skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stopped photography as a hobby once Adobe Lightroom became subscription only. Maybe there is something better out there now...

I enjoyed the whole process: visiting the landscape, chasing the light, imagining how it would look on the wall, the capture, asset management, processing in Lr, sharing. Its a long process, each piece informs the others. When one part of the chain fell apart, it all fell apart for me.
I'll go with the term bubbling for now, and suggest that we should have transparency into the bubbling that our elected officials are stuffed with.

I'll add to your thoughts with the interesting battles even to the courts where some officials could not block a user, and be forced to listen to crazies they tried to filter out.

I would actually pay money to see the feed that deniro (and some others) has been bubbled with the past so many years.

There was a time when I saw distant fam getting a deluge of questionable memes and such that cobbled partial news with partial non truths and feigned outrage mobs grew into real outrage mobs that believed even if shown their sources were suspect, they cared more about the bubble than sorting whats right and wrong.

I assume this has happened to many people and very few have access to the bubble layers for each person, we may never know the influences others have been fed that has been guiding them.
What's the Ovaltine reference to?
I wish this was true but I and other family members had rock bottom low vitamin D levels in lab tests. We supplemented until it rose to normal levels. None of us noticed any perceptible difference. Suppodedly this will prevent problems but it doesn't feel like anything has been fixed. I wonder how much is placebo.
I’ve been hoping one of Casey’s articles would get traction here. I love what he’s writing but I don’t have the context to evaluate how correct they are.
It's probably the cause of the fertility crash. Even theocratic Iran is now below replacement.
> My biggest problem is coming up with ideas for an app/business.

I'm in the same boat. For me at least, I assume that any app that's making money must have been created by someone with much better skills than me. Someone shared that website on HN a few weeks ago and they just blog about various solo developer projects that earn 4-6 figures a month. Seeing those projects gives me ideas and confidence to try something myself.
I find it hard to believe we 'invented' shell corporations, even if they weren't called that. Esp considering how many jurisdictions catering to shell corporations and their ilk are British aligned.
> lots of niches where LLMs are useful

Isn't this a bit of an oxymoron?

I feel like every comment on HN of mine now lately is just defending ChatGPT, but I don't think that's a reason to self-censor my comments... yet.

I was watching a car chase on youtube yesterday and used an LLM to tell me the city location based on a description of the news station logo. So that was a "niche" I guess. I also got it to teach me how to use the https://gene.iobio.io/ software as I was using it, and I'm pretty good at it now! I asked it to help me to understand the connotations of several similar sentences in another spoken language I'm learning. It's helped me with understanding property tax appraisal records. We use it at work daily to analyze code, it shortens research by 30% or so. Calling it "niche" is 100% correct: yes it's very good at its "niches" which happen to be... almost everything except math? Have it craft a choose-your-own-adventure detective story and get back to me, because that niche is surprisingly fun.

If you can predict the implications of this technology or make an insightful assessment beyond "we don't have flying cars yet" ... let me know.
Ironically you have proved my point with the very tweets that you posted.

It's not illegal for people in China to get mad when they see a person randomly assaulted on the street, or mad about things in general that are happening in China.

That's not the kind of stuff that will get you silenced.

Instead, it is other topics. For example, if the perpetrator in those tweets had happened to be a high up/protected government official, in the national party, well then I assure you that you would have seen some suspicious silence.

Censorship in China is much more complicated than the false position that has been ascribed to me here, which would be "nobody in China can be upset about anything".
lossy text horror
I believe this. It’s just like the genetic tests from 23andme that they updated in 2020 to add “1% african” to everyone’s results. I’m personally now of “Cypriot (North Africa)” heritage thanks to the wonderful new dna technology!
Do what you gotta do. This is HN so I'm assuming most of the audience is in engineering and probably well-paid. Don't take it personally.
Probably something boring like a new theme park but its fun to come up with more elaborate conspiracy thinking.
Well, I guess that with more specifications thrown in the mix this could be covered too. The problem, as I mentioned, is the incredible complexity of the whole thing. Web technology solves these issues in simpler ways that don't involve messing up with remote objects at the programming level.
Her account is fine. She has to stop tweeting. You guys need to get a grip. As if the Chinese government needs Musks help.
I'd add that the 3-4 preprints that put the final nails in the coffin for LK-99 --- the ones that showed how ferromagnetic samples produce half-levitation, pointed out the Cu2S structural phase transition, explaining why the flat bands are not conducive to superconductivity, and the creation and characterization of a pure single crystal --- were all good showcases of scientific ingenuity.

It was particularly impressive to see some groups putting together high-quality, publication-ready preprints from scratch in the span of a month. Especially crazy when you think about the shoddy original papers that the Korean group spent years working on...
I dont think there is much of a message in there, its just a iBeacon packet type.

Just using the default iBeacon structure - you could have a hash tucked into the major/minor bytes (4 bytes tot) which would correspond to a value blasted out by Avahi on the network the AppleTV is connected to. You could also just blast out a list of valid iBeacon UUID'a out in the same way.

Requiring your phone be on wifi and be on the same network at the AppleTV would allow for that.

You could even, for example have a ATV device trying to connect require an AppleID and a network connection which could cause a valid iBeacon UUID be seeded to the mobile devices attached to that account.

That all said, There does appear to be a handshake before data is sent, because at that point is no longer a BLE iBeacon being used to send the data, you would need to connect to the device - which would involve either pairing or a handshake. So this appears to just be a nuisance attack, rather than a actual attack.
At this point, I'm coming around to accepting that something has to be disturbed since it seems (simplified) to be a choice between either planned, somewhat bounded, localized invasiveness or unplanned, weakly bounded, global disturbances/invasiveness...
Badminton is a bit too far from tennis for my liking (as is ping pong), so I never got into it.

As for the others, padel is far far far more athletic than pickleball (and paddle tennis for that matter), and I would argue even more so than tennis. I grew up playing tennis and I love it, but padel is more finesse and also scratched that itch of learning a whole new sport. I learned it in the UK 3-5 years ago, and I do very much miss it. Literally I think there is one court in all of New England, it is crazy how much of a not-thing it is considering it was invented in Mexico.
I will continue to shill https://makesunsets.com
“All detections were either automatically rejected or visually inspected and confirmed to be of anthropogenic nature.”

From the paper.
That doesn't mean the problems have gone away. It means we spend time and effort working around them, and many things just don't work at all.

It remains true that v4 is too small and that it isn't working fine. That's been the case for so long that a lot of people grew up with the problems and can't even see them because they're so used to them, but the problems are still there.
HDDs designed for industry have a lifespan of longer than 5 years in typical data centers. In fact, recently there have been many teams across industry expanding the lifetime of HDDs past 5 years well into 6 and 7. You can also check out Backblaze's drive stats to see how many drives are actually going past this time span: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-...
Half of your points are not part of the current draft. The dispensaries from last years key issues paper are not even pursued anymore beyond the evaluation region concept in the "2-column-model" ever since the EU commission gave feedback on it. That also made the question of taxation moot for now.
Contrary to popular believe Germany cannot just change EU laws. With only a handful of countries in the EU making efforts to get any decriminalization going in their own countries a change to the EU's drug policy is not gonna happen. The majority of member states are just not interested, there's no wide support for the issue in Brussels.

Is the 200m vicinity rule stupid? Maybe, but it has precedent. Malta has the same rule in their respective law it enacted at the end of 2021, only it's 50m further. Malta is also the only EU-country that even has legislation regarding Cannabis Social / Growing Clubs. The clubs in other EU-countries (Spain and Belgium?) all operate in legal grey areas.

The security requirements for homegrowing are not strict at all. All you need is a lock ('mechanische oder elektronische Verriegelungsvorrichtungen'). If you grow in a greenhouse outside of your living space it needs a lock. If you grow inside you living space I suppose there are locks already present. If there are kids around or other people that should not have access, lock the room, obviously. Keep your produce in a lockable container. That's it. Sensible stuff. Maybe you should actually read the current draft: https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/presse/pressemit... (pdf at bottom of the page; don't skip the 'Besondere Teil').

The idea that Lauterbach was never a fan of the idea is simply wrong. He publicly expressed support for the idea during the coalition negotiations. The suggestion that the SPD (or any of the other Ampel parties, for that matter) in a potential upcoming coalition with the CDU would repeal the very law they just enacted in the former coalition is utter nonsense.
It surprises me that employees can install anything at all on government devices!

Just lock them down and set the culture such that you seperate personal and government devices.

No one needs to be or should be using TikTok on a work phone, unless you are literally a content creator or social media manager of some sort.
I agree, this is tragic. I always enjoyed her spicy takes on the west, especially her pride in China. They were fierce, but they weren't mindlessly nationalist. She'd take the time to explain how and why people in China felt and she had an articulate pride in her country. Always meant a lot to be able to learn someone elses' viewpoint.
I did live there. I lived in SoMA for several years. I walked to my office everyday. I left in 2016, right before shit started getting really bad. I used to think it was a decent city, now I hate San Francisco. I would never move back. It was what it was.
https://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/a-christmas-story-movie...
“The only people who will remember you worked from home in 20 years is Blackrock.”
https://youtu.be/zdA__2tKoIU
Thanks for sharing these articles. I've been interested in MLIR ever since learning that the Mojo language would integrate with it [1], but it's been hard to find reference material geared towards beginners.

[1]: https://docs.modular.com/mojo/notebooks/BoolMLIR.html
It's a wild ride.
Yeah im ok without doing real research, but just looking for a space with new interesting challenges. Ive been seeing how much is on youtube and stuff which made me start thinking this all might be more accessible then I thought initially.

Thanks for the encouragement, yeah books would be interesting too.
Yeah it’s such a weird critique from GP, who elsewhere acknowledge that she had “credibility” for a “nuanced” perspective. The reason people thought that is that she was actually often vocally critical of China as well!
I mean, as opposed to putting 2 lines of markdown that explain what the project is about in the github repositories instead forcing another level of indirection on the user. Seems like an obvious place to, you know, start reading about things.
And every other site. I don't even have a v4 address on my desktop.

So why are we still dredging up this article when the problems have been solved?
You're Using Your Parking Lights Wrong
Seems like there's a chance the preprint for LK-99 described the material wrongly, so it was not accurately replicated.
That's me all day.
I find a big iPad Pro comes pretty close to the same effect.
Actual Title: Exercising at World’s First VR Gym in San Francisco Didn’t Turn Me Into A Believer
I’m also doing something similar with Nimbus[0]!

We’re not open source but trying to provide managed services for clouds that don’t have them.

I'd really love to hear any feedback you have (does the landing page miss some information you want? missing services you'd like to see?)

[0]: https://nimbusws.com
if you dont mind, resume wise what would make someone stick out when hiring? if they dont have professional experience yet but have done some serious learning. Projects with some substance?
I'd like to know what QAT actually is? Some kind of special purpose hardware extension for LZ and crypto? I used to compress a lot of files using xz and it is slow, but not THAT slow. I have a now-ancient 4 core i7 server and it takes a day or so hours to compress a TB of text. I haven't looked at it in a while and don't remember actual numbers, but the point is that if you don't need realtime response, the cpu usage of these algorithms is tolerable without special hardware.
It also wouldn't change much in MRI (formally NMR) -- it's also very limited on other factors
Not really a fan of hijacking the MVP concept for something unrelated.
> Shocking, I know.

I've been in this space for 13 years next month, nothing shocks me anymore; it is why I find TV and Movies entirely boring by comparison. Fact is stranger than fiction.

With that said, yeah that makes sense; you know as well as anyone how bad the financial system is in Argentina, add another imbecile promising the moon with his new token/NFT/yield scam and it's just expected to happen.

Personally, I always thought Brock Pierce (that kid actor from Mighty Ducks who is also believed to be a pedophile) and company were going to end up swimming with the fishes in Puerto Rico after he tried to coax his way in there and be seen as a white knight.

That was the last thing anyone expected but there, but there he was talking about how he was there to rescue everyone and how only he had the answer.

I don't wish ill on anyone, but some people have it coming and nothing can spare them from their stupidity or greed.
I don't think you can even technically do that in AWS. I don't think there is any way to detach the root volume from a running instance, or use an immutable network image to boot from. However, for many server workloads, operating entirely would be reasonable. Often you just need the operating system kernel and your server software, and maybe a monitoring agent. And all of that will be loaded in memory anyway.
I think it's also not important to fall in love with your own work. I spent a few years working on a system. It was so much fun. Very technically rewarding. Then one day it needed to go, and I killed it without a second thought.
I never had an issue with it!

Not the greatest mouse, but totally fine to use for me at the time.

I had one at home, and my day job was using grown up Macs so I was using both.

I don’t get the orientation complaints; how do people not have instant special awareness of the mouse orientation from just holding and moving it and the feel of the weight of the cable hanging out the front.

My hot take is that people just don’t like something different.

Like the Magic Mouse - to me the MM is the greatest mouse ever. Thankfully Apple don’t listen to YouTubers constantly bitching about it LOL
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The cheapest energy systems are the carbon free ones.

Maintaining a fossil fuel based energy system will be more expensive and costly than switching to a carbon free economy.

Every single delay in the transition is wasted money, a transfer to fossil fuel interests at the expense of all the rest of humanity. And once you add in the environmental externalities on top of just the pure cost, it becomes even more egregious.

Saying that it's impossible is as ridiculous as saying it's impossible for us to have built the huge energy system we have today. Rebuilding it all will take just a few percentage of global GDP, less than would be spent on fossil fuels, and create the infrastructure for cheaper more abundant energy, laying the groundwork for more technological advancement.

Instead of repeating tired narratives of the past, it's time to start thinking critically and apply even the tiniest amount of skepticism to the received wisdom of entrenched interests. We only hurt ourselves when we wear the rose-colored glasses that let us live with the out-dated "truths" of the 20th century.

It's time for us to advance technologically.
This is healthy thinking. China might not be a place where there is any censorship, nor goons rounding up Uyghers, nor restrictions on travel, nor foreign-country-located police stations hounding ex-pats to return home under threat to their families.

It could all be made up and China could be a free-thinking, free-speech paradise where an insufficient number of western visitors have realized that everyone is free to talk about fair elections and Winnie-the-Pooh and a Green Party winning control of the Chinese Parliament.

That all sounds quite plausible. We should go and see.
You can't post slurs to HN, so I've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would say it is a safe bet that if the authors had found something, the publication would be titled something significantly different.
If you’d be interested in cutting down on upkeep I’m actually running a service thats fully managed services on clouds like Hetzner[0].

Full disclosure the management plane is not open source but I've already got support for a couple services and am working on some more.

Mind if I reach out? I'd love to get you to kick the tires.

[0]: https://nimbusws.com
I live in an area that has very little information on Wikipedia and virtually no photographs. How would I find out what would be an appropriate kind of photograph to put on Wikipedia? I feel like editors as a rule are very hostile and it makes me anxious to contribute anything.
This example probably goes against the hypothesis that there is an increasingly illiberal turn, however, as I can find discussions/arguments about this issue in the talk page dating from 2007.

Looking at your edit, I can see why your initial edit was removed (did not really seem npov) but your corrected edit seems fine to me and I do not understand why it was reverted. The current page is net worse in that none of this controversy is even discussed.
NP-hard does not mean hard (2017)
There are so many missing photographs. Perhaps we have enough pictures of Times Square, but we don't have enough pictures of inline water heaters, German International Driving Permits and so on.

I take a lot of those pictures because I need them to explain things, and they simply don't exist. I made a habit of releasing them on Wikimedia Commons for others to use.
Assuming a sane RAID situation, e.g. data being duplicated onto multiple drives. If one of those drives fails, making additional duplicates onto the surviving drives, or rebuilding the data of the failed drive onto a new drive.

Can also be done with tapes, but you would require multiple tape drives (though if you can afford an automated library, thats probably nothing in comparison), additionally you can't find the failures until you take them out of "cold" storage.

If you can respond to the first failure when it happens, you can react before being hit by later failures hitting the duplicates. Downside is, since you have active components, failures are expected to be more common.
No, they were not careful about their claims. Putting aside the drama around the arxiv postings, they had previously explicitly made the "discovered a room temperature ambient pressure superconductor" claim in a Korean language journal, in a 2020 submission to Nature that was rejected, and on multiple patent applications.

There is no evidence of them doing interesting work, either. If reporting is to be believed, their company mostly does unrelated consulting odd-jobs for the chaebols, and this was a passion project for Lee and Kim. But you know what? I'm glad there are oddballs like this on the fringe of science. They're mostly harmless, occasionally entertaining, and maybe once in an epoch they might come up with something real.
So... it appears in the quick scan of the article that the $1/Kg is entirely dependent on what it is planned that solar will cost in about 5-7 years. First off I'd like to credit the author for

1) recognizing the steady past improvement in solar costs

2) using the concept of LCOE

3) accepting that solar will improve for at least 10 years

4) targeting a future cost target of solar

These are things the hydrogen folks often pretend isn't going to happen.

But anyway, the theory being that as soon as hydrogen is cheaper than petrol by a sufficient margin a massive economic shift will occur. I'm assuming he means switches to FCEVs (not going to happen) or synthfuels for the ICEs.

But... batteries and EV tech are also improving on a very aggressive curve. Currently it is my belief that state of the art EV drivetrain tech has dropped under ICE costs. This is already the current state of the market, and there is likely a large amount of further cost reduction in EV drivetrains forthcoming in the next 10-20 years that will make the ICE drivetrain functionally obsolete in at least 70% of applications and perhaps 95%.

So even if a synthfuel chain based on H2 production from solar appears that is cheaper than current oil extraction in about 10 years, the fact is that, while there will be a large installed base to milk for another 10-20 years, EVs are going to eat the terrestrial vehicle drivetrain market.

I will say it would still be an enormous boon for the used equipment out there, as well as aviation. So I wish them the best. Also, grid power storage (short and long term).

And we'll still have the issue that oil extraction might still be cheaper for methane -> H2, and it sneaks into the "green" H2 market, which is a danger, but if solar is really so cheap in 7-10 years as predicted in this article, it might be economically infeasible to do grey/blue/purple/rainbow hydrogen from methane, which would be a good thing.

Did I miss something?
Oh come on, one or two orders of magnitude more than our current energy system?

The energy transition will be cheaper than our current infrastructure.

The challenges are not technological nor economical, the challenge is prevent entrenched interests from preventing the best, cheapest, and most environmentally friendly system from taking its rightful place.
I just started working on this last week at Recurse Center — a live coding playground for audio effects: https://fxplayground.pages.dev

The three main todos on my roadmap are:

- support languages other than JS (C/C++ would be the obvious ones)

- improve the visualization

- improve debugging (e.g. if you have a syntax error)