skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest fault of capitalism is that it gives people what they want.

And we really, really don't like some of the things that some people want.
Is injecting people with mRNA via lipid nanoparticles to prompt their bodies to produce Covid spike protein less risky than Covid?

I don't think in 2023 that question is answerable. It's not a "yes" or "no" right now, although I've erred on the side of "yes" until proven otherwise.
I've watched Prometheus three times because of this. I keep forgetting not only that I've seen it, but that it's awful.
Accent aside (if they can't be understood at all they're obviously not qualified):

What's the difference between a foreigner with an accent in your onsite team VS a foreigner that's remote in US timezones (LatAm)? Why just open the job for US-remote?

Compliance? Deel/Remote can help you with that.

Security? It applies if you're working on defense software, but other than that...?
Also, I wonder if he'll throw a tantrum when he finds out that twitter's scale is big enough that he has to pay money to run nginix to do the URL rewriting. Or more likely, they already have a reverse proxy, but will discover that rewriting https://twitter.com/foo to https://x.com/foo takes processing time and they may have to add a few machines to the reverse proxy layer.
That's helpful. OK, I'm in the "it's closer to astrology" camp then.
> Could you tell how a breaking message of this magnitude should be decorated to make all doubts go away?

You'll never make all doubt go away on a new extraordinary discovery, mainly because most claims of an extraordinary discovery turn out to be mistakes (like the FTL neutrino thing a while ago that turned out to be a wiring fault that caused a minute timing error) or occasionally fabrications.

A quiet publication of “this is what we've found, this is what we think it means, please try reproduce or tell us what you think we've misinterpreted” is the way it should go. Unfortunately too subtle a release would be at risk of being ignored, and on the other side you get the mad public press and massive recriminations when it turns out a mistake was made and the finding is not reproducible (like the cold fusion thing I remember from the late 80s).
We shattered the turing test and now we want to put it back into pandora’s box because we don’t like the repercussions.
Poorly titled and I'm surprised nobody is calling it out. The body of the article shows that there is an entire minefield of trademark issues with several companies and entities to navigate, but the blame is being placed solely on MS' feet as though they should have known, 20 years ago, what Twitter would be doing today. A better one might be Twitter’s Rebrand Is A Field Of Nightmares.
Room-temperature superconductor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room-temperature_superconducto...

Superconducting quantum computing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_quantum_comput...
LangKit: An open-source toolkit for monitoring LLMs
For instance, the video management that made it such a perfect fit for the broadcast video of the day made it difficult to later accommodate higher resolution computer displays.
> capitalism has died – but it wasn't replaced by socialism. Rather, capitalism has given way to feudalism:

I wish I could remember where I heard this quote:

"We find two things to always happen in human societies across time and geography:

1. People dancing to rhythmic music at night especially if it is a moonlit night.

2. Some form of feudalism."

I wonder how much of it is game theory (e.g. all companies want to become monopolies) and how much is human psychology (e.g. "I want to be the alpha monkey"). Probably some combination of both.
> I think Nate would say that the problem is that the paper literally said that such a scenario was "implausible" while the authors believed the opposite.

Exactly. What brain block is preventing people from understanding this?

The paper made firm, overbroad claims not backed by evidence, and in private communications the authors themselves said they found the conclusions unpersuasive.
You've misunderstood the source. While temperatures locally will drop by 5C, the global average will not.

That chart shows global averages, ie, the whole world was 5C colder. NY might have been much, much colder than that.
The roads would indeed be more enjoyable as well if only mechanics were allowed to drive on them, but alas.
There’s a much more effective way: store hashes of each output paragraph (with a minimum entropy) that has ever been generated, and allow people to enter a block of text to search the database.

It wouldn’t beat determined users but it would at least catch the unaware.
> It should matter, a lot, that even a group of scientists who believed a lab leak idea was plausible couldn't muster up an argument that would hold up under peer review.

That's not what happened.
That's where I think you are wrong, read my earlier comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862855#36865016

COVID seems to be an endothelial illness, i.e. preventing blood from delivering nutrients and oxygen to cells. Moreover, spike protein seems to act as iron transport inhibitor hepcidin meaning you might end up with a lot of iron outside cells with cells getting into functional anemia. -ases + 100mg aspirin were about trying to break down "microclots" for which I didn't have a direct evidence as no lab was willing to do the test but only indirect evidence from some Australian medical doctor that only started recovering when adding -ases + aspirin + endothelial stuff to his mix.

See:

https://xdrx.substack.com/p/how-i-recovered-from-long-covid-...
“Can’t you just try to blend in and be a little more cool? The bouncer is gonna notice.”

Starts talking like Shakespeare
The prediction of a crop failure isn't a binary event and money isn't deployed in a binary strategy. It becomes more or less likely over time.

Also, the situation is very dynamic with an unknown and very large number of variables, even with something as seemingly simple as a crop failure. Such as such as a countries deciding to ban exports to secure food security, lack of access to fertilizer due to sanctions against major fertilizer producers in wheat producing countries, the politics of national and local water rights.

All these factors have parties with inside information acting on them (see members of congress trading stocks) which no player with big pockets will have access to but is all reflected in the price.
There must be a way to pull off KYC for the web without tainting it with crypto.

Yes. But I doubt you can do it for less ... but feel free to try.

The ultimate identifier is DNA ... but it's impractical for casual, everyday use.

But you have to admire companies like 23andMe who actually convince people to pay for the privilege of surrendering their identity and signing away all rights to this ultimate definition of themselves --- which is then sold to others --- like law enforcement.

When their kids can't get a job or insurance because of what their DNA has revealed, these people can only blame their own stupidity --- quite possibly indictive of a genetic weakness in itself.
I was going to say "Europe" and some other poster would go "UK was mentioned".

There's always space for confusion. I didn't think there wasn't. I just corrected your wrong assumption, it's not a big deal.
From https://simplex.chat/blog/20230722-simplex-chat-v5-2-message...

>Why not hosted groups with MLS?

>Initially, we considered the design with the dedicated servers, potentially self-hosted, that host groups. This design would require adopting MLS (or similar) protocol for group-wide key agreement. Unfortunately, this design is not sufficiently resilient and easier to censor than decentralized design. Also, MLS protocol is very complex to implement, requires a centralized component, and reduces forward secrecy. So we decided against this approach.
You can just make the thing they claim is superconducting? No special requirements?

I guess this will be replicated/not pretty soon then.
It's not post-scarcity, it's post-labor. Which is a prerequisite for post-scarcity, but not sufficient. Resources, even allocated optimally by a superintelligence, are still constrained based on the number of people living and the material contained on Earth.

(And, to be clear: I'm sharing their perspective, not mine).
Encrypted messages in large groups is such a hard problem, and, not to be crass, but is it worth solving? If I have 287 people on a group chat, how is that private, no matter the security? It seems like any adversary should be able to insert themselves into a situation like that unnoticed.
Is stock momentum the same thing as a hot or cold streak in professional sports?
In a way, yes, swapping out entire computers are how one is expected to work with x86 machines. Ask anybody running a critical state full workload(Relational database with lots of writes for example) and they will tell you how nice it is to have a system so reliable to run their writes onto.

Running a Postgres cluster or a Kafka cluster on a bunch of x86 machines sure gives you scale, but definitely brings the pain of handling availability scenarios for write consistency. Distributed locks and distributed data stores that use Raft/Paxos serve as a good reminder of how hard it is to achieve them.
If IBM could do it at hardware level, some Enterprise customers are willing to loosen their rich wallets for that comfort.
> Which is why we need a union, despite what libertarian fetishist tech bros think they are above

Please make your substantive points without snark or name-calling. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Edit: it's not good to stealth-edit your comments after the fact, especially when doing so deprives replies of their original meaning. If you're going to make an edit that affects conversation in this way, please do it append-only (as I've done here) with an "Edit:" prefix or similar.
Microsoft's trademark is for just the letter "X", not the specific design.

This is extra-confusing on the USPTO site[1] because it says "Standard Character Claim: No" (which usually means not text), but it also says "Mark Drawing Type: 1 - TYPESET WORD(S) /LETTER(S) /NUMBER(S)".

And that last part is merely the old way of saying it is Standard Character Claim (that's the newer terminology). See their documentation[2] (page 7); the terminology changed in 2003.

Some more info here: https://trademarkgarden.com/2018/03/09/amazon-and-you/

So my understanding (not a lawyer) is that Microsoft's "X" is indeed generic text, though still limited to the specific goods/services listed in the application.

[1] https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=2693757&caseSearchType=US...

[2] https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/products/applicati...
This garbage? Thought we all decided to ignore this back in the NFT daze a year, nay, two years ago.
That's your, rather vaguely stated, opinion.

We don't share it.
Are we in a transition period where the previous methods of developing camaraderie, etc simply have not been widely learned?

I've worked remotely for 7 years and haven't missed anything you've listed as a benefit of in-person work. In fact, compared to prior in-person experiences, I have more personal interaction with colleagues than before (largely because my startup is quite conscious about it).
“scientists who believed a lab leak idea was plausible couldn't muster up an argument that would hold up under peer review”

Scientists work with covid viruses, scientists accidentally contract virus when one of a thousand technical protocols accidentally slipped, scientists unknowingly spread virus.

I worked in a clean lab for years with, presumably, much lower tolerances than you would want at a lab studying deadly viruses. We had leaks all the time even with protocols in place. Scientists are smart, they aren’t perfect and make mistakes.

Now realize that publicly stating your lab had a protocol failure of this magnitude and you face career death, the possible eradication of your lab and it’s connections, etc.

You’re saying no lab leak claims “held up under peer review” and it’s “not supported by facts”. I’m not sure if you get this, but if this did leak from a lab then there would probably be zero way to trace that without speculation. You’re not going to go find a covid virus with a time stamp and location of where it came from or where it moved. How on Earth would one ever prove this?

I have a feeling that your terms of proof a priori make it impossible to ever conclude a lab leak was the cause…
Especially since almost every "long term" problem seems to be happening in the much shorter term than was originally predicted. Not great!
What I found most interesting about this is that even back in the year 2000 Elon was already in the mode of promising magical software "Next year", while ignoring the complexity of the system which would obviously make it impossible.
> actual alternative physical networks would have to be built

I'd say this is an unfounded assumption. Given a choice of two massive changes that I could snap my fingers and will into existence:

1. Grassroots community and individual-run mesh networks of individual dwellings, not controlled by corporate entities, running IP/DNS/HTTPS and other naive protocols already in widespread use.

2. The same corporate-controlled physical Internet we have right now, but with widespread use of protocols that allow for decentralized permissionless identities (nyms), independent of the centrally-adminstered IP/DNS namespaces. Most traffic going to individually-run VPSs or consumer connections.

I would choose #2 in a heartbeat. The only reason I would see that we might need #1 is because #2 failed to gain a critical mass before the ISPs clamped down on non-corporate-endpoint traffic while it still only affects a minority of users. It's also not clear how the networks in #1 wouldn't just borg back up into corporate Ma Dell, or at the very least succumb to government regulation (each a different avenue for authoritarianism).
It needs to identify an iris, not anything else about the owner of they iris.
I definitely would agree that we don’t know enough about those probabilities to say much about the density of life.
Plus any VS Code settings changes you make if you have VS Code Settings Sync active.
The training support is much less mature and much less widely used, but it does exit:
https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/get-started/training-on-device.h...
https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/get-started/training-pytorch.htm...
I have to admit cars have gotten better. I wonder why, since pretty much any other machinery have become worse.

Monkey wrenches, kitchen aids, washing machines. Even static tools like frying pans, screw drivers. You name it.

But not cars.
I remember doing testing on Alpha for Windows NT 4.0 for my summer internship at DEC Littleton in like 1995 and was really surprised how fast it ran. Certainly faster than any other gui server I’d ever tried at the time.
That's the case I was referring to above. After Bernstein, the government rewrote restrictions, but some still exist (EAR and ECCN regulations).
I found a lot of helpful context for understanding the research (and the implications if its forecast proved accurate) in https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-paper-...
Would it be fair to say that you skew towards preferring in-person work? I think a possible takeaway here is that we notice people making arguments that we disagree with more than we notice people making arguments that we agree with.

All I can say is true for me, but as an introvert in a creative role (is it fair to call programming a creative role? I think so) being in an office around other people, especially open floorplan offices where we're all able to glare at each other from across our desks, stymies my ability to be creative. I just feel the pressure of being watched all day, and sometimes it clams me up. And then after work I go home feeling exhausted, mentally, and defeated for not getting what I wanted to get done. And when I need help on something in a remote role, I'm able to articulate the problem statement very easily over text, which my coworkers (one or two in particular) are very helpful at pointing me to a solution asynchronously while I hack away at it. So to your argument about the reason that "remote wins", I'd argue there are more reasons that it wins. But that's just for me, and I imagine many other people that also prefer remote.

I don't think in-person work is going anywhere though. I do agree with your perspective that hybrid work seems likely to not be ideal for people that prefer in-person. In fact, I'd argue that hybrid work is not ideal for people that prefer remote either. In my experience you usually have managers questioning your motives for going remote in those hybrid environments, making you feel like you're an inconvenience to the team, and pressuring you to come in some days on a commute that may not be convenient. And then one day some upper management changes, and the new person just decides they prefer an all in-person workforce and tells all the remote people to come back in or be let go. For your sake, I hope you find an opportunity that is 100% in-person. And I also hope those hybrid environments become fewer and farther between.
Examining Association of Personality Characteristics and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Post-COVID Syndrome

"Conclusions: Our study shows higher levels of neuroticism in patients with post-COVID syndrome. "

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9819212/
feudalism vs capitalism is risk-minimization vs profit-maximalisation
> In actuality, the mongols probably were the least murderous of all the major empire. The most religiously, racially, economically tolerant empire that has ever existed. Look it up. It was an anomoly for its time.

This has the scent of sensationalism. You can dig into any empire and find glowing accounts of their tolerance.

> It sports the viking ship because the vikings conquered the rus.

The vikings were the Rus, and they continued to rule as vassals under the Mongols in Moscow.
Yes the timeline for complete shift is before 2030. NYC weather is already temporarily altered each spring snd early summer with all the cold water from the Greenland melt, and that is just a slight shift away from there in the Gulf stream. When these shifts happen it's in about a dozen years. The last 8 years are the hottest in at least 150 years.
Sure, but saying they aren't contributors isn't correct.
Many people are calling for moderation, just not the people in the groups to be moderated. The callers don't want to protect the people in the group, they want to protect people from the group they want to moderate.
No, this has been pretty well documented and reported.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-p...
My uncle worked on the Alpha team at DEC in Maynard, MA. After retiring he found a nice opportunity consulting for Compaq and later HP. He referred to it as being Compaqted and I think he was always saddened that the company he devoted his career to came to such an end.
No, the overall usage is low because they are tabooed socially. Alcohol and nicotine are more dangerous and yet if you replace the taboo with widespread societal normalization or even nudge far enough that not doing alcohol is taboo then you see widespread rampant usage - and in some countries medical systems become strained.

I call bullshit on anyone saying societies are rational enough to identify which substances are dangerous to a stable mindset or not and that is why some substances are not used much. We aren't nearly that thoughtful with what we ingest. It is always "what will so and so think of me if I do or do not do this" as an overriding directive. Mind you, what others think of you and how that affects your social status has very strong causal mental health effects, so it is worth taking seriously. But obviously then this means the bad health effects are sometimes divorced from what the substance actually does to you independently of how worried you are others will see you.

In Vancouver Canada psychedelics have been decriminalized. You can buy shrooms for instance in stores that sell them publicaly and openly and legally with neon-capitalism ads telling you what strain will give you what kind of trip (are you looking for a hint of more socialization or more introspective?).

Accordingly bumping into random people at parties or public parks where people are high and happy to share they are high is orders of magnitude more common now. Said people are no longer as afraid that their behaviour will associate them with someone who is unlawful or a high risk taker or a leftist hippy or insert-negative-association-here. Less stigma = more usage.
Practical because they're also working on adding Windows support. Although it sounds like they're writing everything in SwiftUI and trying to port most of the Swift code to run on Windows? So not necessarily the most practical approach there either.
One of the reasons why cars are so much cheaper today is because of electronics.

The creation of the "CANbus", two-wire protocol that wraps around the car to communicate, and the movement of all portions of the car to the CANbus, is what has lead to incredible reliability.

It turns out that these two wires can be made incredibly reliable, and that communications across it (steering wheel, accelerator, brakes, tire pressure, speeds, A/C, etc. etc.) just makes sense.

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All those haptic buttons are "just" CANbus interfaces in practice. Now don't get me wrong, I prefer buttons too. But the next leg of "cheapness" naturally was to shift to an iPad-like capacitive screen, since one-tablet connected to the CANbus is far cheaper (and more reliable) than 20 individual buttons (each of which has a set life and dies on their own).

That being said: physical buttons are clearly more intuitive than an iPad-like floating-moving button that is inconsistent and stateful.
> Another firm that believes it sees better creativity when people are in the same physical room…

“Believes” suggests faith-based decision making. Not sure if you meant to say that, but your weird choice aligns with the credibility of the justifications I see of in-office-only types.
Two of the authors are the same. A little odd.
Same! And what leverage do they truly have against us who moved away with eyes open? My mortgage is now $2k a month, about half of bay area rent.

I'm more likely to try and get a $15/hr job with benefits here locally than haul my family back to the bay area.
not gonna lie, a scenario where a big nasty effect of climate change pastes Europe first might make the powers that be wake up to the impending disaster faster. For the folks with the big money one death in Europe might be more shocking than 100 deaths in India.
It also seems like you have to be wary of the tax consequences here. Who do you pay on the payroll? If it's a US Citizen in America it's one thing, but if it's anything else, then you may tax issues.
In this case profit exhaustion doesn't really work. The assumption of technical analysis is that those with the deeper pockets move the market in certain ways and patterns and it's the job of the short-term speculator to anticipate those ways.

But if you assume enough rich people do technical analysis and pattern day trading you can earn money by doing what's essentially technical analysis, but with different patterns - ones designed to capitalize on the old patterns used by the rich.

Keep in mind, I'm not saying technical analysis works. I don't think it does, but that's without seriously examining the evidence. I'm just saying that the diminishing profit argument doesn't work. At least not as presented.
A lot of people find it easier to follow technique demonstrated on video than described in text
Matrix is implementing this.
There are challenges to overcome but thinking of the future as dystopia can be counterproductive.