skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's something to technical analysis, but am skeptical it is the be-all / end-all. Consider this:

1. The dollar is a mildly inflationary currency, by design. (though recent events show us that sometimes it is more mildly inflationary than others.) The fed engineers the dollar to be inflationary so people don't park their value in dollars in bank accounts. The modern concept of a currency is that it circulates. Liquidity is generally believed to be good for an economy. So... over the long run you'll always have inflation that, all other things being equal, will cause security prices to go up. I think that part of econometrics is not astrology.

2. Many of the metrics people commonly use, notably the previous 30, 90 or 180 day averages and when they cross each other are tied to real events. Publicly traded companies publish quarterly results, so it always seemed to me that these averages have something to do with the aggregate sentiment regarding a security's performance (i.e. - the wisdom of the crowd will lift or lower a security's stock price based on the crowd's aggregate interpretation of the quantitative and qualitative aspects of that company's behaviour.) Does this mean it's a science and not astrology? I say "Largely, but not completely," as there are still numerous fools out there. And maybe there are whales out there trying to tilt the market for later financial gain? And sometimes people are just wrong when they interpret a financial statement.

3. But there are higher order effects. Everyone seems to know about basic quantitative measurements and it's not hard to find people to analyze a security quantitatively. So... if everyone is using the same metrics, then shouldn't everyone come up with the same buy/hold/sell signals? Of course not. Not everyone has the same risk profile or understanding of the context of the markets (i.e. - you don't have to be an insider to know what the macro-economic situation is, and there are a lot of insiders.) That part of technical analysis may seem like astrology because people are telling you what they think will happen based on their own view of the market, the economy or a particular security, but they're not telling you how they came up with their analysis criteria. I don't think it is astrology, because somewhere, someone is making a decision based on what they think are rational reasons. But you don't know what they are, so like an astrologer of old, you're left trying to decipher the relationship between causes and effects and people often see relationships between the two that really aren't there (especially if they have small data sets.)

4. And there are probably some people out there who are buying/holding/selling at random. Maybe there are enough of them to affect the popular technical indicators.

So... is technical analysis just stock market astrology? No. Not at it's core. But without sufficient information about what market participants are thinking, it may be indistinguishable from astrology in many cases.
The idiots are leaking into HN
99.999% of the population, including those who claim they have long COVID, do not know the words “persistent spike proteins” or “post COVID sequelae”.

Therefore I assert you are incorrect, “long COVID” implies a “long case of COVID”. Similar to how no one would interpret “long marriage” to mean the after-effects of marriage.

P.S. no I will not cite a source for the statistic nor will I cite one for the sky being blue.
That is a mistake by Mozilla IMO. They could've done better. But VPN is just a beginning, there are many other opportunities. Like recently-launched containerized JS playground. Or hosted email. Or Nextcloud-like product in general. Many ways to go.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the return-to-office crowd, like myself, wants. Work relationships and personal relationships serve entirely different purposes for me.

I don't want to be working longer hours, or make work a larger part of my life. I don't particularly care if I have "real" friendships with my colleagues outside of work. I have plenty of friends and family that I already have trouble juggling.

What I want is the camaraderie, greater trust, mentorship, professional networks, etc. that comes from working with people during the day in a shared space.

I'm not sitting with a church community or sports team during my 9-5. I've had a couple co-working memberships during the last couple years - most people just go there to sit and work quietly. Maybe you make some small talk here and there. Except for the people working with their colleagues who are also in the co-working space.
Validation of Modern JSON Schema: Formalization and Complexity
Rip the key off the cheapest android phone you can buy, or an old one after you've upgraded. Don't publish it - pass it to your rooted phone which can now use an emulated TPM.
Id imagine fingerprints will probably be sufficient no? Surely there are other biological identifiers that will serve as a functional replacement?
It still overperforms after 2005 (0.63 sharpe vs 0.55 for buy&hold). It gets kinda awful after 2015 (0.47 sharpe), with the V-shaped 2020 crash and recovery.
looking forward to a rise in crime where the victim had his eyes removed.
More of this from the aging generations, huh?

https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/comic-book-c...

Same with jazz, DnD, same with rock music, same with rap

No one seems to have much rage for the environment, just their mind palace
Even if we assume that captchas are the only thing this can be restricted to (which, if attestation is widely deployed, they won't be restricted to), why is it good to make people using locked-down Apple devices with logged in Apple IDs have fewer captchas? It's a protection racket.
> My heart rate has never gone back to where it was and my breathing never returned to being fully "satiating".
> Gone through the gamut of medical tests and everything is "normal".

This, 100% this; and it's a concept that's really hard to get across to people, even doctors.

I got to the point where I decided to start doing stuff again because it was the only way to get back. I'm in way better shape that previously since covid, but that "fully satiating breath" is still not coming.
Show HN: SnipCSS – Extract CSS from any website section, turn into components
Hello HN! SnipCSS is a Free Chrome extension (with pro version) that I think many web developers would find useful!

If you ever tried to copy styles from devtools to recreate a design you know it's very tedious to select each element needed and copy styles. SnipCSS automates that better than anyone. Nothing else merges/splices styles into a usable snippet that stays true to the original design.

After getting the extension working well enough to collect snippets, I took it a lot further. I added features to scope the CSS, templatize repeating items, inject lorem ipsum data, and then convert snippets to React/Vue with ChatGPT.

I'm even building a template directory of snippets based on the designs I've collected from random websites.

Making a universal tool to componentize anything on a web is a big project so it took me a couple years to get here.

During that time I've gotten very little feedback. I really suck at talking to users. So please let me know your thoughts and leave a comment!
UBI and machines doing a lot of work does not mean post-scarcity. UBI is just that - basic; and I don't think anyone believes it will be quick to get to a point where machines have eliminated ALL jobs.
> You'd want to avoid abuse

Why?

What you're describing is a post-scarcity world. In that context, what does "abuse" even mean?
Maybe we should talk about long flu, you can have post-viral fatigue after it, the only difference with COVID is the duration.
I like the idea conceptually, but what is the likelihood of broader adoption? I notice that Meta, Apple, and Google are conspicuously absent from the contributors. Historically (see e.g. Matter) it seems like standards that aren't written to conform to existing de facto implementations tend to be superseded by later ones that are.

I'll admit to not having read the entirety of the RFC, but I'd also be curious about how the proposed approach maps to the current privacy/UX goals that the established players are pursuing, e.g. if WhatsApp wants to preserve cleartext moderation of E2E group chats, is that possible under this scheme, etc.
Would have been interesting if you had logged your biodata with an Oura ring, or so. I'm planning on doing something like this to get out of a kind of fatigue and sleep problems. I also have a rowing machine, incidentally.
A better link to the story (no paywall, Cory's personal site): https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-de...
Yup. The process is a bit different now, and under the purview of the "Big 8 Management Board", but new groups are still possible.

Last one was comp.infosystems.gemini in October '21[0]

[0]: https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Nan:2021-10-22-result-comp.infosy...
Completely agree. I've long believed that society is just "wrong" with the work/life balance these days. Socially i think we could drop to 6h days and life would improve dramatically (just looking at home time, that is) for most people.

For me, just giving up commutes and being able to do some basic chores on breaks or lunch alone brings a ton of this balance back into check. I work 8h but i gained so much "me" time back that it's like working 6h with a commute.

I would give up WFH if needed, but i'd be pushing for 6h days as a trade off. I now feel the added time in my life by not commuting is a massive boon. One that i can't give up. Do i prefer WFH? Yes, i'm on ~8years of it now. But the life that i clawed back by simply not commuting is by far the most valuable thing. One i am never giving up in i have options.
This is exactly how to trick the masses into a new system like Worldcoin. Give them that free money and take their digital identity from them. A leaf out of China's digital Yuan CBDC rollout. [0]

Governments are now taking notes on how to perform a perfect rollout of a CBDC without alarming the masses with its dystopian drawbacks or the so-called 'conspiracy theorists' discovering their plans and leaking it before it launches.

Given that Worldcoin was essentially out there in the open, it was already too late to even begin to stop them. Especially when Sam Altman has been talking to governments about both creating the poison (ChatGPT/AI fakes) and selling the cure / solution (Worldcoin).

You are watching the creation of another 'personhood' data broker / collector using an Orb to verify / KYC people and give them free money. Something that would make governments and three letter agencies incredibly jealous.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/china-uses-digita...
Also being discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864319
To quote Adam Robinson [1]:

> My only concern about empowering individual investors is that when you invest as an individual, you are entering the fieriest, gladiatorial arena ever invented and you’re competing with highly incentivized participants around the world who are out for your lunch and going to eat it if you don’t have an edge.

It seems profits are possible with technical trading; it's just that they're zero sum, and there are extremely few (although big) winners.

This numberphile video gives an interview with someone who was successful at it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjVDqfUhXOY

[1] https://tim.blog/2018/06/22/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts...
Because you are not drawing a teacup, you are looking at price patterns. IF you believe in efficient markets, price should be an indicator of "all currently known information"
> It boggles my mind that a warm blooded creature that needs arable land would be upset about icecaps melting.

The earth is a large system with lots of inertia. When some aspect of it changes relatively quickly, it's natural to be uneasy. Particularly when the downstream consequences of that change are already becoming visible.

To wit CO2 levels over the last 1my.

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

The notion of increased CO2 leading to higher atmospheric heat capture dates back to at least 1856:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a2614102278e77e59a04...

So the combination of well-established science connecting CO2 to atmospheric heat, a relatively massive increase in CO2, and the emergeng changes predicted by a atmospheric heat increase - that is a valid reason for concern.

> We want the poles to be livable.

If it was possible to make this happen in isolation, maybe it would be a desirable goal. Given that this is not possible, it has to be viewed in context of the costs it also imposes. More severe weather is part of it, but also loss of both coastline due to sealevel rise and inland areas that become unlivably hot or newly unsuitable for agriculture.

> These changes are absolutely unpredictable and the models these researchers use are so heavily interlinked and layered one small mistake in the foundational data can skew the entire output. Almost as if thats how you lie with statistics...

Here you make the other sort of error - the error where you throw up complexity as a smokescreen to distract from the potential need to take action. If you're waiting for a complete set of totally accurate predictive models before you're willing to take action, you'll be waiting for a long time.

> Even so, I want Greenland to be habitable within the next 100 years. Even at the expense of coast line.

Have you consulted the people that live on the coastline? It doesn't take a whole lot of sea level rise before you're displacing hundreds of millions of people. (Not to mention the other associated costs of higher atmospheric energy.)
I guess some people just think we should have a climategate-type scandal every now and then to clean the sinuses or something?
> The current technology is not so adequate in this area yet.. We use google workspaces/chat and meet. I curse it every week..

I think this is the one place AR/VR is almost ready to really help out. "Teleport" your chair to someone else's space while they "draw" on the "whiteboard" to show you things—with their actual body and hands.

Rigs anywhere near good enough to make this non-terrible are gonna be expensive for some time, and maybe don't quite exist yet (but are the one valuable use-case within striking distance of current hardware, I think), sure—but isn't the claim that this kind of interaction is incredibly valuable? Four-figure cost per six-figure worker should be a no brainer, then (unless companies/managers are just bullshitting about that...). And meeting rooms ain't cheap.
>"should NOT be used to accused someone of academic misconduct unless the tool meets a very robust quality standard."

Meanwhile, the leading commercial tools for plagiarism detection often flag properly cited/annotated quotes from sources in your text as plagiarism.
One could easily argue the side that is saying we should stick to the working conditions we had all this while under which most people were hired, and only moved away from as an exception for a global pandemic, now that the pandemic is over.

Reasonableness has a pretty subjective definition in this context.

And even if we could all agree how reasonableness should be defined then it’s still a terrible metric to make a decision by.
What do you trade if Aliens are real?

Are you shorting Tech on the idea that w/e we have now is inferior to theirs?

Do you go long on War on the idea that we'll start fighting them?

--

Perhaps more difficult, what do you trade if Aliens aren't real?
Related truisms I've come to:

* Watch the test fail first. Write a test FooMethod_Should_Do_X. Confirm it fails. If it passes, it means you're testing the wrong thing. Once it fails, make it pass. Once it passes, make it pretty while still passing

* The simplest thing you can do is nothing. As a developer, your first job is to talk customers down from that feature request without annoying them too badly. "What bad things happen if the app doesn't do X?", "Explain the business value of X to me. About how much time or money will this save?".

* This applies not just in code. In personal interactions, saying nothing or doing nothing is often better than prematurely doing the wrong thing. There is a time to say and do something, but it is usually later than we think and not on social media.
Please see my comment on the parent -- my lingering symptom was loss of smell, along with some cardio issues. While I haven't tested the cardio side "for real, for real" yet, I'm a couple months in with that concoction and my sense of smell is back to what I remember prior to my covidx2 experience.
Sounds like victim-blaming.

Do you not blame media outlets for manipulating the masses?
Ask HN: Stories of founders going back to self hosting from Shopify, Squarespace
Title says it. Interested to hear from founders who went from self hosted sites e.g. on AWS to shopify/squarespace/… and then back to self hosted. I am considering stopping self hosting to focus more on content and product and getting rid of the burden of mastering html css javascript etc and maintaining servers.
yeah, I miss lunch with colleagues, but I value not having to change city/country more.
FWIW Amazon emphasizes the importance of good writing. Not so remote anymore, though.
Similar system is in place in Italy: https://www.spid.gov.it/en/

Although in classic Italian style now that a solid % of the population has it they’re considering switching to a new, worse, system that relies on the new ID card paired with either an NFC or a card reader.
I love working remotely in NYC. I love the city, and I love working remotely. Perfect combo.
Can't find a download link for Linux.
Haha. I worked on a manufacturing monitoring app. It communicated status from plant floor controllers (PLC) to turn boxes on the screen different colors.

The operators wanted a certain box to "turn green", and they told a coworker about it.

So he hardcoded it to green, not using the status from the PLC.

The thing is, he was already working on the request, but getting the communication up and running for the PLC is quite involved, so to stop people from bugging him he just "turned it green"

*PLC means programmable logic controller, aka simple and predictable industrial computer with lots of I/O
> Many EU countries still allow for individuals/small companies to choose to use simpler book keeping, without going through all that bureaucracy.

Not really. Well, only if you are a really really small company (read below VAT threshold).

Once you're VAT registered the tax authorities will want the irrevocability.
I see references to George Vernadsky, but no details on which history contained this information, nor how Vernadsky derived the 166lb figure. I am not even sure if he is measuring pre-17th Century Mongolian bows, since post-17th Century, Mongolian bows were influenced by the Manchu designs.

The site the interestingengineering references, itself does not contain references. There are odd discrepancies, such as the section on stringing the bow. Past a certain draw weight, you can no longer string the bow using the one leg or sitting method. The Manchus used equipment off the horse to string their bow, and kept them in cases while strung, to protect them.
Yes, insofar as awareness of it may influence your own behavior which gives it some predictive power
Technical analysis is neither technical nor analysis
I do because I’m not a robot? I wrote answers that made it to HN’s frontpage (this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5243389). Later, that answer was edited by automod to remove “Hello” line because somebody hated that people greeted each other on SO.

I wrote paragraphs only to be closed by mods as “opinion based” or whatever, so I had to turn them into blog posts, and they got picked up by popular publishing channels, like this one: https://medium.com/hackernoon/are-interfaces-code-smell-bd19...

Of course I care about how my work and my relationship with it is treated. Why don’t you?
I do something similar. Sometimes in plain English - it just helps me think through the problem I am trying to solve. Sometimes I use diagrams instead.

I omitted this step in my prior post, which only described the coding aspect.

But don't get me wrong: I'm not a great programmer. =)
An article from livescience.com that may be worth a read.

TLDR: if slowdown occurs, temperatures could drop by 5C in Europe and North America. What a 5C drop actually looks like they don't say.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/gulf...
It's good to be skeptical of how democracy is implemented and executed at any given time. (IMHO Americans in particular should be much more skeptical of their 18th century constitution rather than treat it as scripture.)

It's not good to be knee-jerk skeptical of everything that defined the post-WWII rules-based international system while idolizing billionaire founders and their corporate power. We had some good things figured out by the 1990s. It wasn't the proverbial "end of history" but IMO we need more of the cooperative spirit and respect for human rights that got us there, not less.
Hopefully the EU will also put a stop to this bullshit as well.

We may all end up stuck using a German VPN so we can still use ad blockers.
>YouTube influencers is skeptical of democratic power and international institutions, but willing to give a free pass to billionaires and any other kind of power that operates via ruthlessly deployed private property.

Because they have temporarily poor millionaire syndrome.
This change is likely only due to anticipation of a proposed EU law that would require 3+2 years of support, the Pixel 5a released in 2021 will only get 3 years of support, including security updates, and every single Pixel and Nexus phone that has been discontinued has had <= 3 years of support.

For comparison, all but the first 2 iPhones have received 4-5 years of support with the iPhone 6S being the oldest iPhone still receiving support almost 8 years later.

Android has been a complete joke when it comes to software support for older hardware, it's almost sad that it took proposed legislative pressure to change this.
That graphic looks a lot like a COVID peak...
Most countries eventually decided to merge the railway companies under a single state controlled monopoly precisely to end the wild west days.

Ofcourse the economic importance of the railroads declined when trucks and automobiles were invented so a lot of investors were happy when the government stepped in
I think it was all of them together, I basically tried to go all-in as my previous partial attempts never turned into stable improvements. I don't think without rowing machine I would get better as I wouldn't improve my blood flow, but the exercise alone didn't lead anywhere before (I tried it for 3 months a year before that).
Whoof. Those are some spooky error bars.
> Start with something that does nothing. Make sure you can do nothing successfully. Only then should you start making changes so it starts doing something.

Excellent advice!

Just last week I did JSON transformations in a succession of little Node JS programs that are chained by pipe. Each program does one step of the transformation; it starts its life by outputting what it receives, then evolves to actually manipulate data.

It's an approach that's quite safe and rarely breaks, and when it breaks it's easy to find where the problem is.
How were they measuring productivity per employee? I see that bandied about for a lot of RTO arguments, but it's extremely hard if not impossible to do, so it's important to talk about the methodology driving the decision making.
It is bad because it is yet another way people exercising their freedom have a worse experience than people who accept the warm embrace of daddy Apple.

The fact that a device is locked down should confer zero benefits on the open web as a matter of uncompromising principle.
Finally, physical NFTs