skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say "the basics of superconductor theory" I said "the basic facts about superconductors", and I stand by my claim that those facts are enough to form an opinion about LK99 that is "above the noise floor", if you will.
This site truly is where humor goes to die
Yes, or it’s another opportunity to procrastinate and waste time engaging in social media…
superconductors don’t have a non-zero chance of killing us.
How far can this argument be extended? We can go back to vanilla JS/HTML/jQuery; these are all "easy to understand" things. But then too much spaghetti code builds up and then progress grinds down (much like in the Ramda team situation). You need some abstraction and order to maintain consistent productivity levels over the long-term.
It's deeply insidious. From the advert, they recognise that time is valuable:

> Just imagine no commute to the office in the morning and instead, you could have an extra hour of sleep and less friction

Cool, you mean by working from home?

No? Oh, you want me to home at work. Gross. People deserve a life away from work.
When navigator.getEnvironmentIntegrity is called the browser can get an attestation from any single atestor willing to attest to it.
I politely disagree. I have used hundreds/thousands of times in my life the "ELI5" method to explain anything and everything from IT security to budgeting, and it helps people understand. It will bore some of the audience in a call, but it will get the job done.
>Compete in anticompetitiveness?

Trust isn't anticompetitive.
> energy costs of running the device go way, way down

By how much?
They're very expensive.
I'm sorry if my comment isn't regarded as constructive... but you skimmed an 'article' consisting of three paragraphs, that takes maybe two minutes to read, but bothered to leave a comment on it?

When I read "I'll admit I only skimmed this article" I though maybe due to blocked JavaScripts the article didn't load for me and I only read the preface of the actual article or something...
Make Black Mirror fiction again.
That's what SF doesa with the golden gate. Want to say it gets repainted every 18 months or something?
I think I've been unclear on the problem. Trust inside a single team is not something I've found to be a major problem, but between teams. Let's be more concrete:

I need to build trust between between 6 EMs spread over three different directors and 2 vps + some very senior engineers. I need to do this so that we can solve one of the larger problems the business is facing. Most of these people have no good reason to talk to each other (or me) regularly. Without trust, one or more of these people will likely torpedo the proposal in order to avoid tying themselves to other teams and people they don't know.

Pre-covid the solution to this problem was (mostly) chatting over lunch. You'd get the right people talking, seed the idea, and build up to a proposal that everyone could agree to drive forward. IME this whole style of consensus building is dead in a remote world because async communication is too low bandwidth for trust building.

This makes it really hard to take good organizational bets, you have to wait till you have a mountain of data and customer feedback before you can sell big projects. The quality of the company's output really noticeably declines from this.
Makes sense, but how do you connect the two so e.g. credentials from one are surfaced in the other?
Shows how apples iPads for education might come out ahead in the long run.
To me, "ranging" means measuring the range to the target directly, not estimating it from other measurement types (bearings, for example). Can someone explain if that's what the authors are doing here? Is it analogous to stadiametric ranging? I haven't read through this in depth, but I can't figure out what their method is.
Some random anecdata:

I have a chronic sleep disorder, "Non-24 Sleep / Wake Disorder", which means my sleep floats pretty freely and doesn't naturally sync up with the sun. For the most part, I've structured my life for that to be ok, but sometimes it's not. I basically use melanin to bludgeon myself into a more normal sleep pattern when I have to. I usually start with 2 mg, 30-60 minutes before I want to sleep, but often when that doesn't work, take another 3 mg, which usually gets the job done. Often I don't even notice 1-2 mg, but 5 mg does register reasonably strongly.
I agree - “fixes” are a cool opportunity. I’ve created a runtime analysis of code execution that spots certain types of flaws and anti-patterns (that static analyzers cant find). Then I’m using a combination of the execution trace, code, and finding metadata (eg OWASP URL) to create a prompt. The AI responds with a detailed description of the problem (in the style of a PR comment), and a suggested fix. Here’s a short video of it in action - lmk what you think.

https://www.loom.com/share/969562d3c0fd49518d0f64aecbddccd6?...
Yes, and you can still buy those new on Amazon with no mention that they're unsupported, just like the chromebooks.
you could check eol date for that chromebook in advance?..
Superconductors don’t resemble AI at all in their implications, so this parody falls flat for me.
I went through and reread the whole news article.

There's nothing wrong with this article. I really don't see what you have to complain about. It's broadly factual, and roughly consistent with the mainstream opinion at this point: there is no smoking gun evidence of anything, and the noise being generated by social amateurs is making it hard to find the real signal from the small number of groups competent enough to make useful statements about this "discovery".
As opposed to its previous star?
You make some good points. I was very focused on speed/price/quality of network service in my post.

This also reflects my own biases and preferences. All I want from an ISP is a reliable uplink at a decent price. The last piece of equipment that is the ISP's is the ONT. I built my own router. I used to have my own DOCSIS modem, but I gave that to a family member a while ago and have had fiber since.

Ideally, I never talk to someone from my ISP. I have had Fios since 2017, and I have only had to talk to them once, to cancel service when I moved. So, as long as I have had Verizon (importantly, in homes that were already wired for Verizon and a competitor), they have been an ideal ISP.

I recognize that my preferences are far from universal, but my original post did not reflect that.
What a solution for consumerism. Imagine we only bought what we need. I’m being half tongue and cheek
When I think of a black swan, I think of something that when said outloud sounds ludicrous with foresight and somewhat obvious/ reasonable in hindsight.

It's something that will likely get you laughed at by domain experts and the general public until it happens.

Using that as a framework, I'll predict something that I don't actually belive :D

> Aliens are real, they're here on earth and they've got extremely advanced tech. Some whistle-blower will blow the lid on the whole thing as part of a October surprise in 2024

That sounds like insane magical thinking and any reasonable person can easily discount it. But after it happened (by nature of it actually being real), it would have a rational explanation with telltale signs all along.
Adding my similar experience to the mix. I don’t know my number, but I can tell for a fact that the girls who I deeply felt for are in the distant past, and the last dozens have all been some critical evaluation process of the person’s pros and cons in comparison to all the ones before. I hate it.

I am happily with someone way less experienced than me now, and I believe I can settle down with her now. I trust my ability to be done with the whole trying to one up on the last one now. If I had to only date people with similar pasts to mine, I most likely wouldn’t be able to trust them, however.
Most humans find "free" services irresistible. Until that strategy blows up in their face:

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

On the upside - I don't think that casinos have found a way to use this against humans. Yet.
It's telling about how ridiculous modern public discourse is that people are having to read to the authors to know if it's serious or not.
Don't throw away your unsupported Chromebook/box, you can unlock it and install whichever OS would be compatible with similar architecture PCs, making them a lot more versatile and powerful compared to those running ChromeOS.

More information here: https://mrchromebox.tech/
You know what I meant by "infinite resolution". Today's monitors are nowhere close to retina (human eye resolution) and even further from being diffraction limited (the color frequency stuff you're talking about)

> If the monitors resolution and the font resolution were identical

Fonts are typically infinite resolution because they are small programs that you execute. Also see https://blog.mecheye.net/2012/12/bytecode/

> The brain processes sound logarithmically. Is the same true for vision?

If you're talking about brightness, it's a cube-root curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightness#Relationship_to_valu...

> I watch movies at 24 frames per second, and yet, I'm usually incapable of perceiving this

Film projectors flash the same image multiple times because humans can easily notice 24fps. The lamp flickers and that's why movies are called "flicks". Good monitors flash each frame for only 1ms for the same reason: https://blurbusters.com/faq/motion-blur-reduction/

Try the UFO test: https://www.testufo.com/. If you genuinely can't see the difference between 30/60/120 Hz, you should get an eye exam because that's not normal.
what happened exactly after end of life date? Was it just no update arrived but device being fully functional?
I'm sure Palo Alto has hotels too, but Stanford still runs their own.
It seems like the entire point of online communities are to gameify whatever the community is about. I noticed it around 2008 and its only been getting worse.

Creating Internet points (likes, shares, retweets, karma, w/e the system) was a huge mistake for humanity. I'm starting to appreciate forums and chatrooms again where everything doesn't have to be a competition and people aren't trying to min/max everything they come across.
with showers, you say?
What? I’m not even logged in and can see it. Are you under the impression you need to pay for a GitHub account to view things hosted on it?
“More than everyone else together” is meaningless without considering the relevant population sizes (in this case, the relevant population is “number of researchers producing papers”).

If China has half the worlds academics-writing-papers, one would _expect_ them to be responsible for half the fabricated ones.
everything has a non-zero chance of killing us.
Rich has become a legend for me. Btw, he is a remarkably good person at doing conferences. One of my favorites together with Andrei Alexandrescu.
293K signatures… Cute!
It has 293k signatures I just realized
This won't change the minds of any AI doomers, but it should give everyone else a chuckle.
I don't think they're arguing against abstractions. Just this one in particular.
Yes, with terragrunt you can do a `terragrunt run-all apply` and based on `output` to `variable` in each module data can be passed from one state/module to the next one, terragrunt knows how to run them in the right order so you can bootstrap your EKS cluster by having one module which bootstraps the account, then another one which bootstraps EKS, then one that configures the cluster, installs your "base pods" and then later everything else.
Nice

Verge had an excerpt of it a few weeks ago too:

https://www.theverge.com/23796894/john-romero-id-software-co...
Not certain I'd call that a win. A lesser loss than the opposition if you will.

Reddit had really pulled off something fantastic in building what is essentially a self-regulating community which is quite a feat. They caused significant damage to that foundation in the process of "winning". It's not immediate apparent or headline grabbing but the damage is there.

Replacement moderators are a dime a dozen if you ask for volunteers. But the skillset (and for lack of better word a certain obsessiveness) is not as common. Calling it a skillset is a bit rich, but can't think of a better word. It's a bit like walking into a canteen asking "who wants to be CEO" gets you lots of hands in the air, but concluding from that therefore CEOs are easily replacable doesn't quite follow.

Moderators aren't CEOs obviously but my point is the good ones tend to have something hard to quantify about them. Running roughshod over that was a strategic mistake imo that will impact long term quality.

Or maybe it'll remain below the surface long enough to IPO in which case perhaps it's not a strategic mistake for the existing investors...
This is a common approach - besides being robust to lighting conditions, it's less sensitive to glinting.
IR floodlights mounted to the front of trucks is a thing. Here's an example with photos of infrared lights used on a smuggling vehicle so the driver could turn the headlights off and drive by night vision: https://youtu.be/a8Q9Yibblbc?t=626
> The First World War was not finished when the shooting stopped. The resentment, restrictions and reparations were directly responsible for what came next.

This is nazi propaganda straight out of the book. It's being repeated a lot so maybe you don't know.

"The first WW was not finished" is an allusion to the dolchstoss legend. The allusion to war reparations being a cause for resentment was a common talking point for the Nazi party, but in reality Germany barely paid reparations.
Taxes (illegal) and transaction processing fees (legal)
I think it's awesome we live in an age where people are, for the most part, able to free their minds from the banal realities of survival, and fret about reading too much or 'for the wrong reasons'.
You can, that's what I've done with my current Chromebook
Oh, so it was written by a fan of AI, annoyed with critique of AI… That would explain why it's so bad - written using chat GPT ;)
You can never apply the "____ is more than enough" theory to technology. Remember when DSL felt as fast as driving a Ferrari?
Yeah maybe people should stick to calling it Twitter. X sounds dystopian.
People Keep Moving to Phoenix Because the Cost of Housing Is Low
It impacts how large a fine needs to be to be an effective deterrent. If you get a fine of 2 cents per call, and you have an average benefit of 50 cents per call, then the fine is just an operating expense, and doesn't deter you from continuing the behavior.
I think that all the elements present in the solar system that are heavier than hydrogen were made by previous stars and elements heavier that iron (or carbon I forget) were necessary made by stars that went supernova.

It would be very surprising if all these stars were not surrounded by rocky planets who themselves had volcanism and thus a process of rock creation.
These levels come from the US’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration formal definition in 2013. It’s been updated a few times since then with SAE introducing an extra level in 2014, but the point was really a formal definition for regulation.

https://unece.org/DAM/trans/doc/2013/wp29grsp/WP.29-161-18e....
Asian as a category represents literally over half the entire human population.

It's the most linguistically, ethnically, and religiously diverse bucket imaginable.
Short answer: Lobbyists.

Basically, the Intuits, H.R. Blocks, Jackson-Hewetts, et al., stand to lose a large chunk of their revenues if the IRS did everyone's taxes for them.

Additionally, those in power, or with enough influence over those with power, do not want to fund the IRS to have easy visibility into all of those possible revenue streams in an easily correlated manner.
That works as long as you maintain that growth. Too long a bump and you're waiting tables ;) But at least that didn't happen to DO. Being create with financing is probably a very important component in starting companies that have a lot of capital expenses to make, and it is the kind of thing that your typical tech founder usually has little experience with.
Perhaps an institution may go for the iPad as it is harder to bypass the security and root/jailbreak and install apps (APKs) from a PC.

On the other if you are like me and prefer to read from a 10" or a 12.4" (Samsung) tablet, for which I don't mind the 'no updates', as I use it only as a reader that is always on Airplane mode and never connects to the internet. But I have no idea how many people go to that extreme (use a tablet only for reading and zero online connection).
GPT4 web chat for two hours a day? I buy that. Using the API repeatedly for the same inputs, eg developing a program, and the non-determinism is hard to miss.
It's not about age. I'm in a good few reader and author groups on FB, and the median age is closer to 40 than 20.

The most popular books are series of undemanding mass-market fiction, usually with some repeating branding in the titles and/or cover art that makes it clear they're related.

People don't just read them, they collect them. And then post photos of their collections. And also post how well how they're doing on their hundreds-of-books-a-year reading challenge.

It's a world I never knew existed, with a very unfamiliar culture.

I think it's really more about conspicuous consumption than reading for pleasure or enjoyment.

Gamification has made it compulsive.
why halt R&D ? also to go from R&D to industrial process it will take much more than 6 months !
Agree it’s odd. Must be one of these, which don’t really have a name (link from the article):

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23886219-integrated-...

> SUMMARY 1.1 Background Chevron Corporation submitted premanufacture notices (PMN) for eighteen waste plastic fuel streams, P-21-0144 through 0150, P-21-0152 through, and P-21-0160 through 0163). These new chemical substances (NCSs) are complex mixtures. They are manufactured concurrently with petroleum streams and have identical composition; the only difference is that the feedstocks are waste plastic-based sources rather than petroleum-based sources. The intended uses are as fuels, fuel components, and chemical intermediates or refinery feedstocks
What measures would you suggest to prevent people from doing that?
My own two cents on melatonin at low (.5mg) dosages: it helps me go to bed and keep a reasonable circadian rythm 100x better than any sleep hygiene trick. Without it I have racing thoughts for hours and no sleep pressure on a 24 hour cycle. It's a great boon for me, a healthy normal person.
> The smallest OTC dosage you can get, is 1mg

Well, in the US yeah. It's banned OTC in France and the Netherlands will actually sell you the 0.3mg pills.
To be fair, I thought the Melatonin for food waste was comedy.
pretty much all solar systems are remnants of the original first generation stars though, yeah? if the universe started with nothing but hydrogen, that was the source of the first gen stars, then it took those dying off to give us He,O,C, etc.

The one that gets me is the theory that Earth is at least a second generation planet. So, maybe Ryugu returned some of the material that survived from what made up the first gen planet(s) Earth was formed. The fact that Jupiter hasn't hoovered all of that up is also impressive.
To fix issues like this we need more work on gene drive. Targeting doublesex gene in insects has a very promising results in different species from mosquitos https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24790-6 to fruit-flies https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301525120. So it can be used to eliminate the most harmful pest species.
Startups built on ChatGPT can be useful, but their value depends on the specific applications and services they offer. While ChatGPT can generate content, these startups need to showcase unique features and services that go beyond simply using ChatGPT. Regarding data usage, reputable startups should always prioritize user consent and comply with privacy regulations to ensure data is handled responsibly. Transparency and clear user consent are essential aspects of building trust in AI-powered applications.

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I wouldn't assume that intent and that hasn't been my experience on the platform. There was a visible uptick of Twitter discontent voiced on all platforms (including HN) at several points this year. It's easy to follow accounts that arent fixated on the old.
this exact sentiment was used to discourage the birth of science. common people enraged at the pointless and wasteful expenditures of the rich. to them, their telescopes and experiments were just as stupid as this. i would relax.
VC money is super expensive. Banks are the cheapest option, especially if you own property you can just use that that get a bunch of working capital. Any capital for equity should if you can swing it be done as convertible loans so that you at least have the option to pay it back if that is in your best interest. It also keeps the cap table clean and you (the founders) solidly in control until you decide to change that.

I've seen more than one case where a company was looking to do a round but they had not even considered the option of taking out a bank loan against their inventory. Especially for short term liquidity that's much, much better than VCs buying stock.
Capella’s Earth-imaging satellites are deorbiting faster than expected
the Signatories list is so fun
Could it be lemon juice? That's a common think to add to preserve color and prevent oxidation in a home recipe.
Steven Soderbergh Says It’s Time to Tear the Streaming Model Down to the Studs
Yes, preserving my own life is worth more to me than passing resources to “future generations”. I’m not having kids anyway.

Death is a natural part of life, but so was smallpox until it wasn’t. Nature fucking sucks and we should bend it to our will.
NVK Has Landed
As of today, NVK, the new Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs, has landed in the main Mesa branch and will be included as an experimental driver in the 23.3 release of Mesa. This is the culmination of over a year of work by Faith Ekstrand as well as Karol Herbst and Dave Airlie at Red Hat, and about a dozen community contributors.
> His storytelling benefits from his hyperthymesia, a rare condition that gives him exceptional memory across his entire life.

Well that explains something.

I saw Romero give a (fantastic) talk at Strange Loop last year. What completely blew me away was the Q and A afterwards. For like half an hour, people would ask him all sorts of random questions and for every one, he had an unbelievably detailed answer.

At one point, someone asked about the Id's transition from having all employees be equal partners to hiring employees with a salary and how that worked out around compensation. With zero hesitation, he just started walking through, "Well, in $year we all made $x and then when we hired $employee, we paid him $y but then later we updated it to $z..." And he just kept going with concrete dates and numbers for anything. It was like a total Rain Man experience, and every question was like that.

It's like his entire past is an open book exam. For someone who can barely remember what he did last week, I'm jealous.
Yes, just get liquid melatonin from Amazon and you can dose it super precisely using small syringe.
Docker Compose with .env overrides is very close to an ideal local dev environment, the only downside is if you don't use Linux you can hit some I/O bottlenecks (it got better with VirtioFS in Docker Desktop but still not native-speed)..

I still wait for properly usable remote work environment that trumps local in performance and convenience.... I feel like the VS Code approach with server-client IDE architecture and the client running as a web application is going in the right direction but not quite there yet.., Especially if you can leverage lots of RAM and GPU power in your workflow and often work from different locations, don't want to carry your laptop around but still want to use the same power, environment & configuration on any machine you work from....