skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. No one reasonable is seeing this and deciding they need to go investing their life savings in whatever adjacent stocks they think will take off. Skepticism is fine.

The Nature article is still weird in tone, though, since there's been plenty of interesting results that have been replicated. LK99 is a weird material, at the very least. That it's weird in a way that somewhat implies it could be an RTAPS makes it plenty interesting.

I've seen a lot of discussion around LK99 in a bunch of different contexts, and the portion of people that are treating it like anything more than entertaining curiosity at this point is extremely low - so this article really reads as the authors being upset that other people are having fun in their domain. That's what comes across as gatekeeping.

Or the concerns around "amateur" reproduction - who is trying to reproduce this without any understanding of how to operate the equipment or some understandings around basic chemistry and physics? These private reproductions are being done by engineers, chemists, physicists, etc. - I haven't seen anything to indicate that people with no business doing these experiments are rushing out there to try it.

It's just a very strange to be written in the tone it is and make these points. It seems very divorced from the reality of the situation, which is basically a whole lot of people on twitter memeing "MAKE ROCK FLOAT"/"WE BACK"/"ITS SO OVER", people on more technical/science oriented forums having the sorts of discussions we see on HN, and most the population sitting around waiting to see if anything useful comes of this.
Z-Library Rolls Out Browser Extensions in Anticipation of Domain Name Troubles
Depending on how paint "wears out" maybe the parts you would miss are the parts that don't really need to be repainted.
Because their political objectives are completely tangential to what most of the apolitical public believes elected officials are motivated by.
I call that the cult of stupidity. It is unfortunately very common where I live.
> what we now call the Celtic nations

Periphery is usually able to preserve some forms of past culture because there is no pressure from development.
>Your comment seems to imply the German forces on the Eastern front weren't reliant on the German industrial capacity targeted by the Allied bombings.

The bombings did little to disrupt said industry. Though there were deaths and damage, it was repaired and the machines kept working. Actual severe disruptions to the German war economy occurred when they lost access to raw materials, such as the Romanian oil fields. There are studies to this effect, but it is more obviously visible by how the German armies kept shooting until they were eliminated by other shooting armies.

Strategic bombing also failed to eliminate the Chinese/North Koreans, the Vietcong, the Taliban...
Tangential: The email mentioned "These messages will be deleted in _24hours_" (emphasis mine, no space) - phishing mails _still_ have typos?! I find it hilarious for right and wrong reasons.
Thanks for the feedback - that's all really useful. Do you mind if I ask what language you were using when the fluency score was none? Seems that it's broken for a few languages, so will fix it asap.
> Has there ever been a global civilization collapse?

First time for everything.
I can see some problems with the setting, not necessarily the country.
Many people in the US need cars to work. If their car dies or gets totaled in an accident they'll need to buy a new one. Used car prices aren't that much better than new car prices, and with a new car you can avoid inheriting problems with cars that were previously owned and rejected. You're much more likely to get a reliable car that will last longer buying new than used.
No, they are not. The only consequence of that action was a worldwide mess of people trying to reproduce the experiment or disavow it. Original authors needed a bit more time to polish their discovery, write solid paper with undeniable proofs and maybe even prepare handout samples.
The same "no evidence" line was used about airborne COVID-19 transmission the whole time that evidence mounted it was airborne.
How much did you settle for on average?
No, but filenames should never have supported anything other than plain ASCII. Not only filenames but anything that has semantic meaning or is otherwise relevant to the functioning of the system.

Unicode should have been confined strictly to document content and UI presentation.
KDE Plasma is great and actually seems to have inspired a bunch of Win11 approaches, so it is possible to get things looking good but there's definitely truth in the sentiment above: a huge chunk of OSS software looking terrible.

There's always the form vs function debate but it's a shame that more doesn't manage to have both form and function if the respective specialists could coordinate
The precise concept of "more" in this article is dubious.
CalculiX 2.21
Few people capture this spirit like the classic "Congratulations" video from Big Man Tyrone.

While it has gone through the revolutions from sincere, to sarcastic in intent, to back again, I believe the inherently joyful attitude underpinning the original video carries the buoyishly optimism of sincere joy.
I'm located near Buenos Aires. There was a similar hot spell several weeks ago, mid-July. Record high in July is (according to Wikipedia) 30.2C, and I don't have the data but this record could have been very well exceeded during those extremely warm days.
> people in this very thread are calling Nature (Nature!) an "online sensational clickbait magazine" because they want to believe the hype

This article is not in Nature the academic journal. This is an opinion published in the news section of nature.com the website. Two entirely unrelated things.

(I don't have a horse in this race)
This seems like a rather bad faith article. While there are certainly people overhyping LK-99 (and prediction markets seem to have a higher chance of success than one would expect), the general sentiment about the material I find online is that it's probably the cold fusion of our time. The hype is because of the potential groundbreaking results, and the fact that the material is unusual even if, as is most likely, it turns out not to be a room temperature superconductor.

As for the videos, are the people posting these joke videos trying to imply that the videos we're seeing of partial levitation (including one put out by an actual Chinese lab) are fake? One can point out that the videos are likely merely evidence of really good diamagnetism without pretending they're hoaxes.
Yes. What did you want them to do? Deescalate? England’s absurd attempts to deescalate in response to Hitler’s aggression was what made WW2 a war in the first place.
Looks great on my 25-year old CRT.

I find it hilarious that we sharpened monitors so now we have to blur the rendering, because heaven forbid we see a pixel.
This is a genuinely bizarre point of view. Your nostalgia for the card catalog is shared by approximately nobody, least of all anyone whose job it would be to update and maintain it.
Sure, there are widely accepted traits that are associated with attractiveness. Where did I say that is not the case?

Where did I call anyone with a perspective I disagree with an incel?

I literally said that this reads like something that one would find in an incel forum, and compared the idea that specific measurements of the human body being deterministic of their behavior with debunked science of Phrenology.

I think you're reading too much into my perspective and what I agree, or disagree, with.
> Probably just as long

How did you come to this conclusion?

I don't know whether it could be justified or not but I don't see how one can just outright say the strategic bombing did not significantly damage German infrastructure, manufacturing capacity, morale and also require Germany to invest a lot of resources and manpower into their airforce and ground defenses.
Not a lawyer but seems like the kind of behavior that would or at least should pierce limited liability.
But what do you do for the weeks and months in between? Like, how do people turn to one another in real time?

(full disclosure, we're building a platform that integrates with Calendar, Zoom, and Slack to try to solve this problem and let people turn to one another in real-time, without interrupting heads-down time. Would love to interview you for user research if you're up for it)
HYP may be elite but quite frankly it's to their own disadvantage. For funded startup founders as of 2023, the ranking list was 1) Stanford, 2)MIT, 3)UC Berkely, 4) Harvard, 5) Cornell.

Cornell is consistently seen as "not elite" and in a sense it isn't, same with Berkely. Each of these top 5 schools, besides Harvard, exude a scrappy spirit for challenging the status quo. HYP, is focused on dominating the EXISTING power structure, whereas Stanford, MIT, Berkely, and Cornell are focused on building their own power structure.

https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/top-universities-recent....
Problem-solving by Cognitect's standards has transformed Nubank and my approach to work. Thank you for your time here, Rich. I greatly appreciate the knowledge I've gained while collaborating with your Cognitect colleagues.
Do you have a "how-to" guide?
What you've done it taken a small, irrelevant detail and used it to ignore the entire rest of the article, including interviews with librarians who talk about how much worse the new request system is.

You don't engage at all with the deeper underlying issue: we have a monopoly, owned by a notoriously unscrupulous private equity firm that holds control over the future of libraries.

Do you see how stupid it is to nitpick the article for not having access to pricing data, when the real concern here should be that the pricing is not publicly available?

The author freely admits they are not a professional journalist and what you are doing is gatekeeping that seems to serve no other purpose than to suppress a story that should be getting far more attention than it is. If you're concerned that other facts in this essay are off, (and they may well be, this is a solo essayist, not a professional journalist with a fact checker) then give them and hand, check other facts and send the author the information they missed.
> Work != socializing.

That's plain unhealthy.

> Quality work requires deep concentration over long stretches of time, not tapping on a shoulder at random intervals. Both IRL and virtually.

This has little to do with socializing or not.
> It's likely the only thing everyone can agree is Linux is whatever Linus has on his machine.

What if he has more than one computer and doesn't have the same setup on all of them?
Even the 1 out of 5 that was selected, the press release was very clear that it's a partially-suspended fine. I understand that the language is a bit weaselly -- 99% suspended feels like a stretch for the word "partial". But it's also just suspended, which means that the company and owner have a $13.6m axe hanging over them to behave properly into the future.

Also, this settlement did not include Vision Solar, the actual beneficiary of the marketing. My guess would be that most of the profits went to Vision Solar, and so the result will be proportionately larger.
Pegasus: A Multi-Node SSH Command Runner in Rust
> calling Nature (Nature!) an "online sensational clickbait magazine"

To be fair, Nature is considered a fairly 'sensational magazine' in the Computer Science world.
A giant platform, with tubes hanging down to mine hydrogen and be a space gas station, partly fusioning it for energy and thrust to propel and keep it up, something like that?
I do not mean this in a hostile way, but I fucking hate this take.

There are plenty of people who get EXTREMELY excited when shit turns out to be true. There's this sterotype of boring serious people who never have fun and don't enjoy what everyone else is enjoying and it's just wrong.

There are people in the industry who are going to go fucking nuts if this is true, but they're not dancing in the streets because this is the equivalent of "is katy perry pregnant? Our pictures maybe sorta show a bump!".

To be clear, if that kind of gossip is your life, that's fine, but even then you're probably about to read a shitload of ill informed speculation based on suspicious evidence, with undeniable proof 3-6 months away. You've seen this thing literally hundreds of times before, and see nothing to be excited about because it's just noise. If there's a baby in 6 months, great, if not, "yeah maybe" is about the extent of the information.

Science is done slow because you need to prove things. Even with this material being "easy" to replicate by the standards of the field, it still doesn't happen overnight (and to my amateur understanding in part because of a lack of detail).

So while I can't speak for the person you're replying to, I can damn sure say I find nothing about this exciting (more embarrassing that so many people have turned this into a cult following, much like the cold fusion claims on steroids), and will be one of the first people to be extremely excited when we have confirmation.

This is not "watching the process" happen. It is "speculating on the process at every single step no matter how suspicious because the process isn't fast enough for you"
To add another counter-example, "fossil air" is "A sample of air (for example in the bubbles trapped in an ice core) that preserves the composition of the environment at the time it was deposited." - https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority...
Judging from the Korean-language interviews making the rounds today, there seems to be some sort of political tension between the researchers and the so-called verification committee. There's disagreement about whether anyone actually demanded samples, or whether it was just a polite request...

I have a hunch that this might have something to do with the late professor Chair (Choi?) who came up with the idea back in the 90s, and whose last wish his disciples claim to be following. Chair was a sort of outcast in the superconductor research scene, and the methodology his disciples have been using are also, um, unorthodox at best. Someone might stand to lose a lot of credibility if the verdict goes one way or another. We know there's been tension even inside the team, as one of the three men named in the first paper was dropped from the second paper. At this stage, I'd be more concerned about these internal tensions and personal grudges than any attempt to manipulate the public at large.
I thought that's what the upvotes are for.
> German armies kept shooting until they were eliminated by other shooting armies

What makes you think they wouldn't have been able to continue shooting for much longer?

> eliminate the Chinese/North Koreans

Wasn't North Korea pretty much entirely defeated by the time China interfered (and Chinese territory wasn't bombed)?

> Vietnam

The strategic bombing campaign in North Vietnam wasn't that successful and also quite costly and US couldn't follow it up with a ground invasion.
Average is about $3000. I tend to only go after the most egregious violators so this amount represents at least 5-10 calls all after being asked to be placed on their do not call list.
I don’t know your circumstances so don’t take this personally as these are some general ideas:

- work 4 days a week only

- save 30–50% of your income and retire after 15 years

- cook your own meals to eat healthier and cheaper (bring lunch to work)

- buy used stuff from a couple years ago

- fix your own stuff and buy cheap “broken” things that are fixable

This way you might not need to die at work or wait 67 to retire.
Driver death rates by make and model – Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Learn more about these calculations. [0]

The associated video [1] gives some interesting details and context, one interesting thing is that "deaths are over 40,000 people/year for the first time in years." This appears to be due to the fact that there are more giant pickup trucks on the road.

[0] https://go.iihs.org/news-death-rates

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR-MAfBBuOc
I mean, they can just as easily tell you to deal with in-person. This isn't a particularly useful contribution imo.
> Over the long term, Reddit’s scrambling efforts at financial security may prove just as futile as the moderators’ attempts to fight back.

I wish this lede wasn't buried. Reddit was always going to "win" any battle with the moderators - it's their platform, and they can be as nice or as nasty as they please. They might have trouble finding replacement moderators, especially if recent reporting is anything to go by, but the elephant in the room is that Reddit might not be viable as a business.

Twitter was at the very least treading water until it was loaded down with debt that put it in its current death spiral. Reddit seems to have lit a decade's worth of investment money on fire with precious little returns to show for it.
>I would definitely be curious to know why - the emulation of Genesis is notably behind most other video game consoles

Not sure where you are getting this from but I think that's far from true.

For years we had Kega Fusion which was able to run most (if not all) commercial games without any issues and was the pioneer of accurate Genesis sound emulation.

Then we have had emulators like Genesis Plus GX with better accuracy and close to 100% compatibility with all licensed and unlicensed games for quite a few years now.

A little more recently, we have Blastem then Ares emulators with devs more focused on improving accuracy for those interested in getting all test ROMs passing in their emus. Sure it isn't the NES emulator scene where you have have like hundreds of emulators to choose from but how many of them are accurate/compatible enough? Comparing to other systems from same time area (SNES, Neo Geo, PC Engine, etc), I would say Sega 8-bit and 16-bit fans have pretty much similar choices than others.

What is sure is that I don't know much system with cycle-accurate C and Verilog emulators based on chips die analysis. That alone shows how much Sega hardware has a dedicated base of talented people still reverse-engineering and documenting it after all these years, even when existing emulators are already good enough to play the majority of games without noticeable issues.
Please remove the "robocall" from your suggestion, and then it sounds perfect to me.
Because nobody passed a law that says the government can do that, and if the government did it anyway it'd be tyrannical as hell?
It didn't read to me as if the parent was talking about the abuse being done to the children but to the partner themselves, something that is far more common.
George Carlin is the type of person who would make the following joke: I hate racists, sexists, misogynists, and other people who hate people unevenly: I am the kind of person who hates everyon equally!

And then he would get a roaring applause for being the worst kind of cynic that exists: someone who has no ideas or thoughts other than pandering to people's sense of self-importance.[1]

Truly glad that that waste of space is dead and buried.

[1] https://xkcd.com/610/
That's the fault of the library, not Overdrive (and I would thus agree it is enshittification).

Edit: Just saw my library does the same. Sad.
Not a lot of experience with taxis, but what's the scam here? Are they just trying to dodge taxes? Do they count on you to not have change and round up your fare to nearest $1/$5?
Drone strikes on call centers would punish the poor employees with little to no power for the unethical choices of their bosses.

You should be ashamed of this kind of call for violence, even if you intended it as a joke.
In my experience it's usually a 2-step system. I get a spam call frome either a robot voice or someone with a heavy accent. This company is generally not based in the US. After collecting some basic information like your name and eligibility for Medicare, they forward you to a US based company.

I'm not a lawyer, but even though the foreign scam call company illegally called you, I don't believe the US based company is liable for anything because the scammers make you agree to be transferred to a Medicare licensing office.
This article is rooted in the junk science by James Zou et al, published in their paper "How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09009). Initially, one of their benchmark scripts stumbled upon backticks added by GPT-4, causing poor scores. Simon Boehm fixed it for them, scores improved significantly (https://twitter.com/Si_Boehm/status/1681801371656536068). Now the authors are back with a revision (without giving credit to Boehm). Still, the benchmarks are silly because they measure what LLMs are historically challenged with: math and cases of "Do not do x" (ARC benchmark). One could argue that this is on purpose. I don't think so: Zou is not part of Stanford HAI, but Stanford Data Science. I think he's just publishing outside his realm of expertise, and popular media are again falling for fake.
It’s just an analogy. human progress is made from “standing on the shoulders of giants” not starting from scratch.
I meant human legislation of AI, (and other immortal unaccountable entities like corporations to boot) not the legislation by AI.
On FPGAs, a register file probably fits better into distributed RAM than block RAM.

On Xilinx, for example: a 64-bit register file doesn't map efficiently to Xilinx's RAMB36 primitives. You'd need 2 RAMB36 primitives to provide a 64-bit wide memory with 1 write port and 2 read ports, each addressed separately. Only 6% (32 of 512) entries in each RAMB36 are ever addressable. It's this inefficient because ports, not memory cells, are the contented resource and BRAMs geometries aren't that elastic.

A 64-bit register file in distributed RAM, conversely, is a something like an array of DPRAM32 primitives (see, for example, UG474). Each register would still be stored multiple times to provide additional ports, but depending on the fabric, there's less (or no) unaddressed storage cells.

The Minimax RISC-V CPU (https://github.com/gsmecher/minimax; advertisement warning: my project) is what you get if you chase efficient mapping of FPGA memory primitives (both register-file and RAM) to a logical conclusion. Whether this is actually worth hyper-optimizing really depends on the application. Usually, it's not.
I dont think I even had edit rights. I was also under pressure to do my actual job.

I would have loved to have been working in an environment where I could work with the system maintainers to fix their docs collaboratively but alas it was more of an "I'm busy go away" type environment.

I think this type of dysfunction was fairly common during lockdown WFH.
It was calculated to save about 50 USD per connection (p2p vs p2mp). Why active I don't know, they may not all be. There were probably also other interests which I would love to know about but I wasn't a fly on the wall when those decisions were made.

The sheer amount of money spent to expand the network after the court injunction forbid connecting those seems sus to me. It will take many years and many more millions to undo.

I should also point out that a lot of this money to expand the fiber network comes from government grants.
That’s a super interesting point. I feel like it’s getting at some deep personality trait around optimism/pessimism (or realism as the pessimists would say ;) so perhaps it’s not surprising that it’s so divisive.
I think part of the cult-like fascination people have with LK99 is the story behind it: two no-name scientists rejected by mainstream academia (one of them denied tenure) working away in the basement of some random building doggedly pursue an idea and pull off a miracle.

It ties into the anti-mainstream, anti-institution sentiment prevalent online - that stuffy, tenured scientists couldn’t accomplish what two randos pulled off with just grit and determination.
haha, now even nature has to have a commentary. a bit hypocritical title eh?