skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The researchers say that goldene gets its new properties because in its 2D form, the atoms get two “free bonds.” This means it could eventually find use as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide, producing hydrogen or valuable chemicals, or purifying water. And of course, electronics could benefit, even if it just means less gold is needed to make them.

"Synthesis of goldene comprising single-atom layer gold" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-024-00518-4 :

> [...] Our developed synthetic route is by a facile, scalable and hydrofluoric acid-free method. The two-dimensional layers are termed goldene. Goldene layers with roughly 9% lattice contraction compared to bulk gold are observed by electron microscopy. While ab initio molecular dynamics simulations show that two-dimensional goldene is inherently stable, experiments show some curling and agglomeration, which can be mitigated by surfactants. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy reveals an Au 4f binding energy increase of 0.88 eV. Prospects for preparing goldene from other non-van der Waals Au-intercalated phases, including developing etching schemes, are presented.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40079841 8mins ago lol
Yes, if they were forced at gunpoint to eat right and exercise they would be healthy, plain and simple. There is no arguing around this. They are simply physically lazy.
Yikes. I specifically said it was a success.

But after 2/3 of a century, nuclear has clearly failed to attain the level of success of other technologies, and it's success has been capped.

Moreover, nuclear is now on a clear and accelerating decline. The peak was 1995, producing 20.1% of US power, and it's now fallen from 19.7% to 18.2% in the last two years.

I wish nuclear had enjoyed more success; it still may with new smaller-scale and inherently safe technologies.

But the current cost profile and construction profile is so far out of line with the continually-rapidly-declining-costs of competing solar and wind technologies, that current nuclear is only falling further behind. To build a nuclear plant vs solar or wind requires far more capital, has a far longer permitting process and construction process before a return on capital can even begin, and a far more costly end-of-life phase (notice we're not even mentioning the usual highlights of nuclear waste disposal, containment, and nuclear material proliferation). Nuclear has simply become an unmanageable option.

So, considering that it's success was limited, and is now in decline with no end in sight, how is it unfair to characterize it as "failing to make the grade"?
You’re forgetting promo packets and yearly ratings. When you’re desperate to show success for either climbing the career ladder or keep your high paying job, some people start flirting with ethical & legal boundaries.
The data was stolen by a hacking group, not employees
Yeah. Especially good for things you think of while driving, or falling asleep (assuming you don't have an already-sleeping partner in the same room)

I find that Siri regularly mangles the "body" of the reminder nearly beyond all recognition, but does reliably at least get the reminder time correct. I think she's actually been 100% accurate at that part for me.

So, like clockwork, I get the reminder on time. And then sometimes it takes a little work to figure out what the reminder was supposed to be for.

I find Siri is... sometimes... effective for playing specific songs/playlists while I'm driving. Sometimes. She is certainly better than the alternative of dying in a fiery crash, I guess.
I thought loyal wingman was supposed to arrive years ago? This is really the first neural network attempt to autopilot?
> affect something in the physical world.

This is satisfying. Especially anything electromechanical.

In a similar tangent, I believe social media isn't really social since you don't have people face to face talking to each other. The physical touch and facial expressions are quite important.
Thanks for the tips. I did try the wine wrapper for Fusion 360 a while ago but ran into some known issue with the startup dialog not being able to open up the browser for Fusion360 (sigh, more unnecessary enshittification - I also tried FreeCAD but it wasn't easy to use).
It keeps the side from curling in and causing the irritation/cut that results in what we call ingrown toenail.
Deploy Llama3 8B on AWS EC2
Alexa's "follow ups" are the most infuriating thing. I have never once thought "Oh, thank you for telling me that". Maybe it's because I already know what Alexa can do (and what it can't) or I already have other methods for accomplishing what it suggests and don't want to use Alexa.

I've never thrown a keyboard/mouse/controller in anger but those follow ups make me want to start looking for a hammer. I really need to look into HA Voice as a replacement.
Thank you for reading and for the links!

I'm trying out Clickhouse for the next post. Definitely excited for sub 24 hour data loading!

I haven't heard of VictoriaMetrics but that's some impressive performance. Will check it out!
are you an aggressive hn-lurker or do you have some keyword alerts set up for this, just curious.
Ok, but do you get how there's something fundamentally different between repetition and unrolled repetition?
Here is Haidt's detailed rebuttal of the piece you cite: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/phone-based-childhood-cause-epi...
Outsource as much as you can and EXERCISE
Eh. I feel like an OS upgrade offers enough scope for messaging that a name change may not add much, but I could see arguments either way.

I also feel like "Apple makes a serious AI move", in 2024, is a big enough news story that messaging may not be that big a problem to begin with. No matter how it plays out, it is going to attract an enormous amount of attention, enough so that folks who aren't really tuned in to tech would still have a pretty good chance of hearing about it and trying it out.

And on the third hand, if I were making product decisions here, I might not mind a relatively slow uptake. As I see it, Apple doesn't tend to early adopt because Apple differentiates partly on polish (this is why the Android fan critiques of Apple's slow adoption are so nonsense) - and it's hard to get polish right at the bleeding edge. AI Siri in 2024 feels a little daring. If it goes badly sideways, having fewer customers impacted would be better than more.

(Siri isn't really hurting Apple in any way I can see, because nobody has a product in the space that doesn't suck. I could see them getting nervous about that changing, maybe. But I could also see them deciding it's still better to get it right than be first to market, which is why I'll believe the rumor only when it stops being one any more.)
You might have incorrect expectations - if you are scraping contact info from LinkedIn and getting any responses at all, you are doing well. 25% connections and 1% interview rates sounds like you are doing great.
> pursue if the trade secret was actually valuable.

If the trade secret is not valuable (more precisely, if economic advantage is not gained or maintained by the continued secrecy of the intellectual property) then I believe that you will find it is not eligible for protection.
Very cool. This sort of latency is what I want from any AI on my phone/laptop.

Were the clues/riddles it started giving me intended? You could crack those just by telling it you had already answered it! Didn't work for the actual secret though. I got bored after that and gave up x_x
This is why my next tech purchase will be a Raspberry Pi 5 and a Wacom One 13" touch screen --- my testing with a Raspberry Pi 4 and Wacom One (gen 1, no touch) went well, so I'm hopeful that this will work as well.
That pelicans surfing video is perfect - there's certainly not a whole lot of flapping going on.

100G will find the weak point on your model

You know, just a casual glider built to withstand 10 times more gravitational force than an F-15 and 15 times more than a Formula 1 car. Wild.
Correct, and it's clear that this isn't an outdated strategy from Google, just in the current cycle we saw Circle to Search launch on both Galaxy and Pixel, and most of the new AI stuff that differentiates Pixel is now coming to Galaxy as well. This might be a headscratcher if you think Google is trying to make Pixel the dominant Android phone, but that's not it. Google wants Android to be the dominant phone OS, and despite it being massively popular globally, in the US the numbers are dire, with 50-60% overall going to Apple, and as high as 80-90% of young people choosing iPhone. I love Pixel, but it accounts for approximately 5% of the market in the US, with Samsung at 22%. Those stats about young people nearly universally picking iPhone is a bad sign for Android and a bad sign for competition in the phone market as a whole.
Apple has one of those tours for their museum.[1]
Apple used to be big on that. They called it "Quicktime VR"(1998) [2]
The main application today is real estate sales.[3]

[1] https://applemuseum360.com

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime_VR

[3] https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/int/virtualtour3d-f...
A) You did write it, even if it were a joke. Don't be a liar-pants.

B) It wasn't a joke. You called it "fairly troll-ish". It was thus fairly serious. It is your mind child, such as it is. It's okay if you aren't any good at philosophy or deep thinking.

C) Google doesn't do anything serious in Liverpool.

D) Given we have humble intellect and status, let's try being a bit less pretentious and a bit kinder and more respectful. That way, we can make Hacker News and the world at large a more pleasant place :)
Hey can you please stop breaking the site guidelines in your HN comments? You have a long history of doing this and we've had to warn you a whole bunch of times. This is not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34152909 (Dec 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26597504 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22795912 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22050840 (Jan 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626020 (Nov 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20693249 (Aug 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19257482 (Feb 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19205497 (Feb 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18703939 (Dec 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17900769 (Sept 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787122 (Aug 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17659226 (Aug 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17657539 (July 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17434119 (July 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16456721 (Feb 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14714774 (July 2017)

There was no need for you to be a jerk or cross into the flamewar style in your comment here, and the sad thing is that you obviously know a lot about this topic, so your comment being correctly flagged (for breaking the site guidelines) deprives readers of the information you have to contribute.
Would it be realistic for app developers?
> Once everyone can do it, then OpenAI value would evaporate.

If you take OpenAI's charter statement seriously, the tech will make most humans' (economic) value evaporate for the same reason.

https://openai.com/charter
Yeah, nice, you could also consider a low rank factorization as well.
Bangladesh's flag is a green field with a red filled circle, but the red filled circle is off-center and once you've seen that you can't unsee it.

(The original design had it centered in the flag; some committee later decided it should be centered in the "flag plus flagpole".)
These are hundreds of lists from all over the world updated a few times a day. They are very diverse ranging from known terrorist fronts to things as benign as a locally elected politician. Assuming everyone mentioned in the DB was somehow involved in fraud or criminal activity would be a gross misrepresentation. Financial institutions and other businesses use them in KYC/AML, but also for flagging accounts that might need some white glove /red carpet treatment as mistakes made on those could lead to bad press.
Perhaps there's room for improvement in the last mile. Copper is expensive, insulation is cheap. Wonder how much higher the tensions in electric outlets could be made while still keeping overall safety of the system.
It's likely a joke, but it sure stands out. Could also be transcription error. The letter itself contains a typo ("if you will privide") which is fixed in the transcription. (It should have been transcribed as is with "[sic]" added to note the original typo.) Too bad there's not an image of the reply.

BTW, the letter was shared to reddit 7 years ago and a redditor replied that it was his uncle Andy:

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/5a95b8/til_i...

A photo of Andy:

https://imgur.com/gallery/tsWkg

The story has been circulating the Internet at least since 2004:

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/spring/c...
Well played guys. I mean well actuallied. ;)
I think nsfw stats bursted that bubble, not danny.
> Of course, a harness that started from the punycode parsing -- instead of the top-level X509 parsing -- finds this vulnerability immediately.

Yes, it's nice to have a fuzzer that can start from a very high-level entry point, but it's even nicer to fuzz lots of entry points (one for every parser).
I think Thomas (whose posts I overall have a lot of respect for) misunderstood my initial question as an indication of surprise at the mere accusation, and felt the need to explain why such accusations of anti-semitism are unsurprising.

Read that way, I can see why he thought the ADL statement on JVP might be relevant and accurate (it certainly does accurately represent the views of a number of people within the Jewish community, though I think many also use the allegations of anti-semitism tactically to distract from legitimate criticism of the actions wrought by an attitude of ethno-religious exceptionalism).

To be fair, as a descendant of Jewish holocaust survivors myself, I'm glad there's a high-profile group that makes it their mission to bring light to actual anti-semitism when it occurs, but unfortunately the ADL is influenced by actors I believe to be operating in bad-faith and has strayed from their mission in order to hand-wave away legitimate criticism of actions stemming from prejudice that exists within the Jewish community.

The Jewish community is by no means unique here; there are elements of prejudice within every demographic, and I'd wager that a near-majority of practitioners of every religion have an attitude of exceptionalism, though Judaism is unusual in having religious practices very tightly coupled with an ethnic identity that often excludes practitioners of Judaism-the-religion who aren't considered ethnically Jewish, or are an unconventional kind of ethnically Jewish (see [1] and [2]).

But I suppose to someone less familiar with the topic, criticism of prejudice that exists within a minority population can be hard to distinguish from prejudice against that minority population, so I can understand what seemed like a strongly oppositional reaction to my earlier post.

If anyone is this deep in the thread and wants modern perspectives by well-respected scholars, Gabor Mate (a holocaust survivor himself) and Noam Chomsky (another Jew who has been unfairly accused of anti-semitism and holocaust denialism by the ADL) have spoken extensively about related issues.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Jewish_communities#J...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Jewish_communities#S...
> Siri is the only mainstream assistant thing that meets users where they are instead of forcing them into whatever ecosystem it's attached to

I must be missing your point, because afaik, Siri is only accessible via the Apple hardware ecosystem.
>each one genuinely did seem to reset my anxiety baseline to a lower level

Yes! for me as well. It reminds me of a response Jack Tramiel (Founder of Commodore computers and holocaust survivor) made, when asked about dealing with the stress of cut throat competition.....something to the effect of .."stress.. what stress? Compared to Auschwitz.. this is nothing"
Yes, the death of our sun is a very long way out, but it's also entirely certain and unavoidable. It's a hard deadline. We could very easily kill ourselves off in a million ways before that happens and there is plenty of other threats in space that could do it for us without warning at any moment, but those are all only possibilities. The end of Earth and everything on it at some point in the future due to the death of our sun is a certainty and there's nothing we know of that can prevent or allow us to survive it.

> You might as easily argue for saving money on oversized fireworks and solving teleportation first.

Oversized fireworks seem unlikely to save us, but if teleportation becomes more promising than traveling through space in ships I'm all for it. Right now, it looks like ships are our best bet and so that's where we should be spending more of our limited and increasingly vanishing time and resources. It's a good idea that we continue to look into alternatives, we just want a greater percentage of our resources/efforts spent on whatever seems the most likely to work.
> language input
I'm saying that CSS has always had really confusing messaging around what is considered good practice and what is considered bad. If CSS had actually had the equivalent of Go's stdlib and documentation with well established good practices that were pragmatic we would be having a very different conversation right now.
Legally speaking, in many/most places, taking any data you're not supposed to take from a computer system is 'hacking'. This is a story about a hacking group that took data they're not supposed to have. I don't see many scenarios in which it wouldn't qualify.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
That's been my experience as well. It lacks support for certain clone(2) flags like CLONE_VFORK[1], which limits the set of non-trivial programs it can run, and since running non-trivial programs is most of the point, I haven't revisited it since it was first announced.

[1] https://github.com/facebookexperimental/hermit/blob/bd3153b4...
#4 is something I need to do ASAP, appreciate the tip. It's easy to see the chasm of what's still ahead but forget how far you've come.
C++ chrono-compatible low-level date algorithms. (2022)
This is called porting a mortgage, and the lender has to agree to it.

If you have a low-interest mortgage, why would your lender agree to this when you sell your current house and want to port it to another house? I guess there is some incentive, because they will still be getting some interest from you, vs if you pay off the loan, they will get zero future interest. But from my experience with lenders, I doubt they would go for this.

Now sure, if you have a higher interest rate mortgage, they'd be glad to port that in a lower interest rate market. But then that would be dumb for the homeowner.
Show HN: MonsterWriter – Write a thesis, post, or organize notes
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We are happy to receive any kind of feedback!
Lots of legacy HPC code assumes POSIX file I/O, which means a parallel file system, which means getting the interconnect topology right, which is not easy.
It sets timers well (for me, at least)
Existing gravimeter tech:

"City-size seamount triple the height of world's tallest building discovered via gravitational anomalies" (2024)
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/city-...

"Kerr-enhanced optical spring for next-generation gravitational wave detectors" (2024) , and/or Tantalum; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39957123
Link seems broken?
Superb. Put it over there next to the pile of Edison SBCs.
Netflix Accused of Using AI Photos in True Crime Documentary
Is AI smarter than a house cat?
I recently got a new Pixel phone and Google's much hyped new AI features just seem so... gimmicky. One of the setup examples shows how you can circle a tent on the left side of a picture and move it more to the center. Neat, I guess? It's kind of a fun toy but I'm not sure what problem this is actually solving. I'm sure there are some usecases for this out there, but it's not a capability I have ever found myself wishing for.

Meanwhile the rest of the phone is surprisingly buggy and annoying. Basic functionality I use every day is worse than on any other recent phone.

Google has never been a great product org, but this desperate need to be seen as one of the cool kids in AI is making things worse. Granted I think of phones/computers more as a tool than a toy and put much higher value on usability and reliability versus novelty; perhaps I'm outlier in that.