skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany also began fully mobilizing it's economy for war production between mid 1943 and 44 so I'm not sure it's that straightforward to measure. You might be right but I don't think we can handwave the possibility that Germany would have been able to produce more military materiel without if their population centers, infrastructure and factories were left completely undamaged.
You moved the goalposts. The example was Theranos. I was responding about Theranos. That was the extent of my comment.
I never said it was true. Just that it's some evidence against it being a fraud.
You essentially want people to stop being people. We are for want of a better term meme machines and we pass on information that we find interesting, gives us hope or makes us feel better and we avoid the opposite because it eventually makes us feel worse.
Appreciate the correction, and apologies for the lack of clarity!
I am not sure about that.
It depends how far you want to take it.
I dont think ADHD medication should be OTC.
An experienced psychiatrist should always prescribe it.

There are issues surrounding that in the US,
given price.
In Norway my meds are free.
Magnetic force scales as 1/r^3, not 1/r^2 like gravity. That's why your standard issue fridge magnet measurably attracts stuff only from a very close distance, but when it does, it easily counters the gravitational attraction of the entire planet¹. This 1/r^3 relationship can be derived easily enough by integrating, but essentially it's because magnets are dipoles and the farther away you are, the smaller the apparent distance between the poles and the "more neutral" the magnet looks like.

Anyway, that's why there's an equilibrium distance where the forces balance. But superconductors also exhibit a very strange phenomenon called flux pinning [1] where a levitating object is held in place by magnetic field lines and you can even turn the whole thing upside down and it still levitates even though the forces don't cancel each other out anymore!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_pinning

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¹ To be fair, "the entire planet" is also around 6000 km away, calculation-wise, but still!
Windmill is such a great product and having the code editor and the execution layer in the same product gives a lot of power.

The only similar product i know that has this approche is darklang.

Do we as a industry have a good name for this yet?

(Im not talking about other low code platforms where code is secondary. Both darklang and windmill is code first. Giving them a huge advantage when doing thinks like AI since they can test on real data really fast. Making the turnaround speed and time to production potentially really low)
Dying to hear about someone's life who was actually improved by taking a cold sales call. Make it straight up illegal and egregiously non-profitable to even try and the world will be much better for it.
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This is how I expected the latest Copilot to work: integrate more data from the disk, see runtime variables when in debugging mode, and receive the error messages when the program crashes. Unfortunately it didn't improve much.
> Why is 23 partners a red flag?

For the same reason you don't want to deal with a client who's churned through 23 other contractors before you either, or an employee who's held 23 other jobs.

They're either high-conflict, non-committal, fishing for something and not finding it, using sex as a coping mechanism/don't take the act itself seriously (won't be the last time you hear them tell you sex with strangers "means nothing;" just wait until your first big fight). There's also disease risk (mainly herpes).

Nothing about a body count that high signals stability or commitment. I'm sure plenty of people can and do change and can commit and be stable; we could be friends but they are not people I would bet the rest of my life on. The only three people (two males, one female) I know with body counts that high all got caught soliciting or banging children decades later, so my experience with this is admittedly subjective.
If you say so! No skin off my nose :-)
There seems to be a group of people who have appointed themselves the science police. If you are excited about a tantalizing phenomenon that has yet to withstand expert scrutiny, you can expect to hear from them!

I do not understand this mentality. There is no conflict between these two statements:

- LK99 cannot be considered a proven superconductor until there have been multiple replications that withstand expert scrutiny.

- The evidence that is freely available on twitter and elsewhere right now is worth getting excited about.

Look, this isn't like Covid, where at least there is some public interest served by a skeptical approach to treatments. At least for the next six months or so, LK99 is an almost purely scientific topic with almost no wider implications.

But people love to clutch their pearls - I have read twitter commentators claiming they are concerned that amateur replicators may get lead poisoning! Lead, while dangerous, is not polonium or something - there are plenty of reasons people choose to tolerate some exposure (recreational shooting, civil aviation, fishing...), all of which I would consider less compelling that what may be the biggest scientific breakthrough in decades. I do not think people are truly concerned about lead exposure, I think they want people to "stay in their lanes". An attitude that I find detestable.

The fact that such a (possible) enormous breakthrough is within the reach of chemistry amateurs is wonderful! Everybody who has the equipment, knowledge, and inclination to attempt a replication should do so, and if you do, I hope you will post videos online so I can cheer you on.
That’s not what I mean.
It's not speculative. It's completely invalid, and any conclusion you take from it is circular.
I like improper keyboards where esc is off by itself.
Absolutely agree. I think remote engineering work is a skill that is hard to acquire when you're very junior.
Well the performance hit alone would be a non starter.
Cursor.so?
> However, these modules can easily be replaced with open-source alternatives.

It would be great if you added a note on how to do it here.
> it's quite obvious that it instantly changes the cost of running these massive AI models as well as the cost of doing highly detailed FEM simulations.

This seems pretty overstated. Developing the tooling to build chips takes years, there is good reason to think that even if this material does revolutionize chip efficiencies, it will be years at least before we start producing those chips and probably years more before that production scales to fully supplant the existing production infrastructure.
> maybe? will they get out early? when will they go?

I don’t know, but that is a question for behavior. I do believe in rehabilitation being the underlying goal of prison, so I’d be thrilled if they came out of it changed people.

> a guy selling cigarettes on the streets of NYC without a permit would have been choked to death in seconds. (actual thing that happened)

And that is awful. Never said I was defending that.

> seems like this justice imbalance in the USA is something we can get bipartisan support for changing. lets do it yall.

If only.
You're right, by trusting any outside source for a dependency, you're still dependent. But as you noted, there's the option of adopting the software yourself and injecting it as vendored or something similar. Proprietary doesn't even have that.

Depending on the project, it may move slow enough for the dependency to be slow to update and it be fine. Depends on what you're doing.

At least in the case you mentioned, I can revert to an older version and freeze it there until my business can sort out the way forward.

Ideally, one chooses dependencies that are easy to replace and reasonable to maintain for a bit, if needed. Or if you're lucky, no dependencies at all!
We need to stop letting accessories off the hook like they don't know exactly what game they're playing. They're just as culpable.
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Alps and neighbor Jura Mountains are still where all the major glass/crystal factories still are (Baccarat, Lalique, Daum, Gallé, Saint-Louis, etc.).
If I recall correctly the reason is that they had access to sand and lots of wood.
Are they fully discarding it? Or just replacing it? I actually don't know the answer here, but I'd be surprised if they didn't have some refurb process for removing still-working parts of the mainboard and attached components.

From a turnaround and customer experience perspective, it makes sense to just swap the part and do the diagnostic later so that you avoid having to guess-and-check through the multitude of parts that could be broken.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. You put it much better than I did.
OpenAI said they where non-profit, until they suddenly were for-profit.

So I think we shouldn't trust them that much.
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>Want to talk about it? Great! Go there!

No point in giving someone grief for not noticing something that they have to go digging for and might miss along the way.

>The point of the dupe calling out...

I know what the point is, but there's a better way to do it - in fact, I linked to an example of someone doing just that. Your comment goes above and beyond that in a negative way and doesn't "assume good faith"[1].

>HN doesn't have a search? what are you talking about? The HN search powered by Algolia is excellent. Bottom of the site.

I've been here long enough and have never noticed it, so I'll again give OP a pass there, too.

I think you need to find something better to do with your time. The fact that you do this so often and that you've escalated to attacking someone for it demonstrates that you might be letting duplicate posts on an internet forum bother you just a bit too much.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> 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.

That's called denial and hopium.

> When models can predict El Niño with precision or changes in large scale circulation then I think I will be convinced

We can't predict what local weather will be 3+ days from now. You're being unrealistic, at least.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37003348
LK-99 and the Bullwhip Affect
A Joel on Software post[1] has this:

A terribly common error is having a debate over how something should be designed, and then never resolving the debate. Brian Valentine, the lead developer on Windows 2000, was famous for his motto “Decisions in 10 minutes or less, or the next one is free.”

[1]:https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/10/02/painless-functiona...
macOS application bundler, noratize+codesign, icon generator, admin launcher
I threw together everything you need to make MacOS application (.app). Even make an admin GUI prompt launcher.
> I fucking hate this take

But it is hostile. It also shows a lack of emotional control at least on par with the people that are openly enthusiastic and possibly much worse. At least they are having fun...
I get your point, and I agree the govt shouldn't be in the business of putting companies out of business if their crime just needs some discouragement.

The problem is, if a company made 500M from their bad behaviour, and the govt only charged them 300M. The company is not incentivized to not do this behaviour anymore. They made 200M net after the fine!

If they made 500M and the fine is 550M, then they are incentivized. It hurt them 50M to do the bad behaviour.

It's obviously not as simple as I'm making it, because just calculating the money they made from the bad behaviour could be very complicated. but you get the idea.
Full disclosure: I'm a software performance nerd who is building a deeper understanding of hardware using whatever tools are

I work with a lot of assembly traces emitted from CPU sims in Verilator. These traces can be several gigabytes in size, with tens of millions of entries. I've found the typical interactive matplotlib backends to not work the best with tens of millions of points on my M1 Macbook Pro. This is no slight against Matplotlib, or cairo, or agg, or the default macOS backend—they prioritize cross-platform "It Just Works" support over extreme performance.

But it does irk me that there seems to be such a gap between the amount of data we can visualize in the gaming domain in comparison to the scientific domain[1]. The difference between 50 million and 5 billion is 100X. I'd be ecstatic if I could get within 10X difference. I understand that this gap exists for lots of reasons, of which I'd be happy to hear in detail in the replies to this comment.

1:https://youtu.be/eviSykqSUUw
Connection failed: Why are cameras' smartphone apps so infuriating?
I had the rare privilege of pair-programming 40 hours a week for several years early in my career. This follows the extreme programming ethos of "everything in the limit," where pairing is "code review in the limit" and "mentorship in the limit," to say nothing of the oral tradition it imparts[0].

Even pair-programming with my fellow juniors was both more productive and more educational than a rubber duck[1].

I had the opportunity to sit down to dinner with some very junior devs at a family gathering, recently, and to hear of their isolation due to remote-work broke my heart. They simply have no idea what they're missing.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaWFYm0kEw

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
>Competition works. In my experience, the dominant factor determining ISP quality is the presence of another ISP with a substitutable offering.

Yes. This is the root of the problem with Internet access in the US. The post-Reagan relaxation of antitrust enforcement has allowed many monopolies to grow, and combined with lobbying at all levels of government has created the stagnant environment we have now for Internet and wireless services.
„Parts of Italy reached temperatures up to 48C“

This has been debunked. The 48 degree reported was land surface temperature, not air temperature that is usually reported.

https://skepticalscience.com/land-air-difference.html
Location: Bengaluru, KA, India

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Technologies: AWS (networking and other services), Linux, DevOps, Terraform, Containers

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It sounds like you're on the side of needing a consultant in this case vs. being the consultant. In which case, it's up for both of you to decide.

If the person is insistent on cash at some point, put together a services agreement and include a clause in payment terms that define whatever your agree to. That way, the debt/liability is understood and carried as a part of any normal order of business.
I assure you most people do it to make money and the vast majority to at least not lose money.

And they don’t even really lose anyway, it’s just a cost of doing business. Just spin up another company and get back to the call sheet.
Hopefully the GPLv4 will plug this loophole.
seems like you can accomplish that w/ https://github.com/emacs-openai/chatgpt
Should probably include verbiage about shell companies and the like. It would get messy fast and a lot of... more-innocent... people would take the fall instead of the people actually responsible.
Compete in anticompetitiveness?
Attestation is the problem itself, it makes it harder to compete, by definition excluding any newly created environment.

But this isn't really my problem as I'm not a business. As an user, I'd be happy to have a secure OS with hardware attestation and app security but without Google Adware and Spyware.
I....don't hate this. "Here's 33%, it's probably more than I can get away with paying but I don't want to deal with the hassle" is absolutely something I would sign up for.

FWIW my effective tax rate last year was like 28%. To know down to the penny how much is going to taxes and not having to worry about filing would be a dream.
Well that just sounds like bad farming. If you cant at least think 1 generation ahead then the state must intervene
keyboard-layout-editor is such a fantastic site. It's really a bummer that it is unmaintained, haven't found any site that comes close.
While the Creative Commons has a "non-commercial use" license, a work under such a license would not qualify as a "free cultural work" [1], which is the equivalent designation as Open Source Software for non-software works. Free Cultural Works give everyone the same essential freedoms that are required by the Open Source Definition.

I think when people make material available under a CC-BY-NC and call it "open source", the community should react the same way. It's neither open source, nor a free cultural work.

[1] https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/fr...
> [...] obviously visible by how the German armies kept shooting until they were eliminated by other shooting armies.

It's not that obvious to me. Of course they kept shooting. It's hard to imagine a scale of destruction necessary to bring an industralized country's economy to a full halt.

Still, deaths mean decreased workforce which is already strained by the military draft.

While, of course, they repaired what they could, (re)building a factory to its full potential takes years and substansial workforce.

As to Vietnam/Afganistan, withholding moral judgment on their invasion in the first place, from what very little I know about these historical events, the US operations accomplished their military goals there. They later withdrew not due to Vietcong/Taliban's efforts, but as a result of internal political/societal processes in the US itself.
thanks for the thought!

now i wonder how the distribution looks like
Now I understand what's going on in South Korea. Okay, this is more political than I thought. But the problem is, the researchers even didn't send the sample abroad to prove it. Even though they had many requests for a week. This doesn't make sense, and that kind of background story is not helpful in solving this.
not that odd.

they don’t know how to pronounce 𝕏.
With the third, having corporate backing, leaks the paper without the consent of the other two.
> It's not biased, it's a fact. I see it all the time as PC/AC/reviwer/etc.

Let's agree this is anecdotal at best, and move on. Facts need data to back them up. There's no data or links to research in this post.
Grüße. I wonder if there were more trains there would you take it. A reasonable observation many North Americans make is that it would just take too long to get anywhere by train, unlike in Europe. AKA 300 years is old vs. 300 miles is far.
This is how a lot of religions work, too.
To risk veering off topic, the Nintendo thing gets a bad rep due to how it was reported on when it really is the sort of thing you'd expect HN types to be on board with. The guy stole FOSS code, tweaked it to be malicious (bricking devices that ran homebrew software that he personally did not like), closed off the source code to his tweaks, and sold it for a profit while explicitly advertising it as being used for software piracy. 10M is surely a bit much but the guy was pretty flagrantly wrong both legally and morally.
Yeah, this bothers me a lot. I've been an Ubiquiti customer for a long time, and when this happened I was extremely nervous for a good while. I even missed the pseudo-apology, but saw the news stories about the perp later.
I like this layout. I'm used to the F keys tho...
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We have that! You can directly append to our system prompt here to customize Sweep https://github.com/sweepai/sweep/blob/main/sweep.yaml
Where?

The only actual claim of losing money was about the 9 euro ticket.("the ultra-cheap pass cost the state too much for it to be extended.".)

The "unsustainable" comment was a theory from May which should be trivial shown (or not) by now but definitely not a claim by the article. ("There’s a question mark over how long this year’s €49 pass will last, with transport bosses warning in May that it may be unsustainable too.")
I've built a few custom keyboard myself. What always stings though are the fairly limited keycap sizes that are available.

I found you need to more or less target the least common denominator among keycaps lest you find yourself pigeon-holed into one single source for your keycaps.

To that end, really wide spacebars are out — you'll either have empty real estate along the bottom row or end up adding arbitrary "filler keys" (no, my retro keyboard does not need a Windows/Command/Meta key).

I like the Control key where the author places it, but you might find it challenging finding a 1.75u CNTL key among your favorite keycap set.
Some things really are cults. I don’t think that’s what’s going on here. Maybe there’s some foul play in “prediction markets” and that kind of crap, but what you’re suggesting with these comparisons is that this entire phenomenon is some deliberate ruse…
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Isn't some of the code that redhat distributes under GPLv3 or AGPL?

Are the terms there stricter?
What’s the process for this to be tested and moved onwards toward approved use?
Do you mean for 2024, or do you mean for the remainder of 2023?
it's absolutely gorgeous
Typically these guys will use the same prerecorded message for all phone calls. I'll record one of them when it's convenient for me, then just note every phone number and time of day I receive another call with the same message. The messages are very distinct so it's not hard to keep track. The hardest part is having a note taking system that's truly portable as these calls come at the worst possible times.

The first few times they call, I'll ask to be placed on the do not call list (and record that fact in my notes as well). Of course, they'll continue to call... so then it's on to social engineer the name of the company or beneficiary company (if a lead generator is calling you rather than the company itself).

Once I've figured out the name of the company, then I have to basically do the whole thing in reverse: I find a "legitimate" number for the company (off the website, whatever) and get a customer service associate to read off my fake customer information back to me.

It's important to keep receipts. The attorneys for these companies don't give up easily. They'll come up with all sorts of excuses - we don't make outgoing calls, its not us (OK then how did I get your company name?); how do you know it's XYZ company? (because Bob gave me the name when I received the call); how do you know that someone didn't falsely give our company name to defame us? (because I called the number for XYZ and Dave was able to look up my "customer" record)

Once you show that you have receipts and you're serious, they generally fold very quickly.
it did not need to last.

it only needed to launch.
Oh, the campaign flanking the invasion of France in 1944 (!), the only time strategic bombing actually did something meaningful. Up to that point, not so much.

Funny so, that you fight against reports from the RAF and USAAF confirming that strategic bombing didn't have the intended effect for all the previous years of the war. That attitude is getting a trend online so, first it was Wehraboos glamorizing German tanks and mechanized warfare, now it is people doing the same thing with allied bombing and bombers. Both are wrong by the way.
Although I do see your point, Good practice in storytelling has always been show don't tell, this is because stories themselves can always be shortened drastically and a plot can be summarized to a sentence, this is why the importance of storytelling is not the story, but the experience the writer can impose on its audience.

A writers primary weapon and tool to manipulate its audience is engaging their empathy, being told "they loved each other" might make someone think about a loved one, but it wont work on the majority.