skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Car shops have nearly as much existing knowledge repairing electronics. Most of what they need isn't "highly specialized" so much as "differently specialized".

The biggest problem right now is that the training/retraining costs on those different specializations aren't current always economically worth it because overall EVs have fewer parts and need fewer maintenance cycles. That's likely going to be economic factors that will keep the repair ecosystem smaller in the long term, too. Not because the knowledge is "tougher" and "more certified" (existing work had certifications, too, just different ones), but because it is overall going to involve fewer supply chain "partners" and fewer, less frequent customers.
htmx uses hypermedia, rather than client-side managed state

as much as possible, htmx tries to take HTML to its logical conclusion (from my perspective) as a hypermedia, rather than imposing other ideas on top of it
I would love an option like this. I would gladly pay 1-2% extra on items I might return (and especially on something like shoes where I might buy two pairs to see which fits better if I can't find the brand locally) and keep the discount for things I know I won't.

My only concern with a system like this would be when you get an item that truly is defective/broken, are you expected to pay a return fee in those cases?
Let me continue a thought experiment.

The idea is that, since the government oversees the territory of the country, it has to be able to communicate with commercial entities operating at that territory, so the government requests can't just remain unanswered. Usually it's structured in a form of licensing, taxes or something like that.

So, if government needs, say, to learn about the owners of the property, why can't it suspend the use of the property - the government has means, like getting to the property - until the communications are established?

The proposal would be that lawyers would show up with papers. How they can prove they are representing the owners if it's the owners identity that's the question?
Can you elaborate a bit on #20, please?
I don't know what you are talking about. This material was never going to revolutionize anything even if it was a superconductor. What you call fun to witness was to me just another episode of "Mat Ferrell's Undecided" except on HN.

Also, you can't solve the most important economic problems through technology anyway. How is a superconductor going to decrease your rent?
They'd be a juicy target for some kind of malfeasance. Never put all the experts in the same location!
> > The generalization abilities of models are good enough in other contexts that its plausible that realistic nude children could be generated by a model with no nude children in its training data that was otherwise trained on both clothed children and nude adults. I have no plans on testing this, however.

> Stable Diffusion has failed me for much simpler interpolations than the one you're describing

Its succeeded for me in much more complex ones. SD (even with the same exact set of checkpoint, LoRa, etc., and other workflow elements) isn't consistent across apparent-to-humans complexity levels in its generalization ability, and there are a very large combination of potential combinations.

> You can convince me by showing an example

Yeah, I'm not going to try to make simulated child porn for you, and while I would have sided with you in the debate over whether your earlier proof request amounted to a request for that, this one very clearly does.
For adults (larger hands) it was bad news. I’m convinced I injured myself using one.
As opposed to all those other programming languages/libraries/frameworks for which noone ever benefits by installing a plugin for their editor.
Interesting idea. I'm not confident it holds, access time to memory is often described as some count of cycles. E.g. 3 cycles to L1, some number of hundreds to somewhere else in the hierarchy.

Memory also positioned at some distance from the CPU (or whatever silicon is doing the arithmetic), where copying from one place to another involves copying into and then back out of the CPU.

More memory is slower, but within a given level of the cache hierarchy, I'd guess access time to any memory to be constant. How much variation is there in latency as a function of physical address, within say system level ddr4?
Room temperature superconductivity, like quantum computing, fusion power, and em drives, and other similar "magic" technologies, have one thing in common, which is that the potential consequences of their existence are positive, substantial, and relatively easy to explain and to comprehend, while the difficulties preventing those technologies from seeing the light of day are complex, difficult, and a "bummer" to hear about.
> Corn wastes many times more water per acre than alfalfa, but is rarely mentioned in such HN threads.

Because nobody gives a fuck about wasting water in Kansas, because most of the places where significant amount of crops are grown don't have water problems like california

The issue at stake is wasting water in california and your attempted pivot to pretend this has anything to do with "crop water efficiency" outside of that context is nonsense.
He is parroting Russian talking points for peace talks in Ukraine. Not that I know anyone who asked for his opinion on the subject.
I'm currently interviewing with Meta, but the process is amazingly slow:

- early June: a Meta employee submits my referral

- mid June: talk to Meta recruiter

- late July: screening interview with hiring manager

- mid August: still scheduling an interview-planning meeting with the hand-off recruiter.

I'm guessing that on their side, either the recruiters are super busy, or there's no sense of urgency.

Maybe a blessing in disguise, since it gives me more time to work on their coding-practice problems. Which are great, btw.
I thought it was a poor point. The paper proposed a new mechanism for the superconductivity, which would have been a bigger deal than this specific formulation (lk-99). If it were true, it would be a new class of superconductors which I would think this would lead to development of new formulations that perhaps had better properties. Plus as others have said, superconductor material can and is deposited on tapes (see ReBCO) to make it usable.
The whole point that this pricing needs to achieve is that those particular places should abandon certain types of water-intensive farming.
> HN discussion did not particlarly have "reasonable skepticism".

That’s definitely not true despite your attempts to gaslight us.
Discussion 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37129443
asynchronous's comment was about whether coal jobs in Montana yield any measurable risks to your children, wherever you are. Referring to Montana's judicial decisions as if they are edicts that span beyond its borders is a weak counterargument.
This will just die like Web Components and RxJS after a few people write blog posts and do conference talks on it for hype, right?

Does this work with Web Assembly? Of course Web Assembly will die too since it can't do SEO.

In all seriousness though, what is the "core" reason to actually adopt this over the current approach?
It doesn't seem to me that that's a problem. You just put data in and expect data out.

For example, a weather continuation model could take in all the available weather data up to the present moment and provide a continuation of that, i.e. a weather forecast.

Likewise financial market predictions etc.
> That strategy worked for youtube though - youtube only pays out money to a tiny tiny fraction of users, many of whom work almost full time being a professional content creator.

Yeah I think this was more or less the model. And it seems to work quite well. But then again, with Musk, who knows?
I am confident that the heating effect of "heat islands" has been studied, as I'm pretty sure I've seen mention of such, but I'll leave the search for that as an exercise for the reader. Though the EPA has a whole bunch of information, and you might wish to start here:

https://www.epa.gov/heatislands/measuring-heat-islands
It's easy call those claims nonsense in retrospect. However, many important discoveries were made from equally fantastic observations. We would have missed a lot if we brushed them aside cynically. The only way to know for sure is to test the claim scientifically. As the LK99 saga has shown, even incredible claims must be discussed and tested in public. This is one episode where the media hype did work - though the result was disappointing. Well! That's the price you pay for progress.
> focused on auditing PRs

Something like this

https://reviews.gitsense.com/insights/github?q=pull-age%3A%3...

might help as well. Click on the different pills (Authors, Targets, Days open, ...) to get a different view of the contributions.
Wouldn't it be better from a public policy point of view to ban the use of PFAS (and other such chemicals) until they demonstrate that it is safe?
Totally agree Cathy, it seems like the right thing to do but does not help at all.
> There's this bizarre reaction I see from many where they see the excitement and curiosity and hopefulness as a form of error and source of embarrassment. When mixed with an open mind and reasonable skepticism...

Kinda buried the lede there. A lot of folks around here and in my own orbit were practicing the former while excluding the latter, or worse, were taking shots at people trying to inject some level of rationality into the conversation. Heck, some folks even went so far as to refer to those types of counterpoints/comments as just a "bizarre reaction"...
The poster probably referred reliability as an ethical value; direct choice in building the system as an ethical value because embedded with your decisions hence responsibility; and conversely proposing "black-boxes" as an ethical fault.

There are several possible reasons for this latter: not only that you should not be contented until you "could warranty" for "your" system, but also the possible outcomes. For example, yesterday I submitted a

“Are you kidding, carjacking?” – The problem with facial recognition in policing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37138229

where reporting is made of law reliability systems that have false positives of bewildering error and heavy consequences.
the hardest part of consuming info from books or online, especially online info, is to figure out how to calibrate that info for you.

Lets say you are techie in your late 20s earning decently, living in a bubble of a unique society. What is good advise that you can apply as action immediately?

That said, there are timeless advice. But those sometimes require a huge will power and straying from norm of today to incorporate.
> only call someone Hawaiian

Example in recent days, President Biden referred to "residents of Hawaii" as getting assistance, rather than "Hawaiians".
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.

Early on during Covid you would see postdoc infectious disease experts on every news channel 3 times daily giving their takes. Some of whom maybe took a 3000 level course in epidemiology when they were 21 and did their PhD on nematode infections in a single population of freshwater clams. Technically an infectious disease expert but I don’t particularly care what they have to say about Covid over a random person on the street either.
> Conservative ideology is often advocating for change

> the incrementalist praxis you describe can be found in ideologies that are very far from conservatism

If your argument is that conservative politics in practice aren't very conservative (in the incrementalist fashion, as you describe), then I'm not sure if any political ideology is really self-consistent in that way. As an example, some majority-progressive (perhaps "radicalist", as an opposite of "incrementalist"?) municipalities around the country behave in a frustratingly incrementalist manner when it comes to land use changes, such that high rents and increasing homelessness result due to the supply of housing not being able to keep up with demand.

This country being dominated by two parties -- which is a mathematical inevitability given a first-past-the-post voting system -- we necessarily end up with one big-tent "conservative" party and one big-tent "progressive" party, for many senses of those words. And because those tents are so big, there are people with many conflicting ideas under them. So it stands to reason that the conservative party does some non-conservative things, or things in a non-conservative manner, and vice versa for the progressive party.
I didn't find this article or the Washington Post article outrageous and I don't think they were intended to cause outrage. I think it's an interesting story and interesting history, I agree that it was wrong for people to harvest these brains 100 years ago, and I think the museum is generally doing the right thing today. I came to these conclusions without feeling any sense of anger or outrage, and I don't think a story needs to provoke those emotions to be considered newsworthy.
relevant:

https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-friendly-scripting/
this is careless reasoning; rather than equating a so-called 'data protection law' with the holocaust, i said the justification others were using for that law was incorrect, because if it were correct, it would also justify the holocaust

this is not an extremely advanced form of logic, but i understand that it is not within everyone's grasp

the comment in question is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147305

octavia's other, rather astounding comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37149528 is probably also useful context

my objection to the war rhetoric in this case is that it casts people as opponents who are not, in fact, opponents, just different parties pursuing largely independent interests. in that context playing 'let's you and him fight' seems unlikely to improve the situation
I wish the frequent advice to interview even when not actively looking, to keep interviewing/Leetcoding skills sharp... would stop.

It's bad for the people at the company. And it's bad for the people who are genuinely job-hunting. And it's bad for people who do it, because they'll surely end up spending commensurate time in purgatory.

If we all apply only to places where we're genuinely interested, that's good for everyone.
I don't particularly like Techdirt, but DuckDuckGo's penchant for inheriting censorship from Bing [1] (and also doing it on its own [2]) is really disappointing.

I think the Tor Browser folks (who obviously disklike censorship) should look into replacing it as the default search engine. The best (free) candidate for now is probably BraveSearch [3].

[1]: https://reclaimthenet.org/microsofts-bing-censors-tank-man

[2]: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/duckduckgo-slammed-f...

[3]: https://search.brave.com/
Being that this is HN, I initially parsed ‘iron’ as ‘hardware’…
Atlassian, Airbnb Boost Remote Work as Peers Order Office Return
Oh for sure, and devs should do what is needed to be more efficient and to make their development enjoyable. The poster I was responding to said "you have to install the vscode plugin" to enjoy using Tailwinds. So that's the specific part I was responding to.
Isn’t it the same as if to say - “you are given hammer and nails only because anything more complex would make it things harder to the rest of your team”? But Raku, by the way could be that way - very simple and you don’t have to use all it’s capabilities
In using that strategy, you're trading one risk for another risk, not eliminating risk.
And to put it in context...RLHF is the special sauce behind ChatGPT
false dichotomy detected
On the contrary, many people like to blame him for the direction some decisions have been made, while completely lacking the understanding that he only has one vote among about 300 something.

He has been a kind of C++ consciousness with his books and papers, but C++ isn't a language with BDFL.

HP, IBM and Dec made the point the language had to be part of ISO for industrial adoption. As most languages back then.

Maybe had the language evolved as a foundation with BDFL, many of its warts had been sorted out already.
This was such a fantastic read. Thanks for sharing. I won't return this one.
I'd be interested in learning more about this can you share any links?
Interest rates create cheap money which makes the talent parking you describe more possible.

It seems like rates may be at this level for some time.
Black holes already have a time component since they exist in a universe with 3-dimensional space and 1-dimensional time. The equations include both the spatial components and the temporal components.

One of the curious features of black holes is that they reverse the roles of time and space in a sense. In ordinary space we have freedom to move around in space, but are constrained to only move forward in time. Different reference frames may move forward at different rates relative to us, but they always move forward.

By contrast, once you pass the event horizon of a black hole, these properties swap. It's possible to "move freely" in time in the sense that you can find reference frames that appear to move backwards in time. But all these reference frames are constrained to move forward in space.
GHB is approved for narcolepsy - I understand it helps improve the quality of sleep.

My friend ran out of alcohol - we were not aware of how much she was drinking. She lived with her mother at the time - her mother & aunt called the mental health crisis team on the first day of alcohol withdrawal. She was taken to the hospital. I think she was likely tranquilized with haloperidol. This is not an appropriate treatment for alcohol withdrawal, but it's reasonable under the psychiatric standard of care.
Why would the rice farmer ever give up free water that all legal documents say they are entitled to? Why would the rice farmer ever sell?
> What you call misery, others call home, and have an attachment to the land.

Mostly, people aren't moving to better communities because they can't.

In a good year, a typical relocation requires stacks of available cash and jobs waiting at the other end for every working member of the household. And those jobs need to add up to the living expenses at the destination.

If you're a household that needs to move to survive, the odds are quite low you have the resources at hand to make that happen.
It's both. Profitable companies mostly did performative layoffs (they sacrificed some of their employees to appease the gods of wall street), whereas for lots of money losing startups, they should never have hired as many people in the first place.

Unless the startup has incredible PMF (and sometimes even then), they won't be hiring at least till mid next year, as lots of them need time to grow into their valuations.

Also, the ridiculous AI stock price boom of this year has left the profitable companies (MAGMA) with no need to reduce headcount to juice their income statements.
So the Canadian Federal Senate doesn't have the clout that the U.S. Senate does?
Well it doesn't preclude him being expert (or just doing work) in anything else?

e.g. you might be a C++ expert, but also proficient in Python, and currently working professionally in Rust?
>they don't even operate in Slovakia

Like they don't have a local site, or they don't even ship there?

Where I am, I'm forced to use UK or DE amazon, despite there being a center here (and a whole lot of AWS/employees).
I agree. Although to be fair, there's always going to be some limit to the precision of these statistics.
Every new C++ standard introduces new things that will not work under an old standard.

Not breaking backwards compatibility means that code for old standards should generally still work if recompiled.
Not breaking ABI means it should still work if not recompiled.
> too honest

Consider some reflection on this statement
The problem is that most tech companies and entrepreneurs seem to think they are going to be the next “big thing.” And so many tech folk seem to also think they’re Wozniak underneath their imposter syndrome.
Yeah, I've been trying to reconcile the reports I read here about how rough the job market is with the fact that everyone I personally know has had no problems getting a good job in the industry.

The only things I can think of to explain it is that people are looking at a very narrow slice of the industry (the FAANGs) where things are rough right now, or people are asking for more compensation than the market will support.

But I don't know. There does seem to be a disconnect somewhere, though.
WireGuard to this date prefers A records over AAAA records which means if I'm on an 464xlat network I end up connecting over a ISP's owned proxy.

Many people have complained, and there is zero response to it.

Tailscale does it a LOT better.
Water infrastructure in the west is highly fragmented and locally rate limited -- you can't just reroute water from large swaths of the state like you can with electricity. Additionally, the water consumed by agriculture is often different than the 'treated water' needed to serve residential communities.

So yes, water is major a bottleneck for residential development out west. But to solve this you need new means of transport (pipes / channels), storage (reservoirs), and treatment (plans)... infrastructure that doesn't currently exist, is hard to get approved, and would likely need to be paid for by increasing the cost of living for existing residents.

Agree that we should be smarter about how water is allocated / used out West, but 'taking from ag' isn't going to make it any cheaper for you to buy a home.
> Something worth keeping in mind when people blame the victim with the classic "they should have complied!" retort.

I noticed it's more common to get that retort if the victim is black and/or poor.

If the victim is a middle class white American, you don't hear that.
Discussion is more nuanced

This study screened for active vs latent on number of viruses in patients vs assumed health controls, bottom chart here is what you would evaluate Valtrex effectiveness against.

https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10...
It's better framed as infrastructure orchestration vs infrastructure configuration. Orchestration is more about herding the resources while configuration is about delving into the instance/server/resource environment to make changes. The terms are pretty arbitrary IMO, but those are the vocabulary used in the industry.
Try https://batteryuniversity.com/
It's somewhat approached through the concept of Urban Heat Islands. I would also imagine that rocks and mountains store plenty of thermal energy similar to a urban heat island. I don't know enough to offer a substantial comment beyond that.
For sure! The original researchers showed remarkable restraint considering what they were potentially sitting on. Kudos to them!
This superconductor material was the literal definition of something you forget about and then get pleasantly surprised (not excited) about once it is replicated.

For the scientists getting their hands on a breakthrough, the risk and reward was worth it, but for the public at large? No one should care until there are definite results.