skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the only criteria is that you had money from a prior successful company (Paypal in Elon’s case) to create the preeminent electric car company in the world, then why didn’t many thousands of other people achieve it as well? Why was there not more competition? Why did so many attempts to market electric cars fail before Tesla? The reason is that it is hard, and it takes a combination of both skill and luck to accomplish.
That sounds like a less serious problem—if the tool highlights the allegedly plagarized sections, at worst the author can conclusively prove it false with no additional research (though that burden should instead be on the tool’s user, of course). So it’s at least possible to use the tool to get meaningful results.

On the other hand, an opaque LLM detector that just prints “that was from an LLM, methinks” (and not e.g. a prompt and a seed that makes ChatGPT print its input) essentially cannot be proven false by an author who hasn’t taken special precautions against being falsely accused, so the bar for sanctioning people based on its output must be much higher (infinitely so as far as I am concerned).
> it may have simply seemed somewhat obvious to many at the time and nobody bothered to hold on to or archive it.

I suspect this has been the case for many especially last century, everything was moving so fast and there was so much choice, it really was a free for all with no major players dominating the market place and some people didnt know the significance of what they were doing or building. People then retire or get moved to different projects and the knowledge gets lost.
That's a new one to me, thanks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep...

In a 2010 study of psychedelic users, 23.9%[verification needed] reported constant HPPD-like effects, though only 4.2% considered seeking treatment due to the severity.[58] In a 2022 double-blind, placebo-controlled study, 142 subjects received LSD, psilocybin, or both, reported no cases of HPPD, and up to 9.2% of the subjects had flashbacks which were "transient, mostly experienced as benign and did not impair daily life".[
That's a good point. Chopping them into little pieces is bound to be a lot cheaper.
I never got more done in the office. Maybe felt that way, but never realized it.
Humans have figured it out many times in history how to live sustainably but keep forgetting. When the Europeans came to the Americas, they found people living sustainably. They thought these people were primitive and have never experienced civilization. Well, it turns out they were the people that remained after civilization collapse and have adapted to live sustainably so they wouldn't repeat what the Europeans created. North and South America had, at some time, cities far larger than any in Europe before those civilizations collapsed. For example, the mound builders along the Mississippi.

What's different today is we have now a GLOBAL civilization thanks to globalization. With many of the same features across people's and economies. Humans have never dealt with global risk like we do today.
I have yet to see evidence that they're all that bright in other domains, either. Perhaps there are a few super-geniuses in that ilk, but most just seem entitled by their belief that nerd-dom and social awkwardness makes them special.

To me, it seems to be the root of their harm, and the thing that they most cling to for their identity. The only way to get the companionship they crave for validation is to give up the thing that they believe gives them validation now. And I cannot promise them a woman on the first day, so it's a leap of faith with no clear upside.

I say this only because I think it does a disservice to describe them as "our brightest minds". They don't need to be hyper-hackers or whatever they imagine themselves to be. They just need to be people -- decent people.
> The article is a guide on how you can avoid being ignored and actually contribute to the process of standardization.

But the article assumes that the goals are acceptable, so the only valid feedback is about the best way to accomplish those goals. There is no room there for people who think the goals themselves are unacceptable.

I think that what they're wanting to do is terrible. Why in the world would I want to contribute to standardizing the method of accomplishing them?
In this case Tesla has been outstanding in terms of software support. Our 2014 S is still getting updates even though it is now "legacy" according to Tesla. That's nearly 10 years of software support!

We did upgrade the central computer a few years ago to get 4g support, but $1500 felt very cheap for a whole new center screen, a new higher resolution instrument cluster, and a new computer making the whole car run faster.
The comment above mention using !w in your search to look only in wikipedia since you say it is nearly always what you are looking for.

I would say at this point you could just use wikipedia as your default search engine.
I have the impression a lot of folks just like yelling at companies. As such, I have no doubt your initial impression is a large part of the discourse.

That said, I think it does meaningfully impact the people that are getting terminated. I'm willing to think the company isn't trying to deny unemployment, but if it does have that implication, this is very wrong.
Mostly this article seems to be whining about Go's file handling being more based around Unix-y stuff, and not really being suitable for Windows file systems.

So what? If you don't use it as intended, it might not do what you want. Don't use it on unsupported niche operating systems.
Parsing timestamps and generating RFC3339 dates in Zig
"There is no way you can make a viable passenger route between Chicago and LA"

The Amtrak Southwest Chief exists. It may be subsidized by more profitable routes in the northeast, but it is nearly always full.
Rollup ID: The Open-Source, Privacy-First Alternative to Worldcoin
I think this is veering pretty hard into the domain of politics where you kind of expect every politician to have a "public position" and an often contrary "private position." Science and scientists, in a functional society, should feel free to publicly say and discuss things as they see fit, whether it's in line with the norms of the time, or patently offensive to said norms.

Obviously these individuals did not feel free discussing these matters, at all. And that's really the problem. These sort of leaks aren't going to cause some sort of new chilling effect. They're leaks because there was already a dramatic chilling effect in play. That saying "I think plausible thing is plausible." is only available in a "leak" indicates something has already long since gone horribly wrong.
There are only two legal approaches to investing - available to average people and professionals alike - that have been shown to work over very long periods of time.

1) Buy the S&P500 via a very low cost index fund. Buy consistently, effectively cost averaging, over the long-term. Don't worry about valuations, timing, bulls or bears, recessions or euphoria, as that will all smooth out. Just keep buying over time. This is what works best for ~95%+ of all people and is one of the few ways to predictably build wealth (assuming enough income above expenses over decades of time).

2) The Ben Graham school of value investing. [1] This some takes time to learn and integrate. You have to build up a skill at understanding what represents a good value and you have to be able to have considerable discipline, understanding that you only need a few hits every so many years to fairly rapidly compound capital (ie that you don't need to constantly hit homeruns, so you properly grasp that you can safely afford to be patient and do not need to FOMO participate in market stupidity; with the first rule being do not destroy capital).

This is why so few professional money managers on Wall Street can beat the market over time (despite all they have access to) and skilled independent value investors can. There is a system that works and most of the Wall Street players do not have the time (they want/need results asap) or discipline to put it into action.

[1] The Superinvestors of Graham and Doddsville [PDF] https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/sites/valueinvesting/files/fil...
> You can talk about your salary with anyone you want, discuss it with your colleagues

For all the other just absurd lack of rights employees have in the US, that at least is one that employees do have. Companies are legally _not allowed_ to stop you from discussing your salary with coworkers, or punish you in any way for you having done so.
Given that HFT exists, I can't imagine technical analysis can be useful. Many of the rules it proposes would be easy to feed into a trading bot and you would expect firms to be making profits using these strategies already while being able to execute trades far faster than you can.

So either:

a. HFT firms are already doing this and what the retail trader sees is the left-overs with little profit left to capture.

b. HFT firms are not doing this because it doesn't work.

Neither option bodes well for doing retail trades based on TA.
I read that as an overly conservative cry :D
When you frame it that way, your question is "how can $NONEXPERTS confirm $EXPERTS"

First and foremost: read.

Second: don't demand certitude and table the idea that there's a universal judgement. Think: am I asking for an up/down vote on a conversation, or on an assertion?

Uncertainty can't always be driven down to 0. People usually expect this from other fields and yet understand when it is silly in their own field. (imagine: climate scientist forum noting cosmic rays, asking how any system can possibly be secure given memory safety causes security issues, and cosmic rays can flip memory bits, then hand-wringing about how they can even figure out what software research to trust)

This thread is itself a good example: OP has no issue with the research, or type of research, or anything, just is concerned how laypeople might believe it is certain and confirmed because it is in Nature. The paper itself makes no such claim, as the OP goes to great lengths to explain (c.f. it is statistical model)
From the comments here, I think most people just read the headline.

The article looked at 50/200 day simple moving average crossovers on the S&P 500 index (using SPY etf). Which are really just indicators of momentum. Buy when going up, sell when going down. This underperformed just buying and holding the SPY 480% return versus 520% over the last 25 years. However, it avoided big draw downs, so the risk adjusted return was better. In other words, it works in a world with no trading commissions and no bid ask spread. Is it worth it in real life? Probably not.
"Story points" are exactly the kind of theater that is enabled when working in-person. Every in-person office I've worked at has been addicted to planning and estimating, because being in a meeting looks like work and is less stressful than pretending to work at your desk. It's an environment not conducive to actually shipping things that impact business success.

Was your profit negatively impacted? Because if it wasn't and people shipped less story points, it should tell you that metric has no value.
> Being easier to fire makes American employees easier to hire,

No, there's nothing easier about hiring US employees.
It only makes it easier to fire them. This reduces the risk of bad hires for the employers, by allowing them to be easily fired.

That encourages employers to be less risk-averse in hiring, but, once again, it does not facilitate the hiring process.
> A single character change would break it.

That depends on how they hash the data, right? They can use various types of Perceptual Hashing [1] techniques which wouldn't be susceptible to a single-character change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing

> Then you have database costs of storing all that data forever.

A database of all textual content generated by people? That sounds like a gold mine, not a liability. But as I've mentioned earlier, they don't need to keep the raw data (a perceptual hash is enough).

> won't give two shits about catering to the AI identification police

I'm sure there will be customers willing to pay for access to these checks, even if they're only limited to OpenAI's product (universities and schools - for plagiarism detection, government agencies, intelligence agencies, police, etc).
> seems to be an extended complaint that Go isn't as portable between Linux and Windows as the author would like it to be

I don't think that's true. The author is using that lack of portability as an example of what they think is wrong with Go:

> And they're symptomatic of the problems with "the Go way" in general. The Go way is to half-ass things.

> The Go way is to patch things up until they sorta kinda work, in the name of simplicity.

And I get the point they're making. The issue isn't that file permissions don't work consistently cross-platform in Go, it's that they can't work consistently cross-platform in anything but rather than add complexity Go has papered over the cracks. If that's an acceptable approach in a core file API who knows how often it's employed elsewhere in the runtime? The following section the post shows this mindset as implemented in monotime and the many potential footguns the official implementation introduces.
Expensive right now, but at the rate things are going, we'll probably see more efficient LLMs for things like mobile real soon.

I remember when voice to text was expensive, now we have on-device neural networks working.
Superconductors are basically perfectly conductive wire. Wires that transfer 100% of power over arbitrary distances and that don't heat up. Obviously there are limits, you can't put arbitrary power over a hair thin filament but as long as you're under that limit you get perfect efficiency.

MRI machines can be made a lot simpler as you no longer need to use liquid nitrogen to cool the superconductors. MRI machines could end up being small and cheap.

Perfectly efficient electromagnets make a lot of problems in fusion reactors simpler, I'm not sure that room temperature superconductors make fusion reactors instantly viable but it's a big step and would reduce the energy requirements for a fusion bottle by a lot.

Basically anything involving electromagnets becomes a lot more efficient. Motors can be made smaller, generators can be made much more efficient for the weight, maglev trains can require very little power to hover. It has effects on almost every industrial process as it fundamentally changes the weight and energy efficiency of anything involving electromagnets.

One neat things would be surgical robots that can work as an MRI while also levitating a small blade in a 3D space. Challenging for sure but when you can replace complicated liquid-nitrogen cooled coils with an array of simple passive coils a lot of options open up.

Superconductors can also be used for power storage, and at room temperature that becomes a lot more viable.

Here's this big wikipedia page on applications of superconductivity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_applications_of_...

Also on the less useful side, rail guns.
Depends on which regulations you remove.

It's against the law to steal money. That's a regulation we need to keep.

It's also against the law to build a house if the existing homeowners vote that you can't. That's a regulation that makes the market less efficient, though I can see the reasoning behind it.
The graphs on page 3 are exactly what you would expect with a real superconductor. The current/voltage/temp relationship especially. In fact I don't see how you get graphs that look like that unless you either created a superconductor or are just blatantly making up the data. This could be enormous.
Getting Proteins to Crystallize
Extreme heat in N. America, EU, China in July much more likely by climate change
strange decision to move there then, ey?
It's stock market cloudgazing
You can try yourself. Use the most short-form content media: either one of HN, reddit and tiktok for 8 hours per day for one week. I can guarantee you won’t be able to concencrate on anything after the one week.
> You shouldn't take issue with bad proposals merely existing.

I disagree. If you don't take issue with bad proposals, it increases the chances that those bad proposals will be implemented.
Not necessarily. A truly random coin could land on head 100 times in a row. Such is the nature of randomness
I really dislike the trash service we have. Its the same deal. They aren't taking it off site, just the onsite trash bin that we would have to take it to anyways, and its ~35 a month for the privilege. Can't opt out at all. They also have onerous rules:

- Can't have more than one trash bag per night

- Trash and recycling must be taken on different nights (I think largely as a result of the above)

- they don't service Friday or Saturday, the two biggest days for trash during the week. This means trash is often sitting outside for 24-48 hours because the complex doesn't have any rules around how long your trash can be set out for.

- Trash can't be too heavy or bulky. These things are not quantified, so sometimes the trash just isn't taken and you have no idea why

- You must use 13 gallon trash bags or larger. They won't pickup smaller ones (no idea why this exists)

- You must use their exceedingly small bin or they won't pick it up. The bin has no lid. If the trash doesn't slide out of the bin naturally, they will refuse to pick it up (IE, they won't tip it to empty it. If it pulls at all they just leave it)

On top of all that, they constantly leave fliers on our doors trying to sell trash bag subscription service through the company. I looked it up out of curiosity and they want $17 a month for the privilege
The happy path between local vs foreign often looks the same. That's not the problem for anybody.

The edge cases are common and often legally ambiguous. When things go wrong, it can be extremely hard for a company to resolve the situation when it crosses boarders. Heck, even just operating in a different state can open a company up to legal issues.

Once you start opening up to different legal jurisdictions, you basically have to run company policy in a way that accounts for the worst situations across all jurisdictions.

Some things that I'm aware of:

* Import/Export law for software. It may seem mundane, but having any encryption can cause significant scrutiny.

* Import/Export law for hardware (like getting a company laptop to an employee)

* Ability to track/down or recover lost/stolen hardware

* Variations in labor laws.

* Variations in copyright/IP protection laws.

* Variations in digital hacking/data integrity laws.

* Government level data monitoring/tracking

* Local data protection laws that you might not be subject to without a local employee.

* Scrutiny from your customers about foreign workers.

* Accidental sanctions violations.

* Potential for customer data to leave legal boundaries via a foreign employee.

* etc
You're right, but you don't need all that ...

... when you draw the figures use in technical analysis, the predictions will depend on the relative scales you choose for the x- and y-axis.

Case closed.
Don't wanna downplay the seriousness of an ocean current collapse, however, articles covering this Danish study seems to grab the "we're gonna die soon"-angle by default. Danish media has found other scientists that do not quite accept the conclusion based on methods used. E.g. this abstract summarized by ChatGPT:

> Climate scientist Steffen Malskær Olsen (specializing in ocean currents at the National Center for Climate Research under DMI) questions the predictions made by Peter Ditlevsen and Susanne Ditlevsen (authors of the study) about a potential collapse of thermohaline circulation. He cites limited data and uncertainty about the correlation between surface temperatures in the Northwest Atlantic and the thermohaline circulation as main concerns. Despite this, he acknowledges the study's importance for demonstrating the potential of advanced mathematical models in predicting climate phenomena. He believes that the IPCC's prediction, which deems a collapse highly unlikely, remains the most reliable. Peter Ditlevsen accepts this uncertainty, arguing they are working with the best data currently available. (https://nyheder.tv2.dk/klima/2023-07-25-danske-forskere-med-...)
Hacker News Triggered by Neovim [video]
I take a shot every time I click through an "Open Source" product to a pricing page. We saw this game before with crypto, I know how it's played.
The ideal PR is 50 lines long
The author is referring to this standard: https://privacypass.github.io/

Apple uses it for its iCloud Private Relay service. The blind token is used so that Cloudflare can verify that a given device pays for iCloud Private Relay without revealing their identity.

Attestation is when such a blind token is proving the integrity of the software running on the device, not proving arbitrary properties. Privacy Pass could actually enable a fast, semi-decentralized system of anonymizing proxies.

If Apple exposed the “is System Integrity Protection enabled” bit to the web, then that amounts to attestation to me. But yes, Apple can do this whenever it wants, and companies want Apple to do it, and it’s scary. They’ve already done this for Apple Pay, Widevine and HDCP.
"Paying with cash is still attractive though, because cash is tax free. That is, no paper trail if you pay for a job by cash and the person doing it doesn't log anything. Very popular with tradespeople."

What an interesting way to frame criminality....
For any hosted Medium blog, you can also replace `medium.com` with `scribe.rip`, in this case: https://doctorow.scribe.rip/autoenshittification-cb851c2574f...
I use Harvest with an option to use Stripe for payment.
Not from my perspective and reading of the thread.
Same in Holland.
None were officially built into the site so it'll vary from moderator to moderator, but the one that mods had a browser script made for to help streamline moderation was RoBERTa Base OpenAI Detector from 2019, created prior to the existence of GPT-3, GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT free), or GPT-4 (ChatGPT pro). It'll be far worse than the 2023 one this article is about.
That's interesting. Quite the needle to thread. I wonder how big the market will be for niche models that aren't commodities.

It needs to be something lucrative enough that training the model is not-trivial but not so lucrative Microsoft/Google would care enough to go after. And it somehow needs to stay in that sweet spot even as Nvidia chips away at that moat with each new hardware generation.
As an engineering type lacking in design skills, I feel you. For my own side project, I paid for the TailwindUI library, which contains all sorts of premade components for web apps, stores, and marketing pages. It was a godsend, really helped to put together a clean UI while giving me flexibility to stray off the path via Tailwind CSS.
you should consider disposing of a significant swath of tea in the local harbor
Is it the French again?
I think the article explains very well why "intelligence" is a useful and important concept. Namely because it is concise way to discuss abilities which are highly correlated without naming each ability individually.
This is "printing instead of doing an action". That is not the same as debugging. Also, lightweight printf debugging is often more appropriate than using an unwieldy debugger.
If the scientific consensus is contradicting basic system component risk analysis, then yes we unfortunately have to ignore it. I too am deeply disturbed by this.
also worth checking

https://github.com/financial-astrology-research
"Dumb" life has survived and flourished on Earth at much higher global temperatures. Smart life (humans) should certainly be able to figure it out.