skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the point of an article like this? It's the intellectual equivalent of being a tattletale, and often serves to make people want to say more outrageous stuff to get a reaction (I seem to recall a former world leader who did that all the time and had similar stupid headlines, can't remember his name)
This is going to sound like a negative comment but I promise it's not ...

Something really gets under my skin with the way they talk about Arc on their website. There is nothing on their website that means anything. Previously the headline of their website was literally "Arc is a browser". Are you kidding?

It then went on to say that it's everything I care about. Really? How is that? What do I care about? Are you sure you know what I care about? Then finally it asks me if I'm ready to let go of the old internet.

If you're going to say stuff like this, I think most of us at least on HN would expect them to be doing something where the benefits are very apparent. Or at the least, they'd have rebuilt the browser from the ground up. It's built on Chromium and therefore will have similar issues and limitations.

I don't think there's anything wrong with Chromium, I'm happy to use such a browser but I think it's time Arc decided to explain what their goal is using English, or something we can actually understand.
Researchers who suggest that there is a substantial psychosomatic component to CFS get death threats and have been forced to discontinue their research, so the field is sort of at an impasse because only physical (usually viral) explanations get any play which is fine because CFS is definitely partially caused by post-viral sequelae but you get crucified for suggesting there is a significant psychosomatic component.
If they are real? Ya, long on Raytheon et al and pray we win the Seven Hour War…

If they aren’t, I dunno? Business as usual cause its already priced in.
Besides that, even if Covid did lab leak, that doesn’t lend any credibility what-so-ever to the rest of the lab-leak conspiracists who claim that the vaccine is just a 5g killbot.

Personally, I don’t find “china is suppressing information, and there was ventilation changes happening” compelling evidence for a lab leak, but that’s what their evidence is.
For sure the publications of these FOIA'd taken-out-of-context chats will have a massive chilling effect on scientist chatting freely about their thoughts.
You have access to a ream (ok, some) websites/info hidden behind a toggle in the search engines/Telegram.

For anyone reading this, look for the π symbol and CTRL click onto it.
The collective knowledge and opinion is dynamically reflected in the price and volume chart.
big if true. far from a chemistry expert here, but synthesis looks basically trivial (if you consider 10e-5 torr vacuum to be trivial), and the materials are readily available. hell, from the instructions alone i could probably make it at home.

i mean the search space is unfathomably large, so i suppose it’s possible that something like this exists, but the paper quality itself doesn’t.. spark joy? :)

i’ll maintain a healthy level of skepticism until some real materials scientists opine and/or someone else is able to reproduce.
> Salary has never been about the value you provide. It's about the cost to replace you. Companies will never pay you more than you cost to replace.

Those things aren’t mutually exclusive. To some extent, the value you bring is whats behind the cost to replace you.

And I dont mean in some proportional relationship to revenue or profit or something. I just mean software engineers create more value than someone who can juggle chairs, who is incredibly hard to replace.

Of course if there were 4 billion software engineers tomorrow, wages would go down. We agree on that. But business value is a factor.
Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months
I suppose that energy still has to go somewhere. Which place will warm up if Europe and North America cool down?
Now do a modern structured document with sections and bullet points and logical connectives.
My rule is if the door is open or not. If it's open, come on in. If it isn't, only emergencies please!

We have 3 kids (5, 5, 8) and they can actually manage themselves for hours at a time. And I don't mean youtube, TV, or tablets. Just regular playing. My wife works part time so in the summer they don't have constant supervision in the morning.

This is where having more kids can be easier. 1 kid can be lonely, or be unable to get help if they hurt themselves. 2 can be a problem if a fight breaks out. With 3 you have someone who can come get you if there's a problem.
I'm actually not sure this isn't better. Targetting Linux directly can have some challenges to work across the given distros. Instead we've adopted this standardised portability layer that just needs to be made to work once on each target.

The popularity of Steam Decks means that more and more people will purposefully test against Proton and reduce the number of hacks and workarounds needed, and Linux gaming will be in a happy place.

One recent positive development was Battlebit. The main limitation on Linux gaming is anti-cheat. Battlebit were going to bring in FACEIT anti-cheat, which in its current form prevents Linux (and on Windows requires you to disable VM processor extensions in the BIOS). They have announced that in fact they're implementing a different version of it that's Steam Deck friendly. Whether they changed their minds in response to pressure or it was always the plan and was poorly communicated isn't clear, but it's a nice development anyway.
> travel requirement, which they scoffed at because it was for "fun" activities

I'm lucky enough to live close to where I work, so the commute isn't a massive problem, which may colour my view of remote work a bit.

I'm a sort of middle-aged empty-nester (though this nest was never full unless you count cats and the occasional lodger), but I've got a set of hobbies and some social life, so doing “fun” things because work tells me to is still work - I'm not going to count it as free time. Any “fun” outside my normal working time is time you can bet I'm going to claw back elsewhere.

I like many of the people I work with. Well, some of them at least. A couple of them I even mix with outside the office. But being told to do something fun often feels more like work than, well, work! I can see it being even extra effort to smile through when significant travel is involved.
I prefer my cyberpunk dystopia to remain fiction. I'm starting to suspect Sam Altman is a closet accelerationist.
You may think so, until it’s revealed that one of the bidders makes all bidding decisions by roll of a die / flip of a coin (you can invent some scheme for doing so).
Table 3 and 4 of this UK government information state the number of vaccinations needed in my age/health bracket to prevent a severe hospitalization exceed the number at which we’d expect at least one serious adverse effect — that is, they do more harm than good.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I think the more likely explanation is that the low-quality content has always been here, it's just more or less visible depending on which topics you visit and what's happening in the world.

This place was IMHO pretty toxic during the pandemic. It felt like half of the threads were some covid-related "controversies" and the other half was about whether or not WFH is a fundamental human right.
> Even if you get it down to just 15 min. (which is hard unless you live right next to work) that's 30 min. a day. Prob adds up to well over 100 hrs a year just commuting.

I need my morning commute. It's a kind of forced meditation that I can't get at home with three young children.

It would stress me out if I couldn't work a flexible schedule or if I had to deal with rush-hour, so I'm thankful that these stars aligned for me.
I assume that IT departments in most orgs will just swap those attestation tokens for a generic "ACME Corp" token at the network layer. And I expect that home routers will give us that option as well.
With LC it's difficult when you get POTS, i.e. my resting HR was 60 and the moment I stood up it shot to over 150, making me dizzy and super unwell. Rowing machine and electrolytes helped quickly though. Also, post-exertional malaise (PEM) is real, when I overdid it with sport on my good days, I paid by a week in bed unable to move. Pycnogenol/OPC turned out to be a great help with that.
> But the engineers played some tricks to extract maximum performance at minimum cost which left them kind of trapped.

That's interesting. If you have a moment could you expand on that? Thanks.
Advertising does not axiomatically need to be personalized to be seen and useful. An advertising platform that did not personalize the adverts could still create valuable advert placement. They would need attribution of conversions in order to demonstrate that.

The pitch of modern advertising certainly seems to be 'more personalised ads are the only way to be effective'. And within that pitch, attribution is about finding out if the way an ad was personalized was indeed effective. But I am not sure I trust google and facebook when they claim "only personalized ads are effective".
Yes.

And that seems like a good idea.

Well, in parallel. There’s quite a bit we can do while we build, but we need to build.

For example, biking more for short journeys not just cuts emissions, it is also healthy, makes you happier, and reduces congestion.
I am a transformer, it should definitely work
> I can’t get behind stuff like this. It just doesn’t seem easier to use than something like Whimsical or even Visio.

Different people have different learning/working styles. Even if it doesn't work for you, it may well work for them.

(Personally, I like the directness of tools like Visio, but they very much work at the surface of a visual diagram. It can be useful to express things textually.)
> Nobody's telling you not to drive to an office every day.

This argument doesn't work because it's not about being in aspecific physical location, it's about being in the same physical location as all the other workers.

When half the people you need to interact with are remote, there's no point going to the office.
Side note to the remote founders/employers out there:

Have you been plagued by applicant fraud? We've found for all of our remote engineering roles, we get 100's of amazing applicants who are all fake (clearly not actually in the US) once you get them on a screening call. They're often reading from a script, broken english, and say strange things like they're born and raised in Texas, yet can't speak fluent English or have a heavy accent.

My best guess is it's dev shops overseas who are using an English-speaking "front" person who then delegates the work to other people with the "front" person being the one who joins company meetings, etc.

Really frustrating because it's making us have to do silly things like require photo ID verification over video on the first screening call (which I would rather not inconvenience applicants with, but there are just SO many candidates lying about residing in the US).

With our most recent role, about 60-70% of applicants were fake ("fake" = candidates who lie about living/residing in the US)
I don't remember a specific one, or a specific tipping point. And of course it wasn't just people here that influenced me. But this place, with so many curious people, motivated people, was a pretty good positive reinforcement for me. There have been discussions over the years about people getting PhDs in their later years or even in retirement, people changing careers at late ages, starting companies even though no longer childless and carefree, things like that, that helped motivate me.

It wasn't so much about why any of them did it. That is really personal to each individual and not motivating, I think. More that people have succeeded in doing it was what I needed to see.
Not sure what to say other than that you are flagrantly wrong.
>Yanis Varoufakis proposes that capitalism has died — but it wasn’t replaced by socialism. Rather, capitalism has given way to feudalism:

This to me is what is really happening. A good symbol of this is income inequality and to a lesser extent, no real action on climate change.

Eventually, the "lords" will be in their castles were we most people bake. The "knights" could be the tech people.
No, they were older images. However, that is now becoming a problem. Some stock photo sites now have AI images and they are not labeled. I'm able to distinguish most for now because at hires the details contain obvious errors.

This is really painful, because for some of my work I need high quality images suitable for print. Now I can't just look at the thumbnail and say "this will work". I now have to examine it taking more of my time.
I share your doubt, but on the other hand I wonder why? Could you tell how a breaking message of this magnitude should be decorated to make all doubts go away?
> how else do you prevent spam without requiring a login on every single web page?

Probably missing something, what can you spam without an account today?
Anyone else think that all these predictions are going to happen sooner rather than later in terms of the given prediction range? I can't help but think that a study focussing on a specific area like this one, antarctic sea ice, wildfire predictions etc must only be able to take so many variables into account and that second order effects, third order, fourth order and beyond from other climate subsystems are going to compound and significantly accelerate the timeline.
if twitter were very strongly moderated it might have helped, but as it stands now it's a $8 fee for scammers to push their scams to the top of any thread. Even if they get banned every so often it's a great value proposition. Can't tell you the number of verified 𝕏 crypto scams I've seen since the rebrand, most of which seem to still be up.
If nothing else, the UK would more closely resemble central Europe, as I understand it - colder winters, hotter summers
Mostly. I've been known to get my hands a little dirty using historical pricing combined with deep due diligence efforts. Think of my use of TA like the cherry on top, not the actual cake. I already know I want cake or I wouldn't be sitting at the table. But, I might consume the cake a little bit differently depending on the nature of the cherry.

For example, I'll listen to an earnings call or other investor presentation to determine if I even want to do business with some corporation. After I have committed to my decision to purchase based upon DD, I might look at how the market has historically treated their business up until today to develop an actual strategy for acquiring a position (or more of a position).

The most recent instance of this for me was AT&T and Verizon getting bad news raked over the coals last week. I already know I want to be in business with these organizations (already am), so I looked at how the market was reacting in near-real-time to the news and adjusted my cake-eating strategy accordingly.

Ultimately, the outlook you are working with is what will drive all of this. I don't ever sell stock. If I decide to buy something, I know I want to hold it for at least 3 years. Never selling and strategically buying seem to be a simple rule for not getting fucked over with how investors typically try to use these tools.

The least tortured analogy I can come up with is to compare pure TA investing strategies to poker. Is it gambling? Kinda yes. Is it also strategic? Maybe also yes. Really depends on the context and mindset of the participants going into it.
Such as? Can you give some examples?

There are some very smart people working incredibly hard, yielding some rewards from it. It is a tiny, tiny set.
> Not one killer app has emerged.

I mentioned the Stack Overflow Developer Survey once already today, but at the risk of sounding like a broken record, it has some data on this as well: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#ai

To save someone a click, around 44% of the respondents (some 39k out of 89k people) are already using "AI" solutions as a part of their workflow, another 25% (close to 23k people) are planning to do so soon.

The sentiment also seems mostly favorable, most aim to increase productivity or help themselves with learning and just generally knock out some more code, though there is a disconnect between what people want to use AI for (basically everything) and what they currently use it for (mostly just code).

There's also a section on the AI search tools in particular, about 83% of the respondents have at least had a look at ChatGPT, which is about as close to a killer app as you can probably get, even if it's cloud based SaaS: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...

> Where are we in the hype cycle on this?

I'm not sure about the specifics here, but the trend feels about as significant as Docker and other container technologies more or less taking the industry by storm and changing a bunch of stuff around (to the point where most of my server software is containers).

That said, we're probably still somewhere in the early stages of the hype cycle for AI (the drawbacks like hallucination will really become apparent to many in the following years).

Honestly, the technology itself seems promising for select use cases and it's still nice that we have models that can be self hosted and somehow the software has gotten decent enough that you can play around with reasonably small models on your machine even without a GPU: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/self-hosting-an-ai-llm-cha...

I'm cautiously optimistic about the current forms of LLM/AI, but fear that humanity will misuse the tech (as a cost cutting measure sometimes, without proper human review).
No it's a disorder. What you're saying may be true to an extent, but understanding how the condition works, and how people function, it's a disorder. I think that's a step beyond what you said.

Not everyone with unmedicated and untreated with ADHD may feel like they have trouble functioning or a disorder, but many do. It's obvious if you look at their lives. Many kill themselves over it.

It may be true that a better fit for society could be incredibly helpful. In fact I think it may be one the single most beneficial thing we could do for ADHD. That said, lots of people with it feel it's a hindrance. ie. they can't live meaningful lives.

Suppose there was a perfectly accepting society, what would that mean? I just drift around starting and stopping hobbies, not forming deep friendships, contributing to society, or even big pointless achievements like building some big sandcastle? This is really the ultimate solution?

Ideally, people with ADHD should be able to choose to conform or not based on how they feel the condition effects them. We can find solutions that are practical (unlike previously described).

To get back to your key point, perhaps there is some hypothetical society where ADHD thrives. It's not now. I doubt it was ever for some people with ADHD. It's harsh, but basic life is really hard for people with severe ADHD.

My theory is that there's advantages also, that may be completely disconnected with the drawbacks. It could just be that some people have a type of ADHD that has really have negative symptoms. I'm also confident it's heavily under-diagnosed, and a small percentage, but huge number slip detection, based on it being "their personality".
My kids and wife know there is a rule during work hours:

When my office door is closed, I am not home (except for emergency, say broken limb or something). It takes some training, but they become accustomed to it.

You need to stress to your partner the importance of focus during work. This took an exceptional amount of effort for us because my wife is bipolar and when things are bad, her contributions become a trickle. Summer is always a trying time, because all the kids are home and she gets overwhelmed easily. Thankfully my employer is incredibly accommodating, so if I need to step away and resolve anything at home, they have faith that I'll see to my obligations.

There's certainly value in having a dedicated work area if possible. Your brain really likes having demarcation lines between work and home, so emulating that can help immensely.

It is important to note that WFH is NOT a silver bullet. It is not a solution for every employer/employee. It works incredibly well in many technological scenarios because of remote access and whatnot, but there are limiting factors. Both in bureaucratic requirements, "culture" fits, and domestic situations. What works for me in the Great Plains due to cheap(er) housing may not work in metro areas where some families are living in small apartments.

Don't feel obligated to make WFH succeed in your situation if you don't want to simply because its en vogue. I have dear friends that tried WFH and _hated_ it. Another option is co-working space or otherwise getting out of the house to focus on work. I find myself going to a local hiking trail area during spring/autumn to work outdoors, and it is refreshing.
From my understanding it is superconductive up to that temp. So, superconductive at room temp and even further.
Do you have more detail? Like a lot more? And are you being regularly audited by a third party?

Saying "we use a similar approach to Cloak AI" isn't good enough for many reasons. They don't provide a lot of detail to begin with, so it's unclear their approach is proven. And you're not even using their approach, just a similar one.

Even if we had a long whitepaper about how you do things, that's still not good enough because we don't know that you're actually doing it. That's why the audit is important.
No, but we do have an enormous amount of data on viruses in general. “The unknown” is limited to the unique attributes of a specific virus, and any common attributes across viruses in general or related-and-well-studied are low risk for producing unexpected long term effects. For mRNA interventions on the other hand, “the unknown” covers the entire mechanism.
I think for small amounts of text there's no way around it being indistinguishable to a machine and not distinguishable to a human. There just aren't that many combinations of words that still flow well. Furthermore as more and more people use it I think we'll find some humans changing their speech patterns subconsciously more to mimic whatever it does. I imagine with longer text there will be things they'll be able to find, but, I think it will end up being trivial for others to detect what those changes are and then modifying the result enough to be undetectable.
If the authors of the paper are reading this forum I bet them €10,000 (in 2023 money) that this event (collapse of the AMOC) will not occur this century.
> So then why do we never talk about long flu?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826837/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34694344/

> Long meningitis?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27105658/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01634...

Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7587542/
If you believe in efficient market and things being priced in then there is no past price information that can affect future price as future price is entirely martingale. You can’t both believe in technical analysis and in market efficiency.
I'm all in on Durex.
So then the astrologists are right, the phases of planets really do correlate to human behaviour
You can improve performance without changing the function's interface. Or remove a bug which causes an unrecoverable error. Or fix a memory leak. Or improve the error message on an internal assertion. Or add new methods to an object's interface. These would not change the extant observable behavior for most problem domains (although you could probably reasonably argue that any changes in performance characteristics are potentially breaking changes in e.g. game development), and are thus not "breaking", but are nevertheless useful changes.