skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. In fact we'd be surprised how much of our modern world is just attempts to guess the future, like the ancients, but instead of reading goat entrails or judging the alignment of Venus and Ursa Minor we instead worship the god of "statistics" and "the science". I don't want it to seem as if I am anti-science, not at all, but "the science" is the cargo cult that Feyman warned us of.

And lest you think I am off some examples:

The diet and nutrition studies constantly getting pushed are the new fertility rituals, and the last one didn't work because it didn't please the diet gods, but atkins, or paleo, or weight watchers, or whatever will really work this time.

Econimics is worshiping the god of the harvest to ensure a bountiful crop, and when their predictions fail to come to pass, it's because the goat entrails were read wrong, or the math was off, never because the whole thing is useless.

Psychology is self evident if one examines the replication crises.

The point is we aren't really that much superior to the ancients in many ways. Sure we've figured out some of the fundamental laws of nature and are able to use them better, but that's mostly been the work of a few geniuses over the past 400 years and much less because we as humanity are far superior.
> fix the roadbed.

How much do you think that costs? Most of the costs in CAHSR are in building the 220-mph-capable track, not in acquiring new ROW for those tracks. For comparison, merely electrifying Caltrain is costing well over $2 billion. No new track, just stringing up catenary wire and installing electrical feeds. Rebuilding a single-line freight trunk into a high speed rail corridor would cost far money, and that's before considering what to do with the freight (hint: the answer is build a new line for them... and then you have to wonder why it wouldn't be simpler to build a new line for HSR and let the freight use the existing line).

It shouldn't cost anywhere near that much money, but the short answer as to why it does cost so much money is that the CA governments seem to be uniquely and disastrously incompetent at project management, on top of several other systemic cost issues in the US.
That's very possible since I've had it for months, but I wasn't able to find it in the 1.0 app. It mystifies me why their marketing team wouldn't post these publicly to encourage people to try it.
Yes, CO2 is perfectly natural, as is Arsenic. Yet, a high concentration of CO2 implies, in most non-contrived situations, a high concentration of CO. Which is also about as good for you as a high concentration of Arsenic. Make of that what you will, and do consider that if you think it's a perfect cure for (whatever), you might be a tad wrong...
I don't know about neither of those. How is it intrinsic? What stops detection improving just because AI gets better? Assuming it just doesn't become sentient human replica or something I mean AI like this where it's just a language model thing. Plus that's assuming future stuff you can track in the meanwhile and still don't justify "remove it because people dumb and do bad stuff with tool", that'd only justify removing it later as they do get better.
So it's basically feeding some metadata that is invisible to the human eye. I don't see anything wrong with it, as that kind of dark-pattern filtering is a cat and mouse game.
"Make it work, make it right, make it fast"
Depends on the architecture. On Sparcstation 20 circa 2000 OpenBSD was way faster than linux.
So, the author picks the most basic indicator applied in a way that most would not use it in modern times, questions its usefulness and compares it to astrology.

Why do people bother writing blog posts void of insight? This isn't even useful for SEO...
I'm surprised that this made the front page. This is the investing equivalent of someone new to programming writing a single benchmark of some if statements versus a switch and blogging about which one was faster. The results are far more likely to be random noise than anything meaningful.

I think this type of calculation is valuable exploration for anyone to try out if they are interested in investing, and is a great way to get some hands-on learning with real data. I'm glad for the author and for anyone who reads this and decides to replicate it or extend it for their own practice and leaning. It's just that the results are not notable in the slightest.

Though it's a rare counterexample to Betteridge's Law of Headlines!
Not doubting. Just curious. Competitive athlete in your 60s is impressive, even if age bracketed.
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Vaccinated?
> Am I the only one in that situation? What do you do?

What I did (decades ago) was realize that when I was working from home, I needed to treat it the same as working in an office. What that meant was: I need a room that is exclusively "the office". When I'm in there, I'm working. When I'm not working, I'm not in there. And everyone else in the household has to adhere to one rule -- if my office door is closed, they cannot disturb me for any reason other than an actual emergency, just like if I were in an office outside of out home.
> then a web that is populated by identified humans (and their authorised proxies!)

You wrote "I kind of get both sides here", but, to be clear, this is the polar opposite of both the WEI proposal and Apple's thing, both of which go to some lengths to not allow identification of actual humans (they focus on proving that the device is legit).
This is the way. I hope this becomes a thing in the United States.
Cold starts just got hot
Engineering report from Neon's effort to reduce cold starts on its Serverless PostgreSQL Platform
> The whole founding of Russia starts with locals turning to the vikings in order to protect themselves against the murderous mongols.

The founding of russia starts with the mongol establishment of 'the muscovy' in the 13th century - moscow being established by the mongol empire as the administrative capital of the russian people. Also, the vikings were just as 'murderous' as the mongols. 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.

> Hence the Emblem of Ukraine sporting a viking ship…

It sports the viking ship because the vikings conquered the rus. The vikings conquered 'the rus' and made themselves their rulers. The nonsense about vikings 'protecting' the locals is propaganda established during the 'de-mongolization' period after the fall of the mongol empire and the ascendancy of europe. Had the mongol empire stuck around, it would be the bow and arrow in the emblem of ukraine showing how the mongols 'protected' the rus from the 'murderous' vikings.
> I'm real uncomfortable with comparing kinetic weaponry to communications encryption. These aren't even remotely similar things in damage scope.

Those in power and their sycophants fear both of them enough to launch entire propaganda campaigns on their own citizens to restrict them.
Are we looking at the same data? For Lemmy, I see:

TOTAL USERS: 405,020

MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS: 69,825

ACTIVE SERVERS: 1,175

TOTAL POSTS: 1,558,916

> The content on the site is memes and jokes with occasional world news.

So is reddit. And you are forgetting adult content.
Not really, being the royal court astrologer was a pretty lucrative business back in the day. Hell being the Persian Kings court astrologer could eventually be leveraged into being the chief advisor.
Imagine choosing a single password that can’t be changed. Sure, you can’t forget it, but if someone ever discovers it, you’re toast.

The fallback is probably 2FA. But we already use 2FA.
Longshot but have her look into megadose Thiamine (B1). Some miracle stories out there.
The overall usage in the population is low because psychedelics are unpredictable. They can have long term effects on the human psyche and there is a correctly ingrained notion in society that they are dangerous to a stable mindset.
Actually, I /wanted/ a replacement flex pipe, but the only way to get it is to buy a rear catalytic converter assembly. The one I was looking at was supposed to be new -- not "RFE" (i.e. stolen)...

Is eBay salty about catalytic converters?
This is unalloyed good news for everyone who admires the Eleventy project and wants it to continue at full speed. Netlify’s short-sighted decision to end its sponsorship of Eleventy proved to be CloudCannon’s gain. Hearty congratulations to CloudCannon and Eleventy creator/maintainer Zach Leatherman!
They most certainly did.

The main point that was pushed, however, was that health infrastructure simply could not handle Covid, and that without suppressing its transmission, many more would have died.
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Embedded robotics firmware version: Show me that you can deploy an update to BlinkyLED, via the cloud manager, over LTE, to the robot with rock-solid reliability every damn time. Step two: update the bootloader over the wire without bricking the robot.
Thanks for the template! Looks full-proof.

How much equity would be healthy to give?
Not one killer app…

I stopped reading there. So ignorant it’s painful
If this kind of thing amuses you can buy a purely mechanical implementation called either Braino or Dr. Nim for about £10. Here's a video on the subject from Matt Parker @ Standup Maths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KABcmczPdg
Show HN: Independent contractor with N clients invoice pdf creation tool
Well it's strange what you discover when trying to code what you thought would be "simple." Hello HN, I want to show my new creation called "settle-down". It's a simple independent contractor with N clients invoice pdf creation tool.

I started down the PDF creation side using a PDF library with direct drawString, drawLine, etc. functions. But the complexities of using this library made me search github and I found:

https://github.com/TheFpiasta/BuisnessPDF

It's a very nice pdf invoice generation tool! But it just so happened to be in German and for German addresses and currency etc.

I forked it: https://github.com/andrewarrow/BuisnessPDF

And slowly but surely I found where I needed to add Address format changes and $ money symbol changes, etc. So without further ado I give you a free SaaS version available here:

https://many.pw/sd

Video demo here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwtd9uLnh3M

And it's all open source if you don't want to use the SaaS version:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/settle-down
Any particular criteria?
Looks like it https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...
Oh that also, though I'm not sure how useful that is in productivity scenarios (I don't have enough imagination). IF gesture tracking was super accurate, there would still be the problem of haptic feedback. Someone needs to invent a VR glove that allows us to feel things.
Try telling your partner to leave you alone?

Also, what’s your workspace? It helps if you work in a separate room with a door. Working in a central open spot like the kitchen table invites more interruption. Of course this is hard to do if you’re in a small apartment.
> Not even Apple has support periods that long, and they sell $1000+ devices.

Big Sur still receives security updates[0] and is supported on models back to 2013, so I don't know where you get that idea.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Big_Sur
Because they do not compete well against one of the two.
That whole Internet thing is never going to work out.

What's the killer app? The Web? CompuServe? AOL chat? ICQ? Blue's News? WebChat Broadcasting? Real Audio? Broadcast.com? GeoCities? It's all ridiculous.

I mean, have you tried to search for anything on AltaVista, Excite or Lycos?!? They hardly work, all you get is page after page of garbage results!

And don't even get me started with eBay or CDNow. Nobody is going to shop online.
This one in particular makes me feel like I've woken up in a dystopia.
Show HN: I published a Trivia book with ChatGPT (free download)
Open source: https://github.com/AdmTal/emoji-puzzles
Thanks!
The reason why I asked for a font is that Wordpress still does not support natively SVG, but custom fonts.

Still, very interesting how brutalinks.tech implemented this. Didn't know about this method, thanks!
The risk from being vaccinated against covid isn't "you feel like shit for a day". That's not a worry for most people.

Is injecting a person with mRNA that makes them produce a particularly nasty spike protein zero risk? No. Is this spike protein one of those? Does it end up where it shouldn't?

In 2023 that information is not available. Not true or false, but simply unavailable.
The verse before that?
I'll take a stab at it: a multicellular organism dies when the processes that are able to sustain the operation of the cell community cease, thus causing the individual cells to die individually or to live as single-celled organisms in the wild for a short while. The main processes that are essential to the life of an organism as a whole are the supply of nutrients and oxygen, the elimination of waste, and the coordination of various support activities between different groups of cells in the body. They're essential because most of the cells have delegated the capacity to perform these functions to the organism, allowing an increase in efficiency at the cost of tying their survival to the survival of the organism.

A cell dies when it's damaged mechanically or chemically, or when it's unable to sustain its metabolism thus causing chemical damage, or when its programming instructs it to destroy itself for whatever reason.
>The gold standard to test for viruses lurking in the body is with a gut biopsy, but "it wouldn't be ethical to go around taking out bits of people's guts to have a look," Altmann says. So new ways to test this would need to be worked out.

Isn't this standard procedure for cancer testing? Or is it a more invasive procedure?

If someone's experiencing symptoms as debilitating as the article says, I think they'd be OK with some short term pain in exchange for some forward progress.
This is awesome, thanks -- going to look into that now. I found SmartDNS interesting and thought I would share it, it's pretty simple to setup. I can see why it's Chinese focused, they have "interesting" internet access over there :-).

I have been looking into DNS quite a bit lately (Unbound, etc), as DNS lookup performance has been pretty subpar lately. I'm in Perth, Australia, and we're pretty remote so our latency is meh at best, and Cloudflare performance has been all over the shop lately, I think they're having issues in WA). DNS can also cause really routing issues here sometimes as we get better latency to Singapore than Sydney, so we might get shunted off to SG.

I've also been using dnscrypt-proxy2 (https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy) for a while, but the above issues with Cloudflares DNS is what triggered me to look into other options.

I use a min-cache-ttl of 15 minutes, which seems to work well.

Thank you for sharing this tip about, looking into this now :).
Wouldn't you have exactly 1 thread per CPU for this sort of brute force embarrassingly parallel, CPU intensive computation? You should be context switch approximately never which makes coroutine vs thread moot.
100% agree based on my experiences with psychadelic enthusiasts.
Right. All proofs of identity also act as proofs of personhood, but "proof of personhood" isn't the same. You can have a proof of personhood that doesn't identify which exact person you are.
Is your claim that this is currently happening? If so, why has nobody detected it? Since such code would have to be distributed to user devices, it would be detectable.

Also, did you know that Signal is distributed through multiple channels? The iOS App Store, Google Play, F-Droid, as well as directly through Signal's website. Given this, how could they target an individual with tampered binaries in a way that they couldn't notice? Seems pretty hard to me.
At this company, we are family
Yes. There’s also a slightly different version of it it blink shell, which packages a web version of vscode as well. In general this one performs a little better imo and has integrations with local filesystems

I do web dev casually with it all the time via a vpn to my server back home and the inspect app for debugging
Burn's New Cross-Platform GPU Back End (Wgpu/WebGPU)
Yes, well the headline "Is this particular 50/200 day simple moving average crossover strategy just S&P500 astrology?" isn't a sweeping enough generalization
Was this what Stack Overflow were using to detect automated answers?
There is no reliable evidence that TA generates alpha. In reality you're just fooling yourself with confirmation bias. If TA actually worked then sophisticated institutional traders would quickly arbitrage any advantage away before retail traders could even put in an order.
likely submitted due to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855419 which may interest the same audience
I've been working remotely since 2012. I even travelled around Asia for a year in 2013. This is all contracting/consulting work. I never told my client at the time that I was in Asia and had to work until 3am most nights.

Back then, less than 1% of the jobs I found were remote. This is why I got into contracting in the first place.
Reddit stock gurus do the opposite of what a legit person would do. Unlike "world's smartest billionaire" Jim Simons, who's operations are super secret, finance influencers share their picks as a way to grow followers and sound smart. If the modern equivalent of haruspicy (technical analysis) worked as well as claimed, these con artists would realize they could make more money keeping quiet.
I think people are dismissive due to the expectation that if it really was that bad they would be hearing much more about it. The idea that something so bad affecting so many people could be largely ignored is incomprehensible to many people. It also didn’t help that ME/CFS was falsely maligned for many decades by horrible scientists in the US and UK.
Nothing on that questions makes me think the person asking it wants to parse HTML. Most HTML parsers will never give the result the question described. And unless you want to dig into tar structure, solving that question is an essential part of creating a parser.

So, no, the top 3 answers are all bullshit.
It makes sense to me unfortunately.

If some small but significant portion of people will be disabled by this then what are we doing going to work, eating in restaurants? What does it mean about me if I stay home working but still get food delivered? Do gas station employees get sick days? If repeated exposure as children risks disability in adulthood then what are we doing sending our kids to school? In a world where being unable to work long-term means deprivation, misery and likely a preventable death? No, it can't be true.

Much more comfortable to believe we wouldn't do this than to confront what it says about us that we have, or what we would have to change to prevent it.
Can someone smarter than me explain whether this has implications in distributed consensus?
Yes, we're talking about the same Google that only reacted that way to PRISM when a leaker blew the whistle (do we need to wait/hope for a whistle blower for every government thing they comply with?). The same Apple that moved the data for all Chinese customers to data centers where the CCP can access/monitor them. The same Apple that censors/filters the app store for Chinese users to enforce government policies.

The chances that they would comply with future government requirements cannot possibly be "virtually zero."
Same - and this isn't discussed enough in Tech circles. I know a girl who's done acid 100 times, and she's pretty "off." Kind of like a record left in the sun for a bit. She's not dumb or anything, just a little sideways. Not in a good way either - in a "can't hold a job or relationship together" way.
> I've had mixed success using a template. I can modify the content, but it always looks a little janky - not quite as slick as I want.

That is exactly what I'm dealing with right now. I'll probably find someone to "consult" my final design and fix the jankiness.
False. There is tons of hard evidence about long covid including in this article.

If I were you I would try to examine why false beliefs are being accepted into my model of the world.
What supplements have you been taking and what is your diet?
Me too.

Wile I still push myself in the gym nearly every day, for some reason I'm just not as energetic as I used to be. I'm 33, and was in my 20s when COVID came around. I got vaxed quickly, and have gotten boosters since. I still caught COVID twice. Not fun. Still not the same though, although hitting 30 and beyond might have something to do with it too, as that's the "line" where athletes of all levels usually start to loose a step or a second of reaction time.

The constant brain fog is not cool either. It's like I'm stoned out of my mind sometimes and not able to function properly....but without the relaxation that being stoned brings.
Thats assuming that the higher alcohol prices have not caused people to spend more on alcohol and less on things like food or necessities for their families or turned to other sources of alcohol (homebrewed and therefore more dangerous).
I'm not sure it's anti-democratic and can think of a few examples:

* Skepticism over mass vaccination (as opposed to at-risk groups only). Shut up, anti-vaxer, you're anti-democratic. Backed by Big Pharma.

* Skepticism over climate change policy (asking middle class to reduce expectations, rather than cranking down on planned obsolescence and offshore production). Shut up, climate denier, you're anti-democratic. Backed by the companies doing offshoring and using climate as selling point.

* Skepticism over affirmative action (as in discriminating people based on skin color in Academia, rather than making it easier for ALL parents to teach things to their kids). Shut up, you racist. Backed by the billion-dollar DEI industry billing enormous rates to public institutions.

I can give many more examples where valid skepticism is immediately conflated with the nearest crazy idea nobody actually cares about (like the actual KKK), and is shut down on that basis by those who have a vested interest in not being scrutinized.
Your experience almost exactly mirrors my own. I moved from Boston to the Midwest USA in 2016 and kept working remotely until a RIF in 2019. I found a local job that did require a commute but a few months later, we all became remote. In between, I started a family and had 2 kids who have always interacted with me at home. And I am very thankful for that opportunity that many do not have. Our company has since mandated hybrid work now but my team has been categorized as a remote-first distributed group. Now if I go into the office, I would be the only one there. Having said that, I do long for a physical whiteboard where my movements can help me convey my points or understand others better. The current technology is not so adequate in this area yet.. We use google workspaces/chat and meet. I curse it every week..
Why is removing passwords a massive security win? You're just moving the centralization from a password manager to SSO.
Sorting by sieving.. It works. Money can't buy you grades, just infinite attempts.
I think it is certainly true, but I also think that lay people significantly underestimate psychosomnia and the power of placebo and having a more active lifestyle.
You're so right! I'd forgotten. It will probably happen again -- I'll forget about Arc and then reinvestigate it. Apologies for the redundancy. :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36472378
I'll do you one better -- I'm skeptical of journalists as well.
Who would have thought that "apocalyptic science fiction author" would be included in the professions made obsolete by tech?