skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
XMPP was either the wrong protocol for the right time, or the right protocol for the wrong time. I'm still not sure.
I’m old, and live in a snowy salty area. Car body rust is much less a problem that it used to be.

I think they’re all galvanized now. Some parts still rust, but having had some 80s vehicles rust out… plus they always tried to sell some “undercoating” to protect that was snake oil as far as I can tell.
> What's your installer story? For installable software, do you know how to produce the installer for it? Too often the installer work is left until just before launch

Putting on my sysadmin hat: Please do this. Please.

Think about the people who have to install and maintain your software.

Talk with real sysadmins about how they deploy software if you don't have experience doing it. Think about how you'd deploy, remove, and update it on large numbers of machines-- particularly where the users don't have administrative rights or where the machines are automatically-provisioned "cattle".

Also, use off-the-shelf installer systems, if you can, versus rolling your own. The maintainability will be a lot better.
wondering if anyone can definitely pass judgement on technical analysis, as it encompasses so many metrics.
anecdotal evidence is just that, and it has no value.
metrics that accurately describe market dynamics are definitely useful.
an indicator i use often before placing an order is On Balance Volume, i find it relevant.
Are we expecting colder, or warmer weather in NY and New England from this? It's not clear to me from reading some of these articles. The expected effect for Northern Europe—that I understand.
> In 2002, Griffin was president and COO of In-Q-Tel, a private enterprise funded by the CIA to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve national security interests. During this time, he met entrepreneur Elon Musk and accompanied him on a trip to Russia where they attempted to purchase ICBMs. The unsuccessful trip is credited as directly leading to the formation of SpaceX.[8] Griffin was an early advocate for Musk calling him a potential “Henry Ford for the rocket industry".

In-Q-Tel is basically DARPA but for the CIA, btw. It's private mostly to help obfuscate initiatives and cashflows, as that's been the SOP for a lot of US black ops kinda stuff for a while; see also: Blackwater aka Academi aka whatever-they're-called-now, plus other chunks of the contractor sphere. Wagner, the Russian mercs, were an attempt to duplicate that effort.
Independent of the tongue-in-cheek joke of this post, software salaries in the US are triple (or more) than those in Europe, I'd rather keep the tradeoffs we have even if that means there are downsides - the upsides are worth it.

I suspect the labor protections in Europe are part of the reason there aren't many billion dollar software companies there and the salaries are low, hiring is risky when firing is hard.
Word is one of the most common tools for writing papers. There was a study a while back that looked at the quality of Word or Latex papers. The study found that researchers using Word were more effective, and the working theory that explained it was that people who focused on the research did better research, and people focusing on the typesetting do better typesetting.
It's a preprint. Also, NYT doesn't publish scientific papers.
“ 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.”

From my previous comment.

It wouldn’t be the least bit surprising that these researchers wouldn’t say it happened even if they had strong evidence it did.

The downsides are obviously not good for them nor their careers in any way. God forbid they themselves could be found connected to the responsibility and would inevitably become a scapegoat.

And if they did come out and nothing happened to them - what positives would occur? “Reforming safety protocols”? All that would do is create more red tape in the future and inhibit research even more.

I think you should better evaluate the context of what a scientist in that position would face and think. You really quickly see there’s a lot of grey area, and we can’t think very highly of our typical standards of proof.

Of course, i’m not saying “absolutely it was a leak”. Simply that you’re holding the theory to such high standards of proof as to be, imho, unreasonable.
Madrid had a similar situation with the trains stations. However all they has been connected by rail and metro. Main connection it's the train tunnels from Atocha-Recoletos-Nuevos ministerios-Chamartin and Atocha-Sol-Nuevos ministerios-Chamartin.
Atocha sinks all the train traffic that comes/goes from the spurh of Spain to Madrid. Chamartín does the same thing with the north traffic. Sol, Recoletos and Nuevos ministerios have a pivotal role, moving people from this two exterior stations to the center of Madrid.
Wow, you are saying it was easier to build new stuff in NY 150 years ago that it is now? Who would have thought x)
You use evocative imagery to make an emotional, slippery-slope argument, but if by “putting a gun to Coke’s head and pulling the trigger” you mean reducing the profitability of a business that thrives by sewing seeds that will eventually blossom into negative outcomes for people, and fining them for any noncompliance with regulations, well then just let me know when you want to go for target practice!
Post-viral sequelae have been poorly understood for many years.

1. It's hard to tie together the
cause and later effects/symptoms. Did someone get a viral infection? Common cold? Flu? A bacterial infection? People who aren't familiar with this typically have just felt sick, and sometimes the trigger can be a subclinical infection they don't notice.

2. Conventional medicine is bad at acknowledging, researching, and treating chronic conditions. Need an arm chopped off? Thyroid irradiated? No problem, surgery is excellent. Need pills to mask symptoms for years leaving the root cause untreated? Again, modern medicine has you covered. But if yout CBC panels are OK and you just have a malaise, nobody knows what to do.

3. Doctors have a somewhat justified hubris in that if something didn't exist in their med school, it must not exist at all. Sure, people come in with WebMD printouts and can claim all sorts of nonsense, but this leads to kneejerk defensiveness instead of an open mind.

I was infected in 2014 with some unknown, probably viral infection, which cause my thyroid to become inflamed for several months. This can also happen with mono. Anyway, this caused serious, wide ranging effects in my body, specifically causing autoimmunity. I now had serious food sensitivities I never had before.
Not knowing this, I kept eating these foods and after 3 years I was so immensely fatigued and brain fogged and dizzy I could barely walk to the mail box.

After 6 doctors and $20k of diagnostics I finally some solutions. Recovery took years, increasing fast at first and slowing down later. My recovery amounted to cutting out several key foods/drinks out my diet and supplementing for a while to fix deficiencies caused by all this.

My advice if you have this is to be proactive. Nobody will fix this for you. Your doctors probably won't care, so find one that will. I found a doctor that would talk for 1-2 hours in an appointment and go over everything I was learning (yes, she was expensive) Read as much as you can, avoiding the innate human desire to find a magic bullet solution (there is none). Follow up on what your doctor told you and research the snot out of everything you heard.

Long COVID is the first time that cause and effect have been linked and known for so many people. Unfortunately it seems this is exactly what it will take to get taken seriously by the medical profession.
Like everything in the stock market technical analysis works when a lot of people are doing technical analysis, which is why people doing it tend to talk about it and sell books, rather than keep their “winning” strategies to themselves.

People seem a little smarter than they used to be (or they just bought crypto), so it doesnt work well now…
Following != chronological

You can't censor content without it being blatantly obvious while you're serving content chronologically, so I'm guessing their "following" feed either won't last, or won't be chronological (for long).
> in germany at least every larger city is trying to convert terminals into through running stations.

Which is a multi billion dollar effort for very questionable gain. Stuttgart 21 is an unmitigated clusterfuck. Munich is probably never going to switch - the cost alone for the two-track S-Bahn tunnel exploded to well over a dozen billion euros and will take way over a decade to complete. Should the Bahn ever think it would be desirable to convert Munich Central to a through station (if they ever find the place to do so), they'll probably need to spend over a hundred billion euros relocating everything. Frankfurt is similarly bad.

The key thing is, if railways would hire enough conductors they could reduce turnaround times in terminal stations to well under a minute - driver in the old front hops off, new driver hops on at the old end, starts up the control unit and off the train goes. But that would require them to hire and invest into staff on their own dime, while the cost for reconstruction or new construction is almost exclusively paid for with tax money. That is why terminal stations fell out of favor.

> vienna just merged its two major stations into one main station in the last decade.

It's not a complete merger, only the ÖBB moved their long-distance trains - Wien West still serves the Westbahn and regional trains.
too many mountains of cocaine, not enough bi-polar medication, et al

"the howard hughes effect"
And, as with e-mail, there were scams.

Here's Tom Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPeVsniB7b0
Does this means the Lightning is not selling as well as they thought?
This section tells me that the data is insufficient to draw conclusions:

> The strategy goes as follows: we purchase SPY on a new moon, and re-sell it on the next full moon. And repeat that every lunar month.

> Clearly, it fails at beating SMA crossovers. Or at doing basically anything, an investor using the moon phase strategy starting with 10.000$ would end up with only 11.110$ and a Sharpe ratio of only 0.09.

Under EMH, technical analysis doesn't work, and under technical theories there's no reason to expect a wax on / wane off strategy to do anything. Our strong assumption should be that a strategy that has you in the market 50% of the time should produce 50% of the return with 50% of the variation.

However, this arbitrary control strategy instead provided a strong return difference, somehow avoiding most periods of growth. If this backtesting period gives a false positive signal that this strategy differs from no strategy (appropriately weighted in-market investment), then the period is also likely insufficient to confirm the strength of the crossover technical strategy.
Manson?
Here are the best arguments for why TA works IMO:

- The patterns are real in that they can be used to roughly identify groups of buyers and sellers who have price floors and ceilings. E.g. it's a way of gauging the momentum of a trend. However the signal:noise ratio is very high especially when traders try to act on these patterns so that their activity drowns out the original signal

- The patterns then become a schelling point and those who can read the patterns faster can front-run those who read it more slowly. The patterns themselves become reality rather than just a representation of reality.

The value is most likely fully drained from it in that there is no longer any alpha but remains sorta-kinda truish occasionally like "if they don't look you in the eyes it means they're lying" or "changing the lighting improves productivity"
NixOS is awesome, I love it and use it even personally, the only problem its implementation for Arm based wasn’t great last time I tested it (sbc jetson nano) and reliability was critical since that operating system used to power a flying drone, ended up using yocto+containers instead, but that was 2ish years ago so maybe it’s better now.

And I agree with the learning curve, I leaned it for personal use first, but even when I tried to suggest using it for that SBC -before knowing it will not work properly-, I got a big push back from other engineers about it, because they never used it!
So who has got the setup and wants to test this for us? :)
No I am just noting that the AMOC bistability literature is decades long.
A coinflip that causes a bidding war is a loaded coin. There is information in that.

More importantly, it's backed by genuine human intent to buy whatever the coin says. There is information in that too.

This is very far from the zero information situation that you were trying to set up, lol.
At least 5 years too late.
Conway's Game of Life – Vim Macro
It's so strange when people tell you how something is obviously impossible to have that has existed for their entire lives.

Maybe they think that trains are like planes, and that you have to stay on them for the entire Chicago-LA trip, rather than getting off (or on) at one of the 50 other stops?
What makes you say that? Whether or not I buy one has no bearing over how much computational power a device has: which is what makes it a poor substitute.
Apple released Safari for Windows, and nobody used it, because it was awful[1]. So they stopped worrying about cross-platform.

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/07/25/apple_kills_windo...
<<insert>> not cutting the brand off the building as a seemingly random decision is also easy but who are we to judge…
Based on my initial reading so far this seems like the best take.

However, I’ll offer an alternative perspective.

This paper identifies that IPCC does not expect a collapse in the 21st-century. That alone should be our largest biasing factor when we’re asking - from a time horizon perspective - what should we be doing?

So then, why now? I think it’s compelling that they identified two preconditions for a collapse they have been monitoring, and now are indicating that we are on the trajectory towards collapse, given what we were looking for for indications and warning.

As a former military officer, the key thing that you get from intelligence is long-term forecasting and indications and warnings for negative or dangerous actions by your adversaries and risk-taking by your allies.

So following that same logic, then if two of the largest indications and warnings for a future energy transfer collapse/flip scenario, based on the best modeling we have today, are indicating that we are on that trajectory, then it seems appropriate for the most well respected journal to relay that fact.
> "Our customers love today’s Bolt."

AFAICT, it's not so much that they love the Bolt, it's that they love the price of the Bolt. So hopefully the new version keeps compelling pricing.
I have a coworker who creates work tickets for me and a fair bit of my work time is spent deciphering what they meant in their tickets.

It's not uncommon for me to interview him on almost every ticket, writing extensive notes with clarifications on his instructions and to fill in gaps.

I don't see anything necessarily wrong with having to write notes. I think that's part of a healthy work process. I just think it happens too often.

It's partly due to the fact we do not have a very organized system, but also due to him not valuing writing as a tool to enhance his work.
So you're saying it could be a great sensor, similar to a Josephson junction? :-)

Update: "yes", from the paper: "The Josephson-like phenomenon for the under-damped junction of superconductor-normal metal-superconductor(21, 22) or Inter-grain coupled superconductors(23) and the thermoelectric effect(24-26) of the inter- or intra-grain network were also observed."
> The Saudis are making a billion dollars a day from oil [1]

That was revenue (?) when oil prices were much higher.

> particularly if it makes sure that they can't be toppled from the

But yeah, I guess arguing about monetary amounts is a but pointless since I think the whole premise is just absurd..

Organizing the WC or buying European fotball clubs is a much better investment (if there only reason they invested in Twitter is what you’re suggesting, which of course makes no sense).
The collapse needs to be discussed more. The only way for that discussion to occur is if research is published.
>However, officially supported native platform accessibility APIs are NEVER an excuse to remove the autonomy and agency of disabled communities.

I strongly disagree. Being disabled doesn't mean that you should be able to bypass the security of any system.

Also proposals like this help reduce the amount of captchas disabled users get meaning that they may have a better experience using the web if this proposal is accepted.
Glad to see this is the top comment. It frustrates me to no end to see people lapping up TA like it is remotely useful when we spent our first semester on finance at university essentially disproving TA signals. It was literally Finance 102.
To counter-balance... we should realize that if there's a way to 1:1 identify people, then "they" (they is whoever happens to rule over you at any given time, because lord knows we haven't the power to rule our own lives) will require identity even when you don't want to give it.

Sure everything seems nice now, but when they force all to be part of the network, or else, then they have even further control, possibly total control.

So it's not something to tread into lightly. Make sure the means of technological progress is in the hands of the user, not outside powers. This means crypto(graphy)(includes crypto currency, but also DID, etc.), it means running AI locally rather than in the cloud, it means even things as simple as hydroponics in the home and in public spaces.

At the end of the day, technological advancement is a fine line between beneficial progress and absolute tyranny at this stage.
What are you talking about without data? We know most of the big tech companies laid off tens of thousands of software engineers in the past year. The biggest market players went from net positive on jobs to net negative.
I feel SO missed a trick here by not creating a Copilot like integration first.
"We believe that our new development will be a brand-new historical event that
opens a new era for humankind."

Hell of a way to end a paper.
One of the authors in a related paper[1] is Hyun-Tak Kim. He has many publications in peer-reviewed journals[2]. One even has > 1500 citations[3].

I can't tell if there is a catch anywhere, this seems pretty legitimate. Also, unlike some previous claims that required sophisticated setup to reproduce, this seems dead simple. I think we will hear from other researchers very soon.

1. Superconductor Pb10-xCux(PO4)6O showing levitation at room temperature and
atmospheric pressure and mechanism: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.12037.pdf

2. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_P8mux4AAAAJ&hl=en

3. Mott transition in VO2 revealed by infrared spectroscopy and nano-imaging: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
The problem with this and many companies trying to be family etc, is that they completely misunderstand what a family is.

Most think a family is a group where people love each other and care for each other. This is wrong, love and affections are symptoms of a healthy family, you can love and care for your friends, you don’t have a family with them. You can actually not really like spending time with many people in your family, but you are still a part of a functioning family (many such cases). In extreme dysfunction, individuals in a family face abuse but for all our intuition they still are a part of a family until the state intervenes.

To this one might say a family is then bonds that occur due to blood relations between its members. This again is a symptom, children in an adoptive family still constitute a family.

So what exactly is a family? A family is a binding contract where individuals agree to stay together regardless of the circumstances. In the past this contract was enforced to death out of necessity, now this contract is enforced out of necessity till the child becomes 18 generally. There may be hatred, sickness, or a litany of other disturbances but the individuals still stick by each other. This by definition is something a company cannot recreate (without coming awfully close to slavery), and thus it is hopeless for a company to try to aim to be your family. You can leave when you want and they can let you go when they want. That simply is not the same bond as a family.
I prefer 'crapification' (h/t 'Naked Capitalism') for its relative cleanliness and brevity.
Oh, I guess I got them backwards.
Well I'd imagine the big services like google and outlook won't delete your user if you're a paying user - but yeah free, probably won't keep it
Even if we found the perfect material, where it was easy and cheap to create long strong wires for power transmission as well as semiconductor-scale nano wires, we'd be gaining something like (wild ass guess) 20% gain in efficiency. 20% would be nice but would it really beat the last hundred years of discoveries? I don't think so, especially with digital tech's profound world-reshaping continuing to accelerate.
More fundamentally though you can’t really trust an LLM because it doesn’t provide sources.
The Ave Temp of the world is rising and from what I read and hope I understood, nothing will really stop that, all we can do is hope to lessen the temp rise.

So, I think this "5C" drop in East NA and West Europe will be absorbed throughout the world. So those regions will still have higher ave temp then say 1950, just a bit less than the rest of the world.
My team values writing . We killed our meetings for 2 weeks to see which ones were too painful to live without and retros are the only ones we took back.

We've shifted our work discussions almost entirely to async threads on our ticketing system, we frequently hand tickets over between timezones and our manager types can find out what's going on to the nearest couple of hours in a few minutes any time they like. If we need sync conversations (which does happen of course) we record the outcome for async consumption.

We do frequent pairing, it can be quite pleasant to spend quite a while on the phone doing work when you don't need to sit in 15 hours of meetings a week!

Honestly I'm not sure I could go back. Standups for sure would be a huge turnoff for me at any new job.
Reality of not, he was an inspiration to many adults and children for a while there, and it's sad to see that end.
I think about what drug caused the burned out hippie vibe and between weed and psychedelics I think it’s the psychedelics. I think that because any drug that helps one draw new connections eventually starts drawing potential connections that aren’t there resulting in needing excess consideration.

I’m pro psychedelic legalization and think they should be available behind the counter. I just also think they should be feared and thought of as medicine.
Mary Barra's ongoing tenure as GM Chair & CEO perplexes me.

Certainly the stock performance (-3.87% over 5Y vs -2.12% for Ford, wouldn't be fair to bring Tesla into the conversation) doesn't help to justify her position.
> I think the customer has just changed. Consumers don't have money anymore. Businesses do.

...You...recognize that's not a sustainable state of affairs, right?

Ultimately, if consumers don't have money, the economy will start to collapse. The upper echelons can feed on each other for a while, but you need an economic base to support the whole edifice.

Plus, if "consumers" are unable to get what they need for survival and thriving for long enough, they're going to decide (correctly) that someone has taken it from them, and take steps to get it back by whatever means necessary.