skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole experiment is quite reminiscent of an experiment I did in high school. We synthesized a high temperature superconductor (IIRC it was YBCO) by grinding some powders together with a mortal and pestle and baking the result. And we stuck it in a little cup of LN2 and floated a magnet on it. It really works!

This group used somewhat nastier powders, they had to cook parts of it in a vacuum, and they floated the result on a magnet instead of vice versa. And it only floated a bit. But they did it without any cooling!
Unfortunately, as soon as you actually use the result of the computation in any kind of practical manner as an output, you break reversibility, though you could make the heat production happen away from the computation.
It does appear to be a 'get out of anything' trump card and the fact that it chronic and can wax and wane does mean people can repeatedly reuse the same excuse - I can see why it would be attractive to fakers.

I have lifelong ME/CFS as a comorbidity to my genetic condition hEDS, it got worse in my 20s and then significantly worse post covid vax. I'm a shut-in so it appears that I have thus far avoided catching covid the virus. The pericarditis from the vax was bad enough there were a few times I thought it was going to kill me. There is very little benefit from telling people about it, you almost entirely only get gaslit from doctors and everyone else.

I'm a key man risk on some major projects and if people at work knew I have ME/CFS I would lose my livelihood. I'm not even sure if I could get government disability. When I see homeless people I think; there but for the grace of god go I. I know people in the hEDS community who have been encouraged to do voluntary euthanasia in Canada so that seems to be the new solution to this inconvenient problem. Just recently the first voluntary suicide in South Australia was a young lady with EDS. I manage with the help of a lot of black market / gray market non FDA approved medication and for some possibly related reason I'm freakishly good at programming so a few good days can make up for a lot of bad days.

The combination of people hiding the condition and fakers promoting it means I completely understand why many people think it's fake. It's the doctors that I'm most disappointed in.
Or, in other words, a typical positive feedback loop
Most stock trades including TA wins are attributed to skill when it’s pure luck. Especially if there is a bull market
The paper I linked in the parent's comment as the "Simple proof of concept" on page 2, and like you said outlines it's limitations as both negative to performance and also easily detectable and determinable.

Their improved method instead only replaces tokens when there's many good choices available, and skips replacing tokens when there are few good choices. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" - "The quick brown" is not replaceable because it would severely harm the quality.

Essentially it's only replacing tokens where it won't harm the performance.

It's worth noting that any watermarking will likely harm the quality to some degree - but it can be minimized to the point of being viable.
Minor Nit: IEFT working groups don't implement code. Individual contributors do. But yes, looking at that list of companies, all of whom will be implementing code based on the spec, it's reasonable to have some concerns that they may yield to government pressure.

The flip side of this is that the spec is public so anyone can review it or take it to their local crypto expert and pay them to review it.
I had a similar story with a friend in college in the 2000's. He would always hit Ctrl-z'd to "close" emacs when logged into the server which would've been fine if he wasn't using screen or tmux as well. At some point, he was using a ridiculous amount of RAM on the server and the admins suspended his login to force him to come in.
Stock price movements are literally text book examples of unpredictable (or more specifically, random walk) time series in university time series courses. A proper statistics course teaches you that you can predict with great certainty that the mean of the fraction of heads over many coin flips converges to 1/2, while you cannot predict anything about the outcome of the next flip. A good statistics course will also teach you how both can be true. TA is like trying to use statistics to infer something about the outcome of the next coin flip.
would love to hear if anyone from Apple can confirm
I see the logic here, but I’m highly skeptical about how valid such a tool would be.

If a researcher comes out and says, “Surveys show that people want X, and they do not like Y,” and then others ask the researcher if they surveyed people, the answer would be “no.”

Fundamentally, people wanting feedback from humans will not get that by using your product.

The best you can say is this: “Our product is guessing people will say X.”
Had to jump on to my desktop and log in to hn to say thanks for this comment!... impressed by what you've done

Ha thanks, I have to say when I reflect on the experience it was about 10% "me" and 90% "others and the team". After towing the car home on faith that I would figure out the rest (my car maintenance experience was roughly changing tires and checking oil), I reconnected with a mentor who had decades of stage rally experience.

He ultimately invested tons of his time and effort into short-cutting me through many lessons and gotchas, even helping me rebuild the motor when it blew up before my 1st scheduled event. After awhile I called our rally team "God's Grace Rally Team" because the way it so quickly came together and succeeded so well in light of the many overcome issues was really a spiritual experience.

But yes, it can be done. Take that step of faith... reach out and ask for help too!
Technical analysis trivially cannot work for commonly known and widely used signals, because the market will correct eventually. For little known signals, it can work, but so can any trading strategy within a narrow window or with low probability. I think the union between seemingly successful TA anecdotes and random noise approaches 1.
Anecdotally, all my moderately- to very-well paid tech friends have a robo investor and don't touch anything ever until they need to withdraw. I'd say most people don't play the day trading game, and that includes HODL'ing (man, that term is literally the only thing that came from crypto that I like) during bad downturns.
You're not gonna get a noble prize for unverified results.
> The first capitalists hated rent. They wanted to replace the “passive income” that landowners got from taxing their serfs’ harvest with active income from enclosing those lands and grazing sheep in order to get wool to feed to the new textile mills. They wanted active income — and lots of it.

Locke's argument for private property ownership of land beyond space to live in not being obviously-unjust was built entirely on this: improvement of productivity of land through work and investment. Holding private land to sit on or to wildly under-use wasn't compatible with his ethical justification for private land ownership.

(not that the Second Treatise isn't full of weak reasoning—natural rights as anything "real" rather than arbitrary, LOL—but it's considering one of the top influences on the founders of the US, the founding of which was a major step in the rise of capitalism to global dominance)
At a minimum, it should be illegal for companies to say you can work from home! and then back track. Employees that already WFH full time should at least be able to do so without RTO considerations.

Honestly, I'm not one for laws about these sorts of things, but given the state of climate change, there should be legal requirements that if a job can be done in a WFH setting, it should be an option for employees to choose. By quantifying what roles don't require in person by defining eligibility, as opposed to allowing businesses to set the eligibility.

I think the details could be worked out reasonably.
A friend and I were able to phish passwords from nearly the entire school we went to with VB6 - the school (board) used active directory for logins on a shoddy network where some switches would often just drop all traffic to a random port for any length of time, meaning a PC would lose connection to the AD server at random. The kicker was that attempting a login after the connection was dropped greeted you with a "could not connect to //SCHOOL_BOARD//SCHOOL_NAME/PC_NAME" to which the solution was reboot the PC and it would work again (99% of the time, anyways). The other kicker was the background image and login domain were the same for every single computer at a single school. We exploited this; we created a full-screen/un-exitable UI with the same background image behind a form simulating the normal login screen. We would first login to our own account and run the program (there were no login limits either), at which point someone else later through the day would sit down and try to login. The credentials that got typed in were added to a .txt in my own user folder before the user rebooted the "non-functional" system. Of all the dumb shit we did, that's probably the only thing we never got caught doing, and probably because we never did anything nefarious with them.
Dunno. A fancy tape or such made out of lead compounds would be a hard sell in comparison to ordinary copper for household wiring.

But yes, for serious uses, this will be a big deal if it works out and can be made into a flexible cable. And I’m sure people will work on a less-toxic version.
"post-acute"
Apologies if I didn't make this super clear.

I agree that the "family" metaphor breaks down around termination of employment (whether initiated by employee or employer)

What I was trying to say in the line you quoted, that IN THE WORK CONTEXT nobody uses family to imply permanent employment - it's strictly about how you are with each other while there. Which is still a big deal.
This is based on nothing but 'america bad'.

Do you think this makes you look smart?
Saving this. I can't find the favorite comment feature for some reason.
Goldman Sachs is a weird authority to appeal to. And even if you want to you’ll be appealing to an authority that endorses aspects of TA.
When Elites Stopped Dominating Paintings [video]
Does a person making 55k a year pay enough in taxes that they can take sufficient advantage of tax credits to bring the car down to that price?
> 1.) The commute is brutal. If you live in any decent sized city and have a family, it's likely that you are far enough away from the office that you have to drive 30+ minutes in pretty horrendous traffic.

This is fundamentally a problem with urban design, not with in-office work.
True but I feel it would catch a few people out?
Such an evil pattern. We need to eliminate this at all costs.

Luckily I think if Chrome were to move forward with this they'd face extreme anti-trust stuff as a result
Most Chevys from the 60's.

Go to a car show and talk to those that remanufacture cars.
Why would you need transformers if you can send it losslessly?
I'm sure the same-y ness of the language everyone uses is the result of years of academic study in to how to frame things in a way that minimizes the immediate anger in the aggrieved population to minimize things like Going Postal, or sabotage. Of course they don't care about your feelings. As soon as someone is laid off they become a tremendous liability until they are out the door.
In my experience technical analysis works ok at resolutions of 1 to 5 minutes. i.e. if you want to grind at day trading watching the live candlesticks and have a reasonably fast trading platform you might make enough to get by. This assumes you are familiar with the asset and are up to date on latest news relating to it and use that as a lens to read the TA indicators. As the timeframe grows it's just alchemy. Applying to to asset activity over days is meaningless.
It was the same method as that, but the group was alt.hackers I think.

https://www.samiam.org/alt.hackers.html
Is Praxis FOSS?
They did a 180 in 2019 - DDG search 'Terminating Service for 8Chan' and 'Blocking Kiwifarms'
I never get the "discontinued model" thing. Isn't a last generation Camry just as discontinued when they start making the new one?
And every single one of those is in the Public Domain, because they don't meet the Threshold of Originality for copyright purposes.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3M_wordmark.svg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scotch-logo.svg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crate_and_barrel_log...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lufthansa_Logo_2018....

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeep_logo.svg

For more info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordmark

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Threshold_of_orig...
Watermarking text can't work 100% and will have false negatives and false positives. It is worse than nothing in many situations. It is nice when the stakes are low, but when you really need it you can't rely on it.
Did you know her before she did acid, and if so, what exactly changed about her?
At KDE, we have to do fairly complex invoicing to recipients in many different jurisdictions (as a non-profit having donors and organizing events all over the globe).

We also wrote a web app (using quart and hypercorn) for this that generates PDFs (it's part of our internal financial dashboard that does a lot of other things as well). But ours runs the jobs on the backend, and uses luatex via latexmk. This internally uses scrlttr2 as well.

Screenshot: https://mero.ng/i/GKeVmAnd.png
Veering off topic to culture war nonsense. Nice!

The important thing is you feel smug.
TLS-SRP: password based mutual authentication for the web
Chromeium based browsers have more like 95% of the market share. Look in this thread; every little thing Mozilla does is treated like the end of the world and a severe breach of trust. Google literally says "Everyone should implement this brand new proposal that makes being truly anonymous on the web impossible" and it's fucking crickets in their usage numbers.
> They come with much of the same concerns you raised about pickup trucks

I disagree strongly with that. these are very different vehicles.

Crossovers are regulated like cars, built like cars, and anre often are roughly the same size as equivalent cars. They’re just lifted slightly off the ground (in some cases barely) and given a hatchback.

As an example, compare dimensions of a Toyota Camry to a Toyota RAV4. Most of the exterior dimensions are almost identical. The RAV4 is notably a little bit longer outside of the wheelbase and only about 200 pounds heavier.
Ya no shit. Desperation makes people do dumb things.
So how much tax money that 1% pay for cigarettes? I’ll bet that it’s significantly larger than $2.6B
Partially levitating on the magnet seems kinda convincing. None of those materials would do that on their own.
> my computer should search across everything I’ve read and some small high-quality subset of the Web

Even without the contextual search—which is initeresting mind you!—I want this part, and I’ve wanted it for a long long time.

I have it for journal articles simply by the virtue of obsessively saving and filing every PDF I’ve read for the last decade, but for the Web I don’t know how I could just plain index everything I’ve read (and not just everything in Pocket/Wallabag/etc). For example, is there anything that can pull links from Firefox Sync and save/index extracted text from them in a halfway reliable fashion? (I don’t expect it to be able to bypass yucky stuff like CAPTCHAs on archive.is.)

I know there are a handful of WARC-ecosystem tools, but AFAIU these are rarely that automatic, are tied to a browser plugin as opposed to just pulling the URLs from history sync (yes, I’m unreasonably fond of Epiphany/GNOME Web), and kind of heavy. Am I wrong? Any alternatives?
The population is not comparable though. I guess that's why many people compare US to Europe, and not US to Sweden.
> The study, paid for by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports, did not take into account other potential costs of obesity and smoking, such as lost economic productivity or social costs.

Emphasis mine
Not a fair take, you should only be comparing with the rest of the industry. Different industries have to price in different markets and risks.
A funeral for fish and chips: why are Britain’s chippies disappearing?
I agree that the United States should rework the tax incentives that make large cars cheaper than they ought to be. That said...

Vehicle size is a classic prisoner's dilemma. In a two-car accident, the larger car is likely to fare better. So I totally understand why folks are buying crossover SUVs when they could just as easily fit in a car. Trying to guilt people into buying smaller cars than reason dictates is a losing strategy.

The only solution here is to stop subsidizing cheap oil and get rid of the weird emissions and tax loopholes that make trucks more attractive than they ought to be.
What's your take on the entire premise of market research being mostly feel-good busywork detached from reality? This is because context is dynamic over time in every instance, and survey data pales in comparison to purchase data. Best way then is to launch small experiments with real people and real buying behavior.

Covered here: https://www.pretotyping.org/
this is a tired argument and is easily dismissed - quality and local info. As you stack requirements, your chances of finding someone outside the country drop dramatically. Does your person in Peru have experience with US labour law? US Taxes? You see where this is going.
Of course people are fed up with those things. They also have the ability to organize and make noise about it. That, combined with polarization, as I've said, heightens both the activism and the perception of such activism.
Well...random with a positive trendline can still be random. The fact that there's a positive trend globally doesn't change the fact that the local behavior is indistinguishable from random noise. The way I tend to think about it is that the deltas day to day are completely random, but shifted up from neutral by just a touch, so that the overall trend is upward but the micro behavior is unpredictable.
I think it comes down to the person and their discipline.

Ultimately, I do get more coding done at home. However, being surrounded by colleges and a "business" atmosphere motivates me to actually do the coding, its hard to explain lol.

Also distractions. If you get distracted at home it can get pretty bad. At work you at least have to try.
It is actually better if more people smoke. Smokers die sooner, needing less health care in the long run.

Also, social security becomes move solvent.
> That's less than a median income in San Francisco. If you put 100% of your income into a startup, are you out of touch or do you just have skin in the game?

If your trust fund pays for rent and living expenses in San Francisco, and you don't even think of it as abnormal that your ENTIRE INCOME can be allocated to business bets, then yes -- you are indeed wildly out of touch.
If you don't like a post on HN, just don't upvote it.

HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

The devs will certainly have a reason for having a captcha, I suspect it keeps the actual game fun rather than being overrun with bots.
VHS is about 240 lines horizontal resolution and 40-50 lines chroma resolution.

Even at 1440p the video has massive MPEG blocking, it's been heavily compressed after being captured off tape. VHS has not got MPEG-like compression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K8dUkeDZTM is an example of a badly-worn and therefore extremely "speckly" and dull VHS tape that I captured a while back. Youtube has a hard time with the chroma noise, but I didn't want to overcook it with denoising etc. so I just left it as it is.

Notice how much smoother everything is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPmCygZIjio is a capture of a very damaged Sony 8mm analogue tape, again with a lot of dropouts. Notice how there's no MPEG blockyness?

These aren't even especially good captures, and were done off a not-properly-set-up "industrial" VHS machine which desperately needs realigned (and probably new heads), into a DV camcorder used as a DAC into a Firewire card.
Wesley was in my Z Fellows batch! super cool guy, his LinkedIn post where he goes over his decision in detail is worth a read.
Polygraph is pseudo-science, it measures nothing.
It's already being observed. Bird migrations have been happening earlier/later, and ranges of birds have increased. I'm sure the same thing is happening for whales / ocean animals.

According to this one[1], they're adapting by leaving later, and flying faster/taking less breaks to make up for the lost time. The result being that less of them make it to the breeding grounds (6% decrease in survival rate).

[1] https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/04/risky-strategy-help...
What has not worked either so far is ever stronger talk about impending doom.

We might have to contemplate things like geoengineering or whatever but thinking the future is bad is not enough. There has to be a positive vision, too.
My thoughts exactly. Every time something like this makes the frontpage, it's a thinly veiled ad for whomever the author works for.

I really want to see those WhatsApp chats...
Yup -- you see this same effect on articles about Apple's draconian OS policies.

When Microsoft bundled IE with Windows that was terrible. But Apple bundling Safari and locking out competing browsers? That's just what's best for the customer.
Good work on finding this. This is a scary attack.
Intel Planning Price Hike Across All “Core” CPUs
Agreed. I am very close with my remote teammates, and when we meet for our yearly onsite, it feels like we've all been working side by side in the trenches...just like in an office.

We also miss the fact that you can be traveling to an office for years and not actually know anybody. This is especially true of this big large tech campuses.
This is excellent. Thank you for sharing. I had no idea you could read the reviewers notes and feedback
The US mostly has dystopian workers rights laws
No one should use "family" at work, it's as the other commenter put, creepy. You can treat people with respect and trust without taking on a para-familial relationship with them, that's super inappropriate and exploitative (although sadly all too common).
> Cryptography cant save us here, people will figure out how to send AI images to the crypto hardware to get it signed in months.

Possibly (who am I kidding. *PROBABLY*!) will use chatGPT to help them design the method :)
End of life for smokers is incredibly traumatic and expensive.
>open office style

"Loud panopticum"
How easy would it be to make it output programs in a functional language, such as Haskell? it would be nice if it could be made to produce functions that are guaranteed to be free from side effects.

In the long term I can imagine that the output languages of code generators like this might be ones specially designed to work well with AI code generators.
Are you sure it would? How hard would it be for spammers to buy a Windows machine and run Chrome?
https://archive.is/J4CN0
What’s the distinction between quants and TA?

I’m having trouble figuring out what specifically people are talking about; but everyone has apparently strong opinions on the subject.