skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Things will pan out or they won't. What's the rush to form an opinion and hop on a hype bandwagon

Because it's fun and exciting watching smart people from around the world collaborate/compete around an interesting and world-changing idea.
It's cool and good that many people are invested and interested in science and technology.
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Yea, most people simply haven't seen that. I knew a minor rock band player in college, he had women lining up outside his hotel room to fuck him.
Erratum: the break test at the top of the loop body needs to go to the bottom:

while true; do
local status="$esc[7m$(date +%m-%d/%H:%M)$esc[m $HOSTNAME $dots$pwd"
local status_len=$((${#status} - ${#status_esc}))
[ $status_len -le $COLUMNS ] && break
pwd=${pwd#/}
pwd=/${pwd#*/}
dots='...'
[ "${pwd#/*/}" == "$pwd" ] && break
done

This fixes an issue reported by a user on Mastodon: that when you change to a directory like / or /home, the status line disappears.
> Quantity, not quality is king. Anomalies are drowned out by large samples.

Yeah, that's not how it works.

At practice, anomalies are hyped into everybody's attention, and large samples are drowned out by lack of novelty. You don't need questionable methods to get bad results, you just need quantity.

All the things that are happening are great, and this may be an astonishing discovery. But don't put more certainty on it than it's warranted.
I am not a lawyer so take what I say with a grain of salt.

The last suit I filed against a telemarketer was against the “beneficiary” company as the lead generator who called me was of course overseas. They claimed that they could not be held vicariously liable for the calls but ultimately settled with me because litigating that would cost a lot more money than the settlement amount.

Some state statutes go further than the tcpa and address vicarious liability specifically, so if you’re in one of those states you have a stronger legal leg to stand on.
> I haven't seen any evidence it is run by the NSA

kinda a nonstarter, eh?

> I also haven't seen any evidence that it isn't

You can say that for any conceivable cause. It means nothing. Why NSA? why not CIA? MI6? China Security? Some rich guy in Indonesia?

> must cost at least $10000

citation needed, but also is not high enough to suggest it needs to be state run
I subscribe to a combo TV/Internet plan because it costs less in absolute terms than an internet-only plan. I returned the set-top box to avoid the rental fee, and don't hook the cable TV up to anything.
Longtermism != long-term thinking.

From the article:

> Longtermism offered its own secular version of utopia, too: by reengineering ourselves, you and I might become immortal super-beings, and by spreading throughout the universe we could construct a multi-galactic utopian paradise of radical abundance, indefinite lifespans and endless happiness – a project that some leading longtermists quite literally call “paradise engineering”.

and

> However, the more I studied utopian movements that became violent, the more I was struck by two ingredients at the heart of such movements. The first was – of course – a utopian vision of the future, which believers see as containing infinite, or at least astronomical, amounts of value. The second was a broadly “utilitarian” mode of moral reasoning, which is to say the kind of means-ends reasoning above. The ends can sometimes justify the means, especially when the ends are a magical world full of immortal beings awash in “surpassing bliss and delight”, to quote Bostrom’s 2020 “Letter from Utopia”.

and...

> I have been inside the longtermist movement. I was a true believer. Longtermism was my religion after I gave up Christianity – it checked all the same boxes, except that for longtermists we must rely on ourselves to engineer paradise, rather than supernatural deities. Now it’s clear to me that longtermism offers a deeply impoverished view of our future, and that it could have catastrophic consequences if taken literally by those in power: preemptive violence, mass surveillance, thermonuclear war – all to “protect” and “preserve” our supposed “long-term potential” in the universe, to quote Ord again.

This is about yet another ideology that justifies its means for the supposed ends it will achieve.
Now I'm no demographer, but I found some articles online saying fertility rate in Latvia is around EU average. It's the mortality rate that's quite high compared to the rest of the EU. That and a high migration rate are driving the population decline there. Does that match up with your experience?
> ...but nobody is saying "hey, I'll just use this as my daily driver now".

Seriously, the hubris[1][2][3][4][5] of it all.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/12sgnw7/what_do_...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/12sgnw7/what_do_...

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/12sgnw7/what_do_...

[4] https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/12sgnw7/what_do_...

[5] https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/12sgnw7/what_do_...
It isn't strange or unique at all. We live in times where people feel they need to have a position on everything. A strongly held belief. A stand. And people feel they need to adopt it early and then make every piece of information fit that selection.

It is destructive. We see it on every topic now, even entirely banal things.

To go back a couple of decades, I remember a high school History teacher bizarre asking the class if they were for or against abortion of all things...it was a very strange class where he was riffing and we were talking about commonly held positions through time. He asked me and I answered that I didn't know enough about the topic, hadn't really thought about it enough, and don't really feel in a position where I should have a stance on it. He laughed and called me a fence-sitter and said I took the coward position. This was a profound experience for me, and it comes to mind in many situations like this.

The whole LK-99 thing looks super neat. I don't have the knowledge, time or inclination to have my ego wrapped in a position on it, and there's absolutely no value or utility in me picking a position, either. I read the updates and it'll turn out however it turns out.
Would "peer-reviewed" be a useful one to throw on the pile, or do we run the risk of those "peers" also being grifters who want to push (e.g.) homeopathy or bogus herbal supplements?
Very amusing that CenturyLink is complaining about FTTH. Back in the '90s (when they were USWest) they pocketed billions of dollars in increased tariffs with the express purpose of them delivering FTTH. Short of a few trial locations, they didn't seem to do anything but pocket the money.

They could have been out in front with FTTH, but instead decided to just sit on their existing copper infrastructure. Which, at least in my town, seems to just be rotting away; seems like everywhere I go I see one of their boxes that's broken open with the innards spilling out and exposed directly to the weather.

This is the same company that refused to deploy DSLAMs anywhere but in the CO, because if they put them in neighborhoods it would allow CLECs to also deploy them around towns, and USWest didn't want to deploy full coverage, so they worried about CLECs deploying to neighborhoods that USWest didn't. So if you weren't within 18K feet of a CO, you were screwed for DSL service.
I mean the Nature article is basically just the opinions of a bunch of experts.

It’s not to say LK-99 is real, but the Nature article contributes 0 extra information
My friend has a property at the very edge of the city and is happy to have a "forest" behind his backyard.

I went there to find nothing else than a pine plantation. No a single bird or any other animal for that matter there - it's essentially a tall lawn.
The word "bullish" and fundamental science should stay as far away from each other as possible.
Communism is one model of government among many. Do YOU think that intelligent management of global resources requires communism? Is the United nations a commune because the member countries cooperate in some way? Isn't there an area between "independent actors acting selfishly" and "communism"?

I don't think they were implying communism. Which is good, because IME people on this forum can't have honest discussion or apply critical thinking in the vicinity of the subject. They start rhetoric-dumping and posturing and repeating tired arguments as if preventing thoughts about communism is their ticket to heaven. Sprinkle in a few posts positive-to-neutral on Marx to fuel the fire, and that's the recipe.
The problem is not ACs, the problem is having water and growing food.
I would suggest letting v4 users keep their existing v4 addresses when going to v6.
I will respond with your low quality response with another low quality response.

> You think years of training, education and experience don't occur outside fancy journals?

Literally nothing I said was about this.

> You believe it's not "science" if it's not published in Nature? Wow.

Also literally nothing I said was about this.

We have a fun little situation where HN people, most of which barely know anything about superconductivity, or physics, or really anything outside of their webdev bubble, think that their random opinions on random news articles means anything. A 10 minute read of Wikipedia is now considered expertise. Obviously the random news article with low quality information is proof that room temp superconductivity is a real thing.

It's the exact same feeling I have when I read HN talking about aviation, which I have a strong background in. It's pretty clear most HN people have absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
Afaik, your intuition is basically right! A superconductor exhibiting only the Meissner effect won't hover ("pin").

It's a defect (where small amounts of the field aren't expelled) that allows for the pinning to happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-II_superconductor#Flux_pi...
In 1999, I was still a student in solid state physics, not far past my bachelor's degree, and happened to notice the publication of something that, to this day, I suspect might be (note, load bearing "might") a critical breakthrough for desalination. Nothing came of it. Nobody has published any follow-up for it. Nobody has done any research that would contradict it either. It's just sitting out there, unnoticed, decades later.

Was it withheld from the public? Eh... yes? Kind of? Because it was only ever published in a journal - probably Materials Letters, but this was a long time ago - that you would only have access to if you were a graduate (or ambitious undergraduate) student with plenty of time to read in a university library, or a specialist in the very narrow field that journal was for, somebody with a membership included subscription...

This isn't gatekeeping, this is, to be blunt, profit motivated hoarding by a handful of publishers in the academic journals business. And this is the thing that arXiv.org and other pre-print venues are actually having an impact on. I, for one, am strongly in favor of academic information being widely available. I'm not as much in favor of people who have not demonstrated their competencies in something that requires a great deal of both knowledge and skill feeling entitled to being given a platform for their (usually laughably clueless) proposals. If you've done enough work to have a tested hypothesis, that's different.
I agree it's not unique:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_of_strateg...

Bombing of North Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia is missing.

The terrible scale of Bombing of North Korea is not well known:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea
Unwillingness to accept? What evidence do you have that the 20th century was the inflection point in intellectual progress? We have many more brains with much more free time now, not to mention pocket supercomputers, the internet and AI assistance. I expect the pace of discover to increase if anything. Maybe you're just suffering from your perspective of being alive right now, like all those kids on youtube who say past music was so good, because they see a highly filtered and compressed version of the past.
So a who's who of the top ten democracy index countries. Not really surprising considering that.
I guess that's what I'm suggesting, yeah. But I suspect it is because of the amount of money involved and not that other banks wouldn't be as bad if they could.
Well the whole argument feels kind of clickbait and premature. Arguing that replication efforts fall short, after less than a week of attempts, feels pretty weird. Why even weigh in on things right now if you're Nature? How many of their best papers have been replicated so quickly (it is approaching zero) or conclusively. It shouldn't be a surprise that the fastest pre-release papers that are attempting to replicate it, are mostly from labs looking for publicity or from people who are just excited. Research teams that need more time for a rigorous replication effort are still working and likely will be for awhile. This is a silly thing for Nature to talk about and it makes them look like they're going the clickbait route to take advantage of the hype around floating rocks.
Right. I am seeing tons of people who want to speak truth to power are moving to Bangladesh from US
I don't want to seem dismissive but the Netherlands + Sweden + Finland + Denmark <= 40 M people, so less than 10% of the EU and they do change governments leaning alternatively to the right or to the left like any other country.

Seen from outside, Switzerland has a lot of checks on government with referenda for everything, important or trivial matters.
There's a noticeable distortion of the magnetic field near the superconductor. It's this distortion that keeps the superconductor stable - it's caused currents that appear on the surface which match and cancel* the surrounding field.

*some of the magnetic field penetrates onto the surface of the superconductor, but internally, there's 0 magnetic field within the superconductor.
There are some fairly obvious solutions to this. For example, suppose you had bearer securities representing shares in an investment portfolio. It wouldn't have wild price changes any more than the underlying security, which could be a highly diversified index fund or a real estate trust or whatever you like.

The bearer token has a secret in it, which you can change over the internet if you have the existing one, so if the token changes hands you can swap the secret out and be assured the previous owner hasn't kept a copy of it. Which would also allow you to transfer them over the internet.

That would make for great "cash" but not if trading in them requires you to be a securities broker or file a tax form each and every time you want to buy a pack of gum.
Code of Hammurabi was created based on a whim of a single person (the namesake) and solely served to simplify administration. He could also always change it at will, or ignore for his own needs.

Rule-based society is something different: when the Law itself has a power of it's own, stronger than power of any individual or group. It was first invented in Rome and provided them tremendous advantage, until started to crumble during the Long 3rd Century Crisis.
There’s a British space comedy called Red Dwarf that has surprisingly good novelisations by the original show writers. One novel has a sequence where they play pool with planets, obviously completely unrealistic but it’s a really fun sequence.

There’s also another separate sequence describing how humans abandon Earth and use it as a giant landfill, resulting in a massive methane explosion that shoots Earth out of the solar system and into frozen deep space. All very silly but very imaginative.
It would be great if Xerox PARC UI was already that advanced in the 70's, or UNIX's twm.
> This aerial deployment maybe cheaper, but there is on going rent for having your line on someone else's poles.

I don't think it's much, if anything, depending on the location. My understanding is it's governed by public use policies, since it's public infrastructure. I do know it requires some work for those putting more infrastructure on there to figure out the new load and stress and submit plans for required work, and sometimes poles are identified that are degraded to the point that it requires replacement or retrofitting, but I can't recall whether that's a burden taken by the public utility, the company looking to utilize the space, it's shared, or it's situational and depends.

> I wonder if the trenching style deployment also has some sort of agreement with the city?? Whenever I do see the trenching teams installing fiber lines, I'm always curious why such a small amount is being installed.

You do need to get permits in both cases. I think microtrenching is easier to get permitted because it causes less issues with the road. You're cutting a line an inch or so wide, so there's less worry about car tires compacting the filling material and making the road bumpy. Since it's deep but not wide, it could also be they're stacking multiple runs one on top of each other, which at any one point in time may look like a very small amount being inserted (I don't know, not my department).

> Every connection needs a pair, so how ever many strands are in that "cable", there's half that number of connections.

Depending on what you mean by "connection", they don't. Fiber strands are split out with optical splitters, one or more times, so a single strand back to the CO can handle multiple actual installation locations (but not too many). Planning out how many you allow generally and how much you'll allow max is a balancing act. Sometimes you deliver to a building with multiple units and you don't want to drop a line to every unit but you don't want to serve twenty units off a single strand that might be split once upstream already).
Any day now!
Notably:

Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36994214

Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36997821
Could be extremely expensive or impractical to produce at scale, could be extremely brittle, etc.
>How much longer would the war have lasted without the strategic bombing?

Probably just as long. The reason the American forces had such an easy time advancing into France once they had landed is because most of the German forces were on the Eastern front, where the USSR had to do the extremely bloody fighting all the way to Berlin anyway.
For extremely low latency, Clojure can be an awkward fit. By default there's a lot of sugar in the syntax, so if you need to be precise about the underlying types of your data and the exact datastructure, you need to toss out most of the standard datatypes and datastructures. It's small details like: "I definitely have an array of unboxed integers, and I need to be sure this one operation won't accidentally allocate a new list of boxed integers, and that this function I'm calling doesn't dispatch dynamically" or things like that. You start using `deftype` everywhere, sometimes dipping into Java, etc. You may as well just write java at that point. However from a pure Clojure standpoint, the author of Neanderthal has done great work on making Clojure viable for high performance numerical computing.
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That's an article by the News division of Nature, not a research article. The latter is what Nature is famous for, not the former.
Because Verilog is not C where typically a line of code turns into several machine code commands. And even if you write inefficient code, CPUs are so fast that you won't notice it. In Verilog a simple "+" or "*" can turn into thousands of gates. Without understanding this your designs will be inefficient and slow. Unlike CPU cycles, silicon and transistors are not free.

Also for a design to be fast you need to use pipelining and to slice your combinational logic into thin layers. Again, you won't be able to do it without understanding how your code translates to gates.
I had a hard time parsing the title. Was I the only one?
Then sounds like you live in a place where the competition is driving down the prices. Where I lived before Comcast wanted ~$250/mo for something like 600/200. Now after I've moved (only like 20 miles) I live in a place where we have a municipal fiber network. So now last time I checked Comcast is offering gig speeds for $70/mo
This blog doesn't convince me why I should care about Hocus over solutions like VSCode devcontainer + Vagrant. That is more what it is competing with, not raw Docker/VM.
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Yes. I just compiled and ran it on an M1. You need to fetch SDL and SDL_mixer from homebrew and fiddle with the Makefile. Thats the easy part. The sucky part is the data is expected in in /usr/share which i do not want to pollute. The sources are (sorry guys) a disaster. If I find an elegant solution to easily set the datapath I will push it to github and rename it to OpenAirCombat....
I'm paying $72 for Google Fiber in Taylorsville if that is an option for you. Best Internet I've ever had. Blazing fast. Practically 0 down time. Haven't had to reboot my router ever. Great equipment with no dead spots in my house. 0 complaints.
“ Unfortunately, it also seems like a lot of people are hesitant to even discuss this possibility for fear of being ostracized by the mob.”

This assessment is the same that a climate denier would make - it’s essentially climate gas lighting. Why do I say this?

Because the real reason it’s hard to discuss events with nuance is the highly vocal contingent of climate deniers that are looking for any single word or event that can be twisted to obfuscate the issue - first deny climate change, then to claim it’s not that bad etc etc.

That is the actual reason people are careful discussing climate, nothing to do with fear of ostracism. they’re rightly worried that the vocal anti-science people will twist their words.

The only people who fear getting ostracized are those doing the word twisting, the others are simply hesitant to give the Ron desantis types sounds bites to twist.
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