skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that a compound of copper, lead, phosphorus and oxygen, dubbed LK-99, is a superconductor at ambient pressure and temperatures above 127 °C (400 Kelvin).

No; it's claimed to superconduct at temperatures up to 127 °C. They didn't perform tests above 127 °C.
In 2013, the Pew Research Center's Portrait of Jewish Americans found that more than 90% of Jews who responded to its survey described themselves as being non-Hispanic whites, 2% described themselves as being black, 3% described themselves as being Hispanic, and 2% described themselves as having other racial or ethnic backgrounds. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews
Part of the job of a mentor/senior engineer is spending time helping get juniors up-to-speed on projects and getting them comfortable asking questions. And if they're not asking questions, checking in on them to see how they're doing. (Pro-tip: don't just ask them how they're doing, have them explain what they're doing and why. Problems show up a lot faster that way. :)

Building an environment where junior engineers learn how to find things out on their own and when they need to ask questions is a company culture thing and has very little to do with remote vs in-office.
Thanks for the link. It’s interesting how CNN doesn’t report that 2030 is the bottom of their confidence interval.

They might be correct, but I don’t have much faith. They have essentially done a temp-ice area regression to fit a model to 50 years of data. Thus they rely on the accuracy of the temp predictions of the IPCC models which I also don’t have much faith in. I lost a lot of confidence in them this year, under-predicting warming so significantly. Most climate scientists imply that this error is simply them underestimating anthropogenic warming rather than it being an indication that their models are not particularly accurate. From the climate science community I have heard some suggestions the volcanic eruption last year was to blame for the extra warming, as well as changes to sulphite pollution policies.

I believe the earth is warming, but that much of it is probably due to existing natural trends and that adaptation will not be particularly hard. When models can predict El Niño with precision or changes in large scale circulation then I think I will be convinced.
Apparently warming is compounded by the eruption, low sulphur shipping fuel rules, low amounts of Saharan dust and changes by El Niño according to this:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shippin...
also it's an El Niño year.
Is fiat currency not another case of "the worst solution except for all the other ones we've tried?"

Gold-backed reserve notes and even coins made of the metal(s) can still be debased (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency#Debasement).

And as noted, transacting in ingots of the precious metals isn't practical. Also heavy and hard to securely store and transport.

Trying to transact in and hold a commodity is also problematic because these metals have other uses. What if you hold a bunch of gold and then we find a better non-tarnishing conductor and switch to it, and the price plummets? What if you lent platinum to a friend and suddenly we find a room-temperature superconductor that needs platinum, and the value of that platinum is now 10x'd? Or you lent platinum to a friend and before they could spend it, its value plummets for industry reasons and now they can't even do the thing that was presumably going to allow them to eventually repay you?

"Our fiat currency is valuable because, and exclusively because, our government pays its debts, has excellent regulation and enforcement, a well-understood legal system, 99% of the world's aircraft carriers, and a large stockpile of nuclear weapons" seems like a pretty decent option compared to all the others? And the Fed doing monetary policy things isn't exclusively negative. They seem to have kept us from going into a recession or having runaway inflation just this year and the three years prior. So that could've been a lot worse, I think.
"IPv4 with bigger addresses" would never have been backwards compatible and would always have been a compatibility break and would always have a slow rollout.

The proposals that seemed backwards compatible were just aggressive CGNAT consolidating even more power in the hands of IPv4 address owners. That doesn't seem like a sustainable fix in the long run.
We’re trying to solve this exact problem over at https://polyfill.work
I have never wanted to move to Switzerland more
USSR means something different to Russians than it does to Americans. To Americans it was the Enemy. To Russians it was the last time that Russia was truly important on the world stage and had some degree of prosperity.
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As an anti-social person myself, that’s a relief!
Good heavens, I'm sorry.

Maybe you could ask the library how you can support them. The library system in my area seems to be a little healthier, but I know they depend on a community organization called "Friends of the [city name] Library." The library also holds little fundraisers from time-to-time. Mine is having a used book sale soon, for example.

Libraries are amazing and nobody better try to hurt my library! :)
If you need to manage your Kubernetes Clusters managing your Docker containers managing your applications dependencies, yo dawg.
They are rampant in RU and UA. One of the craziest stories is how Ukrainian phoine spammers weaponized their skills to coax Russians into setting fire to government offices

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/08/01/phone-scammers-coa...
I'm going to make a really shitty analogy because I'm bored.

Cash = chamber pot / outhouse
Electronic payments = modern plumbing

People shat for millennia without modern plumbing. Installing and maintaining modern plumbing often requires external expertise who will wish to be paid for their services. In developed countries, the modern plumbing also needs to connect to public infrastructure and comply with a variety of regulations.

By choosing modern plumbing over chamber pots, we got rid of some issues pretty much entirely (monetary analogies in parentheses)...

- No one has to empty the shit bucket / shovel dirt in the hole (the business does not need to send an employee to the bank with a money bag)

- No one has to smell the shit of the previous user/customer (no one has to handle physical objects that may have had an interesting and/or disgusting journey prior [0] [1])

- Massive reduction in fecal-borne illnesses (reduced employee theft, fraud potential)

Day to day, I'm sure the outhouse is "cheaper" than toilets. I'll take all the benefits of modern plumbing.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9aM_dT5VMI
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency
Wells Fargo is no longer entitled to benefit of the doubt at this point.
Let's be fair; when we say "desktop Linux", none of us think "a dedicated games console which uses Linux to run Steam, occasionally running the desktop mode to make something in Steam easier (like emulation)". Obviously it only would count if it were "daily Linux users, running Steam".
Ask HN: Is Archive.is an NSA Honeypot?
Other archival services are transparently funded. Archive.is must cost at least $10000 a month to run. I haven't seen any evidence it is run by the NSA. I also haven't seen any evidence that it isn't. Who else would have the motivation to burn millions of dollars on it while taking no credit?
> Hopefully one day they’ll release their source so we can see where they differ with your project.

Just to be clear, Nuked-MD-FPGA is not my project. I'm the author of a traditional software emulator who happens to have been following development of this with keen interest. I do agree that it would be interesting to see the source of the Mega Sg though.
How long have you been doing this? Curious, bc many teams tried something like this but it fizzled after 3-4 months.

(full disclosure, we're building a platform that integrates with Zoom to visualize all these rooms, and who is in them, so people can hop into the rooms where people currently are, and know when someone isn't available before joining, etc. would love to interview you for user research if you're up for it)
Thanks, I didn't realize that. Good to know!
Given the international reach of the US' War on Drugs, is red phosphorus also controlled in other nations? Being denied access to the precursors needed makes replication far harder.
Breadth of services that are somewhat integrated and available via the web. I've had some fairly negative experiences with them over the years but I haven't figured out a good replacement.
Credit cards actually don't need electricity or the network to be up. That was kind of the original point. The business that you're paying trusts the card issuer to pay them on your behalf, so they can communicate the payment details to the bank asynchronously, and after supplying the paid for goods or services.

But the rest of your point stands. Cash grants a lot more flexibility.
Drawing from melt to achieve a consistent crystal orientation was my first thought as well.

Looking at the Griffin paper, the Pb(2) site is described as being 1.08eV 'more energetically favorable'. I am having trouble understanding what this means.

Years back I did MOCVD semiconductor fabrication research, I never reached a mastery of it but I am still trying to leverage that understanding here.

During growth, adatoms that incorporate into proper crystal lattice locations enter a lower energy state compared to those in imperfect locations. The energy state is lower in the sense that it requires more energy to remove them from that location. Hence careful control of temperature allows you to selectively favor incorporation into these low energy locations e.g. choose a temperature high enough to remove adatoms from 'imperfect' locations but low enough to not remove them from 'perfect' (low energy) locations.

So when the author says 'energetically favorable' am I to understand this means the Pb(2) location represents a lower energy state (i.e. more difficult to remove Cu from this location) or the opposite? Or something else entirely?
Gotcha. So core dependent basically, rather than a specific project goal?

That tracks with what I thought. Great to know about the NeoGeo!
This aerial deployment maybe cheaper, but there is on going rent for having your line on someone else's poles. I have no knowledge of those rental agreements other than they exist. 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. I know there are many many fiber strands in the "cable" they are burying, but why just the one. Every connection needs a pair, so how ever many strands are in that "cable", there's half that number of connections.
Oh wild. I don't know if I used Uber that early on. It was banned from wherever I lived for years which was really frustrating.

That sounds kind of awful for the drivers, like if you'd planned to only do 2 hours of driving but someone decided to have you take them city to city or something at the end of your day.
> The vibe I get is "The system works, so why not let the government handle and control everything.".

It works probably better than in many other places, but which European country is that?
If you want to see the intentional spread of misinformation and intricate conspiracy theories with political motives, you might want to check a mirror.

Exactly how does your "real information" stand up to:

> BBC News

> TV, radio and online, 4 July 2023

> We reported that the former UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s bank account had been closed by Coutts because he fell below the financial threshold needed for an account. This information came from a senior source familiar with the matter after Mr Farage had put the story about his banking arrangements into the public domain, saying that the bank had political motives in closing his account.

> Mr Farage’s view was reflected in all our reporting and he has been widely interviewed across the BBC throughout. Since this original coverage, Nigel Farage submitted a subject access request to Coutts bank and obtained a report from the bank's reputational risk committee. While it mentioned commercial considerations, the document also said the committee did not think continuing to have Mr Farage as a client was "compatible with Coutts given his publicly-stated views that were at odds with our position as an inclusive organisation".

> Because of this evidence, we have since changed the headline and the copy on the original online article about his bank account being shut for falling below the wealth limit to reflect that the claim came from a source and added an update to recognise the story had changed. We acknowledge that the information we reported - that Coutts’ decision on Mr Farage’s account did not involve considerations about his political views - turned out not to be accurate and have apologised to Mr Farage.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarificat...

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People like you are why they report falsehoods initially, and as quietly as possible issue corrections later. The news of the correction and the resignation of the director of the bank has no effect on your desire to defend political censorship to the death.

But please talk more about that evil right wing news outlet that had no need to issue an apology to anyone, as if the messenger is more important than the facts.
Why do you think $10,000 a month?
> We pay $225/mo for coax 200/20 right now.

Do you also subscribe to cable TV?

My cable bill was about the same until I ditched the TV portion and went with Internet only. Now under $100 a month for a similar speed.
There is very clear incentive structure to support the standardized extension profiles. [1]

Vendors will likely add their own magic on top, but the base will be one of the latest profiles, which are backwards compatible.

[1] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/blob/main/profiles.a...
These are completely different activities... Doing some week long materials experiment has almost no relevance to production aerospace engineering with regulatory burdens and multi-year test schedules. I might as well say that any mathematician who can publish a paper quickly about boundary functions can also be a very effective SWE at Amazon working on cloud.
> If you own an Apple Silicon powered MacBook the relative builds are refered to as aarch64, they are cross-compiled and we did not test them before release.

> It is possible that Apple Silicon users see their recently downloaded LibreWolf flagged as broken or unsafe by the OS. This happens because we do not notarize the macOS version of the browser: we don't have a paid Apple Developer license and we don't want to support this signing mechanism that is put behind a paywall without providing significant gains.

Eeerm... no, thank you.

Will reconsider if it appears in openSUSE Tumbleweed repos after passing a security review from the openSUSE team ;)
> Are they one of the worst or just one of the largest?

Perhaps those groups are identical.
> "IPv4 with bigger addresses" would never have been backwards compatible and would always have been a compatibility break

True, but it would limit that break to a single thing. That's much easier to deal with than the whole basket of things that IPv6 brings with it.
Sounds like you're not familiar with government jobs where you're gridded according to fixed criteria when determining eligibility, salary or rate, so your degree mill PHD will be worth the same as someone who went to Stanford and cured a disease or something.
I would agree that these sorts of agencies should take a proper risk/benefit analysis. And I would argue that the FDA is by far the best at taking this approach, despite lawmakers not yet officially making it their mandate. They have been responding to criticism over the past few decades.
Did you try it for eng work?
I would walk in the thundering rain or snow before I would pay $52 to travel 3 miles. At my normal sedate walking speed that is $52 an hour to take in some scenery.
Jackie Kennedy’s Francophilia
Nearly all macromaterials used in commercial applications are isotropic, because anisotropic need special handling and special technologies, make them very expensive.

For example, all metal conductors in chips are isotropic, mean, conduct current equally in vertical or in horizontal directions.

Imagine, conductor become anisotropic, for example magnitudes more conductive horizontal than vertical (to be strict, usually this mean, crystal material, which have crystal axis and some properties aligned with axis).

In this case we have to make some bridges between horizontal and vertical parts of conducting path, and make horizontal and vertical parts by two separate tech process steps (really will be third step for bridge), so for vertical part, material will be oriented to best conduct vertical, and for horizontal part, to best conduct horizontal.

So automatically, conductors will have 3x tech process steps if compare with isotropic materials.

And I consider, we have automatically got some bridge material (and tech process), but this could be additional hassle (big, expensive R&D).

In reality, frequently, crystal materials grow "automatically" aligned to base substrate (most semiconductor chips based on mono-crystal), so to change conductor crystal axis orientation, need some additional trick (so fourth step), etc,etc.

All these considerations very similar to using special isotopes in chips, which already today claimed base crystal will ~50% better heat conductor, so automatically will got significant grow of working frequency, but in real production tests nothing special achieved, just much grown expenses.
This is a fairly significant plot point in "Going Postal" btw, not including the devaluation phase
$600/mo?!? Dam, I was paying $65/mo for 960/960. Centurylink just raised the price to $75 last month.
Europeans love to think when people say America they are referring to the continent, despite everyone knowing they mean the USA. I think it's an inferiority complex/dislike of US thing
Hate to bang the same drum over and over, however this very much sounds like a culture problem, based on

> if they are online I don't know if they have something more important to deal with at the moment, it is more difficult to extract information from seniors who are poor communicators - as good as they may be as ICs, most of my seniors will assume I should know every undocumented internal mess and it makes asking for more details intimidating. And I don't want to look like an idiot in writing! (lol, but I do feel that way sometimes)

Sounds like the company lacks good culture, process and guidelines on expected patterns of communication and behavior. There should be an onboarding buddy when things are implemented well.

Its not your fault, at all. Its the company. Its not inherent to remote work though
Some doctors offices interpret HIPAA's privacy rule as not letting them release any information until they've verified the far end of the phone call by asking for your name and DOB. So VM is out. I've seen others let you specify on the intake form: Full voicemail OK? Y/N. Brief voicemail OK? Y/N.
Indeed, never mind that, because it's irrelevant. Nobody is using a Steam Deck as their daily machine. Daily Linux users are using their existing machines, and Windows and Mac users are using their PCs and Macs.

Sure, some might dip into desktop mode to do a bit of browsing, or set up emulators, but nobody is saying "hey, I'll just use this as my daily driver now".
“Wall” may have been hyperbolic on my part, but there’s no denying things sloooowed. Partly because it was the hard problems that were left!
But I heard that in the interview, Dr. Kim said they have various samples that have different magnetization properties. It doesn’t make sense that they have only a few samples, ironically. I’m sorry, but this makes me think that they are trying to move the public some other way.
> They didn't perform tests above that temperature.

Right, exactly, they're claiming that Tc is above 127°C. The claim is that it's a superconductor at (some) temperatures even higher than what was tested. It's also still a superconductor at temperatures below.
> Also, no. The Soviet Union never considered themselves state capitalists.

They did not describe themselves as ideological state capitalists, they did recognize the existence of state capitalism, and advocate it, in the hands of a “revolutionary-democratic” state as a step from the pre-revolutionary status-quo toward socialism.

Lenin wrote fairly extensively on the topic.

E.g., for one example, in The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It (1917)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/ichtci/11....

EDIT:

> That was a label that certain leftist critics used.

Leftist—largely Marxist—critics of the USSR, and vanguardist-authoritarian systems more generally, point out that there is both a theoretical reason to see a vanguardist regime as not “revolutionary-democratic” and an empirical case to be made based in experience in the USSR and other countries employing similar approaches that vanguardist state capitalism gets stuck in elite-serving extractive capitalism and does not transition to socialism.

But the label “state capitalism” does not originate with that critique.
> No one cares, and they shouldn't have to.

One might posit a phenomenon parallel to enshitification, perhaps deeply tied up in it, which might be called "inshutification": the shrinking of spheres of awareness, responsibility, and influence
The same thing happened in California also due to climate change. The beetles here thrived far more than they used to due to shorter/warmer winters with less/no snow in the mountains, and beetle population exploded and they killed probably a million or more trees. Up in the mountains in California you can't drive anywhere without seeing thousands of dead trees all around you - and it's everywhere in the mountains here, probably millions of trees dead - I obviously don't know an exact count, but it's quite a lot.
What a strange one-sided debate you’re trying so desperately to have.

I suggest re-reading my comment again, but without the “I’m completely triggered by any mention of gender online” glasses that you’re clearly wearing right now.
In something as simple as the code in the article, yes. It's likely that the tool will infer a block RAM as long as there are BRAM resources with the required number of ports, etc.

It gets a little more unreliable when you start accessing it in more complex ways though.

From my understanding (I'm no FPGA expert), the code in the article will infer a BRAM with two read ports and one write port. That may be fine.

I actually battled with this recently on a project. I found that the tool was not inferring a block RAM when I expected it to, so I had to modify the Verilog to gate the reads and writes so that only one could happen at a time. That wasn't an issue in my case though.

My takeaway from the exercise was that it's sort of the equivalent of relying on the optimizer of a compiler to recognize the programming pattern and do the right thing. After talking to one of the FPGA guys I work with, he seemed to feel that it's better to just instantiate a vendor IP BRAM directly. The downside is portability though.