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gsf_emergencyon Hard-to-recycle thermoset waste plastics reborn as hydrogen

Better link

https://archive.fo/6xlm4

>vitrimer polymers—a class of materials known for their dynamic, reprocessable covalent networks.

>Posted in Colleges News by LLM

By Forward Pathway

gsf_emergencyon New technologies help wood-burning stoves burn efficiently, produce less smoke

https://github.com/aprovechodotorg/

And:

https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/downloads/7s75dn02s

What passes for BOM

gsf_emergencyon 'hikikomori' shut-ins 'start to have dreams for the future'

Nihon may still have systematic guards against reflexively dismissing the value of hikkikomori

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(There should be GWAS study on their respective genomes :)

Watch the interview to see if the laughter timing and eye movements are indicative of anything :)

https://youtu.be/Pd0oCwGhIhI

I'm not necessarily suggesting anything but[0] that the safeguards are indeed there (related to the familial NON-SHAME-DERIVED* "no-child-left-behind" responsibilities long felt by even the giant corps imho), because,

Ofc, admittedly, there hasn't been a less biased source of insights on these matters since PKD (who suffered mainly from OCD, according to the non-fictional record)

*It's more closely related to the concept that every child is a gift from God, which could be a nice antinihilist starting point for the US

[0] I couldnt find the HN comment by a native that most companies had a policy to retain the weirdly unproductive (not rest&vest because these are never management[1], for obv reasons)

[1] it's possible that YC understand this concept, when restricted to their own proverbial grandchildren :)

gsf_emergencyon How the little-known 'dark roof' lobby may be making US cities hotter

The proofs are not evenly distributed*, you simply have to look for them (or ask, please continue to do so :)

>on a hot, dry day, a person could feel more than 7 degrees warmer on a “cool pavement”, as the reflective roads are called, as opposed to a normal blacktop.

https://archive.fo/qEBUM#selection-3891.161-3891.318

As for your "regional sense", yes, the field of psychology ought to be called "mesoeconomics" (and why not mess-o-economics?)

*Shall we ahem, say, highly entropic?

In short, we need eink for roads :)

gsf_emergencyon OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

Further context https://www.pymnts.com/cpi-posts/senator-warren-presses-pent...

gsf_emergencyon Breaking Quadratic Barriers: A Non-Attention LLM for Ultra-Long Context Horizons

https://github.com/andrew-jeremy/nonAttentionLLM

gsf_emergencyon What happens when clergy take psilocybin

So we just need to hotbox the people running gov :)

gsf_emergencyon What are Flue Gas Desulphurisation units?

not a major one..

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-SO2-not-considered-a-major-gree...

In fact, it is a candidate for reducing warming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio...

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/trump-epa-targets-two-man-...

(Neal Stephenson wrote a novel promoting it:

Termination Shock)

gsf_emergencyon More fruit and vegetables predicts less disrupted sleep in younger adults

Magnesium

gsf_emergencyon Terence Tao Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

Dwarkesh, get on it.. in particular, grill him on his tacit endorsement of BigTech

https://mathstodon.xyz/@antoinechambertloir/1145866826402935...

gsf_emergencyon Excelling Above All Fruits

It wasn't an atemoya?

https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=26117.0

gsf_emergencyon What are Flue Gas Desulphurisation units?

>SO2 is a major greenhouse gas

The Hindu need a STEM fact checker. I was excited for a moment, that someone has stumbled on a plan to reroute SO2 to the troposphere (and, incidentally, a way to have the units pay for themselves!)..

gsf_emergencyon How to validate scientific ideas outside academia?

1) If you have artifacts: poster session as one commenter suggested

2) If you don't or need validation for a study proposal, become good friends with (institutionalized) behavioral economist.

3) I wouldn't recommend publishing anything at this stage, that would most likely not contribute to your credibility

gsf_emergencyon Can We Rebuild Mass-Membership Political Parties?

Baselians

https://academic.oup.com/pa/advance-article-abstract/doi/10....

raise the notion that Trump could be an intentional moderate (lol)

(and that market mechanisms may not be enough to "marginalize" the unintentional non-moderates-- the leftist manifestations of Elon?)

Elsewhen, the joust betwixt Trump and his mimetic nemesis, the Fed, will be fun to observe

gsf_emergencyon Meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity

Simplicity is a fitness between software and beauty

Pros:

1) hints that software is also about objective truth

Cons:

gsf_emergencyon Reinventing circuit breakers with supercritical CO2

Not just academic: Hitachi have already deployed a different gas (mix) last month

https://www.hitachienergy.com/news-and-events/press-releases...

gsf_emergencyon Using computers more freely and safely (2023)

>I get value out of

That's the rub. Does it benefit the developers much more than the users, in aggregate?

It's not an easy question to answer even for vaccines..

But I'd wager it's a no, because, e.g. Pfizer(plus or minus BioNTech) probably could not have learnt enough* from their deployment..

*I.e. gain nonfungible knowhow

gsf_emergencyon Government 'With' the People

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hun_and_po#:~:text=Besides%20t...

>Pò, the soul responsible for growth, is the same as pò the waxing and waning of the moon".

Growth as a manifestation of the chthonic (which is obvious when you consider the Daoist algebra) --what does (Their ---formerly---Honourable) Audrey recommend in this respect:

https://social-innovation.hitachi/en-us/article/interview-ta...

gsf_emergencyon 100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? (2006)

Careful here, you might wake up the diabol (of pure algebra)

gsf_emergencyon A new method to generate muons with ultra-short high-intensity lasers

No doubt in the PR release they weren't crackpot enough to suggest application to catalysed fusion (which is not to say they haven't got Georgia on their minds, since it's mentioned twice in the paper)

-- a careful dysregulation of teleology v. ideology as in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271552 (lol) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44257147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44270515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44257548

gsf_emergencyon A Study of the Winston Red: The Smithsonian's New Fancy Red Diamond

TL;S it for you

>careful balance of ... plastic deformation*... [and a low concentration of] nitrogen defects

*exact mechanism of absorbance/luminescence unknown (see comment for the 550nm line in Table 3 p29)

gsf_emergencyon Worldwide power grid with glass insulated HVDC cables

Not to forget Pyrex (the original formulation, not the trademark)

gsf_emergencyon Google Pixels are no longer the AOSP reference device

>welcoming you into your home

Didn't mean to imply that Aapl can't be accused of perfidious behaviour on the sw side, but the erstwhile welcomes mean that Goog's betrayal, when it happens, even a minor one that doesn't kill the biz, hurts a lot more?

gsf_emergencyon Google Pixels are no longer the AOSP reference device

In a better world.. goog could be as helpful towards grOS as aapl towards asahi. But "anything that doesn't detract from selling hw is fine" can't make it into goog's once-aspirational "knowledge economy" business calculus. (Legal considerations contribute further inertia)

I think though, "write-only" third-party contributions are a necessary evolutionary step towards a more balanced ecosystem, so lack of an open reference could lead to the needed experimentation, both legal and technical

gsf_emergencyon In case of emergency, break glass

Here's a walkthru of Corbu's own apt

https://youtu.be/K4XM8GpGiss

Seems quite normal for 2025, so it might have been an issue in 1935?

gsf_emergencyon AI at Amazon: A case study of brittleness

Not making babies requires only working at cross-purposes :)

The other 2 it's not clear if there are symptoms universal across economies.

gsf_emergencyon SmartAttack: Air-Gap Attack via Smartwatches

Oops left out the modal should for fear of the cancellatory

gsf_emergencyon SmartAttack: Air-Gap Attack via Smartwatches

Canonization correlates with martyrdom

gsf_emergencyon The Evasive Evitability of Enshittification

s/"fungible"/"pure"/

gsf_emergencyon The Evasive Evitability of Enshittification

(flailing here, to get Tomte in on this, don't mind me :)

supportive case studies abound in open source-- Valve saving desktop Linux most obviously..

(Possible "the-house-that-Jack-built" counterexample is, ofc, Linus & his kernel-- it even screws with the Microsoft latent framing! Srsly, what's the monystory there?)

More productively: riffing on Jobs' "if you care about sw you must work on hw", here's another "pecuny-agnostic" approach

  If you care about turning academics self-sufficient, you must help the self-sufficient pursue academics without disappearing into the usual failure modes (quackery, irrelevance, Bryan Johnson, Sam Altman, PG, Peter Thiel?!?! etc)

The organizational issues are much the same, the relative stakes are .. interesting[0]. See the fraught debate following Terry Tao's very recent tacit endorsement of BigTech*

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114586574834318736

*I gather that Tao not keeping those livecoding tubes on tap may indicate that he's seriously considering the issues raised therein

[0] .. than in the case of sports[1]: the mass appeal of μάθημα, to be (insanely?) charitable, is debatable, but the power potentiality, esp. when integrated over time[3], isn't[4].

(Sorry if Grothendieck/Teddy was channeled, not too inadvertently..)

[1] blissfully ignoring the uh not insignificant cases of Olympic horsemen turning into field marshals

[3] The Altman interval, of elite historiographers (or history-makers): exactly one thousand years

[4] "fungible" "commodity", hmmm.. gets back to your original point... Nonfungible visions?