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> … despite the fact that many materials — including graphene, frogs and pliers — can exhibit similar magnetic behaviour.

This is a dishonest argument. Frogs and pliers don’t levitate on a typical magnet in ambient conditions, so you can’t say the behavior is ‘similar’ just because ‘everything levitates in a strong enough magnetic field’.
If your measuring stick can’t distinguish these two significantly different behaviors, it’s a useless measuring stick.

Also, more generally, the logic of science is statistics, not Boolean logic. We all know that

[(p —> q) and q]

doesn’t logically imply p, but still observing q makes p more likely when thinking probabilistically.

Overall I found the article to be very dismissive of weak evidence and also shortsighted when considering the potential applications that we can’t think of right now (even if those are not the typical hoped-for applications like efficient power transmission).
Apparently regardless of how annoying it is, it's still worth it for the perpetrators.

Over here in the EU I can start off with asking who is the data controller, but results are still mixed - from hanging up, through trying to weasel out of a response to finally telling me who is mismanaging my data like this[0].

I think I'm still getting labeled as "asking too many questions", because it's subsidised.

Also, robocalls still happen occasionally - can't do anything about that.

[0] A guy producing shell company after shell company - twelve such entities since mid 2020.
A cyberattack has disrupted hospitals and health care in several states
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_pinning
Your library would very likely love to have both, but the cost of providing eBooks is such that for systems whose budgets are shrinking, it often does mean choosing one over the other. The decision to eliminate a print collection is unfortunate, but often better than hanging onto a decaying rack of books that only serves to signal to users that the library is outdated and obsolete too.
Here's the LK-99 tie in: the most precise gravity meters in the world are superconducting meters, which require a lot of power (2 kW contonuous) to maintain a helium dewar at 4K. It's tough to make that a field instrument. A compact, stable, room temperature gravity sensor would be a huge advance for hydrogeophysics.
i think you would have to communicate your desire not to be contacted, then it can be telephonic/electronic harrasment. so far, good luck actually getting any meaningful contact with these entities.
Because if it is superconducting they only have tiny tiny superconducting chunks in a much larger sample that isn't. A couple of superconducting grains of sand in a rock, basically. Separate them out, try to test them on their own while ignoring all the rock parts, well that's difficult.

I suspect that what they actually have is some incredibly tiny superconducting crystals suspended on a material that is almost identical except for the placement of a few atoms. Very hard to work with.

Or it's just a regular diamagenetic material.
Not dismissing Global Heating, I’d point out that Northern Argentina, Western Paraguay have both semi arid savannas and steppes to arid desert climates. It is not no stranger to high temperature anytime of year, neither to the sudden steep subtropics warm up midwinter known locally as ‘veranito' [little summer].

Here in SE SA plateau it's been a normal to cooler winter.
>What would be really powerful is if they included all the documents that were sent to them already without you having to upload them

They already do. Any taxpayer should be able to get their own "Wage and Income" transcript via self-service at the IRS web site. This includes the standard info documents you listed plus many others.

However the timing of when they become available might require filing for an extension (i.e. after April 15 due date). Still have to calculate and pay the tax due by the due date.

More importantly, the taxpayer receives their own direct copy of these documents long before they are available from the IRS.
Yeah, the MiSTer project is really just a loose collection of people with a loose common goal. So the true accuracy of cores does vary a lot. Most users don't really care, as long as they provide a pretty accurate experience. I think most MiSTer owners (myself included) prefer it over emulation due to having no lag. I also really like that the MiSTer does not buffer any writes, so there is no shut down. Just turn it off when you are done, allowing my setup to be very console-like.
"The problem with pretending to be an idiot on the internet is that eventually you attract genuine idiots, who think themselves in good company"
It's not being edgy, that is literally the root of what makes vulgarity vulgarity. That and the bodily functions stuff. The former is fictional and the latter is natural. Oh no god is going to ruin our harvest because I asked him to damn everything. People being offended by 'shit' is stupid.
What year and month are you living in? In my timeline these links are 3 years, 12 days old.
I think that for true hovering demos the trick is to cool the super conductor to below its critical point while it’s already inside the magnetic field. Then any way you move it will immediately induce a reacting current in the superconductor that will move it back into place. Exactly the same place since it’s a super conductor and has 0 resistance. I think in these demos though it is the fact that one side is heavier and dragging that’s leading it to stay in place
The sun is actually fairly unusual for a star. Most stars are smaller than the sun.
> non-artists to use other people's skills instead

Here is where I think you're wrong: Everyone is a potential artist.

Many never have the opportunity because of economic reasons: some people don't have the time to cultivate the mechanical skills necessary to render their vision.

All artists pull from the work of others constantly. That is 'using other people's skills'. It is absolutely privileged to have the opportunity to devote time cultivating art production skills (which is usually done by studying and replicating the process of the artists that came before them).

If someone is born to a single mother, grows up having to raise their siblings, then has to immediately start working to help support their family, they don't have the privilege or time to explore art production skills. Technology has been making art production more accessible for hundreds of years, and that's a clear net good. I want everyone to be able to make art if they want to.

It up to the artist if they want to manifest their vision without creating the pigments and brushes themselves, or using a drawing tablet, or using generative AI tools - it all can be art that is meaningful to the person who creates it and more art in the world is a good thing.

Commercial art isn't a very good representation of the artists soul: they are constrained by market forces or their patron rather than producing what their own heart desires. We should all be happy to sacrifice commercial art jobs if it means that every person in the world gains the ability to render the art that comes from their soul.
The US is adding cheap renewable energy to the grid at a much higher rate than the rate of adoption of electric cars.
I’m a traditional network person. Is there a way to avoid zero trust?

It’s possible. Here’s a way to determine if the organization can ignore zero trust altogether:

- There is no shift to the cloud, now or in the future

- The supply chain is wholly owned by the organization or provided by vendors that allow for full auditing and verification

- All assets are self-hosted and managed by the organization

- All user devices are provided and strictly managed by the organization

- All users can be expected to connect from within a pre-determined physical location, not through a VPN

- All users are completely trustworthy at all times with no financial incentive to become compromised

- All users are well-trained in cybersecurity concepts and would never be negligent insiders

- All acquisitions and mergers are extremely audited for the above requirements, or assets are not co-mingled until the above requirements are met
Steam also didn't support preloading the game, because it had an early access version. Really hope they fix that at some point, especially since this game's early access launch was so popular that it crashed steam, meaning this release had to take place in the morning washington-time when Valve employees are awake.

I totally understand the trouble they're having though, since this release is three weeks early to avoid other highly-anticipated games that launch at the end of august.
A piece of magnetized iron would flip the other way if you turned over the magnet. That's why in the Chinese videos you see them remove the magnet, flip it over, and put it back.

The same "end" of LK99 floats, no matter which pole of the magnet you put toward the sample.
You think years of training, education and experience don't occur outside fancy journals? You believe it's not "science" if it's not published in Nature? Wow.
With regard to Oppenheimer, I find it interesting that others on the Manhattan project such as von Neumann and Teller did not have nearly the angst about nuclear weapons.

Looking at where they were born may make sense. Oppenheimer was born in the United States in New York City. He had probably never faced a real threat of invasion and destruction.

However, von Neumann and Teller were both born in Hungary and had seen first hand that there is evil in the world, and the world is a dangerous place, and the way to protect ourselves from that danger is being more powerful than your enemies.

There is no good war. All war involves killing. In the grand scheme of morality, killing 18 year old conscripts is also pretty bad.
Painting a room is one of those weird jobs that takes a lot of concentration (especially cutting in), and very little thought. I find it goes better with a beer in one hand. Given that basically every paint can opener on the planet is also a bottle opener, I suspect that I'm not the only one.
It's too simple - it's simplistic. It doesn't control for some (yet unknown) things that make it fail or succeed, which makes it hard to replicate.
I'm absolutely ready to be disappointed by LK-99. Some sort of fraud, some sort of experimental error, something interesting that's still not a real superconductor, a real superconductor but a quirk of the material means that it'll never scale past being a parlor trick, whatever.

However, Nature weighing in that way feels premature to me. It's been what ... 2 weeks? If that? Somehow it just feels that something as momentous as a plausible room temperature superconductor should take a bit more time to rule out as a fake. Unless there's some pretty blatant fraud involved where they're literally levitating it with a string.

Nature feels like the sort of publication where their job is to have the final say after all of the dust has settled. Participating in hot takes with a negative conclusion just feels like they're hedging their bets. If it turns out to be false then they can say that they were right at the beginning. If it turns out to be true, then everyone will be so excited that they'll forget about anything nature came out with.

Meanwhile, wikipedia feels like it has pretty objective reporting on things that are actually happening more or less as they're happening. It just doesn't have a narrative to go along with it.
I made an account just to dialog about this :)

I have been working the past 3 years to turn off my internal dialog because I was only using it to stroke my own ego in a way - imaginary conversations with my boss where I can always respond/counter/defend whatever he MIGHT have to say to me about something. These conversations never occurred in real life, so I realized how senseless it was to devote my attention and energy to something so detached from reality.

I am no worse off for not "thinking things through" in my mind, because I tend to get sudden imprints of what I need to do or say next which are not a serial monologue of thoughts that guide me to understanding. On the other hand, I have been working on categorizing and actually processing my emotions as they are occurring, rather than ignoring them entirely, and many times I do need to have an external, verbal monologue for my subconscious to piece together all of the things it knows implicitly in bulk, but not explicitly as a single coherent concept.

One thing that does come and go is some sort of background music in my head, which also doesn't limit my ability to think. Finally, cannabis CAN give me that "serial monologue in my head" kind of thinking, which I have come to consider a mild "brain vacation" - especially if I am overwhelmed with stress or anxiety.
The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won
I got downvoted heavily but I genuinely do enjoy etymology. Wasn't at all a negative remark, just a playful jab

Anyways thanks for the explanation. I wasn't in on the meme
Food delivery in particular. The added cost is quite significant once you figure in service fee + tip + restaurant mark-up (many restaurants will charge more than the menu price on UE/GH/DD to make up for the cut of the order that the service takes).

You wind up paying a significant amount for food that has been effectively steamed in an insulated bag.
A piece of magnetized iron would flip the other way if you turned over the magnet. That's why in the Chinese videos you see them remove the magnet, flip it over, and put it back under the sample.

The same "end" of LK99 floats, no matter which pole of the magnet you put toward the sample.
This is sort of happening. Consumer "demand" is already showing IPv6-first usage in part because the (non-evil/braindead) consumer ISPs to avoid CGNAT scenarios have been moving to IPv6-first or IPv6-only with NAT64 gateways. This is especially the case in US mobile carriers who are generally some of the largest ISPs at this point by volume of US consumer traffic.

It's mostly the Enterprise level that has failed to get the message and is failing the IPv6 internet. Even just the examples in this article: It makes zero sense that GitHub still has no AAAA records (and is increasingly slow and lethargic on mobile carriers via NAT64 gateways; it is not just that their mobile app is only so-so, it's also their networking is slow). It makes zero sense that Docker put its AAAA records on weird secondary domains instead of their main domains.

Now that all of the major cloud providers are charging for IPv4 address space on a per-hour scale that might see reflection in bottom lines in IT budgets, maybe there will be a fire finally lit under Enterprises to consider using more and better IPv6.
That's what confused me too. Is the point because somehow the word liberal is in both "liberal" (as in unrestricted, total?) war and liberal economics / politics that there's somehow a connection there? That's such a tenuous argument it seems incongruent with the rest of the article which seems decently articulated.
Considering that it delivers a feeling of productive communion, the camaraderie and esprit d'corps of solving problems together, and generally feeling useful, the answer might be yes. Especially if, as an adult, it's where you spend most of your waking hours.

Don't misunderstand me, I'm not romanticising the marriage of one's social life to one's workplace, nor overlooking the ways this "we are more than a company, we're family" rhetoric benefits employers at the expense of their employees' outside lives and broader well-rounded and fulfilment. But I think asking people to separate them in an extreme way is just as untenable.
How flies develop sight
Your link sort of hints at the reason, I think. There's enough posted to make a serious run at replicating it, and it seems to be simple enough that you can do it in a kitchen. At the same time, it's not so easy that people have cleanly demonstrated it -- the constant rollercoaster of "we're so back" and "it's so over" I think drives some of the hype.

It also seems like it has at least pretty strong diamagnetism, which while not a demonstration of superconductivity is both somewhat interesting and gives a vivid demonstration that's amenable to social media.
The US views company owners as royalty
Fractal arising from gravitational potential [video]
We are using it to plot data in the field of Navigation research.
The library is extremely easy to use and plots look amazing.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/8Mc04NB.png

Repository: https://github.com/UniStuttgart-INS/INSTINCT
I hate to say it, but I agree. Nature has outlived its "legit" branding by leaning too hard into the "product" realm. Most scientists don't want their fundamental work to be sold as a product unless it is a precursor to commercialization of their work. At that point, it becomes advertising rather than science.

When I see Nature pubs, I tend to enjoy the aesthetics of the articles, but discount them a bit to account for the mainstream-ness.
I've noticed in academia, as well as other places, that's it's becoming more fashionable to be anti "liberal", as in, against small "L" liberal values.

There's a sort of concerted effort to destroy the meaning of the word, or it's been co-opted by political organizations and bent to an extent that it's become meaningless.

To those on the "right" - the word "liberal" is almost a curse word, it doesn't mean liberal values (which many of them share) it means some fuzzy combination of "woke, democrat, evil, america hating".

To progressives, it's an increasingly inconvenient word as it becomes more difficult to reconcile the cognitive dissonance of simultaneously supporting authoritarian positions (censorship, consolidated power, militarism, embrace of public/private blurring, health dictates) while attempting to retain the mantle of liberalism that powered the "left" for the past fifty years.

So it's easier for everyone to just attack the word, this article is a great example of that.

It leaves us "classic liberals" stranded on a sinking island surrounded by sharks.
The Physics of Readability
Thanks for the link. Assuming it's accurate it sounds like the 24-year delay was just a bit of misfortune.
This looks like a very odd statement:

"There’s no guarantee a material that is a room-temperature superconductor would be of practical use, Vishik says."
I'd beg to differ on the USA not needing these bombs. They may be terrible weapons full of deeply problematic moral questions, but as long as vast arsenals of them exist in the hands of definitively hostile countries like Russia and China, the U.S certainly does need them. In an ideal world, these weapons would have never been developed at all, but since they have been, I prefer multiple politically counterbalanced powers having them over one side rejecting them completely while others maintain theirs and use them to threaten the world ever more frequently.

Just to note a further obvious point, the death of the USSR is irrelevant in this context. It didn't at all stop modern, politically aggressive Russia from having at least hundreds of usable nukes with which to threaten Europe.
Not odd, recently pointing out dupes because they have been getting out of control lately....

The TechCrunch article is way down page 4 at time of comment because it's old news already! Want to talk about it? Great! Go there!

The point of the dupe calling out is to stop conversations from repeating and being split up across multiple threads. When the discussion consolidates around one thread (whether it's the official post or not) that's where it should stay. OP could share the post and then comment with a link to the main discussion thread.

Guessing the OP was up on the story because of an earlier post about the FCC thing a day or so ago.

HN doesn't have a search? what are you talking about? The HN search powered by Algolia is excellent. Bottom of the site.
It's interesting that you mention Europe. Yes, these incidents happen here much more rarely, because we as a society take better care of mentally ill people, but that includes not randomly killing them when they're being mentally ill.
Lots of black-and-white pictures, lots of pictures in silhouette.

Pictures of the tower can also have a lot of... texture? If you don't know you're looking at "brown with shadows" you might think you're looking at "black with highlights."
Exactly right. It’s actually a fun exercise in social engineering, and can be a fascinating sociological experiment if you’re into that sort of thing.

The most successful persona unfortunately is that of a slightly senile senior citizen. Senile enough that you seem gullible to the caller, but believable that you have enough money and sense to continue with the transaction.
> their opinions were pretty much lockstep with the US right in terms of the pandemic, and it was clear this was due to ingrained government distrust

As a person born in communism but too young to remember, now living in USA, my attitude during pandemy was best described as: The mandates are more like guidelines than actual rules.

They were definitely a good thing. We needed people not to congregate en masse in poorly ventilated spaces. But joke’s on you if you think that means I won’t go running without a mask, not like I’m breathing in peoples’ face for extended periods.
From childhood to adolescence I used to go on calls with my dad to fix air conditioners with my dad and we met a Polish couple. By this time I was 14 and communist, having read the motorcycle diaries. Anyway, I asked them about their experience growing up in communist Poland.

The wife was absolutely disgusted towards communism. Mind you, this couple lived in a pretty luxurious two story house. She associated communism with lack. The husband on the other hand, well, he wasn't communist, but he told me about how you didn't feel precarious, so to speak. How you knew you'd be able to go to college if you studied hard, how you'd get to go to summer camp, how you'd get an apartment when you got a job, and so on. Like you could kind of feel economically secure about your future in a way that you couldn't in capitalism.

I found this really interesting. Perhaps this is gendered because the husband (who worked) is more stressed out by economic precarity than the wife (who didn't), or who knows.

Anyway, I think Poland is a bad example here - I think they are not as nostalgic towards communism generally as, say, Russians are. Moldovans seem to even go beyond nostalgia, holding communism to just be a time when life was much better.

I don't have opinions on this, just my experiences based on a handful of conversations. In other words, less than anecdotal.
I think it's in no small part because the news has been so dire for the past few years: pandemic, war in Ukraine, possibility of nuclear escalation, China licking lips at Taiwan, climate change, economy.

Then some news comes along also coincidentally with other weird fun news (UAPs) that's not bad in any ways, and may revolutionize society. Of course they are gonna run with it.
I have no idea of threads will succeed or fail, but this is overwrought.

1 - They launched an early product, missing many crucial features, but the features they shipped all worked. For any product this could be smart or could be dumb; the "dumb" case is when a product doesn't reach the threshold of "minimal" for an MVP. I do think the case that threads isn't yet MVP is a good one, but this article hangs everything on that point.

2 - But it can be good if you can get awareness and colonize adequate space in the market (there's only so much mindshare to go around). And in this case FB* has a huge advantage: simply because they are FB/IG they were able to get the app on 100MM phones. Which means as they keep adding features their barrier to pulling people back is lower than it would be for most new entrants. They can send you a notification (incredibly, most people don't disable them) and it's easier to hop on and take a look.

I don't care much either way, but I hate lazy takes like this one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37003137