skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> were responsible for the sharp drops in electrical resistivity and partial levitation over a magnet

Are these properties still useful? If something can levitate without being a superconductor it is already useful for a LOT of things.
Safe to say your salary is an anomaly in the Canadian tech landscape.
>The number of daily items the Social media role at the time was expected to fill was incredibly high.

vs https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-i-told-i-chunky-fat...

"I was asked to twerk for a co-worker at one point. I was told I was chunky, fat, ugly, stupid."
Because people should have the right to defend themselves and their things. Stealing and assault are not the basic human rights you want them to be.
> Canada's GDP and mineral resources don't really help it win this kind of "war".

The USA would like access to those resources, and during trade negotiations, some industries need to be sacrificed (impose tariffs) in order to get access to them.
My own transition was when I returned a few items in a row that were brazenly unfit for their intended purpose. A heater fan that had locked up and melted without a thermal cutoff kicking in, a palm sander whose handle got extremely hot, paint that didn't stick to a surface and beaded up. The clerk just didn't care about any reasons for returning or feedback. I had wanted to be asked questions because these items were clearly defective. But, no questions asked. Companies just really don't care about the details of what they're selling beyond the immediate bottom line.

Since then I've come to see the return window as an extended purchase decision. My stock of items sitting around is a local cache of things I might need, rather than having to delay a project for another shipping time or waste time running to the store and getting gouged. I'll even do things like buy a tool because it's on sale at a good price, then decide a few months later whether I really need it or not. Recently I've even been toying with the idea of skipping digging through piles of box store sheet goods - order some quantity much larger than what I need, have them load onto my trailer, go through at home at my own pace, and then bring back the rejects/unneeded and they can unload.

It's not how I'm wired - when I make decisions I generally want them to be settled. But I'm paying for that overhead anyway, and there's no honor on retailers' part - stocking busted up goods to begin with, playing games with sale prices and coupons, terrible packing jobs, etc. So whatever, they chose the rules and I just play them according to my own incentives.

I still can't fathom how the overall system adds up though. Intellectually I get it that if only 10% of items are returned and trashed, prices only need to go up 10% to compensate. But I don't understand how there aren't many more returns since that is the optimal strategy for taking advantage of sales/bundles/competition/etc. I can only think that most people are much more reluctant to have "spent money" outstanding in the short term, regardless of getting it back down the line.
The question isn't about whether the trans-identified have their basic rights. Of course they do, like every other citizen. It's about whether they should be granted extra rights, particularly those that override the existing rights of women.

For example, should a trans-identifying male criminal have the right to be incarcerated in women's prisons? Some female prisoners have already suffered rapes and sexual assaults from such males, in states that granted this right to the them.
(only speaking as an American) The amount of effort, cost, and discomfort involved in transitioning most of America from car-first to infrastructure that supports walking and biking is quite large. Given the choice between staying as things are, moving your entire life to a distant urban area, or being taxed to upgrade infrastructure, many are going to desire the first option.
I wrote about this article a few years ago [0]. It's a fun read, but I'm still not entirely convinced by its critique. Here was my conclusion at the time:
At its worst, this article is the amusing grumblings of a disgruntled researcher; at its best, it’s an interesting take on methodology.

This was one of my favorite papers I've found through Fermat's Library [1].

[0] https://bcmullins.github.io/top-articles-2020/#the-theory-of...

[1] https://fermatslibrary.com/journal_club
I personally agree with this.

Most people are pathetically weak with such an extreme aversion to minor discomfort or the denial of indulgence and acute pleasure. This counter intuitively makes their holistic life experience more miserable than if they had the foresight to sacrifice a little today for a much better future.

Aversion to exercise and eating healthy resulting the obesity epidemic is the classic example of this.

Enlightened hedonism is the way.
There are good reasons to do things like farming in the desert via irrigation. If water is not an issue, then crops are significantly more productive per acre due to the increased sunlight. Places where water is plentiful tend to be less productive for agriculture due to the increase in cloud cover; a rainy day is a day when the plants get less energy.

There's a balance to be struck between using an unsustainable amount of desert water, and using none of it.
ChatGPT API is not free.
That's just a script. CONFIG.SYS was where the real damage was done. "Now where'd I put that boot floppy?"
I don’t think you’ve ever been the level of our-of-shape that many people are. I have experienced the full spectrum from trained-athlete to alcoholic obesity, and there is a level of out-of-shape you can be where going for a half mile walk will be physically painful for more than a day. It really feels miserable. The good news is that it can be overcome.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-judge-overturns-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/us/kentucky-tennessee-tra...

From https://19thnews.org/2023/07/anti-lgbtq-laws-blocked-federal...

> "Across the country, we’re seeing a clear and unanimous rejection of these laws as unconstitutional, openly discriminatory and a danger to the very youth they claim to protect,"

We learned the lesson.
I mean, it happens today as well, and I'm pretty sure without any spears.

https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/drama-as-mum-gives-birth...
Eh, you should still be a little harsh, though.

A common thread in a lot of these stories is people pushing the idea that The Authorities are not to be trusted. The government is lying to you about UFOs! The scientific establishment has been sitting on room temperature superconductors for 20 years!

And sure, question authority.

But also question the people telling you to question authority.

Because contrarians are just ripe for affinity fraud, and while most of that affinity fraud is centered around alt-med, the cultivation of a pervasive distrust of authority is part of what enables the scam.
> Most PhDs are incredibly specific and don’t necessary indicate broad knowledge of a field as a whole

> Which is why you should be wary of “experts” making overly broad claims about topics within their field but far outside their area of expertise.

I mostly agree, but also I think it depends on how strong you are suggesting this and if you also acknowledge that there is high variance between domains as to the variance within the distribution of knowledge. Your last sentence is where I really disagree. There is a big difference.

But I think for the general person, there's 2 things of note: 1) just because you should be wary of an expert talking outside their niche (but inside their broader domain), doesn't mean that their opinion is equal to that of a layman. I'd still trust the mostly-expert over the non-expert any day. The true-expert is often very hard to find tbh. Look for nuance and you'll increase the likelihood of finding the expert. 2) It is easy to confuse expert talk with arrogance or pretentiousness. It is also easy to be that way when talking to a layman as the nature of those conversations will never be between peers, but more akin to a teacher and student. The two parties are not equal, but we're primed to treat any non-academic setting conversation as if we are. The experts often have serious doubts and are far more self-conscious than they appear. You just won't see that unless you're a peer and can speak the language, because experts are also specifically taught to defend their work and speak with confidence. Your hint is how they respond to critiques from other experts (but that's not easy to do accurately as there's probably a lot of nuance you aren't seeing and they are speaking a different language even if you understand all the words).

Everyone should always be skeptical though. That's for certain. But I just want to make sure we don't turn knowledge into a binary setting: expert vs idiot. There's a lot in-between and that matters a lot.
What is the use case for turning off WiFI at bedtime?
I can only assume you've not been to either city if you think Montreal is that much worse or NYC that much better, in terms of year-round climate.

But more importantly, you can't increase your population if your cities have to ration the water or food supply because climate change has destroyed both. And mass migration is not going to happen without destroying lives and livelihoods.
From Wikipedia:

> DeSmog, (formerly The DeSmogBlog) founded in January 2006, is a journalistic and activist website that focuses on topics related to climate change. The site was founded, originally in blog format, by James Hoggan, president of a public relations firm based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DeSmog&oldid=1164...
There’s regularly news about people’s tap water being flammable, or city-cized pile of fast fashion garbage in the developing world, or whale carcass filled with plastics.

And the reaction is to go purchase a new giant-ass truck and get the engine detuned to roll coal on a cyclist.
I use a jailbreak tweak for this: https://github.com/PoomSmart/CCOnOff
check your current garage door system...it might have a solution available already, like a timer for instance
CORBA was another attempt of much the same thing there are dozens at the time. Of course each had slightly different goals and variations, so you can't always compare directly. Some were more to one direction or the other.
It's undiscoverable enough that lots of people (including myself) had no idea that this was possible, though!

Not saying that as a criticism of this particular application. Discoverability is a very hard problem (which is probably why the modern trend is to just give up on it entirely). I'm glad that Microsoft didn't completely neglect it here.

Edit: Does View -> Update Speed -> Paused do what it implies? Does it pause all updates? because that's not what I want here... what I want is to stop the reordering of the items in the list, not to stop the updating of the items.
It sounds like you were explaining it to people before it was confirmed - why did you do that? I don't really grok the emotional connection you seem to be talking about - how does someone pin their mental state so much on something like this (unconfirmed research)?

Is it the idea that there might be something great happening, and that we might get the chance to live in exciting times? I could see people wanting to believe in that opportunity.
From your link, a specific PAH called benzopyrene _may_ cause cancer in low amounts. It's a pretty extraordinary claim to say that we should be concerned about carcinogens from cooking with cast iron, which has been used long before our current high rates of cancer. I could see that being an argument against certain oils, but contrast that with the corresponding increase in cancer rates after the proliferation of teflon and PFAS in cookware/durable goods/clothing/lubcrication.
I don’t listen to podcasts. Aren’t there usually transcripts? Could someone please help me out?
> FTA: “If you appear with your scientific contents between videos of cats,” she says, “it’s not a particularly good medium for promoting yourself professionally, anyway”.

Seems like a great way to get your ideas noticed by a wider audience, increase scientific literacy of the general populace, etc. Maybe you don't want it to be your only outlet, but it seems like a beneficial one to use.
Brawl in general was the perfect encapsulation of what is wrong with Nintendo (though tbf they have course corrected somewhat in Smash Ultimate) - Melee was a game that allowed an incredibly high skill ceiling with it's high speed and myriad advanced techniques, which birthed the biggest grassroots competitive fighting game scene ever. But Nintendo hadn't conceived of Smash as a competitive game and so they went alllll the way out of their way to shut that shit down in the next iteration. Lowered the speed of the game, made it way floatier so combos are harder, ensured there were no advanced movement techniques, and even introduced mandatory bullshit rng like the tripping mechanic.
Maybe, but the truth is that Twitter is not doing okay. It hasn't been doing okay ever since Elon bought the site, and it's because his purchase saddled the company with so much debt that he basically had no choice but to drastically change course.

In other words, the pretense that the site is doing just fine and that reports of its death are being overblown by a bunch of people with political axes to grind is _also_ a narrative, and one that simply doesn't foot with reality.
Yeah, I think that is actually pretty insightful. But although that is what it has been it may not neccessarily be what comes next. I imagine developer copilots to take care of the mundande coding you would need to do without frameworks like Spring and basically make them unneccessary to a large extent. Instead you will have leaner apps, but with a larger proportion custom code, and less use of dependencies.
Oh, ya, if DangitBobby is thinking there are no auto-mated migrations in production then we're talking about two different things. I just meant the ability to infer migrations from models.
I'm not sure it's practically actionable, but some of the best couple matches are surprising.
Well in the context of the paper, the fact that the interstellar drive in Traveller manages to avoid the relativistic affects of lightspeed travel makes things much easier.
I think this kind of excitement followed up with "wasn't anything after all" is both dangerous and wrong.

When science is done badly (which arguably shouldn't be considered science), which then leads the public to have elevated expectations, only then for science to be done right and disprove and reject the original "findings", public trust in science is ever so slightly damaged.
When I was living in Canada, my ex's family drove to the US for nearly 100% of medical screenings and 100% of dental work because waiting 6 months for an MRI or root canal when you're in debilitating pain is totally unreasonable.

It's better now, but now Canada also has shit like: "tired of waiting? try assisted suicide".

The US might have high standard costs but at least you have the option to pay for better than standard.
You could consider apiculture. Yes, that's right, beekeeping. You might wonder how this is relevant to your 11 years of development experience, but let me explain.

Beekeeping can offer a relaxing, nature-oriented antidote to the stresses of coding, and moreover, there is a burgeoning market for smart apiary technology. Bee mortality rates have increased over recent years for numerous reasons, and technology is beginning to find ways to address these problems.

As a developer, you could design systems to monitor hive health, honey production levels or even bee activity. This data can be used to predict illnesses, optimize honey production, or understand more about bee behavior, providing valuable insights to the beekeeping community as well as researchers.

This unique combination of software development and beekeeping could potentially be a lucrative side gig. Not to mention, a proportion of the honey could be sold for additional profit or used for personal consumption.

So, while it may seem far fetched, your coding skills could help save the global bee population while offering a calming, profitable new hobby.

(:
...please describe how what you've written is relevant to privacy advocacy.
> Stealing and assault are not the basic human rights you want them to be

I think you may be replying to someone else, because I said no such thing.
https://www.quora.com/In-Tesla-and-SpaceX-how-much-of-the-te...

A number of years back I had an email from a bloke called Elon Musk. I was vaguely aware of who he was but not very.

At the time I was the global expert in a very weird alloy (the market for it was perhaps 5 or 10 tonnes a year. A very weird and minority interest alloy). It was aluminium scandium, which the Russians had developed to compete with Nasa’s use of aluminium lithium. In many ways a better alloy too. And, obviously, there were possible uses in rockets and so on (rather more in something like a Shuttle than in simple rockets though).

OK, so I get this email and it asks me whether this aluminium scandium is worth it, will it make my rockets lighter, asks Musk. No, not really, it’ll make them easier to weld but not lighter particularly. Which was pretty much the end of the exchange.

So, when people ask me whether Musk does tech stuff I would have to say yes. Because he tracked down a one man company that knew the straight answer to the question he needed answering. OK, you might not think that is engineering, preferring to think of it as people using a slide rule to work it all out themselves. But finding the bloke who knows the answer and asking them is engineering to me - it’s still getting to the right answer, isn’t it?
I would love to immigrate to Canada. However, my Express Entry score is lower than that of twenty-somethings, so I have yet to get picked up in a round.

I'm hopeful I'll get picked in one of the new tech rounds, but we'll see.
I'm a big fan of programs which help pay for both those relocations and the educations to help the transition.

I'm not a fan of holding the economy and the environment hostage because they have a traditional "attachment" to something that makes the world a worse place.
> But just like in parenting, this kind of experience and expectation can yield entitled personalities, which is indeed a common stereotype of Americans abroad. Or see American students' attitudes towards their university. They also approach it with the same customer attitude, and fair enough, they do have to pay hefty sums.

"The customer is always right" is more true in America than Europe.
Basic functional programming concepts are good, but it can easily go off the rails when people take it too far.
As noted by the sibling comment, the physicists (especially those who specialized in superconductor research!) were the ones who were the most skeptical of the announcement, partially because claims of room-temperature superconductors are actually relatively common, and partially because the evidence in the paper was just atrociously bad [1].

One of the things I look forward to in an HN discussion is the comments of people who can collate expert opinions on the subject and surface these kinds of points in a more ELI15 kind of way. But despite there being ~a week of LK-99 stories permanently on the front page, there wasn't much of that (a little on the initial thread, and virtually nothing for the next several days)--and it's not for lack of physicists commenting on the topic (in other forums)!

[1] I saw someone point out that, when you translate the units on the resistivity/temperature graph, it is a worse conductor than copper at room temperature, below its claimed critical temperature.
Apparently is was awful in the 80s due to the heroin.

Nowadays there are state run drug consumption rooms:

https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/topics/pods/drug-consumption-ro...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/nov/21/...
I bet that none will wind up in Canada. The scenario here is being fired in USA, and the visa holder clearly want to be in USA, not Canada, otherwise they'd be in Canada already. So the scenario lets say comes to pass, mass USA layoffs at tech companies hiring H1Bs. Why would Canadian tech companies (Which tech companies BTW?) be hiring while everyone else is firing the cheapest labor force available? Just my thoughts. I have worked with many visa holders in USA and their biggest fear is layoffs due to having to leave USA. But every visa holder I know who was laid off (had a big layoff at my company), was hired less than 1 month after they layoff in USA.
> All their favorite politicians and news sources have been paid off by the almost unimaginably deep pockets of the fossil fuel industry, for over 4 decades.

I'm curious to know which news sources are you specifically referring to.
(I am very much a layperson)

So does this mean that the videos that showed LK-99 hovering but not rotating are fake? Or can you have that static hover effect without being a superconductor?
Our water in Central Oregon does help to grow things though. One of our biggest water sources is snow melt, which get transported down a canal to farms in southern Oregon. So even though water locally may be used for any serious farming locally, it does get used for serious farming water down stream.
I think this was it! Thank you, that was bugging me.
Unified Patents offering $6k for Patent Armory patents prior art
I'm seeing a lot of replies along the lines of "what does Canada have to offer me as a US tech worker?".

I gather from the tone and from the fact that this is even being asked that these people are US-born, or at the very least have had some easy path to permanent residency.

The linked article clearly explains that this is aimed at H1-B workers in the US, and it goes into plenty of detail about what Canada is offering them that the US isn't.
if the climate is warming isn't every month going to be the hottest month?
I am not an authority of any kind and I can assure you these people do not respect my thoughts on climate change either.
Sounds like HTMX? So far I have failed to understand the attraction of this solution outside of very small personal projects. Front end is not just a presentational layer - we are rendering _data_, so having business logic on the front end makes perfect sense. I have built many BE template driven websites in the past (early 2000s PHP, then Django) and this approach does not scale well.

What parts of the page do you reload with HTMX when user's state changes? A GET request to retrieve updated page header? Another request to retrieve updated page footer? Another request to reload the dropdown menu below a post? All of which could be rerefencing user's state.

And then do you implement endpoints for literally every partial and propagate state to all these endpoints?
Workers? Is that all these human beings are?

A better way to phrase it is "Canada has employed 10k people in America in 48 hours". But that isn't worthy of being pointlessly outraged by everyday language.
This comment is just my observations about the nature of comments regarding Canada. I'm not trying to lean one way or another by writing this...

I can't speak to the honesty, atroturfing, propaganda, whatever you wanna call it, but online I've noticed a general negative tone and attitude towards the Canadian economy and government. Very little of the opinion pieces I see say anything good. By opinion pieces I refer to HN/Reddit, not news corporations. It's very one sided online.
Photoprism, Immich perhaps also nextcloud.
Rome wasn't built in a day.

Anyone who sees us getting to minimal emissions much faster than our current trajectory is pretty naive.

We're already on a trajectory where it's reasonable to believe we could have minimal emissions in the US, the EU, and China by 2060.

If you see this happening by 2030 or even 2040 - you're dreaming.