skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this dichotomy, formalists vs. nominalists. As the author argues, it's not very useful with respect to defining intelligence and LLMs.

It is however a wonderful world building detail in Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Their world history revolves around two ideologies: the syntactics and the semantics. Nominalists and Formalists. I find his predictions about a society built around this duality entertaining.
On iPhone, to truly disable an app from running in the background you must do BOTH of these things:

1. disable "background app refresh"
2. disable *all* notifications for this app

On IOS, enabling notifications is a "back door" that allows an app to run all kinds of battery and privacy sucking telemetry even when the app is "closed". The useless option to disable "background app refresh" is an (unintentional?) dark pattern that makes you think it does what both of these things together actually do. I'm assuming that some app makers are just abusing Apple's intentions with these settings.

Disable both of those for popular social media apps and watch as your mental health and battery life improve dramatically.

Of course with some apps (like messaging apps) you may actually want/need notifications so it's not always an easy choice.
I mean, it literally and factually measures multiple your body's autonomous responses - all of which are provably correlated with stress. That's what a polygraph machine is. Saying it measures nothing is factually incorrect.

You can't detect "truth" from that, but you can often tell (i.e. with better accuracy than chance) whether or not a subject is able to give a confident, uncomplicated yes-or-no to a straightforward question in a situation where they don't have to be particularly nervous (which is why it's not very useful for interrogating a stressed criminal suspect, and should absolutely be inadmissible in court).

But everyone knows that it's not very reliable in almost every circumstance it's used. My point is that while only marginally better than chance, it's still better than chance, unlike the OpenAI's detector, which is significant worse than chance.
https://archive.ph/UbLhe
Yes. If you value a stock based on fundamentals, including estimates of the company's future performance, at $10 and the current asking price is $100 you don't want to buy it. Vice versa, you would.
Although the simplicity is appealing, this theory isn't supported by the evidence. Read the 'Chemical Hunger' series at that site, starting here: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p...
an heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune filmed a documentary full of weird dynamics like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmlX3fLQrEc
You can request it!

You'll be denied.. but you can request it.

Like I _can_ install my banks app on my rooted phone. It won't run but I can install it.
Is it allowed to put “must be US citizen”.

Honestly as an American I would much prefer to hire Americans from Midwest or Texas, than someone outside my country.
Grey-haired, mostly white, male, economy-focussed politicians running the show, revolving door between multinationals (including Big Oil) and those politics... Is it any surprise so little was done over the past decades?

They won't fix the problems ahead. Let them clear the benches, have a younger generation take their seats, and let those youngsters take the quicker, deeper, more radical actions that are needed (as far as they still can).

It's those youngsters' future, after all. The grey haired ppl that caused the mess we are now facing, are not the ones who'll be fixing it.
Women in Conflict: The Psychological Effect of Propaganda in Conflict
The never-ending changes feel devastating. Twitter was one platform that felt the least superficial, and having the most number of high agency people.

The user experience continued to be good unlike the Facebook-Snapchat-Instagram-TikTok clones for the lack of a better word.

It is tragic to see Twitter (literally) fall apart and how.
In New Zealand we tax tobacco heavily. It is thought that smokers save the government money - they pay a lot of tax and die early.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/smokers-save-govt-cash-says-re...
I think it is representative of where they landed, but not of where they were the entire process. Folks often argue one thing but come to believe another over time, and what we see is only the end product of that journey (unless someone FOIAs our conversations).

Are they retracting the paper? Are they publishing anything else to qualify their opinion or change their stance, formally? If not why not?
When you cool some materials down until they are very cold, something weird happens: Their electrical resistance vanishes, and they start rejecting all magnetic fields. It's important to note that this is not a continuous process where things slowly change until it reaches zero, it is a step change after which everything related to electricity works very differently.

This doesn't mean there is no resistance in the wires that move electricity to your house, because superconductors only work when cooled to unpractically low temperatures, meaning they can only be used for special things like the magnets in MRI machines and fusion reactors.

That is, until now. This paper reports on a material that remains a superconductor at 127C.
The best way to make money in finance is to manage other peoples' money.
Better title: Medicaid could cut costs by 0.45% if 1% of smokers quit smoking

Absolute units like billions of dollars are meaningless in these contexts. Please use percentages.
The general idea is cool, but I'm not sure about the implementation. I tried looking at the page for mastodon.social [0] and it didn't convey much information - I just see a page with some contact information for the admin, and a list of peers that is paginated to show only five peers at a time in apparently arbitrary order. Am I missing something?

I was expecting something like an explorable graph visualization that renders all the nodes (maybe scaled by number of users) and the edges (peering) between them. Have you tried building this, or do you think the data just wouldn't be too interesting since most peering relationships aren't unique?

e.g. I really like the Map of Reddit [1], and I'm not sure that the data of federated peers is enough to make something like this, but even a simplified version that just renders a graph on an infinite canvas would be fun to explore.

[0] https://mastoinstance.info/?instance=mastodon.social

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35602277
That does not include energy outsourced.
> But in case of QC, one is powerful enough to compute everything and we might not even need two, except for spare. Say a 1000 qubits QC exist, Work that it can do is the sum of all computering power in human history. You cannot even verify if the result is right or not because simply you don't have any classical alternative for that workload.

A 1000-qubit QC can't break a RSA-2048 key, let alone a lot of other interesting tasks. Quantum computers aren't magical things that provide exponential speedups on absolutely everything; they can only provide exponential speedups on some algorithms, and those algorithms generally require linear numbers of qubits to the problem size, so 1000 qubits is greatly limiting to problem size.
From : Peter Gregory "Cicadas" - silicon valley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxh2X6NjuhY
Looks cool - Unfortunately this is the first time I hear about it!
DeSantis campaign deputy helped spam the FCC with anti-net neutrality comments
I used to measure how enjoyable a cigarette was based on what I was accompanying it with or where I was.

A cigarette with coffee in the morning is untouchable.

My rule for myself when I quit was I can only smoke on vacations, so I still look forward to that combination in the future.
To add, it provides a general measure of sentiment. It's a measure of actions taken rather than words. It's not a crystal ball, but does give a slight edge if you figure out which indicators to use.

I've used it for years and had very good success when I was actively trading (traded longer timeframes. Usually made weekly/monthly trades) to the point I was able to live off of it. The last couple of years I've taken off from trading to focus on developing my business, but will likely jump back once that launches and is in a good enough place, as it's both a time and emotional drain.
Biocentrism is a theory first introduced by Robert Lanza in 2007. According to this theory, consciousness is what control the universe. Everything else is simply a byproduct of it. More importantly, Biocentrism says that the universe is not a physical thing but it is a mental thing that we create with our perceptions.
https://techbusinesinsider.com/biocentrism-debunked/
What a cool idea! Sadly, the Mapbox vector maps really struggle on my mid/low range Android phone (Firefox as the browser).

I've actually briefly looked into it before, but I've no idea why vector maps in particular are so bad, yet everyone still praises them a lot vs regular tiled raster maps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-IRtBGO9rM

Not to detract from the cool thing you've made, don't mind my musings.
Just get a mechanical with silent switches?
I read the page you linked, I see nothing that says they allow registration of domains or won't remove a domain they kicked off their other services.

The page does highlight abuse reporting - from there is a link to a page with a neat graphic that shows some of their services they feel are in a grey area of responsibility (https://www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/abuse-approach/ ) and hand wavy infrastructure is important blah blah..

but then you get to the next section and it lists a to of stuff they block without a court order (and a couple they block with) -

Now does that page relate to the other services and not their domain registration is that what you are implying?
Stocks can and do tank and get delisted or never regain the value at which you put in.
I own a BEV from 2012 and a PHEV from 2014. BEV has only had around 8% battery degradation, PHEV has around 20% but that's still enough to not use gas unless we're driving out of town. They're both in very good condition and look fine.

They've both been paid off for years and years. A new set of tires for each were the most expensive maintenance. We fill up the PHEV with gas around once a year for $40 and get an oil change whenever it prompts us, which is around every two years because we use gas so rarely. Insurance and registration for both cars ends up being a little over $1000/year total - both included. Our power costs are around $.055/KwH here - mostly renewable at this point - so we pay a few hundred in extra power costs each year charging them up.

Back when we got both the conventional wisdom even then was "lease don't own because the technology will be better in three years". Actually, the conventional wisdom was "wow, don't buy an electric car, what are you doing?" You know what? These guys still get around town just fine, don't look like junk yet, and paying a grand total of $750 or so per car per year feels real good.
https://techbusinesinsider.com/biocentrism-debunked/
The only way to prevent AI from answering questions in digital platforms is to develop a ML db on the typing style of every student across their tenure at an institution. Good luck getting that approved — departments can't even access grade or demo data without a steering group going through a 3-deep committee process.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ try paper I guess. Time to brush up on our OCR.
Ah, the classic "four-stage strategy"! [0]

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak
Cumulative measures such as these are extremely misleading. Per capita measures only slightly less so. Without looking into the distribution over the population there is no real connection between your comment and the parent's.
>> I wish people who smoke could be charged more...

I wish the opposite. As it is we have private employee insurance for "healthy" people who work, and government stuff for older people who don't. I'd rather see a less judgemental system and more effort to get people to be healthier.
Europe is much more of a middle ground than the opposite end of the spectrum.
Look around you, do you see only old sick people smoking? Also at this study (for Spain):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813084/

> Deaths due to lung cancer represented the 28.90% and the 10.83% of all cancer-related deaths in 2017 in males and females respectively, with an increasing tendency in this last group. In addition, the YPPLL count increased in the study period among females. Lung cancer was responsible annually for 60,846 YPPLL, and productivity losses summed €13.1 billion over the 10 year period.
There isn't really any positive associated with smoking, it's an industry that shouldn't exist in its current form.

If we were just talking about raw tobacco then this would be a very different discussion, but we are not.

All of the other things you are talking about while are health risks a don't carry an addictive and largely proven connection to cancer (maybe the sunscreen one but there is also a difference between making a conscious choice to do something instead of just not doing something).

There is clearly a massive societal cost associated with Smoking that I really don't think can be applied to many other things. The closest thing I can think of would be Alcohol but even that for most people is not on the same level as Smoking. At least I would not think so.
You can turn that setting off. (Don't feel bad, it took me two years to find the setting.)
Astrology would be a self-fulfilling prophecy if enough people took it seriously.

For example if everyone agreed on that Gemini means good at science and Leo is good at art, the whole education system would be designed around this belief and it would hugely impact how children think of their own potential.
Your math is bad. 1% of recipients is nowhere near the same as the 1% of smokers you used.
It would take shorter than if we were to stop CO2 production at any later date. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second-best time is right now.

Do what you can. Live sustainably. Vote righteously. Have consideration for the future.
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Elon Musk to appeal loss in SEC case to Supreme Court
The trick behind Alexander’s supposedly non-platonic correlationism is that the hierarchy of “sub-claims and sub-sub-claims” are difficult to enumerate for specific cases. Because of this it’s not immediately apparent that the bundle of correlated subclaims are filtered for relevance. All the Platonism is hiding under that rug of relevance.

That’s to say, when we talk about Tyson being stronger than my grandmother, we ignore correlated subclaims such as “Tyson consumes more protein than my grandmother” or “Tyson wears a jockstrap more often than my grandmother”—these are correlated with being stronger (probably), but they are incidental to the concept of strength. When we ask ourselves what subclaims are relevant, we’re right back to pointing at essence.
> I believe receiver use same tech as transmitter.

The hard problem solved by satellites is getting the satellite in orbit and getting it to stay there.

Humanity already could send radio waves across the planet. Emitter and receiver is not the hard problem.
A sister paper [0] has a photo of the material exhibiting the Meisner effect and levitating over a magnet, and claims to have a video too.

Either they blatantly photoshopped the photo or they actually made a room temperature super conductor. I can’t see how the could have made a subtle mistake that resulted in magnetic levitation at room temp without making a superconductor.

[0] - https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037
But they've trademarked the name KL-99 (®) in their follow-up paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.12037.pdf
Never convinced that models are a good basis for this kind of debate. It just presents a world in which we don't have agency over the climate.
> I'm not sure what a good solution would be

Anti-trust enforcement. Each and every big-name company you can name needs to be broken up into at least 30 different business entities. The current FTC is taking the first steps in the right direction, but it's going to take a lot of time & effort to build that department back up after 30+ years of them being inactive.
In my experience the focus is on human connection and that why this criticism is here - this is a business which necessarily can't prioritize human connection over profit trying to motivate people to work more. I think it's all about the outcomes - if you say "we're a family - we give plenty of second chances and then help people find a new job" is very different from "we're a family, so you need to work late tonight to get this project done"
The biosphere is composed of countless suborganisms that have become highly stable over eons of evolutionary pressure.
Right, and that's a legit argument against Technical Analysis. The meteor argument makes no sense, for the reason above.
Scientists Discover Bacteria That Can Break Down Certain “Forever Chemicals”
> In what sense were the capitol rioters "openly fascist"?

In the sense that they are literally Nazi sympathizers who display Nazi imagery, talk about Nazi ideology, praise Hitler, and write/talk about their racist beliefs influencing their political beliefs. I am not going to dig through these articles for you now and I am not going to respond further because I do not believe you are posting in good faith, but this is for the readers. Look up, like, any article about fascists/Nazis at Jan 6.
Damn, I recall it working with member-only stories previously.
The main cause is of course significantly higher costs in the US.

In some part possibly due to more administrative inefficiency, but mainly because of much higher cost of labour. I would guess the gap between doctor salaries is even bigger than in tech (probably besides Germany and of course Switzerland).
In the places I've lived, the real problem with taxi medallions is that municipalities failed to keep the medallion price in line with its value, which created a secondary rental market. Uber fares tend to cost more than taxis after their initial loss-leader to break into the market, and Uber drivers make less than cab drivers after costs.
Previous Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31897430

Show HN: PRQL 0.2 – a better SQL - 378 points by maximilianroos on June 27, 2022, 161 comments

Original post when it was conceived: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30060784

PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL - 650 points by maximilianroos on Jan 24, 2022, 295 comments
According to the efficient market hypothesis, information can only be valuable until there has been time for information to circulate through the market, and the market price to reflect that information. This seems to happen in under 15 minutes. That's why 20 minute delayed ticker prices are generally available for free.

HFT lives on happening so fast that the market price has not had time to catch up to the information that a trade is available. But it is a race against others in the same market. And an incredible amount of effort has gone into winning that race and making profits off of the increasingly narrow slice of time that markets are profitably inefficient for.
So it's subjective. That's actually fair. Thank you!
It’s demonstrably true. Do you really think you have an advantage in the market because you spotted the same breadth thrust everyone else is talking about? Same reason why people can’t understand how market is rallying with a yield curve that’s been inverted for almost a year.

It all stems from this delusion that everyone else is dumb when in reality most people are following the path of least resistance, they just don’t realize it.
Is it open-source by any chance? I would be very interested to see all the logic that is necessary to handle all the different jurisdictions. Sounds complicated!:)
^Soyjacks pointing^

Joking aside, besides power transmission, what other obvious things can this tech be used for?
I wrote a blog post playing on this idea a while back (though narrowly focused on FB and social media): https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/07/14/the-serfs-of-facebook...

In it the Knights were the devs, CEOs were earls, Kings were presidents/dictators.

Users (naturally) were serfs.

It fits pretty well to current megacorp structure.
What's the point of this lol
I have seen a few people claiming that companies shouldn't even have an office.

What doesn't really change the picture. Those are a few people, with most disagreeing, and not in a position of authority. But some do exist.
This is the behavior of a spying app, bypasses the OS/kernel to hide its activity

Either that or a bug in iOS, either way it's fishy indeed
How the creator of Homebrew simplifies distributing software with tea and Deno
https://archive.is/l8E51

-- Related --

Tetra radio tech used in vital infrastructure worldwide vulnerable : https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/24/radio-tech-used-vital-infrastr...

Code Kept Secret for Years Reveals Its Flaw–A Backdoor : https://www.wired.com/story/tetra-radio-encryption-backdoor/

Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) – (Trans-European Trunked Radio) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio

Comment by rasz : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855269
Hey, I'd take a 45% reduction of Medicaid costs if everyone stopped smoking right away. That's how the math goes, right? :)
What are the qualifications of the author?
Much of this content is contrary to content I'm familiar with written by those with Phds in nutrition science
I feel like this is one of the things beginner programmers eventually figure out on their own without having to be told about it, otherwise they'd never be able to complete fairly basic programs but large programs which touch a lot of systems.

You'd have to be really new to write a bunch of code without ever testing it working incrementally, likely because you've never encountered it before. A couple of painful debugging sessions will quickly make you realize you need to test your assumptions one by one in the right order if you are to ever have a chance of making an unknown program (i.e. a program you are writing for the first time) work. All the stars have to align, because one wrong error will throw everything right off. Debugging is the act of visiting each possible source of error and validating it works. The best way to do this is to build the program incrementally (which again, I expect programmers to quickly realize).
Sincere question, if you consider those tabloids, which sources do you trust?

The New Yorker, for instance, famously has one of the most intense fact checking operations of any publication. If it’s a matter of your personal politics disagreeing with perceived editorial bias of those, godspeed. But at least the first three you list have a lot more to lose by getting a factual statement wrong than most.
Or those who stuff everything into a read-it-later app or so-called second brain tool in the hope that they'll get to all (or just some) of it "one day". That day rarely, if ever, comes.