skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building on previously reported local superconductivity in graphite, have provided much explanation to why this occurs, has been in review for over a year, no signs of trying to sell a product, and provides guidance for further material research...

> In the present work, we report the first unambiguous experimental evidence for the global zero-resistance state, RTSC, in the scotch-tape cleaved highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) that possesses dense arrays of nearly parallel line defects (LD), the wrinkles...

> The basic principle we have uncovered is that linear defects in stacked materials host strong strain gradient fluctuations, which induce the local pairing of electrons into condensate droplets that form JJA-like structures in the planes.

Very neat!
IIUC this model type makes the "ALScore" column completely pointless, because the quality of results isn't related to the number of weights in the same way as for regular transformers.
It’s nice to have generation close to consumption because you save on transmission infra.
Just my interactions with people, seeing online discussions, etc. Like I said, I'm not speaking for California people in particular. I haven't lived there. But in American society in general, nanny state laws seem to be very popular.
Most SOCs are trimmed for cost, which means cheap manufacturing. Especially the system on a chip design for single board computers.

Even RPI5s with the Broadcom BCM2712 which is super high volume is 16nm. If they manage to get 5nm in 2026 at low cost than that's the path to take the SOC crown.

This could even lead to RISC-V SOCs/SBCs at RPI power and price tag (yeah, still dreaming).
Knowledge transfer over generations is a function of the brain.

Other species have much more limited ability to transfer knowledge intergenerationally, and that is because the human brain's capability for symbolic language is much more advanced than other animals', who are not able to encode knowledge nearly as efficiently.
yes, a decade or so ago.
I also built such an extension half a year ago [0]. The first iteration was a local-first natural-language full-text search for the browser history [1]. The second iteration was focusing on bookmarks [2].

None of these could spark enough interest to get feedback on what users want. I am sharing this experience so that you may study my attempt, if you want.

[0] https://getpinbot.com/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYwJu5Kv-rA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQh1qhvxZzc
This should work fine on the composite output of the pi with no need for a modulator. At least here in Europe, where teletext is still very much a thing, it works from the external satellite receiver that’s connected this way.
Not only that, many people that only know Apple after they managed to survive, seem completly unaware that old Apple was always siloed into their own stuff, A/UX and the timid attempt to having clones being officially supported, were the only exceptions to their vertical integration.

Even Atari and Commodore were somehow more open to third party vendors in that regard.
It's a trust issue. People don't trust their utilities, residential solar is (among other things) a hedge.

Basically, "how much would you pay to limit how much $powerco can screw you in future?". Human nature means a lot of people will willingly pay double for that.
hello,

maybe slightly o.T. but at least somewhat related:

i never joined startups of "real" friends, but multiple times of more or less well known persons - lets call it "friends of friends", colleagues from the university or acquaintances, referrals by friends etc.

maybe one remark: i was never a "classical employee" always worked with the people on contracts/self-employed and at a very early stage ... (less than 5 people).

it worked out well every time, but we were never that close to begin with ... either it stayed that way or we developed some kind of a friendship over time.

just my 0.02€
This feels like a trollish way of making a point about "PC" culture. Linus Torvalds is hardly a beacon of said culture already and it's going just fine
I spent 10 years at car dealerships. The hardest part technically of the dealer business is finding enough cars. I honestly don't believe they were making $3,144 a vehicle after costs. I think that's some error in reporting. National average is around $2000 on used cars, and that's at brick and mortar dealers that manage to get more out of customers in my opinion.

But either way, IMO the biggest reason these large sellers are having trouble is because they end up having to overpay to acquire so many cars. Carvana lost $800M in 2018 for example. IMO this happened because they overpaid for their cars so they had something to sell.
It’s unfortunate that the everything really becomes enshitified. It’s a slow march as generational knowledge is lost and we collectively forget what we were trying to escape only to be trapped in a cage made of that very thing - only this time, we made it.

There is such a bias for bad news to surface that people think society is consistently getting worse and it seems like there is this obsession with using law to “fix” every societal ill when most of these “fixes” just pushes the problem out of view.

We have a track record of taking (what we may perceive as) societal issues and turning them into a legal issue, the result of which has contributed to, for example, the United States being a nation with one of the highest (if not, the highest) percentage of its citizens currently incarcerated - a fact we should be absolutely ashamed of, not to mention the treatment of those reentering society.

We live in a pseudo police-state who’s laws are written by people who are affected the least by them or consider (or care) about externalities caused by a direct or indirect consequence of the law. We have turned drug use/addiction (by proxy with “possession”) from a medical problem to a legal problem. Some states have done the same with abortion. The content of libraries are being challenged because, “think of the children!” My county criminalizes working on your own vehicles on your own property, and California’s emissions requirements have created an undue burden on those with little means via a smog exemption date that is fixed and the requirement of specific emissions equipment that is frequently stolen, preventing vehicles from keeping registration current without a very costly, multi-thousand dollar repair. This leads to cars being prematurely scrapped because people just simply cannot afford it.
Any link to a source that isn’t behind a paywall?
> Rowhammer is a hardware problem ---- defective RAM --- not a software one.

It always amazes me how people can be so confident yet so wrong.

It's a problem of physics - there's various ways to try to mitigate it but the only way to completely avoid it would probably be to use SRAM and that is going to be extremely expensive when talking 16GB and not nearly dense enough.

It's not some conspiracy by "Big RAM"
Copilot probably saved my career. I was getting occasional wrist pain due to keyboard overuse, but the autocomplete is so good that my keyboard use is a tiny fraction of what it was previously. Wrist pain gone.

Using Copilot is a skill though, you have to live with it and learn its limits and idiosyncrasies to get the most out of it.
Mastodon reminds me of 2007 Twitter, and it would be great if it stayed that way.
Hey com2kid - if you're still there, we did end up adding boxplots to show variance. Can be seen on the models page https://artificialanalysis.ai/models and on each models page where you view hosts by clicking one of the models. They are toward the end of the page under 'Detailed performance metrics'
> Wouldn't this only apply to research from the USA?

No. Lots of people from wealthy (and predominantly white) countries across the world have the same kinds of motivations.

To recognize that the existing structure of the world split between the haves and the have-nots is created only by human choices, not a natural state, is to admit to oneself: that one’s station in life is more luck than merit, that one is part of a fundamentally unfair system that one benefits from every day, and perhaps that one has a moral duty to fix it—or at least that the fix may require a dramatic change in one’s standard of living and habits and traditions.

For most people, who consider themselves inherently “good people”, that is a very tough pill to swallow. It is easier to look for other options, even to the point of some self-delusion.
I follow Will Prowse on YT. He's full of great information about solar/batteries/etc. He's more about "mobile solar", but tbh... you can apply a lot of the same stuff to your own home. Especially when it comes to storage.
As a tech employee, I saw thousands of people get laid off.

25 years ago, I started my own business. I haven't been laid off since --- and I haven't laid off anyone either.

There have been ups and downs --- but definitely more ups.

I have full control over how to address "macroeconomic conditions" and the ability to mitigate risk by diversifying beyond a single market segment.

As an employee, you are at the whim and mercy of others with little or no control. There is less responsibility but way more risk and uncertainty.
I think you mean 10^−8 Wb ;-)
If the founder is not really involved with the hiring team then you are essentially going over them without them having any idea how you work.

While I know what you're saying that the founder is vouching for your experience, its still going to cause friction, I think. Especially, again, to all the people that fought for the job.
What is "global" in this context? I assume it means throughout the entire material sample, as opposed to some small section of it?
This makes me experience more negative emotions than a human ought to have about a checkbox.
I don't want to be able to auth whilst physically in authoritarian regimes. If I had to be physically there it'd be via burner devices.
Extreme financialization Will be our downfall.
No we don't know for a fact any of these things.
It looks like the trend started heading upwards before AI took over. Are we sure this wasn't just the way it was heading anyway? Is there a control group that doesn't show the same line?

Overall from personal experience TFA's conclusions do seem correct to me, but I want to make sure we aren't confirmation biasing the interpretation of the data.
> I live in an area with lots of power outages, so having a backup system is worth the lack of efficiency

Unless you go completely off-grid then rooftop solar isn’t going to help with outages as they are turned off during outages to protect electrical workers and the power grid. [1] Your problem can be solved with home batteries.

1. https://www.paradisesolarenergy.com/blog/will-solar-panels-w...
Or just Wireguard itself.
Copilot is great, as is gpt-4.
I use it as search engine, to give me pointers about parts of the docs I might’ve missed.

I have never not modified and refactored the code before implementing it.
The foolish move by the German government to close down all the nuclear reactors. The German government is weird.
Not sure about within anime, but back in our fleshy human realm, Crunchyroll was founded by Berkeley graduates and is now the go-to anime platform. I suppose if you can't beat 'em, join 'em?
I agree that what Einstein did was beyond most people. But not beyond all of the great physicists of the time, especially if given more time.
For what it's worth, LK-99 adjacent research is still happening[0].

[0](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00999).
"travel together"

You do that as equals. Working for someone means, you are no longer equals and money is involved in that hierachy. Very different situation and in most cases I would strongly advise against it.
I don't think you're the "they" here. I think "they" means "one of Einstein's contemporaries".
I understand you are not offering an endorsement, and I appreciate that we can disagree without being opposed.

I think our disagreement is quite narrow. I subscribe to the view that everything in history is contingent and nothing is inevitable. I gather you believe some things are inevitable, and that the particulars of a technology might make certain things inevitable. Thank you for elaborating.

Sometimes we're not able to mitigate the harms of technology; fossil fuels come to mind. But I would argue this has next to nothing to do with fuel technology. It's because there are power people in our society who have successfully slow walked a transition to alternatives. But they haven't managed to stop it altogether - solar, wind, and EVs are seeing widespread deployment.

The tech industry has been able to do this to some extent, but I don't think they have nearly the political capital of the fossil fuel industry. We're seeing increasing calls in the US to regulate the tech industry and to break up the larger companies. While the two parties aren't able to cooperate on nearly any legislation at this time, this attitude is bipartisan. The EU has already begun to regulate the tech industry. (I can't comment usefully on the rest of the world.)

I do agree that the properties you enumerated make a problem easier or more difficult to solve, and that there's no way to stop people from making deepfake porn altogether. But that doesn't mean there isn't anything to be done about it, even if you and I might not be smart enough or positioned correctly to understand what that might be.

My goal is to convince people not to give up on the idea that something could be done, and not to become entrenched in a certain position. Eg, if someone doesn't like that X responded by disallowing searches, I don't want to have yet another argument about whether or not this is a free speech issue. I want to hear that person offering a critique I haven't heard before, asking interesting questions, suggesting bad or partly formed ideas about what to do differently. And I don't want to see the rest of us start a flamewar beneath their comment, I really to see the rest of us pointing out weaknesses in a proposed solution and how we might address them. I want to see this community being creative and constructive about this, and I believe that really could make a difference.

If we set aside doomerism, the worst thing that can happen is that we're wrong. That's not so bad; let's chance it.
Yep - best explanation is from the introduction:

> Various experimental groups have also reported localized superconductivity in graphite at temperatures as high as 300 K. [...] However, so far, all the efforts to achieve a global superconductivity at elevated temperatures in graphite failed.
But the tradeoff of cost and convenience vs quality is everywhere in life. Most people (including me) do not have the time, money, nor (in my case most importantly) workspace to build their own furniture. IKEA and other budget furnishing companies are a perfect solution for people in this situation and I can buy a handmade piece of furniture if I ever feel that something is not up to quality.
And this is why having government funded basic healthcare isn't as inefficient as so many people claim.

For the government the only thing that matters is net tax revenue. Healthy people pay more taxes and unhealthy people cost money.

So the solution is obvious: invest in effective low cost preventative treatments and cures. That maximizes net tax revenue.

Meanwhile private insurers only care about your health to the extent that they get paid. Healthy people bring in less money than the chronically ill.
The point is it's a function of many connected brains, not just one brain.
Noreligion practitioners conduct themselves similar to people with trad religions. They developed their own cultures and communities. They have new gods. Their enemies are everyone else worshipping old gods.
Something I didn't see mentioned is also that over time this is going to feedback loop into the training set and compound (possibly exponentially). I.e. as more lower quality code hits github and is used for training, the output of the code will decline, which causes lower quality code to hit github, which causes output to further decline, etc.

I am an experienced dev but new to ML so take with a grain of salt, but I really wonder if the future is going to be quality in the training sets rather than quantity. I have heard that the "emergent properties" don't seem really affected by bad data as long as the set is large enough, but at what point does this cease to be true? How do we guard against this?
One of the issues I have with "rooftop solar" is that it's usually sold by and installed by companies who are there to make a quick buck and they don't really explain the details to customers. Besides the predatory pricing and loans, and the blatant lying about payback periods, one big thing is the lack of technical details. The amount of people who don't understand that their new solar install is useless when the grid goes down is astounding.
I think the commenter was implying that rather than putting it on the roof of people's homes, the focus should be on utility-scale solar power stations.
Newton was the first to act on the revolutionary idea that "physics should be formulated using math". Nowadays a theory of gravity that doesn't use math is basically not a theory. Maybe we can forgive him at least some of the extravagance.
What if they suddenly fear, they will loose their job, if they are honest with you?
Have you considered using a different browser?
Well don’t leave us hanging :-)

With pronunciation please !
By "annotation items" - you mean the special "boundary characters" that Loro CRDT uses to mark formatting boundaries right?

Yes, Google docs doesn't use such special annotation characters for bold/italics-like formattings. But it does use special boundary characters for marking "comment" boundaries. These characters simplify a few things from a comment perspective (as they shouldn't merge like formatting options). Zoho Writer uses a similar design for differentiating formatting boundaries vs comment boundaries.

> I'd like to take my own stab at rich text in diamond types soon, since I need it for a project. I think there's a cleaner way to do it - though until I write the code, who knows how it'll turn out.

Curious to take a look at your approach. Do write more on your blog Joseph :)

- Joe Lewis
No, my source says overweight (which includes obese). Your source is for the US only.
Most people have grid-tie systems. If the power is out, they are down too.
Only very rich people have money to buy battery storage enough to be off grid and then this kind of system is not what those companies usually lease.
If you’re concerned about blackouts a gas natural generator makes a lot more sense economically speaking
Many professional typographers exist. Sometimes I am one. Most published type needs to be professionally typeset. The difference between a typical word document and a professional-quality document is far less about the software than it is about the person operating it— there’s a lot of nuance to doing it well. Many folks in the engineering trades tend to see it (and many other types of visual design) as quaint or frivolous, but having really tight typesetting is still very important for many applications. I know because at least half of my clients for that sort of work come to me, exasperated, after struggling to get something from consumer-focused automated tools or premade templates that’s even sorta polished without being totally generic.

There are also type designers who design typefaces. Most people have no reason to like, but check out how many type foundries there are and how much professional fonts cost. Making a good font is incredibly labor intensive.
You mean the handwritten text, “FINISHED SCHOOL” and such?

If so, even if you did that with text, you’d be very unlikely to use variable fonts at all, but rather just draw multiple versions of each character, and choose randomly or based on context (there are a few techniques). That’s waaaaaaaay easier than going variable would be—and variable still wouldn’t be sufficient to achieve the result on its own, though it could be a part of it.

But in this specific case: it’s in an image, the variations look unrealistically authentic for a font, and the framing lines and tiny illustrations and text are all done together. Pretty sure it’s authentic digital hand-drawn art. Won’t take long, genuinely just a few minutes for the actual drawing. The only hard part is fitting fluid-sized text content into the fixed-size illustration frames; that’s why at larger sizes it’ll be oddly spacious in places (and always inconsistently so), and since they’ve only taken care of it down to viewport widths of about 400px, below that (or if you use different fonts, or for a number of other possible causes) you start getting bad collisions.

New York Times decide it’s important to do things like this sometimes, so they get more people involved—not just a writer, but an illustrator and a developer.
What makes a man turn neutral? What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

-- Zapp Brannigan
If there was one psych principle I wish everyone was aware of (and almost no one is) it's the over-justification effect.

From childhood onwards, when you introduce an extrinsic motivator for something that was intrinsically motivated, it basically 'overwrites' it.

Like to read? If you get an ice cream party for reading, while you won't read that much more than before, after the incentive gets taken back away you'll stop reading as much for pleasure.

The most obvious instance of this is getting paid to do something you used to enjoy.

There's not really a specific 'fix' but introspection about why you do the things you enjoy could help shift it. As you are working on something, recognize your enjoyment of it and set aside thinking about the external rewards you get for it. Maybe even make a change in what you do taking a cut in pay for a work environment that's more fun.

It will be a lifelong battle as long as your profession is the thing you enjoy(ed), but mindfulness on a regular basis about why you intrinsically enjoy the things can mitigate it.
Canon stock is basically unchanged and is underperforming the SP500 slightly on the 1Y, is the market wrong or is this not going to do anything? One would think disrupting chipmaking would be more reflected in the stock price.
15 years of suffering chemotherapy to get a statistically insignificant extension of your life span? It's a steal according to HN.
The idea of being a wholesaler for SaaS products is interesting. I wonder, from a broader perspective, how this wholesale model might shift the traditional SaaS pricing and subscription norms. Could this be a trendsetter for how startups and even established companies approach their software needs? Interested to hear thoughts on the potential long-term impacts on the SaaS industry!