skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Viewing the web as a platform for delivering applications, Web Integrity is an obviously good thing that I personally would use as a developer who makes software people pay for.

The opposition listed here is mostly misguided. For example, there is ~0% chance Google breaks "screen readers" or "assistive technologies" with Web Integrity. Saying that they would break seems like a bad faith argument to me.

Fundamentally this is about DRM and whether or not you think it should be allowed. I believe optional DRM for web applications would be good for developers and users of the apps. It would be bad for most other entities (crawlers, scrapers, criminals, etc). So I am in favor of it.
> stop acting like a human for a massive portion of the day, every day

What does this mean to you? I've worked remote and in office, I never felt like I had to stop acting like a human, so I'd like to understand how has it been for you.

> earn some arbitrary pieces of paper that only benefit us because life has been turned into a commodity by the parasites who benefit from this arrangement: the shareholding class.

I mean, I see Capitalism in dire need of adjustments but living costs some effort. You need to shelter yourself, feed yourself and your family, keep them healthy, safe, etc; all of that takes effort. Capitalism or not. I think Capitalism needs adjustments. There should be limits to how much profit owners can capture and should be distributed more fairly among employees, etc; but physical presence to do some types of work will continue to be needed for quite some time. We won't reach Asimov's 'Solaria' state anytime soon.
Does non-technical analysis work for those events? Nope. TA can incorporate all currently known information about the likelihood of those events though. As they say on WSB, it's priced in.
I had success with the ingredients listed here:
https://detoxthespike.com/#ingredients

You can find most of those quite easily, although I had a bit of a hard time getting my hands on some of those enzymes. Been taking that recipe for a couple months now and my sense of smell has returned to full blast. For reference, I got COVID two times.
hey now that's an interesting idea ...

I did put a keyed locking door knob on in a previous house but for some reason haven't done it to the new house/office.

Did you have a hard time finding one that would fit an interior door? I had to hunt for awhile to find a keyed lock that would fit since they're all designed for exterior doors.
Yes, was just trying to comment on the overall broader critique of the medical sphere you were providing. Your story sounds very personal to you and I am not commenting on that.
Market sentiment is driven by a lot of factors including human emotion. So none of these tools are going to be accurate predictors of price movement. However, there are certain things in the market that are pretty solid indicators in my opinion. For example, RSI (relative strength index) shows when something is overbought or oversold and is a great tool to use. Typically an RSI of 70-80 is indicative of a coming sell-off or people taking profits after participating in the price appreciation rally (if RSI remains elevated for a period of time). Similarly, an RSI of 30, 40, 50 indicates that a company is over-sold and could present a good opportunity for starting a new position. Other things like head and shoulders and double top patterns are generally a crapshoot in my opinion. With that said, I do think that algorithmic trading uses these patterns, so maybe there is some merit to them.
And using biometrics is itself a hack to circumvent the vagaries of government ID systems. So you'd be hacking around a hack.

It makes me think at some point we'll be back to inventing government-issued IDs. Or um using the ones we have.
Crucial system of ocean currents is collapsing; ‘affects everyone on the planet’
Ya that's why I don't do that either.
You're dismissing the scientific process that you claim to support by calling it a "quasi-religion". It's not, you're tilting at windmills, and creationists don't have anything interesting to offer. Here's a great resource when you're ready to learn:

https://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/

Sorry to be short, but you're doing a very aggressive enlightened centrist bit. Chill out for a bit, and read through the above when you've got some time.

Also, the question was answered in this thread. If you weren't trying to do so much name calling, you'd probably have read the answer and been informed.
Ugh. Nate, why?

Nate (and you, dear reader) should know better than this. What a person is willing to say under oath (or in a peer reviewed paper) is what they're able to defend. What they say in slack chats or emails is completely different, and not in any way beholden to anything approaching the same level of rigor.

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. If these folks couldn't do it, maybe there's a reason; it's simply not supported by observations/facts.
Watch for a Nancy Polosi trade predicting aliens.
This article is a rare exception to Betteridge's law
One thing to keep in mind is that Tesla and SpaceX were early successes and the rest are later failures. It is quite possible that he has lost his touch as he has gotten older and richer.
I think that most people wish to just carry on their lives without interference from nanny-state lovers who just LOVE to dictate to others how they should live their lives.

Seriously, fuck that nonsense. If I choose to lead an unhealthy lifestyle, that' should be my choice - not to be dictated to by "those who know better". Note that I personally choose to minimise the amount of sugar I take. I may also even tut-tut at those whom choose to take all the sugar they want - but what I won't do is waggle fingers at them, nor do I want to utilise taxation - a very, very overused excuse by govts. to rake in more dosh - to discourage people from what "those who know better" want them to be like.

No. real solutions lie in getting manufacturers to reduce sugar and especially HFCS as ingredients in their products. Quite possibly not much can be done about cakes and confectionary in terms of sugar, but there sure is an awful lot of sugar in a lot of other food products.

I absolutely despise authoritarians, everywhere.
I'm still interested in this line of enquiry.

These models are clearly not good enough for decision-making, but still might tell an interesting story.

Here's an easily testable exercise: get a load of news from somewhere like newsapi.ai, run it through an open model and there should be a clear discontinuity around ChatGPT launch.

We can assume false positives and false negatives, but with a fat wadge of data we should still be able to discern trends.

Certainly couldn't accuse a student of cheating with it, but maybe spot content farms.
Sure, some of that sounds like "red tape". But avoiding needlessly duplicated functionality seems like a rather noble goal to me, one that can save everyone a great deal of maintenance effort in the future.
famously, no one with a lot of money has ever made a bad business decision
(Signal) partners with WhatsApp to provide e2e encryption (2014)
> I always assumed any momentum effectiveness was arbitrage on trader volume scales differing by order of magnitude.

It's an area of active research:

> Students of financial economics have largely attributed the appearance of momentum to cognitive biases, which belong in the realm of behavioral economics. The explanation is that investors are irrational,[4][5] in that they underreact to new information by failing to incorporate news in their transaction prices. However, much as in the case of price bubbles, other research has argued that momentum can be observed even with perfectly rational traders.[6]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum_(finance)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carhart_four-factor_model

Though the market, size, and value factors appear to explain >90% of returns (at least using US data):

* https://www.ifa.com/articles/momentum_fourth_factor
It’s completely illegal in the US too. Health insurers are extremely limited in the information they can use to price coverage, and in general they can’t outright deny coverage at all.
Oh, so you think it’s not possible to get a new identity?
"writing"? They no longer teach it in schools and no longer value it in the workplace. And the two are likely related.
All true, but I'll just keep saying: $100 billion and counting. 171 miles of track from Merced to Bakersfield in 2030, by which time it'll be $200 billion, probably.

The scale changes everything. Intuitive arguments like yours melt away.
In this context, the fact that he's had numerous dud companies does need to come up because it's actually very much on topic.

Let's reflect on how we got here.

1) xutopia is making the claim [1] (on a thread about how Twitter's rebrand could be a nightmare) that Musk's actions would've costed any other CEO their job.

2) mettamage countered with Musk has only had 1 dud company so far [2]

3) And that leads us to this oversized thread where yes Musk has had many dud companies and "only 1" isn't correct.

Whether or not Musk is correct on the Thai diver being a pedophile would not belong in this oversized thread though and as you may not have yet noticed; wasn't brought up. It is in fact possible to have a discussion on a forum (perhaps not major) without bringing up tangential points. Some people can control themselves and so far in this oversized thread they have; it's been very on point besides this meta discussion.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36861849

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36863091
There’s also a risk management side to this. If my social life is built around my office and then I get laid off, that’s a massive impact on my social life. Decoupling reduces that risk significantly.
Ask HN: Is Elon planning to redirect all Twitter URLs?
Putting aside what the majority thinks about the rebrand (I know it is bad), I'm curious about how he plans to make it work technically. Is he going to redirect all Twitter URLs correctly to the new X.com domain? Has anything of this scale ever been attempted before? What are the technical challenges and what would be the technical cost? Or will he just naively break the internet?
>If anyone is interested in doing stock picking, at least seriously, I would recommend that they first read A Random Walk Down Wall Street

tl;dr: Don't. And if you do, don't tell anyone about it or it will go away.
The Office Odyssey: Return, Resist or Remodel?
> A bad trip does equip you with a lot of confidence and resilience in yourself and your mental strength to almost get through anything

Just out of curiosity, do you mean the person's self-confidence may dramatically improve with use? The only reason is because I had a recent co-worker who was laid off after taking psychedelics for a decent period of time. He effectively stopped contributing to the team and started making concerted efforts to get the CEO to establish a new, special position for him so that "real work" could get done and the "company would function 100x better."

Seeing the before and after was fairly dramatic. I tried to encourage them to stop using, but that "self-confidence" was so over the top that they ignored all of us and eventually lost their job.
A UBI coin like WorldCoin needs proof-of-identity as well, to prevent duplicate payouts.
"suggest"

"further research is needed"
Nitpick: ChatGPR is supposed to write in a way that is indistinguishable from a human, to another human.

That doesn't mean that it can't be distguishable by some other means.
Guess you were watching some right wing garbage. This was always talked about.
China is kinda irrelevant here because western social networks and services are blocked there anyway, so the Chinese government can indeed compel Chinese companies to spam users with political propaganda (and does), but western companies are irrelevant in that process.

For Google and PRISM, I'm sure it won't change your mind, but I worked there at the time and the reaction was genuine. If there were people inside the firm who knew about it at all it must have been a very small group of spies/double agents, and such people were never detected despite a thorough search. Given that it was all based on fiber taps done by telcos though, it's not clear why they'd need any insiders. The assumption of formal cooperation was based on the phrasing of one or two sentences in some leaked documents, but the way the whole thing was set up didn't actually require it so, what those insiders would have been doing was a bit unclear.

Anyway, this is all by the by. We can't know what will happen in future. But if they won't budge on E2E encryption then it seems unlikely they'd be willing to bypass anti-spam measures, which is far more detectable, far less justifiable, and probably doesn't fit within any existing laws.
It depend on whether they are also trying to use each other's bids to determine each other's psychology. At that point you may be observing a recursive system (I know that he knows that I know that he knows...) and can't be sure how many layers of reasoning each actor is employing.
I'm not going to comment on your broader point as I largely agree passenger trains being unsuccessful is a policy choice.

But Indiana particularly is a bad example. 1/3 of the population you mention is in Indianapolis that has tried many times to have commuter trains, the population does not want them! Even modern/modest attempts have failed[0]. If commuter trains aren't popular with the people there why would longer haul passenger rail be? Even if you could magic an Acela route between Chicago and Indianapolis into existence it would not be faster than a car or the many private bus routes that go there and you'd have to deal with the inconvenience of getting to the start and end locations in a city that has rejected public transportation.

The northern population centers which account for another 6th of the population of Indiana are already serviced by regular electric inter urban trains into Chicago, the nearest big population center. That line is seeing about 50% less usage compared to pre-Covid numbers.

So beyond just the policy choices, in Indiana at least there is strong evidence for a lack of desire for inter-urban rail.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_University_Health_Peop...
this is slightly offtopic for this thread, but:

if you're not an elite strength athlete, hitting 30 will not yet have overly negative effects. as an intermediate athlete you might still be able to improve well into your forties.

even elite strength athletes used to hit their peak well into their mid- to late thirties (weightlifting) or even fourties (powerlifting, strongman). same with endurance athletes (in both cases that's not completely true anymore, the best are getting younger and they peak earlier).
Public markets are fairly efficient, although not perfectly so. The hedge funds that consistently outperform aren't using anything so simplistic as TA on a single ticker. Instead they employ an army of experts armed with enormous computing resources to identify correlations with data outside those markets that no one else has noticed (arbitrage opportunities). They also do proprietary research by commissioning researchers to go out and gather real world data that no one else has, so they are working with an information asymmetry.

Of course, there are also persistent rumors of insider trading. Maybe just sour grapes from inferior traders, but who knows?
I didn't define myself as an anarchist, you labelled me as such and drew some unflattering connotations to the term. Generally speaking, I don't deal in false dichotomies anyway. I was just saying that this could be the long-predicted inflection point.
Just to expand, that's called NewTek Demo Reel #1 created to promote NewTek's pre-Toaster products Digi-View and Digi-Paint for the Amiga. It fit entirely on two Amiga floppy disks and would play back in real-time and loop at the end. It was sent out for free to Amiga dealers in color packaging and became the demo many dealers would just leave running on their floor model.

The decompression and simultaneous playback of multiple motion video clips and synced audio toward the end of the demo was extraordinary for the time (~1986). It was all custom coded demo-ware in 68k assembly language pushing the Amiga custom chips right down to the metal as there were no authoring tools to create this sort of thing.

I remember being shocked when I first saw it playback on an Amiga in real-time. Initially I thought there must be a VCR hidden under the table. Because it was distributed by Commodore Europe to all European dealers, Demo Reel #1 clearly influenced the evolution of the still-nascent DemoScene and it's been called "The mother of all demoscene demos." NewTek was figuring out amazing stuff right on the bleeding edge of possibility.
> Remote work was far less common pre Covid though.

That was my point: Remote work was a unique benefit given to those who could handle it.

During COVID everyone started pretending that remote work was for everyone. Companies shifted a lot of people remote and then learned the hard way that many people can't be productive remote.

Now the pendulum swings back, with companies pretending that nobody can work remote because they let the bad apples spoil the whole batch.
I don't want to keep spamming a link, but please see my above comment regarding an ingredient list that helped me quite a bit -- I feel like myself again.
There are already a lot of community driven meshed networks all over the world.

It doesn't really take over because so far we are pretty much free to do what we want from our ISP connection. Some countries impose dns censorship but appart from the few dictatures that run their great firewall, it is light censorships as they let people query the DNS server they want.
Just for context, does WorldCoin actually save your iris information somewhere, or are the scans just a one time thing to generate your WorldId? The thought of iris scanning is slightly creepy, but I'm curious ...
Yes. And what's more, not too long ago this was common knowledge. Every professional trader knows that TA is crystal-ball-tier nonsense. But the influx of morons in cryptocurrency and WSB memetrading have to learn this lesson all over again (and in an adversarial environment, since there are tons of '''gurus''' poisoning the well with bad info, insisting that their TA is totally legit and anyone saying otherwise probably has "political motivation")
We already have that in the form of public transport. The reason people get cars is because they want the convenience of door to door transport. If self driving cars cannot do that then people aren’t going to bother with self driving cars.
> 1. Covid created in a lab

There's not lot of evidence of that. There's lots of evidence (including at first a massive coverup, with the help of complicit media -- media who now changed their tune) that it leaked from a lab.

If it leaked from a lab (which now many officials, including US officials, says is the most likely possibility: so now there's a >50% chance that it was a lab leak according to officials [0]), the other question that remains is: is it an unmodified sample that leaked or one on which GoF research had already been applied?

[0] which is quite funny because if you dared to say so when the outbreak happened, you were labelled a conspiracy theorist just as crazy as those believing the world is run by lizards taking human forms
Yesterday, the sentiment on Google's early proposal was "company breakups start to make a lot of sense", "Go f yourself, Google", "It's maddening and saddening", "[the people involved] reputations are fully gone from this".

Today it turns out Apple not only proposed but implemented and shipped the actual feature last year. "It could be an interesting opportunity to reboot a few long-lost dreams". "I kind of get both sides here". "I guess I personally come down to leaving this turned on in Safari for now, and seeing what happens". Granted, the overall sentiment is still negative but the difference in tone is stark. The reality distortion field is alive and well, folks.
I started using "low sodium" salt, which basically is Sodium + Potasium, which both are electrolytes needed for the body. I grew up eating without salt (mom cooked with no salt at all) and using this low-Na-salt was amazing .
Hi, I'm one of the founders of Wing Cloud. I'd love to get feedback on what we're building and answer any question.
not the job security, but the same thing that is required to get into that job with the job security
Meta: I want us to appreciate that total number of job postings on HN have been steadily falling since 2018 [1] with what appears to be an outlier jump in 2021 (post-pandemic bubble). That seems pretty important...

Am I missing some big piece of context here that would make my analysis wrong?

https://twitter.com/AndrewKemendo/status/1683877057959272449
Why would you call it elitist? From my perspective something like this is the ultimate 'democratization' of education. If you can pass the test - you're in, regardless of who you might otherwise be (or not be). For instance one individual who would have passed a similar exam was Richard Greener [1]. He was the first black man to graduate from Harvard. He did so in 1870, shortly after the Civil War, for some social context. He would, unsurprisingly, go on to lead an extremely distinguished life. Passing the test would obviously require a rigorous dedication and pursuit to academic knowledge, but what is that if not the most pure definition of what college ought be?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Theodore_Greener
I have a similar gripe. I know a few more people who have done psychedelics, but still it's tiny compared to the number of people I know who have talked about using marijuana.
> Open Whisper Systems partners with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption

This is the full title, but it didn't fit, so I shortened to (Signal) to use the name that's more familiar (given it's posted on signal.org), but I put it in parenthesis to make it clear that it was not the original title.
Nobody remembers everything, there's too much. We use IDEs to help us with things like autocomplete and we chech the documentation very frequently.

Generally when I'm writing code I will have a dozen tabs open with various documentation pages.

Even if you could remember everything, there's always something new to learn. So done worry if you have to look stuff up, we all do.
How does drawing a teacup on top of a chart incorporate "all currently known information" about anything whatsoever?
> I feel like conventional corporate success depends more on your relationships and politics than the quality of your code and writing. It's really hard to build quality relationships and see the politics and status games people are playing in my company by being a remote worker.

Organizations and organizational decisions like promotions or project investments are made by people. People have biases. Those biases include familiarity and recency. One of the easiest way to be familiar with the people who make decisions is to be in their physical presence. This activates senses and experiences that virtual interactions lack. This includes body language, unstructured conversations about non-work topics, and shared non-work experiences.

When LLMs can write code — and when you are using LLMs to help write code — how will you differentiate yourself from others?
Nice! I recently interviewed for a job which was a 45 minute commute - after driving out for the interview I just felt sad about potentially driving for 6+ hours a week after working remote for 4 years.