge required to make the aforementioned OS choice is niche.

This is not implying stupidity, just that there are many trades and interests out there, and subscribing to ours specifically is not a given.
Connect a 4K monitor or TV to a Mac.

The result is tiny widgets.
I tried Sweep the other day and I got a weird error: https://github.com/kristiandupont/schemalint/issues/286 -- "an issue has occurred around fetching the files." What files might that be?

In any case, congratulations on launching, your product looks really promising!
or Notesnook[1], which is also open-source, and E2E. I find it better and more reliable than SN.

[1] https://notesnook.com [2] https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook
Show HN: CodeRev.app – Code Review as Interview
I've long had a dislike for leetcode interviews on both sides of the coin. Project-based interviews can also be challenging because it can end up filtering out folks who don't want to spend several hours building something in their free time.

I met up with a friend last year -- a very senior dev -- who had taken some time off to study leetcode exercises while preparing for FAANG interviews. It struck me that one of the key measures of whether a candidate is a fit for a team is rather synthetic.

CodeRev.app is a simple, lightweight tool that helps teams evaluate candidates using code reviews. While programming tends to be a more isolated activity, code reviews tend to be more open ended, collaborative, and reflective of how a candidate communicates, interacts, and provides feedback day-to-day. It may also be a better yardstick for roles that are biased towards reading code rather than writing code (engineering manager, support, QA).

More interesting is that as we come to rely on AI generated code in our workflows, testing for the ability to read and evaluate the quality of generated code and whether it is fit-for-purpose becomes more important. Being able to quickly identify security flaws, logical flaws, and domain specific gaps (auditing, logging, etc.) becomes increasingly important.

More in depth thoughts here: https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2023/07/interviews-age-of-ai-ditch...
Human sexuality is 100% culture dependent though. There are tribes where people are promiscuous, and tribes where men have multiple wives, and both of those traditions definitely predate rigid monogamy.

Human nature is people want to have sex, and will form lasting relationships for mutual benefit.
We forgot why companies - or for that matter the entire economy - exist, not to make profits and enrich the shareholders but to provide people with goods and services they need and want in an efficient way. Profits are not the goal, they are just like markets, prices, competition and many other things implementation details that are used to control the economy, the allocation and distribution of resources. The question is of course whether there is a different implementation that is better than current system. And on the other hand the people must also care about the consequences of their consumption, the best economy will ruin the planet if people demand stupid things from it.
If I follow what you're saying I suppose my understanding could be wrong, but there's no "cloud transfer" required. It's just a matter of both the distribution and the configured origin being on AWS. If the origin doesn't direct traffic outside of the datacenter, AWS doesn't bill that as egress to whoever owns the origin. The Cloudfront distribution, on the other hand, will take the hit once it exceeds the free tier because it's the AWS service distributing data to end-users. It has to make a request to the AWS internal service then cache it, so The SaaS lambda or s3 bucket or EC2 instance or whatever they're using is none-the-wiser. It's just how the AWS billing mechanism works.
Yeah and it's not just the US but also France/UK/Germany/Canada, all the western countries usually held in high regards for science, the lack of enthusiasm (for lack of a better word) is rather disappointing. I don't think I've seen a single university lab in these countries announced "hey we're trying to replicate this as well".
> Like attaching a phishing email to a traditional, clean email message

Several people at my org had their email hacked and now I regularly receive my own years-old emails to them sent back to me with phishing links.
Depends on its price and properties. If it is affordable, I would go with electric motors. Not having to cool them would be hugely beneficial. If it is expensive, then MRI machines and space equipment.
Closing Duplicate Tabs with AppleScript
Immortal emperors may produce shorter-lived dynasties, as it means no changing of the guard to provide the dynasty with fresh blood.

Rulers, set in their ways, will take a government down an increasingly non-viable path.
>> Have you been in an adult relationship?
It is a huge challenge

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It’s a challenge, but if it’s a huge challenge, that’s your cue that it’s not working. It could be that you need to work on yourself, or it could be that you need to walk away.
I love omsi! Have only lived here since 2017, though. What was so extra about it in the '70s that's lacking now (or at least was lacking in the '90s)?
(next Rich)
One of John Waters' favorites.
If it happens through an educational system tailored and expanded to produce obidient factory and then office workers,

with trillions in advertising spending (around 600 billion just in the US) to get people buying,

plus all kinds of experts in customer manipulation, dark patterns, number chunching, and so on, working to get people to buy more stuff,

plus an orchestrated early 20th century campaign to create the modern consumer and be done with thriftiness, debt-aversion and self-sufficiency as common prior ideals,

plus planned obselence,

plus a political system designed to support two party monopoly, allow campaign contributions and lobbying from corporations with big pockets, and discourage active citizen participation aside from voting once every several years (hell, iirc in the US people don't even get a mandatory free day from work to vote)...

then it's manipulation...
Honestly I don't see anything that would prove superconductivity in this video. If LK-99 is a type-II superconductor you should observe flux pinning i.e. you would be able to move the flake with a tweezer and it would be stuck in place as the magnetic flux lines are pinned to defects in the material. I haven't seen any details on the supposed properties of the material like the coherence length, but from the original paper it seems the critical field of a small flake is rather low at a few 100-1000 Oe, so a more convincing test than thermal cycling would be to simply use an electromagnet and increase the field strength, the sample should then drop once the (second) critical field is reached. If the critical field strength is too high you can reduce it by heating the sample, but what's critical is to observe breakdown of diamagnetism with an increase in field strength without any form of hysteresis, which you won't observe in the same way in a diamagnet.

The best test would probably be to produce a Josephson junction and measure Shapiro steps at high frequency, that's something that cannot be explained by anything except a superconducting quantum material. As the sample is highly impure it could even be enough to irradiate it with a microwave source and measure the reflectivity / transmittance, there could even be intrinsic Josephson effect like in high Tc superconductors. Impossible to say though without knowing more details about the material.
Just like containers?.. I don't see how that's surprising or undesirable.
Watching the video had me question that actually. At the moment the heart stops, I imagine the brain activity lingers for some amount of time. Creepy to think of the antifreeze coming online as your thoughts protest.
Italy has never been as libertine as France and Spain in this regard, no...
> Because of ethical reasons I want to stay as far away as possible from anything that is insurance, finance or crypto related. I'm not really interested in AI and/or machine learning either.

I think you might be internally overestimating how employable you are right now. Getting a first industry position after doing pure math is pretty hard. I don't think you quite have the luxury of a priori ruling out broad swaths of industry. Especially fields (machine learning and quantitative finance) for which folks with strong pure math fundamentals are particularly well suited.

You mention "low level stuff and assembly" and I think it is true with the right preparation you can break in here. But keep in mind that when you apply for systems programming jobs, say, you will be competing with people who have degrees and internships and potentially experience in the field specifically. A math PhD is good in theory, but by itself it has lower value than more targeted education and internships.

I'm writing this because when I did my math PhD, my peers and I had a lot of hubris around this issue. The conventional wisdom was that if academia didn't work out it would be easy to jump into industry. Then when the time came around it was an order of magnitude harder than we thought. I know multiple people who took temporary 1-year academic positions because their initial industry job search fell completely flat and they needed more time to prepare. In retrospect being more humble about our prospects and preparing correspondingly would have helped.
It's the same in Korea where the research originated.

A bunch of professors belonging to a hastily formed academic committee are trying to monopolize the public debate, quibbling about errors in the arxiv paper and demanding that Lee & Kim turn over samples of LK-99 because the big-name professors are obviously too busy to make their own. It seems that their first priority is to avoid a repeat of the Hwang scandal than to touch any novel research.
Executive summary of bi-temporality–eventual business consistency
PlanetScale vs. Neon: The Continued Saga Between MySQL and PostgreSQL
Coming back to my original post, and adding some more details.

Point was not being an ass. That means basically two things: Not actively treating people like shit (that can be pretended, something all those pick up artists scum bags do and sell) and unintentionally doing it. The latter is the harder bit, as it involves actually caring and listening to other people. When in company, making it all about yourself is not necessarily being an ass (it can be so), but rather egoistical and unpleasant for the other person.

Having years of therapy (!), and nothing to show for, hints, IMHO, at the second issue. No amount of therapy and course work can make you care about someone else as much as you do about yourself, IMHO, because therapy is for you.

Ad my grandmother aslways said: every pot has its cover (very bad translation). And she was right. The trick is to not force it, be open, let stuff happen and just not be an ass. Or a self-victimizing whiner, as that can be kind of the opposite end of toxic masculinity and is equally unsexy. But even then, there is someone special out there.

As soon as you make a relationship as much about the other person as you do about yourself, are sincere about that, well, a lot of surprising things can happen.

Also, you are never done becoming a better human being. Especially since for ech step forward, you will take a couple back at times.
A monumental UFO scandal is looming
Giantrobot’s comment is spot on.

I’m addition, I think Apple just wanted a faster and more modern API to make better use of their hardware than the old version of OpenGL they were using. I suspect they still would have made Metal even if the games industry didn’t exist.

That just happens to be the context we hear it discusses in the most, for obvious reasons.
Agreed. What I don't understand is the gatekeeping. Why would the actions of outsiders have any bearing on "real" research? Are they worried that grant money will get redirected toward shallower, more glamorous groups?
Calculus isn't that hard, you just find the slope of the tangent. If that doesn't come naturally then business of attaching meaning to the words and training yourself to do the thing is really hard though.

Also this list of points is probably wrong. Particularly "Accept yourself as you are and others as they are" is mutually contradictory to things like "Be polite, accept a no as an answer" for many people. jiggawatts is pointing out that if people want to improve themselves useful advice is hard to find. Telling someone who knows that they need to change that they are an ass, need to stop that but simultaneously that they need to accept themselves is unhelpful.

In fact, finding the balance between what parts of yourself to accept and what parts need to change (and why) is a complex challenge that is beyond the abilities of most people. The average human just keeps doing what they do unless something traumatic happens.
It was called AngularJS--when someone says "Angular" most people will think of the framework called Angular
Something existing for a long time doesn't make it fair, or even right. There are countless examples of people believing unfair and outright wrong things for centuries.
> Document-oriented Databases ODM (PantherDB, MongoDB)

Are document oriented databases a viable solution for a general purpose web app use case?

E.g. many web apps involve relations (user authored a comment, user liked a blog post) and traversing them (show comments with best score, show all liked posts). Is panther a good tool for developing features like this?

It's been a while since I worked with a document oriented database; perhaps modern releases don't have a problem with this use case?
Surely a main reason Excel gained market share was that it was graphical i.e. on Windows. Probably gained when OS/2 and Windows 3 came out giving a decent graphical environment.

I used Excel on Windows 2 from its release but I would be an outlier.
Wouldn't that be handled mostly by the kernel, and they all more or less use the same kernel?
Can you just buy the six herbs and combine them yourself?

Under American law, such a traditional (or innovative) remedy can be produced and sold by anyone. It would be an unregulated supplement instead of a regulated medicine. The effect is that doctors can't prescribe it.

Doctors are still free to tell you that you might be interested in independently obtaining and taking a supplement.