skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although picking the mushrooms yourself, there's plenty of toxic mushrooms which could be mistaken for whichever species is common in your area.

And depressingly, while there are communities where you could go to get mushrooms checked by experts, they all dispose psilocybe as "toxic".

Identifying mushrooms is pretty tricky, I've just decided I can't make heads or tail of it and have given up trying, both for food and other purposes.
> User-agent discrimination

At least you can spoof the user-agent string.
> Which is why we need a union

Development is global as opposed to, say, cab driving. So, tech companies from other parts of the world will applaud your decision. Keep pushing new regulations, we'll reap the benefits.
This past weekend I was trying to solve a similar problem also with shared public keys. I was having trouble getting it to work for my needs the way I wanted, so instead I am testing an approach of using large hash comparison based upon a preshared key. It’s a much higher grade of cryptographic reliability at a tiny fraction of the computational cost with many fewer parts to maintain.
"Digital Design and Computer Architecture" by Harris and Harris
[dupe]

More discussion over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862546
>They also thought they were going to get away with it. “The truth is never going to come out ”, wrote Rambaut in one message.

This is libel. You can read the exchange for yourself.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230722093206/https://twitter.c...

The researcher clearly means that the truth is never going to come out of China. He says they have no good evidence of a lab leak. Yet Nate Silver perverts this into a confession of a coverup.

If I were Rambaut, I'd lawyer up.
>(One of the most frustrating things in all the WFH vs RTO discourse is that there is this false dichotomy being presented. It's either extroverted people who are energized by others, or introverts who'd rather be in the dark closet by themselves. I am as extroverted as they come, and I thrived in the office environment. Still wouldn't trade WFH for the world.)

I believe the extrovert vs. introvert division is a false dichotomy in the first place.

Commute time, environment at home, career seniority - these are the most important factors in this discussion
Precisely -- watermarks are an obvious example of this. To me, this is THE path forward for AI content detection.
Not really. When you add that much information that gets into 'analysis' rather than 'technical analysis'. A bit like medicine vs traditional medicine.

Technical analysis is specifically the stupid line drawings you see on stock charts that try to predict trend lines from the motion of the previous lines
> compound and significantly accelerate the timeline

There's a misconception that the biosphere is a delicate machine that will have a catastrophic internal failure if we don't follow the maintenance bibl^H^H^H^Hmanual, which apparently some experts have access to.

In reality, it is a highly dynamic, self-repairing living organism, which we are a part of. There are at least as many negative feedback loops as positive ones. And we should act to maintain our survival, but doomsaying is not part of that. Doomsaying and fearmongering is about power.
Yep - the long Covid endpoint was a secondary one that was added to the trial once people realized that might be an issue. The original trial was to see whether administering metformin / fluvoxamine / ivermectin would have any impact on disease severity.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04510194?term=NCT0451019...

Spoiler: "None of the three medications that were evaluated prevented the occurrence of hypoxemia, an emergency department visit, hospitalization, or death associated with Covid-19." [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36070710/]

But they already had this population enrolled when Long Covid started becoming an issue, so they extended the study to see what impact the same 3 drugs would have on incidence of long covid.
Amazon.com has a URL redirector that spits out quite a few 301's (can't remember if it also does 302, 307 or 308.) For example: https://www.amazon.com/OPFTEST2 sends a 301 redirect to https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452285186/ref=pd_sbs_14_t...

HAProxy, nginx and even Apache2 itself can somewhat easily rewrite the FQDN in an incoming URL. But you'll need a bunch of machines to do it. The definition of "bunch" depends on how much traffic you have and where it's coming from.

So... very much possible, but it will cost some money.
You're conflating micro and macro price movements. Sure, you can't predict black swan events with technical analysis, but it wouldn't be out of the question to predict short term fluctuations based on a mixture of market psychology and herd thinking.

I don't employ any technical analysis in trading, nor am I a strong advocate, but technical analysis is more about reactionary psychology than about predicting the future. In the most micro sense, the market is dictated by single individuals buying and selling stock, and in the broadest sense, it's a statistical result of millions, or billions of unknowns. Those are two totally different games.
Cory Doctorow has a personal site: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/

Incidentally I follow him on Mastodon and saw this yesterday. Hacker News is really slow to pick up Cory Doctorow's stuff despite ostensibly being full of freedom-loving techies.
What’s happening in Israel? Protests over Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul
That seems like dude was consistently disconnected from reality due to being constantly high on drugs.

I think GP was referring to the long-term mental resilience and mindset shifts that can be byproducts of trips, not the effects of being under the influence.
I left in 2014 so don't know what happened after that. It does seem that 2016 was a turning point for a lot of institutions. The Google that believed in empowering people through "making the world's information universally accessible and useful" was definitely dead by that point, although they still claim that's the mission.

I don't agree that privacy was an afterthought before then. There were a lot of internal controls and privacy considerations had been a part of the design process even when I first joined in 2006. Of course the level of effort ramped up over time as the company grew. The primary constraint then as now was simply that most users trust tech firms, don't include them in their threat model and will reject even tiny amounts of inconvenience in the name of privacy. So that really heavily constrains what can be done. For example it kills most attempts at proper end-to-end encryption, leaving us with this sort of strange pseudo-e2e-encryption that's more a legal hack than anything serious (the company that supplies you with the encryption equipment is your adversary, which makes no sense in any classical conception of cryptography).
Exactly! It just makes the job market much more perfect. $500k at scale is an economic squander.
I found my current employer prior to COVID, and they had been almost exclusively remote since their inception in the early aughts. Companies with remote-first culture that predate COVID are far better equipped for the cons regarding remote work (IMO), of which there are plenty.
Of course, things are always worse than the scientists say. That's why more science is needed. If it wasn't for them, we'd never even know about all the disasters.
Guide to running Llama 2 locally
I am following people from a bunch of instances which includes FOSS and other programming stuff.

My instance seems to be having a "fail whale" moment so I can't give you any examples easily at this moment!

Feel free to prod me on the IDs in my bio and I'll pass some on.
Definitely I think the psychological aspect plays a key role. I have not kept up with the Covid-19 literature in the last year and a half, but I recall many women reporting that it disrupted their cycle. In fact, my partner contracted Covid-19 and had an altered period for a few months and developed acne for the first time in their life. So it would seem hormones are being messed with, which can really mess with your emotions/mental state and like you say, could jumpstart a vicious cycle.
This is an unreviewed preprint coming out of South Korea. If it’s reproducible it would be the biggest scientific discovery of the last hundred years. It will literally reshape the world.

However, the most likely thing is they made a mistake and the paper will be withdrawn.

But imagine if it’s true.
PATs are a draft standard with participation by companies other than Apple (such as Fastly and Cloudflare and Google): https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-private-access-tokens-...
Mildly amusing, and yes - the whole "this company is a family" schtick is overplayed by companies. I never say that at my company - instead the employees often say it back to me, which I feel is much more culturally "real" than me saying it.

At one company party, the employees were going around the room telling me how nice it was to work for me (which is very kind of them). The last guy sheepishly shrugged and said, "I don't want to be standoffish but I felt this way at my last company, and they let me go. This is just a job to me." I felt like this is overall the most healthy attitude to have when thinking about work, and frankly to hear it out loud was refreshing. I love that kind of honesty.
This may have more to do with the widespread and multiple layoff-rounds in the major companies in the industry rather than WFH per se.
You can at least buy the spores though, from somewhere more reputable than most sources of LSD.
they were there first.
There is one sentence in the paper this is about (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9) that I think overstates the conclusion:

> we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible

But the paper itself really isn't about any type of lab-based scenario, the actual content only applies to an engineered virus as in the hypotheses that this is either a bioweapon or an experiment that accidentally escaped. The hypothesis that this could be a virus collected for the lab and then accidentally released can't be addressed at all by the paper.

To me this is more like clumsy writing, but I can understand if you read this as a paper overstating its conclusion. But it's really not something that would mislead anyone even quickly skimming the paper.

The parts Nate Silver complains about look to me more like the kind of difference you'd expect between internal, informal chat and what you write in actual publications. I'd expect scientists to speculate wildly at first, then collect data and evaluate what that data actually means.
I'm not making it sound like they don't, the bookmarks feature as it exists in every other major browser, doesn't exist in Arc, as this thread has affirmed for me. That's fine, if that's how they want their browser to work, but it makes it incompatible with how I use a browser, which is why I was asking if that had changed or not.
lol, to the detriment of employment discrimination laws banning you from firing an employee due to medical reasons… funny but there are some companies I know that operate this way.
The XY comic has done irreversible damage to stackoverflow.
Poor people can least afford to deal with the related health issues.

It’s not like there are mustache-twirling villains coming up with ways to punch down even harder here. Diets high in sugar are more likely to lead to painful and even dangerous oral health issues, pancreatic/kidney/liver issues, diabetes, and obesity with all of its knock on effects.

It only has a negative effect for people who will never reduce the sugar in their diet, and those are the people who should be paying into socialized healthcare at a higher rate because they’ll need lots of benefits later. So really they’re saving to take care of themselves, making this a net positive long term.

I know it’s harder than “just stop eating sugar” but feelings or preferences don’t change the facts of biochemistry. Until you can disprove the findings, the policy should reflect the state of the science.

And by all means find more/better ways to incentivize or even subsidize healthier options for those on the low end of the socioeconomic ladder. That is absolutely one of the things taxes like this should fund.
> half the people still want to believe it isn't happening.

The problem is twofold: on one side, you have those who think they can choose whether to believe in facts; on the other side, you have those who believe without understanding!

As you said, we are past the return point. This is happening, and we should be doing something that actually addresses the problems caused by the ocean currents shutting down, but too many activists will block the traffic, piss everybody off, show a sign with "STOP OIL" painted on it, accomplish nothing but fomenting the hate, and call it a day.
It can be exploited through JavaScript according to CloudFlare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/zenbleed-vulnerability/
I know it is satire. I'm saying it might be even more dire, that in todays world, and limited access to health care, families might increasingly put kids up for adoptions. And of course, the cross link to corporate satire makes it more funny and sad.
So the killer app for LLMs and AI in general is...a librarian?
> A lot of the push for these things come from fraud

That's not where the push comes from, it's a pretense. They could just as easy want to force your machine to attest that there's no known child pornography on it. Or even that there's not any text or images that could be seen as information about birth control.

How about attesting that an LLM-controlled state-issued daemon is always running on your box, and monitoring everything you do for suspicious activity?
You're an inspiration, and I hope to be able to say the same, seven years from now.
First of all arxiv is not even a scientific journal.

Second, you're literally saying you expect to read important things on mainstream press instead of scientific journals.
The birds are purged! B^>
Gosh, I hate “we are a family” companies so much.
There was another in the same day [0], funny. Maybe it really did happen.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037
No hate, would like more walkable utility around my house. We could probably pack a lot more stores and services in the two blocks Anchor occupies.
IME moderation was bad after a year or so of SO. Something about the moderation role in general seems to attract certain personalities that have a negative effect on the content they are supposed to be moderating.
That said I find SO still very useful, you can always ignore the moderators and caustic comments. Often a question has a high quality answer that I can use even though the question is locked for being off topic or the comments are filled with irrelevant argument.
The 'values' and 'we/us' scam is how we get the younguns to donate to the 'our' cause.
> Also, what if you never signed into your iCloud account? Is it impossible to disable?

If you're not signed in, then it's not enabled, because the iCloud account is essential to the process: "An Apple server validates your device and Apple ID."
Spam even exists where logins ARE required. Look at Reddit or Twitter/X and any web-accessible forum where logins are required. Lots of spam everywhere.

I don’t think attestation will prevent this, it does however, prevent scraping if attestation is required to even view content.
It's a hybrid 20-ish person team and I work from the office 4 days a week (my choice), but yeah, you're right that we fail at async coordination and fall back onto calls. I've suggested alternatives (meet in the office a couple of days a week) but it has failed to materialise and the only workable solution I found has been to remove myself from noisy/unproductive calls.

I hear what you're saying about docs but knowing everyone I don't feel we could do it. Pre-covid everyone-in-the-office worked well, but you need to drag people into the office these days so it seems we're stuck with an ineffective hodgepodge of calls and in person fractional team chats.
Goat AI releases GOAT-7B
Goat AI just released their new model Goat-7b which surpasses Vicuna, Alpaca & LLaMA 2 in their 7b versions.
I have owned both a shitty beginner car without any extras and two more or less fully equipped ones.

I would love a car that does not have a single display and just connects to my phone or pad for setting things up and streaming audio. All controls should be haptic buttons, switches, whatever. Minimal software required to run the car. No internet connection, no subscriptions.

The only extras that I would keep are:

* Heated seats

* Automatic air conditioning

* Hill hold control

* Automatic transmission (not standard in Europe)

That’s it.
> Not one killer app has emerged.

I'll say that I pretty firmly disagree with this. I've been using Github Copilot for about six months for my own work and it has fundamentally changed how I write code. Ignoring the ethics of Copilot, if I just need to read a file with some data, parse it, and render that data on screen, Copilot just _does_ most of that for me. I write a chunky comment explaining what I want, it writes a blob of code that I tab through, and I'm left with a nicely-documented, functioning piece of software. A one-off script that took me 30 minutes to write previously now takes me maybe a minute on a bad day.

For ages we've had Text Expander and key mappings and shortcuts and macros that render templates of pre-built code. Now I can just say what I'm trying to do, the language model considers the other code on the page, and it gets done.

If this isn't a "killer app" then I'm not sure what is. In my entire career I can think of maybe two things that I've come upon that have affected my workflow this much: source control and continuous integration. Which, frankly, is wild.

Separately, I use LLMs to generate marketing copy for my side hustle. I suck at marketing, but I can tell the damn thing what I want to market and it gives me a list of tweets back that sound like the extroverted CMO that I don't have. I can outsource creative tasks like brainstorming lists of names for products, or coming up with text categories for user feedback from a spreadsheet. I don't know if I'd call either of those things "killer apps" but I have a tool which can do thinking for me at a nominal cost, quickly, and with a high-enough quality bar that it's usually not a waste of my time.
Ye messages from some companies are best described as psychotic. I got this feeling that the inner circle on many companies are like sects, but I have never dwelt on those my self.
Aviator (YC S21) is hiring engineers to build advanced Git tools
[dupe] More discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36854746
Thank you for proving my points: small to medium businesses do not see me as a person either, but as a customer. They don't care if it's @oh_god_pls_no spending 100 bucks, or @arghwhat spending 100 bucks. We're both just a wallet to empty to them. And sure, at their scale, keeping me or you happy is the most safe way of having a steady cash flow. But that's assuming they care about either of us as repeat customers.

If pissing me off after they've gotten $100 out of me means they get three other to spend $100, it's much more valuable than having me as a repeat customer. If someone found a way to triple my monthly spend but it made me miserable, said company would inevitably do it. Because if they don't, someone will come in, and eat them alive.

Advertising is purposefully inflicted misery, on all of us. The CEO of TF1, a french TV channel, called his job "selling available brain time to advertisers". That is all you are to them, whether we're talking about Coca Cola or Joe's Snoe and Foe: they want your money, because they die without it. Every company is a parasitic organism, and advertising is currently the most efficient way to spread.
I mean, the paper has experimental results and it should be easily reproducible by pretty much any lab. Do you think they should be hopping on CNN to give a public demonstration with the announcement?

If a material with the properties described actually exists, this paper is exactly the kind of announcement and evidence we'd want for it.
It's really frustrating that the discussion is often "just shut yourself in your home office", as if an extra room doesn't rent out for $1000/month in many cities.
That too, the depth of focus was surely higher for them. And slow lifestyle also helps long term thinking.
Is "Quantum Energy Research Centre, Inc." a well-known institution in its field?
I think it takes up 2 blocks that could probably fit 10-20 businesses that could provide more utility, goods, and services than 1 brewing company.
Something to be said about playing in pockets of the market those fat cats stay away from due to lack of the liquidity needed, market cap constraints, etc. There it can be a more level playing field for us minnows.
Yeah, I thought that the emphasis on (and assumption of) an inherent tragedy of an expanded yard detracted from what was otherwise a fascinating and pretty great article. I kept waiting to learn why this expansion was going to be so detrimental to the rail network, but I guess the author’s view is that the expansion is bad because it’s a requirement of a suboptimal network.

I was going to make the observation that once the yard has been expanded, I doubt it would ever be reclaimed for other uses, but the number of paved-over spurs and customer connections disproves that point. It makes me sad to think about the amount of literally irreplaceable infrastructure that’s been ripped up rather than retained for future freight levels or repurposed for passenger use.
Keep in mind that the vast majority of the market is driven by institutional investors and the prices are largely set by those big players. Let's say that TA works, but it doesn't scale to that level (i.e. it only provides returns on marginal volume).

TA would never grow large enough to compete with the institutional investors who are actually driving the market, it would never gain pricing authority, and the gains would continue to be available to anybody playing in the margins.

As an analogy- you could say that you're scavenging for scraps behind a big fish. Sure, it doesn't scale. And sure, not everybody can do it or it would fail. But, if there are enough big fish, and you don't mind waiting for scraps, there's food to be had

Note that this is no argument for or against TA, it may still be bogus. I just don't think you can assume it's bogus because it would get priced in
I have never worked there, but this also squares with my outsider's impression of it. Thanks for confirming, though -- and I hope your mortgage payments never ever force you into that situation. Good luck!
SpaceX and Tesla certainly involve luck, but it's way more than that. A huge element of the success of both companies is Elon managing to hire extremely bright and extremely hard working people for both companies. A huge element of that was the extremely ambitious and cool nature of what they're working on.
Reddit and HN. Signed up for a bunch of Discord channels but it never clicked for me - it’s super chaotic and at the same time it feels like you’re speaking into the void with nobody interesting to talk to.
The bottle of Aspirin goes through many hands between the manufacturer and you including sitting on an unattended shelf open to the public. The person making the pizza is working for the same company as the person delivering it, or may even be the same person. If you can't trust the pizza co delivery person then you probably shouldn't trust the person making it either.
The critical temperature (Tc) >= 400 K or about 127 C, so apparently this material requires relatively high heat to reach superconductivity.

This is unusual, superconductivity is a low temperature phenomenon. Recently though, other researches have claimed room temperature superconductivity at high pressures, but low temperatures.