skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a European living in the US it took me many years to adjust to the return system in here.

In "Europe" (I'm super generalizing here), to return a product, it has to be in pristine condition, you have to the original receipt and even then they will go over it like you are smuggling drugs into the country. In US, nobody cares. This is built into the business model. You pay higher prices due to returns, but then you buy more stuff because you don't worry about returns.

When I first moved to the US, I was extremely careful with money (didn't have any). So every purchase was carefully planned and I worried about it long after it was done. Then I made a mistake and bought pair of shoes. They were uncomfortable. I felt like an idiot. But I already wore them, so now I am stuck. I told my colleague about it and he looked perplexed.

After bunch of back and forth he decided to teach me a lesson. He took me a to a grocery store. Bought a can of corn. We walked out, he opened the can, dumped half of it in a trash can. We walked back to the return counter. My heart was pumping so hard I was losing sight at moments. He put it down on the counter and said: I would like to be refunded. I thought the clerk is going to smack him silly and me with him. But he didn't even flinch. Gave him few coins and we were on the way.

This was 18 years ago. I since very well adjusted to the system, maybe a little bit too well.
I'm as libertarian as they come but honestly I can't get worked up about traffic cameras. We are tracked everywhere we go with our phones anyway, that battle is lost (and of course wearing a cap or mask in your car isn't illegal).

The type of AI surveillance that is truly dystopian is surveillance of communications and participation in public debates, with automatic financial punishment for wrongthink. That's where the puck is going and where focus is needed.
Underhanded insinuations like this do not belong on HN.
Ever considered working remote for a U.S. company? You don’t have to move to take advantage of the better job market in the U.S.
Not really, you don't have to understand something to take advantage of it. My grandmother doesn't really understand how computers work but she still loves using her computer.

Psychiatrists love SSRIs because they are efficacious (for a much smaller minority of those prescribed them than people realise), even when they're not more effective than placebo - placebos are actually pretty effective at treating issues.

They're relatively cheap, easy to get patients who might be going through various issues to comply with the treatment, SSRI's being efficacious for the first few months after starting treatment is not that controversial, and that can allow you to monkey branch to more sustainable forms of treatment.

The fact psychiatrists are prescribing drugs for a mental illness when they aren't aware of its mechanism of action is far from the worst sin of psychiatry. First off, the very notion that psychiatrists/doctors should gatekeep prescriptions in the first place being helpful isn't an evidence based practice, and how we define and diagnose mental illness in the first place is a Pandora's box of assumptions.
One aspect is that storage is getting cheaper than peaker plants [1][2], in the "more profit with storage" sense.

[1] https://www.ge.com/power/transform/article.transform.article...

[2] https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights....
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.

They do indeed have entire parallel constructions of reality where landfills full of plastic are a good thing, and people trying to stop those happening are the real problem. That's regularly suggested here on HN as what really needs to be done to combat climate change.
Dutch (maybe EU?) consumer law disagrees with you. A 14-day return policy is mandated by law, for the specific reason that consumers can’t inspect items prior to purchase (as they could in a physical store).
This is a misconception that shows up now and then.

In the 1940s through the 1970s, the military really did have a broad tech edge over the civilian market. The USAF was once the largest buyer of transistors. In the 1980s, the civilian electronics market became much larger and passed the military market. This upset some military people. Articles about "premature VHSIC integration" appeared, complaining that civilian electronics was ahead of military devices.

There were a lot of minicomputers in DoD systems for years after everybody else was using smaller and cheaper microprocessors. Some stuff was even older. The USAF's satellite control facility and NORAD at Cheyenne Mountain had the same consoles NASA used for 1960s Apollo well into the late 1980s.

We had a very early Sun workstation, one with an auxiliary color monitor. Someone put a world map on the screen, and overlaid it with the current positions of USAF satellites and ground stations,
as a demo. A visiting USAF general saw this, and demanded that the entire system be immediately shipped to the USAF's satellite control facility. They were still using big manual plotting boards, updated by people reading printouts, to track what was coming into range of each ground station. So the USAF got the Sun system and it was immediately replaced by a new one.

There was some cool stuff. I got to see a system in the 1980s where you could look at stored photos and do pan, zoom, and rotate. The UI was a zoom lever, a pan joystick, and a rotate knob. Took a half rack of custom electronics. They were building something like Google Earth for satellite photos. Now, of course, everybody has that capability.

There were niches where DoD tried to stay ahead. NSA put much effort and money into cryogenic computing. They had gigahertz electronics in the 1960s. There were several generations of NSA cryogenic technology, but each time, the commercial market pulled ahead with a cheaper and faster technology.[1]

If you read DARPA solicitations, you can see where DoD is trying to get ahead. Non-GPS precision navigation is a big thing, for example.

This was the typical pattern by 1990. DoD would be ahead in some very narrow niche for which there was little commercial market, but overall, behind commercial technology. I've been out of that world for many years, but from what I hear, it's still pretty much like that in the land of classified tanks.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/will-the-nsa-finally-build-its-sup...
If it is the people but not the company that were interesting, OpenAI could make an offer to each of the persons working there.

So obviously yes it's an odd decision to buy an open-source MMORPG, but there are tons of possibilities.

Plenty of times, you can see large companies buying non-sense, or companies at outrageous price (we just don't know the price in the case here).

Sometimes even to fire the people behind, and throw away the product.

It can be for many reasons:

- Either they really have a solid business use which justifies the acquisition

or

- Perhaps they have a common investor/VC, and that investor is influent enough in OpenAI to "convince" the board to buy the company.

or

- Some investors give a kickback on the acquisition (I don't think so)

or

- Microsoft wanted to early kill a competitor to Minecraft.

etc.

Probably it'll be difficult to know.
A co-founder announced they disbanded their robotics team a couple years ago: https://venturebeat.com/business/openai-disbands-its-robotic...

That was the same time they depreciated OpenAI Gym: https://github.com/openai/gym
> these people surely can’t look at an open pit mine, a plastic-filled landfill, and a smoke-spewing industrial plant and think that’s somehow good for the environment?

You think they look at things of their own volition or what? They just rail against the concept holistically and label everything lefty propaganda that's even vaguely adjacent
No, this is about limiting smartphone screen time. If that includes setting up new barriers between information and readers then that is a undesirable result, but it is not what these discussions are about.
Vector Search-as-You-Type in Rust
Please explain more about how your compensation works in CA - I'm genuinely curious as a tech worker interested in relocating from the US.
feels similar to the logic behind what goes into the CPI and what doesn’t
At least on the Rx side, it's really not that hard to have a general idea. Youre prescribing mostly the same medication over and over and patients give feedback, so knowing a general discount card price isn't difficult.

If the patient has a weird formulary or a high deductible, that's on them to understand.
And credit to the NASA social media person for keeping the conversation on-topic and responding with well considered and engaging answers. They must have the patience of a saint!
Apple supplier Foxconn begins iPhone 15 production in India
How do you handle redirects?

Like if a popular QR code generator and redirector hosting service supported this and signed my QR code, couldn’t I just change the redirect but the original target URL is still valid? You could try to detect redirects but that could be tricky once JS is involved.
> > Guantanamo is not comparable to the scale of Chinese concentration camps.

> Evil of that sort is a boolean not a scale. You are either the sort of people who do it or you aren't.

You are conflating the scales of evil and the people responsible for it. Identical crimes often carry different sentences because of the patterns and the context: For how long ? Why ? How many victims ? Etc.

Yes, the US have Guantanamo. Is it equivalent to China ? Definitely not.

Are you championing the censuring of criticisms under the pretense of morals ? Most likely. Does your argument boil down to whataboutism ? Definitely.

> You don't go to heaven even if your neighbor kept a million times as many slaves as you did.

I am not fighting analogies and I am not living in a black and white world. You deal in absolutes and frankly that's not a stimulating conversation to have and certainly not a general outlook I can agree with.
Yep, sounds like me. Worked for a couple of years after graduating. Always worked in holidays during my degree so never travelled before.

Went to Spain and lived there for a few months, learned the language, had an immense time and refreshed my perspective on life.
> The Canadian economy is fueled by rising real estate prices, price gouging/profiteering by a select few families, and wage suppression.

Sounds like the US economy as well.
I haven't read the paper, but I suspect the whole concept of a 4, 5, 6, or 7-dimensional black hole is nonphysical, but the math works out if you just close your eyes and assume such a thing can exist. The reason I suspect n=7 is as high as it goes is because the volume to surface area ratio of an n-dimensional sphere is r/n, which means that the higher n you have, an n-sphere of radius r has a much larger boundary for the same volume. Conversely, that means that for a given surface area, you have less volume, so, for a constant mass density, you're enclosing less "stuff" inside.
> computing total market capitalization by simply multiplying the last traded price by the number of shares is nonsensical

It's a quick and easy calculation, and you shouldn't worry too much about it.

Pretty much anyone serious uses a market capitalization number calculated using the number of floating shares (shares actually available for trading by the general public), including all the (serious) index funds.

Everything will be fine :)

EDIT - For example S&P would assign this an IWF of 0.01, meaning it isn't even eligible for the S&P Total Market index fund, let alone the S&P 500:

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/methodologies/me...

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/index-policies/m...
> Pham Nhat Vuong owns about 99 per cent of its shares.

This company does not deserve to be called publicly-traded..
The specific logic with user agents is that it happened (I think they've ended it now?) whenever the word "curl" was not in your user agent string. If the substring "curl" was contained anywhere in your user agent string, it did not have a delay. I cannot imagine how it could rot in that specific way non-maliciously.
"Delete the algorithm"?

What does that have to do with the rest of your comment?
I didn’t know this. Thank you
Nitpick - almost all modern power supplies are auto-ranging between 100-240V. In 240V locales at 80% constant load on a 15amp circuit this is 2880 watts. In the US you would (ideally) drop a 240V circuit from the panel and make sure you have sufficient supply amperage from the utility provider.
> Voila, it was working just fine. Took him 90 minutes

Either the dealership is (1) incompetent, (2) this is a profit model (they quickly refusbish the old battery and resell it), or (3) it is a liability issue.
if nothing else it could probably make a neat RFC
And instead instead of countering solely with scientific data (graphs bla bla), we should use visual evidence: show photos and videos of pollution around coal plants.
> React: I laughed when I saw basically a full rewrite of various Java unit testing frameworks in javascript.

Why?

Can't run java in a browser. (And don't bring up applets.)

I suppose you could keep most of a testing framework as Java code, and adapt the rest for testing javascript, but that seems fussy enough for a rewrite to makes sense.

Edit: Okay, if people are going to downvote, then I'll elaborate. I understand amusement in people moving from one server language to another, only to recreate the same things they already had, because they could have just stuck with the original. But you can't just stick with a server language when you're writing an interactive web page. Trying to port the tools you like is making the best of the situation, not creating work out of nothing.
With a few optimization tricks, TL;DR:
- ONNX inference in Rust
- Embeddings cache & lookup
- Parallel & Batch requests
- hybrid search with full-text filtering + vector re-scoring
Yep. They (edit: in Costco, Walmart, or whatever in the US) don't care, and half the time they're happy to point out that it's OK what you're doing and please just calm down. My wife didn't grow up in the US, so wasn't used to this, but now she's addicted to doing returns when there's anything even slightly wrong.
Aw, I liked the article. It repeats itself a bit, but framing a beloved childhood character as a narcissistic serial killer is fun; with a bit of work this could be onion-level satire.
That and headaches after the deed (in case you got past the ED).
This acts as a reminder that I should fix the G3 I have sitting on my shelf with what's probably a screwed up flyback transformer... but I'm kinda scared of working on a CRT (never done it before)
> when we see that's its scam after scam all the way down, excuse us for having a dim view of those who are all about the fundamentals.

I hate to be 'that guy' but usename checks out:

Philistine (adjective) - Lacking in appreciation for art or culture.

The same was said about the Internet in the 90s, its a fad underscored with seediness and scams abound, I have no use for it and no one will use it. That was essentially Krugman's position on the internet and lo and behold it was the same about Bitcoin [0].

Again, I don't deny 99% of alts are scams, they are. But what you fail to see in erroneously painting these broad strokes is the same thing that boomers and 'economists' like Krugman did and lose the scrip entirely in the process--or was a mouth-piece for vested interests in the fiat monetary system that helped him become a Nobel Laureate and professor of economics at Columbia.

0: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-24/paul-krug...
I'm struggling with the claimed consequences.

The electricity grid has losses of about 30 percent, so a fully superconducting grid could increase delivered power by about 43 percent, not an order of magnitude more.

More compact MRI machines would be nice to have, certainly, but wouldn't materially change mortality.

What else is there?
There’s no doubt that climate change will negatively affect most countries in some way, but the question is: do you think Canada will fare better or worse relative to other countries?

I would wager that if future Montreal, for example, had winters more similar to today’s New York, far more people would want to live there.
So they saw a large change in resistivity at 104C but what's not clear from this excerpt is why the Cu2S was a confounding factor, or isnt interesting.

Is it that LK99 had impurities of Cu2S and the properties of Cu2S dominated but we already know things about Cu2S?
I think it's because the people that like tailwind really like tailwind, and they will take any opportunity to tell you how amazing it is. The evangelism gets really old after a while.
> I'm fairly certain the Canadian government has more strength, more endurance, and more defendable resources, then all tech companies on Earth, combined, if they fully set all their efforts in that direction.

This seems like a weird point to bring up in this context. The only thing that matters for a tech company to "defeat" Canada over this regulatory bill is whether the population cares enough to make this topic a voting issue. Canada's GDP and mineral resources don't really help it win this kind of "war". I don't really think we expected Zuckerberg to lead the Meta-Battalion across the 49th parallel just to get CBC articles on Facebook sans-tariff.
> How many have moved?

Same number when Americans said they’d move to Canada after trump was elected.

Zero
I like it. Use it to get around my CGNAT with StarLink (client running on home lab, docker client running on VPS with a docker instance of Nginx proxy manager joined to the netmaker client docker network so I can proxy back to my home lab).
> Canada will be a major beneficiary of climate change as the continent’s northern reaches warm.

After all the forests burn?
Audio:

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/paul-krugman-on-ufos-a...

* https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/paul-krugman-on-ufos-ai-and-r...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZFzKswRLBQ

The paper comes up in the first ten minutes.
The tonga eruption didn't help... that's for sure.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/0...
Just wanted to say thank you for what you do. I've long been a fan of HATEOAS and I'm very happy that there's finally a movement towards it and ecosystem growing. Also, the memes are unparalleled.
Not the point if your post but it's amazing how influential the Fireship team is! A true developer influencer, without being a cult of personality.
I worked with these guys a long time ago at FB.

Their founder and CEO created The Algorithm at Instagram. Rest of the team is super strong too. Makes a lot of sense for OpenAI to acquire a team at the intersection of AI and consumer products.
Did you skip over "In almost all applications of superconductors, they don't use high-temperature ones for one simple reason: Material properties."

They're saying that LHC does not use a ceramic, and therefore high-temperature, superconductor; instead they use metallic (cooled) superconductors because they can be molded.
I think it’s fair to say that even as a failure, it’s likely to stimulate much more attention, funding, and research in the area of high temperature superconductors going forward.

That’s great.
This is the first I've heard that passion fruit is native to the US, and I can't find any information on that.

Are you sure they are wild passion fruit, and not something else?
Zuckerberg bucks are unlimited..
So, you built the application, created the installer... and your install on another machine is 2.8GB? I find that hard to believe.

From another response, their Windows installer is under 7mb, and much of that is MSI boilerplate.

https://github.com/lencx/ChatGPT/releases/tag/v1.1.0
Canadians simply make less. At a large, well-known company my partner works for they can trade one US req for two Canadian reqs.

TBH I don’t know why some places even bother hiring American devs. Canucks are half-priced and I can’t tell the difference working with a mix of US and Canadian employees.
I disagree. I get pissed off when revolutionary scientific news is brought to me only to turn out to be some bogus crap. I don’t care about the replication and peer review process, it’s not fun, it’s banal. I would much rather have preferred to learn about LK-99 once it was confirmed to be a room temp superconductor, and if it wasn’t then I’d rather never hear about it.

Now I have to walk back explanations I gave to various people and explain LK-99 actually isn’t special at all. I will look like a god damn idiot.

The whole time LK-99 was in the news, we were wringing our hands about potential uses and the impact it would have on our world. For once it seemed maybe there was hope that we’d see exciting times again with exponential advances in technology. That dream has now been thoroughly eradicated.

By the time a true room temp superconductor comes out, it probably won’t be in our lifetimes.
What It’s Like to Swim in an Ocean That’s 100 Degrees
That feels like you're pointing out the barn door is open after the horse has already bolted.

The EU approach here seems more like "what do we do to fix the situation as it stands?" kind of thing. So, probably more practical.
Thunderf00t's point, though, is that LK-99 is not novel in its material category. High temperature superconductors that are hard and brittle already existed. What would be interesting would be a malleable high temperature semiconductor, because then you can make it into cables.
> HN discussion did not particlarly have "reasonable skepticism"

There was a dose of Dunning-Kruger, and some software engineers telling us how to science, but there was also a lot of engagement and interesting discussions with genuine experts. Overall I found it quite interesting to follow.

> uncritically believing that the data in the initial preprints was proof for superconductivity because their authors said so.

It had undertones of small team (in a private institution, no less) taking on the stodgy establishment, which is quite popular among some people here. The concepts are also not very difficult to grasp on surface, so a lot of people can form an opinion, however well founded.

People complain about peer review and scientific publisher as well. It is not difficult to see how this could push them to champion something that comes from arxiv.
Interesting. I got a very weird illness last November and all I can say is that it wasn't COVID. Ever since, my energy levels have plummeted, I can't stop gaining weight, I've had worsening cognitive issues, and I've become intolerant to exercise(yes, the weight makes this worse).
https://archive.ph/UVkc4
A large number (majority?) of these applicants are Indians on h1b in the US using Canada as a backup in lieu of going back to India. It's insurance against layoffs, not being able to get a Green Card, etc.

It remains to be seen how many actually move. And after moving how many actually stay for long or try to come back to the US on a TN or L1 visa.

I would bet most won't end up staying in Canada long term.
Thanks for the link!

That's a shame, I was really impressed with their research in that space.
I read their website, their Github project page, and still have no idea what it is (but I know how to install it!). I started to read their blog post but it's too long and while they claim this tool is useful for DevOps, I couldn't find any info on how it accomplishes that.
When I was young, TV pitchman Ron Popeil sold a food dehydrator and advertized that it was easy to clean. My mom bought one, tried it out, and upon realizing that most of the food she put in there was stuck to the trays, packed up the whole thing and mailed it back, dehydrated apple slices and all. They refunded her without an issue.
In the Battle Between Bots and Comedians, A.I. Is Killing